Pruclin: [en PRACTICE TEST PART 1: VOCABULARY SECTION AND READING 1: VOCABULARY Instruction: that follow COMPREHENSION (20 marks) Choose the best word/ phrase in the box below Each word / phrase can be used ONCE ONLY to complete the sentences ._-._ - part -time preven t gets unless such by so thm ever plenty charge arranged though far below nIece ough t to specialise brcak presented a little . - My wife has a job at a chemist's I'm not sure if thc new tax is a good idea after all We haven't is afraid of flying Doctors patients also thought try to kind of food and to exercise aLa large number When he retired for a holiday bcciJuse my husb,lnd disease to cat t~lC right lie was in of going abroad \\'ith daily good c1dvicc They tell their of men from his job the director: him \vith a clock My sister had a baby daughter, Smoking is very bad habit, and she is my first which it was raining 10 No child many people heavily to he went out without the age of sixteen 11 Do you knmv what find diffjcult wii! be admitted a raincoat to th is film time the train to Ii0chiMinh 12 You ]3 ]4 go to the dentist's We have before of time to catch you better \vork than the train tooUwchc so there's this, you \\,on't pass 15 Many doctors ophthalmologists your Cit.\"? get \\"(>rsc no need to rush the exam in only on(~ kind of medicinc For eX~JmpJc, C:Jreeyc specialists I ', - - - - - - - Tiii U~u on rhi lie-ng Anh SECTION 2: Read each Passage READING passage COMPREHENSION carefully (30 marks) and the answer the questions that bellow ~ It seems easyto say that you are employed if you work for somebody else and you are self employ'Cd if you work for yourseltl But life isn't quite so simple Being self-employed is not restricted to people who run their O\vn business, in the physical sense of O\vning property and stock and perhaps employing their own staff A great number of people work from home in a \\'id,-~ range of occupations and many of them arc classed as self-employed Examples arc the hairdresser " rho has set up a shop in one room of the house, the freelance bookkeeper \\.ho docs the accounts for other small businesses, the woman who holds clothing or TLlppen\"~in' p~1rti('s, and the anist who takes on freelance work from various publishing comp,-In\l's People \\'h(1 work on a freelance basis 'hire out' their skills to anyone who will pay them A freelance photographer for inst,.mce, may eithcr be contracted to a specific job for a newspaper or may even take photographs of events on the chance that he/she nm sell them The number of people in Britain \vho arc elassed as self-employed 1YH1 and 1q91 from 2.2 million to 3.3 million people - rose (i.e they not employ other people) in many cases these are peopJe \\'ith redundancy and who have used their savings or their redundancy advanlages of one of the government schemes to setup on their own I What is the ONE main Do all se1f-emplo own property Nole down two of the examp1cs who have been faced payments, or taken of self - and stock? employment mentioned job features of self in the passage') rnDkc a lJVing? employment 5-6 The pussagc \\/hat docs each " H " Waragraph 14 dvscrilws t\\'o particular of the rol1c)\ving underlined and many between idea of the passage? cd people I !cm docs a frcclanccr by 52% and most of them work on their o\vn afthem are classed words or phrases What are they? - refer to? (puragr8ph 1) as self-employed." rose 3) by 52fY, between 1981 cmd 1991 from 2.2 million to 3.3 million people Pruclict'lnl3 Which words/phrases many in the passage 10 does not only relate Passage mean to the foHawing A typical British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but in recent years there havc been many changes in family life Some of these changes have been caused by new laws and others are the result ofchanges in society In fact one ma.rriage in every three now ends in divorce This means that there arc a lot of onc-parent families Suciety is now more toJerant than it used to be of unmarried couples 8nd single parents Another ch8nge has been caused by the f8ct people arc Jiving longer nowadays, and many old people Jive alone foIl owing the death of their partners As a result of these changes in the pattern of peop)c's lives, there are many households which consist of onl.v one person or one Bdu]t and children Members of a family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins touch, but they see less of each other than they used to This is because people oftenkecp movein away from their home tcm,'n to work, and so the famiJy becomes Scattered _ In generaJ, each generation is keen to become independent of parents own family unit, and this fact can lead to social as \ e]J as geographical the larger family group 11 Docs a typicaJ 12-13 British What arc the major on estC1blishing differences its within family have members? causes of many changes in British family life'? 14 What has the new law resulted in? 15 Ilo\\' does the pattern people's of British ] Did members lives change? 17 What is the cause ./' of a f8mily see each other 1css often than of sociaJ and geographicaJ differences \Vhat docs each of the foJIov.'ing underlined ] "Some of these society" (Paragraph they now? have 1) been caused words by new or phrases laws within the larger family group? refer to? and others are the result of changes III J5 - - T/li Ufu - - {in Ihi li/nK Anh 19 "Th.i~_means that there are a lot of one-parent families"? (Paragraph 1) 20 What word in the passage means includes/is composed 3: READING CLOZE Instructions: Complete blank with ONE suitable Dolphins and whales evidence that they their arc larger able with sounds (3) (10 marks) the following word only have SECTION o.P (1) passage the missing than .communicate (2) Scientists with have (4) words us There with each worked consider them cven material to be truly intelligent be more intelligent all their needs they Some than have developed still being.hunted way But they (10) Because is considerable other and that (6) us in each show (5) dolphins Fill they (7) (8) environment their a diffcrcnt non- (9) and killed PART 2: WRITING SECTION 1: CONTROLLED WRITING (15 marks) Instruction: From the following suggested words and phrases in the make all the changes and additions necessary to produce sentences, make a complete paragraph Follow the example / born / England/ Example: my aunt Answer: My aunt was bom in England, now / shc / live / Pcrth / given sequences, which together Australia but now she lives in Perth, Australia Dcar Sir, My wife We / / I now / begin / holiday / next summer / ,July 15'" / we / return / July 29"' / dislike go / air / travel / coach / we wish / \6 plan My wife / / go / Italy/ two weeks like Holiday / Practice test / We / expect / hotel/east stay coast I / / you / able / help / arrangements trust Yours details / charges / send / information/ We / grateful/you sincerely, Ii: Smith SECTION 2: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (15marks) 'Instruction: Use the words given to rewrite each of the following way that it means exactly the same as the original sentence I'm always nervous when Travelling lIe could not afford I travel a by air Although he had a good salary, he was unhappy in his job In spite I'm sorry I missed your birthday That restaurant After fighting We didn't is so dirty that no one wants to eat there firemen party I wish The in such to buy the car The car It is such sentences the fire for twelve hours, managed the firemen succeeded in putting it out go on holiday because we didn't have enough money Ifwe The mechanic serviced my car last week I had The only v,ray you can bccome Only by a good athlete is by training hard every day' 17 - Practice test SECTION 2: Sentence transformation (15 marks) Instructions: Use tlie words given to rewrite each of the following way that it means exactly the same as the original one sentences in such a I am sorry I didn't go to your party last night I apologized , Th-e sign on the side door says, "Do not enter," so we have to use a different door Nobody is permitted Britain has different What is the height arc There kinds of newspapers of the building? How I don't want to go out this ,:vening? I'd rather If the factory doesn't move to a bigger location, Unless This boy is too young He is less clever to see He isn't as than increase production horror films This boy is not old it cannot I thought ~ I walk to my offiee in 15 minutes It takes me 10 She asked "Have you ever met this man before?" She wanted to know if SECTION 3: TRANSLATION Translate the following (15 marks) sentences into English 1.-2 Chinh phu da phe duy$t dtJ an xay dl,lng cau tren song Saigon noi lien trung tam Ho Chi Minh voi trung tam thi moi Thu Thiem, quan ( phe duyet; approve) Tai lifU {jn thi tie"ngAnh 3-5 Cong ty Motorola se me r('>ngkinh doanh e Vi$t Nam voi viec tung thi trLiang nhung san phngva cac phLiGngtien lien lac ca nhiin ( mo r('>ng:expand; phLiong tien lien laic: communication devices) Translate the following sentences into Vietnamese 6-7 Saigon Tourist Holding Company will let five of its affiliates go public this year The leading tourism compan.y is awaiting the city government's approval over the appointment of officiaJs in charge of the cquitization 8-10 Among the Canada mining US$126 million new projects, joint venture and SaigonMax the most capital intensive is a US$147.milion Vietnam Projects with the highest capital irwn';\s(' 111 Sun Steel with with US$ I 00 million This is Ihe ('lid of Pf"(1t'tic(' test ()