SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HSG GIỎI LỚP 12 CẤP TỈNH

BÌNH THUẬN NĂM HỌC: 2022 – 2023

Môn thi : TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian : 180 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)
Ngày thi : 15/10/2022
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SECTION A. USE OF LANGUAGE AND READING (13.5pts)
Part I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each of the following sentences. Write your
answers (A, B, C, or D) on the answer sheet. (3.0pts)
1. He drove fast and arrived an hour __________ of schedule.
A. in advance B. ahead C. in front D. before
2. We ______ pay for the tickets as Josie won them in a competition.
A. mustn't B. didn't have to C. couldn't D. hadn't to
3. These issues need to receive ______ attention from trained statisticians.
A. exact B. precise C. careful D. accurate
4. To the best of my ______, Gloria did not make these comments.
A. knowledge B. ability C. experience D. capability
5. I'm not a great cook, but I can follow a ______ pretty well.
A. receipt B. prescription C. recipe D. paper
6. It's high time you ______ yourself a job.
A. got B. get C. will get D. had got
7. The man was arrested when his ______ passport was spotted at the airport.
A. artificial B. unreal C. fake D. plastic
8. Someone was waving at me in the distance but I couldn't ______ who it was.
A. make up B. look out C. look up D. make out
9. You have to be employed six months to be ______ for medical benefits.
A. eligible B. advisable C. desirable D. admissible
10. He ______ tribute to the firefighters who had saved his daughter's life.
A. made B. paid C. took D. brought
11. They've torn down the old buildings ______ to renovating the whole neighborhood.
A. in the hope B. on the question C. with a view D. with the aim
12. She did not want to devote more time to her business at the ______ of her family.
A. budget B. expense C. expenditure D. price
13. ______ disadvantaged children learn how to read and write is rewarding work.
A. Being helped B. To be helped C. Helping D. Have helped
14. Because of rapid technological progress, the computers being made today will be _____ in five years' time.
A. outdone B. extinct C. retired D. obsolete
15. Let's take our swimming costumes ______ there's a pool at the hotel.
A. in case B. otherwise C. unless D. though
16. Antarctica is covered by a huge cap ______ 70 percent of the earth's fresh water.
A. contained B. that contain C. containing D. having been contained
17. If you are dealing with a scammer, it will be ______ impossible to get your money back.
A. entirely B. barely C. scarcely D. virtually
18. Please ______ your eye over this and let me know what you think.
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A. fling B. throw C. cast D. toss
19. I always get ______ in my stomach before I go on stage and perform.
A. worms B. butterflies C. ants D. spiders
20. How did your ______ go? Do you think you will be offered the main part?
A. audit B. audience C. auditorium D. audition
Part II.. Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following passage. Write your
answers on the answer sheet. (1.5pts)
Although a certain percentage of graduates will still be (1) ______ (EMPLOY) six months after leaving
university, the (2) ______ (MAJOR) will have found employment by then. Many of these will even have been
offered a job while at university, as a result of visiting a job fair.
Job fairs are held at many universities each year. Companies come along to advertise jobs, which are
usually in (3) ______ (MANAGE), and the career structures and benefit packages that go with them. Job fairs
are a(n) (4)______ (EFFECT) way for undergraduates to find out what kind of job they might be interested in.
If you go to a job fair, dress (5) ______ (PROFESSION). Don't wear jeans and a T-shirt. Wear a suit! You don't
want to look (6) _______ (RESPONSIBILITY) when you have your first meeting with your potential employer.
If you're interested in a job on offer, you may have to fill out an (7) ______ (APPLY) form, so it's helpful to
take along (8) ______ (RELEVANCE) information with you. You'll also need proof of all your (9) ______
(QUALIFY) so don't forget to take photocopies of all your (10) ______ (CERTIFY) with you.
(Source: Destination B2 by Malcolm Mann & Steve Taylore-Knowles)

Part III. There are 11 mistakes in the following passage. Identify and correct them. One mistake has been
identified and corrected for you as an example. Find and correct the other 10 mistakes. (2.0pts)

Every year people throw away million of tonnes of plastic bottles, boxes and wrapping. These create huge
mountains of waste that are extreme hard to get rid of. Now a new recycling process promises reducing this
problem by turning old plastic into new.
Scientists have taken a long time to develop their ideas because waste plastic has always been a bigger problem
than substances alike waste paper. You can bury plastic, but it takes years to break down. If you burn it, it just
becomes others form of pollution. A few products, for example bottles, can be misused, but it is expensive or
difficult to do this with a lot of plastic products. Now the group of companies has developed a new method of
recycling that could save almost all plastic waste. Nearly every type of waste plastic can be used: it does not
have to be sorting. In addition, labels and ink may be left on the products. Everything are simply mixed together
and heated to more than 400 degrees centigrade such that it melts. It is then cooled, producing a waxy substance
what can be used to make new plastic products, including computer hardware.
Example: Line 1: million → millions

Part IV. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete the following passage. Write your
answers on the answer sheet. (1.5pts)
Friends come in all shapes and (1) ______ . They may be someone we met as a child, a classmate at
school, someone we met at work or through other friends. They may be friends who live at a distance in another
country or virtual friends we've (2)_______ online. Whoever they are, however we met them, there is a special
connection (3)_____ on a shared history and interests, enjoying doing things together or simply talking and
understanding each other. Friends are there to help us at difficult times and to celebrate the good times. Doctors
say that friends are very important for both our physical and (4) ______ health at all stages in life.
But friends are not only important on an individual level. Friendship can (5) ______ . be important on a
global level. Friendships that (6)__________ borders can help bring peace and avoid war. Learning to think of
other people, people who are different from us, (7)___________ our friends helps us work together to build a
culture of peace. That's why the UN declared 30 July as its official International Day of Friendship.
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 An international celebration was first suggested by the World Friendship Crusade. This organisation was
(8) ______ by Dr Ramón Artemio Bracho and his friends in Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, in 1958. They wanted to
support the power of friendship and its importance in creating a culture of peace. So, in the same year, they
decided to celebrate Friendship Week in Puerto Pinasco and other places in Paraguay. The following year, they
repeated the week and finished on 30 July, (9)______ they declared as Friendship Day. From there, celebrations
of friendship grew and (10) _____ across the Americas, then the world, and eventually the UN declared an
International Day of Friendship in 2011.
Part V. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) bets fits each gap. Write
your answer on the answer sheet.(1.5pts)
WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
Students and jobseekers keen to get onto the course or into the workplace of their (1) ______ hope that
voluntary work will help them (2) ______ from the crowd. This chance to (3) ______ experience-personally
and professionally-is (4) ______ on the wish-list of young people.
A survey carried out last year revealed that young and old alike said volunteering had improved their lives,
particularly those (5) ______ in conservation or heritage work.
Businesses recognize its importance and get to (6)______ their profile in the community, while staff get a break
from their daily routine to develop "soft skills", such as initiative and decision-making. One volunteering
organization is (7) ______ another survey to find out if volunteering does make a difference in the workplace,
or if it is something businesses do simply to improve their (8)_______.
Not only are business-sponsored placements becoming more common, the government is also investing money
and aiming to (9)______ volunteers. The push is clear on to make volunteering as attractive as possible to
everyone. And the more people who participate, the more the act fulfils its (10) ______ of making the world a
better place.
(Source: CAE Result by Kathy Gude & Lynda Edwards)
1. A. alternative B. choice C. option D. election
2. A. stand out B. lift out C. pick out D. point out
3. A. win B. achieve C. collect D. gain
4. A. extreme B. high C. sharp D. strong
5. A. committed B. associated C. connected D. involved
6. A. raise B. increase C. arouse D. motivate
7. A. governing B. guiding C. conducting D. directing
8. A. representation B. look C. image D. figure
9. A. claim B. recruit C. bring D. enter
10. A. aim B. direction C. mark D. design

Part VI. Read the following text. Match sentences A-H with gaps 1-7 to complete the passage. There is
one extra sentence which you do not need to use. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (1.4pts)

Drop me a line!
In our fast world of phones, emails and computers, the old-fashioned art of letter writing is at risk of
disappearing altogether. Yet, to me, there is something about receiving a letter that cannot be matched by any
other form of communication. There is the excitement of its arrival, the pleasure of seeing who it is from and,
finally, the enjoyment of the contents.
Letter writing has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. It probably began with the little notes I
would write to my mother. My mother, also, always insisted I write my own thank-you letters for Christmas and
birthday presents. (1) ______.

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When I left home at 18 to train as a doctor in London, I would write once a week, and so would my mother.
Occasionally my father would write and it was always a joy to receive his long, amusing letters. (2)______ . Of
course, we also made phone calls but it is the letters I remember most..
There were also letters from my boyfriends. In my youth I seemed to attract people who had to work or study
away at some time and I was only able to stay in touch by correspondence. (3) _____ I found that I could often
express myself more easily in writing than by talking.
I love the letters that come with birthday or Christmas cards. (4) _____! And it's even nicer when it's an airmail
envelope with beautiful stamps. My overseas letters arrive from Mangala in Sri Lanka, from someone I trained
with over 20 years ago, and I have a penfriend in Australia and another in Vancouver.
Then there's the lady who writes to me from France. If we hadn't started talking in a restaurant on the way home
from holiday, if my husband hadn't taken her photo and if I hadn't asked her for her address, I would never have
been able to write to her. (5) _____. As it is, we now have a regular correspondence. I can improve my French
(she speaks no English); we have stayed at her home twice and she has stayed with us.
My biggest letter-writing success, however, came this summer, when my family and I stayed with my American
penfriend in Texas. (6) _____. Everyone was amazed that a correspondence could last so long. The local press
even considered the correspondence worth reporting on the front page. "
I am pleased that my children are carrying on the tradition. Like my mother before me, I insist they write their
own thank-you letters. My daughter writes me little letters, just as I did to my mother. (7) _____. However
convenient communicating by email may appear to be, I strongly urge readers not to allow letter writing to
become another 'lost art'..
(Source: Cambridge First Certificate in English 3)
A. Most of the letters from home contained just everyday events concerning my parents and their friends
B. We had been corresponding for 29 years but had never met
C. It didn't matter how short or untidy they were as long as they were letters
D. Notes are appreciated, but how much better to have a year's supply of news
E. Poor handwriting can spoil your enjoyment of a letter
F. But instead of harming the relationships, letter writing seemed to improve them
G. She and my son have penfriends of their own in Texas, organised by my penfriend
H. More important, if she hadn't replied, we would be the poorer for it

Part VII. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. (2.6pts)
Persistent bullying is one of the worst experiences a child can face. How can it be prevented?
Peter Smith, Professor of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, directed the Sheffield Anti-Bullying
Intervention Project, funded by the Department for Education.
Here he reports on his findings

Bullying can take a variety of forms, from the verbal - being taunted or called hurtful names - to the physical-
being kicked or shoved- as well as indirect forms, such as being excluded from social groups. A survey I
conducted with Irene Whitney found that in British primary schools up to a quarter of pupils reported
experience of bullying, which in about one in ten cases was persistent. There was less bullying in secondary
schools, with about one in twenty-five suffering persistent bullying, but these cases may be particularly
recalcitrant.
B
Bullying is clearly unpleasant, and can make the child experiencing it feel unworthy and depressed. In extreme
cases, it can even lead to suicide, though this is thankfully rare. Victimised pupils are more likely to experience
difficulties with interpersonal relationships as adults, while children who persistently bully are more likely to
grow up to be physically violent, and convicted of anti-social offences.
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C
Until recently, not much was known about the topic, and little help was available to teachers to deal with
bullying. Perhaps as a consequence, schools would often deny the problem. 'There is no bullying at this school'
has been a common refrain, almost certainly all true. Fortunately, more schools are now saying: 'There is not
much bullying here, but when it occurs we have a clear policy for dealing with it.'
D
Three factors are involved in this change. First is an awareness of the severity of the problem. Second, a number
of resources to help tackle bullying have become available in Britain. For example, the Scottish Council for
Research in Education produced a package of materials, Action Against Bullying, circulated to all schools in
England and Wales as well as in Scotland in summer 1992, with a second pack, Supporting Schools Against
Bullying, produced the following year. In Ireland, Guidelines on Countering Bullying Behaviour in Post-
Primary Schools was published in 1993. Third, there is evidence that these materials work, and that schools can
achieve something. This comes from carefully conducted 'before and after' evaluations of interventions in
schools, monitored by a research team. In Norway, after an intervention campaign was introduced nationally, an
evaluation of forty-two schools suggested that, over a two-year period, bullying was halved. The Sheffield
investigation, which involved sixteen primary schools and seven secondary schools, found that most schools
succeeded in reducing bullying.
E
Evidence suggests that a key step is to develop a policy on bullying, saying clearly what is meant by bullying,
and giving explicit guidelines on what will be done if it occurs, what records will be kept, who will be
informed, what sanctions will be employed. The policy should be developed through consultation, over a period
of time- not just imposed from the head teacher's office! Pupils, parents and staff should feel they have been
involved in the policy, which needs to be disseminated and implemented effectively. Other actions can be taken
to back up the policy. There are ways of dealing with the topic through the curriculum, using video, drama and
literature. These are useful for raising awareness, and can best be tied into early phases of development, while
the school is starting to discuss the issue of bullying. They are also useful in renewing the policy for new pupils
or revising it in the light of experience. But curriculum work alone may only have short-term effects; it should
be an addition to policy work, not a substitute.
There are also ways of working with individual pupils, or in small groups. Assertiveness training for pupils who
are liable to be victims is worthwhile, and certain approaches to group bullying such as 'no blame', can be useful
in changing the behaviour of bullying pupils without confronting them directly, although other sanctions may
be needed for those who continue with persistent bullying.
Work in the playground is important, too. One helpful step is to train lunchtime supervisors to distinguish
bullying from playful fighting and help them break up conflicts. Another possibility is to improve the
playground environment, so that pupils are less likely to be led into bullying from boredom or frustration.
F
With these developments, schools can expect that at least the most serious kinds of bullying can largely be
prevented. The more effort put in and the wider the whole school involvement, the more substantial the results
are likely to be. The reduction in bullying - and the consequent improvement in pupil happiness- is surely a
worthwhile objective.
(Source: Cambridge IELTS)
Questions 1-3
The Reading Passage has six sections, A-F.
Choose the correct heading for sections A-C from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number i-vi on the answer sheet.
List of Headings
i The role of video violence
ii The failure of government policy
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iii Reasons for the increased rate of bullying
iv Research into how common bullying is in British schools
v The reaction from schools to enquiries about bullying
vi The effect of bullying on the children involved
1. Section A 2. Section B 3. Section C
Questions 4-8
Choose the correct letter. A. B. C or D.
Write your answers on the answer sheet.
4. A recent survey found that in British secondary schools
A. there was more bullying than had previously been the case.
B. there was less bullying than in primary schools.
C. cases of persistent bullying were very common.
D. indirect forms of bullying were particularly difficult to deal with.
5. Children who are bullied
A. are twice as likely to commit suicide as the average person.
B. find it more difficult to relate to adults.
C. are less likely to be violent in later life.
D. may have difficulty forming relationships in later life.
6. The writer thinks that the declaration 'There is no bullying at this school'
A. is no longer true in many schools. B. was not in fact made by many schools.
C. reflected the school's lack of concern. D. reflected a lack of knowledge and resources.
7. What were the findings of research carried out in Norway?
A. Bullying declined by 50% after an anti-bullying campaign.
B. Twenty-one schools reduced bullying as a result of an anti-bullying campaign
C. Two years is the optimum length for an anti-bullying campaign.
D. Bullying is a less serious problem in Norway than in the UK.
8. Which of the following is the most suitable title for Reading Passage?
A. Bullying: what parents can do B. Bullying: are the media to blame?
C. Bullying: the link with academic failure D. Bullying: from crisis management to prevention
Questions 9-13
Complete the summary below
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers on the answer sheet.

What steps should schools take to reduce bullying?

The most important step is for the school authorities to produce a (9)______ which makes the school's attitude
towards bullying quite clear. It should include detailed (10) ______ as to how the school and its staff will react
if bullying occurs.
In addition, action can be taken through the (11) ______. This is particularly useful in the early part of the
process, as a way of raising awareness and encouraging discussion. On its own, however, it is insufficient to
bring about a permanent solution..
Effective work can also be done with individual pupils and small groups. For example, potential (12)_ _____
of bullying can be trained to be more self-confident. Or again, in dealing with group bullying, a 'no blame'
approach, which avoids confronting the offender too directly, is often effective.
Playground supervision will be more effective if members of staff are trained to recognise the difference
between bullying and mere (13)______.
SECTION B. WRITING (65pts)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (1.5pts)
1. Keeping calm is the secret of passing your driving test.
→ As long as __________________________________
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2. It is said that the Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
→The Vikings __________________________________
3. The students' riotous behavior should have been severely punished.
→The students deserved __________________________________
4. Everyone started complaining the moment the announcement was made.
→ No sooner __________________________________
5. It was Walter Raleigh who introduced potatoes and tobacco into England.
→ The English owe __________________________________
Part II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given. You must use NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS. Do not change the word given. Write your
answers on the answer sheet. (1.5pts)
1. He talked about nothing except the weather. (sole)
→ His __________________________________ the weather.
2. The girl's behavior was incomprehensible to the Head Teacher. (loss)
→The Head Teacher was __________________________________ the girl's behavior.
3. Since the director could not speak at the awards ceremony himself, one of the actors took his place. (behalf)
→ One of the actors made __________________________________ the director at the awards ceremony.
4. They had been observing the criminal for the past two weeks. (observation)
→The criminal __________________________________ for the past two weeks.
5. You should go for an eye test if you are struggling to read the newspaper. (tested)
→You should __________________________________ if you are struggling to read the newspaper.
Part III. (3.5pts)
Some people say that teenagers should work part-time and earn money. This way they will learn basic
lessons about work and become more disciplined. Others argue that teenagers shouldn't sacrifice their
rest and after-school activities to work.
Discuss both views and give your opinion.