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TIẾNG ANH - BẢNG A 13/11/2015 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề thi gồm 12 trang) • Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu kể cả từ điển và giám thị không giải thích gì thêm. Môn thi: Ngày thi: Thời gian thi:

Điểm bài thi Bằng số: ……………………………..

Họ tên và chữ ký giám khảo GK 1 …………………………………….

Bằng chữ: ……………………………

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Mật mã

I. LISTENING (45/200 points) Hướng dẫn phần nghe hiểu • Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. • Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe. PART 1: You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1-6, choose the answer A, B or C which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. EXTRACT 1: You will hear two people who are waiting for a friend. 1. The man seems to think that Pam is _______________. A. organized B. inconsiderate C. neurotic 2. What does the woman think? _______________. A. They should have a coffee while they wait for Pam. B. They should prioritise their tasks for the afternoon. C. They probably won’t have time to go to the cinema. EXTRACT 2: You will hear two people talking about forensic technology. 3. The woman believes that forensic technology_______________. A. has reached its peak B. has a long way to go before it can be really useful C. has the potential to produce evidence that we can’t yet find 4. The man worries that _______________. A. a false conviction is still possible B. many police officers aren’t trained well enough to use DNA as evidence C. criminals can get access to personal information on police computers EXTRACT 3: You will hear two people talking about their son. 5. What worries the man? _______________. A. The people that his son talks to on the Internet. B. The amount of time his spends on the Internet. C. The cost of his phone bills because his son is using the Internet. 6. The woman accuses the man of being _______________. A. out of touch with his son B. mean with his money C. ignorant of what the Internet is used for Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PART 2: You will hear an anthropologist talking about a recent find. For questions 7-14, complete the sentences. A significant find Several fossil skulls were dug up in Ethiopia last (7) _____________________ There were at least (8) _____________________ adult skulls and one that belonged to the child. It appears that the people these skulls belong to were our (9) _____________________ ancestors. Anthropologists now believe that Homo sapiens is (10) _____________________ from Neanderthals. The reason why the Neanderthals (11) _____________________ is not known. The people whose skulls have been found probably used (12) _____________________. They also live in (13) _____________________, a factor which probably helped them to survive.

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The early days of human evolution are still (14) _____________________ to modern scientists. PART 3: You will hear part of a radio interview with Pete Birtwhistle, a playwright. For questions 15–20, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. 15. What was Pete’s attitude to the theatre before he started writing? A. He felt it had little relevance to his life. B. He didn’t feel qualified to judge it. C. He thought it would be boring to watch a play. D. He preferred comedies to tragedies. 16. How did he feel about leaving his previous job? A. He felt very relieved. B. He was anxious about his health. C. He worried how others would see him. D. He was very depressed. 17. What was the most difficult aspect of writing his first play? A. disciplining himself to write everyday B. coming up with a suitable story C. allowing the characters to develop D. finding an appropriate ending 18. What is the biggest impact that writing has had on Pete’s life? A. It has made people respect him more. B. It has enabled him to express himself. C. It has opened up new professional opportunities. D. It has allowed him to appreciate other plays. 19. How Pete choose the theme of a new play? A. He looks around for a challenging theme. B. He looks for a subject that is in the news. C. He looks for a theme that he understands. D. He thinks about issues that affect society. 20. How does Pete feel about writing for film? A. enthusiastic B. worried C. cautious D. intimidated Your answers: 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. PART 4: You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about animals. While you listen you must complete BOTH tasks TASK 1: For questions 21-25, choose from the list A-H the person who is speaking. A. a poacher B. a holiday guide 21. Speaker 1: C. a vet 22. Speaker 2: 23. Speaker 3: D. a shopkeeper E. a farmer 24. Speaker 4: F. an animal shelter worker 25. Speaker 5: G. an animal rights activist H. a photographer TASK 2: For questions 26-30, choose from the list A-H what each speaker is expressing (the statement which most accurately reflects what is said by the speaker). A. It’s not my responsibility to protect animals. B. Some people have a selfish attitude towards animal preservation. 26. Speaker 1: C. I’ve been injured by a wild animal many times. 27. Speaker 2: D. People only listen to extreme behavior. 28. Speaker 3: E. I think people should refrain from violence whatever the situation. 29. Speaker 4: F. I am as interested in the animal’s character as its appearance. 30. Speaker 5: G. I’m thinking of selling my business. H. I feel like I’m being exploited. II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (35/200 points) Part 1: For questions 31-40, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the questions and write your answers in the corresponding numbered box. 31. It is already 3 o’clock. Can you ________ time to catch the bus? A. have enough B. have it in C. make in D. make it in 32. So as not to get another bad mark in the final exam, she is ________ herself. A. exert B. absorb C. endeavour D. deploy 33. You can have the car at your _________ for the whole week as the boss is on business.

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A. obligation B. care C. disposal D. duty 34. The authorities probably want to be tough and won’t _________ to the hijackers’ absurd demands. A. abandon B. resign C. yield D. collapse 35. This training is ________ for those who prefer a heavy body workout. A. intended B. offered C. aimed D. targeted 36. People under eighteen aren’t ________ for membership in this association. A. viable B. eligible C. permissible D. legal 37. You’ll be risking your ________ if you swim down the river without any assistance. A. head B. shoulder C. nose D. neck 38. He really has the vision and has made adequate ________ for his retirement. A. condition B. assistance C. provision D. allowance 39. Helen stands in ________ of her new teacher. A. respect B. admiration C. regard D. awe 40. I had a small accident with the car. One of the wings was a little ________. A. stained B. dented C. jammed D. cracked Your answers: 31. 36.

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Part 2: Read the text below. Use the word in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. (0) has been done as an example. BOOK PUBLICISTS The (0) courteous smile of an author selling books, signing copies or chatting COURTESY on television shows can be (41) ________. Behind the scenes of the book tour DECEIVE that has become as much a part of the modern (42)________ as print and paper, SELL the writer may be a (43) ________for a Golden Dartboard Award. This is CONTEND the Oscar for authors (44)________ behaving badly, an informal award ALLEGE nominated by the weary, sometimes (45)________, publicists who travel TRAUMA from city to city garnering publicity and sales. They call themselves ‘babysitters’ as they tend to the fragile egos and (46)________demands of authors. CONVENTION Among the most feared (47)________ for the publicists are the feminist writer ASSIGN who is remembered for yelling at her publicists in public and in (48)________ COLOUR language, and the thriller writer whose publicists report that they have instructions from his publisher to speak only when spoken to. One (49)________ SURVIVE of a tour with him, who nominated him for a Golden Dartboard, says: ‘He treats us all as his (50)________.’ INFER Your answers: 41. __________________________ 42. __________________________ 43. __________________________ 44. __________________________ 45. __________________________ 46. __________________________ 47. __________________________ 48. __________________________ 49. __________________________ 50. __________________________ Part 3: Some lines of the test are correct and some contain an extra word which should not be there. From questions 51-58, identify 8 (eight) EXTRA WORDS AND THE LINES containing them. Lines I may as well be admit it - I'm a secret admirer of all things connected

with trains! It's not something you would want to admit to your

friends, but I can't imagine life possibly without my collection of model

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trains and train memorabilia. You're probably thinking I must be done

some kind of nerd who stands around on chilly platforms all day

collecting train numbers, and yes, I have to admit for I've done my fair

share of that, but that's only a small part of it. I just love the feel of

railway stations, and I can cheerfully spend a whole of afternoon in

one, just walking around soaking up to the atmosphere of the place,

looking for things for my collection, and taking photos of new engines.

Call me a weirdo, but I'd far rather spend a day in a station

than on the beach by sunning myself. I'd be too busy taking the train

down the coast - coastal routes can be an absolutely spectacular.

There's a convention for those railway lovers on the south coast soon

- rest assured that I shall be there. I wouldn't miss it for all the world!

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51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. Part 4: Complete the following sentences with suitable phrasal verbs. (There are 3 extra verbs in the box) blurt out - spring up – chance upon – get across – pass on – store up dig up – speak out – talk over – talk round 59. Could you _________ the message to Darren when you see him, please? 60. I knew it was supposed to be a secret but I just ________ it ________ before I could stop myself! 61. Rudy was really opposed to the idea at the start, but we managed to _________ him _________ in the end. 62. I’ve tried to explain to Sean how I feel several times, but I just can’t seem to _________ my point of view _________. 63. All of us who oppose this new road need to _________ against it as loudly and clearly as we can. 64. According to the evidence that has been _________, people have been farming this area for over a 1,000 years. 65. Organisations concerned about the environment seem to have _________ everywhere these days. Your answers: 59. _______________________ 60. _______________________ 61. _______________________ 62. _______________________ 63. _______________________ 64. _______________________ 65. _______________________

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III. READING (50/200 points) Part 1: Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. Letter to the editor The Prime Minister's comments yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary education system also needs a major overhaul. Firstly, the system only views the weakest learners as having special (66) ______. The brightest and most (67) ______ students are not encouraged to develop to their full potential. Secondly, there's too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has just spent the last month or so (68) _____ for exams. These aren't even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They're just (69) ______ exams. Is the work she's been doing really going to make her more (70) ______ about her subjects, or will she forget it all tomorrow? I suspect the latter. Thirdly, the standard (71)_______ doesn't give students any (72)______ in developing practical work-related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education. How many students entering university have the first idea what the difference is between (73)_____ someone else's work and making good use of someone else's ideas? Shouldn't they have been taught this at school? How many of them are really able to go about (74)______ a skill that's essential at university because there are no teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way? Indeed, how many students (75)______from university totally unable to spell even simple English words correctly? The system is letting our children down. 66. A. requests B. desires C. needs D. wants 67. A. inattentive B. ignorant C. intensive D. conscientious 68. A. cramming B. lecturing C. reading D. practising 69. A. false B. mock C. fake D. artificial 70. A. knowledgeable B. intellectual C. academic D. intelligent 71. A. timetable B. lecture C. seminar D. curriculum 72. A. lesson B. subject C. tuition D. tutorial 73. A. writing B. going over C. plagiarizing D. repeating 74. A. reviewing B. revision C. distance learning D. self-study 75. A. qualify B. graduate C. depart D. exit Your answers: 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71.

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Part 2: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space, use only one word in each space. SIGNS OF THE TIMES We are familiar (0) with the saying "a picture paints a thousand words" and in the global village the world has become, information in pictorial form is everywhere we turn. Much communication takes place (76) ______ symbols rather than words, a case in point (77) ______ airports, where you can see the majority of the thirty-four symbols devised (78) _____ the American Institute of Graphic Arts in the 1970s. Such signs as a knife and fork for a restaurant or a telephone for a phone booth are a (79) ______ for many a traveller who does not speak English or use the Latin alphabet. Other worldwide "languages" of this kind are musical and mathematical (80) ______, circuit diagrams, road signs and computer icons, (81) _____, again, bypass the need for words. Even a label on a garment will carry, in symbols, washing and ironing instructions. All these (82) ______ to be sufficient to their

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own restricted worlds but would it really be possible to devise a universal (83) ______ system of communication independent of (84) _____ spoken language, culture-free and value-free, as dreamt of by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz? It would seem (85) _______ Chinese and Japanese pictograms and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are sometimes (86) ______ as examples of such a system, yet both Japanese script and Egyptian hieroglyphics (87) ______ sound-base elements and Chinese is often transliterated (88) ______ romanised sound

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88. Part 3: Read the article. Six sentences have been removed from the text. Complete each of the gaps 89-94 with a sentence from A-F. There is one extra sentence you do not need. TELEMEDICINE Telemedicine, the practice of medicine at a distance, began with the telephone. Today it includes video technology and high-speed communications using satellites. A doctor in London can now examine a patient in the Middle East or South America. Three of the four Antarctic survey research bases now have computers, allowing transfer of medical information.

Although telemedicine occurs in outer space, it will also change everyday medical practice on earth.

addition, it can reduce the number of journeys a person might need to make to hospital for follow-up treatment and change the treatment of the elderly. 91

In cases like these, telemedicine could make doctors and nurses

aware of who needs help and use a ‘video visit’ to reduce the cost of a home visit or an unnecessary trip to hospital. Before too long you may be able to pick up the phone for a ‘video-conferencing call’ and talk to a doctor for advice. Your spots may then be ‘examined’ by a doctor fifty kilometres away using this video link. Whereas most people in the developed world can easily visit a doctor or a hospital for a medical check, people in some developing countries are not so lucky.

For example, a young Swazi boy in South Africa suffering

from an eye disease was ‘examined’ by doctors in London who were then able to decide what kind of treatment the boy needed. Telemedicine could also change medical education by bringing the expert skills of the world’s leading specialists to students throughout the world. Students in Africa or India can now watch a surgeon performing an operation in Europe or the US. There is already a medical education link between a university in the UK and a university in the Middle East.

Ships and off-shore installations like drilling platforms are also making increasing use of telemedicine.

Stormy weather prevented him from being taken to the mainland, but a video discussion and examination by a doctor on land established that he was not at serious risk. A However, a satellite phone, a computer E and some simple technology could establish a direct link between

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them and hospital specialists. The new prescription is sent automatically to your home. In one recent case an oil-rig worker had a worsening headache two days after a head injury. It can help reduce queues and waiting times for doctors in hospitals. This means that students and teachers can share in live classes, which is a great improvement on traditional textbooks. This can save lives when bad weather makes it impossible to fly home someone who is ill and needs to go to hospital. Many elderly people who live alone may suddenly fall ill or have an accident at home.

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Part 4: You are going to read an article about a company and its employees. For questions 95-100, choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the test. TAKE AS MUCH HOLIDAY TIME AS YOU WANT Most organisations treat vacations in the same reluctant way that parents dole out candy to their children. They dispense a certain number of days each year - but once we’ve reached our allotment, no more sweets for us. One US company, however, has quietly pioneered an alternative approach. Netflix Inc. is a streaming video and DVD-by-mail service that has amassed 15 million subscribers. At Netflix, the vacation policy is audaciously simple and simply audacious. Salaried employees can take as much time off as they’d like, whenever they want to take it. Nobody not employees themselves, not managers - tracks vacation days. In other words, Netflix’s holiday policy is to have no policy at all. Back in the old days - 2004 - Netflix treated holidays the old-fashioned way: it allotted everyone ‘n’ days a year. You either used them up or you tried to get paid for the time you didn’t consume. But eventually some employees recognised that this arrangement was at odds with how they really did their jobs. After all, they were responding to emails at weekends, they were solving problems online at home at night. And, every so often, they would take off an afternoon to ferry a child to the paediatrician or to check in on an ageing parent. Since Netflix weren’t tracking how many hours people were logging each work day, these employees wondered, why should it track how many holidays people were taking each work year? Fair point, said management. As the company explains in its Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture-. 'We should focus on what people get done, not how many hours or days are worked. Just as we don’t have a 9to-5 day policy, we don’t need a vacation policy’. So the company scrapped the formal plan. Today, Netflix’s roughly 600 salaried employees can vacation any time they desire for as long as they want - provided that their managers know where they are and that their work is covered. This ultra-flexible, freedom-intensive approach to holiday time hasn’t exactly hurt the company. Launched in 1999, Netflix is now a highly successful and growing enterprise. Perhaps more importantly, this non-policy yields broader lessons about the modern workplace. For instance, more companies are realising that autonomy isn’t the opposite of accountability - it’s the pathway to it. ‘Rules and policies, and regulations and stipulations arc innovation killers. People do their best work when they’re unencumbered,’ says Steve Swasey, Netflix’s Vice President for corporate communication. 'If you’re spending a lot of time accounting for the time you’re spending, that’s time you’re not innovating.’ The same goes for expenses. Employees typically don’t need to get approval to spend money on entertainment, travel or gifts. Instead, the guidance is simpler: act in Netflix’s best interest. It sounds delightfully adult. And it is - in every regard. People who don’t produce are shown the door. 'Adequate performance,’ the company says, ‘gets a generous severance package.’ The idea is that freedom and responsibility, long considered incompatible, actually go together quite well. What’s more, Netflix’s holiday policy reveals the limits of relying on time in managing the modern workforce. In an era when people were turning screws on an assembly line or processing paper in an office, the connection between input and output was tight. The more time you spent on a task, the more you produced. But in much white- collar work today, where one good idea can mean orders of magnitude more valuable than a dozen mediocre ones, the link between the time you spend and the results you produce is murkier. Results are what matter. Flow you got here, or how long it took, is less relevant. Finally, the Netflix technique demonstrates how the starting premises of workplace arrangements can shape behaviour. In his new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, New York University

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scholar Clay Shirk)' argues that when we design systems that assume bad faith from the participants, and whose main purpose is to defend against that nasty behaviour, we often foster the very behaviour we’re trying to deter. People will push and push the limits of the formal rules, search for even' available loophole and look for ways to game the system when the defenders aren’t watching. By contrast, a structure of rules that assumes good faith can actually encourage that behaviour.

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95. In the first paragraph, the writer emphasizes ______. A. how popular Netflix's holiday policy is. B. how unusual the situation at Netflix is. C. how important holidays are to employees. D. how hard it can be to change a holiday policy. 96. Employees at Netflix pointed out that the company's holiday policy______. A. gave them less time off than they deserved. B. was fairer for some employees than for others. C. was not logical in the circumstances. D. did not reflect the way their jobs had changed. 97. The management of Netflix came to the conclusion that ______. A. a happy workforce was the key to future success and growth. B. employees would be willing to do some work during their holidays. C. they should introduce both flexible working hours and flexible holidays. D. employees’ achievements were the company's top priority. 98. Steve Swasey expresses the view that company policies often ______. A. prevent employees from being as effective as they could be. B. result in employees being given the wrong roles. C. cause confusion among employees because they are so complex. D. assume that only certain employees can make decisions for themselves. 99. The writer says that one way in which the situation at Netflix is ‘adult’ is that ______. A. competition among employees is fierce. B. managers' expectations of employees are very high. C. expenses allowed for employees are kept to a minimum. D. employees are given a lot of help to improve their performance. 100. In the writer's opinion, Netflix’s approach addresses the modern issue of ______. A. employees wanting more responsibility than in the past. B. wasted time being more damaging than in the past. C. good ideas taking longer to produce than mediocre ones. D. outcomes being more important than methods. Your answers: 95.

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Part 5: Read the passage below and finish questions 101-115. THE LITTLE ICE AGE A. This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts, but, before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate - as opposed to weather - as something unchanging, yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its entire existence, with at least eight glacial episodes in the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors adapted to the universal but irregular global warming since the end of the last great Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, with dazzling opportunism. They developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles, decades of heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold; adopted agriculture and stock-raising, which revolutionised human life; and founded the world’s first pre-industrial civilisations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden climate change, in famine, disease and suffering, was often high. B. The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Only two centuries ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters; mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps were the lowest in recorded memory, and pack ice surrounded Iceland for much of the year. The climatic events of the Little Ice Age did more than help shape the modern world. They are the deeply important context for the current unprecedented global warming. The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze, however; rather an irregular seesaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions

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between the atmosphere and the ocean. The seesaw brought cycles of intensely cold winters and easterly winds, then switched abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer rains, mild winters, and frequent Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves. C. Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because systematic weather observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North America. Records from India and tropical Africa are even more recent. For the time before records began, we have only ‘proxy records’ reconstructed largely from tree rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete written accounts. We now have hundreds of tree-ring records from throughout the northern hemisphere, and many from south of the equator, too, amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other locations. We are close to a knowledge of annual summer and winter temperature variations over much of the northern hemisphere going back 600 years. D. This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part One describes the Medieval Warm Period, roughly 900 to 1200. During these three centuries, Norse voyagers from Northern Europe explored northern seas, settled Greenland, and visited North America. It was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature. Mean European temperatures were about the same as today, perhaps slightly cooler. E. It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in about 1200. As the Arctic ice pack spread southward, Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then ended altogether. Storminess increased in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Colder, much wetter weather descended on Europe between 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a continent-wide famine. By 1400, the weather had become decidedly more unpredictable and stormier, with sudden shifts and lower temperatures that culminated in the cold decades of the late sixteenth century. Fish were a vital commodity in growing towns and cities, where food supplies were a constant concern. Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the European fish trade, but changes in water temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further offshore. The Basques, Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier Atlantic. A gradual agricultural revolution in northern Europe stemmed from concerns over food supplies at a time of rising populations. The revolution involved intensive commercial farming and the growing of animal fodder on land not previously used for crops. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries self-sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective protection against famine. F. Global temperatures began to rise slowly after 1850, with the beginning of the Modern Warm Period. There was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry farmers and others, to which the famine caused by the Irish potato blight contributed, to North America, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa. Millions of hectares of forest and woodland fell before the newcomers’ axes between 1850 and 1890, as intensive European farming methods expanded across the world. The unprecedented land clearance released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time humanly caused global warming. Temperatures climbed more rapidly in the twentieth century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels continued to soar. The rise has been even steeper since the early 1980s. The Little Ice Age has given way to a new climatic regime, marked by prolonged and steady warming. At the same time, extreme weather events like Category 5 hurricanes are becoming more frequent. Questions 101-106 : Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B, D, E and F from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-ix, in boxes 103-106 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i Predicting climatic changes ii The relevance of the Little Ice Age today iii How cities contribute to climate change iv Human impact on the climate v How past climatic conditions can be determined vi A growing need for weather records vii A study covering a thousand years viii People have always responded to climate change ix Enough food at last Your answers:

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101. Paragraph A: ______

102. Paragraph C: _____

103.Paragraph B: _____

104. Paragraph D: _____

105. Paragraph E: _____

106. Paragraph F: _____

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Complete the summary using the list of words in the box below. Write the correct letter, A-I, in questions 107-111 on your answer sheet. Weather during the Little Ice Age Documentation of past weather conditions is limited: our main sources of knowledge of conditions in the distant past are (107) ______________ and (108) ______________. We can deduce that the Little Ice Age was a time of (109) ______________ rather than of consistent freezing. Within it there were some periods of very cold winters, others of (110) ______________ and heavy rain, and yet others that saw (111) ______________ with no rain at all.

A. climatic shifts D. glaciers G. heat waves

B. ice cores E. interactions H. storms

C. free rings F. weather observations I. written accounts

Your answers: 107. _____________________________

108. _____________________________

109. _____________________________

110. _____________________________

111. _____________________________ Questions 112-115 : Write the correct letter, A, B or C, in boxes from 112-115 on your answer sheet to classify the following events as occurring during the A. Medieval Warm Period B. Little Ice Age C. Modern Warm Period 112. Many Europeans started farming abroad. 113. The cutting down of trees began to affect the climate. 114. Europeans discovered other lands. 115. Changes took place in fishing patterns. Your answer: 112.

113.

114.

115.

V. WRITING: (50/ 200 points) Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Use the word given in brackets. Do not change the form of the given words. (10 points) From questions 116-120, use between THREE AND EIGHT WORDS, including the word given. 116. I’m never going to forget to consider Darren’s views when I make a decision again. ACCOUNT That's the last time I _____________________________________________ when I make a decision. 117. I don’t feel guilty at all, Mary. CLEAR I ___________________________________________________________________________, Mary. 118. Our detectives are determined to find out exactly what happened in this case.

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BOTTOM Our detectives are determined to _______________________________________________ this case. 119. I’m afraid your grandmother got worse during the night. TURN I’m afraid your grandfather ______________________________________________ during the night. 120. James realized that he could never be an architect. CUT James realized ________________________________________________________an architect.

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From questions 121-125, use the word given to make a sentence. 121. I’m finding it difficult to cope with all the work I have to do. TOP All the work I have to do __________________________________ ______________________. 122. The final version of the plan was quite different from the initial draft. RESEMBLANCE The final version ________________________________________________________________. 123. They feel the same way about each other. MUTUAL Their feeling ____________________________________________________________________. 124. The bottle must not be laid on its side. UPRIGHT The bottle must __________________________________________________________________. 125. I suddenly realized the meaning of a “freebie”. DAWNED The meaning ____________________________________________________________________.

Part 2: The line graph below illustrates the financial position of a New Zealand local authority from 2012 to 2022. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. (15 points)

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………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Part 3: Write about the following topic: The tendency of globalization has brought about opportunities and challenges for every country in the world. Some people, however, fear that globalization will inevitably lead to the total loss of cultural identity. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should write at least 250 words. (25 points) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2015-2016 (ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC) – Bảng A I. LISTENING (45/200 points) 1. C 2.B 3. C 4.A 5. B 7. winter 8. two/2 11. became extinct 12. tools 15. A 16. D 17. C 18. B 19. A 21. D 22. H 23. B 24. E 25. G 26. B 27. F 28. A 29. H 30. D

6. A 9. direct 13. groups 20. C

10. not descended 14. a mystery

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II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (35/200 points) Part 1: 31.D 32.A 33.C 34.C 35. A 36.B 37.D 38.C 39.D 40.B Part 2: 41. deceptive 42. bestseller 43. contender 44. allegedly 45. traumatized/traumatized 46. unconventional 47. assignments 48. colourful 49. survivor 50. inferiors Part 3: 51. 3-possibly 52.4-done 53.6-for 54.8-of 55. 9-to 56. 12-by 57.13-an 58.14-those Part 4: 59. pass on 60. blurted…out 61. talk… around 62. get …across 63. speak out 64. dug up 65. sprung up

1.5p X 30 = 45 ps

1p X 35 = 35ps

III. READING (50/200 points) Part 1: 66.C 67.D 68.A 69.B 70.A 71.D 72.C 73.C 74.D 75.B Part 2: 76. through 81. which 86. cited

77. being 82. seem 87. include

Part 3: 89.G

90.E

91.H

Part 4: 95.B

96.C

97.D

78. by 83. symbolic 88. into 92.A 98.A

93.F 99.B

79. boon 84. any

80. notation 85. not

1p X 50 = 50ps

94.D 100.D

Part 5: 101. viii

102. v

103. ii

107&108: in either order: CB/BC 112. C

113. C

114. A

104 vii 109. A

105. ix 1 10. H

106 iv 111. G

115. B

IV. WRITING (50/200 POINTS) 116. forget to take Darren’s views into account / forget to take into account Darren’s views / forget to take account of Darren’s views. 117. have (got) a completely clear conscience 118. get to the bottom of 119. took a turn for the worse 120. he wasn’t cut out to be 121. All the word I have to do is getting on top of me 122. The final version of the plan bore no/little resemblance to the initial draft. 123. Their feeling about each other is mutual. 124. The bottle must be kept/ placed in an upright position. 125. The meaning of a “freebie” suddenly dawned on me.

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The mark given to parts 2 and 3 is based on the following scheme: 1. Content: (35% of total mark) a. Providing all main ideas and details as required b. Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively 2. Organization & Presentation:(30%of total mark) a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarity b. The essay is well-structured 3. Language:(30%of total mark) a. Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English language gifted upper-secondary school students b. Good use and control of grammatical structures 4. Handwriting, punctuation, and spelling (5%of total mark) a. Intelligible handwriting b. Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes Part 2: Model answer The line graph illustrates the financial position of a New Zealand local authority from 2012 to 2022. It is measured in millions of New Zealand dollars. Overall, it can be seen that while rates revenue and user charges are predicted to increase over the period, borrowings and grants and subsidies will remain much lower. Rates revenues and user charges will follow a very similar pattern over the time frame. Rates revenue stood at just under 1.5 billion in 2012, which was the highest of the four criteria. Though they remained stable until 2013, they are expected to climb to approximately 2.4 billion dollars in 2022. Like rates revenues, use charges are predicted to continuously increase. They began the period at 1 billion and will stand at twice this level by 2022. Borrowings, on the other hand, are expected to show considerable fluctuation. Although having initially increased, they will drop to a low of 600 million in 2016, before reaching a peak of just under 1.5 billion in 2020. Borrowings will finish the period at around the same level that they began. Grant and subsidies were the lowest of the four, at under 500 million in 2012. Despite moving up to exceed borrowing briefly in 2016, this low level will continue until 2022.

Part 3: As mass communication and transport continue to grow, societies are becoming more and more alike leading to a phenomenon known as globalization. Some people fear that globalization will inevitably lead to the total loss of cultural identity. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Model answer Globalization means that in some ways people around the world are becoming more and more similar. We often eat the same food, watch the same TV programmes, listen to the same music and we wear the same clothes. Some of this at least can be blamed on the spread of multinational brands available all over the world. On the surface, it may appear as if the global diversity of cultural identities is being lost. If, the argument goes, people in Tokyo and London look and dress the same, then that must mean that cultural differences are disappearing. However, I would argue that this is a very narrow definition of culture and that in fact cultural differences are as present as ever. Cultural identity is built on far more than just the films we watch or the jeans we wear. The foundation of cultural identity is shared values. When you look in detail at different cultures, you realize that the things that are important to one culture can be very different from the things valued by another culture. Take my own culture, India, as an example and compare it to a very different culture, Japan. Although I have never visited Japan personally, I believe that it is a culture which places a lot of value on hard work and that people often work very long hours. The Indian people, in contrast, greatly value their leisure time and strive to spend as much time with their family as they possibly can. Even if we consume the same products, I would argue that there are still some very deep-rooted differences. 2 File nghe: https://youtu.be/ac446Nn3FA0

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To summarize, I do not accept that total loss of cultural identity is inevitable, despite the influence of large companies and their products around the globe.

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO GIA LAI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

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QUESTION 1

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Modern lifestyles mean that many parents have little time for their children. Many children suffer because they do not get as much attention from their parents as children did in the past. Do you agree or disagree?

You have 5 minutes to sketch out what you are going to say. You should prepare notes instead of full sentences and try to SPEAK as naturally as possible. Your talking time should not exceed 5 minutes. Good luck! _________________________________________________________________________________

SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO GIA LAI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

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QUESTION 2 Computers and modems have made it possible for office workers to do much of their work from home instead of working in offices every day. Working from home should be encouraged as it is good for workers and employers. Do you agree or disagree?

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QUESTION 3 In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard in their studies. What do you think are the causes of this? What solutions can you suggest?

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO GIA LAI ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC

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QUESTION 4 Nowadays many students have the opportunity to study for part or all of their courses in foreign countries. While studying abroad brings many benefits to individual students, it also has a number of disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree?

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QUESTION 5 School children are becoming far too dependent on computers. This is having an alarming effect on reading and writing skills. Teachers need to avoid using computers in the classroom at all costs and go back to teaching basic study skills. Do you agree or disagree?

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QUESTION 6 Using a computer every day can have more negative than positive effects on your children. Do you agree or disagree?

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QUESTION 7 If you could change one important thing about your school, what would you change? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.

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QUESTION 8 It has been said, “Not every thing that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why?

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QUESTION 9 In some countries, marriages are arranged by the parents but in other cases, people choose their own marriage partner. Discuss both systems.

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VERBAL EVALUATION SHEET EXAMINER: ……………………………………………..

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No.

Names

Presentation Ideas (10 ms)

Language use (5 m)

Organization (5 ms)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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VERBAL EVALUATION CRITERIA

Through Speaking Test, candidates are assessed on their language skills. They, therefore, must provide full answers to the questions, speak clearly and audibly. Marks are awarded according to the following assessment criteria: IDEAS: Adequate covering of major content points which are well supported with explanations, examples, details. LANGUAGE USE: accuracy and appropriate use of syntactic forms and various vocabularies in order to meet the task requirements at appropriate speed of delivery. ORGANIZATION: ideas are appropriately organized with effective use of linking devices. PRONUNCIATION: Ability to produce comprehensive utterances, individual sounds, appropriate linking of words, word stress, stress timing, the highlighting of words to indicate information. FLUENCY: Ability to express the ideas easily and smoothly BONUS: Bonus can be considered to be given to interestingly good personal introduction.

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• Names

PRESENTATION (4ms)

Ideas (1.5)

Language use (1.5)

Organizati on (1)

Pronunciatio n (0.5)

Fluency (0.5)

2. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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