TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN - ĐIỆN ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI

BIÊN NĂM 2023

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI 10

I. LISTENING (50 POINTS)

Part 1.For questions 1-5, listen to a talk on temporary jobs available at a local
ice cream factory and complete the table with the missing information. Write
NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording for
each answer in the space provided. (10.pt)

Position Salary Requirements/Duties Benefits

Food taster £15.30 A (1)________job Take part in
Possess satisfatory tasting skills (2)________

(3)________ £8.45 Deal with packaging and labelling Extra pay

Being (4)________ is crucial

Office (5)_______ Prepare reports, manage the customer Proper training

assistant _ database

Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to a conversation between a university tutor

and two students of literature and decide whether these statements are True
(T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided. (10.pt)
6. People who translate novels into their own language tend to produce a better product.
7. Misunderstanding is no longer the case if the translator is a native speaker.
8. Writers tend to produce a translation that reflects their own writing style.
9. There isa problem in the way spoken languages in Zola’s books has been translated.
10. Literary translation makes the study of literature much broader.

Part 3. For questions 11-15, listen to a discussion on expectations in today’s job

market and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to
what your hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.(10.pt)
11. How does Diane Webber view “job for life”?
A. She regrets the fact that this situation is no longer the norm.
B. She feels that many long-serving employees fail to make a useful contribution.
C.She believes that people should have challenged their employers’ motives more.
D. She wishes the workplace had been more secure in the past.
12. According to Diane, younger workers in today’s workplace _________.
A. learn all the skills they need early on.
B. accept lateral moves if they are attractive.
C. expect to receive benefits right from the start.
D. change jobs regularly to achieve a higher level.
13. What does Diane say about continuity in companies?
A. It is desirable in both junior and senior management.
B. It is impossible to achieve in today’s more competitive environment.
C. It is unimportant, due to the greater emphasis on teamwork.
D. It is necessary, but only up to a point.
14. According to Diane, what is the actual benefit of higher levels of personnel movement?
A. Higher levels of output. B. Better problem-solving.
C. More creativity. D. Greater efficiency.
15. Diane considers that nowadays companies are at most risk from
A. run-of-the-mill employees who play safe.
B. successful high-fliers who quickly move on.
C. unreliable staff who lack commitment.
D. external advisors who have undue power.

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Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a report on trends in technology in 2018
and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided.
(20.pt)
- The top ten (16)_______________________are key trends that the enterprise cannot afford to
ignore.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning is a foundation component of all of the
applications and services and things in our world around us which lead us to the two
(17)_________________________: Intelligent apps and analytics and intelligent things. Think of
intelligent user interface with things like (18) ______________________.
- Think of intelligent actions so your applications themselves have improved (19)
________________________ and look at how AI improves the business intelligence and (20)
______________________ for end users.
- Think of that term AI not just as artificial intelligence and robotic things replacing people
but think (21)_______________________________ and assisting humans.
- Multiple intelligent things: (22) ________________________, robots and autonomous vehicles
working cooperatively together.
(23)________________________ are the digital representations of the real-world things.
- The next trend is cloud to the edge. Edge computing and using the processing power at
the edge of these edge devices can act as (24)________________________.
- We’ve got to think of this distributed computing environment and finally the last two
trends are looking at conversational systems and (25)________________________.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (40 POINTS)
For questions 1-20 , choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the
following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.
1. The whole movie was filmed on_____in the Southern Indian.
A. site B.location C. spot D. venue
2. Eventually the list of candidates for the job was_____down to three.
A. lowered B. decreased C. narrowed D. dropped
3. The doctor gave the patient a(n)_____examination to discover the cause of his collapse.
A. thorough B. universal C. exact D. whole
4. Dana bought a lot of_____drinks such as lemonade and orangeade.
A. frozen B. fresh C. flat D. fizzy
5. What he told me was a_____of lies.
A. pack B. load C. mob D. flock
6. Candace would_____her little sister into an argumentby teasing her and calling her
names. A. advocate B.provoke C. prompt D.
trigger
7. If you are on a diet, you should_____honey for sugar in your tea.
A. change B. substitute C. replace D. convert
8. The heavy rain lashed on_____throughout the night without letting up.
A. continually B. continuously C. perpetually D. eternally
9. Due to the computer, malfunction all our data was lost. So unhappily, we had to begin
all the calculations from_____.
A. onset B. source C. original D. scratch
10. It was Martainwho_____the initiative in introducing our guests to the princess.
A. adopted B. took C. led D. pursued
11.The doctors are examining the dog_________ the child for rabies, which is a dangerous
disease_________ immediate treatment.
A. biting/ requiring B. bitten/ required C. biting/ required D. bitten/ requiring
12. –“Many species of animals have become extinct. What are the reasons?”
–“Well, ________many species of animals have become extinct.”
A. The reasons of that B. Many reasons for which
C. Many reasons that D. There are many reasons for
which
13________ the fifth largest among the nine planets that make up our solar system.
A. The Earth is B. The Earth being C. That the Earth is D. Being the
Earth
14. John lost the________ bicycle he bought last week and his parents were very angry

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with him because of his carelessness .
A. Japanese beautiful new blue B. beautiful Japanese blue new
C. new beautiful blue Japanese D. beautiful new blue Japanese
15.________, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Thanks to the difficult homework B. Despite the homework was difficult
C. Difficult as the homework was D. As though the homework was
difficult
16. But for television, people in rural areas ______.
A. wouldn’t have had anything for entertainment at night.
B. wouldn’t have anything for entertainment at night.
C. would have had anything for entertainment at night.
D. won’t have anything for entertainment at night.
17. Not until the Triassic Period _____.
A. the first primitive mammals develop B. did develop the first primitive
mammals
C. the first primitive mammals did develop D.did the first primitive mammals
develop
18. .She tries to be serious, but she _______ laughing.
A.couldn’t afford B.couldn’t intend C.couldn’t help D.couldn’t
tend
19. ________________, he left the hallquickly.
A. Not be rewarded withasmile B. Not rewarding with asmile
C. Not having rewarded witha smile D. Not being rewarded with asmile
20. He ______ to the doctor after the accident, but he continued to play instead.
A. must have gone B.couldn’t go C.didn’t have to go D.should have gone

III. READING (60 POINTS)

Part 1. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. (15pt)
Communicating in Colour
A. There are more than 160 known species of chameleons. The main distribution is in
Africa Madagascar, and other tropical regions, although some species are also found in
parts of southern Europe and Asia. There are introduced populations in Hawaii and
probably in California and Florida too.

B. New species are still discovered quite frequently. Dr Andrew Marshall, a

conservationist from York University, was surveying monkeys in Tanzania, when he
stumbled across a twig snake in the Magombera forest which, frightened, coughed up
a chameleon and fled. Though a colleague persuaded him not to touch it because of
the risk from the venom, Marshall suspected it might be a new species and took a
photograph to send to colleagues, who confirmed his suspicions.
Kinyongiamagomherae , literally “the chameleon from Magombera”, is the result, and
the fact it was not easy to identify is precisely what made it unique. The most
remarkable feature of chameleons is their ability to change colour, an ability rivalled
only by cuttlefish and octopi in the animal kingdom. Because of this, colour is not the
best thing for telling chameleons apart and different species are usually identified
based on the patterning and shape of the head, and the arrangement of scales. In this
case it was the bulge of scales on the chameleon’s nose.

C. Chameleons are able to use colour for both communication and camouflage by
switching from bright, showy colours to the exact colour of a twig within seconds. They
show an extraordinary range of colours, from nearly black to bright blues, oranges,
pinks and greens, even several at once. A popular misconception is that chameleons
can match whatever background they are placed on, whether a chequered red and
yellow shirt or a Smartie box. But each species has a characteristic set of cells
containing pigment distributed over their bodies in a specific pattern, which
determines the range of colours and patterns they can show. To the great
disappointment of many children, placing a chameleon on a Smartie box generally
results in a stressed, confused, dark grey or mottled chameleon.

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D. Chameleons are visual animals with excellent eyesight, and they communicate with
colour. When two male dwarf chameleons encounter each other, each shows its
brightest colours. They puff out their throats and present themselves side-on with their
bodies flattened to appear as large as possible and to show off their colours. This
enables them to assess each other from a distance. If one is clearly superior, the other
quickly changes to submissive colouration, which is usually a dull combination of
greys or browns.

E. If the opponents are closely matched and both maintain their bright colours, the
contest can escalate to physical fighting and jaw-locking, each trying to push each
other along the branch in a contest of strength. Eventually, the loser will signal his
defeat with submissive colouration. Females also have aggressive displays used to
repel male attempts at courtship. When courting a female, males display the same
bright colours that they use during contests. Most of the time, females are unreceptive
and aggressively reject males by displaying a contrasting light and dark colour pattern,
with their mouths open and moving their bodies rapidly from side to side. If the male
continues to court a female, she often chases and bites him until he retreats. The
range of colour change during female displays, although impressive, is not as great as
that shown by males.

F. Many people assume that colour change evolved to enable chameleons to match a
greater variety of backgrounds in their environment. If this was the case, then the
ability of chameleons to change colour should be associated with the range of
background colours in the chameleons habitat, but there is no evidence for such a
pattern. For example, forest habitats might have a greater range of brown and green
background colours than grasslands, so forest-dwelling species might be expected to
have greater powers of colour change. Instead, the males whose display colours are
the most eye-catching show the greatest colour change. Their displays are composed
of colours that contrast highly with each other as well as with the background
vegetation. This suggests that the species that evolved the most impressive capacities
for colour change did so to enable them to intimidate rivals or attract mates rather
than to facilitate camouflage.

G. How do we know that chameleon display colours are eye-catching to another

chameleon – or, for that matter, to a predatory bird? Getting a view from the
perspective of chameleons or their bird predators requires information on the
chameleons’ or birds’ visual systems and an understanding of how their brains might
process visual information. This is because the perceived colour of an object depends
as much on the brain’s wiring as on the physical properties of the object itself. Luckily,
recent scientific advances have made it possible to obtain such measurements in the
field, and information on the visual systems of a variety of animals is becoming
increasingly available.

Questions 1 – 3. Choose the correct answer according to the reading text. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

1. Which situation can be inferred from the passage that a chameleons will display the
most eye-catching colour?
A. When a chameleon hides in a bush after beating by another competitor.
B. When a male dwarf rejected by a female chameleon.
C. When a rival shows his contrast colour to the background.
D. When a chameleon moving into a forest habitat from grassland.
2. Which one purpose is NOT mentioned as the case that a chameleons will change its
colour?
A. When a defeated chameleon changes into a submissive coloration.
B. When a lurking chameleon want to hide its coloration in background avoid
being attacked by a bird.
C. When a female chameleon wants to discourage having sex with a male.
D. The chameleons in competition with an exaggerated size.

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3. The word “submissive” in the reading text (paragraph D) is closest in meaning to
______________.
A. docile B. ceased C. luxuriant D.
pusillanimous

Part 3. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each
question. (15 pts)
Earthquakes are among the most destructive natural disasters. They usually (1)
_________ without any warning and often result in a great (2) ____________ of life and an
enormous demolition of buildings. In addition, earthquakes may cause devastating
landslides or create gigantic tidal waves, which in fact are colossal smashing into
seashores with such force that they are capable of destroying coastal cities. Such a
disaster happened in 2004, when an earthquake (3) ___________ the coast of Indonesia, the
country has suffered a lot of severe natural disasters in recent years, (4) ____________ a
massive tsunami that killed over 200,000 people and travellers who live and are on their
holidays there. Earthquakes (5) __________ mostly where the earth's tectonic plates meet.
Massive amounts of energy are released when two plates push towards, pull apart from or
slide past each other. (6) ________ millions happen every year, there are only a small
number that can be felt and very few that cause damage.
Most frequently, an earthquake often lasts 30 to 60 seconds so usually there is
hardly any time to (7) _____________ the mortal upshot once the shaking starts. The brutal
forces of an earthquake start a (8) _____________ chain reaction in a building's structure
when it is shaken, lifted, pushed or pulled. A building's height, its shape and construction
materials are the most significant (9) ___________ deciding about the survival or collapse of
structures and, consequently, about the life or death of (10) ___________ who live in the
areas where they take place.
(Adapted from English Advanced Vocabulary and Structure Practice by Maciej
Matasek)
1. A. hit B. strike C. fall D.
attack
2. A. cost B. damage C. harm D. loss
3. A. off B. of C. on D. at
4. A. generated B. set C. triggered D.
activated
5. A. are occurring B. occur C. occurred D. are
occurred
6. A. However B. In spite of C. Nevertheless D.
Although
7. A. avert B. evade C. abstain D.
restrain
8. A. dense B. compound C. complex D.
difficult
9. A. factors B. keys C. causes D.
reasons
10. A. settlers B. citizens C. burglars D.
inhabitants

Part 4. Read the passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each
question. (15 pts)

A folk culture is a small, isolated, cohesive, conservative, nearly self-sufficient group

that is homogeneous in custom and race, with a strong family or clan structure and
highly developed rituals. Order is maintained through sanctions based on the religion
or family, and interpersonal relationships are strong. Tradition is paramount, and
change comes infrequently and slowly. There is relatively little division of labor into
specialized duties. Rather, each person is expected to perform a great variety of tasks,
though duties may differ between the sexes. Most goods are handmade, and a
subsistence economy prevails. Individualism is weakly developed in folk cultures, as
are social classes. Unaltered folk cultures no longer exist in industrialized countries
such as the United States and Canada. Perhaps the nearest modern equivalent in

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 Anglo-America is the Amish, a German American farming sect that largely renounces
the products and labor saving devices of the industrial age.
In Amish areas, horse drawn buggies still serve as a local transportation
device, and the faithful are not permitted to own automobiles. The Amish's central
religious concept of Demuth, "humility", clearly reflects the weakness of individualism
and social class so typical of folk cultures, and there is a corresponding strength of
Amish group identity. Rarely do the Amish marry outside their sect. The religion, a
variety of the Mennonite faith, provides the principal mechanism for maintaining order.
By contrast, a popular culture is a large heterogeneous group, highly individualistic
and constantly changing. Relationships tend to be impersonal, and a pronounced division
of labor exists, leading to the establishment of many specialized professions. Secular
institutions of control such as the police and army take the place of religion and family in
maintaining order, and a money-based economy prevails. Because of these contrasts.
"popular" may be viewed as clearly different from "folk". The popular is replacing the folk
in industrialized countries and in many developing nations. Folk-made objects give way to
their popular equivalent, usually because the popular item is more quickly or cheaply
produced, is easier or time saving to use, or lends more prestige to the owner.

(Extracted from Toefl reading comprehension)

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Two decades in modern society.
B. The characteristics of "folk" and “popular” societies.
C. The influence of industrial technology.
D. The specialization of labor in Canada and the United States.
2. The word "homogeneous” in line 2 is closest in meaning to ____________.
A. uniform B. general C. primitive D. traditional
3. Which of the following is typical of folk cultures?
A. There is a money-based economy. B. Contact with other cultures is encouraged.
C. Social change occurs slowly. D. Each person develops one specialized skill.
4. What does the author imply about the United States and Canada?
A. They value folk cultures. B. They have no social classes.
C. They have popular cultures. D. They do not value individualism.
5. The phrase "largely renounces" in line 13 is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. generally rejects B. greatly modifies
C. loudly declares D. often criticizes
6. What is the main source of order in Amish society?
A. The government B. The economy
C. The clan structure D. The religion
7. Which of the following statements about Amish beliefs does the passage support?
A. A variety of religious practices is tolerated.
B. Individualism and competition are important.
C. Premodern technology is preferred.
D. People are defined according to their class.
8. The word "prevails" in line 26 is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. dominates B. provides C. develops D. invests
9. The word "their" in line 28 refer to _____________.
A. folk B. nations C. countries D. objects
10. Which of the following is NOT given as a reason why folk-made objects are replaced
by mass-produced objects?
A. Cost B. Prestige C. Quality D. Convenience

IV. WRITING
Write an essay of 350words on the following topic.

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The idea of going overseas for university study is an exciting prospect for many
people. But while it may offer some advantages, it is probably better to stay
home because of the difficulties a student inevitably encounters living and
studying in a different culture.
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Give reasons for your answer.
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