Diém Bing 80: Gidm khdo 1 ‘Ho tén, chir ky giam khao S6 phach | SECTION A. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR (26 points) Question 1 (8 points). Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences. Write it in ‘Your answers’ part. 1, Do you know what time the train ............. t0 Birmingham? A. reaches B. arrives C. gets D. comes 2. He went to Australia hoping to find a teaching ..................without too much difficulty A. post B. occupation C. employment D. work 3. When we came back from holiday our suitcases were .... by the Customs Officers. A. guarded B. examined C. tested D. corrected 4. The firm deals more with .... decoration than building. A. inside B. inner C. interior D. Inland 5. Fortunately nobody.. . in the accident, A. damaged B. injured C. wounded D. broken 6. Stop running around and get bed! A.on B. in C. onto D. into 7. It was confirmed that the accident was caused by human A. error B. slip C. fault D. blunder 8. The decision was .............t0 a later meeting. A. cancelled B. arranged C. deferred D. delayed * Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. i. 8. Question 2 (12 points). Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (\) by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write it as examples done in the second column._ __ Vv Mongolia lies in the heart of Asia, between China and Russia. too It has a rich collection of ancient folk tales which are too v popular with Mongolian people, especially one about a very 1. foolish fellow. One night this man went to fetch a water from 2. his well. Gazing down into the well he quite saw the moon 3. reflected in the distant water at its own bottom. He immediatel 4. thought the moon had fallen down the well, so went to fetch up 5. a large iron hook which he attached to a long rope. He let the 6. tope down carefully and tried to catch the moon so he could pull 7. it to the safety. He heard the hook splash into the water and so 8. he started out pulling. But the hook had caught on some weeds 9. and no matter how hard he tried it wouldn't move. Eventually he 10, pulled with all his strength. The rope been broke and he was thrown. i. flat onto his back. Looking up he saw the moon shining down at him _| 12. from the night sky. With a such satisfied smile he thought that be although it was the heaviest thing he had ever had to be move, V at least the moon was back where it belonged. Scanned with CamScanner- westion 3 (6 points). Give the correct form of the words in capital letters to complete the passage. Write itin ‘Your answers’ part. Catherine Parr did not represent a political alliance, she was not young and, (1) HAPPY for her, she was not expected to bear the king children. Catherine was bom in 1512, the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, who had risen to be @)__ CONTROL of the Royal Household. After Catherine’s first husband died in 1523, she married Lord* Latimer. When he became an (3). VALID, the couple moved to London where he could get better treatment. Here Catherine became friendly with Princess Mary and, increasingly with Thomas Seymour, one of Jane Seymour's brothers. In 1534 the king, who was looking for a (4) COMPANY for his old age, alighted on Catherine, and, even before Latimer died on March 1543, he started to send her presents. When the king asked Catherine to marry him, she was torn between love for Thomas Seymour and duty to the king. Duty won, and on July 12" the mariage took place. Being (5) CHILD, she cared for Elizabeth and Edward, who were just ten and six years old, as though they were her own children, She calmed Henry down when he raged, (6), COMFORT him when he was depressed, and sat with his painful ulcerated leg on her lap. Your answers: 1 7 2. ~ 5. 3. 6 SECTION B. READING COMPREHENSION (26 points) Question 1 (5 points). Match the number with the letter to complete the conversation and put them in a correct order. Write it in ‘Your answers’ part. The last part of the conversation is done for you --F) 1._| David: By the way my name is David. A Greg: Icome from Holland, 2. | David: Oh, I see. Where do you come B. Greg: Someone must have been stole it from? from you when you weren't paying |. attention 3. | David: Thank you. you've been so es Greg: Sorry! Tam new here too helpful. My wallet is missing and I know I had it before going off the bus. 4, | David: Hello! Excuse me, could you D. Greg: Sure. You go straight, pass the hotel uell me where the bank is? and then tum first right and you will see it. 3. | David:Oh I see. [am from Germany. E, Greg: You're welcome. But by any means do you know where I can find the police station? 6. | David: Yes. And know I don’t have F, Greg: Ah yes. Tam. Greg. money to pay for my hotel. Fortunately I didn’t put my cheque book in my wallet so now I have to get to the bank. Thank you very much. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ] | Question 2 (6 points). Read the paragraph and decide if the following statements are true or false. When the public school office of the 6th district of Paris summoned me to a meeting late last year, the tone of urgency in the letter sent me running down the block, into the 19th century courtyard of the town hall and up the narrow stairs to the top floor. "What does your son eat for lunch?" the woman asked after I ran in breathless. I had no idea what to say. When my son started nursery school last Scanned with CamScannerat stered him for the school lunch program. But when he failed tg ty officials quickly took notice. My explanation — that | thought he ome in the middle of the day — was apparently not sufficient, This September at the age of 3, [had regis appear in the lunchroom after that, ci should take a break and eat lunch at h wwas personal, | ; "The food is very good, Madame. The meat is 100% French," the official said, picking up a brochure from her desk. I knew this brochure well, having e-mailed it to friends in the U.S. last yearas a this-could-only-happen-in-France conversation piece. It lists in great detail the lunch menu for each school day over a two-month period. On Mondays, the menus are also posted on the wall outside every school in the country. The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32 school days in the period, and every meal includes an hors d'ceuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert. There is more: the final column in the brochure carries the title "Suggestions for the evening,” That, too, changes daily. If your child has eaten turkey, ratatouille and a raspberry-filled crepe for lunch, the city of Paris suggests pasta, green beans anda fiuit salad for dinner. I finally saw the system in action earlier this month, Caught short by a sick nanny, my son, who was accustomed to eating leftovers from the refrigerator, sat in silence with his 25 classmates at tables in the nursery-schoo! cafeteria, while city workers served a leisurely, five-course meal. One day, when | arrived to collect him, a server whispered for me to wait until the dessert course was over. Out in the hall, one of the staff shouted for "total quiet" to a crowd of 4-year-olds awaiting the next lunch seating. "I will now read you today's menu," he told them. "First, you will begin with a salad.” Americans struggling with obesity epidemics have for years wondered how the so-called French paradox works: How does a nation that ingests huge quantities of butter, beef and cakes keep trim and have such long lives? It could be the red wine, as some believe. But another reason has to be this: ina country where con artists and adulterers are tolerated, the laws governing meals are sacrosanct and are drummed into children before they can even hold a knife. The French don't need their First Lady to plant a vegetable garden at the Elysée Palace to encourage good eating habits. They already know the rules: sit down and take your time, because food is serious business. Inhis new book Food Rules, Michael Pollan states in rule No. 58: "Do all your eating at a table." French children quickly learn that they won't be fed anywhere else. Snack and soda machines are banned from school buildings in France — a battle that is now raging across the U.S. And France's lunch programs are well funded. While the country is cutting public programs and civil-servant jobs to try to slash a debt of about $2.1 trillion, no one has dared to mention touching the money spent on school lunches. Public schools in France are overcrowded, rigid and hierarchical, And parents, who are never addressed by their first names, are strongly discouraged from entering schoo! buildings, let alone the classrooms. I cannot tell you what my child leams, paints or builds on any given school day. But I do know that on Feb. 4, he ate hake in Basque sauce, mashed pumpkin, cracked rice, Edam cheese and organic fruits for lunch. That meant stuffed marrows and apples for dinner. The city of Paris said so. 1. | T/ | 1. The journalist prefers to have her son eating at home. 2. | T/F | 2. The son is accustomed to well-prepared lunch. 3. | T/E | 3. The lunch menus are made for one week. 4. | T/F | 4. Americans think red wine is healthy. 5. | TvE | 5. The journalist thinks that there are too many students in the French classes. 6. | T/E | 6. The journalist thinks the First Lady should plant a vegetable garden at the Elysée Palace. Your answers: 1 2. 3. 4 3 6 | REST ARD RETO aL Taga oes tgs aE OTT Bane ant Scanned with CamScanneroP 7 Question 3 (10 points), Choose ONE suitable word in the box to complete the pasage, Write it in ‘Your answers’ part. enerous Tandowners received under ideals ensuring walk, founded | __fortune figure Trinity College was 1) by Sir Thgmas Pope in 1555. A devout catholic with no surviving children, Thomas Pope saw the Foundation of an Oxford college as a means of 2) that he and his family would always be remembered in the prayers and masses of its members. He came from a family of small 3) in Oxfordshire, trained as a lawyer, and rose rapidly to prominence 4) Henry VIII. As Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations he handled the estates of the monasteries dissolved at the Reformation, and amassed a considerable personal 5) Pope was a discreet and trusted privy counsellor of Mary Tudor, and it was from Mary and Philip that he 6) ___Letters Patent and royal approval for his new foundation. Pope died in 1559. Although his religious 7) ‘were never fully realised - Elizabeth I had succeeded her sister and England returned to the Protestant faith - nonetheless the memory of his name, like his college, has endured the fluctuating fortunes of over 400 years. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was a particularly influential 8) in Trinity's early years. Pope's foundation was for a President, twelve Fellows and twelve scholars, all supported by the income from his 9) endowment of lands, and for up to twenty undergraduates. The Fellows, all men, were required to take Holy Orders and remain unmarried. The College Statutes set out rules for a simple monastic life of religious observance and study. The Garden was an informal grove of trees, mainly elms, amongst which the members of the College could 10) and meditate. ‘Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 6. 7. 8. a. 10. Question 4.(5 points) Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. 1 Telephone, television, radio, and the telegraph all help people communicate with each other, Because of these devices, ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within seconds, people can know the results of an election in Japan or Argentina. An international soccer match comes into the home of everyone with a television set. News of a disaster such as an earthquake or a flood can bring help from distant countries. Within hours, help is on the way. 2 How has speed of communication changed the world? To many people, the world has become smaller. Of course, this does not mean that the world is physically smaller. Two hundred years ago, communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks or even months to cross the oceans. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach the Americas. This time difference influenced people's actions, For example, one battle in the war of 1812 between the English and the United States armies could have been avoided if the warring sides had known that a peace agreement had already been signed. Peace was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During those six weeks, the large and serious Battle of New Orleans was fought and many lives were lost. 3 ‘An important part of the history of the world is the history of communication. In prehistoric times, people had limited knowledge of the world. They had little information about geography, the study of the Earth. People knew very little beyond their small groups except what was happening near their homes. Later, people were organized into villages, and verbal communication between small towns was possible. Still, the people's knowledge was limited because they had no outside information. Kingdoms and small countries then developed, with a king directing the people. Cities developed, too, but still communication was limited to the small geographical area of the country. Much later in history, after the invention of the printing press, many more people learned to read, and communication was improved. Phang GD&DT TP Vink - Kj thi chon G61 tn HSG tink lop 9 nim hoc 2016-2017- Pore 5 of 8 Scanned with CamScanner“AS > ‘ ication i that it is almost instant. People's lives hi is , communication is so fast that n ; os cane ea oc ifoy example, leaders of countries have only minutes, or, at most, hours to consider ii ihe parts of a problem. They are expected to answer immediately. Once they had days and weeks to think before making decisions. 5.__ a The speed of communication demands a new responsibility from all people of the world. People in different countries must try harder to understand each other. An example is that people with different beliefs and values, even if they do not accept them. religions must try to understand each other's ; >t ad Sometimes their cultures are quite different. What one group considers a normal part of life is strange to another culture. In some cases, a normal part of one culture might be bad or impolite to people of another culture. That kind of difference is a possible basis for misunderstanding, People must learn not to judge others, but to accept them as they are. As the world grows smaller, people must lear to talk to each other more effectively as well as communicate more rapidly. Match the headings given in the box below with their appropriate numbers (1 - 5) that lead the five ‘paragraphs and write the letters A-H in the corresponding numbered boxes. (The headings outnumber the paragraphs, so you will not use all of them). ‘A. A disadvantage of fast communication B. High speed of communication and its benefits C. Our shrinking world D. Communication devices E. A brief history of communication development F. Modern communication and a change in thinking pattern G. The changing world resulting from fast communication H. Modern communication and expected responsibility ‘Your answers: 1 2. 3. 4. 5. SECTION C. WRITING (24 points) Question 1 (5 points), Using the word in capital letters, complete the second sentenée so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. Do not change the word given. Write 2-6 words in total. 1. We shouldn't overstate the importance of finishing on time. (EMPHASIS) > We shouldn't . the importance of finishing on time 2. Ididn't realize how short the singer was until I saw him on stage. (MADE) > Itwas only. me realize how short the singer was, 3. We haven't seen one another for a long time. (STOPPED) >We .»a long time ago. 4, Why didn't you tell me you were ill? (SHOULD) > You. 5. Itis the expense involved that bothers me. > What (BOTHERS) ~~ Scanned with CamScanner