SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 12 - VÒNG 1
Bảng A
LONG AN Ngày thi: 06/10/2011
Đề chính thức
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
Thời gian: 180 phút (Phần A & B)
LƯU Ý: THÍ SINH LÀM BÀI TRÊN GIẤY THI, KHÔNG LÀM BÀI TRÊN ĐỀ THI NÀY
A. LISTENING: (20 marks)
You will hear a short conversation. Each question in this part has four answer choices. Choose the correct answer(s). Write your answer(s) on your answer sheet.
1. What does the World Bank do? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) It saves seeds from plants all over the world.
(B) It gives money to the United Nations.
(C) It gives money, low interest loans, and interest-free credit to poor countries.
(D) It is part of the United Nations.
2. How does the professor explain that not everyone is rich? (Choose 2 answers)
(A) She compares how much money people in poor countries and rich countries make.
(B) She tells a story of poor people in Bolivia.
(C) She gives the example of how many children in poor countries cannot go to school.
(D) She defines wealth.
3. What is the talk mainly about? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) Parts of the World Bank
(B) The history of the World Bank
(C) What the World Bank does
(D) How the World Bank has changed
4. What reason is given for giving extra money to the poorest countries in 2002? (Choose 1 answer)
(A) To start new farms
(B) To build schools
(C) To recycle water
(D) To help fight the illness AIDS
B. READING & WRITING: (80 marks)
I. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. (15 marks)
Steve grew up in a children’s home in Scotland. Every week, the staff took a proportion of the children’s pocket money to pay for holidays. Little Steve developed a daring strategy to hang on to what little money he had. He laughs about it now. “I used to swallow all my coins. That got them really furious, so they’d put me in a room on my own as a punishment. After a few minutes in there, I’d hit myself on the chest and cough the money back up.”
