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KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 10-3 TỈNH ĐẮK LẮK NĂM 2023
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN: TIẾNG ANH; LỚP: 10

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (50 PTS)

I. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5 PTS)
Question 1: The picking of the fruit, _________, takes about a week.
A. whose work they receive no money B. for which work they receive no money
C. they receive no money for it D. as they receive no money for that work
Câu 2: We were hoping to finish it by next week—__________, it may be the week after.
A. as it is B. as if C. as yet D. as though
Question 3: She appears___________deeply by what I said to her yesterday, because she’s been
avoiding me all day today.
A. to have been offended B. to be offended
C. having been offended D. having offended
Key: A (0.5P)
Question 4: All the new recruits _________ these forms and submit them to the human resources
department.
A. are completing B. are completed C. to complete D. are to complete
Question 5: _________ the demand for tickets, the musician has added two more concerts to his tour.
A. With light from B. In light of
C. To light on D. From light
Question 6: A: “The traffic in this city is terrible.”
B: “I know, __________ so bad.”
A. would it always be B. was it always being
C. did it always use to be D. had it always to be
Question 7: The hotel manager _________ more helpful during our stay.
A. mustn’t have been B. will have been
C. had to be D. couldn’t have been
Question 8: _________ over the last 12-month period, we have managed to expand into new markets.
A. By working hard B. To the hard work
C. Having worked hard D. Though working hard
Question 9: The more demanding the material, __________the students will drop out of the course.
A. more than likely is B. is it more than likely
C. more of a likelihood is D. the more likely it is
Question 10: The athlete’s publicist has announced that _________ of her autobiography have been
sold to date.
A. some 300,000 copies B. the most 300,000

II. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5 PTS)

Question 1: Millions of people have been ___________ in the steel industry.
A. laid off B. seized up C. cleaned out D. laid on
Question 2: His mother was chatting and didn’t notice that he had__________.
A. cut off B. held back C. laid down D. fallen behind
Question 3: Police have not __________ the possibility that the man was murdered.
A. cut out B. ruled out C. phrased out D. turned out
Question 4: As children get older, the immunity provided by childhood vaccines can _________.
A. wear down B. wear on C. wear off D. wear out
Question 5: I could never lie to her because I know she’d __________me straight away.
A. sort out B. set up C. come into D. see through
Question 6: Dozens of websites have ___________ to provide information for travelers.
A. sprung up B. got at C. gave out D. set out
Question 7: Perhaps you should __________ the subject a bit more before entering the debate.
A. go out to B. get up to C. read up on D. come in for
Question 8: If they know the cause of the problem, they might be able to __________how to prevent it
happening again.
A. turn into B. drop in C. figure out D. eat into
Question 9: The two companies will take several months to __________ an agreement for splitting the
profits.
A. insist on B. make up C. narrow down D. hammer out
Question 10: He was ___________ as the outstanding performer of the games.

III. VOCABULARY (10 PTS)

Question 1: Although clear skies had been forecast for the day of the race, the sky was actually
________.
A. austere B. humid C. arid D. overcast
Question 2: In March and April, many tourists visit Japan in order to see the beautiful cherry
_________ on the trees.
A. seeds B. blossoms C. stalks D. buds
Question 3: Attempts to stop the river bursting its banks proved _________ as the waters flooded the
town.
A. fruitless B. worthless C. powerless D. endless
Question 4: Animal rights activists are _________ laws to ban the trade in exotic animals.
A. imposing B. consenting C. endorsing D. associating
Question 5: The research study was _________ flawed from the outset, thus the results are
meaningless.
A. bitterly B. physically C. fundamentally D. perfectly
Question 6: It’s difficult to measure the ________ of the forest fires on wildlife.
Question 7: Smallbox is the only infectious human disease that has been ________ worldwide thanks
to a vaccine.
A. diminished B. eradicated C. exterminated D. abolished
Question 8: I wonder if my lecturer can ________ any light on the source of this poem.
A. dawn B. shed C. raise D. dazzle
Question 9: While some people have a pessimistic view of events, others tend to look on the _______.
A. rosy future B. big picture C. bright side D. ray of hope
Question 10: The jury there was probably a _________ of truth in the defendant’s story.
A. grain B. hint C. trace D. shred
Question 11: Experts agree that a child with short attention ________ will learn better if given plenty
of breaks.
A. focus B. span C. time D. skill
Question 12: It was one of the younger managers who _______ at yesterday’s meeting in suggesting
cost- cutting measures.
A. made a successful B. made ends meet
C. took some doing D. took the initiative
Question 13: The translator has obviously _________very strictly to the original text.
A. adhered B. bonded C. affixed D. clung
Question 14: The industry needs more investment __________.
A. all for once B. on board C. across the board D. top to bottom
Question 15: Women who have six or more children _________ a risk of heart disease 50% higher
than the average for all women.
A. bear B. suffer C. make D. run
Question 16: On the way to Cambridge yesterday, the road was blocked by a fallen tree, so we had to
make a _________.
A. deviation B. digression C. detour D. departure
Question 17: I know it's true, because I got it straight from the ________ mouth – Katie told me
herself.
A. horse's B. dog’s C. camel’s D. donkey’s
Question 18: The car just missed the child but it was a very close__________.
A. go B. call C. drive D. run
Question 19: Even as an adult, I still get a ___________ out of building sandcastles at the beach.
A. pass B. shoot C. move D. kick
Question 20: Almonds and other nuts are rich in ___________ such as vitamin E and calcium.
A. additives B. organisms C. extracts D. nutrients

IV. GUIDED CLOZE (10 PTS): Read the passage, then select the word or phrase that best fills
the blank in both meaning and grammar.

ROBOTIC AUTOMATION
Today, we are on the brink of widespread robotic automation. According to some predictions
millions of workers could be made (1) ________ by 2030 and up to 20% of the global labor pool might
find themselves (2) _________a job. While this (3) ________ many seem depressing, it is not
necessarily so.
Jobs requiring distinctly human traits such as compassion, creativity, and social intelligence are
less likely to be automated, as (4) _________ specialized manual jobs like care of the elderly. But
automation will (5) _________ to more routine jobs in factories and offices – the introduction of
computers into offices saw the demand for secretarial staff (6) ________ rock bottom. Yet, it generated
a whole range of new (7) ________, such as IT specialists.
Similarly, because of advanced algorithms, online shopping has increased, putting some small
stores (8) _______ business, yet generating roles for website designers and copywriters. Online stores
also collect information on their client’s shopping habits, generating demand for data analysts with (9)
________ in cyber security, as all this information must be kept strictly (10) ________. Clearly, new
technology can release us from repetitive work to do the jobs which involve creativity and problem-
solving.
Question 1: A. voluntary B. freelance C. permanent D. redundant
Question 2: A. searching B. to search for C. in search of D. searching for
Question 3: A. outlook B. perspective C. challenge D. record
Question 4: A. will B. have C. do D. are
Question 5: A. broaden B. enlarge C. apply D. include
Question 6: A. made B. hit C. took D. fell
Question 7: A. executives B. positions C. skills D. benefits
Question 8: A. out of B. into some C. under the D. off from
Question 9: A. education B. skill set C. expertise D. collaboration
Question 10: A. confidential B. logical C. professional D. commercial
V. READING COMPREHENSION (20 PTS)
PASSAGE A: (GAPPED TEXT): Five sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from
the sentences A– F the one which fits each gap (1– 5). There is one extra sentence which you do
not need to use.
CULTURE CHANGE

A -This, in turn, affected the relationships of children with their parents and siblings.
B -What they had hoped to do was to discourage change, but they failed.
C- Education has also seen changes that will speed up westernization.
D -As city women left the home to enter the work force, they gained financial independence.
E- Such laws aim to block foreign ideas and influences.
F- Another important factor is the human population explosion.

All cultures change over time since all elements of culture change. Whether that be food, music,
language or just the way in which people interact, our cultures are constantly evolving.
Some cultures try to resist change by creating laws to preserve and protect traditions. (1)
___________. For example, the French government has forbidden the use of English words in shops
and businesses if there are French equivalents. Young people use English words such as sandwich and
computer so much that the French see it as a threat to their own language. So proud are the French of
their culture and traditions that foreign companies often encounter problems when trying to establish
themselves there. The US coffee giant Starbucks has found it very difficult to get a foothold in France
despite the fact that it is becoming successful elsewhere in Europe. There are around 50 Starbucks in
France but in the UK, which has a similarly sized population, there are over 700 stores.
In contrast, other cultures are extremely open to some kinds of change. Over the last twenty
years the Chinese have been rapidly adopting western technology and culture in everyday life, from
mobile phones to American television shows and fast food. McDonald's has already opened hundreds
of restaurants in China and soon will be adding many more. KFC has been even more successful. Since
the first piece of fried chicken was sold at a Beijing KFC in 1987, the number of KFCs in China has
grown to over 3,000, in 650 cities. Pizza Hut has done very well too with nearly 500 restaurants in 120
cities. (2) ________In 2003, the Chinese government decided that all pupils, starting in the 3rd grade of
primary school, had to learn English.
The changes experienced by China are happening all around the world, whether we try to resist
them or not. They are brought about by the technological advances that led to the expansion of
international business and mass media. (3) ___________. In the sixty years between 1950 and 2010,
the number of people in the world grew from 2.5 billion to 6.5 billion. With billions of people eager to
experience what the world has to offer in terms of food, fashion, music and more, the road is wide open
for cultural change.
But it isn't only foreign influences that bring about culture change. Local conditions can have an
affect too. The change from life in rural communities to urban living brought huge changes. First and
foremost, more children began attending school. With more education, they were able to find higher-
paid jobs than their parents and become more socially successful. Secondly, when the majority of the
world's population lived in rural areas, families were larger so that children could help with farmland
and animals. Once people began moving to cities and working in industry or trade, they had no need for
extra help, so they limited the number of children they had. (4) ________ When there are fewer
children, parents can give more attention to each one and spend more money on them for their wants
and needs. Urban living also played a role in affecting the traditional family structures by changing the
role of women in the family. (5) __________. Men were not the only ones supporting the family by
earning an income. This new state of equality meant that they had to help with raising children and do
things that had previously only been done by women.
Culture change is constant, and it has many causes and effects. Whether the causes are foreign
or homegrown, over time they can lead to drastic changes in lifestyles and traditions. Some people are
concerned by this while others welcome the changes and see them as advances rather than threats.

PASSAGE B: (JUMBLED TEXT): Arrange the following paragraphs in the correct order. The
first paragraph has been done as an example.
Example: 1-A

THE LITTLE ICE AGE

A- This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts, but,
before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate – as opposed to
weather – as something unchanging, yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its entire
existence, with at least eight glacial episodes in the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors adapted to the
universal but irregular global warming since the end of the last great Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago,
with dazzling opportunism. They developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles, decades of
heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold; adopted agriculture and stock raising, which revolutionised
human life, and founded the world’s first pre-industrial civilisations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the
Americas. But the price of sudden climate change, in famine, disease and suffering, was often high.

B- This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the ways
in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part One describes the Medieval Warm period, roughly
900 to 1200. During these three centuries, Norse voyagers from Northern Europe explored northern
seas, settled Greenland, and visited North America. It was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as
always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature. Mean European
temperatures were about the same as today, perhaps

C- The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Only two
centuries ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters: mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps
were the lowest in recorded memory, and pack ice surrounded Iceland for much of the year. The
climatic events of the Little Ice Age did more than help shape the modern world. They are the deeply
important context for the present unprecedented global warming. The Little Ice Age was far from a
deep freeze, however, rather an irregular seasaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a
quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions between the atmosphere and
the ocean. The seasaw brought cycles of intensely cold winters and easterly winds, then switched
abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer rains, mild winters, and frequent Atlantic storms,
or to periods of droughts, light northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves.

D- Global temperatures began to rise slowly after 1850, with the beginning of the Modern Warm
Period. There was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry farmers and others, to which the
famine caused by the Irish potato blight contributed, to North America, Australia, New Zealand, and
southern Africa. Millions of hectares of forests and woodland fell before the newcomers’ axes between
1850 and 1890, and intensive European farming methods expanded across the world. The
unprecedented land clearance released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering
for the first time humanly caused global warming. Temperatures climbed more rapidly in the twentieth
century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels continued to soar. The rise has
been even steeper since the early 1980s. The Little Ice Age has given way to a new climatic regime,
marked by prolonged and steady warming. At the same time, extreme weather events like Category 5
hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
E- Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because systematic weather
observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North America. Records from India and
tropical Africa are even more recent. For the time before records began, we have only ‘proxy records’
reconstructed largely from rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete written accounts. We
now have hundreds of tree ring records from throughout the northern atmosphere, and many from south
of the equator, too, amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in
Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other locations. We are close to a knowledge of annual
summer and winter temperature variations over much of the northern hemisphere going back 600 years.

F- It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in about 1200. As the
Arctic ice pack spread southward. Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then
ended altogether. Storminess increased in the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Cooler, much wetter
weather descended on Europe between 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a continent-wide
famine. By 1400, the weather had become decidedly more unpredictable and stormier, with sudden
shifts and lower temperatures that culminated in the cold decades of the late sixteenth century. Fish
were a vital commodity in growing towns and cities, where food supplies were a constant concern.
Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the European fish trade, but changes in water
temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further offshore. The Basques, Dutch, and English developed
the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier Atlantic. A gradual agricultural
revolution in northern Europe stemmed from concerns over food supplies at a time of rising
populations. The revolution involved intensive commercial farming and the growing of animal fodder
on land not previously used for crops. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries
self-sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective protection against famine.

PASSAGE C: Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each question.
All mammals feed their young. Beluga whale mothers, for example, nurse their calves for some
twenty months, until they are about to give birth again and their young are able to find their own food.
The behavior of feeding of the young is built into the reproductive system. It is a non-elective part of
parental care and the defining feature of a mammal, the most important thing that mammals - whether
marsupials, platypuses, spiny anteaters, or placental mammals - have in common.
But not all animal parents, even those that tend their offspring to the point of hatching or birth,
feed their young. Most egg-guarding fish do not, for the simple reason that their young are so much
smaller than the parents and eat food that is also much smaller than the food eaten by adults. In reptiles,
the crocodile mother protects her young after they have hatched and takes them down to the water,
where they will find food, but she does not actually feed them. Few insects feed their young after
hatching, but some make other arrangement, provisioning their cells and nests with caterpillars and
spiders that they have paralyzed with their venom and stored in a state of suspended animation so that
their larvae might have a supply of fresh food when they hatch.
For animals other than mammals, then, feeding is not intrinsic to parental care. Animals add it to
their reproductive strategies to give them an edge in their lifelong quest for descendants. The most
vulnerable moment in any animal's life is when it first finds itself completely on its own, when it must
forage and fend for itself. Feeding postpones that moment until a young animal has grown to such a
size that it is better able to cope. Young that are fed by their parents become nutritionally independent
at a much greater fraction of their full adult size. And in the meantime those young are shielded against
the vagaries of fluctuating of difficult-to-find supplies. Once a species does take the step of feeding its
young, the young become totally dependent on the extra effort. If both parents are removed, the young
generally do no survive.
Question 1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The care that various animals give to their offspring.
B. The difficulties young animals face in obtaining food.
C. The methods that mammals use to nurse their young.
D. The importance among young mammals of becoming independent.
Question 2. The author lists various animals in line 4 to ________.
A. contrast the feeding habits of different types of mammals
B. describe the process by which mammals came to be defined
C. emphasize the point that every type of mammal feeds its own young
D. explain why a particular feature of mammals is nonelective
Question 3. The word "tend" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _________.
A. sit on B. move C. notice D. care for
Question 4. What can be inferred from the passage about the practice of animal parents feeding their
young?
A. It is unknown among fish. B. It is unrelated to the size of the young.
C. It is dangerous for the parents. D. It is most common among mammals.
Question 5. The word "provisioning" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. supplying B. preparing C. building D. expanding
Câu 6. According to the passage, how do some insects make sure their young have food?
A. By storing food near their young.
B. By locating their nests or cells near spiders and caterpillars.
C. By searching for food some distance from their nest.
D. By gathering food from a nearby water source.
Question 7. The word "edge" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. opportunity B. advantage C. purpose D. rest
Question 8. The word "it" in paragraph 3 refers to ________.
A. feeding B. moment C. young animal D. size
Question 9. According to the passage, animal young are most defenseless when _______.
A. their parents are away searching for food
B. their parents have many young to feed
C. they are only a few days old
D. they first become independent
Question 10.The word "shielded" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. raised B. protected C. hatched D. valued

B. WRITTEN TEST (50 PTS)

I. CLOZE TEST (10 PTS): Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap.
Use only ONE word in each gap.
THE CHANGING CIRCUS
As a form of entertainment, the traditional circus once featured performances with animals forces to do
unnatural tricks by trainers. Concerned about reports of abuse, animal rights groups (1) _________out
to document the training methods in circuses and discovered dreadful cases of study. For example,
despite (2) ________ terrified of the flames, tigers were forced to jump through rings of fire. In
addition, large animals (3) ________ kept in cramped, unhygienic cages, or in the case of elephants,
chained for 17 hours a day on average which (4) ________a heavy toll on their physical and mental
health. In (5) ________, the life expectancy of circus animals was found to be far shorter than it (6)
________ have been in their natural habitat. Thanks to media campaigns, people now know of the
extent (7) ________this cruelty, and public opinion has turned against circuses. Many governments
have since imposed a ban (8) ________using animals for entertainment. As a result, most
contemporary circuses bear (9) ________similarity to those of the past. Today the focus is on
performance art with acrobatics, lightning, music and colorful costumes to convey a story or theme,
(10) ________using animals.

II. WORD FORMATION (20 PTS)

PART 1: Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form the word that fits in
the gap. (10 PTS)
Question 1. The school is very proud of having its own _________ in scientific research. (EXPERT)
Question 2. The man committed a theft and was sentenced to three-month _________. (PRISON)
Question 3. This is a very Important event, and there will be the presence of a great number of
__________ (CELEBRATE)
Question 3. The new law should allow more disabled people to enter the _________ of social life.
(STREAM)
Question 4. They will complete and present ________ reports and documentation as required.
(ANALYZE)
Question 5. He’s one of the best __________ we have ever worked with. (NEGOTIATE)
Question 6. The rate of crime is __________ high in the area, and the authorities must do something
about it. (INCREASE)
Question 7. Crows are probably the most easily ____________ members of the native fauna of
the US. (IDENTITY)
Question 8. I’m afraid it’s not fair when her achievements are always ________ (LITTLE)
Question 9. _________ organizations help to preserve the ecology of an area by keeping track of
endangered animals. (CONSERVE)
Question 10. The number of ____________ from junior high school is increasing in a worrying way.
(DROP)

PART 2: Use the word given in capitals to form the word that fits in the gap. (10 PTS)
BEING A RESPONSIBLE TOURIST
More and more, people are becoming concerned about how tourism affects the planet. Thanks to the
increasing (1) ________(AVAILABLE) of cheap flights on budget airlines, remote destinations, once
considered too far off the (2) _______(BEAT) track for the average traveller, are fasting becoming (3)
________(ACCESS) to mass tourism. The construction of airports and resorts is harming ecosystems
and traditional ways of life, but visitors should not (4) _________ (ESTIMATE) their ability to make
a positive contribution.

The idea of (5) ________(SUSTAIN) travel is to travel in a way that causes minimal environmental
impact. By using greener modes of transport and recycling, we help to maintain ecosystems. Shopping
in markets that offer an impressive (6) _________(COLLECT) of handicrafts and products made by
local artisans directly benefits the economy, as does staying in smaller guesthouses, where the (7)
_________(HOSPITABLE) of hosts can make the visit a more (8) _________(MEMORY) and
authentic experience. Responsible travel allows us to continue exploring the planet while preserving its
(9) _________(TOUCH) beauty, healthy ecosystems and (10) _________ (DIVERSIFY)
communities.
III. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 PTS): Complete the second sentence so that is has a
similar meaning to the first sentence, using the given word.
Question 1. Oliver hates it when he has to wait for people who are late. (STAND)
Oliver can’t _____________________________________________________by people who are late.
Question 2. Cutting down forests puts wildlife in danger. (THREAT)
Cutting down forests _________________________________________________________wildlife.
Question 3. Liam speaks Spanish very well. (COMMAND)
Liam _______________________________________________________________________
Question 4. I never intended to give up altogether. (ANY)
At no time _________________________________________________________ up work altogether.
Question 5. Stella became a famous musician while she was in her teens. (NAME)
Stella _______________________________________________musician while she was in her teens.
Question 6. Andy doesn’t have the qualities required for teaching young children.
Andy is not cut ___________________________________________________________________.
Question 7. We expected the film to be really exciting, but it wasn’t.
The film was nothing ______________________________________________________________.
Question 8. It was wrong of the government not to offer subsidies to dairy farmers.
Dairy farming should ______________________________________________________________.
Question 9. Although the papers claim that they are going to get divorced, they are not.
Contrary ________________________________________________________________________.
Question 10. I have been told that you have been late for work every day this week.
It has been brought_________________________________________________________________.

THE END.