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HOC24.VN 1 Đề thi KSCL THPT Chuyên Bắc Ninh - Bắc Ninh - Lần 2 Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions. Question 1: A. exhaust B. exam C. exact D. excellent Question 2: A. command B. community C. complete D. common Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions. Question 3: A. document B. development C. improvement D. environment Question 4: A. comfortable B. dynasty C. literature D. engineering Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to choose the word of phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 5 to 9. As teenagers approach university level, a decision has to be made on what course to pursue. In this world of diversity, (1) ______ such a choice is not easy for both children and parents. In the old days, it was not much a problem to do the task because there were not so many diverse learning areas to choose from. Besides, there were only a few distinctive professional careers like doctor, engineer, accountant, nurse, teacher,etc. to think about. Most higher learning usually led to a financially successful life. (2) ______, the cost of education was not so high. Today’s world is entirely different from the things (3) ______ have just been described. The job market is constantly changing due to innovative technology and new (4) ______. Meanwhile, most teenagers have difficulty in identifying their own interests. There are a variety of well- organized career talks and student counseling workshop to guide and help teenagers (5) ______ what course to take. Furthermore, psychological tests are also used. Certain instruments such as surveys, interviews and computer software can help to find out preferences, interests, or learning styles of the students. Question 5: A. taking B. making C. giving D. having Question 6: A. In addition B. Otherwise C. For example D. Therefore Question 7: A. when B. that C. where D. what Question 8: A. competitively B. competition C. compete D. competitive Question 9: A. employ B. study C. decide D. apply Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. HOC24.VN 2 Living things include both the visible world of animals and plants as well as the invisible world of bacteria and viruses. On a basic level, we can say that life is ordered. Organisms have an enormously complex organization. Life can also “work”. Living creatures can take in energy from the environment. This energy, in the form of food, is changed to maintain metabolic processes and for survival. Life grows and develops. This means more than just getting larger in size. Living organisms also have the ability to rebuild and repair themselves when injured. Life can reproduce. Life can only come from other living creatures. Life can respond. Think about the last time you accidentally stubbed your toe. Almost instantly, you moved back in pain. Finally, life can adapt and respond to the demands placed on it by the environment. There are three basic types of adaptations that can occur in higher organisms. Reversible changes occur as a response to changes in the environment. Let's say you live near sea level and you travel to a mountainous area. You may begin to experience difficulty breathing and an increase in heart rate as a result of the change in height. These signs of sickness go away when you go back down to sea level. Body- related changes happen as a result of prolonged changes in the environment. Using the previous example, if you were to stay in the mountainous area for a long time, you would notice that your heart rate would begin to slow down and you would begin to breath normally. These changes are also reversible. Genotypic changes (caused by genetic change) take place within the genetic make up of the organism and are not reversible. An example would be the development of resistance to bug-killing chemicals by insects and spiders. Question 10: In what way is life organized?. A. Hard B. Difficult C. Complicated D. Problematic Question 11: Which of the followings is NOT a feature of life? A. Getting a job. B. Giving birth. C. Getting larger and self-repairing. D. Reacting to the environment. Question 12: What is the energy for the living things called? A. Food. B. Metabolic process. C. Green energy. D. Environment Question 13: You see life respond most clearly when you______. A. unintentionally hurt yourself. B. move part of your body due to threat. C. look at your toe. D. feel hurt. Question 14: Which type of living creatures can adapt to the changes in the environment? A. More visible B. Lower C. Higher D. More human Question 15: What does the word “Reversible” in the passage mean? A. Changeable B. Visible C. Fitful D. Irregular Question 16: Which type of adaptation is permanent? A. Body- related B. Reversible C. Genotypic D. Environmental HOC24.VN 3 Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to each of the following exchanges. Question 17: -Bill: “Let’s stop for a drink”. -Bruce: “______”. A. Long time no see. B. Nice to meet you. C. Sorry, we’ve got little time. D. Your’re welcome. Question 18: -Jack: “I’m going to take a five-day trip to Rome.” -Jill: “______”. A. No, of course not. B. Have a good time. C. The same to you. D. Yes, let’s. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each on the following questions. Question 19: While working as a travel agency, my elder brother specialized in arranging tours of the Mekong Delta for foreign tourists. A. a travel agency B. While C. specialized in D. tours of Question 20: A lot of athletic and non-athletic extracurricular activities are available in Vietnamese high-schools, either public and private. A. available in B. non-athletic C. either public and private D. A lot of Question 21: In a restaurant, if we want to call the waiter, we can raise our hand and wave it slight to signal that we need assistance. A. slight to signal B. if we C. assistance D. wave it Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given in each of the following questions. Question 22: For a cold, doctors often recommend that you rest and drink lot of fluids. A. Doctors would rather give advice about cold than about fluids. B. Rest and liquids are frequently advised for treatment of colds. C. The doctors recommend that you have a cold soft drinks. D. You were told to come out of the cold and rest. Question 23: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”. A. Being apart from someone you love makes you love them more. B. Our heart needs absence to grow. C. Being apart from someone you love makes you love them less. D. Absence makes us grow older. HOC24.VN 4 Question 24: My cousin shows a desire to put aside the status of the school child. A. The status of the school child makes my cousin happy. B. My cousin doesn’t want to be a school child anymore. C. My cousin is determined to put up with the other school children. D. My cousin decides to play down the status of the school child. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Question 25: I didn’t know that you were at home. I didn’t drop in. A. Not knowing that you were at home, but I still dropped in. B. I didn’t know you were at home although I didn’t drop in. C. Not knowing that you were at home, I didn’t drop in. D. If I knew that you were at home, I would drop in. Question 26: My sisters used to get on with each other. Now they hardly speak. A. My sisters were once close, but they rarely speak to each other now. B. My sisters do not speak to each other much, but they’re good friends. C. My sisters rarely speak because they have never liked each other. D. Because they have never got on, my sisters do not speak to each other. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions. For many American university students, the weeklong spring break holiday means an endless party on a sunny beach in Florida or Mexico. In Panama City Beach, Florida, a city with a permanent population of around 36,000, more than half a million university students arrive during the month of March to play and party, making it the number one spring break destination in the United States. A weeklong drinking binge is not for anyone, however, and a growing number of American university students have found a way to make spring break matter. For them, joining or leading a group of volunteers to travel locally or internationally and work to alleviate problems such as poverty, homelessness, or environmental damage makes spring break a unique learning experience that university students can feel good about. During one spring break week, students at James Madison University in Virginia participated in 15 “alternative spring break” trips to nearby states, three others to more distant parts of the United States, and five international trips. One group of JMU students traveled to Bogalusa, Louisiana, to help rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Another group traveled to Mississippi to organize creative activities for children living in a homless shelter. One group of students did go to Florida, HOC24.VN 5 but not to lie on the sand. They performed exhausting physical labor such as maintaining hiking trails and destroying invasive plant species that threaten the native Florida ecosystem. Students who participate in alternative spring break projects find them very rewarding. While most university students have to get their degrees before they can start helping people, student volunteers are able to help people now. On the other hand, the accommodations are far from glamorous. Students often sleep on the floor of a school or spend the week camping in tents. But students only pay around $250 for meals and transportation, which is much less than some of their peers spend to travel to more traditional spring break hotspots. Alternative spring break trips appear to be growing in popularity at universities across the United States. Students cite a number of reason for participating. Some appreciate the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. Others want to exercise their beliefs about people’s obligation to serve humanity and make the world a better place whatever their reason, these students have discovered something that gives them rich rewards along with a break from school work. (“Active Skills for Reading: Book 2” by Neil J.Anderson – Thompson, 2007) Question 27: How many university students travel to Panama Beach City every March for spring break? A. Around 500,000 B. Around 10,000 C. Around 36,000 D. Around 50,000 Question 28: The article is mainly about______. A. sleeping on the floor or camping in tents. B. alternative spring break trips. C. drinking problems among university students. D. spring break in Florida and Mexico Question 29: The word “binge” in the second paragraph probably means______. A. having very little alcohol. B. refusing to do something. C. studying for too long. D. doing too much of something. Question 30: Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a problem that alternative spring break trips try to help solve? A. Alcoholism. B. Environmental damage. C. Poverty. D. Homelessness. Question 31: Which of the following gives the main idea of the third paragraph? A. One group of JMU students worked on homes damaged by a hurricane. B. Some students work to help the environment on alternative spring break trips. C. Children living in homeless shelters enjoy creative activities. D. University students do many different types of work on alternative spring break trips. Question 32: The article implies that university students______. A. many take fewer alternative spring break trips in future. HOC24.VN 6 B. would prefer to wait until they have their degrees to start helping people. C. complain about accommodations on alternative spring break trips. D. spend more than $250 for traditional spring break trips. Question 33: The word “them” in paragraph 4 refers to______. A. degrees B. projects C. people D. students Question 34: Which of the following is mentioned as a reason for participating in alternative spring break trips? A. The hope of earning money. B. A personal opinion that people must help other people. C. A desire to travel to glamorous places. D. A wish to get away from family and friends. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 35: Yes, we went away on holiday last week, but it rained day in day out. A. every single day. B. every other day. C. every two days. D. every second day. Question 36: The government has passed laws to protect wildlife from commercial trade. A. enforced B. enabled C. ensured D. enacted Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions. Question 37: School uniform is compulsory in most of Vietnamese schools. A. depended B. optional C. obligatory D. required Question 38: Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity. A. cover B. conserve C. presume D. reveal Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question. Question 39: County legislators called for an update of the safety______for the Darcy Power Plant. A. regulate B. regulative C. regulatory D. regulation Question 40: She has two brothers, ______ are engineer. A. whom both B. both who C. both of whom D. both whom Question 41: It was so foggy that the driver couldn’t ______ the traffic signs. A. break out B. make out C. keep out D. take out HOC24.VN 7 Question 42: In most ______ developed countries, up to 50% of ______ population enters higher education at some time in their life. A. the- a B. the-0 C. 0- the D. 0-0 Question 43: ______ her inexperience, her failure to secure the contract was not surprising. A. By virtue of B. With regard to C. In view of D. In recognition of Question 44: George wouldn’t have met Mary______ to his brother’s graduation party. A. if he has not gone B. had not he gone C. had he not gone D. if he shouldn’t have gone Question 45: It was found that he lacked the ____ to pursue a difficult task to the very end. A. obligation B. engagement C. commitment D. persuasion Question 46: ______, I decided to stop trading with them. A. Despite of the fact that they were the biggest dealer B. Though being the biggest dealer C. Being the biggest dealer D. Even though they were the biggest dealer Question 47: Mr Pike______ English at our school for 20 years before he retired last year. A. was teaching B. has been teaching C. is teaching D. had been teaching Question 48: She has just bought______. A. an interesting French old painting. B. an old interesting French painting. C. a French interesting old painting. D. an interesting old French painting. Question 49: -“Jenny’s always wanted to get to the top of her career, ______?” -“Yes, she’s an ambitious girl.” A. isn’t she B. hasn’t her C. has she D. hasn’t she Question 50: Not only ______ the exam but she also got a scholarship. A. she passes B. has she passed C. she has passed D. did she pass