Đề thi tuyển sinh vào Lớp 10 môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2016 - Trường THPT chuyên Lê Quý Đôn (Có đáp án)

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1. SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KÌ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THÀNH PHỐ ĐÀ NẴNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN NĂM 2016 ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không tính thời gian giao đề) Đề thi có 06 trang. Thí sinh làm bài trên đề thi. Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2 Điểm Điểm Mã phách (Họ, tên và chữ ký) (Họ, tên và chữ ký) bằng số bằng chữ SECTION A: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (50 pts) I. Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each sentence. Write the answer in the box provided. (20 pts) 1. The picture is ___. The thief will be most disappointed when he tries to sell it! A. priceless B. invalid C. unprofitable D. worthless 2. Thomas opened the letter without ___ to read the address on the envelope. A. worrying B. caring C. bothering D. fearing 3. He ___ me to believe that they had left the district. A. made B. led C. assured D. confirmed 4. You’re very quiet today. What have you got on your ___? A. head B. mind C. spirit D. mood 5. It's not always easy to ___ the difference between fact and opinion. A make B do C. say D. tell 6. This is ___ an important day. A. fairly B. rather C. extremely D. pretty 7. He's a very well-behaved little boy. I rarely have to ___ my voice to him. A. shout B. lose C. raise D. lift 8. After months of failure, the company finally ___on a brilliant idea. A. hit B. burst C. struck D. shot 9. Because of the weather, Samantha's flight was ___. A. undue B. unpunctual C. overdue D belated 10. It is believed that human beings have an unusually strong desire to ___ both with themselves and against nature. A. compete B. attack C. oppose D. combat 11. At 6.00, ___ was an hour before the plane took off, thick fog descended. A. when B. which C. that D. what 12. I’d like to ___ this old car for a new model but I can’t afford it. A. interchange B. exchange C. replace D. convert 13. If he discovers the truth, there’s no telling what ___ happen. A. should B. shall C. would D. might 14. Religion and politics interest him almost ___. A. equally B. the same C. similarly D. alike 15. The drivers have rejected proposals to end the strike and the other workers have come out in ___. A. consent B. return C. sympathy D. collaboration 16. Nobody phoned while I was out, ___? A. did they B. was I C. wasn’t I D. didn’t they 17. The man was ___ guilty of theft. A. condemned B accused C. found D. convicted 18. These suggestions are ___ to be accepted by the majority of members. A. unlikely B. impossible C. undoubtedly D. inconceivable 19. We were ___that if we didn't pay within five days, we would be taken to court. A. explained B. threatened C. informed D. promised 20. In my ___, freedom of the press must be maintained. A. mind B. view C. sight D. thought Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Trang 1 / 6
2. II. Use the word at the end of each line to form a word that fits in each space on the same line. Write the answer in the box provided. (10 pts) ALLERGIES: THEIR CAUSES AND TREATMENT The number of people in Britain receiving a new (1)___ of allergies 1. DIAGNOSE such as asthma, eczema and hay fever is increasing by five per cent every year. There is some evidence to show that Britain's obsession with rules and regulations to ensure (2)___ in the home, supermarket and workplace is 2. CLEAN reflected in the number of allergy (3)___. One theory is that we have far 3. SUFFER less (4)___ to dirt and germs during childhood than we used to have, so 4. EXPOSE our bodies do not have the opportunity to develop a resistance to allergens. While we may look down on the unhygienic approach to food and general living which people had in the past, there are some lessons we could learn today by maybe being a bit less cautious. Nobody would dispute the importance of (5)___ advances. These 5. MEDICINE include vaccinations given routinely to children which have (6)___ our 6. REVOLUTION lives by providing immunity to some life (7)___ diseases. There is, 7. THREAT however, some (8)___ over whether they actually weaken our immune 8. CONTROVERSIAL systems and are being given (9)___ for diseases which are not 9. NECESSARY dangerous. In the meantime, a whole industry has developed around (10)___ medicines which are very effective in treating allergies. 10. PREVENT Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. III. Complete each of the following sentences with one suitable particle or preposition. Write the answer in the box provided. (10 pts) 1. How did that come ___? I can't understand how it happened. 2. He wanted to save money on a regular basis and put ___ fifty pounds a month. 3. Jane has taken ___ teaching like a duck to water. 4. Could you look ___ her number in the phone book? 5. He's against the idea, but I think I can talk him ___ it. 6. I have nothing but admiration ___ the way she tackled the problem. 7. I’m sorry, this letter is addressed to you – I opened it ___ mistake. 8. If her temperature goes up, send ___ the doctor. 9. They agreed to lend us the car ___ condition that we returned it before the weekend. 10. Many houses in the area were pulled ___ to make way for new construction. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Trang 2 / 6
3. IV. Read the text below carefully. There are TEN mistakes in the text below. Find, UNDERLINE each mistake and write the correction on the corresponding line in the box provided. (10 pts) ALBERT EINSTEIN Answers Albert Einstein is some of the best-known scientists of the Example: some one twentieth century. Yet he was not the particularly good student. At school in Munich, he got reasonable grades in nearly all subjects, and was outstanding in mathematics and physics, but he disliked doing that he was told. He didn't like exams and nor did he like attending classes because he left school early. Despite failure the entrance exam, Einstein was eventually admitted to the federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1896. Although he did fairly well like a student in Zurich, after graduation he was unable to get a job in a university, mainly because he was thought being extremely lazy. Instead, he worked in a secondary school where he taught mathematics and physics, both of them he was good at. Some two years later, in 1902, Einstein has got a job at the Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1905, his special theory of relativity was publishing - one of the greatest intellectual achievement in the history of human thought. SECTION B: READING (30 pts) I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space. Write the answer in the box provided. (10 pts) HAIRSTYLES Hairstyles are not just about looking smart we also use them to (1)___ statements about ourselves. We can (2)___ our hair longer or shorter than other people to give the (3)___ that we are different or we can style our hair in imitation of a pop celebrity and (4)___ that people will think we are fashionable. In the UK in the early 1960s, the Beatles' “mop-hair” style was copied by boys who, on the whole, wanted and (5)___ to shock their parents. Later, middle-class “hippies” let their hair grow long to (6)___ their commitment to an alternative lifestyle. In the 1970s, “skinheads” shaved their heads and (7)___ to represent the working class; and for those who felt themselves part of a multi-cultural society dreadlocks were (8)___ fashion. In recent years, though, men's hairstyles have been more dictated by fashion icons like the footballer David Beckham who changes his look every few months, (9)___ from styles anywhere in the world. In fact, one consequence of the Beckham phenomenon is that boys spend as much time and money (10)___ their appearance as girls and it's not uncommon for boys to cover their hair in so much gel that it's rock solid! 1. A. do B. cause C. make D. give 2. A. wear B. support C. hold D. carry 3. A. thought B. meaning C. design D. impression 4. A. propose B. hope C. wish D. suggest 5. A. required B. expected C. supposed D. anticipated 6. A. explain B. create C. perform D. show 7. A. allowed B. admitted C. claimed D. said 8. A. in B. with C. at D. on 9. A. borrowing B. using C. lending D. operating 10. A. for B. in C. on D. of Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Trang 3 / 6
4. II. You are going to read an article in which four people talk about cheating in exams. Choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen more than once. (10 pts) Which person or people: cheated by asking a friend to tell them the answer? 0. __ B __ was caught cheating in an exam? 1. ___ didn’t let a friend copy their work? 2. ___ regrets trying to cheat in an exam? 3. ___ cheated more than once? 4. ___ cheated by asking a friend to tell them the answers? 5. ___ didn’t get caught because a friend helped them? 6. ___ tried to cheat by writing notes on a part of their body? 7. ___ only tried to cheat in the subject they weren’t good at? 8. ___ decided not to cheat again after a bad experience? 9. ___ thinks it is always wrong to cheat? 10. ___ CHEATING IN EXAMS A. This happened when I was about 14 years old. The last exam of the year was history, which had always been my worst subject. I was useless at remembering dates and people’s names so I decided to write the dates and names of the important events we’d studied on the inside of my arm and then wore a jumper to cover it up so noone could see. Unfortunately though, it was a really hot day. I really wanted to take my jumper off but I couldn’t. I realized after about ten minutes that there was no way I would be able to look at what I’d written without the teacher seeing and I just wished I hadn’t done it. I felt so hot and uncomfortable and was really worried about the teacher seeing and catching me that I didn’t do very well in the test at all. I was too distracted. I think I probably would have got a better result if I hadn’t tried to cheat. I learnt a good lesson though. B. My friend and I had the same surname so we always ended up sitting next to each other, or one behind the other, in exams at school. We worked out this system where we would pass a piece of paper to each other with the answers to the questions. Sometimes we just passed it by hand if we were sitting close enough and other times we’d throw it on the floor for the other person to pick up. It was quite a good system and I’m sure we both got higher marks. Unfortunately, a teacher did see us doing it once. I was just leaning down to pick up a paper my friend was passing back to me when a teacher appeared out of nowhere and picked it up first. There was no way we could deny what we were doing, it was so obvious. The teacher didn’t say anything until the end of the exam and then when she collected our papers she wrote a big zero at the top. We didn’t do it anymore after that, it had been good before but we decided it wasn’t worth the risk. C. I used to always cheat in my maths exams when I was at school. We were allowed to take a calculator with us into the exam and I used to write all the important formulae that we were supposed to remember on the inside of the calculator case. I did it lots of times. I don’t regret it at all. I was quite good at maths anyway but I’m sure I got better results as a result of cheating. In other exams like chemistry and physics, I sometimes wrote notes on bits of tissue then pretended I needed to blow my nose and looked at my notes during the exam. It worked really well. There was only one time I was almost caught; I dropped the tissue on the floor by accident just as a teacher was walking past. He was about to pick it up when my friend, who had also seen what had happened, deliberately knocked over his water bottle. The teacher was so busy clearing up the water I think he forgot about me. If you’re clever enough to work out a way to cheat and not get caught then I think you deserve to get good marks. It’s like that in the real world; if you can do something more easily and with less hard work then you will. Why not? Trang 4 / 6
5. D. I’ve never cheated in an exam and really don’t see the point. I mean sooner or later people will find out if you know something or not. If you cheat to get better results then you’re lying to yourself as well as to everyone else. Rather than spending your time thinking of really clever and original ways to cheat without anyone realizing, you should just spend that time studying. I’m sure it will help you a lot more in the long run. A friend once tried to read my answers in an exam while pretending to pick something up off the floor. As soon as I realized I covered my work so he couldn’t see. He was quite annoyed with me afterwards but I didn’t think it was fair that he should do well because of my hard work. III. Read the text below and think of a word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each space. Write your answers in the box provided. (10 pts) THE ALEXANDRA PALACE The Alexandra Palace in north London was built with private funds as a "People's Palace". Serviced by (1)___ own station, it was opened in 1873 and was extremely well attended until two weeks after its opening, it burnt down. It was replaced by a slightly larger building which opened in 1875 (2)___ featured, among other things, a splendid organ and the Great Hall, (3)___ was the size of a football pitch. Despite the extraordinarily (4)___ range of events staged there from dog shows to great concerts and banquets, from elephant displays to bicycle matches - it always operated at a loss and by 1877 much (5)___ the park around it (6)___ been sold to speculative builders, leaving only about half of the original land. In 1900, a committee was appointed whose principal duty was (7)___ run the Palace and park "for the free use of the people forever". There were, (8)___, powers to charge for entry so that the substantial costs could be covered. The Palace continued, with varying degrees of success, as an entertainment centre. In the 1930s it was probably most notable for being the home of the world's first high definition television broadcasts. In 1980 the building was once (9)___ devastated by fire and reduced to a ruin. It (10)___ then decided to restore it and to create a major exhibition centre with community facilities, such as a restaurant and a health club. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SECTION C: WRITING (20 pts) I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the one printed before it. Use the word given. Do not alter the word in any way. (10 pts) 1. The theatre was practically empty. HARDLY There the theatre. 2. It won't help if Tania goes to see the manager. POINT There's to see the manager. 3. She's worked very hard in the garden. DEAL She's done in the garden. 4. You can borrow my computer, but you must look after it.AS You can borrow my computer after it. 5. You should stop going to late night concerts. TIME It’s to late night concerts. 6. I thought you’d accepted his offer. UNDER I was that you’d accepted his offer. 7. This door is an emergency exit and must never be locked for any reason. ACCOUNT On be locked because it is an emergency exit. Trang 5 / 6
6. 8. The launch of the new product is scheduled for the end of August. DUE The new product at the end of August. 9. Sally showed absolutely no fear when climbing the wall. DISREGARD Sally showed her own safety when climbing the wall. 10. “No, I really don't want to stay the night, Sophia,” Ann said. STAYING Ann at Sophia's house. II. Write a paragraph about your ideal school in the year 2030. You should write about 150 words. (10 pts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The End Trang 6 / 6