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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH ĐỒNG NAI NĂM HỌC 2024-2025

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Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

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I.A. Pronunciation

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation.

Pronunciation (1) · noon / tool / hook / spoon

Pronunciation (2) · honour / harvest / heirloom / hourglass

Pronunciation (3) · maximum / anxiety / examine / exhausted

Pronunciation (4) · recipe / commercial / precision / medicine

Pronunciation (5) · charisma / chandelier / champagne / chivalry

I.B. Primary stress

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress.

Stress (6) · exist / highlight / decent / archive

Stress (7) · advocate / politics / database / component

Stress (8) · telegram / cinema / pagoda / elephant

Stress (9) · nationalist / ceremony / competency / analysis

Stress (10) · impressionable / multicultural / intermediate / inaccessible

II. Lexico-Grammar (MCQ)

For questions 11-25, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which best completes each blank.

I’ll get my husband ______ me move the table when he gets home.

The exams are coming; I think you’d ______ start revising now.

There ______ a lake here once, but now there’s a block of flats.

Once this project is over and ______ with, you can enjoy a two-week holiday!

I have decided not to buy that car because it had too much ______ on it.

All the hotel guests must ______ by the rules if they want to vacation here.

After the accident, Jake didn’t feel up ______.

John: "Sorry, Brian is not here." – Peter: "______"

She bought ______ jacket when she was in Paris last year.

______ does not circle around the earth was proven by Galileo.

It is essential that every student ______ the instructions carefully.

Some students in my class were just learning ______, memorizing facts without truly understanding the underlying concepts.

The holiday was a ______ relief from the pressure of work.

I think you need to ______ your ideas more clearly so that the reader doesn’t get confused.

I caught ______ of a lion lying under the tree, and my heart jumped.

II. Word formation

For questions 26-35, fill in each blank with the correct form of the word in brackets.

The waiting time has been ____________ dramatically from eight weeks to just one week. (SHORT)

Shortly before the crash, the pilot had reported a ____________ of the aircraft’s navigation system. (FUNCTION)

Sleep disturbances are caused by the ____________ in certain chemicals. (BALANCE)

Henry drank a lot of coffee to keep him ____________. (WAKE)

Whatever happens, don’t let this failure ___________ you. (HEART)

Nothing compares to a parent’s ___________ love for their child. (CONDITION)

His profound knowledge and significant contribution to the agriculture of Vietnam has made him a ___________ scientist in this country. (HEAVY)

The law ___________ companies to provide health insurance to their employees or they will face fines. (COMPULSORY)

The team were basking in the___________ of winning the cup. (GLOW)

She is a talented singer and actress who stands a good chance of gaining ___________ and recognition. (STAR)

II. Error identification

For questions 36-40, choose the letter (A, B, C or D) to indicate the underlined part that needs correction. You do NOT need to fix the error.

My brother stood absolutely motion as the spider crawled along his arm.

There are 50 teachers in my school, many of them have a good command of English.

Dictionaries frequently explain the origin of the defined word, state its part of speech, and indicating its correct use.

She hardly never goes to the supermarket without buying some bread and cheese.

Air pollution, together with noise pollution, are causing many problems in our large cities today.

III. Open cloze (Talent)

For questions 41-48, read the passage and fill each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word.

TALENT – AT A PRICE?
Along with the usual stress of childhood and growing up, gifted children often have unique dilemmas, (41) ______ can increase their stress levels even more. They may find it difficult to accept their talents along with their limitations. In (42) ______ to this, they soon become aware that they are different, while at the same time wanting to develop a strong sense of belonging (43) ______ their peers.
Some of the more common signs of stress are losing a sense of humour as (44) ______ as showing resentment towards parents, teachers and even friends. Many of these children (45) ______ from sleeplessness or have difficulty in waking up. They may develop nervous habits such (46) ______ stuttering, excessive blinking or head shaking. These signs can be an indication that they are trying to cope with their anxieties unsuccessfully. Many gifted children link their self-worth and identity with (47) ______ highly they achieve. For these perfectionists, any failure is a terrible blow (48) ______ their self-esteem.

III. Guided cloze (Teenage years)

For questions 49-56, read the passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) for each blank.

THE TEENAGE YEARS
Parents often complain about the lovely child they were (49) ______ up suddenly becoming an uncommunicative, unsociable teen with mood (50) ______, who never wants to get out of bed or take part in family activities.
What parents often don’t (51) ______ into account is quite how hard it is to be a teenager nowadays. Not only do they have to deal with the changes to their bodies, but they are also thrown head first into the most complicated social situations they will ever have to face – (52) ______ having acquired any of the social skills they need to cope with them. It used to occur mainly at school, but nowadays the level of stress can (53) ______ just as high after they return home because of the internet and social networking. Peer pressure becomes more important than parental approval and bullies’ threats can be (54) ______ terrifying.
It’s really no (55) ______ so many young people find their teenage years very difficult. What is slightly strange is that once they’ve managed to survive them and become adults, they often look back fondly (56) ______ that period of their life.

III. Reading — Critical thinking

For questions 57-62, read the article and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).

CRITICAL THINKING
We examine whether people are still able to engage in critical thinking in modern day society.
Critical, or analytical, thinking is a way of interacting with what we read or listen to in attempt to have a deeper understanding. ‘There is a belief that argument is a way of finding the truth,’ observes Adrian West, research director at the Edward de Bono Foundation U.K.
Although there’s little debate that information technology complements – and often enhances – the human mind in the quest to store information and process an ever-growing tangle of bits and bytes, there’s increasing concern that the same technology is changing the way we approach complex problems, and making it more difficult to really think. ‘We’re exposed to greater amounts of poor yet charismatic thinking, the fads of intellectual fashion, opinion, and mere assertion,’ says West. ‘The wealth of communications and information can easily overwhelm our reasoning abilities.’ What’s more, it’s ironic that ever-growing piles of data and information do not equate to greater knowledge and better decision-making. What’s remarkable, West says, is just ‘how little this has affected the quality of our thinking.’
According to the National Endowment for the Arts, literary reading, for one thing, declined 10 percentage points from 1982 to 2002, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Many, including Patricia Greenfield, a professor of psychology, believe that a greater focus on visual media comes at a price. ‘A drop-off in reading has possibly contributed to a decline in critical thinking,’ she says. ‘There is a greater emphasis on real-time media and multi-tasking rather than focusing on a single thing.’ Nevertheless, a definitive answer about how technology affects critical thinking is not yet available. Instead, due to the ever greater presence of technology, critical thinking has landed in a mushy swamp and academics can no longer rely on fundamental beliefs that they previously held.
While it’s tempting to view computers, video games, and the internet in a largely good or bad way, the reality is that they may be both, with different technologies, systems and uses yielding entirely different results. For example, a video game may promote critical thinking or detract from it. Reading on the internet may ratchet up one’s ability to analyze while chasing an endless array of hyperlinks may undercut deeper thought.
‘Exposure to technology fundamentally changes the way people think,’ says Greenfield. As visual media have exploded, noticeable changes have resulted. ‘Reading enhances thinking and engages the imagination in a way that visual media do not,’ Greenfield explains. ‘It develops imagination, induction, reflection, and critical thinking, and vocabulary.’ However, she has found that visual media actually improve some types of information processing. Unfortunately, ‘most visual media are real-time and do not allow time for reflection, analysis, or imagination,’ she says. The upshot? Many people – particularly those who are younger – wind up not making the most of their capabilities.
How society views technology has a great deal to do with how it forms perceptions about critical thinking. And nowhere is the conflict more apparent than at the intersection of video games and cognition. James Paul Gee, a professor of educational psychology, points out that things aren’t always as they appear. ‘There is a strong undercurrent of opinion that video games aren’t healthy for kids,’ he says. ‘The reality is that they are not only a major form of entertainment, they often provide a very good tool for learning.’ In fact, joysticks can go a long way toward building smarter children with better reasoning skills. Games such as SimCity extend beyond rote memorization, and teach decision-making and analytical skills in immersive, virtual environments that resemble the real world. Moreover, these games give participants freedom to explore ideas and concepts that might otherwise be inaccessible.

In the second paragraph, it is said that information technology ______.

What does Patricia Greenfield say about the decline of literary reading?

The writer uses the term ‘mushy swamp’ to convey a sense of ______.

In the fourth paragraph, what point does the writer make about hyperlinks in internet texts?

Based on her research into learning and technology, Greenfield believes that visual media ______.

In the sixth paragraph, the writer reports the view that, for young people, playing video games ______.

III. Reading — Wheel of fortune

Questions 63-65: Which paragraph (A-G) contains the following information? There are more paragraphs than you will need.
Questions 66-68: Match the people or companies (JM, HV, MG, WD, CD) with the points made.
Questions 69-70: Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D).

List: JM John Malone | HV Hal Varian | MG MGM | WD Walt Disney | CD Christopher Dixon

WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A. Since moving pictures were invented a century ago, a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such innovation has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been accompanied by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration. The arrival of digital technology, which translates music, pictures and text into the zeros and ones of computer language, marks one of those periods.
B. This may sound familiar, because the digital revolution, and the explosion of choice that would go with it, has been heralded for some time. In 1992, John Malone, chief executive of TCI, an American cable giant, welcomed the ‘500-channel universe’. Digital television was about to deliver everything except pizzas to people’s living rooms. When the entertainment companies tried out the technology, it worked fine – but not at a price that people were prepared to pay.
C. Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC rather than through television. The digital revolution was starting to affect the entertainment business in unexpected ways. Eventually it will change every aspect of it, from the way cartoons are made to the way films are screened to the way people buy music. That much is clear. What nobody is sure of is how it will affect the economics of the business.
D. New technologies always contain within them both threats and opportunities. They have the potential both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer, and to sweep them away. Old companies always fear new technology. Hollywood was hostile to television, television terrified by the VCR (videocassette recorder). Go back far enough, points out Hal Varian, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, and you find publishers complaining that ‘circulating libraries’ would cannibalise their sales. Yet whenever a new technology has come in, it has made more money for existing entertainment companies. The proliferation of the means of distribution results, gratifyingly, in the proliferation of dollars, pounds, pesetas and the rest to pay for it.
E. All the same, there is something in the old companies’ fears. New technologies may not threaten their lives, but they usually change their role. Once television became widespread, film and radio stopped being the staple form of entertainment. Cable television has undermined the power of the broadcasters. And as power has shifted the movie studios, the radio companies and the television broadcasters have been swallowed up. These days, the grand old names of entertainment have more resonance than power. Paramount is part of Viacom, a cable company; Universal, part of Seagram, a drinks-and-entertainment company; MGM, once the roaring lion of Hollywood, has been reduced to a whisper because it is not part of one of the giants. And RCA, once the most important broadcasting company in the world, is now a recording label belonging to Bertelsmann, a large German entertainment company.
F. Part of the reason why incumbents got pushed aside was that they did not see what was coming. But they also faced a tighter regulatory environment than the present one. In America, laws preventing television broadcasters from owning programme companies were repealed earlier this decade, allowing the creation of vertically integrated businesses. Greater freedom, combined with a sense of history, prompted the smarter companies in the entertainment business to re-invent themselves. They saw what happened to those of their predecessors who were stuck with one form of distribution. So, these days, the powers in the entertainment business are no longer movie studios, or television broadcasters, or publishers; all those businesses have become part of bigger businesses still, companies that can both create content and distribute it in a range of different ways.
G. Out of all this, seven huge entertainment companies have emerged – Time Warner, Walt Disney, Bertelsmann, Viacom, News Corp, Seagram and Sony. They cover pretty well every bit of the entertainment business. Three are American, one is Australian, one Canadian, one German and one Japanese. ‘What you are seeing’, says Christopher Dixon, managing director of media research at PaineWebber, a stockbroker, ‘is the creation of a global oligopoly. It happened to the oil and automotive businesses earlier this century; now it is happening to the entertainment business.’ It remains to be seen whether the latest technology will weaken those great companies, or make them stronger than ever.

Which paragraph contains: the contrasting effects that new technology can have on existing business

Which paragraph contains: the fact that a total transformation is going to take place in the future in the delivery of all forms of entertainment

Which paragraph contains: the fact that some companies have learnt from the mistakes of others

Match: The merger of entertainment companies follows a pattern evident in other industries.

Match: Major entertainment bodies that have remained independent have lost their influence.

Match: News of the most recent technological development was published some years ago.

How does the writer put across his views on the digital revolution?

Which of the following best summarises the writer’s views in the passage?

IV. Sentence transformation (beginnings)

For questions 71-80, rewrite each sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the original, beginning with the given word(s).

“That’s a lovely new dress!” Lan’s mother said to her.
→ Lan’s mother complimented ________________________________________________________.

The trousers were cheap; however, she couldn’t afford them.
→ Cheap __________________________________________________________________________.

The heavy snow stopped the students from going to the mountain.
→ The heavy snow made it ___________________________________________________________.

What time does the gym open tomorrow morning?
→ Do you have any _________________________________________________________________?

They said that the criminal had been arrested a few days earlier.
→ The criminal _____________________________________________________________________.

Flooding in this region was the result of the heavy rain.
→ The heavy rain resulted _____________________________________________________________.

The town was so unfriendly that we left immediately.
→ It was such _______________________________________________________________________.

Persuading Sarah to change her mind is a waste of time.
→ It’s not worth _____________________________________________________________________.

The only reason she got promoted is that she’s competent.
→ Were it __________________________________________________________________________.

As he gets older, he seems to become more sensible.
→ The older ________________________________________________________________________.

IV. Key-word transformation

For questions 81-90, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first, using the word given. Do NOT change the word given. Use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given.

I hope they will think of a cheaper solution. (COME)
→ I hope they will be able _______________________________________________ expensive solution.

Nancy was surprised to be offered a pay rise by the company. (SURPRISE)
→ Much _________________________________________________________________ her a pay rise.

The film was difficult to follow, but it was enjoyable. (DESPITE)
→ The film was enjoyable ____________________________________________ was difficult to follow.

Sarah’s daughter has sufficient talent to become a successful actress. (ENOUGH)
→ Sarah’s daughter is ___________________________________________ become a successful actress.

Rob soon recovered from the shock of losing his job. (GET)
→ It didn’t take Rob much ____________________________________ over the shock of losing his job.

The company rejected his offer. (DOWN)
→ His offer ______________________________________________________________ the company.

Are you saying that I’m lying about what happened? (TRUTH)
→ Are you accusing ________________________________________________ about what happened?

I don’t think you should watch that TV programme, children. (RATHER)
→ I ___________________________________________________watch that TV programme, children.

You don’t have to participate in the activity if you don’t want to. (OBLIGATION)
→ You _____________________________________________ part in the activity if you don’t want to.

Entry is prohibited to those without a valid ticket. (POSSESSION)
→ Unless you are in _________________________________________________will not be allowed in.

IV. Paragraph

Write a paragraph of about 150–180 words in response to the topic.

More and more children are accessing the internet at a very young age, which can sometimes put them at risk.
What problems do you think children face when they use the internet? How can they be solved?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge, experience or observations.
Write about 150-180 words.

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