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HỌC KỲ I NĂM HỌC 2024 – 2025
Ngành/Lớp : 24TXTAA1
Viện Hợp tác và Phát triển Tên học phần : KỸ NĂNG ĐỌC NÂNG CAO
đào tạo Mã học phần : EENG187 Số TC: 3
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(Đề thi có 07 trang) Thời gian làm bài: 60’
Mã đề : 241
SỬ DỤNG TÀI LIỆU: CÓ  KHÔNG 
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CÂU 1. You are going to read an article about fathers and sons. For questions 1-10,
choose from the people (A- D). (2,5 điểm) (CLO3)
What’s the best advice your father ever gave you?

A. Tony: Racing driver
‘Drive it like you stole it and keep it on the black stuff!’ I was quite nervous when I first
started racing, but those were my dad’s jokey words of wisdom and they made me feel better
at the time. In the beginning, I had quite a few spins on the circuits - the very first one was
particularly scary because the car left the track, but he never said it was my fault. I used to
drive a Porsche 924 and pretty much every single race something would break, but Dad would
just say: ‘Don’t worry about the car, we can always fix it.’ I didn’t like people behind me
when I went round corners, but Dad was always telling me not to take any notice, to focus on
what I was doing. I’ve got a long way to go, but Dad ’s really good - he’s hardly the most
polite person to have around if things don’t go well, but he’s my role model.
В. David: Record producer
Because Dad and I have always been close, there was no one moment when he imparted some
big philosophical piece of advice. I think his greatest gift has been his general unwavering
belief in me. Since I was about fourteen, he’s given me the opportunity to input ideas and
have my say about the bands we work with or the equipment we use, which is amazing. When
you’re part of a family business, it can sometimes feel as if you have to be there, but my
brother and I have done other things, and we’re back with Dad again because we want to be.
He left the decision to us. Dad’s also been good at giving career advice because he’s done it
and he’s got the experience. He’s given me that drive and ambition to succeed.
C. Andy: Buyer for a department store
I was probably Dad’s most unruly son. He tried to teach me a lot of things - how much I’ve
taken on board is another matter. But I don’t think I’m such a disappointment to him! He’s a
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very cool dad, but he’s quite traditional in some ways. He’s always said that if you want to
succeed, then get on with it. If you’re going to do something, do it right away or at least write
it down so you don’t forget! I’m proud of my dad and how hard he worked for us to have a
lovely childhood and good lifestyle. Dad also taught me valuable skills like how to change the
oil in my car, how to play tennis and ski - although the last time he saw me doing that he said
he feared for his life!
D Simon: Rugby player
He had this catchphrase: ‘Under-prepare, and you prepare to fail.’ I heard it time and again. A
typical teenager when things went wrong, I was always trying to blame everything and
everyone but myself. He used his catchphrase and explained that if you don’t put sufficient
effort in, you’ll never get anything out of whatever it is you’re doing. That’s stayed with me
ever since, even now when I’m playing professionally. He’s always given a fair amount of
advice. He made me realise that if you just stick at something, no matter how hard things get,
then your time will come. It’s the hardest thing to hear when things aren’t going well. At the
beginning of the season, I wasn’t getting picked for many matches. Then when the chance
came to play, I really took it.
Which person’s father...

1. always had faith in his son’s abilities?
A. Tony: racing driver B. David: Record producer
C. Andy: Buyer for a department store D. Simon: Rugby player
2. encouraged his son not to give up in the face of disappointment?
3. gave his son advice in a light-hearted way?
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4. made his son realise the need to try harder?
5. may not have succeeded in passing on certain ideas to his son?
6. never blamed his son for mistakes that he made?
7. put no pressure on his son to follow in his footsteps?
8. reassured his son when equipment let him down?
9. showed his son how to perform practical tasks?
10. was willing to listen to his son’s suggestions?
CÂU 2. For question 11 – 20, choose the best option to the questions. (2,5 điểm) (CLO3)
Watercolour competition
First prize
A. Carol Robertson - Interrupted
Field Carol Robertson’s Interrupted Field is a worthy winner, a more or less geometric
composition that exploits the qualities of evenly-applied washes of colour. The painting is
vast - ‘the largest I’ve ever attempted’- so the big, even area of blue in the centre is, apart
from anything else, something of a technical achievement.
Robertson is keen to stress that her abstract compositions are firmly rooted in reality. Though
she does not ‘seek to confirm or record the way the world looks’, her work is never
disconnected from the natural world, so the coloured stripes and bands in this painting have a
specific source. Over the past five years, Robertson has been working in Ireland, on the
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northwest coast of County Mayo. The coloured stripes stimulate ‘memories of coastal
landscape, brightly painted cottages, harbours and fishing boats, things seen out of the corner
of my eye as I explored that coastline by car and on foot. The colour mirrors the fragments of
life that caught my eye against a background of sea and sky.’
Runners up
В. Geoffrey Wynne - Quayside
Geoffrey Wynne describes himself as ‘an open-air impressionist watercolour painter’, though
he adds that ‘larger works’, this prize-winning picture among them, ‘are developed in the
studio’.
Perhaps the most noteworthy aspect of this painting is the sheer number of people in it.
According to the title, they are on a quay somewhere, and the number of suitcases they have
with them suggests they have just landed from a boat on the first stage of a holiday. ‘Yes,
that’s almost right,’ Wynne told me, ‘except that we’re on the boat in the early morning, just
arrived back from Mallorca, and the people are waiting to get on. This painting took a long
time to finish, and many earlier attempts were abandoned. To achieve a unity, I immersed the
half-finished painting in the bath, then added the black with a big brush. It’s dangerous to do,
because you can’t really control the effects. Then I reworked everything, establishing links
with colour and tone throughout the composition, creating a kind of web or net of similar
effects.’
C. Arthur Lockwood - Carbonizer Tower
Arthur Lockwood has a big reputation among watercolour painters and watercolour
enthusiasts, chiefly for his accomplished pictures of industrial sites, subjects that are generally
thought to be unsightly, but have striking visual qualities all their own. Among them is a kind
of romanticism stimulated by indications of decay and the passing of irrecoverable time.
Lockwood’s subjects are, after all, ruins, the modern equivalent of Gothic churches
overgrown by ivy. He aims not only to reveal those qualities, but to make a visual record of
places that are last being destroyed.
This painting, a good example of his work in general, is one of an extensive series on the
same subject. What we see is part of a large industrial plant that once made smokeless coal
briquettes. It has now been closed and demolished to make way for a business park.
D. Michael Smee - Respite at The Royal Oak
Michael Smee was once a successful stage and television designer. This is worth stressing,
because this prize-winning painting makes a strong theatrical impression. Smee agrees, and
thinks it has much to do with the carefully judged lighting. ‘As a theatre designer, you make
the set, which comes to life only when its lit’.
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Smee prefers to happen on pubs and cafes that are intriguing visually and look as though they
might be under threat, lie has a strong desire to record ‘not only the disappearing pub culture
peculiar to this country, but also bespoke bar interiors and the individuals therein’, He works
his paintings up from informative sketches. ‘I get there early, before many people have
arrived, sit in the corner and scribble away. Then, once the painting is in progress in the
studio, I make a return visit to reassure myself and to note down what I’d previously
overlooked.’ His main aim isn’t topographical accuracy, however; it’s to capture the
appearance of artificial and natural light together, as well as the reflections they make.
Of which painting is the following stated?
11. It is of something that no longer exists.
A. Carol Robertson – Interrupted В. Geoffrey Wynne – Quayside
C. Arthur Lockwood – Carbonizer Tower D. Michael Smee – Respite at The Royal Oak
12. The artist points out that it is based on things actually observed, even though it
doesn’t depict them accurately.
13. The artist specialises in things that most people regard as ugly.
14. A deduction that could be made about what is happening in this picture is not what
artist is actually showing.
15. The artist took a risk while creating it.
16. The artist checks that nothing important is missing from preparatory work.
17. It was completely altered in order to produce various connections.
18. Its artist produces paintings in different locations.
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19. In one way, it is unlike any other painting the artist has produced.
20. The artist likes to find by chance subjects that have certain characteristics.
CÂU 3. For questions 21-30, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D)
best fits each gap. Blacken the answer on your answer sheet. (2,5 điểm) (CLO1)
High notes of the singing Neanderthals

Neanderthals have been misunderstood. The early humanoids traditionally as (21)__________
ape-like brutes were deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices. They may
(22)__________ have sung to each other. This new image has (23)__________ from two
studies of the vocal apparatus and anatomy of the creatures that (24)__________ Europe
between 200,000 and 35,000 years ago.
The research shows that Neanderthal voices might well have produced loud, womanly and
highly melodic sounds - not the roars and grunts previously (25)__________ by most
researchers. Stephen Mithen, Professor of Archaeology and author of one of the studies, said:
‘What is emerging is a picture of an intelligent and emotionally complex creature whose most
likely (26)__________ of communication would have been part language and part song.’
Mithen’s work (27)__________ with the first detailed study of a reconstructed Neanderthal
skeleton. (28)__________ brought together bones and casts from several sites to re-create the
creature. The creature that emerges would have (29)__________ markedly from humans,
Neanderthals seem to have had an extremely powerful (30)__________ and no waist.
21 A. characterized B. indicated C. detailed D accounted

22 A. further B. just C. even D so
23 A. revealed B. resulted C. concluded D happened
24 A. resided B. dwelt C. filled D occupied
25 A. judged B. assumed C. considered D taken
26 A. sort B. practice C. approach D form
27 A. coincides B. occurs C. relates D co-operates
28 A. Anthropology B. Anthropogic C. Anthropologists D. Anthropological
29 A. differed B. distinguished C. compared D. contrasted
30 A. assembly B. formation C. build D. scheme
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CÂU 4. For questions 31-40, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or
D) best fits each gap. Blacken the answer on your answer sheet. (2,5 điểm) (CLO1)
Mary Heath, female pilot

Mary Heath was (31) _______ Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women in the
world during the (32) _______ age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a
commercial pilot's licence, the first to (33) _______ a parachute jump - and the first British
women's javelin champion. She (34) _______ 1920s' British society by marrying three times
(at the (35) _______ of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath her second husband, 45
years her senior).
In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South
Africa to Egypt, (36) _______ 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath
was (37) _______ as the nation’s sweetheart and called “Lady Icarus’ by the press. However,
her life was (38) _______ short. Only a year later, she (39) _______ tragically a horrific
accident at the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the
roof of a building. Her health was never the (40) _______ May 1939. again, and she died in
May 1939.
31 A. original B. initial C. primary D. novel

32 A. golden B. sweet C. bright D. shiny
33 A. put B. hold C. take D. make
34 A. scandal B. scandaling C. fscandalized D. unscandaled
35 A. crest B. height C. fullness D. top
36 A. covering B. stretching C. crossing D. ranging
37 A. exclaimed B. declared C. hailed D. quoted
38 A. cut B. left C. stopped D. brought
39 A. undertook B. suffered C. received D. underwent
40 A. like B. equal C. better D. same
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*CLO (viết tắt: Course Learning Outcome): Chuẩn đầu ra học phần.
Cán bộ coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.
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SỬ DỤNG TÀI LIỆU: CÓ  KHÔNG 

Họ và tên sinh viên:.......................................................................Số báo danh:

What’s the best advice your father ever gave you?

Which person’s father...

High notes of the singing Neanderthals

21 A. characterized B. indicated C. detailed D accounted

Mary Heath, female pilot

31 A. original B. initial C. primary D. novel

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