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KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ XII, NĂM 2022 ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10 Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) Ngày thi: (Thí sinh làm trực tiếp vào đề) ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT Điểm Bằng số Giám khảo Bằng chữ Giám khảo Số phách A LISTENING (50 points): Part Complete the notes below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer (10 points) ENQUIRY ABOUT BOOKCASES Number of bookcases available: two Both bookcases Width: (1) _ Made of: (2) _ First bookcase Cost: (3) _ Color: (4) _ Number of shelves: six (four are (5) _) Your answers: Part Listen to part of a tutorial between two students and their tutor The students are doing a research project to with computer use Listen and decide whether the following sentences are True (T) or False (F) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided Page of 21 Sami and Irene decided to a survey about access to computer facilities because no one has investigated it before Sami and Irene had problems with the reading for their project because not much had been written about the topic Sami and Irene get the main data in their survey from observation of students The tutor suggests that one problem with the survey was limitation in the number of students involved 77% of students surveyed thought that a booking system would be the best solution Your answers: Part You will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear (10 pts) How does Helena feel about the use of Jed's name for their joint business? A Occasionally frustrated that her contribution goes unnoticed B Amused that they have a name people tend to remember C Appreciative of the respect that the name has brought her D Irritated by the fact that Jed is more of a celebrity than she is What is Jed's attitude to his public profile? A He likes the fact that complete strangers often want to talk to him B He's unhappy that it prevents him from doing everyday activities C He enjoys it more now than he did when he was younger D He's proud of the way it reflects his achievements How did Helena feel about her work on The Travel Show? A She would have enjoyed it more in different circumstances B It was convenient for her to be away from the house then C It was a welcome alternative to manual work D She felt obliged to it at that particular time What explanation does Helena give for the name of the garden? A It provided a useful framework for the project B It was a response to the bright colors they wanted there C It allowed them to experiment with a wide range of options D It was meant to inspire them to embrace unconventional ideas Jed says that, for him, the name 'jewel garden' is A a reminder of the value of creativity B an appropriate one for something so beautiful C a positive way of combining both past and present D a way of explaining his philosophy of design to people Your answers: Part Listen to part of a talk and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided (20 points) Page of 21 There really is no single definition of "business attire" these days The era of "Big Business" with fine clothes and tailored suits is largely gone, except in (1) It is easy for people to toss out all the starched, buttonedup conformity of (2) The question posed is what we use to replace office clothes While bankers are (3) , techy-types in all industries tend to dress down The issues associated with (4) _ isn’t new in this 21st century though it seems to be more casual Interestingly, in the prewar period, half of the men’s suits were (5) From the 1940s to 1the 950s, all styles remain the same, except the fact that men’s suits change from (6) _ to skinny Between the time of 1960s and 1970s, traditional men’s suit remains unchanged, however a new type of suit called the (7) shirts or Nehru jackets were introduced Thanks to Silicon Valley, a term called “business casual” was used in the 1980s Originally, it referred to khaki pants, sensible shoes and (8) However, this term today is rather ambiguous The Atlantic grappled with this by defining the casual workplace basing on (9) business culture instead of a "process-oriented" culture obsessed with employees' looks Mark Zuckerberg's gray T-shirt and gray hoodie is one exception to casual workplace Some business are still creased and pleated and tailor We are left to suss out the suitability of (10) and Allbirds, which don’t match with shoulder pads Final words given after all is “Dressing for success is as hard to define as business casual” Your answers: 10 B LEXICO - GRAMMAR (40 points) Part Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the following sentences Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (20 points) I never get a _ of sleep after watching a horror film A wink B blink C night D ounce The child sat in the middle of the floor and _ refused to move A distinctively B decisively C flatly D totally Little did I imagine The Amazing Race would entail long-winded journeys and ups and downs _ A aplenty B inexhaustibly C profusely D superabundant Ants are social insects which form small to large _ A schools B flocks C colonies D packs Having our heart broken is an _ part of growing up A inward B inset C integral D internal You may as well as your _ because Tom never listens to anyone A breath B iron C impression D nature Page of 21 I couldn’t believe it when Marcy accused me of _in her relationship with Joe A intervening B interacting C interfering D intercepting There has been a lot of _ surrounding the government’s proposed scheme A controversy B consent C conformity D consequence The stage designed was out of _ , but unfortunately the acting was not so impressive A moon B planet C world D earth 10 We all have to follow the rules, and none of us is _the law A beyond B over C above D onto 11 Don’t be _ by false advertisements If something looks too good to be true, it probably is A putting off B given up C taken in D put down 12 _ talking of running for election again, after such a crushing defeat, is surely proof of his resilience A Should he be B That he is C Had he been D That he were 13 I was at a _ end on Sunday morning so I decided to bathe the puppy A loose B low C dead D wits’ 14 In _ of the increasing violence in our towns the President has decided to impose a curfew A sight B view C mood D agreement 15 _ 30,000 people are thought to have attended the concert A As much as B As many as C Much less than D As little as 16 I recommend reading the books _, starting with the very first A by accident B at random C in sequence D on impact 17 The word “gossip” conjures _ an image of a group of people huddled in a corner sharing some scandalous news about neighbor or colleague A up B out C cover D in 18 The government is trying to _ when it says it will spend more on health service without raising taxes A chew the fat B wave the flag C put the lid D square the circle 19 Unanswered, the demands for nuclear deterrent have _ fears of civil war A flashed up B prognosticated C sidetracked D stoked up 20 It is important to make sure the right decision because there is a lot at _ A range B stake C chance D expectation Your answers: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Part Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable particle Write your answer in the boxes provided (10 points) Page of 21 Sleep deprivation means that it takes the body a greater length of time to heal itself and to shake any minor ailments such as coughs and colds People should refrain from caffeine in the late evening and opt a milky drink rather than cola, coffee or tea Jade has come _terms with the fact that she’ll never become a doctor _a view to finding another Queen Anne table, I went to the antique fair _ fear of saying the wrong thing, Lily kept quiet _hindsight, maybe you should have taken the bus, Mustafa! Our photocopier is prone _ breaking down Telling her father that the car he had bought her was not the right color was rather like looking a gift horse _ the mouth Don’t be so upset about losing your job Look _ the bright side- you will have more time to spend with the children 10 Traditional rollerskates have been _ for many years, but inline skates have several advantages over the older kind of design Your answers: 10 Part Give the correct form of the words in brackets Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (10 points) Not only is smoking unhealthy but it’s also SOCIETY At first, I thought I could count on Jim, but then I discovered that he’s just a friend WEATHER Now that this has been fully understood, the industy is fighting online for the loyalty of fans, but it may already be a lost cause LATE At all events, it was this group of the that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution POSSESS All the talk about global warming really has some for me after being flooded last year RESONATE All human beings need some degree of physical exertion to keep fit, and inline skating is a great source of exercise ROUND This invention is attributed to Charles Barbier, who was officer Art The computer age created an and continuing explosion in the amount of Braille published and read in nearly every country throughout the world PRECEDENT The Palme d’Or was awarded to the director of that movie because of his having created a film THINK 10 Excuses like poor connections and , or the inability to reach someone just don’t work when even the most inaccessible places have wireless coverage COMMUNICATE Your answers: 10 Page of 21 C READING (60 points) Part Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap (15 points) Broadcasting has democratized the publication of language, often at its most informal, even undressed Now the ears of the educated cannot escape the language of the masses It (1) _ them on the news, weather, sports, commercials, and the ever-proliferating game shows This wider dissemination of popular speech may easily give purists the (2) _ that language is suddenly going to hell in this generation, and may (3) _ the new paranoia about it It might also be argued that more Americans hear more correct, even beautiful, English on television than ever before Through television more models of good usage (4) _ more American homes than was ever possible in other times Television gives them lots of (5) _ English too, some awful, some creative, but that is not new Hidden in this is a (6) _ fact: our language is not the special private property of the language police, or grammarians, or teachers, or even great writers The (7) _ of English is that it has always been the tongue of the common people, literate or not English belongs to everybody: the funny (8) _ of phrase that pops into the mind of a farmer telling a story; or the (9) _ salesman’s dirty joke; or the teenager saying, "Gag me with a spoon"; or the pop lyric - all contribute, are all as (10) _ as the tortured image of the academic, or the line the poet sweats over for a week A circles B surrenders C supports D surrounds A thought B idea C sight D belief A justify B inflate C explain D idealize A render B reach C expose D leave A colloquial B current C common D spoken A common B stupid C central D simple A genii B genius C giant D generalization A turn B twist C use D time A tour B transport C travel D travelling 10 A valued B valid C truthful D imperfect Your answers: 10 Part Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space Use only one word in each space (15 points) THE CULT OF CELEBRITY Once, children had ambitions to be doctors, explorers, sportsmen, artists or scientists Now taking their lead from TV, they just "want to be famous" Fame is no longer a reward for gallant service or great, perhaps even selfless endeavor It is an end in (1) , and the sooner it can be achieved, the sooner the lonely bedroom mirror can be replaced by the TV camera and flash gun, the better Celebrity is the profession (2 the moment, a vainglorious vocation which, (3) some 18th- century royal court, seem to exist largely so that the rest of us might watch and Page of 21 be amazed (4) its members live out their lives in public, like self-regarding members of some glittering soap opera Today, (5) everyone can be famous Never has fame (6) more democratic, more ordinary, more achievable (7) wonder it's modern ambition It's easy to see why people crave celebrity, (8) generations reared on the instant fame offered by television want to step out of the limousine (9) the flashlights bouncing around them Who doesn't want to be the center of attention at some time in their lives? Modern celebrity, peopled by the largely vain and vacuous, fills a need in our lives It peoples talks shows, sells goods and newspapers and rewards the famous for, well, (10) famous Your answers: 10 Part 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 (15 points) Using video gaming in education It has become conventional wisdom that spending too much time playing video games has a detrimental effect on children’s studies and their social development However, some educationalists are now questioning this theory and are using video games as effective educational tools thus bridging the gap between recreational and educational activities Due to the sophisticated nature of today’s games, teachers are able to justify the inclusion of video and online games for many pedagogical reasons There may, for example, be sociological, psychological, and ethical implications built into the gameplay Harvey Edwards, who teaches IT classes in London, was one such educator who decided to use video games in his lessons To this, he chose Minecraft, an online game in which players create and develop imaginary worlds He was somewhat uneasy about attempting such an unconventional approach, not because of some students’ unfamiliarity with the game but rather due to them not being able to make sense of what he was trying to with it He worried that it might interfere with his learners’ focus, but he couldn’t have been more surprised by the results Minecraft is an example of a ‘sandbox game’, in which gamers roam around and change a virtual world at will Instead of having to pass through numbered levels to reach certain places, there’s full access from start to finish The original version can be adapted to control which characters and content are left in Each student can then be allocated tasks – such as housebuilding, locating items or problem-solving – which they must complete within the game Elements of more general skills can be subtly incorporated into the lessons, such as online politeness and safety, teamwork and resolving differences Edwards feels that presenting such lessons in the context of a game students probably already know and enjoy enables him to connect with them at greater depth, and in more motivational ways Bolstered by his success, Edwards introduced his approach to another school nearby He recalls that the first couple of sessions didn’t live up to his expectations Those who had played Minecraft before were keen for others to adopt their own style of play Unsurprisingly, this Page of 21 assortment of styles and opinions as to how the game should proceed were far from harmonious However, the sessions rapidly transformed into something more cohesive, with the learners driving the change With minimal teacher input, they set about choosing leaders and established several teams, each with its own clearly-defined role These teams, now party to clear common goals, willingly cooperated to ensure that their newborn world flourished, even when faced with the toughest of challenges ‘Human’ inhabitants in a Minecraft ‘society’ are very primitive and wander around the imaginary world, waiting for guidance from players [A] This dynamic bears a resemblance to traditional education, an observation highlighted by Martina Williams, one of the leaders of the group [B] ‘Through the game, we were no longer passive learners in the classroom, being told what and how to learn, but active participants in our own society [C] The leaders, meanwhile, had a vision for their virtual world as a whole, encouraging everyone to play their part in achieving the group’s goals [D] Through creating their own characters and using these to build their own ‘world’, students will have gained some experiential understanding of societal structure and how communities work But not everyone is convinced by video games’ potential academic value While many progressive commentators cite extensive evidence to maintain that video games encourage collaboration and build problem-solving skills, more traditional factions continue to insist they are a distraction that not merit inclusion in any curriculum Even less evangelical cynics, who may grudgingly acknowledge games have some educational benefit, assert that this is only the case in the hands of creative educators However, the accusation most often levelled at video games is that they detract from the social aspect of the classroom, particularly taking part in discussions Dr Helen Conway, an educational researcher, argues that video games can be used to promote social activities ‘Students become animated talking about the game and how to improve their gameplaying and problem-solving skills,’ she says ‘I find it strange, this image that many people have,’ Conway says ‘Children are often totally detached from their peers when undertaking more traditional activities, like reading books, but we never suggest that books are harmful because they’re a solitary experience The first time Edwards used a game in his classes, he was A convinced that learners would realise why he wanted them to play it B convinced that learners would see the reasons for playing it C anxious that he had chosen the wrong one for learners to play D sure that his reasons for getting learners to play it were valid The writer suggests that Minecraft is a good choice of educational game because A any number of learners can use it simultaneously B teachers can remove any inappropriate material C gamers can create educative tasks whilst playing it D players can develop their skills in a step-by-step way Which of the following words in the fourth paragraph is used to convey a feeling of approval? A keen B harmonious C driving D newborn In the fifth paragraph, the writer draws a comparison between a Minecraft ‘society’ and _ Page of 21 A relationships within the group as they played B the way in which countries organize themselves C typical students in a school environment D how leadership operates in different situations In the sixth paragraph, the writer feels that critics of video games in education _ A are unwilling to admit that using them in class has benefits B make accurate observations about teachers who use them C use flawed research to support their objections to using them D acknowledge the drawbacks of more traditional teaching methods The words ‘this image’ in the sixth paragraph refer to A people who criticize gaming in education B students discussing a game in a group C a group of students reading individually D a solitary player absorbed in a game Where does this sentence belong to in the fifth paragraph? Each group member had ideas as to how their function should develop A [A] B [B] C [C] D [D] The word ‘subtly’ in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to A intricately B ingeniously C ingenuously D haphazardly The word ‘grudgingly’ in the sixth paragraph is closest in meaning to A gleefully B vivaciously C genially D reluctantly 10 Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards the application of gaming into education? A supportive B neutral C cynical D satirical Your answers: 10 Part For questions 1-10, read the following passage and the tasks that follow (15 points) Follow your nose A Aromatherapy is the most widely used complementary therapy in the National Health Service, and doctors use it most often for treating dementia For elderly patients who have difficulty interacting verbally, and to whom conventional medicine has little to offer, aromatherapy can bring benefits in terms of better sleep, improved motivation, and less disturbed behaviour So the thinking goes But last year, a systematic review of health care databases found almost no evidence that aromatherapy is effective in the treatment of dementia Other findings suggest that aromatherapy works only if you believe it will In fact, the only research that has unequivocally shown it to have an effect has been carried out on animals B Behavioural studies have consistently shown that odours elicit emotional memories far more readily than other sensory cues And earlier this year, Rachel Herz, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues peered into people’s heads using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to corroborate that They scanned the brains of five women while they either looked at a photo of a bottle of perfume that evoked a pleasant memory for them, or smelled that perfume One woman, for instance, remembered how as a child living in Paris—she Page of 21 would watch with excitement as her mother dressed to go out and sprayed herself with that perfume The women themselves described the perfume as far more evocative than the photo, and Herz and co-workers found that the scent did indeed activate the amygdala and other brain regions associated with emotion processing far more strongly than the photograph But the interesting thing was that the memory itself was no better recalled by the odour than by the picture “People don’t remember any more detail or with any more clarity when the memory is recalled with an odour,” she says “However, with the odour, you have this intense emotional feeling that’s really visceral.” C That’s hardly surprising, Herz thinks, given how the brain has evolved “The way I like to think about it is that emotion and olfaction are essentially the same things,” she says “The part of the brain that controls emotion literally grew out of the part of the brain that controls smell.” That, she says, probably explains why memories for odours that are associated with intense emotions are so strongly entrenched in us, because the smell was initially a survival skill: a signal to approach or to avoid D Eric Vermetten, a psychiatrist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, says that doctors have long known about the potential of smells to act as traumatic reminders, but the evidence has been largely anecdotal Last year, he and others set out to document it by describing three cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in which patients reported either that a certain smell triggered their flashbacks, or that smell was a feature of the flashback itself The researchers concluded that odours could be made use of in exposure therapy, or for reconditioning patients’ fear responses E After Vermetten presented his findings at a conference, doctors in the audience told him how they had turned this association around and put it to good use PTSD patients often undergo group therapy, but the therapy itself can expose them to traumatic reminders “Some clinicians put a strip of vanilla or a strong, pleasant, everyday odorant such as coffee under their patients’ noses, so that they have this continuous olfactory stimulation,” says Vermetten So armed, the patients seem to be better protected against flashbacks It’s purely anecdotal, and nobody knows what’s happening in the brain, says Vermetten, but it’s possible that the neural pathways by which the odour elicits the pleasant, everyday memory override the fear-conditioned neural pathways that respond to verbal cues F According to Herz, the therapeutic potential of odours could lie in their very unreliability She has shown with her perfume-bottle experiment that they don’t guarantee any better recall, even if the memories they elicit feel more real And there’s plenty of research to show that our noses can be tricked, because being predominantly visual and verbal creatures, we put more faith in those other modalities In 2001, for instance, Gil Morrot, of the National Institute for Agronomic Research in Montpellier, tricked 54 oenology students by secretly colouring a white wine with an odourless red dye just before they were asked to describe the odours of a range of red and white wines The students described the coloured wine using terms typically reserved for red wines What’s more, just like experts, they used terms alluding to the wine’s redness and darkness—visual rather than olfactory qualities Smell, the researchers concluded, cannot be separated from the other senses G Last July, Jay Gottfried and Ray Dolan of the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience in London took that research a step further when they tested people’s response times in naming an odour, either when presented with an image that was associated with the Page 10 of 21 odour or one that was not So, they asked them to sniff vanilla and simultaneously showed them either a picture of ice cream or of cheese, while scanning their brains in a fMRI machine People named the smells faster when the picture showed something semantically related to them, and when that happened, a structure called the hippocampus was strongly activated The researchers’ interpretation was that the hippocampus plays a role in integrating information from the senses — information that the brain then uses to decide what it is perceiving Questions 1-7 The passage has seven paragraphs, A-G Choose the correct heading for paragraph A-G and from the list of headings below Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 1-6 List of Headings i Remembering the past more clearly ii Bringing back painful memories iii Originally an alarm signal iv The physical effects of scent versus image v Checking unreliable evidence vi Reinforcing one sense with another vii Protection against reliving the past viii The overriding power of sight and sound ix Conflicting views Example Paragraph A : ix Paragraph B Paragraph C Paragraph D Paragraph E Paragraph F Paragraph G Your answers Questions 7-10 Look at the following findings and the list of researchers Match each finding with the correct researcher, A-D Write the correct letter, A-D, in boxes 7-10 NB You may use any letter more than once Smell can trigger images of horrible events Memory cannot get sharpened by smell When people are given an odour and a picture of something to learn, they will respond more quickly in naming the smell because the stimulus is stronger when two or more senses are involved 10 It is impossible to isolate smell from visual cues A Rachel Hertz B Eric Vermetten Page 11 of 21 C Gil Morrot D Jay Gottfried and Ray Dolan Your answers 10 D WRITING (50 points) Part 1: (20 points) The graph below shows the number of tourists visiting a particular Caribbean Island between 2010-2017 Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant Write at least 150 words Part Essay writing (30 points) Write an essay of about 250 words to express your opinion on the following topic: Some people say that subjects like arts, music, drama and creative writing are more beneficial to children and therefore they need more of these subjects to be included in the timetable Do you agree or disagree? Use your own knowledge and experience to support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence Page 12 of 21 …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 13 of 21 …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… THE END KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CÁC TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN KHU VỰC DUYÊN HẢI VÀ ĐỒNG BẰNG BẮC BỘ LẦN THỨ XII, NĂM 2022 ĐÁP ÁN ĐỀ THI MÔN: TIẾNG ANH 10 Thời gian: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) ĐỀ ĐỀ XUẤT Page 14 of 21 A LISTENING (50 points): Part Complete the notes below Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer (10 points) 75 cm/ wood 15 pounds/ cream adjustable centimetres/ fifteen pounds/ centimeters £15 Part 2: Listen to part of a tutorial between two students and their tutor The students are doing a research project to with computer use Listen and decide whether the following sentences are true (T) or false (F) Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided (10 points) False True 3.False False True Part You will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena Stone Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to what you hear (10 pts) A D D A C Part Listen to part of a talk and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided (20 points) white shoes yesteryear besuited workwear conundrum double-breasted loose-fitting leisure suit button-down collared result oriented 10 unpressed pants B LEXICO - GRAMMAR (50 points) Part Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the following sentences Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (20 points) A C C 13 A 17 A C A 10 C 14 B 18 D A C 11 C 15 B 19 D C A 12 B 16 C 20 B Part Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable particle Write your answer in the boxes provided (10 points) off for to With For With/ In to in on 10 around Part Give the correct form of the words in brackets Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes (10 points) anti-social/ fair-weather belatedly dispossessed resonance(s) Page 15 of 21 antisocial all-round artillery unprecedented thoughtprovoking 10.Miscommunications C READING ( 60 points) Part (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer) D B C B D B A D Part (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer) itself of like become/ seemed/been/appeare No/Small/Little why d A 10 B as/while almost with 10 being Part (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer) D B C C A D C B D 10 A Part (15 points- 1,5 points for each correct answer) iv iii ii vii v vi B A D 10 C D WRITING (50 points) Part 1: Content ( points) - Providing all main ideas and details as required - Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively Language (8 points) - Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures Page 16 of 21 appropriate to the level of English language gifted uppersecondary school students - Good use and control of grammatical structures - Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes - Legible handwriting Organization and Presentation (4 points) - Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarity - The essay is well-structured Part Essay writing (30 points) Content (12 points) - Providing all main ideas and details as required - Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively Language (12 points) - Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of English language gifted uppersecondary school students - Good use and control of grammatical structures - Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes - Legible handwriting Organization and Presentation (6 points) - Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarity - The essay is well-structured TAPESCRIPT PART Mrs Blake: Hello? Conor: Oh, hello I’m ringing about the advertisement in yesterday’s newspaper… the one for the bookcases can you tell me if They’re still available? Mrs Blake: We’ve sold one, but we still have two available Conor: Right Err… can you tell me a bit about them? Mrs Blake: Sure, er what you want to know? Conor: Well, I’m looking for something to tit in my study, so well, I’m not too worried about the height, but the width’s quite important Can you tell me how wide each of them is? Mrs Blake: They’re both exactly the same size let me see I’ve got the details written down somewhere Yes so they’re both 75 cm wide [1] and 180 cm high Conor: OK fine, that should fit m OK And I don’t want anything that looks too severe… not made of metal, for example I was really looking for something made of wood? [2] Mrs Blake: That’s all right, they are, both of them [2] Conor: So are they both the same price as well? Mrs Blake: No, I he first bookcase is quite a bit cheaper It’s just ?15 [3] We paid ?60 for it Page 17 of 21 just five years ago, so it’s very good value It’s in perfectly good condition, they’re both in very good condition in fact, but the first one isn’t the same quality as the other one It’s a good sturdy bookcase, it used to be in my son’s room, but it could with a fresh coat of paint… Conor: Oh, it’s painted? Mrs Blake: Yes, it’s cream at present [4], but as I say you could easily change that if you wanted to fit in with your colour scheme Conor: Yes I’d probably paint it white if I got it Let’s see, what else… how many shelves has it got? Mrs Blake: Six two of them are fixed, and the other four are adjustable [5] so you can shift them up and down according to the sizes of your books Conor: Right, fine Well, that certainly sounds like a possibility PART 2: Sami: Dr Barrett? Tutor: Sami, come in Is Irene with you? Irene: Yes Tutor: Good Sit down Right, we’re looking at how far you’ve got with your research project since we last met You decided to a survey about computer facilities at the university, didn’t you? Irene: That’s right We decided to investigate the university’s open access centres, and in particular the computer facilities Lots of the students are having trouble getting access to a computer when they need one, so we thought it would be a useful area to research Tutor: Good Fine It’s not a topic anyone has looked at before, as far as I know, so it’s a good choice So what background reading did you do? Sami: Well, we looked in the catalogues in the library but we couldn’t find much that was useful – it’s such a specialized subject, hardly anything seems to have been published about it… Irene: And as well as that, the technology is all changing so quickly Sami: But the open access centre has an online questionnaire on computer use that it asks all the students to at the end of their first year, and the supervisor gave us access to that data, so we used it as a starting point for our research It wasn’t exactly what we needed, but it gave us an idea of what we wanted to find out in our survey Then we designed our own questionnaire Tutor: And how did you use it? Irene: We approached students individually and went through our questionnaire with them on a one-to-one basis Tutor: So you actually asked them the questions? Irene: That’s right We made notes of the answers as we went along, and actually we found we got a bit of extra information that may as well – about the underlying attitudes of the people we were interviewing – by observing the body language and things like that Tutor: How big is your sample? Sami: Well, altogether we interviewed a random sample of 65 students, 55% male and 45% female Tutor: And what about the locations and times of the survey? Sami: We went to the five open access computer centres at the university, and we got about equal amounts of data at each one It took us three weeks We did it during the week, in the day and in the evenings Tutor: Not the weekend? Sami: No Tutor: So presumably your respondents were mostly full-time students? Sami: Yes… Oh, you mean we should have collected some data at the weekends, from the parttime students? We don’t think of that Page 18 of 21 Tutor: OK It’s just an example of how difficult it is to get a truly random sample So how far have you got with the analysis of results? Irene: Well, everyone agreed there was a problem, but we’re more interested in what they think should be done about it The most popular suggestion was for some sort of booking system About 77% of the students thought that would be best But there were other suggestions; for example, about 65% of people thought it would help if the opening hours were longer, like 24 hours a day PART 3: Interviewer : Helena: Interviewer : Jed: Interviewer : Helena: Interviewer : Jed: Jed Stone's best known now for his talented as a garden designer - but he and his wife Helena ran a highly successful jewellery business in the nineteen nineties, which brought them fame and high living Then they lost it all and some years later, bought a derelict house which they renovated and now together they've created a garden They join me in the studio today You seem to most things in partnership, like the jewellery business, but using Jed's name Why's that? Helena? Well, this is a bit of a bone of contention, actually We have a friend in PR who said, "You have a great name, Jed Stone People would pay a fortune for such a good name."But, sadly, at the time, it never crossed my mind that I wouldn't get the credit for what we do, and that does get to me sometimes but, there again, I'm very bad at putting myself forward People see Jed as a figurehead, which is fine, actually, because I don't enjoy being recognized or get any thrill out of that, whereas Jed loves it Is that right, Jed? Obviously, I'd love to say, N " o, I don't,"but yeah, I Even as a child, I thought it must be marvelous to walk down a street and have people know who you were Ironically, that's the worst of it now It would be nice just to go and buy a paper without somebody saying something But I suppose I like being a public figure It gives me a sense that I've done something people appreciate It doesn't stop me doing anything, but it does modify how I it But Helena, you did appear on our television screens briefly as a presenter on The Travel Show That must have been a dream job, travelling around the world? Actually, I thought I was being heroic taking that job I'd actually rather have gone down a coal mine It was ironic really, because Jed adores travelling, whilst I hate it The timing was critical though; I mean, we were living in this derelict house We'd knocked huge holes in the walls to make windows and we could hardly afford to get the job finished and I wanted to be there when it was done So I genuinely didn't want to the job they were offering, but I felt I had no choice because, apart from anything else, it would provide us with a reasonable income So what about this jewel garden? Did you have a clear idea of what you wanted to when you bought the house? Not at all In fact, we were provoked into action I was giving a lecture on gardening and I was including some snaps of our own wilderness to show what certain plans looked like But these photos hadn't loaded onto my laptop properly, and you couldn't see a thing So I started to make it up describing this jewel garden with magical colours - It came straight out of Page 19 of 21 Interviewer : Helena: Jed: Interviewer : my imagination, it hadn't been a long-term plan or anything Anyway, as soon as I'd finished, these journalists came rushing up saying, "We must come and take pictures of your jewel garden."And I heard myself replying, "Fine, but come when the colours are good, don't come now."To cut a long story short, we had make the jewel garden before they came, and actually, we did ninety per cent of the work that summer That was out incentive! And why did you call it a "jewel garden"? Having read about the disasters with the jewellery business, one would have thought you wouldn't want the word "jewel"in your house at all Well, I'd like to work on projects and if you have a project where you're thinking only of jewel colours then that starts to limit you, and design is all about reduction Really it was just a good, positive way of tackling what plants we were putting in, and the way we were going to design the garden, wasn't it, Jed? Yeah But for me it was also partly a metaphor, it's making something worthwhile out of a failure We did spend years doing the jewellery and it wasn't all disastrous; there were good things about it too and we wanted to salvage them and treasure them It seemed a waste not to take that bit of our lives and to somehow incorporate it into our new design venture - to take the bad experience and use it in a creative way Jed and Helena, thank you for telling us about it today PART There really is no single definition of "business attire"these days The era of "Big Business"with fine clothes and tailored suits is largely gone, except in white-shoe firms There's a lot of freedom in tossing out the starched, buttoned-up conformity of yesteryear But what replaces it? What are we supposed to wear to work? A young defense lawyer might wear jeans and a T-shirt in the office while reviewing case files, but keep a dark suit hanging nearby for going to court or meeting a client Bankers are besuited; techy-types in all industries tend to dress down (same here at Newsy) Our 21st century workwear conundrum isn't new, but it's trending more casual Before World War II, men wore suits — often double-breasted — and hats (yes, hats were a necessity) Women wore dresses that managed to rise above the ankle, and complemented their attire with matching hats, gloves, bags and shoes Interesting fact: Before the war, 50% of all men’s suits were double-breasted, but by the end of the 1940s they made up only 12% Wartime cloth restrictions were the reason In the 1950s, much of the style was the same, but men's suits went from loose-fitting to s"kinny." The 1960s and 1970s mixed things up a bit Enter the pantsuit for women Patterns and colors got bolder The traditional men's suit stuck around, but some guys started showing up in Nehru jackets and something called the "leisure suit." The 1980s introduced something called "business casual,"thanks to Silicon Valley It originally meant khaki pants, sensible shoes and button-down collared shirts (The collars were critical.) Today, defining "business casual"is almost impossible Is it a T-shirt? Jeans? A hoodie? A Zara jacket? What's proper "business casual"for one business just won’t in another The Atlantic grappled with this and says the casual workplace can be traced to a r"esults oriented" business culture rather than a "process-oriented"culture obsessed with employees' looks — a change that also can be traced to the tech industry Page 20 of 21