Tiêu đề ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 YÊN BÁI 2023-2024.docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TỈNH YÊN BÁI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi gồm 10 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THPT CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2023 - 2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi : 28/9/2023 PART I: LISTENING (3 points) • Phần nghe gồm 2 bài; mỗi bài được nghe 2 lần. • Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe là 1 đoạn nhạc. • Trước mỗi phần nghe, thí sinh có 20 giây để đọc bài. Question 1: Listen to the recording. Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. FAMILY EXCURSIONS - Can take photos of the (1) ______ mountains_____ that surround the lake Farm visit - Children can help feed the sheep - Visit can include a (2) ______ 40_____ -minute ride on a horse - Visitors can walk in the farm’s (3) ______ garden(s)_____ by the lake - Lunch is available at extra cost Cycling trips - Cyclists explore (4) _____ the Back Road ______ - A map is provided - Only suitable for cyclists who have (5) _____ (some) experience ______ - Bikes can be (6) ______ hired/rented _____ from Ratchesons (near the Cruise Ship Terminal) - Cyclists need: - a (7) _____ repair kit ______ - food and drink - a (8) ______ helmet _____ (can be hired) - There are no (9) _____ shops ______ or accommodation in the area Cost - Total cost for whole family of cruise and farm visit (10) $ ______ 267_____ TRANSCRIPT TC EMPLOYEE: Hi. Can I help you? VISITOR: I’d like to find out if you have any excursions suitable for families. TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How about taking your family for a cruise? We have a steamship that takes passengers out several times a day – it’s over 100 years old.
2 VISITOR: That sounds interesting. How long is the trip? TC EMPLOYEE: About an hour and a half. And don’t forget to take pictures of the mountains. They’re all around you when you’re on the boat and they look fantastic. VISITOR: OK. And I assume there’s a café or something on board? TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. How old are your children? VISITOR: Er, my daughter’s fifteen and my son’s seven. TC EMPLOYEE: Right. Well there are various things you can do once you’ve crossed the lake, to make a day of it. One thing that’s very popular is a visit to the Country Farm. You’re met off the boat by the farmer and he’ll take you to the holding pens, where the sheep are kept. Children love feeding them! VISITOR: My son would love that. He really likes animals. TC EMPLOYEE: Well, there’s also a 40-minute trek round the farm on a horse, if he wants. VISITOR: Do you think he’d manage it? He hasn’t done that before. TC EMPLOYEE: Sure. It’s suitable for complete beginners. VISITOR: Ah, good. TC EMPLOYEE: And again, visitors are welcome to explore the farm on their own, as long as they take care to close gates and so on. There are some very beautiful gardens along the side of the lake which also belong to the farm – they’ll be just at their best now. You could easily spend an hour or two there. VISITOR: OK. Well that all sounds good. And can we get lunch there? TC EMPLOYEE: You can, and it’s very good, though it’s not included in the basic cost. You pay when you get there. VISITOR: Right. VISITOR: So is there anything else to do over on that side of the lake? TC EMPLOYEE: Well, what you can do is take a bike over on the ship and then go on a cycling trip. There’s a trail there called the Back Road – you could easily spend three or four hours exploring it, and the scenery’s wonderful. They’ll give you a map when you get your ticket for the cruise – there’s no extra charge. VISITOR: What’s the trail like in terms of difficulty? TC EMPLOYEE: Quite challenging in places. It wouldn’t be suitable for your seven-year-old. It needs someone who’s got a bit more experience. VISITOR: Hmm. Well, my daughter loves cycling and so do I, so maybe the two of us could go, and my wife and son could stay on the farm. That might work out quite well. But we don’t have bikes here… is there somewhere we could rent them? TC EMPLOYEE: Yes, there’s a place here in the city. It’s called Ratchesons. VISITOR: I’ll just make a note of that – er, how do you spell it?
3 TC EMPLOYEE: R-A-T-C-H-E-S-O-N-S. It’s just be the cruise ship terminal. VISITOR: OK. TC EMPLOYEE: You’d also need to pick up a repair kit for the bike from there to take along with you, and you’d need to take along a snack and some water – it’d be best to get those in the city. VISITOR: Fine. That shouldn’t be a problem. And I assume I can rent a helmet from the bike place? TC EMPLOYEE: Sure, you should definitely get that. It’s a great ride, but you want to be well prepared because it’s very remote – you won’t see any shops round there, or anywhere to stay, so you need to get back in time for the last boat. VISITOR: Yeah. So what sort of prices are we looking at here? TC EMPLOYEE: Let’s see, that’d be one adult and one child for the cruise with farm tour, that’s $117, and an adult and a child for the cruise only so that’s $214 dollars altogether. Oh, wait a minute, how old did you say your daughter was? VISITOR: Fifteen. TC EMPLOYEE: Then I’m afraid it’s $267 because she has to pay the adult fare, which is $75 instead of the child fare which is $22 – sorry about that. VISITOR: That’s OK. Er, so how do … Question 2: You will hear a radio interview with the writer Tom Davies. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. 1. How does Tom feel now about being a writer? A. It is no longer as exciting as it was. B. He used to get more pleasure from it. C. He is still surprised when it goes well. D. It is less difficult to do these days. 2. How does Tom feel about the idea for a novel before he begins writing it? A. He lacks confidence in himself. B. He is very secretive about it. C. He likes to get reactions to it. D. He is uncertain how it will develop. 3. Tom's behaviour when beginning a new novel can best be described as ___________. A. determined B. enthusiastic C. impulsive D. unpredictable 4. What does Tom admit about his novels? A. They are not completely imaginary. B. They are open to various interpretations. C. They do not reflect his personal views. D. They do not make very good films. 5. What did Tom feel about the first film he was involved in making? A. He enjoyed being part of a team. B. He found it much too stressful. C. He earned too little money from it. D. He was reassured by how easy it was. TRANSCRIPT
4 Interviewer: My guest today is Tom Davies. He has written a series of highly –acclaimed novels, as well as a play and two successful filmscripts. He has said, “I love the solitude, the sheer pleasure of writing, the secret excitement.” Tom, writing is a solitary business, but does it go on being exciting? Tom Davies: Well, writing is an exciting process, although there are good days and bad days, obviously. I remember when I started, I used to sweat for so long over one sentence that it really wasn´t much of a pleasure. But I got past that stage and yes, I do find that when things go well, when things are working out, it is very absorbing. Interviewer: But surely less secret these days, now that you´ve won major prizes? Tom Davies: Possibly, I recently read out a whole chunk of my work-in-progress at a literary festival because it´s one way of trying these things out, whereas in the past I´d been too frightened that if I talked about what I was writing, I would somehow write, because I´m still not entirely sure myself which way it´s going to go. But once something is down in a first or second draft, then you can try it out and see how it sounds. Interviewer: And you´ve said that at any one time there are as many as ten or fifteen ideas for novels floating around in yur head. How do you choose which one to follow up? Tom Davies: You´ve got to find the idea that´s got the right kind of urgency and it´s not a rational decision. It´s patience and luck and turning up at your desk every morning even when nothing seems to be coming. If you´re not there, then nothing is precisely what will happen. But once I get started, then a good day would be two or three hundred words. Interviewer: And then do you hone it, do you go back over it? Tom Davies: I go back all the time until I get to the stage when I won´t look at it again because you need the distance of time to look back and see it from a different perspective. Interviewer: And is there anyone who you can then give this manuscript to and say, “Look, before I go any further, tell me what you think of this.”? Tom Davies: I give the finished draft to certain old friends who´re permitted to be as brutal as they like. That´s very useful because I think there´s a danger for writers as they get older, as their reputations get estabished, that publishers won´t tell them if they´ve any serious doubts about a piece. So sceptical friends are very important to give you the benefit of a truthful opinion. Interviewer: And you trust these friends? Tom Davies: Absolutely. The first time I tried this, years ago, a friend of mine said, “Look, I think this novel´s absolutely terrible, put it in a drawer and forget about it”. And I didn´t speak to him for eighteen months. But after that I learnt that if you give someone your novel to read, you´ve got to allow them to say that kind of thing. These days I wouldn´t take it so personally. Interviewer: And although you´ve denied any suggestion that you write about yourself, there are actually all