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(PREVI =NT) ne Hil bg ‘THE END 232 (a.utPu | S0GIAO DUCVA DAO TAO BA RIA VONG TAL KY THI OLYMPIC TRUVEN THONG 304 ‘TRUONG THPT CHUYES LEQUY DON TAN THU AVI NAM 2012 pee Kian 0 tig enim 02 Di cuinire ‘Mon Tog hap "gn im 1D hg pep db nije ~D8 hi ny cb 10 tag. ~ Hoe sink la bi mi phn trn mt gid rim ~ Kling de sic clung bc alg co dé lam ba ‘A. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. PHONOLOGY 1, Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each group. (5 pts) |. A.considerate -B. candidate —-C.associate-——_—D. adequate 2. A. warranty B. wasabi C. wallop D. wander 3. A. sanctuary B.manky C.sanguine redundant 4. A. modal B, model C. modest D, modern 5. A. bathing B. method C. bathroom ——D. width 2. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that ‘of the others in thelist. (5 pts) 6. A. disinter B.ecadaver —C eathedral_-——_—D- attorney 7. A. substantial B. technological C. exponential. infiltration 8. A. monetary B. paralysis C. protagonist. analogous 9. A. arithmetic B. assassinate C. agriculture 1D. controvert 10.4. tuberculosis __B. mathematician C. communication D. inheritance |. VOCABULARY & STRUCTURE & Choose the hest answer to complete eath of the following sentences. (20 pts) 1. What happened their ear broke down on the motorway so they didn't get to Jo's wedding on time Ato be that B. being that C.wasthat to that 2. The restaurant is popular with film stars and the A. like B. same . similar Teen 3. Pmsorry to but did you happen to mention the samme "Fiona"? A. batt in Bicutyou —C.intereede DD. jump 4, John was something under his breath but | didn’t catch what he said, A. whispering -Bemuttering —C. growling. swallowing 5. Don't take it as that you'll be promoted in your job; other colleagues snd a good chance t00. RT sanded Creal Blwont 2336. Acommon cause of __ isthe vse of untreated water in preparation for foods, which is quite common in certain underdeveloped countries. | A displeasure B.malnutrtion C.eupepsia —_D. dysentery 7. The police promised him ___ from prosecution if he co-operated with them fll A. safety Biprotection C.immunity _D. absolution 8. Public television stations are different from commercial stations, i ‘A because they receive money differently and different types of shows i B. for money and program types inthe areas of funding and programming D. because the former receives money nd hes programs differently ftom the later 9. dont think it would be wise to try 19 make Max change his mind about divering Barbara. Welln is place |___her ata j ‘A. would never have married B. needn't have married C. would never marry D, must never have married 10.0nce known as the “Golden State” because ofits gold mines, ‘4. North Carolina today mines few metallic minerals ai j B, few metallic minerals are mined in North Carolina today } C there are few metalic minerals mined in North Carolina today D. today in North Carolina few metalic minerals are mined 11.Charles Babbage’: of : moder computers | ‘A. precedent B. precursor. ancestor D. antecedent } 2: Aecowing tw years many vident rina arbor fing of tnd insecurity. ‘insufficiency shortage inadequacy _D. searity 13. It must be true, | heard it straight from the ‘mouth. 4 A. dog’s, B. horse's camel's Da cat's | 14.1 am fully prepared for my interview and | am ‘confident that I can answer any. atestions they my eae es A. throw at B. drop on. C. slide to Dz 4 slide ito ‘15.1'm afraid we have 4 lot of critic 1 ion } “ sche ou decison loc the ‘A. come in for B.come round C. come out wit it =| our me out with D. come up with a ee SO Dane review consideration —C.disssion veilance r 17-The saucepan fll onto the floor witha great Paces ate Bewhoosh C eramch™ ‘hough that Wendy's action was rather out or hpesealty oe [hele wre dene andthe ht as sta A ont B. by the same C. on top of all that. ‘for all that 20.Unsae ter bes or hae, bt except : 5 C. for all of 234 Ill, READING COMPREHENSION 7 You are going to read a newspaper article. For questions 1 ~ 10, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) Which you think fits best according to the text. (10 pts) How I found my true voice 8 an interpreter, Sucanné Glass could speak only for others ~ but the work provided terrific material for her first novel “No, no,no! You've got t0 get away from this oF you're going to lose it” ‘The voice reverberating in my head was my own. I was at an interational conference. My throat was Killing me and my headphones were pinching. 1 had Just been interpreting speaker whose last words had been: ‘We must take very seriously the standardization of the length of cucumbers and the size of tomatoes.” You can't afford to have your own thoughts when you're interpreting simultaneously, so, of course, I missed the specker’s next sentence and lost his ‘main of thought. Sitting in a darkened booth atthe back of @ huge conference hall, | ‘vas thrown, Fortunately, my colleague grabbed my microphone and took over. This high-pressure, high-output work was not quite the dream profession I had hnoped for. Although I had fun with it in the beginning ~ occasionally being among tte first to hear of medical. and political breakthroughs would be exciting for any 25-year-old ~I realized that this was a job in which I would never be able to find my ‘ovn voice. 1 had always known that words would be my life in one form or another. My mother thought she'd given birth to an alien when I began to talk. at the age of seven months. That momentous day, she had placed my playpen in the hallway and gone into the bedroom. In imitation of the words she had repeated to me szain and again, | apparently called out towards the bedroom door: ‘I see you. 1 see you.’ I was already in training for a carcer as a professional parrot. ‘But how mistaken I was to think that international interpreting would be slamorous. The speaker rarely stops to think that there's someone al the back of the room, listening t his words, absorbing their _meaning, and converting. them into. another language at the same time. Often I was confronted with a droner,« whisperer or a mumbler through my headphones. The mumblers were the worst. ‘Most of the time, an interpreter is thought of as a machine ~ a funnel, a conduit, which, I suppose, i precisely what we are. Sometimes, when those we are translating fer hear us cough or sneeze, oF turn round and look st us behind the smoky glass of the booth, think they're surprised to see that we're actually alive Ironically, part ofthe sere of interpreting is non-verbal communication. You have to ‘case when your partner i tired, and offer to take over. At the same time, you have tobe careful otto cut him short and hog the microphone. Interpreters can be abit like actors: they like to show off. You do develop friendships when you're working in such close ‘proximity, but there's a huge amount of competitiveness among interpreters. They check ‘seach other and sometimes even count each other's misransltions, “ransating her people's ideas prevented me from feng involved and creative as an interpreter. Actually, you can't be a creative interpret. °s a contradiction in terms. Sometimes, when I disagreed with a speaker, I wantec. tojump up and ran out ofthe booth, shouting: “Rubbish, Rubbish. You're talking & lot of nonsense, and this is what I think about it’ Instead, | had to sit there and regurgiaie opinions in violent contradiction with my own. Sometimes, get my revenge playing games with the speaker's tone of voice. If he was being serious, I'd make him sound joculr. If he was being light-hearted, I'd make him sound earnest Eventually, I wanted to find a career where my own words would matter ang ‘where my own voice would be heard, So, to redress the balance, | decided to write a novel. While I was writing it, {did go back and interpret at a few conferences to Bet inside the head of Dominique, my main character. At first, I was litle rusty and a couple of the delegates tumed round to glare at me, but after twenty sinutes, | was back into i, playing that old game of mental gymnastics. Interpreting is ike learning to tur somersauls: you never forget how to doit. But for me, siting in the booth had a ghost-like quality to it—as though I had gone back into a past lifes «life that belonged tothe time before I found my own voice. |. In the first paragraph, the writer says she discovered that A. there were some subjects she had no interest in dealing with, B. the standard of her work as an interpreter was getting lower. Cher mind was wandering when she should have been doing her job D. she could no longer understand subjects she had previously covered. 2. What does the writer say about being an interpreter in the second paragraph? ‘A It was the kind of job her parents had always expected her to do. B. Ittumed out to be more challenging than she had anticipated. C. It was what she had wanted to be ever since she was a small child D. It gave her access to important information before other people. 3. What does the writer say about speakers she interpreted for? ‘A. Some of them had a tendency to get imitated with interpreters. B. She particulary disliked those she struggled to hear progerly C.They usually had the wrong idea about the function of intenpreters. . Some of them made litle attempt to use their own language correctly. 4, The writer says that relationships between interpreters ‘A. can make it difficult for interpreters todo ther jobs well 3. are affected by interpreters’ desires to prove how good they are. . usually start well but end in arguments. D. are based on secret resentments 5. The writer says that when she disagreed with speakers, she would sometimes ‘A. mistranslate small parts of what they B, make it clear from her tone of voice that she did not agres. . exaggerate their point of view. D. give the impression that they didnot really mean what they said. 6. The writer says that when she returned to imerpreting, A. she did not start off very well B, she briefly wished she had not given it up. C. she thought that two of the delegates recognised her. D. she changed her ideas about the main character in her nove What is the writer's main point in the article as a whole? A. is not always a good idea to go into. profession because it looks glamorous. B. Most interpreters eventually become disillusioned with the work C. Being an interpreter did not allow her to satisfy her need to be creative D. Most interpreters would actually like to do something more creative. 8. Which is the closest im meaning to momentous in “That momentous day? unimportant. historic €. momentary Dhar 9. Which is the closest in meaning to to glare’? A. to glower B.tocaress —_C. despise D. wonder 10, Which is the closest im meaning to ‘simultaneously’? Aca again B.allatonce —_C. once and for all D. once t0 often Reading 2 > Read the following passage and ft sentence from the list below. (10 pts) ringing up children Where one stage of chikd development has been left out, or not sufficiently experienced, the child may have to go back and capture the experievce of i. (D) = for example, by providing the opportunity for the child wo play with a “Soak S is aPC RTE Pag eau Sib ts kay Eb ll ec Go Tha principle, infact, 2) of children in difficulties with their development, and asc of workin child eines, “The beginnings of discipline are inthe nursery. Even the youngest baby i taught by radial stages to wait Yor food, o sleep and wake at regula intervals and soon. the ‘hil feels the world around him is a warm and friendly one, he slowly acceps its thythm and sccutons himself to conforming to is demands. @) particularly for food, isa very important element in upbringing. and is achieved Successflly only if oo great demands are not made before the child can understand them. Every prent watches eagerly the child's acquisition ofeach new skill the fist spoken word, (3) ‘or the beginning of reading and writing. I i often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this ean set up dangerous felings of failure and states of anxiety inthe chil. This might happen at ‘ny stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early: a young child might be ‘enceuraged to lear 0 read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads, On the ther hand, though, if child is et alone too much, (5) he loses his fatal zest for life and his desire to find out new things for himself. Learning together isa fruitful source of relationship between children and parents. o “Toys and games which both parents and children can share are an {mporant means of achieving this co-operation. Buildng-block toys, jigsaw puzzles crosswords are good examples. soca ee ee strict in money matters; Others are severe over times”of coming home at night, Sunctuality for meals oF personal cleanliness. In genera, the controls imposed Tepresent the needs of the parents and the values of the community (8) ‘each blank with a suitable phrase or 237nderds in the growing child, ©) the depen fa apt x non fo Leclerc » Ind realize they have been, to some extent, coeerpepvenens sof a marked difference between their parents’ ethics seat sodden avareness of 8 st mas can be dango silsin ‘Thetis of phrases and sentences intr dere of sce oF indulgence ae very important in pata teaching Sethu an ering oppotaniies acd al oyhologiatreaimen a ose, pans learn more aout hei chien and shen lem ore fom the parents F.Laaming owal or ings E semua childs own happiness and well cng Hh en te ro ol enough ohn for thomas ILA pod home makes this possible Shes ndopendet tp With regard er To forbid a thing 1V. GUIDED CLOZE TEST Read the following passage and choose the cptions that best complete the blanks. (10pts) ‘Warning on global warning Global warning could cause drought and possibly famine in China, the source of ‘much of Hong Kong's food, by 2050, a new report predicts. Hong Kong could also be o {rom floding as sea level rose. The report 2) building seacwalls around low-lying areas such as the new port and airport reclamations. (3) by the world Wide Fund of Nature (WWF), the report, which includes ‘work by members of the Chinese Academic meteorological Sciences, uses the most ‘recent projections on climate change to point toa gloomy (4) for China. ‘By 2050 about 30 to 40 per cent ofthe country will experience changes inthe type of vegetation it 3) ‘with tropical and subtropical forest conditions (6) ___nortiard and ht dese conditions sing inthe west where curently ‘the desert is temperate, crop-growing areas ill expund but any benefit is expected to ‘be negated by increased evaporation of (7) making it to0 dry to grow ‘crops sch rice. The growing Season also is rxpected i (8 becom ‘ht i Souter and cet China the namin’ @) "he a changes make it (10) ‘that plants coud adap, | WAcataloss 8 Si [exeomm Reais Coat Donan Chee BHaving published C Published. Puiahing on Biperspective — C view D. sight SA sppere Boon mises D.rises aoe ES ES humid 238 | | | 8. A.reshape B. remain rotate D- alee 9.A. breadwinner __B, breadline C. breadbasket 1D, breadboard 10.A, unforthcoming B. unlikely Ccunchanged —_D, unregulated B, WRITTEN TEST I. VERB TENSES / FORMS, ‘& Put each verb in brackets in the correct tense or form (10 pis) = Idon’t think his article deserves (1. read) — It was our fault to keep Jane (2. wait) — ___ her in advance: W's no use (4. ask) _ the students (5. keep) can’t help (6. make) a noise, = would rather you (7. mot / be) __ so long. We (3. inform) quiet. They absent from class yesterday. ‘Neither industries nor the garbage disposal (8. account) __fer the pollution in this city. = All the lights are on. You (9. forget) (10. turn) __ the lights ‘off before going to bed last night. = Put each verb in brackets in the correct tense or form (10 pts) Johannes Gutenberg was a pioneer in the use of movable type. When he (1. begin) __ building a printing press in 1436, he (2. be) unlikely @.realize) that he (4. give) birth to an art form that (5. take) ‘center stage in the social and industrial revolutions that followed. ‘Gutenbera was German his press was wooden. and the most important aspect of his invention was that it was the first form of printing to use movable type. Although Laurence Koster of Harlem also (6. lay) _____claim to the invention, scholars (7. generally / accept) ___ Gutenberg as the father of modern printing, Before Gutenberg, the printing pres (@. use) (2. reproduce) pictures, playing cards, and designs on cloth, Designs (10. eut) stone or metal and transferred to parchment of vellum. 1. WORD FORMS * Give the correct form of words in brackets (10 pts) |. “What if” questions involving, ‘are familiar in hiscorical speculations. jin wood. (Fact) 2. He was definitely when he scored that goal. (SIDE) 3. You won't persuade him to change his mind. His decision is (REVOKE) 4. Areseason-ticket dealt here? (NEW) . The Ministry of Education and Training decided to organize @ (an) footballer championship to create a common playground for all students. (COLLEGE) 6. An alarm sounds when the temperature reaches 8 7 Scarlet, my new neighbor, tends to have intense, It is not surprising that the corporation has established total o, Taal, SUPREME) . He examined the parcel___as he had no idea what it could be. (SUSPECT) 10.Each classroom in my schoot has been ___with a high-quality projector. (FIT)orm ofthe word given inthe box (10 pts) correct form of = Supply each gap with the precede breed. 4 nature subjection ie. [subversive _precocip Little queens sweep the board for it ~ but the (1) _____ Polar sisters ‘Hot-housing’ is the technical word bate manly. eetainly dont from Hungary, who have been zapping the ™ Tok ike 2) ———_ ht iglesias at the(3)___ag0 of won we’ ertional mater stan the 988 OF (ie oats err than Boby Fischer and Gary Kasparov) and 2s wht WS ot Secome a women's grandmaster at 13 (another record), started playing ecome e Fe ncver wen to school, were educated by their parents, and nov put in 2 were iv. oven atthe board. They seem very natural children. Between (4) 90 OFS re Duncan Lawrie mixed tournament, which ends tovay at London's FERioion Ht, they Jory up for gossip or a joke together. Ther elo se raccpeck in Budapest i (5) 1 mer’sinfemational grandmaster status ihe ae of 19. The thre girls, who wll present Hungary atthe Chess Olympiad J Salonika in two weeks’ time, have begun to (6)_—__the assumption that, at the op level of world chess, men will always preva ce aston Lac once tlt in pysalogy, now their business manager, wanted to test the hotchousing theory that if you (7)___ a normally intelligent Thild to intensive, specialized training ina paniculardisciptine ata very carly age Sou wil produce (8). His la that his daughtors were not endowed hy Mature with any special intellectual gifts is central to his argument. The girls! mothe, Klara,» language teacher, says: ‘t's improbable that three children in the same family ‘would all be () ited. They are normal — jus ike ater children, except that they spend more time Concentrating on chess. We hope one of them will be world champion one day” ae “The Polgar blitz on male dominance has (10) some old physiological and psychoanalytical explanations of womens inferiority in top-level chess, and is Tikely to encourage other parents fo push their daughters. Sooner or later, this should produce a woman world champion, IIL, PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS ‘> Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or particle (10 pts). 1. These boots can be ordered directly the manufacturers. 2, He escaped by passing himself asa guard, 3. She refused to bea party any violence. 4, Her sense of fn has rubbed ‘on her children. 5, We cannot afford to take risks when people's lives are stake, 6. Embarrassment rooted her the spot 7. The school ran Financial trouble when e ae ighty percent of the staff went 8. Erica an excellent collesgue, She 9. Thre shoud be enough plates oo 10. Hundreds of people turned 240 her job calmly and efficienty- in the rain to see their favorite pop stat> ERROR IDENTIFICATION © Identify 10 errors i ‘the following passage and correct them (10 pts) ‘THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE This week we celebrated Valentine's Day or rather incurable romances and those of us who are a bit soft in the head did! The fourteenth of February always gives everyone who's anyone a chance to cast a few pears of wisiom before their fellow sufferers about the nature of ‘the universal migraine’ ~ love. Francis Famsworth i the casein pont, I'm sre the poor ld fellow has a heart of gold but he really does talk a load of rebbish sometimes! His appearance lastnight on BBC 1's Lets Talk It Over was not exception, He stated out by having what I will pottely calla difference of opinion with Tania Di Monte, author of “Tell me the Truth about love’. Ms, Di Monte always expresses the most extraoedinary views without any apparent. fear of ontradiction. Last night she was boldly set out her rules for a perfect relationship ‘when poor old Farnsworth accidentally called her Tina. Tina's ofcourse the name of her ex husband Darren's second wife and we all know that aay mention him ~ oF het as ikea red rag fo a bull to Tania, Farnsworth kept apologizing and saying that it had been a slip ofthe tongue brought about by a momentary Iss of concentration, but ittook al presenter Greg Lazarre's skills to calm our Tania down again. Francis then started ealling her ‘darling’, which only succeeded in making her even more Furious. “Term of endearing’ he stammered as she glared at him, She had been vehemently denying. that there was even a grain of truth in rumors about her forthcoming fengagement with feotball star Nick Pérez, Nevertheless, I'm sure itis only a question ‘of time before we see Tania and Nick on the cover of “Hi There!” celebrating “the wedding ofthe century’ If marrying someone like Tania is what happens to you if {you're incredibly successful, like Pérez undoubtedly is, 1 shudder thinking what the Price of failure might bet Y. OPEN CLOZE TEST '® Fill in each blank with one suitable word (10 pts). ‘Can parrots communicate? Everyone knows that parots can imitate human speech, but can these birds also understand meaning? Two decades ago, researcher Irene Pepperberg started working with Alex, an African grey parrot, and ever since then, she has been building (1) a data on him. Pepperberg, whose recently’ published book The Alex Studies makes fascinating reading, claims Alex doesn't copy speech but intentionally uses words 1 get (2) s that he wants. in actual (3) + some of his cognitive skills ae identical to those of a five-year-old child. (@) ‘child's, Alex’s leaming has been a steady progression. Early on, he GI voealize whether two things were the same or different. Now, he carries out more complex tasks. Presented (6) different-coloured balls and blocks and asked the number of the red blocks, he'll answer correctly. He requests things as well (7) he ask to sit on your shoulder and you put him (8) els, he'll complain: “Wanna go shoulder.” A few experts remain skeptical, seeing very (9) in Alex's performance beyond learning by association, by means of intensive training. Yet Alex Appears to have mastered simple two-way communication. As parrots live for years or more, Ales may suprise (10) all further. ‘vLSI & Rewrite ead same asthe one gives 1 9, ~TRUGNG THPT CHUYEN LE HONG PHONG - TP HO CHi MINH PHAN A: TRAC NGHIEM LPHONOLOGY (10pts) Cy hr word whine undertined parts pronounced dierent from that of theothers. 1. A. kerosene B tinsel pessimism —_D. mussel 2 Acconsiderte _B candidate associ D.adequate 3. A. scowl C. sprout » D.dough 4. A bombs, i C, mustard D, retard 5. Aintllegual —B.situation __C. digestion __D. Greenwich ‘Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others. 6 Acmischievous miscellaneous Cnt '. veterinary SS. Binventory—C. neg D. congenial % Acimpotent ——-B.ignorant—C. admirable. affidavit ve Basset Cilaoate Deerslce 10.A. monetary a eee pete 24a ENTENCE TRANSFORMATION S aweyis th ofthe following sentene (10 pts) cesin such a way that itm Teel sleepin the after =p eet Je truth about the ‘murder came out. Itas ot nil + Not for ir ssems that no one predicted the cr My grandfather had com > My grandfather didi’ have ee eet enough ply fotal ha ey 51 did't feel Laura was faced bya lot of problems d > Laura had a itis usual for yo = Young children... side Dai tek unconnforabiein fon oat thas peo.) five years had elapsed thatthe whet rect resul. ly forgotten tat he phoned me ast nit ing her childhood. (contend) ving chitron to ak aot of questions (apt) > David seemed really. i ‘The handling ofthe matter has been heavily criticized by the press (Seorm) + When they broke the news .. nL. 16, 17. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURES @0pts) Stephen realy lost his A. head Don’t take it as, 1 good chance 0. _when his dental appointment was cancelled yet again B. voice C.calm Der _that you'll be promoted in your job; othe: colleagues stand A. fixed B.standard —C. read D. word ‘The weekend is over, so tomorrow moraing it’s back tothe A. grind B, labour Codrudgery Doll Looking after a house, four children, # lazy husband and two dogs is real A. labour B.drudgery —C. toil D. grind ‘The experimental play was only a _ ess, which disappointed the playwright, A. local B.qualified _C. reserved D. cautious It takes time fo get a financial system up and new currency. __after the introduetion of a A. walking B. proceeding C. running D.going ‘The professor's __ theory is that singing preceded speech, A. fancied B. fond C.pet D. preferable Ifhe tries to __ ignorance as his excuse, just tll him we've got a copy of the authorisation with his signature on it. A. defend B. plead C. pretend D. protest ‘We were working overtime to cope witha sudden _in demand. A. boost B. impetus surge D. thrust . The confidence trickster the old lady out of her life savings A. deceived B. misled robbed D.swindled |. The door hinges had all been oiled to stop them ___. ‘A.Squeaking _-B.scroeching_C. shrieking. squealing . You should least three days forthe journey. A. Expect B. permit C. secept D.allow Few people can do creative work unless they are in the right__of mind. A. frame B. trend C attitude Ditendency . All the applicants for the post are thoroughly for their suitability Assented B.investigated —C. vetied D. serutinized 27 28, ‘we ought to see the rest of the exhibition as quickly as we can, that it closes in half an hour.” ae A. Granted B. assuming C. given D. knowing Ellen decided that election to the local council would providea__to acareer in national politics. A Springboard —B. turning-pointC, milestone _D. highway ‘was __ in the book I was reading and didn’t hear the phone, A. Distracted B. submerged C. gripped D. engrossed Itis very important to check the ___printin any contract. A Little B.tiny small D. minute