SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LÀO CAI KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN THI HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC

I HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA

ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC NĂM HỌC: 2015-2016

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian thi: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: 20/10/2015 Số phách
Đề thi có 13 trang
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I. LISTENING (50 POINTS)

Part 1: You will hear a conversation between two students and their professor who is asking them to
organize a panel discussion from upcoming conference. Listen carefully and answer the questions
from 1 to 10.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
1. What period of English literature will the conference cover?
................................................................................
2. How many panel discussions have been arranged?
................................................................................
3. What is the aim of a panel discussion?
To present...............................................................
Complete the notes below
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Procedure (dealt with by prof.)
 Identify topic of interest involving 4. ................................
 Invite panelists
 Select a 5. ...............................
 Decide on 6. ...........................
Guidelines
 Introduction of topic & speakers – get 7. ..........................information from prof.
 Each panelist speaks for 2 mins – make a hand 8. ...........................to show time is up
 Primary function = panel discussion (about 40 mins)
 Close discussion & give 9. .........................
 Secondary function = question time (about 15-20 mins)
 At the end of question time, panel is thanked and audience shows appreciation by 10.
...............................
Your answers:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
Part 2: You will hear a radio documentary about myths. For questions 1-10, complete the sentences
with a short phrase.
Myths were created as a means of explaining 1. ......................................
Man expressed his feelings about himself and his world in stories with 2. ........................ that we call
myths.
The first Greek myths were stories 3. ............................. from parent to child.
Man’s 4. ............................. was controlled by a group of 5. ................................
The Greeks used the behaviour of the gods to show them the way to have a 6. ..................................
The 7. ...................................... of the world thought nothing existed beyond the earth.
Because of its ability to give life, Earth was represented as 8. ..............................
Only later did 9. .................................... gods appear.
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 Names of mythological figures still familiar today were discovered written on 10. ...............................
Your answers:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
Part 3: You will hear an interview with Margery Paige, a specialist in alternative medicine. For
questions 1-5, choose the answer (A. B, C or D) which best fits what you hear.
1. Margery tells us that the convention was held because …
A. previous events had been too informal.
B. more illnesses had come to light in the recent past.
C. an international meeting was long overdue.
D. alternative medicine had been slow to catch on among lay people.
2. According to Margery, what was different about this particular event?
A. It was more widely advertised.
B. Members of the public were able to attend.
C. People from opposing schools of thought were welcome.
D. Medical practitioners were barred.
3. The fact that non-specialists were present meant that …
A. more money was collected in registration fees.
B. no one could be recognized as being an expert.
C. the proceedings were more interesting.
D. clarity became indispensable.
4. The response received by the ideas presented at the convention was…
A. too enthusiastic.
B. rather subdued.
C. generally favourable.
D. very skeptical.
5. Margery’s conclusion was that the convention had been…
A. an indication of a smaller gap between traditional and alternative views
B. a way of improving the professional standing of alternative healers.
C. an exercise in public relations.
D. important in strengthening international collaboration.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 POINTS)
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.
1. Victoria went to great ..............................to complete a high quality presentation
A. pains B. torment C. efforts D. difficulty
2. Julia’s work is not a .......................on Natalie’s.
A. spot B. patch C. scratch D. scrap
3. Somebody as conceited as Ron needs bringing down a ...................or two.
A. step B. notch C. peg D. rung
4. New technology is being .................in at work.
A. shown B. phased C. installed D. filtered
5. Many people are feeling the .....................now that there is an economic recession.
A. strain B. prod C. pinch D. pain
6. I have no appetite and I am lethargic. I’ve been feeling under ..................for ages.
A. pair B. par C. stress D. threat
7. The economic situation makes many people unwilling to take the ....................and open their own
business.
A. initiative B. bull C. plunge D. opportunity
8. I don’t know how I can ......................up the courage to tell him the awful news.
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 A. pick B. pluck C. store D. set
9. The new soap opera on Channel 3 ........................new depths in terms of tastelessness.
A. plumbs B. reaches C. fills D. achieves
10. We’ll keep you ..................of any further changes in the examination specifications.
A. noticed B. announced C. mailed D. posted
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: The passage below contains 6 errors in spelling, grammar, word form, and punctuation. For
questions 1-6, underline the errors and write the correction in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Dyslexia is a disorder that affects millions of people all over the world. It is one type of specific
learning ability that affects literacy and which can manifest itself in a number of ways. In adults,
dyslexia may not have been identify and individuals often believe they have a literacy problem
or related difficulties which make it hard for them to function efficiently in the workplace. An indicator
of whether these problems are due to dyslexia or to other reasons can be gained by running through
an adult dyslexia checklist, followed by an initial interview to gain background information about the
individuals and their educational history. If an adult is assessed as dyslexic, a report would then
provide a full description of the individual’s strengths and weaknesses and offer recommendations
for action. The concrete evidence of the presence of dyslexia provided in the report can be used in
a variety of ways, for example, when apply for support on courses and receiving apropriate support
within the workplace.
Experience suggests that the majority of dyslexic adults are relieved to discover their dyslexia.
It enables dyslexic adults to understand their educational history and put past experiences into
context; this relieves some of the frustration they will inevitably have felt. When dyslexic adults
understand their dyslexia, they are able to participate in continuing education and succeed in the
areas of their choice; some people will need specific details about dyslexia and advice in how
they can improve their skills effectively. In a sympathetic environment, dyslexic adults are able to
fulfill their potential.
Your answers:
No Mistakes Correction
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2
3
4
5
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Part 3: For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits
in the space in the same line.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
WITH MANY THANKS
Many people have given (0) ...assistance… to me during the writing of this book, but it is to Miss
Leigh Keith, senior editor of Ramsay and Brown that I am most deeply 1. .......................(DEBT) for
her loyalty and devotion during the four years the project lasted. She gave her time and advice 2.
........................ (STINT) in order for this work to be completed, giving both moral and practical
support for the lengthy research into social conditions the project
3..............................(NECESSARY). Her 4. .......................(SURE) and encouragement sustained
me in my belief that this was valuable work and it was 5. .............................. (DOUBT) what
enabled me to continue in the face of often 6. ........................... (COURAGE) circumstances.
I must also thank my father, who has been a willing collaborator in all my efforts and who spent long
hours in libraries and on trains to distant parts of the country in search of material. I know that he will
say that he enjoyed it, but without his 7. ....................... (FLAG) enthusiasm this book would never
have been written. Finally, I would like to thank my friends and family, who have had to put up with
what must have seemed to them an 8. ......................... (EXCEPT) long drawn out piece of writing.
Thank you, all of you, very much.

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 Your answers:
1. 5.
2. 6.
3. 7.
4. 8.
Part 4: For questions 1-6, fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable particles. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. The secretary was asked to run .......................copies of the report for the employees.
2. I’ll see you ................; you may not be able to find your way to the lift.
3. They settled ..................the Rits as the best place for the reception.
4. We went to the Modern Art Gallery but I honestly didn't know what to make ………….. half the
pictures. Just seemed very strange to me!
5. She is so thirsty .......................success that she would do anything.
6. He triumphed .......................his competitors by flooding the market place with advertising.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
III. READING (50 POINTS)
Part 1: For questions 1-10, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space.
Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example: 0 – as
CHANGING SEASONS
If we measure the seasons, (0)... as .. in the past they have 1. .............., by ordinary natural
events such as the departure of migrating birds or the appearance of the first flower, then
spring now begins in November and autumn ends in December. This may seem an unlikely
situation to us, but in 2. ................ fact, data shows that spring now occurs ten to thirty days earlier
than it did, while recent research bears 3. ..................... that autumn is arriving later.
Traditional data on phonology - the study of the timing of natural events - goes 4. .......................
to 1736 in Britain. Taken 5. ................. isolation, phonological data may not mean 6.
....................., but the received wisdom from ecology is about interconnectedness. 7. ...................,
with higher temperatures in winter, some species will breed earlier and then find that their food
source has been destroyed when winter finally arrives. Competition for winter food will probably
increase too, as birds stop migrating south in winter, as has 8. ........................ happened in a 9.
........................ of cases.
10. ....................... it is often difficult to be certain that seasonal trends are progressive and not
cyclical, those involved in analyzing the information see the fingerprints of global warming in this
blurring of the seasons’ edges.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: For questions 1-12, read the three texts below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best
fits each gap. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
GOLD
Almost every culture throughout history has valued gold in its various 1. ............. and sought it as a
precious material, either to worship or 2. ............. in. A symbol of power and success, the desire to
own it tends to provoke greed and lust. Its very presence can make or break a nation. The esteem
associated with it has 3. .............. mankind to great lengths to obtain it and the great gold rushes
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of the 19 century saw hundreds of thousands die in their attempt to 4. .............. it rich.
Despite declining gold prices and uncertainties in the market, as countries such as Australia
and the UK sell off large 5. .............. of their gold reserves, the desire to find gold is as
strong as ever. In the US, panning for gold has become a huge leisure industry, where once men
6. .............. and slaved for the glitter of gold, families now take their gold pans and picnics for a day

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 out. However, for most, gold is still only the stuff of dreams.
1. A. kinds B. forms C. states D. designs
2. A. bargain B. engage C. trade D. handle
3. A. sent B. thrown C. forced D. driven
4. A. hit B. discover C. strike D. make
5. A. helpings B. fractions C. portions D. servings
6. A. exerted B. toiled C. strained D. ground
BEARS
Bears are famous for waking up with sore heads, at least according to the popular 7. ..............
Someone who’d disagree with 8. ........... is Professor Hook Harlow of the University of
Wyoming. He has found that hears wake up raring to go after their winter sleep. ‘After 130
days of hibernation, a bear can come 9. ............... out of its den and climb a mountain." he says.
His team is investigating how bears manage to 10. ……………….. this trick, in the hope of helping
humans with muscle-wasting conditions. There are a number of possible explanations of how
bears 11. .............. their strength during hibernation. One possibility is that bears sacrifice their less
essential muscles to keep ‘fight or flight’ muscles up to 12. ................. which is a useful idea
for anyone trying to get back to normal after a plaster cast is removed.
7. A. knowledge B. belief C. judgment D. awareness
8. A. pledge B. fallacy C. claim D. avowal
9. A. away B. far C. clear D. straight
10. A. pull off B. set off C. take off D. start off
11. A. keep B. maintain C. hoard D. uphold
12. A. scratch B. level C. score D. mark
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Part 3: For questions 1-14, read the text and do the task that follows.
For the questions from 1 – 7, read the passage and choose the correct heading for each paragraph
from the list of headings below. Write the correct number i-xiii in the corresponding numbered boxes.
List of headings
i/ 165 million years
ii/ The body plan of archosaurs
iii/ Dinosaurs – terrible lizards
iv/ Classification according to pelvic anatomy
v/ The suborders of Saurischia
vi/ Lizards and dinosaurs – two distinct superorders
vii/ Unique body plan helps indentify dinosaurs from the other animals
viii/ Herbivore dinosaurs
ix/ Lepidosaurs
x/ Frills and shelves
xi/ The origins of dinosaurs and lizards
xii/ Bird-hipped dinosaurs
xiii/ Skull bones distinguish dinosaurs from the other archosaurs

1. Paragraph A 5. Paragraph E
2 . Paragraph B 6. Paragraph F
3. Paragraph C 7. Paragraph G
4. Paragraph D
Example: Answer:
Paragraph H x

What is a dinosaur?
A.
Although the name dinosaur is derived from the Greek for “terrible lizard”, dinosaurs were not, in
fact, lizards at all. Like lizards, dinosaurs are included in the class Repitlia or reptiles, one of the five
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main classes of Vertebrata, animals with backbones. However, at the next level of classification,
within reptiles, significant differences in the skeletal anatomy of lizards and dinosaurs have led
scientists to place these groups of animals into two different superorders. Lepidosaurria or
lepidosaurs, and Archosauria or archosaurs.
B.
Classified as lepidosaurs are lizard and snakes and their prehistoric ancestors. Included among the
archosaurs or “ruling reptiles” are prehistoric and modern crocodiles, and the now extinct
thecodonts, pterosaurs and dinosaurs. Palaeontologists believe that both dinosaurs and crocodiles
evolved, in the late year of the Triassic Period (c248-208 million years ago), from creatures called
pseudosuchian thecodonts. Lizards, snakes and different types of thedocont are believed to have
evolved earlier in the Triassic Period from reptiles known as eosuchians.
C.
The most important skeletal differences between dinosaurs and other archosaurs are in the bones of
the skull, pelvis and limbs. Dinosaur skulls are found in a great range of shapes and sizes, reflecting
the different eating habits and lifestyles of great range and varied group of animals that dominated
life on Earth for an extraordinary 165 million years. However, unlike the skull of any other known
animals, the skulls of dinosaurs had two long bones known as vomers. These bones extended on
either side of the head, from the front of the snout to the level of the holes in the skull known as the
antorbital fenestra, situated in front of the dinosaur’s orbits, or eyes sockets.
D.
All dinosaurs, whether large or small, quadrupedal or bipedal, fleed-footed or slow-moving, shared a
common body plan. Indentification of this plan makes it possible to differentiate dinosaurs from any
other types of animal, even other archosaurs. Most significantly, in dinosaurs, the pelvis and femur
had evolved so that the hind limbs were held vertically beneath the body, rather than sprawling out
to the sides like the limbs of a lizard. The femur of a dinosaur had a sharply in-turned neck and a
ball-shaped head, which slotted into a fully open acetabulum or hip socket. A supra-acetabular crest
helped prevent dislocation of the femur. The position of the knee joint, aligned below the
acetabulum, made it possible for the whole hind limb to swing backwards and forwards. This unique
combination of features gave dinosaurs what is known as a “fully improved gait”. Evolution of this
highly efficient mothod of walking also developed in mammals, but among reptiles it occurred only in
dinosaurs.
E.
For the purpose of further classification, dinosaurs are divided into two orders: Saurischia or
saurischian dinosaurs, and Ornithischia or ornithischian dinosaurs. This division is made on the
basic of their pelvic anatomy. All dinosaurs had a pelvic girdle with each side comprised of three
bones: the pubis, ilium and ischium. However, the orientation of these bones follows one of two
patterns. In saurischian dinosaurs, also known as lizard-hipped dinosaurs, the pubis points forwards,
as is usual in most types of reptile. By contrast, in ornithischian or bird-hipped dinosaurs, the pubis
points backwards towards the rear of the animal, which is also true of birds
F.
Of the two orders of dinosaurs, the Saurischia was the larger and the first to evolve. It is divided into
two suborders: Therapoda or therapods, and Sauropodomorpha or sauropodomorphs. The
therapods or “beast feet” were bipedal, predatory carnivores. They ranged in size from the mighty
Tyrannosaurus rex, 12m long, 5.6m tall and weighing an estimated 6.4 tonnes, to the smallest
known dinosaur, Compsognathus, merely 1.4m long and estimated 3 kg in weight when fully grown.
The sauropodomorphs or “lizard feet forms” included both bipedal and quadrupedal dinosaurs.
Some sauropodomorphs were carnivorous or omnivorous, but later species were typically
herbivorous. They included some of the largest and best known of all dinosaurs, such as
Diplodocus, a huge quadruped with an elephant-like body, a long, thin tail and neck that gave it a
total length of 27m and a tiny head.
G.
Ornithischian dinosaurs were bipedal or quadrupedal herbivores. They are now usually divided into
three suborderes: Ornithopoda. Thyreophora and Marginocephalia. The ornithopods or “bird-feet”,
both large and small, could walk or run on their long hind legs, balancing their body by holding their
tails stiffly off the ground behind them. An example is Iguanodon, up to 9m long, 5m tall and
weighing 4.5 tonnes. The thyreophorans or “shield bearers”, also known as armoured dinosaurs,

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were quadrupeds with rows of protective bony spikes, studs or plates along their backs and tails.
They included Stegosaurus, 9m long and weighing 2 tonnes.
H.
The marginocephalians or “Margined head” were bipedal or quadrupedal ornithischian with a deep
bony frill or narrow shelf at the back of the skull. An example of Triceratops, a rihnoceros-like
dinosaur, 9m long, weighing 5.4 tonnes and bearing a prominent neck frill and three large horns.
For questions from 8-10, complete the sentences below with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
from the passage for each answer. Write the answer in the corresponding numbered boxes.
8. Lizards and dinosaurs are classified into two different superorders because of the difference in
their _______________________________
9. In the Traissic Period, ___________ evolved into thecodonts, for example, lizards and snakes.
10. Dinosaur skulls differed from those of any other known animals because of the presence of
vomers: __________
For questions from 11– 14, choose the phrase A- H from the list of features to match with the
dinosaurs listed below. (You may use each letter once only)
11. Dinosaurs differed from lizards because ___________________
12. Saurischian and ornithischian dinosaurs ___________________
13. Unlike therapods, sauropodomorphs ______________________
14. Some dinosaurs used their tails to balance, others ____________
List of features
A. are both divided into two orders
B. the former had a “fully improved gait”
C. were not usually very heavy
D. could walk or run on their back legs
E. their hind limbs sprawled out to the sides
F. walked or ran on four legs rather than two
G. both had a pelvic girdle comprising six bones
H. did not always eat meat
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14.
Part 4: For questions 1-14, read the text and do the task that follows.
The Columbian Exchange
A
Millions of years ago, continental drift carried the Old World and New World apart, splitting North and
South America from Eurasia and Africa. That separation lasted so long that it fostered divergent
evolution; for instance, the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the Atlantic and of vipers on
the other. After 1492, human voyagers in part reversed this tendency. Their artificial re-
establishment of connections through the commingling of Old and New World plants, animals, and
bacteria, commonly known as the Columbian Exchange, is one of the more spectacular and
significant ecological events of the past millennium.
B
When Europeans first touched the shores of the Americas, Old World crops such as wheat, barley,
rice, and turnips had not traveled west across the Atlantic, and New World crops such as maize,
white potatoes, sweet potatoes and manioc had not traveled east to Europe. In the Americas, there
were no horses, cattle, sheep, or goats, all animals of Old World origin. Except for the llama, alpaca,
dog, a few fowl, and guinea pig, the New World had no equivalents to the domesticated animals
associated with the Old World, nor did it have the pathogens associated with the Old World’s dense
populations of humans and such associated creatures as chickens, cattle, black rats, and Aedes
aegypti mosquitoes. Among these germs were those that carried smallpox, measles, chickenpox,
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As might be expected, the Europeans who settled on the east coast of the United States cultivated
crops like wheat and apples, which they had brought with them. European weeds, which the
colonists did not cultivate, and, in fact, preferred to uproot, also fared well in the New World. John
Josselyn, and Englishman and amateur naturalist who visited New England twice in the seventeenth
century, left us a list, “Of Such Plants as Have Sprung Up since the English Planted and Kept Cattle
in New England”, which included couch grass, dandelion, shepherd’s purse, groundsel, sow thistle,
and chickweed. One of these, a plantian (Plantago major), was named “Englishman’s Foot” by the
Ameridians of New England and Virginia who believed that it would grow only where the English
“have trodden, and was never known before the English came into this country”. Thus, as they
intentionally sowed Old World crop fields with weed seeds. More importantly, they were stripping
and burning forests, exposing the native minor flora to direct sunlight, and the hooves and teeth of
New World livestocks. The native flora could not tolerate the stress. The imported weeds could,
because they had lived in large numbers of grazing animals for thousands of years.
D
Cattle and horses were brought ashore in the early 1600s and found hospitable climate and terrain
in North America. Horses arrived in Virginia as early as 1620 and in Massachusetts in 1629. Many
wandered free with little more evidence of their connection to humanity than collars with a hook at
the bottom to catch on fences as they tried to leap over them to get at crops. Fences were not
keeping livestock in, but for keeping livestock out.
E
Native American resistance to the Europeans was ineffective. Indigenous peoples suffered from
white brutality, alcoholism, the killing and driving off the game, and the expropriation of farmland, but
all these together are insufficient to explain the degree of their defeat. The crucial factor was not
people, plants or animals, but germs. Smallpox was the worst and the most spectacular of the
infectious diseases mowing down the Native Americans. The first recorded pandemic of that disease
in British North American detonated among the Algonquin of Massachusetts in the early 1630s.
William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation wrote that the victims “fell down so generally of this disease
as they were in the end not able to help one another, no, not to make a fire nor fetch a little water to
drink, nor any to bury the dead”. The missionaries and the traders who ventured into the American
interior told the same appalling story about smallpox and the indigenes. In 1738 alone, the epidemic
destroyed half of Cherokee; in 1759 nearly half of the Catawbas; in the first years of the next
century, two thirds of the Omahas and perhaps half of the entire population between the Missoursi
River and New Mexico; in 1837-38 nearly every last one of the Mandans and perhaps half the
people of the high plains.
F
The export of America’s native animals has not revolutionised Old World agriculture or ecosystems
as the introduction of European animals to the New World did. America’s grey squirrels and
muskrats and a few others have established themselves east of the Atlantic and west of the Pacific,
but that has not made much of difference. Some of America’s domesticated animals are raised in the
Old World, but turkeys have not displaced chickens and geese, and guinea pigs have proved useful
in laboratories, but have not usurped rabbits in the butcher shops.
G
The New World’s great contribution to the Old is in crop plants. Maize, white potatoes, sweet
potatoes, various squashes, chiles, and manioc have become essentials in the diets of hundreds of
millions of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Their influence on Old World peoples, like that of wheat
and rice on New World peoples, goes far to explain the global population explosion of the past three
centuries. The Columbian Exchange has been an indispensable factor in that demographic
explosion.
H
All this had nothing to do with superiority or inferiority of biosystems in any absolute sense. It has to
do with environmental contrasts. Amerindians were accustomed to living in one particular kind of
environment, Europeans and Africans in another. When the Old World peoples came to America,
they brought with them all their plants, animals, and germs, creating a kind of environment to which
they were already adapted, and so they increased in number. Amerindians had not adapted to
European germs, and so initially their numbers plunged. That decline has reversed in our times as
Amerindian populations have adapted to the Old World’s environmental influence, but the

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demographic triumph of the invaders, which was the most spectacular feature of the Old World’
invasion of the New, still stands.
For questions 1-8, which paragraph contains the following information, write the correct letter A-H in
the corresponding numbered boxes
1. A description of an imported species that is named after the English colonists
2. The reason why both the New World and Old World experienced population growth
3. The formation of new continents explained
4. The reason why the indigenous population declined
5. An overall description of the species lacked in the Old World and New World
6. A description of some animal species being ineffective in affecting the Old World
7. An overall explanation of the success of the Old World species invasion
8. An account of European animals taking roots in the New World
For questions 9 – 12, write in the corresponding numbered boxes
YES if the statement reflects the writer’s claim
NO if the statement contradicts the writer’s claim
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
9. European settlers built fences to keep their cattle and horses inside.
10. The indigenous people had been brutally killed by the European colonists.
11. America’s domesticated animals, such as turkey, became popular in the Old World.
12. Crop exchange between the two worlds played a major role in world population growth.
For questions 13-14, answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the
passage for each answer. Write the answer in corresponding numbered box.
13. Who reported the same story of European diseases among the indigenes from the American
interior?
14. What is the still existing feature of the Old World’s invasion of the New?
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14.

IV. WRITING (50 POINTS)

Part 1: Summarize in your own words, the advantages and disadvantages of owning a
television. Your account should not be more than 120 words.
With the invention of televisions, many forms of entertainments have been replaced.
Lively programs like television serials and world news, have removed from us the need to read
books or papers, to listen to radios or even to watch movies. In fact, during the 1970s, when
televisions were first introduced, cinema theatres suffered great losses as many people chose
to stay in the comforts of their homes to watch their favorite programs.
Indeed, the television brings the world into our house. Hence, by staying at home and
pressing some buttons world happenings are immediately presented before us. Children
nowadays develop faster in language, owing to the early exposure to television programs. At
such tender age, it would be difficult for them to read books or papers. Thus, television
programs are a good source of learning for them. Furthermore, pronunciations by the
newscasters, actors or actresses are usually standardized, hence young children watching
these programs will learn the 'right' pronunciations too. Owning a television is also extremely
beneficial to working parents who are usually too busy or tired to take their kids out for
entertainments. Surrounded by the comforts of their home, the family can have a chance to get
together and watch their favorite television programs.
Of course, we should not be too carried away by the advantages of the television and
overlook its negative points. Watching television programs takes away our need to read. Why
bother to read the papers when we can hear them from the television news reports? Why read
books when exciting movies are screened? The lack of reading is unhealthy especially to
younger children as they will grow up only with the ability to speak but not write. I have a
neighbor whose six-year-old child can say complete sentences like "I like cats," but when told to
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their thinking capacities are also handicapped. Television programs remove the need to think.
The stories, ideas and facts are woven in the way television planners wanted. Exposure to such
opinions and the lack of thinking opportunities will hinder the children's analyzing ability.
Despite the disadvantages of watching television programs, personally, I think that
choosing the 'middle path', which is to do selective television viewing and not over indulging in
the habit should be the best solution to reconcile both the merits and demerits of owning a
television.

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The line graph below gives information about the number of visitors to three London
museums between June and September 2013.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
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Part 3:
With the increasing use and development of new technology, many machines are now able to do the
work which people used to perform.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this trend?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own experience.
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 SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO LÀO CAI KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN THI HỌC SINH GIỎI QUỐC GIA
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM NĂM HỌC: 2015-2016
Môn: Tiếng Anh

V. LISTENING (50 POINTS) 2 pts cho 1 câu đúng

Part 1: (20 pts)
1. 17th/ seventeenth century 6. format
2. five/ 5 7. biographical
3. (different) views/ viewpoints/ opinions/ 8. gesture
positions
4. conflict 9. summary
5. moderator/ leader 10. applause
Part 2: (20 pts)
1. living things 6. virtuous life
2. symbolic content 7. earliest inhabitants
3. passed down (orally) 8. female (deity)
4. destiny 9. male
5. supreme beings 10. clay tablets
Part 3: (10 pts)
1.C 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.A
VI. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 POINTS) 1 pt cho 1 câu đúng
Question 1:(10 pts)
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. B 5. C
6. B 7. C 8. B 9. A 10. D
Question 2:
No Mistakes Correction
1 ability disability
2 identify identified
3 indicator indication
4 apropriate appropriate
5 apply applying
6 advice in advice on/about
Question 3:
1. indebted 2. unstintingly 3. necessitated 4. assurance 5. undoubtedly
6. discouraging 7. unflagging 8. exceptionally
Question 4:
1.off 2.out 3.on 4. of 5.for 6.over
VII. READING (50 POINTS)
Part 1:
1. been 2. actual 3. out 4. back 5. in
6. much 7. Consequently 8. already 9. number 10. Although
Part 2:
1. B 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.C 6.B
7.B 8.C 9.D 10.A 11.B 12.A
Part 3:
1. vi 2. xi 3. xiii 4. vii 5. iv
6. v 7. viii 8. skeletal 9. eosuchians 10. two long
anatomy bones
11. B 12. G 13. H 14. F
Part 4:
1. C 2. G 3. A 4. E 5. B
6. F 7. H 8. D 9. False 10. True
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11. False 12. True 13. missionaries 14. demographic
and traders triumph
VIII. WRITING (50 POINTS)
PART 1: 10 Pts
Suggested answer:
The television keeps us informed of the world affairs. Early exposure to television programs
helps to develop language skills of young children. These children can also learn to pronounce
words accurately because of the standardized pronunciation in the programs. In a family where
both the parents are working, the television provides the family an opportunity to get together at
leisure times. One disadvantages of watching television programs is that we do less reading
and hence our writing skills are affected. Younger children may learn to speak but not write from
television programs. Furthermore, television programs often spare viewers, especially the young
ones, from pondering upon opinion s presented before the, which will in turn handicap their
ability analyze facts. (119 words)
1. Completion: 1 pts
2. Content: 3 pts
- Cover the main information in the chart yet not go into too many details.
- Make general remarks and effective comparisons.
3. Organisation: 2 pts
- The ideas are well organized
- The description is sensibly divided into paragraphs
4. Language: 3 pts
- Use a wide range of vocabulary and structure
- Good grammar
5. Punctuation and spelling: 1 pt
PART 2: 15 pts
1. Completion: 1 pts
2. Content: 5 pts
- Cover the main information in the chart yet not go into too many details.
- Make general remarks and effective comparisons.
3. Organisation: 3 pts
- The ideas are well organized
- The description is sensibly divided into paragraphs
4. Language: 5 pts
- Use a wide range of vocabulary and structure
- Good grammar
5. Punctuation and spelling: 1 pt
PART 3: 25 pts
1. Completion: (2 pt.)
2. Content: (8 pts)
Provide relevant and convincing ideas about the topic, supported by specific example and/or
reasonable justification.
3. Organisation: (6 pts)
- Ideas are well organized and presented with unity, cohesion and coherence.
4. Language: (6 pts)
- Demonstrate of a wide range of vocabulary and structures.
- Good use of grammatical structures.
- Present the ideas with clarity.
5. Punctuations and spelling. (3 pts)

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