TRẠI HÈ HÙNG VƯƠNG LẦN THỨ XII HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM

TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN TỈNH HÀ GIANG MÔN: TIẾNG ANH, LỚP 10

ĐỀ THI ĐÈ XUẤT

TOTAL MARK: 200 POINTS

PART I- LISTENING (50 POINTS)
Question 1. You will hear part of a talk about dolls. Fill the missing information
into the blanks. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank. (14
points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. environment/cities 2. Windy 3. Humid 4. Shady 5. Evaporate
6. filter/reduce/decrease 7. Low frequency
Question 2. On a travel programme, you will hear a man, Jeremy Clark, reporting
from Mapé, a tropical island where people go on holiday. Listen and complete the
sentences. (16 points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. consultant 2. Ecologist 3. Bills 4. Carbon meter
5. light bulbs 6. Earthship 7. (the) wind (power) 8. handbook
Question 3. You will hear a woman asking a tutor for more information about a
Media Studies course at a university. Listen and decide whether the following
statements are true (T) or false (F). (10 points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T
Question 4. You will hear an interview with the television actress Donna Denton.
Choose the best answer (A, B, or C) for each of the following questions. (10 points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. C
PART II – LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (40 POINTS)
Question 1. Choose the option (A, B, C or D) that best complete the following
sentences. (20 points)
* 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. C 2. B 3. C 4. C
5. A 6. B 7. A 8. B
9. C 10. A 11. B 12. D
13. D 14. A 15. D 16. C
17. B 18. A 19. C 20. B
Question 2. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a
word that fits in the space in the sentence. (10 points)
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 * 1.0 points for each correct answer.
1. unavoidable 2. patterned 3. excessive 4. injuries
5. household 6. distinguishes 7. anxiety 8. breathtakingly
9. criticism 10. incredible
Question 3. Each line of the following passage contains ONE mistake. Identify and
correct them. Write your answer in the space given. (10 points)
* 1.0 point for each correct answer.
Mistake Correction Mistake Correction
1. recognization recognition 6. them whom
2. about of 7. usual unusual
3. large big 8. individual personal
4. heading leading 9. mean means
5. awards rewards 10. sport sporting
PART III – READING (60 POINTS)
Question 1. Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in
the following passage. (10 points)
*1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. D
6. B 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. C
Question 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space.
Use only ONE word in each space. (10 points)
*1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. where 2. how 3. seemed 4. after 5. a/per/one
6. whose 7. but 8. as 9. If 10. like
Question 3. Read the passage and choose the option (A, B,C or D) that best answer
each of the following questions. (10 points)
*1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C
6. D 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. A
Question 4. Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. (20 points)
Task 1. Choose the correct heading for section A-E from the list of headings below.
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. iv 2. viii 3. i 4. iii 5. v
Task 2. Decide if the following statements are True (T), False (F) or Not given (NG)
according to the information in the passage.
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
6. F 7. T 8. T 9. NG 10. NG

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Question 5. You are going to read an article in which four people comment on a
book they have read recently. Choose from the people A-D to answer the questions
that follow. The people may be chosen more than once. (10 points)
* 1.0 points for each correct answer.
1. C 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. B
6. A 7. B 8. A 9. A 10. C
PART IV – WRITING (50 POINTS)
* Lưu ý: Các cách giải khác hướng dẫn chấm, giám khảo cân nhắc, nếu đúng cho
điểm tối đa theo thang điểm đã định.
Question 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence, using the words given. (10 points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. health doesn’t prevent her from enjoying life.
2. depth of the Pacific Ocean is much greater than that of the Atlantic.
3. result of the fire, a public enquiry was set up.
4. no connection between vitamin intake and intelligence.
5. not been for the attendance of a famous film star, the part would not have been
successful/would not have succeeded.
Question 2. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as
possible in meaning to the original one, using the word given. DO NOT CHANGE
the word given. (10 points)
* 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. There is a chance that the temperature in the next century may rise.
2. You must resign yourself to the fact that she has left you.
3. They arrived at the station in the nick of time.
4. He was sentenced three-year imprisonment.
5. I have no intention of telling you my plans.
Question 3. Write a paragraph (120-150 words) on the following topic. (30 points)

No. Criteria for judgment Mark

1 Task completion 4.0

- Consist of three parts: topic sentence, supporting
sentences and concluding sentence.
   
- Length: only 5 % less or more than the required
number of words is acceptable.
2 Organization 6.0
- Topic sentence is clearly stated.
   
- Present the right form of a paragraph.
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 - The ideas are well-organized and developed with
unity, cohesion and coherence.
3 Language use 8.0
- Use wide range of vocabulary and structures.
- Convey precise meanings with appropriate use of
   
vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- Use appropriate linking words or connectors.
4 Content 8.0
- Provide relevant and convincing ideas, supported
  by specific examples and/or reasonable  
justification.
5 Punctuation and spelling 4.0
TOTAL 30 POINTS

TAPESCRIPT
Question 1.
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. I have been asked today to talk to you about the urban
landscape. There are two major areas that I will focus on in my talk: how vegetation can
have a significant effect on urban climate, and how we can better plan our cities using
trees to provide a more comfortable environment for us to live in.

Trees can have a significant impact on our cities. They can make a city, as a whole, a bit
less windy or a bit more windy, if that's what you want. They can make it a bit cooler if
it's a hot summer day in an Australian city, or they can make it a bit more humid if it's a
dry inland city. On the local scale - that is, in particular areas within the city - trees can
make the local area more shady, cooler, more humid and much less windy. In fact trees
and planting of various kinds can be used to make city streets actually less dangerous in
particular areas. How do trees do all that, you ask?

Well, the main difference between a tree and a building is a tree has got an internal
mechanism to keep the temperature regulated. It evaporates water through its leaves and
that means that the temperature of the leaves is never very far from our own body
temperature. The temperature of a building surface on a hot sunny day can easily be
twenty degrees more than our temperature. Trees, on the other hand, remain cooler than
buildings because they sweat. This means that they can humidify the air and cool it - a
property which can be exploited to improve the local climate.

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Trees can also help break the force of winds. The reason that high buildings make it
windier at ground level is that, as the wind goes higher and higher, it goes faster and
faster. When the wind hits the building, it has to go somewhere. Some of it goes over the
top and some goes around the sides of the building, forcing those high level winds down
to ground level.
That doesn't happen when you have trees. Trees filter the wind and considerably reduce
it, preventing those very large strong gusts that you so often find around tall buildings.

Another problem in built-up areas is that traffic noise is intensified by tall buildings. By
planting a belt of trees at the side of the road, you can make things a little quieter, but
much of the vehicle noise still goes through the trees. Trees can also help reduce the
amount of noise in the surroundings, although the effect is not as large as people like to
think. Low-frequency noise, in particular, just goes through the trees as though they
aren't there.

Although trees can significantly improve the local climate, they do however take up a lot
of space. There are root systems to consider and branches blocking windows and so on.
It may therefore be difficult to fit trees into the local landscape. There is not a great deal
you can do if you have what we call a street canyon - a whole set of high-rises enclosed
in a narrow street. Trees need water to grow. They also need some sunlight to grow and
you need room to put them. If you have the chance of knocking buildings down and
replacing them, then suddenly you can start looking at different ways to design the
streets and to introduce ...

Question 2.
Interviewer: Tonight my guest is Daren Howarth who works as a carbon coach. What
exactly does that mean Daren?
Daren Howarth: Well, most people know about global warming and would like to do
something to reduce the amount of carbon they send out into the atmosphere, but they
don't always know the best way of doing this. What I do as a carbon coach is give them
advice about how to achieve environmentally friendly living. I'm now a full-time
consultant, and my clients include both companies and private individuals.
Interviewer: What made you decide to become a carbon coach?
Daren Howarth: Well it all started about fifteen years ago. I'd always been interested in
energy-saving and the environment and I trained as an ecologist. At that time, people
were talking about very technical things like greenhouse gas emissions, then someone
came up with the term 'carbon footprint', which is much easier for people to understand.

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Interviewer: And you can tell ordinary families what their carbon footprint is, can't
you?
Daren Howarth: That's right. I work out how much carbon dioxide the family's
generated over a year; firstly by studying their bills, then finding out how much waste
they produce, how much they use the car, and so on. Adding together all these figures, I
calculate their total carbon footprint in tonnes of carbon dioxide. Then I take a look
around their home and suggest ways of reducing their carbon footprint.
Interviewer: How do you work out how much carbon each machine around the house
emits?
Daren Howarth: By switching off all the things that use electricity, then turning each
one on one at a time, you can see the amount of energy each one uses. I use something
known as a 'carbon meter' which measures the amount of electricity being used in the
house at any one time. It also shows how much carbon dioxide this represents.
Interviewer: What's the least energy efficient thing you've seen in homes?
Daren Howarth: I go into so many places where I look in the roof and there's no
insulation, so there's nothing stopping all the heat just going straight out into the outside
air. Insulation massively reduces your carbon footprint; it's cheap and the government
will help with the cost of it.
Interviewer: So is that the worst thing?
Daren Howarth: Well, central heating systems can be very inefficient and people use
things like electric knives and mixers which are unnecessary, but the thing I really can't
stand is when people are still using old-fashioned light bulbs. People can't resist them
because they're so cheap, but up to ninety percent of the energy they produce is lost as
heat. If you have one, put it in a box and smash it up, so no one else can use it.
Interviewer: What other type of clients do you have?
Daren Howarth: We work with both individuals and businesses - and even some
celebrities, such as the band Supergrass. For one of their albums about three years ago,
the band decided to minimise their carbon footprint at their concerts and then also cut
the amount of carbon produced when making a CD. The carbon footprint for a disc is
just a few grams, but a big band like Supergrass will produce thousands of copies, which
means several tonnes of carbon.
Interviewer: And what are your plans for the future?
Daren Howarth: I'm working hard on introducing a really green type of home in this
country known as an Earthship. It's a building that creates its own energy, heats and
cools itself, collects its own water and deals with its own waste. It's also built from
recycled materials. It doesn't need electricity or gas for heating, as it captures and stores
energy by using wind power, and solar panels on the roof charge up batteries which
provide power.
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Interviewer: Any disadvantages?
Daren Howarth: You have to change your lifestyle and keep an eye on changes in the
weather. There are thousands of examples around the world and there's a handbook on
sale that explains everything about it - you'll find the details on my website - and it's
something you can do for yourself - you don't have to employ someone to do the work
for you.
Question 3.
Loius: I’m looking for some advice about doing a Master’s Degree in Media Studies.
Am I at the right place?
Mark: Yes, my name’s Mark, I’m head of the Media Studies course. Nice to meet
you, and you are…
Louis: I’m Louise, nice to meet you too.
Mark: So how can I help you?
Louis: Well I’ve seen the prospectus for the course but I’m still a bit confused about a
few things and about some of the options for studying.
Mark: What’s your situation at the moment? Are you working?
Louis: Yes, I’ve been working as a journalist for a local newspaper for the last 3
months. Prior to that I had two jobs in the media – at a small local radio station for about
2 years and at a TV station for about 4 years. So I’ve worked in media for about six
years in total.
Mark: Ok well that’s useful if you want to do the course. What is your motivation to do
further study?
Louis: I enjoy my job a lot at the moment but I feel the opportunities for promotion are
quite limited. It’s not that I think a masters will help with this though. I’ll probably leave
my job, maybe to go into TV or something, but basically I think wherever I end up
going in the future, employers prefer to see someone with post-graduate qualifications
these days.
Mark: And are you intending to study full-time?
Louis: Well I’d really like to keep working as I need an income. What are the options
for me if I want to work whilst studying?
Mark: You could do certain modules over a number of years you like. It’s up to you
how many you do. Basically you get credits for the ones you complete. People usually
do the Masters in anything from 18 months up until 4 years. It depends on your time. If
you wanted a fixed schedule and attendance and did it part time then that would be a
total of 3 years.
Louis: So what is the admission criteria to join the course?
Mark: Well there are a few things that are useful but not essential, but there are some
requirements. Usually to join a Masters people must have a bachelor’s degree, but we
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are prepared to overlook this if someone has enough work experience. But you must
have one or the other. It’s useful if you have research experience as you have to
complete a thesis but we can train you on this if not. It’s essential that you have
motivation if you want to join the course as it is very demanding.
Louis: What about the costs for the course?
Mark: The fees for a year if you are studying part-time are £2250. No sorry, they have
gone up this year – £2400. Of course you are paying for all other living costs.
Louis: Is there any kind of bursary or scholarship available to help with the fees?
Mark: Yes there are things available but you have to meet the criteria to get funding.
Often though the university will actually contact you about funding. Universities have a
certain budget available to provide funds so they will look for the best students and offer
them something if they think they will be suitable. You would have to have a firm offer
in place to join the course though before you’d be considered for any funding.
Louis: Where can I go to find out more about it?
Mark: The best place to look for information about funding is on our university
website. All the details about whether you’re eligible, what help is on offer, and how to
apply will be there. If you can’t find the information you’re looking for, you can always
come and speak to us again and there will be a number you can ring.
Louis: Ok thanks for that. And is it easy to get hold of you if I need to speak to you
further?
Mark: Yes, I’m here most days, but you can always phone the office first to check. It’s
best to book an appointment in case I’m not around.
Question 4:

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