A. LISTE Assorted Test 3 . NING (50 Points): HUONG DAN py AN THI NGHE HIEU Bai nghe gém 3 phan, méi phén due nghe 2 lan, mé dé va, két thive méi phan ngl c6 tin hiéu, © Me dau va két thie phan nghe co tin hiéu nhac. ° Moi hung dan cho thi sinh (bang tiéng Anh) da cé trong bai nghe. Part 1: You will hear a telephone conversation between the owner of a restaurant and. customer who is calling to find out information about food and prices at the restauran Listen and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for eacl answer in the corresponding numbered boxes. Belluci’s Restaurant Sam's suggestions Tomato bread with herbs Would go best with Lasagna: (2) Cheese with, Pop prac ()_Nued colo Greek salad Other side dishes that Sam mentions: CUSTOMER DETAILS Booking made on: 5* August Date when customers will be at the restaurant: (3)_ 24 Time: 7:00 pm Number of people: (4)__ (5 Email address: (5) Novicl homill @ cca com Customer phone number: 014453336451 Your answers: a Ce LN CSE 2752 ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — IE University 1 Part 2: You will listen to a talk by the Water Project Manager of a charity called ‘Cha —Water’. For each of the following questions, choose the option which fits bes what you hear, 1. The speaker’s job requires A. a great deal of walking ® extensive travel C. clean water 2. Why is this story being told? ® to promote Charity-Water B. for entertainment purposes C, to encourage Helen 3. When villagers heard of the charity workers’ arrival, they ® had a party B. were suspicious C. took no notice 4. Helen is feeling & ecstatic about her new life B. curious about the charity workers C. nostalgic about her old life 5. What did the speaker notice about Helen? A. that she had bathed recently @)ne care that she took with her appearance C. that she was wearing a green uniform Your answers: 4 — ‘SeannadithCamScanner3. ee ay UntWersity Wstchurch is home to 340,000 people. 4. The highest tsunami w; 5. There Fire. ‘ves in New Zealand were eight-feet tall. are numerous volcanic and earthquake activities in Pacific Ocean's Ring of Your answers: a a Part 4: You will hear a radio interview with an American woman called Kate Jenner, who practices the sport of parkour, or ‘free running’ Listen and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS. The objective of parkour is to get over such obstacles as trees, (1) glows and walls. Kate says that parkour combines cross- country running with (2) _{{ rel i In order to join a parkour club, it is necessary to have a good (3) _potvd and to be fit. Kate says that (4) _ solve is a problem for her in some situations. When she is in town, Kate looks at (5)_p\ivahe __ and courtyards as possible places to do parkour. Parkour enthusiasts do not generally (6) Look with people when they are told to stop. Kate and a professor are studying different techniques of (7) alten that are used in parkour. If Kate teaches parkour in the college, there could be a problem with (8) recowme —_- Kate has been in Los Angeles doing parkour for an advertisement for a (9) ‘A company that makes (10) _ io. may provide Kate’s club with funding. Your answers: -_ 6 |5. ‘SeannadithCamScanner =. f Ric O-GRAMMAR (50 points) Part 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. 1. According to the of the contract, tenants must give six months’ notice if they intend to live. A. laws B. rules © terms D. details 2. No one could contemplate fame these days without knowing beforehand of its a. laisez-faire @ outburst C. insight D. downside 3. Books taken from the short section are due to be retumed the next day. A.borrowing —_—_—B. credit ©toan D. return 4, She was so undisciplined and disobedient that, as the manager, I just had to put my down. A. stamp ® shoe C. fist D. foot 5. When Wilson's company was hit by the recession, he decided to take early __. A.redundancy —B.retirement —C. resignation () redeployment 6. 1 am sure your husband-to-be will lend you a ear when you explain the situation to him. | A. merciful B. compassionate C. pitiful O sympathetic 7. The whereabouts of the exiled president remains a_ guarded secret. A. highly closely C. deeply D. entirely | 8. It’s a shame to fall out so badly with your own A-heartto heart @) flesh and blood C. heart and soul. skin and bone 9, Life's very easy for you. You were bon with a spoon in your mouth. Ki @) silver B. golden C. bronze D. diamond 10, There has been a lot of ____ surrounding the government's proposed scheme. 3 ‘SeannadithCamScannerVat Dinh — 1b University §) controversy B. consent C. conformity D. consequence V1. You can’t bury your head and hope that this problem goes away, you know. A.inthemud — B.inthe pool @)inthe sand. in the water 12. Fiona’s offered to help you. Don't ask why — never look a gift _in the mouth. & horse B. cow C. deer D. dog 13. Sandra’s unpleasant _ suggested that she knew about Amanda's terrible secret. A. grimace smirk C. wince D. snort 14, Few people can do creative work unless they are in the right of mind, & frame B. trend C. attitude D. tendency 15. He was arrested for trying to pass _notes at the bank. @ecamouflaged _B. fake C. counterfeit’. fraudulent 16. This fabric has the ___ of silk but it’s very cheap. A, stroke B. substance C. friction @ texture 17. I threw some biscuit ‘on the ground and a whole load of pigeons swooped down and started eating them. A. grains B. specks C. flakes 0 crumbs 18. The insects looked and tasted so horrible, 1 with disgust as I tried to force them down. A. gloated B. grinned ©)srimaced _D. chuckled 19, Going down white-water rapids in a canoe must be extremely ! Does your heart start beating really fast? A.trivial B. mundane C. sedentary © exhilarating 20. Was it always an of yours to play for France? A. urge e@ adoration C. anticipation —_D. aspiration Your answers: [seencsae ees Oreee 7 a Sontanees te eee ‘SeannadithCamScanner—4 Dat Dinh — IE Univer 6 17. 7 8. Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Hdentify the mistakes anc write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. Example: Line 1: industrial industry Although the music industrial developed over several decades, popular music drew ethnomusicologists’ attention by the 90s because a standardizing effective began to develop. The corporate nature surrounding popular music streamlined it into a framework that focused on slight deviations from the accepted norm, create what Adomo calls “pscudo-individualism”; what the public would perceive as unique or organic would musically comply with standard, established music conventions, Thus, a duality emerged from this standardization, an industry-driven manipulation of the people what they want while simultaneous guiding them to it. In - public's tastes to giv the case of rock music, while the genre may have grown out of politicized forces and ion, the corporate influence over popular music other form of meaningful motiva became integral to its identity that directing public taste became increasingly | development allowed for easy dispersion of western music, easier. Technologi causing the dominance of westem music into rural and urbanized areas across the globe. However, because popular music assumes so a corporatized role and therefore remains subject to a large degree of standardized, ambiguity exists whether the music reflects actual cultural values or those only of the corporate sector seeking economic profit. Because popular music developed such a dependent relationship to media and the corporations surrounding it, where record sales and profit indirectly shaped musical decisions, the superstar person became an important element of popular music. From the fame and economical success surrounding such superstars, subcultures continued to arise, such as the rock and punk movements, only perpetuated by the corporate machine that also shaped the musical aspect of popular music. Your answers: {| ine [Mistakes ‘ __] ‘SeannadithCamScannerIE Uni Dat Di i inh sity 2 | | offpetive | ___of fect __ — A —trente _|___ trent \-6 nse wuustcat {$8 _| __siuuhtarcatsty | tu Monpousty —_| a -anotiwa— thea ; AL development tedep MM ‘ . si Ab standardized stonrclaudiration. a do to with ‘149 xconomical economic, Part 3. Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your answer in the box provided. 1. It’s not fair, You're always picking _yp me. 2. You look very guilty. What have you been getting yQ___ ay 3. My parents are not interrupted in modem music. They are _at__ the times. 4. At that time they were poor, and they went Oy, _ a difficult time. 5. He gained ascendancy gyta_all his main rivals. 6. We have to go_{ox,_ our work right now, or we won't finish it on time. 7, The two trains came yiftiy.ten metres of collision. 8. The skyscraper stands out fo, _ the blue sky. 9.1 got sul the Arts Faculty at the University of London to study history. 10. As the detective stories become popular once again, the publishing house decides to bring gua new edition of Christie's work. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. a 10. Part 4. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answers in the spaces provided below. BECOMING A PARENT ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — IE University ' ml Very little in our lives prepares us for _ (1. parent). Suddenly, your Jife is turned upside down and all sorts of _____ (2. familiar) demands are replaced on you. How we ourselves were treated by our parents in our ___ (3. young) can have an _____ (4. appreciate) effect on who we become as parents, Our own (5. observe) of how our parents responded to us creates a model of parenting that is _ (6. intimate) connected to the kind of parents we become. It’s not uncommon for people to show the same child-rearing ___ (7. character) as their own parents. If your father was an __ (8. sympathy) figure who always seemed too busy to care about how you felt, then there's a chance you will repeat the same behavior. If your mother was utterly _(9. self) in her devotion to her children, there’s a chance that you too will be equally giving and do all that is__(10. human) possible for your offspring. Your ans» [!paxtuting —]2 wrfosnitiar [3 yout 14 appraciaiel 5. oseavatiovt pavae | ee ee JetpD) ) % iwtiwvetely | 7 hava decitey ® wasympathend ® stflas [7 uinanly C. READING (60 points) Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes, Promoting children’s self-esteem seems to be one of the aims of modem childcare and education. It goes (1) _Q\ with a culture in which children are (2) for the most minor achievements. While this promotion of self-esteem is, rightly, a reaction against (3) times when children weren't praised enough, it also seems to be (4) a fear of how failure will affect children: a fear that if they don’t succeed at a task, they will somehow be damaged. However, the opposite may well be true. Many scientists spend years experiencing (5) failure in the lab until they make a breakthrough. They know that ultimately this process advances scientific knowledge. (6) . children need to experience failure to leam and grow. If children have been praised for everything they've done, regardless of how good itis, then failure in adult life will be all the more painful Page 8 of 18 ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh IE Unive Life is full 2 of (7) —__ and there is no point in trying to protect children from the disappointments that (8) them. Parents and educators shouldn't be afraid of Picking up on children’s mistakes, » as long as they also praise them when they do well. After all, the heroes children try to (9) the pop stars and footballers, have all ruthless competition. Like them, children need to leam, with failure and turn it to their advantage. 1. A. cap in hand @® hand in hand C. to show 2.@) enthusiastically B devotedly C. immensely 3. A. grimmer reached the top (10) how to cope D. without saying D. thoroughly B. more unrelenting C. more unsparing D. steer 4. A. consequent upon B. owing to C. culminated in. resulted from C.consecutive — @ continual © By the same token C. In like manner _D. In similar fashion 7. A. flies in the ointment 5. A. concurrent B, consequent 6. A. Alll the same B. obstacle courses C. spanners in the. works @ stumbling blocks 8. A. put great store by B. lie in wait for ©)hold in store for. wait up for 9. A. duplicate @® emulate replicate D. stimulate 10.@) inthe face of Bin the teeth of —_C. irrespective of D. without regard to Your answer: 1, 2. 3. | 4. 5. 6. 4, 8. | 9. 10. Part 2. Read the following text and fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. The majority of lottery winners change their lives (1) _y ut little, and continue on their settled way happy ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr. David won a million. He had been struggling to (2) yyahie a success of his dry cleaning shop for the past 12 months. He accepted his cheque in a small ceremony (3)_gt the premises at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had reopened for business. The reaction of Mr. Pasquale Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York state lottery was very (4) sinifoa-He was unhappy not to be able to fulfill his desire to go to work as (5) nswal on the day he won. He also said that if the money made him (6) unhappy he would give it back, In ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — IE University fact, the chances of his life being made a misery by his new-found wealth are almost (7) as slim though not quite as the sixty million-to-one odds he beat to take a jackpot (8) {\\at__ had remained unclaimed through six previous draws. Gambling small amounts (9) _OW the lottery is a harmless if futile hobby. (10) _Qut _, gambling can become an addition, increasingly so as the activity becomes socially acceptable. Your answers: i {2 4 5. 9. 10. Part 3, Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. The first scientific attempt at coaxing moisture from a cloud was in 1946, when scientist Vincent Schaefer dropped 3 pounds of dry ice from an airplane into a cloud and, to his delight, produced snow. The sue s of the experiment was modest, but it spawned optimism among farmers and ranchers around the country. It seemed to them that science had finally triumphed over weather. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. Although there were many cloud- seeding operations, during the late 1940s and the 1950s, no one could say whether they had any effect on precipitation. Cloud seeding, or weather modification as it came to be called, was dearly more complicated than had been thought. It was not until the early 1970s that enough experiments had been done to understand the processes involved. What these studies indicated was that only certain types of clouds are amenable to seeding. One of the most responsive is the winter orographic cloud, formed when air currents encounter a mountain slope and rise. If the temperature in such a cloud is right, seeding can increase snow yield by 10 to 20 percent. There are two major methods of weather modification. In one method, silver iodide is bumed in propane-fired ground generators. The smoke rises into the clouds where the tiny silver-iodide particles act as nuclei for the formation of ice crystals. The alternate system uses airplanes to deliver dry-ice pellets. Dry ice does not provide ice-forming nuclei. Instead, it lowers the temperature near the water droplets in the clouds so that they freeze instantly—a process called spontancous nucleation. Seeding from aircraft is Page 10 of 18 ‘SeannadithCamScannerSMA, TE Univers more effi Versity ent but also More expensive. About 75 percent of all we: ather modification in the United St les Western st takes place in the ‘ates. With the Popul lation of the West growing rapidly, few regions of the World require more water. About 85 percent of the alters in the rivers of the West c elted & 7 Omes from melted snow. As one expert put it, the water problems of the future may make the energy problems of the 70s seem like child's play to solve. That's why the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, along with state governments, munici pal water districts, and private interests such as ski areas and agricultural cooperatives, is putting increased effort into cloud-sceding efforts, Without consistent and Sierras, and heavy snowfalls in the Rockies the West would literally dry up. The most intensive efforts to produce Precipitation was during the West's disastrous snow drought of 1976-77. It is impossible to judge the efficiency of weather modification based on one crash program, but most experts think that such hurry-up programs are not very effective. 1, What is the main subject of the passa we? A. The scientific contributions of Vincent Schaefer B. Developments in methods of increas Ng precipitation C. The proce: by which snow crystals form The effects of cloud ding 2. The word spanned in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to A. intensified B. reduced C. preceded (ereatea 3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about the term weather modification? @® It is not as old as the term cloud seeding. B. It has been in use since at least 1946. C. It refers to only one type of cloud seeding. D. It was first used by Vincent Schaefer. 4. According to the passage, winter orographic clouds are formed A.on relatively warm winter days B. over large bodies of water . during intense snow storms ‘Seannadith CamScanerDatQinh — IE University (Ohen air currents rise over mountains 5. To which of the following does the word they in paragraph 3 refer? A.Water droplets (B)CloudsC. teesforming nuclei. Airplanes 6, When clouds are seeded from the ground, what actually causes ice crystals to form? A.Propane 3) Silver-iodide smoke C. Dry-ice pellets D. Nuclear radiation 7. Clouds would most likely be seeded from airplanes when Ait is important to save money B, the process of spontancous nucleation cannot be employed (Ore production of precipitation must be efficient D. temperatures are lower than usual 8. What does the author imply about the energy problems of the 1970s? A. They were caused by a lack of water. B. They took attention away from water problems. 6 ‘They may not be as critical as water problems will be in the future, D. They were thought to be minor at the time but tumed out to be serious. 9. The author mentions agricultural cooperatives (paragraph 4) as an example of __. A, state government agencies private interests | C. organizations that compete with ski areas for water | D. municipal water districts 10. It can be inferred from, the passage that the weather-modification project of 1976-77 | Wa | 6) put together quickly B.a complete failure C. not necessary D. easy to evaluate | Your answers: | L 2. | 3 4. x ] | 6. 7: | 8. D5 10. a Part 4. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow. Page 12 of 18 ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh IE Universi A. The m aaa, lodem world is increasingly populated by quasi-intelligent gizmos whose Presence we barely notice but whose creeping ubiquity has removed much human drudgery. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with rote politeness for the transaction. Our Subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-drivers. Our mine shafts are dug by automated moles, and our nuclear accidents-such as those at Three Mile Island and Chemobyl-are cleaned up by robotic muckers fit to withstand radiation. Such is the scope of uses envisioned by Karel Capek, the Czech playwright who coined the term ‘robot’ in 1920 (the word ‘robota’ means ‘forced labor’ in Czech). As progress accelerates, the experimental becomes the exploitable at record pace. B. Other innovations promise to extend the abilities of human operators. Thanks to the incessant miniaturization of electronics and micromechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with sub millimeter, accuracy-far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. At the same time, techniques of long-distance control will keep people even farther from hazard. In 1994 a ten- foot-tall NASA robotic explorer called Dante, with video-camera eyes and with spiderlike legs, scrambled over the menacing rim of an Alaskan volcano while technicians 2,000 miles away in California watched the scene by satellite and controlled Dante's descent. C. But if robots are to reach the next stage of labour-saving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves-goals that pose a formidable challenge, ‘while we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,’ says one expert, we can't yet give a robot enough common sense to reliably interact with a dynamic world.’ Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence (AI) has produced very mixed results. Despite a spasm of i ial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s, when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to perform in the same way as the human brain by the 21" century, researchers lately have extended their forecasts by decades if not centuries. ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — 1E University brain’: D. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's roughly one hundred billion neurons are much more talented-and human perception far more complicated-than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the misalignment of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 per cent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the woodchuck at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a tumultuous crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it. E. Nonetheless, as information theorists, neuroscientists, and computer experts pool their talents, they are finding ways to get some lifelike intelligence from robots. One method renounces the linear, logical structure of conventional electronic circuits in favour of the messy, ad hoc arrangement of a real brain's neurons, These ‘neural networks' do not have to be programmed. They can ‘teach’ themselves by a system of feedback signals that reinforce electrical pathways that produced correct responses and, conversely, wipe out connections that produced errors. Eventually the net wires itself into a system that can pronounce certain words or distinguish certain shapes. F. In other areas researchers are struggling to fashion a more natural relationship between people and robots in the expectation that someday machines will take on some tasks now done by humans in, say, nursing homes. This is particularly important in Japan, where the percentage of elderly citizens is rapidly increasing. So experiments at the Science University of Tokyo have created a ‘face robot’ -a life-size, soft plastic model of a female head with a video camera imbedded in the left eye-as a prototype. The researchers’ goal is to create robots that people feel comfortable around. They are concentrating on the face because they believe facial expressions are the most important way to transfer emotional messages. We read those messages by interpreting expressions to decide whether a person is happy, frightened, angry, oF nervous, Thus the ese robot is designed to detect emotions in the person it is ‘looking at’ by sensing Japan ¢ spatial arrangement of the person's eyes, nose, eyebrows, and mouth. It changes in th those configurations with a database of standard facial expressions and compares ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — 1F University guesses the emoti x ion. The en Usi Ne Fobot then uses an ensemble of tiny Pressure pads to adjust its Plastic face ana © Into an appropriate emotional response G. Other labs are taking different approach, one that I doesn't try to mimic human intelligence or emotions, Just as computer design has moved away froin one central n inframe in. Ga, S a Ag ' ntrame in favour of myriad individual workstations- and single proces sors have been replaced by arra S of smaller units that break a big problem into parts that are solved simultaneously- many experts are now investigating whether swarms of semi- smart robots can generate a collective intelligence that is greater than the sum of its parts. That's what bechives and ant colonies do, and several teams are betting that legions of mini-critters w orking together like an ant colony could be sent to explore the climate of planets or to inspect pipes in dangerous industrial s uations, For questions 1-7, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A- G. There are three extra headings that you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding space provided. : List of headings i, Some success has resulted from observing how the brain functions. ii, Are we expecting too much from one robot? iii, Scientists are examining the humanistic possibil: iv. There are judgments that robots cannot make. v. Has the power of robots become too great? vi. Human skills have been heightened with the help of robotics. . There are some things we prefer the brain to control. Robots have quietly infiltrated our lives. ix. Original predictions have been revised. x. Another approach meets the same result, ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh — IE University Your answers Paragraph A: yiii N . Paragraph B: _yj Y Paragraph C:_x . Paragraph D: _iy Paragraph E: s “ . Paragraph F: iii x . Paragraph G: _j For question 8-10, complete the summary below with words taken from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. The prototype of the video cammad. which is planted in typics ace robot” observes humans through a (8) its head. It then refers to a (9) dotabase of “looks” that the human face can have, to decide what emotion the person is feeling. To respond to this expression, the robot alters its own expression using a number of (10) paossure pots. Your answers: 1. 3. 4 3. z c is 9. 10. D. WRITING (40 points) Page 16 of 18 ‘SeannadithCamScannerDat Dinh —1E y Niversity Part I. Rewrite each sentence using the same. You must use word in brackets so that the meaning stays the between THREE and EIGHT words, 1. Tdon't know why Fred made su ch an extraordina isi e ee ary decision. (prompted) wl Huownoted fred to profie so extrandtang decision. 2. Inefficient treatment of ¢ ustomers creates a bad impression of the company. (reflects) => Treating customers with a lack company oy _Alficiennay reflects Woodly om ___ the 3. The organizers planned everything as carefully as they could possibly have done. (utmost) => Everything was planned yith the whorl cade by the organizers. including the word given, 4. Coming second didn’t make her feel any better because she only wanted to win. (consolation) => Coming second mattered to her. WOS_og_WO_tonsolator._eccuuse sAWuaCiy was all that 5. I promised him that the situation would not be repeated in the future. (word) => 1 _gove Wn tu) word Viol fire noullhno repetition of the situation in the future. Part 2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. 1. The inhabitants were far worse-off twenty years ago than they are now. => The inhabitants are nowhere nant os bode as thy were swerty ypors ago 2. The chairman's leaving just before you're due to arrive. => By the Kiwnd yov_anuive fe choiawou sill ove just ls i j ut 3. It was difficult to understand her colleagues’ open hostility towards her proposal. poposal wo. $ 4, They only reimbursed us because we took legal advice. differ to uslerdan el => We wouldn't Nave baw cimbursed if we Molt take legal advice 5. We've had lots of arguments with that particular harbor master before. <> This isn't ie Aol hunt seve Wo eaguntenlt aif fil gaatinlas or dour 5 => That her colleagues _1! Page 17 of IS ‘SeannadithCamScanner