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DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐB BẮC BỘ NĂM 2022
MÔN THI: ANH - LỚP: 11
(hướng dẫn chấm gồm: 13 trang)

A. LISTENING (50 pts)

Part 1. Listen to an interview with someone who consulted a 'life coach' to improve
her life and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you
hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
(5x2= 10pts) - Proficiency Test Builder 4th
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. B
Part 2. Listen to a talk about ethical concerns with artificial intelligence and decide
whether these statements are True (T), False (F). Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (5x2= 10pts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyacmzB1Og
1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T
Part 3. Listen to a talk about pandemic diseases and supply the blanks with the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the
recording for each answer in the space provided. (10x2=20pts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULJpyBbqpw
1. spotty bumps 6. terrifying flash
2. completely eradicated 7. fluid
3. Black Death 8. protozoan parasites
4. fleas 9. suck up
5. egg-sized swellings 10. decimates
Part 4. Listen to the introduction about Manham Port and answer the questions.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. (5x2= 10pts)
IELTS 10- Listening Test 4
1. Increased metal demands/ tremendous metal needs
2. shortage of coal / not enough coal
3. workers went away/ workers’ emigration
4. rebuild/ reconstruct port complex
5. the George
B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1: Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (20x 1.0= 20 pts) (WORD PERFECT
+ OLYMPIC 30-4)
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. D 8. D 9. A 10.C
11. C 12.B 13. D 14.C 15. B 16. A 17. A 18. A 19. A 20.B
Part 2: Supply the correct form of the word provided in blankets in each sentence.
(10x 1.0= 10 pts)
1. Antisocial 2. mistrust 3. Malnutrintion 4. disillusioned 5. whimsical
6. undergo 7. disregard 8 alternative 9. outwit 10. impassible
C. READING (60 pts)
Part 1: Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use
only ONE WORD for each space. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10x 1.5=15 pts) – Toward proficiency

1. made 2. at 3. well 4. are 5. although/ while

6. that 7. to 8. came 9. neither 10. for

Part 2. For questions 1-10, read an extract from an article and choose the answer A,
B, C or D that fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10x1.0= 10 pts) Toefl IBT Practice Test 2
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6.C 7.B 8.C 9.B 10.A
Part 3. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
(13x1.0=13 pts)
https://collegedunia.com/news/e-482-does-water-have-memory-ielts-reading-sample-
with-explanation
1. NG 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. NG 7. NG
8. apothecary practice
9. (possible) toxic effects
10. molecular evidence.
11. no peer-reviewed study
12. ambiguous guessing game
13. the placebo effect
Part 4. In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. For questions 1-
10, read the passage and choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each
gap. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered box provided. (7x1.0= 7 pts)
Towards proficiency student’s book.
Page: 138-139
1. F 2. B 3. H 4.A 5. G 6. C 7. E
Part 5. The passage below consists of four sections marked A, B, C and D. For
questions 1 - 10, read the passage and do the task that follows. Write your answers
(A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10x1.5 = 15 pts)
Source: Objective Proficiency Workbook.
Page: 68-69
1. D 2. C 3.D 4. B 5.D 6.A 7. C 8.A 9.C 10.D
D. WRITING (60 pts)
Part 1: Read the following text and use your own words to summarize it. Your
summary should be about 120 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original.
(15 pts)
1. Write good summary with enough content and clear, logical 4 pt
information.

2. Present the key points and main ideas in the right form of a paragraph.
Make sure that no important points have been omitted or distorted. The 6 pt
summary should include
+ The topic sentence:
+ Supporting ideas:
+ Conclusion:
3. Use your own words or paraphrases with a variety use of synonyms,
different sentence structures and word class. You can change the order of 5 pt
ideas where necessary.

Suggested answer:
 In his article titled “Promising results from cancer study”, Dakin F.P reports
positive findings from a research project on cancer. A group of US researchers has carried
out trials of a new vaccine which is effective against lung cancer. Although the study was
limited to fewer than fifty people, the results were very promising. Some of the patients at
an advanced stage of the disease were cured. Each patient in the trial had their own
vaccine which activated their bodies’ immune system and enabled it to fight the cancer. It
is hoped that other forms of cancer can be cured in a similar way.
Part 2. Chart description.(15 pts)
https://www.ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2017/09/ielts-writing-task-1-
two-charts-answer.html
Students’ writings are graded based on the following critera:

1. Completion: 2 pts
- Neither too long nor too short
2. Content: 4 pts
- Cover the main information in the chart yet not go into too much detail.
- Make general remarks and effective comparisons.
3. Organisation: 3 pts
- The ideas are well-organized
- The description is sensibly divided into paragraphs
4. Language: 4 pts
- Use a wide range of vocabulary and structure
- Good grammar
5. Punctuation and spelling: 2 pts
* Suggested Answer:
The bar chart and pie chart give information about why US residents travelled and what
travel problems they experienced in the year 2009.
It is clear that the principal reason why Americans travelled in 2009 was to commute to
and from work. In the same year, the primary concern of Americans, with regard to the
trips they made, was the cost of travelling.
Looking more closely at the bar chart, we can see that 49% of the trips made by
Americans in 2009 were for the purpose of commuting. By contrast, only 6% of trips were
visits to friends or relatives, and one in ten trips were for social or recreation reasons.
Shopping was cited as the reason for 16% of all travel, while unspecific ‘personal reasons’
accounted for the remaining 19%.
According to the pie chart, price was the key consideration for 36% of American
travellers. Almost one in five people cited safety as their foremost travel concern, while
aggressive driving and highway congestion were the main issues for 17% and 14% of the
travelling public. Finally, a total of 14% of those surveyed thought that access to public
transport or space for pedestrians were the most important travel issues.
Part 3: Essay writing (30 pts)
Students’ writings are graded based on the following critera:
1. Completion: 4 pts
- Consist of three parts
- Neither too long nor too short
2. Content: 8 pts
Provide relevant and convincing ideas about the topic, supported by specific
example and/or reasonable justification.
3. Organisation: 6 pts
- Present the right form of a paragraph
- Ideas are well organized and presented with unity, cohesion and coherence.
4. Language: 8 pts
- Demonstrate of a wide range of vocabulary and structures.
- Good use of grammatical structures.
- Present the ideas with clarity.
- Easy to follow.
5. Punctuation and spelling: 4 pts
* Suggested Answer:
Industrial and agricultural revolutions have pulled many parts of the world out of financial
crisis but they also poses awkard ecological issues. The relationship between economic
growth and environment quality has not yet drawn definite conclusion as many countries
cannot decide which is worth sacrificing. In my opinion, the policy depends on the state
of each nation.
As regards the developing world, the government should prioritize pursuing economic
growth for two main reasons. For starters, economic development improves the
livelihoods of the underprivileged. In fact, poverty rate is measured by the number of
people with income below a certain level. Only when the Third World can raise the
standard of human living, income and wealth would they be able to achieve economic
growth. Through increasing industrial, agricultural and service activities, developing
countries may attract huge influx of foreign invesment, encourage the emergence of
multinationals and create new jobs, thereby people, especially the poor, are able to earn
much more money and life themselves out of poverty. In addition, pursuing economic
growth is the key to narrowing the gap with superpowers. The ever-changing society is
the term often used to describe the state of our present civilization as new technology,
new brands of product are innovated, GDP of rich nations is rapidly increased and
competition is more intense than ever before. If poor countries do not set agenda for
economic development, the global influence of rich ones may turn them to a worse
situation then. China used to serve as a typical example of pursuing economic growth at
the expense of the environment. The Chinese economy experienced astonishing growth in
the last 35 years that catapulted the country to become the world's second largest
economy.
In terms of developed countries where education and life quality matter little, the future
target should lie on environmental protection. Firstly, protecting the environment helps
combat climate change. Nowadays, pollution in most urban areas is soaring as greenhouse
gases from industrial and agricultural activities are emitted without proper treatment.
These contaminants not only wreak havoc on human human health but also cause
Greenhouse Effect. Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting
for one in six premature deaths in the world’s most populous country, which makes China
one of the world’s biggest climate change contributors. To combat, a cleanup strategy that
has recently been adopted imposes tax on heavy polluters. Moreover, corrupt offcials and
rule-dodging bosses will be sent to prison if found guilty. Moreover, environemental
policies also allow rich countries to prevent looming natural disasters and guarantee lives
and asset of people because in these days, climate change has lead to melting of ice
sheets, more severe droughts, floods and heavy snowfall. Secondly, environmental
preservation saves natural resources and ensures survival for future generations. Today,
due to large number of activities in industry and agriculture, huge amount of energy is
exxcessively exploited and consumed to operate modern machines and meet burgeoning
demands of citizen. Coal, gas and oil are burned to generate electricity and are major
energy of most vehicles. Besides, deforestation, especially slash-and-burn agriculture in
many parts of the world, is threatening life support of our offspring. Consuming
alternative energy like solar, wind and tidal power is extremely urgent.
Sustainable development is a perfect model that every country want to achieve. The
World Commission on Environment and Development defines the term “sustainable
development” as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising
the ablity of future generation to meet theirs. Its implementation requires progress in three
aspects, also known as the three pillars of sustainable development, which are
environment, economy and society. These three pillars are interconnected and it is
essential to strive for a balance between the pillars. For many years, one of the
predominant conventional wisdoms in policy making was that cutting greenhouse gas
emissions neccessitates a sacrifice in economic growth. However, through the experience
of most developed and developing countries, economic growth can complement the
environmental conservation and transitioning to a low-carbon economy can go hand in
hand which increased access to economic opportunities. For example, Singapore, in recent
years, has embraced green growth policy that places emphasis on the value of natural
resources and the environment while at the same time ensuring equitable and sustainable
economic growth. Through wise policy making, countries can tackle both the challenges
of climate change and economic growth, which would pave a way for realizing sustained
economic growth.
In conclusion, economic development and protecting the environment are not always
incompatible. The emphasis for developing countries is on improving living standards,
income and wealth so economic growth will take precedence over the environment.
However, when it comes to developed nations, they tend to prioritize ecological
protection over other matters. The implemenation of sustainable development is one way
to fulfil both targets at the same time.
* Tapescripts:
Part 1:
Interviewer: My next guest is Brigid McConville, a journalist who decided to get herself a
'life coach'. Brigid, what made you do it and what is a 'life coach'?
Brigid: Well, all was not entirely well with my life. Nothing drastic. I just felt 'stuck'
and in need of change, both on the work front - too much to do, too little time - and
at home - ditto, I wasn't miserable enough for therapy or counselling. I simply
wanted to get a little more from life. Until recently, the options for someone in my
situation would have been extremely limited. Now, however, legions of 'life coaches' are
out there, ready and waiting to come to the aid of the frustrated and down-at-heart. For
about £40 a session, your personal coach will telephone you once a week, and spend half
an hour talking to you in an effort to help you sort your life out
Interviewer: But isn't this just another self-improvement fad? Like all the self-help books
and tapes?
Brigid: Well, I was a bit dubious myself, but I decided to try it. I booked a course with
Fiona Harrold, a leading British coach. She identified my anxieties almost immediately.
Within half an hour of our first conversation, I found myself agreeing that the first thing I
had to tackle was my deeply ambivalent relationship with money. Yes, of course it was
rooted in childhood - but what could we actually do about it? Fiona is a passionate
advocate of self-belief and, with her characteristic verve, she told me I had to carve out a
whole new way of thinking about myself. I must see myself as 'a magnet for money',
she said. And she told me: 'Consider yourself someone to whom cash flows
effortlessly. Why shouldn't you have an easy life, an abundance of pleasure, leisure
and luxury - and all without feeling any guilt?'
Interviewer: How did you react to that?
Brigid: Well, it seemed such a preposterous idea that I laughed out loud down the
telephone. But, undeterred by my scepticism, Fiona told me to suspend my disbelief, and
gave me a clutch of positive affirmations with which to brainwash myself into readiness
for riches. She told me to repeat the following words whenever possible: 'I, Brigid, am
now ready to have the ideal life that I deserve.' Doing this, I found, cheered me up no
end.
Interviewer: What else did she tell you?
Brigid: Well, subsequent sessions were more practical. First came the mandatory de-
cluttering - she told me to throw out as much unnecessary jumble and rubbish as possible,
clearing space for all the goodies to come - once the money started to roll in. Then we
began trying to cure my personal finance phobia; I dutifully did my sums, and started
saving something, however small, every month. My work also came under close scrutiny,
too, as I made up my mind to concentrate on jobs that really interested me. Exactly which
issues you tackle during coaching is up to you. According to Fiona, most people want to
get organised at home and at work, make the most of their abilities and sort out money
problems. She reckons that building up confidence is vital. She really does believe that
people are capable of doing anything they want to do, and that all that stands in
their way is childhood conditioning.
Interviewer: So what did you get out of it all? And would you recommend it?
Brigid: Well, coaching makes you get on and do all those things you've put off for so
long, because there is the deadline of the next session. If you don't act in time, your coach
probably won't want to speak to you. So coaching is hardly a soft option. But for me, it
has provided a great boost. There have been no instant miracles, but things are looking up
at work and financially, money and I are definitely on better terms. I still have my doubts
about the 'me first' approach - but, then again, it is a healthy counterbalance to the
`me last' way of thinking I am used to.
Interviewer: Thanks, Brigid. Now, if you want to find out more about life coaches ...
Part 2
I do research and artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto and at the vector
Institute artificial intelligence is giving us a lot of really great new applications and it's
providing a lot of benefit in a lot of areas but as artificial intelligence moves out of the
research labs and into the real world more and more people are becoming aware of
some ethical concerns that kind of go along with some of these applications (1) so
there are three big ethical concerns with artificial intelligence the first one involves what
we actually use artificial intelligence for normally when we develop AI you know for
normally when we develop AI you know in the lab we're developing it for reasons we
think are good so we're using video tracking of people in healthcare settings to make
sure they're recovering from an injury (2) or something like that but the same
technology can be taken out and put into smart bombs to track people or be used by
governments to track their citizens as they as they move around which is sort of Orwellian
spooky future which we may not necessarily agree with so we need to figure out when
we're developing these AI algorithms what are the potential outcomes that we don't
necessarily expect the second ethical concern with AI has to do with who has access to AI
am increasingly AI has to run on bigger and faster and more expensive machines and
the only people who can afford those machines are these big international companies
which means that fewer and fewer people actually can control the destiny of
artificial intelligence (3) and we don't necessarily want that we want all of us to kind of
have a say and how AI will be used to benefit our society in the future the third ethical
concern that I see with artificial intelligence is that artificial intelligence doesn't exactly
think the way that we do and it doesn't necessarily share our values so the risk isn't
that you know AI will be malicious against us (4) the risk is that AI will do exactly
what we tell it to do and it'll do it in a way we don't expect the problem is that we tell
artificial intelligence what we want but we define it in a very vague way and the AI just
wants to make us happy so it'll find a way to do what we tell it to do but because it doesn't
share our values it'll do things that are unexpected and kind of bad and the obvious
consequence of this is stuff like bias if we don't tell you know are the artificial intelligence
that we don't appreciate bias against certain ethnic groups or genders and so on the AI
might inherently adopt bias from whatever data it gathers so we need to figure out
ways to limit that effect to make sure that the data we provide to the AI is as free as
by a as possible (5) and also to look at the behavior of the AI and sort of mitigate against
the risks that this sort of alien mind behavior causes I think we all need to have a big open
discussion about you know what AI can do what it can't do and how we can manipulate
things to make sure that it can be used for the benefit of as many people as possible
Part 3
932 deaths from ebola might seem like a lot, but the real pandemic terror is lurking
elsewhere...
Hey everyone, Laci Green here for DNews. Throughout history, there have always been
outbreaks of one disease or another. But on occasion, those diseases are so
AGGRESSIVE, so DEADLY that they strike fear into the hearts of human beings for
centuries to come. Here’s a review of the top 5 deadliest pandemic diseases --or diseases
that went international-- that humanity has somehow survived.
#1: Smallpox - It’s estimated that smallpox first emerged around 400BC, but it first
changed history in the 16th century when it killed off ⅓ of Central and South Americans.
In the 18th century it went on to kill 60M Europeans. And in the 20th century it killed
300-500 MILLION people. The disease was viral, causing spotty bumps all over the
body, and it was transmitted as easily as facing someone. In 1980, thanks to a worldwide
vaccination effort, the WHO declared smallpox the first and only disease to be
completely eradicated.
#2 is the Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death. The Black Death swept
in during the 14th century, a bacterium carried by fleas that caused egg-sized swellings on
peoples’ bodies called “buboes”. Buboes meant you had no more than a week to live and
even being near someone with them could pass them on. The plague started in China and
India before spreading to Europe. It killed between 75 and 200 million people, nearly
HALF of Europe and a sizeable chunk of the entire world’s 450 million person
population.
#3: The 1918 Flu, AKA The Spanish Flu - which wasn’t actually Spanish. At the time,
during World War I, the military was censoring the news and many people didn’t even
know it was happening. In Spain, where the news WASN’T censored, it received tons of
press. This flu came and went in a terrifying flash, infecting 1 billion people worldwide
-- half the global population. The flu would fill peoples’ lungs with fluid, targeting the
young and healthy. By 1919 it went as fast as it had come, having decimated the global
population.
#4: Malaria. Malaria is a blood disease caused by protozoan parasites. The parasite is
transmitted widely through female Anopheles mosquitoes - they suck up infected blood
and then pass it on to the next person they bite. Every year, there are over 200 million
cases of malaria worldwide and about 2 million of those people die. There are drugs to
treat it, but resistance is spreading.
#5: Lastly, is HIV/AIDS, disease that surfaced in the 80s and is often sexually transmitted
because it hides in bodily fluids. HIV decimates the immune system, making it hard or
impossible to fight off other infections and illnesses. Over 36M people worldwide have
died of AIDS, most of which were in Africa. 33 years later, and scientists still haven’t
found a cure.
This is just a handful and of course there have been MANY more - cholera, polio,
tuberculosis. Statistics-wise, the 21st century is a relatively good time to be alive. Thanks
for joining me for DNews everyone! I’ll see you next time.
Part 4
Welcome to Manham port, where a thousand years of history are brought to life.
All the family can enjoy at Manhan: visit our copper mine, see models of machinery it
used, have your photo taken in the 19th century costume, experience at first- hand how
people lived at different stages throughout history, and especially how children studied,
worked and played.
The port of Manham is located in beautiful and peaceful countryside, on a bend in
the great river Avon, and developed here because it is the highest navigable point of the
Avon-boats can no higher up this river- and proved a handy place to load and unload
cargo to and from the sea, which is over 23 miles away. A small port was already
established here when, about 9 hundred years ago, tin was discovered nearby, though it
wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution, when a tremendous need for metals of all
kinds developed that Manham expanded to become one of the busiest ports in the
country. And because it was already so busy, prospectors began to look for other
minerals, and by the end of the 19 th century, lead, copper, manganese and arsenic were
added to the cargos leaving Manham.
In the early days, the ores had been smelted or processed in the same area they were
mined. But, as demand grew, the smelting process required huge factory furnaces or fires
to melt the metal from the rock and there was not enough coal in the local area, so the
rocks containing mineral had to be shipped long distances.
Sadly, in the 20th century the great port of Manham declined, and thousands of
workers were forced to emigrate out of the area. The building at the port fell into
disrepair, and the place became almost forgotten. But then the Manham Trust was formed
to conserve the historical resources of the area. It organized scores of local volunteers to
remove undergrowth to find the original outlines of the installations. It then brought in
paid professional to match installations with maps of the original port complex and
to set about reconstructing it. Today, you can see the results of this ambitious
programmes of restoration. The intention and we believe this will be realized before the
end of the year, is to return Manham port to the condition it reached its peak as “the
greatest copper port in the country”.
But what can you do and see on your visit today? Here are just a few highlights. We
suggest you start with the visit to the copper mine. Travel on converted mining trains and
journey into the depths of the mountain along seems once worked by hundreds of miners.
Watch out especially for the great pumping machines which rid the mines of water. But
please be warned that, like all mines, our is very dark and closed in and we do say that
children under five and also dogs should not be taken into the mine.
The next recommended visit is to the village school. While looking round the
classrooms, take a special look at our display of games, which is one of the largest in the
world. And it is recommended that you time your visit to coincide with a guided tour.
This will give you the opportunity to ask a lot of questions. Near the school is the
beautiful old sailing ketch called “the George”. You are welcome to board the boat and
look round the cabins. Look out for the ship’s wheel which was missing until only 5 years
ago when it was dredged out of the silt by a local fisherman. We have no idea how it got
there but it’s been polished and proudly restored to its original place on the boat. Please
take care going down the ladders if you wish to visit the lower deck- we don’t recommend
you allow young children to use them.
So we hope you have a memorable visit to Manham port and will tell your friends all
about us