SỞ GD&ĐT QUẢNG TRỊ KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH

ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC NĂM HỌC: 2019-2020
LỚP 11 THPT
SỐ BÁO DANH:…………… Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề gồm có 08 trang

A. LISTENING (20 pts)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
• Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần
nghe có tín hiệu.
• Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu nhạc
kết thúc bài nghe.
• Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1. (5 pts) You are going to hear a speech given at a poetry award ceremony. For questions 1-5,
choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answer in the
space provided.
1. What significant event happened in 2006?
A. Antonia Watson won the award for the first time.
B. The award was presented twice.
C. The Poetry Award was first instituted.
D. The Poetry competition was cancelled.
2. The Antonia Watson Memorial Poetry Award's second prize is £ .............. .?
A. £1.500 B. £2.250 C. £500 D. £250
3. What is the relationship between Thomas and Antonia Watson?
A. He is one of Antonia Watson’s siblings.
B. He is her neighbor.
C. He is the close friend of Antonia Watson’s flatmate.
D. He is her cousin.
4. What was the name of the first poem Antonia Watson published?
A. Be Kind B. Love Barks C. Triad Children D. Love Bird
5. What did Antonia Watson suffer from after her grandfather passed away?
A. Pneumonia B. Writer’s block
C. Overwork D. Too much stress
Part 2. (5 pts) You will hear a discussion between two students. For questions 6-10, listen and decide
whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
6. Jess wants to start the meeting by reviewing the objectives for the project
7. Matt and Jess are planning to study old photos.
8. The plots are supposed to be 10 meters apart.
9. The bamboo sticks can be purchased at gardening centres.
10. The instructions sound complicated because there are so many squares.
Part 3. (10 pts) You will hear a piece of news. For questions 11-20, listen and complete the summary
with NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS. Write your answer in the space provided.
T. Berry Brazelton, one of the 11. _______________ to parents and children, a pediatrician and a child
psychiatrist passed away this week, but he will be remembered most for teaching the world and especially
parents about babies.

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Brazelton, 12. _______________ the Baby Whisperer, became a rock star to 13. _______________ new
parents. He once told NPR's Steve Inskeep a family story that led him to be a pediatrician. He hated his
younger brother because his mother was 14. _______________ his younger brother. But his grandmother
valued him, and she let him take care of all his younger cousins, thanks to which he wanted to be just what he
is - a pediatrician who works with parents. For generations of parents, Brazelton was the expert. But when it
15. _______________, he struggled. He said he really felt that 16. _______________ was learning from your
mistakes, not from your success.
Brazelton's work we view babies and young children. During his more than 50-year career, he encouraged the
world to see them 17. _______________. Here he is in a 2010 interview.
“What I dream of is that every parent will have an opportunity to give her and his child the best future that
they can dream of and that every child will be ready to accept that and 18. _______________. there. And I
think we can do that.”
T. Berry Brazelton died on 20. _______________Tuesday his 100th birthday.
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts) Choose the word/ phrase that best completes each of the following sentences. Write your
answer in the space provided.
1. The breakwater ____________ into the sea.
A. prodded out B. jutted out C. waved out D. hollowed out
2. My house is a mile from here, as the ______________ flies, but two miles following the old road.
A. bird B. falcon C. sparrow D. crow
3. His opponent called him a traitor, which really ____________ his patriotism.
A. cast aspersions on B. dumped asperity on
C. hurled insults D. drew integrity from
4. His smirk suggested some vicious _____________, which terrified everyone at the meeting.
A. subtleties B. allusions C. insinuations D. inertia

5. Jean, have you seen the ______________ in your stocking?

A. ladder B. blade C. spade D. spatula

6. The old lady was becoming increasingly affected by ________________.

A. masculinity B. senility C. virility D. audacity

7. She does her homework on Fridays to save herself from the ____________ of having to do it during the
weekend.
A. blast B. drudgery C. furnace D. callousness
8. From the result of your test, it’s evident that you were paying _______ attention to the lecture.
A. scanty B. meager C. frugal D. scant
9. It’s curious that he _______ her to come after they had that bitter quarrel last week.
A. should ask B. would ask C. might ask D. asked
10. Arthur’s skills as a businessman are _______ to his position at the company. The boss hired him because
he wanted a regular golf partner.
A. adventurous B. apposite C. adventitious D. arrant
Part 2. (5 pts) Read the text and find 5 mistakes and correct them. You should indicate in which line the
mistake is. Write your answer in the space provided.
Asking people to think of a Viking and the image they would most likely conjure upon is one of a huge,
flame-haired Norseman in a horn helmet and brandishing a battleaxe. In fact, such ideas stem from
romanticized tales that took hold in the 18th century and which have evolved into the two-dimensional
caricatures we are familiar with today. They may be captivating, but dismiss them we must. These myths have
acquired such power that certain modern historians appear to have been unable to resist turning asserts into
fact, attributing purposes to relics for which there is no support, and imposing their interpretations of ritual
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when there is no truly reliable record. What has to be recognized above all else is the Vikings' technological
ability in boatbuilding and navigation, to which sea-faring nations owe a debt of disgrace whether they realize
it or not.
Part 3. (5 pts) Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. Write
your answer in the space provided.
1. The Vietnamese national team has clocked _______ 8 gold medals in the Martial arts events.
2. If the school reins _______its expenditure on research and development, the quality, as a whole, will be
affected.
3. It’s generally agreed that the primary responsibility for the child’s education should rest_______ the
family.
4. During the violent storm, the little boats strained _______ their anchors at the mercy of the breaking waves.
5. Students are demanding equal rights for men and women, and several newspapers have taken _______
their cause.
Part 4. Complete the text by writing the correct form of the word in capitals. (10 pts)
Our council members, a hopeless group who demonstrated remarkable (0. COMPETENCE) ___
incompetence ____ in the design process of Hillside Road, are now busily working on plans for the rest of
Bayview, again behind (1. CLOSE) _______ doors. Only when these people finish will the public be 'invited'
to submit comments, by which point none of these will make a difference. The council will simply go ahead
despite our concerns. Where is the (2. TRANSPARENT) _______ in this process? When has anyone from the
council ever taken responsibility for the vast sums of money wasted when their schemes fail? And now we
have to prepare for further (3. WASTE) _______ as the council use taxpayers' money to 'develop' Bayview in
ways that no local desires. The reason for this tirade is that, in my view, the problems we are faced with – the
escalation of (4. RISE) _______ housing in single-storey areas, the road design, the connection to our city,
these issues have to be addressed before our beautiful environment is damaged beyond repair.
The council has announced its intention to spend a figure approaching $20 million over the next few years
improving facilities and transport in Bayview. This is not before time. Furthermore, they have (5. APPEAR)
_______ set aside further funds to improve traffic flow on Hillside Road, and to finance the design and
building of an exhibition centre and renovation of the library. People who live and work here will have to face
the inconvenience of noise, dust and (6. BLOCK) _______ pavements as roads are widened and car parks are
extended in downtown Bayview, but this is something we must tolerate if we aim to attract the tourist dollar
and encourage residents to use local services and retail facilities. The housing issue is another matter
altogether and council plans for introducing (7. CHARACTER) _______ multi-storey buildings to the suburb
have been ill thought out.
As a suburb that draws more tourists than any other in the city, Bayview deserves the considerable investment
that the council has proposed. However, it is not for the council to force upon us developments that people
here object to, and which we recognize are fundamentally detrimental to the community. Many of us have
asked the council for details concerning the anticipated population figures, should their high-density housing
projected be (8. ACT) _______ , but they appear reluctant to (9. CLOSE) _______ them. We have thus been
forced to work it out for ourselves. It has been estimated that by building apartment blocks of four to five
storeys, the council will facilitate an (10. EXPONENT) _______ and undesirable growth in population: 400
homes are likely to rise to 1200 in the North Bayview area and 700 cars could turn into 2100; with the
increased population impacting heavily on Hillside Road traffic.
C. READING COMPREHENSION (60 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts) For each gap, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D which best fits the context. Write
your answer in the space provided.
The Return of El Nino
Aside from the seasons, El Nino and its twin, La Nina, are the two largest single (0) ___C____ of
variability in the world's climate from year to year. Both are dictated by (1) _______ in water
temperature in the tropical Pacific basin between Australia and South America. (2) _______ after the

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Spanish words for "Christ child" and "the girl" because of their (3) _______to Christmas, they lead to
dramatic shifts in the entire system of oceanic and atmospheric factors from air pressure to currents.
A significant rise in sea temperature leads to an El Nino event whereas a fall in temperature leads to La
Nina. The cause of the phenomenon is not fully understood but in an El Nino "event" the pool of
warm surface water is forced eastwards by the loss of the westerly trade winds. The sea water
evaporates, (4) _______ in drenching rains over South America, as well as western parts of the United
States, such as California. The effects can (5) _______ for anything from a few weeks to 8 months,
causing extreme weather as far (6) _______ as India and East Africa. The correlation with global
warming is as (7) _______unclear. Archaeological evidence shows El Ninos and La Ninas have been (8)
_______ for 15,000 years. But scientists are investigating whether climate change is leading to an
increase in their intensity or duration.

The weather pattern is already having early and intense effects and El Nino could bring extreme rainfall
to parts of east Africa which were last year (9) _______ by a cycle of drought and floods. It's difficult
to (10) _______ what will happen to the weather in the British Isles, but it will probably add to the
likelihood of record-breaking temperatures in the UK.
0. A. methods B. theories C. causes D. consequences
1. A. shifts B. drops C. alternatives D. downfall
2. A. Elected B. Called C. Nominated D. Named
3. A. proximity B. neighborhood C. attachment D. bond
4. A. producing B. resulting C. stemming D. refreshing
5. A. persist B. keep C. conserve D. assert
6. A. ahead B. afield C. along D. alongside
7. A. still B. yet C. present D. now
8. A. dawning B. obtaining C. occurring D. securing
9. A. hit B. shoved C. punctured D. punched
10. A. predict B. imply C. entail D. point
Part 2. (10 pts) Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
WORD for each space. Write your answer in the space provided.
Moths count!
Renowned conservationist Sir David Attenborough is launching a campaign today called
'Moths Count', to halt the drastically declining number of Britain's native moths and improve their poor image.
A report (1) _______ 'The State of Britain's Larger Moths' revealed last year that in some areas, the moth
population has almost (2) _______since 1968. This has led the charity, 'Butterfly Conservation', of which Sir
David is president, to develop a new strategy which will provide opportunities for real (3) _______ to broaden
their (4) _______ and also generate appreciation among the wider public. Moths, he insists, play an essential
role in the environment. Their loss (5) _______the species of birds, bats and small mammals that (6) _______
on them, and the plants they (7) _______. 'Moths Count' campaigner Richard Fox says 'Currently there's an
image problem, partly because there's a (8) _______ that moths are night creatures, although many are day-
flying and only about half a dozen of Britain's 2500 species damage clothes.' Reasons for their decline include
climate change and loss of habitat. Although the (9) _______ of moths has increased with the establishment of
new species in Britain, overall their numbers have dropped, and for some, extinction now seems sadly (10)
_______.
Part 3. (15 pts) Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Write your
answer in the space provided.
How to rebuild your own brain
It’s not the kind of thing you would ever forget. When Barbara Arrowsmith-Young started school in Canada
in the early 1950s, her teacher told her mother – in her presence – that she would never be able to learn.

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Having helped over 4,000 children overcome exactly the same diagnosis, she can laugh at it. But she didn’t at
the time. Today Arrowsmith-Young holds a master’s degree in psychology and has published a
groundbreaking book called The Woman Who Changed Her Brain. But until she was in her mid-twenties, she
was desperate, tormented and often depressed. She didn’t know what was wrong.
On the one hand, she was brilliant with near-total auditory and visual memory. ‘I could memorise whole
books.’ On the other hand, she was a dolt. ‘I didn’t understand anything,’ she says. ‘Meaning just never
crystallised. Everything was fragmented, disconnected.’
In exams, she sometimes got 100 percent but whenever the task involved reasoning and interpretation she
would fail dismally. ‘The teachers didn’t understand,’ she says. ‘They thought I wasn’t trying and I was often
punished.’ To help her, her mother devised a series of flash cards with numbers and letters and, after much
hard work, she achieved literacy and numeracy of a sort, even getting into university, where she disguised her
learning disabilities by working twenty hours a day: ‘I used to hide when the security guards came to close the
library at night, then come back out and carry on.’
The breakthrough came when she was twenty-six. A fellow student gave her a book by a Russian
neuropsychologist, Aleksandr Luria. The book contained his research on the writings of a highly intelligent
Russian soldier, Lyova Zazetsky, who had been shot in the brain during a battle, and recorded in great detail
his subsequent disabilities.
For the first time, Arrowsmith-Young says, ‘I recognised somebody describing exactly what I experienced.
His expressions were the same: living life in a fog. His difficulties were the same: he couldn’t tell the time
from a clock, he couldn’t tell the difference between the sentences The boy chases the dog and The dog chases
the boy. I began to see that maybe an area of my brain wasn’t working.’
The bullet had lodged in a part of the brain where information from sight, sound, language and touch is
synthesised, analysed and made sense of. Arrowsmith-Young began to realise that, in all probability, this was
the region of her own brain that had been malfunctioning since she was born.
Then she read about the work of Mark Rosenzweig, an American researcher who found that laboratory rats
given a rich and stimulating environment developed larger brains. Rosenzweig concluded that the brain
continues developing rather than being fixed at birth: a concept known as ‘neuroplasticity’. Arrowsmith-
Young decided that if rats could grow bigger and better brains, so could she.
She started devising exercises for herself to work the parts of her brain that weren’t functioning. She drew 100
two-handed clockfaces on cards and wrote the time each told on the back. Then she started trying to tell the
time from each. She did this eight to ten hours a day, gradually becoming faster and more accurate.
‘I was experiencing mental exhaustion like I had never known,’ she says, ‘so I figured something was
happening. After three or four months of this, it really felt like something had fundamentally changed in my
brain. I watched an edition of a news programme and I got it. I read pages from ten books, and understood
every single one. It was like stepping from darkness into light.’
She developed more exercises, for different parts of her brain, and found they worked, too. Now almost 30,
she was finally beginning to function normally.
It was revolutionary work, and not just for her. ‘At that time,’ she says, ‘all the work around learning
disabilities involved compensating for what learners couldn’t do. It all started from the premise that they were
unchangeable.’
Faced with little receptivity for her ideas, Arrowsmith-Young decided to found her own school in Toronto in
1980; she now has thirty-five such schools. Thousands of children dismissed as impossible to teach, have
attended Arrowsmith schools and gone on to academic and professional success.
‘So much human suffering is caused by cognitive mismatches with the demands of the task,’ says
Arrowsmith-Young. ‘So many wrong diagnoses get made, so many children get written off, so many people
take wrong decisions and end up in lives and careers they did not choose for themselves but were chosen for
them by cognitive limitations that can be identified and strengthened. There is hope for these people.’
1. What do we learn about Barbara Arrowsmith-Young in the first paragraph?
A. She has learned over the years how to help her own child.
B. When she was a child, it was thought that she would grow out of her problems.
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 C. Her particular problem went undiagnosed until she was a young woman.
D. She believes that children need to be told if they are likely to find school difficult.
2. How did her problem manifest itself?
A. She could understand the meaning of difficult words.
B. She found it hard to remember anything.
C. She had amazing eyesight.
D. She could seem quite stupid at times.
3. Her teachers at school _______ .
A. thought she was just being lazy.
B. set exams that were too difficult.
C. helped her with special lessons.
D. said that she would be unable to pass university entrance exams.
4. When Barbara was twenty-six years old, she _______ .
A. was studying neuropsychology in Russia.
B. discovered that she was not the only person in the world with her problem.
C. started to write a book about her disabilities.
D. wrote to a Russian soldier who had the same problems as she did.
5. What do we learn about the Russian soldier?
A. His language skills were those of a young child.
B. He knew that his injury had caused damage to his sight.
C. He believed that brain damage might be the cause of his problem.
D. His interpretation of his problem was slightly different from Barbara’s.
6. According to Mark Rosenzweig, _______ .
A. rats have much larger brains than people think
B. neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to keep on growing
C. Barbara would not be able to do anything to improve her brain
D. the brain requires regular and frequent stimulation to function normally
7. Barbara’s attempt at improving her brain _______ .
A. ended up with her giving up from extreme tiredness
B. made her feel as if her personality was changing
C. included spending a long time focusing on speed tests
D. failed to help her make connections she had always found difficult
8. What do we learn about the traditional attitude towards people with learning disabilities?
A. It was impossible to improve the performance of the brain.
B. People were taught how to live with the problem.
C. Brain exercises have always been a part of dealing with learning disabilities.
D. They would never be able to function in a modern society.
9. What does the phrase “the same diagnosis” in the first paragraph refer to?
A. The master’s degree in psychology.
B. 4000 children.
C. Learning disability.
D. Barbara Arrowsmith-Young.
10. What does the word “these” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. People who make wrong diagnoses.
B. People who choose their own careers.
C. Scientists who try to help learning-impaired people.
D. People whose careers are chosen by cognitive limitations.
Part 4: Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below. Write the
correct number, i-x, next to Questions 1-6.
List of Headings
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i The prevalence of numerical 'codes' in modern life
ii How RSA works
iii A brief history of keeping things safe
iv 'New math' vs 'medieval math'
v Proof that RSA is effective
vi The illusion of security
vii Cryptography: the modern key for the lock
viii Cryptography: the modern key for the lock
ix In defence of medieval security systems
x A new approach to system security

Example Answer
Paragraph A iii
1. Paragraph B
2. Paragraph C
3. Paragraph D
4. Paragraph E
5. Paragraph F
6. Paragraph G
Using Mathematics to Secure Our Money
A
Up until very recently people's wealth, mostly coins and jewels, was kept safe under lock and key. Rich
medieval families would keep a strong box with a large key, both of which were carefully hidden in different
places. Later the box may have been kept in a bank. In either case, potential thieves would need to find both
the box and the key. A similar principle was used for sending secret diplomatic and military messages. The
messages were written in code with both the sender and the receiver having the key to the code. Thus, while
the message
could be discovered its meaning could only be found if the 'key' was also known. And so began a long-
running battle between code-makers who tried to make better keys, and code-breakers who sought ways of
finding them.
B
Nowadays, cryptography is central to how our money is kept secure, even though we may not be aware of it.
Our money is no longer in a tangible form, but in the form of information kept with our banks. To keep
everyone involved happy, the messages initiated by our plastic cards have to be sent and received safely and
the entire operation must be carried out with a high level of confidentiality and security.
C
On a practical level, it is clear that the work of code-makers has been introduced into our daily financial lives.
Our credit cards have 16-digit numbers on the front and a 3-digit number on the back. They also contain a
'chip' that can do all sorts of mysterious operations with these numbers. Finally, we also have a Personal
Identification Number which we all need to memorize. All these numbers form a type of cryptographic key.
However, as we shall see, the modern crypto systems are very different in the way the keys are used.
D
The main feature of the traditional systems was that only one key was needed by both the sender and the
receiver to understand the message. However the main problem was that the key itself needed to be
communicated to both parties before they could use it. Obviously a major security risk. A very different
approach was developed in the 1970s, based on a different way of using the keys. Now the main idea is that
the typical user, let us call him Amir, has two keys; a 'public key' and a 'private key'. The public key is used to
encrypt messages that other people wish to send to Amir, and the private key is used by Amir to decrypt these
messages. The security of the system is based on keeping Amir's private key

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secret.
E
This system of public-key cryptography, known as RSA- from the names of the developers (Ronald Rivest,
Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman) - was developed in the late 1970s and is based on a collection of several
mathematical algorithms. The first is a process that allows the user, Amir, to calculate two numerical keys:
private and public, based on two prime numbers. To complete the RSA system, two more algorithms are then
needed: one for encrypting messages and one for decrypting them.
F
The effectiveness of RSA depends on two things. It is efficient, because the encryption and decryption
algorithms used by participants are easy, in a technical sense they can be made precise. On the other hand, it is
believed to be secure, because no one has fund an easy way of decrypting the encrypted message without
knowing Amir's private key.
G
When the RSA system was first written about in Scientifc American, the strength of the system was shown by
challenging the readers to find the prime factors -the two original numbers - of a certain number with 129
digits. It took 17 years to solve this problem, using the combined efforts of over 600 people. So clearly it is a
very secure system. Using mathematics in this way, scientists and technologists have enabled us to keep our
money as secure as the rich medieval barons with their strong boxes and hidden keys.
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage?
In boxes 7-10, write
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOTGIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thank about this

7 Online banking makes most people nerous

8 The way keys are used in modern cryptograph is quite different from the past
9 The main problem with traditional cryptography systems is that neither party can
decode the message.
10 The RSA system represents the most secure cryptography we are ever likely to
develop
D. WRITING (30 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts) The table below shows the value of goods imported into Freedonia in the years 2016 and
2017. Describe the information in the table and make comparisons where relevant. You should write about
150 words.
2016 2017
Goods
(in USD million) (in USD million)
Electronic equipment 535 770
Ceramic products 150 151
Garments and footwear 420 290
Petrol 526 1,300
Glass and glassware 95 94

Part 2. (20 pts) Write an essay of 300-350 words on the following topic:

There is a widespread belief among secondary school students that nothing but a university degree is a
passport to later success in life.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this belief? Give reasons and examples to support your
opinion(s).

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 BIỂU ĐIỂM VÀ ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ 19
A. LISTENING (50 pts)
Part 1 (10 pts) 2 pts/correct answer.
1. C 2. C 3. A 4. B 5. B
Part 2 (10 pts) 2 pts/correct answer.
6. T 7. F 8. T 9. F 10. F
Part 3 (10 pts) 2 pts/correct answer.
11. a strong connection 12. Feeling happy
13. conserve and protect dolphins. 14. People/swimmers/ boats disrupt their environments
15. chase after them/ the dolphins.
Part 4 (20 pts) 2 pts/correct answer.
16. most dedicated advocates 17. Whose nickname was
18. overwhelmed and anxious 19. so invested in
20. came to his own children 21. learning to parent
22. revolutionized the way 23. as complex beings
24. take off to get 25. just shy of
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts) 1 pt/correct answer.
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. A
6. B 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. C
Part 2 (5pts) 1 pt/correct answer
Number Line Mistake Correction
1. Line 1 Asking Ask
2. Line 1 Conjure upon Conjure up
3. Line 2 Horn Horned
4. Line 6 Asserts Assertion
5. Line 14 Disgrace Gratitude
Part 3 (5pts) 1 pt/correct answer
1. up 2. Back / in 3. with 4. at 5. up
Part 4 (10 pts) 1 pt/correct answer
1. closed 2. Transparency 3. wastage 4. high-rise 5. Apparently 6. blocked-off
7. out-of-character 8. enacted 9. disclose 10. exponential
C. READING COMPREHENSION (60 pts)
Part 1. (10 pts) 1 pt/correct answer
1. A 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A
6. B 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. A

Part 2 (10 pts) 1 pt/correct answer

1. entitled/titled 2. Halved 3. Enthusiasts 4. Expertise 5. threatens
6. feed 7. Pollinate 8. perception/ belief 9. Diversity 10. unavoidable

Part 3 (15 pts) 2.5 pt/correct answer

1. B 2. F 3. A 4. E 5. D 6. G

Part 4 (10 pts) 1 pt/correct answer

1. vii 2. i 3. x 4. ii 5. viii 6. v
7. NG 8. YES 9. NO 10. NG

D. WRITING (60 pts)

KEY TO THE WRITING SECTION
Part 1. Summary (15 pts)
Task achievement (7 pts)
The candidate
- includes all the main ideas from the original text,
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- successfully selects the most important details to support the main idea,
- and manages to make the summary the right length as required,
- and consistently keep the same tone and information as the original source.
Coherence and cohesion (2 pts)
- The candidate
- successfully puts the information in the same order as the original text
- and makes good use of linking devices.
Lexical resource (4 pts)
The candidate
- uses a wide range of vocabulary,
- puts the summary in his/her own words,
- and makes very few errors in spelling and word formation.
Grammatical range and accuracy (2 pts)
The candidate
- uses different types of sentences
- and produces most sentences free of grammatical errors.

Part 2. Chart description (15 pts)

Task achievement (6 pts)
The candidate
- writes a clear overview,
- clearly highlights and nicely illustrates all key features,
- and covers all requirements sufficiently.
Coherence and cohesion (3 pts)
The candidate
- organises information and ideas logically,
- has sufficient paragraphing,
- makes good use of coherent devices,
- and has no problem with referencing.
Lexical resource (3 pts)
The candidate
- employs a wide range of vocabulary readily and flexibly to convey precise meaning
- and makes rare errors in spelling or word formation.
Grammatical range and accuracy (3 pts)
The candidate
- employs a wide range of structures
- and produces most sentences free of grammatical errors.

Part 3. Essay (30 pts)

 Content (10 pts)
The candidate shows how well (s)he has fulfilled the task, in other words, if (s)he has done what (s)he was
asked to do.
 Communicative Achievement (5 pts)
The candidate shows how appropriate the writing is for the task and whether (s)he has used the appropriate
register.
 Organisation (5 pts)
The candidate shows how well (s)he puts together the piece of writing, in other words, if it is logical and
ordered.
 Language (10 pts)
The essay shows the candidate’s focus on vocabulary and grammar. It includes the range of language as well
as how accurate it is.

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