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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TUYẾN QUANG ĐỀ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN DỰ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP QUỐC GIA LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2022 – 2023 Môn thi: Tiếng Anh Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC SECTION I. LISTENING (5 points) Part 1. For questions 1-5, listen to a radio news report about 'Google', a popular Internet search engine and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer. (1 point) 1. What way did Google rely on to market its product? 2. What position did Google achieve last week as the Internet search engine for America Online? 3. What group of people was mentioned to favour Google as a search engine? 4. What verb is the word 'google' said to be replacing? 5. Who invented the original term 'googol"? Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to part of an interview with two students and choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. (1 point) 6. What point is made about a good sense of smell? A. It is a natural ability that is hard to improve. B. Some people have a far better one than others. C. It can be developed in a similar way to other abilities. D. Some people exaggerate how poor theirs is. 7. What does Jolie say about describing perfumes? A. Experts use a vocabulary that is hard for people to understand. B. Some perfumes are too complex to be described. C. Ordinary people sometimes fail to use words appropriately. D. Some perfumes require a particularly specialist vocabulary. 8. What does Alan say about synthetic smells? A. They are able to mislead people into believing they are natural. B. They have a greater effect on people than natural ones. C. They are seen as more unpleasant than natural ones. D. They vary in their popularity with the public. 9. When talking about smell and the brain. Alan reveals __________ A. his belief that humans have superior smelling abilities to some animals. B. his doubts about whether humans and animals should be compared. C. his suspicion of those who report on experiments in the media. D. his awareness of the problems of conducting accurate studies. 10. Alan and Jolie agree that listening to music while studying __________ A. is beneficial if the music chosen is not too emotional. B. has an undesirable effect on their powers of concentration. C. helps the mind to focus on things that are important. D. has different effects depending on the material being studied. Part 3. Listen to the conversation between two students. Look at questions 11-16 and decide if the statements are True or False. Put a tick () in the appropriate boxes. (1 point) True False

A. roam B. roll C. rush D. run 37. Unfortunately, some politicians often hit __________ the belt to discredit their opponent. A. below B. under C. over D. above 38. The promoters called the concert __________ because the singer had a sore throat. A. away B. up C. off D. with 39. When several companies showed interest in buying the film rights to his novel, he knew he had __________ A. upped the ante B. scooped the bag C. caught the fat one D. hit the jackpot 40. Plans to build another shopping mall in the city are in the __________ A. water B. pipeline C. chimney D. channel Part 2: For questions 41-45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided. (0.5 point) 41. It may take patience, but it is important to be __________ about what sort of home you are prepared to inhabit. (FASH) 42. A previous knowledge of computing may be of some advantage initially but is not (a) __________ for entry to the course. (REQUIRE) 43. I think my last statement __________ the situation pretty well - at least, I can't think of any better summary. (CAPSULE) 44. The project was subject to the usual __________ of exploratory research. (VICIOUS) 45. She bought some __________ coffee as she cannot stand caffeine. (CAFFEINE) SECTION 3: READING COMPREHENSION (5 points) Part 1: For questions 46-55, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. (1 point) PLANETARY ARTISTRY For me, the highlight of this past week's science news was the images (46) __________ back from the Curiosity rover, providing (47) __________ geologic evidence that water flowed on Mars. Of course, this wasn't exactly a surprise; for decades, planetary scientists have suggested the channel networks visible in spacecraft imagery couldn't have been (48) __________ by anything else. The evidence has been (49) __________ as well, as various clay minerals and iron oxides have been identified through hyper spectral imagery. Nonetheless, I suspect that the image of definitely water-lain (50) __________ made the heart of more than one geologist (51) __________ a beat. Ground truth. You could argue that the scientific exploration of the extra-terrestrial is, at least (52) __________ part, a search for meaning: to position us within a larger cosmology. But our fascination with, and connection to, (53) __________ we see in the night sky comes not just through science, but also through art. So it should come as no surprise that scientific images of planetary surfaces have (54) __________ inspiration to a range of artists from Galileo - whose first sketches of the moon through a telescope are (55) __________ beautiful - to Barbara Hepworth - whose interpretations of the lunar surface are far less literal. 46. A. thrown 47. A. final 48. A. made 49. A. swelling 50. A. sediments 51. A. slip 52. A. with 53. A. things 54. A. offered 55. A. totally B. shot B. conclusive B. took B. expanding B. dross B. lose B. in B. what B. given B. doubtlessly C. beamed C. proved C. invented C. increasing C. grounds C. skip C. at C. that C. provided C. surely D. guaranteed D. discovered D. mounting D. matter D. jump D. for D. which D. made D. truly D. fired