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TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC SƯ PHẠM TP.HCM ĐỀ THI CHỌN HSG – NĂM HỌC 2023 – 2024
TRƯỜNG TRUNG HỌC THỰC HÀNH Ngày thi: 02/01/2024
Môn: TIẾNG ANH 10
Thời gian: 120 phút
Mã đề: 101
Student’s name: __________________________________
Class: _______

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE: (70 points)

I. PHONOLOGY
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the other three.
1. A. centipede B. module C. adobe D. microbiome
2. A. bomblet B. coxcombry C. pebibyte D. dumbly
3. A. exorcize B. expedition C. expurgate D. exultation
4. A. abalone B. Chile C. mundane D. epitome
5. A. naked B. crooked C. stopped D. learned

Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three.
6. A. infiltrate B. inevitable C. delinquent D. defiant
7. A. coefficient B. manifesto C. divorcee D. subsidiary
8. A. mankind B. withal C. whether D. increase
9. A. malady B. decimal C. seminar D. nectarine
10. A. albeit B. alibi C. parachute D. arduous

II. VOCABULARY, PREPOSITIONS & STRUCTURES

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
11. Before you assign a task to someone, make sure that you ask the person if he or she can do the task.
A. attach B. approve C. appoint D. award
12. A benefactor sent a munificent gift for the orphanage this morning.
A. colossal B. generous C. mondo D. flamboyant
13. Mrs. Mahmood had organized the street party with her customary gung ho zeal.
A. bellicose B. aloof C. rabid D. exuberant
14. I know I’m 73 but I haven’t gone gaga yet! I can still make wise decisions.
A. senile B. vehement C. wacky D. naive
15. I decided, with considerable trepidation, to let him drive my car without me.
A. apprehension B. palpitation C. composure D. aplomb

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
16. It goes without saying that our business is out of the woods and we will be successful in the nearest future.
A. no longer having problems B. getting out of the frying pan into the fire
C. having more and more issues D. coming into light

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17. Stop dilating upon your boss and start working. We are lagging behind our work.
A. fleshing out B. biting back C. cueing on D. clamming up
18. From family-friendly yoga jaunts to restorative private getaways, there’s a travel excursion for any level.
A. sallow B. inevitable C. fickle D. pernicious
19. Andy was brought into the plot for his encyclopedic knowledge of the smuggling routes from Washington,
D.C., into the Deep South.
A. limited B. vast C. comprehensive D. meaningless
20. They toil in a city of haggard indifference and missed connections, where the simplest task can devolve into a
competitive sport.
A. laxity B. attraction C. compassion D. splendor

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for the question.
21. After his eyes were hurt, he suddenly realized that he ________ the computer screen for 8 hours.
A. would glue to B. is gluing to C. had been gluing to D. has been gluing to
22. He got very lonesome and ________ when I told him about my hometown.
A. homeless B. homesick C. homely D. homegrown
23. We squandered a huge amount of money on stationery, books and ________.
A. same as B. such like C. as it D. the such
24. ________, he will still go fishing today.
A. As though it be rainy or snowy B. It would be rainy and snowy
C. Whether it is rainy or snowy D. Be it rainy or snowy
25. Police are allowed to use guns as a last ________.
A. refuge B. resort C. respite D. reprieve
26. The two groups were ________ into signing the agreement, despite their objections.
A. beijinged B. shanghaied C. taiwaned D. hongkonged
27. It’s reckoned that someone in the government was ________ the assassin. They could have worked with each
other for a really long time.
A. under the thumb of B. on the uppers by C. in cahoots with D. at odds over
28. As the pollution rate is at an alarming rate, we are issuing a(n) ________ call for awareness of each individual
about protecting the environment.
A. clarion B. parched C. arcane D. sharp
29. Under her ________, we learned which lotions to start off with, and what worked best for various weather
conditions and times of day.
A. aid B. help C. assistance D. guidance
30. I was just kind to her ________ she would decide to leave me.
A. in case B. so that C. for fear that D. lest
31. It turned out that we ________ rushed to the airport as the plane was delayed for several hours.
A. hadn’t B. shouldn’t have C. mustn’t have D. needn’t have
32. Despite their normal cylindrical form, some of the documents ________ on silk that were found at Mawangdui,
an archaeological site in southeastern China, were folded into rectangles.
A. hadn’t B. shouldn’t have C. mustn’t have D. needn’t have
33. I know you find the course boring, Pauline, but since you started it, you might as well ________ it.
A. go with B. go through with C. go ahead D. go on
34. The robbers packed diamonds into a suitcase and ________ in a van waiting for them in the street.

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A. put through B. rolled over C. carried away D. made off

35. People with chronic diseases may choose ________ care.
A. palliative B. demulcent C. antidotal D. consolatory
36. It is strongly recommended that the machines ________ every year.
A. will be checked B. to be checked C. are checked D. be checked
37. The film is ________ based on a true story, but most of it is fiction.
A. casually B. faintly C. loosely D. lightly
38. I missed the plane back home. I was left ________ in Johannesburg without a penny to my name.
A. high and dry B. high and light C. long and hard D. safe and sound
39. Henry: “You said that in the countryside the security is not as good as that in the city. But you had better know
that the countryside is more likely to be isolated. Thus, it is more secure.”
David: “________.”
A. Ditto B. Amen C. Touché D. Hooray
40. Alisha: “It was so stupid of me to go on a date with Jack.”
Jason: “________!”
A. Same here B. You said it C. That’s it D. You bet

III. ERROR IDENTIFICATION

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each
of the following questions.
41. Living in New York, apartments cost more to rent than they do in other smaller cities.
A. Living B. more C. than D. smaller
42. What we know about certain diseases are still not sufficient to prevent them from spreading easily among
the population.
A. What we know about B. are C. from spreading D. among
43. “Hollywood’s Eve” fills in many of the gaps in our knowledges of Babitz’s life and work.
A. fills in B. the gaps C. knowledges of D. life and work
44. Though artist Tatun was totally blind in one eye and had only slight vision in another, he became an
internationally renowned jazz musician.
A. Though B. only slight C. another D. internationally
45. Instead, she said, “Will you be alright? We don’t get back till late tomorrow.”
A. Instead B. said C. be D. don’t
46. Since whose establishment two years ago, the advice center has seen over 500 people a week.
A. whose B. establishment C. has D. over
47. James ingeniously hid the transcribed version of the manuscript inside the binding of a number of notebooks
he used for his studies.
A. ingeniously B. version C. a number of D. for
48. A smile can be observed, described, and reliably identify; it can also be elicited and manipulated under
experimental conditions.
A. A smile B. identify C. can also D. experimental
49. Jimmy had occasionally dallied up with the idea of starting his own business, but he had never actually done
anything about it.
A. dallied up with B. starting C. had D. anything

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50. Excavations in some villages on the east bank of the Euphrates River have revealed an ancient community
that had been laying under later reconstructions of the city of Babylon.
A. on the east bank B. revealed C. had been laying D. later

IV. READING COMPREHENSION

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer for each of the following questions.
We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. In his book Counting Sheep, Paul Martin – a behavioral
biologist – describes a society which is just too busy to sleep, and which does not give sleeping the importance it
deserves.
Modern society has invented reasons not to sleep. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and services must be
available all hours. We spend longer hours at work than we do, and more time getting to work. Mobile phones and
email allow us to stay in touch round the clock and late-night TV and the Internet tempt us away from our beds.
When we need more time for work or pleasure, the easy solution is to sleep less. The average adult sleeps only 6.2
hours a night during the week, whereas research shows that most people need eight or even eight and a half hours’
sleep to feel at their best. Nowadays, many people have got used to sleeping less than they need and they live in an
almost permanent state of ‘sleep debt’.
Until the invention of the electric light in 1879 our daily cycle of sleep used to depend on the hours of daylight.
People would get up with the sun and go to bed at nightfall. But nowadays our hours of sleep are mainly
determined by our working hours (or our social life) and most people are woken up artificially by an alarm clock.
During the day caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, helps to keep us awake. 75% of the world’s population
habitually consume caffeine, which up to a point masks the symptoms of sleep deprivation.
What does a chronic lack of sleep do to us? As well as making us irritable and unhappy as humans, it also
reduces our motivation and ability to work. This has serious implications for society in general. Doctors, for
example, are often chronically sleep deprived, especially when they are on ‘night call’, and may get less than three
hours’ sleep. Lack of sleep can seriously impair their mood, judgment, and ability to make decisions. Tired
engineers, in the early hours of the morning, made a series of mistakes with catastrophic results. On our roads and
motorways lack of sleep kills thousands of people every year. Tests show that a tired driver can be just as dangerous
as a drunken driver. However, driving when drunk is against the law but driving when exhausted isn’t. As Paul
Martin says, it is very ironic that we admire people who function on very little sleep instead of criticizing them for
being irresponsible. Our world would be a much safer, happier place if everyone, whatever their job, slept eight
hours a night.

51. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE about Paul Martin?
A. He shows his concern for sleep deprivation in modern society.
B. He gives an interesting account of a sleepless society.
C. He is a scientist who is chronically deprived of sleep.
D. He describes the modern world as a place without insomnia.

52. The phrase “round the clock” in the second paragraph is similar in meaning to ________
A. all day and night B. surrounded with clocks
C. during the daytime D. being punctual

53. The writer mentions the Internet in the passage as ________

A. a temptation that prevents us from sleeping

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B. an easy solution to sleep deprivation

C. an ineffective means of communication
D. a factor that is not related to sleep deprivation

54. According to the third paragraph, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
A. Our social life has no influence on our hours of sleep.
B. The sun obviously determined our daily routines.
C. The electric light was invented in the 19th century.
D. The electric light has changed our daily cycle of sleep.

55. The word “which” in the third paragraph refers to ________

A. reaching a point B. masking the symptom
C. the world’s population D. caffeine consumption

56. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the last paragraph?
A. Doctors ‘on night call’ do not need more than three hours of sleep a day.
B. Our motivation decreases with the bigger number of hours we sleep.
C. Sleep deprivation has negative effects on both individuals and society.
D. Thousands of people are killed every day by drunken drivers.

57. The word “catastrophic” in the last paragraph probably means ________
A. bound to bring satisfaction B. becoming more noticeable
C. causing serious damage or loss D. likely to become worthless

58. Which of the following statements would the writer of the passage approve of?
A. Our world would be a much safer place without drinkers.
B. Both drunken drivers and sleep-deprived people should be criticized.
C. There is no point in criticizing irresponsible people in our society.
D. We certainly can function well even when we hardly sleep.

59. All of the following are mentioned as those whose performance is affected by ‘sleep debt’ EXCEPT ________
A. doctors B. drivers C. biologists D. engineers

60. Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Accident Prevention: Urgent! B. Sleep Deprivation: Causes and Effects
C. A Society of Sleepless People D. A Well-known Biologist

V. GUIDED CLOZE TEST

Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
LOCKDOWN LIFE
We’re now in month two of the Great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020. Of my friends without children, one half
have become ninja masters of the sourdough arts, and the other half are practising mindfulness during their
enforced solitude, as they (61) _______ quietly at home.

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My family is doing the precise opposite. The TV goes on at the beginning of the day. Laptops are set up in the
dining room. Tablets and games (62) _______ are whipped out at will, and the house is alive with the sound of
typing and (63) _______ voices on video-conferencing software and Sonic the Hedgehog game walkthroughs.
It’s a functioning, necessary chaos. I am in lockdown with my family – two full-time working adults, my
husband and me, and our two small sons. (64) ______ the sourdough and (65) ______ people, lockdown has given
(66) _______ parents less time in the day, not more. We’re having to work full-time, (67) _______ our kids were in
school or childcare; parent full-time, or it were a weekend and work was the furthest thing from our minds; and
we’re also home-schooling our kids, so their brains and social skills don’t (68) _______ before term-time comes
back around.
Plus, we’re having to do all of this (69) _______. Our older son, at just five years old, is too illiterate to curl up
with a book while we work. And his younger brother is only two, so he doesn’t quite understand that he can’t
clamber all over me while I’m in a (70) _______ team meeting, “play piano” on my laptop keyboard, or ask who
“that ugly angry man” is. […]

61. A. hunker down B. sit out C. astride on D. mount up

62. A. tenkeys B. cradles C. consoles D. bubblejets
63. A. flatlining B. overlapping C. homologous D. equalizing
64. A. Similar to B. As C. Albeit D. Unlike
65. A. truthful B. mindful C. unconscious D. manipulative
66. A. learning B. working C. adapting D. impressing
67. A. such as B. likewise C. as though D. in spite
68. A. cramp B. circumscribe C. infringe D. atrophy
69. A. instantaneously B. simultaneously C. contemporaneously D. retroactively
70. A. online B. three-dimensional C. far-distance D. virtual

B. WRITTEN TEST: (70 points)

I. WORD FORMS (20 points)
Use the correct forms / tenses of the given words.
1. The result of the medical tests showed that the patient had several _______ of the brain that required urgent
treatment. (NORMAL)
2. I fault the university for many things, but all are _______ by its unparalleled resources. (BALANCE)
3. Cancer is perceived as a heterogeneous group of diseases that is characterized by _______ patterns of gene
expression. (ERR)
4. In 2023, _______ revolutionized the logistics industry by streamlining the transport of goods and improving
efficiency. (CONTAIN)
5. The government has come up with a(n) _______ scheme for training teachers on the job. (BAKE)
6. There seems to be a(n) _______ among some people that success and happiness are synonymous.
(APPREHENSIVE)
7. The motives behind her actions remained _______ mysterious, which left everyone perplexed. (SCRUTINY)
8. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to complete a solo _______ of the globe in 1937. (NAVIGATE)
9. The renowned art critic was _______ by the artist’s innovative use of color and texture and praised the work as a
transcendent masterpiece that pushed the boundaries of contemporary art. (AMOUR)
10. The study revealed a clear _______ in the distribution of wealth among the population and concluded that
income inequality was increasingly heightened. (PROPORTION)

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II. OPEN CLOZE TEST (30 points)

Read the following passage and use ONE word to fill in each gap.
THE BLOOD MOON
A lunar eclipse occurs (1) _______ the Earth’s shadow falls directly onto the moon. (2) _______ happens, as a
result, is that the moon stops being a silvery white colour and turns coppery red instead; the sort of colour usually
only seen in the sky at dawn or sunset. An astronaut on the moon, looking towards Earth (3) _______ a lunar
eclipse, would see a black disc, surrounded (4) _______ a bright red ring. It’s the light from this red ring which is
reflected back to the dark Earth from the moon’s surface. In ancient times, long (5) _______ any of this was
understood, the lunar eclipse was known (6) _______ a blood moon and was thought to be an omen of disaster.
Total eclipses can only occur when there is a full moon, and then only if it is lined up with the Earth in a
particular way. (7) _______ easily obscured by cloud cover, blood moons are fairly common, and it is relatively
easy to calculate where and when you might be (8) _______ to see one.
For example, in 1504 Christopher Columbus was stranded in Jamaica and in dire need of provisions, but the
local inhabitants were reluctant to help. However, Columbus knew that a lunar eclipse would occur on 29 February.
Therefore, the day before, he warned local leaders that the moon would disappear (9) _______ they helped him.
They remained skeptical. But when the moon slowly started to change colour, they became (10) _______
frightened that they started to bring food.

III. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (30 points)

Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the original one. You
must not change the word given.
1. When I was running down the street, I saw John fashionably dressed. (NINES)
→ Upon __________________________________________________
2. It was wildly exciting at the stadium. (REACHED)
→ The excitement ______________________________________________________ pitch.
3. Jane often makes heavy weather of the assignments.
→ Jane often makes a ___________________________________________________.
4. The street was packed with people, so we had difficulty in getting the ticket. (TIME)
→ In _________________________________________________________________.
5. It cost me a hundred dollars for a pair of socks, which was way too much.
→ A hundred dollars ____________________________________________________ robbery.
6. If you don’t do your assignments, she will be very mad. (BEAR)
→ She will ____________________________________________________________ done.
7. We should exclude Max’s house because his house is too small. (SWING)
→ We should count ______________________________________________________ cat.
8. Although Mary was exhausted, she agreed to take part in the activity.
→ Exhausted ___________________________________________________________.
9. We missed the boat for our second opportunity. (FINGERS)
→ A second ____________________________________________________________.
10. My brother works better when he is under time pressure.
→ The less _____________________________________________________________.

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SUGGESTED ANSWER KEY

A. 23. B 48. B
24. D 49. A
I. 25. B 50. A
1. C 26. B
2. C 27. C IV.
3. D 28. A 51. A
4. C 29. D 52. A
5. C 30. C 53. A
6. A 31. D 54. A
7. D 32. B 55. D
8. C 33. B 56. C
9. D 34. D 57. C
10. A 35. A 58. B
36. D 59. C
II. 37. C 60. B
11. C 38. A
12. B 39. C V.
13. D 40. B 61. A
14. A 62. C
15. A III. 63. B
16. B 41. A 64. D
17. D 42. B 65. B
18. D 43. C 66. B
19. A 44. C 67. C
20. C 45. D 68. B
21. C 46. A 69. B
22. B 47. C 70. D

B.
I. II.
1. abnormalities 1. when
2. overbalanced 2. What
3. aberrant 3. during
4. containerization 4. by
5. half-baked 5. before
6. misapprehension 6. as
7. inscrutably 7. Though
8. circumnavigation 8. able
9. enamo(u)red 9. unless
10. disproportionality 10. so

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III.
1. Upon running down the street, I saw John dressed (up) to the nines.
2. The excitement at the stadium reached fever pitch.
3. Jane often makes a production out of the assignments.
4. In (the) light of the packed streets, we had a rare old time getting the ticket.
5. A hundred dollars for a pair of socks was daylight robbery.
6. She will be like a bear with a sore head / a (real) bear if you don’t get / have your assignments done.
7. We should count Max’s house out because there isn’t enough room to swing a cat.
8. Exhausted as Mary was, she agreed to take part in the activity.
9. A second bite at the cherry slipped through our fingers.
10. The less time my brother has, the better he works.