UBND TỈNH THÁI NGUYÊN KỲ THI TUYỂN SINH LỚP 10 NĂM HỌC 2020-2021

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH

(Dành cho thí sinh thi chuyên Anh)
ĐỀ DỰ PHÒNG
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
ĐÁP ÁN
(Đề thi gồm có 12 trang)

Điểm Giám khảo số 1 Giám khảo số 2 Số phách

Bằng số Bằng chữ (Họ tên, chữ ký) (Họ tên, chữ ký) (Do chủ tịch HĐ ghi)

(Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi và viết câu trả lời vào các ô cho sẵn
theo hướng dẫn của từng phần)

SECTION A: PHONOLOGY (1 point)

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others
in each group.
01. A. windsurfing B. reserve C. philosopher D. wilderness
02. A. crooked B. wretched C. hooked D. scared
03. A. locate B. dominate C. private D. nominate
04. A. island B. aisle C. conserve D. debris
05. A. muzzle B. lizard C. puzzle D. pizza
06. A. sergant B. merchant C. commercial D. term
07. A. bound B. poultry C. county D. found
08. A. absinthe B. soothe C. loathe D. wreathe

01. B 02. A 03. C 04. C

05. D 06. A 07. B 08. A

II. Choose the word whose main stress position is placed differently from that of the others
in each group.
09. A. challenge B. award C. compile D. surround
10. A. product B. sugar C. bamboo D. victim
11. A. depression B. destruction C. contribute D. government

12. A. institute B. consumption C. specific D. encounter

13. A. tableland B. apparent C. atmosphere D. applicant
14. A. vulnerable B. satelite C. eleven D. element
15. A. endangered B. survival C. commercial D. industry

09. A 10. C 11. D 12. A

13. B 14. C 15. D

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SECTION B: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (3 points)
I. Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each of the sentences.
16. The mirror _____ broken when I dropped it in the bathroom.
A. got B. turned C. grew D. felt
17. The tanks were _____ for the battle-field.
A. travelling B. going C. running D. heading
18. Jack never cheats or tricks anybody when he plays. He always goes by the _____.
A. book B. instructions C. principles D. method
19. I was surprised to find he’d gone behind my _____.
A. hat B. back C. thought D. leg
20. Recent EC legislation is aimed at removing trade _____ between member states.
A. barriers B. walls C. boundaries D. fences
21. We have stopped buying goods from that shop as most of them are _____ poor quality.
A. under B. in C. with D. on
22. She _____ in order to send her children to school.
A. cut corners B. worked her fingers to the bone
C. made a meal of it D. called it a day
23. Her colleagues put her _____ a hopeless case, but she proved to be the most talented of all
politicians.
A. through B. out of C. on to D. down as
24. What stands out from The Voice Kids is that many young children are _____ with natural
talent for music.
A. bestowed B. conferred C. endowed D. vouchsafed
25. While backpacking in a quiet, traditional region, I came across the seemingly _____ fast
food ads typical of my hometown.
A. invasive B. infuriating C. irritating D. ubiquitous

16. A 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. A

21. B 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. D

II. Give the correct form of the word in brackets to complete each of the sentences.
26. I have been really smart and good-looking since _____. (BORN)
27. Never before have I seen such a lack of _____ from a new employee. (EFFICIENT)
28. We also use “wish” and “would” to show _____, for instance:
“I wish you would pull your finger out and work harder.” (ANNOY)
29. Promotions are fairly _____ thanks to the great management structure
in place. (ACCESS)
30. If we don’t _____ on electricity, there will be power cut. (ECONOMY)
31. The roof of his cottage needs _____. (STRONG)
32. She is so _____ that she won’t let anything stand in her
way of her ambition. (MIND)
33. Could you give me some kind of _____ when you will
come to a decision? (INDICATE)

26. birth 27. efficiency 28. annoyance

29. accessible 30. economize 31. strengthening

32. determined 33. indication/indicator

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III. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or adverb particle.
34. At this point, it seems impossible that any rival team might take an advantage _____ our
team.
35. It looks as if John has got addicted _____ cigarettes. He smokes one packet a day.
36. We didn’t see much of the landscape because our father drove _____ high speed all along
the way.
37. Apart from the constant electricity shortage, they were also deprived _____ the possibility
of taking every day showers.
38. Five participants have been expelled _____ the survival course for their abject
disobedience.
39. We don’t want anybody else to find out about our arrangements, do we? We must
organise everything _____ secret.
40. I can’t tell you _____ certainty that this musical score is less interesting than the one he
wrote previously.
41. They had a hard time of persuading her _____ changing her mind about the weekend plan.
42. You’d better ask Tom about the girl. I can’t tell you much as I know her _____ sight.

34. over 35. to 36. at

37. of 38. from 39. in
40. with 41. into 42. by

IV. There are ten mistakes in the words used in the passage below. Identify them and write
the correct answer in the corresponding numbered boxes. The first one (00) has been done
as an example.
Lin
e
1
Trees should only be prune when there is a good and clear reason for doing so
and,
2 fortunately, the number of such reasons is small. Pruning involves the cutting away
of
3 overgrown and wanted branches, and the inexperienced gardener can be encouraged
by
4 the thought that more damage results in doing it unnecessarily than from leaving the
tree
5 to grow in its own way.
6 Firstly, pruning may be done to make sure that trees have a desire shape or size.
The
7 object may be to get a tree of the right height, and at the same time to help the growth
of
8 small side branches which will thicken its appearance or give it a specially shape.
Secondly,
9 pruning maybe done to help the tree healthier. You may cut out diseased or dead
wood,
10 or branches rubbing with each other and thus causing wounds. The health of a tree
may
11 be encouraged by removing branches that are blocking up the centre and so

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 preventing
12 the free movement of air.
13 One result of pruning is that an open wound is left on the tree and this provides
a
14 easy entry for disease, but it is a wound that will heal. Often there is a race between the
healing
15 and the diease as to when the tree will live or die, so that there is a period when the tree is at
risk.
16 It should be the aim of every gardener to reduce that risk of death as much as possible. It
is
17 essential to make the area which has been pruned smooth and clean for healing will be
slow
18 down by roughness. You should allow the cutting surface to dry for a few hours and
then
19 paint it with one of the substances available from garden shops produced especially for this
purpose.

Question Line Mistakes Correction

00 1 prune pruned
43. 3 wanted unwanted
44. 4 in from
45. 6 desire desired
46. 8 specially special
47. 9 help make
48. 10 with against
49. 13 a an
50. 15 when whether
51. 17 slow slowed
52. 18 cutting cut

V. Complete each of the following sentences using the correct form of a phrasal verb from
the box. There are two extra phrases that you do not need to use.
come across call for vouch for go off set in
make for carry away pull up break up call off
53. While I was walking down Oxford Street, I _____ a good record shop.
54. The piece of meat was left out of the fridge and now it has _____.
55. I’m not surprised that Sally and Jim _____ recently; they kept quarrelling all the time.
56. John was completely _____ by the music and lost track of time.
57. All passengers got ready to get off the train as it _____ the station.
58. The situation _____ immediate action, or the company will lose the contract.
59. Let’s _____ that island and wait for the storm to pass.
60. I can’t _____ him. I have never met him.

53. came across 54. gone off 55. have broken up 56. carried away

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 57. was pulling up/ 58. calls for 59. make for 60. vouch for
pulled up

SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION (3,5 points)

I. Read the passage below and choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the questions.
The Museum of Failed Products
Our business editor paid a visit to the graveyard of good ideas
In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor in Michigan stands a
poignant memorial to humanity’s shattered dreams. It doesn’t look like that from the outside,
though. Even when you get inside, it takes a few moments for your eyes to get used to what
you’re seeing. It appears to be a vast and haphazardly organized supermarket; along every aisle,
grey metal shelves are crammed with thousands of packages of food and household products.
There is something unusually cacophonous about the displays and soon enough you work out the
reason: unlike in a real supermarket, there is only one of each item.
The storehouse, operated by a company called GfK Custom Research North America, has
acquired a nickname: the Museum of Failed Products. This is consumer capitalism’s graveyard
or, to put it less grandly, it’s almost certainly the only place on the planet where you’ll find
A Touch of Yogurt shampoo alongside the equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only. The museum
is home to discontinued brands of caffeinated beer and self-heating soup cans that had a
regrettable tendency to explode in customers’ faces.
There is a Japanese term, mono no aware, that translates roughly as “the pathos of
things”. It captures a kind of bittersweet melancholy at life’s impermanence – that additional
beauty imparted to cherry blossoms, for their fleeting nature. It’s only stretching the concept
slightly to suggest that this is how the museum’s manager, an understatedly stylish GfK
employee named Carol Sherry, feels about the cartons of Morning Banana Juice in her care or
about Fortune Snookies, a short-lived line of fortune cookies for dogs. Every failure, the way she
sees it, embodies its own sad story on the part of designers, marketers, and salespeople. It is
never far from her mind that real people had their mortgages, their car payments, and their
family holidays riding on the success of products such as A Touch of Yogurt.
The Museum of Failed Products was itself a kind of accident, albeit a happier one. Its
creator, a now retired marketing man named Robert McMath, merely intended to accumulate a
“reference library” of consumer products, not failure per se. And so, starting in the 1960s, he
began purchasing and preserving a sample of every new item he could find. Soon, the collection
outgrew his office in upstate New York and he was forced to move into a converted granary to
accommodate it. Later, GfK bought him out, moving the whole lot to Michigan. What McMath
hadn’t taken into account was the three-word truth that was to prove the making of his career:
most products fail. According to some estimates, the failure rate is as high as ninety percent.
Simply by collecting new products indiscriminately, McMath had ensured that his hoard would
come to consist overwhelmingly of unsuccessful ones.
By far the most striking thing about the museum, though, is that it should exist as a
viable, profit-making business in the first place. You might have assumed that any consumer
product manufacturer worthy of the name would have its own such collection – a carefully
stewarded resource to help it avoid making errors its rivals had already made. Yet the number of
executives who arrive every week at Sherry’s door is evidence of how rarely this happens.
Product developers are so focused on their next hoped-for success, so unwilling to invest time or
energy thinking about their industry’s past failures that they only belatedly realize how much
they need to access GfK’s collection. Most surprising of all is that many of the designers who
have found their way to the museum have come there to examine – or been surprised to discover
– products that their own companies had created, then abandoned.
It isn’t hard to imagine how one downside of the positive thinking culture, an aversion to
confronting failure, might have been responsible for the very existence of many of the products
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lining on its shelves. Each one must have made it through a series of meetings at which nobody
realized that the product was doomed. Perhaps nobody wanted to contemplate the prospect of
failure; perhaps someone did but didn’t want to bring it up for discussion. By the time the truth
became obvious, the original developers would have moved to other products or other firms.
Little energy would have been invested in discovering what went wrong. Everyone involved
would have conspired, perhaps without realizing what they’re doing, never to speak of it again.
Failure is everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact.
(Adapted from Gold Advanced by Sally Burgess & Amanda Thomas © Pearson, pages 40-41)
61. According to the writer, what is the reason why the storehouse does not resemble a
supermarket?
A. its appearance on the outside B. the dimly-lit space
C. the size of the building D. the range of products on each shelf
62. The word “haphazardly” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. logically B. randomly C. greedily D. roughly
63. What is the writer’s main purpose in paragraph 2?
A. to provide an idea of what the museum contains
B. to give reasons why these products were rejected by consumers
C. to explain how obvious it was that self-heating cans failed
D. to illustrate how the museum is organized and operated
64. What is Carol Sherry’s attitude to the failed products?
A. She feels particularly attached to some products.
B. She has sympathy for the people inventing them.
C. She prefers failed products to successful ones.
D. She appreciates the concepts behind the products.
65. The word “fleeting” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. intractable B. durable C. selective D. brief
66. According to the writer, Mr. McMath failed to realize that his collection would _____.
A. be better if it were more selective B. grow so quickly
C. contain so many failed products D. be so difficult to store
67. The word “indiscriminately” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. in a planned way B. in an expected way
C. in an unexpected way D. in an unplanned way
68. According to the writer, what is remarkable about the product developers who visit GfK?
A. their ignorance of the existence of the collection
B. the lack of attention paid to previous failures
C. the way they dismiss their own companies’ failures
D. their tendency to repeat past failures
69. What point is the writer making in the last paragraph?
A. that failure should have been prevented
B. that failure is an acceptable part of life
C. that people are afraid to talk about failure
D. that thinking negatively often leads to failure
70. The word “aversion” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.
A. dislike B. willingness C. affection D. approval

61. D 62. B 63. A 64. B 65. D

66. C 67. D 68. B 69. C 70. A

II. Read the following passage and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word.
BICYCLE SAFETY

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 Having to obey rules and regulations when riding a bike is (71) _____ of the first
experiences children have of the idea (72)_______obeying the law. However, a large
(73)______of children are left to learn the rules by trial and (74) ______, instead of being guided
by experienced (75) _______. Every year, hundreds of children visit the doctor or the hospital
casualty department (76) ______ crashing on their bikes. This could be easily prevented by
(77) _______ them the basics of bicycle safety. Ideally, children should be allowed to ride only
in safe places, such as parks and cycle (78)_____. When this is not possible, and they are
permitted to go on the (79) ______, it is important to teach them some basic safety principles.
First, they ought to learn and follow the rules of the road, which (80) _______ traffic signs,
signals, and road markings. Second, they should always wear a helmet. Studies have shown that
wearing bicycle helmets can (81) ______ head injuries by up to 85 per cent. In many places,
helmets are required by law, particularly (82) _______ children. Finally, children should be
made to understand (83) _______ importance of riding in areas that are brightly (84)______and
of wearing clothes that make (85) _______ clearly visible on the road.

71. one 72. of 73. number

74. error 75. people/trainers/coaches/ 76. after
parents/teachers/peers/adults
77. teaching/instructing 78. paths/lanes/tracks 79. road
80. include 81. reduce/decrease/lower/cut 82. for
83. the 84. lit 85. them/themselves

III. Read the passage and answer the questions 86-96 and do the tasks as directed.
A. Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable
resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastic and metal, trees are replaceable.
Paper is also biodegradable, so it doesn’t pose as much threat to the environment when it is
discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tons of wood fibres used to make paper in Australia comes
from waste paper, the rest come directly from virgin fibres from forests and plantation. By world
standard this is a good performance since the world-wide average is 33 percent waste paper.
Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time,
the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the
way for even greater utilization of used fibres. As a result, industry’s use of recycled fibres is
expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibres over the coming years.
B. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packing and advances in
technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in
newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also
contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; For example, stationery
may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be supports from the community
for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to
collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted contaminants such as
staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items.
C. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some
paper products cannot be collected for re-use. This includes paper in the forms of books and
permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most
common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts
of packing material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business
documents and computer output, paper converters and printers, and lastly households which
discard newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper
and may also incur the collection cost.

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 D. Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people trained to recognize various
types of paper. This is necessary because some types of paper can only be made from particular
kinds of recycled fibres. The sorted paper then has to be repulped or mixed with water and
broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called stock then may contain a wide
variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which has
had little sorting. Various machineries are used to removed other materials from the stock. After
passing through the repulping process, the fibres from printed waste paper are gray in colour
because the printing ink has soaked into the individual fibres. This recycle materials can only be
used in products where the gray colour doesn’t matter, such as cardboard boxes, but if the grey
colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. This involves adding chemicals such as
caustic soda or other alkalis, soaps and detergents, water-hardening agents such as calcium
chloride, fronting agents and bleaching agents. Before the recycled fibres can be made into paper
they must be refined or treated in such a way that they bond together.
E. Most paper products must contain some virgin fibres as well as recycled fibres and unlike
glass, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-cycled which means that a
product made from recycled papers is of an inferior quality to the original paper. Recycling
paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour and capital that go into producing
virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to
collect the waste paper from the community and to process it to produce new paper. And the
recycling process still creates emissions which require treatment before they can be disposed of
safely. Nevertheless, paper cycling is an important economical and environmental practice but
one which must be carried out in a rational and viable manner for it to be useful to both industry
and the community.
(Source: Cambridge English Tests - IELTS)

For questions 86-90, choose the correct heading for each of the paragraphs A-F from the
list of headings below. Write the correct numbers (i-vi) in the boxes provided.

List of Headings

i. Process of paper recycling

ii. Less threat of waste paper to the environment
iii. Collection of paper for recycling
iv. Sources of paper for recycling
v. Bad sides of paper recycling
vi. Contribution of community to recycling paper

86. Paragraph A: ii 87. Paragraph B: vi 88. Paragraph C: iv

89. Paragraph D: i 90. Paragraph E: v

For questions 91-96, complete the summary below of the first two paragraphs of the
Reading Passage. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the reading passage for
each answer in boxes.
From the point of view of recycling, paper has two advantages over minerals and (91) _____ in
that firstly it comes from a resource which is (92) _____ and secondly it is less threatening to our
environment when we throw it away because it is (93) _____. Although Australia’s record in the
re-use of waste paper is good, it is still necessary to use a combination of recycled fibres and
(94) _____ to make new paper. The paper industry has contributed positively and people have

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also been encouraged by (95) _____ to collect their waste on a regular basis. One major
difficulty is the removal of ink from used paper but (96) _____ are being made in this area.

91. oil 92. replaceable 93. biodegradable

94. virgin fibres 95. governments 96. advances

IV. Read the following passage and do the tasks as directed.

Attitudes to language
It is not easy to be systematic and objective about language study. Popular linguistic
debate regularly deteriorates into invective and polemic. Language belongs to everyone, so most
people feel they have a right to hold an opinion about it. And when opinions differ, emotions can
run high. Arguments can start as easily over minor points of usage as over major policies of
linguistic education.
Language, moreover, is a very public behavior, so it is easy for different usages to be
noted and criticised. No part of society or social behavior is exempt: linguistic factors influence
how we judge personality, intelligence, social status, educational standards, job aptitude, and
many other areas of identity and social survival. As a result, it is easy to hurt, and to be hurt,
when language use is unfeelingly attacked.
In its most general sense, prescriptivism is the view that one variety of language has an
inherently higher value than others, and that this ought to be imposed on the whole of the speech
community. The view is propounded especially in relation to grammar and vocabulary, and
frequently with reference to pronunciation. The variety which is favoured, in this account, is
usually a version of the “standard” written language, especially as encountered in literature, or in
the formal spoken language which most closely reflects this style. Adherents to this variety are
said to speak or write “correctly”; deviations from it are said to be “incorrect”.
All the main languages have been studied prescriptively, especially in the 18 th century
approach to the writing of grammars and dictionaries. The aims of these early grammarians were
threefold: (a) they wanted to codify the principles of the languages, to show that there was a
system beneath apparent chaos of usage, (b) they wanted a means of setting disputes overusage,
and (c) they wanted to point out what they felt to be common errors, in order to “improve” the
language. The authoritarian nature of the approach is best charaterized by its reliance on “rules”
of grammar. Some usages are “prescribed” to be learnt and followed accurately; others are
“proscribed”, to be avoided. In this early period, there were no half-measures: usages were either
right or wrong, and it was the task of the grammarian not simply to record alternaties, but to
pronounce judgment upon them.
These attitudes are still with us, and they motivate a widespread concern that linguistic
standards should be maintained. Nevertheless, there is an alternative point of view that is
concerned less with standards than with the fact of linguistic usage. This approach is summarised
in the statement that it is the task of the grammarian to describe, not prescribe - to record the
facts of linguistic diversity, and not to attempt the impossible tasks of evaluating language
variation or halting language change. In the second half of the 18 th century, we already find
advocates of this view, such as Joseph Priestley, whose Rudeiments of English Grammar (1761)
insists that “the custom of speaking is the original and only that standard of any language.”
Linguistic issues, it is argued, cannot be solved by logic and legislation. And this view has
become the tenet of the modern linguistic approach to grammatical analysis.
In our own time, the opposition between “descriptivists” and “prescriptivists” has often
become extreme, with both sides paining unreal pictures of the other. Descriptive grammarians
have been presented as people who do not care about standards, because of the way they see all
forms of usage as equally valid. Prescriptive grammarians have been presented as blind
adherents to a historical tradition. The opposition has even been presented in quasi-political
terms – of radical liberalism vs elitist conservatism.
(Source: Cambridge English Tests - IELTS)

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Questions 97- 104:
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writers in the passage?
In boxes 97-104, write:
T (True): if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
F (False): if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
97. There are understandable reasons why arguments occur about language.
98. People feel more strongly about language education than about small differences in
language usage.
99. Our assessment of a person’s intelligence is affected by the way he or she uses language.
100. Prescriptivism still exists today.
101. According to descriptivists, it is pointless to try to stop language change.
102. Descriptivism only appeared after the 18th century.
103. Both descriptivist and prescriptivist have been misrepresented.
104. There is an alternative point of view concerned more with standards than with the act of
linguistic usage.
97. T 98. F 99. T 100. T
101. T 102. F 103. T 104. F
Questions 105-108:
Complete the summary using the list of words bellow. Write the correct letter (A-I), in
boxes 105-108.

A. descriptivists B. language experts C. polular speech

D. formal language E. evaluation F. rules
G. modern linguists H. prescriptivists I. change

The language debate

According to (106) _____, there is only one correct form of language. Linguists who take this
approach to language place great importance on grammatical (107) _____. Conversely, the view
of (108) _____, such as Joseph Priestly, is that grammar should be based on (109) _____ .

105. H/ prescriptivists 106. F/ rules 107. A/ descriptivists 108. C/ polular speech

Questions 109-110: Choose the correct answer. Write the letter (A, B, C, or D) in the
corresponding boxes (109-110):
109. What is the writer’s purpose in the passage?
A. To argue in favour of a particular approach to writing dictionaries and grammar books
B. To present a historical account of differing views of language
C. To describe the differences between spoken and written language
D. To show how a certain view of language has been discredited
110. The word “codify” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____.
A. arrange systematically B. adhere blindly to
C. critise strongly D. agree completely

109. B 110. A

SECTION D: WRITING (2,5 points)

I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that its meaning is similar to that of the original one.

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 111. She was sorry that she didn’t phone Simon yesterday.
=> She wished she had phoned Simon yesterday.
112. Oil was slowly coating the edge of the shore.
=> The edge of the shore was being slowly coated with oil/ coated with oil slowly.
113. You didn’t attend yesterday’s class so you can’t do this exercise now.
=> Had you attended yesterday’s class, you could do this exercise now.
114. Scientists say forests are being destroyed by air pollution.
=> Scientists blame air pollution for the fact that forests are being destroyed/ destroying
the forests/ the destruction of forests.
115. Keeping calm is the secret of your passing driving test.
=> As long as you keep calm, you will/can pass the driving test.
116. Laughing isn’t permitted in that ritual.
=> You must keep a straight face in that ritual.
117. Her success went beyond her expectation.
=> Never had she expected to be/that she was/that she would be so successful.
118. I was greatly relieved to hear that her condition was not serious.
=> It was with great relief to hear that her condition was not serious.
119. The team is the same as it was last Saturday’s match.
=> There have been no changes to the team since last Saturday’s match.
120. Driving at that speed is dangerous whether you are an experienced driver or not.
=> However experienced (a driver) you are, driving at that speed is dangerous.
II. Rewrite each of the sentences below in such a way that its meaning is similar to that of the
original one, using the word given in brackets. Do not change this word in any way.
121. In her previous job, Mara was a picture restorer. (WORK)
=> Mara used to work as a picture restorer.
122. I was scared to tell him what I really thought. (COURAGE)
=> I didn’t have the courage to tell him what I really thought.
123. I felt stupid when I realized what I’d done. (FOOL)
=> I felt like a fool when I realized what I’d done.
124. They haven’t been to London for a long time (SINCE)
=> It is a long time since they (last) went to London.
125. In the end, I felt I had been right to leave the club. (REGRETS)
=> I had no regrets about leaving/having left the club.
126. The garden is too small for us to build a swimming pool. (ROOM)
=> There isn’t enough room for us to build a swimming pool.
127. This train should have left 30 minutes ago. (MEANT)
=> This train was meant to leave 30 minutes ago.
128. The young man was very embarrased when his proposal was turned down. (REJECTION)
=> The young man was very embarrased with the rejection of his proposal.
=>The rejection of his proposal made the youngman (feel) very embarrased.
=>The rejection of his proposal caused the youngman to feel very embarrased.
129. 129. She is proud of being a good cook. (PRIDE)
=> She takes pride in being a good cook.
130. He won’t let anyone touch his records. (OBJECTS)
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=> He objects to anyone touching his records.
Total mark: 130 : 13 = 10
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