Thi_tuyen_10__2010_2011

Thi tuyển 10 (2010-2011)
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According to a group called The Voices Foundation , everyone has a singing voice as well as a speaking voice somewhere inside them . This, they say ,should be encouraged from an early (1) ............because it provides the best, and the cheapest,(2) ...............on which to build an understanding of music.
 (3) ................the Foundation ideas, lies the teaching of the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, He observed that song can (4) ..............as key part of the relationship between mother and child almost from birth. This is especially(5) ................of more traditional societics, like those of West Africa, where some small children are (6) ...................to sing literally hundesds of songs, all of which have been learnt by (7) ................. But many modern children first (8) ...................to an understanding of music when they learn to play an instrument, and (9) ..............some teaching of the theory of music is usually a part of thix , their relationship with the music on the(10) ................. is often a mechanical one .
The(11) ...............of the Voices Foundation is that a natural (12) ................for rhythm  , harmony and musical structure , the very(13) ..............we appreciate in the greatest musicians , can only be achieved through the exploration of music with the voice from the start . The foundation has , therefor , (14) ...............itself  the task of developing a singing -cectred musical education progamme that could(15) ................... junior pupils all over the world.
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. To the passer -by , number 7 Blyth Grove , in Workshop , looks just like any other fairly old house in Britain , But ..................inside and you go  back into a vanished world , .....................William Straw`s house is exactly as his parents left it  when they  died in the 1930s.
William Straw , who died in 1990, lived in the house with his brother Walter after their parents deaths . They lived  ................a strict routine , never married and had no  .....................friends.They had no socia.l life and callers were never  ..................into the house
Their parents had a successful grocery shop and the family moved into the house in 1923 , immediatly spending $70 a huge ..................in those days on  ..................redecoration . Their father died in 1932 and their monther in 1939 , when William , then the history lecturer at London University , returned to Workshop . He ................his job and set up house with Walter , who had been  ...............the shop since their parent`s death.  .................  the two  cut themselves off from the rest of the world .
Nothing that their parent`s had owned  was ever moved or .................away . Towards the end of their lives, it seems that they became ..................of  value of what they had done ,because hey  began to put .................various  pictures and items of furniture , explainning where they ..................came from . Today ,the house is open to the public , and visitors quicly ..................that it is the closest they are ever likely to come to time travel
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.Most ghost stories are (1) ..................in mysterious, old houses or castles. The ghosts themselves whose (2) ................wander the earth at night, are usually the victims of some horrible crimes. This is not always the case as the following story (3).................. When my friend, Paul, was a schoolboy, he often used to chat to Mr. Scott, an elderly gentlemen living on his own. Mr. Scott was a keen gardener. He would always be looking after his lawn or his flowers and Paul was (4) ...................the habit of saying a few words to him over the fence. One summer’s evening, as Paul was on his way home from school, he saw, as (5) ..................Mr. Scott in his garden. The old man was busily weeding his flowerbeds. When he saw Paul, he invited him into the garden with a (6) ..................of his hand. Slowly, they strolled all around, admiring the various flowers. Then, to Paul’s surprise, Mr. Scott bent down and picked a (7) .................of his finest dahlias. ‘Here boy,’ he said. ‘Give these to your mother.’ No sooner had he arrived home than he (8) ................the flowers to his mother. He then told her that they were with Mr. Scott’s compliments. His mother’s face went red with anger. ‘You wicked boy!’ she shouted. ‘How (9) ...............you say such a thing! I (10) ............into his daughter in the supermarket this morning. She told me that the poor old chap had passed away in his sleep last