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<b>Thi tuyển 10 (2010-2011)</b>

<b>Reading 02</b>

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According to a group called The Voices Foundation , everyone has a singing voice as
well as a speaking voice somewhere inside them . This, they say ,should be
encouraged from an early (1) ...because it provides the best, and the cheapest,
(2) ...on which to build an understanding of music.

(3) ...the Foundation ideas, lies the teaching of the Hungarian composer
Zoltan Kodaly, He observed that song can (4) ...as key part of the relationship
between mother and child almost from birth. This is especially(5) ...of more
traditional societics, like those of West Africa, where some small children are
(6) ...to sing literally hundesds of songs, all of which have been learnt by
(7) ... But many modern children first (8) ...to an understanding of
music when they learn to play an instrument, and (9) ...some teaching of the
theory of music is usually a part of thix , their relationship with the music on
the(10) ... is often a mechanical one .

The(11) ...of the Voices Foundation is that a natural (12) ...for rhythm
, harmony and musical structure , the very(13) ...we appreciate in the greatest
musicians , can only be achieved through the exploration of music with the voice from
the start . The foundation has , therefor , (14) ...itself the task of developing a
singing -cectred musical education progamme that could(15) ... junior pupils
all over the world.

((benefit/set/qualities/feeling/belief/page/although/come/heart/able/true/form/Behi
<b>nd/basic/age)</b>

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. To the passer -by , number 7 Blyth Grove , in Workshop , looks just like any other

fairly old house in Britain , But ...inside and you go back into a vanished
world , ...William Straw`s house is exactly as his parents left it when they
died in the 1930s.

William Straw , who died in 1990, lived in the house with his brother Walter after their
parents deaths . They lived ...a strict routine , never married and had no ...
...friends.They had no socia.l life and callers were never ...into the
house

Their parents had a successful grocery shop and the family moved into the house in
1923 , immediatly spending $70 a huge ...in those days on
...redecoration . Their father died in 1932 and their monther in 1939 , when
William , then the history lecturer at London University , returned to Workshop .
He ...his job and set up house with Walter , who had been ...the shop
since their parent`s death. ... the two cut themselves off from the rest of the
world .

Nothing that their parent`s had owned was ever moved or ...away . Towards
the end of their lives, it seems that they became ...of value of what they had
done ,because hey began to put ...various pictures and items of furniture ,
explainning where they ...came from . Today ,the house is open to the public ,
and visitors quicly ...that it is the closest they are ever likely to come to time
travel

<b>.(realize/originnally/labels/aware/thrown/from then moment/running/gave</b>
<b>up/total/sum/invited/close/according to/for/step)</b>

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When my friend, Paul, was a schoolboy, he often used to chat to Mr. Scott, an elderly
gentlemen living on his own. Mr. Scott was a keen gardener. He would always be
looking after his lawn or his flowers and Paul was (4) ...the habit of saying a

few words to him over the fence.

One summer’s evening, as Paul was on his way home from school, he saw, as
(5) ...Mr. Scott in his garden. The old man was busily weeding his
flowerbeds. When he saw Paul, he invited him into the garden with a (6) ...of
his hand. Slowly, they strolled all around, admiring the various flowers. Then, to
Paul’s surprise, Mr. Scott bent down and picked a (7) ...of his finest dahlias.
‘Here boy,’ he said. ‘Give these to your mother.’
No sooner had he arrived home than he (8) ...the flowers to his mother. He
then told her that they were with Mr. Scott’s compliments. His mother’s face went red
with anger. ‘You wicked boy!’ she shouted. ‘How (9) ...you say such a thing! I
(10) ...into his daughter in the supermarket this morning. She told me that the
poor old chap had passed away in his sleep last Friday.\'

<b>( wave/ in/ spirits/ dare/ set/ show/ usual/ presented/ bunch/ bumped )</b>
2.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, a monument of wisdom and prophecy, was built as a tomb
for Pharaoh Cheops in 2720 B.C. (1) ...its antiquity, certain (2) ...of its
construction make it one of the truly great wonders of the world. The four sides of the
pyramid are (3) ...almost on exactly true north, south, east and west – an
incredible engineering feat. The ancient Egyptians were sun worshippers and great
astronomers, so computations for the Great Pyramid were (4) ...on

astronomical observations.

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prophesied for future generations and are presently under (9) ...
Was this superstructure made by ordinary beings, or (10) ...built by a race far
superior to any known today )

<b>( study/ investigation/ one/despite/ </b>

<b>aligned/coincide/reveal/ base/ represent/aspects)</b>
3

.I have always found it difficult to say (1) ...certain what my memories from
my early childhood are. Are these memories learnt at a later age from overhearing our
parents tell of our exploits? However, there is a particular (2) ...that I would
love to claim as a (3) ...memory. When I was just three years old, I went
to the post office with my mother where she was going to buy some stamps. While she
was being served, I happened to (4) ...a small stocking which was hanging
from the counter. It was there to collect (5) ...for a (6) ...for the
blind. While her back was (7) ...I took the stocking and emptied the
(8) ...into my coat pocket. Of course I was too young to know any better.
When it was realized what I had done, everybody roared with laughter except, that is,
for my mother who was a little embarrassed. She quickly emptied the money back into
the stocking (9) ...incidentally, a few pennies of my own. One of the clerks
was something of an amateur cartoonist and he did a drawing of me robbing an old
lady. This cartoon was (10) ...in the post office for the next couple of
years

<b>(genuine/care/including/notice/for/contents/turned/incident/contributions/display</b>
<b>ed)</b>

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The Southwestern States of the United States suffered one of the worst droughts in
their history from 1931 to 1938. The drought (1) ...the entire country. Few food
crops could be grown. Food became (2) ...and prices went up (3) ...the
nation. Hundreds of families in the Dust Bowl region had to be moved to farms in
other areas with the help of the federal government. In 1944, drought brought great

damage to (4) ...all Latin America. The drought moved to Australia and then
to Europe, (5) ...it continued throughout the summer of 1945. From 1950 to
1954 in the United States, the South and Southwest suffered a (6) ...drought.
Hundreds of cattle ranchers had to ship their cattle to other regions because
(7) ...lands had no grass. The federal government again (8) ...an
emergency drought-relief program. It offered farmers (9) ...credit and seed
grains (10) ...low prices.

( <b>pasture/concluded/throughout/affected/severe/at/emergency//</b>
<b>scarce/where/almost/)</b>

5.

CONCORDE, the world’s fastest and most graceful (1) ...plane, will soon be
25 years old. It first flew on 2 March 1969, from Toulouse in France.
Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries
had a (2) ...of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to work
together on the (3) ...The plane cost over £1.5 billion to develop. It is the most
(4) ...plane in the history of (5) ... It was given over 5,000 hours of
testing.

Concorde flies at twice the speed of sound. This means that it takes only 3 hours 25
minutes to fly between London and New York, compared with 7 – 8 hours in other
passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time (6) ...between the USA and
Britain, it is possible to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you
leave London! You can (7) ...the 10.30 am flight from London, Heathrow and

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Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. But its oldest passenger was
Mrs. Ethel Lee from Leicestershire in England. She was 99 years old when she

(8) ...from Heathrow on 24 February 1985.

Each Concorde is built at a (9) ...of £55 million. Twenty have been built so
far. Air France and British Airways (10) ...the most. They each have seven
planes.

(passenger / <b>project/aviation / catch / cost /dream / tested /difference /took off</b>

<b>/own )</b>
6.

(1) ...of the garbage we produce everyday is a major problem in cities around
the world. In the United States, over 160 million tons of garbage are produced every
year. Ten percent is recycled, ten percent is burned, and the rest is put in landfills. But
finding (2) ...for new landfills is becoming more difficult.
A city that has solved this problem in an unusual way is Machida, in Tokyo, Japan.
They have developed a totally new (3) ...to garbage disposal. The
(4) ...to the operation is public cooperation. Families must divide their

garbage into six categories:

Garbage that can be easily burned (that is, combustible garbage), such as kitchen and

garden trash.

Noncombustible garbage, such as small electrical appliances, plastic tools and plastic
toys.

Products that are poisonous or that (5) ...pollution, such as batteries and

fluorescent lights.

Bottles and glass containers that can be recycled.

Metal containers that can be recycled.

Large item, such as furniture and bicycles.

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(7) ...the garbage. Almost everything can be reused: garden or kitchen trash
becomes fertilizer; combustible garbage is burned to (8) ...electricity; metal
containers and bottles are recycled; and old furniture, clothing, and other useful items
are cleaned, repaired, and resold cheaply or given away. The work provides
(9) ...for handicapped persons and gives them a (10) ...to learn new
skills.

Nowadays, officials from cities around the world visit Machida to see whether they
can use some of these ideas and techniques to solve their own garbage disposal
problems.

<b>(Disposing /approach /cause /process /employment /land /key /on /produce</b>
<b>/chance /</b>

7.

The person I am going to write about is Charlie Chaplin. He has always been one of
my favorite actors and I really (1) ...his films.
Charlie was born in London in 1889. Both his parents were music hall performers. His
father was a drunkard and his mother later (2 ...mad. Life was hard and Charlie
and his half brother, Sidney, were sent to a(n) (3) ...for a time.
He first appeared on the stage when he was seven and by the time he was ten he was a

regular performer. When he was 17, he went on a tour of the USA where he was
(4) ...and given a part in a Hollywood film. His early films were not
particularly successful but in 1915 he made his (5) ..."The Tramp", in which he
first appeared in the baggy trousers and with the hat and cane. Soon he had had his
own (6) ...built and was making his own films which included "The Gold

Rush", "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator".

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his home.
Chaplin did not have a very happy personal life and was married four times. He only
found happiness with his fourth marriage in 1943. When he died on Christmas Day
1977, the world had lost one of the greatest (10) ...comedians.

<b>(admire /orphanage /masterpiece /decline /awarded /went /spotted /studio</b>
<b>/suspected /ever /</b>

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.I have always found it difficult to say (1) ...certain what my memories from my
early childhood are. Are these memories learnt at a later age from overhearing our
parents tell of our exploits? However, there is a particular (2) ...that I would

love to claim as a (3) ...memory.

When I was just three years old, I went to the post office with my mother where she
was going to buy some stamps. While she was being served, I happened to(4) ...a
small stocking which was hanging from the counter. It was there to collect
(5) ...for a (6) ...for the blind. While her back was (7) ...I took
the stocking and emptied the (8) ...into my coat pocket. Of course I was too
young to know any better. When it was realized what I had done, everybody roared

with laughter except, that is, for my mother who was a little embarrassed. She quickly
emptied the money back into the stocking (9) ...incidentally, a few pennies of
my own. One of the clerks was something of an amateur cartoonist and he did a
drawing of me robbing an old lady. This cartoon was (10) ...in the post office
for the next couple of years.

<b>(for /genuine /contributions /turned /including /incident /notice /charity</b>
<b>/contents /displayed )</b>

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music. One (3) ...to this problem is to wear headphones, but headphones are
usually uncomfortable. An armchair which has a record-player system built into it has
just been (4) ...by a British engineer, Stephen Court. The armchair looks like
an ordinary armchair with a high back. However, each of the two sides of the chair has
three loudspeakers inside to reproduce middle and high sounds. Low sounds are
reproduced by a pair of loudspeakers in a hollow (5 ...under the seat. Anyone
who sits in the chair hears sounds coming from all round his / her head. Because we
cannot tell the exact (6) ...from which low sounds come, it doesn\'t
(7) ...that they come from underneath or behind. It is the higher sounds
coming from the side of the chair that create a stereo effect. These sounds travel only a
few inches to reach the listener\'s ears. (8) ...it takes only a little power to make
the music sound very loud. Only a small amount of sound leaks out from behind the
chair into the room to (9) ...others. Most of the sound is (10) ...by the
listener.

<b>(result /answer /Consequently /since /disturb /source /matter /designed /space</b>
<b>/absorbed /</b>

10.

Drugs are one of the (1) ...profession’s most valuable tools. Doctors prescribe
drugs to (2)... or prevent many diseases. Every year, penicillin and other
(3) ...drugs save the lives of countless victims of pneumonia and other
dangerous infectious diseases. Vaccines prevent attacks by such diseases as
(4) ...polio, and smallpox. The use of these and many other drugs
(5) ...helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives than would

(6) ...have been possible.

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(8 ) ...rate from pneumonia to less than 5 percent. Polio vaccine was
introduced in 1955. At that time, polio struck about 30,000 to 50,000 Americans each
year. (9) ...1960, the use of the vaccine has reduced the number of new polio
cases to about 3,000 a year. In 1900, most Americans did not live (10) ...the
age of 47. Today, Americans live an average of more than 70 years, in great part
because of the use of modern drugs.

<b>(medical /germ-killing /has /until /by /treat /measles /otherwise /death /past /</b>
11.

Ever since humans have inhabited the earth, they have made (1) ...of various
forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been
in the form of oral (2)...When there is a language (3)
...communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions
(4) ...for letters, words, and ideas. Tourists, the deaf, and the mute have had to
(5) ...to this form of expression. Many of these symbols of whole words are
very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally; spelling, however, cannot.
Body language (6) ...ideas or thoughts by certain actions, either intentionally
or unintentionally. A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only
joking. A nod (7) ...approval, while shaking the head (8) ...a

negative reaction.

Other form of nonlinguistic language can be (9) ...in Braille (a system of
raised dots read with the fingertips), signal flags, Morse code, and smoke signals. Road
maps and picture signs also guide, warn, and instruct people.

(10) ...verbalization is the most common form of language, other systems and
techniques also express human thoughts and feelings.

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. One in six drivers in Britain is aged between 17 and 25. But more drivers in this age
group are responsible (1) ...a greater number of accidents than older
drivers; in (2) ...one accident in four is the fault of a young, inexperienced
driver. A team of researchers has (3) ... two years studying the driving
performance, attitudes and behaviour of young people. The report (4)
...that not all young drivers are dangerous, (5) ...a large number
of males, particularly those aged 17 to 20, do not drive as carefully (6) ...
other age groups. These young drivers are more likely to have (7)
...accident in their first year of driving (8) ...when their
experience increases. The report also notes that men are more likely to
(9) ...driving rules than women, and that a girlfriend or wife in the car has
a calming (10) ...on the driving pattern of young men.

<b>(says /than /fact /as /break /but /for /an /influence /spent /</b>
13.

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and Wozniak\'s scientific calculator, they set up their first production line. Apple I,
which they brought out in 1976, had sales of $600, a(n) (10) ...beginning. By
1980, Apple Computers, which had started four years earlier as a project in a garage,
had a market value of $1.2 billion

(available/granted/advances/in/convinced/protential/promising/raised/
<b>together/teamed)</b>

14.

You have probably never heard of Charles burgress Fry but in the early years of this
century , he was the most famous man in England . He become famous
while(1) ...at university , mainly on(2) ...of this achievements in
sport .He was at the same time captain of the university football , cricket and athletics
teams and(3) ... the world record for the long jump . He was also
a(4) ...sport journalist .He was so famous that letters addressed to Mr . Fry
Oxford were(5) ... to him without any difficutly . His college ,
(6) ... it had quite a different name , was(7) ...as Fry`s College .

Some people have(8) ... Fry`s sporting achievements .

They(9) ...out thet he lived at a time when standards were quite(10)
and it was much easier to(11) ...well in several sports. It is
certainly true that athletes of thet time did not have the totally
deticated(12) ...of modern athletes . However , it is only(13) ...to
judge him(14) ...the standards of his own time . There is no doubt that he had
extraordinary skill(15) ...with an ability to write about with style and
intelligence .

<b>(skill/hell/delivered/known/point/do/fair/combined/account/popular/although/criti</b>
<b>cized/low/approach/by0</b>

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people(3) ...without money . In the earliest periods of human history ,
poeple used to exchange goods directly . They would exchange things they
had(4) ...of for things that they were in(5) ...of . For example , they
might offer food for tools . This(6) ... may be difficult to carry , they may
not(7) ...long , or may be impossible to(8) ...into smaller units . It can
also be difficult to know the(9) ...of something compared with other goods.
(10) ...historians , the first money , in the senes we(11) ...it today,
(12) ...of good coins produced about 2,500 years ago . Gold , being a very
precious metal , was a(13) ...material .The introduction of gold coins
was(14) ...to everyone and they were still being used at the beginning of
this century , althrough they have now been (15) ...by paper money and coins
made of ordinary metals

<b>(wish/form/managed/plenty/need/method/last/divide/worth/According</b>
<b>to/understand/consisted/suitable/acceptable/replaced)</b>

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For many people the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean means one thing :a
tropical paradise . But for scientists , it(1) ...the heart of an age-old mystery:

the mystery of the dodo . There are so many stories that(2) ... this

bird , which could not fly , thatit is difficult to separate fact from(3) ...

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the bird in its island home and beyond . However , nobody can be
really(13) ...about the history of the dodo and(14) ...the truth is
never going to(15) ...easy

(represents/support/fiction/time/exist/organised/shipped/curiosity/fate/came/docu

<b>ments/sightings/sure/uncovering/prove)</b>

17.

The first London to Brighton run took place on November 14th 1896.It was organised
to celebrate the(1) ...of a law which made it easier for cars in Britain to be
driven on the roads .Before the , the law(2) ... driver and an engineer in the car
and a man walking in front of the vehicle with a red flag(3) ... of its
approach.

Since then, this anual run has become one of the most popular events on the British
motoring calendar,(4) ...crowds of over one million lining the route. Only the(5)
... oldest cars, constructed during the ten years betweem 1895 and 1905 ,
are allowed to(6) ... in it .Lovingly polishedby their drivers , who aer dressed in
the clothing of the(7) ... the cars leave Hyde Park in London at 7.30 am and
arrive ,(8) ...in Brighton some three hours later.

The 60-mile runis not race-there`s an official coffee shop on the(9) ... an the
cars are restricted to an avegae speed of only 30kph . The only(10) ...for
finishing is a medal , wich is awarded to everyone who(11) ... Brighton before
4pm . The run traditionally (12) ...particpands from all four(13) ...
of the world , including Europe, Asia , Africa and Australia . Since the yougest car is
neraly a hundred years old , some of them(14) ... down of course . But for the
owners of the 400-plus vehicles , it`s simply being there that(15) ...the greatest
pleasure .

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