ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC MOCK TEST

(Đề thi có 15 trang) Môn thi:TIẾNG ANH

Ngày thi: 10/12/2021
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Lưuý: Thí sinh không được ghi bất kỳ thông tin gì vào phần phách này.
Thí sinh làm bài trên đề thi này (Hãy đọc kỹ các phần hướng dẫn làm bài).
Điểm bài thi Họ tên và chữ kí giám khảo Số phách
Bằng số: ………..…… GK1:………………………………….
Bằng chữ: ……...……. GK2: …………………………………

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I. LISTENING (5 points)
HƯỚ NG DẪ N PHẦ N THI NGHE HIỂ U
 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần ; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, giữa 2 lần nghe cách nhau 10
giây ; mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. (tiếng bíp)
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
 Thí sinh KHÔNG được viết bằng BÚT CHÌ.

Part 1. For questions 1–5, listen to a talk on the effect of architecture on people’s mood
and decide whether these statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. The purpose of the data collection was to test people’s reaction to different buildings.
2. The initial plan was to use a 1-5 scale to record the participants’ reaction.
3. To make sure people could see the detail in the images better; the images were
produced in colour.
4. No leaders should have been appointed to encourage equal participation among the
team members.
5. Both the 11-18 age group and the 20-40 age group reflected mixed feelings in the image
testing.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2. For questions 6–12, listen to a talk about the concept of the “cloud,” and supply the
blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the
recording for each answer in the space provided.
THE CLOUD
The cloud is a global network of servers around the world acting as one (6)
_____________________________. Before the cloud, information might have been backed up to an (7)
_____________________________. There are a few obvious advantages for users from the cloud,
including not having to worry about using up all of the (8) _____________________________ on their
hard drives. Businesses also benefit: its (9) _____________________________ from the cloud will
exceed $200bn in 2019. Many cloud services are based on a (10) _________________________. (11)
_____________________________ accounts for one-fifth of all files in the cloud. It can be hard for (12)
_____________________________ to switch between different cloud companies.
Part 3. For questions 13–17, listen to an interview with an artist about the subject of art
and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear.

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Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
13. How does Brendan feel about his work?
A. He prefers negative criticism to no reaction at all.
B. His intention is to provoke critics with his art.
C. He believes his art can only be viewed subjectively.
D. His definition of art is at odds with general opinion.
14. According to Brendan, standing on a chair
A. is an example of what art should be.
B. would be art if it was intended to be.
C. is an example of mediocre art.
D. would not be considered art by most people.
15. Brendan says that some successful artists
A. are not very good at drawing.
B. have not been able to create original art.
C. lack the ability to express ideas.
D. use excessively old-fashioned techniques.
16. Brendan doesn’t think that
A. throwing paint at a canvas would constitute art.
B. it is difficult to come up with original ideas.
C. critics are open-minded enough.
D. modern art has nowhere left to go.
17. The invention of the camera
A. allowed more people to indulge their passion for taking portraits.
B. enabled photographers to imitate life more closely.
C. meant that artists were no longer restricted to copying from life.
D. changed the way society viewed the role of the artist.
Your answers:
13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Part 4. For questions 18–25, listen to a report on volunteer work in the aftermath of floods
in the city of Venice, Italy, and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS from the recording for each answer in the
space provided.
VOLUNTEER EFFORTS AFTER VENICE FLOODS
In the wake of the Venice record high tides, volunteers are arriving to help. At the
bookstore Acqua Alta, because of the constant danger of floods, its books have always been
displayed inside bathtubs, plastic bins, and even a full –size (18) _______________________________.
Following the worst tide in more than (19) _______________________________, co-owner Diana Zanda
has been assessing the damage and (20) ______________________________ whatever she can. She was
grateful for the help from young people. The Italian Culture Ministry has sent experts to assess
damage in St. Mark's Basilica, but in many of the city's less - known (21)
______________________________, volunteers are doing the work. At the Querini Stampalia
Foundation’s seriously (22) ______________________________, Anna Dumont is one of several
volunteers. Working at the next table is Gianmarco Bondi, who is actually a (23)
_________________________. “Moses” is a huge engineering project of (24) ________________________ to
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attributes the delays to (25) _________________________ and/or criminal activity.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (2 points)
Part 1. For questions 1–15, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. Donald Trump was noted for his clear ______ of words.
A. accentuation B. enunciation C. interpretation D. announcement
2. The woman was ______ with guilt when she realized that the accident had been her fault.
A. consumed B. ravaged C. devoured D. dazzled
3. Some people find modern art utterly ______.
A. impenetrable B. incorrigible C. impermeable D. illegible
4. Jabison cuckoo is a ______ of monsoon.
A. harbinger B. mark C. premonition D. signal
5. He finally decided to stop fooling around and put his _______ to the wheel.
A. arms B. shoulder C. hands D. fingers
6. The area is considered unsafe for tourists. That’s _______ why we chose to go somewhere else.
A. directly B. particularly C. precisely D. namely
7. He said he didn’t want to be chosen, but it’s probably just sour _______.
A. grapes B. lemons C. patch D. raisins
8. I asked him what to do but his instructions were so _______ that I still didn’t understand.
A. jumbled B. garbled C. muddled D. illegible
9. I wish I had the time and money to just _______ off to France for a week.
A. swan B. worm C. wolf D. beaver
10. New restaurant owners often try to attract customers by using _______ to homes in the
surrounding area.
A. mailboxes B. mailshots C. mailposts D. mail-flies
11. These plants can only grow in _______ soils.
A. loose B. sparse C. scarce D. slack
12. Due to many years of ________, the family had nothing to fall back on when it was time for
them to retire.
A. imprudence B. impunity C. incapability D. inflexibility
13. The smoke ________ from the burning tyres could be seen from miles away.
A. burrowing B. bulging C. billowing D. radiating
14. The hotel will not refund your booking if you cancel at short ________.
A. announcement B. response C. warning D. notice
15. Her face _______ up when he accepted her proposal.
A. lightened B. lit C. burnt D. fired
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 2. For questions 16–20, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the
numbered space provided in the column on the right.
Humans have struggled against weeds since the beginnings of
agriculture. Marring our gardens is one of the milder effects of weeds -
any plants that thrive where they are unwanted. They clog (16. WATER), 16. ______________
destroy wildlife habitats, and impede farming. Their spread eliminates
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grazing areas and accounts for one-third of crop loss. They compete for
sunlight, nutrients, and water with useful plants.
The global need for weed control has been answered mainly by the
chemical industry. Its (17. HERB) are elective and sometimes necessary, 17. ______________
but some pose serious problems, particularly if misused. Toxic
compounds threaten animal and public health when they accumulate in
food plants, ground water and drinking water. They also harm workers
who apply them.
In recent years, the chemical industry has introduced several herbicides
that are more (18. ECOLOGY) sound. Yet new chemicals alone cannot 18. ______________
solve the world’s weed problems. Hence scientists are exploring the
innate weed killing powers of organisms, primarily insects and (19. 19. ______________
ORGANIC).
The biological agents now in use are environmentally benign and are
harmless to humans. They can be chosen for their ability to attack
selected targets and leave crops and other plants untouched. In contrast,
some of the most effective chemicals kill virtually all the plants they
come in contact with, sparing only those that are naturally (20. RESIST) 20. ______________
or have been genetically modified for resistance.

III. READING (5 points)

Part 1. For questions 1–10, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable
word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
The Bergen Line
Few European railways (0) _______ such desolate mountain terrain as the 310-mile line
(1) _______ Norway's capital with its principal port and second city, Bergen. It is the highest
mainline railway in northern Europe, (2) _______ the Hardangervidda plateau at 4060ft, and for
nearly 60 miles it is above the tree line, in terrain with few (3) _______ of human life. It was also
one of the most difficult railways to build. There were few roads for supplies; deep snow and
freezing temperatures for months on (4) _______reduced productive days; and 11 4 miles of
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tunnel had to be bored, mostly through solid gneiss. The line opened in (5) _______from 1883,
one of the opening trains becoming (6) _______ in snow, but the first scheduled train for Bergen
did not leave Oslo until 1908. It has become a popular journey for tourists, not only for the
main line itself but also as a way to (7) _______ access to the branch line and the fjord village of
Flam. Snow is a (8) _______almost throughout the year, because the average snow-line in
Norway is at about 3000ft, compared with 7000ft in Switzerland.
0. A. travel B. transcend C. traverse D. transfer
1. A. relating B. bonding C. linking D. combining
2. A. reaching B. acquiring C. scanning D. ranging
3. A. marks B. proofs C. factors D. signs
4. A. end B. time C. row D. line
5. A. pieces B. sections C. portions D. segments
6. A. surrounded B. loaded C. buried D. fallen
7. A. hold B. gain C. make D. bring
8. A. feature B. vision C. part D. deal
Your answers:

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

Part 2. For questions 9–21, read the following passage and complete the tasks that follow.
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
A. Millions of years ago, continental drift carried the Old World and New World apart, splitting
North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. That separation lasted so long that it
fostered divergent evolution; for instance, the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the
Atlantic and of vipers on the other. After 1492, human voyagers in part reversed this tendency.
Their artificial re-establishment of connections through the commingling of Old and New
World plants, animals, and bacteria, commonly known as the Columbian Exchange, is one of
the most spectacular and significant ecological events of the past millennium.
B. When Europeans first touched the shores of the Americas, Old World crops such as wheat,
barley, rice, and turnips had not travelled west across the Atlantic, and New World crops such
as maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc had not travelled east to Europe. In the
Americas, there were no horses, cattle, sheep, or goats, all animals of Old World origin. Except
for the llama, alpaca, dog, a few fowl, and guinea pig, the New World had no equivalents to the
domesticated animals associated with the Old World, nor did it have the pathogens associated
with the Old World’s dense populations of humans and such associated creatures as chickens,
cattle, black rats, and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Among these germs were those that carried
smallpox, measles, chickenpox, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever.
C. As might be expected, the Europeans who settled on the east coast of the United States
cultivated crops like wheat and apples, which they had brought with them. European weeds,
which the colonists did not cultivate, and, in fact, preferred to uproot, also fared well in the
New World. John Josselyn, an Englishman and amateur naturalist who visited New England
twice in the seventeenth century, left us a list, “Of Such Plants as Have Sprung Up since the
English Planted and Kept Cattle in New England,” which included couch grass, dandelion,
shepherd’s purse, groundsel, sow thistle, and chickweed.
One of these, a plantain (Plantago major), was named “Englishman’s Foot” by the Amerindians
of New England and Virginia who believed that it would grow only where the English “have
trodden, and was never known before the English came into this country”. Thus, as they
intentionally sowed Old World crop seeds, the European settlers were unintentionally
contaminating American fields with weed seeds. More importantly, they were stripping and
burning forests, exposing the native minor flora to direct sunlight, and the hooves and teeth of
Old World livestock. The native flora could not tolerate the stress. The imported weeds could,
because they had lived with large numbers of grazing animals for thousands of years.
D. Cattle and horses were brought ashore in the early 1600s and found hospitable climate and
terrain in North America. Horses arrived in Virginia as early as 1620 and in Massachusetts in
1629. Many wandered free with little more evidence of their connection to humanity than
collars with a hook at the bottom to catch on fences as they tried to leap over them to get at
crops. Fences were not for keeping livestock in, but for keeping livestock out.
E. Native American resistance to the Europeans was ineffective. Indigenous peoples suffered
from white brutality, alcoholism, the killing and driving off of game, and the expropriation of
farmland, but all these together are insufficient to explain the degree of their defeat. The
crucial factor was not people, plants, or animals, but germs. Smallpox was the worst and the
most spectacular of the infectious diseases mowing down the Native Americans. The first
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Massachusetts in the early 1630s. William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation wrote that the
victims “fell down so generally of this disease as they were in the end not able to help one
another, no, not to make a fire nor fetch a little water to drink, nor any to bury the dead”. The
missionaries and the traders who ventured into the American interior told the same appalling
story about smallpox and the indigenes. In 1738 alone, the epidemic destroyed half the
Cherokee; in 1759 nearly half the Catawbas; in the first years of the next century, two thirds of
the Omahas and perhaps half the entire population between the Missouri River and New
Mexico; in 1837-38 nearly every last one of the Mandans and perhaps half the people of the
high plains.
F. The export of America’s native animals has not revolutionised Old World agriculture or
ecosystems as the introduction of European animals to the New World did. America’s grey
squirrels and muskrats and a few others have established themselves east of the Atlantic and
west of the Pacific, but that has not made much of a difference. Some of America’s
domesticated animals are raised in the Old World, but turkeys have not displaced chickens and
geese, and guinea pigs have proved useful in laboratories, but have not usurped rabbits in the
butcher shops.
G. The New World’s great contribution to the Old is in crop plants. Maize, white potatoes, sweet
potatoes, various squashes, chiles, and manioc have become essentials in the diets of hundreds
of millions of Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Their influence on Old World peoples, like that
of wheat and rice on New World peoples, goes far to explain the global population explosion of
the past three centuries. The Columbian Exchange has been an indispensable factor in that
demographic explosion.
H. All this had nothing to do with superiority or inferiority of biosystems in any absolute sense.
It has to do with environmental contrasts. Amerindians were accustomed to living in one
particular kind of environment, Europeans and Africans in another. When the Old World
peoples came to America, they brought with them all their plants, animals, and germs, creating
a kind of environment to which they were already adapted, and so they increased in number.
Amerindians had not adapted to European germs, and so initially their numbers plunged. That
decline has reversed in our time as Amerindian populations have adapted to the Old World’s
environmental influence, but the demographic triumph of the invaders, which was the most
spectacular feature of the Old World’s invasion of the New, still stands.
QUESTIONS 9–16: The reading passage on the Columbian Exchange has eight paragraphs A–H.
Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A–H in boxes 9–
16.
9. ____ A description of an imported species that is named after the English colonists
10. ____ The reason why both the New World and Old World experienced population growth
11. ____ The formation of new continents explained
12. ____ The reason why the indigenous population declined
13. ____ An overall description of the species lacked in the Old World and New World
14. ____ A description of some animal species being ineffective in affecting the Old World
15. ____ An overall explanation of the success of the Old World species invasion
16. ____ An account of European animals taking roots in the New World
QUESTIONS 17–19 : Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading
Passage? Write: TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
17. ____ European settlers built fences to keep their cattle and horses inside.
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18. ____ The indigenous people had been brutally killed by the European colonists.
19. ____ America's domesticated animals, such as turkey, became popular in the Old World.
QUESTIONS 20–21: Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from
the passage for each answer.
20. Who reported the same story of European diseases among the indigenes from the
American interior? _________________________________
21. What is the still existing feature of the Old World's invasion of the New? _____________________
Your answers:
9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21.

Part 3. You are going to read an article about the way people sometimes behave in the
theatre or concert hall. Six paragraphs have been removed from the article. For questions
22–27, read the passage and choose from the 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 TROUBLE WITH MODERN AUDIENCES
According to the reviews, the performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphony that I went to
last week was 'transcendent', 'emotionally perfect' and 'violently good'. A friend called me the
following morning and told me that it was one of the most powerful experiences of her life.
22
Sitting in the row in front of me, you see, was the family from hell. I don't know their
names, but let's call them the Fidget-Bottoms. Mr and Mrs Fidget-Bottom spent the entire time
stroking and kissing their kids, stretching out their arms across the backs of seats as if they
were on the sofa at home and, just for good measure, bobbing their heads up and down in time
with the music.
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I planted a well-aimed kick in the back of the seat but to no avail. A killer combination of
the family's total self-absorption, and the seat's wooden solidity, meant that the only effect was
a painful toe. So I resorted to another equally fruitless tactic; that of seething with righteous
indignation.
24
Now there is more of a laissez-faire attitude, which, whilst opening up cultural
institutions to millions, has its own set of drawbacks. Today, you come as you please, and
behave as you please. It's your right. If you want to flick through your programme, fine. If you
want to use it as a fan, go ahead. If you want to cough, feel free.
25
But we are not at home. The very point of the theatre is to be out of the house, and part
of a crowd. And being part of a crowd has its obligations - not shouting 'fire' out of mischief, for
example, in a crowded room. When travelling by bus, I do not suddenly begin to indulge myself
by singing arias from Handel's Messiah. Nor do I whistle along to the music at weddings at
which I am a guest. I behave as is expected of me.
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 As a result we have forgotten - or more truthfully, never learnt - how to listen. When the
St Matthew Passion was written, it was heard at Easter, once every very few years. A
performance was an event, an event which we had no way of even attempting to recreate.
Today, we can record the performance and then listen to it at our leisure in the bath. We can
have its choruses playing as background music while we eat or converse with those around us.
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It's hardly surprising that we take that behaviour, and that attitude, into the concert all
with us. Mr and Mrs Fidget-Bottom, and the little Fidget-Bottoms, certainly ruined my concert
last week, and I am fairly sure they are going to ruin quite a few others as they get older.
The missing paragraphs:
A. This particular family may have been especially horrific, but they are merely grotesque
extensions of the downside of the increasing accessibility of culture. Admittedly, the old
formal rules of behaviour at the theatre, concerts and opera - dressing up in black tie
and all that, and the feeling that unless you were part of a closed circle then on no
account could you attend - were far too stifling.
B. Rarely, if ever, do we sit down in our own home to listen to a full performance of a piece
of music, with no other distractions. And if we do make an attempt, then no sooner have
we settled into our armchair than we think of something else we could be doing and we
do it
C. Which is more than can be said for the Fidget-Bottoms of the world, who seem oblivious
to the norms of social conduct. The problem stems from the fact that culture is now too
readily accessible.We simply don't need to make an effort with it. You want to hear
Beethoven's Ninth? Just go online. Fancy Vivaldi's Four Seasons? Which version?
D. I felt then, as now, that my outburst of temper was justified. What these people, and
people like them clearly need, is an education in how to behave in public, beginning with
a basic introduction to concert etiquette. On no account should you kiss your children
once the concert has started. Indeed, save that for when you get home.
E. I wouldn't know. My body was in the concert hall, and my ears are in full working order.
But neither were any use to me. The London Symphony Orchestra might as well have
been playing Chopsticks for all the impact the Mahler had on me.
F. Unwrapping sweets, fidgeting, wandering off to the toilet and chatting are also on the
list of things you can do during a performance. When going out is as easy, and as normal,
as staying in, then we behave the same in the theatre, or the concert hall, as we do in the
living room. And so we don't have a thought for those around us.
G. They were cocooned in their own world, with not the slightest concern for anyone
around. I doubt that it even crossed their mind that they were doing anything wrong, so
unabashed was their behaviour. The situation called for action.
Your answers:
22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

Part 4. For questions 28–37, read the passage below 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.
INFANTILE AMNESIA
What do you remember about your life before you were three? Few people can
remember anything that happened to them in their early years. Adults' memories of the next
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few years also tend to be scanty. Most people remember only a few events – usually ones that
were meaningful and distinctive, such as being hospitalized or a sibling's birth.
How might this inability to recall early experiences be explained? The sheer passage of
time does not account for it; adults have excellent recognition of pictures of people who
attended high school with them 35 years earlier. Another seemingly plausible explanation –
that infants do not form enduring memories at this point in development – also is incorrect.
Children two and a half to three years old remember experiences that occurred in their first
year, and eleven month olds remember some events a year later. Nor does the hypothesis that
infantile amnesia reflects repression – or holding back – of sexually charged episodes explain
the phenomenon. While such repression may occur, people cannot remember ordinary events
from the infant and toddler periods, either.
Three other explanations seem more promising. One involves physiological changes
relevant to memory. Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain continues throughout early
childhood, and this part of the brain may be critical for remembering particular episodes in
ways that can be retrieved later. Demonstrations of infants' and toddlers' long-term memory
have involved their repeating motor activities that they had seen or done earlier, such as
reaching in the dark for objects, putting a bottle in a doll's mouth, or pulling apart two pieces of
a toy. The brain's level of physiological maturation may support these types of memories, but
not ones requiring explicit verbal descriptions.
A second explanation involves the influence of the social world on children's language
use. Hearing and telling stories about events may help children store information in ways that
will endure into later childhood and adulthood. Through hearing stories with a clear beginning,
middle, and ending, children may learn to extract the gist of events in ways that they will be
able to describe many years later. Consistent with this view, parents and children increasingly
engage in discussions of past events when children are about three years old. However,
hearing such stories is not sufficient for younger children to form enduring memories. Telling
such stories to two year olds does not seem to produce long-lasting verbalizable memories.
A third likely explanation for infantile amnesia involves incompatibilities between the
ways in which infants encode information and the ways in which older children and adults
retrieve it. Whether people can remember an event depends critically on the fit between the
way in which they earlier encoded the information and the way in which they later attempt to
retrieve it. The better able the person is to reconstruct the perspective from which the material
was encoded, the more likely that recall will be successful.
This view is supported by a variety of factors that can create mismatches between very
young children's encoding and older children's and adults' retrieval efforts. The world looks
very different to a person whose head is only two or three feet above the ground than to one
whose head is five or six feet above it. Older children and adults often try to retrieve the names
of things they saw, but infants would not have encoded the information verbally. General
knowledge of categories of events such as a birthday party or a visit to the doctor's office helps
older individuals encode their experiences, but again, infants and toddlers are unlikely to
encode many experiences within such knowledge structures.
These three explanations of infantile amnesia are not mutually exclusive; indeed, they
support each other. Physiological immaturity may be part of why infants and toddlers do not
form extremely enduring memories, even when they hear stories that promote such remembering
in preschoolers. Hearing the stories may lead preschoolers to encode aspects of events that
allow them to form memories they can access as adults. Conversely, improved encoding of
what they hear may help them better understand and remember stories and thus make the
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stories more useful for remembering future events. Thus, all three explanations – physiological
maturation, hearing and producing stories about past events, and improved encoding of key
aspects of events – seem likely to be involved in overcoming infantile amnesia.
28. What purpose does paragraph 2 serve in the larger discussion of children's inability to
recall early experiences?
A. To argue that theories that are not substantiated by evidence should generally be
considered unreliable.
B. To argue that the hypotheses mentioned in paragraph 2 have been more thoroughly
researched than the theories mentioned later in the passage.
C. To explain why some theories about infantile amnesia are wrong before presenting ones
more likely to be true.
D. To explain why infantile amnesia is of great interest to researchers.
29. The word plausible in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. flexible B. believable C. debatable D. predictable
30. All of the following theories about the inability to recall early experiences are rejected in
paragraph 2 EXCEPT:
A. The ability to recall an event decreases as the time after the event increases.
B. Young children are not capable of forming memories that last for more than a short
time.
C. People may hold back sexually meaningful memories.
D. Most events in childhood are too ordinary to be worth remembering.
31. What does paragraph 3 suggest about long-term memory in children?
A. Maturation of the frontal lobes of the brain is important for the long-term memory of
motor activities but not verbal descriptions.
B. Young children may form long-term memories of actions they see earlier than of things
they hear or are told.
C. Young children have better long-term recall of short verbal exchanges than long ones.
D. Children's long-term recall of motor activities increases when such activities are
accompanied by explicit verbal descriptions.
32. According to paragraph 4, what role may storytelling play in forming childhood memories?
A. It may encourage the physiological maturing of the brain.
B. It may help preschool children tell the difference between ordinary and unusual
memories.
C. It may help preschool children retrieve memories quickly.
D. It may provide an ordered structure that facilitates memory retrieval.
33. The word critically in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. fundamentally B. partially C. consistently D. subsequently
34. The phrase This view in the passage refers to the belief that
A. The ability to retrieve a memory partly depends on the similarity between the encoding
and retrieving process.
B. The process of encoding information is less complex for adults than it is for young adults
and infants.
C. Infants and older children are equally dependent on discussion of past events for the
retrieval of information.
D. Infants encode information in the same way older children and adults do.
35. According to paragraphs 5 and 6, one disadvantage very young children face in processing
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 A. process a lot of information at one time.
B. organize experiences according to type.
C. block out interruptions.
D. interpret the tone of adult language.
36. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the italicized
sentence in paragraph 7?
A. Incomplete physiological development may partly explain why hearing stories does not
improve long-term memory in infants and toddlers.
B. One reason why preschoolers fail to comprehend the stories they hear is that they are
physiologically immature.
C. Given the chance to hear stories, infants and toddlers may form enduring memories
despite physiological immaturity.
D. Physiologically mature children seem to have no difficulty remembering stories they
heard as preschoolers.
37. How does paragraph 7 relate to the earlier discussion of infantile amnesia?
A. It introduces a new theory about the causes of infantile amnesia.
B. It argues that particular theories discussed earlier in the passage require further
research.
C. It explains how particular theories discussed earlier in the passage may work in
combination.
D. It evaluates which of the theories discussed earlier is most likely to be true.
Your answers:
28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.

Part 5. For questions 38–50, read the passage below and choose the answer by choosing
from the sections of the article A-H. Some of the sections may be required more than once.
Note: When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
TIPS FOR AIR TRAVELLERS
A. Membership of an airline loyalty club will guarantee you a seat on a flight, even when that
flight is fully booked for ‘normal passengers'. Air France, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and
Singapore Airlines are just four carriers offering this facility to their very best customers.
Others, like British Airways, Lufthansa and Swissair, are not quite so bold with their claims but
all will move heaven and earth to secure a seat for their club members.
B. First-class and business-class passengers get the pick of the seating, ‘up front’, away from all
the engine noise and vibration. Economy passengers are invariably seated in the noisier back
rows of the aircraft, where the air is usually staler. There are exceptions, however, and airline
seating plans (displayed in timetables) enable you to choose the best seat.
C. Travelling with overweight baggage can cost you dearly. On long-haul flights, the airlines
give you a free baggage allowance of between 20 and 64 kilos, depending on the class of travel
and the route. Every excess kilo is charged at one per cent of the first-class fare. One way round
this is to hand over your baggage to an excess-baggage company, which can save you as much
as 70 per cent on airline fees. Your luggage will then travel to your destination unaccompanied,
and you can either collect it from the airport or have it delivered to your destination address. It
won't usually arrive the same day, though.
D. Booking a first-class or business-class ticket usually entitles you to use the more peaceful
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lounges, even when flying on cut-price economy tickets.
E. The unthinkable has happened. You have arrived overseas but your luggage has not
appeared on the airport baggage carousel. Keep calm. In most cases your bags will turn up,
eventually. But, before you leave the airport, contact a member of staff and complete a Baggage
Irregularity Report, which ensures that you will receive compensation. However, airlines pay
out pitiful compensation, so do read the small print on your ticket, and it’s essential to take out
adequate insurance beforehand.
F. Securing an upgrade is easier than ever before. Canadian Airlines will now seat some
transatlantic passengers who have paid the economy fare in business class, while business-
class passengers bound for New York, Toronto, Delhi or Bombay are automatically upgraded to
first-class if they have paid the full business-class fare. In addition, large companies are
increasingly negotiating an automatic upgrade with airlines.
G. Several airlines are prepared to chauffeur their first-class and business-class passengers to
the airport free of charge. These transfers, usually within a 120-kilometre radius, are offered
by numerous airlines, including Air Canada, Canadian Airlines, Emirates, Japan’s ANA. North-
west, Qantas and Virgin Atlantic. Some carriers will also provide transport on arrival.
H. Taking a companion along and combining business with pleasure costs less than you might
think. Many airlines grant a 50 per cent discount for a partner in business class, while a few -
Singapore Airlines and JAL, for example - provide two tickets for the price of one, either for use
together or at a later date. European fliers staying over a Saturday qualify for excursion fares,
which enable two to travel for less than the price of one business-class ticket.
Which section refers to
passengers who frequently fly on the same airline? 38. __________ 39. __________
ways of avoiding airline rules? 40. __________
variations in the layout of aircraft? 41. __________
checking an airline’s legal obligations? 42. __________
promises made by airlines? 43. __________ 44. __________
bargains for people not travelling alone? 45. __________
relaxing surroundings before a flight? 46. __________
travel from the airport after landing? 47. __________
efforts to ensure there is room on planes for certain people? 48. __________
changing to a better seat? 49. __________
unpleasant conditions during a flight? 50. __________

IV. WRITING (6 points)

Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it in the space
provided. Your summary should be about 100–120 words long.
The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes and
other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this
technology to accommodate another three billion people. Many believe an entirely new
approach to indoor farming is required, employing cutting-edge technologies. One such
proposal is for the 'Vertical Farm'.
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environmentally controlled conditions. Situated in the heart of urban centres, they would
drastically reduce the amount of transportation required to bring food to consumers. Vertical
farms would need to be efficient, cheap to construct and safe to operate. If successfully
implemented, proponents claim, vertical farms offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable
production of a safe and varied food supply (through year-round production of all crops), and
the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.
The supporters of vertical farming claim many potential advantages for the system. For
instance, crops would be produced all year round, as they would be kept in artificially
controlled, optimum growing conditions. There would be no weather-related crop failures due
to droughts, floods or pests. All the food could be grown organically, eliminating the need for
herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers. The system would greatly reduce the incidence of many
infectious diseases that are acquired at the agricultural interface.
Although the system would consume energy, it would return energy to the grid via
methane generation from composting non-edible parts of plants. It would also dramatically
reduce fossil fuel use, by cutting out the need for tractors, ploughs and shipping.
A major drawback of vertical farming, however, is that the plants would require artificial
light. Without it, those plants nearest the windows would be exposed to more sunlight and
grow more quickly, reducing the efficiency of the system. Single-storey greenhouses have the
benefit of natural overhead light: even so, many still need artificial lighting. A multi-storey
facility with no natural overhead light would require far more. Generating enough light could
be prohibitively expensive, unless cheap, renewable energy is available, and this appears to be
rather a future aspiration than a likelihood for the near future.
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Part 2. The table below gives information on internet use in six categories by age group.
Describe the information in the table and make comparisons where appropriate. Write at
least 150 words.
INTERNET ACTIVITIES BY AGE GROUP
Activity Age group
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Get news 76 73 76 75 71 74 70
Online games 81 54 37 29 25 25 32
Downloads 52 46 27 15 13 8 6
Product research 0 79 80 83 79 74 70
Buying a product 43 68 69 68 67 65 41
Searching for
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Many people think that all children should be immunised against childhood diseases in order
to control these diseases. Some people, however, think that they should be given a choice of
whether or not to immunise their children. Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
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