Bồi dưỡng học sinh giỏi 12 năm học 2012 - 2013 test 1

ot go according / plan / I have / stay several more days.
I meet Mr. Martinez / Tuesday 5th July / visit his factory / inspect / new products.
However, we not yet reach agreement / prices / delivery dates.
The contract not sign yet / I must stay until it be.
Despite / difficulties I enjoy visit / Prado Museum/ eat / excellent restaurants here.
I phone you/ I be back / London .
 Yours 
 Bob 	
Dear Bill, 
I am writing to cancel our meeting at the tennis club on Wednesday 13th.
As you can see from this notepaper I am still in Madrid.
I arrived on Monday 4th and expected to return to London on Thursday 7th July.
Things haven’t gone according to plan I have to stay several more days.
I met Mr. Martinez on Tuesday 5th July and visited his factory in order to inspect his new products.
However, we have not yet reached an agreement on the prices and the delivery dates.
The contract hasn’t been signed yet and so I must stay until it is.
Despite all the difficulties I have enjoyed visiting the Padro Museum and eating in the excellent restaurants here.
I’ll phone you when I am back in London .
Yours 
 	Bob
The end
Tháng 6/2012
GV Hải Bình
BỒI DƯỠNG HSG 12 NĂM HỌC 2012 - 2013
Test 6
_____________________________________________________________________A. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: 
I: Choose the word or phrase which best completes these sentences. 
1. The boy was ................. with a family in the countryside.
A. reared 	B. bred 	C. brought up 	D. grown up
2. Jane came ................ a beautiful picture when she was tidying the room.
A. across 	B. round 	C. into 	D. past
3. Until she was arrested last week, the young woman thought she had .......... the perfect crime.
A. committed 	B. escaped 	C. got away 	D. charged
4. ............... it not been for the intolerable in'tɔlərəbl] adj không thể chịu đựng nổi, quá quắtheat in the hall, they would have stayed much longer.
A. If 	B. But 	C. Should 	D. Had
5. The ball ................. two or three times before rolling down the road.
A. sprang 	B. bounced nội động từnảy lên	C. leap 	D. hopped
6. The ................. of the pagoda in the water was very clear and beautiful.
A. sight 	B. shadow 	C. reflection 	D. mirror
7. When I came, the salesperson was ................. to the customers how to use a new kind of washing machines.
A. demonstrating 	B. proving 	C. exposing vạch trần, bộc lộ D. teaching
8. Do you think Ms. Brown will ................. for Parliament in the next election?
A. sit 	B. run 	C. walk 	D. stand
9. 	A human being is ................. of many often conflicting desires.
A. made 	B. made up 	C. consisted 	D. created
10. The train accident................. the other trains' departure by a few hours.
A. sent back 	B. called off 	C. delayed làm trở ngại, cản trở D. retained
11. The planet Mercury ............ rotations during every two trips around the Sun.
A. three complete 	B. completes three
C. the completion of three 	D. completing three of the
12. Mountaineers ............ climb Mount Everest must make reservations to do so often up to seven years in advance.
A. want to 	B. they want to 	C. who want 	D. wanting to
13. In economics, "diminishing returns" describes ............ resource inputs and production.
A. among 	B. when it is
C. among them 	D. the relationship between
14. Rarely ............ remove the entire root of a dandelion cây bồ công anh because of its length and sturdiness. sự cứng cáp
A. can the casual thiếu trách nhiệm gardener 	B. the casual gardener
C. the casual gardener will 	D. does the casual gardener's
15. Professional people expect ............ when it is necessary to cancel an appointment.
A. you to call them 	B. that you would call them
C. your calling them 	D. that you are calling them
16. Frost occurs in valleys and on low grounds ......... on adjacent hills.
A. more frequently as 	B. as frequently than
C. more frequently than 	D. much frequently than
17. In a new culture, many embarrassing situations occur ............ a misunderstanding.
A. for 	B. of 	C. because of 	D. because
18. ............ unknown quantities is the task of algebra.
A. To found 	B. Find 	C. The find 	D. Finding
19. Both liquids and gases flow freely from a container because they have ............ .
A. not definite shape 	B. none definite shape
C. nothing definite shape 	D. no definite shape
20. Research in the work place reveals that people work for many reasons ............ .
A. money beside 	B. money besides 	C. beside money 	D. besides money
II. There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Underline the wrong word and write the right one (0) has been done as an example. (1m)
The sun was shining quite brightly as Mrs. Grant leaves her house, and she saw no necessity to take an umbrella with her. She got on the bus to take herself into the town and before long it came on to rain. It had not stopped when the bus reached at the market-place half an hour later. Mrs. Grant stood up and absent-minded picked up the umbrella that was hanging on the seat in front of her. A cold voice said loudly: “That is mine, Madam!”
Suddenly remembered that she had come out without her umbrella, Mrs. Grant blushed with embarrassment and apologized, trying at the same time to ignore a unpleasant look the owner of the umbrella was giving her. When she got off the bus, Mrs. Grant made a straight for a shop which she could buy an umbrella. She found a very pretty one and, because it was so pretty, decided to buy other as a present for her daughter. She did the rest of her shopping and had lunch in a café .
In the afternoon she got on the homeward bus with the two umbrellas under her arm, and sat down. Then she saw that, with a curious coincidence, she was sitting next to the woman who had made her feeling so uncomfortable that morning.
This woman now looked at her, then at the umbrellas, and said: “ You have had quite a good day, I see”.
...0..........left......................................................................................................................1. herself -> her	2.necessity.-> need 	3. reached->	arrived	
4. absent - minded ->absent- mindedly	5. remembered-> remembering	6. a->the
7. which->where	8. other -> another	9. with-> by	10.feelings - > feel 	
II: Change the words in capitals to fit the sentence. (0) has been done as an example->professional
	a) Usually, (0. PROFESSION) translators work from a foreign language into their mother tongue to reduce (31. ACCURATE) - inaccurate translation and for better style. Much translation is of scientific or (32. COMMERCE) commercial material and this kind of work often requires an (33. UNDERSTAND)understanding of technical	vocabulary 	and(34.SPECIAL ) specialized language. Not all 	(35. TRANSLATE) translators are in full-time employment but those who usually work for large industrial concerns or for public (36. ORGANISE) organizations. The main personal characteristic needed to be a successful translator is a (37. WILLING)willingness to attend detail. In addition, it is (38. DESIRE)desirable for translators to know at least two foreign languages. The wider the (39. VARY)variety of languages they can offer, the greater the (40. LIKELY)likelihood of the work will be available.
b) The (41. PUBLISH) publication of the first atlas was in 1595. The man who produced this collection of maps was called Gerardus Mercator. Born in 1512, he spent his youth in Flanders where he became known as an (42. EXTREME) extremely talented map-maker of scientific instruments. In1544 he was briefly imprisoned for his (43. RELIGION) religious beliefs and fearing for his family’s safety he went to live in Rhineland, where he lived for the rest of his life. His atlas was so (44. SUCCEED) successful that it was translated into many European languages. However, his map of the world is not (45. ACCURACY)accurate because the earth is round. As maps are flat, it is virtually impossible to have correct scale, area and direction on one map.
IV: Supply the correct form of the verb in brackets. 	
I come from a very large family, and recently my parents decided that they (46.
spend) had sent……. long enough living in an overcrowded house in Birmingham. “We (47. move) are moving /are going to move to the country”, my father (48. announce) announced one evening. “ I have sold this house, and we (49. live) are living/are going to living on a farm”. So last week we (50. load) loaded all our possessions into hired vans, and for the last few days we (51. try) have tried/ have been trying to organise ourselves in our new home. Yesterday, for example, my three brothers and I started painting the downstairs rooms. Unfortunately, while I (52.mix) was mixing the paint, one of my sisters opened the door. Nobody had told her that we would be in the room, you see. So instead of painting the walls, we spent all morning cleaning the paint off the floor. But worse things (53. happen) have happened since then. This morning when I (54. wake up)woke up water (55. drip) chảy nhỏ giọtcwas dripping through the ceiling next to my bed.
V: Fill in the blank space with a right preposition or an adverb particle. Write your answers in the numbered box. (1.5ms)
A. People who are deprived thiếu (56) of sleep lose energy and become quick-tempered. After two days (57)without sleep, a person finds that lengthy concentration becomes difficult. He can force himself to perform tasks well for short periods, but he is easily distracted. He makes many mistakes,especially (58 ) at tasks, and his attention 	slips 
(59) at times Every‘sleepless’person experiences periods (60) in which he dozes off (61) for a few seconds or more. He completely falls asleep unless he is kept active continuously. 
 People who go (62) without sleep for more than three days have great difficulty thinking,
seeing, and hearing clearly. They have periods (63) of hal