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LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM HỌC 2018 – 2019

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH 10

(Đề thi gồm 12 trang) Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

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PART I. LISTENING (30 points)

I. You will hear a journalist talking about alphabetism, which he calls a new type of
discrimination. As you listen, complete the notes for questions 2-11. Write your
answer in the box provided. (20 pts)
Types of discrimination mentioned: racisim, sexism, (1) ageism and alphabetism.
Alphabetism = discrimination against those whose surnames begin with a letter in the (2)
…………second half………. of the alphabet.
Number of US Presidents before George W Bush whose names began:
 with a letter in the first half of the alphabet (3) …26……………….
 with a letter in the second half of the alphabet (4) …16 and a second
half……………….
Other groups of people who illustrate the same phenomenon include the world’s top three
(5) ……central bankers……………. and (6) …………………. in the world.
Children whose names are at the beginning of the alphabet are made to sit at the (7)
………front…………. of the class in infant school and so get (8) …more
individual………………. attention from the teachers.
Lists of people at graduation ceremonies, for job interviews etc. are usually drawn up in
alphabetic order and by the end the audience, interviewers, etc. have (9) ………………….
What can women do to change this? By (10) marrying up………………….
One consolation for those whose names begin with a letter in the “wrong” half of the
alphabet is that such people are better at (11) …running firms ……………….
Answers:
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
6. 11.

II. Listen and decide whether each of the following statements is true (T) or false (F).
Write your answer in the box provided. (10 pts)
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1. The canals were built despite the fact that there was no public finance and very little
technology.
2. From 1919 to 1929, there were many canals that were competing with each other but
were not uniform in size.
3. The new union of canals provided a continuous link between major industrial cities.
4. There are plenty of natural habitats for a variety of wildlife on and around the canals.
5. Walkers can go to the nearest waterway office to get information on circular walks so
they can start and end at the same place.
Answers:
1. T 2.T 3.F 4.T 5.F

PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)

I. Choose the word that best completes each sentence. Write your answer (A, B, C,
or D) in the box provided. (20 pts)
1. None of his relatives really understood the full ____________ of his difficulty or his
desperation.
A. degree B. dimension C. extent D. width
2. It’s quite unreasonable to ask me to organize the conference at such short
____________.
A. warning B. notice C. time D. advance
3. I slept badly last night and am feeling particularly ____________ this morning.
A. slow-witted B. far-reaching C. off-hand D. top-heavy
4. Serena is still ____________ ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.
A. delightedly B. blissfully C. jubilantly D. ecstatically
5. Revenge at last! I always said I would ____________ my own back on Steve, and now I
have.
A. turn B. get C. do D. make
6. I think everyone should be ____________ with the way office machinery works.
A. conversant B. mindful C. answerable D. attuned
7. He crept in ____________ his parents should wake up.
A. unless B. lest C. otherwise D. whereby
8. They threatened to cancel the whole project ____________.
A. thick and fast B. at a stroke C. on the whole D. of set purpose
9. “Thank you very much. I haven’t been to ____________ party for ages,” said the
woman.
A. so enjoyable a B. the so enjoyable C. a so enjoyable D. so enjoyable
10. The whole holiday turned out to be an ____________ disaster.
A. unmatched B. unmitigated C. undiluted D. umindful

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11. I’m determined to finish building the house by the end of the month, come rain or
____________.
A. shine B. sun C. sunny D. dry
12. Andrea has a ____________ rug on the floor in her bedroom.
A. sheepskin long lovely white B. lovely long sheepskin white
C. lovely long white sheepskin D. sheepskin long white lovely
13. State enterprises face fierce competition from the private ____________.
A. province B. department C. sector D. zone
14. She had a(n) ____________ interest in holding a separate bank account.
A. implied B. shadowed C. invested D. vested
15. There were one or two ____________ voices, although the majority were in favor of
the proposal.
A. acclaiming B. clamouring C. refuting D. dissenting
16. I wish you would stop sitting on the ____________ and decide whose side you’re on.
A. fence B. crossroads C. wall D. middle
17. ____________ the difficulties they had getting it produced, the play is a huge success.
A. On account of B. Concerning C. As far as D. For all
18. Anna’s friend knew the casting director, so she pulled a few ____________ to arrange
an audition.
A. ropes B. wires C. strings D. threads
19. Apparently her father is a(n) ____________ in one of the major banks.
A. bread B. cheese C. apple D. meat
20. The mayor expressed strong ____________ about the necessity for the new ring road.
A. scruples B. reservations C. questions D. wonders
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

II. There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them. Write
your answers in the space provided below. (10 pts)
Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that migrating birds ……………………………………
fly in a V formation, but scientists are long debated why. A new ……… ……………………………
study of ibises finds that these big-winged birds careful position ………carefully……………………………
their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the ……………………………………
preceding bird’s updraft - and save energy while flight. …………flying…………………………
There are two reasons birds might fly in a V formation: It …………may…………………………
may do flight easier, or they’re simply following the leader. …………make…………………………
Squadrons of planes can save fuel by flying in a V formation, and ……………………………………
many scientists suspect that migrating birds do the similar. Models …………same…………………………
………treat……………………………
that treated flapping birds like fixed-wing airplanes estimate that
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they save energy by drafting off each other, but currents created by ……………………………………
airplanes are far much stable than the oscillating eddies coming off ……………………………………
of a bird. “Air gets pretty unpredictably behind a flapping wing,” ……………as………………………
says James Usherwood, a locomotor biomechanist at the Royal ……………………………………
Veterinary College at the University of London in Hatfield, where ……………………………………
the research took place. ……………………………………
The study, published in Nature, took advantage of an existing ……………………………………
project to reintroduce dangerous northern bald ibises to Europe. ……………………………………
Scientists used a microlight plane to show hand-raised birds their ………birds
and……………………………
ancestral migration route from Austria to Italy. A flock of 14
……………………………………
juveniles carried data loggers specially build by Usherwood and his
………………built……………………
lab. The device’s GPS determined each bird’s flight position to
……………………………………
within 30 cm, and an accelerometer shown the timing of the wing
………………showing……………………
flaps.

III. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your
answer in the box provided. (10 pts)
1. One good way to drum ___up_________ support is to get people in the high street to
sign a petition.
2. I’ve got two weeks’ holiday left but I think I’ll carry it ___off_________ till next year
and take it in January.
3. Only radical action will bring __about__________ the changes that we so desperately
need.
4. What annoys me is that the men got __by__________ with just 100 hours’ community
service.
5. The authorities shouldn’t give __ __
in________ to this kind of blackmail from the workers.
6. News gets __around__________ very fast in this town.
7. We struck ___up_________ a friendship the very first time we met.
8. I hate buying furniture from that place because you have to put it __in__________
yourself.
9. I have taken _____over_______ a lot of extra hours this week. I need the money.
10. I’ve been trying to explain the situation to Ben for weeks, but I don’t seem to be able
to get ____across________ to him.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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IV. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answer in
the box provided. (20 pts)
1. The unresponsive audience made the lecturer somewhat _heart-rending_________
(HEART). What a shame!
2. I have been told that she was quite a(n) ___eyesore_________ (EYE) in her youth.
3. It appears that what I said was untrue, but I did not__knowingly__________ (KNOW)
lie to you.
4. The candidate made a(an) __inflammatory__________ (FLAME) speech that incensed
all those who heard it.
5. It’s common __courteousness__________ (COURTEOUS) to give up your seat for
elderly people.
6. Some analysts worry that violence on TV might ___sensitise_________ (SENSE)
children to violence in real life.
7. The headmistress commended her on her ___exemplary_________ (EXAMPLE)
behaviour.
8. The newspaper report before the trial may have had a __prejudiced__________
(PREJUDICE) effect on the verdict.
9. They were attacked without any __provocation_________ (PROVOKE) at all.
10. Don’t ____belittle________ (LITTLE) her piano-playing just because you are jealous.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART III: READING (42 points)

I. 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 box provided. (10 pts)
Sleeping disorders like insomnia can prove to be a worrying question for many of
us. Almost anyone can easily conjure (1) _______ at least one sleepless night of (2)
_______ and turning in bed awaiting the bliss of a deep dream. Most probably, a third of
us undergo the distressing experience at least once a week.
Even though it is possible for people to function without any sleep at all for a
certain period of time, such occurrences are rather few and far between and there is no
evidence to (3) _______ this assumption. What is sure, however, is the fact that we do
need some sleep to regenerate our strength and to (4) _______ the brain to its proper
activity. No wonder, then, that the tiredness and fatigue that appear after a sleepless night
compel many of us to go for chemical support in the form of sleep (5) _______ tablets or
powders.
However long the problem of sleeplessness has afflicted many individuals, very
little has been (6) _______ in the question of its original causes. We are conscious that it
usually (7) _______ those who are exposed to a great deal of stress, anxiety or depression.
It may also be (8) _______ by overworking or unfavorable surroundings with scarcity of
fresh air.

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 Sleeping pills may provide some relief and can act as an alternative in this
desperate situation. Yet, they do little to combat the ailment in full. Consequently, our
hopes should be (9) _______ on the medical authorities to (10) _______ the root cause of
insomnia before we take to being nocturnals leading our noisy lives in the dead of night.
1. A. up B. about C. off D. out
2. A. rolling B. wriggling C. tossing D. spinning
3. A. proclaim B. endure C. invalidate D. substantiate
4. A. recuperate B. restore C. revive D. resume
5. A. inducing B. attaining C. exacting D. contributing
6. A. disparaged B. retrieved C. detected D. originated
7. A. betrays B. besets C. bemoans D. bestows
8. A. engendered B. applied C. instigated D. evolved
9. A. placed B. ascribed C. focused D. attached
10. A. emerge B. release C. determine D. confess
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Fill in each gap with one suitable word. Write your answer in the box provided.
(10 pts)
THE SURVIVAL OF THE POLAR BEAR
The polar bear is (1) ……under…………. threat because its hunting season at the North
Pole is being shortened by thinning Arctic ice. Data gathered by US Navy submarines
using sonar technology shows the (2) …thickness……………. of Arctic sea ice is now an
average of 1.3 metres less than it was in the 1970s, (3) …make……………. it to break up
earlier in the year. According to the Canadian Wildlife Service, the sea ice season in
western Hudson Bay has been reduced by three weeks over the last 20 years. (4) …………
This……. has serious implications for wildlife in the region, since Arctic mammals use
the sea ice as an extension of the land. Polar bears, for example, roam the frozen water (5)
……in…………. a constant search for seals, their main (6) ……source…………. of food.
But (7) ………………. sea ice breaking up earlier, the seals are becoming harder to find.
As (8) ……yet…………., the polar bear population has not declined significantly, but
female bears are already giving birth to (9) …many……………. cubs. The most likely
cause of the thinning Arctic is man- induced global warming, (10) ……also…………. the
climactic phenomenon known as Arctic oscillation- strange wind patterns lasting several
years – could be another contributing factor.

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

III. Read the passage below and choose the best answer to each question. Write your
answer (A, B, C or D) in the box provided. (10 pts)
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure- the pain that
comes from the ending of a relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love
affair or a deep friendship, in fact, any strong emotional tie between two people. Such a
relationship may come to an abrupt but premeditated end; or it may simply fade away
slowly as people and circumstances change. You may be the one to “break it off”, with a
short note or a brief phone call. Or you may be on the receiving end, like the soldier who
dreads getting a “Dear John” letter from a girl friend who has got tired of waiting. But
however it ended and whoever decided to end it, the pain is equally hard to bear. It is a
sort of death, and it requires the same period of mourning, the same time for grief.
Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain
and to make us forget our tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves
busy with work, we try to immerse ourselves in our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink
more than we should to drown our sorrows or we follow the conventional advice and join
a club or society. But these things only relieve the symptoms of the illness; they cannot
cure it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry to get rid of our grief. It is as if we were
ashamed of it. We feel that we should be able to “pull ourselves together”. We try to
convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are much too old to be crying. Some
people bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess what they are
going through. Others seek relief by pouring their hearts out to their friends, or to anyone
else who can offer a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends
start to show their impatience, and suggest with their reproachful glances that it is about
time we stopped crying. They, too, are in a hurry for the thing to be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we
would never expect anyone to overcome physical pain simply by an effort of willpower.
Part of the answer must lie in the nature of grief itself. When the love affair dies, you
cannot believe that you will ever find another person to replace the one who has gone so
completely out of your life. Even after many, many months, when you think that you have
begun to learn to live without your lost love, something- a familiar place, a snatch of
music, a whiff of perfume- will suddenly bring the bittersweet memories flooding back.
You choke back the tears and the desperate, almost angry, feeling that you are no better
now than the day the affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade
eventually, a healing skin does start to grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden
glimpses of the love you have lost do get longer. Bit by bit, life resumes the normal flow.
Such is the complexity of human nature that we can even start to feel guilty as these things
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 The important thing to admit about grief, then, is that it will take its time. By trying
to convince ourselves that it ought to be over sooner, we create an additional tension
which can only make things worse. People who have gone through the agony of a broken
relationship- and there are few who have not- agree that time is the “great healer”. How
much time is needed will vary from person to person, but psychiatrists have “a rule of
thumb”: grief will last as long as the original relationship lasted. The sad thing is that,
when the breakdown occurs, we can only stumble over the stories beneath our feet. It is
dark ahead, and you will fail painfully many times before we begin to see the light at the
end of the tunnel.
1. Relationships often come to an end because _______.
A. the feelings of the people were not very deep
B. people do not realize the pain they can cause
C. people do not always stay the same
D. very few people really know how to love
2. One way to get over a broken relationship is to _______.
A. write a “Dear John” letter
B. form new relationships
C. make a brief phone call
D. try to forget the other person
3. If you seek advice on what to do about a broken relationship, you will probably be told
to _______.
A. pull yourself together (use your willpower)
B. keep busy at work
C. find someone else
D. join a club
4. Often we are ashamed when we cry because _______.
A. we think it is a bad thing to do
B. we do not expect our unhappiness to last so long
C. we are worried what others will think of us
D. only babies and children cry
5. You tell your friends about your unhappiness because _______.
A. you hope it will make you feel better
B. you want them to hear the story from you
C. you feel sure that they have had similar experiences
D. you want them to feel sorry for you
6. When your friends get tired of listening to you, they will _______.
A. tell you to pull yourself together
B. try to avoid your company
C. show by their expressions that they have had enough
D. help you to get over your grief
7. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so _______.
A. unexpectedly B. rapidly C. frequently D. rarely
8. Memories continue to upset you, and this makes you feel that you _______.
A. will never get over your grief
B. have no will power
C. are utterly alone
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 D. have made no progress at all
9. If we try to recover too quickly from grief, we shall make ourselves _______.
A. ridiculous B. tense C. ill D. unpopular
10. Psychiatrists tell you that grief will last as long as the original relationship. This
calculation is _____.
A. the result of scientific research
B. no more than a hopeful guess
C. generally true but with many exceptions
D. based on a deep understanding of human nature
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. Read the following text and then choose from the list A-I the best phrase given
below it to fill each of the spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some
of the suggested answers do not fit at all. (12 pts)
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE COSMOS
Cosmological ideas are no longer any more fragile and evanescent (1)
…………….... Geologists infer that the continents are drifting over the globe, about (2)
……………..., and that Europe and North America were joined together two hundred
million years ago. We believe them, (3) …………….... We also believe, at least in outline,
the story of how our biosphere evolved and how we humans emerged. But some key
features of our cosmic environment are now underpinned by equally firm data. The
empirical support of a Big Bang ten to fifteen billion years ago is as compelling as the
evidence that geologists offer on our Earth's history. This is an astonishing turnaround: our
ancestors could weave theories almost unencumbered by facts, and until quite recently
cosmology seemed (4) ……………......
A few years ago, I already had ninety per cent confidence that there was indeed a
Big Bang - that everything in our observable universe started (5) ……………....., far
hotter than the centre of the Sun. The case now is far stronger: dramatic advances in
observations and experiments brought the broad cosmic picture into sharp focus during the
1990s, and I would now raise my degree of certainty to ninety nine per cent.
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” is
one of Einstein's best-known aphorisms, expressing his amazement that the laws of
physics, which our minds are somehow attuned to understand, apply not just here on Earth
but also in the remotest galaxy. Newton taught us that the same force that makes apples
fall holds the Moon and planets in their courses. We now know that this same force binds
the galaxies, pulls some stars into black holes and may eventually cause the Andromeda
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we can study in our laboratories. All parts of the universe seem to be evolving in a similar
way, (6) ……………...... Without this uniformity, cosmology would have got nowhere.
A. as though they share a common origin
B. at about ninety five per cent
C. little more than speculative mathematics
D. even though such vast spans of time are hard to grasp
E. though that is what Newton suggested
F. as fast as your fingernails grow
G. as a compressed fireball
H. although we do not understand why
I. than our theories about the history of our own Earth
Answers:
1.I 2.F 3.D 4.C 5.G 6.A

PART IV: WRITING (45 points)

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence before it. (20 points)
1. The excuse for the declaration of the war is the defence of their territorial rights.
PRETEXT
They declared war ___on the pretext of________________________________ their
territorial rights.
2. I presume you are coming to the party, Mariam.
READ
Can I ___take it as read______________________________ you are coming to the
party, Mariam?
3. He always makes everything look so difficult.
WEATHER
He always ____makes heavy weather of
______________________________________________ everything.
4. Susan said she had no idea what she was doing for the first few weeks of her new job.
DEPTH
Susan said she __was in depth for the first few weeks of her
_______________________________________________ new job.
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5. What he told me made me very curious to hear the rest of the story.
APPETITE
What he told me __whet my appetite to hear
____________________________________ the rest of the story.
6. I can’t remember having met him before.
I have ______________________________________________________________.
7. She didn’t cry when the story ended in tragedy.
Not a _______________________________________________________________.
8. Only the managing director and the chief chemist know the details.
Knowledge _about the details are only known _by the managing director and the
chief ________________________________________________________.
9. Initially, everybody believed his story but now they think he was lying.
He is now __believed to make up
__________________________________________________ the story.
10. If the weather is fine, we may go camping at the weekend
Weather _____________________________________________________________.

II. Essay writing (25 points)

Some people consider price as the most important thing to think about when buying
product (e.g. cell phone) or service (e.g. medical treatment). Do you agree or
disagree?

In about 250 words, write an essay to express your opinion on the issue. Use reasons and
examples to support your position.

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