Tiêu đề ĐỀ THI HSG ANH 12 HÀ NỘI 2023-2024.docx ✅

1 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HÀ NỘI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2023-2024 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Ngày thi: 30 tháng 9 năm 2023 Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (Đề thi gồm 15 trang) - Thi sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi và không được sử dụng bất kỳ loại tài liệu nào, kể cả từ điển. - Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm. PART A: PHONETICS (1.0 point) I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 1. A. costume B. cosmetic C. obscenity D. ostensible 2. A. increase B. dealt C. flea D. release 3. A. swinger B. stronger C. longer D. younger II. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 4. A. entrepreneur B. incoherent C. atmospheric D. undervalue 5. A. supervillain B. meteorite C. phenomenon D. stereotype PART B: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (8.0 points) I. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete each sentence below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 1. Despite their normal cylindrical form, some of the documents ____________ on silk that were found at Mawangdui, an archaeological site in southeastern China, were folded into rectangles. A. wrote B. written C. were written D. be written 2. If your priority is being able to ____________ your legs and walk around occasionally, take the train instead of the plane. A. extent B. span C. stretch D. range 3. You and your big mouth! It was supposed to be a secret. You ____________ her! A. shouldn't have told B. mightn't have told C. mustn't have told D. couldn't have told 4. ____________ that he only started learning English 2 years ago, his English is excellent.
2 A. Bringing B. Accounting C. Shining D. Considering 5. Some of the studies show positive results, ____________ others do not. A. whereas B. unlike C. therefore D. contrary 6. I try to strike ____________ when I'm on holiday spending half my time doing things and the other half just relaxing. A. a double bind B. a leading light C. the common touch D. the happy medium 7. These measures have been ____________ in order to increase the company's profit. A. carried B. taken C. tried D. done 8. ____________, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain. A. However tired B. Tired as he might feel C. As he might feel tired D. He felt very tired though 9. ____________ our project was unnecessary, we would not have invested in it. A. Had we thought B. Unless had we thought C. If had we thought D. As we had ever thought 10. In such a plight ____________ that we had no choice but to radio for help. A. we found ourselves B. we ourselves found C. did we find ourselves D. did we ourselves find II. Complete these sentences, using the suitable form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 1. It suggests that clay-working technology in the nineteenth century developed according to some ____________ logic or technical imperative. (ESCAPE) 2. He's a highly motivated individual, with the ____________ required to complete projects. (PERSEVERE) 3. A dry champagne makes the ideal ____________ to this dish. (ACCOMPANY) 4. Not surprisingly, the ____________ of founding elections frequently brings about efforts to introduce changes in electoral systems that would benefit the current incumbents. (AFTER) 5. Despite its well-devised plot, ____________ characters and interesting comic situations, this play did not at first receive the success it merited. (LIKE) 6. The instruction manual includes a section on ____________ to help you with any simple problem you might have with the robot vacuum. (TROUBLE) 7. Since then, he has worked ____________ for the good of the game in Manchester, England and much further afield, earning him recognition around the globe as a true ambassador of football. (STINT) 8. You can ____________ the carbon dioxide to separate it from the other constituents. (LIQUID)
3 9. An old industrial plant is always ____________ with a rapidly developing international metropolis city, and then it is not long before its gradual disappearance. (HARMONY) 10. Would you mind if I took one of the pictures as a ____________? (KEEP) III. For each set, think of one word which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. 1. ____________ - She set the ____________ for the meeting with a firm statement of company policy. - There is not need to take that ____________ with me it's not my fault we're late! - Choose a neutral ____________ for your floor tiles so they don't clash with the furnishings. 2. ____________ - Heavy rain and cold won't put off football fanatics and I'm sure they'll brave the ____________ to see their favourite team in action. - There are a few undesirable ____________ within our legal profession. If we don't expel them, they'll tarnish our reputation. - Hold your horses! First you have to learn the basic ____________ of the job and then you can be entrusted with more duties. 3. ____________ - By a ____________ of luck, someone else was walking along the trail and heard my shouts for help. - My speech was going well until I was put off my ____________ by an interruption. - She returned the volley with a powerful ____________ to win the game. 4. ____________ - There's a ____________ chance of him becoming the next president of the club. - Paul can't drive so he was a ____________ lot of use when I broke my arm. - They met up once a year to chew the ____________ about the old days. 5. ____________ - In the 18th century, the River Thames was a stinking trough of ____________ water. - He got fired on account of his persistent use of ____________ language. - Since he was evidently already in a ____________ temper, I avoided provoking him further. IV. Fill in each of the blanks with the correct forms of the phrasal verbs given in the box below. There is ONE extra phrasal verb which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. bog down cave in kick off peter out size up step back
4 1. At first, they refused to sign the agreement, but they ____________ when they heard another firm was being approached. 2. We won't mind ____________ from ourselves and identify our strengths and weaknesses. 3. The discussion failed to progress in any meaningful way, as they became ____________ in trivial details. 4. When the funds finally ____________, they will have to abandon the scheme. 5. The manager ____________ the meeting with a summary of what had been discussed last time. V. Complete the following passage by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. With the development of the tourism industry, various new types of vacations have recently appeared. A new word has (1) ____________ the lexicon of travel brochures, one which has also been cropping (2) ____________ on rural road signs far from Europe's crowded beaches. "Agritourism" is a new holiday flavour, sought by a growing (3) ____________ of holidaymakers who want to taste a little of the real country, to breathe its air, savour its food and wine, and perhaps to speak its (4) ____________. The pioneer project of agritourism was the development of gites in France. Government grants in the post-war years helped convert crumbling farm outbuildings (5) ____________ rural holiday cottages for poor Parisians, before the British became beneficiaries in the early 1970s. (6) ____________ 17 years from 1978, the number of Britons taking a gite holiday increased every year. Now agritourism has become a philosophy (7) ____________ embraces properties across the Mediterranean, with Cyprus, Spain and Italy (8) ____________ the forefront of development. Agritourism might manifest (9) ____________ as ensuite guest rooms on a working farm, rustic quarters in a restored country cottage or a grand, antique-filled mansion (10) ____________ its own pool. It may be a revitalised winery, a cheese-making dairy or a village co-operative reviving traditional handicrafts. But it will certainly be rural - and often remote. PART C: READING (6.0 points) I. Read the following passage and choose one option A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the question. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. Evolution of Computers Passage If you had to count every person who lived in the United States, and there were no calculators and no computers of any kind to help you, how would you do it? That's the puzzle that nineteen-year-old engineer Herman Hollerith was faced with in the 1880s when he was employed by the U.S. Census Bureau. His solution was to invent a machine that stored information by putting patterns of holes in stiff pasteboard, an idea that Hollerith struck upon by observing the Jacquard