Tiêu đề ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 BẢNG B HẢI PHÒNG 2024-2025 (MINH HOẠ).docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HẢI PHÒNG ĐỀ MINH HOẠ (Đề thi có 14 trang, gồm 80 câu trắc nghiệm) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ CẤP THPT BẢNG B NĂM HỌC 2024-2025 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Chú ý: Thí sinh làm bài vào phiếu trả lời trắc nghiệm. Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, bao gồm cả từ điển. SECTION A: LISTENING Part 1: For questions 1-5, listen to a radio programme about two writers and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the information which fits best according to what you hear. You will hear the recording twice. 1. The novelist J. D. Salinger went to university but ______ A. left before finishing the first year. B. was asked to leave. C. received poor grades in his first year. D. did not regard getting a degree as ‘success’. 2. Salinger’s famous novel about adolescence was ______ A. extremely popular but condemned by some people. B. popular mainly because it was controversial. C. only popular with younger readers. D. not taught in many schools at first. 3. Because Salinger refused to be in the public eye, ______ A. his fame actually increased. B. people stopped asking him for interviews. C. nobody was even sure what religion he was. D. he was rarely talked about. 4. Harper Lee’s education was ______ A. more successful than Salinger’s. B. not as successful as she had hoped. C. not as successful as Salinger’s. D. very similar to Salinger’s. 5. How did Harper Lee find time to write her first novel? A. A friend paid for her to take a year off work. B. A friend got her work as a songwriter in New York. C. She couldn’t find a job in New York. D. She wrote slowly for ten years in total. Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to a radio interview in which a psychologist, Colin Fraser, talks about cultural identity and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the information

3 SECTION C: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase to complete each of the following sentences. 21. ______, the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather. A. Left uncovered B. Leaving uncovered C. Having left uncovered D. Been left uncovered 22. I’m ______ my brother is. A. nowhere near as ambitious as B. nowhere like so ambitious C. nothing as ambitious than D. nothing near as ambitious 23. It ______ able to finish it in an hour. A. can’t have been too hard if you were B. couldn’t be too hard if you are C. can’t have been too hard if you had been D. couldn’t be too hard if you had been 24. The controversy has been ______ by the arrival of foreign businesses which is seen as a threat to the local economy. A. fuelled B. charged C. inspired D. spurred 25. He was caught using forged bank notes to pay for goods and charged with ______. A. fraud B. deception C. embezzlement D. theft 26. ______ research has been carried out into the effects of the drug. A. Exhaustive B. Exhaustible C. Exhausted D. Exhaustion 27. Western culture gives us many examples of the ______ of the Wicked Queen. A. archetype B. prototype C. typeface D. typescript 28. Weather ______, we’ll have the party in the garden. A. permitting B. allowing C. facilitating D. enabling 29. Some teachers have a tendency to ______ preference to students with disadvantaged backgrounds such as poor and handicapped students. A. give B. land C. deliver D. send 30. You should accept the Nokia mobile phone as a 16-birthday present from your parents delightedly. Don't ______. A. look a gift horse in the mouth B. buy it through the nose C. pull my leg D. take it for granted 31. You expect our factory to manufacture 40,000 parts in a week. You’re trying to _______ the ocean on this one. A. boil B. ruin C. heat D. damage 32. A lot of fans are disappointed to find that their idols have _______ of clay when they are caught doing something embarrassing.
4 A. feet B. weight C. teeth D. leg 33. A record dated 1665 shows that at that time the archery contests were _______ 4 days. A. held over B. made out C. carried over D. taken out 34. The fearsome beast ______ the princess. We've called on all able-bodied knights to mount a rescue. A. made away with B. made up for C. took on D. looked after 35. Giving up smoking is just one of the ways to ______ heart disease. A. ward off B. put across C. take down D. throw off SECTION D: READING I. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase to complete each of the numbered blanks from 36 to 40. The idea of life in (36) ______ space has been talked about for a long time. Some scientists say that life development on Earth was far too unlikely for it to have happened anywhere else. Things had to be perfect for us to make it on this planet. Other scientists say that space is too big. Stars and other planets are far too numerous for there to be no other life in the universe. For many years, there have been reports of visitors from other planets. People all around the world have claimed to see alien spaceships or even aliens themselves. There have been (37) ______ of these so- called UFOs (unidentified flying objects) flying through the air and they have even been captured on video. Some Americans believe that the U.S. Army found an alien spaceship crashed in the desert and then lied to the press about it. (38) ______ these sightings may be true, scientists have not found significant evidence that aliens exist. If you go out into the countryside on a clear night and look up, you can see thousands of stars. Those stars (39) ______ a tiny part of our universe. There are more stars, planets, and galaxies than we can count. Even the smartest scientists can’t even come close to defining how big space is. The number of possible stars and planets out there is bigger than our ability to count. If we are really on the only planet that can (40) ______ life, then we are very special in a universe full of amazing things. (Adapted from https://www.nationalgeographic.com) 36. A. outer B. inter C. outside D. inside 37. A. glimpses B. glance C. binocular D. stare 38. A. Although B. Because C. Therefore D. However 39. A. make up B. take up C. catch up D. go up 40. A. sustain B. keep C. maintain D. preserve II. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the