SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN NĂM HỌC 2012 - 2013

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH

-------------------------- Dành cho học sinh thi vào lớp chuyên Anh
(Đề thi có 04 trang) Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút không kể thời gian giao đề

PART 1. LISTENING
You will hear an interview. As you listen, fill in the form on your worksheet.
You will hear the conversation TWICE. You should write NO MORE THAN three words in each blank.
Name Caroline Wood
Marital Status (1)__________________
Country (2)__________________
Present occupation (3)__________stewardess
Number of years for the present occupation (4) over ____________
Previous employment (5)__________________
Subject done in university (6)__________________
Interests travel, (7)_________ and learning (8) ________
Languages that she can speak English, (9)________, (10)________ and Chinese

PART 2. PHONETICS:
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others.
1. A. appear B. escape C. wisdom D. upset
2. A. equipment B. excited C. festival D. magician
3. A. dinner B. mother C. without D. story
4. A. remember B. beautiful C. buffalo D. yesterday
5. A. parent B. photo C. seven D. decide

PART 3. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct answer among four options (A, B, C or D).
1. These two children are brothers but they do not look _______.
A. likely B. like C. alike D. likeness
2. Apart ________ that, her main function is to receive phone calls and report to the boss.
A. of B. with C. from D. for
3. All the men but one ________ present last night.
A. was B. is C. were D. are
4. _______, people start shouting and cheering for one side or the other.
A. Beginning the game B. Soon the game begins
C. The game begins D. As soon as the game begins
5. My brother had the telephone ________ out of his office.
A. taking B. taken C. to take D. take
6. We must be early; _________.
A. so that we won't get a seat B. otherwise we will get a seat
C. or that we won't get a seat D. otherwise we won't get a seat
7. Jack offered ________ care of my garden while I was out of town.
A. to take B. taking C. take D. to taking
8. Going swimming everyday would have very _______ effects.
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 A. benefited B. beneficent C. beneficial D. beneficiary
9. She was ________ as anyone could have had.
A. as patient teacher B. as patient a teacher
C. as patient as teacher D. patient as teacher
10. My car _______ several times this year.
A. was repaired B. has been repaired C. has repaired D. repaired

II. Use the correct form of the word to fill in each blank in the following passage.

From what we had read in the (1) ________, it promised to be the

holiday of a lifetime – not only a hotel in a top (2) _______ resort, ADVERTISE
but also (3) ________ cheap with it. We should have known it was SEA
too good to be true! We arrived at the airport to discover we only SURPRISE
had (4) _______ tickets and there was no guarantee we would be
STAND
flying. (5)_______, two places became free at the last minute and
LUCK
we took off. The flight lasted at least (6) _______ as long as it
TWO
should have and by the time we arrived, we were both feeling rather
(7) _______, probably because of the dubious in-flight meal we had
POOR
had. We were met by our guide, who seemed (8) _______
LANGUAGE
incompetent and understood very little of what we said to him.
Instead of the hotel we had seen in the photograph back home, he
took us to a squalid little guesthouse much (9) ______ away from
FAR
the resort than we were expecting. We wanted to explain that there
had been a dreadful mistake but it was (10) _______ trying to
USE
complain – nobody could understand us.

III. Most lines of the following passage consist of one unnecessary word. Find the word that is not
needed. If the line is correct, put a tick (√). The first two lines have been done for you as examples.

0..√... A birthday party is a celebration that occurs to celebrate the birth of the person being
00. more honored. The birthday party is the most more celebrated event in the world. In 2006 there
1...... were approximately of 6.525 billion people on Earth. If birthday were perfectly random in
2..... their distribution across the year, and if every person were to celebrate theirs at their exact
3..... birth time, there would be a birthday celebration every one 0.005 seconds. While a child's
4..... party is usually at home and consists of soft drinks and sweet food as well as savory
5..... also, adults' often take place in clubs with a buffet of savory food and alcohol. In Western
6..... cultures, particularly in the United States, birthday parties are often being accompanied by
7..... colorful decorations. A traditional birthday cake is often served with candles that they are to
8..... be blown out after a birthday wish has been made. This wish is usually kept by secret, and
9..... represents some desire for the time that between the current birthday and the next. A
10.... birthday party may even though be an event planned carefully through a special agency or
through a party service.

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PART 4. READING
I. Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
Dear Aunt Jane,
How's everything going at Nursing School in London? We all (1) _______ you at the Chinese New
Year but we hope that you will be able to celebrate the holidays with us next year.
This was a very (2) ________ the Chinese New Year for me. Usually I helped my mother (3)_______
the house before the Chinese New Year and then I (4)________ the first few days of the holidays following
Mom and Dad round to our relatives' houses but this year Tom, some friends of his and I (5)_______ a stall at
the New Year flower market in Victoria Park. We all put up our savings and Dad (6) ________ us five
hundred dollars. We used part of the money to pay the rent for the stall and with the (7) _______, we bought
enough miniature orange trees and peach blossoms to fill our stall.
On the first few days (8) _______ we had opened for business, a lot of people came by our stall but
few of them bought (9) _________. Even those who did buy something (10) _______ with us until the price
was so low that we made almost (11) _______ profit on what they bought. It wasn't (12) ________ New
Year's Eve that business began to (13) ________. That night we worked straight through to five a.m of the first
day of New Year. I was so (14) ________ when I finally got home that I slept until the evening of the next
day. We didn't earn very much money for our hard work but we certainly did gain a lot of valuable (15)
________.
Well, that's about all the news for now Aunt Jane. Be sure to write and tell me how you spent Chinese
New Year in London.
1. A. thought B. missed C. worried D. lost
2. A. different B. difference C. differing D. differed
3. A. clean up B. fill up C. make up D. pack up
4. A. took B. spent C. used D. spared
5. A. started B. organised C. established D. ran
6. A. borrowed B. lent C. sent D. loan
7. A. others B. left-overs C. rest D. remains
8. A. when B. before C. after D. while
9. A. anything B. something C. everything D. the things
10. A. argued B. discussed C. talked D. bargained
11. A. little B. without C. no D. hardly
12. A. until B. when C. while D. since
13. A. better B. increase C. improve D. go up
14. A. exhaust B. exhausted C. exhausting D. exhaustive
15. A. fun B. fortune C. experience D. practice

II. Read the passage carefully, then choose the correct option (marked A, B, or C) to answer the
questions.
Poppy Day
Poppy Day, 11 November, is the day when people in Britain remember the soldiers that died in the
th

First World War (1914-18), the Second World War (1939-45) and all other wars since.
The first Poppy Day was in 1921. The First World War had ended three years earlier, but it was still
very difficult, often impossible, for ex-soldiers in Britain to find employment. So some of them started making
and selling red paper poppies. They gave the money that they raised to ex-soldiers who were disabled or
unemployed, and to the families of soldiers who had died. The choice of flower was significant. During the
war, the soldiers had noticed poppies growing every year on the battlefields in Belgium and the north of
France. A well-known poem from that time, written by a Canadian soldier, begins with the lines
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row and row,
That mark our place; …”

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 In the days leading up to Poppy Day, about 32 million people in Britain buy and wear small poppies.
Some people choose to wear white poppies because they think that white symbolizes peace. Then, at 11 a.m.
on 11th November (at the moment when the First World War ended) there’s a two-minute silence. Many
people stop and think quietly about the soldiers who died. There are ceremonies at war memorials in towns
and villages all over the country. The most important ceremony is in London, when the Queen and the Prime
Minister lay wreaths of poppies at the Cenotaph, a monument to soldiers who died in the battle.
1. On 11th November people remember _______.
A. soldiers who have died since 1921
B. soldiers who have died in wars since 1914
C. soldiers who have died in the two world wars
2. Why did ex-soldiers start making poppies?
A. Because they couldn’t find a job
B. Because they were disabled
C. Because they didn’t have families
3. They chose to make poppies because _______.
A. they had seen poppies growing on the battlefields
B. a Canadian soldier had written a poem about poppies
C. poppies are popular in Belgium and the north of France
4. On Poppy Day _______.
A. 32 million people sell poppies
B. people wear red or white poppies
C. people buy and wear 32 million white poppies
5. During the two-minute silence people _______.
A. walk to a ceremony in their town or village
B. think about the moment the First World War ended
C. stop and think about soldiers who died

III. Complete the following passage by filling one word in each blank.
In most part of the United States, Friday night is the big supermarket night, probably (1) _______ Friday
is pay day in many factories and businesses. Most housewives do their weekend shopping on (2) _______
Friday or Saturday, although supermarkets in many sections are now open on Sunday as well.
In (3) ______ all supermarkets there are shopping carts with a special space to set the baby. In the early
days, before there were carts, it was noticed that as soon as the woman shopper had her arms (4) ______ of
goods she stopped buying. Thus, carts were introduced. Later a space for the baby was provided in the cart
because while the baby was sitting comfortably in the cart, the mother didn't have to hurry through the store
and consequently (5) _______ more.
Statistics show (6) ______ the average American housewife (7) _______ to the supermarket twice a
week. On the (8) _______ she spends from one hour to two hours there each week. Psychologists say that
women don't go to the (9) ______ just to buy the food. Visiting the supermarket is the housewife's chance to
get (10) _______ from home for a while.

PART 5. WRITING
In 150-200 words, write a passage about “the ways to reduce the number of traffic accidents
in Vietnam today”. Support your opinions by using specific reasons and examples.

— THE END —

Họ và tên thí sinh ……………………………………………………………………… SBD ……………

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 SỞ GD&ĐT VĨNH PHÚC HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM THI
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10 – THPT CHUYÊN
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: phút
(Đề thi dành cho học sinh chuyên Anh)

PART 1. LISTENING - 1.0 points: 0.1/item

1. Single 2. England 3. airline 4. 4 years 5. None

6. Mathematics/ Math(s) 7. reading 8. languages 9. Spanish (French) 10. French (Spanish)

PART 2. PHONETICS – 0,5 points: 0.1/item

1. C 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. D

PART 3: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I. 1.0 point: 0.1/item
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. B
6. D 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. B

II. 1.0 point: 0.1/item

1. advertisement 2. seaside 3. surprisingly 4. standby 5. Luckily
6. twice 7. poorly 8. linguistically 9. farther/further 10. useless

III. 1.0 point: 0.1/item

1. of 2. √ 3. one 4. √ 5. also
6. being 7. they 8. by 9. that 10. though

PART 4. READING
I. 1.5 point: 0.1/item
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. D
6. B 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. D
11. C 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. C

II. 1.0 point: 0.2/item

1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C

III. 1.0 point: 0.1/item

1. because/as/since 2. either 3. almost 4. full 5. bought
6. that 7. goes 8. average 9. supermarket 10. away

PART 5. WRITING: 2.0 point

- Logical structure (3 parts), appropriate linking words: 0.75
- Content: 0.75 point
- No spelling and grammar mistakes: 0.5 point

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