-up

team and that

Explorer: We spend a lot of time planning to avoid the risks, because the risks are liable to cause you to
fail, but of my expeditions over the last five years, apart from

over hundreds of thousands of miles of very remote areas, so the planning must have been reasonably
good and in terms of the risk factor I think we foresaw them sufficiently to get the right equipment and

Interviewer: Is it that the whole point is just to do it rather than to come up with some sort of scientific
conclusion or to prove something that would interest the physicists?
Explorer: on next November, that

enough money to complete building a disease research centre. Now last year in Siberia we raised, with
the help of all the people who sponsored us at a penny a mile of our progress, £1.3m. Well that was a
480-
e side of the expedition is one of
the sides. The scientific side, which has been going on, the same scientific work for the last five

can put up with whe

food. This is something which is of great interest to nutritionists and all sorts of other doctors and
military people and so on and so forth. Next year the expedition team will consist of 6 people, only two
of them actually on the travel team, the other four are scientists with a wealth of heavy equipment which
has to be taken to the edge of the Antarctic so that the team members can be subjected to all the tests the
day before
come back famished having lost 4 stone, before they go for all the tests. The scientific side, like the
charity side, is vital. And then of course there is the physical challenge side, which to most armchair

the old days, say 40 or 50 years ago, this was in itself sufficient.
Interviewer: Is there any one achiev
in other words without the help of
dogs and without the help of machinery.
Explorer:
them without support, um, we hope to get to the South Pole and back this year and then in future years
very testing
journey, particularly in terms of planning how the sledges that we have to pull should be designed and

food and it was a very unpleasant experience slowly starving whilst continually trying to move forward

100 days on what we carry on day one

Interviewer: Well,
Explorer: Thank you.
Interviewer:

K THI H C SINH GI NG THPT CHUYÊN

KHU V C DUYÊN H NG B NG B C B
L N TH

THI MÔN: TI NG ANH 10

Th i gian: 180 phút (Không k th )
Ngày thi: 15/4/2017
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 CHÍNH TH C (Thí sinh vi t câu tr l i vào b ng cho s )

thi g m 15 trang)

m
Giám kh o 1 Giám kh o 2 S phách
B ng s B ng ch

A. LISTENING (50 points):

-
bài.

Part 1. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS OR A
NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10
points)
CYCLING HOLIDAY IN AUSTRIA
- Holiday begins on (1)_____________
- No more than (2)_____________ people in a cycling group
- Holiday costs (3) £_____________ per person without flights
- All food included except (4)_____________
- Essential to bring a (5)_____________
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2. You will hear part of a tutorial between two students and their tutor. The students are
doing a research project on computer use. Listen to the conversation carefully and choose the
correct answer A, B or C for each question. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10 points)
6. Sami and Irene decided to do a survey about access to computer facilities because
___________
A. no one had investigated this before.
B. their tutor suggested this topic.
C. this was a problem for many students.
7. Sami and Irene had problems with the reading for their project because ___________
D. the language was too technical.
E. not much had been written about the topic.

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F. they could not locate the books in the library.
8. How did Sami and Irene get the main data in their survey?
D. From face-to-face interviews
E. From observation of students
F. From online questionnaires
9. The tutor suggests that one problem with the survey was limitations in ___________
E. the range of students questioned.
F. the number of students involved.
G. the places where the questions were asked.
10. What proportion of students surveyed thought that a booking system would be the best
solution?
A. 45% B. 65% C. 77%
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3. You will hear a lecture about cust

are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10
points)
1. The colour purple encourages people to spend more money.
2. When people see orange, they leave faster, making room for the next group of diners.
3. Businesses should use blue as it makes people feel safe.
4. Colour can not only create mood and influence customers, but also attract specific groups of
customers.
5. Bright and soft colours appeal to younger customers.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 4: You will hear a woman called Yvonne on a TV programme giving about children
being punished at school. For questions 1-10, complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS for each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20
points)

palms.
Today, children who misbehave at school seldom even get a (2)_________________..
In the fifties, Yvonne was strapped for coming to school in (3)_________________.
Yvonne thought the way she was disciplined at school was (4) ______________ and unfair.
The members of organization P.O.P.P.I. all had (5)__________________.
_made the strap illegal.
Yvonne describes her children as (7) ______________ and irresponsible.
Yvonne does not think her children understand (8) ______________ they are.
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She is now sorry that the government (9) ______________.
She believes that there would be less (10)________________ if the strap was still used.
Your answers:
1. 5. 9.
2. 6. 10.
3. 7.
4. 8.

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the
following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. The size of the pop-
A. doubt B. guessing C. speculation D. wonderment

A at least B. still less C. even less D. not least

3. The thick fog ____ out any possibility of our plane taking off before morning.
A. ruled B. struck C. stamped D. crossed
4. Looking down at the coral reef, we saw ____ of tiny, multi-colored fish.
A. swarms B. flocks C. teams D. shoals
5. Ellen decided that election to the local council would provide a ___ to a career in national
politics.
A. springboard B. turning point C. milestone D. highway
6. Miriam left her husband after a ____ row.
A. blazing B. burning C. hot D. heavy
7. My father ____ when he found out that damaged the car.
A. hit the roof B. saw pink elephants
C. made my blood boil D. brought the house down
8. When I got my case back, it had been damaged ____ repair.
A. further B. beyond C. above D. over
9. ____ of the financial crisis, all they could do was hold on and hope that things would
improve.
A. On the top B. In the end C. At the bottom D. At the height
10. There are a lot of computer programmers nowadays, but really good ones are few and far
___.
A. amongst B. apart C. away D. between
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 A. adopted B. took C. led D. pursued
12. I was awfully tired. However, I made up my mind to ____ myself to the tedious task once
again.
A. involve B. absorb C. engross D. apply
he demanding task once gain.
A. a point B. an incentive C. a resolution D. a target
14. We are going to build a fence around the field with ____ to breeding sheep and cattle.
A. a goal B. an outlook C. a reason D. a view
15. You may feel sure the casting will be done perfectly, just ____ your trust in me and you will

A. lay B. forward C. grant D. allow

16. Filing may be a____ procedure, but it is essential for the smooth running of the office.
A. strenuous B. tedious C. weary D. stuffy
17: _______ when they learned that the chairman would not be able to join the meeting.
A. When they realized why they were all there in that early time of the day
B. Hardly had the committee learned the reason of the meeting
C. However professional they tried to be seen
hey got a phone call about an urgent meeting the next day
18. The Egyptian coast guard received a(n) ______signal from the ship at 11.34 last night.
A. distress B. anxiety C. stress D. disquiet
19. Most armies around the world use satellite technology ____ orders.
A. emit B. impart C. release D. relay
20. It was imperative for the authorities to ____ the epidemic.
A. succeed B. localize C. spread D. define
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 2. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write
the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

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Among all the abilities with which an individual may be endowed, musical talent appear earliest
in life. Very young children can exhibit musical precocity for different reasons. Some develop
exceptional skill as a result of a well-designed instructional regime, so as the Suzuki method for
the violin. Some have the good fortune to be born into a musical family in a household filled of
music. In the number of interesting cases, musical talent is part of an otherwise disabling
condition such as autism or mental retardation. A musical gifted child has an inborn talent;
however, the extent to what the talent is expressed publicly will depend upon the environment in
which the child lives.
Musically gifted children master at an early age the principal elements of music, include
pitch and rhythm. Pitch - or melody - is more central in certain culture, for example, in Eastern
societies that make use of tiny quarter-tone intervals. Rhythm, sounds produced at certain
auditory frequencies and groups according to a prescribed system, are emphasized in sub-
Saharan Africa, where the rhythmic ratios can be very complex.
Your answers:
Line Mistakes Corrections
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Part 3. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition) or particle.
Write your answer in the boxes provided. (10 points)

these old houses to build a new office block.

5. How did you come

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6. Jean d such difficulties.
heart.
8. The boy froze in horror as the teacher advanced him, brandishing a large stick.
9. The teacher sat down and glared the class.
10. Hard work usually pays off the long run.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
The advances made by humans have made us the (1. DOMINANCE) species on our planet.
However, several eminent scientists are concerned that we have become too successful, that our
way of life is putting an (2. PRECEDE) strain on the Earth's ecosystems and threatening our
future as a species. We are confronting environmental problems that are more taxing than ever
before, some of them seemingly insoluble. Many of the Earth's crises are persistent and (3.
INEXORABLE) linked. Pollution is an obvious example of this affecting our air, water and
soil.
The air is polluted by (4. EMIT) produced by cars and industry. Through acid rain and
greenhouse gases these same exhaust fumes can have a devastating impact on our climate.
Climate change is arguably the greatest (5. ENVIRONMENT) challenge facing our planet with
increased storms, floods, drought and species losses predicted. This will inevitably have a
negative impact on (6. DIVERSIFY) and thus our ecosystem.
The soil is contaminated by factories and power stations which can leave heavy metals in the
soil. Other human activities such as the (7. DEVELOP) of land and the clearing of trees also
take their toll on the quality of our soil; (8. FOREST) has been shown to cause soil (9.
ERODE). Certain farming practices can also pollute the land though the use of chemical
pesticides and fertilizers. This contamination in turn affects our rivers and waterways and
damages life there. The chemicals enter our food chain, moving from fish to mammals to us.
Our crops are also grown on land that is far from (10. SPOIL). Affected species include the
polar bear, so not even the Arctic is immune.
Reducing waste and clearing up pollution costs money. Yet it is our quest for wealth that
generates so much of the refuse. There is an urgent need to find a way of life that is less
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damaging to the Earth. This is not easy, but it is vital, because pollution is pervasive and often
life-threatening.
Your answers:
1. 5. 9.
2. 6. 10.
3. 7.
4. 8.

C. READING (60 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts)

That old saying, "It's not what you know, it's who you know" sums up what may well be the
most important (1) _________ of climbing the business ladder. Diligence, competence and
experience are fine (2) _________, but they are not enough.
While this is no great secret, the fact (3) _________ that skilled workers are few and (4)
_________between - yet business success depends on informal networking and sociologists
have (5) _________ that the majority of top jobs in the US are obtained through it. A vast (6)
_________of jobs are never advertised and of those that are, many have already been (7)
_________to someone known to the company. These processes (8) _________not just to
industry but to the government and public sector as well.
Potentially, colleagues, superiors, business friends, customers, suppliers can provide a networker
with information, addresses and open doors that make the difference between stagnation and a
rapid rise. Nonetheless, as a communications trainer in Germany put it: "Many people just do
not know how to (9) _________, develop and foster promising relationships." For some,
networking (10) _________ just too time-consuming or stressful. Such individuals shut
themselves in their office and minimize contact with the outside world. They may do a great job
of work, but they are unlikely to make great career strides.
1. A. measures B. resources C. means D. actions
2. A. marks B. qualities C. types D. distinctions
3. A. remains B. lasts C. continues D. keeps
4. A. long B. far C. wide D. broad
5. A. distinguished B. located C. viewed D. found
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6. A. ratio B. division C. proportion D. section
7. A. promised B. assured C. declared D. warranted
8. A. carry B. engage C. suit D. apply
9. A. induct B. install C. invest D. initiate
10. A. shows B. proves C. turns D. results

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

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
word in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
Many celebrated artists have found it hard to makes (1)____________meet early on in
their careers. (2)____________a few well-known exceptions, however, (poor Van Gogh being
perhaps the most famous one) most went on to find recognition within their own lifetime.
-to-riches tale which gives hope to many (3)
____________ unknown artist. In 1904, he was sharing a draughty and primitive studio
complex with thirty other artists. But by his death, he was a multi-millionaire and probably the
most celebrated modern artist (4)____________. Nevertheless for (5)____________ success

lifetime of hardship in obscurity. Whether they were never recognized because their work was
out of sympathy with the prevailing fashion, (6) ____________ because they lacked talent, is
impossible to say. Most people see art (7) ____________ a vocation (8) ____________ than a
career. There may indeed be some truth in the idea that artists need to (9) ____________
exceptionally dedicated to succeed, and even relatively successful artists sometimes have (10)
____________ supplement their income by working in other areas occasionally.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
The human criterion for perfect vision is 20/20 for reading the standard lines on a
Snellen eye chart without a hitch. The score is determined by how well you read lines of letters
of different sizes from 20 feet away. But being able to read the bottom line on the eye chart does

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not approximate perfection as far as other species are concerned. Most birds would consider us
very visually handicapped. The hawk, for instance, has such sharp eyes that it can spot a dime
on the sidewalk while perched on top of the Empire State Building. It can make fine visual
distinctions because it is blessed with one million cones per square millimeter in its retina. And
in water, humans are farsighted, while the kingfisher, swooping down to spear fish, can see well
in both the air and water because it is endowed with two foveae areas of the eye, consisting
mostly of cones, that provide visual distinctions. One foveae permits the bird, while in the air,
to scan the water below with one eye at a time. This is called monocular vision. Once it hits the
water, the other fovea joins in, allowing the kingfisher to focus both eyes, like binoculars, on its
prey at the same time.

eyes responds mainly to moving objects. So, it is said that a frog sitting in a field of dead bugs

divide what it sees into a pattern of dots, or mosaic. With this kind of vision, the bee sees the sun
only as a single dot, a constant point of reference. Thus, the eye is a superb navigational

paling
into insignificance ultraviolet light. Thus,

species. However, there is still much to be said for the human eye. Of all the mammals, only
humans and some primates can enjoy the pleasures of color vision.
Question 1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. limits of the human eye C. different eyes for different uses
B. perfect vision D. eye variation among different species
Question 2
A. standard B. need C. expectation D. rule
Question 3
A. unaided B. without glasses C. with little hesitation D. easily
Question 4. According to the passage, why might birds and animals consider humans very
visually handicapped?

B. human eyes are not as well suited to our needs

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C. the main outstanding feature of human eyes is color vision

Question 5
A. foveae B. areas of the eye C. ones D. visual distinctions
Question 6 essed with
A. parted with B. supplied for C. endowed with D. ruled out
Question 7. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true
A. kingfishers have monocular vision
B. bees see patterns of dots
C. hawks eyes consist mostly of cones that can allow it to scan with one eye at a time
D. humans are farsighted in water
Question 8. Where in the passage does the author discuss that eyes are useful for avoiding
starvation?
A. lines 1-5 B. lines 7-10 C. lines 14-17 D. lines 21-24
Question 9
A. fading away C. without colored light
B. of great importance D. being reduced to little importance
Question 10. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. eyes have developed differently in each species

C. bees have the most complex eye

D. perfect vision is perfect
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Read the text and do the following tasks. (15 points)
For questions 1-6, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings
below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
I. The universal ability to use language
II. Why language is the most important invention of all
III. Why the sounds used in different languages are not identical
IV. Apparently incompatible characteristics of language

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 V. Even silence can be meaningful
VI. The way in which a few sounds are organized to convey a huge range
of meaning
VII. Differences between languages highlight their impressiveness

1. Paragraph A ____________
2. Paragraph B ____________
3. Paragraph C ____________
4. Paragraph D ____________
5. Paragraph E ____________
6. Paragraph F ____________
THIS MARVELOUS INVENTION

inventions-the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread-may have transformed our material existence, but
the advent of language is what made us human. Compared to language, all other inventions pale
in significance, since everything we have ever achieved depends on language and originates
from it. Without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power
over all other animals, and even over nature itself.
B. But language is foremost not just because it came first. In its own right it is a tool of

invention of composing out of twenty-five or thirty sounds that infinite variety of expressions
which, whilst having in themselves no likeness to what is in our mind, allow us to disclose to
others its whole secret, and to make known to those who cannot penetrate it all that we imagine,

grammarians of the Port-Royal abbey near Versailles distilled the essence of language, and no
one since has celebrated more eloquently the magnitude of its achievement. Even so, there is

-except, of
course, that it was never invented. This apparent paradox is at the core of our fascination with
language, and it holds many of its secrets.
C. Language often seems so skillfully drafted that one can hardly imagine it as anything
other than the perfect handiwork of a master craftsman. How else could this instrument make so
much out of barely three dozen measly morsels of sound? In themselves, these configurations of
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mouth-p,f,b,v,t,d,k,g,h,sh,a,e and so on-amount to nothing more than a few haphazard spits and
splutters, random noises with no meaning, no ability to express, no power to explain. But run
them through the cogs and wheels of the language machine let it arrange them in some very
special orders, and there is nothing that these meaningless streams of air cannot do: from sighing
the interminable boredom of existence to unravelling the fundamental order of the universe.

a genius to set its wheels in motion. The language machine allows just about everybody-from
pre-modern foragers in the subtropical savannah, to post-modern philosophers in the suburban
sprawl- to tie these meaningless sounds together into an infinite variety of subtle sense, and all
apparently without the slightest exertion. Yet it is precisely this deceptive ease which makes
language a victim of its own success, since in everyday life its triumphs are usually taken for
granted. The wheels of language run so smoothly that one rarely bothers to stop and think about
all the resourcefulness and expertise that must have gone into making it tick. Language conceals
art.
E. Often, it is only the estrangement of foreign tongues, with their many exotic and
he showiest
stunts that some languages can pull off is an ability to build up words of breath-taking length,
and thus express in one word what English takes a whole sentence to say. The Turkish word
sehirlilistiremediklerimizdensiniz, to take one example,
-
really is one word, not merely many different words squashed together-most of its components
cannot even stand up on their own.)
F. And if that sounds like some one-off freak, then consider Sumerian, the language
spoken on the banks of the Euphrates some 5,000 years ago by the people who invented writing
and thus enabled the documentation of history. A Sumerian word like muni

What is so impressive about it, however, is not its lengthiness but rather the reverse-the thrifty
compactness of its construction. The word is made up of different slots, each corresponding to a
particular portion of meaning. This sleek design allows single sounds to convey useful
information, and in fact even the absence of a sound has been enlisted to express something
specific. If you were to

nothing. Mind you, a very particular kind of nothing: the nothing that stands in the empty slot in
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the middle. The technology is so fine-tuned then that even a non-sound, when carefully placed
in a particular position, has been invested with a specific function. Who could possibly have
come up with such a nifty contraption?
Questions 7-10: Complete the summary using the list of words, A-G, below.
A. difficult B. complex C. original D. admired
E. fundamental F. easy G. material

THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE

The wheel is one invention that has had impact on 7.___________aspects of life, but no impact
has been as 8.__________as that of language. Language is very 9.___________, yet composed
of just a small number of sounds. Language appears to be 10._______to use. However, its
sophistication is often overlooked.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

D. WRITING (40 points)

Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one
printed before it. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points)
my taste.

2. They only reimbursed us because we took legal advice.

3. My parents think that I should go to university rather than start a job immediately.
My parents would prefer
4. Regarding payment, most major credit cards are acceptable.
As far as

Part II. Rewrite the sentences below in such a way that their meanings stay the same. You
must use the words in capital without changing their forms. Write your answers in the
space provided (10 points)
1. They arrived at their destination alive and kicking. SOUND
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2. Our children are crazy about Korean singers. HEAD

3. Were you at all worried about telling the truth. MISGIVINGS

4. I only called the police when I had tried everything else. RESORT

5. I promised him that the situation would not be repeated in the future. WORD
I .. no repetition of the situation in the future.

Part 3. Paragraph writing. (20 points)

Do you agree with this statement? Write a paragraph of 150-200 words to state your
viewpoint.
K THI H C SINH GI NG THPT CHUYÊN
KHU V C DUYÊN H NG B NG B C B
L N TH

TI NG ANH
L P: 10

m 4 trang)

A. LISTENING (50 points):

Part 1. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- ( Nguyen Tat Thanh- Yen Bai)

1. 17th /17 April 2. 16 / sixteen 3. 1,1013 4. snacks 5. (cycle) helmet

Part 2. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- (Ha Long- Quang Ninh)

1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C
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Part 3: 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- Nguyen Trai- Hai Duong
1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
Part 4: 20 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts- (Le Khiet- Quang Ngai & Chuyen
Tuyen Quang)
1. hitting 5. young children 9. changed the law
2. telling(-) off 6. the government 10. (teenage) crime
3. (the) wrong shoes 7. lazy
4. (very) cruel 8. how lucky

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points)

Part 1. 20 points- Each correct answer is given 1 pt- ( Hung Yen, Vinh Phuc, Thai Nguyen,
Phu Tho, Chuyen Ngoai Ngu)

1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. A
6. A 7. A 8. B 9. D 10. D
11. B 12. D 13. B 14. D 15. A
16. B 17. B 18. A 19. D 20. B
Part 2. 10 points - Each correct answer is given 1 pt ( Tay Ninh)

Line Mistakes Corrections

1. 1 appear appears
2. 3 so as such as
3. 5 of with
4. 5 the a
5. 6 musical musically
6. 7 what which
7. 10 include including
8. 10 culture cultures
9. 12 groups grouped
10. 12 are is

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Part 3. 10 points - Each correct answer is given 1 pt. (Nam Dinh, Quang Nam, Chuyen
SPHN)

1. off 2. down 3. on/ upon 4. to 5. by

6. against 7. at 8. on/ towards 9. at 10. in

Part 4. 10 points - Each correct answer is given 1 pt. ( Thai Binh)

1. dominant 5. environmental 9. erosion

2. unprecedented 6. bio(-)diversity 10. unspoiled/ unspoilt
3. inexorably 7. over(-)development
4. emissions 8. deforestation

C. READING (60 points)

Part 1. 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts, ( Chuyen Lam Son TH)

1. C 2. B 3. A 4. B 5. D
6. C 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. B

Part 2. 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts. (Ha Nam)

1. ends 2. With 3. an 4. ever 5. every

6. or 7. as 8. rather 9. be 10. to

Part 3. 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts. ( Phu Tho)
1. D 2. A 3. D 4. D 5. A
6. C 7. C 8. C 9. D 10. A

Part 4. 15 points- Each correct answer is given 1.5 pts. (Lao Cai)
1. II 2. IV 3. VI 4. I 5. VII
6. V 7. G 8. E 9. B 10. F

D. WRITING (40 points) (Da Nang, Hue, Hoa Binh, Hai Phong, Bac Ninh)
Part I. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts
1. Impressive as/th

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3. My parents would prefer me to go to university rather than start a job immediately.
4. As far as payment is concerned, most major credit cards are acceptable
5. It is not worth trying to explain anything to Tony.
Part II. 10 points- Each correct answer is given 2 pts.
1. They arrived at their destination safe and sound
2. Our children are head over heels in love with Korean singers.
3. Did you have any misgivings about telling the truth?
4. I only called the police as a last resort.

Part 3. Paragraph writing. (20 points) ( Bac Giang)

with household tasks as soon as they are able to do
Do you agree with this statement? Write a paragraph of 150-200 words to state your
viewpoint.
Criteria:
9. Task response (5 points)
The writer clearly states their point of view (agree/disagree) and provides a well-
supported paragraph related to the topic.
10. Lexical resource (5points)
- The writer uses synonyms and paraphrases flexibly.
- The writer uses topic-related vocabulary.
11. Coherence and cohesion (5 points)
- The paragraph has a topic sentence with controlling idea.
- The topic is well-developed with relevant supporting evidence, examples and
facts.
- Ideas are well connected with suitable cohesive devices.
- The paragraph shows a certain organization pattern (for example: by order of
importance, etc.)
- The writer uses pronouns consistently and coherently, with third-person pronouns
(They, this, these, one/ones) gaining higher scores.
12. Grammatical range and accuracy (5 points)
- The writer uses a wide range of sentence structures (simple, compound and
complex)
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 - The writer uses verb tense and forms accurately.
- The writer shows good control of spelling and punctuation.

THE END

TAPE SCRIPT
Part 1

rested in a cycling holiday in

M: Well, that trip is in the middle of the month. It starts on the 17th of April (Q1) and it finishes
on the 27th.
work before the 10th of April.
M: Let me see if there are any spaces. Is it just for yourself?
W: Myself and my sister so two of us.
M: Yes. We have spaces.
W: Is it a big group?
M: At the moment there are 12 people booked on this trip and with you two that will be 14. The

to keep a larger group together.

ride approximately 45 km a day. Is that right?

than 50km in one day.

W: Oh, OK. I can manage that. And we stay in hotels?
M: Yes. They all have restaurants and the rooms have en-suite facilities.

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 ok our own flights on the Internet.

M: Well, er, breakfast of course. And the hotels will provide you with a packed lunch each day.
We do stop during the afternoon in a village somewhere for a rest, so any snacks you buy then

the holiday.
M: And you provide the bicycle of course. What else?

erly.
W: Ok.

Part 2.
S = Sami T = Tutor I = Irene
S: Dr. Barrett?
T: Sami, come in. Is Irene with you?
I: -Yes..

we last met. You decided to do a survey about

need one, so we thought it would be a useful area to research.

So, what background reading did you do?

S: .
published about it...
I: And as well as that, the technology is all changing so quickly.
S: But the open access centre has an online questionnaire on computer use that it asks all the
students to do at the end of their first year, and the supervisor gave us access to that data, so

an idea of what we wanted to find out in our survey. Then, we designed our own
questionnaire.
T: And how did you use it?
I: We approached students individually and went through our questionnaire with them on a
one-to-one basis.
T: So, you actually asked them the questions?

got a bit of extra information that way as well - about the underlying attitudes of the people we
were interviewing - by observing the body language and things like that.
T: How big was your sample?
S:: Well, altogether we interviewed a random sample of 65 students, 55% male and 45%
female.
T: And what about the locations and times of the survey?
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S: We went to the five open access computer centres at the university, and we got about equal
amounts of data at each one. It took us three weeks. We did it during the week, in the days and
in the evenings.
T: Not the weekends?
S:: No.
T: So, presumably your respondents were mostly full-time students?
S:: Yes... oh, you mean we should have collected some data at the weekends, from the part-

T: OK. have
you got with the analysis of results?
I: Well,
should be done about it. The most popular suggestion was for some sort of booking system.
About 77% of the students thought that would be best. But there were other suggestions; for
example, about 65% of people thought it would help if the opening hours were longer, like
24 hours a day.

Part 3

Part 4: Gap-filling

The trap, as they called it, was a thick piece of leather about an inch wide and half as long as a
belt and it was especially designed for hitting small children, on the palms of their hands.
Nowadays, if you do something wrong at school, you are unlucky if you even get a telling off.
And even the most serious offences get little more than a concerned phone call from the head

get the first

time it happened to me. One morning, I came to school in the wrong shoes- brown one instead
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of black and that was enough for the principal to call me up in front of the whole class of
children and beat my hand unitl it bled. I saw this and
discipline system as very cruel and unfair.

over. Soon I had children of my own the thought that they would one day get the same

Parents Opposed to Physical Punishment Of Infants. All the other members were like me. They
r lives with misery. So
we started writing letters. First, to the school, then to the education department and eventually,

t that we had guarranteed our children the chance to grow

have turned into lazy , irresponsible young adults who really have no idea how lucky they are.

recently that I have begun to think- to wish that they had never changed the law. Cruel it may
s something that

the teenage crime that goes on nowadays if those teenagers concerned had, when they had been
younger, been given the strap.

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