Tiêu đề ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 TP HẢI PHÒNG 2024-2025.docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HẢI PHÒNG ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi gồm 80 câu; 16 trang) KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ CẤP THPT NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi: 10/12/2024 SECTION A: LISTENING Part 1: Listen to a radio interview with a young entrepreneur, Callum, who runs a successful website. For questions 1-5, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits what you hear. You will hear the recording TWICE. Question 1. How did Callum first become interested in technology? A. He watched online tutorials. B. He played with robots at school. C. He was encouraged to start a website. D. His mother introduced him to it. Question 2. Why did Callum start his book review website? A. To promote reading among young people B. To share his personal thoughts on literature C. To improve teenagers’ academic skills D. To compete with gaming websites Question 3. When Callum launched his website, he felt _____________. A. disappointed by the initial response B. unsure if it looked professional enough C. confident it would be successful D. surprised at how well it functioned Question 4. What does Callum say about balancing his website with school and social life? A. He carefully plans his day in advance. B. He struggles to manage all his responsibilities. C. He rarely has time for relaxation. D. His social life is more demanding than his website. Question 5. What are Callum’s future career plans? A. To create more websites for different audiences B. To work for a technology company in the USA C. To study computer science at university D. To start his own web design business TRANSCRIPT Woman:   Callum, you have a popular book review website. How did you learn about setting up a website? Callum:   I first learned to write computer programs when I was eleven. We created instructions in class to
2 control a little robot. My mum works in IT, though, and she showed me how to use similar skills to create my own pages online (1). There are hundreds of websites about this too, but I found them quite confusing. Woman:   Why did you decide to set up a book review website? Callum:   I’d seen an article about teenagers not reading enough and was wondering about possible solutions to this. My best friend’s into video games and writes reviews for various websites. These sites seem to encourage teenagers to play more games, so I thought it must be possible to do the same with reading (2). It’s nice to see teenagers exchanging opinions about literature, rather than video games! Woman:   How did you feel when your site first went online? Callum:   I was nervous, of course, but I couldn’t believe how well it worked (3). But even when a site looks as good as mine did, you can never be sure that people will like it. And if it ends up not being popular, there’s no way you’ll achieve what you’ve set out to do with the site. Woman:   You have school, your website and a social life – what’s a typical day like? Callum:   You’d think I’d never have a chance to relax, wouldn’t you, but it’s rarely that busy. I certainly don’t have many opportunities to get bored, as everything I do throughout each day is so different. I make a plan each evening for what I want to achieve the next day, which I usually stick to (4). Woman:   What would you like to be doing when you’re 18? Callum:   Many website designers have ambitions to join one of the huge technology businesses based in the USA. I want to stay close to my family in Canada, though. I’ve thought about studying computer science. However, I learn better by doing than by studying, so I’d prefer to have my own web design company than go to college (5). Woman:   Tell us about your new website … Callum:   I wanted to create something about music. When I looked online, I found very little on how music supports people through difficult times and how sharing stories about this benefits others, so that’s what I’ve done. There are so many sites for uploading your own songs, or for finding out how to play guitar, or whatever, but I wanted something different. Woman:   Thank you, Callum! Part 2. Listen to an interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone. For questions 6-10, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits what you hear. You will hear the recording TWICE. Question 6. How does Helena feel about the use of Jed’s name for their joint business? A. She’s occasionally frustrated that her contribution goes unnoticed. B. She’s amused that they have a name people tend to remember. C. She’s irritated by the fact that Jed is more of a celebrity than she is.

4 to walk down a street and have people know who you were. Ironically, that’s the worst of it now. It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something. But I suppose I do like being a public figure. It gives me a sense that I’ve done something people appreciate (7). It doesn’t stop me doing anything, but it does modify how I do it. Interviewer: But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on The Travel Show. That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world? Helena: Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job. I’d actually rather have gone down a coal mine. It was ironic really, because Jed adores travelling, whilst I hate it. The timing was critical though; I mean, we were living in this derelict house. We’d knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to be there when it was done. So I genuinely didn’t want to do the job they were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it would provide us with a reasonable income (8). Interviewer: So what about this jewel garden? Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to do when you bought the house? Jed: Not at all. In fact, we were provoked into action. I was giving a lecture on gardening and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plants looked like. But these photos hadn’t loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn’t see a thing. So I started to make it all up – describing this jewel garden with magical colours – it came straight out of my imagination, it hadn’t been a long-term plan or anything. Anyway, as soon as I’d finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, ‘We must come and take pictures of your jewel garden.’ And I heard myself replying, ‘Fine, but come when the colours are good, don’t come now.’ To cut a long story short, we had to make the jewel garden before they came (9), and actually, we did ninety per cent of the work that summer. That was our incentive! Interviewer: And why did you call it a ‘jewel garden’? Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn’t want the word ‘jewel’ in your house at all. Helena: Well, I like to work on projects and if you have a project where you’re thinking only of jewel colours then that starts to limit you, and design is all about reduction. Really it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in, and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn’t it, Jed? Jed: Yeah. But for me it was also partly a metaphor, it’s making something worthwhile out of a failure. We did spend years doing the jewellery and it wasn’t all disastrous; there were good things about it too and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them. It seemed a waste not to take that bit of our lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture (10) – to take the bad experience and use it in a creative way. Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today. SECTION B: PHONOLOGY