A.

LISTENING (50 pts)

Part 1.(10 pts)
1. D 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A

Part 2.(10 pts)

6. T 7. F 8. F 9. F 10. T

Part 3.(10 pts)

11. Rio De Janeiro/ Johannesburg/ Mumbai
12. Concern for the world’s poor
13. The favelas
14. Snapping pictures/ Making observations about the lifestyle
15. What poverty (really) means
Part 4.(20 pts)
16. advanced radar station
17. pumping sand and rock
18. world’s shipping trade
19. Exclusive Economic Zone
20. sovereign territory
21. naval expedition
22. encompassed 90%
23. remote, barely inhabited
24. legitimately claim
25. installing military bases
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1. Choose the word/ phrase that best completes each of the following
sentences. (10 pts)
1D 2C 3A 4C 5A 6B 7D 8D 9C 10A

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Part 2: Identify 5 errors in the following passage and correct them. (5 pts)
Line Mistake Correction
1. 5 diverging divergent
2. 8 for to
3. 11 it them
4. 12 many much
5. 13 widespreading widespread

Part 3. Fill in each blank with an appropriate preposition or particle. (5 pts)

1.A 2.B 3.B 4.A 5.B

Part 4: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the following sentences.
(10 pts)

2.
unsuspecting 4.
1. inhabited 3. towering thunderclouds 5. entrance
6. vaulted 7. flickering 8. manacing 9. emerge 10. motionless

C. READING (60pts)
Part 1: For questions 1–10, read the following passages and decide which answer
(A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in
corresponding numbered boxes. (10pts)
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A
6. B 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. A

Part 2: Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use
only ONE WORD for each space. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (15 pts)
1. other 2. far/much 3. consider 4. common 5. or

6. in 7. find 8. effect 9. itself 10. depends

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 /impact

Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D)
according to the text. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding
numbered boxes (10pts).
1. B 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. A 10. D

Part 4 : Read the following passage and do the tasks that follows (10pts).
1.B 2.B 3.A 4.C 5.D 6.A 7.D 8.A 9.C 10.D

Part 5: Read the text below and answer questions (15pts)

1.i 2.vi 3.iv 4.viii 5.ix
6.yes 7.yes 8.yes 9.not given 10.yes

D. WRITING (60 pts)

I. Write a summary of maximum 140 words. (15p.)
1. Completion: 1 pts
2. Content: 5 pts
a. Cover the main information in the passage.
Suggested ideas for summary:
- Students who have been deafened in early childhood can be very different to
students have lost hearing later in life because they suffer from more difficulty in
expressing their idea.
- Assistive technology can help students with a hearing loss better integrate into the
study environment.
- Learning environment can have negative impact on deaf students when they get no
help from their friends or little communication.
3. Organisation: 3 pts
b. The ideas are well organized.
c. The description is in one paragraph.
4. Language: 5 pts
d. Use a wide range of vocabulary and structure
e. Good grammar

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 5. Punctuation and spelling: 1 pt

II. Report writing (15p.)

1. Completion: 2 pts
2. Content: 7 pts
a. Cover the main information in the graph yet not go into too many
details.
b. Make general remarks and effective comparisons.
3. Organisation: 3 pts
c. The ideas are well organized
d. The description is sensibly divided into paragraphs
4. Language: 7 pts
e. Use a wide range of vocabulary and structure
f. Good grammar
5. Punctuation and spelling: 1 pt

III. Write an essay (30p.)

1. Completion: (3 pts.)
2. Content: (10 pts)
3. Provide relevant and convincing ideas about the topic, supported by specific
examples and/or reasonable justification.
4. Organization: (10 pts)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with unity, cohesion and
coherence.
5. Language: (10 pts)
b. Demonstrate of a wide range of vocabulary and structures.
c. Good use of grammatical structures.
d. Present the ideas with clarity.
6. Punctuations and spelling. (2 pts)

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 TRANSCRIPT
PART 1

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PART 4.

This is Fiery Cross Island. It’s a little more than one square mile in size and it’s home to a Chinese
military base. There’s 10,000 foot air strip, an advanced radar station, a missile defense system, and
about 200 troops. But the strangest thing about Fiery Cross Island is that two years ago, it didn’t
exist. And neither other six Chinese military bases that have been built on man-made island in the
South China Sea. It you look at this satellite image from 2014, you can see huge Chinese ships
collecting around remote reefs in the Spratly Islands, an archipelago in the South China Sea. In this
images, these ships are rapidly pumping sand and rock up onto the reef. They’re building islands.
And less than a year later, the Chinese had seaports, air bases and buildings on their new island and
the world has taken notice.

We continue what China does not want you to see: the superpower is reclaiming land in seven
spots in the South China Sea adding on average more than three-and-a-half acres every day. See
with these islands China is trying to lay claim to one of the most important area of ocean in the
world: the South China Sea.

The South China Sea is incredible rich in natural resources: 11 billion barrels of oil, 190 trillion cubic
feet of natural gas and 10 percent of the world’s fisheries. Most importantly, though, is 30% of the
world’s shipping trade flows through here to the booming population centers and economic
markets of Southeast Asia.

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It’s extremely important body of water and right now five countries lay claim to some part of it.
Now most countries base their claim off the UN Law of Seas, which says a country’s territorial
waters extend 200 miles off their shore, an area called the exclusive economic zone or EEZ.
Countries have exclusive rights to all the resources and trade in their EEZ. It’s their sovereign
territory. So for example if any oil is found in 200 miles off the coast of Vietnam belongs exclusively
to Vietnam. But any area that isn’t in an EEZ is regarded as international waters and it falls under
UN maritime law which means everybody shares it.

Now every country in the South China Sea region uses this 200-miles EEZ threshold to determine its
claims. All except China. China argued they have a historical claim to the South China Sea dating
back to naval expedition in the 15 th century. And they marked it using a really confusing border
called the nine-dash line. Following World War II, Japan who had dominated the entire region, lost
all control of its surrounding seas. China use the moment to claim the South China Sea by drawing
this imprecise line on the map that encompassed 90 % of the South China Sea It became known as
nine-dash-line. When the UN established the 200-mile EEZ in 1973, China stuck to its own line,
refusing to clarify its boundaries and ignoring claims by other countries.

Now that brings up to the Spratly Islands. It’s a remote barely inhabited cluster of islands currently
claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. The Spratly are both geographically and
symbolically at the heart of South China Sea. That’s because if any country can claim the Spratly
islands can extend its EEZ to include them and gain exclusive rights to the surrounding territory. But
it’s really hard to legitimately claim uninhabited piles of sand so a few nations have built buildings
and ports on the claimed island and even stuck a few people there.

But China believes all the Spratly Islands belong to them which brings us back to why they’re
building islands there. Installing military bases on these new artificial islands took the dispute to a
whole new level, showing how China’s potential willing to defense its claim with force.

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