Tuyển tập 353 đề thi học sinh giỏi môn Tiếng Anh lớp 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 (có đáp án)

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Paragraph 6: __________
Not surprisingly, biometrics raise thorny questions about privacy and the potential for abuse. Some
worry that governments and industry will be tempted to use the technology to monitor individual
behaviour. `If someone used your fingerprints to match your health-insurance records with a creditcard
record showing you regularly bought lots of cigarettes and fatty foods,' says one policy analyst,
'you would see your insurance payments go through the roof.' In Toronto, critics of the welfare
fingerprint plan complained that it would stigmatise recipients by forcing them to submit to a
procedure widely identified with criminals.
Paragraph 7: __________
Nonetheless, support for biometrics is growing in Toronto as it is in many other communities. In an
increasingly crowded and complicated world, biometrics may well be a technology whose time has
come.
Your answers:
0. F 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Part 3: Choose ONE suitable word from the box below to complete in each blank. There are two
words that you do not need to use. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
turned, expected, keen, ancient, advisable, inevitable, sight, changed, agree, other
Markets
In practically any country in the world you are sure to find a market somewhere. Markets have been
with us since (1) ______ times, and arose wherever people needed to exchange the goods they
produced. For example, a farmer might have exchanged a cow for tools. But just as times have (2)
______, so have market practices. So, whereas in early times the main activity associated with markets
would have been ‘bartering’ - in (3) ______ words exchanging goods - today most stall-holders
wouldn't be too (4) ______ on accepting potatoes as payment, for instance, instead of cash.
In contrast, what might be a common (5) ______ in a modern market in some countries is a certain
amount of ‘haggling’, where customer and seller eventually (6) ______ on a price, after what can
sometimes be quite a heated debate. However, behaviour which is (7)______in a market in one
country may not be acceptable in another. Even within one country, there may be some markets where
you could haggle quite easily and others where it would be (8) ______ not to try!
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
SECTION IV: WRITING
Part 1: For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the word given. DO NOT change the word given. You must use between two and six
words, including the word given.
1. Lucy succeeded in passing her driving test, even though she had flu. (MANAGE)
Despite …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….her driving test.
2. Nick’s cooking soon impressed his friends. (REPUTATION)
Among his friends, Nick soon gained ……………….………………………………………………………….. good cook.
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