Đề thi chính thức Anh Chuyên vào 10 Chuyên Sư Phạm năm 2024-2025

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.

Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress.

The old train chugged along the tracks, leaving behind a _____ of smoke as it travelled through the scenic countryside.

As we failed to reach a consensus on which is more suitable, there's no choice but _____ and come up with something new.

I'm sure he would have reported the problem _____ hackers had gotten into the main server.

It's difficult to emerge from this scandal _____.

I don't think the boss was in a good mood. He was quite _____ with me when I asked about the campaign.

If you want to make it in the field of technology, study hard and be ahead of the _____.

An earthquake hit the area last year, the consequences _____ catastrophic.

Each time I visited Aunt Ada, she _____ the most fascinating stories from her childhood.

You shouldn't have _____ her _____ like that. You really hurt her feelings.

We all decreed that _____.

Professor Jack: "Did you enjoy your holiday?"

Nancy: "It was _____ time to relax completely, Sir."

The country used to be an economic _____ with chronic unemployment and rampant crime.

Many social scientists believe that _____ from sounds such as grunts and barks made by early ancestors of human beings.

While the new restaurant was decent, it wasn't a patch _____ the old one that used to be at the same location, with its excellent cuisine and cozy atmosphere.

That new TV series had viewers _____ to their screens.

Often celebrated for their vivid portrayal of nature, _____.

The lyrics came to him in _____ during this and other catnaps.

It was the best holiday ever because for once everyone got along _____.

Mary: "Are you happy with your new haircut?"

Peter: "Yes, I am. Lots of people have _____ on it."

Given the state of the planet, it is clear that we have failed to _____ protecting the environment and satisfying our own needs.

The new prime minister _____his commitment to free health care for the elderly.

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).

A defense attorney's role is not only to obtain exculpation for his or her client, but also to reduce the risk of lengthy incarceration.

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The purpose of environmental water retention areas is to slow down the permeation of water into the soil in order to reduce harmful chemicals reaching the ground water and waterways.

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).

The use of colorful and complicated arrangements of perennial plants in borders, as opposed to beds, stems from the grand gardens of the Victorian and Edwardian times.

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).

Some marine animals are able to propel themselves by moving their tails and bodies from side to side.

Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.

HELPING THE WORLD TO GO GREEN

As the global demand for energy continues to rise, the need for cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels becomes greater. Here are four places that are pioneers in the quest for a greener future.

A. Greensburg, Kansas

Greensburg on the Kansas prairie, was transformed into America's greenest town after a massive tornado in 2007 left 95 per cent of the buildings in the town destroyed. About half the 1,400 townspeople left, but of those who remained, a group of residents decided to rebuild the town, making use of energy-saving technologies and renewable energy. A 12.5MW wind farm, which supplies 300 per cent of the town's electricity, was built a short distance from the town. The excess electricity is pumped into the Kansas grid. Greensburg was rebuilt from scratch and the most modern, energy-efficient building techniques were applied. As a result, the greatest concentration of gold and platinum eco-design rated buildings in the US are to be found there, including large government buildings which are rated platinum. This resulted in an annual saving for the town of more than $200,000 and a reduction in its energy needs.

B. Iceland

All of Iceland's electricity is generated from renewable sources; 75 per cent from hydroelectric dams and the rest from geothermal energy. Its unique position on one of the major fault lines of the earth, the mid- Atlantic ridge, means that it is perfectly placed to make use of this heat which comes from the earth. Iceland, once completely dependent on peat and expensive imported coal from Europe, has harnessed this heat to transform its power supply. When water is pumped down bore holes drilled 1-2 miles into the thin crust of the earth, it returns as high-pressure steam, which is used to turn turbines and so generate electricity. This heat is also used directly in the streets of the capital, Reykjavik. They are kept free from snow and ice in winter by a system of underground heated water pipes.

C. Copenhagen

Copenhagen, awarded the title of Europe's Green Capital 2014, is blazing a trail in reducing carbon emissions. It aims to become carbon neutral by 2025. To do this, it is expected to halve its emissions and produce more renewable energy than it consumes. Measures will include switching from coal to biomass in the capital's heat and power plants. The ultimate goal of the city is to be independent of fossil fuels by 2050. It is also believed that the city can reduce its energy consumption by focusing on improving building standards and energy efficiency. In addition, the capital's green mobility initiative plays a major part in its ambition to become carbon neutral. In 2015, a plan was announced to have half the city's street lamps replaced with LED bulbs. As well as saving energy, these lamps will help keep cyclists safe at night. The move is part of a huge investment in bicycle infrastructure to encourage even more bicycle use in one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities. The measure, along with the expansion of the public transport system, is part of the plan for 75 per cent of all journeys to be on foot, or by public transport or bicycle by 2025. These transport solutions contribute to a vision of a city based entirely on renewable energy, and one that could be widely copied.

D. Fukushima

After being devastated by the 2011 tsunami, which led to radiation leaks from the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the district of Fukushima aims to rebuild itself as a renewable energy beacon. Japan was seriously damaged by the nuclear disaster which resulted in nuclear reactors across the country being switched off. This led to a steep rise in carbon emissions as the country had to revert to fossil fuels. A commitment has been made by Fukushima's government to provide its two million residents with electricity from renewable sources by 2040. Community-scale solar and wind plants are planned. The goal is to have 143 floating wind turbines with a capacity of IGW installed by 2020.

According to the reading text, which place

will be an example that others can follow? 31.1

exploits its unusual geographical location for renewable energy sources? 31.2

used to buy fuel from other countries? 31.3

aims to cover its future needs using energy from the wind and sun? 31.4

uses clean energy sources to combat dangerous driving conditions? 31.5

has had its efforts to reduce emissions officially recognised? 31.6

had its energy source disrupted by a natural disaster? 31.7

creates much more energy than it needs? 31.8

has a strategy to reduce traffic emissions? 31.9

turned a natural disaster into an opportunity for green town planning? 31.10

Fill in each blank with ONE best word.

LEARNING DISABILITIES ARE UP

Are learning disabilities really 32.1 the rise or are we just more aware of them? Recent statistics indicate that up to 10% of school-age children, that's two or three individuals in every classroom, are thought to have 32.2 kind of learning disorder, the causes of 32.3 are both complex and multiple. More worrying still are recent findings by the Science journal which suggest that 32.4 up to 45% of children, more than one disorder is likely. An ADHD child (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) may also 32.5 from dyslexia (a reading and writing disability) or dyscalculia (a maths learning disability).

Many of the learning disabilities included in the research and findings are numbered amongst the autistic spectrum disorders, which would push figures to appear higher 32.6 in the past when diagnosis was less easily 32.7. Demographic analysis also indicates that many of the children under six who are diagnosed are from within the higher income bracket, suggesting that parents are likely to be more aware of potential problems and better 32.8 to address them.

Unfortunately, despite this worrying rise, the current school system is not equipped to deal 32.9 the greatly differing teaching methods required to address the variety of learning difficulties that the disorders entail. The devastating result of this is leaving many children totally 32.10 in the basic skills required to survive in the secondary school system. The prevalence of learning disabilities in the lower economic bracket is undisputed, yet sadly these children are more likely to have undiagnosed disabilities which will never be addressed.

Six paragraphs have been removed from the passage.

A. The men who started Kenya's wildlife sanctuaries were men of vision. They worked against heavy odds often with inadequate resources. What is now needed is a sense of vision in society as a whole - values which accept that man is a lesser part of a greater whole - an unfashionable idea in our rushing, modern world. We now need measures designed to preserve wildlife for centuries, conceived and administered at the international level.

B. Since life began the environment has been adjusting to change; today it is the speed of change which is new and potentially disastrous. A century ago man himself was part of the established order. The elephant hunters did not threaten the survival of the elephant any more than lions. The men of the Lingula tribe great elephant hunters who used strong bows - had a toughness and knowledge which gave them nobility, in strong contrast to the furtive moral squalor of the international racketeers involved in today's ivory trade.

C. There is something inexorable about a herd like this moving across country. No browsing, no pausing to pluck branches or bunches of grass, no moving this way and that. Instead a steady marching, the young ones trotting to keep up. Other animals do not deflect them; they stride majestically, as though conscious they are invulnerable, and all give way before them.

D. In Kenya's game country, man is not yet the dominant animal and hopefully he never will be. Here, one can come to grips with the fact that for around half a million centuries mammals have been the dominant form of life in Africa and that only in the last of these centuries has man become the dominant mammal. But things are changing. In 1905 an army captain marching from Kitale to Nandi Fort in western Kenya, counted 124 giraffes, 85 waterbucks, 4 rhinos, 62 zebras, 27 ostriches and 4 lions in around 10 miles.

E. The slender security of this privilege makes it doubly sad that many visitors bring their own pace with them when they visit Kenya's wildlife. Too much dashing from one Game Park to another does not allow the visitor to attune himself. The use of a vehicle is an advantage in that it can approach the animals without alarming them. However, if it imposes a 21st-century rhythm on your visit to an area which still has the slow pulse of pre-history, you have failed to make the best of your privilege.

F. As well as being the biggest and in some ways the most interesting of the animals, elephants are in a sense the most tragic. A century ago they were the masters of the land. They had the run of the continent and generally managed their own affairs. No other large animal has had so wide a range of habitat, from mountain forests through savannah and semi-desert to the coast.

G. Like me, many visitors and scientists find elephants the most interesting animals to observe. There is the constant feeling that the elephants, too, understand, make decisions, have feelings, have friends. Stories of elephants are legion. Modern hunters say elephants know the boundaries of the National Parks and will smartly step inside when hunters are around. If only the poachers knew the rules and stuck to them as carefully as their victims.

Read an extract from an article. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA

We all know, in an academic sense, that man as a species has existed for a very long time and that we have only emerged with our present dominance in the comparatively recent past. The game country of Kenya puts this piece of knowledge into context and enables us to experience it at the deep, intuitive level where all knowledge is felt as well as known. When something is learnt in this deep sense the knowledge becomes part of ourselves and enriches our lives.

1. 33.1

Today this area is a network of roads and tracks and is almost entirely under cultivation. True, it contains the remnants of the Nandi and Kakamega forests but even these are rapidly being turned into charcoal and paper. I have driven over many roads in the area and walked the Nandi Hills without seeing any game. There are a few giraffe left on the high land between Kitale and Eldoret; the remaining antelope are rare and shy; the rhino and the lion have definitely gone. It is the same over vast tracts of Kenya; where sev- enty years ago there was an abundance of animals, today you will find almost nothing. I was hoping to see elephants.

2. 33.2

A number of cases of elephants aiding an injured comrade have been recorded by hunters and mother elephants have been seen to carry a dead baby around for several days. It has been known for a hunter to track a wounded elephant only to come on the corpse minus the valuable tusks, these having been broken off and smashed by his companions. It is common knowledge that wild elephants coming upon a skeleton of one of their own kind will examine the bones, carry them away, and scatter them far and wide, although they will ignore the remnants of other animals.

3. 33.3

But now pressure on the elephants' land is increasing. New strains of maize now make it feasible to grow crops in areas where only five years ago there was virtually no human population. The Masai, who up to now have grazed their cattle alongside the plains game are beginning to plough their lands for wheat and corn. Other threats are posed by the increased use of insecticides; the expansion of cities and towns; and most worrying of all, the increase in the human population. Things must change.

4. 33.4

Above all the pace at which we disturb the natural environment must slow down. Our startling success with the physical sciences has convinced us that we can solve problems quickly by pushing the right buttons. But in nature, problems are not solved quickly, although they can be created overnight. A disturbance of the established order is a wound, quickly inflicted but slow to heal, with the ever-present possibility that the wound may cause a fatal infection. Even a carefully thought-out and well-controlled change is still a form of surgery from which the environment must recover by adjusting its complex mechanisms and balances to the new situation.

5. 33.5

Now, we humans and our greed are out of control all over the world; and in the same sense that a city child must visit a farm to find that milk comes from cows, not bottles, so most of us need to visit Africa to find where mankind came from. Even here there is a danger of losing touch with the past. Today the parks and reserves are last-ditch defences for Kenya's wildlife. The long-term outcome is far from certain, but meanwhile it is our privilege that enough remains for us to glimpse the original glory first hand.

6. 33.6

Try to stay longer with each group of animals. They will reward you in their time not yours - remember they are making the decisions. There is so much to see one is tempted to rush; more than one hundred species of mammals in Kenya, ninety-five in the Masai Mara Reserve alone. But these animals are not postage stamps or locomotive numbers to be ticked off on a list. Each of them has an individual character and fits into its own place in this complex system.

Complete the text by changing the form of the word in capitals.

FENG SHUI

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of bringing balance to one's immediate surroundings. It aims to harness energy flow within the home to make it a nice, (HEALTH) 34.1 place in which to live. Although in the West it has only recently gained (ACCEPT) 34.2, in China it is considered (DISPENSE) 34.3 to consult a Feng Shui practitioner before (LOCATE) 34.4 house or establishing a business. On a mundane level, it is the art of furniture placement, but under stricter (SCRUTINIZE) 34.5, meaningful philosophical and religious roots are found (PIN) 34.6 this venerable art form. The Taoist philosophy out of which it grew sees the world as made up of potent but invisible energy which it calls 'chi'. Feng Shui aims to divert this hidden flow to create a harmonious environment. Although this is an unfamiliar concept to the Western world, the rise of Feng Shui continues (ABATE) 34.7. Feng Shui offers some basic rules with which to augment the potential of one's environment. Removal of clutter is said to promote feelings of (LUCID) 34.8 and calmness. The utilisation of plants (ACT) 34.9 the detrimental effect of machinery, computers and so on. Finally, because chi energy enters through the front door, it is provident to keep one's door in perfect condition to remove any (IMPEDE) 34.10 to the passage of entering chi energy.

Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

1. My doctor believes I need a _____ of physiotherapy.

2. They're on _____ to finish the project by tonight.

3. Joseph did a three-year _____ in Mechanical Engineering at university.

Answer: .

Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

1. He _____ a hint that he wanted an MP3 player for his birthday.

2. My dad _____ me off at the station on his way to work yesterday afternoon.

3. Profits _____ last year by 10%, so the management cut some jobs.

Answer: .

Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

1. The police caught the burglar in the _____ of climbing out of the window.

2. The psychiatrist told her to _____ out her frustration.

3. The toddler was warned by its mother not to _____ up.

Answer: .

Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

1. The two cars are completely different - they're worlds _____.

2. The book fell _____ after she threw it into the water.

3. _____ from the problem with your ankle, how do you feel?

Answer:

There are 6 mistakes in the following text. The first mistake (0) has been identified and corrected as an example. Find the other 5 mistakes, write and correct them.

Write the mistakes in the order they appeared in the text.

Example: (0) Line 2: more -> most

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.

It is a widespread assumption that George was wrongly accused.

=> George ...............

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.

His description of the incident was completely different from what really happened.

=> His description of the incident bore ...............

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.

My aunt is coming to stay and I'm not really looking forward to it.

=> I dread ...............

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.

The committee had a long discussion but they could not make up their mind.

=> Lengthy ...............

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.

Only when he was confronted with the evidence did he confess to the crime.

=> It was not ...............

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this given word.

This club admits people from all professions. (LIFE)

=> People from all to this club.

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this given word.

They have very little money to live on now she is unemployed. (HAND)

=> They have been living her job.

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this given word.

Thomas is quite open about his four marriages. (SECRET)

=> Thomas he has been married four times.

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this given word.

If the need arises, she can prepare a delicious meal in about half an hour. (RUSTLE)

=> Should the a delicious meal in about half an hour.

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this given word.

Everybody knows that he always breaks his promises. (KNOWLEDGE)

=> It's on his promises.

Write a paragraph of approximately 140 words to answer the following question.

What are the various benefits of self-discipline in the lives of teenagers?