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CHUYÊN QUỐC CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC
HỌC HUẾ BỘ
LẦN THỨ XI, NĂM HỌC 2017 – 2018

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10

Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)
ĐÁP ÁN
ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT

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A. LISTENING (50 points):
Part 1. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each
answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. China 2. (the) ruling 3. colonisation 4. tourism 5. everyday
families life

Part 2. You will hear a radio discussion about children who invent imaginary
friends. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you
hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. B 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. C

Part 3. You will hear an interview which takes place on a show between the interviewer,
Michaela Robinson, a leading psychologist, Duncan Stone, and a former patient, Ian
Smith. Write T (for True) or F (for False). Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F

Part 4. You will hear part of an interview with an explorer. Complete the sentences
and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
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1. failed/ been 2. no deaths 3. the planning 4. the 5. the training/
failures equipment/ the equipment
the training
6. disease 7. without 8. the physical 9. the South 10. more food
research centre (having) enough challenge Pole
food/ without
eating enough

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and
write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. D 2. A 3. B 4. B 5. C
6. D 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. C
11. B 12. D 13. B 14. D 15. B
16. B 17. B 18. A 19. A 20. D

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes
and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

Line Mistakes Corrections

1. 2 Thus However
2. 4 discover discovered
3. 6 other another
4. 8 to for
5. 10 which when
6. 12 humid humidity
7. 14 better rather
8. 15 gallery galleries
9. 16 delayed was delayed
10 19 supervision supervising
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Part 3. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write
your answer in the box provided. (10 points)
1. off 2. on 3. over 4. in 5. with
6. for 7. from 8. through 9. away 10. back

Part 4. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your
answers in the spaces provided below. (10 points)
1. analysts 2. shelved 3. materialsed 4. irreparably 5. spacious
6. residents 7. habitable/ 8. objections 9. densely 10. architectural
inhabitable

C. READING (50 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits
each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

1. B 2. A 3. A 4. D 5. D
6. C 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. D

Part 2. Read the following text and fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write
your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
1. just 2. other 3. what 4. from/ after 5. if
6. or 7. someone/ somebody 8. into 9. Such 10. made
Part 3. Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the
following questions. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10
points)
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. D
6. C 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. B
Part 4. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. Write your answers in
corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
1. ii 2. ix 3. viii 4. iv 5. v
6. J 7. D 8. C 9. H 10. F

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D. WRITING (50 points)
Part 1. Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets so that the meaning stays
the same. You must use between TWO and SIX words, including the word given.
(10 points)
1. a far cry from
2. whose parents are up in arms
3. is getting on top of
4. lock horns with
5. caught in the act of driving
Part 2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the
same as the sentence printed before it, beginning as shown. (10 points)
1. than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.
2. limit/ restriction on how much/ what you (can) eat at the new lunch-bar.
3. to our regret, we have to/ are obliged to inform you that your application has not been
successful.
4. the whole idea as (being) ridiculous.
5. intention of resigning.
Part 3. Write an essay of about 250 words on the following topic. (30 points)
With the development of online communication, people will never be alone and will
always be able to make new friends. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this
statement?

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 TAPESCRIPTS
Part 1:

Last week we looked at the traditional art of Japan. In this week’s lecture we’re going to
move south and look at the very special way in which art has developed in the beautiful
island of Bali, which is now part of Indonesia. I’ll begin by giving you a brief historical
overview.
It’s thought that the first inhabitants of Bali were farmers who arrived around 3000 BC
… at the beginning of the Iron Age. They probably originally came from China, and in
Bali they cultivated rice and built temples ornamented with wood and stone carvings and
statues. The Hindu religion was introduced in the 14th century AD, and this has remained
the main religion on the island. This was an important period in the artistic development
of the island, when sculptors, poets, priests and painters worked together in the service of
the ruling families. Rather than painting everyday scenes, artists concentrated on
narrative paintings illustrating the epic stories of Hinduism. Bali’s rich natural resources
have always made it an alluring goal for merchants, and from the 17 th century onwards,
Dutch ships visited the island to trade in spices and luxury goods. Gradually the old
royal families lost their power, and eventually in 1906 the Dutch East Indies Company
was founded and the island became a colony. In the 20 th century, art then took on a very
different role: as a tool accessible to everyone in the fight of the Balinese people against
colonisation rather than as the property of a minority. Shortly after this, in the 1920s,
stories of the beauty of the island of Bali began to spread around the world, and Balinese
art underwent another vast transformation with advent of tourism to the island. At first,
this was only on a small scale, but it had important effects. Expatriate artists from
Holland and Germany settled on the island bringing paper, Chinese ink and other new
materials with them. They worked with local artists, encouraging them to experiment
with concepts like naturalism, expressionism, light and perspective, as well as to move
away from the tradition focus on narrative painting towards something closer to their
own experience. When independence came in 1945, this desire for an art to match a new
national identity became stronger and the traditional narrative paintings started to give
way to scenes showing the everyday life of the Balinese people –harvests, market scenes
and daily tasks – as well as the myths and legends of their history.

Part 2:
You will hear a radio discussion about children who invent imaginary friends.
Presenter: Today we’re talking about children and their tendency to have imaginary
friends. Liz McManus has a daughter called Caitlin, who’s eight now. When she was
three, she had an imaginary friend called Tytner. Liz, tell us about Caitlin and Tytner.
Mother: Well, I’ll give you an example. One day I was driving Caitlin and Greg, her
baby brother, home, when she solemnly informed me that Tytner was hitting the baby.
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So I said: ‘You tell Tytner that if he does that again, he’ll be walking home.’ Fifteen
seconds later cam the inevitable news: ‘He’s just done it again, Mummy.’ So I found
myself in the embarrassing position of having to pull over, open the back door and say to
this imaginary little boy. ‘Tytner, out, now!’ And of course, as we drove off, Caitlin
started crying because her friend was standing on the pavement all alone. I had to turn
back and go through the rigmarole of pulling over and opening the door to pick him up
again.
Presenter: Wow, that’s some story! But in fact Caitlin is no different from many
children and her invented, make-believe friend is far from unusual. As many as 65% of
children have had an imaginary friend at some point in their lives. The latest research
suggests that invisible friends, far from being a cause for concern, should be welcomed
by parents because they can help children to be more creative, confident and articulate,
and have more advanced communication skills. It is thought that these findings will help
reverse misconceptions about children with imaginary friends and that they will come to
be seen as having an advantage, rather than a problem that needs to be worried about.
Did it worry you, Liz?
Mother: I know it does lots of parents but I never fretted about it, I think I was just
amused. I’d be reading to her and I’d say, ‘Is Tytner around?’ and she’d say, ‘Yes, he’s
just sitting at the end of the bed.’ He became the centre of her life. She’d have tea parties
with him, and he’d go to bed with her. She was shy and this was her answer. I knew she
would grow out of it.
Presenter: Now Liz is one of 15 people taking part in a study of imaginary friends at the
Institute of Education in London, run by Karen Majors, an education psychologist and
lecturer at the institute. Karen, should parents worry about it?
Expert: Well, parents sometimes think, ‘Is this healthy and how long should it go on
for?’ But it is a normal phenomenon for normal children. And it’s very healthy.
Presenter: Why do children invent imaginary friends?
Expert: I think that children create pretend friends for many reasons; as safe,
trustworthy best friends at a time when they are just starting to make real friends; as
someone to confide in; and as someone to play with. Sometimes it is about wish
fulfilment; children who cannot have a pet, for example, will invent one. I interviewed
one little girl, aged six, who had a pony called Minty for several years. It went to school
with her and the teachers knew all about it. It was a really strong relationship.
Presenter: Presumably, when they get older, children no longer have these imaginary
friends, Karen?
Expert: Well, my most surprising finding is that children don’t always stop having these
made-up playmates when they start school. The imaginary friends often stay with them
through their teenage years, providing comfort and escape – although in secret. One
teenager I talked to had invented a superhero to help him through tricky patchers. When

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things hadn’t gone well at school, he would come home and play with the superhero, for
whom everything always went well.
Presenter: How should parents treat these invisible people, Karen?

Part 3:
You will hear an interview which takes place on a show between the interviewer,
Michaela Robinson, a leading psychologist, Duncan Stone, and a former patient, Ian
Smith.
Interviewer: A lot of people who don’t have psychological problems, or at least don’t
think they have, tend to be cynical about the benefits of spychological counselling. Have
you come across this, Mr Stone?
Stone: Indeed I have. Their attitude is that a psychiatrist just selects a comfortable chair
and listens to the patient pour out his trouble which any number of people could do
without medical training, probably more effectively, What they seem to forget is that the
skill of a psychiatrist lies in motivating a patient to talk about the very things that may be
causing stress.
Interviewer: Would you say that was true, Mr Smith?
Smith: Well, it’s certainly true that I was reluctant to talk about my problems even if I
was sure exactly what they were. All I knew were the symptoms, not the real cause. I
went to see Mr Stone because I was nervous around other people and it was interfering
with my work, let alone my social life. It wasn’t that other people were hostile, I just
thought they might become so.
Interviewer: And how did you approach this problem, Mr Stone?
Stone: Clearly, I had to start by getting to know as much about Ian’s past life as
possible. Getting a patient’s life story is not usually the difficult part, and this was the
case with Ian, but discovering what affects people emotionally is another matter.
Interviewer: And did you make any discoveries about yourself, Ian?

Part 4:
Announcer: … and our next news bulletin will be in half an hour at 3 o’clock.
Interviewer: Welcome back to the programme, where my guest today if Ranulph
Fiennes, the explorer. We’ve been talking about the first two trips you made. You must
have been accused on both those trips, and on all the subsequent ones, of putting the
lives of others in danger. Interviewer: Welcome back to the programme, where my guest
today if Ranulph Fiennes, the explorer. We’ve been talking about the first two trips you
made. You must have been accused on both those trips, and on all the subsequent ones,
of putting the lives of others in danger. You’re obviously very conscious that you need a
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back-up team and that you’re responsible for others. Do you think you’ve taken a lot of
unnecessary risks?
Explorer: We spend a lot of time planning to avoid the risks, because the risks are liable
to cause you to fail, but of my expeditions over the last five years, apart from the one
I’ve just come back from, they’ve all been what technically could be described as
failures. However, they haven’t killed anybody. I mean, next year maybe somebody will
die but so far, in 22 years of expeditions nobody’s died and that’s, um, over hundreds of
thousands of miles of very remote areas, so the planning must have been reasonably
good and in terms of the risk factor I think we foresaw them sufficiently to get the right
equipment and the right training so that we didn’t get deaths en route.
Interviewer: Is it that the whole point is just to do it rather than to come up with some
sort of scientific conclusion or to prove something that would interest the physicists?
Explorer: If you take, for example, the expedition which we’ll be setting out on next
November, that expedition has three aims. On that expedition, in Antarctica, we’ve been
set a target that we must raise enough money to complete building a disease research
centre. Now last year in Siberia we raised, with the help of all the people who sponsored
us at a penny a mile of our progress, £1.3m. Well that was a 480-mile journey, next year
it’s 1800 miles, so at a penny a mile we should raise £4.5m, which together with last
year’s bit will be over £5m to build the centre. So the charitable side of the expedition is
one of the sides. The scientific side, which has been going on, the same scientific work
for the last five expeditions, is coming to a head on this particular expedition. It’s
studying how much the human body can put up with when it’s working extremely hard
in extreme temperatures but is not eating enough food. This is something which is of
great interest to nutritionists and all sorts of other doctors and military people and so on
and so forth. Next year the expedition team will consist of 6 people, only two of them
actually on the travel team, the other four are scientists with a wealth of heavy
equipment which has to be taken to the edge of the Antarctic so that the team members
can be subjected to all the tests the day before they leave and the two days after they
come back. It’s no good if they eat anything when they come back famished having lost
4 stone, before they go for all the tests. The scientific side, like the charity side, is vital.
And then of course there is the physical challenge side, which to most armchair skeptics
is something which can very easily be laughed at and therefore we don’t stress it any
more. In the old days, say 40 or 50 years ago, this was in itself sufficient.
Interviewer: Is there any one achievement you’ve not yet got under your belt that’s still
on the horizon? You haven’t, I know, been to a Pole unaccompanied or unsupported – in
other words without the help of dogs and without the help of machinery.
Explorer: Yes, I’ve been to both Poles and, um, so that’s that, but in terms of getting to
either one of them without support, um, we hope to get to the South Pole and back this
year and then in future years we’ll think again about the North. Next year’s goal, in
Antarctica, is to complete what is a very testing journey, particularly in terms of
planning – how the sledges that we have to pull should be designed and how to take
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maximum calories with minimum weight. Last time I felt that we just didn’t have
enough food and it was a very unpleasant experience slowly starving whilst continually
trying to move forward through the cold. This time we’ve upped the number of calories
but now we’ve got to keep going for 100 days on what we carry on day one – that’s in
terms of fuel and food.
Interviewer: Well, the best of luck with that and all your other expeditions …
Explorer: Thank you.
Interviewer: And thanks for talking to me today. My guest was Ranulp Fiennes …
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