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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO BÌNH DƯƠNG TRƯỜNG CHUYÊN HÙNG VƯƠNG KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI THPTQG NĂM HỌC 2021 – 2022 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian: 180 phút Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển. Giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. 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 02 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 1-5, listen to a news report about virtual classes and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) according to what you hear. Write your answers in the numbered boxes provided. 1. Nearly two thousand people a day at this school are now going online for virtual lessons. 2. Students at schools everywhere have different feelings when their learning is disrupted by Coronavirus. 3. Despite obvious obstacles, the school's class schedules remain unchanged. 4. One of the speakers is really happy with all that the students are doing in the period of Coronavirus.. 5. People are trying their best to bring things back to normal. Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to part of an interview about the new vaccine for COVID-19 and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS taken from the recording for each answer. 6. What country is the first to approve the Pfizer and Bayern Tech vaccine? 7. According to the committee on vaccination and immunizations, what is age considered? 8. Why does the vaccine need to be stored at extremely low temperatures? 9. What is the general description of the side effects of Pfizer vaccine? 10. When will the possible side effects of Pfizer vaccine become apparent? Part 3. For questions 11-15, listen to part of an interview with Colin Fraser, a psychologist, about cultural identity and choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 11. What aspect does Colin reveal when talking about his own cultural identity? A. His resilience to changing cultures. B. His unorthodox family background. C. His ability to adapt. D. His feeling of alienation. 12. According to Colin, what is the defining aspect of a person's cultural identity? A. The sense of birth right. B. The emotion it generates. C. The physical proximity to heritage. D. The symbols of tradition. 13. What is the influence of a culture attributed to? A. The dissemination of wisdom. B. Connection between societies. C. Knowledge of one's background. D. The practice of archaic rituals. 14. According to Colin, the success of a culture on the global scene is attributed to _________. A. its capacity for tolerance B. its isolation from the mainstream C. its aptitude for resolving conflicts D. its ability to be self-effacing 15. What is Colin doing during the conversation? A. Distinguishing between birthplace and residence.
B. Advocating the celebration of heritage. C. Highlighting the differences in societies. D. Addressing the issues raised by conflicting cultures. Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a news report about the father of personalized medicine and complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording in each blank. Dr. Larry Smarr has recently directed his own surgery after examining his anatomy in (16) __________ He is quickly recognised as the father of personalized medicine, a title that reflects his (17) __________ and innovative thinking. Dr. Larry, who likened his approach to bringing video games into (18) __________, realized the potential of combining and computer graphics breakthroughs in (19) __________ to produce transparent versions of people. Using (20) __________ along with three-dimensional visualizations gathered over nearly ten years, Dr. Larry created his own (21) __________ called "Transparent Larry", thanks to which he found out that he had a type of (22) __________. With (23) __________ him gained more confidence. both Larry and the team operating on. Dr. Larry is optimistic about a where we are responsible for future in which the current (24) __________ will be transformed into holistic digital healthcare, (25) __________. II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (20 points) Part 1. For questions 26-40, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 26. She __________ up a clenched fist in a gesture of defiance when her boss asked her to run errands. A. caught B. brought C. took D. held 27. We live in a __________ society where shopping is all-important. A. consumer B. consumption C. procurement D. purchase 28. I __________ some friends and we went to the beach together. A. rang off B. rounded up C. put on D. ran in 29. She __________ kirted around the topic of marriage with her forty-year-old son. A. tactfully B. perceptively C. insightfully D. unselfishly 30. This hotel looked older and __________ in the name of the Lion's Cub. A. desired B. relished C. envied D. rejoiced 31. Put a __________ of butter in the frying pan to make the steak taste better. A. spring B. pile C. pinch D. knob 32. It's Mum who __________ in our house, but she always consults Dad about every major and minor thing. A. sits on the fence B. rules the roost C. talks through her hat D. makes her hackles rise 33. That Italian restaurant is nowhere near as good since it changed __________ A. hands B. fingers C. minds D. heads 34. Being __________ in the subtleties of cookery, Anne was unsure about the amount of sugar required. A. uninitiated B. unversed C. unknowing D. unquoted 35. I knew that faking the tears would __________ her and end the punishment, but I refused because it is against my personality. A. insinuate B. ingratiate C. gratify D. pander 36. I __________ in this relationship and I make every decision. A. pack my bags B. wear the trousers C. tighten my belt D. knock my socks off 37. After lunch our host suggested, "Shall we __________ to the drawing room?" A. retire B. retreat C. retract D. recede 38. After six months of stay-at-home orders, "COVID-19 Fatigue" is to be expected, but it's important to remain __________ A. regain B. frugal C. cagey D. vigilant 39. It didn't take much to __________ the old animosity lurking beneath the surface of their relationship. A. circumspect B. recuperate C. rekindle D. revive
40. Our family __________ enjoyed our holiday in Vietnam - the places are beautiful and the people are nice. A. strongly B. thoroughly C. deeply D. significantly Part 2. For questions 41-45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in each sentence in the numbered space provided in the column on the right. Your answers: 41. If homeowners can't keep up the payments, they face (CLOSE). 42. A lot of the characters in the play have very trusting natures, and this (VARY) leads to their downfall. 43. One of the duties of this post includes welcoming visiting (DIGNIFY) from foreign countries. 44. Hopefully, our discoveries will (ACT) the cynicism of those who say that humans are not destroying the world. 45. Some men feel (MASCULINE) if they work for a woman. 41. __________ 42. __________ 43. __________ 44. __________ 45. __________ III. READING (50 points) Part 1. For questions 46-55, read the text below and think of one word that fits each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. BEACONS We have become accustomed to the sight of an untidy collection of masts and antennas on just (46) __________ every high hill or mountaintop. They are all (47) __________the most of high vantage points to transmit and receive things like television programmes and mobile phone calls. However, in the event of a (48) __________ emergency, they will provide vital help. Modern telecommunications networks have (49) __________an ancient early-warning system where beacons, or fires, were lit to form a chain of communication. In some cases, the (50) __________ same vantage points we use today were (51) __________ used for that purpose. The first beacon would typically be lit at a high point on the coast if invading ships were spotted. When this was seen from the next point some (52) __________ away, a second beacon was lit, followed by others (53) __________ along the chain. Each beacon would warn local communities, and the network could, within minutes, (54) __________ a whole country to the danger. Of course, the message was not very sophisticated, (55) __________ in most cases it was readily understood to mean, "We are under attack". Part 2. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE PAST Many past societies collapsed or vanished, leaving behind monumental ruins such as those that the poet Shelly imagined in his sonnet, Ozymandias. By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/ or political/ economic/ social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time. By those standards, most people would consider the following past societies to have been famous victims of full-fledged collapses rather than of just minor declines: the Anasazi and Cahokia within the boundaries of the modern US, the Maya cities in Central America, Moche and Tiwanaku societies in South America, Norse Greenland, Mycenean Greece and Minoan Crete in Europe, Great Zimbabwe in Africa, Angkor Wat and the Harappan Indus Valley cities in Asia, and Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. The monumental ruins left behind by those past societies hold a fascination for all of us. We marvel at them when as children we first learn of them through pictures. When we grow up, many of us plan vacations in order to experience them at first hand. We feel drawn to their often spectacular and haunting beauty, and also to the mysteries that they pose. The scales of the ruins testify to the former
wealth and power of their builders. Yet these builders vanished, abandoning the great structures that they had created at such effort. How could a society that was once so mighty end up collapsing? It has long been suspected that many of those mysterious abandonments were at least partly triggered by ecological problems: people inadvertently destroying the environmental resources on which their societies depended. This suspicion of unintended ecological suicides (ecocide) has been confirmed by discoveries made in recent decades by archaeologists, climatologists, historians, paleontologists, and palynologists (pollen scientists). The processes through which past societies have undermined themselves by damaging their environments fall into eight categories, whose relative importance differs from case to case: deforestation and habitat destruction, soil problems, water management problems, overhunting, overfishing, effects of introduced species on native species, human population growth, and increased impact of people.. Those past collapses tended to follow somewhat similar courses constituting variations on a theme. Writers find it tempting to draw analogies between the course of human societies and the course of individual human lives to talk of a society's birth, growth, peak, old age and eventual death. But that metaphor proves erroneous for many past societies: they declined rapidly after reaching peak numbers and power, and those rapid declines must have come as surprise and shock to their citizens. Obviously, too, this trajectory is not one that all past societies followed unvaryingly to completion: different societies collapsed to different degrees and in somewhat different ways, while many societies did not collapse at all. Today many people feel that environmental problems overshadow all the other threats to global civilization. These environmental problems include the same eight that undermined past societies, plus four new ones: human-caused climate change, buildup of toxic chemicals in the environment, energy shortages, and full human utilization of the Earth's photosynthetic capacity. But the seriousness of those current environmental problems is vigorously debated. Are the risks greatly exaggerated, or conversely, are they underestimated? Will modern technology solve our problems, or is it creating new problems faster than it solves old ones? When we deplete one resource (e.g. wood, oil or ocean fish), can we count on being able to substitute some new resource (e.g. plastics, wind and solar energy, or farmed fish)? Isn't the rate of human population growth declining, such that we're already on course for the world's population to level off at some manageable number of people? Questions like this illustrate why those famous collapses of past civilizations have taken on more meaning than just that of a romantic mystery. Perhaps there are some practical lessons that we could learn from all those past collapses. But there are also differences between the modern world and its problems, and those past societies and their problems. We shouldn't be so naïve as to think that study of the past will yield simple solutions, directly transferrable to our society today. We differ from past societies in some respects that put us at lower risk than them; some of those respects often mentioned include our powerful technology (i.e. its beneficial effects), globalization, modern medicine, and greater knowledge of past societies and of distant modern societies. We also differ from past societies in some respects that put us at greater risk than them: again our potent technology (i.e. its unintended destructive effects), globalization (such that now a problem in one part of the world affects all the rest), the dependence of millions of us on modern medicine for our survival, and our much larger human population. Perhaps we can still learn from the past, but if only we think carefully about its lessons. Questions 56-58 Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D. Write your answers in the numbered boxes provided. 56. When the writer describes the impact of monumental ruins today, he emphasizes A. the income they generate from tourism. B. the area of land they occupy. C. their archaeological value. D. their romantic appeal. 57. Recent findings concerning vanished civilizations have A. overturned long-held beliefs. B. caused controversy amongst scientists.