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I. LISTENING (5 points)

HUONG DAN PHAN THI NGHE HIEU

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© Bài nghe gồm 03 phân; mỗi phân được nghe 02 lân, mỗi lần cách nhau 05 giây.

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© Mọi hướng dân cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You are going to hear a lecture about consumer habits and do the following tasks as required.
For questions 1-4, you will hear the introduction of the lecture and complete the notes with NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS for each answer in the spaces provided.
Spending money
Point 1:

Point 2:

- Three age groups:

Male and female (2)

+ young people

Three age groups are:

+ families

+ young people aged (3)

+(1)

+ Families aged from 33 — 50
+ Mature adults (4)

For questions 5-7, listen to the next part of the recording carefully and answer the question. Select
THREE correct options from the list (a-g).
What do families spend their money on?
a
furniture and household goods
b

c

d

clothes, music and entertainment

cars and outings

electronic equipment

(5)

(6)

e
gardening tools
+

food, toys and outings
g___cars and travelling

(7)

For questions 8-10, you will hear the last part of the recording.
WORDS to answer the questions for eating in restaurants.
8. What do men spend twice as much as women on?
9. What do women spend most on?
10. Which group spends most on eating in restaurants?

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Part 2: For questions 11-15, you will hear a man called Simon Webster talking about being a racing
driver. Circle the correct answer A, B or C.

11. Simon asks other drivers for advice when he
A. has made a mistake on a racing track

B. is unsure which racing track to use
C. uses a racing track for the first time
12. When do races take place?
A. During part of the year

B. On most days during the week
C. Mainly on Fridays
13. What problem does Simon have?
A. He can’t stop training before a race.
B. He can’t improve any more.
C. He doesn’t ever have holidays.
14. How did he become interested in cars?
A. His friends were keen on motor-racing.
B. He enjoyed watching motor-racing on TV.
C. His father took him to races.
15. What advice does he give to young racing drivers?

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C. They should get very fit.

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Part 3: For questions 16-20, you will hear a woman called Anne and a man called Peter talking about
a college party. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, put a tick (/) in the box
under A for YES. If it is not correct, put a tick (/) in the box under B for NO.
N°
Statements
A
B
16. | Peter wants to take his sister to the party.
17. | Anne hopes the party will be bigger than the one last year.
18. | Peter thinks the new college hall is big enough for the party.
19. | Peter thinks DJs play a good range of music.
20. | Peter is confident the party will end after midnight.
II. PHONETICS (1 point)
Part 1 For questions 21-25, choose the word with the underlined part pronounced differently from that
of the others in each group. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
21. A. massage
B. message
C. cottage
D. cabbage
22. A. butter

B. cushion

C. put

D. push

24. A. dogged

B. beloved

C. borrowed

D. wicked

23. A. mood

B. look

25. A. examine
Your answers:

[ 21.

B. executive

_]22.

| 23.

C. took

C. excitement

[ 24.

D. good

D. exhibition

| 25.

|

Part 2: For questions 26-30, choose the word with the main stress different from that of the others in
the same group. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
26. A. compulsory
B. diversity
C. vulnerable
D. incredible

27. A. museum
28. A. discipline
29. A. historical
30. A. pollute
Your answers:

[ 26.

B. industry
B. determine

B. embroidery
B. severe

[27

| 28.

C. pesticide
C. cultural

C. authority
C. tragic

]29.
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D. dynamite
D. cognitive

D. architecture
D. humane

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III. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (4 points)
Part 1: For questions 31-50, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to
each of the following questions
and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
31. Tom went to the dentist to have his decayed tooth
as he couldn’t stand the toothache.
A. relieved
B. ruined
C. destroyed
D. extracted

32. The first week of classes at university was a little
classes or go to the wrong place.

A. disarranged

B. chaotic

because so many students

C. uncontrolled

33. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms,

get lost, change

D. famous

silk fabrics are woven.

A. from cocoons
B. whose cocoons
C. from whose cocoons
D. whose cocoons are from
34. British and Australian people share the same language, but in other respects
they are as different as
A. chalk and cheese
B. salt and pepper
C. here and there
D. cats and dogs
as the representative at the conference, she felt extremely proud of herself.

A. On choosing
B. Having been chosen
C. Be chosen
D. Having chosen
36. It is important that she
to take her medicine twice a day.
A. remember
B. to remember
C. remembering
D. remembers
37. A: “Would you like to have dinner with me tomorrow?”
- B: “
a
A. [hope that tomorrow is glad
C. Hope to see a lot of fun tomorrow
B. All right, you are so generous
D. I am sorry. I have an extra class tomorrow

35.

38. It’s a shame that these two plans are

the other.

A. imperceptibly

B. mutually

exclusive. Implementing one will automatically rule out
C. respectively

D. exhaustively

39. The director criticized the secretary
failing to prepare carefully for the annual report.
A. with
B. to
C. from
D. for
40. The workers hope there will be a peaceful
to the new system.
A. transmission
B. transformation
C. transition
D. transaction
41. As he
enjoyed doing research, he could never imagine himself pursuing other careers.
A. thoroughly
B. totally
C. utterly
D. extremely

42. A: “You know, Susie’s father is very rich.”

B: “
She wouldn’t accept his help even if it were offered.”
A. What for?
B. So what?
C. No wonder.
D. No doubt.

4.
„ no one was absent from the farewell party last night.
A. As it rained heavily
B. Heavily as it rained
C. Though it rains heavily
D. In spite of heavily rain
44. I can’t give you the answer on the
; PHI have to think about it for a few days.
A. minute
B. place
C. spot
D. scene
45. He looks for any excuse he can to blow off his
to do housework.
A. commitment
B. obligation
C. assignment
D. responsibility
46. You shouldn’t work all the time. It
you good to go out and enjoy yourself sometimes.
A. does
B. gives
C. helps
D. brings
47.
the fact that many companies are going bankrupt, ours has made a good profit.
A. Although
B. Even though
C. Despite
D. Because of

48. She is wearing a/an
ring.
A. expensive nice gold
B. nice gold expensive
C. gold nice expensive
D. nice expensive gold
49. All the boys are good at cooking, but
is as good as the girls.
A. either
B. none
C. neither
D. every
50. Everybody has known the day I return,
?
A. don’t I
B. won’t I
C. have they
D. haven’t they
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Your answers:

31,
36.
41.
46.

32.
37.

42.
47.

33.
38.
43.
48.

34.
39.
44.
49.

35.
40.
45.
50.

Part 2: The passage below contains 10 errors. For questions 51-60, UNDERLINE the errors and
WRITE THE CORRECTIONS in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (0) has been done as
an example,
Line
1

2

BILL GATES, THE CO-FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT

Bill Gates is the co-found of Microsoft, the world’s large PC software company. He is

| among the rich people in the world. Bill Gates’ interest in computers started when he was

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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|
|
|
|

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| healthcare, reduce poverty, and promote education around the world.

a teenager. After high school, he was accepted on several top colleges in the USA:
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. He chose going to Harvard to study law. At Harvard, he
focused much on his interest in computer than on coursework. He often relaxed by playing
video games in Harvard’s computer lab. He left Harvard before graduating though he
wanted to open a software company with his friend, Paul Allen. However, he later told, “I
don’t think dropping out is a good idea.” In 2007, he received an honorary degree from
Harvard. He began his speed by saying this to his father in the audience. “I’ve been
waiting more than 30 years to say this: Dad, I always told you I had come back and get
my certificate.” Bill Gates is no longer working full time for Microsoft. He is now, with

12 | his wife, running The

Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation,

Your answers:
0. line 1: co-found — co-founder
51.

54.

55.

:

56.

57.

aims to improve

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53.

whose

58.

59.

60.

Part 3: For questions 61-70, read the passage below. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in
the numbered space provided in the column on the right. 0 has been done as an example,
AN UNUSUAL PARK
Your answers:

Parks in large cities are (0. USUAL)
thought of as refuges, as | 0. usually
islands of green in the middle of a concrete desert. But High Line Park
in the (61. NEIGHBOUR)
of Chelsea in New York looks on first 6L
(62. SEE)
like something that city parks were created to get 62.

away from. It's an (63. ATTRACT)
steel structure supporting
an (64. ELEVATE)
rail line that once brought freight cars into

the city's factories.

Now the structure has been turned into an (65. INNOVATE)

63.
64

65.

and inviting public park. Walking on the High Line is(66. LIKE) | 66any other experience

by (67. CARE)

in New

York.

You can sit surrounded

tended plants taking (68. ENJOY)

from | 67.

the views, or you can walk the line as it crosses between old buildings | 68.
and past (69. STRIKE)
new ones. I have walked the High Line | 69.

many times and the (70. REMARK)
thing is that every time you | 70,
walk you experience new and different things.

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IV. READING COMPREHENSION (5 points)
Part 1: For questions 71-80, choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the followin
g passage.

Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
An American professor who studied the Mayas has come up with a new theory about
the sudden end

of their empire. According to Professor Richard Hansen, an archaeologist at the University of Californi
a,

the (71)
of the Mayan civilization in Central America was (72)
about by the Mayas
themselves.
Their object was to display their wealth and power by making their buildings and decoratio
n as
beautiful as possible. This (73)
using large quantities of lime, which they put on the walls to make
them smooth. Unfortunately, the creation of lime is a process which requires intense heat,
and they
therefore (74)
to cut down huge numbers of trees. This affected the quality of the soil, and it
became almost impossible to farm.

Professor Hansen, who has (75)

returned from an excavation in the El Mirador region of

northern Guatemala, told a meeting of archaeologists in Philadelphia that the Mayas, having (76)
this mistake in the 3 century, repeated it 600 years later, at which time it proved fatal. Increasing food
(77)
among the Mayas created a Central American equivalent of the Peloponnesian War which

ravaged ancient Greece. However, (78)

the Greek civil war, which only (79)

for 27 years,

the Mayas wars went on for many centuries and left many of their great cities and temples in (80)
71. A. collapse
B. drop
C. crash
D. stop
72. A. made
B. came
C. turned
D. brought
73. A. depended
B. needed
C. involved
D. requested
74. A. obliged
B. forced

C. must
D. had
75. A. still
B. just
C. already
D. yet’
76. A. done
B. had
C. taken
D. made
77. A. lack
B. shortages
C. droughts
D. failures
78. A. unlike
B. apart
C. without
D. unless
79. A. stayed
B. spent
C. lasted
D. longed
80. A. injuries
B. damages
C. spoils
D. ruins
Your answers:

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72.

76.

73.

de

74.

78.

75.

79.

80.

Part 2: For questions 81-90, read the passage carefully. Then choose the item that best answers each
of the questions below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
In the 20" century, magazines have been a major growth area of popular publishing. Specialist
magazines cater for every imaginable field and activity. In the United Kingdom, over 12,000 periodicals,
magazines, bulletins, annuals, trade journals, and academic journals are published on a regular basis.
There are some 40 women’s magazines and over 60 dealing with particular sports, games, hobbies, and
pastimes. Although some US magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, has succumbed to the
competition

of television,

many

continue

to have

enormous

international

circulations,

The

Reader’s

Digest over 16 million, The National Geographic over 10 million. For many people, magazines have been
the most available and widely used form of continuing education, providing information about history,
geography, literature, science, and the arts, financial management, psychology, even marriage and family
life.
Until

the

rise

of

television,

magazines

were

the

most

available

form

of

cheap,

convenient

entertainment in the English-speaking world. Radio served a similar function, but if was more limited in
what it could do. Magazines and television, however, both address the more powerful visual sense.
During the third quarter of the 20" century, coincident with a dramatic rise in the popularity of television,

many general-interest, especially illustrated magazines went out of business. The shift in attention of a
mass audience from reading such magazines to watching television has been a major factor in this
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decline, but it is an implicit tribute from television to the older genre
that its programs are generally
organized in a single format and content.
+

81. According to the passage, which of the Jollowing magazines is no longer
printed?
A. The Saturday Evening Post
B. The Reader’s Digest

C. The Nation

82. In
A.
B.
C.

D. The National Geographic

the first paragraph, the phrase “every imaginable field”
all imaginary fields in stories and poems
all images in a camera’s field of vision
all professions that one can think of

is closest in meaning to

D. all trade journals about farming and psychology

83. The word “succumbed” in the first paragraph means
:
A. set up for
B. brought up to
C. taken up by
D. given in to
84. The word “circulations” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning

to
A. the number of blood banks selling magazines
B. the number of readers of a magazine
C. the number of international magazines
D. the number of sold copies of a magazine
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85. Which of the following does the author describe as limited in what it could do?
A. radio

B. magazines

C. movies

D. television

86. The passage implies that magazines
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A. are less visual than radio
B. put television out of business
C. influence television programs
D. have a limited range of subjects
87. The word “it” in the second paragraph refers to
A. television
B. publishing
C. entertainment
D. radio
88. The passage mainly discusses
.
A. the rise and fall of the radio business

B. the growth and decline of magazines in the 20" century

C. magazines and continuing education
D. the decline of international circulation

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B. They have gone out of business.
C. They get information about gardening and psychology from radio.
D. They have shifted their attention from magazines to television.
90. From the passage it can be inferred that
A. movies have replaced magazines
C. almost all magazines are printed in English
B. the author is fond of magazines
D. home decorating magazines are dramatic
Your answers:

81.
86.

82.
87.

83.
88.

84.
89.

85.
90.

Part 3: For questions 91-100, read the following passage and fill the blank with ONE
suitable word.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

There are questions from a cross- cultural workshop which help business people to
avoid

misunderstandings when they deal with people who come from different cultures.
Ideas about people
behavior vary from one culture to (91)
and it is easy to cause offence or to be offended if you do

not know what other cultures (92)

Some societies such as America and Australia, for example, are (93).

and very open.
People here change jobs and move house quite frequently. As a result, they have a lot of (94)
that
last only a short time, and they need to get to know people (95)
. So, it's normal to have friendly

conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that
other (96)
would regard as private.
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(97)
the other extreme are more crowded and less mobile (98)
where long-term
relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican businessperson, for example,
will want to get

to know you very well (99)

he or she feels happy to start business with you. But when you ( 100)

get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile
society.
Your answers:
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.

96.
97,
98.
99,
100.
Part 4: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow.
A

PAPER OR COMPUTER?

Computer technology was supposed to replace paper. But that hasn’t happened. Every country in the

Western world uses more paper today, on a per-capita basis, than it did ten years ago. The consumpti
on of
uncoated free-sheet paper, for instance — the most common kind of office paper — rose almost fifteen
per
cent in the United States between 1995 and 2000. This is generally taken as evidence of how hard
it is to
eradicate old, wasteful habits and of how stubbornly resistant we are to the efficiencies offered by
computerization. A number of cognitive psychologists and ergonomics experts, however, don’t agree.
Paper has persisted, they argue, for very good reasons: when it comes to performing certain kinds of
cognitive tasks, the paper has many advantages over computers. The dismay people feel at the sight of
a
messy desk — or the spectacle of air-traffic controllers tracking flights through notes scribbled on
paper
strips — arises from a fundamental confusion about the role that paper plays in our lives.
B

The case for paper is made most eloquently in “The Myth of the Paperless Office” by
two social

scientists, Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. They begin their book with an account of a study
they
conducted at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Economists at the I.M.F. spend
most
of their time writing reports on complicated economic questions, work that would seem to be perfectly
suited to sitting in front of a computer. Nonetheless, the I.M.F. is awash in paper, and Sellen and Harper
wanted to find out why. Their answer is that the business of writing reports — at least at the I.M.F.
— is an
intensely collaborative process, involving the professional judgments and contributions of many people.
The economists bring drafts of reports to conference rooms, spread out the relevant pages, and
negotiate
changes with one other. They go back to their offices and jot down comments in the margin,
taking
advantage of the freedom offered by the informality of the handwritten note. Then they deliver
the
annotated draft to the author in person, taking him, page by page, through the suggested changes.
At the
end of the process, the author spreads out all the pages with comments on his desk and starts
to enter them
on the computer — moving the pages around as he works, organizing and reorganizing,
saving and

discarding.
C

Without paper, this kind of collaborative and iterative work process would be much more
difficult.
According to Sellen and Harper, the paper has a unique set of “affordances” — that is, qualities
that permit

specific kinds of uses. Paper is tangible: we can pick up a document, flip through it, read little bits
here

and there, and quickly get a sense of it. Paper is spatially flexible, meaning that we can
spread it out and
arrange it in the way that suits us best. And it’s tailorable: we can easily annotate it, and
scribble on it as

we read, without altering the original text. Digital documents, of course, have
their own affordances.
They can be easily searched, shared, stored, accessed remotely, and linked to other
relevant material. But

they lack the affordances that really matter to a group of people working together on a
report, Sellen and
Harper write.
D

Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance,
have a keyboard and a computer screen off to one side, and a
in front of your chair. What covers the rest of the desktop is
magazines, binders, postcards, videotapes, and all the other

the top of your desk. Chances are that you
clear space roughly eighteen inches square
probably piles — piles of papers, journals,
artefacts of the knowledge economy. The

piles look like a mess, but they aren’t. When a group at Apple Computer studied piling
behavior several

years ago, they found that even the most disorderly piles usually make perfect sense
to the piler, and that

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office workers could hold forth in great detail about the precise history and meaning of their piles. The
pile closest to the cleared, eighteen-inch-square working area, for example, generally represents the most

urgent business, and within that pile, the most important document of all is likely to be at the top. Piles

are living, breathing archives. Over time, they get broken down and resorted, sometimes chronologically

and sometimes

thematically and sometimes

chronologically

and thematically;

clues about certain

documents may be physically embedded in the file by, say, stacking a certain piece of paper at an angle or
inserting dividers into the stack.

E

But why do we pile documents instead of filing them? Because piles represent the process of active,
ongoing thinking. The psychologists Alison Kidd, whose research Sellen and Harper refer to extensively,

argues that “knowledge workers” use the physical space of the desktop to hold “ideas which they cannot
yet categorize or even decide how they might use.” The messy desk is not necessarily a sign of
disorganization. It may be a sign of complexity: those who deal with many unresolved ideas
simultaneously cannot sort and file the papers on their desks, because they haven’t yet sorted and filed the
ideas in their heads. Kidd writes that many of the people she talked to use the papers on their desks as
contextual cues to “recover a complex set of threads without difficulty and delay” when they come in on a
Monday morning, or after their work has been interrupted by a phone call. What we see when we look at

the piles on our desks is, in a sense, the contents of our brains.

F

This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry from the way
we have historically thought about the stuff. Paper first began to proliferate in the workplace in the late
nineteenth century as part of the move toward “systematic management.” To cope with the complexity of

the industrial economy, managers were instituting company-wide policies and demanding monthly,

weekly, or even daily updates from their subordinates. Thus was born the monthly sales report, and the
office manual and the internal company newsletter. The typewriter took off in the eighteen-eighties,
making it possible to create documents in a fraction of the time it had previously taken, and that was
followed closely by the advent of carbon paper, which meant that a typist could create ten copies of that
document simultaneously. Paper was important not to facilitate creative collaboration and thought but as
an instrument of control.
For questions 101-106, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list below. Write the
correct number, i-x, in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

v.

vi.

Your answers:

List of headings

Paper continued as a sharing or managing must
Piles can be more inspiring rather than disorganising
Favorable situations that economists used paper pages
Overview of an unexpected situation: paper survived
Comparison between efficiencies for using paper and using computer

IMF's paperless office seemed to be a waste of papers

vii.
Example of failure for the avoidance of paper record
viii. | There are advantages of using a paper in offices
ix. _ Piles reflect certain characteristics in people’s thought
x.
Joy of having the paper square in front of a computer

;

101. Paragraph C

102. Paragraph B

103. Paragraph C

104. Paragraph D

105. Paragraph E

106. Paragraph F

For

questions

107-110,

choose

the

correct

letter, A, B,C or D.

Write

corresponding numbered boxes provided.
107. What do the economists from IMF say that their way of writing documents?
A. they note down their comments for freedom on the drafts
B. they finish all writing individually
C. they share ideas on before electronic version was made

D. they use electronic version fully

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answers

in

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108. What is the implication of the “piles” mentioned in the passage?
A. they have underlying orders
C. they are in time sequence order
B. they are necessarily a mess
D. they are in alphabetic order
109. What does the manager believe in a sophisticated economy?
A. recorded paper can be a management tool
C. Teamwork is the most important
B. carbon paper should be compulsory
D. monthly report is the best way

110. According to the end of this passage, what is the reason why the paper is not replaced by electronic

vision?

me
‘
A. paper is inexpensive to buy

B. it contributed to management theories in western countries

C. people need time for changing their old habit

D. it is collaborative and functional for tasks implement and management
Your answers:

| 107.

[ 108.

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V. WRITING (5 points)
Part 1: For questions 111-115, complete the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the

same as the sentence printed before it.
111. We were surprised to learn that Thomas had become a monk.
— It came

112. I think going to see the match is preferable to staying at home in the afternoon.
— Rather than
113. Apart from a few minor mistakes, you did a good job on the whole.
— By and

114. His mood began to improve as soon as he drank a glass of water.
— Scarcely

115. Why shouldn’t he be interested in what happens?
— It’s only natural
Part 2: For questions 116-120, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
first one, Use the word given in block letter, and this word must not be changed in any way.
116. She says she finds nothing unusual about stormy weather in this country. (USED)
— She says she
in this country

117. This food is so good that I’m going to have some more. (SUCH)
— This
I’m going to have some more.
118. The Central Tower is the tallest building in this city. (IS)
— No building in this city
the Central Tower.
119. “What do you think about teenagers who dye their hair?” (THOUGHT).

— They

teenagers who dyed their hair.
120. I don’t want anyone to disturb me when I’m working, so I switch off my mobile. (DISTRACTED)
— So as

work, I switch off my mobile.
Part 3: “Grades (marks) encourage students to learn.” Do you agree or disagree with the statement?
Write an essay about 200 words to express your personal points of view.
Your answer:
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A. grow

B. brow

5. A. plays

[1.

L2.

taste
psychology
eight

C. bays

Your answers:

l3.

L4.

Part 2: For questions 6-10, choose the word with
others in the same group. Write your answers
provided.
6. A. information
B. adventurous
C.
7. A. retirement
B. ambassador
C.
8. A. equipment
B. champion
C.
9. A. voyage
B. iceberg
C.
10. A. century
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I. PHONETICS (10 points)
Part I For questions 1-5, choose the word
differently from that of the others in each
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. A. display
B. mouse
C.
2. A. pneumonia
B. receipt
C.
3. A. weight
B. height
C.

4.

SO PHACH

D. design
D. paragraph
D. vein
D. prow

D. says

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the main stress different from that of the
in the corresponding numbered boxes

entertainment
competition
passionate
tragic
introduce

D.
D.
D.
D.
D.

disappointment
traditional
tournament
suppose
photograph

Your answers:

[6.

[7.

[8.

II. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR
Part 1: For questions

L9.

[ 10.

(40 points)

11-30, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the

following questions and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.
11. Have you considered applying for a job with the
service?
A. civil
B. governmental
__C. national
D. civic
12. - “Is the weather like this in your country?”
-“
“
A. Very good
B. Not much
C. More or less
D. Not bad

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13. Too many people work in the public ——
in this country, in my opinion.
A. division
B. area
C. zone
D. sector
14. Were
my dad, I would never have started playing tennis in the first
place.
A. it for
B. it hadn’t been for
C. it to be for
D. it not for
15. You
that film last week — it was only released yesterday.
A. couldn’t see
B. didn’t need to see
C. mustn’t have seen
D. can’t have seen
16.
stand up when the teacher entered the room at your school
?
A. Had you
B. Did you have to
C. Needed you to

D. Must you
17. I wonder if you could let me know what the
fare to Berlin is.
A. round
B. double
C. two-way
D. return
18. Mr. Parris said he’d like
by Monday, if that’s possible.
A. finished the report
B. the report will be finished
C. the report finished
D. have the report finished
19. The new Arts Centre seems to have been
construction for quite some time.
A. in
B. under
C. on
D. below
20. There
between 4.000 and 6.000 languages in the world, depending
on how
you count them.
A. say to be
B. are said that
C. are said to be
D. said being
21. - “Would you pick the kids up from school this after
noon?”
- “No, I’m afraid I

lu
A. wouldn’t
B. can’t
C. shan’t
D. don’t
22. Toby’s extremely
; he turns up every day at nine o’clock on the dot.
A.temporary
B. long-standing
C. punctual
D. subsequent
23. Weather report: "It's seven o'clock in Frankfurt and
Nu
A. there is snow B. it’s snowing
C. it snows
D. it snowed
24. I’m so
under with work at the moment — it’s awful!
A. iced
B. rained
C. snowed
D. fogged
25. - “We're going to the disco.”
—
”
A. Have fun
B. Really fun
C. Help yourself
D. Do it again
26. Could you lend me some money to

me over to the end of the month?
A. hand
B. tide
C. get
D. make
27. Were you really just on the point
_
A. of resigning B. of having resigned
C. with resignation
D. to resign
28. The computer has had an enormous
on the way we work.
A. impression _ B. influence
C. change
D. alteration
29. Make sure you
up the data on your computer, because you might get
a virus.
A. back
B. copy
C. store
D. save
30. That new painting looks a bit out of
in our living room, don’t you think?
A. room
B. space
C. place
D. spot

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Your answers:

11.
16.
21.
26.

12,
17;
22:
27,

13.
18.
23.
28.

14.
19.
24.
29.

15.
20.
25.
30.

Part 2: Read the passage below. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the

numbered space provided in the column on the right. 0 has been done as an example.
THE EASY LIFE?
Your answers:
It is easy to assume that (0. LIVE) _ as a top sports star is | 0. life
both easy and glamorous.
But this is to completely (31. | 31.
UNDERSTAND) ___ the reality of what goes on behind the scenes.
From

a very early age athletes must

be absolutely

(32. COMMIT) | 32.

______ to their sport. But (33. DETERMINE) ____on its own is not |
enough — they need to be fiercely (34. AMBITION) __ in order to |
succeed, and must never allow themselves to be (35. COURAGE) |
_____ by setbacks. Successful sports stars can, of course, become very |
wealthy, ¡in (36. ADD) _
to being world-famous, but can be at a |
severe (37. ADVANTAGE) ____ in their social development. It is
therefore important to (38. SURE) ____ that they receive a/
reasonably balanced upbringing and to (39. BROAD) ____ their |
experience beyond the daily grind of practice and competition in order |
to (40. ABLE) ____ them to deal with the constant pressures that
success can bring.
Part 3: The passage below contains 10 errors. For questions 41-50,

errors and WRITE THE CORRECTIONS

provided. (0) has been done as an example.

in

the

corresponding

33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.

UNDERLINE

numbered

the

boxes

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A newspaper makes it money from the price people pay for it and also from
the advertisings it carries. A popular newspaper with a circulation of over five
millions daily does a lot of money. Less seriously newspapers are probably read just
for entertainment. They have big headings above the new stories, funny cartoons to
look at and sensational photos of violent. The gossip columns are full of stories of
private live of famous people. No one takes the political views of such papers
seriously. On an other hand, in a free country where there is no censorship, serious
newspapers are read principle for their news, sent to themselves by their
correspondents around the world and by the big news agencies. People also read
these newspapers for their revisions of new books, films and plays and for the
editorials what represent the opinion of the newspaper itself about the important
events and issues of the moment.
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Part 2: For questions 61-70, read the passage carefully. Then choose the item that best
answers each of the questions below. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided.
The medieval artists didn’t know about perspective; they didn’t want to make their
people look like real, individual people in a real, individual scene. They wanted to show the
truth, the eternal quality of their religious stories. So these artists didn’t need to know about
perspective.
In the European Renaissance period, artists wanted to show the importance of the
individual person and his or her possessions and surroundings. A flat medieval style
couldn’t show this level of reality and the artists needed a new technique. It was the Italian
artist Brunelleschi who discovered the technique of perspective drawing. At first the artists
of the Renaissance only had single-point perspective. Later they realized that they could
have two-pointed perspective and still later multi-point perspective.

With two-point perspective they could turn an object (like a building) at an angle to
the picture and draw two sides of it. The technique of perspective which seems so natural to
us now is an invented technique, a part of the “grammar of painting”. Like all bits of
grammar there are exceptions about perspective. For example, only vertical and horizontal
surfaces seem to meet on eye level. Sloping roof tops don’t meet on eye level.
For 500 years, artists in Europe made use of perspective drawing in their pictures.
Nevertheless, there are a range of priorities that artists in displaying individual styles.
Crivelli wanted to show depth in his picture and he used a simple single-point perspective.
Cezanne always talked about space and volume. Van Gogh, like some of the other painters
of the Impressionist period, was interested in Japanese prints. And Japanese artists until this
century were always very strong designers of “flat” pictures. Picasso certainly made pictures
which have volume and depth. However, he wanted to keep our eyes on the surface and to
remind us that his paintings are paintings and not illusions.
It is technically easy to give an illusion of depth. However, a strong two dimensional

design is just as important as a feeling of depth, and perhaps more important.

61. The passage mainly discusses
A. the difference between medieval and Renaissance art
B. how the technique of perspective influenced the modern art
C. the discovery of the technique of perspective
D. the contribution of Renaissance artists
62. The word “eternal” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. timeless
B. infinite
C. frequent
D. constant
63. According to the passage, which is the main concern for medieval artists?
A. the individual person and his/her possessions and surroundings
B. real people, real scenes

C. eternal timeless truth of the earth
D. themes of religious stories
64. The discovery of perspective was the result of
A. Renaissance artists’ to prove that the medieval artists could show level of reality
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65.
66.

67.

68.
69.
70.

B. the need to turn an object at an angle and draw more than one side of it
C. the subject being shifted from religious stories to individual person and
surroundings.
D. natural evolution of human senses
The word “it” in the third paragraph refers to
‘
A. the picture

B. perspective
C. angle
D. the object
The word “Grammar” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. construction
B. grammatical rules
C. rules and regulations
D. tones and volume
The author’s purpose to give the example in the third paragraph is to
;
A. explain how perspective work in painting
B. support two-pointed perspective
C. illustrate that there are exceptions about perspective
D. point out that the technique of perspective though seems so natural is an invented
technique
The following artists’ priorities in style shift away from perspective EXCEPT
:
A. Crivelli
B. Cezanne
C. Japanese artists
D. Brunelleschi
The word “Illusion” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to
A. deception
B. photograph
C. decoration
D. illustration
It can be inferred from the passage that Renaissance artists
A. embraced the medieval style of eternal truth
B. needed to develop a new approach towards painting to show a new level of reality
C. were inspired by vertical and horizontal surfaces in inventing the technique of

perspective
D. saw two dimensional design more important than a feeling of depth

Your answers:

61.
66.

62.
67.

63.
68.

64.
69.

65.
70.

Part 3: For questions 71-80, read the following passage and fill the blank with ONE
suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
INDOOR CLIMBING
Rock climbing is (0) one of the UK’s fastest growing sports. Nowadays, however, it’s
not necessary to head to the hills when you decide to (71)__it up as a hobby. Indoor
climbing is a great way to discover whether or (72) ___ you have a head for heights.
Whatever you may have been told, size and strength aren’t that important in climbing.
Climbers
just
(73)

__
to
be
fit,
with
a
good
sense
of balance.
Man-made climbing walls have footholds and handholds (74) __ different shapes and
sizes. Beginners can choose walls with holds near to(75)__ other. More difficult routes
up the wall will have small handholds quite (76) ___ apart.
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Climbers work in pairs. (77) ____ one person climbs, the other one stays on the
ground, giving out the rope. You are taught to move your hands and feet correctly, plus how
to rest and balance on the way up. Once you’ve mastered all of (78) ___ basic moves, you
can go for longer climbs. The great thing about climbing is that you can get better quite
quickly. Most sports centers will include the cost of hiring equipment (79) ___ the
admission price, (80)__ is usually between £6 and £8 per visit. It’s natural to be scared
at first, but soon you’ll realize that you’re quite safe!
Your answers:
71.
76.

72.
T1.

73:

78.

74.
79.

75.
80.

Part 4: For questions 81-85, choose the most appropriate heading from the list (A- G) for
each part of the paragraphs (81-85) of the article. There are two extra headings which
you do not need to use.

Write the correct letter (A-G) in the corresponding numbered

boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done as an example.
LIST OF HEADINGS

A.
B.
C,
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
A CALMING INFLUENCE
DIFFERENT FROM THE REST
HELPING THE SLOWER STUDENTS

CREATING THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT
AGROWING SUCCESS
LOOKING ON THE POSITIVE SIDE
NOT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT
THE LITTLE SCHOOL OF CALM

0.H
From the outside the Maharishi School in Lancashire looks extremely normal. Walk inside
and you find rows of desks and children in uniform, just as you would do in many other
schools. After a short while, however, you become aware of the wonderfully calm
atmosphere and the extraordinary lack of noise in the building. Talk to the teachers and you
learn that the school has no major discipline problems, there is no bullying and children are
rarely absent. So what is the secret?
81.
Transcendental meditation and breathing exercises are an important part of the timetable at
the Maharishi School. Pupils are taught how to relax mentally by closing their eyes and
silently repeating over and over again a 'mantra', or Word of Wisdom, at certain times of the
day. Meditation is seen by some as an effective way of relieving stress, which teenagers
experience in the form of exam nerves, bullying and family break-ups. Its supporters also
say that it helps to overcome hyperactivity, anxiety and aggression.
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82.
The school was started in 1986 by a group of parents who were dissatisfied with the state
education system. The number of pupils at the school has increased since then from 14 to
100, with ages ranging from four to 16. Academic achievements are impressive and for the
past five years pupils at the school have obtained the highest average GCSE exam marks for
the whole of Lancashire. It's not surprising then, that more and more parents are sending
their children to be taught there.

83.
Many people in the local community, however, are still unaware of the school's existence.
Others view the school with suspicion and associate it with mystic cults or the hippy
movement of the sixties. ‘Local people don't really understand what goes on here,' explains
one teacher. 'They just see us asa little strange and prefer to keep their distance.’
84.
If there is a child who is creating a problem, the school has a very thorough method of
dealing with it. A four-page form has to be filled out by the teacher, but the first three pages
of the form contain nothing but the child's good points. In this way the problem does not
become the main focus of attention; parents and teachers are encouraged to consider the
child's successes and achievements before they look at the last page.
85.
But what do the children who study there think of the school's approach? ‘Meditation really
helps me with my work, says 15-year-old Ruth. 'It makes me relaxed and I don't get nervous
during exams. It's a shame it's such a small school, though. I can't study music because there
aren't enough pupils, and when we read plays by Shakespeare we all have to read three or
four parts each. But I love it here, and I know I'll miss the peace and quiet when I have to
leave.'
Your answers:

81.

82.

83.

84.

85.

IV. WRITING (50 points)
Part I: For questions 86-95, complete the second sentence in such a way that it means
exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

86. She strikes me as a very efficient teacher.
> My impression
87. No matter how hard I tried, Mike could not make sense of his economic textbook.

> In spite of
88. Choosing a suitable job is really important to adolescents.
> It is of
89. The mistake in the accounts was not noticed until the figures were re-checked.
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90. Jane refused to attend his birthday party, which made him feel sa _————
> The fact
91. I managed to complete the course with good results because of your help.
> Ifyou

92. I had to clean the spare room before I could start decorating.

> Only when
93. This problem cannot be solved instantly.
> There is no

94. I’m always nervous when I face a lot of people.
> Facing
95. Many people think Steve stole the money.
> Steve is
Part 2: For

questions

86-95,

complete

the second sentence

so that it has

a similar

meaning to the first one. Use the word given in block letter, and this word must not be
changed in any way.

96. Terry and I started arguing about the situation in the Middle East.
+]

(INTO)

about the situation in the Middle East.

97. You’ve got to persuade the editor not to publish that story.
— You've got to

(OUT)
that story.

98. I'd discuss this with Phil before making a final decision.
rd

(DISCUSSION)

before making a final decision.

99. Tom and Barbara aren’t talking to each other at the moment.

(TERMS)

— Tom and Barbara aren’t

at the moment.

100. It could get cold at night, so take some warm clothes.

(IN)

— Take some warm clothes

cold at night.

101. The only reason I haven’t moved to London yet is the cost.

(FOR)

— Had

, | would already have moved to London.

102. Ian was ill yesterday, so he didn’t go to school.
— Tan was

(WEATHER)
yesterday, so he didn’t go to school.

103. The doctor’s advice was to just wait and see what happened and the baby would be
fine.
(NATURE)
— The doctor said that we should

and the baby would be fine.

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104. What do you think was the reason for the failure?

— What do you

(DOWN)

to?

105. They painted the wall very well.

(MADE)

— They

the wall.

Part 3: Write a paragraph of at least 150 words on negative effects of online games on
teenagers.

Your answer:

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Part 1: Choose the word whose underlined part
is pronounced differently from that of the `
others in each group.
1.

2.

3.
4.

Š.

Write your answers in the Spaces provided below
.
B. term
C. commercial
D. sergeant

A. merchant

A. right

B. minority

A. challenge
A. naked

C. communist

B. snatch
B. sacred

A. leather

C. brochure
C. learned

B. feather

C. weather

Your answers:

1.

2:

3.

4.

D. private

D. chocolate
D. studied

D. feature

`:

Part 2: Choose the word whose main stress
is different from that of the others in each line.
Write your answers in the spaces provided below,

6.
7.

A. inability
A. contaminate

8.
9.

B. personality
B. artificial

A. reliable
A. rhinoceros

B. conventional
B. concentrate

10. A. prehistoric

B. meteoric
Vs

II. LEXICO AND

GRAMMAR

C. preservative
C. comfortable

C. combination

Your answers:
6

C. territorial
C. encouragement

8.

9,

D. potentially
D. intelligent

D. intellectual
D. literature

D. favourable
10.

(40 points)

Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best
completes each sentence. Write your answers
in the spaces provided below.
11. John

you.

A. must
C. could
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A. If vou
C. If you

13.

this task yesterday morning, but I did it for him.
He owes me a thank-

have completed
B. may have completed
have completed
D. should have completed
_ ten minutes earlier, you would have got a better seat.
hadn't arrived
B. Were you arrived
arrived
D. Had you arrived
down to dinner than the telephone rang again.

A. No sooner had I sat
C. Not only I sat

B. No sooner I sat
D. Not only had I sat

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14. Tom doesn’t know much about computing
A. whereas
B. in contrast

C. however

15. Jane was pleased that she had been accepted by

a/an

A. recognizable
B. magnanimous
C.
16. We bought some
§
A. German lovely old glasses
C.
B. lovely old German glasses
D.
17. The higher the content of carbon dioxide inthe

A. the more heat it retains

his brother is an expert at it.
D. therefore

prestigious

university.

D. infamous

German old lovely glasses
old lovely German glasses
air is,
.

B. the heat it retains more

C. it retains the more heat
D. more heat it retains
18. - “Don’t fail to send your parents my regards”
-*
a
A. Good idea, thanks
B. It’s my pleasure
C. You've welcome
D. Thanks, I will
19. We should participate in the movement
to conserve the natural environment.
A. to organize
B. which organized
C. organizing
D. organized
20. What chemical is this? It’s
a horrible smell.
A. giving down
B. giving over
C. giving up
D. giving off
21.
__ will Mr. Thanh be able to regain control of the compa
ny.
A. No matter how does he work hardly
B. Not until his work hard
C. Only with hard work
D. Only if he works hardly
22. The idea to

a visit to the local council residence was welcomed
by all the
visitors,
A. walk

B. pay

C. go

D. do

23. She locked the door of her room all day yesterday to
avoid
A. disturbing
B. being disturbed
C. to disturb
D. to be disturbed
24. Of course you can come to the party.
¬
A. The more and more merrier
B. The more and the merrier
C. The more and merrier
D. The more the merrier
25.Iremember
my book on the table, but now it is nowhere
A. putting / seeing
B. to put / to see
C. to put / seen

D. putting / to be seen

26. The first person _
at the party will be given a small gift.
A. will arrive
B. to arrive
C. arrive
D. arrives
27. She gave us lots of suggestions
we must think.
A. about which
B. whose
C. about that
D. that
28. Despite the bad weather, he
get to the airport in time.
A. could
B. couldn't
€. might
D. was able to
29. Tam the youngest student here,
?
A. aren't you
B. am not I
€. am I
D. aren't I
30. They always kept on good
with their next-door neighbors for the children's sake.
A. will
B. friendship
C. terms

D. relations
Your answers:
11.
12,
13.
14.
15.
l6. 17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22,
23.
24.
25;
26.
2.
28.
29.
30.
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Part 2: Read the passage below. Use the word
given in capitals at the end of some of the
lines to form a word that fits in the Sap in
the same line. Write your answers in the space
s
provided below.

ON TIME

For many people. (0) punctuality is a big
issue. Parents
are olten keen to impress upon their children the

PUNCTUAL

(3l)

of being punctual because they see it as
an
aspect of (32)
and consideration for others. It is
also a quality that (33)
regard as very positive,

and those who are (34)

EMPLOY

USUAL

in their careers as a result. It may be,

however, that less punctual people have (36)

They

POLITE

unpunctual may end up

being (35)

more (37)
on time.

IMPORTANT

SUCCESS

a

CHOOSE

lifestyle than those who always arrive

may

find

it

(38)

when

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so

much

STRESS

emphasis is placed on timekeeping. Indeed, if others get
(39)
when they are late for appointments, this

may not seem (40)
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PATIENCE

to them.

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33.

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40.

Part 3: The passage below contains 10 errors. UNDE
RLINE the errors and WRITE
CORRECTIONS in the spaces provided below.
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Thing started to go wrongly as soon as we got to
the hotel.
We were all completely exhausting after our long
journey and
looking forward to a shower and a rest. However,
we found that
our room was not ready, which was very annoyed, altho
ugh the
manager was extremely apologizing. While we
were waiting.
we asked about the excursions to places of interestin
g which we
have read about in the brochure. Imagine how we
felt when we
were told they had all been cancelled! Apparently
, the person

responsible of organizing them had left suddenly
and had not
been replaced. Then Sally saw a notice pinning to the
door of
the restaurant, said it was closed for redecoration,
and Peter

discovered

that

the

swimming

pool

was

empty.

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we

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eventually got to our room we were horrified to find that it

was
at the back of the hotel, and we had a view ofa car park,
that

13
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seemed to be used as a rubbish dump. We seriously
began to

wonder whether or not to stay.

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III. READING COMPREHENSION (50 points)
Part 1: Choose the word that best Sits each of
the blanks in the following passage.
your answers
in the spaces provided below.

Write

When rainforests are cleared and (51)
+ millions of carbon dioxide are released
into the atmosphere affecting climatic conditions
and threatening us all (52)
severe
flooding, drought and crop

failure.

The rainforests (53)
devastation, a(n) (54)
(55)

at least half of the Earth's species. At the curren
t rate of

50 species worldwide become extinct everyday.

One in four purchases from our chemists is derive
d from the rainforests. Scientists are
caught
in a race against time to find rainforest treat
ments

for cancer, AIDS and
heart disease before they are (56)
forever. Tribal people in the rainforests have been
shot, poisoned and infected with diseases to which
they have no resistance — to make room for

logging, mining and dams.

If this destruction continues, only nine (57)

countries currently exporting rainforest timber
will have any (58)
decade.
Almost

the 33

by the end of the

everyone

will have part of the rainforests in their home, as

do-it-yourself stores
still supply and the construction industry still uses
tropical hardwoods for doors, window (59)
_
and even toilet seats. Please help us (60)

the tropical rainforests now, before

it is too late.

51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.

A.
A.
A.
A.
A.
A.

scorched
with
include
estimated
instantly
disappeared

B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.

57. A. in

fired
by
contain
approximate
shortly
lost

B. from

58. A. extra

B. remaining

60. A. defend

B. rescue

59, A. border

Your answers:

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B. frames

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Part 2: Read the passage carefully.

questions below,

C.
C.
C.
C.
C.
C.

seared
from
consist
calculated
nowadays
vanished

C. of

burned
for
hold
evaluated
currently
faded

D. among

C. to spare

D. left

C. save

D. preserve

C. contour

53.
58.

54.
59.

Then

D.
D.

D.
D.
D.
D.

D. panes

SS;
60.

choose the item that best answers each

of the

Write your answers in the spaces provided below.
In this era of increased global warming and diminishing fossil
fuel supplies, we must
begin to put

a number

a greater priority on harnessing alternative energy
sources. Fortunately, there are
of readily available. renewable resources that are both
cost-effective and earth—
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friendly. Two such resources are solar power and
geothermal power. Solar energy. which

reaches the earth through sunlight. is so abundant that
it could meet the needs of worldwide
energy consumption 6,000 times over. And solar
energy is easily harnessed through the use of
photoyoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electri
city. In the US alone, more than 100,000
homes are equipped with solar electric systems in
the form of solar panels or solar roof tiles.
And in other parts of the world, including many
developing countries. the use of solar system

is growing steadily.

Another alternative energy source, which is abundant
in specific geographic

al areas, is
geothermal power. which creates energy by tappi
ng heat from below the surface of the earth.
Hot water and steam that are trapped in undergroun
d pools are pumped to the surface and used

to run a generator. which produces electricity.
Geothermal energy is 50,000 times more
abundant than the entire known supply of fossil fuel
resources. And as with solar power, the
technology needed to utilize geothermal energy is
fairly simple. A prime example of effective
geothermal use is in Iceland, a region of high geoth
ermal activity where over 80 percent of

private homes are heated by geothermal power. Solar
and geothermal energy are just two of
promising renewable alternatives to conventional energ
y sources. The time is long overdue to
invest in the development and use of alternative energy on
global scale.

61. What is the main topic of this passage?

A. The benefits of solar and wind power over conven
tional energy sources.

B. How

energy resources are tapped from nature.

C. Two types of alternative energy sources that should
be further utilized.
D. Examples of the use of energy sources worldwide.
62. According to the passage. why should we consider
using alternative energy sources?
A. Because fossil fuels are no longer available,
B. Because global warming has increased the amount
of sunlight that reaches the carth.
C. Because they are free and available worldwide.

D. Because conventional energy resources are being depleted, and they
cause environmenta

l damage.

63. Which of the following words could best replace the
word “harnessing”?
A. capturing
B. harassing
C. depleting
D. exporting

64. According to the passage. what can be inferred
about solar roof tiles?

A.
B.
C.
D.

They
They
They
They

are being used in many undeveloped countries.
are more expensive than solar panels.
can convert geothermal energy to electricity.
contain photovoltaic cells.

65. According

to the passage,

how

is solar energy

production?
A. They both require the use of a generator.

production

similar to geothermal

energy

B. They both use heat from the earth’s surface.

C. They both require fairly simple technology.

D. They are both conventional and costly.
66. Where is the best place in the passage to insert the follow
ing sentence:
“Although the US is not utilizing geothermal resources to this
extent, the Western US has a
similar capacity to generate geothermal power. ”?
A. atter the phrase “earth-friendly”
B. after the phrase “growing steadily”
C. alier the phrase “by geothermal power” D. after the phrase
“global scale”

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