Đề thi HSG môn tiếng Anh lớp 12 năm 2019 - tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc

 

• Câu 1: Mã câu hỏi: 111665

  A. LISTENING

  I. Listen to the recording and complete the note with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
  FOUR BUSINESS VALUES

  Many business values can result in (1)_____________________ Senior managers need to understand and deal with the potential (2)_________ that may result. Collaboration During a training course, the speaker was in a team that had to build a (3)____________ Other teams experienced (4)___________ from trying to collaborate. The speaker's team won because they, reduced collaboration. Sales of a (5)______________  were poor because of collaboration. Industriousness Hard work may be a bad use of various company (6)______________ The word 'lazy' in this context refers to people who avoid doing tasks that are (7)____________ Creativity An advertising campaign for a (8)____________   was memorable but failed to boost sales. Creativity should be used as a response to a particular (9) ____________ Excellence According to one study, on average, pioneers had a (10) ____________   that was far higher than that of followers. Companies that always aim at excellence may miss opportunities.

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 111694

  II. You will hear two people speaking about their fondness for trains. For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.  

   What point does Philip make about the people who are involved in the locomotive side of trains?

  • A. Some avoid doing it because it is too dirty
  • B. Some worry about the dangers involved.
  • C. Some find it to be an instinctive activity.
  • D.  Some only do it for the financial rewards it brings.

 

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 111699

  When Mike discusses why he enjoys the world of trains, what contrast does he identify between the different groups of people he interacts with?

  • A. A difference in social status.
  • B. A difference in ages.
  • C. A difference in technical ability.
  • D. Some only do it for the financial rewards it brings.

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 111723

  What view is stated by Mike about how the railway has helped him in his role as a parent?

  • A. It has helped him develop a closer relationship with his daughter.
  • B. It has taught him patience.
  • C. It has helped him focus on his daughters career possibilities.
  • D. It has given him stability in his life.

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 111727

  When discussing different aspects of the railway, both speakers agree that ___________.

  • A. Age does not need to be a handicap.
  • B. Both men and women are equally welcome.
  • C. It can be quite demanding.
  • D. Cleanliness is not the first adjective that springs to mind.

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 111730

  What final conclusion do both speakers reach about volunteering on the railway?

  • A. The time they have spent has been difficult but worth it.
  • B. They have both learnt a lot.
  • C.  They are better people for having been involved with it.
  • D. It has helped them grow while at the same time giving them a direction for the future.

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 111748

  B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

  I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

  If the work-force respected you, you wouldn't need to _________ your authority so often.

  • A. assert
  • B. affirm
  • C. maintain
  • D. inflict

• Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 111750

  The factory is working below _________ because of the shortage of essential materials.

  • A.  range
  • B. scope
  • C. capacity
  • D. denstiy

• Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 111758

  His new designs are ______ the trend in women’s fashion right now.

  • A. aiming
  • B. setting
  • C. building
  • D. following

• Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 111762

  She wants to give full ______ to her anger about discrimination.

  • A. manifestation
  • B. vent
  • C. wear
  • D. barometer

• Câu 11: Mã câu hỏi: 111764

  Without telling her directly, they ______ that she’d got the job.

   

  • A. prophesied
  • B. inferred
  • C. insinuated
  • D. intimated

• Câu 12: Mã câu hỏi: 111765

  Athletes need to have a higher _________ of protein and vitamins in order to stay heathy

  • A. intake
  • B. increase
  • C. infection
  • D.  production

• Câu 13: Mã câu hỏi: 111766

  He claimed _____ from military service because he was a foreign national

  • A. liability
  • B. exception
  • C. demobilization
  • D. exemption

• Câu 14: Mã câu hỏi: 111767

  It’s Prime Minister’s right to ______ an election at any time he likes

  • A. summon
  • B. nominate
  • C. call
  • D. submit

• Câu 15: Mã câu hỏi: 111768

  The footballer never really recovered from the injury ______ at the beginning of the season.

  • A. got
  • B. struck
  • C. endured
  • D. sustained

• Câu 16: Mã câu hỏi: 111769

  The drought ________ considerable problems for farmers.

  • A. instigated
  • B. posed
  • C. flexed
  • D. pressed

• Câu 17: Mã câu hỏi: 111770

  At the start of the course, everyone is assigned a(n) ________ of studies.

  • A. advisor
  • B. consultant 
  • C. counsellor
  • D. guide

• Câu 18: Mã câu hỏi: 111771

  Jerry has been burning the midnight ________ over the last few days; his final exam is soon.

  • A. lamp
  • B. light
  • C. candle
  • D. oil

• Câu 19: Mã câu hỏi: 111772

  In my first year at university I lived in the halls of ________ .

  • A. abode
  • B. residence
  • C. dwelling
  • D. accommodation

• Câu 20: Mã câu hỏi: 111773

  Books taken from the short ________ section are due to be returned the next day.

  • A. borrowing
  • B. credit
  • C. loan
  • D. credit

• Câu 21: Mã câu hỏi: 111774

  You are bound to find information on the stock market crash of 1987 in the newspaper ________ .

  • A. files
  • B. archives
  • C. records
  • D. collections

• Câu 22: Mã câu hỏi: 111775

  The accused confidently ________ that he was innocent.

  • A. preserved
  • B. maintained
  • C. maintained
  • D. defended

• Câu 23: Mã câu hỏi: 111776

  We did our best to fix the broken computer but our efforts bore no ________.

  • A. success
  • B. fruit
  • C. luck
  • D. end

• Câu 24: Mã câu hỏi: 111777

  I knew my mother would ________ a face the minute she saw my new haircut.

   

  • A. drag
  • B. lift
  • C. pull
  • D. raise

• Câu 25: Mã câu hỏi: 111778

  19. There are a lot of computer programmes nowadays, but really good ones are few and far ________.

   

  • A. between
  • B. apart
  • C. away
  • D. between

• Câu 26: Mã câu hỏi: 111779

  He is such a kind and caring young boy - he wouldn’t hurt a ________ .

  • A. bird
  • B. worm
  • C. fly
  • D.  bug

• Câu 27: Mã câu hỏi: 111780

  II. Supply the correct form of the word in bracket to complete the passage.

  The signal broke a seven-hour wait of (1. AGONY) intensity and sparked scenes of (2. JUBILEE) at the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt. The team in charge of the Rosetta mission achieved what at times seemed an impossible task by landing a (3. ROBOT) (4. CRAFT) on a comet for the first time in history. The moment the tension broke came shortly after 1600 GMT when the Philae called home. “We are there. We are sitting on the surface. Philae is talking to us,” said a (5. JUBILEE) Stephan Ulamec, Philae lander manager at the DLR German space centre. “We are on the comet.” Andrea Accomazzo, the Rosetta flight operations director, added: “We cannot be happier than we are now.”

  But celebrations were tempered by the later discovery that the probe’s two harpoons had not fired to fasten the craft down in the (6. LOW) gravity. Scientists now think the probe may have bounced after first coming into contact with the surface. Ulamec said: “Maybe today we didn’t just land once, we landed twice.” The safe, if (7. CARE), (8. TOUCH) of the lander gives scientists a unique chance to ride (9. BOARD) a comet and study from the surface what happens as its activity ramps up as it gets closer to the sun. The first images beamed back from the lander’s descent revealed a dramatic (10. SCAPE) of pits and precipices, craters and boulders. However, there have been gaps in its radio link with the orbiting Rosetta mothership.

• Câu 28: Mã câu hỏi: 111781

  III. There are 10 mistakes in the passage. Find and correct them.

  There are numerous reason behind the choice of clothing we make, ranging from the practice to the bizarre, but in every likelihood humans began wearing clothes in order to shield themselves of the elements.

  ‘The Iceman’, found mummifying in the ice of a glacier on the Italian-Austrian border in 1991, was still clad with remarkably well-preserved garments which would obviously have protected him from the rain and cold five thousand years ago.

  The clothing worn by people living in warmer climates further illustrates this basic function of clothing. In hot, dry desert regions, people tend to wear cool, flowing materials which cover much of body, including the head. This helps keep them cool during the heat of the day and helps to keep the wearer warm at night when temperatures increase dramatically. On the other hand, many peoples living in tropical regions, with their constant high temperatures and humidity, are sparse clothed.

  Not all clothing is functional, moreover, and at different times throughout history people, especially women, have worn clothes which are impractical – restricting the wearer’s movements and in some cases cause physical discomfort. Examples of such restrictive clothing can be seen in the hooped and corseted gowns worn by wealthy women in the 18th century, and in the opulent, heavy robes traditionally worn by royalties. Such customs send a clear message that the wearer does not need to work but occupies a position in society that others can be commanded to work for them.

  Example: 0. reason à reasons

• Câu 29: Mã câu hỏi: 111788

  IV. Fill in the blank with ONE suitable preposition.

   

  1. The school examination for eleven-year-olds was done_________ with some years ago.
  2. Tuck your shirt   ________your trousers.
  3. At first Tim insisted he was right, but then began to back ________
  4. He is a solicitor________ profession.
  5. A huge crowd turned _________ in the pouring rain to cheer the president.

• Câu 30: Mã câu hỏi: 111801

  OFFICE STRESS

  Stressful atmospheres, (1) _______ of deadlines and long hours dominate office life, according to a survey (2) _______ recently.

  The majority of those questioned said a good salary and career (3) _______ were their main reason for working. But (4) _______ numbers did not believe their employers offered either. In general the survey found that most felt that (5) _______ of life was more important than (6) _______and company perks. Most would prefer employers to offer (7) _______ hours, challenging tasks and job (8) _______ rather than perks such as company cars and private health care. Many employers’ (9) _______ to understand this meant more than a third worried about their work on holiday, and 40 per cent took days off (10) _______when not ill.

  Workers were also (11) _______ by the conditions they had to work in. A fifth struggled with (12) _______ technology, badly lit offices and chairs which caused backache. Half said their (13) _______ would increase if their environment improved.

  On the plus side, the biggest (14) _______ was the friendship offered by colleagues, and it appears that the office also affords the chance to flirt with colleagues, make (15) _______ calls to friends abroad, steal stationery and play computer games.

  • A. weight
  • B. force
  • C. heaviness
  • D. pressure

• Câu 31: Mã câu hỏi: 111809

  • A. published
  • B. printed
  • C. publicised
  • D. proclaimed

• Câu 32: Mã câu hỏi: 111810

  • A. outlooks
  • B. odds
  • C. prospects
  • D. views

• Câu 33: Mã câu hỏi: 111811

  • A. important
  • B. impressive
  • C. heavy
  • D. significant

• Câu 34: Mã câu hỏi: 111812

  • A. quality
  • B. calibre
  • C. excellence
  • D. worth

• Câu 35: Mã câu hỏi: 111813

  • A. rank
  • B. status
  • C. degree
  • D. grade

• Câu 36: Mã câu hỏi: 111814

  • A. pliable
  • B. elastic
  • C. amenable
  • D. flexible

• Câu 37: Mã câu hỏi: 111815

  • A.  safety
  • B. security
  • C. sanctuary
  • D. protection

• Câu 38: Mã câu hỏi: 111816

  • A. failure
  • B. defeat
  • C. deficiency
  • D. lack

• Câu 39: Mã câu hỏi: 111817

  • A. indisposed
  • B. unwell
  • C. injured
  • D. sick

• Câu 40: Mã câu hỏi: 111818

  • A. pestered
  • B. inflamed
  • C. irritated
  • D. ruffled

• Câu 41: Mã câu hỏi: 111820

  • A. behind the times
  • B. expired
  • C. out of date
  • D. invalid

• Câu 42: Mã câu hỏi: 111821

  • A. fertility
  • B. capacity
  • C. value
  • D. productivity

• Câu 43: Mã câu hỏi: 111822

  • A. compensation
  • B. damages
  • C. reimbursement
  • D. atonement

• Câu 44: Mã câu hỏi: 111823

  • A. idiosyncratic
  • B. uniqueindividual
  • C. personal
  • D. individual

• Câu 45: Mã câu hỏi: 111824

  II. Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

  THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS

  Anybody who says they can reliably forecast the future of newspapers is either a liar or a fool. Look at the raw figures, and newspapers seem doomed. Since 2000, the circulation of most UK national dailies has fallen by between a third and a half. The authoritative  Pew Research Center in the USA reports that newspapers are now the main source of news for only 26 percent of US citizens as against 45 percent in 2001. There is no shoratge of prophets who confidently predict that the last printed newspaper will be safely buried within 15 years at most.

  Yet one of the few reliable facts of history is that old media have a habit of surviving. An over-exuberant New York journalist announced in 1935 that books and theatre ‘have had their day’ and the daily newspaper would become ‘the greatest organ of social life’. Theatre dully withstood not only the newspaper, but also cinema and then television. Radio has flourished in the TV age; cinema, in turn, has held its own against videos and DVDs. Even vinyl records have made a comeback, with online sales up 745 percent since 2008.

  Newspapers themselves were once new media, although it took several centuries before they became the dominant medium for news. This was not solely because producing up-to-date news  for a large readership over a wide area became praticable and economic only in the mid-19th century, with the steam press, the railway and the telegraph. Equally important was the emergence of the idea that everything around us is in constant movement and we need to be updated on its condition at regular intervals- a concept quite alien in the medieval times and probably also to most people in the early modern area. Now, we expect change. To our medieval ancestors, however, the only realities were the passing of the seasons, punctuated by catastrophes such as famine, flood or disease that they had no reliable means of anticipating. Life, as the writer Alain de Botton puts it, was ‘ineluctably cyclical’ and ‘the most important truths were recurring’.

  Journalism as a full-time trade from which you could hope to make a living hardly existed before the 19th century. Even then, there was no obvious reason why most people needed news on a regular basis, whether daily or weekly. In some respects, regularity of newspaper publication and rigidity of format was, and remains, a burden. Online news readers can dip in and out according to how they perceive the urgency of events. Increasingly sophisticated search engines and  algorithms allow us to personalise the news to our own priorities and interests. When important stories break, internet news providers can post minute-by-minute updates. Error, misconception and foolish speculation can be connected or modified almost constantly. There are no space restrictions to prevent narrative or analysis, and documents or events cited in news stories can often be accessed in full. All this is a world away from the straitjacket of newspaper publication. Yet few if any providers seem alive to the new medium’s capacity for spreading understanding and enlightenment.

  Instead, the anxiety is always to be first with the news, to maximise reader comments, to create heat and sound and fury and thus add to the sense of confusion. In the medieval world what news there was was usually exchanged amid the babble of the market place or the tarven, where truth competed with rumour, mishearing and misunderstanding. In some respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning. Newspapers have never been very good- or not as good as they ought to be- at telling us how the world works. Perhaps they now face extinction. Or perhaps , as the internet merely adds to what de Botton discribes as our sense that we live in ‘ an improvable and fundamentally chaotic universe’, they will discover that they and they alone can guide us to wisdom and understanding.

  In the first paragragh, the writer is presenting __________.

  • A. his interpretation of a current trend.
  • B. evidence that supports a widespread view.
  • C. his prediction on the future of print journalism.
  • D. reasons for the decline in newspaper readership.

• Câu 46: Mã câu hỏi: 111825

  What point is the writer making in the second paragraph?

   

  • A.  Existing media are not necessarily replaced by new ones.
  • B. The best media technologies tend to be the most long-lasting.
  • C. Public enthusiasm for new types of media is often unpredictable.
  • D. It is inevitable that most media technologies will have a limited life.

• Câu 47: Mã câu hỏi: 111826

  Which phrase in the second paragraph has the same meaning as ‘held its own against’?

  • A. ‘had their day’
  • B. ‘withstood’
  • C.  ‘flourished’
  • D. ‘made a comeback’

• Câu 48: Mã câu hỏi: 111827

  In the third paragraph, the writer stresses the importance of __________.

  • A. a shift in people’s attitudes towards the outside world.
  • B. certain key19th- century advances in mechanisation.
  • C. the challenges of news distribution in the pre-industrial era.
  • D. the competition between newspapers and more established media.

• Câu 49: Mã câu hỏi: 111828

  5. What does the writer suggest is the main advantage of online news sites?

   

  • A. the flexibility of the medium
  • B. the accuracy of the reporting
  • C.  the ease of access for their users
  • D. the breadth of their potential readership

• Câu 50: Mã câu hỏi: 111829

  III. Read the passage and think of ONE word that best fits in the numbered blank.

  A BELATED CONFESSION

  “I have been having a crush on you for the past 4 years, I never had the (1)______ to tell you, but I can’t be so cowardly anymore.” said Peter as he caught Helen hand in the crowd watching fireworks.

  Helen was taken (2)_______ by Peter’s words, both because he appeared out of nowhere and also never had she expected a boy, so silent and seemed uninterested in class’ business, would like her.

  “Peter? Why are you here? I thought you said you wouldn’t come.”

  “-Listen, we don’t have much time (3)_________, I’m moving to another country, this will be the last (4)________ we can be together until a few more years”

  “Why didn’t you tell-“

  “-I realized that I had made a mistake, a huge one. I had always been such an (5)________, never made an effort to make friends, but you always tried to (6)________ me, you truly changed me, and so I don’t want to lose you.”

  No (7)________ words were said, they slowly turned to the sky. Little does Peter know, Helen had also had something for him, but she had been afraid that her friends would’ve teased her. Ever since her boyfriend (8)________ her and her friends turned their back on her, Peter has always been there for her, he never talked much, mostly listen, but that’s enough for her.

  At that (9)_______ moment, she knew she didn’t want to let him go, but then it was too late. He’d always been stoic, never wanted others to worry about him, so he decided to keep it a secret before he leaves. That night, there wasn’t (10)________ his first kiss but also her first time feeling truly cared about and loved.

• Câu 51: Mã câu hỏi: 111838

  IV. In the following text, five paragraphs have been removed. Above the extract you will find the five removed paragraph PLUS one paragraph which doesn't fit. Choose from the paragraphs (A-F) the one which fits each gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence you do not need to use.

  THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

  The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the massive social, economic, and technological change in 18th century and 19th century Great Britain. It commenced with the introduction of steam power (fuelled primarily by coal) and powered, automated machinery (primarily in textile manufacturing).

  The technological and economic progress of the Industrial Revolution gained momentum with the introduction of steam-powered ships, boats and railways. In the 19th Century it spread throughout Western Europe and North America, eventually impacting the rest of the world.

  CAUSES

  The causes of the Industrial Revolution were complex and remain a topic for debate, with some historians seeing the Revolution as an outgrowth of social and institutional changes wrought by the final end of feudalism in Great Britain following the English Civil War in the 17th century.

  The Enclosure movement and the British Agricultural Revolution made food production more efficient and less labor-intensive, forcing the surplus population who could no longer find employment in agriculture into the cities to seek work in the newly developed factories.

  The colonial expansion of the 17th century with the accompanying development of international trade, creation of financial markets and accumulation of capital is also cited as a set of factors, as is the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

  The importance of a large domestic market should also be considered an important cause catalyst of the Industrial Revolution, particularly explaining why it occurred in Britain. In other nations (e.g. France), markets were split up by local regions often imposing tolls and tariffs on goods traded among them. The restructuring of the American domestic market would trigger the second Industrial Revolution over 100 years later.

  EFFECTS

  The application of steam power to the industrial processes of printing supported a massive expansion of newspaper and popular book publishing, which reinforced rising literacy and demands for mass political participation. Universal white male suffrage was adopted in the United States, resulting in the election of the popular General Andrew Jackson in 1828 and the creation of political parties organized for mass participation in elections.

  1. ________________

  In France, the July Revolution widened the franchise and established a constitutional monarchy. Belgium established its independence from the Netherlands, as a constitutional monarchy, in 1830. Struggles for liberal reforms in Switzerland's various cantons in the 1830s had mixed results. A further series of attempts at political reform or revolution would sweep Europe in 1848, with mixed results, and initiated massive migration to North America, as well as parts of South America, South Africa, and Australia.

  TEXTILE MANUFACTURE

  In the early 18th century, British textile manufacture was based on wool which was processed by individual artisans, doing the spinning and weaving on their own premises. This system is called a cottage industry. Flax and cotton were also used for fine materials, but the processing was difficult because of the pre-processing needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.

  Use of the spinning wheel and hand loom restricted the production capacity of the industry, but a number of incremental advances increased productivity to the extent that manufactured cotton goods became the dominant British export by the early decades of the 19th century. India was displaced as the premier supplier of cotton goods.

  Step by step, individual inventors increased the efficiency of the individual steps of spinning (carding, twisting and spinning, and subs

• Câu 52: Mã câu hỏi: 111839

  PART D. WRITING
  ​I. Complete the sentences without changing the meaning of the given one.
   

  I was not surprised to hear that Harry had failed his driving test.
  ► It came _______________________________________.

   

• Câu 53: Mã câu hỏi: 111840

  She wore a hearing-aid, even though she could hear the phone ring perfectly well.
  ► She wasn’t so _______________________________________.

• Câu 54: Mã câu hỏi: 111848

  5. This affair does not concern you.
  ► This affair is no _______________________________________.

   

• Câu 55: Mã câu hỏi: 111860

  2. Gerald never had enough to live on until he married that rich businesswoman. (SHORT)
  ► Gerald _______________________________________.

• Câu 56: Mã câu hỏi: 111861

  His reactions are quite unpredictable. (KNOWS)
  ► One _______________________________________.

• Câu 57: Mã câu hỏi: 111862

  There are several categories of people who do not have to pay the new tax. (EXEMPT)
  ► There are _______________________________________.

• Câu 58: Mã câu hỏi: 111868

  Ours is the only company allowed to import these chemicals. (MONOPOLY)
  ► Our _______________________________________.

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