ĐỀ TUYỂN CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TIẾNG ANH 11

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PART ONE: PHONETICS

Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the others. (10
ms)
1. A. inventories B. convention C. machine D. arithmetic
2. A. congestion B. watching С. explanation D. suggestion
3. A. building B. pharmaceutical С. bugle D. knew
4. A. experience B. tears С. experimentation D. glacier
5. A. gigantic B. gibberish С. bridging D. goal
6. A. journal B. mourning С. tournament D. bird
7. A. Eureka B. turn С. fertilize D. earthy
8. A. box B. books С. arcs D. dicing
9. A. access B. accentuate С. acknowledge D. factitious
10. A. homonym B. dishonesty С. honorable- D. hourly.

PART TWO: VOCABULARY

A. Choose the best word underlined: (5 ms)
1. The audience enjoyed the play so much that they clapped aloud / heavily / loudly
2. Two football fans were later charged with aggression / assault / attack.
3. A man is said to be helping the police with their arrests / detection / inguiries.
4. Some of the sketches were amusing, but I am afraid that most of the jokes fell flat / foul / short.
5. The party's election campaign / movement / struggle proved be successful.
6. When I was a bloke / chap / lad I used to walk ten miles to school.
7. Local people are campaigning for better facilities for the aged / ancient / elder.
8. Unfortunately the old painting I found turned out to be priceless / valueless / worthless.
9. Words is the official journal / newspaper / magazine of the Linguistics Association
10. A woman and a man were later detained / arrested / accused for questioning.

B. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the capitalized words: (6 ms)
1. Please.........................our letter of the 14th.. We have not had a reply. KNOW
2. There will be no pay rise in the.........................future. SEE
3. This statue.........................the soldiers who died in the war. MEMORY
4. The idea of the sun "rises" is a popular......................... CONCEIVE
5. The minister gave.........................answers to the interviwer’s questions. EVADE
6. The evidence in this case is entirely......................... CIRCUMSTANCE.

PART THREE : GRAMMAR

Rewrite the following sentences using the given words. Do not alter these words. (20 ms)
1. There is nothing new about defense alliances. HILLS
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2. The disagreement is a lot of fuss about nothing. TEACUP
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3. It was with great reluctance that they came to our aid. LOATH.
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4. You'd be wasting your time trying to make him change his mind. POINTLESS
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5. "Don't drink anything alcoholic if you're going to drive home!" said the father to his son. URGED
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6. In what way was his evidence important? SIGNIFICANCE
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7. The colonel and the doctor did not get on well. ON
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8. Don't panic about something so trivial. MOUNTAIN
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9. The pressure of being in the public eye has proved too much for him. COPE
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10 A rise in temperature in the next century seems likely. CHANCE
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PART FOUR : PREPOSITIONS

A. Match the beginnings 1-10 with appropriate endings a-j. Then fill the gaps in endings a-j with
the correct form of one of the phrasal verbs made from the two lists below: (10 ms)
let/bring/put/come/look/pick/drop/get/
up/across/off/with/down/forward/on/to/out
1. I gave John a lift home last night.
2. Twenty people have promised to come to my party.
3. If you've got nowhere else to sleep, don't worry.
4. My mother can't wait for her holiday in Austria.
5. Please could you turn the TV down?
6. The house had been in flames for six hours.
7. Do you think you could give me a lift to work tomorrow?
8. Everyone was really embarrassed.
9. I was tidying my room yesterday.
10. Start's a very popular person.
a. We can always........you........for the night.
b. I'm trying to read and it…..me
с. Everyone I know seems to................. ..............him very well
d. As it was raining hard, I.......right outside his house.
e. Before the fire, fighters managed to...............it...............
f. When I............... ...............some photos I'd been looking forages.
g. Yes, of course. I...............you...............at seven o’ clock.
h. I just hope nobody...............me...............at the ;last mijnute.
i. I don't know why he...............the subject...............in the first place.
j. She................ ..............going for nearly a year now.

B. Fill in each bank with an appropriate article, preposition, or particle. Make a cross (X) when no
word is needed: (20 ms)
Women in developing countries are turning (1)........each other for strength and support. In Indonesia,
women dairy farmers in (2)........Japanese village of Sruni used to worry about their daily visit (3)........the
government inspectors who buy their milk: the inspector cast (4)........any spoiled milk, dashing some
women's hopes (5)........sending their children to.school. But now (6)........women just smile and jostle
each other as the inspectors lick their fingertips. Since the women formed (7)........milk cooperative called
Sito Markmur (Becoming Prosperous) nearly a decade ago, they have figured (8) used (9).........
(10)........that spoiled milk can be ingredient in Krupuk, the crunchy fish-flavored flour chips that
supplement the Indonesian rice diet. (11)........economic independence alone will not solve
(12)........myriad of problems facing (13)........women in the developing world. Discriminatory attitudes
are deeply entrenched, and in most countries, boys are still valued much more highly than girls. In
Bombay, (14)........of 8,000 abortions performed after parents learned (15)........Fetus's sex
(16)........amniocentesis, only one would have been a boy. Throughout the developing world, more boys
than girls are immunized, and girls who are brought to hospitals are generally (17)........worse condition
than boys (18)........enrolment rates are considerably lower (19a)........girls than (19b)........boys
(20........primary school; the gap widens as they get older.

PART FIVE: READING

A. Choose the best word to fill in each blank: (15 ms)
THE MOTORING BOOM IN THE U.S.
The 1920s saw the emergence of widespread car ownership in the US. Assembly-line production made
cars wonderfully cheap, credit was available on the cheapest (1)........and the irresistible (2).........of the
car to the consumer did the rest. The result was a complete (3)........of American life.
The car began to break (4)........the ancient sharp division between town and country. The movement
perhaps began with the prosperous middle class (5)........for a holiday from New York, who were
delighted to discover the rest of their country. But the cheap car also enabled the working class to travel,
for pleasure or in (6).......of work. Even poor country people, it (7)........out, could own cars and when
they did so, many of them used the freedom thus (8)........to depart - to the West or to the cities.
Even more important, perhaps, was the (9)........of the car on daily life. It came into (10)........for all
sorts of short (11)........, to work or to the shops, which had previously been made by trolley bus or
railway. It made a whole new pattern of living possible. Vast suburbs began to (12)........over the land. No
longer did you have to live in comparatively cramped (13)........near the railroad station. Nor did you have
to (14)........your annual holiday at one of the traditional, crowded resorts nearby. Instead, you could
(15)........over the hills and far away.
01. A. obligations B. terms С. guarantees D. repayments
02. A. appeal B. outlook С. impression D. fancy
03. A. transfer B. variation С. revision D. transformation
04. A. down B. off С. in D. away
05. A. concerned B. willing С. anxious D. fond
06. A. hunt B. search С. chase D. inquiry
07. A. found B. turned С. brought D. set
08. A. gained B. gathered С. reached D. benefited
09. A. force B. product C. impact D. trace
10. A. advantage B. use С. worth D. function
11. A. travels B. trips C. tours D. routes
12. A. spread B. wine С. scatter D. broadcast
13. A. housing B. residence C. surrounding D. settlement
14. A. make B. place С. take D. set
15. A. press B. speed С. stir D. pace

B. Read the following passage and choose the correct answers: (14 ms)
Wood has long been a popular building material in North America because it has generally been plentiful
and cheap. Swedish settlers in Delaware built log cabins as early as the 1630s. In New England, British
colonists buiit wooden "saltbox houses". Most of the wooden homes of Colonial times could be built
with simple tools and minimal skills.
In the early nineteenth century, the standard wooden house was built with beams set into heavy posts
and held together with wooden pegs. This method of construction was time consuming and required
highly skilled workers with special tools. The balloon-frame house, invented in 1833 in Chicago by a
carpenter from Hartford, Connecticut, used a framework of lightweight lumber, mostly 2x4 and 4x6
inches. This type of house could be assembled by any careful worker who could saw in a straight line and
drive a nail.
This revolution in building was made possible by improved sawmills that could quickly cut boards to
standard sizes and the lower cost of lumber that resulted. There were also new machines that could
produce huge quantities of inexpensive nails. Skeptics predicted that a strong wind would send such
houses flying through the air like balloons and, at first "balloon frame" was a term of derision. But the
light frames proved practical, and wooden houses have been basically built this way ever since.
1. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To trace the influence of Swedish and British settlers on American styles of building.
B. To stress the importance of wood as a building material.
C. То compare methods of constructing wooden houses in various parts of the country.
D. To describe a revolutionary technique for constructing wooden houses.
2. According to the passage, where did the inventor of the balloon-frame house originally come from?
A. Connecticut B. Chicago C. Sweden D. Delaware
3. Which of the following questions about the balloon-frame house is not answered in the passage?
A. Where was it invented? B. What was its inventor's name?
С What size was most of the lumber used in its framework? D. In what year was it invented?
4. The author implies that which of the following types of houses required the most skill to produce?
A. The log cabins built by Swedish settlers. B. Saltbox house
С Standard wooden houses of the early nineteenth century D. Balloon-frame house
5. All of the following are factors in the development of the balloon-frame house EXCEPT.......
A. The invention of sophisticated tools. B. The production of cheap nails.
C. Improvements in sawmills. D. The falling price of lumber.
6. According to the passage, why was the term balloon-frame (in the passage) applied to certain houses?
A. They could be moved from place to place.
B. They could be easily expanded.
C. They had rounded frames that slightly resembled balloons.
D. They were made of lightweight materials.
7. The word derision in the passage is closest in meaning to........
A. affection B. ignorance С ridicule D. regret

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