SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO KỲ THI CHỌN HỌC SINH GIỎI TỈNH LỚP 10 THPT

HÀ TĨNH NĂM HỌC 2022 – 2023

Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
ĐỀ GIỚI THIỆU Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút
(Đề thi có 11 trang)
Thí sinh không sử dụng bất kể tài liệu nào, kể cả từ điển.
Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi, ghi câu trả lời vào các chỗ trống hoặc các ô cho sẵn.
Riêng phần trắc nghiệm thí sinh chỉ ghi đáp án A, B, C hoặc D.
Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
Điểm của toàn bài thi Cán bộ chấm thi Số phách
(Bằng số) (Bằng chữ) (Ký và ghi rõ họ tên) (Do Trưởng ban chấm thi ghi)
Cán bộ chấm thi 1:

Cán bộ chấm thi 2:

I. LISTENING:
Hướng dẫn phần thi nghe hiểu:
 Thí sinh không được sử dụng tài liệu.
 Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi, ghi câu trả lời vào các chỗ trống hoặc các ô cho sẵn.
 Hướng dẫn phần thi nghe được đọc sẵn trong đĩa CD.
 Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
Part 1. Listen and complete the notes in each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Questions 1-5. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS or a number for each answer
CHILDREN'S ART AND CRAFT WORKSHOPS
Example Answer
Workshops organised
Saturday
every:
• Adults must accompany children under (1) ……………………..
• Cost: £2.50
• Workshops held in: Winter House, (2) …………………….. Street
• Security device: must push the (3) …………………….. to open door
• Should leave car behind the (4) ……………………..
• Book workshops by phoning the (5) …………………….. (on 200765)
Questions 6-10. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer
NEXT TWO WORKSHOPS
Date Workshop title Children advised to wear Please bring (if possible)
16/11 'Building (6) ……………… (7) …………………… (8) ……………………..
23/11 (9) …………………….. (Nothing special) (10) ……………………..
Your answers:
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.

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 5. 10.
Part 2: You will hear a scene from a radio soap opera called Willowdale Green, in which a couple,
Charles Miller and Daphne Jameson, are speaking with the barman Bill Dexter in a village pub.
For questions 11 – 15, decide whether each statement is true (T) or false (F).
11. The man working at the bar presumes that Charles and Daphne aren’t married.
12. Charles knew Andy Draycott very well.
13. The previous owner of the farm died.
14. Bill says the couple should not have the farm because they are not from Willowdale.
15. According to Bill, people have been saying that the farm will be maintained as a farm going forward.
Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Part 3: You will hear two psychologists talking about modern childhood. For questions 16 – 20, choose
the answer (A, B, C, or D) which fits best according to what you hear
16. How often does Sarah paint now?
A. three days a week B. five days a week
C. every evening D. Once a month
17. Sarah earns enough money from her painting to ……………………… .
A. give up her computing job B. pay for her flat and car
C. pay for her artist’s materials D. travel around the world
18. What pleased Sarah most about her painting holidays?
A. seeing beautiful scenery B. meeting other artists
C. receiving individual teaching D. going hiking
19. Which of these has Sarah done?
A. painted people in Greece B. painted sunrises in Scotland
C. watched birds in Spain D. walking in the Greek mountains
20. After watching Sarah’s video, the audience will ………………………… .
A. fill in a questionnaire about the talk B. look round an art exhibition
C. have a break and a drink D. paint birds in natural habitats
Your answers:
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. Write your answers A, B, C or D
in the numbered boxes.
1. A special feature of the room is the huge picture window which ________ a splendid view of the
Quantock hills.
A. allows B. affords C. enables D. presents
2. He still suffers from a rare tropical disease which he ___________ while in Africa.
A. infected B. complained C. gained D. contracted
3. Peter has been studying for almost three years and he will have this degree and return to his country
in_______ six months.
A. others B. the other C. other D. another
4. Despite his disability he tried to lead__________as possible.
A. as normal life B. a normal a life C. as normal as life D. as normal a life
5. We spent nearly 3 hours waiting outside the station, then out
A. the star came B. did the star come C. came the star D. be the star coming

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6. I don’t think they will reach the top by luch time, __________.
A. do I B. won’t they C. will they D. don’t I
7 . The doctor suggested that his patient
A. stop smoking B. stops smoking C. stopped smoking D. to stop smoking
8. You __________ the questions in the order they asked. You mixed them up in the wrong way.
A. had to B. must have answered
C. didn’t need to answer D. should have answered
9. ______________ had worsened so quickly surprised the doctor.
A. Which the patient’s condition B. The patient’s condition
C. That the patient’s condition D. As the patient’s condition
10. _____________native to Europe, the daisy has now spread throughout most of North America.
A. Although B. If it were C. In spite of D. That it is
11. Social scientists believe that _______ from sounds such as grunts and barks made by early ancestors
of human beings.
A. language, which was very slow to develop B. language, very slowly developing
C. the very slow development of language D. language developed very slowly
12. A man of stainless reputation, his deeds and words have almost invariably been on the side
of_______.
A. balefulness B. succession C. righteousness D. resemblance
13. She's one of those people who are always___________ and asking questions about other people’s
private lives.
A. poking around B. digging up C. prying out D. spying on
14. I'm afraid that argument really doesn't hold _______
A. water B. sense C. firm D. meaning
15. Anything he does is in __________with the law and that’s why I have suggested him for the post.
A. compliance B. obedience C. commitment D. responsibility
16. I was out of____________ with you on this matter, but let’s not quarrel about it.
A. empathy B. harmony C. keeping D. sympathy
17. There are two small rooms in the beach house , ______________ served as a kitchen .
A. the smallest of which B. smallest of that
C. the smaller of which D. the smaller of them
18. He didn't intend to make a speech. If asked to, he would make a few remarks_________, but that was
all he would do.
A. off the cuff B. on the off-chance C. off and on D. off his rocket
19. Peter and Dane are talking about environmental protection.
Peter: “We should limit the use of plastic bags.”
Dane: “ _____________. We can use paper bags instead.”
A. I completely agree B. It's not true C. I don't quite agree D. You're wrong
20. Our hosts had prepared a________________meal with seven courses to celebrate our arrival.
A. generous B. profuse C. lavish D. spendthrift
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Part 2: Complete the following sentences with the most suitable preposition(s)/particle(s) for each
blank. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

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1. I was about to pay for the shopping when it suddenly dawned _______ me that I'd left my wallet at
home.
2. I just want to settle_________ and start a family before I got too old.
3. His English was roughly _________ a par with my Greek, so communication was rather difficult!
4. The police came _______a good deal of criticism over their handling of the demonstration.
5. If it starts to rain, make________a nearby cave to wait for it to pass.
6. At first the children enjoyed the game but quite soon the novelty wore ________
7. Are you still ______an illusion that Mr. Spike will agree to your conditions?
8. His bad bahaviour was put_________ his upbringing.
9. I fell _________with one of my neighbours and haven’t spoken to him for months.
10. He is not exactly rich but he certainly earns enough to get _________
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered spaces provided in the
column on the right. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.
Captain Webb
Captain Matthew Webb is fortunate in being remembered as the first man to swim the English Channel,
rather than the one who later tried and failed to plunge through the Niagara Falls. If ever a man
possessed self-confidence, it was Webb; but it was his stubborn refusal to give up that eventually proved
his (1.UNDO) ……….
Unwilling to recognize the Channel crossing as the peak of his career, he went on and on, addicted to
glory, literally swimming himself to death. Webb astonished the British notion on August 25th, 1875,
with a Channel crossing that took a mammoth 21 hours and 25 minutes. He had entered the sea a
merchant-ship captain living in (2. OBSCURE)…………. but he emerged in France, stung by jellyfish
and half-dead with (3. EXHAUST) ……. a national hero. He was feted, mobbed and cheered wherever
he went; his appearance in the city of London brought business to a (4. STAND) ……… . Alarmed by
the sudden attention, the normally (5. FEAR) …………. Webb fled to his native Shropshire. But all this
(6. STAR) ………… was too much for him, and he made the fatal error of many a pop star in later
years.
Craving (7. APPLAUD) ……….., he very nearly dissolved himself in a series of marathon swims for
money, including a six-day (8. ENDURE) …………. contest. Then he sailed for America, where he had
a (9. PUNISH) …………. schedule of long swims. It was America that lured Webb to the final act in his
tragedy; his crazed attempt to swim the Niagara River beneath the Falls in June 1883. (10.REGARD)
……….. of all advice, he dived in from a boat and subsided forever into the boiling rapids.

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

Part 4: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. UNDERLINE the mistakes and WRITE THEIR
CORECT FORMS in the spaces.
The horse and carriage is a thing of the past, but love and marriage are still with us and still closely
interrelating. Most American marriages, particular first marriages uniting young people, are the result of
mutual attraction and affection rather than practical consideration.
In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin date in
high school and usually find mates through their own academic and social contacts. Though young people
feel free to choose their friends from different groups, almost choose a mate of similar background. This

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is due in part to parental guidance. Parents can’t select spouses for their children, but they can usually
influence choices by voicing disapproval for someone they consider unsuitable.
However, marriages of members of different groups ( interclass, interfaith, and interracial
marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater mobile of today’s youth and the fact that they
are restricted by fewer prejudices as their parents. Many young people leave their hometowns to attend
college, serve in the armed forces, or pursue a career in a bigger city. One away from home and family,
they are more likely to date and marry outside their own social group.
Your answer
MISTAKES CORRECTIONS MISTAKES CORRECTIONS
1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

III. READING
Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write
your answers in the numbered boxes.
POST IN HISTORY
Although it may come as a surprise (1) _____ people, postal services have existed in some parts of
the world for thousands of years. There is ample evidence that a postal service existed among the
Assyrians and Babylonians. In China a regular postal service (2) _____ in the seventh century BC, and
over the centuries attained such a high level of efficiency that some 2,000 years after its (3) _____ it won
the admiration of travelers like Marco Polo. Efficient and highly (4) _____ postal services were also
established in the Persian and Roman empires. In ancient tinles, these services were mainly (5) _____ to
the use of representatives of the state; private citizens made use of slaves, merchants and the (6) _____ to
send their messages and documents. In Medieval Europe, postal services were organized by emperors and
by the papacy, while private citizens continued to (7)______ their correspondence to various travelers.
Later, around the 13th century, universities and towns came to have their own messengers. However, it
was not until the 14th century (8) _____ merchants, the private citizens who had the greatest need for a
speedy and regular exchange of (9)_______, began to set out regular courier services. The needs of
business (10) _____ to the development of the postal service as we know it today.
1. A. to B. for C. with D. among
2. A. were established B. has established C. established D. was established
3. A. introduction B. institution C. application D. occurrence
4. A. appeared B. built C. developed D. enriched
5. A. refrained B. confined C. curbed D. banned
6. A. such B. likely C. like D. same
7. A. deliver B. provide C. distribute D. entrust
8. A. when B. which C. that D. in which
9. A. contacts B. correspondence C. messages D. wishes
10. A. resulted B. came C. brought D. led

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

Part 2: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the
boxes.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES

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We are familiar (0) with the saying “a picture paints a thousand words” and in the global village the world
has become, information in pictorial form is (1)_____we turn. Much communication takes place through
symbols rather than words, a case in point (2) ______ airports, where you can see the majority of the
thirty-four symbols devised (3) ______ the American Institute of Graphic Arts in the 1970s. Such signs as
a knife and fork for a restaurant or a telephone for a phone booth are a boon for (4) _______ a traveller
who does not speak English or use the Latin alphabet. (5) _______ worldwide "languages" of this kind
are musical and mathematical notation, circuit diagrams, road signs and computer icons, (6)______,
again, bypass the need for words. Even a label on a garment will carry, in symbols, washing and ironing
instructions. All these (7) ______ to be sufficient to their (8)______ restricted worlds but would it really
be possible to devise a universal symbolic system of communication independent of any spoken
language, culture-free and value-free, as dreamt of by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz? It
would seem (9) ______. Chinese and Japanese pictograms and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are
sometimes cited as examples of such a system, yet both Japanese script and Egyptian hieroglyphics
include sound-base elements and Chinese is often transliterated (10)______ romanised sound based "pin
yin" script. In a word, words are inescapable.

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

Part 3: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) for each question. Write
your answers in the numbered boxes.

The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health and how the body
takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into four distinct eras: the first began in the
nineteenth century and extended into the early twentieth century when it was recognized for the first time
that food contained constituents that were essential for human function and that different foods provided
different amounts of these essential agents. Near the end of this era, research studies demonstrated that
rapid weight loss was associated with nitrogen imbalance and could only be rectified by providing
adequate dietary protein associated with certain foods.
The second era was initiated in the early decades of the twentieth century and might be called "the
vitamin period. " Vitamins came to be recognized in foods, and deficiency syndromes were described. As
vitamins became recognized as essential food constituents necessary for health, it became tempting to
suggest that every disease and condition for which there had been no previous effective treatment might
be responsive to vitamin therapy. At that point in time, medical schools started to become more interested
in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the basic sciences. Much of the focus of this
education was on the recognition of deficiency symptoms. Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately
turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine. Reckless claims were
made for effects of vitamins that went far beyond what could actually be achieved from the use of them.
In the third era of nutritional history in the early 1950's to mid-1960's, vitamin therapy began to fall
into disrepute. Concomitant with this, nutrition education in medical schools also became less popular. It
was just a decade before this that many drug companies had found their vitamin sales skyrocketing and
were quick to supply practicing physicians with generous samples of vitamins and literature extolling the
virtue of supplementation for a variety of health-related conditions. Expectations as to the success of
vitamins in disease control were exaggerated. As is known in retrospect, vitamin and mineral therapies
are much less effective when applied to health-crisis conditions than when applied to long-term problems
of under nutrition that lead to chronic health problems.
https://docest.com/the-history-of-clinical.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss ?
A. The effects of vitamins and food subtances on the human body .

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B. The stages of development of clinical nutrition as a field of study.
C. Nutritional practices of the nineteenth century and their benefits.
D. The history of food preferences from the nineteenth century to the present.
2. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following discoveries was made during the first
era in the history of nutrition?
A. Effective techniques of weight loss were determined.
B. Vitamins were synthesized from some food subtances .
C. Protein was recognized as an essential component of diet.
D. Certain foods were found to be harmful to good health.
3. The word “tempting” in the passage mostly means “ __________”
A. resounding B. unappealing C. enticing D. abstaining
4. Why did vitamin therapy begin losing favor in the 1950’s ?
A. Nutritional research was conducted by most unpopular medical school.
B. The public expected to be supplied with enough vitamins but they weren’t.
C. Medical schools stopped teaching nutritional concepts and its benefits.
D. Claims for the effective of vitamin therapy were seen to be exaggerated .
5. It can be inferred from the passage that medical schools began to teach concepts of nutrition in
order to _________
A. encourage medical doctors to apply concepts of nutrition in the treatment of disease.
B. convince doctors to conduct experimental vitamin therapies and its effects on their patients
C. support the creation of artificial vitamins to recognise deficient symptoms in medicine.
D. convince medical doctors to participate in research studies on nutrition and its value.
6. The phrase “concomitant with” in the passage mostly means “ __________”
A. in conjunction with B. in comparison with C. in dispute with D. in consideration of
7. The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses
A. Problems associated with undernutrition. B. How drug companies became successful
C. The fourth era of nutrition history. D. Why nutrition education lost its appeal.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Part 4: Read the following passage and answer questions 1-13. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
TIME TRAVEL
Time travel took a small step away from science fiction and toward science recently
when physicists discovered that sub-atomic particles known as neutrinos – progeny
of the sun’s radioactive debris – can exceed the speed of light. The unassuming
particle – it is electrically neutral, small but with a “non-zero mass” and able to
penetrate the human form undetected – is on its way to becoming a rock star of
the scientific world.
Researchers from the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in
Geneva sent the neutrinos hurtling through an underground corridor toward their
colleagues at the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Tracing Apparatus (OPERA) team
730 kilometres away in Gran Sasso, Italy. The neutrinos arrived promptly so
promptly, in fact, that they triggered what scientists are calling the unthinkable
that everything they have learnt, known or taught stemming from the last one
hundred years of the physics discipline may need to be reconsidered.
The issue at stake is a tiny segment of time, precisely sixty nanoseconds (which is
sixty billionths of a second). This is how much faster than the speed of light the

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neutrinos managed to go in their underground travels and at a consistent rate
(15,000 neutrinos were sent over three years). Even allowing for a margin of error
of ten billionths of a second, this stands as proof that it is possible to race against
light and win. The duration of the experiment also accounted for and ruled out any
possible lunar effects or tidal bulges in the earth’s crust.
Nevertheless, there’s plenty of reason to remain sceptical. According to Harvard
University science historian Peter Galison, Einstein’s relativity theory has been
“pushed harder than any theory in the history of the physical sciences”. Yet each
prior challenge has come to no avail, and relativity has so far refused to buckle.
So is time travel just around the corner? The prospect has certainly been wrenched
much closer to the realm of possibility now that a major physical hurdle, the speed
of light, has been cleared. If particles can travel faster than light, in theory travelling
back in time is possible. How anyone harnesses that to some kind of helpful end is
far beyond the scope of any modern technologies, however, and will be left to
future generations to explore.
Certainly, any prospective time travellers may have to overcome more physical and
logical hurdles than merely overtaking the speed of light. One such problem,
posited by René Barjavel in his 1943 text Le Voyageur Imprudent is the socalled
grandfather paradox. Barjavel theorised that, if it were possible to go back in time,
a time traveller could potentially kill his own grandfather. If this were to happen,
however, the time traveller himself would not be born, which is already known to be
true. In other words, there is a paradox in circumventing an already known future;
time travel is able to facilitate past actions that mean time travel itself cannot
occur.
Other possible routes have been offered, though. For Igor Novikov, astrophysicist
behind the 1980s’ theorem known as the self-consistency principle, time travel is
possible within certain boundaries. Novikov argued that any event causing a
paradox would have zero probability. It would be possible, however, to
“affect” rather than “change” historical outcomes if travellers avoided all
inconsistencies. Averting the sinking of the Titanic, for example, would revoke any
future imperative to stop it from sinking – it would be impossible. Saving selected
passengers from the water and replacing them with realistic corpses would not be
impossible, however, as the historical record would not be altered in any way
A further possibility is that of parallel universes. Popularised by Bryce Seligman
DeWitt in the 1960s (from the seminal formulation of Hugh Everett), the many-
worlds interpretation holds that an alternative pathway for every conceivable
occurrence actually exists. If we were to send someone back in time, we might
therefore expect never to see him again – any alterations would divert that person
down a new historical trajectory.
A final hypothesis, one of unidentified provenance, reroutes itself quite efficiently
around the grandfather paradox. Non-existence theory suggests exactly that a
person would quite simply never exist if they altered their ancestry in ways that
obstructed their own birth. They would still exist in person upon returning to the
present, but any chain reactions associated with their actions would not be
registered. Their “historical identity” would be gone
So, will humans one day step across the same boundary that the neutrinos have?
World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that once spaceships can

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exceed the speed of light, humans could feasibly travel millions of years into the
future in order to repopulate earth in the event of a forthcoming apocalypse. This is
because, as the spaceships accelerate into the future, time would slow down around

them (Hawking concedes that bygone eras are off limits – this would violate the
fundamental rule that cause comes before effect).
Hawking is therefore reserved yet optimistic. “Time travel was once considered
scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a
crank. These days I’m not so cautious.”

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading

Passage 3?
In boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT
if there is no information on this
GIVEN

1. It is unclear where neutrinos come from.

2. Neutrinos can pass through a person’s body without causing harm.
3. It took scientists between 50-70 nanoseconds to send the neutrinos from Geneva
to Italy.
4. Researchers accounted for effects the moon might have had on the experiment.
5. The theory of relativity has often been called into question unsuccessfully.
6. This experiment could soon lead to some practical uses for time travel.
7. Stephen Hawking has stated that human time travel might be possible, but only
moving forward in time.

Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 8- 13 on your answer sheet.

Original
Theory Principle
Theorist
Time travel would allow for
Grandfather
René Barjavel (8)…………… that would actually make time
paradox
travel impossible.
Self-
Igor Novikov consistency It is only possible to alter history in ways
principle that result in no (9) ………………… .
Each possible event has an
Many-worlds (11)…………………, so a time traveller changing
(10) ……………
interpretation the past would simply end up in a different
branch of history than the one he left.
If a time traveller changed the past to prevent
(12)
Unknown his future life, he would not have a (13)
………………
………………… as the person never existed.

IV. WRITING
Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence before it. (0) has been done as an example.
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 0. It’s a shame you didn’t keep your promise to Mary.
=> You ought to have kept your promise to Mary.
1. It’s sad, but unemployment is unlikely to go down this year.
-> Sad …………………………………………………………………………………………
2. People believe that the Chinese invented paper in 105 A.D.
-> Paper …………………………………………………………………………………..
3. All that stood between Pane and the gold medal was Mike’s greater speed.
=> But ……………………………………………………..………………………….…
4. As far as I know, this has never happened before.
=> To …………………………………………………………………………………..
5. He didn’t mention our previous conversation at all
=> He made no…………………………………………………………………………

Part 2: Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in
such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. DO NOT change the
form of the given word. You must use between THREE and SIX words, including the word given. (0)
has been done as an example.
0. Don’t sell your house until you have considered it carefully. ( TWICE )
=> You should _________think twice before selling_________ your house.
1. Is it possible to walk from the hotel to the city center? (WITHIN)
=> Is the city center____________________________________________the hotel?
2. No such idea has ever occurred to me before (CROSS )
=> No such idea ________________________________________________ before
3. If they were allowed to do what they wanted, they’d play computer games all day (DEVICES)
=> If they__________________________ , they’d probably play computer games all day.
4. They choose John because he was the only one who spoke French. ( SCALES)
=> It was his knowledge of ___________________________________________John’s favor.
5. Harry knows about the new regulations so let’s ask him. (BRAINS)
=> Let’s ___________________________________________________ the new regulations

Part 3: (3.0 points) Write an essay of about 250 words on the following topic
Some people think that academic qualifications play the most important role in career success . Others
think that social skills will determine how career path is developed.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.

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