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HCM ĐỀ THI KẾT THÚC HỌC PHẦN

KHOA TIẾNG ANH Tên HP: Đọc - Viết 1
Mã HP: ENGL1406 Số tín chỉ: 3
Đề chính thức Học kỳ: 1 Năm học: 2021- 2022
Ngày thi: 24/01/2022
(Đề thi gồm có 4 trang) Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút (không kể thời gian phát đề)

Lưu ý:
- Thí sinh được sử dụng tài liệu khi làm bài thi.
- Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.

PLEASE TRANSFER ALL YOUR ANSWERS ONTO THE ANSWER SHEET

Part 1
Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the given sentence(s), using the word in
brackets. Do not change the word given. Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

1. Please don’t interrupt me. (keep)

I wish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Someone stole fifty thousand pounds from my bank account. (pounds)
Fifty --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. Shall we paint the kitchen next weekend instead of this weekend? (postpone)
Shall we -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?
4. There was a possibility that Jane would call. So, I left my phone switched on. (case)
I ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. I had no intention of changing my plans just to fit in with his. (intention)
It ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. I don’t mind someone keeping me waiting for a few minutes. (kept)
I don’t ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
7. A lorry collided with a taxi on the highway last night. (crashed)
A lorry -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Part 2
Complete each sentence with a word formed from the word in brackets.

1. The new museum doesn’t quite come up to our______. (expect)

2. New managers can sometimes discipline employees ______ in an attempt to appear
tough. (necessary)
3. The damage to the car after the accident was ______ and repairs cost a fortune. (consider)
4. It was a dour, ______ performance by the team in the final and they left town humiliated and
without the trophy. (passion)
5. The Presidents incompetence during the recession only ______ his party's resolve to get rid of him.
(quick)
6. We spent a fortune in the restaurant last night on their ______ menu. It was good, but not that
good! (execute)
7. Sponsoring a team also shows the financial ______ of your company. (stable)
8. You find the nearest fast-food restaurant and order your burger, as your stomach grumbles in
_________. (anticipate)

Part 3
There is one mistake in each of the following sentences. Correct it.

1. ‘Did you phone Lucy?’ ‘Oh, I forgot. I phone her now.’

2. There must have been more than six millions of workers at the protest.
3. You need to have a clear idea of what you want to acheive.
4. The rate of union membership rose to 30%, comparing to 27% last year.
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5. The fire was put out by a fire extinguisher.
6. I must work eight hours a day from 9 a.m to 6 p.m.
7. Hundreds of books are published annually by the Yale University Press.
8. Because of the driver’s carelessness, the passengers were serious injured in the accident.
9. He is an intelligent boy who understands the complex concepts easily and finish all the
assignments quickly.
10. I can’t find my coat anywhere in my house; I must leave it in the restaurant last night.

Part 4
Read Reading 1. Write T (True) or F (False) for each of the following statements.
1. The bystander effect is a natural but easily understandable human reaction that occurs in situations
in which help is needed.
2. The number of people who witness an emergency will affect the amount of responsibility each
witness feels.
3. Witnesses to Catherine Genovese’s murder didn’t call the police because they were too scared.
4. Darley and Latane did the experiment to prove that 38 witnesses were not guilty.
5. When there are many people around the victim, it is more likely that he can get assistance.

Reading 1
1
You're walking down a busy city sidewalk, and you see someone in front of you fall down.
What would you do? Now imagine that same situation, but you are the only other person on the
sidewalk. What would you do then? According to social psychologists, you are more likely to help
when there is no one else around. In contrast, if there are many witnesses, or bystanders, you might
not offer help. It is even possible that no one would help the person at all. Psychologists believe this is
a natural yet complex human reaction, which they call the bystander effect.
2
The bystander effect was first discovered in 1964 as a result of a very unfortunate event that
happened outside Catherine Genovese's home in New York City. At three o'clock in the morning,
someone attacked and murdered Genovese in front of her apartment building. The noise of the killing
woke up 38 of Genovese's neighbors All of them looked out of their windows to see what was
happening. However, not one of those 38 witnesses did anything to help. No one reported the murder
to the police. The whole nation was shocked by the news the next day, and psychologists had no
answers to explain why these people didn't help.
3
Newspapers called the 38 witnesses selfish and uncaring, but social psychologists John Darley
and Bibb Latane had a different theory. They believed that a large number of witnesses actually
decreased the chances that any individual would help. If only one person witnesses a murder, he or
she will feel fully responsible for calling the police. If there are two witnesses, each person might feel
only half responsible. Now imagine there are many witnesses, as in the Genovese case. Darley and
Latane pointed out that each person felt only a small amount of responsibility, so each did nothing.
The reason they didn't help was not that they were uncaring or selfish people. There were just too
many of them.
4
Darley and Latane knew they had to prove their theory scientifically, so they set up an
experiment with college students to test it. They divided the students into three groups. They took
each student to a small building. They put him or her in a room with a TV screen that showed another
person in a different room in the building; then they left. Students in the first group thought that they
were alone in the building. Students in the second group thought that there was one other person in
the building. Students in the third group thought that there were four other people in the building. As
part of the experiment, the person on the TV screen pretended to become ill and called out for help. In
the first group, where students believed they were the only people in the building, 85 percent went to
get help for the person. In the second group, only 62 percent tried to help. In the third group, only 31
percent tried to help. The results supported Darley and Latane's theory. They figured out that having
more witnesses did not mean that help was more likely. In fact, opposite was true.
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Social psychologists believe the bystander effect can apply to a number of everyday situations.
For example, on a busy sidewalk, you might not give money to a homeless man (or help someone
who falls down). On a crowded subway, you might choose not to stop and help someone change a flat
tire. In these situations, you – feel less responsible because so many people are around to help, so no
one ends up helping at all.
6
The bystander effect is one of the many factors that influence a person’s decision to help out a
stranger in need. Some people might naturally feel more desire to help. Some cultures might put more
importance on helping strangers than others do. Some cities and towns could be designed to be more
friendly than others. However, psychologists know that humans are naturally influenced by the
presence of others around them even if they are not aware of it.

Part 5

A. Read Reading 2 and the five statements (a–e) below. Write the paragraph number where the points
are found. (Two points can be from the same paragraph)
a) Living in larger populations boosts the development of knowledge. ______
b) Human knowledge has developed, then declined, and then developed again. ______
c) The majority of people in cities live with other people. ______
d) When groups become separated from larger populations, development reverses. ______
e) It is good for humans to live together. _____
B. Choose the correct answer.
1 Which are the two common factors shared by people living to 100 given in the text?
a living in the U.S. and in cities
b living in cities and with other people
c living with other people and having benefits
d having benefits and living in the city
2 Scientists’ interest in humans’ tendency to gather together is _____________________ .
a affecting
b distinguishing
c declining
d growing
3 Forty thousand years ago, _ .
a people started living in isolated groups on islands
b humans may have started making tools to do their work
c humans probably stopped using complex tools
d humans produced jewelry
4 What made the islands of Oceania suitable for the study?
a Historically, they haven’t had much connection with the world.
b They all have very small populations.
c They used very simple tools.
d People there still live a traditional lifestyle.
5 The writer concludes that humans should _.
a share work among themselves
b continue education to develop their knowledge
c answer questions about where they live
d live in bigger rather than smaller populations

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 Reading 2
1
Undeniably, people like to gather together. An analysis of the way we live now demonstrates this
in several ways. Of the seven billion people who make up the world’s population, more than half now
live in cities, and the majority of these people share housing with others. Of course, there are practical
reasons for group living, but the reasons are not only practical. There are clear psychological benefits
from living together. According to research from the U.S., some of the common factors shared by
people who live to 100 years of age have to do with living arrangements. Nearly two-thirds of people
who are 100 or older live with other people, and more than 80% live in cities. People obviously do
well when they gather together.
2
This is not a modern tendency — gathering together to live in groups has been one of the
distinguishing features of human society for many thousands of years — but it is increasingly of
interest to scientists. Researchers are starting to examine how group living has affected the
development of human knowledge and learning since the beginning of our societies.
3
Discoveries of evidence of human learning 40,000 years ago have led some scientists to believe
that this was when humans first started creating things like tools and jewellery. However, other
scientists point to examples of more complex tools from earlier in history, which then disappeared.
These tools, they say, show that human knowledge has not steadily increased over history. Instead,
human knowledge has grown and declined, and then grown again, with this pattern repeating over
thousands of years. The key influence, they argue, is how many people we live with.
4
Human knowledge develops more quickly and remains strong when we live in larger groups.
Boyd and Kline (2010) researched the islands in Oceania, having chosen these because their traditional
populations have been isolated from the rest of the world until recently. The study showed that at the
time of first European contact, those islands with larger populations had a greater number of different
types of tools for carrying out their daily work on the island. The islands with small populations had a
limited number. The conclusion? Humans naturally and effectively share knowledge in groups, and the
bigger the group, the more knowledge there is to share, and in this case, the greater the number of tools
developed.
5
An example of how isolation from the group can result in a decline in human knowledge and
development comes from Tasmania, the island off the south of Australia. Tasmania became separated
from mainland Australia around 10,000 years ago. Research into the area suggests that after that
separation, knowledge of tools and tool making declined in the human population remaining on the
island.
6
So, what is the best organization for the development of human knowledge? The evidence
presented seems to indicate the answer is living in larger groups. By doing this, we have a greater
opportunity to learn, share, and develop our knowledge.

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