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TRƯỜNG THPT SƠN HÀ NĂM HỌC 2020-2021 -MÔN : ANH VĂN 12

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
Họ, tên thí sinh:……………………………………………….……….. Điểm

Số báo danh:……………………….Lớp……………....Phòng……..

A. LISTENING (3 points)
Part 1: You will hear Sarah Brown talking about her work as a television weather forecaster.Choose
the best word (A, B or C) for each space. (1pt)
1. How long has Sarah worked as a weather forecaster?
A. six years B. seven years C. seventeen years
2. What does Sarah say about her job?
A.She sometimes has to work at night. B. She enjoys getting up early.
C.She works ten or twelve hours a day.
3. When Sarah does a weather forecast, _______________
A. She prepares it in advance. B. She sometimes forgets her words.
C. She worries about making a mistake.
4. Sarah is pleased because she…………..
A. has got her pilot’s license. B. taught her husband to play tennis. C. took part in a long race.
5. A man in India wanted __________________
A. to meet Sarah’s family. B. photo of Sarah. C. To receive a letter from Sarah..
Part 2: You will hear a man called Ben, from a young people’s organisation, telling a youth group
about a course they can do on Saturday. For each question, fill in the missing information in the
numbered space. (1pt)
Saturday course
Name of Ben’s organisation: (1)....................................................

Aim of course: Discovering (2) ...............................................

Closest course location for this group: (3).....................................

Length of course: (4)............................................................weeks.

Examples of activities we will do:

● Learn how to climb

● Cut up wood

● Make a (5 )........................................................

Part 3: You will hear a boy called Thomas and a girl called Ruby talking about a poster for
their school sports day. Decide it each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, choose
the letter A for YES. If it is not correct, choose the letter B for NO. (1pt)
A B
YES NO
1. Ruby realises that the first design of the poster may need improving. A B
2. Thomas thinks the poster should be bigger than last year's. A B
3. Ruby and Thomas agree that the poster should be in colour. A B
4. Ruby thinks the photograph should be in the middle of the poster. A B

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5. Thomas suggests they use the same photograph as last year. A B
B. PHONETICS (1 point)
Part 1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the same
line. (0,5 pt)
1. A. busy B. noisy C. sugar D. present
2. A. whistle B. waiter C. listen D. often
3. A. crooked B. naked C. needed D. masked
4. A. substantial B. muddled C. shutter D. substitute
5. A. suggestion B. devotion C. congestion D. digestion
Part 2: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words. (0,5pt)
6. A. fortunately B. incredible C. astronomy D. evaporate
7. A. revolution B. continental C. contemporary D. alcoholic
8. A. committee B. expensive C. successful D. guarantee
9. A. interfere B. embarrass C. well-behaved D. intuition
10. A . appropriate B. situation C. informality D. entertainment
C. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (6 pts)
Part 1: Choose the best answer from the four options given to complete each sentence. Write your
answer (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered box. (3 points)
1. Will we be ___________ the storm if we shelter under a tree?
A. happy about B. safe from C. depended on D. cared for
2. He ____________ his life to helping the poor.
A. spent B. experienced C. dedicated D. used
3. David learned to play ______ violin when he was at ______ university.
A. θ /θ B. θ /the C. the/the D. the/ θ
4. Jane and John are talking about the speech contest next week.
- Jane: “Will Ann enter for the speech contest?” - John: “______________________”
A. Possibly not B. Not possibly C. Not possible D. Possible not
5. She never looks_______ anyone who she is talking ______She seems to be lack _______ confidence.
A. on / about / for B. at / to / of C. for / with / in D. up / for / with
6. Jim invited Helen to visit his gardens:
- Helen: "I love your gardens. The plants are well taken care of!"
- Jim : “Thanks. Yes, I suppose I've always __________________.”
A. had green fingers B. made it down on my luck
C. let nature take its course D. drawn the short straw
7. In most social situations where some _________is allowed, a brief raise of the hand and a small
wave is fine to attract someone's attention.
A. informality B. friendship C. familiarity D. introduction
8. John lost the______bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry with him
because of his carelessness.
A. new beautiful blue Japanses B. beautiful new blue Japanese
C. beautiful blue Japanese new D. Japanese beautiful new blue
9. There has been little rain in this area for too long, __________?
A. has there B. has it C. hasn’t it D. hasn’t there
10. After several injuries and failures, things have eventually ______ for Todd when he reached the final
round of the tournament.
A. taken up B. gone on C. looked up D. turned on
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions

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11. Yes, we went away on holiday last week, but it rained day in day out.
A. every second day B. every other day C. every two days D. every single day

12. At every faculty meeting, Ms. Volatie always manages to put her foot in her mouth.
A. move rapidly B. say the wrong thing C. fall asleep D. trip over her big feet
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined part in the following sentence
13. Other characters may think that a problem is inexplicable, but Poe’s detective, Auguste Dupin,
finds it easy to understand.
A. mysterious B. simple C. evident D. boring
14. On………….he had won, he jumped for joy.
A. telling B. he was told C. being told D. having told
15. ____ one or more units of living substance called protoplasm.
A. Although all living things that consist of B. All living things consist of
C. All living things consisting of D. In all living things consisting of
Part 2. Use the correct form of each word on the right to complete the numbered spaces provided in
the passage. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (2pts)
A changed person
I don’t see my teenage godson as (0) frequently as I did in the past and 0. FREQUENT
when I visited him and his family today I was (1) ______ surprised. He’s 1. PLEASE
changed (2) _______ since the last time I saw him. Whereas he used to be 2. SIGNIFY
such a horrible (3) ________ little boy, now he is extremely well-behaved and 3. OBEY
a (4) _______ to be with. He seems to attach more (5) _________ now to 4. PLEASE
what others might be thinking of him and he takes more care over his (6) 5. IMPORTANT
_________ . He has developed greater (7) ________ in himself and his own 6. APPEAR
judgement and he puts up stiff (8) ________ to his parents’ advice and 7. CONFIDE
decisions if he feels they are wrong. (9) __________ he is beginning to take 8. RESIST
an interest in girls and his mum tells me he’s got a girlfriend. These, it seems, 9. APPEAR
are his first steps towards (10) ___________ and it won’t be very many years 10. DEPEND
before he leaves home

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

Part 3: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct but some have a
word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√ ) in the space provided in the box for
answer. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space provided in the box for
answer. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00). (1pt)
0 We had left the house with plenty of time to spare, but 0.……… √ ……………
00 suddenly I realised we might have miss the plane. There had 00.………have…………..
1 been an accident on the motorway, and although that nobody …………………………..
2 had been hurt, the traffic was at a complete standstill. By the …………………………..
3 time when we started moving again, it was less than an hour …………………………..
4 to take-off. When at last the taxi reached the terminal, we …………………………..
5 had jumped out and ran quickly to the check-in, only to find …………………………..
6 an enormous queue. Everyone had a luggage, and we only …………………………..
7 had fifteen minutes before we left. Eventually we reached the …………………………..

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8 desk, and we gave the woman our tickets. I was very …………………………..
9 worried by then and I asked to her if we were too late. …………………………..
10 She smiled at, gave me our boarding cards and said, 'Your …………………………..
flight has been delayed by an hour'.
D. READING COMPREHENSION (5 pts)
Part 1: Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each space.
(1,5 pts)
English spelling
Why does English spelling have a reputation for being difficult? English was first written down when
Christian monks came to England in Anglo-Saxon (1) ______ .They used the 23 letters of Latin to write
down the sounds of Anglo-Saxon speech as they heard it. However, English has a (2) ______ range of
basic sounds (over 40) than Latin. The alphabet was too small, and so combinations of letters were
needed to (3) ______ the different sounds. Inevitably, there were inconsistencies in the way that letters
were combined.
With the Norman invasion of England, the English language was put (4) ______ risk. English survived,
but the spelling of many English words changed to follow French patterns, and many French words
were (5) ______ into the language. The result was more irregularity.
When the printing press was (6) ______ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts
spoke other first languages. They (7) ______ little effort to respect English spelling. Although one of the
short-term effects of printing was to produce a number of variant spellings, in the long term it created
fixed spellings. People became used to seeing words spelt in the same way. Rules were (8) ______ and
dictionaries were put together which printers and writers could refer to. However, spoken English was
not fixed and continued to change slowly - just as it still does now. Letters that were sounded in the
Anglo-Saxon period, like the 'k' in 'knife', now became (9) ______. Also, the pronunciation of vowels
then had (10) _____ in common with how they sound now, but the way they are spelt hasn't changed.

1. A. ages B. centuries C. times D. years

2. A. deeper B. longer C. thicker D. wider
3. A. explain B. express C. perform D. tell
4. A. at B. in C. on D. under
5. A. announced B. found C. introduced D. started
6. A. discovered B. invented C. made up D. taken up
7. A. brought B. did C. made D. put
8. A. drawn up B. filled in C. got across D. handed out
9. A. dump B. silent C. quiet D. speechless
10. A. much B. many C. few D. little

Part 2: Supply the most suitable word for each blank. (2 pts)
Because of the recent growth in air travel, airports have become more than ever before symbols of
international importance. They therefore have (1.______) look good and are frequently designed by
well-known architects. In (2.______) to this, competition and customer demand mean that (3. ______)
generally have to have impressive facilities nowadays. For instance, there are (4. ______) lounges,
where passengers can wait before their (5. ______) takes off, luxurious restaurants, shopping areas and
banks. Good road and rail connections (6. ______) nearby towns and cities are also essential, with large
(7. _____) of people needing to get to and from the airport quickly and effectively.
However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find land on which to build airports. One reason for this
is that aircraft, (8. ______) improvements in engine design, are still very noisy, and need a considerable
amount of space in which to (9. ______) and take off. This of course means that crowded residential
areas need to be avoided, so, unluckily, travellers often find that the airport they need to use might be
located (10. ______) an inconvenient distance from the city.

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* ANSWERS
1. …………… 2. …………….. 3. ……………. 4. …………….. 5. ………………
6. ……………. 7. …………… 8. ……………… 9. ……………. 10. …………….

Part 3: Read the passage and answer the questions which follow by choosing the best suggestion.
(1,5 pts)
There is a distinct cadence to an English sentence, with the voice falling on the last word to
indicate that it is the utterance. Nowadays, on television, more often than not a speaker is cut off in
mid-sentence. You always know it because the voice is still rising. The bit of the sentence that one hears
may make perfectly good sense in itself, but one knows that the speaker simply has not finished making
his point.
It is extremely irritating and even physically disturbing to the viewer - and, to my mind, it is very
offensive to the speaker as well. That is the point I really want to make here. A culture of rudeness has
sprung up on British television in the past two or three years. Allowing people to speak, to have their
say, is one of the essential points of good manners and respect for other people. Talking while other
people are talking, interrupting them, turning one’s back on them before they have finished – these are
heinous crimes against courtesy.
Yet television news does this all the time – and prides itself on the technical skill with which it
does it. That neat insertion of half a politician’s sentence into a carefully-worded little news item – how
pleased, you can feel, the reporter and the editor of the bulletin are with the deftness they have displayed
in their craft.
This culture of rudeness is not, however, a matter of broadcasters being deliberately and
ostentatiously rude. It reflects a disagreeable dose of self-importance, no doubt, but it also springs to
some degre from a proper pursuit – that of reporting clearly and briskly what people such as politicians
have got to say on a subject of interest. But it treats people who are on television as mere inert material
to be chopped up and pasted into the bulletin as required. This seems to me a classic case of the medium
itself being the message – and a very bad message too.
Viewers do not see politicians as scraps of ‘copy’ 10 be used as needed. They accept the illusion
of television, and regard them as people, whom the television personnel are treating like dirt.
The bulletins send a message that it is nevertheless perfectly all rigth to treat people like this. After all, is
it not the great figures of television who are doing it: that is the way bad behaviour spreads are grows.

1. What has the writer noticed about people who are speaking on television?
A. They have come to expect to be interrupted.
B. They try to make sure they are allowed to finish what they are saying.
C. They frequently show their annoyance at being interrupted.
D. They are denied the chace to complete statements they are making.
2. The writer suggests in the third paragraph that many news items
A. are meant to show the expertise of the broadcasters.
B. would be better without politicians in them.
C. make little sense to many people watching them.
D. contain things which are not really relevant.
3. What does the writer believe about broadcasters?
A. They spend too little time preparing programmes.
B. They are not really sure what impression they want to create.
C. They are acting partly out of honourable intentions.
D. They do not care what people think of their programmes.
4. the writer says that viewers belive that
A. what they see on television has little relevance to them.

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 B. broadcasters have the wrong attitude to policticians.
C. the standards of broadcasting in general have fallen.
D. politicians are not all the same as each other.
5. What is the writer’s main theme in the passage?
A. the loss of good manners in Bristish life.
B. the way in which conversations should be conducted.
C. the ill-mannered behaviour of Bristish broadcasters.
D. the reactions of viewers when they watch TV.
E. WRITING (5 points)
Part 1: Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it (1,5pts )
1. I left without saying goodbye as I didn’t want to disturb the meeting.
→ Rather ______________________________________________________________________.
2. My decision to get up and dance coincided with the band’s decision to stop playing.
→ The moment_________________________________________________________________.
3. He never suspected that the bicycle had been stolen.
→ At no time __________________________________________________________________.
4. They have reported that the number of people using acupuncture is increasing. (BEEN)
→ The number of __________________________________________________________
5. This is the best essay I have ever written. (BETTER)
→ Never __________________________________________________________________
6. Although we were impressed by the new cinema, we found it rather expensive. (AS)
→ Much _________________________________________________________________________
Part 2: (1,5pts)
The chart below shows the results of a survey on various home activities among young people aged 11
to 16 in four countries. Write a report describing the information in the chart (100-120 words)
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A large number of people think that nowadays women should not work hard to earn their living;
they should spend more time in caring for their families.
To what extend do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
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- Good luck !-

SỞ GD & ĐT QUẢNG NGÃI Hướng dẫn và biểu điểm chấm đề thi HSG
TRƯỜNG THPT SƠN HÀ Môn: tiếng Anh 12 (2020-2021)

A. LISTENING (3 points)
Part 1: (1 pt) (0.2 point for each correct answer)
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. B
Part 2: (1 pt) (0,2 point for each correct answer)
1. Nature 2. wildlife 3. forest 4. 12/twelve 5. fire
Part 3: (1 pt) (0,2 point for each correct answer)
1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B
B. PHONETICS (1 point)

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Part 1: (1 pt) (0.1 point for each correct answer)
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B
Part 2: (1 pt) (0.1 point for each correct answer)
6. A 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. A
C. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (6 points)
Part 1: (3pts) (0.2 point for each correct answer)
1. B 2. C 3. D 4. A 5. B
6. C 7. A 8. B 9. A 10. C
11. D 12. B 13. A 14. C 15. B
Part 2: (2pts)(0.2 point for each correct answer)
1. pleasantly 2. significantly 3. obedient 4. pleasure 5. importance
6. appearance 7. confidence 8. resistance 9. apparently 10. independence

Part 3: (1 pt) (0.1 point for each correct answer)

1. that 2. √ 3. when 4. √ 5. had
6. a 7. √ 8. √ 9. to 10. at
D. READING COMPREHENSION (5 pts)
Part 1: (1,5 pts)(0.1 point for each correct answer)
1. C 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. C
6. B 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. D
Part 2: (2pts: 0,2 point for each correct answer)
1. to 2. addition 3. airports 4. departure 5. flight/plane
6. with 7. numbers 8. despite 9. land 10. at
Part 3: (1,5 pts)
1. D 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. C
PART E: WRITING (5 pts)
Part 1. (1,5 pts)- (0.25 point for each correct sentence)
1🡪 Rather than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.
2🡪 The moment I decided to get up to dance, the band decided to stop playing.
3🡪 At no time did he suspect that the bicycle had been stolen.
4🡪 The number of people using acupuncture has been reported to be increasing.
5🡪 Never have I written a better essay than this
6.🡪 Much as we were impressed by the new cinema, we found/did find it rather expensive.
OR: Impressed as we were by the new cinema, we found/did find it rather expensive
Part 2. ( 1,5pts) Notes: Describing the chart.
The report covering the following points:
- Paraphrase the question (0.5 pt) and state the overview (0,5 pt).
- Use relevant data from the table to illustrate the main features mentioned in the overview, making any
comparison if necessary (0,5pt).
Part 3. Write an essay (2pts)
Marks given to Part 3 are based on the following criteria:

1. Task achievement: (0.5pt)

- Meet task requirements; with relevant and reliable explanations, examples, evidence, personal
experience, etc.
2. Organization: (1pt)
- Ideas are well-organized, presented with coherence, cohesion, and unity;
-The essay is well-structured (Introduction presented with clear thesis statement/ Body paragraphs
written with unity, coherence, and cohesion/ Each body paragraph having a topic sentence and
supporting details and examples when necessary).
- Conclusion (main points/ prediction/ recommendation/ consideration, personal opinion).

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3. Language use, punctuation and spelling (0.5pt)

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MA TRẬN ĐỀ THI HSG CẤP TRƯỜNG MÔN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 12

NĂM HỌC: 2016-2017
Mức độ Nhận biết Thộng hiểu Vận dụng Tổng
Chủ đề KQ TL KQ TL KQ TL Câu Điểm
A. Listening 1: Multiple choice 4 1 5 1
(30%) 2. Gap-filling 5 5 1
3. T/F statements 3 2 5 1

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B. Phonetics 1. Pronunciation: 5 5 1
(20%) - Vowels
- Consonants
2. Stress: Words 5 5 1
- 2, 3, or 4 syllables
1. Multiple choice 15 3
C. Vocab & - Vocab & article 4 2
Grammar - Preposition 1 1
( 60%)
- structures 2 2
- Speaking 1 2
2. Correct word 10 10 2
forms.
3. Correct verb 10 10 1
forms.
- Tenses
- gerund.
- Passive voice
- Noun & article
D. Reading 1. Multiple choice 6 4 10 2
( 50%) 2. Matching 8 8 2
3. Answer the 3 2 5 1
questions
E. Writing 1. Rewrite the 5 5 1
( 40%) sentences
2. Describe the 1 1 1
chart
3. Write a 1 1 2
composition
Tổng cộng 37 20 24 2 7 90 20

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