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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH BẮC NINH NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — 150 phút — 8 trang

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

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B PHONETICS (1–5)

1–2 pronunciation; 3–5 stress.

Pronunciation (1) · chaos / chalet / chauffeur / champagne

Pronunciation (2) · adventure / future / mature / figure

Stress (3) · confide / purchase / prefer / maintain

Stress (4) · imprison / endanger / horrify / develop

Stress (5) · establishment / amphibian / magnificence / astrophysics

C LEXICO-GRAMMAR MCQ (6–25)

Choose A–D. (Paper Part C.I numbered 1–20.)

______ precipitation events have produced more rain and become more common since the 1950s…

______ one after another, parallel computers perform a group of operations at the same time.

The storm ______ havoc on trains and highways…

He was a great athlete when he was younger. He now still ______ had it not been for that accident.

Your ______ depends on genes, behaviors, attitudes, environment, and a little bit of luck.

More and more investors are pouring ______ money into food and beverage start-ups.

Giving up smoking is just one of the ways to ______ heart disease.

Only by reducing its brightness and shutting down apps ______ running in the background in 20 hours.

Fixed term employment … is used for single projects or to replace workers on ______.

Uneducated people, the kind ______ lack information about life…, make poor choices.

______, they remained optimistic.

Dennis: “Thanks. Yes, I suppose I’ve always ______.” (gardens)

Some teachers have a tendency to ______ preference to students with disadvantaged backgrounds…

…not to be extravagant with water, ______ the low rainfall this year.

the look of ______ joy on her face

The skyscraper, ______ with multi-colored light, looked incredible.

______ a parent, I think that more should be done to protect our children.

Gillian: “______” (invitation to dinner Saturday)

Secretary: “______” (May I leave a message?)

People should not have children unless they are ______ to being responsible parents.

C Verb forms (26–34)

Correct tense/form. Paper C.II 1–9 (item 7 has two blanks).

There (be) ______ several questions still to be answered, we will continue this discussion some other time.

I knew that he didn’t have much money, but he has just bought a new car. He (borrow) ______ money from someone.

(Collapse) ______ as a result of water damage, some parts of the floor are now being painstakingly reconstructed…

It is strongly recommended that your brakes (check) ______ before you go on a long drive.

By the time we finish our ninth grade this summer, my brother (graduate) ______ from his university.

The dawn redwood appears (flourish) ______ some 100 million years ago in northern forests in California.

I could tell at a glance that the pile of the letters on my desk (disturb) ______ while I (be) ______ out.

Not once in my life I (experience) ______ such a luxury cruise.

I would rather you (keep) ______ your words.

C Word form (35–44)

Correct form. Roots: EFFICIENT, PRECEDE, PRODUCE, OBSERVE, HATE, DISTINGUISH, ABOUND, MEASURE, QUALIFY, OBLIGE.

The (EFFICIENT) ______ of the education system in Finland is famous all over Europe.

A(n) (PRECEDE) ______ boom in tourism brought sudden prosperity to the town.

The talks were totally (PRODUCE) ______. We didn’t reach agreement on anything.

Police are trained to be (OBSERVE) ______ and to remember details.

Bullying among school children can cause (HATE) ______ of school…

He quit his job at Cornell, ending a(n) (DISTINGUISH) ______ academic career.

…meat was (ABOUND) ______.

Her contribution … was (MEASURE) ______ important.

He won … but was later (QUALIFY) ______ when a medical check proved that he had been taking drugs.

The truth is that (OBLIGE) ______ recycling protects markets as well as the environment.

C Error correction (45–49)

Five mistakes. Identify and correct.

Many in us thought the world had four oceans – the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. That’s which we were taught in school. Moreover, a search on the Internet will show that there is also a “Southern Ocean” around the South Pole and Antarctica. The National Geographic Society has now officially accepted that this body of water around Antarctica is a real ocean. Geography teachers will now have to teach their students that the world has five oceans.
National Geographic said its recognition of the world to have a fifth ocean would have an impact on how children see the world. Alex Tait, a geographer and cartographer at National Geographic said that realizing the Southern Ocean would help students understand more about climate change. National Geographic added that: “The Southern Ocean has unique and fragile marine ecosystems that are home for wonderful marine life such as whales, penguins and seals.”

Many in us thought the world had four oceans

That’s which we were taught in school.

Moreover, a search on the Internet will show that there is also a “Southern Ocean”

its recognition of the world to have a fifth ocean

ecosystems that are home for wonderful marine life

D Open cloze — cleaner air (50–59)

ONE word each gap.

The air above our head is becoming cleaner. A (1) ______ of fresh air has been running right round the planet for the past five years. The planet is apparently purging itself of pollution. Paul Novell of the University of Colorado, the co-author of a report on this phenomenon says, “It seems as if the planet’s own cleaning service has suddenly got a new lease of (2) ______. Suddenly, there are a lot of changes going on up there.”
Estimates of the death (3) ______ from urban smog have been steadily rising, so the new cleaner trend could have significant consequences for life expectancy in cities as well as for the planet itself. The sudden and unexpected reversal of several decades of worsening pollution (4) ______ from the air in city streets to the remotest mid-Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.
(5) ______ the pollutants which have begun to disappear from the atmosphere are carbon monoxide, from car exhaust and burning rain forests, and methane from the guts of cattle, paddy fields, and gas fields. Even carbon dioxide, the main gas behind global warming, has fallen slightly.
There are two theories about why pollution is disappearing. First that there is (6) ______ pollution to start with due to laws to cut down urban smogs and acid rain starting to have a global impact. Second, that the planet may be becoming more efficient at cleaning up.
The main planetary clean-up agent is a chemical (7) ______ hydroxyl. It is present throughout the atmosphere in tiny quantities and removes most pollutants from the air by oxidizing (8) ______. The amount of hydroxyl in the air has fallen (9) ______ a quarter in the 1980s. Now it may be reviving for two reasons: ironically, because the ozone hole has expanded, letting in more ultraviolet radiation into the lower atmosphere, where it manufactures hydroxyl. Then the stricter controls on vehicle exhausts in America and Europe may have cut global carbon monoxide emissions, (10) ______ allowing more hydroxyl to clean up other pollutants.

D Cloze MCQ — CSP (60–69)

Choose A–D. (Câu 7–8 OCR lẫn D; D7 = is changing.)

It is (1) ______ hot in the Eldorado Valley in Nevada, USA. In midsummer, temperatures regularly (2) ______ 45 degrees centigrade. That’s why farmers have no choice but to wake up early. To get a day’s work done before the heat becomes (3) ______, they have to be out in the fields soon after dawn.
The heat also explains why this is the perfect place to construct a solar power plant. Concentrated solar power (CSP) works by using special mirrors (4) ______ focus the rays of the sun onto a chamber full of oil. This oil then (5) ______ up to a temperature of almost 400 degrees centigrade. Steam from the hot oil is then used to (6) ______ electricity. Although the technology works, it has been difficult to get people interested in it because this is a relatively expensive way of producing electricity. This situation (7) ______ fast, however, thanks to the rising cost of traditional methods of producing electricity. As a result, some people now (8) ______ CSP as the best type of renewable energy for the future. CSP works best where the sun is constantly very hot, (9) ______ deserts where very few people live. Compared with alternatives such as wind and wave energy, (10) ______, it has less impact on people’s lives, on wildlife or on the environment.

D Reading — sleep deprivation (70–79)

Choose A–D.

We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. In his book Counting Sheep, Paul Martin – a behavioural biologist – describes a society which is just too busy to sleep and which does not give sleeping the importance it deserves.
Modern society has invented reasons not to sleep. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and services must be available all hours. We spend longer hours at work than we used to, and more time getting to work. Mobile phones and email allow us to stay in touch round the clock and late-night TV and the Internet tempt us away from our beds. When we need more time for work or pleasure, the easy solution is to sleep less. The average adult sleeps only 6.2 hours a night during the week, whereas research shows that most people need eight or even eight and a half hours’ sleep to feel at their best. Nowadays, many people have got used to sleeping less than they need and they live in an almost permanent state of “sleep debt”.
Until the invention of the electric light in 1879 our daily cycle of sleep used to depend on the hours of daylight. People would get up with the sun and go to bed at nightfall. But nowadays our hours of sleep are mainly determined by our working hours (or our social life) and most people are woken up artificially by an alarm clock. During the day caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, helps to keep us awake. 75% of the world’s population habitually consume caffeine, which up to a point masks the symptoms of sleep deprivation.
What does a chronic lack of sleep do to us? As well as making us irritable and unhappy as humans, it also reduces our motivation and ability to work. This has serious implications for society in general. Doctors, for example, are often chronically sleep deprived, especially when they are on “night call” and may get less than three hours’ sleep. Lack of sleep can seriously impair their mood, judgment, and ability to take decisions. Tired engineers, in the early hours of the morning, made a series of mistakes with catastrophic results. On our roads and motorways lack of sleep kills thousands of people every year. Tests show that a tired driver can be just as dangerous as a drunken driver. However, driving when drunk is against the law but driving when exhausted isn’t. As Paul Martin says, it is very ironic that we admire people who function on very little sleep instead of criticizing them for being irresponsible. Our world would be a much safer, happier place if everyone, whatever their job, slept eight hours a night.

Best title?

“round the clock” is similar to ______.

The writer mentions the Internet as ______.

According to paragraph 3, which is NOT TRUE?

The word “which” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.

Which is TRUE according to the last paragraph?

“catastrophic” probably means ______.

Which can be inferred?

Performance affected by sleep debt EXCEPT ______.

Which is TRUE about Paul Martin?

E Transformations (80–84)

Same meaning.

They produce a lot of paper, so they need a lot of wood pulp.
The more ______

If anyone succeeds in solving the problem, it will probably be him.
He is the most ______

Our science correspondence sees this new invention as the answer to many of our problems.
According to ______

It was difficult to understand her colleagues’ open hostility towards her proposal.
That her colleagues ______

He was so enthusiastic that he apparently ignored any warning signs.
Such ______

E Keyword transformations (85–89)

Do not change the given word.

I didn’t follow the speech exactly, but I understood the general meaning… (DRIFT)
I ______

Don’t you remember anything about your lifetime in London as a child? (RECOLLECTION)
Haven’t ______

Any correspondence from the Canberra office must be dealt with before other matters. (PRIORITY)
Any ______

It was the Olympic Games that really made Seoul famous. (MAP)
It ______

She is determined to become a professional dancer. (HEART)
She ______

E Essay (90)

About 250 words. To what extent do you agree that AI may pose a threat to human beings?

To what extent do you agree or disagree that “AI (Artificial Intelligence) may pose a threat to human beings”? Write about 250 words with specific details and examples.

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