ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH NGHỆ AN NĂM HỌC 2026-2027

Reason for choosing this venue: Other venues were either too small for about 70 guests or completely ______.

Maximum room capacity: The large room can hold at least ______ people comfortably.

Room booked: The ______.

Drinks allowed: Because of licensing rules, guests may only have ______ on the premises.

Customer’s postcode: ______.

Customer’s mobile number: 07897 ______.

Equipment arrangement: Maria will hire the venue’s disco equipment but may bring a spare ______ just in case.

Food arrangement: Maria turned down the catering offer because of a fairly ______.

Payment rule: The remaining ______ must be paid at least two days before the event.

Cancellation rule: A late cancellation will cost Maria her ______.

TASK 1 - Question 1 (Speaker 1: Purpose of event/service)

TASK 1 - Question 2 (Speaker 2: Purpose of event/service)

TASK 1 - Question 3 (Speaker 3: Purpose of event/service)

TASK 1 - Question 4 (Speaker 4: Purpose of event/service)

TASK 1 - Question 5 (Speaker 5: Purpose of event/service)

TASK 2 - Question 6 (Speaker 1: Feeling about event/service)

TASK 2 - Question 7 (Speaker 2: Feeling about event/service)

TASK 2 - Question 8 (Speaker 3: Feeling about event/service)

TASK 2 - Question 9 (Speaker 4: Feeling about event/service)

TASK 2 - Question 10 (Speaker 5: Feeling about event/service)

What does Matthew suggest about adults’ reasons for valuing holidays?

• Childhood memories may explain why adults value holidays, but adults now mainly seek quiet release from activity.
• Adults usually choose holidays that allow their children to recreate the pleasures they themselves once enjoyed.
• Adults value unfamiliar destinations chiefly because such places make family bonding easier.
• Adults gradually outgrow their attraction to sensory experiences and unfamiliar places as family responsibilities accumulate over time.

What point does Emma make about the “holiday happiness curve”?

• The final stage of a holiday is usually the happiest because travel problems have already been forgotten.
• People’s mood declines steadily once they become aware that the holiday is coming to an end.
• Enjoyment tends to recover near the end after an earlier dip linked to the thought that the holiday is nearly over.
• Early travel difficulties have a stronger effect on enjoyment than anything that happens during the holiday itself.

What did Matthew’s diary research suggest about tourists’ accounts of their holidays?

• Tourists tend to exaggerate daily difficulties in diaries because they know researchers will read them later.
• Keeping a diary while travelling makes tourists focus too much on problems and enjoy the trip less.
• Physically demanding holidays produce more reliable memories than less challenging forms of travel.
• Difficulties recorded during the trip may disappear from later accounts, making the holiday seem better in memory.

What do Matthew and Emma agree makes holiday research difficult to interpret?

• People often refuse to say whether work has affected their enjoyment of a holiday.
• Feelings linked to holidays may partly come from work pressures before or after the trip.
• The benefits of holidays depend mainly on whether employees have secure jobs.
• Travel stress and work stress usually affect people in the same way and cannot be separated.

What advice do Matthew and Emma both support at the end of the interview?

• Read about the destination before travelling so that the holiday feels more meaningful.
• Book far in advance only after deciding exactly who will be travelling with you.
• Reduce the cost and planning involved so that holidays can be taken spontaneously.
• Take holidays more often rather than relying on a single major break each year.

It was the first time in the history of this corporation that the board of directors ______ such a generous year-end bonus to all staff members.

• awarded
• were awarding
• have awarded
• had awarded

Not until the chief accountant carefully analyzed the quarterly report ______ how serious the company’s financial deficit actually was.

• did she realize
• she did realized
• had she realized
• she had realized

The fire alarm ______ accidentally in the middle of the night, waking up all the hotel guests.

• went out
• set off
• went off
• came on

Despite the ______ schedule, the delegates managed to cover all the pressing issues on the agenda.

• exhaustive
• exhausted
• exhausting
• exhaustion

The athlete managed to win the gold medal ______ he was still recovering from a severe knee injury.

• regardless of
• despite
• even though
• nevertheless

The health department requires that all medical equipment _________ thoroughly after each surgical procedure.

• must be sterilized
• be sterilized
• is sterilized
• to be sterilized

We were driving along the highway when a deer jumped in front of our car entirely ______.

• out of bounds
• out of sight
• out of order
• out of the blue

Grammar (33) · twice a year / once every two years / twice a month / every other month

• twice a year
• once every two years
• twice a month
• every other month

Grammar (34) · utterly miserable / rather uncertain / on top of the world / under the weather

• utterly miserable
• rather uncertain
• on top of the world
• under the weather

Choose the option from A, B, C, or D that best completes the following exchange.
Tom and Mary are discussing the impact of technology.
Tom: “I think artificial intelligence will completely change the way we work in the future.”
Mary: “______. Most routine tasks in our office are already being automated.”

• I couldn’t agree less with what you just said
• You took the words right out of my mouth
• I think you may have a point there
• I wouldn't go that far

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Virtual education’s rise has not been without (8) ______, however. (CRITICAL)

Choose the best word for blank (1):

• wealth
• quantity
• multitude
• extent

Choose the best word for blank (2):

• toll
• price
• damage
• burden

Choose the best word for blank (3):

• capable
• prone
• associated
• involved

Choose the best word for blank (4):

• tiring
• distracting
• stressful
• overwhelming

Choose the best word for blank (5):

• overlooked
• anonymous
• unattended
• deserted

Choose the best word for blank (6):

• combat
• strike
• defeat
• clash

Choose the best word for blank (7):

• break
• absence
• escape
• exit

Choose the best word for blank (8):

• In spite of
• In response to
• Instead of
• Regardless of

Choose the best word for blank (9):

• Despite
• However
• Since
• Although

Choose the best word for blank (10):

• unless
• in case
• provided
• even if

According to the first paragraph, what is the author’s main objection to the conventional interpretation of adolescent lethargy?

• It assumes that teenagers are biologically incapable of developing punctual habits before adulthood.
• It moralizes a physiologically grounded delay by recasting it as weakness or poor discipline.
• It exaggerates the role of schooling while ignoring the influence of family routines on sleep.
• It treats chronobiology as a convenient excuse for adolescents who reject adult expectations.

What does the discussion of “catch-up sleep” and “social jetlag” suggest?

• Alternating between imposed schedules and biological rhythms allows the body clock to stabilise around a midpoint over time.
• Weekend recovery partially restores cognitive function but creates a cumulative metabolic cost that persists into the school week.
• Repeated movement between imposed schedules and biological timing creates a costly instability.
• Social jetlag measures the psychological fatigue produced mainly by one severe night of sleep loss.

What role does the evolutionary discussion in paragraph 3 play in the author’s argument?

• It proves that modern adolescents should maintain the nocturnal duties once required in tribal life.
• It demonstrates that digital habits, not biological predisposition, are the primary driver of contemporary adolescent sleep difficulties.
• It presents pre-industrial sleep patterns as morally superior to modern educational timetables.
• It provides historical evidence that adolescent nocturnality predates modern social conditions.

Which distinction is most important to the author’s argument in paragraph 4?

• The distinction between mitigating the symptoms of phase delay and abolishing the biological shift itself.
• The distinction between adolescents who use screens irresponsibly and those who practise good sleep hygiene.
• The distinction between pre-industrial adolescents and modern adolescents as biologically separate groups.
• The distinction between sleep hygiene as an individual practice and circadian delay as a scheduling problem.

What is the author’s point about the neurological evidence in paragraph 5?

• It proves that adolescent sleep delay should be treated as a genuine neurological disorder.
• It shows that prefrontal development makes teenagers broadly unfit for academic responsibility.
• It explains why forced early performance is especially costly during a normal developmental phase.
• It confirms that adolescents with good sleep hygiene develop prefrontal capacity at a normal rate.

Which distinction is most central to the author’s argument across the passage?

• The distinction between adolescent irresponsibility and adult moral consistency.
• The distinction between digital distraction and traditional educational discipline.
• The distinction between neurological disorder and culturally conditioned behavioral failure.
• The distinction between biological timing and the institutional framing of normality.

Why does the author mention Edina Public Schools and the Seattle School District?

• To show that early school schedules are historically contingent rather than biologically inevitable.
• To demonstrate that school start-time reform has conclusively solved adolescent sleep deprivation.
• To argue that local reforms matter only when they produce identical results in every district.
• To show that neurobiological evidence justifies replacing all schedules with individually tailored timetables.

Which statement best captures the author’s qualification of school start-time reform?

• Reform is valuable because it proves adolescent sleep delay is socially produced, not biological.
• Reform cannot abolish phase delay, but it exposes early scheduling as historically contingent.
• Reform is unnecessary because disciplined teenagers can overcome circadian delay through sleep hygiene.
• Reform is persuasive only if it yields identical academic gains in all participating districts.

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Choose the correct heading for Section D:

Choose the correct heading for Section E:

Choose the correct heading for Section F:

The passage suggests that digital platforms do not generate adolescents’ need for recognition from nothing, but alter its social force by making approval measurable, visible and revisable.

The performative self is presented as harmful chiefly because adolescents deliberately falsify their identities in order to secure social dominance over their peers.

Adolescents who maintain strong offline social relationships are suggested to develop a more stable sense of identity than those whose primary social interactions are digital.

The passage presents neurochemical reinforcement as fully accounting for compulsive digital engagement, leaving no explanatory role for the commercial incentive structures of platforms.

The author’s objection to strict bans is not that they can never reduce exposure, but that they leave adolescents without the interpretive capacities needed for an unavoidable digital environment.

The passage reports that schools teaching algorithmic literacy have reduced students’ dependence on likes, comments and follower counts more effectively than schools relying on device restrictions.

He resented the way she spoke to him. (EXCEPTION)
=> He ___________________________________________________________________ she spoke to him.

Everyone was in a deep sleep when the fire started. (SOUND)
=> Everyone ___________________________________________________________________ broke out.

The century-old firm may not survive if the impending economic recession deepens. (BALANCE)
=> The century-old firm’s _____________________________ as the impending economic recession deepens.

They accused John of breaking the window. (PUT)
=> They ______________________________________________________________________ the window.

The dense clouds parted just long enough for me to see the majestic comet briefly. (FLEETING)
=> I merely ____________________________________ the majestic comet before the clouds closed in again.

PART 2. A popular national educational magazine, Youth & Future, recently published an editorial arguing that all secondary schools should strictly ban the use of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in order to prevent cheating and protect students' critical thinking. The magazine has invited student readers to submit letters sharing their views on this controversial issue.
Write a letter of at least 200 words to the Editor responding to their article.
In your letter, you should:
- explain why completely banning AI is not a wise solution in today’s technology-driven world;
- suggest better ways for schools to teach and assess students’ use of AI;
- persuade readers that using AI responsibly can prepare students better for future study and work.
Use your name and address as Thao Duong – 32 Minh Khai Street, Thanh Vinh Ward, Nghe An Province.

PART 3. Write an essay of at least 300 words on the following topic:
Some people argue that parents should organize their teenagers’ after-school time with extra classes and planned activities to guarantee their success in a highly competitive world. Others, however, believe that without completely free, unstructured time, teenagers will never learn how to manage themselves or discover their true passions.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.