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SỞ GD & ĐT THÁI BÌNH TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ XIV, NĂM 2022 ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT Đề thi môn: TIẾNG ANH – LỚP 11 Thời gian thi: 180 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề) (Đề thi gồm 13 trang) Điểm Giám khảo1 Bằng số Giám khảo Số phách Bằng chữ A: LISTENING (50 points) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU • Bài nghe gồm phần, phần nghe lần, lần cách 30 giây, mở đầu kết thúc phần nghe có tín hiệu • Mở đầu kết thúc nghe có tín hiệu nhạc Thí sinh có phút để hồn chỉnh trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc nghe • Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) có nghe Part 1: For questions – 5, listen to part of a podcast by HubSpot marketing about remote working and decide whether the statements are True (T) or False (F) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes By 2009, there had been over 300 thousand IBM employees working remotely Localization of workers was believed to boost work productivity, agility and innovation According to a research by Harvard Business Review, many remote employees feel being discriminated by their non-remote counterparts Over half the number of workers would like to their part-time job at flexible hours It is advisable for managers to keep themselves posted about remote workers' situations Your answers Part 2: For questions – 10, listen to a student called Wei Liu, talking to a restaurant manager about a part-time job and answer the questions Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS taken from the recording for each answer What kind of job is Wei Liu looking for? _ What is his profession at the moment? _ According to the woman a barista is someone who does what? _ Apart from the name, what else is new at Tanner’s? _ 10 Why don’t you need to be an expert to bake the cakes at Tanner’s? _ Page of 13 pages Part 3: For questions 11 – 15, listen to part of a program in which two racing drivers, Eddie Kiwitz and Jenny Pelaw, are discussing their profession and choose the answer (A, B, C, or D) which fits best according to what you hear Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes 11 What does Eddie say to Jenny about being the number one driver in the world? A She will have to adjust quickly to her new status B She needs to recognise that nobody is unbeatable C She must convince herself that she is worthy of the title D She must keep reminding herself that she can still improve 12 What we learn about a leading journalist’s criticism of Jenny? A It led Eddie to leap to Jenny’s defence B It was widely seen as unnecessarily harsh C It didn’t upset Jenny as much as people thought D It provided Jenny with the motivation she needed 13 When talking about differences between their respective eras, Eddie and Jenny agree that _ A there is now less comradeship among drivers B drivers are now more prone to self-doubt C racing has become substantially safer D nowadays drivers tend to go faster 14 What view Eddie and Jenny share about simulators? A Their influence is likely to increase as time goes on B They are useful for drivers working on technique C They are no substitute for natural ability D Their attempt to provide fitness is ill-conceived 15 What effect has the experience had on Cindy? A rather regretting some of the things he did B being rather indifferent to Jenny’s enthusiasm C wanting to avoid the public eye wherever possible D preferring the racing world from when he was a driver Your answers 11 12 13 14 15 Part 4: For questions 16 – 25, listen to a news report by National Geographic about historical revolutions and complete the following table Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording in each blank Definition Common characteristics A (16) _ transition from one government to another • Mass frustration • Shared motivation • (17) with wealth, education or power • State crises These characteristics help revolutions, albeit unalike, demonstrate the dynamism of human nature and (18) The Latin American Revolution The French Revolution Examples The Russian Revolution The American Revolution - Challenged traditional (19) - Ultimately led to the battle for (20) _ - Partly an outcome of social inequalities originating from a(n) (21) - Eventually (22) _ for good - Occurred due to the (23) of the government - Replaced (24) with its communist regime - Incited by contribution to (25) _ - One of the earliest revolutions in modern history Page of 13 pages B: GRAMMAR & LEXICO (30 points) Part 1: For questions – 20, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes Remember not to sneeze or cough at the wedding , excuse yourself A For necessary B In due course C If need be D In retrospect He has done things he ought not to have done and undone things he ought to have done A leaving B will leave C left D leave In your place, I _ to others for help There’s no way of finishing the project yourself A would have turned B must have turned C will turn D would turn circling the globe faster than Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg A Also known as a pioneer journalist, the exploits of Nellie Bly included B The exploits of Nellie Bly, a pioneer journalist, included C A pioneer journalist, Nellie Bly’s exploits also included D Included in Nellie Bly’s exploits, who was a pioneer journalist, Jimmy doesn’t like my cooking, but it doesn’t bother me _, I’d say A Everyone to his own B Each to his own C Each one his own D Everyone’s his own My sister _ and then finally admitted she'd worn my shoes A waxed and waned B ranted and raved C hemmed and hawed D racked and ruined The two groups were into signing the agreement, despite their objections A shanghaied B beijinged C wuhaned D hongkonged Congressman Saunders fired the opening during a heated debate on capital punishment A cannonade B barrage C salvo D burst Drug abuse _ a major threat to the _ of our society A poses/fabric B strikes/fabric C hits/cotton D strikes/thread 10 Large quantities of condensed milk, put up in _ sealed tins, are sold for use in mining camps A hermetically B eccentrically C enigmatically D esoterically 11 Under the administration of the crooked sheriff, corruption was _ on the police force A profuse B steadfast C staunch D rampant 12 He started a small delicatessen, and within weeks he was making money A hand over fist B hand over mouth C neck over shoulder D arm over leg 13 They were really excited to the project, but now they seem to have gone off the A mill B rails C steam D boil 14 She gave him a long, kiss before saying goodbye A transient B persistent C lingering D protracted 15 The train service has been a _ since they introduced the new schedules A shambles B rumpus C chaos D fracas 16 The designer refuses to gild the _, preferring simple lines of his creations A lily B rose C daisy D daffodil 17 The organization had to _ its emergency fund in response to the unexpected catastrophe A set aside B fall upon C dip into D take up 18 Before a judge takes a decision, he has to take all the evidence into A consideration B speculation C deliberation D exemplification 19 The country is an economic with chronic unemployment and pervasive crime A lost cause B basket case C false dawn D dark horse 20 The job creation scheme is still in its A childhood B babyhood C initiation D infancy Your answers 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Part 2: For questions 21 – 30, write the correct form of each bracketed word in each sentence in the corresponding numbered spaces provided in the column on the right Your answers 21 He represents not the continuing power of symbolic _ but its recession into 21 _ the dead past (INVEST) 22 The cost of living keeps rising, especially for _ expenditure such as rent and 22 _ mortgage payments, healthcare and childcare (DISCRETION) 23 Our expansion plans will have to be in the current economic crisis 23 _ (BURN) 24 The judge dismissed his DUI charge but convicted him for improper lane 24 _ Page of 13 pages changing and refusing the _ test (BREATHE) 25 is the quickest method of removing potassium from the bloodstream (FILTER) 26 Within the system, he’s a pitiful nothing, unable to speak without a _, an affirmative-action phony doomed to inevitable defeat (PROMPT) 27 Many voters feel that the governor has not acted in a(n) manner for someone who serves as the state's chief executive (FIT) 28 Rob suspected this was perhaps the first real _ he had had in his life, something that probably his own father had never done (DRESS) 29 It is the recognition of identity _ that has allowed these women to construct a new identity brick by brick (CLOSE) 30 These recordings were often of very poor technical quality, many having been made in _ studios behind record shops (MAKE) 25 _ 26 _ 27 _ 28 _ 29 _ 30 _ C: READING (60 points) Part 1: For questions – 10, read the text below and fill in each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes In the immediate post-war years, the city of Birmingham scheduled some 50,000 small working class cottages as slums (1) for demolition Today that process is nearly complete Yet it is clear that, quite apart from any question of race, an environmental problem (2) The expectation built into the planning policies of 1945 was that in the foreseeable future the city would be a better place to live in But now that slum clearance has run its (3) , there seems to be universal agreement that the total environment where the slums (4) stood is more depressing than ever For the past ten years the slum clearance areas have looked like bomb sites The buildings and places which survive (5) so on islands in a sea of rubble and ash When the slums were there they supported an organic community life and each building, each activity, fitted in as part of the (6) But now that they have been destroyed, nothing meaningful appears to remain, or (7) those activities which go on not seem to have any meaningful relation to the place They happen there because it is an empty stage which no one is using anymore Typical of the inner-city in this sense is the Birmingham City Football Ground Standing in unsplendid (8) on what is now wasteland on the edge of Small Heath, it brings into the area a stage army on twenty or so Saturdays a year who come and cheer and then go away again with little concern any more for the place where they have done their cheering Even they, however, have revolted recently ‘The ground’ says the leader of the revolt, ‘is a slum’, thus putting his (9) on the fact that the demolition of houses creates rather than (10) problems of the inner-city Your answers 10 Part 3: For questions 11 – 20, read the passage below and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes WRITING FICTION Because I am a novelist myself, I am always faintly fussed by the idea of creative writing courses I completely accept that you can teach the craft, that you can give instruction on how to structure a book, how to vary space and tension, how to write dialogue But what you can’t teach, it seems to me is the right kind of interpretation of what has been observed It worries me to think of all those earnest pupils who have diligently mastered the mechanics, wondering with varying degrees of misery and rag why the finished recipe just hasn’t somehow worked The great writer Samuel Coleridge explained it He said that there are two kinds of imagination, the primary and the secondary We all, he said, possess the primary imagination, we all have the capacity to perceive, to notice But what only poets (loosely translated as all truly creative people, I suppose) have - the secondary imagination is the capacity to select, and then translate and illuminate everything that has been observed so that it seems to the audience something entirely new, something entirely true, something exciting, wonderful and terrible There is, after all, nothing new to say about the human condition There is nothing to say that Shakespeare or Sophocles hasn’t already, inimitably, brilliantly, said Codes of product, fashions in morality and Page of 13 pages ethics, all may come and go But what the human heart has desired - and feared – down the ages goes on being very much the same The novelist’s task is to follow the well-trodden, time-worn path of human hopes and terrors Never forget: betrayal may be as old as time, it may happen every nanosecond of every minute that’s ever been, but the first time it happens to you feels like the first time in the history of the world A cliché is a cliché only if it is comfortably taking place in someone else’s life This empathy is vital in the writing of fiction Coleridge’s view of the poet as prophet to the hungry hordes is, in truth, a bit grand for me I admire it, but I am not, personally, quite up to it I am happier seeing the novelist, sleeves rolled up, in the thick of it alongside the reader, bleeding when pricked, in just the same way that the reader does The only capacity I would claim is that I have an instinct to select, from everything I have noticed in half a century’s beady-eyed people-watching, the telling detail, the apt phrase I seem to be good at the rhythms of dialogue I seem to know how not to overwrite But that is it really Except that the older I get, the more prepared I am to surrender and trust to the power of the unconscious mind Maybe this is a modest form of the secondary imagination, maybe not Whatever it is, it produces a level and intensity of communication that causes people to buy my books and write to me about them in numbers that I still can’t get over What I believe, fervently, is that we are all in this boat together – writer, reader, critic I have a tattered little quotation that lies on my desk and becomes more valuable to me as time goes on It comes from the autobiography of the celebrated nineteenth-century writer Anthony Trollope He said many remarkable things in this book, but my own personal favourite is on the subject of the novelist’s central preoccupation Trollope is not so much concerned with the landscape of the grand passions as with something else, something less glamorous perhaps, but just as intense and certainly more universal: ‘My task’, he wrote, ‘is to chronicle those little daily lacerations upon the spirit.’ I feel a thrill of recognition every time I read that, or even think about it That is what the writer’s life is all about for me The point of it is to emphasise that we are none of us immune to longing, or disappointment (much under-rated, in my view, as a source for distress), or frustration, or idiotic hope, or bad behaviour What fiction does, in this difficult world, is to reassure us that we are not alone, nor we are (most of us) lost causes There is a theory that suffering strengthens and elevates us in a way that joy can never somehow I’m not so sure about that Isn’t it just that we have, on the whole, so much more suffering than joy that we have resolved, out of our great surviving instinct, to insist that something worthwhile must be made of it? And isn’t fiction a handrail, of a kind, which we can all grasp while we blunder about in the dark? Isn’t fiction written by people for people about people? And is there a subject more fascinating or more important? 11 What view does the novelist express about creative writing courses? A A few good books emerge from them B It would be inappropriate for her to teach on them C Students are frustrated by the poor teaching on them D Some aspects of writing skills can be successfully taught on them 12 The novelist implies that a writer’s most valuable asset is A an instinct for the unusual B a gift for meticulous observation C the ability to put a fresh interpretation on the everyday world D the ability to highlight sensational aspects of our existence 13 What is stated about writers in the third paragraph? A They should not exploit their readers’ fears B They should revisit well-established themes C They should be prepared to exaggerate their personal experience D They should not try to keep pace with changes in literary tastes 14 The phrase ‘the well-trodden, time-worn path’ refers to themes of writing that are A familiar and long-standing B extraordinary and profound C up-to-date and catchy D simple and soulful 15 The word ‘prophet’ refers to writer as a(n) person A conservative B receptive C impartial D emotional 16 The novelist states that one of her own strengths as a writer lies in A her depiction of character B her construction of plot C her command of language D her knowledge of psychology 17 Why does novelist admire Anthony Trollope? A He portrays the fact that everyone suffers in some way B He realises that all writers need a strong sense of place C He understands that everyone craves deep emotion Page of 13 pages D He is aware that all writers have a particular obsession 18 The word ‘lacerations’ refers to events A exhilarating B epoch-making C pathetic D trivial 19 The novelist describes fiction as ‘a handrail, of a kind’ because it A reflects the negative aspects of emotion B enables us to deal with failure C helps us make sense of complex events D offers reassurance in an uncertain world 20 Which theme recurs in this text? A The need for novelists to avoid complex philosophical questions B The need for novelists to develop their writing techniques C The need for novelists to give an accurate reflection of the spirit of the time D The need for novelists to identify closely with readers’ preoccupations Your answers 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Part 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions 21 – 33 ANCIENT CHINESE CHARIOTS A The Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty, according to traditional historiography, ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium Archaeological work at the Ruins of Yin (near modern-day Anyang), which has been identified as the last Shang capital, uncovered eleven major Yin royal tombs and the foundations of palaces and ritual sites, containing weapons of war and remains from both animal and human sacrifices B The Tomb of Fu Hao is an archaeological site at Yinxu, the ruins of the ancient Shang Dynasty capital Yin, within the modem city of Anyang in Henan Province, China Discovered in 1976 ，it was identified as the final resting place of the queen and military general Fu Hao The artifacts unearthed within the grave included jade objects, bone objects, bronze objects etc These grave goods are confirmed by the oracle texts, which constitute almost all of the first hand written record we possess of the Shang Dynasty Below the corpse was a small pit holding the remains of six sacrificial dogs and along the edge lay the skeletons of human slaves, evidence of human sacrifice C The Terracotta Army was discovered on 29 March 1974 to the east of Xian in Shaanxi The terracotta soldiers were accidentally discovered when a group of local farmers was digging a well during a drought around 1.6 km (1 mile) east of the Qin Emperors tomb around at Mount Li (Lishan), a region riddled with underground springs and watercourses Experts currently place the entire number of soldiers at 8,000 — with 130 chariots (130 cm long), 530 horses and 150 cavalry horses helping to ward of any dangers in the afterlife In contrast, the burial of Tutank Hamun yielded six complete but dismantled chariots of unparalleled richness and sophistication Each was designed for two people (90 cm long) and had its axle sawn through to enable it to be brought along the narrow corridor into the tomb D Excavation of ancient Chinese chariots has confirmed the descriptions of them in the earliest texts Wheels were constructed from a variety of woods: elm provided the hub, rose-wood the spokes and oak the felloes The hub was drilled through to form an empty space into which the tampering axle was fitted ， the whole being covered with leather to retain lubricating oil Though the number of spokes varied, a wheel by the fourth century BC usually had eighteen to thirty-two of them Records show how elaborate was the testing of each completed wheel: flotation and weighing were regarded as the best measures of balance, but even the empty spaces in the assembly were checked with millet grains One outstanding constructional asset of the ancient Chinese wheel was dishing Dishing refers to the dish-like shape of an advanced wooden wheel, which looks rather like a flat cone On occasion they chose to strengthen a dished wheel with a pair of struts running from rim to rim on each of the hub As these extra supports were inserted separately into the felloes, they would have added even greater strength to the wheel Leather wrapped up the edge of the wheel aimed to retain bronze E Within a millennium, however, Chinese chariot-makers had developed a vehicle with shafts, the precursor of the true carriage or cart This design did not make its appearance in Europe until the end of the Roman Empire Because the shafts curved upwards, and the harness pressed against a horse’s shoulders, not his neck, the shaft chariot was incredibly efficient The halberd was also part of chariot standard weaponry This halberd usually measured well over metres in length, which meant that a chariot warrior wielding it sideways could strike down the charioteer in a passing chariot The speed of chariot which was tested on the sand was quite fast At speed these passes were very dangerous for the crews of both chariots F The advantages offered by the new chariots were not entirely missed They could see how there were literally the warring states, whose conflicts lasted down the Qin unification of China Qin Shi Huang was buried in the most opulent tomb complex ever constructed in China, a sprawling, city-size collection of underground caverns containing everything the emperor would need for the afterlife Even a collection of terracotta armies called Terra- Cotta Warriors was buried in it The ancient Chinese, along with many Page of 13 pages cultures including ancient Egyptians, believed that items and even people buried with a person could be taken with him to the afterlife For questions 21 – 24, decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered spaces provided in the column on the right Your answers When discovered, the written records of the grave goods proved to be accurate 21 _ Human skeletons in Anyang tomb were identified as soldiers who were killed in the war 22 _ The Terracotta Army was discovered by people lived who lived nearby, by chance 23 _ The size of the King Tutankhamen’s tomb is bigger than that of in Qin Emperors’ tomb 24 _ For questions 25 – 30, complete the following note using ONE WORD ONLY taken from the passage for each blank Write your answers in the corresponding numbered spaces • • • • • • The hub is made of wood from the tree of (25) _ The room through the hub was to put tempering axle in which is wrapped up by leather aiming to retain (26) _ The number of spokes varied from 18 to (27) _ The shape of wheel resembles a (28) _ Two was used to strengthen the wheel (29) _ Leather wrapped up the edge of the wheel aimed to remain (30) _ For questions 31 – 33, write your answers to the questions below, using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passgae for each blank 31 What body part of horse was released the pressure from to the shoulder? _ 32 What kind road surface did the researchers measure the speed of the chariot? _ 33 What part of his afterlife palace was the Emperor Qin Shi Huang buried in? _ Part 4: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed For questions 34 – 40, read the passage and choose from paragraphs (A-H) the one which best fits each gap There is ONE EXTRA PARAGRAPH you not need to use Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes The 110 young men, women, and children who boarded the Clotilda in May 1860 came from Bantè, Dahomey, Kebbi, Atakora, and other regions of Benin and Nigeria Among them were people from the Yoruba, Isha, Dendi, Nupe, and Fon ethnic groups Their parents had named them Kossola, Kupollee, Abile, Abache, Gumpa 34 One man, Kupollee, had a small hoop in each ear, which meant he had been initiated in an ile-orisa-house of the god - into the religion of the Yoruba Ossa Keeby came from Kebbi in Nigeria, a kingdom renowned for its professional fishermen Like 19-year-old Kossola (later known as Cudjo Lewis), several were victims of a raid by the slave-trading kingdom of Dahomey Kossola said he came from modest means, but his grandfather was an officer of a Bantè king At 14 he trained as a soldier and later began initiation into the Yoruba oro, the male secret society A young girl, Kêhounco (Lottie Dennison), was kidnapped, as were many others Their forced journeys ended in a slave pen in Ouidah 35 In the morning the dejected group waded neck-deep across a lagoon to reach the beach, where canoes transported them over the dangerous, sometimes deadly, surf to the Clotilda What happened next haunted them forever They were forced to remove their clothes The Africans’ total nakedness was a rule of the slave trade, officially - although quite ineffectively - to maintain cleanliness The last Clotilda survivors still bristled years later at the humiliation of being called naked savages by Americans who believed nudity was “African.” 36 Slave ships were places of unspeakable misery Solidarity was vital, and those who suffered together forged lifelong relationships that sometimes spanned generations - if they were not separated again On the Clotilda, over a month and a half, such a community was born 37 Short of workers for their developing plantations, slaveholders in the Deep South had for years bought people from the upper South at prices they found outrageous With the international slave trade illegal, some turned to smuggling In Alabama, despite Foster and Meaher’s precautions, the “secret” arrival was all over town and in the press within a day or two Meanwhile, the young Africans had disembarked into the desolate, mosquitoinfested canebrakes of Dabney’s Clarke County plantation Moved from one place to another to avoid detection, Page of 13 pages they were fed meat and cornmeal that made them sick They welcomed the rags, pieces of cornsacks, and skins they were given in lieu of clothes When federal authorities sent a crew led by a U.S marshal to find them, the Africans had already been moved to Burns’s plantation They “almost grieved themselves to death,” they confided half a century later 38 Timothy Meaher was arrested, released on bail, tried, and cleared of all charges Federal cases against Burns Meaher and Dabney were dismissed because “said negroes” were never found Foster was fined $1,000 for failing to pay the duties on his “imports.” Timothy Meaher awarded himself 16 males and 16 females; Burns took 20 of the captives, including Kêhounco; and James Meaher took Kossola and seven of his companions Foster received 16 individuals, among them Abile (Celia Lewis) Each person bought for $100 in Ouidah was now worth $1,000, and once acclimated could be sold for $2,000, or $60,000 in today’s dollars 39 When Meaher’s cook, Polly, slapped one of the young girls, she screamed like a “wild cat in the darkness,” Hart said Her shipmates came running from the fields with rakes, spades, and sticks in hand Polly darted up the stairs to Mary Meaher’s room They followed her and banged on the door Polly quit One day Burns’s overseer tried to whip a young woman They all jumped on him, grabbed the lash, and beat him up He never tried to brutalize them again One of the Africans, Sakarago, argued with a white man and was unconcerned by the high price he could pay for his audacity But it appears that where the shipmates were isolated, just two or three to a plantation, they were poorly treated Redoshi (Sallie Smith) told civil rights activist Amelia Boyton Robinson that “the slave masters and overseers beat us for every little thing when we didn’t understand American talk.” 40 For five years the shipmates labored in the cotton, rice, and sugarcane fields In Mobile several men worked on the river ships, firing the furnaces with tons of timber, loading and unloading bales of cotton During the Civil War, forced to build the city’s fortifications, they lived in abject conditions At last, on April 12, 1865, freedom came when the Union Army entered the city The Africans celebrated to the beat of a drum THE MISSING PARAGRAPHS A On July the shipmates glimpsed land in the distance They heard a noise they likened to a swarm of bees It was the sound of a tugboat towing the Clotilda up Mobile Bay They were transferred to a steamboat owned by Timothy Meaher’s brother Burns and taken upriver to John Dabney’s plantation while Foster took his ship to Twelve Mile Island There was no hiding the squalid remnants of a slaving voyage, and Foster risked the death penalty if caught He lit loose wood or perhaps lantern oil, and the ship he had built five years earlier went up in flames B Amid the sheer horror and misery, the captives found support and solidarity, until foreign slavers irreparably tore their newfound community apart According to newspaper interviews and oral histories given by the survivors over the years, when Clotilda captain Foster entered the grounds, people were ordered to form circles of 10 After inspecting their skin, teeth, hands, feet, legs, and arms, he selected 125 individuals In the evening they were told they would leave the next day Many spent the night crying They had no idea what loomed ahead and did not want to be separated from their loved ones C The next phase of the shipmates’ tribulation was their entry into the savage plantation world inhabited by black and white strangers Up to then they had been Yoruba, Dendi, Nupe, or Fon, with different languages and cultures At that moment they became Africans Identifying with a continent was as alien to them as it was to Europeans But they embraced their new identity with pride, regardless of others’ contempt Noah Hart, enslaved on Timothy Meaher’s plantation, recalled that they looked fierce, yet they never threatened the African Americans on the plantation or quarreled among themselves Acting as a group, they “wouldn’t stand a lick” from whites or blacks Several times they engaged in collective acts of resistance, unafraid of the consequences D Before the transfer was over, Foster saw steamers approaching Afraid he would be caught, he sailed away, leaving 15 people on the beach For the first 13 days at sea, every captive remained confined in the hold Decades later, in 1906, when Abache (Clara Turner) talked of the filth, the darkness, the heat, the chains, and the thirst to a writer from Harper’s magazine, “her eyes were burning, her soul inexpressibly agitated at the memory.” Despair, agony, and horror were compounded for powerless parents unable to alleviate their children’s fears and suffering One woman, later known as Gracie, had four daughters on board; the youngest, Matilda, was about two years old The lack of water was torture, and the meals - molasses and mush - did not help The sugary foods only intensified their thirst “One swallow” twice a day was all they got, and it tasted like vinegar The rain they caught in their mouths and hands was a fleeting relief There was sickness, and two people died E If their hometown was a nurturing haven, the African homelands were the idyllic places their mothers and fathers dreamed of “They say it was good there,” recalled Eva Allen Jones, Kupollee’s daughter “I seen them sit down and shed tears I see my father and Uncle Cudjo weep and shed tears talking about going home.” F The Africans largely kept to themselves and maintained practices they had grown up with The people from Atakora, in present-day Benin, buried their dead in deep graves, the corpses wrapped in bark The Yoruba Page of 13 pages plunged their new-borns into a creek, looking for signs of vitality One Fon couple tattooed their son’s chest with the image of a snake biting its tail, a sacred symbol of the kingdom of Dahomey G Timothy Meaher, eager to quickly settle his affairs, organized a sale As their new family was separated once again, the shipmates cried and sang a farewell song, wishing one another “no danger on the road.” While about 80 were taken to Mobile, the Mercury newspaper of July 23, 1860, reported, “some negroes who never learned to talk English, went up the Railroad the other day There were twenty-five of them, apparently all of the pure, unadulterated African stock.” As the group was walking, a circus passed by, and when the Africans heard an elephant, they screamed, “Ile, ile, ajanaku, ajanaku,” (“home,” “elephant,” in Yoruba and Fon) They spent the rest of their lives scattered across the Black Belt of Alabama Gracie was sold along with two of her daughters, but agonisingly, she never knew what happened to her other two H Some were long-distance traders, likely carrying salt, copper, and fabric They may have produced iron Others may have woven cloth, harvested yams, or made palm oil Some women were married and had children; they likely worked as farmers or market traders Your answers 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Part 5: You are going to read an article about Prairie Fever For questions 41 – 50, choose the best answer from sections (A–E) Some of the choices may be required more than once Write your answers in the corresponding numbered spaces in the right column PRAIRIE FEVER A How the British aristocracy was drawn to the frontier lands of 19th-century America is perhaps the most bizarre episode in the country's epic immigration story, and is revealed in a remarkable new book, Prairie Fever, by veteran BBC documentary maker Peter Pagnamenta Lured by romantic tales of the American outdoors by writers such as James Fennimore Cooper, and the real-life gun-slinging escapades of Wild Bill Hickock, these eccentric newcomers wanted the U.S on their own terms In settlements with reassuringly British names, such as Runnymede and Victoria, the British aristocracy set about ensuring that there was one corner of America that was forever England B The pioneers started arriving in the 1830s Some were sportsmen drawn by the promise of unlimited buffalo to hunt, others true adventurers They were led by Scotsman Sir William Stewart, a Waterloo veteran who spent seven years trekking through the Rockies, rubbing shoulders with mountain men, and fending off marauding bears and Indians His companion, Charles Murray, son of the Earl of Dunmore, lived for a spell with the Pawnee Indians The Old Etonian had to swallow his pride when his hosts ate his dog, but he impressed with rock-throwing contests in which he used skills honed in the Highland Games Sadly, few of the lords that followed were nearly so adaptable They often treated the locals and their customs with utter contempt Sir George Gore — a classic example of the breed went on a $100,000, three-year hunting expedition beginning in 1854 in Missouri American officials later accused him of slaughtering 6,000 buffalo, single-handedly endangering the Plains Indians Food supply Later, the English settlers wound up the Americans even more because of their air of superiority C By the 1870s, however, their American hosts had more to complain about than aristocratic rudeness – the British wanted to settle permanently The British ruling classes had realised that the American West wasn't just a good place to hunt and carouse, but also the perfect dumping ground for younger sons with few prospects at home, America, desperate for new settlers to farm prairie states like Kansas and Iowa, welcomed them with open arms Back in Britain, the Press followed the settlers closely ‘It was hot but everyone looked happy how much more sensible and useful lives they live there than they would live here at home!’ the Times reported Yet more astute observers noted that the British settlers never grasped the American work ethic For them, running their farms came a poor second to hunting and enjoying themselves D The prairie states were already dotted with ‘colonies’, each made up exclusively of workers from one part of America or one group of immigrants such as Danes or Russians In 1873, an enterprising Scottish gentleman farmer named George Grant had a brainwave - a colony in western Kansas populated entirely by the British upper classes, by stipulating that they had to have at least £2,000 in funds and would each get no less than a square mile of land, he kept out the rabble Victoria, as Grant patriotically called his settlement, was talked back home as a ‘Second Eden’, but the new arrivals —many of whom had never farmed in their lives- soon discovered it was a hard place to play the country gentleman No rain would fall for months and the temperature could soar to 105F in the shade Worst of all, nobody had mentioned the dense clouds of grasshoppers that would suddenly arrive and eat everything Despite their neighbours’ derision at these remittance men’ (so named because they relied on allowances from their parents), the two hundred or so colonists gamely battled on E In general, the colonists’ dreams came to nothing, and many headed home But there was one event that definitively ended the British aristocracy’s love affair with the West Encouraged by the vast sums to be made from cattle ranching, some wealthy British investors bought huge tracts of land One investor alone amassed 1.75 million acres and 100,000 cattle Enough was enough Tolerant when the British were buffoonish adventurers, Americans felt threatened once they became too rich U.S politicians stoked antiPage of 13 pages foreigner resentment, aided by widows out of their homes and rumours that some were so snobby they referred to their cowboys as ‘cow-servants’ Congress passed the Alien Land Act limiting foreign companies to buying no more than 5,000 acres in future In which section is each of the following mentioned? Your answers • the opinion that the settlers never got their priorities right 41 • the fact the settlers wanted nothing less than a home away from home 42 • the wish to maintain exclusivity in the British colonies 43 • the inability of the settlers to become truly independent of Britain 44 • the view that the English were naive in their expectations of the USA 45 • a difference in the locals’ and settlers’ cultural taboos 46 • the view that the British settlers were victims of their own success 47 • the fact that America offered a solution to a problem 48 • a newspaper showing lack of perception 49 • the disregard of the settlers for the locals’ way of life 50 D: WRITING (60 points) Part 1: Read the following extract and summarise it with your own words Your summary should be between 100 and 120 words long YOU MUST NOT COPY THE ORIGINAL A computer chip is a tiny piece of material (usually made of silicon), that contains a complex electronic circuit These chips are essential in modern computers and a variety of other electronic devices The circuit on a computer chip, sometimes called an integrated circuit, is made up of electronic components built into the chip Most chips are no larger than a fingernail Two Americans - Jack Kilby, an engineer, and Robert Noyce, a physicist, who worked independently patented the first computer chips in 1959 During the 1960s, scientists developed chips for guided missiles and satellites Engineers soon began to build smaller and faster computers by using chips in place of conventional circuits The first microprocessors were produced in 1971 for use in desktop calculators There are two main kinds of computer chips The first is called a microprocessor, which carries out the instructions that make up computer programs, and the other type is called a memory chip, which holds computer programs and other data Memory chips are used primarily in computers Microprocessors are used in computers and hundreds of other products A microprocessor serves as the 'heart' of every personal computer Larger computers have more than one such chip Other products controlled by microprocessors include video games, digital watches, microwave ovens and some telephones The body of most chips is made of silicon This material is used because it is a semiconductor In its pure form, silicon does not conduct electricity at room temperature But if certain impurities are added to silicon, it can carry an electric current Manufacturers 'dope' silicon chips with such impurities as boron and phosphorus The doped regions form the chip's electronic components, which control the electric signals carried on the chip The type and arrangement of the impurities determine how each component controls signals Most components serve as switches called transistors Others serve mainly as capacitors, which store an electric charge; diodes, which prevent current from flowing in one direction but not the other, and resistors, which control voltage The manufacturing of a computer chip begins with a wafer of doped silicon The wafer measures from 2.5 to 20 centimeters in diameter A photographic process reduces a large master design for the integrated circuit to microscopic size Technicians use these microscopic designs, called masks, as stencils to make hundreds of chips on one wafer After the wafer has been processed, it is divided into individual chips Some chips contain millions of components Certain parts of these components measure less than micrometer (0.001 millimeter) across Manufacturers create thin lines of metal - usually aluminium - on the chip to connect these tiny components Page 10 of 13 pages Part 2: This graph ranks active male tennis players by the number of singles Grand Slam titles they have won so far Write a report of about 150 words describing the information in the graph Select and report the main features and make comparisons where relevant Page 11 of 13 pages Part 3: Write an essay of about 350 words to express your opinion on the following topic: In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position Page 12 of 13 pages THE END Page 13 of 13 pages ... unexpected catastrophe A set aside B fall upon C dip into D take up 18 Before a judge takes a decision, he has to take all the evidence into A consideration B speculation C deliberation D exemplification... girl, Kêhounco (Lottie Dennison), was kidnapped, as were many others Their forced journeys ended in a slave pen in Ouidah 35 In the morning the dejected group waded neck-deep across a lagoon to... could soar to 105F in the shade Worst of all, nobody had mentioned the dense clouds of grasshoppers that would suddenly arrive and eat everything Despite their neighbours’ derision at these remittance