PART I.

LISTENING
Question 1. ( 14.0 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. Charlton 2. cash 3. parking 4. entry
5. code 6. floor/ floors 7. decoration/ decorations
Question 2. (16.0 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. campaigns 2. public eye 3. 4% 4. images/ pictures
5. fiction/ lies 6. £1.000.000 7. apology 8. tabloids
Question 3. (10 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. F 2. F 3. F 4.T 5.T
Question 4. (10 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. B
PART II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Question 5. (20 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. A 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. D 10. B
11. A 12. A 13. B 14. D 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. A 19. C 20. A
Question 6. (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. immeasurably 2. meaningless 3. misgiving(s) 4. bookish 5. commemorate
6. impoverished 7. unendurable 8. unimaginable 9. foolhardy 10. deformed
Question 7. (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. Line 1: big  large 2. Line1: make well  do well
3. Line 3: informations  information 4. Line 3: meanings for words 
meanings of words
5. Line 4: studies  learns 6. Line 6: insight to  insight into
7. Line 7: confirm to  confirm 8. Line 8: phonological  phonetic
9. Line 9: make the room for  make 10. Line 10: at a regular basis  on a
room for regular basis

Question 8. (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.

1. off 2. up 3. on 4. at 5. against
6. through 7. under 8. under 9. into 10. in

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 PART III. READING
Question 9. (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B
6. B 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. A
Question 10 (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. burned/burnt 2. with 3. contain 4. estimated/ approximately 5. currently/being
6. lost 7. of 8. left 9. frame 10. save
Question 11. (10 pts) 1.0 point for each correct answer.
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. C
6. D 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. D
Question 12. (20 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. vii 2. i 3. v 4. ii 5. viii
6. Yes 7. No 8. Not Given 9. No 10. Yes
PART IV. WRITING
Question 13. (10 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. There is nothing more annoying than people with bad table manners.
2. A prompt reply would be greatly/ much appreciated.
3. The long and the short of it is that Joseph’s not up to the job.
4. George is widely assumed to have been wrongly accused.
5. No sooner had Sandy won the race than she began training for the next one.
Question 14. (10 pts) 2.0 points for each correct answer.
1. Don’t come to/ draw the conclusion that this job is easy.
2. The young actress had butterflies in her stomach before the audition.
3. What the politician was saying last night fell on deaf ears.
4. In the area, Thailand is head and shoulders above all other countries in football
5. The final version of the plan bore/ had no/ little resemblance to the final draft.
Question 15. (30 pts)
a. Organization: (8.0 points)
+ Three parts (topic sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence)
+ Topic sentence: consists of topic and controlling idea.

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+ Concluding sentence: summarizes the main supporting ideas / restates the topic
sentence and gives personal opinion.
b. Content, coherence and cohesion: (12 points)
+ Supporting sentences: support directly the main idea stated in the topic sentence
and provide logical, persuasive examples.
+ Use of transition signals appropriately.
b. Language use and accuracy: (10 points)
+ Variety of structures, expressions and good use of vocabulary
+ No spelling or grammar mistakes.

Typescripts:
Question 1
Official: Hello?
Woman: Oh, hello. I wanted to enquire about hiring a room in the Village Hall, for
the evening of September the first.
Official: Let me just see … Yes, we have both rooms available that evening. There’s
our Main Hall – That’s got seating for 200 people. Or there’s the Charlton Room …
Woman: Sorry?
Official: The Charlton Room – C-H-A-R-L-T-O-N. That’s got up to one hundred.
Woman: Well, we’re organising a dinner to raise money for a charity, and we’re
hoping for at least 150 people, so I think we’ll go for the Main Hall. How much
would that cost?
Official: Let’s see. You wanted it for the evening of September 1st?
Woman: Yes, that’s a Saturday.
Official: So from six p.m to midnight that’d be £115 – That’s the weekend price, it’s
£75 on weekdays.
Woman: That’s all right.
Official: And I have to tell you there’s also a deposit of £250, which is refundable of
course as long as there’s no damage. But we do insist that this is paid in cash, we
don’t take cards for that. You can pay the actual rent of the room however you like
though – cash, credit card, cheque.
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Woman: Oh, well I suppose that’s Ok. So does the charge include use of tables and
chairs and so on?
Official: Oh, yes.
Woman: And what about parking?
Official: Yeah, that’s all included. The only thing that isn’t included is … you said
you were organising a dinner?
Woman: Yeah
Official: Well, you’ll have to pay extra for the kitchen if you want to use that. It’s
£25. It’s got very good facilities – good quality cookers and fridges and so on.
Woman: Ok, well I suppose that’s all right. We can cover the cost in our entry
charges.
Official: Right. So I’ll make a note of that. Now there are just one or two things you
need to think about before the event. For example, you’ll have to see about getting a
licence if you’re planning to have any music during the meal.
Woman: Oh, really?
Official: It’s quite straightforward. I’ll give you the details later on. And about a
week or ten days before your event you’ll need to contact the caretaker, that’s Mr
Evans, to make the arrangements for entry – he’ll sort that out with you.
Woman: And do I give him the payment as well?
Official: No, you do that directly with me.
Woman: Right. Now is there anything I need to know about what happens during the
event?
Official: Well, as you’ll be aware, of course the building is no smoking throughout.
Woman: Of course.
Official: Now, are you having a band?
Woman: Yes,
Official: Well, they’ll have a lot of equipment, so rather than using the front door
they should park their van round the back and use the stage door there. You can open
that from inside but don’t forget to lock it at the end.
Woman: Ok

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Official: And talking of bands. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you this, but you must
make sure that no one fiddles about with the black box by the fire door – that’s a
system that cuts in when the volume reaches a certain level. It’s a legal requirement.
Woman: Sure. Anyway, we want people to be able to talk to one another so we don’t
want anything too loud. Oh, that reminds me, we’ll be having speeches – are there
any microphones available?
Official: Yeah. Just let the caretaker know, he’ll get those for you. Right, now when
the event is over we do ask that the premises are left in good condition. So there’s a
locked cupboard and you’ll be informed of the code you need to open that. It’s got all
the cleaning equipment, brushed and detergent and so on.
Woman: Right. So what do we need to do after everyone’s gone? Sweep the floors I
suppose?
Official: Well, actually they have to be washed, not just swept. Then you’ll be
provided with black plastic bags, so all the rubbish must be collected up and left
outside the door.
Woman: Of course. We’ll make sure everything’s left tidy. Oh, and I forgot to ask, I
presume we can have decorations in the room?
Official: Yes, but you must take them down afterwards.
Woman: Sure.
Official: And the chairs and tables should be stacked up neatly at the back of the
room.
Woman: I’ll make sure I’ve got a few people to help me.
Question 2
There is no escaping the fact that the media has become one of the most
powerful influences in our lives. TV, radio and newspapers are the three main forms
of media that we have daily contact with because of their importance it is inevitable
that controversy will often go hand in hand with such a powerful force.
The media is not always used wisely or responsibly and is often a source of
gossip, scandal or propaganda. Politicians use it in their political campaigns in order
to gain support. Entertainers and celebrities use it to promote themselves and keep
themselves in the public eye. This is of course to their advantage but on the other
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hand they are also open to the disadvantages of publicity. Private lives are brought
out into the open and the word private no longer suits the situation. Celebrities find
themselves being followed and photographed at all times of day or night and in the
most personal situations. A survey has been carried out asking people what they
thought of this invasion of privacy and a massive 85% thought that celebrities were
asking for it, 11% believed they were still entitled to their privacy and 4% had no
opinion either way. The survey also asked which form of media people felt they were
almost influenced by. Over two thirds of the people asked said TV, rather than radio
or newspapers.
This then leads us to the question of how reliable the information that we get
from TV is. The belief that if we can see through images what is happening we
cannot be tricked or lied to, is a fallacy. Carefully chosen or edited images can
deceive us more than words. It is in fact the images that are not shown which often
speak the truth. Some channels have even been accused of showing scenes that were
not actually from the place being reported about. This kind of false information turns
fact into fiction but how is the viewer meant to distinguish between the two? That is
the problem. Radio and newspapers, on the other hand rely on words to get their story
across and if they intentionally lie they run the risk of being taken to court later. This
of course happens regularly, particularly when a celebrity is involved. One rock
singer was recently awarded one million pounds when a tabloid paper said he was a
homosexual. Sometimes the papers are lucky and get away with making a public
apology and withdrawing what they have previously said about somebody. A
distinction has to be made between newspapers though as they do tend to fall into two
groups; the tabloids and the so called “quality newspapers”. The question is though,
can we really trust anybody to tell us the facts objectively?
Question 3
What’s the connection between a lower crime rate, the price of shampoo at
your local shop and the cure for cancer? The answer is data mining. How do you
know where the next crime is most likely to be committed, which products to offer
your customers or where to search for new cures? All the answers are there at our
fingertips, in the mountains of text and data which have become accessible to all
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computer users. The problem now is how to extract those precious bits of knowledge
from the wealth of available information. That’s where data mining comes in. Data
mining is digging deep on the Internet for information and statistics and trying to
establish a link between them. It isn’t a new thing, but with faster and cheaper
hardware and flexible software. It is now possible to get the answers almost
instantaneously.
People often think that data mining is just an easy way to find information on
the web. They think of using keywords to search the web for relevant pages. That’s a
mistake. That process is called Information Retrieval, which is like surfing the net to
pull out the documents you are interested in and push away the others.
In contrast, data mining is a way to examine a collection of documents and
discover information not contained in any individual document. Rather, the
researcher seeks relationships between the content of multiple texts and then sets
about linking this information toptherto form a new hypothesis. One field which
benefits greatly from data mining is medical research. A large and growing database
of medical journal articles exists in digital format. Because there are so many of
them, it’s unlikely that any researcher could read, and remember, their contents.
Data mining is there to enable researchers to find possible links in published
research findings, even across disciplines.
Data mining is also an increasingly popular strategy for traders. For example,
one large department store has analysed its consumer data to ask what type of
consumer is in which part of their store and when. Finding out that professionals hit
the grocery stores at lunchtime for ready-made foods can be crucial. It helps to
determine the number of staff or the best times to replenish certain aisles.
Policing is another excellent example of how data mining can be useful. In one
American town the police department was drowning in crime even though they had a
mass of data from 911 calls and crime reports. They couldn’t connect the dots and see
a pattern of behaviour. Using sophisticated software they started overlaying crime
reports with other data, such as weather, traffic, sports events and paydays. The data
was analysed and something interesting emerged. Robberies went up on paydays near
cheque cashing points in specific neighbourhoods. Pretty soon police were on top of
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things and predicting where crime was most likely to occur. Major crime rates
dropped 40 per cent in just two years. These tools are not yet perfect, but they are
being developed by the major universities. And the researchers are promising that
very soon we will be able to ask questions and quickly receive answers which have,
so far, been out of our reach.
Question 4
Daniel: I hope this isn’t going to deteriorate into a “What is childhood?” discussion –
the one about solemn little miniature adults in old portraits and infants who toiled
from dawn to dusk in the fields, and poor unfortunates whipped within an inch of
their lives by sadistic schoolteachers. Or, alternatively, a debate about the adventures
of Huck Finn and the Famous Five, and apparent carefree innocence. There have
been many versions of childhood in fact and fiction, and I dare say there’ll be many
more.
Louise: Well, according to a recent newspaper report, childhood is dying. So those
cheeky little scamps I saw challenging each other to throw their school bags on top of
a bus-stop must have been a figment of my imagination. Or perhaps they were
making a political stand against the rigidities of the formal curriculum. Who knows?
Apparently a group of adults too. Academics and professionals have put their
signatures to a letter, subsequently championed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper
and the Tory Party, articulating the fall of childhood innocence. My heart is with the
sentiments of this campaign, but I worry that it loses sight of practical wisdom.
Daniel: At birth, all children are distractible, impulsive, egocentric creatures, but by
the time they reach teenage years we expect them – as a result of their experiences,
environment and education – to have acquired a degree of self-control, an ability to
see other people’s points of view and the basic skills needed to enjoy their life ahead.
It’s the development from babyhood to adolescence that I investigated for my book,
Toxic Childhood, and my conclusion was that many children in Britain today are
indeed being robbed of the chance of a healthy childhood. Many reach adolescence
with poor attention spans and self-control and a distinct lack of empathy for the
people around them. Their main and major basic skill is ticking boxes on tests, and
this is scandalous.
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Louise: As one of the richest, most highly developed nations in the world, we really
should be able to provide the sort of childhood that allows the next generation to
grow up happy, healthy, and civilised. Instead many of our children have developed a
taste for unhealthy food, a couch-potato lifestyle and have related problems with
sleeping.
An unacceptable number suffer from inadequate early emotional bonding, lack of
interaction with their parents and a high level of emotional instability. Rather than
stimulating, real-life experiences, children have TV and computer games at home and
a narrow test-and-target driven curriculum at school.
Moral guidance has suffered as societies have become increasingly confused, while
children are constantly exposed to manipulative advertising and the excesses of
celebrity culture. In a recent survey of children’s well-being among the countries of
the European Union, the UK came 21st out of 25. We should be ashamed of
ourselves.
Daniel: Yes, I believe we are robbing our children of something we could provide:
the conditions in which we grow up bright, balanced and well-behaved. Somehow in
the turmoil of rapid social, cultural, and technological change over the last 20 years
or so, our society has lost sight of essential truths about child development and
education.
As a nation, we need to provide parents with information on children’s
developmental needs, including real food, real play, first-hand experience and real-
life interaction with the significant adults in their lives. Since parents are terrified by
media hysteria about “stranger danger” and the fevered imaginings of the health and
safety lobby, they also need information about the real dangers from which children
should be protected – for instance, TVs, and other technological paraphernalia in
their bedrooms.
As a profession, teachers should refuse to participate in the drive to accelerate
childhood with an ever-earlier start to formal education and a competitive winners-
and-losers approach to primary education. We should boycott the tests, targets and
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stopped robbing the next generation of their right to grow up healthy, happy and
whole.
The end

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