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MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 11

PART A: LISTENING

I.You will hear an interview in which Phil Bradshaw talks about his experiences on a TV
program. For questions 1-7, decide whether the statements are TRUE or FALSE.

Write T for TRUE and F for FALSE

1. Phil expected to take part in the make-over of his room.

2. Phil hoped that the designers would replace his curtains.

3. Phil wanted a complete change of image for his room.

4. Phil disliked the choice of white as a colour for his room.

5. When Phil first saw his redecorated room, he hid his true feelings.

6. Phil was pleased with the storage space in his new room.

7. Phil says that the producers of the programme want to film people who are looking pleased
and happy.

II. You will hear a young business owner called Matt Hawkins, giving a presentation about
his experience of opening his own restaurant. For questions 1-8, complete the sentences.

Matt considers (1)............................ to be of secondary importance in starting a restaurant.

Matt says you have to stay focused on (2).......................for your business to be a success.

To get a busy location for your restaurant, you might have to compromise on (3).................to
afford it.

Matt had to spend a little extra on (4)......................to get his restaurant up and running.

Matt says you must be good at (5) ......................to meet all the responsibilities of a restaurant
owner.

For one of the mistakes Matt made in his business, he paid a(n) (6)......................to come in
and fix it.

In trying to get more customers, the idea for a(n) (7).....................was a big success for Matt.

To make things more efficient, Matt set up a(n) (8).......................for getting orders to the
kitchen.

III. You will hear an interview with a called Mike O’Toole, who works as a teacher trainer.
For questions 1-6, choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you
hear.

1. Why are many teachers leaving the profession, according to Mike?

A. They don’t feel it is financially rewarding any more.

B. They are not being given the respect they once were.

C. They are investing too much in it without getting enough back.

D. They find the subject matter they have to teach too difficult.

2. Mike believes that without radical changes

A. education in the UK will get worse.

B. UK schools will lose their ability to compete with one another.

C. the UK will soon no longer be a leader in education.

D. the educational system in the UK can be transformed.

3. The main failing of the UK education system is

A. the inability of students to use computers.

B. the resistance within schools to the introduction of technology.

C. the failure of government to invest in hardware for schools.

D. the lack of training for teachers in the use of technology in classroom.

4. Why is teacher training failing teachers, according to Mike?

A. It is not helping them to keep pace with developments.

B. It does not use technology in its training classrooms.

C. It uses software and hardware that are out of date.

D. It is suffering a lack of trainers with specialist knowledge.

5. Teachers can only benefits from technology if

A. they cease to see it as a threat.

B. they can combine it with traditional methods.

C. they are allowed to use it in their own way.

D. they are willing to research its possibilities on their own.

6. What does Mike imply about the choice that needs to be made?

A. It is impossible to know which one is correct at present.

B. It leads to two radically different outcomes.

C. The consequences are reversible.

D. Most developing countries have already chosen.

PART B: LEXICO-GRAMMAR.

I. Choose the option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences.

1. What I found most .......................about it is that he didn’t even have the decency to say that
he was sorry.

A. furious B. touchy C. resentful D. galling

2. Harry was offered a scholarship to study in Spain and he .........the opportunity with both
hands.

A. held B. grabbed C. grasped D. passed

3. It was .............by chance that we managed to find her.

A. sheerly B. purely C. plainly D. highly

4. We knew the concert was sold out, but we still went to the stadium ............the off-chance
that someone might want to sell us their tickets.

A. with B. by C. on D. in

5. They were the best economic analysists in the United States- a team hand- ....................by
the Presendent himself.

A. selected B. picked C. named D. settled

6. The bank refused to lend me any more money as my account was in the ..............

A. red B. black C. white D. blue

7. After travelling all day, he was completely ........................

A. done in B. done up C. broken down D. used up

8. I was impressed by how he ...............the interview in his stride.

A. did B. saw C. took D. made

9. Pat’s .............of dress frequently harks back to the days when Parisian couture was all the
rage.

A. tone B. method C. mode D. design

II. Word formation

LOOK WHERE YOU’RE GOING

Texting gets a bad press. Whether it’s because some people are (1) ______ enough to attempt
texting while they’re driving and cause accidents or it’s the perceived (2) ______ of some
who continue texting while in the middle of a face-to-face conversation with someone else,
texting frequently comes under fire. Even health magazines warn about the (3) ______
damage we can cause to our thumbs, wrists and necks while texting away. The (4) ______ on
a recent radio phone-in programme gave an interesting insight into certain instances of
apparently (5) ______ clumsiness and which, I am sure, caused moments of (6) ______
amongst some listeners. A stream of callers gave vivid accounts of walking into walls, lamp
posts and even falling down the stairs while texting but I particularly enjoyed the story of one
young girl who was so engrossed in her message that she failed to see the edge of a canal and
walked straight into the water. She later insisted that she had thought the ice on the surface of
the canal was an (7) ______ of the pavement. A passer-by hauled her to
(8) ______ and staff at a nearby coffee shop gave her dry clothes but the high point of the
rescue for the caller was the fact that she had managed to keep her phone out of the water.

1. FOOL 3. REVERSE 5. EXPLAIN 7. EXTEND

2. RUDE 4. REVEAL 6. HILARIOUS 8. SAFE
PART C: READING

I. Fill in the gap with a suitable word

BRAINY CABBIES

Have you ever run into a taxi cab, given your destination to the driver and been on your way
immediately without the cabbie having to refer to a sat-nap, map or (1)……………..other
navigation device? London cab drivers seem truly amazing when it (2)…………….to finding
their way from A to B through the 25,000 streets of the English capital. And it has been
shown that the London “cabbie” can perform these magical feats because the part of their
brain that is concerned (3)……………..navigational memory, the hippocampus, is actually
larger than most other people’s. It is this part of the brain that is well developed (4)…………..
animals such as squirrels because they need to remember a vast number of areas where they
have stored food over several months.

Scientists have been trying to (5)…………out whether training can influence the growth of
certain areas of the brain, and as part of their research, they studied cabbies over four-year
period. This covered the time that cabbies take to prepare for “The Knowledge”, an extremely
difficult test that all prospective cab drivers in London need to get (6)………………….
Scientists’ tests showed that over the training period there was a significant growth in the
hippocampus. They conclude that it is the memorizing (7)………….all the routes and the
streets of London that causes the hippocampus to grow larger. So, perhaps we
(8)…………….all train our brains to increase our memories- at least to help us remember
where we put the car keys!

II. You are going to read an article. Six paragraphs have been removed from the article.
Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6). There is one extra
paragragh which you do not need to use.

WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

Retail street theatre was all the rage in the 1920s. Audiences would throng the pavement
outside Selfridge’s store in London just to gawp at the display beyond acres of plate glass. As
a show, it made any production of Chekhop seem action-packed by comparison. Yet, Gordon
Selfridge, who came to these shores from the US and opened on Oxford street exactly 100
years ago, was at the cutting edge of what Dr Rebecca Scragg from the history of art
department at Warwick University calls ‘ a mini-revolution’ in the art of window dressing.

1....................................

As Britain struggled to regain economic stability after the world, the importance of the new
mass commerce to the country’s recovery was recognised,’ says Rebecca. ‘Finally understood
was the need to use the display window to full advantage, as an advertising medium to attract
trade. The new style of window dressing that came into its own after the armistice took
inspiration from the theatre and the fine and decorative arts. It involved flamboyant design
and drew huge crowds.’

2.............................................

In the course of her research, Scragg spent some time in the British Library studying the
growing number of trade journals that sprang up between 1921 and 1924 to meet the market
made up from this new breed of professional. “ I saw a picture in one of them of the Annual
General Meeting of the British Association of Display Men,’ she says, ‘and there were only
two women there. The 1920s saw a big growth in major department stores in the main cities
and they would all have had a budget for window dressing.’

3 ...........................................

An elegant mannequin is positioned at a centre of a huge garland, sporting an off-the-shoulder

number and an enormous headdress that might have been worn by an empress in Ancient
Egypt. At her feet was swathes of ruffled material and positioned around her any number of
adorments.

4. .........................................

Over eighty years on, and the economy is once again in recession. Retailers complain about
falling sales. But are they doing enough to seduce the passing customer? Scragg thinks not. ‘
There are many high street chains and independent shops whose windows are, by the
standards of the 1920s, unimaginative,’ she maintains. ‘They’re passed over for more
profitable but often less aesthetically pleasing forms of advertising, such as the internet.’

5. ...........................................

‘ I am not making any claims that this is great or fine art,’ Scragg says. ‘My interest is in
Britain finding new ways of creating visual expression.’ Scragg is about to submit a paper on
her research into the aesthetics of window dressing to one of the leading journals in her field.

6. ..........................................

So, although retail theatre may have been in its infancy, retail as leisure or therapy for a mass
market was still a long way in the future.

PARAGRAPHS
A. Some of the photographic evidence unearthed by Scragg after her trawl through the trade
journals is quite spectacular. One EJ Labussier, an employee of Selfridge’s, won the Drapers
Record trophy for his imaginative use of organdie, a slightly stiff fabric that was particularly
popular with the dressmakers of the day.

B. ‘ Selfridge’s remains an exception,’ she concedes, ‘even if it’s difficult today to imagine
the store coming up with a spectacular Rococo setting to display something as mundane as a
collection of white handkerchiefs.’ No doubt it brought sighs, even gasps, from those with
their noses almost pressed up against the window but could it really be taken too seriously?

C. Scragg describes herself as ‘ a historian of art and visual culture with an interest in the
reception of art’. ‘This interest in window displays evolved from my PhD on British art in the
1920s,’ she says. ‘I started by looking at exhibition in shops and that led on to the way that
the shop themselves were moving into new forms of design.’

D. One of the illustrations she will include is a 1920s photograph of a bus proceeding towards
Sefridge’s with an advertisement for ‘self-denial week’ on the side. For many of those in the
crowds on the pavement, self-denial was a given. They couldn’t afford to spend.

E. The big department store continues to uphold the tradition of presenting lavish and eye-
catching window displays today and uses the best artists and designers to create and dress
them. Advances in technology have meant that the displays grow ever more spectacular.

F. ‘He was trying to aestheticise retailing,’ she explains. ‘The Brits were so far behind the
Americans, the French and the German in this respect that it was another decade before they
fully realised its importance.’

G. ‘There was always a great concern for symmetry and harmony,’ Scragg observes. ‘And a
whole industry grew up around the stands and backdrops, the ironmongery and architecture,
needed to display these things.’ The displays were extrvagant and bold, taking a great deal of
time and imagination to perfect. The glamour attracted attention and lifted people’s spirits at a
difficult time.

III. Read the following passage. For questions 1-10, choose your answer from the
sections A-D. You may choose any of the sections more than one.

In which section does the writer

1. praise the quality of some more serious film?

2. point out the value of feel-good films in difficult economic times?

3. mention a film character who learns from his experiences?

4. explain how a director uses a film as a vehicle for his own opinion?

5. comment on the artistic merit of the cinema?

6. talk about the importance of escapism in films?

7. mention a special technique used to create a feel-good reaction?

8. insist that lighter films can also be clever?

9. talk about films that make us reflect on life?

10. refer to films where ordinary people triumph over authority?

FILMS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD

A.

Feel-good films stretch back right into the early days of cinema. The Brits were pioneers of
the form. Producer Cecil Hepworth’s Rescued by Rover (1915), a winsome yarn about a dog
retrieving a kidnapped baby, was an early example of feel-good film-making. What
distinguished it was the tempo. The film-makers used cross-cutting to crank up the tension,
which is only finally released when the baby is found. The film ‘marks a key stage in the
medium’s development from an amusing novelty to ‘seventh art,’ able to hold its own
alongside literature, theatre, painting, music and other more traditional forms,’ claims the
British Film Institute’s Screenonline website. Film historians today continue to study
Hepworth’s storytelling abilities but that wasn’t what interested the 1905 audience who
flocked to see it. They went because it was a feel-good film.

B.

There has long been a tendency to sneer at feel-good films. Serious, self-conscious auteurs are
often too busy trying to express their innermost feelings about art and politics to worry about
keeping audiences happy. However, as Preston Sturges famously showed in his comedy
Sullivan’s Travels (1941), if you are stuck on a prison chain gang, you don’t necessarily want
to watch Battleship Potemkin. Sullivan’s Travels is about John L Sullivan, a glib and
successful young Hollywood director of comedies, who yearns to be taken seriously. Sullivan
dresses up as a boho and sets off across America to learn more about the plight of the
common man. He ends up sentenced to six years in prison. One of the prisoners’ few escapes
from drudgery is watching cartoons. As he sits among his fellow cons and sees their faces
convulsed with laughter at a piece of what he regards as throwaway Disney animation, he
rapidly revises his own priorities. “ After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow
comedy directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favour of the message, I wrote
Sullivan Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them to leave the preaching to the preachers,’
Sturges recalls.

C.

A few years ago, there were a lot of ‘deep-dish’ movies. We had films about guilt,
(Atonement) about the all-American dream coming apart at the seams ( Revolutionary Road)
and even a very long account of a very long life lived backwards (the deeply morbid The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button). Deep-dish, feel-bad films have plenty to recommend
them. If you are not a teenager and you don’t just want to see the next summer tent-pole
blockbuster, you’ll welcome movies that pay attention to characterization and dialogue and
don’t just rely on CGI or the posturing of comic book heroes. However, as film makers from
Preston Sturges to Danny Boyle have discovered, there is no reason that a feel-good movie
needs to be dumb. You can touch on social deprivation and political injustice: the trick is to
do so lithely and, if possible, with a little leavening humour.

D.

Historically, the best feel-good movies have often been made at the darkest times. The war
years and their immediate aftermath saw the British turning out some invigorating,
entertaining fare alongside all the propaganda. The Age of Austerity was also the age of the
classic Ealing comedies, perfect examples of feel-good film-making. In the best of these films
like Passport To Pimlico or Whisky Galore, a community of eccentric and mildly anarchic
characters would invariably come together to thwart the big, bad, interfering bureaucrats.
Stories about hiding away a hoard of whisky or setting up a nation state in central London
were lapped up by audiences. To really work, feel-good movies must have energy and
spontaneity- a reckless quality that no amount of script tinkering from studio development
executives can guarantee. The best take you by surprise. What makes the perfect feel-good
movie? That remains as hard to quantify as ever- you only know one when you see one.

IV. Choose the answer A, B, C or D which best fits gap in the passage below.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Born in Italy in 1952, Leonardo da Vinci began his career as a painter, but his
ambitions led him far beyond the decorative arts. Leonardo was an individual whose genius
(1)..............the whole range of human creative endeavour. The fields to which his inventions
(2)……………..include anatomy, nautical engineering and linguistics. His handwritten
notebooks resemble nothing less than a modern encyclopaedia of technology, yet they were
put together before printing had come of (3)...................

By the same token, a remarkable number of Leonardo’s inventions anticipate advances

in modern technology by several centuries: his flying machine, rolling mill and pendulum
clock, to ...........but a few. Acute observation and the precision of his anatomical drawings
enabled him to arrive at insights concerning the working of the human body not matched by
medicine for another century and a half. His extraordinary vision takes us in a single
.............from the mindset of the 16th Century into modernity.

1. A. enguffed B. spanned C. engrossed D. swamped

2. A. furnished B. offered C. contributed D. dedicated

3. A. time B. age C. being D. life

4. A. name B. state C. pick D. label

5. A. spring B. leap C. dive D. sprint

V. Read the passage below and choose the best answer A, B, C or D to the following
questions.

THE FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS.

Anybody who says they can reliably forecast the future of newspapers is either a liar or a fool.
Look at the raw figures, and newspapers seem doomed. Since 2000, the circulation of most
UK national dailies has fallen by between a third and a half. The authoritative Pew Research
Center in the USA reports that newspapers are now the main source of news for only 26
percent of US citizens as against 45 percent in 2001. There is no shoratge of prophets who
confidently predict that the last printed newspaper will be safely buried within 15 years at
most.

Yet one of the few reliable facts of history is that old media have a habit of surviving. An
over-exuberant New York journalist announced in 1935 that books and theatre ‘have had their
day’ and the daily newspaper would become ‘the greatest organ of social life’. Theatre dully
withstood not only the newspaper, but also cinema and then television. Radio has flourished
in the TV age; cinema, in turn, has held its own against videos and DVDs. Even vinyl
records have made a comeback, with online sales up 745 percent since 2008.

Newspapers themselves were once new media, although it took several centuries before they
became the dominant medium for news. This was not solely because producing up-to-date
news for a large readership over a wide area became praticable and economic only in the
mid-19th century, with the steam press, the railway and the telegraph. Equally important was
the emergence of the idea that everything around us is in constant movement and we need to
be updated on its condition at regular intervals- a concept quite alien in the medieval times
and probably also to most people in the early modern area. Now, we expect change. To our
medieval ancestors, however, the only realities were the passing of the seasons, punctuated by
catastrophes such as famine, flood or disease that they had no reliable means of anticipating.
Life, as the writer Alain de Botton puts it, was ‘ineluctably cyclical’ and ‘the most important
truths were recurring’.

Journalism as a full-time trade from which you could hope to make a living hardly existed
before the 19th century. Even then, there was no obvious reason why most people needed
news on a regular basis, whether daily or weekly. In some respects, regularity of newspaper
publication and rigidity of format was, and remains, a burden. Online news readers can dip in
and out according to how they perceive the urgency of events. Increasingly sophisticated
search engines and algorithms allow us to personalise the news to our own priorities and
interests. When important stories break, internet news providers can post minute-by-minute
updates. Error, misconception and foolish speculation can be connected or modified almost
constantly. There are no space restrictions to prevent narrative or analysis, and documents or
events cited in news stories can often be accessed in full. All this is a world away from the
straitjacket of newspaper publication. Yet few if any providers seem alive to the new
medium’s capacity for spreading understanding and enlightenment.

Instead, the anxiety is always to be first with the news, to maximise reader comments, to
create heat and sound and fury and thus add to the sense of confusion. In the medieval world
what news there was was usually exchanged amid the babble of the market place or the
tarven, where truth competed with rumour, mishearing and misunderstanding. In some
respects, it is to that world that we seem to be returning. Newspapers have never been very
good- or not as good as they ought to be- at telling us how the world works. Perhaps they now
face extinction. Or perhaps , as the internet merely adds to what de Botton discribes as our
sense that we live in ‘ an improvable and fundamentally chaotic universe’, they will discover
that they and they alone can guide us to wisdom and understanding.

1. In the first paragragh, the writer is presenting

A. his interpretation of a current trend.

B. evidence that supports a widespread view.

C. his prediction on the future of print journalism.

D. reasons for the decline in newspaper readership.

2. What point is the writer making in the second paragraph?

A. Existing media are not necessarily replaced by new ones.

B. The best media technologies tend to be the most long-lasting.v

C. Public enthusiasm for new types of media is often unpredictable.

D. It is inevitable that most media technologies will have a limited life.

3. Which phrase in the second paragraph has the same meaning as ‘held its own against’?

A. ‘had their day’ B. ‘withstood’ C. ‘flourished’ D. ‘made a comeback’

4. In the third paragraph, the writer stresses the importance of

A. a shift in people’s attitudes towards the outside world.

B. certain key19th- century advances in mechanisation.

C. the challenges of news distribution in the pre-industrial era.

D. the competition between newspapers and more established media.

5. What does the writer suggest is the main advantage of online news sites?

A. the flexibility of the medium B. the accuracy of the reporting

C. the ease of access for their users D. the breadth of their potential readership

6. What does the writer suggest about newspapers in the last paragrapgh?

A. They still have an important role to play.

B. They can no longer compete with the internet.

C. They will have to change to keep up with the digital age.

D. They will retain a level of popularity among certain types of readers.

PART D: WRITING

I. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using
the word given. Do not change the given word given. You must use between three and eight
words, including the word given.

1. The reality is that he’s blackmailing you. (LESS)

What he ................................................blackmailing you.

2. The teacher refused to consider my request to drop out of the course halfway through the
term. (HEAR)

The teacher ..................................... dropping out of the course halfway through the term.

3. Devices using the latest technology help the police to find the suspect. (DOWN)

The police ...............................................of devices using the latest technology.

4. The manager was furious when he discovered I’d been on a social networking site while at
work. (THROAT)

The manager .................................................out I’d been on a social networking site while at

work.

5. The gym was underfunded and clients were only able to use a few pieces of equipment.
(DO)

Because of ................................................................only a few pieces of equipment at the

gym.

II. ESSAY

Write an essay of at least 250 words on the following topic.

Tests and examinations are a central feature of school systems in many countries. Do you
think the educational benefits of testing outweigh any disadvantages?

Give reasons for your answer, and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge
or experience.