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ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT HỌC SINH GIỎI DHĐBBB

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
KHỐI 10
THỜI GIAN: 180 PHÚT

I. LISTENING
Section 1: Listen and complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer.
MEGEQUIP CUSTOMER DETAILS

Example Answer

Order from winter catalogue

Name (1)_____________ Greening

Address (2)_____________ York Terrace

Delivery address 5, York (3)______________

Payment method (4) _____________ in advance

Reason for discount address within the (5) _______________

Section 2: You will hear Tim Cole talking about guidebooks. Choose the answer
(A, B or C) which fits best according to what you hear.
1. Once, when Tim used a guidebook in Australia,
A he found the best budget hotel ever.
B it took him ages to find the place he was looking for.

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 C he ended up at an unexpected destination.
2. Tim believes the problem with guidebooks is that
A some of them are very poorly researched.
B many things have changed by the time you read the book.
C they are only regularly updated.
3. The thing Tim particularly dislikes about guidebooks is
A the recommendations about where to eat.
B that they have too much information about nightlife.
C the limited amount of information about history and culture.
4. What is Tim’s view on digital guidebooks?
A They can be problematic when downloading.
B He can’t find what he wants as easily as he can in a traditional guidebook.
C He likes the fact that they’re tailored to your individual requirements.
5. What did Tim like about Twitter tourism?
A It allowed him to meet more local people than tourists.
B The advice from other travellers was extremely helpful.
C He discovered some unusual things to do.
Section 3: Listen to part of a radio programme about a psychological condition
known as prosopagnosia. Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. The speaker compares face-blindness to the inability to hear.
2. Scientists do not understand how normal people remember faces.
3. The face-blind subjects could not distinguish between the faces or the objects.
4. Some people with this condition are so severely affected that they cannot recognise
members of their own family.
5. It could help scientists to understand human evolution if they knew more about
face-blindness.
Section 4: Listen and complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

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Jeff has lived in the house for (1)____________.
He thinks his house is haunted because of the (2)____________ which people have
had there.
His (3)____________ saw medieval soldiers.
Another guest saw furniture moving in the (4)____________.
When doing homework, Jeff has felt a person (5)____________ him.
His mother decided to convert the (6)____________ into a study.
An expert told them the house was built on the site of a (7)____________
His father recently had a (8)____________ installed.
One of the workers saw a man with (9)____________ on his clothes.
His father is normally at home (10)____________.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Exercise 1: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.
1. Her business must be going rather well, ____ by the car she drives.
A. deducing B. deciding C. inferring D. judging
2. She was kept awake for most of the night by the ______ of a mosquito in her ear.
A. whine B. moan C. groan D. screech
3. If you would like to wait a moment, sir, I will just _____ your file on the computer
screen.
A. call up B. pull down C. bring in D. pick up
4. He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather
______.
A. disembodied B. disconcerting C. dismissive D. discordant
5. If I were you, I would regard their offer with considerable ______, because it seems
too good to be true.
A. suspicion B. doubt C. reservation D. disbelief

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6. Now’s a _____ time to tell me you’re going out this evening - I’ve spent
the whole day preparing supper for you.
A. suitable B. reasonable C. right D. fine
7. The court's decision is seen as a major _______ to their authority.
A. hit B. blow C. damage D. undermining
8. In the _______ of any clear leadership, the rebellion collapsed.
A. lack B. omission C. absence D. vacancy
9. Her political future is now hanging by a _______.
A. rope B. cord C. thread D. string
10. The planes were delayed and the hotel was awful, but ______ we still had a good
time.
A. on the contrary B. by the same token
C. on top of all that D. for all that
11. I'd just as _______ have a quiet meal at home as eat out.
A. soon B. rather C. well D. much
12. They had a terrible row _______ who should do the housework.
A. on B. with C. over D. relating
13. Having decided to rent a flat, we_______ contacting all the accommodation
agencies in the city.
A. set to B. set in C. set for D. set about
14. My sunburnt nose made me feel rather _______for the first few days of the
holiday.
A. self-confident B. self-centred C. self-conscious D. self-evident
15. The peace of the public library was _______by the sound of a transistor radio.
A. smashed B. fractured C. shattered D. demolished
16. Why don’t you have a night out? It would take your _______ off your worries.
A. thoughts B heart C. head D. mind

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17. In the hands of a reckless driver, a car becomes a _______weapon.
A. lethal B. fatal C. mortal D. venal
18. What the company needs is a _______actor who can take on a variety of roles.
A. variable B. changeable C. diverse D. versatile
19. The new law on motorcyclists’ wearing safety helmets has come _______.
A. to power B. effective C. to existence D. into force
20. All the way along the winding street_______.
A. he came B. came he C. did he come D. comes he
Exercise 2: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and
write their correct forms in the space provided in the column on the right. (0) has
been done as an example.

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One rain day in 2012, I ducked into my local library of shelter (1) rain => rainy
and, for some reason, started looking at wills. I found one (2) ……………
written by a woman from Derby who had disguised her as a man (3) ……………
and gone off to fight – and die – in the first world war. She had (4) ……………
written her will phonetic, which made it easier for me to read as (5) ……………
I’m dyslexic. That was one reason why I connected with it. The (6) ……………
other was the phrase: “Blood swept lands and seas of red where (7) ……………
angels fear to tread.” It leapt out at me, made me to think about (8) ……………
the war’s death toll. With a bit of research, I discovered that (9) ……………
there had been 888,246 British and Colonial military fatality. (10)……………
I decided to represent that deaths through ceramic flowers, (11) …………..
anything I had first started making at university. Ceramics are
transient and fragile, like we are. They feel part of our very
humane – societies have always been carbon-dated by their
ceramics and pottery. I considered making roses, which
symbolise sacrifice in Victorian times, but I settled on the poppy
because of its links to war and remembrance.
Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with a suitable PREPOSITION or PARTICLE.
Write your answers in the numbered blanks provided below the passage.
1. We don't know what he is hinting _______.
2. It is clumsy _______ the waiter to spill the hot coffee on the woman.
3. He pondered ______ his decision to emigrate to Europe.
4. The building suddenly caved ______ and trapped all the occupants.
5. We must talk ______ the matter to clear any misunderstanding between us.
6. Bennett has always been obedient and will never go ______ her parents' wishes.
7. Marie noticed that the store marks ______ its products just before it announces
great discounts for shopping there.

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 8. Luiz made ______ with the money in the middle of the night.
9. The store went ______ within two months because there was not much business
in the first place.
10."So we all agree on the terms ? Let's shake ______ it," said the salesman.
Exercise 4: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered
space provided in the column on the right.

Putting some fun into the workplace

In a study of 737 chief executives working in large corporations, the

MAJOR
vast (1)___________ gave the same answer when asked what kind
of person they like to employ. Ninety-eight per cent said they would
PREFER
hire someone with a cheerful attitude, (2)___________ with a good
sense of humour.
LOYAL
Having fun at work apparently inspires (3)___________ in
SIGNIFY
employees. A survey of 1,000 workers showed how
LONG
(4)___________ their manager’s sense of humour or lack of it was
to the (5)___________ of time they stayed in a job. If they worked
for a boss whose sense of humour they described as ‘below
LIKELY
average’, the employee’s (6)___________ of staying dropped to
seventy-seven per cent compared to ninety per cent for a boss who
had an ‘above average’ sense of humour.
BENEFIT
Laughter may be both (7)___________ and good for business but it
NECESSARY
isn’t (8)___________ a positive aspect of all jobs. Some people
CONTINUE
working in retail jobs are required to smile (9)___________. Such
SATISFY
enforced happiness can cause (10)___________ at work and also
result in emotional stress.

III. READING
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Exercise 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or
D) best fits each gap. Write your answer in the numbered box.
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY
Sport as a spectacle and photography as a way of recording action have developed
together. At the turn of the 20th century, Edward J. Muybridge was experimenting
with photographs of movement. His pictures of a runner (1)___________ in every
history of photography. Another milestone was when the scientist and photographer
Harold Edgerton (2)___________ the limits of photographic technology with his
study of a (3)___________ of milk hitting the suffice of a dish. Another advance was
the development of miniature cameras in the late 1920s, which made it possible for
sports photographers to (4)___________ their cumbersome cameras behind.
The arrival of television was a significant development in the transmission of sport.
Paradoxically, it was of benefit to still photographers. People who watched a sports
event on TV, with all its movement and action, (5)___________ the still image as a
reminder of the game.
Looking back, we can see how (6)___________ sports photography has changed.
Early sports photographers were as interested in the stories behind the sport as in the
sport itself. Contemporary sports photography (7)___________ the glamour of sport,
the colour and the action. But the best sports photographers today do more than
simply tell the story of the event, or make a (8)___________ of it. They
(9)___________ in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants,
emotions with which people looking at the photographs can (10)___________.
1. A. exhibit B. show C. feature D. demonstrate
2. A. enlarged B. extended C. prolonged D. spread
3. A. splash B. drop C. dash D. drip
4. A. put B. keep C. lay D. leave
5. A. chose B. valued C. pointed D. cheered

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6. A. highly B. radically C. extremely D. severely
7. A. outlines B. signals C. emphasises D. forms
8. A. preservation B. store C. mark D. record
9. A. seize B. grasp C. capture D. secure
10. A. identify B. share C. unite D. join
Exercise 2: Read the following passage and fill in each numbered blank with
ONE suitable word. Write your answer in the numbered box.
The slug is a relative of the snail. It has a long rounded body and moves about on a
muscular foot. As it moves, it leaves behind a glistening trail of slime.
(1)___________ its mouth is a ribbon-like tongue with many rows of tiny teeth. The
slug uses this (2)___________ like a file to rasp up its food.
Most slugs (3)___________ on living or decaying plants, and thus do
(4)___________ good in clearing away dead vegetation. However, they
(5)___________ also do much damage in a vegetable garden (6)___________ eating
up precious vegetables. Some slugs are carnivorous (7)___________ flesh-eating.
They can be distinguished from the vegetarian slugs by the tiny shell
each (8)___________ near the hind end of its body. They feed on worms, caterpillars
and also their relatives, the vegetarian slugs that does so much harm to seedlings.
Gardeners kill as many slugs as they can because of the damage they do to vegetables
and fruits growing on the (9)___________ . Salt kills slugs and some gardeners put
down garden salt to keep off the troublesome tiny black slugs. The usual way of
killing slugs, however, (10)___________ to put down a slug-killer in the form of bran
mixed with poison metaldehyde.
Exercise 3: Read the following passage and decide which option (A, B, C, or D)
best answers each question. Write your answer in the numbered box.
Deep in the Sierra Nevada, the famous General Grant giant sequoia tree is suffering its
loss of stature in silence. What once was the world's No. 2 biggest tree has been

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supplanted thanks to the most comprehensive measurements taken of the largest living
things on Earth.
The new No. 2 is The President, a 54,000-cubic-foot gargantuan not far from the
Grant in Sequoia National Park. After 3,240 years, the giant sequoia still is growing
wider at a consistent rate, which may be what most surprised the scientists examining
how the sequoias and coastal redwoods will be affected by climate change and
whether these trees have a role to play in combating it.
"I consider it to be the greatest tree in all of the mountains of the world," said Stephen
Sillett, a redwood researcher whose team from Humboldt State University is seeking
to mathematically assess the potential of California's iconic trees to absorb planet-
warming carbon dioxide.
The researchers are a part of the 10-year Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative
funded by the Save the Redwoods League in San Francisco. The measurements of The
President, reported in the current National Geographic, dispelled the previous notion
that the big trees grow more slowly in old age.
It means, the experts say, the amount of carbon dioxide they absorb during
photosynthesis continues to increase over their lifetimes.
In addition to painstaking measurements of every branch and twig, the team took 15
half-centimeter-wide core samples of The President to determine its growth rate,
which they learned was stunted in the abnormally cold year of 1580 when
temperatures in the Sierra hovered near freezing even in the summer and the trees
remained dormant.
But that was an anomaly, Sillett said. The President adds about one cubic meter of
wood a year during its short six-month growing season, making it one of the fastest-
growing trees in the world. Its 2 billion leaves are thought to be the most of any tree
on the planet, which would also make it one of the most efficient at transforming
carbon dioxide into nourishing sugars during photosynthesis.

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"We're not going to save the world with any one strategy, but part of the value of these
great trees is this contribution and we're trying to get a handle on the math behind
that," Sillett said.
After the equivalent of 32 working days dangling from ropes in The President, Sillett's
team is closer to having a mathematical equation to determine its carbon conversion
potential, as it has done with some less famous coastal redwoods. The team has
analyzed a representative sample that can be used to model the capacity of the state's
signature trees.
More immediately, however, the new measurements could lead to a changing of the
guard in the land of giant sequoias. The park would have to update signs and
brochures - and someone is going to have to correct the Wikipedia entry for "List of
largest giant sequoias," which still has The President at No. 3.
Now at 93 feet in circumference and with 45,000 cubic feet of trunk volume and
another 9,000 cubic feet in its branches, the tree named for President Warren G.
Harding is about 15 percent larger than Grant, also known as America's Christmas
Tree. Sliced into one-foot by one-foot cubes, The President would cover a football
field.
Giant sequoias grow so big and for so long because their wood is resistant to the pests
and disease that dwarf the lifespan of other trees, and their thick bark makes them
impervious to fast-moving fire.
It's that resiliency that makes sequoias and their taller coastal redwood cousin worthy
of intensive protections and even candidates for cultivation to pull carbon from an
increasingly warming atmosphere, Sillett said. Unlike white firs, which easily die and
decay to send decomposing carbon back into the air, rot-resistant redwoods stay solid
for hundreds of years after they fall.
Though sequoias are native to California, early settlers traveled with seedlings back to
the British Isles and New Zealand, where a 15-foot diameter sequoia that is the

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world's biggest planted tree took root in 1850. Part of Sillett's studies involves
modeling the potential growth rate of cultivated sequoia forests to determine over time
how much carbon sequestering might increase.
All of that led him to a spot 7,000 feet high in the Sierra and to The President, which
he calls "the ultimate example of a giant sequoia." Compared to the other giants
whose silhouettes are bedraggled by lightning strikes, The President's crown is large
with burly branches that are themselves as large as tree trunks.
The world's biggest tree is still the nearby General Sherman with about 2,000 cubic
feet more volume than the President, but to Sillett it's not a contest.
"They're all superlative in their own way," Sillett said.

1. The word "supplanted" in paragraph 1

A. means inquisitive
B. Has a double-meaning both as a pun on the topic of plants and a literal
meaning of "to replace"
C. Is a synonym for "to plant again"
D. Has the same meaning as "to plant," with extra emphasis
2. One common myth about trees that The President helps disprove is
A. that giant sequoias are more resilient than other tree species
B. that old trees are as productive at photosynthesis as younger ones
C. that only giant sequoias may be named after historical figures
D. that large trees grow more slowly as they age
3. What is the primary benefit that Sillett and other researchers suggest that giant
sequoias may have?
A. Their natural beauty can have health benefits for those who travel to wildlife
preserves to see them
B. They represent centuries of natural history that no other living things do

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 C. Because of their size, they are able to process more carbon dioxide than
other trees, which can have significant benefits for the atmosphere
D. Their resilient bark may have eventual uses in human medicine.
4. The giant sequoias are compared to white firs to demonstrate that?
A. Even when the sequoias fall, they do not decay and so send less carbon into
the air
B. White firs are more plentiful because they grow and decay more quickly than
sequoias
C. The giant sequoias are completely resistant to death
D. White firs are essential because when they decompose they emit necessary
nutrients
5. The President has grown every year EXCEPT
A. 1850
B. 2012
C.1580
D. The President has grown every year of its life
6. All of the following contribute to the lifespan of the giant sequoia EXCEPT
A. They are resistant to diseases that can affect other tree species
B. Their size makes them less vulnerable to animal attacks
C. They are resistant to pests that commonly inhabit trees
D. Their thick bark protects them from wildfires.
7. The term "changing of the guard" in Paragraph 10 means
A. The size rankings of various large sequoias is being reevaluated
B. Human security will be employed to protect these valuable trees
C. Wildlife parks will bring in new equipment to ensure the safety of the trees
D. A new schedule of shifts will be made for studying the trees
8. What does the term "cultivated sequoia forests" in Paragraph 14 imply?

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 A. Current sequoia reserves will be altered to grow in particular patterns
B. That sequoias may be specially grown in the future for the sole purpose of
filtering carbon from the air
C. New forests may be grown globally to promote the beauty of the species
D. Wildlife parks will make more of an effort in the future to direct visitors to
the sequoia forests
9. Giant sequoias are native to California, but can also be found in
A. New Zealand B. France C. South America D. Australia
10. In the final sentence, the word "superlative" is closest in meaning to
A. Best of a species B. Most beautiful
C. The winner of a contest D. Having individual, unique merit
Exercise 4: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
TOURISM
A Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social
phenomena than most commentators have considered. On the face of it there could not
be a more trivial subject for a book. And indeed since social scientists have had
considerable difficulty explaining weightier topics, such as work or politics, it might
be thought that they would have great difficulties in accounting for more trivial
phenomena such as holidaymaking. However, there are interesting parallels with the
study of deviance. This involves the investigation of bizarre and idiosyncratic social
practices which happen to be defined as deviant in some societies but not necessarily
in others. The assumption is that the investigation of deviance can reveal interesting
and significant aspects of normal societies. It could be said that a similar analysis can
be applied to tourism.
B Tourism is a leisure activity which presupposes its opposite, namely regulated and
organised work. It is one manifestation of how work and leisure are organised as
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a tourist is one of the defining characteristics of being ‘modern’ and the popular
concept of tourism is that it is organised within particular places and occurs for
regularised periods of time. Tourist relationships arise from a movement of people to,
and their stay in, various destinations. This necessarily involves some movement, that
is the journey, and a period of stay in a new place or places. ‘The journey and the stay’
are by definition outside the normal places of residence and work and are of a short
term and temporary nature and there is a clear intention to return ‘home’ within a
relatively short period of time.
C A substantial proportion of the population of modern societies engages in such
tourist practices new socialised forms of provision have developed in order to cope
with the mass character of the gazes of tourists as opposed to the individual character
of travel. Places are chosen to be visited and be gazed upon because there is an
anticipation especially through daydreaming and fantasy of intense pleasures, either
on a different scale or involving different senses from those customarily encountered.
Such anticipation is constructed and sustained through a variety of non-tourist
practices such as films, TV literature, magazines records and videos which construct
and reinforce this daydreaming.
D Tourists tend to visit features of landscape and townscape which separate them off
from everyday experience. Such aspects are viewed because they are taken to be in
some sense out of the ordinary. The viewing of these tourist sights often involves
different forms of social patterning with a much greater sensitivity to visual elements
of landscape or townscape than is normally found in everyday life. People linger over
these sights in a way that they would not normally do in their home environment and
the vision is objectified or captured through photographs postcards films and so on
which enable the memory to be endlessly reproduced and recaptured.
E One of the earliest dissertations on the subject of tourism is Boorstins analysis of the
pseudo event (1964) where he argues that contemporary. Americans cannot experience

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reality directly but thrive on pseudo events. Isolated from the host environment and
the local people the mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in
inauthentic contrived attractions gullibly enjoying the pseudo events and disregarding
the real world outside. Over time the images generated of different tourist sights come
to constitute a closed self-perpetuating system of illusions which provide the tourist
with the basis for selecting and evaluating potential places to visit. Such visits are
made says Boorstin, within the environmental bubble of the familiar American style
hotel which insulates the tourist from the strangeness of the host environment.
F To service the burgeoning tourist industry, an array of professionals has developed
who attempt to reproduce ever-new objects for the tourist to look at. These objects or
places are located in a complex and changing hierarchy. This depends upon the
interplay between, on the one hand, competition between interests involved in the
provision of such objects and, on the other hand changing class, gender, and
generational distinctions of taste within the potential population of visitors. It has been
said that to be a tourist is one of the characteristics of the modern experience. Not to
go away is like not possessing a car or a nice house. Travel is a marker of status in
modern societies and is also thought to be necessary for good health. The role of the
professional, therefore, is to cater for the needs and tastes of the tourists in accordance
with their class and overall expectations.
Questions 1-5
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below
Write the appropriate numbers (i-ix) in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
Paragraph D has been done for you as an example.
NB. There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them You may
use any heading more than once.

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 List of Headings
i The politics of tourism
ii The cost of tourism
iii Justifying the study of tourism
iv Tourism contrasted with travel
v The essence of modern tourism
vi Tourism versus leisure
vii The artificiality of modern tourism
viii The role of modern tour guides
ix Creating an alternative to the everyday experience
1. Paragraph A
2. Paragraph B
3. Paragraph C

Example Answer
Paragraph D ix
4. Paragraph E
5. Paragraph F
Questions 6-10
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the reading passage?
In boxes 6-10 write :
YES if the statement agrees with the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
6. Tourism is a trivial subject.
7. An analysis of deviance can act as a model for the analysis of tourism.
8. Tourists usually choose to travel overseas.

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9. Tourists focus more on places they visit than those at home.
10. Tour operators try to cheat tourists.
IV. WRITING
Exercise 1: Rewrite the sentences so that they have the same meaning as the ones
before them.
1. We get on very well with our next door neighbor.
=> We are on ______________________________.
2. The last time we met each other was a fortnight ago.
=> It has been two ______________________________.
That makes me think of something that happened to me.
=> That brings ______________________________.
4. Apart from Philip, everyone else at the meeting was a Party member.
=> With the ____________________________, everyone else at the meeting was a
Party member.
5. His arrival was completely unexpected.
=> His arrival took ______________________________.
Exercise 2: Rewrite the sentences using the words given so that they have the
same meaning as the ones before them. Do not change the words given.
1. Bill reckoned that his success was due to incredible luck. PUT
=> Bill ______________________________.
2. They’re faced with the choice of two alternatives. HORNS
=> They’re ______________________________.
3. I suddenly realized the meaning of a “freebie”. DAWNED
=> It ______________________________.
4. I feel certain that there will be a new government after the election. BOUND
=> In my opinion, there is ______________________________.
5. I didn’t realize how much she was influenced by her mother. EXTENT

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=> I didn’t realize the ______________________________.
Exercise 3: Write an essay on the following topic:
Some people think it is more important to spend money on roads and motorways than
on public transport systems. To what extend do you agree?

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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN VĨNH PHÚC
ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ XUẤT HỌC SINH GIỎI DHĐBBB
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
KHỐI 10

I. LISTENING
Section 1
1. Oskar
2. 52C
3. Avenue
4. Cash
5. city
Section 2:
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. C
Section 3:
1. F
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
Section 4
1. Eight/8 years
2. (strange) experiences

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 3. uncle
4. kitchen
5. (standing) behind
6. (old) garage
7. battle
8. tennis court
9. blood
10. at weekends
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Exercise 1:

1. D 7. B 13. D 19. D
2. A 8. C 14. C 20. A
3. A 9. C 15. C
4. B 10. D 16. D
5. C 11. A 17. A
6. D 12. C 18. D
Exercise 2:
(1) of shelter => for shelter
(2) disguised her => disguised herself
(3) phonetic => phonetically
(4) The other => Another
(5) to think => think
(6) fatality => fatalities
(7) that => those
(8) anything => something
(9) humane => humanity
(10) symbolise => symbolised
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Exercise 3:

1. at 7. up
2. of 8. off
3. on / over 9. under
4. in 10. on
5. over
6. against
Exercise 4:

1. majority 7. beneficial
2. preferably 8. necessarily
3. loyalty 9. continuously
4. significant 10.dissatisfaction
5. length
6. likelihood
III. READING
Exercise 1:

1. C 7. C
2. B 8. D
3. B 9. C
4. D 10. A
5. B
6. B
Exercise 2:

1. In 4. some/much/immense
2. tongue 5. can
3. feed 6. by
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7. or 10. is
8. has
9. ground
Exercise 3:

1. B 7. A
2. D 8. B
3. C 9. A
4. A 10. D
5. C
6. B
Exercise 4:

1. iii 7. YES
2. v 8. NOT GIVEN
3. iv 9. YES
4. vii 10.NOT GIVEN
5. viii
6. NO

IV. WRITING
Exercise 1:
1. We get on very well with our next door neighbor.
⇨ We are on very good terms with our next door neighbor.
2. The last time we met each other was a fortnight ago.
⇨ It has been two weeks since we last met each other.
3. That makes me think of something that happened to me.
⇨ That brings to mind something that happened to me.
4. Apart from Philip, everyone else at the meeting was a Party member.

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⇨ With the exception of Philip, everyone else at the meeting was a Party member.
5. His arrival was completely unexpected.
⇨ His arrival took us/me/everyone completely aback/by surprise.
Exercise 2:
1. Bill reckoned that his success was due to incredible luck.
⇨ PUT Bill put his success down to incredible luck.
2. They’re faced with the choice of two alternatives.
⇨ HORNS They’re on the horns of a dilemma.
3. I suddenly realized the meaning of a “freebie”.
⇨ DAWNED It suddenly dawned on me what the meaning of a “freebie” was/a
“freebie” meant.
4. I feel certain that there will be a new government after the election.
⇨ BOUND In my opinion, there is bound to be a new government after the election.
5. I didn’t realize how much she was influenced by her mother.
⇨ EXTENT I didn’t realize the extent to which she was influenced by her mother.
Exercise 3:
Essay writing

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Section 1

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Section 2
Tim: I’m Tim Cole, and as an experienced travel writer, I’m here to tell you not to
believe everything you read in guidebooks because following some of the
recommendations they give can result in the most bizarre situations. I’ll never forget
the night I arrived in Sydney, for example. I’d turned up at the address of what I
thought was a budget hotel given in the guidebook at 1 a.m., exhausted and looking
forward to a few hours’ rest, but instead found myself at a comedy club, which at the
time I didn’t find at all funny.
The problem is that too many travellers are too trusting of their guidebooks and don’t
bother to research even the most basic facts before they set off. Some guidebooks are
only updated every couple of years, so it’s no wonder many things have moved on by
the time you get there. The most important thing when choosing a guidebook is to
check the publication date; if it’s not within the last twelve months, don’t buy it.
Then the other thing to think about is who the guidebook is aimed at. If you’re into the
history and culture of a place, don’t buy a guidebook full of information on the
alternative nightlife scene. But my pet hate, and something I’m always extremely
wary of, are the restaurant suggestions. So often I’ve turned up somewhere and the
menu, price and décor bear no relation to the place I’ve been reading about – if they
haven’t already gone out of business and shut down, that is.
Other things to look out for in a guidebook are the maps. These need to be detailed
but not so small you can’t read them. You don’t want to have to carry a magnifying
glass around with you. Books that include unnecessary information are another thing I
find annoying – like photos of famous places, for example. We already know what the
Eiffel tower looks like! Why not include more background information instead?
Of course, most guidebooks are also now available in a digital format and many
travellers prefer using these because they’re obviously not heavy to carry, so you can
download as many as you like. But I don’t find them easy to use at all because

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navigation is much harder than flicking through the index at the back of a book. Life’s
just too short and you can never guarantee you’ll have wifi access anyway. Until I can
get a digital travel guide which is tailor-made for my individual trip, I’m happy to
stick with the traditional form of guidebook.
However, on my trip to Hawaii last summer I experimented with a new way of getting
good travel advice: Twitter tourism. Instead of using a guidebook, I decided to rely on
the advice of locals and visitors alike – and let them choose what I should visit, where
I should stay and what I should eat. I didn’t mind as long as their advice was based on
a recent experience. It actually worked out really well and it felt like a real adventure.
Without the Twitter travel tips I’d never have visited the Ukulele Festival or eaten
spam sushi. One thing I’d never imagined doing – and I’m so grateful for the advice –
was a ten-kilometre kayak expedition along the coast for a night time swim with
manta rays in a huge cave. A truly magnificent sight. And my top tip for anyone
visiting Hawaii!

Section 3
Presenter: this week’s All in the Mind examines an unusual condition you may never
have heard of before prosopagnosia. Here’s Professor Alexander Scharma to explain.

Professor: Hello. Well, let’s start with an image some of you may be familiar with a
painting called The Son of Man, by the surrealist artist Rene Magritte. In the picture,
an apple floats in front of a man’s face, covering the features that would normally
allow him to be recognized. The painting perfectly illustrates the concept of
prosopagnosia, or face-blindness. To people with this condition, as soon as someone
leaves their sight the memory of that person’s face is blank- or, at best, a set of
jumbled features. Face-blindness is a little like tone-deafness: the tone can be heard,
or the face seen, but distinguishing between different tones or faces is nearly
impossible. The effects of prosopagnosia can be so bad that people severely affected
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can recognize their own parents or children. If we understood how the normal brain
recalls faces, we’d be well on the way to understanding this strange disorder. It might
also help us to understand human evolution, since the ability to recognize individuals.
This ability helps to hold society together and has enabled human beings to develop a
complex culture which is unique in the animal kingdom.

Section 4

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