ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI

KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐBBB

NĂM HỌC 2022-2023
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 11
(Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút)
THPT CHUYÊN BẮC NINH

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HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU

 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 30 giây, mở đầu và kết
thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước
tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

I. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. For questions 1-5, listen to a piece of news and decide whether the following
statements are True (T), False (F) according to what you hear. (10pts)
1. The question about the safety of the Titan was the most frequently asked after the accident.
2. It was illegal to launch the submersible into the international waters.
3. The submersible was supposed to accommodate up to five people.
4. As a submersible takes much longer to be certified, it can be used for more purposes than a
Titan vessel.
5. As it is more modern, a submersible can go deeper than a Titan vessel.

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: For questions 6-10, listen to the recording and answer the questions. Write NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording. (10pts)
6. When does the speaker say we will reach peak world population?
__________________________________________________________
7. What number does he give for the current world population?
__________________________________________________________
8. How much land would be needed for organic farming in comparison to the current situation?
__________________________________________________________
9. What other solution from farms does he suggest?

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__________________________________________________________
10. Which three cereal crops does he say are the most important?
__________________________________________________________

Part 3: You will hear a discussion in which two marine biologists. Gina Kelso and Thomas
Ludman, talk about an award-winning television film they made about wildlife in
Antarctica. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
(10pts)
11.Gina’s interest in marine biology dates from ______.
A. her earliest recollections of life in Africa
B. one memorable experience in childhood
C. the years she spent studying in England
D. a postgraduate research project she led
12.The first wildlife TV series they both worked on ______.
A. made use of a previously untried format
B. was not filmed in a natural environment
C. was not intended to be taken too seriously
D. required them to do background research
13.How did Thomas feel when he was asked to produce the programs about Antarctica?
A. disappointed not to be presenting the series
B. surprised that people thought he was suitable
C. uncertain how well he would get on with the team
D. worried about having to spend the winter there
14.When they were in Antarctica, they would have appreciated ______.
A. a less demanding work schedule
B. more time to study certain animals
C. a close friend to share their feelings with
D. a chance to share their work with colleagues
15.What was most impressive about the whales they filmed?
A. The unusual sounds the whales made.
B. The number of whales feeding in a small bay.
C. How long the whales stayed feeding in one area.
D. how well the whales co-operated with each other.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 4: For questions 16-25, listen to a piece of news and fill in the missing information.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in
the spaces provided. (20pts)
It is not something unusual to spot the spread of 16._____________________ on the ocean
waters on recent news reports. With a 17. _____________________ of some certain material, an

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individual can join Matter of Trust to turn waste into useful resources. Clean Wave Program 18.
_____________________ into mats to absorb petroleum products. In fact, these mats can be
made from human hair, pet fur, and 19. _____________________.
20. _____________________ is a process in which oil is soaked up to the surface of hair
strands. Hair and fur can only be collected if there is no 21. __________,___________or
__________ found on them. They are then 22. _____________________ according to their
length to form hair pillowcases which placed through a 23. _____________________ to make
completed mats. In addition to collecting oil spills in different places, these mats are supposed to
clean up 24. _________________. Hazmat pickup sites can 25. _____________________ used
mats for energy or dispose them in landfills.

II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (30 points)

Part 1. Choose the best option to complete each of the following sentences. (20pts)
1. The plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, was a ____ disease.
A. contingent B. contiguous C. contagious D. congenial
2. I was in a ____ as to what to do. If I told the truth, he would get into trouble, but if I said
nothing I would be more in trouble.
A. doubt B. quandary C. hitch D. complexity
3. His driving is so bad that I always turn ____when I am sitting with him in the car.
A. around the bend C. off his trolley
B. in a fog D. green around the gills
4. He ____ denied the accusations, saying they were totally false
A. excessively B. superficially C. strenuously D. unstintingly
5.It’s disquieting that there has been an increased____of cancer near the nuclear power station.
A. occurrence B. accidence C. persistence D. incidence
6. From this year on, under-fives will get travel ____, which certainly makes huge savings for
family trips.
A. consolations B. concessions C. contortions D. constrictions
7. He has secured a loan for a new building by ____ upon the resources of two existing tenants.
A. dwelling B. training C. playing D. drawing
8. They worked ____ all weekend, trying to get it finished on time.
A. ferociously B. furiously C. indignantly D. outrageously
9. Going to the unemployment office and having to wait there for hours is a ____ experience.
A. soul-destroying B. heart-stopping C. power-sharing D. thought-provoking
10. ____a language family is a group of languages with a common origin and similar
vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems.
A. Linguists call it B. It is called by linguists
C. What linguists call D. What do linguists call
11. Will development ever again be the ____ burden pulling the region out of economic malady?
A. beast B. load C. glutton D. chief
12. We all decreed that ____.
A. there be an end to their quarrel B. their quarrel should put an end to
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C. they ended their quarrel then D. their quarrel be coming to an end
13. I tried to ____ myself from the situation but it was impossible.
A. exude B. exclude C. expunge D. extricate
14. Last week’s violence was ____ condemned by foreign governments.
A. grimly B. roundly C. roughly D. bitingly
15. Don’t get yourself ____ up over such a trivial matter.
A. done B. worried C. whipped D. worked
16. I ____ with the performances but I got the flu the day before.
A. was to have helped B. helped C. was to help D. had helped
17. I'm seeing the boss this afternoon. I'll put in a ____ word about you. It might help you with
your request for promotion.
A. special B. pleasant C. good D. nice
18. This trend has only been strengthened with the enfranchisement of spending ____ in modern
industrial societies.
A. force B. strength C. weight D. power
19. The couple were finally ____ by the landlord after not paying rent for six months.
A. demolished B. rejected C. evicted D. evacuated
20. He’s extremely ____; he turns up every day at nine o’clock on the dot.
A. punctual B. temporary C. long-standing D. subsequent

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: Write the correct form of word in each blank. (10pts)

1. It is difficult to draft a law that makes sense today and ensure that it is not __________by
technology tomorrow. DISTANCE
2. Spirit points are added after the conclusion of the winter season and points are deducted for
ejections and other__________conducts. SPORTS
3. It is easy enough to say that the papers are vastly__________, that people have to be dropped
or there has to be voluntary retirement. MAN
4. Are those _______________ they put in food really necessary. ADD
5. The reason for Bruce Lee’s dealth was sleeping pill _______________. DOSE
6. If you can respond calmly and _______________, then I think that would be the best way
forward. AGGRESSIVE
7. When it was over, she began life _______ in France. NEW
8. All these former offenses were swiftly ______. CRIME
9. I stand not upon the _______ words of a challenge. DEFINE

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10. Economists and some psychologists _______ employ such tasks in their studies.
EXCLUDE

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. READING (60 points)

Part 1. Fill in each blank with ONE word (15pts)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD CARTOONS GONE?
Childhood will never be the same again. Remember Saturday mornings spent lounging on
the sofa, hour (1) ____ hour, watching your favourite cartoons? (2) ____ there has been a better
reward for the long school week that had had to be endured? Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey
Mouse brought virtually live into (3) ____ living rooms. Back then, they were in black and
white, and back then, they were meant to amuse, to entertain.
It seems this has changed – and definitely (4) ____ the worse. Now when you turn on the
television on a Saturday or Sunday morning, you do (5) ____ at your own risk! Be prepared to
confront violence in all its animated glory: exploding bombs, falling buildings, blazing weapons,
and bad guy after bad guy. I don’t see (6) ____ is funny about this warped vision of our times
and our society. Nor do I see what’s worth watching on these programmes with (7) ____
gruesome caricatures of good and evil. Who is responsible for children’s programming these
days?
It cannot be good for today’s youth to be exposed (8) ____ this type of entertainment. (9)
____ best, they are missing out on the humour, sensitivity and moral lessons that were to be had
from the cartoons of old. At worst, their childish brains are (10) ____ filled with scenes of non-
stop violence and ideas that are morally corrupt. Childhood should be a time of innocence, short-
lived as it may be in these turbulent times in which we live. Perhaps we should bear this in mind
the next time we see our child glued to the TV on a Saturday morning.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. (10pts)
WRITING FICTION
Because I am a novelist myself, I am always faintly fussed by the idea of creative writing
courses. I completely accept that you can teach the craft, that you can give instruction on how to
structure a book, how to vary space and tension, how to write dialogue. But what you can’t
teach, it seems to me is the right kind of interpretation of what has been observed. It worries me
to think of all those earnest pupils who have diligently mastered the mechanics, wondering with
varying degrees of misery and rag why the finished recipe just hasn’t somehow worked.

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 The great writer Samuel Coleridge explained it. He said that there are two kinds of
imagination, the primary and the secondary. We all, he said, possess the primary imagination, we
all have the capacity to perceive, to notice. But what only poets (loosely translated as all truly
creative people, I suppose) have - the secondary imagination is the capacity to select, and then
translate and illuminate everything that has been observed so that it seems to the audience
something entirely new, something entirely true, something exciting, wonderful and terrible.
There is, after all, nothing new to say about the human condition. There is nothing to say
that Shakespeare or Sophocles hasn’t already, inimitably, brilliantly, said. Codes of product,
fashions in morality and ethics, all may come and go. But what the human heart has desired - and
feared – down the ages goes on being very much the same. The novelist’s task is to follow the
well-trodden, time-worn path of human hopes and terrors. Never forget: betrayal may be as old
as time, it may happen every nanosecond of every minute that’s ever been, but the first time it
happens to you feels like the first time in the history of the world. A cliché is a cliché only if it is
comfortably taking place in someone else’s life.
This empathy is vital in the writing of fiction. Coleridge’s view of the poet as prophet to
the hungry hordes is, in truth, a bit grand for me. I admire it, but I am not, personally, quite up to
it. I am happier seeing the novelist, sleeves rolled up, in the thick of it alongside the reader,
bleeding when pricked, in just the same way that the reader does. The only capacity I would
claim is that I have an instinct to select, from everything I have noticed in half a century’s beady-
eyed people-watching, the telling detail, the apt phrase. I seem to be good at the rhythms of
dialogue. I seem to know how not to overwrite. But that is it really. Except that the older I get,
the more prepared I am to surrender and trust to the power of the unconscious mind. Maybe this
is a modest form of the secondary imagination, maybe not. Whatever it is, it produces a level and
intensity of communication that causes people to buy my books and write to me about them in
numbers that I still can’t get over.
What I do believe, fervently, is that we are all in this boat together – writer, reader, critic.
I have a tattered little quotation that lies on my desk and becomes more valuable to me as time
goes on. It comes from the autobiography of the celebrated nineteenth-century writer Anthony
Trollope. He said many remarkable things in this book, but my own personal favourite is on the
subject of the novelist’s central preoccupation. Trollope is not so much concerned with the
landscape of the grand passions as with something else, something less glamorous perhaps, but
just as intense and certainly more universal: ‘My task’, he wrote, ‘is to chronicle those little daily
lacerations upon the spirit.’
I feel a thrill of recognition every time I read that, or even think about it. That is what the
writer’s life is all about for me. The point of it is to emphasise that we are none of us immune to
longing, or disappointment (much under-rated, in my view, as a source for distress), or
frustration, or idiotic hope, or bad behaviour. What fiction does, in this difficult world, is to
reassure us that we are not alone, nor we are (most of us) lost causes. There is a theory that
suffering strengthens and elevates us in a way that joy can never somehow do. I’m not so sure
about that. Isn’t it just that we have, on the whole, so much more suffering than joy that we have
resolved, out of our great surviving instinct, to insist that something worthwhile must be made of
it? And isn’t fiction a handrail, of a kind, which we can all grasp while we blunder about in the
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dark? Isn’t fiction written by people for people about people? And is there a subject more
fascinating or more important?
1. What view does the novelist express about creative writing courses?
A. A few good books emerge from them.
B. It would be inappropriate for her to teach on them.
C. Students are frustrated by the poor teaching on them.
D. Some aspects of writing skills can be successfully taught on them.
2. The novelist implies that a writer’s most valuable asset is ______.
A. an instinct for the unusual
B. a gift for meticulous observation
C. the ability to put a fresh interpretation on the everyday world
D. the ability to highlight sensational aspects of our existence
3. What is stated about writers in the third paragraph?
A. They should not exploit their readers’ fears.
B. They should revisit well-established themes.
C. They should be prepared to exaggerate their personal experience.
D. They should not try to keep pace with changes in literary tastes.
4. The phrase ‘the well-trodden, time-worn path’ refers to themes of writing that are ______.
A. familiar and long-standing B. extraordinary and profound
C. up-to-date and catchy D. simple and soulful
5. The word ‘prophet’ refers to writer as a(n) ______ person.
A. conservative B. receptive C. impartial D. emotional
6. The novelist states that one of her own strengths as a writer lies in ______.
A. her depiction of character B. her construction of plot
C. her command of language D. her knowledge of psychology
7. Why does novelist admire Anthony Trollope?
A. He portrays the fact that everyone suffers in some way.
B. He realises that all writers need a strong sense of place.
C. He understands that everyone craves deep emotion.
D. He is aware that all writers have a particular obsession.
8. The word ‘lacerations’ refers to ______ events.
A. exhilarating B. epoch-making C. pathetic D. trivial
9. The novelist describes fiction as ‘a handrail, of a kind’ because it ______.
A. reflects the negative aspects of emotion B. enables us to deal with failure
C. helps us make sense of complex events D. offers reassurance in an uncertain world
10. Which theme recurs in this text?
A. The need for novelists to avoid complex philosophical questions
B. The need for novelists to develop their writing techniques
C. The need for novelists to give an accurate reflection of the spirit of the time
D. The need for novelists to identify closely with readers’ preoccupations
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Part 3: For questions 1-13, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13pts)
Dugongs are herbivorous mammals that spend their entire lives in the sea. Their close relatives
the manatees also venture into or live in freshwater. Together dugongs and manatees make up
the order Sirenia or sea cows, so-named because dugongs and manatees are thought to have
given rise to the myth of the mermaids or sirens of the sea.
A. The dugong, which is a large marine mammal which, together with the manatees, looks rather
like a cross between a rotund dolphin and a walrus. Its body, flippers and fluke resemble those of
a dolphin but it has no dorsal fin. Its head looks somewhat like that of a walrus without the long
tusks.
B. Dugongs, along with other Sirenians whose diet consists mainly of sea-grass; and the
distribution of dugongs very closely follows that of these marine flowering plants. As seagrasses
grow rooted in the sediment, they are limited by the availability of light. Consequently, they are
found predominantly in shallow coastal waters, and so too are dugongs. But this is not the whole
story. Dugongs do not eat all species of seagrass, preferring seagrass of higher nitrogen and
lower fibre content.
C. Due to their poor eyesight, dugongs often use smell to locate edible plants. They also have a
strong tactile sense, and feel their surroundings with their long sensitive bristles. They will dig
up an entire plant and then shake it to remove the sand before eating it. They have been known to
collect a pile of plants in one area before eating them. The flexible and muscular upper lip is
used to dig out the plants. When eating they ingest the whole plant, including the roots, although
when this is impossible, they will feed on just the leaves. A wide variety of seagrass has been
found in dugong stomach contents, and evidence exists they will eat algae when seagrass is
scarce. Although almost completely herbivorous, they will occasionally eat invertebrates such as
jellyfish, sea squirts, and shellfish.
D. A heavily grazed seagrass bed looks like a lawn mown by a drunk. Dugongs graze apparently
at random within a seagrass bed, their trails meandering in all directions across the bottom. This
is rather an inefficient means of removing seagrass that results in numerous small tufts
remaining. And this is where the dugongs derive some advantage from their inefficiency. The
species that recover most quickly from this disturbance, spreading out vegetatively from the
remaining tufts, are those that dugongs like to eat. In addition, the new growth found in these
areas tends to be exactly what hungry dugongs like.
E. Dugongs are semi-nomadic, often travelling long distances in search of food, but staying
within a certain range their entire life. Large numbers often move together from one area to
another. It is thought that these movements are caused by changes in seagrass availability. Their
memory allows them to return to specific points after long travels. Dugong movements mostly
occur within a localised area of seagrass beds, and animals in the same region show
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F. Recorded numbers of dugongs are generally believed to be lower than actual numbers, due to
a lack of accurate surveys. Despite this, the dugong population is thought to be shrinking, with a
worldwide decline of 20 per cent in the last 90 years. They have disappeared from the waters of
Hong Kong, Mauritius, and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines and
Vietnam. Further disappearances are likely. (In the late 1960s, herds of up to 500 dugongs were
observed off the coast of East Africa and nearby islands. However, current populations in this
area are extremely small, numbering 50 and below, and it is thought likely they will become
extinct. The eastern side of the Red Sea is the home of large populations numbering in the
hundreds, and similar populations are thought to exist on the western side. In the 1980s, it was
estimated there could be as many as 4,000 dugongs in the Red Sea. The Persian Gulf has the
second-largest dugong population in the world, inhabiting most of the southern coast, and the
current population is believed to be around 7,500. Australia is home to the largest population,
stretching from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Moreton Bay in Queensland. The population
of Shark Bay is thought to be stable with over 10,000 dugongs.
G. Experience from various parts of northern Australia suggests that Extreme weather such as
cyclones and floods can destroy hundreds of square kilometres of seagrass meadows, as well as
washing dugongs ashore. The recovery of seagrass meadows and the spread of seagrass into new
areas, or areas where it has been destroyed, can take over a decade. For example, about 900 km2
of seagrass was lost in Hervey Bay in 1992, probably because of murky water from flooding of
local rivers, and run-off turbulence from a cyclone three weeks later. Such events can cause
extensive damage to seagrass communities through severe wave action, shifting sand and
reduction in saltiness and light levels. Prior to the 1992 floods, the extensive seagrasses in
Hervey Bay supported an estimated 1750 dugongs. Eight months after the floods the affected
area was estimated to support only about 70 dugongs. Most animals presumably survived by
moving to neighbouring areas. However, many died attempting to move to greener pastures, with
emaciated carcasses washing up on beaches up to 900km away.
H. If dugongs do not get enough to eat, they may calve later and produce fewer young. Food
shortages can be caused by many factors, such as a loss of habitat, death and decline in quality of
seagrass, and a disturbance of feeding caused by human activity. Sewage, detergents, heavy
metal, hypersaline water, herbicides, and other waste products all negatively affect seagrass
meadows. Human activity such as mining, trawling, dredging, land-reclamation, and boat
propeller scarring also cause an increase in sedimentation which smothers seagrass and prevents
light from reaching it. This is the most significant negative factor affecting seagrass. One of the
dugong’s preferred species of seagrass, Halophila ovalis, declines rapidly due to lack of light,
dying completely after 30 days.
I. Despite being legally protected in many countries, the main causes of population decline
remain anthropogenic and include hunting, habitat degradation, and fishing-related fatalities.
Entanglement in fishing nets has caused many deaths, although there are no precise statistics.
Most issues with industrial fishing occur in deeper waters where dugong populations are low,
with local fishing being the main risk in shallower waters. As dugongs cannot stay underwater
for a very long period, they are highly prone to deaths due to entanglement. The use of shark nets
has historically caused large numbers of deaths, and they have been eliminated in most areas and
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replaced with baited hooks. Hunting has historically been a problem too, although in most areas
they are no longer hunted, with the exception of certain indigenous communities. In areas such
as northern Australia, hunting remains the greatest impact on the dugong population.

Questions 1-4
Summary
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using NO MORE
THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.
Dugongs are herbivorous mammals that spend their entire lives in the sea. Yet Dugongs are
picky on their feeding Seagrass, and only chose seagrass with higher (1) ____ and lower fibre.
To compensate for their poor eyesight, they use their (2) ____ to feel their surroundings.
It is like Dugongs are “farming” seagrass. They often leave (3) ____ randomly in all directions
across the sea bed. Dugongs prefer eating the newly grew seagrass recovering from the tiny (4)
____ left behind by the grazing dugongs.

Questions 5-9
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?
In boxes 5-9 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement is true
FALSE if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN If the information is not given in the passage
5. The dugong will keep eating up the plant completely when they begin to feed.
6. It takes more than ten years for the re-growth of seagrass where it has been grazed by
Dugongs.
7. Even in facing food shortages, the strong individuals will not compete with the weak small
ones for food.
8. It is thought that the dugong rarely returns to the old habitats when they finished the plant.
9. Coastal industrial fishing poses the greatest danger to dugongs which are prone to be killed
due to entanglement.

Questions 10-13
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each
answer.
10 What is Dugong in resemblance to yet as people can easily tell them apart from the
manatees by its tail?
11 What is the major reason Dugongs traveled long distances in herds from one place to
another?
12 What number, has estimated to be, of dugong’s population before the 1992 floods in Hervey
Bay took place?
13 What is thought to be the lethal danger which dugongs were often trapped in?
Your answers:

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6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13.

Part 4: You are going to read an extract from a book on human rights. Seven paragraphs
have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits
each gap (1-7). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. (7pts)

VALUES FOR A GODLESS AGE

When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989 so did the plaster cast which had kept the
idea of human rights in limbo. It was now free to evolve in response to the changing conditions
of the late twentieth century.
(1)__________________________
Of course, in one sense, the quest for universal human rights standards after the Second World
War was an early attempt to communicate across national boundaries, albeit a rather faltering
endeavour, with its claims to universality challenged both in terms of authorship and content.
More recently, a loosening of the reins of the human rights dialogue has ushered in wider debate.
(2)__________________________
Perhaps the best known of these is Amnesty International, established in 1961. Before Amnesty,
there were very few organizations like it, yet now there are thousands operating all over the
world. Whether campaigning for the protection of the environment or third-world debt relief, any
such organization is engaged in the debate about fundamental human rights. And it is no longer
just a soft sideshow.
(3)__________________________
The fact that strangers from different countries can communicate with each other through the
worldwide web is having a similar effect in dealing a blow to misinformation. During one recent
major human rights trial over sixty websites sprang up to cover the proceedings, while sales of
the government-controlled new paper in that country plummeted.
(4)__________________________
The effect of increased responsibility at this highest level has been to continually extend the
consideration of who is legally liable, directly or indirectly, under international human rights
law. In part, this is an acknowledgement that even individuals need to be held responsible for
flagrant breaches of others' rights, whether these are preventing protesters from peacefully
demonstrating or abusing the rights of children.
(5)__________________________
It has been noted that paradoxically, in such circumstances, it may be in the interests of human
rights organizations to seek to reinforce the legitimacy and authority of the state, within a
regulated global framework.
(6)__________________________

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Part of the new trend in human rights thinking is therefore to include powerful private bodies
within its remit. The International Commission of Jurists has recently explored ways in which
international human rights standards could be directly applied to transnational corporations.
(7)__________________________
Whatever the way ahead, the lessons of the past must be learnt. Any world view or set of values
which is presented as self-evident is ultimately doomed to failure. The case for human rights
always needs to be made and remade. In a world where globalization too often seems like a
modernized version of old-fashioned cultural imperialism, it is important to query the claim that
human rights are universally accepted.

A. The problem is that the growth of globalization makes the protection of nation states a
pointless goal in certain circumstances. Transnational corporations with multiple subsidiaries
operating in a number of countries simultaneously wield significant economic and political
power and it is often extremely difficult for the state - both home and host governments - to
exercise effective legal control over them.
B. If the proliferation of pressure groups has raised the profile of the human rights debate,
satellite television has reinforced much of the content of their campaigns. The fact that from our
armchairs we can all see live what is happening to others around the world has had an enormous
impact on the way the struggle for human rights is viewed. It would not be remotely believable
to plead ignorance nowadays, for 24-hour news coverage from the world's hotspots reaches us
all.
C. This is, after all, a uniquely propitious time, as the values and language of human rights are
becoming familiar to more and more people, who judge the merits or otherwise of political and
economic decisions increasingly in human rights terms. Arguments seem fresh and appealing in
many quarters where once they sounded weak and stale.
D. On a global scale, it is not strong states that are the problem here but weak ones, as they fail
to protect their citizens from private power - whether it is paramilitaries committing murder and
torture or transnational corporations spreading contamination and pollution.
E. One of the most significant of these is what has come to be called 'globalization', the
collapsing of national boundaries in economic, political and cultural life. From the expanding
role of the world's financial markets and the spread of transnational corporations to the
revolution in communications and information technology, more and more areas of people's lives
are affected by regional, international or transnational developments, whether they are aware of
this or not.
F. Not only must states not infringe rights, and enforce those rights which fall within their direct
sphere (like providing a criminal justice system or holding fair elections), but they also have
'positive obligations' to uphold rights enshrined in human rights treaties, even when it is private
parties which have violated them.
G. The results of its investigations were published in 1 999 in a unique pamphlet on
Globalization, Human Rights and the Rule ofLaw. The issue to be faced is whether to treat these
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regime as states', or whether to look for different approaches to accountability “that are
promulgated by consumer groups and the corporations themselves”.
H. No longer the preserve of representatives of nation states meeting under the auspices of the
United Nations, a developing conversation is taking place on a global scale and involving a
growing cast of people - for an increasing range of pressure groups now frame their aspirations
in human rights terms.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7.

Part 5: The passage below consists of five sections marked A-E. For questions 1-10, read
the passage and do the task that follows. Write your answers (A-E) in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided. (15 pts)
Notorious Art 'Collector' Goes Free
Last week, Brian Barnes was acquitted of stealing a valuable ancient artefact. We asked
some of the key players about the trial.
A. Amelia Ashford (journalist)
I've been covering this case since the night of the robbery. A source from the museum contacted
me and told me that a priceless and irreplaceable ancient Egyptian gold statuette had been stolen.
This was not an opportunistic crime. The perpetrator knew in advance exactly where the guards
would be and had a meticulously crafted scheme for bypassing the museum's security system.
The police investigation soon focused on Mr. Barnes, an art dealer with a shady past. They had
him under surveillance and an undercover officer, posing as a rich art collector, was negotiating
to buy the statuette. Mr. Barnes must have been tipped off, or realised what was going on, and
tried to flee the country. He was arrested at the airport, but this abrupt end to the police operation
meant that, when the case came to court, they didn't have enough evidence to secure a
conviction.
B. Brian Barnes (the defendant)
Justice was done. It's as simple as that. The jury delivered the only possible verdict. To be
honest, I take my hat off to whoever stole that statuette. It was an audacious crime, and the
thieves clearly baffled the police, but I had nothing to do with it. I'm just an honest businessman,
and when the robbery took place, I was at the theatre. Surely, if the police were unable to find
anyone who could corroborate that, that's their fault, not mine. Now, I just want to put this whole
thing behind me. I'm going to take a well-earned holiday, and then I'm looking forward to getting
back to work.
C. Cristina Calviano (prosecution lawyer)
Obviously I'm very disappointed. I felt that we had a solid case against Mr. Barnes, and enough
persuasive arguments to get a conviction. The defendant clearly had the financial means to
mount an extravagant defence, and he took full advantage of that. What really hurt us, though,
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never heard that Mr. Barnes practically admitted stealing the statuette to an undercover police
officer or that we found a partial fingerprint at the scene of the crime that we believe is Mr.
Barnes'. We had to rely on a witness who saw the defendant with an item resembling the
statuette on the night in question, and sadly that wasn't enough to sway the jury in our favour.
Unfortunately, this means that the statuette is now unlikely to ever be recovered.
D. Daniel Dawson (defence barrister)
To begin with, I don't think it befits someone in Ms. Calviano's position to criticise in public the
way the court handled the case. There were good legal reasons why she wasn't allowed to present
the evidence that she mentioned. It's also disingenuous of herto claim that, had this evidence
been included, it would have altered the outcome of the trial. Take, for example, the partial
fingerprint that the police found (which, by the way, was the only tangible evidence that the
prosecution had). The experts disagreed about it, and even the police's forensic scientist admitted
that she wasn't able to state with 100% certainty that it was my client's print. Quite frankly, this
is a case that should never have come to court.
E. Ed Ellis (police detective)
Of course it's a shame, but that's the way it goes. You win some and you lose some. We'll have
to reopen our file on the case now but, after so much time and with no other suspects, I doubt
that my superiors will commit too many resources to it. We think that Barnes managed to pass
the statuette off to an accomplice before he was arrested, but after that the trail goes cold.
The only consolation is that Mr. Barnes doesn't seem like the sort of person who will be able to
keep a low profile. He's on our radar now, and I have a hunch that this won't be his last brush
with the law.

Which person (A—E) does the following?

1. states that the physical evidence in the case was inconclusive
2. believes that reinvestigating the case won’t be the police’s priorities
3. suggests Mr. Barnes may have been warned about the police investigation
4. suspects Mr. Barnes will be in trouble with the police again
5. mentions Mr. Barnes' affluence as his assisting factor
6. expresses admiration for the thieves
7. says that the robbery had been carefully planned
8. complains about a decision made by a court official
9. mentions that Mr. Barnes' alibi could not be confirmed
10. accuses somebody of acting in an unprofessional manner

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your
summary should be about 120 words long. (15 pts)
Teleworking – working remotely from an office – is said to have many benefits for the
environment. Whether you like it or not, it is true to say that work is no longer dependent on
geography and this opens up a range of opportunities for working in new ways and
environments.
Half-time telecommuting could reduce carbon emissions by over 51 million metric tons a
year – the equivalent of taking all of New York’s commuters off the road. Additional carbon
footprint savings will come from reduced office energy, roadway repairs, urban heating, office
construction, business travel, paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper). Although
energy utilization will continue to grow as we expand our industry and improve our standard of
living, efficient use of energy will always be of prime importance. By telecommuting to work
instead of using more conventional methods, there is a great potential to save energy. The three
major areas where energy can be conserved are vehicle-related materials and resources,
highway-related materials and resources, and work-related materials and resources.
A tremendous amount of energy is required to produce transportation equipment such as
automobiles, buses, trains and jet aircraft. If telecommuting is promoted, there will be less use of
this equipment and less energy will be required for production, maintenance and repair of this
equipment. Fuel resources and gasses needed to operate this equipment will be reduced as well.
The building and repair of highways and maintenance requires a large consumption of energy,
not only in the operation of the highway construction and repair equipment but also in the
manufacture and transportation of the required materials. An increase in the percentage of people
telecommuting to work will decrease the need for expanded highways and associated road
maintenance. The first two areas are related to getting to work.
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Part 2: The chart below compares the number of people per household* by percentage in
the UK in 1981 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main
features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write about 150 words.
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Part 3: Write an essay of about 300 words to express your opinion on the following issue.
(30pts)
Some people view conflict between teenagers and parents as a necessary part of growing up,
while others view it as something negative which should be avoided.
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