ENGLISH BONANZA KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT NĂM HỌC 2021-2022

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KHÓA NGÀY 23/5/2021

THÀNH PHỐ HỒ CHÍ MINH Môn thi chuyên: TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
(Không kể thời gian giao đề)

I. USE OF ENGLISH. (30 PTS)

PART A: CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER TO FILL IN BLANK. (10 PTS)
1. - Anna: “I _______ there at 6 a.m for an Olympic test, but my mother’s car won’t start. Could you please give me a lìft
in your car?”
- Her friend’s father: “Sure. Are you ready to go now?”
A. have got to be B. may be C. will be D. supposed to be
2. In the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of doctors from Bach Mai hospital have been ______ to vaccinate the patients.
A. sent with B. told off C. laid out D. called away
3. My History teacher said: “Our country _________ a crisis and returned to strong growth.”
A. manufactured B. weathered C. produced D. fasted
4. The two teenagers claimed that they were just _______ and had nothing to do with the fight.
A. viewers B. witnesses C. onlookers D. Spectators
5. Somebody pushed Tu in the crowd and the girl fell down the of stairs and broke her leg.
A. log B. flight C. block D. Way
6. My family doesn’t have much free time so we only travel _____.
A. all weeks together B. each other week C. all other weeks D. every other week
7. My mom has made many visits to Thaibinh, _____ will begin tomorrow.
A. the most recent one B. which
C. the most recent of which D. whose recent one
8. Blueberry is one fruit ______ vitamins for more people in the world than any of the other berries.
A. that providing B. provides C. it provides D. that provides
9. We feel that it is our _____ duty to vote for the delegates.
A. civic B. civilized C. civilian D. civil
10. Truong had been up late doing homework with his lover, so he decided to the next morning.
A. sleep off B. rest on C. stay over D. lie in
11. The history teacher gave a talk with lots of information, and we could hardly remember _____
A. none of it B. it all C. them all D. nothing
12. ____ of applicants for this position _____ considerable.
A. A number/ are B. A number/ is C. The number/ are D. The number/ is
13. The boy came in, yelling at his girlfriend, and generally throwing his ____ around.
A. weight B. words C. opinion D. orders
14. There will always be a nurse ____ call in case a Covid-19 patient is in emergency.
A. to B. on C. within D. For
15. The first time standing on the teaching platform, I looked down at the ____ of faces in horror.
A. sea B. torrents C. flood D. Wave
16. “Is your research based on other people’s work?” – “__________”
A. Well, there’s no point reinventing the whell B. I’ve known the research inside out
C. A leopard can’t change its spots D. You know, it’s the tools of trade
17. Mrs Anna was disappointed to find the washing machine she had had ____ went wrong again.
A. it repaired B. repaired C. repaired it D. it to be repaired
18. I've just been introduced to some _____.
A. boys young and dynamic B. boys dynamic and young
 C. dynamic and young boys D. young boys very dynamic
19. From now on, the number of people died of COVID-19 ______ estimated before the weekly meeting.
A. had to have been B. will need being
C. will have to have been D. Must have been
20. They bought a good number of books yesterday, _____ are those written by Nguyen Nhat Anh
A. some of them B. some which C. of which some D. Some
21. Because of the COVID-19, over half of the population of this district are living _____
A. on the cards B. on the breadline C. on the tenterhooks D. on the house
22. The party leader travelled _____ of the country in an attempt to spread his message.
A. the long and the short B. closing to the bone
C. in every nook and cranny D. the length and breadth
23. Nick is just _____ with whom we exchange civilities and nothing more.
A. bluestocking B. the nuts and bolts
C. a nodding acquaintance D. the man in the street
24. The government stopped the local companies from producing fake milk powder ____ of public health.
A. to the best B. for the attention
C. on the safe side D. in the interest
25. The bystanders watched passively as the two men quarreled, but backed _____ immediately when one of them pull
out a knife.
A. away B. back C. on D. off
26. _______, my exam results equaled Lan’s exam results.
A. On purpose B. By design C. By happenstance D. By degrees
27. ______, the people who come to this club are in their twenties and thirties.
A. Altogether B. By and large C. To a degree D. Virtually
28. She enjoys the sushi and udon noodles at this _____ restaurant.
A. owning-family B. owned-family C. family-owning D. family-owned
29. The blog I have cut out from the magazine for years are now ____ with ages.
A. blackened B. torn C. old D. yellowed
30. On April 30, a lot of firework is _____ off in Vietnam.
A. gone B. set C. burned D. sent
PART B: CHOOSE THE WORD OR PHRASE THAT BEST FITS EACH SPACE IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.
(20 PTS)
PASSAGE 1
BUNKING DOWN IN HISTORY
[…] Some remaining roadhouses still (1) ________ as informal hotels and (2) ________ places; others have been
converted into frontier-life museums. The 1920s Fox Roadhouse, just north of Fairbanks, has been (3) ________ into the
Silver Gulch Brewery. “The best way to preserve historic buildings is simply to use them,” says Judy Bittner, a state
historic preservation officer with Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources. “The abandoned roadhouses (4) ________ so
quickly.”
Roadhouses-turned-museums offer a peek at the rough-and-rugged life people lived here. Rika’s Roadhouse near
Big Delta (5) ________ the Tanana River displays 1920s and 1930s furnishings including a wooden radio, a vital link to
the outside world in earlier times. Sullivan Roadhouse showcases an (6) ________ oil drum stove (imagine it draped with
trappers’ wet fur coats) and black-and-white photos of early 20th-century hunting expeditions.
A handful of roadhouses near major junctions or national parks still host overnight guests just as they did in the
gold mining and trapping (7) ________ years. Talkeetna’s eponymously named, largely (8) ________ roadhouse has been
open since 1917. The chalet-like timber building is located roughly 60 miles (as the bird or bush plane flies) from the (9)
________ of Denali mountain or 150 miles from the entrance of the national park. Contemporary travelers can stay in
bunk rooms and take meals at long tables, passing the apple butter over sourdough pancakes. Gakona Lodge and Meier’s
Lake Roadhouse have also both been (10) _______ for a century, and now serve river rafters and fishermen who use the
tiny town of Gakona as a base.
1. A. play B. serve C. wait D. turn
 2. A. clustering B. gathering C. grouping D. merging
3. A. incorporated B. comingled C. embodied D. adhered
4. A. destroyed B. destructed C. deteriorated D. demolished
5. A. at B. within C. under D. on
6. A. old-schooled B. old-schooling C. old-school D. old-schoolish
7. A. boomer B. boom C. booming D. bombarded
8. A. unchanged B. unerring C. unaffected D. unremitting
9. A. summit B. pinnacle C. top D. vertex
10. A. about B. again C. amid D. around
PASSAGE 2.
THE HIDDEN GREEN OASES
Recently, Ở đâu cũng chụp — a photography blog on Facebook specialized in documenting everyday Saigon life
— released a photo album giving us a (1) _______ into the peaceful, (2) _______ plant paradise that is Chợ Quán
Apartment, located in a small hẻm on Trần Bình Trọng Street in District 5. Through his camera lens, photographer Văn
Nguyên has (3) _______ some very poetic shots of this historic building: stairways coated in a striking layer of
ocher-colored paint in between gray, concrete walls; petite potted plants forming neat, green lines across the long hallway;
tamarind trees (4) _______ heavy fruits, their leaves protruding into the open-air corridors as if to (5) _______ passersby.
Besides the tranquil green-filled vistas, the photo collection also showcases the charm of the modernist apartment.
From the stairways designed for good airflow and (6) _______ hallways allowing inhabitants room to relax and create
their own green spaces, to the distinctive paint palette — these elements are evidence of the building’s original architect’s
careful consideration for Saigon’s (7) _______ hot and uncomfortably wet climate.
Văn Nguyên (8) _______ on his love for the city’s numerous apartments from past eras: “I have a lot of affection
for Saigon, and I love the city’s (9) _______ places and things, from old signboards to (10) _______ flooring, and
especially there are still many apartments with old, yellow walls. They always help me understand more about Saigon;
about the life, traditional customs and everyday routine of the people; and about the modernist architecture style.”
1. A. peep B. glare C. probe D. glance
2. A. fecund B. prodigal C. copious D. verdant
3. A. captured B. snapped C. saved D. registered
4. A. bearing B. breeding C. giving birth to D. bending
5. A. inveigle B. decoy C. wheedle D. persuaded
6. A. capacious B. cushy C. cosmic D. convenient
7. A. despotically B. noxiously C. tyrannically D. stiflingly
8. A. enlarged B. fattened C. padded D. stoked
9. A. reminiscent B. nostalgia C. evocative D. pitiful
10. A. time-based B. time-honoured C. timeworn D. timepiece
II. READING (35 PTS)
PART A: READ THE PASSAGE AND CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS (10 PTS)
In most species, people included, males and females exist in more or less equal numbers. There is a good reason for
this. Suppose females were rare. Lots of males would fail to reproduce. So a genetic mutation that caused parents to have
more daughters than sons would be rewarded with extra grandchildren. Thus it would spread until it ceased to bring
further advantage, in other words when the sexes were equal in number. Mutatis mutandis, the same argument applies if it
is males who are rare. But what applies in general, does not always apply in particular. There are circumstances when it
might behoove an individual mother to give birthday preferentially to sons or to daughters. In a paper just published in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Mhairi Gibson and Ruth Mace, of University College, London, outline such a case in
people.
The mothers concerned are Ethiopian. Some are malnourished. Those that are, seem more likely to give birth to
daughters to sons. Dr Gibson and Dr Mace used two measures to assess how well-fed the mothers were. The body-mass
index measures fat and muscle, but cannot distinguish between them. The mid-upper-arm-muscle-area index is able to
make the distinction. In both cases, there was a clear correlation between how malnourished a woman was and how likely
her most recent child was to have been a girl. In the case of the muscle-area index, the best-fed women were more than
twice as likely to have had a son recently than the worst-fed.
There are two possible explanations for this. One is that the cost to the mother of bearing sons is greater than that of
bearing daughters. That is suggested by the fact that women who have borne only sons have shorter lives than those who
have borne only daughters. A mother who is well nourished probably tolerates such costs better than one who is not.
Better, then, for a starving woman to abort a male fetus early and hope for better times, or for a daughter next time round.
 The other explanation is not the prospects of the mother, but those of the child. In most species, people included, the
reproductive output of males is more variable than that of females. Successful males have lots of offspring, unsuccessful
ones few, or even none. A female’s output is likely to be closer to the average. Since both health and height contribute to
male success, and both are reduced by gestating in the womb of a malnourished woman, there may be little point, in terms
of grandchildren accrued, to such a woman giving birth to a son.
These explanations are not, of course, mutually exclusive. Indeed, if both were true they could add up to a very
powerful effect. Exactly what, in fact, Dr Gibson and Dr Mace observed.
1. The article mainly aims at _________.
A. explaining what contributes to an equal number of males and females.
B. identifying the factors involved with the birth of a daughter.
C. discussing the advantages of having daughters over sons.
D. defining a genetic mutation and mutatis mutandis.
2. The word “it” in the first paragraph refers to ________.
A. a genetic mutation B. an advantage of having children
C. an equal number of males and females D. a failure to reproduce
3. According to the article, scarcity of males in any species would _________.
A. be compensated for by a change in birth patterns of the opposite sex
B. increase the chances of giving birth and the number of offspring
C. eventually result in a scarcity of females
D. hardly impair the normal reproduction process
4. The word “behoove” in the first paragraph is close in meaning to __________.
A. abide by B. be in bounden duty C. imply D. disagree
5. Dr Gibson and Dr Mace’s major findings suggest that __________.
A. a well-nourished mother can never give birth to daughters.
B. the sex of the children mainly affects their mothers’ intake of food
C. poorly-fed women have fewer chances to have daughters than sons
D. the greater amount of food a mother gets, the more likely she is to have a son
6. The phrase “both cases” in the second paragraph refers to ________.
A. fat and muscle B. poorly-fed and well-fed mothers
C. two measures D. daughters and sons
7. According to the article, which of the following types of women would most likely give birth to a baby girl?
A. A woman who has six daughters and two sons. B. A woman who has a high level of body fat.
C. A woman who is usually underfed. D. A woman who has undergone an abortion.
8. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?
A. A genetic mutation is a natural phenomenon that can balance things out.
B. A mother who is giving birth to a son usually suffers greater labor pains.
C. A mother of four sons tends to give a premature death because they are overfed.
D. This study mainly focuses on the causes of malnourishment in Ethiopian mothers.
9. The word “that” in the third paragraph refers to ________.
A. mother B. fact C. explanations D. cost
10. What is the main factor which drives successful male?
A. The privilege of having extra grandchildren. B. Having a few children than the others.
C. Building the wholesome body. D. Earning a lot of money to serve their wives.
PART B: YOU WILL BE READING A PIECE OF NEWS TALKING ABOUT A VOLCANO EMISSION RECENTLY.
THERE ARE FIVE SENTENCES WHICH HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE TEXT. READ THE TEXT
CAREFULLY AND FILL IN THE SPACE (1-5) WITH THE CORRECT SENTENCE (A-F). THERE IS ONE
SENTENCE THAT YOU WON’T NEED. (5 PTS)
“THE SITUATION IS DETERIORATING!”
A river of flaming lava that poured out of the erupting Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo has reached the suburbs of Goma, an eastern city of nearly 2 million people.
Officials said on Sunday that the molten stream had reached the airport on the outskirts of the city, but witnesses
said the flow appeared to have halted later in the morning. The government activated an evacuation plan for Goma on
Saturday night, as Nyiragongo erupted for the first time since 2002, an event that killed hundreds of people and left
120,000 homeless. (1) __________
Early on Sunday morning, around a dozen earth tremors were felt in Goma. (2) _________ “But people are still
scared. The authorities still haven’t made any official announcement so far this morning,” he added.
 (3) __________ “The situation is deteriorating,” an official from Virunga National Park, where the volcano is
located, told his staff in a memo. The official said on Sunday that “the flow is also descending on the town. It has now
reached the airport,” adding the lava was likely to reach the shores of Lake Kivu. (4) __________ At this stage, he said,
“the other districts of the city were not in danger” as the lava was unlikely to reach those areas. (5) ________
Sentences:
A. Officials said the lava had reached Goma city airport – located on the outskirts of the metropolis on the shores
of Lake Kivu – although residents said it had stopped at the edge of the facility.
B. There was no immediate word on any casualties, but witnesses said that lava had engulfed one highway that
connects Goma with the city of Beni in North Kivu province.
C. “The eruption of Nyiragongo is similar to the eruption in 2002,” he said, asking all residents near the airport to
evacuate without delay.
D. Even before the official announcement on Saturday, thousands of people had started filling the streets and
carrying what they could as they headed out of the border city.
E. “People are beginning to return to their homes. The situation seems to have calmed down for the moment,” one
resident said.
F. The communications minister, Patrick Muyaya, had earlier tweeted: “The evacuation plan for the city of Goma
has been activated … The government is discussing the urgent measures to take at present.”
PART C: SUPPLY EACH BLANK WITH ONE SUITABLE WORD. (20 PTS)
PASSAGE 1.
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed (1) _______ law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act that (2) _______
through Congress in an increasingly rare show of bipartisanship, hailing the effort a "significant break" in a gridlocked
Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman and (3) _______ of Asian descent to hold the office, opened the
signing (4) _______ by thanking lawmakers present (5) _______ their work including Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and
Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., who (6) _______ the bill. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican, also received a nod from
Biden for showing (7) _______ to the ceremony which was dominated by Democrats. Without masks and social (8)
_______, it was the largest-scale event at the White House since the Biden (9) _______ began.
"To the members of our United States Congress on both sides of the aisle who helped pass the COVID-19 Hate
Crimes Act, thank you," Harris said first to applause. "Because of you, history will remember this day and this moment
when our nation (10) _______ action to combat hate." […]
PASSAGE 2.
In a conflict (1) _______ words matter (so (2) _______ so that even using the word conflict invites disagreement),
it’s notable when the words (3) _______ begin to change. And when it (4) _______ to discussing Israel and Palestine in
the United States, the words have changed. The first, most obvious shift has come (5) _______ Congress, where more and
more (predominantly progressive) voices have criticized Israel’s human-rights (6) _______, as well as the U.S.
government’s role in sustaining a (7) _______ quo that human-rights groups and other high-profile leaders, including
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, have (8) _______ to apartheid. Staunch defenders of Israel within the
Democratic Party now offer criticism of the scale of the country’s military (9) _______ in Gaza (which caused extensive
damage, and at least 230 deaths) or, just as strikingly, say (10) _______ at all.
III. ERROR IDENTIFICATION (5 PTS)
IDENTIFY THE FIVE (5) MISTAKES IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND CORRECT THEM.
1 In 1980s, advances in personal computing and the expanse of the internet led more and more
2 entrepreneurs and futurists to dream that it would soon be commonplace for people with office
3 jobs to work remotely from home. By the 1990s, this seemed all but inevitable. In 1993,
4 management guru Peter Drucker wrote: “It is now infinitely easier, cheaper and faster to do
5 which the 19th century could not do: move information, and with it office work, to where the
6 people are. The tools to do so are already here: the telephone, two-way video, electronical mail,
7 the fax machine, the personal computer, the modem, and so on.” By 2019, however, fewer than 5
8 per cent of the UK employees regularly worked from home. With the emergence of covid-19, that
9 is now around 45 per cent. What took us so long?
IV. WORD FORMS (10 PTS)
SUPPLY THE APPROPRIATE FORMS OF WORDS IN THE BRACKETS
1. This was at the height of reaction to the killing of George Floyd, as well as the more _________ embrace of the Black
Lives Matter movement. [general]
2. Long-term unemployment, defined as being __________for 27 weeks or longer, is markedly worse for workers over
age 55 than for the general population. [job]
3. The business does not do much advertising, instead relying on __________ and sponsorship of events. [mouth]
4. I’m afraid there is going to be another __________ of the currency soon. [value]
5. The response swiftly went __________, attracting tens of thousands of responses and political attention. [virus]
6. It benefits from a more mysterious topic — Brazilian divination rituals — but fails to ____________ it. [lucid]
7. Too little or too much and effects are _________ – and many conflicting studies used high doses. [delete]
8. These workers are expected almost __________ to create new worlds of opportunity for poor children, even as low pay
and limited training dooms them to failure. [hand]
9. The less privileged young citizens would have the same access to higher education as ones from __________ families.
[endow]
10. The _________ of the town little relished this evacuation. [people]
V. WRITING (20 PTS)
COMPLETE THE SECOND SENTENCE SO THAT IT MEANS THE SAME AS THE FIRST ONE, USING THE WORD
GIVEN.
1. Tell my dad that it was my sister’s duty if he may ask why I didn’t sweep the floor. (pigeon)
🡪 Should my dad ask for _______________________________________________________________________________
2. For many girls, they considered the sight of just a single cockroach in the bathroom to be very frightening. (crawl)
🡪 For vast ________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Women outnumber men by two to one in Greece. (twice)
🡪 There ___________________________________________________________________________________ in Greece.
4. I’m certain that Mike will become a famous artist one day.
🡪 I think it’s only ____________________________________________________________________________________
5. Tom pretended to have been busy all day. (go)
🡪 Tom made _________________________________________________________________________________________
6. When my Math teacher failed to become the best teacher of the year, she separated herself from other colleagues. (cut)
🡪 Because of ________________________________________________________________________________________
7. The fight between all the Vietnamese people and the French invasion lasted for nearly 90 years. (put)
🡪 By the time all the Vietnamese people __________________________________________________________________
8. They demolished the nondescript buildings because they wanted to renovate the whole neighborhood. (torn)
🡪 With a view _______________________________________________________________________________________
9. We had better see this film because it was the last film Anna acted as the main actress. (swansong)
🡪We ought _________________________________________________________________________________________
10. “The program must start at half past five today”, said the producer. (on)
🡪 The producer insisted _______________________________________________________________________________