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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH BẾN TRE NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — 120 phút — 8 trang

Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

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SECTION II PHONETICS (1–5)

Choose the word whose underlined part differs / that differs in primary stress.

Pronunciation (1) · periscope / catastrophe / telescope / microscope

Pronunciation (2) · imagined / rained / followed / learned

Stress (3) · sewage / simple / hobby / describe

Stress (4) · unselfish / counterpart / dinosaur / interval

Stress (5) · misbehavior / generational / appreciative / education

SECTION III Part 1 — Lexico-grammar (6–15)

Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

Arian did not drown as they ______ because he was saved by a dolphin.

The escaped prisoner is still ______ large and the public are advised not to approach him.

One of the boys took the cattle and buffaloes out to graze in the early morning, ______?

She ______ you last week, for she was not there.

The party was awful. Jane wishes she ______.

It's very important that we ______ as soon as there's any change in the patient's condition.

Such ______ of the festival that every tourist takes a chance to enjoy it.

______ he tried to fix the machine.

Cathy: “Eddie, I’ve never heard you sing before. You’re a really great singer.” Eddie: “______”

Zach: “Mr. Louis, we do appreciate your taking the time to help us.” Kurk: “______”

SECTION III Part 2 — Synonym / antonym (16–20)

Choose the closest or opposite meaning.

The Little Foxes, a drama by Lillian Hellman, was first introduced in New York in 1939.

The police are looking into the murder.

…he won’t change as long as she’s willing to fetch and carry for him.

If we had taken his sage advice, we wouldn’t be in so much trouble now.

I want you to carry on with the project while I am out of town.

SECTION III Part 3 — Word form (21–25)

Use the correct form of the words given.

The journalist refused to reveal the identity of his ______. (INFORM)

They all cheered ______ as their team came out. (ENTHUSIASM)

In my factory, women tend to ______ men by six to one. (NUMBER)

Small children are very ______ in their behavior. They just copy what they see. (IMITATE)

How can you explain the ______ of your statements? There's not a grain of truth in any of them. (VALID)

SECTION III Part 4 — Error identification (26–30)

Choose the underlined part that needs correction. Four underlines = A, B, C, D.

The first American to be worth the equivalent of one million dollars was probably plantation owner Robert King Carter, whom father arrived in Virginia in 1635 and began buying land.

The more hardly he tried, the worse he danced before the large audience.

John Dewey thought that children will learn better through participating in experiences rather than through listening to lectures.

Before creating the telegraph, Samuel Morse did his living as a painter.

Theoretical biologist Aristid Lindenmayer is known for him description of the developmental processes in multicellular structures.

SECTION IV Part 1 — Open cloze: Water (31–35)

Think of ONE word which best fits each gap.

Practically the only time I drink water is (1) _____ I’m working out at the gym and can feel my body crying out for it. Like millions of people, the rest of the time I prefer (2) _____ flavour to my beverage. Insufficient consumption of water is a serious problem, according to scientists, who claim that anyone drinking less than eight glasses of pure water per day is at risk of dehydration. The consequences, they say, include poor performances (3) _____ work, depression, allergies and even some cancers. Adding to the problem of getting this message across to the public is the fact (4) _____ recent studies show drinking too much water can also jeopardize your health, causing acute water intoxication. Salt in the blood is diluted, depriving the brain, heart and muscles of the amounts they need to function properly. But, according to Dr Wendy Doyle of the British Dietetic Association, “It’s very (5) _____ to happen except in the most extreme circumstances.”

Open cloze: Water (3 — poor performances (3) _____ work

SECTION IV Part 2 — Guided cloze: Hearing (36–45)

Choose the most suitable word for each blank.

It may seem unlikely that monkeys or cats would be able to hear the subtleties in human speech. After all, creatures other than humans neither speak human languages nor comprehend most of them. (6) _____ scientists who study hearing have found that the auditory system of animals and humans respond to speech sounds in remarkably (7) _____ ways.
Scientists see hearing in humans and higher animals (8) _____ an act of computer-like processing (9) _____ which a sound enters the ear and is broken down into components. These are transported in some coded form through the nervous system to the brain, (10) _____ they are put back together and interpreted.
Scientists believe that, in large part, how speech is processed is (11) _____ on its acoustical properties. Research with (12) _____ shows that they can discriminate among subtle nuances in speech. For example, our ears readily distinguish two similar speech sounds, “ba” and “da” on the (13) _____ of differing pitch changes that occur in the first one-twentieth of a second of sound. During the 1970s, William Stebbins conducted (14) _____ using monkeys at the University of Michigan Hearing Research Institute which showed that monkeys possess a similar (15) _____ to put similar sounds into distinct categories.

SECTION IV Part 3 — Reading: Sleep (46–55)

Choose A, B, C or D.

Sleep is a natural process, and although a lot has been written about the subject, it is still surrounded by mystery. It is used by some as an escape from the world, and regarded by others as an irritating waste of time: some people get by on very little, others claim they cannot exist without at least ten hours, but nobody can do without sleep completely.
Our night’s sleep does not just consist of a steady phase of gradually deepening sleep. It alternates between two stages: Non-dreaming or ordinary sleep, and REM (rapid eye movement) or dreaming sleep. As soon as we fall asleep, we go straight into non-dreaming sleep for an hour or so, then into REM sleep for about 15 minutes, then back into non-dreaming sleep. It alternates in this way for the rest of the night, with non-dreaming sleep tending to last longer at the beginning of the night. Non-dreaming sleep occupies three quarters of our night’s sleep, about a quarter of it deep and the rest fairly light.
It is widely believed that sleep repairs the body and makes good the damage caused by being awake. However, its main function is to refresh the brain. Experts believe that probably only about two-thirds of our sleep is necessary for repairing and refreshing the brain, with the most valuable sleep coming in the first few hours of the non-dreaming period; the last few hours of sleep are not so essential. The brain can manage quite well with reduced sleep as long as it is uninterrupted sleep.
The quality of sleep is important. A study conducted in the USA looked at short sleepers, who slept for 5.5 hours on average, and long sleepers, who had 8.5 hours or more. It is discovered after a variety of tests that the long sleepers were poor sleepers, had twice as much REM sleep as the short sleepers, appeared to sleep longer to make up for the poor sleep, and did not wake up in the morning refreshed. Similarly, people who sleep deeply are not necessarily getting a better quality of sleep than shallow sleepers. Deep sleepers can feel tired the following day, so six hours of good sleep is worth more than eight hours of troubled sleep.

It can be concluded from the first paragraph that ______.

All the following are true, EXCEPT ______.

Unlike the common belief, sleep helps ______.

It can be inferred from the experts’ ideas that ______.

The study in the USA suggested that ______.

Which of the following is NOT discussed in the passage?

The word “occupies” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by ______.

The word “irritating” in paragraph 1 most likely means ______.

The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

This passage is most likely taken from ______.

SECTION V Part 1 — Keyword transformation (56–60)

Finish each sentence. Do not change the word given.

"Keep off the grass", the sign says. (MUSTN'T)
You __________.

David impressed his new boss by settling down to work. (GOOD)
David __________.

The builders installed a wind turbine on Mr. Sean's roof. (HAS)
Mr. Sean __________.

I wasn't planning to read the whole newspaper. (INTENTION)
I had __________.

The young girl stopped working though the salary was very high. (GAVE)
No matter how __________.

SECTION V Part 2 — Essay (61)

It is not necessary to travel to other places to learn the culture of other people. We can learn just as much from books, films and the Internet. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 150–180 words.

It is not necessary to travel to other places to learn the culture of other people. We can learn just as much from books, films and the Internet. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (150–180 words)

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