SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO HÀ NỘI KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CỤM LỚP 11

CỤM TRƯỜNG THPT HK - HBT NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút
(Đề thi gồm 8 trang)

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I. PHONETICS
Part 1: Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others.
1. A. congenial B. recipient C. appreciation D. refund
2. A. condemnation B. continuity C. contingency D. contact
3. A. bobtail B. climber C. combing D. debtor
Part 2: Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others.
4. A. architecture B. literature C. agriculture D. manufacture
5. A. controversially B. respiratory C. agribusiness D. telebanking

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR

Part 1: Choose the best answer from the four options (A, B, C, or D) to complete each sentence below.
1. When my dad started his own business he had to ______ a lot of setbacks.
A. overdo B. overlook C. overcome D. overview
2. Driving on roads after snow and a cold night is ______ dangerous because of black ice.
A. potentially B. remotely C. negatively D. closely
3. The feeling you get when you ______ your goals is very rewarding.
A. finish B. gain C. accomplish D. fulfil
4. My brother told me he could do better than me, but I know he was just ______ me up.
A. jumping B. hanging C. standing D. winding
5. It’s necessary that every student of our class ______ hard.
A. study B. studying C. to study D. studies
6. Being alone in the house all day looking after three young children is enough to make anyone's patience wear ______.
A. down B. out C. thin D. slim
7. That was a ______ ceremony.
A. prepared-well B. well-prepared C. prepare-well D. well-prepare
8. The traffic is always quieter in ______ areas because there are no trucks or lorries.
A. communal B. residential C. industrial D. civic
9. I’m appalled ______ the number of mistakes I made in the essay! I must check more carefully.
A. at B. with C. from D. on
10. My friend was an important public ______, so he would do everything he could to save his face.
A. shape B. figure C. influence D. image
11. The advertisement was ______ in that it suggested a higher salary than was really the case.
A. impressive B. deceptive C. contrary D. sensation
12. The amount of plastic in the oceans ______ a threat to humans as well as marine life.
A. conveys B. questions C. settles D. poses
13. I’m not accustomed ______ up so early.
A. to getting B. to get C. by getting D. get
14. I wish I ______ work tomorrow.
A. won’t have to B. don’t have to C. didn’t have to D. needn’t
15. My teacher arrived after I ______ for her ten minutes.
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 A. waiting B. was waiting C. have waited D. had waited

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 2: There are FIVE mistakes in the following paragraph. Underline the mistakes and write the
corrections in the given space.
Your big exams are just around the crossroad and you have only two or three days left to ……….………..
do some serious revision. You have to commit to memory the history of the Industrial ……….………..
Revolution - so why are you organising the kitchen cupboards? Ordinarily, it is not a task ……….………..
that you would choose to do unless you really had to, but suddenly you feel the time is ……….………..
right to take particular attention to this area of the house and make it look spotless. The ……….………..
books upstairs can wait. Such behaviour is known as procrastination - a deliberate attempt ……….………..
to avoid something which really needs to do, but which you can't be bothered to do. Other ……….………..
examples of this sort of behaviour include browsing the Internet or watch television when ……….………..
the kitchen sink is full of dirty dishes, or going off to get tea and coffee at the office ……….………..
instead of finishing the work you've been given. In short, procrastination is the art of ……….………..
calling off until tomorrow what should be done today. More often than not, the real reason ……….………..
why a procrastinator delays a job is that they have a vague hope that someone else might ……….………..
just do it for them. ……….………..

Part 3: Use the correct form of the given words to complete each of the following sentences.
Is there anything more (1) ______ than the sound of rain lashing against the 1. REASSURE
windows? Or more (2) ______ than a baby's laugh? According to some new research, 2. RESIST
these are some of our favourite sounds. But as you may have guessed, (3) ______, 3. SURPRISE
there is nothing we love more than the (4) ______ sound of waves crashing against 4. SOOTHE
rocks. Fireworks, walking on snow and cheerful screams from people on a
rollercoaster were also high in the (5) ______. The reason for the popularity of many 5. RANK
of these sounds is that they are associated with happy memories or the (6) ______ of
something good to come. The sounds around us create atmosphere and emotion as 6. ANTICIPATE
powerful as any other sense and that shared sense of exhilaration that comes from
going to a football match or theme park can be (7) ______ to any memorable 7. CENTRE
experience. The survey also revealed the sounds that we loathe. (8) ______, the noise 8. PREDICT
that makes us shudder the most is the sound of nails being scraped down a
chalkboard.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.

Part 4: Find ONE word which can be used to fill in all the blanks in each set of sentences.
1. _______
o She felt a sharp pain _______down her left arm as she got out of bed.
o I’ve put some tissues in your schoolbag in case your nose starts to _______again.
o You’ll need more memory on your computer if you want to _______that program.

2. _______
o When a job opening in Hong Kong came up, Ben _______at the chance of it.
o Being the jealous type, Steve immediately _______to the wrong conclusion when he saw his girlfriend
in a cafe with another man.
o The child _______with joy when he heard he was going to visit the zoo.

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3. _______
o Her spirits _______as the weeks went by and her brother still failed to return home.
o The ship _______without trace soon after entering the area known as Bermuda Triangle.
o As soon as she got home, Martha _______into her favourite armchair with a sigh of relief.

4. _______
o It isn’t Anna’s _______to speak to strangers on trains.
o When that night-club refused me entrance because I wasn’t wearing a tie, I decided to take my
_______elsewhere.
o In larger cities, the old French _______of going home from work for lunch is dying out.

Part 5: Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. Write your
answer in the space provided.
1. Suddenly a cheer went _______as the President appeared on the balcony. ……….………..
2. Jean was so angry that she banged the phone _______. ……….………..
3. These ear defenders shut 90% _______of external noise. ……….………..
4. "I will check _______you tomorrow morning to see if you are ready to be discharged," ……….………..
said the friendly doctor to Cyndia.
5. The noise of a plane passing overhead drowned _______the radio and I missed the ……….………..
news.
6. She has such an awful voice; it just grates _______me every time she sings. ……….………..
7. At 6 pm the noise of the machines died _______and the workers went home. ……….………..
8. Rock music was blasting _______from an open window as I passed the house. ……….………..
III. READING
Part 1: Choose the appropriate option (A, B, C, or D) to fill in each blank of the following passage.
A worrying question which requires global attention is severe over-population and its drastic effects in the
countries of the Third World. In regions where the birth (1) _______ is extremely high, poverty and starvation
are (2) _______. In India, there is (3) _______ of thirty-five infants being born every minute, yet the most
shocking (4) _______ are those which indicate the enormous number of the victims of famine in certain African
territories. Communities afflicted with acute destitution are additionally (5) _______ with illiteracy, life in
appalling conditions and infectious diseases (6) _______ the indigenous populations. There is an urgent need
for these problems to be solved or else they might continue bringing about innumerable worries upon the
affluent societies around the world. Unless measures are taken to (7) _______ the suffering of the impoverished
underdeveloped nations, desperate crowds of immigrants will persist in flooding the richer states in (8) _______
of a brighter future. It’s the most (9) _______ task for the international giants nowadays to help the poor
populations get out of the poverty (10) _______.

1. A. amount B. quota C. rate D. number

2. A. rife B. profuse C. generous D. predominant
3. A. a ratio B. an average C. a measure D. a proportion
4. A. scores B. digits C. figures D. totals
5. A. conflicted B. confronted C. encountered D. inconvenienced
6. A. decimating B. enumerating C. discounting D. outnumbering
7. A. discard B. vanish C. evaporate D. ease
8. A. search B. chase C. lookout D. survey
9. A. confronting B. rousing C. challenging D. plaguing
10. A. lure B. trap C. snare D. pitfall

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Part 2: Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with ONE suitable word.
As ChatGPT gains rapid adoption (1) _______ kids, there are justifiable fears about the safety of the viral
chatbot in the (2) _______ of younger children. For a technology that kids are rapidly turning to for information
and help on a wide range of issues, many things could go (3) _______.
Consequently, several questions come to mind. Should kids be (4) _______ to use ChatGPT? What are some
useful ways kids can use ChatGPT safely? How can parents and caregivers ensure that kids use ChatGPT
safely?
(5) _______ ChatGPT can be an immensely valuable resource for kids to learn and explore new things, there are
inherent risks associated with (6) _______ kids use the technology. One such (7) _______ is the possibility of
being exposed to inappropriate content.
While ChatGPT is designed to provide informative, safe, and helpful responses, its vast training data includes a
wide range of information, including topics (8) _______ may not be suitable for children. This could be (9)
_______ from explicit language, description of violent or sexual imagery, or misinformation.
However, OpenAI has aggressively implemented measures to keep the responses generated by ChatGPT
appropriate and safe for children. This includes filtering (10) _______ explicit or offensive language and
automatically detecting when a user may engage in inappropriate conversations.
There are risks, yes, but with adult supervision and OpenAI's safety measures, kids should be able to use
ChatGPT safely.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions.
By charting out the typical cognitive development of children, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget has heavily
influenced how psychiatrists delineate the progress of juvenile psychological growth. Beginning in the 1920s
and up until his death in 1980, he studied the errors schoolchildren made on various tests and realised that
children of the same age made the same kinds of reasoning errors. Based on these recurring patterns, he
identified stages in a child’s cognitive development, beginning from infancy and extending through adulthood.
Essentially, he proposed that there was a common timetable by which children initially develop simple
cognitive skills and gradually refine them into more abstract ways of thinking. While more recent theories on
the matter suggest that there is more overlap among these stages and that different environments affect
children’s progress, Piaget’s theory was nonetheless extremely important to initial studies of cognitive
development.
According to Piaget, the first stage that children go through is the sensorimotor stage, an eventful and
complex period that Piaget further divided into six sub-stages. The sensorimotor stage begins at birth and lasts
roughly until the child is two years old. During this time, the child experiences the world through his senses and
motor skills, and he will initially develop and master the basic reflexes of infants, such as grasping, sucking,
looking, and listening. Moreover, the infant begins to develop the fundamentals of basic cognitive functions. He
develops awareness of himself and of objects as separate entities and begins to manipulate his external
environment, usually by kicking, moving objects, and chewing on toys. The child also learns that certain actions
will have certain effects, and he may perform an action to recreate these effects. For instance, he may
accidentally suck his thumb and find it pleasurable, so he repeatedly sucks his thumb to experience the pleasure
again. The child may also experiment with different actions to test their effects, like making various sounds to
get an adult’s attention. Finally, the child also shows the basic capacity for understanding symbols, and he
develops a rudimentary use of language toward the end of this stage, most notably by identifying parents with
words like “mama” and “dada.”
In the next stage, the preoperational stage (ages 2–7), the child expands his capacity for symbolic thinking,
and he can envision the environment and manipulate it within his imagination. Imagination thus develops more
fully, as seen in the child’s tendency to role-play other people (like his parents, firefighters, etc.), and to pretend
that objects are other things, like pretending that a broom is a horse. This stage is marked by two other
distinctive characteristics. The first is egocentrism. While the child’s language develops more fully for the
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purpose of social interaction, his thought process is still limited by individual experiences, and these cognitive
limitations exclude any alternative viewpoints. Piaget determined this when he instructed several children in
this age group to look at a three-dimensional model of a mountain from a particular angle and then pick out a
particular scene they saw. All of the subjects correctly fulfilled the task, but, when asked to pick out what
someone else would have seen when looking at a different angle, they only picked out the respective scenes
they saw. Basically, they were oblivious to the fact that a viewer at a different angle would see a different scene,
so they were only able to pick out only what they saw personally. The other characteristic is that thought occurs
in an illogical and irreversible manner. A child can easily believe that things can magically increase, decrease, or
vanish, as perceptions often dictate their reality. Piaget determined this from an experiment in which he poured
equal amounts of liquid into a short thick glass and a tall thin glass and asked the children which container had
more liquid. The subjects often selected the tall thin glass because the liquid reached a higher level and made
the glass appear fuller. They believed that liquid magically appeared to fill the taller glass, even though they
were told both glasses contained the same amount.
In the final two stages, the child refines his skills or reasoning and analysis. In the concrete operational
stage (ages 7–11), the child shows evidence for logical thought and becomes less egocentric in his thinking. He
begins to grasp concepts such as mass, length, volume, time, and other abstract measurements, and he becomes
capable of solving basic logical problems and understanding reversible logic. He can perform simple arithmetic
like addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and his understanding of how these concepts relate to each other
increased. For instance, he understands that ten minus five equals five, so five plus five equals ten. He is also
able to categorize concepts, such as identifying a tiger as a cat, a cat as an animal, and thus a tiger as an animal.
In the fourth and final stage, the formal operational stage (from puberty to adulthood), the child is finally able to
think in completely abstract terms. He is able to perform algebra, calculus, and other mathematics that utilize
symbols, formulas, and logic, and he is capable of other complex critical and analytical thought. This also
allows him to hypotheses from experiments and using these to predict the effects of certain actions. The extent
to which people achieve this degree of abstract thinking is always different, and some may never fully or
adequately grasp these skills, even as adults.
1. The word “delineate” in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. counterbalance B. descry C. embolden D. map
2. According to paragraph 1, what can be inferred about Piaget’s analyses?
A. They have been called into question recently.
B. They are chiefly issued from other therapists’ inquires.
C. They invalidated other schools of psychology.
D. They were never orthodox among psychiatrists.
3. According to paragraph 2, a child’s development in the sensorimotor juncture is typified by ______.
A. an aptitude for discerning reversible notions
B. an sagacity of numerical hypotheses
C.a cognizance of the entity of external objects
D. a significant diminution in egocentrism
4. According to paragraph 3, most children who executed Piaget’s mountain test ______.
A. were impotent to ruminate on the perspectives of other personages
B. could use their motor prowess to manipulate their surroundings
C. evinced the ability to classify objects into different categories
D. had tribulations assigning symbols to external objects
5. According to paragraph 4, all of the following are true about the formal operational juncture EXCEPT
A. It conventionally institutes at the onset of juvenescence.
B. It is the most abiding episode of development.
C. It makes the same strides with the same ramifications all and sundry.
D. It is when people refine skills mandatory for convoluted mathematics.

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Part 4: Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions.
In seeking to describe the origins of theater, one must rely primarily on speculation, since there is little
concrete evidence on which to draw. The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual. The process
perceived by these anthropologists may be summarized briefly. During the early stages of its development, a
society becomes aware of forces that appear to influence or control its food supply and well–being. Having little
understanding of natural causes, it attributes both desirable and undesirable occurrences to supernatural or
magical forces, and it searches for means to win the favor of these forces. Perceiving an apparent connection
between certain actions performed by the group and the result it desires, the group repeats, refines, and
formalizes those actions into fixed ceremonies, or rituals.
Stories (myths) may then grow up around a ritual. Frequently the myths include representatives of hose
supernatural forces that the rites celebrate or hope to influence. Performers may wear costumes and masks to
represent the mythical characters or supernatural forces in the rituals or in accompanying celebrations. As a
people becomes more sophisticated, its conceptions of supernatural forces and causal relationships nay change.
As a result, it may abandon or modify some rites. But the myths that have grown up around the rites may
continue as part of the group’s oral tradition and may even come to be acted out under conditions divorced from
these rites. When this occurs, the first step has been taken toward theater as an autonomous activity, and
thereafter entertainment and aesthetic values may gradually replace the former mystical and socially efficacious
concerns.
Although origin in ritual as long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the
theater came into being. Storytelling has been proposed as one alternative. Under this theory, relating and
listening to stories are seen as fundamental human pleasures. Thus, the recalling of an event (a hunt, battle, or
other feat) is elaborated through the narrator’s pantomime and impersonation and eventually through each role
being assumed by a different person.
A closely related theory sees theater as evolving out of dances that are primarily pantomimic, rhythmical or
gymnastic, or from imitations if animal noises and sounds. Admiration for the performer’s skill, virtuosity, and
grace are seen as motivation for elaborating the activities into fully realized theatrical performances.
In addition to exploring the possible antecedents of theater, scholars have also theorized about the motives
that led people to develop theater. Why did the theater develop, and why was it valued after it ceased to fulfill
the function of ritual? Most answers fall back on the theories about the human mind and basic human needs.
One, set forth by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., sees humans as naturally imitative – as taking pleasure in
imitating persons, things, and actions and in seeing such imitations. Another, advanced in the twentieth century,
suggests that humans have a gift for fantasy, through which they seek to reshape reality into more satisfying
forms than those encountered in daily life. Thus, fantasy or fiction (of which drama is one form) permits people
to objectify their anxieties and fears, confront them, and fulfill their hopes in fiction if not fact. The theater,
then, is one tool whereby people define and understand their world or escape from unpleasant realities.
But neither the human imitative instinct nor a penchant for fantasy by itself leads to an autonomous
theater. Therefore, additional explanations are needed. One necessary condition seems to be a somewhat
detached view of human problems. For example, one sign of this condition is the appearance of the comic
vision, since comedy requires sufficient detachment to view some deviations from social norms as ridiculous
rather than as serious threats to the welfare of the entire group. Another condition that contributes to the
development of autonomous theater is the emergence of the aesthetic sense. For example, some early societies
ceased to consider certain rites essential to their well-being and abandoned them; nevertheless, they retained
as parts of their oral tradition the myths that had grown up around the rites and admired them for their
artistic qualities rather than for their religious usefulness.

1. The world “championed” in the passage is closest in meaning to

A. changed B. debated C. created D. supported
2. The world “attributes” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. ascribes B. leaves C. limits D. contrasts
3. According to paragraph 1, theories of the origins of theater

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 A. are mainly hypothetical
B. are well supported by factual evidence
C. have rarely been agreed upon by anthropologists
D. were expressed in the early stages of theater’s development
4. According to paragraph 1, why did some societies develop and repeat ceremonial actions?
A. To establish a positive connection between the members of the society
B. To help society members better understand the forces controlling their food supply
C. To distinguish their beliefs from those of other societies
D. To increase the society’s prosperity
5. The word “autonomous” in the passage is closest meaning to
A. artistic B. important C. independent D. established
6. According to paragraph 2, what may cause societies to abandon certain rites?
A. Emphasizing theater as entertainment
B. Developing a new understanding of why events occur
C. Finding a more sophisticated way of representing mythical characters
D. Moving from a primarily oral tradition to a more written tradition
7. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 5 as possible reasons that led societies to develop theater
EXCEPT:
A. Theater allows people to face what they are afraid of.
B. Theater gives an opportunity to imagine a better reality.
C. Theater is a way to enjoy imitating other people.
D. Theater provides people the opportunity to better understand the human mind.
8. Which of the following best describes the organization of paragraph 5?
A. The author presents two theories for a historical phenomenon.
B. The author argues against theories expressed earlier in the passage.
C. The author argues for replacing older theories with a new one.
D. The author points out problems with two popular theories.
9. The word “penchant” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. compromise B. inclination C. tradition D. respect
10. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the italic sentence in the passage?
Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. A society’s rites were more likely to be retained in the oral tradition if its myths were admired for artistic
qualities.
B. The artistic quality of a myth was sometimes an essential reason for a society to abandon it from the oral
tradition.
C. Some early societies stopped using myths in their religious practices when rites ceased to be seen as
useful for social well-being.
D. Myths sometimes survived in a society’s tradition because of their artistic qualities even after they were
no longer deemed religiously beneficial.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. WRITING
Part 1: Rewrite each of the following sentences beginning with the word(s) given in such a way that it
means the same as the original one.
1. My boss works better when he’s pressed for time.
→ The less time......................................................................................................................................................
2. I was very sorry I wasn’t able to see him off at the station.
→ If only.................................................................................................................................................................
3. It’s impossible that we stayed at the same hotel, in that case.
→ We.......................................................................................................................................................................

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4. They will not officially declare independence until next year.
→ No.......................................................................................................................................................................
5. It’s more than a fortnight since anyone saw Julian.
→ Julian was...........................................................................................................................................................
6. I don’t know what’s happened to Andrew. He is normally on time for an important meeting.
→ It is most unlike..................................................................................................................................................
7. There will be always differences of opinion even between friends.
→ Differences.........................................................................................................................................................
8. Why didn’t you tell me about the party? I was free on Saturday.
→ Had.....................................................................................................................................................................
9. Tim was always an optimist even when things were going wrong.
→ Tim invariably looked........................................................................................................................................
10. Don’t be upset by what she said.
→ Don’t take ..........................................................................................................................................................

Part 2: Rewrite each of the following sentences using the word given in bold so that it has the same
meaning as the original one. You are not allowed to change the word in bold.
1. Rosa found the heat quite intolerable. BEAR
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
2. His arrival was completely unexpected. TOOK
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
3. My bank manager and I get on together very well. TERMS
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
4. You can avoid tooth decay by brushing your teeth regularly. PREVENT
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
5. Local residents said they were against the new traffic scheme. DISAPPROVAL
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
6. When he was at his most successful, the president had enormous influence. HEIGHT
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
7. My uncle did not suffer from his experience. NONE
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
8. I really admire you for your improvement. HAT
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
9. David feels uncomfortable in front of all those people. EASE
→ ............................................................................................................................................................................
10. I promised him that the situation wouldn’t be repeated in the future. WORD
→.............................................................................................................................................................................

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