SỞ GD&ĐT NGHỆ AN ĐỀ THI THỬ HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH LỚP 12 (LẦN 1)

TRƯỜNG THPT ANH SƠN 2

NĂM HỌC 2021 - 2022
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
(Đề gồm 13 trang) Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - BẢNG A
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
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SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. You will listen to part of an interview with the press officer of the National Fitness
Association, in which he gives advice on how to join the right gym. For questions 1 - 7, choose the
answer (A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear. You will hear the recording
twice. Write your answer in the box provided. (14points)
1. Why is it advisable to research gyms in your area before you join?
A. Some gyms have too much of a social scene.
B. Different gyms suit people with different needs.
C. It's impossible to lose weight in the wrong gym.
2. Mark warns that joining a gym which is unsuitable for you
A. will make you want to give up.
B. might prove embarrassing.
C. could end up being expensive.
3. According to Mark, when should you visit a gym for the first time?
A. When it's at its busiest
B. On any weekday
C. At a relatively quiet time
4. Apart from the standard monthly cost of being a member, you should find out .
A. whether personal trainers are compulsory.
B. whether there are any hidden costs.
C. whether the changing rooms are expensive.
5. If the gym asks you to sign a contract, you should
A. be suspicious of that gym.
B. study it closely on your own.
C. see what happens if you leave.
6. Why does Mark say that life memberships are not good?
A. You might decide to live elsewhere.
B. The gym might move far away from you.
C. You might change your mind about exercise.
7. Mark says that doing research before joining is worth it because
A. it can make a difference to the overall cost.
B. it will encourage you to start exercising.
C. the right gym can improve your quality of life.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Part 2. You will hear part of a radio talk about how to choose houseplants. For questions 8-15,
complete the sentences that summarize what the speaker says with NO MORE THAN THREE
words. You will hear the recording twice. Write your answer in the box provided. (16 points)
Before you get the plant, choose the 8 .
You must make sure there is enough 9 .
Check that plants have been well looked after at the garden centre.
Plants in poor condition mean the garden centre might not be 10 .
Choose plants with healthy green 11 .
It could take months or years for a plant to reach the size you want.
It may be better to buy a large plant even if it is 12 .
Do not buy plants that have just been put 13 .
It is not a good idea to buy plants in 14 .
You should look under the leaves for unwanted 15 .
Answers:
8. 9. 10. 11.
12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 3. Listen to the conversation and decide if each statement is True (T) or False (F). (20
points)
A. Marilena talks about her sister in England and her nephews and nieces.
1. One of Marilena’s sisters lives with her.
2. The two sisters get on really well.
3. Marilena’s sister came to England because Marilena asked her to.
4. Marilena’s sister trained as an electrical engineer.
5. All Marilena’s grandparents are dead.
B. Marilena talks about her sister’s life in Romania.
6. Marilena’s sister only has 100 of her own money to live on for a month after she’s paid
her mortgage.
7. Marilena says food is much less expensive in Romania than in London.
8. Marilena’s sister and brother-in-law’s joint income per month is 400.
9. When Marilena goes back to Romania on holiday she gives her sister 1,000.
10. Marilena is planning to return to Romania once she has saved enough money.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 points)

Part 1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C or D
in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Regarding what food to avoid before taking an important examination, homophones and the shape
of your food comes into .
A. action B. fact C. reality D. play
2. There is no longer the use of animals to test products. Only some are used.
A. extensive B. intensive C. tentative D. expansive
3. There are dozens of TV channels, operate 24 hours a day.
A. some B. some of which C. some of those D. some of them
4. The military court the major for failing to do his duty.
A. scolded B. reprimanded C. humiliated D. ridiculed
5. At the meeting last week, the finance director the figures for the previous year.
A. produced B. represented C. purchased D. commended
6. If you cannot improve sales figures this month, you will be sacked.
A. promise B. conduct C. regulate D. deliver
7. What chemical is this? It's a horrible smell.
A. giving over B. giving off C. giving down D. giving up
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
8. Though many scientific breakthroughs have resulted from mishaps it has taken brilliant hinkers to
recognize their potential.
A. accidents B. misunderstandings C. incidentals D. misfortunes
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
9. His career in the illicit drug trade ended with the police raid this morning.
A. elicited B. irregular C. secret D. legal
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges
10. Mai: 'We'd better take a taxi rather than a coach as we go in group. Tom: “ ”
A. You took the words right out of my mouth B. I'm along with you on that one
C. It is on the tip of my tongue D. It does make a difference to me
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the passage below, which contains 8 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Line
1 As far back as 700 B.C, man has talked about children to be cared for by wolves.
2 Romulus and Remus, the legend twin founders of Rome, were purported to have been
3 cared for by wolves. It is believed that why a she-wolf loses her litter, she seeks a
4 human child to take its place.
5 This seeming preposterous idea did not become credible until the late nineteenth
6 century when a French doctor actually had found a naked ten-year-old boy wandering in
7 the woods. He did not walk erect, could not speak intelligibly, or could lie relate to
8 people. He only growled and stared of them. Finally, the doctor won the boy's
9 confidence and began to work with them. After many long years of devoted and patient
10 instruction, the doctor was able to have the boy to clothe and feed himself, recognize
and utter a number of word, as well as write letters and form words.
Your answers:
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

SECTION C. READING (70 points)

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best answer. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
SMOG AND AIR POLLUTION
For years London was (1) with smog, the word coined at the (2) of the 20th
century to describe the city’s (3) blend of fog and smoke. The capital’s “pea-supers” were
caused by suspended pollution of smoke and sulfur dioxide from coal fires. The most (4)
affected area was the 19th-century residential and industrial (5) of inner London – particularly
the East End,(6) had the highest density of factory smokestacks and domestic chimney pots
and the lowest-(7) land, inhibiting dispersal. As(8) as the early 1960s, the smokier
districts of east Inner London experienced a 30 percent reduction in winter sunshine hours. That
problem was (9) _ by parliamentary legislation (the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968)
outlawing the burning of coal, (10) with the clearance of older housing and the loss of
manufacturing.
The less visible (11) equally toxic pollutants of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone,
benzenes, and aldehydes continue to (12) London’s air. Traffic fumes and other exhausts are
(13) to become trapped between the surrounding hills and below a stagnant capping mass of
warm urban air (14) an altitude of about 3,000 feet (900 metres), causing immediate increases
in eye irritation, asthma, and bronchial complaints. But London’s weather is too (15) for the
development of a full-scale photochemical smog of the kind that can build up under the more stable
weather conditions of cities such as Los Angeles.
1. A. similar. B. synonymous C. antonymous D. close
2. A. back B. turn C. next D. gap
3. A. characteristic B. aspect C. field D. alternative
4. A. largely B. frequently C. thoroughly D. severely
5. A. ring B. belt C. loop D. loop
6. A. that B. when C. which D. what
7. A. standing B. situating C. lying D. locating
8. A. recently B. certainly C. nearly D. frequently
9. A. alleviated B. exalted. C. degraded D. Abated
10. A. combined. B. coincide C. contented D. Related
11. A. with B. besides C. regarding D. But
12. A. develop B. improve C. spoil D. govern
13. A. able B. tenable C. liable D. Flammable
14. A. on B. in C. of D. At
15. A. wicked B. lethal C. lethal D. fickle
Part 2. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes.
ASTISTS AND MONEY
In publishing, (16) author will usually earn royalties on sales. For (17) book
sold, the author gets percentage. The more successful the author, the more they are able to negotiate
with their publisher, and (18) bigger the percentage they can get. Although the ‘struggling
author’ is still common, it is quite possible for a successful novelist to earn a (19) deal of
money. You only have to look at (20) children’s author J. K. Rowling to see that .
For a painter or sculptor, however, the situations is more difficult. A painter sells his or her work for
(21) fee. As the painter becomes more successful, the painting becomes valuable. (22)
time it is sold, its value increases. The painter doesn’t receive (23) benefit from this,
though. To make money, the artist has to be continually producing new pieces. More than a (24)
artist today, however, are very aware of this, and so practice what is sometimes called
‘holding back”. They produce, say, ten paintings for an exhibition, but only allow a certain (25)
 of them, say eight, to be sold. The other two they keep, in (26) hope that when
sell them in later years they will have greatly increased in value.
For musicians, there are royalties for performance (eg on CD) and for writing. However, since (27)
illegal transfer of digital music via the Internet has become widespread, (28)
songwriters and performers have become worried that their main source of income will dry up.
Certainly, the (29) music industry- be it pop, rock, or classical- is in turmoil at the moment,
but its future is not bleak. There is still a huge (30) of money to be made from live
performances.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Write your answers A, B, C or D in the corresponding numbered boxes
Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer. A number of factors related to the voice
reveal the personality of the speaker. The first is the broad area of communication, which includes
imparting information by use of language, communicating with a group or an individual and
specialized communication through performance. A person conveys thoughts and ideas through
choice of words, by a tone of voice that is pleasant or unpleasant, gentle or harsh, by the rhythm that
is inherent within the language itself, and by speech rhythms that are flowing and regular or uneven
and hesitant, and finally, by the pitch and melody of the utterance. When speaking before a group, a
person's tone may indicate uncertainty or fright, confidence or calm. At interpersonal levels, the tone
may reflect ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen, or may believe them. Here, the
participant's tone can consciously or unconsciously reflect intuitive sympathy or antipathy, lack of
concern or interest, fatigue, anxiety, enthusiasm or excitement, all of which are usually discernible
by the acute listener. Public performance is a manner of communication that is highly specialized
with its own techniques for obtaining effects by voice and /or gesture. The motivation derived from
the text, and in the case of singing, the music, in combination with the performer's skills, personality,
and ability to create empathy will determine the success of artistic, political, or pedagogic
communication.
Second, the voice gives psychological clues to a person's self-image, perception of others, and
emotional health. Self-image can be indicated by a tone of voice that is confident, pretentious, shy,
aggressive, outgoing, or exuberant, to name only a few personality traits. Also the sound may give a
clue to the facade or mask of that person, for example, a shy person hiding behind an overconfident
front. How a speaker perceives the listener's receptiveness, interest, or sympathy in any given
conversation can drastically alter the tone of presentation, by encouraging or discouraging the
speaker. Emotional health is evidenced in the voice by free and melodic sounds of the happy, by
constricted and harsh sound of the angry, and by dull and lethargic qualities of the depressed.
Câu 31: What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. Communication styles.
B. The function of the voice in performance.
C. The production of speech
D. The connection between voice and personality.
Câu 32: According to the passage, an exuberant tone of voice may be an indication of a person's
.
A. vocal quality B. general physical health C. ability to communicate D. personality
Câu 33: The word "evidenced" in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. indicated B. questioned C. exaggerated D. Repeated
Câu 34: The word "derived" in paragraph one is closest in meaning to .
A. Obtained B. discussed C. registered D. prepared
Câu 35: Why does the author mention "artistic, political, or pedagogic communication" in
paragraph 1?
A. To contrast them to singing B. As examples of public performance
C.As examples of basic styles of communication D. To introduce the idea of self-image
Câu 36: According to the passage, an overconfident front may hide .
A. shyness B. strength C. hostility D. friendliness
Câu 37: The word "that" in paragraph 2 refer to .
A. self-image B. personality C. tone of voice D. Psychological
Câu 38: What does the author mean by staring that "At interpersonal levels, the tone may reflect
ideas and feelings over and above the words chosen"?
A. Feelings are more difficult to express than ideas
B. A high tone of voice reflects an emotional communication.
C. The tone of voice can carry information beyond the meaning of words.
D. Feelings are expressed with different words than ideas are
Câu 39: The word “Here” in the line 10 refers to:
A. interpersonal interaction B. the tone C. ideals and feelings D. words chosen
Câu 40: The word “dramatically” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to:
A. frequently B. exactly C. severely D. easily
Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Part 4. You are going to read a magazine article about students who travelled around Australia
alone during their long summer vacation. For questions 1-10, choose from the students (A-D).
The students may be chosen more than once.

Which student mentions Your answers:

liking not having to agree an itinerary with others? 41.

missing having someone to help with decision-making? 42.

the advantages of not having fixed plans? 43.

the advisability of going for the best accommodation you can afford? 44.

welcoming the support of professional people?
 45.

a good way of keeping travel plans flexible?
 46.

appreciating not having to waste time organizing practical details? 47.

feeling better after keeping in touch with others?
 48

feeling more confident as a result of the experience?
 49.

 having doubts at the beginning of a trip? 50.

Solo travel in Australia

A. Phil Marston
It was the classic scenario really. My girlfriend didn’t want to go travelling. I did, so I went on my
own. I do remember sitting in the plane thinking to myself: ‘What have I let myself in for?’ Then the
first few days in Australia were scary: I was all on my own, with nothing planned, and on the other
side of the world. But in no time at all, I'd met up with other travelers. Of course, some you get on
with and others you don’t, but there’s always someone to travel with. Some of them had planned
every day of every week, though. In practice, things can change and it’s great to have the freedom to
go with the flow. And that’s easy enough to do. For example, you can take the Oz Experience bus
down the west coast, jumping off whenever you want, then catching the next bus when you're ready
to move on again. Being away for a year, you do occasionally get lonely, so I’d sit down and write a
fortnightly email home about everything I’d been up to, and that really cheered me up.
B. Leila Stuart
Without doubt, you meet all sorts of people when you travel alone. I even made a friend on the plane
out to Australia. Some people are keener to make friends than others, of course, but if someone’s
chosen to do the same type of trip as you, you’ve probably got lots of ideas in common. The
advantages of a pre-planned tour are that you can get an agency to take care of all the arrangements,
which can be time-consuming to do yourself — but it does mean that you’re tied to a predetermined
itinerary, which wouldn’t suit everyone. There’s also the safety aspect in terms of the places you visit
often being very remote. If you go off trekking in the wilds of a foreign country alone, it could be
difficult to get help if things go wrong. If you join a group expedition for those parts of your trip, then
you have the support of the group leader and your fellow travelling companions.
C. Danny Holt
Travelling solo creates opportunities to meet new people. There’s no substitute for sharing the
experiences of the day with a companion, and being on your own forces you to seek someone out.
I’ve got to know people I wouldn’t have if I’d been travelling with friends. There’s also the
wonderful freedom to do what you like, when you like, without having to convince anybody else that
it’s a good idea. However, there are downsides; meal times are something I’ve never really got to
grips with in all the years I’ve travelled alone.
But my advice would be to give solo travel a go — it can be very liberating. Maybe try a short trip to
begin with, just in case it’s not for you. Another thing is stay in the nicest places your budget permits.
I’ve been in a few miserable hostels, and they really can spoil a trip. And if you really are happy
being anti—social, that MP3 player is great for ensuring the person in the next plane seat, or the
poolside know-it-all, doesn’t bore you to death!
D. Kerry Wintenon
Fun as it is, travelling solo does undoubtedly have its low points, including occasional loneliness and
the pressure that you’re under to make your own mind up about everything. I chose to travel alone
because I wanted to do something different, with it being the last summer before starting my final
year at university. The worst things were when I missed people from home, or when I fell out with
the people I’d met along the way. But I learnt to accept that some people have different attitudes to
mine — that you have to put up with irritating people in hostels and accept not having as much
privacy as you’re used to at home. The best thing for me about travelling alone was that it was a
brilliant experience that enhanced my independence and helped me feel more self-assured. I knew I
was on my own, which made me make more effort to speak to people and by doing so I made lots of
great friends.
Your answers:
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

Part 5. Read the following passage and answer the questions from 51 to 60.
Change in business organizations
A
The forces that operate to bring about change in organizations can be thought of as winds which are
many and varied - from small summer breezes that merely disturb a few papers, to mighty howling
gales which cause devastation to structures and operations, causing consequent reorientation of
purpose and rebuilding. Sometimes, however, the winds die down to give periods of relative calm,
periods of relative organizational stability. Such a period was the agricultural age, which Goodman
(1995) maintains prevailed in Europe and western societies as a whole until the early 1700s. During
this period, wealth was created in the context of an agriculturally based society influenced mainly by
local markets (both customer and labor) and factors outside people’s control, such as the weather.
During this time, people could fairly well predict the cycle of activities required to maintain life,
even if that life might be at little more than subsistence level.

B
To maintain the meteorological metaphor, stronger winds of change blew to bring in the Industrial
Revolution and the industrial age. Again, according to Goodman, this lasted for a long time, until
around 1945. It was characterized by a series of inventions and innovations that reduced the number
of people needed to work the land and, in turn, provided the means of production of hitherto rarely
obtainable goods; for organizations, supplying these in ever increasing numbers became the aim. To
a large extent, demand and supply were predictable, enabling companies to structure their
organizations along what Burns and Stalker (1966) described as mechanistic lines, that is as systems
of strict hierarchical structures and firm means of control.

C
This situation prevailed for some time, with demand still coming mainly from the domestic market
and organizations striving to fill the ‘supply gap’. Thus the most disturbing environmental influence
on organizations of this time was the demand for products, which outstripped supply. The saying
attributed to Henry Ford that ‘You can have any color of car so long as it is black’, gives a flavor of
the supply-led state of the market. Apart from any technical difficulties of producing different colors
of car, Ford did not have to worry about customers’ color preferences: he could sell all that he made.
Organizations of this period can be regarded as ‘task-oriented’, with effort being put into increasing
production through more effective and efficient production processes.

D
As time passed, this favorable period for organizations began to decline. In the neo-industrial age,
people became more discriminating in the goods and services they wished to buy and, as
technological advancements brought about increased productivity, supply overtook demand.
Companies began, increasingly, to look abroad for additional markets.

E
At the same time, organizations faced more intensive competition from abroad for their own
products and services. In the West, this development was accompanied by a shift in focus from
manufacturing to service, whether this merely added value to manufactured products, or whether it
was service in its own right. In the neo-industrial age of western countries, the emphasis moved
towards adding value to goods and services - what Goodman calls the value-oriented time, as
contrasted with the task- oriented and products/services-oriented times of the past.

F
Today, in the post-industrial age, most people agree that organizational life is becoming ever more
uncertain, as the pace of change quickens and the future becomes less predictable. Writing in 1999,
Nadler and Tuchman, two US academics, said: ‘Poised on the eve of the next century, we are
witnessing a profound transformation in the very nature of our business organizations. Historic
forces have converged to fundamentally reshape the scope, strategies, and structures of large
enterprises.’ At a less general level of analysis, Graeme Leach, Chief Economist at the British
Institute of Directors, claimed in the Guardian newspaper (2000) that: ‘By 2020, the nine-to-five rat
race will be extinct and present levels of self-employment, commuting and technology use, as well as
age and sex gaps, will have changed beyond recognition.’ According to the article, Leach anticipates
that: ‘In 20 years time, 20-25 percent of the workforce will be temporary workers and many more
will be flexible, ... 25 percent of people will no longer work in a traditional office and ... 50 percent
will work from home in some form.’ Continuing to use the ‘winds of change’ metaphor, the
expectation's of damaging gale-force winds bringing the need for rebuilding that takes the
opportunity to incorporate new ideas and ways of doing things.

G
Whether all this will happen is arguable. Forecasting the future is always fraught with difficulties.
For instance, Mannesmann (1998) sees future studies as part art and part science and notes: ‘The
future is full of surprises, uncertainty, trends and trend breaks, irrationality and rationality, and it is
changing and escaping from our hands as time goes by. It is also the result of actions made by
innumerable more or less powerful forces.’ What seems certain is that the organizational world is
changing at a fast rate - even if the direction of change is not always predictable. Consequently, it is
crucial that organizational managers and decision makers are aware of, and able to analyze the
factors which trigger organizational change.

Questions 51-52
Reading Passage has SEVEN paragraphs, A-G.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-G in boxes 51-55 on your answer sheet.
51. some specific predictions about businesses and working practices
52. reference to the way company employees were usually managed
53. a warning for business leaders
54. the description of an era notable for the relative absence of change
55. a reason why customer satisfaction was not a high priority
Your answers:
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
Questions 56-62
Look at the following characteristics (Questions 53-57) and the list of periods below.
Match each characteristic with the correct period, A, B or C.
Write the correct letter, A, B or C.
NB. You may use any letter more than once.
56. a surplus of goods.
57. an emphasis on production quantity.
58. the proximity of consumers to workplaces.
59. a focus on the quality of goods.
List of periods
A The agricultural age.
B The industrial age.
C The neo-industrial age.
Your answers:

56. 57. 58. 59.

Questions 60-62
Complete the summary below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Businesses in the 21st century
It is generally agreed that changes are taking place more quickly now, and that organizations are
being transformed. One leading economist suggested that by 2020, up to a quarter of employees
would be 60 and half of all employees would be based in the 61 . Although
predictions can be wrong, the speed of change is not in doubt, and business leaders need to
understand the 62 that will be influential.

Your answers:
60. 61. 62 .

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. Use the
word given in capital letters and the word mustn’t be altered in any way.
1. As far as I know he is still working in Bristol. KNOWLEDGE
To , he is still working in Bristol.
2. The power went out as soon as I turned on the computer. (NO)
No sooner the power went off.
3. Both John and Jim don't wear helmets when going to school. (NOR)
Neither when going to school.
4. They worked together to clean up the mess after the storm. (HANDS)
They after the storm.
5. There's nothing new about the generation gap in every family. (HILLS)
The generation gap .
Part 2:
You have received this email from an English-speaking boy called Simon.
 Hello,
I would like to get to know someone from your country and a friend has told me that
you would like to practice your English. Perhaps we could email each other. Could
you tell me a bit about yourself and your family? Could you suggest how we might
meet sometime in the future?
Thanks,
Simon

Write an email responding to Simon. You should write at least 120 words. You do not need to
include your name or addresses.
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Part 3: Write an essay of about 350 words on the following topic.

Employers prefer social skills in addition to good qualifications. Do you agree or disagree about the
opinion that social skills are as important as education for success at work?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.
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