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TRUNG HỌC CHUYÊN TRÀ VINH – TỈNH TRÀ VINH

ĐỂ THI ĐỂ NGHỊ KÌ THI OLYMPIC 30/4

MÔN TIẾNG ANH KHỐI 11

I : PHONOLOGY

A. In three of the four words, the underlined part is pronounced in the same way. Find the

other word, in which the underlined part is pronounced differently.

1. A. Clothes B. Cloths C. Months D. Laughs

2. A. Sword B. Swear C. Swam D. Sweat

3. A. hourglass B. dishonorable C. haute D. disharmonious

4. A. quartz B. dissolve C. paradise D. Switzerland

5. A. recreation B. oleander C. meander D. oceanic

B. Stress pattern

1. A . authority B. entrance C. selection D. emission

2. A. militarism B. infected C. eventional D. community

3. A. oblivious B. ferocious C. scandalous D. victorious

4. A. legislature B. repository C. magnificent D. mistake

5. A. habitable B. infamously C. geneticist D. communism

II : GRAMMAR

I. Verb tenses / forms (10ms

A

1.Is it important that we (be) ………1………on time for the meeting tonight

2.We had better wait till the end of the week, he (have) ………2………his exam

3.I’m terribly sorry. I seem (leave) ………3………my book at home

4.Scarcely they (move) ……4……into the new house when their friends came in

5.A new advertising contract (draw) ………5……….up after the term (decide) ……………6…………….

6.When the assistant asked me if I (serve) …………7……….. I said I (wait) ………8……………for over twenty

minutes .

7.His mother went abroad last week, so it . . ..9 . …(not be) her you saw at the theatre last night.

8.Roger would like …………10………….. (go) to Oxford, but he couldn’t pass the entrance examination.

B.

The writer considers a classical education to be a boon. He believes that, in secondary

school, the teaching of classics (11. marginalize)_____ by the introduction of the National

Curriculum. This (12. further lead) _______to the studying of the classics (13. attack)_______ as

ellitist. In addition, studying Latin and Greek, (14. wrongly damn) _______ as being irrelevant,

because classicists have no specific professional route to follow. As young people (15.

pressurize) _________ to make money, the writer feels that the relevancy argument is difficult to

counter.

In spite of the criticisms (16. level)_______ at a classical education, the writer feels that

learning Latin and Greek is highly relevant. And he fears that there is a danger that the classics

as a discipline (17. lost)________. But help is at hand from a new Internet-based distance￾learning program (18. pilot) _____________in 60 schools from autumn 2000. The pilot study (19.

allow)_______pupils (20. study)______- Latin at their own pace.

II. Fill in each blank with a correct preposition or particle:(10ms)

1/. After a long day at work, most people feel worn (1)…………..

2/. The police were taken (2)…………. a wild goose chase round the island.

3/. Because the weather was fine, everyone was making (3)……….the coast.

4/. Sally woke up when the effect of the sleeping pills wore (4)…………