Đề thi HSG

English test for good students
Date: September 20th 2008
Time: 90 minutes
I. Read the text and do the task that follows
Advertising has become a very specialized activity in modern times. In the business world today, supply is usually more than demand. There is great competition between different manufacturers to persuade customers to buy their products. They always have to remind the consumers that their product is the best. They do this by advertising.
The manufacturer advertises in newspapers and on posters. He sometimes pays for songs about his products on radio programs. He employs attractive salesgirls to distribute samples of it. He organizes competitions with prizes for winners. He often advertises on the screens of local cinemas. Most important of all, in countries that have television he puts advertisement into programs. Manufacturers often spend large sums of money on advertisements. We buy a paticular product because we think that it is the best. We usually think so because the advertisments say so. Some people never pause to ask themselves if the advertisments are telling the truth.
Choose the best answers
1. How many kinds of advertisments are mentioned in the passage?
A. 7 B. 5 C. 4 D. 8
2. Which of the following is NOT true ?
A. Some people never have any doubts about what advertisements tell them.
B. Great competition exists between different manufacturers of the same products.
C. The customer usually demands more than the manufacturers can supply.
D. The manufacturerswants to persuade customers to buy his own brand.
3. Which is the most important advertisement?
A. Advertising in the newspapers
B. Advertisements on TV programs
C. Samples distributed by attractive salesgirls
D. Prizes for the competition winners
4. The passage tells us that the customer usually buys a particular brand because he thinks that __________________________________ .
A. he can get the prize
B. it is the cheapest
C. there is great competition between customers for the same brand
D. it is the best
5. What can be the best title of the passage?
A. Advertising
B. Supply and demand
C. The Manufacturer and the Customer
D. Results of Advertisements
II. Fill in the blanks with the correct answers.
There are many (1) ________ of snakes in the world. However, (2) _______ all of them are poisonous. The most common snakes can sometimes (3) _____ found in our garden. These harmless grass snakes vary in (4) ______ from one foot to three feet. They rarely bite people and are, in (5) _____, shy creatures.
Grass snakes eat insects and small animals (6) _______ frog and chicks. They are good (7) _______ the garden (8) ________ they keep away pets like rats and gophers.
The more poisonous snakes , python and viper, live (9) _______ the forests or in dense vegetation such as swampland. They do not actively attack people . If the snake senses someone coming , it would (10) _____ glide noiselessly than confront the person.
1. A. things B. kinds C. others D. type
2. A. none B. not C.no D. none of
3. A. is B. are C. be D. Was
4. A.length B. width C. height D. thickness
5. A. real B. all C. fact D. actual
6. A. alike B. same C. as D. like
7. A. from B. on C. about D. for
8. A. so as B. because C. so that D. because of
9. A. in B. on C. at D. from
10A.rather B. prefer C. like D. love
III. Read the text carefully and fill in each gap with a suitable word.
I am learning English because I am studying law and when I finish my course I (1) ___
like to work for a big company, or possibly, I will continue my (2) _____in Britain or in the USA. To do(3) ______ of those things, it is important to reach a certain (4) ______
of English. Another reason is (5) ______I want to communicate with foreign people because nowadays countries are becoming closer and closer . You need to be (6) ____
to speak a foreign language if you want to travel (7) ______ any problems. My sister, who lives in England, says that life is very different there and