Professional Documents
Culture Documents
LM NG
2011
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Part 2: Listen to four conversations in which people are giving invitations. What events are they
talking about? Listen and choose the correct answer. Write your answer (A, B, C, or D) in the
numbered box.
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A. art show
B. sports festival
C. childrens concert
D. flowers festival
Your answers:
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A. craft fair
B. food fair
C. farm show
D. music show
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A. movie premiere
B. restaurant opening
C. ice-skating exhibition
D. art show
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A. restaurant opening
B. book signing
C. fashion show
D. concert
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A. Listen to people talking about what they think is fun . Complete the numbered blank
with no more than four words .
Name
Where they live
What they do
Their idea of fun
Karen
Chicago
Staying at home and (2)
(1)
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Going online and chatting.
Paul
New York
Taipei
Emi
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B . Listen to the interview with three athletes . Complete the numbered blank with no
more than four words .
Name
Sports
Barbara
Accident
Yes / No
No .
Injury
(1)..
Victor
(2)..
Yes.
He (3)
and.
Lucy
(4) ..
Yes
Your answers:
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Part 2: 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.
JOB INTERVIEWS
Your answers:
Interviews are an (0)__________ (perfect) method of choosing the best
people for jobs, yet human (1)________(be) like to examine each other
in this way. One of the many problems of (2)________(select) as it is
commonly practised is that the forms filled in by the (3)_______(apply)
often fail to show people as they really are. This means that you can
follow all the best (4)__________(advise) when completing your form
and still find that you are (5) __________( success) at the next stage
the interview. (6) ________(similar) in the rare cases where the
interviews are automatic, a candidate with an (7)_________(adequate)
form may do surprisingly well .
Of course, your form needs to show that you have (8)_____(confident)
in your (9) _________(able) to do the job , but dont try to turn
yourself into someone else a person you have to pretend to be at the
interview. (10) _________ (real) and honesty are definitely the best
approach.
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Part 3: Complete each sentence with the correct form of ONE of the phrasal verbs below. Write
your answer in the numbered box. Each verb is used only once.
slip up
wear off
run out of
fall into
get into
cut down on
figure out
egg on
drink up
take off
1. I just cant ___________ why President Clinton did that! What a stupid thing to do!
2. If you plan the project well, then everything should __________ place.
3. At first the guys were just having a small argument, but their friends _______ them _________
until they started fighting.
4. The doctor told me to __________ sugar and fat in my diet.
5. Im sorry, I just cant __________ the game right now. Im thinking about work.
6. You _________ when you told Sara about her surprise party. You shouldnt have done that.
7. In many cultures, it is appropriate _________ your shoes when entering a house.
8. Most patients find that the numbness from the injection __________ after about an hour.
9. We ___________ milk this morning, so we need to go to the store.
10. __________ everyone! The pub is closing in five minutes.
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Part 4: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes, correct them and write
your answers in the numbered box. (0) has been done as an example.
Most of us are interest in one kind of sport or another , even if we dont go in for it active .
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Lots of people take up a particular sport at an early age, for example tennis, skiing or ice-skating.
If they get up to a suitable high standard, they may go in for local competitions or even champion.
But special training is hard works and most young people dont keep it up. Many of them drop out
when they come up against tough competition.
To become a professional in sport, you have to go through with a strictness training schedule.
And it is not easy. It means doing without some of lifes pleasures, too. For example, to build up
your physical strong you may have to stick to a special diet and give up some of your favour foods
. Smoking and alcohol are out , and to keep fit you have to work out regular every day .
Sometimes it all pays off, but the road to succeed is long and there are no guarantees. No
wonder that countless young talents decide to settle for a regular job instead, and, as far as
professional sport are concerned, prefer to look on as spectators.
Your answers:
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B. compete
B. declined
B. no matter
B. broad
B. new
B. slow
B. fill out
B. approximately
B. all the time
B. same
B. lack
C. oppose
C. lessened
C. regardless of
C. considerable
C. present
C. delayed
C. go through
C. roughly
C. up until now
C. like
C. miss
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D. purpose
D. disposed
D. even if
D. lasting
D. modern
D. overdue
D. pass by
D. relatively
D. from then on
D. both
D. lose
12. A. stands
13. A. grant
14. A. doing
15. A. grasping
Your answers:
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B. belongs
B. allow
B. running
B. catching
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C. bases
C. spare
C. making
C. gaining
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D. lies
D. afford
D. cleaning
D. raising
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Part 2: Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question from the four choices
marked (A , B , C or D). Write your answer in the numbered box.
The three phrases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory, and
the long - term memory. This division of the memory into phases is based on the length of time of
the memory.
Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an image or memory that enters your mind
only for a short period of time; it comes and goes in under a second. The memory will not last
longer than that unless the information enters the short-term memory .
Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long as
you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your short- term
memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either it is forgotten or moves
into long -term memory .
Long -term memory is the huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years and
years . Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try to put it there
through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its own .
1. The best title for this passage would be ____________
A. The Difference Between Sensory memory and Short-term memory.
B. How long It Takes to Memorize.
C. The Stage of Human Memory.
D. Human Phases.
2. The three phases of memory discussed in the passage are differentiated according to ________
A. the location in the brain.
B. the period of time it takes to remember something .
C. how the senses are involved in the memory.
D. how long the memory lasts.
3. The expression is based on could be best replaced by ___________
A. is on top of .
B. is at the foot of.
C. depends on.
D. is below.
4. According to the passage, which type of the memory is the shortest?
A. Sensory memory.
B. Active memory.
C. Short-term memory.
D. Long-term memory.
5. According to the passage, when will information stay in your short-term memory?
A. For as long as twenty minutes.
B. As long as it is being used .
C. After you have repeated it many times .
D. When it has moved into long-term memory .
6. The word keep could be best replaced by __________.
A. hold
B. continue
C. retain
D. save
7. The word Once could be best replaced by which of the following?
A. Just after
B. Although
C. Just before
D. Because
8. All of the following are true about long-term memory EXCEPT that ___________
A. it has a very large capacity.
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Part 3: Read the following article and choose the most suitable heading for each of the following
sections of the article from the list A to H. There are two extra headings which you do not need to
use. Write your answer in the numbered box.
A. Bargain prices
D. Ensuring availability
G. Lost lugguage compensation
C. In-flight comfort
F. Cheap excess baggage
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Membership of an airline loyalty club will guarantee you a seat on a flight, even when that flight is
fully booked for normal passangers. Air France, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and Singapore
Airlines are just four carriers offering this facility to their very best customers. Others, like British
Airways, Lufthansa and Swissair, are not quite so bold with their claims but all will move heaven
and earth to secure a seat for their club members.
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First-class and bussiness-class passengers get the pick of the seating, up front away from all the
engine noise and vibration. Economy passengers are invariably seated in the noisier, back rows of
the aircraft, however, and airline seating plans ( displayed in timetables) enable you to choose the
best seat.
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Traveling with overweight baggage can cost you dearly. On long-haul flights, the airlines give you a
free baggage allowance of between 20 and 64 kilos, depending on the class of travel and the route.
Every excess kilo is charged at one per cent of the first-class fare. One way round this is to hand
over your baggage to an excess company, which can save you as much as 70 per cent on airline
fees. Your luggage will then travel to your destination unaccompanied, and you can either collect it
from the airport or have it delivered to your destination address. It wont usually arrive the same
day, though.
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Booking a first-class or business-class ticket usually entitles you to use the more peaceful airline
executive lounge at the airport. Regular passengers with an airline can also use the lounges, even
when flying on cut-price economy tickets.
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The unthinkable has happened. You have arrived overseas but your luggage has not appeared on the
airport baggage carousel. Keep calm. In most cases your bags will turn up, eventually. But, before
you leave the airport, contact a member of staff and complete a Baggage Irregularity Report, which
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ensures that you will receive compensation. However, airlines pay out pitiful compensastion, so do
read the small print on your ticket, and its essential to take out adequate insurance beforehand.
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Securing an upgrade is easier than ever before. Canadian Airlines will now seat some transatlantic
passengers who have paid the economy fare in business class, while business-class passengers
bound for New York, Toronto, Delhi or Bombay are automatically upgraded to first-class if they
have paid the full business-class fare. In addition, large companies are increasingly negotiating an
automatic upgrade with airlines.
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Part 4: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A to H for
each gap. There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use. Write your answer in the
numbered box.
A. A species is a recipe written in DNA; a theology is an idea written in human language; a
steam train is an engineers blueprint.
B. Natural selection creates diversity- a thousand different ways to solve the same problems
C. Even if we cannot yet recreate species from their genomes
D. But theyve got taken exactly on schedule.
E. Despite the munch-vaunted web of ecological connections between all life
F. Mankind has now destroyed 90 per cent of Brazils coastal rainforest and not a single
endemic species of bird has died out.
G. Some pachyderms survived on an island.
H. But it is necessary for island to remain isolated if this is to happen
Island creatures are extremely vulnerable to extinction. Except in the island continents like
Australia, mankind has had a far less dramatic impact upon continental creatures.(1)___________.
The number of creatures known to have died out in the rainforest of the world is still tiny. Nearly all
of the extinctions mankind has caused have been on island, and most of those have been achieved
by introducing competitors. (Lakes are equivalent to islands. When Nile perch were put in Lake
Victoria, they quickly wiped out half the 300 species in fish in the lake).
What harm is done? There is no diminution of biomass, no increase in the chances of a
collapse of all life. (2)__________, the invaders are often better adapted to survive than their
victims. So why does such extinction matter at all?
The answer is that it standardizes the world. (3)__________. It meant sheep and cattle in
Eurasia, giant birds in New Zealand and Madagascar, elephants in Africa, and bison in North
America . Now most of them are extinct or marginalized. The same also applied to other forms of
extinction. Where once there were hundreds of African theologies, now Christianity and Islam
dominate. Where once there were more than a thousand mutually unintelligible languages on the
island of new Guinea alone, soon there will be just pidgin. Where once there were different kinds
of cars in every country on earth, now everybody drives a clone. It is not so much extinction itself
that matters does it matter that nobody speaks Linear B drives a Model T or worships Ra? It is the
standardizing of the world, the disappearance of diversity that matters.
True, nature flights back. Worldwide species are evolving into separate kinds; it could be
only a few thousand years before starlings in Hawaii cannot breed with starlings in London and are
therefore technically a different species. (4)___________. Islands have been called natures
laboratories: they take a few, monotonous, global species and fragment them into experimental
forms, a few of which later inherit the earth. In just the same way, for a new language to be born the
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speakers must be isolated by a mountain range or a stretch of sea for several centuries; that is
impossible today.
How do you save diversity of species, theologies, languages and technologies? The answer
must lie in information technology. All of these things are really just chunks of unique information.
(5) ____________. Each needs to be virtually saved before it is physically lost. Read the genome of
a Hawaiian goose: take down the lexicon of a Fore language; film the tricks of a brilliant
watchmaker.
(6)___________, we should save them for a time when our descendants can. Petrarch
grumbled that he was surrounded by books in Ancient Greek that neither he nor anybody else could
read. The skill was later reacquired.
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S GIO DC & O TO
LM NG
2011
LISTENING (4)
Part 1: (1.2)
Mi p n ng 0.2
1.B
2.B
Part 2: (0.8)
3.A
4.C
Mi p n ng 0.2
1.C
3.A
Mi p n ng 0.2
Paul
Emi
5.A
6.B
(0.2 x 4 = 0.8)
2.B
Part 3: (2.0)
A. (1 )
Name
Karen
(0.2 x 6 = 1.2)
4.B
(0.2 x 5 = 1)
What they do
1. law student
3. business student
4. actress
B. (1 )
Name
Barbara
Victor
Mi p n ng 0.2
(0.2 x 5 = 1)
Sport
Accident ? Yes / No
1. hand gliding
No .
2. free style skiing
Yes.
Lucy
4. triathlon
Yes
2.B
7.A
3.B
8.B
(0.1 x 10 = 1)
4.C
9.A
(0.1 x 10 = 1)
(6)Similarly
(7) inadequate
(8) confidence
(9) ability
(10) Realism
5.A
10.D
Mi p n ng 0.15
10
(0.15 x 10 = 1.5)
4. cut down
5. get into
on
9. ran out of
10. Drink up
(0.15 x 10 = 1.5)
active - actively
suitable - suitably
champion - championships
works - work
strictness - strict
Mi p n ng 0.1
1.B
6.B
11.C
2.A
7.A
12.D
Part 2: (1.5)
2.D
7.A
Part 3: (1.5)
4.C
9.B
14.A
2.C
3.C
8.D
4.A
9.A
3.F
3B
5.B
10.D
(0.25 x 6 = 1.5)
4. B
Mi p n ng 0.25
2E
5.D
10.C
15.C
(0.15 x 10 = 1.5)
Mi p n ng 0.25
Part 4: (1.5)
1F
3.D
8.D
13.B
Mi p n ng 0.15
1.C
6.B
1.D
( 0.1 x 15 = 1.5)
5. G
6. H
(0.25 x 6 = 1.5)
4H
5A
6C
Mi cu ng 0.2
(0.2 x 5 = 1)
If he hadnt overeaten, he wouldnt have had/ got/ suffered from a heart attack.
You can please yourself (as to/ about) whether you accept their ofer or not.
His physical condition seems to be deteriorating slightly.
No sooner had the announcement been made than everyone started complaining.
To the best of my knowledge, theres no reason for James to be so unhappy.
Part 2: (1)
Mi cu ng 0.2
(0.2 x 5 = 1)
1. I would have thought that she would have liked her present.
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2. The new plans for the school are have met with the approval of the authorities/ the
authorities approval
3. Somehow he managed to get away with the technical design from the company.
4. Have you got round to finalising those delivery dates yet?.
5. Eating fewer sweets will save you having to visit the dentist so often.
Part 3: (3)
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Suggested ideas:
The reason why education is important to life.
- main purpose is to help people to read and write and how to behave towards others
and society, provide people with relevant knowledge, widen knowledge,develop
intelligence ,etc.
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