Professional Documents
Culture Documents
đề hsg QL - HM
đề hsg QL - HM
12. There are newspapers or TVs and there's only one phone
10
11
12
SECTION C- READING
Part 1: Read the passage and choose the best answer. Write A, B, C or D in the box given
SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY
Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed together.
At the turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge was experimenting with photographs of
movement. His pictures of a runner (1)_____ in every history of photography. Another milestone
was when the scientist and photographer Harold Edgerton (2)_____ the limits of photographic
technology with his study of a (3)_____ of milk hitting the surface of a dish. Another advance was
the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for sports
photographers to (4)_____ their cumbersome cameras behind.
The significance of television as a transmitter of sport has (5)_____ the prospects of still
photographers. All those people who watched a sports event on TV, with all its movement and
action, (6)_____ the still image as a reminder of the game. The(7)_____ majority of people do not
actually(8)_____sports events, but see them through the eyes of the media. And when they look at
sports photography, they look not so much for a (9)_____ of the event as for emotions and
telationships with which they can (10)_______.
Looking back, we can see how (11)_____ sports photography has changed. (12)_____
sports
photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the sport itself. Contemporary
sports photography (13)_____ the glamour of sport, the colour and the action. But the best sports
photographers today still do more than (14)_____ tell the story of the event. They (15)_____ in a
single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants .
(không khoanh vào đề)
1. A. exhibit B. show C. demonstrate D. feature
2. A. extended B. enlarged C. prolonged D. spread
3. A. splash B. drip C. dash D. drop
4. A. put B. leave C. lay D. keep
5. A. assisted B. aided C. benefited D. improved
6. A. choose B. value C. praise D. cheer
7. A. high B. wide C. vast D. main
8. A. attend B. visit C. follow D. meet
9. A. preservation B. store C. record D. mark
10. A. identify B. share C. unite D. join
11. A. highly B. radically C. extremely D. severely
12. A. Early B. First C. Initial D. Primary
13. A. outlines B. signals C. emphasises D. forms
14. A. alone B. simply C. singly D. only
15. A. seize B. grasp C. capture D. secure
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the words in the box given
TELEVISION AND READING
Many people believe that watching television has (16)______________ in lower reading
standards in schools. (17)______________ ,the link between television and printed books is not as
simple as that. In many cases, television actually encourages people to read: for example, when a
book is turned into a TV series, (18)______________ sales often go up.
One study of this link examined six-year-old children who (19)______________ viewing a
special series of 15-minute programmes at school. The series was designed to encourage love of
books, as well as develop the basic mechanical skills of reading. Each programme is an animated
film (20)______________ a children’s book. The story is (21)______________ aloud and certain
key phrases from the book appear on the screen, beneath the picture. Whenever a word is read, it
is also highlighted on the TV screen.
One finding was (22)______________ watching these programmes was very important
(23)______________ the children. If anything prevented them from seeing a progamme, they
were very disappointed. What’s more, they wanted to read the books which the different parts of
the series were based on.
The programmes also gave the children (24)______________ confidence when looking at these
books. As a result of their familiarity with the stories, they would sit in pairs
(25)______________ read the srories aloud to each other.
Part 3: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction
There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on
Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural
hazard to life on Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have
collided with Earth.
If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an
ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the
end of the Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth’s history is marked by a
mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct. While there are a
dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has
always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of
millions of years, those great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with amass
of more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first identified this
impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that
enveloped the planet after the impact. This sediment layer is enriched in the rare metal iridium and
other elements that are relatively abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even
diluted by the terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this component of meteorites is easily
identified. By 1990 geologists had located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico.
The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large
as the lunar crater Tycho. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere,
as can be determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust
settled to the surface. Such a quantity of material would have blocked the sunlight completely
from reaching the surface, plunging Earth into a period of cold and darkness that lasted at least
several months. The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and
melted rock that sprayed out overmuch of Earth, starting widespread fires that must have
consumed most terrestrial forest sand grassland. Presumably, those environmental disasters could
have been responsible for the mass extinction, including the death of the dinosaurs.
Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with
large impacts, but none is so dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such specific
documentation, it is clear that impacts of this size do occur and that their results can be
catastrophic. What is a catastrophe for one group of living things, however, may create
opportunities for another group. Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary
burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.
Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and
seriously influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the
majority of all extinctions of species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective
fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution. The standard criterion for the survival of
a species is its success in competing with other species and adapting to slowly changing
environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to survive random
global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were
unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate
the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from
a detailed analysis that impacts from meteorites can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always
some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.
37. “Unless you’re friends, they may not honour your agreement.”
40. “I thought the manager had the authority to make a decision, but it turned out that he
didn’t.”
41. “The manager and another member of staff had a huge disagreement in the meeting, and
no-one seemed to care.”
42. “They weren’t terribly charming – they just wanted to get on with making the deal.”
43. “I expected the manager to have more technical knowledge than he actually did.”
44. “I dealt with two companies in this country last year. One was really hierarchical, but the
other was really modern.
45. “The manager kept asking me about my wife and children. I don’t know why it was so
important to him.”
47. “I thought that there’d be tariffs to pay, but the firm seemed quite content to overlook
them.”
48. “I didn’t realise I was expected to do it this way. I thought the manager was just offering
a tip.”
49. “The managers sat with the junior workers at lunch. I expected them to have their own
table.”
50. “I hoped the senior manager would be prepared to discuss the matter with me, but he
refused to engage in any form of debate.”
60. Nanobots will need to communicate with the scientists who control them.
SECTION D- WRITING
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one.
1. You must be at the airport by 2 o’clock, no matter what you have to do.
At …………………………………………………………………………………………............
2. The realization that I had made a big mistake came later.
Only…………………………………………………………………………………………............
3. They tried hard so that they would pass the exam.
With…………………………………………………………………………………………............
4. David hadn’t expected that he would feel so weak after the operation.
The operation left…………………………………………………………………………………………............
5.Someone has suggested banning the cars from the centre of the city during rush hour.
It …………………………………………………………………………………………............
Part 2:You saw an advertisement of sport club at your school. Write a letter to the leader of the
club to ask some information to register to become the member of this club.
Use your name as Tran Van Nam – Class 11A1
Part 3: Some people choose friends who are different from themselves. Others choose friends
who are similar to themselves. Compare the advantages of having friends who are different
from you with the advantages of having friends who are similar to you. Which kind of friend
do you prefer for yourself? Why?