SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NGHỆ AN
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NGHỆ AN
SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO NGHỆ AN
Part 2. You are going to hear a talk. For questions 16-25, listen and decide whether the statements
are TRUE or FALSE. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
16. The proportion of the world’s children receiving vaccination is four fifths.
17. One achievement mentioned by expert is that polio has almost been eradicated.
18. In the 1970s, there were 800,000 cases of tetanus.
19. Vaccinations are ongoing process.
20. More work needs to be done to ensure they are reaching everybody.
21. The health worker has time, money, or transport to reach certain places.
22. Vaccines don’t need to be stored at specific cool temperature.
23. Computers are not necessary to manage distribution of vaccines.
24. The expert advises against using vaccines which are not pre-qualified.
25. Vaccination programs are cost-effective.
Your answers:
16. T 18. F 20. T 22. F 24. T
17. T 19. T 21. T 23. F 25. T
Part 2. Read the passage below, which contains 8 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.
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1 Technology is moving at so a breakneck speed that it is enough to make your head spin. It can be
2 difficult to keep up. Moreover, with each new technological marvel come consequences. Much of
3 the research conducted has shown the extent of the damage being made to our health by
4 technology. It is a scary thought, and with teenagers and children being heavy consumers and
5 users of these gadget, they run the risk of being harmed the most. The digital revolution in music
6 has enabled people to download, store and listen to songs on a tiny, portable device called an MP3
7 player. The process is quick and afterwards you can have access to a library of thousand of songs
8 that can fit into your palm. But experts say that continuously listening to loud music on these
9 small music players can permanent damage hair cells in the inner ear, resulting in hearing loss.
10 For instance, old- fashioned headphones have replaced with smaller ones that fit neatly into the
11 ear, instead of over them, which intensifies the sound. In addition to that, digital music does not
12 distort and keeps its crystal clear sound, even on loud settings, that encourages children to crank
13 up the volume. Apart from hearing damage, there are other serious health risks. We are living in a
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 issue of equality for women in British society first attracted national attention in the early 20th
century, when the suffragettes won for women the right to vote. In the 1960s, feminism became the
subject of intense debate when the women's liberation movement encouraged women to reject their
traditional supporting role and to demand equal status and equal rights with men in areas such as
employment and pay.
Since then, the gender gap between the sexes has been reduced. The Equal Pay Act of 1970, for
instance, made it illegal for women to be paid less than men for doing the same work, and in 1975 the
Part 4. The reading passage has eight paragraphs, A-H. Choose the correct heading for
paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below. Write your answers A, B, C or D in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
BILINGUALISM IN CHILDREN
A. One misguided legacy of over a hundred years of writing on bilingualism is that children’s
intelligence will suffer if they are bilingual. Some of the earliest research into bilingualism examined
whether bilingual children were ahead or behind monolingual children on IQ tests. From the 1920s
through to the 1960s, the tendency was to find monolingual children ahead of bilinguals on IQ tests. The
conclusion was that bilingual children were mentally confused. Having two languages in the brain, it
was said, disrupted effective thinking. It was argued that having one well-developed language was
superior to having two half-developed languages.
B. The idea that bilinguals may have a lower IQ still exists among many people, particularly
monolinguals. However, we now know that this early research was misconceived and incorrect. First,
such research often gave bilinguals an IQ test in their weaker language – usually English. Had bilinguals
been tested in Welsh or Spanish or Hebrew, a different result may have been found. The testing of
bilinguals was thus unfair. Second, like was not compared with like. Bilinguals tended to come from, for
example, impoverished New York or rural Welsh backgrounds. The monolinguals tended to come from
a more middle-class, urban families. Working-class bilinguals were often compared with middle-class
monolinguals. So, the results were more likely to be due to social class differences than language
differences. The comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals was unfair.
D. One note of caution needs to be sounded. IQ tests probably do not measure intelligence. IQ tests
measure a small sample of the broadest concept of intelligence. IQ tests are simply paper and pencil tests
where only ‘right and wrong’ answers are allowed. Is all intelligence summed up in such right and
wrong, pencil and paper tests? Isn’t there a wider variety of intelligence that are important in everyday
functioning and everyday life?
E. Many questions need answering. Do we only define an intelligent person as somebody who obtains a
high score on an IQ test? Are the only intelligent people those who belong to high IQ organizations such
as MENSA? Is there social intelligence, musical intelligence, military intelligence, marketing
intelligence, motoring intelligence, political intelligence? Are all, or indeed any, of these forms of
intelligence measured by a simple pencil and paper IQ test which demands a single, acceptable, correct
solution to each question? Defining what constitutes intelligent behavior requires a personal value
judgment as to what type of behavior, and what kind of person is of more worth.
F. The current state of psychological wisdom about bilingual children is that, where two languages are
relatively well developed, bilinguals have thinking advantages over monolinguals. Take an example. A
child is asked a simple question: How many uses can you think to offer a brick? Some children give two
or three answers only. They can think of building walls, building a house and perhaps that is all. Another
child scribbles away, pouring out ideas one after the other: blocking up a rabbit hole, breaking a
window, using as a birdbath, as a plumb line, as an abstract sculpture in an art exhibition.
G. Research across different continents of the world shows that bilinguals tend to be more fluent,
flexible, original and elaborate in their answers to this type of open-ended question. The person who can
think of a few answers tends to be termed a convergent thinker. They converge onto a few acceptable
conventional answers. People who think of lots of different uses for unusual items (e.g. a brick, tin can,
cardboard box) are called Divergers. Divergers like a variety of answers to a question and are
imaginative and fluent in their thinking.
H. There are other dimensions in thinking where approximately ‘balanced’ bilinguals may have
temporary and occasionally permanent advantages over monolinguals: increased sensitivity to
communication, a slightly speedier movement through the stages of cognitive development, and being
less fixed on the sounds of words and more centered on the meaning of words. Such ability to move
away from the sound of words and fix on the meaning of words tends to be a (temporary) advantage for
Your answers:
41. Paragraph B __ii____ 43. Paragraph D ___iv___ 45. Paragraph F ___ix___
42. Paragraph C __vi____ 44. Paragraph E __i____ 46. Paragraph G ___v___
Questions 47-50
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? Write
TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this
47. Balanced bilinguals have more permanent than temporary advantages over monolinguals.
48. Often bilinguals concentrate more on the way a word sounds than on its meaning.
49. Monolinguals learn to speak at a younger age than bilinguals.
50. Bilinguals just starting school might pick up certain skills faster than monolinguals.
Your answers:
47. ___F___ 48. ___F___ 49. __NG____ 50. ___T___
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