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SECTION A: LISTENING (15 pts)

PART I. Listen to a telephone conversation between a hotel receptionist and a caller making a
reservation. Complete the form by using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS or A NUMBER for
each answer. (5pts)
Silver Tulip Hotel
1. Number of nights: (1)________1__________________
2.Type of room: (2) ___double-king-sized______________bed
3. Name: (3) EDWARD___FRANCIS______________
4. Transport: (4)______taxi____________________
5. Date of arrival: (5)____Fri(day) 16th April_____________

PART II. Listen to Tyrone calling his local swimming pool. Decide whether each of the
following statements is True (T) or False (F).(5 pts)
6. There are four different age groups that play water polo. T/F
7. Tyrone wants to join the under 14s club. T/F
8. The under 16s water polo team trains three times a week. T/F
9. Water polo matches are played on Saturdays. T/F
10. You need to bring a photo to register at the swimming pool. T/F

PART III. Listen to the speaker talking about the Maasai and the lions. Answer the questions
by choosing A, B, C or D. (5 pts)
11. How did the Maasai people feel about lions in the past?
A. Strongly disliked them. B. Ignore them
C. Loved them. D. Honor them
12. What is the aim of the Lion Guardians scheme?
A. To move the lions to a safer area. B. To train local people to breed the lions.
C. To allow experts to do the research. D. To train local people to protect the lions.
13. Why did Olubi Lairumbe change his mind about killing lions?
A. He found it dangerous. B. He felt sad about having killed a pregnant lion.
C. He realized he was wrong. D. He has killed seven lions in his lifetime.
14. How do Maasai warriors get a lion name, traditionally?
A. By killing a lion B. By doing something brave
C. By raising a lion D. By hunting a lion
15. What do the Lion Guardians do to help people see lions as part of the community?
A. Give people photos of the lions B. Tell people stories about the lions.
C. Give the lions Maasai names D. Give lion names to boys.

SECTION B: PHONETICS (5 pts)

Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest
in the same line. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (3pts)
16. A. pleased B. raised C. practised D. organised
17. A. fossil B. scenic C. pursue D. mission
18. A. wood B. boot C. mood D. troop

Question II. Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three
words in each question. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (2pts)
19. A. gather B. limit C. enlist D. issue
20. A. gratitude B. average C. influence D. recipient

SECTION C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. Write the
answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
21. David is the captain of the school basket team, _____his father before.
A. similar to B. just like C. such as D. as well as
22. Biochemists have solved many of the mysteries about photosynthesis, the process______
plants make food.
A.by which B. through which C. from which D. in which
23. I don’t think he’s ever been there,___________?
A.do I B. has he C. don’t I D. hasn’t he
24.______second thoughts, I’d rather not go out tonight.
A.With B. In C. On D. Under
25. Advertisers often claim their campaigns at young people as they have coniderable
spending_________.
A. power B. force C. energy D. ability
26. When someone is down on their_______, friends are not easy to find.
A. mood B. luck C. fortune D. merit
27. The online game “Pugb” quickly____with young people after being released in 2017.
A.took on B. caught up C. caught on D. took up
28. Mai: “Stop talking! You are so noisy.”
Huy: “__________ He is the noisest in this class.”
A.Why not? B. Look, who’s talking.
C. You can say that again. D. You bet!
29. Everything in the supermarket is marked with a price_____.
A. notice B. mark C. sign D. tag
30. We set off on ____ sunny Tuesday in August.
A. A B. The C. An D. Ø
Question II. Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form. Write the answers on your
answer sheet .(8 pts)

31. You wouldn’t catch me (working) __________ on a Sunday.

32. They were fortunate (rescue) _to have been rescued_____from the fire before the building
collapsed

33. It is asked that the government (set) ________ up a regional library system.

34. If there aren’t any tickets left when we reach the front of the queue, we (wait) _will be
waiting___ all the time for nothing.

35. Look! The rain has spoiled our furniture. You (close) _should have closed___ the
windows last night.

36. She spoke about her daughter, then she went on (talk) __to talk_______ about her son.

37. We were told that the workers (repair) _were repairing_____ an old bridge at that time.

38. The fifth man (interview) _to be interviewed_________ was entirely unsuitable.

Question III. Put each word in brackets into an appropriate form. Write the answers on
your answer sheet. (7pts)
39. Alice is very __photogenic_______. She always manages to look good in photographs.
(PHOTO)
40. Like many_technophiles___ of his generation, he was fascinated by the Internet.
(TECHNOLOGY)
41. Tony’s stubborn belief in his own __infallibility_____ kept him from listening to others.
(FALL)
42. Children growing up in time of war are more likely to be __maladjusted_____ than other.
(ADJUST)

43. Noise from the factory has reached an _unacceptable_______level. (ACCEPT)

44. The new movie is _exceptionally_______ good. (EXCEPT)
45. People used to suffer from their life-time physical__abnormalities______.
(NORMAL)

Question IV. The passage below contains 5 mistakes ( from 46 to 50 ). Recognize the
mistakes and write their correct forms in your answer sheet. (5 pts)
Line
1 Sometimes mail arrives in the post office, and it is impossible to deliver the mail.
2 Perhaps there is an inadequate or illegible address and no return address. The post
 3 office can not just throw this mail out->away, so this becomes “dead mail”. This
4 “dead mail” is sent to one of the US. Postal Service’s dead mail offices. Seventy-five
5 million pieces of mail can end up in the dead mail office in one year. The staff of the
6 dead mail offices have a variety of ways to deal with all of these pieces of dead mail.
7 First of all, they open packages in the hope that something inside will show that->
8 where the package came from or is going to. Dead mail will also be listed on a
9 computer so that people can call in and check to see if a missed->missing item is
10 there. However, all of this mail can’t simply be stored forever; When a lot of dead
11 mail has piled up, the dead mail offices hold public auctions. Every three months, the
12 public is invited in and bins containing items found in dead mail packages are sold to
the lowest->highest bidder.

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SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)
Question I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the text below. Write the
answers on your answer sheet. (10 points)
There has been a significant shift in entertainment trends over the last twenty years or so.
Entertainment used to be public, now it is becoming more and more (51)_private_______.
Formerly people wanting to amuse themselves did so in (52)___groups_____, these days,
people increasingly entertain themselves on their own.
Long, long ago, there were storytellers. They used to travel around the country and their
arrival was (53)_awaited______ with eager anticipation. In the more recent past, people used
to have musical evenings, they used to play games together, on simply sit around the fire and
chat.
Nowadays, (54)__instead_____of playing board games in a group, children play video
games alone or with one another person. People of all ages spend their evenings alone
watching television, videos and DVDs. And large numbers of young (and not so young)
enthusiasts spend their free time surfing the net, (55)_which________, by its very nature, tends
to be a (56)__solitary_______activity.
Forms of entertainment have always been changing, of course, but it could be said that these
recent changes all, (57)__products_____ of technological development, (58)__mark_____ a
more fundamental shift. One could further argue that this shift is symbolized by the earphones
that (59)__are_____ in evidence everywhere. Can this deliberate attempt to shut out the rest of
the world really be (60)_called______entertainment?
Question II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase
for each space. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (10pts)
In recent years there has been a remarkable increase in research into happiness. The
researchers have (61)______ a number of factors which contribute to a definition of happiness.
First of all, there is, in some people, a moderate genetic predisposition to be happy; in other
words, happiness (62)_________ in families. And happiness seems to correlate quite strongly
with the main dimensions of personality: extroverts are generally happier, neurotics are so.
Second, people often (63)________ good social relations as a reason for their happiness. In
particular, friends are a great (64)________ of joy, partly because of the agreeable things they
do together, partly because of the way friends use positive nonverbal signals such as caressing
and touching, to affirm their friendship. Marriage and similar (65)_______ relationship can
also form the basis of lasting happiness. Third, job satisfaction undoubtedly (66)________
overall satisfaction, and vice versa – perhaps this is why some people are happy in boring job:
it works in both ways. Job satisfaction is caused not only by the essential nature of the work,
but also by social interaction with co-workers. Unemployment, on the contrary, can be serious
cause of unhappiness. Fourth, leisure is important because it is more under individual
(67)_____ than most other causes of happiness. Activities (68)_____ sport and music, and
participation in voluntary work and social clubs of various kinds, can give joy, this is partly
because of the (69)_____ themselves, but also because of the social support of other group
members-it is very strong (70)______the case of religious groups.
61. A. fallen back on B. gone in for C. got down to D. come up with
62. A. arrives B. runs C. goes D. descends
63. A. explain B. prefer C. talk D. report
64. A. source B. origin C. base D. meanings
65. A. near B. close C. tight D. heavy
66. A. consists of B. applies to C. contributes D. counts on
67. A. check B. power C. control D. choice
68. A. like B. such C. so D. thus
69. A. facilities B. activities C. exercises D. amenities
70. A. by B. for C. in D. with

Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below. Write the
answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts)
TIDAL ENERGY
A Tidal Stream Generation system reduces some of the environmental effects of tidal
barrages by using turbine generators beneath the surface of the water. Major tidal flows and
ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, can be exploited to extract its tidal energy using
underwater rotors and turbines.
Tidal stream generation is very similar in principle to wind power generation. Water currents
flow across a turbines rotor blades which rotates the turbine, much like how wind currents turn
the blades for wind power turbines. In fact, tidal stream generation areas on the sea bed can
look just like underwater wind farms.
Unlike off-shore wind power which can suffer from storms or heavy sea damage, tidal
stream turbines operate just below the sea surface or are fixed to the sea bed. Tidal streams are
formed by the horizontal fast flowing volumes of water caused by the ebb and flow of the tide
as the profile of the sea bed causes the water to speed up as it approaches the shoreline.
As water is much more denser than air and has a much slower flow rate, tidal stream
turbines have much smaller diameters and higher tip speed rates compared to an equivalent
wind turbine. Tidal stream turbines generate tidal power in both the ebb and flow of the tide.
On of the disadvantages of Tidal Stream Generation is that as the turbines are submerged under
of the water they can create hazards to navigation and shipping.
Other forms of tidal energy include tidal fences which use individual vertical-axis turbines
that are mounted within a fence structure, known as the caisson, which completely blocks a
channel and force water through them. Another alternative way of harnessing tidal power is by
using an “oscillating tidal turbine”. This is basically a fixed wing called a Hydroplane
positioned on the sea bed. The hydroplane uses the energy of the tidal stream flowing past it to
oscillate its giant wing, similar to a whales flipper, up and down with the movement of the
tidal currents. This motion is then used to generate electricity. The angle of the hydroplane to
the flow of the tide can be varied to increase efficiency.
Tidal energy is another form of low-head hydro power that is completely carbon neutral like
wind and hydro energy. Tidal power has many advantages compared to other forms of
renewable energy with its main advantage being that it is predictable. However, like many
other forms of renewable energy, tidal energy also has disadvantages such as its inflexible
generation times dependent upon the tides and the fact that it operates in the hostile conditions
of the oceans and seas.
71. Which of the following does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Tidal energy system and its working principle.
B.Currents and flow of ocean and seas.
C.Tidal turbine and its environmental effects.

D.Tidal energy in comparison with hydro energy.

72. According to paragraph 2, wind power turbines rotate thanks to________.
A. Tidal stream B. water currents flow C. wind currents D. wind farms
73. What does the word “profile” in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. An outline of an object B. A biographical account
C. A summary or analysis of data D. A vertical section of soil and rock
74. What is mentioned in the passage as a disadvantage of Tidal Stream Generation?
A. It can suffer from storms or heavy sea damage.

B. There are some hazards in navigating and shipping turbines.

C. It uses individual vertical-axis turbines.
D. It is another form of low-head hydro power.
75. The word “that” in paragraph 5 refers to_________.
A. tidal energy B. tidal fences
 C. individual vertical-axis turbines D. fence structure
76. What can be inferred from paragraph 5?
A. Individual vertical-axis turbines are the best choice for Tidal Stream Generation.
B. Fence structure is the only way to harness tidal power.
C. Hydroplane uses less energy of the tidal stream.
D. There are some alternative ways to exploit tidal power.
77. The word “oscillate” in paragraph 5 mostly means_________.
A. fluctuate B. remain C. move D. stabilize
78. According to the passage, which of the following statements about Tidal Stream Generation is
TRUE?
A. Tidal stream generation is very dissimilar in principle from the wind power generation.
B. Tidal stream turbines generate tidal power on both the ebb and flow of the tide.
C. The angle of the hydroplane to the flow of the tide can’t be varied to increase efficiency.
D. Tidal energy has no disadvantages.
79. The word “hostile” in the last paragraph mostly means_________.

A. difficult B. unfriendly C. agreeable D. favorable

80. According to the last paragraph, the passage will most likely be followed by discussion of____.
A. Hostile conditions of the oceans and seas.
B. Adjustable generation times of the tides.
C. Drawbacks of tidal energy.
D. Many other forms of renewable energy.

SECTION E: WRITING (20 pts)

Question I. 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. Write the answers on your answer
sheet. (5 pts)
81. You must not write your answer in ink.

à It is against the rules to write your answer in ink

82. The staff hated Frank’s new policies intensely and so went on strike.

à So intense was the hatred of Frank’s new policies that the staff went on strike

83. People say that he sold his house to pay the debt.

à He is said to have sold his house to pay the debt

84. “I admit that I forgot to turn on the alarm system” said Mark.

à Mark confessed to forgetting to turn on the alarm system

85. When she saw the dog coming towards her, she quickly crossed the road.

à On seeing the dog coming towards her, she quickly crossed the road

Question I. 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. (5 pts)
86. Every possible effort was made by the orphanage to find the boy’s parents. (STONE)

à The orphanage left no stone unturned searching for the boy's parents.

87. Women outnumber men by two to one in Greece (TWICE)

à There are twice as many woman as man

88. No matter what Peter does, people don’t seem eager to work on project. (GENERATE)

à Peter doesn’t seem to Generate Others' Eagerness To Work On the Project.

89. The jumper you knitted for my daughter no longer fits her. (GROWN)

à My daughter has grown out of the jumper you knit for her

90. Only final year students are allowed to use the main college car park. (RESTRICTED)

à The use of main colleage car park is restricted to final year students

Question III. Essay writing (10 pts)

Write an essay of about 200 - 250 words to express your opinion on the following topic:
“Music is an integral part of our life.”

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