Đề thi học kì 2 môn Tiếng Anh lớp 11 - trường THPT chuyên Lý Tự Trọng

I. PHONOLOGY   

II. GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS

Choose the best answer.

III. READING

A. Cloze test: Choose the word among A, B, C, or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.

The 15^th Asian Games (15) _______ from December 1^st through December 15^th, 2006, in Doha, Capital of Qatar. More than 10,000 athletes, who represented 45 countries and regions, took part in 39 sports and 424 events of the Games, the most important event in Asia. Some new events such as chess and triathlon were also (16)_______ in the Games.

The 15^th Asian Games was (17) _______ at 34 sporting venues, including Khalifa Stadium, (18) _______ hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. The Opening Ceremony of the 15^th Asian Games, Doha 2006, at Khalifa Stadium, was the most spectacular opening of any Games with 50,000 people to get into Khalifa Stadium and more than one billion television viewers. The Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee (DAGOC) wanted to ensure that everybody who saw the ceremony would have a (19) _______ for life as suggested in the slogan "The Games of Your Life."

The 15^th Asian Games was a successful sporting event that all the attendees would never forget. 

B. Reading comprehension: Read the text and choose the best answer.

   A new study shows that women can reduce their chances of developing heart disease by jogging for about three hours every week. The researchers at Harvard Medical School in Bostonhave just reported the results of the study on the New England Journal of Medicine. The study is the first to show the effectiveness of jogging in the developing of heart disease in women. Only a few earlier studies have examined the effects of jogging on the heart, but nearly all have been done on men. The new study involves more than 72,000 women between the ages of forty and sixty-five during a period of eight years. The researchers have found that women who jog at least three hours a week have a thirty to forty percent lower chance of suffering a heart attack than those who do not.