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Đề thi chọn học sinh giỏi cấp Tỉnh lớp 12 THPT
Năm học: 2008 - 2009
Môn: Tiếng Anh Thời gian: 180’

Section A: Phonetics

I/. Identify the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the three ones in each group.
1. A: discussion B: revision C: attention D: admission
2. A: cease B: chase C: increase D: raise
3. A: genuine B: geneticist C: guarantee D: generate
4. A: boot B: shoot C: food D: good
5. A: teenage B: dosage C; voyage D: carriage
II/. Identify the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others in each group.
6. A: postpone B: specialize C: purpose D: summarize
7. A: accident B: reference C: coincide D: formulate.
8. A: significant B: ability C: political D: sympathetic
9. A: evelope B: amazing C: passenger D: reference.
10. A: cultural B: admittance C: demanding D: domestic

Section B: Vocabulary and grammar

I/. Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to complete each sentence.
11. I really must go and lie down for a while, I’ve got a headache.
A: cutting B: splitting C: ringing D: cracking
12. The accident was caused by a taxidriver the traffic lights.
A: rushing B: missing C: jumping D: beating
13. Why don’t the police take measures against crime?
A: affective B: ineffective C: effective D: efficient
14. You’ll have to give to the manager for your actions.
A: report B: account C: narrative D: explanation
15. Some great men have had an school record.
A: indistinguishable B: indistinct C: extinguished D: undistinguished
16. Poor management brought the company to the of collapse.
A: brink B: rim C: fringe D: brim.
17. The truant was from school for unbecoming behaviour.
A: dispelled B: repelled C: expelled D: compelled
II/. Put the verbs given in brackets into their appropriate tenses or forms.
Last week I (18) ………….… (walk) home after playing tennis when it (19) ……………… (start) raining very heavily. ‘Oh, no, I (20) ………………. (get) soaked before I (21) ………….…… (reach) home,’ I thought, ‘I wish I (22)………….……... (remember) to bring my raincoat.’ But unfortunately I (23)……………..…. (leave) it at home. ‘How stupid of me!’ I always (24)………………… (get) to bring it with me. ‘Luckily just then a friend of mine passed in her car and offered me a lift (25)……………… (go) you home?’ she asked me, ‘or (26)……………….. (want) you to go for a drink?’ ‘I think I’d rather you (27)……………….. (take) me home,’ I said.
III/. There are five mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
Simply be bilingual does not qualify anyone for interpreting. Interpreting does not merely a mechanical process of converting one sentence in language A into a same sentence in language B. Rather, it is a complex art in that thoughts and idioms which have no obvious analogues from tongue to tongue – or words which have multiple meanings – must quickly be transformed in many a way that the message is clearly and accurately expressing to the listener.
28. …………….. 29………………. 30. …………………..
31. ……………. 32………………
Section C: Reading

I/. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.

Rules and laws
Any discussion of criminal behaviour requires understanding of the difference in meaning of rules and laws. Rules (33)…………………. be unwritten, or formal and written. The rules of dress or of how we eat are unwritten guides. (34) …………………. contrast, the rules of a factory, for example safety regulations,are usually (35) ………………… down and serve (36)……………….. strict regulators of behaviour.
Laws are perhaps, the (37) ………………… example of written, formal rules and (38) ……………….. decided