SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH VÀO LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN

BẮC NINH NĂM HỌC 2023-2024

Môn thi: Tiếng Anh (dành cho thí sinh thi chuyên Tiếng Anh)
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
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(Đề thi có 11 trang)

Họ và tên thí sinh:.................................................................................... Số báo danh:.................................

II. You will hear a woman, Vanessa, talking about a journey she made with her husband, Robert, and
her baby, Ben. Listen and choose the best answer A, B, or C for each of the following questions. (5.0
points)
1. What did Vanessa and Robert decide to do last year?
A. Get married.
B. Travel to England by boat.
C. Travel to Hong Kong by boat.
2. Vanessa was worried that _______.
A. they wouldn't be prepared
B. the living space would be too small
C. the baby would get ill
3. How did Vanessa feel when they reached Singapore?
A. She wondered if she should fly home.
B. She was worried about the boat.
C. She enjoyed the break from travelling.
4. Why was Vanessa's father-in-law particularly helpful?
A. He was a good cook.
B. He looked after the baby.
C. He helped to sail the boat.
5. Because of spending so much time on the boat, the baby ________.
A. learnt to walk late
B. doesn't play by himself
C. only likes a certain kind of food
PART C. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (25 POINTS)
I. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete the sentence in each of the following questions.
(10.0 points)
1. _______ precipitation events have produced more rain and become more common since the 1950s in
many regions of the world, including much of the United States.
A. Extreme B. Supreme C. Utmost D. Drastic
2. _______ one after another, parallel computers perform a group of operations at the same time.
A. Conventional computers, by handling tasks
B. Since tasks being handled by conventional computers
C. Whereas conventional computers handle tasks
D. While tasks handled by conventional computers
3. The storm _______ havoc on trains and highways, making it unlikely thousands of investors and
traders would arrive at work.
A. made B. executed C. wreaked D. exercised
4. He was a great athlete when he was younger. He now still _______ had it not been for that accident.
A. would have been B. had been C. will be D. would be
5. Your _______ depends on such things as your genes, behaviors, attitudes, environment, and a little bit
of luck.
A. expectancy B. longevity C. endurance D. durability
6. More and more investors are pouring ________ money into food and beverage start-ups.
A. an B. the C. no article D. a
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7. Giving up smoking is just one of the ways to _______ heart disease.
A. push off B. put off C. ward off D. brush off
8. Only by reducing its brightness and shutting down apps running in the background ______ in 20 hours.
A. you can prevent this iPhone from going dead
B. can you prevent this iPhone from going dead
C. you prevent this iPhone going dead
D. can you prevent this iPhone from not going dead
9. Fixed term employment, also known as contract work, is used for single projects or to replace workers
on ________.
A. permission B. leave C. break D. absence
10. Uneducated people, the kind ______ lack information about life, themselves, and the world, make
poor choices in their life.
A. who B. whose C. which D. whom
11. ______, they remained optimistic.
A. Though fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial his lawyers were
B. Fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial as his lawyers were
C. Fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial as were his lawyers
D. Despite fairly unsure about the final outcome of the trial his lawyers were
12. Emma: "I love your gardens. The plants are well taken care of!"
Dennis: "Thanks. Yes, I suppose I've always ________.”
A. had a good root round B. had green fingers
C. been up a gum tree D. taken leave of my senses
13. Some teachers have a tendency to _______ preference to students with disadvantaged backgrounds
such as poor and handicapped students.
A. lend B. give C. deliver D. send
14. The residents living in this area were warned not to be extravagant with water, _______ the low
rainfall this year.
A. in view of B. with a view to C. regardless of D. for fear that
15. I will never forget the look of _______ joy on her face at the time her boyfriend gave her his proposal.
A. deep B. steep C. high D. sheer
16. The skyscraper, _______ with multi-colored lights, looked incredible.
A. illuminating B. illuminated C. was illuminated D. illuminate
17. _______ a parent, I think that more should be done to protect our children.
A. Like B. As C. Unlike D. Alike
18. Christine is inviting Gillian to dinner.
Christine: "I'm having some friends over for dinner this Saturday. Would you like to join us?"
Gillian: "_________”
A. Can I take a rain check? B. Come on. It's your turn.
C. Thanks, but I mustn't. D. As a matter of fact, I do.
19. Joyce wants to talk to Mr. Smith, but he is not in the office at the moment. She is talking to his
secretary instead.
Joyce: "May I leave a message for Mr. Smith?"
Secretary: “ __________”
A. Not a chance. B. That's very kind of you.
C. I can't agree more. D. Yes, I'll make sure he gets it.
20. People should not have children unless they are _______ to being responsible parents.
A. allowed B. involved C. committed D. promised

III. Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each of the following sentences. (5.0
points)
1. The ______________ of the education system in Finland is famous all over Europe. EFFICIENT
2. A(n) ______________ boom in tourism brought sudden prosperity to the town. PRECEDE
3. The talks were totally _____________ .We didn't reach agreement on anything. PRODUCE
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4. Police are trained to be _____________ and to remember details. OBSERVE
5. Bullying among school children can cause _____________ of school, which can HATE
impact their academic development.
6. He quit his job at Cornell, ending a(n) ______________ academic career. DISTINGUISH
7. During the 18th century, land was cheap, grain was plentiful, and meat was ABOUND
______________
8. Her contribution to the overall success of the project was ____________ important. MEASURE
9. He won the discus event at the Olympic Games but was later _____________ when QUALIFY
a medical check proved that he had been taking drugs.
10. The truth is that ___________recycling protects markets as well as the environment. OBLIGE

IV. The passage below contains FIVE mistakes. Identify the mistakes and give the corrections on your
answer sheet. (5.0 points)
Example: Line 1: in  of
Line Passage
1 Many in us thought the world had four oceans - the Atlantic, Indian, Pacific and Arctic Oceans.
2 That's which we were taught in school. Moreover, a search on the Internet will show that there is
3 also a "Southern Ocean" around the South Pole and Antarctica. The National Geographic Society
4 has now officially accepted that this body of water around Antarctica is a real ocean. Geography
5 teachers will now have to teach their students that the world has five oceans.
6 National Geographic said its recognition of the world have a fifth ocean would have an impact
7 on how children see the world. Alex Tait, a geographer and cartographer at National
8 Geographic, said that realizing the Southern Ocean would help students understand more about
9 climate change. National Geographic added that: "The Southern Ocean has unique and fragile
10 marine ecosystems that are home for wonderful marine life such as whales, penguins and seals."

PART D. READING (25 POINTS)

I. Read the text below and fill each blank with ONE suitable word. (10.0 points)
The air above our head is becoming cleaner. A (1) _________ of fresh air has been running right round
the planet for the past five years. The planet is apparently purging itself of pollution. Paul Novell of the
University of Colorado, the co-author of a report on this phenomenon says, “It seems as if the planet’s own
cleaning service has suddenly got a new lease of (2) _________. Suddenly, there are a lot of changes going on
up there”.
Estimates of the death (3) _________ from urban smog have been steadily rising, so the new cleaner
trend could have significant consequences for life expectancy in cities as well as for the planet itself. The
sudden and unexpected reversal of several decades of worsening pollution (4) _________ from the air in city
streets to the remotest mid-Pacific Ocean and Antarctica.
(5) _________ the pollutants which have begun to disappear from the atmosphere are carbon monoxide,
from car exhaust and burning rain forests, and methane from the guts of cattle, paddy fields, and gas fields.
Even carbon dioxide, the main gas behind global warming, has fallen slightly.
There are two theories about why pollution is disappearing. First, there is (6) ________ pollution to
start with due to laws to cut down urban smog and acid rain starting to have a global impact. Second, that the
planet may be becoming more efficient at cleaning up.
The main planetary clean-up agent is a chemical (7) _________ hydroxyl. It is present throughout the
atmosphere in tiny quantities and removes most pollutants from the air by oxidizing (8) _________. The amount
of hydroxyl in the air has fallen (9) _________ a quarter in the 1980s. Now it may be reviving for two reasons:
ironically, because the ozone hole has expanded, letting in more ultraviolet radiation into the lower atmosphere,
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where it manufactures hydroxyl. Then the stricter controls on vehicle exhausts in America and Europe may have
cut global carbon monoxide emissions, (10) ________ allowing more hydroxyl to clean up other pollutants.

II. Read the text below and choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. (5.0
points)
It is (1) _______ hot in the Eldorado Valley in Nevada, USA. In midsummer, temperatures regularly (2)
_______ 45 degrees centigrade. That’s why farmers have no choice but to wake up early. To get a day’s work
done before the heat becomes (3) _______, they have to be out in the fields soon after dawn. The heat also
explains why this is the perfect place to construct a solar power plant. Concentrated solar power (CSP) works by
using special mirrors (4) _______ focus the rays of the sun onto a chamber full of oil. This oil then (5) _______
up to a temperature of almost 400 degrees centigrade. Steam from the hot oil is then used to (6) _______
electricity. Although the technology works, it has been difficult to get people interested in it because this is a
relatively expensive way of producing electricity. This situation (7) _______ fast, however, thanks to the rising
cost of traditional methods of producing electricity. As a result, some people now (8) _______ CSP as the best
type of renewable energy for the future. CSP works best where the sun is constantly very hot, (9) _______
deserts where very few people live. Compared with alternatives such as wind and wave energy, (10) _______, it
has less impact on people’s lives, on wildlife or on the environment.
1. A. hospitably B. extremely C. moderately D. violently
2. A. fetch B. access C. meet D. reach
3. A. improper B. inevitable C. unbearable D. impassable
4. A. what B. that C. who D. where
5. A. burns B. goes C. heats D. rises
6. A. generate B. supply C. assemble D. develop
7. A. will have changed B. had changed C. changed D. is changing
8. A. refer B. believe C. regard D. deliver
9. A. nearly B. almost C. most D. mostly
10. A. however B. therefore C. nonetheless D. whereas

III. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to
each of the following questions. (10.0 points)
We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. In his book Counting Sheep, Paul Martin – a
behavioural biologist – describes a society which is just too busy to sleep and which does not give
sleeping the importance it deserves.
Modern society has invented reasons not to sleep. We are now a 24/7 society where shops and services
must be available all hours. We spend longer hours at work than we used to, and more time getting to work.
Mobile phones and email allow us to stay in touch round the clock and late-night TV and the Internet tempt us
away from our beds. When we need more time for work or pleasure, the easy solution is to sleep less. The
average adult sleeps only 6.2 hours a night during the week, whereas research shows that most people need
eight or even eight and a half hours’ sleep to feel at their best. Nowadays, many people have got used to
sleeping less than they need and they live in an almost permanent state of “sleep debt”.
Until the invention of the electric light in 1879 our daily cycle of sleep used to depend on the hours of
daylight. People would get up with the sun and go to bed at nightfall. But nowadays our hours of sleep are
mainly determined by our working hours (or our social life) and most people are woken up artificially by an
alarm clock. During the day caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, helps to keep us awake. 75% of the world’s
population habitually consume caffeine, which up to a point masks the symptoms of sleep deprivation.
What does a chronic lack of sleep do to us? As well as making us irritable and unhappy as humans, it
also reduces our motivation and ability to work. This has serious implications for society in general. Doctors, for
example, are often chronically sleep deprived, especially when they are on “night call” and may get less than
Three hours’ sleep. Lack of sleep can seriously impair their mood, judgment, and ability to take decisions. Tired
engineers, in the early hours of the morning, made a series of mistakes with catastrophic results. On our roads
and motorways lack of sleep kills thousands of people every year. Tests show that a tired driver can be just as
dangerous as a drunken driver. However, driving when drunk is against the law but driving when exhausted
isn’t. As Paul Martin says, it is very ironic that we admire people who function on very little sleep instead of
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criticizing them for being irresponsible. Our world would be a much safer, happier place if everyone, whatever
their job, slept eight hours a night.
1. Which of the following could best serve as the title of the passage?
A. Accident Prevention: Urgent! B. Sleep Deprivation: Causes and Effects
C. A Society of Sleepless People D. A 24/7 Society and “Sleep Debt”
2. The phrase “round the clock” in second paragraph is similar in meaning to ______.
A. surrounded with clocks B. having a round clock
C. during the daytime D. all day and night
3. The writer mentions the Internet in the passage as ______.
A. a temptation that prevents us from sleeping
B. an easy solution to sleep deprivation
C. an ineffective means of communication
D. a factor that is not related to sleep deprivation
4. According to the third paragraph, which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A. Our social life has no influence on our hours of sleep.
B. The sun obviously determined our daily routines.
C. The electric light was invented in the 19th century.
D. The electric light has changed our daily cycle of sleep.
5. The word “which” in the third paragraph refers to ______.
A. reaching a point B. masking the symptoms
C. the world’s population D. caffeine consumption
6. Which of the following is TRUE, according to the last paragraph?
A. Doctors ‘on night call’ do not need more than three hours of sleep a day.
B. Our motivation decreases with the bigger number of hours we sleep.
C. Sleep deprivation has negative effects on both individuals and society.
D. Thousands of people are killed every day by drunken drivers.
7. The word “catastrophic” in the last paragraph probably means ______.
A. bound to bring satisfaction B. becoming more noticeable
C. causing serious damage or loss D. likely to become worthless
8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Driving when exhausted is against the law.
B. Both drunken drivers and sleep-deprived people should be criticized.
C. There is no point in criticizing irresponsible people in our society.
D. We certainly can function well even when we hardly sleep.
9. All of the following are mentioned as those whose performance is affected by ‘sleep debt’ EXCEPT______.
A. doctors B. drivers C. biologists D. engineers
10. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE about Paul Martin?
A. He shows his concern for sleep deprivation in modern society.
B. He gives an interesting account of a sleepless society.
C. He is a scientist who is chronically deprived of sleep.
D. He describes the modern world as a place without insomnia.

PART E. WRITING (25 POINTS)

1. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the similar meaning to the sentence
printed before. (5.0 points)
1. They produce a lot of paper, so they need a lot of wood pulp.
 The more ________________________________________________________________________
2. If anyone succeeds in solving the problem, it will probably be him.
 He is the most ____________________________________________________________________
3. Our science correspondence sees this new invention as the answer to many of our problems.
 According to _____________________________________________________________________
4. It was difficult to understand her colleagues’ open hostility towards her proposal.
 That her colleagues ________________________________________________________________
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5. He was so enthusiastic that he apparently ignored any warning signs.
 Such ___________________________________________________________________________

II. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
in bold given in brackets. DO NOT change the word given. (5.0 points)
1. I didn’t follow the speech exactly, but I understood the general meaning of what was being said. (DRIFT)
 I _______________________________________________________________________________
2. Don’t you remember anything about your lifetime in London as a child? (RECOLLECTION)
 Haven’t _________________________________________________________________________
3. Any correspondence from the Canberra office must be dealt with before other matters. (PRIORITY)
 Any ____________________________________________________________________________
4. It was the Olympic Games that really made Seoul famous. (MAP)
 It ______________________________________________________________________________
5. She is determined to become a professional dancer. (HEART)
 She ____________________________________________________________________________