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TIỀN GIANG TRUNG HỌC CƠ SỞ - NĂM 2017-2018

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao
đề)
Ngày thi: 30/3/2018
(Đề thi có..08.. trang, gồm…10…câu.)

PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION : ( 2.0 pts )

(Thí sinh nghe 08 đoạn ghi âm mỗi đoạn 02 lần. Bắt đầu và kết thúc phần nghe đều có nhạc.
CD đã được ghi đủ số lần, giám thị mở cho máy chạy từ đầu tới cuối không cần trả băng.
Giữa các đoạn có khoảng im lặng để thí sinh làm bài)

Question 1 : You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions
from 1 to 8, choose the best answer (A, B, or C).

1. You are in a shop when you overhear this man answering the telephone.
What does the caller want to buy?
A. a book about playing a guitar
B. a book about guitar music
C. a cassette of guitar music
2. You are listening to the radio when you hear this man speaking.
What is he talking about?
A. history B. shipbuilding C. politics
3. You are sitting in a café when you hear this woman speaking.
She is telling her friend about
A. the weather. B. buying a new coat. C. new windows.
4. Listen to this woman introducing a college lecture.
The visiting lecturer
A. has recently changed career.
B. has made a new discovery.
C. was late for the lecture.
5. You will hear someone talking about soap operas.
What does the speaker think about them?
A. They are boring and meaningless to everyone.
B. The plot is very exciting and unpredictable.
C. People become addicted to them without realising it.
6. You are staying in the home of a British family.
You hear the mother answering the phone.
The caller wants to take her daughter
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A. to the cinema. B. to a party. C. to a restaurant.
7. Listen to a policeman being interviewed on the evening television news.
What is he describing?
A. a car crash B. a bomb explosion C. a serious fire
8. You overhear this exchange in a major London railway station.
The cause of the delay is
A. snow. B. flooding. C. an accident.

PART II: READING COMPREHENSION : ( 6.0 pts )

Question 2: Read the passage below, then choose ONE option that best answers or
completes each of the questions:

Section A:

Today’s university students have none of the fear of “Big Brother” that marked their parents’
generation. In fact, their fascination with the notion of watching and being watched has
fuelled a dramatic shift in entertainment programming and ushered in the era of Reality
Television.
Mark Andrejevic, an assistant professor of communication studies, says a number of factors
including technology and economy paved the way for the rise of reality television, but none
so much as a transformation of Americans’ attitudes towards surveillance.
As a graduate student at the University of Colorado in the mid – to late 1990s, he studied the
ways in which new technology allowed viewers to move from the role of passive media
consumers to active participants. “I was interested in the ways that the promise of
participation also became a means of monitoring people,” he says. “All over the Internet
people were providing information about themselves that could be used by marketers. Being
watched became more and more economically productive.”
Andrejevic believes that the interactivity of the Internet paved the way for reality TV mania.
He interviewed producers of early reality programmes such as MTV’s The Real World who
said that they initially had a hard time finding people willing to have their lives taped nearly
24 hours a day for several months. That was 1992. Now they hold auditions in college towns
and thousands of young people form queues snaking for blocks just for the chance to audition.
“There are now more people applying to The Real World each year than to Harvard,”
Andrejevic says.
The key to that success is connected to people’s increasing comfort with levels of surveillance
that were once hated in American society. Andrejevic has attempted to think about the ways
in which reality TV reconfigures public attitudes about surveillance. He says: “We’re trained
to make a split between private and public surveillance – to be worried about government
surveillance but not private, which is entertainment or gathering information to serve us
better. We’re moving into a period where that distinction starts to dissolve. Private
surveillance is becoming so pervasive that it’s time to start worrying about it as a form of
social control.”
That viewers of reality programming don’t worry about surveillance or social control is
testament to the power of television as a messenger. Andrejevic points out that “The cast
members on these shows are constantly talking about how great the experience is and how
much they have grown personally because of it. It connotes honesty – you can’t hide anything

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about yourself if you’re on camera all day every day. It becomes a form of therapy or almost a
kind of extreme sport – how long can you withstand allowing yourself to be videotaped?”
Viewers believe in the benefits cast members describe and crave that opportunity for
themselves. In this way, each programme becomes a kind of advertisement for itself. Millions
of university students watched The Real World and then began clamouring for the opportunity
to participate. The same is true for newer programmes including Survivor, American Idol,
Fear Factor and the like.
Andrejevic says he encourages his students to look beyond the characters and the surface
glamour of reality television and consider the broader issues of surveillance, privacy,
democracy and technology that the shows present.
“I try to cure my students of the habit of watching reality TV uncritically,” he says. “The
challenge of teaching popular culture is that students are trained to separate the world of
academics from the world of popular culture. They tend not to think of that part of life using
theories they have learned in class. There’s a tendency with students to say ‘you’re reading
too much into it’. But TV is so powerful in conveying messages about the world precisely
because people don’t think it’s doing that. There’s something so vital about reality TV as a
cultural form,” he continues. “It’s always changing, moving so fast, continuously reinventing
itself. It reflects cultural trends. It’s a good place to examine and inspect our culture.”

1. New technologies helped viewers to

A. passively enjoy the media.
B. be economically productive.
C. become active participants.
D. consume more
2. People consider public and private surveillance to be
A. different things
B. equally harmless
C. carried out by the government.
D. a cause for concern.
3. Which of the following is NOT something that makes participation in reality shows a good
experience (according to the shows’ participants)?
A. It makes honesty unavoidable.
B. It can be a sort of therapy.
C. It is an opportunity to advertise.
D. It is like an extreme sport.
4. What is Andrejevic’s attitude towards television?
A. It is a harmless and entertaining aspect of popular culture.
B. It is secretly controlled by the government.
C. It can provide an experience that everyone would benefit from.
D. It can teach us about our culture but we should use it cautiously.

Section B:

Students read for a variety of reasons, but probably the most important reason students read is
to gain academic knowledge. Their goal is to learn and comprehend what they read. To be
successful, they must develop certain reading skills. However, some students meet difficulty

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in comprehending and processing information taught by their teachers. This may be for a
variety of reasons. Often it is that they have never developed the proper learning strategies
necessary for comprehension. Therefore, their ability to read learn, memorize and recall
information is impaired. Students then become discouraged from learning. There are,
however, a number of effective measures for those with reading comprehension difficulties.
Students respond well when oral or written information is presented to them in a visual way.
For example, when a skill or topic is both described and demonstrated at the same time, it
provides students with the means to associate the demonstration with the description. When
students are provided with a combination of visual written and oral instruction, they can better
comprehend and process the information.
Passive listening and reading often result in the inability to process information because
students are not engaged or stimulated. One of the best remedies for this is for students to
participate in the topics they read about. Teachers can ask students to demonstrate what they
have learned and give them feedback and praise.
Students are encouraged in reading comprehension skills when they “think aloud.” The think-
aloud strategy helps them to vocally express the material they are reading or the subject they
are learning about. It helps if students go through each step or take the subject one step at a
time. Talking while they think helps them to verbalize and better process the information.
Students can move from thinking aloud to whispering softly, and eventually they will no
longer require thinking aloud to comprehend. This is a gradual process that equips students
with the ability to think and process silently through a series of gradual techniques.
Practice will help students give meaning to what they have been hearing or reading. Once the
teacher has provided them with the information, students can demonstrate what they have
learned through homework and in-class assignments. It is up to the teacher to assess the
difficulty of these assignments for students. Start off with easy assignments to complete so
students are encouraged, then gradually increase the complexity and difficulty over time.
Encourage students to read over their work and process what they have read to enseure they
grasping all the pertinent information.

5. Which of the following is true of readers who are reading to gain academic knowledge?
A. Reading increases their alertness.
B. Their goal is to learn and understand the materials they are reading.
C. They physically learn what they are reading.
D. They read for a variety of reasons.
6. Many students have difficulty in reading comprehension because ………….
A. they do not have enough time to read.
B. they haven’t practiced reading enough.
C. they do not have the appropriate approaches to reading.
D. they do not have the right attitudes
7. One advantage of thinking aloud is ………….
A. students do not have to write down their thoughts
B. students’ ability to thinks and process information silently is developed
C. students can whisper softly in this technique
D. students can talk while studying in class
8. It can be inferred that in order to improve students’ ability in reading ………….
A. only one technique is enough
B. the teachers have to work very hard

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 C. the students have to read a lot
D. one technique is not enough, a combination is recommended

Question 3 : These notices or messages have their own meanings. Match each of the
notices or notes ( 1 – 8 ) with its corresponding meaning ( A, B, C).

NOTICES/MESSAGES MEANINGS
1. If your shoes are dirty, please A. You can keep your shoes on in the changing
remove them before entering this room unless they are dirty.
changing room
B. Clean your shoes at the entrance to the changing
room before you come in.
C. All shoes must be taken off and left at the
changing room entrance.
2. PARENTS: A. Parents must return forms this week if their child
Complete and return your child’s is going on Friday’s trip.
form for next month’s school trip B. Parents cannot go on next month’s trip unless
by Friday they return their forms by Friday.
C. The last day for returning completed forms for
the trip is Friday.
3. To: Elsa Tony wants Elsa to
From: Tony A. ask her boss for a week’s holiday starting
Ranjit needs to know tomorrow tomorrow.
whether we’re going with him next B. find out if she can have time off next month.
month to his apartment in New
York. Will your boss give you a C. go away with him next week for a month.
week off?
4. A. Only people who are trained in kitchen work
Wanted: Kitchen Assistants should apply for these part-time jobs.
Evenings or weekends B. There are part-time opportunities for people
Free meals without experience of working in a kitchen.
Full training provided C. We offer cheap meals to people who work part-
Apply inside time in our kitchen.
5. Photocopies have come down in A. Some photocopies are now cheaper than they
price! were.
(Black and white only – colour B. There are changes to the prices of all
copies no change) photocopies.
C. There is no longer any colour photocopying
here.
6. UNIVERSITY HOLIDAYS The library will
From next Friday, the library will A. have shorter opening hours until next Friday.
be closed during weekends and
B. change its opening hours next Friday.
evenings
C. open again to students next Friday.

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7. Basketball Training
Professional coach available for
pre-booked groups – 48 hours’
notice required
8. STUDENT CANTEEN
Please show your meal ticket or you
must pay the full amount
A. Basketball players are only allowed to practise
here if accompanied by a professional coach.
B. Basketball training for groups is cancelled until
further notice.
C. A basketball coach is available if a booking is
made far enough in advance.
A. Students can buy meal tickets here at a discount.
B. Students are charged the normal price if they
forget their meal tickets.
C. Students can buy food up to the amount shown
on their meal tickets.

Question 4 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE word chosen from the list below to
complete the meaning of the passage. There are ten extra ones that we do not need to
use.

NATURAL DISASTERS

Natural disasters around the world last year caused record US$380 billion in economic losses.
That’s more than twice the tally for 2010, and about $115 billion more than in the previous
record year of 2005, according to a report from Munich Re, a reinsurance group in Germany.
But other work emphasizes that it is too soon to blame the …(1)… devastation on climate
change.
Almost two-thirds of 2011’s exceptionally high costs are attributable to two disasters
unrelated to climate and weather: the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in
March, and February’s comparatively small but …(2)… destructive magnitude-6.3 quake in
New Zealand.
And the long-term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to
socioeconomic changes, such as …(3)… growth and development in vulnerable regions.
That conclusion is backed up by a forthcoming study – supported by Munich Re – by
economists Fabian Barthel and Eric Neumayer at the London School of Economics. Their
analysis of events worldwide between 1990 and 2008 concludes that ‘the accumulation of
wealth in disaster-prone areas is and will always …(4)… by far the most important driver of
future economic disaster damage’. Any major weather event hitting densely populated areas
now causes huge losses because the value of the infrastructure has increased tremendously,
they note, adding that if the 1926 Great Miami …(5)… happened today, for example, it
would cause much more damage than it did at the time.
However, weather-related events are generally on the rise. Thanks to a relatively quiet
Atlantic hurricane season, damage caused by extreme weather was actually lower in 2011
than in four of the previous five years. But weather accounted for about 90 per cent of the
year’s 820 recorded natural disasters, which …(6)… at least 27,000 deaths. These disasters
include flooding in Thailand, a series of tornadoes that hit the United States Midwest and
southern states last spring, and storms and extreme rainfall over parts of the Mediterranean in
November.
Since 1980, the report notes, the number of …(7)… floods has almost tripled, and storms
have nearly doubled, which insurance experts link, in part, to the impact of climate change. ‘It

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would not seem plausible that climate change doesn’t play a role in the …(8)… rise in
weather-related disasters,’ say Ernst Rauch, head of Munich Re’s Corporate Climate Centre.

A. crossword B. example C. truth D. caused

E. features F. important G. remain H. contain
I. hurricane J. throughout K. unusually L. servant
M. substantial N. damage O. population P. season
Q. economic R. severe

PART III : GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY : ( 8.0 pts )

Question 5:

1. Pick out ONE word that has the underlined syllable pronounced differently from the others
in each case:
a) honor, exhibit, Fahrenheit, Buddhist, honest, heir, hour, ghost
b) customer, puppy, truck, husk, shut, purchase, pump, publish
c) mount, ground, country, found, shout, mountain, south, doubt
d) satisfy, sorry, sunny, sugar, south, saving, samba, sandwich

2. Pick out ONE word that is of different topic or part of speech from the others in each case:
e) drought, earthquake, flood, canyon, tornado, hailstorm, volcano eruption, tsunami
f) considerate, distinguish, generous, enthusiastic, optimistic, outgoing, humorous,
careful
g) The Thames, The Rhine, The Danube, The Nile, The Andes, The Amazon, The
Volga, The Mississippi
h) Mercury, Venus, Microscope, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Neptune

Question 6 : Write the verbs in the numbered brackets into its correct tense and form :

1. I’d rather you (not wear) …………… jeans to the office.

2. They said that they (work) …………… there for twenty – nine years and they would
stop working the following year.
3. Had you asked me earlier, I (tell) …………… you the news.
4. The astronaut’s clothes (make) …………… from special materials.
5. You may feel frightened when you are in a forest (surround) …………… by tall
trees.
6. This is the first time I (read) …………… a novel written by an English novelist.
7. His sister (give) …………… a car for her twentieth birthday next year.
8. A: Where were you at 8 o’clock last night?
B: I (dance) …………… at my friend’s party.

Question 7 : Fill in each blank in these sentences with the suitable form of the words in
brackets :

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 1. I need a new secretary. I want someone who is charming, efficient and absolutely
________ .(TRUTH)
2. I would like to express my admiration for his ________ of knowledge.
(PROFOUND)
3. You should write a letter of ________ to that institute. (INQUIRE)
4. It was a complete ________ due to poor planning. (FAIL)
5. He’s an expert in technology. We call him ________. (TECHNIQUE)
6. The hurricane caused terrible ________ along the coast. (DESTROY)
7. In winter, it is important for farmers to provide food and ________ for their
animals. (WARM)
8. Flowers are often ________ by bees as they gather nectar. (FERTILE)

Question 8 : Rewrite these sentences, using the words given in such a way that they
remain the same meaning as the original ones :

1. We spent two hours writing this writing test.

It took …………………………………………………………………………… .
2. In spite of not speaking Vietnamese, Mr. Anderson decided to settle in Hanoi.
Although ………………………………………………………………………… .
3. Her voice is so soft that it is impossible for me to hear that.
She ……………………………………………………………………………… .
4. The astronauts are weightless because the spaceship is in orbit round the moon.
If ………………………………………………………………………………… .
5. “Let’s go for a walk in the park!” said Jenny.
Jenny suggested …………………………………………………………………. .
6. My brother hasn’t driven any car for 8 years.
The last time ……………………………………………………………………. .
7. I could realize how important the family is only after I left home.
Not until ………………………………………………………………………… .
8. A plane leaves for Dalat at seven every morning.
There is ………………………………………………………………………….. .

PART IV :WRITING ( 4.0 pts )

Question 9: “Good books are good teachers and friends.” What is your opinion? Write
an exposition of this (about 120-150 words).

Question 10: You and your classmates are having a discussion on “How to avoid waste of
energy” Write the conversation in about 15- 20 conversational exchanges.
(Don’t let anyone know your names or addresses. Begin with you as Viet and your classmate
as Nam.)
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Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu. Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
Họ và tên thí sinh: ………………………… Số báo danh: ………………….

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