(Blogchuyenanh) Đề thi thử Tuyển sinh lớp 10 THPT Chuyên năm học 2014-2015 đề số 2 Mã A818513

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ĐỀ THI THỬ TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 THPT CHUYÊN

Năm học: 2014-2015 Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH (chuyên) Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian phát đề

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PHẦN TRẮC NGHIỆM (5 điểm)

Read the following Terry Steven’s reviews of four great science fictions films. For questions 1–10, choose from the reviews A–D. The reviews may be chosen more than once.

A 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

One of the most controversial films of any genre, 2001: A Space Odyssey came from a collaboration between the director, Stanley Kubrick, and the science fiction writer, Arthur C Clarke. It’s not an easy film to sum up. The plot is mostly beside the point. It involves a government cover- up of something called the Monolith, and a malfunctioning computer’s efforts to preserve the integrity of a space mission. Almost independently of this are separate strands dealing with human evolution from prehistoric times to the space age. Many have attempted to try and pin down this work with explanations about its deeper significance and purpose, and to this day there are heated exchanges about this. But such attempts at analysis may be missing the point. What stays in the mind is the impact the film has on the senses. Even its strongest critics never forget it. There are long stretches where very little happens, and for many the pace, or lack of it, is too much to bear, but at the same time it is visually astonishing and has a soundtrack of often dissonant classical music played so loud that it often interferes with what characters say. Its visual style has probably had more lasting influence than anything else about it. The incredible attention to physical detail showed the way to other film-makers, and critics argue that despite modern computer graphics, some scenes have never been bettered.

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Star Wars (1977) It is almost impossible to argue against the inclusion of Star Wars or its rather darker sequel Empire Strikes Back, in any list of top science fiction movies. Essentially westerns set in space, they cover the universal themes of good versus evil, while making the leading actors Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher deliver lines of mind- boggling absurdity on a regular basis. The epic saga revolves around a battle between an authoritarian Empire led by the Emperor and his part-human, part-machine henchman Darth Vader on one side, and a small group of rebels on the other. The emphasis, however, is not on exploring deeper problems of the human condition. Nor, unlike some film-makers, do the creators of Star Wars trouble themselves with rooting their creations in the normal laws of physics; the force-wielding Jedi fight with theoretically impossible lightsabers and light-speed travel takes place in an implausible ‘hyperspace’. But the first two Star Wars films have been the supreme blockbusters and paved the way in creating franchises for toys, games and replicas that no major science fiction film can do without nowadays.

Blade Runner (1982) Whether you prefer the original, rather theatrical release with its bored-sounding narrator or the director’s cut of a few years later (without a narrator), Blade Runner is perennially placed in opinion polls among the top five movies ever made in the genre. Directed by Ridley Scott, who was broadly inspired by a Philip K Dick short story called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the film revolves around Harrison Ford’s policeman, Rick Deckard, and his hunt for four cloned humans, known as replicants, in an authoritarian city state some time in the future. Replicants, among them a fascinating character played by Rutger Hauer, have been declared illegal and Deckard is a ‘blade runner’, a specialist in exterminating them. Adding to the interest is the issue of whether Deckard himself is a replicant. This is never clearly resolved in the film, but fans continue to disagree over …