Name: Luu Thi Trang

Student's code: A35226

PRACTICE TEST …

LISTENING
1. floor 11.A 21.C 31. golden

2. fridge 12.A 22.E 32. healthy

3. shirts 13.A 23.A 33. climate

4. windows 14.C 24.D 34. rock

5. balcony 15.A 25.B 35. diameter

6. electrician 16.C 26.F 36. tube

7. dust 17.B 27.A 37. fire

8. police 18.C 28.D 38. steam

9. training 19.B 29.C 39. cloudy

10. review 20.A 30.G 40. liter

READING
Answer Synonyms In-text sentences

1. False Destruction insect pests are destroying vast quantities of

what is grown by local subsistence farmers

2. False Devastating some of the island’s insectivorous bats are currently

habitat, currently thriving and this has important implications for farmers
thriving and conservationists alike

3. Not given Not mentioned

4. True several species of bats are giving

Madagascar’s rice farmers a vital pest control
service by feasting on plagues of insects. And
this, he believes, can ease the financial
pressure on farmers to turn forest into fields

5. Not given They include the Malagasy mouse-eared bat,

Major’s long-fingered bat, the Malagasy white-
bellied free-tailed bat and Peters’ wrinkle-
lipped bat

6. True Feed on We found that six species of bat are preying

on rice pests, including the paddy swarming
caterpillar and grass webworm

7. droppings

8. coffee
9. mosquitoes

10. protein

11. unclean

12. culture

13. houses

14. E

15.A Ogilvie, who discovered the inventories in the archives of

two German communities 30 years ago, believes they
may hold the answer to a conundrum that has long
puzzled economists: the lack of evidence for a causal link
between education and a country’s economic growth.

16.D It was a small act of defiance by today’s standards, but it

reflects a time when laws in Germany and elsewhere
regulated people’s access to labour markets

17.F Huge amounts are spent improving education in

developing countries, but this spending can fail to deliver
economic growth if restrictions block people – especially
women and the poor – from using their education in
economically productive ways

18.C Inventories of agricultural equipment and craft tools reveal

economic activities, ownership of books and
educationrelated objects like pens and slates suggests
how people learned

19. descendants

20. sermon

21. fine

22. innovation

23.B

24.E

25.B

26.D

27.D

28.E

29.F

30.B

31.H

32.E

33. FALSE Next month While his challengers will play the games as normal,
Gareyev himself will be blindfolded
 34. NOT GIVEN he gets his kicks from the adventure sport of BASE
jumping

35. NOT GIVEN Not mentioned

36. TRUE Accomplished players can develop the skill of

playing blind even without realising it

37. memory

38. numbers

39. communication

40. visual

WRITING
Task 1:
The bar chart demonstrates families’ weekly expenditure in one country between 1968 and 2018.

Overall, the group of essential spendings saw a downward trend while the amount of non-essential spendings
registered a notable increase. In addition to that, the greatest change reported was in leisure expenditure.

In 1968, the amount of family income spent on food predominated other subjects as 35% compared to 10% of
housing and clothing and footwear. Followed closely behind them was the percentage of revenue dedicated to
leisure purposes, which was at approximately 9%. At the other end of the scale, fuel power, household goods,
personal goods and transport constituted roughly 7% for the first and 8% for the rest of the list.

The situation changed when it comes to data collected in 2018. The share of leisure spendings surpassed that
for food, overtaking its position to become the first in ranking. As can be seen from the chart, the amount of
income spent on housing and transport both enjoyed a noticeable climb to about 20% and 14% respectively.
Conversely, that quantity of other subjects, with the exception of household goods, witnessed a moderate
diminution by between 3% and 5% for each.

Task 2:
Opinions diverge as to whether experts such as doctors or engineers ought to be encouraged to work in the
nation where they completed their practice procedures or whether it is vital for them to decide their dream
workplace. However, I am of the firm opinion that while the notion of forcing professors to devote their
expertise to the nation can have merits, the latter is still an obvious choice. This essay will attempt to address
the reasons for my views as follows.

On the one hand, there is an array of arguments why it is believed that masters should be required to spend
time working for their nation. One of the most prominent reasons is that they should shoulder the responsibility
of enhancing their country's development. This is as the high-ranking bureaucrats assisted students with
numerous bonuses to concentrate on increasing their level of knowledge. For instance, gifted learners are
currently supported with a variety of conditions regarding accommodation, educational access, and so on.
They should thus show their gratitude to the government by devoting their lives to working for their birthplace.

On the other hand, there are still several reasons why I support the statement that professors should be
allowed to decide their workplace. First and foremost, it can be the detrimental effect provided that the
authorities compel them to dedicate themselves to their state. It is commonplace for people who are forced to
do against their will not to work enthusiastically. Take high-knowledge workers under national control as a vivid
illustration, they have a propensity to make more mistakes compared to the labour force who freely choose
their workplace. Moreover, after a long time without interest, it can bring an abundance of strains for the
masters. They are therefore succumb to getting involved in a cascade of repercussions regarding mental and
physical health.

In summary, despite the aforementioned testaments above, I concur with the idea that it is more crucial to
allow experts to choose their workplace rather than force them to devote to their state.edicate for their state