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NĂM HỌC 2016 -2017

Môn : TIẾNG ANH

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Ghi số Ghi chữ Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2

SECTION A: LISTENING (20 pts)

I. Listen to the recording twice and fill in the gaps with NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS (10 pts)

Jonathan - the guest speaker - is a young jazz musician who plays (1)
_______________.

Jonathan states that 'A Love Supreme' and some other albums he listened to in his
childhood were to him the (2) _______________.

In his music, John Coltrane works with some very complicated (3) _______________,
but one doesn't have to understand those in order to appreciate it.

According to Jonathan, Coltrane did not care about (4) _______________ when he
played music.

Jonathan says that some people who do not normally listen to jazz, will be able to
(5) _______________ to it if they are not made aware that it is actually free jazz.

The music Jonathan wrote for the theatrical play aims to place the listener in a
(6) _______________.

Jonathan went to the play's rehearsals and even watched videos of the rehearsals to
ensure that there was (7) _______________ between his composition and the play.

The reason Jonathan gives for never being able to shake off Coltrane's influence is
because music is part of (8) _______________.

Four out of the twelve pieces on Jonathan's new album are (9) ________________.
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Jonathan has not changed his style much and is still (10) ______________ playing easy-
going jazz.

Answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. You are going to hear an extract from a lecture twice about social change and
what causes it. The lecture is in two parts. (10 pts)

Questions 1-5: According to the lecturer, what impact on society (A-G) did each event
(1-5) have?
Choose your answers from the box. Write the answers (A-G) in the space provided.
A Agricultural production improved.
B Newcomers were absorbed into the receiving community.
C People gained a better understanding of the cultures of other countries.
D Tensions arose between communities.
E The receiving community adopted some aspects of the newcomers' culture.
F There was a lack of development in the local community.
G There was an increase in social equality.
Answers
1. The Irish potato famine _______
2. Immigration to the UK by French Protestants _______
3. Immigration to the UK from Asia _______
4. The increase in air travel _______
5. The First World War _______

Questions 6-10: Circle the correct answer (A, B or C).

6. What is the speaker's opinion of political factors in social change in Britain?

A. They have tended to have little impact.
B. They are more significant than economic factors.
C. Their significance is less than it is usually claimed.
7. Many people moved to towns in the 19th century because of
A. a decline in agricultural production.
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B. the availability of a wider choice of housing.
C. changes in how goods were made.
8. One result of education becoming compulsory was that
A. more women went out to work.
B. people had a greater choice of jobs.
C. changes took place in family structure.

9. What has been an effect of people moving into the countryside recently?
A. More and more facilities are provided in rural areas.
B. Rural life is far more oriented towards towns than in the past.
C. There are tensions between traditional village dwellers and new residents.
10. What does the lecturer regard as the main characteristic of an “urban village”?
A. The area has a clear boundary.
B. People know each other.
C. The housing is of a low standard.

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE (25pts)

I. For each of the following sentences, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D).
Write the answers in the box provided. (10 pts)
1. After the concert, everyone has to ______ home through the thick snow.
A. tread B. trudge C. trace D. trickle
2. Her enthusiasm ______her lack of experience.
A. makes up for B. makes off C. makes out at D. makes up
3. The accused man was proved innocent and was ______.
A. liberated B. excused C. interned D. acquitted
4. They live in a very ______ populated area of Italy.
A. sparsely B. scarcely C. hardly D. barely
5. He was arrested for trying to pass ______ notes at the bank.
A. camouflaged B. fake C. counterfeit D. fraudulent
6. The tiny bells on the Christmas tree were ______ in the draught.
A. clanging B. ringing C. tinkling D. gurgling
7. Internet ______ has helped bloggers share their experiences and opinions easily and
quickly.
A. linkage B. joiner
C. communication D. connectivity
8. I am afraid I am rather ______ about the existence of ghosts.
A. skeptical B. partial C. adaptable D. incapable

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9. In an effort to increase his newspaper’s ______, the editor introduced a weekly
competition.
A. propaganda B. circulation C. distribution D. dispersion
10. The last bus had gone so we were ______ with the problem of how to get home that
night.
A. affronted B. caught C. faced D. trapped
11. David has a(n) ______ to fainting at the sight of blood.
A. inclination B. predilection C. predisposition D. penchant
12. Some of the cattle were placed in quarantine for fear of the disease being ______.
A. contractual B. contagious
C. congenital D contentious
13. I don’t know what our guests will want to do this weekend. We’ll have to play it by
______.
A. ear B. eye C. mouth D. hand
14. Playing squash is a good way to let off ______.
A. smoke B. temper C. moisture D. steam
15. Her ability, ______ with a determination to succeed, should make her very
successful.
A. connected B. coupled C. joined D. related
16. That is an issue on which many people part ______ with the president.
A. views B. friendship C. company D. opinions
17. Gary apologized and admitted that he had spoken out of ______.
A. mind B. line C. turn D. order
18. I know budgets are tight, but where safety is concerned I don’t think we should cut
______.
A. ways B. corners C. rounds D. lines
19. If we tidy the house afterwards, Mum and Dad will be ______ the wiser about the
party.
A. not B. nothing C. no D. none
20. I’m definitely going on that field trip. A week on Lake Michigan is not to be ______
at!
A. sneezed B. laughed C. shrugged D. frowned

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

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II. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines
to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. Write the answers in the box
provided. (5 pts)

In 1997 I went back to Beijing for the first time since the 0. DISASTER
(0)disastrous events of 1989. The Chinese (1)_______ had been 1. AUTHORISE
reluctant to re-admit foreign journalists who had witnessed the
Tiananmen Square student protests. Even eight years later, it was still
(2) _______ to get into the Square with a television camera, but we 2. PROBLEM
managed it. I looked for the bullet holes on the steps of the central
monument, but they had all been expertly filled in; a faint
discoloration perhaps, but almost (3)_______. The most critical
moment in Chinese history after Mao Zedong’s death seemed to have 3. PERCEIVE
been entirely forgotten.
My time in China had given me an (4) _______ interest in Chinese 4.ENDURANCE
art, so I decided to go to Liu Liu Chang, where for centuries there has
been an antiquities market. Unfortunately, many things for sale there
nowadays are modern (5)_______. Empty-handed and somewhat 5. IMITATE
(6)_______, I went into a tea house and sat through the usual 6. ILLUSION
ceremony, but there were (7)_______ differences here too: it seemed 7. IDENTIFY
quicker and the tea lacked that extraordinary lingering scent.
Thoroughly (8)_______, I returned to my hotel: one of the enormous, 8. HEART
(9)_______ places which have sprung up everywhere. Yet here, in a 9. FACE
dark shop tucked away off the lobby, my melancholy mood
disappeared, for I met a (10)_______ from 1989, who remembered 10. SURVIVE
me instantly. Not everything had been entirely forgotten.

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. There are TEN mistakes in the passage below. FIND, UNDERLINE and
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 CORRECT them. Write the answers in the space provided. (10 pts)
Answers
Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop ……………………….
in two major directions: the realistic and the formalistic. ……………………….
Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than ……………………….
absolute, terms. When using to suggest a tendency toward ……………………….
either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but at the end they ……………………….
are still just labels. Few films are exclusive formalist in style, ……………………….
and fewer yet are completely realist. There is also an important ……………………….
difference between realism and reality, although this distinct is ……………………….
often forgotten. Realism is a particular style, where physical ……………………….
reality is the source of all the raw materials of film, both ……………………….
realistic and formalistic. Virtually all movie directors go to the ……………………….
photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do ……………………….
with this material - what they shape and manipulate it - ……………………….
determines their stylistic emphasis. ……………………….
Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the ……………………….
surface of concrete reality with a minimum of distortion. In ……………………….
photographing objects and events, the filmmaker tries to ……………………….
suggest the copiousness of life himself. Both realist and ……………………….
formalist film directors must select (and hence emphasize) ……………………….
certain details from the chaotic sprawl of reality. But the ……………………….
element of selectivity in realistic films is less obvious. Realists, ……………………….
in short, try to preserve the illusion that their film world is ……………………….
unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world. ……………………….
Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense. They ……………………….
deliberately stylize and distort their crude materials so that ……………………….
only the very naive should mistake a manipulated image of an ……………………….
object or event to the real thing. ……………………….

SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

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I. Read the text below and choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to fit the gaps.
Write the answers in the box provided. (5 pts)

There can be no (1)______ that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer. Far
from becoming (2)_______ online shoppers are very demanding. Overpriced merchants
with poor services should beware. Gone are the days when stores could charge what they
liked for goods and get away with it. The same, too, for shady manufacturers: smarter
consumers know which products have a good (3)______ and which do not. Because
online they now read not only the sales (4)______ but also reviews from previous
purchasers. And if customers are disappointed, a few (5)______ of the mouse will take
them to places where they can let the world know. Nowadays there is nothing more
damning than a flood of negative comments on the Internet.

However, the big boys, as always, are ahead of the game. Some companies are already
adjusting their business models to take account of these trends. The stores run by Sony
and Apple, for instance, are more like brand showrooms than shops. They are there for
people to try out (6)______ and to ask questions to knowledgeable staff. Whether the
products are ultimately bought online or offline is of secondary importance.

Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is (7)______ turning from being
primarily a bookseller to becoming a (8)______ retailer by letting other companies sell
products on its site, rather like a marketplace. During America's Thanksgiving weekend
last November, Amazon's sales of consumer electronics in the United States (9)______
its book sales for the first time in its history. Other transformations in the retail business
are (10)______ to follow.

1. A. query B. examination C. question D. proposal

2. A. complacent B. dissatisfied
C. competent D. compassionate
3. A. distinction B. resolution C. opinion D. reputation
4. A. bubble B. message C. blare D. blurb
5. A. taps B. clucks C. clicks D. prods
6. A. devices B. tools C. emblems D. schemes
7. A. mistakenly B. rapidly C. unreasonably D. secretly
8. A. mass B. block C. lump D. chunk
9. A. receded B. excluded C. repressed D. exceeded
10. A. tied B. secured C. bound D. fastened

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Read the passage and do as directed. (10 pts)

UNLIKELY BOOMTOWNS: THE WORLD’S HOTTEST CITIES

Megacities like London, New York and Tokyo loom large in our imaginations. They are
still associated with fortune, fame and the future. They can dominate national economies
and politics. The last fifty years has been their era, as the number of cities with more than
ten million people grew from two to twenty. But with all respect to the science-fiction
novelists who have envisioned a future of urban giants, their day is over. The typical
growth rate of the population within a megacity has slowed from more than eight per cent
in the 1980s to less than half that over the last five years, and numbers are expected to be
static in the next quarter century. Instead, the coming years will belong to a smaller, far
humble relation - the Second City.

Within a few years, more people will live in cities than in the countryside for the first
time in human history. But increasingly, the urban core itself is downsizing. Already, half
the city dwellers in the world live in metropolises with fewer than half-a-million
residents. Second Cities - from exurbs, residential areas outside the suburbs of a town, to
regional centres - are booming. Between 2000 and 2015, the world’s smallest cities (with
under 500,000 people) will grow by 23 per cent, while the next smallest (one million to
five million people) will grow by 27 per cent. This trend is the result of dramatic shifts,
including the global real-estate bubble; increasing international migration; cheaper
transport; new technologies, and the fact that the baby-boom generation is reaching
retirement age.

The emergence of Second Cities has flowed naturally (if unexpectedly) from the earlier
success of the megacities. In the 1990s, megacities boomed as global markets did. This
was particularly true in areas with high-tech or “knowledge-based” industries like
finance. Bonuses got bigger, bankers got richer and real-estate prices in the world’s most
sought-after cities soared. The result has been the creation of what demographer William
Frey of the Washington-based Brookings Institute calls “gated regions” in which both the
city and many of the surrounding suburbs have become unaffordable for all but the very
wealthy. “Economically, after a city reaches a certain size its productivity starts to fall.”
Notes Mario Pezzini, head of the regional-competitiveness division of the OECD. He
puts the tipping point at about six million people, after which costs, travel times and the
occasional chaos “create a situation in which the centre of the city may be a great place,
but only for the rich, and the outlying areas become harder to live and work in”.

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One reaction to this phenomenon is further sprawl - high prices in the urban core and
traditional suburbs drive people to distant exurbs with extreme commutes into big cities.
As Frey notes, in the major US metropolitan areas, average commuting times have
doubled over the last fifteen years.

Why does one town become a booming Second City while another fails? The answer
hinges on whether a community has the wherewithal to exploit the forces pushing people
and businesses out of the megacities. One key is excellent transport links, especially to
the biggest commercial centres. Though barely a decade old, Goyang is South Korea’s
fastest-growing city in part because it is 30 minutes by subway from Seoul.

Another growth driver for Second Cities is the decentralization of work, driven in large
part by new technologies. While more financial deals are done now in big capitals like
New York and London than ever before, it is also clear that plenty of booming service
industries are leaving for “Rising Urban Stars” like Dubai, Montpellier and Cape Town.
These places have not only improved their Internet backbones, but often have technical
institutes and universities that turn out the kinds of talent that populate growth industries.
Consider Montpellier, France, a case study in urban decentralization. Until the 1980s, it
was like a big Mediterranean village, but one with a strong university, many lovely villas
and an IBM manufacturing base. Once the high-speed train lines were built, Parisians
began pouring in for weekend breaks. Some bought houses, creating a critical mass of
middle-class professionals who began taking advantage of flexible working systems to do
three days in Paris and two down South, where things seemed less pressured. Soon, big
companies began looking at the area: a number of medical-technology and electronics
firms came to town, and IBM put more investment into service businesses there. To cater
to the incoming professionals, the city began building amenities: an opera house, a tram
line to discourage cars in the city centre. The result, says French urban-planning expert
Nacima Baron, is that “the city is now full of cosmopolitan business people. It’s a new
society”.

All this means that Second Cities won’t stay small. Indeed some countries are actively
promoting their growth. Italy, for example, is trying to create tourist hubs of towns close
to each other with distinctive buildings and offering different yet complementary cultural
activities. Devolution of policymaking power is leaving many lesser cities more free than
ever to shape their destinies. To them all: this is your era. Don’t blow it.

Questions 1-3
Which THREE of the following statements are TRUE of megacities, according to the
text?
Choose THREE letters, A-G and write them in the Answer box.

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 A They tend to lead the way in terms of fashion.
B Their population has ceased to expand.
C They reached their peak in the second half of the twentieth century.
D 50 per cent of the world’s inhabitants now live in them.
E They grew rich on the profits from manufacturing industry.
F Their success begins to work against them at a certain stage.
G It is no longer automatically advantageous to base a company there.

Questions 4-6
The list below gives some possible reasons why small towns can turn into successful
Second Cities. Which THREE of these reasons are mentioned by the writer of the text?
Choose THREE letters, A-G and write them in the box provided.
A the existence of support services for foreign workers
B the provision of cheap housing for older people
C the creation of efficient access routes
D the ability to attract financial companies
E the expertise to keep up with electronic developments
F the maintenance of a special local atmosphere
G the willingness to imitate international-style architecture

Questions 7-10
Complete the summary using the list of words below. Write the answers in the box
provided.

URBAN DECENTRALISATION
It is becoming increasingly obvious that large numbers of service industries are giving up
their expensive premises in the megacities and relocating to smaller cities like
Montpellier. One of the attractions of Montpellier is the presence of a good
(7)__________ that can provide them with the necessary skilled workforce.

Another important factor for Montpellier was the arrival of visitors from the capital. The
introduction of the (8)__________ meant that increasing numbers were able to come for
short stays. Of these, a significant proportion decided to get a base in the city. The city
council soon realized that they needed to provide appropriate (9)__________ for their
new inhabitants. In fact, the (10)__________ among them liked the more relaxed lifestyle
so much that they took advantage of any flexible arrangements offered by their firms to
spend more of the week in Montpellier.

urban centres finance companies flexible

tram line cosmopolitan service industries
capital high-speed train infrastructure
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 unskilled workers jobs medical-technology
professionals European Union amenities
middle-age overtime university

Answers
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Read the text and choose from the sections (A-E). The sections may be chosen
more than once. Write the answers in the space provided. (10 pts)

In which section are the following mentioned? Answers

the desirability of conveying a more personal message 1. ______

the danger of writing in too transparent a fashion 2. ______
the downside of subjecting yourself to an uneventful travel experience 3. ______
the idea of being restricted by work commitments 4. ______
the need to adopt a more reckless approach 5. ______
the advantages of being prepared for an idea to pop up 6. ______
the dangers of writers getting carried away by their own enthusiasm 7. ______
the technique of trying to see things from a different perspective 8. ______
the need to earmark something significant 9. ______
the realization that writers are not infallible 10. ______

SUCCESSFUL TRAVEL WRITING

A One of the biggest temptations for someone new to the travel game is to look at
everything through rose-tinted glasses, and this typically comes out in their writing.
They paint everything to be magical and perfect, and their stories are laid out in
romantic, flowery language. But the reality is that over time the road will lose its
luster, and any reader who knows that is going to see right through your prose. Not
to mention that the harsh realities of a place are often just as interesting as the poetry
used to describe it - probably even more interesting. Look over what you've written,
and if it seems as if you've just written a brochure, you might want to have another
look. It might be your limited perspective that is causing the issue - perhaps you're
still caught up in the magic of the road. Or perhaps you are too caught up in selling
the romance of travel.
B Although getting off the beaten track is always a good idea when travelling, travel
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 a specific country to see. So, even if they are the more adventurous type, they end up
going to the same places that everyone else goes to. It may depend on what audience
you're writing for, but the best advice is always to head in the opposite direction to
everyone else and just see what happens. In another country, the seemingly mundane
often creates the most interesting, humorous and exciting moments. If you are stuck
to the biggest attractions by assignment, always look for another angle and point out
things that others miss. Rolf Potts' story about trying (and failing) to crash the set of
The Beach when it was being filmed in Thailand (featured in his book Marco Polo
Didn't Go There) was far better than many other travel stories I've ever read.
C An extremely valuable habit for a writer to form, especially in this genre, is the habit
of taking notes. Travel is exciting, and while you are caught up in the moment, it is
easy to think to yourself that there is no way it will slip from the forefront of your
mind. But as the day winds down, you will find yourself sitting in front of your
laptop screen, trying your hardest to grasp the best details out of what happened.
Carry a small notebook on you at all times. And don't only take it out when you
think you are going to do something worthy of a story, because you never know
when good fodder for a story will jump out of nowhere.
D Writers always want to seem like an authority on their subject, but when you are a
travel writer, always experiencing new places and new things, you will never be the
complete authority on anything. Don't be afraid to reveal your awkward moments,
your embarrassments and your mishaps. These are the things that other readers who
have travelled can relate to and it makes you seem more human.
E Finally, if you want to produce good content on the road, you should be willing to
take risks - if your idea of world travel is sitting in world-class resorts with a bottle
of sunblock in one hand and a cold ice tea in the other, you will be waiting a long
time for anything interesting to happen. Hop on the backs of motorbike taxis where
death on the road seems a certainty. Eat eyeballs, barbecued rats, giant fried beetles
and anything else they throw on your plate. Sample that home-made whisky from
the dusty bottle some farmer hands you while touring through the middle of
nowhere. Go hang-gliding in the Swiss Alps. In short, get out there and live the
road. Bad things will happen here and there, but the same would be true if you never
left your home. And all the other adventures you have in between, well, those are the
dreams that good travel writings (and life) are made of.

IV. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. (5 pts)

THE BIRTH OF WRITING

Evidence of (1)_________ records dates from around 30,000 years ago, but
(2)___________ cutting notches in sticks nor the use of pictures could convey a great
(3)___________ of meanings. Their capabilities were (4)_________ too restricted for
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societies that were more and more dependent on detailed and complicated instructions.
Writing is one of the main distinguishing marks of the stage of human evolution that has
become (5)_________as civilization – life based on civis, the Latin word for a dweller.
With its development, people were able to extend their influence over
(6)_________greater areas, and to (7)_________on knowledge from one generation to
the next. Small communities are able to communicate largely through person-to-person
contact. But once population reaches a certain level of complexity, both technological
and social, personal contacts are no (8)_________ enough. Complexity demands formal,
lasting and widely comprehensible written communication. The development of writing
enabled people to communicate (9)_________ speech. Leaders could transmit
instructions over great distances, safe in the knowledge that they did not have to rely on
messenger’s memory. They could make records of objects, events and thoughts that
could be recalled accurately years (10)_________. The accumulated wisdom of
civilization would be understood by population in the future. “History” had arrived. Once
invented, the effect of writing was to stimulate the creation of yet greater social
complexity. This has implications for every branch of society: law, commerce,
administration, food production, manufacturing, education and literature.

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION D. WRITING (25 pts)

I. Graph Writing (10 pts)

The chart below shows the Average Monthly Temperatures for three African cities.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
You should write about 150 words. (10 pts)

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II. Essay writing (15 pts)

Write an essay of about 300 words to express your opinion on the following statement:
“Students’ textbooks should be replaced by notebook computers in our school
system.”
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