PRACTICE TEST 05

PART 1. Listen to a Bulletin of sports news on the radio. For questions 1- 10, complete the following
sentences by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER in the spaces provided. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Diego Garcia (1)……………………….. the semi finals of the French Open.
2. The (2)…………………………..from Sao Paulo, ..., managed to overcome Swiss player Heinz Gruller
in four sets.
3. The two Americans Rod Langer and Brad Wilson will play in the second (3)
…………………………..tomorrow to decide who will play Garcia.

4. We stay in France where today the fifth stage of the Tour De France (4)………………..

5. Baresi now leads the (5)…………………………………… by over six minutes ...

6. Stormy weather played its part and the players didn't (6)……………………..until around 2 o'clock in
the afternoon.
7. Shot of the day, however, went to the unknown Canadian Ross Whirter who made an unbelievable (7)
……………….. on the short 12th hole.
8. the final (8)……………………..for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix took place in rainy conditions.
9. Gert Kruger, driving for Ferrari, finished the day in pole position and looks in a great position to (9)
………………………. his lead in the world championship standings.
10. Pittsburgh were beaten (10)………………………………. by a strong Milwaukee side.
11. Boston (11)…………………………………………..the Yankees by 7-3.
12. The Chicago White Sox (12)………………………………. a close game 4-3 against Cleveland.
13. Tampa Bay (13)…………………………………. top 8-5 in Toronto...
14. ...and Houston (14)…………………………….St. Louis by 4-1.

Your answers:
1. 4. 7. 10.
2. 5. 8. 11.
3. 6. 9. 12.
13. 14.

Part 2. For questions 15- 20, you will listen to the presentation about a new product designand then decide
whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
15. They have redesigned an old product.
16. The product is aimed at men and women aged 18–40.
17. The new design means you don't need two hands to use it.
18. There's only one size now. Another one will follow in a few months.
19. They will make a Gantt chart for the project next month.
20. He finished the presentation with enough time to take some questions.

Your answers:
15. 17. 19.
16. 18. 20.
Part 3: For questions 21- 28, you will listen to Carolina talking about her relationship with Enrico and then
choose a correct option for each question.

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21. Where did Enrico's family move to?
A. The south of Italy B. The USA C. The north of Italy
22. How does Carolina describe Enrico when he was young?
A. Quiet and funny B. Intelligent C. Quite funny
23. What did she study at university?
A. Law B. Economics C. European languages
24. Where was she when she saw 'the handsome guy'?
A. In the university B. In the cinema C. In a bar
25. What was he doing?
A. Talking on his phone B. Chatting to friends at the table C. Eating
26. What did they arrange to do?
A. Go to a disco B. Go out for a pizza C. Go to see a movie
27. What did they actually do?
A. They went to the cinema B. They talked in a bar C. They went to a park
28. How old is their daughter?
A. 6 months B. 3 months C. 6 years

Your answers:

21. 23. 25. 27.

22. 24. 26. 28.

SECTION B – VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR

Part 1: Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C or D in your
answers.
1. Last year she earned _______ her brother.
A. twice as much as(gấp đôi) B. twice more than C. twice as many as D. twice as more as
2. I could not _____ the peak of the mountain in the foggy weather.
A. get over  B. make out(nhìn ra)  C. see through  D. go into
3. Growing the same _____ year after year makes the soil poor.
A. crop(cây trồng) B. tree C. soil D. field
4. Maria: “Can I borrow your umbrella for a day?” Ann: “___________”
A. With pleasure(rất hân hạnh) B. Ready C. Welcome D. Yes, I can
5. _______ is to forget all about it.
A. At best you can do B. The best thing you can do
C. What best you can do D. You can do the best
6. No matter _______, Mozart was an accomplished composer while still a child.
A. how it seems remarkable B. how remarkable it seems
C. it seems remarkable how D. how seems it remarkable
7. I couldn’t receive the picture very clearly because of _____ caused by weather conditions.
A. blocks B. blockage C. leakage D. interference(sự cản trở)
8. If you put your money in a bank now, you may get 12%___________annually.
A. interest(lãi suất) B. profit C. money D. income
9. The virus, which is believed to have _________ from the city in Hubei province, has killed 132 and infected
nearly 6,000 people around the world.

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 A. located B. emanated(phát ra) C. broken D. spread
10. The school was closed for a month because of a serious ___________of fever.
A. outset B. outburst C. outbreak(sự bùng nổ) D. outcome
Your answers:

1. 3. 5. 7. 9.
2. 4. 6. 8. 10.

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections
in the corresponding numbered boxes.

1 MTV stands for Music Television . It’s television channel dedicating(DEDICATED) to pop
music. It was
2 born on 1st August 1981 in the United State(STATES). Because of MTV’ s instant
succeed(SUCCESS) in the
3 US, the company expanded into other areas.MTV Europe began operating on 1st August
4 1987.MTV Europe broadcast 24 hours a day from it(ITS) London studios. It can be seen in 33
5 Countries and reaches an estimated audiences(AUDIENCE) of 110 million viewers. People
of 19
6 different nationalities work at London headquarters, and they try to offer a mixture of
7 music from all over Europe. The channel broadcasts in English but Germany provides the
8 Bigger(BIGGEST) number of viewers. Currently, one five(FIFTH) of the music is by
German artists. Most of
9 TV output is video and concerts, but there is also a programme calling(CALLED) Unplugged
, where
1 major artists play live and acoustic in front of a small studio audience. In addition on(TO)
0
1 music, the channel’s programmes deal with news, movie information and comedy.MTV
1
1 has also broadcasted special report on racism, immigrate(IMMIGRATION) and
2 unemployed teenagers.

Your answers:

Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction

11. 16.
12. 17.
13. 18.
14. 19.
15. 20.

SECTION C – READING
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your
answers in corresponding numbered boxes.

The role of the translator in enabling literature to pass beyond its natural frontiers is receiving growing
recognition. In view of the general increase in this (1) _____, it is not surprising that many people with literary
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interests and a knowledge of languages should think of adopting translating as a full-or part-time (2) _____.
Some advice may usefully be (3)__________ to such would-be translators.
The first difficulty the beginner will (4) _____ is the unwillingness of publishers to entrust a translator to
anyone who has not already (5) _____ a reputation for sound work. The least publishers will (6) _____ before
commissioning a translator is a fairly lengthy (7)_________ of the applicant's work, even if unpublished.
Perhaps the best way the would-be translator can begin is to select some books of the type which he or she feels
competent and (8)__________ to translate, translate a (9) _____ section of the book and then submit the book
and the translation to a (10)________ publisher. If he or she is extremely lucky, this may (11)_______ in a
commission to translate the book. More (12)______, however, publishers will (13) _____ the book as such but
if they are favorably (14) _____ by the translation, they may very possibly commission some other books of a
(15) _____ nature which they already have in mind.
1. A. Field(lĩnh vực)          B. category            C. class         D. group
2. A. Occupation(nghề)      B. employment         C. line          D. work
3. A. made B. given C. told D. shown
4.A. reveal         B. Encounter(đụng độ)C. involve        D. introduce
5. A. formed         B. set                C. found         D. Established(gây dựng)
6. A. direct          B. instruct             C. oblige         D. Demand(đề nghị)
7. A. instance B. model C. case D. specimen(mẫu)
8. A. agitated B. nervous C. eager(hăng hái) D. excited
9.A. plentiful        B. large              C. grand         D. Substantial(đáng kể)
10. A. fit B. suitable(hợp lý) C. right D. convenient
11. A. result(dẫn đến) B. finish C. effect D. lead
12. A. surely B. probably(có lẽ) C. certainly D. expectedly
13. A. Reject(từ chối)          B. exclude            C. disapprove      D. object
14. A. affected        B. convinced           C. taken          D. Impressed(ấn tượng)
15. A. joint           B. same              C. common        D. Similar(tương tự)

Your answer:
1. 4. 7. 10. 13.
2. 5. 8. 11. 14.
3. 6. 9. 12. 15.

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
I have returned(16)to my hometown of Wilson Creek after an absence of 10 years.
So many things have changed around here. When I (17)left Wilson Creek, there was a small pond on the right
as you left town. They have filled in (18)this pond and they have built a large shopping mall there. A new post
office has also been built just across from my old school.
There is a baseball stadium on the outskirts of Wilson Creek (19)which has been changed completely. They
have (20)now added a new stand where probably a few thousand people could sit. It looks really great.
The biggest changes have (21)taken place in the downtown area. They have pedestrianised the centre and you
can't drive there anymore. A European-style fountain has been built and some benches have also been added
(22)along with a grassy area and a new street cafe.
My street looks just the same as it always has but a public library has been built in the next street along.
(23)There used to be a great park there but they have cut down all the trees which is a pity. The library now has
a large green area in front of it (24)but it's not the same as when the park was there.

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Another improvement is the number of new restaurants that have opened in Wilson Creek. A Chinese and an
Italian restaurant have opened in the town centre and a Mexican (25)restaurant has opened near my home.
Which is where I am going tonight!
Your answers

16. 18. 20. 22. 24.

17. 19. 21. 23. 25.

Part3: You are going to read a passage and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best
according to the text.
Being aware of one's own emotions - recognizing and acknowledging feelings as they happen - is at the very
heart of Emotional Intelligence. And this awareness encompasses not only moods but also thoughts about those
moods. People who are able to monitor their feelings as they arise are less likely to be ruled by them and are
thus better able to manage their emotions(câu 26,28).

Managing emotions does not mean suppressing them; nor does it mean giving free rein to every feeling.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman, one of several authors who have popularized the notion of Emotional
Intelligence(câu 29), insisted that the goal is balance and that every feeling has value and significance(câu
28,30). As Goleman said, "A life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated
from the richness of life itself." Thus, we manage our emotions by expressing them in an appropriate manner.
Emotions can also be managed by engaging in activities that cheer us up(câu 30), soothe our hurts, or reassure
us when we feel anxious.

Clearly, awareness and management of emotions are not independent. For instance, you might think that
individuals who seem to experience their feelings more intensely than others would be less able to manage
them. However, a critical component of awareness of emotions is the ability to assign meaning to them - to
know why we are experiencing a particular feeling or mood. Psychologists have found that, among individuals
who experience intense emotions, individual differences in the ability to assign meaning to those feelings
predict differences in the ability to manage them(câu 32). In other words, if two individuals are intensely angry,
the one who is better able to understand why he or she is angry will also be better able to manage the anger.(câu
33)

Self-motivation refers to strong emotional self-control, which enables a person to get moving and pursue
worthy goals, persist at tasks even when frustrated, and resist the temptation to act on impulse. Resisting
impulsive behavior is, according to Goleman, "the root of all emotional self-control."
Of all the attributes of Emotional Intelligence, the ability to postpone immediate gratification and to persist in
working toward some greater future gain is most closely related to success - whether one is trying to build a
business, get a college degree, or even stay on a diet. One researcher examined whether this trait can predict a
child's success in school. The study showed that 4-year-old children who can delay instant gratification in order
to advance toward some future goal will be "far superior as students" when they graduate from high school(câu
35) than will 4-year-olds who are not able to resist the impulse to satisfy their immediate wishes.
26. Which of the following can we infer from paragraph 1?
A. Some people can understand their feelings better than others.
B. If people pay attention to their feelings, they can control their emotions better.
C. People who can manage their emotions will be controlled by them.
D. If people pay attention to their feelings, they will not be able to manage them.
27. The word "soothe" in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by __________.
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A. reduce(xoa dịu,giải tỏa)   B. relieve   C. weaken   D. worsen 
28. According to paragraphs 1 to 3, people should be aware of their emotions so that they can  ___________.
A. explain their emotions to others   B. stop feeling angry 
C. manage their emotions appropriately  D. experience feelings more intensively 
29. From paragraph 2, we can see that Daniel Goleman ___________.
A. wrote about Emotional Intelligence 
B. trained people to increase their Emotional Intelligence
C. treated patients who had emotional problems 
D. studied how people manage their  emotions
30. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 2 about our emotions EXCEPT ________. 
A. every feeling is important    B. we can manage our emotions
C. we should ignore some feelings   D. emotions are part of a satisfying life
31. The word "critical" in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to___________.
A. important(quan trọng)   B. indecisive   C. dynamic   D. inessential 
32. The word "them" in paragraph 3 refers to ___________.
A. intense emotions  B. individuals  C. individual differences D. psychologists
33. In paragraph 3, the author explains the concept of awareness and management of   emotions by______.
A. describing how people learn to control their emotions
B. giving an example of why people get angry
C. comparing how two people might respond to an intense emotion
D. explaining why some people are not aware of their emotions
34. The word "pursue" in paragraph 4 mostly means ___________.
A. find out about something   B. try to achieve something(theo đuổi)
C. be involved in something   D. improve or develop something
35. According to paragraph 5, children might be more successful in school if they can resist impulses because
they can ___________.
A. have more friends at school     B. be more popular with their teachers
C. focus on their work and not get distracted   D. easily understand new information
Your answers:
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

Part 4. Read the text and do the following tasks.

For questions 36-41, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list of headings below. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Why being bored is stimulating – and useful, too
This most common of emotions is turning out to be more interesting than we thought
A
We all know how it feels – it’s impossible to keep your mind on anything, time stretches out, and all the things
you could do seem equally unlikely to make you feel better. But defining boredom so that it can be studied
in the lab has proved difficult. For a start, it can include a lot of other mental states, such as frustration,
apathy, depression and indifference. There isn’t even agreement over whether boredom is always a low-energy,
flat kind of emotion or whether feeling agitated and restless counts as boredom, too. In his book, Boredom: A
Lively History, Peter Toohey at the University of Calgary, Canada, compares it to disgust – an emotion that
motivates us to stay away from certain situations. ‘If disgust protects humans from infection, boredom may
protect them from “infectious” social situations,’ he suggests.
B

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By asking people about their experiences of boredom, Thomas Goetz and his team at the University of
Konstanz in Germany have recently identified five distinct types: indifferent, calibrating, searching, reactant
and apathetic. These can be plotted on two axes – one running left to right, which measures low to high arousal,
and the other from top to bottom, which measures how positive or negative the feeling is. Intriguingly, Goetz
has found that while people experience all kinds of boredom, they tend to specialise in one. Of the five types,
the most damaging is ‘reactant’ boredom with its explosive combination of high arousal and negative emotion.
The most useful is what Goetz calls ‘indifferent’ boredom: someone isn’t engaged in anything satisfying but
still feels relaxed and calm. However, it remains to be seen whether there are any character traits that predict
the kind of boredom each of us might be prone to.
C
Psychologist Sandi Mann at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, goes further. ‘All emotions are there for
a reason, including boredom,’ she says. Mann has found that being bored makes us more creative. ‘We’re
all afraid of being bored but in actual fact it can lead to all kinds of amazing things,’ she says. In experiments
published last year, Mann found that people who had been made to feel bored by copying numbers out of the
phone book for 15 minutes came up with more creative ideas about how to use a polystyrene cup than a control
group. Mann concluded that a passive, boring activity is best for creativity because it allows the mind to
wander. In fact, she goes so far as to suggest that we should seek out more boredom in our lives.
D
Psychologist John Eastwood at York University in Toronto, Canada, isn’t convinced. ‘If you are in a state of
mind-wandering you are not bored,’ he says. ‘In my view, by definition boredom is an undesirable state.’
That doesn’t necessarily mean that it isn’t adaptive, he adds. ‘Pain is adaptive – if we didn’t have physical pain,
bad things would happen to us. Does that mean that we should actively cause pain? No. But even if boredom
has evolved to help us survive, it can still be toxic if allowed to fester.’ For Eastwood, the central feature of
boredom is a failure to put our ‘attention system’ into gear. This causes an inability to focus on anything,
which makes time seem to go painfully slowly. What’s more, your efforts to improve the situation can
end up making you feel worse. ‘People try to connect with the world and if they are not successful there’s
that frustration and irritability,’ he says. Perhaps most worryingly, says Eastwood, repeatedly failing to
engage attention can lead to state where we don’t know what to do any more, and no longer care.
E
Eastwood’s team is now trying to explore why the attention system fails. It’s early days but they think
that at least some of it comes down to personality. Boredom proneness has been linked with a variety of
traits. People who are motivated by pleasure seem to suffer particularly badly. Other personality traits, such as
curiosity, are associated with a high boredom threshold. More evidence that boredom has detrimental effects
comes from studies of people who are more or less prone to boredom. It seems those who bore easily face
poorer prospects in education, their career and even life in general. But of course, boredom itself cannot kill –
it’s the things we do to deal with it that may put us in danger. What can we do to alleviate it before it comes to
that? Goetz’s group has one suggestion. Working with teenagers, they found that those who ‘approach’ a boring
situation – in other words, see that it’s boring and get stuck in anyway – report less boredom than those who try
to avoid it by using snacks, TV or social media for distraction.
F
Psychologist Francoise Wemelsfelder speculates that our over-connected lifestyles might even be a new
source of boredom. ‘In modern human society there is a lot of overstimulation but still a lot of problems
finding meaning,’ she says. So instead of seeking yet more mental stimulation, perhaps we should leave
our phones alone, and use boredom to motivate us to engage with the world in a more meaningful way.
Questions 36-41
Reading Passage 2 has six paragraphs, A-F
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.

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Write the correct number, i-viii, in boxes 36-41 on your answer sheet.
List of Headings
i           The productive outcomes that may result from boredomC
ii          What teachers can do to prevent boredom 
iii         A new explanation and a new cure for boredomF
iv         Problems with a scientific approach to boredomA
v          A potential danger arising from boredomD
vi         Creating a system of classification for feelings of boredomB
vii        Age groups most affected by boredom
viii        Identifying those most affected by boredomE

Your answers:

36   Paragraph A….. 37   Paragraph B........... 38   Paragraph C………..

39   Paragraph D ….. 40   Paragraph E …….. 41   Paragraph F………

Questions 42-45
Complete the summary below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes  42-45 on your answer sheet.
Responses to boredom
For John Eastwood, the central feature of boredom is that people cannot 42focus, due to a failure in what he
calls the ‘attention system’, and as a result they become frustrated and irritable. His 43team suggests that those
for whom 44pleasure is an important aim in life may have problems in coping with boredom, whereas those
who have the characteristic of 45curiosity can generally cope with it.

Your answers:

42. 43.
44. 45.

SECTION D – WRITING
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one.

1. After the delivery of her baby, she felt extremely happy. (WALKING)
→After the…., she was walking on air
2. The boy looks nothing like his father. (TAKE)
→ The boy doesn’t take after his father
3. The desk was too crowded for him to put his book down. (ROOM)
→ The desk was too crowded for him to make room for his book
4. When I make my complaint, I hope that you will say you agree with me. (BACK)
→ When I make my complaint, I hope you can back me up
5. They could not warn people by electronic mail because that might spread the computer virus. (FEAR)
→ They could not warn people by electronic mail for fear of spreading the computer virus

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 Part 2: You have seen an advertisement in an English newspaper for a job working in the City Museum
shop during the holidays. You have decided to apply for the job.
Write a letter about 120 -150 wordsto the director of the Museum. In your letter:
 introduce yourself
 explain what experience and special skills you have
 explain why you are interested in the job
Use your name and address as Mary Baker, 67 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Vinh City.

Mary Baker
67 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Vinh city

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to apply for the part-time job at your City Museum shop in a job
advertisement that was published in the Youth Newspaper last week. I am hoping that
you would consider my application and give me the chance to work for you.

I am a student at Huynh Thuc Khang highschool and I’m in grade 12. We are currently
taking summer break and I hope to gain valuable work experience especially in a shop
where I would be able to learn and meet people from diverse backgrounds. I have studied
many languages and I can speak English, Korean fluently and a little Chinese. I am also
quite good with computers and calculation . Especially, I am really into history since my
childhood so I have a knowledge about this field which is suitable for a job in a museum . 
I believe I would be a great candidate to your position.

I look forward to hearing from you soon and further discuss my candidacy for the job.

Yours faithfully
Maria

Part 3. Writing an essay on the following topic:

Some people think that the Government’s banning the use of alcohol while driving will affect our country’s
economy while others claim that this ban will help our country develop.
In about 350 words, write an essay to express your opinion on this issue. Use reasons and examples to
support your position.

While It is generally believed that the nation’s economy will be affected negatively if the
government prohibits the use of alcohol, some people claim that this law will boost our
country’s development. Personally, I am convinced that banning the use of alcohol is
appropriate.
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On the one hand, It is true that alcohol have a strong influence in the economy of our
nation.
Nowadays, almost every people drink beer and wines including children under 18. To
specify, WHO claims that the amount of alcohol consumption is the highest in Southeat
Asia, each Vietnamese who over 15 consume 8,3 litres alcohol annually.Thus, this
dramatic consumption leads to a significant rise in economy’s growth and solve many
financial issue of a country and we can imagine great loss if alcohol disappears .that
explains why the Government always reluctant to strictly implement a rule on banning
the alcohol’s use

Despite the positive impact on economy, it is my opinion that such benefit pale in
comparison
with the negative influence that alcohol have on our society. Firstly, alcohol abuse is a
burden to healthcare expense. Alcohol consumption is a risk factor in numerous chronic
diseases and conditions, it plays a significant role in certain cancers, psychiatric
conditions, and numerous cardiovascular, digestive diseases and increase the risk of
heart disease. An estimated $28 billion is spent each year on alcohol-related health care.
Along with unintentional injury, alcohol plays a significant role in intentional injuries as a
result of aggression and violence. Alcohol has been linked to physical violence by a variety
of research. This contributes to many social evil and increases the number of crimes in
the country, which make the social become chaotic and less developed and that’s why
authority has to immediately prohibit the use of alcohol to solve all that problems

In conclusion, although alcohol can bring a huge amount of income for a country, I still
believe that It causes a lot of negative effects and should be banned in order to making
our society become better and better

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