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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN TUYÊN Ngày thi: 15 tháng 4 năm 2017
QUANG Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
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ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT Đề thi gồm 11 trang

SECTION I. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1: Complete the form below
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND /OR A NUMBER for each answer.

STUDENT UNION REGISTRATION FORM

Example: Name: Stefan Unger
Your answers
Degree programme: 1.__postgraduate__
Department: 2. __engineering___
Leisure activities 3. __computer games___
Type of accommodation: 4. __in hall__
Contact number: 5. __ 0295069003__

Part 2: You will hear a psychologist being interviewed about friendship.

Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1. From three to five years old , children __________.
A. Are happy to play alone B. prefer to be with their family
C. have rather selfish relationship D. have little idea of ownership
2. From the age of five to eight to ten, children ________.
A. change their friend more often. B. decide who they want to friends
with.
C. admire people who don’t keep to rules. D. learn to be tolerant of their
friends.
3. According to Sarah Browne, adolescents _______.
A. may be closer to their friends than to their parents
B. develop an interest in friend of the opposite sex
C. choose friends with similar personalities to themselves.
D. want friends who are dependable.
4. Young married people ______.

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 A. tend to focus on their children B. often lose touch with their
friends
C. make close friends less easily D. need fewer friends than single
people
5. In middle or old age people generally prefer ______.
A. to stay in touch with old friends B. to see younger friends more
often
C. to have friends who live nearby D. to spend more time with their
friends
Part 3: You are going to listen to a report from a local TV news program
about the island of
Samsø in Denmark and decide whether the following statements are True (T)
or False (F)
Your answers
T F
1. The major source of power on Samsø is oil. x
2. Samsø produces more electricity than it needs. x
3. Americans on average produce more carbon dioxide x
than Dutch citizens.
4. The furnace is used for both heating and making x
fertilizer.
5. Farmers on Samsø have lost money by changing to x
environmentally-friendly practices.

SECTION II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (50 points)

Part 1. Choose the word that best completes each sentence. Write your
answer (A, B, C, or D) in the box provided. (20 points)

1. I was really looking forward to going to the game and I could hardly wait until
the _____ day came.
A. grand B. big C. major D. huge
2. This disagreement is likely to _____ relations between the two countries.
A. disaffect B. alienate C. sour D.
estrange
3. I don’t want to be too _____ on Alice, but I think I should tell that her work isn’t
good enough.
A. strict B. firm C. stern D. hard
4. Once the story _____ the headlines , everyone was talking about it.
A. crashed B. struck C. smashed D. hit

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5. If I’m late for work again .I’ll be_____ a severe warning from my boss.
A. up to B. in for C. into D. after
6. Their flat is _____ of a place I used to live in .
A. mindful B. reminiscent C. memorable D.
retrospective
7. Of all the paintings in the gallery, it was this one that really _____ my eye.
A. grasped B. snatched C. caught D. seized
8. Both the favourite and then the second favourite pulled out. Naturally, we
thought we were ________ a chance..
A. un with B. in for C. in with D. up for
9. Despite all the interruptions, he _____ with his work
A. stuck at B. held on C. hung out D. pressed
on
10. Nobody is quite sure what_____ him to such extreme behavior
A. shoved B. thrust C. pressed D. drove
11. I can’t understand why you have to make such a _____ about something so
unimportant.
A. mess B. stir C. fuss D. bother
12. Despite being a very good student , she didn’t fulfill her _____later in life.
A. makings B. potential C. capability D.
aptitude
13. You’re having problems now but I’m sure things will change _____the better
soon.
A. on B. to C. by D. for
14. You can’t ______that criticism to all teachers!
A. apply B. employ C. associate D. lay
15. It’s not easy to make Stanley furious, the boy is very gentle by ______ .
A. himself B. personality C. reaction D. nature
16.This evidence should prove ______ that he was telling the truth .
A. once and for all B. now and then C. over and above D. from time to
time
17. If you _____any problems when you arrive at the airport, give me a ring.
A. come about B. catch on C. run into D. face up
18. The Kenyan runner set off with a _____ in the 5000 metres.
A .blistering speed B. dizzy speed C.. blistering pace D. dizzy pace
19. Poor management brought the company to the _____of collapse.
A. brink B. rim C. fringe D. make for
20. Josh was terribly nervous before the exam but he managed to pull himself
_____and act confidently
A. through B. over C. together D. off

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Part 2. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. Write your answers in
the space provided below. (10 points)
line 1 A study into family health conducting in California comes up with
line 2 some interesting conclusions, though these might not be accepted
acceptable to everybody. The main conclusion is that for a family to
line 3 remain healthy, the relationship between husband and wife plays a
line 4 major role. The perhaps surprising aspect of this research, however, is
line 5 that statistically the healthy family is optimistic, church-going, and
line 6 leading led by a traditional male. And perhaps not so surprisingly,
what promotes the health of the husband does not necessarily
line 7 promote the health of the wife, and vice versa. For example, when it
line 8 comes to express expressing emotions, it is generally assumed that
line 9 giving an outlet to feelings is healthy. But according to the study, there
may be beneficial for one party but not for the other. If the wife talks
line 10
more than the husband does in these situations and gives him feelings
line 11 of guilty guilt, then he is likely to become depressed, whereby whereas
line 12 if the wife lets the husband dominate the arguments, then she in turn
line 13 will be the one whose mental state will suffer. The study also found
that when men dominate in domestical arguments, they often end up
line 14 trying to avoid the real issue or become silently silent and withdraw.
line 15 This has the effect of making the wife feel anxious and depressed. As a
line 16 person’s mental state is closely linked to their physically physical well-
being, it is clear that the dynamics dynamite of family relationships
help to determine health in general.

Part 3: Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition.

Write your answer in the box provided. (10 points)
1. Are you really snowed under with work at the moment?
2. The students have fallen head over heels in love with their teacher.
3. I can easily while the whole afternoon of reading a good book.
4. I’m afraid our conference room is in use at the moment, but I’ll call you when it is free.
5. The students were all of tenterhooks as they awaited the results of the examination
6. We all come to the station to see you off.
7. When she put on weight, she had to let away all her clothes.
8. Tell me the whole story, don’t keep anything back.
9. We decided to make out the nearest beach.
10. If the government puts up incomes tax again I shall leave this country for
good and go and live in Spain or Greece.
 Part 4: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered
space provided in the colunm on the right. There is an example at the
beginning (0). (10 points)
Your answers
Until (0)_______(COMPARE) recent times science an 0. COMPARATIVELY
technology performed different and separate functions , 1__unrelated__
the progress of one so often completely

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(1)________(RELATE) to the progress of the other 2___empiric_____
historians have established that ,since the earliest times 3___philisophical__
,the improvements in our way of life have resulted from 4___undertaken____
an (2)________(EMPIRICISM) approach , that is a
5___revolutionary___
process of trial and error ,by which equipment from
and tools are made to satisfy important needs . It is to 6___replacement___
this approach that we owe the evolution of technology. 7___innovations___
Our modern concept of science ,both _______ (3- 8___fruitful____
PHILOSOPHY) an pragmatic in approach , stems from 9___strengthens___
the seventeenth century ,when extensive investigations
10__reliance__
into the natural laws governing the behavior of matter
were_______(4-TAKE). It was this________ (5-
REVOLUTION) style of thought which led to a science-
based technology .Scientific knowledge was not in itself
seen as a ______ (6-PLACE) for the earlier system of trial
and error , but it did help the technical _______ (7-
INNOVATE) to see which path of experimentation
might be more _______ (8-FRUIT) .With the
industrialization of the nineteenth century, the bond
between science and technology _______(9-STRONG) .In
our own time ,the mutual _______(10-RELY) of one
discipline upon the other has increased still further

SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (60 points)

Part 1: Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits
each space. Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the numbered box. (10 points)
One of the hazards that electronic media like the television, radio or
computers (1) _____ these days is the decline in book reading.
The concern (2) _____ mainly to the younger generations who are strongly
tempted by the glamour of the silver screen and, consequently, don’t (3) _____ the
importance of acquiring first-hand information from books.
To (4) _____ reading for pleasure and to propagate a wide array of
publications like encyclopedias reference books manuals or fiction, radical
solutions should be applied. Firstly, more (5) _____ ought to be put on the
educational factor. Youngsters should be made to feel comfortable while reading
either for information or self-satisfaction in public place like airports, buses or on
the beach. Secondly, libraries must be subsidized more accurately in order to
provide the potential reader with (6) _____ choice of publications and to be come
more publically active so as to put books at people’s (7) _____ rather than keep them
under lock and key. Fund collecting actions organized by libraries might also raise
the public awareness of the advantages of becoming (8) _____ in a good book.
Finally, the mass media themselves might contribute substantially by
recommending the purchase of valuable best-sellers and inspiring their viewers to

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(9) _____ their knowledge and erudition, and thus help them to (10) _____ the habit
of spontaneous every reading.
1. A. denote B. play C. arise D. pose
2. A. indicates B. affects C. applies D. embodies
3. A. observe B. recognize C. view D. distinguish
4. A. incite B. revert C. instill D. encourage
5. A. emphasis B. persistence C. focus D. relevance
6. A. prolific B. ample C. lavish D. lush
7. A. available B. disposal C. benefit D. usage
8. A. occupied B. inhaled C. engrossed D. incorporated
9. A. enrich B. magnify C. arouse D. elaborate
10. A. grow B. evolve C. proceed D. develop

Part 2: Fill in each gap with one suitable word. Write your answer in the box
provided. (10 points)
THE FUTURE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
There is a scene in the film Minority Report in (0) __which__ Tome Cruise
stands in front of a vast Perspex-like screen housed in the police department’s Pre-
Crime Unit. He gazes (1) in earnest at the transparent surface, waving his hands
across the tablet to swirl great chunks of text and moving image across the screen
to (2) a storyboard of yet-to-be-committed crimes. With a simple twist of his
finger or a flick of his wrist, pictures expand and enlarge, word scroll, and whole
trains of thought come to tangible fruition (3) ____ there on board. The year is
2054.
Yet it seems the era of true touch-screen technology is already here. Indeed,
when Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in San Francisco a few years ago,
he grandly declared: “We are reinventing the cell phone.”
(4) One of the main reasons for Jobs’ bold claim was the iPhone’s futuristic
user interface- “multi-touch”. As demonstrated on stage by Jobs (5) himself , multi-
touch was created to make the most of the iPhone’s large screen. (6) Unlike most
existing smart phones, the iPhone has only one conventional button-all the rest of
the controls appear on the screen, adapting morphing around your fingertips as
you use the device, almost (7) like the giant tablet in Minority Report.
The demonstration iPhone handset certainly looked like re-invention, but
multi-touch, while it was new for Apple, is (8) by no means a new technology. The
concept has been around for years, waiting for the hardware side of the equation
to get small enough, smart enough, cheap enough to make it a reality. While it still
remains something of a novelty now, there is a good chance that the (9) next years
will bring many more computers and consumer gadgets that depend wholly or
(10)____ on multi-touch concepts.
Part 3: Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question.
Write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the numbered box. (10 points)

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 COMMUNICATING WITH THE FUTURE
In the 1980s the United States Department of Energy was looking for suitable
sites to bury radioactive waste material generated by its nuclear energy programs.
The government was considering burying the dangerous wastes in deep underground
chambers in remote desert areas. The problem, however, was that nuclear waste
remains highly radioactive for thousands of years. The commission entrusted with
tackling the problem of waste disposal was aware that the dangers posed by
radioactive emissions must be communicated to our descendants of at least 10,000
years hence. So the task became one of finding a way to tell future societies about the
risk posed by these deadly deposits.
Of course, human society in the distant future may be well aware of the
hazards of radiation. Technological advances may one day provide the solutions to
this dilemma. But the belief in constant technological advancement is based on our
perceptions of advances made throughout history and prehistory. We cannot be
sure that society won’t have slipped backward into an age of barbarism due to any
of several catastrophic events, whether the result of nature such as the onset of a
new ice age or perhaps mankind’s failure to solve the scourges of war and
pollution. In the event of global catastrophe, it is quite possible that humans of the
distant future will be on the far side of a broken link of communication and
technological understanding.
The problem then becomes how to inform our descendants that they must
avoid areas of potential radioactive seepage given that they may not understand
any currently existing language and may have no historical or cultural memory. So,
any message indicated to future reception and decipherment must be as
universally understandable as possible.
It was soon realized by the specialists assigned the task of devising the
communication system that material in which the message was written might not
physically endure the great lengths of time demanded. The second law of
thermodynamics shows that all material disintegrates over time. Even computers that
might carry the message cannot be expected to endure long enough. Besides,
electricity supplies might not be available in 300 generations. Other media storage
methods were considered and rejected for similar reasons.
The task force under the linguist Thomas Sebeok finally agreed that no
foolproof way would be found to send a message across so many generations and
have it survive physically and be decipherable by a people with few cultural
similarities to us. Given this restriction, Sebeok suggested the only possible
solution was the formation of a committee of guardians of knowledge. Its task
would be to dedicate itself to maintaining and passing the knowledge of the
whereabouts and dangers of the nuclear waste deposits. This so-called atomic
priesthood would be entrusted with keeping knowledge of this tradition alive
through millennia and developing the tradition into a kind of mythical taboo
forbidding people to tamper in a way with the nuclear waste sites. Only the
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understand the danger. Those outside the priesthood would be kept away by a
combination of rituals and legends designed to warn off intruders.
This proposal has been criticized because of the possibility of a break in
continuity of the original message. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that any
warning or sanction passed on for millennia would be obeyed, nor that it could
survive with its original meaning intact. To counterbalance this possibility,
Sebeok’s group proposed a “relay system” in which information is passed on over
relatively short periods of time, just three generations ahead. The message then to
be renewed and redesigned if necessary for the following three generations and so
on over the required time span. In this way information could be relayed into the
future and avoid the possibility of physical degradation.
A second defect is more difficult to dismiss, however. This is the problem of
social exclusiveness brought about through possession of vital knowledge. Critics
point out that the atomic priesthood could use its secret knowledge to control
those who are scientifically ignorant. The establishment of such an association of
insiders holding powerful knowledge not available except in mythic form to non-
members would be a dangerous precedent for future social developments.

1. The word "chambers" in the passage is closest in meaning to

A. partitions B. openings C. cavities D. fissures
2. What problem faced the commission assigned to deal with the burial of nuclear
waste?
A. How to reduce the radioactive life of nuclear waste materials
B. How to form a committee that could adequately express various nuclear
risks
C. How to notify future generations of the risks of nuclear contamination
D. How to choose burial sites so as to minimize dangers to people.
3. In paragraph 2, the author explains the possible circumstances of future societies
A. to warn about the possible natural catastrophe
B. to question the value of advances
C. to highlight humankind's inability to resolve problems
D. to demonstrate the reason nuclear hazards must be communicated
4. The word "scourges" in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. pressures B. afflictions C. worries D. annoyances
5. In paragraph 4, the author mentions the second law of thermodynamics
A. to support the view that nuclear waste will disperse with time
B. to show that knowledge can be sustained over millennia
C. to give the basic scientific reason behind the breakdown of material objects
D. to contrast the potential life span of knowledge with that of material objects
6. The word "Its" in the passage refers to
A. knowledge B. committee C. solution D. guardians

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7. In paragraph 5, why is the proposed committee of guardians referred to as the
"atomic priesthood"?
A. Because they would be an exclusive group with knowledge about nuclear
waste sites.
B. Because they would use rituals and legends to maintain their exclusiveness
C. Because they would be an exclusive religious order
D. Because they would develop mythical taboos surrounding their traditions
8. According to the author, why did the task force under Sebeok propose a relay
system for passing on information?
A. To show that Sebeok 's ideas created more problems than they solved
B. To support the belief that breaks in communication are inevitable over time
C. To contrast Sebeok's ideas with those proposed by his main critics
D. To compensate for the fact that meaning will not stable over long periods of
time
9. According to paragraph 7, the second defect of the atomic priesthood proposal is that
it could lead to
A. the nonmembers turning knowledge into dangerous mythical forms
B. the possible misuse of exclusive knowledge
C. the establishment of a scientifically ignorant society
D. the priesthood's criticism of points concerning vital knowledge
10. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as difficulties in devising a
communication system with the future EXCEPT
A. the failure to maintain communication link
B. the loss of knowledge about today's civilization
C. the inability of materials to endure over time
D. the exclusiveness of priesthood
SECTION IV: WRITING (40 points)
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use
between three and eight words, including the word given. (10 points)

1.There is a strong possibility that this species of rhino will become extinct.
DANGER
The species of rhino is …in danger of becoming……….extinct
2. I thought Sue’s original plan was to move to Australia.
IMPRESSION
I ……was under impression that Sue… was originally planning to move to
Australia
3. The team are determined to finish the race however tough it is.
MATTER.
The team are determined to finish the race ……no matter how tough it might….. be.

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4. Jill wished she had tried to have a better relationship with her father.
GET
Jill regretted not trying to get along … better with her father.
5. I hate it when people lie to me which is why I split up with Simon.
STAND
I …can’t stand being lied. …. to, which is why I split up with Simon
Part 2: Write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the
original sentence, but using the word given. The word must not be altered in
any way. (10 points)

1. Many companies were immediately affected by the new regulations (EFFECT)

The new regulations had an immediate effect on many companies.
2. He is unlikely to carry out the plan. (PRACTICE)
It is unlikely that he will put the plan into practice.
3. I’m going to have a problem because of the change of plan. (POSE)
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. A great many people will congratulate her if she wins (SHOWERED)
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. You couldn’t do anything more stupid than to give up your job now. (HEIGHT)
Giving up your job now is the height of stupididy.

Part 3: Write a paragraph on the following topic:

Many young people nowdays graduate from school with a negatice attitude ,
and they are often unwilling to pursue further studies or seek employment.
Why do you think this happen? What can be done to solve or reduce this
problem?
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