HỘI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI LẦN THỨ

KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI, ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC XV

BỘ MÔN THI: TIẾNG ANH – KHỐI 11
TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN LÊ QUÝ ĐÔN Ngày thi /07/2024
BÌNH ĐỊNH Thời gian làm bài 180 phút
(Đề thi gồm 17trang)

A. LISTENING (50 pts)

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
● Bài nghe gồm 4 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 20 giây, mở đầu và kết
thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
● 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 will hear an interview with Maria Stefanovich, co-founder of a creativity group which
organizes workshops for executives. Listen and choose whether the following statements are True (T),
False (F), or Not Given (NG) according to what you hear. (10 points)
1. Corporations appreciate mask-making workshops because their employees change their approach.
2. Companies are turning to creative workshops because they have acknowledged that unproductive
employees are a financial burden.
3. The employees at the firm “Play” have stereotyped ideas about their jobs.
4. The companies that show most interest in creative workshops are surprising because they never have
creative employees to begin with.
5. Maria mentions the traditional companies that have held workshops in order to point out the diversity of
those trying different approaches.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2. For questions 6-10, you will listen to a talk about TikTok. Answer the following questions with
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording. Write your answers in the space
provided. (10 pts)
6. What is TikTok facing according to the recording?
___________________________________________________
7. What did the guy in the recording start filming the hospital for?
___________________________________________________
8. What did people get when they filmed their hospitals?
___________________________________________________
9. What group is Angelo Carusone the president of?
___________________________________________________
10. What is another tactic that extremists utilize?
___________________________________________________
Part 3. For questions 11-15, listen to a radio interview in which a psychologist, Colin Fraser, talks about
cultural identity and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (10 pts)
11. When discussing his own cultural identity, Colin reveals
A. his resilience to changing cultures. B. his unorthodox family background.
C. his ability to adapt. D. his feeling of alienation.
12. What does Colin regard as the defining aspect of a person’s cultural identity?
A. the sense of birth right B. the emotion it generates
C. the physical proximity to heritage D. the symbols of tradition
13. What is the influence of a culture attributed to?
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A. the dissemination of wisdom B. connection between societies
C. knowledge of one’s background D. the practice of archaic rituals
14. According to Colin, what makes a culture successful on the global scene?
A. its capacity for tolerance B. its isolation from the mainstream
C. its aptitude for resolving conflicts D. its ability to be self-effacing
15. During the conversation, Colin is
A. distinguishing between birthplace and residence.
B. advocating the celebration of heritage.
C. highlighting the differences in societies.
D. addressing the issues raised by conflicting cultures.

Your answers
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a report on G7 Summit held in France 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)

- The leaders of the major industrialised democracies have gathered in France for the G7 summit in an
attempt to 16.____________________ amid sharp differences over a clutch of global issues that risk further
dividing a group of countries already struggling to 17.____________________.
- Speaking before the presumably 18.____________________ summit, the European Council President
acknowledged it would be hard to find common ground at a time when 19.____________________ has
never been more important
- A grim array of disputes and problems await the leaders, with a trade war between China and the United
States deteriorating, European governments struggling to uphold the collapsing 20.___________________,
and global condemnation growing over illegal fires which are 21.___________________ the Amazon.
- Trudeau sat down with British Prime Minister for discussions that focused on post-Brexit
22.___________________. Trudeau also met with Japanese Prime Minister, where he highlighted strong ties
forged with G7 allies as a 23.___________________.
- Donald Trump threatened to introduce high tariffs on French 24.___________________ in retaliation for
French president Emmanuel Macron’s tax on global technology companies. Emmanuel Macron has said he
hopes to convince world leaders to pull back from trade war and 25.___________________ at the G7
summit, despite signs that will be a daunting task

II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (3.0 points)

Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and write your answer
(A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.

1. They can pay us what they like. They know they have us over a ____.
A. barrel B. drum C. keg D. hogshead
2. The thieves got away with a ____ of jewellery worth millions of pounds.
A. plunder B. haul C. snatch D. loot
3. He came into the room and sat down without ____ a word to anyone.
A. as far as B. too much of C. very much of D. so much as
4. Little did I imagine The Amazing Race would entail long-winded journeys and ups and downs ____.
A. aplenty B. inexhaustibly C. profusely D. superabundant
5. It stands to reason that a touch of humour and optimism can work ____.
A. on all cylinders B. spectacles C. wonders D. your bones
6. Just take a look at his neat appearance. It sticks out ____ that he is a big shot.
A. a kilometre B. an inch C. a yard D. a mile
7. I did my ____ best to apologise for the mistake, but I couldn't soften Judy up by even the most honest
explanation.
A. level B. utmost C. irregular D. extreme
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8. Before the policeman even thought about the chase, the motorcyclist was a long way away. He must have
been riding ____.
A. at full stretch B. at a fair lick C. at loggerheads D. at ease
9. The newspapers wrote that our team had given a good ____ of themselves in the semi-final.
A. performance B. account C. display D. triumph
10. Several of the new bills are still _____. That is why the enactment of the new penal code has been
delayed.
A. on the cheap B. in the pineline C. in the wing D. on the double
11. Union leaders called for _____ between themselves and the government.
A. speeches B. elections C. debates D. consultations
12. David has just finished a ____ compulsory military service.
A. bout B. stint C. patch D. spurt
13. It’s no good constantly complaining but at the same time being totally ____. You have to do something to
help yourself.
A. idle B. engaged C. apathetic D. languid
14. The Government intends to introduce a new Bill on taxation, ____
A. whose provisions will be the work of experts on both sides of the House will be study
B. of which the study of its provisions will be the work of experts on both sides of the House
C. the work of experts on both sides of the House will be the study of its provisions
D. the study of whose provisions will be the work of experts on both sides of the House
15. ___________, there’s no place like home.
A. Be it ever so humble B. Should it be humble
C. As humble as it could be D. To be humble
16. When I was a child I always hated wearing my older brother’s ____.
A. let-offs B. cast-offs C. drop-offs D. hand-offs
17. - I think that Mick will leave his new job before the year is out.
- Yes, I agree. I don’t think he’ll _____ either.
A. stay the course B. relieved of his duties C. get the sack D. rake industrial action
18. –“Did the kids enjoy the circus?”
–“Absolutely! The clown got them _____ all the time.”
A. laugh B. to be laughing C. to laugh D. laughing
19. State officials are confident that Missouri has been put on a course ______ of states that have sued
tobacco companies to recover damages.
A. to join scores B. joining a scoring C. joins score D. joining a score.
20. His educational theories are hotly _______.
A. disapproved B. perceived C. received D. contested

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space provided.
1. The Government in particular and society in general is ________________________ to assist the
construction industry to perform satisfactorily. (DUTY)
2. Mutations in the transmembrane domain of FGFR3 cause the most common genetic form of
______________________. (DWARF)
3. Saracens' experience and speed was too much for them and it was a case of
_____________________________ at critical moments which restricted the score to just two tries each half.
(FINGER)
4. Entirely new organizations of industrial and political struggle must be built that are independent of and
opposed to this degenerate and _______________________ apparatus. (BUREAU)
5. The need to develop a medication that is consistently effective for cocaine abuse has brought attention to
another class of agents called _______________________ amino acid antagonists. (EXCITE)

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6. Amidst the theatrical brilliance, the virtuoso performer ingeniously incorporated a __________________
seamlessly intertwining slapstick with high artistry, leaving the audience bewildered and captivated. (PRAT)
7. The natural relationship is a ___________________________ one, in which free trade and free markets
benefit all the actors involved. (SUM)
8. I have rarely heard either of them say anything that was not _____________________ obvious.
(PLATITUDE)
9. The medieval monastery housed a meticulously organized _________________________ where monks
diligently copied and illuminated manuscripts. (INSCRIBE)
10. In the brilliance of direct sunlight, the soap bubbles exhibited a mesmerizing ____________________,
reflecting a kaleidoscope of vivid hues. (DESCENT)

III. READING (6.0 points)

Part 1: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the
space provided.
ADVICE FOR ASPIRING JOURNALISTS
Getting a newspaper job is one of the biggest challenges you will face in becoming a breadwinning
news-writer. You might (1) _____________________ want to hear it, but for (2) _________________
opening in a newsroom, there are, on (3) ___________________, fifty qualified applicants. On the up side,
editors are always eager to hear from those who have a solid (4) ____________________. and who
demonstrate the talents and skills of journalism. Your (5) ____________________. of landing an
apprenticeship or your first full-time job are enhanced if you prepare carefully. When preparing your
curriculum vitae, go through your personal background to identify experiences that will make you stand out
from the (6) ____________________. applicants. Travel, educational specialties, volunteer (7)
____________________, knowledge of languages or different cultures are experiences that could give you
that leading edge (8) ____________________ the competition.
Before you apply, (9) ____________________. time with the newspaper you're hoping to write for. You
might find past issues in your college or journalism school library, or you could get a one-month
subscription. Read the paper, then study it. Is it well organised? Are features and sections easy to locate?
Does it carry information that is useful to someone new to the area? Are the stories interesting, informative
and balanced? Jot down your impressions on the paper's strengths and weaknesses. Learn the basics about the
paper: (10) ____________________ major market, circulation, history and traditions.

Part 2: For questions 1-10, read the following 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.

THE PRINT REVOLUTION

For more than five thousand years, from the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt, people in the
West wrote by hand. Imperial degrees, sacred scriptures, commercial transactions, private letters - all
required the skills of a select group of scribes, clerks, or monks. In Korea and China, however, mechanical
printing using carved wooden blocks had been introduced by A.D. 750. Moveable type, using characters
made of baked clay, was invented in China in the eleventh century. But the Chinese continued to prefer
block printing well into the modern period. Written Chinese consists of thousands of ideographic characters.
The labor of creating, organizing, and setting so many different bits of type made it much simpler to cut
individual pages from a single wooden block. European languages, which can be written with fewer than a
hundred characters, were much better adapted to printing with moveable, reusable type.
It appears that the Mongol armies brought examples of Chinese printing - the Venetian Marco Polo
described seeing paper money during his travels - to western Asia and Europe at the end of the thirteenth
century. In the early fourteenth century, European began using block printing techniques to produce
religious images, short prayers, and even decks of playing cards. As with Chinese printing, European block
printing was a slow and expensive process for printing large numbers of varied texts. The print revolution
had to wait another century, until the innovations of the German goldsmith Johan Gutenberg (ca. 1399 –
1468).
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Gutenberg drew on his knowledge of metallurgy to devise a lead-tin-copper alloy that could be cast into
durable, reusable type. His crucial invention was a type mold consisting of a flat strip of metal - stamped in
the same way a coin is minted, leaving the impression of a single letter - inserted in the bottom of a
rectangular brass of box held together by screws. Molten metal was poured into it, producing a single piece
of type. An experienced type founder could produce up to six hundred pieces of type a day. No wooden-
block carver could have approached that rate. [A] To solve the remaining problems, Gutenberg adapted the
screw press commonly used to produce linen, paper, and wine to make a printing press. [B] He followed the
example of Flemish painters by adding linseed oil to the ink to make it thick enough to adhere uniformly to
the metal type.
In 1455, the Gutenberg Bible was published in Mainz., Germany - but not by Gutenberg. After years of
costly experimentation, Gutenberg was forced to turn over his equipment and newly printed Bibles to his
partner and creditor, the wealthy merchant and moneylender Johann Fust. [C]
The new technology, which enabled printers to create a thousand or more copies in a single print run, was
highly efficient. Simple printed school texts cost only a quarter of the price of hand- copied texts. The
leading bookseller in the university town of Bologna managed to stock ten thousand copies of texts,
treatises, and commentaries. By 1500, even street singers sold printed copies of their songs. [D]
Gutenberg’s invention was revolutionary because, for the first time, the same information and ideas were
available throughout Europe at virtually the same time. The great Venetian printer Aldus Manutius
(1450-1515) produced over 120,000 volumes, many in the new, smaller, easily portable “octavo” format -
about 6 by 9 inches. Books from the Aldine Press and other humanistic publishers played a decisive role in
spreading humanism to parts of Europe where manuscript books were difficult to acquire.
Moreover, book owning was no longer the exclusive preserve of scholars. This was all the more true
because printers included on their lists of works in vernacular languages, not just the ancient classics. The
very popularity of printed vernacular texts affected language. William Caxton (1422 – 1492), for example,
began printing books in English in 1472. His pioneering work helped standardize modern English, just as
the publication of Martin Luther’s German translation of the Bible in 1522 would standardize modern
German. The advent of printing had other far-reaching consequences: it promoted the increase of literacy
throughout Europe.
By the eighteenth century, printed books had changed the nature of popular culture. Myths, folk songs, and
popular histories were traditionally passed by word of mouth, often changing in the telling to fit the time
and place. Once they appeared in print, they could no longer be performed and refashioned, only recited.
Printing not only changed the way information was transmitted but also changed the character of the
information itself.
1. With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned?
A. A comparison of religious and humanistic publications
B. A history of the printing process worldwide
C. An account of Gutenberg’s inventions
D. The effects of books on the history of Europe
2. How was popular culture affected by printing?
A. The oral tradition required editing of printed documents
B. More folk histories were preserved.
C. Stories and songs changed less often.
D. Traditional performers became more popular.
3. The word character in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.
A. popularity B. nature C. truth D. difficulty
4. The word it in the third paragraph refers to ______.
A. box B. letter C. impression D. coin
5. According to the passage, how did Europeans learn about block printing?
A. The Egyptians used the blocks for documents that the Europeans received.
B. A German goldsmith invented it at the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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C. It was first devised in Europe in order to print paper money.
D. They saw examples that were brought from China by explorers and soldiers.
6. Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the bold and underlined statement
in the passage?
A. Scholars owned more books than other people.
B. Scholars were not the only people who could own books.
C. Scholars preserved books for use by other people.
D. Scholars owned some exclusive books.
7.The author mentions all of the following advantages of the print revolution EXCEPT ______.
A. the restoration of manuscripts B. the advancement of literacy
C. the dissemination of humanism D. the standardization of English
8. It can be inferred that Gutenberg ______.
A. had probably traveled to China and western Asia
B. did not live to see his invention succeed
C. was a painter before he became an inventor
D. worked for a long time to perfect his painting process
9. The four squares [A], [B], [C], and [D] indicate where the following sentence can be added to the
passage.
Although he did not receive the financial remuneration that he deserved, history has recorded his name
among the most influential inventors of all time.
Where would the sentence best fit into the passage?
A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]
10. An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. And three other options
express the most important ideas in the passage to complete the summary. Choose ONE option that does not
belong to the summary.
Printing not only changed the way information was transmitted but also changed the character of the
information itself.
A. Gutenberg devised reusable type for European languages to replace the block printing that was more
appropriate for Asian languages.
B. Block printing continued to be used to print paper money in most of the European countries.
C. Information and ideas were made available throughout Europe to a large number of people at virtually
the same time.
D. Many changes in literacy and vernacular languages occurred as a result of the printing press.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.

THE BIRTH OF SUBURBIA

A. There is no single pivotal moment that could be separated out from any other as the conception of the
suburban lifestyle; from the early 1800s, various types of suburban development have sprung up and evolved
in their own localised ways, from the streetcar suburbs of New York to the dormitory towns outside of
London. It is William Levitt, however, who is generally regarded as the father of modern suburbia. During
World War II, Levitt served in the United States Navy where he developed expertise in the mass construction
of military housing, a process that he streamlined using uniform and interchangeable parts. In 1947, the
budding developer used this utilitarian knowledge to begin work with his father and architect brother
constructing a planned community on Long Island, New York. With an emphasis on speed, efficiency, and
cost-effective production, the Levitts were soon able to produce over 30 units a day.

B. William Levitt correctly predicted the demand for affordable, private, quiet, and comfortable homes from
returning Gls after World War II and with the baby boom starting to kick in. All the original lots sold out in a
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matter of days, and by 1951, nearly 18,000 homes in the area had been constructed by the Levitt & Sons
Company. Levittown quickly became the prototype of mass-produced housing, spurring the construction of
similar projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and even Puerto Rico, followed by a new industry, and soon a
new way of life and a new ideal for the American family.

C. One of the major criticisms of suburbia is that it can lead to isolation and social dislocation. With
properties spread out over great swathes of land, sealed off from one another by bushes, fences and trees, the
emphasis of suburban life is placed squarely on privacy rather than community. In the densely populated
urban settlements that predated suburbs (and that are still the foremost way of life for some people), activities
such as childcare and household chores as well as sources of emotional and moral support were widely
socialised. This insured that any one family would be able to draw on a pool of social resources from their
neighbours, building cohabitants and family on nearby streets. Suburbia breaks these networks down into
individual and nuclear family units resulting in an increase in antisocial behaviour even amongst the wealthy.
Teens from wealthy suburban families, for example, are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and use drugs
than their poorer urban peers, and are also more likely to experience depression and anxiety.

D. Another major problem with the suburban lifestyle is its damaging ecological impact. The
comparison of leafy, quiet, and low-density suburbs with life in the concrete towers of sooty, congested urban
conurbations is actually quite misleading; as it turns out, if you want to be kind to the natural environment,
the key is to stay away from it. Suburbia fails the environmental friendliness test on a number of counts.
Firstly, due to their low population density, suburbs consume natural land at a much higher rate than
high-density row housing or apartment buildings. Secondly, they encourage the use of personal motor
vehicles, often at a rate of one per family member, at the expense of public transport. It is also much less
efficient to provide electricity and water to individual suburban houses instead of individual units in an
apartment building. In his comparison of urban and suburban pollution, Edward L. Glaeser concluded that
we need to ―build more sky towers – especially in California‖. Virtually everywhere, he found cities to be
cleaner than suburbs. And the difference in carbon dioxide emissions between high-density cities and their
suburbs (for example, in New York) was the highest. Urban residents of New York can claim on average to
produce nearly 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide less than their suburban peers.

E. Another negative aspect of suburban life is its stifling conformity and monotony of social experience.
It was not just the nuts and bolts and the concrete foundations of suburban houses that got replicated street
upon street, block upon block, and suburb upon suburb; it was everything from the shops and cultural life to
people‘s hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Suburbia gave birth to the ―strip mall‖, a retail establishment that is
typically composed of a collection of national or global chain stores, all stocked with a centrally dictated,
homogenous array of products. The isolation and lack of interaction in suburbs has also encouraged the
popularity of television, a passively receptive medium for the viewer that, in the early days at least, offered
an extremely limited scope of cultural exposure compared with the wealth of experiences available in the
inner city. Meanwhile, much of the inner-city ―public sphere‖ has been lost with suburban flight. The public
sphere is the area of social life in which people come together to freely discuss and identify social problems.
In the city, this has traditionally occurred around newsstands, in coffee houses, salons, theatres, meeting
halls, and so on. Suburbia has not found a way to replace this special type of social experience, however.
Social meeting points in the suburbs tend to be based exclusively around specific interests such as sports or
cultural clubs, with no broad forms of daily social interaction.
F. These points do not suggest the idea of suburbia itself is flawed, but that it has not been executed in a way
that takes into account the full spectrum of human needs and desires. This likely reflects the hasty,
thrown-together nature of early suburban development. With the baby boom rippling across Western
countries and demand for family-friendly housing skyrocketing, developers and city planners were unable to
develop sophisticated models. Now, however, we should take time to consider what has gone wrong and how
we can reconfigure the suburb. How can we imbue suburban life with the lost sphere of public discussion
and debate? How can people maintain their sought-after privacy without sacrificing a sense of community?
How can we use new technologies to make suburbs environmentally friendly? These are questions for which

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 the developers of tomorrow will have to find answers in case the dream of suburbia becomes the nightmare
of disturbia.

Questions 1-5: There are six paragraphs marked A-F in the passage. In which paragraph is the following
mentioned? Write your answers in the corresponding numbered box provided.
1. A motive in constructing taller buildings
2. Where people might discuss issues of societal concern in urban locations
3. The founder of what is broadly understood as contemporary suburbs‘
4. Examples of problems suffered by the youth that suburban lifestyle can make worse
5. A model for suburban development in the latter half of the 20th century
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Questions 6-11: Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer? Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered box provided.
Write
YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NO if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this Your
answers
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

6. A good principle for ecological preservation is to avoid human interference.

7. In some countries, suburbs are more environmentally friendly than in the USA.
8. Suburban development fosters the use of both public and private forms of transport.
9. People cannot relate to each other in suburbs because their lives are too different.
10. There is not much variety amongst the goods at a strip mall.
11. Television has not tended to offer the same diversity as urban cultural outlets.

Questions 12-13: Which TWO of the following does the author conclude? Choose TWO letters A-E.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered box provided.
A. The very concept of a healthy suburban lifestyle is problematic.
B. The speed of suburban growth has contributed to its imperfections.
C. By thinking about human and ecological needs, suburbs can become better places to live.
D. Developers will have to think about ways of living that do not require suburbs.
E. Suburbs have their downsides, but they are the best way for parents to raise children.
Your answers

12. 13.

Part 4: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Choose from paragraphs A-H the
one which fits each gap 1-7. There is ONE extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

The Computer as Crook

The unsolved crime is usually hailed as the perfect crime. More often than not, however: a crime remains
unsolved thanks to a combination of poor planning and luck on the criminal's part and a faulty police
investigation. It remains unsolved because it is unrecognised and undetected as a piece of villainy.
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At the beginning of the it was estimated that there were 300,000 large computers at work in businesses in
the United States, Europe and Japan juggling enormous amounts of commodities. Unlike human clerks and
bank with all their frailties and temptations, computers could never get their sums wrong and do not possess
sticky fingers to stick into the till.

Small wonder then that it did not take long for criminals to realise the patential of getting computers onto
their side. For the computer's infallability is a double-edged sword. If crooked information is fed in at the
start of the process. impeccably crooked instructions are produced at the other end and no-one doubts the
orders the machine gives them.

A twenty-one year old high school graduate who was struggling to form his own telephone equipment
supply business, Schneider discovered secret codes which allowed him to tap into the computer controlling
the stocks in the warehouse of Pacific Bell in California. Using his own modified computer terminal at
home, he persuaded the electronic stock controller that he was a legitimate installation contractor for the
phone company and he began to order costly wiring exchange equipment from the warehouse.

With trucks painted to resemble those of the phone company. Schneider would hijack the equipment and
then return home to tap into the computer once more to give it instructions to wipe the whole transaction
from its electronic. The whole process, from the initial order being sent to it being erased, would take just a
few hours.

The embarrassing extent the losses was only admitted once police investigators had physically gone round
to the warehouse and totalled up items with old-fashioned pen and paper. No-one had been prepared to
concede that a computer insisting everything was as it should be might be wrong.

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Schneider subsequently set himself up in a new business as one of America's highest paid computer security
consultants, For fat fees. he would reveal that clients’ systems contained flaws like the ones he had
exploited, which enabled crooked computer operators to steal by remote control.

A typical opening sales pitch to prospective clients would go something like this : 'Who needs to take the
risk of leaping over a counter with a sawn-off shotgun when they can sit in the comfort of their own home
and do the same thing with a computer terminal or a telephone?

Missing paragraphs:

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A. The decision of the almighty computer is final, whether it is sending a demand for payment to a
customer who is vainly disputing a bill or releasing vast amounts of hard cash on invoices it has cleared for
payment. The computer is above suspicion.
B. The case never reached the courts. It was after all a huge embarrassment to an organisation that
needed to convince its public that their electronically calculated phone bills were accurate and Schneider,
even under lock and key, still posed a considerable threat All charges were dropped after he gave the phone
company a secret briefing on the loopholes in their system.
C. The legend of Jerry Schneider lives on in the corporate memory of every major US firm, haunting
them when noughts are added to the paychecks of imaginary staff. His picture also hangs on the walls of
hundreds of hackers operating in clandestine cyberspace.
D. The case that brought the potential for computer fraud to the attention of an unsuspecting public was
that of Jerry Schneider. He became a millionaire by defrauding the master computer of the Pacific Bell
Telephone company in Los Angeles. Schneider's crime is still unsolved. It remains a mystery as to exactly
how he fooled the electronic brain.
E. Accepting illicit instructions, the computer dispatched expensive goods to destinations throughout
the region. A typical order, for example, would be sent to a pavement beside a manhole cover where
delivery drivers dumped the bulky crates, assuming another crew would arrive later and begin installation.
F. In the criminal's quest for illegal perfection many have found a willing new accomplice who never
gets nervous about being caught and punished. who leaves no fingerprints and never demands a share of the
loot. The computer, an electronic brain without morals or scruples, is the perfect partner in crime.
G. Business boomed until an employee, angered at not being given a pay rise, tipped off the police.
Even with a red-handed suspect in custody however, officials of the phone company simply could not
conceive that Schneider had milked them of $1 million worth of stock in less than a year.
H. Those who took advantage of such peculiar insight from first-hand experience were soon to discover
that they had already been robbed blind, losing millions through computer manipulation to culprits who
could never be traced. All evidence of these crimes had long since been erased.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Part 5: Read the passage and choose the answer that fits best according to the text. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
COLONIZING THE AMERICAS VIA THE NORTHWEST COAST
It has long been accepted that the Americas were colonized by a migration of peoples from Asia slowly
traveling across a land bridge called Beringia (now the Bering strait between northeastern Asia and Alaska)
during the last Ice Age. The first water craft theory about this migration was that around 11,000-12,000 years
ago there was an ice-free corridor stretching from eastern Beringia to the areas of North America south of the
great northern glaciers. It was this midcontinental corridor between two massive ice sheets—the Laurentide
to the east and the Cordilleran to the west—that enabled the southward migration. But belief in this ice-free
corridor began to crumble when paleoecologist Glen MacDonald demonstrated that some of the most
important radiocarbon dates used to support the existence of an ice-free corridor were incorrect. He
persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice
began its final retreat.
Support is growing for the alternative theory that people using watercraft, possibly skin boats, moved
southward from Beringla along the Gulf of Alaska and then southward along the Northwest Coast of North
America possibly as early as 16,000 years ago. This route would have enabled humans to enter southern
areas of the Americas prior to the melting of the continental glaciers. Until the early 1970s, most
archaeologists did not consider the coast a possible migration route into the Americas because geologists
originally believed that during the last Ice Age the entire Northwest Coast was covered by glacial ice. It had
been assumed that the ice extended westward from the Alaskan/Canadian mountains to the very edge of the
continental shelf—the flat, submerged part of the continent that extends into the ocean. This would have
created a barrier of ice extending from the Alaska Peninsula, through the Gulf of Alaska and southward
along the Northwest Coast of North America to what is today the state of Washington.
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The most influential proponent of the coastal migration route has been Canadian archaeologist Knut
Fladmark. He theorized that with the use of watercraft, people gradually colonized unglaciated refuges and
areas along the continental shelf exposed by the lower sea level. Fladmark’s hypothesis received
additional support from the fact that the greatest diversity in Native American languages occurs along
the west coast of the Americas, suggesting that this region has been settled the longest.
More recent geologic studies documented deglaciation and the existence of ice- free areas throughout major
coastal areas of British Columbia, Canada, by 13,000 years ago. Research now Indicates that sizable areas of
southeastern Alaska along the inner continental shelf were not covered by ice toward the end of the last Ice
Age. One study suggests that except for a 250-mile coastal area between southwestern British Columbia and
Washington state, the Northwest Coast of North America was largely free of Ice by approximately 16,000
years ago. Vast areas along the coast may have been deglaciated beginning around 16,000 years ago, possibly
providing a coastal corridor for the movement of plants, animals, and humans sometime between 13,000 and
14,000 years ago.
The coastal hypothesis has gained increasing support in recent years because the remains of large land
animals, such as caribou and brown bears, have been found in southeastern Alaska dating between 10,000
and 12,500 years ago. This is the time period In which most scientists formerly believed the area to be
inhospitable for humans. It has been suggested that if the environment were capable of supporting breeding
populations of bears, there would have been enough food resources to support humans. Fladmark and others
believe that the first human colonization of America occurred by boat along the Northwest Coast during the
very late Ice Age, possibly as early as 14,000 years ago. The most recent geologic evidence indicates that It
may have been possible for people to colonize ice-free regions along the continental shelf that were still
exposed by the lower sea level between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago.
The coastal hypothesis suggests an economy based on marine mammal hunting, saltwater fishing, shellfish
gathering, and the use of watercraft. Because of the barrier of ice to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west,
and populated areas to the north, there may have been a greater impetus for people to move In a southerly
direction.

1. According to paragraph 1, the theory that people first migrated to the Americas by way of an ice-free
corridor was seriously called into question by
A. paleoecologist Glen MacDonald’s argument that the original migration occurred much later than had
previously been believed
B. the demonstration that certain previously accepted radiocarbon dates were incorrect
C. evidence that the continental ice began its final retreat much later than had previously been believed
D. research showing that the ice-free corridor was not as long lasting as had been widely assumed
2. Paragraph 2 begins by presenting a theory and then goes on to
A. discuss why the theory was rapidly accepted but then rejected
B. present the evidence on which the theory was based
C. cite evidence that now shows that the theory is incorrect
D. explain why the theory was not initially considered plausible
3. Paragraph 2 supports the idea that, before the 1970s, most archaeologists held which of the following
views about the earliest people to reach the Americas?
A. They could not have sailed directly from Beringia to Alaska and then southward because, it was thought,
glacial ice covered the entire coastal region.
B. They were not aware that the climate would continue to become milder.
C. They would have had no interest in migrating southward from Beringia until after the continental glaciers
had begun to melt.
D. They lacked the navigational skills and appropriate boats needed for long distance trips.
4. 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. Because this region has been settled the longest, it also displays the greatest diversity in Native American
languages.
B. Fladmark’s hypothesis states that the west coast of the Americas has been settled longer than any other
region.
C. The fact that the greatest diversity of Native American languages occurs along the west coast of the
Americas lends strength to Fladmark’s hypothesis.

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D. According to Fladmark, Native American languages have survived the longest along the west coast of the
Americas.
5. The author’s purpose in paragraph 4 is to
A. indicate that a number of recent geologic studies seem to provide support for the coastal hypothesis
B. indicate that coastal and inland migrations may have happened simultaneously
C. explain why humans may have reached America’s northwest coast before animals and plants did
D. show that the coastal hypothesis may explain how people first reached Alaska but it cannot explain how
people reached areas like modern British Columbia and Washington State
6. According to paragraph 5, the discovery of the remains of large land animals supports the coastal
hypothesis by providing evidence that
A. humans were changing their hunting techniques to adapt to coastal rather than inland environments
B. animals had migrated from the inland to the coasts, an indication that a midcontinental ice-free corridor
was actually implausible
C. humans probably would have been able to find enough resources along the coastal corridor
D. the continental shelf was still exposed by lower sea levels during the period when the southward
migration of people began
7. According to paragraph 5, the most recent geologic research provides support for a first colonization of
America dating as far back as
A. 16,000 years ago B. 14,000 years ago C. 12,500 years ago D. 10,000 years ago
8-10. Directions: An introductory sentence for a brief summary of the passage is provided below. Complete
the summary by selecting the THREE answer choices that express the most important ideas in the passage.
Some sentences do not belong in the summary because they express ideas that are not presented in the
passage or are minor ideas in the passage.

Recent evidence favors a rival to the long-standing theory that the Americas were colonized 11,000-12,000
years ago by people migrating south from Beringia along a mid-continental ice-free corridor.

Answer Choices
A. Evidence that an ice-free corridor between two ice sheets developed when the continental ice first began
to melt came primarily from radiocarbon dating.
B. There is growing support for the theory that migration took place much earlier, by sea, following a coastal
route along Alaska and down the northwest coast.
C. Recent geologic evidence indicates that contrary to what had been believed, substantial areas along the
coast were free of ice as early as 16,000 years ago.
D. Research now indicates that the parts of the inner continental shelf that remained covered with ice were
colonized by a variety of early human groups well adapted to living in extremely cold environments.

E. There is evidence suggesting that areas along the coast may have contained enough food resources
between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago to have made human colonization possible.
F. Even though the northern part of the continent allowed for a more varied economy, several early human
groups quickly moved south.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 5: You are going to read an article about call-centre workers who give advice to people over the
phone. For questions 1 -10, choose from the people (A – D). The call-centre workers may be chosen
more than once. Write your answers in the column on the right.

Which of the call-centre workers says that she ____

advises people on the legal backgound to a problem? 1. ____
enjoys the variety of things which people call about? 2. ____

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used to find it hard to work with only a spoken description of people’s problems? 4. ____
gets back to certain callers within a given period of time? 5. ____
has identified a regular pattern in calls on certain subjects? 6. ____
helps people to solve unexpected problems at night? 7. ____
was sorry not to be in direct touch with the people she had the skills to help? 8. ____
finds some people having unrealistic expectations of the service she can provide? 9. ____
looks forward to the challenge of unexpected individual enquiries? 10. ____

A. CLAIRE LIPPOLD, 23, works for the Bat Conservation Trust

I did a degree in biology, and studied bats as part of my thesis. When I saw the ad for this job, I thought it
would be perfect for me. We get about ten thousand calls a year, many from people worried that if they have
bats in their loft they can’t have any building work done. They need the right advice, because the law
protects bats. We’re contracted by an organisation called Natural England to arrange a service whereby
anybody with bats on their property can have a specialist volunteer come out and give information and
advice about the creatures they’re living with. Generally, once they have the information, they’re happy. It’s
the sign of a really green environment if they have bats. In the summer, we get calls when bats have flown
uninvited into people’s houses after dark. We advise turning the lights out, shutting the door, leaving the
window open and allowing the bat to find its own way out. One of the most common myths we have to
explode is that bats always turn left when they leave roofs. Apparently that was printed in a magazine
recently, so we got a clutch of calls about it. We also get people calling and humming the entire Batman
theme tune down the phone. The jokes are pretty predictable, I’m afraid.

B. ANTHEA McNUFTY, 26, works for NHS Direct, the phone-in helpline operated by the National
Health Service
Having worked in nurse training for a while, I found I missed the patient contact I’d enjoyed doing nursing
itself. When I saw this job, I thought of it as a way of getting some of that contact back – without the
cleaning up! I remember the dread of what the calls might be about on my first day, but they give you so
much training before you’re let loose that you can handle it. It was a bit difficult not having the physical
clues I’d have been able to pick up on thư wards. But you very quickly get used to working with the
computer, it makes you feel safe. Occasionally, there are problems with the system but you’re never left with
a blank screen, and because we’re a national service there’s always somebody else who can take a call. The
most common calls are about coughs and colds, things people can mannage on their own, but I need to look
out for anything that will indicate that they might need to go and see a doctor. People can be too embarrassed
to go to a hospital with what seem like minor ailments, and we do have to reassure them that if they do have
to go in, people aren’t going to laugh at them.

C. AGNES THOMSON, 60, works for a major broadcasting company

Yesterday, I got lots of calls relating to weekly programmes, though there was quite a contrast; the radio
show for the blind, ‘In Touch’, and ‘Watchdog’ on TV. The ‘In Touch’ callers had heard of some new
equipment and wanted further details.’Watchdog’ is a consumer programme and people generally call me
because they have a problem with a product from the company we’ve covered on the show. We have regular
callers, some very nice and some not so nice, and you get to know them. Quite often people phone to
complain spontaneously, and when we call them again within ten days with a response, which we promise to
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calls, particularly medical programmes or programmes about children. People have a sense that we’re a
general repository of knowledge and wisdom – which we’re not! There’ll have been a show that has covered
most things at one time or another so I can always look things up. As a result, I have a lot of what you might
call unless knowledge.

D. CAROLINE HICKMAN, 34, works for a company with a wide range of household products
I really get a lot out of the work. We have such a wide range of products – from beauty and haircare through
to nappies and household cleaners – that no two calls are ever the same. With laundry products, for example,
we get lots of specific queries – people want to know what to use with certain types of material. We can’t
always go into details of all the settings of different brands of machine, though. We also get a lot of calls
about skincare from people who want to know about specific ingredients in our products. You also get
fascinating insight into the country’s lifestyles. For instance, we tend to get lots of calls about cleaning
products on a Monday, presumably because people buy them over the weekend, then, towards Friday we’ll
get haircare and beauty because they’re planning a night out. I also long for one-off problems I can really get
my teeth into – the ones that come out of blue. We once had a call from a woman who’d seen a wedding
dress on one of our TV adverts and wanted one identical to it for her own big day. We found that it was still
at the television studio and was available to borrow – which she did. It just goes to show that it’s always
worth asking!

D. WRITING (60 pts)

Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should be
about 120 words long. (15 pts)
Anthropology distinguishes itself from the other social sciences by its greater emphasis on fieldwork as the
source of new knowledge. The aim of such studies is to develop as intimate an understanding as possible of
the phenomena investigated. Although the length of field studies varies from a few weeks to years, it is
generally agreed that anthropologists should stay in the field long enough for their presence to be considered
‘natural’ by the permanent residents.
Realistically, however, anthropologists may never reach this status. Their foreign mannerisms make them
appear clownish, and so they are treated with curiosity and amusement. If they speak the local language at
all, they do so with a strange accent and flawed grammar. They ask tactless questions and inadvertently break
rules regarding how things are usually done. Arguably this could be an interesting starting point for research,
though it is rarely exploited. Otherwise, anthropologists take on the role of the ‘superior expert’, in which
case they are treated with deference and respect, only coming into contact with the most high-ranking
members of the society. Anthropologists with this role may never witness the gamut of practices which take
place in all levels of the society.
No matter which role one takes on, anthropologists generally find fieldwork extremely demanding.
Anthropological texts may read like an exciting journey of exploration, but rarely is this so. Long periods of
time spent in the field are generally characterised by boredom, illness and frustration. Anthropologists in the
field encounter unfamiliar climates, strange food and low standards of hygiene. It is often particularly trying
for researchers with middle-class, European backgrounds to adapt to societies where being alone is
considered pitiful. It takes a dedicated individual to conduct research which is not in some way influenced by
these personal discomforts.

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Part 2. The pie graphs show greenhouse gas emissions worldwide in 2002 and the forecast
for 2030. The column chart shows carbon dioxide emissions around the world. Write a report
(of about 150 words) to summarise the information. Select and report the main features and make
comparisons where relevant. (15 pts)

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Some people believe that social media and social networking sites such as Facebook, TikTok, Twitter have
gradually created a generation of irresponsible youth .
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
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