SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30/4 LẦN XVI- NĂM 2010 Trường THPT Chuyên Lê Hồng Phong Môn thi: ANH – Khối :10 | SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30 4 LẦN XVI- NĂM 2010 Trường THPT Chuyên Lê Hồng Phong Môn thi ANH - Khối 10 Ngày thi 03 04 2010 Thời gian làm bài 180 phút Ghi chú Đề này có . 7. Trang. Thí sinh làm bài trên phiếu trả lời riêng A. MULTIPLE CHOICE I. PHONOLOGY Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the other three. 1. a. rhinoceros b. vehicle c. whale d. uninhabitable 2. a. unconcernedly b. ragged c. sacred d. hiccupped 3. a. archaic b. archive c. choir d. archery 4. a. suggestion b. congestion c. digestion d. devotion 5. a. dairy b. lair c. fair d. gait Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the other three. 6. a. credulous b. acropolis c. dialect d. obsolete 7. a. ecotourism b. compromise c. disposal d. neighborhood 8. a. beneficial b. detrimental c. understanding d. magnificent 9. a. zoology b. cement c. conquest d. duet 10. a. argumentative b. psychological c. contributory d. hypersensitive 11. READING COMPREHENSION Read the following passage and choose the best option to complete the blank or answer the question. Since water is the basis of life composing the greatest part of the tissues of all living things the crucial problem of desert animals is to survive in a world where sources of flowing water is rare. And since man s inexorable necessity is to absorb large quantities of water at frequent intervals he can scarcely comprehend that many creatures of the desert pass their entire lives without a single drop. Uncompromising as it is the desert has not eliminated life but only those forms unable to withstand its desiccating effects. Nomoist-skinned waterloving animals can exist there. Few large animals are found the giants of the North American desert are deer the coyote and the bobcat. Since desert country is open it holds more swift-footed running and leaping creatures than the tangled forest. Its population is largely nocturnal silent filled with reticence and ruled by .
