SECTION 1. LISTENING I. Part 1: (10 points) Listen and check your understanding by choosing TRUE or FALSE for each statement. You will hear the recording twice. ⇱
The statements
1. There are two customers eating together.
2. The two customers order the same starter.
3. Both customers order the Thai chicken for their main course.
4. The customers order soft drinks.
5. Both customers order a dessert.
II. Part 2: (10 points) Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS OR NUMBERS for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. ⇱
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!>III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points) ⇱
IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three of the group. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points) ⇱
!>->!>V. Choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers in the space provided. (40 points) ⇱
John: "________ "
VI. There is one mistake in each sentence. Identify the mistake and write your answer in the space provided. (10 points) ⇱
1. Even though she looks young, she is twice older than my twenty- year- old sister.
A B C D
2. He paid me $5 for cleaning twenty windows, most of them hadn’t been cleaned for at least a
A B C D
year.
3. Because of tired, we could not go to school yesterday
A B C D
4. We object to people to make private calls on the office phone.
A B C D
5. The amount of women earning Master’s Degree has risen sharply in recent years.
A B C D
VII. Supply the correct form of the words in bracket. Write your answers in the space provided under this passage. (10 points) ⇱
VIII. Supply the correct form and tense of the verbs in brackets (10 points) ⇱
- I distinctly remember (1. pay) ___________ him. I gave him two dollars.
- Yesterday I was walking along the street when I realized that a man with a black beard, whom I (2. see) ___________ already, (3. follow) ___________ me.
- He insisted that the new baby (4. name) ___________after his grandfather.
- (5. spend) all his money, he decided to go home and ask his father for a job..
SECTION 4. READING IX. Exercise 1: Read the passage and choose the best option to complete the passage (20 points) ⇱
SENSES
All five senses are important to us, but the two most important senses are (1) ________ the sense of sight and the sense of hearing. Blind and deaf people must (2) ________ life difficult because they are unable to do (3) ________ that the rest of us can do naturally. People who (4) ________, their sense of taste can not enjoy food as (5) ________as they used to, whilst (6) ________ who have no sense of smell can not realize, for example , when gas is (7) _______ or food has gone (8) _______ . In addition to our physical senses, (9) ________ is a great help in life to have sense of humour, especially when things go wrong, and to have (10) ________ sense, something which can not be learned from books.
X. Exercise 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. (10 points) ⇱
WITCH DOCTORING
Many early ideas about the causes and cures of illness seem ridiculous to us today. Yet in some respects the medicine man of uncivilized tribes used the method for curing sick persons which are known to have had real value.
In early time when people became ill, they turned for help to the medicine man of the tribe. It was generally believed that sickness was caused by evil spirits, and it was the medicine man’s task to drive these bad spirits out of the sick man. To do this, he would try to frighten them away by making loud noise and wearing frightening masks. Usually he would chant magic words, sing special songs, and performed special dances. Nearly always he used a particular kind of plant which was supposed to be a remedy for a particular sickness.
Some of these cures used by the medicine men did help. The plants which these early doctors used were frequently drugs now understood to be medicinal or pain- relieving. The respect and confidence which the people had in their medicine man gave sick persons hope and helped them feel better.
XI. Exercise 3: Gap-filling. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (20 points) ⇱
All men should (1) _________. We study to (2) __________ our knowledge and develop our intelligence. Education (3) __________ an important role in our life. First of all, we have to learn (4) __________ to observe accurately, to think truthfully, to speak correctly and to write clearly. Education gives us (5) __________ of things around us and it preserves the national noble traditions and customs from generation to generation. Education makes a person perfect. An (6) _______man is both talented and virtuous. In every country, the government (7) _________ education as the most important policy.
Some (8)_________ us sometimes think that we “ have finished” our education when we left school or (9) _________ from a university. Actually, real education should (10) _________ finish.
SECTION 5: WRITING XII. Sentence transformation (20 points) ⇱
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before.
XIII. Sentence building. (20 points) ⇱
1. the last time/ I / play / soccer / in 2008
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2. room / not / dirty / so/ they / not need / clean.
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3. unless / you / phone / immediately / not / get / any information.
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4. policeman / order / children / not / play / street.
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5. it / wrong / you / not / give / her / chance / talk.
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6. only / person / I / expect / see / now / my son.
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7. women / the US / independent / than / other countries.
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8. many foreigners/ not / accustomed / cold weather/ Vietnam.
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9. I / want / have / that suit / clean / iron / before / meeting.
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10. air/ we/ breathe/ be/ pollute/ exhaust fumes/ cars/ cities.
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