PRACTICE WEEK 35

PART A. LISTENING (40 points)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 2 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 có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài nghe.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
I. Listen to the talk and then choose the correct letter A, B, or C. You are going to listen to
the recording twice. (10 points)
1. What does the charity Forward thinking do?
A. It funds and art exhibitions in hospitals.
B. It produces affordable materials for art therapy.
C. It encourages the use of arts projects in healthcare.
2. What benefit of Forward thinking’s work does Jasmine mention?
A. People avoid going to hospital.
B. Patients require fewer drugs.
C. Medical students do better in tests.
3. When did the organization become known as Forward thinking?
A. 1986 B. in the 1990's C. 2005
4. Where does Forward thinking operate?
A. within Clifton city
B. in all parts of London
C. in several towns and villages near Clifton
5. Jasmine explains that the Colvin Centre is
A. a school for people with health problems.
B. a venue for a range of different activities.
C. a building which needs repairing.
II. Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD for each answer. You are going to listen
to the recording twice. (30 points):

Questions 6-15: (20 points):

Manufacturing in the English Midlands

 In the (6) _____________________ century, the (7) _____________________ still

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 determined how most people made a living.
 In the ground were minerals, which supported the many (8) _____________________
of the region.
 Since the late (9) _____________________ century the French settlers had made (10)
_____________________.
 There was brewing in Burton-onTrent; (11) _____________________ weaving and
(12)_____________________ near Coventry; framework knitting around Nottingham.
 In Cheshire (13) _____________________ was mined and (14)
_____________________ on the river Mersey.
 Potters worked in a few (15) _____________________ situated on the small hills of
the North Staffordshire.

Questions 16-20: (10 points):

Pottery notes
Earthenware
Advantages:
 potters used (16) _____________________ clay
 saved money on (17) _____________________
Disadvantages:
 needed two firings in the kiln to be (18) _____________________
 fragile led to high (19) _____________________ during manufacturing
Stoneware
 more expensive but better.
 made from a (20) _____________________ of clay and flint

PART B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: (50 points)

I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence (20 points)

1. A number of houses were ________ so that a new school could be built.

A. wiped out B. destroyed C. demolished D. attacked

2. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Thomson. I didn’t break the clock ________ purpose,” said the little girl.

A. by B. on C. with B. for

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3. Lama: “________, Lily?” Lily: “Oh, terrific. Thanks.”

A. What did you do during your geography C. How did you spend your geography field
field trip. trip
B. How was your geography field trip D. Did you have a nice geography field trip

4. It is commonly known that the Greenhouse Effect occurs ________ heat radiated from the Sun.

A. when the earth’s atmosphere trap C. when the earth’s atmosphere is trapped
B. when does the earth’s atmosphere trap D. when the earth’s atmosphere traps

5. The floor was so rotten that it almost gave ________ under Tommy’s weight.
A. way B. away C. C. back D. D. up

6. Boss: “Have you been able to reach that customer?” Secretary: “________.”

A. Oh, there’s no approval C. It’s much too high to reach

B. Yes, I have known him for 6 years D. Oh, no. The line’s busy

7. In Vietnam, many ________ crafts such as weaving and embroidering are now being revised.

A. ordinary B. traditional C. habitual D. customary

8. ________, Mike always feels lonely and unhappy.

A. Despite his wealthy C. Rich as is he

B. However rich he is D. In spite of his being wealth

9. About 600 years ago, ________ that glass coated with silver nitrate would turn yellow when
fired in an oven.

A. the discovery C. it was discovered

B. it discovered D. it was discovering

10. Tom: “Do you want me to give you a hand with the washing?” Maria: “________.”

A. No, thanks. You can say that again C. Of course, not for me
B. No, thanks. I can manage it myself D. Thanks. Your hands are so warm.

11. Jack promised to join us for dinner, but, to our disappointment, he didn’t ________.

A. turn up B. take in C. make off D. pull out

12. The explorers ________ for two days without food before they ________ a small cottage
under an oak.
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 A. has been walking / saw C. had been walking / saw
B. were walking / saw D. walked / had seen

13. ________ blue whale, breathes air through a hole at the top of its head.

A. The C. The largest

B. The largest mammal D. The largest mammal, the

14. Bob: “Take care of yourself, Kevin.” Kevin: “________.”

A. Yes, I do B. Not at all C. I will D. You’re welcome

15. I think my car needs________. It stops running every five or six miles.

A. to repair B. repairing C. to be repairing D. repaired

16. No sooner ________ home ________ that the house had been broken into.

A. had Ms. Taylor arrived / when she found C. had Ms. Taylor arrived / than she found
B. had Ms. Taylor arrived / than she finds D. did Ms. Taylor arrive / when she found

17. Mark: “Do you think that smoking should be banned in public.” Veronica: “________.”

A. Yes, it’s an absurd idea C. Of course not. You bet

B. Well, that’s very surprising D. There’s no doubt about it.

18. ________ to her cousin’s wedding party, she would not have met her old friend, Bob.

A. If Sarah didn’t go C. Had Sarah not gone

B. If Sarah hasn’t gone D. Has Sarah not gone

19. The long journey in an ________ car made the little boy tired out.

A. air-condition B. air-conditioned C. air-conditioner D. air-conditioning

20. The reporters thought that the football manager would be depressed by his dismissal, but he
just ________.

A. ran it down B. called it off C. laughed it off D. turned it down

II. Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form
a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). (10 pts)

Dirty money

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Sooner or later it's something that everyone does; you put your jeans into the
washing machine, having completely (0) forgotten about the money in the FORGET
pocket. Coins, on the whole, survive the experience relatively (21) ________, HARM
but the same is not true of banknotes. These have a (22) ________ to TEND
distinergrate as a result of prolonged (23) ________to the forces of heat, EXPOSE
water and detergent. If you live in Britain, however, all may not be lost. It is
possible to send damaged banknotes, (24) ________for use as payment in ACCEPT
shops another retail (25) ________, to the Bank of England’s “Mutilated LET
Notes Section” (BEMS) in Leeds. Here experts will give the note a
thorough (26) ________ and, if they are convinced that it is indeed the EXAMINE
remains of a valid banknote, they will send you a (27) ________ - or at least a REPLACE
cheque of the equivalent value.
And it's not only washing machines that destroy notes. According
to BEMS staff, who receive up to 500 (28) ________ per week, toddlers and APPLY
puppy dogs also figure high on the list of offenders, as do people who hide
their savings in rather (29) ________ places, such as microwave ovens or FORTUNE
damp cellars. Sometimes, even banks make use of the service, as happened
during last year's spring floods when a number of branches found that their
burglar-proof and fireproof safes sadly were not (30) ________ waterproof. EQUAL

Number Your answers

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III. Find and correct TEN mistakes in the following passage. Write them down & give the
correction. (10pts)
The Birth of Venus
1 The Florentine master Sandro Botticelli created one of the most grateful and
2 joyful image of the model age, and the single most popular painting in the
3 Uffizi. To see them at its best, you need to pre-book a ticket to timed entry at
4 8.15 a.m., courtesy of the Firenze Musei booked service; don’t be put off if
5 you can’t get over on the phone first time. Once inside, head straight for the
6 suite of rooms 10-14, where the Botticellis are displaying. Then take in the
7 other highlights of the collects- the Da Vincis in room 15, the Raphaels in
8 room 26, and the Caravaggios in room 43- staying ahead of the hordes
9 because se you go. If there are any gaps you need filling in, work backwards
10 towards the entrance: by now, the crowds will be avoided, but you’ll have
11 already had the masters to yourself.

Your answers:
Line Mistakes Your corrections
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IV. Fill each gap in the following sentences with one suitable preposition or particle. Write
your answer in the gap. (10 points)
41. There are many advantages __________ being able to speak a foreign language.
42. My hands were blue __________ cold when I got home.
43. I’d like to exchange this car __________ a new model but I can’t afford it.
44. It falls __________ Mary to care for her mother since her sister moved.
45. The family may not be very rich, but they are certainly well __________.
46. The firm will have to step _________ production if it is to defeat its competitors.  
47. Well, it’s getting late – perhaps we’d better get __________ to business.
48. A lion has escaped and is __________ large in the city.
49. You can't miss him. That haircut makes him stand __________in a crowd.
50. I am really thirsty. I could do __________a drink.

PART C: READING (60 points).

I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each space.
(15 points).
The latest addiction to trap thousands of people is the Internet, which has been (1) ______
for broken relationships, job losses, financial ruin, and even suicide. Psychologists now recognize
Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) (2)______ a new illness that could (3) ______ serious
problems and ruin many lives. Special help groups have been set up to (4) ______ sufferers help
and support.
Psychologists have described many worrying examples, (5) ______ one man who took his
own life after (6) ______ more than ₤ 14,000 to feed his addiction, and a teenager who had to
receive psychiatric treatment for his 12-hour-a-day (7) ______. "This illness is not fake, and it
must be (8)______ seriously," said an expert in behavioural addiction at Nottingham Trent
University. "These are not sad people with serious personality defects; they are people who were
fine (9) ______ they found the Internet."
IAS is similar (10)______ other problems like gambling, smoking and drinking: addicts
have dreams about the Internet; they need to use it first thing in the morning; they (11) ______ to
their partners about how much time they spent online; they wish they could cut down, but are
unable to do so. A recent study found that many users spend up to 40 hours a week on the Internet;
(12) ______ they felt guilty, they became depressed if they were made to stop using it.
(13)______ anyone can be at risk. Some of the addicts are teenagers who are already
hooked on computer games and who (14) ______ it very difficult to resist the games on the

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Internet. Surprisingly, (15) ______, psychologists say that most victims are middle-aged
housewives who have never used a computer before.
1. A. blamed B. faulted C. mistaken D. accused
2. A. like B. such C. as D. for
3. A. lead B. affect C. take D. cause
4. A. offer B. suggest C. recommend D. advise
5. A. consisting B. including C. comprising D. composing
6. A. gaining B. lending C. borrowing D. winning
7. A. custom B. habit C. manner D. routine
8. A. considered B. realised C. thought D. taken
9. A. before B. after C. as soon as D. when
10. A. with B. to C. as D. in
11. A. betray B. deceive C. cheat D. lie
12. A. although B. despite C. unless D. without
13. A. Nearly all B. Most of C. Most D. Almost
14. A. say B. feel C. find D. have
15. A. but B. therefore C. however D. so

II. Fill each blank in the passage with ONE suitable word. (15 points)
SAVING THE TIGER
In 1973, when the tiger appeared to be facing extinction, the World Wide Fund for Nature and
the Indian Government agreed to set (16) _________'Operation Tiger' - a campaign to save this
threatened creature. They started (17) _________ creating nine special parks so that tigers could
live in safety. The first was at Ranthambhore, a region (18) _________ was quickly turning into a
desert because too much of the grass was being (19) _________ by the local people's cattle. At the
time there were just fourteen tigers (20) _________ there. The government had to clear twelve
small villages, which (21)________ moving nearly 1,000 people and 10,000 cattle so the land
would be handed back to nature.
Today, Ranthambhore is a very different place (22) _________ grass tall enough for tigers to
hide in, and there are now at least forty of them in the park, (23) _________ freely about. Other
animals have also been raised. For example, there are more deer and monkeys than before. The

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people who were moved are now living in better (24) _________ . They live in new villages away
from the tiger park, with schools, temples and fresh water supplies. There are now sixteen such
tiger parks in India and the animal's future looks a (25) _________ safer.

III. Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the following questions.
(15 points)
The biologist's role in society as well as his moral and ethical responsibility in the discovery and
development of new ideas has led to a reassessment of his social and scientific value systems. A
scientist can no longer ignore the consequences of his discoveries; he is as concerned with the
possible misuses of his findings as he is with the basic research in which he is involved. This
emerging social and political role of the biologist and all other scientists requires a weighing of
values that cannot be done with the accuracy or the objectivity of a laboratory balance. As a
member of society, it is necessary for a biologist now to redefine his social obligations and his
functions, particularly in the realm of making judgments about such ethical problems as man's
control of his environment or his manipulation of genes to direct further evolutionary
development.
As a result of recent discoveries concerning hereditary mechanisms, genetic engineering, by
which human traits are made to order, may soon be a reality. As desirable as it may seem to be,
such an accomplishment would entail many value judgments. Who would decide, for example,
which traits should be selected for change? In cases of genetic deficiencies and disease, the
desirability of the change is obvious, but the possibilities for social misuse are so numerous that
they may far outweigh the benefits.
Probably the greatest biological problem of the future, as it is of the present, will be to find
ways to curb environmental pollution without interfering with man’s constant effort to improve
the quality of his life. Many scientists believe that underlying the spectre of pollution is the
problem of surplus human population. A rise in population necessitates an increase in the
operations of modern industry, the waste products of which increase the pollution of air, water,
and soil. The question of how many people the resources of the Earth can support is one of critical
importance.
Although the solutions to these and many other problems are yet to be found, they do indicate
the need for biologists to work with social scientists and other members of society in order to
determine the requirements necessary for maintaining a healthy and productive planet. For
although many of man’s present and future problems may seem to be essentially social, political,

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or economic in nature, they have biological ramifications that could affect the very existence of
life itself.
26. According to the passage, a modern scientist should be more concerned about ____.
A his basic research B. the development of new ideas
C. his manipulation of genes D. the consequences of his discoveries
27. The pronoun "it" in paragraph 2 refers to ____.
A. a reality B. an accomplishment 
C. genetic engineering D. hereditary mechanism
28. It is implied in the passage that genetic engineering ____.
A. may do us more harm than good B. is no longer desirable
C. is the most desirable for life D. will change all human traits
29. The pronoun "they" in paragraph 2 refers to ____. 
A. discoveries concerning hereditary mechanisms B. effects of genetic engineering misuse 
C. cases of genetic deficiencies D. possibilities for genetic deficiencies 
30. What is probably the most important biological problem mentioned in the passage?
A. social and economic deficiencies B. manipulation of genes 
C. genetic engineering misuse D. environmental pollution
31. The word "which" in paragraph 3 refers to ____.
A. activities of an overpopulated society's industry B. the waste products dumped into our
environment
C. activities of surplus human population D. serious environmental pollution
32. The word "underlying" in paragraph 3 could best be replaced by "____".
A. noticing B. causing C. finding D. depriving
33. According to the passage, to save our planet, biologists should work
A. harder and harder B. accurately and objectively
C. on social and political purposes D. with other social scientists 
34. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "ramifications" in paragraph 4?
A. useful experiments B. effective techniques
C. harmful consequences D. latest developments 
35. What is the author's purpose in this passage?
A. To conduct a survey of the biologist's role in society
B. To urge biologists to solve the problem of surplus human population
C. To emphasize the biologist's role in solving the world's problems 
D. To advise biologists to carry out extensive research into genetic engineering

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IV. Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. (15 points):
a. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs 1 – 6 from the list of headings (A – I) below.
There is an example for you.

List of headings
A. Predicting climate changes
B. The relevance of the Little Ice Age today
C. How cities contribute to climate change
D. Human impact on the climate
E. How past climatic conditions can be determined
F. A growing need for weather records
G. A study covering a thousand years
H. People have always responded to climate change
I. Enough food at last

Example: Paragraph 1 ….H…..

36. Paragraph 2 ________
37. Paragraph 3 ________
38. Paragraph 4 ________
39. Paragraph 5 ________
40. Paragraph 6 ________

THE LITTLE ICE AGE

1 This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic
. shifts, but, before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think
of climate – as opposed to weather – as something unchanging, yet humanity has been at
the mercy of climate change for its entire existence, with at least eight glacial episodes in
the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors adapted to the universal but irregular global
warming since the end of the last great Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, with dazzling
opportunism. They developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles, decades of
heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold; adopted agriculture and stock raising, which
revolutionised human life, and founded the world’s first pre-industrial civilisations in
Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden climate change, in

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 famine, disease and suffering, was often high.
2. The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth
century. Only two centuries ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters:
mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps were the lowest in recorded memory, and pack ice
surrounded Iceland for much of the year. The climatic events of the Little Ice Age did
more than help shape the modern world. They are the deeply important context for the
present unprecedented global warming. The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze,
however, rather an irregular seasaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a
quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions between the
atmosphere and the ocean. The seasaw brought cycles of intensely cold winters and
easterly winds, and then switched abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer
rains, mild winters, and frequent Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light
3. northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves.
Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because
systematic weather observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North
America. Records from India and tropical Africa are even more recent. For the time
before records began, we have only ‘proxy records’ reconstructed largely from rings and
ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete written accounts. We now have hundreds of
tree ring records from throughout the northern atmosphere, and many from south of the
equator, too, amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in
Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other locations. We are close to a
4. knowledge of annual summer and winter temperature variations over much of the
northern hemisphere going back 600 years.
This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and
some of the ways in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part One describes the
Medieval Warm period, roughly 900 to 1200. During these three centuries, Norse
voyagers from Northern Europe explored northern seas, settled Greenland, and visited
North America. It was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as always since the Great
5. Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature. Mean European
temperatures were about the same as today, perhaps slightly cooler.
It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in about
1200. As the Arctic ice pack spread southward. Norse voyages to the west were rerouted
into the open Atlantic, and then ended altogether. Storminess increased in the North
Atlantic and the North Sea. Cooler, much wetter weather descended on Europe between

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 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a continent-wide famine. By 1400, the
weather had become decidedly more unpredictable and stormier, with sudden shifts and
lower temperatures that culminated in the cold decades of the late sixteenth century. Fish
were a vital commodity in growing towns and cities, where food supplies were a constant
concern. Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the European fish trade, but
changes in water temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further offshore. The
Basques, Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder
and stormier Atlantic. A gradual agricultural revolution in northern Europe stemmed from
concerns over food supplies at a time of rising populations. The revolution involved
intensive commercial farming and the growing of animal fodder on land not previously
6. used for crops. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries self-
sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective protection against famine.
Global temperatures began to rise slowly after 1850, with the beginning of the
Modern Warm Period. There was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry farmers
and others, to which the famine caused by the Irish potato blight contributed, to North
America, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa. Millions of hectares of forests and
woodland fell before the newcomers’ axes between 1850 and 1890, and intensive
European farming methods expanded across the world. The unprecedented land clearance
released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time
humanly caused global warming. Temperatures climbed more rapidly in the twentieth
century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels continued to soar.
The rise has been even steeper since the early 1980s. The Little Ice Age has given way to
a new climatic regime, marked by prolonged and steady warming. At the same time,
extreme weather events like Category 5 hurricanes are becoming more frequent.

b. Complete the summary using the list of words, A – I below.

Weather during the Little Ice Age
Documentation of past weather conditions is limited: our main sources of knowledge of
conditions in the distant past are (41) _________ and (42) _________ .We can deduce that the
Little Ice Age was a time of (43) _________ rather than of consistent freezing. Within it there
were some periods of very cold winters, others of (44) _________ and heavy rain, and yet others
that saw (45) _________ with no rain at all.

A. climatic shifts B. ice cores C. tree rings

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 D. glaciers E. interactions F. weather observations
G. heat waves H. storms I. written accounts
D. WRITING (50 points)
I. Write a new sentence so that it has the same meaning as the original sentence: (10 points)
1. I am having a lot of trouble now because I lost my passport last week.
-> If I______________________________________________________________________
2. She had hardly begun to speak before people started interrupting her.
-> Hardly___________________________________________________________________
3. “Nothing will persuade me to sleep in that haunted house”, she said
-> She flatly________________________________________________________________
4. I was too scared to tell him what I really thought.
-> I lacked__________________________________________________________________
5. The house shouldn’t be left unlocked for any reason
-> On no___________________________________________________________________
II. Write a new sentence so that it has the same meaning as the original sentence, using the
word in capital letters. This word must not be altered in any way. (10 points)
6. We don’t expect that the missing climbers have survived. (HOLD)
______________________________________________________________________
7. Pauline isn’t one of the people who know the secret. (ON)
______________________________________________________________________
8. You must make allowances for his inexperience. (ACCOUNT)
______________________________________________________________________
9. I really don't know what you're talking about. (FAINTEST)
______________________________________________________________________
10. You must accept the fact that she has left you. (TERMS)
______________________________________________________________________

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