DE LUYEN HSG 2017

MINH PHU HIGH SCHOOL

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WEEK 1
ÔN HỌC SINH GIỎI 11A

MÔN TIẾNG ANH
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút


ACADEMIC YEAR
2016-2017



SECTION A: vocabulary
I. Select the best option (A, B, C or D) that fits each blank.
1.
Her hands were swollen and wrinkled, but she still had her nails _________ regularly.


A. manufactured
B. managed
C. maintained
D. manicured

2.
The girl’s large, heavy earrings had ________ had her earlobes permanently.


A. displaced
B. disfigured
C. dismayed
D. diseased

3.
More and more people are having satellite dishes _________ on their roof.


A. introduced
B. implanted
C. installed
D. inserted

4.
Cut flowers may _________ lack of water.


A. wilt
B. collapse
C. drop
D. fail

5.
The ____________ cheered when the final goal was scored in the match today.


A. viewers
B. onlookers
C. spectators
D. audience

6.
Most people ___________ family heirlooms and keep them safe.


A. cosset
B. cherish
C. nourish
D. nurture

7.
The barriers suddenly collapsed and the crowd of supporters ________ forward on to the pitch.


A. swirled
B. gushed
C. surged
D. trickled

8.
After several ferocious punches both boxers were ________ unsteadily on their feet.


A. bouncing
B. swaying
C. swinging
D. lunging

9.
A burst tire caused the car ________ off the road and into the river.


A. swerve
B. fire
C. curve
D. skate

10.
She didn’t ___________ the idea of having to go to the party on her own.


A. relish
B. agree
C. savor
D. delight

11.
Many athletes have reached their ____________ when they are twenty.


A. summit
D. top
C. peak
D. point

12.
She tells her small boy every day not to be rude, but it’s like water off a duck’s _________


A. beak
B. back
c. wings
D. feathers

13.
The unmarried ladies regard him as a very __________ young man.


A. eligible
B. ineligible
C. illicit
D. illegible

14.
Mr. Hung _______ to work harder in the future.


A. agreed
B. accorded
C. accepted
D. excepted

15.
Oliver Twist had already had his fair __________ of food.


A. help
B. ratio
C. ration
D. division

16. My late grandmother __________ me this silver teapot.


A. bequested
B. willed
C. inherited
D. bequeathed

17.
Some great men have had an __________ school record.


A. undistinguished
B. indistinguishable
C. extinguished
D. indistinct

18.
Buyers and sellers were __________ over the prices


A. haggling
B. hacking
C. hugging
D. heckling

19. Within a few weeks all this present trouble will have blown _____________.


A. along
B. out
C. away
D. over

20.
In his student days he was as poor as a church _____________


A. pauper
B. miser
C. mouse
D. begger

II. Use the right form of the word given in parentheses to fill in the blank in each sentences
HARD TO BELIEVE!
Albert and Betty Cheetham hit the headlines recently thanks to an astonishing list of coincidences. On holiday in Tunisia, the (1. retire) ________________ couple found themselves (2. Dinner) ________________ opposite another retired couple – Albert and Betty Rivers. And, also (3. Coincidence), ________________ Mr. Cheetham and Mr. Rivers had both previously worked for a railway company, while Mrs. Cheetham and Mrs. Rivers had both worked for the post office. The two couples also made the (4. Discover) ________________ that they both two sons and five grandchildren and, to their (5. Amazing) ________________, that the date and the time of their (6. Marry) _______ was exactly the same i.e 2p.m. August 15th, 1942.
A more sustained coincidence is that seven of the eight US presidents who died in office were elected at exactly 20 years intervals between 1840 and 1960. It was eventually Ronald Reagan, beginning his (7. President)