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ĐỀ THI THỬ 13 Môn: TIẾNG ANH
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(Đề thi gồm 18 trang)

I. LISTENING (5 points)
Part 1: For questions 1-5, listen to part of a conversation. Write NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording for each answer.
1. What is the address of the agency?
……………………………………………………………………..
2. What is the last name of the agent?
……………………………………………………………………..
3. What is the phone number of the agent?
……………………………………………………………………..
4. What office skill is the most important for that kind of job?
……………………………………………………………………..
5. What is the pay for an hour?
……………………………………………………………………..

Part 2: You will hear two college lecturers, Tim and Rachel, talking about sexism. For
questions 6 – 10, decide whether the opinions are expressed by only one of the speakers, or
whether the speakers agree.
Write T for Tim
R for Rachel
or B for Both, where they agree
in the numbered boxes.
6. A glass ceiling exists at the college.
7. The differences between the male students and the men in charge of the college are largely
superficial.
8. Tim has made a good job of raising his daughter alone.
9. When Holly is older, Tim may want some additional adult help.
10. The current social roles of males and females will soon become history.

Your answers:
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: You will hear an interview with Michael Kaan, a British architect. For questions
11-15, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.

11. One of the main themes in Kaan’s approach to architectural design is

A. new technology. B. machinery. C. functionalism. D. simplicity.

12. Why doesn’t he work on larger projects?

A. He prefers the flexibility of working on small-scale projects.
B. He doesn’t understand the technical aspects of large buildings.
C. He doesn’t trust other architects.
D. Architects on large projects are never allowed any freedom.

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13. Why did Kaan pull out of two projects?
A. He believes they would have damaged his reputation.
B. The clients wanted him to sign an agreement.
C. The features the clients wanted would have made the houses unsafe.
D. The clients wouldn’t clarify what they wanted.

14. The house on Santorini

A. was built inside a cave. B. was never actually built.
C. is surrounded by caves. D. was a time-consuming project for Kaan.

15. According to Kaan, what might you find in a house designed by Hashimoto?
A. glass floors. B. windows functioning as ceilings.
C. lots of wooden furniture. D. mobile room dividers.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 4: For questions 16-25, listen and complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording in each blank.
The word which describes people suffering from (16) ________ about Friday 13th comes from
the Greek language.
When they go about numbering their floors, many hotels choose to (17) ________ altogether
due to its association with misfortune.
The Society of the Motor Industry in Ireland was worried about (18) ________ surrounding the
number 13.
The Society of the Irish Motor Industry brought in a (19) ________ in 2013 in order to
accommodate people’s superstitions, fearing sales of new cars would otherwise fall.
There are considerable (20) ________ to be enjoyed by homebuyers prepared to purchase a
house numbered 13.
In Norse mythology, the (21) ________ is said to have created mayhem on arriving
unexpectedly at the Valhalla banquet.
References to both the number thirteen and the day Friday in religious texts tend to have (22)
________.
Lawson's book is about the negative effect on (23) ________ that is experienced when a corrupt
banker exploits the superstitions surrounding Friday 13th.
In certain parts of Southern Europe, Tuesday 13th is the date on the calendar most connected
with (24) ________.
The perception of the number 13 in Ancient Egypt differed from the negative one we tend to
have today because the 13th (25) ________ was thought to represent a superior form of
existence.
Your answers:
16. 21.
17. 22.
18. 23.
19. 24.
20. 25.

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II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (2 points)
Part 1: For questions 26-40, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the
following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
26. Her teaching method discourages simple ________ of the information in the textbook.
A. regulation B. reclamation C. reparation D. regurgitation
27. The measure protects workers from ________ employers.
A. excruciating B. exploitative C. exclusive D. excessive
28. The government has given police further powers, ________ the recent rise in crime.
A. in answer to B. in line with C. in bulk D. in view of
29. If children see parents drinking and smoking, they are more likely to follow ________,
particularly if they see you using alcohol as a prop.
A. cause B. suit C. example D. action
30. And the questions he asked! He really gave me the ________ degree.
A. second B. sixth C. third D. seventh
31. There isn’t another model like this – it’s a ________ from the factory.
A. one-off B. nine-day wonder C. good turn D. penny
32. The Professional Women’s Group offers support to women throughout their careers through
seminars and mentoring, with many of the mentors ________ long-time members who are living
examples of what the organization can do.
A. as B. are C. also D. being
33. The lecturer’s voice was ________ out by the noise of the traffic in the street.
A. drowned B. destroyed C. killed D. kicked
34. Last Sunday, mom asked me to ________ the apple tree at the bottom of the garden.
A. prune B. mow C. shave D. clip
35. Putting flowers in the room was a nice ________ on the part of the hotel.
A. touch B. start C. feeling D. view
36. In the ________ and distant past before the fighting, things seemed to be, if not perfect, at
least better.
A. faint B. pale C. dim D. feeble
37. I hope she wasn’t within ________ when you were talking about her.
A. power B. nights C. earshot D. reach
38. Your new boss can’t be as ________ as he’s painted if he gives you all a pay rise.
A. red B. black C. white D. green
39. James is so ________! He thinks that pleasure is the most important thing in life.
A. authentic B. hedonistic C. destructive D. ordinary
40. I think it would be inappropriate, to say the least, to ________ up the past and talk about his
former wife in the presence of his fiancée.
A. rake B. chop C. hoe D. mow

Your answers:

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.

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Part 2: For questions 41-45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
GESTURES
Many people believe that ‘yes’ and ‘no’ signals conveyed by nodding and shaking the
head are global in their distribution and understood by everyone, world-wide; however, this is
not absolutely true. In certain regions there are other head movements that are used locally to
signify (41, AFFIRM) ________ and negatives and, unless these are recognised, travellers may
find themselves in difficulties.
Gestures, by definition, transmit signals. Some of these are deliberate, and some are not.
The same gesture may have different to strangers, or a gesture may be (42, MEAN) ________.
For example, to a British person who would always perform a beckoning gesture palm up, a
palm-down beckoning gesture may mean absolutely nothing, or be misunderstood.
Many gestures are (43, INTEND) ________, like actions stemming from infancy, for
example. Such (44, INFANT) ________ actions, like retreating into the foetal position when
distressed, may survive disguised into adulthood. A cigarette may be a substitute for a baby’s
dummy, in which case smoking would be indicative of nothing more than adult thumb-sucking.
Unlike language, the geography of gestures has not been studied (45, EXTEND)
________ up to now. This field is opening up to scientific research, and the exploration of
gestures commonly used in different regions should prove to be of great interest to professionals
and non-professionals alike.

Your answers:

41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

III. READING (5 points)

Part 1: For questions 46-55, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable
word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Suicide and Arson Follow Claims of Dirty Tricks campaign
Following hard on the (46) ________ of recent rumours that the internal security service
has been trying to implicate the leadership of the Youth for a Cleaner Planet movement (the
YCP) in a drug-pushing conspiracy, is news of two tragic events: the suicide of the president’s
internal security adviser, Jack Holt, and a fire at the YCP offices.
(47) ________ some months now, investigative journalists have been looking into
allegations that security service agents have been doing their (48) ________ to introduce YCP
members to drug, presumably with a (49) ________ to discrediting organization. The YCP has,
(50) ________ late, been very successful in highlighting the worst cases of industrial pollution.
According to anonymous sources close to the dead man’s family, Holt’s 19-year-old son,
Vincent, who joined the YCP six months ago, has voluntarily entered a drug rehab centre, and
(51) ________ is believed that Jack Holt had been deeply troubled (52) ________ his role in the
alleged plot and the turn of (53) ________ that affected his family.
There has been further speculation that security service files were (54) ________ over to
the YCP leadership by Mr. Holt shortly before his death. The finger of suspicion for the fire that
(55) ________ out at YCP headquarters is now being pointed at security service agents.

Your answers:

46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

51. 52. 53. 54. 55.
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Part 2: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
T-Rex: Hunter or Scavenger?
Jack Horner is an unlikely academic: his dyslexia is so bad that he has trouble reading a
book. But he can read the imprint of life in sandstone or muddy shale across a distance of 100
years, and it is this gift that has made him curator of palaeontology at Montana State
University’s Museum of the Rockies, the leader of a multi-million dollar scientific project to
expose a complete slice of life 68 million years ago, and a consultant to Steven Spielberg and
other Hollywood figures.
His father had a sand and gravel quarry in Montana, and the young Horner was a
collector of stones and bones, complete with notes about when and where he found them. “My
father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana,” he says. “He was enough of a
geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur
bones. So when I was eight years old he took me back to the area that had been his ranch, to
where he had seen these big old bones. I picked up one. I am pretty sure it was the upper arm
bone of a duckbilled dinosaur: it probably wasn’t a duckbilled dinosaur but closely related to
that. I catalogued it, and took good care of it, and then later when I was in high school,
excavated my first dinosaur skeleton. It obviously started earlier than eight and I literally have
been driven ever since. I feel like I was born this way.”
Horner spent seven years at university, but never graduated. “I have a learning disability,
I would call it a learning difference – dyslexia, they call it – and I just had a terrible time with
English and foreign languages and things like that. For a degree in geology or biology, they
required two years of a foreign language. There was no way in the world I could do that. In fact,
I didn’t really pass English. So I couldn’t get a degree, I just wasn’t capable of it. But I took all
of the courses required and I wrote a thesis and I did all sorts of things. So I have the education,
I just don’t have the piece of paper,” he says.
“We definitely know we are working on a very broad coastal plain with the streams and
rivers bordered by conifers and hardwood plants, and the areas in between these rivers were
probably fern-covered. There were no grasses at all: just ferns and bushes – an unusual
landscape, kind of taking the south-eastern United States – Georgia, Florida – and mixing it with
the moors of England and flattening it out,” he says. “Triceratops is very common: they are the
cows of the Cretaceous, they are everywhere. Duckbilled dinosaurs are relatively common but
not as common as triceratops and T-rex, for a meat-eating dinosaur, is very common. What we
would consider the predator-prey ratio seems really off the scale. What is interesting is the little
dromaeosaurs, the ones we know for sure were good predators, we haven’t found any of them.”
That is why he sees T-rex, not as the lion of the Cretaceous savannah but its vulture.
“Look at the wildebeest that migrate in the Serengeti of Africa, a million individuals lose about
200,000 individuals in that annual migration. There is a tremendous carrion base there. And so
you have hyenas, you have tremendous numbers of vultures that are scavenging, you don’t have
all that many animals that are good predators. If T-rex was a top predator, especially considering
how big it is, you’d expect it to be extremely rare, much rarer than the little dromaeosaurs, and
yet they are everywhere, they are a dime a dozen,” he says. A 12-tonne T-rex is a lot of vultures,
but he doesn’t see the monster as clumsy. He insisted his theory and finding, dedicated to further
research upon it, of course, he would like to reevaluate if there is any case that additional
evidence found or explanation raised by others in the future.
He examined the leg bones of the T-rex, and compared the length of the thigh bone
(upper leg), to the shin bone (lower leg). He found that the thigh bone was equal in length or
slightly longer than the shin bone, and much thicker and heavier, which proves that the animal
was built to be a slow walker rather than fast running. On the other hand, the fossils of fast
hunting dinosaurs always showed that the shin bone was longer than the thigh bone. This same
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truth can be observed in many animals of today which are designed to run fast: The ostrich,
cheetah, etc.
He also studied the fossil teeth of the T-rex, and compared them with the teeth of the
Velociraptor, and put the nail in the coffin of the “hunter T-rex theory”. The Velociraptor’s teeth
which like stake knifes: sharp, razor-edged, and capable of tearing through flesh with ease. The
T-Rex’s teeth were huge, sharp at their tip, but blunt, propelled by enormous jaw muscles,
which enabled them to only crush bones.
With the evidence presented in his documentary, Horner was able to prove that the idea
of the T-rex as being a hunting and ruthless killing machine is probably just a myth. In light of
the scientific clues he was able to unearth, the T-rex was a slow, sluggish animal which had poor
vision, an extraordinary sense of smell, that often reached its “prey” after the real hunters were
done feeding, and sometimes it had to scare the hunters away from a corpse. In order to do that,
the T-rex had to have been ugly, nasty-looking, and stinky. This is actually true of nearly all
scavenger animals. They are usually vile and nasty looking.
Questions 56-62
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the Reading Passage?
In boxes 56-62, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information in the passage
56. Jack Horner knew exactly that the bone picked up in his father’s ranch belonged to a certain
dinosaur when he was at the age of 8.
57. Jack Horner achieved a distinctive degree in university when he graduated.
58. Jack Horner believes that the number of prey should be more than that of the predator.
59. T-rex’s number is equivalent to the number of vulture in the Serengeti.
60. The hypothesis that T-rex is top predator conflicts with the fact of the predator-prey ratio
which Jack found.
61. Jack Horner refused to accept any other viewpoints about T-rex’s theory.
62. Jack Horner is the first man that discovered T-Rex’s bones in the world.

Your answers:
56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62.

Questions 63-68
Complete the following summary, using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
Reading Passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 63-68 on your answer sheet.

Jack Horner found that T-rex’s 63. ________ is shorter than the thigh bone, which demonstrated
that it was actually a 64. ________, unlike other swift animals such as ostrich or 65. ________
that was built to 66. ________. Another explanation supports his idea is that T-rex’s teeth were
rather 67. ________, which only allowed T-rex to 68. ________ hard bones instead of tearing
flesh like Velociraptor.

Your answers:

63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68.

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Part 3: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. For questions 69-75,
read the passage and choose from paragraphs A-H 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.
The origins of the universe
A powerful conviction for me is the idea that as we converge on the moment of creation, the
constituents and laws of the universe become ever simpler. A useful analogy here is life itself,
or, more simply, a single human being. Each of us is a vastly complex entity, assembled from
many different tissues and capable of countless behaviours and thoughts.
69
Cosmology is showing us that this complexity flowed from a deep simplicity as matter
metamorphosed through a series of phase transitions. Travel back in time through those phase
transitions, and we see an ever-greater simplicity and symmetry, with the fusion of the
fundamental forces of nature and the transformation of particles to ever-more fundamental
components.
70
Go back further still. What was there before the big bang? What was there before time began?
Facing this question challenges our faith in the power of science to find explanations of nature.
The existence of a singularity - in this case the given, unique state from which the universe
emerged - is anathema to science, because it is beyond explanation.
71
Cosmologists have long struggled to avoid this bad dream by seeking explanations of the
universe that avoid the necessity of a beginning. Einstein, remember, refused to believe the
implication of his own equations - that the universe is expanding and therefore must have had a
beginning - and invented the cosmological constant to avoid it. Only when Einstein saw
Hubble’s observations of an expanding universe could he bring himself to believe his equations.
72
Stephen Hawking and J B Hartle tried to resolve the challenge differently, by arguing the
singularity out of existence. Flowing from an attempt at a theory of quantum gravity, they
agreed that time is finite, but without a beginning. Think of the surface of a sphere. The surface
is finite, but it has no beginning or end - you can trace your finger over it continuously, perhaps
finishing up where you began. Suppose the universe is a sphere of space time. Travel around the
surface, and again you may finish up where you started both in space and time.
73
We simply do not know yet whether there was a beginning of the universe, and so the origin of
space-time remains in terra incognita. No question is more fundamental, whether cast in
scientific or theological terms. My conviction is that science will continue to move ever closer to
the moment of creation, facilitated by the ever-greater simplicity we find there. Some physicists
argue that matter is ultimately reducible to pointlike objects with certain intrinsic properties.
74
To an engineer, the difference between nothing and practically nothing might be close enough.
To a scientist, such a difference, however miniscule, would be everything. We might find
ourselves experiencing Jarrow’s bad dream, facing a final question: 'Why? "Why" questions are
not amenable to scientific inquiry and will always reside within philosophy and theology, which
may provide solace if not material explication.
75
The list of cosmic coincidences required for our existence in the universe is long, moving
Stephen Hawking to remark that, "the odds against a universe like ours emerging out of
something like the big bang are enormous.” Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson went further,
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and said: 'The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence
I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming." This concatenation of
coincidences required for our presence in this universe has been termed the anthropic principle.
In fact, it is merely a statement of the obvious: Had things been different, we would not exist.
A. This, of course, requires time travel, in violation of Mach’s principle. But the world of
quantum mechanics, with its uncertainty principle, is an alien place in which otherworldly things
can happen. It is so foreign a place that it may even be beyond human understanding.
B. But what if the universe we see were the only one possible, the product of a singular initial
state shaped by singular laws of nature? It is clear that the minutest variation in the value of a
series of fundamental properties of the universe would have resulted in no universe at all, or at
least a very alien universe. For instance, if the strong nuclear force had been slightly weaker, the
universe would have been composed of hydrogen only. An expansion more rapid by one part in
a million would have excluded the formation of stars and planets.
C. Trace that person back through his or her life, back beyond birth to the moment of
fertilisation of a single ovum by a single sperm. The individual becomes ever simpler, ultimately
encapsulated as information encoded in DNA. The development that gradually transforms a
DNA code into a mature individual is an unfolding, a complexification, as the information in the
DNA is translated and manifested through many stages of life. So, I believe, it is with the
universe. We can see how very complex the universe is now, and we are part of that complexity.
D. Others argue that fundamental particles are extraordinarily tiny strings that vibrate to produce
their properties. Either way, it is possible to envisage creation of the universe from almost
nothing - not nothing, but practically nothing. Almost creation ex nihilo, but not quite. That
would be a great intellectual achievement, but it may still leave us with a limit to how far
scientific inquiry can go, finishing with a description of the singularity, but not an explanation of
it.
E. For many proponents of the steady state theory, one of its attractions was its provision that
the universe had no beginning and no end, and therefore required no explanation of what existed
before time = 0. It was known as the perfect cosmological principle.
F. There can be no answer to why such a state existed. Is this, then, where scientific explanation
breaks down and God takes over, the artificer of that singularity, that initial simplicity? The
astrophysicist Robert Jastrow described such a prospect as the scientist’s nightmare: "He has
scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself
over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for
centuries."
G. Various COBE team members and other cosmologists were on TV, radio talk shows, and in
newspapers for several days. The publicity and tremendous public interest provided a unique
opportunity to discuss science with a very large audience and to promote the power of human
endeavour in pursuing the mysteries of nature.
H. Go back further and we reach a point when the universe was nearly an infinitely tiny,
infinitely dense concentration of energy. This increasing simplicity and symmetry of the
universe as we near the point of creation gives me hope that we can understand the universe
using the powers of reason and philosophy. The universe would then be comprehensible, as
Einstein had yearned.

Your answers:

69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75.

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Part 4: For questions 76-85, read an extract from Emma, a novel by Jane Austen,
published in 1815 and choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according
to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Emma
Twenty-year-old Emma Woodhouse lives with her father at Hartfield, a large house in the
English village of Highbury. Her mother died many years ago, her sister is married and living in
London, and her governess of 16 years has just got married to Mr. Weston and gone to live in
her own house. Emma and her father are well-to-do and sociable and have a circle of close
friends (a first and a second set) who often come to visit.
After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates
and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and
who were fetched and carried home so often that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for
either James or the horses. Had it taken place only once a year, it would have been a grievance.
Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past
everything but tea and quadrille. She lived with her single daughter in a very small way, and was
considered with all the regard and respect which a harmless old lady, under such untoward
circumstances, can excite. Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a
woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst
predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual
superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her, into outward
respect. She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without
distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour
to make a small income go as far as possible. And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman
whom no one named without good-will. It was her own universal good-will and contented
temper which worked such wonders. She loved every body, was interested in every body's
happiness, quick-sighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and
surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother and so many good neighbours and
friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her
contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to everybody and a mine of felicity to
herself. She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of
trivial communications and harmless gossip.
Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School - not of a seminary, or an establishment, or anything
which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with
elegant morality upon new principles and new systems - and where young ladies for enormous
pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity - but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-
school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and
where girls might be sent to be out of the way and scramble themselves into a little education,
without any danger of coming back prodigies. Mrs. Goddard's school was in high repute -- and
very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house
and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the
summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands. It was no wonder that a train
of twenty young couple now walked after her to church. She was a plain, motherly kind of
woman, who had worked hard in her youth, and now thought herself entitled to the occasional
holiday of a tea-visit; and having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse's kindness, felt his
particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work whenever she
could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside. These were the ladies whom Emma found
herself very frequently able to collect; and happy was she, for her father's sake, in the power;
though, as far as she was herself concerned, it was no remedy for the absence of Mrs. Weston.
She was delighted to see her father look comfortable, and very much pleased with herself for
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contriving things so well; but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every
evening so spent, was indeed one of the long evenings she had fearfully anticipated.
As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was
brought from Mrs. Goddard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss
Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen whom Emma
knew very well by sight and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty. A very
gracious invitation was returned, and the evening no longer dreaded by the fair mistress of the
mansion.
Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody. Somebody had placed her, several years
back, at Mrs. Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of
scholar to that of parlour-boarder.
This was all that was generally known of her history. She had no visible friends but what had
been acquired at Highbury, and was now just returned from a long visit in the country to some
young ladies who had been at school there with her. She was a very pretty girl, and her beauty
happened to be of a sort which Emma particularly admired. She was short, plump and fair, with
a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, regular features, and a look of great sweetness; and before the
end of the evening, Emma was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite
determined to continue the acquaintance.
She was not struck by anything remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found
her altogether very engaging - not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk - and yet so far from
pushing, showing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being
admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of everything in so superior
a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense and deserve encouragement.
Encouragement should be given. Those soft blue eyes and all those natural graces should not be
wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connections. The acquaintance she had
already formed were unworthy of her. The friends from whom she had just parted, though very
good sort of people, must be doing her harm. They were a family of the name of Martin, whom
Emma well knew by character, as renting a large farm of Mr. Knightley, and residing in the
parish of Donwell - very creditably she believed - she knew Mr. Knightley thought highly of
them - but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who
wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
76. Mrs. and Miss Bates and Mrs. Goddard were frequent visitors to Emma’s house because
A. they were easy-going and kind to Mr. Woodhouse, Emma’s father.
B. they lived nearby and so it was easy for them to be collected and taken back home.
C. they were great conversationalists and were almost always available.
D. between them they were amiable, altruistic and empathetic.
77. What can we deduce about Mrs. and Miss Bates’ lifestyle from reading the text?
A. They have more than they need and live a very comfortable life.
B. They didn’t inherit much when Mr. Bates died and have to be thrifty as a result.
C. Because Miss Bates is penny-pinching, they can just about make ends meet.
D. Due to Miss Bates’s popularity, she and her mother are often asked out for meals and other
entertainment.
78. What, according to the text, is the reason why Miss Bates is so well-loved?
A. She is plain and has few talents, so isn’t a threat to anyone.
B. Although having no advantages socially, she is able to entertain her friends with amusing and
witty small talk.
C. Her appeal lies in her sunny disposition, her ability to look on the bright side and her genuine
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D. Her empathy, altruism and ability to bring out the best in others is what led to her popularity
in the village.
79. How is Mrs. Goddard’s boarding school described?
A. Girls are sent there in order to receive a classical education at vast expense.
B. The girls are pushed so hard they destroy their health and become vain prodigies.
C. The focus of the school is not on education, but on a healthy lifestyle at a reasonable price.
D. For a reasonable fee, girls who have been orphaned or who don’t come from conventional
families are taken in and given an education and a loving home.
80. How does Emma feel about evenings spent in the company of her father and the three
ladies?
A. She is proud of herself because she has made sure her father is happy and entertained, but she
herself is somewhat bored.
B. Although she likes the ladies, she is not on the same wavelength as they are and feels belittled
by them.
C. She doesn’t like to hear so much gossip, which she considers neither insignificant nor
innocent.
D. She misses her ex-governess and wishes she could spend time with people her own age.
81. Emma is delighted that Mrs. Goddard has asked to bring Harriet with her that evening
because
A. Harriet is closer to her age and they will have more in common.
B. Harriet and Emma knew each other well and were already confidants.
C. Harriet was a special favourite of Mrs. Goddard’s and Emma wanted to get to know her.
D. having seen her many times and found her very pretty, Emma wanted to get to know Harriet
better.
82. What can we infer about Harriet from the passage?
A. Although she’s illegitimate and appears to have no family, she seems to have a pleasant
manner and she is popular with Mrs. Goddard and the girls at the boarding school.
B. She isn’t properly looked after, doesn’t have good judgement and has acquired unsuitable
friends.
C. Although Mrs. Goddard must be fond of her, she isn’t being introduced to the right sort of
people.
D. She is a clever and ambitious girl and should be encouraged to do well in society.
83. Emma is very taken with Harriet because
A. although shy and retiring, Harriet is so grateful to have been invited to Hartfield.
B. Harriet is not only pretty, but likeable and delighted to meet Emma and be invited to her
house.
C. she sees Harriet as a project, wanting to improve her acquaintances and stop her from getting
involved with people who are beneath her.
D. of her beauty, intellect and modesty, which are Emma’s ideal in a friend.
84. What can we infer about Emma’s personality from the passage?
A. Emma is quite snobbish and feels that a pretty girl like Harriet shouldn’t be encouraged to
mix with anyone of low rank, even if they are decent people.
B. Emma doesn’t like people who don’t own their own property and owe money to creditors.
C. Emma is manipulative and wants to make sure that Harriet only spends time with her.
D. Emma is easily bored and often interferes with other people’s wishes and plans.
85. What are Emma’s plans for Harriet likely to be?
A. She’ll make sure Harriet starts studying academically as well as learning all the right skills
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B. She’ll encourage Harriet to stop seeing people who Emma feels are beneath her, and will help
her to become more refined.
C. Harriet will be invited to move into Hartfield and become like a sister to Emma.
D. Harriet will be given lessons in deportment and other social skills until she becomes
‘perfect’.

Your answers:

76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85.

Part 5: You are going to read extracts from an article written by a football analyst in
which she discusses the weekend’s football program. For questions 86-95, choose from the
sections (A-E). The extracts may be chosen more than once.
According to the analyst, which team
86. is performing better than it should?
87. has already shown great resilience this season?
88. has played exciting football but not got the right results?
89. is more concerned with success than playing stylishly?
90. manager is realistic about the uphill challenge they face for the rest of the season?
91. desperately needs a string of good results to survive?
92. manager has seen fans' opinion of him change favourably?
93. is missing several key first-team players?
94. manager wants certain players to exploit their lucky chance?
95. is not popular with neutral fans?
A. Manchester
We kick off with Manchester. Despite a severely depleted squad, with much of the first team hit
by a mysterious ailment midweek, manager, Noel Harriot, remains upbeat about his team’s
prospects this weekend and has appealed for his squad players to stand up and be counted, and
to grasp the opportunity by seizing the moment and cementing their first-team place. However,
in Doncaster, they will go up against a side undefeated in twenty-eight games, which is a record
run for the club, and this will undoubtedly represent their stiffest challenge to date. Harriot,
though, is hopeful that new star signing Gregor Dmitri, can inspire his side to defy the odds and
emerge victorious in Sunday’s midday kick-off. While the title appears to be out of reach for
Manchester now, a string of good results could yet see them finish in the coveted top four spots,
but they are clearly up against it.
B. Doncaster
And now to their opponents on Sunday, Doncaster will hope to continue building on the
momentum of a string of successive victories, which sees them flying high at the top of the
table. Their coach, Yale Edwards, is understandably in confident mood ahead of Sunday's
match-up; however, in Manchester, they face a team known for their resilience and battling
qualities, as evidenced last year, so a win is not as simple as it may seem on paper. Victory
would, though, put them nearly out of reach of their rivals and a step closer to the title. Indeed,
they are now odds-on to claim the crown for a second successive season with most bookmakers.
Their pragmatic style of play may not have won them many fans without the club, but the club
faithful remain united and steadfast in their support, and so long as the unprecedented success
continues, this is unlikely to change. It is, after all, not how but how many that counts at the end
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C. Liverpool
Liverpool must tear up the formbook if they are to come away from Saturday’s clash with
Brighton with more than a draw. Considering last year's notoriously leaky defence, their record
in that department is incredibly impressive this season. However, their problems now are in
front of goal. They are playing the kind of football that has fans salivating at times, but they
simply cannot convert their chances. Indeed, this no doubt explains why manager, Alain Jerome,
is coming under increasing pressure. There have long been rumours of boardroom
dissatisfaction with the team’s results, but as long as Jerome had the backing of supporters, his
position was considered safe. There are growing signs, however, that they are losing faith in him
and this will only add to the pressure this weekend to get a result. This season has for Jerome,
sadly, been a case of style over substance so far. Can their swashbuckling approach finally pay
dividends?
D. Brighton
Midseason, Brighton were top of the list of teams analysts thought likely to be in the relegation
fight, facing demotion. They have defied the odds and their position in the league is already
secure with five games to go. This must surely be a weight off manager Landon Grieg's
shoulders. The commotion of the early season has died down now and fans are no longer calling
for his head. In this fickle game that is football, Grieg has somehow managed to win them over.
The secret to Brighton's success doesn't lie in their defensive resilience or attacking prowess,
though. They are average at best in all departments. However, Grieg has somehow galvanized
his squad of mediocre players and transformed them into something far more than the sum of
their parts. Anything less than a draw on Saturday against Liverpool would be a disappointment;
that is how far they have come. It has been a turnaround not without trials, tribulations and
setbacks, but it has been one, nonetheless, of epic proportions.
E. Leicester
Leicester have had a season beset by misfortune, with the squad ravaged by injury for much of
the first half, which stifled any momentum they could have hoped to build. They are now, as a
result, in a battle for their lives, where every game and every point won or lost could mean the
difference between survival and being cast off into the abyss of the lower leagues. Manager,
Thomas Waylander, cut a despondent figure at the press conference earlier today, admitting that
the odds are stacked up against them now (which, incidentally, is quite remarkable considering
they were many experts’ pre-season pick as title favourites and have been serious contenders in
each of the last two seasons). However, he did see one dim ray of light at the end of this long
and very dark tunnel; suggesting that, with the squad more or less returned to full fitness, if they
could claim an unlikely victory on Saturday against Northampton, then that could be the
momentum-builder to spur them on to a miraculous escape.

Your answers:

86. 87. 88. 89. 90.

91. 92. 93. 94. 95.

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IV. WRITING (6 points)
Part 1: Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your
summary should be between 100 and 120 words long. (1.5 point)
Welcome to the 21st Century Workhouse!
Today’s older people lived through the late 20th-century transition from an industrial to a
technological society. The fact that the transition was far from smooth is something that today’s
youth can see for themselves. Many of those around them – even, perhaps, their own parents -
have suffered long-term unemployment after being sacked or made redundant. While the future
is, in many ways, challenging and exciting, it is also vague and uncertain as far as jobs are
concerned. It’s no wonder that, for many adolescents, choosing a vocational direction is a major
problem.
Of those who are employed, many really are employed with a vengeance. During the
twentieth century, countless labor-saving devices were introduced into the home and the
workplace. The future was heralded as the era of free time, and a great deal of speculation
concerned the ‘problem of free time’. And yet, here we are in the twenty-first century, and far
more people are suffering as a result of society’s workaholic philosophy than are struggling to
fill surplus hours of leisure time. Whether we like it or not, many modern employees are
expected to work such long hours that they no longer have a private or family life.
And where are the gifts of modern technology? Employees may now have mobile phones
and laptops, but these do not actually save time; instead, they form an intrusion into free time,
blurring the distinction between working and nonworking hours. Employees are connected
willy-nilly with their workplace and the stresses associated with it - especially, but not
exclusively, during the hours spent commuting to and from work. For many, the modern
working lifestyle is all about flexibility and productivity. To exploitative employers, however,
‘flexibility’ means excessive overtime for no extra reward, and workers are often too scared of
the social and financial exclusion of unemployment to resist their demands.
According to official UK government statistics for 2008, more than 20% of employees
worked more than 45 hours a week, with working fathers tending to spend the most time in the
workplace. What is more, many full-time employees regularly work both Saturdays and
Sundays. There are laws in place to control this situation, but a number of loopholes exist that
allow employees to be pressurized into working long and unsocial hours. Market forces and
social pressures, due to what many see as Britain’s unhealthy work-obsessed culture, ensure that
employees are often exploited to the full.

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Part 2:
The chart below shows what Anthropology graduates from one university did after
finishing their undergraduate degree course. The table shows the salaries of the
anthropologists in work after five years.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make
comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words. (1.5 point)

Destination of Anthropology graduates (from one university)

Salaries of Anthropology graduates (after 5 year’s work)

Type of employment $25,000-49,999 $50,000-74,999 $75,000-99,999 $100,000+
Freelance consultants 5% 15% 40% 40%
Government sector 5% 15% 30% 50%
Private companies 10% 35% 25% 30%

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Part 3: Write an essay of 350 words on the following topic: (3 points)
Many people say that tourism can be a double-edged sword, bringing benefits to local
people while at the same time damaging the local environment and culture. Do you agree with
this? What can be done by governments, tour operators and tourists themselves to maximize the
positive effects of tourism and to minimize the downside? Discuss your opinions, giving
examples and reasons to support your view.
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