Tiêu đề ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 THPT YÊN DŨNG SỐ 1 - BẮC GIANG 2024-2025.docx ✅

1 SỞ GD&ĐT BẮC GIANG TRƯỜNG THPT YÊN DŨNG SỐ 1 ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC (Đề thi có 13 trang) ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT HSG VĂN HÓA LẦN 1 NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025 MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI: 12 Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề PHẦN 1. TRẮC NGHIỆM: 70 points I. LISTENING ( 15 points) Part 1. You will hear an interview with a girl called Lucy Hughes, who is talking about her love of maths. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer (A, B or C). Question 1. What first made Lucy excited about maths? A. taking part in a maths activity at school B. being able to use the basic maths skills she’d learnt C. recognising a link between maths and the natural world Question 2. What does Lucy’s dad suggest about some people attending his training sessions? A.They don’t realise that maths is easier than they think. B. A lack of confidence discourages them from using maths. C. Having to remember so much has put them off maths. Question 3. How have Lucy’s parents helped her with maths? A. by giving her practical maths problems to solve B. by taking her to local events connected with maths C. by working through difficult maths homework with her Question 4. Lucy suggests the appeal of maths for her is that A. there is a limitless number of areas to explore. B. there is always a single clear and definite answer. C. there is more than one method for working out the same solution Question 5. When Lucy entered a maths competition recently, she A. was worried by the level of the other competitors. B. felt confident once it was her turn to perform. C. only realised close to the end that she could actually win it. Part 2: You will hear an interview in which a man is asking a boy about bearded dragon. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. You will hear the recording TWICE. (5 points) Question 6. The boy's bearded dragon was born in _____________. A. the United States B. Australia C. South America D. Africa
2 Question 7. The bearded dragon is generally _____________. A. gentle B. aggressive C. hyperactive D. fierce Question 8. As for their diet, bearded dragons _____________. A. are carnivores B. consume both greens and insects C. eat greens and vegetables D. fruits and grass Question 9. A bearded dragon obtains water in the wild by _____________. A. extracting water from its food B. carrying water in its mouth C. drinking the dew on plants D. storing it in the body Question 10. The best lighting scenario for a bearded dragon in captivity is _____________. A. a UV light B. a regular light bulb C. constant shade D. a room with dim light Part 3: For questions 11-15, 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. Question 11. 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’. Question 12. 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. Question 13. 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. Question 14. 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. Question 15. 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.
3 II. PHONETICS: (5 points) Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others (2 points). Question 16. A. failure B. picture C. culture D. sculpture Question 17. A. nib B. debt C. absorb D. absent Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress (3 points). Question 18. A. agriculture B. infrastructure C. admirable D. disastrous Question 19. A. original B. permanent C. characterize D. overtime Question 20. A. expertise B. continent C. competent D. furniture III. LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS, GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY: (15 points) Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions (Grammar, Vocabulary, Phrasal verb, Idiom). Question 21. _____________, the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather. A. Left uncovered B. Leaving uncovered C. Having left uncovered D. Been left uncovered Question 22. I’m _____________ my brother is. A. nothing as ambitious than B. nowhere like so ambitious C. nowhere near as ambitious as D. nothing near as ambitious Question 23. It _____________ able to finish it in an hour. A. couldn’t be too hard if you had been B. couldn’t be too hard if you are C. can’t have been too hard if you had been D. can’t have been too hard if you were Question 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 Question 25. He was caught using forged bank notes to pay for goods and charged with _____________. A. theft B. deception C. embezzlement D. fraud Question 26. I would rather _____________ him to my party so that he could have met interesting people. A. invited B. had invited C. have invited D. to have invited Question 27. Western culture gives us many examples of the _____________ of the Wicked Queen. A. prototype B. archetype C. typeface D. typescript
4 Question 28. Weather _____________, we’ll have the party in the garden. A. facilitating B. allowing C. permitting D. enabling Question 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 Question 30. You should accept the Nokia mobile phone as a 16-birthday present from your parents delightedly. Don't _____________. A. take it for granted B. buy it through the nose C. pull my leg D. look a gift horse in the mouth Question 31. You expect our factory to manufacture 40,000 parts in a week. You’re trying to _____________ the ocean on this one. A. heat B. ruin C. boil D. damage Question 32. A lot of fans are disappointed to find that their idols have _____________ of clay when they are caught doing something embarrassing. A. feet B. weight C. teeth D. leg Question 33. A record dated 1665 shows that at that time the archery contests were _____________ 4 days. A. carried over B. made out C. held over D. taken out Question 34. It was at the press conference _____________ the truth about his corporation. A. did the director tell B. the director did tell C. where the director told D. that the director told Question 35. After years of working together, the partners found themselves _____________ linked. A. permanently B. indelibly C. perpetually D. inextricably IV. READING: (35 points) Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the blanks (phrase/ statement) (5 points). Most forms of property are concrete and tangible, such as houses, cars, furniture or anything else (36) _____________. Other forms of property can be intangible, and copyright deals with intangible forms of property. Copyright is a legal protection extended to authors of creative works, for example, books, maps, films, television shows, software, paintings, choreography in dance and all other forms of intellectual or artistic property. Although the purpose of artistic property is usually public use and enjoyment, copyright establishes the ownership of the creator. When a person buys (37) _____________, it belongs to this individual as a tangible object. However, the authors of the magazine articles own the research and the writing that went