UBND TỈNH THÁI NGUYÊN THI TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10 THPT
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO Năm học 2019 - 2020
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
(Dành cho thí sinh thi vào chuyên Tiếng Nga,
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Tiếng Pháp và Tiếng Trung Quốc)
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
(Đề thi gồm có 09 trang)
(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi theo hướng dẫn tại mỗi câu)
Điểm Giám khảo số 1 Giám khảo số 2 Số phách
(Họ tên, chữ ký) (Họ tên, chữ ký) (Do Chủ tịch HĐ ghi)
Bằng số Bằng chữ
SECTION A: PHONETICS
I. Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced
differently from the rest.
Example: 00. A. hourB. holiday C. household D. handsome
Answer: 00. A
01. A. accurate B. accident C. success D. accept
02. A. through B. wound C. cousin D. group
03. A. sergeant B. service C. servant D. servile
04. A. fowl B. bowl C. foul D. howl
05. A. chaos B. character C. charity D. chord
01. A 02. C 03. A 04. A 05. D
II. Identify the word whose stress pattern different from that of the
other words.
Example: 00. A. advice B. beauty C. picture D. postcard
Answer: 00. A
06. A. enter tain B. ma chine C. a vailable D. de
velopment
07. A. similar B. in dustry C. passenger D.
en tirely
08. A. de trimental B. e lectronic C. De ficiency
D. Edu cation
09. A. uni versity B. an nounce C. contri bution D. intro
duce
10. A. photograph B. payroll C. accent D. re gretful
06. A 07. C 08. D 09. B 10. D
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SECTION B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
11. Last night we treated ourselves to some________ wine.
A. Spanish delicious white B. delicious Spanish white
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C. white delicious Spanish D. delicious white Spanish
12. I would ___________ you didn’t leave just at the moment.
A. rather B. prefer C. like D. love
13. - Maria: “Can you get on well with people?” - John:“ ________.”
A. Yes, I can get rid of them B. I think so, I’ve got lots of
friends
C. I got on with many people D. No, I can’t get on doing
nothing
14. They took pride _________being the best football players of the school.
A. in B. on C. of D. for
15. Rarely________ to work on his own.
A. he is seen B. does he seen C. is he seen D. does
he
16.________, after trying three times, he passed the examination.
A. Lastly B. Last of all C. Last D. At last
17. I don’t see any________ in arriving early at the theatre.
A. cause B. point C. reason D. aim
18. My decision to leave university after a year is one I now ________ regret.
A. harshly B. painfully C. keenly D. heavily
19. These figures show a ______ in the number of unemployed people in
England and Wales.
A. loss B. lessening C. reduction D.
lowering
20. I was just _________to go out when you telephoned.
A. about B. around C. thinking D. planned
21. Humanity has done great damage to the environment in its search for
_______ materials.
A. rude B. crude C. raw D. live
22. You will have to ________ your holiday if you are too ill to travel.
A. put up B. cut down C. put out D. put off
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
II. Complete each sentence with a suitable phrasal verb from the
list. Be sure to use the correct verb form. There are two extra
phrases that you do not need to use.
come up
give off
with break up carry out work out
take after turn up catch up fall back on put up with
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with
23. She has been waiting in the office for half an hour, but the manager
has not ________ yet.
24. Not every child ___________ a parent.
25. Most westerners feel it hard to _____put up with______ the hot weather
there.
26. Throw away the bad cheese which ______come up with_____ an
unpleasant smell.
27. Can you try to__________ this difficult mathematical problem?
28. I use different methods to teach, including __fall back on________some
traditional useful techniques.
29. The police car came and the illegal gamblers____________.
30. Many students work hard in order to _____catch up with______ their
peers.
23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28.
29. 30.
III. Supply the correct form of the words to complete the passage.
You may know that Asian, Middle Eastern and
Mediterranean cultures have (31) ____________ 31. TRADITION
used garlic in their dishes. What you may not
know is that garlic is also thought of as a (32) 32. VALUE
____________ medicine by many ancient
civilizations. Today, (33) ____________ in the 33. PROFESSION
field of nutrition have come up with new
information which is indeed quite (34) 34. SURPRISE
____________. Apparently, not only is garlic 35. ILL
good for your health but it also helps 36. ADVANTAGE
overcome various (35)_____________. The 37. BREATHE
main (36) ____________ to eating garlic is of
course bad (37) ____________. Cooking it
reduces the strong smell and eating 38. MINIMUM
parsley, which is a natural deodorise, also 39. SERIOUS
helps (38) ____________ the smell. In this way, 40. FAVOR
it’s time we took the benefits of garlic (39)
____________.Why not add it to some of your
(40) ____________dishes for daily meals?
31. 32. 33.
34. 35. 36.
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37. 38. 39.
40.
IV. The passage below contains TEN mistakes. Write them down
and give the correction in the space provided. (00) has been done
as an example.
Lin BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
e People have been debating the principles of beauty for
1 thousand of years, but it still seems possible to consider it
2 objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned what
3 something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful.
4 He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no
5 one has ever agreed on the precise criteria by which beauty may be
6 judging.
7 The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote a scale called the
8 “golden proportion”, according to which the width of the face
9 should be two-third of its length, preferable accompanied by a
10 nose no longer than the distance between the eyes.
11 Symmetry has been proving to be attractive to the human eye,
12 so a face may seem to be beautiful because of the similarity between
13 its two sides. Babies spend more time look at symmetrical faces than
14 asymmetrical ones and symmetry is also rated as more attractively
by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no
universal agreement and even national consensus on what
constitutes beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial
symmetry is important factor.
Question Line Mistake Correction
00 1 thousand thousands
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SECTION C: READING
I. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to
each question.
THE MISTERY OF THE MISSING BEES
Most people are probably aware that honey, the natural sweetener
that man has been using for thousands of years, is (51) _________ by bees;
but perhaps fewer of us realise just how important these tiny creatures are
to farmers. Bees pollinate fruit and vegetable crops; it has been said that
every third mouthful we eat depends on a bee having pollinated one or
more ingredients, but now farmers in the United States are (52) _________ a
major problem. American bees are dying – and nobody knows why. Making
sure crops are (53) _________ pollinated has become big (54) _________ in the
United States. Beekeepers load their hives onto huge lorries and transport
them (55) ________ the country to pollinate the farmers’ crops. When the
bees finish work in one state and return to their hives, they are taken on to
another state. The problem became apparent when the bees (56) ________
to return to their hives, with some beekeepers losing more that 70 per cent
of their insects. It soon became clear that the bees were flying off and dying
in huge (57) _________. Now the race on to find the cause and, hopefully, the
solution (58) _________, some beekeepers are importing bees from other
countries in the hope that they will be (59) _________ to whatever it is that is
killing their American cousins. Only time will (60) _________.
51. A. manufactured B. created C. produced D.
generated
52. A. meeting B. finding C. solving D. facing
53. A. fairly B. precisely C. properly D.
distinctly
54. A. business B. industry C. work D. production
55. A. through B. around C. over D. along
56. A. failed B. missed C. ignored D. stopped
57. A. quantities B. numbers C. levels D.
amounts
58. A. Apart from this B. From then on C. In the meantime D.
Nevertheless
59. A. opposed B. hostile C. defensive D. resistant
60. A. tell B. say C. prove D. Show
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
II. Read the passage carefully, then fill in each blank with ONE
suitable word. Write your answers into the box below.
Example: 00: his
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Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19 th century English
novelists. At the time of (00) ____________ death in 1870, he was a wealthy
man, in contrast to the poverty of his early days. His parents (61)
____________ their best to look after him but were always in difficulties (62)
____________ money. Eventually, his father owed (63) ____________ a large
amount of money that he was sent to prison for three months.
Two days after his twelfth birthday, Dickens was taken away from
school by his parents and made (64) ____________ work in a factory in
London to increase the family income. Factories could be dangerous places
in (65) ____________ days and some employers were cruel. Charles Dickens
was not (66) ____________ extremely unhappy, but also ashamed of
working there, and he (67) ____________ never forget that period of his life.
Years later, (68) ____________ his novel ‘David Copperfield’, Dickens
described his own childhood experiences. David Copperfield was one of his
most famous characters and he too suffered (69) ____________ a child
worker. Dickens’s novels showed how shocking working and living
conditions were. Working in the factory affected him so deeply that he
found it much too painful to speak about in later life. His family knew (70)
____________ at all about the unhappiness of his childhood while Dickens was
still alive, but shortly after his death, however, a biography was published in
which Dickens’s terrible childhood experiences in the factory were revealed
for the first time.
61. 62. 63. 64.
65. 66. 67. 68.
69. 70.
III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to
each question.
The World and Its Global Economy
The world as man knows it today is getting smaller and smaller because of technology
such as the Internet and high speed modems. In fact, on March 3, 2005, a man flew entirely
around the globe without refuelling or stopping in one person jet. The world is changing the
world, and as the 21st century continues, the global economy will play a larger and larger role.
As Thomas Friedman so eloquently put it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is “the
inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed
before.”
[A] With today’s technology it is possible for people to solicit business from the far side
of the globe. [B] A company like Dell Computers can order parts from several different
countries, take shipment in North Carolina where the new computer will be assembled, and
then ship them to all regions of the globe. [C] An American oil firm can do a satellite survey in
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Siberia for oil deposits and then contract with a Russian oil firm to drill the actual well, while
the petroleum engineer, acting as the project supervisor, remains in the US and runs the project
by using a computer, a high speed Internet connection, and a cellular telephone for quick
questions. [D]
A global economy poses some serious problems. If the company does not act fast
enough, it can lose, and if the company loses heavily, what will happen to the employees
working for the company, and then in turn what will happen to the stores that depend on those
employees buying their goods? As can be seen, there is a definite trickle-down effect. How is
the child who is about to graduate from high school supposed to decide on what career field to
enter? A career field that is here today might be gone long before the child can graduate from
college, so not only does it become vital that a person gain the needed knowledge to enter a
given career field, but the person also needs to learn how to learn. Learning how to learn may
prove to be more necessary than the knowledge needed to enter a given career field. A person
who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the global economy by
quickly preparing to enter other career fields if his job is here today, but gone in the
morning. If the world turns into a global economy, a person will need to be able to get along
and work with people from different cultural backgrounds. However, unless a person has spent
time living in different parts of the world, this might be hard to do. While many students from
foreign countries, especially Asian countries, come to the US to earn a graduate degree, how
many students from the US spend even a semester studying in another country? The answer to
this question is of course a very small percentage.
While individuals from some foreign countries and some individuals from the US and
the US economy will adjust to globalization, will the rest of the world? Mass media are more
than willing to continue to stir the pot of controversy as they not only have to learn how to
report the positive news, but also dole out a continuous stream of negative news. When a
person in a developing country see all the cars on the streets of Beijing, of course that person
wants a car so he can show his neighbour how wealthy he is, and all this does is promote
unneeded consumption. Why does the person who has nowhere to go and no money to spend
for travel want to own a car? The simple answer is because the media paint owing a car as a
symbol of wealth and it is human nature to want to become wealthy or at least to appear
wealthy.
On the positive side, as prices rise due to increased demands on scarce resources, there
will be an incentive to find affordable alternatives. For example, as the price of oil rises and
along with it the price of a gallon of gasoline, a point will be reached at which people are no
longer willing to purchase gasoline so they can drive their cars, and they will demand both
alternative transportation methods and cars which use another source of energy. A current
online survey says $2.50 per gallon of gasoline is the point at which the people in the US will
start making demands on the auto manufacturer, which will open up new career fields in a few
countries that have the technology needed to meet the demands; however, people around the
globe will work together on it.
71. The word inexorable in the passage is closest in meaning to__________.
A. upward B. recent C. inevitable D. preposterous
72. The word solicit in the passage is closest in meaning to ______________.
A. lure B. sell C. help D. ask for
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73. The word them in the passage refers to _________________.
A. all regions B. the new computers
C. parts D. several different countries
74. According to paragraph 2, what can be inferred about the roles of a project supervisor?
A. To make sure the project is finished correctly and on time.
B. To hand-check each of the steps in a project.
C. To assign each of the items that needs to be done in a project.
D. To talk to everyone in a daily basis.
75. Based on the information in paragraph 3, which of the following best explains the trickle-
down effect?
A. Water runs downhill.
B. What happens at the top eventually affects those at the bottom.
C. The people who have things get more and those without anything continue to go without.
D. If a person gets yelled at when he is at work, he should go home and kick the furniture
since it will make him feel better.
76. According to the passage, people need to learn how to learn, otherwise__________.
A. they will not move from the first grade to the second grade in elementary school
B. they will not be able to work in the same job throughout college
C. they will not be able to switch from one career to another as the global economy changes
D. they will not be able to graduate from college and become a member of the global economy
77. In paragraph 3, why does the author mention the phrase “if his job is here today, but gone
in the morning”?
A. To suggest that he is going to lose his job in the morning.
B. To give an example of losing the job when he has reached the mandatory retirement age.
C. To explain that he is a part-time worker and only works when the company needs him.
D. To support the claim that learning how to learn is important to a person.
78. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the sentence in
italics in the passage?
A. The mass media are like a witch stirring her cauldron.
B. The mass media always report the truth since this keeps the ratings up and brings in the
most advertising revenue.
C. The mass media will report half-truths if it will keep their ratings up so they can sell advertising.
D. The mass media report every angle of a story since reports are apolitical and never
present only one viewpoint.
79. In paragraph 5, what can be inferred from the description of the media about owning a car?
A. A car needs to be painted certain colours if it is going to show others a person is wealthy.
B. The media are so biased that they will provide paint if a person needs to paint his car so as
to project the car as a symbol of wealth.
C. The media slant the stories, so it will appear to viewers that only wealthy people own a car.
D. The members of the media don’t own cars, so they are jealous of those wealthy people
who do own cars.
80. Look at [A] [B] [C] [D] that indicates where the following sentence could be added to the
passage: E-businesses will be the lucrative businesses in the future since they are
available to everyone with an Internet connection.
Where would the sentence best fit? [A] [B] [C] [D]
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.
76. 77. 78. 79. 80.
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SECTION D: WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it
means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
81. I’m sure he didn’t do it on purpose.
→ He can’t
__________________________________________________________________
82. My friend persuaded me to go to the party in fancy dress.
→ My friend talked
___________________________________________________________
83. I feel that I don’t fit with the people in the new office.
→ I feel
like__________________________________________________________________
84. As far as I know, there’s no reason for Linda to be so unhappy.
→ To the
____________________________________________________________________
85. They couldn’t decide where to go on holiday.
→They couldn’t
reach__________________________________________________________
86. The collision didn’t damage my car much.
→ Not a great
________________________________________________________________
87. Just thinking about his face at that moment makes me laugh.
→ The
very__________________________________________________________________
88. It was wrong of you to cheat in the exam last week.
→ You should
_______________________________________________________________
89. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that.
→ Many’s___________________________________________________________________
90. Bill got down to writing the letter as soon as he returned from his walk.
→ No sooner
________________________________________________________________
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II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning
to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the
word given.
91. I think that your question is very easy. (CAKE)
→ I think __________________________________________________________________
92. Have you decided to enter the poster competition? (GO)
→ Have __________________________________________ the poster competition?
93. “I’m most awfully sorry, but I seem to have broken your fountain pen”,
John said to Ann. (APOLOGISED)
→ John _________________________________________________ her fountain pen.
94. The students’ riotous behaviour should have been severely punished.
(DESERVED)
→ The students _________________________________________ their riotous
behaviour.
95. The staff were unhappy not to have been informed about the
company’s plan. (DARK)
→ The staff were unhappy that ________________________________________
about the company’s plan.
96. Our boss is absolutely determined not to give us that pay rise. (INTENT)
→ Our boss is____________________________________________________ that pay
rise.
97. Don’t be upset by what she said. (HEART)
→ Don’t take_______________________________________________________________
98. You shouldn’t talk to people who will not listen. (FALL)
→ You shouldn’t ____________________________________________________________
99. My brother is deeply in love with his new girlfriend. (HEELS)
→ My brother is_____________________________________________ his new
girlfriend.
100. I couldn’t help laughing when my friend told me of his plan. (FACE)
→ I couldn’t keep __________________________________ my friend told me of his
plan.
Total mark: 100:10=10
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