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1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TỈNH ĐỒNG THÁP ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Đề thi gồm có 10 trang KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10 CHUYÊN NĂM HỌC 2023-2024 Môn: TIẾNG ANH (chuyên) Ngày thi: 10/6/2023 Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề I. LISTENING (2.0 points) Part 1. You will hear a woman calling Laverton Arts Centre for some information. Listen and choose the correct answer A, B, or C. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (1.2 points) 1. Becoming a Friend of Laverton Arts Centre _________. A. costs £15 B. costs £50 C. doesn't cost anything 2. How many newsletters do Friends receive each year? A. four B. one C. three 3. Friends of the Arts Centre can buy _________. A. more tickets than other visitors B. tickets before other visitors C. books earlier than other visitors 4. There might be reductions on tickets for events _________. A. in the Small Theatre B. in the Main Theatre C. at the Arts Cinema 5. The Arts Centre is changing _________. A. the password for its website B. its website address. C. the design of its website 6. Friends of Laverton Arts Centre are ________. A. required to attend a certain number of events B. not forced to attend a certain number of events C. encouraged to count how many events they attend
2 Part 2. You will hear a man interviewing a woman in the street about her use of transport. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer on the answer sheet. (0.8 point) TRANSPORT SURVEY Name: Luisa (1) __________ Address: (2) __________ White Stone Rd Area: Bradfield Postcode: (3) ____________ Occupation: (4) ____________ Reason for visit to town: to go to the dentist's II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (3.0 points) A. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete each sentence and write it on the answer sheet. (1.0 point) 1. The boy, along with his two classmates ________ the wall of the newly-built house now. A. are painting B. is painting C. has been painting D. have been painted 2. The factory where my uncle is working is said ________ by fire last week. A. to be destroyed B. to destroy C. to have been destroyed D. to have destroy 3. Where's the ________ dress that your grandma gave you? A. lovely long silk B. lovely silk long C. long silk lovely D. silk long lovely 4. I think nobody is living in this house now, _______? A. don't I B. are they C. is he D. do I 5. It is strongly recommended that the machine _______ everyday. A. checks B. check C. be checked D. to be checked 6. My teachers always object ________ foods and drinks into the classroom. A. us to bring B. us bringing C. us bringing D. to our bringing 7. One's fingerprints are _______ other person. A. different from B. different from any
3 C. different from that of any D. different from those of any 8. As the two teams left the football ground, the 100,000 _______ gave them a standing ovation. A. bystanders B. spectators C. viewers D. audiences 9. The person _______ for the team will be contacted by phone. A. that choosing B. was chosen C. chosen D. to choose 10. The lecture was very boring; ________. Tom feel asleep. A. consequently B. nevertheless C. however D. moreover B. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, but some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (1.0 point) GET YOUR HAIR CUT! My mother was very interested for in my hair. She would watch it growing very carefully until it had got to a length which she thought was scandalous. Then she would start hinting so that it was time to must get it cut. In those days (I was a teenager then) I was very fond of my many hair. You might say I was very attached to it and I hated to be parted from it. The longer it grew, the better I felt. My hair was thick and curly and I was afraid I would look ridiculous without it. When I was a little, women in the local corner shop used to admire it and wish they had hair like mine one; instead they had to go and have had their hair curled at the hairdresser's. I was therefore proud of my mop of black, curly hair. When I ignored about my mother's hints, she would keep on complaining about my hairstyle again. C. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (0.5 point) HOLLYWOOD FOREVER Apart from television, the cinema is the most popular form of (0) entertainment (ENTERTAIN) for most people because it is still relatively (1) ______________ (EXPENSE) Hollywood is, of course, the capital of the international cinema industry. Hollywood movies make up (2) _____________ (ROUGH) 75% of all the films we watch at our local cinemas. Although we may find it difficult to remember the names of Italian and French film stars. Hollywood stars, such as Sylvester Stallone and Meryl Streep are (3) ______________ (HOUSE) names all around the world. Moreover, only Hollywood seems to make certain kinds of films successfully.
4 Musicals are one example but we can also include westerns, although for a time "spaghetti westerns" (made in Italy) were quite fashionable with cinema (4) ____________ (GO). But cowboys and Indians are really a Hollywood speciality and they are still going strong after all these years. Such films, however, have not (5) ________________ (REMAINDER) untouched by time and changes in attitudes. The cowboys are no longer always the goodies as they were in the 1940s. D. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable particles. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (0.5 point) 1. My mother would love to take _______ a musical instrument, but she doesn't have spare time. 2. _______ behalf of the department I would like to thank you all. 3. The information you've got is _______ the record so be careful if you intend to use it for publication. 4. With that costume, you will really stand _______ in a crowd. 5. Please don't let one failure get you _______. Keep trying! III. READING (2.0 points) A. Choose the word which best completes each blank in the following text. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (0.5 point) STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS At NatWest we know how hard it is to get your business up and running. Understanding your difficulties - and then helping you through them - has made us the number one bank for small businesses for each of the last 10 years, with more people turning to us for (1) _______ than any other bank. Our Start-Up service gives you the support you need to set up on your own. There are over 4,000 small business advisors (at least one in every high street branch) who provide help, information and a wide range of services (2) _________ designed to help things go that bit more smoothly. Since last year, we've offered 12 months' free banking (3) ________ you go overdrawn or stay in (4) _________. We have also introduced another special scheme to help you keep your costs down for even longer. Provide us with a certificate from a NatWest recognized start-up training (5) _________ that you have completed and there will be no account charges for the first 18 months. 1. A. employment B. performance C. improvement D. guidance