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LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN LẦN THỨ XIII
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI 11
Thời gian: 180 phút
Đề thi gồm: 14 trang

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 POINTS)

Part 1.You will hear a discussion in which two marine biologists. Gina Kelso and Thomas Ludman, talk
about an award-winning television film they made about wildlife in Antarctica. Choose the answer (A, B,
C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. (10 points)
1. Gina’s interest in marine biology dates from ______.
A. her earliest recollections of life in Africa
B. one memorable experience in childhood
C. the years she spent studying in England
D. a postgraduate research project she led
2. The first wildlife TV series they both worked on ______.
A. made use of a previously untried format
B. was not filmed in a natural environment
C. was not intended to be taken too seriously
D. required them to do background research
3. How did Thomas feel when he was asked to produce the programs about Antarctica?
A. disappointed not to be presenting the series
B. surprised that people thought he was suitable
C. uncertain how well he would get on with the team
D. worried about having to spend the winter there
4. When they were in Antarctica, they would have appreciated ______.
A. a less demanding work schedule
B. more time to study certain animals
C. a close friend to share their feelings with
D. a chance to share their work with colleagues
5. What was most impressive about the whales theyfilmed?
A. The unusual sounds the whales made.
B. The number of whales feeding in a small bay.
C. How long the whales stayed feeding in one area.
D. how well the whales co-operated with each other.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2. You will hear the historian, George Davies, talking about society and the theatre in England in the
time of William Shakespeare. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. According to Professor Davies, the level of literacy in sixteen-century England matched his expectations.
2. In Professor Davies' opinion, the advantage of the usual method of communication in the sixteenth century
was that people absorbed more of what they heard.
3. Professor Davies believes that Shakespeare's company developed their basic acting skills by attending special
voice classes.
4. In Professor Davies' view, the advantage of sixteen-century theatres was that the performances were
complemented by everyday life.
5. Professor Davies thinks that sixteen-century plays were expected to deal with personal confessions.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3. You will hear a student called Tina asking Professor Van Diezen for advice on choosing courses.
Listen and answer the following questions, using NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS for each answer. (10
points)
1. What is the defining characteristic of a specialised course?
……………………………………………………………………………………………
2. For whom the Microbiology courses are available?
……………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Who are interested in Microbiology courses?
……………………………………………………………………………………………
4. Why will a Medical Science course be opened next year?
……………………………………………………………………………………………
5. Which is the quickest increasing subject in enrolment?
……………………………………………………………………………………………
Part 4. You will hear a radio report about Erik Weihenmayer, an adventurer. Complete the summary, using
the word or phrases you hear. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank. (20 points)
An American named Erik Weihenmayer standing out as an adventurer without the (1)…………………
explains how he faces those challenges in today’s “Great Big Story”. He said the most exciting part for him is
in fact the movement, not the (2)………………… .
At 4 or 5, he was diagnosed with an (3)………………… disease and he went blind, which he thought
was a (4)………………… as the worst thing had happened, so there’s nothing else to lose. Then there was a (5)
………………… taking blind kids rock climbing, which he thought he wouldn’t have as a blind person.
When he got on to a rock face, he learned to do with his hands the things that (6)………………… learn
to do with their eyes. When clipping a bolt to a carabineer, he felt it to make sure it was correctly clipped or
that carabineer was going to hold him. Unable to look up the rock to see the holds and plan a route, he could
only see as far as his hands, which he thought was (7)………………… exciting. He loved the sound of
emptiness, which was meditative, very much like an (8)………………… .
Being a blind climber is really hard and you just have to embrace that suffering. Blindness is just like all
(9)………………… which you got to use as a catalyst to push you in new directions. It’s the idea of (10)
………………… into good things, and it’s something he thinks we all could use.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Part 1. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence(20 pts)
1.I hardly think Mary has got a bicycle herself, …………….?
A. hasn’t she B. doesn’t she C. has she D. does she
2. The hospital owes …………… for the construction of the new wing.
A. the government twenty million dollars B. for the government twenty million dollars
C. to the government twenty million dollars D. twenty millions of dollars to the government
3. The chairman had a recommendation that ……………….
A. each member studied more carefully the problem
B. the problem was more carefully studied
C. with more carefulness the problem could be studied
D. each member study the problem more carefully
4. Those campers are really ………….. They have no idea how to set up a tent.
A. white B. blue C. green D. black
5. I'd like to do something to change the world but whatever I do seems like a drop in the …………...
A. bucket B. garbage C. rubbish D. river
6. How did you know that he was lying?” – “It was just a ________ feeling.”
A. faint B. gut C. slight D. vain
7.Mrs. Jackson was on the point of going out of her apartment when she was _______ short by a phone call
from her husband.
A. caught B. halted C. brought D. stopped
8. People turned out in __________ to watch the parade on the Independence Day.
A. volume B. mass C. force D. bulk
9. It took him a long time to come to __________ with his redundancy
A. rules B. words C. terms D. steps
10. No decision has been taken about the building of the new airport. The authorities are still ______.
A. beating about the bush B. comparing apples and oranges
C. sitting on the fence D. holding all the aces
11. The president was eventually _______ by a military coup.
A. disposed B. despised C. deposed D. dispersed
12. The collapse of the silver market left him financially _______.
A. desolate B. dejected C. destitute D. derelict
13. He _______ so much harm on the nation during his regime that it has never fully recovered.
A. indicted B. inferred C. induced D. inflicted
14. Union leaders called for_______ between themselves and the government.
A. speeches B. elections C. debates D. consultations
15. It was clear from the beginning of the meeting that Jack was _______ on causing trouble.
A. inclined B. predisposed C. bent D. obsessed
16. The Internet has led to the faster and more effective _______ of information.
A. expansion B. coverage C. spread D. dissemination
17. This is the kind of crime that all decent people in society _______.
A. appall B. frown C. deplore D. disallow
18. For many young people, driving cars at high speed seems to _______ a rather fatal fascination.
A. contain B. comprise C. weave D. hold
19. On the news there was some dramatic _______ of the earthquake that had been captured by an amateur
cameraman.
A. shooting B. scenery C. clipping D. footage
20. I did not mean to offend her but she took my comments _______ and now will not talk to me.
A. amiss B. awry C. apart D. aside

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with the correct form of words (10 pts)
1. Alternative medicine can be ______ (LEAD), even off-putting for some people.
2. Few ______ (PRACTICE) of homeopathy, acupuncture and the like regard therapies as complete substitutes
for modern medicine.
3.Juvenile delinquencyrefers to ____________(SOCIETY) or illegal behavior by children or adolescents and
is considered a serious problem all over the world.
4. This juvenile _______________(CRIME)is apparent in marginal sectors of urban areas where children are
exposed to violence in their immediate social environment, either as observers or as victims.
5. Because delinquent basic education, if they have any, is poor they have been ______________(MARGIN)
from society and destitute of any dignity or self - esteem.
6. These preventive policies should be prioritized over any ____________ (COERCE) measures.
7. Focus on the importance of family should become a priority because it is the primary institution of
_______________(SOCIAL) of youth
8. Scientists have wondered whether the secrets of our thoughts, ________(PERCEIVE) and even
consciousness itself might be hidden in the patterns of our brain waves.
9. A _______ (CLASS) lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of applicants who were denied admission to
several universities affected by the scandal
10. Court documents allege the man at the _______ (CENTER) of the scandal,
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2. Fill in each blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Number 0 has been done as an
example. Write your answers in the spaces below. (15 pts)
A new study conducted for the World Bank by Murdoch University's Institute for Science and
Technology Policy (ISTP) (0)………… demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars. The
study compared the proportion of wealth poured into transport by thirty-seven cities around the world. This
included both the public and (1) …………. costs of building, maintaining and using a transport system.
The study found that the Western Australian city of Perth is a good example of a city with minimal
public transport. As a (2) …………, 17% of its wealth went into transport costs. Some European and Asian
cities, on the other hand, spent as (3) ………. as 5%. Professor Peter Newman, ISTP Director, pointed out that
these more efficient cities were able to put the difference into attracting industry and jobs or creating a better
place to live.
According to Professor Newman, the larger (4) ……… city of Melbourne is a rather unusual city in this
sort of comparison. He describes it (5) …….… two cities: ‘A European city surrounded by a car-dependent
one’. Melbourne's large tram network has made car use in the inner city much lower, but the outer suburbs have
the same car-based structure as most (6) ………. Australian cities. The explosion in demand for
accommodation in the inner suburbs of Melbourne suggests a recent change in many people's preferences as to
(7) ………. they live.
Newman says this is a new, broader way of considering public transport issues. In the past, the case for
public transport has (8) ………….. made on the basis of environmental and social justice considerations rather
than economics. Newman, however, believes the study demonstrates that ‘the auto-dependent city model is
inefficient and inadequate in economic as (9) ………. .. as environmental terms’.
Bicycle use was not included in the study but Newman noted that the two most ‘bicycle friendly’ cities
considered - Amsterdam and Copenhagen - were very efficient, even though their public transport (10)
………….. were ‘reasonable but not special’.
( Extracted from “ Succeed in Cambridge English, CAE”)
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN KHỐI 11 - LẦN THỨ XIII
ĐIỆN BIÊN NĂM 2022
 ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút

Part 2. You’ll hear an interview with physicist teacher, Kieran Shaw, who has taken his students to a
Science Fair. For questions 6-10, write answers in the space provided. Write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS for each question or sentence. (10 points)
6. What does Kieran criticize about the previous Science Fair?
___________________________________________
7. Kieran says the fall in the nulmber of participants at some science fairs might be caused by a belief that
science fairs are _____________________________.
8. Which does Kieran believe is a problem among his students?
___________________________________________
9. Kieran says the most important factor in choosing a topic is whether it is likely to
_________________________________________ throughout the project.
10. According to Kieran, what mistake do some students make during their presentations?
__________________________________________
Part 3. You will hear part of a discussion between two well-known business people, Sam Boland and Jimmy
Glynn, and a radio current affairs show host about a recent newspaper article on the subject of jobless
graduates. For questions 11-15, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what
you hear. (10 points)
11. What does Jimmy say about the qualifications graduate jobseekers have?
A. they help them avoid having to take “survival jobs”
B. few graduates are sufficiently qualified for the jobs available
C. few degrees teach skills relevant in the workplace
D. they are not really an advantage in the present job market
12. Why is Sam wary of employing graduates in his own company?
A. their superior performance can lead to workplace hostility
B. they can have a damaging effect on the chemistry of their team
C. he prefers to hire unskilled workers and invest in training
D. they only accept positions above lesser-skilled employees
13. In what respect have things changed since the speakers were job-seeking graduates?
A. jobseekers used not to lie about their qualifications
B. jobseekers used to pretend they had better qualifications
C. jobseekers used to be far fresher and more enthusiastic
D. jobseekers used not to mind dumbing down their CVs
14. Why does Jimmy have some sympathy for graduates?
A. he admires their sense of entitlement
B. they were too young to understand what they voted for
C. they have accumulated huge debts at college
D. they are victims of other people’s incompetence
15. Jimmy believes that college-goers of the future should
A. not rule out the Arts and Humanities.
B. work for foreign in preference to local firms.
C. choose their course of study carefully
D. be selective about where they study
Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a talk about CRISPR technology and supply the blanks with the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS or NUMBERS taken from the recording
for each answer in the space provided.
Back in 2006, bacteria used in the (16) _____________ was found to possess CRISPR, a tool that acts as a pair
of (17) _____________ and thus defends them against deadly viruses. Application of CRISPR may improve
our lives in three ways: - CRISPR application in Agriculture has resulted in crop yields that are more nutritious
and possess higher (18) ______________, as can be seen in China’s new breed of rice that produces (19)
_______________ more grains. - CRISPR-based treatments can cure genetic disorders like (20)
______________ and cystic fibrosis. By fixing (21) ________________, CRISPR helps to alleviate the burden
of genetic diseases. - CRISPR can also be used to eradicate infections. Using the technology called (22)
______________, scientists have engineered (23) ______________ that are unaffected by malaria-carrying
parasites and can pass this resistance on to their offspring. Numerous questions have been raised about the
ethical issues of CRISPR, as to who can use it as a (24) ______________, and how to ensure equitable access.
The birth of CRISPR babies has necessitated a comprehensive (25) _______________ on modifying human
embryos until its long-term effects are better understood.
B. LEXICOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (30 points)
Part 1: Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes (20 pts)
1. The choreographer ________ his fingers in time to the music so that the dancers could pick up the tempo.
A. clenched B. snapped C. nudged D. beckoned
2. The shop wasn’t making much of a profit so in order to attract more customers, the owner ________ some of
the prices.
A. shelled out B. sold out C. marked down D. stocked up
3. Dr. Walker has spent her entire career studying the impact of poaching on _________ animals like the tiger.
A. ground B. terrestrial C. worldly D. landmass
4. Closure of schools took place _________ falling numbers of pupils.
A. in the context of B. with regard to
C. with a concern for D. in consideration of
5. I decided to lend my brother some money to _________ until he could find himself a job.
A. pull him over B. tide him over C. get him by D. put him up
6. The football club decided to _______ the team with a couple of world-class players.
A. beef up B. butter up C. dredge up D. drum up
7. Unions accept free accommodation and travel, yet they would scream _______ murder if the same was
received by politicians.
A. red B. blue C. yellow D. black
8. Professional sports have become so competitive that all athletes know, no matter how good they are, that one
day they will ________.
A. paddle their own canoe C. take the wind out of their sails
B. blow their own trumpet D. meet their match
9. That he was using unscrupulous research methods only came out because his assistant ______ on him to the
press.
A. ratted B. hounded C. fished D. bugged
10. I’m hoping that this work experience will stand me in _______in my future career.
A. good grounding B. good steadC. fine precedent D. stable footing
11. Most people feel a slight _______of nostalgia as they think back on their school days.
A. feeling B. surge C. pang D. chain
12. The cost of a new house in the UK has become _______high over the last few years.
A. totally B. astronomically C. blatantly D. utterly
13. The entire staff was thrown off _______when the news of the takeover was announced.
A. composure B. disarray C. stable D. balance
14. The matter has been left in _______until the legal ramifications have been explored.
A. recess B. suspension C. abeyance D. criticism
15. I didn’t want to make a decision ____, so I said I’d like to think about it.
A. in one go B. there and then C. at a stroke D. on and off
16. Now that I’ve lost my job, I think we are lucky we don’t have children yet. We ______ to raise them on
Joe’s salary alone.
A. won’t be able B. aren’t able C. wouldn’t be able D. weren’t able
17. - Lam: "It's a pity she had to pull out of the competition." - Hung: "Yes, especially since she ______ such
excellent progress."
A. is making B. made C. had been making D. has been making
18. Her hair ______ in a bun, the bride looks superficially attractive.
A. styling B. styled C. was styled D. has been styled
19. This project is _______ for an introductory-level class.
A. too much really hard B. much too really hard
C. really much too hard D. really hard too much
20. My sister says she spent the last month looking for a job, but she didn’t get any replies to the CVs she sent.
She ______________.
A. couldn’t try hard B. can’t try hard enough
C. couldn’t have been trying hard D. could have had tried hard
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: Give the correct form of the words in brackets in each of the following sentences. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes (10 points)
Example:
0. She couldn’t go on holiday with Jonathan; they had too much emotional ______ (BAG).
Answer: 0. baggage
1. Known for power, speed, and ______, the goshawk has short wings and a long tail, enabling them to dodge
branches in pursuit of prey. (MANEUVER)
2. This room was much smaller, though the ceiling was quite as high; it gave the ______ sense of being stuck at
the bottom of a deep well. (PHOBIA)
3. She ______ the things we need to buy – sugar, tea, and sandwiches. (NUMBER)
4. This book is ______. You can find information about the varieties of plants around the world here.
(EMBRACE)
5. Her bare feet arch elegantly, and the ankle bracelets she wears ______ her graceful movements. (ACCENT)
6. The remnants of an ancient penguin that stood as tall as a grown man have been found ______ in rock on a
beach in New Zealand. (CASE)
7. He was a modest and ______ man who never gave the impression that he knew all the answers. (ASSUME)
8. Many in the working class tend to be ______ towards authority figures and those in superior class positions.
(DEFER)
9. With the great achievement of U23 Vietnam team, many international newspapers wrote ______ praising our
heroes. (COMIC)
10. Having made that morally terrible mistake, the kidnapper is now _______. (CONSCIENCE)
Your answers:
 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (60pts)
Part 1: For questions 1–10, read the following passages and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits
each gap. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in corresponding numbered boxes. (15pts)
In the north-west corner of the island paradise Isla Perlita, nestling in the shadow of Mount Machu, lies
the sleepy village of San Lorenzo. Off the beaten (1)______, there is nothing out of the ordinary about this
quaint little village – nothing, that is apart from the magnificent five - (2)______ Bay Hotel. The Bay, as it is
known locally, is a recent development catering for (3)______ travellers who enjoy luxury holiday-making.
Famous throughout the island for the outstanding quality of its accommodation and the excellence of its
cuisine, the Bay (4)______ 30 guest suites, each with a charm and character of its own. Each suite looks
(5)______ Falmer Beach, commanding breathtaking views of the four miles of white sand, which gently
shelves into the (6)______ clear waters of the Crepuscan Sea. At the heart of the Bay Hotel is personal,
efficient and unobtrusive service. (7)______ staff anticipate your every need in an atmosphere of quiet
professionalism and genuine friendliness. (8)______, the Bay Hotel is a place to get (9)______ from the
stresses of everyday life, and whether it is (10)______ away the hours soaking up the sun or taking advantage
of the wide range of recreational activities that the hotel has on offer, you can be sure that a holiday at the Bay
truly is the holiday of a lifetime.
1. A. path B. track C. road D. way
2. A. starred B. stars C. star D. starring
3. A. disconcerting B. discerning C. Distinctive D. discriminated.
4. A. announces B. claims C. asserts D. boast
5. A. back on B. onto C. Into D. down
6. A. crystal B. sky C. diamond D. pearl
7. A. Preoccupied B. Attentive C. Concentrated D. Undivided
8. A. All over B. For all C. Above all D. All along
9. A. out B. over C. Off D. away
10. A. whiling B. wearing C. wending D. winding
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 5. The passage below consists of four sections marked A, B, C and D. For questions 1-10, read the
passage and do the task that follows. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided. (15pts)
 A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
Our reporter spent a night camping out inside a zoo in Australia
A. Scanning the breakfast menu, I found myself swiftly losing my appetite: on offer were beetle larvae,
maggots and frozen mice. Fortunately, spending the night at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo needn’t involve sampling
the animals’ meals, though it does entail getting extremely close to all manner of creatures. The Roar and Snore
programme, curiously little known in Australia let alone overseas, allows you to spend a night camping in the
heart of the zoo, long after the crowds of day trippers have dispersed. And if your experience of zoos is
creatures slumped motionless in their enclosures, or skulking in their dens, then let me assure you that at dusk,
the place comes alive and echoes with the din of hundreds of creatures making their presence known. A
ferryboat dropped me off at the foot of the zoo, which sprawls across a steeply sloping swathe of bushland
across the bay from the city. Guides, Steve and Nikki, awaited with bright, enthusiastic smiles. Ten of us had
signed up and, in no time at all, we were busily erecting tents on a rectangle of grass outside the zoo’s
education centre. An adjacent area of gum trees was inhabited by kangaroos, wallabies and an alarmingly
inquisitive emu – our first animal encounter.
B. After a quick briefing, we set off into the gathering gloom. Steve unlocked a huge metal gate that then
clanged ominously behind us. We were in, though not without some trepidation – what had we let ourselves in
for? It was just us, a handful of security staff and 2,000 furred and feathered inmates. A gibbon let out a
haunting, liquid whoop and wild possums frolicked noisily through the eucalyptus trees above us, their dark
silhouettes framed against a full moon. The skyscrapers of the city centre twinkled in the distance as a pair of
zebras scuffled in a cloud of dust; farther along, a giant Kodiak bear lumbered menacingly around a large, rock-
strewn enclosure. An awesome spectacle in the gloom, but the buzz that evoked was soon surpassed when a
pair of snow leopards came within a few feet of us as they paced around the rocky ledges of their cage.
C. Not all the animals at Taronga are behind bars. Semi-tame African guinea fowl nest in the gum trees and a
water buffalo let out a surprisingly cow-like moo, whilst a group of macaws screeched as we climbed back up
to the education centre. It gets chilly after dusk, but Steve had left nothing to chance and a warming barbecue
was already sizzling with sausages and chicken kebabs. Meanwhile, Nikki brought out some animals that are
used to being handled: first a diamond python called Little Spots and then a koala. Even the Australians in the
group were enthralled as Nikki showed us the pad of hardened skin that enables the species to sit for hours at a
time in the crook of a tree. As she explained, the gum trees they eat contain only four percent protein, so they
have little energy to do much else.
D. After a bitterly cold night under canvas, it was a relief to be woken at dawn for breakfast. As the sun rose
and bathed the zoo in a soft, orange light, we fed carrots to the zoo’s small herd of giraffes. One of them, Hope,
is blind, and sought out the carrots, with her long, slobbering blue tongue. ‘If you touch it, you’ll notice it feels
rough, like a cat’s,’ said her keeper. As Hope wrapped hers around my outstretched finger, it felt more like
sandpaper. As the sun’s rays warmed our chilled bodies, we were taken on a behind-the-scenes tour, down a
corridor with doors leading to each enclosure, and notices reminding keepers of the animals’ diet and welfare
requirements. In a scrubbed kitchen, the inmates’ food is prepared. Here another cheery keeper, Kristy, showed
me the grey-coloured gloop that is fed to small marsupials. ‘Have a taste,’ she said. I hesitated, then dipped in
my finger. It was delicious, like honey yoghurt. We were at the end of our visit and the zoo was again admitting
the public. Within an hour it seemed as though every four-year-old in Sydney was careering around the place,
letting out squeals of excitement – a sharp contrast to the peaceful, privileged glimpse we’d been given.
In which section does the writer
1.......... mention a noise that made him feel slightly uneasy?
2.......... acknowledge the forethought of one of his hosts?
3.......... allude to the cleanliness of a section of the zoo?
4.......... suggest that most visitors don’t see the animals at their best?
5.......... imply that the activity he attended would benefit from wider publicity?
6.......... admit to an initial reluctance to take up a suggestion?
7.......... give us an impression of the scale and extent of the whole site?
8.......... describe a physical sensation that more than lived up to expectations?
9.......... report on one way in which the well-being of the animals is ensured?
10.......... mention a thrilling encounter with one particular species?
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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LẦN THỨ XIII, NĂM 2022
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 11
(Đề thi gồm 23 trang) Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian giao đề)

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A. LISTENING (50 POINTS)
PART 1: Listen to a lecture about population growth and answer each of the following questions with
NO MORE THAN TWO words and / or numbers. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided. (10 points)
1. What is defined as the number of children born per 1000 people per year?
___________________________________________________________________
2. Was the fertility rate in the UK higher or lower twenty years ago than it is now?
 ___________________________________________________________________
3. What country in the UK has the highest fertility rate?
___________________________________________________________________
4. What proportion of women in their mid-forties do not have children nowadays?
___________________________________________________________________
5. What do French couples who have eight children receive?
___________________________________________________________________
ANSWERS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART 2: You will hear part of a talk about shopping centres. Decide whether each of the following
statements is TRUE or FALSE. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10
points)
1. Shoppers are more aware of the competitive nature of shopping centres.
2. Shoppers find natural materials like stones and wood more appealing than plastic and steel.
3. Shoppers of different interest or taste like to do their shopping in the same shop.
4. Skillful Analysts is one of the customer types that David Peek mentioned.
5. David Peek dislikes tricking shoppers into spending more money.
ANSWERS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART 3: You will hear a group of art history students going out an art gallery with their teacher. 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. Burne-Jones believed that a painting ________.
A. ought to be true to nature
B. must have a moral point
C. should play an instructive role in a modern industrial society
D. need not have practical value
2. It appears that the story of the King and the Beggar Maid was ________.
A. a well-known Victorian tale
B. popularized by a poet
C. brought to the artist’s attention by his wife
D. taken up by novelists at later stage
3. According to the students, how did the painter approach the work?
A. He wanted to portray the beggar realistically.
B. He copied part of the painting from an Italian masterpiece.
C. He had certain items in the painting made for him.
D. He wanted to decorate the clothing with jewels.
4. The student thinks that in some way the painting depicts ________.
A. an uncharacteristically personal message
B. the great sadness of the artist
C. the artist’s inability to return the girl’s love
D. the fulfillment of the artist’s hopes and dreams
5. What was people’s reaction to the painting?
A. They recognized Frances Graham as the model for the Beggar Maid.
B. They realized how personal the painting was for the artist.
C. They interpreted the painting without difficulty.
D. They did not approve of the subject matter of the painting.
ANSWERS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART 4: Listen to a report on the hazardous effects of solid waste in China on BBC and fill in the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS taken from the recording for each answer.
Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (20 points)
(1) __________________, including outdated cell phones and laptops, is among the most valuable (2)
__________________ imported to one of the main ports in Eastern China where million tons of solid waste is
(3) __________________ from all over the world and processed annually. The recycling process of (4)
__________________ has posed serious threats to nearby villages. The situation is worsened by recyclers (5)
__________________ in hidden yards due to the government’s (6) __________________ on illegal processing.
The environment is getting more and more polluted, which is detrimental to the health of those who live by the
port. It is calculated that China houses over two thirds of the world’s scrap (7) __________________ and the
figure keeps increasing owing to (8) __________________ or higher standards of living. This means people
buying a wide variety of electronics and (9) __________________ their old-fashioned ones. The (10)
__________________ for latest version technology gadgets of Chinese people is predicted to, on the one hand,
keep around a hundred recycling plants operating at full strength, on the other hand, promise China a new
growth business.
ANSWERS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 POINTS)

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 provided. (20 points)
1. I'm afraid we got our _______ crossed. I thought my husband would be picking up the children and he
thought I was doing it.
A. minds B. purposes C. wires D. fingers
2. Parents often have to _______ large amounts of money so that their children can take part in extracurricular
sports activities.
A. mark down B. ring up C. shell out D. stock up
3. Julie felt unfairly _______ when she spoke out against a company proposal and the entire staff team turned
against her.
A. prosecuted B. persecuted C. oppressed D. suppressed
4. I couldn’t remember where I had left my car, when it suddenly ______ me that I didn’t have a car any longer.
A. dawned on B. ran into C. went through D. tumbled to
5. John was _______ a week after the accident, but he has not been able to come to football practice yet.
A. up and about B. vim and vigour
C. life and death D. fingers and thumbs
6. The _______ skyscrapers of modern metropolises dwarf previous feats of engineering both literally and
figuratively.
A. tottering B. towering C. sprawling D. spanning
7. The high level of air pollution is _______ a result of local factory emissions.
A. plainly B. abruptly C. distinctly D. markedly
8. It is mandatory that smoking in public _______ .
A. is banned B. must be banned C. banning D. be banned
9. The floral bouquets we entered into the competition were a _______ of colour, but unfortunately, we did not
win first prize.
A. wham B. riot C. drop D. buzz
10. Most people are _______ to believe that girls and boys like certain toys when they are young.
A. hardened B. acclimated C. conditioned D. accustomed
11. Charlotte _______ the new girl immediately, within hours of meeting each other they were best of friends.
A. took issue with B. took heart from
C. took a shine to D. took his hat off to
12. People don’t have a right to _______ in judgement when they don’t know all the facts.
A. sit B. pass C. make D. bite
13. Would you be _______ my letter when I am away?
A. too good as to forward B. so good as to forward
C. as good as to forward D. so good as forwarding
14. At the age of 11, Taylor Swift was already trying to _______ a record deal in Nashville.
A. land B. create C. steal D. grab
15. I felt as if I _______ a confidence.
A. am betraying B. have betrayed C. would betray D. had betrayed
16. As much as the candidate tried to convince people of his honesty, he could not shake off his _______ past.
A. serene B. tranquil C. shady D. frigid
17. After years of working together, the partners found themselves _______ linked.
A. permanently B. indelibly C. perpetually D. inextricably
18. Be realistic! You can’t go through life looking at the world through _______
A. rosed-coloured spectacles B. bright sights
C. magnificent spectacles D. green fingers
19. Regional parliaments allow _______ for remote parts of the country or islands far from the capital.
A. self-government B. self-sufficiency
C. self-regulation D. self-support
20. In geometry, an ellipse may be defined as the locus of all points _______ distances from two fixed points is
constant.
A. the sum of whose B. of which the sum
C. whose sum of D. which the sum of

AN SWERS:

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

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

PART 2: Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided. (10 points)
1. Hostels are used as a _____________ until the families can find permanent accommodation. (STOP)
 2. The draft law gives companies _____________ power to block merger and acquisition deals with foreign
investors. (DISCRETION)
3. Hopeful actors from small towns are often ____________ in New York. (DRIFT)
4. Her book is as _____________ as a cool ocean breeze. (VIGOR)
5. It is inhumane to sell ______________ limbs of the animals such as rhinoceros or elephants in the market
place. (MEMBER)
6. A(n) ____________ to the contract stated that the buyer would be responsible for all transportation costs.
(ADD)
7. The problematic symptoms tend to disappear once the _____________ is corrected. (ALIGN)
8. A baby may be born with a stork bite, or the _____________ may appear in the first months of life. (MARK)
9. You may not have liked her, but no one could ____________ her determination. (SAY)
10. The ship is an exact _____________ of the original Golden Hind. (REPLY)
ANSWERS:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO QUẢNG TRỊ ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT KỲ THI DHBB
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN NĂM HỌC 2021-2022
TIẾNG ANH 11

LISTENING (50pts)
Part I: You will hear a discussion in which two historians, Matt Thomas and Sue Wilkins, talk about a
book they have written. For questions 1 - 5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to
what you hear.
1. What does Sue say about digging on the Thames foreshore?
A Until recently amateur archaeologists weren't allowed to do it.
B Official authorisation is required to do it.
C You must have a member of a certain society with you to do it.
D The 'Thames Mudlarks' can give you a permit to do it.
2. Matt says that, in the past, poverty-stricken children ______________.
A might live on the Thames foreshore.
B used to try and sell things to people in boats on the river.
C would hunt certain types of bird near the river banks.
D looked for things in the mud at certain times of day.
3. How did Sue feel about the Thames when she visited it as a girl?
A curious about why her parents took her there
B excited about the chance to search for treasure
C repulsed by its appearance
D fascinated by the idea that she might work there one day.
4. Matt is intrigued by __________________.
A what can be learnt from the objects they find.
 B the transport people used in the Middle Ages.
C how London's inhabitants used to dispose of their rubbish.
D how much the Thames has changed over the centuries.
5. What makes the discovery of certain small items very important?
A They made Matt rethink his views of life in the past.
B. They reveal something about family relationships.
C They can teach us how mud can be used to preserve things.
D They confirm a widely held theory.
Part II: Listen to a lecture and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
6. There are very few facts known about how language is learnt.
7. Subliminal language learning can only take place overnight.
8. You do not need to listen closely to the words on the tape.
9. Reading a foreign newspaper is never a waste of time.
10 The author thinks that learning a new language in six weeks is possible.
Part III: You will hear two teachers talking about the work experience program for their students
answer the following questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question.
11. What are the students in the program studying?
______________________________________________
12. What is the companies now worried about?
______________________________
13. What do these companies demand in case of accidents?
________________________________________
14. Besides paying for the program, what will the university also continue to do?
_________________________________________
15. How was the university’s strategy of a completion bonus last year?
_________________________________________

Part IV: Listen to a piece of news and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided.
8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea from land every year, the equivalent of five plastic bags
filled with trash for every 16___________________________ in the world. Across our ocean, plastic trash
flows into circulation, and concentrates in 17________________________ in the midst of global currents.
Anyone can make plastic and sell it anywhere in the world; there's no 18_______________________ there's no
barriers.
We need to effectively rethink the entire system to find solution to the 19_____________________.
That means, plastic can be recovered and fed back into the economy as a 20_____________________ .
The 21______________________ of the new plastics economy is to design an economy without plastic waste.
However, marine pollution comes in many forms. Industrial, agricultural and urban waste also sweep into the
sea, fueling 22__________________ that robbed marine ecosystems of the oxygen they need to survive.
Nutrient pollution can be managed through change in major contributing systems like agriculture.
So all of us have to work together to solve. Soil health is critical for water quality.
We have to try to improve organic matter. The more organic matter you have in the soil, the better the soil
can hold on to 23_________________________ and nitrogen. Organic matter keeps it from
24_________________________ of the soil.
What all farmers want is to learn different 25_____________________ that allow you to do it effectively that
becomes a key.

II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (30pts)

Part I. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 pts)
1. _________ caused certain diseases such as malaria was not known until the early 20th century.
A. That mosquitoes B. Mosquitoes
 C. What mosquitoes D. Mosquitoes which
2. _______________that we had seen her before she died.
A. Should B. Would C. Will D. May
3. _______________empty, we decided to put the new freezer in there.
A. Being the spare room C. The spare room being
B. The spare room is D. The spare room was
4. I know that he has tried hard; _______________, his work is just not good enough.
A. be that as it may C. therefore
B. otherwise D. come what may
5. The Opposition moved that ____________to the Bill.
A. an amendment was made C. an amendment be made
B. they made an amendment D. an amendment is made
6. By an unfortunate ___________, the tour company had omitted John’s name from their list.
A. neglect B. disregard C. insult D. oversight
7. It is not fair the way my sister is always ____________ for special treatments.
A. singled out B. picked off C. taken on D. laid aside
8. When I started to study archaeology, I knew _______ no Latin, but within a year I could read it rather well.
A. barely B. entirely C. scarcely D. virtually
9. Our teacher is wonderful- she can __________ the most difficult subject really clearly.
A. put out B. put over C. put on D. put forward
10. In spite of working their fingers to the __________, all the staff staff were made redundant.
A. nail B. edge C. flesh D. bone
11. The country around here is so ____________ that you can only get around in a jeep.
A. jagged B. weathered C. severe D. rugged
12. She refuses to resign, intending to weather the ___________.
A. flood B. drought C. storm D. typhoon
13. The bridge-building project had problems with funding right from the word _________.
A. go B. move C. begin D. start
14. He tried to ____________ himself from the more extreme members of the party.
A. distance B. refrain C. detract D. extract
15. They have not been able to ___________ the facts, so no one knows what really happened.
A. settle B. abscond C. attain D. ascertain
16. His self-confidence has been seriously ___________ by the bad reviews of his book.
A. annihilated B. fractured C. dented D. destroyed
17. He ____________ insanity to avoid being punished for the crime.
A. fabricated B. pretended C. surmised D. pleaded
18. There has been a(n) __________ of thefts in the town recently.
A. rate B. spate C. influx D. tide
19. I’m very tired, what ____________ travelling all day yesterday and having a disturbed night.
A. with B. of C. beyond D. about
20. His estate continues to keep lawyers ___________ employed even seven years after his death.
A. fruitfully B. gainfully C. productively D. advantageously

Part II. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10pts)
1. The (INVEST) ______________ of the new president will take place this evening.
2. The insulating material should be (PERMEATE) ______________ to water vapour.
3. The actors struggled (MAN) ____________ with some of the worst lines of dialogue ever written.
4. It would have been (HONOUR) _____________ of her not to keep her promise.
5. I think I must have known (CONSCIOUS) ___________ that something was going on between them.
6. The government is reported to be concerned about the (SURGE) __________ in the South.
7. Both parties are unhappy about the (ADROIT) __________ handling of the whole affair.
 8. There is no (SAY) ___________ the technical brilliance of his performance.
9. What I need is a book that will (MYSTERY) ____________ the workings of a car engine for me.
10. Her dress was tightly belted, (ACCENT) ___________ the slimness of her waist.

READING (60pts)
Part I: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Read the passage and choose from
paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (7pts)
The man who proved that everyone is good at maths
By travelling all the way to Madagascar, the French academic Marc Chemillier has shown that humans
have remarkable innate skills with numbers.
Alex Duval Smith reports.

Maths is simple. But to discover this requires travelling to the ends of the earth where an illiterate, chain-
smoking fortune teller lives in a room with a double bed and a beehive.
As the sun rises over the hut belonging to Raoke, a 70-year-old witch doctor, a highly pitched din heralds bee
rush hour. The insects he keeps shuttle madly in and out through the window.
1. __________
In his book, Les Mathématiques Naturelles, the director of studies at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in
Social Sciences) argues that mathematics is not only simple, it is "rooted in human, sensorial intuition". And he
believes that Madagascar's population, which remains relatively untouched by outside influences, can help him
to prove this.
2. ___________
To make his point, Mr Chemillier chose to charge up his laptop computer, leave Paris and do the rounds of
fortune tellers on the Indian Ocean island because its uninfluenced natural biodiversity also extends to its
human population. Divinatory geomancy – reading random patterns, or sikidy to use the local word – is what
Raoke does, when not smoking cigarettes rolled with paper from a school exercise book.
3. ___________
Raoke pours a random number of seeds on to his mat, then picks them up singly or in twos and lays them in a
grid from right to left. Each horizontal gridline has a name – son, livestock, woman or enemy – and each
vertical one has a name, too: chief, zebu (cattle), brother and earth. Whether one or two seeds lie at the
intersection of two gridlines determines the subject's fortune and informs Raoke as to the cure required, and its
price. From the selection of wood pieces on his table, Raoke can mix concoctions to cure ailments, banish evil
spirits and restore friendships.
4. ___________
Given the thousands of plant species in Madagascar that are still undiscovered by mainstream medicine, it is
entirely possible that Raoke holds the key to several miracle cures. But Mr Chemillier is not interested in the
pharmacopaeic aspect of the fortune teller's work.
5. ___________
The way in which he poses questions over the seeds requires the same faculties for mental speculation as might
be displayed by a winner of the Fields Medal, which is the top award any mathematician can aspire to, said Mr
Chemillier.
6. ___________
Raoke says God shows him how to position the seeds. He does not understand why "Monsieur Marc", and now
this other visiting white person, keeps asking him why he lays the seeds in a certain way. Yet it is clear from a
stack of grimy copybooks he keeps under his bed that if indeed God is a mathematician dictating to Raoke, then
the Almighty keeps him busy. When not consulting clients, the diminutive fortune teller spends hours with his
seeds, laying them in different formations and copying the dots down in pencil. Those grids have value and
Raoke sells them to other fortune tellers.
7. ___________
Raoke cannot read but he recognises the word "danger", written in red at the start of the government health
warning. He drops the packet to the floor in shock and disgust
 A. Indeed, I can see it is the lack of memory and computer aids that helps keep Raoke’s mind sharp. In the
developed world people are over-reliant on calculators, dictionaries and documents. And also the
developed world is wrong to ignore the basic human connection with numbers that goes back to using the
fingers on your hands and relating them to the environment around you.
B. This bizarre setting, near nowhere in the harsh cactus savannah of southern Madagascar, is where a
leading French academic, Marc Chemillier, has achieved an extraordinary pairing of modern science and
illiterate intuition.
C. A basic session with the seeds costs 10,000 ariary (£3), then a price is discussed for the cure. It seems
there is nothing Raoke cannot achieve for the top price of one or two zebus – Malagasy beef cattle that
cost about £300 each – though some remedies are available for the price of a sheep. "A white man came
from Réunion with a stomach ailment that the hospitals in France could not cure. I gave him a powder to
drink in a liquid. He vomited and then he was cured," said Raoke.
D. "Raoke is an expert in a reflexive view of maths of which we have lost sight in the West," says Mr
Chemillier. "Even armed with my computer program, I do not fully comprehend Raoke's capacities for
mental arithmetic. He can produce 65,536 grids with his seeds – I have them all in my computer now – but
we still need to do more work to understand his mental capacity for obtaining the combinations of single
seeds and pairs."
E. Mr Chemillier argues that children should be encouraged to do maths before they learn to read and write.
"There is a strong link between counting and the number of fingers on our hands. Maths becomes
complicated only when you abandon basic measures in nature, like the foot or the inch, or even the acre,
which is the area that two bulls can plough in a day."
F. Seeing that pages of the copybooks are being sacrificed to his roll-ups, I offer Raoke a packet of cigarette
papers which he accepts with delight, having never seen them before. He buys his tobacco leaf in long
plaits from the market. So I offer him a green plastic pouch of Golden Virginia.
G. With a low table covered in pieces of wood – each of which has a particular medicinal virtue – Raoke sits
on his straw mat and chants as he runs his fingers through a bag of shiny, dark brown tree seeds. "There
were about 600 seeds in the bag to begin with but I have lost a few," he says. "They come from the fane
tree and were selected for me many years ago. The fane from the valley of Tsivoanino produces some
seeds that lie and others that tell the truth so it is very important to test each seed. I paid a specialist to do
that," said the father of six.
H. Over the years, Mr Chemillier has earned respect from Raoke and other Malagasy fortune tellers. "Initially
they thought France had sent me to steal their work in an attempt to become the world's most powerful
fortune teller. But once I was able to share grids with them that had been through my computer program,
we established a relationship of trust," says Mr Chemillier.
(Adapted from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa)

Part II: Read the passage and fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)
The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351, and
remained endemic in England until 1666. Carried by the fleas (1) _________ lived on the black rat, the plague
reached Western Europe from the Crimea, possibly on Genoese merchant ships, and spread north from the
Mediterranean during 1348. Everywhere the death rate was high and, (2) _________ still, the plague recurred
regularly. The English (3) _________ fell from nearly four million in 1348 to just over two million in 1400.
Every feature of decline in the late Middle Ages, from deserted villages to a slump in monastic vocation, has
since been attributed (4) ________ the Black Death. But this decline was, in (5) __________, more the
consequence of growing malnutrition, which became more and more widespread as the uncontrolled population
growth of the 13th century pushed thousands of cultivators into marginal (6) __________. The Black Death was
the crisis. It grimly restored the balance between men and their food (7) _________; and, short of an agrarian
revolution, there was nothing else that could.
The Black Death was ultimately the catalyst in another process- the commutation of labor service. The
movement to change the labour system (8) ___________ a feudal one (wherein labourers were required to work
in return for goods and protection) to a monetary one was already in progress. (9) ___________, landowners
obviously opposed the monetary system, because they had to pay for labour. But the attempts by employers to
withhold wages and to restore labour service everywhere were bound to fail, since the situation now favoured
the employees. Ultimately, the employers had to (10) __________ way, and the commutation movement
rapidly accelerated.
(Adapted from: ECPE- Tests for the Michigan Proficiency)

Part III: Read the text and choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10pts)
GALAXIES
Astronomers classify galaxies into three major categories.
Spiral Galaxies
Like the Milky Way, other spiral galaxies also have a thin disk extending outward from a central bulge.
The bulge itself merges smoothly into a halo that can extend to a radius of over 100,000 light-years. Together,
the bulge and halo of a spiral galaxy make up its spheroidal component, so named because of its rounded shape.
Although no clear boundary divides the pieces of the spheroidal component, astronomers usually consider stars
within 10,000 light-years of the center to be members of the bulge and those outside this radius to be members
of the halo.
The disk component of a spiral galaxy slices directly through the halo and bulge. The disk of a large
spiral galaxy like the Milky Way can extend 50,000 light-years or more from the center. The disks of all spiral
galaxies contain an interstellar medium of gas and dust, but the amounts and proportions of the interstellar
medium in molecular, atomic, and ionized forms differ from one spiral galaxy to the next. Spiral galaxies with
large bulges generally have less interstella gas and dust than those with small bulges.
Not all galaxies with disks are standard spiral galaxies. Some spiral galaxies appear to have a straight
bar of stars cutting across the center, with spiral arms curling away from the ends of the bar. Such galaxies are
known as barred spiral galaxies.
Other galaxies have disks but do not appear to have spiral arms. These are called lenticular galaxies
because they look lens-shaped when seen edge-on (lenticular means “lens-shaped”). Although they look like
spiral galaxies without arms, lenticular galaxies might more appropriately be considered an intermediate class
between spirals and ellipticals because they tend to have less cool gas than normal spirals, but more than
ellipticals.
Among large galaxies in the universe, most (75% to 85%) are spiral or lenticular. (Spiral and lenticular
galaxies are much rarer among small galaxies.) Spiral galaxies are often found in loose collections of several
galaxies, called groups, that extend over a few million light-years. Our Local Group is one example, with two
large spirals: the Milky Way and the Great Galaxy in Andromeda, Lenticular galaxies are particularly common
in clusters of galaxies, which can contain hundreds and sometimes thousands of galaxies, extending over more
than 10 million light-years.
Elliptical Galaxies
The major difference between elliptical and spiral galaxies is that ellipticals lack a significant disk
component. Thus, an elliptical galaxy has only a spheroidal component and looks much like the bulge and halo
of a spiral galaxy. (In fact, elliptical galaxies are sometimes called spheroidal galaxies). Most of the interstellar
medium in large elliptical galaxies consists of low-density, hot x-ray, emitting gas like the gas in bubbles and
superbubbles in the Milky Way. Elliptical galaxies usually contain very little dust or cool gas, although they are
not completely devoid of either. Some have relatively small and cold gaseous disks rotating at their centers;
these disks might be the remnants of a collision with a spiral galaxy.
Elliptical galaxies appear to be more social than spiral galaxies: They are much more common in
clusters of galaxies than outside clusters. [A] Elliptical galaxies make up about half the large galaxies in the
central regions of clusters, while they represent only a small minority (about 15%) of the large galaxies found
outside clusters. [B] However, ellipticals are more common among small galaxies. [C] Particularly small
elliptical galaxies with less than a billion stars, called dwarf elliptical galaxies, are often found near larger spiral
galaxies. At least 10 dwarf elliptical galaxies belong to the Local Group. [D]
Irregular Galaxies
 A small percentage of the large galaxies we see nearby fall into neither of the two major categories. This
irregular class of galaxies is a miscellaneous class, encompassing small galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds
and “peculiar” galaxies that appear to be in disarray. These blobby star systems are usually white and dusty,
like the disks of spirals. Telescopic observations probing deep into the universe show that distant galaxies are
more likely to be irregular in shape than those nearby. Because the light of more distant galaxies was emitted
longer ago in the past. these observations tell us that irregular galaxies were more common when the universe
was younger.
(Adapted from: TOEFL by i20fever Yathapu Consulting Pvt Ltd- Issuu)
1. What does this passage mainly discuss?
A. The major components of spiral galaxies
B. The most important types of galaxies
C. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies
D. Measuring galaxies in light-years
2. What distinguishes a spiral galaxy from an elliptical galaxy?
A. Elliptical galaxies have a much larger halo.
B. Elliptical galaxies have more dust and cool gas.
C. Spiral galaxies are more irregularly shaped.
D. Spiral galaxies have a more prominent disk.
3. The word devoid in the passage is closest in meaning to ___________.
A. hidden B. empty C. dense D. bright
4. The word remmants in the passage is closest in meaning to____________.
A. remains B. origin C. damage D. evidence
5. The word either in the passage refers to ____________.
A. bubbles or superbubbles C. dust or cool gas
B. elliptical or spheroidal galaxies D. small or cold disks
6. According to paragraph 5, lenticular galaxies _____________.
A. look like spiral galaxies without arms
B. consist of a bulge and a halo ina spiral galaxy
C. appear to have a bar of stars across the center
D. are in the shape of a white spiral disk
7. Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the highlighted statement in the passage? The
other choices change the meaning or leave out important information.
A. Spiral galaxies with small bulges have more gas and dust.
B. Spiral galaxies have more gas and dust in their bulges.
C. There is less gas and dust in a spiral galaxy with a small bulge.
D. Gas and dust collect in the bulges of the large spiral galaxies.
8. Irregular galaxies are described as all of the following EXCEPT ___________.
A. very white and dusty like the Magellanic Clouds
B. older than most of the other types of galaxies
C. similar to the disks of a spiral galaxy
D. an intermediate class between spirals and ellipticals
9. It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.
A. astronomers do not agree on the classifications of gaxalies
B. galaxies always collect together in clusters
C. the Milky Way is a typical spiral galaxy
D. most halos extend to about 100,000 light-years
10. Which of the options ([A] – [D]) indicates where the following sentence can be added to the passage?
“A good example of a dwarf elliptical galaxy is Leo I in the Local Group.”
A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]

Part IV: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (13pts)
 Party Labels in Mid-Eighteenth Century England
A. Until the late 1950s the Whig interpretation of English history in the eighteenth century prevailed. This was
successfully challenged by Lewis Namier, who proposed, based on an analysis of the voting records of MPs
from the 1760 intake following the accession to the throne of George III, that the accepted Whig/Tory division
of politics did not hold. He believed that the political life of the period could be explained without these party
labels, and that it was more accurate to characterise political division in terms of the Court versus Country.
B. An attempt was then made to use the same methodology to determine whether the same held for early
eighteenth century politics. To Namier's chagrin this proved that at the end of Queen Anne's reign in 1714
voting in parliament was certainly based on party interest, and that Toryism and Whiggism were distinct and
opposed political philosophies. Clearly, something momentous had occurred between 1714 and 1760 to
apparently wipe out party ideology. The Namierite explanation is that the end of the Stuart dynasty on the death
of Queen Anne and the beginning of the Hanoverian with the accession of George I radically altered the
political climate.
C. The accession of George I to the throne in 1715 was not universally popular. He was German, spoke little
English, and was only accepted because he promised to maintain the Anglican religion. Furthermore, for those
Tory members of government under Anne, he was nemesis, for his enthronement finally broke the hereditary
principle central to Tory philosophy, confirming the right of parliament to depose or select a monarch.
Moreover, he was aware that leading Tories had been in constant communication with the Stuart court in exile,
hoping to return the banished King James II. As a result, all Tories were expelled from government, some being
forced to escape to France to avoid execution for treason.
D. The failure of the subsequent Jacobite rebellion of 1715, where certain Tory magnates tried to replace
George with his cousin James, a Stuart, albeit a Catholic, was used by the Whig administration to identify the
word "Tory" with treason. This was compounded by the Septennial Act of 1716, limiting elections to once
every seven years, which further entrenched the Whig's power base at the heart of government focussed around
the crown. With the eradication of one of the fundamental tenets of their philosophy, alongside the systematic
replacement of all Tory positions by Whig counterparts, Tory opposition was effectively annihilated. There
was, however, a grouping of Whigs in parliament who were not part of the government.
E. The MPs now generally referred to as the "Independent Whigs" inherently distrusted the power of the
administration, dominated as it was by those called "Court Whigs". The Independent Whig was almost
invariably a country gentleman, and thus resisted the growth in power of those whose wealth was being made
on the embryonic stock market. For them the permanency of land meant patriotism, a direct interest in one's
nation, whilst shares, easily transferable, could not be trusted. They saw their role as a check on the
administration, a permanent guard against political corruption, the last line of defence of the mixed constitution
of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. The reaction against the growing mercantile class was shared by the
Tories, also generally landed country gentlemen. It is thus Namier's contention, and that of those who follow
his work, that by the 1730s the Tories and the Independent Whigs had refused to form a Country opposition to
the Court administration, thus explaining why voting records in 1760 do not follow standard party lines.
F. It must be recognised that this view is not universally espoused. Revisionist historians such as Linda Colley
dispute that the Tory party was destroyed during this period, and assert the continuation of the Tories as a
discrete and persistent group in opposition, allied to the Independent Whigs but separate. Colley's thesis is
persuasive, as it is clear that some, at least, regarded themselves as Tories rather than Whigs. She is not so
successful in proving the persistence either of party organisation beyond family connection, or of ideology,
beyond tradition. Furthermore, while the terms "Tory" and "Whig" were used frequently in the political press, it
was a device of the administration rather than the opposition. As Harris notes in his analysis of the "Patriot"
press of the 1740s, there is hardly any discernible difference between Tory and Whig opposition pamphlets,
both preferring to describe themselves as the "Country Interest", and attacking "the Court".
(Adapted from: IELTS Reading Tests)
Questions 1-6
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate
numbers (i-x) in boxes 1-6.
There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them.
1. Paragraph A ________
 2. Paragraph B ________
3. Paragraph C ________
4. Paragraph D ________
5. Paragraph E ________
6. Paragraph F ________

List of headings
i. The Whig/Tory division discounted
ii. Maintaining the Anglican religion
iii. The fusion theory challenged and supported
iv. The consequences of George I's accession
v. The Tory landowners
vi. Political divisions in the early 1700s
vii. The failure of the Jacobean rebellion
viii. The Tory opposition effectively destroyed
ix. The fusion of the Independent Whigs and the Tory landowners
x. The Whig interpretation of history
Questions 7-13
Do the statements below agree with the information in Reading Passage 2?
In boxes 7-13, write:
Yes if the statement agrees with the information in the passage
No if the statement contradicts the information in the passage
Not Given if there is no information about the statement in the passage
7. According to Namier, political divisions in the mid 18th century were related to party labels.
8. According to Namier, something happened between 1714 and 1760 to affect party ideology.
9. George I was not liked by everyone.
10. The Independent Whigs were all landowners with large estates.
11. Neither the Independent Whigs, nor the Tories trusted the mercantile classes.
12. Namier's views are supported by Colley.
13. Harris's analysis of the press of the 1740s is used by Namier to support his own views.

Part V: You are going to read an article about an art exhibition that focuses on the subject of whether
paintings are authentic or fake. Answer the questions by choosing from the sections of the article ( A -
F). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided. (10pts)
Seeing Through The Fakes
A
Close Examination at the National Gallery looks at 40 problematic works from the Gallery's collection - including
outright forgeries, misattributions, and copies, altered or over-restored paintings, and works whose authenticity
has wrongly been doubted. The curators have taken on
a huge subject - the range of possibilities museum professionals take into consideration when they investigate a
picture's status and the variety of technical procedures conservation scientists use to establish authorship and
date. The case histories they discuss have a single common denominator. Whatever conclusion the combined
disciplines of connoisseurship, science and art history may lead, the study of any work of art begins with a
question: is the work by the artist to whom it is attributed?
B
A good example is an Italian painting on panel that the National Gallery acquired in 1923, as the
work of an artist in the circle of the Italian 15th century painter Melozzo da Forlì. Today, we find it incredible
that anyone was ever fooled by a picture that looks like it was painted by a Surrealist follower of Salvador Dali.
But this is to forget how little was known about Melozzo, and how little could be done in the conservation lab to
determine the date of pigments or wood panel. Even so, from the moment the picture was acquired, sceptics
called its status into question. Nothing could be proved until 1960 when an art historian pointed out the many
 anachronisms in the clothing. When technological advances enabled the gallery to test the pigments, they were
found to be from the 19th century.
C
Scientific evidence can be invaluable but it has to be used with caution and in tandem with historical research.
For example, Corot's ravishing sketch The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct has always been dated
to about 1826, soon after the artist's arrival in Rome.
However, the green pigment that Corot used throughout the picture only became available to artists in the 1830s.
The landscape wasn't a fake and for stylistic reasons couldn't have been painted later than the mid-1820s. All
became clear when historians did further research and discovered that the firm that sold artists' supplies to Corot
in Paris started making the newly developed colour available to selected customers in the mid-1820s, long before
it came into widespread use.
D
The flipside of a fake, but capable of doing equal violence to an artist's reputation, occurs when an authentic
work is mistakenly labelled a forgery. Back in 1996, I well remember how distressing it was to read an article in
which the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, declared that Uccello's lovely
little canvas of St. George and the Dragon was forged. The gallery therefore X-rayed the picture and tested paint
samples, before concluding that it was a rare survival of a work by Uccello dating from the early 1470s. Hoving
was irresponsible not because he questioned the attribution of a much-loved work, but because he went public
without first asking the gallery to carry out a thorough scientific analysis.
E
Anyone can label a picture a fake or a copy, but their opinions are worthless unless they can support them with
tangible proof. One picture that's been smeared in this way is Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks. In this exhibition
we are shown infrared photographs that reveal the presence both of major corrections which a copyist would not
need to make, and also of under drawing in a hand comparable to Raphael's when he sketched on paper. The
pigments and paper technique exactly match those that the artist used in other works of about the same date.
F
For all its pleasure, the show also has an unspoken agenda. It is a reply to the mistaken belief that museums have
anything to gain by hiding the true status of the art they own. As the downgrading in this show of Courbet's Self-
Portrait to the status of a posthumous copy of a picture in the Louvre shows, the opposite is the case: museums
and galleries constantly question, reattribute and re-date the works in their care. If they make a mistake, they
acknowledge it.
(Adapted from Cambridge English Advanced – Practice Tests Plus 2)

In which section of the article are the following mentioned?

1. information that solved a mystery about a painting known to be authentic 1
2. an incorrect idea about the attitude of people responsible for exhibiting paintings 1
3. the fundamental issue surrounding research into a picture 2
4. similarities in an artist's style in more than one place 4
5. reasons why it is understandable that a certain mistake was made
6. investigative work that showed that a picture was an unusual example of an artist's work 7
7. the willingness of experts to accept that their beliefs are wrong
8. the different categories of people involved in examining pictures
9. evidence from an expert outside the world of art 9
10. an accusation that upset the writer personally 10
SỞ GD&ĐT TỈNH QUẢNG NAM ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI

TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ

LÊ THÁNH TÔNG NĂM HỌC 2021-2022

 Môn: Tiếng Anh – Lớp 11

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT (Thời gian: 180 phút – không kể thời gian giao đề)

(Đề gồm có 20 trang)

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points):

Part 1: You will hear two sports commentators called Heidi Stokes and Rob Aslett taking part in a
discussion on the subject of gyms. 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 boxes provided. (10 points)

1. What do Rob and Heidi think about government proposals regarding the problem of obesity?
A. They over-emphasize the role of dietary factors.

B. They represent a radical solution that must be worth trying.

C. They over-estimate the extent to which the fitness industry can help.

D. They are attempting to accommodate too many varied perspectives.

2. Heidi agrees with the suggestion that regular gym attendance

A. can discourage people from keeping fit in other ways.

B. may lead to obsessive behaviour in some cases.

C. generally forms the basis of a healthy lifestyle.

D. could be harder to keep up in rural areas.

3. When asked about motivation, Rob suggests that many gym clients lose interest
A. if they don’t get good value for money.

B. if they don’t find it enjoyable on a social level.

C. if they don’t make it part of a wider fitness regime.

D. if they don’t perceive real gains in personal fitness.

4. What does Heidi suggest about membership levels in gyms?

A. The best ones restrict access at peak times.

B. Most recruit more people than they can cope with.

C. It is impossible to predict demand with any accuracy.

D. Over-recruitment can be counter-productive in the long run.

5. Rob thinks the key to successful gym marketing lies in

A. remaining true to the core values of fitness and strength.

B. appealing to a wide cross-section of the population.

 C. joining forces with providers of related activities.

D. specialising in the needs of certain key groups.

Your answer:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: For question 6-10, listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are true
(T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided. (10 points)

6. As the studio’s influence dominates, the narrative is more straightforward

7. The executive thinks that Arcane would not change non-Netflix markets
8. The creator argues that being profit-oriented is not conducive to art development
9. Arcane’s odds-defying success is attributable to effort
10. It is possible that Arcane would not continue due to financial concerns
Your answer:

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: You will hear a recording about the Internet of Things. For questions 11-15, answer the following
questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. Write your answers in the space provided. (10
points)

11. What is the role of IoT to multitasking regarding its applications ?

_____________________________________________________________________

12. Which feature of the vehicle enables it to independently manoeuvre ?

_____________________________________________________________________

13. What application can IoT bring to farmers in enhancing water supply ?

_____________________________________________________________________

14. Beside goods monitoring and storing systems, what can IIOT be used for ?

_____________________________________________________________________

15. In which way may IOE be implemented in biological terms ?

_____________________________________________________________________
Part 4: For questions 16-25, listen to a recording 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 points)

16. Four ____________________ countries create what is today known as the UK.

17. England is predominantly misperceived to be the UK as it houses the ____________________ London, in

addition to large population and territory expansion.

18. The English population is often referred to by their Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh counterparts as
____________________.

19. The latter, however, is seen by the English as ____________________.

20. England prefers to distinguish itself as an ___________________ island rather than neighbouring France.

21. Countries becoming independent receive a ____________________ by their formal recognition of the
monarchy.

22. The Crown is a ____________________ or in other words ____________________.

23. This abstract term serves to prove that the UK is still a ____________________.

24. When the monarch acts as both the Head of the State and Supreme Governor of the official state religion, it
is referred to as a ______________________.

25. In a nutshell, these are all the ___________________ when dealing with the UK.

Your answer:

16. 21.

17. 22.

18. 23.

19. 24.

20. 25.

SECTION B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (30 points):

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. He preferred to … any profits he made back into business.

 A. sow B. plan C. plough D.dig

2. He wants to leave school at 16 but his parents are trying to talk him … it

A.away from B. out of C. into D. off of

3. I have a distant recollection of seeing a(n) … of caterpillars parasitizing in apples and apricots.

A. army B.loveliness C. orchestra D. ambush

4.Although petrol prices are already sky-high, motorists are … for yet another hike.

A. on B. in C.up D. out

5.I need a blowtorch to … these two pieces of metal together

A.clamp B.weld C.fuse D. wedge

6.Although he is a great boxer, his last few performances in the ring just haven’t…

A.cut the mustard B.gone pear-shaped

C.stacked the cards D.brought home the bacon

7.The unpopular prime minister was … in the press when she tripped while walking in a muddy field.

A. slandered B. lampooned C. hounded D. stalked

8. This is a very busy office and in your new position you will have to be able to think on your …!

A. toes B. legs C. feet D. knees

9. You’d better practice for Sunday’s match, or your opponent will make … of you.

A.mincemeat B. snippets C.smithereens D.steak

10. The vagrant came out of the shop, … for about 10 paces before falling against a car.

A. stammered B. tripped C. staggered D. skidded

11. Why did you give such good treatment to someone who had betrayed you? You should not have …. .

A. fed the donkey sponge cake B. given him pumpkins

C. jumped into the mouth of a wolf D. given a fig

12. John was …. a week after the accident, but he has not been able to come to football practice yet.

A. up and about B. vim and vigour

C. fingers and thumbs D. life and death

13. The convention will be a mix of professional politicians, high-ranking party …… and ordinary voters.

A. apparatchiks B. right-wings C. apprentices D. attorneys

14. Nebraska has had floods in some years, ….

A. in others drought B. droughts are others

C. while other droughts D. others in drought

15. The lecturer must have been really annoyed when he received the ….. laughter from the students.

A. ear-piercing B. almighty C. shrill D. raucous

16. Neither side is prepared to … an inch in the negotiations.

A. stir B. budge C. push D. bend

17. Writing rhymes for birthday cards is really easy. It's money for old …

A. rags B. bread C. rope D. rubbish

18. There was little we could do … registering a formal complaint.

A. beyond B. further C. over D. beside

19. I thought Mom knew Joe's phone number, but she's having … and cannot remember it either.

A. a blonde moment B. a bun in the oven

C. a butcher’s D. a bumpy ride

20. I will not be made the … for this disaster. I acted on the advice of people above me in this company and if I
go, I am taking them with me!

A. loser B. sacrifice C. scapegoat D. target

Your answer:

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

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: For question 1-10, write the correct form of each bracketed word in each sentence in the
numbered space provided. (10 points)

1.I’ve tried to advise my daughter against hitch-hiking around Europe alone, but she won’t listen to me. She’s
so ____________________ (HEAD).

2. One of the envelopes ____________________ (MARK) April 2, 1915 was found to contain a drawing
folded in half.
3. Treatment may involve the practitioner placing their hands on the recipient in a variety of positions;
however, some therapists take a ____________________ (TOUCH) approach, holding their hands a few
centimetres away from the body.

4. He is forgetful and clumsy, mis-speaking often with ____________________ (SPOON), and his spells tend
to back-fire.

5. There is ____________________ (CONTROVERSY) evidence that Wallenberg did not die in 1947.

6. We were disappointed at the ____________________ (POSSESS) exterior of the hotel.

7. We tend to think of the hamburger as a ____________________ (ESSENTIAL) American invention, the

fastest of fast food, and a relatively recent innovation.

8. We often forget we are inextricably linked to the nature, and by doing so, ____________________
(ADVERTISEMENT) contribute to its slow destruction.

9. As he sat slumped on the sofa, his natural ____________________ (BULLY) had evaporated.

10. I didn’t ask about the accident because I thought it would be seen as ____________________
(AMBULANCE).

Your answer:

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

SECTION C. READING (60 points):

Part 1: You are going to read an extract from an article about Feminism. Seven paragraphs have been
removed from the extract. For questions 1-7, read the passage and choose from paragraphs A-H the one
which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (7 points)

The central claim of the anti-#MeToo feminists is that the movement does not treat individual women as moral
agents with the capacity to say no, to enjoy and pursue sex, and to do wrong. From this perspective, women
who come forward about their experiences of harassment should often be given more responsibility for those
experiences than the rhetoric of #MeToo assigns them.

1.
On the other hand, there is the #MeToo movement. It might seem strange to assert that #MeToo can be spoken
of as a single ideology at all – that this cultural moment, which has exposed such a broad array of bad
behaviour across so many industries and disciplines, could ever be coherent enough to have an agenda.

2.

In this light, the diversity and breadth of the #MeToo movement is not a weakness, but a strength. After all, if
so many women, with different kinds of lives, have experienced the same sexist behaviour from men, then it
becomes easier to believe that the problem relates to wider cultural forces. The ubiquity of sexual harassment
means an individual can’t simply avoid it by making the right choices; the demand that she does so begins to
look absurd.

3.

But there is a greater moral divide between these two strands of thought, because #MeToo and its critics also
disagree over where to locate responsibility for sexual abuse: whether it is a woman’s responsibility to navigate,
withstand and overcome the misogyny that she encounters, or whether it is the shared responsibility of all of us
to eliminate sexism, so that she never encounters it in the first place.

4.

Many of the most famous western feminists have been working in this tradition. For instance, Betty Friedan,
author of the influential 1960s feminist text The Feminine Mystique, argued that sexist cultural codes prevent
women from achieving personal happiness. Friedan, a psychologist by training, focused on the inner lives of
white, American, middle-class women at midcentury.

5.

Social feminism has a similarly long, if less well-known, history. Soon after Friedan’s book became a
bestseller, Italian feminists such as Leopoldina Fortunati and Silvia Federici began to formulate a different way
of looking at the problems that women faced.

6.

They argued that so-called “women’s work” – everything from mopping floors to breastfeeding, cooking,
laundry – should not only be seen as work, but as essential to the capitalist wage-labour system. If men did not
have these functions performed for them at home, they would not be able to return to work and produce
effectively.

7.

Could she really mean that a woman should be paid for scrubbing the floors in her husband’s house? But the
movement relied on the understanding that a wage was necessary for work to be seen as work, and for the
people who did it to be seen as worthy of dignity and protection.
Missing paragraphs:

A. More recently, individualist feminism found a high-profile advocate when Sheryl Sandberg, the chief
operating officer of Facebook, published her memoir-cum-manifesto Lean in 2013. Sandberg laments the lack
of women in leadership positions, and her book is a how-to manual for women with lofty corporate ambitions.

B. When Federici’s Wages for Housework campaign launched in 1972, it attracted fierce public debate – first in
Italy, and then in the US after Federici moved to New York and opened a Wages for Housework office in
Brooklyn. The political mainstream found Federici’s idea ridiculous.

C. As Marxists, they sought to analyse how men as a class related to women as a class. They were less
interested in ideas of empowerment and self-actualisation than they were in divisions of labour, living
conditions and cold, hard cash.

D. Call it, then, a conflict between “individualist” and “social” feminisms. In part, the rift is between visions of
how to undertake the feminist project, of which tactics are best: whether through individual empowerment, or
through collective liberation.

E. But #MeToo makes certain assumptions that aren’t compatible with the intellectual habits of most
mainstream feminisms that have preceded it. It is still rare to see such a large group of women identifying their
suffering as women’s suffering, claiming that they have all been harmed by the same forces of sexism, and
together demanding that those forces be defeated.

F. More a rhetorical device than an immediate policy prescription, the demand “wages for housework” relied
on a conception of women as a “class” in the same sense as a class of workers – a group of people with
something in common who could organise on behalf of their shared interests.

G. This thinking partakes in a long moral tradition – in which personal responsibility, independence, and
willingness to withstand hardship are revered as valuable virtues: a feminism that posits that individual women
have the power to make choices to diminish the negative impact of sexism– if only they have the grit to handle
it.

H. This tension, has dogged the women’s movement since its revival in the mid-20th century. According to the
individualist model of feminism, personal responsibility, individual freedoms and psychological adjustments
offer a woman meaningful routes out of the suffering imposed by patriarchy, and into equality with men.

Part 2: Read the following text and fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in
corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)

Anthropology (1) ______ itself from the other social sciences by its greater emphasis on fieldwork as the (2)
______ of new knowledge. The aim of such studies is to develop as intimate an understanding as possible of the
phenomena investigated. Although the (3) ______ of field studies varies from a few weeks to years, it is
generally agreed that anthropologists should stay in the field long enough for their (4) ______ to be considered
‘natural’ by the permanent residents.
Realistically, however, anthropologists may never reach this (5) ______. Their foreign mannerisms make them
appear clownish, and so they are (6) ______ with curiosity and amusement. (7) ______ they speak the local
language at all, they do so with a strange accent and flawed grammar. They ask tactless questions and
inadvertently (8) ______ rules regarding how things are usually done. Arguably this could be an interesting (9)
______ point for research, though it is rarely exploited. Otherwise, anthropologists take on the role of the
‘superior expert’, in which case they are treated with deference and respect, only coming into (10) ______ with
the most high-ranking members of the society. Anthropologists with this role may never witness the gamut of
practices which take place in all levels of the society.

Part 3: You are going to read an extract from an article named “Leakey’s Achievement”. For questions
1-10, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Write your answers
in the corresponding boxes provided. (10 points)

Although he made his name with his archeological finds of early humans, Richard Leakey became famous as
the conservationist who turned the tide against elephant poaching. Bringing the slaughter of Kenya's elephants
under control required a military solution, and Leakey was not afraid to apply it. Many poachers were killed,
giving Leakey a reputation for being a cold-blooded obsessive who put animals before people.

[1] Moreover, his efforts to eradicate corruption in Kenya's wildlife management system won him many
enemies. [2] But the birth of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the eradication of elephant poaching and the
ban on the international trade in ivory are his legacy, and they form the basis of Wildlife Wars . [3] It is a story
not only of Kenya, but of the continuing cost of trying to save the world's wildlife from extinction. [4]

Life for the average person in Africa is tough, and basic needs are far from being met. This is the background
against which Leakey fought his war, and he constantly refers to the threat poverty poses to the preservation of
Africa's spectacular wildlife. Leakey's argument, here and in recent lectures, is that national parks managed
exclusively for biodiversity protection must be created, and that this protection of our wildlife heritage should
be funded by international sources.

However, in the early 1990s the development agencies favoured "community-based" conservation. Leakey's
stand on protection of parks was seen as a lack of respect for local communities, and used against him when he
resigned as head of the KWS in 1994. Recently donors and conservationists have come to recognise the
limitations of purely local conservation programmes; there is a growing consensus that the poor are unlikely to
manage wildlife resources wisely for the long term because their needs are immediate.

Wildlife Wars continues where Leakey's memoir One Life left off. It spans a 13-year period, beginning in 1989
when Leakey became head of the KWS. Then the elephant slaughter was at its height across Africa; it is
estimated that between 1975 and 1989 the international markets for ivory in Europe, the United States and Asia
led to the death of 1.2 m elephants, slaughtered for their ivory to make piano keys, games and fashion
accessories. Kenya's herds were reduced by more than 85% by armed poachers, who turned their guns on
anything and anyone. To stop this killing required changing the perceptions of ivory users so as to eliminate the
markets, as well as mounting an armed force against the poachers.

With both humour and seriousness, Leakey explains the sacrifices he had to make in order to see his vision
succeed. Despite the gravity of the situation, Leakey makes light of the sometimes comical circumstances,
although it is clear that his life was at risk many times and he worked under tremendous pressure. For many,
however, the real question is why this paleoanthropologist should risk his life for wildlife. The answer may lie
in Leakey's own depiction of himself, although obviously aggressive and driven while running KWS, as
essentially reflective. Presenting in moving terms his introduction to elephant emotions and society, he
describes his outrage at the moral and ethical implications of poaching and culling for ivory, arguing that
elephants, apes, whales and dolphins have emotions so like those of humans that they deserve to be treated as
such.

Hard-core wildlife groups sniggered at his 'bunny-hugging' tendencies, but they underestimated his impact. It is
impossible to put a value on Leakey's work during those years. As the elephant population began to recover,
Kenya's tourist industry revived to become the country's main source of revenue. An international awareness
campaign centred on an ivory bonfire, which led to the ban on ivory trade and the collapse of ivory prices.

1. Richard Leakey is most well-known for

A. Increasing wildlife budgets.

B. Successfully stopping illegal hunting.

C. Removing the ban on the ivory trade.

D. Helping to identify man's origins.

2. Look at the four numbered brackets that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the
passage: “This surprisingly personal memoir has much to tell about the fragile relationships between
conservationists and governments.” Where would the sentence best fit?

A. [1] B. [2] C. [3] D. [4]

3. In paragraph 3, Leakey makes the point that

A. Conservation should be a global responsibility.

B. A war must be fought against poverty.

C. Africa's wildlife is an international attraction.

D. There is insufficient money to establish parks.

4. It is now becoming accepted that

A. Leakey had no regard for local communities.

B. Conservation programmes should be under local control.

C. Donors have not yet received sufficient recognition.

D. Poverty makes regional conservation programmes unreliable.

5. The writer says that between 1975 and 1989

A. The perceptions of the use of ivory changed.

B. Elephants were used to make piano keys.

C. The elephant population was decimated.

 D. Demand for ivory began to decrease.

6. Leakey considers himself

A. Amusing. B. Sentimental.

C. Contemplative. D. Obsessive.

7. The word comical in paragraph 5 could be replaced by

A. Confounded B. Farcical

C. Forlorn D. Ungracious

8. What does the writer imply in the last paragraph?

A. A disease had affected elephants.

B. Leakey's views are overly sentimental.

C. Leakey's success is in doubt.

D. Leakey's work had wide-ranging effects.

9. The phrase 'bunny-hugging' is used

A. To undermine Leakey’s role as an environmental activist.

B. To emphasise his act of going against the mass.

C. To express the arrogance of Leaky expressed through his movements.

D. To describe Leakey’s shyness in his environmental acts.

10. This passage is taken from

A. An article about endangered species.

B. A book about Richard Leakey.

C. An article about Kenya.

D. A book review.

Part 4. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13 points)

THE FACE OF MODERN MAN?

A. In response to the emergence of the ‘metro-sexual’ male, in other words, an urban, sophisticated man who is
fashionable, well-groomed and unashamedly committed to ensuring his appearance is the best it can be, a whole
new industry has developed. According to research conducted on behalf of a leading health and beauty retailer
in England, the market for male cosmetics and related products has grown by 800% since 2000 and is expected
to continue to increase significantly. The male grooming products market has become the fastest growing sector
within the beauty and cosmetics industry, currently equivalent to around 1.5 billion pounds per annum.
B. Over the last decade, several brands and companies catering for enhancement of the male image have been
successfully established, such operations ranging from male-only spas, boutiques, personal hygiene products,
hair and skin care ranges, and male magazines with a strong leaning towards men’s fashion. Jamie Cawley,
holds that his company’s success in this highly competitive market can be attributed to the ‘exclusivity’ tactics
employed, in that their products and services are clearly defined as male- orientated and distinctly separate to
feminine products offered by other organisations. However, market analyst, Kim Sawyer, believes that future
growth in the market can also be achieved through sale of unisex products marketed to both genders, this
strategy becoming increasingly easy to implement as men’s interest in appearance and grooming has become
more of a social norm.

C. Traditionalists such as journalist Jim Howrard contend that the turn-around in male attitudes having led to
the success of the industry would have been inconceivable a decade ago, given the conventional male role,
psyche and obligation to exude masculinity; however, behavioural scientist Professor Ruth Chesterton argues
that the metro-sexual man of today is in fact a modern incarnation of the ‘dandy’ of the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth century. British dandies of that period, who were often of middle-class backgrounds but
imitated aristocratic lifestyles, were devoted to cultivation of their physical appearance, development of a
refined demeanour and hedonistic pursuits. In France, she adds, dandyism, in contrast, was also strongly linked
to political ideology and embraced by youths wishing to clearly define themselves from members of the
working class revolutionary social groups of the period.

D. Over recent decades, according to sociologist Ben Cameron, gender roles for both sexes have become less
defined. According to research, he says, achievement of status and success have become less important in
younger generations of men, as has the need to repress emotions. Cameron defines the traditional masculine
role within western societies – hegemonic masculinity – as an expectation that males demonstrate physical
strength and fitness, be decisive, self-assured, rational, successful and in control. Meeting this list of criteria and
avoiding situations of demonstrating weakness, being overly emotional or in any way ’inferior’, he says, has
placed a great deal of pressure on many members of the male population. So restrictive can society’s pressure
to behave in a ‘masculine’ fashion on males be, Professor Chesterton states that in many situations men may
respond in a way they deem acceptable to society, given their perceived gender role, rather than giving what
they may actually consider to be the best and most objective response.

E. Jim Howard says that learning and acquiring gender identity makes up a huge component of a child’s
socialisation and that a child exhibiting non-standard behavioural characteristics often encounters social and
self-image difficulties due to their peers’ adverse reactions. According to Kim Sawyer, media images and
messages also add to pressures associated with the male image, stating that even in these modern and changing
times, hegemonic masculinity is often idolised and portrayed as the definitive male persona.

F. Whilst male stereotypes and ideals vary from culture to culture, according to Professor Chesterton, a
universal trait in stereotypical male behaviour is an increased likelihood to take risks than is generally found in
female behaviour patterns. For this reason, she attributes such behaviour to the influence of genetic
predisposition as opposed to socially learned behaviour. Men, she says, are three times more likely to die due to
accidents than females, a strong indication of their greater willingness to involve themselves in precarious
situations. Ben Cameron also says that an attitude of invincibility is more dominant in males and is a
predominant factor in the trend for fewer medical checkups in males and late diagnosis of chronic and terminal
illness than in their more cautious and vigilant female counterparts.
G. Jamie Cawley, however, remains optimistic that the metro-sexual culture will continue and that what society
accepts as the face of masculinity will continue to change. He attributes this to a male revolt against the strict
confines of gender roles, adding that such changes of attitudes have led and will continue to lead to
establishment of greater equality between the sexes.

Questions 1-5: The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G. Choose the correct heading for
paragraphs B-D and F-G from the list of headings below.

List of Headings

i. Basis and predictions

ii. Revolution or recurrence?

iii. Servicing a growing demand

iv. The surfacing of a new phenomenon

v. A long-held mindset and its downsides

vi. Influence on minors

vii. Hereditary predilection

viii. Effects of external pressures

Question 1: Paragraph B __________

Question 2: Paragraph C __________

Question 3: Paragraph D __________

Question 4: Paragraph F __________

Question 5: Paragraph G __________

Questions 6-9: Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage? In
boxes 6-9 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts with the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

6. Sales in the female health and beauty market have slightly declined over recent years.

7. The rise of ‘dandyism’ in England and France is attributed to similar factors.

8. Emotional reaction is contradictory to hegemonic masculine behaviour.

9. There is a correlation between men’s belief that they are indestructible and their decreased likelihood to seek
medical advice.

Questions 10-13 Look at the following list of statements based on changes in male image and behaviour.
Match each statement with the correct person A-E. Write the correct letters A-E in boxes 10-13 on your
answer sheet.

List of Contributors

A. Jamie Cawley

B. Kim Sawyer

C. Jim Howard

D. Professor Ruth Chesterton

E. Ben Cameron

10. Male behaviour patterns have changed in a way that would have been considered implausible in the past.

11. Traditional benchmarks of masculinity are often exacerbated by the press.

12. Metro-sexual culture has developed as a response to modern men’s dissatisfaction with traditional images.

13. The need to conform to society’s expectations of male behaviour may impede men’s decision-making and
judgement.

Your answers

Part 4: Read the text, identify which section A–D each of the following is mentioned. Write ONE letter
A–D in the corresponding numbered space provided. Each letter may be used more than once. (15
points)

Your answer:

The artist checks that nothing important is missing from preparatory work. 1.

It is of something that is non-existent now. 2.

The artist specialises in things that most people regard as ugly. 3.

The artist took a risk while creating it. 4.

Its artist produces paintings in different locations. 5.

It was completely altered in order to produce various connections. 6.

In one way, it is unlike any other painting the artist has produced. 7.

The artist likes to find by chance subjects that have certain characteristics. 8.

A deduction that could be made about what is happening in it is not what the artist is actually showing. 9.
The artist points out that it is based on things actually observed, even though it does not depict them accurately.
10.

Watercolour competition

First prize

A. Carol Robertson Interrupted Field

Carol Robertson's Interrupted Field is a worthy winner, a more or less geometric composition that exploits the
qualities of evenly-applied washes of colour. The painting is vast — 'the largest I’ve ever attempted’ – so the
big, even area of blue in the centre is, apart from anything else, something of a technical achievement.

Robertson is keen to stress that her abstract compositions are firmly rooted in reality. Though she doesn't 'seek
to confirm or record the way the world looks', her work is never disconnected from the natural world, so the
coloured stripes and bands in this painting have a specific source. Over the past five years, Robertson has been
working in Ireland, on the northwest coast of County Mayo. The coloured stripes stimulate ‘memories of
coastal landscape, brightly painted cottages, harbours and fishing boats, things seen out of the corner of my eye
as I explored that coastline by car and on foot. The colour mirrors the fragment of life that caught my eye
against a background of sea and sky?

Runners up

B. Geoffrey Wynne Quayside

Geoffrey Wynne describes himself as 'an open-air impressionist watercolour painter’, though he adds that
‘larger works’, this prize-winning picture among them, ‘are developed in the studio’.

Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of this painting is the sheer number of people in it. According to the title,
they are on a quay somewhere, and the number of suitcases they have with them suggests they have just landed
from a boat on the first stage of a holiday. ‘Yes, that's almost right,’ Wynne told me, 'except that we're on the
boat in the early morning, just arrived back from Mallorca, and the people are waiting to get on. This painting
took a long time to finish, and many earlier attempts were abandoned. To achieve a unity, I immersed the half-
finished painting in the bath, then added the black with a big brush. It’s dangerous to do, because you can really
control the effects. Then I reworked everything, establishing links with colour and tone throughout the
composition, creating a kind of web or net of similar effects.’

C. Arthur Lockwood Carbonizer Tower

Arthur Lockwood has a big reputation among watercolour painters and watercolour enthusiasts, chiefly for his
accomplished pictures of industrial sites, subjects that are generally thought to be unsightly, but have striking
visual qualities all their own. Among them is a kind of romanticism stimulated by indications of decay and the
passing of irrecoverable time. Lockwood's subjects are, after all, ruins, the modern equivalent of Gothic
churches overgrown by ivy. He aims not only to reveal those qualities, but to make a visual record of places
that are fast being destroyed. This painting, a good example of his work in general, is one of an extensive series
on the same subject. What we see is part of a large industrial plant that once made smokeless coal briquettes. It
has now been closed and demolished to make way for a business park.

D. Michael Smee Respite at The Royal 0ak

Michael Smee was once a successful stage and television designer. This is worth stressing, because this prize-
winning painting makes a strong theatrical impression. Smee agrees, and thinks it has much to do with the
carefully judged lighting. ‘As a theatre designer, you make the set, which comes to life only when it’s lit’.

Smee prefers to happen on pubs and cafés that are intriguing visually and look as though they might be under
threat. He has a strong desire to record 'not only the disappearing pub culture peculiar to this country, but also
bespoke bar interiors and the individuals therein’. He works his paintings up from informative sketches. 'I get
there early, before many people have arrived, sit in the corner and scribble away. Then, once the painting is in
progress in the studio, I make a return visit to reassure myself and to note down what I’d previously
overlooked’. His main aim isn't topographical accuracy, however; it's to capture the appearance of artificial and
natural light together, as well as the reflections they make.