Đề luyện thi vào Lớp 10 chuyên Tiếng Anh Global Success - Đề 75 (Có đáp án)

 PART 2: Read the text below and think of the word that best fits each gap. Use only ONE 
word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers in the 
numbered table below.
Is your school just as you wanted (0)_______ to be? Or are there things you and your 
classmates (1) ________ change, given the opportunity? This is your chance to express your 
ideas about (2) ________ the ideal school is like. Our competition is open to (3) ________ 
student between the ages of twelve and eighteen. You can enter (4) ________ an individual or 
your whole class can work together on a team entry. Your entry can take any form – a piece of 
writing, a picture, or even architectural plans. It is completely (5) ________ to you. What we 
are looking for is evidence (6) ________ originality, imagination and, above (7) ________, the 
genuine views of young people.
By (8) ________ part in this, you will help in a study being carried out at a leading university. 
All work entered (9) ________ the competition will be kept at the university and used in 
research. Entries cannot be returned (10) ________ of this. But it also means that, even (11) 
________ you do not win, your views will still be heard and will remain for future 
educationalists to study.
Entries must reach us no (12) ________ than Friday 30 April. Winners will receive valuable 
prizes of computer equipment and software for their schools.
Write your answers here:
0. it 1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10. 11.
12.
PART 3: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct 
and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√). If the 
line has a word that should not be there, write the word at the end of the line. There are two 
examples at the beginning.
0 Congratulations on winning of the tennis championship! You must be of
00 very pleased, especially since the prize is quite a lot of money. √
1 What are you going to spend it on? You could even buy a new car
2 with all that money! You should have be in great shape after all the
3 training you have been doing. It must be so very hard work, practising
4 all those hours for every day but it is worth it in the end, isn’t it?
5 Perhaps you are thinking of going on holiday so that you can have
6 a break from tennis and relax. Can you tell me exactly what is kind of
7 tennis racket you chose for the competition? If I would get the same,
8 it might help me to improve my game. Anyway, congratulations on 
9 your great victory! I’m still studying English every single day and the 
10 course has three months to go. I have moved house, as if you can see
11 from my new address. Make sure you reply back to the right address!
12 Your last letter went to my old address, but it wasn’t by your fault
13 because I hadn’t told anyone who I had moved then. Did you know 
14 that I have had a job for the last three weeks? I work in a restaurant I’m afraid I do not have the _______ to authorize this change.
6. Few people could have predicted the huge impact of information _______ .
 No matter how advanced _______ becomes, machine will never be able to think like 
 humans.
 It’s a waste of time for humans to do tasks that modern _______ can do.
7. She was struck by the sudden _______ that he might already have left.
 He dived in after her without a second _______.
 It was once _______ that the sun traveled around the earth.
8. Governments should give as much foreign _______ as possible to poorer countries.
 In certain circumstances, emergency _______ in the form of money should be sent 
 immediately.
 The most successful long-term _______ programmes encourage self-help.
Write your answers here:
0. help 1. 2.
3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8.
PART 6: For questions from 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the 
end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. Write your 
answers in the numbered table below. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Before going to an interview, it is (0)_________ to go through a mock ADVISE
interview. This will give you the opportunity to try out your technique 
and answers live. It is also a chance to receive feedback that is 
(1)__________ in guiding you towards improving your interview style BENEFIT
and general (2) _________ Just one mock interview will result in a PRESENT
(3)_________ improvement in your interview skill. Why? For the NOTICE
same reason that a (4) _________ doesn’t exist while it is still on paper SPEAK
or floating in your head. It only exists when you give it (5)_________ ORAL
The first time you give it in front of an audience, it will come out 
nothing like the one you prepared.
It is the same with being interviewed. It is not enough to look at a 
question and say, ‘Yeah, I know the answer to that one.’ You need to 
practise your answer live; this is not the time to talk to yourself in front 
of a mirror. Seek out a (6) _________ and have the session videotaped. PROFESSION
Then you will have two opinions – the interview’s and your own. You 
will find you get a completely different (7)________ when listening to IMPRESS
yourself than when you are watching yourself saying something. Just 
as your voice always sounds different on tape, so do your (8) _______. RESPOND
You will be glad the image is captured on tape and not in a potential 
employer’s mind. For maximum effect, you should (9)________ your VISIT
answers and go through a second mock interview. This should help 
with any (10)________ and give you more confidence for the real EASE
interview. 12.
PART 2: Look at the sentences below about a hotel. Read the text to decide if each sentence 
is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, write C. If it is incorrect, write I.
Write your answers in the numbered table below. 
 1. During the 1980s, few tourists used to go to the Arctic in summer.
 2. People came in large numbers to Jukkasjọrvi to see the Arctic Hall.
 3. The artist encouraged people to sleep in the Arctic Hall.
 4. Each winter, guests come and sleep in the hotel before it is finished.
 5. Progress when building the hotel is influenced by the weather.
 6. The temperature inside the hotel changes according to the temperature outside.
 7. Some clothes are provided by the hotel.
 8. Guests should buy boots which fit as tightly as possible.
 9. Items ordered through the ICEHOTEL shop will be delivered to your home.
 10. It is possible to take a train from the airport to the IceHotel.
 THE ICEHOTEL
For many years the Arctic was a popular destination in the summer season to see the land of 
the midnight sun but in winter the few inhabitants had the snow and ice to themselves. By the 
end of the 1980s it was decided that the dark and cold winter should be seen as an advantage. 
In the winter of 1990 the French artist Jannot Derit was invited to have the opening of an 
exhibition in a specially built igloo (a building made of snow) in the little town of Jukkasjọrvi 
on the frozen Torne River. The building, named Arctic Hall, attracted many interested visitors 
to the area. One night a group of foreign guests decided it would be a good idea to sleep in the 
Arctic Hall. The following morning the brave group were very pleased with their experience 
and the idea of an ice hotel was born. Today it is world famous.
As soon as winter begins, a team of snow builders, architects and artists from all over the 
world come to Jukkasjọrvi and they make the hotel for that year. As one part is completed, it 
opens to visitors and overnight guests, while the other parts are still being built. The first part 
is completed in December and each week after that a new part opens, until January 7th when 
the hotel is completed. As the ICEHOTEL is built under the open sky, using the natural 
materials of the winter season, the finishing date depends on nature and therefore there are 
sometimes changes to the plan. In the spring, as the weather gets warmer, the hotel melts.
Inside the hotel, the temperature is never colder than –5 °C to –8 °C, however cold it may be 
outside. Winter outer clothes such as warm overalls, hats and gloves are included in the cost of 
guests’ stay at the hotel. In addition to this, it is a good idea for guests to bring sweaters and a 
scarf as well as plenty of woolen socks and to choose footwear that is larger than normal to 
allow space for thick socks.
If you are planning to come to the hotel, you can buy warm sweaters, woolen socks and much 
more on the ICEHOTEL website. You can order these and the equipment you will need at the 
same time as you book your visit. The items will be delivered to your room when you check in. of Venus move slowly in comparison with Earth’s winds, Venus’s air is so dense that a slow-
moving there can move large obstructions and even skip stones along the planet’s surface.
 In 1966, humankind made its first attempt at sending a recording instrument into 
Venus’s atmosphere. The Venera 3 probe did collide with Venus surface; however, the abrupt 
impact caused its communication system to fail, and it was unable to send and feedback. In 
1967, Venera 4 successfully enter Venus’s atmosphere and was able to take many readings, 
one of which recorded that Venus’s atmosphere was between ninety and ninety-five percent 
carbon dioxide. Subsequent Venera probes were sent into Venus’s atmosphere, but most of 
them succumbed to the crushing air pressure.
Questions 1-7: Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the 
passage. 
1. According to paragraph 1, Venus is named the Morning Star and Evening Star because
 A. it is very bright 
 B. it is close to the sun
 C. it can be seen from evening till morning
 D. it is used to find the direction by sailors
2. The word that in paragraph 2 refers to
 A. sizeB. bulkC. atmosphereD. density
3. Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the bold sentence in 
paragraph 3? Incorrect answer choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out 
essential information.
 A. Earth experiences greater surface pressure than Venus.
 B. If a man could survive its surface pressure. 
 C. The surface pressure and heat of Venus are much greater than those on Earth.
 D. Venus’s surface temperature and pressure make it uninhabitable by humans.
4. According to paragraph 3, the greenhouse effect on Venus is owed to
 A. the small amounts of nitrogen
 B. the rapid increasing amounts of carbon dioxide
 C. growing plants
 D. the high atmospheric temperatures
5. In paragraph 4, the author of the passage implies that Earth
 A. might suffer the same greenhouse effect as Venus
 B. once had an atmosphere similar to Venus’s
 C. has bodies of water similar to those on Venus today
 D. is experiencing a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
6. Look at the four blanks [] in paragraph 4 that indicate where the following sentence could 
be added to the passage.
 Although the causes are different, the ramifications are the same.
Where would the sentence best fit? 
7. The word propagation in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to
 A. generationB. eliminationC. evaporationD. desecration
Question 8: Complete the brief summary of the passage by selecting the THREE answer 
choices that express important ideas in the passage. The introductory sentence for the 
summary is provided bellowed.
 Scientists look at Venus to predict Earth’s future. But finally the first of three practical exams arrived – the navigation test. The examiner sets 
you a course that you have to plan according to the weather, and then fly with him sitting 
beside you.
6
I passed this test, but I don’t know how. The second test involves flying cross-country to two 
other airports, which you can choose, and landing at both. The important thing is to give the 
right messages to the air-traffic control people and understand their replies.
7
After this alarming episode, the exercises in the flight-handling test were simple. As we 
complete the sixth exercise, the examiner suddenly turned to me and said, ‘Congratulations – 
you’ve passed!’
8
I wasn’t sure why, because we usually land as slowly as possible. Then I turned round and 
realised straight away: we were being followed by a British Airways jumbo jet!
A. A week which we had set aside for finishing the course came and went with no possibility 
of getting in the air at all. And besides the problems with the weather, my second son was 
born, and that made it even more difficult to find the time for lessons and studying.
B. But the real reason I chose this club was that a friend of mine, Andrew Wilkins, is the chief 
instructor there. He impressed me by taking me out for a free flight just so that I could see 
what it was like.
C. Unfortunately, I got myself lost this time and flew too far east. I completely missed the first 
airport. However, I flew over a car factory I recognised and managed to get back on course.
D. Along the way, he’ll take the controls and fly off course, just to get you lost. Then he’ll 
hand back the control to you and expect you to find your way home.
E. One day I was asked by an air-traffic controller if I could see another aircraft ahead. I said 
yes, and immediately it disappeared into a cloud. I just didn’t know what to do.
F. At the time, taking private lessons to learn how to fly was financially beyond me. So I had 
to delay my plans to become a pilot for quite a while. It was twenty years, in fact, before I 
finally enrolled at a flying club in Hertfordshire.
G. Since getting my pilot’s license, I’ve been out flying a few times. The highlight so far was 
flying up to Birmingham International Airport for a motor show with Andrew beside me. As 
we approached the way, the air-traffic controller came on the radio asking for as much speed 
as our little plane could manage.
H. For months, my head was always in a book and my head hurt from all the facts, figures and 
flying instructions.
I. This feeling of needing a change coincided with my 40th birthday, which started me thinking 
about what I’d been doing all those years. When I left school all I had really wanted to do was 
fly.
Write your answers here:
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
 SECTION 4: WRITING (6 points)