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Sở Giáo Dục và Đào Tạo Tiền Giang

Trường THPT Chuyên Tiền Giang

KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC ĐỒNG BẰNG SỒNG CỬU LONG
Năm học : 2008-2009

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1. LISTENING

Question 1: (15pts)

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. T 8. F 9. F 10. F

11. F 12. F 13. F` 14. F 15. F

SCRIPT

Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, on the 4th June 1975. Growing up there, she was no stranger to
the film industry, being the daughter of two established actors, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. In
the mid-1990s, Angelina appeared in various music videos and small films, where she got good reviews.
However, her career began to improve after her performance as in the 1997 biopic George Wallace, for
which she won her first Golden Globe Award. She had her major break in 1999 in The Bone Collector.
In the same year she won the triple crown - the Golden Globe, the SAG Award and the Academy Award
for best leading actress in a supporting role - with her performance in Girl, Interrupted.

During the filming of one episode of the saga of Lara Croft, she had a moving experience in Cambodia,
subsequently adopting the first of her three adopted children. She then became an international diplomat
and now she spends most of her time in humanitarian efforts financed by her acting.

Since 2005 she has been going steady with Brad Pitt, father of her biological children. Their first
daughter was born in 2006, and in July 2008 they had twins, a boy and a girl. Their story became one of
the most reported celebrity relationships worldwide.

Now, here are some things you may or may not know about this most famous actress:

 She is Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
 She has been married twice, both times to actors.
 When she first married she wore black leather pants and a white shirt. On the white shirt she painted her
husband's name in her own blood!
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 The name 'Brangelina', for her latest love story, comes from the combination of the names Brad and
Angelina.
 She loves tattoos. In fact, at the moment she has 13 of them. When starring in a film, her extensive
collection is usually covered with makeup.
 She has a tattoo of the coordinates representing the locations where her children were born on her left
arm.
 Dumbo the flying elephant is her favourite Disney character.
 "Jolie" means "pretty" in French.
 During her childhood, she dreamt of becoming a funeral director.
 Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry, which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois
and English.

Question 2: (15pts)

1. extra 2. browser 3. leaves 4. hijack 5. goldmine

6. tricks 7. steals 8. sizeable 9. investigating 10. patch

11. complicated 12. attempt 13. giant 14. blog 15. caution

SCRIPT
People surfing the web using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer need to be extra careful. A hole has been
found in the browser’s security systems. The anti-virus software maker Trend Micro Inc. said the
problem leaves people’s computers open to hackers. Trend Micro spokesman Paul Ferguson warned the
hole could let in criminals who want to hijack computers. He said security holes like this are “a
goldmine for criminals because users have few ways to fight off attacks”. Explorer’s flaw tricks users
into visiting websites that then steals passwords and other personal and confidential information. The
hackers then sell this for big money on the black market. It is a sizeable problem because most of the
world’s computers use Internet Explorer. Microsoft says it is investigating the flaw. Its website states
that it is considering creating an emergency software patch to fix the hole. The company is advising
users to try a complicated series of measures it calls “workarounds”. Microsoft said: “We are actively
investigating the vulnerability that these attacks attempt to exploit. We will continue to monitor the
threat.” The software giant assured people that it would “take the appropriate action to protect our
customers”. A Microsoft anti-virus blog said 0.2% of computer users may be affected. Its advice was to
“always exercise caution when browsing and try to go to sites that you trust”. Other experts advise
switching to alternative browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera.
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2. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY:

Question 1: WORD CHOICE (10 pts)

1. c 2. d 3. d 4. a 5. d 6. d 7. b 8. a 9. b 10. b

Question 2: ERROR RECOGNITION (15 pts)

0. When you travel to Britain by sea or air, it is very likely 0. 

00 that you will arrive in the Southeast, as for this is where 00. as
1. being
1. the main passenger ports and airports are being situated.
2 The
2. The Heathrow Airport is the world’s busiest airport for 3 an
3. an international traffic. Gat wick is the second important 4 of
5. one
4. airport. The former has around twenty-eight million of 6. the
5. passengers per one year and the latter has about ten million. 7. 
8. had
6. Most travelers from the continental Europe arrive at 9. 
7. the east coast ports of Dover. Folkestone and Ramsgate. Of these 10. is
11. for
8. Dover is by far the busiest. It has had 50 percent of the total 12
9. traffic to and from the Continent. 13 being
14. of
10. The Channel Tunnel, is connecting France to Britain, starts here
15. is
11. Kent is the country which is known as for the Garden of England.
12. because it produces a lot of the fruit and vegetables which are
13. being eaten all over the country. The ground and climate make it
14. ideal for growing conditions. It is also the main area of growing
15. another kind of fruit is called hops.

Question 3: WORD FORM (10pts)

1. forthcoming 2. noticeboard 3. withdraw 4. replacement
5. volunteers 6. refreshment 7. admittance 8. recognition
9. presentation 10. contribution (s)
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Question 4: VERB FORM (10pts)

1. is ………….. happening
2. have been
3. be experiencing
4. had
5. believe
6. have …. been changing/ have been …. changing
7. have created
8. lets
9. holds
10. Will … keep

Question 5 : PREPOSITIONS & ADVERB PARTICLES ( 15 pts)

1. b 2. d 3. d 4. d 5. d 6. a 7. d 8. b 9. b 10. d

11. c 12. a 13. c 14. a 15. b

Question 6 : ARTICLES ( 10 pts)

1. the 2. the 3. the 4. the 5. 

6. the 7. a / the 8. a 9. a 10 the

3. READING :
Question 1: (10pts):
Choose the answer (A, B,C, D) which you think fits best .
1. D 2. A 3. B 4. A 5. D
6. C 7. B 8. C 9. A 10 D

Question 2: (10pts):

Read the following passage and circle the most suitable word for each space.

1.B 2. D 3.C 4.A 5.B

6. A 7.C 8. D 9.B 10.C
11. A 12.D 13.A 14.C 15.B

Question 3: (15 pts)

Fill each gap in the passage with one suitable word

1. leave through 8. back

2. before 5. would 9. out
3. be/ get 6. had 10. missed
4. in/ inside/ 7. what 11. had
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12. another
13. in/ inside
14. out/ short
15. gave/
handed/
passed
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4. WRITING:
Question 1: (10pts)
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentences
printed before it.

1................................................................................He pushed me into buying it.

2...........................................It is suggested that income tax (should) be abolished
3.................Little did we realise/ know at the time how serious the problem was.
4............................................He made no reference to our previous conversation.
5........Make sure you finish (typing) all the letters before going/ you go to lunch.
6...............................................His excuse for such behavior cuts no ice with her.
7....................................................What you have been saying is beside the point
8.Tourists often go to the British Museum but most Londoners only go once in the blue moon.
9.............. I know I can bring Dave around to my way of thinking on this matter.
10. The exam was a piece of cake and I made no mistake.

Question 2: (20pts)
Diễn giải biều đồ cần bảo đảm nững nội dung sau :

1. Nội dung: (10pts)

- Tối thiểu phải có 3 đọan :

1. Giới thiệu biều đổ - giải thích khái quát ý nghĩa biều đồ (3pts)
2. Phần tích được và diễn giải hiệu quả các số liệu biến thiên trên biểu đồ (4pts)
3. Tóm lại nội dung chính , đưa ra nhận xét về xu hướng phát triển (3pts)
2. Hình thức: (10pts)
1. Lỗi ngữ pháp , từ vựng, phong cách … ( 4pts)
2. Khả năng sử dụng từ vưng và cấu trúc phong phú (3pts)
3. Bảo đảm tính mạch lạc ( có sử dụng connectors), nhất quán (3pts)

Question 3: ( 30pts) :

1. Bố cục: Essay yêu cầu có đủ các phần : (10pts)

- Introductory paragraph :
- Backgroud
- Thesis statement
- Transition
- Body :
- Idea 1 :
- Topic sentence
- Explanation
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- Examples
- Idea 2: ….
- Conclusion:
- Summary
- Comment
2. Nội dung : (10pts)
- Giới thiệu được tính hai mặt của các phát minh khoa hoc và cho ví dụ cụ thề : (10pts)

Clues:
- Scientific inventions have given us many benefits which were unimaginable years ago:
+ They have helped us have a more comfortable life with electricity, telephones,
televisions, washing machines….
+ They have made the world smaller and smaller. Travelling by air plane, watching
televisions or listening to the radio ….. is not only a way to relax but also a way to enlarge our
knowledge about the people, cultures, wild life…Besides, many people living in different
countries can communicate to each others easily.
- Scientific inventions have also thwarted our civilization.
+ In the world of science, the words love, emotion and sentiments are quite foreign
+ Spiritualism is on the wane while materialism is on the increase.
+ On the destructive side, science had invented weapons for all the war which are
dreadful and disastrous.
+ The politican misuse the inventions for bad purposes

3. Tính mạch lạc – Tính nhất quán – Các loại lỗi : (10pts)
- Khả năng sử dụng các sentence connctors để nối câu và đoạn : bài văn mạch lạc , dễ hiểu
(3points)
- Khả năng viết đạon văn mang tính nhất quán , theo một ý tưởng xuyên suốt ( không lạc đề ở bất
kỳ ý nào ) (3points)
- Lỗi chính tả - lổi từ vựng - lỗi ngữ pháp và phong cách viết . Có khả năng sử dụng thành thạo
các loại cấu (đơn , phức, kép) (4 points)