TEST 19 – ENGLISH 10

THPT CHUYÊN THÁI BÌNH

I. LISTENING (50 points)

1. Section 1: (10 points)
Complete the following form using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER.
SHORT STAY ACCOMMODATION
Example Answer
Family name: Mackinlay
First name: (1) ……………………
Country of origin: (2) ……………………
Date of Arrival: (3) ……………………
Number of tenants: (4) ……………………
Length of stay: 2 weeks
Purpose of visit: (5) ……………………

Section 2: (10 points)

Circle the correct letter A – C
1. According to Nick the first Australian immigrants were:
A. The ancestors of aborigines
B. Petty criminals
C. Sailors
2. What was the name of the first British colony in Australia?
A. Victoria
B. New South Wales
C. New London
3. When was the White Australia Policy started?
A. Just after the first colony expanded
B. After Australian Federation
C. After World War II
4. Why was there bad feeling towards many Chinese immigrants in the 1850s?
A. They opened restaurants
B. They were searching for gold
C. They would work for less money than the local Australians
5. When were Asian students first allowed to study at Australian universities?
A. 1950
B. 1957
C. 1973

Section 3: (10 points)

You will hear an interview with Pamela Green, a young fashion designer.Decide whether
following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to what you hear:
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1. Doing research into the fashion industry helped Pamela to decide to become a fashion
designer.
2. When starting your own fashion label, it's not important to have a business plan.
3. Pamela usually finds inspiration for her fashion designs in the clothes she wears.
4. According to Pamela, successful designers need to be able to recognize all past styles.
5. People who want a career in fashion should be aware of the options available.
Section 4: (20 points)
You will hear an interview with a man called Daren Howarth, who works as a
carbon coach. For questions 1-10, complete the sentences.
THE CARBON COACH
Daren says that a carbon coach works full-time as a (1)____________ with various clients.
Before becoming a carbon coach, Daren trained to be an (2)___________ .
When assessing a family's carbon footprint, Daren looks first at their (3) __________ .
Daren uses what's called a (4) ________ to see how much electricity things use.
Daren points out that (5) _______ will help pay for roof insulation.
Daren feels that using (6) __________ of the old type is the worst waste of energy he sees.
Daren helped to reduce a band's carbon footprint at (7) ________ as well as on its CDs.
Daren mentions a new type of green home called an (8) ________ .
The new green home uses both the sun and (9) _______ to produce electricity.
Daren suggests buying a (10) ________ which gives more information about the new green
home.
PART II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (50 points)
Section 1. (20 points)
Choose the best answer.
1. His English was roughly ______ with my Greek, so communication was rather difficult!
A. levelled B. on a par C. equal D. in tune
2. Well, I’m sorry, that’s all I can offer you. ______ .
A. Take it or forget it B. Get it or forget it
C. Take it or leave it D. Leave it or take it
3. He promised me an Oxford dictionary and to my great joy, he ______ his word.
A. stood by B. stuck at C. went back on D. held onto
4. The police are ______ certain who the culprit is.
A. in some ways B. more or less. C. here and there D. by and by
5. Employees who have a ______ are encouraged to discuss it with the management.
A. hindrance B. grievance C. disadvantage D. disturbance

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6. Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no ______ improvement in her
condition.
A. decipherable B. legible C. discernible D. intelligible
7. The prospect of picking up any survivors are now______
A. thin B. narrow C. slim D. restricted
8. His happy–go–lucky attitude means that on the field he exhibits a ______ disregard for the
rules.
A. required B. glaring C. permissible D. flagrant
9. He was selected to play despite a string of ______ performances.
A. satisfactory B. reasonable C. outstanding D. mediocre
10. Even the best medicines are not ______ .
A. infallible B. unfailing C. fail-proof D. falsified
11. I’m in a bit of a ______ as to what to wear to the party.
A. loss B. quandary. C. problem D. trouble
12. His new play is not only interesting but also unique. It is really off the beaten ______ .
A. track B. road C. path D. route
13. Without written evidence, we don’t have a ______ on.
A. leg to stand B. foot to stand C. leg to lean D. foot to lean
14. Now’s a ______ time to tell me you’re going out this evening - I’ve spent the whole day
preparing supper for you.
A. suitable B. reasonable C. right D. fine
15. She hasn’t had an accident yet but she’s had a number of ______ shaves.
A. narrow B. near C. close D. tiny
16. As you are the strongest in the group, you can take the ______ .
A. lead B. head C. part D. way
17. Although she had never used a word-proceesor before, she soon got the ______ of it.
A. feel B. touch C. move D. hang
18. I overslept this morning and caught the last bus to school by the skin of my ______ .
A. mouth B. leg C. neck D. teeth
19. The sky got very dark and soon it began to ______ down.

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A. roar B. bath C. bucket D. soar
20. If you want a flat in the center of the city, you have to pay through the ______ for it.
A. teeth B. back of your head C. nose D. arm
Section 2: (10 points)
There are 10 errors in the following passage. Find and correct them.

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1 A great majority of adults in the industrial world – in fact, about 90 per cent – will
be married some time in their lives. Of those who do not, some may choose to
remain single, but others will have no choice. An alarming number who marry
will divorce, but this is because marriage itself has lost its attraction – instead
people give up particular relationships and try back. For example, of four out of
5 ten American marriages that possibly end up divorce, 80 per cent are preludes to
further unions. Every society has its own definition of what a perfect marriage it
should be. In the Western world, it seems that a husband and wife have a perfect
marriage if they love each other, have no other sex partner, display trust, loyalty
and intimacy, confide in each other, show mutual respect, are willing to listen to
their partner’s concern and agree on their children’s up- bringing. However, from
10 time to time the balance of social expectations shifts. For example, a study
carried out in 1986 showed that 74 per cent of American couples rating ‘equality
in the relationship’ an important component of marriage. We can be fair sure that
their great-grandparents (and particularly their great-grandfathers) did not place
the same value in this.
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Section 3: (10 points)

Fill in each blank with the correct form of one of the verbs, and one of the particles in the
box. Some words can be used more than once.

try go put carry stick get do look hold

against down over around out on up
1. At school, Luis got into a lot of trouble for something I did, and now he ______ it ______
me.
2. When I was in New York, I was able to ______ ______ several old friends I hadn’t seen
for years.
3. The car’s in quite good condition but you can ______ it ______ before you make any
decision to buy.
4. If I could ______ it ______ again, I’d do it differently.
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5. The price of gas is expected to ______ ______ to $1 a gallon within a month.
6. Stop worrying about it. Don’t let this failure ______ you ______.
7. If you ______ ______ working so hard, you’ll make yourself ill.
8. The light suddenly ______ ______, and I couldn’t see a thing.
9. Do you have to go already? Can’t you ______ ______ for a few minutes?
10. You’d better ______ ______ your cigarette because smoking isn’t allowed in here.

Section 4: (10 points)

Give the correct form of the words in brackets.
The advances made by humans have made us the dominant species on our planet. However,
several eminent scientists are concerned that we have become too successful, that our way of
life is putting an (1. PRECEDE) strain on the Earth's ecosystems and threatening our future as
a species. We are confronting environmental problems that are more taxing than ever before,
some of them seemingly (2. SOLVE). Many of the Earth's crises are (3. PERSIST) and
inexorably linked. Pollution is an obvious example of this affecting our air, water and soil.
The air is polluted by (4. EMIT) produced by cars and industry. Through acid rain and
greenhouse gases these same exhaust fumes can have a devastating impact on our climate.
Climate change is (5. ARGUE) the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet with
increased storms, floods, drought and species losses predicted. This will inevitably have a
negative impact on (6. DIVERSIFY) and thus our ecosystem.
The soil is contaminated by factories and power stations which can leave heavy metals in the
soil. Other human activities such as the (7. DEVELOP) of land and the clearing of trees also
take their toll on the quality of our soil; deforestation has been shown to cause soil (8.
ERODE). Certain farming practices can also pollute the land though the use of chemical
pesticides and fertilizers. This contamination in turn affects our rivers and waterways and
damages life there. The chemicals enter our food chain, moving from fish to mammals to us.
Our crops are also grown on land that is far from (9. SPOIL). Affected species include the
polar bear, so not even the Arctic is immune.
Reducing waste and clearing up pollution costs money. Yet it is our quest for wealth that
generates so much of the refuse. There is an urgent need to find a way of life that is less
damaging to the Earth. This is not easy, but it is vital, because pollution is (10. PERVADE)
and often life-threatening.

PART III. READING (60 points)

Section 1: (15 points):
Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.
Earth is the only place we know of in the universe that can support human life. (1)_______
human activities are making the planet less fit to live on. As the western world (2) _______
on consuming two-thirds of the world's resources while half of the world's population do so
(3) _______ to stay alive we are rapidly destroying the (4) _______ resource we have by which
all people can survive and prosper. Everywhere fertile soil is (5) _______ built on or washed
into the sea. Renewable resources are exploited so much that they will never be able to recover
(6) _______ We discharge pollutants into the atmosphere without any thought of the
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consequences. As a (7) _______ the planet's ability to support people is being (8) _______at
the very time when rising human numbers and consumption are (9) _______ increasingly
heavy demands on it.
The Earth's (10) _______ resources are there for us to use. We need food, water, air,
energy, medicines, warmth, shelter and minerals to keep us fed, comfortable, healthy and
active. If we are sensible in how we use the resources they will last indefinitely. But if we use
them wastefully and excessively they will soon run out and everyone will suffer.
1. A. Although B. Still C. Yet D. Despite
2. A. continues B. repeats C. carries D. follows
3. A. already B. just C. for D. entirely
4. A. alone B. individual C. lone D. only
5. A. sooner B. neither C. either D. rather
6. A. quite B. greatly C. utterly D. completely
7. A. development B. result C. reaction D. product
8. A. stopped B. narrowed C. reduced D. cut
9. A. doing B. having C. taking D. making
10. A. natural B. real C. living D. genuine
Section 2: (15 points):
Energy is one of the (1) _______ that many people are interested in. It is not an unfamiliar
word. It is heard, said, discussed day after day. It is close to everyone’s (2) _______ life.
You turn on the lamp and it is (3) _______ that gives you light. You turn on a TV and it is
energy that gives you pictures and sound. You ride a motorcycle and it is energy that gives
you (4) _______. You cook your meals and it is energy that gives you heat to boil rice.
The problem is that the (5) _______ for energy is rising and that the price of energy is
getting higher and higher. The supply of energy on earth is limited. It cannot provide us all
forever. The (6) _______ of energy in the future is inevitable. Therefore, saving energy is a
must if we want to (7) _______ to live in a safe and sound world.
If we save energy, the environment will be (8) _______ polluted and our health will be
better and we will live a more meaningful life and more happily. Perhaps the best solution to
the problem of energy is a (9) _______ of clean energy coming from the sun: solar energy.
This kind of energy is easily available, free, and inexhaustible. Furthermore, it does not cause
(10) _______.
Section 3: (15 points):
Read the following passage and choose the best answers:
They are just four, five and six years old right now, but already they are making
criminologists nervous. They are growing up, too frequently, in abusive or broken homes,
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with little adult supervision and few positive role models. Left to themselves, they spend
much of their time hanging out on the streets or soaking up violent TV shows. By the year
2005 they will be teenagers–a group that tends to be, in the view of Northeastern University
criminologist James Alan Fox, “temporary sociopaths–impulsive and immature.” If they also
have easy access to guns and drugs, they can be extremely dangerous.
For all the heartening news offered by recent crime statistics, there is an ominous flip
side. While the crime rate is dropping for adults, it is soaring for teens. Between 1990 and
1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the
rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17, the age group that in the early ’90s
supplanted 18- to 24-year-olds as the most crime-prone. And that is precisely the age group
that will be booming in the next decade. There are currently 39 million children under 10 in
the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s. “This is the calm before the crime storm,”
says Fox. “So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we’re winning the war against
crime, we may be blindsided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the
future.”
Demographics don’t have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict
the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime–single-parent
households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools–are getting worse. At the same
time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the
cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics
and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of “super predators,”
youngsters who are coming of age in actual and “moral poverty,” without “the benefit of
parents, teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them
unconditional love.”
Predicting a generation’s future crime patterns is, of course, risky; especially when
outside factors (Will crack use be up or down? Will gun laws be tightened?) remain
unpredictable. Michael Tonry, a professor of law and public policy at the University of
Minnesota, argues that the demographic doomsayers are unduly alarmist. “There will be a
slightly larger number of people relative to the overall population who are at high risk for
doing bad things, so that’s going to have some effect,” he concedes. “But it’s not going to be
an apocalyptic effect.” Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology at the University of
Chicago, finds DiIulio’s notion of super predators too simplistic: “The human animal in
young males is quite a violent animal all over the world. The people who put forth the theory
of moral poverty lack a sense of history and comparative criminology.”
Yet other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. “All the basic elements that
spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse,” says
Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx.
“There’s a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that’s a very high-risk group of
kids. We’re not creating new jobs, and we’re not improving education to suit poor people for
the jobs that exist.”
Can anything defuse the demographic time bomb? Fox urges “reinvesting in children”:
improving schools, creating after-school programs and providing other alternatives to gangs
and drugs. DiIulio, a law-and-order conservative, advocates tougher prosecution and wants
to strengthen religious institutions to instill better values. Yet he opposes the Gingrich-led
effort to make deep cuts in social programs. “A failure to maintain existing welfare and
health commitment for kids,” he says, “is to guarantee that the next wave of juvenile
predators will be even worse than we’re dealing with today.” DiIulio urges fellow
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conservatives to think of Medicaid not as a health-care program but as “an anticrime
policy.”
(Source: Time Magazine)

1. Young children are making criminologists nervous because

A. they are committing too much crime.
B. they are impulsive and immature.
C. they may grow up to be criminals.
D. they have no role models.
2. The general crime rate in the US is
A. increasing B. decreasing C. not changing D. difficult to predict
3. The age group which commits the highest rate of crime is
A. 14 – 17. B. 18 – 24. C. 24 +. D. the old
4. James Fox believes that the improvement in crime figures could
A. make us complacent in the fight against crime.
B. result in an increase in teenage violence.
C. make us become fooled and blindsided.
D. result in a decrease in teenage violence.
5. According to paragraph 3, the government
A. cutting down on the budget.
B. is doing everything it can to solve the problem.
C. is not interested in solving the problem.
D. is not doing enough to solve the problem.
6. In comparison with James Fox, Michael Tonry is
A. more pessimistic. B. less pessimistic.
C. equally pessimistic. D. indifferent
7. Jonathan Kozol believes that
A. there is no solution to the problem.
B. employment and education are not the answer.
C. employment and education can improve the situation.
D. people can solve the problem by improving schools.
8. Professor DiIulio thinks that spending on social programs
A. should continue as it is B. should be decreased.
C. is irrelevant to crime rates. D. is a better solution to the problem.
9. The word ‘lurking” in the paragraph 2 can be best replaced by
A. happening B. hiding C. impending D. looming
10. The sentence “This is the calm before the crime storm.” means:
A. There will be population booming in in the next decade.
B. The age group committing crime most in the next decade is now under 10.
C. The age group 14 – 17 will commit the most crimes in the next decade.
D. People will be successful in dealing with the war against crime in the next decade.
Section 4: (15 points)

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 TRY IT AND SEE
In the social sciences, it is often supposed that there can be no such
thing as a controlled experiment. Think again.
A In the scientific pecking order, social scientists are usually looked down on by their peers
in the natural sciences. Natural scientists do experiments to test their theories or, if they cannot,
they try to look for natural phenomena that can act in lieu of experiments. Social scientists, it
is widely thought, do not subject their own hypotheses to any such rigorous treatment. Worse,
they peddle their untested hypotheses to governments and try to get them turned into policies.
B Governments require sellers of new medicines to demonstrate their safety and
effectiveness. The accepted gold standard of evidence is a randomized control trial, in which
a new drug is compared with the best existing therapy (or with a placebo, if no treatment is
available). Patients are assigned to one arm or the other of such a study at random, ensuring
that the only difference between the two groups is the new treatment. The best studies also
ensure that neither patient nor physician knows which patient is allocated to which therapy.
Drug trials must also include enough patients to make it unlikely that chance alone may
determine the result.
C But few education programs or social initiatives are evaluated in carefully conducted
studies prior to their introduction. A case in point is the 'whole-language' approach to reading,
which swept much of the English-speaking world in the 1970s and 1980s. The whole-language
theory holds that children learn to read best by absorbing contextual clues from texts, not by
breaking individual words into their component parts and reassembling them (a method known
as phonics). Unfortunately, the educational theorists who pushed the whole-language notion
so successfully did not wait for evidence from controlled randomized trials before advancing
their claims. Had they done so, they might have concluded, as did an analysis of 52 randomized
studies carried out by the US National Reading Panel in 2000, that effective reading instruction
requires phonics.
D To avoid the widespread adoption of misguided ideas, the sensible thing is to experiment
first and make policy later. This is the idea behind a trial of restorative justice which is taking
place in the English courts. The experiment will include criminals who plead guilty to robbery.
Those who agree to participate will be assigned randomly either to sentencing as normal or to
participation in a conference in which the offender comes face-to-face with his victim and
discusses how he may make emotional and material restitution. The purpose of the trial is to
assess whether such restorative justice limits re-offending. If it does, it might be adopted more
widely.
E The idea of experimental evidence is not quite as new to the social sciences as sneering
natural scientists might believe. In fact, randomized trials and systematic reviews of evidence
were introduced into the social sciences long before they became common in medicine. An
apparent example of random allocation is a study carried out in 1927 of how to persuade people
to vote in elections. And randomized trials in social work were begun in the 1930s and 1940s.
But enthusiasm later waned. This loss of interest can be attributed, at least in part, to the fact
that early experiments produced little evidence of positive outcomes. Others suggest that much
of the opposition to experimental evaluation stems from a common philosophical malaise
among social scientists, who doubt the validity of the natural sciences, and therefore reject the
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the growth of evidence-based education and social services may be limitations on the funds
available for research.
F Nevertheless, some 11,000 experimental studies are known in the social sciences
(compared with over 250,000 in the medical literature). Randomized trials have been used to
evaluate the effectiveness of driver-education programs, job training schemes, classroom size,
psychological counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and increased investment in public
housing. And where they are carried out, they seem to have a healthy dampening effect on
otherwise rosy interpretations of the observations.
G The problem for policymakers is often not too few data, but what to make of multiple
and conflicting studies. This is where a body called the Campbell Collaboration comes into
its own. This independent non-profit organization is designed to evaluate existing studies, in
a process known as a systematic review. This means attempting to identify every relevant
trial of a given question (including studies that have never been published), choosing the best
ones using clearly defined criteria for quality, and combining the results in a statistically
valid way. An equivalent body, the Cochrane Collaboration, has produced more than 1,004
such reviews in medical fields. The hope is that rigorous review standards will allow
Campbell, like Cochrane, to become a trusted and authoritative source of information.

Questions 1-6: The following reading passage has seven paragraphs A-G.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.

List of Headings

i Why some early social science methods lost popularity

ii The cost implications of research
iii Looking ahead to an unbiased assessment of research
iv A range of social issues that have been usefully studied
v An example of a poor decision that was made too quickly
vi What happens when the figures are wrong
vii One area of research that is rigorously carried out
viii The changing nature of medical trials
ix An investigative study that may lead to a new system
x Why some scientists' theories are considered second-rate

Example Paragraph A Answer: x

1. Paragraph B ……………
2. Paragraph C ……………
3. Paragraph D ……………
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5. Paragraph F ……………
6. Paragraph G ……………
Questions 7-10: Complete the summary below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

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Fighting Crime
Some criminals in England are agreeing to take part in a trial designed to help reduce their
chances of (7)....................... . The idea is that while one group of randomly selected
criminals undergoes the usual (8)....................... the other group will discuss the possibility
of making some repayment for the crime by meeting the (9) ....................... . It is yet to be
seen whether this system, known as (10) ....................... will work.

PART IV. WRITING (40 points)

Section 1: (20 points):
A. Rewrite the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning
to the original sentence. Do Not change the form of the given word.

1.The minister seems to be excellent at yielding awkward questions (FLAIR)

→……………………………………………………………………………………………
2. There will be no progress until we have fully understood the problem. (FULL)
→ Not until there is ………………...........................……………………be any progress.
3. We were elated by the birth of our first grandchild (MOON)
→……………………………………………………………………………………………

4. This house is very different from the little flat we used to live in (CRY)
→……………………………………………………………………………………………
5. That wasn’t what I meant at all. You’ve completely misunderstood me as usual (STICK)
→ That wasn’t what I meant at all. You’ve………………………………………………
B. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning
to the original one, using the word given.
1. Going to and fro with al the cases is what I can’t stand about holidays
→ It’s all……………………………………………………………………………..…..
2. The village shop is now being managed by a national supermarket chain.
→ A national supermarket chain has taken..........................................................................
3. This door is an emergency exit and must never be locked for any reason.
→ On ............................................................... be locked because it is an emergency exit.
4. Yolanda’s family persuaded her to enter the competition.
→ Yolanda was talked......................................................... the competition by her family.
5. Just thinking about entering the university makes him so happy.
→ The very………………………………………………………….makes him so happy.
Section 2: (20 points):
In a bout 150 – 200 words, write a paragraph to discuss following topic:

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“School violence is inreasing in schools. What are the possible causes of this problem?”
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