Bài luyện thi anh văn đại học 2016 (lesson 21)

LESSON 21 – May 11th, 2016
READING 1. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits
each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A MUSICIAN IS DISCOVERED
When William was a small boy, the family (0) [A] their holidays on his grandfather’s farm
in the mountains. On their arrival, the children (1)......race around the yard and orchard,
overjoyed to be free from the strictly correct (2)......expected of them in the city. As the
days passed, their parents also (3)......increasingly relaxed, and the house rang with the
laughter of old friends. It was during one of these visits that William’s (4)......to remember
a tune led to the suggestion that the boy should (5)....up a musical instrument. One evening,
everyone was gathered in the living-room, and a discussion (6).... about the differences
between a piece of music which was popular at the time and a well-known folk song.
Various adults tried to (7).....the similarity of the two tunes to those who (8)......with them,
but without success. (9).....fell, and then William, who was about five, made his (10).....to
the piano and played first one tune and then the other. His parents and their friends were
astonished (11).....no one had even heard William (12)......to play before. That child must
go to a music teacher,’ (13).....one neighbour, and the others agreed. William’s parents
were persuaded to (14).....help with payment of the fees, and his musical (15)....began.
0. A. [spent]
B made
C. held
D went
1. A. would
B. were
C. might
D. had
2. A. manner
B. behaviour
C. style
D. attitude
3. A. showed

B. acted
C. became
D. found
4. A. talent
B. gift
C. ability
D. skill
5. A. take
B. start
C. pick
D. bring
6. A. happened
B. came
C. entered
D. arose
7. A. prove
B. claim
C. pretend
D. test
8. A. refused
B. varied
C. disagreed
D. resisted
9. A Silence
B. Argument
C. Doubt
D. Conclusion
10. A. path
B. way
C. route

D. direction
11. A. so
B. although
C. when
D. as
12. A. want
B. decide
C. try
D. go
13. A. told
B. stated
C. confirmed
D. expressed
14. A. accept
B. attain
C. achieve
D. apply
15. A. work
B. living
C. career
D. study
WORD CHOICE. Read the sentences and choose the correct answer.
1. Everyone went home and I was left all lonely / alone.
2. Let’s go away for a few days and escape from our daily routine / schedule.
3. If you have good friends, life / lifestyle is more enjoyable.
4. A visit to a spa can be a very relaxing / hectic experience.
5. We had lack / access to all of the hotel facilities while staying there.
6. Working out on the treadmill can be quite a similar / monotonous activity.
7. I don’t like shopping in big stores as they are always crowded / isolated with people.
8. Jack is independent / trendy as he lives on his own and provides for himself.

WRITING SENTENCES. Put these words in the correct order to make sentences.
1. the / day / digital / Internet / every / natives / use / most
2. our / telephone / we / ever / on / landline / hardly
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3. sites / provide /networking / my / on / number / never / address / social / telephone / I/ or
4. week / about / her / blog / a / city / a / twice / Julie / writes
5. rather / email / choosing / than / people / tweet / are / many / nowadays / to
6. usually / do / libraries / visit / and / online / research / their / people / young / often /
don't
PHRASAL VERBS. Match the beginnings 1-10 with appropriate endings a-j. Then fill
the gaps in endings a-j with the correct form of one of the phrasal verbs listed below.
1. I gave John a lift home last night.
2. Twenty people have promised to come to my party.
3. If you've got nowhere else to sleep, don't worry.
4. My mother can't wait for her holiday in Austria.
5. Please could you turn the TV down?
6. The house had been in flames for six hours
7. Do you think you could give me a lift to work tomorrow?
8. Everyone was really embarrassed.
9. I was tidying my room yesterday
10. Stuart's a very popular person.
a. We can always.......you......for the night.
b. I'm trying to read and it........me.........
c. Everyone I know seems to........him very well.
d. As it was raining hard, I........him........ right outside his house.
e. before the fire fighters managed to........it
f. when I ......some photos I'd been looking for for ages.
g. Yes, of course. I......you.......at seven o'clock.
h. I just hope nobody........me........at the last minute.

i. I don't know why he........the subject........in the first place.
j. She........going for nearly a year now.
bring up - come across - drop off - get on with - let down
look forward to - pick up - put off - put out - put up
PREPOSITIONS. Read the sentences and complete them with the prepositions in, on,
at, under or without.
1. All assignments are due tomorrow … fail.
2. A computer chooses the lottery numbers … random.
3. Our house has been … the market for over two months but we haven’t been able to sell
it yet.
4. Everyone was … a state of shock after the devastating news.
5. I was … a loss for words when I was told I had won the prize.
6. The roadworks … progress are responsible for the traffic jams.
7.I can't go out tonight. I'm feeling a bit … the weather.
8. The train is … sight. It will be pulling in any minute now.
9. Dianne was refused entry to the club because she was … age.
10. Final - year students are … a lot of pressure to pass their exams.
11. I have bought this gym equipment … approval. I can return it within fifteen days.
12. My brother faints … the sight of blood.
13. My wife isn’t here at the moment because she’s away … business.
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14. Can you tell me if this dress is … the sale?
READING 2.
LITTLE JOEY'S LOST CHILDHOOD
One day last summer, when Joey had been arrested for yet another burglary, his solicitor
went down to the police station to see him. He sat down opposite him in the interview
room, sighed and asked him straight: 'Joey, why do you do it?'
And Joey looked straight back and told him.' I dunno. I gutta buy fags, drink.There's drugs

and things. I gotta girl. It's money you know ... .' Joey shrugged, like any man with a weight
on his mind.
Joey was then eleven years old. Soon afterwards, he became famous when, in October last
year, he was locked away in a secure unit outside Leeds where he was three years younger
than any other inmate, so young that his incarceration required the personal authority of the
Horne Secretary. As he was led away from court, he hurled insults at the press and then
disappeared in a cloud of publicity.
He became a caricature - 'the Artful Dodger',' Britain's most notorious young crook'.
'Crime baby'. 'the Houdini Kid'. He made all the papers. Soon his case was being used as
ammunition in a sustained assault which has seen the Horne Secretary, the Police
Federation, the Daily Express and various Chief Constables campaigning to lock up more
children.
They pointed not only to Joey but to a rash of other adolescent delinquents: the elevenyear-old brother and sister whose attempted arrest caused a riot at a wedding party; the six
'Little Caesars' from Northumbria who were blamed for 550 offences; the thirteen-year-old
armed robber from Cheshire. Their solution was simple: these children had to be punished;
the courts needed more powers to put them behind bars.
Joey grew up with his father, Gerry, a Southern Irish labourer who has not worked
regularly for years; and his mother, Maureen, also Irish and barely literate, who was only
eighteen when she married Gerry, fifteen years her senior. The neighbours remember Joey
playing with his go-cart in the street, running around with his two smaller brothers, hanging
on the door to scrounge cigarettes for Gerry. They say he was a nice kid. They remember
him skiving off school, too, and thieving, but they don't remember it well. Almost
everybody's kids skive off school, and a lot of them go thieving.
Gerry says he 's not too sure when Joey first broke the law. He thinks he stole some crisps
for dinner when he was four. In Gerry 's family, there has often been trouble with the law:
petty crimes, handling, the occasional fight, a succession of brothers and uncles behind
bars.
By the time he was 10 , thieving was the only game Joey knew, he had 35 arrests behind
him and the social workers decided he had to be locked up.They had tried taking him into
care but he had simply walked out of the homes where they put him, so in December 1990,

he was sent to the secure unit at East Moor outside Leeds.
He liked it there. Everyone at East Moor agrees that Joey liked it. It is not like a prison:
there are no peaked caps or truncheons. It is more like a school with extra keys.Tucked
away there, far from the mean crescents of the housing estate, he was a child again. He
played with lego. He practised joined-up writing. He woke up feeling ill in the night and
cried on the principal's shoulder.
Joey is due to be released from the secure unit in February. Everyone who has dealt with
him is sure that he will go straight back to his old ways.They say they have given up on
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him.They have two options: lock him up or let him go. Everyone in social services knows
the danger of locking up a child: it breaks up the family, it stigmatises the child, it floats
him in a pool with older criminals.
Yet letting him go is no better; not when it means returning to the battered streets of the
city. Joey is not the only child like this. Every English city has them. Joey just happens to
be the famous one. He's bright and he's brave and the psychiatrists agree he is not disturbed.
He is, by nature, anxious to please. In the secure unit now, he conforms with everything
around him.
If you throw a child into the sea, it will drown. If you throw it into an English ghetto, it
will grow up like Joey.
(A) Answer these multiple-choice questions.
1. Joey became famous because….
A. he had committed so many burglaries.
B. he was always being arrested.
C. he was the youngest inmate in the secure unit.
D. he swore at the press photograp hers.
2. How did the Home Secretary and the police respond to the rise in juvenile crime?
A. They wanted to see more young criminals put in prison.
B. They believed tha t there should be a return to corporal punish ment.
C. They though t th at the cour ts had too much power.

D. They thought that the police force should be strengthene d.
3. What can the neighbours recall about Joey?
A. He smoked cigarettes.
B. He was a bully.
C. He sta rted stealing when he was four.
D. He played truant from school.
4. Why was it decided that Joey should go to a secure unit?
A. He refused to give up thieving.
B. He kept running away from the homes.
C. He behaved better in a secure unit.
D. He was too old for the child ren's home.
5. What does the writer think is the main cause of Joey's behaviour?
A. He is a victim of his own circumstances.
B. He is un able to sort himself out.
C. He has been forced to behave in an anti-social way,
D. He has been badly treated by the police.
(B) Find words or phrases in the text which are similar in meaning to the words in
italics.
1. Amy looked as if she had a lot to worry about.
2. The prison staff found it difficult to keep the prisoners in their cells.
3. Th e young man's imprisonment in a small, windowless cell was cruel and unnecessary.
4. Kevin has been breaking the law all his life; he's a criminal and nothing is going to
change him.
5. Most people would prefer to see convicted criminals in jail rather than doing community
service.
6. When the prison governor slopped the prisoners from watching TV, they went on the
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rampage, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage.

7. Many people commit minor offences when they are young.
8. I don't think he's likely to improve - we have no hope for him.
KEY TO LESSON 21
READING 1: 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. D 7. A 8. C 9. A
10. B 11. D 12. C 13. B 14. A 15. C
WORD CHOICE: 1. alone - 2. routine - 3. life - 4. relaxing - 5. access - 6. monotonous 7. crowded - 8. independent
WRITING SENTENCES.
1. Most natives use the digital Internet every day.
2. We hardly ever telephone on our landline.
3. I never provide my address or telephone number on social networking sites.
4. Julie writes her blog about a city twice a week.
5. Many people are choosing to tweet rather than email nowadays.
6. Young people usually don't visit libraries and often do their research online.
PHRASAL VERBS
1. d. dropped (him) off
2. h. lets (me) down
3. a. put (you) up
4. j. has been looking forward to
5. b. is putting (me) off
6. e. put (it) out
7. g. 'll pick (you) up
8. i brought (the subject) up
9. f. came across
10. c. get on with
PREPOSITIONS: 1. without – 2. at – 3. on – 4. in – 5. at – 6. in – 7. under – 8. in –
9. under 10. under 11. on 12. at – 13. on – 14. in

7. petty crimes = tội lặt vặt
8. have given up on; hết hy vọng; bó tay

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READING 2.
(A) 1. C - 2. A - 3 - D. 4 - B - 5. A
Giải Thích:
1 C - he became famous when, in October last year; he was locked away... where he was
three years younger than any other inmate ...(line 18)
2. A - Their solution was simple: these children had to be punished: the courts needed
more powers to put them behind bars. (line 51)
3. D - They remember him skiving off schoal...(line 69)
4. B - They had tried taking him into care but he had simply walked out of the homes
where they put him....he was sent to a secure unit at East Moor outside Leeds. (line 96)
5. A - If you throw a child into the sea, it will drown. If you throw it into on English
ghetto, it will grow up like Joey. (line 141)
(B)

1. a weight on her mind = gánh nặng trong tâm trí
2. inmates = prisoners
3. incarceration = imprisonment
4. crook = prisoners
5. locked up / locked away / behind bars
6. rioted = gây rối

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