ANSWER KEYS TO T152

I. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (40 POINTS)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1: An ________ child is forever asking questions. He’s incredibly curious.
A. acquisitive B. acquitted C. inquisitive D. exquisite
Question 2: Our government has taken various _______ against the new coronavirus, including requesting
school closures and event cancellations.
A. efforts B. measures C. attempts D. methods
Question 3: All of my friends are using TikTok, so I decided to jump on the ______ and join it, too.
A. media B. platform C. bandwagon D. departure
Question 4: He has been riding ________ scooter for the last 15 years.
A. an Italian old expensive red B. an old expensive red Italian
C. an expensive old red Italian D. an expensive red old Italian
Question 5: Sue would suffer obesity if she couldn't control her _________ overeating.
A. compulsive B. disastrous C. exhaustive D. meager
Question 6: The children ______ by social networks are likely to suffer from depression and other health
problems.
A. obsessing B. who obsessed C. are obsessed D. obsessed
Question 7: We're going to visit the Great Walls. Everybody says this is ______.
A. too good a chance for being lost B. too good a chance to be lost
C. a too good chance to lose D. a too good chance for being lost
Question 8: Governments all over the world have taken drastic measures to _____ the COVID-19
pandemic.
A. comprise B. contain C. consist D. include
Question 9: At the school canteen.
Jane: "Would you rather have coffee or orange juice?"
Susan: " ______”
A. I'd rather to have coffee. B. I have either. C. I like both. D. Either, please.
Question 10: When his parents are away, his oldest brother ______. He manages everything in the family.
A. draws a blank B. is in the same boat C. knocks it off D. calls the shots
Question 11: Cellphones have ______ changed the way we communicate with others.
A. dreadfully B. genuinely C. fundamentally D. colloquially
Question 12: He believed that promotion should be awarded on _____, not on length of service.
A. equality B. merit C. characteristics D. purpose
Question 13: She made _________ telling him exactly what she thought of him.
A. the best of B. no bones about C. a splash D. a clean sweep of
Question 14: My patience is beginning to _________.
A. make waves B. hold water C. wear very thin D. stay afloat
Question 15: For the first few months the babies looked so alike I couldn’t tell _________.
A. who is whom B. which is which C. which from which D. whom with whom
Your answers
1.C 2.B 3. C 4.C 5. A
6. D 7.B 8.B 9. D 10.D
11. C 12. B 13.B 14.C 15.B
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions. Correct the mistakes.
Question 00. If you had sent the applicant on time, they might have called you for the interview
A. had sent B. applicant C. might have called D. the interview
Question 16: Despite the fact that he was innocent, he was founded guilty by association due to his
connection to the known criminals.
A. innocent B. founded C. by association D. known criminals
Question 17:It is important that young people in rural areas are allowed to look for better job opportunities
in big cities.
A. important B. in C. are allowed D. look for
Question 18: It is not advisory to make travel arrangements during this time when the Covid-19 pandemic
is still spreading at an unprecedented rate.
A. advisory B. arrangements C. spreading D. unprecedented
Question 19: They can select engineering, technical, business or serving skills to prepare themselves for
their work environment.
A. engineering B. serving C. prepare D. for
Question 20: Electric devices such as computers contain circuits that send currents between internal
components and develop voltages.
A. electric B. as C. that D. components
Your answers

00. B  application 18. A advisable

16. B  found 19. B service

17. C (should) be allowed 20. A electrical

Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following text.

Until (21.COMPARE) ___________ recent times science and technology performed different and
separate functions, the progress of one so often completely (22. RELATE) _________ to the progress of
the other.
(23. HISTORY) ___________have established that, since the earliest time, the improvements inour way of
life have resulted from empirical approach, that is a process of trial and error, by which equipment and
tools are made to satisfy important needs. It is to this approach that we owe the evolution of technology.
Our modern concept of science, both (24. PHILOSOPHY)___________ and pragmatic in approach, stems
from seventeenth century, when (25.EXTEND)_________ investigations into the natural laws governing
the behavior of matter were (26. TAKE)_______.
It was this revolutionary style of thought which led to a science-based technology. Scientific knowledge
was not in itself seen as a (27. PLACE)______ _____ for the earlier system of trial and error, but it did
help the technical innovators to see which path of (28. EXPERIMENT)_____ _____ might be more
fruitful. With the industrialization of the nineteenth century, the bond between science and technology (29.
STRONG)______. In our own time, the mutual (30. RELY)_____ ____ of one discipline upon the other
has increased still further.
Your answers:

21. comparatively 26. undertaken

22. unrelated 27. replacement

23. Historians 28. experimentation

24. philosophical 29. strengthened

25. extensive_ 30. reliance

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct preposition or adverb particle to complete each of the
following questions.
Question 31: The world of work is developing very quickly. If you don’t self-learn consciously, you will
not ________ social development.
A. put up with B. keep up with C. get on with D. deal with
Question 32: The color of someone's skin should be ______ no account.
A. from B. on C. by D. of
Question 33: Instead of petrol, cars will only run ______ solar energy and electricity.
A. on B. by C. in D. of
Question 34: He was extremely protective _______ his role as advisor.
A. of B. with C. about D. for
Question 35: The little boy pleaded ________ his mother not to leave him alone in the dark.
A. on B. in C. with D. at
Question 36: We had a chance to meet students _________different disabilities and join in school
activities
A. of B. with C. in D. at
Question 37: I take great exception ______ the implication that I was not telling the truth.
A. against B. from C. to D. with
Question 38: Having lost her home, Lucy got _____ a gang of people who hang around causing trouble.
A. in with B. up to C. on with D. by on
Question 39: Major spending is required to bring _______ substantial improvements in housing.
A. in B. about C. up D. off
Question 40: The fishing grounds ______ the coasts of Norway are among some of the best managed in
Europe.
A. at B. on C. off D. Over
Your answers
31.B 32.D 33. A 34.A 35. C
36. B 37.C 38.A 39. B 40.C

II. READING COMPREHENSION (40 POINTS)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
THE FUTURE OF EXAMS
Like it or not, technology is already an established part of the exam process and the only argument still to
be fought at this year's e-assessment conference and exhibition, taking place in London this week, is just
how much further in that direction we should go.
At one end, little has changed. Students still, by and large, take exams in much the same way as they
always have. They walk into a room full of desks with an invigilator on hand to tell them when to start and
stop and to make sure no one is texting anyone else, and everyone is ticking the right boxes, or writing out
the answer in longhand if required. It’s once the ink has dried that the real change in the system kicks in.
Instead of divvying up the scripts between the thousands of markers, they are now scanned into a central
computer and the markers then access them online.
The benefits are obvious. It's quicker, cheaper and more efficient. The really dull components, such as
multiple choice or simple questions such as “name four things that contribute to global warming,” can be
marked automatically or by less experienced markers, whereas questions requiring a more nuanced, longer
answer can be left to the old hands. Your best markers don't have to be wasted on the straightforward stuff.
Students can also benefit. “Markers can now give much more precise feedback,” says Kathleen Tattersall, who
chairs the Institute of Educational Assessors. “We can tell someone almost exactly what he or she needs to do
to improve a grade because we can show them what they got right and wrong. This is particularly useful for
anyone looking to resit a January exam in the summer, because teachers can tailor individual revision plans for
all their students.”
For all its advantages, no one reckons that this assessment model is the finished article. “There are
difficulties that need to be ironed out,” says Martin Walker, a former English teacher and a principal
examiner for one of the main boards. “Because markers are now often only given a few questions from
each paper, it's hard to get an accurate feel of exactly what a student does and doesn't know. When you had
an entire exam script in front of you, you could build up a picture of the candidate's range of knowledge,
so when there was room for doubt in an answer, you could make a judgement call based on previous
responses. It's much harder to do that now.”
“There are also limits to what you can easily read on screen,” he adds. “In my experience, most examiners
end up printing out the long essays and working from a hard copy, which is both time-consuming and
slightly self-defeating.” The danger, as Tattersall concedes, is that schools end up teaching only what
technology is capable of assessing. “Rather, we have to look at how IT is used in the classroom to improve
teaching and learning and base our exams on that model,” she says.
It is certain that we are only halfway through the electronic revolution. In the coming years, more and more
exams will be completed - as well as marked - online, and the government and the Qualifications and
Curriculum Authority will have to think hard about ways of maintaining standards.
By far the easiest form of online testing to implement is multiple choice. A student can take the test online
and it can be automatically marked instantaneously; this system is almost foolproof. The downside is that
most people associate multiple choice with dumbing down, on the grounds that anything that can be
reduced to a yes or no, right or wrong answer is bound to be over-simplified.
“Not true,” says Stevie Pattison-Dick, head of communications for Edexcel. “Some multiple-choice exams
may be quite straightforward, but if they are, they only reflect the level of knowledge a student is expected
to attain. There's nothing inherently simple about multiple choice. We've become very sophisticated in our
question setting and are able to cross-reference the answers, so an examiner can now tell whether someone
just got lucky by ticking the right box or actually understood the process on which he or she was being
assessed.” One of the final exams a medical student has to pass before qualifying as a doctor is multiple
choice, so this method of assessment has to be extremely rigorous.
41. The writer believes that ______.
A. nothing of significance has changed in the exam system
B. a revolution in exam taking may soon be initiated
C. many students cheat by using their mobile phones
D. technology doesn't greatly affect students when they sit exams
42. What does the writer mean by “old hands” in paragraph 3?
A. retired examiners
B. experienced examiners
C. examiners who have reached a certain age
D. mature students
43. The word “chairs” in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. emulates B. supplants C. presides D. follows
44. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a benefit of computer marking?
A. better utilisation of examiners
 B. more interesting questions can be set
C. many set questions do not need human markers at all
D. financial advantages
45. The word “entire” in the fifth paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. absurd B. abridged C. gross D. partial
46. One advantage of the new system is that ______.
A. teachers can focus on students' weaknesses before retakes
B. students only need to retake the parts of the exam that they failed
C. students can delay taking the exam for an extra six months
D. examiners can construct comprehensive revision plans
47. What is stated to be a disadvantage of the current system?
A. Many examiners complain that the work is boring now.
B. Examiners no longer have enough work.
C. Examiners have a limited impression of the candidate.
D. Examiners aren't as skillful as they used to be.
48. The word “downside” in the eighth paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. drawback B. perfection C. firmness D. mode
49. What is implied about the general perception of multiple-choice testing?
A. It is easy for a student to cheat.
B. It reduces the student's writing skills.
C. It lowers the standard of the exam.
D. It's impossible for a computer error to be made.
50. According to Stevie Patterson-Dick, multiple-choice exams ______.
A. do have a large element of chance in them
B. are not always the best way to test medical students
C. are by far the best way to test students on particular subjects
D. can be composed in a way that makes students reaffirm their knowledge
Write your answers here:

Your answers
41.D 42.B 43. C 44.B 45.C
46. A 47.C 48.A 49.C 50.D

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word that best fits
each of the gaps in the following passage.
There can be no (1) _____that online shopping is of huge benefit to the consumer. Far from
becoming (2) _______, online shoppers are very demanding. Overpriced merchants with poor services
should beware. Gone are the days when stores could charge what they liked for goods and get away with it.
The same, too, for shady manufacturers: smarter consumers know which products have a good (3)
_______ and which do not, because online they now read not only the sales (4) _______ but also reviews
from previous purchasers. And if customers are disappointed, a few (5) _______ of the mouse will take
them to places where they can let the world know. Nowadays there is nothing more damning than a
flood of negative comments on the internet.
However, the big boys, as always, are ahead of the game. Some companies are already adjusting
their business models to take account of these trends. The stores run by Sony and Apple, for instance, are
more like brand showrooms than shops. They are there for people to try out (6) _______ and to ask
questions to knowledgeable staff. Whether the products are ultimately bought online or offline is of
secondary importance. Online traders must also adjust. Amazon, for one, is (7) _______ turning from being
primarily a bookseller to becoming a (8) _______ retailer by letting other companies sell products on its
site, rather like a marketplace. During America's Thanksgiving weekend last November, Amazon’s sales
of consumer electronics in the United States (9) _______ its book sales for the first time in its history.
Other transformations in the retail business are (10) _______ to follow.
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Question 51: A. query B. examination C. question D. proposal
Question 52: A. complacent B. dissatisfied C. competent D. compassionate
Question 53: A. distinction B. resolution C. opinion D. reputation
Question 54: A. bubble B. message C. blare D. blurb
Question 55: A. taps B. clucks C. clicks D. prods
Question 56: A. devices B. tools C. emblems D. schemes
Question 57: A. mistakenly B. rapidly C. unreasonably D. secretly
Question 58: A. mass B. block C. lump D. chunk
Question 59: A. receded B. excluded C. repressed D. exceeded
Question 60: A. tied B. secured C. bound D. fastened

Your answers
51.C 52.A 53. D 54.D 55. C
56. A 57.B 58.A 59. D 60.C

Read the following passage and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word.
Learning about the past

Archaeology, (61) ______ history, is the study of past societies but whereas historians use written
records, archaeologists gather much (62) ______ their information by (63) ______ out excavations or
“digs”, looking for objects, bones or seeds, in fact, any signs of how our ancestors lived.
Archaeologists decide (64) ______ to dig by consulting old maps, documents or, since (65) ______
1920s, areal photographs, which reveal traces of buildings, roads and fields that are invisible from the
ground. Their (66) ______ step, painstakingly executed, is to remove layers of soil, measuring, examining,
recording, and analysing (67) ______ found. Every fragment helps to create a more complete picture of the
past. The relative age of objects can be worked out using the principle of stratification, and scientific
methods such as radioactive dating now enable archaeologists to determine the (68) ______ date.
Archaeologists also excavate buidlings and whole towns (69) ______ water, using many of the same
methods that are used on land.
It was archaeologists who discovered that human evolution started in Africa; they can (70) ______
as easily show us how human activity or changes in the climate or environment can destroy whole
communities. Archaeology can help people understand the changes that will happen in the future through
their study of what remains of the past.

Your answers
61. like 62. of 63. carrying 64.whether 65. the
66. next 67. everything 68. exact/precise 69. under 70. just
PART 4. The passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B - F from
the list of headings below. There are two headings you do not need. (10 points)
List of Headings
i The positive correlation between climate and wealth
ii Other factors besides climate that influence wealth
iii Inspiration from reading a book
iv Different attributes between Eurasia and Africa
v Low temperature benefits people and crops
vi The importance of institution in traditional views
vii The spread of crops in Europe, Asia and other places
viii The best way to use aid
Example: Paragraph A: iii
71 Paragraph B
72 Paragraph C
73 Paragraph D
74 Paragraph E
75 Paragraph F
Your answers:
71. v 72.i 73.ii 74.viii 75.iv

Wealth in a cold climate

A
Dr William Masters was reading a book about mosquitoes when inspiration struck. “There was this
anecdote about the great yellow fever epidemic that hit Philadelphia in 1793,” Masters recalls. “This
epidemic decimated the city until the first frost came.” The inclement weather froze out the insects,
allowing Philadelphia to recover.
B
If weather could be the key to a city’s fortunes, Masters thought, then why not to the historical fortunes of
nations? And could frost lie at the heart of one of the most enduring economic mysteries of all — why are
almost all the wealthy, industrialised nations to be found at latitudes above 40 degrees? After two years of
research, he thinks that he has found a piece of the puzzle. Masters, an agricultural economist from Purdue
University in Indiana, and Margaret McMillan at Tufts University, Boston, show that annual frosts are
among the factors that distinguish rich nations from poor ones. Their study is published this month in the
Journal of Economic Growth. The pair speculate that cold snaps have two main benefits — they freeze
pests that would otherwise destroy crops, and also freeze organisms, such as mosquitoes, that carry disease.
The result is agricultural abundance and a big workforce.
C
The academics took two sets of information. The first was average income for countries, the second climate
data from the University of East Anglia. They found a curious tally between the sets. Countries having five
or more frosty days a month are uniformly rich; those with fewer than five are impoverished. The authors
speculate that the five-day figure is important; it could be the minimum time needed to kill pests in the soil.
Masters says: “For example, Finland is a small country that is growing quickly, but Bolivia is a small
country that isn’t growing at all. Perhaps climate has something to do with that.” In fact, limited frosts
bring huge benefits to farmers. The chills kill insects or render them inactive; cold weather slows the break-
up of plant and animal material in the soil, allowing it to become richer; and frosts ensure a build-up of
moisture in the ground for spring, reducing dependence on seasonal rains. There are exceptions to the “cold
equals rich” argument. There are well-heeled tropical countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore (both
city-states, Masters notes), a result of their superior trading positions. Likewise, not all European countries
are moneyed — in the former communist colonies, economic potential was crushed by politics.
D

Masters stresses that climate will never be the overriding factor 一 the wealth of nations is too complicated
to be attributable to just one factor. Climate, he feels, somehow combines with other factors such as the
presence of institutions, including governments, and access to trading routes to determine whether a
country will do well. Traditionally, Masters says, economists thought that institutions had the biggest effect
on the economy, because they brought order to a country in the form of, for example, laws and property
rights. With order, so the thinking went, came affluence. “But there are some problems that even countries
with institutions have not been able to get around,” he says. “My feeling is that, as countries get richer,
they get better institutions. And the accumulation of wealth and improvement in governing institutions are
both helped by a favourable environment, including climate.”
E
This does not mean, he insists, that tropical countries are beyond economic help and destined to remain
penniless. Instead, richer countries should change the way in which foreign aid is given. Instead of aid
being geared towards improving governance, it should be spent on technology to improve agriculture and
to combat disease. Masters cites one example: “There are regions in India that have been provided with
irrigation, agricultural productivity has gone up and there has been an improvement in health.” Supplying
vaccines against tropical diseases and developing crop varieties that can grow in the tropics would break
the poverty cycle.
F
Other minds have applied themselves to the split between poor and rich nations, citing anthropological,
climatic and zoological reasons for why temperate nations are the most affluent. In 350 BC, Aristotle
observed that “those who live in a cold climate… are full of spirit”. Jared Diamond, from the University of
California at Los Angeles, pointed out in his book Guns, Germs and Steel that Eurasia is broadly aligned
east-west, while Africa and the Americas are aligned north-south. So, in Europe, crops can spread quickly
across latitudes because climates are similar. One of the first domesticated crops, einkorn wheat, spread
quickly from the Middle East into Europe; it took twice as long for corn to spread from Mexico to what is
now the eastern United States. This easy movement along similar latitudes in Eurasia would also have
meant a faster dissemination of other technologies such as the wheel and writing, Diamond speculates. The
region also boasted domesticated livestock, which could provide meat, wool and motive power in the
fields. Blessed with such natural advantages, Eurasia was bound to take off economically.

Questions 6-10: Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of the reading passage.
Using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the reading passage for each answer.

Dr William Master read a book saying that a (an) 76. __________ which struck an American city of years
ago was terminated by a cold frost. And academics found that there is a connection between climate and
country’s wealth as in the rich but small country of 77. __________; Yet, besides excellent surroundings
and climate, one country still needs to improve their 78. ___________ to achieve long prosperity. Thanks
to resembling weather conditions across latitude in the continent of 79. __________, crops such as 80
___________ is bound to spread faster than from South America to the North.
Your answers:

76. yellow-fever epidemic 77. Finland 78. Governing institutions

79. Europe 80. Einkorn wheat

III. WRITING (20 POINTS)

Nowadays, a large number of children play computer games. Some people suggest that the solution
to this problem is to increase the opportunities for children to participate in outdoor activities.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the idea? You should write an essay of at least 250
words to clarify your opinion.
The mark given to part 3 is based on the following criteria:

1. Organization (5 pt)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion and unity.
b. The essay is well-structured:
* Introduction is presented with clear thesis statement.
* Body paragraph are written with unity, coherence and cohesion.
Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence and supporting details and examples when
necessary.
* Conclusion summarizes the main points and offers personal opinions (prediction,
recommendation, consideration ...) on the issue.
2. Content (10 pts)
a. All requirements of the task are sufficiently addressed.
b. Ideas are adequately supported and elaborated with relevant and reliable explanations,
examples, evidence....
3. Language use (5 pt)
a. Demonstration of a variety of topic-related vocabulary.
b. Excellent use and control of grammatical structures (verb tenses, word forms, voice...) and
mechanics (spelling, punctuations...)