ĐỀ ÔN LUYỆN HỌC SINH GIỎI_ ĐỀ 1

Môn: Tiếng Anh Khối 10

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A. LISTENING
Part 1: You will hear part of an interview with StanLevin, a dance critic, about a modern ballet
production involving animals. For questions 1- 5, choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best
according to what you hear.
1. It appears that the function of the dogs in the ballet is to _____.
A. acts as a contrast to the human characters.
B. reflect what happens to the human characters.
C. symbolise homeless people.
D. shows how wild animals behave in a civilised society.
2. How does Stan feel about the increasing use of technology in dance?
A. He prefers more traditional approaches to dance.
B. He thinks this trend has gone too far.
C. He believes it is creating a new art form.
D. He does not approve of it in principle.
3. What aspect of ballet is of greatest interest to audience?
A. the way the dogs perform their tricks
B. the way the dogs behave during dance sequences
C. the way the dogs copy the actions of one character
D. the sight of the dogs in a pack
4. What caused the lapse in mood during the performance Stan saw?
A. the inability of the dogs to concentrate
B. the behaviour of a member of the audience
C. the inability of dogs and humans to work as a team
D. the audience’s unwillingness to accept the dogs
5. What aspect of the performance made the most powerful impression on Stan?
A. the bond between the dogs and the tramp
B. the primitive appearance of the dogs
C. the implicit potential for violence
D. the aggression shown by the dogs

Part 2. For questions 6-10, you will hear the historian, George Davies, talking about society and the
theatre in England in the time of William Shakespeare. Decide whether the following statements are true
(T) or false (F).
6. ______ According to Professor Davies, the level of literacy in sixteen-century England matched his
expectations.
7 ______ In Professor Davies' opinion, the advantage of the usual method of communication in the sixteenth
century was that people absorbed more of what they heard.
8. ______ Professor Davies believes that Shakespeare's company developed their basic acting skills by
attending special voice classes.
9. ______ In Professor Davies' view, the advantage of sixteen-century theatres was that the performances
were complemented by everyday life.
10. _____ Professor Davies thinks that sixteen-century plays were expected to deal with personal
confessions.
Part 3. You hear a radio interview in which the presenter, Terry Davis, is talking to Dr Elizabeth Jones,
an expert on climate. Listen to the interview and complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS and/or A NUMBER.
CLIMATE CHANGE
11. Climate refers to a ............................................................................ ; weather varies from day to day.
12. Scientists can now ............................................................................. , which helps future projections.
13. A lot of .......................................... (e.g. coastal cities) are now more vulnerable to climate changes.
14. In the late 70s: new equipment was developed to calculate the ........................................................... .
There have been very small variations over last 20 years.
15. Most warming in 20th century was caused by increased emissions of .................................................
produced by humans.
16. Small temperature changes may cause ............................................................................................... .
17. Evidence of change: melting glaciers, early springs, less snow on mountains, more
frequent ........................................................................... .
18. Oceans and forests absorb some carbon dioxide but burning fossil fuels
produces .........................................................
19. It can take up to ......................................................... for carbon dioxide to be removed from
atmosphere.
20. One study suggests emissions at a level of 450 parts per million will be necessary to
avoid .......................................................... .

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence.
21. ______ he was kidnapped by the Iraqi Guerrillas yesterday has been confirmed.
A. What B. x C. Although D. That
22. Did you see Jonathan this morning? He looked like ________ . It must have been quite a party last
night.
A. a wet blanket B. a dead duck C. death warmed up D. a bear with a sore head
23. After travelling all day, he was completely ________.
A. done in B. done up C. broken down D. used up
24. Jeremys friends were fond of him______ because of his generosity.
A. still less B. at least C. not least D. even less
25. This insect is completely _______, I’ve never seen anything like that before.
A. out of the way B. out of sight C. off the way D. off the track
26. _____ films about writers are so dull is that writers don’t dress up to practice their craft.
A. One of the reasons B. Everybody says C. It is often claimed D. Because
27. Inspector Morts was determined to get to the ____ of the mystery.
A. ground B. end C. bottom D. point
28. You will ______ plagiarism if you use someone’s words without quotation marks.
A. summit B. commit C. submit D. convict
29. Larry never spoke to anyone, and kept himself _______.
A. outside B. withdrawn C. superior D. aloof
30. He ______safety goggles, but he wasn’t and, as a result, the hot steel badly damaged his eyes.
A. could have been wearing B. must have been wearing
C. should wearing D. ought to have been wearing
31. I wish you’d do the accounts. I don’t have ________ for numbers.
A. a head B. a mind C. the heart D. the nerve
32. I couldn’t persuade my sister, and now I am _______ to the fact that she is going to marry Jason.
A. adapted B. resigned C. adjusted D. accepted
33. - Tom: “Who's going to win the contest?” - Jerry: “_____”
A. I've set my heart on winning it. B. It might be a good idea to bet.
C. Your guess is as good as mine. D. There's nothing you don't know about beauty.
34. It's raining again! That's ______ at the weekend!
A. a mixed blessing B. a rude awakening C. par for the course D. part and parcel
35. Their research into the causes of cancer promises to break the new _________ in the field and possibly
lead to a cure.
A. earth B. ground C. soil D. land

C. READING
Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write
your answers in corresponding numbered boxes.
Cheetah: not your average big cat
That the cheetah is the fastest of the big cats is beyond dispute and common 36.________, with it having
reportedly been clocked at speeds in excess of 70mph. However, whilst it has impressive acceleration over
short distances, it could not 37.________sustain such speeds for any significant length of time. Therefore,
when hunting, it relies largely on the 38.________of surprise to use its speed to good advantage. Otherwise,
in a prolonged hunt, it will 39.________wanting in the stamina department and generally have to abandon
the chase.
Still on the 40.________of running, incredibly, a sprinting cheetah is actually completely airborne more
than fifty percent of the time. Indeed, at full 41.________, its single stride length is an impressive seven
metres.
Cheetahs are peculiar amongst big cats, though, because, aside from their breath-taking speed, their
performance in other areas actually leaves a lot to be 42.________. For instance, their nocturnal vision is
little better than our own. Uncharacteristically for a big cat, too, females are 43.________ to be loners,
whilst it is males that are more likely to 44.________, frequently in groups up to five. The 45.________
noun for a group of male cheetahs is a coalition.
36. A. knowledge B. fact C. data D. news
37. A. conceivably B. perceivably C. comprehensively D. predictably
38. A. segment B. feature C. portion D. element
39. A. show B. prove C. confirm D. disclose
40. A. course B. field C. subject D. content
41. A. rate B. throttle C. rush D. scurry
42. A. desired B. required C. craved D. fancied
43. A. convinced B. swayed C. prompted D. inclined
44. A. conjoin B. congest C. congregate D. contend
45.A. possessive B. collective C. reciprocal D. indefinite

Part 2: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each
space.
Tree energy
Renewable energy is a key focus of most nations’ energy programmes today, and with countries like
Portugal and Costa Rica 46._______ the way in disproving those naysayers who claimed that it would never be
sufficiently reliable or commercially viable to provide power on a grand 47.______, it has received even
more attention of 48._______. As the level of interest peaks, innovative new ways of generating renewable
energy are also being explored. Of course, wind energy has been around for a very long time now; however,
researchers in Iowa have been examining it from a different perspective 49._______the box and they may
yet prove that it is possible to 50._______ the wheel, so to 51._______ – or the turbine – after all.
Inspired by the rustle of the leaves in the trees on a casual stroll one day, it 52._______ to one Iowan
scientist 53._______ Eric Henderson that it might be possible to harness low-to-ground wind energy in a
way that traditional wind turbines simply cannot, by replicating the conditions he observed. 54._______ ,
the idea became something of an obsession and he grappled with the notion for some time, researching in-
depth the shapes, dynamics and oscillations of tree leaves with the help of two colleagues he recruited from
his university. 55._______ , they conceived of the concept of a faux forest, where artificial trees replace
woody ones and harness the unexploited energy potential of low-level winds.

Part 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction

There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth,
particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural hazard to life on
Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have collided with Earth.
If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an
ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the
Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth’s history is marked by a mass extinction, when
as many as half the species on the planet became extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions
in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it
marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures had
flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a mass of
more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first identified this impact in
1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after the
impact. This sediment layer is enriched in the rare metal iridium and other elements that are relatively
abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even diluted (pha loãng, phai nhạt) by the
terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this component of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990
geologists had located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried
in sediment, was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as the
lunar crater Tycho. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere, as can be
determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust settled to the surface.
Such a quantity of material would have blocked the sunlight completely from reaching the surface, plunging
Earth into a period of cold and darkness that lasted at least several months. The explosion is also calculated
to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth, starting
widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland. Presumably, those
environmental disasters could have been responsible for the mass extinction, including the death of the
dinosaurs.
Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with large
impacts, but none is so dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such specific documentation, it
is clear that impacts of this size do occur and that their results can be catastrophic. What is a catastrophe for
one group of living things, however, may create opportunities for another group. Following each mass
extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened
by the event.
Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and seriously
influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the majority of all
extinctions of species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of
biological evolution. The standard criterion for the survival of a species is its success in competing with
other species and adapting to slowly changing environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability
of a species to survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were
unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the hazard
posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from a detailed analysis
that impacts from meteorites can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a large
impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.
56. In paragraph 2, why does the author include the information that dinosaurs had flourished for tens of
millions of years and then suddenly disappeared?
 A. To support the claim that the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous is the best-documented of the
dozen or so mass extinctions in the geological record
B. To explain why as many as half of the species on Earth at the time are believed to have become extinct at
the end of the Cretaceous
C. To explain why paleontologists have always been intrigued by the mass extinction at the end of the
Cretaceous
D. To provide evidence that an impact can be large enough to disturb the environment of the entire planet
and cause an ecological disaster
57. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the location of the meteorite impact in
Mexico?
A. The location of the impact site in Mexico was kept secret by geologists from 1980 to 1990.
B. It was a well-known fact that the impact had occurred in the Yucatán region.
C. Geologists knew that there had been an impact before they knew where it had occurred.
D. The Yucatán region was chosen by geologists as the most probable impact site because of its climate.
58. According to paragraph 3, how did scientists determine that a large meteorite had impacted Earth?
A. They discovered a large crater in the Yucatán region of Mexico.
B. They found a unique layer of sediment worldwide.
C. They were alerted by archaeologists who had been excavating in the Yucatán region.
D. They located a meteorite with a mass of over a trillion tons.
59. The word “excavating” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. digging out B. extending C. destroying D. covering up
60. The word “consumed” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
A. changed B. exposed C. destroyed D. covered
61. According to paragraph 4, all of the following statements are true of the impact at the end of the
Cretaceous period EXCEPT:
A. A large amount of dust blocked sunlight from Earth.
B. Earth became cold and dark for several months.
C. New elements were formed in Earth’s crust.
D. Large quantities of nitric acid were produced.
62. The phrase “tentatively identified” in paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to
A. identified after careful study B. identified without certainty
C. occasionally identified D. easily identified
63. Paragraph 6 supports which of the following statements about the factors that are essential for the
survival of a species?
A. The most important factor for the survival of a species is its ability to compete and adapt to gradual
changes in its environment.
B. The ability of a species to compete and adapt to a gradually changing environment is not the only ability
that is essential for survival.
C. Since most extinctions of species are due to major meteorite impacts, the ability to survive such impacts
is the most important factor for the survival of a species.
D. The factors that are most important for the survival of a species vary significantly from one species to
another.
64. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the following sentence?
“Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were unsuspected a
few decades ago”. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential
information.
A. Until recently, nobody realized that Earth is exposed to unpredictable violent impacts from space.
B. In the last few decades, the risk of a random violent impact from space has increased.
C. Since most violent events on Earth occur randomly, nobody can predict when or where they will happen.
D. A few decades ago, Earth became the target of random violent events originating in outer space.
65. According to the passage, who conducted investigations about the current dangers posed by large
meteorite impacts on Earth?
A. Paleontologists B. Geologists C. The United States Congress D. NASA
D.WRITING

Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to
the sentence printed before it.
66. The twins look very much alike to me.
-> I can’t tell ________________________________________________________
67. Arguing with her won’t get you anywhere.
-> It won’t do __________________________________________________
68. He was sentenced to six months in prison for his part in the robbery.
-> He received a _____________________________________________________
69. My parents find fault with everything I do.
-> No matter ________________________________________________________
70. We never questioned her ability to run the department.
-> Not _____________________________________________________________

Part 2: For each of the sentence below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the
original sentence but using the word given. This word must not be altered in any way.

71. The best solution was thought of by Sally. (CAME)

______________________________________________________________________________

72.I don't like him because he boasts a lot. (MOUTH)

______________________________________________________________________________

73. His grandfather is now having an operation. (KNIFE)

______________________________________________________________________________

74. He stood no chance of passing his driving test. (INEVITABLE)

______________________________________________________________________________

75. My teacher always knows what to say in every situation. (LOSS)

-> My teacher ______________________________ words, whatever the situation.

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