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Đê DX Duyên H I Final
Đê DX Duyên H I Final
PART 3. You will hear two neighbors, a woman, Natasha, and a man.
Colin, talking about running.
For question 11-15, decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, write T for True. If it is incorrect, write F for False.
Write your answer in the space given. (10 points)
6. Natasha has decided to take the day off work to go running.
___________
7. Colin found running to work was bad for his health.
___________
8. Natasha would like to wear her sports clothes at work.
___________
9. Natasha will run in the big race because she hopes to win it.
___________
10. Colin and Natasha will prepare for the big race together.
___________
PART 4. You will hear a singer called Tim Tanner who sings with his
twin brother Sam Tanner, talking about their lives and career.
For questions 16-25, complete the sentences. (20 points)
Singing twins: Tim and Sam Tanner
The name of the talent competition which the twins won is
(16)______________________.
Tim is exactly (17)______________________ older than Sam.
The twins were born in the month of (18)______________________.
The main physical difference between Tim and Sam is their
(19)_____________________.
Tim has a less (20)______________________ personality than Sam.
At school, both Tim and Sam were good at (21)___________________.
Sam started taking (22)_______________ lessons when he was thirteen.
The fact that the twins share the same (23)_____________________
sometimes leads to arguments.
Tim says a key part of the twins' image is the (24)___________________
they wear.
The title of the twins’ next album is (25)______________________.
PART 4. Fill in each blank with the most suitable form of the word in
brackets. Write your answer in the numbered boxes. (10 points)
Rafflesia is a rare parasitic plant species found in Southeast Asia.
Rafflesia has been 1.(LIKE) likened to a fungus because it lacks
chlorophyll and is incapable of phontosynthesis. Perhaps the only part of
Rafflesia that is discernible as distinctly plant-like is the flower, which is
said to be the world’S largest.
Many 2.(BOTANY) botanists have been keen to discover why the
flower is so large, so they recently conducted 3.(MOLECULE) molecular
analysis on the plant. This resulted in the 4.(REVEAL) revelation that it
has evolved almost 80 times from its origin as a tiny bud to today's seven-
kilo mega-bloom. Although this 5.(ORDINARY) extraordinary
transformation took tens of millions of years, such an 6.(EVOLUTION)
evolutional spurt is still one of the most dramatic size changes ever
reported. Such growth rates in humans would be 7.(COMPARE)
comparable to us being 146 metres tall today.
The plant is also unusual in another way. Its smell is extremely 8.
(PLEASE) unpleasant but this horrible trait attracts such 9.(POLLINATE)
pollinators as flies. It is thought that Rafflesia’s huge flower helps radiate
the smell over long 10.(DISTANT). distances
PART 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each
space. Use only ONE word in each space. (15 points)
Psychologists are interested in the reasons why some people like taking
part in risky sports. (1) ____ they studied people who were learning to jump
from a plane with a parachute, they found that parachutists’ bodies (2)
______ large amounts of two hormones, adrenaline and nor adrenaline, just
(3)_____they made their jump.
These hormones help to prepare us for any sudden activity. Adrenaline
increases the (4)______ rate and provides more sugar for the muscles, while
nor adrenaline does make us react more quickly. (5)_____, nor adrenaline
also stimulates a part of the brain which controls feelings of pleasure. Some
psychologists (6)_____ concluded that it is a feeling of pleasure caused by
this hormone which makes (7)_____ people want to participate in dangerous
sports.
Another possible reason is the level of arousal (8)_____ part of the brain.
According to some psychologists, the brain tries to maintain a certain level
of arousal. They believe that people who normally have a low level of
arousal (9)____ for excitement and new experiences in order to stimulate
themselves, whereas people who usually have a high level of arousal try to
avoid risks and unfamiliar (10)_____ in order not to become overexcited. If
the psychologists are right, people with a low arousal are the ones who
enjoy participating in dangerous sports and activities.
PART 3. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer A, B, C
or D. Write your answer in the space provided. (10 points)
There are only a few clues in the rock record about climate in the
Proterozoiccon. Much of our information about climate in the more recent
periods of geologic history comes from the fossil record, because we have a
reasonably good understanding of the types of environment in which many
fossil organisms flourished. The scarce fossils of the Proterozoic, mostly
single-celled bacteria, provide little evidence in this regard. However, the
rocks themselves do include the earliest evidence for glaciation, probably a
global ice age.
The inference that some types of sedimentary rocks are the result of
glacial activity is based on the principle of uniformitarianism, which posits
that natural processes now at work on and within the Earth operated in the
same manner in the distant past. The deposits associated with present-day
glaciers have been well studied, and some of their characteristics are quite
distinctive. In 2.3-billion-year-old rocks in Canada near Lake Huron (dating
from the early part of the Proterozoic age), there are thin laminae of fine-
grained sediments that resemble varves, the annual layers of sediment
deposited in glacial lakes. Typically, present-day varves show two-layered
annual cycle, one layer corresponding to the rapid ice melting and
sediment transport of the summer season,and the other, finer-grained,
layer corresponding to slower winter deposition. Although it is not easy to
discern such details in the Proterozoic examples,they are almost certainly
glacial varves. These fine-grained, layered sediments even contain
occasional large pebbles or “dropstones,” a characteristic feature of glacial
environments where coarse material is sometimes carried on floating ice
and dropped far from its source, into otherwise very fine grained sediment.
Glacial sediments of about the same age as those in Canada have been
found in other parts of North America and in Africa, India, and Europe.
This indicates that the glaciation was global, and that for a period of time in
the early Proterozoic the Earth was gripped in an ice age.
Following the early Proterozoic glaciation, however, the climate appears
to have been fairly benign for a very long time. There is no evidence for
glaciation for the next 1.5 billion years or so. Then, suddenly, the rock
record indicates a series of glacial episodes between about 850 and 600
million year ago, near the end of the Proterozoiccon.
PART 2. Rewrite the following sentences with the given word. The
given words can’t be changed. (10 points)
1. These rainy Monday morning make me feel miserable. (GET)
_________________________________________________________.
2. You have said exactly the right thing. (NAIL)
_________________________________________________________.
3. He maintained his position against his adversary. (GROUND)
_________________________________________________________.
4. Since she met that boy, she’s been thinking only about him.
(WRAPPED)
_________________________________________________________.
5. My husband will be angry when I tell him. (ROOF)
_________________________________________________________.
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