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Brigid's attitude towards it was uncharacteristic of her. C. Brigid placed too much emphasis on it in her life. D. Few people have the right attitude towards it. 3. What does Brigid say about her reaction to her coach's advice on money? A. She felt silly repeating the words her coach gave her. B. She tried to hide the fact that she found it ridiculous. C. She felt a lot better as a result of following it. D. She found it difficult to understand at first. 4 | Khai ging dinh ky cac lop HSG A‘, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 4. What does Brigid say happened during the other sessions? A. She was told that most people's problems had the same cause. B, Her powers of concentration improved. C. Some things she was told to do proved harder than others. D. She began to wonder why her problems had arisen in the first place. 5. What has Brigid concluded? ‘A. The benefits of coaching do not compensate for the effort required. B. She was too unselfish before she had coaching. C. She came to expect too much of her coach. D. Itis best to limit the number of coaching sessions you have. Listen to a talk about ethical concerns with artificial whether these statements are True (T), False (F). itelligence and decide 1. People tend to be oblivious to the moral issues associated 01 Oo with artificial intelligence in the research stage. 2. Video tracking can be deployed to speed up recovery from oa injuries. 3. A handful of giants have become the dominant overlords in Qo the realm of artificial intelligence. 4. — Artificial intelligence is intended to harm human society as it Qo Oo does not share human values. 5. Machines are vulnerable to biases from the data introduced = a by their human makers. Listen to a talk about pandemic diseases and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided. TOP 5 DEADLIEST PANDEMIC DISEASES ‘Smallpox * first emerged around 400BC * caused (1). all over the body «the only disease declared to be (2) 5 | Khai gidng dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 BEN LOP 12 Bubonic Plague «also known as the (3) * caused by a bacterium spread by (4). : Bye seseeneenn Called buboes, occurred in the body The Spanish Flu ‘* began and ended in a (6)... * filled the lungs of patients with (7 a Malaria Tai FREE tai fanpage: “HOC VOI OTTO CHANNEL” Luyén thi Chuyén & HSG categorized as a blood disease © caused by (8) 00. * Anopheles mosquitoes would (9)... the next person they bite HIV/AIDS _. infected blood and pass it on to. * often sexually transmitted © HIV(10)0 the immune system Listen to the introduction about Manham Port and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. 1. What caused Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution? Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed? P What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century? r t ‘What did the Manham Trust hope to do? What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school? er eles 6 | Khai giang dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU’ LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 LEXICO AND GRAMMAR Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. 1. The science teacher asked the class to . on a graph A. draw B. illustrate C. plot D. sketch the results of their experiment 2. She's sucha. of strength that everyone relies on her in a crisis. A. tower B. pillar C. post D. support 3. Tomwas able to... a pretty picture of the situation and impressed his manager | A. paint B. draw C. present D. make 4. It is far too easy to lay the blame ___ on the shoulders of the management. A. flatly B. willingly C. squarely D. perfectly 5. David has. a(n)... .u..t0 fainting at the sight of blood. A. inclination B. predilection —_C. predisposition D. penchant 6. The school committee paid. to their famous former pupil by naming the new gym after her. A. esteem B. homage C. honour D. respect 7. _ After his long illness, the old man appeared so thin and that a gust of wind might have blown him away. A. flimsy B. faint C. withered D. frail 8. You could tell that she wasn't happy about the news by the way she __ face in disapproval. A. came on B. brought round C. settled for D. screwed up 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. _.@ language family is a group of languages with a common origin and similar vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems. A. Linguists call it B. Itis callled by linguists C. What linguists call D. What do linguists call 11. the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather. A. Leaving uncovered B. Having left uncovered C. Left uncovered D. Been left uncovered 7 | Khai giang dinh ky cc lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 12. The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly note. A. disembodied —_B. discordant —C. dismissive _D.. disconcerting 13. Both of the jobs I've been offered are fantastic opportunities — I'm in such ___! A. aconstituency B. adeviation C. anarshythmiaD. a quandary 14. Sharon is such a positive person — she .__. her problems, whatever they are. A. goes light on B. throws light to C. makes light of D. sheds light upon 15. The brother and sister were . ‘over who would get to inherit the beach house. A. at large B. at odds C. atastandstill D. ata loose end 16... that Kim was getting married, we were sorry she'd be leaving home. A. Delighted though we were B. As we were delighted C. However delighted were we D. As we were so delighted 17. Peter's so..........1 I think he'd think things through a little more carefully. A. impulsive B. repulsive C. compulsive —_D. expulsive 18. I've yet __.a person as Theo. A. to meet as infuriating B. to have met such infuriating C. been meeting as infuriating D. been meeting such infuriating 19. Sniffer dogs are able to locate survivors beneath the rubble with A. precision B. correctness C. meticulousness D. exactitude 20. The locks to the doors of the building are controlled. i A. mainly B. centrally C. solidly D. completely WORD FORM ‘Supply the correct form of the word provided in blankets in each sentence. * Complaining consists of (1. SOCIAL) which leads to (2. TRUST) relationships. * Thanks to plentiful fish, none of the islanders suffer from (3. NUTRIENT) cisninee, MOaning and groaning nd_ unnecessary arguments within * Iwas at a difficult point of my life when | felt (4. ILLUSION) both work and home life 8 | Khai gidng dinh ky cdc lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 BEN LOP 12 * | talked to various friends, most of whom soon got tired of my (5. WHIMSY) . .. rambling and indecisiveness. * _ Itis estimated that between three to five million Britons suffer from such phobias, and the majority of these people do not (GO)............... form of treatment. * Men are less likely to suffer from such fears than women, but attempts by either men or women simply to(REGARD)........them can exacerbate the problem, * Behavioral therapy is decidedly a safe and lasting (ALTERNATE)... to drug treatment. * What contributes to her business success is that she always (WIT)... her * opponent * Many streets in Hanoi were flooded and (PASS), after it had rained for 2 hours on end. CLOZE TEST Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD for each space. SEASON AND BABY SIZE People born in certain months of the year tend to be taller than those born in others. This discovery was (1 in a recent study carried out at the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen. The researchers looked at the height and weight details (2) . birth of over a million Danes born in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and found that a child born in Aprilis, on average, nearly two centimeters taller than one born in December. As (3) . _. a8 being taller, the April baby is also likely to be heavier, and the Odds (4). nsnsnaen. that he or she will remain bigger throughout life. The study also shows that (5). children born in December tend to be the smallest, the size of those bom in June and July is also well below (6) . of the April babies. In these two midsummer months, however, the difference in height and weight is only half as much as in midwinter. Similar results (7) these emerged from a separate study in Australia. There they found that by the time children reached 18, the gap between the April and the December ones had increased to about five centimeters. 9 | Khai giang dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 BEN LOP 12 Another seasonal variation that (8) _...to light concemed actual birth dates. Winter babies, it was discovered, were born an average of one day earlier than spring, summer or autumn babies. In (9). __ of these studies were scientists able to explain these differences. In both cases they called (10) . _.. further research into the subject Tai FREE tai fanpage: READING COMPREHENSION “HQC VOI OTTO CHANNEL” Task 4 Luyén thi Chuyén & HSG For questions 1-10, read an extract from an article and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits best according to the text. Green Iceberg Icebergs are massive blocks of ice, irregular in shape; they float with only about 12 per cent of their mass above the sea surface. They are formed by glaciers - large rivers of ice that begin inland in the snows of Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska - and move slowly toward the sea. The forward movement, the melting at the base of the glacier where it meets the ocean, and waves and tidal action cause blocks of ice to break off and float out to sea. Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. [A] However, travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. [B] One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs stand out among white and blue icebergs under a great variety of light conditions. [C] Another suggestion is that the colour might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds, including copper and iron. [D] Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples provide a different solution to the problem. 10 | Khai giang dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 The ice shelf cores, with a total length of 215 meters (705 feet), were long enough to penetrate through glacial ice—which is formed from the compaction of snow and contains air bubbles—and to continue into the clear, bubble-free ice formed from seawater that freezes onto the bottom of the glacial ice. The properties of this clear sea ice were very similar to the ice from the green iceberg. The scientists concluded that green icebergs form when a two-layer block of shelf ice breaks away and capsizes (tums upside down), exposing the bubble-free shelt ice that was formed from seawater. A green iceberg that stranded just west of the Amery Ice Shelf showed two distinct layers: bubbly bluewhite ice and bubble-free green ice separated by a onemeter-long ice layer containing sediments. The green ice portion was textured by seawater erosion. Where cracks were present, the colour was light green because of light scattering: where no cracks were present, the colour was dark green. No air bubbles were present in the green ice, suggesting that the ice was not formed from the compression of snow but instead from the freezing of seawater. Large concentrations of single-celled organisms with green pigments (colouring substances) occur along the edges of the ice shelves in this region, and the seawater is rich in their decomposing organic material. The green iceberg did not contain large amounts of particles from these organisms, but the ice had accumulated dissolved organic matter from the seawater. Itappears that unlike salt, dissolved organic substances are not excluded from the ice in the freezing process. Analysis shows that the dissolved organic material absorbs. enough blue wavelengths from solar light to make the ice appear green Chemical evidence shows that platelets (minute flat portions) of ice form in the water and then accrete and stick to the bottom of the ice shelf to form a slush (partially melted snow). The slush is compacted by an unknown mechanism, and solid, bubble-free ice is formed from water high in soluble organic substances. When an iceberg separates from the ice shelf and capsizes, the green ice is exposes. The Amery Ice Shelf appears to be uniquely suited to the production of green icebergs. Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica’s less colourful icebergs. 1 According to paragraph 1, all of the following are true of icebergs EXCEPT: A. They do not have a regular shape B. They are formed where glaciers meet the ocean. C. Most of their mass is above the sea surface. D. Waves and tides cause them to break off glaciers. 11 | Khai gidng dinh ky céc lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 BEN LOP 12 2. According to paragraph 2, what causes icebergs to sometimes appear dark or opaque? A. Aheavy cloud cover B. The presence of gravel or bits of rock C. The low angle of the Sun above the horizon D. The presence of large cracks in their surface 3. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the the bolded sentence in paragraph 3? A. One explanation notes that green icebergs stand out among other icebergs under a great variety of light conditions, but this is attributed to an optical illusion. B. One explanation for the colour of green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical illusion that occurs when the light from a near-horizon red Sun shines on a blue iceberg, C. One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to a great variety of light conditions, but green icebergs stand out best among other icebergs when illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun. D. One explanation attributes the colour of green icebergs to an optical illusion under special light conditions, but green icebergs appear distinct from other icebergs under a great variety of light conditions. 4. According to paragraph 4, how is glacial ice formed? A. By the compaction of snow B. By the freezing of seawater on the bottom of ice shelves. C. By breaking away from the ice shelf D. By the capsizing of a two-layer block of shelf ice 5. Ice shelf cores helped scientists explain the formation of green icebergs by showing that A. the ice at the bottom of green icebergs is bubble-free ice formed from frozen seawater B. bubble-free ice is found at the top of the ice shelf C. glacial ice is lighter and floats better than sea ice D. the clear sea ice at the bottom of the ice shelf is similar to ice from a green iceberg 12 | Khai giang dinh ky céc lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 6. Why does the author mention that “The green ice portion was textured by seawater erosion"? A. To explain why cracks in the iceberg appeared light green instead of dark green B. To suggest that green ice is more easily eroded by seawater than white ice is C. To support the idea that the green ice had been the bottom layer before capsizing D. To explain how the air bubbles had been removed from the green ice fa BL 7. Which of the following is NOT explained in the passage? A. Why blocks of ice break off where glaciers meet the ocean B. Why blocks of shelf ice sometimes capsize after breaking off C. Why green icebergs are commonly produced in some parts of Antarctica £ E 3 & a $s D. Why green icebergs contain large amounts of dissolved organic pigments 8. The passage supports which of the following statements about the Amery Io Shelf? A. The Amery Ice Shelf produces only green icebergs. B. The Amery Ice Shelf produces green icebergs because its ice contains high levels of metallic compounds such as copper and iron. C. The Amery Ice Shelf produces green icebergs because the seawater is rich in a particular kind of soluble organic material. D. No green icebergs are found far from the Amery Ice Sheff. 9. Scientists have differed as to whether icebergs appear green as a result of light conditions or because of something in the ice itself. Where would the sentence best fit? ATA] B. [8] c.[c] D. [D) 10. Several logical suggestions have been offered to explain why some icebergs appear green EXCEPT A. Ice cores were used to determine that green icebergs were formed from the compaction of metallic compounds, including copper and iron B. Green icebergs form when a two-layer block of ice breaks away from a glacier and capsizes, exposing the bottom sea ice to view. C. Ice cores and samples revealed that both ice shelves and green icebergs contain a layer of bubbly glacial ice and a layer of bubble-free sea ice. D. Ina green iceberg, the sea ice contains large concentrations of organic matter from the seawater. 43 | Khai gidng dinh ky céc lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 Task 2 Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. DOES WATER HAVE MEMORY? The practice of homeopathy was first developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. During research in the 1790s, Hahnemann began experimenting with quinine, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark that was well known at the time to have a positive effect on fever. Hahnemann started dosing himself with quinine while in a state of good health, and reported in his journals that his extremities went cold, he experienced palpitations, an “infinite anxiety’, a trembling and weakening of the limbs, reddening cheeks and thirst — “in short’, he concluded, “all the symptoms of relapsing fever presented themselves successively...” Hahnemann’s main observation was that things which create problems for healthy people cure those problems in sick people, and this became his first principle of homeopathy: simila similibus (with help from the same). While diverging from the principle of apothecary practice at the time — which was contraria contrariis (with help from the opposite) — the efficacy of simila similibus was reaffirmed by subsequent developments in the field of vaccinations. Hahnemann's second principle was minimal dosing — treatments should be taken in the most diluted form at which they remain effective. This negated any possible toxic effects of simila similibus. In 1988 the French immunologist Jacques Benveniste took minimal dosing to new extremes when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in which he suggested that very high dilutions of the anti-ige antibody could affect human basophil granulocytes, the least common of the granulocytes that make up about 0.01% to 0.3% of white blood cells. The point of controversy, however, was that the water in Benveniste’s test had been so diluted that any molecular evidence of the antibodies no longer existed. Water molecules, the researcher concluded, had a biologically active component that a journalist later termed ‘water memory”. A number of efforts from scientists in Britain, France and the Netherlands to duplicate Benveniste's research were unsuccessful, however, and to this day no peer-reviewed study under broadly accepted conditions has been able to confirm the validity of “water memory”. The third principle of homeopathy is “the single remedy.” Exponents of this principle believe that it would be too difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the potential effects of multiple homeopathic remedies delivered simultaneously. If it did work, they suggest, ‘one could not know quite why it worked, turning homeopathy into an ambiguous guessing game. If it did not work, neither patient nor practitioner would know whether 14 | Khai giding dinh ky cac lbp HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 BEN LOP 12 the ingredients were all ineffective, or whether they were only ineffective in combination with one another. Combination remedies are gaining in popularity, but classical homeopaths who rely on the single remedy approach warn these are not more potent, nor do they provide more treatment options. The availability of combination remedies, these homeopaths suggest, has been led by consumers wanting more options, not from homeopathic research indicating their efficacy. Homeopathy is an extremely contentious form of medicine, with strong assertions coming from both critics and supporters of the practice. ‘Homeopathy: There's nothing in it” announces the tagline to 10:23, a major British anti-homeopathy campaign. At 10.23 A. m. on 30 January 2010, over 400 supporters of the 10:23 stood outside Boots pharmacies and swallowed an entire bottle each of homeopathic pills in an attempt to raise awareness about the fact that these remedies are made of sugar and water, with no active components. This, defenders of homeopathy say, is entirely the point. Homeopathic products do not rely on ingredients that become toxic at high doses, because the water retains the “memory” that allows the original treatment to function Critics also point out the fact that homeopathic preparations have no systematic design to them, making it hard to monitor whether or not a particular treatment has been efficacious. Homeopaths embrace this. While results may be less certain, they argue, the non-toxic nature of homeopathy means that practitioner and patient can experiment until they find something that works without concem for side effects. Traditional medicine, they argue, assaults the body with a cocktail of drugs that only tackles the symptoms of disease, while homeopathy has its sights aimed on the causes. Homeopaths suggest this approach leads to kinder, gentler, more effective treatment. Finally, critics allege that when homeopathy has produced good results, these are exceedingly dependent on the placebo effect, and cannot justify the resources, time and expense that the homeopathic tradition absorbs. The placebo effect is a term that describes beneficial outcomes from a treatment that can be attributed to the patient's expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself. Basically, the patient “thinks” himself into feeling better. Defenders suggest that homeopathy can go beyond this psychological level. They point to the successful results of homeopathy on patients who are unconscious at the time of treatment, as well as on animals. 45 | Khai giang dinh ky cc 6p HSG 1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 For questions 1-7, decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG). Statement T 1, Samuel Hahnemannn developed his principles basedonan 0 a existent set of rules at his time. 2. The existence of a biologically active part in water has yet 0 Qa to be conclusively proven. ar _ fee 3. The single remedy serves to preclude the unforeseeable 0 oy;-2 outcomes of remedial combinations. & 8 Q 4. It has been suggested that the practice of applying several a ie os. treatments at the same time becomes more common due to $e e endorsements by scientists. & g 3 Bes 5. The uncertainty of preparations for homeopathy is © o |ge* perceived by both supporters and opponents of it. 6. Patients’ feelings are affected by the outcomes of the © a treatments they receive. 7. Abortive attempts of homeopathic treatment are used to Qo corroborate its opponents’ arguments. For questions 8-13, complete the following paragraph with words taken from the passage (NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank). There are three principles behind the practice of homeopathy. The first one, simila similibus, was developed by Samuel Hahnemann after experimentation in which he observed that problem-inducing factors could become treatments for suffering people. While marking a departure from that of (8)... , this principle of homeopathy was substantiated by further advancements. The second principle, minimal dosing, serves to avert (9) 0. that can be caused by simila similibus. The attempt for its furtherance was made by Jacques Benveniste, but controversy was sparked as there was a lack of (10) in the used water. Moreover, a result from his experiment termed “water memory” had received (11) ... to the moment of writing. The third principle named “the single remedy” works on the ground that application of multiple treatments at the same time can make homeopathy become a(n) (12) .... @ven when the results are desirable. 16 | Khai gidng dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2,C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP § DEN LOP 12 Homeopathy is a controversial remedy. While there are arguments in favour of it, critics have suggested weaknesses in the treatment including its components, lack of systemic design and the reliance on (13). ofits feasible positive effects. HEADING MATCHING TASK 1 In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. For questions 1- 10, read the passage and choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. HIGH — TECH CRIME OF THE FUTURE It begins with a beam of high-intensity radiation. Silent and invisible. It disables the electronics of the alarm and telephone system of the bank manager's house, and then the gang bursts in. Wearing identical clothes and caps to confuse the CCTV and communicating by untraceable mobile phones, the gang of four London criminals incapacitate everyone in the house with stun guns. a) This, law enforcement experts believe, is the future of organised crime where villains will use a combination of cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned brute force to defeat increasingly sophisticated security systems. Rather than coshes and sawn-off shotguns, the criminals of tomorrow will be skilled in crimes that produce high profits but with a fraction of the risk of armed robbery or smuggling. It is not far away. (2) se Kidnapping is thought to be a particular growth area. This is because new security technologies such as retina scans and fingerprint recognition require a living subject. Long thought to be the stuff of science fiction, such devices are becoming increasingly common. However, one negative result is that crimes in which staff are abducted and forced to help criminals are also set to rise. (3) Commodities traded by the organised criminals of tomorrow will also change. Increasing profits will lead to a search for effective money-laundering solutions. Small, high-value items such as computer chips, rare metals and even meteorite fragments will be traded between gangs in an effort to avoid leaving electronic trails. 6) rea Senior National Criminal Intelligence Service analysts are also warning of the threat of digital stimulants, illegally transmitted across the intemet. These could create new forms of addiction far worse than that sometimes caused by interactive PC games. 47 | Khai giang dinh ky cdc lop HSG A‘, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C12KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 6) Instead, users will hook up to machines which will directly stimulate the pleasure centres of the brain. Some may go further and have silicon chips implanted in their bodies. 6) silicon chip implanted into the body will be able to pick up a signal transmitted across the Internet, or using radio waves. It will give extremes of pleasure more addictive than the most intense virtual-reality experiences — and be controlled by criminals. 7) eens ‘Cyberspace offers criminals opportunities to create unprecedented and terrible new forms of addiction,’ said Professor Warwick. ‘The question is not whether electronic stimulants can be created, but how soon they can be put on the market.” The missing paragraphs: A. With the price of computer memory chips having risen 400 per cent recently, police believe a new spate or robberies and factory break-ins is just around the comer. B. ‘The purpose of organised crime is to generate profits,’ says one expert. 'To identity the key areas of criminality in the future, you simply have to identify the areas that will be generating the most money. Biotechnology and information technology are the two biggest revolutions of this century, and we have to look at each of them and see where the potential for money is from the criminal point of view. Organised crime will become more sophisticated and more networked, and it is the challenge of law enforcement to look where those networks may expand in the future.’ C. Last year Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, had a chip implanted in his left elbow which allowed computers to communicate directly with his body. He could switch machines on and off simply by scratching his heaD. D. Murders of this sort, unfortunately, are likely to become less common. Increased penalties for carrying firearms, along with an greatly increased likelihood of being shot dead by armed police, will lead to more criminals using non-lethal weapons to incapacitate victims, such as stun guns and CS gas sprays. E. Although the technology to deliver this kind of cyber-stimulant does not yet exist, experts in the field admit that it is only a matter of time. Experiments on chimps and other animals have already shown that when they are wired externally, via an electrode implanted into the pleasure centres of the brain, they become so 48 | Khai giang dinh ky cac lop HSG 1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP § DEN LOP 12 addicted to the sensations it produces that they forget to eat and can die for lack of food. F. Alap-top computer and portable palm reader is then produced and the hand of the unconscious bank manager is placed on top. Within seconds, the gang have dialled into the bank's computer and gained top-level access to thousands of accounts. After transferring money the gang leaves, sealing the doors of the home with a foam which turns rock solid in seconds, and makes its getaway in two identical vehicles equipped with anti-reflective number plates to frustrate speed cameras. G. At an FBI-sponsored gathering of international law enforcement agencies in Germany last month, one NCIS officer claimed that criminals had begun to exploit areas such as virtual banking and on-line gambling, and were now developing a new generation of stimulants, the effects of which could be experienced without actually possessing them. H. So, too are cases of blackmail and extortion. Although banks refuse to discuss ‘the subject, it is believed that there have been at least four instances of extortion in which criminals have threatened to disrupt the systems of city institutions with high-intensity radiation devices. ee Neti) Tai ERED tai fanpage: “HQC VOI OTTO CHANNEL” TASK 2 Luyén thi Chuyén & HSG The passage below consists of four sections marked A, B, C and D. For questions 1 - 10, read the passage and do the task that follows. CHEER UP: LIFE ONLY GETS BETTER Human’s capacity for solving problems has been improving out lot for 10,000 years, says Matt Ridley Section A The human race has expanded in 10,000 years from less than 10 million people to around 7 billion. Some live in even worse conditions than those in the Stone Age. But the vast majority are much better fed and sheltered, and much more likely to live to old age than their ancestors have ever been. It is likely that by 2110 humanity will be much better off than it is today and so will the ecology of our planet. This view, which | shall call rational optimism, may not be fashionable but it is compelling. This belief holds that the world will pull out of its economic and ecological crises because of the way that markets i goods, services and ideas allow human beings to exchange and specialise for the betterment of all. But a constant drumbeat of pessimism usually drowns out this sort of talk, Indeed, if you dare to say the world is going to go on being better, you are considered embarassingly mad. 19 | Khai gidng dinh ky cac lop HSG At, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2KHAI GIANG THUONG XUYEN LOP HSG & CHUYEN ANH QUA ZOOM TU LOP 5 DEN LOP 12 Section B Let me make a square concession at the start: the pessimists are right when they say that if the world continues as it is, it will end in disaster. If agriculture continues to depend on irrigation and water stocks are depleted, then starvation will ensue. Notice the word ‘if’. The world will not continue as it is. It is my proposition that the human race has become a collective problem — solving machine which solves problems by changing its ways. It does so through invention driven often by the marker: scarcity drives up price and that in tur encourages the development of alternatives and efficiencies. History confirms this. When whales grew scarce, for example, petroleum was used instead as a source of oil. The pessimists’ mistake is extrapolating: in other words, assuming that the future is just a bigger version of the past. In 1943 IBM's founder Thomas Watson said there was a world market for just five computers — his remarks were true enough at the time, when computers weighed a ton and cost a fortune. Section C Many of today's extreme environmentalists insist that the world has reached a ‘turning point’ — quite unaware that their predecessors have been making the same claim for 200 years. They also maintain the only sustainable solution is to retreat — to halt ‘economic growth and enter progressive economic recession. This means not just that increasing your company's sales would be a crime, but that the failure to shrink them would be too. But all this takes no account of the magical thing called the collective human brain. There was a time in human history when big-brained people began to exchange things with each other, to become better off as a resut. Making and using tools saved time — and the state of being ‘better off is, at the end of the day, simply time saved. Forget dollars of gold. The true measure of something's worth is indeed the hours it takes to acquire it. The more humans diversified as consumers and specified as producers, and the more they exchanged goods and services, the better off they became. And the good news is there is no inevitable end to this process. Section D | am aware that an enormous bubble of debt has burst around the world, with all that entails. But is this the end of growth? Hardly. So long as somebody allocates sufficient capital to innovation, then the credit crunch will not prevent the relentless upward march of human living standards. Even the Great Depression of the 1930s, although an appalling hardship for many, was just a dip in the slope of economic progress. Alll sorts of new products and industries were born during the depression: by 1937, 40% of Dupont'’s sales came from products that had barely existed before 1929, such as enamels and cellulose film. Growth will resume — unless it is stifled by the wrong policies. Somebody, somewhere, is still tweaking a piece of software, testing a new 20 | Khai giang dinh ky cac lop HSG A1, A2, B1, B2, C1_HN, C1_HCM, C1C2