Đề 2

SECTION I: LISTENING
Part 1: You will hear a conversation between Paul and his friends about Paul’s presentation on
art. For questions 1-5, decide whether these following statements are True (T) or False (F)
1. Before giving his presentation, Paul is worried about organizing the projection equipment. F
2. Paul’s friends advise not him not to speak too quickly in the presentation. F
3. Paul likes the idea of the timeline because it will save some time. T
4. Paul’sgoing to show famous works of art to make people think about what counts as art. T
5. Paul wants his presentation to change personal opinions. F
Part 2: Listen to a talk about the Tiger Shark, answer the questions. Your answer would be
short in the form of notes, using NO MORE THAN 5 WORDS.
1. What is the origin of the tiger shark's name?
ITS DARK BANDS
2. What is the maximum size of a tiger shark?
6.5 METERS
3. Where is the tiger sharks' preferred habitat?
ALONG THE COAST
4. What is typical food produced by human that tiger sharks eat?
GARBAGE
5. According to studies, when are tiger sharks mainly found in Raine Island area?
IN THE SUMMER
Part 3: Choose the best answer which fits best according to what you hear.
1. How does Tom feel now about being a writer?
A. It is no longer as exciting as it was. B. He used to get more pleasure from it.
C. He is still surprised when it goes well. D. It is less difficult to do these days.
2. How does Tom feel about the idea for a novel before he begins writing it?
A. He lacks confidence in himself. B. He is very secretive about it.
C. He likes to get reactions to it. D. He is uncertain how it will develop
3. Tom's behaviour when beginning a new novel can best be described as
A. determined.B. enthusiastic. C. impulsive. D. unpredictable.
4. What does Tom admit about his novels?
A. They are not completely imaginary. B. They are open to various interpretations.
C. They do not reflect his personal views. D. They do not make very good films.
5. What did Tom feel about the first film he was involved in making?
A. He enjoyed being part of a team. B. He found it much too stressful.
C. He earned too little money from it. D. He was reassured by how easy it was.
Part 4: For questions 1-10, listen to several news headlines from ABC and supply the blanks
with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided.
• The US President Barrack Obama's arrived in ____NORTHERN IRELAND with his
family for the __G8 SUMMIT___.
• The ___MOTHER____ of Sydney girl KieshaWeippeart has been__PLEADED
GUILTY____ to murder almost three years after her daughter disappeared.
• Federal Labor's still being halted by ___LEADERSHIP TENSIONS___ with the MP's
concern about the party's standing in ___OPINION POLLS___.
7-8. Queensland's ___CHIEF HEATH OFFICER___ has ___URGED___ the parents to get their
young children tested the lead poisoning
• The recent report ____ACCUSES__ both government and industry are
___MISLEADING THE PUBLIC___ about the cause of lead poisoning.
LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

1. Apart from the _____cough and cold. I've been remarkably healthy all my life.
A. odd lặt vặt B. opportune đúng C. irregular D. timely
lúc
2. I had to take out a bank loan when I started up in business and it took me two years to pay
it____
A. out B. up C. over D. off
3. He's applied for a ( an ) ______lot of jobs but he's only been short- listed once.
A. dreadful B. awful rất nhiều C. enormous D. wide
4. I've been working ______quite a lot of pressure lately.
A. in B. with C. on D. under
5. The smoke ______from the burning tyres could be seen for miles.
A. bulging B. radiating C. billowing quần D. sweeping
quật
6. Several of the advertising hoardings had been _____ by anti- sexist slogans.
A. deleted B. mutilated C. erased D. defaced xóa = viết
thêm/đè lên
7. The theft of my father's camera cast rather a _____on the holiday.
A. blight tai họa B. curse C. misfortune D. misery
8. I'm afraid I can't tell you what he said. It would be a _____of confidence.
A. rupture B. break C. rift D. breach
9. There's no point in telephoning him. He's certain _____ by now.
 A. to leave B. to have left C. left D. having left
10. If you don't stop smoking, you _____this risk of developing chronic bronchitis.
A. bear B. suffer C. make D. run
11. He'll believe anything. He's so _____.
A. garrulous B. gullible C. credible D. believable

Part 2. There are TEN mistakes in this passage. Write them down & give the correction.
Write your answers in the space provided.
• First come -> came the PC, then the internet and e-mail; now the e-book is
• upon us, a hand-held device similarly -> similar in size and appearance to a video
• cassette. The user simply rings off the website on their PC, selects
• the desired books, downloads them onto their e-book machine and
• sits down to read them. For turning -> to turn a page, the user simply taps the
• screen. E-book technology is evolving rapidly, and with some of
• the newest handholds -> handhelds you will even get internet access.
• But why would one want an e-book machine with reference to a book?
• Well, one selling point companies emphasized, when these devices
• hit the market a few years ago, which -> 0 is the space they save when going
• on holiday. E-books enlighten -> lighten the load, literally. Ten large novels can
• be put onto a device that weighs less than the average paperback. One
• can understand why commercial interests seem to want us to change.
• After all, the whole production process at -> from first plan by author
• until delivery to the printer had been doing -> has been done electronically for a
while
• now, so why not save a few million trees and cut out the hard copy?

Part 3. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below with one preposition.

1. The prospective buyer had decided to look ....OVER.... the property before committing
himself.
2. The old lady’s savings were considerable as she had put....BY... a little money each week.
3. I’m afraid I’m not very good ………IN………. animals.
4. My mother never gives anyone a tip ………ON……. principle.
5. All her hard work paid ………OFF………..in the end and she’s now successful.
6. He took their defence………APART……., scoring three goals in the first twenty minutes.
 7.The Chancellor is .....AT…. Loggerheads with the PM over public spending.
8. Like all good interviewers, he manages to draw people ….. OUT…… themselves.
9. Frank subscribed firmly …TO... The belief that human kindness would overcome evil.
10. If anyone is ...IN… line for promotion, I should think it’s Helen.

Part 4. Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the word in capitals
1 An early example of privatization was the the ____ENCLOSURE_____ of public land for use
by wealthy landlords. (CLOSE)
2. The fines are large enough to be an effective _____DETERRENT____ against speeding
(DETER)
3. His grandfather had met an _____UNTIMELY____ end as the result of too much whisky.
(TIME)
4. They claimed there was an official _____DISINFORMATION____ campaign by the
government. (INFORM)
5. At the end of each shift, the teams remove their dive suits and drop them in barrels of
____DISINFECTANTS_____ (INFECT)
6. According to ____DECLASSIFIED_____ government documents, officials were aware of the
tests as early as 1967. (CLASS)
7. A circle is a shape on which all points are ____EQUIDISTANT_____ from one point lying
inside. (DISTANCE)
8. The term “drinking problem” and “alcohol abuse” are often
____INTERCHANGEABLE_____ (CHANGE)
9. Repetitive work can become _____SOUL-DESTROYING____ after a while. (DESTROY)
10. Some experiences in early life have ____INERADICABLE_____ effects. (ERADICATE)

READING
Part 1. Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the passage and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Sleeping disorders like insomnia can (1) ____________ to be a worrying question for many of
us. Almost anyone can easily conjure (2) ____________ at least one sleepless night of (3)
____________ and turning in bed awaiting the bliss of a deep dream. Most probably, a third of
us (4) ____________ the distressing experience at least once a week.
Even though it is possible for people to (5) ____________ without any sleep at all for a certain
period of time, such occurrences are rather few and far (6) ____________ and there is no
evidence to (7) ____________ this assumption. What is sure, however, is the fact that we do
need some sleep to regenerate our strength and to (8) ____________ the brain to its proper
activity. No wonder, then, that the tiredness and fatigue that appear after a sleepless night (9)
____________ many of us to go for chemical support in the form of sleep (10) ____________
tablets and powders.
However long the problem of sleepless has afflicted many individuals, very little has been (11)
____________ in the question of its original causes. We are conscious that it usually (12)
____________ those who are exposed to a great deal of stress, anxiety or depression. It may also
be (13) ____________ by overworking or unfavorable surroundings with scarcity of fresh air.
Sleeping pills may provide some relief and can act as an alternative in this desperate situation.
Yet, they do little to combat the ailment in full. Consequently, our hopes should be (14)
____________ on the medical authorities to (15) ____________ the root cause of insomnia
before we take to being nocturnal leading our noisy lives in the dead of night.
• A. present B. entail C. realize D. prove
• A. up B. about C. off D. out
• A. rolling B. wriggling C. tossing D. spinning
• A. underpass B. undergo C. underline D. undertake
• A. operate B. process C. function D. perform
• A. between B. along C. within D. beyond
• A. proclaim B. endure C. invalidate D. substantiate
• A. recuperate B. restore C. revive D. resume
• A. exert B. affect C. enforce D. compel
• A. inducing B. attaining C. exacting D.
contributing
• A. disparaged B. retrieved C. detected D. originated
• A. betrays B. besets C. bemoans D. bestows
• A. engendered B. applied C. instigated D. evolved
• A. placed B. ascribed C. focused D. attached
• A. emerge B. release C. determine D. confess

Part 2. Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (0) has been done as an example.
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
There has beeTOGETHERn a significant shift (0) …………
in……………..entertainment trends over the last twenty years or so. Entertainment used to be
public; now it is becoming more and (1) ____MORE___ private. Formerly, people wanting to
amuse themselves did so in groups; these (2) _______, people increasingly entertain themselves
on (3) __THEIR_____own.
Long, long (4) ____AGO___, there were storytellers. They used to travel around the
country and their arrival was awaited (5) ____WITH___eager anticipation. In the more recent (6)
___PAST____, people used to have musical evening, they used to play games (7)
___TOGETHER____or simply sit around the fire and chat.
Nowadays, (8) ___INSTEAD____of playing board games in a group, children play video
games alone or with one other person. People of all (9) ___AGES____spend their evenings alone
watching television, videos and DVDs. And large numbers of young (and not (10) ___SO____
young ) enthusiasts spend their free time surfing the net, (11) ____WHICH___, by its very
nature, tend to be a solitary activity.
Forms of entertainment have always been changing, of course, but (12) ____IT___ could
be said that these recent changes–all products (13) _____OF__technological development -
mark a more fundamental shift. One could further argue that this shift is symbolized by the
earphones that (14) ___ARE____in evidence everywhere. Can this deliberate attempt to shut out
the rest of the world really be (15) ____CALLED___ entertainment?

Part 3. Read the text and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best
according to the text.

The attraction of valuable objects from ships sinking in the oceans is always great. Until
recently, hunting for treasure from shipwrecks was mostly fantasy; with recent technological
advances, however, the search for sunken treasure has become more popular as a legitimate
endeavor. This has caused a debate between those wanting to salvage the wrecks and those
wanting to preserve them.
          Treasure hunters are spurred on by the thought of finding caches of gold coins or other
valuable objects on a sunken ship. One team of salvagers, for instance, searched the wreck of the
RMS Republic, which sank outside the Boston harbor in 1900. The search party, using side-scan
sonar, a device that projects sound waves across the ocean bottom and produces a profile of the
sea floor, located the wreck in just two and a half days. Before the use of this new technology,
such searches could take months or years. The team of 45 divers searched the wreck for two
months, finding silver tea services, crystal dinnerware, and thousands of bottles of wine, but they
did not find the five and a half tons of American Gold Eagle coins they were searching for.
            Preservationists focus on the historic value of a ship. They say that even if a shipwreck’s
treasure does not have a high monetary value, it can be an invaluable source of historic artifacts
that are preserved in nearly mint condition. But once a salvage team has scoured a site, much of
the archaeological value is lost. Maritime archaeologists who are preservationists worry that the
success of salvagers will attract more treasure-hunting expeditions and thus threaten remaining
undiscovered wrecks. Preservationists are lobbying their state lawmakers to legally restrict
underwater searches and unregulated salvages. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue
that without the  lure of gold and million-dollar treasures, the wrecks and their historical artifacts
would never be recovered at all.
Question 1: What is the main idea of this passage?
A. The popularity of treasure seeking has spurred a debate between preservationists and
salvagers.
B. Maritime archaeologists are concerned about the unregulated searching of wrecks.
C. The search of the RMS Republic failed to produce the hoped-for coins.
D. Searching for wrecks is much easier with new technologies like side-scan sonar.
Question 2: The word “sunken” is closest in meaning to which of the following words?
A. underwater B. broken C. ancient D. hollow
Question 3: Which of the following could best replace the phrase “a profile” in the passage?
A. a projection B. an execution C. an outline D. a highlight
Question 4: Which of the following statements is best supported by the author?
A. The value of a shipwreck depends on the quantity of its artifacts.
B. Preservationists are fighting the use of technological advances such as side-scan sonar.
C. Side-scan sonar has helped to legitimize salvaging.
D. The use of sound waves is crucial to locating shipwrecks.
Question 5: The author uses the phrase “mint condition” to describe _____ .
A. something perfect B. something significant
C. something tolerant D. something magical
Question 6: All of the following were found on the RMS Republic EXCEPT _____ .
A. wine bottles B. silver tea services
C. American Gold Eagle coins D. crystal dinnerware
Question 7: From the passage, you can infer that a preservationist would be most likely to
______ .
A. shun treasure-seeking salvagers B. be a diver
C. put treasures in a museum D. do archaeological research
Question 8: The word “scoured” is most similar to which of the following?
A. scraped away B. scratched over C. scrambled around D. searched around
Question 9: What is the closet meaning to the word “lure” in the passage?
A. knowledge B. attraction C. luxury D. glare
Question 10: The second and third paragraphs are an example of _____ .
A. chronological order B. explanation
C. specific to general D. definition

Part 4. You will read a passage and then answer the questions that accompany the passage.
Questions 1-10
The following reading passage has twelve paragraphs A-L. Choose the most suitable headings
for paragraphs B-L from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-xiv) in the
spaces provided.
LIST OF HEADINGS
I What else is needed to fly
ii Hang gliders' German origin
iii Unpowered flying - a flight fancy?
v The function of battens
vi Safer than ballons and airplanes
vii Training of hang glider fliers
viii The British test
ix Flying a hang glider
x What to do in case of emergency
xi Hang gliders can fly hundreds of miles
xii Development of hang gliders in America
xiii Testing systems to ensure safety
xiv The structure of hang gliders
Example: Paragraph A Answer: iii
1. Paragraph B ....................
2. Paragraph C ....................
3. Paragraph D ....................
4. Paragraph E ....................
5. Paragraph F ....................
6. Paragraph G ....................
7. Paragraph H ....................
8. Paragraph I ....................
9. Paragraph J ....................
10. Paragraph K ....................

ON THE WING
Hang gliding has come a long way since participants flew a few hundred feet from the top of a
hill to the bottom, and were lucky to finish up in one piece.
A. Suppose a friend told you he had just spent $4,000 on a new hang glider weighing a mere
60lb
( 27 kilos) which he could transport on top of his car and carry on his shoulders. Would you
believe his plan to fly scores of miles without an engine? A flight of fancy? Not at all, he would
explain. Hang gliding no loner deserves its reputation as a sport for reckless idiots who get a
thrill risking life and limb by leaping off cliffs and mountains.
B. Accident still happen, but they are usually caused by pilot error. Equipment failure is rare and
most mishaps result in nothing more than a bit of bent aluminium and a bruised ego. Hang
Gliding, a magazine for American enthusiasts, reckons that for every 100,000 participants the
number of fatalities each year for hang gliding is 22. This, it claims, makes pilots of hang gliders
less intrepid than balloonists ( death rate 67) or airline pilots (97).
C. Hang gliders are a marvel of simplicity and strength. A tough framework of aluminium tubing
supports a tailored sail stiffened by lots of alloy battens ( these hold the wing in shape). The
whole structure is braced by stainless- steel rigging wires. Tolerances are so fine that
manufacturers have to cut the entire sail on the same day to avoid variations introduced by
changes in temperature and humidity. And the designs of hang gliders have changed radically
from early prototypes made from bamboo and polythene.
D. This unusual form of unpowered flight traces its origins back the work of a German pioneer,
Otto Lilienthal, in the 1890s. He carefully recorded the results of more than 2,000 experimental
flights by man- carrying gliders, many of them made from a 50-foot ( 15 -metre) high purpose-
built hill near Berlin.
E. But modern hang gliding owes everything to a pioneer who is still alive: Francis Rogallo. He
was employed in America's space effort during the 1950s to design a steerable parachute for
space- capsule reentry. His work was never used for its intended purpose, but adapted instead by
water-skiers to produce a simple kite which could be towed aloft. It was a small step from this to
attempting to make foot- launched flights on these fragile craft, from the gentle and forgiving
sand dunes of coastal California. By the early 1960s, hang gliding was reborn.
F. Since then home-built kits have been replaced by production-line models made by about 20
manufacturers. Flights used to last a minute or tow. Today's pilot can remain aloft for hours
while traveling huge distances. The world distance record is currently held by an American,
Larry Tudor, at 303 miles ( 488 km). It took him nearly nine hours to travel from Hobbs, New
Mexico, to Elkart, Kansas.
G. Once airborne, actually flying requires subtlety rather than strength - one reason why women
pilots often perform better than men. The pilot is suspended prone in a cocoon-like harness and
controls direction and speed through gentle shifts of body weight. Launching the machine
demands a committed run of just a few steps down a slope facing the prevailing wind. Landing is
harder. The pilot needs the same kind of precision possessed by large birds when they land on
level ground.
H. The necessary accessories include a helmet, gloves, an emergency parachute and a variety of
instruments, including a variometer. This clever box of electronics detects tiny changes in air
pressure, and relays this information as an audio tone and visual readout. Changes occur as the
climbs ( lower pressure) or descends ( higher pressure). The skill is in loitering in the rising air
and avoiding the inevitable sink.
I. All new glider designs undergo rigorous tests before being certified airworthy. There are no
internationally agreed standards, but it is generally accepted that the systems adopted by
Germany and Britain are especially stringent.
J. In Britain, the British Hang gliding and Paragliding Association ( BHGPA) employs a mobile
test rig upon which the aircraft is mounted. The whole unit is towed at high speeds behind a
suitable vehicle, allowing various flying profiles to be tested and measured against the required
extremes.
K. Training and coaching have also kept pace with technology and design. In Britain, full-time
BHGPA offices regulate training for beginners in commercial schools, and volunteer coaches at
the 40 local clubs throughout the country provide further training for their 3,500 members.
Different countries have different systems for rating the proficiency tasks of pilots, but all aim to
measure attainment, skill and knowledge through practical tasks and written examinations.

Part 5. Read the following passage and answer questions.

Six paragraphs have been removed from the passage. For questions 1–6, choose from
paragraphs A–G the one which fits each gap. There is one extra paragraph which you do not
need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
IT’S A PITY READING PLEASURE CAN’T BE TESTED
We force children into reading far too early.
Today Einstein, who learnt to read at 10, would be in remedial class, argues Anne Karpf.
A good news story about education? It sounds 4. ____B___
like an oxymoron, but blazoned on Monday’s Elsewhere there’s no shortage of horror stories,
front pages was the finding of a major new like the parents of four-year-olds, who formerly
international survey that ‘UK pupils move wouldn’t have even been in school, paying for
close to top of world class’, especially in coaching to help them keep up with the fast
reading. This will have been gratifying to a readers. The mother of a four-and-a-half-year-
government for whom ‘education, education, old was told that her son had to apply himself to
education’ increasingly seems to be a reading because the school didn’t want him to
euphemism for ‘reading, reading, reading’. end up at the bottom of the pile. This from an
But such singlemindedness has had other, excellent teacher, herself under pressure to
unacknowledged, consequences. produce results: by their Sats shall we judge
1. ___F____ them. Einstein may have learned to read only at
Orthodox educationalists, however, maintain 10, but today he’d be stigmatised and in
that you’re never too young to learn to read: remedial reading.
on the contrary, the earlier the better. Reading, 5. ____C___
and especially early reading, is considered so Learning to read is rather like potty training.
self-evidently good that children are coaxed, The parents of kids who do it young proclaim it
pressed and, if required, bribed into abroad, yet most people get there in the end.
submission. How they do so is paramount for future
2. ___A____ pleasure, and the result of an unpredictable,
My own position has changed radically serendipitous combination of factors different
between my first and second children. The for each of us. But we’ve a government which
first taught herself to read at the age of four. has confused standards with standardisation.
Thereafter she secreted books around her bed You can, just about, drill children into learning
like contraband, and had to be physically to read, but you can’t compel them to enjoy it.
prised from them at the dinner table. When In a culture increasingly in thrall to what is
her younger sister started school last year, I measurable, what a pity reading pleasure can’t
expected a repeat performance. be tested.
3. ___E____ 6. ___D____
Should I be vacuuming away her words, and As for my own now almost-six-year-old, who I
pumping in someone else’s? Should I have
been coercing her to try to read when she was
plainly unwilling? I can coerce for England,
but the thought of becoming her personal
politburo in the matter of when she learned to
read seemed so awful that I became a covert
refusenik instead. I decided to stop meddling
altogether.
think would have preferred this approach,
something has recently clicked in the reading
part of her brain, and she is on the way to
becoming a voracious reader. It’s probably
sheer coincidence that this transformation was
over exactly the same period that she started
learning the violin.

A. Being against it is like being against vitamins or bank holidays – frankly perverse.
Among the over half-million web pages devoted to teaching children to read, none of those I
browsed are on learning to read too soon.
B.For the best part of a year I schlepped her wretched bookbag to and from school without
opening it, and resolved as far as possible to follow her own reading timetable. Her reception
teacher adopted what today is a rare, daring stance: there isn’t much you can do to make a child
read before they’re ready.

C. Early reading is all part of the extension of formal reading back into pre-school.
Nurseries are now bestrewn with targets, and the children know it. Imagine the blow that might
have dealt to his creative genius. Also, one problem with exerting such pressure on pre-school
children is that it can make children resistant to reading. Once affecting extravagant interest in
my daughter’s new book-title, I was rewarded with: “You’re just trying to get me to read it and I
won’t.”

D. Those who consider such misgivings a middle-class luxury should look at Europe. We’re
alone in bullying children to read so young. The Norwegians don’t start until they’re seven,
when it’s usually painless. This also allows dyslexics to be diagnosed before and not after
they’ve been labelled poor readers. Sylvia Hopland, headteacher of the Norwegian School in
London, says: “We know that we could teach children to read at four if we wanted to but we
want them to spend those years playing. Here you teach them to give the right answers. We want
to teach them to solve problems, cooperate with others and cope with life.” Steiner schools in
Britain also concentrate on stimulating children’s creative faculties until “a new kind of
knowing” emerges at seven.
E. Like other reception class mothers, I peeked at her friends’ bookbags to see if the books
they were reading were more advanced. Invariably they were. My growing anxiety was assuaged
by a wise fellow mother remarking that my exuberant child was busily engaged in things, like
pretend games and drawing, which delighted her more. She also loves books, but often pleads for
the right to be able to make up her own stories to the pictures (frequently more exciting than
those confected by the author).

F. The obsession with reading has led to a major decline in the time and energy given over
to music, art and drama. And the heresy that dare not speak its name is that children are being
pressurised to learn to read too early.

G. When I asked her to tell me what she thought of her classes, she was unabashedly
sincere: ‘I like books with pictures, but books with too many words are boring.’ My immediate
urge was to force her, threaten her or coax her nose into her books. Until it suddenly dawned on
me: at what age did I start reading?

7. The phrase “the thought of becoming her personal politburo” implies the writer’s notion
of _______.
A. becoming an orthodox traditionalist
B. forcing the child to read against her will C. helping the child see education in a
positive light
D. resisting change and favouring established ideas
8. In the context, “at the bottom of the pile” mostly means being _______ of the class.
A. the black sheep B. the fair-haired C. the least academic D. the weakest
9. According to the text, “something has recently clicked” implies a change has taken place
in _______.
A. coaching the child on extensive reading
B. bribing the child to read C. the child’s attitude towards reading
D. the child’s joy of reading books
10. According to the text, the phrase “And the heresy that dare not speak its names” indicates
_______.
A. a belief that people feel uncomfortable about expressing
B. a situation where contradictory incidents co-occur
C. a subtle support and encouragement
D. an unacceptably unconventional and unreasonable pedagogy