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SECTION I. LISTENING
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần có tín hiệu.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.

Part 1. You will hear extracts of five different people talking about other people. You will hear
the series twice. For questions 1-10, choose the correct option, A, B or C.

Question 1: The first speaker thinks the mechanic _______

A. was trying hard to be helpful.
B. lacked the knowledge required for his job.
C. may have been lying to her.
Question 2: The first speaker thinks she _______
A. should have asked for someone else's opinion.
B. should have continued the conversation for longer.
C. had no choice but to accept what she was told.
Question 3: The second speaker thinks he _______
A. did not deserve the response he got.
B. should not have said what he did.
C. should have been more aggressive.
Question 4: The second speaker thinks the waitress _______
A. realised she had made a mistake.
B. took a great dislike to him.
C. was behaving uncharacteristically.
Question 5: The third speaker felt that _______
A. she had not expressed herself clearly enough.
B. she had accidentally offended the receptionist.
C. the receptionist wasn't concentrating on his job.

Question 6: The third speaker concluded that the receptionist was _______
A. rather shy. B. annoyed about something. C. inefficient.
Question 7: During the conversation with the sales assistant, the fourth speaker _______
A. realised the assistant was putting on an act.
B. changed his mind about what he wanted.
C. repeated what he had said in different words.
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Question 8: The fourth speaker describes the assistant as _______
A. unintelligent. B. arrogant. C. stubborn.
Question 9: The fifth speaker wanted the builder to _______
A. complete some work he had done.
B. correct some work he had done.
C. do some extra work for her.
Question 10: The fifth speaker realised that the builder _______
A. was a difficult person to contact.
B. always worked very slowly.
C. was unreliable with all his customers.
Part 2. You will hear a radio interview with a husband and wife who write books for children.
For questions 11-16, indicate the most appropriate response, A, B, C or D. You will hear the
recording twice.
Question 11: Ben says that when they are working together, they _______
A. seldom criticise each other's ideas. B. find it better than if they were working alone.
C. only have short conversations with each other. D. often abandon ideas they have had.
Question 12: What does Carol say about doing the drawings?
A. Getting the initial idea is the easiest part.
B. It is harder than doing the text.
C. The intention is not usually to make them realistic.
D. Some require more work than others.
Question 13: Ben says that their working life _______
A. is less routine than they would like. B. often involves meeting difficult deadlines.
C. is sometimes not particularly busy. D. involves moving from one activity to another.
Question 14: Ben says that the characters at the bottom of each page in their books _______
A. resulted from suggestions from parents. B. evidently appeal to parents too.
C. have caused mixed reactions. D. are the most amuser ones they've created.
Question 15: Carol says that the aim of their books is to _______
A. tell stories that won't scare chidren. B. include things children don't notice at first.
C. tell stories children can finish quickly. D. appeal to children who are not good at reading.
Question 16: What does Ben say about the word “book”?
A. It can be inadvisable to use it with children.
B. It is seldom used about what he and Caro create.
C. Some children get confused about what it means.
D. Most parents are reluctant to use it with children.
SECTION II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR
Part 1. For questions 17-34, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 17: The problem with losing weight is that, if you succeed, all your clothes need to be_____.
A. made down B. let down C. taken in D. cut down
Question 18: I watched the play until the end of the first act, _______ I found I had seen enough.
A. on which point B. from which point C. at which point D. at that point
Question 19: He promised me an Oxford dictionary and to my great joy, he ______ his word.
A. stood by B. stuck at C. held onto D. went back on

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Question 20: Mark decided to follow in his father’s ______ and become a dentist.
A. footsteps B. advice C. way D. road
Question 21: This year it was _______ that many of our flowering plants died.
A. a so dry a summer B. such dry a summer C. so a dry summer D. so dry a summer
Question 22: My school always forces students to follow the rules to the ___________ without
caring about their feelings.
A. book B. letter C. lines D. dots
Question 23: Located behind _______ the two lacrimal glands.
A. each eyelid B. is each eyelid C. each eyelid are D. each eyelid which is
Question 24: We expect the talent show judges to be completely ________ and not to show any
preference towards contestants they have a personal connection to.
A. impartial B. reliable C. solitary D. constant
Question 25: As you are the strongest in the group, you can take the ______ .
A. way B. part C. head D. lead
Question 26: A cloud’s reservoir of negative charge extends upward from the altitude at _______
the freezing point.
A. hit temperatures B. temperatures hit
C. which temperatures hit D. which hit temperatures
Question 27: In any case, unfortunately, there is a _______ chance of finding alternative
employment in this despoiled area, which to an untutored eye looks rich in natural assets.
A. big B. huge C. good D. fat
Question 28: I don't agree with you, but your idea certainly gives me food ______.
A. for thinking B. for thought C. for consider D. for fun
Question 29: Having _______ to urban illness and death in winter, prevention is directed at
around 50000 excess deaths that still occur annually in Britain in cold weather.
A. regard B. reference C. perspective D. perception
Question 30: After winning the lottery, they moved into a more ___________ house in a high-
class residential area and had a more comfortable life.
A. well-attended B. well-disposed C. well-appointed D. well-built
Question 31: The driver was anxious _______ as there was a bomb threat.
A. that the train evacuate B. to be evacuated the train
C. that the train be evacuated D. evacuating the train
Question 32: Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I guess I really put my ______ in my mouth.
A. elbow B. hand C. knee D. foot
Question 33: _______ amount of encouragement would make him jump into the pool.
A. No B. Never C. None D. Not only
Question 34: My father often does _________ with people from other countries in the region.
A. affair B. business C. finances D. economy
Part 2. For questions 35-36, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 35: Do we have enough people on hand to help us move our stuff into the house?
A. confident B. available C. nearby D. indisposed
Question 36: I was on the point of calling you when your telegram arrived.
A. starting to call B. around to call C. not ready to call D. about to call
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Part 3. For questions 37-38, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 37: She decided to remain celibate and devote her life to helping the homeless and orphans.
A. separated B. married C. divorced D. single
Question 38: I cannot understand why she did that, it really doesn't add up.
A. makes the wrong addition B. doesn't make sense
C. doesn't calculate D. is easy to understand
Part 4. For questions 39-40, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
option that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Question 39: Maria and Henry are walking and talking in the zoo.
- Maria: “Please don’t tell him you saw me here.” - Henry: “Don’t worry. My lips are ______.”
A. closed B. sealed C. covered D. stuck
Question 40: Tim and Janet are talking about studying abroad.
- Tim: "You're so lucky to be going abroad for a whole semester!" .
- Janet:" ______, I'll miss my friends and family."
A. All the same B. On account of that C. But despite D. That is
SECTION III. READING
Part 1. For questions 41-48, read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Stress is the term used to describe the physical and emotional rigors our bodies undergo when we
adapt to changes in our lives. Contrary to popular belief, stress can produce positive responses as
well as the well-documented adverse symptoms. Positive stress, as it is known, can (41)_____ us
on to greater heights by increasing awareness which, in turn, helps us to lead a fuller, more
satisfying life. Unfortunately, though, any benefits that stress may bring very often give way to
the darker effects of negative stress.
Far from producing a feeling of well-being, negative stress (42)_____ a range of unpleasant
mental behavioral and physiological reactions. Basically, its victims suffer from low self-esteem
due to an inability to achieve (43)_____ goals. This results primarily in a fear of further failure.
Outwardly, people exposed to extremely stressful situations display distinct (44)_____ of
behavior. They become increasingly impulsive, more heavily dependent on nicotine, drugs or
alcohol and excessively (45)_____ to overeating. The upshot of all this is that (46)_____ stress
causes sweating, an increased heartbeat rate, sleeping problems and inexplicable tiredness.
This list alone is enough to heighten anxiety even if you are not stressed out, but advice is not in
short supply for those who are. Although what they advise is not equally (47)_____ to every
person negatively affected by stress, there are some useful standard recommendations. Any
strategy for tackling stress should begin with actually recognizing there is a problem rather than
denying it. When the root of the problem has been identified, it is time to react. This involves
(48)_____ ways of modifying or changing the factors responsible for it. Finally, action needs to be
taken to reduce the intensity of the stressors. There is a (49)_____ of tactics available at this stage,
each of which is designed to alleviate stress to differing degrees. These include shortening
exposure to stressors, moderating physical reactions to them and building physical reserves which
can provide protection against them through regular exercise.
( zone.edu.vn/luyen-thi-ielts/bai-luyen-doc-what-is-stressed/)

Question 41: A. encourage B. urge C. spur D. prevail

Question 42: A. suffer B. arouse C. stir D. induce
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Question 43: A. desirous B. set C. fixed D. aimed
Question 44: A. modes B. styles C. forms D. patterns
Question 45: A. inclined B. subject C. geared D. prone
Question 46: A. unsettled B. unrelieved C. unsolved D. undone
Question 47: A. applicable B. acceptable C. soluble D. agreeable
Question 48: A. concocting B. pinpointing C. uncovering D. deciding
Question 49: A. set B. torrent C. host D. stream
Part 2. For questions 49-56, read the following passage and choose the answer A, B, C or D that fits
best according to the text. Mark your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
GRAPHIC NOVELS: A FRESH ANGLE ON LITERATURE
Has the graphic novel – a fictional story presented in comic-strip format – finally become
intellectually respectable?

Graphic novels have just landed with an almighty kersplat. Ten days ago, two such works were
shortlisted for the Shakespeare Book Awards for the first time in the history of the prize, in two
different categories. This was no publicity stunt: neither panel knew what the other had done. This
is, surely, the moment when the graphic book finally made its entrance into the respectable club
room of high literature. Hang on, though: can you compare a graphic novel with the literary kind?
Wouldn’t that be like comparing a painting with a music video? Or is it time we started seeing
them as comparable mediums for storytelling? If so, what next?
Robert Macfarlane, the chairman of another major literary award, says he has no objection in
principle to a graphic novel being submitted for the prize. In fact, he has taught one, Art
Spiegelman’s Maus, alongside the works of Russian writer Tolstoy and Don Quixote (by the
Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes) at the University of Cambridge, where he works in the
English Faculty. ‘The idea of outlawing the graphic novel doesn’t make any sense to me,’ he says.
‘I don’t segregate it from the novel. The novel is always eating up other languages, media and
forms.’ Graphic fiction, he says, is ‘another version of the novel’s long flirtation with the visual’.
This is, he declares, ‘a golden age for the graphic novel.’
And he’s right. We are seeing a boom in graphic novels. Since Maus was awarded a Pulitzer Prize
in 1992, they have gone on to devour every literary genre going. But so far, graphic novels have
politely stood aside and let conventional books win the big prizes. Now they want the vote.
Fighting for the graphic novelists’ cause, astonishingly, are some hefty prize-winning writers. The
English novelist and poet A. S. Byatt is passionately in favour of graphic novels competing with
regular ones. Byatt, who is a huge fan of Spiegelman’s Maus, thinks that French-Iranian artist
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis stands ‘head and shoulders above most novels being
produced. It’s more interesting and more moving. It’s able to be serious because it can carry itself
along on this unserious form. It allowed her to be witty about things that are terrible. And that’s
why it’s a major work of art’.

The genius of the graphic novel, as the English writer Philip Pullman explains, is that it can bring
into play so many levels of narrative by layering them on top of each other. Take American
Alison Bechdel’s brilliant Are You My Mother? – in a single page, she can depict a memory of
being with her mother in her childhood, dialogue between herself and her mother as they chat on
the phone in the present, plus an image of herself toiling at her desk, trying to write her memoir.
And what Bechdel and her mum are saying on the phone links to the diaries of the early 20th-
century writer Virginia Woolf, which Bechdel also brings to visual life. Try doing that with words
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– it would take a chapter. Bechdel does it in a few panels. That, in the end, is precisely what keeps
graphic literature so distinct from prose narrative.
Graphic novels and traditional novels demand, to be sure, the same amounts of time, intellect and
artistry from the authors. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. A few years on, will you
be clicking the buy button on a graphic novel as happily as you’d pick up a work by a traditional
novelist? Even Bechdel confesses that her reading habits are still struggling out of the past.
‘Honestly, I would be slightly more inclined to pick up a non-graphic work,’ she says. ‘At this
point, there’s not a huge number of graphic novels that are about topics that interest me. But that,
too, is changing. We’re becoming more visually literate. There’s some reason for these graphic
novels creeping into the canon. We’re reading differently from how we used to 200 years ago.’
(Cpe-Test-Book-2-Reading-Test-4-Part-5)
Question 50: What does the writer say about the nomination of two graphic novels for the
Shakespeare Book Awards?
A. It was not deliberately calculated to attract people’ attention.
B. It revealed the closed-mindedness of the literary establishment.
C. It was the result of confusion among members of the panel.
D. It generated debate about the true purpose of the prize.
Question 51: What does Robert Macfarlane suggest about graphic novels?
A. Their banning from literature courses has backfired.
B. They are a logical step in the development of fiction.
C. They tend to be less innovative than traditional novels.
D. Their long-term success has now been assured.
Question 52: The word ‘segregate’ in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. exclude B. victimize C. disengage D. disaffiliate
Question 53: In the third paragraph, the writer suggests that, in the past, writers of graphic novels _____
A. lacked the support of influential figures.
B. underappreciated the importance of literary awards.
C. tended to accept their inferior social standing.
D. were systematically discriminated against.
Question 54: The word ‘hefty’ in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. vigorous B. prominent C. immense D. cumbersome
Question 55: What does Byatt suggest when the novelist and poet says Persepolis stands ‘head
and shoulders above most novels being produced’?
A. The quality of the graphic novel challenges all the literary norms.
B. The work is being published in inordinate numbers.
C. The work is far superior to most novels being produced.
D. The author of the graphic novel has gone great lengths to finish the work.
Question 56: The writer discusses Alison Bechdel’s book to make the point that graphic novels ______
A. can have just as much narrative depth as traditional novels.
B. are able to incorporate a surprising range of different novels.
C. can represent the workings of memory in sophisticated ways.
D. enable writers to deal with different aspects of a story at once.
Question 57: Bechdel is quoted in the last paragraph to make the point that ______
A. interest in graphic novels reflects a more general trend.
B. graphic novels are far outnumbered by quality traditional novels.
C. it is difficult to persuade people to take graphic novels seriously.
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 D. many readers lack the skills to fully appreciate graphic novels.
Question 58: In this article, the writer is ______
A. describing the working practices of graphic novelists.
B. outlining the origins of graphic novels.
C. analyzing the preoccupations of graphic novelists.
D. evaluating the merits of graphic novels.
Part 3. For questions 57-64, read an extract from an article and choose the answer A, B, C or D that
fits best according to the text. Mark your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
It is strange to think that the stuff we use to make pencil lead, graphite is the same as that of a
sparkling white diamond. Nonetheless, it is true. Both are pure or near-pure carbon, graphite
generally being found in sedimentary rock, where layers have built up over the ages. Diamonds,
however, require something that little bit extra.
Diamonds begin their lives deep under the ground, in the area beneath the crust called the
mantle, where temperatures are so high even rock can melt and pressures are so great they can
force rock this hot back into solid form. It is conditions as extreme as these that are needed to
create the hardest substance we have yet discovered, used for the tips of drills to pierce steal, and
the edges of saws to cut other gems. Born in a subterranean world, they only come to the surface
through volcanic activity, and any material born of the surface has no chance against them.
They are most prized, of course, not for their strength but for their beauty. Diamonds are the
most precious of precious stones due to their unparalleled ability to throw back the light they
receive. When cut properly, a diamond will sparkle as if lit from within; this is known as its ‘fire’.
They are also much sought-after because they are so scarce. The word ‘diamond’ comes from the
ancient Greek word ‘adamas’, meaning ‘invincible’, and the first definite reference to them is in a
Roman text of 1 AD. Until the 18th century, however, India was the only known source of
diamonds, and then not in great quantities. The Spanish discovered them in Brazil in 1721, but
again, the quantity of good gemstones was low, and today it is an exporter of industrial diamonds
on the whole.
In 1866, a girl walking along the bank of the Orange River, on the De Beer farm in present-day
South Africa, found a ‘shiny stone’. It turned out to be a twenty-one-carat diamond; she had
inadvertently discovered the richest source of diamonds in the world and begun a rush of
prospectors to the farm, all dreaming of instant riches. Soon, ninety per cent of the diamonds
being mined from the ground were coming from the two mines there, Kimberley and De Beers.
Five years later, an Englishman called Cecil Rhodes bought a stake in the De Beers mine. He
came from a well-off family and his venture was successful. By the mid-seventies, there was a
glut in the diamond market and prices plunged, allowing Rhodes to buy up more claims cheaply.
By 1891, his company, the De Beers Consolidated Mines, owned both mines and controlled world
diamond production.
Having seen the danger of overproduction, Rhodes also set up the Diamond Syndicate, which
aimed to control the selling of gems onto the world market and keep prices artificially high. This
type of cooperation between companies which are meant to be in competition is known as a cartel,
and one hundred years later, the De Beers cartel still controlled eighty per cent of the world
diamond trade, making it the most successful cartel in modern times. Since the 1990s, however,
this has shown signs of slipping.

Large-scale smuggling out of the Angolan diamond mines has affected prices, and proved
impossible to control. When prices fall, the resolve of members of a cartel tends to weaken; in
1996, the Western Australia Argyle diamond producers pulled out of the cartel and began to trade
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on their own. 1997 brought a civil war to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has raged
ever since. The fiercest fighting has been over the control of its productive diamond mines;
whoever controls these can trade gems for arms, and the market has again and again been
swamped with diamonds, so depressing prices.
The De Beers cartel has overcome such problems before, and is still a very powerful force in the
world of precious stones. On the horizon, however, is a far more dangerous threat, one that could
spell its doom. Synthetic diamonds were first produced commercially by the General Electric
Company in 1955, but these were always tiny industrial diamonds for drills and the like.
Gemstone diamonds were expensive to make and often flawed, and so easy to recognise as such.
In 1996, however, a large synthetic diamond was very nearly given a grade as a ‘true’ diamond;
until the very last stage, no one had recognised it as manufactured. If synthetic diamonds become
indistinguishable from the real thing, the cartel is, of course, finished. Synthetic diamonds are
made by subjecting the poorer - and cheaper - cousin, graphite, to great heat and pressure; the
common basis for these two widely different materials may have come back to haunt the De Beers
diamond cartel.
(mini-ielts.com/1193/view-solution/reading/the-history-of-pencil)
Question 59: What is the implication about graphite in paragraph 1?
A. It is a common everyday material.
B. It is not so pure as diamonds.
C. It is made up of the same element as diamonds.
D. It is identical to diamonds.
Question 60: The main reason for the high value of diamonds is their _________.
A. antiquity B. brilliance C. hardness D. rarity
Question 61: What was the significance of the 1866 find?
A. Diamonds were set to become much more numerous.
B. It was the first time diamonds had been found in the British Empire.
C. It was the largest diamond ever.
D. South Africa was not yet born.
Question 62: What do we learn about cartels?
A. They are set up to protect the consumer. B. They are dominated by one powerful company.
C. They are created to manipulate market forces. D. They are generally short-lived.
Question 63: What problem has the De Beers cartel faced over the years?
A. wars over diamond mines B. loss of partners
C. uncontrolled selling of gems D. improving synthetic diamonds
Question 64: What is the purpose of the last two paragraphs?
A. to warn that people are selling synthetic diamonds as ‘true’ ones
B. to describe the progress in synthetic diamond production
C. to demonstrate that synthetic diamonds are not as valuable as ‘true’ ones
D. to show that diamonds could soon plunge in value

SECTION IV. WRITING

Part 1. For questions 65-72, mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 65: The plan may be ingenious. It will never work in practice.
A. Ingenious as it may be, the plan will never work in practice.
B. Ingenious as may the plan, it will never work in practice.
C. The plan may be too ingenious to work in practice.
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 D. The plan is as impractical as it is ingenious.
Question 66: There was a serious flood. All local pupils couldn’t go to school on that day.
A. The serious flood made all pupils from not going to school on that day.
B. The serious flood hindered all local pupils from going to school on that day.
C. The serious flood prevented all local pupils not go to school on that day.
D. The serious flood caused all local pupils not go to school on that day
Question 67: The substance is very toxic. Protective clothing must be worn at all times.
A. So toxic is the substance that protective clothing must be worn at all times.
B. Since the substance is very toxic, so protective clothing must be worn at all times.
C. The substance is such toxic that protective clothing must be worn at all times.
D. The substance is too toxic to wear protective clothing at all times.
Question 68: The soccer team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.
A. Hardly had the soccer team known they lost the match when they started to blame each other.
B. Not only did the soccer team lose the match but they blamed each other as well.
C. As soon as they blamed each other, the soccer team knew they lost the match.
D. No sooner had the soccer team started to blame each other than they knew they lost the match.
Question 69: My sisters used to get on with each other. Now they hardly speak.
A. My sisters rarely speak because they have never liked each other.
B. My sisters do not speak to each other much, but they are good friends.
C. My sisters were once close, but they rarely speak to each other now.
D. Because they have never got on, my sisters do not speak to each other.
Question 70: Peter told us about his leaving the school. He did it on his arrival at the meeting.
A. Hardly had Peter informed us about his leaving the school when he arrived at the meeting.
B. Not until Peter told us that he would leave the school did he arrive at the meeting.
C. Only after his leaving the school did Peter inform us of his arrival at the meeting.
D. No sooner had Peter arrived at the meeting than he told us about his leaving the school.
Question 71: I accepted the new job after all. It is making me feel exhausted.
A. If it had not been for my acceptance of the new job offer, I wouldn’t have felt exhausted.
B. Perhaps it would have been better if I hadn’t agreed to this new job since it is so boring.
C. Perhaps I shouldn’t have accepted this new job, as it’s making me feel exhausted.
D. It is of deep regret that I didn’t turn down the job offer due to its hardship and long hour work.
Question 72: He was successful because he was determined to pursue personal goals. He was not talented.
A. His determination to pursue personal goals made him successful and talented.
B. In addition to his determination, his talent ensured his success in pursuing his goals.
C. His success lay in his natural ability, not in his determination to pursue personal goals.
D. It was his determination to pursue personal goals, not talent, that contributed to his success.
Part 2. For questions 73-80, mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 73: She said she would go to the police unless she was given her money back.
A. She hasn't yet got her money back or gone to the police.
B. She wasn't given her money back because she had gone to the police.
C. She was given her money back and then went to the police.
D. She went to the police because she hadn't got her money back.
Question 74: John was earning much less in his previous job than he is now.
A. John is earning less in his current job.
B. John had a higher salary in his previous job.
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 C. John is earning more in his current job.
D. John's previous job brought him as much money as his current one.
Question 75: You should have persuaded him to change his mind.
A. You persuaded him to change his mind but he didn't listen.
B. It was essential to persuade him to change his mind but you didn't.
C. You didn't persuade him to change because of his mind.
D. You should persuade him to change his mind.
Question 76: City centres are more dangerous than they were 20 years ago.
A. 20 years ago, there were many very dangerous city centres.
B. In the last 20 years, city centres have become the most dangerous parts of cities.
C. City centres aren't as safe as they used to be 20 years ago.
D. 20 years ago, I wasn't aware that city centres were dangerous places,
Question 77: No sooner had she put the telephone down than her boss rang back.
A. As soon as her boss rang back, she put down the telephone.
B. She had hardly put the telephone down without her boss rang back.
C. Hardly she had hung up, she rang her boss immediately.
D. Scarcely had she put the telephone down when her boss rang back.
Question 78: Slightly more than twenty-five percent of the students in the class come from
Spanish-speaking countries.
A. Seventy-five percent of the students in the class speak Spanish.
B. A small minority of the students in the class are Hispanic.
C. A considerable proportion of the students in the class are Spanish.
D. The percentage of the students speaking Spanish fell by twenty-five percent.
Question 79: But for his father's early retirement, Richard would not have taken over the family business.
A. Richard only took over the family business because his father decided to retire early.
B. His father retired early, but he still ran the family business.
C. Richard didn't take over the family business because his father didn't retire.
D. Richard's father didn't want him to take over the family business despite his retirement.
Question 80: When I arrived, they were having dinner.
A. When they started having their dinner, I arrived.
B. I came to their invitation to dinner.
C. They ate their dinner as soon as I arrived.
D. I came in the middle of their dinner.

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