THPT CHUYÊN CAO BẰNG ĐỀ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI KHU VỰC

ĐỀ THI ĐỀ XUẤT DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐB BẮC BỘ NĂM 2022

MÔN THI: ANH - LỚP: 11
Thời gian:180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi gồm 26 trang

A. LISTENING (50 pts)

Part 1. Listen to an interview with someone who consulted a 'life coach' to improve her
life and choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10pts)
(Proficiency Test Builder 4th)
1. Brigid says that she consulted a life coach because
A she had read a great deal about them.
B both her work and home life were getting worse.
C other efforts to improve her life had failed.
D the changes she wanted to make were only small ones.
2. What did Brigid's coach tell her about money?
A It would be very easy for Brigid to get a lot of it.
B Brigid's attitude towards it was uncharacteristic of her.
C Brigid placed too much emphasis on it in her life.
D Few people have the right attitude towards it.
3. What does Brigid say about her reaction to her coach's advice on money?
A She felt silly repeating the words her coach gave her.
B She tried to hide the fact that she found it ridiculous.
C She felt a lot better as a result of following it.
D She found it difficult to understand at first.
4. What does Brigid say happened during the other sessions?
A She was told that most people's problems had the same cause.
B Her powers of concentration improved.
C Some things she was told to do proved harder than others.
D She began to wonder why her problems had arisen in the first place.

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5. What has Brigid concluded ?
A The benefits of coaching do not compensate for the effort required.
B She was too unselfish before she had coaching.
C She came to expect too much of her coach.
D It is best to limit the number of coaching sessions you have.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2. Listen to a talk about ethical concerns with artificial intelligence and decide
whether these statements are True (T), False (F). Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
(10 pts)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyacmzB1Og
1. People tend to be oblivious to the moral issues associated with artificial intelligence in
the research stage.
2. Video tracking can be deployed to speed up recovery from injuries.
3. A handful of giants have become the dominant overlords in the realm of artificial
intelligence.
4. Artificial intelligence is intended to harm human society as it does not share human
values.
5. Machines are vulnerable to biases from the data introduced by their human makers.
Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3. Listen to a talk about pandemic diseases and supply the blanks with the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the
recording for each answer in the space provided. (20 pts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULJpyBbqpw

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 TOP 5 DEADLIEST PANDEMIC DISEASES

1. Smallpox
• first emerged around 400BC
• caused 1.______________________ all over the body
• the only disease declared to be 2.______________________
2. Bubonic Plague
• also known as the 3.______________________
• caused by a bacterium spread by 4.______________________
• 5.______________________, called buboes, occurred in the body
3. The Spanish Flu
• began and ended in a 6.______________________
• filled the lungs of patients with 7.______________________
4. Malaria
• categorized as a blood disease
• caused by 8.______________________
• Anopheles mosquitoes would 9.______________________ infected blood and pass
it on to the next person they bite
5. HIV/AIDS
• often sexually transmitted
• HIV 10.______________________ the immune system
Part 4. Listen to the introduction about Manham Port and answer the questions. Write
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. (10pts)-
IELTS 10- Listening Test 4
1. What caused Manham’s sudden expansion during the Industrial Revolution?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. Why did rocks have to be sent away from Manham to be processed?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. What happened when the port declined in the twentieth century?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. What did the Manham Trust hope to do?

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. What is the name of the beautiful old sailing ketch near the school?
……………………………………………………………………………….
Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Part 1: Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes (20 pts) (WORD PERFECT + OLYMPIC 30-4)
1. The science teacher asked the class to _____ the results of their experiment on a graph.
A. draw B. illustrate C. plot D. sketch
2. She's such a ______ of strength that everyone relies on her in a crisis.
A. tower B. pillar C. post D. support
3. Tom was able to ______ a pretty picture of the situation and impressed his manager.
A. paint B. draw C. present D. make
4. It is far too easy to lay the blame ______ on the shoulders of the management.
A. flatly B. willingly C. squarely D. perfectly
5. David has a(n) ______ to fainting at the sight of blood.
A. inclination B. predilection C. predisposition D. penchant
6. The school committee paid ______ to their famous former pupil by naming the new
gym after her.
A. esteem B. homage C. honour D. respect
7. After his long illness, the old man appeared so thin and ______ that a gust of wind
might have blown him away.
A. flimsy B. faint C. withered D. frail
8. You could tell that she wasn't happy about the news by the way she ______ her face in
disapproval.
A. came on B. brought round C. settled for D. screwed up
9. Going to the unemployment office and having to wait there for hours is a ______
experience.
A. soul-destroying B. heart-stopping C. power-sharing D. thought-provoking
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10. ______ a language family is a group of languages with a common origin and similar
vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems.
A. Linguists call it B. It is called by linguists
C. What linguists call D. What do linguists call
11. ________, the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather.
A. Leaving uncovered B. Having left uncovered
C. Left uncovered D. Been left uncovered
12. The contemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly _______ note.
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive D. disconcerting
13. Both of the jobs I’ve been offered are fantastic opportunities – I’m in such _______!
A. a constituency B. a deviation C. an arrhythmia D. a quandary
14. Sharon is such a positive person – she _______ her problems, whatever they are.
A. goes light on B. throws light to C. makes light of D. sheds light upon
15. The brother and sister were ________ over who would get to inherit the beach house.
A. at large B. at odds C. at a standstill D. at a loose end
16. ________ that Kim was getting married, we were sorry she’d be leaving home.
A. Delighted though we were B. As we were delighted
C. However delighted were we D. As we were so delighted
17. Peter’s so ________! I think he’d think things through a little more carefully.
A. impulsive B. repulsive C. compulsive D. expulsive
18. I’ve yet ________ a person as Theo.
A. to meet as infuriating B. to have met such infuriating
C. been meeting as infuriating D. been meeting such infuriating
19. Sniffer dogs are able to locate survivors beneath the rubble with ________ .
A. precision B. correctness C. meticulousness D. exactitude
20. The locks to the doors of the building are controlled ________ .
A. mainly B. centrally C. solidly D. completely
Part 2: Supply the correct form of the word provided in blankets in each sentence.
(10 pts)
1-2. Complaining consists of (SOCIAL) _______ moaning and groaning which leads to
(TRUST) _______ and unnecessary arguments within relationships.

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3. Thanks to plentiful fish, none of the islanders suffer from (NUTRIENT) _______.
4. I was at a difficult point of my life when I felt (ILLUSION) _________ by both work
and home life
5. I talked to various friends, most of whom soon got tired of my (WHIMSY) _________
rambling and indecisiveness.
6. It is estimated that between three to five million Britons suffer from such phobias, and the
majority of these people do not (GO) _________ form of treatment.
7. Men are less likely to suffer from such fears than women, but attempts by either men or
women simply to (REGARD) _______them can exacerbate the problem.
8. Behavioral therapy is decidedly a safe and lasting (ALTERNATE) ________to drug
treatment.
9. What contributes to her business success is that she always (WIT) her opponent
10. Many streets in Hanoi were flooded and (PASS) after it had rained for 2 hours
on end.
C. READING (60 pts)
Part 1: Read the text below and think of one word which best fits each space. Use only
ONE WORD for each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (15 pts) – Toward proficiency
SEASON AND BABY SIZE
People born in certain months of the year tend to be taller than those born in others.
This discovery was (1) __________ in a recent study carried out at the Danish
Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen.
The researchers looked at the height and weight details (2) __________birth of over a
million Danes born in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and found that a child born in April is,
on average, nearly two centimeters taller than one born in December. As (3) __________ as
being taller, the April baby is also likely to be heavier, and the odds (4) __________ that he
or she will remain bigger throughout life.
The study also shows that (5) __________ children born in December tend to be the
smallest, the size of those born in June and July is also well below (6) __________ of the
April babies. In these two midsummer months, however, the difference in height and weight
is only half as much as in midwinter.

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 Similar results (7) __________ these emerged from a separate study in Australia.
There they found that by the time children reached 18, the gap between the April and the
December ones had increased to about five centimeters.
Another seasonal variation that (8) __________ to light concerned actual birth dates.
Winter babies, it was discovered, were born an average of one day earlier than spring,
summer or autumn babies.
In (9) __________ of these studies were scientists able to explain these differences.
In both cases they called (10) __________ further research into the subject.
Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. For questions 1-10, read an extract from an article and choose the answer A, B,
C or D that fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)- Toefl IBT Practice Test 2
Green Iceberg Icebergs are massive blocks of ice, irregular in shape; they float with only
about 12 per cent of their mass above the sea surface. They are formed by glaciers—large
rivers of ice that begin inland in the snows of Greenland, Antarctica, and Alaska—and move
slowly toward the sea. The forward movement, the melting at the base of the glacier where
it meets the ocean, and waves and tidal action cause blocks of ice to break off and float out
to sea.
Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque
because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light
conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this
colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. However,
travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea
and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica.
One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical illusion when blue
ice is illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs stand out among white and
blue icebergs under a great variety of light conditions. Another suggestion is that the colour
might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds, including copper and iron.
Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical,
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cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along
the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples provide a different solution to
the problem.
The ice shelf cores, with a total length of 215 meters (705 feet), were long enough to
penetrate through glacial ice—which is formed from the compaction of snow and contains
air bubbles—and to continue into the clear, bubble-free ice formed from seawater that
freezes onto the bottom of the glacial ice. The properties of this clear sea ice were very
similar to the ice from the green iceberg. The scientists concluded that green icebergs form
when a two-layer block of shelf ice breaks away and capsizes (turns upside down), exposing
the bubble-free shelf ice that was formed from seawater.
A green iceberg that stranded just west of the Amery Ice Shelf showed two distinct layers:
bubbly bluewhite ice and bubble-free green ice separated by a onemeter-long ice layer
containing sediments. The green ice portion was textured by seawater erosion. Where cracks
were present, the colour was light green because of light scattering; where no cracks were
present, the colour was dark green. No air bubbles were present in the green ice, suggesting
that the ice was not formed from the compression of snow but instead from the freezing of
seawater. Large concentrations of single-celled organisms with green pigments (colouring
substances) occur along the edges of the ice shelves in this region, and the seawater is rich
in their decomposing organic material. The green iceberg did not contain large amounts of
particles from these organisms, but the ice had accumulated dissolved organic matter from
the seawater. It appears that unlike salt, dissolved organic substances are not excluded from
the ice in the freezing process. Analysis shows that the dissolved organic material absorbs
enough blue wavelengths from solar light to make the ice appear green.
Chemical evidence shows that platelets (minute flat portions) of ice form in the water and
then accrete and stick to the bottom of the ice shelf to form a slush (partially melted snow).
The slush is compacted by an unknown mechanism, and solid, bubble-free ice is formed
from water high in soluble organic substances. When an iceberg separates from the ice shelf
and capsizes, the green ice is exposed.
The Amery Ice Shelf appears to be uniquely suited to the production of green icebergs.
Once detached from the ice shelf, these bergs drift in the currents and wind systems

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surrounding Antarctica and can be found scattered among Antarctica’s less colourful
icebergs.
1. According to paragraph 1, all of the following are true of icebergs EXCEPT:
A. They do not have a regular shape.
B. They are formed where glaciers meet the ocean.
C. Most of their mass is above the sea surface.
D. Waves and tides cause them to break off glaciers.
2. According to paragraph 2, what causes icebergs to sometimes appear dark or
opaque?
A. A heavy cloud cover
B. The presence of gravel or bits of rock
C. The low angle of the Sun above the horizon
D. The presence of large cracks in their surface
3. Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the the
bolded sentence in paragraph 3?
A. One explanation notes that green icebergs stand out among other icebergs under a great
variety of light conditions, but this is attributed to an optical illusion.
B. One explanation for the colour of green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical
illusion that occurs when the light from a near-horizon red Sun shines on a blue iceberg.
C. One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to a great variety of light
conditions, but green icebergs stand out best among other icebergs when illuminated by a
near-horizon red Sun.
D. One explanation attributes the colour of green icebergs to an optical illusion under
special light conditions, but green icebergs appear distinct from other icebergs under a great
variety of light conditions.
4. According to paragraph 4, how is glacial ice formed?
A. By the compaction of snow
B. By the freezing of seawater on the bottom of ice shelves
C. By breaking away from the ice shelf
D. By the capsizing of a two-layer block of shelf ice

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5. Ice shelf cores helped scientists explain the formation of green icebergs by showing
that
A. the ice at the bottom of green icebergs is bubble-free ice formed from frozen seawater
B. bubble-free ice is found at the top of the ice shelf
C. glacial ice is lighter and floats better than sea ice
D. the clear sea ice at the bottom of the ice shelf is similar to ice from a green iceberg
6. Why does the author mention that “The green ice portion was textured by seawater
erosion”?
A. To explain why cracks in the iceberg appeared light green instead of dark green
B. To suggest that green ice is more easily eroded by seawater than white ice is
C. To support the idea that the green ice had been the bottom layer before capsizing
D. To explain how the air bubbles had been removed from the green ice
7. Which of the following is NOT explained in the passage?
A. Why blocks of ice break off where glaciers meet the ocean
B. Why blocks of shelf ice sometimes capsize after breaking off
C. Why green icebergs are commonly produced in some parts of Antarctica
D. Why green icebergs contain large amounts of dissolved organic pigments
8. The passage supports which of the following statements about the Amery Ice Shelf?
A. The Amery Ice Shelf produces only green icebergs.
B. The Amery Ice Shelf produces green icebergs because its ice contains high levels of
metallic compounds such as copper and iron.
C. The Amery Ice Shelf produces green icebergs because the seawater is rich in a particular
kind of soluble organic material.
D. No green icebergs are found far from the Amery Ice Shelf.
9. Scientists have differed as to whether icebergs appear green as a result of light
conditions or because of something in the ice itself. Where would the sentence best fit?
A. Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque
because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light
conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this
colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. Scientists
have differed as to whether icebergs appear green as a result of light conditions or because

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of something in the ice itself. However, travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported
seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice
Shelf in East Antarctica. One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to an
optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs
stand out among white and blue icebergs under a great variety of light conditions. Another
suggestion is that the colour might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds,
including copper and iron. Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs
and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the
glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples
provide a different solution to the problem.
B. Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque
because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light
conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this
colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. However,
travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea
and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. Scientists have
differed as to whether icebergs appear green as a result of light conditions or because of
something in the ice itself. One explanation for green icebergs attributes their colour to an
optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs
stand out among white and blue icebergs under a great variety of light conditions. Another
suggestion is that the colour might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds,
including copper and iron. Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs
and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the
glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples
provide a different solution to the problem.
C. Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque
because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light
conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this
colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. However,
travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea
and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. One explanation for

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green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a
near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs stand out among white and blue icebergs under a
great variety of light conditions. Scientists have differed as to whether icebergs appear green
as a result of light conditions or because of something in the ice itself. Another suggestion is
that the colour might be related to ice with high levels of metallic compounds, including
copper and iron. Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice
cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice
shelves along the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples provide a
different solution to the problem.
D. Icebergs are ordinarily blue to white, although they sometimes appear dark or opaque
because they carry gravel and bits of rock. They may change colour with changing light
conditions and cloud cover, glowing pink or gold in the morning or evening light, but this
colour change is generally related to the low angle of the Sun above the horizon. However,
travellers to Antarctica have repeatedly reported seeing green icebergs in the Weddell Sea
and, more commonly, close to the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. One explanation for
green icebergs attributes their colour to an optical illusion when blue ice is illuminated by a
near-horizon red Sun, but green icebergs stand out among white and blue icebergs under a
great variety of light conditions. Another suggestion is that the colour might be related to ice
with high levels of metallic compounds, including copper and iron. Scientists have differed
as to whether icebergs appear green as a result of light conditions or because of something
in the ice itself. Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice
cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice
shelves along the Antarctic continent. Analyses of these cores and samples provide a
different solution to the problem.
10. Several logical suggestions have been offered to explain why some icebergs appear
green EXCEPT
A. Ice cores were used to determine that green icebergs were formed from the compaction
of metallic compounds, including copper and iron.
B. Green icebergs form when a two-layer block of ice breaks away from a glacier and
capsizes, exposing the bottom sea ice to view.

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C. Ice cores and samples revealed that both ice shelves and green icebergs contain a layer of
bubbly glacial ice and a layer of bubble-free sea ice.
D. In a green iceberg, the sea ice contains large concentrations of organic matter from the
seawater.
Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13 pts)
https://collegedunia.com/news/e-482-does-water-have-memory-ielts-reading-sample-
with-explanation
Does water have memory?
The practice of homeopathy was first developed by the German physician Samuel
Hahnemann. During research in the 1790s, Hahnemann began experimenting with quinine,
an alkaloid derived from cinchona bark that was well known at the time to have a positive
effect on fever. Hahnemann started dosing himself with quinine while in a state of good
health, and reported in his journals that his extremities went cold, he experienced
palpitations, an “infinite anxiety”, a trembling and weakening of the limbs, reddening
cheeks and thirst – “in short”, he concluded, “all the symptoms of relapsing fever presented
themselves successively...” Hahnemann’s main observation was that things which create
problems for healthy people cure those problems in sick people, and this became his first
principle of homeopathy: simila similibus (with help from the same). While diverging from
the principle of apothecary practice at the time – which was contraria contrariis (with help
from the opposite) – the efficacy of simila similibus was reaffirmed by subsequent
developments in the field of vaccinations.
Hahnemann’s second principle was minimal dosing – treatments should be taken in the
most diluted form at which they remain effective. This negated any possible toxic effects of
simila similibus.
In 1988 the French immunologist Jacques Benveniste took minimal dosing to new extremes
when he published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Nature in which he suggested
that very high dilutions of the anti-lgE antibody could affect human basophil granulocytes,
the least common of the granulocytes that make up about 0.01% to 0.3% of white blood
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cells. The point of controversy, however, was that the water in Benveniste’s test had been so
diluted that any molecular evidence of the antibodies no longer existed. Water molecules,
the researcher concluded, had a biologically active component that a journalist later termed
“water memory”. A number of efforts from scientists in Britain, France and the Netherlands
to duplicate Benveniste’s research were unsuccessful, however, and to this day no peer-
reviewed study under broadly accepted conditions has been able to confirm the validity of
“water memory”.
The third principle of homeopathy is “the single remedy.” Exponents of this principle
believe that it would be too difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the potential effects of
multiple homeopathic remedies delivered simultaneously. If it did work, they suggest, one
could not know quite why it worked, turning homeopathy into an ambiguous guessing
game. If it did not work, neither patient nor practitioner would know whether the ingredients
were all ineffective, or whether they were only ineffective in combination with one another.
Combination remedies are gaining in popularity, but classical homeopaths who rely on the
single remedy approach warn these are not more potent, nor do they provide more treatment
options. The availability of combination remedies, these homeopaths suggest, has been led
by consumers wanting more options, not from homeopathic research indicating their
efficacy.
Homeopathy is an extremely contentious form of medicine, with strong assertions coming
from both critics and supporters of the practice. “Homeopathy: There’s nothing in it”
announces the tagline to 10:23, a major British anti-homeopathy campaign. At 10.23 a.m.
on 30 January 2010, over 400 supporters of the 10:23 stood outside Boots pharmacies and
swallowed an entire bottle each of homeopathic pills in an attempt to raise awareness about
the fact that these remedies are made of sugar and water, with no active components. This,
defenders of homeopathy say, is entirely the point. Homeopathic products do not rely on
ingredients that become toxic at high doses, because the water retains the “memory” that
allows the original treatment to function.
Critics also point out the fact that homeopathic preparations have no systematic design to
them, making it hard to monitor whether or not a particular treatment has been efficacious.
Homeopaths embrace this. While results may be less certain, they argue, the non-toxic
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something that works without concern for side effects. Traditional medicine, they argue,
assaults the body with a cocktail of drugs that only tackles the symptoms of disease, while
homeopathy has its sights aimed on the causes. Homeopaths suggest this approach leads to
kinder, gentler, more effective treatment.
Finally, critics allege that when homeopathy has produced good results, these are
exceedingly dependent on the placebo effect, and cannot justify the resources, time and
expense that the homeopathic tradition absorbs. The placebo effect is a term that describes
beneficial outcomes from a treatment that can be attributed to the patient’s expectations
concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itself. Basically, the patient “thinks”
himself into feeling better. Defenders suggest that homeopathy can go beyond this
psychological level. They point to the successful results of homeopathy on patients who are
unconscious at the time of treatment, as well as on animals.
For questions 1-7, decide whether the following statements are True (T), False (F) or
Not Given (NG). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. Samuel Hahnemannn developed his principles based on an existent set of rules at his
time.
2. The existence of a biologically active part in water has yet to be conclusively proven.
3. The single remedy serves to preclude the unforeseeable outcomes of remedial
combinations.
4. It has been suggested that the practice of applying several treatments at the same time
becomes more common due to endorsements by scientists.
5. The uncertainty of preparations for homeopathy is perceived by both supporters and
opponents of it.
6. Patients’ feelings are affected by the outcomes of the treatments they receive.
7. Abortive attempts of homeopathic treatment are used to corroborate its opponents’
arguments.
Your answers.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

For questions 8-13, complete the following paragraph with words taken from the
passage (NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank).

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 There are three principles behind the practice of homeopathy. The first one, simila
similibus, was developed by Samuel Hahnemann after experimentation in which he
observed that problem-inducing factors could become treatments for suffering people.
While marking a departure from that of (8) ________________, this principle of
homeopathy was substantiated by further advancements. The second principle, minimal
dosing, serves to avert (9) _______________ that can be caused by simila similibus. The
attempt for its furtherance was made by Jacques Benveniste, but controversy was sparked as
there was a lack of (10) _______________ in the used water. Moreover, a result from his
experiment termed “water memory” had received (11) _______________ to the moment of
writing. The third principle named “the single remedy” works on the ground that application
of multiple treatments at the same time can make homeopathy become a(n) (12)
_______________ even when the results are desirable.
Homeopathy is a controversial remedy. While there are arguments in favour of it,
critics have suggested weaknesses in the treatment including its components, lack of
systemic design and the reliance on (13) _______________ of its feasible positive effects.

Part 4. In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. For questions 1-
10, read the passage and choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap.
There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered box provided. (7 pts)
Towards proficiency student’s book.
Page: 138-139

HIGH – TECH CRIME OF THE FUTURE

It begins with a beam of high-intensity radiation. Silent and invisible. It disables the
electronics of the alarm and telephone system of the bank manager's house, and then the
gang bursts in. Wearing identical clothes and caps to confuse the CCTV and communicating
by untraceable mobile phones, the gang of four London criminals incapacitate everyone in
the house with stun guns.

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This, law enforcement experts believe, is the future of organised crime where villains will
use a combination of cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned brute force to defeat
increasingly sophisticated security systems. Rather than coshes and sawn-off shotguns, the
criminals of tomorrow will be skilled in crimes that produce high profits but with a fraction
of the risk of armed robbery or smuggling. It is not far away.

2.

Kidnapping is thought to be a particular growth area. This is because new security

technologies such as retina scans and fingerprint recognition require a living subject. Long
thought to be the stuff of science fiction, such devices are becoming increasingly common.
However, one negative result is that crimes in which staff are abducted and forced to help
criminals are also set to rise.

3.

Commodities traded by the organised criminals of tomorrow will also change. Increasing
profits will lead to a search for effective money-laundering solutions. Small, high-value
items such as computer chips, rare metals and even meteorite fragments will be traded
between gangs in an effort to avoid leaving electronic trails.

4.

Senior National Criminal Intelligence Service analysts are also warning of the threat of
digital stimulants, illegally transmitted across the internet. These could create new forms of
addiction far worse than that sometimes caused by interactive PC games.

5.

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Instead, users will hook up to machines which will directly stimulate the pleasure centres of
the brain. Some may go further and have silicon chips implanted in their bodies.

6.

A silicon chip implanted into the body will be able to pick up a signal transmitted across the
Internet, or using radio waves. It will give extremes of pleasure more addictive than the
most intense virtual-reality experiences – and be controlled by criminals.

7.

'Cyberspace offers criminals opportunities to create unprecedented and terrible new forms
of addiction,' said Professor Warwick. 'The question is not whether electronic stimulants can
be created, but how soon they can be put on the market.'
The missing paragraphs:
A. With the price of computer memory chips having risen 400 per cent recently, police
believe a new spate or robberies and factory break-ins is just around the corner.
B. 'The purpose of organised crime is to generate profits,' says one expert. 'To identity the
key areas of criminality in the future, you simply have to identify the areas that will be
generating the most money. Biotechnology and information technology are the two biggest
revolutions of this century, and we have to look at each of them and see where the potential
for money is from the criminal point of view. Organised crime will become more
sophisticated and more networked, and it is the challenge of law enforcement to look where
those networks may expand in the future.'
C. Last year Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at Reading University, had a chip
implanted in his left elbow which allowed computers to communicate directly with his
body. He could switch machines on and off simply by scratching his head.
D. Murders of this sort, unfortunately, are likely to become less common. Increased
penalties for carrying firearms, along with an greatly increased likelihood of being shot dead
by armed police, will lead to more criminals using non-lethal weapons to incapacitate
victims, such as stun guns and CS gas sprays.

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E. Although the technology to deliver this kind of cyber-stimulant does not yet exist,
experts in the field admit that it is only a matter of time. Experiments on chimps and other
animals have already shown that when they are wired externally, via an electrode implanted
into the pleasure centres of the brain, they become so addicted to the sensations it produces
that they forget to eat and can die for lack of food.
F. A lap-top computer and portable palm reader is then produced and the hand of the
unconscious bank manager is placed on top. Within seconds, the gang have dialled into the
bank's computer and gained top-level access to thousands of accounts. After transferring
money the gang leaves, sealing the doors of the home with a foam which turns rock solid in
seconds, and makes its getaway in two identical vehicles equipped with anti-reflective
number plates to frustrate speed cameras.
G. At an FBI-sponsored gathering of international law enforcement agencies in Germany
last month, one NCIS officer claimed that criminals had begun to exploit areas such as
virtual banking and on-line gambling, and were now developing a new generation of
stimulants, the effects of which could be experienced without actually possessing them.
H. So,too are cases of blackmai and extortion. Although banks refuse to discuss the subject,
it is believed that there have been at least four instances of extortion in which criminals have
threatened to disrupt the systems of city institutions with high-intensity radiation devices.
Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Part 5. The passage below consists of four sections marked A, B, C and D. For
questions 1 - 10, read the passage and do the task that follows. Write your answers (A,
B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (15 pts)
Source: Objective Proficiency Workbook.
Page: 68-69

CHEER UP: LIFE ONLY GETS BETTER

Human’s capacity for solving problems has been improving out lot for 10,000 years, says
Matt Ridley

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A. The human race has expanded in 10,000 years from less than 10 million people to around
7 billion. Some live in even worse conditions than those in the Stone Age. But the vast
majority are much better fed and sheltered, and much more likely to live to old age than
their ancestors have ever been. It is likely that by 2110 humanity will be much better off
than it is today and so will the ecology of our planet. This view, which I shall call rational
optimism, may not be fashionable but it is compelling. This belief holds that the world will
pull out of its economic and ecological crises because of the way that markets i goods,
services and ideas allow human beings to exchange and specialise for the betterment of all.
But a constant drumbeat of pessimism usually drowns out this sort of talk. Indeed, if you
dare to say the world is going to go on being better, you are considered embarassingly mad.

B. Let me make a square concession at the start: the pessimists are right when they say that
if the world continues as it is, it will end in disaster. If agriculture continues to depend on
irrigation and water stocks are depleted, then starvation will ensue. Notice the word “if”.
The world will not continue as it is. It is my proposition that the human race has become a
collective problem – solving machine which solves problems by changing its ways. It does
so through invention driven often by the marker: scarcity drives up price and that in turn
encourages the development of alternatives and efficiencies. History confirms this. When
whales grew scarce, for example, petroleum was used instead as a source of oil. The
pessimists’ mistake is extrapolating: in other words, assuming that the future is just a bigger
version of the past. In 1943 IBM’s founder Thomas Watson said there was a world market
for just five computers – his remarks were true enough at the time, when computers
weighed a ton and cost a fortune.

C. Many of today’s extreme environmentalists insist that the world has reached a ‘turning
point’ – quite unaware that their predecessors have been making the same claim for 200
years. They also maintain the only sustainable solution is to retreat – to halt economic
growth and enter progressive economic recession. This means not just that increasing your
company’s sales would be a crime, but that the failure to shrink them would be too. But all
this takes no account of the magical thing called the collective human brain. There was a
time in human history when big-brained people began to exchange things with each other,

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to become better off as a resut. Making and using tools saved time – and the state of being
‘better off’ is, at the end of the day, simply time saved. Forget dollars of gold. The true
measure of something’s worth is indeed the hours it takes to acquire it. The more humans
diversified as consumers and specified as producers, and the more they exchanged goods
and services, the better off they became. And the good news is there is no inevitable end to
this process.

D. I am aware that an enormous bubble of debt has burst around the world, with all that
entails. But is this the end of growth? Hardly. So long as somebody allocates sufficient
capital to innovation, then the credit crunch will not prevent the relentless upward march of
human living standards. Even the Great Depression of the 1930s, although an appalling
hardship for many, was just a dip in the slope of economic progress. All sorts of new
products and industries were born during the depression: by 1937, 40% of Dupont’s sales
came from products that had barely existed before 1929, such as enamels and cellulose film.
Growth will resume – unless it is stifled by the wrong policies. Somebody, somewhere, is
still tweaking a piece of software, testing a new material, of transferring a gene that will
enable new varieties of rice to be grown in African soils. The latter means some Africans
will soon be growing and and selling more food, so they will have more money to spend.
Some of them may then buy mobile phones from a western company. As a consequence of
higher sales, an employee of that western company may get a pay rise, which she may spend
on a pair of jeans made from cotton woven in an African factory. And so on. Forget wars,
famines and poems, This is history’s greatest theme: the metastasis of exchange and
specialisation.

In which section does the writer Your answers:

exemplify how short-term gloom tends to lift? 1.
mention a doom-laden prophecy that is obvious? 2.
express his hope that progress is not hindered by abominable 3.
decisions?
acknowledge trying to find common ground with his potential 4.
adversaries?

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identify unequivocally how money needs to be invested? 5.
suggest that his views are considered controversial? 6.
indicate an absurd scenario resulting from an opposing view to his 7.
own?
mention the deplorable consequences of taking a positive stance? 8.
define prosperity in life in an original approach? 9.
give an example of well-intentioned ongoing research? 10.

D. WRITING (60 pts)

Part 1: Read the following text and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary
should be about 120 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original. (15 pts)
PROMISING RESULTS FROM CANCER STUDY
A new experiment vaccine has shown promising results in the fight against lung
cancer. In a small Texas-based study, a vaccine developed by scientists at Baylor University
Medical Centre in Dallas, USA cured lung cancer in some patients and slowed the progress
of the disease in others. Researchers have reported encouraging findings from this small
study. Forty-three patients suffering from lung cancer were involved in these trials. Ten of
these patients were in the early stages and thirty-three in the advanced stages of the disease.
They were injected with the vaccine every two weeks for three months, and were carefully
monitored for three years. In three of the patients in the advanced stages of cancer, disease
disappeared and in the others, it did not spread for five to twenty-four months. However, no
great difference was seen in the patients in the early stages of the illness. This new vaccine
uses the patient’s own immune system. It is made specifically for each patient and is
injected into the arm or leg. It stimulates the body’s immune system, which then recognizes
that the cancer cells are harmful, and attacks and destroys them. The vaccine could be
effective against other forms of cancer. It offers great hope for the treatment of cancer in
general, although further studies are needed before such treatment can be widely used.
Source: Dakin, F.P. (2007) Promising results from cancer study. New Medical Journal,
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Part 2. Chart description.(15 pts)

https://www.ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2017/09/ielts-writing-task-1-two-
charts-answer.html
The charts below show reasons for travel and the main issues for the travelling public in the US in 2009.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

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Part 3: Write an essay of at least 350 words to express your opinion on the following
topic: (30 pts)
Many countries face dilemma between pursuing economic growth and protecting the
environment. In your opinion should governments in theses countries give priority to
economic growth or environmental protection?
 Your Answer

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