TRIAL TEST 7

I. LISTENING
Section 1: You are going to hear three different lectures. Listen and do the exercises.
Lecture 1: You are going to hear a lecture about adults who continue to live with their parents. Listen and
answer the questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS/ OR A NUMBER.
1. What percentage of women in their early thirties still live with their parents?
2. When were house prices only three times the average yearly income?
3. What is the reason that people return to their parental home after university?
4. Who does the Affordable Housing Scheme aim to help?
Lecture 2: You are going to hear a lecture about family structures. Listen and complete the sentences in NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS/ OR A NUMBER.
5. The_______________family structure has changed greatly in the last fifty years.
6. Strong family structures used to be necessary due_______________
7. People often_______________the wealth of their parents.
8. More than_______________children have no siblings nowadays.
Lecture 3: you are going to hear a lecturer describing life for Victorian families. Listen and choose two
letters to answer the question.
Which of the following are myths about upper-class Victorian families?
a Families lived with servants,
b Children were mainly home schooled,
c Fathers occasionally taught their children Latin,
d The Victorians were not generous to the poor,
e Parents were strict with their children.

Section 2: You will hear an interview with a professional athlete called Ann Brown. For questions 1-7,
choose the best answer (A, B or C).
1. What does Ann say about her performance in the world championships?
A She was disappointed not to win.
B She wishes she’d been more prepared.
C She did better than she’d been expecting to.
2. How does Ann feel about the place where she trains?
A She finds it quite boring.
B She enjoys looking at the scenery.
C She pays little attention to where she is.
3. What does Ann think of the idea of taking a ‘day off’ from training?
A She thinks all athletes need one sometimes.
B She would like to have more of them.
C She doesn’t find them necessary.
4. What is Ann’s attitude towards the other competitors in races?
A She avoids close social contact with them.
B She’s made a few good friends amongst them.
C She finds it easy to talk to them when she has to.
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5. In her free time, Ann enjoys
A kite flying.
B skiing.
C reading.
6. How does Ann feel about being recognised in public?
A She’s relaxed about it.
B She finds the attention exciting.
C She dislikes signing autographs.
7. When thinking about the future, Ann
A plans around five years in advance.
B admits to worrying about getting injured.
C remains focused on winning important races.
Section 3. (Chuyên Bắc Ninh-2024-2025) You’re going to listen to a radio report about a new type of air
transport. Fill in each gap with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from
the recording.
Seymour Powell, a (1) __________ company, is working on a new mode of travelling, the Aircruise, which is
supposed to take (2) __________ to reach New York from London. The guest speaker, Mark argues that the
underlying cause behind this idea is that passengers are fed up with travelling on a (3) __________ passenger jet.
Instead, they prefer something which can bring them (4) __________. The huge Aircruise is designed to be (5)
__________ and can fly at a very low height. It will run on (6) __________ as this type of fuel is silent and (7)
__________. Mark insists that the Aircruise is more sustainable and kinder to the environment thanks to the
advent of modern technology. Passengers will no longer be (8) __________ in their seats, but walk around the
luxurious airship, which is equipped with a bar, (9) __________ and a glass floor. It will depart from (10)
__________, not the normal airports to ensure the flight’s safety.

II. PHONETICS, VOCABULARY& GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Choose the word (A, B, c or D) whose underlined part is pronounced differently from
that of the rest in each of the following questions.
1. A. prepared B. organized C. impressed D. involved
2. A. surround B. source C. account D. plough
3. A. cheese B. children C. teacher D. chemical
Exercise 2: Choose the word (A, B, c or D) whose main stress pattern is different from that of the
rest in each of the following questions.
4. A. encounter B. memory C. agency D. influence
5. A. substantial B. dominate C. agriculture D. national
Exercise 3: Choose the best option to complete each of the following sentences (questions 6-15: Chuyên
Phan Ngọc Hiển- Cà Mau- 2024-2025)
6. When you get involved in a volunteer project, you are able to __________ your knowledge into practice.
A. put B. bring C. push D. take
7. She won the first prize in the contest, __________ took pride in her parents.
A. which B. whom C. that D. who
8. In keeping with __________, we cook five-color sticky rice on the first day of a lunar month.

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 A. habit B. tradition C. ritual D. practice
9. He appears to be a really tough worker. He is a different person at home, __________.
A. though B. as though C. although D. even though
10. It is imperative that products __________ carefully before they are sold to the public.
A. are tested B. be tested C. were tested D. had to be tested
11. - “The weather was terrible yesterday.”
- “It was so hot that I wish I __________ to the beach.”
A. have gone B. went C. had gone D. will have gone
12. It was __________ that my colleagues chose to end their workday earlier than usual.
A. so a hot day B. such hot day C. such a hot day D. so hot a day
13. It __________ Kate you saw at the cinema last night. She was studying in the library with me.
A. may not have been B. mustn’t have been C. can’t have been D. shouldn’t have been
14. Ken never comes to class late and __________.
A. neither does Bush B. so does Bush C. so doesn’t Bush D. neither doesn’t Bush
15. Peter and Tom are talking about sports.
- Peter: How often do you play football?
- Tom: “__________”
A. Once in a blue moon. B. Out of this world.
C. Over the moon. D. The sky’s the limit.
16. The dish was so tasty that I asked for a second ________.
A. helping B. portion C. ration D. share
17. Despite many recent ________ advances, there are parts where schools are not equipped with computers.
A. technologist B. technologically C. technological D. technology
18. ________ appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an optical illusion.
A. When the Moon B. The Moon which C. The Moon D. That the Moon
19. The more challenging the exercises are, _________ we feel.
A. the less bored B. the least bored C. the less boring D. the least boring
20. Save your money. Don't ________ it too quickly.
A. go through B. die down C. hold on D. touch on
21. They all have to follow the rules, and none of them is ________ the law.
A. over B. beyond C. above D. onto
22. They ________ the aid of the United States but did not receive it.
A. asked B. found C. sought D. obtained
23. The police spokesman said he was ________to believe that the arrested man was the serial killer they had
been looking for.
A. inclined B. seemed C. suspected D. supposed
24. I'm sure your bank manager will lend you a ________ ear when you explain the situation to him.
A. merciful B. sympathetic C. pitiful D. compassionate
25. The accident ________ was the mistake of the driver.
A. causing many people to die B. caused great human loss
C. to cause many people die D. which causes many people to die
26. ______ that Columbus discovered America.

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 A. In 1492 B. There was in 1492 C. That was in 1492 D. It was in 1492
27. The language centre offers courses of various levels, such as elementary, intermediate and ________.
A. advance B. advancement C. advanced D. advancing
28. I can’t find my dictionary at the moment. I hope it will ________ up soon.
A. look B. clear C. turn D. come
29. Nowadays, with the help of the computer, teachers have developed a ______ approach to teaching.
A. multilingual B. multilateral C. multiple – choice D. multimedia
30. Although we have a large number of students, each one receives _____ attention
A. alone B. only C. separate D. individual
31. The children made ______ a funny story and wrote it on the card.
A. up B. off C. for D. out
32. Geometry is a branch of mathematics _______ the properties of lines, curves, shapes, and surfaces.
A. that concerning with B. that concerned with
C. that it is concerned with D. concerned with
33. She passed the National High School Graduation Exam with ________ colours.
A. bright B. flying C. red D. true
34. I ______ with my aunt when I am on holiday in Ho Chi Minh City next month
A. will have been staying B. will have stayed
C. stay D. will be staying
35. She started the course two months ago but dropped ________ after only a month.
A. back B. out C. off D. in
Exercise 4: Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following sentences.
1. She is …………………………….. good at comforting those who are in sorrow. (deny)
2. I am afraid you were …………………………….. about the time of the meeting. (inform)
3. You are having an extremely …………………………….. smell. Youd better have a bath (please)
right now.
4. The police provided …………………………….. evidence that he was at the scene of the (controvert)
crime.
5. He is normally very …………………………….. so you will be lucky if you get any (communicate)
information out of him.
6. In winter, the villages are totally …………………………….. by road. (access)
7. The school was overcrowded and desperately ……………………………... (staff)
8. She played a character who was the …………………………….. of evil. (person)
9. All replies will be treated with complete ……………………………... (confident)
10. The illness …………………………….. him and recovery took several weeks (moral)
Exercise 5: Fill in each of the numbered blanks with one suitable preposition.
1. This soup is too hot to eat. I’ll wait for it to cool _____.
2. Tim is seventeen and at the moment he doesn’t care very much _____ anything except clothes.
3. Last year Ross was charged _____ a variety of crimes, including assault and car theft.
4. It’s a long journey so remember to fill _____ the petrol tank before you go.
5. Luckily, the bomb which went _____ near the bank last Friday didn’t kill anyone.
6. A car suddenly pulled _____ in front of me and I couldn’t stop in time.

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7. Luckily, the rain held _____ so we were able to play the match.
8. I don’t think I’ll ever be rich, but you live _____ hope, don’t you?
9. Mr. Deacon next door had a very serious operation. Apparently, it’s a miracle he pulled_____.
10. I don’t know what happened. I was just sitting at my desk and I suddenly blacked _____ for a few minutes.
Exercise 6: Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them
Line Passage
1 Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, is really more sophisticated than that of
2 a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variation of viewpoints have all concluded
3 that there is a great deal more storing in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder
4 Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgery, proved that by stimulating their brains electrically, he can elicit
5 the total recall of specific events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and another minor events
6 supposedly forgotten for many years suddenly emerged in details. Although the physical basic for
7 memory is not yet understood, one theory is how the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is the
8 result of an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cell, stimulated by
9 patterns of activity. Repeated references with the same information support recall. In other word,
10 improved performance is the result of strengthening the chemical bonds in the memory.

Line Error Correction

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III. READING:
Part 1: Fill each blank with ONE suitable word.
Are you frowning as you read this? Habitual frowners may not even be aware that their foreheads are creased,
and will need to touch their brows to (1) _______ out. A permanent frown is forbidding and unattractive, yet it is
very easy to get into the (2) _______ of frowning. You can stop yourself by placing your hand on your forehead
to check whether your brow is smooth when you happen to be reading or watching television. In this way, you
can begin to unlearn a negative piece of body language – and if you suffer from headaches, you should find
yourself suffering from them much (3) _______.
Smiling at yourself may make you feel a (4) _______ self-conscious – but it works! Next time you are (5) _______
the weather, physically or emotionally, you can test for (6) ______ the therapeutic powers of smiling. Each (7)
_______ the expression fades from your face, try again and again until you begin to notice an improvement in
yourself. In a large number of cases, this simple technique will produce noticeable benefits (8) ______ a short
space of time – and it’s free.

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As well as cheering yourself up, smiling at someone else can help (9) ______ of you to feel better, for a smile
tends to call forth an answering smile. One of the reasons why we are attracted to smiling faces is because they
can affect our autonomic nervous system. Facial expressions and moods are catching, since we are not simply
registering that someone is cheerful or cross – we are experiencing the same emotion. If you are always
surrounded by miserable people with long faces, you are more than (10) _______ to suffer depressive feeling
yourself eventually.
Part 2: Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits each blank in the following passage.
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race' against each other on river, lakes or on the ocean, (1) _____ on the
type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades (2) _____ they are
pushed against the water. The sport can be both recreational, focusing (3) _____ learning the techniques required,
and competitive where overall fitness plays a large role. It is also one of (4) _____ oldest Olympic sports. In the
United States, Australia and Canada, high school and collegial rowing is sometimes referred to as crew.
(5) _____ rowing, the athlete sits in the boat facing backwards, towards the stern, and uses the oars which are
held in (6) _____ by the oarlocks to propel the boat forward, towards the bow. It is a demanding sport requiring
strong core balance as well as physical (7) _____ and cardiovascular endurance.
Since the action of rowing (8) _____ fairly popular throughout the world, there are many different types of (9)
_____. These include endurance races, time trials, stake racing, bumps racing, and the side-by-side format used
in the Olympic Games. The many different formats are a result of the long (10) _____ of the sport, its development
in. different regions of the world, and specific local requirements and restrictions.
1. A. depending B. creating C. interesting D. carrying
2. A. but B. because C. as D. as soon as
3. A. of B. on C. with D. about
4. A. a B. an C. the D. Ø
5. A. Over B. Of C. During D. While
6. A. area B. sight C. part D. place
7. A. strong B. strongly C. strength D. strengthen
8. A. was become B. has become C. is become D. is becoming
9. A. competition B. examination C. test D. round
10. A. work B. history C. period D. race

Part 3: (Chuyên Đại học Vinh- 2024-2025)For questions 1-7, read the following passage and choose the
correct answer A, B, C, or D.
Until about the seventeenth century, Irish was the normal everyday language of Ireland. At that time, though,
the English who had colonised the country began to impose their own language and the Irish people gradually
accepted this, mostly for economic reasons. All official business was conducted in English and the British
economy dominated the country. This practical motivation to use English grew even stronger when people began
to leave Ireland in vast numbers in the nineteenth century. Families thought that it would be difficult to move to
an English - speaking country such as America, Australia or England if they knew nothing but Irish.
Nowadays it is estimated that little more than one per cent of the population of the country use Irish as their
daily first language. Even in the areas of the country which are supposed to be Irish speaking, the use of the
language is decreasing. These areas, known officially as the ‘Gaeltacht’, are mainly in the remote far west of the
country and have a total population of 83,000, of whom nearly all can speak Irish, although only about 30,000

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use it as their normal language of communication. All children in Ireland have to learn Irish. Until 1973 pupils
had to gain a pass in Irish if they were to be awarded their school leaving certificate. This rule was very unpopular
and was dropped. Pupils still have to take Irish for these examinations but it no longer seems to matter very much
if they fail.
Most children in primary schools seem to enjoy their Irish lessons but in secondary schools the situation is
often different. As examination pressure mounts, pupils often find Irish to be boring and irrelevant, as compared
with French or German, which can at least be useful for getting a job.
The most surprising development of recent years has been the rapid rise in the number of state schools in towns
that do all their main teaching in Irish. This is not a scheme imposed by the state but one that has grown up in
response to the demands of parents. Some parents send their children to these schools for patriotic reasons,
believing them to be a defense against the country being swamped with American and English culture. Many
other parents choose these schools simply because they see them as being better than the English-language
schools. They tend to be newer and to have smaller classes and better motivated teachers.
One criticism made of these schools is that they could be distracting pupils from learning ‘more useful’ modern
languages. In fact, in modern languages, as in most subjects, these schools have results which are better than the
national average. Only time will tell whether the new rise in Irish in the towns will compensate for its decline in
the Irish-speaking areas of the rural west.
Question 1. Which of the following would make a suitable title for this passage?
A. Irish - End in Sight
B. Irish - Signs of Hope in the Towns
C. Irish - A Dead Language
D. Irish - Greater Importance in the Villages
Question 2. What do we learn from this passage about Ireland at the beginning of the 17th century?
A. Many people left for America, Australia, and England.
B. English had always been the language used in business.
C. The British began to invade the country.
D. People spoke Irish as their everyday language.
Question 3. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the “Gaeltacht” according to the passage?
A. 83,000 people use Irish as their normal language of communication.
B. Almost everybody uses Irish as their first language.
C. 30,000 people do not understand the Irish language.
D. There is a fall in the number of people using Irish as their first language.
Question 4. Why are French and German often more popular than Irish in secondary schools?
A. They are the required languages to guarantee pupils’ future jobs.
B. They are nowhere near boring as compared to the Irish language.
C. They enable pupils to get access to employment opportunities.
D. They help avoid psychological burden of examination on pupils.
Question 5. The government introduced schools where teaching was done in Irish because __________
A. they can ensure more feasible study records.
B. they can live up to parents’ expectations.
C. they can nurture pupils’ patriotism.
D. they employ more highly qualified teachers.

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Question 6. The word “swamped” in paragraph 4 is CLOSEST in meaning to __________.
A. overwhelmed B. associated C. familiarized D. unrelated
Question 7. Some people have criticised these Irish language schools because __________
A. they act as a hindrance to pupils’ acquisition of modern languages.
B. they pose a challenge to schools’ modern language teaching.
C. they achieve only slightly better than average education results.
D. they tend to minimise the teaching of any useful subjects.
Part 4. Read the text carefully, then choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap (1-5).
Write your answers in the space provided below. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to
use. (0) has been done as an example.
A. It avoids wasting time learning the same information twice, and is also a good way of keeping your mind
focused on the task.
B. This is because they have invented a personal meaning for each one.
C. These will be easier to memorize than individual digits because there are fewer of them.
D. Nevertheless, an improved memory is certainly very valuable to people involved in academic study.
E. To recall the names later, you simply follow the same route in your mind.
F. The same thing happens with spelling: most people repeat the same mistakes.
G. For less obvious names, you'll have to get more creative.
Memory isn't like a muscle, something I specific you can exercise. It's a way of organising information in your
brain. So to improve your memory, you need to change and reorganise the way you think and this will help to
support how your memory works.
Short-term memory is limited, and most people can only remember about seven items (numbers, names, objects,
etc.) at a time. So when given a string of numbers to remember such as 123957001969, break it into chunks: 12
39 57 00 19 69 or even 1239 5700 1969. (0) C . The chunks will be even more memorable if you can
attach a meaning to some or all of them. For example, you might be able to link them to the age of someone you
know, an address or a famous date (e.g. 1969, the first moon landing). These linked meanings can then form a
story to help remember a really long sequence.
Another technique for memorising information relies on images. A classic way of remembering a person's name
is to try and imagine it (or something associated to it) on the person's face. This is easy if you meet John Bridge:
just imagine a bridge on his face. (1) _______ Psychologists have found that the more unusual and vivid the
image is, the better it works.
In order to improve your ability to memorise random information, look for meaning in everything - especially if
you can refer it back to yourself. The human mind has a particular fondness for meaning. A sequence of playing
cards is difficult to remember because the cards are essentially meaningless. And yet, some people have trained
themselves to memorise the precise order of every card in a pack, and it only takes them a few minutes to do it.
(2) _______
Make a mistake whilst learning something for the first time and you're more likely to make the same mistake
again. But get it right from the start and it'll stick. This is called error-free learning. For instance, if you cycle to
somebody's house for the first time and you take a wrong turning, it is quite common that you will repeat that
mistake next time you go. This is because, when you repeat the journey, you recognise the route and the
landmarks, and your brain will carry on misguiding you until you realise that you are just remembering the things

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you did wrong last time! It's not that your memory is poor but that it's misleading you. (3) _______. So if you're
learning something new, cut out all distractions; this will help you learn it correctly first time.
In general, it is often better to test yourself on something you've learned than to keep re-learning it. This is because
while testing yourself, you can reflect on your progress, check how well you have learnt things, and fill in the
gaps rather than re-learn everything again. (4) _______. This applies, for example, when you are learning
vocabulary in a foreign language. And finally, there is an excellent technique for remembering facts, called the
'Roman Room' method. It's a particularly good way of remembering a sequence of related information such as a
list of names, and it works like this. Choose a place you know well - such as your home - and take a mental walk
through the rooms. Then, put the names from your list one by one into the rooms. Suppose you want to remember
the names of your friend's brothers and sisters in order of age. Visualise Harry, the eldest, in your front room, then
Sally the second in the back room. Molly, the third oldest, is in the kitchen ... and so on. (5) _______ It seems a
strange way of remembering, but with practice it is very successful. It works because you are attaching new
information to something which is already very familiar and easy to recall.
Part 5: The Reading Passage has five paragraphs (A-E). Choose the most suitable heading for each
paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i-vi) in boxes 1-5 on your
answer part
NB There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them.
PAPER RECYCLING
A. Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. Unlike the
minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does
not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tones of wood fibre
used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from virgin fibre from forests
and plantations. By world standards this is a good performance since the world-wide average is 33 per cent waste
paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper
industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the way for even greater
utilization of used fibres. As a result, industry’s use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of
virgin fibres over the coming years.
B. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to
remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the
benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper
products; for example, stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be support from
the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors
but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips,
string and other miscellaneous items.
C. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot
be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of books and permanent records, photographic paper and
paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail
stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have
unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printers and lastly households which
discard newspapers and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur
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D. Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people trained to recognise various types of paper. This
is necessary because some types of paper can only be made from particular kinds of recycled fibre. The sorted
paper then has to be repulped or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is
called stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed
waste paper which has had little sorting. Various machineries are used to remove other materials from the stock.
After passing through the repulping process, the fibres from printed waste paper are grey in colour because the
printing ink has soaked into the individual fibres. This recycled material can only be used in products where the
grey colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be
de-inked. This involves adding chemicals such as caustic soda or other alkalis, soaps and detergents, water-
hardening agents such as calcium chloride, frothing agents and bleaching agents. Before the recycled fibres can
be made into paper they must be refined or treated in such a way that they bond together.
E. Most paper products must contain some virgin fibre as well as recycled fibres and unlike glass, paper cannot
be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-cycled which means that a product made from recycled paper is of
an inferior quality to the original paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour
and capital that go into producing virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable
energy source, to collect the waste paper from the community and to process it to produce new paper. And the
recycling process still creates emissions which require treatment before they can be disposed of safely.
Nevertheless, paper recycling is an important economical and environmental practice but one which must be
carried out in a rational and viable manner for it to be useful to both industry and the community.

i. Process of paper recycling

ii. Less threat of waste paper to the environment
iii. Collection of paper for recycling
iv. Sources of paper for recycling
v. Bad sides of paper recycling
vi. Contribution of community to recycling paper
Your answer
1. Paragraph A __________
2. Paragraph B __________
3. Paragraph C __________
4. Paragraph D __________
5. Paragraph E __________
SUMMARY
Complete the summary below of the first two paragraphs of the Reading Passage. Choose ONE OR TWO
WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.
From the point of view of recycling, paper has two advantages over minerals and ...........oil.......... in that firstly it
comes from a resource which is ........ (1) ........ and secondly it is less threatening to our environment when we
throw it away because it is ....... (2) ...... Although Australia’s record in the re-use of waste paper is good, it is still
necessary to use a combination of recycled fibre and ........ (3) ........ to make new paper. The paper industry has
contributed positively and people have also been encouraged by .........(4) ......... to collect their waste on a regular
basis. One major difficulty is the removal of ink from used paper but ......... (5) ......... are being made in this area.

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IV. WRITING
Part 1: For questions 1–10, finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the same
meaning as the first sentence
1. The plane had hardly left the airport when a big problem occurred.
→ No sooner ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
2. The boss did not intend to consider the employees’ demand.
→ The boss had........................................................................................................................................................................................................
3. Nobody had invited Jean to the party, which annoyed her.
→As she ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
4. You don’t know about this program because you don’t watch television a lot.
→ If you .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
5. John has done well in French, but not so well in Math.
→ While .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
6. In spite of his early lead, Hudson lost the race.
→ Although ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
7. They said they would rather Diana didn’t listen to music at work.
→ Diana was .............................................................................................................................................................................................................
8. The police believed that the thief was still in the house.
→ The thief ................................................................................................................................................................................................................
9. You can try to get Mark to lend you his car but you won’t succeed.
→ There’s no point ..............................................................................................................................................................................................
10. I rarely sleep in the afternoon.
→ I’m not in………………………………………………………………………………………
Part 2. Write a paragraph of 150 words about the topic:
What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today? Choose one
skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.

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