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LẦN THỨ XI, NĂM 2018
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIENG ANH LỚP 11
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút
(ĐỀ GIỚI THIỆU) (Đề thi gồm 23 trang)

SECTION 1. LISTENING (50 POINTS)

Part 1.For question 1-5, listen to two academics called John Farrendale and Lois
Granger taking part in a discussion on the subject of attitudes to work and choose the
best answer (A, B, C or D) according to what you hear. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. Lois concurred with John’s viewpoint that ____.
A. most people tremble at the prospect of unemployment.
B. problems surface when unemployment coincides with other harrowing events.
C. some people are better equipped to tackle unemployment than others.
D. the psychological effects of unemployment can be overplayed.
2. Lois agrees with the listener who insinuated that ____.
A. not everybody can expect a high level of job satisfaction.
B. people should make provisions for redundancy as they would for retirement.
C. voluntary work may be more gratifying than paid work.
D. work is only one facet of a contented life.
3. What is John’s outlook on people who deem work as a ‘means to an end’? A. He defers
to the fact that they have chosen a viable alternative.
B. He feels they may be missing out on something important.
C. He is inclined to think it will instigate predicaments for them later.
D. He suspects their level of allegiance to the job.
4. On being asked about so-called ‘slackers’ at work, John points out that _______.
A. people often jump to uncalled-for conclusions about them
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B. such a perspective has become progressively beyond the pale
C. their stances are deplorable in a free labour market
D. they accept the notion that work is a necessary evil
Lois quotes the psychologist Freud in such a way as to _______.
A. dispute that an aspiration to work is understandable
B. lend weight to John’s concepts about increased social mobility
C. provide a dissimilitude to the hypothesis of Bertrand Russell
D. substantiate how erudite postulations have shifted over time

Your answer:

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Part 2. For question 1-5, listen to a radio news bulletin about dogs and decide whether
the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Write your answer in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. In French advertisements, dogs are being used in lieu of models.
2. Parisian dog-owners take their pets for beauty treatments.
3. The popularity of a film is instrumental in the appetite for dogs as models.
4. French people are well-known to be dog-lovers.
5. The bulletin is aimed at amusing its audience.

Your answer:

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Part 3. Listen to a part of a lecture about farming practices and complete the notes with
the missing information. Write no more than three words taken from the recording for
ech answer in the spaces provided. (10 points)

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Problems:
- (1) _______
- pollution from various sources, including chemical fertilizers.

Conventional farming methods Organic farming methods

- (2) _______ - (4) _______

- synthetic fertilizer and chemicals used - covering crops
for (3) _______ - use of insects as natural (5) _______
- genetically-modified seeds - addition of manure and green waste
- pesticide and fungicide sprayed on
crops after picking.
- no need for documentation of
production practices

Your answer:

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Part 4. For questions 6–15, listen to a piece of news from the BBC about technology
development in New York and fill in the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN
THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided. (20
points)
· The project New York Wi-fi Orchestra:
o aims at connecting various people as well as turning New York into an
unparalleled, outlandish (1) _______.
o successful mainly due to free access to municipal wi-fi.
o inspires New York government to plan a project to provide high speed wireless
connection across the (2) _______.

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·  2015: the introduction of a new product that is capable of
o displaying advertisements.
o allowing people to (3) _______, find their best route, and even make free phone
call.
·  The grand plan is also expected to play a role in (4) _______ the Big Apple producing
the gigabit
network.
·  The authority is also working with the (5) _______ of specialist companies including
New York
Control Group that invents the (6) _______ used in the project.
·  Despite this good news
o New Yorkers seem to be of concern regarding how good the speed and
coverage will be in some areas. o people with less (7) _______ might not be interested in
the project.
o those that are not living within New York wouldn’t be happy.
·  The new system also contributes to address the (8) _______.
o A lot of (9) _______ will be able to make use of a bigger data plan.
o It is hoped that the project will make New York become the most (10) _______
city in the world.

Your answer:

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SECTION 2. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (30 POINTS)

Part 1. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and
write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

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1. Little did I imagine The Amazing Race would entail long-winded journey and ups and
downs ____.
A. aplenty B. inexhaustibly
C. profusely D. superabundant
2. I haven’t seen Jane for nearly ten years, ____ I had got married and had two children.
A. for that duration B. at that point
C. during which time D. in that time
3. It stands to reason that a touch of humor and optimism can work ____.
A. on all cylinders B. spectacles
C. wonders D. your fingers to the bone
4. Researchers have made a(n) ____ plea for more sponsorship so that they can continue
their project.
A. compassionate B. dispassionate
C. encompassed D. impassioned
5. At first, she was ____ dumbfounded to hear that he wanted to break up, and then came
the stirring of autohypnotic perturbation.
A. exceedingly B. out-and-out
C. somewhat D. utterly
6. In the hands of a reckless driver, a car becomes a ____ weapon.
A. lethal B. fatal C. mortal D. venal
7. It’s a shame they did not pick you, but it does not ____ out the possibility that you
might get a job in a different department.
A. rule B. strike C. cancel D. draw
8. There’s a small hard ____ on my wrist. I think I’d better see the doctor.
A. swelling B. lump C. bruise D. rash
9. The inconsiderate driver was ____ for parking his vehicle in the wrong place.
A. inflicted B. harassed C. condemned D. confined
10. At first Tom insisted he was right, but then began to ____.
A. back down B. follow up C. drop off D. break up
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Part 2. The passage below contains 5 errors. Write the errors and corrections in the
numbered boxes. (5 points)
Essential oils (also known as volatile oil) are the basic materials of aromatherapy.
They are made from fragrant essences found in many plants. These essences are made
from special plant cells, often under the surface of leaves, bark, or peel, using energy from
the sun and elements from the air, soil, and water. If the plant is crushed, the essence and
its unique fragrance is released.
When essences are extracted from plants in natural ways, they become essential
oils. They may be distilled with steam and/or water, or mechanically press. Oils that are
made with chemical processes are not considered true essential oils.
There are many essential oils used in aromatherapy, including those from Roman
chamomile, geranium, lavender, tea tree, lemon, cedar-wood, and bergamot. Every type of
essential oil has a different chemical composition that affects how it smells, how it is
absorbed, and how it is used by the body. Even the oils from varieties of plants within the
same species may have chemical compositions different from each other. The same
applies to plants that are grown or harvested in different ways or locations.

Your answer:

Mistakes Corrections
1 is are
2 press pressed
3 with by
4 in for

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Part 3. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences with suitable prepositions. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (5 points)
1. These flowers belong _________ the plants classified as grasses.
2. The figures in the government report differ _________ those in our study.
3. In two studies involving 3221 participants there was no difference between the omega‐3
PUFA and placebo group in mini‐mental state examination score _________ final follow‐
up
4. If somebody chips _________, we can get the kitchen painted by noon.
5. He was just an important cog _________ the machine of organized crime.
Your answer:

1to 2from/to 3until 4in 5in

Part 4. Write the correct from of each bracketed word in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (10 points)
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Hector Berlioz (1) _______ (DUBIOUS) fitted the notion of the Romantic artist
of the nineteenth century: idiosyncratic, eccentric, (2)_______ (ORTHO), rebellious,
(3)_______ (CALCITE), impetuous and highly strung. And, true to the Romantic ideal of
art and life as one, his music mirrored his (4) _______ (TEMPER) – and still polarises
opinion. There are those who hail Berlioz as one of music’s great (5)_______ (BLAZE);
others hear little more than (6)_______ (BLOW) rhetoric. Did the German poet, Heine,
capture the character of the Frenchman when he said Berlioz ‘had not sufficient talent for
his genius’?
Whatever his technical (7)_______ (SHORT), there is no doubt that with the
Symphonie fantastique Berlioz shattered musical boundaries. The symphony’s wild swings

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of emotion, its (8)_______ (NIGHT) imagery, and its (9)_______ (DISGUISE) depiction
of the mental state of its creator, were utterly unlike anything ever composed before. It
was an astonishing achievement for a (10)_______ (DOMINATE) untrained composer of
just twenty-six and Berlioz never again plunged quite so deeply into the dark abyss of the
psyche as here.
Your answer:

1.undubitably 2.orthal 3.calciting 4.temperance 5.blazes

6.overblowing 7.shortage 8.nightmare 9.disguising 10.dominantly

SECTION 3. READING COMPREHENSION (60 POINTS)

Part 1. Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Circle
A, B, C or D to indicate your answer. (10 points)
Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist, became famous
for his theories on child development. A child (1) ____ , he became interested in the
scientific study of nature at an early age. He developed a special fascination for biology,
having some of his work published before graduating from high school. When, (2) ____
10, his observations led to questions that could be answered only by access to the
university library, Piaget wrote and published some notes on the sighting of an albino
sparrow in the (3) ____ that this would persuade the librarian to stop treating him like a
child. It worked. Piaget was (4) ____ on a path that led to his doctorate in zoology and a
lifelong conviction that the way to understand anything is to know how it evolves.
Piaget went on to spend much of his (5) ____ life listening to and watching
children, and poring over reports of researchers who were doing the same. He found, to
put it (6) ____, that children don’t think like adults. After thousands of interactions with
young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their
cute and seemingly illogical (7) ____ were thought processes that had their own kind of
order and their own special logic. Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist, deemed this a
discovery “so simple that only a genius could have thought of it.”.

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 Piaget’s insight opened a new window into the inner workings of the mind.
Several new fields of science, among them developmental psychology and cognitive
theory, came into being as a result of his research. Although not an educational reformer,
he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today’s
education reform movements. One might say that Piaget was the first to (8) ____
children’s thinking seriously. Others who shared this respect for children may have fought
harder for immediate change in schools, but Piaget’s influence on education remains
deeper and more pervasive.
Piaget has been (9) ____ by generations of teachers inspired by the belief that
children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge, as traditional academic
thinking had it, but active builders of knowledge - little scientists who are constantly
creating and testing their own theories of the world. And while he may not be as famous as
Sigmund Freud, Piaget’s contribution to psychology may be longer lasting. As computers
and the Internet give children greater autonomy to explore ever larger digital worlds, the
ideas he (10) ____ become ever more relevant.
1. A. prodigy B. talent C. genius D. gifted
2. A. aging B. age C. be aged D. aged
3. A. purpose B. target C. hope D. aim
4. A. launched B. introduced C. led D. initiated
5. A. professional B. academic C. vocational D. whole
6. A. shortly B. succinctly C. clearly D. simply
7. A. sentences B. speech C. words D. utterances
8. A. get B. take C. make D. have
9. A. respected B. revered C. venerated D. adored
10. A. created B. believed C. pioneered D. propagandized
Your answer:

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Part 2. Fill in the blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
blanks provided below the passage. (15 points)
HOWARD’S CAREER AS A PALAEONTOLOGIST
Howard became a paleontologist because of a (1) __decrease____ in interest rates
when he was six years old. His father, a cautious man with a large mortgage and thoughts
focused merely on how the economic situation would affect him, announced that the
projected holiday to Spain was no longer (2) ______. A chalet was rented on the English
coast instead and thus, on a dank August afternoon, Howard picked up a coiled fossil shell,
called an ammonite, on the beach.
He know for a long time that he wanted to become a paleontologist, and (3)
___by___ the end of his time at university he became clear as to what sort of
paleontologist he wanted to be. He found the focus of his interest reaching further and
further back in time. The more spectacular areas were not for him, he realized, turning his
back on the Jurassic, on (4) _purpose_____. He was drawn particularly to the beginnings,
to that ultimate antiquity (5) __when____ everything is decided, from which, against all
odds, we derive. So he studied delicate creatures revealed on the surface of grey rocks.
Work on his doctoral (6) __degree____ came to an end, and, he knew, possibly a
bitter one. Would he get a job? Would he get a job in the sort of institution he sought? He
was far from being without self-esteem and knew that his potential was good. But he knew
that whose who deserve do not always get, and that while the objectives of science may be
pure and uncompromising, the process of appointment to an academic position is not.
When the Assistant Lectureship at Tavistock College in London came up, he applied at
once, though (7) __without____ high hopes.
(8) __before____ the morning of Howard’s interview, the professor who would
chair the panel had a row with his wife. As a consequence he left home in a state of
irritation and inattention, drove his car violently into a gatepost and ended up in the
Casualty Department of the local hospital. The interview took place without him and
without the support he had intended to give to a candidate who had been a student of his.
The professor who replaced him on the panel was a hated colleague, whose main
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without much difficulty that Howard got the job. Howard, surprised at the evident (9)
__approval____ from a man he did not know, was fervently grateful until, months later, a
colleague kindly enlightened him as to the correct interpretation of events. Howard was
only slightly chagrined. It would have been nice to think that he was the obvious
candidate, or that he had captivated those present with his ability and personality. But by
then the only thing that really mattered was that he had the job and that he could support
(10) __himself____ by doing the sort of work he wanted to do.
Your answer:

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Part 3. Read the following passage and complete the statements that follow by circling
A, B, C, or D to indicate your answer which you think fits best (10 points)
[1] Canadian English is a regional variety of North American English that spans almost the
entire continent. Canadian English became a separate variety of North American English
after the American Revolution, when thousands of Loyalists, people who had supported
the British, left the United States and fled north to Canada. Many Loyalists settled in
southern Ontario in the 1780s, and their speech became the basis for what is called
General Canadian, a definition based on the norms of urban middle-class speech.
[2] Modern Canadian English is usually defined by the ways in which it resembles and
differs from American or British English. Canadian English has a great deal in common
with the English spoken in the United States, yet many Americans identify a Canadian
accent as British. Many American visitors to Canada think the Canadian vocabulary-
sounds British – for example, they notice the British "tap" and "braces" instead of the
American "faucet" and "suspenders." On the other hand, many British people identify a
Canadian accent as American, and British visitors think the Canadians have become
Americanized, saying "gas" and "truck" for "petrol" and "lorry."
[3] People who live outside North America often find it difficult to hear the differences
between Canadian and American English. There are many similarities between the two

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varieties, yet they are far from identical. Canadian English is instantly recognizable to
other Canadians, and one Canadian in a crowded room will easily spot the other Canadian
among the North Americans.
[4] There is no distinctive Canadian grammar. The differences are mainly in
pronunciation, vocabulary, and idioms. Canadian pronunciation reflects the experience of
a people struggling for national identity against two strong influences. About 75 percent of
Canadians use the British "zed" rather than the American "zee" for the name of the last
letter of the alphabet. On the other hand, 75 percent of Canadians use the American
pronunciation of "schedule," "tomato," and "missile." The most obvious and distinctive
feature of Canadian speech is probably its vowel sound, the diphthong "/ou/." In Canada,
"out" is pronounced like "oat" in nearby U.S. accents. There are other identifying features
of Canadian vowels: for example, "cot" is pronounced the same as "caught" and "collar"
the same as "caller."
[5] An important characteristic of the vocabulary of Canadian English is the use of many
words and phrases originating in Canada itself, such as "kerosene" and "chesterfield"
("sofa"). Several words are borrowed from North American Indian languages, for
example, "kayak," "caribou," "parka," and "skookum" ("strong"). The name of the country
itself has an Indian origin; the Iroquois word "kanata" originally meant "village." A
number of terms for ice hockey – "face-off," "blue-line," and "puck" – have become part
of World Standard English.
[6] Some features of Canadian English seem to be unique and are often deliberately
identified with Canadian speakers in such contexts as dramatic and literary
characterizations. Among the original Canadian idioms, perhaps the most famous is the
almost universal use of "eh?" as a tag question, as in "That's a good movie, eh?" "Eh" is
also used as a filler during a narrative, as in "I'm walking home from work, eh, and I'm
thinking about dinner. I finally get home, eh, and the refrigerator is empty."
[7] The traditional view holds that there are no dialects in Canadian English and that
Canadians cannot tell where other Canadians are from just by listening to them. The
linguists of today disagree with this view. While there is a greater degree of homogeneity
in Canadian English compared with American English, several dialect areas do exist

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across Canada. Linguists have identified distinct dialects for the Maritime Provinces,
Newfoundland, the Ottawa Valley, southern Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, the Arctic
North, and the West.

1. According to the passage, how did Canadian English become a distinct variety of
North American English?
A. Linguists noticed that Canadians spoke a unique dialect.
B. A large group of Loyalists settled in one region at the same time.
C. Growth of the middle class led to a standard school curriculum.
D. Canadians declared their language to be different from U.S. English.
2. The word “norms” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. patterns B.history C. words D.ideas
3. The phrase “a great deal in common with” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
____.
A. different words for B. the same problems as
C. many similarities to D. easier pronunciation than
4. In paragraph 2, what point does the author make about Canadian English?
A. Canadian English is more similar to American than to British English.
B. American and British visitors define Canadian English by their own norms.
C. Canadian English has many words that are not in other varieties of English.
D. Canadians speak English with an accent that Americans cannot understand.
5. The phrase “the two varieties” in paragraph 3 refers to ____.
A. People who live outside North American B. Canadian English and American English
C. General Canadian and North American D. British English and Canadian English
6. The word “spot” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. describe B. ignore C. prefer D. find
7. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the underlined
sentence in paragraph 4? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or
leave out essential information.
A. Canadian English has been strongly influenced by both British and American English.
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B. Canada is the only nation where people can deliberately choose which pronunciation
they prefer.
C. Canadians have tried to distinguish themselves as a nation, and this effort is shown in
their pronunciation.
D. Many newcomers to Canada must work hard to master the national style of
pronouncing English.
8. All of the following words originated in North American Indian languages
EXCEPT ____.
A. Kerosene B. Parka C. Canada D. Kayak
9. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 5 about vocabulary?
A. Vocabulary is the most distinctive feature of Canadian English.
B. World Standard English has a very large vocabulary.
C. Canadians use more North American Indian words than Americans do.
D. Much of the vocabulary for ice hockey originated in Canada.
10. The author discusses the expression "eh" in paragraph 6 as an example of ____.
A. an idiom that uniquely characterizes Canadian speech
B. an expression that few people outside Canada have heard
C. a style of Canadian drama and literature
D. a word that cannot be translated into other languages

Your answer:

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Part 4. Read the following passages and answer the questions. (10 points)
THE BIRTH OF SUBURBIA
A. There is no single pivotal moment that could be separated out from any other as the
conception of the suburban lifestyle; from the early 1800s, various types of suburban
development have sprung up and evolved in their own localised ways, from the streetcar
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suburbs of New York to the dormitory towns outside of London. It is William Levitt,
however, who is generally regarded as the father of modern suburbia. During World War
II, Levitt served in the United States Navy where he developed expertise in the mass
construction of military housing, a process that he streamlined using uniform and
interchangeable parts. In 1947, the budding developer used this utilitarian knowledge to
begin work with his father and architect brother constructing a planned community on
Long Island, New York. With an emphasis on speed, efficiency, and cost-effective
production, the Levitts were soon able to produce over 30 units a day.
B. William Levitt correctly predicted the demand for affordable, private, quiet, and
comfortable homes from returning Gls after World War II and with the baby boom starting
to kick in. All the original lots sold out in a matter of days, and by 1951, nearly 18,000
homes in the area had been constructed by the Levitt & Sons Company. Levittown quickly
became the prototype of mass-produced housing, spurring the construction of similar
projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and even Puerto Rico, followed by a new industry,
and soon a new way of life and a new ideal for the American family.
C. One of the major criticisms of suburbia is that it can lead to isolation and social
dislocation. With properties spread out over great swathes of land, sealed off from one
another by bushes, fences and trees, the emphasis of suburban life is placed squarely on
privacy rather than community. In the densely populated urban settlements that predated
suburbs (and that are still the foremost way of life for some people), activities such as
childcare and household chores as well as sources of emotional and moral support were
widely socialised. This insured that any one family would be able to draw on a pool of
social resources from their neighbours, building cohabitants and family on nearby streets.
Suburbia breaks these networks down into individual and nuclear family units resulting in
an increase in anti-social behaviour even amongst the wealthy. Teens from wealthy
suburban families, for example, are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and use drugs
than their poorer urban peers, and are also more likely to experience depression and
anxiety.
D. Another major problem with the suburban lifestyle is its damaging ecological impact.
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sooty, congested urban conurbations is actually quite misleading; as it turns out, if you
want to be kind to the natural environment, the key is to stay away from it. Suburbia fails
the environmental friendliness test on a number of counts. Firstly, due to their low
population density, suburbs consume natural land at a much higher rate than high-density
row housing or apartment buildings. Secondly, they encourage the use of personal motor
vehicles, often at a rate of one per family member, at the expense of public transport. It is
also much less efficient to provide electricity and water to individual suburban houses
instead of individual units in an apartment building. In his comparison of urban and
suburban pollution, Edward L. Glaeser concluded that we need to “build more sky towers
– especially in California”. Virtually everywhere, he found cities to be cleaner than
suburbs. And the difference in carbon dioxide emissions between high-density cities and
their suburbs (for example, in New York) was the highest. Urban residents of New York
can claim on average to produce nearly 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide less than their
suburban peers.
E. Another negative aspect of suburban life is its stifling conformity and monotony of
social experience. It was not just the nuts and bolts and the concrete foundations of
suburban houses that got replicated street upon street, block upon block, and suburb upon
suburb; it was everything from the shops and cultural life to people’s hopes, dreams, and
aspirations. Suburbia gave birth to the “strip mall”, a retail establishment that is typically
composed of a collection of national or global chain stores, all stocked with a centrally
dictated, homogenous array of products. The isolation and lack of interaction in suburbs
has also encouraged the popularity of television, a passively receptive medium for the
viewer that, in the early days at least, offered an extremely limited scope of cultural
exposure compared with the wealth of experiences available in the inner city. Meanwhile,
much of the inner-city “public sphere” has been lost with suburban flight. The public
sphere is the area of social life in which people come together to freely discuss and
identify social problems. In the city, this has traditionally occurred around newsstands, in
coffee houses, salons, theatres, meeting halls, and so on. Suburbia has not found a way to
replace this special type of social experience, however. Social meeting points in the
suburbs tend to be based exclusively around specific interests such as sports or cultural
clubs, with no broad forms of daily social interaction.
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F. These points do not suggest the idea of suburbia itself is flawed, but that it has not been
executed in a way that takes into account the full spectrum of human needs and desires.
This likely reflects the hasty, thrown-together nature of early suburban development. With
the baby boom rippling across Western countries and demand for family-friendly housing
skyrocketing, developers and city planners were unable to develop sophisticated models.
Now, however, we should take time to consider what has gone wrong and how we can
reconfigure the suburb. How can we imbue suburban life with the lost sphere of public
discussion and debate? How can people maintain their sought-after privacy without
sacrificing a sense of community? How can we use new technologies to make suburbs
environmentally friendly? These are questions for which the developers of tomorrow will
have to find answers in case the dream of suburbia becomes the nightmare of disturbia.

For questions 1–5, locate the paragraph in which the following information is
mentioned. Write the letter of each paragraph in the corresponding boxes.
1. A motive in constructing taller buildings
2. Where people might discuss issues of societal concern in urban locations
3. The founder of what is broadly understood as contemporary ‘suburbs’
4. Examples of problems suffered by the youth that suburban lifestyle can make worse
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5. A model for suburban development in the latter half of the 20 century

For questions 6-10, decide whether each of the following statements is

T if the statement agrees with the information or
F if the statement contradicts the information or
NG if there is no information on this

6. A good principle for ecological preservation is to avoid human interference.

7. Suburban development fosters the use of both public and private forms of transport.
8. People cannot relate to each other in suburbs because their lives are too different.
9. There is not much variety amongst the goods at a strip mall.
10. There are no ways for people to get together and interact in suburbs.

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Part 5. Put each of the headlines with a sentence from the story below. Write only the
correct letter (A - J) in the box. (15 points )
1. Cops Hunt 4 After $5m Heist  
2. US Said To Be Against Trade Deal  
3. UN Offers Hope On Saudi Fine  
4. Brighter News On Job Front  
5. Thousand To Go At Auto Plant  
6. Fall In Aid To Jobless  
7. Call To Altar Falls Flat  
8. Indian Crew Plucked From Waves  
9. 5 Die In Floods, Landslide  
10. Unease Causes House Price Wobble  

A. Rev. Parsley, worried about falling church attendance figures, came up with the idea
after watching a programme on British TV whilst on vacation there.
B. The UN official, who declined to be named, said the money would not have to be paid
if the kingdom came into line with the rest of the nations.
C. The weather is not forecast to improve over the next few days which will only make the
rescuers' task even more difficult.
D. A getaway vehicle was found burnt out in an alleyway some six miles across town from
where the bank was held up.
E. The government is believed to have been surprised at the rise in unemployment figures
and this could explain the shortfall in funds.

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F. The trawler got into trouble off Sri Lanka as waves as high as 20 feet threatened to
engulf the vessel.
G. If agreed, the agreement would see a huge increase in Asian imports into the American
market and this has worried some politicians.
H. Increased competition from the Far East has also led to lower profits and job losses
have been on the cards since the spring.
I. Not only are people worried about inflation but the latest interest rates rise has also
caused less movement on the property market than is usual for this time of year.
J. Added to this are the effects of the recently signed trade treaty with Europe which many
struggling companies had called for.

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SECTION 4. WRITING (60 POINTS)

Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summaries it. Your
summary should be about 140 words long. (15 points)
In the second millennium, one frequently asked question is: What are the limits of the
human body? Is there a point at which it is physically impossible to do something?
“One thing we’re all learned in the last 30 years or so is that just about anything is
humanly possible,” says Dr Jack Wilmore, from Texas A&M University and author of The
Physiology of Sport and Exercise, part of which examines the limits of the human body.
“As the new millennium progresses, I think you’ll see more records continue to fall in
every sport. The talent pool is better than ever. Never before have so many good athletes
competed, and not just in this country, but all over the world, with more people involved
and competing, records will fall and new standards will be set.”
Many believe it was physically impossible for a human to run a mile in under four
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mile (1.609 kilometers) in 1954. Today sub four-minute miles are considered routine even
in high school. And Bob Beamon stretched human performance in the 1968 Olympics with
his historic long jump of 8.9027 metres. In an event in which a record is usually broken by
mere inches, he shattered the previous jump by 0.6096 meters, but even his record was
broken in 1991.
“We’ve all seen reports of people doing superhuman feats of strength under duress, such
as a man lifting a car off a child,” Wilmore adds. “So we know that the human body can
do things that go far beyond normal activity. That’s why it’s foolish to say any record
can’t be broken. Who’s to say it won’t happen?”
One additional factor is just now becoming more understood and heavily emphasized:
sports psychology. Getting inside the athlete’s head can be as effective as training and
long workouts.
According to Wilmore, the psychological aspect of sports should not be discounted
because we now know that what makes the athlete tick mentally can be all-important. He
points out that “most professional teams have here sports psychologists for their players.
It’s just another way of tapping into a human’s full potential.”
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Part 3. Some people think that it is more beneficial to take part in sports which are
played in teams, like football. While other people think that taking part in individual
sports is better, like tennis or swimming. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
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