SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH LỚP 12

NGHỆ AN NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021

Đề chính thức Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - BẢNG B

(Đề gồm 09 trang) Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

ĐIỂM HỌ TÊN, CHỮ KÍ GIÁM KHẢO SỐ PHÁCH

Bằng số:………………………………….. Giám khảo 1: ………………………………………

Bằng chữ:………………..………………. Giám khảo 2: ………………………………………

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. You will hear a student talking about his taste in music. For questions 1-14, listen and
complete the text below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
My taste in music is quite eclectic and there isn’t really one style of music that I like. I listen to
everything from (1) __________ music to classical. Music plays a very important (2) __________ in my
life, and I listen to it almost constantly. I find that it helps to set or to (3) __________. So I tend to (4)
____________ according to who I’m with or what I’m doing. For example, if I’m driving long distances
in my car I (5) __________ to play something stimulating to help keep me awake. But if I’m having a
dinner party with friends, then I play something more (6) __________ . I think that music helps to (7)
___________ me when I’m working, although my colleagues find it distracting so I tend to listen with (8)
_________ on. In that way I can (9) _________ into my own little world. When I was younger I would
definitely have said that I preferred (10) _________. The atmosphere in a live concert can be (11)
_________. Nowadays, though, a lot of popular groups only (12) __________ at very large venues in
front of audiences of 20,000 or more and I don’t really like that. I prefer the intimacy of listening to
recorded music and the (13) __________ is better as well. Music really enriches our lives - it can turn a
boring, monotonous period of time into a (14) ___________ experience, so I think it’s essential to have
music and, in fact, all of the arts in your life.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Part 2. You will hear a radio review by a man called Graham Woodson, who recently tested the Wii
Fit software. For questions 15-24, decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
15. The people that Graham works with enjoy food like energy bars and vegetable juice.
16. Graham tried out Wii Fit in his bed room.
17. Some people think that the boxing game on Wii Fit makes players look silly.
18. Both Graham and his mum have played tennis on Wii Fit.
19.
When he was young, Graham liked reading science fiction.
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20. In real life, Graham is 55 years old.
21. Graham’s girlfriend laughed when he said he was taking up yoga.
22. Wii Fit has improved Graham’s agility and posture.
23. Graham would recommend Wii Fit to sportspeople.
24. Graham once hurt his pet’s head while using Wii Fit.
Your answers:
15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

Part 3. You will hear a conversation between Lucy and Jessica. For questions 25-30, choose the
correct answer A, B or C. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
25. Why does Lucy’s mother refuse to clean her room?
A. It’s too dirty. B. It’s too untidy. C. It’s too big.
26. Why does Lucy spend so much money?
A. She has a lot of pocket money.
B. Her friends persuade her to buy things.
C. She is attracted to things which are in a sale.
27. What sort of people is the new TV series going to help?
A. Teenagers who need to sort out their things.
B. Teenagers who have problems saving their money.
C. Teenagers who annoy their parents.
28. What is the main idea of the TV series?
A. People have to throw away all their possessions.
B. People have to sell most of their possessions to raise money.
C. People have to decide what to keep and what to throw away
29. What else will the TV team do?
A. Improve the bedroom
B. Organize other rooms in the house
C. Buy some special gifts for the bedroom
30. How does Lucy feel about telling her mother?
A. Nervous B. Confident C. Unhappy
Your answers:
25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 point)

Part 1. For questions 1-12, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. She chose to study Engineering and it was definitely the right ______.
A. decision B. decisive C. decide D. decisively
2. The new principal is young and has little experience. ______, I believe that he has the strength of will to
make our school the best.
A. Despite B. However C. While D. Although
3. The ______ from the event were to be given to central Vietnam flood victims.
A. savings B. earnings C. proceeds D. winnings
4. The ground hostess ______ to my sister was very well informed and did her best to help sort out the
problem.
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 A. talking B. who talking C. was talking D. talked
5. I am not able to go anywhere this weekend because I am up to my_____ in work.
A. neck B. nose C. waist D. ankle
6. When his family stopped at the lion’s enclosure, the young boy ______ in wonder at the fierce-looking
animals.
A. glanced B. gazed C. squinted D. glimpsed
7. Could you ______ me a favour and ask Oliver to see me in my office?
A. play B. make C. send D. do
8. To get a good bargain you will need to ______ so that you have a good idea what is available on the
market.
A. shop around B. turn up C. go off D. put on
9. Someone must have left the door open ______ mistake.
A. on B. by C. with D. in
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
10. The old woman is too feeble to cross the street without the help of her nephew.
A. tired B. blind C. timid D. weak
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
11. I can say for certain that your father will hit the ceiling when he finds out you've played truant.
A. repair the roof B. become happy C. get angry D. destroy the house
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges.
12. Mary is talking to her professor in his office.
Mary: “Can you tell me how to find material for my science report, professor?”
Professor: “___________”
A. I like it that you understand. B. Try your best, Mary.
C. You can borrow books from the library. D. You mean the podcasts from other students?
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Part 2. Read the passage below, which contains 8 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.
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1 Skiing is one of the most popular sports in the world. According to recent estimates,
2 about one hundred million of people ski regular or occasionally.
3 Sliding across the snow on skis is also one of the most ancient method of transport
4 known to man. It has demonstrated that men were already traveling across the snow by means
5 of primitive skis before the invention of the wheel. In the Asiatic region of Altai and in
6 Scandinavia, for example, the remains of skis which date back to 4,000 BC has been found.
7 Further evidence is supplied by ancient cave paintings which depict people skiing, and a
8 Norwegian saga which tells the story of a invasion of its territory 8,000 years ago by a tribe of
9 skiers which came from the north.
10 Nowadays, skiing, apart from being a sport, has become a big industry and a notable
11 feature of leisure culture. Ski resorts and all the activity that they generate are the main source
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13 from its once elitist image, skiing is now enjoyed by an increasingly broader spectrum of social.
Your answers:
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
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15 19.
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16 20.
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SECTION C. READING (70 points)

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best answer. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
Don’t Forget Your Hat
An important point to remember if you like spending time out in the open air is that the human
head doesn't work very well outdoors (1) ______ it becomes too hot, cold or wet. That's why a hat is a
good investment, wherever you're planning to go out and (2) ______. Surprisingly, a single waterproof
hat with a brim will do the (3) ______ adequately in most conditions.
In cold climates, the problem is that the head is (4) ______ heat all the time. As (5) ______ as fifty
to sixty percent of your body's heat is lost through the head and neck, (6) ______ on which scientist you
believe. Clearly (7) ______ heat loss needs to be prevented, but it's important to remember that hats don't
actually (8) ______ you warm, they simply stop heat escaping.
Just as important is the need to (9) ______ your neck from the effects of (10) ______ sunlight, and
the brim of your hat will do this. If you prefer a baseball cap, (11) ______ buying one of that has a drop
down "tail" at the back to stop your neck (12) ______ sunburned.
And in wet weather (13) ______ hats are often more practical than pulling up the hood of your
waterproof coat because when you (14) ______ your head, the hat goes with you, (15) ______ the hood
usually does not.
1. A. if B. but C. so D. or
2. A. around B. about C. along D. above
3. A. job B. task C. role D. duty
4. A. giving away B. sending out C. dropping off D. running down
5. A. soon B. long C. well D. much
6. A. according B. regarding C. depending D. relating
7. A. this B. these C. many D. those
8. A. maintain B. stay C. hold D. keep
9. A. protect B. protection C. protective D. protectively
10. A. sharp B. keen C. bright D. deep
11. A. consider B. recommend C. advise D. suggest
12. A. suffering B. going C. having D. getting
13. A. occasions B. positions C. cases D. conditions
14. A. alter B. switch C. turn D. spin
15. A. instead of B. whereas C. rather than D. thereby
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

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Part 2. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes.
BROKE AGAIN
It’s a standing joke that most university students invariably have nearly empty bank accounts! If
you are (16) ______ the age of 17 or 18, you probably don’t have a keen sense of money management.
Plus, university years are full (17) ________ enticing activities that require money: get involved in this
book society; go on that trip or the other concert and whatnot. So, not surprisingly, it’s only the first week
of the month (18) ______ you are broke. Again. Well, it doesn’t have to be this way. (19) _______ are
many ways to put money aside while on campus. The (20) _______ readily available solution is to get a
part-time job. More and (21) _______ students now occupy positions on every campus and in most cases
the money is not bad; not to (22) _______ you don’t have to commute. Another alternative is to (23)
______ used books instead of brand new ones and sell your old books as well. Most student unions
organize regular bazaars, (24) ______ you can sell things you don’t need; CDs, video games, even used
clothes. Remember: one man’s trash is (25) ______ man’s treasure! The bottom line is either earn more
(26) _______ spend less. This means that you have to (27) _______ down on unnecessary costs.
Unless you change your big-spender habits, there is no (28) ______ in striving to make an extra
income. So, keep track of your expenses, everything from supermarket shopping to transport and
entertainment. Ask (29) _______ questions like: Do I really need that expensive All about Hairstyles
magazine subscription? (30) ______ the answer is no, you are on the right track.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Part 3. Read the passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of
the questions. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
In the world today, particular in the two most industrialized areas, North America and Europe,
recycling is the big news. People are talking about it, practicing it, and discovering new ways to be
sensitive to the environment. Recycling means finding ways to use products a second time. The motto of
the recycling movement is “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”.
The first step is to reduce garbage. In stores, a shopper has to buy products in blister packs, boxes
and expensive plastic wrappings. A hamburger from a fast food restaurant comes in lots of packaging:
usually paper, a box and a bag. All that packaging is wasted resources. People should try to buy things that
are wrapped simply, and to reuse cups and utensils. Another way to reduce waste is to buy high-quality
products. When low-quality appliances break, many customers throw them away and buy new ones - a
loss of more resources and more energy. For example, if a customer buys a high-quality appliance that can
be easily repaired, the manufacturer receives an important message. In the same way, if a customer
chooses a product with less packaging, that customer sends an important message to the manufacturers. To
reduce garbage, the throw-away must stop.
The second step is to reuse. It is better to buy juices and soft drinks in returnable bottles. After
customers empty the bottles, they return them to the stores. The manufacturers of the drinks collect
bottles, wash them, and then fill them again. The energy that is necessary to make new bottles is saved. In
some parts of the world, returning bottles for money is a common practice. In those places, the garbage
dumps have relatively little glass and plastic from throw-away bottles.
The third step being environmentally sensitive is to recycle. Spent motor oil can be cleaned and
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aluminum can as it does to run a color TV set for three hours. When people collect and recycle aluminum
(for new cans), they help save one of the world’s precious resources.
31. What is the topic of the passage?
A. How to reduce garbage disposal. B. How to live sensitively to the environment.
C. What is involved in the recycling movement. D. What people understand the term “recycle”.
32. Which area is considered one of the most industrialized?
A. South America B. Middle East C. Asia D. Europe
33. What does the word “sensitive” means?
A. cautious B. logical C. friendly D. responding
34. The word “motto” is closest in meaning to _______.
A. meaning B. value C. reference D. belief
35. It is a waste when customers buy low-quality products because _______.
A. they will soon throw them away B. customers always change their idea
C. they have to be repaired many times D. they are very cheap
36. People can do the following to reduce waste EXCEPT _______.
A. buy more hamburgers B. buy high-quality products
C. buy simply-wrapped things D. reuse cups
37. What best describes the process of reuse?
A. The bottles are collected, washed, returned and filled again.
B. The bottles are filled again after being returned, collected and washed.
C. The bottles are washed, returned filled again and collected.
D. The bottles are collected, returned, filled again and washed.
38. The word “them” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.
A. customers B. soft drinks C. juices D. bottles
39. Garbage dumps in some areas have relatively little glass and plastic because _______.
A. people are ordered to return bottles B. returned bottles are few
C. few bottles are made of glass or plastic D. each returned bottle is paid
40. What are the two things mentioned as examples of recycling?
A. TV sets and aluminum cans. B. Aluminum cans and spent motor oil.
C. Hamburger wrappings and spent motor oil. D. Aluminum cans and plastic wrappings.
Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

Part 4. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions. Write
your answers A, B, C or D in the corresponding numbered boxes.
A.
Aylito Binayo's feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning, she can run down the rocks to the
river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her village with a container of water on
her back. She has made this journey three times a day since she was a small child. So has every other
woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of south-western Ethiopia in Africa. Binayo left school
when she was eight years old, in part because she had to help her mother fetch water from the Toiro River.
The water is unsafe to drink; every year that the drought continues, the river carries less water, and its
flow is reduced. But it is the only water Foro has ever had.
B.
In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900
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way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water and lack of proper hygiene cause disease and kill 3.3
million people around the world annually, most of them children. In southern Ethiopia and in northern
Kenya, a lack of rain over the past few years has made even dirty water hard to find. But soon, for the first
time, things are going to change.
C.
Bringing clean water close to villagers’ homes is the key to the problem. Communities where clean water
becomes accessible and plentiful are transformed. All the hours previously spent hauling water can be
used to cultivate more crops, raise more animals or even start a business. Families spend less time sick or
caring for family members who are unwell. Most important, not having to collect water means girls can go
to school and get jobs. The need to fetch water for the family, or to take care of younger siblings while
their mother goes, usually prevents them ever having this experience.
D.
But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are overwhelming. Locating
water underground and then reaching it by means of deep wells requires geological expertise and
expensive, heavy machines. Abandoned wells and water projects litter the villages of Konso. In similar
villages around the developing world, the biggest problem with water schemes is that about half of them
break down soon after the groups that built them move on. Sometimes technology is used that can't be
repaired locally, or spare parts are available only in the capital.
E.
Today, a UK-based international non-profit organization called WaterAid is tackling the job of bringing
water to the most remote villages of Konso. Their approach combines technologies proven to last - such as
building a sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that would otherwise drain away. But the real
innovation is that WaterAid believes technology is only part of the solution. Just as important is involving
the local community in designing, building and maintaining new water projects. Before beginning any
project, WaterAid asks the community to create a WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) committee of seven
people. The committee works with WaterAid to plan projects and involve the village in construction. Then
it maintains and runs the project.
F.
The people of Konso, who grow their crops on terraces they have dug into the sides of mountains, are
famous for hard work. In the village of Orbesho, residents even constructed a road themselves so that
drilling machinery could come in. Last summer, their pump, installed by the river, was being motorised to
push its water to a newly built reservoir on top of a nearby mountain. From there, gravity will carry it
down in pipes to villages on the other side of the mountain. Residents of those villages have each given
some money to help fund the project. They have made concrete and collected stones for the structures.
Now they are digging trenches to lay pipes. If all goes well, Aylito Binayo will have a tap with safe water
just a three-minute walk from her front door.
The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from
the list of headings below. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

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 LIST OF HEADINGS
i Why some plans have failed
ii A rural and urban problem
iii A possible success
iv Explaining a new management style
v Some relevant statistics
vi A regular trip for some people
vii Treating people for disease
viii How water can change people’s lives
Your answers
41. Paragraph A ______ 42. Paragraph B ______ 43. Paragraph C ______
44. Paragraph D ______ 45. Paragraph E ______ 46. Paragraph F ______

Questions 47 - 50
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
47. The water levels in the Toiro River are falling because of ______.
48. Globally, the number of people who die each year as a result of using dirty water is ______.
49. When families have clean water, they can spend more time growing ______.
50. Specialist knowledge and equipment are needed to dig ______.
Your answers:
47. 48. 49. 50.

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. Use the word
given in capital letters and the word mustn’t be altered in any way.
1. He wishes he hadn’t spent all his money playing cards. REGRETS
He ____________________________ playing cards.
2.You didn’t call the vet immediately and that was wrong. SHOULD
You ____________________________ the vet immediately.
3. I didn’t realize what she would suffer in the first place. DID
Little ____________________________ would suffer in the first place.
4. I quite expected you to pass your exams with flying colors. SURPRISE
It ____________________________ that you passed your exams with flying colors.
5. Their marriage was under pressure because of their financial problems. STRAIN
Their financial problems _____________________marriage.

Part 2. The central region of Vietnam has suffered from torrential downpours that triggered severe
flooding. You plan to do charity to help the inhabitants there. Write a letter (80 - 100 words) to the local
authorities to ask them how to get to the area safely and what should be provided for the local people. Use
your name and address as Hoang Van Nam – 37 Nguyen Van Cu Street, Vinh City, Nghe An Province.
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Part 3. Write a short story (about 100-120 words) about your unforgettable excursion starting with
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My unforgettable excursion
The excursion I went on with my classmates last week was really special.
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