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ĐỀ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ HÀ NỘI CẤP THPT (VÒNG 1) – NĂM HỌC 2022-2023 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Ngày thi: 28 tháng 9 năm 2022 Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút PART I: PHONETICS (1.0 point) a. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 1. A. inadequate B. navigate C. necessitate D. debate 2. A. prescription B. preparation C. preliminary D. presumption 3. A. reserve B. preserve C. conserve D. deserve b. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 4. A. arithmetic B. sympathetic C. diplomatic D. anaesthetic 5. A. television B. imprecision C. comprehension D. apprehension PART II: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (7.0 points) a. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (2.4 points) 1. Four miles off the southern coast of Massachusetts _________,a popular summer resort. A. lies the island of Martha's Vineyard B. the island of Martha's Vineyard lies there C. does the island of Martha's Vineyard lie D. where the island of Martha's Vineyard lies 2. _________you have filled out the application correctly, you should hear from us within a few weeks. A. Just as soon as B. Providing C. So far as D. Knowing 3. We should all_________a green lifestyle, which meas we will help conserve our natural resources. A. adapt B. adjust C. adopt D. allow 4. The police are making a_________effort to tackle football hooliganism. A. compressed B. condensed C. compacted D. concerted 5. You'll really have to work hard if you want to make the _________as a journalist. A. mark `B. term C. grade D. degree 6. It is imperative that everyone losing their houses in the tsunami_________subsidies from the government. A. received B. receives C. receive D. receiving 7. _________he remained optimistic. A. Because badly wounded he was B. Badly wounded as he was C. As he was badly wounded D. Badly as he was wounded 8. Let's get down to_________tacks. Who's responsible for this incident? A. silver B. brass C. copper D. gold 9. _________enough passion and determination, she this level of success. A. Were she not to have-wouldn't be achieved B. Had she not had-wouldn't have achieved C. Had it not been for-would have achieved D. Provided she had had-would not have achieved 10. About six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea is said_________,_________thick layers of salt in southern France. A. to have evaporated/depositing B. to be evaporating/deposit C. to evaporate/depositing D. having evaporated/to deposit 11. That car is a bit on the costly _________!I will think about it for a few days. A. part B. front C. side D. level 12. Wow! That was delicious, Mary! I have to_________it to you: yours is the best tiramisu in the world! A. hand B. praise C. reward D. allow
1b. Complete these sentences, using the suitable form of the given words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.0 point) 1. Two rivers burst their banks, making the town flood_________. (PRECEDE) 2. There's a_________difference between seeing a live performance in a theater and watching a movie. (QUALIFY) 3. The best teams ________ find a way to win, or at least stay in games. (VARY) 4. The Rembrandt painting was sold at auction for an________amount. (CLOSE) 5. The tax must be adjusted upwards to ________inflation. (ACT) c. For each set, think of one word which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.0 point) 1. ________ -You should need a good night's sleep, and then you'll be as right as________again. - I'm sorry to________ on your parade but you're not allowed to have alcohol on the premises. - Come________or shine, he goes jogging every morning. 2. ________ - There are times when this theory just does not hold________. -You should be cautious when getting involved and test the________ before committing yourself. -We did have our disagreemens, but that's________ under the bridge now. 3. ________ - After a long day at work, she went to bed and went out like a________. - They've both had knee injuries, but the two friends make________ of their weaknesses. - She travels________ ,choosing to use as little equipment as possible. 4. ________ -They want to________ an amendment to the bill. - He'll ________ heaven and earth to get everything done on time. - I have been on the________ all day, and I'm really tired. 5. ________ - She is not ready to take this exam, not by a long________. - It was doubtful whether the team could________ up a fourth successive victory, but they did. - I know you're upset about the failure, but just ________it up to experience and try harder next time! d. Complete the sentences with the correct form of a verb in A, and a preposition/particle in B. Each verb, preposition/particle can be used once only. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.6 points) A B leaf- tick-snow-monkey- batten - edge-go- write out-around-over-through- off-under-on-for 1. She's always been an introspective child. She often _________ thought-provoking films. 2. Managers in their sixties are being _________by younger replacements. 3. I'm afraid I'll just keep things_________in the office until you get back. 4. The World Bank is being urged _________ debts from developing countries. 5. I'd love to come to your party, but I'm completely ________at the moment. 6. He's spent these last ten years________ his wealthy father. 7. The waiting room was full of people _________magazines. 8. The children got bored and started_________ with the video game console. e. Complete the following passage by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.0 point) Tradition isn't an obstacle to progress but rather a catalyst for progress. We needn't concern ourselves with mundane aspects of everyday life because (1) _________individuals we simply follow the
customs that have been ingrained in us for a lifetime. Certain aspects of tradition guide our lives and save us from its potential pitfalls. The final outcome is assured: there's no (2) _________to experiment. This provides emotional peace, enabling us to focus our energy on advancement and progress in other areas - both of ourselves and of society at (3) _________ However, there remains a need for weeding out those traditions that are detrimental to certain groups in modern society and which hold no place there. We're enlightened beings; we can differentiate between good and bad, and it should be our endeavour to promote the positive and eliminate the negative in keeping with our times. A determination to cling to tradition can undoubtedly get in the way of change: 'If it was good enough for previous generations, it's good enough for me!' some insist. While it's true it would be foolish to throw away tried and tested methods, we must realise it is only through change that we can achieve our full potential. Those who remain stuck in their ways will never reach that goal. What's wrong with advancement? Traditions containing the best ideas of the past are not necessarily the way (4) _________Their biggest value is in offering non-controversial starting points from which to solve the problems of today. We cannot disregard traditions - it's only in understanding how they came to exist that we get to grips (5) _________ the past and figure out the future. Progressive minds are the way for change. Thoughtful people critically evaluate traditions; we must not follow them blindly. PART III: READING (5.8 points) a. Read the passage below and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.6 points) For many people, Los Angeles is the city of dreams; after all, it is the home of Hollywood! However, while the image often (1) _________is elegant and stylish, Los Angeles isn't just famous for its glamour and warm climate. Sadly, it's also known for its urban sprawl. In a world rushing towards growth, where objections to development can be (2) _________as a barrier to progress, cities like Los Angeles with their relentless expansion have swallowed up hundreds of square miles of countryside. This desire of residents to move out of the inner city to outlying areas has led to a(n) (3) _________of cars on the road, causing huge environmental damage. Faced with (4) _________conditions, lots of new schemes were introduced to control Los Angeles's urban sprawl problem. Light rail and transit development in (5) _________with incentives for building high-density housing have provided rapid improvements. Such programmes mean that the city, residents and the environment all (6) _________. If these (7) _________initiatives succeed and continue, then a better future is surely in (8) _________for the residents of Los Angeles. 1. A. symbolized B. illustrated C. projected D. delineated 2. A. displaced B. disbanded C. disapproved D. dismissed 3. A. proliferation B. escalation C. multiplication D. amplification 4. A. decreasing B. devolving C. deteriorating D. depreciating 5. A. unanimity B. assistance C. relationship D. conjunction 6. A. assist B. benefit C. improve D. advance 7. A. avant-garde B. innocuous C. prolific D. innovative 8. A. supply B. store C. order D. wait b. Read the following passage and do the task that follows. (1.0 point) The Question of Free Will I ought to tell you something concerning the question of free will. But you will understand that such a momentous question, which is worthy of a deep study of the many-sided physical, moral, intellectual life, cannot be summed up in a few short words. I can only say that the tendency of modern natural sciences, in physiology as well as psychology, has overruled the illusions of those who would persist in watching psychological phenomena merely within themselves and think that they can understand them without any other means.
On the contrary, positive science, backed by the testimony of anthropology and of the study of the environment, has arrived at the following conclusions: The admission of a free will is out of the question. For if the free will is but an illusion of our internal being, it is not a real faculty possessed by the human mind. Free will would imply that the human will, confronted by the choice of voluntarily making a certain decision, has the last decisive word under the pressure of circumstances contending for and against this decision; that it is free to decide for or against a certain course independently of internal and external circumstances, which play upon it, according to the laws of cause and effect. If a man knows the principal causes which determine a certain phenomenon, he says that this phenomenon is inevitable. If he does not know them, he considers it as an accident, and this corresponds in the physical field to the arbitrary phenomenon of the human will which does not know whether it shall decide this way or that. For instance, some of us were of the opinion, and many still are, that the coming and going of meteorological phenomena was accidental and could not be foreseen. But in the meantime, science has demonstrated that they are likewise subject to the law of causality, because it discovered the causes which enable us to foresee their course. Thus weather prognosis has made wonderful progress by the help of a network of telegraphically connected meteorological stations, which succeeded in demonstrating the connection between cause and effect in the case of hurricanes, as well as of any other physical phenomenon. It is evident that the idea of accident, applied to physical nature, is unscientific. Every physical phenomenon is the necessary effect of the causes that determined it beforehand. If those causes are known to us, we have the conviction that that phenomenon is necessary, is fate, and, if we do not know them, we think it is accidental. The same is true of human phenomena. But since we do not know the internal and external causes in the majority of cases, we pretend that they are free phenomena, that is to say, that they are not determined necessarily by their causes. Hence the spiritualistic conception of the free will implies that every human being, in spite of the fact that their internal and external conditions are necessarily predetermined, should be able to come to a deliberate decision by the mere order of his or her free will, so that, even though the sum of all the causes demands a no, he or she can decide in favour of yes, and vice versa. Now, who is there that thinks, when deliberating some action, what are the causes that determine his choice? We can justly say that the greater part of our actions are determined by habit, that we make up our minds almost from custom, without considering the reason for or against. When we get up in the morning we go about our customary business quite automatically, we perform it as a function in which we do not think of a free will. We think of that only in unusual and grave cases, when we are called upon to make some special choice, the so-called voluntary deliberation, and then we weigh the reasons for or against; we ponder, we hesitate about what to do. Well, even in such cases, so little depends on our will in the deliberations which we are about to take that if any one were to ask us one minute before we have decided what we are going to do, we should not know what we were going to decide. So long as we are undecided, we cannot foresee what we are going to decide; for under the conditions in which we live that part of the psychic process takes place outside of our consciousness. And since we do not know its causes, we cannot tell what will be its effects. Only after we have come to a certain decision can we imagine that it was due to our voluntary action. But shortly before we could not tell, and that proves that it did not depend on us alone. Do the following statements reflect the views of the writer in the reading passage? Write YES if the statement reflects the view of the writer, NO if the statement contradicts the view of the writer, and NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this. 1. Science supports the idea of free will. _____________ 2. It is impossible to predict the weather. _____________ 3. Most people act out of habit. _____________ 4. It is very important not to act out of habit. _____________ 5. The fact that we cannot predict our decisions disproves free will. _____________