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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH THÁI NGUYÊN NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — mã 203 — 120 phút — 6 trang trắc nghiệm + tự luận

Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

Kết quả

I. Prepositions (1–10)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct preposition or adverb particle.

The fishing grounds ______ the coasts of Norway are among some of the best managed in Europe.

If you keep passing notes in class, you will get into trouble ______ the teacher.

Someone ______ the audience had a heart attack during the play.

Society tries to deal with young offenders ______ a variety of ways.

Brian was ______ pressure from his boss to finish the project by the deadline.

The difference between a dollar bill and a counterfeit one can be difficult to detect ______ the naked eye.

In Turkey, most of the iron ore comes from the central Anatolia and is ______ good quality.

She has a lot of experience ______ dealing with difficult situations.

______ second thoughts, I’d rather not go out tonight.

Were there many people ______ board of the train when it derailed?

II. Pronunciation (11–15)

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

Pronunciation (11) · horse / chase / raise / increase

Pronunciation (12) · scheming / character / technic / bunches

Pronunciation (13) · audio / daughter / caught / laughter

Pronunciation (14) · Monday / anxious / monkey / punctual

Pronunciation (15) · capacity / forgather / calamity / luminary

III. Grammar & vocabulary (16–30)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer.

The only means of ______ to the station is through a dark subway.

As a citizen, it is normal to ______ to the laws and rules made by the society.

By then I ______ my driving test. I hope.

She came back with an answer as quick as a/an ______.

Language is so ______ woven into human experience that it is scarcely possible to imagine life without it.

David has not seen Linda for 15 years and has ______ of her address.

Shortly after receiving her gold medal, the Olympic champion answered questions at a press ______.

The temperature ______ takes place varies widely from material to material.

He is ______ by many people for the money he has helped raise for charity.

If Harold ______ with his piano playing, he can eventually reach concert standard.

______ I’d like to help you out. I’m afraid I just haven’t got any spare money at the moment.

My father didn’t like coffee and ______ did my mother.

I ______ doubt whether he will actually carry out his threat.

Is it true that this country produces more oil than ______?

Everyone is hoping and praying that ______ peace will eventually come to the area.

IV. Stress (31–35)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose primary stress differs.

Stress (31) · specialize / financial / tendency / absolute

Stress (32) · dissent / involve / descent / constant

Stress (33) · intimacy / eradicate / communism / characterize

Stress (34) · argument / medicine / contractual / justify

Stress (35) · evidence / phonetic / ambulance / furniture

V. Error correction (36–45)

Choose the underlined part that needs correction.

The closer it gets to December 21st, the first day of winter, the short the days become.

The first of two such investigation requires the students to read continuously over a period of four hours.

There are many different ways of comparing the economy of one nation with those of another.

Most doctors agree that it is not good for patience to lie in bed without exercising.

Nuclear energy, despite its early promise as a source of electrical power, is still insignificant in compared with older and safer energy sources.

In a determined drive to pare its debt, Time Warner is launching a stock offering plan that would potentially raise $2.8 billion.

In the human body, blood flows from a heart through the arteries, and it returns through the veins.

Some of the people were standing in the street watched the firework display while others were singing a song.

Although this car appears to be manufactured by a different company, it has the same body style, size, and perform as that one.

Beaten by Holyfield, his position was not highly appreciated in world boxing.

VI. Phrasal verbs (46–53)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct phrasal verb.

Peter and Mary had to ______ their wedding until the following year due to the outbreak of the pandemic.

Having seen a sharp bend ahead, Roger pressed hard on the brake pedal in order to ______.

You look really tired. You should ______ a week’s holiday, I think.

I ______ this old book while I was tidying my room.

Ivy was really surprised when Gary ______ at her front door because she hadn’t seen him for 10 years.

I couldn’t hear what Andy was trying to tell me over the phone, so I told him to ______.

I need more time to consider the offer before I ______ my mind.

I think you should ______ a rain coat in case it rains.

VII. Guided cloze — Noise pollution (54–63)

Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D for each blank.

Noise is more than a mere nuisance. At certain levels and durations of exposure, it can cause physical damage to the eardrum, and (54)_____ in temporary or permanent hearing loss. In addition to causing hearing loss, (55)_____ noise exposure can also raise blood pressure and pulse (56)_____, cause irritability, anxiety, and mental fatigue, and interfere with sleep, recreation, and personal communication. Noise pollution control is, therefore, (57)_____ importance in the workplace and in the community.
Noise effects can be (58)_____ by a number of techniques, for example, increasing the distance or blocking the path between the noise source and the recipient, reducing noise levels at the source, and (59)_____ recipients with earplugs or earmuffs. Increasing path distance is very effective because, as a sound wave spreads outward from the source, the fixed (60)_____ of energy in the wave is dissipated over an ever-expanding wave front. Path barriers (61)_____ walls, ceilings, and floors can be effective by absorbing as well as reflecting sound energy. Special earmuffs are (62)_____ to protect industrial and construction workers.
The best way to prevent noise pollution is to reduce the sound levels at the source, for instance, by improving design, muffling machinery and engines, and probably (63)_____ and lubricating machinery to reduce vibrations.

(57) _____ importance

VIII. Reading — How I found my true voice (64–70)

Read the passage and mark A, B, C or D.

As an interpreter, Suzanne Glass could speak only for others – but the work provided terrific material for her first novel.
“No, no, no! You’ve got to get away from this or you’re going to lose it.” The voice reverberating in my head was my own. I was at an international conference. My throat was killing me and my headphones were pinching. I had just been interpreting a speaker whose last words had been: “We must take very seriously the standardization of the length of cucumbers and the size of tomatoes.” You can’t afford to have your own thoughts when you’re interpreting simultaneously, so, of course, I missed the speaker’s next sentence and lost his train of thought. Sitting in a darkened booth at the back of a huge conference hall, I was thrown. Fortunately, my colleague grabbed my microphone and took over.
This high-pressure, high-output work was not quite the dream profession I had hoped for. Although I had fun with it in the beginning – occasionally being among the first to hear of medical and political breakthroughs would be exciting for any 25-year-old – I realized that this was a job in which I would never be able to find my own voice. I had always known that words would be my life in one form or another. My mother thought she’d given birth to an alien when I began to talk at the age of seven months. In imitation of the words she had repeated to me, I apparently called out: “I see you. I see you.” I was already in training for a career as a professional parrot.
But how mistaken I was to think that international interpreting would be glamorous. The speaker rarely stops to think that there’s someone at the back of the room converting his words into another language at the same time. Often I was confronted with a droner, a whisperer or a mumbler through my headphones. The mumblers were the worst. Most of the time, an interpreter is thought of as a machine – a funnel, a conduit. Sometimes, when those we are translating for hear us cough or sneeze, they are surprised to see that we are actually alive.
Ironically, part of the secret of interpreting is non-verbal communication. You have to sense when your partner is tired, and offer to take over. Interpreters can be a bit like actors: they like to show off. You do develop friendships, but there’s a huge amount of competitiveness among interpreters.
Translating other people’s ideas prevented me from feeling involved and creative as an interpreter. Actually, you can’t be a creative interpreter. It’s a contradiction in terms. Sometimes, when I disagreed with a speaker, I wanted to rip off my headphones and shout my own opinion. Instead, I had to regurgitate opinions in violent contradiction with my own. Sometimes I’d get my revenge by playing games with the speaker’s tone of voice.
Eventually, I wanted to find a career where my own words would matter. So I decided to write a novel. While I was writing it, I did go back and interpret at a few conferences to get inside the head of Dominique, my main character. At first, I was a little rusty and a couple of the delegates turned round to glare at me, but after twenty minutes I was back into it. Interpreting is like learning to turn somersaults: you never forget how to do it. But for me, sitting in the booth had a ghost-like quality – a life that belonged to the time before I found my own voice.

In the first paragraph, the writer says she discovered that ______.

The word “simultaneously” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

What does the writer say about being an interpreter in the second paragraph?

What does the writer say about speakers she interpreted for?

The writer says that when she returned to interpreting, ______.

The word “to glare” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.

What is the writer’s main point in the article as a whole?

IX. Word form (71–75)

Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits the space. (0.5 point)

Sales forecasts indicate a poor ______ for the clothing industry. (LOOK)

Tom spoke ______ because he was so tired. (BREATH)

I did everything I could to make their stay enjoyable, but they weren’t at all ______. (APPRECIATE)

The best way to solve this dispute is to find a neutral, ______ third party and follow his or her suggestions. (INTEREST)

His performance in the match today ______ his reputation as a great player. (LIE)

X. Open cloze — Sleep (76–85)

Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (1 point)

Experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you haven’t had (76) ______ sleep. If you routinely fall asleep within five minutes of lying down, you probably have severe sleep deprivation, possibly even a sleep disorder. Microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise awake person, are another mark of sleep deprivation. In many cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing (77)______. The widespread practice of “burning the candle at both ends” in Western industrialized societies has (78) ______ so much sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is now almost the norm.
Many studies (79) ______ it clear that sleep deprivation is dangerous. Sleep-deprived people who are tested by using a driving simulator or by performing a hand-eye coordination task perform as badly as or worse than those (80) ______ are intoxicated. Sleep deprivation also magnifies alcohol’s effects (81) ______ the body, so a fatigued person who drinks will become (82) ______ more impaired than someone who is well rested. Driver fatigue is responsible for an estimated 100,000 motor vehicle accidents and 1,500 deaths each year. Since (83) ______ is the brain’s last step before falling asleep, driving while drowsy can lead to disaster. Caffeine and other stimulants cannot overcome the (84) ______ of severe sleep deprivation. The National Sleep Foundation says that if you have trouble keeping your eyes focused, if you cannot stop yawning, or if you can’t remember (85) ______ the last few miles, you are probably too drowsy to drive safely.

XI. Matching headings (86–90)

Choose the most suitable heading (A–I) for sections 2–6. There are extra headings. Example: Section 1 = B.

From Black Box to Blue Box — Section 2: satellite emails + electronic tagging of tuna. Section 3: salmon vanishing, acoustic tags, climate. Section 4: loggerhead turtles, fishermen help tag, nets closed. Section 5: marine highways, surface vs deeper water, longlines/hooks. Section 6: ocean zoning, different gear, flexible protected areas.

Section 2: ______

Section 3: ______

Section 4: ______

Section 5: ______

Section 6: ______

XII. Sentence transformation (91–95)

Finish the second sentence so that it means the same. (0.5 point)

The tourists were unharmed after the train crash.
The tourists were none __________.

Fancy you and I meeting in the middle of Africa like this!
It’s really odd __________!

You must remember to lock the drawer whatever you do.
On __________.

We can start at either 7 a.m or 8 a.m.
It makes __________.

Could you possibly get here before lunch?
Is there __________?

XIII. Keyword transformation (96–100)

Rewrite using the word in brackets. Do not change it. (0.5 point)

She wasn’t very big but she was very strong. (LACKED)
What __________.

Peter made absolutely sure nothing would go wrong when he planned the expedition. (CHANCE)
Peter left __________.

The audience didn’t enjoy his performance. (DOWN)
His performance didn’t __________.

As far as I am concerned, the project is nearly completed. (NEARING)
To the __________.

David cannot possibly borrow the car tonight. (QUESTION)
It’s __________.

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