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LẦN THỨ XIII, NĂM 2022
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT

ĐỀ THI MÔN:TIẾNG ANH- KHỐI 10

Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 12 trang)

A. LISTENING (50 pts)

Part 1: Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/ OR A
NUMBER for each answer. (10 pts)
Customer name: Mr (1)____________
Daytime telephone number: (2) _________________
Telephone number after 5 pm as above (if no one answers, (3)____________ a massage)
Number of guests: (4)____________________
Date: (5) _____________________
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: For questions 1-5, listen to a piece of news about a cloud kitchen, Kitopi and decide
whether the following statements are True (T), False (F), or Not Given (NG) according to what
you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)
1. Kitopi has every intention of expanding its business on account of the soaring demands for food
delivery.
2. Such issues as quality, speed and availability are not much problematic in traditional dining
business.
3. Kitopi attempts to create ample space for up to 70 brands with a view to speeding up preparation.
4. Kitopi plans to achieve total automation for at least 40 percent of its products in the near future.
5. A lot of customers cancel their orders when drivers fail to deliver food within thirty minutes.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3: For questions 1-5, choose the answer which fits best according to what you hear. (10
pts)
1. When it is suggested that he is not really as happy as he appears, Kevin
A. admits that he conforms to a stereotype.
B. explains why people might assume that.

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C. accepts that he is an untypical comedian.
D. confirms that depression can be a problem.
2. What does Kevin value most about the book entitled Laughter?
A. It was written with comedians in mind.
B. It helps him see why some comedians fall.
C. It shows him why audiences react as they do.
D. It aims to show what makes certain jokes funny.
3. What does Kevin say about his time at university?
A. He regrets his choice of degree subject.
B. He is proud of his academic achievements.
C. He enjoyed getting involved in a range of activities.
D. He had a lot in common with other students on his course.
4. After leaving university, Kevin
A. was determined to build a career as a journalist.
B. didn’t really enjoy the type of work he was doing.
C. set his sights on getting work as a television presenter.
D. took the opportunity to develop his skills as a performer.
5. What does Kevin say about his television career?
A. It’s not where he does his best work.
B. He wishes he hadn’t accepted certain offers.
C. It’s not as demanding as working on stage with a live audience.
D. He feels most comfortable doing a range of different programmes.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4: Listen to a talk about language and complete the following sentences. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each blank. (20 pts)
Unlike speakers of many regional dialects, which are incomprehensible to non-natives, those who
speak three different languages: (1)___________________, can easily communicate.
One of the best-loved TV shows in Azerbaijan is a Turkish language soap opera, often shown without
(2) ___________________.
It seems true that two ways of speaking should be considered two distinct languages or regional
dialects based on the degree of (3) ___________________.
Around the 16th century, a standardized language was developed in Europe with a view to supporting
politics, national defence and (4) ___________________ systems.
Promoting speech spoken in the capital as the standard spread throughout the world as a result of (5)
___________________.
Florentine language became standard Italian because it was used by (6) ___________________ in
their literary works.
A study conducted in 1999 revealed that the form of language used by tenants in (7)
___________________ determined landlord’s answers.
Some people in the USA discount AAVE as deviant English, although it conforms to (8)
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___________________.
Linguists prefer to call different forms of English as varieties, between which there is a (9)
___________________ distinction.
Over history, human language evolved and influenced each other, so forms of speech developed on a
(10) ___________________, which accounts for the beauty of language.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

B. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (40 pts)

Part 1 : Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 pts)
1. The foot _______ diligently searched the area for signs of the enemy.
A. squad B. force C. party D. patrol
2. Being a _______ entrepreneur, you will have to make a special effort for people to take
you seriously.
A. successful B. budding C. blossoming D. flowering
3. I wanted to resign, but my boss _______ with me to stay.
A. pleaded B. parted C. argued D. bargained
4. Last weekend, _______ nothing to watch on TV, we played chest together.
A. there being B. there having C. having had D. being
5. I offered to do the job, but soon found that I was _______ as it was more difficult than I had
thought.
A. pushing up daisies B. knocking on wood C. in over my head D. off their hands
6. After careful investigation, the committee_______ the accountant and recommended that the
police should not charge her.
A. acquitted B. expelled C. dispelled D. exonerated
7. I’d sooner you ______ a noise last night; I couldn’t get to sleep.
A. wouldn’t make B. didn’t make C. haven’t made D. hadn’t made
8. On 6th August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing thousands of
citizens and almost _______ the city.
A. overthrowing B. annulling C. eradicating D. annihilating
9. At parties, she is often_______ by shyness.
A. inhibited B. rejected C. shunned D. displaced
10. The students, __________ are graduating this year, are as thick as thieves.
A. five of them B. five of whom C. whose five D. five of who
11. The community should take the doctor’s advice into consideration since he’s in
________ earnest about the epidemic.
A. mortally B. fatally C. deadly D. gravely
12. The news reporters could not give full details of the story as their information was still _______
by official sources.
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A. rejected B. unanswered C. unconfirmed D. clarified
13. Lionel Messi was ________ over his team’s victory against Brazil.
A. delighted B. ecstatic C. jubilant D. blissful
14. On his desk _______, which he usually sits in front of and looks at.
A. stood the picture of us B. the picture of us stands
C. standing the picture of us D. stands the picture of us
15. This one is knitted in a linen-mix yarn which______well and feels especially soft to touch.
A. can be washed B. is washed C. washing D. washes
16. Tourists _________ when large numbers of middle class people _______ to join the
more wealthy aristocratic travellers.
A. have originated/ have begun B. had originated/ began
C. could have originated/ have begun D. originated/ began
17. He started hammering on the adjoining wall but Mary carried on _______.
A. notwithstanding B. regardless C. irrespective D. however
18. The endless parade of _________ on TV has made today’s young girls obsessed with
their bodies.
A. celebrities enhancing surgically B. surgically-enhanced celebrities
C. surgical celebrities enhanced D. enhanced surgically celebrities
19. _________ chair the meeting.
A. John was decided to B. It was decided that John
C. There was decided that John should D. John had been decided to
20. I wish she __________ me all the time about the broken vase.
A. wouldn’t nag B. didn’t nag C. hadn’t nagged D. doesn’t nag
Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: Give the correct form of each bracketed word in the following passage. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 pts)
1. Democracy died after a period of ________(cease) wars, imperial expansion abroad, and the rise
of demagoguery at home.
2. The consequences of ________ (compel) gambling are comparable to those of any other addictive
disease and are not simply those of financial loss.
3. The prison service has the twin goals of punishment and ________ (habit).
4. The first ________ (conceive) is that legal study at university is exclusively for students who
intend becoming solicitors or advocates.
5. Too late, she remembered the ________ (settle) effect such comments would have on Johnny.
6. Some economists are now predicting the danger of ________ (run) inflation.
7. The ________ (narrate) in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.

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8. They were now faced with seemingly________(mount) technical problems.
9. Their views lie outside the ________ (stream) of current medical opinion.
10. The teachers are fair and avoid ________ (favour) and scapegoating.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)
1. I’m calling ________ the off-chance that you’ll be free to go out this evening.
2. The Prime Minister said that he would speak to his advisors and then act ________ their advice.
3. The man was muttering ________ his breath as he walked down the road.
4. If you let them walk ________ you, you deserve no respect.
5. Even though I knew what he was going to say, I resolved to hear him ________ so as not to hurt
his feelings.
6. Jean has been beavering ________ to ensure the success of the festival.
7. Mary’s criticism was really scathing, but Frank simply shrugged it ________ and got on with the
job.
8. My exam results certainly pulled me ________ and made me realise I had to study more
effectively.
9. If you keep up the pressure, you’ll eventually wear them ________, and they’ll agree to do what
you want.
10. If they think we’re doing this for the good of the village, we should be happy to string them
________.
Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
C. READING (60 pts)
Part 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to fill in each blank in the following passage. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts)
Frescoes painting is the age-old technique which (1)________ painting on a damp plaster walls. It is
known to have been used to decorate homes for at least 5000 years and has probably existed in one
form or another for (2)________ longer. Its very nature makes it (3)_________ for adorning large
surfaces, which explains its (4)_________in churches and government buildings. (5)___________ oil
paintings, which are glossy and reflect light, making it difficult to view them from certain angles,
frescoes have a pleasing matte finish. As fresco plaster bleaches relatively easily, artists do not use as
wide a range of pigments as in other types of painting, sticking mainly to pale earth (6)_______.
Fresco painting is considered to have reached its (7)__________ in Italy during the Renaissance, with
Michelangelo being perhaps the most famous artist to (8)__________ this technique. A great many
churches in Europe (9)__________ wonderful frescoes, while more recently celebrated artists such as
the renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera have used the technique to great (10)_________.
1. A. composes B. comprises C. involves D. consists
2. A. greatly B. noticeably C. perceptibly D. considerably
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3. A. ideal B. pertinent C. relevant D. absolute
4. A. ubiquity B. universality C. preoccupation D. all-presence
5. A. On the contrary B. Unlike C. Conversely D. In reverse
6. A. tones B. tints C. shades D. hues
7. A. summit B. crest C. height D. top
8. A. operate B. enlist C. engage D. employ
9. A. demonstrate B. boost C. expose D. boast
10. A. result B. success C. effect D. reaction
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word
in each space. Write your answers in the space provided. (15 pts)
Impressionism was a movement that fundamentally changed how art was (1) _______ in the late 19th
century and many of the Impressionists have become so well known today that (2) _______
recognizes their names and their work. What is (3) _______ widely known is that women were also
involved in the movement, (4) _______ facing challenges.
These women (5) _______ artistic values with the other Impressionists. They emphasized color over
lines and shapes, and chose to depict transient moments from modern life, as (6) _______ to painting
classical themes. They were interested in the movement of light and less (7) _______ with strict
realism than the art establishment of the time. And alongside their male (8) _______ they faced
repeated rejection by the influential Académie, where art was judged and displayed in Paris, and (9)
_______ in the independent Impressionist exhibitions that were organized in response, first shocking
and (10) _______ winning over the public.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3: Read an extract from an article and answer the questions. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (15 pts)
Biological Patents
The patenting on biological matter has become particularly awkward and publicly controversial
in recent times. The reason for this is that scientists are patenting life itself, though we should be
careful about what we mean by 'life'. Many countries have allowed people to own and register plant
varieties for decades. America took the lead, starting with the 1930 Plant Patent Act, followed by
Germany and other European countries. Britain passed its Plant Varieties and Seeds Act in 1964, when
it awarded a full monopoly right to the owner of any plant that can be shown to be novel, distinct,
uniform and stable. The test of novelty is much looser than that required for an industrial patent (who
knows what plants may be growing in the wild?). So, a plant qualifies for protection even if it has a
history of growing wild as long as it has not been sold commercially for more than four years.
At the same time, patenting a seed or a plant for agricultural purposes was regarded as being no
different from patenting a chemical or biological recipe for pharmaceutical purposes. This notion was

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particularly welcome for Western farmers and horticulturalists who were eager to increase yields as
their own costs grew (especially farm wages) and foreign imports from low-wage countries undercut
their prices. They were also keen to grow new varieties that could be harvested and brought to market
a few weeks earlier. So, the huge investments in faster-growing and more disease-resistant seeds over
the past fifty years might not have been made if the seed companies had not been able to protect their
work.
Over that period the number of applications for plant and genetic patents has increased rapidly.
Technological advances in biotechnology have extended scientists' ability to exploit biological matter
from whole plants into their various components; from whole animals to parts of animals; and from
animals to humans. Developments in DNA and in cell technology have allowed scientists to identify,
nurture and remix cells so that they can create living material. The identification of the human genome,
which contains the genes that control the 'design' of each human, will also require a property contract.
But should the genome be public property in the same way as the knowledge of blood types is?
Or should it be private property? In 1952, the American Supreme Court famously said, 'Anything
under the sun that is made by man is patentable.' Since then, its position has shifted. In Diamond v.
Chakrabarty in 1980, it was asked to rule on a patent application by Anand Chakrabarty for a
genetically modified bacterial microorganism designed to gobble up oil spills at sea. It decided to shift
the dividing line to between the product of nature, whether living or not, and human-made inventions
which may, of course, be living, and it approved the patent. In 1987, the US Patent Office issued new
guidelines which stated that all bio-organisms except humans could be patented.
The Patent Office later issued a patent to Harvard University for an experimental mouse known
as Oncomouse, into which an oncogene had been inserted for the purpose of medical research. The
European Patent Office, after initially demurring, did likewise. It said Oncomouse was such a
considerable manipulation of genetic material as to be new and unique. It was protested on ethical
grounds that the mice would suffer during the research, but the EPO decided that the benefit to society
outweighed the loss to the mouse; a neat variation on the 'property contract' that balances the creator's
reward against the social gain. This rapid shift over seven years was a breath-taking expansion of
private property and a massive change in attitude towards the ownership of life.
Another odd case that reinterpreted the property contract against our common instincts occurred
when a Californian University medical centre managed to own and patent the cell line found in a
spleen taken from a patient John Moore, who had hairy-cell leukaemia. The doctors had discovered
that Moore's T-lymphocytes were extremely rare and of great medical value. Without informing him,
they carried out intensive tests that ended with the removal of his spleen. The cells were indeed as
valuable as expected, generating products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. When Moore
discovered how the university had privatised his cells, and made huge profits, he sued, but he lost. The
Supreme Court of California decided that we do not have an exclusive right to ownership of our cells
after they have left our body.

1. Under the 1964 Act, one requirement that qualified a plant for a patent was that it
A. had been developed as a result of commercial exploitation.
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B. had been discovered in the wild fewer than four years earlier.
C. exhibited characteristics that distinguished it from other plants.
D. had no prior history of being used in an industrial process.
2. The word horticulturalists refers to those who
A. grow flowers B. study cultures C. import seeds D. grow organic foods
3. Why were Western farmers keen to raise production levels in the 1960s?
A. Their overheads were making them less competitive.
B. The market price of their products had been reduced.
C. Disease that could destroy their crops was becoming rife.
D. Fast-growing weeds were making their harvest less lucrative.
4. The writer suggests that advances in biotechnology
A. have allowed scientists to conduct their experiments more precisely.
B. are dependent on the financial rewards they can generate.
C. will ultimately lead to the introduction of designer babies.
D. may be considered unethical if they involve exploitation.
5. The phrase gobble up mostly means
A. consuming B. supplying C. spreading D. destroying
6. The shift in position of the US Supreme Court in 1980 meant that
A. any biological organism could be patented.
B. knowledge of how DNA functions was patentable.
C. patents were no longer restricted to inanimate things.
D. tinkering with cells from living creatures was immoral.
7. The word demurring mostly means
A. advocating B. objecting C. reinforcing D. investigating
8. The European Patent Office ruling on Oncomouse
A. was never in doubt because Harvard University was involved.
B. became open to interpretation by experts in property laws.
C. totally disregarded the moral issues related to the case.
D. highlighted the emphasis on the greater good in legal decisions.
9. Which saying is most appropriate to the verdict handed down in the case involving John Moore?
A. Property has its duties as well as its rights.
B. No person's property is safe while legislature is in session.
C. If something is worth money, it is worth possessing.
D. Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
10. Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. Patenting Oncomouse met with some disapprovals concerning ethical matters.
B. The USA blazed a trailed in patenting kinds of plants.
C. The doctors removed Moore’s spleen unbeknownst to him.
D. Companies’ patenting their seeds provided an incentive for agricultural breakthroughs.
Your answers:
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 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. (15 pts)
How should reading be taught?

By Keith Rayncr a Barbara R Foorman

A. Learning to speak is automatic for almost all children, but learning to read requires elaborate
instruction and conscious effort. Well aware of the difficulties, educators have given a great deal of
thought to how they can best help children learn to read. No single method has triumphed. Indeed,
heated arguments about the most appropriate form of reading instruction continue to polarize the
teaching community.

B. Three general approaches have been tried. In one, called whole-word instruction, children learn
by rote how to recognise at a glance a vocabulary of 50 to 100 words. Then they gradually acquire
other words, often through seeing them used over and over again in the context of a story.

Speakers of most languages learn the relationship between letters and the sounds associated with them
(phonemes). That is, children are taught how to use their knowledge of the alphabet to sound out
words. This procedure constitutes a second approach to teaching reading – phonics.

Many schools have adopted a different approach: the whole-language method. The strategy here relies
on the child’s experience with the language. For example, students are offered engaging books and are
encouraged to guess the words that they do not know by considering the context of the sentence or by
looking for clues in the storyline and illustrations, rather than trying to sound them out.

Many teachers adopted the whole-language approach because of its intuitive appeal. Making reading
fun promises to keep children motivated, and learning to read depends more on what the student does
than on what the teacher does. The presumed benefits of whole-language instruction – and the contrast
to the perceived dullness of phonics – led to its growing acceptance across American during the 1990s
and a movement away from phonics.

C. However, many linguists and psychologists objected strongly to the abandonment of phonics in
American schools. Why was this so? In short, because research had clearly demonstrated that
understanding how letters related to the component sounds in words is critically important in reading.
This conclusion rests, in part, on knowledge of how experienced readers make sense of words on a
page. Advocates of whole-language instruction have argued forcefully that people often derive
meanings directly from print without ever determining the sound of the word. Some psychologists
today accept this view, but most believe that reading is typically a process of rapidly sounding out
words mentally. Compelling evidence for this comes from experiments which show that subjects often
confuse homophones (words that sound the same, such as rose and ‘rows). This supports the idea that
readers convert strings of letters to sounds.

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D. In order to evaluate different approaches to teaching reading, a number of experiments have
been carried out, firstly with college students, then with school pupils. Investigators trained English-
speaking college students to read using unfamiliar symbols such as Arabic letters (the phonics
approach), while another group learned entire words associated with certain strings of Arabic letters
(whole-word). Then both groups were required to read a new set of words constructed from the
original characters. In general, readers who were taught the rules of phonics could read many more
new words than those trained with a whole-word procedure.

Classroom studies comparing phonics with either whole-word or whole-language instruction are also
quite illuminating. One particularly persuasive study compared two programmes used in 20 first-grade
classrooms. Half the students were offered traditional reading instruction, which included the use of
phonics drills and applications. The other half were taught using an individualised method that drew
from their experiences with languages; these children produce their own booklets of stories and
developed sets of words to be recognised (common components of the whole-language approach). This
study found that the first group scored higher at year’s end on tests of reading and comprehension.

E. If researchers are so convinced about the need for phonics instruction, why does the debate
continue? Because the controversy is enmeshed in the philosophical differences between traditional
and progressive (or new) approaches, differences that have divided educators for years. The
progressive challenge the results of laboratory tests and classroom studies on the basis of a broad
philosophical skepticism about the values of such research. They champion student- centred learned
and teacher empowerment. Sadly, they fail to realise that these very admirable educational values are
equally consistent with the teaching of phonics.

F. If schools of education insisted that would-be reading teachers learned something about the
vast research in linguistics and psychology that bears on reading, their graduates would be more eager
to use phonics and would be prepared to do so effectively. They could allow their pupils to apply the
principles of phonics while reading for pleasure. Using whole-language activities to supplement
phonics instruction certainly helps to make reading fun and meaningful for children, so no one would
want to see such tools discarded. Indeed, recent work has indicated that the combination of literature-
based instruction and phonics is more powerful than either method used alone.

Teachers need to strike a balance. But in doing so, we urge them to remember that reading must be
grounded in a firm understanding of the connections between letters and sounds. Educators who deny
this reality are neglecting decades of research. They are also neglecting the needs of their students.

Questions 1-5
Reading Passage 3 has six sections, A-F.
Choose the correct heading for sections B-F from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number, i-ix, in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.
List of Headings
i Disagreement about the reading process
ii The roots of the debate
iii A combined approach
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iv Methods of teaching reading
v A controversial approach
vi Inconclusive research
vii Research with learners
vii Allowing teachers more control
ix A debate amongst educators
Example Section A ix
1. Section B
2. Section C
3. Section D
4. Section E
5. Section F

Questions 6-10
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3? In boxes 32-36
on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
6. The whole-language approach relates letters to sounds.
7. Many educators believe the whole-language approach to be the most interesting way to teach
children to read.
8. Research supports the theory that we read without linking words to sounds.
9. Research has shown that the whole-word approach is less effective than the whole-language
approach.
10. Research has shown that phonics is more successful than both the whole-word and whole-
language approaches.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

D. WRITING (50 pts)

Part 1: The chart below gives information about the amount of time children spend with their
parents.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant. You should write about 150 words. (20 pts)

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Part 2: Write an essay of 250 words on the following topic. (30 pts)
Some people say that news involving teenage suicides should be banned from all social media
platforms. Do you agree or disagree with this?

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