Đề thi thử vào lớp 6 môn Tiếng Anh trường THPT chuyên Trần Đại Nghĩa, TP Hồ Chí Minh năm 2018 (Đề 3)

1. A wall clock has two hands namely the hour hand, and the minute hand. It is 15 past 12 now; the angle formed by the hour hand and the minute hand is _____.

2. Read this poem and answer the question below it.

Che chung
(Phúc Giang)
Ếch kêu ồm ộp
Trời sắp mưa rồi,
Lộp đà lộp độp
Tìm chỗ trú thôi.
Gà con mê chơi
Quên đi tìm ổ,
Mưa rơi mưa rơi
Mọi người về tổ.
Gà im một chỗ
Mưa ướt hết lông,
Ếch chìa lá súng
“Hai mình che chung!”
Which of the following words/ phrases describes sound made by the rain?

3. The city we live in was officially named Ho Chi Minh City in _____.

4. Which of the following Vietnamese proverbs is the proverb “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” synonymous to?.

5. Lan wants to buy a doll from a shop. The shop has just displayed the doll and it has only one doll. The doll is priced 100 000 đồng. However, Lan has saved only 70 000 đồng. After every month, if no one has bought the doll, the price of the doll will be reduced by 10% compared with its price the previous month. If no one has bought the doll, how many months at least will Lan have to wait to buy the doll with the money she has saved?

6. During summer break, a group of 5 students are participating in tidying and decorating a park near their houses. They have planned to finish the work in 7 days. However, after 4 days, two students have to stop work to take part in a local sporting competition. Supposing that all the students have the same efficiency in their work, how many days will the rest of the students have to spend completing the work of the whole group?

7. Which of the following is NOT a factor that partly prevents our body suffering from constipation (táo bón)?

8. Which of the following statements is WRONG? Riding a motorbike, and driving a car on the pavement are actions that _____. cause dangers to pedestrians on the pavement lack civic awareness violate the traffic regulations and are fined are allowed when the street is crowded with traffic

Riding a motorbike, and driving a car on the pavement are actions that _____.

9. Trần Đại Nghĩa (1913-1997), whose real name was Phạm Quang Lễ, born in Vinh Long province, contributed a great deal to the revolutionary cause of Viet Nam, mainly in the field of _____.

10. A shop has an old bill selling some books. The number of books sold is 90. The total amount of money from the books sold is a number of six digits, but the two outer-most digits blur (mờ); only four digits in between are readable: 8895 đồng. The price of each book is the same but also completely blurs. Which of the following statements is RIGHT? The price of each book is an amount _____.

11. The World Health Organization has suggested that nations in the world should not use thermometers containing mercury (thủy ngân), but use other kinds of thermometers instead, to measure body temperature, because _____.

12. In order to avoid bad effects on our health, which of the following habits should we keep?

13. Read the information. Choose the correct answer to the question.

Information in the Thanh Nien newspaper issued on April 10, 2017:
Nguyễn Văn Chung là con út trong một gia đình có 6 anh chị em tại một vùng quê ở Hà Nội. Năm Chung học lớp 9, một tai nạn khiến Chung bị đứt mất cả đôi chân. Quyết không trở thành người vô dụng, Chung đã tập cách di chuyển bằng đôi tay. Sau đó, Chung lại tiếp tục học bơi, trở thành một vận động viên bơi lội giỏi và đạt được nhiều huy chương vàng, bạc, đồng trong các cuộc thi. Không dừng lại ở đó, chàng vận động viên này đã dấn thân vào con đường kinh doanh, chọn tiêu chí sạch, an toàn cho sức khoẻ và thân thiện với môi trường làm định hướng khởi nghiệp. Từ đó, Chung đã cho ra đời sản phẩm xà bông làm từ nhiều vật liệu tự nhiên như dầu dừa, mật ong, bột nghệ, tinh dầu... Chung tâm niệm rằng anh muốn kinh doanh để kiếm tiền lo cho mẹ. Nhưng kinh doanh không phải là chỉ nghĩ đến đồng tiền bỏ vào túi. Mình phải nghĩ đến chuyện làm một việc gì đó vừa có thu nhập cho bản thân vừa có thể giúp ích xã hội... Hiện tại sản phẩm của Chung đã có mặt ở Hà Nội, TP.Hồ Chí Minh và được nhiều khách hàng tin dùng.
Which of the following points of view does the above-mentioned content NOT express?

14. Lên non mới biết non cao, Nuôi con mới biết công lao mẹ hiền. The word “non” in the poem is synonymous to the word “non” in:

15. Fresh water (drinking water and running water (nước sinh hoạt) through water pipes supplying households in Ho Chi Minh city is mostly taken from _____.

16. In more than 1 000 years, our country continuously fought against Northern invaders. The first uprising of our people against those invaders was that of _____.

17. In more than 1000 years, our country continuously fought against Northern invaders. The hero leading our struggle against those invaders, winning back independence for our country, forever ending the Northern invasions was _____.

18. A normal person has an average heart rate of 70 beats per minute. Each beat pumps an average of 70 ml of blood through the heart. The total volume of blood pumped through the heart per day is closest to _____.

19. A shop sells bottled drinking water priced 3 000 đồng/bottle. The shop has a promotion program (chương trình khuyến mãi) offering 1 bottle free for every 5 bottles bought. A teacher is planning a field trip for a class of 34 students, and needs to buy each student one bottle of water. The amount of money the teacher has to pay is _____.

20. The same segments (đoạn thẳng) are arranged to form the number 6805. When moving only two segments, we will have a new four-digit number. The highest possible value of that new number is _____.