- VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí SỞ GD&ĐT LONG AN KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN LONG AN. - Choose the correct picture (A, B or C) and write it in the numbered box on your answer sheet. - (1 point) Trang 1 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí PART 2: You will hear a conversation between a man, Marco, and his wife, Sarah, about a film they have just seen at the cinema. - If it is correct, write the letter (A) for YES, if it is not correct, write the letter (B) for NO in the numbered box on your answer sheet. - (1 point) A B YES NO Trang 2 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí 1. - Marco and Sarah agree that the city in the film was London. - Marco feels that the length of the film made it rather boring. - Sarah was upset about how some of the audience behaved during the film. - READING: (2 points) PART 1: Read the following passage, then choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. - Write your answer in the numbered box on your answer sheet. - And that’s the one I used right up until a few months ago.” John has since retired as a teacher to work as a full-time craftsman, and makes up to a dozen violins a year – selling one to the esteemed American player Jaime Laredo was “the icing on the cake”. - But I really took to the character who played the cello in Dad’s group. - Later, they suggested that my brother play the violin too, but he would have none of it.” Trang 3 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí “My parents were both supportive and relaxed,” Huw says. - With it, Paul won the string final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. - Then, at the remarkably youthful age of 20, he was appointed principal cellist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a position he held, still playing his father’s instrument, until last year. - “Dad’s not said anything about me moving on, though recently he had the chance to run a bow across the strings of each in turn and had to admit that my new one is quite nice! I think the only thing Dad doesn’t have – and may acquire after about 50 – 100 years – is the power to project right to the back of large concert halls. - It will get richer with age, like my Rugeri, which is already 304 years old.” Soon he will be seen on television playing the Rugeri as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, which forms the heart of the second programme in the new series, Masterworks. - “The well-known performance history doesn’t affect the way I play the work,” he says. - “I’m always going to do it my way.” But Paul won’t be able to watch himself on television – the same night he is playing at the Cheltenham Festival. - He was keen to do a course at the nearby school. - What do we learn in the third paragraph about the instruments John has made? A. - Trang 4 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí 4. - he was not very good at playing the piano. - He wanted it to be different from his brother’s. - The clear waters attract some of the world’s best underwater divers. - Dr Honor Frost, a Bristish underwater archaeologist and Golden Triden winner, believes that Ustica shows that some underwater remains are best life in the surroundings where they have been preserved for centuries. - According to Frost, the establishment of the underwater museum has made an interesting area of sea floor, together with the objects which fell to it in antiquity, safe for future study. - B However, this section of the museum, although already accessible to diving visitors, still contains material of interest to researchers. - Trang 5 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí C Made of volcanic rock, they were carried by corn ships heading from Rome to the ports of the north African coast. - D Only here can divers explore labelled exhibits such as anchors, pots and millstones, which fell to the sea floor centuries ago. - F This month it presented its Golden Trident awards, the underwater equivalent of the Nobel prizes, which have been awarded annually since 1960. - Write your answer A, B, C, or D in the numbered box on your answer sheet. - hasn’t he 2. - Total weight of the ants in the world is much greater than. - “He was right. - would take Trang 6 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí PART 2: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. - today for being one of Britain’s most famous explorers of the 18th century. - most other explorers of the same period as he did not come from a wealthy family and had to work hard to (2. - He was lucky to be (3. - He developed an interest in the sea and eventually joined the Royal Navy in order to see more of the world. - He was also one of the first people to (7. - It was during his voyage to the Pacific Ocean that Cook made his historic landing in Australia and the (9. - (1 point) COFFEE Coffee is made from the beans that grow in the fruits of the coffee plant. - Trang 7 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí The word “coffee” derives from the Arabic “qahwah”, a word (2. - to be chewed before it was discovered that they (4. - Coffee drinking began in Arab countries in the 14th century and did not (6. - PART 4: For questions 1-10, give the correct form of the words in brackets. - we’ve all seen space creatures on our TV and cinema screens, but “aliens” like these owe more to the (3. - are now beginning to turn their attention to the question of what alien life might (7. - PART 5: For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. - They left early because they didn’t want to get caught in the traffic. - (AVOID) They left early in order in the traffic. - Trang 8 VnDoc - Tải tài liệu, văn bản pháp luật, biểu mẫu miễn phí For questions 6-10, finish each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. - It’s high time. - The decorators have finished the whole of the first floor