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I. LISTENING
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
∙ 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.
∙ Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
Thí sinh có 02 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu kết thúc bài nghe.
∙ Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng Tiếng Anh)
đã có trong đề bài nghe.
Part 1: For questions 1-5, you will hear a
radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone. First, you
have 30 seconds to look at Part 1. Then, listen and decide whether the
following sentences are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG) according to what
you hear. Write your answers in the box provided.
1. Helena feels amused that she and Jed have a
name people tend to remember.
2. Jed would appreciate it
3. When Helena started her work on The Travel
Show, she felt to do it.
4. Jed was inspired to make a jewel garden by
the illustrations at a talk he attended. 5. Helena agrees with Jed that the
name “jewel garden” represents a way to positively combine both past and
present.
Your answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Part 2: For questions 6-12, you will hear an
archeologist talking about an experience he had in South America. First, you
have 1 minute to look at Part 2. Then, complete the notes below by writing NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question in the box provided.
- The (6) ______ visitors ruined city and the
area around it.
- It appears that the (7) ______ humid air
exhaled by visitors is damaging the walls. - The archeologist wanted to survey
a tomb near the site of a proposed (8) construction ______. - Unfortunately,
the tomb had been damaged by flood water from (9) ______.
- The archeologist lost his footing on some
(10) ______. erosion
- As he fell, he broke his (11) ______. leg
- He was found when a (12) ______ heard his
shouts for help. Tour guy
Your answers:
6.
10.
7.
11.
8.
12.
9.
Part 3: For questions 13-17, you will hear an
interview with Sue Millins, who has recently introduced a new teaching approach
into her school. First, you have 1 minute to look at Part 3. Then, choose the
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answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best
according to what you hear. Write your answers in the box provided.
13. The original cause of the school’s decline
was ______.
A. the old-fashioned character of the school
B. the transformation of the neighbourhood C. the number of families living in
the area D. the low number of children in the area 14. The school was not
closed down thanks to ______.
A. the parent’s refusal to allow it
B. the decision to follow the national
curriculum
C. the fact that the children were behaving
better
D. the bad conditions the children live in
15. The traditional methods of teaching were
abandoned because ______.
A. the children were not able to read B. tests
would be easier to mark C. they would have made things worse D. not enough
research had been done 16. The aim of the lesson involving the bear is to
______.
A. teach the children drama B. make the
children feel more at ease C. teach the children about animals D. help the
children to read and write 17. The method is considered successful because
______.
A. the Department of Education wants to use it
B. children are interested in the arts C. it allows teachers to use their
intuition D. there is better achievement in all subjects Your answers:
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Part 4: For questions 18-25, you will hear
part of a lecture on soap and its role in society.First, you have 1 minute to
look at Part 4. Then, complete the notes below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS for each question in the box provided.
- Until recently, Morrison’s soap was produced
in rectangular bars of (18) ______ and detergent. - Manufacturers of soap were
among the earliest to make up (19) ______ for their products. - In the days
before mass production, the same kind of device was used by shopkeepers to cut
blocks of soap and (20) ______.
- According to the speaker, any claims linking
soap with longer (21) ______ are unfounded. - In the past, the same piece of
soap was used to clean items of (22) ______ and clothing, as well as for
personal use.
- Manufacturers of household cleaning products
are eager to use the word (23) ______ when talking about the fragrance of their
goods.
- The speaker thinks that (24) ______ smells
may soon become fashionable.
- Soap marketing campaigns increasingly focus on the benefits of soap for both (25) ______ and ______.
Your answers:
18.
22.
19.
23.
20.
24.
21.
25.
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II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1: For questions 26-45, choose the
correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the following questions. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
26. Egypt is a fantastic country for tourists.
It’s absolutely ______ in history.
A. soaked B. drenched C. steeped D.
saturated 27. I wanted to talk, but she
was determined to sweep the matter under the ______. A. cupboard B. table C. carpet D. bed
28. The newspaper story was based on an
interview which had been done off the ______.
A. script B. record C. key D. tape
29. Before you make a decision you should
______all the issues involved.
A. weigh through B. weigh out C. weigh up D.
weigh down 30. I’m afraid that cycling
is off the ______ until the weather improves.
A. record B. card C. track D. menu
31. I read some pretty ______ news about the
economy today.
A. challenging B. jumpy C.disconcerting D.
cutting 32. He spent too much on his
credit card, and now he can’t ______the minimum payments. A. keep on B. keep in C. keep to D. keep
up 33. Her condition is improving, but
she's not out of the ______.
A. dark B. cupboard C. woods D. fire
34. Some electric cars have a ______ of 150
kilometres.
A. run B. distance C. range D. scope
35. ______, I’d like to say how much I’ve
enjoyed our meeting.
A. Finally B. At last C. Eventually D. After
all 36. I’d give up my job ______ if
only I could find a better one.
A. at one swoop B. at the drop of a hat
C. on the dot D. on the spur of the
moment
37. The hotel, though obviously grand in its
day, appeared rather neglected and ______ when we checked in. A. tumble-down B.
downcast C. down-and-out D. run-down 38.
If you’d like to take a seat in the waiting room till the doctor can see you,
you’ll find plenty of magazines to ______.
A. refer to B. browse through C. look over D.
stare at
39. I’d say let’s meet on Saturday, but I’m
none ______ sure what’s happening at the weekend. A. so B. very C. that D. too
40. Since we had only one day left, we decided
to make an ______ effort to finish the run in record time. A. all-in B. all-out C. overall D.
all-round 41. As he was caught ______an
offensive weapon, he was immediately a suspect.
A. in possession of B. on ownership of C. with handling with D. out of
control with 42. We might just as well have stayed at home ______the enjoyment
we had.
A. on account of B. as far as C. for all D.
concerning 43. You should only make
serious accusations like that if they have a sound ______in fact. A. basis B. foothold C. framework D.
principle
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44. He hadn’t prepared a speech; he just made
a few remarks ______.
A. off the cuff B. at first sight
C. up his sleeve D. out of the back of his
neck
45. Martin needs to get a ______on his
finances if he’s not to face serious difficulties with the bank. A. grasp B. clutch C. grip D. clasp
Your answers:
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
Part 2: For questions 46-50, write the correct
form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided in the column on the
right.
Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the last of the
great rulers of the Ottoman
house of Osman. As the immediate (46. SUCCEED)
to two sultans who had been deposed, he
came to the throne a very nervous man. He considered security at his palaces to
be far too lax, and set about building a
new (47. PENETRATE) palace from scratch. To this end, he secured the services of a dozen architects
and (48. MISSION) each to build just one twelfth of the palace, working in
complete ignorance of the progress of the other eleven. In effect, the Sultan
built himself the world's most elaborate
and extensive prison. Every room was
connected to a secret underground passage and many of the rooms were booby-trapped: at the flick of a switch,
cupboards would fly open and
mechanically controlled revolvers would fire. The Sultan employed thousands of spies and secret
agents; the ones he considered most
trustworthy being the hundreds of caged parrots
which were hung on street corners and trained to squawk if they saw a stranger. Another of his many (49.
PECULIAR) was that he always carried a
pearl-handled revolver. No-one dared put their hands in their pockets in his presence - to do so
would have been an invitation for him to
take a pot shot. When one of his daughters once (50. PLAY) gave him a shove from behind, he spun
round and shot her before realizing who
it was.
III. READING
46. __________________
47. __________________ 48. __________________
49. __________________ 50. __________________
Part 1: For questions 51-60, fill each of the
following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
ON THE OTHER HAND?
We left-handed people lack collective pride.
We just try to get by, in our clumsy way. We make (51) ______ demands and we
avoid a fuss. I used to say whenever someone watched me sign my name and
remarked that he or she was also left-handed: "You and me and Leonardo da
Vinci!" That was a weak joke, but it contained my often unconscious desire
to (52) ______to Left Pride, a social movement that doesn't(53) ______ exist
but I hope may one day come. There are many false stories about the left-handed
in circulation:
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for example, a few decades ago someone wrote
that Picasso was left-handed, and others kept (54) ______it, but the proof is
all to the contrary.
The great genius Einstein is often still
claimed as one of (55) ______, also without proof. And sadly, there is also no
truth in the myth that the left-handed (56) ______to be smarter and more
creative. Despite the amount of research that has been carried out, researchers
in the field are still in two (57) ______about what we mean by left-handed.
Apparently a third of those who write with their left hand throw a ball with
their right. However, those using their right hand for (58) ______ rarely throw
with their left. A difficult skill that becomes crucial at a (59) ______
impressionable age, writing defines what you will call yourself. I have never
used scissors, baseball bat, hockey stick or computer mouse with anything but
my right; even so, I think I'm left-handed as (60) ______ everyone else.
Your answers:
51.
56.
52.
57.
53.
58.
54.
59.
55.
60.
Part 2: For questions 61-70, read the
following passage and do the tasks that follow. THE ROBOTS ARE COMING
What is the current state of play in
Artificial Intelligence?
Paragraph A
Can robots advance so far that they become the
ultimate threat to our existence? Some scientists say no, and dismiss the very
idea of Artificial Intelligence. The human brain, they argue, is the most
complicated system ever created, and any machine designed to reproduce human
thought is bound to fail. Physicist Roger Penrose of Oxford University and
others believe that machines are physically incapable of human thought. Colin
McGinn of Rutgers University backs this up when he says that Artificial
Intelligence ‘is like sheep trying to do complicated psychoanalysis. They just
don’t have the conceptual equipment they need in their limited brains’.
Paragraph B
Artificial Intelligence, or Al, is different
from most technologies in that scientists still understand very little about
how intelligence works. Physicists have a good understanding of Newtonian
mechanics and the quantum theory of atoms and molecules, whereas the basic laws
of intelligence remain a mystery. But a sizable number of mathematicians and computer
scientists, who are specialists in the area, are optimistic about the
possibilities. To them it is only a matter of time before a thinking machine
walks out of the laboratory. Over the years, various problems have impeded all
efforts to create robots. To attack these difficulties, researchers tried to
use the ‘top- down approach’, using a computer in an attempt to program all the
essential rules onto a single disc. By inserting this into a machine, it would
then become self-aware and attain human-like intelligence.
Paragraph C
In the 1950s and 1960s great progress was
made, but the shortcomings of these prototype robots soon became clear. They
were huge and took hours to navigate across a room. Meanwhile, a fruit fly,
with a brain containing only a fraction of the computing power, can
effortlessly navigate in three dimensions. Our brains,
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like the fruit fly’s, unconsciously recognize
what we see by performing countless calculations. This unconscious awareness of
patterns is exactly what computers are missing. The second problem is robots’
lack of common sense. Humans know that water is wet and that mothers are older
than their daughters. But there is no mathematics that can express these
truths. Children learn the intuitive laws of biology and physics by interacting
with the real world. Robots know only what has been programmed into them.
Paragraph D
Because of the limitations of the top-down
approach to Artificial Intelligence, attempts have been made to use a
‘bottom-up’ approach instead – that is, to try to imitate evolution and the way
a baby learns. Rodney Brooks was the director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence
laboratory, famous for its lumbering ‘top- down’ walking robots. He changed the
course of research when he explored the unorthodox idea of tiny ‘insectoid’
robots that learned to walk by bumping into things instead of computing
mathematically the precise position of their feet. Today many of the
descendants of Brooks’ insectoid robots are on Mars gathering data for NASA
(The National Aeronautics and Space Administration), running across the dusty
landscape of the planet. For all their successes in mimicking the behavior of
insects, however, robots using neural networks have performed miserably when
their programmers have tried to duplicate in them the behavior of higher
organisms such as mammals. MIT’s Marvin Minsky summarises the problems of Al:
‘The history of Al is sort of funny because the first real accomplishments were
beautiful things, like a machine that could do well in a maths course. But then
we started to try to make machines that could answer questions about simple
children’s stories. There’s no machine today that can do that.’
Paragraph E
There are people who believe that eventually
there will be a combination between the top- down and bottom-up, which may
provide the key to Artificial Intelligence. As adults, we blend the two
approaches. It has been suggested that our emotions represent the quality that
most distinguishes us as human, that it is impossible for machines ever to have
emotions. Computer expert Hans Moravec thinks that in the future robots will be
programmed with emotions such as fear to protect themselves so that they can
signal to humans when their batteries are running low, for example. Emotions
are vital in decision-making. People who have suffered a certain kind of brain
injury lose the ability to experience emotions and become unable to make
decisions. Without emotions to guide them, they debate endlessly over their
options. Moravec points out that as robots become more intelligent and are able
to make choices, they could likewise become paralysed with indecision. To aid
them, robots of the future might need to have emotions hardwired into their
brains.
Paragraph F
There is no universal consensus as to whether
machines can be conscious, or even, in human terms, what consciousness means.
Minsky suggests the thinking process in our brain is not localised but spread
out, with different centres competing with one another at any given time.
Consciousness may then be viewed as a sequence of thoughts and images issuing
from these different, smaller ‘minds’, each one competing for our attention.
Robots might eventually attain a ‘silicon consciousness’. Robots, in fact,
might one day embody an architecture for thinking and processing information
that is different from ours – but also indistinguishable. If that happens, the
question of whether they really ‘understand’ becomes largely irrelevant. A
robot that has perfect mastery of syntax, for all practical purposes, understands
what is being said.
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The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F.
Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter,
A-F, in boxes 61-67. You may use any letter more than once. 61. An insect that
proves the superiority of natural intelligence over Artificial Intelligence 62.
Robots being able to benefit from their mistakes
63. Many researchers not being put off
believing that Artificial Intelligence will eventually be developed 64. An
innovative approach that is having limited success
65. The possibility of creating Artificial
Intelligence being doubted by some academics 66. No generally accepted
agreement of what our brains do
67. Robots not being able to extend the
intelligence in the same way as humans
Your answers:
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
Look at the following people (Questions 68-70)
and the list of statements below. Match each person with the correct statement
A-E. Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 68-70. 68. Colin McGinn
69. Marvin Minsky
70. Hans Moravec
A. Artificial Intelligence may require
something equivalent to feelings in order to succeed. B. Different kinds of
people use different parts of the brain.
C. Tests involving fiction have defeated
Artificial Intelligence so far.
D. People have intellectual capacities which
do not exist in computers.
E. People have no reason to be frightened of
robots.
Your answers:
68.
69.
70.
Part 3: For questions 71-75, you are going to
read an extract from an article. Five paragraphs have been removed from the
extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-F the one which fits each gap (71-75).
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
A REALISTIC VIEW
One of the most memorable scenes from Francis
Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now shows a beach landing by US troops under heavy
fire. As the camera pans around, we catch a glimpse of Coppola himself,
directing another film crew, shouting ‘Don’t look at the camera!’ as the actors
stream past.
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The image, and especially the moving image, has a power that text and spoken word has not; the power of immediate impact. Whereas before Vietnam, casualties of war would be reported in dry figures, now the viewer could see the corpses strewn on the battlefield. The images of the Vietnam War undoubtedly played a part in creating the anti-war movement back in the States, and the eventual ceasefire.
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And because the camera is ever-present, the
other mass media, especially newspapers, are being forced to take steps to
compete. No longer is it enough to collect various stories and patch together
an article; the modern-day journalist is expected to provide an eyewitness
account of the front lines of a battle, must live among the combatants and duck
under the live bullets and avoid the explosions along with them.
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It has also led to an extremely alarming rise
in the numbers of casualties, including fatalities, among members of the press.
This reached such a level during the Bosnian War that staff from different
media networks banded together, refusing to send more than one camera crew into
the field at a time and pooling all the footage obtained.
74
This means good pictures, certainly, and the
gritty scenes that keep the viewer hooked. However, if every news show has the
same pictures, why should the viewers watch one show over another? What a news
show wants are the exclusive pictures; to be the only channel that shows this
shot, that angle, these exciting sequences.
75
Journalists are often deeply ambitious, driven people, insatiable in their chase for the big story that will make their name, their career. They know very well that news does not get any bigger than war news, and so when a conflict breaks out, they flock to the scene, itching to get into the heat of the action. So when the US invaded Afghanistan, it was not just troops that went over the border. Journalists, cameramen, photographers, all went along for the ride, penetrating areas of the country shunned even by the US military, all in search of that elusive goal, the exclusive, whether in the form of an article, a photograph or a video clip.
The missing paragraphs
A. It leads to rather incongruous scenes.
Enemies exchanging gunfire along a city street, hugging the walls of buildings.
Behind them, similarly crouched, is a cameraman aiming lens instead of gun; a
reporter clutching a microphone in a white-knuckled fist is hiding behind him,
babbling commentary to a live audience.
B. However, sensible measures such as these
are not good enough for the networks. The images thus obtained may be real, may
show the situation as it is happening on the ground, but what a news show wants
above all else is not the truth, especially. It wants good TV.
C. They come with their notebooks open and
pens poised, their cameras loaded, ready to snap or roll. They are the war
correspondents, veterans of Bosnia, Somalia and Kosovo, battle-scarred and
hardened, more ready for combat than most of the soldiers they stop to
interview.
D. Why was the mistake not taken out of the
final cut? Because it fitted perfectly. The Vietnam War was the first war to be
properly televised, and scenes from it were part and parcel of the average
American’s experience of the war. So the scene in the film looks authentic
precisely because it has a film crew on the sidelines, shooting the soldiers
going into action.
E. At every opportunity, the networks will be
putting pressure on their staff to capture the fresh, the new, to venture
deeper and deeper into the battlefield in search of that award-winning scoop.
And, if the truth be known, they rarely find themselves running particularly
short of volunteers. F. So it has become expected that every war be accompanied
by a visual commentary, and this has necessitated the sending of camera crews
into war zones to capture the moments on celluloid (or now, video). A war is no
longer a real war unless it is televised.
Your answers:
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
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Part 4: For questions 76-85, read an extract
from an article on language and choose the answer A, B, C or D which you think
fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided.
AN UNLIKELY MUSE
A new wave of music and arts projects has
emerged, focusing on someone who may seem for some a dubious source of
inspiration. Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, is currently
becoming the subject of musicals, song cycles and shows on a worldwide arena.
When the Marcos regime collapsed in 1986, and Imelda and her husband Ferdinand were exiled in Hawaii, they carried with them allegations of embezzlement, corruption and human rights abuses. Imelda had spent the last twenty years living off a seemingly endless supply of funds, living an exotic and glamorous lifestyle and rubbing shoulders with powerful figures worldwide. In 1972, when the superstar couple’s popularity was fading and they were at risk of losing their power, Ferdinand Marcos instated martial, leading to an era of chaos and plunder, and what is described by some as the second most corrupt regime of the twentieth century. Ferdinand and Imelda fled in 1986 to escape the People’s Power Revolution, Imelda leaving behind some 2000 pairs of shoes.
After her husband died in Hawaii due to ill
health, Imelda stood trial in the United States on behalf of her husband.
Following that, she returned to the Philippines to face seventy more counts of
corruption and tax evasion. She has now returned to congress in the
Philippines, her make-up and gowns as flawless as ever. So what makes Imelda
Marcos such an appealing muse? Undoubtedly, Imelda Marcos’s resolute character
which has withstood exile, legal battles and the wrath of her enemies makes her
an appealing heroine, but film-maker Fenton Bailey attributes her iconicity to
her sense of glamour and style, and her role as a cultural trend-setter. And
like so many women who let nothing come between them and their goals, she has
gained a certain iconic status, particularly among homosexuals, not unlike that
of Judy Garland and Lady Gaga. And now the story of Imelda Marcos can be seen
in the format of a musical, an artistic genre which is quite befitting for this
flamboyant, entertaining figure of beauty and glamour. ‘Imelda – A new musical’
has played in Los Angeles and New York. The artistic director of the musical,
Tim Dang, realises that the musical glosses over the darker aspects of the
Marcos regime, but wanted to portray Imelda as a person with all her faults on
display, leaving the audience to come to a verdict. However, despite the glitz
of the show, reviews were mixed, stating the ‘the serio-comic spoof... had a
vacuum at its centre’. The story of Imelda Marcos has also been immortalised as
a song cycle, ‘Here Lies Love’ written by David Byrne and Norman Cook, in which
Imelda comes across as both a hero and villain. Their reasoning was to try to
understand the story of how people can attain positions of such power and
greed. They were also inspired by Imelda’s love of dancing and clubbing, and
how her own style of music could be incorporated into their own. Byrne adds
that their story is not black and white – the couple were very popular at
first, and Imelda headed a lot of public works in the Philippines and added
much to the nation’s sense of culture and identity.
At the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, a tour named ‘La Vida Imelda’ led by Carlos Sedran describes the life of Imelda Marcos, the cold war and martial law, while also portraying the glamour of the Imelda lifestyle. He describes it as an eternal story, in which her extravagance can be seen as either distasteful or in some ways estimable.
There is a danger that these new art forms
airbrush out the atrocity which accompanied the ostentation and glamour. It was
a time when democracy was suppressed, political enemies disappeared, and
billions of
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dollars which could have helped the
poverty-stricken country were spent on the Marcos’s extravagant lifestyle.
However, the artists involved are keen to make clear that the regime also
resulted in great leaps forward in the country’s culture, architecture and
infrastructure. The Marcos legacy remains in the form of hospitals, Heart and
Lung Centres, Folk Art theatres and homes for children and the elderly,
notwithstanding that the Marcos couple set their war-ravaged, poverty-stricken
land onto the world stage.
76. Why are Imelda’s shoes mentioned in the
second paragraph?
A. To illustrate how little she cared for her
personal possessions
B. To illustrate her love of fashion and
beauty
C. To indicate how quickly she had to flee the
country
D. To illustrate the extravagance of her
lifestyle
77. What aspect of Imelda’s character is
emphasised in paragraph 3?
A. her flamboyance B. her beauty C. her
doggedness D. her forbearance 78. Why is Imelda compared with Judy Garland and
Lady Gaga?
A. Due to her status as a gay icon B. Due to
her ambition and drive
C. Because she has created new fashions D. Because she has triumphed over legal battles 79. The phrase “rubbing shoulders” in the second paragraph mostly means ______. A. hobnobbing B. abetting C. fostering D. conferring 80. Why was the musical of Imelda’s life criticised?
A. Because it did not portray Imelda’s faults
B. Because the show was too shallow C. Because it was too glamorous and showy
D. Because it was both serious and comedic 81. What was it about Imelda’s story
that interested David Byrne and Norman Cooke? A. The ongoing themes of power,
greed and music
B. The fact that the story had both a clear
hero and villain
C. The reasoning why people such as Imelda
become who they are
D. The fact that her musical taste was similar
to theirs
82. The word ‘incorporated in the sixth
paragraph is closest in meaning to _____. A. inverted B. infused C. integrated
D. interbred 83. According to Carlos Sedran, how do people respond to Imelda’s
expensive lifestyle? A. Most people are shocked by it. B. It evokes both
positive and negative feelings. C. People want to be like her. D. People
realise why she did it.
84. The word ‘atrocity in the last paragraph
is closest in meaning to _____.
A. complexity B. indignity C. mendacity D.
barbarity 85. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text as something
Imelda Marcos did for the Philippines? A. She made health services available to
the people.
B. She gave the country a cultural identity.
C. She reduced the levels of poverty for
Filipino people.
D. She drew the world’s attention to the
country.
Your answers:
76.
77.
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
Part 5: For questions 86-95, you are going to
read an article about the effects of tourism on local people. Choose from the
people (A–E). The people may be chosen more than once. 10
LIVING WITH TOURISM
Five people describe how tourism has affected
their home town.
A.Leonor Sousa
It can’t be denied that tourism has attracted
investment, which has certainly raised living standards here, but the cost in
other respects has been extremely high. Take the effect on the environment, for
instance. When my parents were young this used to be an area of fields and
woods, but now everything is covered in concrete. The tourists themselves
aren’t responsible for this; it’s the construction companies, property
developers and estate agents who are to blame because they’re the ones making
all the money. They’re all based in the big cities and bring in their own
people, so they hardly create any employment at all for local residents.
B.Yusuf Demir
When I was growing up in my home town there
was a path I used to walk along to go to school, and last summer I went to see
if it was still there. It was, but the view from it had changed completely. Now
there is a vast shopping mall, with a cinema and cafés alongside. I don’t
actually mind that, because it means there are lots more things to do, and I
also like the fact that it has a really international atmosphere. It’s good for
local people to meet visitors from other parts of the world, try new kinds of
food and hear about different ways of living.
C. Matt Walker
Tourism has changed this town so much, even in
the years since I was at junior school. In those days, there was a football
pitch near the harbour where we would kick a ball around, but it’s gone now,
which is a pity. In the harbour itself luxury yachts owned by people from
richer parts of the country have replaced the fishing boats, to the extent that
there is now no sign of what used to be the main source of income and employment
locally. In the evenings, the town is certainly a lot livelier, but sometimes
people start doing things they would never think of doing back in their own
home towns, and then the police have to be called. D. Trisha Chandra
I was just a child when tourism first took off
here, and those incredibly ugly houses were built for summer visitors. The
residents really should have protested about that. It was all the fault of the
town council, who only ever thought in the short term and seemed to give
planning permission to anyone who applied to build anything. Nowadays, there’s
talk of ecological tourism, but that’s just a way of making people feel less
guilty about the harm they are doing by making a few insignificant changes,
such as re-using towels in their hotel rooms.
E. Daniela Navarro
I know some of the new hotels and holiday
apartment blocks are unattractive, and that the bars, restaurants and
nightclubs that cater for tourists have changed the nature of the town, but
without them, unemployment – particularly among the young – would be far worse
than it currently is. That, though, is as far as the economic benefits to the
town go, as the only ones making any real money out of all this are the big
tour operators and the owners of hotel chains, none of whom are actually based
in this country. Also, very few tourists learn our language. I know it must be
difficult for them because most of them are quite old, but it means there’s
little communication between us and them.
Which person ______
Your Answers
misses a place they used to go to as a child?
86.
states that tourism provides a considerable
number of jobs for local people?
87.
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wishes local people had opposed the
construction of certain holiday homes?
88.
claims that tourism has destroyed a
traditional industry?
89.
blames the tourist industry for spoiling the
local countryside?
90.
feels that the presence of people from other
cultures benefits the local community?
91.
criticises the behaviour of tourists in their
town?
92.
says the town is wealthier than it was before
it became a tourist resort?
93.
believes that most of the profits from the
local tourist industry go abroad?
94.
is not convinced that so-called green tourism
actually benefits the environment?
95.
IV. WRITING
Part 1: The table below gives information on
consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
Describe the information in the table and make comparisons where relevant. You
should write about 150 words.
PERCENTAGE OF NATIONAL CONSUMER EXPENDITURE BY
CATEGORY – 2002 *****
Country
Food/Drink/Tobacco (%)
Clothing/Footwear (%)
Leisure/Education (%)
Ireland
28.91
6.43
2.21
Italy
16.36
9.00
3.20
Spain
18.80
6.51
1.98
Sweden
15.77
5.40
3.22
Turkey
32.14
6.63
4.35
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Part 2: Write an essay of about 350 words on
the following topic:
Some people think that schools should reward
students who show the best academic results, while others believe that it is more important to
reward students who show improvements. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Present argumentation to highlight your opinion on this matter. Give reasons and specific examples to support your opinions.
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