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KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH LỚP: 11 - THPT
NĂM HỌC 2022-2023 Time: 120 minutes
( Đề thi gồm 10 trang )

PART A. LISTENING (4.0 points)

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Section I: Question 1-10 .You will hear a conversation on opening a bank account. Listen and write
NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
OPENING A BANK ACCOUNT
Type of student account: the (1) ________ account
Full name of applicant: Elme Lewis
Date of birth: Current (2) ________
address (3) ________ Drive
Telephone: 798643
A student account offers: an account book and (4) ________
Interest: < £600:(5) ________; ≥ £600: 5.5%
Overdraft: (6) £ ________
Documents: passport, (7) ________
Identity (security problem) : Name of (8) ________ Emma
Statement: Every (9) ________
Special request Open (10) ________account as well

Section II:
Question 11-13. You will hear a man giving a talk about grass roofs on roof tops of building. Listen
and choose the correct answer marked A, B, or C.
11. Green products are aimed at
A. people who can afford to pay higher prices.
B. the young who are very environmentally aware.
C. those who care more about environment.
12. Grass roofs have been used
A. on buildings in Europe
B. on homes and other buildings.
C. mostly on residential buildings
13. On the grass roof, soil or crushed stones are laid directly on top of
A. the insulation and drainage layer.
B. the waterproof underlay.
C. the wooden roof deck.

Question 14-20: Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

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 Type of roof Advantages Disadvantages Verdict
Grass roof (14) ________in summer (17) ________ appearance Highly
Warmer in winter in winter recommended
Little (15) ________
Encourages (16) ________
Absorb water run-off
Tiles (18) ________appearance (19) ________absorption Not recommended

Thatched roof Good insulators Very (20) ________ Not ideal for cities

PART B. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (6.0 points)

I. Circle the letter A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. bushes B. wishes C. researches D. headaches
Question 2: A. address B. strange C. educate D. ancient

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in the following question.
Question 3. A. leisure B. command C. secure D. pretend
Question 4. A. initial B. impressive C. different D. exciting
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 5: ______people killed in traffic accidents has fallen since last month.
A. A mount of B. A great deal of C. A number of D. The number of
Question 6: The last person ______ the room must turn off the lights.
A. to leave B. who leave C. that leave D. all are correct
Question 7: . Some countries are still lagging behind the rest of the world in the vaccine race _______ a
large number of resources diverted to advertising campaigns.
A. although B. because C. due to D. despite
Question 8: _______ youngest boy has just started going to ____ school.
A. a/ x B. x/ the C. an/ x D. the/ x
Question 9: If we had known who he was, we_____ him to speak at our meeting.
A. would have invited B. have invited C. will invite D. would invite
Question 10: : Everyone can join our club, _______age and sex.
A. in place of B. regardless of C. in case of D. on behalf of
Question 11: Remember to________your shoes when you are in a Japanese house.
A. take care B. take on C. take over D. take off
Question 12: : It is hard to get ______ him; he is such an aggressive man.
A. up to B. over to C. on with D. into

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSET in
meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Question 13: Those children who stay longer hours at school than at home tend to spend their formative
years in the company of others with similar aims and interests.

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 A. being separated from peers B. forming a new business company
C. being together with friends D. enjoying the care of parents
Question 14: The 1960s building boom in Zürich completely changed the rural landscape.
A. thoroughly B. quickly C. easily D. highly
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 15. Don't egg him on! He gets himself into enough trouble without your encouragement.
A. exploit him B. strongly encourage him
C. help him out D. discourage him
Question 16. While the theory is indeed very important, part of it is expendable and should be done
away with to make the lesson easier to understand.
A. trivial B. rare C. difficult D. necessary
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the option that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 17. Mary and Laura are talking in the class.
- Mary: “Would you like to join my wildlife protection team?”
- Laura: “ _______ ”
A. Thank you. I've always wanted to do something to help.
B. Yes, I like working for this organization very much.
C. There are so many wildlife protection teams.
D. Where is it located?
Question 18. Gothen is at Pauline’s house.
- Gothen: “Thanks for inviting me to your party.”
- Pauline: “_______.”
A. The more, the better. B. I’m glad you found it enjoyable.
C. Sorry, but you’re out! D. It doesn’t quite make sense.
Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the underline part that needs correction.
Question 19: Please remain in your seat until the plane will come to a complete stop.
A. remain B. your seat C. will come D. complete shop
Question 20: Trademarks enable a company to distinguish its products from this of another company.
A. enable B. distinguish C. this D. another

II. For questions 1-5, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided. 0 has been done as an example.

FUSSY EATERS
If there is one thing that is likely to be (0. WORRY) ____________ for first-time parents, it is a young
child’s eating problems. Most of these parents’ worries, however, are founded since the incidence of
children who do not enjoy their food is far more (1-SPREAD)____________ than the majority imagine
and the retention beyond childhood of such problems to adolescence is (2-COMPARE) ____________
rare.

There are, of course, cases which have perished into adulthood and those which appear to be more than
just a (3-PASS)____________ phase. In these cases, professional guidence has to be sought.

Up to now, psychiatrists have categorized nine distinct types of eating (4-ORDER)____________, each
with its own particular treatment. The least serious of these is selective eating, when the child displays
his/her (5- WILL)____________ to try anything but a narrow range of foods. This affects about 12% of
three-year-olds but it rarely persists. The most serious is persuasive refusal syndrome, which affects only
a handful of people and requires psychiatric supervision and treatment.

Your answers:
0. worrying
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III. Fill in each blank with one of the provided particles to form a phrasal verb. Use each provided
particle ONCE ONLY.
THROUGH – ACROSS – OFF – INTO – UP
1. I was surfing the Web when I came ___________ a site that had lots of information about my favourite
band.
2. I invited a lot of people to my party, but only a few showed ___________.
3. One of the miracles of nature is the way a caterpillar turns ___________ a butterfly.
4. The photocopier is giving ___________ a funny smell.
5. I had expected my plans for starting a restaurant to be a success but it all fell ___________.

PART C: READING (6.0 points)

I. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. (1.0 points)

Paper or Computer?

A. Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the
Western world uses more paper today, on a per- capita basis, than it did ten years ago. The consumption
of uncoated free-sheet paper, for instance the most common kind of office paper — rose almost fifteen
per cent in the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken as evidence of how hard it is
to eradicate old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we are to the efficiencies offered by
computerization. A number of cognitive psychologists and ergonomics experts, however, don’t agree.
Paper has persisted, they argue, for very good reasons: when it comes to performing certain kinds of
cognitive tasks, paper has many advantages over computers. The dismay people feel at the sight of a
messy desk — or the spectacle of air-traffic controllers tracking flights through notes scribbled on paper
strips – arises from a fundamental confusion about the role that paper plays in our lives.

B. The case for paper is made most eloquently in “The Myth of the Paperless Office”, by two social
scientists, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. They begin their book with an account of a study they
conducted at the International Monetary Fund, in Washington, D.c. Economists at the I.M.F. spend most
of their time writing reports on complicated economic questions, work that would seem to be perfectly
suited to sitting in front of a computer. Nonetheless, the I.M.F. is awash in paper, and Sellen and Harper
wanted to find out why. Their answer is that the business of writing reports – at least at the I.M.F. is an
intensely collaborative process, involving the professional judgments and contributions of many people.
The economists bring drafts of reports to conference rooms, spread out the relevant pages, and negotiate
changes with one other. They go back to their offices and jot down comments in the margin, taking
advantage of the freedom offered by the informality of the handwritten note. Then they deliver the
annotated draft to the author in person, taking him, page by page, through the suggested changes. At the
end of the process, the author spreads out all the pages with comments on his desk and starts to enter them
on the computer — moving the pages around as he works, organizing and reorganizing, saving and
discarding.

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C. Without paper, this kind of collaborative and iterative work process would be much more difficult.
According to Sellen and Harper, paper has a unique set of “affordances” — that is, qualities that permit
specific kinds of uses. Paper is tangible: we can pick up a document, flip through it, read little bits here
and there, and quickly get a sense of it. Paper is spatially flexible, meaning that we can spread it out and
arrange it in the way that suits US best. And it’s tailorable: we can easily annotate it, and scribble on it as
we read, without altering the original text. Digital documents, of course, have then own affordances. They
can be easily searched, shared, stored, accessed remotely, and linked to other relevant material. But they
lack the affordances that really matter to a group of people working together on a report. Sellen and
Harper write:

D. Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance, the top of your desk. Chances are that
you have a keyboard and a computer screen off to one side, and a clear space roughly eighteen inches
square in front of your chair. What covers the rest of the desktop is probably piles- piles of papers,
journals, magazines, binders, postcards, videotapes, and all the other artifacts of the knowledge economy.
The piles look like a mess, but they aren’t. When a group at Apple Computer studied piling behavior
several years ago, they found that even the most disorderly piles usually make perfect sense to the piler,
and that office workers could hold forth in great detail about the precise history and meaning of thefr
piles. The pile closest to the cleared, eighteen-inch-square working area, for example, generally represents
the most urgent business, and within that pile the most important document of all is likely to be at the top.
Piles are living, breathing archives. Over time, they get broken down and resorted, sometimes
chronologically and sometimes thematically and sometimes chronologically and thematically; clues about
certain documents may be physically embedded in the file by, say, stacking a certain piece of paper at an
angle or inserting dividers into the stack.

E. But why do we pile documents instead of filing them? Because piles represent the process of active,
ongoing thinking. The psychologist Alison Kidd, whose research Sellen and Harper refer to extensively,
argues that “knowledge workers” use the physical space of the desktop to hold “ideas which they cannot
yet categorize or even decide how they might use.” The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of
disorganization. It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with many unresolved ideas
simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they haven’t yet sorted and filed the
ideas in their head. Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as
contextual cues to’’ recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay” when they come in on
a Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look
at the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.

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Questions 1 - 6: The first six paragraphs of reading passage are lettered A-F. Choose the most
suitable headings for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below.

(There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.)

Paragraphs Lists of Headings

1. Paragraph A ii. piles can be more inspiring rather than disorgnising

2. Paragraph B iii. Favorable situation that economists used paper pages

3. Paragraph C iv. overview of an unexpected situation: paper survived

4. Paragraph D v. comparison between efficiencies for using paper and using computer

5. Paragraph E vi. IMF’ paperless office seemed to be a waste of papers

vii. example of failure for avoidance of paper record

viii. There are advantages of using a paper in offices

ix. piles reflect certain characteristics in people’ thought

x. joy of having the paper square in front of computer

Your answers:

1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______

II. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions (2 points)
Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers
than ever before, the number of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a
solution to this problem, they often try some of the popular fad diets being offered. Many people see fad
diets as innocuous ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only
don’t fad diets usually do the trick, they can actually be dangerous for your health.
Although permanent weight loss is the goal, few are able to achieve it. Experts estimate that 95
percent of dieters return to their starting weight, or even add weight. While the reckless use of fad diets
can bring some initial results, long-term results are very rare.
Nonetheless, people who are fed up with the difficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to
fad diets. Rather than being moderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes. They advise eating
only one type of food, or they prohibit other types of foods entirely. This results in a situation where a
person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and other things that it needs to stay healthy.
One popular fad diet recommends eating lots of meat and animal products, while nearly eliminating
carbohydrates. A scientific study from Britain found that this diet is very high in fat. According to the
study, the increase of damaging fats in the blood can lead to heart disease and, in extreme cases, kidney
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failure. Furthermore, diets that are too low in carbohydrates can cause the body to use its own muscle for
energy. The less muscle you have, the less food you use up, and the result is slower weight loss.
Veteran dieters may well ask at this point, “What is the ideal diet?” Well, to some extent, it depends
on the individual. A United States government agency has determined that to change your eating habits
requires changing your psychology of eating, and everyone has a different psychology. That being said,
the British study quoted above recommends a diet that is high in carbohydrates and high in fiber, with
portions of fatty foods kept low. According to the study, such a diet is the best for people who want to
stay healthy, lose weight, and keep that weight off. And, any dieting program is best undertaken with a
doctor’s supervision
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Question 1. What is the author’s main point?
A. Reckless fat dieting probably takes weight off the fastest.
B. Most people shouldn’t try to lose weight
C. High-protein diets can make you sick.
D. Fad diets are ineffective and unsafe; high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets are best.
Question 2. According to the passage, why are there more overweight people nowadays?
A. They are using fad diets. B. They spend a lot of time in front of computers.
C. They have heart disease. D. They are eating more protein than ever before.
Question 3. After losing weight by dieting, what usually happens to people?
A. they have kidney failure B. they gain weight back again
C. they keep the weight off D. they have less muscle
Question 4. Which of the following best expresses the essential information in paragraph 3?
A. Fed up people turn to fad diets, which, being too extreme, don’t give the body everything it needs.
B. People are fed up with fad diets and turn to diets which provide what the body needs.
C. People prefer fad dieting to moderate dieting because it requires fewer foods to give the body what it
needs.
D. Fad diets give fed up people the moderate dietary changes they need to get all the required vitamins.
Question 5. Which is not mentioned as an effect of the meat and animal product diet?
A. heart disease B. slower weight loss C. psychological changes D. kidney failure
Question 6. According to the passage, why does the ideal diet depend in the individual?
A. The less muscle you have, the less food you use up.
B. Everyone can gain weight back.
C. Everyone has a different psychology.
D. Everyone likes different food.
Question 7. According to the passage, what diet does a British study recommend?
A. a meat and animal product diet
B. a diet high in carbohydrates, low in fiber, and high in fat.
C. a fad diet but with healthier foods.
D. a diet high in carbohydrates, low in fiber, and low in fat.
Question 8. The word “ innocuous” in the paragraph 1 can be best replaced by .
A. helpful B. harmless C. effective D. beneficial
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Question 9. What does the word “this’ in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. changing eating habits. B. that people change their habits.
C. extreme dietary change D. eating one type of food.
Question 10. What does the writer imply in the last paragraph?
A. There are many different ways of dieting
B. The best way of dieting is psychological.
C. There is no such a thing called best diet for all.
D. Dieting takes a lot of psychology.

III. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct word or phrase that best fits the numbered blanks (2 points)

Postsecondary institutions and private schools are corporations under U.S. law. They are approved to
operate as non-profit, for-profit, or public corporations (1)______ education and training. Increasingly,
state authorities are requiring approved educational providers to apply (2)______ and receive
accreditation as a condition of final and continued approval.
As corporate entities, U.S. institutions are internally self-governing and are (3)______ to make
property, facilities, equipment, and utilities transactions; make their own personnel decisions; decide
whom to admit to study and to graduate; (4)______ their own funds from outside sources; enter into
contracts and compete for grants; and do most of the other things that corporations do. Institutions
compete (5)______ one another for students, research funding, faculty, and other benefits. Public
institutions may compete within the same state or territory for budget appropriations. It is the corporate
nature of institutions and the competition within the system that (6)_____ Americans to refer to the
concept of the educational or academic marketplace - an important distinctive element of the way U.S.
education is organized.
Some institutions are governed (7)______ under multi-campus arrangements. These include most
local public schools (governed by school districts) and many state community college and university
systems. Whether single- or multi-campus, institutional corporations (8)______ by boards of citizens,
both alumni and non-alumni, who are ultimately responsible for all operations. They appoint senior
(9)______, such as
principals, headmasters, presidents, and deans; and approve the actions taken (10)______ their name.
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Question 1. A. provided B. provision C. provide D. providing
Question 2. A. with B. on C. to D. for
Question 3. A. able B. capable C. probable D. possible
Question 4. A. call B. lend C. raise D. rise
Question 5. A. for B. with C. at D. to
Question 6. A. causes B. makes C. prevents D. lets
Question 7. A. collect B. collectively C. collective D. collection
Question 8. A. controlled B. are controlling C. are controlled D. being controlled
Question 9. A. leaders B. assistants C. judges D. trainees
Question 10. A. in B. on C. above D. at
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 PART D: WRITING (5.0 points)
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it. Write your answers in the spaces provided. (1.5 points)
1. She regrets not studying hard enough for the final examination.
 She wishes _______________________________________________.
2. They believe that the room was badly decorated.
 The room _______________________________________________.
3. I fully intend to find out who is responsible for the graffiti.
 I have every ______________________________________________.
4. It’s sad, but unemployment is unlikely to go down this year
 Sad _____________________________________________________.
5. I was not surprised to hear that Harry had failed his driving test.
 It came ___________________________________________________.

II. Rewrite the following sentences with the given words in such a way that the second sentence has the
same meaning as the first one. Do not change the form of the words in brackets. (1.5 p)
1. She can’t stand her toothache, so she goes to see the dentist. (PUT)
 She goes to see the dentist as she can’t ______________________________ her toothache.
2. A foreign manager is running our restaurant at the moment. (RUN)
 Our restaurant ________________________________ a foreign manager at the moment.
3. The fast food Linda eats affects her health badly. (EFFECT)
 The fast food Linda eats _________________________________ her health.
4. On Monday last week I met one of my friends by chance at the stadium. (CAME)
 On Monday last week I ________________________________ mine at the supermarket.
5. Robert offered her a lift in his new car, but she didn’t accept. (TURNED)
 She ______________________________ offer of a lift in his new car.
III. Essay writing (2.0 points)
Write an essay (200 – 220 words) about the following topic:
The world grows more connected through social networks. Therefore, many people think that school
students should be allowed to use mobile phones in class.
Do you agree with the above point of view?
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