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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH BÌNH THUẬN NĂM HỌC 2024-2025

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Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

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Phonetics

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others (1–2). Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress (3–4).

Pronunciation (1) · honor / honesty / exhaust / humour

Pronunciation (2) · expensive / exciting / excellent / exclusive

Stress (3) · innovate / interfere / sacrifice / fertilize

Stress (4) · academic / confidential / comparable / advantageous

Lexico-Grammar MCQ

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

As an abundant source of clean energy, wave power can be categorized along with __________ sustainable energy sources, such as wind and solar power.

I would have visited you before if there __________ quite a lot of people in your house.

I will call and tell you something interesting __________.

The truck __________ crashed into the back of a bus scattering glass everywhere.

With the help of the German experts, the factory produced __________ cars in 1993 as the year before.

I don’t know __________.

The authorities __________ actions to stop illegal purchase of wild animals and their associated products effectively. However, they didn’t do so.

She described her new house __________ it were a palace.

It is imperative that your Facebook password __________ confidential.

You should take your car to the mechanic to __________.

__________ the experiment many times, the scientists finally succeeded in developing a new vaccine.

__________ did she realize her mistake.

At first sight I met her, I was impressed with her __________ eyes.

Although the new library service has been very successful, its future is __________ certain.

The dentist gave me an injection that took __________ almost immediately, and I didn’t feel a thing.

I’ll be absolutely __________ to have tickets for the 2024 Olympics in France.

She __________ till the early hours listening to pop music.

My decision to leave university after a year is one thing I __________ now regret.

The young actor was a rough __________. With some training, she’d become a superstar.

Due to time __________, we’ll have to end the meeting at three o’clock.

The old man sat down again and glared __________ at the frightened boy.

These mangoes have been in the fridge for over a month! They are all __________.

Many __________ crafts such as weaving are now being revived.

Interestingly, girls tend to have higher standards for themselves and to judge their performance more __________ than boys do.

Thomas and Jennifer are at a party.
- Thomas: “What an attractive hairstyle you’ve got, Jennifer!”
- Jennifer: “__________.”

Synonyms & antonyms

Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning (30–31) or OPPOSITE in meaning (32–33) to the underlined word(s).

Dissemination of information is frequently carried out via satellite — through local or national TV networks.
The word closest in meaning to Dissemination is __________.

She is a very good worker but sometimes she’s slow on the uptake. You have to explain everything twice.
The phrase closest in meaning to slow on the uptake is __________.

Many people perished in the Kobe earthquake because they were not prepared for it.
The word opposite in meaning to perished is __________.

We have to work against the clock so as to meet the deadline of the clients tomorrow.
The phrase opposite in meaning to work against the clock is __________.

Error identification

Choose the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.

My parents would prefer me to go to the university rather than start a job immediately.

Mary closed the science-fiction book about an unreal extraterrestrial planet, drew a deep breath and was expressive of the wonder how people could turn this imaginable world into the real one.

Guided cloze — Online shopping

Read the text below and decide which option (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.

There is no question that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer. Far from becoming competent, online shoppers are very demanding. Overpriced merchants with poor services should beware. Gone are the days when stores could charge what they liked for goods and get away with it. The same, too, for shady manufacturers: smarter consumers know which products have a good (46) __________ and which do not because online they now read not only the sales (47) __________ but also reviews from previous purchasers. And if customers are disappointed, a few clicks of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know. Nowadays there is nothing more damning than a flood of negative comments on the internet.
(48) __________, the big boys, as always, are ahead of the game. Some companies are already adjusting their business models to take account of these trends. The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are more like brand showrooms than shops. They are there for people to try out (49) __________ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff. Whether the products are ultimately bought online or offline is of secondary importance. Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is (50) __________ turning from being primarily a bookseller to becoming a (51) __________ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site, rather like a marketplace. During America’s Thanksgiving weekend last November, Amazon’s sales of consumer electronics in the United States (52) __________ its books sales for the first time in its history. Other transformations in the retail business are (53) __________ to follow.

Reading — Clinical nutrition

Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health and how the body takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into four distinct eras: the first began in the nineteenth century and extended into the early twentieth century when it was recognized for the first time that food contained constituents that were essential for human function and that different foods provided different amounts of these essential agents. Near the end of this era, research studies demonstrated that rapid weight loss was associated with nitrogen imbalance and could only be rectified by providing adequate dietary protein associated with certain foods.
The second era was initiated in the early decades of the twentieth century and might be called “the vitamin period.” Vitamins came to be recognized in foods, and deficiency syndromes were described. As vitamins became recognized as essential food constituents necessary for health, it became tempting to suggest that every disease and condition for which there had been no previous effective treatment might be responsive to vitamin therapy. At that point in time, medical schools started to become more interested in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the basic sciences. Much of the focus of this education was on the recognition of deficiency symptoms. Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine. Reckless claims were made for effects of vitamins that went far beyond what could actually be achieved from the use of them.
In the third era of nutritional history in the early 1950’s to mid-1960’s, vitamin therapy began to fall into disrepute. Concomitant with this, nutrition education in medical schools also became less popular. It was just a decade before this that many drug companies had found their vitamin sales skyrocketing and were quick to supply practicing physicians with generous samples of vitamins and literature extolling the virtue of supplementation for a variety of health-related conditions. Expectations as to the success of vitamins in disease control were exaggerated. As is known in retrospect, vitamin and mineral therapies are much less effective when applied to health-crisis conditions than when applied to long-term problems of under nutrition that lead to chronic health problems.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

The word “rectified” is closest in meaning to __________.

The word “them” refers to __________.

Vitamin therapy began losing favor in the 1950’s because __________.

The phrase “Concomitant with” is closest in meaning to __________.

According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

It can be inferred from the passage that medical schools began to teach concepts of nutrition in order to __________.

Sentence insertion — AI

Read the following text. Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from sentences A–F the one that best fits each gap. There is ONE extra sentence that you do not need.

A. However, the AI would only function according to its developed programming.
B. With a personal assistance AI, we will be able to remove the more mundane tasks from our lives.
C. For example, artificial intelligence has been pointed at to possess the potential for more accurate medical practices.
D. AI is a branch in computer science that deals the intelligent behavior of machines.
E. AI assistants can remind their owners of the time to finish their work.
F. Most AI developers are now utilized towards achieving a basic goal.

The world is fast growing, with artificial intelligence (AI) at the forefront in changing the world and the way we live. An important question: What is AI? For many people, it remains unclear what this technology is all about, so this is a good place to start the conversation. (61) __________. It is an ingeniously stimulated ability of a machine to imitate human behavior and our conventional response patterns. This means that with AI, many of our everyday activities can now be carried out effectively by programmed machine technology.
The use of AI in organizations, governments, security frameworks, energy and natural resource management, etc., is drastically on the rise. This leads us to acknowledging the center of focus for developers. (62) __________. They are charged with responsibility or building AI models that would aptly substitute direct human efforts. This need comes in recognition to the inadequacies of human labor efforts, which are characterized by inaccuracy, inefficiency and other failures. (63) __________. Thus, you can be sure of a more accurate surgical procedure using this framework than is currently available by most humans. Hence, we can say that the opposites of the inadequacies of human efforts are precisely the benefits of artificial intelligence to our world.
Using AI, more people would be able to step down on having to carry out so many tasks by themselves. (64) __________. For instance, there may be no need to go to the grocery store, meet with an appointment, or make that deadline yourself as your AI assistant knows just what to do, and when to do it. (65) __________. Hence, one AI may be programmed to work on multiple assignments, while another may be far narrower in scope of application.

(61) __________ — after “What is AI?” / “start the conversation.”

(62) __________ — after “the center of focus for developers.”

(63) __________ — before “a more accurate surgical procedure.”

(64) __________ — after people step down from doing so many tasks.

(65) __________ — before “one AI may be programmed to work on multiple assignments.”

Word formation

Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following sentences.

Water is one of the most precious resources. Our quality of life, as well as life (66. IT) __________ depends on the (67. AVAIL) __________ of clean, fresh water. It is the most widely used resource in industry, and plays a major role in energy production. Although 70 percent of the world is covered in water, only 2.5 percent of that is fresh water, and less than one percent of that fresh water is readily available to us. Yet we often overestimate how much water we have, and reduce it further through pollution or (68. EFFICIENCY) __________ use. Some 92 percent of all fresh water used (69. ANNUALIZED) __________ is dedicated to growing plants and raising animals for food. This means that if water runs out, our food supply might follow. In India, it is estimated that future water (70. SHORTEN) __________ could reduce grain harvests by 25%. In a country where the population exceeds 1.2 billion people and is growing rapidly every year, this is a huge concern. India, like many developing countries, is already struggling to provide for its population. While most people in developed countries can get water at the turn of a tap, nearly four billion people (71. WHERE) __________ lack access to safe water, according to United Nations Development Report.
Rainforests are another endangered resource. While rainforests are critically important to humanity, they are rapidly being destroyed by human activities. The biggest cause of deforestation is conversion of forest land for agriculture. Often (72. CALLING) __________ the “lungs of the planet”, rainforests once covered 14 percent of the Earth’s land (73. FACE) __________ but this has shrunk to only six percent.

Our quality of life, as well as life (66. IT) __________ depends on…

depends on the (67. AVAIL) __________ of clean, fresh water

reduce it further through pollution or (68. EFFICIENCY) __________ use

all fresh water used (69. ANNUALIZED) __________ is dedicated to growing plants

future water (70. SHORTEN) __________ could reduce grain harvests by 25%

nearly four billion people (71. WHERE) __________ lack access to safe water

Often (72. CALLING) __________ the “lungs of the planet”

14 percent of the Earth’s land (73. FACE) __________

Open cloze — Dreams

Read the following passage and think of a word that best fits each gap. Use ONLY ONE word in each gap.

Dreams have always fascinated human beings. The idea that dreams (74) __________ us with useful information about our lives goes (75) __________ thousands of years. For the greater part of human history it was (76) __________ for granted that the sleeping mind was in touch with the supernatural world and dreams were to be interpreted as messages with prophetic or healing function. In the nineteenth century, there was a widespread reaction (77) __________ this way of thinking and dreams were widely dismissed as being very little more than jumbles of fantasy brought about by memories of the previous day.
It was not until the end of the nineteenth century that an Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud, pointed out that people who have similar experiences during the day, and who are then (78) __________ to the same stimuli when they’re asleep, produce different dreams. Freud went on to develop a theory of the dreams process (79) __________ would enable him to interpret dreams as clues to the conflicts taking place within the personality. It is by no means an exaggeration to say that hardly any other theories have had so great an (80) __________ on subsequent thought.

Sentence transformation

Complete the second sentence using the word given, so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. DON’T CHANGE THE WORD GIVEN. Write between THREE and SIX words.

When she got to the party, everyone was dancing and singing. (AT)
→ On ______________________________, everyone was dancing and singing.

No one really expected John to do so well in his exams. (TAKEN)
→ Everyone ______________________________ did so well in his exams.

What really depresses me is this continual wet weather. (GETS)
→ What ______________________________ this continual wet weather.

It is no use arguing, I’ve made up my mind. (POINT)
→ There ______________________________, I’ve made up my mind.

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

David was so enthusiastic about the proposal that he accepted immediately. (FOR)
→ Such ______________________________ that he accepted immediately.

I’m sure the manufacturer knew the food was not fit to eat. (HAVE)
→ The ______________________________ that the food was not fit to eat.

The amount we’ve saved is very small compared to how much we owe. (OCEAN)
→ The amount we’ve saved is ______________________________ compared to how much we owe.

Nobody listened to what the politician was saying last night. (EARS)
→ What the politician was saying ______________________________ last night.

Peter grimaced as he swallowed the foul-tasting medicine. (PULLED)
→ Peter ______________________________ the foul-tasting medicine.

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