TRẠI HÈ HÙNG VƯƠNG LẦN THỨ XVII ĐỀ THI HSG TRẠI HÈ HÙNG VƯƠNG

TRƯỜNG THPT CAO BẰNG LẦN THỨ XVII – NĂM 2023

MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI 11
ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT Thời gian: 180 phút
Đề thi gồm: 18 trang
PART A. LISTENING (50 pts)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 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.

Section 1. You will hear an interview with a representative of a wildlife park called Paradise
Wildlife Park. Listen and complete the sentences. WRITE NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers in the space provided.
(20 pts)
Paradise Wildlife Park
Project Life Lion is connected with diseases spread by (1) ________. The Park has created
its own (2) ________ system, and other organizations use it. A wide variety of (3) ________
events (e.g. barbecues) are held at the Park. For charity events, the Park will provide cheap tickets
and (4) ________. The Park’s sister company gives people a chance to be a (5) ________. People
paying to adopt an animal get a (6) ________, a photograph, information about the animal and a
free ticket for two people. People who visit the Park (7) ________ in a year benefit from having a
season ticket. When the weather is cold, visitors can still enjoy using the (8) ________. One of the
Experience Days involves being an (9) ________ for a day. The Park is looking for people to do
customer service and (10) ________ work.

Your answer:

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

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Section 2. Listen to the talk about women in the workplace and answer the following
questions. Write NO MORE THAN FIVE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer
(10 pts)

11. How is the situation for women in the workplace changing?

…..............................................................................................................................
12. In which management role that women constitute 17% of the staff?
…..............................................................................................................................
13. How many percent of employees think that gender equality is a priority?
…..............................................................................................................................
14. What is the action companies should take to understand the problem of gender equality?
…..............................................................................................................................
15. What should companies do to make sure opportunities and advancement are equitable?
…..............................................................................................................................
Section 3. Listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are true (T)
or false (F). (10 pts)
16. The speaker has come from the Theosophical Society.
17. One of the main points of the talk is to save money.
18. She thinks students should do more housework.
19. She argues that plastic containers won’t biodegrade quickly.
20. She warns that asthma sufferers should be careful with her recipes.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Section 4: You will hear part of a radio interview in which the comedian and writer Jane
Clarkson is talking about her. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C, or D) which fits
best according to what you hear. (10 pts)
21. What did Jane find difficult about writing a book ?
A. She couldn’t travel around the country.
B. She didn’t get any instant reaction to her work.
C. She had to spend time looking after her daughter.
D. She found the process itself very challenging.
22. According to Jane, why did some critics dislike her novel ?
A. They didn’t think her book was funny.
B. They were dismissive of her initial success.
C. They though her male colleagues were better writers.
D. They thought she should stick to being a comedian

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23. Which aspect of Jane’s work as a comedian helped her to write ?
A. her patience B. her ability to learn
C. her habit of watching people D. her rational way of thinking
24. According to Jane, how do many people react to female comedians ?
A. They’re convinced women can’t tell jokes.
B. They’re afraid the women will break down.
C. They find women’s humour too intense.
D. They find women’s jokes embarrassing.
25. What was the disadvantage of the stage image which Jane developed?
A. It frightened the audience.
B. It made the audience angry.
C. People thought it reflected her real personality.
D. People did not take her seriously anymore.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

PART B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (30pts)

Section 1. Choose the word or phrase that best fits the gap in each sentence (20 pts)
1. Clinics will be subject to a new ________ of conduct and stronger controls by local authorities.
A. ground B. system C. code D. set
2. Losing my job was________. I would never have found this one if it hadn’t happened.
A. a bone to pick with B. a breath of fresh air
C. a bleeding heart D. a blessing in disguise
3. As soon as he had invested the money, he became uneasy and was beginning to sense________
about his investment.
A. questions B. qualms C. queries D. quavers
4. After _________ in obscurity for many years, her early novels have recently been rediscovered.
A. abolishing B. flourishing C. languishing D. shattering
5. Come on. Spill the ________! What's the big secret?
A. peas B. dust C. milk D. beans
6. They’re planning to ________ down their operation in Greece and concentrate on Eastern
Europe.
A. tie B. wind C. roll D. stretch
7. The luxurious office accentuated the manager's position _________. It enhanced his power and
his sense of his own worth. And it made other people feel small.
A. on the pecking pole B. in the nibbling line
C. at the nipping post D. in the pecking order
8. David still had _________ fat in his cheeks as he entered adolescence, which made him appear
much younger than he really was.
A. piglet B. kitten C. bunny D. puppy

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9. There is no need to ___________ over the cracks, I know you are having problems, just tell me
and I will help you.
A. carpet B. paper C. lay D. curtain
10. With the blistering pace of technological advancements in recent years, both workers and
employers have a myriad of choices, and ________ access to education.
A. exhaustive B. profuse C. bottomless D. unfettered
11. Blake may seem bossy, but it's Lisa that really ________ in that relationship.
A. fills their boots B. puts a sock
C. gets their knickers D. wears the trousers
12. It is no surprise that this story has ________ in our office after Daisy was told about it.
A. given a buzz B. ridden high C. done the rounds D. rung the bell
13. The immigrants from this country will not be given the right of ________ in Britain when the
new legislation comes into force.
A. abode B. abbess C. baptism D. lodging
14. I was scared ________ when I looked down from the top of the cliff.
A. tight B. stiff C. hard D. solid
15. The President has gotten used to being ________ by his political opponents whenever a new
policy is proposed.
A. blasted off B. ripped off C. zonked out D. sniped at
16. The endless parade of _________ on TV has made today’s young girls obsessed with their
bodies.
A. celebrities enhancing surgically B. surgically enhanced celebrities
C. surgical celebrities enhanced D. enhanced surgically celebrities
17. Don’t worry, it’s just a difficult stage. She’ll _________ it.
A. get on with it B. get through to C. get up to D. grow out of
18. The more expensive carpet is a good choice ________ it will last longer.
A. in that B. due to C. by means of D. in view of
19. After hours and hours trying to solve the problem, I was at my ________ end.
A. nerves’ B. wits’ C. humours’ D. tethers’
20. Many Americans refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a(n) ________ disputable
anachronism.
A. academically B. cerebrally C. cognitively D. intellectually
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Section 2. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in each sentence. (10 pts)
1. Recovering from the serious car accident will be an ________ battle for her, but she’s doing
well. HILL

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2. New immigrants have been successfully ________ into the community. SIMILAR
3. The company decided to hire an ________ with marketing experience in an effort to revive its
business after the economic recession. OUT
4. At last, ________ and weary, they gave up the search. SPIRIT
5. He was accused of taking the radio station ________ in order to compete with commercial
stations. DOWN
6. The residences ________ by the deluge were built in a neighborhood known as El Cambray II
near the bottom of a ravine. GULF
7. Many architects pay lip service to the idea that good design can and should _________ the lives
of average people not blessed with bountiful wealth. NOBLE
8. The story broadens the horizon of the children about their ________. BEAR
9. I met my old friend at the supermarket this morning, which was quite ________. FORTUNE
10. She contracted this _______ disease while she was abroad on holiday. WATER
Your answers:

1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

PART C. READING (60 pts)

Section 1. Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage (10 pts)

FOOTBALL AS AN ART FORM

When filmmakers Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno set out to make an art house movie about
the legendary French footballer Zinedine Zidane, they chose to film just one match between Real
Madrid, the club for which he was playing at the (1) …..............., and their great rivals Villareal.
But instead of following the progress of the match, the ninety-minute film would show something
that had not been seen before; the (2) …............... detailed movements of one man during an entire
top-level football match. They hoped that the audience would disengage from the match itself, and
focus on this portrait of greatness. Every (3) …............... gesture would be captured and they
would see all of the player’s grace, athleticism and competitiveness in great detail.

The film (4) …............... is a fascinating work. Those who are not regular watchers of football
will be astonished at how (5) …............... Zidane becomes actively involved in the game. For
much of the ninety minutes he moves around the field relatively slowly; saying nothing,
expressing even less, and only occasionally (6) …............... into a lethargic jog. And then the ball
arrives at his feet, and there is a flurry of bewildering activity. The cameras (and there are
seventeen of them (7) …............... on him) struggle to keep up. The defenders don’t (8)
…............... a chance. In a few touches, a couple of checks and feints, Zidane has (9) …...............

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them all behind. He crosses from the tightest of (10) …............... and his teammate is left with
simplest of headers to score a goal.

(Adapted from CAE Practice Tests Plus/88)

1. A. point B. moment C. time D. occasion

2. A. clear B. steady C. precise D. slow
3. A. one B. single C. lone D. sole
4. A. following B. resulting C. concluding D. arising
5. A. partly B. scarcely C. rarely D. hardly
6. A. breaking B. changing C. opening D. starting
7. A. trained B. looking C. pointed D. staring
8. A. gain B. hold C. stand D. earn
9. A. missed B. left C. lost D. dropped
10. A. places B. positions C. areas D. angles
Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Section 2. Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only
ONE WORD for each space. Write your answer in the space provided (10 pts)

Moths count!

Renowned conservationist Sir David Attenborough is launching a campaign today called

‘Moths Count’, to halt the drastically declining number of Britain’s native moths and improve
their poor image. A report (1) …............... ‘The State of Britain’s Larger Moths’ revealed last year
that in some areas, the moth population has almost (2) …............... since 1968. This has led the
charity, ‘Butterfly Conservation’, of which Sir David is president, to develop a new strategy
which will provide opportunities for real (3) …............... to broaden their (4) …............... and also
generate appreciation among the wider public. Moths, he insists, play an essential role in the
environment. Their loss (5) …............... the species of birds, bats and small mammals that (6)
…............... on them, and the plants they (7) …............... ‘Moths Count’ campaigner Richard Fox
says ‘Currently there’s an image problem, partly because there’s a (8) …............... that moths are
night creatures, although many are day-flying and only about half a dozen of Britain’s 2500
species damage clothes.’ Reasons for their decline include climate change and the loss of habitat.
Although the (9) …............... of moths has increased with the establishment of new species in
Britain, overall their numbers have dropped, and for some, extinction now seems sadly (10)
…...............
Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Section 3. Read the text and do the task as follow (10 pts)
The Farmers! Parade of history

A. History of Fanner trading company: In 1909 Robert Laidlaw establishes mail-order company
Laidlaw Leeds in Fort Street, Auckland. Then, Branch expansion: purchase of Green and
Colebrook chain store; further provincial stores in Auckland and Waikato to follow. Opening of
first furniture and boot factory. In 1920, Company now has 29 branches; Whangarei store
purchased. Doors open at Hobson Street for direct selling to public. The firm establishes London
and New York buying offices. With permission from the Harbour Board, the Large FARMERS
electric sign on the Wyndham Street frontage is erected.

B. In 1935, if the merchandise has changed, the language of the catalogues hasn't Robert Laidlaw,
the Scottish immigrant who established die century-old business, might have been scripting a
modern-day television commercial when he told his earliest customers: Satisfaction, or your
money back. "It was the first money back guarantee ever offered in New Zealand any firm," says
Ian Hunter, business historian. "And his mission statement was, potentially, only the second one
ever found in the world." Laidlaw's stated aims were simple to build the greatest business in New
Zealand, to simplify every transaction, to eliminate all delays, to only sell goods it would pay the
customer to buy.

C. This year, the company that began as a mail-order business and employs 3500 staff across 58
stores turns 100. Its centenary will be celebrated withe release of a book and major community
fundraising project, to be announced next week. Hunter, who is writing the centenary history, says
in every 10 people had an account with die company. It was the place where teenage girl shopped
for their first bra, where newlyweds purchased their first dinner sets, where first pay cheques were
used to pay off hire purchase furniture, where Santa paraded every Christmas.

D. Gary Blumenthal's mother shopped there, and so does he. The fondest memory for the Rotorua
resident? "We were on holiday in Auckland... I decided that upon the lookout tower on top of the
Farmers building would be a unique place to fit the ring on my new fiancee’s finger." The
lovebirds, who had to wait for "an annoying youth" to leave the tower before they could enjoy
their engagement kiss, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in June.

E. Farmers, say Hunter, has always had a heart. This, from a 1993 North & South interview with a
former board chairman, Rawdon Busfield: " One day I was in the Hobson Street shop, and I saw a
woman with two small children. They were clean and tidily dressed, but poor, you could tell. That
week we had a special on a big bar of chocolate for one shilling. I heard the woman say to her
boy, 'no, your penny won't buy that'. He wasn't wearing shoes. So I went up to the body said,' Son,
have you got your penny?' He handed it to me. It was hot he'd had it in his hand for hours. I took
the penny and gave him the chocolate.

F. Farmers was once the home of genteel tearooms, children's playground and an annual sale of
celebration for birthday of Hector the Parrot (the store mascot died, aged 131, in the 1970s his
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stuffed remains still occupy pride of place at the company's head office). You could buy houses
from Farmers. Its saddle factory supplied the armed forces, and its upright grand overstrung
pianos offered "the acme of value" according to those early catalogues hand-drawn by Robert
Laidlaw himself. Walk through a Farmers store today and get hit by bright lights and big brands.
Its Albany branch houses 16 international cosmetics companies. It buys from approximately 500
suppliers, and about 30% of those are locally owned.

G. "Eight, 10 years ago," says current chief executive Rod McDermott, "lots of brands wouldn't
partner with us. The stores were quite distressed. We were first price point focused, we weren't
fashion focused. "Removed the rose-tinted nostalgia, and Farmers is, quite simply, a business,
doing business in hard times. Dancing with the Stars presenter Candy Lane launches a clothing
line? "We put a trial on, and we thought it was really lovely, but the uptake wasn't what we
thought it would be. It's got to be what the customer wants" says McDermott.

H. He acknowledges retailers suffer in a recession: "We're celebrating 100 years because we can
and because we should" Farmers almost didn't pull though one economic crisis. By the mid 1980s,
it had stores across the country. It had acquired the South Island's Calder Mackay chain of stores
and bought out Haywrights. Then, with sale topping $375 million, it was taken over by Chase
Corporation. Lincoln Laidlaw, now aged 88, and the son of the company's founder, remembers the
dark days following the stock market crash and the collapse of Chase. "I think, once, Farmers was
like a big family and all of the people who worked for it felt they were building something which
would ultimately be to their benefit and to the benefit of New Zealand... then the business was
being divided up and so that kind of family situation was dispelled and it hasn't been recovered."
For a turbulent few years, the stores were controlled, first by a consortium of Australian banks and
later Deka, the Maori Development Corporation and Foodland Associated Ltd. In 2003, it went
back to "family" ownership. with the purchase by the James Pascoe Group, owned by David and
Anne Norman the latter being the great-granddaughter of James Pascoe, whose first business
interest was jewellery.

I. "Sheer power of the brand", says McDermott," pulled Farmers through and now we're becoming
the brand it used to be again." Farmers was the company that, during World War n, topped up the
wages of any staff member disadvantaged by overseas service. Robert Laidlaw a committed
Christian who came to his faith at a 1902 evangelistic service in Dunedin concluded his original
mission statement with the words, "all at it, always it, win success". Next week, 58 Farmers stores
across the country will announce the local charities they will raise funds for in their centenary
celebration everything from guide dog services to hospices to volunteer fire brigades will benefit
Every dollar raised by the community will be matched by the company. "It's like a rebirth of an
icon," says McDermott.

Question 1-5
The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-I

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Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct A-I, in boxes provided.

1. Generosity offered in an occasion.

2. Innovation of offer made by the head of company.

3. Fashion was not its strong point.

4. A romantic event on the roof of farmers.

5. Farmers were sold to a private owned company.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Question 6-10
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage
Using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.

6. Farmers was first founded as a 36 ______ in Auckland by Mr Laidlaw.

7. Farmers developed fast and bought one 37______ then.

8. During oversea expansion, Farmers set up 38______ in cities such as London.

9. Farmers held a 39 ______once a year for the well-known parrot.

10. In the opinion of Lincoln Laidlaw, Farmers is like a 40______ for employees, not just for
themselves but for the whole country.

Your answers:

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Section 4. Read the following passage and answer the questions. (20 pts)
The history of aspirin is a product of a rollercoaster ride through time, of accidental
discoveries, intuitive reasoning and intense corporate rivalry.
A.
In the opening pages of Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder
Drug, Diarmuid Jeffreys describes this little white pill as ‘one of the most amazing creations in
medical history, a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve headache, ease your aching
limbs, lower your temperature and treat some of the deadliest human diseases’.
B.
Its properties have been known for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian physicians used
extracts from the willow tree as an analgesic, or pain killer. Centuries later the Greek physician
Hippocrates recommended the bark of the willow tree as a remedy for the pains of childbirth and
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as a fever reducer. But it wasn't until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that salicylates the
chemical found in the willow tree became the subject of serious scientific investigation. The race
was on to identify the active ingredient and to replicate it synthetically. At the end of the
nineteenth century a German company, Friedrich Bayer & Co. succeeded in creating a relatively
safe and very effective chemical compound, acetylsalicylic acid, which was renamed aspirin.
C.
The late nineteenth century was a fertile period for experimentation, partly because of the
hunger among scientists to answer some of the great scientific questions, but also because those
questions were within their means to answer. One scientist in a laboratory with some chemicals
and a test tube could make significant breakthroughs whereas today, in order to map the human
genome for instance, one needs ‘an army of researchers, a bank of computers and millions and
millions of dollars’.
D.
But an understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry is not enough on its
own to explain how society innovates. In the nineteenth century, scientific advance was closely
linked to the industrial revolution. This was a period when people frequently had the means,
motive and determination to take an idea and turn it into reality. In the case of aspirin that
happened piecemeal - a series of minor, often unrelated advances, fertilised by the century’s
broader economic, medical and scientific developments, that led to one big final breakthrough.
E.
The link between big money and pharmaceutical innovation is also a significant one.
Aspirin’s continued shelf life was ensured because for the first 70 years of its life, huge amounts
of money were put into promoting it as an ordinary everyday analgesic. In the 1970s other
analgesics, such as ibuprofen and paracetamol, were entering the market, and the pharmaceutical
companies then focused on publicising these new drugs. But just at the same time, discoveries
were made regarding the beneficial role of aspirin in preventing heart attacks, strokes and other
afflictions. Had it not been for these findings, this pharmaceutical marvel may well have
disappeared.
F.
So the relationship between big money and drugs is an odd one. Commercial markets are
necessary for developing new products and ensuring that they remain around long enough for
scientists to carry out research on them. But the commercial markets are just as likely to kill off'
certain products when something more attractive comes along. In the case of aspirin, a potential
‘wonder drug’ was around for over 70 years without anybody investigating the way in which it
achieved its effects, because they were making more than enough money out of it as it was. If
ibuprofen or paracetamol had entered the market just a decade earlier, aspirin might then not be
here today. It would be just another forgotten drug that people hadn't bothered to explore.
G.
None of the recent discoveries of aspirin's benefits were made by the big pharmaceutical
companies; they were made by scientists working in the public sector. 'The reason for that is very
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simple and straightforward,' Jeffreys says in his book. 'Drug companies will only pursue research
that is going to deliver financial benefits. There's no profit in aspirin any more. It is incredibly
inexpensive with tiny profit margins and it has no patent any more, so anyone can produce it.' In
fact, there's almost a disincentive for drug companies to further boost the drug, he argues, as it
could possibly put them out of business by stopping them from selling their more expensive
brands.
H.
So what is the solution to a lack of commercial interest in further exploring the therapeutic
benefits of aspirin? More public money going into clinical trials, says Jeffreys. ‘If I were the
Department of Health. I would say “this is a very inexpensive drug. There may be a lot of other
things we could do with it." We should put a lot more money into trying to find out.'
I.
Jeffreys' book which not only tells the tale of a 'wonder drug' but also explores the nature
of innovation and the role of big business, public money and regulation reminds us why such
research is so important.
Questions 1-5. The Reading Passage has 9 paragraphs A-I.
Choose the correct heading for each paragraph (A-E) from the list of headings below.
Write the correct number (i-x) in boxes 1-5.
List of headings:
i. The most powerful analgesic 1. Paragraph A
ii. The profit potential of aspirin 2. Paragraph B
iii. Saved from oblivion by drug companies 3. Paragraph C
iv. Recognition of an important medicinal property 4. Paragraph D
v. A double-edged sword 5. Paragraph E
vi. An unstructured pattern of development
vii. Major pharmaceutical companies
viii. A wonder drug
ix. Roots of the scientific advancements in the 19th
century
x. The discovery of new medical applications

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

Questions 6-10
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage?
In boxes 6-10 write:
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
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6. The 19th century saw significant changes in the way in which scientific experiments were
carried out.
7. For nineteenth-century scientists, small-scale research was far from enough to make important
discoveries.
8. The creation of a market for aspirin as a painkiller was achieved through commercial
advertising campaigns.
9. In the 1970s sales of new analgesic drugs overtook sales of aspirin.
10. Jeffrey suggests that there should be state support for further research into the possible
applications of aspirin.
Your answers
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Section 5. You are going to read an article about the design of new stations on the London
Underground railway system. For questions 1-10, choose from the sections of the article (A-D).
The sections may be chosen more than once. (1.0 point)

In which section of the article are the following mentioned?

1. a fundamental question concerning the function of stations in underground systems
2. an explanation Paoletti gave for why certain comments about the new buildings were incorrect
3. Paoletti’s desire to unite elements that had previously been seen as wholly different from each
other
4. personal qualities that enabled Paoletti to tackle the JLE project successfully
5. parts of a station architects were not responsible for in the past
6. Paoletti’s opinion of those previously responsible for designing station
7. the previously unattractive nature of the locations of most of the stations
8. a comparison Paoletti made to illustrate his approach to the JLE project
9. the immediate and massive effect that one of the stations had on its surroundings
10. a description that Paoletti considered not to be wholly accurate

Roland Paoletti
An architect who revolutionized the lives of London’s commuters.
A
Roland Paoletti was the driving force behind the dramatic, award-winning stations on the £3
billion Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) to the London Underground system, the most ambitious
building programme on the Tube for many decades. An irascible Anglo-Italian, Paoletti possessed
the persuasiveness and tenacity to take on the vested political interests at play in the planning of
the 10-mile Jubilee Line Extension to ensure good design and innovation. Historically, architects

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employed on Tube projects had been restricted to ‘fitting out’ the designs of railway and civil
engineers with few or no aesthetic concerns, and whom Paoletti dismissed as visionless ‘trench-
diggers. The Jubilee line would be unique in that for the first time the architects would be
responsible for designing entire underground stations.
B
As the commissioning architect in overall charge, Paoletti’s approach was to let light flood down
into the stations along the line. The project’s centrepiece was the extraordinary huge new station
at Canary Wharf, designed by Norman Foster and Partners to handle up to 40,000 passengers an
hour at peak times. ‘Everybody keeps saying that it’s like a cathedral; complained Paoletti.
‘They’re wrong. It actually is a cathedral: Explaining his approach to designing underground
stations, Paoletti likened the Jubilee line to architectural free-form jazz, the stations responding to
their different contexts as dramatic variations on a theme. Instead of uniformity, Paoletti
envisaged variety achieved in the beauty of raw materials like concrete, and the architectural
power of simple, large spaces for robust and practical stations.
C
He procured the most talented individual architects he could find to design 11 new stations along
the line, creating a unique variety of architectural statement pieces – notably different but all
beautiful – in what had been a largely desolate stretch of urban east London. ‘For the price of an
underground ticket; he promised, ‘you will see some of the greatest contributions to engineering
and architecture worldwide’ Paoletti’s sweeping vision did not disappoint. With their swagger and
individualism, the stations have been widely acclaimed as a tour de force in public transport
architecture.
D
In pressing for a seamless marriage between architecture and engineering, Paoletti was concerned
to make the stations pleasing to the eye, and the daily grind of commuters using them as uplifting
an experience as possible. The result was generally reckoned to be the finest set of stations since
the classic designs for the Piccadilly line by Charles Holden in the 1930s. In Holden’s day, design
stopped at the top of the escalators leading down to the platforms, a symptom of the Tube’s
tradition of treating architecture and engineering as separate disciplines. From the start, Paoletti
promised ‘a symbiosis of architecture and engineering’ throughout. This is particularly evident at
Westminster station, where Michael Hopkins solved structural difficulties by designing fantastic
supporting structures redolent of science-fiction – what Paoletti called ‘engineering that expresses
itself as architecture… in which people can delight.’
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He wanted the designs of the JLE stations to have a uniformity of voice, or, as he put it, ‘a
philosophical uniformity’. Paoletti contrasted the drama of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s
design for Southwark station with the vast glass drum of Ron Herron’s Canada Water station,
intended as a response to the area’s bleakness, ‘a big, splendid beacon that has transformed the
area from a wasteland almost overnight’ To critics who complained about the expense of these

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grand designs, Paoletti pointed out that the same cut-and-cover, box-station design that allowed
his architects a free hand with their various structures also saved London Underground millions in
tunnelling costs. ‘In any case, he noted, ‘you have to decide at the beginning whether you’re going
to see an underground station as a kind of vehicular underpass that happens to have people in it, or
whether it’s a building; a building with some other kind of job to do, like making people
comfortable.’
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART D. WRITING (60pts)

Section 1. Read the following passage and use your own words to summarize it. Your
summary should be between 100 and 120 words. (15 pts)

Buying things today is so simple. Just enter a shop, say a book store, choose the desired
book and pay for it. Long ago, before the invention of money, how did people trade? The most
primitive way of exchange should be the barter trade. In this form of transaction, people used
goods to exchange for the things that they had in mind. For instance, if person A wanted a book
and he had a spare goat, he must look for someone who had the exact opposite, that is, that
someone, say person B, must have a spare book of person A's choice and is also in need of a goat.
Having found such a person, the problem does not end here. A big goat may worth not only one
book, hence person B may have to offer person A something else, say five chickens.

However, he runs the risk of person A rejecting the offer as he may not need the chickens.
The above example clearly illustrates the inefficiency of barter trading. Many years later, the
cumbersome barter trade finally gave way to the monetary form of exchange when the idea of
money was invented. In the early days, almost anything could qualify as money: beads, shells and
even fishing hooks. Then in a region near Turkey, gold coins were used as money. In the
beginning, each coin had a different denomination. It was only later, in about 700 BC, that Gyges,
the king of Lydia, standardized the value of each coin and even printed his name on the coins.
Monetary means of transaction at first beat the traditional barter trade. However, as time
went by, the thought of carrying a ponderous pouch of coins for shopping appeared not only
troublesome but thieves attracting. Hence, the Greek and Roman traders who bought goods from
people faraway cities, invented checks to solve the problem. Not only are paper checks easy to
carry around, they discouraged robbery as these checks can only be used by the person whose
name is printed on the notes. Following this idea, banks later issued notes in exchange for gold
deposited with them. These bank notes can then be used as cash. Finally, governments of today
adopted the idea and began to print paper money, backed by gold for the country's use.
Today, besides enjoying the convenience of using paper notes as the mode of exchange,
technology has led man to invent other means of transaction too like the credit and cash cards.

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countries from 1997 to 2010. Summarize the information and Write at least 150 words.
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Some people think that the best way to become successful in life is to get a university
education, while others disagree and say this is no longer true nowadays.
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