\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0B\u1ea1n \u0111ang chu\u1ea9n b\u1ecb cho k\u1ef3 thi HSG Qu\u1ed1c gia m\u00f4n Ti\u1ebfng Anh v\u00e0 \u0111ang t\u00ecm ki\u1ebfm t\u00e0i li\u1ec7u \u00f4n t\u1eadp? \u0110\u1eebng b\u1ecf l\u1ee1 \u0111\u1ec1 thi ch\u1ecdn \u0111\u1ed9i tuy\u1ec3n ch\u00ednh th\u1ee9c d\u1ef1 thi HSG Qu\u1ed1c gia l\u1edbp 12 THPT Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh n\u0103m h\u1ecdc 2020-2021 c\u00f3 \u0111\u00e1p \u00e1n<\/b>. T\u00e0i li\u1ec7u n\u00e0y cung c\u1ea5p cho b\u1ea1n b\u1ed9 \u0111\u1ec1 thi chu\u1ea9n theo \u0111\u1ecbnh d\u1ea1ng \u0111\u1ec1 thi c\u1ee7a B\u1ed9 Gi\u00e1o d\u1ee5c v\u00e0 \u0110\u00e0o t\u1ea1o, gi\u00fap b\u1ea1n n\u1eafm v\u1eefng ki\u1ebfn th\u1ee9c v\u00e0 r\u00e8n luy\u1ec7n k\u1ef9 n\u0103ng \u0111\u1ec3 chu\u1ea9n b\u1ecb t\u1ed1t nh\u1ea5t cho k\u1ef3 thi s\u1eafp t\u1edbi. \u0110\u1eb7c bi\u1ec7t, \u0111\u00e1p \u00e1n chi ti\u1ebft gi\u00fap b\u1ea1n t\u1ef1 \u0111\u00e1nh gi\u00e1 v\u00e0 s\u1eeda ch\u1eefa nh\u1eefng l\u1ed7i sai trong qu\u00e1 tr\u00ecnh \u00f4n t\u1eadp. T\u1ea3i ngay \u0111\u1ec1 thi HSG Qu\u1ed1c gia l\u1edbp 12 THPT Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh m\u00f4n Ti\u1ebfng Anh c\u00f3 \u0111\u00e1p \u00e1n \u0111\u1ec3 chu\u1ea9n b\u1ecb t\u1ed1t nh\u1ea5t cho k\u1ef3 thi c\u1ee7a b\u1ea1n.<\/p>\r\n\n\n
Tr\u00edch d\u1eabn n\u1ed9i dung “K\u00cc THI CH\u1eccN \u0110\u1ed8I TUY\u1ec2N CH\u00cdNH TH\u1ee8C D\u1ef0 THI HSG QU\u1ed0C GIA L\u1edaP 12 THPT Qu\u1ea3ng Ninh N\u0102M H\u1eccC 2020-2021 M\u00f4n thi TI\u1ebeNG ANH c\u00f3 \u0111\u00e1p \u00e1n<\/b>“:<\/p>\n
S\u1ede GI\u00c1O D\u1ee4C V\u00c0 \u0110\u00c0O T\u1ea0O\nT\u1ec8NH QU\u1ea2NG NINH\n\u0110\u1ec0 THI CH\u00cdNH TH\u1ee8C\nK\u1ef2 THI L\u1eacP \u0110\u1ed8I TUY\u1ec2N H\u1eccC SINH GI\u1eceI C\u1ee6A T\u1ec8NH\n D\u1ef0 THI CH\u1eccN H\u1eccC SINH GI\u1eceI QU\u1ed0C GIA THPT N\u0102M 2020\nM\u00d4N THI : TI\u1ebeNG ANH\nNg\u00e0y thi : 02\/10\/2020\n Th\u1eddi gian thi:180 ph\u00fat, kh\u00f4ng k\u1ec3 th\u1eddi gian giao \u0111\u1ec1\n(\u0110\u1ec1 thi c\u00f3 14 trang)\nC\u00e1n b\u1ed9 coi thi 1\n(H\u1ecd t\u00ean, ch\u1eef k\u00fd)\nH\u1ecd v\u00e0 t\u00ean th\u00ed sinh: S\u1ed0 B\u00c1O DANH\nNg\u00e0y sinh:\nN\u01a1i sinh:\nH\u1ecdc sinh tr\u01b0\u1eddng:\nC\u00e1n b\u1ed9 coi thi 2\n(H\u1ecd t\u00ean, ch\u1eef k\u00fd)\nH\u1ed9i \u0111\u1ed3ng coi thi: S\u1ed0 PH\u00c1CH\n\u0110i\u1ec3m b\u00e0i thi\nB\u1eb1ng s\u1ed1: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nB\u1eb1ng ch\u1eef:\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nH\u1ecd t\u00ean, ch\u1eef k\u00fd c\u1ee7a c\u00e1n b\u1ed9 ch\u1ea5m thi\n1: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\n2: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nS\u1ed1 ph\u00e1ch\nGhi ch\u00fa:\n – Th\u00ed sinh tr\u1ea3 l\u1eddi ngay v\u00e0o b\u00e0i thi n\u00e0y. N\u1ebfu vi\u1ebft sai ph\u1ea3i g\u1ea1ch b\u1ecf r\u1ed3i vi\u1ebft l\u1ea1i.\n – Th\u00ed sinh kh\u00f4ng \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c s\u1eed d\u1ee5ng t\u00e0i li\u1ec7u, k\u1ec3 c\u1ea3 t\u1eeb \u0111i\u1ec3n.\n – C\u00e1n b\u1ed9 coi thi kh\u00f4ng gi\u1ea3i th\u00edch g\u00ec th\u00eam.\nI. LISTENING (50 POINTS)\nH\u01af\u1edaNG D\u1eaaN PH\u1ea6N THI NGHE HI\u1ec2U\n\uf0b7 B\u00e0i nghe g\u1ed3m 4 ph\u1ea7n; m\u1ed7i ph\u1ea7n \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c nghe 2 l\u1ea7n, m\u1ed7i l\u1ea7n c\u00e1ch nhau 10 gi\u00e2y; m\u1edf \u0111\u1ea7u v\u00e0 k\u1ebft th\u00fac\nm\u1ed7i ph\u1ea7n nghe c\u00f3 t\u00edn hi\u1ec7u.\n\uf0b7 M\u1edf \u0111\u1ea7u v\u00e0 k\u1ebft th\u00fac b\u00e0i nghe c\u00f3 nh\u1ea1c hi\u1ec7u.\n\uf0b7 M\u1ecdi h\u01b0\u1edbng d\u1eabn cho th\u00ed sinh (b\u1eb1ng ti\u1ebfng Anh) \u0111\u00e3 c\u00f3 trong b\u00e0i nghe.\nPart 1: You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about the means of escape\nthey use to cope with the demands of their working lives. Match the extracts with what each speaker\nfinds demanding about their work, listed A \u2013 H.\nA. emotional involvement\nB. an excess of information\n C. clashes of personality\nD. everyday problems\nE. arguments about procedures\nF. extended working hours\nG. being in the public eye\nH. lack of physical space\nPart 2: You will hear the beginning of a radio programme about the use of fingerprints in crimimal\ninvestigations. For questions 6 -14, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.\nIn England, fingerprinting techniques were widely used from the year (6)___________________\nonwards. In the Deptford murders, a fingerprint left on a (7) _____________________ in a shop led to a\nconviction. Today, fingerprints are particularly useful in solving cases of (8) ________________________\nand crimes involving cars. New technology means that fingerprints can now even be taken from difficult\nplaces like (9) _______________________ or polished surfaces. The police officers\u2019fingerprinting\nequipment at the scene of a crime includes a (10) _____________________ powders and gels. NAFIS is\nthe name of the (11) ___________________ in the computer system which handles fingerprints.\nMatching fingerprints is likened to the game known by the name (12) ____________________________\nThe pattern on most fingerprints is either arched or comes in (13) _________________________ or loops.\nEveryone has unique fingerprints, even people such as (14) _____________________________.<\/p>\n
\nPage | 1\nSpeaker 1 1.\nSpeaker 2 2.\nSpeaker 3 3.\nSpeaker 4 4.\nSpeaker 5 5.\nPart 3. For questions 15-19, listen to an interview with someone who review hotels and choose the\ncorrect answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what your hear. Write your answers in the\ncorresponding numbered boxes provided.\n15. What does Paddy say about some readers of her column?\nA. They suspect that she enjoys criticising hotels.\nB. Her attitude to hotels has changed because of their response.\nC. Her comments match their experiences of hotels.\nD. They prefer reading about hotels they would not want to visit.\n16. What does Paddy say about some hotel-keepers?\nA. They sometimes have to force themselves to have a sense of humour.\nB. They would be more suited to a different profession.\nC. They expect to receive negative comments about their hotels.\nD. They are surprised that they become friends of hers.\n17. Paddy says that some hotel-keepers she has contacted about the book have\nA. realised that she does not really have an assistant called Emily.\nB. corrected inaccuracies that were in her review of their hotels.\nC. responded favourably despite criticism she had made.\nD. made her wonder whether her reviews of their hotels were unfair.\n18. Paddy says that one hotel-keeper she spoke to told her that\nA. other people are unlikely to be treated in the same way in hotels as she is.\nB. he was unwilling to discuss some of the comments in her review.\nC. her reviews did not have much influence as she believed.\nD. he no longer wanted his hotel to appear in the book.\n19. The same owner also told her that\nA. he had passed information about her to other hotels.\nB. he resented her description of him in her review.\nC. he did not understand why she wanted to put his hotel in her book.\nD. there was nothing distinctive about her physical appearance.\n<\/p>\n
Your answers\n15. 16. 17. 18. 19.\nPart 4. For questions 20-25, listen to part of a news report on 5G communication and complete the\nfollowing sentences. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording to complete\neach blank.\n5G is really the future communication standard that’s being designed now. 5G is going to enable\nnot only an even better smartphone, it’s also able to deliver higher data rates, is able to deliver lower\nlatency, it\u2019s able to deliver more (20) _____________________________and availability – these sorts of\nimprovements are something that is going to bring in a new range of applications. I get excited about the\npossibility for virtual reality, (21) _______________________________ games where it may not be too\nsurprising that 10 years from now keeps going to be gathering with their friends in a park and they’re all\nbringing their (22) ____________________________and there’s communication between those devices,\nthere\u2019s communication from the networks to those devices, entirely new mixtures of physical and virtual\nreality games are being played. If we look at the (23) _____________________________and the ability\nfor these factories themselves to have critical communication within the factory, low-latency information\nexchange between the larger number of industrial equipment within the factories and then you can also\nlook at the sort of communication technologies that are going to be embedded into the vehicles themselves,\nso this both from a (24) _____________________________, in terms of communication between vehicles,\nbut then also in terms of the amount of data that’s being created within a vehicle. Let’s take the example of\nan EMT in terms of (25) _____________________________ that they capture upon recognizing the\npatient and the symptoms, but then there’s also the aspect of what sort of data is immediately available to\nthe EMT. It\u2019s the ability to have that kind of information availability be more instantaneous, more relevant\nand more structured specific to that situation. Qualcomm is driving 5G in many different directions and\nreally pushing the boundaries of what’s capable for a wireless network.\nPage | 2\nII. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (20 points)\nPart 1. For questions 26-40, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the following questions.\nWrite your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.\n26. Looking after a house, four children, a lazy husband and two dogs is real ________.\n A. labour B. drudgery C. toil D. grind\n27. I’ve searched ________ for that old photo album, but I can’t find it anywhere.\n A. high and low B. long and short\n C. straight and narrow D. thick and thin\n28. I don\u2019t like the way that Jack is always trying to ________ trouble between us.\n A. dish out B. rub up C. stir up D. spark out<\/p>\n
\n29. Our teacher tends to ______ certain subjects which she finds difficult to talk about.\n A. boil down B. string along C. skate over D. track down\n30. As I said before, the report will be released in the ________ of time. I can’t estimate when that will be.\n A. rightness B. fullness C. greatness D. correctness\n31. I hope the fact that Louise isn’t coming won’t ________ your enjoyment of the evening.\n A. scrap B. mar C. oust D. flout\n32. It would be nice if we could ________, but he has a bad habit of stretching the truth.\n A. take him down a peg or two B. take him up on it\n C. take him at his word D. take him for granted\n33. The children looked forward to their upcoming vacation with great ________.\n A. valour B. conduct C. virtue D. ardour\n34. Peter was too ________ to dare to stand up and speak in front of all those people.\n A. self-aware B. self-righteous C. self-indulgent D. self-conscious\n35. Many diseases that used to be considered ________ of mankind are now easily treatable with\nantibiotics.\n A. scourges B. tortures C. blights D. thorns\n36. He found the fact that Susan had been saving money secretly quite ________.\n A. discordant B. discontenting C. disconcerting D. discouraging\n37. Although I had made my arrangements well in advance, my plans ________ forced to come up with an\nalternative solution.\n A. backfired B. backtracked C. backlashed D. backwashed\n38. With a self-confidence bordering on arrogance, Francelli got out of his car and ________ over to the\ncrowd of journalists.\n A. skulked B. crept C. swaggered D. shuffled\n39. Understanding the world economic conditions, the recent graduates spoke ________ about job\nprospects for the future.\n A. warily B. luxuriously C. measurably D. narrowly\n40. Mr. Simkins is the big _______ in the company as he has just been promoted to the position of\nManaging Director.\n A. bread B. cheese C. apple D. meat\nYour answers:\n26. 27. 28. 29. 30.\n31. 32. 33. 34. 35.\n36. 37. 38. 39. 40.\nPart 2. For questions 41-45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space\nprovided in the column on the right.\n41. When the lab findings and the research results were _________________________, an amazing\ndiscovery came to light. (RELATE)\n42. All this talk of changes in the company is rather ____________________________. (SETTLE)\n43. Mark\u2019s __________________________to customers led to his finally being dismissed. (CIVIL)\n44. \u201cIs there any ____________________________in your abdomen?\u201d asked the doctor. (TENDER)\n45. There was a ______________________smell coming from inside the old disused well. (REPEL)\nPage | 3\nIII. READING (50 points)\n<\/p>\n
Part 1.For questions 46-55, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write\nyour answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.\nThe Hoody\nThe hooded top, or \u201choody\u201d, has become something of a symbol of youth crime in Britain. It seems\nto get a mention whenever the newspapers get (46) ________ the subject. Those wearing them are often\nclassed (47) ________ yobs or hooligans, even when they have done nothing (48) ________ the law. The\nproblem is that hoodies can easily hide their identity from CCTV cameras. Those (49) ________ authority\nin some places such as shopping centres have even gone so far as to ban people wearing hoodies. They\nclaim that the threat of crime (50) ________ them the right to do it, but there is a danger that young people\nwill actually be provoked (51) ________ behaving in antisocial ways through rules like this. They may feel\nthat those (52) ____________ power are discriminating against them, and that they refuse to listen when\nthey deny (53) _____________ done anything wrong. It seems to be a classic example (54) ____________\nolder people feeling threatened by the fashions of the young. At the end of the day, what the members of\ntheir peer (55) ________ think will always be more important to the young than what people running\nshopping centres think they should or shouldn\u2019t wear.\nYour answers:\n46. 47. 48. 49. 50.\n51. 52. 53. 54. 55.\nPart 2. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.\nTime Travel\nTime travel took a small step away from science fiction and toward science recently when physicists\ndiscovered that sub-atomic particles known as neutrinos \u2013 progeny of the sun\u2019s radioactive debris \u2013 can\nexceed the speed of light. The unassuming particle \u2013 it is electrically neutral, small but with a \u201cnon-zero\nmass\u201d and able to penetrate the human form undetected \u2013 is on its way to becoming a rock star of the\nscientific world.\nResearchers from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva sent the\nneutrinos hurtling through an underground corridor toward their colleagues at the Oscillation Project with\nEmulsion-Tracing Apparatus (OPERA) team 730 kilometres away in Gran Sasso, Italy. The neutrinos\narrived promptly \u2013 so promptly, in fact, that they triggered what scientists are calling the unthinkable \u2013 that\neverything they have learnt, known or taught stemming from the last one hundred years of the physics\ndiscipline may need to be reconsidered.\nThe issue at stake is a tiny segment of time \u2013 precisely sixty nanoseconds (which is sixty billionths of a\nsecond). This is how much faster than the speed of light the neutrinos managed to go in their underground\ntravels and at a consistent rate (15,000 neutrinos were sent over three years). <\/p>\n
Even allowing for a margin of\nerror of ten billionths of a second, this stands as proof that it is possible to race against light and win. The\nduration of the experiment also accounted for and ruled out any possible lunar effects or tidal bulges in the\nearth\u2019s crust.\nNevertheless, there\u2019s plenty of reason to remain sceptical. According to Harvard University science\nhistorian Peter Galison, Einstein\u2019s relativity theory has been \u201cpushed harder than any theory in the history\nof the physical sciences\u201d. Yet each prior challenge has come to no avail, and relativity has so far refused to\nbuckle.\nSo is time travel just around the corner? The prospect has certainly been wrenched much closer to the\nrealm of possibility now that a major physical hurdle \u2013the speed of light \u2013 has been cleared. If particles can\ntravel faster than light, in theory travelling back in time is possible. How anyone harnesses that to some\nkind of helpful end is far beyond the scope of any modern technologies, however, and will be left to future\ngenerations to explore.\nCertainly, any prospective time travellers may have to overcome more physical and logical hurdles\nthan merely overtaking the speed of light. One such problem, posited by Ren\u00e9 Barjavel in his 1943 text Le\nVoyageur Imprudent is the so-called grandfather paradox. Barjavel theorised that, if it were possible to go\nback in time, a time traveller could potentially kill his own grandfather. If this were to happen, however,\nPage | 4\nthe time traveller himself would not be born, which is already known to be true. In other words, there is a\nparadox in circumventing an already known future; time travel is able to facilitate past actions that mean\ntime travel itself cannot occur.\nOther possible routes have been offered, though. For Igor Novikov, astrophysicist behind the 1980s\u2019\ntheorem known as the self-consistency principle, time travel is possible within certain boundaries. Novikov\nargued that any event causing a paradox would have zero probability. It would be possible, however, to\n\u201caffect\u201d rather than \u201cchange\u201d historical outcomes if travellers avoided all inconsistencies. Averting the\nsinking of the Titanic, for example, would revoke any future imperative to stop it from sinking \u2013 it would\nbe impossible. Saving selected passengers from the water and replacing them with realistic corpses would\nnot be impossible, however, as the historical record would not be altered in any way.\nA further possibility is that of parallel universes. Popularised by Bryce Seligman DeWitt in the 1960s\n(from the seminal formulation of Hugh Everett), the many-worlds interpretation holds that an alternative\npathway for every conceivable occurrence actually exists. If we were to send someone back in time, we\nmight therefore expect never to see him again \u2013 any alterations would divert that person down a new\nhistorical trajectory.\nA final hypothesis, one of unidentified provenance, reroutes itself quite efficiently around the\ngrandfather paradox. Non-existence theory suggests exactly that \u2013 a person would quite simply never exist\nif they altered their ancestry in ways that obstructed their own birth. They would still exist in person upon\nreturning to the present, but any chain reactions associated with their actions would not be registered. Their\n\u201chistorical identity\u201d would be gone.\nSo, will humans one day step across the same boundary that the neutrinos have? World-renowned\nastrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that once spaceships can exceed the speed of light, humans could\nfeasibly travel millions of years into the future in order to repopulate earth in the event of a forthcoming\napocalypse. This is because, as the spaceships accelerate into the future, time would slow down around\nthem (Hawking concedes that bygone eras are off limits \u2013 this would violate the fundamental rule that\ncause comes before effect).\nHawking is therefore reserved yet optimistic. \u201cTime travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I\nused to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank. These days I\u2019m not so cautious.\u201d\nDo the following statements agree with the information given in the reading Passage? Write\nTRUE if the statement agrees with the information\nFALSE if the statement contradicts the information\nNOT GIVEN if there is no information on this\n<\/p>\n
56. It is unclear where neutrinos come from.\n57. Neutrinos can pass through a person\u2019s body without causing harm.\n58. It took scientists between 50-70 nanoseconds to send the neutrinos from Geneva to Italy.\n59. Researchers accounted for effects the moon might have had on the experiment.\n60. The theory of relativity has often been called into question unsuccessfully.\n61. This experiment could soon lead to some practical uses for time travel.\nYour answer:\n56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61.\nComplete the table below.\nChoose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.\nOriginal Theorist Theory Principle\nRen\u00e9 Barjavel Grandfather\nparadox\nTime travel would allow for 62. ____________________\nthat would actually make time travel impossible.\nIgor Novikov Self-consistency\nprinciple\nIt is only possible to alter history in ways that result in no\n63. __________________________.\nPage | 5\n64.____________ Many-worlds\ninterpretation\nEach possible event has an 65. _____________________,\nso a time traveller changing the past would simply end up\nin a different branch of history than the one he left.\nUnknown 66._____________\nIf a time traveller changed the past to prevent his future\nlife, he would not have a 67. ______________________\nas the person never existed.\nChoose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.\n68. Stephen Hawking has stated that\nA. Human time travel is theoretically possible, but is unlikely to ever actually occur.\nB. Human time travel might be possible, but only moving backward in time.\nC. Human time travel might be possible, but only moving forward in time.\nD. All time travel is impossible.\nPart 3. For questions 69 \u2013 75, read the article about the Hollywood film industry. Seven paragraphs\nhave been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-H below the one which fits each gap\n(69-75). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.\nHollywood\nIn the years after the Second World War, the Hollywood film Even before the war, Hollywood studios had\nbeen up in arms industry underwent a major transformation. Increased competition about attempts to break\nup their vertically integrated systems of from foreign films, falling numbers of cinema audiences, and\nproduction, distribution and exhibition. They appealed the case all attacks on the studio structure by\ngovernment agencies led to a loss of revenue which crippled the American industry, and forced it into\nrapid and profound change.\n69.\n This phenomenon cannot simply be blamed on the rise of television, as it began five years before\ntelevision existed as a viable alternative to movie-going. After the Second World War, there was a\ndemographic and cultural shift in urban America that profoundly altered the leisure patterns of US society.\n70.\nThe Hollywood studios were not oblivious to these population shifts. They saw the need to provide new\ntheatres, and, once the necessary building materials became available, they began the process of\nconstructing 4,000 drive-ins throughout the USA. The drive-in theatre offered a pleasant, open space\nwhere movie fans in parked cars could watch double features on a massive screen. By June 1956, at the\nvery height of the drift away from the urban environment to green belt areas, and of the baby-boom, more\npeople in the USA went to the drive-ins than to the traditional ‘hard-top’ theatres.\n<\/p>\n
71.\nMeanwhile, the shift of movie houses to where the audience was now located created another problem for\nthe shaking foundations of the Hollywood studios. The disappearance of the division between ‘first-run’\nhouses in town centres showing prestige pictures, and local neighbourhood cinemas, changed the pattern of\nfilm demand, necessitating a major change in the organization of film production.\n72.\nEven before the war, Hollywood studios had been up in arms about attempts to break up their vertically\nintegrated systems of production, distribution and exhibition. They appealed the case all the way to the\nSupreme Court; but 1948 proved to be the end of the road, and, in what became known as the ‘Paramount\ndecision’, the court ruled for the divorce of production and exhibition, and the elimination of unfair\nbooking practices.\n73.\nHowever, the studios still retained a significant measure of direct control through international distribution.\nThe ‘Paramount decision’ wounded Hollywood, but did not break it. Although the major companies would\nPage | 6\nhave adjusted far better to the new conditions had they retained their theatres, they still held sway as long\nas they produced what exhibitors and audiences wanted .\n74.\nIn 1939, Technicolor had lit up the screen in Gone with the Wind, but throughout its early years had only\nbeen employed for a select group of features, principally historical epics and lavish musicals. Just over a\ndecade later, Technicolor lost its market monopoly as a result of antitrust laws, and the giant Eastman\nKodak soon surged into the market, introducing Eastman Color, which required only one, not three,\nseparate negatives. The studios brought out Eastman Color under a variety of names, and by the early\n1960s virtually all Hollywood movies were being made in colour.\n75.\nHowever, theatres which contracted for the new process were required to employ three full-time\nprojectionists and invest thousands of dollars in new equipment, and this financial outlay proved too much\nfor most.\nThe missing paragraphs\nA. A further blow to the stability of the studio system was delivered by the government. The years\nimmediately after the war saw the culmination of federal antitrust action against the Hollywood studios: a\ncampaign that had started in the 1930s, but had been temporarily halted by the war.\nB. So Hollywood looked to innovation and new technology to tempt patrons back to the theatres. Films\nwere designed on a spectacular scale, clearly superior to the black and white video images broadcast into\nthe home. <\/p>\n
The first of the ‘new’ film technologies, colour, had long been available to the movie industry.\nC. People were cashing in the savings bonds accumulated during the war and buying houses in the\nsuburbs, accelerating a trend which had begun at the turn of the century. This took away the heart of the\nfilm-going audience. Suburbanization also raised the cost of going out to the movies; upon relocation it\nbecame inconvenient and expensive to travel to the centre of town simply to see a film.\nD. A more permanent solution arrived with the shopping centre theatre. As new malls opened in record\nnumbers, the locus of movie attendance permanently shifted. With acres of free parking and ideal access\nfor the car, shopping centres generally included a multiplex with five or more screens.\nE. In 1952, the Hollywood studios went one step further, and made their movies bigger. Cinemas offered\nspectacular widescreen effects by melding images from three synchronized projectors on a vast curved\nscreen. To add to the sense of overwhelming reality, it also included multi-track stereo sound.\nF. What the Hollywood studios needed was a widescreen process without the added complications of 3-D,\nor the prohibitive investment of Cinerama. Fox’s CinemaScope seemed to be the answer: a widescreen\nprocess which used an anamorphic lens to expand the size of the image.\nG. Perhaps the most important watershed in the Hollywood system began in the middle of the last century.\nCertainly, by the early 1960s, attendances at US movie houses were half what they had been during the\nglory days, and thousands of flourishing theatres had closed forever.\nH. During Hollywood’s ‘golden age’, the major studios had directly controlled their own destinies by\nowning the most important theatres. Now they were legally obliged to sell these off, and split their\ncompanies in two; the ‘golden age’ was over and a new age loomed.\nYour answers:\n69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75.\nPage | 7\nPart 4. <\/p>\n
For questions 76-85, read an article on Ancient Angkor choose the answer A, B, C, or D which you\nthink fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.\nAncient Angkor\nIn the regions of Southeast Asia dwell the remains of an era that far exceeded its time in\ndevelopments and industrialization. This ancient city, which was mysteriously deserted in the 15th century,\nis known as Angkor. Located in Cambodia, Angkor was established in 802 CE as the seat of the Khmer\nEmpire. Khmer was the largest continuous empire in Southeast Asia. Its main city of Angkor grew and\ndeveloped until it was abandoned in the year 1431. Many historians theorize as to why it was abandoned,\nbut the mystery remains.\nAngkor was a city of power, industry, architecture, and cultural unity, which is why speculation\nsurrounds its decline. The ancient Khmer city stretched over an area of nearly 120 square miles,\ncomparable to present-day Los Angeles. Each successive ruler to the throne brought significant additions\nthat diversified the territory. One ruler is known for constructing a baray, a massive water reservoir.\nAnother built the imposing Angkor Wat, a temple of great proportions that survived the city\u2019s demise and\nexists today as a Buddhist temple. Along with over seventy other temples in the region, Angkor was home\nto an expansive waterworks of marked ingenuity when nothing of its kind existed in the world. The\ncivilization was structured around the Mekong River. Intricate and sophisticated irrigation systems were\nfashioned to transport water to people and fields in all parts of the city, including those removed from the\ncentral water source. For this, the city became known as the \u201cHydraulic City.\u201d The people of Angkor were\nled by an extensive court system, made up of religious and secular nobles as well as artisans, fishermen,\nrice farmers, soldiers, and elephant keepers. The civilization was guarded by an army transported by\nelephants and ruled by shrewd and powerful kings. Yet after 600 years of existence, an abandoned shell\nwas all that remained.\nThe land, buildings, and architecture were reclaimed by the surrounding forest regions until the\n19th century, when French archaeologists discovered the remains and began restoring sites in the great\ncity of Angkor. Since then, theories have evolved over time relating to the death of Angkor\u2019s civilization.\nThe first theory states that the city fell because of war. The last two centuries of Angkor\u2019s existence\nshowed a decline in the Khmer Empire\u2019s population and power. <\/p>\n
Ongoing wars with neighboring Thailand\nhad devastated the nation. In 1431, attackers from Thai nations invaded and looted Angkor, leaving it\ndesolate and vacant. Continuous war with Thailand culminating in a final attack on the city could have\nweakened the empire and led to the city\u2019s demise.\nAnother theory states that a change in religion led to the country\u2019s downfall. The Khmer Empire\nhad predominately been a Hindu nation, and the people were unified in their religion. Jayavarman VII,\nacclaimed as the greatest of Angkor\u2019s kings, took the throne in 1181 CE. He instituted a change in religion\nfrom Hinduism to Mahayana Buddhism. This action subsequently could have destroyed the unity of the\npeople and the overall foundation of the empire.\n\uf06e A) Natural disaster in another feasible possibility for the scattering of people from the Angkor\nregion. \uf06eB) Historians say earthquakes, floods, and drastic climate changes would have been capable of\nstripping Angkor of its people. \uf06eC) One researcher hypothesized that the city suffered from a lack of water\ndue to the transition from the medieval warm period to the little ice age. Others dismiss this idea. \uf06eD)\nHowever, a recently developed theory built on the work of French archaeologist Bernard-Philippe\nGroslier may have shed the most light on Angkor\u2019s demise. The theory suggests that the Angkorian\ncivilization was \u201cdefined, sustained, and ultimately overwhelmed by over-exploitation and the\nenvironmental impacts of a complex water-management network.\u201d Its vast waterworks proved too great for\nthe city to manage. Also, supplying such a massive empire with water had adverse effects on the\nenvironment. Ecological problems included deforestation, topsoil degradation, and erosion due in part to\nclearing vegetation for cropland. Thus, the city inadvertently brought about its own environmental\ncollapse.\nWith the use of aerial photography and high-resolution, ground-sensing radar, researchers were able to\nsupport Groslier\u2019s theory with images that complete existing topographical maps. The radar detected\nsurface structures as well as subtle variances in surface vegetation and soil moisture. This proved that\nenvironmental erosion had occurred. The combined images and ground-based investigations further\nrevealed that Angkor was a victim of its own industrial ingenuity, a city ahead of its time and vulnerable to\nits own power.\nPage | 8\n76. The author mentions the Khmer Empire in paragraph 1 in order to ________.\nA. establish the size and importance of the civilization\nB. explain the downfall of the main city in the empire\nC. compare the nation\u2019s size to a present-day location\nD. demonstrate why people were not loyal to the city\n77. The word \u201cspeculation\u201d in the passage is closest meaning to________.\nA. evidence B. mystery C. question D. growth\n78. According to paragraph 2, which of the following is true about the waterworks built within Angkor?\n<\/p>\n
A. They transported drinking water to Angkor Wat.\nB. They were a money-making venture for the city.\nC. They were built to extend the water supply.\nD. They irrigated fields along the sides of the river.\n79. All of the following are true about the city of Angkor EXCEPT_______.\nA. It was built around a water source.\nB. It had an advanced road system.\nC. It surpassed other cities of its time.\nD. It is home to a Buddhist shrine.\n80. The word \u201cits\u201d in the passage refers to_______.\nA. Angkor\u2019s B. baray\u2019s C. waterworks\u2019 D. home\u2019s\n81. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence?\nIncorrect choices may change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.\nA. Archaeologists built a replica of what Angkor looked like.\nB. Archaeologists uncovered the overgrown city and rebuilt its sites.\nC. Finding the city, workers cleared the forest and studied the architecture.\nD. The city\u2019s architecture was inspired by the forest regions nearby.\n82. What can be inferred from paragraph 4 about the people who inhabited Angkor?\nA. They worshipped ruler Jayavarman VII.\nB. Hinduism was central to their way of life.\nC. Religion led to more violence among them.\nD. They were unified regardless of national religion.\n83. Look at the four squares [\uf06e] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage\n\u201cThese natural catastrophes would have likely resulted in destroyed buildings, ruined cops, and a\ndecreased water supply that would have forced citizens to leave.\u201d\n Where would the sentence best fit?\nA. first square B. second square C. third square D. fourth square.\n84. The word \u201cinadvertently\u201d in the passage is closest in meaning to ________.\nA. purposely B. freely C. sadly D. accidentally\n85. According to paragraph 7, which of the following did researchers prove about Groslier\u2019s theory with\nthe use of aerial photography and advanced radar?\nA. The surface soil showed evidence of dirt washing away.\nB. The waterworks were filled with topsoil.\nC. Vegetation was thriving where soil was deeper.\nD. Soil damage was stable throughout the changes.\nYour answers:\n76. 77. 78. 79. 80.\n81. 82. 83. 84. 85.\nPart 5. You are going to read an article about electronic books and reading. For questions 86 – 95,\nchoose from the sections (A – D). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in\nthe corresponding boxes provided below the passage\nTHE BOOK IS DEAD – LONG LIVE THE BOOK\nElectronic books are blurring the line between print and digital\n A. A lot of ink has been spilled on the supposed demise of the printed word. Ebooks are outselling paper\nbooks. Newspapers are dying. To quote one expert: ‘The days of the codex as the primary carrier of\ninformation are almost over.’ This has inspired a lot of hand-wringing from publishers, librarians,\nPage | 9\narchivists – and me, a writer and lifelong bibliophile who grew up surrounded by paper books. I’ve been\nblogging since high school, I’m addicted to my smartphone and, in theory, I should be on board with the\ndigital revolution \u2013 but when people mourn the loss of paper books, I sympathise. Are printed books really\ngoing the way of the dodo? And what would we lose if they did? Some commentators think the rumours of\nthe printed word’s imminent demise have been rather overstated. Printed books will live on as art objects\nand collector’s items, they argue, rather in the way of vinyl records. People may start buying all their beach\nnovels and periodicals in ebook formats and curating their physical bookshelves more carefully. It is not\nabout the medium, they say, it is about people. As long as there are those who care about books and don’t\nknow why, there will be books. It’s that simple.\nB. Meanwhile artists are blending print with technology. Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk\nand Brad Bouse is a paper book that can be read only on a computer. Instead of words, every page has a\ngeometric pattern. If you hold so a printed page up to a webcam, while visiting the book’s related website,\nyour screen displays the text of the story streaming, spinning and leaping off the page. Printed books may\nneed to become more multi-faceted. incorporating video, music and interactivity. A group at the MIT\nMedia Lab already builds electronic pop-up books with glowing LEDs <\/p>\n
that brighten and dim as you pull\npaper tabs. and authors have been pushing the boundaries with ‘augmented reality’ books for years. The\nlines between print and digital books are blurring, and interesting things are happening at the interface.\nC. Beyond the page, ebooks may someday transform how we read. We are used to being alone with our\nthoughts inside a book but what if we could invite friends or favourite authors to join in? A web tool called\nSocial Book offers a way to make the experience of reading more collaborative. Readers highlight and\ncomment on text, and can see and respond to comments that others have left in the same book. ‘When you\nput text into a dynamic network, a book becomes a place where readers and sometimes authors can\ncongregate in the margin,’ said Bob Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book. a think tank\nin New York. Stein showed how a high-school class is using Social Book to read and discuss Don Quixote,\nhow an author could use it to connect with readers. and how he and his collaborators have started using it\ninstead of email. Readers can open their books to anyone they want, from close friends to intellectual\nheroes. ‘For us, social is not a pizza topping. It’s not an add-on,’ Stein says. ‘It’s the foundational\ncornerstone of reading and writing going forth into the future.’\nD. The tools might be new, but the goal of SocialBook is hardly radical. Books have found ways to be\nnodes of human connection ever since their inception. That’s why reading a dog-eared volume,\npainstakingly annotated with thoughts and impressions is unfailingly delightful \u2013 akin to making a new\nlike-minded acquaintance. The MIT Rare Books collection has kept a copy of John Stuart Mill’s 1848 book\nPrinciples of Political Economy, not for its content but for the lines and lines of tiny comments a\npassionate but unknown user scrawled in the margins. <\/p>\n
Maybe ebooks are taking us where print was trying\nto go all along.\nIn which section does the writer mention _______\nIn which paragraph is each of the following mentioned? Your answers:\nan example of superseded technology that still has a certain appeal? 86. ___________\nan analogy used to emphasise how seriously an idea is taken? 87. ___________\nan anxiety she shares with other like-minded people? 88. ___________\na development that questions our assumptions about what reading actually entails? 89. ___________\nthe willingness of writers to experiment with new ideas? 90. ___________\nthe idea that books have always been part of an ongoing interactive process? 91. ___________\na seeming contradiction in her own attitudes? 92. ___________\nPage | 10\na belief that the fundamental nature of reading will change? 93. ___________\nfinding pleasure in another readers’ reactions to a book? 94. ___________\na view that a prediction is somewhat exaggerated? 95. ___________\nIV. WRITING (60 POINTS)\nPart 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should be\nbetween 100 and 120 words long.\nAs what geographers have estimated, about twenty percent of the earth’s surface is occupied by\ndeserts. A majority of us view deserts as one unique kind of landscape – areas with little or no rainfalls.\nIn actual fact, there are differences between the deserts, though in varying degrees. While it is\ncommon for laymen like us to see deserts as rocky or covered with gravel or pebbles, there are some where\nlarge sand dunes inhabit. Despite the fact that rainfall is minimal, temperatures do change in deserts,\nranging from seasonal ones to daily changes where extreme hotness and coldness are experienced in the\nday and night.\nUnfavorable conditions in the deserts, especially the lack of water, have discouraged many living\nthings from inhabiting these landscapes. Nevertheless, there are exceptionally surviving ones which\nthrough their superb tactics, have managed to live through and are still going strong. One such kind is the\nspecialist annual plants which overcome seasonal temperature changes with their extremely short, active\nlife cycles. In events of sudden rain, the plant seeds pullulate and grow very quickly to make full use of the\nrain water. Their flowers bloom and set seeds that ripen quickly in the hot sun too. <\/p>\n
Once the water runs\ndry, the mother plant dies, leaving behind the drought-resistant seeds, waiting patiently for the next rainy\nseason to arrive.\nThe Cacti, a native in American deserts, adapts to the dry surroundings by having unique body\nstructures. The plant has swollen stems to help store water that carries it through months. By having sharp\npines instead of leaves, water loss through respiration is minimized. Besides, these pointed pines also help\nthe plant ward off grazing animals, thus enhancing its survival period.\nBesides plants, there are also animals with distinct surviving tactics in deserts too. For instance,\nSkinks (desert lizards) metabolize stored fats in their bulbous tails, producing water to supplement their\nneeds, just like what camels do with the stored food in their humps during long journeys through deserts.\nAntelopes like the addax, have very low water needs and hence are able to tolerate the conditions in\ndeserts, extracting moisture from the food they eat.\nFinally, there are the sandgrouses (desert birds) which do not have special features to overcome the\ndrought-like nature in deserts. Hence, to survive in these hot, dry deserts, they need to spend a large part of\ntheir time flying in search of waterholes.\n. Task 2:\nThe chart below shows the value of one country\u2019s exports in various categories during 2015 and 2016.\nThe table shows the percentage change in each category of exports in 2016 compared with 2015.\nSummarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where\nrelevant.\nWrite about 150 words.\nPercentage change in values (2015 – 2016)\nPetroleum products \uf0e93%\nEngineered goods \uf0e98.5%\nGems and jewellery \uf0ea5.18%\nAgriculatural products \uf0e90.81%\nTextiles \uf0e915.24% Task 3:\nWrite about the following topic:\nA person\u2019s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material\npossessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important.\nTo what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?\nGive reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.\n.
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