Đề TS10 Tiếng Anh (chuyên) THPT Chuyên Long An 2015-2016

SỞ GD&ĐT LONG AN
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ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
(Đề thi có 8 trang)
KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN LONG AN
NĂM HỌC 2015-2016
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN)
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)


Thí sinh làm bài trên phiếu trả lời (Answer sheet), không làm bài trên đề thi này.

I. LISTENING: (2 points)
PART 1: There are 5 questions in this part. For each question there are three pictures and a short recording. Listen to each recording twice. Choose the correct picture (A, B or C) and write it in the numbered box on your answer sheet. (1 point)


















PART 2: You will hear a conversation between a man, Marco, and his wife, Sarah, about a film they have just seen at the cinema. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, write the letter (A) for YES, if it is not correct, write the letter (B) for NO in the numbered box on your answer sheet. (1 point)






A B
YES NO

1. Sarah was expecting to enjoy the film. ( (
2. Marco and Sarah agree that the city in the film was London. ( (
3. Marco feels that the length of the film made it rather boring. ( (
4. Sarah was upset about how some of the audience behaved ( (
during the film.
5. Sarah was disappointed with the way the main actor performed. ( (
II. READING: (2 points)
PART 1: Read the following passage, then choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Write your answer in the numbered box on your answer sheet. (1 point)




Whole families of musicians are not exactly rare. However, it is unusual to come across one that includes not only writers and performers of music, but also an instrument maker.
When South Wales schoolteachers John and Hetty Watkins needed to get their ten-year-old son, Paul, a cello to suit his blossoming talents, they baulked at the costs involved. “We had a look at various dealers and it was obvious it was going to be very expensive,” John says. “So I wondered if I could actually make one. I discovered that the Welsh School of Instrument Making was not far from where I lived, and I went along for evening classes once a week for about three years.”
“After probably three or four goes with violins and violas, he had a crack at his first cello,” Paul, now 28, adds. “It turned out really well. He made me another one a bit later, when he’d got the hang of it. And that’s the one I used right up until a few months ago.” John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was “the icing on the cake”.
Both Paul and his younger brother, Huw, were encouraged to play music from an early age. The piano came first: “As soon as I was big enough to climb up and bang the keys, that’s what I did,” Paul remembers. But it wasn’t long before the cello beckoned. “My folks were really quite keen for me to take up the violin, because Dad, who played the viola, used to play chamber music with his mates and they needed another violin to make up a string trio. I learned it for about six weeks but didn’t take to it. But I really took to the character who played the cello in Dad’s group. I thought he was a very cool guy when I was six or seven. So he said he’d give me some lessons, and that really started it all off. Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he would have none of it.”
“My parents were both supportive and relaxed,” Huw says. “I don’t think I would have responded very well to being pushed. And, rather than feeling threatened by Paul’s success, I found that I had something to aspire to.” Now 22, he is beginning to make his own mark as a pianist and composer.
Meanwhile, John Watkins’ cello has done his elder son proud. With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20