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HÀ NỘI LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Ngày thi: 29/9/2020
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
(Đề thi gồm 09 trang)

Điểm Cán bộ chấm thi Phách

Bằng số Bằng chữ Họ và tên Chữ ký

1.

2.

- Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi và không được sử dụng bất cứ tài liệu nào kể cả từ điển.
- Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
PART I - PHONETICS (1.0 point)
a. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. A. resolute B. observance C. subscribe D. represent
2. A. tornado B. nationality C. angel D. lame
3. A. wicked B. sacred C. unrivalled D. beloved
b. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is placed differently from that of the others. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
4. A. nationwide B. carefree C. praiseworthy D. airtight
5. A. apprentice B. compassionate C. algorithm D. exterminate

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
PART II - LEXICO - GRAMMAR (8.0 points)
a. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided. (3.0 points)
1. You ______ Jack yesterday. He’s been on business for a week now.
A. mustn’t have seen B. could not have seen C. may have not seen D. can’t have seen
2. Some people send their job applications even when they are reasonably happy in their jobs, ______
improve their position.
A. hope to B. to hope to C. with the hopes of D. hoping to
3. Thank you very much. I haven’t been to ______ party for ages.
A. so enjoyable B. the so enjoyable C. so enjoyable a D. a so enjoyable
4. She said that if I ______ back the following day, she ______ able to help me.
A. had come – would have been B. came – would be
C. would be – were D. would have come – had been
5. You promised to have a day off and go camping with us and you were at work until midnight this
Sunday. I would rather you ______ your word.
A. would keep B. would have kept C. had kept D. kept
6. I’ve been so fortunate ______ my grandparents have just passed down a huge legacy on me.
A. in which B. in that time C. in that D. in the moment
7. _____ are considered humorous is mainly due to his characters’ use of slang.
A. That Damon Ruyan’s stories B. Damon Ruyan’s stories, which
C. Damon Ruyan’s stories D. Because Damon Ruyan’s stories

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8. His story was so ______ that we all believed him.
A. fallible B. perceptible C. plausible D. tangible
9. It was not until she arrived in class ______ she had forgotten her book.
A. and she realized B. when she realized C. did she realize D. that she realized
10. The ______ attitude was one of support, so the meeting ended positively.
A. deepening B. spreading C. dominating D. prevailing
11. The brother and sister were ______ over who would get to inherit the beach house.
A. at large B. at odds C. at a standstill D. at a loose end
12. Superconductivity will revolutionize the way that energy is used for the next millennium, and ______
the first truly superconductive substance will be remembered as a technological hero.
A. what the discovery of B. the discovery of
C. whoever discovers D. whose discovery of
13. Until your finances are in the ______, it's not a good idea to take out a loan.
A. white B. red C. black D. gold
14. I'm not sure I can answer that. I've only thought about it in the ______ before.
A. general B. hypothetical C. indefinite D. abstract
15. It will be impossible to butter ______ Mr. Thompson so that he’ll give you a good personal reference.
A. in B. on C. up D. from

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
b. Read the following text which contains 5 mistakes. Identify the errors and write the relevant corrections
in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1.0 point)
Line 1 Nature is something that we all so often take for granted. Yet, in order not to become ill, we
need to have regular contact with it – we need it on a regular base. Imagine being kept in a
room with no daylight and no greenery. It sounds as torture, doesn’t it? Well, in fact, it is. Just
as animals suffer if they are kept in cages, we humans soon fall ill in our own ‘cages’.
Line 5 What exactly we get from nature is not clear, but there may be several reasons for a walk in
the countryside makes us feel well. First of all, the oxygen from trees and plants gives us a lift
as this oxygen fills the lungs, then the blood, and then goes straight to the brain, gives us that
familiar feeling of well-being. More difficult to explain is how the sense of smell works to
make us happy. If something has a nice smell, like flowers or grass, it is likelihood that, apart
Line 10 from just being pleasant, it is doing us good as well. It is possible in many cases that the scents
and aromas in nature remind us of our childhood – a time when all of us were younger, and
most of us were fitter and healthier.

Example:
0. line 1: so -> too 1. line _____: ………......……. 2. line _____: ………......…….

3. line _____: ………......……. 4. line _____: ………......……. 5. line _____: ………......…….

c. Complete these sentences, using the suitable form of the words in bold. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.6 points)
Armed conflicts, forced (1. place) ______, climate change induced disasters and protracted crises
have disrupted the education of 75 million children and youth globally. And that number is growing in
an (2. precede) ______ way with the spread of COVID -19. Education has been hit particularly hard by
the COVID-19 pandemic with 1.53 billion learners out of school and 184 country-wide school closures,
impacting 87.6% of the world’s total enrolled learners.
While other critical needs such as health, water and sanitation are being responded to, educational
needs cannot be forgotten and these have an equally detrimental impact if left (3. address) ______. The
‘pile-on effect’ of the coronavirus is that, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, (4. interrupt) ______

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to education can have long term implications - especially for the most vulnerable. There is a real risk of
regression for children whose basic, (5. found) ______ learning (reading, math, languages, etc.) was not
strong to begin with. And millions of children who have already been deprived of their right to education,
particularly girls, are being more exposed to health and well-being risks during COVID-19.
Without access to education, as shocks are experienced – including loss of life, health impacts
and loss of (6. live) _____ - children are more vulnerable and unprotected. As household finances are
being strained and needs increase, out-of-school children are more likely to be exposed to risks like
family violence, child labor, forced marriage, trafficking and exploitation, including by responders. For
the most vulnerable children, education is (7. life) ______. Not only does it provide safety and protection,
importantly, it also instills hope for a brighter future. So continuing education through (8. alter) ______
learning pathways, as soon as possible, must also be a top priority right now, to ensure the interruption
to education is as limited as possible.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
d. For each set, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (0.8 point)
1. - On the night of his debut, the concert hall was filled to ________. All the tickets had been sold
out well in advance.
- Mary often has to travel to many places in her ________ as chief inspector for the institute.
- The learning ________ of the brain seems infinite. Scientists claim it can store almost all the
information that comes our way.
2. - Hundreds of the city dwellers have sent a petition to ________ their concern over plans to build a
new highway.
- The business deal looks straight, but my inner ________ tells me to be extra careful.
- There are no disagreements or feuds. We all speak with one ________ giving our unanimous
support for the project.
3. - You can get a massive discount on this item if you buy it in ________.
- Nobody knows what to expect from him. He's been something of an unknown _________ since
he joined our department.
- The help of a _______ surveyor may be indispensable before you build a house.
4. - You've got to do something with your shyness, Ian. Let me bring you out of your ________ and
take you to a party.
- Having to _________ out 100 dollars for the tickets, I am not going to miss the show.
- The invading army threatened to ________ the town if the citizens didn't surrender in six hours.

1. 2. 3. 4.
e. Fill each gap with a suitable preposition/particle to complete the sentences. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.6 points)
1. When we took over the hotel five years ago, the business was _____ the rocks.
2. My dad has a good head ______ figures. He can do complicated sums in seconds.
3. Kate is head and shoulders _____ her twin sister when it comes to passing exams.
4. I have been trying to do my maths homework for hours and I am _____ the end of my tether.
5. As an English speaker, I find it difficult to get my tongue _____ a Scandinavian name.
6. When her business failed, she turned _____ her parents for financial help.
7. She kept her wits _______ her when she saw the fire in the kitchen; instead of panicking, she went
out and phoned the fire bridge.
8. I wish you’d stop to read things ______ what I’m doing; there’s no hidden agenda behind it.
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.

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PART III - READING (6.0 points)
a. Read the passage below and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to complete the passage.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.6 points)
Unless you’ve slept through the last decade, you know that protecting the environment is a
(1)______. But when it (2) _______ to beauty products, natural doesn’t always equal pure and doesn’t
(3) _______ mean better. Before rushing to the register with your 100 percent green beauty gear,
consider a few things. According to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), the (4) ______ “natural”
is used very loosely in the cosmetics world; any company can call a product natural. Truly natural
products are made from plant-based (as opposed to man-made) ingredients and do not contain artificial
dyes and fragrances. The advantages: plant-based ingredients are renewable (5) ______ that are safer
for the environment than (6) ______ man-made or natural but highly processed ones (which can produce
toxic waste during the manufacturing process and be non-biodegradable). The disadvantages: some
natural ingredients, like (7) _______ which help keep products germ-free, aren’t as effective as their
synthetic counterparts. Since natural ingredients haven’t been tested as much as man-made ones, you
shouldn’t assume that they’re gentler (especially if you’re allergy-prone or have (8) ______ skin).
1. A. may B. must C. can D. should
2. A. comes B. refers C. reaches D. arrives
3. A. absolutely B. definitely C. obligatorily D. necessarily
4. A. definition B. term C. phrase D. idea
5. A. essences B. supplies C. resources D. sources
6. A. guaranteed B. certain C. definite D. doubtless
7. A. medicines B. conservatives C. preservatives D. preserves
8. A. sensible B. sensitive C. delicate D. sensational
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

b. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of
the question. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.2 points)
In the modern world, many people take the procurement of food for granted, especially in so-
called industrialized states. Even in many states with marginalized economies, there is enough food for
all. It is just unevenly distributed, with a powerful elite living lives of luxury in a land rife with
deprivation and starvation. An abundance of food is not the norm of human history. For the first tens
of thousands of years, humans lived a literal hand-to-mouth existence as hunter-gatherers, waking each
morning with one thought in mind: how to find something to eat. The fruit and roots of the plants they
gathered and the flesh of the fish they caught and the animals they hunted were their sole sources of
nourishment. This overwhelming need occupied most of their time, leaving them with little to improve
their lives in other ways. Permanent settlements were unheard of, as each band or tribe moved from
place to place seeking new sources of food. It was not until man learned the mysteries of agriculture
about 12,000 years ago that man had a renewable source of nourishment and formed the first permanent
settlements.
All of the main staple crops of the world had at one time grown in the wild, often in a different
form than man uses today. The cultivation of these plants in regularly planted fields constitutes the
beginnings of agriculture, and coupled with the domestication of animals, it marked the first real
civilizations on Earth. Prior to this point, in approximately 10,000 B.C., there was nothing to unify
humans in any large groupings. In fact, large groupings would have been detrimental to the survival of
the group as the food from their natural surroundings could only support a limited number of people.
How and why man first began the process of planting crops, harvesting them, and sorting them for future
use is still not entirely understood. Nevertheless, there are five undisputed original centers of agriculture:
the eastern United States, the area of southern Mexico and Guatemala, the Andes mountain region of
modern Peru, the Fertile Crescent region in the modern Middle East, and eastern China.

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 All five independently developed agriculture from the plant species available in the region. With
the exception of the eastern United States, in ancient times all became centers of urbanization, with the
Fertile Crescent area the most likely site of man's first towns and cities. Agriculture is a labor-intensive
activity, requiring a large group of people to live in the same place for continuous periods. Once an area
was cleared trees, stones, or other obstacles and planted, it made sense to stay there and settle
permanently. The crops also needed to be protected from animals and those still living a nomadic
existence. Undoubtedly, agriculture gave rise to urbanization and not the reverse since without
agriculture there was no reason to form permanent settlements.
With a surplus of food available, people had time to take part in activities other than food
procurement. Artisans, merchants, scholars, engineers, priests, bureaucratic elites, permanent garrisons,
and a myriad of others were fed by the surplus labor of the masses. For the first time in human history,
a distinction grew between different groups of people: those who grew the food and those who did not.
Perversely, those who did not grow the food became the more powerful, using their free time to plan
cities and temples, develop weapons, gather armies, and wage war on their fellow humans. The masses
of people became tied to the land, laboring for the few elites at the top.
A distinction also grows between those who lived in the city and enjoyed its vices and those left
back on the farm. In the ancient world, the city became a place of danger, where crime was rife, illness
spread, and the worst sins of mankind were perpetrated, a situation that remains unchanged today. Much
of humanity now resides in cities despite modern urban ills. Most of mankind has been free of its daily
search for sustenance, allowing humans to progress in 12,000 years a tremendous deal rather than in all
man's previous history. Yet this progress has been with much pain, with the rise of powerful elites and
a world of haves and have-nots.
Question 1: According to paragraph 1, in many states with marginalized economies _____.
A. there is enough food only for a select elite
B. food is not shared fairly by everyone
C. everyone gets more than enough food
D. select elites decide who gets the food
Question 2: The word “deprivation” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.
A. privacy B. distress C. desire D. poverty
Question 3: According to paragraph 2, all of the following are known about early agriculture EXCEPT:
A. where humans first began to grow crops
B. how humans first managed to grow crops
C. when humans developed the first crops
D. the origins of the crops that are common today
Question 4: According to paragraph 3, each original area of agriculture _____.
A. had the same plants from wild sources
B. shared plants between different areas
C. used the plants found in its own area
D. had some plants that were in common
Question 5: It can be inferred that prior to the development of agriculture there _____.
A. was great equality among people
B. was a class of leaders in most groups
C. were some types of craftsmen
D. were no conflicts among humans
Question 6: According to paragraph 5, centers of urbanization in all ages _____.
A. developed only in places of agricultural development
B. have attracted the best and brightest people
C. were responsible for the spread of disease
D. have problems that are similar to each other

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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c. Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. (2.0 points)
Questions 1–6
Six paragraphs have been removed from the passage. Choose from paragraphs A–G the one
which fits each gap. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

IT’S A PITY READING PLEASURE CAN’T BE TESTED

We force children into reading far too early.
Today Einstein, who learnt to read at 10, would be in remedial class, argues Anne Karpf.

A good news story about education? It sounds like 4. _______

an oxymoron, but blazoned on Monday’s front
pages was the finding of a major new international
survey that ‘UK pupils move close to top of world
class’, especially in reading. This will have been
gratifying to a government for whom ‘education,
education, education’ increasingly seems to be a
euphemism for ‘reading, reading, reading’. But
such single-mindedness has had other
unacknowledged consequences.
1. _______
Orthodox educationalists, however, maintain that
you’re never too young to learn to read: on the
contrary, the earlier the better. Reading, and
especially early reading, is considered so self-
evidently good that children are coaxed, pressed
and, if required, bribed into submission.
2. _______
My own position has changed radically between my
first and second children. The first taught herself to
read at the age of four. Thereafter she secreted
books around her bed like contraband, and had to
be physically prised from them at the dinner table.
When her younger sister started school last year, I
expected a repeat performance.
3. _______
Should I be vacuuming away her words, and
pumping in someone else’s? Should I have been
coercing her to try to read when she was plainly
unwilling? I can coerce for England, but the
thought of becoming her personal politburo in the
matter of when she learned to read seemed so awful
that I became a covert refusenik instead. I decided
to stop meddling altogether.
Elsewhere there’s no shortage of horror stories, like
the parents of four-year-olds, who formerly wouldn’t
have even been in school, paying for coaching to help
them keep up with the fast readers. The mother of a
four-and-a-half-year-old was told that her son had to
apply himself to reading because the school didn’t
want him to end up at the bottom of the pile. This
from an excellent teacher, herself under pressure to
produce results: by their SATs shall we judge them.
Einstein may have learned to read only at 10, but
today he’d be stigmatised and in remedial reading.
5. _______
Learning to read is rather like potty training. The
parents of kids who do it young proclaim it abroad,
yet most people get there in the end. How they do so
is paramount for future pleasure, and the result of an
unpredictable, serendipitous combination of factors
different for each of us. But we’ve a government
which has confused standards with standardisation.
You can, just about, drill children into learning to
read, but you can’t compel them to enjoy it. In a
culture increasingly in thrall to what is measurable,
what a pity reading pleasure can’t be tested.
6. _______
As for my own now almost-six-year-old, who I think
would have preferred this approach, something has
recently clicked in the reading part of her brain, and
she is on the way to becoming a voracious reader. It’s
probably sheer coincidence that this transformation
was over exactly the same period that she started
learning the violin.

A. Being against it is like being against vitamins
or bank holidays – frankly perverse. Among the
over half-million web pages devoted to teaching
children to read, none of those I browsed are on
learning to read too soon.
B. For the best part of a year I schlepped her
wretched bookbag to and from school without
opening it, and resolved as far as possible to
follow her own reading timetable. Her reception
teacher adopted what today is a rare, daring
stance: there isn’t much you can do to make a
child read before they’re ready.

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C. Early reading is all part of the extension of
formal reading back into pre-school. Nurseries are
now strewn with targets, and the children know it.
Imagine the blow that might have dealt to his
creative genius. Also, one problem with exerting
such pressure on pre-school children is that it can
make children resistant to reading. Once affecting
extravagant interest in my daughter’s new book-
title, I was rewarded with: “You’re just trying to
get me to read it and I won’t.”
D. Those who consider such misgivings a middle-
class luxury should look at Europe. We’re alone in
bullying children to read so young. The
Norwegians don’t start until they’re seven, when
it’s usually painless. This also allows dyslexics to
be diagnosed before and not after they’ve been
labelled poor readers. Sylvia Hopland, head
teacher of the Norwegian School in London, says:
“We know that we could teach children to read at
four if we wanted to but we want them to spend
those years playing. Here you teach them to give
the right answers. We want to teach them to solve
problems, cooperate with others and cope with
life.” Steiner schools in Britain also concentrate on
stimulating children’s creative faculties until “a
new kind of knowing” emerges at seven.
E. Like other reception class mothers, I peeked at
her friends’ bookbags to see if the books they
were reading were more advanced. Invariably
they were. My growing anxiety was assuaged by
a wise fellow mother remarking that my
exuberant child was busily engaged in things, like
pretend games and drawing, which delighted her
more. She also loves books, but often pleads for
the right to be able to make up her own stories to
the pictures (frequently more exciting than those
confected by the author).
F. The obsession with reading has led to a major
decline in the time and energy given over to
music, art and drama. And the heresy that dare
not speak its name is that children are being
pressurised to learn to read too early.
G. When I asked her to tell me what she thought
of her classes, she was unabashedly sincere: ‘I
like books with pictures, but books with too many
words are boring.’ My immediate urge was to
force her, threaten her or coax her nose into her
books. Until it suddenly dawned on me: at what
age did I start reading?

Questions 7–10
Choose the best answer A, B, C or D. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.
7. The phrase “the thought of becoming her personal politburo “implies the writer’s notion of _____.
A. becoming an orthodox traditionalist C. helping the child see education in a positive light
B. forcing the child to read against her will D. resisting change and favouring established ideas
8. In the context, “at the bottom of the pile” mostly means being_______ of the class.
A. the black sheep B. the fair-haired C. the least academic D. the weakest
9. According to the text, “something has recently clicked” implies a change has taken place in _____.
A. coaching the child on extensive reading C. the child’s attitude towards reading
B. bribing the child to read D. the child’s joy of reading books
10. According to the text, the phrase “And the heresy that dare not speak its names” indicates _____.
A. a belief that people feel uncomfortable about expressing
B. a situation where contradictory incidents co-occur
C. a subtle support and encouragement
D. an unacceptably unconventional and unreasonable pedagogy

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

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d. Complete the following passage by filling each blank with one suitable word. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.2 points)
Oceans are rising around the world, causing dangerous flooding. Why is this happening, and
what can we do to stem the tide?
As humans continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, oceans have tempered the
effects. The world's seas have (1) _______ more than 90 percent of the heat from these gases, but it's
taking a (2) _______ on our oceans: 2018 (3) ______ a new record for ocean heating. Higher sea levels
are coinciding (4) ______ more dangerous hurricanes and typhoons that move more slowly and drop
more rain, contributing to more powerful storm surges that can strip away everything in their path.
If all the ice that currently exists on Earth in glaciers and sheets (5) ______, it would raise sea
level by 216 feet. That could cause entire states and even some countries to disappear under the waves,
from Florida to Bangladesh. That’s not a scenario scientists think is likely, and it would probably
take many centuries, but it could eventually happen (6) ______ the world keeps burning fossil fuels
indiscriminately.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
PART IV. WRITING (5.0 points)
a. Read the following conversation, in which a hospital administrator, Gary, gives an informal,
spoken report on a clerical worker. Use the information in the conversation to fill the numbered
gaps in the more formal report written by his colleague Annette. The words you need do not occur
in the spoken version. Use ONE WORD ONLY for each gap. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (2.0 points)
Annette: I wonder if you can help me, Gary, I've been asked to write a report on one of our new
clerical workers, but I've been away for three months and I hardly know where to start. She's called Chan
Kit Yu. I think she came in January.
Gary: Well, first of all I'd say Kit's been fantastic, especially in the circumstances. I mean, I think
you will remember that, what with the epidemic, then the nurses' strike, there have been a lot of
problems; so everyone in the hospital's been getting pretty tired and fed up, and there's been a lot of
lateness and absenteeism. Anyway, Kit's been one of the few who hasn't let the pressures affect her.
She's always on time, and she's never been off sick. I've even managed to get her to work overtime once
or twice, on the rare occasion when she didn't have any rehearsals to go to.
Annette: I remember now. Isn't she some kind of pop singer?
Gary: Something like that. She used to talk about it all the time, but I had to put a stop to it. In
her first few weeks she'd spend the whole morning telling everyone about her music and her adventures
- everybody loved it, of course, and nobody got any work done, so I had a word with her and now she
toes the line.
Annette: And her work?
Gary: As I say, she's serious and hardworking. Oh yes, we did have one teething problem. At
first she was pretty hopeless on the computer and she didn't seem to know any of the software. But we
sent her on a course, and now she's fine.

Appraisal Report: Chan Kit Yu

I am pleased to report that Kit has performed exceptionally well (1) _____ her duties as
Administrative Assistant since (2) _____ us on 5 January.
The hospital has been beset with a (3) _____ of difficulties during this time and I have been
particularly impressed by the manner in which Kit has not (4) _____ these to affect the quality of her
work.

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 Kit was quick to develop a good working relationship with her (5) _____, and if at first her
(6) _____ life threatened to intrude into the workplace, she soon learned where to draw the line.
So far as her administrative skills are concerned, the only question mark has been over her
(7) ________ of familiarity with some of our computer software. This has, (8) _________, been
remedied by a recent training course.
Her (9) _________ and attendance have been excellent, and she has been (10) ________ to
work overtime when the situation has required it.
In sum, a most satisfactory start.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
b. For each of the questions below, complete the second sentence so that it is similar in meaning to
the original sentence. (2.0 points)
1. It would be a good idea for an accountant to sort out your tax problems.
 You should .........................................................................................................................................
2. Even though Simon rarely has a lot of money, he always buys his mom a birthday present.
 However .............................................................................................................................................
3. We regret to inform you that your application has not been successful.
 Much to .............................................................................................................................................
4. “I think the whole idea’s ridiculous,” he said.
 He dismissed ......................................................................................................................................
5. If we can solve the problem soon, it will be better for all concerned.
 The sooner ..........................................................................................................................................
6. The demand was so great that they had to reprint the book immediately.
 So ......................................................................................................................................................
7. I’m absolutely sure that they weren’t playing in this weather.
 They can’t ..........................................................................................................................................
8. There weren’t nearly as many people there as I had expected.
 There were far ...................................................................................................................................
9. He didn’t get his visa until last Monday.
 It was ..................................................................................................................................................
10. You won’t find a more dedicated worker anywhere than Mrs. Jones.
 Nowhere ............................................................................................................................................
c. For each of the questions below, write the second sentence so that it is similar in meaning to the
original sentence, using the given word. Do not change the given word in any way. (1.0 point)
1. What you have been saying is quite irrelevant. BESIDE
 What ..................................................................................................................................................
2. Tom’s presence at parties adds to everyone’s enjoyment. SOUL
 Tom is ................................................................................................................................................
3. You should observe the task carefully before you decide to take it over. WEATHER
 You should ........................................................................................................................................
4. A government official leaked the story to the world press. WIND
 The world press .................................................................................................................................
5. Jack’s teacher says he’s particularly good at languages. FLAIR
 Jack’s teacher says ............................................................................................................................

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