Đề tuyển sinh 10 chuyên Anh và đáp án

sở giáo dục-đào tạo kỳ thi tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 chuyên
thừa thiên huế năm học 2005 - 2006
*** Môn thi: tiếng anh
Đề CHíNH THứC Thời gian: 150 phút, (không kể thời gian giao đề)

Chữ ký giám khảo 1


Chữ ký giám khảo 2
Mã phách

Ghi Chú: Học sinh làm bài trên đề thi này. Đề thi gồm có 6 trang, kể trang phách.


I. vocabulary and grammar (40 points)
Part 1. Identify a mistake in the underlined words or phrases in the following senetnces. Circle the letter A, B, C or D for your choice.
1. California has (A) more land under (B) irrigation than (C) any another (D) state.
2. Beside (A) the ages of nine and fifteen, almost (B) all young (C) people undergo a rapid (D) series of physiological changes.
3. In (A) the 1920`s cinema became (B) an important art form and (C) one of the ten largest industry (D) in the United States.
4. To improve (A) effectively, a musician must thorough (B) understand the conventions of (C) a given (D) musical style
5. Some (A) hangars, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are very (B) tall that rain occasionally falls from (C) clouds that form along (D) the ceilings.
6. According to (A) most psychological (B) studies, body language expresses (C) a speaker`s emotions and attitudes and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen (D).
7. Chocolate is prepared by a complexity (A) process of cleaning, blending (B), and roasting cocoa beans, which must be (C) ground and mixed (D) with sugar. .
8. Antique collecting became (A) a significant pastime in the 1980`s when (B) old object (C) began to be appreciated for (D) their beauty as well as for their historical importance.
9. American painter, Georgia O`Keeffe is well known as (A) her large paintings of flowers
in which (B) single blossoms (C) are presented (D) as if in close up.
10. Despite (A) television is the dominant entertainment medium for United States households, Garrison Keillor`s Saturday night radio show (B) of folk songs and stories is (C) heard by millions (D) of people.
11. Ripe (A) fruit is often stored (B) in a place who (C) contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly (D).
12. Mathew C. Perry, a United States naval (A) commander, gained (B) fame not in war and (C) through diplomacy (D).
13. One of the most impressive collections (A) of nineteenth-century European paintings (B) in the United States can (C) be found to (D) the Philadenphia Museum of Art.
14. In the (A) nineteenth century, women (B) used quilts to inscribe their responses to (C) social, economic, and politics (D) issues.
15. Hot (A) at the equator causes the air (B) to expand, rise (C), and flow toward (D) the poles.
Part 2 : Fill in the gaps with the most suitable prepositions to complete the letter.
Dear Mr Markham,
Thank you very much for your letter (1) .................. 14th March. Naturally I am delighted, and very excited at the prospect of my holiday (2) ............... Britain.
I would like to take my holiday (3) ....................... 15th June (4) ................... 5th July, which I believe is the time (5) .................... the Wimbledon tennis championships, and I would be very grateful if you could arrange (6) ......................... me to see some of the matches. I would also like to see some test cricket. There will be no football then, but perhaps I could spend a day (7) ...................... the races at Ascot, too.
The places I would like to visit are the university towns (8) ...................... Oxford and Cambridge, where I would like to see one of Shakespeare`s plays, and if possible I would really love to visit an old English village (9) ...................... a typical country pub.
I am very grateful to you and the company (10) ....................... giving me this opportunity of a lifetime.
Yours sincerely,
Joseph Degama
Part 3. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense, active or passive