LQĐ – QUẢNG TRỊ - BB - 2022

LISTENING (50pts)
Part I: You will hear a discussion in which two historians, Matt Thomas and Sue Wilkins, talk about a book they have
written. For questions 1 - 5, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
1. What does Sue say about digging on the Thames foreshore?
A Until recently amateur archaeologists weren't allowed to do it.
B Official authorisation is required to do it.
C You must have a member of a certain society with you to do it.
D The 'Thames Mudlarks' can give you a permit to do it.
2. Matt says that, in the past, poverty-stricken children ______________.
A might live on the Thames foreshore.
B used to try and sell things to people in boats on the river.
C would hunt certain types of bird near the river banks.
D looked for things in the mud at certain times of day.
3. How did Sue feel about the Thames when she visited it as a girl?
A curious about why her parents took her there
B excited about the chance to search for treasure
C repulsed by its appearance
D fascinated by the idea that she might work there one day.
4. Matt is intrigued by __________________.
A what can be learnt from the objects they find.
B the transport people used in the Middle Ages.
C how London's inhabitants used to dispose of their rubbish.
D how much the Thames has changed over the centuries.
5. What makes the discovery of certain small items very important?
A They made Matt rethink his views of life in the past.
B. They reveal something about family relationships.
C They can teach us how mud can be used to preserve things.
D They confirm a widely held theory.
Part II: Listen to a lecture and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)
6. There are very few facts known about how language is learnt.
7. Subliminal language learning can only take place overnight.
8. You do not need to listen closely to the words on the tape.
9. Reading a foreign newspaper is never a waste of time.
10 The author thinks that learning a new language in six weeks is possible.
Part III: You will hear two teachers talking about the work experience program for their students answer the following
questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question.
11. What are the students in the program studying?
______________________________________________
12. What is the companies now worried about?
______________________________
13. What do these companies demand in case of accidents?
________________________________________
14. Besides paying for the program, what will the university also continue to do?
_________________________________________
15. How was the university’s strategy of a completion bonus last year?
_________________________________________
Part IV: Listen to a piece of news and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the
recording for each answer in the space provided.
8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea from land every year, the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for
every 16___________________________ in the world. Across our ocean, plastic trash flows into circulation, and concentrates in
17________________________ in the midst of global currents.
Anyone can make plastic and sell it anywhere in the world; there's no 18_______________________ there's no barriers.
We need to effectively rethink the entire system to find solution to the 19_____________________.
That means, plastic can be recovered and fed back into the economy as a 20_____________________ .
The 21______________________ of the new plastics economy is to design an economy without plastic waste.
However, marine pollution comes in many forms. Industrial, agricultural and urban waste also sweep into the sea, fueling
22__________________ that robbed marine ecosystems of the oxygen they need to survive.
Nutrient pollution can be managed through change in major contributing systems like agriculture.
So all of us have to work together to solve. Soil health is critical for water quality.
We have to try to improve organic matter. The more organic matter you have in the soil, the better the soil
can hold on to 23_________________________ and nitrogen. Organic matter keeps it from 24_________________________ of
the soil.
What all farmers want is to learn different 25_____________________ that allow you to do it effectively that becomes a key.
II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (30pts)

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Part I. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (20 pts)
1. _________ caused certain diseases such as malaria was not known until the early 20th century.
A. That mosquitoes B. Mosquitoes
C. What mosquitoes D. Mosquitoes which
2. _______________that we had seen her before she died.
A. Should B. Would C. Will D. May
3. _______________empty, we decided to put the new freezer in there.
A. Being the spare room C. The spare room being
B. The spare room is D. The spare room was
4. I know that he has tried hard; _______________, his work is just not good enough.
A. be that as it may C. therefore
B. otherwise D. come what may
5. The Opposition moved that ____________to the Bill.
A. an amendment was made C. an amendment be made
B. they made an amendment D. an amendment is made
6. By an unfortunate ___________, the tour company had omitted John’s name from their list.
A. neglect B. disregard C. insult D. oversight
7. It is not fair the way my sister is always ____________ for special treatments.
A. singled out B. picked off C. taken on D. laid aside
8. When I started to study archaeology, I knew _______ no Latin, but within a year I could read it rather well.
A. barely B. entirely C. scarcely D. virtually
9. Our teacher is wonderful- she can __________ the most difficult subject really clearly.
A. put out B. put over C. put on D. put forward
10. In spite of working their fingers to the __________, all the staff staff were made redundant.
A. nail B. edge C. flesh D. bone
11. The country around here is so ____________ that you can only get around in a jeep.
A. jagged B. weathered C. severe D. rugged
12. She refuses to resign, intending to weather the ___________.
A. flood B. drought C. storm D. typhoon
13. The bridge-building project had problems with funding right from the word _________.
A. go B. move C. begin D. start
14. He tried to ____________ himself from the more extreme members of the party.
A. distance B. refrain C. detract D. extract
15. They have not been able to ___________ the facts, so no one knows what really happened.
A. settle B. abscond C. attain D. ascertain
16. His self-confidence has been seriously ___________ by the bad reviews of his book.
A. annihilated B. fractured C. dented D. destroyed
17. He ____________ insanity to avoid being punished for the crime.
A. fabricated B. pretended C. surmised D. pleaded
18. There has been a(n) __________ of thefts in the town recently.
A. rate B. spate C. influx D. tide
19. I’m very tired, what ____________ travelling all day yesterday and having a disturbed night.
A. with B. of C. beyond D. about
20. His estate continues to keep lawyers ___________ employed even seven years after his death.
A. fruitfully B. gainfully C. productively D. advantageously
Part II. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided. (10pts)
1. The (INVEST) ______________ of the new president will take place this evening.
2. The insulating material should be (PERMEATE) ______________ to water vapour.
3. The actors struggled (MAN) ____________ with some of the worst lines of dialogue ever written.
4. It would have been (HONOUR) _____________ of her not to keep her promise.
5. I think I must have known (CONSCIOUS) ___________ that something was going on between them.
6. The government is reported to be concerned about the (SURGE) __________ in the South.
7. Both parties are unhappy about the (ADROIT) __________ handling of the whole affair.
8. There is no (SAY) ___________ the technical brilliance of his performance.
9. What I need is a book that will (MYSTERY) ____________ the workings of a car engine for me.
10. Her dress was tightly belted, (ACCENT) ___________ the slimness of her waist.
READING (60pts)
Part II: Read the passage and fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)
The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351, and remained endemic in
England until 1666. Carried by the fleas (1) _________ lived on the black rat, the plague reached Western Europe from the Crimea,
possibly on Genoese merchant ships, and spread north from the Mediterranean during 1348. Everywhere the death rate was high
and, (2) _________ still, the plague recurred regularly. The English (3) _________ fell from nearly four million in 1348 to just over
two million in 1400.

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Every feature of decline in the late Middle Ages, from deserted villages to a slump in monastic vocation, has since been attributed
(4) ________ the Black Death. But this decline was, in (5) __________, more the consequence of growing malnutrition, which
became more and more widespread as the uncontrolled population growth of the 13th century pushed thousands of cultivators into
marginal (6) __________. The Black Death was the crisis. It grimly restored the balance between men and their food (7) _________;
and, short of an agrarian revolution, there was nothing else that could.
The Black Death was ultimately the catalyst in another process- the commutation of labor service. The movement to change the
labour system (8) ___________ a feudal one (wherein labourers were required to work in return for goods and protection) to a
monetary one was already in progress. (9) ___________, landowners obviously opposed the monetary system, because they had to
pay for labour. But the attempts by employers to withhold wages and to restore labour service everywhere were bound to fail, since
the situation now favoured the employees. Ultimately, the employers had to (10) __________ way, and the commutation movement
rapidly accelerated.
(Adapted from: ECPE- Tests for the Michigan Proficiency)
Part III: Read the text and choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think fits best according to the text. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10pts)
GALAXIES
Astronomers classify galaxies into three major categories.
Spiral Galaxies
Like the Milky Way, other spiral galaxies also have a thin disk extending outward from a central bulge. The bulge itself
merges smoothly into a halo that can extend to a radius of over 100,000 light-years. Together, the bulge and halo of a spiral galaxy
make up its spheroidal component, so named because of its rounded shape. Although no clear boundary divides the pieces of the
spheroidal component, astronomers usually consider stars within 10,000 light-years of the center to be members of the bulge and
those outside this radius to be members of the halo.
The disk component of a spiral galaxy slices directly through the halo and bulge. The disk of a large spiral galaxy like the
Milky Way can extend 50,000 light-years or more from the center. The disks of all spiral galaxies contain an interstellar medium of
gas and dust, but the amounts and proportions of the interstellar medium in molecular, atomic, and ionized forms differ from one
spiral galaxy to the next. Spiral galaxies with large bulges generally have less interstella gas and dust than those with small
bulges.
Not all galaxies with disks are standard spiral galaxies. Some spiral galaxies appear to have a straight bar of stars cutting
across the center, with spiral arms curling away from the ends of the bar. Such galaxies are known as barred spiral galaxies.
Other galaxies have disks but do not appear to have spiral arms. These are called lenticular galaxies because they look lens-
shaped when seen edge-on (lenticular means “lens-shaped”). Although they look like spiral galaxies without arms, lenticular
galaxies might more appropriately be considered an intermediate class between spirals and ellipticals because they tend to have less
cool gas than normal spirals, but more than ellipticals.
Among large galaxies in the universe, most (75% to 85%) are spiral or lenticular. (Spiral and lenticular galaxies are much
rarer among small galaxies.) Spiral galaxies are often found in loose collections of several galaxies, called groups, that extend over
a few million light-years. Our Local Group is one example, with two large spirals: the Milky Way and the Great Galaxy in
Andromeda, Lenticular galaxies are particularly common in clusters of galaxies, which can contain hundreds and sometimes
thousands of galaxies, extending over more than 10 million light-years.
Elliptical Galaxies
The major difference between elliptical and spiral galaxies is that ellipticals lack a significant disk component. Thus, an
elliptical galaxy has only a spheroidal component and looks much like the bulge and halo of a spiral galaxy. (In fact, elliptical
galaxies are sometimes called spheroidal galaxies). Most of the interstellar medium in large elliptical galaxies consists of low-
density, hot x-ray, emitting gas like the gas in bubbles and superbubbles in the Milky Way. Elliptical galaxies usually contain very
little dust or cool gas, although they are not completely devoid of either. Some have relatively small and cold gaseous disks rotating
at their centers; these disks might be the remnants of a collision with a spiral galaxy.
Elliptical galaxies appear to be more social than spiral galaxies: They are much more common in clusters of galaxies than
outside clusters. [A] Elliptical galaxies make up about half the large galaxies in the central regions of clusters, while they represent
only a small minority (about 15%) of the large galaxies found outside clusters. [B] However, ellipticals are more common among
small galaxies. [C] Particularly small elliptical galaxies with less than a billion stars, called dwarf elliptical galaxies, are often found
near larger spiral galaxies. At least 10 dwarf elliptical galaxies belong to the Local Group. [D]
Irregular Galaxies
A small percentage of the large galaxies we see nearby fall into neither of the two major categories. This irregular class of
galaxies is a miscellaneous class, encompassing small galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds and “peculiar” galaxies that appear
to be in disarray. These blobby star systems are usually white and dusty, like the disks of spirals. Telescopic observations probing
deep into the universe show that distant galaxies are more likely to be irregular in shape than those nearby. Because the light of
more distant galaxies was emitted longer ago in the past. these observations tell us that irregular galaxies were more common when
the universe was younger.
(Adapted from: TOEFL by i20fever Yathapu Consulting Pvt Ltd- Issuu)
1. What does this passage mainly discuss?
A. The major components of spiral galaxies
B. The most important types of galaxies
C. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies
D. Measuring galaxies in light-years
2. What distinguishes a spiral galaxy from an elliptical galaxy?
A. Elliptical galaxies have a much larger halo.
B. Elliptical galaxies have more dust and cool gas.

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 C. Spiral galaxies are more irregularly shaped.
D. Spiral galaxies have a more prominent disk.
3. The word devoid in the passage is closest in meaning to ___________.
A. hidden B. empty C. dense D. bright
4. The word remmants in the passage is closest in meaning to____________.
A. remains B. origin C. damage D. evidence
5. The word either in the passage refers to ____________.
A. bubbles or superbubbles C. dust or cool gas
B. elliptical or spheroidal galaxies D. small or cold disks
6. According to paragraph 5, lenticular galaxies _____________.
A. look like spiral galaxies without arms
B. consist of a bulge and a halo ina spiral galaxy
C. appear to have a bar of stars across the center
D. are in the shape of a white spiral disk
7. Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the highlighted statement in the passage? The other choices
change the meaning or leave out important information.
A. Spiral galaxies with small bulges have more gas and dust.
B. Spiral galaxies have more gas and dust in their bulges.
C. There is less gas and dust in a spiral galaxy with a small bulge.
D. Gas and dust collect in the bulges of the large spiral galaxies.
8. Irregular galaxies are described as all of the following EXCEPT ___________.
A. very white and dusty like the Magellanic Clouds
B. older than most of the other types of galaxies
C. similar to the disks of a spiral galaxy
D. an intermediate class between spirals and ellipticals
9. It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.
A. astronomers do not agree on the classifications of gaxalies
B. galaxies always collect together in clusters
C. the Milky Way is a typical spiral galaxy
D. most halos extend to about 100,000 light-years
10. Which of the options ([A] – [D]) indicates where the following sentence can be added to the passage?
“A good example of a dwarf elliptical galaxy is Leo I in the Local Group.”
A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]

Part IV: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided. (13pts)
Party Labels in Mid-Eighteenth Century England
A. Until the late 1950s the Whig interpretation of English history in the eighteenth century prevailed. This was successfully
challenged by Lewis Namier, who proposed, based on an analysis of the voting records of MPs from the 1760 intake following the
accession to the throne of George III, that the accepted Whig/Tory division of politics did not hold. He believed that the political
life of the period could be explained without these party labels, and that it was more accurate to characterise political division in
terms of the Court versus Country.
B. An attempt was then made to use the same methodology to determine whether the same held for early eighteenth century politics.
To Namier's chagrin this proved that at the end of Queen Anne's reign in 1714 voting in parliament was certainly based on party
interest, and that Toryism and Whiggism were distinct and opposed political philosophies. Clearly, something momentous had
occurred between 1714 and 1760 to apparently wipe out party ideology. The Namierite explanation is that the end of the Stuart
dynasty on the death of Queen Anne and the beginning of the Hanoverian with the accession of George I radically altered the
political climate.
C. The accession of George I to the throne in 1715 was not universally popular. He was German, spoke little English, and was only
accepted because he promised to maintain the Anglican religion. Furthermore, for those Tory members of government under Anne,
he was nemesis, for his enthronement finally broke the hereditary principle central to Tory philosophy, confirming the right of
parliament to depose or select a monarch. Moreover, he was aware that leading Tories had been in constant communication with
the Stuart court in exile, hoping to return the banished King James II. As a result, all Tories were expelled from government, some
being forced to escape to France to avoid execution for treason.
D. The failure of the subsequent Jacobite rebellion of 1715, where certain Tory magnates tried to replace George with his cousin
James, a Stuart, albeit a Catholic, was used by the Whig administration to identify the word "Tory" with treason. This was
compounded by the Septennial Act of 1716, limiting elections to once every seven years, which further entrenched the Whig's power
base at the heart of government focussed around the crown. With the eradication of one of the fundamental tenets of their philosophy,
alongside the systematic replacement of all Tory positions by Whig counterparts, Tory opposition was effectively annihilated. There
was, however, a grouping of Whigs in parliament who were not part of the government.
E. The MPs now generally referred to as the "Independent Whigs" inherently distrusted the power of the administration, dominated
as it was by those called "Court Whigs". The Independent Whig was almost invariably a country gentleman, and thus resisted the
growth in power of those whose wealth was being made on the embryonic stock market. For them the permanency of land meant
patriotism, a direct interest in one's nation, whilst shares, easily transferable, could not be trusted. They saw their role as a check on
the administration, a permanent guard against political corruption, the last line of defence of the mixed constitution of monarchy,
aristocracy, and democracy. The reaction against the growing mercantile class was shared by the Tories, also generally landed

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country gentlemen. It is thus Namier's contention, and that of those who follow his work, that by the 1730s the Tories and the
Independent Whigs had refused to form a Country opposition to the Court administration, thus explaining why voting records in
1760 do not follow standard party lines.
F. It must be recognised that this view is not universally espoused. Revisionist historians such as Linda Colley dispute that the Tory
party was destroyed during this period, and assert the continuation of the Tories as a discrete and persistent group in opposition,
allied to the Independent Whigs but separate. Colley's thesis is persuasive, as it is clear that some, at least, regarded themselves as
Tories rather than Whigs. She is not so successful in proving the persistence either of party organisation beyond family connection,
or of ideology, beyond tradition. Furthermore, while the terms "Tory" and "Whig" were used frequently in the political press, it was
a device of the administration rather than the opposition. As Harris notes in his analysis of the "Patriot" press of the 1740s, there is
hardly any discernible difference between Tory and Whig opposition pamphlets, both preferring to describe themselves as the
"Country Interest", and attacking "the Court".
(Adapted from: IELTS Reading Tests)
Questions 1-6
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-x) in
boxes 1-6.
There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them.
1. Paragraph A ________
2. Paragraph B ________
3. Paragraph C ________
4. Paragraph D ________
5. Paragraph E ________
6. Paragraph F ________

List of headings
i. The Whig/Tory division discounted
ii. Maintaining the Anglican religion
iii. The fusion theory challenged and supported
iv. The consequences of George I's accession
v. The Tory landowners
vi. Political divisions in the early 1700s
vii. The failure of the Jacobean rebellion
viii. The Tory opposition effectively destroyed
ix. The fusion of the Independent Whigs and the Tory landowners
x. The Whig interpretation of history
Questions 7-13
Do the statements below agree with the information in Reading Passage 2?
In boxes 7-13, write:
Yes if the statement agrees with the information in the passage
No if the statement contradicts the information in the passage
Not Given if there is no information about the statement in the passage
7. According to Namier, political divisions in the mid 18th century were related to party labels.
8. According to Namier, something happened between 1714 and 1760 to affect party ideology.
9. George I was not liked by everyone.
10. The Independent Whigs were all landowners with large estates.
11. Neither the Independent Whigs, nor the Tories trusted the mercantile classes.
12. Namier's views are supported by Colley.
13. Harris's analysis of the press of the 1740s is used by Namier to support his own views.

Part V: You are going to read an article about an art exhibition that focuses on the subject of whether paintings are
authentic or fake. Answer the questions by choosing from the sections of the article (A - F). The sections may be chosen
more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10pts)
Seeing Through The Fakes
A
Close Examination at the National Gallery looks at 40 problematic works from the Gallery's collection - including outright forgeries,
misattributions, and copies, altered or over-restored paintings, and works whose authenticity has wrongly been doubted. The curators
have taken on
a huge subject - the range of possibilities museum professionals take into consideration when they investigate a picture's status and
the variety of technical procedures conservation scientists use to establish authorship and date. The case histories they discuss have a
single common denominator. Whatever conclusion the combined disciplines of connoisseurship, science and art history may lead, the
study of any work of art begins with a question: is the work by the artist to whom it is attributed?
B
A good example is an Italian painting on panel that the National Gallery acquired in 1923, as the
work of an artist in the circle of the Italian 15th century painter Melozzo da Forlì. Today, we find it incredible that anyone was ever
fooled by a picture that looks like it was painted by a Surrealist follower of Salvador Dali. But this is to forget how little was known
about Melozzo, and how little could be done in the conservation lab to determine the date of pigments or wood panel. Even so, from
the moment the picture was acquired, sceptics called its status into question. Nothing could be proved until 1960 when an art historian

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pointed out the many anachronisms in the clothing. When technological advances enabled the gallery to test the pigments, they were
found to be from the 19th century.
C
Scientific evidence can be invaluable but it has to be used with caution and in tandem with historical research. For example, Corot's
ravishing sketch The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct has always been dated to about 1826, soon after the artist's arrival
in Rome.
However, the green pigment that Corot used throughout the picture only became available to artists in the 1830s. The landscape wasn't
a fake and for stylistic reasons couldn't have been painted later than the mid-1820s. All became clear when historians did further
research and discovered that the firm that sold artists' supplies to Corot in Paris started making the newly developed colour available
to selected customers in the mid-1820s, long before it came into widespread use.
D
The flipside of a fake, but capable of doing equal violence to an artist's reputation, occurs when an authentic work is mistakenly
labelled a forgery. Back in 1996, I well remember how distressing it was to read an article in which the former director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, declared that Uccello's lovely little canvas of St. George and the Dragon was forged.
The gallery therefore X-rayed the picture and tested paint samples, before concluding that it was a rare survival of a work by Uccello
dating from the early 1470s. Hoving was irresponsible not because he questioned the attribution of a much-loved work, but because
he went public without first asking the gallery to carry out a thorough scientific analysis.
E
Anyone can label a picture a fake or a copy, but their opinions are worthless unless they can support them with tangible proof. One
picture that's been smeared in this way is Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks. In this exhibition we are shown infrared photographs that
reveal the presence both of major corrections which a copyist would not need to make, and also of under drawing in a hand comparable
to Raphael's when he sketched on paper. The pigments and paper technique exactly match those that the artist used in other works of
about the same date.
F
For all its pleasure, the show also has an unspoken agenda. It is a reply to the mistaken belief that museums have anything to gain by
hiding the true status of the art they own. As the downgrading in this show of Courbet's Self-Portrait to the status of a posthumous
copy of a picture in the Louvre shows, the opposite is the case: museums and galleries constantly question, reattribute and re-date the
works in their care. If they make a mistake, they acknowledge it.
(Adapted from Cambridge English Advanced – Practice Tests Plus 2)

In which section of the article are the following mentioned?

1. information that solved a mystery about a painting known to be authentic 1
2. an incorrect idea about the attitude of people responsible for exhibiting paintings 1
3. the fundamental issue surrounding research into a picture 2
4. similarities in an artist's style in more than one place 4
5. reasons why it is understandable that a certain mistake was made
6. investigative work that showed that a picture was an unusual example of an artist's work 7
7. the willingness of experts to accept that their beliefs are wrong
8. the different categories of people involved in examining pictures
9. evidence from an expert outside the world of art 9
10. an accusation that upset the writer personally 10