Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh lớp 11 - Kỳ thi Olympic truyền thống tại Thành phố Huế

 his neighbor how wealthy 
he is, and all this does is promote unneeded consumption. Why does the person who has nowhere to go 
and no money to spend for travel want to own a car? The simple answer is because the media paint 
owning a car as a symbol of wealth and it is human nature to want to become wealthy or at least to 
appear wealthy. 
On the positive side, as prices rise due to increased demands on scarce resources, there will be an 
incentive to find affordable alternatives. For example, as the price of oil rises and along with it the price 
of a gallon of gasoline, a point will be reached at which people are no longer willing to purchase 
gasoline so they can drive their cars, and they will demand both alternative transportation methods and 
cars which use another source of energy. A current online survey says $2.50 per gallon of gasoline is the 
point at which the people in the US will start making demands on the auto manufacturer, which will 
open up new career fields in a few countries that have the technology needed to meet the demands; 
however, people around the globe will work together on it. 
1. The word “inexorable” in the passage is closest in meaning to 
 A. upward B. recent C. inevitable D. preposterous 
2. The word “solicit” in the passage is closest in meaning to 
 A. lure B. sell C. help D. ask for 
3. According to par.2, what can be inferred about the role of a project supervisor? 
 A. To make sure the project is finished correctly and on time 
 B. To hand-check each of the steps in a project 
 C. To assign each of the items that needs to be done in a project 
 D. To talk to everyone on a daily basis 
4. According to the passage, people need to learn how to learn, otherwise 
 A. they will not move from the first grade to the second grade in elementary school 
 B. they will not be able to work in the same job throughout college 
 C. they will not be able to switch from one career to another as the global economy changes 
 D. they will not be able to graduate from college and become a member of the global economy 
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5. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the underlined sentence in 
 the passage? 
 A. The mass media are like a witch stirring her cauldron. 
 B. The mass media always report the truth since this keeps the ratings up and brings in the most 
 advertising revenue. 
 C. The mass media will report half-truths if it will keep their ratings up so they can sell advertising 
 D. The mass media report every angle of a story since reports are apolitical and never present 
 only one viewpoint. 
6. In paragraph 5, what can be inferred from the description of the media about owning a car? 
 A. A car needs to be painted certain colors if it is going to show others a person is wealthy. 
 B. The media are so biased that they will provide paint if a person needs to paint his car so as to 
 project the car as a symbol of wealth. 
 C. The media slant the stories, so it will appear to viewers that only wealthy people own a car. 
 D. The members of the media don't own cars, so they are jealous of those wealthy people who do 
 own cars 
7. Look at the four squares [■] in par.2 that indicate where the following sentence could be added to 
the passage. 
E-businesses will be the lucrative businesses in the future since they are available to everyone 
with an Internet connection. 
Where would the sentence best fit? 
8. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete 
the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important 
ideas in the passage. Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express 
ideas that are not presented in the passage or are minor ideas in the passage. 
The Internet and technology are making the world a smaller and smaller place today, 
and this is creating a global economy. 
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 A. As Thomas Friedman so eloquently put it in Lexus and the Olive Tree, globalization is "the 
inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed 
before," 
 B. A global economy poses some serious problems and if a company doesn't act fast enough, it can 
lose, and if the company loses heavily, the employees working for the company and the stores 
that depend on those employees buying their goods can go out of business. 
 C. A person who is good at learning how to learn can quickly adapt to changes in the global 
economy by quickly preparing to enter other career fields, if his job is here today but gone in the 
morning. 
 D. A career field that is here today might be gone long before the child can graduate from college, so 
it becomes vital. 
 E. People are always going to be willing to pay any price they need to pay in order to buy something 
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they want, which is why the price of gasoline will not be a factor in the global economy. 
 F. Individuals from some foreign countries, some individuals from the US and the US economy will 
adjust to globalization, but the real question is, how is the rest of the world going to react to living 
in a global economy? 
B. Close test (20 points) 
Art as a career 
Many celebrated artists have found (1) ________ hard to (2) ________ ends meet early on in their 
careers. (3) ________ a few well-known exceptions, however, (poor Van Gogh being perhaps the most 
famous one) (4)_________ went on to find recognition within their own lifetime. Picasso’s life story is 
the kind of rags-to-riches tale (5) _________ gives hope to many (6) _________ unknown artist. In 
1904, he was sharing a draughty and primitive studio complex (7) _________ thirty other artists. But (8) 
________ his death, he was a multi-millionaire and probably the most celebrated modern artist ever . 
Nevertheless, (9)_________ every success story, there must be dozens of artists (perhaps some potential 
‘greats’) who have endured a lifetime (10) _________ hardship in obscurity. (11) _________ they were 
never recognised because their work was (12) _________ of sympathy with the prevailing fashion, or 
(13) ________ they lacked talent, is impossible to say. Most people see art (14) ________ a vocation 
rather (15) ________ a career. There (16) _________ indeed be some truth in the idea (17) ________ 
artists need to (18) ________ exceptionally dedicated to succeed, and even relatively successful artists 
sometimes have (19) ________ supplement their income by working (20) ________ other areas 
occasionally. 
QUESTION V. Use of English (30 points) 
A. Sentence transformation (20 points) 
Part 1. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence 
 printed before it. (10 points) 
1. Someone has suggested the resignation of the minister. 
 It ....................................................................................... . 
2. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that. 
 Many's....................................................................................... . 
3. You think that fat people are always jolly, but you are wrong. 
 Contrary ....................................................................................... . 
4.You should have called the doctor at once . 
 It was....................................................................................... . 
5. Gary is proud of the fact that he is never late. 
 Gary prides....................................................................................... . 
Part 2. Write a new sentence similar in meaning to the one given, using the word given in 
brackets. Do not alter the word in any way. (10 points) 
1. Many customs restrictions within the EC have been abolished. AWAY 
 ................................................................................................................ 
2. At the moment I can’t afford to buy a new car. QUESTION 
 ................................................................................................................ 
3. I assume you’re hungry. GRANTED 
 ................................................................................................................ 
4. I know I can convince Dave that I'm right about this matter. BRING 
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 ................................................................................................................ 
5. Students at the school are not allowed to go into the Rainbow Disco. BOUNDS 
 ................................................................................................................ 
B. Error correction (10 points) 
Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to 
be correct. 
1. The bus was plenty of people who had spent many a happy hour in the stores doing their Christmas 
 A B C D 
shopping. 
2. Weather and geography conditions may determine the type of transportation used in a region. 
 A B C D 
3. When you talk to the old man, please remember to speak out as he's hard of hearing. 
 A B C D 
4. The old and the new in transportation also contrast sharply in Middle East. 
 A B C D 
5. The ocean probably distinguishes the earth from other planets of the solar system, for scientists 
 A B C 
believe that large bodies of water are not existing on the other planets. 
 D 
6. Geothermal energy is energy to obtain by using heat from the Earth’s interior. 
 A B C D 
7. In general the only kinds of cells that cannot replace itself are nerve cells. 
 A B C D 
8. Historians believe that some forms of advertising must be as old as barter and trade 
 A B C D 
9. Many television newscasters make the public an eyewitness to the news by means of on-the- 
 A B C 
 spot, alive reports. 
 D 
10. Dams are used to control flooding, provide water for irrigation, and generating electricity for 
 A B C 
 the surrounding area. 
 D 
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