SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TỈNH LÀO CAI KỲ THI CHỌN ĐỘI DỰ TUYỂN HỌC SINH GIỎI

ĐỀ THI CHÍNH THỨC QUỐC GIA THPT NĂM 2015

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian thi: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) SỐ PHÁCH
Ngày thi: 07/10/2014
Đề thi có 1 2 trang
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I. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1: For questions 1-5, you will hear an interview with David McKinley, who recently opened “The
Adventure Centre” an adventure sports centre in Scotland, and decide whether the following
statements are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. David was first inspired to set up “The Adventure Centre” when he was working as a TV cameraman.
2. David describes himself as over-critical of others when he was asked to sum himself up.
3. David says that the most memorable period of his career involved watching something being built.
4. David thinks he will have difficulty in encouraging more interest in adventure sports.
5. David tells us that his customers have unrealistic expectations about participation in adventure sports.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: For questions 6-10, listen to a piece of news from BBC about solar energy and fill in the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer
in the spaces provided.
6. According to the report, energy from the Sun is converted into electricity by _______________.
7. To make one type of solar cell, the researchers have replaced a ______________ with a chemical that is
much cheaper, completely safe and works just well.
8. Magnesium chloride, the new compound is found in bath salts and sea water and costs much less than the
currently used ____________.
9. Dr. Jon Major states that if we could reduce the cost of making the solar cells, we could really make the
difference into making solar energy ___________with fossil fuels
10. However, more work will need to be done to see if the cost savings in the lab can work on
__________________.
Part 3: For questions 11-20, you will hear a talk on New Zealand Radio about an Art Sale which has
just been held to raise money for charity and fill in the blanks with missing information. Write NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided.
Question 11-13
Charity Art Sale
The paintings will be displayed in the (11)_____________and in a nearby Café. The sale of pictures will
begin at (12)_____________on Thursday, and there will be refreshments beforehand. The money raised will
be all used to help (13) _____________________ in New Zealand and other countries.

Question 14-20
Artist Personal information Type of painting
Don Studley  Daughter is recovering from a  Pictures of the birds of New Zealand
problem with her back
 (14)_________________artist
James Chang  Originally from Taiwan  (16) __________________paintings
 Had a number of (15)  Strong colors
_____________________ there
Natalie Stevens  has shown pictures in many countries  soft colors, various media
 is an artist and a (17)  mainly does (18)_______________
___________________

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Christine Shin  lived in New Zealand for  Paintings are based on
(19)__________________ (20)___________________
 Korean  Watercolors of New Zealand landscape

Part 4: For questions 21-25, you will hear a radio interview with two people, Frank Johnson and Anna
Pritchard, discussing education in Britain and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best
according to what you hear.
21. What does Frank Johnson suggest about current teaching methods?
A. they help teachers get their message across in an amusing way.
B. they result in teachers losing sight of their main professional tasks.
C. they allow students a necessary break from serious study.
D. they encourage parental involvement in the educational process.
22. According to Frank, what is the key to a good education?
A. promoting traditional skills through creativity
B. developing general knowledge through linguistic ability
C. ensuring the accuracy of what is taught
D. enabling students to acquire reasoning powers
23. Anna Pritchard thinks that, in the average school today,
A. most teachers adopt satisfactory teaching methods.
B. there is an insufficient variety of classroom activities.
C. most teachers adapt their methods to suit different leaners.
D. there are too many students per class for teachers to deal with.
24. How does Anna think schools should change their approach?
A. by helping students investigate the ways in which they learn
B. by allowing students to choose precisely what they want to learn
C. by letting students play music in the background during class
D. by encouraging students to talk through their ideas in class
25. Anna thinks that note-taking activities should be
A. varied according to topic.
B. replaced by other activities.
C. adjusted to suit each student.
D. checked carefully for inaccuracies.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
26. In his student days, he was as poor as a church ______
A. beggar B. miser C. mouse D. pauper
27. Harry doesn’t ______ to great fame and fortune, he just wants to make a decent living.
A. crave B. hanker C. yearn D. aspire
28. I wrote to them a fortnight ago but ______ I haven’t had a reply
A. as yet B. these days C. so long D. just now
29. She didn’t show even a ______ of emotion when the court found her guilty.
A. gleam B. wink C. flicker D. flash
30. It’s not surprising that he became a writer because he always longed to see his name______.
A. in type B. in print C. in letters D. in edition
31. The technological and economic changes of the 19th century had a marked ______ on workers.
A. cause B. effect C. impact D. consequence
32. The first sign of vitamin A disorder is night ______.
A. loss of sight B. lack of vision C. invisibility D. blindness
33. The ______ are against her winning a fourth consecutive gold medal.
A. chances B. bets C. prospects D. odds
34. References can have a considerable ______ on employment prospects.
A. cause B. decision C. weight D. bearing
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35. The prospects of picking up any survivors are now ______.
A. thin B. narrow C. slim D. restricted
Your answers:
26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Part 2: For questions 36-43, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding
numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0).
LANGUAGE CHANGE
The phenomenon of language change (0. PROBALE) __________attracts more public notice and more (36.
DISAPPROVE) ___________than any other linguistic issue. There is a widely held belief that change must
mean deterioration and decay. Older people observe the casual speech of the young and conclude that
standards have fallen (37. APPRECIATE)_____________.

It is understandable that many people dislike change, but it is (38. WISE)__________to condemn all linguistic
(39. MODIFY)__________. It is often felt that contemporary language illustrates the problem at its worst, but
this belief is shared by every generation.

There are indeed cases where linguistic change can lead to problems of unintelligibility and (40.
AMBIGUOUS)____________ and if change is too rapid there can be major communication problems. But as
a rule, the parts of the language which are (41. GO)____________change at any given time are relatively
small in comparison to the vast, unchanging areas of language. It is because change is so (42.
FREQUENT)_________ that it is so distinctive and (43. NOTICE)__________. Some degree of caution and
concern is therefore always desirable for the maintenance of precision and effective communication, but
there are no grounds for the extremely pessimistic attitude so often encountered.
Your answers
0. probably 36. 37. 38. 39.
40. 41. 42. 43.

Part 3: The passage below contains 6 errors in spelling, grammar, word form. For questions 44-49,
underline the errors and write the correction in the corresponding numbered boxes. There are THREE
examples at the beginning.
MAPPING THE MIND’S WORD PROCESSOR
Line 1 An area deep in the left front half of the brain used to processing language has been
Line 2 pinpointing by a new brain-imager. Dr Julie Fiez, who first reported the work, believe
Line 3 brain-imagers will one day help to show the causes of problems like dyslexia and
Line 4 determine strategies to overcome language difficulties. The new imaging technique
Line 5 shows the parts of the brain which are working harder because of blood flow has
Line 6 increased. Some people being studied were asked to lift their left index finger when they
Line 7 heard a specific tone, word, syllablle, or vowel. Others were asked only to listen without
Line 8 doing anything. The brain’s left frontal region was seen to be used only when subjects
Line 9 had to show they had been heard the specific sound, rather than just listened. Many
Line 10 regions are involved in listen but this one appears to be involved when parts of a sound
Line 11 have to be analyzed to take a decision, for instance how to correctly pronounce the
Line 12 words ‘lead’ and ‘tears’ in different contexts.
Your answers
0. frontal (line 1) 00. process (line 1) 000. pinpointed (line 2)
44. 45. 46.
47. 48. 49.

Part 4: For questions 50-55, fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable particles. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0).
0. That seems a good price, I shan’t haggle ________it.
50. To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to fend _______heavy pressure from colleagues.
51. When attacked by his opponents, the general hit _________with strong justification for his policy.
52. He works hard, but _______the expense of his health.
53. She always fights best when the chips are _______.
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54. After a fall in profits, the company decided to pull ___________the hotel business.
55. The bad weather carried ________ longer than had been expected.
Your answers
0. over 50. 51. 52.
53. 54. 55.

III. READING (50 points)

Part 1: For questions 56-65, read the following passages and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best
fits each gap. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
VANCOUVER
In the last ten years or so, hundreds of thousands people from all over the world have (56) ____________up
residence in Vancouver, in Western Canada. In the evening, to relax, residents (57) ______________down
the city streets and, if you join them, you are likely to overhear a different language at almost every other
step. People come to Vancouver for its mild climate, its wonderful setting between the ocean and the
mountains, its clean and safe environment and its educational and job opportunities. And much as some may
grumble about the speed at the buildings have (58) _______. There’s no doubt that the new arrivals and (59)
__________ tourism industry have helped fuel an urban renaissance. Locals once referred to Vancouver as
“Terminal City” because of the city’s role as a terminus or gateway to all other places. Though the name has
fallen slightly out of (60) ________, Vancouver is more a gateway than ever.

56. A. taken B. put C. made D. built

57. A. prowl B. stumble C. trudge D. stroll
58. A. sprung up B. gathered up C. piled up D. moved up
59. A. progressing B. blooming C. flourishing D. swelling
60. A. approval B. favour C. opinion D. support

Your answers
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.

PUTTING PEN TO PAPER

Journalists like myself are usually poor letter-writers. I have heard it (61) _______ that this is because of the
instinctive distaste we feel at writing something we are not going to be paid for, but I cannot believe we have
quite such mercenary characters. It is more probably that since in our work, we are always (62) _______ to
get the greatest possible effect, the essential spontaneity of a letter (63) _______ us. The real creative artist,
who does not consciously work on the effect at all (though he may rewrite a passage dozens of times), does
not have this problem. I believe that it is in this inherent grasp of the effect of his words that there (64)
________ the only sure test of the real artist. When Shakespeare wrote some of his famous lines, he (65)
________ never thought consciously that it was the contrast between polysyllables that make them so
effective, as well as showing him to be a great writer.

61. A. said B. told C. remarked D. presumed

62. A. striving B. exerting C. contending D. tackling
63. A. misses B. escapes C. avoids D. passes
64. A. goes B. remains C. lies D. exists
65. A. inevitably B. confidently C. particularly D. surely
Your answers
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.

Part 2: For questions 66-77, read the text below and think of the word best fits each gap. Use only
ONE word in each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an
example at the beginning (0).
A MODERN – DAY PROBLEM
In the hustle (0) __________bustle of today’s hectic world all of us, (66)__________exception have to
contend with some level of stress. Obviously, the source and amount of stress are relative
(67)___________the individual. Just as causes and quantities of stress are subject to personal factors,
(68)________is the way in which a person deals with it. It is a well-known fact that some people flourish
(69)_________ faced with a potentially stress-causing task or situation. On the other hand, the majority of
people (70)_________adversely affected when confronted (71)_________a serious dilemma. Abnormal
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levels of stress (72)__________be a serious health hazard and may prove detrimental to one’s physical
health. Stress is said to be the culprit in a high percentage of heart problems and stomach disorders. Even
some types of cancer are, reportedly, linked to stress. Knowing that stress is a modern-day malady which we
(73)__________, to a greater or lesser extent, suffer from, (74)__________prompted many to begin looking
seriously at ways of controlling stress. (75)____________to the inevitable fact that stress will always play a
part in our lives, it is (76)_________paramount importance that strategies of stress management
(77)___________found.

Your answers
0. and 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.
72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77.

Part 3: Read the following the text. Six sentences have been removed from the text. Choose from the
sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (78-83). There is one extra sentence which you do not
need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).

CASA DE CRISTAL
He was invigilating the exam in the Casa de cristal, a huge glass-fronted building on the edge of the city used
twice early as an examination centre. It was a cold December day and the heating had broken down.

With their coats and scarves pulled tightly round them, the four hundred or so candidates struggled to forget
the temperature and focus their attention instead on four examination papers which would take them most of
the day to complete. 0._______________ . However, no obvious improvement was ever made.

The job of investigator was not one he particularly enjoyed, but it earned him some much-needed cash before
the approaching Christmas holidays. As well as patrolling a small part of the large examination room,
answering questions and discouraging cheats, he had to carry out a number of administrative
duties.78._____________. And then, of course, there were the question papers to hand out and answers to
take in. It was all rather dull, but it made a change from the rigors of teaching.

To relieve the boredom he set himself several simple arithmetical tasks to perform. 79._____________. This
helps to pass the time and made the whole thing more bearable. Now and again, he would walk up and down
the aisles, giving out rough paper, reminding candidates to use pens rather than pencils and picking up items,
which had been dropped on the floor.

He was walking back up the exam room in his soft shoes when he caught her. 80.______________. The
candidates were on the third paper, which tested English grammar and vocabulary, and as he neared her
desk from behind. He could hardly believe what he saw. He had heard of some ingenious methods of
cheating but nothing like this.

81.__________. Then was now looking down at the back of her exposed legs, which was coved with several
columns of phrasal verbs and their translations, copied out onto her skin in fine blue ink. Suddenly, he felt his
presence behind her and pulled the trouser leg down to her ankle and looked around.

82. ____________. Then she blushed, acutely embarrassed but also uncomfortably aware of the possible
consequences of having been found out and she looked away to contemplate her face.

None of other candidates seemed to have noticed what was happening, which gave him time to describe how
best to deal with the situation.83._____________. But this was not a course of action he had considered
and as he asked her to accompany him to the front, he noticed the tears forming in her eyes.

A. The girl was wearing loose fitting trousers and had pulled one of the trouser legs up as far as the
knee.
B. He counted the number of separate window panes (85), worked out the most popular color for coats
(blue) and calculated the radio of females to males in the room (5:2)
C. There were lists of names to make, seating plans to draw and identify papers to check.
D. This brief delay gave her hope that he might turn a blind eye and forget he had seen anything.
E. He had obviously not heard him approaching.
F. They had only been writing for some 20 minutes when he received the first complaint.
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G. For a brief moment they started at each other in disbelief, neither one of them quite sure what to do
next.
H. The cold was terrible and the caretaker of the building had assured him that a heating engineer was
trying to solve the problem.

Your answers
0. H 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83.

Part 4: Read the following extract and answer the questions 84-93
WORDLY WEALTH
Can the future population of the world enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, with professions, space and mobility,
without crippling the environment?
The world’s population is expected to stabilize at around nine billion. Will it be possible for nine billion people
to have the lifestyle enjoyed today only by the wealthy? One school of thought says no: not only should the
majority of the world’s people resign themselves to poverty forever, but rich nations must also revert to
simpler lifestyles in order to save the planet.

Admittedly, there may be political or social barriers to achieving a rich world. But in fact there seems to be no
insuperable physical or ecological reason why nine billion people should not achieve a comfortable lifestyle,
using technology only slightly more advanced than that which we now possess. In thinking about the future of
civilization, we ought to start by asking what people want. The evidence demonstrates that as people get
richer they want a greater range of personal technology, they want lots of room (preferably near or in natural
surroundings) and they want greater speed in travel. More professions, more space, more mobility.

In the developed world, the personal technologies of the wealthy, including telephones, washing machines
and cars, have become necessities within a generation or two. Increasing productivity that results in
decreasing costs for such goods has been responsible for the greatest gains in the standard of living, and
there is every reason to believe that this will continue.

As affluence grows, the amount of energy and raw materials used for production of machinery will therefore
escalate. But this need not mean an end to the machine age. Rather than being thrown away, materials from
old machinery can be recycled by manufacturers. And long before all fossil fuels are exhausted, their rising
prices may compel industrial society not only to become more energy efficient but also to find alternative
energy sources sufficient for the demands of an advanced technological civilization- nuclear fission, nuclear
fusion, solar energy, chemical photosynthesis, geothermal, biomass or some yet unknown source of energy.

The growth of cities and suburbs is often seen as a threat to the environment. However, in fact the increasing
amount of land consumed by agriculture is far greater danger than urban sprawl. Stopping the growth of
farms is the best way to preserve many of the world’s remaining wild areas. But is a dramatic downsize of
farmland possible? Thanks to the growth of agricultural productivity, reforestation and ‘re-wilding’ has been
under way in the industrial countries for generations. Since 1950 more land in the US has been set aside in
parks than has been occupied by urban and suburban growth. And much of what was farmland in the
nineteenth century is now forest again. Taking the best Iowa maize growers as the norm for world food
productivity, it has been calculated that less than a tenth of present cropland could support a population of 10
billion.

In The Environment Game, a vision of a utopia that would be at once high-tech and environmentalist, Nigel
Calder suggested that “nourishing but unpalatable primary food produced by industrial techniques – like yeast
from petroleum may be fed to animals, so that we can continue to eat our customary meat, eggs, milk, butter,
and cheese, and so that people in underdeveloped countries can have adequate supplies of animal protein
for the first time.”

In the long run, tissue-cloning techniques could be used to grow desired portions of meat by themselves.
Once their DNA has been extracted to create cowless steaks and chickenless drumsticks, domesticated
species of livestock, bred for millennia to be stupid or to have grotesquely enhanced traits, should be allowed
to become extinct, except for a few specimens in zoos. However, game such as wild deer, rabbits and wild
ducks will be ever more abundant as farms revert to wilderness, so this could supplement the laboratory-
grown meat in the diets of tomorrow’s affluent.

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With rising personal incomes come rising expectations of mobility. This is another luxury of today’s rich that
could become a necessity of tomorrow’s global population – particularly if its members choose to live widely
dispersed in a post-agrarian wilderness. In his recent book Free Flight, James Fallow, a pilot as well as a
writer, describes serious attempts by both state and private entrepreneurs in the USA to promote an ‘air taxi’
system within the price range of today’s middle class – and perhaps tomorrow’s global population.

Two of the chief obstacles to the science fiction fantasy of the personal plane or hover car are price and
danger. While technological improvements are driving prices down, piloting an aircraft in three dimensions is
still more difficult than driving a car in two, and pilot error causes more fatalities than driver error. But before
long our aircraft and cars will be piloted by computers which are never tired or stressed.

So perhaps there are some grounds for optimism when viewing the future of civilization. With the help of
technology, and without putting serious strains on the global environment, professions, space and mobility
can be achieved for all the projected population of the world.

For questions 84-89, write in the corresponding numbered boxes

YES if the statement reflects the writer’s claim
NO if the statement contradicts the writer’s claim
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

84. Today’s wealthy people ignore the fact that millions are living in poverty.
85. There are reasons why the future population of the world may not enjoy a comfortable lifestyle.
86. The first thing to consider when planning for the future is environmental protection.
87. As manufactured goods get cheaper, people will benefit more from them.
88. It may be possible to find new types of raw materials for use in the production of machinery.
89. The rising prices of fossil fuels may bring some benefits.
Your answers
84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89.

For questions 90-92, choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
According to the writer, the use of land for agriculture is the most serious threat to the environment. However,
in the US, there has already been an increase in the amount of land used for (90)_________and forests. Far
less land would be required to feed the world’s population if the (91)_________of the land could be improved
worldwide. It has also been claimed that the industrial production of animal foods could allow greater access
to animal (92)__________by the entire world’s population. Scientists could use DNA from domesticated
animals to help produce meat by tissue cloning, and these species could then be allowed to die out. In
addition to this type of meat, game will also be widely available.

Your answers
90. 91. 92.

For questions 93-94, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) according to the reading passage.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
93. Greater mobility may be a feature of the future because of changes in
A. the location of housing.
B. patterns of employment.
C. centres of transport.
D. the distinction of wealth.
94. Air transport will be safe because of
A. new types of air craft.
B. better training methods.
C. three-dimensional models.
D. improved technology.
Your answers 93. 94.

Part 5: Read the following extract and answer the questions

For questions 95-102, choose the correct heading for paragraph A-H from the list of headings below.
Write correct number I-XI in the numbered boxes.
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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT

List of headings
I. A historical delicacy
II. The poor may benefit
III. Presentation is key to changing attitudes
IV. Environmentally friendly production
V. Tradition meets technology
VI. A cultural pioneer
VII. Western practices harm locals
VIII. Good source of nutrients
IX. Growing popularity
X. A healthy choice
XI. A safety risk

95. Section A
96. Section B
97. Section C
98. Section D
99. Section E
100. Section F
101. Section G
102. Section H

A
Why not eat insects? So asked British entomologist Vincent M. Holt in the title of his 1885 treatise on the
benefits of what he named entomophagy – the consumption of insects (and similar creatures) as a food
source. The prospect of eating dishes such as “ wireworm sauce” and “slug soup” failed to garner favour
amongst those in the stuffy, proper, Victorian social milieu of his time, however, and Holt’s visionary ideas
were considered at best eccentric, at worst an offense to every refined palate. Anticipating such a reaction,
Holt acknowledged the difficulty in unseating deep-rooted prejudices against insect cuisine, but quietly
asserted his confidence that “we shall some day quite gladly cook and eat them”.
B
It has taken nearly 150 years but an eclectic Western-driven movement has finally mounted around the
entomophagic cause. In Los Angeles and other cosmopolitan Western cities, insects have been caught up in
the endless pursuit of novel and authentic delicacies. “Eating grasshoppers is a thing you do here”, bug-
supplier Bricia Lopez has explained. “There’s more of a ‘cool’ factor involved.” Meanwhile, the Food and
Agricultural Organization has considered a policy paper on the subject, initiated farming projects in Laos, and
set down plans for a world congress on insect farming in 2013.
C
Eating insects is not a new phenomenon. In fact, insects and other such creatures are already eaten in 80
percent of the world’s countries, prepared in customary dishes ranging from deep-fried tarantula in Cambodia
to bowls of baby bees in China. With the specialist knowledge that Western companies and organizations can
bring to the table, however, these hand-prepared delicacies have the potential to be produced on a scale
large enough to lower costs and open up mass markets. A new American company, for example, is
attempting to develop pressurization machines that would de-shell insects and make them available in the
form of cutlets. According to the entrepreneur behind the company, Matthew Krisiloff, this will be the key to
pleasing the uninitiated palate.
D
Insects certainly possess some key advantages over traditional Western meat sources. According to
research findings from Professor Arnold van Huis, a Dutch entomologist, breeding insects results in far fewer
noxious by-products. Insects produce less ammonia than pig and poultry farming, ten times less methane
than livestock, and 300 times less nitrous oxide. Huis also notes that insects – being cold-blooded creatures
– can convert food to protein at a rate far superior to that of cows, since the latter exhaust much of their
energy just keeping themselves warm.
E
Although insects are sometimes perceived by Westerners as unhygienic or disease-ridden, they are a reliable
option in light of recent global epidemics (as Holt pointed out many years ago, insects are “decidedly more
particular in their feeding than ourselves”). Because bugs are genetically distant from humans, species-
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hopping diseases such as swine flu or mad cow disease are much less likely to start or spread amongst
grasshoppers or slugs than poultry and cattle. Furthermore, the squalid, cramped quarters that encourage
diseases to propagate among many animal populations are actually the residence of choice for insects, which
thrive in such conditions.
F
Then, of course, there are the commercial gains. As FAO Forestry Manager Patrick Durst notes, in
developing countries many rural people and traditional forest dwellers have remarkable knowledge about
managing insect populations to produce food. Until now, they have only used this knowledge to meet their
own subsistence needs, but Durst believes that, with the adoption of modern technology and improved
promotional methods, opportunities to expand the market to new consumers will flourish. This could provide a
crucial step into the global economic arena for those primarily rural, impoverished populations who have been
excluded from the rise of manufacturing and large-scale agriculture.
G
Nevertheless, much stands in the way of the entomophagic movement. One problem is the damage that has
been caused, and continues to be caused, by Western organizations prepared to kill off grasshoppers and
locusts – complete food proteins- in favour of preserving the incomplete protein crops of millet, wheat, barley
and maize. Entomologist Florence Dunkel has described the consequences of such interventions. While
examining children’s diets as a part of her field work in Mali, Dunkel discovered that a protein deficiency
syndrome called kwashiorkor was increasing in incidence. Children in the area were once protected against
kwashiorkor by a diet high in grasshoppers, but these had become unsafe to eat after pesticide use in the
area increased.
H
A further issue is the persistent fear many Westerners still have about eating insects. “The problem is the ick
factor – the eyes, the wings, the legs,” Krishiloss has said. “It’s not as simple as hiding it in a bug nugget.
People won’t accept it beyond the novelty. When you think of a chicken, you think of a chicken breast, not the
eyes, wings, and beak.” For Marcel Dicke, the key lies in camouflaging the fact that people are eating insects
at all. Insect flour is one of his promotions, as is changing the language of insect cuisine. “If you say it’s
mealworms, it makes people think of ringworm”, he notes. “So stop saying ‘worm’. If we use Latin names, say
it’s a Tenebrio quiche, it sounds much more fancy”. For Krisiloff, Dicke and others, keeping quiet about the
gritty reality of our food is often the best approach.
I
It is yet to be seen if history will truly redeem Vincent Holt and his suggestion that British families should
gather around their dining tables for a breakfast of “moths on toast”. It is clear, however, that entomophagy,
far from being a kooky sideshow to the real business of food production, has much to offer in meeting the
challenges that global societies in the 21st century will face.
Your answers
95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102.

For questions 102-105, choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Van Huis
 Insects are cleaner and do not release as many harmful gases
 Insects use food intake economically in the production of protein as they waste less
(103)___________
Durst
 Traditional knowledge could be combined with modern methods for mass production instead of just
covering (104)______________
 This could help impoverished people gain access to world markets.
Dunkel
 Due to increased (105)____________, more children in Mali are suffering from protein deficiency.

Your answers
103. 104. 105.

IV. WRITING (50 points)

Part 1: Use the word given in the brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence
in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT change the
word form of the given word. There is an example at the beginning (0).

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 0. We are able to afford a holiday, because I was promoted.
RESULT
As a result of my promotion, we are able to afford a holiday
106. She just pretended to welcome him, and then quickly left the waiting room. (MOTIONS)
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107. Chalk and cheese are not at all like. (COMPARISON)
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108. It was hard not to start laughing when she started to sing. (FACE)
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109. That wasn’t what I mean at all! You’ve completely misunderstood me as usual! (STICK)
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110. My husband is observed with football; it may only thing he ever thinks about. (BRAIN)
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Part 2: Company ABC exports its products mainly to North America and Europe. The following chart
shows the sales figures of Company ABC from 2003 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting
and reporting the main features, and make any comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

Sales figures of Company ABC's export to North America and Europe 2003-2008

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50
Export to North
dollars in million

40 America
30 Export to Europe
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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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Parents and other adult relatives should make important decisions for their (15 to 18 years old)
teenage children.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.
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