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THÀNH PHỐ ĐÀ NẴNG NĂM HỌC 2021 - 2022

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You are going to hear an interview with a street performer at festivals, including one called the
Hat Fair. Listen to the recording and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1. Why is the festival called the Hat Fair?
A. It was started by local hat-makers.
B. Many participants wear hats.
C. The hats look funny.
D. Street performers collect money in hats.
Question 2. What does Max most enjoy about the Hat Fair?
A. the other street performers he meets
B. the type of audiences he gets
C. the shows he can do
D. the number of people coming to the fair
Question 3. How did Max start in street theatre?
A. He lost his job in a circus.
B. He did it while he was at university.
C. He learned it from his father.
D. He travelled with other performers.
Question 4. What do audiences enjoy most about Max's act?
A. the danger
B. the acrobatics
C. the jokes
D. the equipment
Question 5. According to Max, what makes street performers perform well?
A. They are paid by results.
B. They earn a lot of money.
C. They enjoy their work.
D. They are attracted to the city.
Question 6. What does he say is usually the main problem with street theatre?
A. the police
B. the location
C. the weather
D. the crowds
Question 7. According to Max, how does the Hat Fair help the city?
A. It attracts visitors to the town.
B. It encourages people to work together.
C. It makes Winchester an amusing party.
D. It helps people to relax together.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Question 8. The doctor prescribed tablets to help the pain.

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 A. lighten B. calm C. relieve D. rid
Question 9. The election results would make it clear which of the parties had .
A. changed hands B. lived hand to mouth
C. had its hands full D. gained the upper hand
Question 10. They spend a week in the capital city and then made the country.
A. off B. up C. with D. for
Question 11. There is no point in phoning him. He’s certain by now.
A. to leave B. to have left C. left D. having left
Question 12. As he walked along the landing, he himself in the mirror at the top of the stairs.
A. glimsped B. glanced C. gazed D. glared

Question 13. interesting was the TV programme that he had been watching it for hours.
A. Very B. How C. So D. Such
Question 14. The local authorities need to down on illegal parking, in my opinion.
A. hit B. force C. move D. crack
Question 15. You shouldn't let other people push you . You've got to stand up for yourself.
A. up B. around C. off D. through
Question 16. They tears of joy when they heard the news.
A. shed B. poured C. flowed D. streamed
Question 17. Hold on, I’ll be with you in a .
A. beat B. stroke C. tick D. chime
Question 18. “Why are they taking down the decorations?”
“The concert over, and they are putting everything back in its place.”
A. is B. has been C. was D. being
Question 19. He tried hiring more salesmen to push the products, but it took them too much time to the
ropes.
A. learn B. show C. get D. finish
Question 20. The nervous candidate took a deep breath and tried to herself.
A. subdue B. compose C. wrestle D. strike
Question 21. She recognized his face, but his name her.
A. missed B. failed C. forgot D. escaped
Question 22. At time was there any indication that they would break up.
A. any B. no C. all D. some

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to
complete each of the following exchanges.
Question 23. - Nick: “ , Mr. Duncan!”
- Mr. Duncan: “Me too, little young man!”
A. Can’t wait to see you here B. Mind your step
C. Fancy meeting you here D. Take a chance
Question 24. - Janet: “Jerry and I have just broken up!”
- Tim: “ ”
A. Do you need a shoulder to cry on? B. Oh you miser!
C. Happy ending! D. Every so often.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs
correction in each of the following questions.
Question 25. Because I can’t spare a moment right now, I’ll have one of my co-workers to work on it.
A B C D
Question 26. Probably the most reason why customers may leave is that you offer poor customer service.
A B C D
Question 27. Psychologists estimate that up to sixty percentage of human communication is nonverbal.
A B C D
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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.
THE TRUTH BEHIND A SMILE
People smile a (28) deal, and we seem to know instinctively that some smiles are more genuine
than others. But is there any scientific (29) for this? Recent research suggests that a mechanism in
the brain can help us (30) whether a smile is really heartfelt - or whether it is just being
(31) on for show.

(32) to various long-held traditions, a genuine smile involves the eyes as well as the mouth. In the
nineteenth century, a French anatomist (33) to prove this. He used electrodes to stimulate the facial
muscles of volunteers, (34) creating raise smiles. He found that real smiles were
always (35) with the contraction of a muscle around the eye, but that his artificially induced ones
were not.

During more recent research, volunteers were shown a variety of human facial (36) and their
reactions to these were monitored. When they were shown a happy face, 35% of the volunteers
immediately started looking at the eye area, checking for tell-tale crinkles that would (37) that the
smile was genuine: but when shown a sad or neutral face, they did not. So why did the human brain evolve
to (38) between real and false smiles? It could be that this ability to (39) a quick
assessment of a smile has an important role to play in successful communication. A genuine
smile (40) as a gesture of conciliation in conflict, and it's important to know whether we are really
being offered a truce or not.

Question 28. A. big В. great С. large D. huge

Question 29. A. sign В. basis С. root D. fact
Question 30. A. recollect В. accept С. admit D. recognise
Question 31. A. put В. brought С. created D. stuck
Question 32. A. Providing В. Considering С. Relating D. According
Question 33. A. got down В. set out С. went off D. carried out
Question 34. A. despite В. thereby С. however D. nonetheless
Question 35. A. associated В. mixed С. joined D. accompanied
Question 36. A. exhibitions В. resemblances С. appearances D. expressions
Question 37. A. assure В. confirm С. justify D. approve
Question 38. A. decide В. tell С. distinguish D. reckon
Question 39. A. make В. earn С. do D. hold
Question 40. A. aims В. serves С. portrays D. applies

You are going to read an article about desert discoveries. For questions 41-45 choose the answer
(A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
DESERT DISCOVERIES AND MONSTER MYTHS
DAVID KEYS on new insights into the day of the dinosaur.

Chinese and Canadian scientists working in the Gobi Desert have stumbled across a series of 80-million-year-old
dinosaur colonies - including one with a dozen 150-centimetre-long babies, and another with five tiny embryos.
These perfectly preserved, uncrushed skeletons are now helping experts study the range of facial and other
physical differences displayed by dinosaurs within a single species. Because all the babies are of the same
colony, they are certain to be of the same species and must therefore have a common gene pool. Detailed
examination is revealing marked differences between individual colony members, with some of them having
broader or larger faces than others.

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The new data emerging from this and related research have serious implications for dinosaur studies in general.
In the past, differences in head size and shape have often led palaeontologists to conclude that they had
discovered new species. But now that it is known that great physical variations can occur within a single
dinosaur colony, experts fear that many of the 500 listed dinosaur species on the fossil record may not be
separate species after all.

The Gobi Desert colony discovered this year is of a species of vegetarian armoured dinosaur known as an
ankylosaur. Finds so far include a large number of eggs, the babies, some adults and a group of embryos - each
only 36 centimetres long. Excavations have provided snapshots of daily life in an ankylosaur colony, including
what appears to have been an attack by a carnivorous dinosaur on the ankylosaur nest full of eggs. The
fossilised predator is preserved lying on top of the egg-filled nest, and seems to have perished as a result of a
sandstorm which buried both the hunter and its prey.

The Sino-Canadian team excavating several Gobi sites has unearthed eggs belonging to numerous dinosaur
species. Some appear to have produced the strangest of eggs in the strangest of ways. Ankylosaur eggs, for
example were neither round nor oval, but long and thin - around 180 centimetres long and 60 centimetres in
diameter. Ankylosaur females seem to have laid them with great efficiency, two at a time. One extraordinary
nest, containing thirty of these eggs, has yielded some clues about laying techniques. The eggs were arranged
in the nest in a multi-layer spiral, resembling a pyramid. It seems that the female dug the nest with her hind
legs, then laid pairs of eggs as she proceeded around it.

The team has also unearthed the skull and vertebrae of what seems to be the Old World’s largest dinosaur.
From the remains unearthed, palaeontologists have been able to calculate that the creature was 31 metres from
head to tail - ten per cent longer than any other Old World dinosaur found so far. Related to a dinosaur called
mamenchisaurus - but as yet unnamed in its own right - it lived around 140 million years ago, was vegetarian,
weighed up to forty tonnes and would probably have walked at less than sixteen kilometres per hour.

China’s dinosaur discoveries cover the entire epoch of dinosaur prevalence on Earth from around 225 million to
65 million years ago. In the end they were wiped out by a natural disaster, possibly caused by meteorite impact.
Detailed study from fossil material found in China, and in North America, is helping to prove that many of the
later dinosaurs had comparatively large brains, mammal-style binocular vision and more complex behavior than
previously thought. They were not, it seems, always the dumb giants they are normally portrayed as being.

Question 41. The dinosaur finds, mentioned in paragraph one, are yielding new information because
A. they contain baby dinosaurs.
B. the skeletons are undamaged.
C. they are 80 million years old.
D. the dinosaurs are exceptionally large.
Question 42. According to paragraph two, what are the implications for dinosaur research?
A. For the first time, head size and shape can be studied.
B. A new species has been identified.
C. The estimated number of dinosaur species will be modified.
D. The idea of how dinosaurs looked is being changed.
Question 43. Which of the following is true of the ankylosaur?
A. It ate eggs as a basic part of its diet.
B. It produced eggs of an unusual shape.
C. Males and females incubated the eggs.
D. It defended its eggs against attack.
Question 44. What did the ankylosaur do when producing its young?
A. It improved on a nest already made by other dinosaur species.
B. It used its back legs to produce a hole in the ground.

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 C. It positioned its eggs carefully with the use of its front legs.
D. It laid each egg on top of another.
Question 45. The scientists have discovered a large dinosaur which is
A. about to be given a new name.
B. the biggest ever found outside America.
C. complete except for the head and tail.
D. related to another Chinese dinosaur.

Question 46. What do the recent Chinese discoveries of dinosaurs show?

A. They lived for longer than had previously been thought.
B. Their eyesight was different from what had been believed.
C. Their large brains allowed them to move quickly.
D. They declined gradually over a period of several centuries.

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 47. I only recognised him when he started to talk to me.
A. Although he started to talk to me, I couldn’t recognise him.
B. He started to talk to me because I recognised him.
C. Not until he started to talk to me did I recognise him.
D. Had I not recognised him, he would have talked to me.

Question 48. It was more of an argument than a discussion.

A. It was not an argument but a discussion.
B. The discussion was not as good as the argument.
B. There were more arguments than discussions.
D. It was not so much a discussion as an argument.

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 49. Bruce was injured in a match yesterday. He will be out for one week.
A. Having injured Bruce in a match yesterday, he will be out for one week.
B. Having been injured in a match yesterday, Bruce will be out for a week.
C. If Bruce had not been out for one week, he wouldn’t have been injured.
D. It has been one week since Bruce was injured in a match.
Question 50. He neglected my advice. That’s why he lost the game.
A. He lost the game because he listened to my advice.
B. Without my advice, he would have lost the game.
C. Though he listened to my advice, he still lost the game.
D. Had he listened to my advice, he wouldn’t have lost the game.

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