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MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - KHỐI 10

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A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. Listen and complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
OR A NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (10 points)
Student is studying 1. ..............business......................
Student is in the 2. .............third..................... year of the course.
Position Available Where Problem
Receptionist In the Sport Centers 3. ...............evening
lectures...................
Cleaner In the 5. .............Clerical Too early
Assistant.....................
4...........evening In the library Evening lectures
lectures.......................
Part 2. You will hear an interview with a man called O’Toole, who works as a teacher
trainer. Listen to the conversation carefully and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D
for each question. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points).
1. Why are many teachers leaving the profession, according to Mike?
A. They don’t feel it is financially rewarding any more.
B. They are not being given the respect they once were.
C. They are investing too much in it without getting enough back.
D. They find the subject matter they have to teach too difficult.
2. Mike believes that without radical changes _______
A. education in the UK will begin to get worse.
B. UK schools will lose their ability to compete with one another.
C. the UK will soon no longer be a leader in education.
D. the educational system in the UK can be transformed.
3. The main failing of the UK education system is _______
A. the inability of students to use computers.
B. the resistance within schools to the introduction of technology.
C. the failure of government to invest in hardware for schools.
D. the lack of training for teachers in the use of technology in the classroom.
4. Why is teacher training failing teachers, according to Mike?
A. It is not helping them to keep pace with developments.
B. It does not use technology in its training classrooms.
C. It uses hardware and software that are out of date.
D. It is suffering from a lack of trainers with specialist knowledge.
5. Teachers can only benefit from technology if _______
A. they cease to see it as a threat.
B. they can combine it with traditional methods.
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 C. they are allowed to use it in their own way.
D. they are willing to research its possibilities on their own.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 3. You will hear a lecture about the history of April Fools’ Day. Decide whether the
statements are true (T) or false (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (10 points)
1. April Fools’ Day is for people who love magic tricks.
2. A TV program in the UK broadcast that spaghetti grew on trees on April 4th, 1957.
3. Hundreds of people fell for the spaghetti-growing-on-trees prank.
4. People know for a fact that April Fools’ Day originated in France.
5. People who continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1st after the change were
called “April fools.”
Your answers:
1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.T
Part 4: You will hear a radio report about summer jobs for students. For questions 1-10,
complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)

The Jersey Farm Company is looking for students aged (1) _____18-
24_____________________
There are two types of work available in (2) ____catering______________________ and
administrative jobs.
Students working at social functions are needed at least (3) ___________twice a
week_______________
The catering staff take responsibility for serving guest, setting and (4)
____________catering______________ tables.
The office work involves taking (5) ___________phone booking_______________, doing
seating plans and receiving guests.
Experience in (6) ____________handing constant inquiries______________ is required to
deal with e-mail, faxes and filing.
For students who want to do delivery work, a (7) ___________valid driving
license_______________is required.
The rate of payment is (8) _________8 pounds_________________ an hour.
Students can expect to work (9) __________30________________ hours a week.
During the academic year, (10) a ____________part time______________job in the farm
restaurant is available.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points)

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Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the
following sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. I assure you that I _________ no hostile feelings towards you.
A. shelter B. harbour C. embrace D. cover
2. The salesman demonstrated how a push of the button would cause the aerial to _________.
A. rebound B. retreat C. recoil D. retract
3. He cannot _________ ignorance as his excuse; he should have known what was
happening in his own department.
A. insist B. plead C. refer D. defend
4. I thought I had made it_________ that I didn’t want to discuss this matter.
A. distinct B. plain C. frank D. straight
5. Maria is a very good student. She is, __________, an excellent one.
A. in most parts B. for most parts
C. for the most part D. in most of the parts
6. _________ is a belief generally held by people who live in colder climates.
A. That weather affects a person’s mood
B. Weather affects a person’s mood
C. A person’s mood is affected by weather
D. Although a person’s mood is affected by weather
7. In the director’s opinion, it was high time the actress began to _________ her age.
A. be B. reach C. act D. perform
8. As soon as he read the letter, tears _________ in his eyes.
A. filled in B. soaked up C. welled up D. weighed down
9. Whenever he watched detective films, his imagination ran _________.
A. raging B. riot C. unchecked D. furious
10. He had such a bad stomach that he was _________ with pain.
A. bent down B. folded over C. snapped off D. doubled up
11. State pensions are currently at the centre of a(n) _________ debate.
A. scorching B. fiery C. exploded D. flamed
12. I didn’t suspect anything at first, but when I noticed her going through the office drawers
I began to smell _________.
A. a rat B. a pig C. a culprit D. a thief
13. Did you see Jonathan this morning? He looked like _________. It must have been quite a
party last night.
A. a wet blanket B. a dead duck
C. death warmed up D. a bear with a sore head
14. If you have a minor illness, it’s usually better just to let the nature take its _________.
A. time B. path C. way D. course
15. The little children watched the performance in _________ amazement.
A. wide-eyed B. open-eyed C. eagle-eyed D. hawk-eyed
16. That’s exactly what I mean, Tom. You’ve _________!
A. put your foot in it B. killed two birds with one stone
C. put two and two together D. hit the nail on the head
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17. You are advised not to engage in _________ activity during very hot weather.
A. strenuous B. strained C. stringent D. stern
18. Critics agree that Trevor Richmond gave a particular _________performance as King
Lear.
A. holding B. arresting C. apprehensive D. detaining

19. She found the novel absolutely _________ and impossible to put down.
A. riveting B. pinning C. enfastening D. nailing
20. _________, scientists have greatly increased the yield of crops such as corn, rice, and
wheat.
A. As using the laws of genetics B. Using the laws of genetics
C. The laws of genetics D. The laws of genetics are to be used
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 2. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write
the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
LINE RAIN MAKING
0 When it rains, it doesn't always pour. During a typical storm, a comparative small
1 amount of the locking up moisture in each cloud reaches the ground like rain. So the
2 idea that human intervention a rain dance, perhaps - might encourage the sky to give
3 up a little additional water has been around in prehistoric times. More recently,
4 would-be rain-makers have attempted direct intervention, by lobbing various
5 chemicals out of aeroplanes in the effort to wring more rain from the clouds, a
6 practice knowing as 'cloud seeding'.
7 Yet such techniques, which were first developed in the 1940s, are notoriously
8 difficult to evaluate. It is hard to ascertain, for example, how much rain would have
9 fallen anyway. So, though much anecdotal evidence of the advantages of cloud
10 seeding, that has led to its adoption in more than 40 countries around the world, as
11 far as scientists are concerned, results are still inconclusive. That could be about to
12 changing. For the past three years researchers have been carrying out the most
13 extensive and rigorous evaluation to date of a revolutionarily new technique which
14 will substantially boost the volume of rainfall.
15 The preliminary finding of their experiments indicate that solid evidence of the
16 technique's effectiveness is now within the scientists' grasp.
Your answers:
Line Mistakes Corrections
1. 1 locking locked
2. 2 Like as
3. 3 in since
4. 5 the an
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6. 9 though despite
7. 9 that which
8. 11 changing change
9. 13 revolutionarily revolutionary
10. 15 finding findings
Part 3. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle.
Write your answer in the boxes provided. (10 points)
1. Winter is coming. It's getting darker and the days are really starting to draw
______________.
2. The unforeseen expense on the new house ate ______________ my savings but it was
worth it.
3. Gareth Bale is a brilliant young footballer who is ______________ the up and up.
4. We were walking through the woods when we chanced ______________ a trap set by
hunters.
5. Running ______________ your workmates certainly doesn’t influence the atmosphere in
the office in a positive way, so I expect you to stop doing that from now on.
6. It took Terry a while to cotton ______________ the fact I was joking.
7. There’s no point lashing ______________ at Dr. Baker. She’s not responsible for what’s
happened.
8. That chair is not very strong. Do you think it is ______________your weight?
9. I wish you wouldn’t fly ______________me like that every time I make a mistake.
10. I don’t know what happened. I was just sitting at my desk and I suddenly blacked
______________ for a few minutes.
Your answers:
1. in 2. into 3. on 4. upon 5. down
6. on to 7. out 8. up to 9. at 10. out
Part 4. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
SWANS
Swans are graceful long-necked, heavy-bodied, big-footed birds that glide
majestically when swimming and fly slowly with (1. HURRY) wingbeats and necks
outstretched. They migrate in a diagonal (2.FORM) at great heights. No other waterfowl
moves as fast on the water or in the air. Swans are social except in the breeding season.
When they mate, it is for life. (3. COURT) involves mutual bill dipping or head-to-head
posturing. The female incubates, on average, a half-dozen pale; in some species he takes his
turn at brooding. After repulsing an enemy, swans utter a (4. TRIUMPH) note as geese do.
The young, although capable of running and swimming a few hours after hatching, are (5.
CARE) tended for several months. Juvenile birds may ride about on their mother’s back.
These (6. MATURE) birds can be recognized by their mottled grey or brown plumage which
they wear for at least two years until reaching (7. ADULT) in their third or fourth year. In (8.

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CAPTIVE) they can live for 50 years or more. There are approximately 7 to 8 species of
Swan in (9. EXIST). The Southern Hemisphere has the only all black variety, whereas South
America is home to the black-necked swan, an especially (10. AGREE) but beautiful bird.
Your answers:
1. unhurried 5. carefully 9. existence
2. formation 6. immature 10. disagreeable
3. Courtship 7. adulthood
4. triumphant 8. captivity
C. READING (60 points)
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each
gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 pts)
Very few of us would admit putting much trust in horoscopes and the fact that the
movements of astronomical bodies (1) ___________ to earthly occurrences affecting
peoples’ everyday lives.
We all know about the zodiac signs which reflect the position of the sun, the moon
and the planets at the moment of a man’s birth and about the peculiar characteristics
(2)___________ to them by astrologers. We say we will take these phenomena with a
(3)___________ of salt while we keep running our eyes over them in every tabloid we
(4)___________ our hands on. Most frequently, we expect horoscopes to predict the future,
to (5)___________ our optimistic mood with a piece of comforting information or to
(6)___________ our ego by confirming the superlative features that we tend to attribute to
our zodiacs.
However, there’s no scientific evidence to corroborate the assumption that human
existence is so closely (7)___________ with the parameters of the celestial bodies. Our
curiosity in horoscopes may, then, stem our sheer fascination with the horoscopes offer, thus
establishing the sense of our (8)___________ an extreme power over our own lives. An
additional explanation is that humans tend to have a soft (9)___________ for any form of
flattery, which is the fact to which astrologers and the horoscope writers seem to
(10)____________ the greatest deal of weight.
1. A. rely B. correspond C. match D. compare
2. A. identified B. associated C. incorporated D. ascribed
3. A. speck B. pinch C. grain D. scrap
4. A. settle B. draw C. grab D. lay
5. A. restore B. adjust C. upgrade D. reassure
6. A. boost B. escalate C. revitalize D. improve
7. A. fused B. adhered C. coalesced D. intertwined
8. A. disposing B. wielding C. effecting D. committing
9. A. pit B. dot C. spot D. nick
10. A. instill B. consign C. fasten D. attach
Your answer:
1. B 2. D 3. B 4.D 5. A 6.A 7.D 8. BC 9.C 10. D

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Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only
ONE word in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15
points)
During the last 25 years, Britain's urban sparrow population has declined by as (0)
_MUCH _ as two-thirds, and the bird has almost disappeared from many of (1) _________
former haunts. The decline has been blamed on everything from cats to garden pesticides.
Moreover, modern buildings have far (2) _________ few nooks and crannies (3) _________
the birds can nest. Factors (4) _________ these may well be involved, but alone they fail to
explain the severity of the decline, or the fact that other urban birds have been less affected.
Denis Summers-Smith is the world's leading expert on sparrows, so when he (5)
_________ up with a theory to explain their decline, it has to be (6) _________ listening to.
He suggests that the culprit is a chemical added to unleaded petrol. It would be deeply ironic
if a policy that was intended to improve the nation's health was to prove responsible for the
decline of (7) _________ of its favourite species.
According to Summers-Smith, social species such as the sparrow require a minimum
population in a specific area to breed successfully. If, (8) _________ whatever reason,
numbers drop (9) _________ this threshold, the stimulus to breed disappears. The most
dramatic example is the passenger pigeon, which in the late nineteenth century went from
(10) _________ the world's most common bird to total extinction within 50 years.
Your answer:
1. its 2. to 3. where 4. like 5. comes
6. worth 7. one 8. for 9. below 10. being
Part 3. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
The Creators of Grammar
No student of a foreign language needs to be told that grammar is complex.  By
changing word sequences and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs and suffixes, we are able
to communicate tiny variations in meaning.  We can turn a statement into a question, state
whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word
tricks to convey subtle differences in meaning.  Nor is this complexity inherent to the English
language.  All languages, even those of so-called 'primitive' tribes have clever grammatical
components.  The Cherokee pronoun system, for example, can distinguish between 'you and
I', 'several other people and I' and 'you, another person and I'.  In English, all these meanings
are summed up in the one, crude pronoun 'we'.  Grammar is universal and plays a part in
every language, no matter how widespread it is.  So the question which has baffled many
linguists is - who created grammar?
At first, it would appear that this question is impossible to answer.  To find out how
grammar is created, someone needs to be present at the time of a language's creation,
documenting its emergence.  Many historical linguists are able to trace modern complex
languages back to earlier languages, but in order to answer the question of how complex
languages are actually formed, the researcher needs to observe how languages are started
from scratch.  Amazingly, however, this is possible.
Some of the most recent languages evolved due to the Atlantic slave trade.  At that
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time, slaves from a number of different ethnicities were forced to work together under
colonizer's rule.  Since they had no opportunity to learn each other's languages, they
developed a make-shift language called a pidgin.  Pidgins are strings of words copied from
the language of the landowner.  They have little in the way of grammar, and in many cases it
is difficult for a listener to deduce when an event happened, and who did what to whom.  [A]
Speakers need to use circumlocution in order to make their meaning understood.  [B]
Interestingly, however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex language is for a group
of children to be exposed to it at the time when they learn their mother tongue.  [C] Slave
children did not simply copy the strings of words uttered by their elders, they adapted their
words to create a new, expressive language.  [D] Complex grammar systems which emerge
from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are invented by children.
Further evidence of this can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf.  Sign
languages are not simply a series of gestures; they utilise the same grammatical machinery
that is found in spoken languages.  Moreover, there are many different languages used
worldwide. The creation of one such language was documented quite recently in Nicaragua.
Previously, all deaf people were isolated from each other, but in 1979 a new government
introduced schools for the deaf. Although children were taught speech and lip reading in the
classroom, in the playgrounds they began to invent their own sign system, using the gestures
that they used at home. It was basically a pidgin.  Each child used the signs differently, and
there was no consistent grammar.  However, children who joined the school later, when this
inventive sign system was already around, developed a quite different sign language. 
Although it was based on the signs of the older children, the younger children's language was
more fluid and compact, and it utilised a large range of grammatical devices to clarify
meaning.  What is more, all the children used the signs in the same way.  A new creole was
born.
Some linguists believe that many of the world's most established languages were
creoles at first.  The English past tense –ed ending may have evolved from the verb 'do'.  'It
ended' may once have been 'It end-did'.  Therefore it would appear that even the most
widespread languages were partly created by children.  Children appear to have innate
grammatical machinery in their brains, which springs to life when they are first trying to
make sense of the world around them.  Their minds can serve to create logical, complex
structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.
Question 1: In paragraph 1, why does the writer include information about the
Cherokee language?
A. To show how simple, traditional cultures can have complicated grammar structures
B. To show how English grammar differs from Cherokee grammar
C. To prove that complex grammar structures were invented by the Cherokees.
D. To demonstrate how difficult it is to learn the Cherokee language
Question 2: What can be inferred about the slaves' pidgin language?
A. It contained complex grammar.
B. It was based on many different languages.
C. It was difficult to understand, even among slaves.

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Question 3: All the following sentences about Nicaraguan sign language are true
EXCEPT:
A. The language has been created since 1979.
B. The language is based on speech and lip reading.
C. The language incorporates signs which children used at home.
D. The language was perfected by younger children.
Question 4: In paragraph 3, where can the following sentence be placed?
“It included standardised word orders and grammatical markers that existed in neither the
pidgin language, nor the language of the colonizers” .
 A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]
Question 5: 'From scratch' in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to:
A. from the very beginning
B. in simple cultures
C. by copying something else
D. by using written information
Question 6: 'Make-shift' in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:
A. complicated and expressive
B. simple and temporary
C. extensive and diverse
D. private and personal
Question 7: Which sentence is closest in meaning to the highlighted sentence?
Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it is.
 A. All languages, whether they are spoken by a few people or a lot of people, contain
grammar.
 B. Some languages include a lot of grammar, whereas other languages contain a little.
 C. Languages which contain a lot of grammar are more common that languages that contain
a little.
D. The grammar of all languages is the same, no matter where the languages evolved.
Question 8: All of the following are features of the new Nicaraguan sign language EXCEPT:
A. All children used the same gestures to show meaning.
B. The meaning was clearer than the previous sign language.
C. The hand movements were smoother and smaller.
D. New gestures were created for everyday objects and activities.
Question 9: Which idea is presented in the final paragraph?
A. English was probably once a creole.
B. The English past tense system is inaccurate.
C. Linguists have proven that English was created by children.
D. Children say English past tenses differently from adults.
Question 10: Look at the word 'consistent' in paragraph 4. This word could best be replaced
by which of the following?
 A. natural B. predictable  C. imaginable D. uniform
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Your answer:
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. A 8. D 9. A 10.D
Part 4. Read the text and do the following tasks. (15 points)
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 randomised 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 programmes 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 randomised
trials before advancing their claims. Had they done so, they might have concluded, as did an
analysis of 52 randomised 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, randomised 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 randomised trials in social work were begun in the 1930s
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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 potential of knowledge derived from controlled experiments. A more
pragmatic factor limiting 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). Randomised trials have been used to
evaluate the effectiveness of driver-education programmes, job- training schemes, classroom
size, psychological counselling 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 organisation 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.
For questions 1-6, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-F from the list of
headings below Write the correct number, i-ix.
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
4. Paragraph E
5. Paragraph F
6. Paragraph G

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For questions 7-10, complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS from the passage for each answer.
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.
Your answer:
1. VII 2. V 3. IX 4. I 5. IV
6. III 7. RE- 8. SENTENCING 9. VICTIM 10.
OFFENDING RESTORATIV
E JUSTICE
D. WRITING (40 points)
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
one printed before it. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points)
1. The first sign of the disease is blurred vision.
The onset ____of the disease is marked by blurred
vision______________________________________________________________.
2. I will only be satisfied if the manager apologizes fully.
Nothing short _________of a full apology from the manager will safe
me____________________________________________.
3. Julia isn’t to blame for the negligence by any means.
By no means ______is Julia to blame for the _________ negligence
________________________________________________.
4. It rumored that we will have a new manager.
Rumor has __it that we will
have a new manager
_______________________________________________________________.
5. No one stands a chance of beating Mansell in this year’s championship.
It’s a foregone ______conclusion that Mansell will win _______ this year’s championship
_________________________________________________.
Part 2. Rewrite the sentences below in such a way that their meanings stay the same. You
must use the words in capital without changing their forms. Write your answers in the
space provided (10 points)
1. I remained neutral during their disagreement because I like both of them. (SIDES)
I didn’t take sides during their disagreement because I like both of them
____________________________________________________.
2. A great many people will congratulate her if she wins. (SHOWERED)
She will be showered with a great many congratulations if she
wins_______________________________________________________________________
___.
3. He is a generous person. (NAME)
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name______________________________________________________________________
____. 4. Several runners have withdrawn from the race because of health problems.
(BACKED)
__ Several runners have backed out
________________________________________________________________________.
5. Returning from the battle, they had no money left. (RUB)
__________________________________________________________________________.
Part 3. Essay writing (20 points)
Competitiveness is considered a positive quality among people.
Do you agree with this statement? Write an essay of 200-250 words to state your
viewpoint.

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