SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN

NAM ĐỊNH NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT Môn thi: Tiếng Anh _ Đề chuyên

Thời gian: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

Đề thi gồm 08 trang.

SECTION A – LISTENING (2.0 pts)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU

* Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau khoảng 15 giây, mở đầu và kết
thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.

* Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc
kết thúc bài nghe.

* Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for
each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

Student is studying 1. ....................................

Student is in the 2. .................................. year of the course.

Position Available Where Problem

Receptionist In the Sport Centers 3. ..................................

Cleaner In the 4. .................................. Too early

5................................. In the library Evening lectures

Part 2. You will hear an interview with a man called O’Toole, who works as a teacher trainer. Listen to
the conversation carefully and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

6. Why are many teachers leaving the profession, according to Mike?

A. They don’t feel it is financially rewarding any more.

B. They are not being given the respect they once were.

C. They are investing too much in it without getting enough back.

D. They find the subject matter they have to teach too difficult.

7. Mike believes that without radical changes _______

A. education in the UK will begin to get worse.

B. UK schools will lose their ability to compete with one another.

C. the UK will soon no longer be a leader in education.

D. the educational system in the UK can be transformed.

8. The main failing of the UK education system is _______

A. the inability of students to use computers.

B. the resistance within schools to the introduction of technology.

C. the failure of government to invest in hardware for schools.

D. the lack of training for teachers in the use of technology in the classroom.

9. Why is teacher training failing teachers, according to Mike?

A. It is not helping them to keep pace with developments.

B. It does not use technology in its training classrooms.

C. It uses hardware and software that are out of date.

D. It is suffering from a lack of trainers with specialist knowledge.

10. Teachers can only benefit from technology if _______

A. they cease to see it as a threat.

B. they can combine it with traditional methods.

C. they are allowed to use it in their own way.

D. they are willing to research its possibilities on their own.

Part 3. You will hear a lecture about the history of April Fools’ Day. Decide whether the statements are
true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

11. April Fools’ Day is for people who love magic tricks.
12. A TV program in the UK broadcast that spaghetti grew on trees on April 4th, 1957.

13. Hundreds of people fell for the spaghetti-growing-on-trees prank.

14. People know for a fact that April Fools’ Day originated in France.

15. People who continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1st after the change were called “April
fools.”

Part 4. Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Advice on surfing holidays

Jack’s advice

• Recommends surfing for family holidays in the summer

• Need to be quite 16. _____________.

Irish surfing locations

• County Clare

- Lahinch has some good quality 17. ____________ and surf schools

- There are famous cliffs nearby

• County Mayo

- Good surf school at 18. ____________ beach

- Surf camp lasts for one week

- Can also explore the local bay by kayak

Weather

• Best month to go: 19. ____________

• Average temperature in summer: approx. 19 degrees

Costs

• Equipment

- Wetsuit and surfboard: 20. ___________ euros per day

- Also advisable to hire boots for warmth

SECTION B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (2.0 pts)

Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (0.5 pts)

1. I assure you that I _________ no hostile feelings towards you.

A. shelter B. harbour C. embrace D. cover

2. I thought I had made it_________ that I didn’t want to discuss this matter.

A. distinct B. plain C. frank D. straight

3. Maria is a very good student. She is, __________, an excellent one.

A. in most parts B. for most parts

C. for the most part D. in most of the parts

4. _________ is a belief generally held by people who live in colder climates.

A. That weather affects a person’s mood B. Weather affects a person’s mood

C. A person’s mood is affected by weather D. Although a person’s mood is affected by weather

5. In the director’s opinion, it was high time the actress began to _________ her age.

A. be B. reach C. act D. perform

6. As soon as he read the letter, tears _________ in his eyes.

A. filled in B. soaked up C. welled up D. weighed down

7. I didn’t suspect anything at first, but when I noticed her going through the office drawers I began to
smell _________.

A. a rat B. a pig C. a culprit D. a thief

8. The United States consists of fifty states, ____________ has its own government.

A. they each B. each of which C. each of that D. each of them

9. John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?”

Laura: “________________.”

A. There's no doubt about it B. Yes, it's an absurd idea

C. Well, that's very surprising D. Of course not. You bet

10. I didn’t really want to see the film, but my sister was so to go that I finally
agreed.

A. sincere B. keen C. energetic D. willing

Question II. Supply the correct form of the words given. (0.5 pts)

1. The government is spending a lot of money in the attempt to fight against (literate) .........................

2. He failed because he answered all my questions (logic) ..........................................

3. We think that Mother’s Day should be celebrated (nation) ............................................

4. She has a (care) .............................. attitude towards it.

5. Most peasants were living in subhuman conditions as the Feudalism had (poor) ...................... them
for a long time.

Question III. Fill in each blank with one of the provided particles to form a phrasal verb. Use each
provided particle ONCE ONLY. (0.5pts)

THROUGH – ACROSS – OFF – INTO – UP

1. I was surfing the Web when I came ___________ a site that had lots of information about my
favourite band.

2. I invited a lot of people to my party, but only a few showed ___________.

3. One of the miracles of nature is the way a caterpillar turns ___________ a butterfly.

4. The photocopier is giving ___________ a funny smell.

5. I had expected my plans for starting a restaurant to be a success but it all fell ___________.

Question IV. There are FIVE mistakes in the text (from 46 to 50). Identify each mistake, write it down
and give your correction. (0.5 pts)

Example: Line 1: older oldest

1
The culture of Vietnam is one of the older in the Southeast Asia region. Although Vietnam lies
geographically in Southeast Asia, long periods of Chinese domination and influence has resulted in the
emergence of many East Asian characteristics in Vietnamese culture, and general Vietnam is said to be a
part of the East Asian cultural sphere, known widely by Chinese cultural sphere.
5
Despite considerable foreign influence, Vietnamese people have managed to retain many distinct
customes. While Chinese culture has the largest influence on traditional Vietnamese culture, there is
also a much smaller influence from the Cham and latter Western cultures, most notably of France,
Russia and the United States.
SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION (3.0 pts)

Question I. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word
in each space (0.5 pts)

The computer is undoubtedly one of the most (1) _________ and important inventions of the
twentieth century. Boring or time-consuming jobs which, in the past, would have been carried
(2)_________ by hundreds of workers can now be done by one small computer. However, the
(3)_________ of the computer has not been entirely problem-free. Many people feel that we are
already too (4) _________ on computers. They think that computers themselves are (5)_________ too
powerful, and that people are no longer in control of them.

One of the problems with a computer is that, like any other machines, it can (6) _________down . If
a computer is (7)_________ the information it is storing can be lost. If a computer program has a(n) (8)
_________in it, the computer’s calculation can be seriously (9) _________. A faulty program in a
hospital or police computer could (10) _________terrible mistakes.

Question II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each
space. (0.5 pts)

Recent research has (1)________ that a third of people in Britain have not met their (2) _______
neighbors, and those who know each other (3)_______ speak. Neighbors gossiping over garden fences
and in the street was a common (4)________in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local
communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and
satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (5)_________. "Poor neighborhoods once had strong
kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy," said Chinn.

Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large (6)________ of
surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social activity is decreasing. A
third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at (7)________. Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy
consultant, rents a large apartment in West London, with two flat mates, who work in e – commerce.
"We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our contact comes via letters
(8)________ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin bags properly," said
Mayer.

The (9)________ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and
(10)_______ of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighborhood
Watch, call on people who live in the same are to keep an eye on each others' houses and report
everything they see which is unusual.

1. A. exhibited B. conducted C. displayed D. revealed

2. A. side-on B. next-door C. close-up D. nearside

3. A. barely B. roughly C. nearly D. virtually

4. A. outlook B. view C. vision D. sight

5. A. ties B. joins C. strings D. laces

6. A. deal B. amount C. number D. measure

7. A. least B. once C. all D. most

8. A. concerning B. regarding C. applying D. relating

9. A. breakout B. breakup C. breakdown D. breakaway

10. A. acts B. shows C. counts D. works

Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions below. (1.0 pts)

In the twentieth century, people demand on unlimited energy to power their everyday lives. A wide
range of energy-run devices and modern conveniences are taken for granted, and although it may seem
that we will never be in danger of living without those conveniences, the fact is that many supplies of
energy are dwindling rapidly. Scientists are constantly searching for new sources of power to keep
modern society running. Whether future populations will continue to enjoy the benefits of abundant
energy will depend on the success of this research.

Coal, oil, and natural gas supply modern civilization with most of its power. However, not only are
supplies of these fuels limited, but they are a major source of pollution. If the energy demands of the
future are to be met without seriously harming the environment, existing alternative energy sources
must be improved or further explored and developed. These include nuclear, water, solar,wind, and
geothermal power, as well as energy from new, nonpolluting types of fuels. Each of these alternatives,
however, has advantages and disadvantages.

Nuclear power plants efficiently produce large amounts of electricity without polluting the
atsmosphere; however, they are costly to build and maintain, and they pose the daunting problem of
what to do with nuclear wastes. Hydroelectric power is inexpensive and environmentally safe, but
impractical for communities located far from moving water. Harnessing energy from tides and waves
has similar drawbacks. Solar power holds great promise for the future but methods of harnessing wind
power.

Every source of energy has its disadvantages. One way to minimize them is to use less energy.
Conservation efforts coupled with renewable energy resources, such as a combination of solar, water,
wind, and geothermal energy and alternative fuels, such as alcohol and hydrogen, will ensure supplies of
clean, affordable energy for humanity’s future.

1.The passage mainly discusses ______________________.

A. the current situation of energy demands

B. the way to use less energy

C. the difficulties in finding new sources of energy

D. the advantages and disadvantages of some source of energy

2. The word “dwindling” in paragraph 1 is closet in meaning to ________________.

A. rocketing B. declining C. doubling D. distributing

3. According to the passage, which of the following is the limitation of natural gas?

A. It is difficult to be collected.

B. It is expensive.

C. It is polluted.

D. It is inaccessible for people who live far away the cities.

4. What does the word “its” in paragraph 2 refer to?

A. modern civilization B. oil C. natural gas D. coal

5. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Just like coal, nuclear energy is a pollutant to the air.

B. It is hard for people away from the water to use hydroelectric power.

C. Scientists are on their way to look for alternative sources of energy.

D. Wind power and solar power have the same problem.

6. What does the word “they” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. nuclear power plants B. amounts of electricity

C. advantages and disadvantages D. nuclear wastes

7. The word “drawbacks” in paragraph 3 is closet in meaning to _________________.

A. objections B. methods C. disabilities D. problems

8. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Scientists will not resume their search for new types of energy until they have found a perfect one.

B. Using hydroelectric energy can be harmful to our atmosphere.

C. It is impossible for some groups of people to enjoy water energy.

D. The only way to decrease the disadvantages of sources of energy is to use themselves.

9. What can be inferred about wind power?

A. Combining it and solar energy can ensure humanity’s future energy demands.

B. People living away from rivers and oceans cannot benefit it.

C. It is promising but very expensive.

D. An effective way to harmless wind power has not been figured out.

10. The author of the passage is trying to _______________________.

A. support scientists in their search for new sources of energy

B. present some new sources of energy

C. explain the benefits and shortcomings of some kinds of energy

D. calculate the energy demands of the future

Question IV. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs 1-5 from the list of headings below. Write
your answers in the boxes provided. Paragraph 0 is given as an example. (0.5 pts)

List of headings

i Amazing results from a project

ii New religious ceremonies

iii Community art centres

iv Early painting techniques and marketing systems

v Mythology and history combined

vi The increasing acclaim for Aboriginal art

vii Belief in continuity

viii Oppression of a minority people

Painters of time

0. __vi__

The works of Aboriginal artists are now much in demand throughout the world, and not just in Australia,
where they are already fully recognised: the National Museum of Australia, which opened in Canberra in
2001, designated 40% of its exhibition space to works by Aborigines. In Europe their art is being
exhibited at a museum in Lyon, France, while the future Quai Branly museum in Paris

- which will be devoted to arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

- plans to commission frescoes by artists from Australia.

A. __v__

Their artistic movement began about 30 years ago, but its roots go back to time immemorial. All the
works refer to the founding myth of the Aboriginal culture, ‘the Dreaming’. That internal geography,
which is rendered with a brush and colours, is also the expression of the Aborigines' long quest to regain
the land which was stolen from them when Europeans arrived in the nineteenth century. ‘Painting is
nothing without history,' says one such artist, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra.

B. _____

There are now fewer than 400.000 Aborigines living in Australia. They have been swamped by the
country's 17.5 million immigrants. These original ‘natives' have been living in Australia for 50.000 years,
but they were undoubtedly maltreated by the newcomers. Driven back to the most barren lands or
crammed into slums on the outskirts of cities, the Aborigines were subjected to a policy of ‘assimilation’,
which involved kidnapping children to make them better ‘integrated' into European society, and herding
the nomadic Aborigines by force into settled communities.

C. ____

It was in one such community, Papunya, near Alice Springs, in the central desert, that Aboriginal painting
first came into its own. In 1971, a white schoolteacher, Geoffrey Bardon, suggested to a group of
Aborigines that they should decorate the school walls with ritual motifs so as to pass on to the younger
generation the myths that were starting to fade from their collective memory, he gave them brushes,
colours and surfaces to paint on cardboard and canvases. He was astounded by the result. But their art
did not come like a bolt from the blue: for thousands of years Aborigines had been ‘painting' on the
ground using sands of different colours, and on rock faces. They had also been decorating their bodies
for ceremonial purposes. So there existed a formal vocabulary.

D. ____

This had already been noted by Europeans. In the early twentieth century, Aboriginal communities
brought together by missionaries in northern Australia had been encouraged to reproduce on tree bark
the motifs found on rock faces. Artists turned out a steady stream of works, supported by the churches,
which helped to sell them to the public, and between 1950 and 1960, Aboriginal paintings began to
reach overseas museums. Painting on bark persisted in the north, whereas the communities in the
central desert increasingly used acrylic paint, and elsewhere in Western Australia women explored the
possibilities of wax painting and dyeing processes, known as ‘batik’.
E. ______

What Aborigines depict are always elements of the Dreaming, the collective history that each
community is both part of and guardian of. The Dreaming is the story of their origins, of their ‘Great
Ancestors’, who passed on their knowledge, their art and their skills (hunting, medicine, painting, music
and dance) to man. ‘The Dreaming is not synonymous with the moment when the world was created.’
says Stephane Jacob, one of the organisers of the Lyon exhibition. ‘For Aborigines, that moment has
never ceased to exist. It is perpetuated by the cycle of the seasons and the religious ceremonies which
the Aborigines organise. Indeed the aim of those ceremonies is also to ensure the permanence of that
golden age. The central function of Aboriginal painting, even in its contemporary manifestations, is to
guarantee the survival of this world. The Dreaming is both past, present and future.'

G. Each work is created individually, with a form peculiar to each artist, but it is created within and on
behalf of a community who must approve it. An artist cannot use a 'dream' that does not belong to his
or her community, since each community is the owner of its dreams, just as it is anchored to a territory
marked out by its ancestors, so each painting can be interpreted as a kind of spiritual road map for that
community.

H. Nowadays, each community is organised as a cooperative and draws on the services of an art adviser,
a government-employed agent who provides the artists with materials, deals with galleries and
museums and redistributes the proceeds from sales among the artists.

I. Today, Aboriginal painting has become a great success. Some works sell for more than $25,000, and
exceptional items may fetch as much as $180,000 in Australia.

‘By exporting their paintings as though they were surfaces of their territory, by accompanying them to
the temples of western art, the Aborigines have redrawn the map of their country, into whose depths
they were exiled,’ says Yves Le Fur of the Quai Branly museum, ‘Masterpieces have been created. Their
undeniable power prompts a dialogue that has proved all too rare in the history of contacts between the
two cultures’.

SECTION D: WRITING (3.0 pts)

Question I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed above it. (0.5 pts)

1. The first sign of the disease is blurred vision.

The onset __________________________________________________________________.

2. I will only be satisfied if the manager apologizes fully.

Nothing short _______________________________________________________________.

3. Julia isn’t to blame for the negligence by any means.

By no means _______________________________________________________________.

4. It rumored that we will have a new manager.

Rumor has _________________________________________________________________.

5. No one stands a chance of beating Mansell in this year’s championship.

It’s a foregone ______________________________________________________________.

Question II. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one, using the
words given. 0.(5 pts)

6. I remained neutral during their disagreement because I like both of them. (SIDES)

__________________________________________________________________________.

7. A great many people will congratulate her if she wins. (SHOWERED)

__________________________________________________________________________.

8. He is a generous person. (NAME)

__________________________________________________________________________.

9. Several runners have withdrawn from the race because of health problems. (BACKED)

__________________________________________________________________________.

10. Returning from the battle, they had no money left. (RUB)

__________________________________ ___________________________________

Question III. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. (0.5 pts)

11. Although they were tired, they decided to go on with the plan.

Tired _________________________________________________________________.

12. “Why don’t you complain to the company, John?” said Peter.

Peter suggested ___________________________________________________________________.

13. He was annoyed because I walked across his field.

He objected _______________________________________________________________________.

14. My sister didn’t leave the house key. As a result, I can’t be cooking lunch.
Had ______________________________________________________________________.

15. It is not a habit of mine to sleeping in the afternoon.

I am not _______________________________________________________________

Question IV. Write an essay (1.5 pts)

Competitiveness is considered a positive quality among people.

Do you agree with this statement? Write an essay of 200 words to state your viewpoint

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