75. Tuyển Tập Đề Chuyên & HSG Vĩnh Long - Otto Channel

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VĨNH LONG VÀ CHỌN ĐỘI TUYỂN THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP QUỐC GIA
NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021
MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC Thời gian : 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm có 14 trang) Ngày thi : 11/10/2020
Chữ ký Chữ ký Tổng điểm Tổng điểm Số phách

Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2 (Bằng số) (Bằng chữ)
Số thứ tự
Điểm từng phần:

I. ………………. Hướng dẫn thi Nghe hiểu:
II. ……………… • Thí sinh có 3 phút để nghiên cứu các câu hỏi.
• Bài nghe gồm 3 phần , mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần.
III. ………………
• Bắt đầu mỗi phần đều có thông báo (bằng tiếng Anh)
IV. ……………… • Bắt đầu và kết thúc phần thi nghe là đoạn nhạc.
Cộng: ………….….....
I. LISTENING (5 points)
Part 1: Questions 1-10
You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about their listening skills.
You will hear the recording twice. While you listen, you must complete BOTH TASKS.
Task 1
For questions 1-5, choose from the list A-H how each speaker reacts while listening. Write your
answer (A-H) in the blanks (1-5).
A. gets bored listening to facts and figures

Speaker 1: ________ (1)
B. switches off if the content seems irrelevant
C. needs to be able to relate to the person talking Speaker 2: ________ (2)
D. is very quick on the intake when someone is speaking
Speaker 3: ________ (3)
E. is very sensitive to the tone people adopt
Speaker 4: ________ (4)
F. gets annoyed if their train of thought is interrupted
G. doesn’t maintain eye contact with people Speaker 5: ________ (5)
H. gets irritated when a speaker stops mid-sentence
Task 2
For questions 6-10, choose from the list A-H what strategy each speaker adopts to process what they
are hearing. Write your answer (A-H) in the blanks (6-10).
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A. needs to identify exactly what the speaker is trying to say
B. never interrupts when someone is talking to them Speaker 1: _________ (6)
C. likes to interact initially with the speaker
Speaker 2: _________ (7)
D. discards the details they hear and focuses on the main points
E. gives the impression they’re interested in listening Speaker 3: _________ (8)
F. connects what they’re hearing with their own circumstances Speaker 4: _________ (9)
G. makes a mental note of what the speaker has said
Speaker 5: _________ (10)
H. tries to visualize what the speaker is saying to them

You will hear a talk about the different ways in which we think. For questions 11-19, complete the
sentences with a word or short phrase. You should not need more than two or three words for any
answer.
__________________________________________________________________________________
11. The fastest mental process involves a reaction which is ___________________ and which the
speaker calls our ‘wits’.
12. The second mode is the function of the brain like things tested in ___________________ .
13. We know least about the slowest level because it is _____________________, and may be
illogical or irrational.
14. The two girls in the science lesson wanted their teacher’s help because they _________________ .
15. The girl was using her _____________________ to manipulate the puzzle.
16. She was still making progress with the cube, although she appeared not to be
___________________________ .
17. When a speaker questioned her, the girl initially believed he was ________________________ for
playing with the cube.
18. When questioned, the girl was unaware of the __________________________ she had been using.
19. Adults who try to use their ____________________________ are unable to do the puzzle.
You will hear a radio interview with Diana McLeod, a careers advisor at a university. For questions
20 to 25, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. You will listen
to the recording twice.
20. What does Diana say the results of the survey show about teaching as a career?
A. Teachers find their work makes them happy.
B. People working in the media are a lot less happy than teachers.
C. Teaching doesn’t offer opportunities for creativity.
D. Teachers find their work stimulating.
21. According to Diana, which cause of unhappiness at work is raising?
A. fear of being sacked
B. not having many friends at work
C. having to move to an unfamiliar place

D. being obliged to do overtime
22. Diana says job satisfaction is better in small and medium sized businesses because ________
A. employers are much stricter about bullying.
B. employers treat staff as individuals.
C. employers don’t demand as much from the staff.
D. employers run lots of staff training programmes.
23. Diana says people who are thinking of becoming self-employed should ___________
A. make sure they’ve got enough money first.
B. learn to take responsibility for their own decisions.
C. try to keep at least one day a week free.
D. be prepared to work longer hours.
24. Diana says bonus payments sometimes fail to give workers a sense of satisfaction because ______
A. they only provide for the bare essentials.
B. they are not always seen as a reward for good work.
C. there is no element of surprise.
D. employers use them to make people work harder.
25. Diana thinks the secret to success at work is ______________.
A. making sure that your work is noticed.
B. getting into a position of authority.
C. benefiting others through your work.
D. doing work that is creative.
II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (4 points)
Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes:
1. She didn’t give _________ instructions, so she couldn’t be angry with you for doing it wrong.
A. implicit B. explicit C. pathetic D. apathetic
2. Washing your hands frequently is the best way to avoid catching ____________ illnesses.
A. obscene B. obscure C. contagious D. contiguous
3. Not only is little Johnny’s grammar incoherent and his spelling atrocious but also his punctuation
__________ .
A. slothful B. sluggish C. hazard D. haphazard
4. Mr. Deacon next door had a very serious operation. Apparently, it’s a miracle he _________ .
A. blacked out B. lashed out C. warded off D. pulled through
5. I followed your instructions _________ the letter but I still couldn’t get the printer to work properly.
A. over B. to C. of D. from
6. Eddie thought I was a football fan – he must have got completely the wrong end of the __________.
A. tale B. line C. road D. stick
7. She is now a senior _________, having worked her way up through the company.
A. consultant B. executive C. marketing D. headhunter
8. I’m so __________ under with work at the moment – it’s awful.
A. iced B. rained C. snowed D. fogged
9. The studio ___________ to release the film in August but they postponed it because of the political
situation.
A. was about to plan B. used to plan C. had planned D. would plan
10. It is vital that ________ at this time.
A. should not be publicized these figures C. these figures not to be publicized
B. not to be publicized these figures D. these figures not be publicized
11. “I’ve been invited to meet the president.” – “In my opinion, that’s _________ honor there is.”
A. by far the greatest B. every bit as great C. far greater D. as great as an
12. Noise pollution __________ affects the health by damaging the hearing.
A. intensively B. merely C. virtually D. adversely
13. ________ urgently callers say they need to speak to me, I do not want any calls for the next hour.
A. Unless B. Though C. However D. No matter
14. I thought I __________ that you had to submit your essays by Friday.
A. made as plain B. had made plainly C. made it plain D. did make plain
15. By labeling patients as “delayers”, there __________ an attribution of blame to the individual,
which is potentially stigmatizing.
A. feels to be B. is felt to be C. has been felt there is D. was felt being
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 2: For questions 16-20, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the blanks.
16. Because of the excessive speed, the tires lost their _______________ . (adhere)
17. He is in his late 50’s and yet his energy seems __________________. (exhaust)
18. That is the ____________________ American scene that was shattered by a gunman's bullets.
(quintessence)
19. The politician gave a ________________ speech about the importance of family values, when we
all know about his sordid affairs. (hypocrisy)
20. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells ________________ European manners at times,
Henry James was an admirer of ancient European civilization. (satire)
III. READING (4 points)

Part 1: Questions 1-21 are based on the reading passage below
Does Globalization Help the Poor?
A In recent years, we have heard steady proclamations emanating from the advocates of
economic globalization and leaders of the world’s leading financial institutions – the World
Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organizations (WTO), etc. –
that the ultimate purpose in pushing economic globalization is to help the world’s poor. More
specifically, they contend that removing barriers to cooperate trade and financial investments is
the best path to growth, which they claim offers the best chance of rescuing the poor from
poverty. They also assert that the millions of people who oppose the economic globalization
model are harming the interests of the poor. They should back off and leave it to corporations,
bankers and global bureaucracies to do the planning and solve the world’s problems. Such
claims are routinely replayed in the media. One prominent national columnists writes,
“Protestors are choking the only route out of poverty for the world’s poor.” In other words, if
the protesting stopped, the financial institutions would save the day. Is this believable? Is it the
salvation of the poor that really drives global corporations or are their primary motives quite
different?
B Almost all the evidence from the most robust period of economic globalization – 1970 to the
end of the 20th century – shows that its outcome is the exact opposite of what its supporters
claim. Interestingly, this evidence now comes as much from the proponents of globalization as
from its opponents. Clearly, poverty and inequalities are rapidly accelerating everywhere on
Earth. A 1999 report by the United Nations Development Program found that inequalities
between rich and poor within and among countries are quickly expanding, and that the global
trading an finance system is a primary cause. Even the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
confirms the United Nations’ (UN) conclusions, agreeing that globalization brings massive
inequalities. “The benefits of globalization do not reach the poor,” says the CIA, “and the
process inevitably results in increased unrest and protest.”
C The ideologies and rules of economic globalization – including free trade, deregulation and
privatization – have destroyed the livelihoods of millions of people, often leaving them
homeless, landless and hungry, while removing their access to the most basic public services
like health and medical care, education, fresh water and public transport. The records show that
economic globalization makes things worse for the poor, not better. Economic globalization
has actually succeeded in making global corporations. This is what the UN describes as the
“staggering concentration of wealth among the ultra-wealthy”.
D Contrary to claims, wealth generated by globalization does not trickled down. Rather, the
wealth is locked at the top, removing from governments and communities the very tools
necessary to redistribute it, and in doing so protect domestic industries, social services, the
environment and sustainable livelihoods. There may be isolated instances where temporary
improvement has been achieved in Third World countries, and, of course, the financial
institutions love to trumpet these. The truth, however, is that benefit has been very short-lived
and the majority of it has gone to the elites in these countries and to the chief executives of the
global corporations at the hub of the process.
E People may point to the ‘Asian Tigers’ economies like Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore as
examples of the success of the globalization, but the truth is that improvement has not been
achieved by assiduously adhering to the dictates of international financial advisors. These
economies initially resisted the prescribed economic model, and managed to stay free of the
volatility of export markets. When they did finally succumb to pressure from the IMF and the
World Bank, they found their glory days quickly disappearing into the infamous Asian
financial crisis of the late 90s.
F The majority of poor countries have not enjoyed much benefit from globalization, and a
growing number of people understand that the system is selling a false promise. The policies of
the financial institutions are not designed to benefit them, but to benefit rich industrial
countries and their global corporations. The question then is, do these globalizing institutions
know what they’re doing or do they just blindly follow a failed ideological models? Many
commentators fiercely opposed to globalization now firmly believe that the institutions do
indeed know exactly what they’re doing and that they always have. They have an assignment to
remove all obstacles to the free flow of capital as they seek to pry open the world’s last natural
resource pools, markets and cheap labour. To suggest, they do all this to help the poor is high
cynicism.
G Perhaps the most traumatic impact of globalization has resulted from local economies being
forced to shift from a small-scale diversified agricultural model towards the industrial export
model. Half the world’s population still lives directly on the land, growing food for their
communities. They grow staples and a mix of diverse crops, and they replant with indigenous
seed varieties developed over centuries. They have perfected their own fertilization and
pesticide management. Such systems have sustained hundreds of millions of people for
millennia.
Global corporations must resist local self-sufficiency. Profit is generated by increased
processing activity and global trading. We have seen companies spend millions of dollars on
publicity professing that small farmers are not productive enough to feed the hungry world.
This publicity runs in tandems with the investment and trade strategies of the same companies
– strategies that aim to replace local, diverse farming for self-reliance with monocultures. The
people who once grew their crops are driven off their land. People who once fed themselves
become landless, homeless, jobless and hungry. Dependency and starvation replace self-
sufficient livelihoods and self-reliant nations, while global corporations maintain their wealth
by shipping luxury items thousands of miles to already overfed markets. Clearly, these
corporations are not concerned about feeding the hungry. They are concerned about
themselves.

The passage has seven sections labeled, A-G. For questions 1-6, choose the correct heading for
each section from the list of headings in the box. You do not need to use all the headings.
i. Initial gains – ultimate disaster

ii. A stark contrast between the poor and the super-rich
iii. The obliteration of traditional practices
iv. The poor must take some responsibility
v. Boast about small victories are misplaced
vi. We know best – don’t try to stop us
vii. Markets yet to be exploited
viii. Incompetence or a well-planned strategy?
ix. Parties on both sides can’t see the shortcomings
x. Asia leads the way
Write your answers here
0. Section A: ___vi____ 1. Section B: _______ 2. Section C: _______
3. Section D: _______ 4. Section E: _______ 5. Section F: _______
6. Section G: _______
For questions 7-11, complete the notes. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Globalization – two sides of the coin
Advocates say:
Growth realized only by (7) ______________________ to business
Hope of salvation thwarted by (8) __________________________.
Opponents say:
(9) ______________________ of the system equally skeptical
Millions destitute without essential (10) ______________________
(11) ________________________ now wealthier than some countries
For questions 12-16, decide if the following statements reflect the opinion of the writer in the
reading passage? Write:
(Y) YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer.
(N) NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer.
(NG) NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this.
00. Authorities in poorer countries are often unable to act even when they wish to.
12. Globalization enthusiasts are typically modest about any success stories.
13. A tiny minority of people have benefited from any growth in poorer countries.
14. The ‘Asian Tigers’ economies became rich by following the advices of western financiers.
15. Big financial institutions were solely to blame for the collapse of the ‘Asian Tiger’ economies.
16.The poor are becoming more aware that globalization will end in disillusion.
Write your answers here:
00 12 13 14 15 16
Y
For questions 17-21, complete the sentences. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each
answer.
17. The writer believes that poor farmers have been badly affected by having to change their
business __________________.
18. Traditional farmers use _________________ native to their own countries to grow crops.
19. The writer suggests that global corporations pay for ____________________ that undermines
the role of small farmers.
20. _____________________ take the place of sustainable systems that benefit the local
community.
21. The writer feels that people who already have enough are encouraged to buy
________________ that are unnecessarily transported across the world.
Part 2 : For questions 22-27. Read the following passage and , for each question, choose one best
answers (A, B, C or D) based on what stated in the passage or on what can be inferred from the
passage. Write your answers (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Lucy gets a new job on a newspaper

It was a precarious period for her where her own fortunes were concerned. She had to rely on freelance
work for six months after the quality weekly magazine folded. The regular salary cheque had always
seemed derisively small, but now it was like lost riches. Doggedly, she wrote letters and telephoned
and peppered editors with unsolicited articles and suggestions. Sometimes she struck lucky and got a
commission. She wrote a profile of a woman politician who appreciated her fair minded approach and
tipped her off about a local government row in a complacent cathedral town. Lucy went there,
investigated, talked to people and wrote a piece exposing a rich cauldron of corruption which was
snapped up by a national daily newspaper. This in turn led to a commission to investigate the
controversial siting of a theme park in the north of England. Her article was noticed by the features
editor in search of something sharp and bracing on the heritage industry in general. She was getting a
name for abrasive comment, for spotting an issue and homing in upon it. Anxiously, she scoured the
press for hints of impending issues. In this trade, she saw, you needed not so much to be abreast of
things as ahead of them, lying in wait for circumstance, ready to pounce.
But an article sold every week or two did not pay the bills. She began to contemplate, bleakly, a return
to the treadmill of proofreading and copy-editing. And then one day she walked into the offices of the
national daily which had taken her cauldron of corruption piece and whose features editor had since
looked kindly upon her. Having handed over a speculative piece on the latest educational theories
she’d written, she fell into conversation with an acquaintance and learned that one of the paper’s
regular columnists had fallen foul of the editor and departed in a cloud of dust. The column,
traditionally addressed to matters of the moment and written so as to provoke attention and
controversy, was untethered, so to speak. Lucy made the necessary phone call before her nerve went.
She was asked to submit a piece as a trial run which they published. ‘Great,’ they said. ‘We’ll let you
know,’ they said. ‘Soon,’ they assured her, ‘really very soon.’ She chewed her nails for a fortnight; a
seasoned hack was given a trial run after her; she read his contribution which, she saw with absolute
clarity, was succinct, incisive and original. Or just possibly anodyne, banal and plodding.
And then, the phone call came. She’d have a weekly column with her own by-line and her photograph,
postage-stamp size, next to it. There’d be a salary cheque, and perhaps fame and success to follow that.
Thinking more pragmatically, she realised that the job presented her with not only a wonderful
opportunity but also the inevitable pressure of keeping up with the twists and turns of events to which
she must supply a perceptive commentary.

‘A start,’ she said to her mother, Maureen, and Bruce, her step-father. ‘It’s a start anyway, but they
could fire me at any moment.’
‘Just let them try,’ said Maureen belligerently. ‘I think you’re better with your hair a bit shorter. Or
maybe that’s not a very flattering picture. I think you’re very clever. You did some lovely essays at
school. I wonder if I’ve still got any of them somewhere.’
Later, when she was alone, Lucy thought that her appointment had probably been a piece of good
fortune. She refused to allow the word luck. She was young yet, and this was something of a plum. She
must have got the job on her merits, she told herself, along with whatever assistance there may have
been from the inadequacies of others considered for the appointment, or the failure of further rivals to
apply. What she was never to know was that in fact the editor had been on the verge of offering the
column to the seasoned hack – had been about to pick up the phone – when the colleague he most
disliked had walked into his office and spoken with satisfaction of the prospect of closer association
with this old crony of his. The editor listened with some indignation, first at the assumption that this
would be his decision, and then at the notion of these two ganging up under his nose. As soon as the
colleague was out of the room he reached for the phone. And rang Lucy.
And so it began, that time during which she was so feverishly hitched to the affairs of public life that
in retrospect it was to seem as though she hurtled from day to day with the onward rush of the news,
denied any of the lethargy of individual existence.
22. After losing her job, how did Lucy feel about the salary she used to earn?
A She had been foolish to give it up.
B It had given her a sense of security.
C She should have appreciated it more.
D It represented a fair return for her work.
23. Lucy thinks the secret of success as a freelance journalist is to
A keep yourself informed about current affairs.
B adopt a controversial style of writing.
C identify future newsworthy situations.
D make as many contacts as possible.
24. What made Lucy decide to apply for a job on the national daily?
A She had a friend who worked there.
B She had impressed the features editor.
C She had gained a reputation for effective reporting.
D She had discovered some information about a vacancy
25. It is suggested that Lucy’s mother Maureen
A is forgetful and absent-minded.
B understands little about Lucy’s job.
C has good critical judgement about writing.
D expects Lucy will have trouble with the editor.
26. On reflection, how did Lucy account for the fact that she got the job?
A She hoped it was because she deserved it.
B She was unable to understand how it happened.
C She thought her age had given her an advantage.
D She knew she was better than the many applicants.
27. The impression given of the editor is that he is
A anxious to please his colleagues.
B unable to make up his mind.
C prone to act on impulse.
D quick to take offence.

22 23 24 25 26 27
Part 3: You are going to read an article. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the story. Choose
from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (28-34). There is one extra paragraph which
you do not need to use. Write your answers in the given spaces.
_________________________________________________________________________________
Heavens on Earth
The white and silver buildings of the VLT or Very Large Telescope at the ESO (European
Organization for Astronomical research in the Southern Hemisphere) stand tall and imposing on top of
a mountain shining brightly under the desert sun. At night they come alive, the outer walls open up and
silently slide through 306 degrees, allowing an uninterrupted view of the Southern Hemisphere sky.
Inside, a giant eye looks deep into the stars and beyond, looking for life, mysteries and sense out of the
darkness.
28
Getting to the place is a journey of discovery in itself. After leaving the Pacific Ocean, you head south
and hook up with the Panamericana Highway and into the desert, the driest on Earth. It’s a two-hour
drive to the observatory, but it feels longer as the harsh light, the rocky, dusty desert, the complete
absence of any form of life, except for the giant trucks playing their trade along the highway, is
unsettling.
29
The reason, we are told, is simple. Astronomers need a clear view of the sky at night. Optimal
conditions are to be found in deserts: there are fewer of the negative factors like light pollution that can
make the four telescopes which form VLT work less effectively. Here no lights are allowed after dark,
all windows are screened, and even the main residence where 108 people sleep, leaks no more than
40W when the lights are turned on.
30
These monsters and their smaller auxiliaries bring to mind the set of Star Wars. But at sunset, they take
on another look. This could be Stonehenge, another magic circle where our forefathers tried to make
sense of the stars. Soon after arriving, we are taken to see the inside of one of the telescopes. They
have been named in the indigenous Mapuche language following a competition among Chilean school-
children.
31
Once these have been completed, the telescope is handed over to the team who will operate one or
more of the telescopes from a control room. All night long these giants will be moving and pointing to
the sky helping the scientists unravel new problems. Fourteen countries contribute around 160 million
Euros to their joint astronomical cause, and Paranal is allocated 20% of that figure. Standing in the
shadow of the VLT, one wonders what all this taxpayers’ money buys.
32
They all answered with the usual ‘finding out where we came from, where we are going, are we alone
in the universe…?’ And, as the ESO has no commercial use and is a not-for-profit organization, it’s
easy to imagine these scientists indulging in their research and being cut off from reality.

33
One of Paranal’s great achievements was the discovery of a planet outside our solar system. It is huge,
five times bigger than Jupiter, and the work being done now is aimed at understanding the physical and
chemical composition of this, and other, giant Earth-like planets. Truly a quest for life in outer space.
34
‘We need even sharper images to settle the issue of whether any other configuration is possible and we
counted on the ESO VLT to provide those’ says Reinhard Genzel, director at the Max-Planck Institute
for Extraterrestrial Physics. ‘Now the era of observational physics has truly begun.’
Choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (28-34) in the main text. There is one
extra paragraph which you do not need.
Missing paragraphs
A But taking further revealed a simple truth: that having pretty much discovered all there is to know
about our world on the Earth, astronomy looks at the vast Terra Incognita which surrounds us.
These scientists are themselves very much as a mixture of Renaissance men and women: all
questing for further knowledge.
B Every evening an engineer is assigned to one of these telescopes and his or her job is to get it ready
so that it can then be taken over at night by a three-person team. The engineer runs through a series
of tests in preparation for the work which will be done late that night.
C The central unit inside weighs 450 tons and houses the main 8.5 m mirror. A second, smaller mirror
is made from berylium, a rare metal. The external walls can all slide open to allow the telescopes to
point in any direction as it rotates soundlessly on its base.
D As we drive further into the desert, the road starts to rise gradually, with hills and steep valleys all
around us. The environment is harsh in the extreme and it’s hard to imagine that a community of
European scientists have chosen this place to establish a world-leading laboratory.
E It is a question that many in Paranal find a little difficult to answer. Maybe because scientists, due to
the nature of their research and also, maybe, their mindsets, tend to focus on very specific areas of
competence and therefore are not required to have a broader ‘strategic’ view.
F The other big consideration in the desert is the absence of cloud cover and, higher up, the lack of
atmospheric dust and all the other interference caused by humans or nature which contributes to
partially hiding the secrets of the universe. ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star’ is just what astronomers do
not want to hear, as this means there is debris between the eye, the telescopes and the stars.
G We are in Paranal, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where at 2,600 m above sea level, Europe has its
most advanced astronomical observatory. It’s a leading site, a joint undertaking by fourteen
European countries focused on developing the most advanced scientific tools for observing the
universe and enhancing the knowledge base for industry, education and culture.
H Astronomers have also used the data from VLT for another purpose – to attempt to find out how old
the universe is. It seems that the oldest star is 13.2 billion years old, which means the universe must
be even older. They also use VLT to look into galaxies beyond ours, and where they continue to
find evidence of super-massive black holes, where all kinds of violent activity occurs.

Part 4: For questions 35-40, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
ADVENTURE TRAVEL
Wilfred Thesinger, the legendary explorer once said, “We live our lives second-hand”. Sadly, his
words are true for far too many of us, as we (35) _________ in front of the television, (36)
__________ in ‘reality’ television, living our adventures through the words and pictures of others. But
it does not have to be that way – there are more opportunities than ever for taking a break from our
increasingly sanitized lives and exploring not only some exotic (37) ________ of the globe, but also
our own abilities and ambitions. The kind of first-hand experience whose loss Thesinger laments is
still available for anyone willing to forsake the beaten (38) ___________ , and put their mind to (39)
_________ into the less explored regions of this diverse planet.
The trend in travel in recent years has been towards what is known as adventure travel. But adventure
doesn’t have to involve physical exertion; be it haggling over a souvenir in Peru, or getting lost in the
labyrinthine passages of a Moroccan souk, it all (40) ____________.
35. A. droop B. slump C. sag D. plunge
36. A. captivated B. gripped C. engrossed D. riveted
37. A. corner B. edge C. angle D. pocket
38. A. path B. road C. track D. course
39. A. turning out B. taking off C. making out D. dropping off
40. A. fits B. belongs C. counts D. holds
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IV. WRITING (5 points)

Part 1: Read the following extract on how camouflaging and mimicry help insects and use your own
words to summarize it. Your summary should be no more than 120 words long. (1.0. p.)
Have you ever wondered why soldiers are always clad in green? This is to enable them to camouflage
themselves during wartime. Hiding in the jungles, their green attire blend into the surrounding trees
and shrubs, making it difficult for the enemies to spot them.
Long before man make use of camouflaging, insects have already adopted the tactic of disguise to
escape from the clutches of their predators. By having body colors close to those of the rocks and dried
leaves, they catch less attention from the predators and hence escape from being pursued. However,
this kind of disguise works only if the insects remain still in the presence of their predators.
Butterflies and moths have developed a variety of camouflage strategies since they are quite
defenseless and their predators - birds are abundant in supply. Many moth caterpillars resemble dead
twigs while the young of certain species of butterflies appear like bird droppings. Adult butterflies and
moths camouflage themselves too, in attempts to escape from their hunters - birds who are superior
gliders. Possessing wings which resemble dried leaves help certain butterflies and moths to hide
among heaps of dried leaves when predators are around.
Fortunately, not all insects choose the art of disguise to escape from their predators; otherwise, the
world would be so dull and colorless. There are insects which assimilate the bright body colors of bees
and wasps to escape from being pursued by their predators. The concept of mimicry was derived,
owing to the bees and wasps. Long ago, birds have already learnt to avoid brilliantly colored wasps
and bees in fear of their painful stings. Hence, over millions of years, many harmless insects have
assimilated the bees and wasps by imitating their bright body colors and shapes. In this way, they
appear dangerous to their predators and hence ward them off.
Mimics of the wasps and bees are most commonly found in the gardens. The furry, plump bee-fly not
only appears like the bumble bee in terms of body colors, even its hums sound similar too. The only
difference is that the bee-fly does not have a sting and is hence harmless. The hoverfly is another

insect which imitates the body colors of the wasps. Their bodies are striped yellow and black. The only
deviations are that hoverflies do not have stings and they have only one pair of wings each while
wasps have two pairs each. These variations are hardly noticed by the predators and hence help them
to escape.
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other countries.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
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Students in secondary schools in Vietnam will be allowed to use their mobile phones in class for
educational purposes (according to a new charter). However, the new rule has also raised public
concern in Vietnam over its supposed “detrimental” effects on students.
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NĂM HỌC 2020 - 2021
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN TIẾNG ANH
TỔNG ĐIỂM: 18
I. (0.2 x 25 = 5 points)
Part 1: shared by Angels of Otto Channel
Task 1: 1. G 2. C 3. E 4. D 5. B
Task 2: 6. D 7. H 8. A 9. C 10. F
Part 2:
11. instinctive 16. paying attention
12. school exams 17. telling her off
13. creative 18. thought process
14. (had) got stuck/were stuck 19. intellect (mode)
15. teeth
Part 3:
20. D 21. A 22. B 23. D 24. B 25. C
II. (0.2 x 20 = 4 points)

Part 1:
1. B 2. C 3. D 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. B
8. C 9. C 10. D 11. A 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. B
Part 2:
16. adhesion 17. inexhaustible 18. quintessentially

19. hypocritical 20. satirized
III. (0.1 x 40 = 4 points)
Part 1:
0. Section A: ___vi____ 1. Section B: ___ix____ 2. Section C: ___ii____
3. Section D: ___v____ 4. Section E: ___i____ 5. Section F: __vii_____
6. Section G: ___iii____
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7. removing barriers 8. protesters 9. proponents / advocators
10. public services 11. Corporations
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17. model 18. seed varieties 19. publicity
20. Monocultures 21. luxury items
Part 2:
22 C 23 C 24 D 25 B 26 A 27 C
Part 3:
28 G 29 D 30 F 31 B 32 E 33 A 34 H
Part 4:
35 36 37 38 39 40
B C A C B C
Part 1: (1 point)
Model answer
Camouflaging and mimicry have helped defenseless insects escape from their predators.
Camouflaging requires insects to have body colors close to the surroundings so as to appear less
eye-catching to predators. The moth caterpillars look like dead twigs while certain butterfly
caterpillars resemble bird droppings. Some butterflies and moths have wings that resemble
dried leaves. Mimicry requires harmless insects to adopt the body colors and shapes of the
wasps and bees so as to fool their predators into thinking that they are dangerous. Predators
usually avoid them, thinking they have stings too. The bee-fly and hoverfly assimilate the body
colors of the bumble bee and wasps respectively and the bee-fly even hums like the bumble bee.
( 118 words )
Part 2: …………………………………….(2 points)
- Task achievement …………….…...…(0.5)
(e.g. requirement of the task, overview of main trends, differences or stages, purpose, highlights key
features/bullet points)
- Coherence and cohesion…….….…..(0.5)
(e.g. logically organizes information and ideas, progression, cohesive devices)
- Lexical resource …………….……...(0.5)
(e.g. range of vocabulary, word choice, spelling, lexical items)
- Grammatical range and accuracy... (0.5)
(e.g. range of structures, simple and complex structures, error free sentences)
2
Part 3: …………………………………….(2 points)
- Task response………………………(0.5)
(e.g. addresses parts of the task, position, main ideas, supporting ideas, conclusion drawn)
(e.g. logically organizes information and ideas, progression, cohesive devices, central topic within each
paragraph, referencing, paragraphing)
(e.g. range of vocabulary, word choice, spelling, uncommon lexical items, awareness of style and
collocation)
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NĂM HỌC 2019 - 2020
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian : 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề thi gồm có 14 trang) Ngày thi : 22 / 9 / 2019
Chữ ký Chữ ký Tổng điểm Tổng điểm Số phách

Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2 (Bằng số) (Bằng chữ)
Số thứ tự
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Điểm từng phần:

I. ………………. Hướng dẫn thi Nghe hiểu:
II. ……………… • Thí sinh có 3 phút để nghiên cứu các câu hỏi.
• Bài nghe gồm 3 phần , mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần.
III. ………………
• Bắt đầu mỗi phần đều có thông báo (bằng tiếng Anh)
IV. ……………… • Bắt đầu và kết thúc phần thi nghe là đoạn nhạc.
Cộng: ………….….....
I. LISTENING (5 points)
You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about things that have recently
happened at work.
You will hear the recording twice. While you listen, you must complete BOTH TASKS.
Task 1
For questions 1-5, match the extracts with the situations, listed A-H. Write your answer (A-H) in the
blanks (1-5).
A. receiving an unwelcome visitor
Speaker 1: ________ (1)
B. being unfairly blamed for something
C. making a terrible mistake Speaker 2: ________ (2)
D. receiving an unexpected offer
Speaker 3: ________ (3)
E. doing something uncharacteristic
Speaker 4: ________ (4)
F. resolving a misunderstanding
G. avoiding an argument Speaker 5: ________ (5)
H. changing an opinion of someone
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Task 2
For questions 6-10, match the extracts with the feeling each speaker expresses, listed A-H. Write your
answer (A-H) in the blanks (6-10).
A. amusement
B. anger Speaker 1: _________ (6)
C. guilt
Speaker 2: _________ (7)
D. confusion
E. resignation Speaker 3: _________ (8)
F. shock Speaker 4: _________ (9)
G. suspicion
Speaker 5: _________ (10)
H. sadness

You will hear a talk given by a journalist who is interested in a type of insect called the damselfly. For
questions 11-19, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
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There is a lack of information about both the number and _________________ (11) of damselflies
across different locations in Britain.
The damselfly has been badly affected by recent changes in the countryside, for example,
(12)____________________ and the filling-in of ponds.
An observer can identify a damselfly by the position of its (13) _________________ while it is resting.
Because of their colours, some damselflies are described as resembling types of
(14)_____________________.
The commonest species of damselfly in the speaker’s area is called the (15) _________________.
The most endangered species of damselfly in the speaker’s area is called the (16) _________________.
The best place to find damselflies is near water which is (17) _______________, and which supports
plant life.
Damselflies are easiest to see in the hours immediately following (18) __________________.
The Conservation Trust would like to make a (19) ___________________ of places where damselflies
can still be found.
You will hear a radio interview with Diana Boardman, the manager of an orchestra. For questions 20 to
25, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. You will listen to the
recording twice.
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20. Diana feels that her orchestra is special because _________.

A. it benefits from a long history
B. her players are skilled in many areas
C. it is known for a particular type of music
D. she has associated with the right people
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21. Diana says that her concerts ________ .
A. are better attended than most
B. consists of a mix of music types
C. can be interpreted in two ways
D. have a high risk element to them
22. Diana thinks programming an entire night of modern music ________.
A. a slip between better known pieces
B. a risk to the event
C. a sort of a tendency
D. a new trend for women artists
23. According to Diana, it is important to ________.
A. move towards a change in music traditions
B. distinguish classical music from other art forms
C. understand the past influences on music
D. recognize the role of women in the history of music
24. Diana feels that the number of men in classical music audiences ______.
A. should come as no surprise
B. is generally underestimated
C. reflects how things have changed
D. is difficult to explain
25. Why did Diana decide to make arts administration her career?
A. It was the subject she had studied.
B. It proved to be satisfying.
C. She likes a competitive atmosphere.
D. Influential colleagues recommended it.
II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (4 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes:
1. His driving license has been _________ on the ground of drinking driving.
A. repealed B. revoked C. nullified D. recalled
2. Due to the nature of the earthquake, a much larger__________ of the population might be affected.
A. segment B. density C. totality D. division
3. The doctor warned him that if he continued to pick the sore he would _________ it.
A. demolish B. designate C. exasperate D. aggravate
4. The lawyer’s aggressive questioning seemed to_________ the witness on the stand.
A. rattle B. battle C. stable D. ladle
5. Could you possibly __________ me at the next committee meeting?
A. stand in for B. make up for C. go back on D. keep in with
6. Most teenagers go through a rebellious _________ for a few years but the soon grow out of it.
A. stint B. span C. duration D. phase
7. The rents in this area are __________ the highest in the city.
A. far from away B. away by far C. far and away D. far to away
8. We finally managed to _________ our way through the crowd and reach the exit.
A. create B. insist C. move D. force
9. Suddenly, I overheard Melissa and Alex talking about me in the _________ room.
A. attached B. beside C. near D. adjacent
10. _________ in front of a camera lens changes the color of the light that reaches the film.
A. Placed a filter B. A filter is placed C. A filter placed D. When a filter placed
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11. ________ relations with friends and acquaintances, play a major role in the social development of
adolescents.
A. What are called peer group relations are C. Peer group relations, the
B. Peer group relations are D. By peer group relations, we mean
12. _______ towards shore, its shape is changed by its collision with the shallow sea bottom.
A. During a wave rolls B. As a wave rolls C. A wave rolls D. A wave’s rolling
13. ________ so incredible is that these insects successfully migrate to places that they have
never even seen.
A. That makes the monarch buttertlies’ migration
B. The migration of the monarch butterflies is
C. What makes the monarch butterflies’ migration
D. The migration of the monarch butterflies, which is
14. Reinforced concrete is concrete that is strengthened by metal bars _____.
A. in it that are embedded C. are that it embedded in
B. embedded that are in it D. that are embedded in it
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Part 2: For questions 15-20, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding
numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning.
THE DESIRE TO KNOW
Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human (0)______ (EXIST). This irrepressible desire to know is not
a characteristic of inanimate objects. Nor does it seem to be (15) ______ (ATTRIBUTE) to some form
of living organisms which, for that very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive. A
tree, for example, does not display recognizable curiosity, not does a sponge, or even an oyster. If
chance events bring them poison, predators or parasites, they die as (16)_______ (CEREMONY) as
they lived.
Early in the scheme of life, independent motion was developed by some organisms. It meant an (17)
______ (ORDINARY) advance in their control of the environment. A moving organism no longer
waited in stolid (18) _______ (RIGID) for food to come its way, but went out after it. The individual
that hesitated in the (19) _______(ZEAL) search for food, or that was overly conservative in its
investigation, starved.
As organisms grew more complex, more messages or greater variety were received from and about the
surrounding environment. At the same time, the nervous system, the living instrument that interprets
and stores the data collected by the sense organs, became (20) _______(INCREASE) complex.
Your answers : 0. existence
15. 16. 17.
18. 19. 20.
III. READING (4 points)

Part 1: For questions 1- 10, read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.
Many separate fires (1) _______ in the humus of the forest floor. Smoke sometimes (2) _______ the
sun, which was often visible only at midday. On September 30, flames came within three miles of the
town of Green Bay, (3) ________ 1,200 cords of wood stored at a charcoal kiln.
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The settlements in the area were becoming increasingly (4) ________ from both the outside world and
one another as railroad and telegraph lines burned. The fires seemed to wax and wane, (5) ________ on
the wind and chance. On September 30 the Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle reported hopefully that “the
fires have nearly (6) _________ now in this vicinity.”
But the paper was wrong, and the fires were growing. By October 4, the smoke was so thick on Green
Bay that ships had to use their foghorns and (7)______ by compass. On October 7, the paper, reduced
to looking for any scrap of good news, noted that at least the smoke had greatly reduced the mosquito
population and that “a certain establishment down on the bay shore that has been (8) _________ to the
respectable citizens” had burned.
The paper’s editor, (9) _________ by the burning of the telegraph line, could not know it, but a large,
deep low-pressure area was moving in from the west. The winds circling it would turn the smoldering
forest of northeastern Wisconsin into (10) ________ on earth.
1. A. extinguished B. engulfed C. spread D. smoldered

2. A. obscured B. burnt C. illuminated D. exposed
3. A. damaging B. consuming C. avoiding D. licking
4. A. frightened B. lonely C. isolated D. inundated
5. A. depending B. independent C. waiting D. from
6. A. increased B. died out C. flared D. diminished
7. A. steer B. drive C. guess D. navigate
8. A. frequented B. obnoxious C. open D. ignorant
9. A. cut-off B. burnt C. dismissed D. chased
10. A. peace B. heaven C. hell D. paradise
Your answers here
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Part 2 : For questions 11-22. Read the following passage and , for each question, choose one best
answers (A, B, C or D) based on what stated in the passage or on what can be inferred from the
passage. Write your answers (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
METHODS OF STUDYING INFANT PERCEPTION
In the study of perceptual abilities of infants, a number of techniques are used to determine infants’
responses to various stimuli. Because they cannot verbalize or fill out questionnaires, indirect
techniques of naturalistic observation are used as the primary means of determining what infants can
see, hear, feel, and so forth. Each of these methods compares an infant’s state prior to the introduction
of a stimulus with its state during or immediately following the stimulus. The difference between the
two measures provides the researcher with an indication of the level and duration of the response to the
stimulus. For example, if a uniformly moving pattern of some sort is passed across the visual field of a
neonate (newborn), repetitive following movements of the eye occur. The occurrence of these eye
movements provides evidence that the moving pattern is perceived at some level by the newborn.
Similarly, changes in the infant’s general level of motor activity - turning the head, blinking the eyes,
crying, and so forth - have been used by researchers as visual indicators of the infant’s perceptual
abilities.
Such techniques, however, have limitations. First, the observation may be unreliable in that two or
more observers may not agree that the particular response occurred, or to what degree it occurred.
Second, responses are difficult to quantify. Often the rapid and diffuse movements of the infant make it
difficult to get an accurate record of the number of responses. The third, and most potent, limitation is
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change from no stimulus to a stimulus. The infant may be responding to aspects of the stimulus
different than those identified by the investigator. Therefore, when observational assessment is used as
a technique for studying infant perceptual abilities, care must be taken not to overgeneralize from the
data or to rely on one or two studies as conclusive evidence of a particular perceptual ability of the
infant.
Observational assessment techniques have become much more sophisticated, reducing the limitations
just presented. Film analysis of the infant’s responses, heart and respiration rate monitors, and
nonnutritive sucking devices are used as effective tools in understanding infant perception. [A] Film
analysis permits researchers to carefully study the infant’s responses over and over and in slow motion.
[B] Precise measurements can be made of the length and frequency of the infant’s attention between
two stimuli. [C] Heart and respiration monitors provide the investigator with the number of heartbeats
or breaths taken when a new stimulus is presented. [D] Numerical increases are used as quantifiable
indicators of heightened interest in the new stimulus. Increases in nonnutritive sucking were first used
as an assessment measure by researchers in 1969. They devised an apparatus that connected a baby’s
pacifier to a counting device. As stimuli were presented, changes in the infant’s sucking behavior were
recorded. Increases in the number of sucks were used as an indicator of the infant’s attention to or
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Two additional techniques of studying infant perception have come into vogue. The first is the
habituation- dishabituation technique, in which a single stimulus is presented repeatedly to the infant
until there is a measurable decline (habituation) in whatever attending behavior is being observed. At
that point a new stimulus is presented, and any recovery (dishabituation) in responsiveness is recorded.
If the infant fails to dishabituate and continues to show habituation with the new stimulus, it is assumed
that the baby is unable to perceive the new stimulus as different. The habituation-dishabituation
paradigm has been used most extensively with studies of auditory and olfactory perception in intants.
The second technique relies on evoked potentials, which are electrical brain responses that may be
related to a particular stimulus because of where they originate. Changes in the electrical pattern of the
brain indicate that the stimulus is getting through to the infant’s central nervous system and eliciting
some form of response.
Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detect or
discriminate between stimuli. With these sophisticated observational assessment and electro
physiological measures, we know that the neonate of only a few days is far more perceptive than
previously suspected. However, these measures are only “indirect” indicators of the infant’s perceptual
abilities.
11. The word “uniformly” in the paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_______.
A. clearly B. quickly C. consistently D. occasionally
12. Paragraph 1 indicates that researchers use indirect methods primarily to observe the _________ .
A. range of motor activity in neonates
B. frequency and duration of various stimuli
C. change in an infant’s state following the introduction of a stimulus
D. range of an infant’s visual field
13. Why does the author mention “repetitive following movements of the eye” in paragraph 1?
A. To identify a response that indicates a neonate’s perception of a stimulus
B. To explain why a neonate is capable of responding to stimuli only through repetitive movements
C. To argue that motor activity in a neonate may be random and unrelated to stimuli
D. To emphasize that responses to stimuli vary in infants according to age
14. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 2 as a problem in using the technique of
direct observation?
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A. It is impossible to be certain of the actual cause of an infant’s response.
B. Infants’ responses, which occur quickly and diffusely, are often difficult to measure.
C. Infants do not respond well to stimuli presented in an unnatural laboratory setting.
D. It may be difficult for observers to agree on the presence or the degree of a response.
15. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the underlined sentence in
paragraph 2? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential
information.
A. Researchers using observational assessment techniques on infants must not overgeneralize and
must base their conclusions on data from many studies.
B. On the basis of the data from one or two studies, it seems that some infants develop a particular
perceptual ability not observed in others.
C. To use data from one or two studies on infants' perceptual abilities, it is necessary to use
techniques that will provide conclusive evidence.
D. When researchers fail to make generalizations from their studies, their observed data is often
inconclusive.
16. What is the author’s primary purpose in paragraph 3?
A. To explain why researchers must conduct more than one type of study when they are attempting
to understand infant perception
B. To describe new techniques for observing infant perception that overcome problems identified in
the previous paragraph
C. To present and evaluate the conclusions of various studies on infant perception
D. To point out the strengths and weaknesses of three new methods for quantifying an infant’s
reaction to stimuli
17. The word “quantifiable” in the paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______ .
A. visual B. permanent C. meaningful D. measurable
18. Paragraph 3 mentions all of the following as indications of an infant's heightened interest in a new
stimulus EXCEPT an increase in
A. sucking behavior B. the number of breaths taken C. heart rate D. eye movements
19. According to paragraph 4, which of the following leads to the conclusion that infants are able to
differentiate between stimuli in a habituation-dishabituation study?
A. Dishabituation occurs with the introduction of a new stimulus.
B. Electrical responses in the infant’s brain decline with each new stimulus.
C. Habituation is continued with the introduction of a new stimulus.
D. The infant displays little change in electrical brain responses.
20. In paragraph 4, what does the author suggest about the way an infant’s brain perceives stimuli?
A. An infant’s potential to respond to a stimulus may be related to the size of its brain.
B. Changes in the electrical patterns of an infant’s brain are difficult to detect.
C. Different areas of an infant's brain respond to different types of stimuli.
D. An infant is unable to perceive more than one stimulus at a time.
21. Paragraph 5 indicates that researchers who used the techniques described in the passage discovered
that ____________ .
A. infants find it difficult to perceive some types of stimuli
B. neonates of only a few days cannot yet discriminate between stimuli
C. observational assessment is less useful for studying infant perception than
researchers previously believed
D. a neonate is able to perceive stimuli better than researchers once thought
22. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the
passage. Where would the sentence best fit?
The repetition allows researchers to observe the infant's behavior until they reach agreement about the
presence and the degree of the infant's response.
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Where would the sentence best fit?
A. Choice [A] B. Choice [B] C. Choice [C] D. Choice [D]
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Part 3: Questions 22-33 are based on the reading passage below.

Information theory – the big idea
Information theory lies at the heart of everything - from DVD players and the genetic code of
DNA to the physics of the universe at its most fundamental. It has been central to the
development of the science of communication, which enables data to be sent electronically and
has therefore had a major impact on our lives
A In April 2002 an event took place which demonstrated one of the many applications of
information theory. The space probe, Voyager I, launched in 1977, had sent back spectacular
images of Jupiter and Saturn and then soared out of the Solar System on a one-way mission to
the stars. After 25 years of exposure to the freezing temperatures of deep space, the probe was
beginning to show its age. Sensors and circuits were on the brink of failing and NASA experts
realised that they had to do something or lose contact with their probe forever. The solution was
to get a message to Voyager I to instruct it to use spares to change the failing parts. With the
probe 12 billion kilometres from Earth, this was not an easy task. By means of a radio dish
belonging to NASA’s Deep Space Network, the message was sent out into the depths of space.
Even travelling at the speed of light, it took over 11 hours to reach its target, far beyond the
orbit of Pluto. Yet, incredibly, the little probe managed to hear the faint call from its home
planet, and successfully made the switchover.
B It was the longest-distance repair job in history, and a triumph for the NASA engineers. But it
also highlighted the astonishing power of the techniques developed by American
Communications engineer Claude Shannon, who had died just a year earlier. Born in 1916 in
Petoskey, Michigan, Shannon showed an early talent for maths and for building gadgets, and
made breakthroughs in the foundations of computer technology when still a student. While at
Bell Laboratories, Shannon developed information theory, but shunned the resulting acclaim. In
the 1940s, he single-handedly created an entire science of communication which has since
inveigled its way into a host of applications, from DVDs to satellite communications to bar
codes - any area, in short, where data has to be conveyed rapidly yet accurately.
C This all seems light years away from the down-to-earth uses Shannon originally had for his
work, which began when he was a 22-year-old graduate engineering student at the prestigious
Massaehuaetts Institute of Technology in 1939. He set out with an apparently simple aim: to pin
down the precise meaning of the concept of ‘information’. The most basic form of information,
Shannon argued, is whether something is true or false - which can be captured in the binary
unit, or 'bit', of the form 1 or 0. Having identified this fundamental unit, Shannon set about
defining otherwise vague ideas about information and how to transmit it from place to place. In
the process he discovered something surprising: it is always possible to guarantee information
will get through random interference - 'noise’ - intact.
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D Noise usually means unwanted sounds which interfere with genuine information. Information
theory generalises this idea via theorems that capture the effects of noise with mathematical
precision. In particular, Shannon showed that noise sets a limit on the rate at which information
can pass along communication channels while remaining error-free. This rate depends on the
relative strengths of the signal and noise travelling down the communication channel, and on its
capacity (its ‘bandwith’). The resulting limit, given in units of bits per second, is the absolute
maximum rate of error-free communication given signal strength and noise level. The trick,
Shannon showed, is to find ways of packaging up - ‘coding’ - information to cope with the
ravages of noise, while staying within the information-carrying capacity - 'bandwidth' - of the
communication system being used.
E Over the years scientists have devised many such coding methods, and they have proved crucial
in many technological feats. The Voyager spacecraft transmitted data using codes which added
one extra bit for every single bit of information; the result was an error rate of just one bit in
10,000 - and stunningly clear pictures of the planets. Other codes have become part of everyday
life - such as the Universal Product Code, or bar code, which uses a simple error-detecting
system that ensures supermarket check-out lasers can read the price even on, say, a crumpled
bag of crisps. As recently as 1993, engineers made a major breakthrough by discovering so-
called turbo codes - which come very close to Shannon's ultimate limit for the maximum rate
that data can be transmitted reliably, and now play a key role in the mobile videophone
revolution.
F Shannon also laid the foundations of more efficient ways of storing information, by stripping
out superfluous (‘redundant') bits from data which contributed little real information. As mobile
phone text messages like ‘I CN CU’ show, it is often possible to leave out a lot of data without
losing much meaning. As with error correction, however, there’s a limit beyond which
messages become too ambiguous. Shannon showed how to calculate this limit, opening the way
to the design of compression methods that cram maximum information into the minimum space.
Questions 23-28
Reading Passage 3 has six paragraphs, A-F. Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write your answers (A-F) in the numbered boxes.
Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 23-28 on your answer sheet.
23 an explanation of the factors affecting the transmission of information
24 an example of how unnecessary information can be omitted
25 a reference to Shannon’s attitude to fame
26 details of a machine capable of interpreting incomplete information
27 a detailed account of an incident involving information theory
28 a reference to what Shannon initially intended to achieve in his research
23 24 25 26 27 28
Questions 29-33 Complete the notes betow.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 33-37 on your answer sheet.
The Voyager 1 Space Probe
• The probe transmitted pictures of both (29) _____________ and _______________, then left
the (30) _____________.
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• The freezing temperatures were found to have a negative effect on parts of the space probe.
• Scientists feared that both the (31) ___________and ___________ were about to stop working.
• The only hope was to tell the probe to replace them with (32) _____________ - but distance
• made communication with the probe difficult.
• A (33) _______________was used to transmit the message at the speed of light.
• The message was picked up by the probe and the switchover took place.
Part 4: You are going to read a short story. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the story.
Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (34-40). There is one extra paragraph
which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the given spaces.
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RAJASTHAN
One evening, by the light of an electric bulb we fortifications were now useless, the palace was
sat out with the villagers in the main Street of a empty. One dark, dusty room had old
‘model village’ of the command area. The photographs and remnants of Victorian bric-a-
Street was unpaved, and the villagers, brac. The small formal garden in the courtyard
welcoming us, had quickly spread cotton rugs was in decay; and the mechanical, decorative
on the ground that had been softened by the nineteenth- century Bundi murals around the
morning’s rain, half hardened by the courtyard had faded to blues and yellows and
afternoon’s heat, and then trampled and greens. In the inner rooms, hidden from the sun,
manured by the village cattle returning at dusk. brighter colours survived, and some panels
The women had withdrawn, we were led with were exquisite. But it all awaited ruin.
the men and, until the rain came roaring in (37) ________________
again, we talked. Their mock aggressiveness and mock
(34) _______________ exasperation held little of real despair or
The problems of the irrigation project the rebellion. It was a ritual show of deference to
commissioner was directing were not only authority, a demonstration of their complete
those of salinity or the ravines or land levelling. dependence on authority. The commissioner
The problem as he saw it, was the remaking of smiled and listened and heard them all; and
men. And this was not simply making men their passion faded.
want something; it meant in the first place,
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bringing them back from the self-wounding and They were far removed from the
the special waste that come with an established commissioner’s anxieties, from his vision of
destitution. what could be done with their land. They were,
(35) ________________ really, at peace with the world they knew. Like
But if in this model village - near Kotah Town, the woman in whose yard we sat. She was
which was fast industrialising - there had been friendly, she had dragged out string beds for us
some movement, Bundi, the next day, seemed from her little brick hut; but her manner was
to take us backward, Bundi and Kotah; to me, slightly supercilious. There was a reason. She
until this trip, they had only been beautiful was happy, she considered herself blessed. She
names, the names of related but distinct schools had had three sons, and she glowed with that
of Rajasthan painting. The artistic glory of achievement.
Bundi had come first in the late seventeenth (39) ________________
century. Men had retreated to their last, impregnable
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Old wars; bravely fought but usually little more their unshakeable place in the scheme of things;
had been at stake other than the honour and and this knowledge was like their knowledge of
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day, rituals marked every stage of a man’s life. its equilibrium. Only India with its great past,
Life itself had been turned to ritual; and its civilisation, its philosophy, and its almost
everything beyond this complete and sanctified holy poverty, offered this truth; India was the
world was vain and phantasmal. truth. And India, for all its surface terrors, could
be proclaimed, without disingenuousness or
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cruelty, as perfect. Not only by pauper but by
But to those who embraced its philosophy of
prince.
distress, India also offered an enduring security,
A We were, as the commissioner said, among men who until recently, cut only the very tops of
sugar cane and left the rest of the plant, the substance of the crop, to rot. So the present concern,
here in the model village, about fertilisers and yields was an immeasurable advance.
B Kingdoms, empires, projects like the commissioner’s; they had come and gone. The monuments
of ambition and restlessness littered the land, so many of them abandoned or destroyed, so
many unfinished, the work of dynasties suddenly supplanted. India taught the vanity of all
action; and the visitor could be appalled by the waste, and by all that now appeared to threaten
the commissioner’s enterprise.
C So handsome, these men of Rajasthan, so self-possessed; it took time to understand that their
concerns were limited. The fields, water, crops, cattle: that was where concern began and
ended. They were a model village, and so they considered themselves. There was little more
that they needed, and I began to see my own ideas of village improvement as fantasies. Nothing
beyond food - and survival - had, as yet, become an object of ambition.
D All vitality had been sucked up into that palace on the hill; and now vitality had gone out of
Bundi. It showed in the rundown town on the hillside below the palace; it showed in the fields;
it showed in the people, more beaten down than at Kotah Town just sixty miles away, less
amenable to the commissioner’s ideas, and more full of complaints. They complained even
when they had no cause; and it seemed that they complained because they felt it was expected
of them.
E All the chivalry of Rajasthan had been reduced here to nothing. The palace was empty; the petty
wars of princess had been absorbed into legend and could no longer be dated. All that remained
was what the visitor could see: small poor fields, ragged men, huts, monsoon mud. But in that
very abjectness lay security. Where the world had shrunk, and ideas of human possibility had
become extinct, the world could be seen as complete.
F The Prince’s state, or what had been his state, was wretched; just the palace and the peasants.
The developments in which he had invested hadn’t yet begun to show. In the morning, in the
rain, I saw young child labourers using their hands alone to shovel gravel onto a waterlogged
path. Groundnuts were the only source of protein here; but the peasants preferred to sell their
crop, and the children were stunted.
G And after the flat waterlogged fields, pallid paddy thinning out at times to marshland, after the
desolation of the road from Kotah, the flooded ditches, the occasional cycle-rickshaw, the damp
groups of bright-turbaned peasants waiting for the bus. Bundi Castle on its hill was startling, its
great walls like the work of giants, the extravagant creation of men who had once had much to
defend.
H Later we sat with the ‘village level’ workers in the shade of a small tree in a woman's yard.
These officials were the last in the chain of command; on them much of the success of the
scheme depended. There had been evidence during the morning’s tour that they hadn’t all been
doing their jobs. But they were not abashed; instead, sitting in a line on a string bed, dressed
like officials in trousers and shirts, they spoke of their need for promotion and status.
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Part 1: Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should
be no more than 120 words long. (1.0. p.)
The Various Communicative Methods Practiced by Animals in the Wild
Communication is part of our everyday life. We greet one another, smile or frown, depending on our
moods. Animals too, communicate, much to our surprise. Just like us, interaction among animals can
be both verbal or non-verbal.
Singing is one way in which animals can interact with one another. Male blackbirds often use their
melodious songs to catch the attention of the females. These songs are usually rich in notes variation,
encoding various kinds of messages. Songs are also used to warn and keep off other blackbirds from
their territory, usually a place where they dwell and reproduce.
Large mammals in the oceans sing too, according to adventurous sailors. Enormous whales groan and
grunt while smaller dolphins and porpoises produce pings, whistles and clicks. These sounds are
surprisingly received by other mates as far as several hundred kilometers away.
Besides singing, body language also forms a large part of animals' communication tactics. Dominant
hyenas exhibit their power by raising the fur hackles on their necks and shoulders, while the submissive
ones normally "surrender" to the powerful parties by crouching their heads low and curling their lips a
little, revealing their teeth in friendly smiles.
Colors, which are most conspicuously found on animals are also important means of interaction among
animals. Male birds of paradise, which have the most gaudy colored feathers often hang themselves
upside down from branches, among fluffing plumes, displaying proudly their feathers, attracting the
opposite sex.
The alternating black and white striped coats of zebras have their roles to play too. Each zebra is born
with a unique set of stripes which enables its mates to recognize them. When grazing safely, their
stripes are all lined up neatly so that none of them loses track of their friends. However, when danger
such as a hungry lion approaches, the zebras would dart out in various directions, making it difficult for
the lion to choose his target.
Insects such as the wasps, armed with poisonous bites or stings, normally have brightly painted bodies
to remind other predators of their power. Hoverflies and other harmless insects also make use of this
fact and colored their bodies brightly in attempts to fool their predators into thinking that they are as
dangerous and harmful as the wasps too.
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Part 2: The table gives information about a restaurant’s average sales in three different branches in
2016. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant. Write your answer to the task in at least 150 words.
Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver

Average
Georgia Street Dunsmuir Street Drake Street
Number of Transactions 854 750 390
Transaction Value $10.69 $5.61 $9.02

Number of Eat-in
405 358 200
Transactions
Number of Take-Away
449 392 190
Transactions
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Part 3: Write an essay about 250 words on the following topic. (2.0. p.)
In some countries today, there is an attitude that “anyone can do it” in arts – music, literature,
acting, art, etc. As a result, people with no talent become rich and famous and genuine talent is
not valuated or appreciated.
Do you agree or disagree?
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relevant evidence.
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NĂM HỌC 2019 - 2020
HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN TIẾNG ANH
TỔNG ĐIỂM: 18
I. (0.2 x 25 = 5 points)
Part 1:
Task 1: 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. G
Task 2: 6. A 7. H 8. B 9. C 10. E
Part 2:
11. distribution 16. large red
12. drainage (of the land) 17. still
13. wings 18. dawn/sunrise
14. jewels/gems 19. survey
15. blue-tailed
Part 3:
20. C 21. C 22. B 23. A 24. A 25. B
II. (0.2 x 20 = 4 points)

Part 1:
1. B 2. A 3. D 4. A 5. A 6. D 7. C
8. D 9. D 10. C 11. C 12. B 13. C 14. D
Part 2:
15. attributable 16. unceremoniously 17. extraordinary

18. rigidity 19. zealous 20. increasingly
III. (0.1 x 40 = 4 points)

Part 1:
1 D 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 A 6 B 7 D 8 B 9 A 10 C
Part 2:
11 C 12 C 13 A 14 C 15 A 16 B
17 D 18 D 19 A 20 C 21 D 22 B
Part 3:
23 D 24 F 25 B 26 E 27 A 28 C
29. Jupiter – Saturn 30. Solar system 31. sensors – circuits

32. spares 33. radio dish
Part 4:
34. C 35. A 36. G 37. D 38. H 39. E 40. B
Part 1: (1 point)
Part 2: …………………………………….(2 points)

- Task achievement …………….…...…(0.5)
(e.g. requirement of the task, overview of main trends, differences or stages, purpose, highlights key
features/bullet points)
(e.g. logically organizes information and ideas, progression, cohesive devices)
(e.g. range of vocabulary, word choice, spelling, lexical items)
Part 3: …………………………………….(2 points)

- Task response………………………(0.5)
(e.g. addresses parts of the task, position, main ideas, supporting ideas, conclusion drawn)
(e.g. logically organizes information and ideas, progression, cohesive devices, central topic within each
paragraph, referencing, paragraphing)
(e.g. range of vocabulary, word choice, spelling, uncommon lexical items, awareness of style and
collocation)
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SECTION I. LISTENING (5.0 POINTS)

INTRODUCTION:
 There are 4 parts of the section.
 You'll hear each part twice.
 There is a prompting sound at the beginning and end of each part.
Part 1. Questions 1–5. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)

You will hear part of an interview with a dance critic about a modern ballet production involving
animals. For questions 1- 5, listen and decide whether the statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
STATEMENTS TRUE FALSE
1. It appears that the function of the dogs in the ballet is to symbolize homeless
people.
2. Stan disapproves of the use of technology in dance.
3. The way the dogs copied the actions of one character attracts the audience‟s
interests.
4. The behavior of an audience caused the lapse in mood during the performance
Stan saw.
5. The bond between the dogs and the tramp made a deep impression on Stan.

Listen to a speech and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN
FOUR WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided.
6. What does Brett want to take advantage of when photographing near water?
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7. In bad weather, what should students think carefully about when it comes to photography?
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8. According to the tutor and Brett, whose works or paintings should they use to generate ideas?
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9. What can they avoid when they use a piece of equipment called an “angle finder”?
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10. What issues should they think about when deciding on what to photograph?
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For questions 11-15, you will hear a talk about Erin O'Connor and choose the answers A, B, C, or D
which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.
11. At first glance the real Erin O'Connor appears ______
A. incredibly tall.
B. strikingly unusual.
C. extremely attractive. 11 …….
D. surprisingly ordinary.
12. How did Erin react to the writer's first comment?
A. She revealed her embarrassment.
B. She kept her feelings to herself. 12 …….
C. She accepted the compliment.
D. She showed her amusement.
13. What did the writer realise about Erin from the documentary 'This Model life'?
A. How uncompetitive she is.
B. How easily hurt she is. 13 …….
C. How shy she really is.
D. How sensible she is.
14. As a schoolgirl, Erin ______
A. did some training that was later to prove useful.
B. overcame feelings of self-consciousness about her height. 14 …….
C. was not studying with a view to following any particular career.
D. decided to change her appearance in order to get herself noticed.
15. How does Erin feel when she's on the catwalk?
A. proud of her physical appearance. 15 …….
B. aware that she's giving a performance.
C. unconcerned about what people think of her.
D. able to express her own feelings. about the clothes.
Part 4. Questions 16–25. (2.0 points - 0.2/each)

Listen to part of a news reports and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
taken from the recording for each answer.
 While the condom has made some strides since the Bronze Age, men still don‟t have a much better
option all these millennia later, besides a (16) ___________.
 A research was conducted in 2000 among men into whether they‟d be willing to use birth-control
capable of preventing (17) ___________.
 Although the number of male cells can be reduced over 90%, it is (18) ___________.
 In the past, researchers tried decreasing testosterone to (19) ________________, but the problem is
you don't have any (20) ___________, so it really wasn't ever going to be a (21) ___________.
 There are many (22)___________ studies to try and actually attack the germ cell to stop it from
working. But the (23) ___________ isn‟t the only problem.
 There are also other problems such as funding or (24) ___________.
 Two big pharmaceutical companies funded a (25) ___________, offering hope that a pill backed by
Big Pharma might be on the horizon.
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SECTION II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (3.0 POINTS)
Part 1. For questions 26-45. (2.0 points - 0.1/each)
Choose the best answer (A, B, C, D) to each of the following questions and write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
26. The knights were executed immediately after being convicted of ______.
A. matricide B. parricide C. fratricide D. regicide
27. The material of the blouse Mrs Teng had bought was ______ and she wanted to make an exchange.
A. diaphanous B. ravenous C. heterogeneous D. homologous
28. At one point Albert sits at a piano and sings “ Love is a many-splendored thing” as a ______ lament.
A. mendacious B. triumphant C. maudlin D. austere
29. It was a ______ that I could effortlessly catch sight of an old friend that I had not met since our
graduation.
A. contretemps B. contravention C. diaphaneity D. serendipity
30. His hasty, ______ action resulted in his being failed the final test last year.
A. preposterous B. spasmodic C. precipitous D. despicable
31. It takes a fair amount of concentration to follow the movie's ______ plot.
A. inexpedient B. labyrinthine C. arbitrary D. clairvoyant
32. Plans for a 40-acre shopping center section remain so ______ that the project has been shelved.
A. amorphous B. luscious C. dexterous D. parsimonious
33. Some of the children sat firmly down on the tiny chair, whereas others perched ______ on top.
A. eerily B. forlornly C. deftly D. gingerly
34. The evil son hatched a ______ plot to trick his old and senile mother of her wealth.
A. unbecoming B. nefarious C. irreproachable D. decorous
35. It is very difficult to drive in ______.
A. rush houred slow-moving traffic B. slow moving traffic of rush hour
C. rush-hour slow moving traffic D. slow moving rush hour traffic
36. The footballer ______ in agony on the pitch, and it was clear that his knee had been broken
A. squirmed B. writhed C. wriggled D. twisted
37. The company managed to ______ the last economic depression by cutting its workforce
A. override B. surmount C. float out D. weather
38. The real test of your relationship will come when you start to see your new boyfriend ______ and all.
A. spots B. faults C. warts D. moles
39. The old lady was becoming increasingly affected by ______.
A. audacity B. senility C. virility D. masculinity
40. The answer is no. That‟s all ______.
A. there is to it B. how it is C. there is at it D. there it is to
41. “It is one thing to simply tell a white lie, James, but you have been downright ______. I‟ll never be
able to trust you again.”
A. meticulous B. reclusive C. precipitous D. mendacious
42. Our hotel room was surprisingly ______, especially taking into consideration that it was very
reasonably priced.
A. languid B. vivacious C. commodious D. decadent
43. An international medical conference was immediately ______ after the outbreak of Ebola.
A. convoked B. conversed C. assembled D. converged
44. Journalists reported ______ outbreaks of violence, but no sustained warfare.
A. symptomatic B. sporadic C. sprawling D. slackening
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45. We‟ll have to wait and see if there‟s a ______ after this temporary peace agreement.
A. backhand B. backlash C. backdrop D. backlog
Your answer here:
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27. ........................... 31. ........................... 35. ........................... 39. ........................... 43. ...........................
28. ........................... 32. ........................... 36. ........................... 40. ........................... 44. ...........................
29. ........................... 33. ........................... 37. ........................... 41. ........................... 45. ...........................
Part 2. For questions 46-55. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

a. Word-form Passage. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right.
Why does one town become a (0)______(BOOM) Second City 0. booming
while another fails? The answer hinges on whether a community
has the (46) ______ (WITH) to exploit the forces pushing 46. __________________
people and businesses out of the (47) ______ (CITY). One key 47. __________________
is excellent transport links, especially to the biggest commercial
centres. Though barely a decade old, Goyang is South Korea‟s
fastest-growing city in part because it is 30 minutes by subway
from Seoul. Another growth driver for Second Cities is the (48)
______ (CENTRE) of work, driven in large part by new 48. __________________
technologies. While more financial deals are done now in big
capitals like New York and London than ever before, it is also
clear that plenty of booming service industries are leaving for
„Rising Urban Stars‟ like Dubai, Montpellier and Cape Town. shared by Angels of Otto
These places have not only improved their Internet backbones, Channel
but often have technical institutes and universities that turn out
the kinds of talent that populate growth industries. All this
means that Second Cities won‟t stay small. Indeed some
countries are actively promoting their growth. Italy, for
example, is trying to create tourists hubs of towns close to each
other with distinctive buildings and offering different yet
complementary cultural activities. (49) ______ (EVOLVE) of 49. __________________
policymaking power is leaving many (50) ______(LITTLE) 50. __________________
cities more free than ever to shape their destinies. To them all:
this is your era. Don‟t blow it.
b. Word-form Sentence. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right.
51. He accused the BBC of ______ in its handling of the story.
(EDIT) 51. __________________
52. At the audition, the actors were asked to give a ______
performance. (TEMPORARY) 52. __________________
53. He lay quiet, ______ after the day‟s exertions.
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(INSOMNIA) 53. __________________
54. Some ______ commentators poured scorn on this decision,
claiming that an actor would not have the right credentials
to present an arts programme on TV. (NOSE) 54. __________________
55. He was discovered to have been ______ company funds.
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SECTION III. READING (6.0 POINTS)

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
FASHIONS IN SIGHTSEEING
The questions of what makes an entertaining sightseeing excursion is just as to the (56) ______ of fashion as
any other activity. A trip around the spectacular coastal scenery of Western Scotland is now a highly
attractive option but a couple of centuries ago that same landscape was regarded as a wild and scary
wasteland. (57) ______, in western Europe, safely (58) ______ mines and other (59) ______of the region‟s
industrial heritage are now being reinvented as visitor attractions, whilst (60) ______factories and power
stations get a lease of life as shopping centres and art galleries. This (61) ______the question: if (62)
______industrial sites can attract tourists, then why not (63) ______ones?
The Yokohama Factory Scenery Night Cruise is just one of several industrial sightseeing tours now
available in Japan. These are part of an emerging niche tourist trade, (64) ______by a craze amongst young
urbanites to reconnect with the country‟s industrial base. Seeing the oil refineries and steelwork at night,
when lights and flares are more visible, (65) ______adds to the aesthetic charm of the experience.
56. A. trends B. whims C. fad D. vogue

57. A. Increasingly B. Progressively C. Consequently D. subsequently
58. A. desolated B. decomposed C. decommissioned D. defragmented
59. A. remainders B. inheritances C. leftovers D. legacies
60. A. precedent B. redundant C. relinquished D. distinctive
61. A. begs B. arouses C. pops D. brings
62. A. dynamic B. vitalising C. defunct D. bygone
63. A. dismantling B. operating C. functioning D. mentoring
64. A. demanded B. powered C. pushed D. fuelled
65. A. obviously B. apparently C. certainly D. assuredly
Your answer here:
56. ................................................. 61. .................................................
57. ................................................. 62. .................................................
58. ................................................. 63. .................................................
59. ................................................. 64. .................................................
60. ................................................. 65. .................................................
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Part 2. For questions 66-75. (1.0 point – 0.1/each)
Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Rap has some literary roots - such as Sixties radicals The Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron, writer of The
Revolution Will Not Be Televised, who began his career as a novelist - but rap artists tend not to wear their
(66)______ on their sleeve in the way that Bob Dylan's generation of coffee house wordsmiths did. There
was two-way traffic between the literary and musical (67)______, which began with the Beat Poets in the
previous decade. Leonard Cohen, a published poet, (68)______ effortlessly into the role of folk balladeer.
John Lennon published a volume of nonsense verse In His Own Write. Song words began to be printed on
gatefold album sleeves, allowing the audience - educated young people desperate for the music they loved
to have some depth and meaning - the opportunity to pore (69)______ them as if they were great works of
literature. Big-selling artists such as the Beatles and The Rolling Stones, taking their cue from Dylan,
began to expand their lyrical palette and tackle more serious (70)______ matter. "The difference is that
Dylan was always effortlessly serious, he wasn't (71)______," writes Dylan biographer Howard Sounes.
"He was serious just because he had a great mind." (72)______ of whether it's right to call them poetry, his
songs are highly poetic and highly literary - intricate and subtle and clever and funny and profound and
sad: everything you can want writing to be. There's no one who deserves the Nobel Prize more." Dylan
himself has rarely expressed any great literary pretensions, despite taking his stage (73)______from
revered Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (he was born Robert Zimmerman). Although the 1965 Dylan quote that
has often been (74)______ up as an example of his brilliant insouciance when he described Smokey
Robinson as "America's greatest living poet" was recently revealed to have been invented by a Motown
records press officer. "Why bother even telling Bob?," Al Abrams the press officer in question (75)______
saying, in a 2011 book on the Motown publicity machine.
Part 3. For questions 76-85. (1.0 point – 0.1/each)

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each of the questions that follow it.
During a decade in which the British publishing industry was finally obliged to make watchful friends with
business, biography has line-managed the cultural transition beautifully. The best biographies still brim
with scholarship but they also sell in their thousands. Readers - ordinary ones with birthday presents to get,
book vouchers to spend and rainy holidays to fill - love buying books about the life and times of their
favorite people. Every year before Christmas, a lorry load of brick-thick biographies appears on the
suggestion table in bookshops.
That biography has done so well is thanks to fiction's vacation of middle-ground, that place where authorial
and readerly desire just about match. Novels in the last ten years, unable to claim the attention of the
common reader, have dispersed across several registers, with the high ground still occupied by those literary
novels which continue to play with post-modern concerns about the narrator's impotence, the narrator's fibs
and the hero's failure to actually exist.
Biography, by contrast, has until recently shown no such unsettling humility. At its heart lies the biological
plot, the birth-to-death arc with triumphs and children, perhaps a middle-aged slump or late-flowering
dotted along the way. Pages of footnotes peg this central story, this actual life, into a solid, teeming context.
Here was a man or woman who wrote letters, had friends, ate breakfast and smelt a certain way. The process
of being written about rematerialises the subject on the page. Writing a life becomes a way of reaffirming
that life itself endures.
Until now, that is. Recently biography has started to display all the quivering self-scrutiny which changed
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the face of fiction twenty years ago. Exhaustion now characterises the genre. All the great lives have been
done. But there are ways of proceeding. Ian Hamilton was the pioneer who failed to find J.D. Salinger. Five
years later, Janet Malcolm's study of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, brilliantly exposed the way in which
academics and biographers stalk and hunt one another around the globe in a bid to possess and devour their
subject.
The latest in this tradition of books about writing - or not writing - biography is Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer
Range, in which he plots his failure to get started on a study of D.H. Lawrence. Dyer describes every
delaying trick familiar to biographers: lugging heavy editions of letters on holiday and then not bothering to
unpack; having a motorcycle accident (an extreme prevarication, but preferable to staring at a blank screen);
and finally forcing himself to reread the subject's novels without any pleasure. 'Footstepping' is the new
word to describe this approach; „life-writing' has become the favoured term on university courses. In the
wrong hands, it can become 'so-whatish'. Writers less accomplished then Dyer, Hamilton or Malcolm could
be accused of annexing some of their subjects' clout to get mediocre work into print.
The second approach is to write a partial biography, to take a moment or a strand in the subject‟s life and
follow it through without any claims for completeness. This year Ian Hamilton entered the biographical
arena again with a slim, sharp examination of why Mathew Arnold stopped writing good poetry once he
took up his job as a school inspector. Earlier, Lyndall Gordon's A Private Life of Henry Jams tracked the
great man through his odd relationship with two of his female muses. Far from claiming to displace Leon
Edel's 'definitive' biography of James, Gordon's book hovered over it, reconfiguring the material into a new
and crisper pattern.
The final tack is to move away from a single, life altogether, and look at the places where it encounters other
events. Dava Sobel's best-selling Longitude puts a cultural puzzle at the heart of her story and read human
lives against it. Sebastien Junger‟s The Perfect Storm, meanwhile, makes the weather its subject, placing the
seamen who encounter it into second place. No longer able to demonstrate a human life shaping its destiny,
biographers have been obliged to subordinate their subjects to an increasingly detailed context.
Biography will survive its jitters, but it will emerge looking and sounding different. Instead of the huge
doorstops of the early 1990s, which claimed to be 'definitive' while actually being undiscriminating, we will
see a series of pared-down, sharpened up 'studies‟. Instead of speaking in a booming, pedagogic voice, the
new biography will ask the reader to decide. Consuming this new biography may not be such a cosy
experience, but it will bring us closer than ever to the real feeling of being alive.
76. What is the 'cultural transition' referred to?

A. the scholarship exemplified in the best biographies.
B. the change in taste among ordinary readers.
C. the rising importance of sales figures in publishing.
D. the range of books available for purchase.
77. According to the passage, what explanation is given for the current interest in biography?
A. the range of subject matter in novels.
B. the failure of fiction to appeal to the average reader.
C. the choice of unsuitable main characters in novels.
D. the lack of skill of certain novelists.
78. The word “impotence” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by _______ .
A. feebleness B. infantilism C. coarseness D. Inventiveness
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79. What contrast does the writer draw between literary novels and biography?
A. Biography has dealt with more straightforward issues.
B. Literary novels have presented a different type of truth.
C. Biography has described a longer period in a person's life.
D. Literary novels have been written in a more universal style,
80. In describing the work of Dyer, the writer _______ .
A. overrates his prevarication B. makes fun of his efforts
C. acknowledges his expertise D. is inspired by his achievements
81. The word “annexing” in paragraph 5 could best be replaced by _______.
A. franchising B. seizing C. pirating D. converting
82. What is the writer‟s opinion of „partial biography‟?
A. It can provide new insights. shared by Angels of Otto
B. It tends to remain inconclusive
C. It works when the subject is sufficiently interesting.
Channel
D. It can detract from fuller studies.
83. What trend is exemplified by Longitude and The Perfect Storm?
A. the fact that readers like complex puzzles.
B. the lack of interest generated by single lives.
C. the continuing sympathy towards human struggle.
D. the need to take account of the wider environment.
84. What does the word “definitive” in the passage mostly mean?
A. tentative B. perfect C. prolific D. testified
85. Considering the future of biography, the writer anticipates ________.
A. a decline in the standard of biographical investigation.
B. a greater challenge to the reading public.
C. an improvement in the tone adopted by biographers.
D. the growth of a new readership for biography.

You are going to read an extract from an article about the Greek philosopher Socrates.
For questions 86-95, choose from the sections (A-E). The sections may be chosen more than once.
SEEKING SOCRATES
It may be more than 2,400 years since his death, but the Greek philosopher can still teach us a
thing or two about leading 'the good life'. Bettany Hughes digs deeper.
A. Sharing breakfast with an award-winning author in an Edinburgh hotel a few years back, the
conversation came round to what I was writing next. 'A book on Socrates,‟ I mumbled through my muesli.
„Socrates!' he exclaimed. „What a brilliant doughnut subject. Really rich and succulent with a great hole in
the middle where the central character should be.‟ I felt my smile fade because, of course, he was right.
Socrates, the Creek philosopher, might be one of the most famous thinkers of all time, but, as far as we
know, he wrote not a single word down. Born in Athens in 469BC, condemned to death by a democratic
Athenian court in 399BC, Socrates philosophized freely for close on half a century. Then he was found
guilty of corrupting the young and of disrespecting the city‟s traditional gods. His punishment? Lethal
hemlock poison in a small prison cell. We don‟t have Socrates‟ personal archive; and we don‟t even know
where he was buried. So, for many, he has come to seem aloof and nebulous - a daunting intellectual
figure - always just out of reach.
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B. But that is a crying shame. Put simply, we think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did.
His famous aphorism, „the unexamined life is not worth living‟, is a central tenet for modern times. His
philosophies - 24 centuries old - are also remarkably relevant today. Socrates was acutely aware of the
dangers of excess and overindulgence. He berated his peers for a selfish pursuit of material gain. He
questioned the value of going to fight under an ideological banner of „democracy‟. What is the point of
city walls, warships and glittering statues, he asked, if we are not happy? The pursuit of happiness is one
of the political pillars of the West. We are entering what has been described as „an age of empathy‟. So
Socrates‟ forensic, practical investigation of how to lead 'the good life‟ is more illuminating, more
necessary than ever.
C. Rather than being some kind of remote, tunic-clad beardy who wandered around classical columns,
Socrates was a man of the streets. The philosopher tore through Athens like a tornado, drinking, partying,
sweating in the gym as hard as, if not harder than the next man. For him, philosophy was essential to
human life. His mission: to find the best way to live on earth. As Cicero, the Roman author, perceptively
put it: 'Socrates brought philosophy down from the skies.' And so to try to put him back on to the streets
he loved and where his philosophy belonged, I have spent 10 years investigating the eastern
Mediterranean landscape to find clues of his life and the „Golden Age of Athens‟. Using the latest
archaeology, newly discovered historical sources, and the accounts of his key followers, Plato and
Xenophon. I have endeavoured to create a Socrates-shaped space, in the glittering city of 500BC Athens -
ready for the philosopher to inhabit.
D. The street jargon used to describe the Athens of Socrates' day gives us a sense of its character. His
hometown was known as 'sleek', 'oily', „violet-crowned‟. „busybody‟ Athens. Lead curse tablets left in
drains, scribbled down by those in the world's first true democracy, show that however progressive
fifth-century Athenians were, their radical political experiment - allowing the demos (the people) to
have kratos (power) - did not do away with personal rivalries and grudges. Far from it. In fact, in the
city where every full citizen was a potent politician, backbiting and cliquey came to take on epic
proportions. By the time of his death, Socrates was caught up in this crossfire.
E. His life story is a reminder that the word 'democracy‟ is not a magic wand. It does not automatically
vaporize all ills. This was Socrates‟ beef, too - a society can only be good not because of the powerful
words it bandies around, but thanks to the moral backbone of each and every individual within it. But
Athenians became greedy, they overreached themselves, and lived to see their city walls torn down by their
Spartan enemies, and their radical democracy democratically voted out of existence. The city state needed
someone to blame. High-profile, maddening, eccentric, freethinking, free-speaking Socrates was a good
target. Socrates seems to me to be democracy‟s scapegoat. He was condemned because, in fragile times,
anxious political masses want certainties - not the eternal questions that Socrates asked of the world around
him.
In which section are following mentioned? Your answers
the continuing importance of Socrates' beliefs

86. ………………
why little is known about Socrates as a man
87. ………………
the difference between common perceptions of Socrates and what he was really
88. ………………
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like
how well known Socrates was during his time

89. ………………
relationships between people in Socrates’ time
90. ………………
how the writer set about getting information relevant to Socrates
91. ………………
the realization that finding out about Socrates was a difficult task
92. ………………
an issue that Socrates considered in great detail
93. ………………
the writer's theory concerning what happened to Socrates
94. ………………
an aim that Socrates was critical of
95. ………………
Part 5. For questions 96-108. (1.3 points - 0.1/each)

Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
A. The oceans of Earth cover more than 70 percent of the planet‟s surface, yet, until quite recently, we
knew less about their depths than we did about the surface of the Moon. Distant as it is, the Moon has been
far more accessible to study because astronomers long have been able to look at its surface, first with the
naked eye and then with the telescope-both instruments that focus light. And, with telescopes tuned to
different wavelengths of light, modem astronomers can not only analyze Earth‟s atmosphere, but also
determine the temperature and composition of the Sun or other stars many hundreds of light-years away.
Until the twentieth century, however, no analogous instruments were available for the study of Earth‟s
oceans: Light, which can travel trillions of miles through the vast vacuum of space, cannot penetrate very
far in seawater.
B. Curious investigators long have been fascinated by sound and the way it travels in water. As early as
1490, Leonardo da Vinci observed: “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the
water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.” In 1687,
the first mathematical theory of sound propagation was published by Sir Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Investigators were measuring the speed of sound in air beginning in the
mid-seventeenth century, but it was not until 1826 that Daniel Colladon, a Swiss physicist, and Charles
Sturm, a French mathematician, accurately measured its speed in water. Using a long tube to listen
underwater (as da Vinci had suggested), they recorded how fast the sound of a submerged bell traveled
across Lake Geneva. Their result-1,435 meters (1,569 yards) per second in water of 1.8 degrees Celsius (35
degrees Fahrenheit)- was only 3 meters per second off from the speed accepted today. What these
investigators demonstrated was that water – whether fresh or salt- is an excellent medium for sound,
transmitting it almost five times faster than its speed in air
C. In 1877 and 1878，the British scientist John William Strutt, third Baron Rayleigh, published his two-
volume seminal work, The Theory of Sound, often regarded as marking the beginning of the modem study
of acoustics. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for his successful isolation of the element
argon, Lord Rayleigh made key discoveries in the fields of acoustics and optics that are critical to the
theory of wave propagation in fluids. Among other things, Lord Rayleigh was the first to describe a sound
wave as a mathematical equation (the basis of all theoretical work on acoustics) and the first to describe
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how small particles in the atmosphere scatter certain wavelengths of sunlight, a principle that also applies
to the behavior of sound waves in water.
D. A number of factors influence how far travels sound underwater and how long it lasts. For one,
particles in seawater can reflect, scatter, and absorb certain frequencies of sound – just as certain
wavelengths of light may be reflected, scattered, and absorbed by specific types of particles in the
atmosphere. Seawater absorbs 30 times the amount of sound absorbed by distilled water, with specific
chemicals (such as magnesium sulfate and boric acid) damping out certain frequencies of sound.
Researchers also learned that low-frequency sounds, whose long wavelengths generally pass over tiny
particles, tend to travel farther without loss through absorption or scattering. Further work on the effects of
salinity, temperature, and pressure on the speed of sound has yielded fascinating insights into the structure
of the ocean. Speaking generally, the ocean is divided into horizontal layers in which sound speed is
influenced more greatly by temperature in the upper regions and by pressure in the lower depths. At the
surface is a sun-warmed upper layer, the actual temperature and thickness of which varies with the season.
At mid-latitudes, this layer tends to be isothermal, that is， the temperature tends to be uniform throughout
the layer because the water is well mixed by the action of waves, winds, and convection currents; a sound
signal moving down through this layer tends to travel at an almost constant speed. Next comes a
transitional layer called the thermocline, in which temperature drops steadily with depth; as the temperature
falls, so does the speed of sound.
E. The U.S. Navy was quick to appreciate the usefulness of low-frequency sound and the deep sound
channel in extending the range at which it could detect submarines. In great secrecy during the 1950s，the
U.S. Navy launched a project that went by the code name Jezebel; it would later come to be known as the
Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS). The system involved arrays of underwater microphones, called
hydrophones, that were placed on the ocean bottom and connected by cables to onshore processing centers.
With SOSUS deployed in both deep and shallow waters along both coasts of North America and the British
West Indies, the U.S. Navy not only could detect submarines in much of the northern hemisphere, it also
could distinguish how many propellers a submarine had, whether it was conventional or nuclear, and
sometimes even the class of sub.
F. The realization that SOSUS could be used to listen to whales also was made by Christopher Clark, a
biological acoustician at Cornell University, when he first visited a SOSUS station in 1992. When Clark
looked at the graphic representations of sound, scrolling 24 hours day, every day, he saw the voice patterns
of blue, finback, mink, and humpback whales. He also could hear the sounds. Using a SOSUS receiver in
the West Indies, he could hear whales that were 1,770 kilometers (1,100 miles) away. Whales are the
biggest of Earth‟s creatures. The blue whale, for example, can be 100 feet long and weigh as many tons.
Yet these animals also are remarkably elusive. Scientists wish to observe blue time and position them on a
map. Moreover, they can track not just one whale at a time, but many creatures simultaneously throughout
the North Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific. They also can learn to distinguish whale calls. For
example, Fox and colleagues have detected changes in the calls of finback whales during different seasons
and have found that blue whales in different regions of the Pacific Ocean have different calls. Whales
firsthand must wait in their ships for the whales to surface. A few whales have been tracked briefly in the
wild this way but not for very great distances, and much about them remains unknown. Using the SOSUS
stations, scientists can track the whales in real time and position them on a map. Moreover, they can track
not just one whale at a time, but many creatures simultaneously throughout the North Atlantic and the
eastern North Pacific. They also can learn to distinguish whale calls. For example, Fox and colleagues have
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detected changes in the calls of finback whales during different seasons and have found that blue whales in
different regions of the Pacific Ocean have different calls.
G. SOSUS, with its vast reach, also has proved instrumental in obtaining information crucial to our
understanding of Earth‟s weather and climate. Specifically, the system has enabled researchers to begin
making ocean temperature measurements on a global scale – measurements that are keys to puzzling out
the workings of heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere. The ocean plays an enormous role in
determining air temperature the heat capacity in only the upper few meters of ocean is thought to be equal
to all of the heat in the entire atmosphere. For sound waves traveling horizontally in the ocean, speed is
largely a function of temperature. Thus, the travel time of a wave of sound between two points is a
sensitive indicator of the average temperature along its path. Transmitting sound in numerous directions
through the deep sound channel can give scientists measurements spanning vast areas of the globe.
Thousands of sound paths in the ocean could be pieced together into a map of global ocean temperatures
and, by repeating measurements along the same paths overtimes, scientists could track changes in
temperature over months or years.
H. Researchers also are using other acoustic techniques to monitor climate. Oceanographer Jeff Nystuen at
the University of Washington, for example, has explored the use of sound to measure rainfall over the
ocean. Monitoring changing global rainfall patterns undoubtedly will contribute to understanding major
climate change as well as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino. Since 1985, Nystuen has used
hydrophones to listen to rain over the ocean, acoustically measuring not only the rainfall rate but also the
rainfall type, from drizzle to thunderstorms. By using the sound of rain underwater as a “natural” rain
gauge, the measurement of rainfall over the oceans will become available to climatologists.
Questions 96-99
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?
In boxes 96-99 on your answer sheet, write:
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information.

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information.
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage.
96. In the past, difficulties of research carried out on Moon were much easier than that of now.
97. The same light technology used in the investigation of the moon can be employed in the field of the
ocean.
98. Research on the depth of ocean by the method of the sound-wave is more time-consuming.
99. Hydrophones technology is able to detect the category of precipitation.
Your answer here:
96. ................................................. 98. .................................................
97. ................................................. 99. .................................................
Questions 100-103
The reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-H.

Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-H, in boxes 100-103 on your answer sheet.
NB: You may use any letter more than once
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100. Elements affect sound transmission in the ocean.
101. Relationship between global climate and ocean temperature.
102. Examples of how sound technology help people research ocean and creatures in it.
103. Sound transmission underwater is similar to that of light in any condition.
Your answer here:
100. ................................................. 102. .................................................
101. ................................................. 103. .................................................
Questions 104-108
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D for each question:
104. Who of the followings is dedicated to the research of rate of sound?

A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Isaac Newton
C. John William Strutt
D. Charles Sturm
105. Who explained that the theory of light or sound wavelength is significant in water?
A. Lord Rayleigh
B. John William Strutt
C. Charles Sturm
D. Christopher Clark
106. According to Fox and colleagues, in what pattern does the change of finback whale calls happen?
A. Change in various seasons
B. Change in various days
C. Change in different months
D. Change in different years
107. In which way does the SOSUS technology inspect whales?
A. Track all kinds of whales in the ocean
B. Track bunches of whales at the same time
C. Track only finback whale in the ocean
D. Track whales by using multiple appliances or devices
108. what could scientists inspect via monitoring along a repeated route?
A. Temperature of the surface passed
B. Temperature of the deepest ocean floor
C. Variation of temperature
D. Fixed data of temperature
Your answer here:
104. ................................................. 106. ................................................. 108. .................................................
105. ................................................. 107. .................................................
Part 6. For questions 109 – 115. (0.7 point - 0.1/ each)
Read the article below. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the
paragraphs A-H below the one which fits each gap (109-115). There is one extra paragraph which you
do not need to use.
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VALUES FOR A GODLESS AGE
When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989 so did the plaster cast which had kept the idea of human
rights in limbo. It was now free to evolve in response to the changing conditions of the late twentieth
century.
109.
Of course, in one sense, the quest for universal human rights standards after the Second World War was an
early attempt to communicate across national boundaries, albeit a rather faltering endeavour, with its
claims to universality challenged both in terms of authorship and content. More recently, a loosening of the
reins of the human rights dialogue has ushered in wider debate.
110.
Perhaps the best known of these is Amnesty International, established in 1961. Before Amnesty, there were
very few organizations like it, yet now there are thousands operating all over the world. Whether
campaigning for the protection of the environment or third-world debt relief, any such organization is
engaged in the debate about fundamental human rights. And it is no longer just a soft sideshow.
111.
The fact that strangers from different countries can communicate with each other through the worldwide
web is having a similar effect in dealing a blow to misinformation. During one recent major human
rights trial over sixty websites sprang up to cover the proceedings, while sales of the government-
controlled newspaper in that country plummeted.
112.
The effect of increased responsibility at this highest level has been to continually extend the consideration of
who is legally liable, directly or indirectly, under international human rights law. In part, this is an
acknowledgement that even individuals need to be held responsible for flagrant breaches of others' rights,
whether these are preventing protesters from peacefully demonstrating or abusing the rights of children.
113.
It has been noted that paradoxically, in such circumstances, it may be in the interests of human rights
organizations to seek to reinforce the legitimacy and authority of the state, within a regulated global
framework.
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114.
Part of the new trend in human rights thinking is therefore to include powerful private bodies within its
remit. The International commission of Jurists has recently explored ways in which international human
rights standards could be directly applied to transnational corporations.
115.
Whatever the way ahead, the lessons of the past must be learnt. Any world view or set of values which is
presented as self-evident is ultimately doomed to failure. The case for human rights always needs to be
made and remade. In a world where globalization too often seems like a modernized version of old-
fashioned cultural imperialism, it is important to query the claim that human rights are universally accepted.
The missing paragraphs
A. This is, after all, a uniquely propitious time, as the values and language of human rights are
becoming familiar to more and more people, who judge the merits or otherwise of political and
economic decisions increasingly in human rights terms. Arguments seem fresh and appealing in many
quarters where once they sounded weak and stale.
B. On a global scale, it is not strong states that are the problem here but weak ones, as they fail to
protect their citizens from private power -whether it is paramilitaries committing murder and torture or
transnational corporations spreading contamination and pollution.
C. The problem is that the growth of globalization makes the protection of nation states a pointless
goal in certain circumstances. Transnational corporations with multiple subsidiaries operating in a
number of countries simultaneously wield significant economic and political power and it is often
extremely difficult for the state - both home and host governments - to exercise effective legal control
over them.
D. If the proliferation of pressure groups has raised the profile of the human rights debate, satellite
television has reinforced much of the content of their campaigns. The fact that from our armchairs
we can all see live what is happening to others around the world has had an enormous impact on the
way the struggle for human rights is viewed. It would not be remotely believable to plead ignorance
nowadays, for 24-hour news coverage from the world's hotspots reaches us all.
E. The results of its investigations were published in 1999 in a unique pamphlet on Globalization, Human
Rights and the Rule of Law. The issue to be faced is whether to treat these and other corporations as
'large para-state entities to be held accountable under the same sort of regime as states', or whether to
look for different approaches to accountability 'that are promulgated by consumer groups and the
corporations themselves'.
F. No longer the preserve of representatives of nation states meeting under the auspices of the United
Nations, a developing conversation is taking place on a global scale and involving a growing cast of
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people - for an increasing range of pressure groups now frame their aspirations in human rights terms.
G. One of the most significant of these is what has come to be called 'globalization', the collapsing of
national boundaries in economic, political and cultural life. From the expanding role of the world's
financial markets and the spread of transnational corporations to the revolution in communications and
information technology, more and more areas of people's lives are affected by regional, international or
transnational developments, whether they are aware of this or not.
H. Not only must states not infringe rights, and enforce those rights which fall within their direct sphere
(like providing a criminal justice system or holding fair elections), but they also have 'positive
obligations' to uphold rights enshrined in human rights treaties, even when it is private parties which
have violated them.
SECTION IV. WRITING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. (1.0 point)
Read the two texts below.
Write an essay summarizing and evaluating the key points from the text. Use your own words
throughout as far as possible, and include your own ideas in your answer.
Write your answer at least 100 - 120 words.
Ever seen Indians spitting out red substances from their mouths and having their lips conspicuously stained
red? Those red substances are actually chewed betel nuts. The betel nuts are chewed mainly by the Indians
and Malays, from countries like India, Malaysia and Thailand.
The nuts are usually removed from the betel or areca palm fruits. Softened by boiling, the nuts are then
sliced, dried in the sun before being grated into fine, thin shreds. To enjoy betel chewing, one must spread
lime on the betel leaf, then sprinkle some grated betel nuts on it, fold up the leaf and chew in the mouth. The
gums, teeth and lips will then be stained red and later turn black if the habit is continued with no proper
cleansing methods.
Long ago in the past, betel nuts had already proven their usefulness. Before the emergence of cosmetics,
women used to color their lips red with betel nuts. It was only after the invention of lipsticks that betel nuts
were used as nerve soothing medicine instead.
In India, betel nuts are chewed during important occasions like births, marriages and death ceremonies. It
was believed that Emperors long ago sent betel nuts as tributes to other foreign kings. Before carrying out
capital punishment, prisoners were also given betel nuts, probably as "farewell gifts". Even in some
countries now, betel nuts are offered as gifts of apology or as hints from hosts to their guests about their
overstay.
The preparation and serving of betel nuts are also viewed significantly in India. The skills are used
to gauge and choose ideal daughter-in-laws. The more skilful the lady is, the better the family background
she has and of course, the more ideal she is. To bless a bride with good fortune, betel leaves are often used
to cover her lap during the wedding ceremony. By pouring the juice of betel leaves upon the expecting
mother's navel and observing the direction of the liquid flow, the sex of the foetus could be predicted too.
In more developed countries, doctors have claimed that betel leaves are rich in vitamin C. They are also
good for relieving patients with breathing difficulties. On the other hand, there are some medical experts
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who discovered that the betel-chewing may lead to mouth cancer. Whatever the conclusion is, I am sure that
the traditional chewing of betel leaves and nuts will still be practiced by Indians in India and other parts of
the world.
Your summary here:

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Part 2. Graph description (2.0 points)
The graphs below estimate the annual expenditure of students of three universities in Ho Chi Minh
City in 2019.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant. You should write at least 200 words.
University of Medicine: University of Technology:

Annual Expenditure Annual Expenditure
per student: 60,0 million VND per student: 55,5 million VND
others accommod others accommod
leisure
8% -ation 6% -ation
20%
leisure 45% 35%
22%
food food
books 22% books 27%
3% 12%
University of Pedagogy:
Annual Expenditure
per student: 32,4 million VND
others
leisure 1% accommod
12% -ation
books 31%
21%
food
35%
Your chart description here:
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Part 3. Essay writing (3.0 points)
Write at least 300-350 words on the following topic:
Some people who have been successful in the society do not attribute their success to the theoretical
knowledge they learned at university. What is your opinion on the factors contributing to one’s
achievement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Your essay writing here:
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1. A1 General _ (Thi HSG Lớp 4, 5 & Flyers)
STEP 1
2. A2 General _ P1/2 (Thi HSG Lớp 5, 6 & KET)
3. A2 KET _ P2/2 (Giải 10 quyển KET, bổ trợ HSG lớp 5, 6)
4. B1 PET _ P1/3 (Giải 10 Quyển PET, bổ trợ HSG L6, 7)
5. B1 General _ P 2/3 (Thi HSG Lớp 6, 7 &

STEP 2
PET)
6. B1 Giải đề_Part 3/3 (Giải 40 đề thi HSG Lớp 6 & 7)
7. B2 (trừ)_Part 1/4 (Thi HSG Lớp 7, 8 & FCE)

STEP 3
8. B2 FCE _ Part 2/4 (10 quyển FCE, bỗ trợ
chuyên & HSG)
9. B2 Giải đề_ Part 3/4 (Giải 43 đề chuyên & HSG)
10. B2 General _ Part 4/4 (Thi HSG Lớp 9 & Chuyên)
11. C1 _ HN _ Part 1/3 (Thi CAE, HSG & Chuyên)

STEP 4
12. C1 _ HCM _ Part 2/3 (Thi CAE, HSG & Chuyên)
13. C1_CAE_Part 3/3 (8 quyển CAE, bổ trợ chuyên,

HSG)
14. C1C2_HSG cấp 3_Part 1/2 (thi CPE &HSG 10,11,12)

STEP 5
15. Giải đề HSG cấp 3_Part 2/2 (Thi HSG Lớp 10,11,12)
4 tháng / khóa

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KÌ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI THPT CẤP TỈNH

MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH

(Đề thi gồm có 14 trang) Ngày thi : 11/10/2020

Chữ ký Chữ ký Tổng điểm Tổng điểm Số phách

Điểm từng phần:

A. gets bored listening to facts and figures

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 1 / 14

Part 2: Questions 11-19

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 2 / 14

III. READING (4 points)

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 5 / 14

i. Initial gains – ultimate disaster

Lucy gets a new job on a newspaper

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 7 / 14

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 8 / 14

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 9 / 14

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 10 / 14

IV. WRITING (5 points)

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 11 / 14

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 12 / 14

Chọn Đội tuyển HSG QG 2020_Trang 14 / 14

HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN TIẾNG ANH

II. (0.2 x 20 = 4 points)

16. adhesion 17. inexhaustible 18. quintessentially

III. (0.1 x 40 = 4 points)

IV. WRITING (5 points)

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC MÔN THI : TIẾNG ANH

Chữ ký Chữ ký Tổng điểm Tổng điểm Số phách

Điểm từng phần:

Part 2: Questions 11-19

20. Diana feels that her orchestra is special because _________.

II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (4 points)

III. READING (4 points)

1. A. extinguished B. engulfed C. spread D. smoldered

Part 3: Questions 22-33 are based on the reading passage below.

Questions 29-33 Complete the notes betow.

Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver

Number of Transactions 854 750 390

Transaction Value $10.69 $5.61 $9.02

Most popular Item Chicken Burger Chicken Wings Chicken Pasta

HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM MÔN TIẾNG ANH

II. (0.2 x 20 = 4 points)

15. attributable 16. unceremoniously 17. extraordinary

III. (0.1 x 40 = 4 points)

29. Jupiter – Saturn 30. Solar system 31. sensors – circuits

IV. WRITING (5 points)

Part 2: …………………………………….(2 points)

Part 3: …………………………………….(2 points)

Cán bộ chấm thi 2

SECTION I. LISTENING (5.0 POINTS)

Part 1. Questions 1–5. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)

Part 2. Questions 6–10. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)

Part 4. Questions 16–25. (2.0 points - 0.2/each)

Your answer here:

Part 2. For questions 46-55. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

SECTION III. READING (6.0 POINTS)

56. A. trends B. whims C. fad D. vogue

Your answer here:

56. ................................................. 61. .................................................

57. ................................................. 62. .................................................

58. ................................................. 63. .................................................

59. ................................................. 64. .................................................

60. ................................................. 65. .................................................