DE KHAO SAT HS GIOI CONG TRUONGLOP 12DAP AN

Trường THPT Đạ Tẻ. Đề Thi Sát Học Sinh Giỏi
Tổ: Anh Văn Môn: Anh Văn Năm học: 2008-2009.
Thời gian: 180 phút. ( không kể thời gian giao đề)
( Đề thi gồm 04 trang và học sinh làm bài tên tờ đề thi)

Họ và tên thí sinh:…………………………………………… Lớp 12 A……..

SECTION I: LISTENING: (4 points)
Part I: Thuc is taking a course in Study skills in English. Now in his class on reading skills, the teacher is making a quick review about what they learnt in the last class. Listen to this conversation and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. It is important to know the purposes of reading.
2. Surveying a book will help decide whether the book is necessary for you.
3. The contents pages of a book show how the book is organized.
4. Unlike the index, the table of contents gives more detail about the concepts mentioned in the book.
5. It is necessary to make sure that the level of the book is neither too easy nor too difficult for you.
6. The date of publication can usually be found on the cover.
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Part II: Listen to the conversation again and answer these questions.
1. In what way do the purposes of reading help your reading a book?
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2. Apart from the organization of the book, what do the contents pages tell readers?
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3. Where can readers often find the index of a book? At the beginning or at the end?
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4. Where are the items of a book alphabetically arranged, in the contents or the index?
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5. What skill can help you decide quickly whether the book is easy enough for you?
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SECTION II: GRAMMAR AND READING: (9 POINTS)
Part I: The text below has 10 mistakes. Read it carefully and pick out the mistakes.
WHY I DISLIKE COMPUTERS
Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are changing our own lives for the better by making everything faster and more reliable, but I am not so much sure that this is the case.
The other day I was standing in large department store until waiting to pay for a couple of films for my camera when the assistant announced that the computer which controlled the till it had stopped working. I did not think this was a big problem and I set myself off to find another counter, but of course, all the machines are one part of the same system. So there we were: a shop full of customers, money at the ready, waiting to make our purchases, but it was quite clear that none out of the assistants knew what to do. They were not allowed to take our money and give to customers a written receipt, because the sales would not then have been recorded on the computer system. In the end, like with many other people, I left my shopping on the counter and walked out. Don’t you think so that’s ridiculous? It would never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is all the problem: we are beginning to depend on these machines for so completely that we simply cannot mange without them any more.
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PART II: read the article below and then decide which word (A, B, C or D) best completes each space. Make the right choice and your answers in the box.
WHAT TEENAGERS DO WITH THEIR MONEY
Thirteen-year olds do not spend as much money as their parents suspect at least not according to the findings of a (1) ………survey, Money and Change. The survey (2) …three hundred teenagers, 13-17 years old, from (3) …Britain.
By the time they (4) …their teens, most children see their weekly allowance rise dramatically to an amazing national average of $ 5.14. Two thirds think they get (5) … money but most expect to have to do something to get it.
Although they have more cash, worry about debt is (6) …among teenagers. Therefore, the (7) …of children (8) …an effort to save for the future.
Greater access to cash (9) …teenagers does not, however, mean that they are more irresponsible (10) …a result. The economic recession seems to have encouraged (11) …attitudes to money, even in the case of children at the ages. Instead of wasting what pocket (12) …they have on sweets or magazines, the 13-year-olds who took