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LEXICO – GRAMMAR
PART 1: Choose the best option to complete each of the following questions.
1. After several hours on the road they became ______ to the fact that they would never reach the hotel by
nightfall.
A. dejected B. resigned C. depressed D. disillusioned
2. One of the organization’s aims is to ______ information about the disease so that more people know
about its symptoms.
A. disentangle B. deride C. dwindle D. disseminate
3. Dealing with ______ refusal from an employee is easier than dealing with false compliance.
A. an offset: bù lại B. a remedial: điều trị, khắc phục hậu quả
C. an agile: nhanh nhẹn D. an outright = totally
4. Did you see Jonathan this morning? He looked like ______. It must have been quite a party last night.
A. a wet blanket B. a dead duck C. a death warmed up D. a bear with a sore head
look/ feel like a death warmed up = feeling very ill
5. In the ______ of security, personnel must wear their identity badges at all time.
A. requirement B. demands C. assistance D. interests
6. I must ______ my Spanish before I go to Seville.
A. make up for B. break out of
C. brush up on: cải thiện cấp tốc D. cut out for
7. She has scrawled me a note in her familiar ______ handwriting.
A. scratchy B. scruffy: cau có (thái độ)
C. rusty: hoen gỉ (kim loại) D. sloppy: luộm thuộm
8. Education should be a universal right and not a ______
A. deliverance: sự giải thoát B. enlightenment: khai sáng, giác ngộ
C. privilege: đặc quyền D. liberty
9. I know you're upset about breaking up with Tony but there are plenty more ______
A. horses in the stable B. cows in the field
C. tigers in the zoo D. fish in the sea
there are plenty more fish in the sea: there are many other people that they could have a
relationship with
10. On Sunday, Vivian studied for seven hours ______
A. on end = continuously B. at once C. in full D. at length
11. Stephen really lost his ______ when his dental appointment was cancelled again.
A. head B. voice C. calm D. rag
lose one's rag: điên tiết, không kiềm chế được cảm xúc
12. We were working overtime to cope with a sudden ______ in demand.
A. boost B. impetus C. surge D. thrust
13. It was decided that the cost of the project would be ______ so it was abandoned.
A. repressive B. prohibitive C. restrictive D. exclusive
14. She was determined to become wealthy and to that ______ she started her own company.
A. view B. aim C. end D. object
15. He made a number of ______ remarks about my cooking, which upset us.
A. slashing B. stabbing C. chopping D. cutting
cutting remarks: phê bình gay gắt
16. She is afraid she is rather ______ about the existence of the ghost.
A. skeptical B. partial C. adaptable D. incapable
17. I am sorry to have bothered you, I was under the ______ that you wanted me to call you.
A. mistake B. miscalculation C. misconception D. misapprehension
18. Many children who get into trouble in their early teens go on to become ______ offenders.
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A. persistent: kiên nhẫn B. insistent: năn nỉ
C. inverted: đảo ngược D. innate: thiên phú, bẩm sinh
19. ______, Americans eat a light breakfast. They usually don’t eat a lot of food in the morning.
A. By and large = In general B. Fair and square C. Ins and outs D. Odds and ends
20. If that boy doesn’t stop stealing, he will ______ in jail.
A. end up B. bring about C. get round D. go by

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

PART 2. WORD FORM

Complete the following passage with the correct forms of the bold words given in the bracket.

1. When we arrived at the hotel, we were amazed at the incomparable: không thể so sánh được
hospitality of the staff. (COMPARE)
2. He is the bad manager in the factory and everyone is in attempt to defame: bôi nhọ, phỉ báng him.
(FAME)
3. The outbreak: bùng phát of an epidemic will be unavoidable unless measures are taken to prevent the
rural population from drinking the contaminated water. (BREAK)
4. Please keep the email short. Brevity: sự ngắn gọn makes everyone’s lives easier. (BRIEF)
5. With the help of the computer, checking information has become less laborious: cần mẫn, siêng năng.
(LABOR)
6. You mustn’t leave your luggage unattended = alone, không có giám sát for even a moment on the
train. (ATTEND)
7. She looked in on the baby periodically: định kì to check that it was all right. (PERIOD)
8. They were totally mystified: bối rối, hoang mang by the girl’s disappearance. (MYSTERY)
9. The talks were totally _unproductive___. We didn’t reach agreement on anything at all. (PRODUCT)
10. The boy was very violent and his parents found him _unmanageable____. (MANAGE)
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

READING
PART 1. Read the passage below and then choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
Until about 250 years ago, households did not take dirt as (1)______ as they do now - it was a fact of life,
and that was that. Cleaning often consisted of an annual (2)______called 'spring cleaning' when the
furniture was moved aside, and all the linen products in the house were cleaned. Carpets and rugs were
taken outside, hung on ropes and had the dust (3)______out of them - an exhausting and messy process.
The industrial revolution brought about a major change - as new products became available to make
homes cleaner, a corresponding interest in 'domestic hygiene' appeared in households. This in turn led to
the (4)______of further products, one of which was the vacuum cleaner. (5)______has it that when one of
the first vacuum cleaners was demonstrated, a kindly scientist took the proud inventor aside, and offered a
bit of (6)______ that was to become (7)______to the future evolution of the product - 'make it suck, not
blow'. The first vacuum cleaners appeared in the 1860s in the United States. They were operated by hand
pumps and were almost as (8)______as spring cleaning. It was only when electric motors had become
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sufficiently advanced to become portable that vacuum cleaners became common household items. Most of
today's major (9)______- including Electrolux and Hoover - were born in the 1920s. The household dirt
that vacuum cleaners suck up is mostly dead skin cells - humans (10)______millions of cells every day. A
much smaller proportion comes from dust and soil carried into the house from outside. 
A. importantly B.  crucially C. considerately D. seriously
A. ritual B. result C. resolution D. scrub
A. cleaned B. taken C. beaten D. sucked
A. fabrication B. appearing C. recreation D. development
A. Story B. Epic C. Legend D. Tale
A. advise B. advice C. courage D. encouragement
A. standard B. crucial C. regular D. esteemed
A. laborious B. hard C. nefarious D. straining
A. brands B. marks C. makes D. trademarks
A. lose B. outgrow C. omit D. shed
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.
Flamingos, those beautiful long-legged pink birds, rub the reddish pigments, released in oil from a gland
near their tail, into their feathers to bring (1) _out_________ their vibrant colour. The result, according to
researchers studying the birds in Spain, (2) is that the birds seem to become far (3) more likely to find
themselves a mate. Scientists noticed that, (4) while/when/as they were arranging their feathers, many
flamingos scraped their cheeks across the gland before rubbing their face against their breast, back and
neck (5)_with_________ the aim of spreading the colour.
In a journal article, the experts explained that (6) ___doing_______ so helped the birds appear extra
attractive to potential mates – not so (7) _much________ because of their eye-catching colour, but
because other flamingos could tell they had made an effort with their appearance. One of the researchers
says: “The rubbing is time-consuming. And the more frequently the birds practice it, the pinker they
become. “If the birds stop rubbing, their colour fades in a few days because the pigments bleach quickly in
the sunlight”
Rubbing the pigment into the feathers takes time and effort, and, as a results, colorful feathers are a sign to
the opposite sex that a flamingo is healthy and well-fed, because it can afford to spend time on (8)
__how________ it looks. “The behavior is more common in female flamingos than in males,” the
researchers said. They added that the brightest coloured birds also took the best breeding sites,
(9)__which________ gives them a reproductive advantage (10)_____over_____ their paler rivals.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer.

Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the effects of
extreme heat. One adaptation is to be light in color, and to reflect rather than absorb the Sun's rays.
Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a constant body
temperature. Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, which would
involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what
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would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in
Grant's gazelles. The overheated body then cools down during the cold desert night, and indeed the
temperature may fall unusually low by dawn, as low as 34 degrees Celsius in the camel. This is an
advantage since the heat of the first few hours of daylight is absorbed in warming up the body, and an
excessive buildup of heat does not begin until well into the day.
Another strategy of large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point that would be
fatal for non-adapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight as water without
harm to itself, whereas human beings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent of their body weight. An
equally important adaptation is the ability to replenish this water loss at one drink. Desert animals can
drink prodigious volumes in a short time, and camels have been known to imbibe over 100 liters in a few
minutes. A very dehydrated person, on the other hand, cannot drink enough water to rehydrate at one
session, because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too rapid dilution of the body
fluids causes death from water intoxication. The tolerance of water loss is of obvious advantage in the
desert, as animals do not have to remain near a water hole but can obtain food from grazing sparse and far-
flung pastures. Desert-adapted mammals have the further ability to feed normally when extremely
dehydrated, it is a common experience in people that appetite is lost even under conditions of moderate
thirst.
1. What is the main topic of the passage?
A. Weather variations in the desert. B. Adaptations of desert animals.
C. Diseased of desert animals. D. Human use of desert animals.
2. According to the passage, why is light coloring an advantage to large desert animals?
A. It helps them hide from predators.
B. It does not absorb sunlight as much as dark colors.
C. It helps them see their young at night.
D. It keeps them cool at night.
3. The word "maintaining" is closest in meaning to _________.
A. measuring B. inheriting C. preserving D. delaying
4. The author uses of Grant's gazelle as an example of
A. an animal with a low average temperature
B. an animal that is not as well adapted as the camel
C. a desert animal that can withstand high body temperatures
D. a desert animal with a constant body temperature
5. When is the internal temperature of a large desert mammal lower?
A. Just before sunrise B. In the middle of the day
C. Just after sunset D. Just after drinking
6. The word "tolerate" is closest in meaning to _________.
A. endure B. replace C. compensate D. reduce
7. What causes water intoxication?
A. Drinking too much water very quickly. B. Drinking polluted water.
C. Bacteria in water. D. Lack of water.
8. Why does the author mention humans in the second paragraph?
A. To show how they use camels.
B. To contrast them to desert mammals.
C. To give instructions about desert survival.
D. To show how they have adapted to desert life.
9. The word "obtain" is closest in meaning to _________.
A. digest B. carry C. save D. get
10. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an adaptation of large desert animals?
A. Variation in body temperatures. B. Eating while dehydrated.
C. Drinking water quickly. D. Being active at night.
Your answers
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 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 4.
Part V. Read the following passage. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from the list of
headings below. Write the correct number, i- ix, in blanks.

List of headings
The reaction of the Inuit community to climate change
Understanding of climate change remains limited
Alternative sources of essential supplies
Respect for Inuit opinion grows
A healthier choice of food
A difficult landscape
Negative effects on well-being
Alarm caused by unprecedented events in the Arctic
The benefits of an easier existence

Paragraph A: viii
1. Paragraph B 2. Paragraph C 3. Paragraph D
4. Paragraph E 5. Paragraph F
Your answers

1. i vi 3.iii 4. vii 5.iv

Climate Change and the Inuit

Unusual incidents are being reported across the Arctic. Inuit families going off on snowmobiles to prepare
their summer hunting camps have found themselves cut off from home by a sea of mud, following early
thaws. There are reports of igloos losing their insulating properties as the snow drips and refreezes, of
lakes draining into the sea as permafrost melts, and sea ice breaking up earlier than usual, carrying seals
beyond the reach of hunters. Climate change may still be, a rather abstract idea to most of us, but in the
Arctic it is already having dramatic effects – if summertime ice continues to shrink at its present rate, the
Arctic Ocean could soon become virtually ice-free in summer. The knock-on effects are likely to include
more warning, cloudier skies, increased precipitation and higher sea levels. Scientists are increasingly
keen to find out what’s going on because they consider the Artic the ‘canary in the mine’ for global
warming – a warning of what’s in store for the rest of the world.
For the Inuit the problem is urgent. They live in precarious balance with one of the toughest environments
on earth. Climate change, whatever its causes, is a direct threat to their way of life. Nobody knows the
Artic as well as the locals, which is why they are not content simply to stand back and let outside experts
tell them what’s happening. In Canada, where the Inuit people are jealously guarding their hand-won
autonomy in the country’s newest territory, Nunavut, they believe their best hope of survival in this
changing environment lies in combining their ancestral knowledge with the best of modern science. This is
a challenge in itself.
The Canadian Arctic is a vast, treeless polar desert that’s covered with snow for most of the year. Venture
into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home. Farming is out
of the question and nature offers meager pickings. Humans first settled in the Arctic a mere 4,500 years
ago, surviving by exploiting sea mammals and fish. The environment tested them to the limits: sometimes
the colonists were successful, sometimes they failed and vanished. But around a thousand years ago, one
group emerged that was uniquely well adapted to cope with the Arctic environment. These Thule people

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moved in from Alaska, bringing kayaks, sleds, dogs, pottery and iron tools. They are the ancestors of
today’s Inuit people.
Life for the descendants of the Thule people is still harsh. Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometers of rock
and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole. It’s currently home to 2,500 people, all but a
handful of them indigenous Inuit. Over the past 40 years, most have abandoned their nomadic ways and
settled in the territory’s 28 isolated communities, but they still rely on nature to provide food and clothing.
Provisions available in local shops have to be flown into Nunavut on one of the most costly air networks in
the world, or brought by supply ship during the few ice-free weeks of summer. It would cost a family
around £ 7,000 a year to replace meat they obtained themselves through hunting with imported meat.
Economic opportunities are scarce, and for many people state benefits are their only income.
E. While the Inuit may not actually starve if hunting and trapping are curtailed by climate change,
there has certainly been an impact on people’s health. Obesity, heart disease and diabetes are beginning to
appear in a people for whom these have never before been problems. There has been a crisis of identity as
the traditional skills of hunting, trapping and preparing skins have begun to disappear. In Nunavut‘s ‘igloo
and email’ society, where adults who were born in igloos have children who may never have been out on
the land, there‘s high incidence of depression.
F. With so much at stake, the Inuit are determined to play a key role in teasing out the mysteries of
climate change in the Arctic. Having survived there for centuries, they believe their wealth of traditional
knowledge is vital to the task. And Western scientists are starting to draw on this wisdom, increasingly
referred to as ‘Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit’, or IQ. ‘In the early days scientists ignored us when they came up
here to study anything. They just figured these people don’t know very much so we won’t ask them,’ says
John Amagoalik, an Inuit leader and politician. ‘ But in recent years IQ has had much more credibility and
weight.’ In fact it is now a requirement for anyone hoping to get permission to do research that they
consult the communities, who are helping to set the research agenda to reflect their most important
concerns. They can turn down applications from scientists they believe will work against their interests, or
research projects that will impinge too much on their daily lives and traditional activities.
G. Some scientists doubt the value of traditional knowledge because the occupation of the Arctic doesn’t
go back far enough. Others, however, point out that the first weather stations in the far north date back just
50 years. There are still huge gaps in our environmental knowledge, and despite the scientific onslaught,
many predictions are no more than best guesses. IQ could help to bridge the gap and resolve the
tremendous uncertainty about how much of what we’re seeing is natural capriciousness and how much is
the consequence of human activity.

Questions 6-10: Choose no more than two words from paragraphs C and D to complete their following
summary.
If you visit the Canadian Arctic, you immediately appreciate the problems faced by people for whom this
is home. It would clearly be impossible for the people to engage in farming as a means of supporting
themselves. For thousands of years they have had to rely on catching (6)… sea
mammals………………….and fish as a means of sustenance. The harsh surroundings saw many who
tried to settle there pushed to their limits, although some were successful. The Inuit people were an
example of the latter and for them the environment did not prove unmanageable. For the present
inhabitants, life continues to be a struggle. The territory of Nunavut consists of little more than ice, rock
and a few (7)……islands……….. .In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their (8)
……nomadic…………….lifestyle, but they continue to depend mainly on (9)………nature………….. for
their food and clothes. (10)…Imported…………..produce is particularly expensive
Your answers
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART 5: You are going to read an article containing reviews of recently-published books. For
questions 1-10, choose from reviews (A-F). The reviews may be chosen more than once.
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 BOOK CORNER
A round-up of the latest fiction and non-fiction from Beth Young
A. Reading a new novelist is a bit like asking a stranger out on a date. You never quite know if this is the
start of a beautiful relationship. You check the blurbs, the publicity photograph, and flick through the book
to look for the two essentials: entertainment and substance. Beginner’s Greek by James Collins is certainly
big on the latter, weighing in at 400-plus pages. And the quotes on the back cover have the effect of a
bunch of friends saying to you, ‘Go on, you’ll get on brilliantly’. Early indications are that this blind date
could lead to a deeper relationship. Beginner’s Greek is described by The New York Times as a “great big
sunny lemon chiffon pie of a novel” about romantic love amongst the American middle classes. It is
indeed delicious.
B. In Manil Suri’s second outing The Age of Shiva we have a broad-sweeping, epic novel with an
unforgettable heroine so willful yet flawed that it calls to mind that other famous leading lady, Scarlett
O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. The story begins at a firework party in Delhi where Meera falls
disastrously in love. We follow her journey to Bombay, marriage and obsessive motherhood, with
occasional flashbacks to a childhood that was marred by political turmoil. Mathematics professor, Suri,
captures the fluidity of the role of women with a beautiful kind of precision.
C. Devotees of playwright David Mamet, whose screen work includes Wag The Dog and the award-
winning Glengarry Glen Ross may be less than enamoured of Ira Nadel’s new biography, David Mamet: A
Life in the Theatre. It may seem churlish to question the minutia of incidents that abound in this
comprehensive tone, but whilst Nadel is clearly striving for accuracy one feels there ought to have been
more sifting, more mining for the gold amongst the biographical trivia. In addition, Nadel’s tone is
somewhat dry and academic and seems at odds with the brilliance of David Mamet’s own writing. That
said, the book offers a sound introduction to the life and career of the man hailed as one of America’s most
outstanding writers.
D. Can any Mother help me? is the true story of a desperately lonely mother who, in 1935, appealed to
other women through the letters page of a women’s magazine. Writing under a pseudonym, the woman
known as Ubique (meaning ‘everywhere’) little realised that she would be the trigger for the launch of a
new and private magazine that would last for the next fifty years. The Cooperative Correspondence Club
was formed to offer comfort and support to wives, often well-educated women, who craved stimulation
beyond the drudgery of family life. Jenna Bailey has done a superb job of organising and editing this
compendium, adding her own insightful commentary.
E. Subtitled, The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Jessie Child’s debut historical
biography, Henry VIII's Last Victim, was the worthy winner of last year’s Elizabeth Longford Prize.
Henry Howard’s victim status is owing to the fact that he was the final person to be executed by King
Henry VIII, a mere nine days before the king himself expired. Although killed ostensibly for treason, the
Earl of Surrey’s only real crime it seems was leading an unsuccessful army campaign in France. Only 29,
he was also a distinguished poet with a fine literary voice, a persona which refutes his reputation as the
spoilt son of the Duke of Norfolk.
F. This is the 25th outing for T. Keneally but he’s lost none of his writing powers. The Widow and Her
Hero take real life events during the Second World War as its inspiration and builds a tale of love and
intrigue. Grace looks back on her life to recall her courtship with the hero of the title, the handsome
Captain Leo Waterhouse. Leo is tragically killed whilst on a secret mission but it is many years before
Grace discovers the facts about his death. Keneally made fans galore when Schindler’s Ark was published
and later made into the award-winning Steven Spielberg film, Schindler’s List. The Widow and Her Hero
will bring him even more fans.

In which section is the following mentioned?

1. A story in which someone is unaware of the impact of their action. D
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 2. A description of the opening scene. B
3. An author who exemplifies source material with their own analysis.D
4. A humorous comparison with a real-life situation.A
5. A character who finds out the truth about a situation. F
6. A hint that the author’s future writing career will be positive.A
7. A book that would be appreciated by people without much previous knowledge of the subject. C
8. A book which has already won critical acclaim. E
9. A book which includes too much factual detail. C
10. A mention of the profession of the author. B
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

WRITING
PART 1. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION
1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to
the sentence printed before it.
1. I won’t go all that way to visit him again on any account!
On no account will I go all that way to visit him again!
2. I wasn’t surprised when they refused to pay me.

As I expected, they refused to pay me

3. We have credited the money to your current account at this bank.

We have placed the money to your credit of your current account at this bank.
4. Your silly questions distracted me.

You drove me to distraction with your silly questions.

5. Edward eventually organised himself and started work.

Edward eventually got his act together and started work.

2. Rewrite the sentences below using the words in brackets without changing their original form.

1. I don’t think this record will ever be popular. (CATCH)

.I don’t think this record will ever catch on.

2. Mike is never reluctant to make tough decisions as a manager. (SHRINKS)

Mike never shrinks from making tough decisions as a manager.

shrinks from = avoid doing sth which are unpleasant

3. You can’t possibly expect me to have supper ready by eight o’clock. (QUESTION)

There is no question of supper being ready by eight o’clock.

It is out of the question (for me) to have/ get supper ready by eight o’clock.

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4. It is my opinion that there is no advantage in further discussion. (SEE)

As far as I can see,there is no advantage in further discussion.

5. Please excuse Jane’s poor typing: she’s only been learning for a month. (ALLOWANCES)

Please make allowance for Jane’s poor typing, she’s only been learning for a month.

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