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BẰNG SỐ BẰNG CHỮ GIÁM KHẢO 1 GIÁM KHẢO 2 (Do CTHĐ

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HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN NGHE HIỂU

 Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 10 giây.
 Thí sinh đọc kỹ câu hỏi và hướng dẫn trước khi làm bài.
SECTION I: LISTENING (4.0 pts).
PART 1: You will hear an interview with a young hairdresser called Carlotta. Choose the
correct answer and write your answer in the numbered boxes. (1.5pts)
1. Carlotta first become interested in cutting people’s hair when she saw__________.
A. a hairdressing magazine
B. a cartoon character doing it
C. a friend having it done
2. The first hair that Carlotta cut belonged to __________.
A. her father
B. her sister
C. her mother
3. At college, Carlotta’s teachers said she could____________.
A. talk to customers more
B. spend more time planning
C. improve her cutting technique
4. How did Carlotta feel during the Young Hairdresser competition?
A. sure she would lose
B. angry with the model
C. confused by the rules
5. What does Carlotta say is the biggest benefit of working for a well- known company?
A. meeting famous people
B. making plenty of money
C. gaining a variety of experience
6. What would Carlotta like to do next?
A. open a hairdressing school
B. create a range of beauty products
C. start a business in another country
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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PART 2: You will hear a radio programme about some historic places to visit. For each
question, fill in the missing information in the numbered spaces. Complete the sentences
with a word or short phrase. (1.0 point)

HISTORIC PLACES TO VISIT

Black Rock Caves
* Over 2 million years old
* For half a million years, people and animals, especially (1) ………………………….
lived here.
* Special evening tours during the month of (2) ………………………………
Salter House
* Built in the year (3) ………………………………
* Made famous by the television series called Aunt Dorothy.
* All visitors want to see Dorothy’s (4) ………………………………
The old Port
* Have a ride on an old tram to the (5) ……………………………… village.
* In the factory, find out how people used to make sweets.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
PART 3: You will hear five teenagers talking about helping to organize a surprise
birthday for a family member. Choose from the list (A-H) the advice each speaker gives to
ensure the party will be enjoyable for the family member. Use the letters only once. There
are three extra letters which you do not need to use. (1.5 pts)
A. Invite people they get on well with.
B. Find an interesting party venue.
C. Make sure they will appreciate the idea of having a surprise.
D. Be sure you can keep all the party details secret.
E. Don’t leave the planning to the last minute.
F. Check they are free to attend the party.
G. Organise party activities that they will enjoy.
H. Don’t mention their party at all.
Your answers:
Speaker 1: Speaker 2: Speaker 3: Speaker 4: Speaker 5:

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SECTION II: LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (6.0 pts)
PART 1: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your
answer (A, B, C, or D) in the numbered boxes. (1.5 pts)
1. By half past ten tomorrow morning I _________ along the motorway.
A. will drive B. am driving C. drive D. will be driving
2. Carol has __________ degree in engineering from __________ University of London.
A. the/a B. a/an C. a/the D. the/ an
3. We ____________ today and I got into trouble because I hadn’t done it.
A. had checked our homework B. had our homework checked
C. were checked our homework D. had our homework check
4. She refused to eat meat under any _____________.
A. circumstances B. occasion C. opportunity D. reason
5. __________the wet weather, the football match went ahead.
A. Although B. Owing to C. However D. In spite of
6. Throughout the flooded area, villages are being __________ by helicopter.
A. trapped B. evacuated C. sustained D. scattered
7. Let's walk to the shop instead of taking the car, __________?
A. will you B. shall we C. don’t you D. don’t we
8. I never met Joe Louis, but he was a great boxer __________.
A. by all accounts B. on account
C. in the account D. according to the accounts
9. I suggested__________ more outdoor activities.
A. that Anna should do B. Anna could do
C. that Anna doing D. Anna that she would do
10. Brian ___________ at our dinner party wearing a pink bow tie.
A. wore out B. showed off C. turned up D. tried out
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
PART 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered boxes. (1.5 pts)
Ask any adult over forty to make a (1.compare)______ between the past and the present and most
will tell you that things have been getting (2. steady) _____ worse for as long as they can
remember. Take the weather for example. Everyone remembers that in their (3. young) _____ the
summers were considerably hotter, and that winter always included abundant falls of snow just
when the school holidays had started.
Of course, the food in those days was far superior too, as nothing was imported and everything
was fresh. (4. employ) ______ was negligible, the money in your pocket really was worth
something, and you could afford a (5. size) _____ house, even if your means were limited. And
above all, people were somehow nicer in those days, and spent their free time on innocent
pursuits such as making model boats and tending their stamp (6. collect) _____, rather than
gazing at the television screen for hours on end. As we know, this image of the past simply cannot
be (7. reality)______, and there are plenty of statistics dealing with health and (8. prosper) _____
which prove that it is not. So, why is it that we all have a (9. tend) _____ to idealize the past and
to be so (10. criticize) _____ of the present?
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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PART 3: Look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a
word which should not be there. Tick (√) each correct line. If a line has a word which
should not be there, write the word in the numbered boxes. (1.5 pts)

WEATHER CONTROL

Your answers
Forecasts might warn us about threats posed by the weather, 1...........................

but imagine if we could take out control of the weather and 2...........................

prevent dangerous weather conditions from in the first place. 3.............................

Controlling the weather may be the biggest technological 4.............................

challenge we face. For a long of time, scientists have dreamed 5.............................

of creating artificial clouds to bring rain to areas hit by drought, 6.............................

but it’s much harder to do than they expected that. The global 7.............................

weather system is very complicated, with each part having an 8.............................

effect taken on all the others. The scientists may feel they are 9.............................

wasting up their time, but success could save millions of lives. 10...........................

PART 4: Complete the following sentences with correct prepositions / particles. Write
your answer in the numbered boxes. (1.5 pts)
1. Mary’s got very strange taste ________ clothes.
2. Although I practice quite a lot, I never seem to win very often ________ tennis.
3. She takes great pride ________ her work.
4. Was the Clifton Suspension Bridge named ________ a man called Clifton Suspension?
5. All forms of travel are expensive nowadays, but ________ balance, air travel offers the
best value for money
6. Sarah is studying hard. She is intent ________ getting a good degree.
7. I understood the problem after it had been explained _________me.
8. I am not _________ the mood for going out tonight.
9. I was passing their house, so I dropped in __________ Claire and Michael.
10. That flat wasn’t very big, but it was perfectly adequate ___________ our needs.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (6.0 pts)
PART 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits
each gap. Write your answer in the numbered boxes. (0) is an example. (1.5 pts)
Thomas Edison
On the night of 21 October 1931, millions of Americans (0) _____ part in a coast-to-coast
ceremony to commemorate the passing of a great man. Lights (1) _______ in homes and
offices from New York to California. The ceremony (2) _______the death of arguably the
most important inventor of all time: Thomas Alva Edison.
Few inventors have had such an impact on everyday life, and many of his inventions played
a crucial (3) _______ in the development of modern technology. One should never (4)
_______how revolutionary some of Edison's inventions were.
In many ways, Edison is the perfect example of an inventor — that is, not just someone (5)
_______ dreams up clever gadgets, but someone whose products transform the lives of
millions. He possessed the key characteristics that an inventor needs to make a (6) _______
of inventions, notably sheer determination. Edison famously tried thousands of materials
while working on a new type of battery, reacting to failure by cheerfully (7) _______to his
colleagues: 'Well, (8) _______ we know 8,000 things that don't work.’ Knowing when to
take no notice of experts (9) _______ also important. Edison's proposal for electric lighting
circuitry was received with total disbelief by eminent scientists, until he lit up whole streets
(10)_______ his lights.
0 A joined B held C was D took
1 A turned out B came off C went out D put off
2 A noted B marked C indicated D distinguished
3 A role B place C effect D share
4 A mislead B lower C decrease D underestimate
5 A which B whose C who D whom
6 A succeed B success C successful D successfully
7 A announcing B informing C instructing D notifying
8 A by far B even though C at least D for all
9 A is B are C was D were
10 A in B on C of D with
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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 answer in the numbered boxes. (2.0 pts)
THE ORIGIN OF OUR LANGUAGE
Sir William Jones, born in 1746, was undoubtedly (1) __________ of the greatest linguists
who ever lived. He had an amazing talent (2) __________ languages and learnt several at a
young age. By the time of his (3) __________, he had a thorough knowledge of 13
languages and knowledge of a further 28.

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Apart (4) __________ studying languages, he also studied law and became a judge in India.
He was fascinated by this vast subcontinent and wrote about Indian life. He also translated
important works of (5) __________literature.
John noticed (6) __________ Sanskrit, a classical Indian language, was similar to Greek and
Latin in (7) __________ number of ways. The resemblance could not be a coincidence.
Several other people had also noted similarities, (8) __________ Jones was the first to
suggest that these three languages had a common origin. He also suggested that they could
(9) __________ grouped together with other European and Asian languages into one family,
known as Indo-European (10) __________, which included English.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 3: You are going to read a passage about getting clean water. Read the passage and
choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of heading bellows.(1.5 pts)
A. Why some plans have failed
B. A rural and urban problem
C. A possible success
D. Explaining a new management style
E. Some relevant statics
F. A regular trip for some people
G. Treating people for disease
H. How water can change people’s lives.

THE BURDEN OF THIRST

Millions of women carry water long distances. If they had a tap by their door, whole
societies would be transformed.
by Tina Rosenberg

1. Aylito Binayo’s feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning, she can run
down the rocks to the river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her
village with a container of water on her back. She has made this journey three times a day
since she was a small child. So has every other woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso
district of south-western Ethiopia in Africa. Binayo left school when she was eight years
old, in part because she had to help her mother fetch water from the Toiro River. The water
is unsafe to drink; every year that the drought continues, the river carries less water, and its
flow is reduced. But it is the only water Foro has ever had.
2. In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours abundant, clean
water. Yet nearly 900 million people in the world have no access to clean water.
Furthermore, 2.5 billion people have no safe way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water
and lack of proper hygiene cause disease and kill 3.3 million people around the world
annually, most of them children. In southern Ethiopia and in northern Kenya, a lack of rain
over the past few years has made even dirty water hard to find. But soon, for the first time,
things are going to change.

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3. Bringing clean water close to villagers’ homes is the key to the problem.
Communities where clean water becomes accessible and plentiful are transformed. All the
hours previously spent hauling water can be used to cultivate more crops, raise more
animals or even start a business. Families spend less time sick or caring for family
members who are unwell. Most important, not having to collect water means girls can go to
school and get jobs. The need to fetch water for the family, or to take care of younger
siblings while their mother goes, usually prevents them ever having this experience.
4. But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are
overwhelming. Locating water underground and then reaching it by means of deep wells
requires geological expertise and expensive, heavy machines. Abandoned wells and water
projects litter the villages of Konso. In similar villages around the developing world, the
biggest problem with water schemes is that about haft of them move on. Sometimes
technology is used that can’t be repaired locally, or space parts are available only in the
capital.
5. Today, a UK-based international non-profit organization called WaterAid is tackling
the job of bringing water to the most remote villages of Konso. Their approach combines
technologies proven to last - such as building a sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that
would otherwise drain away. But the real innovation is that WaterAid believes technology
is only part of the solution. Just as important is involving the local community in designing,
building and maintaining new water projects, WaterAid asks the community to create a
WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) committee of seven people. The committee works with
WaterAid to plan projects and involve the village in construction. Then it maintains and
runs the project.
6. The people of Konso, who grow their crops on terraces they have dug into the sides
of mountains, are famous for hard work. In the village of Orbesho, residents even
constructed a road themselves so that drilling machinery could come in. Last summer, their
pump, installed by the river, was being motorised to push its water to a newly built
reservoir on top of a nearby mountain. From there, gravity will carry it down in pipes to
villages on the other side of the mountain. Residents of those villages have each given
some money to help fund the project. They have made concrete and collected stones for the
structures. Now they are digging trenches to lay pipes. If all goes well, Aylito Binayo will
have a tap with safe water just a three-minute walk from her front door.
Your answers:
Paragraph 1: Paragraph 3: Paragraph 5:
Paragraph 2: Paragraph 4: Paragraph 6:
PART 4: Read the text and choose the best answer. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in
the numbered boxes. (1.0 point)
SPEED READING
A Speed reading is not just about reading fast. It is also about how much information you
can remember when you have finished reading. The World Championship Speed- Reading
Competition says that its top competitors average between 1,000 and 2,000 words a minute. But
they must remember at least 50 percent of this in order to qualify for the competition.
B Nowadays, speed reading has become an essential skill in any environment where
people have to master a large volume of information. Professional workers need reading skills
to help them get through many documents every day, while students under pressure to deal with
assignments may feel they have to read more and read faster all the time.

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C Although there are various methods to increase reading speed, the trick is deciding what
information you want first. For example, if you only want a rough outline of an issue, then you
can skim the material quickly and exact the key facts. However, if you need to understand every
detail in a document, then you must read it slowly enough to understand this.
D Even when you know how to ignore irrelevant detail, there are other improvements you
can make to your reading style which will increase your reading speed. For example, most
people can read much faster if they read silently. Reading each word aloud takes time for the
information to make a complete circuit in your brain before being pronounced. Some
researchers believe that as long as the first and last letters are in place, the brain can still
understand the arrangement of other letters in the word because it logically puts each piece into
place.
E Chunking is another important method. Most people learn to read either letter by letter
or word by word. As you improve, this changes. You will probably find that you are fixing your
eyes on a block of words, then moving your eyes to the next block of words, and so on. You are
reading blocks of words at a time, not individual words one by one. You may also notice that
you do not always go from one block to the next: sometimes you may move back to a previous
block if you are unsure about something.
F A skilled reader will read a lot of words in each block. He or she will only look at each
block for an instant and will then move on. Only rarely will the reader’s eyes skip back to a
previous block of words. This reduces the amount of work that the reader’s eyes have to do. It
also increases the volume of information that can be taken in over a given period of time.
G On the other hand, a slow reader will spend a lot of time reading small blocks of words.
He or she will skip back often, losing the flow and structure of the text, and muddling their
overall understanding of the subject. This irregular eye movement quickly makes the reader
tired. Poor readers tend to dislike reading because they feel it is difficult to concentrate and
comprehend written information.
H The best tip anyone can have to improve their reading speed is to practice. In order to do
this effectively, a person must be engaged in the material and want to know more. If you find
yourself constantly having to re-read the sample paragraph, you may want to switch to reading
material that grabs your attention. If you enjoy what you are reading, you will make quicker
progress.

1. Which paragraphs define the speed reading and mention the types of people who need
to read more quickly?
A. Paragraph A, B B. Paragraph B, F
C. Paragraph A, G D. Paragraph B, E
2. What is the main idea of the paragraph C?
A. There are many different kinds of reading methods.
B. You can skim the material quickly and extract the key facts if you want a rough
outline of an issue.
C. What you should consider before you start reading.
D. What you should do when you need to understand a document clearly.

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3. What does the writer mean by “a person must be engaged in the material” in line 2 of
the paragraph H?
A. Reading material may contribute to reading success.
B. Reading material should be interesting.
C. How a reader can become confused by reading material.
D. How a reader can become energetic by reading material.
4. The writer’s purpose in the passage is ________________.
A. to compare different types of readers
B. to encourage learners to read more
C. to persuade learners to improve reading methods.
D. to present reading techniques
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4.
SECTION IV: WRITING (4.0 pts)
PART 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must not use more
than five words, including the word given. (1.0 pt)
1. If you don’t take care of those trees, they won’t last for long. (look)
Unless _______________________________________, those trees won’t last for long.
2. The authorities have improved the public transport systems recently. (improvements)
The authorities ____________________________the public transport systems recently.
3. The village is the same as it was in the 1990s. (changed)
The village ____________________________________________________the 1990s.
4. I offered to help him but he said ‘No, thanks’. (turned)
He ________________________________________________________offer of help.
5. Liam is the best student in the class. (not)
Every other student in the class ______________________________________ Liam.
PART 2: Finish each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it. (1.0 pt)
1. I regret not telling you the whole truth.
I wish ____________________________________________________________.
2. The party was so successful that most people didn’t want to go home.
It was _____________________________________________________________.
3. I strongly advise you to tell her you’re sorry.
I think you’d _______________________________________________________.
4. People say that he was in the French Foreign Legion.
He _______________________________________________________________.
5. The facts were not all made public at the time.
Only later__________________________________________________________.

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 PART 3: Make all changes and additions necessary to produce, from the following sets of
words and phrases, sentences which together make a complete letter. (2.0 pts)
Dear Jolie,
1. It / great to hear / you! Hope everything / okay. you / start / your exam yet? Good luck!
…………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Anyway, you ask / tell / you / all / family news.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
3. Well, / many things / happen / since / you / here.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
4. The big news is Uncle John / get married/ beautiful girl. We all / go/ wedding and /have/
wonderful time.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………
5. Oh, another thing! Dad /get / new job /old shopping center.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
6. He /really /excited. He /start / next week.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
7. One last thing/ you /remember /Julie, the cat/ buy/ Chicago?
…………………………………………………………………………………………
8. Well, we /can / find her anywhere. We /get/ no idea / where / she /go. It/ bit sad, really.
We all miss her.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………
9. We all miss / you, too. Everybody/ send / love.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
10. Can’t wait /see / you / summer.
…………………………………………………………………………………………
All my love,
David

…………………THE END …………………

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