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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH

LÊ THÁNH TÔNG Ngày thi: 15/09/2022
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm 18 trang)
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Điểm Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2

Bằng số Bằng chữ

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I. LISTENING (50 points)
 Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và
kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
 Mở đầu và kết thúc có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu
kết thúc bài nghe.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1. For questions 1-5, listen to a news bulletin about megacities and decide which of the
sentences are true (T), false (F) or not given (NG) according to the recording. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. The pace of growth in London pale into insignificance when compared to that of Shenzhen.
2. Rural areas have become much less interesting to people’s perception in general.
3. Asian nations are the area that will witness around 90% of urban development.
4. Mumbai is given as an example of where poor living standards can lead to poor urban
structuring.
5. A developer, after acquiring a piece of land from a farmer, will intentionally disregard the
need for planning ahead about public infrastructures.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to two alternative practitioners called Stella and Rick
McFarland talking about laughter therapy and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which
fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (10 points)

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 6. What do Stella and Rick see as the main explanation for the popularity of what are called
‘laughter clubs?
A. They allow people to share their problems with others.
B. They don’t require people to make a long-term commitment.
C. They are a cost-effective way for people to access professional help.
D. They appeal to people who may be skeptical about other forms of therapy.
7. Rick feels that the main role of a laughter therapist is to ______.
A. ensure that people get sufficient rest and relaxation
B. help people to escape from one pattern of behavior
C. make people aware of the consequences of depression
D. investigate the causes of people’s emotional problems
8. What does Rick regard as the principal benefit of the laughter therapy session he runs?
A. They enable people to feel less inhibited.
B. They stop people taking life too seriously.
C. They give people a good physical workout.
D. They encourage people to form lasting bonds.
9. Rick’s interest in laughter therapy initially arose from ______.
A. first-hand experience of another method
B. participation in his wife’s group sessions
C. a desire to help his clients more effectively
D. his mistrust of other alternative approaches
10. Why does Rick tell us about a client who had problems with giving presentations?
A. to suggest an alternative remedy for work-related stress
B. to highlight the way in which essential oils affect the senses
C. to show how stress can affect a person’s level of performance
D. to support Stella’s point about making time for certain activities
Your answers
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. For questions 11-15, listen to a piece of news about antibiotics and give short
answers in the form of NOTES to the following questions. Write your answers in the
space provided. (10 points)

11. What medical procedures do receive great assistance from antibiotics?

11. ___________________________________
12. What thing did start to emerge during the middle of the 20 th century?

12. ___________________________________
13. How is the exploration of novel antibiotics described as during its initial times?
13. ___________________________________

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 14. What phenomenon did grow in frequency along with lowered sales of antibiotics
recently?
14. ___________________________________
15. What are the TWO more recent drugs that are discovered to bring more lucrative
business than antibiotics?

15. ___________________________________
Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a piece of news about overwork obsession in the
US and fill in the missing information with NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS. Write your
answers in the space provided. (20 points)

Americans are still blindly relishing (16) ________________________________ coming from the
status of the US as the richest nation.

The US’s perception of success goes against (17) _____________________________, which can be
corroborated by the nation’s low score on (18) _________________ and __________________.

The American Dream can somehow be considered as a (19) ___________________________, placing

heavy emphasis on people’s industriousness and (20) _____________________________.

In order to match the (21) ________________________________ of US people, the concept of the

American Dream certainly needed some adjustments.

The American Dream emanated from the (22) ______________________________ of the first people
arriving at the US.

(23) _____________________________ has become more and more common in the operation of the
US economy.

The image of the US to the world and even the US people is also following a(n) (24)
_______________________________.

Unlike in the past, today parents both have to go to work so as to have a life that is (10)
_____________________ and _____________________.

Your answers
16. 17.
18. 19.
20. 21.
22. 23.

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LEXICO - GRAMMAR (30 points)

Part 1. For questions 26-35, choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete each of
the sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
26. He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather ____.
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive D. disconcerting
27. She summed up Anna’s achievements in a few ____ phrases.
A. felicitous B. utilitarian C. loquacious D. ominous
28. We can’t apply the same theory to this situation – It is ____ opposite to the one we
encountered last month.
A. diabolically B. diagonally C. diametrically D. diachronically
29. She was on her ____ throughout the interview because she didn’t want to say anything weird.
A. caution B. lookout C. defence D. guard
30. In my view, the changes to the education system have been to good ____.
A. effect B. influence C. upshot D. outcome
31. The airline ____. It sent me to Athens but my luggage to London.
A. bumped B. blundered C. conformed D. conscripted
32. When his parents are away, his oldest brother ____.
A. is in the same boat B. knocks it off C. calls the shots D. draws the line
33. After the break-up, her mood ____ between hope and despair.
A. transfixed B. emanated C. radiated D. vacillated
34. From now on, the number of F0 patients ____ estimated before the semester final test.
A. must have been B. will have to have been
C. had to have been D. will need being
35. I have tried to persuade my mother of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against
infection but he remained ____ that he wouldn’t take it.
A. adamant B. sordid C. haggard D. persevere
36. He was ____ in smiles because of his passing the Entrance exam last summer.
A. amused B. wreathed C. hilarious D. uproarious
37. In spite of her repeated ____, nobody is convinced that the famous singer is totally innocent
in this scandal.
A. disavowals B. abnegation C. ablutions D. declamation
38. I ate some tinned sardines that had expired and ended up feeling so sick that I ____ all the
food I had eaten.
A. passed out B. got rid of C. brought up D. packed up
39. An: “Did you make out anything Mrs Anna said? – Minh: “______.”
A. It was all Greek to me B. It was in double Dutch
C. It fiddled while Rome burned D. It was the Chinese whispers
40. The author brings ______ a new novel every year, the newest one is “Among the sky”.
A. out B. in C. about D. round
41. Katy has found a job in Vietnam, and she’s very excited _____ working in a foreign country.
A. in the guise of B. in excess of C. by courtesy of D. at the prospect of
42. This is a topic _____ neglected by social scientists.

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 A. credulously B. alternatively C. conspicuously D. appreciably
43. This project is important ______ it confirms the link between autism and peer pressure.
A. now that B. at that C. in that D. insofar as
44. The geographers should know the hidden ______ in that part of the river.
A. shifts B. torrents C. drifts D. flows
45. I have all the proof of purchase here; I’m sure you ____ me differently otherwise.
A. are treating B. would be treating
C. will treat D. must have treated
Your answers
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

Part 2. For questions 46-55, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
Broadcasting has (46) _______ (DEMOCRAT) the publication of language, often at its most
informal, even (47) _______ (DRESS). Now the ears of the educated cannot escape the
language of the masses. It surrounds them on the news, weather, sports, commercials, and
the (48) _______ (PROLIFIC) game shows.
This wider dissemination of popular speech may easily give (49) _______ (PURE) the idea
that language is suddenly going to hell in this generation, and may explain the new (50)
_______ (PARANOID) about it. It might also be argued that more Americans hear more
correct, even beautiful, English on television than ever before. Through television more
models of good (51) _______ (USELESS) reach more American homes than was ever possible
in other times. Television gives them lots of (52) _______ (COLLOCATION) English too, some
awful, some creative, but that is not new.
(53) _______ (HIDE) in this is a simple fact: our language is not the special private property of
the language police, or (54) _______ (GRAMMAR), or teachers, or even great writers. The
genius of English is that it has always been the tongue of the common people, literate or
not.
English belongs to everybody: the funny turn of phrase that pops into the mind of a farmer
telling a story; or the travelling salesman's dirty joke; or the teenager saying, 'Gag me with a
spoon'; or the pop lyric — all contribute, are all as valid as the (55) _______ (TORTURE)
image of the academic, or the line the poet sweats over for a week.
Your answers
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

III. READING (60 points)

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 Part 1. For questions 56-65, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D
best fits each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10
points)
A FISTFUL OF FUN
Kick-boxing and martial-arts-inspired exercise classes are the latest keep-fit craze (56)
______ the country. New variants seem to be (57) ______ almost daily. This is combat without
the contact, the perfect way for those (58) ______ of being thrown or punched to gain some
of the benefits of martial arts without experiencing the (59) ______ involved. There is a
confusing (60) ______ of new classes to choose from an array of age-old martial arts
providing the sort of total workout that traditional keep-fit classes don’t. The aggression in
the room is (61) _______ as you punch and kick in a (62) ______ choreographed fashion to loud
music. Indeed, the adrenaline (63) ______ and sense of empowerment that these classes
provide is an addictive (64) ______. You feel as if you're doing a serious workout, (65) ______
the mind as well as the body.
56. A. spreading B. sweeping C. swaying D. surging
57. A. ushering in B. turning out C. heading off D. springing up
58. A. prudent B. careful C. wary D. guarded
59. A. perils B. insecurity C. liabilities D. plague
60. A. cluster B. mélange C. compilation D. accumulation
61. A. tangible B. palpable C. unmistakable D. appreciable
62. A. tightly B. loosely C. freely D. lightly
63. A. buzz B. hype C. rumble D. boom
64. A. grouping B. alloy C. amalgam D. blend
65. A. forging B. promoting C. disciplining D. practising
Your answers
56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
Part 2. For questions 66-75, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE
suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
How often have you seen rich people (66) ______ to the streets, shouting that they're earning
too much? Protesters are (67) ______ blue-collar workers yelling that the (68) ______ wage
has to go up, or that their jobs shouldn't go overseas. Concern about fairness is always
asymmetrical, (69) ______ in the poor than the rich. And the underlying emotions aren't as
lofty as the ideal (70) ______. Children become thoroughly indignant at the slightest
discrepancy in, (71) ______, the size of their slice of pizza compared to their sibling's. Their
shouts of 'That's not fair!' never transcend their own desires. We're all for fair (72) ______ so
long as it helps us. There's an old story about this, in which the owner of a vineyard rounds
(73) ______ labourers at different times of day. Early in the morning he went out to find
labourers, offering each 1 denarius. But he offered the same to those hired later in the day.
The workers hired first (74) ______ in the morning expected to get more since they had
worked through the heat of the day, yet the owner didn't feel he (75) ______ them any more
than he’d originally promised.
Your answers

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 66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
71. 72. 73. 74. 75.

Part 3. For questions 76-85, read the following text and choose the answer A, B, C or D.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
YOUNG PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY
Danah Boyd is a specialist researcher looking at how young people use technology
If there's one cliche that really grates with Danah Boyd, who has made a career from studying the
way younger people use the web, it's that of the digital native. There's nothing native about
young people's engagement with technology,' she says, adamantly. She has little time for the
widely held assumption that kids are innately more adept at coping with the web or negotiating
the hurdles of digital life. 'Young people are learning about the social world around them,' she
says. Today that world has computer-mediated communications. Thus, in order to learn about
their social world, they're learning about those things too. And they're leveraging that to work out
the stuff that kids have always worked out: peer sociality, status, etc.' 
It's no surprise she takes exception, really: as one of the first digital anthropologists to dig into
the way people use social networking sites, Boyd has a track record of exposing the truths that
underpin many of our assumptions about the online world. Along the way, she's gained insights
into the social web - not just by conducting studies of how many kids were using social-
networking sites, but by taking a closer look at what was going on.
Lately, her work has been about explaining new ways of interpreting the behaviour we see
online, and understanding that the context of online activity is often more subtle than we first
imagine. She outlined some examples at a recent conference in San Francisco, including the case
of a young man from one of the poorest districts of Los Angeles who was applying to a
prestigious American college. The applicant said he wanted to escape the influence of gangs and
violence, but the admissions officer was appalled when he discovered that the boy's MySpace
page was plastered with precisely the violent language and gang imagery he claimed to abhor.
Why was he lying about his motivations, asked the university? 'He wasn't,' says Boyd: in his
world, showing the right images online was a key part of surviving daily life.
Understanding what's happening online is especially pertinent while discussions rage about how
perceptions of privacy are shifting - particularly the idea that today's teenagers have a vastly
different approach to privacy from their predecessors. Instead, Boyd says: ‘Activities that strike
adults as radically new are often more easily understood from the perspective of teenagers. [A]
Kids often don't have the kind of privacy adults assume they do. [B] Adults, by and large, think
of the home as a very private space. [C] The thing is, for young people that's often not the case
because they have little or no control over who has access to it, or under what conditions. [D] As
a result, the online world can feel more private because it feels like there's more control."'
This concept of control is central to Boyd's work, and it applies not only to debunking myths
about teenage behaviour, but also to similar ideas that have emerged about the rest of the web.
Unlike some prognosticators who preach unstoppable revolution, Boyd suggests that control
remains, by and large, in the same places it always did. 'Technologists all go for the notion of
"techno-utopia", the web as great democratiser,' she says. 'Sure, we've made creation and

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 distribution more available to anyone, but at the same time we've made those things irrelevant.
Now the commodity isn't distribution, it's attention and guess what? We're not actually
democratising the whole system - we're just shifting the way in which we discriminate."
It's a call to arms that most academic researchers would tend to sidestep, but then Boyd admits to
treading a fine line between academic and activist. After all, she adds, part of her purpose is to
look at the very questions that make us feel uncomfortable. 'Part of it is that as a researcher,
everybody's obsessed with Twitter and Facebook, and we've got amateur research all over the
place,' she says. "Plenty of scholars are jumping in and looking at very specific things. The
questions I continue to want to ask are the things that are challenging to me: having to sit down
and be forced to think about uncomfortable social stuff, and it's really hard to get my head around
it, which means it's exactly what I should dive in and deal with."
76. What point does Danah Boyd make about ‘computer-mediated communications’?
A. They set out to teach the young about social interaction.
B. They are an integral part of a young person’s social interaction.
C. They act as a barrier to wider social interaction amongst young people.
D. They take the place of other sorts of social interaction for young people.
77. In the second paragraph, what do we learn about Danah’s research into social
networking sites?
A. It has largely sought to account for their rapid growth.
B. It has tended to question people’s attitudes towards them.
C. It has taken the form of in-depth studies into how they are designed.
D. It has begun to investigate whether they are as influential as people think.
78. What point does Danah’s example of the Los Angeles college applicant illustrate?
A. how easy it is to misinterpret an individual’s online activity
B. how readily somebody’s online activity can be investigated
C. what their online activity can tell us about a person’s sincerity
D. how important it is to check the content of someone’s online activity
79. Which of the following square brackets [A], [B], [C] or [D] best indicates where in the
second paragraph the sentence “Kids have always cared about privacy, it's just that their
notions of privacy look very different from adult notions.” can be inserted?
A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]
80. The phrase ‘debunking myths’ refers to Danah’s view that ______.
A. today’s teenagers are less concerned about privacy than previous generations
B. teenagers value the idea of privacy more in a domestic environment
C. teenagers’ attitudes to privacy are changing less than people think
D. parents tend not to respect teenagers’ need for online privacy
81. Danah uses the term ‘techno-utopia’ to underline her view that ______.
A. her research has resonance for a community of web users of all ages
B. people have unrealistic expectations about the influence of the web
C. control of the web remains in much the same hands as before
D. the web has a largely positive effect on many people’s lives
82. The phrase ‘a call to arms’ in the final paragraph can be best replaced by ______.

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 A. a strong request B. a vigorous C. a serious promise D. a solemn theme
defense
83. In the last paragraph, we are given the impression that Danah ______.
A. feels that a lot of research about the web is lacking in sufficient detail
B. is aware that some issues in her field cannot be researched fully
C. regards herself as being more of a philosopher than a researcher
D. is willing to take on research challenges others would avoid
84. Which of the following CANNOT be inferred from the passage?
A. Adults and children fail to see eye to eye with each other on many aspects of digital life.
B. Young people today have to take extra precautions when going online if they want to
succeed.
C. The online world nowadays places excessive emphasis on obtaining fame.
D. The nature of digital learning ability may not be much different between young and older
people.
85. Where is this passage most likely taken from?
A. a book review B. a newspaper article
C. a bibliography paper D. a scientific journal
Your answers
76. 77. 78. 79. 80.
81. 82. 83. 84. 85.
Part 4. Read the following text and answer questions 86-95. (10 points)
VANISHED
Who pulled the plug on the Mediterranean? And could it happen again?
By Douglas Mclnrris Cannes. Monte Carlo. St Tropez. Magic names all. And much of the
enchantment comes from the deep blue water that laps their shores. But what if somebody pulled
the plug? Suppose The Mediterranean Sea was to vanish, leaving behind an expanse of the salt
desert the size of India. Hard to imagine? It happened.
‘It would have looked like Death Valley,’ says Bill Ryan, from the Lamont-Doherty Earth in
Observatory in New York, one of the leaders of the team that discovered the Mediterranean had
once dried up, then refilled in a deluge of Biblical proportions. Between five and six million
years ago, the great desiccation touched off what scientists call the Messinian Salinity Crisis – a
global chemical imbalance that triggered a wrenching series of extinctions and plunged the Earth
into an ice age.
The first indications of some extraordinary past events came in the 1960s when geologists
discovered that major rivers flowing into the Mediterranean had eroded deep canyons in the rock
at the bottom of the sea. River erosion of bedrock cannot occur below sea level, yet somehow the
River Rhone in the South of France had managed to create a channel 1000 meters deep in the
seafloor, while the Nile had cut nearly 1500 meters into the rock off the North African coast.
There was more: despite the fact that the formation of caves can only take place above water,
scientists so discovered a whole network beneath the island of Malta that reached an astonishing
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 Further evidence came to light in 1970 when an international team chugged across the
Mediterranean in a drilling ship to study the seafloor near the Spanish island of Majorca. Strange
things started turning up in core samples: layers of microscopic plants and soil sandwiched
between beds of salt more than two kilometers below today’s sea level. The plants had grown in
sunlight. Also discovered inside the rock were fossilized shallow-water shellfish, together with
salt and silt: particles of sand and mud that had once been carried by river water. Could the
seafloor once have been near a shoreline?
That question led Ryan and his fellow team leader, Kenneth Hsu, to piece together a staggering
chain of events, About 5.8 million years ago, they concluded, the Mediterranean was gradually
cut off from the Atlantic Ocean when continental drift pinned Morocco against Spain. As the
opening became both narrower and shallower, the deep outward flow from sea to the ocean was
progressively cutoff, leaving only the shallow inward flow of ocean water into the
Mediterranean. As this water evaporated, the sea became more saline and creatures that couldn’t
handle the rising salt content perished. ‘The sea’s interior was dead as a doornail, except for
bacteria,’ says Ryan. When the shallow opening at Gibraltar finally closed completely, the
Mediterranean, with only rivers to feed it, dried up and died.
Meanwhile, the evaporated water was falling back to Earth as rain. When the fresh water reached
the oceans, it made them less saline. With less salt in it to act as an antifreeze, parts of the ocean
that would not normally freeze began to turn to ice. ‘The ice reflects sunlight into space,’ says
Ryan. ‘The planet cools. Do you drive yourself into an ice age?
Eventually; a small breach in the Gibraltar dam sent the process into reverse. Ocean water cut a
tiny channel to the Mediterranean. As the gap enlarged, the water flowed faster and faster; until
the torrent ripped through the emerging Straits of Gibraltar at more than 100 knots. *The
Gibraltar Falls was 100 times bigger than Victoria Falls and a thousand times grander than
Niagara,’ Hsu wrote in his book The Mediterranean was a Desert (Princeton University Press,
1983).
In the end, the rising waters of the vast inland sea drowned the falls and warm water began to
escape to the Atlantic, reheating the oceans and the planet. The salinity crisis ended at about 5.4
million years ago. It had lasted roughly 400,000 years. Subsequent drilling expeditions have
added a few wrinkles to Ryan and Hsu’s scenario. For example, researchers have found salt
deposits more than two kilometers thick — so thick, some believe, that the Mediterranean must
have dried up and refilled many times. But those are just geological details. For tourists, the
crucial question is, could it happen again? Should Malaga start stockpiling dynamite?
Not yet, says Ryan. If continental drift does reseal the Mediterranean, it won’t be for several
million years. ‘Some future creatures may face the issue of how to respond to nature‘s closure.
It’s not something our species has to worry about.’
For questions 86-90, complete the summary below with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
from the passage for each blank. Write your answers in the space provided.
The 1960s discovery of (86) ______ in the bedrock of the Mediterranean, as well as deep
caves beneath Malta, suggested something strange had happened in the region, as these
features must have been formed (87) ______. Subsequent examination of the (88) ______ off
Majorca provided more proof. Rock samples from 2000 meters down contained both

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 vegetation and (89) ______ that could not have lived in deep water, as well as (90) ______
originally transported by river.
Your answers
86. 87. 88. 89. 90.

For questions 91-95, decide whether each of the following statement agrees with the
view of the writer in the passage. Write in the corresponding numbered boxes
TRUE if the statement matches the information in the passage
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information in the passage
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
91. Movement of the continents suddenly closed the Straits of Gibraltar.
92. Most of the animal and plant life in the Mediterranean died because the rivers did not
provide salt water.
93. The Earth started to become cooler so the extra ice could not absorb the heat from the
sun.
94. The Earth and its ocean became warmer when water started flowing from the
Mediterranean.
95. Ryan suggests that humans will never see the Mediterranean dry up.
Your answers
91. 92. 93. 94. 95.
Part 5. Read the following text and answer questions 96-105. (15 points)
SIX TO WATCH
A. Yasmin Shahmir - singer
'I was so excited. I felt euphoric, says Yasmin having heard her first single being played.
After five years spent DJing, this is one milestone the 22-year-old will never forget. The
feline-eyed singer cuts a striking figure and you sense she was not destined to stay behind
the decks forever. 'The song is about a time in my life when I was really going out on a limb
- I'd quit my university course and moved to London where I was up for whatever life
threw at me. At school I'd never been like the others - I'm half-Iranian, half-English and
have a weird name. So I stood out a bit - maybe that's where my determined attitude comes
from.
B. Emma Hart - video artist
Emma Hart is tipped as 'one-to-watch'. Her output consists of video works, lectures and
performances that challenge the way photographs and film are received. They make witty
observations about everyday situations and ask the viewer to be active and questioning.
'The focus, she says, 'is on how I use the camera, not on what I'm filming. Recognition has
been hard won. She worked first as a 'frustrated' office clerk. Bitten by the photography
bug, she began a degree course but, constantly getting marked down on technical issues,
dropped out. However, the criticism received was probably the making of her - it helped
consolidate her artistic ideas, and made her more determined. It paid off in the end.
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 'I'm 18, I'm a leading lady and a singer. I mean, who'd have thought it?' Danielle's life has
undergone a considerable change - last year she was working as a waitress and thinking
about applying to drama school. Instead, she auditioned on a whim and beat 9,000 hopefuls
to win the lead role in a forthcoming musical. She seems remarkably unfazed by the task
ahead. 'I don't want to let anyone down. It's self-pressure more than anything. Of course
some will like my performance, some will hate it. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. I
won't take it to heart- they won't be criticising me the person, but me the actress. It's all
been so exciting - I've no idea what's going to be next!
D. Eudon Choi - fashion designer
Eudon Choi trained as a menswear designer in South Korea and has always enjoyed the
support of his family. After moving to London he won a prestigious award and his collection
is soon to be stocked in 'Brown's Focus', an influential fashion boutique. For all the
accolades, Eudon is surprisingly diffident. Is it a strain living up to all the hype? 'You can say
that again. For a relatively new designer, it's a great start. His inspiration comes from
eclectic sources - he trawls vintage shops for military jackets and has, in the past, taken the
aesthetic of the industrial revolution as his model. Now his clothes are acclaimed by fashion
editors and worn by celebrities.
E. Andrew Sheridan - playwright
Andrew Sheridan's debut play is soon to open in Manchester. It has already been described
as 'the best first play' by one of a group of leading young playwrights, the friends who
initially pushed him into writing. It will be judged by the actors too, well known to Sheridan
after a decade performing on stage and screen, and by his family. His family's reaction
concerns him - none of them has ever had anything to do with the theatre and they haven't
read his play. A desire to delve into 'what it is to be human' primarily drives his family find
it all a bit weird?
F. Andrew Sheridan - playwright
Sunjeev studied maths at university and didn't catch the reading bug until relatively late -
he didn't read a novel until he was 18. Now, after eleven years spent 'catching-up', with his
own first novel just published, he talks with the air of someone with a lifetime's reading
behind him. It took him four years to write, working in the evenings and at weekends, but
he didn't really expect to get it published - 'It was just maybe, maybe. Now that it's out, he
feels good. 'My friends aren't readers. They're just normal lads. But they've all bought the
book. I'm anxious, slightly, and proud!
For questions 96-105, identify in which section A, B, C, D, E or F each of the following is
mentioned. Write ONE letter A, B, C, D, E or F in the corresponding numbered space
provided.
Which of the successful young people Your
answers
is inspired to investigate motivation? 96. ________
is undaunted by the prospect of future demands? 97. ________
makes a link between background and character? 98. ________

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 appears to have thrived on negative feedback? 99. ________
seems strangely unassuming given levels of success? 100. ________
concentrates more on the medium than the message? 101. ________
was prepared to make a leap into the unknown? 102. ________
owes success to taking a step on impulse? 103. ________
has a healthy disregard for adverse comment? 104. ________
shows an understanding way beyond experience? 105. ________

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IV. WRITING (60 points)
Part 1. Read the following passage and write a summary of about 100 words.
Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly
making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance
with these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving
instructions to an employee, a mother telling her children how to behave, a journey in a train
where strangers eye one another without exchanging a word – all these involve mutual
interpretations of personal qualities.
Success in many vocations largely depends on skill in sizing up people. It is important not only to
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 the doctor or lawyer in dealing with their clients, the businessman trying to outwit his rivals, the
salesman with potential customers, the teacher with his pupils, not to speak of the pupils judging
their teacher. Social life, indeed, would be impossible if we did not. to some extent, understand,
and react to the motives and qualities of those we meet; and clearly we are sufficiently accurate
for most practical purposes, although we also recognize that misinterpretations easily arise –
particularly on the pare of others who judge us!
Errors can often be corrected as we go along. But whenever we are pinned down to a definite
decision about a person, which cannot easily be revised through his ‘feed-back’, the inadequacies
of our judgments become apparent. The hostess who wrongly thinks that the Smiths and the
Joneses will get on well together can do little to retrieve the success of her party. A school or a
business may be saddled for years with an undesirable member of staff, because the selection
committee which interviewed him for a quarter of an hour misjudged his personality.
Just because the process is so familiar and taken for granted, it has aroused little scientific
curiosity until recently. Dramatists, writers and artists throughout the centuries have excelled in
the portrayal of character, but have seldom stopped to ask how they, or we, get to know people,
or how accurate is our knowledge. However, the popularity of such unscientific systems as
Lavater’s physiognomy in the eighteenth century, Gall’s phrenology in the nineteenth, and of
handwriting interpretations by graphologists, or palm-readings by Gypsies, show that people are
aware of weaknesses in their judgments and desirous of better methods of diagnosis. It is natural
that they should turn to psychology for help, in the belief that psychologists are specialists in
‘human nature’.

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Part 2. The line graphs below show the farm-level prices of corn, wheat, and soybeans
in the US from 1990 to 2025.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
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 Part 3. It is usually believed that humans naturally want to help each other while others hold
that humans are just born selfish and when they help each other, they are just caring about
their own benefits gained from this help. What is your position on this matter?
Write an essay of 300-350 words to discuss this statement.

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