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 LẦN XXI – NĂM 2015
KỶ NIỆM 40 NĂM NGÀY GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM (1975-2015)

Trường THPT Chuyên Môn thi : - Khối : 11

LÊ HỒNG PHONG Ngày thi : 04/04/2015

Thời gian làm bài : 180 phút

Lưu ý : Đề thi này có 8 trang.

 Thí sinh làm phần trắc nghiệm (M ULTI P LE CHOI CE) trên phiếu trả lời trắc nghiệm và
phần tự luận (W RI TTEN TEST) trên phiếu trả lời tự luận.
 Trên phiếu trả lời trắc nghiệm , thí sinh tô thêm 2 số 00 vào trư ớc số báo danh (bằng bút
chì).
 P hần m ã đề thi trên phiếu trắc nghiệm , thí sinh tô vào ô 001.
A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 PTS)
I. PHONOLOGY (5PTS)
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others.
1. A. absinthe B. soothe C. loathe D. wreathe
2. A. abstemious B. apotheosis C. abrogate D. apartheid
3. A. assessment B. passage C. passionate D. pessimism
4. A. exhilarate B. pharaoh C. diarrhea D. hauteur
5. A. doubt B. thumb C. subtle D. absorb
Choose the word which is stressed differently from the other three.
6. A. unaccented B. unadjusted C. unarguable D. unbearable
7. A. consortium B. consummate C. operatorship D. cowardice
8. A. discrepancy B. convivial C. gimmickry D. irrevocable
9. A. renaissance B. remonstrate C. rendezvous D. relevance
10. A. orchestrating B. bedevilment C. interchanges D. poignancy

II. WORD CHOICE (5 PTS): Choose the best options to complete the following
sentences.
11. Poor management brought the company to the ______ of collapse.
A. brink B. rim C. fringe D. brim
12. My brother takes a(n) ______ view of getting a good job.
A. low B. opposing C. dim D. gloomy
13. It is public knowledge that new magazines often use free gifts or other ______ to get people to buy
them.
A. gimmicks B. snares C. plots D. scams
14. When his manager went on a business trip, Mario stepped into the ______ and chaired the meeting.
A. hole B. breach C. pool D. crack
15. The storm ripped our tent to ______.
A. slices B. shreds C. strips D. specks
16. After the concert, everyone had to ______ home through the thick snow.
A. trudge B. tread C. trace D. trickle
17. If you have a minor illness, it’s usually better just to let the nature take its ______.
A. time B. path C. way D. course
18. After their catastrophic defeat, the ______ of the army made their way back to their mountain
strongholds.
A. survivors B. remnants C. wounded D. deserters
19. Don’t take it as ______ that you’ll be promoted in your job; other colleagues stand a good chance too.
A. fixed B. standard C. read D. word
20. In time-honoured ______, the chairman offered a toast to the shop-floor workers.
A. protocol B. path C. fashion D. procedure

III. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5PTS): Choose the best options to complete the
following sentences.
21. ______, we missed our plane.
A. The train is late B. The train was late C. To be late D. The train being late
22. The climate in Sapa is much colder ______ of Hanoi.
A. than it B. than C. than that D. than this
23. ______ around stones that are sunwarmed, even the smallest of stones creates tiny currents of warm
air.
A. The cool air B. If the air is cool C. That the air cools D. The cooler the air
24. They turned down the proposal ______ that it didn’t fulfill their requirement.
A. by reason B. on the grounds C. as a cause D. allowing
25. We all decreed that ______.
A. there be an end to their quarrel B. their quarrel should put an end to
C. they ended their quarrel then D. their quarrel be coming to an end.
26. I have never seen _______ before.
A. such good film B. so good film C. so good a film D. such good a film
27. “Is Dennis buying a house?”
“Yes. _______ he’s earning more money now, he can afford one.”
A. For B. Due to C. Since D. Because of
28. Down _______ for three days.
A. the rain poured B. poured the rain C. did the rain pour D. does the rain pour
29. ______ that took American art out of the romanticism of the mid-1800’s and carried it to the most
powerful heights of realism.
A. Winslow Homers’ paintings B. It was Winslow Homers’ paintings
C. When Winslow Homers’ paintings D. Paintings of Winslow Homers’
30. Such _______ that we all felt numb.
A. a cold weather was it B. was a cold weather C. cold was the weather D. was cold weather

IV. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 PTS)

31. The children showed no animosity ______ her step mother.
A. over B. up C. towards D. with
32. When the Chairman ran off with his secretary, the Board tried to ______ the matter.
A. switch off B. hush up C. calm down D. tuck away
33. I muddled ______ the jigsaw pieces and the children did the puzzle again.
A. up B. off C. over D. for
34. She played ______ the fact that I’d enjoyed studying Shakespeare at school and suggested that I
audition for a part.
A. off B. over C. by D. up
35. If you don’t switch the lights off for the day, you risk running battery ______ before the end of the day.
A. out B. off C. down D. through
36. The crowd all ______ towards to stadium as the time for kick off drew closer.
A. gravitated B. entered C. embarked D. aspired
37. One of the most disappointing things in life is to be ______ by a friend when you truly need his/her
support.
A. stood for B. backed out C. let down D. marked up
38. Two of the students in our class are identical twins and most of the teachers cannot _______.
A. see between them B. tell them apart C. see them through D. find them between
39. There’s no point in doing _________ the old regulations if you’re going to introduce equally stupid new
ones.
A. up with B. away with C. down against D. up against
40. I really cannot believe that anyone would ______ to such underhand tactics.
A. dabble B. stoop C. reach D. conceive

V. GUIDED CLOZE (10 PTS): Read the texts below and decide which answer best fits
each space.
Passage 1:
RAISING AWARENESS
In cities around the world a wide range of schemes is being instigated to promote environmental awareness.
'It's just as easy to (41) _____ of litter properly as it is to drop it on the streets,' says city councilor Mike
Edwards, who has (42) _____ on the government-to mount a concerted campaign to deal with the problem
of litter. 'It's just a matter of encouraging people to do so as a (43) _____ of course. Once the habit is
ingrained, they won't even (44) _____ they are doing it. After all, think what we have achieved with
recyclable waste in the home. Sorting paper, glass, aluminium and plastic waste and then depositing it in the
appropriate container outside is (45) _____ a great chore any more. People have become accustomed to
doing this, so it doesn't (46) _____ to them that they are spending any additional time in the process. Only
if they have to carry this waste for some appreciable distance to find a suitable container do they feel they
are (47) ______.’
Most people know they should behave in a responsible way and just need (48) ______ to do so. So a quirky,
(49) ______ gimmick might be enough to change behaviour. With this in (50) _____, the city of Berlin is
introducing rubbish bins that say 'danke', 'thank you' and 'merci' — Berlin is a cosmopolitan city — when
someone drops an item of rubbish into them. It might just do the trick in this city, too.
41. A dispose B discard C jettison D throw
42. A appealed B called C approached D urged
43. A principle B system C matter D duty
44. A notice B remark C comprehend D appreciate
45. A almost B barely C virtually D hardly
46. A concern B occur C impress D strike
47. A inconvenienced B sacrificed C complicated D imposed
48. A ordering B prompting C forcing D obliging
49. A lighthearted B mundane C subjective D intense
50. A context B thought C spirit D mind

Passage 2:
SOUND ADVICE FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS
A recent issue of a language learning magazine has consulted a number of experts in the (51) ______ of
second language acquisition. Their advice may prove invaluable for those (52) ______ a language course.
One suggestion is that you (53) ______ whether you are likely to be successful at learning a language. Did
you enjoy studying languages at school, for example? Do you have enough time to learn a language? The
major (54) ______ will be your own time and effort.
If proof of your level of proficiency is important you must make sure that the course on offer leads to a (55)
______ qualification. Also, be realistic in your (56) ______. If you don't set achievable aims you are more
likely to give up. Do not be deceived (57) ______ thinking that the most expensive courses are the best.
(58) ______ around to get the best possible value for money. You should also bear in mind that the quicker
you learn a language the more quickly you forget it. Sandra Miller, a French teacher, tried to teach herself
German by enrolling on a (59) ______ course. Already fluent in four languages and with a sound knowledge
of teaching methodology her chances of (60) ______ progress were high. Three years on she remembers
very little. She feels her biggest mistake was not to follow up her first experience. "I should have
consolidated what I'd learn by continuing to study, even if it were by myself."
51. A. domain B. branch C. field D. area
52. A. wondering B. thinking C. looking D. considering
53. A. assess B. review C. balance D. survey
54. A. change B. cost C. price D. evaluation
55. A. recognized B. understood C. valued D. regarded
56. A. sights B. ends C. objects D. goals
57. A by B. about C. into D. in
58. A. Nose B. Push C. Run D. Shop
59. A. rapid B. crash C. quick D. fast
60. A. achieving B. doing C. gaining D. making

VI. READING PASSAGE (10 PTS): Read the texts below and choose the best answer to
each question.
Passage 1:
Life originated in the early seas less than a billion years after the Earth was formed. Yet another three billion
years were to pass before the first plants and animals appeared on the continents. Life’s transition from the
sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary challenge as was the genesis of life.
What forms of life were able to make such a drastic change in lifestyle? The traditional view of the first
terrestrial organisms is based on megafossils-relatively large specimens of essentially whole plants and
animals. Vascular plants, related to modern seed plants and ferns, left the first comprehensive megafossil
record. Because of this, it has been commonly assumed that the sequence of terrestrialization reflected the
evolution of modern terrestrial ecosystems. In this view, primitive vascular plants first colonized the margins
of continental waters, followed by animals that feed on the plants, and lastly by animals that preyed on the
plant-eaters. Moreover, the megafossils suggest that terrestrial life appeared and diversified explosively near
the boundary between the Silurian and the Devonian periods, a little more than 400 million years ago.
Recently, however, paleontologists have been taking a closer look at the sediments below this Silurian-
Devonian geological boundary. It turns out that some fossils can be extracted from these sediments by
putting the rocks in an acid bath. The technique has uncovered new evidence form sediments that were
deposited near the shores of the ancient oceans- plant microfossils and microscopic pieces of small animals.
In many instances the specimens are less than one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter. Although they were
entombed in the rocks for hundreds of millions of years, many of them fossils consist of the organic
remains of the organism.
These newly discovered fossils have not only revealed the existence of previously unknown organisms, but
have also pushed back these dates for the invasion of land by multicellular organisms. Our views about the
nature of the early plant and animal communities are now being revised. And with those revisions come new
speculations about the first terrestrial life-forms.
61. The word “drastic” in line 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. widespread B. radical C. progressive D. risky
62. According to the theory that the author calls “the traditional view,” what was the first form of life to
appear on land?
A. Bacteria B. Meat-eating animals C. Plant-eating animals D. Vascular plants
63. According to the passage, what happened about 400 million years ago?
A. Many terrestrial life-forms died out B. New life-forms on land developed at a rapid rate
C. The megafossils were destroyed by floods. D. Life began to develop in the ancient seas.
64. In what order did the organisms first appear on earth?
A. vascular plants, plant-eating animals, carnivores B. carnivores, plant-eaters, megafossils
C. mega fossils, prey hunters, plant-eaters D. seed plants, ferns, megafossils
65. What can be inferred from the passage about the fossils mentioned in lines 11-13?
A. They have not been helpful in understanding the evolution of terrestrial life.
B. They were found in approximately the same numbers as vascular plant fossils.
C. They are older than the mega fossils.
D. They consist of modern life-forms.
66. What is the following paragraph likely to discuss?
A. the existence of previously unknown organisms
B. the revision of human views on the nature of early plant and animal communities
C. comparison and contrast between the first terrestrial life forms and newly discovered fossils
D. what the first terrestrial life forms might have been
67. The word “they” in line 16 refers to ______.
A. rocks B. shores C. oceans D. specimens
68. The word “entombed” in line 17 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. crushed B. trapped C. produced D. excavated
69. Which of the following resulted from the discovery of microscopic fossils?
A. The time estimate for the first appearance of terrestrial life-forms was revised.
B. Old techniques for analyzing fossils were found to have new uses.
C. The origins of primitive sea life were explained.
D. Assumptions about the locations of ancient seas were changed.
70. With which of the following conclusions would the author probably agree?
A. The evolution of terrestrial life was as complicated as the origin of life itself.
B. The discovery of microfossils supports the traditional view of how terrestrial life evolved.
C. New species have appeared at the same rate over the course of the last 400 million years.
D. The technology used by paleontologists is too primitive to make accurate determinations about ages
of fossils.

Passage 2:
In the city, we are barraged with images of the people we might become. Identity is presented as plastic, a
matter of possessions and appearances; and a very large proportion of the urban landscape is taken up by
slogans, advertisements, flatly photographed images of folk heroes – the man who turned into a
sophisticated dandy overnight by drinking a particular brand of drink, the girl who transformed herself into a
femme fatale with a squirt of cheap scent. The tone of the wording of these advertisements is usually pert
and facetious, comically drowning in its own hyperbole. But the pictures are brutally exact: they reproduce
every detail of a style of life, down to the brand of cigarette-lighter, the stone in the ring, and the economic
row of books on the shelf.
Even in the business of the mass-production of images of identity, this shift from the general to the diverse
and particular is quite recent. Consider another line of stills: the back-lit, soft-focus portraits of the first and
second generations of great movie stars. There is a degree of romantic unparticularity in the face of each
one, as if they were communal dream-projections of society at large. Only in the specialized genres of
westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars allowed to have odd, knobbly cadaverous faces. The hero
as loner belonged to history or the underworld: he spoke from the perimeter of society, reminding us of its
dangerous edges.
The stars of the last decade have looked quite different. Soft-focus photography has gone, to be replaced by
a style which searches out warts and bumps, emphasizes the uniqueness not the generality of the face.
Voices, too, are strenuously idiosyncratic; whines, stammers and low rumbles are exploited as features of
“star quality”. Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we have a brutalist, hard-edged style in which
isolation and egotism are assumed as natural social conditions.
In the movies, as in the city, the sense of stable hierarchy has become increasingly exhausted; we no longer
live in a world where we can all share the same values, the same heroes. (It is doubtful whether this world,
so beloved of nostalgia moralists, ever existed; but lip-service was paid t it, the pretence, at least, was kept
up.) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the centre of the stage; their fashions and mannerisms are
presented as having as good a claim to the limelight and the future as those of anyone else. In the crowd on
the underground platform, one may observe a honeycomb of fully-worked-out worlds, each private,
exclusive, bearing little comparison with its nearest neighbor. What is prized in one is despised in another.
There are no clear rules about how one is supposed to manage one’s body, dress, talk, or think. Though
there are elaborate protocols and etiquettes among particular cults and groups within the city, they
subscribe to no common standard. For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is the city’s most evident
and alarming quality. He feels as if he has parachuted into a funfair of contradictory imperatives. There are
so many people he might become, and a suit of clothes, a make of car, a brand of cigarettes, will go some
way towards turning him into a personage even before he has discovered who that personage is. Personal
identity has always been deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a simple one – a
question of buying what you could afford, and leaving your wealth to announce your status. In the modern
city, there are so many things to buy, such a quantity of different kinds of status, that the choice and its
attendant anxieties have created a new pornography of taste.
The leisure pages of the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays, popular novels, cookbooks,
window displays all nag at the nerve of our uncertainty and snobbery. Should we like American cars, hard-
rock hamburger joints, Bauhaus chairs…? Literature and art are promoted as personal accessories: the
paintings of Mondrian or the novels of Samuel Beckett “go” with certain styles like matching handbags.
There is in the city a creeping imperialism of taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to
being mere expressions of personal identity. The piece of furniture, the pair of shoes, the book, the film, are
important not so much in themselves but for what they communicate about their owners; and ownership is
stretched to include what one likes or believes in as well as what one can buy.
71. What does the writer say about advertisements in the first paragraph?
A. certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others.
B. the way in which some of them are worded is cleverer than it might appear.
C. they often depict people that most other people would not care to be like.
D. the pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live.
72. What does a femme fatale refer to?
A. a potential good wife
B. an attractive woman who may bring unhappiness to men.
C. a gorgeous woman who realizes most men’s dream.
D. a beautiful woman who spends her time enjoying herself.
73. The word “facetious” is closest in meaning to
A. impudent B. flippant C. complacent D. prevalent
74. The writer says that if you look at a line of advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that
A. city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have.
B. some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack.
C. city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are.
D. some images are intended to be representative of everyone’s aspirations.
75. What does the writer imply about portraits of old movie stars?
A. they tried to disguise the less attractive features of their subjects.
B. most people did not think they were accurate representations of the stars in them.
C. they made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive.
D. they reflected an era in which people felt basically safe.
76. What does the writer suggest about the stars of the last decade?
A. some of them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across.
B. they make an effort to speak in a way that may not be pleasant on the ear.
C. they make people wonder whether they should become more selfish.
D. most people accept that they are not typical of society as a whole.
77. The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that
A. no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city.
B. no one in a city has strict attitudes towards the behavior of others.
C. views of what society was like in the past are often accurate.
D. people in cities would like to have more in common with each other.
78. The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may
A. change the image they wish to have too frequently.
B. underestimate the importance of wealth.
C. acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves.
D. decide that status is of little importance.
79. The novels of Samuel Beckett is an example of
A. what is wanted by the majority in the society.
B. literature works of high artistic value.
C. classic literature works that make their owners feel superior to other people.
D. possessions that show owners’ identity.
80. What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
A. they are unsure as to why certain things are popular with others.
B. they are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy.
C. they want to acquire more and more possessions.
D. they are keen to be the first to appreciate new styles.

B. WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS)

I. CLOZE TEST (20 PTS): Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE W ORD for each space.
Passage 1
THE VIDEO LOGGERS
One rather unlikely word that has recently (1) ____________ the language is 'blog', a shortened form of
'web log'. A blog is a diary posted on the Internet by the person writing it - the 'blogger’ — who presumably
expects other people to read it. It is ironical that modern technology is being used to (2) ____________ new
life into such an old-fashioned form as the personal journal. And now, as the technology behind video
cameras is making them easier to use, we have the video log, or 'vlog'. Vlogging does not require (3)
____________ sophisticated equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed Internet connection and a
host are all that is needed. Vloggers can put anything that (4) ____________ their fancy onto their personal
web site. Some vloggers have no ambitions (5) ____________ than to show films they have shot while on
holiday in exotic places. However, vlogs can also serve more ambitious (6) ____________. For instance,
amateur film-makers who want to make a (7) ____________ for themselves might publish their work on the
Internet, eager to receive advice or criticism. And increasingly, vlogs are being used to publicize political and
social issues that are not newsworthy enough to warrant (8) ____________ by the mass media. It is still too
early to predict whether vlogging will ever (9) ____________ off in a major way or if it is just a (10)
____________ fad, but its potential is only now becoming apparent.

Passage 2:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Prime Minister’s (11) ____________ yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary
education system also needs a major overhaul. Firstly, the system only views the weakest learner as hating
special needs. The brightest and most conscientious students are not encouraged to develop to their (12)
____________ potential. Secondly, there’s too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old
daughter, for example, has just spent the first month or (13) ____________ cramming for exams. These
aren’t even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They’re just (14) ____________ exams.
Is the work she’s been doing really going to make her more knowledgeable about her subjects, or will she
forget it (15) ____________ tomorrow? I suspect the (16) ____________.
Thirdly, the standard curriculum doesn’t (17) ______ students any tuition in developing practical work-
related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education. How many students entering
university have the first idea what the difference is between plagiarizing someone else’s work and making
good (18) ____________ of someone else’s ideas? Shouldn’t they have been taught this at school? How
many of them are really able to (19) ____________ about self-study – a skill that’s essential at university
because there are no teachers to tell you what to do – in an efficient way? Indeed, how many students
graduate from university totally (20) ____________ to spell even simple English words correctly? The
system is letting our children down.

II. WORD FORMATION: (20PTS)

 PART 1: Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in parentheses.
1. I’m afraid that the hospital is desperately ____________ at the moment. (STAFF)
2. Private school feared losing its ____________ with the state’s university system. (CREDIT)
3. He gave me a good ____________ for forgetting the meeting. (TELL)
4. I think my last statement ____________ the situation pretty well – at least, I can’t think of any better
summary. (CAPSULE)
5. When the lab findings and the results were ____________, an amazing discovery came to light.
(RELATE)
6. The small country is faced with ____________ debt. (MOUNT)
7. Zimbabwe is a ____________ country; so much of its trade depends on having access to ports in
Mozambique. (LAND)
8. The two pairs of twins make a pleasant ____________ during the game of golf. (FOUR)
9. You’ll never talk him into going swimming because he suffers from ____________. (PHOBIC)
10. She bought some ____________ coffee as she cannot stand caffeine. (CAFFEINE)

PART 2: Complete the passage with appropriate forms from the words given in the box.
ENTER CONSTRUCT TEXT CONDUCE DIALECT
UNIVERSE WHOLE STRUCTURE SYNTHESIS FORMALITY
The arguments around reading pooled into two different classroom methodologies: (11) ____________ and
behaviorism. The constructivist methodology grew from a (12) ____________ conception of knowledge
creation that understood reading and writing to be innate, humanistic, and interpretative practices that
suffered when they were spliced and (13) ____________ within rigid doctrines, strict rules, and universal
skill-sets. Constructivists associate words with meanings; each word might be thought of as a Chinese
ideogram. Students are encouraged to learn individual words and skip over and guess words they do not
understand, or learn to interpret those words by situating them within the lexical (14) ____________ of the
sentence and the story’s wider narrative. These practices materialize as learning processes centered on
guided group reading and independent reading of high-quality, culturally diverse literature or textual
composition that emphasizes pupils conveying their own thoughts and feelings for real purposes such as
letters for pen pals or journal (15) ____________.
Behaviorism sees the pedagogical process in a less (16) ____________ fashion – words are initially taught
not lexically, as vehicles to convey meaning, but rather sub-lexically, as a combination of features that can
be separated and learned in a schematic process. The behaviorist approach does not focus on words at all in
the early stages of learning. Rather, it is centered on a (17) ____________ applicable method of teaching
students to isolate graphemes and phonemes with the intention that students will eventually learn to (18)
____________ these individual parts and make sense of spoken words (19) ____________. In this way,
individual components are not equated with the strokes of a brush on a Chinese ideogram, but rather as the
focal pieces of interpretation – as in, for example, learning to read musical notations or Morse Code.
Because of its emphasis on universal rules, behaviorism is much more (20) ____________ to formal
examination and the consolidation of results across regions and countries. The ability to master language is
considered to rest in the acquisition of a set of skills that exist independently of individuals. Classroom
learning is, therefore, based upon the transmission of knowledge from tutor to student, rather than seen as
an internalized process that erupts within the students themselves.

III. ERROR CORRECTION: (10PTS) The following passage contains 10 errors. Identify and
correct them.
1 We are descendents of the ice age. Periods of glaciation have extended the whole of human existence for
the past 2 million years. The rapid melting of the continental glaciers at the end of the last ice age
spurred one of the most dramatic climate changes in the history of the planet. During this interglacial
time, people caught up in a cataclysm of human accomplishment, including the development of
5 agriculture and animal husbandry. Over the past few thousands years, the Earth’s climate has been
extraordinarily beneficial, and humans have been prospered exceedingly well under a benign
atmosphere.
Ice ages have dramatically affected life on Earth mostly from the very beginning. It is even possible that
life itself has significantly changed the climate. All living organisms pull carbon dioxide out of the
10 atmosphere and eventually store it in sedimentary rocks within the Earth’s crust. If too much carbon
dioxide is lost, too much heat escapes out into the atmosphere, thus causes the Earth to cool enough for
glacial ice to spread across the land.
In general the reduction of the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been equalized by input of
carbon dioxide from such events as volcanic eruptions. Man, however, is upsetting the equation by
15 burning fossil fuels and destroying tropical rain forests, all of which release stored carbon dioxide. This
 energizes the greenhouse effect and causes the Earth to warm. If the warming is significantly enough,
the polar ice caps eventually melt.
The polar ice caps drive the atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems. Should the ice caps melt, warm
tropical waters could circle around the globe and make this a very warm, inhospitable planet.

IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION: (20 PTS) Rewrite the following sentences using the words
given.
1. “There’s no point in writing it all out in longhand if you can use a typewriter, isn’t there?”
She dissuaded ______________________________________________________________________
2. If the weather is fine, we may go camping at the weekend.
Weather __________________________________________________________________________
3. Sally distrusts modern technology strongly.
Sally has __________________________________________________________________________
4. When faced with a fierce opponent, even the most skilled swordsmen must be careful.
In the _________________________________________________ has to be careful.
5. Do you think we can stew this kind of meat? (LEND)
__________________________________________________________________________________
6. The group, considered to be one of the funniest in Canada, performed so well that its audiences laughed
a lot at last night’s concert. (ROLLING)
As _______________________________________________________________________________
7. We can’t possibly imagine how we are going to afford a new car. (REMOTEST)
We _______________________________________________________________________________
8. He may be inexperienced but he makes up for it by being enthusiastic. (LACKS)
What _____________________________________________________________________________
9. There don’t seem to be many talented athletes at the moment. (PAUCITY)
We seem to be suffering _____________________________________________________________
10. Normally, the money is released within about three months. (COURSE)
In _______________________________________________________________________________

- END OF TEST. BEST OF LUCK -

 Đáp án đề OLYMPIC 11 (2015)
Phần trắc nghiệm (0.5 pt each)
1. A 21. D 41. A 61. B
2. C 22. C 42. B 62. D
3. C 23. B 43. C 63. B
4. D 24. B 44. A 64. A
5. D 25. A 45. D 65. C
6. B 26. C 46. B 66. D
7. A 27. C 47. A 67. D
8. C 28. B 48. D 68. B
9. A 29. B 49. A 69. A
10. B 30. D 50. D 70. A
11. A 31. C 51. C 71. D
12. C 32. B 52. D 72. B
13. A 33. A 53. A 73. B
14. B 34. D 54. B 74. A
15. B 35. C 55. A 75. D
16. A 36. A 56. D 76. B
17. D 37. C 57. C 77. A
18. B 38. B 58. D 78. C
19. C 39. B 59. B 79. D
20. C 40. B 60. D 80. B
Phần tự luận:
OPEN CLOZE (1 pt each)
1. entered 6. purposes 11. comments 16. latter
2. breathe 7. name 12. full 17. Thirdly
3. highly 8. coverage 13. so 18. use
4. takes 9. take 14. mock 19. go
5. other 10. passing 15. all 20. unable
WORD FORMATION (1 pt each)
1. short-staffed 11. constructivism
2. accreditation 12. holistic
3. telling-off 13. formalized
4. encapsulates 14. infrastructure
5. correlated 15. entries
6. insurmountable 16. dialectical
7. landlocked 17. universally
8. foursome 18. synthesize
9. aquaphobia/ hydrophobia 19. textually
10. decaffeinated 20. conducive

ERROR IDENTIFICATION (1 pt each)

1. line 1: extended -> spanned
2. line 4: caught up -> were caught up
3. line 5: thousands -> thousand
4. line 6: have been prospered -> have prospered
5. line 8: mostly -> almost
6. line 11: thus causes -> thus causing
7. line 13: by input -> by the input
8. line 15: all of which -> both of which
9. line 16: significantly -> significant
10. line 19: circle around -> circle
SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (2 pts each)
1. She dissuaded me from writing it all out in longhand (and told me to use a typewriter)
2. Weather permitting, we may go camping …
3. Sally has a strong distrust of modern technology.
4. In the face of competition from a fierce opponent, even the most skilled swordsman / every
swordsman has to be careful.
5. Do you think this kind of meat can lend itself to stewing?
6. As one of the funniest in Canada, the group had its audiences rolling in the aisles at last night’s
concert.
7. We haven’t / don’t have the remotest idea how we are …
8. What he lacks in experience, he makes up for it by being enthusiastic / with his enthusiasm.
9. We seem to be suffering from a paucity of talented athletes at the moment.
10. In the normal course of events, the money is released within about three months.