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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH BÀ RỊA – VŨNG TÀU NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — THPT Chuyên Lê Quý Đôn

Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

Kết quả

I. LISTENING — Part 1

You will hear a radio interview with a woman who has done a survey on attitudes to ebooks. Listen TWICE and CHOOSE the best answer. (Không có file nghe.)

What did Anna find surprising about the survey results?

Anna believes that the main benefit people attach to ebooks is _____.

What does Anna believe will happen in book publishing?

Anna says that the only disadvantage of ebooks to consumers is _____.

What is Anna’s view on the changing position of authors in relation to ebooks?

I. LISTENING — Part 2

You will hear a programme about roller-coasters. Listen TWICE and WRITE a word or short phrase. (Đáp án theo hướng dẫn chấm chính thức.)

You can’t control a car in a roller-coaster because it has no _______ on it.

The designers don’t want to make people feel _______.

The roller-coaster gets its energy from _______.

The Grand Slam Canyon coaster travels at _______.

A roller-coaster travels faster if the atmosphere is _______.

II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR

CIRCLE the best answer to each of the questions.

Pronunciation (11) · necklace / preface / menace / furnace

Stress (12) · deteriorate / disarmament / disinfectant / disparaging

My friend refused to climb up the treetop with me because he doesn’t have a _____ for heights.

The amount of money raised was _____ compared to what we needed.

The child _____ with delight at his teacher as he received the award.

We _____ stay home watching television since it’s raining heavily outside.

The needs of gifted children in schools have long been _____ neglected.

By the late 70s the band’s popularity was beginning to wane, _____.

I wonder why John, instead of always trying to _____ himself with the boss, won’t try to improve himself…

The effects of the drug _____ after a few hours.

When Nadine arrived, she soon _____ at all her jokes.

Andrew: “I spend most of my life travelling, moving from one hotel to another.” Patrick: “_____”

It has been planned that we are going on vacation in June but rather than that I’ll be here all summer.

Mr. Anderson is a highly ambitious individual and, unfortunately, that has made him a rather impatient and opinionated person, and traits that do not make him a team player.

III. WORD FORMS

Supply the appropriate forms of the words in brackets.

AN AMAZING SCHOOL
Imagine walking out of your classroom only to find a pterosaur hanging from the ceiling! This is not a science fiction film; it’s an extraordinary ‘museum learning school’: the Langley Academy, in Berkshire, England.
Setting up this exciting school was a(n) (25. precede) ______ step in Britain, inspired by the New York Museum School, which was founded in 1994. Through collaboration with various museums, Langley now offers its students some 500 museum exhibits. The idea is that bringing the museum into the classroom helps promote debate, research, and independent thinking. Museum learning enables teachers to bring an otherwise dull school subject into life and provide students with a(n) (26. hand) ______ experience. What better way to envisage the past than, say, a bicycle from the early 1900s right in your school hallway? Instead of theoretical teaching, which is often difficult and incomprehensible to some students, Langley offers a diverse educational experience. But it’s not just fun; museum learning is part of the students’ (27. assess) ______ and is incorporated across the curriculum. ‘Langley is successful because most of the learning takes place outside the classroom and with real exhibits that stimulate all the senses’, says one of the teachers.
It seems that the value of museum teaching at Langley is not (28. estimate) ______; on the contrary, it is considered extremely useful and (29. hope) ______ other schools will follow its example.

school’: the Langley Academy, in Berkshire, England. Setting up this exciting school was a(n) (25. precede) ______ step in Britain, inspired by the New York Museum School, which was founded in 1994. Through

teachers to bring an otherwise dull school subject into life and provide students with a(n) (26. hand) ______ experience. What better way to envisage the past than, say, a bicycle from the early 1900s r

a diverse educational experience. But it’s not just fun; museum learning is part of the students’ (27. assess) ______ and is incorporated across the curriculum. ‘Langley is successful because most of the learni

senses’, says one of the teachers. It seems that the value of museum teaching at Langley is not (28. estimate) ______; on the contrary, it is considered extremely useful and (29. hope) ______ other schools will

at Langley is not (28. estimate) ______; on the contrary, it is considered extremely useful and (29. hope) ______ other schools will follow its example.

IV. OPEN CLOZE

Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word.

WE NEED MORE GREEN BUILDINGS
In recent years, there (30) ______ been a general trend for new buildings to be more environmentally friendly, or more ‘green’. Such a building is sometimes called an eco-building. These buildings use energy and water efficiently, which reduces waste and pollution. However, installing features like solar panels and water-recycling systems involves higher construction costs than in a traditional building. Despite these extra costs, green buildings are good for the planet and their benefits are clear.
In New Mexico, in the US, there are homes, called Earthship houses, constructed from recycled bottles, tyres, aluminium cans and other rubbish. Often the cans, bottles and tyres are filled with soil and then the (31) ______ are covered with natural mud. These homes are designed to use solar power – the energy from the sun – rather than electricity produced from fossil fuels. These recycled-construction designs are just as relevant for other types of buildings. In both Uruguay and Sierra Leone, for example, there are recycled-construction schools for local children.
Critics of these kinds of eco-buildings say that (32) ______ they may be good for the environment, there are practical problems with their affordability. They are often too costly to become a large-volume method of construction. There are further concerns over their long-term efficiency. Not much energy can be realistically generated by solar panels in places which do not have large amounts of sunlight, and not every location has (33) ______ to a natural water source. However, (34) ______, green buildings are worth it.

V. GUIDED CLOZE

CIRCLE the best answer to each numbered blank.

SOCIAL-NETWORKING SITES AND PERSONALITY
Social-networking sites are a great way to keep in touch with people and make new friends. However, by using them, we also unintentionally (35) _______ a lot about our personalities. These sites are increasingly being studied by psychologists to gain (36) _______ into people’s personalities.
After years of research into how relationships in real life are formed, psychologists are finding that social-networking sites provide a rich (37) _______ of useful data. It’s possible to study complex social-networks and communication patterns in new ways.
We no longer have to rely (38) _______ on people reporting how they feel about each other. Messages and images on these sites act as open-ended stimuli that people react to in ways (39) _______ with their personalities. Psychologists have found enough evidence to be able to confirm that extroverts post more messages and photos on social-networking sites than introverts. (40) ______________, introverts tend to read messages, but not respond to them.

VI. READING — Jupiter

Read the passage and CIRCLE the best answer.

The largest of the giant gas planets, Jupiter, with a volume 1,300 times greater than Earth’s, contains more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. It is thought to be a gaseous and fluid planet without solid surfaces. Had it been somewhat more massive, Jupiter might have attained internal temperatures as high as the ignition point for nuclear reactions, and it would have flamed as a star in its own right. Jupiter and the other giant planets are of a low-density type quite distinct from the terrestrial planets: they are composed predominantly of such substances as hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane. Unlike terrestrial planets, much of Jupiter’s interior might be in the form of liquid, metallic hydrogen. Normally, hydrogen is a gas, but under pressures of millions of kilograms per square centimeter, which exist in the deep interior of Jupiter, the hydrogen atoms might lock together to form a liquid with the properties of a metal. Some scientists believe that the innermost core of Jupiter might be rocky, or metallic like the core of Earth.
Jupiter rotates very fast, once every 9.8 hours. As a result, its clouds, which are composed largely of frozen and liquid ammonia, have been whipped into alternating dark and bright bands that circle the planet at different speeds in different latitudes. Jupiter’s puzzling Great Red Spot changes size as it hovers in the Southern Hemisphere. Scientists speculate it might be a gigantic hurricane, which because of its large size (the Earth could easily fit inside it), lasts for hundreds of years.
Jupiter gives off twice as much heat as it receives from the Sun. Perhaps this is primeval heat or heat generated by the continued gravitational contraction of the planet. Another starlike characteristic of Jupiter is its sixteen natural satellites, which, like a miniature model of the Solar System, decrease in density with distance – from rocky moons close to Jupiter to icy moons farther away. If Jupiter were about 70 times more massive, it would have become a star. Jupiter is the best-preserved sample of the early solar nebula, and with its satellites, might contain the most important clues about the origin of the Solar System.

It can be inferred that the appearance of alternating bands circling Jupiter is caused by _____.

The author uses “puzzling” in paragraph 2 to suggest that the Great Red Spot is _____.

Which conclusion does paragraph 3 support?

Why does the author mention primeval heat in paragraph 3?

According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT _____.

VI. READING — Senses

Read the passage and CIRCLE the best answer.

SENSES THAT WORK TOGETHER
A few years ago, on work experience at Oxford University, I had the privilege of being roped in for an experiment by a research team led by Professor Charles Spence. Sitting in a tiny room in a warren of labs and offices, I was shown a rack of bottles of scent and a computer program that let me play the sound of musical instruments at different pitches. My task was to sniff all the scents, and pick the sound that fitted each one best. Puzzled, I inhaled my first sample – sweet and slightly sickly, like bubble gum. Deep blaring brass seemed instinctively wrong, so I tried out higher, purer sounds and eventually settled on a high piano note. I left not much the wiser about what was going on. But the team was covering new ground in a field known as cross-modal perception.
When we think about how our senses work, we imagine them operating individually: you sniff a flower, and the smell is delivered uninterrupted from nose to brain. However, it’s more complicated than that. Our senses mingle more often than we realise, collaborating to help us make sense of the world more easily. We call dull thuds ‘heavy’ and associate them with large objects, even though the sound itself has no size or weight. This would have helped our ancestors decide whether to run away from predators based on how big they sounded, without stopping to look them over. Most evidence for cross-modal perception comes from studies into sound and vision – not surprising considering how often we use them together. But research that shows other senses crossing over is emerging all the time, and it seems that even sound and smell sometimes form an unlikely pairing.
When two New York researchers, Daniel Wesson and Donald Wilson, began investigating an ‘enigmatic’ area of the brain called the olfactory tubercle, they were confronted with this fact. Originally, they only intended to measure how olfactory tubercle cells in anesthetised mice responded to smell. But during testing, Wesson noticed that every time he clunked his coffee mug down next to the experiment, the mouse cells jumped in activity. In fact, the olfactory tubercle is physiologically well-placed to receive both smell and sound information from the outside world; and so Wesson and Wilson broadened their investigation.
They found that among individual cells, most responded to odour but a significant number were also active when a tone was played. Some cells even behaved differently when smell and sound were presented together, by increasing or suppressing their activity. There may be some evolutionary sense behind the phenomenon – a sound accompanied by an unfamiliar smell could alert you to the presence of a predator.
Of course, mice aren’t people, and a handful of firing cells don’t always add up to a conscious experience. But Charles Spence’s team have been carrying out experiments like the one in which I participated at Oxford University, which seem to show that sounds and smells cross over in human perception, too. Recently, they pulled together a group of people and gave them various drinks to smell. Participants were asked to sniff different samples, and then match them to an appropriate musical instrument and pitch. The results were interesting: piano was regularly paired with fruity scents; musky smells sounded like brass.
Further research found that listening to different sounds can alter your perceptions. Studying taste this time, the team ordered some special toffee and put together ‘soundscapes’ corresponding to bitterness and sweetness. Participants tasted identical pieces of toffee while listening to each soundscape, and found the toffee more bitter or sweeter, depending on which soundtrack they were listening to.
Studies like this are helping scientists redefine our understanding of the senses, and how the brain integrates them to its advantage. The consequences are worth considering. Could we see collaborations between musicians and chefs to produce sound-enhanced food and drink? Will you be ordering a coffee with a soundtrack to bring out your favourite aromas? Come to think of it, that could be one notion you hope coffee shops chains don’t get round to.

What does the writer suggest about the experiment she was involved in?

What point does this fact in the third paragraph refer to?

In Wesson and Wilson’s research, _____

What does the writer say about the experiment in paragraph 5?

How does the writer feel about wider implications of the research?

VII. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION

Complete the sentences, using the words in brackets without changing the original meaning. DO NOT change the word given.

For me, Stella McCartney is doing a lot more interesting work than other designers today. (by) → ______.

When Martin returned to Canada, he finally accepted criticism and told his wife about his debts. (music) → ______.

Seeing that the swimming pool wasn’t making money, the council decided to close it. (grounds) → ______.

If you applied now, it’s likely that you would get the job. (stand) → ______.

I’m sure you were shocked when he turned up unexpectedly after all these years. (blue) → ______.

VIII. WRITING

In 120-150 words, express your opinion: How important is it to make learning fun?

Write 120–150 words: How important is it to make learning fun?

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