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MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN)
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút
Tổng số câu hỏi: 62
A. PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM
PHẦN 1: CÁCH PHÁT ÂM CỦA ÂM VỊ TRONG TỪ
Chọn 01 trong 04 lựa chọn có phần gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với những lựa chọn còn lại
1. A. centipede B. module C. adobe D. microbiome
2. A. snafu B. fondue C. adieu D. suide
3. A. stone B. alone C. shone D. cyclone
4. A. exorcize B. expedition C. expurgate D. exultation
PHẦN 2: TRỌNG ÂM
Chọn 01 từ trong 04 từ đã cho có cấu trúc trọng âm khác với các từ còn lại.
5. A. unaccented B. unadjusted C. unarguable D. unbearable
6. A. malady B. decimal C. seminar D. nectarine
7. A. infiltrate B. inevitable C. delinquent D. defiant
8. A. albeit B. alibi C. parachute D. arduous
PHẦN 3: TỪ HOẶC CỤM TỪ ĐỒNG NGHĨA
Chọn 01 từ/cụm từ trong 04 lựa chọn có nghĩa gần nhất với từ/cụm từ được gạch chân trong câu hỏi.
9. A benefactor sent a munificent gift for the orphanage this morning.
A. colossal B. generous C. mondo D. flamboyant
10. I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
A. apprehension B. palpitation C. composure D. aplomb
11. This supremely gifted kid told me that in the early elementary grades, the songs sung in music class
were so inane that he wanted to skip grades already!
A. innocuous B. tawdry C. asinine D. pellucid
PHẦN 4: TỪ HOẶC CỤM TỪ TRÁI NGHĨA
Chọn 01 từ/cụm từ trong 04 lựa chọn trái nghĩa với từ hoặc cụm từ được gạch chân trong câu hỏi.
12. Attempts to restrict parking in the city centre have further aggravated the problem of traffic
congestion.
A. vexed B. ameliorated C. deteriorated D. obstructed
13. It goes without saying that our business is out of the woods and we will be successful in the nearest
future.
A. no longer having problems B. getting out of the frying pan, into the fire
C. having more and more issues D. coming into light
14. Stop dilating upon your boss and start working. We are lagging behind our work.
A. fleshing out B. biting back C. cueing on D. clamming up
PHẦN 5: HOÀN THÀNH CÂU
Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn để điền vào chỗ trống trong mỗi câu hỏi.
15. We squandered a huge amount of money on stationery, books and _________.
A. same as B. such like C. as it D. the such
16. _________, he will still go fishing today.
A. As though it be rainy or snowy B. It would be rainy and snowy
C. Whether it is rainy nor snowy D. Be it rainy or snowy
17. Police are allowed to use guns as a last _________.
A. refuge B. resort C. respite D. reprieve
18. I was like _________________ when I got admitted into my dream school.
A. a lamb to the slaughter B. a dose of salt
C. a dog with two tails D. a shag on the rock
19. People with chronic diseases may choose _________ care.
A. palliative B. demulcent C. antidotal D. consolatory
PHẦN 6: ĐIỀN TỪ
Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn để điền vào chỗ trống trong đoạn văn.
We’re now in month two of the Great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020. Of my friends without
children, one half have become ninja masters of the sourdough arts, and the other half are practising
mindfulness during their enforced solitude, as they (20) _______ quietly at home.
My family is doing the precise opposite. The TV goes on at the beginning of the day. Laptops
are set up in the dining room. Tablets and games (21) _______ are whipped out at will, and the house
is alive with the sound of typing and (22) _______ voices on video-conferencing software and Sonic the
Hedgehog game walkthroughs.
It’s a functioning, necessary chaos. I am in lockdown with my family – two full-time working
adults, my husband and me, and our two small sons. (23) ______ the sourdough and mindful people,
lockdown has given (24) _______ parents less time in the day, not more. We’re having to work full-
time, (25) _______ our kids were in school or childcare; parent full-time, or it were a weekend and
work was the furthest thing from our minds; and we’re also home-schooling our kids so their brains
and social skills don’t (26) _______ before term-time comes back around.
Plus we’re having to do all of this (27) _______. Our older son, at just five years old, is too
illiterate to curl up with a book while we work. And his younger brother is only two, so he doesn’t
quite understand that he can’t clamber all over me while I’m in a virtual team meeting, “play piano”
on my laptop keyboard, or ask who “that ugly angry man” is. […]
(Source: The Guardian)
20. A. hunker down B. sit out C. astride on D. mount up
21. A. tenkeys B. cradles C. consoles D. bubblejets
22. A. flatlining B. overlapping C. homologous D. equalizing
23. A. Similar to B. As C. Albeit D. Unlike
24. A. learning B. working C. adapting D. impressing
25. A. such as B. likewise C. as though D. inspite
26. A. cramp B. circumscribe C. infringe D. atrophy
27. A. instantaneously B. simultaneously C. contemporaneously D. retroactively
PHẦN 7: BÀI ĐỌC
Đọc đoạn văn và trả lời 8 câu hỏi kèm theo.
 Conway’s knot, a famous mathematical problem, was a tricky one to untangle. Mathematicians
have been arguing about how to solve it for more than 50 years—until 2018, when graduate student
Lisa Piccirillo took it up on a whim and figured it out in less than a week, Erica Klarreich reports for
Quanta magazine. Piccirillo, who recently published her proof in the Annals of Mathematics, was a
graduate student at the University of Texas Austin when she cracked the problem. She first learned of
it at a conference in the summer of 2018, and spent her evenings working on it until she had her answer.
Solving the problem took Piccirillo less than a week, according to Quanta.
Piccirillo didn’t realize just how exciting her find was until she shared it with a professor at UT
Austin. “He started yelling, ‘Why aren’t you more excited?’” Piccirillo tells Quanta. “He sort of freaked
out.” As Caroline Delbert reports for Popular Mechanics, a mathematical knot is similar to a twisting
normal knot—in a tangled necklace or a shoelace, for example—except both ends of the knot are
connected in a circle. Knot theory, a field of topology, is the mathematical study of these kinds of snarls,
as reported by Wolfram Alpha. Knot theory has helped enhance our understanding of the shape of
DNA and the possible form of the universe, Erin Blakemore reports for the Washington Post. The
Conway knot is a mathematical knot with 11 crossings discovered by mathematician John Horton
Conway. The knot is so famous that it decorates the gates of the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, according to the Washington Post.
Its “problem” is a question that has persisted for decades: is the Conway knot a slice of a higher-
dimensional knot? A knot that is “slice” is one that can be made by slici ng a knotted sphere in four-
dimensional space, according to Quanta.
Now, Piccirillo has an answer: the Conway knot is not “slice.” Piccirillo, who has since landed
a tenure-track position at MIT, figured out the problem by studying the knot’s “trace,” a four-
dimensional shape associated with each knot. Some knots are “trace siblings,” meaning they have the
same four-dimensional pattern. Mathematicians know that trace siblings have the same “slice status,”
Klarreich explains. Piccirillo found the trace of Conway’s knot, then constructed another complicated
knot—now called Piccirillo’s knot—that had the same trace as Conway’s knot. Because Picirillo’s knot
is not slice, Conway’s knot is not slice either.
“This question, whether the Conway knot is slice, had been kind of a touchstone for a lot of the
modern developments around the general area of knot theory,” Joshua Greene, a mathematician at
Boston College who supervised Piccirillo’s undergraduate senior thesis, tells Quanta. “It was really
gratifying to see somebody I’d known for so long suddenly pull the sword from the stone.”
(Source: smithsonianmag.com)
28. What can we infer from the paragraph 1 of the text?
A. During 50 years, mathematicians have tried to solve the mathematical problem.
B. It took Piccirillo less than a week to understand the problem.
C. No sooner did Piccirillo crack the problem than she published the proof on the magazine.
D. It was at a 2018 summer conference that Piccirillo acknowledged of the problem.
29. What word can best REPLACE the word: “according to” in paragraph 1?
A. as per B. per se C. on per D. for per
30. How did the professor at UT Austin feel when Piccirillo decided to solve the problem?
A. excited B. worried C. neutral D. curious
31. What statement is true about the mathematical knot?
 A. A mathematical knot is like tighting a shoelace.
B. The knot theory helps us to gain better understanding of the formation of space.
C. The knot is similar to the shape of DNA.
D. Knot theory is not a theory but a study of the tangled mathematical knots.
32. Why is the Conway knot not a “slice”?
A. Because it is not cut by a higher dimensional-knot.
B. Because its slice can not be made by cutting another sphere.
C. Because its “slice status” bears resemblance to that of Piccirillo.
D. Because its “trace sibling” has different pattern from the original slice.
33. What does the metaphor “pull the sword from the stone” possibly mean?
A. to achieve something difficult B. to break new grounds
C. to resolve long-lasted problems D. to show others that someone is the best
34. What can we infer from Joshua Greene’s saying in bold in paragraph 5?
A. It is still touch and go that the Conway knot is a slice but it contributes toward further
improvements in knot field.
B. No matter the Conway knot is a slice or not, the discovery and the pioneering of Piccirillo sets
higher standards for the knot field in the future.
C. It is controvertible that Conway knot is a slice and the advent of Conway knot is instrumental
to the knot field not only in the past but in the future.
D. The question Conway knot is a slice or what else is the momentum to keep the knot theory
field to keep going forward and flourish.
35. All the statements are true about Lisa Piccirillo, EXCEPT ___________.
A. she has been constructing another knot B. she is dilligent
C. she has graduated D. she wasn’t extremelyexcitedabout her thesis
PHẦN 8: HOÀN THÀNH HỘI THOẠI
Chọn 01 lựa chọn đúng ở mỗi câu hỏi để điền vào chỗ trống.
36. A: “I have to head off now. ________.”
B: “Thanks. Bye!”
A. It was nice chatting with you. B. Thanks for the tea!
C. Would you like me to buy you some bread? D. I owe you one.
37. Alyssa: “What’s wrong with you?”
Brat: “_______ I have to use the toilet right away.”
A. My hotel is too far from here. B. I’ve got the runs.
C. Am I blushed? D. I am so grounded!
38. Brady: “Oh god, you only missed a few points to get accepted into that prestigious school!”
Jay: “Oh never mind. ________”
A. Just my luck! B. Tough luck!
C. Lucky you! D. Bless myself!
39. Mike: “You should do this the right way…”
Olivia: “___________”
A. It’s none of your business. B. That was a nice try.
C. It’s a cinch . D. Act your age!
40. Henry: “You said that in the countryside the security is not as good as that in the city. But you
had better know that countryside are more likely to be isolated. Thus, it is more secure.”
Polly: “_________”
A. Ditto. B. Amen. C. Touché. D. That’s it.
PHẦN 9: SẮP XẾP
Chọn 01 lựa chọn là trật tự đúng của các lượt lời trong hội thoại để thành 1 đoạn hội thoại hoàn
chỉnh.
41. a. I remember you said you were either going to Europe or you were going to work at your
parents’ company.
b. Well, I had a nice, relaxing vacation. How about you, Tina?
c. I changed my mind and didn’t do either of those. I decided to volunteer and archeological
project in New Mexico.
d. I wouldn’t exactly call it relaxing, but it was interesting.
A. b, c, a, d B. b, a, d, c C. b, d, a, c D. b, a, c, d
42. a. No. They were so hard to remember.
b. They are pieces of cakes to me.
c. I’ll bet. But the exercises are really easy, right?
d. You have learned all the new words in our latest class, haven’t you?
A. d, b, c, a B. d, a, c, b C. d, c, a, b D. d, b, a, c
43. a. Can I order a hot choco with extra milk please?
b. Yes, a piece of tiramisu.
c. Okay, anything else?
d. That’s okay. Your order is $12 in total.
e. Good morning, how can I help you?
A. e, b, c, a, d B. e, b, d, c, a C. e, a, c, b, d D. e, a, c, d, b
44. a. What are you looking for right now?
b. Oh my god! I forgot my phone.
c. Come on! We are already late for our next train.
d. Just a moment.
e. Nevermind, we’ll catch the bus after we go back home and take your phone.
A. b, c, e, a, d B. a, d, c, b, e C. e, d, a, e, c D. c, d, a, b, e
45. a. The reference book section is just over there.
b. Thank you so much. I will keep it down.
c. Be quiet, please!
d. Oh, I’m so sorry. I’m just looking for a Math book.
A. d, a, c, b B. c, d, a, b C. b, a, d, c D. a, b, c, d
PHẦN 10: VIẾT LẠI CÂU
Chọn câu đồng nghĩa hoặc cận nghĩa nhất với câu đã cho trong câu hỏi.
46. You must not believe in him because he is a compulsive liar.
A. Under no circumstances should you believe in him because he is as crooked as a dog's hind
leg.
B. You had better not place trust in him due to his being as crooked as a dead horse.
 C. He is as crooked as a jinx so you can not trust him in any situation.
D. His being so crooked as a lap of the gods makes him untrustworthy so you must not take
trust on him.
47. The boys pelted their neighbor’s garden with a lot of snowballs.
A. A lot of snowballs was slung on their neighbor’s garden by the boys.
B. The boys hurled a lot of snowballs at their neighbor’s garden.
C. The boys made a peg of snowballs at their neighbor’s garden.
D. The boys stoned snowballs to their neighbor’s garden.
48. My suggestion to go to Paris sunk like a lead balloon.
A. We led a balloon to go to Paris as my suggestion.
B. I suggested going to Paris but it seemed like nobody cared.
C. My suggestion to go to Paris was not approved by almost everybody.
D. Everyone protested my suggestion to go to Paris.
49. The restaurant compromised food’s quality on profit.
A. The restaurant’s profit badly affected on food’s quality.
B. Lack of food’s quality, the restaurant witnessed a sharp decrease in profit.
C. Desiring for profit, the restaurant risked its food’s quality.
D. The risking for food’s quality is depended on restaurant’s profit.
50. The pandemic had its silver lining as it enhanced air quality.
A. The pandemic was actually a blessing in disguise as it enhanced air quality.
B. If it hadn’t been for the pandemic, the air quality wouldn’t have been so enhanced.
C. In defiance of its demerits, the air quality was actually enhanced by the pandemic.
D. The pandemic ameliorated the air quality against its drawbacks.
PHẦN 11: KẾT HỢP CÂU
Chọn câu đồng nghĩa hoặc cận nghĩa nhất với cặp câu đã cho trong câu hỏi.
51. I took the job because of it was covered in a tempting disguised. I regretted it.
A. In hindsight, I should not have taken up the job due to its attractive entity.
B. I was so lamented over my choosing a job at face value.
C. I acted on impulse and chose the job without going over its camouflage which I was felt
remorse for.
D. I rued the day that I was tricked by an unveiled-ly tempting job offer.
52. I was called up suddenly. I made a presentation without preparing beforehand.
A. Suddenly was I called when I was made to prepare a presentation extemporaneously.
B. I was called up so feasibly that I can easily made a presentation without being prepared.
C. I made a presentation on the fly as I was called up like a bolt from the blue.
D. Impromptu as my presentation might be, I got called up abruptly.
53. Our class performance should have ranked first. Other classes’ performances were so boring.
A. Looking back, our class performances should have been won the blue ribbon granted that
other performances were so humdrum.
B. Such tedious performances from other classes made me felt apprehensive about our class’s
performance’s rank although we didn’t have the first place.
C. So stodgy were other classes’ performances that I felt that it was rather inequitable for our
class’s performance to be the champion.
D. Other classes’ performances were unparalled to our class performance but we still deserved
to be ranked on the first place.
54. Our TV has broken down. We must to buy another one.
A. A dysfunctioning TV deserves to be replaced by our new TV.
B. Since our TV has gone haywire, it would go without saying that we need another TV.
C. Our TV’s malfunction let us off buying another TV.
D. Another TV can be bought for the sake of breaking down a TV.
55. He just tried to save us. He didn’t deserve such hatred.
A. Because his alacrity to save us, he should have gotten the comeuppance.
B. He should not have been mentioned in dispatches by virtue of his attempt to save us.
C. He shouldn’t have been castigated for trying to save us.
D. His trying to save us was not above reproach.
PHẦN 11: HOÀN THÀNH VĂN BẢN
Chọn 01 cụm từ hoặc câu trong 04 lựa chọn cho sẵn trong mỗi câu hỏi để điền vào chỗ trống tương
ứng trong bài luận đã cho.
Nobody can say with a full confidence whether children should be taught at home or at any
children's institutions. There are many different children and everyone demand of education suitable
only for him.
But for most of the children, the best way of learning the life is being in the children's institutions.
Nobody would argue that contacts between children of the same age are very important for bringing
your child up. (56) __________. The harmonious living with other people, to my mind, is the first task
for any man. Lack of this harmony sets problems and troubles.
The children need space to run and make noise, to jump and cry. Do you or your neighbours
allow these actions for your child? If you live in town, it is difficult to find a safe place to play.
Kindergartens give such a possibility. (57) __________. So, if you have bad living conditions, the
kindergarten is the best way for you. But if you have a large family with many children and enough
space, you may keep your child at home. You should be sure that the child feels, dress ed and
comfortable. His brothers and sisters give him necessary contacts. It's noticed long ago that children in
big families are (58) __________ easy-tempered and calm. They are located in the more harmonic world
than others.
Sometimes differences in age put troubles in contacts between children in large families. Then
it is better for the children to be sent to the kindergarten (school). But if quarrels don't last for a long
time, everything is all right. (59) __________, quarrels develop an ability to cooperate with people. They
develop a personal initiative and force setting the balance. In such a way the child gets lessons of life.
Oddly, the quarrels often take place in kindergartens and schools and we shouldn't fear it.
Side by side with quarrels parents often are afraid of colds which happen in kindergartens more
frequently. Parents prefer keeping the child at home. But for a healthy child odd cold (if illness occurs,
it goes its normal course) can't make big harm to the child. (60) _______.
In general, I am a follower of the theory of keeping children in adapted places such as good
kindergartens. But keeping children in such a place can't replace family and home. Onl y together they
make the harmonic and beautiful union.
56. A. It would be worse if we let our kids get exposed to such contacts but it is worth doing.
B. Such a contact is very important for playing, entertaining and learning to live with other
people.
C. Contacting with your friends is really important due to sociability and relationship.
D. We should let our kids keep contacts with their friends because it is of high importance that
children should maintain their friendship.
57. A. They give space, a lot of toys and constructions for physical exercises.
B. They provide children with sufficient place to develop.
C. They improve children’s ability to improve their physical talents.
D. They enhance kids’ talents in physical movements and agility.
58. A. much more B. less C. by far D. the most
59. A. On the whole B. Predominantly C. In contrast D. Habitually
60. A. Therefore, catching a cold is totally normal for a growing kid.
B. Until they can come to terms with being succumb to normal colds, they will be better off for
the future.
C. Unless they try to be compliant with such colds, they will never become mature.
D. And if the child is adaptable to the conditions of public places earlier it would be better for
him in future.
B. PHẦN TỰ LUẬN
61. Viết một bức thư khoảng 150 từ dựa trên những yêu cầu dưới đây:
You are Kim. Your class’s dance team has one more vacancy and you think you
are suitable for that and you want to join the team. Write a letter to your team’s
captain.
In this letter you should:
• say about what is the most impressive thing you feel about the team.
• explain why you are suitable for the vacancy.
• say how could you contribute to the team.
Your letter begins as follows:
Dear Captain,
…
62. Viết một văn bản khoảng 250 từ về chủ đề sau:
Should children become perfect figures like their parents want them to be? Or should they be whatever they like
themselves to be?

HẾT
 ĐÁP ÁN
A. TRẮC NGHIỆM (6,0 điểm)
(Mỗi câu 0,1 điểm)
1. C 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. A 9. B 10. A
11. C 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. A
21. C 22. B 23. D 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. B 28. D 29. A 30. B
31. D 32. C 33. C 34. D 35. A 36. A 37. B 38. A 39. A 40. C
41. C 42. B 43. C 44. D 45. B 46. A 47. B 48. B 49. C 50. D
51. B 52. C 53. C 54. B 55. C 56. B 57. A 58. A 59. A 60. D
B. TỰ LUẬN (4,0 điểm)
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