You will hear a recorded message giving tourists travel information in a large city. For each question, listen and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER.
| Stop | Attraction | Further Information |
| STOP A: Green Banks | Palace |
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| STOP B: City Bridge |
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| STOP C: Roman Landing | Museum |
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| STOP D: Newtown | Entertainment Complex |
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You will hear an interview with two trainee teachers, called Amy and John, about students using smartphones in school. Listen to the audio and do the tasks.
She had been working for hours, and when she finally took a break, she realized she had done _____ work for the day.
Initially conceived as a local event promoting fitness near the historical site, _____.
the Về nguồn Marathon today attracts thousands of participants from across Vietnam
thousands of participants from across Vietnam are attracted today by the Về nguồn Marathon
today attracts the Về nguồn Marathon thousands of participants from all over Vietnam
from throughout Vietnam the Về nguồn Marathon attracts thousands of participants today
Some people can just _____ a cold, but my colds seem to linger for weeks.
_____ the president of the club yet, she would have taken part in the last regional meeting.
He got the highest mark in the exam last week. He must have studied hard, _____?
There are 6 mistakes in the following text. Find the 6 mistakes, write and correct them.
Write the mistakes in the order they appeared in the text.
| Line | A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION |
| 1 | A musician friend of mine once went on an English course during his summer |
| 2 | holiday. What he really wanted to do was to improve his able to think and react |
| 3 | quickly and correctly in spoken English. |
| 4 | He said speaking in a foreign language always made him nervous, even after three |
| 5 | years of study. It turned out that one of the teachers on the course had very strong |
| 6 | views on music, and was not afraid to express it in the lessons. He claimed that |
| 7 | music was a drug, just like alcohol or cigarettes, and people who could not live |
| 8 | their lives without it were to be pitied. However the subject of the lesson, the |
| 9 | teacher always managed to include some reference to this idea. You can imagine |
| 10 | that my friend was not very impressed. At the end, he lost his temper, and spent |
| 11 | most of the remaining lessons arguing about music and its role in people's lives. |
| 12 | When his course had finished, he came home, still angrily about the experience. |
| 13 | However, whether he enjoyed the course or not, my friend had to admit that the |
| 14 | teacher's technique has worked since his nervousness in English had completely |
| 15 | disappeared and he was speaking far more fluently than before. |
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Complete each sentence using a suitable verb form in line A with a preposition in line B to make a phrasal verb. (You can use prepositions more than once.)
| A | give | clear | go | implicate | crop | account | bargain |
| B | away | up | for | in |
I was interested in buying a folding bike but a friend one to me.
I've just been offered a new job! Things are .
Fiona decided not to for the exam in December.
Apparently a number of army officers were the plot.
Your explanation does not really the disappearance of the money.
I can't come to your birthday party, something has .
We were late because we hadn't all the traffic on the motorway.
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
His method was to include the of moods and apprehensions as well as images and incidents. (REMEMBER)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
For many college graduates, job hunting can be a struggle. (HEART)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
Henry hopes he will soon to the humid tropical conditions in Viet Nam. (CLIMATE)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
The best way to solve this dispute is to find a neutral, third party and follow his or her suggestions. (INTEREST)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
She made a sudden right turn off the road in order to escape some . (PURSUIT)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
Customers are willing to pay for the anti-aging cosmetic products. (HAND)
Complete the sentence by changing the form of the word in capitals.
We are and too reliant on contractors to provide us with personnel. (STAFF)
Read the following passage then choose the best answer to each question below.
In 1910 the music hall comedian Billy Williams scored his biggest hit with the song When Father Papered the Parlour, mocking the incompetence of the amateur home decorator. Fifty years later, comedians Norman Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth were still entertaining millions on the TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium with a similar routine, but the joke was starting to look dated. The success of magazines such as The Practical Householder was already proving that, as the 1957 Ideal Home Exhibition proclaimed, “Do-it-yourself is a home hobby that is here to stay.”
By this stage, Britain had mostly completed its transition from primitive housing conditions, made bearable – for those who could afford it – by servants and handymen, into a world where families looked after themselves in highly serviced environments. Recognizably modern technology, in the form of telephones, televisions and electricity, had become ubiquitous and was to transform domestic living still further in the coming years. The makeover of British homes in the twentieth century is recounted in Ben Highmore’s entertaining and informative new book. He takes us on a whirlwind tour of an everyday house, from entrance hall to garden shed, illuminated by extensive reference to oral histories, popular magazines and personal memoirs.
At its centre, though, is the way that our homes have reflected wider social changes. There is the decline of formality, so that living rooms once full of heavy furniture and Victorian knick-knacks are now dominated by television screens and littered with children’s toys. There is a growing internationalism in taste. And there is the rise of domestic democracy, with the household radiogram and telephone (located in the hall) now replaced by iPads, laptops and mobiles in virtually every room. Key to that decentralisation of the home – and the implied shift of power within it – is the advent of central heating, which gets pride of place as the innovation that allowed the whole house to become accessible at all times of day and night. Telling an unruly child to ‘go to your room’ no longer seems much of a threat.
Highmore also documents, however, some less successful steps in the onward march of domestic machinery. Whatever happened to the gas-powered fridges we were promised in 1946? Or to the Dishmaster a decade later that promised to do “a whole day’s washing up in just three minutes”? Rather more clear is the reason why a 1902 Teasmade failed to catch on: “when the alarm clock triggered the switch, a match was struck, lighting a spirit stove under the kettle”. You don’t have to be a health and safety fanatic to conclude that a bedroom isn’t the ideal place for such a gadget. Equally disturbing to the modern reader is the prewar obsession with children getting fresh air. It was a belief so entrenched that even a voice of dissent merely argued that in winter, “The healthy child only needs about three hours a day in the open air, as long as the day and night nursery windows are always open.” Nowadays, the fresh air obsession has been replaced by irrational fears of horrors outside the home. It’s easier to laugh at the foibles of the past, and Highmore doesn’t always resist a sense of modern superiority, though, for the most part, he’s an engaging and quirky guide, dispensing sociological insights without jargon.
The message is that even the language of the home has changed irrevocably: airing cupboards are going the same way as drawing rooms. As for that Billy Williams song, “By the 1980s”, Highmore writes, “it would be impossible for anyone to imagine their front room as a ‘parlour’ without seeming deeply old-fashioned.” He’s not entirely correct, for there was at least one person who was still employing such terminology. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold her message with the use of what she called ‘the parables of the parlour’, which suggests she understood the truth that, despite the catalogue of changes, there is a core that seems consistent. A 1946 edition of Housewife magazine spelt it out: “men make houses, women make homes”. When you watch a male comedian today doing a routine about his wife’s attachment to scatter cushions, it seems worth asking: has the family dynamic really moved a great deal?
The reviewer’s main topic in the first paragraph is _____.
In the second paragraph, the reviewer says that the book includes evidence illustrating _____.
In the third paragraph, the reviewer points to a change in _____.
The reviewer suggests in the fourth paragraph that ____.
In the fifth paragraph, the reviewer says that in his book, Highmore _____.
What can be inferred from the sentence: "Nowadays, the fresh air obsession has been replaced by irrational fears of horrors outside the home."?
In the final paragraph, the reviewer suggests that Highmore may be wrong about _____.
Which of the following is the text extracted from?
Fill each of the following blanks with ONE suitable word.
Much has been heard recently about possible health hazards, including memory loss and brain tumors, from the use of mobile phones. With the possible half a billion mobile phones in throughout the world, Britain alone, one person in four owns one, which is worrying enough, even if, so far, no concrete evidence has come to . One study by Dr. Alan Preece and his team at Bristol University has shown, however, in a report in the International Journal of Radiation Biology, that tests on volunteers demonstrated no effect on their short-term memory or attention . Subjects were exposed to microwave radiation for up to thirty minutes, but the one noticeable effect was positive rather than negative; the subjects reacted more rapidly in one test a visual choice. One explanation of this is that following the transmissions, a warming of the blood led to increased bloodflow. For the experiment, places were chosen where the signal was good and the microwave dose light, and then where the signal was poor and the dose was higher. The subjects were tested for recall and mental alertness exposure to microwaves characteristic of analogue phones, digital phones, or no phones at all, without knowing they were exposed to. It is, of course, early days yet and the sample may not be large enough to generalize . More research needs to be done.
Read the text and choose the best answer to fill in the blanks.
Japanese cuisine has been influenced by the food customs of other nations, but has adopted and refined them to create its own unique cooking style and eating habits.
The first foreign influence on Japan was China around 300 B.C., the Japanese learned to cultivate rice. The use of chopsticks and the consumption of soy sauce and soybean curd (tofu) also came from China. The Buddhist religion was another important influence on the Japanese diet. In the A.D. 700s, the rise of Buddhism a ban on eating meat. The popular dish, sushi (raw fish with rice), came as a result of this ban. In the 1800s, cooking styles became simpler. A wide variety of vegetarian foods were served in small portions, using one of five standard cooking techniques. All foods were divided into five color groups (green, red, yellow, white, and black-purple) and six tastes (bitter, sour, sweet, hot, salty, and delicate).
Beginning in the early 1600s, trade with other countries began Western-style influences to Japan. The Dutch introduced corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The Portuguese introduced tempura. Western foods, such as bread, coffee, and ice cream, become popular during the late twentieth century. Another Western influence has been the introduction of timesaving cooking methods. These include the electric rice cooker, packaged foods such as instant noodles, instant miso soup, and instant pickling mixes. However, the Japanese are still to their classic cooking traditions.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
I don't remember much about my mother, but I do remember she was very kind and loving towards us.
=> What little .............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
His efforts to find a solution to the problem didn't deserve such savage criticism.
=> He shouldn't .............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Many creatures still survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the deserts.
=> Harsh ..........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
People are persuaded by adverts to spend more than they can afford.
=> Adverts tempt ...............
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first.
Going to and fro with all the cases is what I can't stand about holidays.
=> It's all the ...........
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this word.
It's important to be well-prepared for an interview because if you make a mistake, you may not get the job. (COST)
=> A mistake in an interview may so it is important to be well-prepared.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this word.
No one listened to what the politician was saying last night. (EARS)
=> What last night.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this word.
You can walk to the station easily from the hotel. (DISTANCE)
=> The station the hotel.
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this word.
His irresponsible attitude is endangering his career as a doctor. (JEOPARDY)
=> His irresponsible attitude is putting his career .
Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one. You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given. DO NOT change this word.
You've done nothing but look miserable all day. (AROUND)
=> You've done all day.
Recently, young people are said to be the "Welcome Generation" as they are willing to face any difficulties.
Write a paragraph of about 140 words about how people of your age in your country deal with challenges in their lives.