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English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade t2, 2d round, 201 -2016 VA DAO TAO THAI NGUYEN rnr cHoN oQl ruvdN DUrHi cHUNG KHAo eu6c cra, NAM HAi: zols vTON THI: TTENG ANH t6p Tz Ngiy thi:2411012015 Thdi gian ldm bdi: 180 phfit (Khdng tc€ thdi gian giao di) SO GIAO DUC rY ail irc oi cnfNn rHuc (Thf sinh lim bii trgc ti6p vio bhi thi theo hutfirg din dut6i m6i cauy Ei6m BEng s6 oi Bdng Gi6m khio sd I (ho t6n chfr kf) GiSm khio s6 (hq t6n, cht kv) 56 phAch (do chri tich HOi ddne thi) cht tnt ndy gom cti 12 trang ttuqc tldnh sd * l-tz Ttti sinh ki€m tra sii trang trw6c ldm bdl PART A: LISTEMNG COMPREHENSION Questions L- Complete the table below Write ONE WORD AND / OR A NUMBER for each answer Apartments Rose Garden Facilities studio flat Apartrnents Blue Bay Apartments large salt-water swimming pool Other information Example: Entertainment pro gramme Greek dancing Cost f.219 : just (1) from beach - metres f.275 - near shops (2\ terrace water sports f - overlooking (4) (s).f Apartments 490 - Greek paintings The Grand - (3) - near a supermarket and a disco Questions 6- 10 Complete the table below Write ONE WORD AND / OR A NUMBER for each answer GREEK ISLAND HOLIDAYS Insurance benefits Cancellation Maximum Amount (6).f English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade I 2, 2"d round, 201 -20 l Hospital f600 Additional benefit allows a (7) to travel to resort (8) Up to f 1000 Depends on reason deparhre Up to f3000; f500 for one (9) Personal belongings Name of Assistant manager: Ben (10) l Direct phone line: 081260543?16 Questions 11-13 Choose the correct letter A, B or C Winridge Forest Railway park 11 Simon's idea for atheme park came from A his ihildhood hobby B his interest in landscape design C his visit to another park 12 When they started, the family decided to open the park only when A the weather was expected to be good B the children weren't at school C there were fewer farming commitments 13 Since opening, the park has had A 50,000 visitors B 1,000,000 visitors C 1,500,000 visitors t2 11 13 Questions 14-18 What is currently the mair area of work of each of the following people? Choose FIVE answers from A-H, next to questions 14-18 Area of Work A advertising B animal care C building D educational links People 14 Simon (the speaker) 15.Liz 16 Sarah 17 Duncan 18 Judith E engine maintenance F food and drink G sales H staffing EnglishExaminationforselectinggoodstudents, Grade I2,2il round,201S -20t6 Questions lg-z}.Complete the table below Write ONE WORD AND/OR NUMBERS for each answer Feature Railway Size Biggest challense Making tunnels Removing mounds on the track l.2knL Go-Kart arena Target age grouD (20), year olds i PART B: VOCABTJLARY AND GRAMMAR r choose the correct answer A, B, c or D to comprete the sentences the nail 21 Most of A tooth and in this workshop not work very seriously or productively B rank and c eager D old hand file beavers 22.Whenyou something, you should A get through to B turn over a new leaf C weigh up pros and cons D go down well with 23 She resigned No one forced her to so A for her own sake B of her own accord C with a will D on purpose 24 Don't carry the boxes all together We,ll move them A once in a time B once and for all C one and all D one at a time 25 The members of Green organization suggest that discharging chemical pollutants into the environment should be A encouraged B prohibited c allowed D comprehended 26 No matter how we asked him to the news, he would still refuse to dll us anything A.launch B break C notiff D clear 27-l'm tryrng this alternative cold remedy It's different plant roots and herbs, and tastes very strange A consisting of B containing C composed of D included If Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to finish the passage For years there have been endless articles stating that scientists are on the verge of (28) artificial intelligence, that it is just around the comer The truth is that it may be just around'the corner, but they (29) the right block yet Artificial intelligence (30) to build machine that can think One immediate problem is to define thought, which is harder than you might think The speciaiists in the (31) of urtifi.iul intelligence complain with some justification, that anything that the machines is dismissed as not (32) For example, computers can now play very, very good chess They can't beat the greatest qllfgrs in the world, but they can beat just about (33) else If a human being played Jhess at this level, he or she would certainly be considered smart Why not a machine/ The answer is that the machine doesn't anything clever in playing chess It uses its blinding speed to a brute-force search of ail (3a) moves for several moves ahead, evaluates the outComes and picks the best Humans don't play chess that way They see patterns, (35) computers don,t This wooden (36) to thought charucteizes machine intelligence Computers have no judgment, no flexibility, no common sense So-called expert systems, one of the hottest areas in artificial intelligence, aim to mimic the reasoning processes of human experts in a limited field, such (37) medical diagnosis or weather forecasting There may be limited commercial applications for this sort of thing, but there is no way to make a machine that can think about anything (38) the sun English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade 12,7'd round, 2015 -2016 The hallmark of artificial intelligence to date is that a problem is severely restricted, a machine can achieve limited success But when the problem is to a realistic one, computers fall flat (40) the screens For example, machines can understand a few words spoken individually by a speaker that they have been trained to hear They cannot understand speech using an unlimited vocabulary spoken by just (42) speaker 28 A achieving B setting C arriving D instructing 29 A hadn't found B haven't C didn't find D haven't been found 30 A leads B aims C acts D allows 31 A field B way C level D kind 32 A having thought B to be C being thought D thinking 33 A everybody B everyone C anything D anybody 34 A available B possible C adaptable D positive 35 A that B which C what D since 36 A approach B method C means D key 37 A.like B for as C D that 38 A restricted B realized C concerned D retained 39 A extended B exceeded C expanded D extracted 40 A in B on C with D at 41 A continual B continuous C convenient D gradual 42 A sorhe B.a C any D all (39) (41) found thought 28 29 30 31 )2 aa JJ 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 4t 42 III Fill in each numbered lank ONE suitable word Our demand for water is constantly increasing Every year there are more and more people in the world Factories tum out more and more (43) and need more and more water We live in a world of water But (44) all of it - about 97 percent - is in the oceans This water is too (45) to be used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing Only about percent of the world's water is fresh Most of this water is not easily available to man because it is locked in glaciers and icecaps There is as much water on earth today (46) there ever was or will ever be Most of the water we (47) finds its way to the oceans There, it is evaporated by the sun, it then falls back to the earth (48) rain Water is used and reused over and over again It is never used up (49) the world as a whole has plenty of fresh water, some regions have a water shortage Rain does not fall (50) over the earth Some regions are always too dry, and (51) too wet A region that usually gets enough rain may suddenly have a serious dry spell and (52) region may be flooded with too much rain PART C: READING COMPREHENSION I Read the following passage, then the exercises below Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below English Exaninationfor selecting good students, Grade i ii iii iv ,v / !/ / /Vl 12, 2d round, 20tS -2016 List of Headings The expansion of international tourism in recent years How local communities can balance their own needs with the demands of wildemess tourism Fragile regions and the reasons for the expansion of tourism there Traditional methods of food-supply in fragile regions Some of the disruptive effects of wilderness tourism The economic benefits of mass tourism 53 Section A 54 Section B 55 Section C l/ The Impact of Wilderness Tourism A The market for tourism in remote areas is booming as never before, Countries all across the world are actively promoting their "wildemess" regions - such as mountains, Arctic lands, deserts, small islands and wetlands - to high-spending tourists The attraction of these areas is obvious: by definition, wilderness tourism requires lifile or no initial investment But that does not mean that there is no cost As the T992 Unrted Nations Conference on Environment and Development recognized, these regions are fragile (i.e highly vulnerable to abnormal pressure) not just in terms of theiiecology, but ai-so in tenns of the culture of their inhabitants The three most significant types of fragile environment in these respects, and also in tenns of the promotion of the earth's surface they cover, are deserts, mountains and arctic areas An important characteristic is their marked seasonality, with harsh conditions prevailing for many months each year Consequently, most human activiiies, including tourism, are limited to quite clearly defined parts of the year Tourists are drawn to these regions by their natural landscape beauty and the unique cultures of their indigenous people And poor govemments in these isolated areas have welcomed ihe new breed of 'adventure tourist', grateful for the hard currency they bring For several years now, tourism has been the prime source of foreign exchange in Nepal and Bhutan Tourism is also the key element in the economies of Arctic zones such as Lapland and Alaska and in desert areas such as Ayers Rock in Australia and Arizona's Monument Valley B Once a location is established as a main tourist destination, the effects on the local community are profound When hill-farmers, for example, can make more money in a few weeks working ur po.t.r, for foreign trekkers than they can in ayeff working in the fields, it is not surprising that many oith.* give up their farrn-work, which is thus left to other members of the family.-In some hill regions, this has led to a serious decline in farm output and a change in the local diet, Lecarrs there is insufficient labour to maintain terraces and irrigation systems and tend to crops The result has been that many people in these regions have turned to outside supplies of rice and other foods In Arctic and desert societies, year-round survival has traditionally depended on hunting animals and fish and collecting fruit over a relatively short season However, as some inhabitants become involved in tourism, they no longer have time to collect wild food; this has led to increasing dependence on bought food and stores Tourism is not always the culprit behind such changes AII kinds of wage labour, or government handouts, tend to undermine traditional survival systems Whatever ttre cause, the dilemma is always the same: what happens if these new, external sources of income dry up? The physical impact of visitors is another serious problem associated with the gowth in adventure tourism Much attention has.focused on erosion along major trails, but perhaps more important are the deforestation and impacts on water supplies arising from the need to piovide tourists English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade 12,2"d round, 2015 -2016 with cooked food and hot showers In both mountains and deserts, slow-growing trees are often the main sources of fuel and water supplies may be limited or vulnerable to degradation through heavy use C Stories about the problems of tourism have become legion in the last few years Yet it does not have to be a problem Although tourism inevitably affects the region in which it takes place, the costs to these fragile environments and their local cultures, can be minimized Indeed, it can even be a vehicle for reinvigorating local cultures, as has happened with the Sherpas of Nepal's Khumbu Valley and in some Alpine villages And a growing number of adventure tourism operators are trying to ensure that their activities benefit the local population and environment over the long term In the Swiss Alps communities have decided that their future depends on integrating tourism more effectively with the local economy Local concem about the rising number of second home developments in the Swiss Pays d'Enhaut resulted in limits being imposed on their growth There has also been a renaissance in communal cheese production in the area, providing the locals with a reliable source of income that does not depend on outside visitors Many of ihe Arctic tourist destinations have been exploited by outside companies, who employ transient workers and repatriate most of the profits to their home base But some Arctic communities are now operating tour businesses themselves, thereby ensuring that the benefits accrue locally For instance, a native corporation in Alaska, employing local people, is running an air tour from Anchorage to Kotlebue, where tourists eat Arctic food, walk on the tundra and watch local musicians and dancers Native people in the desert regions of the American Southwest have followed similar strategies, encouraging tourists to visit their pueblos and reservations to purchase high-quality handicrafts and artwork The Acoma and San Ildefonso pueblos have established highly profitable pottery businesses, while the Navajo and Hopi groups have been similarly successful with jewellery Too many people living in fragile environments have lost control over their economies, their culture and their environment when tourism has penetrated their homelands Merely restricting tourism cannot be the solution to the imbalance, because people's desire to see new places will not just disappear Instead, communities in fragile environments must achieve greater control over tourism ventures in their regions, in order to balance their needs and aspirations with the demands of tourism A growing number of communities are demonstrating that, with firm communal decision-making, this is possible The critical question now is whether this can become the norm, rather than the exception Do thefollowing statements reflect the opinion of the writer of the above reading passage? Write YES NO NOT GIVEN if the statement reflects the opinion of the writer if the statement contradicts the opinion of the writer if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this 56 The low cost of setting up wildemess tourism makes it attractive to many countries 57 Deserts, mountains and Arctic regions are examples of environments that are both ecologically and cultrnally fragile 58 Wilderness tourism operates throughout the year in fragile areas 59 The spread of tourism in certain hill-regions has resulted in a fall in the amount of food produced locally 60 Traditional food-gathering in desert societies was distributed evenly over the year 61 Government handouts more damage than tourism does to traditional pattems of food-gathering 56 57 58 59 60 61 English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade 12, ?d round, 20t _20t Complete the table below Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the above passage for each answer The positive ways in which some local communities have re;porded to II People/ Location Activify Swiss Pays d'Enhaut Revised production Arctic communities Operate (63) Acoma and san Ildefonso Produce and sell (64) Navajo and Hopi Produce and sell (65) tor.tr- of (62) businesses Read the following passage , then the exercises A A sense orserrdeverops in r",,I;:ililtffi';:J,'.'.::;[:'fi:,L can useury be thought orin terms of the gradual emergence of two somewhat separate feature: the self as a subject, anA the self as an object William James introduced the distinction in 1892, and,contemporaries oihis, such as Charles Cooley, added to the developing debate Ever since then psychologists have continued building on the theory B According to James, a child's first step in the road to self-understanding can be seen as the recognition that he or she exists This is an aspect of the self that he labellid ,self-as-subject,, and he gave it various elements These included an awareness of one's own agency (i.e one's po*e, to act), and an awareness of one's distinctiveness from other people These features gradually -.rg as in'fants explore their world and interact with caregivers Cooley (1902) suggested tnx usense of the self-as-subject was primarily concerned with being able to exercise power He proposed that the earlies t examples of this are an infant's attempts to control physical objects, such as toys or his or her own limbs This is followed by attempts to affect the behiviour of other people For Lxample, infants leam that when they cry or smile someone responds to them C' Another powerful source of information for infants about the effects they can have on the world around them is provided when others mimic them Many parents spend a lot of time, particularly in the _"qll months, copying their infant's vocalizations and expressions In addition, young children enjoy looking in mirrors, where the movements they can see are dependent upon their own movements This is not to say that infants recognize the reflection as their own image (a iater development) However, Lewis and Brooks-Gunn (1979) suggest that infants'developing understanding that the movements they see in the mirror are contingent on their own, leads to u gro*irrg u*ur.nJ5 that they are distinct from other people This is because they, and only they, can cliar,ge the reflection in the mi,or D This understanding that children gain of themselves as active agents continues to develop in their attempts to cooperate with other in play Dunn (1988) points out that it is in such day to-day relationships and interactions that the child's understanding of his or her self emerges Empiiical investigations of the self-as-subject in young children *e, ho*euer, rather scarce because of difficultie s of communication: even if young infants can reflect on their experience, they certainly cannot express this aspect of the self directly E Once children have acquired a certain level of self-awareness, they begin to place themselves in a whole series of categories, which together play such an important part in defining them uniquely as 'themselves' This second step in the development of a full sense of self is what James called the 'self-as-object' This has been by many to,be the aspect of the self which is most influenced by social elements, since it is made up of social roles (such as student, brother, colleague) and characteiistics English Examination for selecting good students, Grade I 2, 2"d round, 20 r -20 r 72 73 74 75 Complete the summary below choose oNE woRD oNLy from the passage for each answer , How children acquire a sense of identity First, chidren come to realise that he carhave an effect on the world aound them, for example by handling objects,_or causing the image to move when they face a (76) : This aspect of self-awarenessisdifficulttoresearchdirectly,because of (77) problems.Secondly,children start to become aware of how they are viewed by others One importani stage in this process is the visual recognition of themseves which usually occurs when they feach the a'ge of two In Western societies at least, the development of self-awareness is often linked to a sens"e (7g) of can lead to disputes PART D: WRITING I' Task I (79- 85) The graph below gives information from a 2008 report about consumption of energy in the USA since 1980 with projections until2030 Summariz the irrfo.mation by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant You should write at least 150 words U.S Enelgy Consumption by tuel (19fl}.ZB0) 50 Petrol and Oil 45 40 E3s e30 e Ers (! dzo Coal NaturalGas 15 10 Nuclear SolarAffind Hydropower 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 201s 2020 2025 2030 History Projections English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade I 2, 2"d round, 20t -20 I II Task (86 - 100) Write a composition about the following topic: Every year several languages die out Some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world To what extent you agree or disagree with this opinion? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your owrt knowledge or experience You should write at least 300 words (You mustn't mention any proper name.) English Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade 12, 2,d round, l/' Yt' 20 t -20 t Englkh Examinationfor selecting good students, Grade r 2, 2"d round, 20t5 -20t Total mark: 1A0: = 20 - The end ... forecasting There may be limited commercial applications for this sort of thing, but there is no way to make a machine that can think about anything (38) the sun English Examinationfor selecting good... can think One immediate problem is to define thought, which is harder than you might think The speciaiists in the (31) of urtifi.iul intelligence complain with some justification, that anything... languages die out Some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world To what extent you agree or disagree with this opinion? Give reasons