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TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC VINH VÀO LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN,
LỚP 10 THPT CHẤT LƯỢNG CAO NĂM 2018
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (Vòng 2)
viết Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian đây
phát đề)
Thí sinh làm bài vào đề thi
Họ và tên thí sinh: Họ tên và chữ đây
ký của CBCT 1: Phách
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Số báo danh: ……………………….. Họ tên và chữ ký của CBCT 2: …………
Phòng thi: ………………………... …………………………………

Điểm CB chấm thi 1 CB chấm thi 2 Phách

(Bài thi gồm có 07 trang)

A. PHONETICS
PART 1. Circle A, B, C, or D next to the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently
from those of the other words. (0.1 x 5 = 0.5 point)
Question 1: A. interviewed B. performed C. finished D. delivered
Question 2: A. chemical B. approach C. achieve D. challenge
Question 3: A. prelude B. bunch C. public D. fluctuation
Question 4: A. language B. advantage C. massage D. village
Question 5: A. theme B. there C. think D. through
PART 2. Circle the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.
(0.1 x 5 = 0.5 point)
Question 6: A. achievement B. expertise C. detective D. geography
Question 7: A. perfection B. typical C. interesting D. happiness
Question 8: A. pioneer B. entertainment C. adventure D. understand
Question 9: A. museum B. position C. recommend D. commitment
Question 10: A. possession B. property C. industry D. element
B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
PART 1. Circle A, B, C, or D next to the word or phrase which best completes each of the
following sentences. (0.1 x 20 = 2.0 points)
Question 11: “I can’t remember us ever _______”, replied the stranger.
A. having met B. to have met C. to meet D. being met
Question 12: ________had they left the class when it started to rain.
A. Never B. Hardly C. No sooner D. Just
Question 13: With the help of Russian experts, the factory produced ________ cars in 2018 as the year
before.
A. as twice many B. as many as twice C. as twice as many D. twice as many
Question 14: Having been selected to present the Association of American Engineers at the
International Convention, ________.
A. the members applauded Peter B. a speech had to be given by Peter
C. the members congratulated Peter D. Peter gave a short acceptance speech
Question 15: Paul was ashamed ________ himself for having stolen money from his mother.
A. about B. with C. of D. for
Question 16: My director is angry with me. I didn’t do all the work I ____________last week.
A. should have done B. may have done C. need to have done D. could have done
Question 17: Sport today has become ________ and is no longer enjoyable.
A. too much competitive B. far too competitive
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 C. more too competitive D. competitive

Question 18: John lost the _______ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry
with him because of his carelessness.
A. beautiful Japanese blue new B. beautiful new blue Japanese
C. new beautiful blue Japanese D. Japanese beautiful new blue
Question 19: Jane: “Would you mind if I use your computer for an hour?” Tony: “________.”
A. Not at all. I’ve finished my job B. Yes. You can use it
C. Of course not. I still need it now D. Yes. It’s all right
Question 20: Kate: “How lovely your cats are!” David: “____________”
A. Really? They are. B. Thank you. It is nice of you to say so.
C. Can you say it again? D. I love them, too.
Question 21: Mary: “Don’t forget to send your parents my regards.” Linda: “___________.”
A. You’re welcome B. Good ideas. Thanks C. Thanks. I will D. It’s my pleasure
Question 22: Peter: “Can you come and give me a hand?” Nancy: “___________.”
A. Yes, I could B. Oh, never mind C. It’s up to you D. OK. Wait for me
Question 23: Joe: “I’m sorry for keeping you waiting so long.” Jane: “___________.”
A. That’s OK B. Don’t mention it
C. Don’t beat around the bush D. Of course not
Question 24: The Earth is the only planet with a large _________ of oxygen in its
atmosphere.
A. number B. quality C. amount D. size
Question 25: This is a valuable ________ clock which dates back to the nineteenth century.
A. traditional B. old-fashioned C. antique D. ancient
Question 26: If they invest all their money in the stock market, their business will be on the
________ of closing down.
A. edge B. verge C. danger D. bank
Question 27: If they want to succeed, they should always ___in mind that they will have to
try hard.
A. carry B. remember C. think D. bear
Question 28: All TV channels provide extensive_______ of sporting events.
A. broadcast B. coverage C. network D. vision
Question 29: Everyone can take part in this competition, _______age and gender.
A. in place of B. regardless of C. in case of D. on behalf of
Question 30: The brochure says that this five-star hotel has a great ________ of the sea.
A. appearance B. look C. sight D. view
PART 2. Match the sentence halves together to make meaningful statements. There are two
options that will not be used. Write your answers in the space provided. (0.1 x 5 = 0.5 point)
A. out a new recipe tonight!
Question 31: I think this milk has gone… ______ B. of bread, so we should go and get some.
Question 32: I ran… ______ C. on for dinner time.
Question 33: Mum’s trying… ______ D. off, so let’s throw it away.
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 Question 34: It must be getting… ______ E. out quite how I expected.
Question 35: We’d love you to come… ______ F. into Bob in the supermarket yesterday.
G. round for dinner sometime.

PART 3. There is a mistake in one of the four underlined parts of each sentence. Identify the
mistake by circling A, B, C, or D below the underlined part. (0.1 x 5 = 0.5 point)
Question 36: She asked why did Mathew look so embarrassed when he saw Carole.
A B C D
Question 37: The little boy’s mother bought him a five - speeds racing bicycle for his birthday.
A B C D
Question 38: I had my motorbike repair yesterday but now it still doesn’t work.
A B C D
Question 39: It was suggested that Pedro studies the material more thoroughly before attempting to pass
A B C D
the exam.
Question 40: I found my new contact lenses strangely at first, but I got used to them in the end.
A B C D
PART 4. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits in
the gap. Write your answers in the boxes. (0.1 x 10 = 1.0 point)
Question 41: In my class, girls tend to _________ boys by four to one. NUMBER
Question 42: He says he had no intention of hurting her but she is sure he did it PURPOSE
_________.
Question 43: The father warned the children that if they _________ again, they BEHAVE
would be severely punished.
Question 44: Leslie got a lot of great achievements from the _________ tests. STANDARD
Question 45: He wished the young couple a life of happiness and _________. PROSPER
Question 46: Unfortunately, the film got _________ reviews. FAVOR
Question 47: The strikers of our home team played _________ well during the STAND
last match. We scored four goals.
Question 48: Although Joe is _________, he is quite reliable and trustworthy. EXPERIENCE
Question 49: _________, the train had left when we arrived at the station. LUCK
Question 50: That company has 2,000 _________. EMPLOY
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C. READING
PART 1. Read this passage and then choose the best answers to the questions below by circling
the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. (1.0 x 10 = 1.0 point)
Universally acclaimed as America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill was born in 1888 in the
heart of the theater district in New York City. As the son of an actor he had early exposure to the
world of the theater. He attended Princeton University briefly in 1906, but returned to New York to
work in a variety of jobs before joining the crew of a freighter as a seaman. Upon returning from
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voyages to South Africa and South America, he was hospitalized for six months to recuperate from
tuberculosis. While he was recovering, he determined to write a play about his adventures on the
sea. He went to Harvard, where he wrote the one-act Bound East for Cardiff. It was produced on
Cape Cod by the Provincetown Players, an experimental theater group that was later to settle in the

famous Greenwich Village theater district in New York City. The Players produced several more of
his one-acts in the years between 1916-1920. With the full-length play Beyond the Horizon,
produced on Broadway in 1920, O’Neill’s success was assured. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for
the best play of the year. O’Neill was to be awarded the prize again in 1922, 1928, and 1957 for
Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Although he didn’t receive
the Pulitzer Prize for it, Mourning becomes Electra, produced in 1931, is arguably his most lasting
contribution to the American theatre. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
O’Neill’s plays, forty-five in all, cover a wide range of dramatic subjects, but several themes
emerge, including the ambivalence of family relationships, the struggle between the sexes, the
conflict between spiritual and material desires, and the vision of modern man as a victim of
uncontrollable circumstances. Most of O’Neill’s characters are seeking for meaning in their lives.
According to his biographers, most of the characters were portraits of himself and his family. In a
sense, his work chronicled his life.
Question 51: This passage is a summary of O’Neill’s__________.
A. work B. life C. work and life D. family
Question 52: The word “briefly” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to__________.
A. seriously B. for a short time C. on scholarship D. without enthusiasm
Question 53: Where in the passage does the author indicate the reason for O’Neill’s hospitalization?
A. Lines 2-4 B. Lines 5-7 C. Lines 8-10 D. Lines 11-12
Question 54: How many times was O’Neill awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
A. One B. Three C. Four D. Five
Question 55: The word “it” in paragraph 1 refers to __________.
A. Harvard B. one-act play C. theater group D. theater district
Question 56: According to the passage, which of O’Neill’s plays was most important to the
American theatre?
A. Anna Christie C. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
B. Beyond the Horizon D. Mourning becomes Electra
Question 57: The word “struggle” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to__________.
A. influence B. conflict C. appreciation D. denial
Question 58: What does the author mean by the statement in paragraph 2: “According to his
biographers, most of the characters were portraits of himself and his family. In a sense, his work
chronicled his life”?
A. He used his family and his own experiences in his plays.
B. His biography contained stories about him and his family.
C. He had paintings of himself and members of his family.
D. His biographers took pictures of him with his family.
Question 59: The author mentions all of the following as themes for O’Neill’s plays EXCEPT___.
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 A. life in college C. family life
B. adventures at sea D. relationships between men and women
Question 60: We can infer from information in the passage that O’Neill’s plays were not __________.
A. controversial C. optimistic B. autobiographical D. popular

PART 2. Read this passage and then choose the best answers to the questions below by circling
the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D. (1.0 x 10 = 1.0 point)
One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual
exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news,
you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from falling into
an extreme degree of stress.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and
the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all
that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were
100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million.
Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to
perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of
them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with
continual text crawls across the bottom of the screen so that viewers could stay updated about every
story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and
sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like.
Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with
scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, and
so on. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially fatal flu outbreak and the
false claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown
anticipation of potential trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into
alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment.
Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other
than a source of chronic stress.
Question 61: According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature
of twenty-first-century stress?
A. The degree to which stress affects our life B. Our inability to control ourselves
C. An overabundance of special news D. Our continual exposure to the media
Question 62: In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
A. printing press, transportation, and telecommunication were not developed
B. means of communication and transportation were not yet invented
C. most people lived in distant towns and villages
D. the printing press changed the situation too slowly
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Question 63: The pronoun “them” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. television channels B. television news C. television sets D. cable access
Question 64: The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. fascinating B. upsetting C. exciting D. boring

Question 65: According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts ___.
A. are full of dangerous diseases such as flu
B. send out live newscasts paired with text across the screen
C. are forced to publicise an alarming increase in crime
D. send out frightening stories about potential dangers
Question 66: As stated in the passage, a flu outbreak and the false claims of a wrinkle cream tend to
____.
A. be scarce breaking news B. involve natural and man-made disasters
C. be treated with equal alarm D. be warmly welcomed by the public
Question 67: Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. The only source of stress in our modern life is the media.
B. Many television channels supply the public with news.
C. Many people are under stress caused by the media.
D. The news that is reported to us is not good news.
Question 68: The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. fail B. bring C. release D. fall
Question 69: According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is
obviously ______.
A. the result of an overabundance of good news B. the result of human brain’s switch to alarm mode
C. a source of defects in human brain D. a source of chronic stress
Question 70: What is probably the best title for this passage?
A. Developments in Telecommunications B. The Media – a Major Cause of Stress
C. More Modern Life – More Stress D. Effective Ways to Beat Stress
D. WRITING
PART 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. Write
BETWEEN TWO AND FIVE WORDS in each gap. (0.1 x 10 = 1.0 point)
Question 71: I don’t think George can climb right to the top of that mountain.
® I don’t think George ____________________________of climbing to the top of that mountain.
Question 72: You shouldn’t take food into the theatre.
® You are supposed ______________________________ food into the theatre.
Question 73: It’s time for them to go to bed.
® It’s high time _________________________________ to bed.
Question 74: Wouldn’t you like us to be standing in the middle of Times Square right now?
® Don’t you wish ______________________________in the middle of Times Square right now?
Question 75: They didn’t get married until 2016.
® It was not until 2016 _______________________________.
Question 76: I prefer taking a walk to staying at home.
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® I would rather _____________________________________ at home.
Question 77: “I’m sorry. I didn’t wait for you yesterday”, Charles said to Linda.
® Charles apologized _________________________________ for her the day before.
Question 78: We couldn’t go out because of the heavy rain.
® The heavy rain _____________________________________ going out.

Question 79: She listens more sympathetically than anyone else I know.
® She is a ___________________________________________ anyone else I know.
Question 80: Photographs are not permitted under any circumstances.
® Under ______________________________________________ permitted.
PART 2. Write a paragraph (about 120-150 words) discussing a place you would like to visit
most. (2.0 points)
The following prompts might be helpful to you:
- Landscapes in that place
- Food
- People
- Activities you can do there
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-THE END -
GHI CHÚ: - Thí sinh làm mất đề thi không được phát lại.
- CBCT không giải thích gì thêm.

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