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GIANG LẦN THỨ X, NĂM HỌC 2016 – 2017
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm trang)
Ngày thi: 15/4/2017

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A. LISTENING (50 points):

Question 1: Listen to the recording and complete the table below with ONE
WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. (10 points)

MOVING COMPANY SERVICE REPORT

Phone number:
(1)…………………………………………………………
USA Address : 509 Clark House,
1137 (2)…………………………drive in Seattle
Packing day: Monday
Date: 11th
(3)………………………………………………………..
Clean – up by: 5:00 p.m.
Day:
(4)………………………………………………………..
About the Price: Rather expensive

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 Storage Time: (5)
……………………………………………………..

 Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Question 2: Choose the correct letter A, B, C, or D. (10 points)

GENERAL COURSE DETAILS
1. What is the defining characteristic of a specialized course?
A. Taking a proficiency exam C. Attending the class immediately
B. Attending the class frequently D. Compulsory and regular
2. The Microbiology courses are available for………………..
A. full-time and flexible-time students. C. Microbiology students only.
B. full-time students only. D. students on a flexible schedule.
3. The Biology courses are available for………………
A. all students. C. flexible-time students only.
B. full-time students only. D. freshmen only.
4. A Medical Science course will be opened next year because…………………..
A. the lap equipment is too expensive. C. there are no computers.
B. the building is damaged. D. There are no experimental facilities.
5. Which is the quickest increasing subject in enrolment?
A. Medical Science B. Statistics
C. Environmental Science D. Economics

Question 3: Listen to a piece of BBC news “Apple-FBI iPhone argument getting

bigger” and decide the statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes (10pts).
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1. The iPhone belonged to someone who killed people last month. T/F
2. Apple said unlocking the iPhone would be a threat to its customers. T/F
3. America's Department of Justice (DOJ) is on Apple's side. T/F
4. The DOJ said Apple was putting up technological barriers. T/F
5. The DOJ said Apple was an evil company. T/F
Your answer
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Question 4: You will hear a teacher giving her students advice for exams. Listen
carefully and complete the passage below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS OR NUMBERS for each blank. (20 points)
Advice for Exams
- The audience are advised to (1)………….. as she is talking.
- Food can give you energy but eat sweets or drinking cola or sugar won’t help you
study but (2)……… will, for example apples.
- Find a comfortable place, not ‘too’ comfortable, with (3)……….. when studying.
- Try and keep a positive mind and be relaxed. Have a break If you start
(4)……….., like going out for a stroll around the block.
- Choose the (5)…….., the things that will get you most points in an exam.
- Learn the main ideas and don’t worry too much about (6)………..
- Make notes of (7)…….. and read them, then cover them up and try to remember
all the points.
- Use past exam papers in the library to help you understand what kind of
questions (8)………...
- Take (9)……….. while you are studying. Five-minutes is usually enough.
- Drink a glass of water to (10)………...
(Source: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org)

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Your answers

1. ………………………... 2………………………… 3. ………………………...

4. ………………………... 5. ………………………... 6. ………………………...
7. ………………………... 8. ………………………... 9. ………………………...
10. ………………………...

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and
write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. Environmental pollution has ________ many species to the verge of extinction.
A. sent B. thrown C. brought D. driven
2. Luggage may be placed here ____________ the owner’s risk.
A. by B. under C. with D. at
3. Cable TV revolutionized communications; ______, the very existence of that service
is now threatened by satellites.
A. moreover B. consequently C. eventually D. nevertheless
4. Helen was ________ disappointed when she learnt that she hadn’t won the beauty
contest.
A. seriously B. bitterly C. strongly D. heavily
5. If he tries to…….ignorance as his excuse, just tell him we’ve got a copy of the
authorization with his signature on it.
A. defend B. plead C. pretend D. protest
6. John: “Our teacher, Mr. Jones, is not very flexible. He always requires us to submit
his assignments on time.”
Jack: “ _________. He should know that we have to learn many subjects.”
A. I can’t disagree with you more B. I can’t agree with you more
C. That can be true D. I am not with you here
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7. It was ______of a surprise to Andrew that he got the job.
A. rather B. something C. quite D. much
8. The more expensive carpet is a good choice ______it will last longer.
A. by means of B. due to C. in that D. in view of
9. It was decided that the cost of the project would be ______ and so it was abandoned.
A. repressive B. pohibitive C. restrictive D.exclusive
10.I left the company by ______, not because I was forced to.
A. choice B. option C. selection D.preference
11. When will it _______ on you that I am right and you're wrong?
A. descend B. come C. dawn D. arise

12. Living by the ocean really ___ your ___. Once you’ve lived there, you never want
to leave.
A. came in - heart B. get in- heart C. get in- blood D. came in- blood

13.Sam has always taken the ______that there is more to life than money.
A. outlook B. view C. belief D.opinion
14. 7. I wrote to them a fortnight ago but _____I haven’t had a reply
A. as yet B. these days C. so long D.just now
15. Wait a minute, there is an answer from the Federal Bureau with _____ to your
previous inquiry.
A. consideration B. reflection C. attention D. regard
16. Tamara has set her _______ on becoming a ballet-dancer.
A. feet B. brain C. head D. heart
17.“I think we ought to see the rest of the exhibition as quickly as we can, _____ that it
closes in half an hour.”
A. granted B. assuming C. given D. knowing

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18. Several passengers received minor injuries when the train unexpectedly came to a
______.
A. delay B. stand C. brake D. halt
19. I’m so ______ under with work at the moment – it’s awful!
A. snowed B. iced C. rained D. fogged
20. A good newspaper story must come right ______ and save the details for later.
A. to date B. to the good C. to the point D. to the bone
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and
write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.(10 points)
Example: success (Line 1) → succeed

It is very difficult to success in the music business; nine out Line 1

of ten bands that release a first record fail to produce the second. Line 2
Surviving in the music industry requires luck and patience, but Line 3
most of all it requires and intricate knowledge of how a record Line 4
company is functioned. The process begins when a presenter of a Line 5
company’s Artist and Repertoire (A&R) department visits bars and Line 6
night clubs, scouting for young, talented bands. After the Line 7
representative identifies a promised band, he or she will work to Line 8
negotiate a contract with that band. The signature of this recording Line 9
contract is a slow process. A company will spend a long time to Line 10
investigate the band itself as well as current trends for popular Line 11
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music. During this period, it is important that a band reciprocates Line 12
with an investigation of its own, learning as much as possible about Line 13
the record company and making personnel connections within the Line 14
different departments that will handle their recordings.
Part 3. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your
answer in the box provided. (10 points)
1. He has fixation _________ becoming the best teacher in this area.
2. The teacher was deaf _________. Nick's explanation of why he hadn't done his
homework
3. He lost his job _________ no fault of his own.
4. You must account _________ the manager for the money you used.
5. A lion has escaped and is ________ large in the city.
6. Danny wished his father could stay _______ good, but the man still had a few
months of the military service to do.
7. The workers were rather cynical after the meeting. Most of them were ________ no
illusion that the management would take their complaints seriously.
8. These students are picked horn no less than 50 applicants for the scholarship
9. Ordering other people in the family seems to run in his blood as he was a
commander in the army for ten years.
10. Buyers priced _____ New York City are heading for the burbs, driving up demand
in places with reputations for good schools and lively downtowns.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answers
in the spaces provided below. (10 points)

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The (1. CONCEIVE) ____________ of “rhetoric”, or effective public speaking, dates
back thousands of years. The underlying (2. ASSUME) ____________ behind rhetoric
is that how you present an argument can greatly influence whether people are persuaded
by you or not. There is (3. DOUBT) ____________ plenty of evidence to support this
idea – it’s practically (4. THINK) ____________, for example, for a successful
politician to be a poor communicator – but it is just a question of style winning over
substance? Certainly, it is often said of politicians that they talk complete (5. SENSE)
____________ but what they say with such (6. CONVINCE) ____________ that we
tend to believe them, at least when they’re in opposition. On the other hand, (7. WISE)
____________ and knowledge are of little value if you can not communicate them
effectively to your peers or to the next generation. It is the combination of clear (8.
REASON) ____________, sound (9. JUDGE) ____________ and effective
presentation and communication skills that define true rhetoric. A true rhetorician
should always come across as knowledgeable, and never as (10. OPINION)
____________ or ignorant.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (60 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits
each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
WITHOUT TV
The most radical thing we have ever done is not have a TV in our house. Since
99.1 per cent of American (1)…… cannot make this claim, it may be (2)…… some
interest to know why. Certainly, our (3)…… of television has created (4)…… curiosity,
puzzlement and anger (5)…… the people we know, and I suspect even more of these
(6) …… behind our backs. "If the Wetherellsget (7)……. without a TV, why can't we?"
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 We did have a television during the first days of our marriage. I remember the
dizzy way the (8)…… flickered across the screen. A few days later, after I (9)…… my
senses, we took the set to our local dump, (10)…… hands in satisfaction ad have been
without one ever since .

1. A. household B. housewives C. holdalls D. housework

2. A. at B. for C. of D. in
3. A. shortage B. lack C. need D. absence
4. A. large B. big C. high D. great
5. A. within B. between C. among D. inside
6. A. belief B. emotions C. opinions D. thoughts
7. A. over B. on C. by D. away
8. A. images B. drawings C. icons D. movies
9. A. re-established B. recovered C. overcame D. got
10. A. waved B. tightened C. moved D. shook
Your answers
1. …………… 2. …………… 3. …………… 4. …………… 5. ……………
6. …………… 7. ………… 8. …………… 9. …………… 10. …………

Part 2. Read the following text and fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write
your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
Overland transport in the United States was still extremely primitive in 1790.
Roads were few and short, usually extending from inland communities to the nearest
river town or seaport. (1) _______ all interstate commerce was carried out by sailing
ships that served the bays and harbors of the seaboard. Yet, in 1790 the nation was on
the threshold of a new era of road development. (2) _______ to finance road
construction, states (3) _______ for help to private companies, organized by merchants
and land speculators who had a personal interest in improved communications (4)
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_______ the interior. The pioneer in this move was the state of Pennsylvania, which
chartered a company in 1792 to construct a turnpike, a road for the use of (5) _______ a
toll, or payment, is collected, from Philadelphia to Lancaster. The legislature (6)
_______ the company the authority to erect tollgates at (7) _______ along the road
where payment would be collected, though it carefully regulated the rates. (The states
had unquestioned authority to regulate private business in this period.)
The company built a gravel road (8) _______ two years, and the success of the
Lancaster Pike encouraged imitation. Northern states generally relied on private
companies to (9) _______ their toll roads, but Virginia constructed a network at public
expense. (10) _______ was the road building fever that by 1810 New York alone had
some 1,500 miles of turnpikes extending from the Atlantic to Lake Erie.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes.
The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward
across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-
free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and
extremely complicated to operate.
The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops
the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges
over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under
hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million
barrels (or 84 million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily.
Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents," long sections of the pipeline follow a
zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath

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spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline's
up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic
climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or
permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is
elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet,
depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil.
One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far
the biggest and most expensive construction project ever undertaken by private
industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so eight major oil
companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled
oil rights to particular shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-
construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today, despite enormous
problems of climate, supply shortages, equipment breakdowns, labor disagreements,
treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska
pipeline has been completed and is operating.
1. The passage primarily discusses the pipeline's…
A. operating cost B. employees C. consumers D.
construction
2. The word "it" in line 3 refers to….
A. pipeline B. ocean C. state D. village
3. According to the passage, 84 million gallons of oil can travel through the pipeline
each…
A. day B. week C. month D. year
4. The phrase "Resting on" in line 10 is closest in meaning to….
A. consisting of B. supported by C. passing under D. protected with
5. The author mentions all of the following as important in determining the pipeline's
route EXCEPT the…
A. climate B. lay of the land itself

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6. The word "undertaken" in line 19 is closest in meaning to…
A. removed B. selected C. transported D. attempted
7. How many companies shared the costs of constructing the pipeline?
A. three B. four C. eight D. twelve
8. The word "particular" in line 22 is closest in meaning to…
A. peculiar B. specific C. exceptional D. equal
9. Which of the following determined what percentage of the construction costs each
member of the consortium would pay?
A. How much oil field land each company owned
B. How long each company had owned land in the oil fields
C. How many people worked for each company
D. How many oil wells were located on the company's land
10. Where in the passage does the author provide a term for an earth covering that
always remains frozen?
A. Line 2 B. Line 10 C. Line 15 D. Line 23
Part 4. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow.
Light Pollution is a threat to Wildlife, Safety and the Starry Sky
A After hours of driving south in the pitch-black darkness of the Nevada desert, a dome
of hazy gold suddenly appears on the horizon. Soon, a road sign confirms the obvious:
Las Vegas 30 miles. Looking skyward, you notice that the Big Dipper is harder to find
than it was an hour ago.

B Light pollution—the artificial light that illuminates more than its intended target
area—has become a problem of increasing concern across the country over the past 15
years. In the suburbs, where over-lit shopping mall parking lots are the norm, only 200
of the Milky Way’s 2,500 stars are visible on a clear night. Even fewer can be seen
from large cities. In almost every town, big and small, street lights beam just as much
light up and out as they do down, illuminating much more than just the street. Almost
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50 percent of the light emanating from street lamps misses its intended target, and
billboards, shopping centres, private homes and skyscrapers are similarly over-
illuminated.

C America has become so bright that in a satellite image of the United States at night,
the outline of the country is visible from its lights alone. The major cities are all there,
in bright clusters: New York, Boston, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago,
and, of course, Las Vegas. Mark Adams, superintendent of the McDonald Observatory
in west Texas, says that the very fact that city lights are visible from on high is proof of
their wastefulness. “When you’re up in an airplane, all that light you see on the ground
from the city is wasted. It’s going up into the night sky. That’s why you can see it.”

D But don’t we need all those lights to ensure our safety? The answer from light
engineers, light pollution control advocates and astronomers is an emphatic “no.”
Elizabeth Alvarez of the International Dark Sky Association (IDA), a non-profit
organization in Tucson, Arizona, says that overly bright security lights can actually
force neighbours to close the shutters, which means that if any criminal activity does
occur on the street, no one will see it. And the old assumption that bright lights deter
crime appears to have been a false one: A new Department of Justice report concludes
that there is no documented correlation between the level of lighting and the level of
crime in an area. And contrary to popular belief, more crimes occur in broad daylight
than at night.

E For drivers, light can actually create a safety hazard. Glaring lights can temporarily
blind drivers, increasing the likelihood of an accident. To help prevent such accidents,
some cities and states prohibit the use of lights that impair night-time vision. For
instance, New Hampshire law forbids the use of “any light along a highway so
positioned as to blind or dazzle the vision of travellers on the adjacent highway.”

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F Badly designed lighting can pose a threat to wildlife as well as people. Newly hatched
turtles in Florida move toward beach lights instead of the more muted silver shimmer of
the ocean. Migrating birds, confused by lights on skyscrapers, broadcast towers and
lighthouses, are injured, sometimes fatally, after colliding with high, lighted structures.
And light pollution harms air quality as well: Because most of the country’s power
plants are still powered by fossil fuels, more light means more air pollution.

G So what can be done? Tucson, Arizona is taking back the night. The city has one of
the best lighting ordinances in the country, and, not coincidentally, the highest
concentration of observatories in the world. Kitt Peak National Optical Astronomy
Observatory has 24 telescopes aimed skyward around the city’s perimeter, and its cadre
of astronomers needs a dark sky to work with.

H. For a while, that darkness was threatened. “We were totally losing the night sky,”
Jim Singleton of Tucson’s Lighting Committee told Tulsa, Oklahoma’s KOTV last
March. Now, after retrofitting inefficient mercury lighting with low-sodium lights that
block light from “trespassing” into unwanted areas like bedroom windows, and by
doing away with some unnecessary lights altogether, the city is softly glowing rather
than brightly beaming. The same thing is happening in a handful of other states,
including Texas, which just passed a light pollution bill last summer. “Astronomers can
get what they need at the same time that citizens get what they need: safety, security
and good visibility at night,” says McDonald Observatory’s Mark Adams, who
provided testimony at the hearings for the bill.

I. And in the long run, everyone benefits from reduced energy costs. Wasted energy
from inefficient lighting costs us between $1 and $2 billion a year, according to IDA.
The city of San Diego, which installed new, high-efficiency street lights after passing a
light pollution law in 1985, now saves about $3 million a year in energy costs.

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J. Legislation isn’t the only answer to light pollution problems. Brian Greer, Central
Ohio representative for the Ohio Light Pollution Advisory Council, says that education
is just as important, if not more so. “There are some special situations where regulation
is the only fix,” he says. “But the vast majority of bad lighting is simply the result of not
knowing any better.” Simple actions like replacing old bulbs and fixtures with more
efficient and better-designed ones can make a big difference in preserving the night sky.

*The Big Dipper: a group of seven bright stars visible in the Northern Hemisphere.

Questions 1-5

The first six paragraphs of Reading Passage are lettered A-F.

Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.

NB There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.

List of Headings
i Why lights are needed
ii Lighting discourages law breakers
iii The environmental dangers
iv People at risk from bright lights
v Illuminating space
vi A problem lights do not solve
vii Seen from above
viii More light than is necessary
ix Approaching the city
Example) Paragraph A ix

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1. Paragraph B ..........................

2. Paragraph C ..........................

3. Paragraph D ..........................

4. Paragraph E ..........................

5. Paragraph F.............................

Questions 6-10

Complete each of the following statements with words taken from the passage.

Write ONE or TWO WORDS for each answer.

6. According to a recent study, well-lit streets do not ............... or make neighbourhoods

safer to live in.

7. Inefficient lighting increases .................... because most electricity is produced from

coal, gas or oil.

8. Efficient lights .................... from going into areas where it is not needed.

9. In dealing with light pollution .................... is at least as important as passing new

laws.

10. In the future, people will .................... reduced energy cost.

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....................... ....................... ........................ ........................ ......................

D. WRITING (40 points)

Part 1. Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets so that the meaning stays
the same. You must use between TWO and SIX words, including the word given.
1. The police arrived as the thieves were committing the crime. (RED-HANDED)
The police………………………………………………………………………
2. The Member of Parliament did everything he could to exploit the situation.
(ADVANTAGE)
The Member of Parliament did everything......................................... the situation.
3. George demands that the project should be finished now. INSISTENT
George ……………………………………………………………. the project.
4. I really don't know what you're talking about. (FAINTEST)
I don't ……………………………………………….. what you're talking about.
5. There is nothing strange about this. (OUT)
There ………………………………………………………………. about this.
Part 2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly
the same as the sentence printed before it.
1. In the end we had to walk to the railway station.
We ended..........................................................................................
2. It was not until five years had elapsed that the whole truth about the murder came
out.
Not for another……………………………………………..............
3. He was really jealous when he saw his brother’s new car. GREEN
He was green…………………………………………………………………….
4. My impression of him was that he was a very capable person
He struck …………………………………………………………..
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You are so lazy so it will serve ……………………………………
Part 3. Writing a paragraph
“Chidren should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able
to do so.” Do you agree with this statement? Write a paragraph of 180-200 words to
state your viewpoint.
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