đề chuyên 2024-2025
đề chuyên 2024-2025
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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10
TẠO TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN
NĂM HỌC 2024 - 2025
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
(Đề thi có 10 trang)
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SECTION I. LISTENING
Part 1. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN ONE
WORD OR/AND A NUMBER for each answer.
INSURANCE APPLICATION
Gavin’s apartment is located on the (1) ______________ floor.
The monthly rent for Gavin’s apartment is (2) $ ______________.
ITEMS TO BE INSURED VALUE
A (3) ______________: $450
A (4) ______________ system: $1,150
Watches: $ 2,000
CDs and (5) _____________: $400
Total annual cost of insurance: (6) $ ______________
INSURANCE APPLICATION FORM:
Name: Mr. Gavin (7) ______________
Address: (8) ______________ Biggins Street, South Hills
Date of birth: 12th November 1980
Telephone: (9) ______________
Nationality: (10) ______________
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Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2. You will hear a teenager, called Ella Subiotto, talking on the radio,
about her life as a young violin player. Choose the correct answer from A,
B or C for each question. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
11. Ella won a music competition when she was ________.
A. 5 years old B. 9 years old C. 16 years old
12. Who persuades Ella to practice as much as possible?
A. her friends B. her teacher C. her parents
13. What does Ella do to improve her playing?
A. take a lot of exercise B. eat healthy food C. avoid stress
14. Ella would like other teenagers to ________.
A. change their opinion of classical music
B. buy more classical music CDs
C. learn to play classical music
15. What does Ella enjoy doing most in her free time?
A. watching a film B. reading a book C. going shopping
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 3. Listen and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or
False (F). Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Information T F
16. The class have already talked about at least three of the physical
effects sport has on the human body.
17. Sport makes our bones become stronger only when we are still
growing.
18. Today’s topic is the choice between playing sport on your own and
playing in teams.
19. There are no real benefits associated with doing individual sport.
20. In order to get success in individual sport, we need help from
other people.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 4. You will hear five different people describing different unusual
musical instruments from around the world. For questions 21-25, choose
from the list A-H which speaker’s instrument best fits the description
given. Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you
do not need to use. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
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A. It is entirely made of wood.
21. Speaker 1 ________
B. It is similar to a guitar.
22. Speaker 2 ________ C. It is played by blowing through it.
D. It is difficult to transport.
23. Speaker 3 ________
E. It can no longer be made.
24. Speaker 4 ________ F. It serves another purpose.
G. It can only be found in Japan.
25. Speaker 5 ________
H. It is entirely made of rosewood.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Part 2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in
capitals. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Fake news stories can be hard to control for several reasons. Many people ( 21)
TRUST ______ established news sources and others just don’t read them, so the
debunking of a fake story by a serious newspaper or TV channel has limited (22)
AFFECT______. In addition, the internet is very hard to police. When users are
caught (23) USE ______ one media platform, they simply go to another one or start
up a website themselves. There are also (24) VARIETY ______ reasons why people
create fake news. Some have political motives, to belittle or (25) CRIME ______
their opponents. Other websites, like The Onion, deliberately publish fake news as
satire – humorous comments on society and current affairs. Another group is in it
for the profit: many people clicking on (26) ENTERTAIN ______ fake news stories
can bring in a lot of advertising revenue. One man running fake news sites from Los
Angeles said he was making up to US$ 30,000 a month in this way. There are also
those, like the small-town teenagers in Macedonia who wrote fake news stories
about Donald Trump, who seem to be motivated partly by money and partly by (27)
BORING ______. So, what can we do to stop fake news spreading? First, make sure
that the websites you read are (28) LEGITIMIZE ______, for example by looking
carefully at the domain name and the About Us section. Check the sources of any
quotes or figures given in the story. Remember that (29) AMAZE ______ stories
about famous people will be covered by the mainstream media if they are true.
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Only share stories you know are true and let your (30) FRIENDSHIP ______ know,
tactfully, when they unknowingly share fake news. Together we can turn around the
post-truth world!
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Part 3. Match the words in column A with their strongest collocates in
column B and then use the full phrases to fill the gaps in the sentences
below. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
A B
win off the fat of the land
keep the reins
pay cats and dogs
live wonders
hold the ceiling
attract the ultimate price
do her political spurs
hit the waiter’s attention
break the record
rain fit
31. It’s more polite to raise your hand to ______. You shouldn’t shout like that, Tom.
32. I think she will ______ for the 5,000 meters in the next race.
33. It’s believed that keeping pets in your house can really ______ for your health.
34. My mother will surely ______ when she knows that I have broken her favourite
vase.
35. I think you had better repair your roof immediately as it may ______ tonight.
36. Soldiers are all ready to ______ for their country’s freedom.
37. Tim is the boss but it is his secretary that seems to ______.
38. One reason people do a lot of sports regularly is that it helps ______ and stay
healthy.
39. Selling her company at a huge profit can easily guarantee her to ______.
40. Mrs. Janes deserved to ______ fighting hospital closures during her time as a
local councilor in Bristol.
Your answers:
31. 36.
32 37.
33. 38.
34. 39.
35. 40.
SECTION III. READING
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or
D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
History is full of inventions that looked good at the time, but why nobody wanted to
buy them. New ideas may fail for one of several reasons. Firstly, there are those (1)
_______ do not actually work very well when put to the (2) _______. Then, there are
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the ideas which are good in themselves, but which do not fulfill a real need. In (3)
_______ words, people can do without them, so do not buy them. A third group are
those which are (4) _______ expensive to manufacture. But none of these reasons
explains why, in the 1990s, no new technology was successful in replacing the
compact disc as the means of packaging recorded music. The 1990s was a period
of rapid technological change, particularly in the area of electronic (5) _______ for
the home. During this time, a number of alternative technologies were (6) _______
that could have replaced the CD, but none of them (7) _______ on. The new ideas
worked, and they were not costly to make and would have provided consumers
with (8) _______ quality recordings. Despite all this, few people bought them. And
this can only be explained by the (9) _______ that people who had invested in CD
players and discs of their favorite music did not think the improvement in quality on
(10) _______ was great enough to make it worth the effort and expense of changing.
1. A. where B. which C. whom D. whose
2. A. experiment B. hypothesis C. test D. practice
3. A. other B. another C. others D. each
4. A. such B. enough C. too D. so
5. A. tool B. supply C. machinery D. equipment
6. A. supplied B. recovered C. discovered D. invented
7. A. kept B. held C. caught D. took
8. A. broader B. greater C. further D. higher
9. A. fact B. answer C. reason D. response
1 A. production B. demand C. offer D. available
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Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
gap. Use only ONE word in each gap. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes.
CONFIDENCE TRICKS
Whether it is a job interview, a wedding speech or just asking someone out, there
are times when we all want to appear confident, despite not feeling that way inside.
Some people are (11) _______ self-assured than others, it is true, but there are also
a number of tricks that are (12) ______ remembering. The important thing, after all,
is that you appear confident to others, and also that you do not allow a negative
attitude to defeat you before the game has even begun.
Our bodies give us (13) _______ most; a case of nerves produces adrenalin, which
(14) _______ havoc with our systems, causing the shaky voice, the trembling hands
and the sweaty forehead. So (15) ______ from the mental preparation, there are a
(16) _______ of physical steps you can take.
The first is to stand straight, head up and shoulders back (though not (17) _______
much; or you will look (18) _______ a sergeant major); a drooping posture
immediately sends out a message of resignation. One way (19) _______ quickly
achieve this is to look up at the ceiling or sky (20) _______five seconds or so; this
will have the added benefit of lifting your facial expression upwards, banishing the
frown and the downturned mouth.
Your answers:
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11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
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within the small saffron flower, has always been among the world’s most costly
spice by weight, valued mostly for its vivid colour.
F Predictably, the majority of the world’s spices are produced in India, although
specific spices are often produced in greater amounts in other countries. Vietnam is
the largest producer and exporter of pepper, meeting nearly one third of the
world’s demand. Indonesia holds a clear lead in nutmeg production, Iran in saffron,
and Sri Lanka in cinnamon. However, exportation of such spices is not always simple.
Most are dried as a whole product, or dried and ground into powder, both forms
allowing bulk purchase, easier storage and shipping, and a longer shelf life. For
example, the rhizomes (underground stems) of turmeric are boiled for several
hours, then dried in ovens, after which they are ground into the yellow powder
popular in South-Asian and Middle-Eastern cuisines.
G However, there are disadvantages in grinding spices. It increases their surface
area many fold, accelerating the rate of evaporation and oxidation of their flavour-
bearing and aromatic compounds. In contrast, whole dried spices retain these for
much longer. Thus, seed-based varieties (which can be packaged and stored well)
are often purchased in this form. This allows grinding to be done at the moment of
cooking or eating, maximising the flavour and effect, a fact which often results in
pepper ‘grinders’, instead of ‘shakers’, gracing the tables of the better restaurants
around the world.
For questions 21-26, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from
the list of headings below. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes.
List of Headings
i. Uses of spice
ii. Spices for cooking 0. Paragraph A:
iii. Changing leaders iv
iv. A strange choice 21. P
v. Preserving flavours aragraph B:
vi. Famous spice routes
vii. The power of spice 22. P
viii. Some spices aragraph C:
ix. Medicinal spices 23.
x. Spice providers Paragraph D:
24. P
aragraph E:
25. P
aragraph F:
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Paragraph G:
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
For questions 27-30, decide whether the following statements agree with
the information in the passage. In the corresponding numbered boxes,
write:
TRUE (T) if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE (F) if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN (NG) if there is no information on this
27. The ingredients of masala are fairly standardised.
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28. The demand for spices led to greater exploration.
29. Vietnam consumes a lot of pepper.
30. Seed-based spices can be easily stored.
Your answers
31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
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7. I finally managed to persuade Simon to tell me his big secret – he’s getting
married! (BEANS)
I finally got Simon to _______________________________________________________________his
wedding.
8. That the prices of almost goods increased forced people to spend less money.
(BELT)
People had to ____________________________________________________the increase in
the price of almost goods.
9. The marketing manager suggested not appointing any new staff. (FREEZE)
The marketing manager ______________________________________________________________of
new staff.
10. His song is catchy, but we find it a let-down. (COME)
Catchy ______________________________________________________________ our
expectations.
Part 3. ESSAY WRITING:
Many people feel that it is more convenient to shop online. Others think
offline shopping offers them more benefits. Discuss both views and give
your opinion.
In about 250 words, write an essay to express your idea. Use specific details and
examples to support your composition.
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