CUỘC THI THI HỌC SINH GIỎI

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ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT
Thời gian: 180 phút
(Không kể thời gian giao đề)

PART I: LISTENING
I. Listen to a talk and fill in the missing information. The first one has been done for
you. Write no more than TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

West Bay Hotel – Details of job

Example: Newspaper advert for ………temporary………… staff.
 Vacancies for 1. _________
 Two shifts
 Can choose your 2. _________ (must be the same each week)
 Pay: £5.50 per hour, including a 3. _________
 A 4. _________ is provided in the hotel
 Total weekly pay: 231
 Dress: a white shirt and 5. _________ trousers (not supplied)
a 6. _________ (supplied)
 Starting date: 7. _________
 Call Jane 8. _________ (Service Manager) before 9. _________ tomorrow (tel:
832009)
 She’ll require a 10. _________
II. Listen and complete the sentences.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The song was first called “Good Morning 1. ________________________”
It was originally intended that 2. ________________________ would sing the song
every morning.
The song then became known as “Good morning 3. ________________________
Children began to sing the song with “Happy Birthday words when they were 4.
________________________
The song was sung with “Happy Birthday” words in a 5. ________________________
in 1931 and then in another one in 1934.
The legal situation concerning the song remains valid 6. ________________________
The song is among the 7. ________________________ songs most frequently sung in
English.
Maney had to be paid for using the song in any 8. ________________________, ed a
TV show, a toy, etc.

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III. You will hear a conversation between a boy, Marcus, and a girl, Catherine,
about their homework. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect
1 Catherine finds it hard to understand why Marcus has so much homework.
2 Marcus agrees that he could change his weekend activities.
3 Catherine thinks visiting the museum was a good experience for Marcus..
4 Catherine offers to show Marcus the maths homework she has already done.
5 Marcus worries that his teacher might be angry if Catherine helps him.
6 After talking to Catherine, Marcus feels more confident about his homework.

IV. You will hear an interview with someone who trains whales for public
performances. Listen and choose the correct answer.
1. When Laura first swam with a whale,
A. she immediately changed her opinion of whales.
B. the experience was different from what she had expected.
C. she thought about what was happening to her.
2. Laura says that when you approach a whale,
A. you should think of it as someone you don’t know well.
B. it may suddenly change its attitude towards you.
C. you should not expect it to understand what you are saying.
3. Laura says that “secondary reinforcers” are used
A. if a whale hasn’t understood an instruction.
B. after a particular action has been completed.
C. to tell a whale to repeat an action.
4. What does Laura say about giving the whales food?
A. It has less effect on them than physical contact.
B. It works best when it is combined with a game.
C. The whales often wonder when this will happen.
5. When asked about the skills a trainer needs, Laura mentions
A. losing confidence when something goes wrong.
B. reacting to the frightening appearance of a whale.

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C. forgetting what to say to the spectators.
PART II: GRAMMAR and VOCABULARY
I. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences.
1. “There is no further treatment we can give”; said Dr John
“We must let the disease take its …………….”
A. course B. term C. end D. way
2. I was ………….by the wording of the advertisement
A. mistaken B. misled C. misunderstood D. misguided
3. By the age of twenty-five he had ………..his ambition of becoming a pianist.
A. reached B. completed C. achieved D. obtained
4. The complettion of the new Town Hall has been ………..owning to a strike
A. held off B. held down C. held up D. held on
5. A part-time job gives me the freedom to …………..my own interests.
A. chase B. seek C. catch D. pursue
6. When you are learning a language at home, you can work at your own ………….
A. pace B. speed C. way D. mind
7. The public at………. does not know enough about AIDS
A. first B. large C. once D. times
8. He ……….some unusual educational beliefs
A. keeps B. carries C. holds D. takes
9. Our thoughts …………..on our four missing colleagues
A. based B. centered C. imposed D. depended
10. I won’t ………….those children making a noise in my house
A. allow B. let C. permit D. have
11. I wish we had never bought him a T.V – all he ever does is sit ……….to the box
A. fixed B. stuck C. glued D. sealed
12. In Southern Spain, you can play golf on beautiful …….. overlooking the sea.
A. courses B. field C. pitches D. courts
13. A new computer has been produced, which will ………all previous models
A. excel B. overdo C. overwhelm D. supersede
14. Despite being a very good student, she didn’t fulfill her …………. later in life

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 A. aptitude B. capacity C. potential D. makings
15. …………. in 1607, Jamestown in Virginia was the first settlement in the New
World
A. Finding B. Found C. Founding D. Founded
16. It is vital that everyone_______ aware of the protection of the environment.
A. is B. be C. are D. were
17. The woman was________ from hospital only a week after her operation.
A. discharged B. expelled C. evicted D. ejected
18. _______appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely
an optical illusion.
A. The moon B. The moon which C. When the moon D. That the moon
19. I don't think it would be wise to try to make max change his mind about divorcing
Narnia. Well, in his place I __________her at all.
A. would never marry B. must never have married
C. would never have married D. needn't have married
20. Ask David to give you a hand moving the furniture. He's as strong as________ .
A. an elephant B. a mountain C. a gorilla D. a horse
II. Fill in each of the following sentences with the correct form of the word in
brackets to complete each sentence.
1. I am afraid one committee won’t be enough to investigate all the …………… (grief)
of the dissatisfied clients.
2. There is no …….. (admit) to the museum on Mondays.
3. Now that you have finished your studies, you can feel absolutely …………. (care)
being under no pressure any longer.
4. It was impossible to read the pedestal inscription for it had been ……….. (face) by
some mindless vandal.
5. It is only a three day stay in the hotel and I think we can ignore such small …………
(convenient) as the lack of hot water or air-conditioning.
6. We are so proud of your most ……. (credit) academic achievements tht we have
decided to take you on trip to Australia.

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7. The boy’s manners were highly ……….. (contempt). No wonder that the teacher
objected to having him in his class.
8. We cannot rely on her account of the occurrence, it doesn’t sound very ………..
9. If only we hadn’t forgot to take the mosquito ……….. (repel), we wouldn’t have
suffered from so severe bites.
10. Mrs. Stone is an ……….. (expect) mother. Her baby is due next month.
III. There are 10 mistakes in this passage. Identify and correct them.
1 The Arctic fox is comparatively in size to the domestic cat. It inhabits
2 the so-call kingdom of the polar bear, the area midway between
3 Norway and North Pole. This canine predator adapts with extreme
4 weather conditions. During the winter months, it’s white coat is ideal
5 camouflage in these rough northern climates. The Arctic fox can
6 roam all winter without hibernate. Its fur is the thickest of all Arctic
7 mammals. Its insulation enables it survive even though winter
8 temperatures normally fall to -50 degrees Celsius. When nutrition
9 becomes scarce, the Arctic fox may follow polar bears as it pursue
10 seals on the perilous sea ice. This strategy is hazard not only because
11 of the possibility of falling into freezing water, but also because polar
12 bears will consume Arctic foxes if they can catch it.
Line Mistake Correction
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IV. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or particle.

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1. The accused leaders were dispossessed …………… their belongings in case they
wanted to suppress any evidence.
2. The success of our latest CD was far ………… our wildest dreams. Nobody had
expected it to become so popular.
3. Eddie got into trouble after he had treated himself …………….. too many books and
had no money left for the bus back home.
4. Visit us again in summer when all the flowers in the garden are ………… full
bloom.
5. She didn’t do anything wrong but …….. the same token she did nothing good.
6. Why didn’t you answer the phone? Probably, I wasn’t ………. call when it rang. It
must have been outside the house.
7. Despite a firm ban on smoking in the office, several people found it hard to abstain
……….. lighting a cigarette.
8. Peter’s expertise in electronics is admirable. He’s got all the information required
………. his fingertips.
9. She may seem to be crazy about fashion, but she certainly knows wha is …………
vogue.
10.Don’t worry about the illegibility of that report. It has been written ……….. rough
and I am going to have it rewritten clean by the secretary.
PART IV: READING
I. Read the following passage choose the correct word for each of the blanks
For many people doing physical exercise may 1. ____ a painful torturing of the body.
Therefore, there is usually something we come up with that is 2. _____ bigger
importance than putting one’s muscles through their 3. _____ . Unless we are forced to
go in for a physical training, we are 4. _____ to treat it as something of a lower 5. _____
than staying in front of the TV set, spending time in a pub 6. _____ alcoholic beverages
or consuming excessive quantities of fattening confectionery in a cafe. We need to be
considerably motivated to 7. _____ up a body workout and build our physical fitness.
What usually 8. _____ individuals from 9. _____ themselves to strenuous exercise is
the fear of fatigue, discomfort or even the inhibitions of being 10. _____ by true fitness
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1. A. incorporate B. entail C. administer D. correspond
2. A. in B. with C. at D. of
3. A. paces B. efforts C. labors D. burdens
4. A. tended B. implied C. affirmed D. inclined
5. A. superiority B. privilege C. advantage D. priority
6. A. smacking B. sipping C. seething D. sniffing
7. A. take B. put C. get D. make
8. A. rejects B. denies C. opposes D. repels
9. A. committing B. absorbing C. involving D. engrossing
10. A. outweighed B. outnumbered C. outdone D. outcasted

II. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.

Customer rights I once called over the wine waiter in an expensive restaurant to
tell him that I thought the wine I had ordered was off. (1) _______ the mere suggestion
that something might be wrong, he became most unpleasant. (2) _______ reluctantly
tasted it, however, he immediately apologized and brought another bottle. It helped that
I knew I was legally (3) ________ the right. (4) ________ in a restaurant or a bar, the
food or drink must be fit (5) ________ human consumption and of a quality that you are
entitled to expect in an establishment of that category. (6) _______ the customer, you
have considerable rights. The menu, for example, is a vital legal document and a
restaurant can be fined up to $5000 (7) _______ it fail to display one outside or
immediately inside the door. Potential customers have the right to know in advance
what they are committing (8) ________ to and it is an offence against the Trade
Descriptions Act for any establishment to give a false description of its food.
Everything must be (9) ________ it claimed to be and in cases (10) ________ it is not,
you should complain.
III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer
Excerpted from “What Video Games Have to Teach us about Learning and Literacy" by
James Paul Gee

When people learn to play video games, they are learning a new literacy. Of course, this
is not the way the word "literacy" is normally used. Traditionally, people think of
literacy as the ability to read and write. Why, then, should we think of literacy more

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broadly, in regard to video games or anything else, for that matter? There are two
reasons.
First, in the modern world, language is not the only important communicational system.
Today images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts, and many other visual symbols are
particularly significant. Thus, the idea of different types of "visual literacy" would seem
to be an important one. For example, being able to "read" the images in advertising is
one type of visual literacy. And, of course, there are different ways to read such images,
ways that are more or less aligned with the intentions and interests of the advertisers.
Knowing how to read interior designs in homes, modernist art in museums, and videos
on MTV are other forms of visual literacy.
Furthermore, very often today words and images of various sorts are juxtaposed and
integrated in a variety of ways. In newspaper and magazines as well as in textbooks,
images take up more and more of the space alongside words. In fact, in many modern
high school and college textbooks in the sciences images not only take up more space,
they now carry meanings that are independent of the words in the text. If you can't read
these images, you will not be able to recover their meanings from the words in the text
as was more usual in the past. In such multimodal texts (texts that mix words and
images), the images often communicate different things from the words. And the
combination of the two modes communicates things that neither of the modes does
separately. Thus, the idea of different sorts of multimodal literacy seems an important
one. Both modes and multimodality go far beyond images and words to include sounds,
music, movement, bodily sensations, and smells.
None of this news today, of course. We very obviously live in a world awash with
images. It is our first answer to the question why we should think of literacy more
broadly. The second answer is this: Even though reading and writing seem so central to
what literacy means traditionally, reading and writing are not such general and obvious
matters as they might at first seem. After all, we never just read or write; rather, we
always read or write something in some way.
So there are different ways to read different types of texts. Literacy is multiple, then, in
the sense that the legal literacy needed for reading law books is not the same as the
literacy needed for reading physics texts or superhero comic books. And we should not

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be too quick to dismiss the latter form of literacy. Many a superhero comic is replete
with post-Freudian irony of a sort that would make a modern literary critic's heart beat
fast and confuse any otherwise normal adult. Literacy, then, even as traditionally
conceived to involve only print, is not a unitary thing but a multiple matter. There are,
even in regard to printed texts and even leaving aside images and multimodal texts,
different "literacies."
Once we see this multiplicity of literacy (literacies), we realize that when we think
about reading and writing, we have to think beyond print. Reading and writing in any
domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever,
are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with and in social
practices... Video games are a new form of art. They will not replace books; they will sit
beside them, interact with them, and change them and their role in society in various
ways, as, indeed, they are already doing strongly with movies. (Today many movies are
based on video games and many more are influenced by them.) We have no idea yet
how people "read" video games, what meanings they make from them. Still less do we
know how they will "read" them in the future.
1. According to the first paragraph, the broadest definition of "literacy" is...
A. The ability to analyze literature
B. The ability comprehend basic cultural cues
C. The ability to read and write
D. The ability to compose poetry
2. All are mentioned as being types of "visual literacy" EXCEPT...
A. Musical tones
B. Interior Design
C. Diagrams
D. Modern Art
3. An example from a science textbook of the phenomenon the author describes in the
third paragraph could be...
A. A genetic tree that coincides with the discussion of specific mammal classes in the
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B. A diagram of a specific chemical reaction that is used to explain a broad definition in
the text
C. An illustration of a plant cycle that accompanies a chapter on photosynthesis
D. A cartoon that references the same methods discussed in the text about laboratory
safety
4. What is an example of a "multimodal" text?
A. A dictionary
B. A movie script
C. A photo album
D. An art book that describes the art as well as reproduces images of the original prints
5. The idiom in the sixth paragraph, "read against the grain of the text" is closest in
meaning to...
A. Reading to understand the underlying meanings and themes of the author's words-not
just a literal interpretation
B. Reading text that defines different types of wheat and grains
C. To read the text from right to left rather than left to right
D. To read books that use recycled paper and other green alternatives
6. In the seventh paragraph, the author suggests that literacy is multiple, meaning that...
A. To be "literate" can mean participating in any form of expression
B. One's literacy increases exponentially as greater mastery of reading and writing is
achieved
C. Different genres and modes of expression require different background knowledge
and perspectives to understand them
D. Literacy can only be gained by exploring every type of media and expression
7. Why does the author give the example of superhero comics to explain multiple
literacies?
A. To explain that comic books are written for children and purely for entertainment.
They require only a basic knowledge of the action that occurs in the story
B. To once again refer to his earlier points about "multimodal" texts
C. To insist that even when an author may intend multiple meanings and interpretations,
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D. Things that may seem on the surface to be only meant for a particular group of
people can actually have very profound meanings to those who possess other types of
literacy
8. The author suggests that all of the following require different types of literacy and the
ability to decode meaning EXCEPT...
A. Rap music
B. Comic books
C. Academic papers
D. Symphonies
9. The author says that video games...
A. Are not yet entirely understood in terms of literacy, but are already impacting other
forms of expression such as filmmaking
B. Are unrealistic and should not fall into the same categories as the other texts he
describes
C. Are too violent to risk experimenting with for the purposes of understanding literacy
D. Are irrelevant in academic discussion because no one has yet determined how to
explain the ways that people understand them
10. What would be the most logical information for the next paragraph to contain if the
article continued?
A. A technological definition of video games, how they are made, and how they are
played
B. A historical explanation of the very first video game and its evolution
C. Examples of the way that some people currently interpret video games and what they
mean to them
D. A price comparison of video game consoles and whether or not quality has a direct
impact on literacy
IV. The following reading passage has nine paragraphs, A–I. Choose the correct
heading for paragraphs A–H from the list of headings below.
Section A ___ vi_____ List of Headings
1 Section B _________ i A historical delicacy
2 Section C _________ ii The poor may benefit

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3 Section D _________ iii Presentation is key to changing attitudes
Section E ___x______ iv Environmentally friendly production
4 Section F _________ v Tradition meets technology
5 Section G _________ vi A cultural pioneer
Section H ___iii____ vii Western practices harm locals
viii Good source of nutrients
ix Growing popularity
x A healthy choice
xi A safety risk
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A Why not eat insects? So asked British entomologist Vincent M. Holt in the title of his
1885 treatise on the benefits of what he named entomophagy – the consumption of
insects (and similar creatures) as a food source. The prospect of eating dishes such as
“wireworm sauce” and “slug soup” failed to garner favor amongst those in the stuffy,
proper, Victorian social milieu of his time, however, and Holt’s visionary ideas were
considered at best eccentric, at worst an offense to every refined palate. Anticipating
such a reaction, Holt acknowledged the difficulty in unseating deep-rooted prejudices
against insect cuisine, but quietly asserted his confidence that “we shall some day quite
gladly cook and eat them”.
B It has taken nearly 150 years but an eclectic Western-driven movement has finally
mounted around the entomophagic cause. In Los Angeles and other cosmopolitan
Western cities, insects have been caught up in the endless pursuit of novel and authentic
delicacies. “Eating grasshoppers is a thing you do here”, bugsupplier Bricia Lopez has
explained. “There’s more of a ‘cool’ factor involved.” Meanwhile, the Food and
Agricultural Organization has considered a policy paper on the subject, initiated
farming projects in Laos, and set down plans for a world congress on insect farming in
2013.
C Eating insects is not a new phenomenon. In fact, insects and other such creatures are
already eaten in 80 per cent of the world’s countries, prepared in customary dishes
ranging from deep-fried tarantula in Cambodia to bowls of baby bees in China. With the
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however, these hand-prepared delicacies have the potential to be produced on a scale
large enough to lower costs and open up mass markets. A new American company, for
example, is attempting to develop pressurization machines that would de-shell insects
and make them available in the form of cutlets. According to the entrepreneur behind
the company, Matthew Krisiloff, this will be the key to pleasing the uninitiated palate.
D Insects certainly possess some key advantages over traditional Western meat sources.
According to research findings from Professor Arnold van Huis, a Dutch entomologist,
breeding insects results in far fewer noxious by-products. Insects produce less ammonia
than pig and poultry farming, ten times less methane than livestock, and 300 times less
nitrous oxide. Huis also notes that insects – being coldblooded creatures – can convert
food to protein at a rate far superior to that of cows, since the latter exhaust much of
their energy just keeping themselves warm.
E Although insects are sometimes perceived by Westerners as unhygienic or disease-
ridden, they are a reliable option in light of recent global epidemics (as Holt pointed out
many years ago, insects are “decidedly more particular in their feeding than ourselves”).
Because bugs are genetically distant from humans, species-hopping diseases such as
swine flu or mad cow disease are much less likely to start or spread amongst
grasshoppers or slugs than in poultry and cattle. Furthermore, the squalid, cramped
quarters that encourage diseases to propagate among many animal populations are
actually the residence of choice for insects, which thrive in such conditions.
F Then, of course, there are the commercial gains. As FAO Forestry Manager
Patrick Durst notes, in developing countries many rural people and traditional forest
dwellers have remarkable knowledge about managing insect populations to produce
food. Until now, they have only used this knowledge to meet their own subsistence
needs, but Durst believes that, with the adoption of modern technology and improved
promotional methods, opportunities to expand the market to new consumers will
flourish. This could provide a crucial step into the global economic arena for those
primarily rural, impoverished populations who have been excluded from the rise of
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G Nevertheless, much stands in the way of the entomophagic movement. One problem
is the damage that has been caused, and continues to be caused, by Western
organizations prepared to kill off grasshoppers and locusts – complete food proteins –
in favor of preserving the incomplete protein crops of millet, wheat, barley and maize.
Entomologist Florence Dunkel has described the consequences of such interventions.
While examining children’s diets as a part of her field work in Mali, Dunkel discovered
that a protein deficiency syndrome called kwashiorkor was increasing in incidence.
Children in the area were once protected against kwashiorkor by a diet high in
grasshoppers, but these had become unsafe to eat after pesticide use in the area
increased.
H A further issue is the persistent fear many Westerners still have about eating insects.
“The problem is the ick factor—the eyes, the wings, the legs,” Krisiloff has said. “It’s
not as simple as hiding it in a bug nugget. People won’t accept it beyond the novelty.
When you think of a chicken, you think of a chicken breast, not the eyes, wings, and
beak.” For Marcel Dicke, the key lies in camouflaging the fact that people are eating
insects at all. Insect flour is one of his propositions, as is changing the language of
insect cuisine. “If you say it’s mealworms, it makes people think of ringworm”, he
notes. “So stop saying ‘worm’. If we use Latin names, say it’s a Tenebrio quiche, it
sounds much more fancy”. For Krisiloff, Dicke and others, keeping quiet about the
gritty reality of our food is often the best approach.
I It is yet to be seen if history will truly redeem Vincent Holt and his suggestion that
British families should gather around their dining tables for a breakfast of “moths on
toast”. It is clear, however, that entomophagy, far from being a kooky sideshow to the
real business of food production, has much to offer in meeting the challenges that
global societies in the 21st century will face.
Complete the notes below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Van Huis
•Insects are cleaner & do not release as many harmful gases
•Insects use food intake economically in the production of protein as they waste less 6
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Durst
•Traditional knowledge could be combined with modern methods for mass production
instead of just covering 7 …………………
•This could help 8 ………………… people gain access to world markets.
Dunkel
•Due to increased 9 …………………, more children in Mali are suffering from 10
…………………
PART V: WRITING
I. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in
meaning to the original sentence, but using the word given. This word must not be
altered in any way.
 
1. We are determined to get something done about traffic congestion. intent
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2. He can put people at their ease very well. good
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3. He does not have enough experience as a driver for this competition. experienced
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4. It's silly to water the plants now. point
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5.  Her accent shows she's not from around here. tell
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II. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as
possible in meaning to the sentence printed before it.
1. Without paying a large tip you won't get in.
Provided................................................................................................
2. It is pointless to argue about the decision.
It is not................................................................................................
3. "You only think of yourself," she told him.
She accused .........................................................................................
4. The adder is the only poisonous snake in Britain.
Apart.....................................................................................................
5. A skier starts every five minutes.
The skiers start at ....................................................................................
III. Paragraph writing (20 pts)
Write a paragraph of about 120-150 words on the following topic.
The widespread use of the internet has given people access to information on a level
never experienced before. How does this increase in the availability of information
influence life in today's world?

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