Name: __________________ ĐỌC ĐI BÂY ƠI _________________

Date: 22/07/2021
PRACTICE TEST 3
SECTION A - LISTENING
Part 1. You will hear a short radio report about how technology is helping archaeologists who want to
learn more about some texts written over 2000 years ago known as Roman tablets. For questions 1-14,
fill in each blank with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.
During the (1)_______Roman Empire__________ in Europe about two millennials ago, “tablets” were popular. These
were made of wood pieces as big and thick as a present-day (2)________envelope_________.
At the site of an old (3)_______fort_______  , archaeologists could discover approximately 200 tablets, which have
been later put in museums’ (4)________public collections__________.
Thanks to modern technology, Roman tablets may no longer be (5)_______illegible_______ to the public.
Roman soldiers often used tablets for writing letters or documents of a (6)______legal_______ nature.
On one tablet mentioned, the word  (7)“______transportation__________” can be identified as well as people’s
names.
Mike Brady, an expert in what’s called (8)_________computer vision____________ says that the project is very
challenging. However, he is excited to see how recent achievements in (9) ________computing__________ are
applied to ancient matters.
Panels on the tablets were once filled with (10)________wax_________, which provided the writing surface but now
only faint (11)_______scratches___________ are left.
Efforts to analyse the original texts using (12)________laser photography___________ were unsuccessful.
Nevertheless, new historical information is expected to open up by (13)______enhancing__________ the tablet’s
images on computers.
New technology is also being applied to other historical texts which were written
using (14)_________ink____________
Part 2. You will hear some advice on choosing houseplants. For questions 15-24, listen and decide
whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
15 B Before you get the plant, choose the location with suitable light and shadow. F (light and shade)
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16 Being selective in your choice of plants is unnecessary. F
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17 Some plants in poor condition mean the garden centre might not be trustworthy T
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18 To avoid diseases and pests, you should buy plants with healthy leaves, no matter what color they are. F
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19 It could take such a long time for a small tree to reach the size you want. T
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20 The younger a plant is, the more adaptable to new environments it proves to be. F
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21 Plants that have just been put in pots cannot survive when you bring them home. F
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22 If you opt for growing plants in the ground, it’s a good idea to buy them in plastic bags. T
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23 Outdoor plants will grow more slowly indoors. T
24 You should look closely at the upper side of the leaves for unwanted insects or diseases. F
Part 3. You will hear part of a radio interview in which a naval officer called Peter Martin is talking about
his experience. For questions 25-30 choose the best answer( A, B, C or D).
25 What made Peter first decide to join the navy?
A He liked the idea of being able to travel. B He thought it would impress people at home.
C He believed he could get promoted more quickly. D He felt he had wasted his time when he was younger.
26 What effect did Peter's upbringing have on his suitability for the navy?
A He found it difficult to take orders at first. B He was often too competitive during training sessions.

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C He experienced few problems adapting to the lifestyle. D He was challenged by the hard physical exercise
required.
27 According to Peter, how can recent school leavers do well in the navy?
A by accepting that their social life is of secondary importance
B by recognizing that the navy can offer a long-term career
C by learning to take responsibility for themselves
D by delaying entry into the navy until they are older
28 For Peter, what is the most rewarding part of a trip back to his hometown?
A Receiving respect from people he went to school with.
B Experiencing a sense of pride in his achievements.
C Relating his experiences to younger members of the community.
D Hearing that other people have followed his example.
29 According to Peter, what do the public not understand about the navy?
A The range of roles that the navy undertakes.
B The length of time that navy personnel spend at sea.
C The dangers that navy personnel have to face.
D How much money is required to run the organization properly.
30 According to Peter, what advantage does a previous naval career give job seekers?
A A sense of confidence in their own ability. B The discipline for later academic study.
C The determination to succeed in their work. D Experience which can be transferred to other fields.
SECTION B – VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
Part 1: Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences.
1. I don't agree with his policies but I'm going to ______ them for now.
A. play along with B. play cat and mouse with C. play havoc with D. play down
2. Well, I’m sorry, that’s all I can offer you. ______.
A. Take it or forget it B. Get it or forget it C. Take it or leave it D. Leave it or take it
3. Although the Moon appears ______, it reflects on average only 7 percent of the light that falls on it.
A. bright to the eye B. brightly to the eye C. bright in the eye D. brightly in the eye
4. In the last century, it was widely _______ that Indian fakirs were capable of superhuman feats.
A. held B. grasped C. kept D. shaken
5. Chris was _____between buying a new house and going on a round -the-world cruise.
A. pulled B. torn C. moving D. leaning
6. Don’t quote me. What I am about to say is _____ the record.
A. on B. off C. without D. above
7. Linda’s excuses for being late are beginning to _____ rather thin.
A. get B. turn C. wear D. go
8. They wandered around in circles for an hour before finally admitting they were well and _____ lost.
A. completely B. thoroughly C. truly D. utterly
9. I thought I had made it_____ that I didn’t wish to discuss this matter.
A. distinct B. plain C. frank D. straight
10. Did you see Jonathan this morning? He looked like ___________. It must have been quite a party last night.
A. death warmed up B. a wet blanket C. a dead duck D. a bear with a sore head
Part 2. Read the passage below, which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections.
1 If there is one characteristic of British work in the arts that seems to stand out, it is its shortage of
2 identification with wider intellectual trends. Playwrights and directors can be left-wing in their political look-
3 out, but the plays they produce rare convey a straightforward message. The same is largely true of British
4 novelists and poets. Their writing is naturalistic and is not connected to particular intellectual movements.
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 5 The theatre had always been very strong in Britain, especially in London. The country’s most successful
6 playwrights are those which explore the dark side of the personality and of personal relationships. In
7 contrast, the cinema in Britain is often regarded as not quite part of the arts in all, it is simply
8 entertainment. Britain is unique between the large European countries in giving almost no financial help to
9 their film industry. Classical music is also a minority interest. The British seem disinterested in high
10 education, they watch lots of television, but are enthusiastic readers. The vast majority of books reading in
11 Britain are not classified as serious literature.
SECTION C – READING
Part 1: Read the passage and choose the best answer.
THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE
This week we celebrated Valentine’s Day or rather (1) _______ romantics and those of us who are a bit soft in the
head did! The fourteenth of February always gives everyone who’s anyone a chance to cast a few pearls of (2)
_______ before their fellow sufferers about the nature of ‘the universal migraine’ – love. Francis Farnsworth is a
case in point. I’m sure the poor old fellow has a heart of gold but he really does talk a (3) _______ of rubbish
sometimes! His appearance last night on BBC 1’s ‘Let’s Talk It Over’ was no exception. He started of by having
what I will politely call a difference of opinion with Tania Di Monte, author of ‘Tell me the Truth about love’. Ms. Di
Monte always expresses the most extraordinary views without any apparent (4) _______ of contradiction. Last
night she was boldly setting out her rules for a perfect relationship when poor old Farnsworth accidentally called
her Tina. Tina is of course the name of her ex-husband Darren’s second wife and we all know that any mention
him – or her – is like (5) _______ to Tania. Farnsworth kept apologizing and saying that it had been a slip of the
(6) _______ brought about by a momentary (7) _______ of concentration, but it took all presenter Greg Lazarre’s
skills to calm our Tania down again. Francis then started calling her ‘darling’, which only succeeded in making her
even more furious. ‘(8) _______ of endearment’, he stammered as she glared at him. She had been vehemently
denying that there was even a (9) _______ of truth in rumors about her forthcoming engagement to football star
Nick Pérez. Nevertheless, I’m sure it is only a(n) (10) _______ of time before we see Tania and Nick on the cover
of ‘Hi There!’ celebrating ‘the wedding of the century’. If marrying someone like Tania is what happens to you if
you’re incredibly successful, as Pérez undoubtedly is, I shudder to think what the price of failure might be!
1. A. insufferable B. untreatable C. incurable D. unrecoverable
2. A. knowledge B. wisdom C. intelligence D. sense
3. A. mould B. load C. pile D. stack
4. A. worry B. anxiety C. concern D. fear
5. A. a bull in a China shop B. the bull by the horns C. a red rag to a bull D. a bull market
6. A. pen B. tongue C. mouth D. teeth
7. A. lapse B. error C. mistake D. slip
8. A. expression B. idiom C. term D. phrase
9. A. grain B. fragment C. particle D. pellet
10. A. issue B. question C. problem D. topic
Part 2: Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word.
You’re in a crowd of people who are all asking for the same thing. (11) ________ do you make your voice
heard (12)_________ the rest? Be different. Don’t shout. Lisa, 25, was waiting to board a plane flying to Austria,
when the flight was cancelled.
‘There were about a hundred of us stranded,’ she says. ‘(13) _________ else was yelling at the airport staff. I
didn’t join in. I walked up to the man behind the ticket desk very quietly and said, “This (14)________ be so awful for
you! I don’t know how you deal with these situations – it’s not even your fault. I could never handle it as well as you
are.” (15)_________ my even asking, he found me a seat on another airline with an upgrade to first class. He was
happy to do a favor for someone who was appreciative (16)_________ of hostile.’
Flattery is an essential element of the sweet-talk strategy. ‘It’s human (17)___________that stroking a
person’s ego with a few well-directed compliments makes them want to (18)__________ you right,’ says a
psychologist. ‘Tell someone they’re pretty and they’ll instantly fix their hair; praise their sense of (19)___________
and they’ll tell you a joke. So, if you give someone the opportunity to be your hero, they’ll rise to the role.’
You need help and there’s absolutely (20)________ reason the person will want to lend a hand. Allison, 26, a
solicitor, realized she’d made a huge mistake on a batch of documents she needed for a client meeting that began
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(21)________ two hours. “The only way I could fix the problem was to enlist the aid of a colleague who I knew didn’t
like me,” she says.
Blatant bribery is difficult to offer – slipping someone cash (22)_________ trying to strike a bargain will
usually backfire, but you can usually gain back some power if you subtly offer a (23)__________ payback. Allison
went to the woman’s office, wearing a panicked expression and explained her dilemma. Then she offered the oh-so-
subtle bribe. ‘I said, “As I was saying to the boss the other day, you’re the (24)_________ person who would know
how to handle a situation like this. What would you suggest I do?” Feeling confident, she set about helping me and we
finished the job on time. The trick was acknowledging her (25)_________ the pro – then she was happy to help.’
Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Facing the Music
Decani Mayes, President of the Music Buyers Association, is furious at a recent announcement by the recording
industry concerning people downloading MP3 music files from the Internet. Of course, there are files that can be
downloaded legally for a small charge, but the uproar is not about these: it is about illegal downloads, which constitute
an undoubted infringement of copyright. However, there is a great deal of controversy over whether the people who
indulge in this activity should be regarded as actual criminals.
A few parallel may be instructive. If someone copies an audio music cassette for their own private use, they arc,
strictly speaking, breaking the law. But recording companies have usually turned a blind eye to this practice because
prosecuting the few people involved would be difficult, and the financial loss to the company itself is not considered
significant. At the other end of the scale, there are criminals who make illegal copies of CDs and sell them for a profit.
This is far more serious, and the industry actively pursues and prosecutes pirates. Now the Music Recording
Association has announced that regards individuals downloading music from the Internet as pirates, claiming that they
damage the industry in just the same way. "The industry is completely overreacting; it will be a laughing stock", says
Mayes. "They are going to arrest some teenager downloading files in his bedroom — and sue him for thousands of
dollars! This isn't going to frighten anyone into buying CDs."
Mayes may have a point. There is a general consensus that CDs pirates should be subjected to the full wrath of
the law, but few would see an individual downloading music for his or her pleasure in the same light. However,
downloading music files illegally is not as innocuous as making private copies of audio cassettes. The scratchy,
distorted cassette copy is a poor version of the original recording, whereas an MP3 file is of high quality and can be
stored — on a CD. for example. It is this that makes the practice a powerful temptation for music fans, given the high
cost of CDs.
What does Mayes think about the claims that music companies could be forced out of business by people
downloading music illegally? "That's nonsense. Music companies are always whining about high costs, but that doesn't
prevent them from recording hundred of CDs by completely unknown artists, many of whom are "packaged" by
marketing departments to appeal to young consumers. The companies are simply hoping that one of these new bands
or singers will be a hit, and although it can be expensive to promote new artists, the cost of manufacturing the CDs is
actually very low."
The last point would appear to be the focus of resentment against music companies: a CD is far cheaper to
produce than its price in the shops would indicate, and profit margins for the music companies arc huge. An adult with
a reasonable income may no object to paying £15 for a CD of classical music, but a teenager buying a CD by the latest
pop sensation may find that price rather steep — especially since the latest pop sensation is almost certain to be
forgotten within a few months. And while the recording industry can't be held responsible for the evanescent nature of
fame, given the teenage appetite for anything novel, it could lower the prices it charges — especially since the
technology is making CDs even cheaper to produce.
This is what Mayes hopes will happen. "If the music industry stops exploiting the music-buying public, it can
survive. Everyone would rather buy a CD, with an attractive jacket and booklet, than mess around downloading files,
but the price has to be reasonable. The problem isn't going to vanish if the industry carries on trying to make a quick
profit. Technology has caught up with the music companies, and trying to fight it by taking people to court will only
earn money for the lawyers." A frighten thought.
26. If someone downloads MP3 music files illegally, the Music Recording Association will now
A. turn a blind eye. B. take them to the court. C. be indulgent toward them. D. charge them a fee.
27. Mayes thinks that the recording industry's recent announcement
A. fails to take into account the difficulties of prosecuting offenders.
B. will deter consumers from buying CDs.
C. will encourage resentment of CDs piracy.
D. make the industry appear ludicrous.
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28. According to the article. it is commonly accepted that
A. producing pirate CDs in order to take money is a serious offence.
B. downloading MP3 files is more serious than making audio cassettes.
C. the music Recording Association should ignore infringement.
D. the laws regarding illegal music recordings should be amended.
29. The word "controversy" in paragraph I is closest in meaning to
A. campaign B. disputation C. movement D. commitment
30. Why does the writer feel that MP3s are unlike copies of audio cassettes?
A. Downloaded MP3 files are generally not for private use.
B. The financial losses to the music industry are greater.
C. There is a significant difference in quality.
D. The price of MP3s is greater than the price of audio cassettes.
31. The phrase "turned a blind eye to" in the 2nd paragraph means
A. sentenced B. convicted C. threatened D. ignored
32. Mayes implies that music companies
A. are speculating when thcy promote new artists. B. could cut costs by making cheaper CDs.
C. should not promote artists who are unknown. D. should use different manufacturing processes.
33. The writer points out that the music industry cannot be blamed for
A. the fact that fewer teenagers are buying classical music CDs.
B. the poor quality of much modem music.
C. the prices that are charged for CDs in shops.
D. the fact that fashion change quickly.
34. What does Mayes think is the root of the dilemma facing the music industry?
A. the unprecedented speed of technological advances B. unrealistic legal advice
C. its failure to adopt an appropriate long-term strategy D. the rapidly changing nature of contemporary music
35. Which of the following is Not True according to the text?
A. Teenagers will listen to a Pop CD for a long time.
B. Promoting a new artist may cost a lot of money.
C. Taking people to court is not a good idea.
D. An adult with reasonable salary do not hesitate to spend £15 for a CD.
Part 4: Read the following article about various paintings and answer the questions from 36 to 50. The
paintings may be chosen more than once.
Of which painting are the following stated?
36. It was considered not to be typical of paintings produced from certain sources.
37. The artist likes to depict events and situations that are open to different interpretations.
38. It is of something that no longer exists.
39. The artist points out that it is based on things actually observed, even though it doesn't depict them accurately.
40. The artist specializes in things that most people regard as ugly.
41. A deduction that could be made about what is happening in it is not what the artist is actually showing.
42. The artist took a risk while creating it.
43. The artist denies that there was a particular influence on its style.
44. The artist checks that nothing important is missing from preparatory work.
45. Its success suggests a change of attitude on the part of the judges.
46. It was completely altered in order to produce various connections.
47. The artist always tries to portray certain unique characteristics.
48. Its artist produces paintings in different locations.
49. In one way, it is unlike any other painting the artist has produced.
50. The artist likes to find by chance subjects that have certain characteristics.
WATERCOLOR COMPETITION – THE WINNERS
First prize
A Carol Robertson - Interrupted Field
This unique competition is now in its 19th year, and for much of that time you might be forgiven for thinking that
the judges weren't halfway bold enough. In the beginning, the selection of an abstract painting for the exhibition, let
alone as a prize-winner, would have been totally unexpected. Though changes began to occur some years ago, an
abstract painting has never won first prize. Until now.
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 Carol Robertson's Interrupted Field is a worthy winner, a more or less geometric composition that exploits the
qualities of evenly-applied washes of colour. The painting is vast - 'the largest I've ever attempted' - so the big, even
area of blue in the centre is, apart from anything else, something of a technical achievement.
Robertson is keen to stress that her abstract compositions are firmly rooted in reality. Though she doesn't 'seek to
confirm or record the way the world looks, her work is never disconnected from the natural world, so the coloured
stripes and bands in this painting have a specific source. Over the past five years, Robertson has been working in
Ireland, on the northwest coast of County Mayo. The coloured stripes stimulate 'memories of coastal landscape,
brightly painted cottages, harbours and fishing boats, things seen out of the corner of my eye as I explored that
coastline by car and on foot. The colour mirrors the fragments of life that caught my eye against a background of sea
and sky.'
Runners up
B Geoffrey Wynne – Quayside
Geoffrey Wynne describes himself as 'an open-air impressionist watercolour painter', though he adds that 'larger
works, this prize-winning picture among them, 'are developed in the studio: It struck the judges as something of a
tour de force, a complex composition in which most of the detail had to be suppressed in order to preserve a sense of
pictorial unity. It also has a vividness and directness not usually associated with paintings worked up from sketches
and photographs.
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of this painting is the sheer number of people in it. According to the title, they
are on a quay somewhere, and the number of suitcases they have with them suggests they have just landed from a
boat on the first stage of a holiday. 'Yes, that's almost right; Wynne told me, 'except that we're on the boat in the
early morning, just arrived back from Mallorca, and the people are waiting to get on. This painting took a long time to
finish, and many earlier attempts were abandoned. To achieve a unity, I immersed the half-finished painting in the
bath, then added the black with a big brush. It's dangerous to do, because you can't really control the effects. Then I
reworked everything, establishing links with colour and tone throughout the composition, creating a kind of web or net
of similar effects:
C Arthur Lockwood- Carbonizer Tower
There were other, less prosaic titles among the thousand-or-so entries to this year's competition, but there were
few more fetching paintings - or, come to that, more experienced painters in watercolour. Arthur Lockwood has a big
reputation among watercolour painters and watercolour enthusiasts, chiefly for his accomplished pictures of industrial
sites, subjects that are generally thought to be unsightly, but have striking visual qualities all their own. Among them
is a kind of romanticism stimulated by indications of decay and the passing of irrecoverable time. Lockwood's subjects
are, after all, ruins, the modern equivalent of Gothic churches overgrown by ivy. He aims not only to reveal those
qualities, but to make a visual record of places that are fast being destroyed. This painting, a good example of his
work in general, is one of an extensive series on the same subject. What we see is part of a large industrial plant that
once made smokeless coal briquettes. It has now been closed and demolished to make way for a business park.
D Michael Smee - Respite at The Royal Oak
Michael Smee was once a successful stage and television designer. This is worth stressing, because this prize-
winning painting makes a strong theatrical impression. Smee agrees, and thinks it has much to do with the carefully
judged lighting. 'As a theatre designer, you make the set, which comes to life only when it's lit.'
The obvious affinity with Edward Hopper's work is 'just a coincidence', Smee says. 'The other picture I submitted isn't
at all like Hopper: Both artists, though, share an interest in suggesting ambiguous narratives.
Smee prefers to happen on pubs and cafes that are intriguing visually and look as though they might be under
threat. He has a strong desire to record 'not only the disappearing pub culture peculiar to this country, but also
bespoke bar interiors and the individuals therein.' He works his paintings up from informative sketches. 'I get there
early, before many people have arrived, sit in the corner and scribble away. Then, once the painting is in progress in
the studio, I make a return visit to reassure myself and to note down what I'd previously overlooked.' His main aim
isn't topographical accuracy, however; it's to capture the appearance of artificial and natural light together, as well as
the reflections they make.
Part 5: Read the following passage and answer the questions from 51 to 60.
THE TWO HENRY FORDS
A The public knows two Henry Fords. There is the kindly, benign Ford, a man of rough manners, down-to-earth
humour and sound common-sense: an ordinary man made extraordinary by hard work and perseverance and his own
mechanical and organizational genius. He was eccentric, of course – he detested cigarettes and allowed no one to
smoke in his factories. He pronounced on public issues with the confidence of ignorance. He even, it is rumoured, set
his sights on the Presidency of the United States, although he was in fact practically illiterate. He once described the
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word ‘commenced’ as a technical term, and claimed he seldom read books since ‘they mess up my mind’. His cars
brought untold benefits to untold numbers. His starting of the ‘Five Dollar Day’ in 1914 made him a great benefactor of
the working classes, while the establishment of the Ford Foundation in 1936 made him rank among the world’s
greatest philanthropists.
B But there was the other Ford: the man who sacrificed partners, colleagues, workers, even family, to his god of mass
production. There is a German word Fordismus which conjures up the epitome of maximum industrial productivity,
where everything yields place to the tyranny of economic efficiency. The Five Dollar Day and the conveyor belt meant
more money for the workers. It also meant insecurity, for skilled labour could be dispensed with, and the lure of high
wages meant an assured pool of willing labour ready to step into the shoes of any dissatisfied or incompetent worker.
Indeed, on the very day that the Five dollar wage was announced, violence flared at Ford’s factory as men clamoured
for work. Ford was also a bigot, who allowed his personal prejudices to govern his actions and his dealings with men.
C How can we account for these contradictions? It is partly a question of time, for until the middle of the 1920s Henry
Ford was a national folk hero, whose enterprise symbolised the American dream of earthly rewards for the ordinary
self-made man. But as Ford grew older, his natural authoritarian views were fostered and made dangerous by his
wealth. His words were power, and the yes-men around him did as their master wanted.
D The personality of Henry Ford continued to dominate the Ford company as he stumbled towards senility. He became
increasingly suspicious of his subordinates, and allowed his only son Edsel (who had been nominal president of the
company since 1918) little independence. Ford’s weaknesses lay in the organization of his company, if ‘organization’ it
can be called. He distrusted ‘experts’ and he avoided as far as possible specialized executive posit ions. In theory, any
job was open to anyone, yet no job was safe, and many of Ford’s leading executives were sacked. William Knudsen,
who eventually became president of General Motors, left in 1921, during Ford’s highly characteristic reaction to a
catastrophic slump. This was to purge the organization (the office staff was cut by half), cut costs in every way,
produce more at lower prices, and force thousands of cars upon the desperate dealers.
E In the mid-1920s Ford’s adherence to a single, very basic car became a liability, as the American public began to
look for something more stylish and less obviously mass-produced. Moreover, the very reliability of the Model T’s
posed formidable competition, as millions of second-hand Model T’s came on the market. In May 1927, with sales
slipping alarmingly, Henry Ford, now an old man of sixty-four, made another momentous decision. The Model T would
be scrapped and the whole plant closed for nearly a year while experiments and machinery for a new car, the ‘Model
A’, were undertaken. For a time the new car was very successful, but Ford’s preeminence was gone for ever. When
depression struck in 1929, sales of the Model A fell away.
F Henry Ford, once the workers, champion wit h his Five Dollar Day, the man who considered himself an ordinary
workman and hated the capitalists, became himself a byword for exploitation. Not unnaturally, therefore, among the
scores of protest and hunger marches which occurred in the USA in the midst of the great depression, was one by
unemployed people, aimed at Ford’s plant. A procession of several hundred took place in the spring of 1932. Gunfire
started, some from Ford’s own company police (Ford actually had more police on his payroll than the whole of Detroit
City). Four of the marchers were killed, and twenty were wounded. The tragedy served to confirm Ford’s evil
reputation among workers. When Edsel Ford died in 1943, Henry became company president once more. Senility
now added to the dangers of his personality. Not until 1945, at the age of eighty-two, did he finally yield power, and it
was left to his grandson Henry Ford II to revitalise the most famous automobile company in the world.
Questions 51-56: The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Choose the correct heading for each
paragraph from the list of headings below.
LIST OF HEADINGS
i. A new line in cars
ii.Efficiency first
iii.
Ford at his best
iv.Ford’s two faces
v. Hanging onto power
vi.Sacked workers’ anger
vii.
The company under Edsel Ford
viii.
The five dollar day
ix.Unrest and bitterness
51. Paragraph A 52. Paragraph B 53. Paragraph C
54. Paragraph D 55. Paragraph E 56. Paragraph F
Questions 57-60: Read the statements and identify whether they are True or False.

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57.Ford had a mixed reputation because his faults became more pronounced as he aged.
58.In his younger days, what mattered most to Ford was becoming President.
59.Ford did not mind sacking ordinary workers because he wanted to make cars cheaply and efficiently.
60.In the 1920s, Ford took advantage of dealers who were desperate for his cars.
SECTION D – WRITING
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one. Use the words
given and the words mustn’t be altered in any way.

1. The reality is that he’s blackmailing you. (LESS)

What he ______________________________________________________________________ blackmailing you.

2. The teacher refused to consider my request to drop out of the course halfway through the term. (HEAR)

The teacher ________________________________________ dropping out of the course halfway through the term.

3. Devices using the latest technology help the police to find the suspect. (DOWN)

The police _________________________________________________________of devices using the latest

technology.

4. The manager was furious when he discovered I’d been on a social networking site while at work. (THROAT)

The manager __________________________________________out I’d been on a social networking site while at

work.

5. The gym was underfunded and clients were only able to use a few pieces of equipment. (DO)

Because of _____________________________________________________only a few pieces of equipment at the

gym.

Part 2: You are living in a city in a foreign country and a friend from your home country is soon coming
to visit you for several days. Write a letter to your friend (about 120-150 words).
In your letter, you should:
- ask him/ her to bring something from home which you need
- say why you need them
- make arrangements to meet
Part 3: Some people think that the government should decide the subjects for students to study in the
university. Others believe that students should be allowed to apply for the subjects they prefer. Discuss
both views and give your opinion.

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