Đề thi học sinh giỏi thành phố môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 12 - Năm học 2017-2018 - Sở GD và ĐT Thành phố Đà Nẵng (Kèm đáp án)

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1. SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KÌ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI THÀNH PHỐ Số phách do THÀNH PHỐ ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM HỌC 2017 - 2018 Trưởng ban chấm thi ghi ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC MÔN: TIẾNG ANH LỚP 12 Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Họ tên và chữ ký giám khảo Điểm Giám khảo 1: Bằng số Bằng chữ Giám khảo 2: Đề thi gồm 07 trang. Học sinh làm bài trên đề thi và ghi câu trả lời vào ô trống tương ứng cho mỗi câu hỏi. SECTION A. LISTENING You will hear a man called Jay Carter talking about his time in the Amazon rainforest. For questions 1- 10, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase. EXPERIENCES IN THE RAINFOREST The purpose of Jay's trip to the Amazon was to write an article about the (1) ___ that live in the rainforest. Jay was unprepared for the lack of (2) ___ in the rainforest. Jay makes a comparison between the huge noisy insects in the rainforest and (3) ___ with wings. Jay uses the word (4) ___ to describe his feelings when he first saw a jaguar. Jay says that the average male jaguar has a territory of (5) ___ in size. Jay remembers being offered a very large (6) ___ to eat when he met the local forest people. Jay says that the forest people have a feeling of (7) ___ for the jaguars. Jay explains that in some areas, (8) ___ regard jaguars as a threat to their property. Jay has heard that being in contact with animals such as (9) ___ is a potential health risk to jaguars. The (10) ___ that Jay is now involved in are intended to raise awareness of the threats to the survival of jaguars. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR I. Select the best option for each sentence. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. 1. I had ___ feelings about leaving home. I was excited but at the same time, I knew I would miss my family. A. puzzled B. jumbled C. mixed D. muddled 2. The voucher is valid between July and December and ___ you to 10% off all overseas flights. A. confers B. entitles C. grants D. credits 3. I left the company by ___, not because I was forced to. A. choice B. option C. selection D. preference 4. Each day, we see signs of poverty and cases of severe need before our ___ eyes. A. very B. right C. actual D. real 5. His change of job has ___ him with a new challenge in life. A. familiarized B. presented C. initiated D. introduced Page 1 of 7
2. 6. Nothing, to me, is as mesmarizing as seeing ___ of tiny, multi-colored fish swimming over the coral reef under the sea. A. swarms B. flocks C. packs D. shoals 7. Everyone was ___ to the fact that the holiday was over and went back work. A. conformed B. complied C. confessed D. resigned 8. A growing ___ of evidence shows that weight gain is associated with lack of sleep. A. body B. quantity C. figure D. hand 9. Arsenal eventually won a ___ victory of 4 – 3 over Chelsea. A. thin B. near C. narrow D. mere 10. People are asked not to smoke in the ___ of health. A. request B. demand C. requirement D. interest Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. Complete EACH sentence with ONE suitable phrasal verb by combining ONE verb in A and ONE particle in B to make a meaningful sentence. Use the correct form of the verb. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. A B go bank look fall run through for on off under pick take put get do in on across up out 1. I don't think you can ___ ___ Tom coming tonight - he's really unreliable. 2. It’s unbelievable that you ___ ___ such a lot of milk in a day. 3. Don’t forget to ___ me ___ when you come to Atlanta. 4. More than 7,000 businesses have ___ ___ in the last three months due to a financial crisis. 5. Don’t let the restaurant’s decor ___ you ___ – the food is really good. 6. It’s easy to ___ Jane ___ Jill as they look so alike. 7. Yesterday I ___ ___ an old friend whom I lost touch with for a long time. 8. He keeps ___ ___ me and I really don't know what I've done wrong. 9. I’m completely ___ ___ after a day of hard work and I really need a rest. 10. Ted and Josh ___ ___ when Ted disagreed with Josh's proposal for their new project. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. III. There are TEN mistakes in the text below. UNDERLINE THE MISTAKES and WRITE THE CORRECTIONS on the CORRESPONDING LINES in the box for answers. There is an example. Answers The deodorants, perfumes and soaps that keep us smelling well are 0. well good fouling the air with a harmful type of pollution — at levels as much ___ ___ as emissions from today cars and trucks. ___ ___ Researchers found that petroleum-based chemicals using in ___ ___ perfumes, paints and other consumer product can, taken together, ___ ___ emit as much air pollution in the form of volatile organic ___ ___ compounds, and V.O.C.s, as motor vehicles do. ___ ___ The V.O.C.s interact with other particles in the air to create the ___ ___ building blocks of smog, namely ozone, which can trigger asthma ___ ___ and permanent scar the lungs, and the other type of pollution ___ ___ known as PM2.5, fine particles that are linked to heart attacks, ___ ___ strokes and lung cancer. ___ ___ Smog is generally associated with cars, but in the 1970s ___ ___ regulators have pushed automakers to invest in technologies that ___ ___ have substantially reduced V.O.C. emissions from automobiles. So ___ ___ the rising shares of air pollution caused by things as pesticides and ___ ___ hair products is partly an effect of cars getting cleaner. ___ ___ Page 2 of 7
3. IV. Use the word given in CAPITALS to form a word that fits in each space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. HANG SON DOONG, THE WORLD'S LARGEST CAVE Located in the heart of the UNESCO-listed Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam's Quang Binh province, Hang Son Doong is one of the most (1) ___ destinations that can be experienced in Southeast Asia. More 1. CAPTIVITY people have stood on the summit of Mount Everest than have witnessed the (2)___ beauty inside these enormous chambers. Translated as Mountain 2. REAL River Cave, it was first discovered in 1990 by Ho Khanh, a local farmer who was seeking shelter from a (3) ___ storm in the jungle. He noticed clouds and 3. PASS the sound of an underground river gushing from a large hole in the limestone, and reported his (4) ___ to the British Caving Research Association (BCRA), 4. FIND who were (5) ___ in Phong Nha at the time. Unfortunately Ho Khanh lost 5. STATION his bearings during his return, and the exact location of the cave remained (6)___ for 18 years. 6. LOSS In 2008 while hunting for food he stumbled across the (7) ___ again, and 7. ENTER returned the following year with Howard and Deb Limbert from the BCRA. They began the (8) ___ of the cave, and in 2010 determined it to be the 8. EXPLORE largest ever discovered in terms of the size of its cross-section. The news shook the caving world. The eco-system inside Hang Son Doong is as unique as it is large, and it even has its own (9) ___ weather system. Rare limestone cave pearls are scattered 9. LOCAL in dried pools, and the largest stalagmite ever found stands 80 meters (262 feet) tall. Collapsed ceilings have created (10) ___ known as dolines, allowing 10. OPEN foliage to grow inside the cave. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SECTION C. READING I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. CAMPAIGN AGAINST TECH ADDICTION Tech insiders are rallying against the companies and products they helped create. Former employees at companies such as Google and Facebook are (1)___ for tech companies to rethink and redesign addictive and intrusive tools under a new organization called Center for Humane Technology. The Center for Humane Technology is partnering with nonprofit Common Sense on a campaign (2)___ “Truth About Tech”, which will serve to educate and inform consumers about the (3)___ of current technology through a consumer ad campaign, and outreach to 55,000 public schools in the U.S. Researchers have found that screen time has had a negative (4)___ on happiness levels for teens and that frequent use of smartphones, and apps like Facebook and Twitter can result in higher (5)___ of depression and suicide. In January, two Apple investors called on the tech giant to (6)___ an example about the obligations of technology companies to their youngest customers and urged the company to develop more (7)___ parental controls. Most recently, child development advocates have (8)___ with Facebook to discontinue its new Messenger Kids app, targeted at 6 to 12 year olds who are, according to experts, not ready to use social media. Truth About Tech is being (9)___ with $7 million from Common Sense and money raised from the Center for Humane Technology. Companies such as Comcast and DirecTV have agreed to donate (10)___ to the ads. Page 3 of 7
4. 1. A. pushing B. asking C. falling D. making 2. A. branded B. held C. dubbed D. known 3. A. dodges B. excuses C. loopholes D. pitfalls 4. A. impact B. impression C. implication D. imprint 5. A. dangers B. risks C. threats D. perils 6. A. take B. give C. set D. make 7. A. complex B. complicated C. sophisticated D. intricate 8. A. demanded B. pleaded C. appealed D. insisted 9. A. funded B. subsidized C. favoured D. sponsored 10. A. exposure B. coverage C. promotion D. airtime Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. Read the following passage and complete it by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. WHAT SHAPE TABLE? Most of us only have room in the dining room for one table and shape is normally determined by convenience, but the choice of shape is significant. Round tables are democratic; no one is (1) ___ precedence. For that reason politicians describe meetings between representatives of different countries (2)___ ‘round table conferences’, fostering the pleasant illusion that (3)___ nations are equal, even though, in George Orwell's famous phrase: ‘some are more equal than others.’ In restaurants, (4)___, most tables are either square or oblong. This is partly for reasons of space, but also (5)___ they make the waiters' task of serving easier. Above all, bearing in (6)___ the bill and in particular the tip, they enable them to identify the host, preferably seated at the head of an oblong. (7)___ Chinese, on the other hand, blending ancient philosophy with common sense, disapprove of sharp edges, and consequently prefer round or oval tables. Those (8)___ manufacture tables to order, catering (9)___ people who can afford a number, suggest different ones for different (10)___ - round tables for friendly gatherings, small oblongs for business meetings, and for banquets with many people invited, long, narrow oblongs, encouraging them to converse with the person opposite. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. III. Read the text below. CURRENT ACCOUNTS OF THE FATE OF THE PLANET Steve Connor on a vast sea search for clues to climate In their darker moments, climatologists talk about their own ‘nightmare scenario’. This is one where global warming has brought about such significant climatic changes that ocean currents change direction. One scene from the nightmare has the Gulf Stream moving south or even going into reverse, making winter in London look and feel like a St Petersburg January. The ocean is a great moderating influence on the planet, soaking up heat around the tropics and depositing it in the cooler polar regions. Yet scientists know surprisingly little about how the sea does this - they estimate that the North Atlantic alone moves energy equivalent to the output of several hundred million power stations. Last year oceanographers began their biggest international research initiative to learn more about ocean circulation. The first results from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment demonstrate just how complex the movement of sea water can be. They have also given scientists a glimpse of the amount of heat being exchanged between the oceans and the atmosphere. As part of the experiment, researchers are monitoring the speed and direction of ocean currents, water temperature and salinity. Page 4 of 7
5. Research ships taking part will gather detailed measurements at 24,000 points or ‘stations’ along carefully designated trans-ocean routes. This undertaking dwarfs the 8,000 hydrographic stations created in the past hundred years of ocean surveying. A fleet of ships, buoys, seabed sensors and satellites will collect so much data that Britain, one of the 40 countries taking part, has opened a research institute, the James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation in Southampton, to process them. One of the justifications for the experiment, says John Woods, director of marine and atmospheric sciences at the Natural Environment Research Council, is that the oceans hold the key to understanding long-term changes in the global climate. The Earth has two ‘envelopes’ - the ocean, consisting of slowly circulating water, and the atmosphere, made of fast-moving air. Far from being independent, they interact, one modifying the other until a balance is reached between them. The present balance came about at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. Scientists hope that knowing more about the ocean's "weather patterns" will help them to predict climate changes further ahead. Knowing how heat is moved around the ocean is crucial to such long-term forecasting. The top three metres of the ocean store more heat than all of the atmosphere. Some of the heat can be transported downward between 30 metres and several thousand metres. The deeper it goes, the longer it stays out of the atmosphere. Water heated in the equatorial region flows in shallow currents north or south towards the poles, where it releases its heat to the air and, as it becomes colder and denser, sinks to the sea floor, where it forms deep, cold currents that flow back to the equator. John Gould, one of the British scientists taking part in the ocean circulation experiment, is discovering just how this occurs in the North Atlantic. Shallow currents, less than 500m deep, of warm water at about 8°C flow from the Atlantic into the Norwegian Sea, mainly along a path that follows the point where the continental shelf ends and the deep mid-ocean valleys begin. Meanwhile, at depths down to 5,000m, deep currents of cold water at about minus 1°C flow south into the Atlantic along the deep ocean valleys. (Salt water at this depth does not freeze at 0°C.) Sensors positioned on the seabed have given Dr Gould and his researchers an accurate assessment of just how much cold water is flowing back into the North Atlantic having given up its heat to the atmosphere over northwest Europe. In total, he estimates, about 5 million cubic metres of water per second flows in these deep currents between Greenland and the British Isles. This means the warm water of the North Atlantic must be giving up about 200 million megawatts of energy to the atmosphere over northwest Europe. ' Research at the other end of the world, in the seas around Antarctica, is also finding that seafloor topography plays a crucial role in determining the direction of ocean currents. In the past, oceanographers have assumed, for instance, that surface currents such as the Gulf Stream do not extend much beyond a kilometre in depth. But an analysis of currents in Antarctic waters has shown that currents are not concentrated in the top kilometre, but reach down to the submerged mountain ranges. Dr Woods believes such research will help to save lives. "More deaths can be prevented by ocean forecasting than by weather forecasting, and our economic and social well-being are more vulnerable to change in the ocean than in the atmosphere." Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. 1. Some scientists believe that global warming could A. modify ocean currents. B. change wind directions in the polar regions. C. reduce the influence of currents. D. increase wind speeds. 2. The first results have already confirmed A. that heat is stocked at great depths. B. that the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago. C. the complexity of ocean currents. D. that Gulf Stream currents are situated in the surface layer of water. 3. Heat is transferred from the tropics to the poles A. in the surface currents. Page 5 of 7
6. B. in the atmosphere. C. in the deep currents. D. along the seabed. 4. The atmosphere and the ocean A. influence the climate independently. B. interact and create a global climatic balance. C. have no effect on the climate. D. have only modified the climate since the last Ice Age. 5. Why is this research considered to be of great importance? A. It will enable scientists of the future to prevent extreme climatic changes. B. It will help scientists predict climate changes. C. It unites a large number of different countries. D. It will help dissipate the climatologists’ ‘nightmare scenario’. Complete this summary with words taken from the text above . Use NO MORE THAN TWO words for each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers. Scientists believe that oceans play a vital role in global climate regulation. In a big international (6) ___ project, scientists are collecting vast amounts of data in the 24,000 different stations placed on strategic ocean routes. The first available results from the North Altlantic show that shallow, warm currents follow the edge of the continental shelf and the deep, cold currents follow along the ocean (7) ___ at depths of around 5,000m. These currents tranfer enormous quantities of (8) ___ to the North Atlantic. Research in Antarctic has found that (9) ___ is vital in determining the (10) ___ of the ocean currents. Answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SECTION D. WRITING I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the original one. 1. The wind was so strong that we could hardly move. Such . 2. I only noticed that my glass was broken when I filled it. Only . 3. I didn’t realize how much his brother had an influence on him. I didn’t realize the extent . 4. Melvin bought the car that his friend recommended him to. Melvin bought the car on . 5. If it hadn’t rained, the farmers could have lost all of their crops. But . II. 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 given in any way. 1. Public pay phones have almost disappeared in most major cities. BUT Public pay phones in most major cities. 2. None of us expected to have a test this morning. BLUE This morning's test came . 3. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that. TIME Many's . Page 6 of 7
7. 4. Our children are crazy about Korean singers. HEAD Our children are Korean singers. 5. He was shouting as loud as he could. TOP He was . III. Write an essay to answer the following question: ‘Textbooks should be replaced by e-books.’ Do you agree or disagree? Use reasons and examples to support your opinion. You should write about 200 words. The End Page 7 of 7