ĐỀ LUYỆN SỐ 35

PART A: LISTENING (Each recording will be played TWICE)

I. Question 1- 10.

Liz is planning on moving out of her family home and buying her own apartment. Listen to
the conversation and decide whether the following statements refer to the town apartment
(T) or the out-of-town apartment in Canley (C).
1. It’s been on the market for a long time. T
2. It’s obvious why they’ve been having problems selling it. T
3. It really shocked me to see how bad it was. T
4. It’s about 15 kilometers from there into the centre. C
5. There’s bound to be a regular bus service from there. C
6. There’s no special parking area for the apartments. T
7. There’s a lovely little river that runs nearby. C
8. You couldn’t even fit a chest of drawers there. C
9. The rooms in it are quite dark and that made it feel cramped. T
10. It is expected to be a lot of interest in the property. C

Question 11 - 20.
II. You will hear a radio presenter called Tom Membury introducing a programme on the
subject of laughter yoga and its founder Dr.Kataria. Complete the sentences with NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
Laughter Yoga
Tom compares laughter to (11) __crying________ in terms of its emotional benefits.
Tom uses the word (12) ____catching______ to describe how laughter affects an audience.
The idea of laughter yoga originated in (13) ___India_______.
Kataria first got the idea of laughter therapy from a (14) ___magazine article_______.
Dr. Kataria stopped using jokes in his serious attitude as some people found them (15)
__offensive________.
Dr. Kataria found that laughter is good for us even when (16) ____humor_____ is not the
stimulus.
Dr. Kataria claims that medical conditions such as (17) _____cold_____ and (18)
___flu_______ may be prevented by laughter.
Tom mentions an event called (19) _____World laugh today____ at which Dr. Kataria often
appears.
Tom played a game involving (20) ____pulling funny faces______ at the laughter yoga
session he attended.

PART B: LEXICO-GRAMMAR

I. Choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) that completes each of the following sentences.

1. It was decided that the costs of the project would be _____ and so it was abandoned.
A. repressive B. prohibitive C. restrictive D.
exclusive
2. People turned out in _____ to watch the parade.
A. volume B. mass C. force D. bulk
3. Karen was terribly nervous before the interview but she managed to pull herself ______
and act confidently.
A. through B. over C. together D. off

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4. Val’s greatest strength _____ in her ability to learn from her mistakes.
A. stands B. dwells C. abides D. lies
5. It just so ______ that I was in their area that day, so I went to visit them.
A. occurred B. happened C. chanced D. arose
6. I found it very hard to ______ between the two sounds.
A. discern B. pick C. differentiate D. tell
7. We _______ up a friendship the very first time we met.
A. struck B. launched C. cropped D. settled
8. With your qualifications, there will be no ______ of firms willing to employ you.
A. want B. inadequacy C. deficiency D. shortage
9. I left the company by ______, not because I was forced to.
A. choice B. option C. selection D. preference
10. Trudy is a firm _____ in the advantages of a healthy diet.
A. advocate B. believer C. champion D. supporter
11. Of course, the price of the flat was a big _____ in my decision as to whether to buy it or not.
A. portion B. factor C. aspect D. element
12. It was confirmed that the accident was caused by human _____.
A. error B. slip C. fault D. blunder
13. It has been established ______ dispute that this disease can be cured.
A. past B. over C. beyond D. outside
14. All candidates will be treated equally, ______ of their age or background.
A. notwithstanding B. discounting C. irrelevant D. irrespective
15. Despite all the interruptions, he _____ with his work.
A. stuck at B. held on C. hung out D. pressed on
16. One _____ adults takes physical exercise at least once a week.
A. from four B. in four C. at four D. with four
17. Mary lost one running shoe, but won the race despite this _____.
A. awkwardness B. disaster C. handicap D. feat
18. The _____ of the museum showed the school party round.
A. guard B. curator C. principal D. exhibitor
19. I still play golf occasionally, just to keep my _____ in.
A. eye B. arm C. foot D. hand
20. Robert is completely ______ in his new book on photography.
A. absorbed B. interested C. disappointed D. occupied

II. The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Find out and correct them.

Women can see their doctor on average five times a year in the UK compared with
men who visit their doctor about three times. Two of -> out of three women leave from
their GB’s surgery clutching a prescription. Yet women have been taking tablets
without know->knowing that-> what effect they may have in their body because of
scientific anomaly, the most -> most drugs are tested on men. In addition, there are
well-known examples of the way drugs and other substances differently in women. The
different balance of fat and muscle in men’s and women’s bodies affect the speed with
-> in which alcohol is absorbed and broken down, for example. It is predicted that
natural remedies will continue to gain as -> in popularity as women, in particular,
became -> are becoming more aware of the possible side-effect of the powerful drugs
currently prescribed.

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III. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets.

Holidays at home are usually a last (1. COURSE) ____recourse_____, when other options
have been ruled out for one reason or another, but, in these tough times when money is
perhaps tighter than ever before, the grim (2. REAL) ___reality______ that the stay-at-home
vacation may be the only realistic (3. ALTER) ___alternative_______ is one that more and
more of us are faced with. However, this does not have to mean a (4. MISERY)
___miserable_______ time in the same old (5. ROUND) __surrounding________ you are in
for the other 365-old days of the year. For those willing to think (6. SIDE)
_____outside_____ the box a little, there are, in fact, a (7. MULTIPLE)
__multitude________ of possibilities that should be explored. Ever thought about a house
swap, for example? The house swap is the ultimate holiday (8. RECEDE)
___preceding_______ buster. And there are now websites on which (9. MIND) __________
individuals, couples and families looking to get a flavour of the life lived in someone else’s
home can hook up and start house swapping. Okay, so it’s not the two weeks in Gran Canaria
you might have hoped for, but saying in someone else’s (10. RESIDE) __residency__ for a
few days at least, whether it be ten, fifty or one hundred miles away, sure beats slouching
around at home on your own sofa.
PART C: READING COMPREHENSION

I. Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D that fills each numbered gap in the following
passage.

Anecdotal reports that heavily-pregnant women are more (1) _______ have been (2)
_______ up by a study that has found that the ability to memorize information drops in the
last three months of pregnancy. The findings of the study were reported yesterday to the
Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in New Orleans by Dr Pamela Keenan, assistant
professor of psychiatry at Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Centre. In a study into
the “benign encephalopathy of pregnancy”, Dr. Keenan (3) ________ memory tests on 19
pregnant women and found that the ability to (4)________ information declined during
pregnancy. Expressed in (5)_______ of the amount of information that could be remembered,
it declined from 49 percent in the first trimester, to 47 percent in the second, to 39 percent in
the third. Shortly, after birth the study participants were able to recall 52 percent of the
information. It was noted that after a period of approximately three months, the study
revealed that new mums’ memories return to a relative (6) _______ of normality. Other
studies have since been carried out on more subjects revealing more (7) ________ evidence
that pregnancy does indeed contribute to memory-lost. But, then again, there are also health
(8) ________ to life with a bun in the oven.
1. A. resentful B. memorable C. forgetful D. oblivious
2. A. backed B. suppressed C. assumed D. persevered
3. A. carried over B. carried away C. carried on D. carried out
4. A. restore B. acknowledge C. allocate D. recall
5. A. times B. terms C. conditions D. references
6. A. state B. way C. behavior D. situation
7. A. heavy B. understandable C. concrete D. weighed
8. A. advantages B. aid C. paths D. benefits

II. Read the text below and do the following tasks.

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 Is it any wonder that there are teacher shortages? Daily, the press carries reports of
schools going on four-day weeks simply because they cannot recruit enough teachers. But
why? There is no straightforward answer. For a start, fewer students are entering teacher-
training courses when they leave school. But can you blame young people after the
barracking faced by the teaching profession in the UK over the last decade? The attack,
relentless in the extreme, has been on several fronts. Government inspectors, by accident or
design, have been feeding the media a constant stream of negative information about the
teaching establishments in this country. Teachers also come in for a lot of flak from
politicians. And the government wonders why there are problems in schools.
The government's obvious contempt for the teaching profession was recently revealed
by one of the most powerful people in government when she referred to schools as 'bog
standard comprehensives'. Hardly the sort of comment to inspire parents or careers advisers
seeking to direct young people's future. Would you want to spend your working life in a dead-
end profession? The government doesn't seem to want you to either.
On the administrative side, most teachers are weighed down by an increasing flow of
bureaucracy. Cynicism would have me believe that this stops teachers from fomenting dissent
as they are worn out by useless administrative exercises. Most teachers must then also be
cynics!
Teacher bashing has, unfortunately, spread to youngsters in schools as the recent
catalogue of physical attacks on teachers will testify. If grown-ups have no respect for the
teaching profession, young people can hardly be expected to think any differently. The circle
is then squared when, as well as , competent teachers being driven out of the profession by
the increased pressure and stress; fewer students are applying for teacher training courses.
Increased salaries are certainly welcome, but they are not the complete answer to a
sector in crisis. Addressing the standing of the profession in the eyes of the public is crucial to
encourage teachers to remain in the classroom and to make it an attractive career option for
potential teachers once again.
It might also be a good idea for the relevant ministers to go on a fact-finding mission
and find out from teachers in schools, rather than relying overmuch on advisers, as to what
changes could be bought about to improve the quality of the education service. Initiatives in
the educational field surprisingly come from either politicians who know little about
classroom practice or educational theorists who know even less, but are more dangerous
because they work in the rarefied air of universities largely ignorant of classroom practice.
Making sure that nobody without recent classroom experience is employed as a teacher-
trainer at any tertiary institution would further enhance the teaching profession. If someone
does not have practical experience in the classroom, they cannot in all seriousness propound
theories about it. Instead of being given sabbaticals to write books or papers, lecturers in
teacher-training establishments should be made to spend a year at the blackboard or, these days,
the whiteboard. This would give them practical insights into current classroom practice. Student
teachers could then be given the chance to come and watch the specialists in the classroom: a
much more worthwhile experience than the latter sitting thinking up ideas far removed from the
classroom. Then we would have fewer initiatives like the recent government proposal to teach
thinking in school. Prima facie, this is a laudable recommendation. But, as any practicing
teacher will tell you, this is done in every class. Perhaps someone needs to point out to the
academic who thought up the scheme that the wheel has been around for some time.
In the educational field, there is surprisingly constant tension between the educational
theorists and government officials on the one hand, who would like to see teachers marching
in unison to some greater Utopian abstraction and, on the other, practicing teachers. Any
experienced classroom practitioner knows that the series of initiatives on teaching and
learning that successive governments have tried to foist on schools and colleges do not work.
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Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the reading passage?
YES/NO or NOT GIVEN
8. All teachers are cynics. NO
9. Politicians are not as dangerous as educational theorists, who know even less than the
former about educational theory. YES
10. Any classroom practitioner knows that initiatives on teaching and learning that
governments have tried to impose on schools do not work. YES
11. The government’s attitude with regard to teachers is of great interest to the general
public. NOT GIVEN
Choose the best answer
12. Which one of the following is the most suitable title for the passage?
A. Politicians and teachers.
B. A profession undervalued.
C. Recruitment difficulties in the teaching profession.
D. Teacher-training needs improvement.

Complete the summary below. Use ONE word from the passage for each answer.

Is this surprising that there is a (1) ___SHORTAGE____ of teachers? Schools do not

have enough teachers, but what are the reasons for this? To begin with, fewer students are
going into (2) __TEACHER-TRAINING_____ courses after finishing school. But this is not
young people’s fault. The (3) _PROFESSION______ of teaching has been under constant
attack over the last ten years. The governments’ lack of respect for the profession is (4)
__OBVIOUS_____. Moreover, administratively, the flow of bureaucracy is (5)
_INCREASING______. Even pupils in schools have no respect for those who teach them, as
a (6) __RECENT_____ series of assaults on teachers shows. The growing strain and stress
means that, as well as fewer applications for teacher-training courses, teachers who have
experience and are (7) _______ are also being driven out.

PART D: WRITING

Write an essay of about 300 words on the following topic:

Society is becoming obsessed with material goods like fast cars, designer clothes and flashy
jewellery. We have stopped caring about the important things and that is why divorce rates
are so high and family bonds are not as strong anymore; our value system is disintegrating.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge.
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Outine:
Social media->

It is true that the modern world these day is measured in terms of monetary value.
From my point of view, I am in favor of the idea that people’s obsession with
materialistic items in recent times can overruled their traditional values and bonding
with their loved ones.

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To begin with, the booming development of social media has created an urge in people
to show off their material possessions in front of their peers. Under this pressure, they
are always stuck to their cellular devices to maintain the fake standard. As a result, they
hardly interact with their real families and friends. Moreover, numerous individuals
have a tendency to start a relationship with strangers around the world on the basis of
their attractive social media profile. Therefore, it is not surprising to witness the rate of
divorce among couple who get to know each other online is on the rise. This is because
their appearance in reality is a far cry from what they pretent to be

Another point worth noticing is that a number of citizens who migrate to other countries
leave their roots and cultural values behindfor monetary opportunities. For example,
celebrities with overnight social popularity usually move to another city to pursue their
fames and social media life. In addition, to maintain their standard on social networking
sites, they even borrow money to splurge on costly gadgets, designer costumes or foreign
goods.

In conclusion, society is getting more and more materialistic and everybody is after
money and the comforts it can bring to them. Hence, I fully agree with the argument
that we have stopped caring about the important things in life. Instead we are chasing
name and wealth that we can show off in front of the world.