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SECTION I: LISTENING
Part 1: (10 points)
You will hear a telephone conversation between a woman and a man who works for a
holiday company about a holiday she would like to go on. Complete the note below. Write
NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer:
Cycling holiday in Austria
- Holiday begins on (1)_17 April____________
- No more than (2)_16 people____________
- Holiday costs (3) £_____________ per person without flights
- All food included except (4)_____________
- Essential to bring a (5)_____________
Your answer:
Your answer:
SECTIONII: GRAMMAR-VOCABULARY
Part 1: A. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence.(20 points)
1. Cuc Phuong national Park ________ over 200 square kms of rainforest.
A. covers B. gets C. holds D. contains
2. He’s got plenty of ________ experience as he‘s worked in that field already.
A. second-hand B. first-hand C. primary D. tertiary
3. People in this village have got an ________ appetite for news.
A. inexorable: không lay chuyển B. inevitable C. insatiable: vô độ
D. inedible: không ăn được insatiable appetite/demand/curiosity
4. Everyone is hoping and praying that ________ peace will eventually come to the area.
A. durable B. ongoing C. irrevocable D. lasting
5. He's applied for a(n) ________ lot of jobs but he's only been short-listed once.
A. dreadful: extrmly serious B. awful: rất nhiều C. enormous
D. wide
6. I still play golf occasionally, just to keep my ________ in. keep one’s hand in: cho quen tay,
khong bi mai mot
A. eye B. arm C. foot D. hand
7. We had ________ holiday in Spain.
A. a two- week B. two weeks’ C. a two week’s D. A and B
8. We did our best to fix the broken computer but our efforts bore no ________.
A. success B. fruit C. luck D. end
9. There are a lot of computer programmes nowadays, but really good ones are few and far
________.
A. between: scarce, frequent B. apart C. away D.
amongst
10. We were rather in awe ________ the new computers when they arrived.
A. about B. before C. by D. of: respect
11. The restaurant is popular with this film star and the ...... .
A. like B. same C. similar D. such
12. The ________ are against her winning a fourth consecutive gold medal.
A. chances B. odds: extra hit C. prospects D. bets: danh
cuoc
13. We should arrive home safe and ________.
A. sound B. soundly C. warm D. warmly
14. This national park________ an area of 2,000 square kilometers.
A. covers B. surrounds C. consists D. spreads
15. New consumer protection legislation comes into ________ next April.
A. law B. force C. statute D. act
16. This is ________ the most difficult job I’ve ever had to do.
A. by far B. by chance C. by heart D. by myself
17. It ________ me as strange that my front door was open when I got home. It strikes sb as
A. seemed B. occurred C. appeared D. struck
18. Those gloves are much too small for you. Don’t try to put them on or you will ________
them.
A. extend B. spread C. stretch D. swell
19. She waited for twenty minutes and ________ arrived at the head of the queue.
A. lastly B. finally C. at the end D. eventual
20. Our local youth club tries to ________ for all interest.
A. equip B. apply C. organize D. cater
Your answer:
II. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the errors and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
Example: Line 1: in stake => at stake: to be won or lost; at risk
Line1 With so much in stake, the Inuit are determined to play a key duty in teasing out
2 the mysteries of climate change in Arctic. Having survived there for centuries,
3 they believe their wealth of traditional knowledge is vital to the task. And Western
4 scientists are starting to draw on this wisdom, increase referred to as 'Inuit
5 Qaujimajatugangit', or IQ. 'In the first days scientists ignored us when they came
6 up here to study anything. They just figured it these people don't know very much
7 so we won't ask them,' says John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician. 'But in
8 recent years IQ has much more credibility and weight.' In fact it is now a
9 requirement for anyone to hope to get permissions to do research that they consult
10 the communities, who are helping to set the research agenda to reflect their most
11 important concerns. They can turn away applications from scientists they believe
12 will work against their interests, or research projects that will impinge too much
13 on their every day lives and traditional activities.
Your answer:
Line Mistakes Corrections
1 1 duty role
2 2 Artic the Artic
3 4 increase increasingly
4 5 first early
5 6 Figured it figured
6 8 has Has had
7 9 To hope hoping
8 11 Turn away Turn down
9 9 permissions permission
10 13 Every day everyday
Part 3.Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. (10
pts)
1. The soccer player was ejected because he had done something that was against________ the
rules.
2. Another way of saying 'old-fashioned' is 'behind________ the times'.
3. You shouldn't pick on________ him just because he's different.
4. Being a nurse is hard work, especially if you're on________ call all the time.
5. She is, wout________ a doubt, the best student in the class.
6. No matter how hard I work on my essays, I keep getting really low grades. I think my writing
teacher just has it in________ for me. She doesn't seem to like me at all. To be determined to
harm or criticize so
7. When John and Frank first met, they hit it off_naturally friendly_______ immediately. They
have been good friends ever since.
8. Wayne missed out________ on the chance to go with us to the concert because he had the
flu.
9. Diana had wanted to spend Christmas in New Zealand, but her plans fell through_come to
nothing_______. She couldn't get enough time off from work to make the trip worthwhile.
10. When she told me she was going to climb Mount Everest, it didn't really sink in fully
understood ________. Only later did I realize how truly dangerous her latest adventure was
going to be.
Your answer:
Part 4. Complete the following sentences with the words given in the brackets. You have to
change the form of the word. (10 pts)
1. I am looking to leave in order to find a new job, _regardless___________ of whether Mr.
Perkins offers me more money or not. (REGARD)
2. It was a seemingly____________ minor accident but tragically, one of the two drivers died.
(SEEM)
3. Most of the activities we did on the course were meaningless____________ and irrelevant. I
think it is very wasteful to spend money on these things. (MEAN)
4. The best way to solve this dispute is to find a neutral, disinterested_ko vu
loi___________ third party and follow his or her suggestions. (INTEREST)
5. To join the police, there is normally both an age and a height requirement____________ .
(REQUIRE)
6. You have been immeasurably____________ important to the success of this company. I don't
know what I would have done without you. (MEASURE)
7. His performance in the match today_belied___________ his reputation as a great player.
(LIE)
8. Rabbits are often seen as_symbolic___________ figures at Easter, representing rebirth and
springtime. (SYMBOL)
9. The survivability ____________ of any manned mission to the planets will be increased if a
secure fuel supply can be found beforehand. (SURVIVAL)
10. His behaviour in his father's presence caused his disinheritance___________ and his sister
ended up inheriting the whole family fortune. (INHERIT)
Your answer:
Part 2: For questions 1-10, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word in each space. (15pts)
The Greek philosopher, Socrates, referred_____________(1) to peace as 'the time when
children bury their parents' and war as 'the time when parents bury their children' . War, in other
words, is a time when the natural state of things is thrown into_____________(2) chaos and
nothing_____________(3) of any good comes out of it.
The people who suffer in a war need not _to _only___________(4) be the losing party. There
are always two sides to an argument. Both warring parties will inevitably sustain casualties, and
it is the people who pay for all the senseless damage. In a war, the soldiers
_may____________(5) be enemies to each other, but they are still somebody's father, brother,
son or husband. Someone will grieve_____________(6) for them if they die.
Our generation is fortunate becuz_____________(7) we have not had the misfortune to go
thru_____________(8) a war. We should prevent such tragic events from recurring in the future.
We should do our utmost to preserve peace, first in our _own____________(9) lives, and then in
others. Only then can we live in harmony_____________(10) with one another.
Your answer:
Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to answer the
questions. (15 pts)
When people learn to play video games, they are learning a new literacy. Of course, this is not
the way the word "literacy" is normally used. Traditionally, people think of literacy as the ability
to read and write. Why should we think of literacy more broadly? There are two reasons.
First, language is not the only important communicational system nowadays. Images, symbols,
graphs, diagrams, artifacts, and many other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the
idea of different types of "visual literacy" would seem to be an important one. For example,
interior designs in homes, modernist art in museums, and videos on MTV are other forms of
visual literacy.
Furthermore, today words and images of various sorts are juxtaposed and integrated in a variety
of ways. In newspapers, magazines and textbooks, images take up more space. In fact, in
modern high school and college textbooks, images not only take up more space but carry
meanings independent of the words in the text. In such multimodal texts (texts that mix words
and images), the images often communicate different things from the words. And the
combination of the two modes communicates things that neither of the modes does separately.
Thus, the idea of different sorts of multimodal literacy seems important. Both modes go far
beyond images and words to include sounds, music, movement, bodily sensations, and smells.
We obviously live in a world awash with images. It is our first answer to the question why we
should think of literacy more broadly. The second answer is this: Though reading and writing
seem so central to what literacy means traditionally, reading and writing are not such general
and obvious matters as they might at first seem. After all, we never just read or write; rather, we
always read or write something in some way.
So there are different ways to read different types of texts. Literacy is multiple in the sense that
the legal literacy needed for reading law books is not the same as for reading physics texts or
superhero comic books. And we should never dismiss the latter form of literacy. Many a
superhero comic is replete with post-Freudian irony of a sort that would make a modern literary
critic's heart beat fast and confuse any otherwise normal adult. Literacy, then, even as
traditionally conceived to involve only print, is not a unitary thing but a multiple matter. There
are, even in regard to printed texts and even leaving aside images and multimodal texts, different
"literacies."
Once we see this multiplicity of literacy (literacies), we realize that when we think about reading
and writing, we have to think beyond print. Reading and writing in any domain, whether it is
law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding
print, they are also caught up with and in social practices... Video games are a new form of art.
They will not replace books but sit beside them, interact with them, and change them as they are
already doing strongly with movies. (Many movies are based on video games and are influenced
by them.) We have no idea yet how people "read" video games, what meanings they make from
them. Still less do we know how they will "read" them in the future.
Part 4: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (15 pts)
Light pollution
A . After hours of driving south in the pitch-black darkness of the Nevada desert, a dome of hazy
gold suddenly appears on the horizon. Soon, a road sign confirms the obvious: Las Vegas 30
miles. Looking skyward, you notice that the Big Dipper is harder to find than it was an hour ago.
B. Light pollution—the artificial light that illuminates more than its intended target area—has
become a problem of increasing concern across the country over the past 15 years. In the
suburbs, where over-lit shopping mall parking lots are the norm, only 200 of the Milky Way’s
2,500 stars are visible on a clear night. Even fewer can be seen from large cities.
C. America has become so bright that in a satellite image, the outline of the country is visible
from its lights alone. Mark Adams, superintendent of the McDonald Observatory in west Texas,
says that the very fact that city lights are visible from on high is proof of their wastefulness.
“When you’re up in an airplane, all that light you see on the ground from the city is wasted. It’s
going up into the night sky..”
D. But don’t we need all those lights to ensure our safety? The answer from light engineers, light
pollution control advocates and astronomers is an emphatic “no.” They say that overly bright
security lights can actually force neighbours to close the shutters, which means that if any
criminal activity does occur on the street, no one will see it. And the old assumption that bright
lights deter crime appears to have been a false one: A new report concludes that there is no
documented correlation between the level of lighting and the level of crime in an area.
E. For drivers, light can actually create a safety hazard. Glaring lights can temporarily blind
drivers, increasing the likelihood of an accident. To help prevent such accidents, some cities and
states prohibit the use of lights that impair night-time vision. For instance, New Hampshire law
forbids the use of “any light along a highway so positioned as to blind or dazzle the vision of
travelers on the adjacent highway.”
F. Badly designed lighting can pose a threat to wildlife as well as people. Newly hatched turtles
in Florida move toward beach lights instead of the more muted silver shimmer of the ocean.
Migrating birds, confused by lights on skyscrapers, broadcast towers and lighthouses, are
injured, sometimes fatally, after colliding with high, lighted structures. And light pollution
harms air quality as well: Because most of the country’s power plants are still powered by fossil
fuels, more light means more air pollution.
G. Darkness was threatened. “We were totally losing the night sky,” said a scientist. Now, after
retrofitting inefficient mercury lighting with low-sodium lights that block light from
“trespassing” into unwanted areas like bedroom windows, and by doing away with some
unnecessary lights altogether, the city is softly glowing rather than brightly beaming.
J. Legislation isn’t the only answer to light pollution problems. A representative for the Ohio
Light Pollution Advisory Council, says that education is just as important, if not more so. Simple
actions like replacing old bulbs and fixtures with more efficient and better-designed ones can
make a big difference in preserving the night sky.
Question 1-6: The first six paragraphs are lettered A-F. Choose the most suitable headings
for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below. NB There are more headings than
paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
List of Headings
i. Why lights are needed
ii. Lighting discourages law breakers
iii. The environmental dangers
iv. People at risk from bright lights
v. Illuminating space
vi. A problem lights do not solve
vii. Seen from above
viii. More light than is necessary
ix. Approaching the city
1. Paragraph A _ix________________
2. Paragraph B _viii________________
3. Paragraph C _vii________________
4. Paragraph D _vi________________
5. Paragraph E _iv________________
6. Paragraph F _iii________________
Question 7-10: Complete each of the following statements with words taken from the passage.
Write ONE or TWO WORDS for each answer.
7. According to a recent study, well-lit streets do not deter crime_________________or make
neighbourhoods safer to live in.
8. Inefficient lighting increases ___air pollution______________because most electricity is
produced from coal, gas or oil.
9. Efficient lights block light_________________from going into areas where it is not needed.
10. In dealing with light pollution _education________________is at least as important as
passing new laws.
Your answer:
1. __________ 2. ___________ 3. ___________ 4. ___________ 5. ___________