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1 Hãy đọc đoạn văn sau và chọn câu trả lời tốt nhất trong số A, B, C và D.

Alison closed the door of her small flat and put down her briefcase It had been another exhausting day at the travel agency where she worked, and she was looking forward to being alone There was an interesting programme she wanted to watch on television later in the evening She had just started preparing her dinner when there was a knock at her door

“Oh, no! Who on earth could that be?” she muttered She went to the door and looked through the “spy hole” A man of about sixty was standing there It took her

a few seconds to realize who he was He lived in the flat below They had passed

on the stairs once or twice and had exchanged the usual greetings He had a long, thin-face with two large front teeth that made he look like a rabbit

“Sorry to bother you, but uh there’s something I’d like to…er talk to you about,” he mumbled when she opened the door Alison hesitated but then asked him to come in Then she noticed the dog Alison detested dogs, particularly big ones This one was a very old and very fat bulldog

The man went into her small living room and sat down on the sofa The dog followed him and climbed up on the sofa next to him Its mouth was open and it was breathing heavily Alison saw several drops of the dog’s saliva fall on the light green material that covered the sofa

“Do you mind if I smoke?” the man asked Without waiting for an answer, he lit

a cigarette

“You must be wondering why I’ve come Well, I hope you won’t be offended, but ” He stopped suddenly and coughed His face went very red Another cough exploded from somewhere very deep inside him He pulled a dirty, grey handkerchief out of his pocket and spat into it Some ashes from his cigarette fell

on the floor He looked around the room Alison glanced at her watch The man seemed to have forgotten what he wanted to say

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“Nice place you’ve got here,” he said at last.

1 How do you think Alison felt when she heard the knock at her door?

A afraid B irritated C pleased D curious

2 Who was the man at the door?

A Someone she worked with B A friend who needed advice

C A complete stranger D A neighbour she hardly knew

3 What do you think Alison said to herself when she saw the dog?

A “I wish he hadn’t brought that dog in here.”

B “Oh, what a nice dog.”

C “I wonder what’s wrong with the poor thing.”

D “I like some dogs but not this one.”

4 Why did the man want to talk to Alison?

A He had forgotten to tell her something

B He wanted to tell her how nice her flat was

C The text doesn’t tell us

D He wanted to apologize for offending her

5 What do you think was Alison’s general impression of the man after he came in?

A She had no feelings about him at all

B She thought he was very interesting

C She liked him but not his dog

D He had some very annoying habits

THANK GOD SOMEONE’S MAKING WAVES

The natural world is under violent assault from man

The seas and rivers are being poisoned by radioactive wastes, by chemical discharges and by the dumping of dangerous toxins and raw sewage The air we

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breathe is polluted by smoke and fumes from factories and motor vehicles; even the rain is poisoned

It’s little wonder forests and lakes are being destroyed and everywhere wildlife

is disappearing Yet the destruction continues

Governments and industries throughout the world are intensifying their efforts

to extract the earth’s mineral riches and to plunder its living resources

The great rain-forests and the frozen continents alike are seriously threatened And this despite the warnings of the scientific community and the deep concern of millions of ordinary people

Despite the fact, too, that we can create environmentally-clean industries, harness the power of the sun, wind and waves for our energy needs and manage the finite resources of the earth in a way that will safeguard our future and protect all the rich variety of life-forms which share this planet with us

But there is still hope The forces of destruction are being challenged across the globe - and at the spearhead of this challenge is Greenpeace Wherever the environment is in danger, Greenpeace has made a stand Its scientific presentations and peaceful direct actions at sea and on land have shocked governments and industries into an awareness that Greenpeace will not allow the natural world to be destroyed

Those actions, too, have won the admiration and support of millions

Now you can strengthen the thin green line; you can make your voice heard in defence of living world by joining Greenpeace today

Thank God someone’s making waves

1 Which one of these statements is not made?

A Drinking water is polluted

B Radioactive waste poisons the sea

C Sewage isn’t processed

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D Cars and factories poison the air.

2 The writer _forests and lakes are being destroyed

A is surprised that B is unsure why

3 Rain forests are being destroyed because governments and industries _

A are unaware of what they’re doing wrong

B are rich and powerful

C choose to ignore criticism

D basically care about the environment

4 The earth’s resources _

A should only be for people B can be made to last longer

C will last forever D belongs to just humans and animals

5 Governments and industries _

A don’t know what Greenpeace thinks

B are forced to understand the problems by Greenpeace

C can easily ignore Greenpeace

D misunderstand what Greenpeace thinks

While Edward was looking through his father’s private papers and unfinished drawings, he suddenly realized how badly he was behaving He jumped up, put the papers back on the deck and made for the staircase

When he reached the next floor he saw at once that everything was different: the space had been divided up and what Edward could see had the air of the entrance hall of a flat The floor was carpeted and an open door revealed a bathroom There was a small table between two closed doors The carpet was clean, the table dusted Edward opened a door into a kitchen, and another into a sitting room The next door which he tried refused to open Edward pushed it and

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rattled it a little, then saw that there was a key in the keyhole The door was evidently locked on the outside He turned the key and opened the door The room was a bedroom The bed was opposite the door, and lying upon the bed, raised up

by his pillows, was a bearded man, looking straight at Edward with dark round eyes

Edward thought later on that in a second of complete shock, he had understood everything He certainly came, very soon after, to understand much He moved into the room, closing the door behind him The man on the bed kept staring at him intently and moving his lips His face expressed an intense emotion which Edward thought of afterwards, perhaps at the time, as a kind of apologetic anxiety which was also expressive of deep grief Edward, shaking with emotion, approached the bed and stopped The red lips moved, but no sound came The large eyes begged Edward to hear, to respond At last a sound came out which, heard together with that expression, seemed like a question Edward grasped the sound It was an attempt at his own name He said, “Edward Yes, I am Edward I am your son.” The helpless lips moved, as if to smile, and a shaking hand was outstretched Edward took the weak white hand in his Then he knelt down beside the bed and buried his face in the blanket He felt the other hand touch his hair He burst into tears

1 What did Edward see at the top of the staircase?

A an unfurnished entrance area

B a bathroom with a carpeted floor

C a sitting room leading into a kitchen

D an entrance hall with several doors off it

2 How did Edward get into the bedroom?

A He forced the door open

B He went through the kitchen

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C Someone unlocked the door from the other side

D He unlocked the door himself

3 How did Edward react when he saw the old man on the bed?

A He was filled with surprise B He rushed towards him

C He wanted to leave the room D He felt frightened and angry

4 What was the man’s reaction when Edward came in?

A He was not pleased to see him B He began to whisper to himself

C He seemed afraid of him D He tried hard to speak to him

5 What did Edward do?

A He shook his father’s hand B He began to cry

C He sat down on the bed D He stroked his father’s hair

The idea of transmitting information through light waves is far from new But only recently have scientists learned how to manipulate waves of light to carry tremendous amounts of information at incredible speeds

An optical fiber system consists of three basic parts: transmitting equipment that transforms electric signals into light pulses, the optical fiber itself, and receiving gear that acts as a light detector The fiber is an incredibly thin strand of pure glass usually made of silicon or other materials such as germanium The glass strand has two parts: a light-transmitting core and a special glass coating that keeps the light from straying The fiber, of which there are several types suited for different kinds of tasks, is merely the medium through which the light flows An average cable, about the thickness of a finger, might consist of about 75 fibers The light impulses are generated either by laser or light-emitting diode (LED) equipment If the signals have to travel far, they may be boosted at certain points, just as electronic signals are Lasers are better for long distances because their signals travel far without the need for boosting, but LEDs are more reliable and

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less expensive.

Much research is focussed on creating better and less expensive light sources

In that context, probably the prices of lasers and LEDs are going to decline at a fast rate With prices falling as the technological gains increase, many experts agree that it’s only the matter of time before much of the nation’s copper cable is replaced by fiber optics

1 What is an important advantage of the optical fiber?

A It transmits a great deal of information very quickly

B It can travel through light waves

C Signals travelling through it don’t need to be boosted

D It is cheaper than lasers or LEDs

2 What is the core’s function?

A to boost signals B to transform signals

C to create signals D to transmit signals

3 What is the function of the coating?

A to keep the silicon pure B to detect light

C to keep the impulses from escaping D to hold bundles of fibers together

4 Lasers are better than LEDs when _

A reliability is important B signals must travel a long way

C costs must be kept low D copper cable is not available

5 The author of the passage predicts that in the future _

A impulses will be able to travel at a faster rate

B copper cable will replace fiber optics

C the system will become affordable and widely used

D the use of lasers and LEDs will decline

About 30,000 years ago Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis)

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disappeared, displaced by the Cro-Magnon people (Homo sapiens sapiens), a taller, slimmer, altogether more agile and handsome - at least to our eyes - race of people who are thought to have arisen in Africa 100,000 years ago, spread to the Near East, and then were drawn to Europe by the retreating sheets of ice of the last great ice age Although this was an immensely long time ago, these Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed the earth, they could choke on food That might seem a trifling point, but the slight evolutionary change that pushed the Cro-Magnon’s larynx deeper into the throat, and thus made choking a possibility, also brought with it the possibility of sophisticated, well-articulated speech

Other mammals have no point of contact between their airways and their esophagi They can breathe and swallow at the same time, and there is no possibility of food getting into the wrong passage But in Homo sapiens, food and drink must pass over the larynx and thus there is a constant risk that some will be inadvertently inhaled In modem humans, the lowered larynx isn’t in position at birth It descends sometime between the ages of three and five months This descended larynx explains why you can speak and your dog cannot

Neanderthals were physiologically precluded from uttering certain basic sounds Their speech, if it existed at all, would have been nasal sounding and fairly imprecise, and that would no doubt have greatly impeded their development

1 According to the passage, the Neanderthals _

A displaced the Cro-Magnons

B spread to the Near East and then to Europe

C could make certain basic sounds

D were less like modern humans than Cro-Magnons were

2 According to the author, the possibility of choking _

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A also made speech possible

B was a trifling point

C occurred only in Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon people

D was common to all hominids

3 The author implies that clear speech _

A caused hominids to spread out from Africa

B is directly related to brain capacity

C contributed to hominid development

D is common to all hominids

4 One reason why a dog cannot speak is that _

A its larynx is too high

B its larynx is too low

C it can’t breathe and swallow at the same time

D its airway and esophagus are in contact with each other

5 Homo sapiens were the first hominids _

A with a larynx

B who could breathe and swallow at the same time

C with no contact between their airways and esophagi

D with the physical capacity to speak clearly

Are we being served? More than two thirds of those questioned in a recent survey think service in Britain’s shops is not good enough and would pay more for better treatment This disappearance of personal service is not new Our present dissatisfaction began at least 40 years ago When goods were scarce there was time

to take pleasure in the complicated art of selling, from greeting the customer to wrapping goods The end of the war, and the scarcity of goods which accompanied the wartime period, changed all that People wanted choice and quantity, to help

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themselves to what was on offer Self-service was born.

Throughout the Sixties and Seventies, productivity was the important word In shops, goods were piled up to ensure bigger sales Supermarkets grew larger The customer, by contrast, shrank beneath the enormous piles of goods, pushed by the sound of the background music towards the check-out

At the end of the Seventies, however, owners of the larger stores thought again The customer was becoming more aware of what was on offer Spending power had moved to younger people with higher expectations from their hours of shopping Design consultants were called in and through the high street swept newly-designed stores and goods The customer benefited, no doubt about it, but look at any row of high street shops from the north to the sound of Britain They all look the same They offer similar ranges of goods on similarity colour-coordinated shop liftings

The amusing thing is that market forces may be driving shops back to the first principles of selling In an attempt to be different from the competition, many of them are examining the quality of personal service According to retail research analysts, customer care programmes are an important competitive weapon Already, a number of big British companies have started new schemes Edward Whitefield, who advises companies on selling, says that about 50 of Britain’s top

500 companies are now trying to improve their customer service Many more, he believes, will follow

1 A recent survey showed that about one third of those questioned _

A were satisfied with the shop service in Britain

B would pay higher prices for better service

C thought the service in Britain could be much better

D thought that personal service had disappeared

2 It appears that, after the end of the war, customers _

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