SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề gồm có 04 trang) ƠN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018 MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 774 Thời gian: 60 phút - khơng tính thời gian giao đề Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 01 to 07 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 1: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they though they couldn't prove coincidence B theyhaven't had the time C they haven't been able to understand it D they believed it was unorthodox Question 2: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to find others B to be aware of being hunted C to see the hunter's eyes D to hunt Question 3: Groups of animals A have one which acts as the leader B pass on a sense of danger to each other C follow each other to avoid danger D communicate with the hunter Question 4: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them B sometimes people phone each other at the same time C two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other D people tell each other their intention to phone Question 5: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A someone staring at another person's back B people saying when someone was staring at them C one person with his eyes closed D people staring at each other Question 6: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A lost his job because of this research B had to travel widely in his research C was the first to work on this subject D only investigates this subject Question 7: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A overcome B kill off C win easily D conquer Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 08 to 13 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (8) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (9) In other words, given that the world is (10) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (11) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (12) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (13) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 8:A piling B rising C mounting D building Question 9:A structure B layer C strata D order Question 10:A made B composed C comprised D done Question 11:A secure B confirm C fulfil D effect Question 12:A strategy B device C policy D scheme Question 13:A ability B expertise C competence D capacity Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions Question 14: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A blending B must be C mixed D complexity Question 15: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A rapidly B Ripe C there D stored Question 16: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A How B an C the D in the shadow Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 17 to 23 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 17: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the way she was informed of them B the amount which was levied C the reaction of her neighbours to them D the triviality of some of the offences Question 18: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the public money that is wasted on recycling projects B the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling C the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling D the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims Question 19: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A infuriating B furious C smart D angry Question 20: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the need to develop strategies to get round the system B the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections C the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life D the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation Question 21: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish B decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions C became worried about what else her garbage revealed D realised she had no choice but to comply in future Question 22: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system B it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities C its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously D its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations Question 23: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A politely tentative B righteously indignant C light-hearted and ironic D restrained and reasonable Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 24: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones B Don’t ask Just give them a ring home C Because the weather is too cold for them D I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded Question 25: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up B Yes I've been out of work for three months C Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that D Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 26: She was over the moon with her new bike A furtive B discontented C forlorn D cheerful Question 27: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A stashed B made known C publicize D renounce Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 28:A blown B flown C frown D grown Question 29:A eight B height C vein D weight Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 30:A reduce B dominant C mutual D competent Question 31:A catholic B lunatic C symbolic D atomic Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 32: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A praises himself B shows up C boasts D is confident Question 33: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A become angry B be frightened C get scared D feel sympathetic Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 34: Harry .along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A filed B strode C tiptoed D trudged Question 35: In many parts of the world, crop failure means which leads to the death of many people each year A drought B famine C shortcoming D desert Question 36: The peace of the public library was .by the sound of a transistor radio A demolished B shattered C fractured D smashed Question 37: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected to block off certain streets A dykes B ditches C barricades D barrages Question 38: Four people drowned when the yacht .in a sudden storm A overflowed B inverted C upset D capsized Question 39: I know David Fletcher .sight, but I've never been introduced him A at B on C in D by Question 40: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been .at him A blamed B targeted C levelled D accused Question 41: I hope there are enough glasses to .round A lay B go C set D drink Question 42: No sooner had we left the house .it started raining A that B when C and D than Question 43: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are A carried forward B carried out C carried on D carried through Question 44: The theatre lights were slowly .as the curtain rose on the first act A deadened B dulled C dimmed D dampened Question 45: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden A plagues B pests C swarms D outbreaks Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions Question 46: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents B Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents C French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles D Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents Question 47: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong B We can never be sure if all the things we are right C Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them D We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time Question 48: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children B Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games C The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less D No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 49: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there B Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there C All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude D However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality Question 50: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years B Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance C Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years The End SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề gồm có 04 trang) ƠN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018 MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 536 Thời gian: 60 phút - khơng tính thời gian giao đề Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 1: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded B They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones C Don’t ask Just give them a ring home D Because the weather is too cold for them Question 2: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that B Yes I've been out of work for three months C Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up D Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 03 to 09 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 3: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system B its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously C its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations D it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities Question 4: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the reaction of her neighbours to them B the triviality of some of the offences C the way she was informed of them D the amount which was levied Question 5: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling B the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling C the public money that is wasted on recycling projects D the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims Question 6: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A righteously indignant B politely tentative C restrained and reasonable D light-hearted and ironic Question 7: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A infuriating B furious C smart D angry Question 8: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life B the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections C the need to develop strategies to get round the system D the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation Question 9: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish B became worried about what else her garbage revealed C realised she had no choice but to comply in future D decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 10: Four people drowned when the yacht .in a sudden storm A upset B overflowed C inverted D capsized Question 11: The peace of the public library was .by the sound of a transistor radio A smashed B demolished C shattered D fractured Question 12: I hope there are enough glasses to .round A drink B lay C go D set Question 13: In many parts of the world, crop failure means which leads to the death of many people each year A desert B famine C shortcoming D drought Question 14: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected to block off certain streets A barricades B dykes C barrages D ditches Question 15: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been .at him A levelled B accused C targeted D blamed Question 16: Harry .along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A strode B trudged C filed D tiptoed Question 17: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are A carried through B carried forward C carried out D carried on Question 18: No sooner had we left the house .it started raining A and B than C that D when Question 19: I know David Fletcher .sight, but I've never been introduced him A in B at C by D on Question 20: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden A outbreaks B plagues C swarms D pests Question 21: The theatre lights were slowly .as the curtain rose on the first act A dulled B dimmed C dampened D deadened Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 22:A catholic B lunatic C atomic D symbolic Question 23:A competent B reduce C mutual D dominant Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 24: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A stashed B renounce C made known D publicize Question 25: She was over the moon with her new bike A furtive B forlorn C discontented D cheerful Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 26: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A become angry B be frightened C get scared D feel sympathetic Question 27: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A boasts B praises himself C is confident D shows up Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 28 to 33 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (28) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (29) In other words, given that the world is (30) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (31) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (32) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (33) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 28:A rising B mounting C piling D building Question 29:A structure B strata C order D layer Question 30:A done B made C comprised D composed Question 31:A confirm B fulfil C secure D effect Question 32:A strategy B policy C scheme D device Question 33:A expertise B ability C competence D capacity Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions Question 34: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents B French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles C Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents D Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents Question 35: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A We can never be sure if all the things we are right B Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them C We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time D Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong Question 36: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games B No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children C The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less D Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 37 to 43 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 37: Groups of animals A pass on a sense of danger to each other B communicate with the hunter C follow each other to avoid danger D have one which acts as the leader Question 38: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to find others B to see the hunter's eyes C to be aware of being hunted D to hunt Question 39: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A only investigates this subject B had to travel widely in his research C lost his job because of this research D was the first to work on this subject Question 40: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A win easily B overcome C kill off D conquer Question 41: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they haven't been able to understand it B theyhaven't had the time C they though they couldn't prove coincidence D they believed it was unorthodox Question 42: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A people saying when someone was staring at them B one person with his eyes closed C someone staring at another person's back D people staring at each other Question 43: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A sometimes people phone each other at the same time B some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them C two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other D people tell each other their intention to phone Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions Question 44: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A Ripe B stored C there D rapidly Question 45: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A in the shadow B an C How D the Question 46: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A blending B must be C mixed D complexity Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 47:A weight B vein C height D eight Question 48:A grown B frown C blown D flown Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 49: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years B Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance C Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Question 50: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there B All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude C Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there D However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality The End Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 21:A grown B blown C frown D flown Question 22:A weight B eight C vein D height Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 23: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week B Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up C Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that D Yes I've been out of work for three months Question 24: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones B I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded C Don’t ask Just give them a ring home D Because the weather is too cold for them Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 30 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (25) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (26) In other words, given that the world is (27) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (28) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (29) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (30) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 25:A mounting B building C piling D rising Question 26:A layer B order C strata D structure Question 27:A composed B done C comprised D made Question 28:A secure B confirm C fulfil D effect Question 29:A policy B device C strategy D scheme Question 30:A ability B capacity C expertise D competence Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 37 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 31: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations B its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously C it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system D it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities Question 32: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A light-hearted and ironic B righteously indignant C politely tentative D restrained and reasonable Question 33: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the need to develop strategies to get round the system B the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections C the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life D the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation Question 34: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling B the public money that is wasted on recycling projects C the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling D the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims Question 35: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the amount which was levied B the reaction of her neighbours to them C the triviality of some of the offences D the way she was informed of them Question 36: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A smart B infuriating C furious D angry Question 37: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A realised she had no choice but to comply in future B resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish C became worried about what else her garbage revealed D decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 38:A atomic B catholic C symbolic D lunatic Question 39:A competent B dominant C reduce D mutual Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 40 to 46 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 40: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A sometimes people phone each other at the same time B some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them C two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other D people tell each other their intention to phone Question 41: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A lost his job because of this research B was the first to work on this subject C only investigates this subject D had to travel widely in his research Question 42: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they haven't been able to understand it B theyhaven't had the time C they believed it was unorthodox D they though they couldn't prove coincidence Question 43: Groups of animals A have one which acts as the leader B communicate with the hunter C follow each other to avoid danger D pass on a sense of danger to each other Question 44: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A conquer B kill off C win easily D overcome Question 45: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A someone staring at another person's back B people saying when someone was staring at them C people staring at each other D one person with his eyes closed Question 46: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to see the hunter's eyes B to find others C to be aware of being hunted D to hunt Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 47: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A praises himself B boasts C shows up D is confident Question 48: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A be frightened B feel sympathetic C become angry D get scared Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 49: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance B Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years C Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Question 50: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there B However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality C Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there D All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề gồm có 04 trang) ƠN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018 MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 545 Thời gian: 60 phút - khơng tính thời gian giao đề Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 01 to 06 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (1) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (2) In other words, given that the world is (3) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (4) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (5) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (6) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 1:A rising B mounting C building D piling Question 2:A structure B strata C order D layer Question 3:A done B composed C made D comprised Question 4:A confirm B fulfil C secure D effect Question 5:A policy B device C scheme D strategy Question 6:A capacity B ability C competence D expertise Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 7: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded B Don’t ask Just give them a ring home C Because the weather is too cold for them D They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones Question 8: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that B Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week C Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up D Yes I've been out of work for three months Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 09 to 15 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 9: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they though they couldn't prove coincidence B theyhaven't had the time C they believed it was unorthodox D they haven't been able to understand it Question 10: Groups of animals A follow each other to avoid danger B have one which acts as the leader C communicate with the hunter D pass on a sense of danger to each other Question 11: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A one person with his eyes closed B people staring at each other C people saying when someone was staring at them D someone staring at another person's back Question 12: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A kill off B conquer C win easily D overcome Question 13: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other B sometimes people phone each other at the same time C some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them D people tell each other their intention to phone Question 14: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A only investigates this subject B had to travel widely in his research C lost his job because of this research D was the first to work on this subject Question 15: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to see the hunter's eyes B to find others C to hunt D to be aware of being hunted Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions Question 16: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A Ripe B stored C rapidly D there Question 17: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A in the shadow B an C the D How Question 18: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A mixed B must be C complexity D blending Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 19: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years B Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years C Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance Question 20: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude B Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there C However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality D Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 21:A grown B flown C blown D frown Question 22:A vein B eight C weight D height Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 23:A competent B dominant C reduce D mutual Question 24:A atomic B catholic C symbolic D lunatic Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 25 to 31 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 25: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections B the need to develop strategies to get round the system C the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life D the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation Question 26: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the reaction of her neighbours to them B the way she was informed of them C the amount which was levied D the triviality of some of the offences Question 27: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations B it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities C its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously D it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system Question 28: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A realised she had no choice but to comply in future B became worried about what else her garbage revealed C decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions D resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish Question 29: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling B the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling C the public money that is wasted on recycling projects D the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims Question 30: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A smart B infuriating C angry D furious Question 31: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A light-hearted and ironic B righteously indignant C restrained and reasonable D politely tentative Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions Question 32: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents B French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles C Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents D French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents Question 33: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them B We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time C We can never be sure if all the things we are right D Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong Question 34: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games B No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children C The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less D Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 35: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A boasts B is confident C shows up D praises himself Question 36: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A feel sympathetic B get scared C be frightened D become angry Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 37: Harry .along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A strode B filed C tiptoed D trudged Question 38: Four people drowned when the yacht .in a sudden storm A capsized B overflowed C upset D inverted Question 39: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been .at him A targeted B accused C levelled D blamed Question 40: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected to block off certain streets A barrages B barricades C dykes D ditches Question 41: The peace of the public library was .by the sound of a transistor radio A fractured B demolished C shattered D smashed Question 42: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden A outbreaks B plagues C pests D swarms Question 43: In many parts of the world, crop failure means which leads to the death of many people each year A desert B drought C shortcoming D famine Question 44: I hope there are enough glasses to .round A go B drink C lay D set Question 45: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are A carried through B carried on C carried forward D carried out Question 46: I know David Fletcher .sight, but I've never been introduced him A on B at C in D by Question 47: The theatre lights were slowly .as the curtain rose on the first act A deadened B dimmed C dulled D dampened Question 48: No sooner had we left the house .it started raining A that B and C than D when XII Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 49: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A renounce B stashed C publicize D made known Question 50: She was over the moon with her new bike A cheerful B discontented C furtive D forlorn SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề gồm có 04 trang) ƠN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018 MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 377 Thời gian: 60 phút - khơng tính thời gian giao đề Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 1:A competent B mutual C dominant D reduce Question 2:A symbolic B atomic C catholic D lunatic Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 3: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance B Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years C Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Question 4: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there B However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality C Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there D All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 05 to 10 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (5) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (6) In other words, given that the world is (7) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (8) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (9) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (10) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 5:A building B piling C mounting D rising Question 6:A strata B structure C layer D order Question 7:A composed B made C done D comprised Question 8:A confirm B secure C effect D fulfil Question 9:A strategy B scheme C device D policy Question 10:A competence B ability C capacity D expertise Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions Question 11: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A Ripe B rapidly C stored D there Question 12: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A an B the C in the shadow D How Question 13: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A must be B mixed C complexity D blending Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 14: She was over the moon with her new bike A furtive B cheerful C discontented D forlorn Question 15: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A publicize B stashed C renounce D made known Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 16: I hope there are enough glasses to .round A set B lay C go D drink Question 17: I know David Fletcher .sight, but I've never been introduced him A on B in C at D by Question 18: Four people drowned when the yacht .in a sudden storm A inverted B upset C overflowed D capsized Question 19: The peace of the public library was .by the sound of a transistor radio A fractured B demolished C shattered D smashed Question 20: The theatre lights were slowly .as the curtain rose on the first act A dulled B dampened C dimmed D deadened Question 21: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected to block off certain streets A dykes B barrages C ditches D barricades Question 22: Harry .along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A filed B tiptoed C strode D trudged Question 23: No sooner had we left the house .it started raining A and B when C that D than Question 24: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been .at him A accused B levelled C targeted D blamed Question 25: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are A carried through B carried forward C carried on D carried out Question 26: In many parts of the world, crop failure means which leads to the death of many people each year A drought B famine C shortcoming D desert Question 27: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden A outbreaks B swarms C plagues D pests Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions Question 28: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children B Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games C The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less D No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children Question 29: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time B We can never be sure if all the things we are right C Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them D Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong Question 30: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents B Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents C French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles D Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 31: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A feel sympathetic B become angry C be frightened D get scared Question 32: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A is confident B boasts C praises himself D shows up Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 33 to 39 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 33: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A theyhaven't had the time B they though they couldn't prove coincidence C they haven't been able to understand it D they believed it was unorthodox Question 34: Groups of animals A follow each other to avoid danger B pass on a sense of danger to each other C have one which acts as the leader D communicate with the hunter Question 35: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A conquer B win easily C kill off D overcome Question 36: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A people saying when someone was staring at them B someone staring at another person's back C one person with his eyes closed D people staring at each other Question 37: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A had to travel widely in his research B lost his job because of this research C only investigates this subject D was the first to work on this subject Question 38: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other B people tell each other their intention to phone C sometimes people phone each other at the same time D some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them Question 39: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to see the hunter's eyes B to hunt C to be aware of being hunted D to find others Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 40 to 46 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 40: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions B resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish C became worried about what else her garbage revealed D realised she had no choice but to comply in future Question 41: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation B the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections C the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life D the need to develop strategies to get round the system Question 42: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the way she was informed of them B the reaction of her neighbours to them C the triviality of some of the offences D the amount which was levied Question 43: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling B the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims C the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling D the public money that is wasted on recycling projects Question 44: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A infuriating B angry C furious D smart Question 45: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A politely tentative B righteously indignant C light-hearted and ironic D restrained and reasonable Question 46: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously B it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities C its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations D it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 47: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A Because the weather is too cold for them B They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones C I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded D Don’t ask Just give them a ring home Question 48: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that B Yes I've been out of work for three months C Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week D Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 49:A vein B eight C height D weight Question 50:A grown B frown C flown D blown SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC (Đề gồm có 04 trang) ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018 MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 165 Thời gian: 60 phút - khơng tính thời gian giao đề Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions Question 1:A mutual B dominant C reduce D competent Question 2:A lunatic B symbolic C catholic D atomic Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions Question 3: All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months When he went there, the server was quite rude A Because all his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months, the server was quite rude when he went there B All his friends have been praising the high quality of service in the new coffee shop for months; nevertheless, when he went there, the server was quite rude C Despite the high quality praised for months, the server in the new coffee shop was quite rude when we went there D However rude the server was, we went to the new coffee shop because all his friends have been praising its high quality Question 4: Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years Its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance A Due to its facilites being lacked proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years B Despite the fact that its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance, enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years C Enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years because its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance D Since enrolment in the university has been dropping in recent years, its facilites have been lacking proper maintenance Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions Question 5: The politician gave a press conference to deny the charges that had been .at him A levelled B accused C blamed D targeted Question 6: In many parts of the world, crop failure means which leads to the death of many people each year A famine B drought C shortcoming D desert Question 7: The theatre lights were slowly .as the curtain rose on the first act A deadened B dulled C dimmed D dampened Question 8: Anticipating renewed rioting, the authorities erected to block off certain streets A dykes B barrages C ditches D barricades Question 9: I hope there are enough glasses to .round A set B lay C drink D go Question 10: The peace of the public library was .by the sound of a transistor radio A fractured B smashed C demolished D shattered Question 11: This spray is suitable for dealing with all garden A swarms B plagues C outbreaks D pests Question 12: Four people drowned when the yacht .in a sudden storm A inverted B upset C overflowed D capsized Question 13: No sooner had we left the house .it started raining A than B and C that D when Question 14: I know David Fletcher .sight, but I've never been introduced him A on B by C in D at Question 15: Harry .along the landing, trying not to make any-noise A strode B tiptoed C filed D trudged Question 16: Before any new drug is marketed, it is essential that extensive tests are A carried out B carried on C carried through D carried forward Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 17: Clive flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker A shows up B praises himself C is confident D boasts Question 18: Hearing about people who mistreat animals makes me go hot under the collar A feel sympathetic B get scared C be frightened D become angry Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions Question 19: Several companies have disclosed profits of over £200 million A made known B renounce C stashed D publicize Question 20: She was over the moon with her new bike A cheerful B furtive C forlorn D discontented Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions Question 21:A flown B grown C frown D blown Question 22:A eight B height C weight D vein Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 28 SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT STATUS? In recent decades, there has been (23) evidence that an individual's well-being is significantly affected by that person's place in the social pecking (24) In other words, given that the world is (25) up of winners and losers, counting ourselves amongst the latter can open up an uncomfortable gap between the way things are and the way we'd like them to be Frequently, we think the solution lies in achieving more: if we managed to (26) a better salary, house, body or whatever, we'd be able to drop the competing game and feel contented But this (27) risks landing us on a treadmill from which it is impossible to step off There will always be people who, to our mind, have achieved more than us and we'd constantly be running to try and catch up with them Instead of slavishly following our instincts, however, we would better to use our (28) for reflection to help us decide for ourselves what gives meaning to our life and is therefore worth doing Question 23:A building B mounting C piling D rising Question 24:A structure B order C strata D layer Question 25:A comprised B composed C made D done Question 26:A confirm B effect C fulfil D secure Question 27:A strategy B policy C scheme D device Question 28:A competence B ability C expertise D capacity Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions Question 29: Adults laugh less than children, probably because they play less A Since adults have less time playing games, they don't laugh as much as children B The reason why adults laugh less than children might be that they play less C Unlike adults children laugh more while playing games D No matter how much adults play, they can't laugh more than children Question 30: French is the only language other than English spoken on five continents A Unlike French, English is spoken on five continents B Before English, French was the only language spoken on five continents C French and English are the only languages that are spoken on five continents D French and English are spoken widely in official and commercial circles Question 31: From time to time there are things we even though we think they are wrong A We often things because we think they are the right things to at the time B We can never be sure if all the things we are right C Although we feel that the things we sometimes are not right, we nevertheless them D Sometimes we might things that are considered wrong Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 32 to 38 THE WHOLE ROTTEN BUSINESS OF RUBBISH Visitors to New York are often shocked when they first encounter its powerful summertime stink of rotting garbage Breathing in the miasmic odours and observing the mountainous piles of refuse that line the streets each night, newcomers are apt to reach the conclusion that New York is rather relaxed and devil-may-care about matters of refuse and refuse collection But nothing could be further from the truth The city may look and smell like a compost heap a lot of the time, but it is home to some of the most draconian garbage rules and regulations known to modern man Every neighbourhood in New York has three designated garbage pick-up days a week and residents are allowed to put their refuse out no earlier than 5p.m on the eve of each pick-up day If you live in a smaller apartment building with no garbage storage in the basement, your pick-up days take on quite disproportionate significance Miss a day, and you have to live with your festering garbage bags in your apartment until the next scheduled pick-up Once or twice, over the years, I have become so desperate to get rid of some rancid piece of chicken, or left-over Indian take-away, that I have crept out under cover of night and illicitly dumped the bags in another neighbourhood where pick-up was due the next morning Then there are the elaborate and fiercely policed recycling protocols Plastic and glass and metal go in a blue bag, paper and cardboard in a transparent bag, and everything else in a black bag Black bags can go out on any of the three days, but the recyclables can only be put out on Friday Failure to observe these - and a whole raft of infinitely more subtle particulars results in heavy fines When I first moved to the city, and had not yet been initiated into the mysteries of the garbage laws, I was constantly being busted for improperly wrapped or sorted refuse And as if that wasn't sufficiently galling in itself, the fines were then issued to my building superintendent, who would then post them on my front door, like a plague sign, for all my neighbours to see Once or twice a month, I would return home to find a gnomic account of my latest infraction - 'Two bottles found in black bag' or 'Newspapers improperly tied' - together with a demand for a hundred bucks One day, in a bolshy mood, I asked the superintendent how the garbage police could be so sure that the delinquent bottles and inadequately tied newspapers were mine and not someone else's He trudged down to the basement and came back brandishing an empty bottle of prescription drugs with my name on it 'They found this in the bag,' he said Knowing that one's garbage stands a strong chance of being gone through, piece by piece, by a pofaced enforcement agent does tend to encourage compliance It also produces a certain amount of paranoia Over the past years, I have spent more time than I am happy to admit standing over my recycling bins, cutting up receipts and scribbling over labels to obscure evidence of my dodgier self-medication habits and lingerie purchases I deeply resent all this It's not just that the economics of the city's recycling are highly questionable - which they are - or even that an estimated 40 percent of New York's recyclable stuff winds up in landfills, anyway - which it does: there's something maddening about the elevated status that recycling enjoys - as if it were an absolute good To question its worthiness is to put yourself beyond the pale of common civic values One recent Friday night, as my children and I were hauling garbage bags down to the street, we met a neighbour in the elevator Observing my untidy bag of unflattened cardboard boxes, he offered to give me some packing tips 'We all our sorting and packing as a family on Thursday nights It's kind of fun and the kids love it.' I smiled and nodded 'Mom thinks recycling is crap,' my daughter piped up 'She wishes we could go back to landfills.' The neighbour's eyes grew watery with anguish , or perhaps suppressed rage 'Well, I'm sorry she feels that way,' he murmured He has cut me dead ever since [Source: Pearson - Module 2, Proficiency Expert, 2015] Question 32: The word “maddening” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to A infuriating B smart C furious D angry Question 33: On hearing about how her infringements of the rules had been uncovered, the writer A decided to pay more attention to the detailed instructions B resolved to avoid putting certain items into her rubbish C realised she had no choice but to comply in future D became worried about what else her garbage revealed Question 34: What did the writer find particularly irritating about the fines she received? A the triviality of some of the offences B the way she was informed of them C the reaction of her neighbours to them D the amount which was levied Question 35: In the text as a whole, the writer's tone is A light-hearted and ironic B restrained and reasonable C politely tentative D righteously indignant Question 36: In the final paragraph, the writer admits to being most resentful of A the public money that is wasted on recycling projects B the fact that recycling schemes not always achieve their aims C the attempts of her neighbours to advise her about recycling D the attitude of her fellow citizens towards recycling Question 37: In the second paragraph, the writer is emphasising A the inconvenience of the timing of rubbish collections B the need to develop strategies to get round the system C the shortcomings of the arrangements at her own accommodation D the impact that rubbish collections have on the rest of her life Question 38: The writer says that visitors to New York often gain the erroneous impression that A its citizens fail to comply with its refuse collection regulations B it takes refuse collection more seriously than other cities C it smells of rubbish despite having a highly effective refuse collection system D its refuse collection policies aren't implemented rigorously Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions Question 39: Ripe fruit is often stored in a place there contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly A rapidly B Ripe C stored D there Question 40: How the Earth is in the shadow of the moon, we see an eclipse of the sun A the B an C How D in the shadow Question 41: Chocolate is prepared by a complexity process of cleaning, blending, and roasting cocoa beans which must be ground and mixed with sugar A blending B mixed C must be D complexity Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges Question 42: ~ A: “Why are children less interested in outdoor activities nowadays?” ~ B: “Well, ” A I don’t know why, but they may be too strong-minded B They prefer high-tech gadgets like computers, iPads, or iPhones C Don’t ask Just give them a ring home D Because the weather is too cold for them Question 43: ~ A: "Have you done any part-time jobs?" ~ B: " " A Yes I often help Mum with the cooking and cleaning-up B Yes I've been out of work for three months C Sometimes Doing shopping, going to spa or something like that D Never I' m so busy with the typing all the week Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 44 to 50 THE SIXTH SENSE Have you ever had the feeling of being watched - and turned round to find someone staring at you? Have you found yourself staring with idle curiosity at someone until they turn their heads to see who is watching them? Have you ever picked up the ringing phone to find it is someone you have just been thinking about? The answer to all these questions is most likely to be 'yes' These are common, everyday sorts of experiences but ones which have never been investigated scientifically until now, because orthodox science doesn't have the faintest idea how to explain them So it ignores them or calls them 'pure coincidence' and 'superstition' Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist who has pioneered work in this area, believes that not only can they be explained and that another sense does exist - but that the explanations are perfectly simple In his book, The Sense Of Being Stared At, he writes about his experiments on staring and telephone telepathy He believes they prove the existence of this other sense which tells us when we are being stared at or who is phoning us and gives us other vital information through telepathy and premonition He says that this is not in anyway 'paranormal' It is a normal part of our basic nature that we share with animals Sheldrake uses members of the public in his experiments and has a data base of 5,000 experiments One set of experiments involved groups of friends and school mates One person was blindfolded and sat in front of a 'looker' The person had to guess when the 'looker' was staring at him The results were 60% successful - much more than chance would allow Sheldrake's surveys also showed that 80% of people had had the 'I am being stared at' experience The great majority of starers turned out to be strangers 'This must go back to the times when our ancestors were hunted by predators, who of course were strangers,' says Sheldrake 'This obviously helped survival.' Hunters today also report how animals often show acute awareness they are being stalked even from far away Similar to this power of attention is the power of intention which seems to be the cause of telephone telepathy What is it that tells us that a particular person is going to call us unexpectedly? Sheldrake believes that before we call we think about it first and this intention reaches out to the person This is the commonest form of telepathic experience Over 90% of people in the survey say they have experienced it Sometimes people find that their calls overlap and the number they are calling is engaged - calling them! One of the more extraordinary things Dr Sheldrake discorered is that some pets seem to know when someone important to them is about to telephone Some cats and dogs will go to the phone before it starts to ring Animal telepathy is a well-known phenomenon between social animals who are members of packs, herds, flocks of birds or schools of fish Obviously, a communicable sense of danger helps them survive predators, keeps them together and allows them to act as one And when it comes to premonitions - animals beat us hands down! Earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters all set off advance fear behaviour in animals, both wild and domestic Sheldrake believes this sort of telepathy is a result of mental fields which extend beyond the brain and interact with other people's mental fields We may be on the edge of a great step forward by understanding how our minds can reach out and touch others at a distance Question 44: According to the text, Dr Sheldrake, A lost his job because of this research B had to travel widely in his research C was the first to work on this subject D only investigates this subject Question 45: Dr Sheldrake believes this ability goes back to early man's need A to find others B to be aware of being hunted C to hunt D to see the hunter's eyes Question 46: Scientists haven't researched the subject because A they haven't been able to understand it B theyhaven't had the time C they believed it was unorthodox D they though they couldn't prove coincidence Question 47: Dr Sheldrake's survey shows that: A some people can 'see' the other person intending to call them B people tell each other their intention to phone C sometimes people phone each other at the same time D two phone calls sometimes happen immediately after each other Question 48: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A someone staring at another person's back B one person with his eyes closed C people staring at each other D people saying when someone was staring at them Question 49: Groups of animals A pass on a sense of danger to each other B follow each other to avoid danger C have one which acts as the leader D communicate with the hunter Question 50: Which is closest in meaning to “beat us hands down”? A conquer B win easily C overcome D kill off ... unorthodox Question 42: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A people saying when someone was staring at them B one person with his eyes closed C someone staring at another person's back D people... Question 11: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A one person with his eyes closed B people staring at each other C people saying when someone was staring at them D someone staring at another person's... other Question 48: One of Dr Sheldrake's tests involved A someone staring at another person's back B one person with his eyes closed C people staring at each other D people saying when someone was