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Cán bộ chấm thi 1:
I. LISTENING
Part 1. You will hear a woman talking to a man who works for a travel agency. Complete the note below
with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER. Write your answer in the corresponding
numbered boxes. You will listen to the recording twice.
SAFARI HOLIDAY
Holiday begins on (1) __________________________.
Minimum age is (2) __________________________ years.
Each day group covers (3) __________________________ of the Serengeti plains.
Holiday costs (4) __________________________ per person sharing.
All food included except (5) __________________________.
More information is available at www. (6) __________________________.com
Price is inclusive of (7) __________________________.
The holiday promoter offers a (8) __________________________ of your money back if all the
animals on the list are not spotted.
Tour is popular, so travelers are advised to (9) __________________________.
A (10) __________________________ of 500 dollars is required to secure your place.
Your answer:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
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Part 2. You will hear a news segment about ChatGPT. For questions 11-15, decide whether the statement
is TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).
11. ChatGPT is characterized by natural language response not limited to one single writing style.
12. ChatGPT admits being able to converse, provide assistance, and emote.
13. The program is capable of producing certain literature works to complex academic compositions.
14. One weakness of the technology is that the system itself cannot comprehend its own output.
15. Predictions made by people in the field about chatbot technologies’ progress were accurate.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 3. You will hear 5 accounts about people’s jobs and lives. Choose from the list and match what most
excites each speaker about their job.
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 4. You will hear part of a radio interview with the comedian, Lenny Henry. Choose the answer ( А, В,
C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
21. Why did Lenny decide to do a degree?
A. He was self-conscious because he didn’t have one.
B. Other actors persuaded him that it was a good idea.
C. He needed one to further his acting career.
D. He was impressed by other actors who had been to university.
22. What effect has studying for a degree had on Lenny?
A. It has developed his ability to think more clearly about his work in general.
B. It has made him think more seriously about his career.
C. It has given him the confidence to try for more challenging acting roles.
D. It causes him a lot of stress when he has to write an essay.
23. According to Lenny, how does comedy affect the way people feel?
A. It hinders their appreciation of the seriousness of a situation.
B. It helps them deal with disturbing images.
C. It makes people more sensitive.
D. It enables them to laugh at heartbreaking stories.
24. What does Lenny say about the work of Comic Relief in Africa?
A. People in Africa now have new ways of raising money for themselves.
B. The task they are facing is too big for them to make a real difference.
C. People aren’t committed enough yet to the cause.
D. It should be a steady process to help the local communities.
25. What does Lenny say about his visit to Debre Zeit?
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A. He enjoyed working as a care worker for a while.
B. He was impressed by Fanti’s bravery despite his illness.
C. He was moved by the way the people there handled their situation.
D. He was impressed by the way Fanti praised Comic Relief.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Your answer:
21. 26.
22. 27.
23. 28.
24. 29.
25. 30.
Part 3. Choose one preposition and one noun from the relevant boxes to make a phrase. Then use these
phrases to fill each gap. Use each item once only.
on his stride
at the belt
behind a loss
for the hoof
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below his dignity
beneath the odds
into the saddle
without a doubt
in the scenes
over good measure
31. Rachel is _______ the most talented employee we’ve ever had.
32. Tom is now regretted that he has definitely paid _______ for that coat.
33. It was a bit _______ to remind him of his past failures.
34. Meanwhile, diplomats from both countries are working _______ to ensure the success of the talks.
35. Jeremy was _______to understand their abrupt change of policy.
36. The concert was excellent - there were lots of well-known songs with some new ones thrown in _______.
37. My father has got a meeting downtown in 20 minutes so he will have lunch _______.
38. He felt cleaning of any description was _______.
39. Let's wait until he has got _______ before we ask him to negotiate that contract.
40. The chairman is back _______ after his two- day holiday with his family.
Your answer:
31. 36.
32. 37.
33. 38.
34. 39.
35. 40.
III. READING
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your
answer in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Language is thought to be a mechanism for (1) _______ the information within thoughts. One experiment
used to demonstrate this idea (2) _______ subjects to listen to a short passage of several sentences, then to
repeat the passage. Most people will accurately convey the (3) _______ of the passage in the sentences they
produce, will not come close to repeating the sentences verbatim. It appears that two (4) _______ are
occurring. Upon hearing the passage, the subjects convert the language of the passage into a more abstract
representation of its meaning, which is more easily (5) _______ within memory. Then in order to recreate the
passage, the subject (6) _______ this representation and converts its meaning back into language.
This separation of thought and language is less intuitive than it might be (7) _______ languages can be a
powerful tool with which to manipulate thoughts. It provides a mechanism to internally rehearse, critique,
and (8) _______ thoughts. This internal form of communication is (9) _______ for a social animal and could
certainly be in part responsible (10) _______ the strong selective pressures for improved language use.
1. A. taking B. transmitting C. inventing D. translating
2. A. requires B. obtains C. demands D. promotes
3. A. hunch B. hub C. gist D. precision
4. A. transformations B. instigations C. iterations D. applications
5. A. stored B. reminded C. acquired D. retrieved
6. A. supplies B. discovers C. reveals D. recalls
7. A. nevertheless B. so that C. because D. although
8. A. obscure B. modify C. reflect D. accept
9. A. incidental B. insignificant C. essential D. definitive
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10. A. at B. on C. for D. in
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2. Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
THE LOWLY FROG
The frog, one of the world’s most common amphibians, (11) ________ an important role in nature. In
addition to merely providing children with endless entertainment, it is responsible for controlling the slug
population in gardens everywhere. Slugs survive by dining on plants (12) ________ vegetables, much to the
chagrin of gardeners.
The common frog’s annual (13) ________ period occurs in the spring. The lowly creature begins its
existence as an egg in frog spawn, and after the tadpole stage (14) ________ into the four-legged hopper in a
process which can take as (15) ________ as two years, depending on variety of frog. There are about 2000
species of frog, in (16) ________ the large bullfrog is one of the largest and most common in America.
Like so many species in nature, the frog (17) ________ an ever-growing number of threats to its continued
existence. Record numbers of frogs have been wiped out in recent years due to viruses (18) ________
through their food supply, which includes small fish that may be farmed or imported from abroad.
Environmental factors may also be to blame such as increasing concentrations of chemicals or metals
transmitted through the food chain, which can damage the animal’s immune system and (19) ________ it
susceptible to disease. In (20) ________ to these various threats, several wildlife organizations dedicated to
the study and protection of frogs have sprung up in recent years.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
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chosen and others discarded, that some experiments are conducted and others are not. Where is, your naive,
pure and objective researcher now?
E. Hypotheses arise by guesswork, or by inspiration, but having been formulated they can and must be tested
rigorously, using the appropriate methodology. If the predictions you make as a result of deducing certain
consequences from your hypothesis are not shown to be correct then you discard or modify your hypothesis.
If the predictions turn out to be correct then your hypothesis has been supported and may be retained until
such time as some further test shows it not to be correct. Once you have arrived at your hypothesis, which is
a product of your imagination, you then proceed to a strictly logical and rigorous process, based upon
deductive argument — hence the term ‘hypothetico-deductive’.
F. So don’t worry if you have some idea of what your results will tell you before you even begin to collect
data; there are no scientists in existence who really wait until they have all the evidence in front of them
before they try to work out what it might possibly mean. The closest we ever get to this situation is when
something happens by accident; but even then the researcher has to formulate a hypothesis to be tested
before being sure that, for example, a mould might prove to be a successful antidote to bacterial infection.
G. The myth of scientific method is not only that it is inductive (which we have seen is incorrect) but also
that the hypothetico-deductive method proceeds in a step-by-step, inevitable fashion. The hypothetico-
deductive method describes the logical approach to much research work, but it does not describe the
psychological behaviour that brings it about. This is much more holistic — involving guesses, reworkings,
corrections, blind alleys and above all inspiration, in the deductive as well as the hypothetic component -than
is immediately apparent from reading the final thesis or published papers. These have been, quite properly,
organised into a more serial, logical order so that the worth of the output may be evaluated independently of
the behavioural processes by which it was obtained. It is the difference, for example between the academic
papers with which Crick and Watson demonstrated the structure of the DNA molecule and the fascinating
book The Double Helix in which Watson (1968) described how they did it. From this point of view,
‘scientific method’ may more usefully be thought of as a way of writing up research rather than as a way of
carrying it out.
Questions 21- 25: The reading passage has seven paragraphs A-G. Choose the most suitable headings for
paragraphs C-G from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers i-x in boxes.
List of Headings
i The Crick and Watson approach to research
ii Antidotes to bacterial infection
iii The testing of hypotheses
iv Explaining the inductive method
v Anticipating results before data is collected
vi How research is done and how it is reported
vii The role of hypotheses in scientific research
viii Deducing the consequences of hypotheses
ix Karl Popper’s claim that the scientific method is hypothetico - deductive
x The unbiased researcher
Example Paragraph A Answer: ix
21. Paragraph C
22. Paragraph D
23. Paragraph E
24. Paragraph F
25. Paragraph G
Questions 26 – 29: Do the following statements reflect the opinions of the writer in the reading passage? Write:
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YES if the statement reflects the opinion of the writer.
NO if the statement contradicts the opinion of the writer.
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
26. Popper says that the scientific method is hypothetico-deductive.
27. If a prediction based on a hypothesis is fulfilled, then the hypothesis is confirmed as true.
28. Many people carry out research in a mistaken way.
29. The ‘scientific method’ is more a way of describing research than a way of doing it.
Question 30: Which of the following statements best describes the writer’s main purpose in reading passage?
A. to advise Ph.D students not to cheat while carrying out research.
B. to encourage Ph.D students to work by guesswork and inspiration.
C. to explain to Ph.D students the logic which the scientific research paper follows.
D. to help Ph.D students by explaining different conceptions of the research process.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Part 4: Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions that follow by
circling A, B, C, or D.
In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor in Michigan stands a poignant
memorial to humanity’s shattered dreams. It doesn’t look like that from the outside, though. Even when you
get inside, it takes a few moments for your eyes to get used to what you’re seeing. It appears to be a vast and
haphazardly organized supermarket; along every aisle, grey metal shelves are crammed with thousands of
packages of food and household products. There is something unusually cacophonous about the displays and
soon enough you work out the reason: unlike in a real supermarket, there is only one of each item.
The storehouse, operated by a company called GfK Custom Research North America, has acquired a
nickname: the Museum of Failed Products. This is consumer capitalism’s graveyard or, to put it less grandly,
it’s almost certainly the only place on the planet where you’ll find A Touch of Yogurt shampoo alongside the
equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only. The museum is home to discontinued brands of caffeinated beer and
self-heating soup cans that had a regrettable tendency to explode in customers’ faces.
There is a Japanese term, mono no aware, that translates roughly as “the pathos of things”. It captures
a kind of bittersweet melancholy at life’s impermanence – that additional beauty imparted to cherry
blossoms, for their fleeting nature. It’s only stretching the concept slightly to suggest that this is how the
museum’s manager, an understatedly stylish GfK employee named Carol Sherry, feels about the cartons of
Morning Banana Juice in her care or about Fortune Snookies, a short-lived line of fortune cookies for dogs.
Every failure, the way she sees it, embodies its own sad story on the part of designers, marketers, and
salespeople. It is never far from her mind that real people had their mortgages, their car payments, and their
family holidays riding on the success of products such as A Touch of Yogurt.
The Museum of Failed Products was itself a kind of accident, albeit a happier one. Its creator, a now
retired marketing man named Robert McMath, merely intended to accumulate a “reference library” of
consumer products, not failure per se. And so, starting in the 1960s, he began purchasing and preserving a
sample of every new item he could find. Soon, the collection outgrew his office in upstate New York and he
was forced to move into a converted granary to accommodate it. Later, GfK bought him out, moving the
whole lot to Michigan. What McMath hadn’t taken into account was the three-word truth that was to prove
the making of his career: most products fail. According to some estimates, the failure rate is as high as ninety
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percent. Simply by collecting new products indiscriminately, McMath had ensured that his hoard would
come to consist overwhelmingly of unsuccessful ones.
By far the most striking thing about the museum, though, is that it should exist as a viable, profit-
making business in the first place. You might have assumed that any consumer product manufacturer worthy
of the name would have its own such collection – a carefully stewarded resource to help it avoid making
errors its rivals had already made. Yet the executives who arrive every week at Sherry’s door are evidence of
how rarely this happens. Product developers are so focused on their next hoped-for success, so unwilling to
invest time or energy thinking about their industry’s past failures that they only belatedly realize how much
they need to access GfK’s collection. Most surprising of all is that many of the designers who have found
their way to the museum have come there to examine – or been surprised to discover – products that their
own companies had created, then abandoned.
It isn’t hard to imagine how one downside of the positive thinking culture, an aversion to confronting
failure, might have been responsible for the very existence of many of the products lining its shelves. Each
one must have made it through a series of meetings at which nobody realized that the product was doomed.
Perhaps nobody wanted to contemplate the prospect of failure; perhaps someone did but didn’t want to bring
it up for discussion. By the time the truth became obvious, the original developers would have moved to
other products or other firms. Little energy would have been invested in discovering what went wrong.
Everyone involved would have conspired, perhaps without realizing what they’re doing, never to speak of it
again. Failure is everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact.
(adapted from Gold Advanced by Sally Burgess & Amanda Thomas © Pearson)
31. According to the writer, what is the reason why the storehouse does not resemble a supermarket?
A. its appearance on the outside B. the dimly-lit space
C. the size of the building D. the range of products on each shelf
32. The word “crammed” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. busy B. filled C. contented D. familiar
33. What is the writer’s main purpose in paragraph 2?
A. to provide an idea of what the museum contains
B. to give reasons why these products were rejected by consumers
C. to explain how obvious it was that self-heating cans failed
D. to illustrate how the museum is organized and operated
34. What is Carol Sherry’s attitude to the failed products?
A. She feels particularly attached to some products.
B. She has sympathy for the people inventing them.
C. She prefers failed products to successful ones.
D. She appreciates the concepts behind the products.
35. The word “fleeting” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. intractable B. durable C. selective D. brief
36. According to the writer, Mr. McMath failed to realize that his collection would _______.
A. be better if it were more selective B. grow so quickly
C. contain so many failed products D. be so difficult to store
37. The word “indiscriminately” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. in a planned way B. in an expected way
C. in an unexpected way D. in an unplanned way
38. According to the writer, what is remarkable about the product developers who visit GfK?
A. their ignorance of the existence of the collection
B. the lack of attention paid to previous failures
C. the way they dismiss their own companies’ failures
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D. their tendency to repeat past failures
39. What point is the writer making in the last paragraph?
A. that failure should have been prevented B. that failure is an acceptable part of life
C. that people are afraid to talk about failure D. that thinking negatively often leads to failure
40. The word “aversion” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _______.
A. dislike B. willingness C. affection D. approval
Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
IV. WRITING
Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the original
sentence. (0) has been done as an example.
0. Keith certainly can’t be held responsible for the accident.
→ In no way can Keith be held responsible for the accident.
1. People became aware of the damage to the ozone layer when an enormous hole was discovered over the
South Pole.
→ It was the
_____________________________________________________________________________.
2. The house will need painting before we move in.
→ We will need to
_______________________________________________________________________.
3. We don’t think you should have done that.
→ We would rather
_______________________________________________________________________.
4. Jack reckoned that his success was due to his hard work and incredible luck.
→ Jack put _____________________________________________________________________________.
5. The lion which was lying under the tree was one of the biggest one I had ever seen.
→ Under the tree ________________________________________________________________________.
Part 2: Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such
a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. DO NOT change the form of the
given word. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. (0) has been done
as an example.
0. Jane regretted speaking so rudely to the old lady. (MORE)
→ Jane ________ wishes she had spoken more ______ politely to the old lady.
6. Tim failed to get into university and he gets very annoyed if it’s mentioned. (CHIP)
→ Timothy has got ______________________________________________ his failure to get into
university.
7. His grandfather is now having an operation. (KNIFE)
→ His grandfather _______________________________________________________________________.
8. Russ’s opinions on the new management policies were very different from those of his workers. (ODDS)
→ Russ was ___________________________________________________________ the new management.
9. I think you misunderstood, Mike. (STICK)
→ I think you must have got ___________________________________________________________, Mike.
10. A government official leaked the story to the world press. (WIND) .
→ The world press _____________________________________________________ a government official.
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Part 3. Write an essay of about 250 words on the following topic:
Many people feel that students who break school rules should be punished by having to do some work
for local community.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this idea?
Use specific information and examples to illustrate your opinions.
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