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HUE UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

PRACTICE TEST 1

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PAPER 1 Listening (40 minutes)

Part 1 Questions 1-8

Listen to short conversations, announcements or instructions There is one question for each conversation, announcement or instruction For each question, circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.

1 What does the boy decide to buy?

A A birthday cake

B Some expensive earrings

C Some good chocolates

D Some flowers and chocolates

2 How did the man travel last year?

A By coach

B By plane

C By train D

By ship

3 What time will the group return to their bus?

A Ten past twelve

B Half past one C

Two o’clock D

Three o’clock

4 What do the boys decide to do?

A Listen to music

B Watch a film on TV C

Play computer games D

Go shopping

5 Why can’t the girl go to school?

A Her back hurts

B She has a headache

C She has a toothache

D She breaks her arm

6 Where is the boy going to work?

A In an architecture company B

In his uncle’s café

C In a ticket office

D In a bank

7 What are they having for lunch?

A A sandwich

B Some carrots

C Bread

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D Some soup

8 How much is the jumper that the woman got?

A 15 pounds

B 50 pounds

C 20 pounds

D 30 pounds

Listen to 3 conversations There are 12 questions For each question, circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.

Questions 9 to 12:

9 Why is February the shortest month?

A Augustus Caesar couldn’t count very well

B Augustus Caesar was following his adoptive father’s orders

C Augustus Caesar wanted to shorten winter

D Augustus Caesar took a day from February to add to the month named after him

10 How many months did the original Roman calendar have?

A Nine

B Ten

C Eleven

D Twelve

11 Why was Quintilis renamed for Julius Caesar?

A To honor the month of his birth

B To honor the month that he became ruler of Rome

C To please Augustus Caesar

D To enable him to add two months to the calendar

12 What can we infer about phobias from this conversation?

A They are very common and everyone has a phobia B

They create social and physical problems

C Phobias are funny and are great for parties

D Phobias are not a very severe problem

13 Why would a person with a phobia change his job?

A To get better health care

B To be closer to his home

C To avoid the source of his fear

D To find a more understanding boss

14 Why is it difficult to treat phobias?

A Most people are more worried about the mental symptoms

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B Most doctors don’t ask patients about their fears.

C There are no good treatments for phobias

D There is too much information about treatments for phobias for people to

know what to do

15 Of the phobias mentioned, which are easiest to guess the meanings of?

A Gynophobia

B Nyctophobia C

Sciophobia D

Electrophobia

16 What is the topic of the conversation?

A Advantages of quantum computers and how they work

B Similarities between quantum computers and today’s computers

C Possible uses of quantum computers

D Advantages and disadvantages of quantum computers

17 What is the significance of 1s and 0s in computer programming?

A They are a way of tracking what the computer is doing

B They indicate “on” and “off” states

C They are faster to count than other numbers

D They have no real purpose

18 A nanowire is

A So small it cannot be measured

B The width of one million hydrogen atoms

C Made of one million small wires

D The width of ten hydrogen atoms

19 According to the conversation, it is not currently possible to create?

A Codes and security systems for quantum computers

B Keyboards that work with quantum computers

C Switches that are small enough

D Wires that are small enough for quantum computers

20 Will quantum computers be able to perform the same function as current computers?

A No, because they will perform completely different functions

B No, because they use different processes, so they cannot “think” in the same way

C Yes, because they will both work on binary systems

D Yes, because both types of computers will be exactly the same

Listen to 3 talks or lectures There are five questions for each talk or lecture For each question, circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.

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21 Where was the seven-day week first adopted?

A Greece

B Rome

C Germanic countries

D Mesopotamia

22 What does the speaker think about the name “Sunday”?

A It is a little surprising

B It provides interesting information about ancient religion

C It is the result of a mistake

D It should be changed

23 Which day names are Germanic (Norse) in origin?

A Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday

B Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

C Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday D

All seven days

24 We can infer that the preferred day for weddings among early Germanic peoples was

probably

A Sunday

B Wednesday

C Friday

D Saturday

25 Who was the Norse “All Father”?

A Tyr

B Woden

C Saturn

D Thor

26 Which of the following is not mentioned as one of the most common phobias?

A Heights

B Water C

Tunnels D

Snakes

27 Which of the following is true of phobias?

A They involve intense fear of a dangerous situation

B More women than men have them

C They usually appear in adulthood

D All of the above

28 How many Americans have phobias?

A One million

B Five million

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C Six million

D Ten million

29 What is an example of behavior treatment for a patient with a phobia about water?

A Talking with a therapist about his bad experiences with water

B Learning to avoid going near water

C Repeated trips to a swimming pool

D None of the above

30 Why does counter-conditioning work?

A Because a person cannot feel relaxed and afraid at the same time

B Because fear is a learned response that can be changed

C Both A and B D

Neither A nor B

31 What is the lecture mainly about?

A The future of quantum computing

B Obstacles to building quantum computers

C Some recent advances in quantum computing

D An introduction to quantum computing

32 According to the lecture, quantum and classical computers are similar in?

A The basic logic of their calculations

B The fact that they both employ qubit

C Their level of efficiency

D Their speed of computation

33 What is a qubit?

A The fundamental unit of information a quantum computer

B A quaternary unit of information

C Both A and B D

Neither A nor B

34 What is “superposition”?

A A form of data sorting

B A huge increase in the rate of computation

C A blend of information states

D A series of quantum gates

35 According to the lecture, why can the power of quantum computing be difficult to

understand?

A Because quantum physics works in ways not easily observable

B Because classical physics remains the dominant method of interpretation

C Because classical and quantum computers are vastly different from one another

D All of the above

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PAPER 2 Reading (60 minutes)

Read the text and questions below.

For each question, circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.

Have you ever thought about the names of the months? Why are “January” and

“February” not called “Primo” or “Secondo”? Is it because the original names were created in ancient times? Or is it because the originators preferred odd words?

Take February, for example Say it aloud a few times and you start to wonder Most people don’t know who developed these names However, a little research reveals that the names of the months came mostly from a combination of the names of Roman gods and goddesses, important festivals, and the original numbers of the months

Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar to make it more exact Caesar developed a new calendar of 364 ¼ days, the time it takes the earth to orbit the sun from

one spring season to the next The Pope’s astronomers refined the calendar regarding leap years; they determined that there should be no leap year in years ending in 00

-unless they were divisible by 400; the years 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2100 would not be considered leap years, while the years 1600 and 2000 would be This new Gregorian

calendar was so accurate that today, scientists need only add leap seconds every few

years to the clock in order to keep the calendar matching the Earth’s cycles

1 What is the topic of the passage?

A How the months were named

B How accurate the modern day calendar is

C How the leap year system was developed

D How the modern calendar was named and developed

2 Why is Caesar important in calendar making?

A He has a month named for him

B He extended summer

C He altered the number of days in a year

D He changed the length of a year

3 Why is the number 364 ¼ important?

A It is the length of a planetary year

B It was a number randomly chosen by Caesar for his calendar

C It is the length of time from the beginning of spring to the end of winter

D It is the most accurate number for calendar

4 Which of the following will be a leap year?

A 2200

B 2300

C 2400

D 2500

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5 It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that the author thinks the names of the months are _

A difficult to pronounce

B odd

C inappropriate

D none of the above

6 The word refined in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to .

A improved

B invented

C observed

D studied

7 In what order is the information in the passage presented?

A Name of months, Caesar’s calendar, the Gregorian Calendar B

Roman Gods, important festivals, original numbers of months C

Caesar’s calendar, the Gregorian calendar, the modern calendar D

None of the above

8 Which of the following is true of the Gregorian calendar?

A It needs major improvements

B It copied the Roman calendar’s formula of leap years

C It was so well designed, it needs little adjusting today

D None of the above

9 The word they in paragraph 3 refers to .

A days

B astronomers

C calendars D

years

10 The word accurate in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _.

A interesting

B simple

C informative

D correct

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People with an overpowering fear of something may not be able to consciously control

the direction of their gaze when faced with a picture that provokes that fear Those with a

fear of spiders, or arachnophobia, may not be able to avoid looking toward a spider in the grass, while those without the fear can To reach this finding, 26 college students - half of whom had arachnophobia - were outfitted with a device that tracks eye movements The participants were then shown a four-by-four grid of flowers on a computer screen, where

a picture of a grey-brown spider and a grey-brown mushroom each occupied one space

on the grid

In one trial, the students were asked to press the spacebar when they spotted a

mushroom, but to ignore any spiders In a second, the students were asked to press the key when they saw the spider, but to avoid looking at mushrooms When instructed to ignore the spider and spot the mushroom, the students with arachnophobia could not avoid looking at the spider - causing them to notice the mushroom three -tenths of a second more slowly than the control group Additionally, when the students were asked

to search for the spider, the arachnophobic students found the spider and pressed the space bar about three-tenths of a second more quickly than the non-phobic students

These findings show that the attention processes of people with a powerful fear of

spiders may be beyond their conscious control This suggests that treatments that focus

on conscious thought processes may not work for such phobias Instead, therapists could focus on treatments such as systematic desensitization

11 It can be inferred that the word phobia in the passage is closest in meaning to

A A new type of spider

B A fear of something

C A scientific experiment

D The name of a flower

12 What is the main idea of the passage?

A People who are afraid of spiders don’t look at them

B People with phobias can’t help looking at things they are afraid of

C People with arachnophobia always look at spiders first

D Phobias affect eyesight

13 Why was the device to track eye movement needed?

A To make sure the students were looking at the computer screen

B To move the spider’s location around

C To verify where the students were looking D

To make the students look only in one place

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14 What was the function of the spacebar?

A To give the students something to do

B To give the students place to rest their thumbs

C To allow the students to put spaces between words

D To determine the amount of time needed to find an item in the picture

15 Why were some of the students slow to press the space bar when instructed to look at

the mushroom?

A They continued to look at the spider

B They couldn’t find the spacebar

C They were looking for the on/off switch

D They had trouble following instructions

16 What do the results of the experiment tell us about people with phobias?

A They should always avoid the object of their fear

B They don’t have to try to change their thoughts

C They can’t consciously choose how to react to the feared object

D All of the above

17 It can be inferred that provokes in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .

A eases

B treats C

reminds D

causes

18 It can be inferred that spotted in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.

A ignored

B feared

C saw

D instructed

19 The word their in paragraph 3 refers to _.

A findings

B processes

C spiders

D none of the above

20 What is the purpose of the passage?

A To prove that phobias are a myth

B To help people with phobias

C To relate research findings about phobias affecting eye control

D To relate research findings about phobias controlling eyesight

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Quantum computers, which utilize the properties of subatomic particles for computation, have the potential for novel uses such as laser beams, silicon chips, or optical network (1) Researchers are currently exploring the possibility of controlling all electrons in a quantum computer by using a single magnetic field (2)

(3) The 1s and 0s used in ordinary computer programming correspond to the two

magnetic orientations of electrons; they spin up and spin down (4) One-qubit gates

change the spins of individual electrons, varying them between 1s and 0s, while two-qubit gates cause two spins to become linked or entangled

Current research relies on the interactions of pairs of electrons to create both types of gates Tiny electrodes positioned near quantum dots, which are bits of semiconductor material that trap single electrons, can attract neighboring electrons for energy exchange

If the electrons interact long enough, they trade spin orientations The current research challenge lies in the discovery of a method to change the spin of only one electron rather than both

21 What is the topic of the passage?

A Research into controlling electrons in a quantum computer

B The use of computers for lasers, silicon chips, and optical networks

C One-qubit gates changing the spin of electrons

D Energy exchange between electrodes in a quantum computer

22 According to the passage, which of the following best describes a quantum computer?

A A cell phone and computer combination

B A laptop computer

C A computer made up of subatomic particles

D A computer made up of individual atoms

23 Which is the best place for the following sentence?

“At its most basic, quantum computing utilizes structures referred to as one-qubit and two-qubit gates”

A (1)

B (2)

C (3)

D (4)

24 What causes the electrons to change spins?

A One-qubit gates

B Two-qubit gates

C Semiconductor material

D Electrodes

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