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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO
VĨNH PHÚC
KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH
LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2012-2013
ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC
Môn: TIẾNG ANH – THPT Chuyên.
Thời gian: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề.
Ngày thi: 02/11/2012.
Đề thi gồm 06 trang.

PART A. LISTENING
YOU WILL HEAR THE RECORDING TWICE

I. Questions 1-10
You will hear a talk given by a woman who is a successful climber. For questions 1-10, complete the
sentences.

MOUNTAIN CLIMBER
On her expedition, she became aware of the feelings of (1) ____________ and _____________
connected with mountaineering.
She had previously taken part in several so-called (2) ____________.
She found the mental (3) ____________ for climbing Everest particularly hard.
She was particularly worried about the (4) ____________she would have to climb through.
She says that you cannot take any of the (5) ____________ of life with you on Everest.
On her first trip there, she regretted taking (6) ____________ with her.
When she climbed Everest, she left her (7) ____________ after a certain point.
She says you mustn’t waste (8) ____________ or fuel when you’re on the mountain.
When they reached the top, they had a sensation of shared (9) ____________.
Her book about climbing Everest is called (10) ____________.

PART B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 points)
I.
Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions.
1. I don’t care what you do about job. It’s no ______ of mine.
A. importance B. feeling C. matter D. concern
2. Sometimes two cultural values seem to ______ each other.
A. conflict B. contradict C. reflect D. disapprove
3. You can leave the money with him; he’s totally ______.
A. trusting B. trusty C. trustful D. trustworthy
4. ______ you cut down your sugar intake, you’d have lost weight by now.
A. Did B. Were C. If D. Had
5. Giving up smoking is just one of the ways to ______ heart disease.
A. push off B. put off C. ward off D. throw off
6. They were surprised to come ______ such a large sum.
A. into B. up to C. over D. up with
7. A walnut tree ______ us from the sun on hot days.
A. fences B. warns C. shelters D. prevents
8. This machine will have been ______ by the end of the decade.
A. broken down B. phased out C. set out D. made off with
9. I didn’t see anyone but I felt as though I ______.
A. have been watched B. was being watched
C. being watched D. am watched
10. The ______ to success is to be ready from the start.
A. key B. response C. agreement D. demand

not be there, write the word. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

Telent scouts are looking for the next generation of supermodels have realised Africa’s potential.
Lyndsey Mclntyre, a former model herself, recently opened one agency’s first African office.
“African women are being graceful and serene” she says. “These qualities could make them do
very well in this business.” However, sporting supermodels is rarely easy, as well Mclntyre
discovered when she visited the Orma tribe of remote north-eastern Kenya, whose the women are
reported to be especially striking. “The tribal leaders were a bit suspicious and I wasn’t allowed to
be meet many of their girls,” she explains. Another problem is that reports aren’t always reliable.
Mclntyre discovered this when one of village’s “most beautiful girl” turned out to be its heaviest
one. She had to explain that Western advertisers prefer far slimmer women. The Orma are not
alone in believing fat it is beautiful. In a recent Africa-wide beauty contest, all the Ugadan
contestants were disqualified for being a little too large around the hips. “I don’t understand why
the fashion industry’s obsession with small hips,” said one judge for the contest. “But because we
want the girls to succeed and to see African models working internationally, we give the industry
what it wants.
0..are…
00..√…
1…….
2…….
3…….
4…….
5…….
6…….
7…….
8…….
9 ……
10…...

III. Supply the correct form of the word in capital letter.

PART C: READING.

I. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space.

Trees for life

Trees are amongst the biggest and longest-living things on Earth, some dating back longer than
the oldest buildings. But as well as being nice to look at, trees also (1)______ an important role in
improving the quality of our lives.
On a world-wide scale, forests help to slow down the (2)______ of global warming by using up
the gas known as carbon dioxide and giving (3)_______ the oxygen we need to breathe. At local
neighborhood level, trees also (4)_____ important environmental benefits. They offer shade and
shelter, which in turn reduces the (5)______ of energy needed to heat and cool nearby buildings, at the
same time, they also remove other impurities from the air we breathe.
Urban trees are especially important because for many people they provide the only daily
contact with the natural world. What’s (6)_____, urban trees also provide a home for birds, small
animals and butterflies. (7)_______ the trees, we would lose the pleasure of seeing these creatures in
our cities. Regrettably, (8)_____, trees in cities are now coming under (9)______. There is a limit to
the level of pollution they can put up with and down at the street level, their roots are (10)_______
seriously disturbed by the digging needed to make way for modern telephone, television and other
cables.
II. Choose A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage.
AS OLD AS YOU FEEL
It might after all be true that you are only as old as you feel. A British clinic is carrying out new
high-tech tests to calculate the “real” biological age of patients (1) ______ on the rate of physical
deterioration.
Information on every (2)______ of a patient’s health, fitness, lifestyle and family medical
history is (3)______ into a computer to work out whether they are older or younger than their calendar
age suggests.


The first two decades of this century were dominated by the microbe hunters. These hunters
had tracked down one after another of the microbe responsible for the most dreaded scourges of many
centuries: tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria. But there remained some terrible diseases for which no
microbe could be incriminated: scurvy, pellagra, rickets, and beriberi. Then it was discovered that
these diseases were caused by the lack of vitamins, a trace substance in the diet. The diseases could be
prevented or cured by consuming foods that contained the vitamins. And so in the decades of the
1920’s and 1930’s, nutrition became a science and the vitamin hunters replaced the microbe hunters.
In the 1940’s and 1950’s, biochemists strived to learn why each of the vitamins was essential
for health. They discovered that key enzymes in metabolism depend on one or another of the vitamins
as coenzymes to perform the chemistry that provides cells with energy for growth and function. Now,
these enzyme hunters occupied center stage.
You are aware that the enzyme hunters have been replaced by a new breed of hunters who are
tracking genes – the blueprints for each of the enzymes – and are discovering the defective genes that
cause inherited diseases – diabetes, cystic fibrosis. These gene hunters, or genetic engineers, use
recombinant DNA technology to identify and clone genes and introduce them into bacterial cells and
plants to create factories for the massive production of hormones and vaccines for medicine and for
better crops for agriculture. Biotechnology has become a multibillion-dollar industry.
In view of the inexorable progress in science, we can expect that the gene hunters will be
replaced in the spotlight. When and by whom? Which kind of hunter will dominate the scene in the
last decade of our waning century and in the early decades of the next? I wonder whether the hunters
who will occupy the spotlight will be neurobiologists who apply the techniques of the enzyme and
gene hunters to the functions of the brain. What to call them? The head hunters. I will return to them
later.

1. What is the main topic of the passage?
A. The microbe hunters B. The potential of genetic engineering
C. The progress of modern medical research D. The discovery of enzymes
2. The word “which” in bold refers to ______.
A. diseases B. microbe C. cholera D. diphtheria