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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
(Phần ĐỌC + VIẾT)
Ngày thi: 15/ 01 / 2021
Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút
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ĐỀ THI CÓ 13 TRANG – HỌC SINH KIỂM TRA LẠI SỐ TRANG TRƯỚC KHI LÀM BÀI
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I. LEXICO-GRAMMAR ( 4.0 POINTS)

PART 1: Choose the best answer to complete the sentences (2.0 points)
1. Come on. Spill the________! What is the big secret?
A. peas B. beans C. milk D. dust
2. We saw ________ beautiful landscapes while on holiday.
A. quite a few B. quite much C. quite many D. quite some
3. My cousin was nervous about being interviewed on television, but she rose to the ________ wonderfully.
A. event B. performance C. incident D. occasion
4. In my opinion, it’s only common ________ to wear a seat belt in a car.
A. intelligence B. wit C. judgement D. sense
5. Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no ________ improvement in her condition.
A. decipherable B. legible C. discernible D. intelligible
6. It was daring robbery, which took place ________daylight.
A. broad B. total C. wide D. absolute
7. Professor Baker was an ________on the greenhouse effects.
A. author B. authority C. authorized D. authorship
8. I can accept criticism in general, but George really _____ it too far, so I had no other option but to show
my disapproval.
A. carried B. pushed C. put D. made
9. Patrick _____ his joy at winning the prize by inviting his friends to a first-class restaurant for dinner.
A. appeared B. envisioned C. exposed D. displayed
10. The small boat drifted helplessly _________ the mercy of the wind and waves.
A. in B. with C. to D. at
11. The man’s choice to run away virtually ______ to an admission of guilt.
A. devoted B. came C. amounted D. added
12. I have to stress that the ______ is on you to bring up your own children.
A. duty B. charge C. onus D. liability
13. She was just an ordinary person before suddenly thrusting into the ______.
A. limelight B. floodlight C. headlight D. flashlight
14. Many people no longer trust their own _____ memories and commit every detail of their lives to some
digital device or other and are completely lost without it.
A. fallible B. susceptible C. vulnerable D. controllable
15. I associate public transport with one of the worst experiences of my life and the _____ of it is that I
will never catch a bus again.
A. hard and fast B. thick and thin C. long and short D. ups and downs

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16. Getting that job did a lot to ______his ego after having been turned down many times.
A. boost B. promote C. develop D. accelerate
17. My boss is a typical person who has to deal with ___________ activities every day.
A. miscellaneous B. multifarious C. assorted D. manifold
18. Fortunately, her parents were ______ unaware of what was happening to her.
A. rapturously B. exultantly C. blissfully D. jubilantly
19. After five hours, we realized that we had reached ________ in the discussion. Everyone was fidgeting,
indicating that they were bored and restless.
A. first mate B. running made C. checkmate D. stalemate
20. Today many people find that the pressure they have at work makes their jobs ________ as they have to
put their families totally in the background.
A. untenable B. unforgivable C. unsustainable D. unreliable

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

PART 2: Complete the text with appropriate FORMS FROM THE WORDS given in the box.There are
more words than needed. ( 1.0 point)

IMPRESS REGARD EXPERIENCE APPROVE SETTLE

EXPECT HORRIFY LOCK BREAK AWE
ANNOY WELCOME ISOLATE

THE LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGY

Technology changes fast, making it difficult to keep track of the latest developments. Yet, there are certain
moments when technology makes a big (1. ) ________on you. Imagine, for example, seeing television or a
helicopter for the first time. It would be an (2. ) ________experience. One such revelatory moment
occurred while I was on a group camel trek across the Sahara desert.
We were about fifty miles from the nearest (3. ) ________, feeling that we’d finally managed to get away
from it all. Hardly any technological (4. ) ________ had reached this corner of the globe, or so it seemed.
There were just sand dunes as far as the eyes could see. Not yet, despite our (5. ) ________, the silence was
suddenly broken by the somewhat (6. ) ________noise of a frog. Ignoring for the moment the looks of
district (7. ) ________my fellow travellers, I put my hand in my pocket. The (8. ) ________was of course,
my ring tone. And when I pressed the button, there was my boss asking me a simple question, (9. )
________of the fact that it was thousands of miles away. We were beyond the limits of cilvilisation, yet
had not gone far enough to avoid a(n) (10. ) ________work call from a colleague.
Your answers:
1……………………2……………………..3……………… 4……………. 5……….. …..
6……………………7……………………..8……………… 9……………. 10……….. …..
PART 3: Complete the sentences using the verbs and particles given in the box. There are more verbs
than needed ( 1 point)

VERB PARTICLES
PUT CARRY SWITCH GO FOR UP DOWN OFF WITH
COME PULL ADD OUT TO BY AWAY OF
MAKE PICK TAKE SKIM

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1. Can you ________ the BBC World Service on your new radio?
2. The old lady’s savings were considerable as she had ________ a little money each week.
3. She ________ a bad cold just before Christmas, which spoilt all her plans.
4. As we waited on the pavement, a big black Mercedes ________ beside us.
5. As children, we were very poor. When my father finally became rich, he told us that he wanted to
________ all the hardships we had suffered.
6. I was __________ by the beautiful music performed by all top international singers.
7. I got impatient waiting for my turn to _________.
8. Fireworks __________ the attraction of the festival night.
9. We spent an hour trying to ________ the answer to this problem.
10. She works very hard and finds it difficult to __________ when she gets home.
Your answers:
1……………………2……………………..3……………… 4……………. 5……….. …..
6……………………7……………………..8……………… 9……………. 10……….. …..
II. READING ( 5.0 POINTS)
PART 1: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text.
Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes (1 point).
DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES
In the late 1930s, a group of primary American scientists seeking dinosaur fossils made some (1) ________
finds, Although one of their expeditions discovered no bones at all, it nonetheless proved to be
important in terms of the information about dinosaurs it provided. During that historic expedition,
which took place along the banks of the Paluxy river in Texas, something extraordinary was revealed:
a dinosaur track, clearly (2)________in the rock.
These dinosaur footprints (3) ________ their preservation to the salts and mud that covered them and
then hardened into rock, before (4) ________ to light 100 million years later. Tracks like these are
(5)__________ to experts. There have been great gaps in scientists' understanding of dinosaur (6)
_________, and so such footprints are useful since they provide direct evidence of how dinosaurs
actually moved. Scientists have been able to use these footprints, and others like them, to determine
how quickly different species walked, and to conclude that many kinds of dinosaur must have
travelled in (7) _________.
(8) _________, the tracks of four-legged dinosaurs seem to (9)________ that in spite of being reptiles,
these creatures must have moved in a very similar way to living mammals, such as elephants a pattern
of movement distinct from that of most contemporary reptiles, such as crocodiles. This leads to an
intriguing question. Might existing mammals have more to teach us about the (10) _________ reptiles that
once walked the earth?

1. A. noteworthy B. noticeable C. notifiable D. notional

2. A. blatant B. substantial C. distinguishable D. ostensible
3. A. owe B. derive C. result D. thank
4. A. coming B. bringing C. appearing D. surfacing
5. A. unique B. invaluable C. costly D. rare
6. A. action B. manners C. behavior D. customs
7. A. sets B. herds C. masses D. bunches
8. A. Accordingly B. Characteristically C. Interestingly D. Alternatively
9. A. point B. specify C. express D. indicate
10. A. abolished B. departed C. extinct D. extinguished
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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PART 2: Read the following passage and fill in the gaps. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes ( 1 point).
GLOBAL ENGLISH
Global English exists as a political and cultural reality. Many misguided theories attempt to explain
why the English language should have succeeded internationally, whilst (1) ______ have not. Is it because
there is something inherently logical or beautiful about the structure of English? Does its simple grammar
make it easy to learn? (2) ______ ideas are misconceived. Latin was once a major international language,
(3) ______ having a complicated grammatical structure, and English also presents learners with all manner
of real difficulties, (4) ______ least its spelling system. Ease of learning, therefore, has little to do with it.
(5) ______ all, children learn to speak their mother tongue in approximately the same period of time, (6)
______ of their language. English has spread not (7) ______ much for linguistic reasons, but rather because
it has often found (8) ______ in the right place, at the right time. Since the 1960s, two major developments
have contributed to strengthening this global status. Firstly, in a number of countries, English is now used
in (9) ______ to national or regional languages. As well as this, an electronic revolution has taken place. It
is estimated that (10) ______ the region of 80% of worldwide electronic communication is now in English.
Your answers:
1……………………2……………………..3……………… 4……………. 5……….. …..
6……………………7……………………..8……………… 9……………. 10……….. …..
PART 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text.
Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes (1 point).
The Hydrologic Cycle
The hydrologic cycle is the transfer of water from the oceans to the atmosphere to the land and back
to the oceans. The processes involved include evaporation of water from the oceans; precipitation on land;
evaporation from land; and runoff from streams, rivers, and subsurface groundwater. The hydrologic cycle
is driven by solar energy, which evaporates water from oceans freshwater, bodies, soils, and
vegetable. Of the total 1.3 billion km water on Earth, about 97% is in oceans, and about 2% is in glaciers
and ice caps. The rest is in freshwater on land and in the atmosphere. Although it represents only a small
fraction of the water on Earth, the water on land is important in moving chemicals, sculpturing landscape,
weathering rocks, transporting sediments, and providing our water resources. The water in the atmosphere
only 0.001% of the total on Earth—cycles quickly to produce rain and runoff for our water resources.
Especially important from an environmental perspective is that rates of transfer on land are small
relative to what’s happening in the ocean. For example, most of the water that evaporates from the ocean
falls again as precipitation into the ocean. On land, most of the water that falls as precipitation comes from
evaporation of water from land. This means that regional land-use changes, such as the building of large
dams and reservoirs, can change the amount of water evaporated into the atmosphere and change the
location and amount of precipitation on land—water we depend on to raise our crops and supply water for
our urban environments. Furthermore, as we pave over large areas of land in cities, storm water runs off
quicker and in greater volume, thereby increasing flood hazards. Bringing water into semi-arid cities by

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pumping groundwater or transporting water from distant mountains through aqueducts may increase
evaporation, thereby increasing humidity and precipitation in a region.
Approximately 60% of water that falls by precipitation on land each year evaporates to the
atmosphere. A smaller component (about 40%) returns to the ocean surface and subsurface runoff. [A]
This small annual transfer of water supplies resources for rivers and urban and agricultural lands. [B]
Unfortunately, distribution of water on land is far from uniform. [C] As human population increases, water
shortages will become more frequent in arid and semi-arid regions, where water is naturally nonabundant.
[D]
At the regional and local level, the fundamental hydrological unit of the landscape is the drainage
basin (also called a watershed or catchment). A drainage basin is the area that contributes surface runoff to
a particular stream or river. The term drainage basin is usually used in evaluating the hydrology of an area,
such as the stream flow or runoff from hill slopes. Drainage basins vary greatly in size, from less than a
hectare (2.5 acres) to millions of square kilometers. A drainage basin is usually named for its main stream
or river, such as the Mississippi River drainage basin.
The main process in the cycle is the global transfer of water from the atmosphere to the land and
oceans and back to the atmosphere. Together, the oceans, ice caps and glaciers account for more than 99%
of the total water, and both are generally unsuitable for human use because of salinity (seawater) and
location (ice caps and glaciers). Only about 0.001% of the total water on Earth is in the atmosphere at any
one time. However, this relatively small amount of water in the global water cycle, with an average
atmospheric residence time of only about 9 days, produces all our freshwater resources through the process
of precipitation.
On a global scale, then, total water abundance is not the problem; the problem is water’s availability
in the right place at the right time in the right form. Water can be found in either liquid, solid, or gaseous
form at a number of locations at or near Earth’s surface. Depending on the specific location, the residence
time may vary from a few days to many thousands of years. However, as mentioned, more than 99% of
Earth’s water in its natural state is unavailable or unsuitable for beneficial human use. Thus, the amount of
water for which all the people, plants, and animals on Earth compete is much less than 1% of the total.
As the world’s population and industrial production of goods increase, the use of water will also
accelerate. The world per capita use of water in 1975 was about 185,000 gal/ yr. And the total human use of
water was about 1015 gal/yr. Today, world use of water is about 6,000, which is a significant fraction of the
naturally available freshwater.
1. Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the highlighted statement in the passage?
A.  It is the hydrologic cycle that causes water to evaporate from plants, soil, and bodies of water inland as
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B. Solar energy is the source of power for the hydrologic cycle, which begins by evaporating water from
plants, soil, oceans, and freshwater sources.
C. The evaporation of water from the oceans, freshwater sources, plants, and soils is the natural process,
which we call the hydrologic cycle.
D. Energy from the sun and the hydrologic cycle are power sources for plants that require water from the
oceans and freshwater sources.
2. Based on information in paragraph 1, which of the following best explains the term “hydro-logic
cycle”?
A. The movement of water from freshwater bodies into the oceans
B. Solar energy in the atmosphere that produces rain over land and oceans
C. Water resources from oceans and freshwater sources inland
D. Transportation of water from oceans into the atmosphere and onto the land
3. The phrase “The rest” in the passage refers to
A. oceans B. ice caps C. glaciers D. water
4. How do man-made water resources such as reservoirs and lakes affect the water cycle?
A. They increase the danger of flooding in the areas surrounding them.
B. They cause changes in the patterns of rainfall in the immediate area.
C. They provide water sources for agricultural purposes in dry areas.
D. They improve the natural flow of water into the oceans.
5. Fresh water is considered important because _________
A. it evaporates more quickly than water in the ocean.
B. It is the largest source of water on Earth.
C. It determines the landscape of rocks and sediment.
D. It is the runoff that empties into the oceans.
6. The word “component” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. error B. part C. estimate D. source
7. Why does the author mention the “Mississippi River” in paragraph 4?
A. The Mississippi River is an example of a drainage basin.
B. The Mississippi River is one of the largest rivers in the region.
C. The Mississippi River is used in evaluating the runoff from hills.
D. The Mississippi River is named for the area surrounding it.
8. According to paragraph 5, which of the following is true about the global transfer of water?
A. Most rainwater stays in the atmosphere for less than a week.
B. Glaciers are a better source of water than the oceans.
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D. Less than 1 percent of the water can be used for human consumption.
9. According to paragraph 6, why is water a problem?
A. There is not enough water available in liquid form in the world.
B. Plants and animals are using the water that humans require.
C. Distribution of water where it is needed can be difficult.
D. Most of the naturally accessible water is too old to be used safely.
10. Look at the four spaces that show where the following sentence could be inserted in the passage. As a
result, water shortages occur in some areas. Where could the sentence best be added?
[A] [B] [C] [D]
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 4: Read the text below and answer questions (1 point).

A. Language in Jamaica today reflects the history of the country’s interaction with a variety of cultures
and languages from many ethnic, linguistic, and social backgrounds. Aside from the Arawaks, the
original inhabitants of Jamaica, all its people were exiles or children of exiles. Over 90 of the 2.5
million people living in Jamaica today are descendants of slaves brought from western Africa by the
British. The local Jamaican language is a reflection of a history of contact with a variety of
speakers, but the official language remains Standard English. The most influential speakers were
immigrants from Africa and Europe. Kwa, Manding, and Kru are amongst the variety of prominent
African languages apparent in Jamaican history. Early Modern English was brought to the
Caribbean by sailors, soldiers, indentured servants, convicts, and lower-class settlers in the form of
regional and non-standard dialects.

B. Today the Jamaican creole language, called Jamaican Patois, falls at one extreme of the linguistic
spectrum while Standard English lies at the other end of the spectrum. The majority of the
population speaks a language which falls in between the two. At one end there is the educated
model spoken by the elite, which follows the “London Standard”. At the other extreme is what
linguists call “creolized’ English, fragmented English speech and syntax with African influences
developed during the days of slavery. This is the speech of the peasant or laborer with little
education. In the middle of the language scale there is the inclusion of Jamaican rhythm and
intonation of words, which evolved within the country, as well as the presence of other uniquely
Jamaican traits including retention in common speech of English words now rare or poetic as well
as new formations such as alterations of existing words.
C. Jamaican history and the formation of Patois are based on the experience of exile. In the early 16th
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 Within 100 years very few Arawaks survived due to a deadly epidemic. The only evidence of the
Arawak dialect in Jamaica today is a few loan words, place names, foods, natural objects, and
events. Xaymaca is actually an Arawak word meaning ‘island of springs”, which is where the name
Jamaica is derived from. It is possible that the first contact of the Arawaks and the Spaniards may
have led to an early pidgin or bilingualism among the first generation of mixed blood. Age in
Jamaica have led to an early pidgin or bilingualism among the first generation of mixed blood.
Throughout Spanish rule, the Arawaks had contact with Spanish colonists, Portuguese, Amerindians
brought in as slaves from other parts of the Caribbean, and West Africans. Then, in 1655, the
English attacked the Spanish colony bringing with them new influences. Arriving with the invaders
were soldiers recruited from England, Barbados, and Montserrat; settlers from Surinam, Barbados,
Bermuda, New England, and Virginia; Jews from Brazil; indentured servants from Bristol; midland
and northern lower-class English speakers; convicts from large prisons in England; Romany
speakers; and a variety of African speakers. The birth of population centers, such as Port Royal,
Passage Fort, and Kingston. Served as a mixing pot of many different speakers.

D. Today linguists agree that East Indians, Spanish, and Arawaks have contributed a little vocabulary
to the Jamaican dialect, but the majority of non-English terms, grammar and phonology is African.
Africans came to acquire forms of English because of the domination of the English dialects of their
plantation-owning masters. The heyday of sugar. Between 1700-1834. Is the period thought to be
most responsible for the forming of Patois? At this time, increasing numbers of Africans were
imported to work on the Large plantations. By the end of the century Africans made up a quarter of
the slave population and Creole took precedence over the African past. Increases in written records
of Jamaican Creole were seen at the time of the abolitionist movement from 1770 to 1838, but
English continued to influence Jamaican Creole in the form of biblical and prayer-book language.
E. The perception that English-lexicon Creole languages are a form of “bad English” still persists
today in Jamaica. Jamaican Patois continues to be considered an unacceptable official language and
an informal language not to be used for any formal purpose. Creole speakers are often compared to
those speakers of Standard English. The similarity of Creole to English has led Creole speakers to
be labelled as socially and linguistically inferior, although Jamaica Creole is increasingly showing
up in newspapers once known for their old-fashioned Standard English, on the radio, and in songs.
Indeed, in the past 30 or 40 years linguists have final begun to recognize Creole as a language in
itself.
In which section are the following mentioned?
1. The reason why Jamaican Creole is looked down upon
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 3. How most people speak in Jamaica?
4. The name of the legally recognized language of Jamaica
5. Why there are not many Arawak’s in Jamaica today
6. The part of society that speaks the London Standard of English
7. The places where most Jamaican people live
8. A significant development during the years when growing sugar was important
9. African languages that were particularly important in the development of Patois
10. The characteristics that make Jamaican Patois unique
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 5: Read the following passage and do the tasks below (1 point)
RISING SEA
Paragraph 1 - INCREASED TEMPERATURES
The average air temperature at the surface of the earth has risen this century, as has the temperature of
ocean surface waters. Because water expands as it heats, a warmer ocean means higher sea levels. We
cannot say definitely that the temperature rises are due to the greenhouse effect; the heating may be part of
a ‘natural’ variability over a long time - scale that we have not yet recognized in our short 100 years of
recording. However, assuming the build up of greenhouse gases is responsible, and that the warming will
continue, scientists – and inhabitants of low-lying coastal areas – would like to know the extent of future
sea level rises. 
Paragraph 2
Calculating this is not easy. Models used for the purpose have treated the ocean as passive, stationary and
one -dimensional. Scientists have assumed that heat simply diffused into the sea from the atmosphere.
Using basic physical laws, they then predict how much a known volume of water would expand for a given
increase in temperature. But the oceans are not one -dime nsional, and recent work by oceanographers,
using a new model which takes into account a number of subtle facets of the sea –including vast and
complex ocean currents –suggests that the rise in sea level may be less than some earlier estimates had
predicted.
Paragraph 3
An international forum on climate change, in 1986, produced figures for likely sea-level rises of 20 cms
and 1.4 m, corresponding to atmospheric temperature increases of 1.5 and 4.5C respectively. Some
scientists estimate that the ocean warming resulting from those temperature increases by the year 2050
would raise the sea level by between 10 cms and 40 cms. This model only takes into account the
temperature effect on the oceans; it does not consider changes in sea level brought about by the melting of
ice sheets and glaciers, and changes in groundwater storage. When we add on estimates of these, we arrive
at figures for total sea-level rises of 15 cm and 70 cm respectively.
Paragraph 4
It’s not easy trying to model accurately the enormous complexities of the ever-changing oceans, with their
great volume, massive currents and sensitively to the influence of land masses and the atmosphere. For
example, consider how heat enters the ocean. Does it just ‘diffuse’ from the warmer air vertically into the
water, and heat only the surface layer of the sea? (Warm water is less dense than cold, so it would not
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measurements have shown that the rate of heat transfer into the ocean by vertical diffusion is far lower in
practice than the figures that many modelers have adopted.
Paragraph 5
Much of the early work, for simplicity, ignored the fact that water in the oceans moves in three dimensions.
By movement, of course, scientists don’t mean waves, which are too small individually to consider, but
rather movement of vast volumes of water in huge currents. To understand the importance of this, we now
need to consider another process – advection. Imagine smoke rising from a chimney. On a still day it will
slowly spread out in all directions by means of diffusion. With a strong directional wind, however, it will
all shift downwind, this process is advection – the transport of properties (notably heat and salinity in the
ocean) by the movement of bodies of air or water, rather than by conduction or diffusion.
Paragraph 6.
Massive ocean currents called gyres do the moving. These currents have far more capacity to store heat
than does the atmosphere. Indeed, just the top 3m of the ocean contains more heat than the whole of the
atmosphere. The origin of gyres lies in the fact that more heat from the Sun reaches the Equator than the
Poles, and naturally heat tends to move from the former to the latter. Warm air rises at the Equator, and
draws more air beneath it in the form of winds (the “Trade Winds”) that, together with other air
movements, provide the main force driving the ocean currents. Water itself is heated at the Equator and
moves poleward, twisted by the Earth’s rotation and affected by the positions of the continents. The
resultant broadly circular movements between about 10 and 40 North and South are clockwise in the
Southern Hemisphere. They flow towards the east at mid latitudes in the equatorial region. They then flow
towards the Poles, along the eastern sides of continents, as warm currents. When two different masses of
water meet, one will move beneath the other, depending on their relative densities in the subduction
process.The densities are determined by temperature and salinity. the convergence of water of different
densities from the Equator and the Poles deep in the oceans causes continuous subduction. This means that
water moves vertically as well as horizontally. Cold water from the Poles travels as depth – it is denser than
warm water –until it emerges at the surface in another part of the world in the form of a cold current.
Paragraph 7
- HOW THE GREEN HOUSE EFFECT WILL CHANGE OCEAN TEMPERATURES
Ocean currents, in three dimensions, form a giant ‘conveyor belt’, distributing heat from the thin surface
layer into the interior of the oceans and around the globe. Water may take decades to circulate in these 3-D
gyres in the lop kilometer of the ocean, and centuries in the deep water. With the increased atmospheric
temperatures due to the greenhouse effect, the oceans conveyor belt will carry more heat into the interior.
This subduction moves heat around far more effectively than simple diffusion. Because warm water
expands more than cold when it is heated, scientists had presumed that the sea level would rise unevenly
around the globe. It is now believed that these inequalities cannot persist, as winds will act to continuously
spread out the water expansion. Of course, of global warming changes the strength and distribution of the
winds, then this ‘evening-out’ process may not occur, and the sea level could rise more in some areas than
others.
Questions 1 - 6 
There are 8 paragraphs numbered 1 - 8 in Reading Passage. The first paragraph and the last paragraph
have been given headings.
From the list below numbered A - I, choose a suitable heading for the remaining 5 paragraphs.
There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all the headings.
List of headings
A.    THE GYRE PRINCIPLE
B.     THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
C.     HOW OCEAN WATERS MOVE

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D.     STATISTICAL EVIDENCE
E.     THE ADVECTION PRINCIPLE
F.     DIFFUSION VERSUS ADVECTION
G.     FIGURING THE SEA LEVEL CHANGES
H.     ESTIMATED FIGURES
I.     THE DIFFUSION MODEL
1.   Paragraph  2 ……………………..
2.   Paragraph  3 ……………………..
3.   Paragraph  4 ……………………..
4.   Paragraph  5 ……………………..
5.   Paragraph  6 ……………………..

Questions 6-10: Read each of the following statements and decide whether they are
T  if it is true 
F  if it is false
NI If there is no information about the statement in the reading passage.
6. The surface layer of the oceans is warmed by the atmosphere.
7. Advection of water changes heat and salt levels.
8. A gyre holds less heat than there is in the atmosphere.
9. The process of subduction depends on the water density.
10. The sea level is expected to rise evenly over the Earth's surface.
Your answer
1. 3. 5. 7. 9.
2. 4. 6. 8. 10.

III: WRITING ( 6.0 POINTS)

PART 1: Rewrite the following sentences using the word given ( 1 point)
1. Icy road conditions are thought to have caused the accident. (BROUGHT)
- The accident seem ……………………………………………..the icy road conditions.
2. One day Tom’s mother is going to lose her temper with him. (MATTER)
- It is ................................................................... Tom’s mother is going to lose her temper with him.
3. I’m quite happy to go on holiday alone. (AVERSE)
- I am ..........................................................................on holiday on my own.
4. We suddenly decided to go away for the weekend. (SPUR)
- We decided..............................................................................................................................
5. Finding the survivors is our number one priority. (UTMOST)
- It is the ...........................................................................the survivors.

PART 2: The graph below compares the number of visits to two new music sites on the web.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

You should write at least 150 words. ( 2 points)

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PART 3: Write an essay on the following topic. You should write at least 250 words. ( 3 points)

Internet technology means people do not need to travel to foreign countries to understand how others
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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO BÌNH ĐỊNH KỲ THI CHỌN HSG CẤP TRƯỜNG LỚP 11
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
(Phần ĐỌC + VIẾT)
Ngày thi: 15/ 01 / 2021

ĐÁP ÁN
I. LEXICO-GRAMMAR:
PART 1. (20 X 0,1 = 2 POINTS)
1.B 2.A 3.D 4.D 5.C 6.A 7.B 8.A 9.D 10.D
11.C 12.C 13.A 14.A 15.C 16.A 17.B 18.C 19.D 20.A
PART 2: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)
1. impression 2. awesome 3. settlement 4. breakthroughs 5. isolation
6. unexpected 7. disapproval 8. annoyance 9. regardless 10. unwelcomed
PART 3 : ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)
1.PICK UP 2. PUT BY 3. WENT DOWN WITH 4. PULLED UP 5. MAKE UP FOR
6. CARRIED AWAY 7. COME OUT 8. ADDED TO 9. PUZZLE OUT
10. SWITCHED OFF

II. READING
PART 1: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)
1. A 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. C
PART 2: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)
1. others 2. Such 3. despite 4. not 5. after

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6. regardless / irrespective 7. so 8. itself 9. addition 10. in
PART 3: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)
1. B 2. D 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. A 8. D 9. C 10. C

PART 4: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)

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

PART 5: ( 10 X 0,1 = 1 POINT)

1. H 3. E 5. C 7. T 9. T
2. I 4. A 6. NI 8. F 10. F
III. WRITING
PART 1 : ( 5 X 0,2 = 1 POINT)
1. The accident seem to have been brought about the icy road conditions.
2. It is a matter of time Tom’s mother is going to lose her temper with him.
3. I am not averse to going on holiday on my own.
4. We decided to go away for the weekend on the spur of the moment
5. - It is the utmost importance that we find the survivors.
PART 2: 2 POINTS
PART 3: 3 POINTS

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