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Teacher: Trinh Thanh Trung LẦN III – NĂM 2015

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH

Thời gian thi: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Ngày thi: 27/12/2015

 THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

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I. LISTENING (50 PTS)
Part 1
1a. What part in a presentation is of the greatest import?
the first minute
1b. What can presenters use to capture the audience’s attention?
a hook: an amazing fact, an interesting story, a (thought-provoking) dilemma or a puzzling problem
1c. How should presenters treat their audience?
as equals, involve them
Part Subject Details
One (2a) historical context/background (2b) differences in culture and (2c) style of management
Two current (3a) perspectives and viewpoints (3b) complex multicultural workplace
Three (3c) implications and problems review (4a) Productive Diversity argument
Four recommendations postulation of (4b) Human Universals by Cotter
related to (5a) industrial democracy, i.e.
Five Q&A  (5b) increases productivity
 (5c) decreases industrial delays
Part 2
THE SUN’S (6a) hydrogen fusion process
(6b)____________________

1. 2.
homogenenous electric charge forced together with the
precipitates (6c) repulsion incorporation of (6d) heat /
incredible temperatures to
reach (7a) (the) melting point
SPECIAL REACTOR/(8a) apparatus: Tokamak SYSTEM
3.
 (7b) fusion into helium
 (7c) energy
→ (7d) self-sustained process

(8b) confine and suspend

superheated plasma with strong (8c)
magnetic field
2010 (10b) European Device
walls of (9a) (the) fusion vessel  yielded less power than inputted
cooled using (9b) a cryogenic  perpetuated a reaction for less
system to (9c) intensely low than (10c) a second
temperatures
plasma can become (10a) unstable;
could be calamitous

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Part 3
11. According to Dr Lafford, Sherlock Holmes was a good forensic scientist by virtue of his _______.
A. all-inclusive observations C. medical erudition
B. cognitive perspicacity D. unbiased modus operandi
12. Forensic scientists pay peculiar heed to _______.
A. a suspect’s apparel C. items miscreants have touched
B. carpet filaments and anthropoid locks D. manifestation of reciprocal contact
13. Dr Lafford alludes to the broken headlight to substantiate the notion that forensic science in the present
climate is _______.
A. just as well-founded as it was in the past C. more straightforward than it was in the past
B. more convoluted than it used to be D. not as time-consuming as it once was
14. According to Dr Lafford, electron microscopes can _______.
A. dispense a chemical evaluation C. precipitate incongruous upshots
B. guarantee comprehensive veracity D. sporadically sabotage corroboration
15. Dr Lafford feels that the value of forensic science lies in _______.
A. how its momentousness in a case is expounded
B. pruning the number of potential suspects
C. the employment of avant-garde genetic fingerprinting
D. the feasibility of annihilating human oversight
Your answers
11. D 12. D 13. B 14. A 15. B
Part 4
THE RISE OF ISIS AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Europe, with a prodigious migrant crisis (16a) unfolding, has endeavoured to address the plight, in
which primarily the rise of ISIS has terminated. The largest (16b) influx of refugees have streamed into the
country, if not oppressed by authorities, stoned, (17a) tear-gassed, (17b) slammed up against fences or
scrambled to board trains, then desperately suffering and perishing. According to Europe’s (18a) border-
monitoring agency, most of the migrants have fled from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, trying to
approach their (18b) ultimate destination in Germany. Analysts have shared a(n) (19a) disturbing thread
as to what conduces to such gargantuan fleeing, above and beyond ISIS: the (19b) atrocities of Bashar al-
Assad’s regime and the (20a) turmoil in Libya. While the bloodshed has made Syria practically untenanted
for those desisting from hostilities, ISIS adjudges it their triumph:
 those ill-disposed towards ISIS have been driven out,
 the terror group’s combatants have been (20b) destabilised,
 (21a) friction has been devised among the powers that be, and
 ISIS can (21b) infiltrate these migrants (i.e. (22a) smuggle the conspirators or undercover agents).
The immense number of fugitives has left German no choice apart from welcome. Chancellor Angela
Merkel evinces there being a(n) (22b) joint asylum policy among countries, in lieu of denouncing one
another, although it is touch-and-go whether German and Europe can assemble, as could her country with
Spain. First is the hurdle of (23a) flouting EU regulations among refugees, and then come (23b) clashes
with municipal denizens who are apprehensive of pecuniary and communal encumbrance. Even so, many
espouse her hospitality, for while EU governors have yet to act towards the predicament, valiant Merkel is
the front runner to have dispensed (24a) a safe haven to the deprived.
In dire straits, an emergency summit on the migration issues to be convoked, on Tuesday, EU ministers
advocated the effectuation of a quota system for dislodging and populating (24b) 120,000 asylum seekers
in the face of non-compliance from four Eastern European countries. Confederated as it may seem, EU has
(25a) exacerbated the contretemps among its associates. Those countries, inundated with migrants and
refugees yet still antipathetic, will be mulcted of (25b) 0.002% of GDP unless submissive, more
concernedly in the context of accruing incursion.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 PTS)
Part 1
26. When you’re _______ away on perfecting your own projects, to see someone else exhibit that care and
that passion, even in an entirely different field, is a sheer pleasure.
A. occupying B. passing C. slaving D. whiling
27. That Miss Colombia was wrongly crowned at Miss Universe 2015 has sparked off the now customary
_______ frenzy in the media.
A. bolstering B. consuming C. feeding D. issuing
28. If we form an alliance with the U.S., who has a political _______ to grind against China, we’ll sabotage
its workings and maximise our problems in the Pacific Ocean.
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 A. axe B. hammer C. organ D. stone
29. After about an hour or two’s earful of the plaintiff’s accusations, without being able to get a word in
_______, the defendant started talking over him.
A. ascendancies B. circumferences C. edgeways D. peripheries
30. Tan Hiep Phat must be ordered to pay substantial damages for retaliating against _______.
A. mischief-makers B. scaremongers C. whistle-blowers D. wirepullers
31. The landlord had neglected to provide screens, and I was unable to open the windows, lest the house
be _______ with flies and mosquitoes.
A. infected B. infested C. inflicted D. inundated
32. A neighbour called to a break-in at a house in Binh Phuoc found the intruder still on the _______ and
hiding under a kitchen cabinet.
A. assertions B. conjectures C. premises D. surmises
33. Unofficial paths and access ways are now closed off to walkers, cyclists and horse riders, forcing them
to run the _______ of anti-nuclear protesters on the roads to reach the dwindling recreation areas.
A. drumsticks B. garter C. gauntlet D. ramrods
34. Miss Pham Huong believes Miss Universe is clearly a journey of discovery for herself, who _______
whatever the results might be.
A. is a bone of contention with C. makes no bones about
B. is in her bones as to D. works her fingers to the bone of
35. This type of headgear usually heralds bad behaviour and _______ disregard for the safety of others.
A. blatant B. shameless C. unabashed D. undisguised
36. Despite being raised the daughter of a brigadier, and despite stints at both the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the National Theatre, there are no _______ to Juliet Stevenson.
A. airs and graces B. arts and crafts C. fingers and thumbs D. pins and needles
37. By devoting such a large part of the budget for the fight against drug addiction to education, we are
_______ the question of its significance in the battle against drugs.
A. begging B. imploring C. importuning D. requesting
38. The family feel an immense sense of satisfaction after weathering all the dangers to reach Australia,
where they are building a new life with friends and family who are already there.
A. acclimatising C. disintegrating
B. coming through unscathed D. feeling out of sorts
39. Adults, particularly older ones or those with a(n) run-down immune system, can however also contract
shingles (herpes zoster) from a child with chickenpox.
A. dilapidated B. enervated C. uncared-for D. washed-out
40. What the country urgently needs is assistance from the World Bank and other co-operating partners to
usher into a progressive and productive phase devoid of poverty.
A. be a harbinger of B. be cut out for C. pave the way for D. tag along with
Your answers
26. C 27. C 28. A 29. C 30. C
31. B 32. C 33. C 34. C 35. A
36. A 37. A 38. B 39. B 40. C
Part 2
41. A lot of the data processing media or software that was in use just a few years ago is now so old that it
is not easy to find equipment or programmes to worm their secrets _______ them.
42. I can’t really explain why that is, so maybe we’ll just have to chalk it _______ the perplexing schematics
of the plot and the strange blankness of most of the characters.
43. In the dim and distant recesses of my cobwebbed memory, she was rabbiting _______ my son’s chums
and their abundance of confidence when it came to chit-chatting with adults.
44. Laser cardholders won’t be able to wriggle _______ paying the annual stamp duty on their cards from
next year under any extenuating circumstances.
45. Owners of shops, hotels and business establishments on this street, felt they were losing _______
genuine customers who couldn’t find space for their vehicles.
Your answers
41. out of 42. down/up to 43. on about 44. out of 45. out on
Part 3
FROM COIN TO PAPER Your answers
In 9th-century China, at the height of the Tang dynasty, the government
became concerned about the (46)_______ (VEX) problems of carrying large 46. vexatious
amounts of coins in order to conduct business (47)_______ (ACT). 47. transactions
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Consequently, they devised a method of paying merchants with money
certificates, which could be exchanged for coin money on demand at the
capital. These certificates had a(n) (48)_______ (AUSPICES) tendency to 48. inauspicious
blow away if there was any wind, but they were not (49)_______ 49. non-transferable
(TRANSFER), so merchants began exchanging them with each other
instead of using coins.
It was not until the Song dynasty that actual paper money was created.
Initially introduced by a group of merchants and (50)_______ (FINANCE), 50. financiers
each banknote had images of houses, trees and people printed on it and 51. non-/unpictorial
very few are (51)_______ (PICTURE). These (52)_______ (EXIST) with 52. coexisted
various intricate markings, the identification of which could be made only by
issuing banks, thereby restricting disguised (53)_______ (KNOCK). For this 53. knock-offs
reason, they became readily accepted for payment, and their circulation
increased. Then, in 1023, the government decided on the (54)_______ 54. withdrawal
(DRAW) of banknotes and issued government notes in their place, every
one of them with a cash backing. These new banknotes could be
exchanged for government-issued coins, and so could be used to buy
simple groceries. As a result, the use of paper money soon became
(55)_______ (PRESENT) and universally useful. 55. omnipresent
III. READING (50 PTS)
Part 1
ON THE DECLINE?
For years we have become used to hearing that crime is on the (56)_______. This has been blamed on
nearly everything from bad parenting and the influence of film and television to the availability of
information, courtesy of the internet, about how to commit practically any crime (57)_______. It therefore
comes as a surprise to many to learn that in fact the crime rate is falling and has been doing so over the
last twenty years. Is there a reason for this? Why should there be a reduction in crime during difficult
economic times when experts would expect it to increase?
Unsurprisingly, those in government insist that this is a result of improvements in policing, others say
that smart phones and other electronic devices have (58)_______ the boredom that often drove young
people to crime in the first place. Some experts maintain that the crime rate has not actually fallen, it is
simply that these days criminals engage in different types of crime that frequently go unreported such as
online fraud. There are even some who believe that people are less (59)_______ to commit crime these
days because of the reduction of lead in the atmosphere. Whatever the truth, there is a glimmer of hope
that our perception of life being (60)_______ with danger every time we leave out homes is just that – a
perception.
56. A. expansion B. increase C. rise D. upswing
57. A. on nine cloud B. on the horizon C. over the moon D. under the sun
58. A. allayed B. alleviated C. assuaged D. attenuated
59. A. immune B. inclined C. procumbent D. prostrated
60. A. agitated B. distraught C. overwrought D. rife
CELEBRITY ROLE-MODELS
Research in the University of Leicester Department of Media and Communication examined interest in
celebrities and gossip about them. It was carried out by Dr Charlotte De Backer who sought in her study to
explain interest in celebrity culture.
According to Dr De Backer: ‘Life is about learning and gaining experience, and in that process we have
a tendency to observe and mimic the actions of others. Ideally we mimic what makes others successful and
(61)_______ shy of unsuccessful actions others have trialled and paid for. In reality, humans seem to have
the tendency to mimic the overall behaviour pattern of the higher status of those more successful than
themselves. This explains why celebrities act as role models (62)_______ of behaviour they display –
whether good or bad.’
Dr De Backer also examined another theory for interest in celebrity, known as the Parasocial
Hypothesis. In this case, the bonds are parasocial, or one-way, because the celebrity (63)_______ private
information, often involuntarily. The audience members respond emotionally to this information, although
there is hardly ever any feedback on the private life of the audience going to the celebrity, nor do celebrities
display emotions towards their audience.
Her study of 800 respondents and over 100 interviews confirmed that younger participants showed
greater interest in celebrity gossip, even if it was about celebrities who were much older than them and
even when they did not know who the celebrities were. They showed greatest interest in internationally-
known celebrities, because they considered those as more (64)_______.
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 Her study also found that older people were interested in celebrity gossip not because they wanted to
learn from the celebrities, but because it helped them to form social networks with other people. ‘We found
in the interviews that older people do not gossip about celebrities because they want to learn from them or
feel (65)_______ by them, but because they use celebrity gossip to bond with real-life friends and
acquaintances. As we live in scattered societies, celebrities can act as our mutual friends and
acquaintances.’
61. A. clash B. fight C. repress D. struggle
62. A. for broad ranges B. in the domain C. in the stratosphere D. within easy reach
63. A. divulges B. evinces C. uncloaks D. unveils
64. A. authoritative B. illustrious C. prestigious D. reputable
65. A. befriended B. patronised C. sustained D. upheld
Your answers
56. B 57. D 58. B 59. B 60. D
61. B 62. A 63. A 64. C 65. A
Part 2
FASHION IN SIGHTSEEING
The question of what makes an entertaining sightseeing excursion is just as (66)_______ to the whims
of fashion as any other leisure activity. A trip around the spectacular coastal scenery of western Scotland is
now a highly attractive option but a couple of centuries ago that same landscape was (67)_______ as a
wild and scary wasteland. Increasingly, in western Europe, safely decommissioned mines and other
(68)_______ of the region’s industrial heritage are now being reinvented as visitor attractions, whilst
redundant factories and power stations get a new (69)_______ of life as shopping centres and art galleries.
The question is: if defunct industrial sites can attract tourists, then why not functioning ones?
The Yokohama Factory Scenery Night Cruise is just one of several industrial sightseeing tours now
available in Japan. These are part of an emerging niche tourist trade, (70)_______ by a craze amongst
young urbanites to reconnect with the country’s industrial base. Seeing the oil refineries and steelworks at
night, when lights and flares are more visible, apparently (71)_______ to the aesthetic charm of the
experience.
Your answers
66. subject 67. regarded/deemed 68. legacies 69. lease
70. fuelled/inflamed/fed/
71. adds
incited
Part 3
LIST OF HEADINGS
i An exuberant idiosyncrasy that emboldens others
ii Cognizance of communication styles and concomitant perquisites
iii Constitutions discerned by self-evaluation
iv Ill-disposed and importunate character traits
v Impetuous and lackadaisical make-ups
vi Professional contexts to which blended styles are appurtenant
vii Rigorous and unbiased attributes
viii Solicitous and circumspect
ix Somatic exposition
x Synopsis of assorted dispositions
72. Paragraph A 73. Paragraph B 74. Paragraph C 75. Paragraph D
76. Paragraph E 77. Paragraph F 78. Paragraph G 79. Paragraph H
Your answers
72. ix 73. ii 74. x 75. i
76. vii 77. viii 78. iv 79. vi
80. Individuals with buoyant peculiarities take exception to multifariousness.
81. Top-drawer wage-earners are frequently recruited in compliance with idiosyncrasies.
82. That dispositions can transmute is non-viable.
83. Which communication style is predominantly efficacious can be swayed by professional contexts.
84. Associates’ comportment can be interpreted by self-analysis contrivances.
Your answers
80. F 81. NG 82. F 83. T 84. T

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Part 4
The notion of recycling in India has transmuted inordinately. People once (85) reused everything from
gazettes to household repositories. Now, with the (86) ineluctable advent of expendable commodities and
plastic packaging, people simply chuck things out rather than putting them aside for (87) a rainy day. The
whole recycling process in the present climate is administered by the (88) informal sector, wherein rag-
pickers are at the undercarriage of a(n) (89) table-top pyramid with everyone from various intermediaries
to manufactory proprietors and their go-betweens looking down.
Part 5
90. Apropos rivalry, it is annotated in the first and second paragraphs that _______.
A. it engenders look-ins that can’t descend from conventional vying
B. it has a formidable leverage in us as opposed to what our body chemistry does
C. it leads us to maintain that we apprehend our combatants better
D. its corollaries are unfailingly pernicious
91. Gavin J. Kilduff’s analysis evinced that _______.
A. athletes’ performance ameliorated during a fixture when they fathomed out that their contenders
were equal to trouncing them
B. performance could be ameliorated by striving against those with proportionate adroitness
C. upon vying with more than one foe, athletes ran faster
D. upon confronting obscure adversaries, contestants excelled themselves
92. In the course of Deepak Malhotra’s simulated auction _______.
A. all the entrants comported themselves in a highly combative demeanour
B. all those who opined they were bidding against a group had no sense of enmity
C. those claimed they were bidding against just one rival grew more resolved to triumph
D. those who deemed they were bidding against a group never bid higher than the negotiated price limit
93. The inquiry carried out on basketball fans gave substance to the notion that _______.
A. fans watching with foes were unable to recall any propitious slants of the rival’s performance
B. it seemed odds-on that fans were able to retain propitious hallmarks of their own team’s performance
C. upon watching the match with other supporters of their team, participants retained more
D. upon watching the match with other followers of their team, entrants felt more enmity towards rivals
94. What does the writer imply that Kilduff believes in the last two paragraphs?
A. analogising our own attainments with an adversary’s can inspire us
B. begrudging others their undertakings is a natural backlash
C. being made alive to the attainments of others can be disorientating
D. individuals who hunt for the low-down on their foes on Facebook are likely to act up
95. On the subject of rivalry, Kilduff’s denouement is that _______.
A. students who had vied with an adversary exhibited more unsavoury idiosyncrasies
B. the leeway between triumph and defeat is bigger between combatants than ordinary contenders
C. there was no corroboration for the notion that students who pitted themselves against a foe
manifested worse deportment than those who did not
D. under a feuding circumstance, entrants acquitted themselves in an unconscionable fashion
Your answers
90. A 91. B 92. C 93. B 94. C 95. A
Part 6
Your answers
a communal perspective on the ensuing demise of English in the future 96. E
a disparaging reflection on the English language 97. D
a propitious perspective on the long-term prospects of the English language 98. D
a reinstitution of global avail of not one but a profusion of languages 99. D
a reservation as to the proportions of which people are attached to their own first language 100. E
an appreciation of an unparalleled and tendentious account of the English language’s mantle 101. E
exegeses as to the incitement of assimilating another language 102. C
the animosity felt by those impelled to acquire another language 103. C
the conviction that global leverage of a language is nothing futuristic 104. B
the notion that a language is frequently spoken in places other than its provenance 105. B

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IV. WRITING (50 PTS)
Part 1
1.
1. Although there were parking restrictions in our road, my neighbour left his car anywhere he likes. (law)
Try as we might to restrict parking in our road / to restrict parking in our road as we might, |
my neighbour was a law unto himself.
2. Surely Tom was telling untruths about what happened. (teeth)
Tom must have been | lying through his teeth about what happened.
3. No film has ever been nominated so many times for the Academy Awards before. (unprecedented)
The film has received | an unprecedented number of nominations for the Academy Awards.
4. Rafael was determined to drive across the desert. (out)
Rafael’s heart/sights was/were set on | not missing out on driving across the desert.
5. The bedridden patients my friends and I were visiting made a deep impression on us. (skin)
The bedridden patients we were looking in on | got under the skin of me and my friends.

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