TEST 30

SECTION A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1: You will hear a new report by medical experts. For questions 1-10, fill in each blank
with ONE missing word. You are allowed to listen twice.
     Why is it that many teenagers have the (1) _______ to play computer games until late at
night but can’t (2) _______ the energy to get out of bed in time for school? According to a new
report, today’s (3) _______ of children are in danger of getting so (4) _________ sleep that they are
putting their (5)_______ and physical health at risk. Adults can easily survive on seven to eight
hours’ sleep a night, whereas teenagers require nine or ten hours. (6)________ to medical experts,
one in five youngsters gets anything between two and five hours’ sleep a night less than their parents
did at their age.
      This raises (7) ________ questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s ability to
(8) ___________ at school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in (9) _______,
impaired reaction time and poor concentration is well (10) _________ . Research has shown that
losing as little as half an hour’s sleep a night can have profound (11) ________on how children
perform the next day. A good night’s sleep is also (12) ___________ for teenagers because it is while
they are asleep that they release a hormone that is (13) _________ for their ‘growth spurt’ (the period
during teenage years when the body grows at a rapid rate). It’s (14) ________ that they can, to some
extent, catch up on sleep at weekends, but that won’t help them when they are (15)______________
off to sleep in class on a Friday afternoon.

Part 2. You are about to hear a news report. Listen and then choose the best answer A, B or C
for each sentence. You are allowed to listen twice.
21. What is the main topic?
A. a school in Italy
B. a special kind of school
C. children with special needs
22. Which of these is NOT true about Montessori schools?
A. Children walk around.
B. Teachers tell students what to do.
C. There are a lot of materials to choose from.
23. What do Montessori teachers believe?
A. Students will learn on their own.
B. Teachers have to tell students what to do.
C. Children need to have a schedule for every hour of class.
24. What kinds of children can learn in a Montessori school?
A. only children with special needs
B. only children from regular schools
C. all types of children
25. Maria Montessori was __________.
A. a psychiatrist
B. the first woman doctor in Italy
C. the mother of a student with special needs
26. Dr. Montessori believed that children __________.
A. can teach themselves
B. need strict discipline in school
C. need a teacher to show them everything
27. How old was Dr. Montessori when she started to teach?
A. 18 B. 21 C. 28
28. Which of the following is true about the children Dr. Montessori taught?
A. They did better than other children on tests.
B. They did as well on tests as other children.
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 C. They studied in another school before she worked with them.
29. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Dr. Montessori’s ideas were not popular.
B. Dr. Montessori still works with children.
C. Dr. Montessori developed materials for children.
30. How many Montessori programs are there in the world?
A. ten B. hundreds C. thousands

SECTION B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR (20 points)

Part 1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C or D
in the corresponding numbered boxes.

1. A fire must have a readily available supply of oxygen, ________ it will stop burning.
A. Consequently B. Furthermore C. Otherwise D. However
2. Prices quoted in this package include _____ hours of Internet access for one month.
A. unwarranted B. uncontrolled C. unlimited D. unrecoverable
3. To apply for the scholarship, the students are required to write a __ essay about their future plans.
A. two-hundred-word B. two-pages
C. double pages D. two hundred words
4. I use weed-killer to _________ the weeds in the garden.
A. get rid of B. get out of C. get away with D. get in the way with
5. Much of what he said had little _______ to the issue we were discussing.
A. accordance B. involvement C. concern D. relevance
6. There are ______ that not only governments but also individuals should join hand to tackle.
A. too numerous environmental problems B. such a lot of environmental problems
B. so fewer environmental problems D. such many environmental problems
7. County legislators called for an update of the safety ____ for the DRCY Power Plant.
A. regulate B. regulative C. regulatory D. regulations
8. The case for an increase in spending on education has been proved without the____________ of
doubt.
A. shadow B. hesitation C. suspicion D. shade
9. The bombardment from the sea and air ______ large parts of the city.
A. liquidated (thanh lý) B. drowned
C. abolished (bãi bỏ) D. demolished (xóa sổ)
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
10. Deforestation may seriously jeopardize the habitat of many species in the local area.
A. do harm to B. set fire to C. give rise to D. make way for
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
11. If you say bad things about the person who gives you a job, you bite the hand that feeds you.
A. be unfriendly B. be ungrateful C. be thankful D. be devoted
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the indicate the sentence that best completes
each of the following exchanges
12. Laura and David are talking about the benefits of swimming.
- Laura: “I think swimming helps us exercise all our muscles.”
- David:“________”
A. You can do it. Thanks anyway B. There is no doubt about it
C. Not at all. You can make it D. Yes, swimming does, too

Part2. Read the passage below which contains 8 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1 The ability to deceive others is thought by some psychologists to be a character that
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 2 has been genetically selected through human evolution. Comparison have been made with
3 animal deception, such as camouflage and mimicry. For hundreds of generations, it is
4 arguing, the ability to make others believe insincere remarks and promises have conferred
5 advantages in struggles to control resources and win mating partners. The less cunning has,
6 quite simple, produced fewer offspring, and a talent for creating false impressions has
7 dominated the human gene pool.
8 Whether the merits or shortcomings of this line of thinking, they are undoubtedly many
9 occasions in everyday social encounters when people, for one reason or another, want to
10 avoid expressing their true feelings. The able to do this varies and success tends to breed
11 success. Those which lie effectively will tend to lie more often, perfecting their social skills
12 in the process. Those who fail are deterred from future attempts and get few practice. With
13 flying, as with everything else, practice makes perfect.

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Your answers:
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
13 17
14 18
15 19
16 20

SECTION C – READING (70 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and choose the best answer. Write your answer A, B, C or D
in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Phobias, such as an extreme fear of spiders or heights, can cause genuine suffering. In the past,
one (1) __________ to treatment involved the use of mind-(2) __________ drugs, although these
often caused undesirable (3) __________ - effects in the patient. Another common method still in use
is behavioral therapy. This involves exposing people to their particular phobia under controlled (4)
__________. The (5) __________ behind this is that a new memory can be created which says the
feared object or situation in (6) __________ is safe. In most cases, the effects seem to be more
positive than those achieved through chemical intervention.
Most recently, in 2009, a series of (7) __________experiments led by Elizabeth Phelps at New
York university looked at the way ‘fear memories’ were retrieved and the way they could be
manipulated. Originally, the experiments had been (8) __________ on laboratory rats. Every time the
rats were exposed to a certain sound, they were given an electric shock, so they learnt to fear the
sound. Scientists (9) __________ it was possible to eliminate that fear through ‘extinction training’,
in which the rats were then exposed repeatedly to the sound without any electric shock.
The timing of this training was (10) __________. Fear of the sound was only erased in those rats
that were trained after an interval of a few minutes but no longer than a few hours after the fear
memory was revived. Phelps’ study, on human (11) __________ given electric shocks when shown
coloured cards, was (12) __________ on the rat tests. A year after the experiments, nineteen of her
(13) __________ took part in further tests. Those who had received ‘extinction training’ more than
six hours after the fear memory was revived still showed signs of fear towards the coloured cards.
Those who had been trained quickly showed no signs of fear - (14) __________ that the fear memory
had been eradicated. The research team’s (15) __________ seemed to offer hope for a new form of
phobia treatment.
1. A. way B. means C. method D. approach
2. A. altering B. changing C. adapting D. transferring
3. A. other B. after C. side D. over
4. A. examples B. conditions C. cases D. rules
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5. A. action B. theory C. practice D. process
6. A. front B. mind C. question D. point
7. A. pioneering (tiên B. leading C. main D. breaking
phong
8. A. found out B. taken part C. looked into D. carried out
9. A. gained B. discovered C. acquired D. wondered
10. A. meaningful B. urgent C. crucial D. foremost
11. A. volunteers B. nominees C. candidates D. applicants
12. A. derived B. aimed C. designed D. based
13. A. members B. interviews C. subjects D. people
14. A. indicating B. pointing C. noting D. gesturing
15. A. findings B. intentions C. options D. summaries

Part 2. Fill in the gap with ONE suitable word. Write the answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes.
TSUNAMI IN JAPAN
Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began has struck the north-east coast, triggering a
massive tsunami. Cars, ships and buildings were (16) ………………………………… away by a wall of
water after the 8.9 - magnitude tremor, which struck about 400 kms (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo.
A state of emergency has been declared at a nuclear power plant, (17) …………………………………
pressure has exceeded normal levels. Officials say more than 10,000 people are dead and about 7,000
(18) ………………………………… but it is feared the final death toll will be (19)
………………………………… higher. In one ward alone in Sendai, a port city in Miyagi prefecture,
200 to 300 bodies( 20) ………………………………… found. “The quake has been the fifth-largest in
the world (21) ………………………………… 1900 and nearly 8,000 (22) …………stronger than the
one which devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month”, said scientists. Thousands of people
(23) ………………………………… near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been( 24)
………………………………… to evacuate. Japanese nuclear officials said that pressure inside a boiling
water reactor at the plant was running much (25)……………………… than normal after the cooling
system failed. Officials said they might need to deliberately (26)……………………… some
radioactive steam to relieve pressure, but that there (27)……………………… be no health risk. US
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had earlier said the US Air Force had flown emergency coolant to
the site. But US officials later said (28)……………………… coolant had been handed over because
the Japanese had decided to handle the situation (29)……………………… The UN's nuclear (30)
……………………… said four nuclear power plants had been shut down safely.

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the questions.
Write your answers A, B, C or D in the corresponding numbered boxes.
The Digital Divide
Information technology is influencing the way many of us live and work today. We use the
Internet to look and apply for jobs, shop, conduct research, make airline reservations, and explore
areas of interest. We use e-mail and the Internet to communicate instantaneously with friends and
business associates around the world. Computers are commonplace in homes and the workplace.
Although the number of Internet users is growing exponentially each year, most of the world’s
population does not have access to computers or the Internet. Only 6 percent of the population in
developing countries are connected to telephones. Although more than 94 percent of U.S. households
have a telephone, only 42 percent have personal computers at home and 26 percent have Internet
access. The lack of what most of us would consider a basic communications necessity – the telephone
– does not occur just in developing nations. On some Native American reservations only 60 percent
of the residents have a telephone. The move to wireless connections may eliminate the need for
telephone lines, but it does not remove the barrier to equipment costs.
Who has Internet access? Fifty percent of the children in urban households with an income over
$75,000 have Internet access, compared with 2 percent of the children in low-income, rural

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households. Nearly half of college-educated people have Internet access, compared to 6 percent of
those with only some high school education. Forty percent of households with two parents have
access; 15 percent of female, single-parent households do. Thirty percent of white households, 11
percent of black households, and 13 percent of Hispanic households have access. Teens and children
are the two fastest-growing segments of Internet users. The digital divide between the populations
who have access to the Internet and information technology tools is based on income, race, education,
household type, and geographic location. Only 16 percent of the rural poor, rural and central city
minorities, young householders, and single parent female households are connected.
Another problem that exacerbates these disparities is that African-Americans, Hispanics, and
Native Americans hold few of the jobs in information technology. Women hold about 20 percent of
these jobs and are receiving fewer than 30 percent of the computer science degrees. The result is that
women and members of the most oppressed ethnic groups are not eligible for the jobs with the
highest salaries at graduation. Baccalaureate candidates with degrees in computer science were
offered the highest salaries of all new college graduates in 1998 at $44,949.
Do similar disparities exist in schools? More than 90 percent of all schools in the country are
wired with at least one Internet connection. The number of classrooms with Internet connections
differs by the income level of students. Using the percentage of students who are eligible for free
lunches at a school to determine income level, we see that nearly twice as many of the schools with
more affluent students have wired classrooms as those with high concentrations of low-income
students.
Access to computers and the Internet will be important in reducing disparities between groups. It
will require greater equality across diverse groups whose members develop knowledge and skills in
computer and information technologies. If computers and the Internet are to be used to promote
equality, they will have to become accessible to populations that cannot currently afford the
equipment which needs to be updated every three years or so. However, access alone is not enough.
Students will have to be interacting with the technology in authentic settings. As technology becomes
a tool for learning in almost all courses taken by students, it will be seen as a means to an end rather
than an end in itself. If it is used in culturally relevant ways, all students can benefit from its power.
31. Why does the author mention the telephone in paragraph 2?
A. To demonstrate that even technology like the telephone is not available to all
B. To argue that basic telephone service is a first step to using the Internet
C. To contrast the absence of telephone usage with that of Internet usage
D. To describe the development of communications from telephone to Internet
32. Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the statement “Although the
number ............. or the Internet.” in the paragraph 2?
A. Most of the people in the world use the Internet now because the number of computers has
been increasing every year.
B. The number of people who use computers and the Internet is increasing every year, but most
people in the world still do not have connections.
C. The number of computers that can make the Internet available to most of the people in the
world is not increasing fast enough.
D. The Internet is available to most of the people in the world, even though they don't have their
own computer terminals.
33. The word “eliminate” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. accept B. dispute C. define D. remove
34. According to paragraph 3, which of the following best explains the term "digital divide?"
A. The number of Internet users in developing nations
B. The disparity (khác biệt) in the opportunity to use the Internet
C. Differences in socioeconomic levels among Internet users
D. Segments (phân loại) of the population with Internet access
35. Why does the author give details about the percentages of Internet users in paragraph 3?
A. To prove that there are differences in opportunities among social groups
B. To argue for more Internet connections at all levels of society
C. To suggest that improvements in Internet access are beginning to take place
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36. According to paragraph 3, which of the following households would be least likely to have access
to the Internet?
A. A household with one parent B. A black household
C. A Hispanic household D. A household with both parents
37. The word “those” in the passage refers to
A. classrooms B. students C. schools D. concentrations
38. According to paragraph 4, why are fewer women and minorities employed in the field of
computer technology?
A. They are not admitted to the degree programs.
B. They do not possess the educational qualifications.
C. They do not have an interest in technology.
D. They prefer training for jobs with higher salaries.
39. The word “concentrations” in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. protections B. numbers C. confidence D. support
40. What can be inferred from paragraph 6 about Internet access?
A. Better computers need to be designed.
B. Schools should provide newer computers for students.
C. The cost of replacing equipment is a problem.
D. Technology will be more helpful in three years.

Part 4: Read the following passage about e- cigarettes. Answer the questions from 41 to 50. The
options may be chosen more than once For questions 41- 50, choose from the sections of the
article (A- I). The sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
Do e-cigarettes make it harder to stop smoking?
A. People trying to give up smoking often use e-cigarettes to help wean themselves off tobacco. Most
experts think they are safer than cigarettes but a surprising paper was published recently - it suggests
that people who use e-cigarettes are less successful at giving up smoking than those who don't. "E-
cigarettes WON'T help you quit," reported the Daily Mail. "Smokers using vapers are '28% less
likely to ditch traditional cigarettes,'" read the paper's headline. The story was reported on many other
websites around the world, including CBS: "Study: E-cigarettes don't help smokers quit," it said.

B. The study causing the fuss was written by researchers at the Center for Tobacco Control Research
and Education at the University of California, and published in one of the Lancet's sister journals,
Lancet Respiratory Medicine. It is a meta-analysis, which means the authors reviewed the academic
literature already available on the topic. They sifted out the weaker papers - ones that didn't have
control groups, for example - and were left with 20.

C. The conclusion? Smokers who use e-cigarettes have a 28% lower chance of quitting than smokers
who don't use them, according to Prof Stanton Glantz, one of the authors. But while the conclusion is
surprising, so is the number of academics who have criticized the paper. One was Ann McNeill,
professor of tobacco addiction at Kings College London, whose own research is included in Galatz’s
analysis. "This review is not scientific," she wrote on the Science Media Centre website. "The
information… about two studies that I co-authored is either inaccurate or misleading… I believe the
findings should therefore be dismissed.

D "I am concerned at the huge damage this publication may have - many more smokers may continue
smoking and die if they take from this piece of work that all evidence suggests e-cigarettes do not
help you quit smoking; that is not the case." Prof Peter Hayek, director of the Tobacco Dependence
Research Unit at the Wolfson Institute also called the findings "grossly misleading".

E The critics are making three main points. First, the definition of e-cigarettes is a bit loose. There
are many different types - some look like cigarettes, others have tanks for the vamping liquid, some
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are disposable and other are multi-use. They all deliver different doses of nicotine. Many of the
papers included in the analysis don't specify which type people are using, according to Linda Baud,
professor of health policy at the University of Stirling. Another point is that the studies vary in the
way they measure how often people use e-cigarettes. "Some only assessed whether a person had ever
tried an e-cigarette or if they had tried one recently, not whether they were using it regularly or
frequently," Baud says.

(F) Even the paper's author admits it's possible that in some of the studies e-cigarettes may only have
been used once, which he says would not be a good predictor of whether they had affected people's
ability to stop smoking. And there is another problem. You might expect, if you were going to draw
conclusions about how useful e-cigarettes are in helping people quit, to focus on studies looking at
people who are trying to give up. Prof Robert West, who heads a team at University College London
researching ways to help people stop smoking, says this analysis mashed together some very different
studies - only some of which include people using e-cigarettes to help them quit.

(G) "To mix them in with studies where you've got people using an e-cigarette and are not
particularly trying to stop smoking is mixing apples and oranges," he says. Some of the studies track
smokers who use e-cigarettes for other reasons - perhaps because smoking a cigarette in a bar or an
office is illegal and they want a nicotine hit. "With the studies where people are using electronic
cigarettes specifically in a quit attempt the evidence is consistent," says West, referring to two
randomized control trials.

(H) Both are quite small and one was funded by the e-cigarette industry. They took two groups of
smokers, and gave one real e-cigarettes, and the other a placebo. The studies reach a broadly similar
conclusion to a large, real-world study called the Smoking Toolkit run by West. West's investigation
follows people in their daily lives and assesses how successful various methods of giving up smoking
are - this includes nicotine patches, medicines and going cold turkey. These studies suggest that
people using e-cigarettes to help them quit are 50% to 100% more successful than those who use no
aids at all.

(I) In his paper, Glantz acknowledges there are limitations to the research that he analysed. He agrees
there are problems with the way the use of e-cigarettes is measured and accepts it's not clear which
devices people are using. But he is sticking by his analysis because he believes he has taken these
factors into account. The editor of Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Emma Grainger, defends the article
too. She says she does not see a problem with the paper and that it has been through the normal peer-
review process.

41 Possible damage
42 Shocking news
43 Mix of different studies
44 Misleading information
45 Types of e-cigarettes
46 A place where the controversial research was written
47 The defense of the article
48 A research by an e-cigarette industry
49 The consistent evidence
50 The percentage success of using e- cigarettes

SECTION D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, use the word
given in capital letters and the word mustn’t be altered in any way.
1. How can I make him understand that I don't want to see him anymore? ACROSS

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→ How can I ______________________________ that I don't want to see him anymore?
2. Parents predict chaos in schools unless the strike is called off. RESULT
→ Parents claim it _______________________________ the teacher's strike goes ahead.
3. It's possible that they got the wrong idea that the party was next week. REACHED
→ They might ___________________________ conclusion that the party was next week.
4. It was a mistake not to write the telephone number down. POINT
→ I should _________________________________ writing down the telephone number.
5. Apparently, they're planning on rerouting the traffic to reduce congestion. MADE
→ Plans ___________________________________ the traffic to reduce congestion.

Part 2. You took part in an English course at EMA center but you have some problems and can’t stay
the whole course. Write a letter (80- 100 words) to the center director.
In your letter:
* explain your interest in the course
* describe your problems
* find out if a refund is possible.
Your name is Le Hoang Lam. Do not write your address or the date in this letter.

Part 3. Write a story BEGUN with the following sentence

Covid 19 pademic give Vietnamese people an opotunity to show their willingness to unite and
share to overcome the difficulties