Đề thi thử Anh Chuyên vào 10 Chuyên Sở Hà Nội năm 2025 được biên soạn theo cấu trúc đề thi chính thức các năm gần nhất.
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Listen and choose the best answer for each question.
Students entering the design competition have to _____.
John chose a dishwasher because he wanted to make dishwashers _____.
The stone in John's "Rockpool" design is used _____.
In the holding chamber, the carbon dioxide _____.
At the end of the cleaning process, the carbon dioxide _____.
Listen to the audio. Complete the notes below. Write only ONE word for each answer.
• John needs help preparing for his .
• The professor advises John to make a of his design.
• John’s main problem is getting good quality .
• The professor suggests John apply for a .
• The professor will check the information in John’s written report.
Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks with the correct letters.
You will hear five short extracts in which people talk about fitness and health.
While you listen, you must complete BOTH tasks. You will hear the audio TWICE.
TASK ONE
Choose from list A-H, what each person says is his or her reason for attending a gym regularly.
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A. The gym has a social function for me. B. I have a sedentary job. C. My company pays for me to attend a gym. D. I'm studying sport science at college. E. Being fit gives me a sense of achievement. F. I compete in high-level sporting events. G. I come here with members of my cycling club. H. I started exercising regularly after an injury. |
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TASK TWO
Choose from list A-H what opinion each speaker expresses about fitness and health, generally.
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A. It is alarming that so many people have an unhealthy lifestyle. B. Being good at sport commands respect. C. I find it hard to commit myself to exercising. D. Diet is as important as exercise. E. Exercise machines are extremely boring. F. Achieving health requires self-sacrifice. G. Exercise is necessary to keep weight under control. H. Genetic make-up has a lot to do with fitness. |
Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Speaker 5 |
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
requisite
favorite
appetite
exquisite
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
although
smooth
southern
earthen
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 young swimmer came within a(n) _____ of winning but failed in the end.
We couldn't stand his nasty _____ of spitting on the floor and we moved him from our department.
The jury _____ the defendant “not guilty”.
He said that the plane had already left and that I _____ an hour earlier.
Andrew: I felt that she was dying to postpone the wedding.
Ben: Yes, I _____ that as well.
“But so", I told him, “you are my own ______.”
_____ of all modern domestic poultry is the red jungle fowl is widely believed.
It turned out that the business tycoon was in _____ with local law enforcement to have the investigation dropped.
They haven’t beaten me yet, I still have one or two _____ up my sleeve.
She believes that all countries should _____ the death penalty as it is inhumane.
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. That's _____ - I thought I left my keys on the table but they're not there.
2. The festival celebrates the _____ and wonderful car designs not seen by many in the mainstream market.
3. "She's a very funny woman." - "Funny ha-ha or funny _____?"
Answer:
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. There is no chance you can get the actor's autograph because he's always _____ by his bodyguards.
2. In Oslo, a young building violinist _____ the renowned pianist during his tour.
3. Of course, we require that your job application be _____ by your curriculum vitae.
Answer:
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. Please, handle this object with care. Its sides are wafer-_____.
2. The hummingbird was flapping his wings furiously. The cameraman wanted to capture its extraordinary movements, but suddenly it disappeared into _____ air.
3. The abrupt downfall of the despised leader was sure to _____ the ranks of his political party across the country.
Answer:
Think of ONE word only that can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. The couple used to spend each winter holiday in a small _____ cabin near a lake, far from the hubbub of city life.
2. Big timber companies _____ trees at such a pace that it's impossible for the rainforests to recover.
3. I slept like a _____ after an 8-hour trek in the mountains.
Answer:
Think of ONE word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
1. In the late 1990s his groundbreaking book _____ about a revolution in academic circles.
2. Seeing the hero die in the last scene _____ tears to her eyes. She thought it was unfair.
3. And this final argument has _____ an end to our discussion. That’s all. Thank you very much.
Answer:
Complete the passage by changing the form of the word in capitals.
FLOODS
We are still unable to predict with any precision when an (INUNDATE) may occur. Even as recently as the early years of the 21st century, Europe was washed as the rivers which flow across the continent burst their banks. (TORRENT) rains meant that countries were ravaged by swollen rivers, cities were swamped and isolated. Although the levels the rivers rose to are not (PRECEDE), some of them were at their highest since the late 19th century, and the death toll from this natural disaster was (ACCEPT) high. Many flood victims began to question government policies, which had proved (ADEQUATE) as a defence.
Cities which erected flood barriers for their protection largely escaped (SPREAD) flooding, so those authorities who had not built such barriers laid themselves open to criticism for lack of (SIGHT). With growing concern in the scientific world about the rise in the sea level caused by melting polar ice caps and global warming, it became apparent that there was a need for more countries to take precautions against further (OCCUR) of this nature.
Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s).
Several recruits were given a harsh training for their reluctance to fulfil the captain's orders.
Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s).
It is dangerous that a lot of people in this business think they have to stab each other in the back to succeed.
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
One of the hazards that electronic media like the television, radio or computers these days is the decline in book reading.
The concern mainly to the younger generations who are strongly tempted by the glamour of the silver screen and, consequently, don’t recognize the importance of acquiring first-hand information from books.
To reading for pleasure and to propagate a whole array of publications like encyclopedias, reference books, manuals or fiction, radical solutions should be applied. Firstly, more ought to be put on the educational factor. Youngsters should be made to feel comfortable while reading either for information or self-satisfaction in public places like airports, buses or on the beach. Secondly, libraries must be subsidized more accurately in order to provide the potential reader with choice of publications and to become more publically active so as to put books at people’s disposal rather than keep them under lock and key. Fund-collecting actions organized by libraries might also raise public awareness of the advantages of becoming in a good book.
Finally, the mass media themselves might contribute substantially by recommending purchases or valuable best-sellers and inspiring their viewers to enrich their knowledge and erudition, and thus help them to develop the habit of spontaneous everyday reading.
Read the passage below and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
The invention of the camera has had a profound impact on human attitudes and perspectives. We might scoff primitive peoples who were reluctant to allow themselves to be photographed for fear of losing their spirit but, for better or worse, society lost much of its innocence with the advent of photography.
Previously, images of people were in the form of drawn or painted portraits, where artists' albeit flattering interpretations probably showed more of a subject's personality photographs ever could. Society had to forgo the romantically pleasing image and replace it with the bare realism of a fraction of a second, while art itself, no a source of information, but simply aesthetics, experienced a transformation.
In days of , war was glorified by artists who might never have actually seen battle themselves, and exercised more than a little artistic licence when depicting their subjects' heroics. Then the lens unleashed the horrors of war on an unsuspecting public. Front pages cried out with real images, and pretence and illusion came crashing down under the weight of a harsh truth: war is romantic nor glorious.
We gleefully immortalise our fleeting personal moments with holiday snapshots or family photographs but, in so doing, don't allow our memories to mellow with forgetfulness. They are frozen in time with a hard reality that will shock us in the years to . "How we've changed. I'd forgotten ..."
Read the passage and answer the questions.
The psychology of innovation
Why are so few companies truly innovative?
Innovation is key to business survival, and companies put substantial resources into inspiring employees to develop new ideas. There are, nevertheless, people working in luxurious, state-of-the-art centres designed to stimulate innovation who find that their environment doesn’t make them feel at all creative. And there are those who don’t have a budget, or much space, but who innovate successfully.
For Robert B. Cialdini, Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, one reason that companies don’t succeed as often as they should is that innovation starts with recruitment. Research shows that the fit between an employee’s values and a company’s values makes a difference to what contribution they make and whether, two years after they join, they’re still at the company. Studies at Harvard Business School show that, although some individuals may be more creative than others, almost every individual can be creative in the right circumstances.
One of the most famous photographs in the story of rock’n’roll emphasises Ciaidini’s views. The 1956 picture of singers Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis jamming at a piano in Sun Studios in Memphis tells a hidden story. Sun’s ‘million-dollar quartet’ could have been a quintet. Missing from the picture is Roy Orbison’ a greater natural singer than Lewis, Perkins or Cash. Sam Phillips, who owned Sun, wanted to revolutionise popular music with songs that fused black and white music, and country and blues. Presley, Cash, Perkins and Lewis instinctively understood Phillips’s ambition and believed in it. Orbison wasn’t inspired by the goal, and only ever achieved one hit with the Sun label.
The value fit matters, says Cialdini, because innovation is, in part, a process of change, and under that pressure we, as a species, behave differently, ‘When things change, we are hard-wired to play it safe.’ Managers should therefore adopt an approach that appears counterintuitive -they should explain what stands to be lost if the company fails to seize a particular opportunity. Studies show that we invariably take more gambles when threatened with a loss than when offered a reward.
Managing innovation is a delicate art. It’s easy for a company to be pulled in conflicting directions as the marketing, product development, and finance departments each get different feedback from different sets of people. And without a system which ensures collaborative exchanges within the company, it’s also easy for small ‘pockets of innovation’ to disappear. Innovation is a contact sport. You can’t brief people just by saying, ‘We’re going in this direction and I’m going to take you with me.’
Cialdini believes that this ‘follow-the-leader syndrome, is dangerous, not least because it encourages bosses to go it alone. ‘It’s been scientifically proven that three people will be better than one at solving problems, even if that one person is the smartest person in the field.’ To prove his point, Cialdini cites an interview with molecular biologist James Watson. Watson, together with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA, the genetic information carrier of all living organisms. ‘When asked how they had cracked the code ahead of an array of highly accomplished rival investigators, he said something that stunned me. He said he and Crick had succeeded because they were aware that they weren’t the most intelligent of the scientists pursuing the answer. The smartest scientist was called Rosalind Franklin who, Watson said, “was so intelligent she rarely sought advice”.’
Teamwork taps into one of the basic drivers of human behaviour. ‘The principle of social proof is so pervasive that we don’t even recognise it,’ says Cialdini. ‘If your project is being resisted, for example, by a group of veteran employees, ask another old-timer to speak up for it.’ Cialdini is not alone in advocating this strategy. Research shows that peer power, used horizontally not vertically, is much more powerful than any boss’s speech.
Writing, visualising and prototyping can stimulate the flow of new ideas. Cialdini cites scores of research papers and historical events that prove that even something as simple as writing deepens every individual’s engagement in the project. It is, he says, the reason why all those competitions on breakfast cereal packets encouraged us to write in saying, in no more than 10 words: ‘I like Kellogg’s Com Flakes because… .’ The very act of writing makes us more likely to believe it.
Authority doesn’t have to inhibit innovation but it often does. The wrong kind of leadership will lead to what Cialdini calls ‘captainitis, the regrettable tendency of team members to opt out of team responsibilities that are properly theirs’. He calls it captainitis because, he says, ‘crew members of multipilot aircraft exhibit a sometimes deadly passivity when the flight captain makes a clearly wrong-headed decision’. This behaviour is not, he says, unique to air travel, but can happen in any workplace where the leader is overbearing.
At the other end of the scale is the 1980s Memphis design collective, a group of young designers for whom ‘the only rule was that there were no rules’. This environment encouraged a free interchange of ideas, which led to more creativity with form, function, colour and materials that revolutionised attitudes to furniture design.
Many theorists believe the ideal boss should lead from behind, taking pride in collective accomplishment and giving credit where it is due. Cialdini says: ‘Leaders should encourage everyone to contribute and simultaneously assure all concerned that every recommendation is important to making the right decision and will be given full attention.’ The frustrating thing about innovation is that there are many approaches, but no magic formula. However, a manager who wants to create a truly innovative culture can make their job a lot easier by recognising these psychological realities.
The example of the ‘million-dollar quartet’ underlines the writer’s point about _____.
James Watson suggests that he and Francis Crick won the race to discover the DNA code because they _____.
The writer mentions competitions on breakfast cereal packets as an example of how to _____.
In the last paragraph, the writer suggests that it is important for employees to _____.
The physical surroundings in which a person works play a key role in determining their creativity.
Most people have the potential to be creative.
Teams work best when their members are of equally matched intelligence.
A manager’s approval of an idea is more persuasive than that of a colleague.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
Local residents said they were against the new traffic scheme. (DISAPPROVAL)
=> Local residents the new traffic scheme.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
She couldn't understand anything about what the teacher was explaining In class. (HEAD)
=> She couldn't what the teacher was explaining in class.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
You've got to persuade the editor not to publish that story. (OUT)
=> You've got to talk that story.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
A couple's happiness depends on their frequency of communication. (COMMUNICATE)
=> The more frequently they will be.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
We tried to make him understand our point, but he just wouldn't listen. (ACROSS)
=> We tried to , but he just wouldn't listen.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
I am certain that this syrup will have a good effect on your sore throat. (WONDERS)
=> I am certain that this syrup will your sore throat.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
It doesn't matter how badly he behaved, you shouldn't have been so rude. (HOWEVER)
=> You shouldn't have been so rude, was.
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word in brackets. You must use between 2 and 5 words, including the word given. Do NOT change the word given.
If there had been fewer people in the queue, we would have waited. (SO)
=> There in the queue that we decided not to wait.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
When he arrived at the meeting, the girls were chatting happily.
=> On ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I think you should be tolerant of other people's weaknesses.
=> I think you should make ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Arguing all night won't help.
=> There is ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
She worked hard because she wanted to be promoted.
=> She worked hard with a ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
We cannot see animals in this vast area after the forest fire.
=> There is an ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I was annoyed by his refusal to listen to the reason.
=> What ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Immediately after winning the race, Sandy began training for the next one.
=> No sooner ..........
Write an academic essay of about 250 words on the following topic.
The typical teaching situation of a teacher and students in the class will not exist by the year 2050. To what extent do you agree or disagree?