THPT CHUYÊN HOÀNG LÊ KHA ĐÁP ÁN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 11

TÂY NINH Ngày thi: 14/4/2018

A. Listening:
PART 1

1. modern buildings
2. energy
3. out of/away from
4. personal
5. too hot
6. air conditioning
7. indoor air quality/quality of indoor air
8. maintenance
9. (building/furnishing) materials
10. (office) cleaning
PART 2

11. A 12. B 13. C 14. A 15. A

PART 3

16. M 17. B 18. B 19. M 20. B

PART 4
21. 79/ seventy-nine
22. To establish position
23. Treasure
24. Once a year
25. Loose stones, walls
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 PTS)
Part 1: Choose the word/ phrase that best completes each of the following sentences (10pts)
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C
Part 2: Read the text and find 5 mistakes and correct them. You should indicate in which line the
mistake is (5 pts)
With the feeling of dark foreboding, I returned the mirror to the shop this morning. Nonetheless, I was barely
surprised to find the old woman was expecting me.
“You managed to keep it longer than the others,” she said, as I lain my parcel down in the space she had
cleared amongst the junk that cluttered the table.
“Thanks for the experience,” I said, “but I think I’d better get along with my own life now.”
The old crone smiled knowing as she removed the string and newspaper and lifted the mirror up, presumably
to check it for signs of damage. I had the chance to see my face in it one last time: the same straggly blond
hair with wisps of grey, my dull, tiring eyes and the furrows in my brow that events of last year have scarred
me with.
Line 3 Lain –> laid
Line 5 along -> on
Line 6 knowling -> knowingly
Line 8 tiring -> tired
Line 9 have -> had
Part 3: Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle (5 pts)
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A
Part 4: Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space
in the same line. Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS on the space given (10pts)
1. DISILLUSIONED 2. CROSSROADS 3. WHIMSICAL
4. SALVATION
5. REVOLUTIONISED 6. REPUTEDLY 7. GUIDANCE
8. STRAIGHTFORWARD 9. SELF-HELP 10. SENSIBLE
III. READING (60PTS)
Part 1. For questions 1-10, read the three texts below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
gap (10pts)
1C 2B 3D 4A 5C 6B 7D 8D 9B 10C

Part 2. Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word (15pts)
1 with
2 despite/ notwithstanding
3 doing/trying
4 not/ hardly/ scarcely
5 little
6 if
7 keep
8 accustomed/ used
9a
10 most/best
Part 3. Read the passage and circle the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the
questions (10pts)
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. B 7. D 8. B 9. A 10. D
Part 4. Read the passage below and do the tasks that follow (10pts)
Keys:
1. ii
2. x
3. iii
4. v
5. iv
6. viii
7. vii
8. FALSE
9. NOT GIVEN
10. TRUE

Part 5. You are going to read a magazine article about six young people who have been successful in
various artistic fields. For questions 1-10, choose from the people (A-F). The people may be chosen more
than once.
Keys:
1. E
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. C
10. F

TAPESCRIPT
Part 1
You will hear a talk about Sick Building Syndrome, which is ill health that is believed to be caused by
buildings. For questions 1-10, complete the sentences.
Have you ever gone back to work after a break or a holiday and been suddenly hit by a complete lack of
energy? And you wonder whether it’s simply because you’re not relaxing any more but you think that
perhaps it's something else, something to do with your environment.
Well, you could be right. In 1982. the World Health Organization defined Sick Building Syndrome as “a
syndrome of complaints covering non-specific feelings of ill health, the onset of which is associated with the
occupancy of certain modem buildings". To those suffering from it. it means feelings of lack of energy,
headaches, dry skin, even itchy eyes. And while the general view might be that there’s a chance of getting
sick if you work in a factory and that you wouldn’t expect to feel unwell when you go to work in offices, this
is not true.
The office, it seems, is not the safe and healthy environment it is traditionally thought to be. Surveys among
office workers have revealed that large numbers of them in the same building can be affected by the
symptoms. Some are affected only from time to time, and others all week but a common finding was that
sufferers were mainly affected at the beginning of the week and when they’d been out of the building for
some time. And the symptoms disappeared quite quickly when they left work. However, the problem is often
a hidden one because many people don't associate the problems with their environment, they think it's
probably something about them themselves. And they often say nothing about it because if they do so they
might be accused of being complainers. It has been suggested that the problems could arise for reasons as
simple as that the central heating is too high. But it is a mistake to look for simple explanations of what is a
complex matter. It could be just that the heating is up too high but this does not explain the range of
symptoms that sufferers in the same building can have or the fact that these occur in buildings with similar

Part 2

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You are going to listen to an excerpt from a radio program, ‘TheExperts Speak'. You will hear someone
talking about video games.
F: Video games are quite popular nowadays, aren’t they?
M: Video games increase in popularity year after year, but parents don’t always respond with enthusiasm
when a new game appears on the market. In fact, many parents believe that such games are highly
addictive and can lead to compulsive behavior and a loss of interest in other activities.
F: What makes the video game junkie?
M: A decade ago, research showed that video game junkies were highly intelligent go-getters. They did well
at school and at work. But could the more sophisticated games of the 21 st century be so all-consuming as to
interfere with that kind of achievement? The video games of the 21st century may in some ways be more
psychologically rewarding than the 1990s games in that they require more complex skills, improve dexterity,
and feature better graphics.
F: But for most kids, video games remain a harmless activity; only a small minority of these players could be
termed 'addicts’, right?
M: A recent study of children in their early teens found that almost a third played video games daily, and
that – more worryingly - seven percent played for at least 30 hours a week. This sedentary activity can result
in bad posture, one of the chief causes of repetitive strain injury (RSI). Kids as young as seven are suffering
from RSI because of overuse of computers at school and in the home.
F: What else are parents up in arms about?
M: Parents also complain that most video games feature excessive violence, which in turn makes their kids
more aggressive. The controversy has raged for 15 years, but little systematic research has been carried out,
and the debate becomes increasingly relevant as new games use more explicit representations of extreme
and realistic violence. The theory of social learning says that playing aggressive video games leads to the
stimulation of aggressive behavior. On the other hand, the catharsis theory suggests that playing aggressive
video games has a relaxing effect, by channeling and releasing aggression.

Part 3
Presenter : Earlier today, Tim Brown, our environment correspondent, spoke to Marta Taylor of Environment
Now.
Tim: The open season on rock festivals is about to start unleashing joy and anguish side by side all over the
country. If you're heading off towards the three-day packed programme at Greenwood this weekend, then
you probably love them. If you live within the area, you’re probably battening down the hatches in fear and
trepidation of some of the chaos that's about to descend on your neighbourhood. But rock festivals may not
only bombard your ears, they can also affect the environment, as thousands of enthusiastic revellers
converge on one venue.
Maria: Well, Tim, I think we have to be careful not to fall into the trap of assuming that all festivals cause
exactly the same problems. I think a rural festival - such as Greenwood - that’s almost bound to generate
traffic jams and clog up the winding lanes of the countryside, but at least it's not near to a major centre of
population, so to that extent the impact's limited.
Tim: But the traffic generation associated with these festivals is a cause for concern. Car use is far too great
and often can't be accommodated within the rural road network around many of these sites.
Maria: Well, compare it, say, with the two Peter Storm concerts in July, one's at The GP Centre, and the
other's at the Sampson Bowl. Now both sites are much more accessible by public transport, but they are also
much closer to urban centres and the impact is far greater.
Tim: Now, the noise and other disturbance associated with festivals can sometimes be unacceptable for
not just local residents but people living in the wider vicinity, can't it?
Maria: And then you get the sort of thing that happened at the Tandem Festival at Lockley last year.
Tim: Yes, I heard about that. It was a shambles, wasn't it?
Maria: Mmm, there was gridlock outside: it looks as if 70,000 tickets were issued for a site which was only
licensed for half that number. Concert-goers there ended up waiting in jams for up to 16 hours before
getting in. but anyone could have seen that coming.
Tim: No shocks there, because as I recall there was only one entrance and exit to the site. But I gather
that access is being improved there for this year's event.
Maria: Apparently. But there are still issues to be resolved there. The temporary and not so temporary
things that are erected on the festival sites, which can have an intrusive impact on the landscape in the
longer term...
Tim: .. .and if they're not taken down after the event, they're unsightly, aren't they? Now there's other
pollution as well, not to put too fine a point on it, rubbish, that has an effect, isn't there?
Maria: Hmm, the organisers at Greenwood have become increasingly aware of their environmental
obligations. They weren't always that bothered but now it’s certainly a lot better in that way than the other
big festivals.
Tim: But at the same time it’s a massive commercial event, like they all are...
Maria: It's not aiming to make a loss, any more than the others do, let's put it that way. But the changes
that the organisers have introduced are helping and they’re certainly being able to recycle more of the waste
each year and that’s the direction they're moving in.

Part 4
You will hear a guide speaking to tourists who are visiting some Romans remains. Listen and
give short answers to the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER
taken from the recording. (10 points)
Guide: Good morning and welcome to this morning’s guided tour of the Roman remains in the area. We’ll
start our day by visiting the garrison town of Corbridge - then, this afternoon, we’ll be visiting part of the
wall which the Romans built to keep their enemies out of the country. The part we’re going to visit is
remarkably well-preserved and it’s easy to imagine what it must have been like all those years ago!
The Romans actually arrived in this country in the earlier part of the first century AD, but it wasn’t until the
year 79 that they came to the Corbridge area. They built a series of forts and strongholds so that they could
establish their position in the whole region.
What you’re going to see this morning are the results of excavations which’ve taken place fairly recently. The
first early archaeological dig was as far back as 1201 and then, believe it or not, they were looking for
treasure. Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately for us!), nothing interesting was found, so they abandoned
the site and it wasn’t until the early nineteenth century that another, and much more ambitious, excavation
was carried out.
The result was a number of exciting discoveries. And in the mid-nineteenth century, they discovered part of
a Roman bridge and other structures, including the baths and other dwellings in the town. More recently, in
fact every year since 1934, digs have taken place. These have resulted in the discovery of a large collection
of sculpture, coins, pottery and small objects; and some of these have become very famous indeed. Most of
them are now housed in the site museum, which we’ll be visiting before we visit the site itself. Unfortunately,
for security reasons, some have had to be taken to the city museum, which you’ll find is about 15 miles
away.
As you can see from this map, the site museum’s laid out in a circle. The first half concentrates on the
history of the site, and each section deals with er ... well, a separate period of the site’s history. You’ll also
find display cases of objects which would’ve been in use at the time. In the second half of the museum, each
section’s related to a particular aspect of life in the town, such as trade, domestic life and religious
observance.
After visiting the museum we’ll be walking round the site, and we would ask you please, to pay particular
attention to any loose stones lying around the site. And keep children off the walls, as these can be
extremely dangerous. At the end of the tour we’ll be paying a visit to the gift shop and café, which you
probably saw as you came in - near the site entrance and the car park.
Now, if you’ve left hats and sunglasses in the coach, I’d advise you to go and retrieve them now as the
coach’ ll be locked for the next few hours and the sun’s very hot today.