Tui lifu rln thi titng Anh PRACTICE TEST PART 1: VOCABULARY SECTION AND READING COMPREHENSION 1: VOCABULARY Choose the best word/phrase in the box below to complete Each word/phrase can be used ONCE ONLY _m _ _ _m the sentences that follow m 'm _m_m_ taxes relationships pred iet used penSIon majority rain'A!ater current more most grad ual growth people university doctors of which in many school equipITIent we is becoming population profits , m_ _" - are One found in or near the thc\ used Our go\'crnmcnt West gives financial help now Parents to the elderl.y of the cit\' treat their children as equals more industrialized helps explain in the form of the fact that 110 Chi Minh City docs not OIlC c('ntrc, In ('\Tn out to \\'ork to earn I'u IJlic scn'iccs colkc1Cd 1\1;111\' countries H Doctors teach ('ountr\ their arc provided and medica] need nurses people, q in the \\'orId 10 The of students' Internet, to 11 ,It horne vast for the good of society through of population go bettef health work through clnd as a \-vhole, the money to finance them is , and care, to provide the accommodation, more WorId medical 1he cust the li\'ing IJ.\' the gmTrnment I 111 be to \1;-\\-(' just () to of big stores, number End Thc is the the famil.v are different within than of London feat ures of the Health education Organisation and supplies mOfe medicines should to prevent be free and the state diseases, should to pay food, books and more popular and many people no\\! have access Practice test 11 In the last 100 years, t('chnolog)' has completely television, and we have changed the way we live electricity', aeroplanes, 12 Scientists this number 14 Eco-friendly houses computer business, SECTION can has is around 2: Reading of life in the last reach 10 billion Feeding ten or fifteen years It is .in and entertainment Comprehension carefully might for washing part education, have to the moon six billion collect become science, Read each passage Passage been that by 2050 the population of people might prove to be difficult 13 The world's 15 The even (30 marks) and then answer the questions that follow Every British citizen who is employed (or self-employed) is obliged to pay a weekly contribution to the national insurance and health schemes An employer also makes a contribution for each of his employees, and the Government too pays a certain amount This plan was brought into being in 1948 Its aim is to prevent anyone from going \vithout medical services, if he needs them, however poor he may be; to ensure that a person who is out of \vork shall receive a weekI.v sum of money to subsist on; and to provide a small pension for those who have reached the age of retirement I-:\'er~'onc can register with a doctor of his choice and if he is iJ1 he can consult the doctor without having to pay for the doctor's services, although he has to pay a small charge for medicines When a man is out of work, he may draw unemployment benefit until he finds \\'ork again; this he \\'ill probabJy by going to a clob Center Obviously, the amount paid is comparatively small, for the State docs not \\"ant people to stop working in order to draw a handsome sum of money for doing nothing There are special benefits for certain people, such as mothers-tn-be, children, the blind and the handicapped The amount of mone,\" needed to operate these schemes is enormous mone.y comes not from the contributions but from taxation I What t\\'o schemes or \\"c]fa re docs the passage and a large part of the telJ us about? Who arc the contributors 3-4-5 Can What poor are the three pcople to these fJurposcs gel frce doc1or's schemes? of the schemes? service? "" ~I - - - - - - - - - Tili li~u /in thi tie'ng Anh Who can enjoy special benefits? What docs "them" in "if he needs them' refer to? (paragraph 1) What docs "this" in "this he will probably by going to a Job Center' refer to? (paragraph 10 What word in the passage means "an amount of money considered to be too old to earn money by \vorking'? Passage paid regularl.', 10 someone 2) \vho is The sun releases large amounts of energy Most of the energy goes into space, but some of it reaches the earth There arc several kinds of energy from the SUTl, hut these arc the two most important: light and heat Life qn earth depends on light for p1ants to grO\\'; and humans and animals need warmth to live Solar energy is not onl.\' unlimited but also i1 is clean It docs not pollute air or water Wh\ doesn't the world use more solar power? to collect solar energy for use Scientists around the world arc tr\ing to It is still ver.'-' expensive find a cheaper way to collect it and change it into eJectricity for machines For example, automobile engineers arc tty'ing to develop electronic cars that use solar PO\\Tr Many buildings arc using solar energv to heat their water nO\\' Universities and colleges give solar energy courses where students learn SOh1.r collectors There arc also many books that explain the construction especially in the sllnny desert arcas of the worJd to build of solar their O\\'n collectors Scientists afe looking fOf other ways to use solar enerK\ For instance, they want to use solar cnergy to take the salt out of sea water Pcople \\'ho livc in dry, dcsert areas near oceans need fresh water Scicntlsts want to supply this fresh water I"rmn the ocean I mentioned in the passage? of taking salt out of sea water callcd? Practice test 18 What docs "if' in "but also 19 What doc", "tlIat";n " to it is dean" devdop electronic in the passage 3: READING Mexico City is the oldest exciting, beautiful, and against people times world work, that Use solar is similar power" refer to') (Paragraph2) in meaning to "solar cncrgy"#? CLOZE (10 marks) Instructions: Complete the following with ONE suitable word only, three cars I) SECTION million to? (paragraph 20 What expression/phrase fighting refer serious and (1) magical problems (6) (9) it's getting thcre (10) the missing words capital city in North .which for the It has a (3) past Fill in each America few years aren't bigger all the time (5) York City and it's the lal'gest mm/c in from the country enough jobs for al1 of them, and blank It's c:m has of New day, thousands of people Every with historical (2) environmental (4) bigger passage becn O\'(T IS morc them eit\ (7) to (0' the 22 the rcsuJrs IS extrcll1ch t'or unemployment and over-population PART 2: WRITING SECTION 1: CONTROLLED WRITING (15 marks) Instructions: From the following sets of words and phrases in the given sequences, make aU the changes and additions necessary to produce sentences, which together make a complete letter Note carefully from the example what kind of changes need to be made Write each sentence in the space provided Example: ] / be / happy / get / letter / offer / me / job / vour company Answer: / was happy when [ got your letter, in which you alTer !!Ie (f joh ill your COlllIHlI/Y Dear Karen / Thank you / your letter I / really you / look forward / see / you / like / summer / / summn / /Jr;tam? there / be / a kw thmgs / i like / a~~ / What / be / weather / usually J';"'I' ",' . Tili Ii?" tJn (hi (ie'n Anh I not I know have I very big suitcase I come I Can I pack I I I not what meet I me I airport? I just If not I let me I know I how I get I station I you I can I pick up I there I have lone more I question I I money I I I bring? how much Is I easy I I change traveller's cheque? or I would I be I better I bring I cash? 10 I write I Please soon Lots of love Debbie SECTION 2: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (15 marks) Instructions: use the words given to rewrite each of the following way that it means exactly the same as the original sentence Example: in such "Don't be so lazy!" Answer: sentences Darren told him not to be lazy " Don't go too near the edge," their father said Their father warned You took it without The shopkeeper paying for it, didn't you?" the shopkeeper accused "Let's go to this bar here," my friend said My friend suggested It was a really bad joke Nobody laughed It was said to her such The reviews were very bad, but the film was still a big success Although She wears She prefers 44 the red blouse more often than the blue one a Practice test , She has been writing She started the report The man regrets since 2pm not having bought that house The man wishes I want to visit IIalong Bay this summer If 10 The phone No sooner rang as soon as went to bed SECTION 3: TRANSLATION Translate Yet I not have enough money the following (15 marks) sentences into English Ha N(>ila thu d6 eua nUoe C(>ng hoa Xii h6i ehu nghja Viet Nam Ky hQp Quoe h(>i Ian dii khai m?e vao thu thang nam 2003 tal Hii Noi " - Doanh thu nganh du lieh tang khoang 10% bon thang dau nam, nhung giam mEjnh thang dieh SARS Translate the following sentences into Vietnamese 6-8 According to the government report, aquaculture especially important part in economic restructuring in some areas f fmvcver, techniques have led to uneven development within the industry shrimp breeding, plays an poor pJanning and breeding 9-10 The report also reduction, settlement residents of nood-prone said t.hat progress has been of land for prod lIction and areas in the Mekong Delta made in education, houses for ethnic job creation, poverty minority' people and This is the end of Practice test 45 -.- - Tajli~uanthjtitn Anh PRACTICE TEST PART 1: VOCABULARY SECTION AND READING 1: VOCABULARY COMPREHENSION (15 marks) Choose the best word/phrase in the box below to complete the sentences that follow Each word/phrase can be used ONCE ONLY ~ [ - silence travelling due to onc anxious enthusiasm relaxing out of anything raises tel1ing preven ted anniversary drink looking laid I _. -_.- - for excited I da~ at \vhat u_n _ - - M~' wife and I hm'(' We ate our meals At the meeting No We arc ]t \vas Whenever R Maria needs business Thc nlways enjoyed because we discussed this issue at chess to find to 10 The boy does'n't thing for longer clack 13 Wt' had than to begin a conversation chmet school for our children to attend company is going .me avoided another job Her present us from going to the football his inability \\'ell in school than a minute or two many \1.lk 12 Where wanted to be done find \vcuthcr nobody with enormous :atioI1S? have been introdUlTd? word from the pnssage mail arc work 47 10 In case the company C