Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate which text tells you the answer to the questions from 1 to 10.. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D
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Read the four texts below There are ten questions about the texts Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your
answer sheet to indicate which text tells you the answer to the questions from 1 to 10
A My French teacher
Choosing just one person who has had a major
influence on my life is practically impossible!
There have been people at all stages of my life
who I have both admired and been motivated by
for different reasons However, if I have to
mention just one it would have to be my French
teacher at secondary school After all, it’s
because of her that I took a particular career path
and ended up where I am today Her passion and
enthusiasm for the subject touched everyone in
the class and I knew from the very first moment
she started teaching that languages were going to
figure somewhere in my life It’s quite scary
really, to see how significant a teacher’s
influence can be He or she can bring a subject
alive for the students – or totally kill it off! Miss
Winters was with us only for a term but a lot of
her passion for languages rubbed off on me and
for that I will always be grateful
B
D
My big sister
Inevitably, I have to say – my older sister, Ruby
I say ‘inevitably’ because from the moment I could walk I absolutely worshipped her! She was
my idol As far as I was concerned Ruby was perfect and I used to copy her every move Her favourite colour was my favourite colour – her favourite food was mine too Even into our teenage years I followed her taste in clothes, music, and boys! Now, looking back I think what
I admire most about her was her patience with
me I must have been a complete pain but she never lost her temper She gave up a lot of her time to help me with school work and she would regularly sit down with me and talk through any problems I had Back then I copied her because I thought she was beautiful and clever and I wanted to be just like her but now I understand that in fact her influence also went a lot deeper I hope I’ve developed into a caring, patient person and if so, then I certainly learned it from her
My best friend
When you get into real trouble and think there’s
no way out, the last person you want to talk to is your family You feel that you’ve let them all down I’d got into a bad state I was into drugs and I was going round with the wrong people when my best friend realised what was happening and persuaded me to get out It can’t have been easy – I wasn’t listening to anyone at the time But he stayed with it and refused to abandon me And in the end he talked me into getting counselling and the people I spoke to really helped me turn my life around Without him my life would have been completely different – I might not even be here at all Boyd helped me see life in a different way and because
of him I gave up my job in insurance and retrained to be a counsellor so that I could help other young people
Without doubt, the person who has had the
greatest influence on my life wasn’t a real living
person at all – but a character in a film! I was a
very shy ten year old boy when I first saw Billy
Elliot on the big screen I had always wanted to
dance but had never been allowed to It was my
sister who went to the ballet classes and me who
tried to copy her steps in our living room The
kids at school knew I wanted to dance too – and
I came in for so much teasing it used to really
upset me Where I came from, boys just didn’t
do dancing – like Billy Elliot! I still had this
deep desire to dance – but I’d been covering it up
for a long time Then I saw the film It gave me
the confidence to ask for dancing classes and it
also altered everyone else’s perception of boy
dancers There was no more teasing or making
fun of me I stayed at the dancing school until I
left full-time education and now dancing is my
career
Trang 3Which person
1 gave advice to the writer at a time when he/she was not at all receptive?
2 is one of many people who have been important to the writer?
3 was easier to talk to than a relative?
4 influenced the writer more than he/she first realised?
5 changed the way a lot of people thought?
6 was the reason for the writer changing career?
7 only knew the writer for a short time?
8 influenced the writer’s peers as well as the writer?
9 stopped people laughing at the writer?
10 always remained calm?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase for each of the blanks from 11 to 20
Britain’s dilemma with regard to extended European Union is characteristic of the nation’s divided global
attitudes over the past two hundred years In many homes Brits are (11) _ to be somehow best, natural
leaders, people who have proved themselves the automatic choice to be in charge of their own and others’ affairs They feel that joining a single European currency – when the concept of European unity has not
exactly (12) _ itself through the ages – is (13) _ with dangers, and find it extremely difficult to have faith (14) _ any of the various manifestos that pro-Europeans have put into circulation The idea of European power has gone (15) _ a joke, they say, with Brussels as a centre of that power (16) _
itself with a million bureaucratic print-outs a day They appeal for a return to 20th century values
These sceptics, of course, (17) _ violently with their pro-European opponents, (18) _ supporters of union, who point to the need for countries to co-exist and to (19) _ themselves to a common goal, welcoming countries (20) _ with debts and financial, political and/or sociological
difficulties into the fold
11 A rated B pronounced C assumed D estimated
12 A distinguished B prided C achieved D modelled
13 A surrounded B fraught C related D conversant
16 A busying B devoting C dedicating D exposing
18 A staunch B practising C fierce D devout
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 21 to 25
It’s one thing for a child to watch television at home and see commercials It’s another to see them at school Back at the end of the 1980s, a young entrepreneur in Tennessee named Chris Whittle had an idea He believed that a great untapped market was the nation’s schoolchildren and that if he could find a way to bundle them together as a group – to corner them in the same place at the same time – advertisers would beat a path to his door
It didn’t take a lot of imagination to realise that this audience was already wrapped up in one neat package – it’s called school – and that, thanks to satellite technology, the market was ripe for Whittle’s plucking His problem was how to get satellite receivers into schools He knew he couldn’t go to schools and say, ‘buy a bunch of televisions and let me send programs to your kids’ Most schools were too strapped for resources So he went to schools across the country and said ‘here’s $22,000 worth of free stuff.’ All he wanted in return was access to every student between the ages of 12 and 18 each day And 12,000 schools fell for it
Trang 4Having snatched the attention of 8 million students, Whittle began broadcasting 10 minutes of soft news
a day, together with 2 minutes of hard commercials Of the ten minutes devoted to news, 2–3 usually report
on current events That leaves 7–8 minutes to devote to feature stories, some of which are product-oriented, such as how Nike sneakers are made Technically, the programming is slick But those 2–3 minutes of hard news cover an average of around seven stories The 2 minutes of commercials are devoted to 4 spot ads In other words, each ad runs almost twice as long as each hard news story
21 The writer thinks the idea of children seeing commercials at school is _
A a fact of life B a matter of concern C a welcome advance D a valuable idea
22 At the end of the 80s, Whittle believed that schoolchildren were _
A a possible new target for advertisers
B popular with advertisers
C an impossible goal for advertisers
D an unsuitable market for advertisers
23 Whittle faced a problem because schools _
A were against his ideas
B didn’t want to use televisions for studying
C were wary of how children would be targeted
D didn’t have much money
24 The writer suggests that Whittle’s scheme was _
A imaginative B ambitious C cunning D praiseworthy
25 It seems that Whittle’s broadcasts _
A have more spot ads than feature stories
B contain a lot of hidden advertising
C are poorly made
D include too many hard commercials
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions
26 A safeguarding B returnee C horizontal D mausoleum
27 A agriculture B architecture C literature D manufacture
28 A photography B ministerial C discourteous D incredible
29 A legislature B repository C magnificent D initiative
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
answer to each of the questions from 31 to 35
If by “suburb” is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than it’s already developed interior, the process of suburbanisation began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart But the early factories built in the 1830’s and 1840’s were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment In time, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities As a defense
against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbours
In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County Similar municipal manoeuvres took place in Chicago and in New York Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanisation that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis This first phase of mass – scale suburbanisation was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle class whose desires for homeownership in neighbourhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts
31 Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A The growth of Philadelphia
B The Origin of the Suburb
C The Development of City Transportation
D The Rise of the Urban Middle Class
Trang 532 The author mentions that areas bordering the cities have grown during periods of _
A industrialisation B inflation C revitalisation D unionisation
33 The word “encroachment” refers to which of the following?
A The smell of the factories
B The growth of mill towns
C The development of waterways
D The loss of jobs
34 Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the passage as a factor in nineteenth-century suburbanisation?
A Cheaper housing
B Urban crowding
C The advent of an urban middle class
D The invention of the electric streetcar
35 It can be inferred from the passage that after 1890 most people travelled around cities by _
A automobile B cart C horse-drawn trolley D electric streetcar
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
36 I was surrounded by a number of good choices but the _ was a recent talk to a friend
A stimulation B inspiration C clincher D muse
37 At the end of the week, all the sales staff were _ exhausted
A utterly B evenly C actually D reasonably
38 These chocolates are so _ I can’t stop eating them
39 It’s a shame that the apartment hasn’t got a parking lot _
A of it B owned by it C on its own D of its own
40 Many linguists believe that the human ability to learn language is _, an essential part of our nature
A intricate B inadvertent C innate D intrinsic
41 I found it hard to _ with a complete stranger
A bow to B barrel through C strike up D partake in
42 How can I pull myself together when this is not _ a challenge?
A so much a worry as B more a worry than C worth worrying for D as worrying as
43 The reason for her late arrival at the meeting was _ a traffic jam
A owing to B due to C a result of D as to
44 Paul’s been in Alice’s bad _ ever since he offended her at the party
45 The little boy did nothing but _ during the party
46 Sophia _ when she was a child
A used to be often ill B would be ill-stricken C used to be ill often D often had illnesses
47 He’s not very sensible as far as money _ are concerned
48 I appealed to all _ people to support me and I was successful
A same-minded B thought-sharing C familiar-thinking D like-minded
49 The reason it _ is that you haven’t plugged it in
A didn’t work B won’t work C wasn’t working D doesn’t work
50 As part of our Community Project, our class went to the park to pick up _
51 I am afraid that you will be _ responsible if anything goes wrong
52 The new teacher was _ to the needs of all the children in her care
A attentive B observant C earnest D meticulous
53 It is with _ regret that we have to inform you that your scholarship has been withdrawn
54 Tim has a _ nose and he’s sneezing
55 Lauren is often labelled easy-going as she tends to appear mild and relaxed rather than tense and _
A sullen B likeable C humorous D excitable
56 I didn’t mean to lose my temper with you I just got _ away for a minute
Trang 657 The estimated damage _ that people were commanded to evacuate soon in advance
A was to be such B would be so influential C was so far-flung D would have been so great
58 His findings are of great importance _ it explains the correlation between alcohol and aggression
A which may mean B which C in which D in that
59 _ do you think Ann feels at the end of her typical day?
A To which extent B In what way C How D What
60 _ ten people came forward of their own accord Despite this, we decided not to recruit more participants
A As few as B As many as C Even more than D Not many as
61 Ellie does a(n) _ each week for the local newspaper It’s usually quite funny
62 Knowing the confidential details gave him a(n) _ over the other candidates
A edge B possibility C exertion D fringe
63 Instant Power is ready to take over when the rechargeable battery goes _ at an inconvenient time
64 Your health can benefit a lot from fruits and vegetables _
A to be rich in vitamins B that are vitamins rich C with rich vitamins D enriched by vitamins
65 She likes spoiling people’s fun She is really a _
A couch potato B wet blanket C hard nut D cold fish
66 The old lady is on _ for her heart condition
67 The director’s recommendation was that the secretary _ a crash course in accounting
A begin B had better begin C should have begun D ought to begin
68 After running up the stairs, I was quite _ breath
69 “How do you like your beefsteak done?” ~ “ _.”
A Very little B Not medium C Very much D Rare
70 The professor, along with his students, _ the meeting held in Toronto next week
A attends B attend C is attending D are attending
71 Come on! I wish they _ that terrible noise on the upper floor
A all could stop B had all stopped C would all stop D are all stopping
72 There’s no place for _ if we want to stay in this competition
A complaisance B competence C complacency D commendation
73 I reckon Martin is _ of a nervous breakdown
A in charge B under suspicion C on the verge D indicative
74 “I’ll do the washing-up, shall I?” ~ “ _!”
A Kid’s stuff B Ah, music to my ears C Not at all D It’s a great pleasure
75 _, Jane was guilty of the murder
A At heart B By all accounts C By all means D At random
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions
76 A PREFERABLE B DERIVATION C PREPARATION D PRELIMINARY
77 A SABOTAGE B COLLAGE C COTTAGE D BARRAGE
78 A PARACHUTE B MACHINERY C PREACH D CHATEAU
79 A ACCREDIT B SALAMANDER C MAJESTY D SALIVA
80 A MERCHANT B SERGEANT C SERVANT D MERCURY
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word for each of the blanks from 81 to 90
There have been great (81) _ in technology over the last forty years For examples, the uses of mobile
phones and email communication are common these days However, machines could never do as good a job
as a human, especially when it comes to interpreting what people are (82) _ Of course, machines can translate plain statements such as “Where is the bank?” but even simple statements are not always (83) _ because meaning depends on more than just (84) _ For instance, the word “bank” has a number
of different meanings in English How does a translating machine know which meaning to take?
Trang 7In order to understand what people are saying, you need to take into account the (85) _ between speakers and their situation A machine cannot (86) _ the difference between the English expressing
“Look out” meaning “Be careful!” and “Look out” meaning “Put your head out of the window” You need a
human being to (87) _ the situation (88) _ with written language, it is difficult for a machine to know how to translate (89) _ because we rarely translate every word On the contrary, we try to take into consideration how the idea would be (90) _ in the other language This is hard to do because every
language has its own way of doing and saying this
81 A advantages B progress C steps D advances
82 A speaking B saying C talking D telling
83 A direct B straight C straightforward D obvious
84 A sentences B vocabulary C grammar D words
85 A relationship B attitude C action D relations
87 A understand B think C interpret D believe
88 A In addition B Similarly C In contrast D However
89 A accurately B exactly C rightfully D righteously
90 A said B written C translated D expressed
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction
91 Neil Armstrong attained an aeronautical engineering degree from Purdue University and a master’s in
aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California
D
92 What does the ageing process cause – and can it be reversed? It’s a question that has baffled some of
mankind’s best minds for centuries while the consequences are clear
D
93 When it comes to keeping up with the times the elephant shark is not in a hurry The genome of the
bizarre-looking Australian fish has changed little in the last 450 million years, researchers have found
C D
94 Hands up who have ever played recordings in their sleep as a last-ditch attempt to cram for an exam or test?
A B C
Well, it might not be such a bad idea after all
D
95 If you want to map the Universe accurately, you’re going to need a prettily impressive ruler – now there is one
A B C D
96 Many researchers across the globe are working on the development of quantum computing and the
A
NASA fears if there may be implications for national security should another country build a working
B C D
quantum computer first
97 The brightly-eyed children spoke only a little English but were more than happy to burst into song
A B C D
98 At the plantation, the students were first taught the process of growing black tea and later taken on a tour
A B
of the processed plant which dries, mills, sorts and packages the tea for retail
C D
99 To appreciate the advantages that legs offer over wheels, you have only examined the dust accumulating
A B C D
on stairs of any household cleaned by a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner
100 What’s your approach in the series to making complicated scientific concepts more easily understand?
A B C D
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A Complete the passage below by writing one word in each gap
To be fair, scientists understand next to (1) about how dolphin communication works They have, however, discovered that dolphins possess a skill that is otherwise unknown in the (2) kingdom – except for among humans In some dolphin species, (3) individual has its own signature whistle that it will use throughout its life, and that might (4) as a ‘name’
We know that dolphins can remember the signature whistles of their relatives and playmates, (5)
whistles that they’ve not heard in over 20 years And recent research suggests that dolphins
also respond when hearing their own signature whistle, (6) means it’s possible that dolphins
call each other by name on occasion Although Lilly could not have known it at the time, he might well have
been witnessing this (7) behaviour during his experiments half a century (8)
If dolphins are trying to get each other’s (9) by calling each other’s names, it might mean that they have some awareness of the minds of others around them (10) most great apes,
dolphins seem to be able to spontaneously understand the human pointing gesture This suggests they might
attribute mental states like seeing or intending (11) the pointing humans (12) an animal that has no arms can understand a human pointing is a real (13) And while there is no evidence that dolphins fully understand the inner thoughts and beliefs of others (something (14) theory of mind), dolphins do point (15) their heads to direct humans’ attention towards objects
they want them to look at
B Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits in the space
1 Various campaign has been launched for growing concern over the environment among
pro-thinkers POLLUTE
2 Many people may find themselves at a loss to comprehend recent policies passed by the
government because of their lack of practicability CONSIDER
3 My friend was quite surprised when she found out that some traditional games for kids are still
popular among children of her age 60 years ago DURATION
4 reporting is widely employed by stakeholders to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of
an organisation’s activities SUSTAIN
5 Nowadays, students and workers commonly bring their meals to school or work to eat
during lunchtime COOK
6 The way the author her characters’ passion for love in her novel is very gripping.
ROMANCE
7 Doctors announced their success in separating a newly-born twin after the operation JOIN
8 Ann produced the best answer immediately after she was presented with it WIT
9 New foreign students often have no difficulty here, so don’t worry about that SIMILAR
10 in hospital is attributed to the increase in baby mortality rate STAFF
C Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it
1 Many creatures still survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the deserts
Harsh
2 Only time can tell whether he will succeed or not
It remains _
3 I’m a teacher now because of one of my former teacher’s strong influence on me
I would _
4 The practice of this kind of ritual used to be common among these tribes
No _
5 Rumour about the president’s non-stop embezzlement from the charity has gone round recently
The president
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Trang 96 He is nominated for his persistent work for 15 years to find out the important theory
The work he _
7 We are unable to decide now because it would be the toughest decision we have ever made
Such _
8 Apparently, he was more receptive to strange ideas than anybody else
Nobody seems _
9 Jimmy had a terrible cold so he was absent from class for two days
Coming _
10 The whole story is very likely to be forgotten by next term
In all _
D For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original
sentence, but using the word given This word must not be altered in any way
1 We shouldn’t overstate the importance of finishing on time EMPHASIS
2 I didn’t notice that my house was broken into until he told me about that REALISATION
3 He was unwilling to accept that he was responsible for the accident BLAME
4 Martha panicked when she realised she had lost her handbag HOT
E Write an essay to express your views about the following statement Write your answer in 150–200 words
“It is hard to imagine that people can live without friends.”
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