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DẠYKÈMQUYNHƠNOFFICIAL Page 1 of 17 KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ XIII, NĂM 2022
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
8. Besides rivers, where can we find the purest water?
2. People around the world have consumed caffeine-infused products on a daily basis for 3.centuries.Thepopularity of tea in Britain led to it being consumed in China later on.
5. Pure caffeine poses a serious health risk, resulting even in dealths.
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7. What is the main use of water in our everyday life?
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Thời gian: 180 phút (Không kể thời gian phát đề) Ngày thi: 14/7/2022
• 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.
(Thí sinh làm bài vào Phiếu trả lời)
A. LISTENING (50 points)
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
hiệu
• Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài tr tín nh c k t thúc bài nghe.
Part 1. For questions 1-5, you will hear a woman talking about caffeine. Listen and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points)
Part 2. For questions 6-10, you will hear a lecture about water. Listen and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points)
6. What are the two features of water that concern people everywhere?
ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 11
(Đề thi gồm 17 trang)
• Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng ti Anh) ã có trong bài nghe.
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1. The desired effect of caffeine is brought about as it facilitates the proper function of Adenosine receptors in the brain.
4. Caffeinated drinks have integrated themselves into the drinking culture in the United States.
B. are willing to accept a high level of regulation
A. reduce the need for dietary supplements
C. complicate things for the consumer
A. It could provide a realistic alternative to existing methods.
C. reject the values of a consumer society
14. George and Fay agree that the use of nanotechnology in food production will ______.
C. They need to be made more attractive to meat-eaters.
D. already have sufficient set-up funds
12. What does George suggest about organic foods?
C. It's unlikely to go much beyond the experimental stage.
B. It's a highly impractical scheme dreamt up by architects.
Part 3. For questions 11-15, you will hear two nutritionists, Fay Wells and George Fisher, discussing methods of food production. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points)
9. What hinders people from utilising rainwater in Oceania, besides its increasingly limited 10.amount?What need(s) removing from water before we use it?
11. Looking at reports on the subject of GM foods, Fay feels ______.
A. Consumers remain surprisingly poorly informed about them.
B. People need to check out the claims made about them.
D. They may become more widely affordable in future.
D. critical of the scientists' methodology
C. frustrated by contradictory conclusions
13. What is George's opinion of 'vertical farming'?
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B. simplify the process of food-labelling
D. introduce potential health risks
15. In Fay's view, returning to self-sufficiency is only an option for people who ______.
A. pleased to read that the problem of food shortages is being addressed
D. It has the potential to reduce consumption of energy.
A. have no need to get a return on their investment
B. surprised that the fears of the public are not allayed by them
B. the problem was more carefully studied by each member
16. Machu Picchu, one of the most fascinating archaeological sites on Earth, proves how ___________ the Incas were.
Part 1. For questions 26-45, choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (20 points)
20. Despite regular ___________ in the region, Machu Picchu has remained in remarkable condition for over five centuries.
A. wealth B. carton C. bank D. hoard 28. The chairman had a recommendation that ______.
26. The new cirriculum has been designed to ______ students’ learning by combining theory with hands-on practice.
Part 4. For questions 16-25, you will listen to a recording of a presenter talking about Machu Picchu. Complete the summary by writing NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS and/or A NUMBER in each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (20 points)
22. It is impossible to shed light on the real purpose of Machu Picchu due to the Inca’s lack of .
A. alleviate B. exaggerate C. sharpen D. optimize 27. The consultant called in by the firm had a ______ of experience bearing on the problem.
21. Machu Picchu is likely to have played its role as a(n) ___________, a military stronghold, or a ceremonial site.
B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (30 points)
A. each member studied more carefully the problem
17. In its heyday, the Inca civilisation stretched ___________, comparable to the horizontal width of the continental America.
23. After being abandoned, Machu Picchu remained a mystery to the outside world, including ___________ who mounted an invasion of the Inca civilisation in the 16th century.
18. Machu Picchu epitomised the Inca’s ___________.
19. The construction of Machu Picchu was spectacular as it was done without the use of ___________ to bind stones together.
24. ___________ notwithstanding, Machu Picchu is still among the world’s most important archaeological sites.
25. 1983 saw Machu Picchu being designated as ___________.
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B. novice C. probationer D. archivist 33. Many people refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a(n) ______ disputable anachronism.A.academically
A. shoulder B. area C. lane D. head 37. Round and round ______. A. went the wheels of the engine
immersed B. submerged C. engulfed D. engrossed 30. Rather than ponder the questions, the interviewee ______ out the first answer coming into his A.head.blundered
B. the wheels of the engine went C. did the wheels of the engine go D. going the wheels of the engine 38. I was thrilled to meet Paul Mc Cartney in the ______ when I sat next to him at the theatre.
A. face B. flesh C. blood D. vein 39. He preferred to ______ any profits he made back into business.
B. turn C. play D. part 41. It was a hot summer day and ice cream salesmen were doing a ______ trade.
A. linked with B. wired up C. hooked up D. crossed with 35. It was a close ______ but we just made it to the airport on time for our flight.
A. roaring B. bustling C. flickering D. staggering
A. sow B. plan C. plough D. dig 40. His new manager, who is always willing to do somebody a good ______, is kind-hearted andA.sociable.go
B. blurted C. bungled D. botched 31. She rocked the baby in her arms and watched his little face as he ______ to sleep. A. drifted off B. burned with C. slipped into D. popped up 32. He was so highly knowledgeable on the areas that many would say he was something of a ______.A.veteran
B. cerebrally C. cognitively D. intellectually 34. A large proportion of the households in this area is ______ to the internet thanks to a generous foreign donor.
C. with more carefulness the problem could be studied D. each member study the problem more carefully 29. A career in marketing has always been what she desires, so she just ______ herself in her work.A.
A. drive B. run C. call D. go 36. You are not supposed to park on the hard ______ except in an emergency.
54. The building looks a bit ______ (future) from the outside but it’s quite traditional inside. 55. Left-handers now dominate the game to an extent that ______ (weigh) their numbers.
B. snapped C. nudged D. beckoned
49. You can ask a ______ (diet) for advice on what kind of food you should eat to keep you 50.healthy.The new policy only serves to ______ (accent) the inadequacy of provision for the 51.homeless.Itisvital
Part 2. For questions 46-55, give the correct form of each given word to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points)
42. The choreographer ______ his fingers in time to the music so that the dancers could pick up the A.tempo.clenched
44. When you join this game, it’s important that you should ______. A. keep your wits about you B. gather your wits C. keep your head in the clouds D. go to your head
43. The football club decided to ______ the team with a couple of world-class players. A. beef up B. chuck out C. match against D. sort out
48. Few ______ (practice) of homeopathy, acupuncture and the like regard therapies as complete substitutes for modern medicine.
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47. The documented differences between men and women in scientific career paths do not match what would be expected in a true ______ (merit).
45. Regional parliaments allow ______ for remote parts of the country or islands far from the captital.A.self-government B. self-sufficiency C. self-regulation D. self-support
46. If a screen does not contain everything needed, further lexicographic information can be obtained by clicking on a ______ (link).
that we ______ (mystery) this realm if we ever want to get anything done effective in securing it.
52. At the dawn of the Internet, many believed that it would enable a more ______ (participate) platform, particularly with politics. 53. I must admit that it is time the organizers did away with the ______ (annual) computer system and bought a new one.
THE CHANGING FACE OF WORKING LIFE
At the same time, the government regularly ______ (62) figures that suggest the economy is prospering, evidencing this claim with the fact that the unemployment rate continues to fall annually. There are indeed more jobs ______ (63). However, a huge number of these are casual, temporary or short-term positions, all of which are low-paid and create ______ (64) in the way of tax income for the government. This has a number of debilitating long-term effects, not ______ (65) because this assurance of a growing economy is based more in myth than fact.
WRITING FICTION
The accepted concept of a career path followed a similar pattern for decades. After ______ (56) their education, people would enter the adult world of work, settling down on to a job which they would likely remain from that point ______ (57). Not only would this occupation provide their income for their entire working life, it would also allow them a(n) ______ (58) pension when they retired and moved into old age. Over the past twenty years, however, the relationship between a wage earner and their chosen profession has changed enormously. Today, the idea of a ‘job-for-life’ has all ______ (59) disappeared, to be replaced by an unforgiving world of unstable employment. Some observers even argue that current society to pit old ______ (60) young in a constant battle to find work of some description, all against a ______ (61) of increasing debt and economic difficulties.
Part 1. For questions 56-65, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15 points)
C. READING (60 points)
Part 2. For questions 66-75, read the passage below and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corrresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (10 points)
Because I am a novelist myself, I am always faintly fussed by the idea of creative writing courses. I completely accept that you can teach the craft, that you can give instruction on how to structure a book, how to vary space and tension, how to write dialogue. But what you can’t teach, it seems to me is the right kind of interpretation of what has been observed. It worries me to think of all those earnest pupils who have diligently mastered the mechanics, wondering with varying degrees of misery and rag why the finished recipe just hasn’t somehow worked.The
great writer Samuel Coleridge explained it. He said that there are two kinds of imagination, the primary and the secondary. We all, he said, possess the primary imagination,
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I feel a thrill of recognition every time I read that, or even think about it. That is what the writer’s life is all about for me. The point of it is to emphasise that we are none of us immune to longing, or disappointment (much under-rated, in my view, as a source for distress), or frustration, or idiotic hope, or bad behaviour. What fiction does, in this difficult world, is to
This empathy is vital in the writing of fiction. Coleridge’s view of the poet as prophet to the hungry hordes is, in truth, a bit grand for me. I admire it, but I am not, personally, quite up to it. I am happier seeing the novelist, sleeves rolled up, in the thick of it alongside the reader, bleeding when pricked, in just the same way that the reader does. The only capacity I would claim is that I have an instinct to select, from everything I have noticed in half a century’s beady-eyed people-watching, the telling detail, the apt phrase. I seem to be good at the rhythms of dialogue. I seem to know how not to overwrite. But that is it really. Except that the older I get, the more prepared I am to surrender and trust to the power of the unconscious mind. Maybe this is a modest form of the secondary imagination, maybe not. Whatever it is, it produces a level and intensity of communication that causes people to buy my books and write to me about them in numbers that I still can’t get over.
we all have the capacity to perceive, to notice. But what only poets (loosely translated as all truly creative people, I suppose) have - the secondary imagination is the capacity to select, and then translate and illuminate everything that has been observed so that it seems to the audience something entirely new, something entirely true, something exciting, wonderful and terrible. There is, after all, nothing new to say about the human condition. There is nothing to say that Shakespeare or Sophocles hasn’t already, inimitably, brilliantly, said. Codes of product, fashions in morality and ethics, all may come and go. But what the human heart has desiredand feared – down the ages goes on being very much the same. The novelist’s task is to follow the well-trodden, time-worn path of human hopes and terrors. Never forget: betrayal may be as old as time, it may happen every nanosecond of every minute that’s ever been, but the first time it happens to you feels like the first time in the history of the world. A cliché is a cliché only if it is comfortably taking place in someone else’s life.
What I do believe, fervently, is that we are all in this boat together – writer, reader, critic. I have a tattered little quotation that lies on my desk and becomes more valuable to me as time goes on. It comes from the autobiography of the celebrated nineteenth-century writer Anthony Trollope. He said many remarkable things in this book, but my own personal favourite is on the subject of the novelist’s central preoccupation. Trollope is not so much concerned with the landscape of the grand passions as with something else, something less glamorous perhaps, but just as intense and certainly more universal: ‘My task’, he wrote, ‘is to chronicle those little daily lacerations upon the spirit.’
D. Some aspects of writing skills can be successfully taught on them.
A. an instinct for the unusual
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B. It would be inappropriate for her to teach on them.
D. the ability to highlight sensational aspects of our existence
C. impartial D. emotional
71. The novelist states that one of her own strengths as a writer lies in ______.
B. her construction of plot
A. her depiction of character
C. her command of language
72. Why does novelist admire Anthony Trollope?
A. He portrays the fact that everyone suffers in some way.
69. The phrase ‘the well-trodden, time-worn path’ refers to themes of writing that are
A. conservative B. receptive
70. The word ‘prophet’ refers to writer as a(n) ______ person.
reassure us that we are not alone, nor we are (most of us) lost causes. There is a theory that suffering strengthens and elevates us in a way that joy can never somehow do. I’m not so sure about that. Isn’t it just that we have, on the whole, so much more suffering than joy that we have resolved, out of our great surviving instinct, to insist that something worthwhile must be made of it? And isn’t fiction a handrail, of a kind, which we can all grasp while we blunder about in the dark? Isn’t fiction written by people for people about people? And is there a subject more fascinating or more important?
______.A.familiar and long-standing
C. the ability to put a fresh interpretation on the everyday world
C. They should be prepared to exaggerate their personal experience.
B. He realises that all writers need a strong sense of place.
C. up-to-date and catchy
66. What view does the novelist express about creative writing courses?
67. The novelist implies that a writer’s most valuable asset is ______.
B. a gift for meticulous observation
A. They should not exploit their readers’ fears. B. They should revisit well-established themes.
A. A few good books emerge from them.
C. Students are frustrated by the poor teaching on them.
D. They should not try to keep pace with changes in literary tastes.
B. extraordinary and profound
D. her knowledge of psychology
68. What is stated about writers in the third paragraph?
D. simple and soulful
C. helps us make sense of complex events D. offers reassurance in an uncertain world 75. Which theme recurs in this text?
Hahnemann’s second principle was minimal dosing – treatments should be taken in the most diluted form at which they remain effective. This negated any possible toxic effects of simila similibus.
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D. He is aware that all writers have a particular obsession. 73. The word ‘lacerations’ refers to ______ events.
A. The need for novelists to avoid complex philosophical questions
C. He understands that everyone craves deep emotion.
The practice of homeopathy was first developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. During research in the 1790s, Hahnemann began experimenting with quinine, an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark that was well known at the time to have a positive effect on fever. Hahnemann started dosing himself with quinine while in a state of good health, and reported in his journals that his extremities went cold, he experienced palpitations, an “infinite anxiety”, a trembling and weakening of the limbs, reddening cheeks and thirst – “in short”, he concluded, “all the symptoms of relapsing fever presented themselves successively...” Hahnemann’s main observation was that things which create problems for healthy people cure those problems in sick people, and this became his first principle of homeopathy: simila similibus (with help from the same). While diverging from the principle of apothecary practice at the time – which was contraria contrariis (with help from the opposite) – the efficacy of simila similibus was reaffirmed by subsequent developments in the field of vaccinations.
B. The need for novelists to develop their writing techniques
D. The need for novelists to identify closely with readers’ preoccupations
In 1988 the French immunologist Jacques Benveniste took minimal dosing to new extremes when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in which he suggested that very high dilutions of the anti-lgE antibody could affect human basophil granulocytes, the least common of the granulocytes that make up about 0.01% to 0.3% of white blood cells. The
A. reflects the negative aspects of emotion B. enables us to deal with failure
Part 3. For questions 76-88, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13 points)
C. The need for novelists to give an accurate reflection of the spirit of the time
A. exhilarating B. epoch-making C. pathetic D. trivial 74. The novelist describes fiction as ‘a handrail, of a kind’ because it ______.
Does water have memory?
Homeopathy is an extremely contentious form of medicine, with strong assertions coming from both critics and supporters of the practice. “Homeopathy: There’s nothing in it” announces the tagline to 10:23, a major British anti-homeopathy campaign. At 10.23 a.m. on 30 January 2010, over 400 supporters of the 10:23 stood outside Boots pharmacies and swallowed an entire bottle each of homeopathic pills in an attempt to raise awareness about the fact that these remedies are made of sugar and water, with no active components. This, defenders of homeopathy say, is entirely the point. Homeopathic products do not rely on ingredients that become toxic at high doses, because the water retains the “memory” that allows the original treatment to function.
Critics also point out the fact that homeopathic preparations have no systematic design to them, making it hard to monitor whether or not a particular treatment has been efficacious. Homeopaths embrace this. While results may be less certain, they argue, the non-toxic nature of homeopathy means that practitioner and patient can experiment until they find something that works without concern for side effects. Traditional medicine, they argue, assaults the body with a cocktail of drugs that only tackles the symptoms of disease, while homeopathy has its sights aimed on the causes. Homeopaths suggest this approach leads to kinder, gentler, more effective
Finally,treatment.critics allege that when homeopathy has produced good results, these are exceedingly dependent on the placebo effect, and cannot justify the resources, time and
point of controversy, however, was that the water in Benveniste’s test had been so diluted that any molecular evidence of the antibodies no longer existed. Water molecules, the researcher concluded, had a biologically active component that a journalist later termed “water memory”. A number of efforts from scientists in Britain, France and the Netherlands to duplicate Benveniste’s research were unsuccessful, however, and to this day no peer-reviewed study under broadly accepted conditions has been able to confirm the validity of “water memory”.
The third principle of homeopathy is “the single remedy.” Exponents of this principle believe that it would be too difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the potential effects of multiple homeopathic remedies delivered simultaneously. If it did work, they suggest, one could not know quite why it worked, turning homeopathy into an ambiguous guessing game. If it did not work, neither patient nor practitioner would know whether the ingredients were all ineffective, or whether they were only ineffective in combination with one another. Combination remedies are gaining in popularity, but classical homeopaths who rely on the single remedy approach warn these are not more potent, nor do they provide more treatment options. The availability of combination remedies, these homeopaths suggest, has been led by consumers wanting more options, not from homeopathic research indicating their efficacy.
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82. Abortive attempts of homeopathic treatment are used to corroborate its opponents’ arguments.
For questions 83-88, write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the passage to complete the following paragraph. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet.
There are three principles behind the practice of homeopathy. The first one, simila similibus, was developed by Samuel Hahnemann after experimentation in which he observed that problem-inducing factors could become treatments for suffering people. While marking a departure from that of (83) ________, this principle of homeopathy was substantiated by further advancements. The second principle, minimal dosing, serves to avert (84) ________ that can be caused by simila similibus. The attempt for its furtherance was made by Jacques Benveniste, but controversy was sparked as there was a lack of (85) ________ in the used water. Moreover, a result from his experiment termed “water memory” had received (86) ________ to the moment of writing. The third principle named “the single remedy” works on the ground that application of multiple treatments at the same time can make homeopathy become a(n) (87) ________ even when the results are desirable.
81. Patients’ feelings are affected by the outcomes of the treatments they receive.
79.combinations.Ithasbeen suggested that the practice of applying several treatments at the same time becomes more common due to endorsements by scientists.
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expense that the homeopathic tradition absorbs. The placebo effect is a term that describes beneficial outcomes from a treatment that can be attributed to the patient’s expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself. Basically, the patient “thinks” himself into feeling better. Defenders suggest that homeopathy can go beyond this psychological level. They point to the successful results of homeopathy on patients who are unconscious at the time of treatment, as well as on animals.
77. The existence of a biologically active part in water has yet to be conclusively proven.
76. Samuel Hahnemannn developed his principles based on an existent set of rules at his time.
For questions 76-82, decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet.
78. The single remedy serves to preclude the unforeseeable outcomes of remedial
80. The uncertainty of preparations for homeopathy is perceived by both supporters and opponents of it.
Hubbert91. is now carrying on Waters’ legacy, building waterphones in his backyard workshop using the same painstaking process Waters devised. Each waterphone starts with a stainless steel pan, shaped like two pie tins welded at the brim, which acts as a resonator. Out of this base juts a series of bronze tonal rods and a long, thick neck with an opening at the top, where the water is poured in. Fill the pan with water, and the rods vibrate and trill with woozy harmonies when tapped with a mallet or stroked with a bow.
Invented90. and patented in 1969, the waterphone has captivated, confused, and generally creeped out audiences via film scores, orchestral works, and more than one experimental San Francisco concert over the past 45 years.
Homeopathy is a controversial remedy. While there are arguments in favour of it, critics have suggested weaknesses in the treatment including its components, lack of systemic design and the reliance on (88) ________ of its feasible positive effects.
Just92. don't turn it upside down, or the water will fall out. It fits into so many different applications because it has such a wide range of tones. There are all kinds of playing techniques that have yet to even be discovered.
The Waterphone
Waters’93. path to invention began in grad school in the mid-1960s at Oakland's California College of Arts and Crafts, where he first played an instrument he described as a Tibetan water
This89. is a waterphone, and its distinctive music is felt as much as heard - in the hair at the back of the neck and in the gut. It's the sound of a lurching elevator or a renegade fairground ride about to spin off its axis.
Brooks Hubbert clutches the neck of a prickly, circular instrument that somewhat resembles an upside-down jellyfish, its tendrils represented by stiff bronze rods of various lengths.
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Part 4: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Read the passage and choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra pragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (7 points)
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Waters began welding his own homemade instruments out of tin cans, salad bowls, and hubcaps. He eventually showed one to his friend, jazz drummer Lee Charlton. At Charlton's studio, the pair poured some water into the base, and the first waterphone was born.
C. The instrument’s melody is often compared to that of the humpback whale - so much so that conservation groups have used the apparatus to summon cetaceans. The waterphone is classified as a percussion instrument, but it has a greater range than any of its comrades in that category. There is no part of the gadget that doesn't make music - one can strike the rods, hit or rub the underside of the base, or finger-drum on the neck.
E. That idea might have pleased Waters, a trained painter, kinetic sculptor, bamboo enthusiast, and lifelong creator who would often walk into a room and begin drumming on any interesting wood or brass objects he saw, according to his daughter, Rayme Waters.
of those skin-bristling scenes where a protagonist wanders into a dark house alone - the audio accompaniment is often a waterphone, which Hubbert discovered while browsing music news on the Web in the late 1990s.
Waters94. and Charlton, both drawn to experimental music, formed the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band in 1969 and began showcasing Waters' sonic inventions around the Bay Area. Other percussionists took notice. When drummer Shelly Manne flew up from Los Angeles and asked to buy a waterphone, Charlton knew his bandmate was onto something big. Waters soon drove a vanload of his instruments to L.A., and sold them all in one week.
D. A few years later, Hubbert was playing a gig at a local yacht club, and Waters, not recognizing him, came up to praise the show. Hubbert took off his sunglasses and reintroduced himself; they had a fond reunion. Waters started attending Hubbert’s gigs, and Hubbert would stop by Waters’ home studio to chat about the waterphone craft.
B. Even as synthesizers rose to ubiquity and electronic samples could be coaxed from computers with a few deft keystrokes, Waters' acoustic invention never lost its appeal. In times of peak demand, customers lined up for a spot on a yearlong waiting list, eager to shell out up to $1,700 for one of his handmade creations.
F. It might call to mind the soundtracks of 1980s-era horror and ghost movies, and with good reason. The instrument's low, haunting moans and eerie, high-pitched squeals - like screeching brakes - have become known as the sound of suspense in films like Poltergeist,
drum - a round bronze tub, filled with water, that rocked when struck. Later, dabbling in the local hippie scene, he heard the music of a kalimba in a Haight-Ashbury parade.
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C. Scientific evidence can be invaluable but it has to be used with caution and in tandem with historical research. For example, Corot's ravishing sketch The Roman Campagna, with the
The Matrix, Star Trek - The Motion Picture, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Let the Right One In.
A. Close Examination at the National Gallery looks at 40 problematic works from the Gallery's collection - including outright forgeries, misattributions, and copies, altered or over-restored paintings, and works whose authenticity has wrongly been doubted. The curators have taken on a huge subject - the range of possibilities museum professionals take into consideration when they investigate a picture's status and the variety of technical procedures conservation scientists use to establish authorship and date. The case histories they discuss have a single common denominator. Whatever conclusion the combined disciplines of connoisseurship, science and art history may lead, the study of any work of art begins with a question: is the work by the artist to whom it is attributed?
G. Shortly after that, Hollywood came knocking. An acquaintance of Waters' who worked as a sound-effects artist told him the waterphone had potential, and before long, composers began incorporating the instrument into film and TV scores. Thrillers were a natural fit.
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H. He drags a bow across a few of them, producing a piercing, metallic shriek. Satisfied with this, he tilts the instrument to one side, and this is where the sound goes wonky as tones bend upward, dip down, and shift sideways because the six ounces of water in the device’s base echo and resonate.
B. A good example is an Italian painting on panel that the National Gallery acquired in 1923, as the work of an artist in the circle of the Italian 15th century painter Melozzo da Forlì. Today, we find it incredible that anyone was ever fooled by a picture that looks like it was painted by a Surrealist follower of Salvador Dali. But this is to forget how little was known about Melozzo, and how little could be done in the conservation lab to determine the date of pigments or wood panel. Even so, from the moment the picture was acquired, sceptics called its status into question. Nothing could be proved until 1960 when an art historian pointed out the many anachronisms in the clothing. When technological advances enabled the gallery to test the pigments, they were found to be from the 19th century.
Part 5: For questions 96-105, you are going to read an article about an art exhibition that focuses on the subject of whether paintings are authentic or fake. Answer the questions by choosing from the sections of the article (A - F). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (15 points)
E. Anyone can label a picture a fake or a copy, but their opinions are worthless unless they can support them with tangible proof. One picture that's been smeared in this way is Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks. In this exhibition we are shown infrared photographs that reveal the presence both of major corrections which a copyist would not need to make, and also of under drawing in a hand comparable to Raphael's when he sketched on paper. The pigments and paper technique exactly match those that the artist used in other works of about the same date.
100. information that solved a mystery about a painting known to be authentic
In which section of the article are the following mentioned?
99. investigative work that showed that a picture was an unusual example of an artist's work
F. For all its pleasure, the show also has an unspoken agenda. It is a reply to the mistaken belief that museums have anything to gain by hiding the true status of the art they own. As the downgrading in this show of Courbet's Self-Portrait to the status of a posthumous copy of a picture in the Louvre shows, the opposite is the case: museums and galleries constantly question, reattribute and re-date the works in their care. If they make a mistake, they acknowledge it.
Claudian Aqueduct has always been dated to about 1826, soon after the artist's arrival in However,Rome. the green pigment that Corot used throughout the picture only became available to artists in the 1830s. The landscape wasn't a fake and for stylistic reasons couldn't have been painted later than the mid-1820s. All became clear when historians did further research and discovered that the firm that sold artists' supplies to Corot in Paris started making the newly developed colour available to selected customers in the mid-1820s, long before it came into widespread use.
98. similarities in an artist's style in more than one place4
97. an incorrect idea about the attitude of people responsible for exhibiting paintings
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96. the different categories of people involved in examining pictures
D. The flipside of a fake, but capable of doing equal violence to an artist's reputation, occurs when an authentic work is mistakenly labelled a forgery. Back in 1996, I well remember how distressing it was to read an article in which the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, declared that Uccello's lovely little canvas of St. George and the Dragon was forged. The gallery therefore X-rayed the picture and tested paint samples, before concluding that it was a rare survival of a work by Uccello dating from the early 1470s. Hoving was irresponsible not because he questioned the attribution of a much-loved work, but because he went public without first asking the gallery to carry out a thorough scientific analysis.
According to a report by Asiaweek, on-the-job injuries are no longer confined strictly to blue-collar workers. The modern-day office has become a danger zone and computers are largely to be blamed. Their increased use points to an increase in sick leave and doctors' visits. The new group of patients includes writers, secretaries and data-entry clerks. Anyone who spends hours at a keyboard can be at risk.
101. reasons why it is understandable that a certain mistake was made 102. the willingness of experts to accept that their beliefs are wrong 103. the fundamental issue surrounding research into a picture 104. evidence from an expert outside the world of art 105. an accusation that upset the writer personally
The best way to cope with such problems is to adopt healthier work habits. This means that the workers have to hold their wrists flat when they use the keyboard. They should also tap on the keys softly and take frequent breaks. Their feet should also be flat on the floor and their heads and backs straight. Some may be required to change their typing technique. In severe cases, taking a rest and some anti-inflammatory medication may be necessary.
Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should be about 140 words. You MUST NOT copy the original. (15 pts)
Computer users may also complain of eye strain, headaches, double vision and other eye problems caused by improper use of display screens. It may be a result of staring at the screen for too long. It could also be due to improper lighting and screen glare.
There are also ergonomic hardware and software that blends well with a person's body or actions. Some examples of such ergonomic hardware are tilting display screens, detachable keyboards and specially designed keyboards that are suitable for the wrists.
Employers and managers should help employees create a comfortable working environment to reduce the side effects of working on the computer.
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The most frequent complaints are wrist, hand and neck pain. These are typical signs of repetitive strain injuries. Another related condition is called carpal tunnel syndrome caused by pressure on the median nerve in the wrist. It results from repeated movements such as typing or using the mouse over a long period of time. Before computers came along, typists would stop to make corrections or change paper. These movements provided some relief. Now, typists rarely move from their computer, hitting as much as 21,600 words an hour. In severe cases, the pain shoots up a victim's arm. Some also develop neck and shoulder problems from holding their head in uncomfortable positions.
D. WRITING (60 points)
Part 2. The bar chart below gives information about the percentage of the population living in urban areas in different parts of the world. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. (15 points)
Part 3. Essay writing (30 points)
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Some people say that citizens should be given freedom to express their personal opinions and concerns about the social problems on the Internet. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
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8. creeks, lakes, dams
Part 1. For questions 1-5, you will hear a woman talking about caffeine. Listen and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points – 2 points/a correct answer)
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Part 2. For questions 6-10, you will hear a lecture about water. Listen and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points – 2 points/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Biên Hòa)
6. safe and/, reliable (or: safeness and/, reliability)
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7. washing
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Part 3. For questions 11-15, you will hear two nutritionists, Fay Wells and George Fisher, discussing methods of food production. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points – 2 points/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Nguyễn Trãi)
Part 4. For questions 16-25, you will listen to a recording of a presenter talking about Machu Picchu. Complete the summary by writing NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS and/or A NUMBER in each gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (20 points – 2 points/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Hạ Long)
A. LISTENING (50 points)
1. FALSE 2. FALSE 3. FALSE 4. TRUE 5. TRUE
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Part 2. For questions give the correct form of each given word to complete the following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (10 points – point/a correct answer)
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46. hyperlink 51. demystify 47. meritocracy 52. participatory 48. practitioners 53. superannuated 49. dietician/dietitian 54. futuristic 50. accentuate 55. outweighs
Vương – Phú Thọ 48 Chuyên
Khiết – Quảng Ngãi 51 Chuyên Huỳnh Mẫn Đạt – Kiên Giang 52 Chuyên Huỳnh Mẫn Đạt – Kiên Giang 53 Chuyên Bắc Giang 54 Chuyên Hoàng Văn Thụ - Hòa Bình 55 Chuyên Hùng Vương – Bình Dương C. READING (60 points) Part 1. For questions 56-65, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15 points – 1.5 points/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Hưng Yên) 56. completing/finishing 61. backdrop 57. onward(s) 62. releases 58. healthy/good/adequate/big/decent 63. available 59. but 64. little 60. against 65. least
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Part 2. For questions 66-75, read the passage below and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corrresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (10 points – 1 point/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Thái Bình)
88. the placebo effect
Part 3. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13 points – 1 point/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Cao Bằng)
85. molecular evidence. 86. no peer-reviewed study
89. H 90. F 91. B 92. C 93. E 94. A 95. G
Part 5: For questions 96-105, you are going to read an article about an art exhibition that focuses on the subject of whether paintings are authentic or fake. Answer the questions by choosing from the sections of the article (A - F). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (15 points – 1.5 points/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Lê Quý Đôn – Quảng Trị)
96. A 97. F 98. E 99. D 100. C 101. B 102. F 103. A 104. B 105. D
66. D 67. B 68. B 69. A 70. D 71. C 72. A 73. C 74. C 75. D
76. NG 77. T 78. T 79. F 80. T 81. NG 82. NG
Part 4: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Read the passage and choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra pragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (7 points – 1 point/a correct answer) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Lào Cai)
87. ambiguous guessing game
83. apothecary practice
84. (possible) toxic effects
a) Contents (10 points)
develop beneficial working habit (2 points)
Part 2: (15 points) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Lam Sơn)
The primary purpose of the given extract is to shed light on how white-collar workers are exposed to job-related injuries as well as some relevant remedies for the matter. The writer clearly states that paperwork involving disagreeable positions along with using computers for high frequency is the main root behind numerous physical health problems in the office like the injuries of wrist, hand and neck and eye problems. It is, thus, suggested that employees should develop beneficial working habits such as getting in the right positions and altering for better working techniques. Additionally, nine-to-fivers are also recommended to work within a healthy working environment and with the help of smart technological gadgets that adapt themselves to the users.
The summary:
- should demonstrate correct use of grammatical structures, vocabulary, and mechanics punctuations,(spelling, ...)
Suggested Answer:
D. WRITING (60 points)
Contents (10 points)
- Solutions:+
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The report MUST cover the following points:
Part 1: (15 points) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Tuyên Quang)
- should maintain coherence, cohesion, and unity throughout (by means of linkers and transitional devices)
- should show attempts to convey the main ideas of the original text by means of paraphrasing (structural and lexical use)
+ work within a healthy working environment (2 points)
* Main topic: Some causes of diseases related to jobs and some solutions (2 points)
b) Language use (5 points)
- Causes: paperwork involving disagreeable positions (2 points) and using computers for high frequency (2 points)
The summary MUST cover the following points:
* Supporting ideas:
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a. Demonstration of a variety of topic-related vocabulary.
Language use (5 points)
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- should demonstrate a wide variety of lexical and grammatical structures, - should have correct use of words (verb tenses, word forms, voice...) and mechanics (spelling,
The mark given to part 3 is based on the following criteria:
The report:
* Body paragraph are written with unity, coherence and cohesion. Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence and supporting details and examples when
* Introduction is presented with clear thesis statement.
a. All requirements of the task are sufficiently addressed.
b. Ideas are adequately supported and elaborated with relevant and reliable explanations, examples, evidence....
b. Excellent use and control of grammatical structures (verb tenses, word forms, voice...) and mechanics (spelling, punctuations...)
3. Language use (10 points)
Part 3: (30 points) (NGUỒN: Chuyên Lê Hồng Phong, Nam Định)
- Describe main features with relevant data from the charts and make relevant comparisons (6 points)
2. Content (15 points)
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summarizes the main points and offers personal opinions (prediction, recommendation, consideration ...) on the issue.
- Introduce the charts (2 points) and state the overall trends and striking features (2 points)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion and unity.
Up to 400 milligrams of caffeine per day or about four cups of coffee is considered safe for an adult. Too much caffeine for any one person can cause side effects, such as migraines, insomnia, nervousness and muscle tremors. One tablespoon of pure caffeine equivalent to drinking 75 cups of coffee at once can have lethal consequences. Due to this risk of caffeine overdoses, in 2018, the United States Food and Drug Administration banned the bulk sale of products containing pure or highly concentrated caffeine.
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Caffeine is a chemical compound that stimulate the central nervous system. It accomplishes this by attaching itself to adenosine receptors in the brain. In doing so, it blocks adenosine molecules, which are responsible for slowing down the central nervous system before we sleep. The result? Adenosine cannot regulate and neurons start firing. This results in a person's reduced fatigue and increased alertness and cognitive performance. Side effects many seek by consumingCaffeinecaffeine.occurs
naturally in coffee beans, tea leaves, cacao beans and some tree nuts. People have been consuming it for centuries. But daily consumption took off sporadically at different times in different places around the world. Coffee became popular in the 15th and 16 centuries. But Cacao was used among early Mesoamerican civilizations hundreds of years earlier. Tea became popular by the 14th century in China during the Ming dynasty, but didn't catch on in Britain until almost 400 years later.
Today, caffeine can be found nearly everywhere and more and more caffeine-infused products are hitting the shelves everyday. In the United States, nearly 90% of the population has at least one caffeinated beverage everyday.
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While caffeine may provide great benefits, such as increased focus, alertness and energy, it comes with considerable risks just like any other substance.
Part 2
Good morning and welcome to yet another lecture in Environmental Science. I don’t think I am telling you a secret when I mention that water is a big worry here in Australia. The stuff is scarce. Perhaps that’s why we drink so much beer, eh?
Seriously, though, a safe and reliable source of water is one of the great concerns of people everywhere. Moreover, as the world population grows, the pressure on existing water
Source: National Geographic: https://youtu.be/o0W_0MuvlwQ
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For morning coffee to afternoon tea, caffeine is so thoroughly entrenched in our daily routines and has become the worlds most widely used psychoactive substance.
Speaking of rain, we already heard how rainfall is diminishing here in Oceania. The quantity itself isn’t the only problem, either. Going back to the problems with obtaining rainwater, a further problem is that rain is a useful source of water only if air pollution is fairly mild. Again, you’re in a situation where you can’t win. You need water where most people live. People tend to build cities where rainfall is adequate. But then modern cities tend to feature polluted air which renders the rain far less easily usable. OK, let's take a look at the table here, you’ll see it showing the relative pollution of rainfall in the world’s cities. The more people, the dirtier the rain.
This is becoming a huge concern for people in the West, who want their water to be pure and safe. Though reliable drinking water is important everywhere, the concern in the West is reflected in all the government regulations and political campaigns aimed at solving this
supplies grows greater and greater. Think about it. Our economic system demands that there be more and more consumers. The growing number of people has been tied to climate change, including droughts. So more people means less water. But our economic system demands a high birth rate. Forget about oil. Soon enough you will see wars for water. Mark my words.
when I speak of people needing water, most of you probably think of drinking. Certainly everyone needs water for drinking. But surprising as it may sound, drinking is not anywhere near being the main use for water. Most water is actually used for washing. When you take a shower, you probably use well over a hundred litres of water. Every time you flush your toilet, that’s about eight litres. But most people drink no more than two litres or so per day.So,
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But today, I’m going to confine my remarks to Australia. As noted already, here down under, the water supply is extremely scarce. The only drier continent is Antarctica - and remember, no one really lives there anyway. Moreover, in recent years, the wind patterns have changed. Rain that used to fall on the country now falls out to sea hundreds of miles to the south.Now,
where to get water? It could be obtained from rainwater, but often rainfall consists of other harmful pollutants that evaporated with the water. In fact, acid rain, an intense example of this, causes harmful effects on the wildlife of the habitat on which it falls. Water from underground could also be used, though it is more difficult to contain and often must go through an extensive cleansing process. The purest water is found in rivers, creeks, lakes, and dams. And, sad to say, Australia has precious few of these. Really, how many of your home towns have rivers? Year-round rivers, I mean. The soil tends to be sandy, so water soaks into the ground. Many places are rocky too, so 87% of the rainfall is lost to evaporation. That’s almost twice the evaporation rate in my native Canada!
M1: So, George, are organic foods the safest option then?
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M2: Well, people are horrified to hear the level of herbicide and pesticide residues that remains in fruit and vegetables, even after they’ve been carefully washed, because they go straight into our system. Organic foods are one way round that. They don’t come cheap though, so it’s not currently an option for low-income groups, although that could come if mass production brings economies of scale. And the residues retained in fruit and vegetables do vary, so some are safer to buy non-organically than others. It’s not an area that many consumers are clued up about, but there’s no excuse for that ‘cos there’s plenty of factual information available online. The other aspect of eating organically, by the way, that people often forget about is meat-eating. Many people prefer to buy organic meat since it doesn’t contain the amount of antibiotics and growth hormones that normal meat does.
Now, whatever the source of water, we can never afford to forget that all water is highly vulnerable to contamination. Whether we’re getting it from the ground, from bodies of water, or rainfall, it is susceptible to a variety of toxins. In fact, that’s why we clean it before using it: water carries with it filth and dirt. This problem shows up in a number of different ways.
F: Yes, you do hear a lot of hype from certain quarters on this topic. But let’s face it, public concern isn’t helped by the fact that the various scientific reports available seem to leave you none the wiser. On the one hand, you’ve got a group that’s finding GM foods to be quite safe and actually applaud them as a way of dealing with food shortages in certain countries. Then, there’s another view that condemns them as potentially dangerous to health and insufficiently trialled; whilst at the same time pointing out, quite reasonably by the way, that the use of GM crops hasn’t actually made a dramatic difference to levels of food production worldwide. In my view, it’s high time that science spoke with one voice on this issue.
problem. In contrast, there are not as many demands made on the governments in Asian and African cultures to improve the water, as their focus is on other issues.
As humans and all other animals need water to survive, it's no surprise to us that one of the most important domestic uses of water is for drinking. Yet if you have old-fashioned lead pipes, you may slowly be poisoning yourself by drinking that nice clear water. The industrial pollution, farm chemicals, and leaky landfills are well-known sources of contaminants as well.
Part 3
M1: Food, we might say, is always on our minds! Here today in the studio we have nutritionists Fay Wells and George Fisher, who’ll be talking about methods of food cultivation and related issues that concern us all. Fay, let’s kick off with the ‘hot potato’ of the day, genetically-modified foods.
B: Actually, I’m just wondering whether people might not just react against all these developments and, to be on the safe side, go back to more traditional forms of self-sufficiency! I’m feeling quite tempted, myself, to go and buy a goat and a few chickens and start planting lots of vegetables! In fact, I’ve been doing some personal research into this area and I’ve picked up a few valuable ideas. Like, if you set up a self-sufficient smallholding or farm, you’ve got to be prepared to deal with an incredible barrage of rules and red tape, and you’ve no choice but to toe the line. Secondly, organic horticulture on a large scale needs quite a bit of investment. Though, of course, you can simply concentrate your energies on cultivating enough crops for your own use.
The stone city of Machu Picchu is one of the most fascinating archeological sites on the planet. Located northwest of Cusco, Peru, Machu Picchu is a testament to the power and ingenuity of the Inca people. During its prime, the Inca civilization stretched about 2500 miles along South America's Pacific Coastline. From modern-day Ecuador down into Chile. This
M2: Well, there’s a movement afoot in the direction of something called ‘vertical farming.’ It’s an attempt, as the name suggests, to make use of vertical, mainly city-centre, space. Architects have designed skyscrapers filled with orchards and fields that have the potential to produce crops all the year round! The only drawback, as things stand at the moment, would be the prohibitive cost of the artificial lighting required! I know the idea sounds a bit far-fetched – pie in the sky, we might say! – but it’s not impossible that this vision might become a reality one day. Already, urban rooftop farming is being developed, plus some special greenhouses containing multiple racks of vegetables are in use in various parts of the world. F: Another development, which sounds a bit spooky to me, is that of using nanotechnology in this area. Basically we’re talking here about ‘atomically-modified’ foods containing invisibly small additives. Some nano-scale additives and pesticides are already on the market and this looks as if it might change the face of the large-scale food industry. To me, it seems like it will confuse the picture even more as regards what we’re putting in our stomachs! What will be classified as ingredients?
M1: So where would you stand on all this, Fay?
M2: Yes, you’re not wrong there. I believe some dietary supplements are also being manufactured using nanotechnology. Personally, I think that if people follow a reasonably healthy, well-balanced diet, they don’t really need to take extra vitamins – certainly not on a long-term basis, anyway.
M1: So what else is new on the food production front?
Part 4
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Although local communities knew about Machu Picchu, the site remained largely unknown to the outside world for hundreds of years. Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Inca civilization in the 16th century never came across the site. It wasn't until the early 20th century when Melchor Arteaga, a local farmer debuted Machu Picchu to outsiders when he led Yale University professor Hiram Bingham to the site. Bingham and successive explorers devoted much of their academic careers to studying the archeological wonder.
on two fault lines Machu Picchu often experiences earthquakes but because of the stones' exceptional cut and fit, they bounce during tremors and then are able to easily fall back into position. These engineering marvels have preserved Machu Picchu's remarkable condition for over 500 years.
distance is nearly the horizontal width of the continental United States. Machu Picchu located at the center of this once expansive empire is one of the few well-preserved remnants of the Inca civilization. Built around the mid-15th century, Machu Picchu is a stunning example of the Inca's engineering feats.
The Inca constructed Machu Picchu's palaces, temples, terraces, and infrastructure using stone and without the help of wheels or tools made of steel or iron. One particularly notable aspect of their construction is foregoing the use of mortar, a material often used to bind stones together. Nonetheless, the stones of Machu Picchu were cut so precisely that they snugly fit together.Located
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Despite its enigmatic nature, Machu Picchu still stands as one of the world's most important archeological sites. It is a testament to the power and ingenuity of one of the largest empires in the Americas. In 1983, UNESCO designated Machu Picchu as a world heritage site and today visitors from around the world come to pay homage to this piece of history.
Machu Picchu's purpose is still a mystery to many archeologists. Some theorize that it may have served as a ceremonial site, a military stronghold, or a retreat for nobility. The site's geographic layout may be significant in another way. Many of both the manmade and natural structures appear to align with astronomical events. But in the early 16th century, only about 100 years after it was built, Machu Picchu was abandoned. And since the Inca had no written language, no records exist to explain the exact purpose of the site.
3.chosen.More than two thirds of heritage sites in the world are home to endangered species.
• Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
• Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 30 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
Điểm
5. Yoga, Turkish coffee and Belgium beer are on the verge of vanishing soon. answers:
A. LISTENING (50 pts)
2. Being recognized as a World Heritage site can have two-sided effects on the site
Your
Part 1: For questions from 1-5, listen to a piece of news about the reasons why some Write(T)WorldHeritagesitesareatrisk,anddecidewhetherthefollowingstatementsareTrueorFalse(F).(10pts)youranswersinthecorrespondingnumberedboxes.
1. Mexico ranks sixth in the total number of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2 Số pháchBằng số Bằng chữ
4. Cutting down trees for wood, getting underground minerals and developing fossil fuel are activities that have negative impacts on natural sites.
• Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINHGIỎI KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦNTHỨ XIV Năm học 2021-2022 MÔN TIẾNGANH- LỚP 11 Thời gian làmbài: 180 phút
C has a thirst for constant innovation.
4. Who can choose the topic of essay?
and________________.A
B being able to share marketing opportunities.
C it was thought it would give new food companies valuable support.
Part 2:You will hear a conversation between a newstudentand a lecturer.For the question 1 -5,answer the questions below. Write NOMORETHAN THREE WORDS for each answer. (10 pts) Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes.
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3. They both agree the main benefitof using a shared kitchen spaceis cost savings
2. Who will give the group a mark according to its representative’s presentation?
D can only thrive in particular locations.
B is becoming increasingly sophisticated.
1. 2. 3.
4. 5.
_______________.A
it was considered the best way to start regenerating a run-down industrial area.
1. When did the orientation meeting take place?
2. David thinks that the Siston building attracted funding easilybecause
D it was part of a drive to increase local employment opportunities.
being able to get advice from fellow entrepreneurs.
Part 3:You will hear a radio programme in which two people,Alison Kreeland David Walsh, who each run a food business, are discussingthe premises they share. youForquestions1-5,choosetheanswer(A,B,corD)whichfitsbestaccordingtowhathear.(10pts)1.AlisonandDavidagreethatthemarketforqualityfoodproducts________.A is experiencing greater growth than ever.
B it was less risky than financing individual entrepreneurs.
5. Where can students find their tutors’ names? Your answers:
3. What’s the main assessment of course?
4. Howhas Alison’s vision for her businesschanged since moving into the Siston building?A
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She has realised that she needs to expand her range of products.
A Work out costs carefully.
C Get some relevant work experience.
D Don’t waste time on low margin products. Your answers:
B She now sees that opening a shop and café would have been too risky,
D having access to top-of-the-range equipment and facilities.
Part 4:Complete the notes belowby writing NOMORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided.(20 pts)
D She no longer thinks becoming a nationally recognised brand is achievable.
Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes.
An aeroplane which was carrying a group of (5) ________ was forced to land just (6) __________ minutes after take-off. The passengers were rescued by (7) _____________ The operation was helped because of the (8) _______. The passengers thanked the (9) _________for saving their lives but unfortunately they lost their (10)_____________. Your answers:
The Government plans to give (1)_______to assist the farmers. This money was to be spent on improving Sydney’s (2) _________but has now been re-allocated. Australia has experienced its worst drought in over (3) ______. Farmers say that the money will not help them because it is (4) __________.
C having a supportive working environment.
B Don’t spend too much time planning.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
5. Whatadvice would Alison and David give to any aspiring entrepreneur?
C She has decided she prefers the idea of selling to small local businesses.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
1. The plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, was a .............. disease.
2. I was in a _______ as to what to do. If I told the truth, he would get into trouble, but if I said nothing I would be more in trouble.
A. contingent B. contiguous C. contagious D. congenial
5. A career in marketing has always been what she desires, so she just ___________herself in her work.
10. With the blistering pace of technological advancements in recent years, both workers and employers have a myriad of choices, and ________ access to education.
A. immersed B. submerged C. engulfed D. dipped
4. It is not definite that the company will accept our offer, but there's a ___________ chance so there is no reason not to try.
7. The Oscar winning actress simply _______charm and professionalism in her acceptance speech.
6. I like both teaching and researching so the position of a professor in college is a kind of halfway ___________ between the two for me.
8. The boss was away, so his assistant had to .............. him and make a speech.
A. put the screws on B. get into gear C. put one over on D. wipe off the map
A. sporting B. bragging C. pumping D. bubbling
A. doubt B. quandary C. hitch D. complexity
A. make off with B. do away with C. stand in for D. take up on
9. Losing my job was ............... I never would have found this one if it hadn’t happened.
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Part 1:Choose the answer A,B,C orD that bestcompletes each of the following sentence.Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes.(20 pts)
3. The government needs to ______ businesses that have been trying to evade the tax.
A. house B. line C. road D. hunch
A. exuded B. excluded C. expunged D. extricated
B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
A. a bone to pick with B. a breath of fresh air C. a bleeding heart D. a blessing in disguise
14. When will you realise that it was your self-righteous and ___________ attitude that prevented you from learning better ideas from other people?
A. John was decided to B. It was decided that John should C. There was decided that John should D. John had been decided to 18. Something _____ immediately to prevent teenagers from _____ in factories and mines.
A. was accepting B. would accept C. accepted D.had accepted 20. The luxurious office accentuated the manager's position _________. It enhanced his power and his sense of his own worth. And it made other people feel small. A. on the pecking pole B. in the nibbling line
A. exhaustive B. profuse C. bottomless D. unfettered
13. Different from a misanthrope who has a hatred of people in general, Joey is more of a___________ being distrustful of human goodness and sincerity.
A. should be done /being exploited B. we should do /exploiting C. should do /be exploited D. should have done /exploited
16. Although there is some truth to the fact that Linux is a huge threat to Microsoft, predictions of the Redmond company's demise are, ______, premature.
17. __________ chair the meeting.
A. chapter B. unit C. poem D. extract
A. crossed out B. blew up C. blacked out D. screwed up 12. Is it ironic when people ___________ glasses of wine and drink to each other's health?A.splat
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B. clunk C. clank D. clink
A. fallow B. ghoulish C. bigoted D. conniving 15. I found the information for the project in the encyclopedia but I couldn't give ______and verse on it.
A. pessimist B. tyrant C. cynic D. misogynist
B. to say the least C. to say the most D. to the least degree
11. You could tell that she wasn’t happy about the news by the way she ________ her face in disapproval.
A. saying the most
19. If I______ to date that guy, I'd be living in the lap of luxury now.
5. The cold winter has led to a larger-than-expected ___________ on oil stocks. (DOWN)
9. Until now, there is hardly any measure to lessen the _________ regulation and taxation on small businesses. (ONUS)
1. Safety tests on old cars have been ____________________ throughout Europe.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 2:Write the correct form of each bracketed word in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 pts)
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
C. at the nipping post
7. Many architects pay lip service to the idea that good design can and should _________ the lives of average people not blessed with bountiful wealth. (NOBLE)
Your answers:
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6. The residences __________ by the deluge were built in a neighborhood known as El Cambray II near the bottom of a ravine. (GULF)
4.(TOE)Notonly are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against ___________ and tyrannical supervisors. (EGO)
10. About $200 million in taxes weren’t paid because of ____________ income. (REPORT)
D. in the pecking order
8. Children from a(n) ____________________ background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime. (PRIVILEGE)
3.(FAMINE)Whenwe catch up on the phone it's to discuss her latest short-lived conquest, the details of which are usually colourful, sometimes ____________ and always entertaining.
2.(STANDARD)TheRedCross is sending emergency aid to the ____________________ country.
Part 2.Read the passageand choose thebestanswer to eachof the questions.(10 pts)
Joanne scanned the area around her, her small frame straining above the pile of wood. She had to wriggle her way through the wood and rubble. It did not matter where she tried, they were all the same. The holes were too small and she used all her might to remove the obstacles, pushing and shoving them out of the way, the noise ringing into the night. She was imprisoned. The silence was a far cry from the explosion moments ago. Afraid to be
Part 1:Read the text belowand think ofone word which best fits eachspace.Use onlyONE WORD for each space.Writeyour answers in thecorresponding numbered boxes.(15THEpts)ISLAND
Ellis Island in New York – that extraordinary entrance to a new land and a new life which received, processed and despatched millions of arriving immigrants between 1982 and 1924 – has been turned (1) ________ a museum. (2) ________ lain derelict for years after its official closure, the island’s huge purpose-built reception centre has been restored. It has become a place of pilgrimage for the descendants of the desperate people who filed through its cavenous mail hall to answer questions (3) _______ in the forms in whatever halting English (4) _______ processed.
1. 2.
WHEREDREAMSCAME TRUE
To get to Ellis Island, you take a ferry from the southernmost tip of Manhattan. (5) _______ you sail past the Statue of Liberty and pull up to the dock outside the enormous entrance to that imposing reception building, it is impossible (6) _______ to reflect on (7) ________ it must have locked to those hordes of people who clambered off the boats with their children clinging (8) _____ them and their belongings packed into baskets and bags. It was only the poorest who had this experience. First and second class passengers were dealt with by a far more civilized and expeditious system. (9) _______ that it was just third class and steerage travellers who had to (10) ________ through the Ellis Island application and sifting procedure, it is significant that 40 per cent of present-day Americans are descended from people who were processed there on arrival in the US. Your answers: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
C. READING (60 pts)
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Suddenly, she saw a movement among a pile of rubble. She ran the short distance forward, glad for any sign of life in the place. What she saw spurred her on and she pushed
heard, she tried to be as quiet as possible. It was an impossible and ludicrous task. The destruction left behind by the men was far greater than their numbers. Their goals had probably been achieved. Those who did not escape were probably dead.
The environment was ripe for the triad attack. No one noticed the men ambling into the town. What made their attack even more shocking was that the multitude of people returning from work and sitting down to a meal did not even notice the seven men walking past their windows. Military uniform had been a common sight in the town ever since the government’s warning was announced. There was no need for these men to run or hide. No one had seen them. Joanne inched her foot out of a gap and half crawled, half walked ahead. Every step she took was painful. Mounted up by the lack of water for hours, the pain in her leg was excruciating and the more she walked, the more bodies she saw. Arms and legs were sticking out from under piles of rubble and sometimes a lifeless face could be seen among the debris. Everyone she saw was dead. Despite her situation, Joanne hoped that she would not be able to find any of her family members.
Telephone lines had been cut and lights had been shutoff moments before the much feared raids began. Except for the cut-off in communication, there was nothing to indicate that the men would soon arrive. Under the cover of darkness, the more fortunate ones had managed to escape. Those near the border climbed through the holes in the fence, to seek refuge in the neighbouring country.
For weeks, the government had warned of an impending attack by the group. Initial apprehension turned to fear when the expected day arrived. However, when nothing happened, everyone thought that the government had made a mistake. After all, how often within that past year had they failed to deliver what had been promised to the citizens. First, the new lands promised to the farmers after the massive insect attacks were insufficient and each farmer had to contend with land that was one third their original size. Then, there was the promise of opening the economy to the international community, allowing many to sell their handicraft overseas but this never materialised. The people soon became angry as they were being deceived and complacency about the raids was abounding in the community.
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B. the strange men were dressed in military uniform
D. there were numerous indications of the men’s arrival
D. The explosion heard moments ago.
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aside several pieces of wood and lifted an orange cloth, probably once a curtain. Groping about, she managed to locate the little body and using all her might, dragged it out. The child could have been more than five years old. He was covered in soot and his stomach heaved in and out in agony. His eyes were shut and only his breathing told her that he was still Joannealive.carried the child over her shoulder and squinted in the darkness, trying to locate her bearings. Her only hope was the border. Moments ago, she had wanted to forgo everything, thinking that it was probably better to lie in the darkness until it eventually overcame her and the feelings of loneliness would disappear. Now, she was encouraged to continue. If she could reach the border, she would be able to get help. Looking around, she ran in the direction of what looked like spots of bright yellow light.
C. the main target of the mentioned men was Joanne
4. It can be inferred from the passage that A. the government had yet to fail the people
1. What was causing “the noise” in the first paragraph?
C. Her pushing and shoving the obstacles out of the way.
A. Her small frame straining above the pile of wood.
B. Her wriggling through the wood and rubble.
A. The child’s stomach which was moving.
B. The short distance between her and the child.
2. Why were the lights “shut off” in the second paragraph?
3. The word “apprehension” in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to …….
A. It enabled the people to escape from the place. B. It led them to the neighbouring country. C. It warned the people of the coming raids. D. It was shut inadvertently by the raiders.
A. anxiety B. clairvoyance C. voidance D. incongruity
5. What spurred Joanne to remove the wood and orange cloth?
A. The people were cut off from the outside world.
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6. The word “excruciating” in the fourth paragraph can best be replaced by A. painless B. discerning C. piercing D. powerful
C. The fear that the men would come for her.
C. She walked in fear of the men approaching.
A. Her leg was then in physical agony.
A. The fright the shadows had given her.
B. The worry for her family members.
9. The word “bearings” in the last paragraph can be substituted by the term
Part 3:Read the text and do the tasks that follow(13 pts)
C. The small frames strained above the wood.
B. She saw numerous dead bodies.
D. She was in need of being hydrated.
Can Hurricanes be Moderated or Diverted?
7. What is not mentioned as a cause of the pain in Joanne’s walk?
D. An intense feeling of loneliness. Your answers:
B. Militarily dressed men entered the town.
C. The vague sight of a family member.
D. The lifeless faces seen among the debris.
D. The people saw massive insect attacks.
A. whereabouts B. collocations C. managements D. strengths
10. What particular feeling led Joanne to the desire to “forgo everything” as mentioned in the last paragraph?
8. Which did not happen before the raids began?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
A Each year, massive swirling storms bringing along winds greater than 74 miles per hour wipe across tropical oceans and land on shorelines—usually devastating vast swaths of territory. When these roiling tempests strike densely inhabited territories, they have the power to kill thousands and cause property damage worth of billions of dollars. Besides,
D To find out whether the sensitivity of the atmospheric system could be exploited to adjust such robust atmospheric phenomena as hurricanes, our research team ran simulation experiments on computers for a hurricane named Iniki that occurred in 1992. The current forecasting technologies were far from perfect, so it took us by surprise that our first simulation turned out to be an immediate success. With the goal of altering the path of Iniki in mind, we first picked the spot where we wanted the storm to stop after six hours. Then we used this target to generate artificial observations and put these into the computer model.
B To see why hurricanes and other severe tropical storms may be susceptible to human intervention, a researcher must first learn about their nature and origins. Hurricanes grow in the form of thunderstorm clusters above the tropical seas. Oceans in low-latitude areas never stop giving out heat and moisture to the atmosphere, which brings about warm, wet air above the sea surface. When this kind of air rises, the water vapour in it condenses to form clouds and precipitation. Condensation gives out heat in the process the solar heat is used to evaporate the water at the ocean surface. This so-called invisible heat of condensation makes the air more buoyant, leading to it ascending higher while reinforcing itself in the feedback process. At last, the tropical depression starts to form and grow stronger, creating the familiar eye -- the calm centre hub that a hurricane spins around. When reaching the land, the hurricane no longer has a continuous supply of warm water, which causes it to swiftly weaken.
C Our current studies are inspired by my past intuition when I was learning about chaos theory 30 years ago. The reason why long-range forecasting is complicated is that the atmosphere is highly sensitive to small influences and tiny mistakes can compound fast in the weatherforecasting models. However, this sensitivity also made me realise a possibility: if we intentionally applied some slight inputs to a hurricane, we might create a strong influence that could affect the storms, either by steering them away from densely populated areas or by slowing them down. Back then, I was not able to test my ideas, but thanks to the advancement of computer simulation and remote-sensing technologies over the last 10 years, I can now renew my enthusiasm in large-scale weather control.
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absolutely nothing stands in their way. But can we ever find a way to control these formidable forces of nature?
How a laboratory exercise re routed a hurricane Exciting ways to utilise future technologies Are hurricanes unbeatable?
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G Simulations of hurricanes conducted on a computer have implied that by changing the precipitation, evaporation and air temperature, we could make a difference to a storm’s route or abate its winds. Intervention could be in many different forms: exquisitely targeted clouds bearing silver iodide or other rainfall-inducing elements might deprive a hurricane of the water it needs to grow and multiply from its formidable eyewall, which is the essential characteristic of a severe tropical storm.
Re visiting earlier ideas
E The most significant alteration turned out to be the initial temperatures and winds. Usually, the temperature changes across the grid were only tenths of a degree, but the most noteworthy change, which was an increase of almost two degrees Celsius, took place in the lowest model layer to the west of the storm centre. The calculations produced windspeed changes of two or three miles per hour. However, in several spots, the rates shifted by as much as 20 mph due to minor redirections of the winds close to the storm’s centre. In terms of structure, the initial and altered versions of Hurricane Iniki seemed almost the same, but the changes in critical variables were so substantial that the latter one went off the track to the west during the first six hours of the simulation and then travelled due north, leaving Kauai untouched.
F Future earth-orbiting solar power stations, equipped with large mirrors to focus the sun’s rays and panels of photovoltaic cells to gather and send energy to the Earth, might be adapted to beam microwaves which turn to be absorbed by water vapour molecules inside or around the storm. The microwaves would cause the water molecules to vibrate and heat up the surrounding air, which then leads to the hurricane slowing down or moving in a preferred direction.
How lives might have been saved
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The Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the correctnumber,i-viii,in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.Listof Hurricanes in history
3. Paragraph C …………….
Write your answers in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet. Hurricanes originate as groups of (8)___________ over the tropical oceans. (9) ________ seas continuously provide heat and moisture to the atmosphere, producing warm, humid air above the sea surface. When this air rises, the water vapour in it condenses to form clouds and precipitation. (10) _________releases heat—the solar heat it took to evaporate the water at the ocean surface. This so-called latent (11) __________ of condensation makes the air more buoyant, causing it to ascend still higher in a self-reinforcing feedback process. Eventually, the tropical depression begins to organise and strengthen, forming the familiar (12) ________ - the calm central hub around which a hurricane spins. On passing over (13) _________, the hurricane’s sustaining source of warm water is cut off, which leads to the storm’s rapid weakening. A- H which best isone extra
4. Paragraph D …………….
6. Paragraph F …………….
Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Part 4:You are going to read an abstractfrom an autobiography.Seven paragraphs have been removed fromthe text.Choose
2. Paragraph B …………….
paragraph which you do notneed to use.(7 pts) EILBECK THE FEATURES EDITOR
1. Paragraph A …………….
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5. Paragraph E …………….
Question 8 – 12 Complete the summary below.Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for eachanswer.
7. Paragraph G …………….
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A range of low tech methods
I quickly got the hang of working at the Mirror. Every morning at eleven we would be expected to cram into Eilbeck’s little office for a features conference, when we either had to come up with ideas of our own or suffer ideas to be thrust upon US. Some of Eilbeck’s own offerings were bizarre to say the least, but he did get results. I had got an inkling of his creative thinking during my initial interview when he had invited me to match his scrawled impromptu headline with a feature.
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Another of my little chores was to compose ‘come-ons’ for the readers’ letters columns - invented, controversial letters that, in a slow week for correspondence, would draw a furious mailbag. I was also put to work rewriting agency and syndication material that came into the office, including, on occasion, the Sagittarius segment of the astrology column.
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Mercifully, none of Eilbeck’s extemporised headlines winged their way to me - at least not yet. The pitifully small paper was grossly overstaffed, with half a dozen highly experienced feature writers fighting to fill one page a day, and it was evident that my role was as standby or first reserve. Hanging around the office, where the time was passed pleasantly in chit-chat, smoking and drinking coffee, I was occasionally tossed some small task.
Some of these brainstorms came off the day’s news, some off the wall. About half the ideas worked, a few of them spectacularly. Following a spate of shootings, Eilbeck scrawled ‘THIS GUN FOR SALE’ on his pad, together with a rough sketch of a revolver. Within hours a writer was back in the office with a handgun and a dramatic piece on the ease with which (he did not mention the little help he had had from the crime staff) he had bought it in Trafalgar Square.
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A As a result, he wanted no item to be more than twenty-five words long, followed by three dots. He was, at the time, heavily under the influence of Walter Winchell, Earl Wilson and suchlike night-owl columnists in the New York tabloids that were airfreighted to him weekly.
Some years later, when he had directed his talents to another paper, I confessed to him one day that I had been guilty of tampering in this way. He was in no way put out. It was serenely obvious to him that I had been planted on the Mirror by destiny to adjust the hitherto inaccurate information.
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B Flattering though it was to be entrusted with this commission, there was a snag. It had to ‘sizzle’ - a favourite Eilbeck word - with exclusive snippets about ‘the people who really mattered’ - to Eilbeck’s mind, anyone with an aristicratic title, or money to throw about in casinos and nightclubs. Unfortunately, I did not have a single suitable contact in
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Happily the delightful Eve Chapman was deputed to hold my hand in this insane exercise. The bad news was that Eve, who went home nightly to her parents in Croydon, had never set foot in such a place in her life. We were reduced to raiding the society pages of the glossy magazines and ploughing through Who’s Who in hopes of finding some important personage with an unusual hobby which could be fleshed out to the maximum twenty-five words.
For example, one afternoon I was summoned to Eilbeck’s office to find him in a state of manic excitement, bent over a make-up pad on which he had scrawled ‘THE SPICE OF LIFE!’ surrounded by a border of stars. This, I was told, was to be the Mirror’s new three-times-a-week gossip column, starting tomorrow ” and I was to be in charge of it.
The Spice of Life column itself ground to a halt after our supply of eminent people’s interesting pastimes petered out
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D On one desperate occasion, with the deadline looming yet again, we fell to working our way along Millionaires’ Row in Kensington, questioning maids and chauffeurs about the foibles of their rich employers. This enterprise came to a stop after someone called the police.
G My month’s trial with the Mirror quickly expired without my having done anything to justify my existence on the paper, but since Eilbeck didn’t mention that my time was up, neither did 1.1 pottered on, still trying to find my feet. Occasionally opportunity would knock, but it was usually a false alarm. Not always, though.
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F This was for the benefit of one of the paper’s more irascible executives who was a passionate believer in it. It had been noticed that when he was told he would have a bad day he would react accordingly and his miserable colleagues would go through the day quaking in their shoes. My job was to doctor the entry to give his colleagues a more peaceful ride.
H But many of Eilbeck’s madder flights of fancy had no chance of panning out so well - even I could tell that. Seasoned writers would accept the assignment without demur, repair to a café for a couple of hours, and then ring in to announce that they couldn’t make the idea stand up.
E This proved to be a foretaste of his favourite method of floating an idea. While the assembled feature writers clustered around his desk skimming the newspapers and intermittently quoting some story that might with luck yield a feature angle, Eilbeck would be scribbling away on his pad. Cockily trumpeting his newly minted headline‘WOULD YOU RISK A BLIND DATE HOLIDAY?’ or ‘CAN WOMEN BE TRUSTED WITH MONEY?’ - he would rip off the page and thrust it into the arms of the nearest writer - ‘Copy by four o’clock.’
the whole of London.
C This might be a review copy of some ghosted showbiz memoirs that might be good for a 150- word anecdotal filler. One day Eilbeck dropped a re-issued volume on my desk
- To Beg I am Ashamed, the supposed autobiography of a criminal. It came complete with one of his headlines: ‘IT’S STILL A BAD, DANGEROUS BOOK’. I asked him what was so bad and dangerous about it. ‘I haven’t read it,’ the Features Editor confessed cheerfully. ‘Two hundred words by four o’clock’.
Roland Paoletti was the driving force behind the dramatic, award-winning stations on the £3 billion Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) to the London Underground system, the most ambitious building programme on the Tube for many decades. An irascible AngloItalian, Paoletti possessed the persuasiveness and tenacity to take on the vested political interests at play in the planning of the 10-mile Jubilee Line Extension to ensure good design and innovation. Historically, architects employed on Tube projects had been restricted to ‘fitting out’ the designs of railway and civil engineers with few or no aesthetic concerns, and whom Paoletti dismissed as visionless ‘trench-diggers. The Jubilee line would be unique in that for the first time the architects would be responsible for designing entire underground stations.
5. a fundamental question concerning the function of stations in underground systems
1. the previously unattractive nature of the locations of most of the stations
10.Paoletti’s opinion of those previously responsible for designing station
4. a description that Paoletti considered not to be wholly accurate
Roland Paoletti
An architect who revolutionized the lives of London’s commuters. A
7. Paoletti’s desire to unite elements that had previously been seen as wholly different from each other
8. personal qualities that enabled Paoletti to tackle the JLE project successfully
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Part 5:You are going to readan articleaboutthe design ofnewstations on the London Underground railwaysystem.For questions 1-10,choose from thesections of thearticle (A-D).The sections maybe chosen more thanonce. (15 pts)
9. parts of a station architects were not responsible for in the past
In which section of the article are the following mentioned?
3. the immediate and massive effect that one of the stations had on its surroundings
2. a comparison Paoletti made to illustrate his approach to the JLE project
6. an explanation Paoletti gave for why certain comments about the new buildings were incorrect
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He wanted the designs of the JLE stations to have a uniformity of voice, or, as he put it, ‘a philosophical uniformity’. Paoletti contrasted the drama of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s design for Southwark station with the vast glass drum of Ron Herron’s Canada Water station, intended as a response to the area’s bleakness, ‘a big, splendid beacon that has transformed the area from a wasteland almost overnight’ To critics who complained about the expense of these grand designs, Paoletti pointed out that the same cut-and-cover, box-station design that allowed his architects a free hand with their various structures also saved London Underground millions in tunnelling costs. ‘In any case, he noted, ‘you have to decide at the beginning whether you’re going to see an underground station as a kind of vehicular underpass that happens to have people in it, or
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He procured the most talented individual architects he could find to design 11 new stations along the line, creating a unique variety of architectural statement pieces –notably different but all beautiful – in what had been a largely desolate stretch of urban east London.‘For the price of an underground ticket; he promised, ‘you will see some of the greatest contributions to engineering and architecture worldwide’ Paoletti’s sweeping vision did not disappoint. With their swagger and individualism, the stations have been widely acclaimed as a tour de force in public transport architecture.
As the commissioning architect in overall charge, Paoletti’s approach was to let light flood down into the stations along the line. The project’s centrepiece was the extraordinary huge new station at Canary Wharf, designed by Norman Foster and Partners to handle up to 40,000 passengers an hour at peak times. ‘Everybody keeps saying that it’s like a cathedral; complained Paoletti.‘They’re wrong. It actually is a cathedral: Explaining his approach to designing underground stations, Paoletti likened the Jubilee line to architectural free-form jazz, the stations responding to their different contexts as dramatic variations on a theme. Instead of uniformity, Paoletti envisaged variety achieved in the beauty of raw materials like concrete, and the architectural power of simple, large spaces for robust and practical stations.
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In pressing for a seamless marriage between architecture and engineering, Paoletti was concerned to make the stations pleasing to the eye, and the daily grind of commuters using them as uplifting an experience as possible. The result was generally reckoned to be the finest set of stations since the classic designs for the Piccadilly line by Charles Holden in the 1930s. In Holden’s day, design stopped at the top of the escalators leading down to the platforms, a symptom of the Tube’s tradition of treating architecture and engineering as separate disciplines. From the start, Paoletti promised ‘a symbiosis of architecture and engineering’ throughout. This is particularly evident at Westminster station, where Michael Hopkins solved structural difficulties by designing fantastic supporting structures redolent of science-fiction – what Paoletti called ‘engineering that expresses itself as architecture… in which people can delight.’
whether a building; building with some other kind of job to do, like making people comfortable.’ answers: WRITING (60 pts)
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Long-term stress can lead to a variety of serious mental illnesses. Depression, an extreme feeling of sadness and hopelessness, can be the result of continued and increasing stress. Alcoholism and other addictions often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drugs to try to relieve stress. Eating disorders, such as anorexia, are sometimes caused by stress and are often made worse by stress. Ifstress is allowed to continue, then one's mental health is put at risk.
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Part Writea summary for the passage in about100-120 words.(15 pts)
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Emotions are also easily affected by stress. People suffering from stress often feel anxious. They may have panic attacks. They may feel tired all the time. When people are under stress, they often overreact to little problems. For example, a normally gentle parent under a lot of stress at work may yell at a child for dropping a glass of juice. Stress can make people angry, moody, or nervous.
The word ‘stress’ refers to a feeling of panic that makes a person want to stop whatever they are doing, try to relax, and become calm again. 'Stress' means pressure or tension. It is one of the most common causes of health problems in modern life. Too much stress results in physical, emotional, and mental health problems.
The Effects of Stress
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There are numerous physical effects of stress. Stress can affect the heart. It can increase the pulse rate, make the heart miss beats, and can cause high blood pressure. Stress can affect the respiratory system. It can lead to asthma. It can cause a person to breathe too fast, resulting in a loss of important carbon dioxide. Stress can affect the stomach. It can cause stomach aches and problems digesting food. These are only a few examples of the wide range of illnesses and symptoms resulting from stress.
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It is obvious that stress is a serious problem. It attacks the body. It affects the emotions. Untreated, it may eventually result in mental illness. Stress has a great influence on the health and well-being of our bodies, our feelings, and our minds. So, reduce stress: stop the world and rest for a while.
Part 2. The bar chart shows the number of people employed in five types of work in one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons. (15 pts)
Part 3. Write an essay of about 350 words to express your opinion on the following issue (30 Shopspts)should not be allowed to sell any food or drink scientifically proven bad for people's health. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience. You may continue your writing on the back page if you need more space
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For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, c or D) which fits best according to what you hear. (10 pts)
DẠYKÈMQUYNHƠNOFFICIAL SỞ GD & ĐT BÌNH ĐỊNH TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN CHU VĂN AN Đề thi đề xuất ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ XIV Năm học 2021-2022 MÔN TIẾNG ANH- LỚP 11 Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút ĐÁP ÁN
1. last Friday 2. advisorsubject 3. assignment(the) 4. student(s) 5.website/ on their website
A.LISTENING (50 pts)
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T 5.F
Part 4: Complete the notes below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in the spaces provided. (20 pts)
Part 1: For questions from 1-5, listen to a piece of news about the reasons why some World Heritage sites are at risk, and decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 pts)
Part 3: You will hear a radio programme in which two people, Alison Kreel and David Walsh, who each run a food business, are discussing the premises they share.
Part 2: You will hear a conversationbetween a new student and a lecturer. For the question 1 -5, answer the questions below. (10 pts)
1. B 2.C 3.D 4.A 5.B
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6.A 7.A 8.C
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Part 2: the correct form of bracketed word in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 pts) curling
Part 2. Read the passage and choose the best answer to
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Part 1: Choose the answer B, that best completes each of the following sentence. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 pts) 4.A 5.A 9.D 10.D 19.D 20.D
11.D 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.A 16.B 17.B 18.A
B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
best fits
Write
C or D
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4.egocentric 5.drawdown 6.engulfed 7.ennoble 8.underpriviledged 9.onerous 10.underreported
Use
Part 1: the text below which each space. only ONE WORD for each space. your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts) Having they 5. As/ While/When/Whist go/pass each of (10 pts)
each
and think of one word
the questions.
1. standardised 2.famine stricken 3.toe
1. C 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. C 9. A 10. D Part 3: Read the text and do the tasks that follow. (13 pts) 1. v 2. ii 3. vi 4.iii 5. vii 6. iv 7. viii 8. thunderstorm 9. Low latitude 10. Condensation 11. heat 12. eye 13. land Part 4: You are going to read an abstract from an autobiography. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the text. Choose A- H which best fits 1-7. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. (7 pts) 1.E 2.H 3.C 4.F 5.G 6.B 7.D
1. C 2.B 3.A
C. READING (60 pts)
Read
3. fill 4.
Part 1. Write a summary for the passage in about 100-120 words. (15 pts)
The Effects of Stress
D. WRITING (60 pts)
Theword‘stress’referstoafeelingofpanicthatmakesapersonwantto stopwhatever they are doing, try to relax, and become calm again. 'Stress' means pressure or tension. It is one of the most common causes of health problems in modern life. Too much stress results in physical, emotional, and mental health problems. andandUntreated,risk.oftentoAlcoholismfeelingmoody,stresstheyTheysymptomsandarespiratorypulseTherearenumerousphysicaleffectsofstress.Stresscanaffecttheheart.Itcanincreasetherate,maketheheartmissbeats,andcancausehighbloodpressure.Stresscanaffectthesystem.Itcanleadtoasthma.Itcancauseapersontobreathetoofast,resultinginlossofimportantcarbondioxide.Stresscanaffectthestomach.Itcancausestomachachesproblemsdigestingfood.Theseareonlyafewexamplesofthewiderangeofillnessesandresultingfromstress.Emotionsarealsoeasilyaffectedbystress.Peoplesufferingfromstressoftenfeelanxious.mayhavepanicattacks.Theymayfeeltiredallthetime.Whenpeopleareunderstress,oftenoverreacttolittleproblems.Forexample,anormallygentleparentunderalotofatworkmayyellatachildfordroppingaglassofjuice.Stresscanmakepeopleangry,ornervous.Long-termstresscanleadtoavarietyofseriousmentalillnesses.Depression,anextremeofsadnessandhopelessness,canbetheresultofcontinuedandincreasingstress.andotheraddictionsoftendevelopasaresultofoveruseofalcoholordrugstotryrelievestress.Eatingdisorders,suchasanorexia,aresometimescausedbystressandaremadeworsebystress.Ifstressisallowedtocontinue,thenone'smentalhealthisputatItisobviousthatstressisaseriousproblem.Itattacksthebody.Itaffectstheemotions.itmayeventuallyresultinmentalillness.Stresshasagreatinfluenceonthehealthwell-beingofourbodies,ourfeelings,andourminds.So,reducestress:stoptheworldrestforawhile.
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Part 5: You are going to read an article about the design of new stations on the London Underground railway system. For questions 1-10, choose from the sections of the article (A-D). The sections may be chosen more than once. (15 pts)
The mark given to part 1 is based on the following criteria: • Content (10 pts) All important details are included
Your answers: 1. C 2.B 3.E 4.B 5.E 6.E 7.D 8.A 9.D 10.A
- The summary MUST NOT contain personal opinions.
Contents (10 points):
- The report MUST have at least 2 paragraphs covering the following points:
• Introduce the charts (2 points) and state the overall trends & striking features (2 points)
- A penalty of 1 point will be given to any summary longer than 150 words or shorter than 130 words.
The summary:
- A penalty of 1 point to 2 points will be given to personal opinions found in the summary.
- should show attempts to convey the main ideas of the original text by means of paraphrasing (structural and lexical use),
The mark given to part 2 is based on the following criteria:
• Describe main features with relevant data from the charts and make relevant comparisons (6 points)
- should maintain coherence, cohesion, and unity throughout (by means of linkers and transitional devices).
- A penalty of 1 point to 2 points will be given to any summary with more than 20% of words copied from the original.
- Present the key points and main ideas in the right form of a paragraph. Make sure that no important points have been omitted or distorted.
Penalties:
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• Language use (5 pts)
Part 2. The bar chart shows the number of people employed in five types of work in one region of Australia in 2001 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making relevant comparisons. (15 pts)
- should demonstrate correct use of grammatical structures, vocabulary, and mechanics (spelling, punctuations, ....).
- The report MUST NOT contain personal opinions. (A penalty of 1 point to 2 points will be given to personal opinions found in the answer.)
1. Task achievement: (10 points)
The report:
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and unity.
- should demonstrate a wide variety of lexical and grammatical structures,
b. Ideas are adequately supported and elaborated with relevant and reliable explanations, examples, evidence, personal experience, etc.
4. Punctuation, spelling, and handwriting (5 points)
The mark given to part 3 is based on the following criteria:
a. ALL requirements of the task are sufficiently addressed.
• Introduction is presented with clear thesis statement.
3. Language use: (5 points)
b. Legible handwriting
b. The essay is well-structured:
- should have correct use of words (verb tenses, word forms, voice,…); and mechanics (spelling, punctuations,....).
Part 3. Write an essay of about 350 words to express your opinion on the following issue (30Shopspts)
b. Excellent use and control of grammatical structures
should not be allowed to sell any food or drink scientifically proven bad for people's health. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Language use (5 points)
TAPESCRIPTPart1:
In 2016, the archaelogical site of Philippi in Greece was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was one of 21 such sites that made the grade last year. The World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972 with the aim of protecting the world’s most valuable natural and cultural treasures. One of the first World Heritage Sites was the Galapagos Islands in
a. Demonstration of a variety of topic-related vocabulary
Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience. You may continue your writing on the back page if you need more space
2. Organization: (10 points)
a. Correct punctuation and no spelling mistakes
• Body paragraphs are written with unity, coherence, and cohesion. Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence and supporting details and examples when necessary.
• Conclusion summarises the main points and offers personal opinions (prediction, recommendation, consideration,…) on the issue.
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Student: You mean the group?
Student: How many people are there in one group?
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Lecturer: Yes. come in please.
Lecturer: You know there are not too many lectures of postgraduate courses. Let me check. Oh, you have lectures on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon, from 2p.m. to 4p.m.
Student: How often do I have to attend seminars in a week?
Ecuador. Italy has the most UNESCO World Heritage sites with 51 followed by China, Spain, France, Germany and Mexico. There are now a total of 1052 World Heritage Sites around the world in 165 countries. 814 of them are cultural sites that may have historical or anthropological value. 203 are natural sites that may include habitats for threatened species. And 35 are a mixture of both types. But some of them are at risk. Of 229 sites identified by the World Wildlife Fund as being significant for their natural value in 2016, almost half are threatened by industrial development, such as illegal logging, mining and oil and gas development. Being designated as World Heritage Sites can bring attention and put pressure on governments to protect areas, but the publicity can also cause an uptick intourism to the sites, leading to further degradation. 55 Wolrd Heritage Sites are listed as being in danger, some of them due to conflict. All six of Syria’s UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites have been damaged or destroyed in the war. Palmyra was an ancient city whose well-preserved ruins were partially blown up by Islamic State millitants after they seized control of the area. But World Heritage does not only consist of places you can visit. UNESCO has a list of things of “intangible cultural heritage” that includes items such as yoga, Turkish coffee and Belgium beer. They, at least, do not seem to be at risk of disappearing anytime soon.
Student: A presentation?
Student: Lecturer:Fine.You will discuss about 20 minutes and then the representative of your group will give a short presentation.
Lecturer: Right.
Lecturer: Yes. Sit down please. Where should we begin?
Lecturer: Well, there is only one group seminar on Thursday morning at 9 o'clock .
Student: I know there was an orientation meeting last Friday. but I did not attend that meeting, so I’m wondering if someone could give me some information about… you know the campus life or course requirements or something like that.
Lecturer: About 3 to 5.
Student: I’m a new student and I’m looking for the office of engineering faculty. Is this the right Lecturer:place?Yes, this is the Faculty of Engineering. How can I help you?
Student: Firstly, how many lectures do I have to attend every week?
Lecturer: Yes.
PART 2:
Student: Do all members in group have a chance to give a presentation ?
Student: Good morning. May I come in?
Lecturer: I am afraid not. You know the postgraduate course is very intensive. We do not suggest that our students do any jobs.
Student: I’d like to know some information about the course assessment .
Student: When should I visit my tutor?
Student: That’s fine. Thanks for your introduction . Lecturer: You are welcome. See you later.
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Lecturer: Yes, of course.
Lecturer: Yes. You will have to write an assignment with 6 to 7 thousand words every Student:month. 6,000 to 7,000 ?
Lecturer: Your tutor will give you some advice on the topic based on some course hand outs or reference books, but you have to narrow the topic by yourself.
Student: OK. I will apply for one tomorrow morning. Lecturer: Anything else?
Student: You mean homework?
Lecturer: I think you should register for a Library Card first. Because you need it when you borrow reference books from library.
Lecturer: You should check your tutor’s name and contact number on our website.
Student: Lecturer:Fine.Doyou have a library card ?
Student: Lecturer:OK.Anything else can I help you with?
Student: The last thing is how can I get my username and password of our university’s Lecturer:website. First you should go to The Computer Centre to register and then they will give you a username and password.
Lecturer: Yes.
Lecturer: You have three modular courses from September to June next year.
Lecturer: That’s right.
Student: Oh. How about the topic?
Lecturer: Well, beside presentation you will have an exam at the end of the term.
Fine. Should I choose the time? Because I have a part-time job.
Lecturer: The postgraduate attendance is only 70% . But a few students will be absent in our Student:faculty.
Lecturer: It’s an open book exam.
Student: Yes, I see. I will spend time on my course. Oh, how many modular courses are there in the coming academic year?
Student: No. I have not applied for one.
Student: Lecturer:Fine.Butyour main assessment is assignment.
Student: So can I choose the topic of essay by myself?
Lecturer: Maybe. And then your subject advisor will give you a mark. Student: A mark? Does that mean the representative’s mark is all members’ mark?
Student: How about attendance ?
Student: Lecturer:Great.Youmust pay attention to your essay deadline. All assignment work must be handed in before the deadline your tutor gives you.
Student: See you.
Student: An exam? What type of exam?
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Interviewer: 1 can believe that! ...There’s been a lot of investment put into the Siston building. Why do you think it’s been so easy to get funding for projects like this?
InterviewerBecause all kitchens have to be state-certified?
David: It does mean there’s no thinking space though. But as a group we buy in bulk from suppliers which makes things cheaper.
David: It’s a win-win situation. Iconic old buildings get a makeover and a new lease of life and young businesses get a kick start. 1 don’t know how many of US would still be in work if we didn’t have this opportunity - since the authorities started coming down hard on anyone trying to start a business from their own kitchen.
David: Yeah customers here really keep you on your toes!
You will hear a radio programme in which two people, Alison Kreel and David Walsh, who each run a food business, are discussing the premises they share. You now have one minute in which to look at Part Three.
David: Right. So 1 think investors understood that it’s a way of keeping the entrepreneurial spirit aliveanyone could see that this project was a safe bet as there’s huge demand for our kind of products. But you’d need serious money behind you to go it alone.
The old Siston building has now been renovated and my guests today are just a couple of the dynamic entrepreneurs who are busy cooking up new and exciting food products from the communal kitchens there: Alison Kreel of Kreel Soups and David Walsh from Sea Veg salads. Great to have you on the programme ... Now tell me, is there any more room in the market for new quality food businesses? Some would say we’ve reached saturation point...
Interviewer:
Interviewer: So 1 can see that it works in financial terms but what’s it like sharing kitchen space?
Alison: I’d say there are more gains than losses. It’s inspiring being around like-minded creative individuals. We kind of bounce off each other.
Alison: Yeah fifty thousand dollars minimum.
Alison: Not at all. That’s what’s so exciting - it seems people can’t get enough of high quality food products.
David: Yeah but it’s changing - customers are much more discerning than they used to be - they want to know how the food is produced, which was much less the case in the past.
Alison: And we’re so close to all our main markets. And you know making soup, which is what iHGHG
Alison: And how it’s sourced too. And you really need a strong brand identity to break into the market which isn’t how it used to be - especially here in Brooklyn where there’s such a strong food culture.
The Prime Minister has promised to help the drought stricken farmers in the northern part of the country who haven’t seen rain for nearly two years. And in Sydney, a group of school children are successfully rescued from a plane which landed in the sea shortly after takeoff. Transport workers are on strike in Melbourne over a pay claim and the strike looks set to spread to other states. And on a fashionable note, there s to be a new look for the staff of QANTAS, Australia’s national airline.
This is the 6 o’clock news for Tuesday 25 November. And first the headlines:
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Interviewer: 1 see. So what advice would you pass on to someone just starting out?
Interviewer
Now you will hear Part Three again. tone
The Prime Minister has pledged today that he will make two hundred and fifty million dollars available to help the drought stricken farmers who have not seen ram for years, get through the next five years. Money that was to have been spent on the re-structuring of Sydney’s road system has been re-allocated to what the Prime Minister described as 'a more worthy cause'. Farmers are to receive financial assistance to help see them through the worst drought in over 50 years. Many farmers feel that while the money is welcome it has come too late to save them and their farms from financial ruin and are angry that the government did not act sooner.
Well, I’m afraid that’s all we [fade] [pause]
A group of school children who were travelling in a privately chartered aeroplane from Sydney to Queensland to take part in a musical concert found themselves swimming for the shore when their aeroplane had to land in the sea just three minutes after taking off from Sydney airport. The pilot managed to bring the aircraft and its 50 passengers down safely in
David:
Alison: For me - yes. I’m in a really good place now with a clear sense of direction which is to build up my customer base locally. Both from my own market stall and by supplying delis. It’s also dawned on me that 1 should try out making smoothies in summer when demand for soup isn’t that high. So my grand plans of opening my own chain of cafes nationwide are on hold for the moment!
1 probably should say do your homework - test out recipes on friends, get a job in a food market, talk to other food producers and learn from their mistakes, and of course make sure you can make a reasonable margin. Do you know what? Nothing beats just going ahead and doing it.
Alison: So we’re all able to work much more efficiently.
Alison: Otherwise it’s easy to talk yourself out of the whole idea.
Interviewer: So has the moving into the new building changed the way you view your future?
PART 4
I’m involved in, is a messy business so what blew me away was the waterproof ‘clean’ room. Cleaning up used to take forever but now 1 can just hose everything down in a matter of minutes.
David: 1 think that’s it. We’re really lucky because the space has been so well thought out - everything’s state-of-the-art.
The fact that it was a weekend meant that there were hundreds of boats in the bay enjoying the good weather and this undoubtedly helped the rescue operation. 'We owe our lives to the skill of the pilot,' said one of the boys, but the pilot replied modestly that it was 'all part of a day’s work'. However, all their musical instruments were lost and they never got to play at their concert.
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the calm waters of Botany Bay where boats and pleasurecraft were able to come to the rescue of the boys.
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D. worried that the health scares might be real
C. resigned to the media misunderstanding science
B. being misled by scientists and doctors
You will hear Alice Brown interviewing Professor Robert Atkins about health scares.
A. some businesses have a vested interest in promoting them
C. some doctors are at fault for not criticizing them sufficiently
A. They could lead to people taking too many pills.
A. She worries that new ones will occur.
D. worry about how diseases are communicated
2. What is Alice’s attitude to the threat of the lethal diseases?
D. some researchers are looking for publicity
C. She is concerned that they are spread more easily today.
B. some manufacturers see them as the best form of publicity
A. a lack of spiritual belief
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C. She believes they pose less of danger today.
B. reconciled to health scares being a necessary evil
B. She is doubtful that they can be contained.
3. Professor Atkins believes that the concerns people have today arise from _______.
I. LISTENING (50 points)
PART1.(10 points)
For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C, D) which fits best according to what you hear
1. How does Professor Atkins feel about the frequency of health scares in the media?
A. irritated that the media print nonsense
C. bewilderment when their assumptions are challenged
4. What do Alice and Professor Atkins agree about when it comes to health scares?
5. What worries Professor Atkins about health scares?
B. They are more damaging than real diseases.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
2. Jim understands now why Sasha had problems in her previous apartment.
2. What will become heavily dependent on AI in Europe?
3. What have fossil fuels been considered in the Middle East?
4. What will substitute for oil disputes in the future?
PART4.(20 points)
5. What will come to the throne by 2039? Your answers
Listen to a talk about how to prevent a food crisis and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. What stimulates Africa’s economic boom?
5. Sasha never realized the different cleaner was causing a problem in the shower. Your answers
D. They are difficult to disprove. Your answers
3. The problem with the television is that Sasha has sometimes forgotten to turn the TV off.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
C. They might make people disregard potential risks
4. Sasha didn’t know that Jim used the lights in the apartment as an anti-crime measure.
PART2.(10 points)
Listen to the conversation between Sasha and Jim, then complete the True/False exercise below.1.Sasha is currently unemployed.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
PART3.(10 points)
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Listen to a radio discussion about the pros and cons of opening a new fast food restaurant in a small town called Manley and complete the following sentences. Write
1. The athlete was _______ in defeat and praised his opponent's skill, for which he received a lot of praise.
Masters argues that preventing the new outlet’s opening in Manley will not (6) _______ of changing food habit worldwide.
-_______.Shebelieves the new restaurant will boost (10) _______ of the town.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 7 8 9 10
D. green around the gills 4. He _____ denied the accusations, saying they were totally false
- He admits that Burger World prices are (4) _______
- He would prefer a new restaurant offering (3) _______.
C. by a whisker D. a notch above
1.Choose the best answer. (20 points)
3. His driving is so bad that I always turn _______ when I am sitting with him in the car.
A. excessively B. superficially C. strenuously D. unstintingly 5. The runner was far ahead for most of the race, but at the end she won only _______. A. larger than life B. on the dot
B. in a fog C. off his trolley
- This will make older residents feel (8) _______.
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A. around the bend
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
A. abrasive B. valiant C. chivalrous D. magnanimous 2. I wish you’d stop _________ with that watch. It needs to be repaired by a professional A. dabbling B. striving C. tinkering D. preserving
- The proposed opening of the new Burger World has provoked (1) _______ in the local -community.Mr.Brownlea thinks it will harm the young people and the (2) _______.
- Mrs. Masters feels that it will be beneficial for young people to use Burger World as a (9)
- Mr. Brownlea is worried that the new fast food will increase the problem of (7) _______.
II.GRAMMAR AND LEXICOLOGY (30 points)
- He believes that fast food chains are causing the disappearance of (5) _______ around the -world.Mrs.
12. ____________, playing music is an effective way for them to open their heart to the outside world.
6. She’s raising two kids, holding down a full-time job, and trying to maintain some _______ of a personal life.
8. Given the competitiveness of the National Contest, I have to knock it out of the _______ or I won’t be able to win any prizes.
A. entitled B. upheld C. upstanding D. well-heeled
A. Being visually impaired people
B. Such were their visual impairments
13. One day, ____________, she announced that she was leaving. A. in the red B. in the pink C. over the moon D. out of the blue
C. Having been visually impaired D. For those with visual impairments
A. class B. depth C. league D. head
A. bad been finished/ arrived B. have finished I arrived C. had finished/ were arriving D. have been finished/ were arrived
15. One of the most important things you have to remember when you join this game is that you should ____________. A. go to your head
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11. The preparations ____________ by the time the guests ____________.
B. keep your wits about you C. keep your head in the clouds D. gather your wits
16. Sailing is not ____________ an art.
14. John was out of his ______________ in the advanced class, so he moved to the intermediate class.
10. I know it’s hard at first when you start a new job, but you’ll soon ______. A. show your teeth B. find your feet C. follow your nose D. try your hand
B. down for the count C. down to the ground D. down to the wire
9. She was extremely elegant and obviously very _________
A. park B. nail C. roof D. ring
7. Negotiations went _______, but we did manage to reach an agreement on the contract by theA.deadline.downto the short strokes
A. semblance B. vestige C. inkling D. portent
19.There are ____________ words in English having more than one meaning. Pay close attention to this fact.
3. She made a _________________ return to the stage after several years working in television. (TRIUMPH)
A. be notified
2.Complete these sentences,using the suitable form of the given words in brackets. Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes provided.(10 points)
A. That is computers B. Computers that C. That computers D. It is those computers Your answers
B. being notified C. are notified · D. were notified
4. Antiseptics and __________ are widely used in hospital to kill the bacteria. (INFECT)
5. Thanks to the _________________ policy, more and more forests have been formed on locations that used to be treeless. (FOREST)
2. People in coastal areas live mainly on the _________________, which allows them to earn a great deal of money from the sea products. (CULTURE)
A. more science than B. so much a science as C. as scientific as D. worth science for
18. It's very important that we ____________ as soon as there’s any change in the patient’s condition.
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17. ____________ you cut down your carbohydrate intake, you ___ weight by now. A. Had I would have lost
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
1. Unfortunately the game was cancelled because of a __________ pitch. (WATER)
B. Were/ would have lost C. If/ will Jose D. Did/ would
A. a large many B. quite many C. a great many D. quite a lot 20. ____________ motivate learning is well documented.
10. It encouraged experimenters to propose ________ or novel approaches to problems. (BEAT) Your answers
Part 1: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Choose from paragraphs (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra paragraph you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (7 points)
The white and silver buildings of the VLT or Very Large Telescope at the ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical research in the Southern Hemisphere) stand tall and imposing on top of a mountain shining brightly under the desert sun. At night they come alive, the outer walls open up and silently slide through 360 degrees, allowing an uninterrupted view of the Southern Hemisphere sky. Inside, a giant eye looks deep into the stars and beyond, looking for life, mysteries and making sense out of the darkness.
6. Both are _______, extravagant in character, highly lyrical and immediately establish the soloist as a romantic protagonist. (CLAIM)
Getting1. to the place is a journey of discovery in itself. After leaving the Pacific Ocean, you head south and hook up with the Panamericana Highway and into the desert, the driest on Earth. It's a two-hour drive to the observatory, but it feels longer as the harsh light, the rocky, dusty desert, the complete absence of any form of life, except for the giant trucks plying their trade along the highway, is unsettling.
III. READING (60 points)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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7. We might have to employ someone temporarily as a _______ measure until we can hire someone permanently. (STOP)
9. _______ should summarize the main facts about their performance based on the staff evaluation criteria of the company. (APPRAISE)
8. Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such _______ subjective and impure elements. (REDEEM)
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They5.
7.
monsters and their smaller auxiliaries bring to mind the set of Star Wars. But at sunset, they take on another look. This could be Stonehenge, another magic circle where our forefathers tried to make sense of the stars. Soon after arriving, we are taken to see the inside of one of the telescopes. They have all been named in the indigenous Mapuche language following a competition among Chilean schoolchildren.
2.The reason, we are told, is simple. Astronomers need a clear view of the sky at night. Optimal conditions are to be found in deserts; there are fewer of the negative factors like light pollution that can make the four telescopes which form VLT work less effectively. Here no lights are allowed after dark, all windows are screened, and even the main residence where 108 people sleep, leaks no more than 40W when the lights are turned on.
all answered with the usual 'finding out where we came from, where we are going, are we alone in the universe...?' And, as the ESO has no commercial use and is a not-for-profit organization, it's easy to imagine these scientists indulging in their research and being cut off from reality.
These3.
One6. of Paranal's great achievements was the discovery of a planet outside our solar system. It is huge: five times bigger than Jupiter, and the work being done now is aimed at understanding the physical and chemical composition of this, and other, giant Earth-like planets. Truly a quest for life in outer space.
Once4. these have been completed, the telescope is handed over to the team who will operate one or more of the telescopes from a control room. All night long these giants will be moving and pointing to the sky helping the scientists unravel new problems. Fourteen countries contribute around 160 million euros to their joint astronomical cause, and Paranal is allocated 20% of that figure. Standing in the shadow of the VLT, one wonders what all this taxpayers' money buys.
'We needed even sharper images to settle the issue of whether any other configuration is possible and we counted on the ESO VLT to provide those,’ says Reinhard Genzel, director at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. 'Now the era of observational physics has truly begun.'
C The central unit inside weighs 450 tonnes and houses the main 8.5 m mirror. A second, smaller mirror is made from beryllium, a rare metal. The external walls can all slide open to allow the telescope to point in any direction as it rotates soundlessly on its base.
Missing paragraphs
E It is a question that many in Paranal find a little difficult to answer. Maybe because scientists, due to the nature of their research and also, maybe, their mindsets, tend to focus on very specific areas of competence and therefore are not required to have a broader 'strategic' view.
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G We are in Paranal, in Chile's Atacama Desert, where at 2,600 m above sea level, Europe
A But talking further revealed a simple truth: that having pretty much discovered all there is to know about our world on the Earth, astronomy looks at the vast Terra Incognita which surrounds us. These scientists see themselves very much as a mixture of Renaissance men and women: all questing for further knowledge.
B Every evening an engineer is assigned to one of these telescopes and his or her job is to get it ready so that it can then be taken over at night by a three-person team. The engineer runs through a series of tests in preparation for the work which will be done later that night.
F The other big consideration in the desert is the absence of cloud cover and, higher up, the lack of atmospheric dust and all the other interference caused by humans or nature which contributes to partially hiding the secrets of the universe. 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' is just what astronomers do not want to hear, as this means there is debris between the eye, the telescopes and the stars.
D As we drive further into the desert, the road starts to rise gradually, with hills and steep valleys all around us. The environment is harsh in the extreme and it's hard to imagine that a community of European scientists have chosen this place to establish a worldleading laboratory.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic back in March 2020, the virus has claimed more than 2.5 million lives globally with upwards of 113 million cases being (1) by laboratory tests (March 2021).
Astronomers have also used the data from VLT for another purpose - to attempt to find out how old the universe is. It seems that the oldest star is 13.2 billion years old, which means the universe must be even older. They also use VLT to look into galaxies beyond ours, and where they continue to find evidence of supermassive black holes, where all kinds of violent activity occur.
The pandemic has impacted almost every corner of life, causing global economies to stall, changing the way we work and interact (2) our loved ones, and stretching healthcare (3) to the limit. Governments around the world have been forced to implement harsh restrictions (4) human activity to curb the spread of the virus.
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Your answers
H
has its most advanced astronomical observatory. It's a leading site, a joint undertaking by fourteen European countries focused on developing the most advanced scientific tools for observing the universe and enhancing the knowledge base for industry, education and culture.
COVID-19 vaccination is now offering a way to transition out of this phase of the pandemic. Without them, many scientists believe that natural herd (5) would not have been sufficient to restore society to its normal (6) quo and that it would have resulted in extreme fatality. This is something that has been echoed by many health (7) including the WHO. In a scenario (8) access to vaccines, strict behavioral measures may have had to remain for the foreseeable
Part 2. Complete the following passage by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes provided.(15 points)
Fortunately,future.thebeginning of 2021 saw numerous vaccines given emergency (9) and begin their roll out in countries across the world. As of March 2021, just shy of 300 million vaccine doses had been administered worldwide. The figures give (10) of a return to
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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The presence or absence of water has a direct bearing on the possibility of life on other planets. In the nineteenth century, it was commonly accepted that life, perhaps even intelligent life, was widespread in the solar system, and Mars was an obvious target in the search for life. New photographic technology offered a way for astronomers to learn more about the red planet. In 1888, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli produced images that showed a network of long, thin, dark lines crossing the surface of Mars. He called these features canali in Italian, which became “canals” or “channels” in English. The strange appearance of the canals suggested to some scientists that they had been formed artificially rather than naturally. The mystery deepened when Schiaparelli observed that many of the canals in the photographs were actually double.
‘normal’. However, global COVID-19 vaccination faces several challenges which may impact its success. Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3.Read the passage belowand answers the questions (10 points)
Other photographic images of Mars revealed its seasonally changing polar ice caps and features that appeared to be ancient islands located in what was now a dry streambed. When the islands were first discovered, some scientists speculated that a thick water-laden atmosphere capable of generating heavy rains and had once existed on Mars. However, others remained unconvinced of the presence of water. Then, in 1963, a team of astronomers obtained a good photographic plate of the near-infrared spectrum of Mars. The photograph showed that, faintly but definitely, water vapor lines could be seen. This photograph established that there really was water on Mars, though the amount was very small. Today, the presence of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere is generally accepted, as is the belief that the atmosphere was once much denser than it is now, with a much greater abundance of water vapor. The surface of Mars is dry today, but it does contain significant amounts of ice and signs that liquid water once flowed over the planet. All of the locations where evidence of water has been found are ancient, probably formed every early in Martian history. Data
ice packs at Mars’s poles, astronomers have discovered a frozen sea near its equator. This frozen sea is the size of the North Sea on Earth and appears similar to the ice packs on Antarctica. Scientists have also detected evidence of lava flows 20 million years ago as well as signs that some volcanoes may still be active. Several recently formed volcanic cones near Mars’s North Pole indicate that the planet’s core may interact with the surface, meaning there was both warmth and moisture in the recent past – circumstances that might have supported life.
Liquid water is the key ingredient for life as we know it. Of all the other planets in the solar system, Mars is most like Earth. In 20111 a team of researchers used computer modeling to compare data on temperature and pressure conditions on Earth with those on Mars to estimate how much of Mars could support Earth- like organisms. Their results showed that three percent of Mars could sustain life, although most of these regions are underground. Below the planet’s surface, conditions are right for water to exist as a liquid. Additional evidence of water on the planet’s surface came in 2012, when a robot landed on Mars and transmitted hig-resolution images showing a streambed with coarse gravel that had likely been deposited by flowing water. All of this evidence of water does not
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transmitted from spacecraft on Mars in 2004 have revealed that water was once common across a vast region of the planet, possibly as shallow lakes or seas that dried out and then filled up again. There are signs that the wind blew debris around during dry stages. These seas and lakes extended across hundreds of thousands of square miles, creating habitable conditions during long stretches of time billions of years ago.
Evidence of water includes the presence of various minerals known as evaporates, deposits left behind when liquid water turns to vapor. Small areas of mineral deposits have been found in Valles Marineris, a huge hole on Mars that is larger than the Grand Canyon on Earth. The minerals there contain water, so they had to be formed in the presence of water. Geologic research has also turned up clay and gypsum deposits that were formed by water in the soil. Rocks that clearly formed in water extend throughout 300 meters of layered materials in several locations across the Martian plains. The layers were built up over time, which means water was present, at least temporarily, for extended periods on ancient
BesidesMars.the
D. How soon astronauts from Earth will be able to go to Mars
B. Ancient islands in a dry streambed
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B. Who built the network of canals on the surface of Mars
A. direct proof that life has existed on Mars
A. Most scientists believe there is water vapor in the Martian atmosphere, which is now less dense than it was in the past.
D. Volcanic cones near the planet’s North Pole
necessarily mean life ever emerged there; however, it does suggest that Mars meets all the requirements that are needed for life to exist.
5. What discovery led some scientists to think that the Martian atmosphere had produced heavy rains in the past?
D. data sent by spacecraft
3. Astronomers of the 19th and 20th centuries studied Mars mainly through ______.
A. How Mars compares to other planets in the solar system
C. Whether signs of water indicate that life has existed on Mars
2. According to the passage, what has been a major focus of research about Mars?
B. the rejection of Schiaparelli’s ideas by other scientists
C. Martian soil samples
A. ancient writings B. photographic images
1. The word ‘target’ in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.
4. It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that Schiaparelli’s observation of canals on Mars led to ______.
D. new questions about intelligent life on Mars
A. watery planet B. symbol of strength C. missing link D. object of interest
A. A network of canals on the surface
C. Water vapor lines on a photographic plate
6. Which sentence below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in paragraph 2?
C. the search for canals on other planets in the solar system
D. Scientists used to believe that Mars had no atmosphere, but now most think it has a very dense atmosphere of water vapor.
Astronomers already knew that Mars had some kind of atmosphere because of the occasional presence of bright features that looked like clouds.
D. liquid water is no longer present on Mars
B. The amount of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere has changed many times in the past, and scientists generally accept this.
A. Mars was formed at the same time as Earth
A. images of polar ice caps B. a 1963 photograph
7. Layers of rock in several places on the Martian plains are evidence that ______.
B. both wind and water erosion occurred there
The presence or absence of water has a direct bearing on the possibility of life on other planets. [A] In the nineteenth century, it was commonly accepted that life, perhaps even intelligent life, was widespread in the solar system, and Mars was an obvious target in the search for life. [B] New photographic technology offered a way for astronomers to learn more about the red planet. In 1888, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli produced images that showed a network of long, thin, dark lines crossing the surface of Mars. [C] He called these features canali in Italian, which became “canals” or “channels” in English. The strange appearance of the canals suggested to some scientists that they had been formed artificially rather than naturally. [D] The mystery deepened when Schiaparelli observed that many of the canals in the photographs were actually double.
C. The atmosphere of Mars used to contain only water vapor, but now scientists know that several other gases are also present.
C. clay and gypsum deposits
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D. evidence of lava flows
9. Write the correct letter [A], [B], [C] or [D] that indicates where the following sentence could be added to the passage?
8. All of the following indicate the presence of water on Mars EXCEPT ______.
C. water was present there for a long time
B. Dry streambed, lakes, and seas suggest that Mars does not have enough water to support life.
F. Because Mars is so similar to Earth, scientists believe that humans will be able to live on Mars in the future.
E. Geologic research, photography and computer modeling provide evidence of water – and possibly life – on Mars.
Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 4.Read the passageand do the tasks below (13 points)
Early photographs of Mars showed what appeared to be canals, polar ice caps, and ancient islands.
Section A
• The human community can be regarded as a system, holistic in nature, seeking survival. Throughout the ages, observers of human behaviour have repeatedly identified four major patterns or configurations of behaviour. Such holistic sorting of behaviour patterns has been recorded for at least twenty-five centuries.
Scientists have long searched for evidence of water on Mars
A.---
D. Mars contains many types of evaporates, minerals left behind when liquid water becomes vapor.
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C. There is water vapor in the Martian atmosphere and evidence that liquid water once flowed on the surface.
10.An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage.
• Most twentieth-century psychologists abandoned holistic observation of human behaviour for a microscopic examination of parts, fragments, traits, and so on. To them, all human beings were basically alike, and individual differences were due to chance or conditioning.
Section B
• The Sanguine temperament personality is fairly extroverted. People of a sanguine temperament tend to enjoy social gatherings and making new friends. They tend to be creative and often day dream. However, some alone time is crucial for those of this temperament. Sanguine can also mean very sensitive, compassionate and thoughtful. Sanguine personalities generally struggle with the following tasks all the way through. They are chronically late, and tend to be forgetful and sometimes a little sarcastic. Often, when pursuing a new hobby, interest is lost quickly when it ceases to be engaging or fun. A sanguine person is happy, friendly, warm, eager and has an ability to
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• These four major patterns are referred to as temperaments. They describe the ways human personality interacts with the environment to satisfy its needs. Each of the four types of humours corresponded to a different personality type.
• In 450 B.C., Hippocrates described four such dispositions he called temperaments - a choleric temperament with an ease of emotional arousal and sensitivity, a phlegmatic temperament with cool detachment and impassivity, a melancholic temperament with a very serious, dour, and downcast nature, and a sanguine temperament full of impulsivity, excitability, and quick reactivity. During the Middle Ages, Philippus Paracelsus described four natures whose behaviours were said to be influenced by four kinds of spirits: nymphs, sylphs, gnomes, and salamanders.
• Two German psychologists, Ernst Kretschmer and Eduard Spranger, were among the few to continue to view individuals holistically in terms of patterns. Inspired by their work, a modern psychologist, David Keirsey, noted common themes in the various observations and the consistent tendency of human behavious to sort itself into four similar patterns. Linda Berens continues to expand our understanding of the four temperaments through the unique contributions, including the core needs, values, talents, and behaviours of the four temperament patterns – as illustrated by The Temperament Targets.
Section C
• Phlegmatics tend to be self-content and kind. They can be very accepting and affectionate. They may be very receptive and shy and often prefer stability to uncertainty and change. They are very consistent, relaxed, rational, curious, and observant, making them good administrators and diplomats. Unlike the Sanguine personality, they may be more dependable.
Section D
Section E
• A person who is a thoughtful ponder has a melancholic disposition. Often very kind and considerate, melancholies can be highly creative – as in poetry and art – and can become occupied with the tragedy and cruelty in the world. A melancholic is also often a perfectionist. They are often self-reliant and independent. A melancholic person is often extremely talented. He can analyse things very deeply. He has an eye for beauty. He is disciplined and diligent. But he has a whole load of dark sides. He is often pessimistic and is depressed easily. He is too critical of himself and of others. He is revengeful and easily offended.
• It’s easiest to get along with a phlegmatic person. He is calm and easygoing. His carefree attitude and good sense of humour attract people. He is stable and reliable and very diplomatic. But he is not perfect, either. He is often irritatingly slow and unable to make up his mind. He is selfish and stingy. Sometimes he is totally indifferent to
sympathize with others. He has lots of friends and everyone thinks he is a fun company. But he is often very self-centred and he lacks self-control. He has a tendency to exaggerate and he is emotionally unstable.
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• A person who is choleric is a doer. They have a lot of ambition, energy and passion, and try to instill it in others. They can dominate people of other temperaments, especially phlegmatic types. Many great charismatic military and political figures were cholerics. They have a strong will. They are independent, practical, efficient and productive. When they get something in their mind, nothing can stop them. Unfortunately, choleric people have to spend a lot of their time alone, as their social side is so poorlydeveloped. They scare people away with their coldness and their angry and cruel words. They are insensitive and overly dominating.
everything around him. All he’s interested in is his daydreams.
Ii
List of Headings
I Cautious and caring people Connection between characteristics and body In-depth thinking and intelligent people
• The concept of temperament can generally be defined as a behavioural or emotional trait that differs across individuals, appears early in life, is relatively stable over the lifespan, and is, at least to some degree, influenced by biology. One common defining characteristic of temperament is that it appears quite early in development and is relatively stable over the life-span. It is for this reason that the study of temperament has often focused on infancy and early-childhood. The assumption has been that temperament is not an acquired characteristic; one doesn’t learn one’s temperament, rather one is simply born with a given temperament profile. Further, these “in-born” traits persist throughout the life span, though they may change form. For example, an infant may have a withdrawal oriented temperament, but lacking the physical capacity to move independently may cry when presented with novel situations or toys or people, etc. The infant’s crying then elicits a caregiver to either remove the infant from the stimulus or the stimulus from the infant. In either case it effectively increases the distance between the infant and that which makes him or her uncomfortable. As the child ages through early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence and so on, he or she no longer needs to rely exclusively on others to control their environment. They can themselves retreat from situations that make them uncomfortable and/or they may actively seek out environments that are of low stimulus intensity. In adolescence they may begin to use depressant drugs such as alcohol, narcotics, or nicotine to effectively withdraw from situations that make them uncomfortable, but for which there is strong social pressure to pursue (parties, school functions, etc.) These behaviours are quite different in form, but yield the same functional effect.
Questions 1-6: The reading passage has six sections, A-F. Choose the correct heading for each section from the list of headings below.Write the correct number,i-ix,in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
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Iii
Section F
Iv Changing behaviours
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this 7. The four temperaments can be traced back reliably to philosophy, notably in the work of 8.Hippocrates.Toalltwentieth-century
2. Section B
13. Temperament is an “in-born” characteristic which is stable throughout one’s life. Your answers
Questions 7-13: Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? Inthe corresponding numbered boxes provided, write:
FALSE if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
Vii Four personalities on the basis of body fluid
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3. Section C
viii Demanding and unsympathetic people
4. Section D
6. Section F
V Active and optimistic people
Ix The in-born and permanent temperament
5. Section E
psychologists, the personal characteristics came from different 9.situations.Peopleof a sanguine temperament are imaginative and creative, and are often the ones who enthusiastically promote new ideas on the job.
11.person.Most melancholies can be poets or artists because they are highly creative.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
12. Phlegmatic people are usually indifferent to everything.
TRUE if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
10. If someone has a strong will, he or she must be a great charismatic military or political
1. Section A
Vi Theories from ancient philosophers
Manet was inviting some kind of response in the way in which he presented women in his work and he succeeded in bridging the gap between classical traditions and painting modern life. Above all, I have tremendous respect for the fact that he was a breakthrough artist: a champion of realist modernism who was censured for breaking the mould. Through the medium of painting, Manet constantly reassessed the prevailing attitudes of the world he was living in. Today we are used to multiple perspective - seeing the same image from different angles. This was not so in Manet’s time and in this painting we see him crossing boundaries as he switches reality by employing a mirror to reflect his subjects.
Part 5.(15 points)
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A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, by Edouard Manet
Henry VII, 29 October 1505, by unknown artist
You are going to read an extract from an article about paintings. For questions 1–10, choose from the sections (A–E). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in thecorresponding numbered boxes provided. A. Luisa Sutton
B.Paul Harris
I used to work for an art handling company in New York, and I came to realise how wonderful paintings are as entities. Old paintings last for so long because of the materials
Visually, this is a stunning portrait; Henry moves towards the viewer from the parapet wearing the red robes of Lancaster, his hands on the ledge. It is immediately exciting and emotive. Henry VII was on the lookout for a new bride and this was painted to be sent to the court of Maximilian, much as we would send a photo today. So the provenance is clear. Portraits of other English monarchs, Richard III in particular, are, in comparison, stiff and remote. Henry VII’s portrait speaks in a very particular way. His eyes look at one. He is Renaissance man but, at the same time one sees a shrewd, wise and wily man who, throughout his reign, managed to amass the fortune of the Tudor dynasty.
C. TomNewman
James VI and I, 1618, by Paul Van Somer
3. the integrity of the image portrayed
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4. the view that the artist was an innovator
5. delight in a painting’s ability to endure
I chose this painting as it has personal relevance for me. I grew up in my grandmother’s house in London. She was an excellent copyist of Gainsborough. We had copies of all of his paintings, except for this one, which my grandmother didn’t approve of. I’ve always found it incredibly beautiful though. The two figures in this wonderful painting have very enigmatic expressions. What are they up to? What are they thinking? And then what are we to make of the landscape? It’s an agricultural scene, in the middle of the day, but there are no agricultural workers anywhere to be seen. Where on earth is everybody? What a strange atmosphere the place has, a long ago era that will never be recaptured.
An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618, by Velàzquez
What is most striking about this painting is surely its veracity. One gets the feeling that one is looking into a room in which there are no obstacles to understanding. Nothing comes between the subject and the observer. The artist here is the perfect observer. When I saw it a few years ago in the National Gallery of Scotland, set alongside many other works from Velazquez’s youth, there was no doubt in my mind that it was a masterpiece. I think that it is easy for many people to empathise with this painting in one way or another.
1. the inscrutable nature of the subjects
E.Lynn D’Anton
D. Paula Smith
used – the oil is so robust, it expands or contracts depending on the heat. They can be rolled up and taken around the world, they’ll never die. This portrait, in particular, made a huge impression on me. Works of art often lose their power as soon as they’re placed in a museum. This painting is where it belongs – in a palace. Subject to who you speak to, James is either a buffoon or a tactical genius, but in this work he looks so stately. The painting was clearly commissioned to convey regality – and it worked on me, 400 years later.
Mr and Mrs Andrews, by Gainsborough
In whichsection arethe following mentioned?
2. the artist’s ability to give an insight into temperament
Part 1.(15 points)
7. the view that a painting’s impact depends on its surroundings
So how do you make it work for yourself? Well, it’s far more complex than just learning to look on the bright side. The key variable in patients getting well is the extent to which they feel in control of their own emotions. Reorganizing your life and learning selfhelp techniques can help put you back in control of these.
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
IV. WRITING(60 points)
10.conflicting opinions about the subject of a painting Your answers
9. admiration for an artist who dared to challenge conventional ideas
8. a painting which gives an image of a lost world
Read the following articles and summarize the measures recommended in both articles in order to improve healthandperformance. You should writea paragraphof between 80 and 100 words.
Article 1:Discover the healing power ofpositive thinking
We all know that strong emotions have powerful physical effect. Feeling nervous before an important interview can send you rushing to the bathroom, while a sudden attack of anxiety can send your heart racing and leave you feeling faint and dizzy. But new research has revealed the incredible healing power of the brain and how learning to relax and think positively can have dramatic health benefits. And there is now overwhelming evidence that your mental and emotional state can also have a direct impact on your body’s ability to fight disease and cope with pain.
Bob Lewin, Professor of Rehabilitation at York University, took a group of heart patients through an eight-week angina management, relaxation techniques, goal-setting, yoga and exercise. The results were staggering. Fifty per cent of the patients who had been on waiting list for bypass surgery were taken off by their cardiologists who decided that they no longer needed it.
6. the background to a painting being well documented
Everybody feels fearful in unfamiliar situations that doesn’t mean we should avoid them. Taking risks, even tiny ones like picking up a telephone to make a complaint, is a necessary part of accepting adult responsibility. The best strategy you can adopt is to understand why you feel so fearful and learn how to deal with it, then, when you succeed in a difficult situation, you’ll feel more confident about approaching it next time around.
We all carry round a baggage of attitudes and beliefs that colours our response to new situations. If you’re lucky, these will be “can-do” messages, but many of us are programmed for failure. Perhaps every time you stepped out of the door when you were little, your parents cried “Be careful!”, as if doom and disaster lurked at every turn, or friends say, “I wouldn’t attempt that if I were you!”, if you hear negative statements often enough, you learn to expect the worst. The immediate reaction to a new or daunting situation is “I can’t handle it”.
“Most people’s confidence is a level or two below their competency.” Says clinical psychologist Averil Leimon, director of a company which helps personnel transform their behaviour. “People need to understand that they really are better than they believe.”
The people you admire for their apparent confidence and ability to cope with any situation are probably feeling just as daunted as you would be, but they don’t let it stand in their way. Your summary:
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Article 2: Howto stay cool even when you’re quaking
Part 2.(15 points)
The line graph belowshows changes in the amount of coffeeexported fromthree countries between 2002 and 2012.Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main featuresand makecomparisons where relevant.
In manycountries todayinsufficientrespect is shown toolder people.What do you think may be thereasons for this? Whatproblems might this causein society? Give reasons for your answer and include anyrelevant examples fromyour own knowledge or experience. Write no more than350 words.
Part 3.(30 points)
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III. READING (60 points)
1. G 2. D 3. F 4. B 5. E 6. A 7. H
Part 2. Complete the following passage by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes provided.(15 points)
6.status5.immunity4.3.2.with1.confirmedsystemson
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2.Complete these sentences,using the suitable form of the given words in brackets. Write your answersin the corresponding numbered boxes provided.(10 points)
Part 1: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Choose from paragraphs (A-H) the one which fits each gap (1-7). There is one extra paragraph you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (7 points)
10.9.8.7.6.5.AFFORESTRATION4.3.2.1.WATERLOGGEDAQUACULTURETRIUMPHANTDISINFECTANTSDECLAMATORYSTOPGAPIRREDEEMABLYAPPRAISEESOFFBEAT
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4.D 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.D
Part 1.Read the following articles,in a paragraph of between 80 and100 words, summarize, in yourown words as far aspossible,the measures that are recommended in the articles in order to improve healthand performance.(15 points)
1. VI
Part 4.Read the passageand do the tasks below (13 points) 2.V
Part 1.(15 points)
Staying calm and remaining positive gives you a better chance of being healthy. How well you succeed depends on taking control of your emotions. Try to convince yourself that you can achieve more than you expect, even though others may have little faith in you. Come to terms with your deepest fears and meet each challenge positively. Thus you can learn from your mistakes.
Part 5.(15 points)
Part 3.Read the passage belowand answers the questions (10 points) 2.C 3.B 9.B
6.
1.D
10.A,C,E
IV. WRITING(60 points)
3.VIII 4.III 5.I 6.IX 7. TRUE 8. FALSE 9. TRUE 10. FALSE 11. NG 12. FALSE 13. TRUE
Samplesummary
1. D 2. B 3. E 4. A 5. C B 7. C 8. D 9. A 10. C
- Reorganizing your life and learning self-help techniques can help put you back in control of these
Part 2.(15 points)
3. Vocabularyandsentence structure:
1. Task fulfillment:
1.Contents (10 pts)
(3 pts) - 1 pt - 1 pt
2. Summary: Being able to clearly summarise the measures to improve health and performance
- Understanding why you feel so fearful and learn how to deal with it, then, when you succeed in a difficult situation.
- Introduce the charts (2 points) and state the overall trends & striking features (2 points)
The report MUST have at least 2 paragraphs covering the following points:
The report:
- Being able to use a variety of grammatical sentence structures.
The line graph belowshows changes in the amount of coffeeexported fromthree countries between 2002 and 2012.Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main featuresand makecomparisons where relevant.
- PLAGIARISM: Not being able to paraphrase in the summary. (3 pts) - 3 pts - Trừ 1
2.Language Use (5 pts)
- Meeting the word limit requirements.
- Describe main features with relevant data from the charts and make relevant comparisons (6 points)
- Learning to relax and think positively can have dramatic health benefits
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- Being able to use a wide range of vocabulary, appropriate word formation naturally, appropriately and accurately.
The report MUST NOT contain personal opinions (A penalty of 1 point to 2 points will be given to personal opinions found in the answer)
Assessmentcriteria Marking
(9pts) - 3 pts - 3 pts - 3 pts
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In manycountries todayinsufficientrespect is shown toolder people.What do you think may be thereasons for this? Whatproblems might this causein society? Give reasons for your answer and include anyrelevant examples fromyour own knowledge or experience.
- Being able to present a clear position with a logical, wellsupported argument; organise and link his/her relevant ideas and opinions; develop these into a well-supported argument/ opinion
- Being able to support his/her argument with specific reasons, examples, his/her own ideas and experience to support the answer.
Marking
1. Task fulfillment:
Writeatleast350 words.Assessment criteria
- Meeting the word limit requirements.
- Being able to present an argumentative essay with an introduction, body (causes and effects ) and conclusion,
- Being able to focus on the topic and not include anything irrelevant.
- Should have correct use of words (verb tenses, word forms, voice, ...) and mechanics (spelling, punctuations, ...)
- Being able to write fluently enough to make his/her message clear to the reader.
3. Vocabularyandsentence structure:
- Being able to use a wide range of vocabulary naturally, appropriately and accurately.
2. Arguments,ideasand evidence:
- Being able to use a variety of grammatical sentence structures. (5 pts) 3 pts 2 pts
(5 pts) 3 pts 2 pts
Part 3 (30 points)
(20 pts) 5 pts 5 pts 5 pts 5 pts
- Should demonstrate a wide variety of lexical and grammatical structures.
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- Also up, China. THE superpower. After cornering many of the world’s vital raw materials, could it now control both its own people and many other countries struggling to repay its loans. Could we see a world where China exerts its influence through movies and music too? But if there are winners, which countries could be losers by 2039? Down, perhaps most of Europe. Financial services and banking will be overwhelmingly driven by A.I. So Europe loses much of its global edge. Parents who once urged children to become lawyers and doctors, beg them to become designers, artists, even actors. Anything creative - not easily done by robots. Down but not out, the United States of America. Eclipsed by China and paying a price for getting late to wind and solar.
- Also down, the Middle East. Largely ignored internationally because no one needs its oil and gas anymore. So what commodities could be driving the future in 2039? Fossil fuels have become the new forbidden fruit. Oil has lost most of its value, alternative fuels plus a collapse in the use of plastics has seen to that. Water, clean water, will be more precious than ever. Water wars have replaced oil wars, along the Nile or any mighty river. Conflicts could break out as states closest to the sea fight those further upstream, accused of taking too much of the water.
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsJWzkuX-Dw&t=37s
- By 2039, the world will look and feel very different. The rate of change is itself speeding up and 20 years from now power will have shifted dramatically. So who might be up and who might be down, twenty years from now? Let me take you on a journey of possibles. Up, Africa. A rapidly increasing population could fuel Africa's surging economic growth With a pool of young, better educated and globally connected workers. But the biggest revolution in Africa might be the spread of vast, super arrays of far cheaper solar panels. To quote one energy guru… “The world will have learn to put solar panels where the sun actually shines”
- Data however will be king. By 2039, more and more is being bought and sold. Mostly illegally and in secret. All governments will rely on data as THE method of control. Some countries will have followed the Scandinavian lead. By choosing near-total transparencyof tax returns, earnings, lifestyles to reduce the secret data threat. And more and more citizens everywhere could be fighting back - becoming data refuseniks. Fed up with the negative effects of social media, will they simply abandon cyberspace wherever they can? Minimising their electronic footprint even reverting to writing and delivering private messages by hand.
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2. Daily consumption of caffeine products has a long history, only at irregular intervals.
2. In the late 17th century, what could be deployed to enable sailors to navigate at sea?
1. The desired effects of caffeine are brought by its role in enabling the proper function of specific receptors in the brain.
5. Caffeine has a risk warning, which led to a ban on the bulk sale of caffeine-infused beverages by the US government. Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2: You will hear part of the lecture about the history of fireworks in Europe. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording. (10 points))
1. What did the European emperors use fireworks to celebrate?
3. The local popularity Chinese tea enjoyed was preceded by its global reputation.
DẠYKÈMQUYNHƠNOFFICIAL 1 TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN BẮC NINH TỔ TIẾNG ANH (ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT) Đề này gồm có 19 trang KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ NĂM HỌC 2021-2022 MÔN: TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 11 (Thời gian làm bài: 180 phút) HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU • Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 30 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. • Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe. • Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You will hear a woman talking about caffeine. Listen and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F). (10 points)
4. Caffeine consumption has become a part of the US beverage culture.
_______
I. LISTENING (50 points)
B. occasionally worried about the friend's importance to her daughter
B. They shouldn't get involved in the child's relationship with the friend.
11. What does the presenter say about the latest research into imaginary friends?
C. It indicates that negative attitudes towards them are wrong.
_______
D. her daughter wanted to get out of the car.
C. something she had not expected to discover.
12. How did Liz feel when her daughter had an imaginary friend?
C. she got angry with her daughter.
A. always confident that it was only a temporary situation
B. It shows that the number of children who have them is increasing.
C. slightly confused as to how sheshould respond sometimes
10. In the incident that Liz describes
D. It focuses on the effect they have on parents.
14. Karen says that the teenager who had invented a superhero is an example of A. a very untypical teenager.
C. They should take action if the situation becomes annoying.
3. Where was the contribution of fireworks specialists overlooked?
15. According to Karen, how should parents react to imaginary friends?
A. her daughter asked her to stop the car.
Part 3: Listen to a radio discussion about children who invent imaginary friends and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 points)
A. It contradicts other research on the subject.
5. Whom did the Italian specialists desireto appeal during their journey around Europe?
B. a problem that imaginary friends can cause.
4. What were featured in Grand displays in Paris, composed by Giovanni Servandoni, an architect and stage designer?
B. she had to interrupt the journey twice.
A. They should pretend that they like the imaginary friend.
D. how children change as they get older.
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D. highly impressed by her daughter's inventiveness
D. They shouldn't discuss the imaginary friend with their child.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
All in all, organisations that encourage a growth zone value learning and support certain levels of 8. ________. In such environments, not 9._________ but ________ is espoused, and the concept of “growth” must be truly delivered to employees through actions. The fixed mindset that triggers 10.__________ in response to negative feedback might be an obstacle to growth thinking; therefore, the key is to get insight into what agrowth mindset truly means and how to put it into practice.
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Part 1. Choose the best option to complete each of the following sentences. (20 points)
Growth mindset has acquired 1.________ these days with studies indicating greater success for those who embrace efforts and learning than those who are merely supportive of 2. __________. Similarly, deceptive behaviours are found in companies encouraging talent game while higher rates of innovative developments, greater 3. _________ as well as more dedicated staff are reported in companies supporting growth. However, a growth mindset can also be misinterpreted.
1. Beneath the streets of a modem city_______ of walls, columns, cables, pipes,and tunnels required to satisfy the needs of its inhabitants. A. where exists B. the existing network C. the network’s existence D. exists the network
Your answers
One common misconception is to dismiss the evolutionary nature of growth and to mistake features such as a 4.________ or receptiveness for a growth mindset. Next, people might misinterpret endeavors as a sure component of a growth mindset while not attaching enough significance to 5. _______ which involve the lessons learnt, progress made and processes engaged in. Finally, organisations may solely announce their goals to achieve 6. _________ without 7. ______ and _________.
II. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (3 points)
Your answers: 1. 6. 2. 7. 3. 8. 4. 9. 5. 10.
Part 4: Listen to a recording about a growth mindset and complete the summary by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words and/or a number in each gap. (20 points)
3. Probably no man had more effect on the daily lives of most people in the United States_______ A. as Henry Ford, a pioneer in automobile production. B. rather than Henry Ford, a pioneer in automobile production. C. than did Henry Ford, a pioneer in automobile production. D. more than Henry Ford, a pioneer in automobile production.
4. I would rather _______ my holiday in Egypt than in Turkey. I really couldn’t stand the food. A. take B had taken C. to have taken D. have taken 5. According to a recent report, the disease is rare, affecting_______ ten thousand adults.
15. She deliberately _____ thewaters by constantly referring to other irrelevant cases.
A. shone B. scared C. glared D. flared
11. He was found to have provided the court with ______ evidence.
A. frolicsome B. unpropitious C. pedestrian D. Seditious
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2. Everything looks very positive for the company, _______ the current investors do not default on their A.agreements.assuming that B. whether C. whereas D. as if
13. Her legs were starting to grow tired and sore, and a _____ of pain was ______ in her side.
14. Some find it hard to _____ themselves to the new working condition.
A. stitch / erupting B. crick / arousing C. prick / bursting D. throb / surging
A. apply B. accommodate C. habituate D. conduct
A. sullied B. muddied C. blemished D. shrouded
A. doctored B. tampered C. feigned D. shammed
12. The story _____ well, indicating that sports obsession is a universal quality.
A. ferociously B. furiously C. indignantly D. outrageously
8. They worked _______ all weekend, trying to get it finished on time.
16. The president claims the new media is _____ hostile to his initiatives.
A. travels B. carries C. sails D. crosses
A. hop B. jerk C. leap D. twitch
9. Individuals are being arrested and detained for lengthy periods, often without trial, for disseminating information judged to be ______ via the Internet.
A. out of every one B. the only one of C. every one from D. only oneout of every 6. I feel a bit wary that people seem so eager to make a _______ of faith about driverless cars being free to drive in our street.
10. The sun ______ down with merciless intensity on the six men adrift in thelife boat.
7. He has secured a loan for a new building by ______ upon the resources of two existing tenants. A. dwelling B. training C. playing D. drawing
17. Talking about the quality of your work behind your back was a _____ tactic on her part! A. know-how B. look-out C. low-down D. show-down
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
9. When going on business trip, Henry enjoys staying in luxurious hotels that offer (POINT) suites.
Part 2: Write the correct form of word in each blank. (10 points)
4. The chairman of this company is merely a (HEAD), the Chief Executive is the one who is truly in 5.control.Thetotal (TON) of the bombs flopped in the Vietnam War increases every year as more bombs are 6.unearthed.Helooked at the policeman with (DEFY), as if he were asking for a fight.
10. He was born into a (BLOOD) family; therefore, he had an opportunity to attend the most prestigious private school in the country.
A. conjure up B. eke out C. hack down D. roll in Your answers:
1. Sometimes I'm really shocked by the (CONTEMP) behaviour of shop assistants.
3. The thing you have done makes a player in your team feel that he or she is being (LINE) . Give everyone achanceto play.
7. She received a (PLENTY) of presents on her birthday - it would surely take the whole day to open them.8.The sides are bluish green above, violet in the middle, red beneath, (VARIANT) with oval spots of brilliant silver.
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A. impalpably B. implacably C. impeccably D. implausibly
18. Research in this field is of relatively recent _____; that’s why I’m not conversant with it. A. progress B. caliber C. vantage D. vintage 19. He said my novel showed promise. He liked the style and the story-line, and he was ____ just to be A.kind.getting his bearings
2. The police (EXAMINE) the accusing man about how theaccident had occurred.
B. flexing his musclesC. pulling his punchesD. spreading his wings 20. How am I expected to _____ a meal for six of his friends with almost nothing in the fridge?
Your answers:
We’ve all been there and come back with a T-shirt bearing a slogan about it – The Failed Holiday. The kids are bored stiff you can’t find a decent restaurant for love nor 1.______, the cafes are all full and you are fed up. Tempers fray and you are left wondering why you went away in the first place 2.______ a good way to spend precious holiday time. But there is a way of escaping the stresses of being away from home. Staying in an all-inclusive hotel 3.______ you don’t have to 4.______, meals, activities or night life, as everything is catered for, leaving you to 5.______ back, relax and enjoy your holiday. Most importantly, all-inclusive holidays 6.______ at all-inclusive prices, so you pay for everything before you go away. And don’t think you’ll be 7.______ to one or two resorts. These days, holiday companies offer all-inclusive deals in every main resort around the Mediterranean, as well as more exotic locations such as the Caribbean or the Maldives. If you think this is the sort of holiday you are after, there are a few things to keep in 8.______. Firstly, remember that you’ll be spending most of your time in the hotel, so make sure you choose one which has the facilities you require. If you’re travelling as a family 9.______, many hotels offer excellent children’s facilities such as kid’s clubs, playgrounds and crèches. For older children, there are a number of hotels offering supervised activities for teens while others offer 10.______ sport facilities including team games, water sports and gym facilities.
Part 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. (10 points)
1.
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Part 1: Fill in each blank with ONE word. (15 points)
I have been asked what I think about the idea of ‘Investing in People’. The best answer I can give is that I think that what it tries to achieve - basically making the link between business improvement and focusing on the needs of the people who work for an organisation - is great. My problem is with organisations who subscribe to it as a way to help them 'get better', when they don't bother to understand where they went wrong in the first place. They need to ask what explicit and implicit policies and procedures they have in place that prevent their people from being able to do the right thing for the right reasons.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
III. READING (60 points)
6. 7.
Your answers: 2. 3. 4. 5. 8. 9. 10.
All these examples are representative of senior management who see the need to improve things in their organisation, but don't see how to do it. For a start, a programme targeted at improving things is only as good as management's ability to motivate their people. And when the employees simply see the programme as a box-ticking exercise, then it's hopeless.
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I am sure that there are managers out there who don't know any better, and assume that to manage they simply need to put pressure on their people to perform. [A] But people don't demonstrate high performance because they are told to. [B] They do it because they see the need to do it, and make the choice to do so. They do it because they are connected to the business goals and they see how their contributions can help achieve them. [C] But simply putting ticks in boxes is no good if it doesn't reflect reality. [D]
A third company I know is trying hard to help employees see that they have some control over their future. The company instituted a programme with a title like 'Creating our own future' or something like that. A good idea; get the people involved in the future of the company. But instead of the employees becoming motivated to contribute, they saw it as a hollow exercise on the part of senior management who, in the past, had paid little attention to anything other than getting the job done so they could report great earnings. Yes, the programme was a big 'tick the box' effort, but that was all it was in the minds of the people that it was designed for.
A final example is of a company that brought in one of these 'Investing in People' programmes to change the way the company was run. Assessors were running around like crazy, helping managers examine how they managed. They told managers how they could manage better. And when the programme was over, the company was able to say they had done it- it had invested in its people and life was now good. But after all, the assessors were gone, and they again had targets to hit.
1. The writer thinks that putting theconcept of 'Investing in People' into practice _______.
I know of a company that was so concerned that its people were doing the 'right thing' that it put in place a series of metrics to measure their effectiveness. So far, so good. But one of the objectives - making successful sales calls - manifested itself in the metric 'Number of potential customers seen in one day'. The sales people obviously focused their efforts on going from one customer's office to another, and not on closing deals. Instead of the employees becoming more effective,they focused on getting the boxes ticked. Good intent; poor thinking. Another company wanted to improve the speed with which it was able to introduce new products. Competition was beating it to the market place, and consequently the company was losing market share. Senior management sent out the message to reduce the time spent in getting products into customers' hands, with the explanation that they couldn't afford delays. This was a relatively easy task,especially since the time spent testing the products was cut in half to accomplish the time reduction. The result was new products were introduced in less time than those of the competition - but soon rejected by customers for poor quality. Good intent; reckless implementation.
