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ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN THÁI NGUYÊN MÔN TIẾNG ANH CHUYÊN NĂM HỌC 2021-2022

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — 180 phút — 10 trang — 110 câu

Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút

Kết quả

SECTION A: Phonology (1–10)

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

Pronunciation (1) · nasty / hasty / tasty / wastage

Pronunciation (2) · freight / height / weight / eight

Pronunciation (3) · frown / brown / crown / flown

Pronunciation (4) · approaches / precedes / obliges / sacrifices

Pronunciation (5) · escalator / although / salmon / bald

Stress (6) · atlas / basic / police / panel

Stress (7) · enormous / humorous / generous / populous

Stress (8) · entertainment / information / education / television

Stress (9) · technological / solidarity / qualification / undergraduate

Stress (10) · responsibility / originality / accommodation / mischievousness

SECTION B.I: Grammar MCQ (11–20)

Choose the correct word or phrase.

Grandpa seems______ his glasses, and I don't think he will be able to find them without our help.

When he woke up, he realized that the things he had dreamt about could not_____ have happened.

To ______ extent did she benefit from her uncle's will?

______ John Coltrane, Sun Ra also helped to develop the free jazz movement of the 1960s.

Before the meeting finished, they had arranged when______ next.

These ______ aren't effective anymore because insects have become resistant to them.

When he heard the joke, he burst into loud______ .

The traffic lights______ green, and the cars drove on.

I haven't had a very ______ week. I seem to have done nothing at all.

Don't worry. I have ______ tire at the back of my car.

SECTION B.II: Word form (21–25)

Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits.

Responding to unprovoked insults that have been thrown at you is a wonderful way of honing your sense of humor. The great playwright George Bernard Shaw was a contemporary of Winston Churchill's. George Bernard Shaw thoughtfully invited Churchill to the first night of one of his plays, (21)______ two tickets with a note which said, 'One for yourself and one for a friend - if you have one.' Churchill lost no time in writing back, saying that unfortunately, due to pressure of work, he would be unable to come, but could he have tickets for the second night - 'if there is one.'
This joke was (22)______ more recently by a prominent politician in the Labour Party, when speaking to a colleague and long-term rival of his. The two men found themselves in the same meeting, despite being (23) ______ enemies. The colleague (24)______ rose to excuse himself, saying that he had arranged to phone some friends, whereupon the statesman handed him a small coin (enough for a brief local call) and said (25)______ ,'There you are. Go ahead and phone them all!'

SECTION B.III: Prepositions (26–35)

Fill each blank with a suitable preposition or adverb particle.

Performance Review - Summary

David feels that he has grown in confidence during his first year with the company, although he admits to occasionally feeling (26)________ pressure to work faster. He sometimes finds it difficult to deal (27)________ external clients who phone him. David recognises the need to acquire more experience (28)________ computer database systems and has agreed to attend training sessions.

David is aware of the roles of others in his department and how their work relates (29) _________ his own. He describes himself as being (30) ________ good terms with his colleagues. David would like to become more involved (31) ________ the running of the staff social programme. It was suggested that he contact Carla Lopez. David understands that he will be eligible (32) ________ a pay rise next March, depending on his performance (33)_________ the coming year. Any pay rise would only come (34)________ effect from March, as the terms of his contract specify his current salary for a period of eighteen months.

It was agreed that David has applied himself well (35) _________ his job, and that his manager is happy with his progress to date.

SECTION B.IV: Burn passage errors (36–40)

There are FIVE mistakes. Identify them and write the correct word in the box (mistake → correction).

There are three different kinds of burns: first-degree, two-degree, and third-degree burns. Each type of burns requires a different type of medical treatment. The less serious burn is the first-degree burn. This burn causes the skin to turn red but does not cause blistering. A mild sunburn is a good example of a first-degree burn, and unlike a mild sunburn, first-degree burns generally do not require medical treatment another than gently cooling the burned skin with ice or cold tap water. Second-degree burns, on the other hand, do cause blistering of the skin and should be treated immediately. These burns should be immersed in warm water and then wrapped in a sterile dressing or bandage. Third-degree burns are those that char the skin and turn it black or burn it so deeply that the skin turns white. These burns usually result in direct contact with flames and have a great chance of becoming infected. All third degree burn victims should be give immediate hospital care. If possible, a sterile dressing or bandage should be applied to the burns before the victims are transported to hospital.

The less serious burn is the first-degree burn. — sửa: The less serious burn… → less → least

A mild sunburn is a good example of a first-degree burn, and unlike a mild sunburn, first-degree burns generally do not require medical treatment another than gently cooling the burned skin — sửa: and unlike a mild sunburn… → unlike → like

Each type of burns requires a different type of medical treatment. The less serious burn is the first-degree burn. — sửa: treatment another than gently… → another → other

These burns usually result in direct contact with flames and have a great chance of becoming infected. — sửa: usually result in direct contact… → in → from

Second-degree burns, on the other hand, do cause blistering of the skin and should be treated immediately. — sửa: should be give immediate hospital care → give → given

SECTION B.V: Phrasal verbs (41–50)

Complete using the correct form from the box. Two extra phrases are not used.
catch up on | make for | get on well with | do up | come over | go through | take on | make up of | stand for | do away with | get into | take up

that computer company is going to _____ more staff.

until she has _____ her answer twice.

Dreams are commonly _____ both visual and verbal images.

I find that my work _____ so much of my time…

The man who lives next door sometimes_____ for a cup of coffee.

everyone was_____ the coast

Deborah is going to take extra lessons to _____ what she missed…

Because I hate_____ my shoes…

We intend to _____ the old system…

While I was waiting for the bus, I _____ a conversation…

SECTION C.I: Reading — risky sports (51–60)

Choose A, B, C or D.

Psychologists are interested in the reasons why some people like taking part in risky sports. When they studied people who were learning to jump from a plane with a parachute, they found that the parachutists' bodies produced large amounts of two hormones, adrenaline and nor adrenaline, just before they made their jump.

These hormones help to prepare us for any sudden activity. Adrenaline increases the heart rate and provides more sugar for the muscles, while nor adrenaline makes us react more quickly. However, nor adrenaline also stimulates the part of the brain which controls feelings of pleasure. Some psychologists have concluded that it is a feeling of pleasure caused by this hormone that makes certain people want to participate in dangerous sports.

Another possible reason is the level of arousal in part of the brain. According to some psychologists, the brain tries to maintain a certain level of arousal. They believe that people who normally have a low level of arousal look for excitement and new experiences in order to stimulate themselves, whereas people who usually have a high level of arousal try to avoid risks and unfamiliar situations in order not to become over excited. If the psychologists are right, people with a low arousal are the ones who enjoy participating in dangerous sports and activities.

It is thought that people with low levels of arousal have a slower-reacting nervous system than people with higher arousal levels. It may therefore be possible to find out your level of arousal by testing your nervous system. A quick way of doing this is to put some lemon juice on your tongue. If you produce a lot of saliva, your nervous system has been affected by the lemon and so you probably have a high level of arousal. If you produce little saliva, you probably have a low arousal level. If you have a low level, you might enjoy taking part in risky sports. However, this does not mean that you have to try parachuting!

Why did the parachutists' bodies produce a lot of adrenaline and nor adrenaline before they jumped?

What two possible reasons are given for some people's desire to participate in dangerous sports?

What does the brain try to maintain, according to some psychologists?

Why do psychologists believe that people with a high level of arousal try to avoid danger?

What is shown by putting lemon juice on your tongue?

What kind of substances are adrenaline and nor adrenaline?

What substance is thought to stimulate the brain to make us feel pleasure?

Which of the following does adrenaline do?

Where were the parachutists when they produced large amounts of the two hormones?

What kind of people try to avoid unfamiliar situations?

SECTION C.II: Open cloze — colonies (61–70)

Fill each blank with ONE suitable word.

In the American colonies there was little money. England did not supply the colonies with coins and did not allow the colonies to (61)______ their own coins, except for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which received permission for a short period in 1652 to make several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to keep money out of America as a (62)______ of controlling trade: America was forced to trade only with England if it did not have the money to buy products from other countries. The result during this pre-revolutionary period was that the colonists used various goods in place of money: beaver pelts, Indian wampum, and tobacco leaves were all (63)______ used as substitutes for money. The (64)______ also made use of any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch, Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use in the American colonies.

During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the war, so (65)______ of the individual states and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper money was (66)______ that by the end of the war, almost no one would accept (67)_______. As a result, trade in goods and the use of (68)______ coins still flourished during this period.

By the time the Revolutionary War had been won by the American colonists, the monetary system was in a state of total disarray. To remedy this situation, the new Constitution of the United States, approved in 1789, allowed the Congress to issue money. The individual states could no longer have (69)______ own money supply. A few years later, the Coinage Act of 1792 made the dollar the (70)______ currency of the United States and put the country on a bimetallic standard. In this bimetallic system, both gold and silver were legal money, and the rate of exchange of silver to gold was fixed by the government at sixteen to one.

SECTION C.III: Boredom — headings & names (71–80)

Read the passage. For 71–76 choose headings (i–viii):
i. The productive outcomes that may result from boredom
ii. What teachers can do to prevent boredom
iii. A new explanation and a new cure for boredom
iv. Problems with a scientific approach to boredom
v. A potential danger arising from boredom
vi. Creating a system of classification for feelings of boredom
vii. Age groups most affected by boredom
viii. Identifying those most affected by boredom

For 77–80 match names with ideas (A–E):
A. The way we live today may encourage boredom.
B. One sort of boredom is worse than all the others.
C. Levels of boredom may fall in the future.
D. Trying to cope with boredom may increase its negative effects.
E. Boredom may encourage us to avoid an unpleasant experience.

Why being bored is stimulating - and useful, too

The most common of emotions is turning out to be more interesting than we thought

A We all know how it feels - it's impossible to keep your mind on anything, time stretches out, and all the things you could do seem equally unlikely to make you feel better. But defining boredom so that it can be studied in the lab has proved difficult. For a start, it can include a lot of other mental states, such as frustration, apathy, depression and indifference. There isn't even agreement over whether boredom is always a low-energy, flat kind of emotion or whether feeling agitated and restless counts as boredom, too. In his book, Boredom: A Lively History, Peter Toohey at the University of Calgary, Canada, compares it to disgust - an emotion that motivates us to stay away from certain situations. 'If disgust protects humans from infection, boredom may protect them from "infectious" social situations,' he suggests.

B By asking people about their experiences of boredom, Thomas Goetz and his team at the University of Konstanz in Germany have recently identified five distinct types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant, and apathetic. These can be plotted on two axes - one running left to right, which measures low to high arousal, and the other from top to bottom, which measures how positive or negative the feeling is. Intriguingly, Goetz has found that while people experience all kinds of boredom, they tend to specialise in one. Of the five types, the most damaging is 'reactant' boredom with its explosive combination of high arousal and negative emotion. The most useful is what Goetz calls 'indifferent' boredom: someone isn't engaged in anything satisfying but still feels relaxed and calm. However, it remains to be seen whether there are any character traits that predict the kind of boredom each of us might be prone to.

C Psychologist Sandi Mann at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, goes further. 'All emotions are there for a reason, including boredom,' she says. Mann has found that being bored makes us more creative. 'We're all afraid of being bored but in actual fact it can lead to all kinds of amazing things,' she says. In experiments published last year, Mann found that people who had been made to feel bored by copying numbers out of the phone book for 15 minutes came up with more creative ideas about how to use a polystyrene cup than a control group. Mann concluded that a passive, boring activity is best for creativity because it allows the mind to wander. In fact, she goes so far as to suggest that we should seek out more boredom in our lives.

D Psychologist John Eastwood at York University in Toronto, Canada, isn't convinced. 'If you are in a state of mind-wandering you are not bored,' he says. 'In my view, by definition boredom is an undesirable state.' That doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't adaptive, he adds. 'Pain is adaptive - if we didn't have physical pain, bad things would happen to us. Does that mean that we should actively cause pain? No. But even if boredom has evolved to help us survive, it can still be toxic if allowed to fester.' For Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is a failure to put our 'attention system' into gear. This causes an inability to focus on anything, which makes time seem to go painfully slowly. What's more, your efforts to improve the situation can end up making you feel worse. 'People try to connect with the world and if they are not successful there's that frustration and irritability,' he says. Perhaps most worryingly, says Eastwood, repeatedly failing to engage attention can lead to a state where we don't know what to do any more, and no longer care.

E Eastwood's team is now trying to explore why the attention system fails. It's early days but they think that at least some of it comes down to personality. Boredom proneness has been linked with a variety of traits. People who are motivated by pleasure seem to suffer particularly badly. Other personality traits such as curiosity are associated with a high boredom threshold. More evidence that boredom has detrimental effects comes from studies of people who are more or less prone to boredom. It seems those who bore easily face poorer prospects in education, their career and even life in general. But of course, boredom itself cannot kill - it's the things we do to deal with it that may put us in danger. What can we do to alleviate it before it comes to that? Goetz's group has one suggestion. Working with teenagers, they found that those who 'approach' a boring situation - in other words, see that it's boring and get stuck in anyway - report less boredom than those who try to avoid it by using snacks, TV or social media for distraction.

F Psychologist Francoise Wemelsfelder speculates that our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new source of boredom. 'In modern human society there is a lot of overstimulation but still a lot of problems finding meaning,' she says. So instead of seeking yet more mental stimulation, perhaps we should leave our phones alone, and use boredom to motivate us to engage with the world in a more meaningful way.

headings & name — Paragraph A: ______

headings & name — Paragraph B: ______

headings & name — Paragraph C: ______

headings & name — Paragraph D: ______

headings & name — Paragraph E: ______

headings & name — Paragraph F: ______

Peter Toohey — match idea A–E

Thomas Goetz — match idea A–E

John Eastwood — match idea A–E

Francoise Wemelsfelder — match idea A–E

SECTION C.IV: IT cloze MCQ (81–90)

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

The last two decades have seen enormous changes in the way people's (81)______ are affected by Information Technology (IT). Twenty years ago, few people had access to a computer whilst today (82)______ people use them at work, home or school and use of e-mail and the Internet is an everyday event.

These developments have brought many (83) ______ to our lives. E-mail makes communication much easier and more immediate. This has numerous benefits for business, commerce, and education. The World Wide Web means that information on every conceivable subject is now (84)______ to us. Clearly, for many people this has made life much easier and more convenient.

However, not all the effects of the new technology have been beneficial. Many people feel that the (85)______ use of e-mail is destroying traditional forms of communication such as letter writing, telephone, and face-to-face conversation. With ever increasing use of information technology these (86)______ elements are likely to increase in the future.

In addition, the huge size of the Web means it is almost (87)______ to control and regulate. This has led to many concerns regarding children (88)______ unsuitable websites. Yet perhaps the biggest threat to IT in years to come will be the computer (89)______ - more sophisticated or more destructive strains are almost inevitable.

In conclusion, developments in IT have brought many benefits, (90)______ I believe developments relating to new technology in the future are likely to produce many negative effects that will need to be addressed very carefully.

SECTION D.I: Sentence transformation (91–100)

Finish the second sentence so that it means the same.

I was not surprised that you did very well in your exam.
→ It________________________________________ .

The reason why he applied for a job abroad was to earn more money.
→ With a ______________________________________________________________________________ .

These new machines have put an end to queuing.
→ Before____________________________________ .

Karajan was the first person to recognise her extraordinary musical gift.
→ It _________________________________________ .

I am determined to refuse his offer.
→ I have no ___________________________________________________________________________ .

He delayed writing his book until he had done a lot of research.
→ Only after__________________________________________________________________________ .

We were very impressed by the new cinema but found it rather expensive.
→ Impressed__________________________________________________________________________ .

Richard only took over the family business because his father decided to retire early.
→ But for his _________________________________________________________________________ .

I left without saying goodbye as I didn't want to disturb the meeting.
→ Rather__________________ .

The direct aim of the statement is to make the public aware of the present situation.
→ The statement boils ________________________________________________________________ .

SECTION D.II: Key-word transformation (101–110)

Rewrite using the word in brackets. Do not change it.

Not many people attended the concert. (POORLY)
→ The concert_________________________________________________________________________ .

They received many letters of support after they had appeared on television. (FOLLOWING)
→ They received_______________________________________________________________________ .

She checks the company accounts very efficiently. (EFFICIENT)
→ She is _____________________________________________________________________________ .

You have to use logic and lateral thinking in equal measure in this job. (STRIKE)
→ You have to _________________________________________________________________________ .

Vanessa was taken on by a big law firm as soon as she graduated. (LANDED)
→ On graduation, Vanessa _____________________________________________________________ .

Taxpayers had to pay the cost of the privatization plan. (FOOT)
→ Taxpayers __________________________________________________________________________ .

I think you should have some consideration for those who don't have lives as privileged as yours. (SPARE)
→ I think you should __________________________________________________________________ .

We decided to stay longer because we were so thrilled by the place. (EXTEND)
→ We decided to _____________________________________________________________________ .

My grandmother was in very good health when I saw her. (PINK)
→ My grandmother ____________________________________________________________________ .

There is an enormous variety of tourist attractions in this part of the country. (MANNER)
→ There are _________________________________________________________________________ .

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