TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN HÙNG VƯƠNG - GIA LAI

5. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40PTS)

I. PH ONO LOG Y (5pts)
Choo se on e w ord whose under lined par t is pro nou nce d diffe rently fro m tha t o f
the ot hers.
1. A. con fusedl y B. wickedl y c. allegedly D. suppos edly
2. A. unf old B. unfair c . undo D. unless
3. A.e xp un ge B. expurga te c. external D. exten uating
4. A. mo nths B. mouths c. wreaths D. youths
5. A. ex plosion B. decision c. pleasan t D. pleas ure
Choose the word whose s tress pattern is diffe rent fro m tha t o f the others:
6. A. p aratro oper B. paraceta mol c. macada mia D. apprehen sion
7. A. sim ultane ous B. entre preneu r c. advanta geous D. magi sterial
8. A. ar gumen tative B. psycholo gical c. contribu tory D. hypers ensitive
9. A. heuristi cs B. negli gence c. navigate D. privatize
10. A. h abitable B. infamo usly c. genetici st D. commun es
II. VO CABU LAR Y (5pts)
Choose the word which best com pletes eac h sen tence:
1. Very fat men so metimes have a ___ ______ at the back o f the neck.
A. do uble chin B. roll of fat c. spare tyre D. ton o f flesh
2. There was a bs olu te__________ when the spectators in vaded th e pitch.
A. turmo il B. rebellion c. turbule nce D. rioting
3. The strong smell of garlic seemed to ________ _ the whole flat.
A. pie rce B. pervade c. penetrate D. inhabit
4. What he told me was a __________ of lies.
A. pa ck B. load c. mob D. flock
5. The po in ted __________ of the chu rch cou ld be seen from m iles away.
A. do me B. summ it c. peak D. steeple
6. I’ve been meanin g t o __________ repairing t hat fe nce f or ages.
A. get round to B. get out o f r c. get up to D. get on to
7. I revised my v ie w s__________ comments from co lleagues.
A. in the light o f B. furth er to
c. agains t Ì D. conse quent upon
8. Before yo u ru n______ other people, it is as well to co nsider your own faults.
A. ov er B. up c. down D. afte r
9. She ’ll never part__________ her prec ious p ossession s.
A. from B. with c. of f D. afte r
10. O f course I’ll play the pian o a t the party b ut I ’m a l itt le _________
A. out o f use B. out o f reach c. out o f tune D. out of practice
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III. S TRU CTU RES & GR AMM AR (5pts)
Choos e th e a nsw er th at be st co mplete s the sentence.
1. Don't go to the city centre during rush hour. You will b e __________ like
sardin es.
A. c anned B. pack ed c. pressed D. pushed
2. It was Tony w h o __________ in asking for anoth er glass of brand y and got
drun k in the end.
A. e ndur ed B. kept c. persiste d D. maint ained
3. My s ecret ary was suppo sed to __________ those letters a lready.
A. ty ping B. be typed c. have typ ed D. type
4. __________ that gold was discove red at Sutter ’s Mill and that the California
Gold Rush began.
A. Becau se in 1848 B. That in 1848
c. In 1848 tha t it w as D. It was in 1848
5. As the dema nd increases , manufa cturers who previous ly produced only a
large, luxury c a r__________ compell ed to make a smalle r model in order to
com pete in the market.
A. is B. are c. will D. should
6. I cann ot see t h e __________ of sitting on the beach all day.
A. a ttrac t B. attract ion c. attractiv eness D. attractive
7. Schiz ophre nia, a behavioral disorde r typified by a fundamen tal break with
re al ity ,__________ by gene tic pr edispositio n, stress, drugs, or infection.
A. m ay be trigg ered B. may triggered c. trigge r D. may trigger
8. In purc hasin g a winter coat, it is important that o n e __________ it on with
heavy cloth ing underneath .
A. tri es B. to try c. try D. trying
9. Most co mets have two kinds of tails, one made up of dust, _ _ _ _ _ _ made
up o f electr ically charg ed pa rticles called plasma.
A. o ne anot her B. the ot her c. others ' D. each other
10. By 1820, there were over sixty steamboats on the Mississippi River,
_______ were quite luxurious.
A. many of them B. which many c. many o f which D. many that

IV. P REP OSIT ION S A ND PHRASA L VERB S (5pts)

Choos e th e be st an swer to comp lete each o f thefoll ow ing senten ces
1. We heard her in agony as she dropped th e s aucepan on her toe.
A. boil o ver B. cry out c. let off D. ring out
2. Tom wo n’t buy that old ca r because it has too m uch _ _ _____ on it.
A. u ps an d do wns B. odds and ends c. wear and tear D. white lie
3. Luc kily, the ra in ____________so we were able to play the mat ch.
A. w atered do wn B. gave out c . got away D. held of f

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4. Some very impor tant issue was _____ all his attentio n .
A. ta king up B. takin g o ff c . taking out D. taking in
5. The compa ny was so successful during the 1900s that it - ________ 500
new e mplo yees in a period o f six months.
A. p ut on B. laid on c. caught on D. took on
6. He did n’t sleep very well - the rain was dripping through his roo f all
________ the night.
A. in B. over c. through D. along
7. The may or has dec ided to ___________ crime. It’s about time, if you ask me.
A. s tepped up B. crack down on c. blow o ver D. stamp down
8. Ben crep t _______ on Lisa and put his hands o ver her eyes.
A. ou t B. of f c. round D. up
9. D emand for the prod ucts is expected to peak 5 y ears from no w and th en to

A. tap ped of f B. fall d own c. set back c. drift away

10. His com pany went bankru pt, th ree ye ars o f hard w or k________ the drain.
A. into B. in c. down D. on
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V. RE AD IN G CO M PR EH EN SI ON S, (l pt s)
PASSAGE 1: Rea d the fol low ing pas sag e and choose the best option to
comp lete t he blank or answe r the questi on. (5 pts)
Durin g most of their lives, surge glaciers behave like normal glaciers,
trave ling perha ps o nly a couple o f inches per day. However, at int erv als of 10 to
100 y ears, these glacier s move forward up to 100 t imes faster than usual. The
surge often progre sses along a glacier like a great wave, proceed ing from one
section to another. Sub-glacial streams of meltwa ter might act as a lubricant,
allow ing the glaci er to flow rapidly toward the sea. The increasing water
pressu re under the glacier might lift it off its bed, overcoming, the friction
betwee n ice and rock, thus fre ein g the glacier, which rapidly slides downhill.
Surge glacie rs also might be influenced by the cli ma te,, volcanic heat, or
earthq uakes . However , many of these glaciers exist in the same areas as normal
glacie rs, often almost side by side.
Some 800 years ago, Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advanced toward the sea,
retrea ted, and advance d again 500 years later. Since 1895, this seventy -mile-
long river o f ice has been flowing stea dily tow ard the Gul f of Alask a at a rate of
appro xima tely 200 feet per year. In June 1986, however, the glacie r surged
ahead as much as 47 feet a day. Meanwhi le, a wes tern tri bu tar y, called Valerie
Glacie r, advanc ed up to 112 feet per day. Hubbard's surge closed off Russell
Fiord with a f ormida ble ice dam, some 2,500 feet wide and up to 800 f eet high,
whose caged waters thre atened the town o f Yakutat to the south.

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 Abou t 20 sim ilar glacie rs around the Gu lf o f Alask a are headin g toward the
sea. If enough surge g lacier s reach the ocean and raise sea levels, West Antarct ic
ice shel ves could rise of f the seafl oor and becom e adrift. A flood of ice would
then surge into the Souther n Sea. With the contin ued rise in sea level, more ice
would plun ge into the ocean, causin g sea levels to rise even higher , which in
turn woul d relea se more ice and set in motion a viciou s cycle. The additiona l
sea ice floati ng towar d the tropic s would increase Earth's albed o and lower
global tem pera ture s, perha ps enough to initiate a new ice age. This situation
appe ars to have occurr ed at the end of the last warm intergla cial (the time
betwee n glac iatio ns), called the Sangam on, when sea ice cooled the ocean
dram atica lly, spaw ning the beginn ing of the Ice Age.
1. Wh at is the main topic of the pass age? : .
A. The class ifica tion of different types of surge glac iers. '
B. The ca uses and cons equen ces of surge glaci ers. 1
c. The defin ition o f a surge glacier.
D. The h istor y o f a par ticula r surge Glacier.! Vi
2. Th e w ord "inter vals" in line 2 is closes t in meaning to 5 '' '
A. recor ds B. spee ds c. distanc es D. periods
3. The aut hor compa res the surging motion of a surge glacier to the moveme nt of a
A. f ish B. wave c. machin e D. boat
4. Which o f the follo wing does the a nother menti on as po ssible cause of surging
glac iers? ’.
A. T he decl ine in sea levels.
B. Th e o ccur renc e o f unusua lly large ocean wave s,
c. The shift ing Antar ctic ice shelves.
D. Th e p ressu re of meltwat er und erneath the gla cier.
5. The wo rd "freei ng" in line 8 is close st in meani ng to
A. push ing B. relea sing c. streng thenin g D. draini ng
6. A ccor ding to the passage, the Hubbard Glacier
A. move s more often than th e Va lerie Glacier.
B. beg an mov emen t tow ard the sea in 1895 . ?
c . is 8 00 f eet w ide. .< J , .-
D. has m oved as f ast as 47 f eet pe r day. ‘
7. The word "plun ge" in line 24 is closest in meani ng to
- A. d rop B. exten t c . melt ' D. drif t ■/' - <
8. The auth or p rovid es a defin ition for wh ich o f the fo llowi ng te rms? 1
A. T ribut ary B. Ice d am c. Albed o D. In terglacial
9. The term "viciou s cy cle" in line 25 re fers to the
A. mov emen t p attern of surge glaci ers
B. effe ct surge glacie rs co uld have on the te mpera ture of tropical areas
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 c. effec t tha t r epeated
rising sea levels might have on glacial ice
D. con stant threa t surg e gl aciers could pose to the Gu lf of Alaska
10. Which o f the fo llowin g s tateme nts is support ed by the passage ?
A. The move ment of surge gla ciers can be prevented .
B. The next ice age could be cause by surge glaciers,
c. Surge glacier s h elp to suppo rt An tarctic ice shelves.
D. Norm al glacie rs ha ve little effe ct on Earth's climate.
PASSAGE 2: Re ad the fol low ing pas sag e and choos e the best option to
com plete the blank or an swer the qu estion. (5 pts)
Johan nes Guten berg was a pionee r in the use of movable type. When he
began build ing a printin g press in 1436, he wa s unlikely to have realized that he
was givin g birth to an art form that would take cente r stage in the social and
industrial revolu tions that followed
Guten berg was German , his press was woo den, and the most important aspect
of his invention was that it was the first form of printin g to use movable type.
Althou gh Lauren ce Koster of Haarlem also laid clai m to the invention, scholars
have gener ally accept ed Gutenb erg as the father of modem painting. Before
Guten berg, the printin g press w as used on ly to reproduce pi ctures, playing cards,
and design s on cloth. Designs were cut in wood, stone, or metal and transferre d
to parc hmen t or vellum . Sometim es a few words of explanation were cut into the
printi ng block, but th at was the limit o f text printing. Books wer e co pied by hand
by m onks, which was a lab or-intens ive undertaking.
Detail ed records of Gu tenberg's life and wok are negligible; his name does
not appe ar on any o f the w orks credited to him. From what is known, Gutenb erg
was born in Msinz, Germany, in about 1400. He worked as a silversm ith and
also served as a policeman . In 1438, he became a partner in a block printin g
firm. From 1438 to 1455, he expe rimented with metal type.
Perhap s his most signific ant innovation was th e e fficie nt mo lding and casting
of mo vable metal type. Each separate letter was carved into the end of a steel
punch which was then hammere d into a copper blank. The coppe r impressio n
was inserted into a m old and a molten alloy made o f lead and tin was poure d into
it. The metal cooled quickly and the resulting reverse image of the letter was
attache d to a lead base. The width of the lead base varied accordi ng to the letter's
size (for examp le, the base of an 'i' would not nearly as wide as the base of an
'w') . This emph asized the visual impacts of words and cluster s of words rather
than evenly spaced letters. This novelty lent eleg ance and sophis tication to what
seemed to many to be the m agically perfect regularity of a printed page.
Guten berg designe d a L atin-pr int Bible which became his s ignature w ork. He
printed appro ximat ely 300 two- volume Gutenb erg Bibles, which sold for 30
florins each, or abou t three years' of a clerk's wage. The copies of the 42 - line
Bible t hat remain - abou t 40 in all- ar e am ong the world's m ost v aluable bo oks. It

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is kn ow n as the 42 -li ne Bi ble be ca use mo st o f its pa ge s we re pri nte d in two
co lum ns fo rty -tw o line s long . Th e Lib rar y o f Co ng res s in W as hin gto n, D.c has
one o f th e th re e rem ain ing c om ple te and p erf ect s ets.
All in all , Gu ten be rg 's co ntr ibu tio ns to ear ly pr int ing te ch no lo gy sho uld be
cla sse d wi th the gr ea te st ev en ts in t he his tor y o f the wo rld . It c au sed a rev olu tio n
in the de ve lo pm en t o f cul tur e, eq ua led by har dly any ot he r inc ide nt in the
Ch ris tia n Era . Th us , no t onl y has Gu ten be rg' s art bee n ins ep ara ble from the
pr og re ss o f sc ien ce , it has als o bee n an ind isp ens ab le fa cto r in the ed uc ati on o f
pe op le at lar ge. Cu ltu re and kno wl edg e, unti l the n co ns ide red ari sto cra tic
pr iv ile ge s pe cu lia r to cer tai n cla sse s, we re po pu lar ize d by typ og rap hy , alth ou gh
in th e pr oc es s it un for tun ate ly bro ug ht ab ou t an inte rna l rev olu tio n in the
int ell ec tua l wo rld in th e dir ect ion o f wh at is p rof ane a nd free f rom res tra int .
1. W ha t is t he m ain t op ic o f the p ass age ?
A. Th e his tor y o f pr int ing a rou nd the w orld .
B. Th e co nt rib ut io ns G ute nb erg m ade to t yp og rap hy
c. Th e fam ou s 42 -li ne Bib le
D. D iff er en t k ind s o f pr int ty pe and t he ir app lic ati on s
2. Th e wo rd 'as pe ct' is clo ses t in m ea nin g t o. ... ... ......
A. fe at ur e B. t ype c. rela tion D. pu rpo se
3. A cc ord ing to para grap h 2 , ho w w ere book s re prod uced b efore the pr intin g p ress?
A. M on ks cop ied t hem by han ds
B. D esig ns w ere cut in wood, sto ne or m etal a nd tra nsferr ed to parc hme nt or vellum
c. Bo ok s we re n ot abl e t o rep rod uce d at tha t ti me.
D. So m eti m es a fe w wo rds o f ex pla nat ion w ere c ut into th e pri nti ng b lock .
4. Th e wo rd 'ne gli gib le' is clo ses t in m ean ing t o....... .
A. ins ig ni fic an t B. eno rm ou s c. we ll- kn ow n D. lim ited
5. A cc ord ing to the pass age, w hat lent e lega nce and soph istica tion to a printe d p age?
A. Th e let ter s we re all the s am e size
B. A lead bas e w as used for the lette rs
c. Th e let ter s "i* a nd 'w' we re sty lize d ,
D. Th e let ter s we re ali gn ed wit h per fec t reg ula rity ( -
6. Th e wo rd 'in no va tio n' is c los est in m ean ing to .................
A. me tal B. bla nk c . lett er D. no vel ty
7. Wh y is G ut en be rg 's Bib le call ed the 4 2-l ine B ible ?
A. Th e co m pl ete bib le wa s w ritt en 42 lines
B. M os t p ag es c on tai ne d exa ctl y 42 lines
c. On ly 42 line s o f the bib le hav e bee n fou nd
D. Th e bib le co ns ist ed o f 42 line s p er vol um e.
8. T he a ut ho r im pli es tha t G ute nb ếr g................ .........
A. inv en ted t he pr int ing p res s B. was th e to pri nt tex t
c. on ly pri nte d a b ibl e D. wa s no t suc ces sfu l at th at job

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9. In the last pa ragra ph the a utho r sug gests th a t.............
A. G uten berg co ntrib uted little to the deve lopm ent of printin g
B. Gu tenb erg's ar t has no co nnect ion to th e.pro gress o f mod ern scienc e,
c. cultu re and know ledge in the Christ ian Era wa s p ecu liar t o all cl asses.
D. The invent ion of movable typ e w as a signi fican t ev ent in worl d history.
10. Which of the fo llowi ng should not be included in a s umm ary of the pas sage?
A. T he 42-li ne Bible is consi dered Gute nberg 's finest work.
B. G uten berg ch anged the way te xt is produ ced
c. Gute nber g w as one o f the m ost fa mous G erman s in hist ory.
D. M ovabl e metal type was invented by Gu tenberg .
V. GUIDED CLOZE TEST (lOpts) . ,
PASSA GE 1: Re ad the foll ow ing pass age a nd deci de which option A,B , c or D
best fit s each space. (5 pts)
There has been a (0)__________ chang e in the way the canal s of Britain are
used. The (I )__________ netwo rk of canals that cover s much of the countr y
(2)__________ back to the industrial revolut ion, when goods were transp orted
along these routes. The canals thems elves, the (3)__________ water ways of the
coun try, were dug by teams of men. This was no (4)__________ feat in the day
before mech anise d diggers . It was also necessa ry to cons truc t a system of locks,
whic h raise and lower bo ats so they can (5)__________ with the varyin g heigh t
of the canal s them selve s. Barges - s imple boats witho ut engin es - were used to
carry the freigh t, and horses would (6)__________ along the side of the canal
pulling th ese vessels. Many of the people working on the boats would themsel ves
live on th e wa ter, in a long boat with compared living quarter s: a narrowboa t.
As the railwa ys and roads (7)__________ in popu larity as ways of
tran spor ting freigh t, the canals fell into (8) ________; many of them becam e
(9)______ _ with weeds and rubbish. But over the last few deca des Britain
appe ars to have redisc overe d these monum ents of engin eerin g. A grow ing
num ber of people each year s ample delight s of canal holida ys. Nar row boat s can
be (10)__________ up to be very comfo rtable, and these days they are powe red
t en gine and not pu lled by a ho rse. ; SĨỈ // /
prime B. fun damenta l c. down right D. de ep-ro oted
exte nsiv e B. far- flung c. ample D. wi despr ead
come s B. looks c. throws D. da tes
inbuil t B. inl and c. internal D. i nterio r
mode st B. mean c. minor D. tiny
balanc e B. co mpens ate c. cope D. ha ndle
trudge B. can ter c . stroll D. m eand er
increase d B. obtai ned c . gained D. ass umed
disuse B. obs olesce nce c. redun dancy D. n eglig ence

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9. A. impede d B. choke d c. hindere d ' t D. con gested
10. A. done B. worked c. custo mized D. con verted
PASSAGE 2: Re ad the follo win g pass age an d de cide which option A,B, c or D
best fits each spa ce.( 5 pts)
Sad as it is, a social misper ceptio n of the disabl ed is s ti ll _________ (1) in
many com mun ities . It is only in a few h ighly civilize d states where the proble ms
and needs of p eople with physical or mental incap acities are given the prope r
______ _ (2). In the remai ning countrie s, the discri mina tion again st the
disabl ed is still practi ced in m an y________ (3) o f social life. As in the p ast, the y
are ignore d, deno unce d and forced to stay away from the normal comm unity
which, unfo rtuna tely, isn’t capabl e of making a n y _________ (4) for its less fit
member s.
For decad es, the _________ (5) and hearty part of every society has
_________ (6) the disable d of their fundamen tal rights as thei r job applica tions
have b ee n _________ (7) d own, their active partic ipation in busines s life has on
m o st _________ (8) been disallo wed and there has been little concer n of th eir
conve nienc e in L_____ . (9) to public transpo rt. Equally little effort has been
made to help the disable d fu ll y_________ (10) with the able-b odied thus laying
found ation s for grea ter comm unity awaren ess of the drawb acks that the
hand icapp ed have to w restle with daily.

1. A. infinite B. univers al c. ab un da nt D. pre valent

2. A. relev ance B. Ị.consid eration c. approac h D. estee m
3. A. range s B. fract ions c . realms D. areas
4. A. acco unts B. provis ion c . measures D. conc erns
5. A. hale B. vivid c .f it D. righ t
6. A. shelled B.s nea ked c . seized D. stripp ed
7. A. p ulled B.t urn ed c . passed D. bro ught
8. A. o ccas ions B. times c. instances . D. even ts
9. A. e ntry B. adm ittance c. access
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D. expl oitati on
10. A. c ollab orat e B. .incorporate .. ,c. ally. T ; D. in tegrate

B. WRITTEN T EST! v ? ;r
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I. OPEN CLOZE TEST: ;
CLOSE TEST 1: Fil l each blank with O NE word. (1Ọpts)
The first Londo n to Brighto n run took place on Nov emb er 14th , 1896. It w as
organi zed to celeb rate the ( 1 ) ______ of a law which made it easie r for cars in
Britain to be drive n on the roads. ( 2 ) _________ then, the law requir ed a drive r
and an engi nee r in the car and a man walkin g in front of the vehicl e with a red
flag w arnin g o f its a pproach.

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 Since then, this annual run has become one of the m ost (3 )________ events on
the British motoring calendar, (4)_________cro wds of over one million lining the
route. Only th e very oldest cars, constructed during the ten years between 1895 and
1905, are allowed to take part in it. Lovingly polished by their drivers, who are
dressed in the clothing of the (5 )______ , the cars leave Hyde Park in London at
7.30 am and (6 )_______ , hopefully, in Brighton some three hours later.
The 60-mi le run is n ot a race- ther e’s an official coffee stop on the way and
the cars are restric ted to an averag e speed of only 30kph. The only (7 )_______
for finis hing is a medal, which is awarde d to every one who (8) ________
Brigh ton before 4 pm. The run t raditi onally (9 )______ partic ipants from all four
corne rs of the world, (1 0 )_______ Europe, Asia, Africa and Austral ia. Since the
youn gest ca r is near ly a hundred years old, some of them break down of course.
But for the owners of the 400-pl us vehicles , it’s simply being there that brings
the great est pleasur e.
CLOSE TEST 2: Fil l each blank with ONE word. (1 0p ts)
Pare nts- as you are probab ly well aware - are easily shockab le. No matte r
( 1 ) __________ hard they try to be trendy and to keep up to date with modern
fads, they ( 2 ) ____________ never q uite help being a generat ion removed . Life
simpl y moves too quickly for them. They will in ( 3 ) ____________ likelihood
attem pt to mainta in some sort of dialogue with you by go ing out and buying the
latest CDs, only ( 4 ) ____________ find a f ew months later the charts are filled
by acts (5) _____________ names they have never heard of. Then they get
frustr ated and it all comes pourin g out during an edition of some chart show on
TV when they moan that there has never been anythi ng (6) ___________
listen ing to since t heir day- when ever th at ha ppened to be.
Othe r p arents don ’t even try to understa nd their kids. They occup y the moral
high (7 )___________ and dismiss anything th at has happen ed since their youth
(8 )____________ decade nt. Natur ally, as lovers o f folk music or s lushy ballads,
the ir p rincip al comp laint agains t r ock music is that they can ’t make (9 )_______
the words . Hardly a day seems to go by withou t you incurring their displ easur e
one way or another , whet her it’s your hair, your clothes or the fact that you
stayed o ut till thr ee. So why b other t rying to pl ease them? You mi ght jus t as well
wind the m (1 0) ___________ even more.

II. W ORD FO RMS (20 pts)

PART 1: Com plete the sente nce with th e cor rect fo rm o f the given word. (10 pts )
Inside the Interna tional Space Station, it is so noisy that the
astro nauts cann ot hear one another. As a r esult, United States and
Russia n engin eers have launche d a (1)__________ repa ir PRIO R
progr amm e w hich they hope w ill lead to t he (2 ) ______ of the RED UCE
stat ion’s 72-de cibel roar: the equiv alent of standin g beside a busy
motorw ay. ‘It is no t a (3)__________ situ atio n,’ said Mike Engle, HEAL TH
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 a (4)__________ for the engin eering team. ‘Apart from astron auts SPEAK
losing sleep, there is a dange r one of them will (5)__________ a HEAR
col leag ue’s instructio n and pre ss an incorrect butto n!’ (6)______ , IRONY
most of the noise comes from the equipme nt needed to keep them
(7)__________ . ‘The coolers are the wors t,’ Mr Engle explai ned. LIFE
‘But with out them, the station would become (8) ■' hot! BEAR
When we put toge ther the station we faced a choice. We could
eith er spend extra years (9)__________ that the station would be SURE
total ly quiet, or we could get on and build the thing. Now it’s
assem bled, we are do ing o ur best to (10)__________ it down. QUIET
PART 2: Com plete the pass age with appropr iate fo rm s fro m the words given in
the b ox. (10 pts )
stabl e steady sequence bright evide nt
theor ise fre eze prod uce likely flu ctu ate

Fortu natel y for life on Earth, the Sun’s (1)__________ of heat is rem arkably
consi stent. But scientists are aware that even a small change would have great
(2)__________ for the future, triggeri ng either a new ice age, or a runaway
global warm ing. There is (3)__________ that this has happened before. In 17th
centu ry England , for example, the River Thames in London was regularly
(4)__________ over. Scientists now think that (5)__________ in the Sun’s
temp eratu re caused a “Little Ice Age” at that time. Indeed, the latest
(6)__________ is that the processes going on in the centre of the Sun are
inhere ntly (7)__________ . I f the experts are right, there could be m any changes
in the Sun ’s (8)__________ this century and the (9)__________ is that the
temp eratu re here on Earth will ge t (10)__________ hotter and hotter.
III. E RRO R ID ENTIF ICATI ON (10 pts)
Ide ntif y 1 0 err ors in the foll owi ng pass age and cor rect them.
1. First come the PC, then the inte rnet and e -mail; now the e-b ook is
2. upon us, a h and-held device similarly in size and appear ance to a vid eo
3. casset te. T he us er simpl y rings off the web site on their PC, selects
4. the desired books, downloa ds them onto thei r e-boo k m achine and
5. sits d own to read them. For turning a page, t he us er simpl y tap s the
6. screen. E-book technolo gy is evolving rapidly, and with some o f
7. the newe st hand holds y ou will even ge t int ernet acces s.
8. But why would one wa nt an e -book machine with referen ce to a book ?
9. Well, one selling p oint co mpanies empha sized, when these devices
10. hit the m arket a few ye ars ago, which is the spa ce they save wh en g oing
11. on ho liday. E-books enlig hten the load, literally. Ten large n ovels can
12. be put onto a devi ce tha t weigh s less than the average paperb ack. One

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 13. can u nderstand why com mercial interests seem to want US to c hange.
14. After all, the whol e pro duction process at first plan by auth or '•
15. until deli very to the printer had been doing el ectronic ally for a while
16. now, so why not save a few million tree s and cut out the hard copy?

IV. SEN TENCE TRA NSFOR MATIO N (20pts)

Rewrit e the foll ow ing senten ces u sing the words given: I

1. He had made no effort to conceal his dislike for me e ver si nce I was promote d
over him. GR UDGE 11 'Ỉ ...
-> He has h ad....... ...................................................... ................ ......./ . . . . . . . .....
2. He se ems to be more active because he has won a schola rship to study
overseas. LEASE
—» That he has w on.................................. .............. ................................ .....
3. Police arrested Johnson because they think he was involved in the robbery.
SUSPICION • - ../.•..■/■
—> Johns on was d eta in ed ............... .......................................... in the robbery.
4. His irresponsibl e attit ude is endangering his career as a doctor. JEOPARDY
-> His c ar ee r..................... . . . . . . ; ^ ; . h . ...................... ...............
5. It is usual f or young children to ask a lot of questions. • APT
-> You ng........... ;.............................. ................. ..................... ..........q uestions.
6. Don’t let her give in however hard they try to persu ade her. GUNS
—> Make sure she ..................................... ............................. . however hard
they try to persuade her.
7/1 couldn't stop thinking about the exam despite playing backgammon with Paul.
MIND
—> Playing backgammo n with Pa ul ..................................................the exam.
8. Being inexperienced was a disa dvantage to her when she applied for
promoti on. COUNTED
—> H er .............................. .......................... ................ ......... when she applied
for promo tion.
9 . 1 don't mind st aying in on a Saturday night i f 1 have good company. AVERSE
-» I'm...... ........................ ................................ .............. night if I have
good company. , , J ,
10. I find gram mar exe rcises extremely boring. STIFF
—>G rammar exer cises .......................................................................................

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