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Choose the correct answer.
A: you cook or does your mum do all the cooking?
B: I make a few things. My chocolate cake's very good!
A: Wow! Last year you make anything. I remember those biscuits...
Rearrange the words in a correct order to make a complete sentence (kéo từng từ/cụm từ về vị trí đúng để tạo thành câu hoàn chỉnh).
Rearrange the words in a correct order to make a complete sentence (kéo từng từ/cụm từ về vị trí đúng để tạo thành câu hoàn chỉnh).
Complete the conversation. Use one word in each gap. Use modals of possibility and ability.
A: Do you want to go to the cinema at the weekend? Mark and I can go on Saturday or Sunday.
B: No, sorry. I'm going to be too busy. I'd love to go soon, though. I've been really busy this term. I managed to go to a gig a few weeks ago, but that's all. Have you been out a lot?
A: Not really. But I went to a play last week in London. We able to get cheap tickets for some seats near the front. We see everything!
B: That sounds great!
A: Yes, it was. You get some really good seats sometimes. Anyway, will you go on holiday when the term finishes? To the beach, for example.
B: I go to the beach, but I haven't decided yet. It's up to my schedule at that time.
A: Okay. We go together if you're free. Remember to contact us.
B: Sure, I'll.
Read the passage below.
The First Cyber Criminals
'Cybercrime' sounds like a very new type of crime. In fact, it has been around since the 1970s - before the personal computer was invented, when computers were far less powerful than today's games consoles filled entire rooms and were monitored by technicians.
The first cyber crimes were carried out across telephone lines, by a group of electronic enthusiasts known as 'phone phreakers'. Having studied the US telephone system, they realized that it used a series of musical tones to connect calls. They found they could imitate those tones, and steal free phone calls, by creating small musical devices called 'blue boxes'. One famous 'phreaker', John Draper, even discovered that using a whistle given away inside a cereal box could do the same job as a blue box.
Cybercrime centered on the telephone for many years, until the first computer-to-computer cyber crime took place in the 1980s. 'Hacking', as it has since been referred to, gained new public visibility after the popular 1984 film Wargames, in which a hacker breaks into a US military computer and saves the world. Many hackers later said this was their inspiration.
It was the arrival of the Internet that eventually made cybercrime a big issue. When millions of home and business computer users began to visit the Internet in the early to mid-1990s, few were thinking about the dangers of cybercrime or about security and so it seemed only a matter of time before banks became the target for hackers.
In 1994 a group of hackers broke into US bank Citibank's computers and stole $10 million. This was later nearly all recovered. With the rise of the Internet, credit cards became the tools of cyber criminals: Kevin Mitnick was arrested for stealing 20,000 credit card numbers over the net in 1995. This and other credit card crimes prompted credit card companies to consider ways they could make cards more secure.
Complete the notes below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.
Cybercrime
| First cyber criminals: | called (1970s) |
| Nature of crime: | made free calls by copying |
| Computer crime: | began in |
| Crime is known as: | |
| Promoted by the hit movie: | (1984) |
| Internet crime: | initially unexpected, but quickly focused on |
| Current concern: | fraud |
Read the passage.
Talk your way into another language
Need to learn another language for a job abroad?
Textbooks and tutors may be the worst approach
Go into a coffee bar, sit down, relax and try to talk to someone. It may look to others as though you are wasting your time. It may even feel that way to you. But so long as you are doing this in a foreign country, where you speak the language badly or not at all, you are probably acquiring a new language better than you ever could by formal study with a teacher and a textbook.
The social situation, properly used, beats the classroom hollow. It is full of native speakers asking you questions, telling you to do things, urging you to take an active part in the conversation, and using gestures freely to make their intentions clearer - just like your parents did when you were an infant. So plunge in. All you have to do is talk back.
The proposition that infants can acquire languages by prolonged exposure to them is self-evidently true: it is the only way available to them. Older children and teenagers who move to a different country can pick up a new language with a speed that baffles their parents. But in adulthood we find ourselves envying our rare contemporaries who can still acquire languages easily.
There may be biological reasons why the capacity to learn languages falls away with age, even more than the capacity to learn other things. The brain may be designed to do its best language learning in infancy, and then redeploy its resources at puberty. But psychological factors play a big part too. As we get older, we get more self-conscious, more inhibited, and more dependent on other people's judgments. This process may undermine our capacity to acquire a new language because language underpins our sense of personality and identity. We fear to make mistakes in it.
Stepen Krashen, an expert on second-language acquisition makes a strong case for the dominance of psychological factors. According to Mr. Krashen, people with outgoing personalities do best at learning a new language because 'they have the ego to make the necessary mistakes involved in learning'.
When we want to learn a new language in mid-life for reasons of career or curiosity, we commonly but wrongly tackle it with the sense of doing something difficult and unnatural. We turn to grammar books and compact discs expecting a fight. We are going to 'struggle' with the language. We will 'master' it unless it defeats us. And with that sort of attitude, it probably will.
All other things being equal, the best learner will be the person who is the most relaxed in conversation, and the most self-confident.
Complete each sentence with the correct ending below.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write at least 250 words about the following topic:
Happiness is considered very important in life. Why is it difficult to define? What factors are important in achieving happiness?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.