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1/17 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO THÁI BÌNH KỲ THI THÀNH LẬP CÁC ĐỘI TUYỂN THAM DỰ KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA THPT NĂM 2023-2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Ngày thi: 22/9/2023 Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (Đề thi gồm có 17 trang) - Thí sinh KHÔNG được sử dụng tài liệu, kể cả từ điển. - Giám thị KHÔNG giải thích gì thêm. I. LISTENING: (5.0 Points) HƯỚNG DẪN LÀM BÀI THI NGHE HIỂU - Bài nghe gồm 4 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần; Mở đầu và kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu. - Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có nhạc hiệu. Thí sinh có 02 phút để hoàn thành phần nghe trước nhạc hiệu kết thúc bài nghe. - Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh đã có trong phần nghe. Part 1: For questions 1-5, listen to the recording and answer the following questions with NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS for each answer. 1. What kind of shows did the article say brown face used to be common in? ________________________________________ 2. Who did Justin Trudeau dress up as? ________________________________________ 3. What is Mr. Trudeau running for? ________________________________________ 4. Who told reporters that he was extremely shocked? ________________________________________ 5. Where is Mr. Trudeau different, according to Jagmeet Singh? ________________________________________ Part 2: For questions 6-12, listen to the following recording and fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. 6. Susan Boyle has experienced a ______________________ to fame after auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent. 7. It is suggested that Susan’s biggest attraction lies in her ____________________ . 8. Susan is probably the most unlikely star to be discovered recently with her _____________________ to life. 9. Max Clifford, a ____________________ commented that the massive interest in her is partly due to people having to challenge their own 10.___________________ and assumptions. 11. Susan is believed to be the _________________ to win in the next performance on Britain’s Got Talent.
2/17 12. It is highly likely that there will be a Susan Boyle album in the charts with talk of contracts and ___________________. Part 3: You will hear an interview with someone whose work is concerned with the design and marketing of products. For questions 13 – 17, choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. 13. David says that the session he has just conducted ___________. A. was longer than most sessions he conducts. B. illustrates his own beliefs about focus groups. C. is an example of a new approach to visual planning. D. concentrated as much on positive as negative attitudes to cleaning. 14. What did David know about cleaning products before the session? A. Some people could not make up their minds which ones to buy. B. Manufacturers were concerned about falling sales in them. C. Some of them looked too dull to appeal to shoppers. D. People felt that false claims were made about them. 15. One of the comments made during the session referred to ___________. A. regarding the choice of a cleaning product as unimportant. B. cleaning products all looking the same. C. the deliberate misleading of shoppers. D. buying a cleaning product because it is familiar. 16. David says that what the women produced when they were split into groups ___________. A. did not focus on what cleaning products actually do. B. presented contrasting images. C. was not what they had expected to produce. D. was similar to the presentation of other kinds of product. 17. David says that he has concluded from the session that ___________. A. his firm's methods will need to change slightly. B. he was right to question a certain assumption. C. cleaning products do not fit into a general pattern. D. what he had previously thought was not entirely correct. Your answers: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Part 4: For questions 18-25, listen to the following recording and fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. 18. San Francisco is _____________________ and changing the way we think about trash. 19. Zero waste means sending next to nothing to _____________________ or landfills. 20. Up to now, San Francisco has _____________________ 80% of its waste from landfills. 21. Government representatives from all over the world visit the facilities to learn about how they could _____________________ what is being done here. 22. Every day San Francisco collects 650 tons of food scraps, _____________________ and other organic waste. 23. After the waste is ground up and screened for plastic and other bits of trash, the organic leftover get watered and _____________________. 24. A piping system then _____________________ dangerous greenhouse gases produced by microbes. 25. After the compost is complete, it is sold to local farmers and _____________________ .
3/17 II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR: (2.0 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. 26. Some version of this coronavirus is bound to _____ our vaccines. A. backstab B. flummox C. commiserate D. bulwark 27. Large quantities of condensed milk, put up in _____ sealed tins, are sold for use in mining camps. A. hermetically B. eccentrically C. enigmatically D. esoterically 28. Local housing prices, thanks to the _____ of a picturesque beach, are out of the reach of many buyers. A. probity B. prolixity C. propinquity D. proclivity 29. This shoe repairer is so quick that he can sole and heel your shoes in a(n) _____. A. moment B. hurry C. instant D. jiffy 30. _____political ambitions, corporate career and family to care for, Jane has no time for socialising. A. What with her B. It’s not only her C. There’s her D. That’s just her 31. It's reckoned that someone in the club was _____ the assassin. They could have collaborated for a long time. A. at odds over B. under the thumb of C. on the uppers by D.in cahoots with 32. For weeks, millions of people have been _____ in their apartments, going out only when absolutely required. A. locked down B. snowed under C. cooped up D. cordoned off 33. Yields of organic maize are nearly twenty percent ______ conventional maize in years under drought in Pennsylvania, highlighting the role of organic matter in enhancing the soil’s water- holding capacity. A. higher than those of B. higher than of C. as high as D. as high as those of 34. A law passed in 1991 gave the president _____ in the removal of top officers. A. idee fixe B. carte blanche C. hoi polloi D. social milieu 35. They won't be able to give you even a(n) _____ without drawings, measurements and thoughts on materials. A. collision course B. ballpark figure C. bridal gown D. hefty shove 36. My sister _____ and then finally admitted she'd worn my shoes. A. waxed and waned B. ranted and raved C. hemmed and hawed D. racked and ruined 37. Many teachers have been trained to use e-learning tools, while others have faced a steep learning _____. A. curve B. circle C. lapse D. loop 38. _____ isolation of infected patients is used to reduce spread, but its benefit over other precautions is unknown. A. Detention B. Lockdown C. Quarantine D. Cohort 39. This exhibit put our small town on the _____, bringing in major collectors from all around the world. A. poster B. books C. map D. rocks 40. The designer refuses to gild the _____, preferring simple lines of his creations. A. lily B. rose C. daisy D. daffodil Your answers: 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
4/17 Part 2: For questions 41 – 45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in each sentence in the corresponding numbered spaces provided in the column on the right. Your answers 41. Squamous _____ is strongly associated with smoking and alcohol and predominantly affects the middle third of the esophagus. (CANCER) 41. _____________ 42. The cost of living keeps rising, especially for _____ expenditure such as rent and mortgage payments, healthcare and childcare. (DISCRETION) 42. _____________ 43. The cooked pastry dough is _______ simple, but it takes total concentration and hours of practice to achieve good results. (DECEIVE) 43. _____________ 44. The judge dismissed his DUI charge but convicted him for improper lane changing and refusing the_____ test. (BREATHE) 44. _____________ 45. He's been seen out at nightclubs and restaurants with a series of _____ blondes. (IDENTITY) 45. _____________ III. READING: (5.0 Points) Part 1: Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. The Sensual Shopper How can retail stores encourage customers to 46.______ with their money? Here's how the good stores do it. We were performing a study for RadioShack just 47.______ the chain had decided to try to become America's favorite phone store. We watched countless shoppers approach the wall of telephones on display, look them all 48.______, check out the prices and then, almost 49.______ exception, pick up a phone and hold it up to an ear. What were they hoping for? Nothing, probably - it's just a reflex action, I think what else do you do with a phone? On what other basis do you compare phones but 50.______ how they feel in your hand and 51.______ your ear. Well, we reasoned, if the first principle 52.______ trial is to make it as lifelike as possible, you can complete the experience by putting a voice in that phone. We advised RadioShack to connect the phones to a recorded message that could be activated when a receiver was lifted. Once that happened, the stores were alive 53.______ shoppers picking up display phones, listening 54.______ moment and then holding the receivers out for their companions to hear - 55.______ was a bonus, because that would provide some basis for discussing the purchase, which greatly increases the chances that something will be bought. Your answers: 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. Part 2: Read the following passage and answer the questions. Eight paragraphs have been removed from the passage. For questions 56 - 63, choose from paragraphs A- H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. There were more than a few eyebrows raised when Martin Creed's installation, The Lights Going On and Off, was unveiled at this year's Turner Prize show at Tate Britain. The museum's curator of communications, Simon Williams, declared that the work signified "the movement towards the dematerialisation of art since the 60s", but most of the general public seemed to reckon that an empty room with a light flicking on and off was a pretentious conceit. Yet even those who loathed the piece still tried to engage with it as a work of art.