SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH

PHÚ THỌ LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2022-2023

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút, không kể thời gian giao đề
(Đề thi gồm có 14 trang)

I. LISTENING (20 points)

Part 1. Listen to a writer talking about the history of Bali and complete the notes with NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS. (10 points)

Date Event Importance for art

farmers from China built temples ornamented with wood and stone
3000 BC
(1) ______ in Bali

artists employed by the ruling families and focused

14th century introduction of (2) ______
on epic narratives

establishment of Dutch
1906 art became expression of opposition to (3) ______
East Indies Company

1920s encouraged use of new materials, techniques, and

beginning of (4) ______
subjects

started to describe the (5) ______ of Balinese

1945 beginning of independence
history as well as the everyday life of their people

Write your answers here:

1. _____________________________ 4. _____________________________
2. _____________________________ 5. _____________________________
3. _____________________________
Part 2. You will hear a radio program about the arts. For questions 1-5, choose the letter A, B, C or D
to indicate the best answer to each of the following questions. (10 points)
1. Tonight’s program will focus on ______.
A. training priorities in broadcasting companies
B. courses for those hoping to work in the media
C. career prospects for existing media employees
D. employment opportunities in London colleges
2. What is the main aim of the organization called Cinemax?
A. Recruiting scriptwriters for the film industry.
B. Providing courses in media studies.
C. Organizing a local film festival.
D. Getting young people interested in cinema.
3. How does Nigel feel about the input from the consultant?
A. He is pleased that he ignored her advice.
B. He is keen to acknowledge her contribution.
C. He feels that she was over-critical.
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 D. He is glad she rewrote some sections.
4. Nigel explains that consultants were brought in because ______.
A. they may provide funds for future projects
B. they provided some expensive equipment
C. the team members were lacking in confidence
D. the organizers had invested heavily in the project
5. Looking to the future, Nigel says he is ______.
A. aware of the need to remain flexible
B. less enthusiastic about working in film making
C. hoping to do some further work on his first script
D. keen to become a full-time scriptwriter
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
II. PHONETICS (5 points)
Part 1. Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose stress pattern is different from the
other three in the position of stress in each of the following questions.
1. A. index B. commit C. preview D. abbess
2. A. therapeutic B. conscientious C. fanaticism D. orthographic
Part 2. Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
3. A. allegedly B. confusedly C. supposedly D. wickedly
4. A. archaic B. chaperon C. choreograph D. chasm
5. A. unique B. umpire C. ulcer D. umber
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
III. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)
Part 1. Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best completes each of the
following sentences. (30 points)
1. The leaves of the wild mulberry provide food for silkworms, ______ silk fabrics are woven.
A. which cocoons B. from cocoons
C. whose cocoons D. from whose cocoons
2. This project is ______ for an introductory-level class.
A. really much too hard B. much too really hard
C. too much really hard D. really hard too much
3. Her punky hairstyle showed she was not one for following the ______.
A. flock B. swarm C. group D. herd
4. When Eric’s mother could no longer stand his ______, she bought him the toy car.
A. badgering B. crowing C. squirreling D. wolfing
5. Seeing something piled ______ on the shelves, Bennett moved closer and found hundreds of wooden
pallets stacked in complete disarray.
A. punctiliously B. spottily C. fortuitously D. haphazardly
6. The college basketball team always seem to cream ______ the best athletes and other sports suffer as a
result.
A. up B. over C. off D. on
7. I found the training exhausting as the coach always pushed us to the ______.
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 A. restriction B. border C. frontier D. limit
8. He ______ and can usually let us know what the boss’s mood is.
A. turns a blind eye B. plays it by ear
C. is all ears D. keeps his ear to the ground
9. The thief put on the expensive boots and, with a ______ air, walked calmly out of the shop!
A. steadfast B. nonchalant C. churlish D. malicious
10. Unions accept free accommodation and travel, yet they would scream ______ murder if the same was
received by politicians.
A. red B. blue C. yellow D. black
11. ______, we couldn’t make out the gist of the passage.
A. Careful as Jack explained B. As Jack carefully explained
C. Due to Jack’s careful explanations D. Though carefully explained by Jack
12. I will listen ______ for your car and come down to the street so you don’t have to park.
A. to B. with C. out D. up
13. When I arrived, I found out that I ______ the heavy gas bottle on my back because the campsite now
had electric cookers.
A. needn’t have carried B. didn’t need to carry
C. can’t have carried D. might not have carried
14. It’s urgent ______ of the problem immediately.
A. the personnel manager be informed B. to be informed the personnel manager
C. informing the personnel manager D. the personnel manager is being informed
15. ______, the meeting stops here.
A. If no question being asked B. There being no question
C. No questions asked D. Without any question, however
16. I don’t think that this fashion will ______.
A. catch up B. catch out C. catch on D. catch over
17. A(n) ______ decision has been made and there is nothing we can do about it now.
A. lock and key B. on and off C. high and mighty D. cut and dried
18. To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to ______ heavy pressure from colleagues.
A. fend off B. laugh off C. send off D. push off
19. Despite the huge marketing push, the new smartphone has taken second ______ in the eyes of
consumers.
A. part B. seat C. spot D. place
20. The Minister was trying to avoid publicity, so he kept ______.
A. near the ground B. a low profile C. a cool ahead D. under cover
21. I asked him, in vain, if we could rest for an hour but he had set his ______ on reaching Danby by
nightfall.
A. eye B. heart C. head D. hand
22. If there happened to be both rich and poor people, as there happen to be both black and white ones,
then the advantages of the ______ might well spread in time to the hard-up.
A. well-heeled B. big-hearted C. open-handed D. tight-fisted
23. Bobby’s new girlfriend must have gotten her ______ into him.
A. paws B. claws C. crooks D. hooks
24. Christmas is often a ______ for domestic violence due to increased drinking, tension over money and
contact with family members.
A. hellhole B. flashpoint C. watershed D. meltdown
25. The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the ______ they needed to prove he had been involved
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 A. pester power B. safe bet C. smoking gun D. brass ring
26. Upon finding out that he had been rejected, he cut up ______.
A. rough B. raw C. loose D. harsh
27. No artist works ______ - we are all influenced by others.
A. on a whim B. like a dog C. in a vacuum D. at full stretch
28. Everyone will tell you that becoming a parent is challenging, but you never really know what that
means until you learn about it the ______ way.
A. long B. direct C. full D. hard
29. I rarely take my kids to the library because he can be a bit of ______, running around and making a
mess.
A. a bull in the China shop B. a pig in mud
C. a duck in Arizona D. a bird in the hand
30. The amount of each ingredient put in your cake might differ a bit from the recipe, so it usually
requires experience to have your cake done ______.
A. there and then B. just the way C. for good D. to a turn
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______
11. ______ 12. ______ 13. ______ 14. ______ 15. ______
16. ______ 17. ______ 18. ______ 19. ______ 20. ______
21. ______ 22. ______ 23. ______ 24. ______ 25. ______
26. ______ 27. ______ 28. ______ 29. ______ 30. ______
Part 2. Choose letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions. (5 points)
1. In 1921, accompanied by her two daughters, Marie Curie made a triumphant journey to the United
States to raise funds for research on radium.
A. sorrowful B. difficult C. adventurous D. victorious
2. Australia’s cities complicate this classical view of the heat island model to the extent that city centres
are close to the coast and heat is ameliorated by the immense heat-absorbing capacities of the ocean
and associated breezes.
A. improved B. altered C. absorbed D. deteriorated
3. The wedding handkerchief is passed from generation to generation, and is considered an important
family heirloom.
A. dowry B. inheritance C. representation D. pride
4. On the last day that parliament sat this year, the government let slip that public health budgets for
local authorities will be slashed by £85m next year.
A. increased sharply B. invested C. disbursed D. reduced greatly
5. Now imagine being turned down or paying exorbitant sums for life insurance and health coverage by
companies that deem you too high a risk even though you feel fit as a fiddle.
A. in very bad health B. suitable enough for the job
C. in very good health D. qualified for the position
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______

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 Part 3. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions. (5 points)
1. Since it is to be a surprise, don’t let the cat out of the bag.
A. let the bag away from the cat B. reveal the true story
C. keep the cat inside the bag D. hide the secret
2. Some successful scientists make their careers by hammering away at one experimental technique
that they are good at, and by gathering a gang of co-workers to do the donkey work.
A. hard and boring work B. exhausting and difficult work
C. interesting and simple work D. exciting and challenging work
3. The company has been cooking up cunning plans to revitalize the business for the past 10 years;
yet all it has delivered is relentless decline.
A. concocting sly plans B. creating guileless plans
C. contriving crafty plans D. preparing careful plans
4. Always willing to talk to the media, and skilled in putting his view across, he reserved most of his
energies for negotiations at the highest political levels.
A. communicating his view effectively B. disapproving his opinion
C. explaining his ideas clearly D. conveying his view unclearly
5. Modern ecologists throw up their hands in horror at what they see as Hookers environmental
anarchy.
A. are shocked B. are staggered C. are disappointed D. are unperturbed
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
Part 4. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each
of the following questions. (10 points)
1. The media have produced live covering of Michael Jackson’s fans around the world mourning for him.
A. have B. covering of C. fans around the world D. mourning for
2. A lot of ancient paintings and sculptures can be found in this museum but there are a few works of
Hugo because he is relatively unknown in this country.
A. ancient B. sculptures C. a few D. he is
3. Just when the city had finished rebuilding from a devastating hurricane of three years earlier, came
along another hurricane that created further damage.
A. had finished B. rebuilding C. devastating D. came along
4. Custom officers at the ports are looking out for a gang who are smuggling great quantities of alcohol
into the country.
A. Custom officers B. who are C. quantities D. into
5. The organizers of the charity were more than surprised at how many people lined up to receive the
clothes donating by the outgoing mayor.
A. more than surprised B. how many C. donating D. outgoing
6. Mike persisted doing everything himself, even though it was quite clear that he wasn’t capable of
doing anything proper.
A. doing B. himself C. quite D. anything proper
7. Public opinion polling aims to obtain a close-to-exact analyzing of the distribution of opinions on any
issue within a specific population.
A. aims to B. analyzing C. any D. within

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8. Luxembourg owes its high standard of living, in part, by the fact that the labor force makes up almost
half of its population.
A. in B. by C. makes D. almost half
9. Green coffee keeps for a long time, while roasted and ground coffee quickly loses its flavor and aroma
if exposing to air.
A. keeps B. while C. its D. exposing
10. The major economical activities of Cheyenne, Wyoming, include transportation, chemicals, tourism,
and governmental activities.
A. economical B. include C. chemicals D. and
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______
IV. LANGUAGE FUNCTION (5 points)
Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
1. Jack is having trouble getting some change for the automatic vending machine, so he asks a passerby.
- Jack: “Excuse me, could I trouble you for some change?”
- The passerby: “______. Will pennies do?”
A. I know B. Never mind C. I am sure D. Let me see
2. - Son: “Why don’t we buy a new car, Dad? This one is too old to go out with my friends.”
- Dad: “______. We don’t have much money.”
A. You’re right B. I have to think it up
C. It’s out of the question now D. That’s a great idea
3. Two students Peter and Anny are talking about women’s role.
- Peter: “In my opinion, women would not go to work.”
- Anny: “______”
A. Yes, I don’t agree. B. What nonsense! C. Yes, I do. D. Yes, it was ever.
4. - John: “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?”
- Laura: “______.”
A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea B. There is no doubt about it
C. Of course not. You bet D. Well, that’s very surprising
5. Two friends Tom and Laura are talking about Laura’s competition.
- Tom: “I thought your performance last Sunday was wonderful.”
- Laura: “______”
A. I completely agree with you. It was terrific.
B. No doubt!
C. Don’t tell a lie. I thought it was terrible.
D. You must be kidding. It was not as good as I had expected.
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
V. READING COMPREHENSION (60 points)
Part 1. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word that
best fits each of the numbered blanks. (20 points)
The issues for (1)______ economies are a little straight forward. The desire to build on
undeveloped land is not (2)______ out of desperation or necessity, but is a result of the relentless march
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of progress. Cheap labour and a relatively high-skilled workforce make these countries highly
competitive and there is a flood of inward investment, particular from (3)______ looking to take
advantage of the low wages before the cost and standard of living begin to rise. It is factors such as these
that are making many Asian economies extremely attractive when viewed as investment opportunity at
the moment. Similarly, in Africa, the relative (4)______ of precious metals and natural resources tends to
attract a lot of (5)______ companies and a whole sub-industry develops around and is completely
dependent on this foreign-direct investment. It is understandable that countries that are the focus of this
sort of attention can lose sight of the environmental implications of large-scale industrial development,
and this can have devastating consequences for the natural world. And it is a (6)______ circle because
the more industrially active a nation becomes, the greater the demand for and harvesting of natural
resources. For some, the environmental issues, though they can hardly be ignored, are viewed as a
(7)______ concern. Indeed, having an environmental conscience or taking environmental matters into
consideration when it comes to decisions on whether or not to build rubber-tree (8)______ or grow
biofuel crops would be quite (9)______ indeed. For those involved in such schemes it is a pretty black-
and-white issue. And, for vast (10)______ of land in Latin America, for example, it is clear that the
welfare of the rainforests matters little to the local government when vast sums of money can be made
from cultivating the land.
1. A. emerging B. emergent C. convergent D. resurgent
2. A. grown B. born C. bred D. arisen
3. A. multinationals B. migrants C. continentals D. intercontinents
4. A. premonition B. abundance C. amplitude D. accumulation
5. A. exploitation B. exploration C. surveyance D. research
6. A. vacuous B. viscous C. vexatious D. vicious
7. A. parallel B. extrinsic C. peripheral D. exponential
8. A. plantations B. homesteads C. ranches D. holdings
9. A. proscriptive B. prohibitive C. prospective D. imperative
10. A. regions B. plots C. tracts D. sectors
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______
Part 2. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer
to each of the questions. (20 points)
There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on Earth,
particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a natural hazard to life on
Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are known to have collided with Earth.
If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an
ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of
the Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth’s history is marked by a mass extinction,
when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass
extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists
because it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures
had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a mass of
more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first identified this impact in
1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust cloud that enveloped the planet after
the impact. This sediment layer is enriched in the rare metal iridium and other elements that are relatively
abundant in a meteorite but very rare in the crust of Earth. Even diluted by the terrestrial material
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excavated from the crater, this component of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990 geologists had
located the impact site itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment,
was originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as
the lunar crater Tycho. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the atmosphere, as can be
determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed when this dust settled to the surface.
Such a quantity of material would have blocked the sunlight completely from reaching the surface,
plunging Earth into a period of cold and darkness that lasted at least several months. The explosion is
also calculated to have produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out overmuch
of Earth, starting widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forest sand grassland.
Presumably, those environmental disasters could have been responsible for the mass extinction, including
the death of the dinosaurs.
Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with large
impacts, but none is so dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such specific documentation,
it is clear that impacts of this size do occur and that their results can be catastrophic. What is a
catastrophe for one group of living things, however, may create opportunities for another group.
Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the
ecological niches opened by the event.
Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and seriously
influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the majority of all
extinctions of species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective fundamentally changes our view of
biological evolution. The standard criterion for the survival of a species is its success in competing with
other species and adapting to slowly changing environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the
ability of a species to survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were
unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to investigate the
hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the study concluded from a detailed
analysis that impacts from meteorites can indeed be hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a
large impact could occur, careful study shows that this risk is quite small.
1. The word “pose” in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. claim B. model C. assume D. present
2. In paragraph 2, why does the author include the information that dinosaurs had flourished for tens of
millions of years and then suddenly disappeared?
A. To support the claim that the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous is the best-documented of
the dozen or so mass extinctions in the geological record.
B. To explain why as many as half of the species on Earth at the time are believed to have become
extinct at the end of the Cretaceous.
C. To explain why paleontologists have always been intrigued by the mass extinction at the end of the
Cretaceous.
D. To provide evidence that an impact can be large enough to disturb the environment of the entire
planet and cause an ecological disaster.
3. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about the location of the meteorite impact in
Mexico?
A. The location of the impact site in Mexico was kept secret by geologists from 1980 to 1990.
B. It was a well-known fact that the impact had occurred in the Yucatán region.
C. Geologists knew that there had been an impact before they knew where it had occurred.
D. The Yucatán region was chosen by geologists as the most probable impact site because of its
climate.
4. According to paragraph 3, how did scientists determine that a large meteorite had impacted Earth?
A. They discovered a large crater in the Yucatán region of Mexico.
B. They found a unique layer of sediment worldwide.
C. They were alerted by archaeologists who had been excavating in the Yucatán region.
D. They located a meteorite with a mass of over a trillion tons.
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5. The word “excavating” in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. digging out B. extending C. destroying D. covering up
6. According to paragraph 4, all of the following statements are true of the impact at the end of the
Cretaceous period EXCEPT ______.
A. A large amount of dust blocked sunlight from Earth
B. Earth became cold and dark for several months
C. New elements were formed in Earth’s crust
D. Large quantities of nitric acid were produced
7. The phrase “tentatively identified” in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. identified after careful study B. identified without certainty
C. occasionally identified D. easily identified
8. Paragraph 6 supports which of the following statements about the factors that are essential for the
survival of a species?
A. The most important factor for the survival of a species is its ability to compete and adapt to gradual
changes in its environment.
B. The ability of a species to compete and adapt to a gradually changing environment is not the only
ability that is essential for survival.
C. Since most extinctions of species are due to major meteorite impacts, the ability to survive such
impacts is the most important factor for the survival of a species.
D. The factors that are most important for the survival of a species vary significantly from one species
to another.
9. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the following sentence?
“Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were
unsuspected a few decades ago.”
Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Until recently, nobody realized that Earth is exposed to violent impacts from space.
B. In the last few decades, the risk of a random violent impact from space has increased.
C. Since most violent events on Earth occur randomly, nobody can predict when or where they will
happen.
D. A few decades ago, Earth became the target of random violent events originating in outer space.
10. According to the passage, who conducted investigations about the current dangers posed by large
meteorite impacts on Earth?
A. Paleontologists B. Geologists C. The United States Congress D. NASA
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______
Part 3. Read the text and do the tasks that follow. (20 points)
The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs A-G.
For questions 1-7, choose the most suitable heading below for each paragraph.
List of headings
i. Key people that made a difference
ii. An alternative to fingerprinting
iii. The significance of prints
iv. How to identify a criminal
v. Patterns in the making
vi. Family connections
vii. Exciting new developments
viii. A strange coincidence
ix. Punishing a criminal
x. A uncertain past
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 1. Paragraph A ______.
2. Paragraph B ______.
3. Paragraph C ______.
4. Paragraph D ______.
5. Paragraph E ______.
6. Paragraph F ______.
7. Paragraph G ______.
A. To detectives, the answers lie at the end of our figures. Fingerprinting offers an accurate and
infallible means of personal identification. The ability to identify a person from a mere fingerprint is
a powerful tool in the fight against crime. It is the most commonly used forensic evidence, often
outperforming other methods of identification. These day, older methods of ink fingerprinting,
which could take weeks, have given way to newer, faster techniques like fingerprint evidence, every
single person’s print is unique. So, what makes our fingerprints different for our neighbor’s?
B. A good place to start is to understand what fingerprints are and how they are created. A fingerprint is
the arrangement of skin ridges and furrows on the tips of the fingers. This ridged skin develops fully
during fetal development, as the skin cells grow in the mother’s womb. These ridges are arranged
into patterns and remain the same through tout the course of a person’s life. Other visible human
characteristics, like weight and height, change over time whereases fingerprints do not. The reason
why every fingerprint is unique is that when a baby’s genes combine with environmental influences,
such as temperature, it affects the way the ridges on the skin grow. It makes thi ridges develop at
different rates, buckling and bending into patterns. As a result, no two people end up having the
same fingerprints. Even identical twins possess dissimilar fingerprints.
C. It is not easy to map the journey of how the unique quality of the fingerprint came to be discovered.
The moment in history it happened is not entirely clear. However, the use fingerprinting can be
traced back to some ancient civilizations, such as Babylon and China, where thumbprints were
pressed onto clay tablets to confirm business transactions. Whether people at this time actually
realized the full extent of how fingerprints were important for identification purposes is another
matter altogether. One cannot be sure if the act was seen as a means to confirm identity or a
symbolic gesture to blind a contract, where giving your fingerprint was like giving your word.
D. Despite this uncertainty, there are those who made a significant contribution towards the analysis of
fingerprinting. History tells us that at 14 th century Persian doctor made an early statement that no
two fingerprints are alike. Later, in the 17 th, Italian physician Marcello Malpighi studied the
distinguishing shapes of loops and spirals in fingerprints. In this honor, the medical world later
named a layer of skin after him. It was, however, an employee for the East India Company, William
Herschel, who came to see the true potential of fingerprinting. He took fingerprints from the local
people as a form of signature for the contracts, in order to avoid fraud. His fascination with
fingerprints propelled him to study them for the next twenty years. He developed the theory that
fingerprints were unique to an individual and did not change at all over a lifetime. In 1880 Henry
Faulds suggested that fingerprints could be used to identify convicted criminals. He wrote to Charles
Darwin for advice and the idea was referred on to Darwin’s cousin, Sir Francis Galton, Galton
eventually published an in-depth study of fingerprint science in 1892.
E. Although the fact that each person has a totally unique fingerprint pattern had been well documented
and accepted for a long time, this knowledge was not exploited for criminal identification until the
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 for what he was. In some countries, thieves would have their hands cut off. France branded criminals
with the fleur-de-lis symbol. The Roman tattooed mercenary soldiers to stop them from becoming
deserters.
F. For many years police agencies in the Western world were reluctant to use fingerprinting, much
preferring the popular method of the time, the Bertillon System, where dimensions of certain body
parts were recorded to identify a criminal. The turning point was in 1903 when a prisoner by the
name Will West was admitted into Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Amazingly, Will had almost
the same Bertillon measurements as another prisoner residing at the very same prison, whose name
happened to be William West. It was only their fingerprints that could tell them apart. From that
point on, fingerprinting became the standards for criminals’ identification.
G. Fingerprinting was useful in identifying people with a history of crime and who were listed on a
database. However, in situations where the perpetrator was not on the database and a crime had no
witnesses, the system fell short, Fingerprint chemistry is a new technology that can work alongside
traditional fingerprinting to find more clues than ever before. From organic compounds left behind
on a print, a scientist can tell if the person is a child, an adult, a mature person, or a smoker, and
much more. It seems, after all these years, fingers continue to point the way.
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS
AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage.
8. Unlike other _____________ that you can see, fingerprints never change.
9. Although genetically the same, _____________ do not share the same fingerprints.
10. A fingerprint was a substitute for a _____________ in Indian contracts.
Write your answers here:

8. ____________________ 9. ____________________ 10. ____________________

VI. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions. (5 points)
1. Visitors to Thailand ought not to show the soles of their feet to anyone, as it is very rude to do so there.
A. Since it is impolite to do so there, travelers in Thailand would rather not show the soles of their feet
to others.
B. It is better that people travelling in Thailand do not expose the soles of their feet to others, as there,
it is impolite to do so.
C. People visiting Thailand never uncover the soles of their feet, as it can be extremely rude to do so
there.
D. Fearing that they might offend people, visitors to Thailand do not let other people see the soles of
their feet.
2. The deciding match of the series will take place tomorrow afternoon, weather permitting.
A. The match that will determine the series’ winner will be played tomorrow afternoon if the weather
is fine.
B. Even if the weather is bad, tomorrow’s match, which will decide the winner of the series, will be
played.
C. The weather will probably not permit the match to be played tomorrow afternoon.
D. It would be unfortunate if the weather did not permit tomorrow’s match to be played, as it will
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3. Almost everybody in the hotel took advantage of its free bus to the beach.
A. Hardly anybody who was staying in the hotel travelled to the beach on its free bus.
B. Nearly everyone who was on the beach had taken the free bus from the hotel.
C. Everyone in the hotel saw its free bus to the beach as the best way to get there.
D. Only a few of the guests did not use the hotel’s bus, which was free, to get to the beach.
4. You can cancel your ticket with a full refund only if you do so one week before your scheduled departure.
A. You can apply for a full refund for your ticket within a week if you have had a change of plans and
cannot make the flight.
B. When you purchase a ticket for a flight, it is impossible to get a refund on it in advance of the date
that your flight will be leaving.
C. In order to get all the money you’ve paid for the ticket back, the cancellation has to be done seven
days prior to your plane’s scheduled take-off.
D. When a flight has been cancelled by the airlines, you must ask for a full refund within one week of
the date of departure.
5. The writer was not in the habit of backing up her files, so when her computer went down, she lost all
her work.
A. Unfortunately, the writer forgot to save her work before shutting down the computer, because she
was not in the habit of doing it.
B. When the writer’s computer stopped functioning, all of her work disappeared because she didn’t
regularly make copies of her files.
C. The writer wished that she had backed up her files, because she lost all of her work when her
computer stopped working.
D. After completing her work, the writer was unable to make back-up files of it due to a functioning
problem with her computer.
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
Part 2. Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of
sentences in the following questions. (5 points)
1. We chose to find a place for the night. We found the bad weather very inconvenient.
A. Bad weather was approaching though we started to look for a place to stay.
B. The bad weather prevented us from driving any further.
C. Seeing that the bad weather had set in, we decided to find somewhere to spend the night.
D. Because the climate was so severe, we were worried about what we’d do at night.
2. I ate the soup. After that I remembered that I had forgotten to give my little sister some of it.
A. It was not until I ate the soup did I remember that I had forgotten to give my little sister some of it.
B. As soon as I remembered that I had forgotten to give my little sister some of soup I ate it.
C. Only after eating the soup did I remember that I had forgotten to give my little sister some of it.
D. Hardly had I forgotten to give my little sister some of it when I ate the soup.
3. He felt very tired. However, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
A. He felt so tired that he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
B. Feeling very tired, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
C. As the result of his tiredness, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.
D. Tired as he might feel, he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain.

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4. The purpose of any invention is to make our lives better. So good or bad, it depends on the way by
which we use these inventions.
A. Whether an invention is good or bad depends on the way by which we use it because the purpose of
any invention is to make our lives better.
B. We can use either good or bad inventions to make our lives better.
C. The purpose of any invention, whether good or bad, is to make our lives better. This depends on the
way by which we use these inventions.
D. Good or bad as they are, all inventions have the same purpose to make our lives better.
5. There were over two hundred people at Carl’s trial, most of whom believed that he was not guilty of
the crime.
A. When it was announced that Carl had been found not guilty of the crime, there were over 200
people in the audience at his trial.
B. Carl had not committed the crime, and so more than 200 people came to his trial to show their
support.
C. Over 200 people coming to Carl’s trial must have influenced the fact that he was not found guilty
of the crime.
D. The majority of the more than 200 people at Carl’s trial didn’t think that he had committed the crime.
Write your answers here:
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
Part 3. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
original one. (10 points)
1. Apart from Linda, everyone else at the meeting was a party member.
 With ..........................................................................................................................................................
2. Whatever the methods used to obtain the result, drugs were definitely not involved.
 There was no question ............................................................................................................................
3. Those terrapins which survive their first year may live to be twenty.
 Should ......................................................................................................................................................
4. The last time there was such an environmental catastrophe was a thousand years ago.
 Not since ..................................................................................................................................................
5. He’s so competitive that he never gives up.
 He’s too much .........................................................................................................................................
Part 4. Rewrite the following sentences with the given words in such a way that the second sentence
has the same meaning as the first one. Do not change the form of the word in brackets. (10 points)
1. The two brothers have been quarrelling about the property for years. (LOGGERHEADS)
 The two brothers .................................................................................................................... for years.
2. Advances in science should soon yield a cure for cancer. (BRINK)
 Scientists are thought ................................................................................. finding a cure for cancer.
3. With the qualifications you certainly do not have to be forced into a decision, Sandy. (OPTIONS)
 With the qualifications .............................................................................................................., Sandy.
4. He never helps me because he is too lazy. (BONE)
 He ............................................................................................................................................. help me.
5. Even now I get scared when I think about it. (GOOSE)
 I still ................................................................................................................... when I think about it.

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Part 5. Essay writing (30 points)
Some people think that the installation of camera surveillance in the classroom will make students
focus more on the lessons and keep good discipline in class. Others believe it may inhibit their
freedom and creativity. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience. Write at least 250 words.
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