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Section 1: Complete the notes below: Write ONE WORD for each answer
Question 1 - 6
SELF-DRIVE TOURS IN THE USA
Example:
Name: Andrea Brown
Address: 24 (1) Road
Postcode: BH5 2OP
Phone: (mobile) 077 8664 3091
Heard about company from: (2) _
Possible self-drive tours:
Trip 1:
Los Angeles customer wants to visit: (3) parks with her children
Yosemite Park customer wants to stay in a lodge, not a (4)
Trip 2:
Customer wants to see the (5) _ on the way to Cambria
At Santa Minoca: not interested in shopping
At San Diego, wants to spend time on the (6) _
Question 7-10 Complete the notes below
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer
Number of days Total distance Price (per person) Includes
car
one (8)
car
(10) _
SECTION 2: QUESTION 11-20
Question 11-15: Choose the best correct letter A, B, or C
MANHAM PORT
11 Why did a port originally develop at Manham?
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Trang 2A It was safe from enemy attack B It was convenient for river transport
C It had a good position on the sea coast
12 What caused Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?
A the improvement in mining technologies B the increase in demand for metals
C the discovery of tin in the sea
13 Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?
A shortage of fuel B poor transport system C lack of skills among local people
14 What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?
A The workers went away B Traditional skills were lost
C Buildings were used for new purposes
15 What did the Manham Trust hope to do?
C rebuild the port complex
Question 16-20: Answer the following questions WITH NO MORE THAN THREE WORD OR
A NUMBER
16 Where should visitors start their visit?
17 Who shouldn’t be taken into the mine?
18 Where should visitors visit next?
19 What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school?
20 By whom was the ship’s wheel dredged out of the silt?
PART B: LEXICO AND GRAMMAR
I Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to complete the sentence
1 Money was short and people survived by _and saving
2 Drug-taking is a crime which society simply cannot _
3 Mr Henson’s bitter comments on the management’s mistakes gave _ to the conflict which has already lasted for four months
4 There will of necessity be a to the amount of money put at the new manager’s disposal
5 Though he faced many difficulties, he could not be _ from his goal
6 The are against her winning a fourth consecutive gold medal
7 References can have a considerable on employment prospects
8 The prospects of picking up any survivors are now
9 From time to time he himself to a weekend in a five-star hotel
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11 I offer you my most apologies for offending you as I did
12 Having decided to rent a flat, we contacting all the accommodation agencies in the city
13 When facing problems, it is important to keep a sense of
14 We’re depending on you to come up with some ideas We need inspiration
15 This quiet village is of the one I grew up in
16 Patrick is too a gambler to resist placing a bet on the final game
17 Although Zachary is much too inexperienced for the managerial position, he is a willful young
man and obdurately refuses to withdraw his application
18 The editor of the newspaper needed to be sure the article presented the right information, so his
review was meticulous
19 The scientist was both and ; she was always careful to test each hypothesis and cautious not to jump to conclusions
20 Cell phones seem to be , so prevalent are they that they seem to be everywhere
21 She hadn’t eaten all day, and by the time she got home she was
22 The movie offended many of the parents of its younger viewers by including unnecessary
in the dialogue
23 His neighbors found his manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him to backyard barbeques
24 Steven is always about showing up for work because he feels that tardiness is a sign of irresponsibility
25 Candace would her little sister into an argument by teasing her and calling her names
26. _ by despair at her situation, she tried in vain to rob the local bank and ended up in prison for five years
Trang 427 After the storm caused raw sewage to seep into the ground water, the Water Department had to
take measures to decontaminate the city’s water supply
28 Paradoxically, this successful politician is sometimes very sociable and other times very
29 General MacArthur’s bold disregard for popular conventions and time-honored military
strategies earned him a reputation for
30 This beach is nowhere as good as the one we went to yesterday
II Supply the word in bracket with the correct form
1 Pentecostalism and jazz are undeniably siblings, with all the and
rivalry such a blood link always brings with it
(SANGUINE)
2 She said she had assisted in , accident and surgical cases (WIFE)
4 In the woman, however, adulthood is punctuated by the , which can
have a deep psychological effect
(PAUSE)
5 She just hoped she would be spared a pressing invitation to his _ (OBSERVE)
6 From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling,
one-story _, hopelessly dependent on the automobile
(URBAN)
8 The priest is a representative of his people, making for their sin (TONE)
10 We had a double-page spread with a statue of one of the leaders across the
, which is absolutely forbidden
(FOLD)
III There are 10 mistakes in the passage Find and correct them
I cannot stress too much the importance on watching your opponent, of knowing exactly where
he is on the tennis court and what he is doing It is usually possible to work on the pattern of his game
very early in a match Test him at the front of the court Try hitting one or two balls up high to see how shots are like The more quickly you discover his weakness, the easier the match should become
Again and again it may be a good idea to give your opponent an opportunity of making a mistake When, early in the match, it seems that he is a very inaccurate player, but not a forceful one, then you should tempt him to play a winning shot Give him the opening, for there are some players who simply cannot hit winners They will try to play an attacking game but they can quite finish it off The way to break down their steady game may be by putting them into the front of the court
It is obviously wiser to try to decide at the beginning of the match whether your opponent is weaker on his left-hand or on his right-hand-side, and then play a little more than fifty per cent of your shots down that side Play a normal attacking game, or the game you think you will win, but concentrate the weaker side A number of players experience more trouble than another in the back corners of the court- always be ready to recognize this weakness Perhaps an opponent has a favorite backhand shot, but lacks certainty with his forehand shot Tempt him to play the forehand shot
PART C: READING
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Nerea De Clifford, who has died aged 82, was a doughty champion of British cats and a
(0)…… B…… of The Cat Protection League which she (1)……… shortly after its foundation in
1927 and served as president from the 1970s until the time of her death
Among her many (2)………….to welfare of cats-and to our knowledge of their ways-were the
establishment of a sanctuary for them at New Malden, and the publication of such reports as What British Cats Think About Television, in which she noted that ‘most cats (3)……….an interest of some kind, though it is often of hostility; ‘a significant reaction is the display of excitement when any picture, especially of birds, moves quickly across the (4)………
Nerea Elizabeth de Clifford was born in West London in 1905, and as a young woman was a
distinguished (5)………of cats During the Second World War she devoted herself to the rescue of cats, trapped in the rubble of the blitz, and (6)……… to vigorous campaigns for free feline birth (7)…………
She (Cool…………an adoption scheme for which her “Homes Wanted” list contained some notably frank character (9)……… - “a little fiend in feline form”; “willing to do light mouse-work and very good at it, non-union”; “a rough old (10)……… ”, and so on - and made a (11)………… of feeding London’s cats at Christmas, a favourite repast apparently being fish and chips She also plumbed the mysteries of why cats (12)…………- some because they have just murdered the Pekinese next door, others “for no good (13)……… at all.”
De Clifford was also a much respected (14)…………at cat shoes around the country, and gave a series of lecture tours at schools on the (15)………and care of cats
II Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions
of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States
Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an
important force in history Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail
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contributions During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books
Throughout the nineteenth century, this lack of visibility continued, despite the efforts of female authors writing about women These writers, like most of their male counterparts, were amateur
historians Their writings were celebratory in nature, and they were uncritical in their selection and
use of sources
During the nineteenth century, however, certain feminists showed a keen sense of history by keeping records of activities in which women were engaged National, regional, and local women’s
organizations compiled accounts of their doings Personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, and souvenirs were saved and stored These sources from the core of the two greatest collections of
women’s history in the United States one at the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesinger Library at
Radcliffe College, and the other the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College Such sources have provided valuable materials for later Generations of historians
Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century, most of the writing about women conformed to the “great women” theory of History, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on “great men.” To demonstrate that women were
making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women’s right to vote, or authors, and
were not representative at all of the great of ordinary woman The lives of ordinary people
continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published
1 What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The role of literature in early American histories
(B) The place of American women in written histories
(C) The keen sense of history shown by American women
(D)The “great women” approach to history used by American historians
2 The word “contemporary” means that the history was _
3 In the first paragraph, Bradstreet, Warren, and Adams are mentioned to show that _
(A) a woman’s status was changed by marriage
(B) even the contributions of outstanding women were ignored
(C) only three women were able to get their writing published
(D) poetry produced by women was more readily accepted than other writing by women
4 The word “celebratory” means that the writings referred to were _
5 The word “they” refers to _
6 In the second paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?
(A) They put too much emphasis on daily activities
(B) They left out discussion of the influence of money on politics
(C) The sources of the information they were based on were not necessarily accurate
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been collected by nineteenth-century feminist organizations?
(A) Newspaper accounts of presidential election results
(B) Biographies of John Adams
(C) Letters from a mother to a daughter advising her how to handle a family problem
(D) Books about famous graduates of the country’s first college
8 What use was made of the nineteenth-century women’s history materials in the Schlesinger
Library and the Sophia Smith Collection?
(A) They were combined and published in a multivolume encyclopedia
(B) They formed the basis of college courses in the nineteenth century
(C) They provided valuable information for twentieth—century historical researchers
(D) They were shared among women’s colleges throughout the United States
9 In the last paragraph, the author mentions all of the following as possible roles of nineteenth
century “great women” EXCEPT
10 The word “representative” is closest in meaning to _
III Insert ONE word that best fits in the numbered blank
In (1) of the efforts of the media in recent years to disillusion us, the general picture
which the ordinary public has of the ‘author’ is of somebody sitting hunched at a typewriter in
solitude in a garret or some other place away from (2) eyes And not just that, but
‘royalties’, that name given historically to the financial rewards of the writing profession, (3)
seem to be more than just ‘wages’ or ‘a salary’ And (4) that’s just (5)
royalties are: they are certainly not the ‘bonus’ that my children always imagined them
to be when they arrived from a publisher My fault for not educating them properly, I suppose, but
the receipt of a royal cheque would always bring with it appeals from the children (6) extras, which they brought of as something akin (7) Christmas or birthday presents: it
certainly wasn’t money that needed to be apportioned in the same way as others apportion their
wages or salary Indeed, (8) I not learned very early on in my writing career to see
royalties as my ‘salary’ and apportion (9) carefully – much more carefully than any other people, since they are an irregular form of income – I would long ago have been in (10)
financial straits!
IV Read the text and choose the correct heading for sections 1—7 from the list of headings below There are more extra headings which you do not need to use Write your answers in the numbered boxes
A Common objections B Who's planning what C This type sells best in the
shops
these
J Accepting the inevitable
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Students who want to enter the University of Montreal's Athletic Complex need more than just a conventional ID card — their identities must be authenticated by an electronic hand scanner In some California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her
voiceprint must also be verified And soon, customers at some Japanese banks will have to present their faces for scanning before they can enter the building and withdraw their money
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All of these are applications of biometrics, a little-known but fast-growing technology that involves the use of physical or biological characteristics to identify individuals In use for more than a decade
at some high-security government institutions in the United States and Canada, biometrics are now rapidly popping up in the everyday world Already, more than 10,000 facilities, from prisons to daycare centres, monitor people's fingerprints or other physical parts to ensure that they are who they claim to be Some 60 biometric companies around the world pulled in at least $22 million last year and that grand total is expected to mushroom to at least $50 million by 1999
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Biometric security systems operate by storing a digitised record of some unique human feature When an authorised user wishes to enter or use the facility, the system scans the person's
corresponding characteristics and attempts to match them against those on record Systems using fingerprints, hands, voices, irises, retinas and faces are already on the market Others using typing patterns and even body odours are in various stages of development
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Fingerprint scanners are currently the most widely deployed type of biometric application, thanks to their growing use over the last 20 years by law-enforcement agencies Sixteen American states now use biometric fingerprint verification systems to check that people claiming welfare payments are genuine In June, politicians in Toronto voted to do the same, with a pilot project beginning next year
Paragraph 4:
To date, the most widely used commercial biometric system is the handkey, a type of hand scanner which reads the unique shape, size and irregularities of people's hands Originally developed for nuclear power plants, the handkey received its big break when it was used to control access to the Olympic Village in Atlanta by more than 65,000 athletes, trainers and support staff Now there are scores of other applications
Paragraph 5:
Around the world, the market is growing rapidly Malaysia, for example, is preparing to equip all of its airports with biometric face scanners to match passengers with luggage And Japan's largest
maker of cash dispensers is developing new machines that incorporate iris scanners The first
commercial biometric, a hand reader used by an American firm to monitor employee attendance, was introduced in 1974 But only in the past few years has the technology improved enough for the prices
to drop sufficiently to make them commercially viable `When we started four years ago, I had to explain to everyone what a biometric is,' says one marketing expert 'Now, there's much more
awareness out there.'
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Not surprisingly, biometrics raise thorny questions about privacy and the potential for abuse Some worry that governments and industry will be tempted to use the technology to monitor individual behaviour `If someone used your fingerprints to match your health-insurance records with a
creditcard record showing you regularly bought lots of cigarettes and fatty foods,' says one policy analyst, 'you would see your insurance payments go through the roof.' In Toronto, critics of the
welfare fingerprint plan complained that it would stigmatise recipients by forcing them to submit to a procedure widely identified with criminals
Paragraph 7:
Nonetheless, support for biometrics is growing in Toronto as it is in many other communities In an increasingly crowded and complicated world, biometrics may well be a technology whose time has come
PART 4: WRITING
I Complete the sentences without changing the meaning of the given sentences.
1 The inhabitants were far worse-off twenty years ago than they are now
The inhabitants are nowhere near _
2 Nowadays I consider taking up a hobby to be far less important than I used to
Nowadays I don’t attach nearly _
3 Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the environmental problems
Mass tourism is _
4 That makes me think of something that happened to me
That brings
5 The new deal has introduced many changes in the cooperation
Many a
Part 2 Rewrite each sentence using the word in brackets so that the meaning stays the
same Do not change the word in bracket in any way
6 When they started their trek, they had no idea how bad the weather would become (OUTSET)
Nobody realized _
7 A great many people will congratulate her if she wins (SHOWERED)
She will
8 It's one thing to think there's a demand for your product and another to make a sale (WORLD)
There is
9 In this area, Thailand is much better than all other countries in football (HEAD)
In this area, Thailand _
10 The train should have left 30 minutes ago (MEANT)
The train _
III “The number of overweight children in developed countries is increasing Some people think this is due to problems such as the growing number of fast food outlets Others believe that parents are to blame for not looking after their children's health.”
To what extent do you agree or disagree with these views?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience Write in an essay of at least 200 words