Đề số 14 luyện thi chuyên Anh vào 10

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What are the features of each pollinator? Choose the correct letter, A-F.

A	It pollinates four out of live food crops in North America.
B	It has been mistaken for a similar animal.
C	It feeds on the nectar of lavender.
D	It has been affected by environmental alteration.
E	It has been smuggling traded.
F	It returns to the specific site every year.

Monarch butterfly 1.1

Indian subcontinent butterflies 1.2

Spectacular tropical butterflies 1.3

Long-nosed bat 1.4

You will hear a young woman called Joanna Riley giving a talk at a secondary school about her work looking after an area of countryside.

For each question, choose the correct answer. You can listen to the audio twice.

Joanna decided she wanted to do her present job when she was _____

a university student.
doing a different job.
still at secondary school.

Joanna's duties include _____

replacing wooden fences and gates.
protecting animals and trees.
repairing damaged footpaths.

What is special about Joanna's part of the countryside?

Lots of visitors go there.
The weather is extreme.
It is exceptionally large.

What is the most difficult part of her job?

Putting fires out when the weather is hot and dry
Sorting out problems between visitors and local people
Preventing the illegal hunting of animals and birds

Joanna only feels depressed when she _____

sees rubbish left by visitors.
has to work in the dark in winter.
is alone for many hours.

What new power does Joanna now have?

She can temporarily close her area to visitors.
In extreme cases, she can arrest people.
She can make people pay for damage they cause.

Joanna says that anyone wanting to become a ranger should _____

apply for a job in their home area.
do voluntary work in the countryside.
first study geography at university.

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

arguable
anguish
lingual
guava

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

flown
clown
drown
crown

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

constitute
combo
fodder
comestible

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

corrosion
immersion
precision
adhesion

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

sewage
teenage
image
advantage

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

extensive
decorate
generous
nominate

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

treacherous
compliance
severance
sovereign

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

eradicate
voluntary
characterize
communism

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

multifaceted
disenfranchise
simultaneous
hyperbole

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

bouquet
debris
genre
almond

Her success can be _____ a combination of luck, intelligence and sheer hard work.

ranked among
put together
put down on
lived up to

The woman accused of shoplifting was found not guilty and was _____.

excused
liberated
acquitted
interned

The project is currently underway, and the results will be available in due _____.

time
schedule
plan
course

What's the point _____ here if you don't have anything to tell them?

getting them all come
in getting them all come
to get them all come
in getting them all to come

The _____ museum is filled with artifacts from ancient civilizations.

historic
historical
unhistoric
prehistorical

The break-in turned out to be _____ because it made us more aware of the insecurity of the neighborhood.

a jack-of-all-trades
a storm in a teacup
a blessing in disguise
a matter of life and death

The police asked him to _____ his presence at the scene of the crime.

care for
ask for
account for
look for

_____ appears larger on the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion.

The moon
The moon which
That the moon
The moon does

Her health has improved in _____.

leaps and bounds
spick and span
odds and ends
thick and thin

All books on the same subject are supposed to have the same classification number on their _____.

indexes
titles
spines
covers

According to the forecast, it will be mostly cloudy, with _____ of rain in the north.

outbreaks
breakdowns
breakups
breakouts

The mountain path was so _____ that only experienced climbers dared to attempt it.

perilous
secure
innocuous
painless

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

The article was criticized for misrepresenting the facts about the new policy.

combating
dominating
encompassing
distorting

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

Instead of buying a pre-made cake, Maria decided to bake one from scratch, carefully measuring and mixing all the ingredients herself.

from the ground up
on the fence
out of the blue
from pillar to post

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

The speaker was asked to condense his presentation in order to allow his audiences have time to ask questions.

cut short
talk briefly
make longer
give details

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

Although he tried as much as he could to run for the governor, some observers still wrote him off as a future candidate.

cheered him up
gave up on him
pay attention to him
scored off him

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

Should you agree to help us with the housework, we (finish) the assignment on Saturday.

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

By this September, the head teacher (teach) at the school for 20 years.

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

He couldn't help (feel) nervous before his big presentation.

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

It's a pity we didn't visit him when we had the chance. I would like (see) him before he left the country.

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

He resented (ask) to wait. He had expected the Minister to see him at once.

Give the correct form of the verb in the brackets.

It is high time we (get) some more precipitation. It is the middle of the rainy season and we haven’t got much rain.

Fill each of the following blanks with ONE suitable word.

Chocolate has an intriguing history that goes way back in time to the Mayas of Central America, who first discovered the secret of the cocoa tree. The Mayas educated the Aztecs, who in turn revealed all to the Europeans.

The Aztecs called the drink they made from crushed cocoa beans 41.1 with vanilla and sugar 'The Food of the Gods', a term 41.2 changed to 'The Food for Love' in Europe. Many do swear that chocolate is an aphrodisiac and even recent research 41.3 proved that chocolate does help us to relax and feel more sensual (Casanova swore by it).

Chocolate has changed a great deal 41.4 the days of the Aztecs. For a start, Europeans found 41.5 preferred the taste if they didn't include chili pepper 41.6 its production! Spain held a monopoly on chocolate 41.7 1615, when the daughter of Philip II of Spain married King Louis XIII of France and took the secret of chocolate with her. But 41.8 so, chocolate recipes were a closely guarded secret for hundreds of years.

Although in great demand, the quality of chocolate at that time was very changeable. It all changed in the early nineteenth century, 41.9, when the first Swiss chocolate factory was founded near Vevey, 41.10 the shadow of beautiful Lake Geneva. The founder and the father of Swiss chocolate were François-Louis Cailler. You can still buy Cailler chocolate today; in fact, most of the original chocolate 'names' are still in existence centuries on.

Read the passage then choose the best answer to each question.

In the early 19th century, football was very popular in the top private schools in England. Initially, each school had its own rules, and while the pupils were still at school the fact that they played by these particular rules hardly mattered. When, however, they left for the universities or for business in the provinces, it became clear that if they were to continue playing football they were going to need a universal set of rules, acceptable to all teams.

Up until the 1850s, two teams at, say, Oxford University, would only be playing a familiar game if every player had been to the same school. As things turned out, a major game was often preceded by a long correspondence with lengthy arguments about the rules. Was handling to be allowed? How many players on each side? How long should the pitch be? How wide the goals? Would carrying the ball be permitted? ('Yes', would say all the ex-pupils of Rugby school; 'No', would say almost everyone else.) And even when the game got underway, confusion and protests would necessitate long midfield conferences between the two captains.

In the time it became usual for the ex-Rugby students and their small but growing company of followers from other schools to play 'rugby' football on their own, and for the others to come to some agreement over the rules of the more popular version. Few of these early codes of rules have come down to us complete, but snatches from them give a clear idea of the patterns of the early game, and in particular how boring it must have been to stand in the cold and watch.

The first serious attempts at laying down the rules of football were made at Cambridge University in 1848 and these were adapted and tightened up twice in the 1850s. Then in November 1862, the Cambridge Rules have revised yet again and specified 11-a-side, an umpire from each side plus a neutral referee, goals 12 feet (3.7 m) across and up to 20 feet (6.15 m) high, and an hour and a quarter's play only. These rules were said to have worked well; in the following year, they formed a vital part of the rules of the newly formed-Football Association.

The formation of the Football Association was bitter and often ill-tempered. With neither side willing to give way, the split between rugby players and the rest became too wide ever to be mended. The real disagreement was not over running with the ball but over 'hacking'. Rugby players felt it was manly and courageous to tackle an opponent by kicking him on the leg; the others did not and voted against it. The rugby men called them cowards and walked out.

Rugby did, however, leave behind one significant innovation - the more precise name for its competitor. The story may not be true, but the legend is that one Charles Wreford-Brown, who later became a notable official of the Football Association, was asked by some friends at Oxford whether he would join them for a game of rugby or 'rugger', as it was now often called. He refused, claiming that he was going to play 'soccer' - evidently a play on the word 'association'. It caught on.

In the beginning of the 19th century, it became clear that ______.

university football was played by a special set of rules.
not all football teams were prepared to accept standard rules.
each school had different rules for football.
provincial footballers players by old-fashioned.

In the mid-19th century, the rules for important games were mainly settled by _____.

letters exchanged before the match
players from the same school
a special meeting between the two captains
all the players on the pitch

The word "snatches" in paragraph 3 probably means _____.

detailed copies
players' descriptions
short extracts
careful diagrams

We know from the text that football before 1848 was _____.

very similar to modern rugby
more strictly. regulated than rugby
always played with the same width goal
not very interesting for spectators

The Cambridge Rules of 1862 laid down _____.

the minimum time for a game
the number of players and referees
the exact size of the goal
the maximum length of the pitch

Rugby players could not agree with the Football Association over ______.

running with the ball
kicking other players
what to call the game
the shape of the goal

The word "It" in the last paragraph refers to _____.

the Football Association.
the use of 'rugger' for rugby.
the game at Oxford.
the new name for football.

What is the passage mainly about?

The formation of Football Association
The history of rules in football games
One successful football player
The football rules by Cambridge University

You are going to read an article in which four people comment on a book they have read recently. For questions 1-10, choose from the people A-D. The people may be chosen more than once.

A. Sundance by Teresa Wilson

Kerry:

I really don't know why this book is so popular. I mean. I suppose it is going to appeal to young girls who want danger and romance, but I found this book really tedious. For a start, the characters were really unconvincing. The author went out of her way to add lots of details about the characters, but I found these details really pointless. I thought that some of the facts she presented about the main characters would become significant in some way later in the novel, but they didn't. They were just worthless bits of information. I also was disappointed that, although this book is meant to be about kids at high school, the writer seems to have no recollection at all about what it’s like to be 17. The main character thought and acted like a 32-year-old. It just wasn't believable. I'm not saying Teresa Wilson is a bad writer. She can obviously string words together and come up with a story that is appealing to a large number of people, but she lacks anything original. There is no flair. It just uses the same sort of language as you can see in many other mediocre novels.

B. Wild Ways by Margery Emerson

Liz:

I have to say that I won't forget this book for a long time. I was hooked from the very first chapter. The devastating story affected me so much that I don't know if I'll ever feel the same again. I was close to tears on several occasions. I've got images in my brain now that I don't think will ever leave me. It's incredibly well-researched and, although it is fiction, is based on shocking real-life events. I teamed an awful lot about things that went on that I never knew before. Margaret Emerson has a brilliant way with words and I really felt real empathy towards the characters, although I was sometimes irritated by the choices they made. However, the parallel story, the part that is set in the present, is not quite so good. I found myself just flicking through that part so that I could get back to 1940s Paris.

C. Orchid by Henry Rathbone

Imogen:

This is a delightful novel full of wonderful imagery, a paints a remarkable picture of life in a distant time and a far-away place. If you're looking to learn about Eastern culture in great detail, then this is probably not the book for you, as the writer skims over most of the more complicated aspects of the country's etiquette. The historical aspects are also not covered in much depth. However. I wonder whether this was the writer’s intention. By doing this, he symbolises the superficiality of the girl's life. She, like the book, is beautiful and eager to please, but remains too distant from us, the readers, to teach us much. Although I loved the book and read it in one sitting, the ending was a bit of a disappointment. A story which involves so much turmoil, in a place where the future is uncertain, should not have a happy-ever-after fairy-tale ending.

D. High Hills by Mary Holland

Hannah:

I read this book for a literature class. I know it’s a classic, and I did try to like it, but I just didn't get into it. I kept persevering, hoping that I’d start to enjoy it, but no such luck. The famous scene out on the moors was definitely the best bit of the book, but even that I found ridiculous when it is clearly supposed to be passionate. As I approached the end of the book. I figured there must be some kind of moral to the story, something that I would learn from the experience of trudging through seven hundred long pages, but there was nothing worthwhile. I don't know why the literary world sees this book as such a masterpiece. The characters are portrayed as being intelligent, but they do such stupid things! And as for it being a love story - marrying someone you don't love and then being abused by them - that doesn't spell love to me.

Which person read a book which...

was set in an Oriental country 50.1

finished in an unrealistic way 50.2

had characters that the reader could sympathize with 50.3

is well-known and was written a long time ago 50.4

contained two stories 50.5

was not set in the past 50.6

Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

THE KANGAROO GENERATION

The French have a name for them - le generation kangaroo - because kangaroos carry their offspring around in a pouch for months after birth. They are the 20-somethings who have realised that living at home with their parents is 51.1 to struggling to be independent. A few years ago, anyone approaching 30 still 51.2 under the parental roof would have been an object of concern, if not ridicule. Today it is fast becoming the norm. To a certain 51.3, this shift is due to economic pressures; 51.4 prices in Western Europe have soared, making mortgage payments out of 51.5 for most young people on starting salaries. And why pay a fortune to rent a 51.6 bedsit when relatively luxurious accommodation is available rent-free? These days, parents also seem more willing to continue to perform 51.7 chores like cooking, washing and ironing. Of course, some mums and dads were unprepared for the burden of 51.8 to go on so long. The previous generation, who often married young, generally 51.9 that once their children left for university, their years of freedom would begin. They are now finding that times have changed and there is a 51.10 possibility that their kids will want to stick around indefinitely.