SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN BẮC GIANG

BẮC GIANG NĂM HỌC 2018-2019

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Dành cho học sinh thi vào chuyên tiếng Anh, tiếng Pháp, tiếng Trung)
Ngày thi: 07/6/2018
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề

Số phách
ĐIỂM Bằng số: ................................... Chữ ký giám khảo 1: ..............................................................
BÀI THI ..........................
Bằng chữ: ................................ Chữ ký giám khảo 2: ...............................................................

- Đề thi gồm 08 trang, thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.
LƯU Ý:
- Thí sinh không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào.

I.  LISTENING (20 pts)

Part 1: Listen to the recording and circle the appropriate answer A, B or C to questions 1-4. You will
hear the recording ONCE. (4 pts)
1. The fair will take place at the ______.
A. fairgrounds B. park C. school
2. The fair will begin on Friday ______.
A. morning B. afternoon C. evening
3. The fair will begin with a ______.
A. parade B. dance performance C. speech by the major
4. There will be free admission on ______.
A. Friday B. Saturday C. Sunday
Your answers: 1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______
Part 2: Listen to the recording and complete the table. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS
AND/OR A NUMBER (except phone number) for each answer to questions from 1 to 10. You
will hear the recording ONCE. (10 pts)

Example: Clear-Point Telephone Company

Customer Order Form
Order taken by: Ms. Jones
Name: Harold (1) ____________
Address: (2) ____________ Fulton Avenue, apartment 12
Type of service: (3) ____________
Employer: Wrightsville Medical Group
Occupation: (4) ____________  
Work phone: (5) ____________
Time at current job: (6) ____________
Special services: (7) ____________ (8) ____________  
Installation scheduled for: Day (9) ____________  
Time of the day (10) ____________

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Part 3: Listen to the recording and then indicate whether the statements are True (T) or False
(F). You will hear the recording TWICE. (6 pts)
1. ______ Rachel came to visit Buenos Aires in 1998.
2. ______ Tango is a dance that came from Argentina.
3. ______ The population of Buenos Aires started to increase at the beginning of the twentieth century.
4. ______ Immigrants to Buenos Aires came from Asia and from Europe.
5. ______ Rachel decided to learn tango in order to understand Argentina.
6. ______ Rachel’s teacher of tango was Argentinean.

  THE END OF THE LISTENING  

II. Choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D to complete the sentences. (12 pts)
1. I had to get up early, ______ I would miss the train.
A. otherwise B. if not C. so that D. but
2. My parents are going to take three days ______ next month to help my brother move his house.
A. at B. over C. off D. out
3. Not a good movie, ______?
A. did it B. didn’t it C. was it D. wasn’t it
4. Hoi An is ______ for its old, small and tile-roofed houses.
A. well-done B. well-dressed C. well-organized D. well-known
5. John: “Could you tell me how to get to the nearest post office?” Peter: “______.”
A. Sorry for this inconvenience B. I have no clue
C. Not at all D. Sorry, I’m a new comer here
6. Have you ever read anything ______ Earnest Hengmingway?
A. by B. of C. from D. for
7. Either John or his brothers ______ the money.
A. has stolen B. have stolen C. has been stolen D. have been stolen
8. The villagers strongly recommend that a new school ______ immediately.
A. must be built B. is going to be built C. be built D. will be built
9. “______” – “Thank you. We are proud of him.”
A. Your kid is naughty. B. Can we ask your child to take a photo?
C. Your child is just adorable! D. I can give your kid a lift to school.
10. I'm sure you'll have no ______ the exam.
A. difficulty to pass B. difficulties to pass C. difficulties passing D. difficulty passing
11. Wood that has been specially treated is ______ regular wood.
A. as water resistant much more than B. water resistant much more than
C. more than water resistant D. much more water resistant than
12. In 1938, many people listening to the radio heard a report ______ had landed in New Jersey.
A. how beings from Mars B. being from Mars
C. that being from Mars D. that beings from Mars

Your answers: 1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______ 6. ______

7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______ 11. ______ 12. ______
III. Give the correct form of the words in the brackets to complete the passage below. (5 pts)
Sports in Japan are a (1. signify) ______ part of Japanese culture. Both traditional sports such as
sumo and martial arts, and Western imports like baseball and association football are popular with both
participants and spectators. Sumo wrestling is considered Japan's national sport. Baseball was
introduced to the country by (2. visit) ______ Americans in the 19th century. The Nippon Professional
Baseball League is Japan's largest professional sports competition in terms of television and spectators.
Martial arts such as judo, karate, and modern kendo are also widely practiced and enjoyed by
spectators in the country. Association football has gained wide popularity since the founding of the
Japan Professional Football League in 1992. Other popular sports include figure skating, golf, and

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racing, especially auto racing. There are opportunities to play (3. vary) ______ sports for all ages, and
school plays an important role in the community. Kindergarten and lower elementary school students
can play in a sports club that can be joined (4. private) ______ for a moderate fee. Most martial arts
can be started as young as 4 or 5 years old. When a student starts 5th grade, the school offers free
after-school activities for its students to participate. Middle and high schools also encourage their
students to join school sports clubs. (5. province) ______ and nationwide contests and tournaments are
held every winter and summer for all sports.
Your answers:
1. _________________________ 4. _________________________
2. _________________________ 5. _________________________
3. _________________________
IV. Rearrange the statements to make a complete conversation. The first one has been done as
an example. (5 pts)
A. Mum?
B. Oh, Ryan! It’s a really expensive course. I’m not sure we can afford for you to take it again. Things
are difficult enough as they are.
C. You failed it! But wasn’t that an important one?
D. Yes?
E. Yeah, I’m really sorry. Well, I’ll probably have to retake the whole course.
F. Oh, yes, I remember. Apart from going out until four in the morning, you mean?
G. You know that Economics exam I had last week?
H. I know, Mum. I’m sorry. I’ll talk to the teacher again and see if I can retake it.
I. The one you didn’t revise for?
J. Well, I have to relax a little, even if I’m revising. Anyway, I didn’t pass it.
K. I did revise for it. I was working on it all weekend. Don’t you remember?
Your answers: 0. A 1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______

V. The passage below contains 10 errors. UNDERLINE and CORRECT them. Write your answers in
the blanks provided. (10 pts)
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1 A new ruling which came into effective last week requires some homeowners to purchase
2 new smoke alarms. The ordinance state that there should be a fire alarm installing in every
3 bedroom of the house, and these alarms must be complied with certain safety standards.
4 Some local residents are displease at these new regulations. Gwen Ellis of McKinley says
5 that to meet with the new regulations, she has to buy five new alarms to replace the one
6 she installed just six months ago. With fire alarms cost up to $20 a piece, this is an
7 unwelcome ruling to many people. Fortunately, the McKinley Fire Department is offering
8 grants for homeowners and will provide and install new fire alarms free of charges.  If
9 you have small children or are older than 65 years of age, you may be eligible for these. 
10 The McKinley Fire Department has 5,000 smoking alarms to give away. To inquire about
11 obtaining a free alarm, or to find out whether you qualify, call 692-569-0372.

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VI. Read the passage and do the tasks below. (13 pts)
Nature or Nurture?
A. A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural
psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their
willingness to obey instructions given by a 'leader' in a situation in which the subjects might feel a
personal distaste for the actions they were called upon to perform. Specifically, Milgram told each
volunteer 'teacher-subject' that the experiment was in the noble cause of education, and was designed
to test whether or not punishing pupils for their mistakes would have a positive effect on the pupils'
ability to learn.
B. Milgram's experimental set-up involved placing the teacher-subject before a panel of thirty switches
with labels ranging from '15 volts of electricity (slight shock)' to '450 volts (danger - severe shock)' in
steps of 15 volts each. The teacher-subject was told that whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to
a question, a shock was to be administered, beginning at the lowest level and increasing in severity
with each successive wrong answer. The supposed 'pupil' was in reality an actor hired by Milgram to
simulate receiving the shocks by emitting a spectrum of groans, screams and writhings together with
an assortment of statements and expletives denouncing both the experiment and the experimenter.
Milgram told the teacher-subject to ignore the reactions of the pupil, and to administer whatever level
of shock was called for, as per the rule governing the experimental situation of the moment.
C. As the experiment unfolded, the pupil would deliberately give the wrong answers to questions
posed by the teacher, thereby bringing on various electrical punishments, even up to the danger level
of 300 volts and beyond. Many of the teacher-subjects balked at administering the higher levels of
punishment, and turned to Milgram with questioning looks and/or complaints about continuing the
experiment. In these situations, Milgram calmly explained that the teacher-subject was to ignore the
pupil's cries for mercy and carry on with the experiment. If the subject was still reluctant to proceed,
Milgram said that it was important for the sake of the experiment that the procedure be followed
through to the end. His final argument was, 'You have no other choice. You must go on.' What
Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects who would be willing to
administer the highest levels of shock, even in the face of strong personal and moral revulsion against
the rules and conditions of the experiment.
D. Prior to carrying out the experiment, Milgram explained his idea to a group of 39 psychiatrists and
asked them to predict the average percentage of people in an ordinary population who would be
willing to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts. The overwhelming consensus was that
virtually all the teacher-subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter. The psychiatrists felt that
'most subjects would not go beyond 150 volts' and they further anticipated that only four per cent
would go up to 300 volts. Furthermore, they thought that only a lunatic fringe of about one in 1,000
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E. What were the actual results? Well, over 60 per cent of the teacher-subjects continued to obey
Milgram up to the 450-volt limit! In repetitions of the experiment in other countries, the percentage of
obedient teacher-subjects was even higher, reaching 85 per cent in one country. How can we possibly
account for this vast discrepancy between what calm, rational, knowledgeable people predict in the
comfort of their study and what pressured, flustered, but cooperative teachers actually do in the
laboratory of real life?
F. One's first inclination might be to argue that there must be some sort of built-in animal aggression
instinct that was activated by the experiment, and that Milgram's teacher-subjects were just following a
genetic need to discharge this pent-up primal urge onto the pupil by administering the electrical shock.
A modern hard-core sociobiologist might even go so far as to claim that this aggressive instinct
evolved as an advantageous trait, having been of survival value to our ancestors in their struggle
against the hardships of life on the plains and in the caves, ultimately finding its way into our genetic
make-up as a remnant of our ancient animal ways.
G. An alternative to this notion of genetic programming is to see the teacher-subjects' actions as a
result of the social environment under which the experiment was carried out. As Milgram himself
pointed out, 'Most subjects in the experiment see their behaviour in a larger context that is benevolent
and useful to society - the pursuit of scientific truth. The psychological laboratory has a strong claim to
legitimacy and evokes trust and confidence in those who perform there. An action such as shocking a
victim, which in isolation appears evil, acquires a completely different meaning when placed in this
setting.'
H. Thus, in this explanation the subject merges his unique personality and personal and moral code
with that of larger institutional structures, surrendering individual properties like loyalty, self-sacrifice
and discipline to the service of malevolent systems of authority.
I. Here we have two radically different explanations for why so many teacher-subjects were willing to
forgo their sense of personal responsibility for the sake of an institutional authority figure. The
problem for biologists, psychologists and anthropologists is to sort out which of these two polar
explanations is more plausible. This, in essence, is the problem of modern sociobiology - to discover
the degree to which hard-wired genetic programming dictates, or at least strongly biases, the
interaction of animals and humans with their environment, that is, their behaviour. Put another way,
sociobiology is concerned with elucidating the biological basis of all behaviour.
Questions 1-6: This Reading Passage has nine paragraphs, A-I. Which paragraph contains the
following information?
1. _____ a biological explanation of the teacher-subjects' behaviour.  
2. _____ the explanation Milgram gave the teacher-subjects for the experiment.  
3. _____ the identity of the pupils.  
4. _____ the expected statistical outcome.  
5. _____ the general aim of sociobiological study.  
6. _____ the way Milgram persuaded the teacher-subjects to continue.  
Questions 7-9: Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
7. The teacher-subjects were told that they were testing whether ______
A. a 450-volt shock was dangerous. C. the pupils were honest.
B. punishment helps learning. D. they were suited to teaching.
8. The teacher-subjects were instructed to ______
A. stop when a pupil asked them to. C. reduce the shock level after a correct answer.
B. denounce pupils who made mistakes. D. give punishment according to a rule.
9. Before the experiment took place the psychiatrists ______
A. believed that a shock of 150 volts was too dangerous.
B. failed to agree on how the teacher-subjects would respond to instructions.
C. underestimated the teacher-subjects' willingness to comply with experimental procedure.
D. thought that many of the teacher-subjects would administer a shock of 450 volts.
Your answers: 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______
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Questions 10-13: Decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F) or Not given
(NG) according to the passage.
10. Several of the subjects were psychology students at Yale University.  
11. Some people may believe that the teacher-subjects' behaviour could be explained as a positive
survival mechanism. 
12. In a sociological explanation, personal values are more powerful than authority.  
13. Milgram's experiment solves an important question in sociobiology.  
Your answers: 10. ______ 11. ______ 12. ______ 13. ______

VII. The list of New Book Releases on the following passage has nine book descriptions from A
to I. Choose the correct title for each book from the list of book titles below. One has been done
as an example. Put a CROSS (X) to the titles that don’t match any books. (10 pts)

New Book Releases

A   This book describes the creativity of Aboriginal people living in the driest parts of Australia.
Stunning reproductions of paintings, beautiful photography and informative text.
B   Pocket-sized maps and illustrations with detailed information on the nesting sites and migration
patterns of Australia. This is a classic booklet suitable for both beginner and expert.
C   Packed full of information for the avid hiker, this book is a must. Photographs, maps and practical
advice will guide your journeys on foot through the forests of the southern continent.
D   More than-an atlas - this book contains maps, photographs and an abundance of information on the
land and climate of countries from around the globe.
E   Australia's premier mountain biking guidebook - taking you through a host of national parks and
state forests.
F   Here's the A-Z of Australian native animals - take an in-depth look at their lives and characteristics,
through fantastic photographs and informative text.
G   Graphic artists have worked with researchers and scientists to illustrate how these prehistoric
animals lived and died on the Australian continent.
H   A definitive handbook on outdoor safety - with a specific focus on equipment, nutrition, first aid,
special clothing and bush skills.
I   Detailed guides to 15 scenic car tours that will take you onto fascinating wilderness tracks and
along routes that you could otherwise have missed.

List of Book Titles Answers

0. Field Guide to Native Birds of Australia Book __B__
1. The Bush on Two Wheels: 100 Top Rides Book ______
2. Bush Foods of Australian Aborigines Book ______
3. A Pictorial History of the Dinosaur in Australia Book ______
4. Bushwalking in Australia Book ______
5. World Geographica Book ______
6. Driving Adventures for 4-wheel-drive Vehicles Book ______
7. Survival Techniques in the Wild Book ______
8. Encyclopedia of Australian Wildlife Book ______
9. Guide to the Art of the Australian Desert Book ______
10. Field Guide to Animals of the World Book ______

VIII. Choose the correct answer among A, B, C or D that best fits each of the blank spaces. (5 pts)
The popular image of student life is of young people with few responsibilities enjoying themselves
and (1) ______very little work. This is often not true. Many older people now study at college or
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university, sometimes (2) ______ a part-time basis while having a job and looking after a family.
These students are often (3) ______ motivated and work very hard.
Younger students are often thought to be lazy and careless about money but this (4) _____ is
changing. In Britain reduced government support for higher education means that students can no
longer rely on having their expenses (5) ______ for them. Formerly, students received a grant
towards their living expenses. Now most can only get a loan (6) ______ has to be paid back. Since 1999
they have paid over £1 000 towards tuition (7) ______ and this amount will increase up to a maximum
of £3 000. In the US students already (8) ______ pay for tuition and room and board. Many get a
financial aid package which may (9) ______ grants, scholarships and loans. The fear of having large
debts places (10) ______ pressure on students and many take part-time jobs during the term and work
full-time in the vacations.
1. A. producing B. carrying C. doing D. making
2. A. for B. with C. on D. at
3. A. highly B. mainly C. absolutely D. adequately
4. A. position B. state C. situation D. condition
5. A. paying B. paid C. pay D. to pay
6. A. whether B. what C. which D. who
7. A. money B. fees C. allowances D. charge
8. A. had better B. should C. may D. have to
9. A. include B. consist C. compose D. belong
10. A. large B. generous C. considerate D. considerable
Your answers: 1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______
IX. Rewrite the sentences, beginning with the words given so that the meanings stay the same as
the first ones. (5 pts)
1. Though man is wise, he may make mistakes.
 However..............................................................................................................................................
2. It was her lack of confidence that surprised me.
 What I found .....................................................................................................................................
3. It was wrong of you to allow a four-year-old child to walk home alone.
 You should not........................................................................................................... .......................
4. The mother is proud of her son’s contribution to the play last night.
 The mother is proud of what ............................................................................................................
5. Only two out of the five rooms we have booked have air conditioning.
 We have booked five rooms, only .....................................................................................................

X. Complete the second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given. DO NOT change the word given. You must use between THREE and FIVE
words, including the word given. (5 pts)
1. Jenny didn’t feel like going to the party. (mood)
 Jenny …………………………………………………………………………... to go to the party.
2. I felt that it had been a big mistake to give up that job. (regretted)
 I ………………………………………………………................................................ up that job.
3. He joined the army as soon as he had finished school. (sooner)
 No………………………………………………………………... school than he joined the army.
4. He won’t let anyone else touch his records. (objects)

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 He …………………………………………………………………………………….. his records.
5. The number of people out of work has been going down little by little. (gradual)
 There has been a ………………………………………….….. the number of people out of work.

XI. Write a paragraph. (10 pts)

Write a paragraph from 160 -180 words, beginning with "One day, my best friend did not go to
school."
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