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TRƯỜNG THPT CHU VĂN AN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI – ĐBBB 2015
Môn: Tiếng Anh – Lớp 11

LISTENING
Part 1.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each
answer.
1. What is John researching?
________________________________________________.
2. Apart from pollution, what would John like to see reduced?
________________________________________________.

3. According to John’s tutor’s, what can cars sometimes act as?

________________________________________________.
4. How much does John’s tutor pay to drive into London?
________________________________________________.
5. In Singapore, what do car owners use to pay their road tax?
________________________________________________.
Listen and complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
6. In Athens, cars can only enter the city centre on _______________.
7. ‘BRT’ stands for ‘bus__________________________’
8. In London, after a new road tax was introduced, moped and bicycle use
increased by ___________________.
9. Both Japan and Holland provide __________________ for those cyclingto
train stations.
10. In the USA, police officers on bikes make more ______________ than those
in patrol cars.
Part 2.
You will hear an interview with Harry Newtand, a young film actor. Choose
the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1 Harry believes his acting talent to be largely the result of
A an inherent ability.
B his theatrical upbringing
C training from an early age.
D conscious efforts to develop it.
2 Harry looks back on his early parts in television dramas with
A embarrassment.
B gratitude
C derision
D pride
3 How does Harry explain the attitude of other actors towards him?
A They took great care not to offend him
B They appreciated his level of commitment
CThey were keen to keep him in his place.
D They made allowances for his difficulties.
4 When working on big productions, Harry finds it best to
A follow the lead of other actors.
B bring his own ideas to the role.
e keep the finished product in mind
D focus on his own performance.
5 Looking back, Harry realizes that his parents
A put too much pressure on him on occasion
B may not always have had his best interests at heart.
C were well aware of the potential pitfalls of his situation.
D tended to be over-protective in their attitude towards him.
Part 3 - Listen to the exciting story of survival at sea, against all the odds.
Listen and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1. Jane was sailing from Panama and had completed about a thousand miles.
2. Jane could have used the GPS to call for help.
3. Jane didn't panic because she didn't consider herself in danger.
4. It took more than a week before Jane began to really panic about her situation.
5. Angelo landed his plane near her life raft and took her on board.
GRAMMAR AND LEXICOLOGY
Choose the best word/phrase to fill in each gap
1. The animals must be reared in __________ conditions.
A. human B. humane C. humanistic D. humanized
2. Doctor James Allan is _________ into the causes of cancer among children.
A. seeking B. investigating C. examining D. researching
3. She was so ill that it was ________ whether she would live or not.
A. win or lose B. come and go C. touch and go D. on and off
4. I decide to _________ one or two hints that had been dropped at her cocktail
party.
A. follow on B. follow through C. follow after D. follow up
5. The little children watched the performance in __________ amazement.
A. wide-eyed B. open-eyed C. eagle-eyed D. hawk-eyed
6. We are on the __________ of a new era in medicine so a number of diseases
will be eliminated soon.
A. frontier B. gateway C. threshold D. forefront
7. The senior manager ________ my attention to an error in the report.
A. pulled B. drew C. took D. led
8. If ___________, I’ll work in a fast food place like this.
A. need be B. needed to be C. needing to be D. need to be
9. “Have you got a copy of Gone with the Wind?”
“You’re ________ luck. We’ve just one copy left”
A. by B. with C. in D. on
10. Although_________, she tried her best to realize her dream of becoming a
sports woman.
A. being disabled B. her disability C. she is disabled D. disabled
11. Walking helped him ease ________ pain.
A. from B. with C. against D. of
12. We could feel the _____ effect of the oil spill on the fauna and flora of the
island years after that.
A. backwash B. backlash C. backlog D. backsliding
13. Although she moved to live abroad years ago, she has always kept the
__________ of friendship with us.
A. strings B. ties C. ropes D. threads
14. It was very dangerous and I escaped the accident _____________.
A. head over heels B. at a push
C. by the skin of my teeth D. first hand
15. Can I borrow your pen? My pen is _________ to leak.
A. believed B. apt C. probable D. apparent
16. In the last month I was ___________ my affairs in England and saying
goodbye to all my friends.
A. switching off B. hanging up C. winding up D. fading away
17. I do ________ with your predicament but things could be a lot worse, you
know.
A. agree B. sympathise C. share D. feel
18. The main cause of the strike was the management’s refusal to give further
consideration to the question of paying ___________.
A. differentials B. differences C. subsidies D. opportunities
19. I can’t afford a holiday this year. I’m 500 pounds in the ___________.
A. blue B. black C. red D. white
20. It’s almost midnight. We should ________ the road.
A. beat B. hit C. start D. strike
Find out 10 mistakes and correct them
California Strawberry Festival - A Local Legacy

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1 Have you ever tried a strawberry pizza? If you went to Oxnard, the "Strawberry
2 Capital of California," in May, you can!
3 Oxnard is in Southern California and this part of the state takes its strawberries
4 very serious. At the two-days California Strawberry Festival you can sample
5 strawberries prepared in all sorts of ways. In addition with traditional treats such
6 as strawberry shortcake, strawberry jam, strawberry tarts and strawberries dipped
7 in chocolate, there is strawberry pizza! This dessert pizza is topped by
8 strawberries, sour cream, cream cheese and whipped cream on a sweet bread
9 baked alike a pizza. Strawberry kabobs dipped in powdered sugar are another
10 delicacy. And drinks alike a strawberry smoothie can wash it all down.
11 Strawberries are big business on Oxnard. Twenty-four companies harvest and
12 cool nearly 16 million trays of berries, which are shipped throughout North
13 America as long as to Germany and Japan. The festival, that attracts more than
14 85,000 visitors, features three stages with musical entertainment, 335 arts and
15 crafts exhibits, strolling musicians, clowns, artists, face-painting, contests, and a
16 "Strawberryland" for child with puppets, magicians, musicians, and a petting zoo.

Write an appropriate preposition into each gap

COPING WITH PROBLEMS
We must all resign ourselves (1) _________ the fact that we will encounter problems
throughout our lives. We cannot safeguard (2) ________ all unpleasant events. Nor can
we walk (3) __________ from every difficult situation that comes along. We have to
find ways of living (4) ________ the bad situations that we inevitably face from time to
time and find ways of ironing (5) __________difficulties. We should not be too proud to
fall (6) _________ _______ out parents for advice – we may be surprised at how
helpful they can be. If a problem is a disagreement, then we may be able to smooth
things (7) __________ . Explaining how we feel will sometimes be all that is needed to
clear (8) __________ a misunderstanding. If we have behaved badly, then we should
apologize and find a way to make (9) _________ ________ our actions. The important
thing is not to resort tobehaviour that we know is wrong even if it seems to offer a
temporary solution. Don’t just grasp (11) ________ the first chance of an easy way out
– it may not be the right thing to do.

Give the correct forms of the words given to complete the passages
1. LEAD 2. PRACTICE 3. HERBAL 4. SUPPLEMENT 5. ILL 6. LIMIT
7. ADMINISTRATION 8. ORGAN 9. TOLERATE 10. INTEGRATE
Alternative medicine is, by definition, an alternative to something else: modern,
Western medicine. But the term ‘alternative’ can be (1) _____ , even off-putting
for some people. Few (2) ______ of homeopathy, acupuncture, (3) _______ and
the like regard their therapies as complete substitutes for modern medicine.
Rather, they consider their disciplines as (4) ______________ to orthodox
medicine.
The problem is that many doctors refuse even to recognize ‘natural’ or
alternative medicine, lo do so calls for a radically different view of health, (5)
____________ and cure. But whatever doctors may think, the demand for
alternative forms of medical therapy is stronger than ever before, as the (6)
______________ of modern medical science become more widely understood.
Alternative therapies are often dismissed by orthodox medicine because they are
sometimes (7) _____________ by people with no formal medical training. But,
in comparison with many traditional therapies, western medicine as we know it
today is a very recent phenomenon. Until only 150 years ago, herbal medicine
and simple (8) ____________ compounds were the most effective treatments
available.
Despite the medical establishment’s (9) ____________ attitude, alternative
therapies are being accepted by more and more doctors, and the World Health
Organization has agreed to promote the (10) ______________of proven,
valuable, ‘alternative’ knowledge and skills in western medicine.
1. EXPLAIN 2. UTTER 3. DEAF 4. DRUNK 5. GROSS
6. PRACTICE 7. MASS 8. SIMPLE 9. AWE 10. RELATE
For some (1)__________  reason, university students have always had an image
of being (2)_________  irresponsible young people who play their music at
(3)__________  volumes at all times of the day and night, hardly ever do any
real work and spend every night attending (4)___________  parties until the
small hours of the morning. Personally, I think this portrayal of students as such
totally (5)_________  parasites, is repulsive  unfair, not least because living such
an excessive lifestyle continually would be (6)_________  impossible when
combined with the absolutely (7) __________ workloads of modern degree
courses. It (8) ________  isn't possible on a modern degree course in the UK to
get up some time at around lunchtime. Students that I know seem to have
lectures almost every day and spend the rest of their time working
(9) __________ hard indeed. They may let off some steam once every month or
so and it is probably these (10) ____________ rare occasions that have given
undergraduates their fearsome reputation.

READING
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the
correct word(s) for each of the numbered blanks
Global English
Global English exists as a political and cultural reality. Many misguided
theories attempt to explain why the English language should have succeeded
internationally, whilst (1) ... have not. It is because there is (2) ... inherently
logical or beautiful about the structure of English? Does its simple grammar
(3) ... it easy to learn? Such ideas are misconceived. Latin was once a major
international language, despite having a complicated grammatical structure, and
English also presents learners (4) ... all manner of real difficulties, (5) ... least its
spelling system. Ease (6) ... learning, therefore, has little to (7) ... with it. (8) ...
all, children learn to speak their mother tongue in approximately the same period
of time, (9) ... of their language.

English has spread not so (10) ... for linguistic reasons, but rather because it has
often found (11) ... in the right place, at the right time. (12) ... the 1960s, two
major developments have contributed to strengthening this global status. Firstly,
in a number of countries, English is now used in addition to national or regional
languages. As (13) ... as this, an electronic revolution has taken (14) ... . It is
estimated that (15) ... the region of 80% of worldwide electronic communication
is now in English.

1.A others B people C those D many men

2. A anything B something C many things D everything
3. A let B enable C allow D make
4. A to B with C on D at
5. A at B in C not D with
6. A in B of C with D at
7. A do B make C take D get
8. A after B at C with D in
9. A in spite B respectively C regardless D whatever
10. A far B much C as D that
11. A itself B power C convenience D strength
12. A During B In C For D Since
13. A long B well C much D far
14. A into B place C on D up
15. A of B in C on D about
For questions 1-10, read the text belowand think of the word which bestfits
each space. Use only one toord in each space. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
Celebrity Crossover
It is not surprising that actors want to be pop stars, (0) and vice versa.
(1)_________ that is deep in a part of our brain that most of us manage to keep
(2)_______ control, we all want to be pop stars and actors.
Sadly, there's nothing about the one profession that automatically qualifies you
for the other, but , of course, for the fact that famous actors and singers are
already surrounded by people who never (3)_________ no to them.
(4)_________ the whole, pop stars tend to fare better on screen than their
(5)__________ numbers do on CD. Let's (6) __________ it: not being able to
act is no big drawback in Hollywood, whereas not being able to play or sing still
tends to count (7)________ you in the recording studio.
Some stars do display a genuine proficiency in both disciplines, and a few even
maintain successful careers in both fields, but this just sets a bad example for all
the others. (8) ________ every success, there are two dozen failures. And most
of them have no idea how terrible they are. (9)________ as power tends to
corrupt, so celebrity tends to destroy the ability to gauge whether or not you're
making a fool of yourself.
But perhaps we shouldn't criticize celebrities for trying to expand their horizons
in this way. (10)_________ there is one good thing about actors trying to sing
and singers trying to act, it is that it keeps them all too busy to write books.

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question
Excerpted from What Video Games Have to Teach us about Learning and
Literacy by James Paul Gee
When people learn to play video games, they are learning a new literacy. Of
course, this is not the way the word "literacy" is normally used. Traditionally,
people think of literacy as the ability to read and write. Why, then, should we
think of literacy more broadly, in regard to video games or anything else, for
that matter? There are two reasons.
First, in the modern world, language is not the only important
communicational system. Today images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts,
and many other visual symbols are particularly significant. Thus, the idea of
different types of "visual literacy" would seem to be an important one. For
example, being able to "read" the images in advertising is one type of visual
literacy. And, of course, there are different ways to read such images, ways that
are more or less aligned with the intentions and interests of the advertisers.
Knowing how to read interior designs in homes, modernist art in museums, and
videos on MTV are other forms of visual literacy.
Furthermore, very often today words and images of various sorts are
juxtaposed and integrated in a variety of ways. In newspaper and magazines as
well as in textbooks, images take up more and more of the space alongside
words. In fact, in many modern high school and college textbooks in the
sciences images not only take up more space, they now carry meanings that are
independent of the words in the text. If you can't read these images, you will not
be able to recover their meanings from the words in the text as was more usual
in the past. In such multimodal texts (texts that mix words and images), the
images often communicate different things from the words. And the
combination of the two modes communicates things that neither of the modes
does separately. Thus, the idea of different sorts of multimodal literacy seems an
important one. Both modes and multimodality go far beyond images and words
to include sounds, music, movement, bodily sensations, and smells.
None of this news today, of course. We very obviously live in a world awash
with images. It is our first answer to the question why we should think of
literacy more broadly. The second answer is this: Even though reading and
writing seem so central to what literacy means traditionally, reading and writing
are not such general and obvious matters as they might at first seem. After all,
we never just read or write; rather, we always read or write something in some
way.
There are many different ways of reading and writing. We don't read or write
newspapers, legal tracts, essays in literary criticism, poetry, rap songs, and on
through a nearly endless list in the same way. Each of these domains has its own
rules and requirements. Each is a culturally and historically separate way of
reading and writing, and, in that sense, a different literacy. Furthermore, in each
case, if we want to "break the rules" and read against the grain of the text -for
the purposes of critique, for instance-we have to do so in different ways, usually
with some relatively deep knowledge of how to read such texts "according to the
rules."
So there are different ways to read different types of texts. Literacy is
multiple, then, in the sense that the legal literacy needed for reading law books
is not the same as the literacy needed for reading physics texts or superhero
comic books. And we should not be too quick to dismiss the latter form of
literacy. Many a superhero comic is replete with post-Freudian irony of a sort
that would make a modern literary critic's heart beat fast and confuse any
otherwise normal adult. Literacy, then, even as traditionally conceived to
involve only print, is not a unitary thing but a multiple matter. There are, even in
regard to printed texts and even leaving aside images and multimodal texts,
different "literacies."
Once we see this multiplicity of literacy (literacies), we realize that when
we think about reading and writing, we have to think beyond print. Reading and
writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero
comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up
with and in social practices. Video games are a new form of art. They will not
replace books; they will sit beside them, interact with them, and change them
and their role in society in various ways, as, indeed, they are already doing
strongly with movies. (Today many movies are based on video games and many
more are influenced by them.) We have no idea yet how people "read" video
games, what meanings they make from them. Still less do we know how they
will "read" them in the future.

1. According to the first paragraph, the broadest definition of "literacy" is

A) The ability to analyze literature
B) The ability comprehend basic cultural cues
C) The ability to read and write
D) The ability to compose poetry
2. All are mentioned as being types of "visual literacy" EXCEPT
A) Musical tones
B) Interior Design
C) Diagrams
D)Modern Art
3. An example from a science textbook of the phenomenon the author describes
in the third paragraph could be
A) A genetic tree that coincides with the discussion of specific mammal classes
in the text
B) A diagram of a specific chemical reaction that is used to explain a broad
definition in the text
C) An illustration of a plant cycle that accompanies a chapter on photosynthesis
D) A cartoon that references the same methods discussed in the text about
laboratory safety
4. What is an example of a "multimodal" text?
A) A dictionary
B) A movie script
C) A photo album
D) An art book that describes the art as well as reproduces images of the original
prints
5. The idiom in the fifth paragraph, "read against the grain of the text" is closest
in meaning to
A) Reading to understand the underlying meanings and themes of the author's
words-not just a literal interpretation
B) Reading text that defines different types of wheat and grains
C) To read the text from right to left rather than left to right
D) To read books that use recycled paper and other green alternatives
6. In the sixth paragraph, the author suggests that literacy is multiple, meaning
that
A) To be "literate" can mean participating in any form of expression
B) One's literacy increases exponentially as greater mastery of reading and
writing is achieved
C) Different genres and modes of expression require different background
knowledge and perspectives to understand them
D) Literacy can only be gained by exploring every type of media and expression
7. Why does the author give the example of superhero comics to explain
multiple literacies?
A) To explain that comic books are written for children and purely for
entertainment. They require only a basic knowledge of the action that occurs in
the story
B) To once again refer to his earlier points about "multimodal" texts
C) To insist that even when an author may intend multiple meanings and
interpretations, they are rarely successful in conveying those to readers
D) Things that may seem on the surface to be only meant for a particular group
of people can actually have very profound meanings to those who possess other
types of literacy
8. The author suggests that all of the following require different types of literacy
and the ability to decode meaning EXCEPT
A) Rap music
B) Comic books
C) Academic papers
D) Symphonies
9. The author says that video games
A) are not yet entirely understood in terms of literacy, but are already impacting
other forms of expression such as filmmaking
B) are unrealistic and should not fall into the same categories as the other texts
he describes
C) are too violent to risk experimenting with for the purposes of understanding
literacy
D) are irrelevant in academic discussion because no one has yet determined how
to explain the ways that people understand them
10. What would be the most logical information for the next paragraph to
contain if the article continued?
A) A technological definition of video games, how they are made, and how they
are played
B) A historical explanation of the very first video game and its evolution
C) Examples of the way that some people currently interpret video games and
what they mean to them
D) A price comparison of video game consoles and whether or not quality has a
direct impact on literacy
Read the following passage and do the task given below
Lessons from the Titanic
A From the comfort of our modern lives we tend to look back at the turn of the
twentieth century as a dangerous time for sea travellers. With limited
communication facilities, and shipping technology still in its infancy in the early
nineteen hundreds, we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business. But
to the people of the time it was one of the safest forms of transport. At the time
of the Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, there had only been four lives lost in the
previous forty years on passenger ships on the North Atlantic crossing. And the
Titanic was confidently proclaimed to be unsinkable. She represented the
pinnacle of technological advance at the time. Her builders, crew and passengers
had no doubt that she was the finest ship ever built. But still she did sink on
April 14, 1912, taking 1,517 of her passengers and crew with her.
B The RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York on April 10, 1912. On
board were some of the richest and most famous people of the time who had
paid large sums of money to sail on the first voyage of the most luxurious ship
in the world. Imagine her placed on her end: she was larger at 269 metres than
many of the tallest buildings of the day. And with nine decks, she was as high as
an eleven storey building. The Titanic carried 329 first class, 285 second class
and 710 third class passengers with 899 crew members, under the care of the
very experienced Captain Edward J. Smith. She also carried enough food to feed
a small town, including 40,000 fresh eggs, 36,000 apples, 111,000 lbs of fresh
meat and 2,200 lbs of coffee for the five day journey.
C RMS Titanic was believed to be unsinkable because the hull was divided into
sixteen watertight compartments. Even if two of these compartments flooded,
the ship could still float. The ship’s owners could not imagine that, in the case of
an accident, the Titanic would not be able to float until she was rescued. It was
largely as a result of this confidence in the ship and in the safety of ocean travel
that the disaster could claim such a great loss of life.
DIn the ten hours prior to the Titanic’s fatal collision with an iceberg at
11.40pm, six warnings of icebergs in her path were received by the Titanic's
wireless operators. Only one of these messages was formally posted on the
bridge; the others were in various locations across the ship. If the combined
information in these messages of iceberg positions had been plotted, the ice field
which lay across the Titanic’s path would have been apparent. Instead, the lack
of formal procedures for dealing with information from a relatively new piece of
technology, the wireless, meant that the danger was not known until too late.
This was not the fault of the Titanic crew. Procedures for dealing with warnings
received through the wireless had not been formalised across the shipping
industry at the time. The fact that the wireless operators were not even Titanic
crew, but rather contracted workers from a wireless company, made their role in
the ship’s operation quite unclear.
E Captain Smith’s seemingly casual attitude in increasing the speed on this day
to a dangerous 22 knots or 41 kilometres per hour, can then be partly explained
by his ignorance of what lay ahead. But this only partly accounts for his actions,
since the spring weather in Greenland was known to cause huge chunks of ice to
break off from the glaciers. Captain Smith knew that these icebergs would float
southward and had already acknowledged this danger by taking a more
southerly route than at other times of the year. So why was the Titanic travelling
at high speed when he knew, if not of the specific risk, at least of the general
risk of icebergs in her path? As with the lack of coordination of the wireless
messages, it was simply standard operating procedure at the time. Captain Smith
was following the practices accepted on the North Atlantic, practices which had
coincided with forty years of safe travel. He believed, wrongly as we now know,
that the ship could turn or stop in time if an iceberg was sighted by the lookouts.
F There were around two and a half hours between the time the Titanic rammed
into the iceberg and its final submersion. In this time 705 people were loaded
into the twenty lifeboats. There were 473 empty seats available on lifeboats
while over 1,500 people drowned. These figures raise two important issues.
Firstly, why there were not enough lifeboats to seat every passenger and crew
member on board. And secondly, why the lifeboats were not full.
G The Titanic had sixteen lifeboats and four collapsible boats which could carry
just over half the number of people on board her maiden voyage and only a third
of the Titanic’s total capacity. Regulations for the number of lifeboats required
were based on outdated British Board of Trade regulations written in 1894 for
ships a quarter of the Titanic’s size, and had never been revised. Under these
requirements, the Titanic was only obliged to carry enough lifeboats to seat 962
people. At design meetings in 1910, the shipyard’s managing director,
Alexander Carlisle, had proposed that forty eight lifeboats be installed on the
Titanic, but the idea had been quickly rejected as too expensive. Discussion then
turned to the ship’s décor, and as Carlisle later described the incident … ’we
spent two hours discussing carpet for the first class cabins and fifteen minutes
discussing lifeboats’.
H The belief that the Titanic was unsinkable was so strong that passengers and
crew alike clung to the belief even as she was actually sinking. This attitude was
not helped by Captain Smith, who had not acquainted his senior officers with the
full situation. For the first hour after the collision, the majority of people aboard
the Titanic, including senior crew, were not aware that she would sink, that there
were insufficient lifeboats or that the nearest ship responding to the Titanic’s
distress calls would arrive two hours after she was on the bottom of the ocean.
As a result, the officers in charge of loading the boats received a very
halfhearted response to their early calls for women and children to board the
lifeboats. People felt that they would be safer, and certainly warmer, aboard the
Titanic than perched in a little boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. Not realising
the magnitude of the impending disaster themselves, the officers allowed several
boats to be lowered only half full.
I Procedures again were at fault, as an additional reason for the officers’
reluctance to lower the lifeboats at full capacity was that they feared the
lifeboats would buckle under the weight of 65 people. They had not been
informed that the lifeboats had been fully tested prior to departure. Such
procedures as assigning passengers and crew to lifeboats and lifeboat loading
drills were simply not part of the standard operation of ships nor were they
included in crew training at this time.
J As the Titanic sank, another ship, believed to have been the Californian, was
seen motionless less than twenty miles away. The ship failed to respond to the
Titanic’s eight distress rockets. Although the officers of the Californian tried to
signal the Titanic with their flashing Morse lamp, they did not wake up their
radio operator to listen for a distress call. At this time, communication at sea
through wireless was new and the benefits not well appreciated, so the wireless
on ships was often not operated around the clock. In the case of the Californian,
the wireless operator slept unaware while 1,500 Titanic passengers and crew
drowned only a few miles away.
K After the Titanic sank, investigations were held in both Washington and
London. In the end, both inquiries decided that no one could be blamed for the
sinking. However, they did address the fundamental safety issues which had
contributed to the enormous loss of life. As a result, international agreements
were drawn up to improve safety procedures at sea. The new regulations
covered 24 hour wireless operation, crew training, proper lifeboat drills, lifeboat
capacity for all on board and the creation of an international ice patrol.

Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from the box at the
bottom of the page and write them in boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet.

NBThere are more words than spaces so you will not use them all. You may use
any of the words more than once.

passengers ignorance float advanced

lifeboats confident dangers ocean
worried inadequate enormous excitement
fast handbook water float
record fast procedures orders
drown size sink safety

The Finest Ship Ever Built

The North Atlantic Ocean crossing on the Titanic was expected to set a new
standard for (1)......... travel in terms of comfort and (2)......... The shipping
industry had an excellent safety (3)......... on the North Atlantic Crossing over
the previous forty years and the Titanic was the finest and safest liner ever built.
The Titanic combined the greatest technology of the day with sheer (4).........,
luxury and new safety features. The Titanic’s owners were (5)......... that even if
the Titanic were letting in (6)......... she would (7)......... indefinitely until help
arrived. In hindsight we know that the Titanic was not unsinkable and that
technology alone could not save lives when facilities were (8)......... and humans
did not follow safe (9) ......... whether because of arrogance or (10) ………..
WRITING
a. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same
as the sentence printed before it.
1. It’s been reported that the chancellor is very satisfied with his visit to Japan.
The chancellor__________________________________________________________.
2. This matter is so complicated that we don’t know how to deal with it.
So____________________________________________________________________.
b. Write the new sentences using the words in brackets. Do not alter the given
words in any way.
3. My younger brother speaks Spanish very well. (command)
______________________________________________________________________.
4. Jane is very likely to be promoted. (stands)
______________________________________________________________________.
5. The inspector showed us four potential health hazards. (drew)
______________________________________________________________________.
The graph below compares the number of visits to two new music sites on the
web.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown
below.
You should write at least 150 words.

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Write about the following topic:
Problems with environmental pollution have become so serious that many
countries are trying to solve these problems.
Suggest possible solutions and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own
knowledge or experience.
 ANSWER KEY
LISTENING
Part I
1. (urban) transport systems
2. (traffic) congestion
3. (a) status symbol
4. five pounds
5. (a) credit card
6. alternate days
7. rapid transit
8. 17% / seventeen percent
9. (special) parking facilities/ areas
10. arrests
Part II
1. A 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. C
Part III
1. F 2.F 3. F 4. T 5. F
GRAMMAR AND LEXICOLOGY
Choose the best word/phrase to fill in each gap
1. B. humane
2. D. researching
3. C. touch and go
4. D. follow up
5. A. wide-eyed
6. C. threshold
7. B. drew
8. A. need be
9. C. in
10. D. disabled
11. D. of
12. A. backwash
13. B. ties
14. C. by the skin of my teeth
15. B. apt
16. C. winding up
17. B. sympathise
18. A. differentials
19. C. red
20. B. hit
Find out 10 mistakes and correct them
1. Line 2: can -> could
2. Line 4: serious -> seriously
3. Line 4: two-days -> two-day
4. Line 5: with -> to
5. Line 7: by -> with
6. Line 9: alike -> like
7. Line 11: on -> in
8. Line 13: as long as -> as well as
9. Line 13: that -> which
10. Line 16: child -> children
Write an appropriate preposition into each gap
1. to 2. against 3. away 4. with 5. out
6. back on 7. over 8. up 9. up for 10. at
Give the correct forms of the words given to complete the passage
Part 1
1. misleading 2. practitioners 3. herbalism 4. supplementary
5. illness 6. limitations 7. administered 8. inorganic
9. intolerant 10. integration
Part 2
1. inexplicable 2. utterly 3. deafening 4. drunken 5. grossly
6. practically 7. massive 8. simply 9. awfully 10. relatively
READING
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the
correct word(s) for each of the numbered blanks
1.A others
2. B something
3. D make
4. A to
5. C not
6. B of
7. A do
8. A after
9. C regardless
10. B much
11. A itself
12. D Since
13. B well
14. B place
15. B in
For questions 1-10, read the text belowand think of the word which bestfits
each space. Use only one toord in each space. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
1 Somewhere 2 under 3 say 4 On 5 opposite
6 face 7 against 8 For 9 Just 10 If
Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question
1. B) The ability comprehend basic cultural cues
2. A) Musical tones
3. C) An illustration of a plant cycle that accompanies a chapter on
photosynthesis
4. D) An art book that describes the art as well as reproduces images of the
original prints
5. A) Reading to understand the underlying meanings and themes of the author's
words-not just a literal interpretation
6. C) Different genres and modes of expression require different background
knowledge and perspectives to understand them
7. D) Things that may seem on the surface to be only meant for a particular
group of people can actually have very profound meanings to those who possess
other types of literacy
8. D) Symphonies
9. A) are not yet entirely understood in terms of literacy, but are already
impacting other forms of expression such as filmmaking
10. C) Examples of the way that some people currently interpret video games
and what they mean to them
Read the text below and complete its summary with words from word list.
1. safety
2. ocean
3. record
4. size
5. confident
6. water
7. float
8. inadequate
9. procedures
10. ignorance
WRITING
a. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same
as the sentence printed before it.
1.The chancellor has been reported to be very satisfied with his visit to Japan.
2. So complicated is this matter that we don’t know how to deal with it.
b. Write the new sentences using the words in brackets. Do not alter the given
words in any way.
3. My younger brother has a good command of Spanish.
4. Jane stands a good chance of being promoted.
5. The inspector drew my attention to four potential health hazard.
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