Đề tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 Tiếng Anh năm 2026-2027 Chuyên Anh Phan Bội Châu Nghệ An (có đáp án)

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Choose the correct letter A, B or C for Questions from 1 to 8. (2.0 pts)

Questions from 9 to 16 (2.0 pts)

Listen and complete the notes below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. You will listen TWICE. Write your answers in the boxes provided.

Questions 9 – 11:

NOTES ON SOCIAL PROGRAMME

Recommended places which have:

    - historical interest

    - good (Question 9:) ________

    - (Question 10:) ________

Cost: between £5.00 and £15.00 per person

Note: special trips organised for groups of more than twelve people

Time: departure - 8.30 a.m and return - 6.00 p.m.

To reserve a seat: sign name on the (Question 11:) ________ 3 days in advance

Question 12-16:

Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, but some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (✓) in the space provided on your answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on your answer sheet. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00). (1.0 pt)

                    How to Embrace Minimalism When Traveling

0    There's a certain romance to the traveller been weighed down by an           .....been.....

00   oversized suitcase, or so the airline advertising would have us believe. Yet ..... ✓ .....

23   seasoned globetrotters have not long known a different truth: baggage is a   ...............

24   burden, not a blessing. Consider the frantic queues at luggage carousels or  ...............

25   the quiet panic when a bag does fails to appear. These small miseries,       ...............

26   however, can barely be avoided. The emerging philosophy of 'travel           ...............

     minimalism' argues that packing less isn't merely about saving on check-in

     fees; rather, it's a gateway to sharper focus and unexpected freedom.

Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Write your answer on the answer sheet. (1.0 pt)

Match each half-sentence in COLUMN A with its suitable one in COLUMN B to make a complete sentence. There are two left out. (1.5 pts)

READING COMPREHENSION - QUESTIONS 41 - 60: (5.0 pts)

Read the passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions below. (2.5 pts)

Christophe Petyt is sitting in a Paris café, listing the adornments of his private art collection: several Van Goghs, and a comprehensive selection of the better impressionists. “I can,” he says quietly, “really get to know any painting I like, and so can you.” Half an hour later I am sitting in his office with Degas’ The Jockeys on my lap. If fine art looks good in a gallery, believe me, it feels even better in your hands. Petyt is the world’s leading dealer in fake masterpieces, a man whose activities provoke both admiration and exasperation in the higher levels of the art world. Name the painting and for as little as 1,000 pounds he will deliver you a copy so well executed that even the original artist might have been taken in.

Petyt’s company employs over eighty painters, each ordered in the style. of a particular artist or school. “We choose them very carefully,” he says. “They’re usually people with very good technique but not much creativity, who are unlikely to make it as artists in their own right. But they love the great works and have real insight into what’s gone into them.” Every work is individually commissioned, using new canvases and traditional oil paints, before being artificially aged by a variety of simple but ingenious techniques.

The notional value of the original is not the determining factor, however, when it comes to setting the retail value of Petyt’s paintings. This is actually linked to the amount of effort and expertise that has gone into producing the copy. An obscure miniature may therefore cost much more than a bigger, better-known painting by a grand master. The Degas I’m holding looks as though it came off the artist’s easel yesterday. Before being sold it has to be aged, and this, so to speak, is the real “art” of the copy. A few minutes in a hot oven can put years on a canvas, black tea apparently stains it beautifully and new frames can be buried underground, then sprayed with acid. [1]

The view when Petyt started out was that very little of this could be legal. He was pursued through the French courts by museums and by descendants of the artists. This concern was perhaps understandable in a country that has been rocked by numerous art fraud scandals. “The establishment was suspicious of us,” huffs Petyt, “but for the wrong reasons, I think Some people want to keep all the best art for themselves.” He won the case and as the law now stands, the works and signatures of any artist who has been dead for seventy years can be freely copied. The main proviso is that the copy cannot be passed off to dealers as the real thing. [II] To prevent this every new painting is indelibly marked on the back of the canvas, and as an additional precaution a tiny hidden piece of gold leaf is worked into the paint.

Until he started the business ten years ago, Paetyt, a former business-school student, barely knew one artist from another. Then one particular painting by Van Gogh caught his eye. [III] At $10 million, it was well beyond his reach so he came up with the idea of getting an art-student friend to paint him a copy. In an old frame. it looked absolutely wonderful, and Petyt began to wonder what market there might be for it. He picked up a coffee-table book of well-known paintings, earmarked a random selection of works and got his friend to knock them off. “Within a few months I had about twenty good copies.” he says, “so I organised an exhibition. In two weeks we’d sold the lot, and got commissions for sixty more.” It became clear that a huge and lucrative market existed for fake art.

Petyt's paintings are exhibited away from the traditional art centres - in places with lavish houses in need of equally impressive works of art. Although their owners include rock stars, fashion designers and top businesspeople, they either cannot afford or more likely simply cannot obtain great works of art. Petyt is understandably reluctant to name any of his clients, but says that sometimes even the owner of the original will occasionally commission a copy. [IV] The best paintings are so valuable,' he explains, 'that it's risky to have them at home and the costs of security and insurance are huge. So some collectors keep the original in a bank vault and hang our copy.'

Is it art? Petyt draws a parallel: 'Take music, for example. Does Celine Dion compose her own tunes - write her own lyrics? She's interpreting someone else's work, but she's still an artist. Classical musicians often try to produce a sound as close as possible to what they think the composer intended. Nobody's suggesting they're anything but artists. With us, maybe, it's the same.'

Read the following passage and do the task that follows. (1.0 pt)

A. More than eighty years after its first publication. Thach Lam's "Hanoi's 36 Streets" still teaches readers how to see a city. Unlike travel guides that list monuments and museums, this collection of essays captures something more elusive: the soul of Hanoi through everyday moments. A member of the Self-Reliance Literary Group, Thach Lam avoided both grand descriptions and harsh criticism. Instead, he wrote gently about small beauties the night cries of street vendors on Hang Bac Street, the aroma of early-season sticky rice from Vong Village, and a morning cup of tea. These are not grand events. But together, they form a portrait of a city where elegance hides in simplicity. His approach was unusual for the 1930s and 1940s. While many writers focused on social realism, Thach Lam chose sentimentalism, believing that preserving ordinary beauty was itself an act of resistance

B. Consider how Thach Lam writes about a single dish: bun cha. He wondered why ordinary ingredients rice noodles, grilled meat, herbs could create such an extraordinary flavor. His answer reveals his philosophy. The person who first invented bun cha, he argued, deserved recognition as a creative artist. Not a cook, but an artist. The magic lay not in expensive ingredients but in perfect balance: the grilled meat on fresh bamboo skewers, the thinly wrapped noodles, the precisely mixed dipping sauce. And especially the Lang mint a herb that grows only in Hanoi. Take it anywhere else, Thach Lam noted, and it loses its distinctive scent For him, bun cha was not fast food. It was a "masterpiece" - rustic yet elegant, ordinary yet irreplaceable.

C. The book also traces the rhythm of Tet, Vietnam's lunar New Year, through three acts. Before Tet the streets buzz with shoppers; the scent of candies, jams, and incense fills every alley. During Tet. Hanoi seems to exhale. Street vendors disappear. Firecrackers echo through quiet neighborhoods. A feeling of togetherness seeps into each home. Then comes the aftermath. Thach Lam captures this with heartbreaking precision: "The joy of Tet has gone with the firecracker remnants that people sweep away, never to return. And so another year has passed." He does not mourn loudly. Instead, he lets the emptiness speak for itself. What makes his writing timeless is this restraint - the ability to describe loss without sentimentality, to feel deeply without shouting.

D. Published in 1943, "Hanoi's 36 Streets" contains just fourteen short essays. Yet its influence extends far beyond literature. As Hanoi modernises, expanding streets, erecting high-rises, speeding up daily life, the book is a bridge between past and present. It reminds readers that a city's identity does not reside in concrete structures. It lives in how people love, how they eat, how they greet each other on a quiet morning. Thach Lam teaches us to value the simple beauty around us: a bowl of pho at a street corner, the smile of a vendor, the scent of Lang mint that refuses to grow elsewhere. Seventy-one years after Hanoi's liberation, the soul of the capital still beats in those small moments. Thech Lam simply showed us where to listen.

The passage has four paragraphs A-D. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from

list of headings below. Write the correct number i-viii in boxes 51-54 on your answer sheet.

Read the passage and fill in ONE suitable word for each blank. (1.5 pts)

Across the low-lying coastal regions of Vietnam. a quiet but remarkable change is (55)_______ shape. For decades, local communities faced the full (56)_______ of ferocious typhoons and rising sea levels, which ate away at their land and threatened their livelihoods. But a strategic move towards ecological restoration has brought a powerful natural defence system: mangrove forests. This layered green canopy does more than just make the shoreline look beautiful. It serves (57)_______ an essential buffer zone. By absorbing the energy of powerful waves and trapping sediment in their intricate root networks, these coastal forests hold back erosion effectively. As a result, coastal towns that were (58)_______ highly vulnerable to seasonal disasters now enjoy a level of environmental stability they have never known, proving that nature-based solutions can work better than artificial barriers.

Beyond their immediate protective role, these intertidal ecosystems are an unparalleled asset in the global fight against climate change. Mangroves are exceptionally good at pulling carbon dioxide from the air, locking it away in their biomass and the soil beneath for centuries. Scientists call this stored carbon "blue carbon", a resource with immense value in the global carbon market. (59)_______ that a single hectare of healthy mangrove forest can store up to ten (60)_______ more carbon than a rainforest on land, protecting these habitats is absolutely vital. By contrast, destroying such areas releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere, which compounds global warming. So preserving these coastal forests is no longer just a local necessity; it has become a core part of international climate action.

(Adapted from: https://www.undp.org)