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ĐỀ THI CHUYÊN ANH TỈNH THANH HÓA NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — Lam Sơn — 150 phút — 8 trang — 02/6/2022

Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút

Kết quả

B Phonetics (16–20)

Phát âm / trọng âm.

Pronunciation (16) · cooked / crashed / crossed / crooked

Pronunciation (17) · hesitate / basic / reserve / resumé

Pronunciation (18) · hasty / nasty / wastage / taste

Stress (19) · literature / approximate / immediate / apparently

Stress (20) · interfere / innovate / sacrifice / penalize

C Verb form (21–27)

Đúng dạng động từ.

He (GO) ______ to the last meeting instead of staying home because it was important for his promotion later on.

She objected to his parents (NOT GIVE) ______ him a clear explanation the previous day.

Vietnamese athletes are reported (AMASS) ______ 29 more gold medals last Sunday.

It would have been a much more serious accident she (DRIVE) ______ fast then.

Peter didn’t study for the test. He (COPY) ______ the answers from someone else.

He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though he just (WAKE) ______ up after a long sleep.

I would make a suggestion that your mother (SPEAK) ______ to by her doctor before going on a diet.

C Word form (28–35)

Đúng dạng từ.

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

Since 2020, the Supreme Court has held arguments via (CONFER) ______, allowing the public to listen to live audio.

I'm sorry to be so (DECIDE) ______ I'd like to think things over for another day or two.

The new version of the program comes with a much better user (FACE) ______.

Ann's father was in hospital due to a severe heart (ORDER) ______.

…selecting the best screen is among the great (ESSENCE) ______.

The woman detected her (CANCER) ______ conditions soon after she felt ill in her body.

The theft of so much money proved both (PROBLEM) ______ and embarrassing for the company.

C Error correction (36–40)

Example: Line 1 is → are. Find five more mistakes.

It is often said that books is always good friends and reading is an active mental process. Unlike TV, books make you use your brain. By reading, you think more and become smarter. Reading improves concentration and focus. Reading books takes brain power. They requires you to focus on what you are reading for long periods. Unlike magazines, Internet posts or e-mails that might contain small pieces of information. “Books tell the whole story”. Because you must concentrate in order to read, you will get better off concentration. Many studies show if you do not use your memory, you lose it. Reading helps you stretch your memory muscles. Reading requires remembering details, facts and figures and in literature, plot lines, themes and characters.
Books give you knowledge of other cultures and places. The more information you have got, the richer your knowledge is. Books can expanse your horizons by letting you see which other cities and countries have to offer before you visit them.

They requires you to focus…

you will get better off concentration

Many studies show if you do not use your memory

Books can expanse your horizons

see which other cities and countries have to offer

C Lexico MCQ (41–50)

Chọn A–D.

Tung: “I reckon that time management skill is very essential to our study.” Hoa: “________ We should spend our time wisely…”

Your rental agreement ________ states that no pets are allowed in the building.

All of my friends are using TikTok, so I decided to jump on the ________ and join it, too.

The thick fog ________ out any possibility of our plane taking off before morning.

There are ________ words in English having more than one meaning.

The ________ prices of property in big cities may deter people on low incomes from owning a house there.

Only a few companies were found to be in ________ with the new law.

The mass media are ________ of communication, such as books, newspapers, recordings, radio, movies, television, mobile phones and the Internet.

This course ________ no previous knowledge of the subject.

Spain has little good farmland and lacks many ________ raw materials.

D Reading — the Sun (51–55)

Một cụm thừa A–F.

A. the Sun will eventually explode
B. the force that pulls all things together
C. the outward push of the heat will be stronger than the Sun’s gravity
D. the Sun is not getting bigger or smaller
E. it will use its fuel even faster
F. the dust and gas turned into a huge ball of fire

The Birth and Death of the Sun
About five billion years ago, there was no sun and no planets. The solar system was just a spinning cloud of gas and dust. Over millions of years, gravity, (51) ______, brought the dust cloud together in a ball. As the gas and dust was pressed together, it became hotter and hotter. Eventually, it became so hot that (52) ______, and the Sun was born.
The Sun uses a gas called hydrogen as its fuel. It is extremely hot, over 16 million degrees at the center of the Sun. Because the Sun is so hot, the gas is pushed outward by the heat. The outward push of the gas is exactly as strong as the inward pull of gravity, so (53) ______. This will be true as long as the Sun has hydrogen for fuel. But in another four or five billion years, the Sun will use up most of its hydrogen. Then, (54) ______, and the Sun will start to grow. At this time, Mercury and Venus will be destroyed and the Earth will become much too hot for life. Because the Sun will be bigger, (55) ______. Eventually, when the Sun’s fuel is used, its fire will go out and it will start to cool. Gravity will finally pull the Sun into a small, cold ball called a white dwarf.

D Reading — Simbakubwa (56–60)

Chọn A–D.

Twenty-three million years ago, a giant carnivore larger than any modern-day lion or polar bear stalked sub-Saharan Africa, according to the fossils of a previously undiscovered species that spent decades in a museum drawer at the National Museum of Kenya. The fossils were originally found in Kenya decades ago, but at that time researchers were searching for ancient apes, so the fossils were put aside.
The skull of the fossil is comparable to that of a rhinoceros, and given its size and giant sharp teeth, the carnivore was at the head of its food chain. Researchers estimate that it weighed 1.6 tons and could prey on large herbivores akin to today’s elephant and hippopotamus. Its canine teeth and molars would have been able to tear flesh and crack bones easily.
The researchers dubbed the newly discovered species Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, which is Swahili for “big lion coming from Africa.” But it’s not a close relative of lions, other big cats or even mammalian carnivores that roam the Earth today. Instead, Simbakubwa was part of the hyaenodonts, an extinct group of mammalian carnivores that lived in Africa.
After the extinction of dinosaurs, they enjoyed a 45 million-year reign as the key predators. Additionally, tectonic plates shifted, allowing Simbakubwa to cross a landbridge into Eurasia and flourish on other continents as well. And even though they lived for millions of years, they went extinct between 15 million and 18 million years ago.
“We don’t know exactly what drove hyaenodonts to extinction, but ecosystems were changing quickly as the global climate became drier. The gigantic relatives of Simbakubwa were among the last hyaenodonts on the planet,” said Matthew Borths… Nancy Stevens noted that “This is a pivotal fossil… As ecosystems shifted, a key predator disappeared…”

Which of the following does the passage primarily concern?

The word “akin” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to

The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to

Which of the following is TRUE about Simbakubwa?

What can be inferred from Matthew Borths' view?

D Cloze — online shopping (61–70)

Chọn A–D.

There can be no question that online shopping is (61) ______ huge benefit to the consumer. Far from becoming (62) ______, online shoppers are very demanding. Overpriced merchants with poor services should beware. Gone are the days when stores could charge what they liked for goods and get away with it. The same, too, for shady manufacturers: smarter consumers know which products have a good (63) ______ and which do not, because online they now read not only the sales (64) ______ but also reviews from previous purchasers. And if customers are disappointed, a few clicks of the mouse will take them to places where they can let the world know. Nowadays there is nothing more damning than a flood of negative comments on the Internet.
(65) ______ the big boys, as always, are ahead of the game. Some companies are already adjusting their business models to take account of these trends. The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are more like brand showrooms than shops. They are there for people to try out (66) ______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff. Whether the products are ultimately bought online or offline is of secondary importance.
Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is (67) ______ turning from being primarily a bookseller to becoming a (68) ______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its site, rather like a marketplace. During America’s Thanksgiving weekend last November, Amazon’s sales of consumer electronics in the United States (69) ______ its book sales for the first time in its history. Other transformations in the retail business are (70) ______ to follow.

(65) ______ the big boys… are ahead of the game

D Open cloze — New Zealand (71–80)

Mỗi chỗ một từ.

New Zealand’s Early Crafts and Traditions
The first groups of people to discover New Zealand came from Polynesia. Exactly when these explorers arrived has often been a (71) ______ for debate, but today the general understanding is that it was during the 13th century (72) ______ their canoes eventually landed on New Zealand’s shores. In some ways the new country must have seemed (73) ______ an ideal place to settle: the land was fertile, and thick forests provided firewood, shelter, and building materials. Still, life would have been challenging for the different Polynesian tribes, who had to (74) ______ to a new environment. The tribes only began to refer to themselves as Maori, (75) ______ “ordinary people”, when Europeans in (76) ______ of new opportunities began arriving in the 18th century. To the Maori, of course, the European settlers and sailors were not “ordinary” (77) ______ very strange.
It was not only the knowledge of canoe-building and navigation that the Polynesians brought to New Zealand. They were also skilled craftsmen. There is archaeological evidence that the tools they produced were (78) ______ high quality and would have enabled tribes to plant and harvest crops. Craftsmen were also occupied with making weapons such as knives and some crafts that had once been popular in Polynesian islands were no (79) ______ done in New Zealand although researchers are unsure why. Pottery is an (80) ______ of this despite the fact that the clay needed to make pots and bowls could easily be found in the new country.

E Transformations (81–85)

Bắt đầu như gợi ý.

They will not announce the findings until next week.
No announcement ______

Many creatures still survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the deserts.
Harsh ______

We can't start the meeting until Tom comes.
Not until ______

We live far from our relatives. We miss them very much.
The farther ______

The minister gave no precise figures about casualties.
The minister didn’t go ______

E Keyword transformations (86–90)

Không đổi từ cho.

My friend took no notice of my advice. (DEAF)
My ______

If you hadn't changed our original agreement, everything would have been fine. (STUCK)
If ______

John found it difficult to get used to the fact that he was fired. (TERMS)
John ______

Women outnumber men by two to one in Greece. (TWICE)
There ______

We can't possibly imagine how we are going to afford a new car. (FAINTEST)
We don't ______

E Paragraph (91)

About 150 words: violence is increasing among teenagers in many schools. Suggest some solutions.

Nowadays violence is on the increase among teenagers in many schools. Suggest some solutions. About 150 words.

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