SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN THÁI

THÁI BÌNH BÌNH

NĂM HỌC 2021-2022
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH
Đề gồm 10 trang (Dành cho thí sinh thi chuyên Tiếng Anh)
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
Điểm bài thi Họ tên, chữ kí người chấm thi 1. Số phách
(HĐ chấm thi ghi)
Bằng số:……………………..….… …………………………………………

Bằng chữ:……………………….… 2.…………………………………………

(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi)

PART I: PHONETICS
Section 1: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
1. A. abnormal B. ancient C. admirable D. annual
2. A. neigh B. height C. weigh D. vein
3. A. chivalry B. chaos C. scheme D. scholar
Your answers:

1. 2. 3.
Section 2: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position
of the main stress in each of the following questions.
4. A. involve B. provide C. install D. comment
5. A. ineffectiveness B. administration C. documentary D. solidarity
Your answers:
4. 5.
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Section 1: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following
sentences.
6. The book would have been perfect the ending.
A. it hadn’t been for B. had it not been for C. had it been for D. if it had been for
7. from university, we will have been friends for five years.
A. Before we will graduate B. After we are graduating
C. As soon as we graduated D. By the time we graduate
8. He felt exhausted, the whole day working in the garden.
A. spending B. having spent C. having been spent D. spent
9. The environmental project last month has brought great benefits to the inhabitants in the
village.
A. launched B. launching C. to be launched D. was launched
10. Tom had been waiting for his mother for two hours. Up when she finally turned up.
A. jumped he B. he jumped C. did he jump D. jumping he
11. The union has dropped its earlier insistence that every worker bonus payments.
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12. President Joe Biden is going to pay a visit to Middle East at the end of this
month.
A. The/the B.  /  C. /the D. The/ 
13. I hate . That’s why I will never go out with Ben again.
A. standing people up B. standing up people C. having stood up D. being stood up
14. Mary: - How was your dental appointment?
Peter: - Painless. I .
A. needn’t have worried B. mustn’t have worried
C. may not have worried D. can’t have worried
15. I’m going on business for a week, so I’ll be leaving everything .
A. on your guards B. up to your eyes
C. in your capable hands D. under the care of you
16. After a six-year relation, Martha and Billy have decided to .
A. break the ice B. tie the knot
C. turn the page D. make ends meet
17. After several hours on that road, they became _ to the fact that they would never reach the
hotel by nightfall.
A. dejected B. depressed C. disillusioned D. resigned
18. The government has a ban on exports to those countries because of their human rights
records.
A. imposed B. taken C. made D. compelled
19. When he was presented with a prize for his latest book, he was lost for .
A. thoughts B. words C. speech D. talk
20. The tennis match tomorrow afternoon will be broadcast on TV and radio.
A. jointly B. communally C. simultaneously D. uniformly
Your answers:
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Section 2: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following sentences.
21. In the Navajo household, grandparents and other relatives play indispensable roles in raising the
children.
A. demanding B. outstanding C. dominant D. essential
22. Every time he opens his mouth, he immediately regrets what he has said. He’s always putting his
foot in his mouth.
A. making a mistake B. doing things in the wrong order
C. saying embarrassing things D. speaking indirectly
Your answers:
21. 22.
Section 3: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following sentences.

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23. Ben’s dream of a university education went by the board when his father died and he was forced to
earn a living.
A. became possible B. turned into a nightmare
C. got rejected D. got prolonged
24. Inspectors are coming to the factory because of the problems with inflammable materials.
A. unrecyclable B. non-flammable C. incapable D. swollen
Your answers:
23. 24.
Section 4: Read the following passage and give the correct forms of the words in the brackets.
DRUGS AND COMPUTERS
There is a new generation of young computer programmers hoping to become (25) (MILLION).
To achieve this, they have to work very hard and stimulants are what many of them rely on to do so.
Because they are so ambitious, they work long hours, up to 72 hours at a time staying (26)
(WAKE) by using cocaine or speed. Often, they use a cocktail of drugs to enable them to do their jobs.
However, this is extremely dangerous, and recently this way of life claimed its first (27)
(FATAL).
A 26-year-old programmer, who was doing well on the Internet, was on business in New York.
Unfortunately, due to concoction of alcohol, valium and heroin he had taken, he died. The doctor who
did the post-mortem said that a close examination of the results led him to believe that the toxic
combination was (28) (INDICATE) of long-term drug abuse.
Moreover, a lot of those who use drugs as assistance to their work also resort to them in their free time.
They use drugs as (29) (UP), but also as a way to reduce stress. With such high earnings, they
can afford whatever dugs they want. The problem is that they may (30) (EVENT) pay the
highest price – death.
Your answers:
25. 26. 27.
28. 29. 30.

Section 5: The following text contains FIVE mistakes apart from the one in the example. Underline
these mistakes before writing them and the corresponding corrections in the right column in the table
below.
Your answers:
There can be not doubt at all that the Internet has made a huge Example: 0. not → no
difference to our lives. Parents are worried that children spend
too much time playing on the Internet, hardly ever doing 31.
anything else in their spare time. Naturally, parents are curious
to find out why the Internet is so attractive and they want to
know if it can be harmful to their children. Should parents
worry if their children are spending that much time staring on 32.
their computers? Obviously, if children are absorbing in some
game instead of doing their homework, then something is
wrong. Parents and children could decide how much use the 33.
child should make of the Internet, and the child should give his
or her word that it won’t interfere with homework. If the child
is not sticking to this arrangement, the parent can do more
drastic 34.

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different from negotiating any other sort of bargain about
behaviour. Any parent who is serious alarmed about a child’s
behaviour should make an appointment to discuss about the 35.
matter with a teacher. Spending time in front of the screen
does not necessarily affect a child’s performance at school.

Section 6: Fill the blank in each of the following sentences with an appropriate preposition or particle.
36. The kids used all of the toothpaste , so we need to buy some more.
37. I couldn’t make all the words on the sign because my glasses were dirty.
38. Could you please refrain smoking? This is a hospital.
39. Have you missed those twins? Curiously enough, they look poles .
40. The bicycle was so badly damaged that it was _ repair.
Your answers:

36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

PART III: SPEAKING

Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
41. Peter and John, two high school students, are talking about school exams:
Peter: - “I think exams should not be the only way to assess students.”
John: - “ . There are various others like presentations and projects.”
A. Not at all B. I share your view
C. That’s not entirely true D. I totally disagree
42. Jane is talking to Mike in front of her house.
Jane: - “How kind, you really shouldn’t have bothered.”
Mike: - “ .”
A. It was nothing, really B. Don’t worry. I don’t bother
C. Why not? I was happy D. It was a very good thing
43. Linda is talking to Stephen about university education.
Linda: - “ ” Stephen: - “It's not likely.”
A. How important is it to attend university?
B. Is it possible to get a good job without attending university?
C. Would you be interested in attending university in a foreign country?
D. Is it very important to attend a university in a foreign country?
44. Tom and Mary are talking on the phone.
Tom: - “I'm having some friends over for dinner today. Would you like to join us?”
Mary: - “ ”
A. As a matter of fact, I do. B. Can I take a rain check?
C. Come on. It’s my turn. D. Thanks, but I don’t.
45. Linh is talking to Hoa about her coming driving test.
Linh: - “I'm taking my driving test tomorrow.”
Hoa: - “ !”

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Your answers:
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
PART IV: READING
Section 1: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best fits each blank in the following
passage.
NEW HUNT FOR LIFE IN SPACE
British space scientists are planning to join the American in the race to find evidence of life on (46)
planets. Alan Penny and his team at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have designed a
telescope that is 14 times more powerful than Hubble. Known as “Darwin”, his telescope could tell if
planets 50 (47) years away have any kind of life on them. Two days later, after NASA
scientists had shown a proof that one of Jupiter’s (48) could support life, Penny announced that his
telescope might be included in a European Space Agency mission. The Darwin project, with a (49)
of $500 million, is on a shortlist of two proposals. If (50) , it will probably be
launched around 2015. The blueprint is actually for five telescopes positioned 50 meters (51)
in space, slowly circling a (52) processing station. The combined data from these telescopes
would build up a full picture of a planet, picking out faint images that have never been seen before.
Darwin would not be able to take detailed photographs of the planets it (53) , but Penny believes a
second-generation telescope could be sent up to do this. He claims it is worthwhile mapping the universe
around our (54) galaxy, even though these planets lie beyond our reach for the moment. The
European Space Agency will make its decision (55) Darwin within three years.
46. A. others B. the others C. other D. another
47. A. light B. lighten C. lightening D. lighting
48. A. moons B. planets C. orbits D. circles
49. A. price B. schedule C. charge D. budget
50. A. to be approved B. approved C. having approved D. approving
51. A. across B. beyond C. beneath D. apart
52. A. middle B. heart C. central D. focusing
53. A. invents B. searches C. discovers D. looks
54. A. alone B. own C. private D. same
55. A. on B. for C. with D. of
Your answers:
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
Section 2: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
A prodigy is defined as a person with a great natural ability which shows itself at an early age; they may
become expert musicians or be (56) of doing complex mathematics. Some youngsters develop
(57) remarkable abilities that they attract the (58) of the media, like Arran
Fernadez, a five-year-old who became the youngest person to pass a GCSE, an exam for school leavers.
He had obviously (59) intellectually from being taught at home by his parents, who
said that their son was still a happy and normal child (60) never
having been to any form of school. Arran could add up at the age of two (61) a half, so
he obviously had a natural gift, but without a great deal of effort on the part of his parents, it is unlikely
that he would have applied (62) to serious study. The role parents play in such cases is highly
controversial. Many people believe that the more you push young children, the greater the chances are

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that the child will have social and emotional problems
(63) in life. The story of another young person, Sufiah Yusof, who entered university at the

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age of 13, is often quoted as proof of this. She dropped out of her studies at Oxford two years later,
claiming that her parents’ (64) towards her constituted emotional abuse. It seems that being a prodigy
is
(65) substitute for a normal childhood.
Your answers:
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

Section 3: Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the best answer to
each of the following questions.
HOW MEMORY WORKS
Memory is the brain’s ability to store and retrieve information related to previous experiences. Memory
occurs in two stages: short-term and long-term. Short-term memory reflects an immediate sensory
perception of an object or idea that occurs before the image is stored. Short-term memory enables you to
dial a telephone number after looking it up but without looking at the number directly. If you call the
number frequently, it becomes stored in long-term memory and can be recalled several weeks after you
originally looked it up. Short-term memory and long-term memory can be thought of as memory
structures, each varying as to how much information it can hold and for how long.
Memory relies on the ability to process information. Information processing begins with the
environmental stimuli that you see, hear, smell, taste and feel. These experiences are initially recorded in
the brain’s sensory register, which holds information just long enough (one to three seconds) for you to
decide whether to process it further. Information that you do not selectively attend to will disappear
from the system. However, if you recognise and attend to the information as meaningful or relevant, it is
sent to short-term memory. Short-term memory can hold approximately seven unrelated bits of
information at a time.
Short-term memory is often called working memory because it holds information that you are working
with at a given moment, but only for about 20 seconds. Then, unless the information is processed further,
it is quickly forgotten. For example, if you were asked to dial an unfamiliar telephone number, received a
busy signal, and were then distracted by something else for 20 seconds, you probably would have
forgotten the number at that point. Unless information in short-term memory is processed further, it does
not make it to long-term memory.
Several control processes enable the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory. One
such process is rehearsal, or “practice makes perfect.” Rehearsal is when you repeat something to
yourself over and over. The purpose behind such behaviour is usually to memorise information for
later use, although sometimes it is simply to hold information in short-term memory for immediate
use. For example, you may rehearse a telephone number by saying it aloud so you can redial it after
getting a busy signal without having to look it up again in the phone book. Another process that enables
the transfer of information to long-term memory is the association of new data with data previously
learned and stored in long-term memory. Thus, it is easier to learn a new card game if you already have
“card sense” from playing other games.
For cognitive psychologists, long-term memory is the most interesting of the memory structures and most
believe that the storage capacity of long-term memory is unlimited and contains a permanent record of
everything you have learnt. Long-term memory plays an influential role throughout the information
processing system. The interests, attitudes, skills and knowledge of the world existing in your long-term
memory influence what you perceive and how you interpret your perceptions. They also affect whether
you process information for short-term or long-term storage.
One way of understanding the nature of long-term memory is to consider the types of information stored

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there. Long-term memory can hold recollections of personal experiences as well as factual knowledge
acquired through other means such as reading. It also holds skills such as knowing how to ride a bicycle.

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In its ability to learn and remember, the brain can distinguish between facts and skills. When you acquire
factual knowledge by memorising dates, word definitions, formulas and other information, you can
consciously retrieve this fact memory from the data bank of your long-term memory. In contrast, skill
memory usually involves motor activities that you learn by repetition without consciously remembering
specific information. You perform learned motor skills, such as walking or riding a bicycle, without
consciously recalling the individual steps required to do these tasks.
66. According to the passage, what must happen before information can be stored in memory?
A. The information must be pleasant. B. An object or idea must be perceived.
C. An older memory must be replaced. D. The information must be looked up.
67. The passage states that one difference between short-term memory and long-term memory is
.
A. the type of information they store B. their importance in learning
C. the amount of information they hold D. their location in the brain
68. The phrase “attend to” in paragraph 2 is CLOSEST in meaning to .
A. reject B. focus on C. talk about D. wait for
69. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that something is not likely to be remembered if it is .
A. not considered important B. painful or embarrassing
C. related to previous experience D. sent to short-term memory
70. The passage states that information can be lost from short-term memory when a person .
A. does not know how to read B. repeats the information over and over
C. processes the information further D. is distracted for 20 seconds
71. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the bold sentence in paragraph 4?
Incorrect answer choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Usually information is rehearsed, so it can be used later, but sometimes it is rehearsed so it can be
used right away.
B. There are several reasons for memorising information; the most common reason is to improve short-
term memory.
C. The belief that “practice makes perfect” causes people to repeat certain behaviour even when the
behaviour is very complex.
D. It is fairly simple to keep information in short-term memory, but it is difficult to send it to long-term
memory.
72. Why does the author mention “card sense” in paragraph 4?
A. To point out that playing cards requires a high level of thinking.
B. To give an example of knowledge already stored in long-term memory.
C. To compare learning a card game to remembering a telephone number.
D. To explain why some card games are easier to learn than others.
73. The word “They” in paragraph 5 refers to .
A. cognitive psychologists
B. memory structures
C. interests, attitudes, skills and knowledge of the world
D. what you perceive and how you interpret your perception
74. All of the following enhance the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory EXCEPT
.
A. deciding that information is not meaningful or relevant
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C. linking new information with data in long-term memory
D. performing a task frequently and repeatedly
75. What can be inferred from paragraph 6 about skill memory?
A. It is more important than fact memory in everyday life.
B. It exists in long-term memory because of repeated practice.
C. It requires conscious efforts to be retrieved from memory.
D. It contains only the skills that people can perform well.
Your answers:
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.

Section 4: Read the following passage and do the task that follows.
THE WATER CRISIS
Greater efficiency in water use is needed to meet the growing demands of a changing world.
SECTION A. Per capita water usage has been on an upward trend for many years. As countries
industrialize and their citizens become more prosperous, their individual water usage increases rapidly.
Annual per capita water withdrawals in the USA, for example, are about 1,700 cubic meters, four times
the level in China and fifty times the level in Ethiopia. In the 21st century, the world’s limited supply of
renewable fresh water has to meet demands of both larger total population and increased per capita
consumption. The only practicable ways to resolve this problem in the longer term are economic pricing
in conjunction with conservation measures.
SECTION B. Agriculture consumes about 70% of the world’s fresh water, so improvements in irrigation
can make the greatest impact. At present, average efficiency in the use of irrigated water in agriculture
may be as low as 50%. Simple changes could improve the rate substantially, though it is unrealistic to
expect very high levels of water-use efficiency in many developing countries, faced as they are with a
chronic lack of capital and a largely untrained rural workforce. After agriculture, industry is the second
biggest user of water and, in terms of value added per liter used, is sixty times more productive than
agriculture. However, some industrial processes use vast amounts of water. For example, production of 1
kg of aluminum might require 1,500 liters of water. Paper production too is often very water-intensive.
Though new processes have greatly reduced consumption, there is still plenty of room for big savings in
industrial uses of water.
SECTION C. In rich countries, water consumption has gradually been slowed down by price increases
and the use of modern technology and recycling. In the USA, industrial production has risen fourfold
since 1950, while water consumption has fallen by more than a third. Japan and Germany have similarly
improved their use of water in manufacturing processes. Japanese industry, for example, now recycles
more than 75% of process water. However, industrial water consumption is continuing to increase
sharply in developing countries. With domestic and agricultural demands also increasing, the capacity of
water supply systems is under growing strain.
SECTION D. Many experts believe that the best way to counter this trend is to impose water charges
based on the real cost of supplies. This would provide a powerful incentive for consumers to introduce
water-saving processes and recycling. Few governments charge realistic prices for water, especially to
farmers. Even in rich California, farmers get water for less than a tenth of the cost of supply. In many
developing countries there is virtually no charge for irrigation water, while energy prices are heavily
subsidized too (which means that farmers can afford to run water pumps day and night). Water, which
was once regarded as a free gift from heaven, is becoming a commodity which must be bought and sold
on the open market just like oil. In the oil industry, the price increases which hit the market in the 1970s,
coupled with concerns that supplies were running low, led to new energy conservation measures all over
the world. It was realized that investing in new sources was a far more costly option than improving
efficiency of use. A similar emphasis on conservation will be the best and cheapest option for bridging
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SECTION E. One way to cut back on water consumption is simply to prevent leaks. It is estimated that
in some of the biggest cities of the Third World, more than half of the water entering the system is lost
through leaks in pipes, dripping taps and broken installations. Even in the UK, losses were estimated at
25% in the early 1990s because of the failure to maintain the antiquated water supply infrastructure. In
addition, huge quantities of water are consumed because used water from sewage pipes, storm drains and
factories is merely flushed away and discharged into rivers or the sea. The modern approach, however, is
to see used water as a resource which can be put to good use - either in irrigation or, after careful
treatment, as recycled domestic water. Israel, for instance, has spent heavily on used water treatment.
Soon, treated, recycled water will account for most farm irrigation there. There are other examples in
cities such as St Petersburg, Florida, where all municipal water is recycled back into domestic systems.
Choose ONE correct heading for each section from A to E from the list of headings below. Write your
answers in the spaces provided.
List of Headings
I. American water withdrawal
II. Economic pricing
III. Successful measures taken by some nations
IV. The role of research
V. The thirsty sectors
VI. Ways of reducing waste
VII. The demands of development
VIII. The consequences for agriculture
Your answers:
76. Section A:
77. Section B:
78. Section C:
79. Section D:
80. Section E:

PART V: WRITING
Section 1: Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it.
81. They report that plumbers have repaired the water pipes.
→ Plumbers
82. Driving at that speed is dangerous whether you are an experienced driver or not.
→ However
83. The play is so popular that the theatre is likely to be full every night.
→ Such is
84. I would prefer him not to have said all those embarrassing things about me.
→ I’d sooner
85. Many people died because of the lack of medical facilities.
→ It
Section 2: Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it, using the word given. This word MUST NOT be altered in any way.
86. I never thought that we’d have legal problems. (CROSSED)

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87. I don’t object to the council building a new road here. (OBJECTION)
→
88. Dawn’s boss is constantly criticizing her work. (FAULT)
→
89. Don’t tell anyone what I have told you! (BREATHE)
→
90. She described the events of that day in details. (DETAILED)
→
Section 3: Write a paragraph about the disadvantages of living in a big city. You should write about 150
words.
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