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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
NINH THUẬN NĂM HỌC 2012 – 2013
Khóa ngày: 1 8 / 11 / 2012
(Đề chính thức)
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH - Cấp THPT
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
(Không kể thời gian phát đề)
I. LISTENING (50/200 points)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết
thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín
hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8, choose the best
answer (A, B or C) and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. You hear someone talking about women's football. What is she doing when she speaks?
A. encouraging young girls to support a team
B. suggesting how to attract young girls to the sport
C. asking young girls to take the sport seriously
2. You hear a man talking on the radio about a bag made for use on walking trips.
How does this new bag differ from others?
A. It has pockets on the side.
B. You can take off the rain cover.
C. There are some extra features.
3. On the radio, you hear a man discussing a cartoon film about dinosaurs.
What aspect of the film disappointed him?
A. the design of the backgrounds
B. the quality of the sound effects
C. the size of the dinosaurs
4. You overhear a couple talking about keeping fit. What do they agree about?
A. the need to be more active
B. the benefits of joining a gym
C. the dangers of too much exercise
5. In a radio play, you hear a woman talking on the phone to a friend.
Where does the woman want her friend to meet her?
A. on the beach B. at the bank C. in a shop
6. You hear a student talking to his friend about a meeting with his tutor. What was the student's
purpose in meeting his tutor?
A. to see if there was a part -time job available
B. to ask for financial assistance
C. to request more time to complete coursework
7. You hear a man talking about learning how to paint landscapes. What does he say about it?
A. It proved easier than he had thought.
B. It showed him he had some talent .
C. It opened up opportunities for him.

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8. You turn on the radio and hear a man talking. What is he talking about?
A. finding friendship B. solving problems C. helping others

Part 2: For questions 9 - 18, you will hear a conversation between a student and a job advisor.
Questions 9 and 10, complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND / OR
A NUMBER for each answer.

Student is studying (9)________________

Student is in the (10)________________ year of the course.
Questions 11 and 13, comple te the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each
answer.

Position Available Where Problem

Receptionist in the (11)_______________ evening lectures
(12)_______________ in the Child Care Centre too early
Clerical Assistant in the (13) ___________ ____ evening lectures

Questions 14 and 18, complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND /
OR A NUMBER for each answer.

STUDENT DETAILS
Name: Anita Newman
Address: (14) _______________
Room No. (15) _______________
Other skills: Speak some Japanese
Position available: (16) _______________ at the English
Language Centre
Duties: Respond to enquiries and (17) ______________
Time of interview: Friday at (18) _______________ a.m.

Part 3: For questions 19 – 25, you are going to hear a tal k about some British customs. Listen
carefully and complete the notes below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the
spaces provided.

In Britain, there is a common saying, "An Englishman's home is (19)_______________." It's

important to act thoughtfully if you are living in a (20) _______________ or are visiting a British
home. There are a few British customs. You should be punctual for meals. Make your own bed and
keep your room (21) _______________ . When you stay with a British family for several days, you
should give (22)_______________when you leave. British people normally wait until (23)
_______________ has got their food before they start eating. You'd better use (24) _______________
and title if you are unsure how to call them. At a formal meal, t he host (25) _______________ expec t
guests to help with household chores.

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II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (40/200 points)

Part 1: Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
26. Jack has decided to __________ the time he spends watching television .
A. run out of B. see to C. cut down on D. come up with
27. The hotel was terrible, but the wonderful beach __________ our disappointment.
A. make up for B. got over C. faced up to D. saw to
28. I have a/an __________ in computer aided design and three years’ experience.
A. lesson B. course C. examination D. qualification
29. I usually buy the clothes __________ . It is cheaper than going to a dressmaker.
A. off the peg B. on the house C. in public D. on the shelf
30. __________ the heavy rain, all flights were cancelled.
A. Because B. Since C. Due to D. As
31. __________ more responsible she wouldn’t have lost her job.
A. If she would be B. Had she been C. Would she be D. If she has been
32. I wish you __________ making so much noise! I just need to relax for a while.
A. will stop B. stop C. had stopped D. would stop
33. The burglar didn’t turn on the lights __________ be seen by the neighbours.
A. so that not B. so as not to C. so that to not D. so as to not
34. Now that she’s moved to the suburbs, she misses __________ by her friends.
A. to be visited B. have been visited C. being visited D. been visited
35. “What time are you planning to __________ on your trip tomor row?”
“We haven’t decided yet."
A. set off B. turn on C. make for D. run along
Your answers:

26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Part 2: Write the correct FORM of e ach bracketed word in the numbered space provided in each
column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
The school play
0. advertising
Congratulations to all involved with the school production of The Woman
Next Door. The (0) ………. (ADVERTISE) was carried out by the Art 36. __________
Department, and the posters were very ( 36) ………. (IMAGINE). We
certainly have some very artist students! Many people helped with building 37. __________
and painting the (37) ………. (SCENE) and the play was written by the
English Department, who created an ( 38) ………. (AMUSE) story, with 38. __________
excellent songs. The music was written by Sue Porter, who also (39)
_………. (COMPANY) the singers on the piano. Everyone enjoyed a 39. __________
thoroughly entertaining evening, and there was a long round of ( 40)
_………. (APPLAUD) at the end. Jim Barrett gave a brilliant perfomace as 40. __________
Sergeant Moss, and Liz Aitken was a delightful Mrs Jump. Well done
everyone!

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Part 4: The passage below contains 5 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and write their correct forms the
space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.

Most of us are interested in one kind of sport or another , even if we don’t

go in for it active. Lots of people take up a particular sport at an early age,
for example tennis, skiing or ice -skating. If they get up to a suitable high 0. active → actively
standard, they may go in for local competitions or even championships.
But special training is hard works and most young people don’t keep it up. 41. __________
Many of them drop out when they come up against tough competition.
To become a profession al in sport, you have to go through with a 42. __________
strictness training schedule. And it is not easy. It means doing without
some of life’s pleasures, too. For example, to build up your physical
strength you may have to stick to a special diet and give up some of y our 43. __________
favour foods. Smoking and alcohol are out, and to keep fit you have to
work out regularly every day. 44. __________
Sometimes it all pays off, but the road to succeed is long and there are no
guarantees. No wonder that countless young talents decide to settle for a
regular job instead, and, as far as professional sport is concerned, prefer to 45. __________
look on as spectators.

III. READING (50/200 points)

Part 1: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers
in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage.
Have you ever asked yourself why it is that we work? If it is, as some people say, just a question of
money, would you be prepared to do any job as long as you ( 46) _______ a lot, even if it involved
working for long hours in appalli ng (47) _______? Or are you perhaps more interested in the (4 8)
_______ you get when you feel that you are good at your job? It's true that there is a great sense of
(49) _______ behind, for example, the creation of a well -made product, or the clinching of an
important deal, though this might not be the ( 50) _______ if you were serving in a shop or delivering
letters. Still, as long as the customers are satisfied, then you can ( 51) _______ yourself on a job well
done, and feel that you have contributed to the success of the company that ( 52) _______ you. On the
other hand, would you feel that your work was more worthwhile if you received more praise from your
employers? Would you feel happier if they paid you a ( 53) _______ or sent you to a sales conference
in Tahiti? Or is praise unnecessary, as long as the job ( 54) _______ you with the company of other
people, and the feeling that you belong to the group? Most of us are probably too ( 55) _______
working to wonder too much about this. One day perhaps we'll f ind that ideal job which gives life
meaning, but until then we'll just get up every morning and keep on working.

Your answers:

46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

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Part 2: Read the following articles and choose the most suitable heading for each of the following sections of
the articles from the list A to H. There are two extra headings which you do not need to use. Write your
answers in the numbered boxes.
A. Bargain prices B. Escaping the crowds C. In -flight comfort
D. Ensuring availability E. Save on taxi fares F. Cheap excess baggage
G. Lost lugguage compensation H. Changing to a better seat

56
Membership of an airline loyalty club will guarantee you a seat on a f light, even when that flight is
fully booked for ‘normal passangers’. Air France, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and Singapore Airlines
are just four carriers offering this facility to their very best customers. Others, like British Airways,
Lufthansa and Swissair, are not quite so bold with their claims but all will move heaven and earth to
secure a seat for their club members.
57
First-class and bussiness-class passengers get the pick of the seating, ‘up front’ away from all the
engine noise and vibration. Economy passengers are invariably seated in the noisier, back rows of the
aircraft, however, and airline seating plans ( displayed in timetables) enable you to choose the best
seat.
58
Traveling with overweight baggage can cost you dearly. On long -haul flights, the airlines give you a
free baggage allowance of between 20 and 64 kilos, depending on the class of travel and the route.
Every excess kilo is charged at one per cent of the first -class fare. One way round this is to hand over
your baggage to an excess company, which can save you as much as 70 per cent on airline fees. Your
luggage will then travel to your destination unaccompanied, and you can either collect it from the
airport or have it delivered to your destination address. It won’t usually ar rive the same day, though.
59
Booking a first-class or business-class ticket usually entitles you to use the more peaceful airline
executive lounge at the airport. Regular passengers with an airline can also use the lounges, even when
flying on cut-price economy tickets.
60
The unthinkable has happened. You have arrived overseas but your luggage has not appeared on the
airport baggage carousel. Keep calm. In most cases your bags will turn up, eventually. But, before you
leave the airport, contact a memb er of staff and complete a Baggage Irregularity Report, which ensures
that you will receive compensation. However, airlines pay out pitiful compensastion, so do read the
small print on your ticket, and it’s essential to take out adequate insurance beforeha nd.
61
Securing an upgrade is easier than ever before. Canadian Airlines will now seat some transatlantic
passengers who have paid the economy fare in business class, while business -class passengers bound
for New York, Toronto, Delhi or Bombay are automa tically upgraded to first-class if they have paid
the full business-class fare. In addition, large companies are increasingly negotiating an automatic
upgrade with airlines.
Your answers:
56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61.

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Part 3: Read the following passage and ch oose the most suitable sentence from A to H on the list for
each gap. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use. Write your answer s in the
numbered boxes.
A. A species is a recipe written in DNA; a theology is an idea written in human language; a
steam train is an engineer’s blueprint.
B. Natural selection creates diversity - a thousand different ways to solve the same problem s
C. Even if we cannot yet recreate species from their genomes
D. But they’ve got taken exactly on schedule.
E. Despite the munch-vaunted web of ecological connections between all life
F. Mankind has now destroyed 90 per cent of Brazil’s coastal rainforest and not a single
endemic species of bird has died out.
G. Some pachyderms survived on an island.
H. But it is necessary for island to remain isolated if this is to happen

Island creatures are extremely vulnerable to extinction. Except in the island continents like
Australia, mankind has had a far less dramatic impact upon continental creatures. (62)___________.
The number of creatures known to have died out in the rainforest of the world is still tiny. Nearly all of
the extinctions mankind has cause d have been on island, and most of those have been achieved by
introducing competitors. (Lakes are equivalent to islands. When Nile perch were put in Lake Victoria,
they quickly wiped out half the 300 species in fish in the lake).
What harm is done? There is no reduction of biomass, no increase in the chances of a collapse
of all life. (63)__________, the invaders are often better adapted to survive than their victims. So why
does such extinction matter at all?
The answer is that it standardizes the worl d. (64)__________. It meant sheep and cattle in
Eurasia, giant birds in New Zealand and Madagascar, elephants in Africa, and bison in North America.
Now most of them are extinct or marginalized. The same also applied to other forms of extinction.
Where once there were hundreds of African theologies, now Christianity and Islam dominate. Where
once there were more than a thousand mutually unintelligible languages on the island of new Guinea
alone, soon there will be just pidgin. Where once there were differ ent kinds of cars in every country on
earth, now everybody drives a clone. It is not so much extinction itself that matters – does it matter
that nobody speaks Linear B drives a Model T or worships Ra? It is the standardizing of the world, the
disappearance of diversity that matters.
True, nature flights back. Worldwide species are evolving into separate kinds; it could be only
a few thousand years before starlings in Hawaii cannot breed with starlings in London and are
therefore technically a different species. (65)___________. Islands have been called nature’s
laboratories: they take a few, monotonous, global species and fragment them into experimental forms,
a few of which later inherit the earth. In just the same way, for a new language to be born the speakers
must be isolated by a mountain range or a stretch of sea for several centuries; that is impossible today.
How do you save diversity of spe cies, theologies, languages and technologies? The answer
must lie in information technology. All of these thi ngs are really just chunks of unique information.
(66) ____________. Each needs to be virtually saved before it is physically lost. Read the genome of a
Hawaiian goose: take down the lexicon of a Fore language; film the tricks of a brilliant watchmaker.
(67)___________, we should save them for a time when our descendants can. Petrarch
grumbled that he was surrounded by books in Ancient Greek that neither he nor anybody else could
read. The skill was later reacquired.
Your answers:
62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67.

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Part 4: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the
questions that follow. Write your answer in the numbered box es.
THE INTERVIEW
‘We would like to interview you…’. Joyful words for the job -seeker, but my letter carried a warning:
‘You will be required to take a psychometric test.’ More than 70 per cent of companies now use these
‘objective’ tests for potential employees. They are meant to give a true picture of candidates that
removes the unfairness that may resu lt from the personal opinions of interviewers.
On the day of my interview for the job of an assistant to a company Public Relation consultant, my
nerves were made worse by finding that the office was close to a hospital with particularly unhappy
associations. Luckily, I had deliberately got there early so that I was able to calm myself down before a
secretary rushed me upstairs for my test.
Keeping to a strict time limit, I had to assess groups of adjectives, marking which most and which least
matched my ideas of myself at work. Choosing one quality out of four when all seemed appropriate
was difficult, more difficult than the interview that followed – though I felt I hadn’t impressed in that
either.
Confirmation of this arrived a week later. My rejection le tter was accompanied by a copy of the
Private and Confidential Personal Profile Analysis – two and a half sides of paper, based on that 10 -
minute test.
The Profile’s rude inaccuracy and its judgemental tone were harder to accept than the fact that I had
been turned down for the job. Apparently, I have ‘no eye for detail’; I am also ‘a forceful
individual…who leads rather than directs’ and am ‘motivated by financial reward to pay for good
living.’ The words ‘impatient’, ‘restless’, and ‘strong -willed’ also came up.
‘A portrait of an ambitious, power -mad person’, said a psychologist friend of 15 years to whom I
showed the Profile. She said it didn’t apply to me at all.
I know myself to be a careful, industrious checker. I am shy but cheerful and a bit over -anxious to be
thought creative. I am not a power -crazed person. What would I do, I worried, if I had to take another
test for another job, and this unattractive personality emerged again?
I sent the company a polite disagreement with the Profile, purely for t he record. Meanwhile, I made a
few enquiries. Had my emotional state of mind made the results untypical of me? I had been disturbed
to find the office so close to a hospital that held unhappy memories for me.
‘State of mind will have an impact,’ says Shan e Pressey, an occupational psychologist, ‘but on the
whole its effect will be relatively minor. It appears that the test was an inadequate tool for the amount
of information they were trying to get out of it, and it is not surprising that there were inaccu racies.’
Too late for that particular job, I arrange to sit another psychometric test. This one took much longer
and was more thorough; the profile was also more detailed and accurate – it showed my eye for detail
and the fact that I have a problem meeting deadlines.
But a peculiar result is hard to challenge without seeming unable to take criticism. It is simply not
acceptable to refuse to take a test, in case a job candidate seems uncooperative and eccentric. The
interview, with its yes/no personal feelin g, is here to stay, but so is objective testing.
If my experience is anything to go by, the job candidate should be suspicious of 10 -minute tests that
result in generalised-and possibly wildly inaccurate -judgements. I accept that it would be costly to
arrange for face-to-face discussions of test results with all job candidates, but a telephone call would
be preferable to simply receiving a written ‘profile’ through the post and having no opportunity to
discuss its contents.
68. Before the writer took the test, she __________
A. felt that she was unlikely to do it very well.
B. made sure that she was mentally prepared for it.
C. believed that such tests were fair to candidates.
D. did some research into tests of that kind.