ĐỀ LUYỆN ĐỘI TUYỂN (09/12-15/12)

LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1: For questions 1-5, listen to the recording and complete the form below. Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided. (10 pts)
Job Employer Work day(s) Duties
kitchen assistant The 1. ___________ weekends 2. ____________
Café wash dishes

3. ___________ Bellamy’s Restaurant Thursday and Friday serve customers, wipe

evening tables

barista 4. ___________ Saturday prepare drinks,

department store 5. ___________

Part 2: Listen to the news and decide whether the statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN.
6. We have discovered the majority of fungi in the world.
7. Fungi can be regarded as a type of animal.
8. Mycelium allows fungi to communicate with each other.
9. In some cases, fungi can be of great weight.
10. Consuming food affected by fungi can lead to serious mental health issues.
PART 3: You will hear an interview with someone whose family spent a year living without television. choose
the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
11. One reason why the family decided not to have a television was that
A the reception from the communal aerial was often poor.
B they did not think the satellite technician would do the job properly.
C linking up with the communal aerial was complicated.
D they preferred to enjoy the beauty of their new surroundings.
12. One thing that Miranda enjoyed about not having a television was
A telling other people about what they did instead.
B returning to hobbies they had previously given up.
C observing the reaction of others when they found out.
D feeling more energetic during the evening.
13. Miranda says that one disadvantage of not having a television was
A. the fact that they could not follow their favourite series.
B. a constant desire to be more up-to-date with the news.
C. being unable to discuss topics they had previously discussed.
D. feeling out of touch with what other people talked about.
14. What does Miranda say about getting connected again?
A. She felt it would be of some benefit to the whole family.
B. She agreed because her attitude towards television had changed.
C. She initially disagreed with her husband about doing so.
D. She felt that they were doing so because they were lazy people.
15. Miranda says that since they got a television again, her children
A. are more able to distinguish good programmes from rubbish.
B. sometimes refuse to watch it when she suggests they do so.
C. have decided not to return to the habit of watching it.
D. never watch it simply because they are feeling lazy.
PART 4. listen to the recording and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken
from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
16. Hollywood films often depict a future with ______ and flying cars.
17. By 2030, about a quarter of shared miles on American roads might be covered by ______ .
18. It's projected that by 2035, eight in ten individuals will use ______ in cities where they are accessible.
19. Uber is making substantial investments in ______ technology.
20. A significant challenge for flying cars is modifications required in the ______ systems.
21. China is at the forefront in developing ______ that can achieve over 400 kilometers per hour.
22. The Hyperloop's rapid speed comes from moving in tubes with almost no _______.
23. Manufacturers of ______ are also pledging to significantly reduce travel durations in the air.
24-25. Critics argue that these concepts are ______ , presenting numerous technical obstacles. Nonetheless,
technology and engineering firms are confidently addressing these ______ challenges.
LEXICO - GRAMMAR (40 points)
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. (30 points)
1 . ‘You won’t get away with this!’ the old woman ______ angrily.
A. chirped B. hooted C screeched D croaked
2. The project became ______ in a lot of political arguments, which was a great shame.
A. disrupted B. extracted C encroached D enmeshed
3. The monkeys ______ incessantly as we walked through the forest.
A. chattered B squawked C roared D croaked
4. A good advertisement should ______ the attention of its target audience immediately.
A. take in B capture C sustain D amount to
5. We woke up at the ______ of dawn this morning.
A. touch B turn C burst D crack
6. I have tried every product on the market and still I can't rid these curtains of the ______ of cigarette smoke.
A. fumes B. fragrance C. stench D. aroma
7. Granddad would spend hours talking to us youngsters around the dinner table ______ about his happy
younger days back east on the farm.
A. recalling B. reminiscing C. reminding D. memorising
8. The winning team were roundly criticised by the local media for the way in which they had ______ over the
losing team. It was considered very unsporting.
A. gloated B. relished C. showed up D. dominated
9. He promised me an Oxford dictionary and to my great joy, he ______ his word.
A. stood by B. stuck at C. went back on D. held onto
10. His new play is not only interesting but also unique. It is really off the beaten ______ .
A. track B. road C. path D. route
11. Experts are ______ into the cause of the explosion.
A. seeking B. Researching C. inquiring D. investigating
12. Her teaching method discourages simple______ of the information in the textbook.
A.regulation B.reclamation C. reparation D. regurgitation
13. The lease clearly ______ that pets are not allowed in the building.
A.simulates B. stipulates C. scintillates D. stimulates
14. He paid ______ attention to the technician’s instructions and as a result, was unable to operate the
equipment.
A. significant B. scant C.cleft D. short-term
15. James is so ______ ! He thinks that pleasure is the most importannt thing in life.
A. authentic B. hedonistic C. destructive D. ordinary
16. lt was imperative for the authorities to______ the epidemic.
A. succeed B. localise C. spread D. define
17.His efforts, though futile, are still ______ .
A. refined B. intimidated C. pious D. commendable
18. To me friendship is a(n) ______ thing.
A. precrous B. insignificant C. costly D. obscure
19. You can’t bury your head ______ and hope that this problem goes away, you know.
A. in the mud B. in the pool C. in the sand D. in the water
20. This evidence should prove ______ that he was telling the truth
 A.once and for all B.from time to time C.over and above D.now and then
21. Computer are said to be ______ for the development of mankind.
A. here today B. here and there C. here to stay D. neither here nor there
22. Did the minister approve the building plans?- Not really, he turned them down ______ that the costs were
too high.
A. in case B. provided C. on the grounds D. supposing
23. It was such a loud noise ______ everyone in the house
A. as to wake B. that to wake C. so as to wake D. that waking
24. ______ given to the various types of microscopic plants and animals found in water
A. Named plankton B. the name of plankton
C. Plankton’s name D. Plankton is the name
25. Although the Moon appears ______ , it reflects on average only 7 percent of the light that falls on it.
A. bright to the eye B. brightly to the eye
C. bright in the eye D. brightly in the eye
26. Consumers should boycott all products ______ has involved the use of child labour.
A. who manufacture B. whose manufacturers
C. which manufacture D. whose manufacture
27. From 1949 onward, the artist Georgia O’Keeffe made New Mexico ______ .
A. her permanent residence was B. where her permanent residence
C. her permanent residence D. permanent residence for her
28. Nebraska has floods in some years, ______ .
A. in others drought B. droughts are others
C. while other droughts D. others in drought
29. No whale has ever been known to attack human except in defence; ______ stories have come down since the
Biblical Jonah of men being swallowed by whales.
A. consequently B. whatever C. inasmuch as D. nonetheless
30. Attendance has ______ severely during Christmas period.
A. fallen in B. fallen for C. fallen back on D. fallen off
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 the corresponding boxes. (15 points)
THE JOURNEY
The car had again failed to start, and Elizabeth was again 1……………..to take the train. She bought a cup of
coffee down the rocking carriage, 2………………as the boiling fluid seeped out from under the lid and onto her
hand. The heating was turned up 3……………and most of the people in the carriage seemed on the
4……………..of unconsciousness as they looked out of the window at the flatlands sliding 5…………….. the
window. Elizabeth had telephoned the matron of the house, who told her 6……………..Brenna was barely
worth visiting, but that he would see her if she came. She felt excited by the 7……………of actually meeting
someone from that era. She would be like a historian who, after working from other histories, finally
8……………hands on original source material. She had an unclear 9……………..of Brennan in her mind,
although she knew he would be old and, 10…………….from what the matron had said, decrepit.
1. A. enforced B. necessitated C. restricted D. compelled
2 A. leering B. squinting C. wincing D. smirking
3 A. top B. full C. maximum D. peak
4 A. verge B. rim C. fringe D. border
5. A. beside B. along C. past D. across
6. A. that B. who C. what D. whom
7 A. prospect B. outlook C. foresight D. viewpoint
8. A. sets B. rests C. casts D. lays
9. A sight B. picture C. vision D. figure
10. A. reflecting B. accounting C. judging D. rating

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers in the corresponding boxes. (15
points)
To all intents and (1) ___________ , Jill had left her successful job as a lawyer to have a sabbatical for six
months and everyone expected her to return to her highly-paid job. But in reality she was on her way to East
Africa to work as a volunteer in an orphanage, intent (2) ___________ staying there for ever. (3) ___________
since she was six, she had been fascinated by stories about Africa and then horrified by the conditions (4)
___________ which millions of children live. Two years ago she had gone on an expensive safari holiday with
her friends to Uganda but she didn’t enjoy the holiday. (5) ___________ she had seen children washing in the
filthy puddles outside their shacks, the situation hadn’t seemed real to her. As a result, (6) ___________
returning to her hotel, she made a decision that would change her life for ever. No (7) ___________ had she
arrived home than she sold her house and got a job as a volunteer (8) ___________ the intention of making a
difference to children’s lives. She deliberately didn’t tell anyone what she was doing in (9) ___________ they
tried to talk her out of it. (10) ___________ all the secrecy.

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answers (A, B, C or D) according to the text. Write
your answers in the corresponding boxes. (15 points)
There is one kind of pain for which nobody has yet found a cure – the pain that comes from the ending of a
relationship. The relationship could be a marriage, a love affair or a deep friendship, in fact, any strong
emotional tie between people. Such a relationship may come to an abrupt but premeditated end or it may simply
fade away slowly as people and circumstances change. You may be the one to “break it off”, with a short note or
a brief phone call. Or you may be on the receiving end, like the soldier who dreads getting a “Dear John” letter
from a girlfriend who has got tired of waiting. But however it ended and whoever decided to end it, the pain is
equally hard to bear. It is a sort of death, and it requires the same period of mourning, the same time for grief.
Although there is no cure for grief, we cannot help looking for one, to ease the pain and to make us forget our
tears. We seek refuge in other relationships, we keep ourselves busy with work, we try to immerse ourselves in
our hobbies. Perhaps we start to drink more than we should to drown our sorrows or we follow the conventional
advice and join a club or society. But these things only relieve the symptoms of the illness, they cannot cure for
it. Moreover, we are always in a hurry to get rid of our grief. It is as if we were ashamed of it. We feel that we
should be able to “pull ourselves together”. We try to convince ourselves, as we bite on the pillow, that we are
much too old to be crying. Some people bury their grief deep inside themselves, so that nobody will guess what
they are going through. Others seek relief by pouring their hearts out to their friends, or to anyone else who can
offer a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. But after a while, even our friends start to show their impatience, and
suggest with their reproachful glances that it is about time we stopped crying. They, too, are in a hurry for the
thing to be over.
It is not easy to explain why we adopt this attitude to emotional pain, when we would never expect anyone to
overcome physical pain simply by an effort of will power. Part of the answer must lie in the nature of grief itself.
When the love affair dies, you cannot believe that you will ever find another person to replace the one who has
gone so completely out of your life. Even after many, many months, when you think that you have begun to
learn to live without your lost love, something-a familiar place, a snatch of music, a whiff of perfume- will
suddenly bring the bitter – sweet memories flooding back. You choke back the tears and the desperate, almost
angry, feeling that you are no better now than the day the affair ended.
And yet, grief is like an illness that must run its course. Memories do fade eventually, a healing skin does start to
grow over the wound, the intervals between sudden glimpses of the love you have lost do get longer. Bit by bit,
life resumes the normal flow. Such is the complexity of human nature that we can even start to feel guilty as
these things start to happen, as if it were an insult to our lost love that we can begin to forget at all.
The important thing to admit about grief, then, is that it will take its time. By trying to convince ourselves that it
ought to be over sooner, we create an additional tension which can only make things worse. People who have
gone through the agony of a broken relationship – and there are few who have not- agree that time is the “greater
healer”. How much time is needed will vary from person to person, but psychiatrists have “a rule of thumb”:
grief will last as long as the original relationship lasted. The sad thing is that, when the breakdown occurs, we
can only stumble over the stories beneath our feet. It is dark ahead, and you will feel painfully many times before
we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
1. Psychiatrists tell you that grief will last as long as the original relationship. This calculation is ______.
A. Based on a deep understanding of human nature B. Generally true but with many exceptions
C. The result of scientific research D. No more than a hopeful guesses
2. Relationships often come to an end because _____.
A. People do not realize the pain they can cause B. Very few people really know how to love
C. The feeling of the people were not very deep D. People do not always stay the same
3. You tell your friends about your unhappiness because ______.
A. You want them to feel sorry for you B. You hope it will make you feel better
C. You want them to hear the story from you D. You feel sure that they have had similar experiences
4. If you seek advice on what to do about a broken relationship, you will probably be told to _______.
A. Keep busy at work B. Find someone else
C. Pull yourself together (use your will power) D. Join a club
5. When your friends get tired of listening to you they will ______.
A. tell you to pull yourself together B. try to avoid your company
C. show by their expressions that they have had enough D. help you to get over your grief
6. Often we are ashamed when we cry because ______.
A. only children and babies cry B. we are worried about what others will think of us
C. we do not expect our unhappiness to last so long D. we think it is a childish thing to do
7. Memories continue to upset you, and this makes you feel that you ______.
A. will never get over your grief B. have no will power
C. are utterly alone D. have made no progress at all
8. If we try to recover too quickly from grief, we shall make ourselves ______.
A. nervous B. tense C. ill D. unpopular
9. We are upset by reminders of our lost love because they come so ______.
A. unexpectedly B. rapidly C. frequently D. rarely
10. One way to get over a broken relationship is to ______.
A. try to forget the other person B. write a “Dear John” letter
C. make a brief phone call D. form new relationships