Đề thi HSG môn Tiếng Anh huyện Thới Bình - Cà Mau năm 09-10 (có Đáp án)

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sinh trường :……………………..
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Ngày thi 16/01/2010
Hội đồng thi: Huyện Thới Bình
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MÔN THI:Tiếng Anh
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Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút ( không kể thời gian giao đề)
* Lưu ý: Đề bài này có 04 trang. Học sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi này.

A.READING COMPREHENSION
I. Read the passage below and answer the questions.(2,0pts)
“Where is the university?” is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask
But no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and officers of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teacher or professors of the thirty- one colleges.
Cambridge as already developing town before the first students and teacher arrived 800 years ago. It grew-up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all round the world.

1. Why do most visitors come to Cambridge?
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2.Around what time did the university begin to appear?
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3.Why did people name Cambridge the “city of Cambridge’’?
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4.After which year did the town really begin developing?
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II. Read this passage carefully and then choose the best answers.(2,0pts)
This disease connected to smoking are a big problem. Doctors think that the annual medical cost for lung cancer, heart disease and other illness connected to smoking is between 12 and 45 million pounds.
And smoking costs society money in other ways. Between 27 and 61 billion pounds are spent each year on sick days when people don’t go to work, on wages that you don’t get when you don’t go to work, and on the work lost at the company when you are sick
This money counts the wages from people who die of cancer at young age and stop paying taxes. This does not count fires started by cigarettes which kill hundred people yearly and injure another four thousand. Smoking costs every man, woman and children in UK from one hundred and ten to two hundred and fifty pounds yearly in insurance cost, that comes to one hundred and sixty to four hundred and ten pounds. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have up to one thousand six hundred and forty pounds a year more.
Smoking will also cause other problems. People who don’t smoke will live longer, and so they will take money from the government when they are old. But they will also work for more years and pay more taxes.
In the end, the value of a non- smoking nation is not in pounds. The good health of the people is the true for us on.

1.If everyone stopped smoking, all the United Kingdom ………….
A. Would have more money B. Would live longer
C. Would have less money D. Would have no more problem
2. Every year companies lose ………….. because of the disease.
A. money B. work
C. wages D. time
3. If everyone stopped smoking, a family of four could have……….more each year.
A. from 110 pounds to 260 pounds B. from 1,340 pounds to 1,430 pounds C. from 160 pounds to 410pounds D. 1,640 pounds
4. The true value for the UK of not smoking is ………………
A .more working B. more taxes
C. good health D .more money
B. VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURE
I. Choose the best word in the box for each description given.(1,0pts)
bee, dolphin, giraffe, rabbit, pig, dog, shark, worm

1. …………..It is a large dangerous fish.
2……………It is an intelligent sea animal.
3……………It can go across deserts many days without water.
4……………It has a long neck.
II. There is a mistake in each of sentences below. Underline and correct the errors in the following sentences. (3,0pts)
1.