EXAM PREPARATION 15

I. LISTENING (40 points)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín
hiệu nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh bằng tiếng Anh đã có trong bài nghe

Part 1. You are going to hear an interview with someone who started the activity known as “free
running”. Listen and answer questions by circling the appropriate letter A, B, or C.

1. Sebastine says that he does free running because

A. other activities became boring for him
B. it feels like a natural activity
C. it is an individual activity
2. What does Sebastine say about fitness and taking up running?
A. Fit people are keen to do difficult things immediately.
B. People who are not fit don’t learn very quickly.
C. Free running is a good way of getting fit.
3. What does Sebastine say about the danger of free running?
A. It is not as great as some people think.
B. Most free runners pay not attention to it.
C. It is reduced as much as possible
4. What does Sebastine say about his fear of heights?
A. People don’t believe that he has it
B. He always has to overcome it
C. It is not as great as it used to be.
5. What does Sebastine say about where free running can be done?
A. People’s opinions on this are changing.
B. his own opinions on this have changed
C. Some people have the wrong idea on this
Your answers

1 2 3 4 5

Part 2: You will hear a talk on a brief outline of the work of the new department. For questions 1-
10, listen and complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer.

DEPARTMENT OF THE PRINTED WORD

STATISTICS
 many different full- and part- time courses
 taught
17 students on the (1) ……………………. MA course and 7 full- time research students.
 9 full time lecturers
 21
about (2) ……………………. percent of students are from outside the country
SPONSORSHIP
 links with organizations in the publishing world.
 lecturers
sponsorship of students, technicians and (3) …………………….
 outside speakers
 workshops built to expand facilities for book binding and (4) …………………….
restoration
TEACHING

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  main work is teaching the (5) …………………….
mechanics of printing
 as most printing is now very technological students, students have to be (6)
…………………….
computer literate
 for students without the necessary skills, there are specialist technicians who deliver (7)
…………………….in
crash programs computing
FACILITIES
 in printing, editing, page design and layout, book binding.
 former students are now working as expert book (8) …………………….
restorers and conservationists
RESEARCH
 growing interest in the history of the printed word from early European etc printing techniques
 a visiting lecturer, Dr Yu, is an expert on early Chinese manuscripts and (9)
…………………….
printing machines
 department is very popular, with many (10) …………………….for
applications each research position.
Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. You will hear an interview with a woman who works in a museum. As you listen, For these
questions, decide if you think each statement is true (T), false (F).

F 1. When she was at school, Clara wanted to become an actress.

F 2. Clara did not apply for the museum job sooner because her mother advised her to wait.

T 3. What surprised Clara on her first day at work was that she had to carry some items.
F 4. Clara was told to improve her knowledge of computers.
T 5. Clara enjoys writing descriptions of objects the most.

Your answers

1 2 3 4 5

II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR (60 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to each of the following sentences and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Why doesn't Mike ____________ some of his work to his assistant?
A. demand B. resign C. widen D. delegate
2. Legal matters are not my ____________ - you’ll have to consult a lawyer.
A. domain B. aspect C. prospect D. excess
3. The producer refused ____________ to discuss any of the actor’s demands for more pay.
A. down and out B. outlook C. outright =flatly D. downright
4. Of course, I thought your song was the ____________ of the show.
in the in the in the
A. spotlight B. forefront C. limelight D. highlight
to receive public attention to be in the interest of public
5. His negative attitude ____________ across in the interview. show the negative attitude
A. went B. came C. played D. branched

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6. Ms Fisher has a very ____________ position on the committee.
A. preferential B. residential C. influential D. beneficial
7. I wonder if my lecturer can ____________ any light on this essay for me. = to make clear
A. dawn B. shed=cast=throw C. snap D. dub
8. He's so ambitious that he’ll do anything to ____________ his career, even at the expense of others.
A. enlarge B. widen C. further D. expand
9. The international conference of the Craniological Association has been _____ in Cairo to discuss
the revolutionary discovery of doctor Gonzales from Mexico.
A. deployed B. collected C. mobilized D. summoned = held
10. After congratulating his team, the coach left, allowing the players to let their _______ down and
enjoy themselves.
A. hair =relax B. heads C. hearts D. souls
11. Ten years ago she could not have ________that her marriage would end in divorce.
A. foreseen B. dreamt C. predicted D. forecast
12. At this stage of the ________ I supposed to suspend the journey South and visit the Eastern glens.
A. brochure B. booking C. schedule D. itinerary
13. My teacher told me that unless I pulled my ________ up, he would have to move me down to a
lower class.
A. socks = make an effortB. boots C. pants D. trousers
14. When his business failed, he started again from the ________.
A. beginning B. blank C. scratch=from the beginning
D. introduction
15. Environmental inspectors regularly________ our kitchens and other food preparation areas to
make sure they conform to regulations.
A. inspect B. control C. study D. analyze
16. People celebrate the Chinese New Year by ________ fireworks in the street.
A. letting down B. letting off C. wearing off D. doing up
17. I was educated at his ________and until I repay his investment, it is illegal to employ me directly.
A. detriment B. sacrifice C. expense D. mercy
18. It is important to ________ the land before planting.
A. demolish B. flatter C. level = to make the D. fell
surface flat
19. At first she thought her new boss was wonderful, but she ________him when he continually
criticised her work.
become angry/hostile
A. went about B. went off C. went on D. went round
20. The museum contains several ________works of Renaissance art, including two paintings by
Raphael, one by Durer, one by Titian, and an early sketch by Tintoretto.
A. worthless B. valueless C. priceless=invaluable D. Useless
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2. Use the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space. Write your answers in
the space provided. Your answers
TUBE INSPIRED A BOOK
necessity
For many people, the London Underground is a grim(1. 1……………………..
NECESSARY) .............. that gets them from A to B. But for (2. BUD)
……………… author Preethi Nair, it is a source of inspiration. She has budding
2…………………….
just published her first novel, Gypsy Masala - a tale she dreamt up whilst
commuting on the Metropolitan Line. “Have you observed people on the
tube?” she asks (3. ENTHUSE)…………… “Everyone is in their own 3…………………….. enthusiastically
little world. I just used to sit there and imagine what kind of (4.
LIVE)…………… they led.”
lives
4…………………….
Gypsy Masala charts the adventures and (5. MOST)……………
thoughts of three members of an Indian family living in London, as they
search for happiness. “It is a story about following your dreams,” says 5……………………..
innermost
Preethi, who gave up her high-pressure job as a management (6.
CONSULT)……………. in order to go in (7. PURSUE)………….. of
her ambition of becoming a writer. “It was a big risk but it was definitely 6……………………..
consultant
the right decision in terms of peace of mind and contentment," she
explains. pursuit
7……………………..
Preethi was born in a small village in the Indian state of Kerala
and moved to London with her parents at the age of three. She says the
lasting
striking contrast in cultures made a (8. LAST)……………… impression 8…………………….
and is reflected in her story, which flits between the suburbs of London
and far- away India. Many of the scenes in the book are based on the running
9…………………….
place where she was born and spent long summer holidays.
running
“It is a tiny village that is lost in time. There is still no(9. RUN)
untouched
water and it is quite difficult to get to. It is completely (10. 10…………………….
TOUCH)…………..
untouched, and so beautiful,” she says.

Part 3. Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them.

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Line 1 The Chinese are very generous when it comes from the education of their
children. No caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best
schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their
children to take extra- course activities which they will either learn a musical instrument
or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe
Line 6 that the most expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an
unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer
for their son or daughter. However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early
education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their
children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in the others. What most parents
Line 11 fail to realize, though, is that today children lack self-respect and self-confidence. The
problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice
tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills
they need to be confident, happy, and clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching
practical skills as cooking, sewing, and doing another housework. Teaching a child to
Line 16 cook will improve much of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands
patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries
to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job
successfully. His result, a well-cook dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of
self-confidence.

Your answers
1. Line 2. Line

3. Line 4. Line

5. Line 6. Line

7. Line 8. Line

9. Line 10. Line

Part 4. Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition or particle.

on
1. The police arrived immediately after the call and caught the burglar ……………….. the spot.
by
2. How could you stand ………………..and watched him beat the children like that? .
apart
3. The only way one can tell the twins………………..is by their haircuts.
away
4. Tom got carried ………………..by the music and wouldn’t stop singing.

5. The doctor thinks he’ll pull ………………...now.

through His temperature has gone down.
forward
6. After the flood, hundreds of volunteers came ……………….. with offers of assistance.
away
7. When the police discovered his history of drunk driving, they took ……………….. his driver's
license.
8. We are in a lot……………….. of trouble unless George manages to repair the radio station.
9. There are plenty of exceptions ………………..
to this view in this country.
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10. The Greenpeace movement is going to launch another campaign ………………..whaling.
Your answers:

1. 2. 3 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
III.READING (60 points)
Part 1: Read the following passages and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

PARENTS SPENDING MORE QUALITY TIME

Working parents are devoting more quality time to their children than previous generations,
despite time-consuming (1)………., research has shown. The findings of this study go against the
(2)………. that modern parents, especially working mothers, spend less time with their children. The
study found that parents devote more than twice as much time on the (3)………. of their chidren than
they did 30 years ago. Full-time working parents were found to spend more time with their children
than their part-time and non-working counterparts. This time is spent talking to children and enjoying
planned (4)………. activities, (5)………. swimming and trips to museum together.

The results of the research (6)………. that parents devote an average of 85 minutes a day to each
child. This compares with 25 minutes a day in the (7)………. 1970s. And it is predicted that the figure
will (8)………. to 100 minutes a day by 2010.

The study highlighted a new concept of “positive parenting”, where mothers and fathers are
(9)………. committed to working hard to be good parents and providing the best material end
emotional support for their children. The findings suggest that the “new man” is not a myth. Today’s
fathers were found to be more involved in their children’s lives than their own fathers and grandfathers
were. More fathers are said to be equal (10)………. in parenting.

During the study, three generations of families were (11)………. on their (12)………. to
parenting. What is clear is that parents desire an increase in creative involvement with children, and
for family democracy. (13)………., this increase in parental involvement also (14)………. an increase
in the stress (15)………. being a parent. In the future, parenting classes could become as
commonplace as antenatal classes are today.

1. A. Jobs B. work C. positions D. occupations

2. A. Saying B. thought C. statement D. claim

3. A. education B. upbringing C. training D. instruction

4. A. amusement B. free C. leisure D. pleasure

5. A. instead of B. on one hand C. as well as D. such as

6. A. Show B. say C. display D. appear

7. A. Mid B. middle C. medium D. halfway

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8. A. Arise B. arouse C. rise D. raise sth

9. A. Equally B. hardly C. similar D. nearly

10. A. couples B. partners C. colleagues D. mates

11. A.questioned B. answered C. asked D. requested

12. A. thinkings B. opinions C. agreements D. attitudes

13. A. However B. Therefore C. Although D. Despite

14. A. Says B. suggests C. estates D. hints

15. A. For B. of C. in D. to

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 2: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes
SNORING

Sleep deprivation can make us very angry, which is why snoring – the human equivalent of a car
alarm being set off at night – can be so irritating. Most people snore occasionally, but in middle age
about 40 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women (1)…………… do so regularly. Snoring can ruin
relationships and be intensely embarrassing. Snorers who go into hospital, for example, may worry
that they‘ll keep the whole ward awake. But snoring doesn’t (2)…………… just afflict the unafflicted;
snorers may also disturb (3)……………. and feel sleepy during the day. Snoring can sometimes be a
themselves
symptom of a more serious condition. Up to six per cent of men and two per cent of women suffer
from sleep apnoea, a (4)…………….
syndrome in which breathing is significantly disrupted during sleep. Some
as
people may start off (5)…………… uncomplicated snorers, but develop sleep apnoea as they get
older. The word apnoea is derived from the Greek and means ‘no breathing’. People with sleep apnoea
have airways that become obstructed during sleep. Typically, they snore loudly, stop breathing,
without
struggle (6)…………… air, partly wake up (although often unaware of it), gulp a bit, and then
recommence snoring. The cycle may (7)…………… be/get Not
repeated over 100 times an hour. (8)……………
surprisingly, people with sleep apnoea feel unrefreshed in the morning. They may have problems
concentrating during the day, feel depressed and fall asleep (9)…………… at socially unacceptable
times. At worst, they can fall asleep (10)……………
while driving or operating dangerous machinery.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text.
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Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.
ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION
1. To South Americans, robins are birds that fly north every spring. To North Americans, the
robins simply vacation in the south each winter. Furthermore, they fly to very specific places in South
America and will often come back to the same trees in North American yards the following spring.
The question is not why they would leave the cold of winter so much as how they find their way
around. The question perplexed people for years, until, in the 1950s, a German scientist named
Gustave Kramer provided some answers and. in the process, raised new questions.
2. Kramer initiated important new kinds of research regarding how animals orient and navigate.
Orientation is simply facing in the right direction; navigation involves finding ones way from point A
to point B.
3. Early in his research, Kramer found that caged migratory birds became very restless at about
the time they would normally have begun migration in the wild. Furthermore, he noticed that as they
fluttered around in the cage, they often launched themselves in the direction of their normal migratory
route. He then set up experiments with caged starlings and found that their orientation was, in fact,
in the proper migratory direction except when the sky was overcast, at which times there was no
clear direction to their restless movements. Kramer surmised, therefore, that they were orienting
according to the position of the Sun. To test this idea, he blocked their view of the Sun and used
mirrors to change its apparent position. He found that under these circumstances, the birds oriented
with respect to the new "Sun." They seemed to be using the Sun as a compass to determine direction.
At the time, this idea seemed preposterous. How could a bird navigate by the Sun when some of us
lose our way with road maps? Obviously, more testing was in order.
4. So, in another set of experiments, Kramer put identical food boxes around the cage, with food
in only one of the boxes. The boxes were stationary, and the one containing food was always at the
same point of the compass. However, its position with respect to the surroundings could be changed
by revolving either the inner cage containing the birds or the outer walls, which served as the
background. As long as the birds could see the Sun, no matter how their surroundings were altered,
they went directly to the correct food box. Whether the box appeared in front of the right wall or the
left wall, they showed no signs of confusion. On overcast days, however, the birds were disoriented
and had trouble locating their food box.
5. In experimenting with artificial suns, Kramer made another interesting discovery. If the
artificial Sun remained stationary, the birds would shift their direction with respect to it at a rate of
about 15 degrees per hour, the Sun's rate of movement across the sky. Apparently, the birds were
assuming that the "Sun" they saw was moving at that rate. When the real Sun was visible, however,
the birds maintained a constant direction as it moved across the sky. In other words, they were able to
compensate for the Sun's movement. This meant that some sort of biological clock was operating-and
a very precise clock at that.
6. What about birds that migrate at night? Perhaps they navigate by the night sky. To test the idea,
caged night-migrating birds were placed on the floor of a planetarium during their migratory period. A
planetarium is essentially a theater with a domelike ceiling onto which a night sky can be projected for
any night of the year. When the planetarium sky matched the sky outside, the birds fluttered in the
direction of their normal migration. But when the dome was rotated, the birds changed their direction
to match the artificial sky. The results clearly indicated that the birds were orienting according to the
stars.
7. There is accumulating evidence indicating that birds navigate by using a wide variety of
environmental cues. Other areas under investigation include magnetism, landmarks, coastlines, sonar,
and even smells. The studies are complicated by the fact that the data are sometimes contradictory and
the mechanisms apparently change from time to time. Furthermore, one sensory ability may back up
another.
1. Which of the following can be inferred about bird migration from paragraph 1?
A. Birds will take the most direct migratory route to their new habitat.
B. The purpose of migration is to join with larger groups of birds.
C. Bird migration generally involves moving back and forth between north and south.
D. The destination of birds' migration can change from year to year.
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2. The word ‘perplexed’ in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. defeated B. interested C. puzzled D. occupied
3. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in
the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential
information.
A. Experiments revealed that caged starlings displayed a lack of directional sense and restless
movements.
B. Experiments revealed that caged starlings were unable to orient themselves in the direction of
their normal migratory route.
C. Experiments revealed that the restless movement of caged starlings had no clear direction.
D. Experiments revealed that caged starlings' orientation was accurate unless the weather was
overcast.
4. According to paragraph 3, why did Kramer use mirrors to change the apparent position of the Sun?
A. To test the effect of light on the birds' restlessness
B. To test whether birds were using the Sun to navigate
C. To simulate the shifting of light the birds would encounter along their regular migratory route
D. To cause the birds to migrate at a different time than they would in the wild
5. According to paragraph 3, when do caged starlings become restless?
A. When the weather is overcast
B. When they are unable to identify their normal migratory route
C. When their normal time for migration arrives
D. When mirrors are used to change the apparent position of the Sun
6. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 4 about Kramer’s reason for filling one food
box and leaving the rest empty?
A. He believed the birds would eat food from only one box.
B. He wanted to see whether the Sun alone controlled the birds' ability to navigate toward the box
with food.
C. He thought that if all the boxes contained food, this would distract the birds from following
their migratory route.
D. He needed to test whether the birds preferred having the food at any particular point of the
compass.
7. According to paragraph 5, how did the birds fly when the real Sun was visible?
A. They kept the direction of their flight constant.
B. They changed the direction of their flight at a rate of 15 degrees per hour.
C. They kept flying toward the Sun.
D. They flew in the same direction as the birds that were seeing the artificial Sun.
8. The experiment described in paragraph 5 caused Kramer to conclude that birds possess a biological
clock because
A. when birds navigate they are able to compensate for the changing position of the Sun in the sky
B. birds innate bearings keep them oriented in a direction that is within 15 degrees of the Suns
direction
C. birds' migration is triggered by natural environmental cues, such as the position of the Sun
D. birds shift their direction at a rate of 15 degrees per hour whether the Sun is visible or not
9. According to paragraph 6, how did the birds navigate in the planetarium's nighttime environment?
A. By waiting for the dome to stop rotating
B. By their position on the planetarium floor
C. By orienting themselves to the stars in the artificial night sky
D. By navigating randomly until they found the correct orientation
10. Which of the following best describes the author's presentation of information in the passage?
A. A number of experiments are described to support the idea that birds use the Sun and the night
sky to navigate.
B. The author uses logic to show that the biological clock in birds is inaccurate.
C. A structured argument about the importance of internal versus external cues for navigation is
presented.
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 D. The opposing points of view about bird migration are clarified through the study of contrasting
experiments.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Read the passage and answer questions

THE LITTLE ICE AGE
A This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts, but,
before I embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate - as opposed
to weather - as something unchanging, yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its
entire existence, with at least eight glacial episodes in the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors adapted
to the universal but irregular global warming since the end of the last great Ice Age, around 10,000
years ago, with dazzling opportunism. They developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles,
decades of heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold; adopted agriculture and stock-raising, which
revolutionised human life; and founded the world's first pre-industrial civilisations in Egypt,
Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden climate change, in famine, disease and
suffering, was often high.
B The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Only two
centuries ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters; mountain glaciers in the Swiss
Alps were the lowest in recorded memory, and pack ice surrounded Iceland for much of the year.
The climatic events of the Little Ice Age did more than help shape the modern world. They are the
deeply important context for the current unprecedented global warming. The Little Ice Age was far
from a deep freeze, however; rather an irregular seesaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more
than a quarter-century, driven by complex and still little understood interactions between the
atmosphere and the ocean. The seesaw brought cycles of intensely cold winters and easterly winds,
then switched abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer rains, mild winters, and frequent
Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light northeasterly winds, and summer heat waves.
C Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because systematic weather
observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North America. Records from India and
tropical Africa are even more recent. For the time before records began, we have only 'proxy
records' reconstructed largely from tree rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete
written accounts. We now have hundreds of tree-ring records from throughout the northern
hemisphere, and many from south of the equator, too, amplified with a growing body of temperature
data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, Greenland the Peruvian Andes, and other locations. We are
close to a knowledge of annual summer and winter temperature variations over much of the
northern hemisphere going back 600 years.
D This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the
ways in which people in Europe adapted to them. Part One describes the Medieval Warm Period,
roughly 900 to 1200. During these three centuries, Norse voyagers from Northern Europe explored
northern seas, settled Greenland, and visited North America. It was not a time of uniform warmth,
for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature.
Mean European temperatures were about the same as today, perhaps slightly cooler.

E It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in about 1200. As the
Arctic ice pack spread southward, Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic,
then ended altogether. Storminess increased in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Colder, much
wetter weather descended on Europe between 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a
continent-wide famine. By 1400, the weather had become decidedly more unpredictable and
stormier, with sudden shifts and lower temperatures that culminated in the cold decades of the late

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 sixteenth century. Fish were a vital commodity in growing towns and cities, where food supplies
were a constant concern. Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the European fish trade,
but changes in water temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further offshore. The Basques,
Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier
Atlantic. A gradual agricultural revolution in northern Europe stemmed from concerns over food
supplies at a time of rising populations. The revolution involved intensive commercial farming and
the growing of animal fodder on land not previously used for crops. The increased productivity
from farmland made some countries self-sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective
protection against famine.

Questions 1-5

Reading Passage has six paragraphs, A—E.

Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A—E from the list of headings below.

Write the correct number, i-ix, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i Predicting climatic changes

ii The relevance of the Little Ice Age today

iii How cities contribute to climate change

iv Human impact on the climate

v How past climatic conditions can be determined

vi A growing need for weather records

vii A study covering a thousand years

viii People have always responded to climate change

ix Enough food at last

1 Paragraph A

2. Paragraph B

3. Paragraph C

4. Paragraph D

5. Paragraph E

Questions 6-10

Complete the summary using the list of words, A—I below.

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Write the correct letter, A—I, in boxes 6- 10 on your answer sheet.

Weather during the Little Ice Age

Documentation of past weather conditions is limited: our main sources of knowledge of conditions in
the distant past are 6 ________ and 7 ________. We can deduce that the Little Ice Age was a time of
8________ rather than of consistent freezing. Within it there were some periods of very cold winters,
others of 9 ________ and heavy rain, and yet others that saw 10 ________with no rain at all.

A climatic shifts B ice cores C tree rings

D glaciers E interactions F weather observations

G heat waves H storms I written accounts

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

IV. WRITING (40 points)

Part 1. A. Rewrite the following sentences, keeping their meaning unchanged, beginning with the
words given.
1. It was impossible to get back home because of the snow.
There ………………………………………………………………………………………..
2. It wasn’t my fault that she lost the money.
Through …………………………………………………………………………………….
3. Alternative medicine is a complete mystery to some people.

Some people are ................................................................................................. ……………..

4. You may be disqualified if you don't obey the regulations.

Failure ..........................................................…………………………………………….

5. The chances are that the whole thing will have been forgotten by next term.

In all ……………………………………………………………………………...
Part 1. B. Rewrite the following sentences, using the given words. Do not alter these words.
1. Only if you work hard now have you any chance of success. (DEPENDS)
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2. I saw a TV programme last month, which was very similar to this one. (BEARS)

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3. He was envious of his counterpart’s success. (GREEN)
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4. His last novel was unfinished when he died. (WITHOUT)

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5. The number of people out of work has been going down little by little. (GRADUAL)
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Your answers
1. from (line 1) → to 6. today (line 11) → today’s
2. No (line 2) → Not 7. as (line 15) → like
3. which (line 4) → where/ in which 8. another (line 15) → other
4. most (line 6) → more 9. much (line 16) → many
5. the others (line 10) → others 10. well- cook (line 19)→ well-cooked

Part 4. Read the passage and answer questions

THE LITTLE ICE AGE
1.Paragraph A viii 2. Paragraph B. ii 3. Paragraph C. v 4.Paragraph D.vii 5. Paragraph E. ix
6. B/C 7. C/B 8. A 9. H 10. G

IV. WRITING (40 points)

Part 1: A. Rewrite the following sentences, using the given words. Do not alter these words.
1. There was no way of getting back home because of the snow.
2. Through no fault of mine that she lost the money.
3. Some people are mystified by alternative medicine.
4. Failure to obey the regulations may lead to/result in disqualification.
5. In all probability, the whole thing will have been forgotten by next term

Part 1. B. Rewrite the following sentences, using the given words. Do not alter these words.
1.Whether or not you succeed depends on your working hard
Your only chance of success depends on your working hard.
2.This TV programme bears a strong resemblance to the one I saw last month.
3.He was green with envy when his counterpart succeeded.
4.He died without finishing / having finished his last novel.
5.There has been a gradual decline / reduction / fall / decrease in the number of people out of work.

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