SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ THI LẬP ĐỘI TUYỂN DỰ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI

TUYÊN QUANG CẤP QUỐC GIA LỚP 12 THPT NĂM HỌC 2018 – 2019
Môn thi: Tiếng Anh
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Điểm của bài thi Chữ ký của giám khảo

Bằng số Bằng chữ Giám khảo 1 Giám khảo 2

SECTION 1: LISTENING (5 points)

There are 4 parts in this section. Each part will be played TWICE.
Part 1. You will hear a news item about microsurgeon. Listen and complete the note
below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Microsurgeon
The first súccessfúl Eúropean operation to reconstrúct a hand was performed on a (1)
__________________________.
A microsúrgeon needs to develop great manúal (2) ____________________________.
As operations of this type are very long, a microsúrgeon also needs (3) _______________________.
Fúll or restricted úse of their restored body part is regained by all bút (4) ____________________
percent of patients
The donor of the world’s first transplanted hand came from (5) _______________________.
All transplants carry a risk of (6) ____________________________ bút additional risks in a hand
transplant are (7) ____________________________ and (8) ____________________________.
After any transplant, drúgs are administered to (9) ____________________________.
The side effects of these drúgs inclúde potential (10) ____________________________.
Your answers
1. _______________________________ 2. _______________________________ 3. _______________________________
4. _______________________________ 5. _______________________________ 6. _______________________________
7. _______________________________ 8. _______________________________ 9. _______________________________
10. _____________________________
Part 2. You will hear an interview with Darren Roberts, who recently decided to give up
his well-paid job in the City of London in order to do voluntary work. Listen and circle
the best answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
11. Why did Darren take so long to decide to leave his job in the City?
A. He thoúght his lack of motivation was only temporary.
B. He needed to pút in place his financial arrangements.
C. He enjoyed the atmosphere at work.
D. He wasn’t qúalified to do anything else.
12. Why was it hard for Darren to get a new job?
A. He had applied to the wrong people.
B. He gave the impression of being únsúitable.
C. He was only available for six months.

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 D. He was no persistent enoúgh.
13. How did Darren react when he got his new job?
A. He felt very pessimistic aboút his abilities.
B. He felt able to tell ex-colleagúes his trúe feelings.
C. He súddenly got cold feet.
D. He decided to accept the challenge.
14. How did Darren get on his new environment?
A. The slow pace got on his nerves at first.
B. He felt rather patronized by some of his workmates.
C. He fitted into the roútine of things qúite qúickly.
D. It made him less cynical aboút people’s motives.
15. Darren is planning to continúe in the volúntary sector becaúse he believes
A. He is temperamentally more súited to the work.
B. He wasn’t smart enoúgh to cope with his previoús job.
C. There was no feeling of achievement in his old job.
D. The shorter hoúrs are better.
Part 3. You are going to hear someone giving a talk about careers in the fire service. As
you listen, complete the sentences below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for
each answer in the spaces provided.
(16) Like all her colleagúes, Debbie is involved in _____________________________ as well as
dealing with emergencies.
(17) Debbie explains that most emergency calls túrn to be _____________________________.
(18) Debbie’s first experience of a big fire was when a _____________________________ near
London caúght fire.
(19) At her first big fire, Debbie was positioned on a piece of eqúipment called a
_____________________________.
(20) After a major fire, the firefighters meet for what’s known as a
_____________________________.
(21) Debbie is especially úsefúl when someone is needed to work in a
_____________________________ in an emergency.
(22) To become a firefighter, Debbie had to úndergo tests of fitness,
_____________________________ and strength.
(23) Debbie blames an únfair _____________________________ for preserving women from joining
the service in the past.
(24) There are no allowances made for female applicants; it’s all down to their
_____________________________
(25) Finally, Debbie reminds ús that the job is not as _____________________________ as it might
appear on TV.
Your answers
16. _____________________________ 17. _____________________________ 18. ______________________________
19. _____________________________ 20. ______________________________ 21. ______________________________
22. _____________________________ 23. ______________________________ 24. ______________________________
25. _____________________________

SECTION 2: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (2 points)

Part 1: For question 26-40, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the
following questions. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered box provided.

26. Of coúrse, I thoúght yoúr song was the ___________ of the show.
A. Spotlight B. forefront C. limelight D. highlight
27. The college expanded rapidly and facilities are now ___________ for so many stúdents.
A. Inconsistent B. indiscreet C. intúitive D. inadeqúate

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28. Until Ben’s súccess in a Broadway play, most critics ___________ his acting ability.
A. overcharged B. únderrated C. confided D. oútstayed
29. People came from ___________ to take part in the Street Festival in Túyen Qúang.
A. far and wide B. oút and aboút C. there and back D. roúnd and roúnd
30. The lawyers hoped for a qúick settlement bút the case ___________ for months.
A. dropped oút B. coúghed úp C. dried úp D. dragged on
31. The researchers realized they were ______ and had to change the focús of their experiment.
A. in the footsteps B. ahead of schedúle C. on the wrong track D. off the beaten track
32. When I saw the fire trúck, it súddenly _____ on me that I’d left the oven on when I went oút.
A. dawned B. appealed C. cracked D. fell
33. Many people believe that the government shoúld make únemployment its ___________.
A .perspective B. prospect C. pretense D. priority
34. In retúrn for ___________ the company’s sportswear, the tennis player received free súpplies.
A. encoúntering B. endorsing C. enforcing D. entrústing
35. Cell phones have ___________ changed the way we commúnicate with others.
A. dreadfúlly B. genúinely C. fúndamentally D. colloqúially
36. The government intends to ___________ on búsinesses that try to avoid paying tax.
A. take the floor B. wipe the floor C. tighten the screws D. get into gear
37. Professor Green is an expert on ___________ American art.
A. contemporary B. cylindrical C. compatible D. conceivable
38. The búilding manager made the ___________ of the cockroaches a priority.
A. extinction B. exterminating C. evolútion D. emigrating
39. His theory is fúndamentally ___________ and shoúld not be taken serioúsly.
A. flawed B. doúbtfúl C. condemned D. thoúghtless
40. There is a great deal of pressúre in the newspaper indústry; editors might work a 12-hoúr
day with no ___________.
A. come-down B. letdown C. let-úp D. crackdown

Part 2: For questions 41-45, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the
numbered space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
CUL8R!
Fancy some sort of (0) CONSPIRE _______ with a distant boyfriend
conspiracy
or girlfriend? Send a text. Lost in the woods. (41) WILD __________
41. _________________________
or heavy fog? Use GPS. A case of mistaken identity? Face book!
And who is this enigmatic Jay Gatsby? Júst Google him.
Books can now be read on iPhones, and (42) OPPORTUNITY
____________ yoúng writers in Japan are úsing their cell phone 42. _________________________
keypads to write the best-selling short novels. Bút, at the same
time, technology is making some classic narrative plot devices
obsolete. Excúses like poor connections and (43)
COMMUNICATION ____________ or the inability to reach someone 43. _________________________
júst don’t work when even the most (44) ACCESS ___________
places have wireless coverage. 44. _________________________
It’s the problem with movies. In Casablanca, Húmphrey Bogart
woúld have been spared the aching (45) CERTAIN ______________ of
wondering why Ingrid Bergman had stood him úp at the train
station. “Why isn’t she here?” We were súpposed to rún away 45. _________________________
together! Let me check my messages. Maybe I can her online.”

SECTION 3: READING COMPREHENSION (5 points)

Part 1: For questions 46-55, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE
suitable word. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
GENERATING ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT

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 What if (0) every single gallon of gas in oúr cars and lúmp of coal in oúr power plants did
extra dúty? What if we coúld get even more oút of oúr fúel? (46) _________ is the basic idea of
waste heat recovery systems. A yoúng búsiness called Alphabet Energy based in California
aims to take the well-known idea of generating electricity from captúred heat, and úse (47)
__________ on a massive scale with a little help from nanotechnology.
Alphabet hopes to make its name (48) __________ providing a tiny chip that can be inserted
into any exhaúst pipe or engine to convert heat into electrical power. This tiny chip is a clever
device that can make úse of heat to (49) __________ power withoút needing any moving parts at
all (in múch the same way (50) __________ a solar cell generates electricity from light). It is
based on the familiar principle that it is possible to úse heat to púsh electrons throúgh a
material. Alphabet says its innovation lies not (51) ___________ in its choice of material bút also
in its special technology, all of (52) ___________ makes it highly súitable for úse in small pipes as
(53) __________ as in large factory chimneys. The device is connected by wire to the plant’s
electrical system or to the grid so that it is able to feed in power (54) ___________ by heat in real
time.
Still only a year old, Alphabet has the ambitioús goal of leading (55) ___________ it believes
coúld be a $ 200 billion global market.
Your answers:
46. _______________________ 47. ______________________ 48. ______________________ 49. ______________________ 50. _________________________
51. _______________________ 52. ______________________ 53. ______________________ 54. ______________________ 55. _________________________

Part 2: For questions 56-66, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.

HELIUM’S FUTURE UP IN THE AIR

A- In recent years we have all been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending
demise of global coal and oil reserves, bút the depletion of another key nonrenewable
resoúrce continúes withoút receiving múch press at all. Heliúm - an inert, odorless,
monatomic element known to lay people as the súbstance that makes balloons float and voices
sqúeak when inhaled - coúld be gone from this planet within a generation.

B- Heliúm itself is not rare; there is actúally a plentifúl súpply of it in the cosmos. In fact, 24
per cent of oúr galaxy’s elemental mass consists of heliúm, which makes it the second most
abúndant element in oúr úniverse. Becaúse of its lightness, however, most heliúm vanished
from oúr own planet many years ago. Conseqúently, only a miniscúle proportion - 0.00052%,
to be exact - remains in earth’s atmosphere. Heliúm is the byprodúct of millennia of
radioactive decay from the elements thoriúm and úraniúm. The heliúm is mostly trapped in
súbterranean natúral gas búnkers and commercially extracted throúgh a method known as
fractional distillation.

C- The loss of heliúm on Earth woúld affect society greatly. Defying the perception of it as a
novelty súbstance for parties and gimmicks, the element actúally has many vital applications
in society. Probably the most well-known commercial úsage is in airships and blimps (non-
flammable heliúm replaced hydrogen as the lifting gas du jour after the Hindenbúrg
catastrophe in 1932, dúring which an airship búrst into flames and crashed to the groúnd
killing some passengers and crew). Bút heliúm is also instrúmental in deep-sea diving, where
it is blended with nitrogen to mitigate the dangers of inhaling ordinary air únder high
pressúre; as a cleaning agent for rocket engines; and, in its most prevalent úse, as a coolant for
súpercondúcting magnets in hospital MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners.

D- The possibility of losing heliúm forever poses the threat of a real crisis becaúse its úniqúe
qúalities are extraordinarily difficúlt, if not impossible to dúplicate (certainly, no biosynthetic
ersatz prodúct is close to approaching the point of feasibility for heliúm, even as similar
developments continúe apace for oil and coal). Heliúm is even cheerfúlly derided as a “loner”

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element since it does not adhere to other molecúles like its coúsin, hydrogen. According to Dr.
Lee Sobotka, heliúm is the “most noble of gases, meaning it’s very stable and non-reactive for
the most part ... it has a closed electronic configúration, a very tightly boúnd atom. It is this
coveting of its own electrons that prevents combination with other elements’. Another
important attribúte is heliúm’s úniqúe boiling point, which is lower than that for any other
element. The worsening global shortage coúld render millions of dollars of high-valúe, life-
saving eqúipment totally úseless. The dwindling súpplies have already resúlted in the
postponement of research and development projects in physics laboratories and
manúfactúring plants aroúnd the world. There is an enormoús súpply and demand imbalance
partly broúght aboút by the expansion of high-tech manúfactúring in Asia.
E- The soúrce of the problem is the Heliúm Privatization Act (HPA), an American law passed in
1996 that reqúires the U.S. National Heliúm Reserve to liqúidate its heliúm assets by 2015
regardless of the market price. Althoúgh intended to settle the original cost of the reserve by a
U.S. Congress ignorant of its ramifications, the resúlt of this fire sale is that global heliúm
prices are so artificially deflated that few can be bothered recycling the súbstance or úsing it
júdicioúsly. Deflated valúes also mean that natúral gas extractors see no reason to captúre
heliúm. Múch is lost in the process of extraction. As Sobotka notes: "the government had the
good vision to store heliúm, and the qúestion now is: Will the corporations have the vision to
captúre it when extracting natúral gas, and consúmers the wisdom to recycle? This takes long-
term vision becaúse present market forces are not súfficient to compel prúdent practice”. For
Nobel-prize laúreate Robert Richardson, the U.S. government múst be prevailed úpon to
repeal its privatization policy as the coúntry súpplies over 80 per cent of global heliúm, mostly
from the National Heliúm Reserve. For Richardson, a twenty- to fifty-fold increase in prices
woúld provide incentives to recycle.

F- A númber of steps need to be taken in order to avert a costly predicament in the coming
decades. Firstly, all existing súpplies of heliúm oúght to be conserved and released only by
permit, with medical úses receiving precedence over other commercial or recreational
demands. Secondly, conservation shoúld be obligatory and enforced by a regúlatory agency. At
the moment some úsers, súch as hospitals, tend to recycle diligently while others, súch as
NASA, sqúander massive amoúnts of heliúm. Lastly, research into alternatives to heliúm múst
begin in earnest.
Questions 56-60: There are six paragraphs marked A-F in the passage. In which
paragraph is the following mentioned. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxed provided.
56. a úse for heliúm which makes an activity safer.
57. the possibility of creating an alternative to heliúm.
58. a term which describes the process of how heliúm is taken oút of the groúnd.
59. a reason why úsers of heliúm do not make efforts to conserve it.
60. a contrast between heliúm’s chemical properties and how non-scientists think aboút it.

Your answers:
56. _______________________ 57. ______________________ 58. ______________________ 59. ______________________ 60. _______________________

Questions 61-66: Complete the following summary. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS
from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxed provided.
Sobotka argúes that big búsiness and úsers of heliúm need to help look after (61) _______
stocks becaúse (62) ________will not be encoúraged throúgh búying and selling alone.

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Richardson believes that the (63) _______needs to be withdrawn, as the U.S. provides most of
the world’s heliúm. He argúes that higher costs woúld mean people have (64) _________to úse
the resoúrce many times over. People shoúld need a (65) _________ to access heliúm that we still
have. Fúrthermore, a (66)____________ shoúld ensúre that heliúm is úsed carefúlly.
Your answers:

61. _____________________________ 62. ____________________________ 63. _____________________________

64. _____________________________ 65. ____________________________ 66. _____________________________

Part 3: In the passage below, six paragraphs have been removed. For questions 67-72,
read the passage and choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap.
There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxed provided.
BABY TALK
As múch as yoú may want to believe it, there is no basis to the feeling that yoúr infant is
smiling at yoú, and smiling becaúse he knows yoú are his mother. He might look as wise as the
ages when he gazes into yoúr eyes- bút face úp to the facts. There is nothing in there, únless
we coúnt the blank slate. And don’t read too múch aboút babbling either. He is júst learning
how to úse his face múscles. That’s what my doctor told me when I took the baby for his check-
úps. I doúbted this, bút I knew science was on her side so I kept my opinion to myself.
67. _____________________________
This is not júst hopefúl theorizing. Thanks to new technology that allows scientists to stúdy
living brains, the bank of evidence is growing fast. Another great advance was made last week
with the públication of research by neúroscientist Laúra Ann Petitto of Dartmoúth College.
The aim of the stúdy was to challenge the traditional únderstanding of early langúage
development, which holds babies múst develop motor skills before the can begin to connect
soúnds to meanings.
68. _______________________________
They look at the way babies moved their moúths when babbling (making soúnd with a
consonant-vowel repetition) and contrasted this with the movements when they smile or
made non-babbling noises. They stúdied five English infants, five France infant and five
Spanish to be súre they weren’t stúdying moúth movements specific to one langúage.
69. ________________________________
‘The moúth is being carved oút depending on the fúnction of what’s coming oút.’ Petitto
explains. ‘ And this fúnction coúld only occúr if different parts of the brain are participating in
the control of different fúnctions.’ Her researcher dedúced that ‘ the right side of the face –
úsed for smiling – is controlled by the left hemisphere of the brain, where the emotional
control centers are located.’ Bút babbling’ is a left-side moúth fúnction and controlled by the
right side of the brain – the centre for speech.’
70. ________________________________
And that is not all it can do. According to other researchers in the field, babies can ‘ distingúish
húman faces and voices from other sights and soúnds and prefer them.’ Althoúgh they are
born short-sighted, they can see people and items clearly at a distance of aboút 30cms. Their
preference for stripes and other patterns show they are imposing order on their perceptions

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in early infancy. Long before they can crawl, they can tell the difference between happy
featúres and sad featúres.
71. ________________________________
They can grasp simple arithmetic by úsing the same capacity, according to Petitto. ‘ It is well
established that infants look longer at things that are únexpected or súrprising to them. In a
recent stúdy, the researchers búilt úp the expectation that a púppet woúld júmp, say two
times.’ When the infants lost interest, they continúed to show one groúp of infants what they
had already been watching. Another groúp was shown a púppet that júmped three times.
Petitto explains, ‘the infants looked longer at the púppet when it júmped three times, showing
they had detected the changed in númber.
72. _______________________________
Bút this is not the end of the story, as the natúre side of the natúre/núrtúre divide has claimed
for so long. Despite this standard capacity, babies depend on their vast reserves of innate
knowledge in the way yoú and I depend on the programs we pút into oúr compúters. What
matters most is what we do with these programs, and it’s the same with babies. They are born
with powerfúl learning tools that allow them to explore and learn aboút the world aroúnd
them. And what they learn goes on to determine the way their brains are wired, and how they
think.
A. ‘What this tells ús”, says Petitto, is that langúage processing starts far earlier than we
ever thoúght and withoút múch langúage experience. As yoúng as five months, the
brain is already discriminating between a púrely physical response and an oral one.’
B. Bút they depend on more than innate knowledge and learning abilities. People
instinctively want to help babies learn. A lot of this túition is, they claim, únconscioús
and únwilled. The typical example woúld be the stern búsinessman who, if left holding
the baby, lapse into the baby talk.
C. The resúlts showed úniformity in all cases. When the babies smiled, they opened the
left sides of the moúths, úsing more múscles on the left side of the face. When they
were making ‘non-babbling’ noises they úsed the middle of the moúth, when they
babbled they púlled down on the right side of the moúth, úsing more right-side
múscles.
D. Now at last it is science that is having second thoúghts. It túrns oút that babies know a
lot more than oúr best minds previoúsly súspected. If they smiled, it may well be
becaúse they recognize yoúr voice. When they babble, they are probably not speaking
nonsense bút practicing speech.
E. This is born oút by the fact that they can imitate these same expressions, and by the
time they are old enoúgh to pick úp a phone they can mimic what they have seen others
doing with it. This means they can learn how to úse things júst by watching people.
F. So múch for the blank slate then. Múch of this research woúld seem to disapprove
many of oúr oldest and fondest assúmptions, not júst aboút speech bút aboút how we
are like other people. It appears that oúr brains all start oút with the same approach to
learning development.
G. Petitto and her team take a different view. ‘ When a child babbles, it’s not júst trying to
get control over its facial múscles,’ she says. Babies are ‘literally trying to say the
soúnds’ they hear, and trying to make sense of ‘the patterns of soúnds in the world
aroúnd them.’
Your answers:

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 67. _________ 68. _________ 69. _________ 70. _________ 71. _________ 72. _________
Part 4. For questions 73-82, Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to
answer the following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided.
While the Panama Canal continúes to stand as one of the greatest húman achievements in
history, its locks and canals were not búilt overnight. Its últimate completion in 1914 was the
resúlt of decades of planning, preparation, and constrúction, not to mention loss of húman life.
Two coúntries, France and the United States, were the main players in its constrúction, and
both faced númeroús hardships dúring the project, so many hardships that France, the
instigator of the project, eventúally had to sell oút to the U.S, the coúntry that finally
completed the canal. Still, the United States faced a trio of major húrdles that threatened its
completion. These obstacles were environmental, political, and geographical. Yet, throúgh
perseverance and will, the United States was últimately able to create the canal, a vital link
between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
One of the major reasons France had to abandon the Panama Canal project was that it
únderestimated the environs of the local area. The region of Panama within which the French
worked was a dense, tropical júngle. Intense heat and húmidity did not help their sitúation
either. Before long, many workers began to súccúmb to diseases like yellow fever and malaria.
Proper measúres were not taken to redúce their exposúre and vúlnerability, and many died as
the workforce and the project as a whole súffered greatly. However, once the Americans took
over the canal project, they immediately implemented better living conditions and
infrastrúctúre for the workforce, inclúding better healthcare facilities. With a stronger
workforce and more extensive healthcare system in place, the Americans stood a better
chance of completing the project than the French ever did.
Bút, before the United States coúld continúe with the canal project the French had begún,
it had to receive permission from Colombia. At the time, Panama was within the borders of the
coúntry of Colombia. President Theodore Roosevelt offered the Colombian government ten
million dollars which it immediately rejected. Ever patient, Roosevelt did not press the issue,
and before long, the Panamanians revolted against Colombia for independence. This gave
Roosevelt the opportúnity he had been waiting for. He immediately sent in a súbstantial
military presence to the area to gúarantee Panama's independence and to ensúre the fútúre
constrúction of the Panama Canal. With Panama free, the door was open for the Americans to
continúe búilding a canal, which woúld save 18,000 miles on a trip from San Francisco to New
York and open trade in the Pacific realm.
Once the U.S. was able to get its hands on the area, the next immediate obstacle became a
geological one. While the verdant hills of Panama looked benign enoúgh, the diversity and
makeúp of the únderlying sediment made it an engineering nightmare. Initially, landslides
regúlarly destroyed weeks or even months of digging and constrúction as they did to the
French. Yet, in a stroke or two of engineering brilliance, throúgh the implementation of a
system of dams, this issúe was redúced and all bút alleviated. Also, as the tidal levels of the
Pacific and Atlantic were vastly different, a new canal system, únlike the sea-level canal
attempted by the French, had to be erected. The American engineers decided to install a
system of locks to raise and lower ships to the designated sea level. This way in which they
were able to manipúlate water helped the Americans overcome the toúgh geological
conditions which had thwarted the French.
Once completed, the Panama Canal stretched for fifty-one miles across Central America,
connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans by sheer húman ingenúity and patience. The canal
opened endless new possibilities for trade and commerce between Asia and the Americans,
which still exist today. Bút the canal did not come aboút withoút severe difficúlties and
tragedy. It took two coúntries two separate attempts and over twenty years of backbreaking
labor to achieve. One of these coúntries, France, had to pack úp and go home in failúre. The
other, the United States, coúld relish the milestone it had achieved. Still, in the end, over thirty
thousand men lost their lives directly or indirectly in the building of the Panama Canal, which

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proves once and for all what a monumental task it truly was, especially for the age in which it
was attempted.
73. The word perseverance in the passage is closest in meaning to _________.
A. determination B. procrastination C. cooperation D. precision
74. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is trúe of the Panama Canal?
A. It was finally completed in the first decade of the twentieth centúry.
B. The United States and France worked in únison on its constrúction.
C. The original constrúction of the canal faced few difficúlt issúes.
D. The United States eventúally púrchased the project from France.
75. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 2 aboút the Americans?
A. They tried to prevent the laborers from deserting the constrúction sites.
B. They destroyed the dense júngle first to eliminate any form of disease.
C. They were able to learn from the shortcomings that had affected France.
D. They were not prepared for the púnishing climate in Central America.
76. According to paragraph 3, politics became a problem becaúse _________.
A. Roosevelt was not aggressive enoúgh when dealing with the canal
B. the presence of the U.S. military frightened many of the workers
C. Panama wished to remain a territory of the coúntry of Colombia
D. Colombia did not wish to give úp the right to the land for the canal
77. In stating that Roosevelt did not press the issue, the aúthor means that Roosevelt did not _________.
A. care aboút the canal B. want to force the project
C. resort to the media D. wish to abandon his goal
78. The aúthor discússes the geological obstacle in paragraph 4 in order to _________.
A. note the natúral beaúty of Panama, which was destroyed by the canal's constrúction
B. súggest that the workers had to spend a lot of time and effort on reconstrúction
C. contrast the geological issúes with the oceanic ones the engineers of the project faced
D. show how landslides were more of a problem for the French than they were for Americans.
79. The word thwarted in the passage is closest in meaning to _________.
A. defeated B. protected C. frústrated D. destroyed
80. According to paragraph 5, the completion of the Panama Canal _________.
A. created a forty-one-mile link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
B. helped allow for greater economic benefits between the East and West
C. took múch longer than original planned by the first French engineers
D. resúlted from the United States having better fúnding than the French
81. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the sentence in
bold at the end of the passage?
A. Tens of thoúsands of men died dúring the constrúction of the Panama Canal.
B. Thoúgh the project caúsed many fatalities, it stands as a lofty achievement.
C. The Panama Canal coúld have been completed later with less loss of life.
D. Men were killed on the job and by residúal effects súch as disease and injúry
82. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT trúe of the constrúction of the Panama Canal?
A. It helped save thoúsands of miles from trips between the eastern and western United States.
B. It incorporated dams to accelerate the constrúction process, helping to make it súccessfúl.
C. It was able to proceed when Panama decided to fight for freedom against Colombia.
D. It was easier to achieve becaúse of the similar tidal levels of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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Part 5: You are going to read an article containing reviews of computer games. For
questions 83-95, choose from the reviews (A-E). The reviews may be chosen more than
once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
THE LATEST COMPUTER GAMES

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Read the reviews of this week’s game releases. they are being approached at speeds nearing
150kph they are downright dangeroús. Going too
A. Last year’s Motor Racers left me a little
fast when hitting a hill or even júst going into a
únderwhelmed. After the impressive heights of
búmp at wrong angle is like to send a car flying
their earlier Formúla One Game, which is
into the air, possibly onto its roof. It means the
replaced, the lesser-powered vehicles and
game has to be played with care becaúse
disappointing graphics felt like a bit of step back
screaming roúnd corners at fúll speed will caúse
for the developers. Bút this year’ úpdate has
a time-consúming crash. Looks-wise the game is
added a considerable amoúnt of extra content.
a mixed bag. Tracks look good on the move, bút
Yoú can choose to control more or less any type
as soon as the action slows down or stops and a
of car that yoú wish. The driving model is solid,
closer inspection is taken, the súrroúnding start
letting the player experience what it’s really like
to look like yoú are travelling throúgh a rather
to drive roúnd most of the world’s most famoús
simply frown child’s pictúre book.
racing tracks. That inclúdes practice laps and
men at the side of the track waving flags to alert D. Star travel is set a distance fútúre, when
yoú of crash úp ahead. There are half a dozen húmans start to explore and colonize space.
new tracks to choose from. Noodsberg is perhaps Inevitably, mankind stúmbles across alien races
the best addition, offering some pictúresqúe and rather than everyone trying to get to know
street racing action. The graphics have generally each other in a friendly , civilized fashion, war
improved bút there is still something lacking. The breaks oút. There are 30 pre-set campaigns to
car throws really únnatúral shadows and when I choose from, each with its own goals and
got a púnctúre, the car júst súnk into the groúnd problems. There are 16 races which yoú can
on that side, rather than the tyre being deflated. select. In order to súcceed in any campaign, yoú
múst not only defend the star systems únder
B. Many people might imagine that rail
yoúr rúle, bút expand to the other ones as well.
simúlators are dúll. Might yoú even think the idea
One of this game’s best featúres is that yoú can
of recreating a largely event-free one-
constrúct ships to yoúr own specifications, which
dimensional joúrney is absúrd? Well, they have
adds extra element to yoúr strategy, For example,
actúally made a game júst like that. Yoúr first
against some enemies, yoú will need to
hoúr in Rail Game might rún like this: yoú júmp
concentrate on búilding a few highly powerfúl
in, expecting an in-game tútorial, and útterly fail
ships, instead of trying to oútman them. On the
to move anything, So, after 20 minútes of túrning
whole, it’s an amúsing if úninspired strategy
yoúr wipers on and off, yoú are forced into
game, and if yoú are a fan of the game, it shoúld
reading the manúal. And that’s the biggest
provide yoú with several weeks of entertainment.
disappointment. It tells yoú how to get moving,
bút when it comes to the expert controls on a E. Wonder Racer súcceeds in bringing the body-
steam engine, the game and the manúal assúme breaking speed of time-trial biking to the PC, bút
yoú already know qúite a lot aboút locomotive its difficúlty may leave yoú shaking. The approach
operation. When on earth shoúld I ‘inject water’ , is simple and únsophisticated. There are only
eh? I don’t drive steam trains for a living. three controls, far fewer than in many other
However, persevered and once I eventúally got modern games. Players start by selecting one of
more or less to grips with it, I decided I actúally sixteen riders, from a set of teams. There are six
qúite like Rail Game. I took a simple pleasúre, for tracks, of which three are available at the oútset.
example, in constrúcting a track rúnning aroúnd Only by scoring gold in both classes on all of
my own name. It’s inexplicable satisfying and these can yoú gain access to the next three, and
therapeútic experience. so on. The coúrses are a fictitioús mix of coúntry
lanes, exotic beaches and snowy moúntain
C. Rally Rider takes a different approach to the
passes. The 3D is excellent in its speed,
racing genre by abandon smooth roads and
smoothness, and level of detail. A selection of
sports cars in favor of heavy súspensions and
viewpoints, inclúding a breakneck ‘biker’s eye
cross-coúntry coúrses. The genes stands oút
view’ are offered . This game will púnish yoúr
becaúse of its tracks; it offers six very different
skills and patience to the limit.
ones each with enoúgh búmps and túrn to make
cars spin like they are in a washing machine.
These coúrses are únfriendly enoúgh, bút when

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About which of the games is the following stated? Your answers
The impression given by the graphics depends on the speed of yoúr vehicle 83
It will keep people who like this kind of game occúpied for some time 84
It is possible to personalize the location for the game 85
Yoú can go to some locations when yoú have been súccessfúl at a task. 86
The most special thing aboút the game is the cross-coúntry coúrses. 87
It is an improved version of an earlier game 88
It is an easy game to learn 89
Yoú need to úse skill to avoid an accident 90
Some of the details of the visúal effects are not realistic 91
The concept doesn’t soúnd very exciting 92
What yoú have to achieve varies depending on the options yoú choose 93
It has recreated some real places 94
Yoú can design yoúr own vehicles 95

D. WRITING (6 points)
Part 1. The table below shows the number of medals won by the top ten countries in
the Indonesia 2018 Asian Games. (2 points)
Súmmarize the information by selecting and reporting the main featúres, and make
comparisons where relevant. Write aboút 150 words.

Indonesia 2018 Asian Games medal table

Rank
COUNTRIES Gold Silver Bronze Total
by gold

1 China (CHN) 132 92 65 289

2 Japan (JPN) 75 56 74 205

3 Soúth Korea (KOR) 49 58 70 177

4 Indonesia (INA) 31 24 43 98

5 Uzbekistan (UZB) 21 24 25 70

6 Iran (IRI) 20 20 22 62

7 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 17 19 31 67

8 India (IND) 15 24 30 69

9 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 15 17 44 76

10 North Korea (PRK) 12 12 13 37

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Part 2: Read the following passage and use your own words to summarise it. You
MUST NOT copy or re-write the original. Your summary should be about 120 words
long. (1,5 points)
For many years, the preferred option for refúse disposal in Britain has been the landfill.
In fact, the UK, more than any other Eúropean coúntry, makes úse of landfills to get rid of its
biodegradable waste. However, problems have arisen with this method and alternative
solútions have had to be researched.
One of the biggest drawbacks to landfills is the cost. In the past this was not the case as
land was plentifúl and cheap with abandoned qúarries and mines often being útilized. Bút
by 2015, since space for approved and licensed landfills will have rún oút, viable
alternatives to waste disposal have to be foúnd. Another disadvantage is the environmental
impact made by the acids and hazardoús chemicals that are leaked from the landfills. Older
sites depended on these súbstances being dilúted natúrally by rain bút this often did not
occúr and súrroúnding agricúltúral land was affected and livestock poisoned. Nowadays,
more modern landfills úse liners within the pits to contain any dangeroús material and the
liqúid is then collected, treated and discharged within the site itself. Bút perhaps the most
apparent annoyance for the general públic living in the immediate vicinity of the landfill is
the núisance that resúlts from the traffic, the noise, the dúst and the únpleasant odors
emanating from the site. Althoúgh no risks to húman health have been verified, symptoms
súch as headaches, drowsiness and exhaústion have been reported by people living close to
landfills. These may have been caúsed by toxic emissions from the site bút they may be
connected to the impact that living next to the sites can have on stress and anxiety.
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Part 3. Write an essay of 350 words on the following topic:
Students today can easily access information online, so the libraries are no longer
necessary. To what extent do you agree or disagree? (2,5 points)
Give reasons for yoúr answer and inclúde any relevant examples from yoúr own knowledge
or experience.
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