Đề số 6 luyện thi chuyên Anh vào 10

Complete the table.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Listen to the audio and do the tasks.

What is new in this year’s exhibition?

How do people enter the skiing and snowboarding competition? 

What did the media focus on this year?

Why does the speaker recommend the ski program?

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 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.

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.

We thought an _____ package tour would be more economical.

You were the last person _____ the office. Did you see anyone _____ the building?

The two raters, with opposite perspectives on her essay, had to calmly negotiate before reaching a(n) _____ on her score.

I'm afraid we will probably have a _____ future ahead with little comfort, shortages of food and clean water, and a threat of A.I.

In front of the ancient temple stood a _____ tree which was believed to have existed for donkey's years.

Computers have certainly changed the world by making _____ to store information.

When he woke up, he realized that the things he had dreamt about could not _____ have happened.

I've heard that argument before and quite frankly it just doesn't _____!

The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ted _____ a good answer.

We all decreed that _____.

Were you really just on the point _____?

I hope the new timetable _____ by Friday as I want to start a driving course next week, but I need to know which afternoon I will be off before I can enroll in it.

_____ so incredible is that these insects successfully migrate to places they have never seen.

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

Fill in each blank with one best word.

It is often said that non-native speakers don't get the British 33.1 of humour, and it's easy to see why this is so. Almost every conversation between Brits has an undercurrent of humour, making it difficult for a non-native speaker to decipher 33.2 a Brit is joking or being serious. In addition, the British also have a particular fondness for understatement. In refusing to be overwhelmed by anything, the British might retort 'Not bad' when they really mean, 'That's great'. Furthermore, the British don't like to 33.3 their own trumpet. They tend to make 33.4 of their accomplishments by being excessively modest and putting themselves down. But the most difficult part of British humour for foreigners is that much of British humour is not obviously hilarious and does not result in fits 33.5 laughter. However, those unaccustomed to British humour need not worry, for the best thing about it is that it is not something you can learn, it's something that 33.6 on you.

Complete the text with the correct form of the word in brackets. 

In a scenario, straight out of apocalyptic science fiction, it is warned that as soon as 2040, Al machines would 34.1 (COURAGE) nations to take apocalyptic risks with their nuclear stashes. A paper commissioned by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit in Santa Monica, Cali., that offers research and analysis to the armed forces on global policy issues, says it's 34.2 (CONCEPT)  that Al - as well as the 34.3 (PROLIFERATE) of drones, satellites and other 34.4 (SENSE) - could lead to nuclear war with 34.5 (OVERWHELM) grave consequences for humanity.

"34.6 (AUTONOMY) systems don't need to kill people to 34.7 (MINE) stability and make catastrophic war more likely," said Edward Gest, an associate policy researcher at RAND, a specialist in nuclear security and co-author of the paper. New Al 34.8 (CAPABLE) might make people think they are going to lose if they hesitate. That could give them itchier trigger fingers. At that point, Al will be making war more likely, even though the humans are still in control. The study was based on data collected from experts in nuclear issues, government branches, Al research and policy and national security.

"These experts fear that an 34.9 (INCREASE) reliance on Al can lead to new types of catastrophic mistakes," added Andrew Lohn, co-author of the paper and associate engineer at RAND. "There may be pressure to use Al before it is 34.10 (TECHNOLOGY) mature, or it may be susceptible to adversarial subversion. Therefore, maintaining strategic stability in coming decades may prove extremely difficult and all nuclear powers must participate in the cultivation of institution to help limit nuclear risk."

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

“Night mode” is one of those features you may be aware of only because your phone keeps telling you about it. At some point, while you are lying in bed at night sending texts, your screen may politely suggest you activate a function that shifts the colours of your screen from the colder to the warmer end of the spectrum. It is supposed to help you sleep better. Findings in a study led by Dr Tim Brown and published in Current Biology suggest this is the very opposite of correct. The research, carried out on mice, appears to rubbish the notion that blue light disrupts sleep. All things being equal, warm yellow light is worse.

So, where did the idea of limiting blue light from screens originate? “There was definitely a valid scientific idea about why that would work,” says Brown. It started about 20 years ago with the discovery of the role that melanopsin – a light-sensitive protein found in the eye – plays in regulating the body clock.

“The melanopsin system is fundamentally there to detect brightness,” says Brown. Because melanopsin was better at detecting short-wavelength photons, he says, it was thought it was biased in favour of blue light. In fact, it is the retina’s cone cells that determine colour. “The cone system also plays a role, and they’re doing the opposite of what most people thought,” says Brown.

According to the study, brightness levels are more important than colour when it comes to stimulating the body clock. However, when the light is equally dim, blue is more relaxing than yellow.

This makes basic sense: daylight is yellow, twilight is blue, and sunrise and sunset are pretty reliable ways to tell your body clock what time it is. Of course, at this point, we only know it works on mice – and mice don’t have phones. “We think there is good reason to believe it’s also true in humans,” says Dr Brown.

There is perhaps a more obvious truth to be drawn – if your phone is telling you to switch to night mode, it is time to put down your phone.

It is not the colour of the screen that is keeping you awake; it is all the stuff your phone offers as an alternative to sleep at 2 am. There is only one real night-mode switch: the off button.

Adapted from The Guardian

Night mode is meant to _____.

In Paragraph 1, what is the meaning of "rubbish"?

In Paragraph 1, when the author says "All things being equal", what aspect does he mean is most important?

What does Dr. Brown mean by saying "There was definitely a valid scientific idea for why that would work"?

According to Dr. Brown, what did scientists previously get wrong?

What is NOT true about blue light?

What about a phone is the author most likely to blame for poor sleep?

What is the passage mainly about?

Read and choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen more than once.

Pioneers of Flight

Since time immemorial people have wished they could fly. With hindsight, some may wish they hadn’t tried.

A
The Belgian de Groot worked for years on an apparatus intended to emulate the flight of birds. For this purpose, he constructed a device with bat-like wings. The framework was made of wood and rattan; the huge wings were covered with a strong, waterproof silk, as was the long tail. The machine was controlled by levers. De Groot’s first trial, which consisted of jumping from a great height to the Grand Place in Brussels, ended in failure, and he was lucky to escape unhurt. His second attempt was successful, but his third, on 9 July 1894, was not. Having planned to descend into the River Thames, de Groot was taken up by a balloon and released from a height of 1,000 feet. For some unknown reason the wing frame collapsed and he fell to his death. There was almost a second accident when the balloonist, having lost control of the balloon, landed in front of an approaching train, which just managed to stop in time.

B
On 8 October 1883 Gaston Tissandier and his brother, Albert, became the first to fit an electric motor to an airship, thus creating the first electric-powered flight and enabling airships to be steered. In order to form some idea of the results which could be obtained, the brothers first performed tests on a small-scale model in their own laboratory near Paris. The airship they finally constructed was huge - ninety-two feet long with a diameter of thirty feet. The bamboo bannier, which was attached by twenty ropes to the envelope, contained the Siemens electric motor. The test was a relative success. The flight lasted just over an hour and the brothers landed safely. They had been able to steer the airship at will but said that they would have had problems had the weather not been fair.

C
Otto Lilienthal studied the science of aviation and published two books on the subject. He constructed a machine with two books from a high weight, remained in the air for a time and then gradually descended to earth. His machine consisted of a frame of thin wooden rods covered with linen fixed securely to his shoulders. It took the shape of two slightly concave wings, with a raised tailpiece at the rear. A pair of rudders was fitted to help him steer. Mr Lilienthal first launched himself in his machine from a tower on a hilltop near Berlin. On 9 August 1896, Otto Lilienthal crashed to earth from a height of fifty feet while testing a new type of steering device. He died the following day. His last words were reported to be: ‘Sacrifices must be made.’

D
On 31 July 1894, for the first time in history, a flying machine actually left the ground, fully equipped with engines, boiler, fuel, water and a crew of three. Its inventor was Hiram Maxim, who had invested £20,000 in its construction. The machine was a large steam-driven structure formed of steel tubes and wires with five wings. Maxim began tests in 1894. On the third try the plane, which was powered up to forty miles per hour, left its track and continued on its way cutting a path through the grass for some 200 yards. At times it reached an altitude of two to three feet above the ground before it finally crashed. After this, Maxim lost interest in flying and went on to other inventions, making his fortune with the invention of the Maxim machine gun.

Which person was not let down by his apparatus?

Which person accepted his death?

Which person flew with more than one other person?

Which person did trials before he flew in his invention?

Which person had more success with a different invention?

Which person almost lost a team member during his flight attempt?

Which person spent a long time on his invention?

Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.

I know you have memorized all the road signs. I just want to go through them one more time.

Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.

Tom Higdon suggested that children of farm workers should be educated in 1911. Then he was dismissed from his job as a teacher.

Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.

Companies spend millions of dollars on advertising. They want to increase their sales. 

Choose the sentence that best combines this pair of sentences.

The main actor didn't show up at the press conference. They had to cancel it.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

Any health benefits gained by eating meat are far outweighed by the hazards of doing so.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

I don't understand how you could have survived all those years in France without speaking a word of the language.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

Everybody believes that he shouldn't have trusted the people around him so much.

Choose the sentence that is CLOSEST in meaning to the sentence given.

When he returned home years later, with so many changes to the house, he was barely able to recognize it.

Write an academic essay of about 250 words on the following topic.

Some people think that public libraries are necessary, while others believe that they are no longer important thanks to open online sources. What is your opinion?

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.