Title ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH NAM ĐỊNH 2024 2025.docx ✅

4 spend their day compulsively checking for email and have a (5. TEND) _________________ to panic if their server goes down. It is estimated that one in six people spend four hours a day sending and receiving messages the equivalent to more than two working days a week. The negative effect on productivity is something employers are well aware of. III. Each of the following sentences has ONE word that needs correction. Underline that word and correct it by replacing it with ONE proper word. Write the correction in the provided blank on the right. There is an example at the beginning (0). (0.5p) Sentences Corrections 0. He collided with a car because he was driving too fastly. fast 1. A number of small children is educated at home. 2. All shops were closed, so we couldn’t buy some food. 3. It’s worth remember that prices go up on 1 February. 4. It was not until Mary was eight when she began to read. 5. The steak was really underdone so I sent it back with instructions to cook it for other five minutes. PART C. READING (2.5 POINTS) I. Read the text and circle A, B, C or D that best fits each space. (0.5p) A volcanic eruption is possibly the most spectacular example of the incredible power of nature – and few eruptions in history have been (1) _____ as spectacular as that of Krakatoa. Until the summer of 1883 this volcano, (2) _____ on an island between Java and Sumatra, had been quiet for over two hundred years. In May that year came the first (3) _____ of renewed activity. Then at 10 am on 27 August, the (4) _____ island began to explode. The explosions were heard 3,500 km (5) _____ in Australia. Clouds of ash were blown 80 km into the sky, blocking out the sun and plunging the surrounding areas into complete darkness for two and a half days. This ash circled the Earth several times, (6) _____ spectacular red sunsets all over the world (7) _____ the following year. The eruption triggered tidal waves which were recorded as far away as South America and Hawaii. The biggest and most (8) _____ of these waves was 37m high; it wiped out 36,000 people who lived in the coastal towns of Java and Sumatra. For the next forty-five years the region remained quiet. Then in 1927 a (9) _____ of eruptions under the sea led to the appearance of a tiny island (10) _____ Krakatoa once was. This “Child of Krakatoa” now stands