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1 TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN - ĐIỆN BIÊN Đề đề xuất (Đề thi gồm 20 trang) ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ Năm học 2023 – 2024 MÔN TIẾNG ANH- LỚP 11 Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút I. LISTENING (50 POINTS) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU • Bài nghe gồm 4 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 10 giây; mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. • Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có nhạc hiệu. Thí sinh có 2 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước nhạc hiệu kết thúc bài nghe. • Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh đã có trong bài nghe. Part 1: For questions 16-20, listen to a lecture about a science experiment and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) according to what your hear. (10 points) 1. The pitch drop experiment is the oldest experiment that is still running today. T 2. The creator of the experiment wanted to show that common substances have extraordinary properties. T 3. Pitch is a substance that looks liquid but is actually solid. F 4. The first time a drop of pitch fell was three years after the experiment began. F 5. In the year 2000, an electricity failure meant the pitch drop was not filmed. T TRANSCRIPT In today's lecture we're going to be talking about experiments, and I thought it might be interesting for you all to learn about the world's oldest continuously running laboratory experiment that is still going today. In fact, it holds the Guinness World Record for being the longest-running experiment. (Q1) This experiment began in 1927 and has been going ever since. It's called the 'pitch drop' experiment and it was created by Professor Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland, Australia. Parnell was the university's first physics professor, and he wanted to show in this experiment that everyday materials, such as pitch, can have quite surprising properties. (Q2) You see, when pitch is at room temperature, it feels solid. You can easily break it with a hammer. However, it isn't in fact solid. At room temperature, pitch is many billions of times more viscous than water, but it's actually fluid. (Q3) In 1927, Professor Parnell took a sample of pitch. He heated it and poured it into a glass funnel. He allowed
2 the pitch to cool and settle – for three years. He then turned the funnel upside down and cut the top off it. Since then, the pitch has slowly dropped out of the funnel. How slowly? Well, the first drop took eight years to fall. (Q4) It took another forty years for another five drops to fall. Today it's been almost 90 years since the experiment started. Only nine drops have fallen from the funnel. The last drop fell in April 2014 and the next one is expected to fall in the 2020s. The experiment has a tragic story associated with it. Professor Parnell died without seeing a pitch drop. His replacement, Professor John Mainstone, became responsible for the pitch drop experiment from 1961. He held the job for 52 years, and missed seeing the drop fall three times – by a day in 1977, by just five minutes in 1988 and finally in 2000, when the webcam that was recording the experiment suffered a power outage for 20 minutes, during which time the pitch dropped. (Q5) The pitch drop experiment is something we can all participate in now. There's a live web stream that allows anyone to watch the glass funnel and wait for the fateful moment. A similar experiment to the Queensland pitch drop was set up in Dublin, and the video of the moment the pitch actually dropped went viral on the internet. It's interesting to see how a very slow event can spread news so quickly. Part 2. For questions 6 – 10, listen to a radio program about the importance of morning light to our health and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts) 6. What kind of news did the man see that made him decide to start his business? Footage (of pollution) 7. What is the name of the industry the man is in? Air farm 8. How much air can you buy for $115? 580 ml 9. Where does the entrepreneur live now? Hong Kong 10. What does the man sometimes have to go to the bottom of to get air? A valley TRANSCRIPT An English entrepreneur has started a booming business from selling bottled, British countryside air to Chinese consumers. Leo De Watts, 27, struck upon the idea of selling air to China after seeing news footage of pollution and smog in Chinese cities. He guessed there was a market for cleaner air. De Watts launched his company last year in the somewhat imaginatively named industry of "air farming". His team "harvests" air in bottles from various locations across Britain and ships it to China. Even though the air is cheap to collect, De Watts puts a hefty price on his products. Chinese lovers of British air have to pay around $115 for a 580 ml bottle of the fresh stuff. De Watts was born in the British countryside and said he appreciates the quality of the air in rural Britain. He now lives in Hong Kong where he sells his fresh air at local street markets. A lot of his merchandise is sold
3 in Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, where pollution can be particularly bad. He said his Chinese customers can be quite fussy about exactly what kind of air they buy. He explained in a promotional video that: "Quite often, a lot of our orders are bespoke. We have clients who request very particular circumstances for their air. Sometimes we'll be at the top of a mountain, and other times at the bottom of a valley." He added: "There's really a market for this. We've just started." Part 3. For questions 11 – 15, listen to a conversation between two students, who are planning an oral report for the History class and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts) 11. How is the programme designed to help youngsters? A. By getting them to talk about their feelings B. By encouraging them to loosen up C. By enabling them to convey their thoughts D. By giving them a way to entertain themselves 12. When talking about the nature of communication, Alice reveals that ______. A. teenagers are quick to react to a number of emotions B. people who learn to show how they feel can articulate better C. shy youngsters find the programme more useful than others D. young people have a lot of pent-up negative emotions 13. What aspect of the programme encourages teenagers to face their troubles? A. The social side of dance B. The freedom of the movement C. The obligation to interact D. The release of feelings 14. Alice contrasts professional and amateur dancers in order to ______. A. highlight the usefulness of the programme B. emphasise the use of emotions in dance C. illustrate the difference between teaching styles D. explain the ability to recognise feelings 15. What point does Alice make about the study into a person’s personality? A. It found that certain types of people dance better than others. B. Personality has a bearing on people’s willingness to participate. C. Who people are can be recognised through their movements. D. It revealed that most people try to hide their true nature. TRANSCRIPT