SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI OLYMPIC 27 THÁNG 4 LỚP 11

TỈNH BÀ RỊA – VŨNG TÀU

NĂM HỌC: 2023 - 2024
ĐỀ MINH HỌA MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 11
(Gồm 07 trang) Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút

I/ LISTENING (0.25 x 12 = 3.0 pts)

Part 1. You will hear an interview with a woman called Olivia Hadfield who has been researching how
colours can be used to communicate different messages. For questions 1-6, CIRCLE the answer (A, B,
C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1. Olivia says that she first got involved with researching colour ______ .
A. because she hoped to further her career in marketing
B. because she desired a change of lifestyle
C. to oppose something she thought was unfair
D. because she felt that businesses underrated the influence of colour
2. What point does Olivia make about colours and brands?
A. Many people form a subconscious connection between them.
B. Not all products can be successfully branded by a single colour.
C. Some nationalities are more susceptible to colour branding than others.
D. Corporations are happy to market many brands with the same colour.
3. What does Olivia say about our associations with certain colours?
A. Red has the widest range of associations. B. People have neutral associations with black.
C. Our associations with blue are most rational. D. White has the most positive associations.
4. Olivia thinks that the link between colour and taste is ________.
A. very well understood B. difficult to explain
C. stronger for foods than drinks D. largely based on instinct
5. When Olivia talks about house colours in her city she is ________.
A. surprised by changing trends B. worried about visual pollution
C. cautious about being unconventional D. disappointed by the lack of variety
6. What aspect of colour would Olivia like to study in future?
A. how climate affects the colours we see B. how human sight has evolved over time
C. how colour is partly a cultural construct D. how non-human and human sight differs

Part 2: You will hear an introductory geography lecture. Complete the note below. Use one word only
for each answer.
GEOGRAPHY
Studying geography helps us to understand:
- the effects of different processes on the (1) _____________ of the Earth
- the dynamic between environment and population
Two main branches of studies:
- physical features
- human lifestyle and (2) _____________
Specific study areas: biophysical, topographic, political, social, economic, historical and (3)
_______________ geography, and also cartography.
Key point: geography helps us to understand our surroundings and the associated problems.
What do geographers do?
- find data – e.g. conduct censuses, collect information in the form of (4) ____________ using computer and
satellite technology.
- analyze data – identify (5) ______________, e.g. cause and effect.
- publish findings in form of:
a/ maps
- easy to carry
- can show physical features of large and small areas
- but a two-dimensional map will always have some (6) ______________
b/ aerial photos
- can show vegetation problems, traffic density, ocean floor etc.
c/ landsat pictures sent to receiving stations
- used for monitoring weather conditions etc.
1. surface 2. Impact(s)/ effect(s) 3. Urban 4. images 5. Patterns 6. Distortion(s)

II. READING
PART 1: Read an article about the actress Harriet Walter. For questions 1-8, CIRCLE the letter A, B, C or
D which you think fits best according to the text. (6 x 0.25 = 1.5 pts)
The Barnley Village Committee is opposed to plans to build a 6,890 panel solar farm on a 15-acre site adjacent
to the village recreation ground, currently used for agriculture. Under the proposed scheme, the area will be
surrounded by an 8ft-high fence. The panels themselves will be about 7 feet high. The committee has already
lodged an appeal to the local authority against construction of the solar farm. The councillors are due to meet
on 13th March to vote whether or not plans will go ahead. Local residents are invited to attend. Our objections
will be presented before the board, and a representative from the solar firm SunGen will put forward the case
for the development. Residents are encouraged to voice their objections to the development. These must
address the aspects of the scheme that violate the current planning policy. However, you are welcome to make
your objections personal, by stating how the plans will affect you as a user of the recreation ground. Some of
the most common objections are listed below:
1. The extensive views from the village and recreation ground across the open country will be blocked by the
panels and high fencing. Furthermore, once the site has been built upon, it may be considered brownfield, thus
an acceptable site for housing or industrial development. It does not, therefore, comply with the local policy
which states that developments must not adversely effect on the appearance or character of the landscape.
2. The recreation ground has recently undergone major improvements including a perimeter running track, new
playground equipment and seating. It is heavily used by families, sports teams and dog walkers, and is regularly
used for village events. Cricket and football teams regularly use the recreation ground and it is not uncommon
for balls to enter the field. Cricketers are worried that they may become liable for damage to solar panels. If
teams are forced to relocate, this would adversely affect the character of the village, and may jeopardise
participation in the children’s teams. This goes against the National Planning Policy Framework which requires
developments to promote high quality public space and encourage the active and continual use of public areas.
3. There has been no assessment of the extent to which noise from inverters and cooling fans will affect local
residents.
4. As the ground beneath the solar panels will be surfaced, there will be more additional run-off of rainwater.
The recreation ground already has problems with drainage, and these may be exacerbated by this development.
A formal flood risk assessment must be submitted.
5. The lighting and security systems have not been outlined, it is not clear how the area will be made safe for
children
Email your objections to planning@barnelycouncil.gov.uk, and quote the reference BLY7458/00578 in the
subject line.
 ( Source:www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_reading_environment.htm)
1. What is the committee’s opinion of the development?
A. It is opposed to the development.
B. It supports the development.
C. It is waiting for comments from residents before taking a viewpoint.
D. It considers the development an appealing plan.
2. The solar farm should be built______ .
A. on the recreation ground B. in an agricultural field
C. on a brownfield site D. in a field without a fence
3. Which of the following is NOT true of the proposed solar farm?
A. It will be surrounded by a high fence
B. It will comprise of 6,890 7-foot high panels.
C. The solar panels will be placed directly on the grass.
D. It is near the village recreation ground.
4. What is inferred about brownfield sites?
A. It is easier to get permission to develop brownfield sites.
B. There are already too many brownfield sites in the village.
C. A brownfield site is not a suitable location for a solar farm.
D. They will effect the views from the village and recreation ground across the open country.
5. Teams may no longer play on the recreation ground because_______ .
A. parents will be worried about their children’s safety
B. spectators won’t want to watch matches at the recreation ground
C. players will be worried about damaging the panels
D. they are not encouraged to use public area
6. The word “jeopardise” would be best replaced by______ .
A. encourage B. peril C. support D. decompose
Part II. You are going to read a review of an art exhibition. Six paragraphs have been removed from the
article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap. There is one extra paragraph
which you do not need to use. (0.25 x 6 = 1.5 pts)
AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY THE ARTIST JOHN CRAXTON
‘A World of private Mystery: John Craxton RA’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum is a small show, but it does full
justice to an artist whose career divides into two parts: the years before and during the Second World War, and
the work he did afterwards, when for long periods he lived outside England.
It begins with his small-scale landscapes in pen and ink, pastel, gouache and watercolour. His subject is arcadia,
but a distinctly English one in which poets and shepherds sleep and dream amid blasted landscapes under
darkening skies. Suffused with longing and foreboding, these works reflect the reality of living in a rain-sodden
country under constant threat of foreign invasion.
1…………………...
Most of the early work is monochrome. In many landscapes, writhing branches and gnarled tree trunks fill our
field of vision. Beneath the surface of the self-consciously ‘poetic’ motifs, the country he shows in these
pictures feels claustrophobic and joyless.
2. …………………...
As this exhibition makes clear, by the age of 25 Craxton's artistic identity had matured. With his style, subject
matter and working method all fully formed, it is hard to imagine how he would have developed had the remain
in England after the war.
3. …………………...
On his first visit to Greece in 1946, Craxton was swept away by the light, colour, landscape, food and people.
The dark cloud that hung over the work he did in England lifts and overnight his palette changes to clear blue,
green and white.
4. …………………...
Goats, fish, cats or frieze of sailors dancing on the edge of the sea: in the Greek paintings beautiful creatures
move naturally across bare rocks and blue waters. The compressed joy you find in these pictures doesn’t exist
elsewhere in British post-war art. With a few interruptions Craxton would spend the rest of his life in Crete.
5. …………………...
But if there is little exploration or discovery in Craxton's later work, you find instead a sense of fullness and
completion, a feeling that in accepting his limitations, he remained true to himself. As he once said, ‘I can
work best in an atmosphere where life is considered more important than art; then I find it's possible to feel a
real person - real people, real elements, real windows – real sun above all. In a life of reality, my imagination
really works. I feel like an émigré in London and squashed flat’
6. …………………...
It's most noticeable in the works on canvas, especially in formal portraits like his 1946 ‘Girl with a Cock’ and
it's there too in the faceted geometric planes of Greek landscapes like his panoramic view of Hydra of 1960 -
61.
Craxton wasn't an artist of the first rank but he was inimitable. This show is just the right scale and it comes
with a beautifully illustrated book about his life and work.

A. It comes across this way even when he uses strong colour, as in one sunlit landscape in particular, where
the yellow is harsh and the red murky. It's as though he's painting something he'd heard about but never actually
seen: sunlight.
B. It was not only London that oppressed his spirit, I think, but the overwhelming power of the new art being
made in Paris by Picasso, Miró and Léger. In assessing Craxton's work, you have to accept his debt to these
artists, and particularly Picasso.
C. And though he would paint large-scale murals and design stage sets and tapestries, neither his subject matter
nor his style changed in any fundamental way during that period. It may sound harsh, but when he decided to
live there permanently, he elected to write himself out of the history of art.
D. Indeed, I well remember how I'd step into a large gallery, hung floor to ceiling with paintings, and out of
the visual cacophony a single picture would leap off the wall. It was always by John Craxton.
E. My guess is he'd have responded badly to market forces and critical pressure to do new things. What he
needed was to develop at his own pace - even if at times that meant standing still. But to do that he had to leave
the country.
F. They do so through tightly hatched lines and expressive distortion which ratchet up the emotional intensity,
as in his illustrations for an anthology of poetry. In these, a single male figure waits and watches in a dark
wood by moonlight.
G. Gone are his melancholy self-portraits in the guise of a shepherd or poet - and in their place we find real
shepherds (or rather goatherds) tending living animals. Now Craxton is painting a world outside himself, not
one that existed largely in his imagination.

PART III. Read the passage, and CIRCLE the correct answers (A, B, C or D) to the blanks. (0.25
x 6 = 1.5 pts)
ICONIC SYMBOL LOST TO GALAPAGOS FOREVER
The news of the demise of Lonesome George, thought to be the last-surviving member of his species,
Geochelone abingdoni, is unlikely as a shock to those who (1) ______ the fortunes of Galapagos, the habitat
that inspired the Darwinian theory of evolution, and one that is now genuinely under real threat and in danger
of being (2) ______ harmed by human activity, with the main source of damage being tourism.
Early visitors to the archipelago were what could be termed true nature-loving tourists, a group which
did little collective or individual harm to the islands and did not interfere with the fragile balance of the
ecosystem. However, in more recent time, eco-tourism has grown to enjoy almost cult-like popularity. Eco-
tourists are a very different beast though and are rather more (3) ______ in their tastes. Therefore, while, on
the face of it, they come to marvel at the natural spendours the archipelago (4) ______, they do so only on the
understanding that their comfort will not be scarified, requiring tour providers to take special measures to
accommodate their more tastes.
Large companies are best positioned to offer these eco-tourists the luxuries they have come to expect,
but their popularity with visitors is sidelining local operators, a proportion of whose revenue goes towards the
upkeep and conservation of the precious ecosystem. Sadly, the large international tour companies are far less
benevolent with the (5) ______ of their activities, which results in a double-edged sword situation whereby,
due to large numbers of tourists, more and more of the islands’ habitat is being disturbed while, at the same
time, less funding is being made available to conserve the ecosystem.
If the situation continues to (6) ______, Lonesome George may be but the first of many rare and
endangered creatures to disappear.
(Source: CPE)
1. A. track B. purse C. observe D. grasp
2. A. irrespectively B. irreversibly C. irrelevantly D. irreverently
3. A. delineating B. deliberating C. discriminating D. debilitating
4. A. hosts B. lends C. boasts D. homes
5. A. results B. proceeds C. finances D. costs
6. A. deteriorate B. disrepair C. decompose D. distress

III. USE OF ENGLISH:

PART 1: Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to complete the passage. (6 x 0.25 = 1.5 pts)
The Internet of Things (IoT)
It is nowadays said, “The internet, it’s a big deal”. Social media posts and Amazon orders are a big deal
and have played a considerable part in the advancing of our society, but the Internet of Things is (1)
__________ far more; the Internet of Things goes far beyond simple web surfing and Facebook postings.
So, what is the Internet of Things and (2) __________ is it going to change the future? In simple terms,
the Internet of Things, or IoT, is a series of devices connected by the internet that use installed sensors and
processors to communicate with either each other or us. They collect and share data and information. Those
devices then use that info to complete tasks, analyze figures, create efficiencies, or report on any other number
of data points.
Honestly, there is no (3) __________ to what items can be made to be part of the IoT. Examples most
commonly associated with this connected family of stuff include light bulbs, plugs, security systems, or
thermostats. In other words, things that typically wouldn’t connect (4) __________, but can be made to do so
via the sensors mentioned above.
It does not stop there (5) __________. Smart appliances and other household tech are making their way
to the market. Coffee makers, televisions, vacuum cleaners, and alarm clocks to name a few. Chances are
reasonably high (6) __________ you or someone you know may already possess one or two of these items in
your home. However, the applications move far beyond simple household items…..
(Adapted from https://www.iqsdirectory.com/resources)
PART 2: MULTIPLE CHOICE (12 x 0.25 = 3 pts)
CIRCLE the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
1. Due to poisonous chemicals, the Baltic Sea will be exposed _______a major threat to humans and wildlife
______the years to come.
A. as/ to B. with/ by C. to/ in D. at/ over
2. I’ll give you permission to go out tonight if you finish your homework. You’d better get ____!
A. crack B. to crack C. cracked D. cracking
3. ______ transportation vessels like airplanes or mass transit trains, connected _____ street lights or bridges
and roadways, and sensors spread throughout ______ buildings both short and tall will join ______ city
together.
A. The/ the/the/ the B. The/ x/ x/ the C/ X/ x/ x/ a D. X/ the/ the/ a
4. A challenging new area in inorganic chemistry is ______ the role of transition metals in the biochemical
catalysts called enzymes.
A. that of understanding B. the understanding
C. to have understanding D. understanding that
5. ______ to be an announcement about the proposed building next month.
A. There is expected B. The expectation C. People expect D. It is expected
6. We ______ you the money you needed but you didn’t tell us.
A. could have lent B. should have lent C. could lend D. were able to
7. He was presented with a gold watch in ______ of his years as club secretary.
A. light B. recognition C. regard D. view
8. She has to go on a ______ course in cooking because next month she’s getting married.
A. crash B. speedy C. quick D. fast
9. He was terribly nervous, and as restless as a _________ on hot bricks.
A. cat B. dog C. mouse D. donkey
10. Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in the following
question:
Once considered meaningless and rather distracting, gesticulation is now beingtaken more seriously as a
mean of communion, and has been the subject of agreat deal of research in recent years.
A. considered B. rather C. seriously D. mean
11. Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in the following
question:
Unlike him, I did not major in contracted farming at university, which partly accounts for my lack of knowledge
about this subject.
A. Unlike B. in C. contracted farming D. which
12. Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in the following
question:
The most frequently sung song in the world, ‘ Happy birthday to you’, was actually written with other set of
words by the Hill sisters in 1893.
A. sung song B. written C. other D. sisters
PART 3: Supply the proper forms of the words in brackets. (0.25 x 4 = 1 pt)
In the popular imagination, lions hunting for food present a marvel of group choreography: in the
dying light of sunset, a band of stealthy cats springs forth from the shadows like trained assassins and
surrounds its (1. suspect) ______________ prey. The lions seem to be archetypal social animals, rising
above petty dissension to work together towards a common goal - in this case, their next meal. But after
spending many years observing these creatures in the wild, we have (2. acquisition) ______________ a
less exalted view.
When we started our research in 1978, we hoped to discover why lions teamed up to hunt, rear cubs
and among other things, scare off rivals with chorused roars. If the ultimate success of an animal’s behavior
is measured by its lifetime production of surviving offspring, then cooperation does not necessarily pay: if an
animal is too generous, its companions benefit at its expense. Why, then, did not the (3. evolve)
___________________ rules of genetic self-interest seem to apply to lions?
We confidently assumed that we would be able to resolve that issue in two to three years. But lions
are supremely adept at doing nothing. To the list of inert noble gases, including krypton, argon and neon, we
would add lion. Thus it has taken a variety of research measures to (4. cover) ___________________ clues
about the cats’ behavior. Because wild lions can live up to 18 years, the answers to our questions are only
now becoming clear.

IV. WRITING:
PART 1: Complete the sentences without changing the meaning, using the words in brackets.
Do not change the word given. (4 x 0.25 = 2 pts)
1. My impression of him was that he was a very capable person. (STRUCK)
He _______________________________________________-.
2. My salary is half what I would be in the job I was offered in January. (TWICE)
If ________________________________________________________________.
3. The fighting finally caused the talks to grind to a halt. (down)
=> The talks_____________________________________________the fighting.
4. This may sound silly, but I cannot remember her name.(escapes)
=> Silly ________________________________________________me.
PART 2: Essay writing (3 pts)
It is widely agreed that social media has really changed the way we communicate with each other.
Some people like it, others are against it.
Write an essay (about 250-300 words) giving your own opinion on the issue.