HỘI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LẦN THỨ XIII

KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI, ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 11
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN BIÊN HOÀ, T. HÀ NAM Ngày thi 14/07/2021
Thời gian làm bài 180 phút
(HDC gồm 07 trang)

HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. You will hear an interview with Dr Lafford, a leading expert in the field of forensic science.
For questions 1-5, decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) according to what
you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 points)
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T

Part 2. Listen to a lecture about water and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS taken from the recording for each answer. (10 points)
1. safe and reliable
2. washing
3. creeks, lakes, dams
4. filtth and dirt
5. drinking

Part 3. You will hear part of a radio phone-in programme about consumer competitions that appear
in magazines or are run by shops, in which advice is given to people who regularly enter them. For
questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 points)
1. A 2. D 3. C 4. C 5. B

Part 4. Listen to a news about dogs trained to detect Covid Infection at Miami Airport. Complete the
following summary with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each gap.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (20 points)
1. deactivated 6. explosives
2. a pcr test 7. face masks
3. weapon 8. specific variant
4. shepherd 9. delta
5. 98.1 10.apocalyptic

SECTION B. GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY (30 ponits)

Part 1: Choose the answer A, B, C, or D that best completes each of the following sentences.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. D 2. C 3. A 4. C 5. D 6. A 7. A 8. B 9. B 10. B

11. B 12. B 13. C 14. D 15. B 16. D 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. B
Part 2: Give the correct form of each bracketed words. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. proofreading 6. benighted
2. werewolf 7. betokens
3. excommunicated 8. dietetics
4. aquaculture 9. burdensome
5. unsightly 10. anew

SECTION C. READING (60 points)

Part 1: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in
each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
1. developed 2. led 3. treating 4. put 5. behind
6. this 7. into 8. not 9. remains 10. but

Part 2. Read the following passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to
the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. A 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. B 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. A 10. B

Part 3. Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (13points)
1. A/C 2. C/A
3. taxi drivers 4. detailed mental map 5. happocampus
6. games and puzzles 7. class attendance and behaviour 8. test scores
9. E 10. G 11. C 12. F 13. D
Part 4. You are going to read an extract from an article. Seven paragraphs have been removed from
the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A - H the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra
paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
(7 points)
1. D 2. H 3. F 4. B 5. A 6. E 7. G

Part 5. You are going to read an article on travel adventures. For questions 1-10, select the travel
writer (A-E) using the separate answer sheet. Each travel writer may be selected more than once.
(15 points)
1. C 2. D 3. E 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. E 8. A 9. A 10. D

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. (15 points)
Contents (10 points)
The summary should:
 introduce the topic of the passage,
 present the main ideas of the passage.
* lack of confidence
* too strictly held down or laxly handled
* parents too protective
* lack of trust
* lack of guidance and experience
* give child more responsibility, praise

Language use (5 points)

The summary should:
 demonstrate a wide variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures,
 have correct use of words and mechanics,
 maintain coherence, cohesion, and unity throughout.
Part 2. (15 points)
Contents (10 points)
The report should:
 introduce the table and state its striking features,
 summarise the main features with relevant data from the pie charts,
 make relevant comparisons.
Language use (5 points)
The report should
 demonstrate a wide variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures,
 have correct use of words and mechanics,
 maintain coherence, cohesion, and unity throughout.

Part 3. (30 points)

Task achievement (10 points)
The essay should:
 sufficiently address all requirements of the task,
 develop relevant supporting ideas with explanations, examples, evidence, etc.
Organization (10 points)
The essay should have
 an introduction presenting a clear thesis statement introducing the points to be developed,
 body paragraphs developing the points mentioned in the introduction,
 a conclusion summarising the main points discussed in the essay.
Language use (10 points)
The essay should:
 demonstrate a wide variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures,
 have correct use of words and mechanics,
 maintain coherence, cohesion, and unity throughout.

Tapescript:
Part 1.
Exam narrator: You will hear an interview with Dr Lafford, a leading expert in the field of forensic science.
For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you
hear.
Interviewer: Today in the studio, we have Dr Lafford from the Forensic Science Service, who is here to tell
us a little more about forensic science ...
Dr Lafford: Good morning.
Interviewer: Now, I think most people have a fairly good general picture of the kind of work you do - in
many ways it's a development of Sherlock Holmes and his magnifying glass, isn't it?
Dr Lafford: Yes, you could put it that way, although we've come a long way since then of course, but
Holmes was very much a detective of the modern age - of course he was an intelligent man and
his medical knowledge often seemed better than that of his companion Dr Watson, and
certainly his observations were always very detailed... but what sets him apart is that (1)
Holmes provides us with a good model - a very good model in fact - of the kind of approach -
psychological approach - that a forensic scientist should have, and that is that the forensic
scientist is absolutely impartial.
Interviewer: So, you're not strictly speaking part of the police force ... ?
Dr Lafford: No, we are quite separate.
Interviewer: Could you tell us a little about your work and what it is you do?
Dr Lafford: (2) Well, the basic principle behind forensic science is that every contact leaves a trace.
Wherever we go, whatever we touch, material is transferred both ways. The shoe that leaves a
mark on the ground also picks up traces of dirt, and the hand that makes a fingerprint also
carries away particles from the object that was handled ... and things like hair or carpet fibres
are easily passed from one person to another. Interviewer I see, so it's not just that the suspect
leaves clues at the scene of the crime, the scene of the crime leaves clues on the suspect...
Dr Lafford: Absolutely, and that is normally the most compelling evidence - not just when you have a
fingerprint, for example, but also where you've found traces of, say, the carpet at the scene of a
crime on the suspect's clothing, and that, of course, can be very hard to explain away.
Interviewer: Is your work fairly straightforward - a question of seeing whether various samples match up?
Dr Lafford: No, no, no, not at all... (3) forensic science is often a very painstaking task - and very time-
consuming - much more so than previously, in fact, because the range of tests has
mushroomed ... for example, we might be given some pieces of a headlight swept up after a hit-
and-run accident and asked to identify the car, so we would fit the thousands of pieces together
like a vast jigsaw, and might be able to identify the number embossed on the back of the glass...
that would help us identify the model of the car, the make, the age, and so on, making it easier
to search for the suspect... and then, once the car was located, we could tell whether the lights
had been on at the time of the accident by examining the light bulb, because there would be
minute pieces of molten glass on the metal filament in the bulb...
Interviewer: So you need some fairly sophisticated equipment as well as patience...
Dr Lafford: Indeed! Now, the electron microscope is invaluable in our line of work - and it basically does
two things - it gives us a fantastically detailed image, so, for example, you can tell whether a
piece of hair has been broken, or cut with a pair of scissors or a knife. (4) And it can also give
you the chemical composition of a sample, so that you can take, perhaps, a tiny flake of paint
on a suspect's clothing and match it with paint at the scene of the crime.
Interviewer: Are you at the stage then where you could say that the evidence that you provide is foolproof?
Dr Lafford: No, not foolproof. There is always room for human error and there's nothing that can be done
about that... forensics is not an absolute science - I mean, let me give you an example. Now,
Sherlock Holmes might have found a strand of hair at the scene of a crime, perhaps black and
two inches long, that would have helped him identify the murderer on the basis that the hair
matched the murderer's. Now, we also examine hair... but in the example I gave you, perhaps
one person in twenty has black hair two inches long, so we need to improve on this analysis
(5)to narrow down the number of suspects. So, we would analyze the strand of hair... using the
electron microscope, as I was saying earlier... look at its chemical composition, whether it came
from a man or a woman, see how it was cut, whether it showed any traces of particular
chemicals and so on, and in that way, (5) instead of saying that one person in twenty had hair
like that, it might be one person in 500,000 or a million. That would just about as far as we
could go. Now there's no such thing a certainty ... just a balance of probability, even with the
most advanced techniques of genetic fingerprinting. The evidence we provide is there to be
interpreted, and that's very important. Interviewer Well, Dr Lafford, thank you very much.
We'll take a break now, but stay with us and we'll be back ...

Part 2:
Good morning and welcome to yet another lecture in Environmental Science. I don’t think I am telling
you a secret when I mention that water is a big worry here in Australia. The stuff is scarce. Perhaps that’s
why we drink so much beer, eh?
Seriously, though, a safe and reliable source of water is one of the great concerns of people
everywhere. Moreover, as the world population grows, the pressure on existing water supplies grows greater
and greater. Think about it. Our economic system demands that there be more and more consumers. The
growing number of people has been tied to climate change, including droughts. So more people means less
water. But our economic system demands a high birth rate. Forget about oil. Soon enough you will see wars
for water. Mark my words.
But today, I’m going to confine my remarks to Australia. As noted already, here down under, the water
supply is extremely scarce. The only drier continent is Antarctica - and remember, no one really lives there
anyway. Moreover, in recent years, the wind patterns have changed. Rain that used to fall on the country
now falls out to sea hundreds of miles to the south.
Now, when I speak of people needing water, most of you probably think of drinking. Certainly everyone
needs water for drinking. But surprising as it may sound, drinking is not anywhere near being the main use
for water. Most water is actually used for washing. When you take a shower, you probably use well over a
hundred litres of water. Every time you flush your toilet, that’s about eight litres. But most people drink no
more than two litres or so per day.
 So, where to get water? It could be obtained from rainwater, but often rainfall consists of other harmful
pollutants that evaporated with the water. In fact, acid rain, an intense example of this, causes harmful
effects on the wildlife of the habitat on which it falls. Water from underground could also be used, though it
is more difficult to contain and often must go through an extensive cleansing process. The purest water is
found in rivers, creeks, lakes, and dams. And, sad to say, Australia has precious few of these. Really, how
many of your home towns have rivers? Year-round rivers, I mean. The soil tends to be sandy, so water soaks
into the ground. Many places are rocky too, so 87% of the rainfall is lost to evaporation. That’s almost twice
the evaporation rate in my native Canada!
Speaking of rain, we already heard how rainfall is diminishing here in Oceania. The quantity itself isn’t
the only problem, either. Going back to the problems with obtaining rainwater, a further problem is that rain
is a useful source of water only if air pollution is fairly mild. Again, you’re in a situation where you can’t
win. You need water where most people live. People tend to build cities where rainfall is adequate. But then
modern cities tend to feature polluted air which renders the rain far less easily usable. OK, let's take a look at
the table here, you’ll see it showing the relative pollution of rainfall in the world’s cities. The more people,
the dirtier the rain.
This is becoming a huge concern for people in the West, who want their water to be pure and safe.
Though reliable drinking water is important everywhere, the concern in the West is reflected in all the
government regulations and political campaigns aimed at solving this problem. In contrast, there are not as
many demands made on the governments in Asian and African cultures to improve the water, as their focus
is on other issues.
Now, whatever the source of water, we can never afford to forget that all water is highly vulnerable to
contamination. Whether we’re getting it from the ground, from bodies of water, or rainfall, it is susceptible
to a variety of toxins. In fact, that’s why we clean it before using it: water carries with it filth and dirt. This
problem shows up in a number of different ways.
As humans and all other animals need water to survive, it's no surprise to us that one of the most
important domestic uses of water is for drinking. Yet if you have old-fashioned lead pipes, you may slowly
be poisoning yourself by drinking that nice clear water. The industrial pollution, farm chemicals, and leaky
landfills are well-known sources of contaminants as well.
So what is being done to ensure we Australians a safe and steady supply of drinking water? There are a
lot of initiatives that make admirable efforts to remedy this issue. We’ll be talking about this when we meet
again on Thursday. But, as a preview, I can tell you that so far the amount of real solutions that have been
produced is not nearly adequate. Traditionally, we’ve been very free in this country. That means that every
person and every province tend to go its own way. So the mechanisms for water management are, in a word,
insufficient.
To begin seeing how this is so, I want you to read something before our next class. Though a lot of
previous data on water usage and water management are inconclusive and have thus caused quite a concern,
we can learn a lot from the content of reports written on the subject.
The basis for the government’s water policy is the 1989 White Paper reporting on “Water Use: Present
and Future”. If you compare the numbers offered in the paper with those in the text, you’ll find that the
report is rather untrustworthy. Truth being told, I’m being too kind when I say that!

Part 3.
Presenter: OK, today I have with me Kathy Ford, winner of more than 500,000 worth of prizes in all sorts
of consumer competitions and dubbed ‘The Queen of Competitions’ by the British press. She’s
now editor of Competitor’s World magazine and as an expert on competitions has appeared
regularly on TV. Kathy, let’s go straight to our first caller, and that’s Diana. Diana, what’s your
query?
Diana: Yes, hello Kathy. Well, in order to send in two entries to a competition where only one entry per
person was allowed, I asked my best friend if I could submit an entry in her name. She agreed, and
the understanding was that, if ‘her’ entry won, I would receive the prize, but I would buy her a
small gift for allowing me to use her name. Well, the inevitable has happened - I’ve won a much-
needed new washing machine, but in my friend’s name, and she has now refused point blank to
hand the machine over. If I went to a lawyer, would I have any hope of getting my prize from her?
Kathy: Not even the faintest chance. I’m afraid that your efforts to evade the rules have not only cost you
the prize, but also your best friend as well, and legally you just don’t have a leg to stand on. Even
 if you’d drawn up some sort of legal agreement with your erstwhile friend, I think you’d find that
the law would still take a very dim view of your case, since it was obviously done with
premeditated fraudulent intent. It’s not worth trying to evade the rules as you’ve just found out the
hard way.
Presenter: Next, it’s Ron. Ron, go ahead, you’re through to Kathy.
Ron: Someone told me that some firms that run competitions keep a blacklist of frequent prizewinners, and
that I should use a lot of different aliases in order to avoid being put on such a list. Is this true?
Kathy: No! Competitors can sometimes get a little paranoid, and if they start going through a winless spell
(and we all get them, from time to time!) they start to imagine that they’ve been blacklisted. No
reputable firm would even contemplate such a measure, and the only time there’s even a faint risk
of this sort of thing happening is with ‘in store’ competitions, where an individual store manager
might just conceivably think ‘Oh no, not him again’ and deliberately disregard your entry. For
mainstream competitions, however, such worries are groundless, and the use of aliases is not only
unnecessary but can even prove to be pretty stupid. Think about it for a moment - what would
happen if you won a holiday under a phoney name? Or were asked to prove your identity to
collect a prize at a presentation ceremony? My advice is to stick with your own name and if prizes
stop arriving, take a long, close look at the quality of your entries rather than trying to blame it on
blacklists.
Presenter: OK, next it’s Stan. Stan, what can Kathy help you with?
Stan: Well, Kathy, I recently entered a competition which asked you to estimate the distance between a store
in Newcastle and its London head office, using the shortest route. In order to make my entry as
accurate as possible, I used a Routemaster computer program to determine the shortest possible
way and calculate the distance, quite literally, from door to door. Imagine my astonishment,
therefore, when I sent for the results and found that the answer they had given as being ‘correct’
was fully 73 miles longer than mine. I know my answer was correct, so do I have grounds to make
a formal objection?
Kathy: I’m sorry, but no, you haven’t. As far as the promoter is concerned, the key word in the instructions,
here, is ‘estimate’ - they expect you to guess, not measure the distance accurately, and it’s likely
that their own answer will also be based purely on an estimate. As a result, judges will always be
right, even when they are wrong as in a case like this, and in entering the competition at all, you
have agreed to abide by the rule that states ‘the judges’ decision is final’. Distance estimation
competitions have always given rise to this sort of controversy, and although court cases have
been brought, the entrant very seldom succeeds in having the decision changed. You have only to
check the distance charts in road atlases to see how this type of problem occurs. No two ever
agree, yet as far as I know, towns simply don’t move around very much!
Presenter: OK, and now on to our next caller, who is ...

Part 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZlSxN162Y
At some very important level this is good specifically this is a good girl a good girl named Cobra because
because why not a dog looking for Covid is it even possible evidently it is and now you can find them at
Miami international airport four dogs trained to detect Covid 19 as part of a pilot program this is cobra one
of the dogs trained to detect the virus watch how she sits after she smells the inside of a mask that has
deactivated virus in it then watch how she just keeps walking when she smells the mask of someone who's
not infected the dogs are 97 percent accurate i mean it's the same as a pcr test so i mean it's a great it's a great
thing miami international airport is the first in the nation to have the dogs i think in this particular airport
now we're doing it with the employees but people uh will see the dogs and know that that's another weapon
that we're using to fight this pandemic that's coverage from wtvj um in in miami uh one of the dogs is named
cobra she's a seven-year-old belgian melanois the other dog is also a seven-year-old girl she is a dutch
shepherd her name is one betta as in I can do that one better you want to know how it breaks down dog by
dog of course you do uh one betta the the uh the dutch shepherd her accuracy rate is 98.1 percent and Cobra
the belgian melanois here uh she is 99.4 percent accurate as a covid test the dog is and that is a published
peer-reviewed double-blind study I mean we're familiar with dogs sniffing for drugs dog sniffing for
explosives in a custom setting some dogs are trained to sniff out large amounts of paper currency that might
be hidden in someone's luggage dogs can do amazing stuff these particular dogs before becoming kovid
experts they were agriculture detective dogs their specialty in customs was i kid you not sniffing out laurel
wilt which is apparently terrible for avocado Trees so it's their job to like sniff agricultural products and find
out if anybody was accidentally bringing laurel wilt into the country but now they're off laurel wilt the laurel
wilt beat leaving that to other pups and these dogs are retrained to fin kovid instead here's the provost at
florida international university's a chemistry professor this is where they trained the dogs explaining how it
works when you get Covid 19 you produce volatile organic compounds it's called on the chemist so vocs
and those vocs are what the dog detects researchers at fiu trained the dogs to detect cobit 19 by using face
masks from cobot patients we basically use ultraviolet light to kill the virus and the odor is still there so he
goes on to explain that these dogs are so good at sniffing out Covid 19 infections sniffing out the volatile
organic compounds produced by someone who's infected he goes on to explain that if you wanted to you
could actually train these dogs to key on one specific variant of the virus their noses are so sensitive you
could train them specifically to only sit down if they sniffed the delta variant of the virus or the move variant
of the virus or whatever they can be that sensitive we may have an apocalyptic mess on our hands in every
other possible way but as a civilization we have now successfully retrained the avocado tree laurel wilt
agricultural pest dog detectives into dogs who instead can tell you if you need to get a rapid covent test
before you come into work

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