Đề thi vào 10 Chuyên Tiếng Anh Phổ thông năng khiếu Hồ Chí Minh năm 2012-2013 - Mã đề 524 Mã A163774

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ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA TP HCM TRƯỜNG PHỔ THÔNG NĂNG KHIẾU ______________________

ĐỀ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 Năm học 2012 – 2013 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (không chuyên) Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề _______________________________

Mã đề thi: 524

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks from 1 to 10.

The Ugly Capital of the World

Italy is one country where beauty is prized more than any other virtue. That is, except in the small town of Piobbico, the self-proclaimed World Capital of Ugly People. The road (1) _____ at the edge of the town even warns visitors that they are entering the ugly zone. People who consider (2) _____ ugly have been gathering in Piobbico since the 1960s. That’s when Ugly Club president Telesforo Lacobelli (3) _____ a dating agency for women who believed they were too ugly to (4) _____ husbands. Lacobelli believes that he is ugly himself because he has a short nose in a country where long or large noses have always been (5) _____ beautiful.

People from (6) _____ the world travel to Piobbico to tell their sad stories of ugliness. During the (7) _____ Festival of the Ugly, which occurs on the first Sunday of every September, (8) _____ people gather in Piobbico’s town square to (9) _____ the president of the Ugly Club.

The Ugly Club has over 20,000 members. They carry ID cards that (10) _____ their ugliness from bearable to extreme. A prize is awarded to Ugly Club members who qualify as extremely ugly.

1. A. signing B. sign 2. A. it B. itself 3. A. created B. built 4. A. interest B. attract 5. A. believed B. assumed 6. A. about B. in 7. A. daily B. weekly 8. A. hundreds of B. hundreds 9. A. appoint B. approve 10. A. line B. level

C. signature C. themselves C. established C. propose C. supposed C. on C. yearly C. hundred of C. select C. grade

D. signal D. them D. invented D. afford D. considered D. around D. monthly D. hundred D. elect D. mark

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

11. _____ I ask Martha for a date and she laughs at me? A. What should B. What would C. What if D. As if 12. A law that prohibits tobacco advertising in newspapers and magazines has just been made _____.

A. public B. publicly C. publicity D. publicized 13. During freshman or sophomore year of high school, our French teacher _____ us the task of writing a short story. A. divided B. assigned C. signed D. shared 14. Since Martha broke her foot, she hasn’t participated in her favorite pastime, _____.

A. modern dancing B. to modern dance C. her modern dancing D. being modern dance 15. In declining this offer, Pierce expressed regret that he himself did not have the necessary time or the proper _____ to undertake employment in this enterprise. A. experiments B. qualifications C. experiences D. functions 16. Her grandmother lives in _____ house.

A. a big old wood brown B. a bog brown old wood C. a big old brown wood D. an old brown big wood