I. Listening
A. People are talking about their friends and classmates. Do they praise or criticize the person they talk about? Listen and check the correct answer.
**********Praise***************Criticize
1. _____________ ___________________
2. _____________ ___________________
3. _____________ ___________________
4. _____________ ___________________
5. _____________ ___________________
6. _____________ ___________________
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B. Listen again and choose True (T) or False (F)
1. Chris is informed. _________________
Chris is in medical school. _________________
2. Brandon is caring. ____________________
Brandon helped the speaker move. ___________________
3. Terry is caring.________________
Terry liked the poor person's clothes. _________________
4. Tony is enthusiastic. __________________
When Tony is enjoying himself, no one else has fun. _________________
5. Patrick is honest. __________________
Patrick wasn't actually sick on the night of the concert. ____________________
6. Chuck is enthusiastic. _____________________
Chuck isn't going to school this year. __________________
II. Grammar and Structure
1. Peru is not as expensive as Venezuela, but is more expensive than Brazil, which is the cheapest ______ to live.
a. place b. mode c. point d. house
2. The consumption og fast food _________ drammatically in the 1990s.
a. rose b. shot c. passed d. ran
3. There was a drammatic _________ in the consumption of fast food from 1990 to 2000.
a. increase b. role c. point d. top
4. We should _________ important company documents in our own language and English.
a. buy b. afford c. write d. turn
5. 7000 employees who work at the Edinburgh Business Park in Scotland’s capital city have been invited to __________ a car-caring scheme.
a. participate b. join c. open d. cooperate
6. Many people in Africa ________ from hunger.
a. suffer b. pain c. cry d. groan
7. What’s your __________ ? Are you a doctor?
a. profession b. game c. hobby d. interest
8. An __________ is a teacher.
a. engineer b. electrician c. architect d. instructor
9. A guitar is a musical ___________.
a. chip b. utensil c. instrument d. tool
10. Rosa manages the projects from the starts to _________.
a. ending b. finish c. finishing d. conclusion
11. For the big projects that cost a lot, I look __________ financial partners who will share the cost- and the profits.
a. through b. in c. for d. over
12. I had been __________ in cookery since I was fourteen.
a. interested . b. concerned c. attanded d. invested
13. He’s going to play a major __________ in our new project.
a. place b. point c. rank d. role
14. It really started in July 1999 when I was on maternity __________ from work.
a. holiday b. stop c. permission d. leave
15. According ________ this newspaper report, we’ve got a 50% chance of living to be 100.
a. to b. by c. for d. with
16. “I’d rather you______ home now.”
a. going b. go c. gone d. went
17. Jane ______ law for four years now at Harvard.
a. is studying b. has been studying c. studies d. studied
18. This library card will give you free access ______ the Internet eight hours a day.”
a. on b. to c. from d. in
19. Buy me a newspaper on your way back, ______?”
a. will you b. don’t you c. can’t you d. do you
20. When I came to visit her last night, she _____ a bath.
a. had b. was having c. has d. is having
21. Their ___________ has lasted for more than 20 years.
a. friends b. friend c. friendship d. friendly
22. She has worked as a secretary __she graduated from college.
a. before b. until c. while d. since
23. English ___________ in many parts of the world.
a. speaks b. is spoken c. was spoken d. is speaking
24. You will have to work hard if you want to ___________.
a. successful b. success c. successfully d. succeed
25. My parents first __each other at the Olympic Games in 1982.
a. had meet b. have met c. meet d. met
III. Reading
A. Passage 1
Many smokers realize the danger they are taking when they light up a cigarette, but many of them find it impossible to quit. Now, some smokers say that the beam of a laser can help them.
Michael Defoe, the founder of Advanced Laser Therapy, said that his laser technique can help people quit smoking and up to 80% of the smokers get success in giving up smoking .
For smoker Tom Munroe, laser treatment is the final way. A two-pack-a-day smoker for more than 30 years, he has high expectations that the laser can help him get rid of the habit once and for all .“ I think I’ve always had the desire, but I couldn’t find a treatment to support the desire to quit, “ Munroe said.
The laser delivers a beam of light just below the surface of the skin, targeting specific points that Defoe says stimulate the release of endorphins, which provide the pleasurable feelings which smokers get when they light up.
Question 26 : What is the main idea of the text ?
a.Laser beams can help smokers stop smoking.
b. Laser beams have no relation to smoking.
c.Smoking is impossible to quit.
d.No smokers realize the danger of smoking.
Question 27: According to Michael Defoe,……………………………………………..
a.Laser beams do nothing to help smokers.
b.With the laser technique, 80% of the smokers can stop smoking .
c.Only 20 % of the smokers can quit smoking with the help of laser.
d.Laser is too expensive to use.
Question 28: Tom Munroe ………………………..
a.founded Advanced Laser Therapy.
b.is a non smoker.
c.did not want to get rid of smoking.
d.smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.
Question 29: Which sentence is NOT true ?
a.Tom could stop smoking without the help of the laser.
b.Michael Defoe founded Advanced Laser Therapy.
c.It is dangerous to smoke.
d.Tom had been smoking for more than 30 years.
Question 30: Laser beams are …………………to smokers.
A.useless
B.pleasant
C.specific
D.helpful
B. Passage 2
Because hunter-gatherers have fared poorly in comparison with their agricultural cousins, their numbers have dwindled, and they have been forced to live in marginal environments, such as deserts and arctic wastelands. In higher latitudes, the shorter growing seasons have restricted the availability of plant life. Such conditions have caused a greater dependence on hunting, and on fishing along the coasts and waterways. The abundance of vegetation in the lower latitudes of the tropics, on the other hand, has provided a greater opportunity for gathering a variety of plants. In short, the environmental differences have restricted the diet and have limited possibilities for the development of subsistence societies.
Contemporary hunter-gatherers may help us understand our prehistoric ancestors. We know from the observation of modern hunter-gatherers in both Africa and Alaska that a society based on hunting and gathering must be very mobile. While the entire community camps in a central location, a smaller party harvests the food within a reasonable distance from the camp. When the food in the area has become exhausted, the community moves on to exploit another site. We also notice seasonal migration patterns evolving for most hunter-gatherers, along with a strict division of labor between the sexes. These patterns of behavior may be similar to those practised by mankind during the Paleolithic Period.
Question 31: The word “domestication” in the first paragraph mostly means ______.
a. adapting animals to suit a new working environment
b. hatching and raising new species of wild animals in the home
c. teaching animals to do a particular job or activity in the home
d. making wild animals used to living with and working for humans
Question 32: According to the passage, subsistence societies depend mainly on ______.
a. hunter-gatherers’ tools b. nature’s provision
c. farming methods d. agricultural products
Question 33: The word “marginal” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “______”.
a. disadvantaged b. suburban c. forgotten d. abandoned
Question 34: In the lower latitudes of the tropics, hunter-gatherers ______.
a. can free themselves from hunting
b. have better food gathering from nature
c. live along the coasts and waterways for fishing
d. harvest shorter seasonal crops
Question 35: According to the passage, studies of contemporary subsistence societies can provide a ______.
a. further understanding of prehistoric times
b. broader vision of prehistoric natural environments
c. further understanding of modern subsistence societies
d. deeper insight into the dry-land farming
Question 36: The word “conditions” in the second paragraph refers to ______.
a. the places where plenty of animals and fish can be found
b. the situations in which hunter-gatherers can grow some crops
c. the environments where it is not favorable for vegetation to grow
d. the situations in which hunter-gatherers hardly find anything to eat
Question 37: A typical feature of both modern and prehistoric hunter-gatherers is that ______.
a. they live in the forests for all their life
b. they don’t have a healthy and balanced diet
c. they don’t have a strong sense of community
d. they often change their living places
Question 38: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned?
a. Harvesting from the natural environment had existed long before farming was taken up.
b. The environmental differences produce no effect on subsistence societies.
c. The number of hunter-gatherers decreases where farming is convenient.
d. Hunting or fishing develops where there are no or short growing seasons.
Question 39: According to the author, most contemporary and prehistoric hunter-gatherers share ______.
a. some methods of production b. some patterns of behavior
c. some restricted daily rules d. only the way of duty division
Question 40: Which of the following would serve as the best title of the passage?
a. Hunter-gatherers and Subsistence Societies b. Evolution of Humans’ Farming Methods
c. A Brief History of Subsistence Farming d. Hunter-gatherers: Always on the Move
C. Passage 3
Although he is only twelve, James Harries has his own antiques business and a flower shop. “He has a good eye for a bargain,” say his mother. “He was only 8 when he bought that for 5p.” she points to a china statuettte worth $4,000. “James gets most of his stock of antiques from jumble sales. Last year he bought a necklace for 10p which turned out to be valuable. He sold it for $8,000.”
James didn’t get on at school so his parents hired a private tutor. “Other children think I’m strange because I earn my own living and I don’t want to join in their games.”
James explains the success of his flower shop: “My prices have risen less than those of my competitors this year. Also I’ve got a special offer for wedding parties. I give them a Rolls-Royce for the day if they spend more than $100 on flowers. My employees don’t particularly like working for a 12-year-old, but I pay their wages so they can’t complain!” With his high income, James could afford many luxuries, but he prefers to save his money. “I put aside as much as I can. I have a lot of plans for the future and I will need to be rich to carry them out.”
Question 41: What does James Harries trade in?
a. Antiques and flowers.
b. Antiques.
c. A flower shop.
d. Flowers.
Question 42: The necklace he bought last year ……………
a. was worthless.
b. cost him a lot of money.
c. brought him a lot of money.
d. was worth 10p.
Question 43: James is different from other children because he ……………
a. didn’t get on at school.
b. he had a private tutor.
c. makes money and supports himself.
d. he is strange.
Question 44: His employees don’t like working with him because …………….
a. he pays their wages.
b. he is too young.
c. they can’t complain.
d. he is 12 years older.
Question 45: Which of the following is NOT true about James?
a. He spends a lot of money on many luxuries.
b. He had a tutor because he didn’t do well at school.
c. He earns a lot of money.
d. He saves money for his future plans.
IV. Writing
Imagine you are now in Ho Chi Minh City on holiday. You enjoy yourself but the traffic is terrible and many streets are flooded because it rains almost every day. In about 100 words, write a postcard to a friend. Start with the following:
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