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A MULTIPLE CHOICE:
I WORD CHOICE:
Choose the best options (A, B, C, or D) that best complete the following sentence.
1 We are not known at all, and as we grow, we feel a progressive lack of individual personality
A gruelingly B severally C expensively D brusquely
2 He has fled to the mountains of Galicia he cannot possibly escape
on horseback over the border
A meanwhile B heretofore C whence D indefinitely
3 Given that Haiti is vulnerable to hurricanes and earthquakes, it would be to establish building codes and other disaster response initiatives
A prudent B tiny C profound D stern
4 While her mother sat at the window, striving to read, the child, who was in one of her moods of obstreperous gaiety, began playing a grand game
A boisterous B tentative C creative D precarious
5 The setup is intimate: audience members surround the stage on three sides
A formal B unusual C mutual D cozy
6 This very morning, she announces, she has managed to procure what might be the last two ‘crates’ of peaches in France
A obscure B conceal C consume D obtain
7 In their eyes, I saw not only excitement for the equity we offered, but the belief that they would be entrusted to do their jobs with my counsel, if they sought it, but without unwanted meddling
A modest B positive C earnest D mutual
8 Her ivory brow _ in delicate lines
A furrows B duplicates C ambles D mutters
9 The fashion of the last Louis but one, of the line that was never to break the 14th Louis was in their rich furniture; but, it was diversified by many objects that were illustrations of old pages in the history of France
A varied B conspicuous C invisible D negative
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A balefulness B succession C righteousness D resemblance
II STRUCTURES AND GRAMMAR:
Choose the best options (A, B, C, or D) that best complete the following sentences.
1 Last weekend, _nothing to watch on television, we sang karaoke together
A there being B there having C having had D being
2 The upper branches of the tallest trees produce more leaves _ other branches
A than do B than have C than they do D than It does
3 He drove at full speed lest he _ late for the appointment
A was B would be C be D shouldn’t be
4 You _ the questions in the order they asked You mixed them up in the wrong way
C didn’t need to answer D should have answered
5 We would sooner Mr Manh us the urgent information the other night:
A sent B would have sent C had sent D send
6 Ms Phi is ranked the best student she has made a point of studying hard
A hence B in that C unless D let alone
7 Not only the Smiths but also their next-door neighbor more trees in the neighborhood thus far
A was planting B plant C have planted D has planted
8 It was right in the middle of the school yard _I saw a strange alien
9 That is (an)
A yellow useful Dutch gold alarm clock
B useful yellow Dutch gold clock alarm
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D useful yellow Dutch gold alarm clock
10 I won’t _those children making a noise in my house!
III PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS:
l Luckily, the rain _so we were able to play the match
A gave out B got away C went away D held off
2 I don‘t like the way that Jack is always trying to _trouble between us
A dish out B rub up C stir up D spark out
3 I am with work at the moment
A snowed under B piled up C messed up D knocked off
4 This scandal has _criticism raining down on Mr Deby from all sides
5 I see a lot of people with this new hairstyle It seems to be
A piling up B bringing off C coming off D catching on
6 ‘Do you think Dennis took the money?’ – ‘I wouldn’t _ him.’
A put it past B think it through C pass it over D rub it up
7 Rather than take his time to think about the questions, the interviewee out the first answer that came into his head
A blundered B blurted C bungled D botched
8 Whenever there’s some fresh scandal about the royal family, the public are always eager to _ it up
9 She's one of those people who are always _ and asking questions about other people’s private lives
A poking B digging up C prying out D spying on
10 The blue sundress set _her long blonde hair
IV COLLOCATIONS AND IDIOMS:
Trang 4l The luxurious office accentuated the manager’s position _ It enhanced his power and his sense of his own worth And it made other people feel small
A on the pecking pole B in the nibbling line
C at the nipping post D in the packing order
2 ‘Have you tried to read the guarantee?’ - ‘There’s so much legal that it’s impossible
to understand.’
3 When several companies showed interest in buying the film rights to his novel, he knew he had
A upped-ante B scooped the bag
C caught the fat one D hit the jackpot
4 I can’t go out wearing something like that I‘d be the _ of the neighborhood
A make-me-laugh B laughing stock
C laughter maker D laughing gas
5 I grew up in this old house, so I know every of it
A book and sinker B lock stock and barrel
C step and stop D nook and cranny
6 A large group of teenagers were around the entrance to the zoo
A mulling B mudding C mauling D milling
7 The patty was already by the time we arrived Everyone was singing and dancing
A in full swing B up in the air
C over the moon D under the cloud
3 They have serious problems That’s why their relationship is on the
A cliffs B rocks C stones D grass
9 What she told me was a of lies
10 Janet will see you if you use the computer without permission She has eyes
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V READING COMPREHENSION
READING COMPREHENSION l:
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions below them.
THOUGHT CRIME
As he revisits the fractured antihero of two previous novels, James Sallis talks about writing crime fiction focusing on character rather than plot.
"I felt like I was stumbling, groping around in the dark Didn't know where I was going in the next paragraph; didn't know what I was doing in the next chapter But I somehow found my way." Speaking softly and slowly, with the slightest Deep South twang, James Sallis is on the line from Phoenix to discuss his new novel, Salt River It's the shortest of his increasingly slim tales to date, but took the longest to write Sallis says he's relying more on improvisation and abandoning "the certainties with which I began writing" but external forces also held up the novel: "An 11-pound tumor was removed from my abdomen My wife Karyn and I named it Gertrude One of my writing students offered to knit a little hat and booties for it” As Sallis recalls this struggle for direction, he sounds like his lost-as-hell antihero, Turner He introduced the existential detective in Cypress Grove, where he fulfils a self-imposed exile in a one-horse town outside Memphis A sequel, Cripple Creek, followed Now Salt River completes the Turner trilogy
Sallis presents Turner as a man defined and haunted by what he no longer is: a soldier, a cop and a convict Episodes from his former lives are scattered through the books as flashbacks "Turner is a man whose life has gone through abrupt changes," Sallis explains "I felt that the novels' structures should reflect the seeming discontinuities of his life." It's a technique that is at odds with the thumbnail sketches favoured by crime writers intent on establishing a novel's cast quickly before cracking
on with the plot
If he takes his time when it comes to characterisation – we don't learn Turner's first name until midway through the second book – Sallis also has a laidback approach
to story The barely-there storylines in Salt River almost evaporate on the page You don't get lost in his plots, they tend to lose themselves "Plots are a contrivance – our lives are plotless – yet they're necessary, I think, to literary form," explains Sallis "My way of dealing with this has been to move the plot offstage a bit, to write around it." Is this why, when I think of Sallis's books, I'm hit by smells of home-brewed coffee and wild magnolia rather than anything that actually happened?
"Those are the parts of the world that we own, what comes back to us about times
in our own lives when we think of the past," he insists "All too often I'm reading this
Trang 6great book with a solid setting, characters that walk right into my own life, then somewhere around the fifth or sixth chapter the plot kicks in – and all that falls into the background I want all that stuff, that surround, to remain in the foreground."
He does that "surround" very well, evoking the grit and wit of rural southern life with ease (Sallis grew up in Helena, a small town on the banks of the Mississippi.) He has an ear for sleepy, porch-front wisdom, with his characters often swapping homilies
to the sound of cicadae on long summer nights Were there books in the house when
he was young? "We're from lower-class, southern stock," he says "My dad was fairly typical, hard-working, blue-collar – hunting on weekends, fixing lawnmowers … My brother and I developed this love for books The first things I read were science fiction."
So were the first things Sallis wrote He began to sell stories to magazines then made a life-changing move to London in his early 20s to edit groundbreaking sci-fi magazine New Worlds with Michael Moorcock at the fag-end of the 60s Working alongside Moorcock opened Sallis's eyes to hard-boiled crime fiction: "Mike introduced me to books by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, which I had never found here in the States oddly enough." When Sallis began to write his own crime novels, critics distinguished him as a supposed rare breed – the "literary crime writer" Sallis finds the tag "useless and foolish" but his novels have an undeniable intellectualism that remains rare in the genre
Sallis gives me the skinny on the next novel: "The major characters are a contract killer who is dying of cancer, a 12-year-old whose parents have disappeared and who goes on living by himself in the family house, and a pair of detectives, with the point
of view shifting among them chapter to chapter."
Long-Legged Fly and Cypress Grove started out as standalones, so who knows if this will launch another series As Sallis says: "I never know I'm jumping in the river, I always think I'm just sticking my feet in."
1 What does James Sallis suggest about his latest novel in the first paragraph?
A He adapted it as he went along
B The main character is based on himself
C It caused him to doubt his writing ability
D He struggled to portray the main character
2 In the second paragraph, Sallis implies that his novels differ from those of many other crime writers in that
A the events in the storylines are not in chronological order
B he prefers his characters to feature prominently throughout
C his storylines are based mainly on flashbacks
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3 In paragraph three, the writer wonders if his reaction to Sallis’ novels are due to the fact that
A the plot is not the central focus
B the storylines are hard to follow
C the writing style is very descriptive
D the storylines mirror human experience
4 What does “all that” refer to?
A the intricacies of a plotline
B aspects of a novel that a reader than identify with
C detailed descriptions of characters
D the elements of a novel that set the scene
5 According to the fourth paragraph, one way in which Sallis’ upbringing is reflected
in his books is through
A his poetic writing style
B the themes he explores
C a focus on characters from the lower class
D Some of the dialogue between characters
6 What do we learn about Sallis in the sixth paragraph?
A He was heavily influenced by collaboration with other writers
B He doesn‘t see himself as an exceptionally good crime writer
C He is dismissive of the way he is defined as a writer
D He wanted to take an established writing style a step further
7 In the final paragraph, what does Sallis conclude about his writing projects?
A He always starts with the basis of a novel and then sees how it develops
B He doesn‘t envisage them being ambitious projects at the start
C He enjoys not knowing what direction they will eventually take
D He doesn’t base his expectations on previous results
8 The word “at odds with" is closest in meaning to
A at variance with B consistent with
Trang 8C averse to D in tandem with
9 The word “contrivance” is closest in meaning to
A need B deception C loss D an artificial product
10 The word “skinny” is closest in meaning to
A lesser-known information B the bottom line
C little information D the thread
READING COMPREHENSION 2
GRAPHIC NOVELS: A FRESH ANGLE ON LITERATURE
Has the graphic novel – a fictional story presented in comicstrip format -finally become intellectually respectable?
Graphic novels have just landed with an almighty kersplat Ten days ago, two such
works were shortlisted for the Shakespeare Book Awards for the first time in the history of the prize, in two different categories This was no publicity stunt: neither panel knew what the other had done This is, surely, the moment when the graphic book finally made its entrance into the respectable club room of high literature Hang
on, though: can you compare a graphic novel with the literary kind? Wouldn’t that be like comparing a painting with a music video? Or is it time we started seeing them as comparable mediums for storytelling? If so, what next?
Robert Macfarlane, the chairman of another major literary award, says he has no objection in principle to a graphic novel being submitted for the prize In fact, he has
taught one, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, alongside the works of Russian writer Tolstoy and Don Quixote (by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes) at the University of
Cambridge, where he works in the English Faculty ‘The idea of outlawing the graphic
novel doesn’t make any sense to me,’ he says ‘I don’t segregate it from the novel.
The novel is always eating up other languages, media and forms.’ Graphic fiction, he says, is ‘another version of the novel’s long flirtation with the visual’ This is, he declares, ‘a golden age for the graphic novel.’
And he’s right We are seeing a boom in graphic novels Since Maus was awarded
a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, they have gone on to devour every literary genre going But
so far, graphic novels have politely stood aside and let conventional books win the big prizes Now they want the vote Fighting for the graphic novelists’ cause,
astonishingly, are some hefty prize-winning writers The English novelist and poet A.
S Byatt is passionately in favour of graphic novels competing with regular ones
Byatt, who is a huge fan of Spiegelman’s Maus, think that French-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis stands ‘head and shoulders above most
novels being produced It’s none interesting and more moving It’s able to be serious because it can carry itself along on this unserious form It allowed her to be witty about things that are terrible And that’s why it’s a major work of art’
Trang 9The genius of the graphic novel, as the English writer Philip Pullman explains, is that it can bring into play so many levels of narrative by layering them on top of each
other Take American Alison Bechdel’s brilliant Are You My Mother? - in a single
page, she can depict a memory of being with her mother in her childhood, dialogue between herself and her mother as they chat on the phone in the present, plus an image
of herself toiling at her desk, trying to write her memoir And what Bechdel and her mum are saying on the phone links to the diaries of the early 20th-century writer Virginia Woolf, which Bechdel also brings to visual life Try doing that with words it would take a chapter Bechdel does it in a few panels That, in the end, is precisely what keeps graphic literature so distinct from prose narrative
Graphic novels and traditional novels demand, to be sure, the same amounts of time, intellect and artistry from the authors But that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing A few years on, will you be clicking the buy button on a graphic novel as happily as you’d pick up a work by a traditional novelist? Even Bechdel confesses that her reading habits are still struggling out of the past ‘Honestly, I would be slightly more inclined to pick up a non-graphic work,’ she says ‘At this point, there’s not a huge number of graphic novels that are about topics that interest me But that, too, is changing We’re becoming more visually literate There’s some reason for these graphic novels creeping into the canon We’re reading differently from how we used to
200 years ago’
1 What does the writer say about the nomination of two graphic novels for the Shakespeare Book Awards?
A It revealed the closed-mindedness of the literary establishment
B It was the result of confusion among members of the panel
C It generated debate about the true purpose of the prize
D It was not deliberately calculated to attract people’ attention
2 The word ‘panel’ in the text refers to
A The novelists B The specialists
C The voters D The graphic designers
3 What does Robert Macfarlane suggest about graphic novels?
A Their long-term success has now been assured
B Their banning from literature courses has backfired
C They are a logical step in the development of fiction
D They tend to be less innovative than traditional novels
4 The word ‘segregate’ is closest in meaning to
Trang 10A exclude B disengage C disaffiliate D victimize
5 In the third paragraph, the writer suggests that, in the past, writers of graphic novels
A lacked the support of influential figures
B were systematically discriminated against
C tended to accept their inferior social standing
D underappreciated the importance of literary awards
6 The word ‘hefty’ is closest in meaning to
A cumbersome B prominent C immense D vigorous
7 What does Byatt suggest when the novelist and poet says Persepolis stands “head and shoulders above most novels being produced”?
A The work is far superior to most novels being produced
B The quality of the graphic novel challenges all the literary norms
C The author of the graphic novel has gone great lengths to finish the work
D The work is being published in inordinate numbers
8 The writer discusses Alison Bechdel’s book to make the point that graphic novels
A can have just as much narrative depth as traditional novels
B are able to incorporate a surprising range of different novels
C can represent the workings of memory in sophisticated ways
D enable writers to deal with different aspects of a story at once
9 Beehdel is quoted in the last paragraph to make the point that
A interest in graphic novels reflects a more general trend
B many readers lack the skills to fully appreciate graphic novels
C it is difficult to persuade people to take graphic novels seriously
D graphic novels are far outnumbered by quality traditional novels
10 In this article, the writer is
A analyzing the preoccupations of graphic novelists
B outlining the origins of graphic novels
C describing the working practices of graphic novelists
D evaluating the merits of graphic novels
VI GUIDED CLOZE