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PART 1
Questions 1-5
You will hear five short conversations. You will hear each conversation twice. There is one
question for each conversation. For each question, choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
1. When will they go on holiday?

2. How is Patti going to travel?

3. How many people were at the meeting?

4. What was the weather like in Portugal?

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5. What has the girl broken?

PART 2
Questions 6-15
Listen to the three people describing their houses. Listen and fill in each gap with A WORD OR
A NUMBER. You will hear the recording twice.

ONE:
Last Tuesday a man armed with just a hot hamburger in a bag stole $1,000 from
a .....................................(6) in Danville, California.
Police Detective Bill McGinnis said that the .....................................(7), who was wearing a
mask, entered the Mount Diablo National Bank at about 1.30 p.m. and gave the teller a note
demanding ......................................(8) dollars. He claimed that he had a bomb in the bag. The
teller said she could smell a distinct odour of ................................(9) coming from the bag. Even
so, she handed the money to the man. As he was running out of the bank, he dropped the bag
with the hamburger. He escaped in a ......................................(10) that was waiting for him
outside.

TWO:
When Jack and Kelly Harman went away on .................................(11), they left their
teenage daughter alone in the house. Zoe, aged ...................................(12), wanted to stay at
home because she was revising for exams. Her parents said she could have some friends to stay.

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 However, Zoe decided to have a .......................................(13). Everyone was having a
good time when suddenly things started to go wrong. Forty uninvited guests arrived, and some
of them were carrying knives. They .....................................(14) furniture, smashed windows,
and stole jewellery.
When Mr and Mrs Harman heard of the news, they came ....................................(15)
immediately.
Nghe 6
PART 1
Questions 1-5
You will hear five short conversations. You will hear each conversation twice. There is one question for
each conversation.

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PART 2
Listen and fill in each gap with A WORD OR A NUMBER. You will hear the recording twice. You now
have 45 seconds to look at the questions for part 2.
Too much jogging could shorten your life
Running every day is (6)……………………… for our health, but new research says running too
much could be bad for us. Running long distances for many years could make our life shorter, not (7)
………………………. A researcher said too much running could take away the good things from
exercise. It can also damage your heart and lead to heart disease. He added that the risk of long-distance
runners dying from (8)………………………. disease could be the same as someone who never
exercised.
Researchers looked at the health and training of 3,300 runners. Seventy per cent of them ran over
30 kilometres a week. Men who ran marathons for (9)………………………. years had hard parts in
their heart. A doctor who started running marathons in 1967 is sad. He ran 60 kilometres every week
and thought his heart was "indestructible". Now he has heart problems. He said people should (10)
………………………. regularly but not too much.
My grandfather’s shop
My grandfather lived until he was 101 years old. He was a shopkeeper. He had a fish and chip
shop in an old village near a big, industrial (11)………..……….. in the north of England. He had a son
and a daughter. The daughter is my mother. The family lived above the shop.

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 In those days, fish and chips was the most (12) ……………….. dish in the whole country. My
grandfather made the best fish and chips in the area. People came to the village by bus (13)
………………………. to get them.
Everybody loved my grandfather because he was such a happy and contented man. He worked
(14) ……………….. , but once a week he closed the shop and went to have lunch (not fish and chips!)
with friends in the local pub. He didn't retire until he was 78 years old. He said that the secret to a long
life was a glass of whisky before going to (15)…………….. and lots of fish and chips.
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PART 1 PART 2
1. A 6. bank
2. C 7. robber
3. C 8.1,000/ 1000/ one thousand
4. A
9. hamburger
5. B
10. car
11. holiday
12. 16/ sixteen
13. party
14. broke
15. home

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PART 1 PART 2
1. C 6. neighbours
2. B 7. everything
3. B 8. married
4. A 9. town
5. C 10. window
11. cat
12. family
13. walls
14. style
15. floor

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PART 1 PART 2
1. C 1. good
2. A 2. longer
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3. B 3. heart
4. B 4. 25/ twenty-five
5. A 5. exercise
6. town
7. popular
8. especially
9. hard
10. bed