Đề thi học sinh giỏi tỉnh Nghệ An năm 2012 – 2013 môn Tiếng Anh lớp 12 Bảng B (Có đáp án) Sở GD&ĐT Nghệ An

SECTION A – PHONETICS

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others.

1. A. challenge B. chance C. achievement D. scholarship

2. A. headaches B. wishes C. finishes D. watches

3. A. parked B. laughed C. ploughed D. established

4. A. musician B. sociable C. society D. official

5. A. flew B. few C. sewage D. drew

II. Identify the word whose stressed pattern is different from that of the others.

6. A. intelligent B. population C. opportunity D. economics

7. A. advisable B. admirable C. reliable D. desirable

8. A. method B. invention C. intense D. effective

9. A. technology B. important C. popularity D. impossible

10. A. solemn B. express C. succeed D. event

SECTION B – VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

11. You are old enough to take _______ for what you have done.
A. responsible B. responsibility C. responsibly D. irresponsible

12. Should gravity, the pull of the earth, be zero, everything ____________ .
A. will float B. would be floating C. floated D. would float

13. I’ll have to work hard to _______ with the rest of the class.
A. catch B. run C. keep pace D. keep on

14. _______ his exhaustion, he won the marathon by nearly three minutes.
A. In spite B. Despite C. Although D. However

15. Your success in life very largely on yourself.
A. is keen B. depends C. lies D. goes

16. Buying a car was an important __________ for them.
A. transformation B. translation C. transaction D. transportation

17. No one can predict the future exactly. Things may happen _______.
A. expected B. unexpected C. expectedly D. unexpectedly

18. _______! The tree is going to fall.
A. Look out B. Look up C. Look on D. Look after

19. We took _____ of the fine weather and spent the day on the beach.
A. chance B. advantage C. occasion D. effect

20. All the athletes taking part in the international games should be proud of ________ .
A. oneself B. themselves C. himself D. yourself

21. The bomb _______ in the garage; fortunately no one hurt.
A. put on B. went off C. got out D. kept up

22. __________ I can’t understand is _________ he wants to change his mind.
A. That/that B. Which/what C. What/why D. What/that

23. The nurse was on _____ in the hospital all night.
A. duty B. alarm C. service D. work

24. Only when you grow up ______ the truth.
A. you will know B. you know C. do you know D. will you know

25. All the boys are good at cooking, but _______ is as good as the girls.
A. none B. either C. neither D. every

II. Read the following passage. There is ONE mistake in each of the numbered lines. Find and correct it.

26. Mrs. Stevens, along with her cousins from New Mexico, are planning to attend the festivities.

27. Some of us have to study their lessons carefully if we expect to pass this examination.

28. A five-thousand-dollars reward was offered for the capture of the escaped criminals.

29. Many kinds of vegetables are growth in California’s Imperial Valley.

30. Despite the metric system is used throughout the world, it is still not commonly used in the Unite States.

31. She is looking forward to meet him again.

32. In 1837 Victoria, an eighteen-year-old woman, named queen of England.

33. The tickets that you ordered they will be delivered tomorrow.

34. Cool temperatures, shade, moist, and the presence of dead organic material provide the ideal living conditions for mushrooms.

35. When I first went to a university I studied law.

SECTION C – READING

I. Read the following passage, and then choose the best answer from A, B, C or D.

When you enter the supermarkets, you see shelves full of food. You walk in the aisles between the shelves. You push a shopping cart and put your food in it.

You probably hear soft, slow music as you walk along the aisles. If you hear fast music, you walk quickly. The supermarket plays slow music, you walk slowly and have more time to buy things.

Maybe you go to the meat department first. There is some meat on sale, and you want to find it. The manager of the supermarket knows where customers enter the meat department. The cheaper meat is at the other end of the meat department, away from where the customers enter. You have to walk by all the expensive meat before you find the cheaper meat. Maybe you will buy some of the expensive meat instead of the meat on sale.

The dairy department sells milk and milk products such as butter and cheese. Many customers like milk that has only little butterfat in it. One store has three different containers of low fat milk. One says ‘1% fat’ on the container. The second says ‘99 percent (99%) fat free’. The third says ‘Low fat’ in big letters and 1% in small letters. As you can see, all the milk has the same amount of fat. The milk is all the same. The amount of milk in each container is also the same. However, in this store they cost three different amounts of money. Maybe the customers will buy the milk that costs the most.

36. What is the main topic of this passage?
A. How different kinds of food are arranged in supermarkets.
B. Soft, slow music makes people buy more in supermarkets.
C. The supermarket is designed to make you buy things.
D. Be sure not to be deceived in supermarkets

37. The manager knows __________.
A. which customers like low fat milk B. which customers like slow music
C. where customers enter the meat department D. where customers come from

38. When you walk by the expensive meat __________ .
A. maybe you will buy some B. maybe you will buy low fat milk
C. you will look for fresh food D. you will walk on the shelves

39. The word “they” in the last paragraph means ______.
A. the customers
B. the managers of the supermarket
C. the containers of low fat milk
D. the food in the supermarket

40. There are three different containers of low fat milk.
A. One has 99 percent of butterfat.
B. They all cost the same amount of money.
C. One has less fat than the others.
D. They all have the same amount of fat.

II. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps in the following passage.

British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time glued to the telly and not enough time on other activities (41)_________ sports and reading. A survey recently (42)_________ on people’s viewing habits does not disprove this. It shows that young people in Britain spend on average 23 hours a week in front of the television, (43)_________ works out at over three hours every day.

(44)__________ is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: incredible 28 hours a week. We (45)__________ to have become a nation of addicts. Just about every household in the country has a television and over half have two or more. According to the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living-rooms, they watch it in the kitchen and in bed (46)_________.

The Education Minister said a few weeks ago that Britain’s pupils (47)_________ spend more time reading. Unfortunately, parents are not setting a good example: adults do (48)_________ reading than young people. In fact, reading is at the (49)_________ of their list of favourite pastimes. They would (50)_________ listen to the radio, go to the cinema or hire a video to watch on their televisions at home.

41. A. such B. like C. as D. alike
42. A. investigated B. researched C. carried D. carried out
43. A. that B. which C. this D. it
44. A. What B. It C. The thing D. This
45. A. seem B. ought C. used D. would like
46. A. in addition B. as well C. more D. moreover
47. A. might B. could C. should D. would
48. A. more B. less C. little D. fewer
49. A. tail B. top C. beginning D. bottom
50. A. better B. rather C. prefer D. like

III. Fill in each numbered gap with ONE suitable word.

The traditional of birthday parties started a long time ago. People thought that there (51)______ a special danger from evil spirits, so friends and family came together to bring good thoughts and wishes and even presents. At one time, only kings had birthday parties but as time went (52)____, children and then adults began to have their (53)_____ birthday celebrations. There are some traditions – (54)______ as sending birthday cards, blowing out the candles on a birthday cake and singing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song, that you can find (55)_______ anywhere, any time.

In China, everyone celebrates their birthday on New Year’s Day: they become one year (56)______ on that day. On a child’s second birthday, family members put a variety of objects on the floor around the child. (57)______ to Chinese tradition, the first object that the child picks up tells you what profession the child will choose (58) ______ in life.

In many English-speaking countries, a twenty-first birthday cake often has a key on top, or the cake (59)______ is sometimes in the shape of a key. The key means that the young person is now old (60)______ to leave and enter the family home at any time they want to!

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