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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH ĐẮK LẮK NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — Nguyễn Du — 150 phút — 11 trang

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

Kết quả

I Listening form (1–5)

ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER. Transcript.

I Listening form (1–5)
Transcript — I Listening form (1–5)
You will hear a conversation between an assistant librarian and a woman who wants to use the internet in the library.

WOMAN: Good morning, I’d like to register to use the internet in the library.

MAN: Do you have a library card?

WOMAN: Yes, I’ve been a member for 6 months but I’ve never used the internet services before.

MAN: No problem. Can I have your full name please?

WOMAN: Lynda Jayne Milton.

MAN: So, Milton is your surname?

WOMAN: Yes.

MAN: And Linda, L-i-n-d-a?

WOMAN: Well, no, actually it’s L-Y-N-D-A.

MAN: Lynda … Jane.

WOMAN: And, erm, Jane isn’t spelt J-a-n-e either. It’s J-A-Y-N-E.

MAN: Okay, got that …thank you. Now, where do you live, Lynda?

WOMAN: Unit 15, 35 Maximilian Way.

MAN: That’s in Whitfield, right? I have a cousin who lives in that area.

WOMAN: Yes, Whitfield.

MAN: And the postcode is double seven double five?

WOMAN: Not quite – you’ve got it round the wrong way. It’s double five double seven.

MAN: Whoops, okay, moving on now … Do you work or are you at home during the day?

WOMAN: Well, both, actually. I work as a nurse but I’m on permanent night shift.

MAN: Oh, I see. In that case, we won’t put down your home phone number because I’m sure you don’t want to be disturbed when you’re trying to sleep.

WOMAN: Thanks, I appreciate that – you can always leave a message on my mobile if you have to contact me. I have it turned off when I’m sleeping, but I regularly check my voicemail for messages.

MAN: And that number is?

WOMAN: 0412 214 418

MAN: Good. Now I’ll need to see some form of photo ID – have you got something with you?

WOMAN: Yes, just a minute, here’s my swipe card for the hospital.

MAN: Thank you. I just need to make a note of the number … AZ 1985331

WOMAN: Is that all you need?

MAN: Just one more thing – your date of birth – but I can get that from the card. One moment …

WOMAN: Look – I’m afraid you haven’t copied it down correctly. I was born on the 25th September, 1975.

MAN: What have I written? Oh yes, I see it now, I’ve got the 25th of the eighth month, but that would make it August … Thanks for spotting the mistake.
Library internet: Family Milton; first name Jayne; Unit 15, 35 Maximilian Way, Whitfield; occupation Nurse; DoB 25th … 1975.

First name: (1) ______ (Jayne is middle name)

Postcode: (2) ______

Mobile: (3) ______

ID number: (4) ______

Date of Birth: 25th (5) ______ 1975

I Listening flight (6–10)

A, B or C. Transcript.

I Listening flight (6–10)
Transcript — I Listening flight (6–10)
Travel Agent: Freedom Travel. How may I help you?

Caller: Yes, I’d like to make a flight reservation for the twenty-third of this month.

Travel Agent: Okay. What is your destination?

Caller: Well. I’m flying to Helsinki, Finland.

Travel Agent: Okay. Let me check what flights are available?. [Okay] And when will you be returning?

Caller: Uh, well, I’d like to catch a return flight on the twenty-ninth. Oh, and I’d like the cheapest flight available.

Travel Agent: Okay. Let me see. Um, hmm . . .

Caller: Yeah?

Travel Agent: Well, the price for the flight is almost double the price you would pay if you leave the day before.

Caller: Whoo. Let’s go with the cheaper flight. By the way, how much is it?

Travel Agent: It’s only $980.

Caller: Alright. Well, let’s go with that.

Travel Agent: Okay. That’s flight 1070 from Salt Lake City to New York, Kennedy Airport, transferring to flight 90 from Kennedy to Helsinki.

Caller: And what are the departure and arrival times for each of those flights?

Travel Agent: It leaves Salt Lake City at 10:00 AM, arriving in New York at 4:35 PM, then transferring to flight 90 at 5:55 PM, and arriving in Helsinki at 8:30 AM the next day.

Caller: Alright. And, uh, I’d like to request a vegetarian meal.

Travel Agent: Sure, no problem. And could I have you name please?

What is the man's destination?

When is the man's departure date?

What is the flight number for the second half of the journey?

How long is the man's layover?

What request did the man make regarding his flight?

I Listening coffee (11–20)

ONE WORD. Transcript.

I Listening coffee (11–20)
Transcript — I Listening coffee (11–20)
In my presentation, I’m going to talk about coffee, and its importance both in economic and social terms. We think it was first drunk in the Arab world, but there’s hardly any documentary evidence of it before the 1500s, although of course that doesn’t mean that people didn’t know about it before then.

However, there is evidence that coffee was originally gathered from bushes growing wild in Ethiopia, in the northeast of Africa. In the early sixteenth century, it was being bought by traders, and gradually its use as a drink spread throughout the Middle East. It’s also known that in 1522, in the Turkish city of Constantinople, which was the centre of the Ottoman Empire, the court physician approved its use as a medicine.

By the mid-1500s, coffee bushes were being cultivated in the Yemen and for the next hundred years this region produced most of the coffee drunk in Africa and the Arab world.

What’s particularly interesting about coffee is its effect on social life. It was rarely drunk at home, but instead people went to coffee houses to drink it. These people, usually men, would meet to drink coffee and chat about issues of the day.

But at the time, this chance to share ideas and opinions was seen as something that was potentially dangerous, and in 1623 the ruler of Constantinople demanded the destruction of all the coffee houses in the city, although after his death many new ones opened, and coffee consumption continued.

In the seventeenth century, coffee drinking spread to Europe, and here too coffee shops became places where ordinary people, nearly always men, could meet to exchange ideas. Because of this, some people said that these places performed a similar function to universities.

The opportunity they provided for people to meet together outside their own homes and to discuss the topics of the day had an enormous impact on social life, and many social movements and political developments had their origins in coffee house discussions.

In the late 1600s, the Yemeni monopoly on coffee production broke down and coffee production started to spread around the world, helped by European colonization. Europeans set up coffee plantations in Indonesia and the Caribbean and production of coffee in the colonies skyrocketed.

Different types of coffee were produced in different areas, and it’s interesting that the names given to these different types, like Mocha or Java coffee, were often taken from the port they were shipped to Europe from. But if you look at the labour system in the different colonies, there were some significant differences.

In Brazil and the various Caribbean colonies, coffee was grown in huge plantations and the workers there were almost all slaves. But this wasn’t the same in all colonies; for example in Java, which had been colonized by the Dutch, the peasants grew coffee and passed a proportion of this on to the Dutch, so it was used as a means of taxation.

But whatever system was used, under the European powers of the eighteenth century, coffee production was very closely linked to colonisation. Coffee was grown in ever-increasing quantities to satisfy the growing demand from Europe, and it became nearly as important as sugar production, which was grown under very similar conditions.

However, coffee prices were not yet low enough for people to drink it regularly at home, so most coffee consumption still took place in public coffee houses and it still remained something of a luxury item.

In Britain, however, a new drink was introduced from China, and started to become popular, gradually taking over from coffee, although at first it was so expensive that only the upper classes could afford it. This was tea, and by the late 1700s it was being widely drunk.

However, when the USA gained independence from Britain in 1766, they identified this drink with Britain, and coffee remained the preferred drink in the USA, as it still is today.

So, by the early nineteenth century, coffee was already being widely produced and consumed. But during this century, production boomed and coffee prices started to fall. This was partly because new types of transportation had been developed which were cheaper and more efficient.

So now, working people could afford to buy coffee – it wasn’t just a drink for the middle classes. And this was at a time when large parts of Europe were starting to work in industries. And sometimes this meant their work didn’t stop when it got dark; they might have to continue throughout the night.

So, the use of coffee as a stimulant became important – it wasn’t just a drink people drank in the morning, for breakfast. There were also changes in cultivation …
Coffee in the Arab world / THE HISTORY OF COFFEE
There was small-scale trade in wild coffee from Ethiopia. 1522: Coffee was approved in the Ottoman court as a type of medicine.
1623: In Constantinople, the ruler ordered the (11) ______ of every coffee house.
Coffee arrives in Europe (17th century)
Coffee shops were compared to (12) ______.
They played an important part in social and (13) ______ changes.
Coffee and European colonisation
European powers established coffee plantations in their colonies.
Types of coffee were often named according to the (14) ______ they came from.
In Brazil and the Caribbean, most cultivation depended on (15) ______.
In Java, coffee was used as a form of (16) ______.
Coffee became almost as important as (17) ______.
The move towards the consumption of (18) ______ in Britain did not also take place in the USA.
Coffee in the 19th century
Prices dropped because of improvements in (19) ______.
Industrial workers found coffee helped them to work at (20) ______.

II Lexico-grammar (21–50)

HDC Sở.

The soap opera star threatened to ________ her dentist for $10 million.

She is on the horns of a ________.

As he accepted the award, his voice ________ with emotion.

It was so foggy that the driver couldn't ________ the traffic signs.

his instructions were so ________ that I still didn’t understand.

We have to ________ our homework right now, or we won’t finish it today.

The film is ________ based on a true story, but most of it is fiction.

David: “It’s terrible. I don’t think I will be able to pass the exam.” Mary: “________”

there is a danger of ________ if someone else obtains the number.

The music aroused an ________ feeling of homesickness in him.

spend more money on less ________ children.

finally Ted ________ a good answer.

The ceiling fans were on, but unfortunately they only ________ the hot, humid air.

When my children ________ their toys, I donated them to a charity.

I am up to my ________ in work.

The company is in ________ water over their refusal to reduce prices.

he got a generous golden ________.

Mrs. Allison did say that we could take dictionaries into the exam with us, ________?

To fit together the thousands of fragments of the broken vase was a long and ________ task.

________ than spectators began to return to the slope.

________ have made communication faster… is widely recognized.

If flights to Cyprus ________ so expensive these days, they might have gone there for their honeymoon last spring.

The doctor recommended that the patient ________ in bed until a specialist was called in.

She joined the local tennis club, ________ were at least 60.

It is in this hospital ________.

________, he was determined to continue to finish the five-thousand-mile bike journey.

they still get along ________.

his ________ meant he hardly ever felt like working.

You'll do well at school if you just keep your nose to the ________.

Sue: “You have read that article on the website, haven’t you?” Peter: “________”

II Word form (51–60)

HDC Sở.

Eating that meat could be dangerous. It looks (COOK) ______ to me.

His eyes are terribly (BLOOD) ______.

He apologized for the (CONVENIENT) ______ he had caused.

Rose and I (COINCIDE) ______ reserved the rooms in the same hotel.

Without color dyes, processed food rather (APPETITE) ______.

26% of the federal (JUDGE) ______ are women

The policeman examined the parcel (SUSPECT) ______

His workmates were very (COOPERATE) ______ and selfish.

If the cabin (PRESS) ______, oxygen masks will automatically drop down.

negotiations to bring about a (RECONCILE) ______ between the two sides.

III Cloze — vlog (61–70)

HDC Sở.

One rather unlikely word that has recently entered the language is 'blog', a shortened form of 'web log'. A blog is a diary (61) ______ on the Internet by the person writing it — the 'blogger' who presumably (62) ______ other people to read it. It is ironical that modern sophisticated technology is being used to breathe new life (63) ______ such an old-fashioned form as the personal journal. And now, as the technology behind video cameras is making them easier to use, we have the video log, or 'vlog'. Vlogging does not require (64) ______ equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed Internet connection and a host are all that is needed. Vloggers can put anything that (65) ______ their fancy onto their personal website. Some vloggers have no ambitions rather than to show films they have shot while on holiday in exotic places. (66) ______, vlogs can also serve more ambitious purposes. For instance, amateur film-makers (67) ______ want to make a name for themselves might publish their work on the Internet, eager to receive advice or criticism. And increasingly, vlogs are being used to publicize political and social issues that are not newsworthy enough to (68) ______ coverage by the mass media. It is still (69) ______ early to predict whether vlogging will ever take off in a major way or if it is just a passing fad, but its (70) ______ is only now becoming apparent.

III Open cloze — stress (71–80)

HDC Sở.

Success, in any field, is often a matter of how well a person is (71) ______ to control the amount of stress they experience. As stress increases, their performance often improves but there is a certain point beyond (72) ______ their performance begins to decline sharply. Sports psychologists now help Olympic athletes, (73) ______ others, balance the good and bad effects of stress.
Before an athletic event, a high (74) ______ of excitement can actually have a positive effect on the athlete. This excitement becomes harmful, (75) ______, if negative thoughts take over. Thoughts such as “What if I fall?” should definitely be avoided. Psychologists help athletes manage to replace (76) ______ thoughts with positive ones.
Another useful technique before competing (77) ______ to recognise your level of excitement and adjust it if necessary. Music may be helpful (78) ______ these cases. If you’re over-excited, listening to soft music can help to calm you down. If you feel you’re not excited (79) ______, you may want to listen to fast, powerful music to raise your spirits.
The key to success, in other words, is a person’s knowledge of their ideal level of excitement. An imbalance (80) ______ way could mean the difference between success and failure.

III Error correction (81–90)

10 lỗi (0–00 ví dụ). HDC Sở.

If I say 'I always tell lies', am I telling truth? This is known as the Liar's Paradox.
It has been around for millennia and is usually attributed to the Cretan who said 'All of Cretans are liars'. Logicians call this a circular argument or problem to that there is no solution. The quick answer is that while the question is valid from a grammatical viewpoint, from a logical point of view is contrived contradictory nonsense, though this didn't stop the philosopher Bertrand Russell spending two whole of summers trying to solve the contradiction.
The theological answer is that the human race is made up of three types of people: the saints who always tell the truth, devils who always tell lies and sinners who sometimes tell the truth and sometimes tell lies. Logically, the saint cannot say 'I always tell lies' since this would be a lie. A devil cannot logically say 'I always tell lies' since all this would be the truth. Only a sinner can logically say 'I always tell lies', and this would be a lie. It is essentially the same as the dilemma faced the barber who shaves all the men who don't shave themselves. The whole question is: who shaves the barber? Clearly, he cannot shave himself when he only shaves those who don't shave themselves. However, he cannot remain unshaven as he would then have to shave themselves.

problem to that there is no solution

from a logical point of view is contrived

two whole of summers

the saints who always tell the truth

Logically, the saint cannot say

since all this would be the truth

the dilemma faced the barber

The whole question is: who shaves the barber?

he cannot shave himself when he only shaves those who don’t

he would then have to shave themselves

III Reading — noise (91–100)

HDC Sở.

Although noise, commonly defined as unwanted sound, is a widely recognized form of pollution, it is very difficult to measure because the discomfort experienced by different individuals is highly subjective and, therefore, variable. Exposure to lower levels of noise may be slightly irritating, whereas exposure to higher levels may actually cause hearing loss. Particularly in congested urban areas, the noise produced as a by-product of our advancing technology causes physical and psychological harm, and detracts from the quality of life for those who are exposed to it.
Unlike the eyes, which can be covered by eyelids against strong light, the ear has no lid, and is, therefore, always open and vulnerable; noise penetrates without protection.
Noise causes effects that the hearer cannot control and to which the body never becomes accustomed. Loud noises instinctively signal danger to any organism with a hearing mechanism, including human beings. In response, heartbeat and respiration accelerate, blood vessels constrict, the skin pales, and muscles tense. In fact, there is a general increase in functioning brought about by the flow of adrenaline released in response to fear, and some of these responses persist even longer than the noise, occasionally as long as thirty minutes after the sound has ceased.
Because noise is unavoidable in a complex, industrial society, we are constantly responding in the same way that we would respond to danger. Recently, researchers have concluded that noise and our response may be much more than an annoyance. It may be a serious threat to physical and psychological health and well-being, causing damage not only to the ear and brain but also to the heart and stomach. We have long known that hearing loss is America’s number one nonfatal health problem, but now we are learning that some of us with heart disease and ulcers may be victims of noise as well. Fetuses exposed to noise tend to be overactive… In addition, the psychic effect of noise is very important. Nervousness, irritability, tension, and anxiety increase, affecting the quality of rest during sleep, and the efficiency of activities during waking hours, as well as the way that we interact with each other.

Which of the following is the author's main point?

According to the passage, what is noise?

Why is noise difficult to measure?

“congested” could best be replaced by

“by-product” is closest in meaning to

It can be inferred that the eye

people respond to loud noise in the same way that they respond to

“accelerate” is closest in meaning to

The word “it” in the first paragraph refers to

The author would most probably agree that

IV Transformations (101–105)

HDC Sở.

She is now leading a normal life as a result of all the support she received from social workers.
Had she ______

The northwest of Britain has more rain each year than the southeast.
The annual ______

If you don't pay on time, your booking will be cancelled.
Failure ______

In the end it was discovered that she had known him for a long time.
It turned ______

When the weather becomes hotter, we should drink more water.
The hotter ______

IV Keyword (106–110)

3–5 words. HDC Sở.

It was a mistake not to write the telephone number down. (POINT)
I should ______

Police are warning people to check for forged notes which are currently in circulation. (LOOKOUT)
Police are warning people to be ______

Students at this school are not allowed to go into the Rainbow Disco. (BOUNDS)
The Rainbow Disco ______

She can't get into the habit of studying every evening. (USED)
She can't ______

Jane regretted speaking so rudely to the old lady. (MORE)
Jane ______

IV Essay (111)

About 250 words. Increasing use of social networking sites has a negative effect on young people. Agree/disagree?

Some people think that the increasing use of social networking sites has a negative effect on young people. To what extent do you agree or disagree? About 250 words.

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