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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN NĂM HỌC 2023 - 2024

PHAN BỘI CHÂU
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 12
Đề chính thức Thời gian: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)

(Đề gồm 12 trang)

ĐIỂM HỌ TÊN, CHỮ KÍ GIÁM KHẢO SỐ PHÁCH

Bằng số: Giám khảo 1:
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Bằng chữ: Giám khảo 2:
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SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. You are going to hear a talk. As you listen, fill in the missing information. For questions 1-
15, write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
How to stay calm under pressure?
Exam pressure, deadlines, job interviews and presentations can all make you feel like (1) __________. Just
when you need to remain calm, your heart's racing, your palms are sweaty, your voice sounds strange and
your mind goes blank. Well, with a little help from (2) __________, here are three easy and reliable
techniques you can use to literally keep calm and carry on, no matter what. Of course there are other things
you can do to combat stress but this (3) __________will hopefully give you instant calm.
First, a breathing exercise. I want you to take a deep (4) __________through your nose for five seconds
hold it for a second, then push all the air out through your nose, slowly, counting to five.
Repeat a few times and you'll feel calmer. For centuries, (5) __________have used controlled breathing
techniques like this to gain the upper hand over the nervous system and science is beginning to understand
how it works.
Research has identified a (6) __________network of neurons in the brain stem called the pre-Botzinger
complex that regulates breathing and communicates with other parts of the brain. Under stress we tend to
breathe very quickly as our body prepares for danger, which is useful if you need to run away but not if
you're about to speak in public. The good news is that by breathing deeply and slowly you can change (7)
__________your brain's receiving from 'danger' to 'all is well'.
So the next time you feel panic rising, use deep breathing through your nose to force your body into a (8)
__________. And the best thing is, no one will notice, not even your audience. Now you're ready for the
humming.
A single note, your favourite tune, literally anything will do. Why? Well studies in how we regulate (9)
__________have shown that humming can stimulate one of the most important parts of the body you've
never heard of.
The vagus nerve. It was named 'the wanderer' in Latin because it emerges from the brain and (10)
_________ up and down the body like a superhighway of communication, connecting the brain to organs
like the heart, lungs and stomach, (11) __________and ears.
A 2013 study of choristers showed that singing, humming and mantras all help keep the (12) __________
in step.So the next time you feel your heart racing sing a song or just hum a note and let your own
wanderer nerve restore calm.

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The final tip is to focus. When you're busy it's tempting to (13) __________, but if you want to stay calm
and actually get stuff done, don’t. Scans show your brain can only do one thing at a time.
When you do two things at once it has to switch between them very rapidly and gets overstimulated and
floods your body with stress hormones. By working the way your brain is (14) __________and doing one
thing at a time you can quickly go from feeling overwhelmed to calm. So break your task down into small
parts or steps, circle the one thing you need to do next and forget about the other tasks until their time
comes. This is sometimes called (15) “_________” and is used by sports coaches to help athletes focus.
Doing just one thing at a time with your fullest attention keeps your mind in the here and now and is a great
habit to develop.
So next time you feel panic rising, stop and remember to breathe, hum and focus. Let us know how you get
on.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
Part 2. You will hear an interview with an archaeologist called Julian Ra. For questions 16-20,
choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fit best what you hear. Write your answers in the
corresponding boxes provided.
16. Julian attributes his interest in archaeology as a teenager to __________.
A. wish to please his father.
B. his natural sense of curiosity.
C. a need to earn some spare cash.
D. his dissatisfaction with life on a farm.
17. Julian feels that the public perception of archaeology __________.
A. fails to acknowledge its scientific value.
B. has been negatively influenced by fictional accounts.
C. underestimates the gradual nature of the research process.
D. has tended to concentrate on the physical hardships involved.
18. How does Julian feel about his current research post?
A. He regrets having relatively few opportunities to travel.
B. He wishes his colleagues would take it more seriously.
C. He admits that the problems can get him down.
D. He suggests that it is relatively cost effective.
19. What does Julian hope to show as a result of his current research?
A. population levels in England in different periods
B. the length of time certain villages have existed
C. how wider trends affected local communities
D. the range of ancient agricultural methods
20. Julian's project on humour in archaeology aims to __________.
A. celebrate an otherwise unrecorded aspect of archaeologists' lives.
B. compare archaeological findings with anecdotal evidence.
C. create a database of jokes connected with archaeology.
D. make archaeological reports more widely accessible.
Your answers:
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Part 3. For question 21-25, listen to an interview with Sue Millins, who has recently introduced a new
teaching approach into her school and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false
(F). Write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided.
21. The original cause of the school’s decline was the transformation of the neighborhood.
22. The school was not closed down thanks to the decision to follow the national curriculum.
23. The traditional methods of teaching were abandoned because tests would be easier to mark.
24. The aim of the lesson involving the bear is to help the children to read and write.
25. The method is considered successful because children are interested in the arts.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 points)

Part 1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C or D in
the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. I usually enjoy attending amateur productions in small community theaters . The play , _________,
was so bad that I wanted to leave after the first act .
A. therefore B. however C. whereas D. consequently
2. I’ll mark the students’ exams right away so I don’t _______ their agony.
A. extend B. prolong C. stretch D. lengthen
3. The instructions were not just confusing, they were ______ misleading.
A. strongly B. fully C. positively D. perfectly
4. _______ Keith made in his attempt to catch the dog that he strained his back.
A. Such a great effort B. Such was the effort
C. So was the effort that D. So great effort
5. .________a research team is an effective way to prepare for class preparation of social studies such as
history, geography, literature, and economics.
A. Having formed B. To form C. Forming D. Formed
6. It is desirable that the hotel manager remember to call the _______ staff every 6 months to clean up the
air conditioners.
A. maintaining B. maintain C. maintainable D. maintenance
7. Riley is between a ________ and a hard place as he accidentally set up his doctor’s appointment on the
same day as his son’s first soccer game at school.
A. rock B. stone C. ball D. dirt
8. You may borrow as many books as you like, provided you show them to _______is at the desk.
A. whoever B. who C. whom D. that
9. If nobody _______misbehaving, all pupils will be kept in after school.
A. admits off B. admits in C. owns up in D. owns up to
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 10: Music is the literature of the heart, it commences where speech ends.
A. speaks B. begins C. opens D. lasts
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 11. The company was plugged into turmoil after the hostile take over bid was announced.
A. in chaos B. in operation C. in order D. in action
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Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges
Question 12: -Interviewer : “______” -Interviewee: “Thank you.”
A. Sit yourself, please B. Be seated, please C. Seat down, will you D. Please take a sit
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Part 2. Read the passage below, which contains 8 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.
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1 Preserving organisms in museums is one way of retaining them for posterity, but almost people
2 agree that it would be nice to keep a few of them live in the wild, too. At the moment, which species
3 survive, which decline to threatened or even status and which succumb for extinction is something
4 of a lottery. WORLDMAP is an easy-to-use software that identifies geographical patterns in
5 diversity, rarity and conservation priorities. It can perform a range of specialist biological analyses
6 for countless numbers of species, with a view to provide biodiversity data for research purposes.
7 The program divides the surface area of the world into cells, usually arranging in a rectangular grid.
8 WORLDMAP can also predict the likelihood of a hitherto unobserved species found in an area on
9 the basis of their known distribution. Given the patchiness of most records, which is a useful trick.
10 However, it can select complementary areas for preservation.

Your answers:
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
13. 17.
14. 18.
15. 19.
16. 20.

SECTION C. READING (70 points)

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best answer. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
One of the hazards that electronic media like the television, radio or computers (1)______ these days is the
(2) ______in book reading. The concern (3) ______mainly to the younger generations who are strongly (4)
______by the glamour of the silver screen and, consequently, don’t (5) ______ the importance of acquiring
first-hand information from books.
To (6) ______reading for pleasure and to propagate a while array of publications like encyclopedias, (7)
______books, manuals or fiction, radical soulutions should be applied. Firstly, more (8) ______ought to be
put on the educational (9) ______. Youngsters should be made to feel comfortable while reading either for
information or self-satisfaction in public places like airports, buses or on the beach. Secondly, libraries must
be subsidized more accurately in order to provide the potential reader with (10) ______ choice of
publications and to become more publically active so as to put books at people’s (11) ______ rather than
keep them under lock and key. Fund collecting actions organized by libraries might also (12) ______ the
public awareness of the advantages of becoming (13) ______ in a good book.

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Finally, the mass media themselves might contribute substantially by recomending of purchase or valuable
best-sellers and inspiring their viewers to (14) ______their knowledge and erudition, and thus help them to
(15) ______ the habit of spontaneous everyday reading.
1. A. denote B.play C.arise D.pose
2. A.rarity B.decline C.shortage D.deficiency
3. A.indicates B.affects C.applies D.embodies
4. A.exposed B.tempted C.submitted D.involved
5. A.recognize B.observe C.view D.distinguish
6. A.incite B.revert C.encourage D.instill
7. A.referral B.referable C.referee D.reference
8. A.relevance B.persistence C.emphasis D.focus
9. A.factor B.point C.matter D.ground
10. A.prolific B.ample C.lavish D.lush
11. A.availibility B.usage C.disposal D.benefit
12. A.raise B.amplify C.inflate D.expand
13. A.occupied B.inhaled C.incorporated D.engrossed
14. A.enrich B.magnify C.arouse D.elaborate
15. A.grow B.evolve C.develop D.proceed
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 2. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes.
ACADEMIC OVERDRIVE
Student life is becoming increasingly difficult. Not only are students (16) _______to perform and
complete within the class, but also to (17) ______time and energy to extra-curricular activities as well as
struggle with an increasing load of homework. The push to get into the top universities has caused many
overachieving students to (18) _______ on heavier workloads and more challenging classes.
This push, (19) _______, doesn’t end once students reach university. In fact, when they reach the top
places they have worked so hard to get into, many students are forced to work (20) _______harder than
they did in high school. Once in the top universities, the (21) _______ is on to secure place into the top
graduate school. But it doesn’t end there. Once students have graduated with best results, they find that
they must continue to overextend (22) _______in order to secure the top jobs in their particular field. (23)
_______is the emphasis in academic success.
There are many who claim that this entire system is wrong because it puts too much (24) _______on
measuring achievement and not enough on true learning. This in (25) ______has inevitable efects on the
students themselves. In such a high-pressure (26) _______environment, those that find the pressure
overwhelming have nowhere to turn. In an academic world (27) _______only by academic success, many
students begin to feel a low sense of worth, yet they fear to turn to anyone for help as this world would be
perceived as a signal of failure, an (28) _______to cope with that which other students appear to have no
problem. This can be particularly hard for foreign students as they find themselves isolated (29)
_______familiar cultural or family ties in their new environment and thus they concentrate solely on their
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 Perhaps the main thing to remember is that (30) ______it is important to study hard, school life should
also be fun.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

Part 3. You are going to read an article about the future of newspapers. For questions 31-36 choose
the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Write your answers A, B, C
or D in the corresponding numbered boxes.

The Future of Newspapers

Anybody who says they can reliably forecast the future of newspapers is either a liar or a fool. Look at
the raw figures, and newspapers seem doomed. Since 2000, the circulation of most UK national dailies has
fallen by between a third and a half. The authoritative Pew Research Centre in the USA reports that
newspapers are now the main source of news for only 26 percent of US citizens as against 45 percent in
2001. There is no shortage of prophets who confidently predict that the last printed newspaper will be safely
buried within 15 years at most.

Yet one of the few reliable facts of history is that old media have a habit of surviving. An over-exuberant
New York journalist announced in 1835 that books and theatre ‘have had their day’ and the daily newspaper
would become ‘the greatest organ of social life’. Theatre duly withstood not only the newspaper, but also
cinema and then television. Radio has flourished in the TV age; cinema, in turn, has held its own against
videos and DVDs. Even vinyl records have made a comeback, with online sales up 745 percent since 2008.
Newspapers themselves were once new media, although it took several centuries before they became the
dominant medium for news. This was not solely because producing up-to-date news for a large readership
over a wide area became practicable and economic only in the mid-19th century, with the steam press, the
railway and the telegraph. Equally important was the emergence of the idea that everything around us is in
constant movement and we need to be updated on its condition at regular intervals – a concept quite alien
in medieval times and probably also to most people in the early modern era. Now, we expect change. To
our medieval ancestors, however, the only realities were the passing of the seasons, punctuated by
catastrophes such as famine, flood or disease that they had no reliable means of anticipating. Life, as the
writer Alain de Botton puts it, was ‘ineluctably cyclical’ and ‘the most important truths were recurring’.
Journalism as a full-time trade from which you could hope to make a living hardly existed before the
19th century. Even then, there was no obvious reason why most people needed news on a regular basis,
whether daily or weekly. In some respects, regularity of newspaper publication and rigidity of format was,
and remains, a burden. Online news readers can dip in and out according to how they perceive the urgency
of events. Increasingly sophisticated search engines and algorithms allow us to personalise the news to our
own priorities and interests. When important stories break, internet news providers can post minute-by-
minute updates. Error, misconception and foolish speculation can be corrected or modified almost instantly.
There are no space restrictions to prevent narrative or analysis, and documents or events cited in news
stories can often be accessed in full. All this is a world away from the straitjacket of newspaper publication.
Yet few if any providers seem alive to the new medium’s capacity for spreading understanding and
enlightenment.
Instead, the anxiety is always to be first with the news, to maximise reader comments, to create heat,
sound and fury and thus add to the sense of confusion. In the medieval world, what news there was was
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usually exchanged amid the babble of the marketplace or the tavern, where truth competed with rumour,
mishearing and misunderstanding. In some respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning.
Newspapers have never been very good – or not as good as they ought to be – at telling us how the world
works. Perhaps they now face extinction. Or perhaps, as the internet merely adds to what de Botton
describes as our sense that we live in ‘an unimprovable and fundamentally chaotic universe’, they will
discover that they and they alone can guide us to wisdom and understanding.

31. In the first paragraph, the writer is presenting ______

A. his interpretation of a current trend.
B. evidence that supports a widespread view.
C. his prediction on the future of print journalism.
D. reasons for the decline in newspaper readership.
32. What point is the writer making in the second paragraph?
A. Existing media are not necessarily replaced by new ones.
B. The best media technologies tend to be the most long-lasting.
C. Public enthusiasm for new types of media is often unpredictable.
D. It is inevitable that most media technologies will have a limited life.
33. Which phrase in the second paragraph has the same meaning as ‘held its own against generation’?
A.‘had their day’ B. ‘withstood’ C. ‘flourished’ D. ‘made a comeback’
34. In the third paragraph, the writer stresses the significance of ______
A. a shift in people’s attitudes towards the outside world.
B. certain key 19th-century advances in mechanisation.
C. the challenges of news distribution in the pre-industrial era.
D. the competition between newspapers and more established media.
35. What does the writer suggest is the main advantage of online news sites?
A. the flexibility of the medium B. the accuracy of the reporting
C. the ease of access for their users D. the breadth of their potential readership
36. What does the writer suggest about newspapers in the final paragraph?
A. They still have an important role to play.
B. They can no longer compete with the internet.
C. They will have to change to keep up with the digital age.
D. They will retain a level of popularity among certain types of readers.
Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36.
Part 4. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
Mystery in Easter Island!
A
One of the world’s most famous yet least visited archaeological sites, Easter Island is a small, hilly, now
treeless island of volcanic origin. Located in the Pacific Ocean at 27 degrees south of the equator and some
2200 miles (3600 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, it is considered to be the world’s most remote inhabited
island. The island is, technically speaking, a single massive volcano rising over ten thousand feet from the
Pacific Ocean floor. The island received its most well-known current name, Easter Island, from the Dutch
sea captain Jacob Roggeveen who became the first European to visit Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722.
B
In the early 1950s, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl popularized the idea that the island had been
originally settled by advanced societies of Indians from the coast of South America. Extensive
archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic research has conclusively shown this hypothesis to be
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inaccurate. It is now recognized that the original inhabitants of Easter Island are of Polynesian stock (DNA
extracts from skeletons have confirmed this), that they most probably came from the Marquesas or Society
islands, and that they arrived as early as 318 AD (carbon dating of reeds from a grave confirms this). At
the time of their arrival, much of the island was forested, was teeming with land birds, and was perhaps the
most productive breeding site for seabirds in the Polynesia region. Because of the plentiful bird, fish and
plant food sources, the human population grew and gave rise to a rich religious and artistic culture.
C
That culture’s most famous features are its enormous stone statues called moai, at least 288 of which once
stood upon massive stone platforms called ahu. There are some 250 of these ahu platforms spaced
approximately one-half mile apart and creating an almost unbroken line around the perimeter of the island.
Another 600 moai statues, in various stages of completion, are scattered around the island, either in quarries
or along ancient roads between the quarries and the coastal areas where the statues were most often erected.
Nearly all the moai are carved from the tough stone of the Rano Raraku volcano. The average statue is 14
feet and 6 inches tall and weighs 14 tons. Some moai were as large as 33 feet and weighed more than 80
tons. Depending upon the size of the statues, it has been estimated that between 50 and 150 people were
needed to drag them across the countryside on sledges and rollers made from the island’s trees.
D
Scholars are unable to definitively explain the function and use of the moai statues. It is assumed that their
carving and erection derived from an idea rooted in similar practices found elsewhere in Polynesia but
which evolved in a unique way on Easter Island. Archaeological and iconographic analysis indicates that
the statue cult was based on an ideology of male, lineage-based authority incorporating anthropomorphic
symbolism. The statues were thus symbols of authority and power, both religious and political. But they
were not only symbols. To the people who erected and used them, they were actual repositories of sacred
spirit. Carved stone and wooden objects in ancient Polynesian religions, when properly fashioned and
ritually prepared, were believed to be charged by a magical spiritual essence called mana. The ahu
platforms of Easter Island were the sanctuaries of the people, and the moai statues were the ritually charged
sacred objects of those sanctuaries.
E
Besides its more well-known name, Easter Island is also known as Te-Pito-O-Te-Henuab, meaning ‘The
Navel of the World’, and as Mata-Ki-Te-Rani, meaning ‘Eyes Looking at Heaven’. These ancient name
and a host of mythological details ignored by mainstream archaeologists point to the possibility that the
remote island may once have been a geodetic marker and the site of an astronomical observatory of a long-
forgotten civilization. In his book, Heaven’s Mirror, Graham Hancock suggests that Easter Island may once
have been a significant scientific outpost of this antediluvian civilization and that its location had extreme
importance in a planet-spanning, mathematically precise grid of sacred sites. Two other alternative scholars,
Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, have extensively studied the location and possible function of these
geodetic markers. In their fascinating book, Uriel’s Machine, they suggest that one purpose of the geodetic
markers was as part of a global network of sophisticated astronomical observatories dedicated to predicting
and preparing for future commentary impacts and crystal displacement cataclysms.
F
In the latter years of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century, various writers and scientists
have advanced theories regarding the rapid decline of Easter Island’s magnificent civilization around the
time of the first European contact. Principal among these theories, and now shown to be inaccurate, is that
postulated by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. Basically,
these theories state that a few centuries after Easter Island’s initial colonization the resource needs of the
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the forests had been entirely cut, the rich ground cover had eroded away, the springs had dried up, and the
vast flocks of birds coming to roost on the island had disappeared. With no logs to build canoes for offshore
fishing, with depleted bird and wildlife food sources, and with declining crop yields because of the erosion
of good soil, the nutritional intake of the people plummeted. First famine, then cannibalism, set in. Because
the island could no longer feed the chiefs, bureaucrats and priests who kept the complex society running,
the resulting chaos triggered a social and cultural collapse. By 1700 the population dropped to between
one-quarter and one-tenth of its former number, and many of the statues were toppled during supposed
“clan wars” of the 1600 and 1700s.
G
The faulty notions presented in these theories began with the racist assumptions of Thor Heyerdahl and
have been perpetuated by writers, such as Jared Diamond, who do not have sufficient archaeological and
historical understanding of the actual events which occurred on Easter Island. The real truth regarding the
tremendous social devastation which occurred on Easter Island is that it was a direct consequence of the
inhumane behavior of many of the first European visitors, particularly the slavers who raped and murdered
the islanders, introduced smallpox and other diseases, and brutally removed the natives to mainland South
America.
Questions 37-40: The reading passage has seven paragraphs, A-G
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from the list below.
Write the correct number, i-xi, in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more headings than paragraphs
List of headings
i The famous moai
ii The status represented symbols of combined purposes
iii The ancient spots which indicate the scientific application
iv The story of the name
v Early immigrants, rise and prosperity
vi The geology of Easter Island
vii The begin of Thor Heyerdahl’s discovery
viii The countering explanation to the misconceptions politically manipulated
ix Symbols of authority and power
x The Navel of the World
xi The Norwegian Invaders’ legacy
Example: Paragraph A iv
37 Paragraph B
Example: Paragraph C i
38 Paragraph D
39 Paragraph E
40 Paragraph G
Questions 41-46
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage ?
In boxes 41-46 on your answer sheet write
TRUE if the statement is true
FALSE if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage
41 The first inhabitants of Easter Island are Polynesian, from the Marquesas or Society islands.
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43 The Moai can be found not only on Easter Island but also elsewhere in Polynesia.
44 Most archaeologists recognised the religious and astronomical functions for an ancient society.
45 The structures of Easter Island work as an astronomical outpost for extraterrestrial visitors.
46 the theory that depleted natural resources leading to the fail of Easter Island actual have a distorted
perspective
Questions 47-50
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage
Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 47-50 on your answer sheet.
Many theories speculated that Easter Island’s fall around the era of the initial European contact. Some say
the resources are depleted by a 47…………………………..; The erroneous theories began with a root of
the 48……………………….. advanced by some scholars. Early writers did not have
adequate 49………………………… understandings to comprehend the true nature of events on the island.
The social devastation was, in fact, a direct result of 50.…………………… of the first European settlers.
Your answers:
37. 38. 39. 40. 41.
42. 43. 44. 45. 46.
47. 48 49 50

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it.
1. It was wrong of you to reveal my secrets, under any circumstances.
 You ought ………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. I only realised the full implications of what had happened until sometime later.
 It wasn’t ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. Is it because they are poor that they behave like that ?
 Is it their ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to
the sentence printed before it, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
4. Our experiments cannot continue because of the serious problems we have encountered. AGAINST
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. She’s determined to be a famous pianist. SIGHTS
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Part 2. Write a letter of about 120-150 words.
A local college is having an international day. You want to speak about your country to students from
different cultures.
Write a letter to the college head. In your letter :
 Tell him/ her about the topics that you are going to talk about
 Explain why would they be of interest to the students
 Ask about any arrangements that you need to make to give the talk
Use your name and address as Nguyen Binh An – 68 Minh Khai Street, Vinh City, Nghe An Province.
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Part 3: Write an essay of about 350 words on the following topic.

It is evident that a significant proportion of current high school students engage in cheating
during tests and exams, or consider cheating to be acceptable. Some people blame this trend on the
intense academic pressure and excessive workload placed upon students. Others think that it is no more
than the problem of students’ dishonesty and insufficient self-respect.
Discuss both views and state your opinion.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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