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S GIO DC V O TO K THI CHN HC SINH GII LP 12-VNG 1LONG AN Ngy thi: 23/10/2012

MN THI: TING ANH- Bng A CHNH THC Thi gian lm bi: 180 pht

(Khng k thi gianpht )

Lu : Th sinh lm bi trn giy thi, khng lm trn thi ny.

A. LISTENING (20 points)

You will hear the conversation and the questions twice. Each question in this parthas four answer choices. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D (there is one that has 2answers). Write your answer(s) on your answer sheet.

1. What can be implied from the students initial request?

A. A student is seeking guidance for his thesis project.

B. The student is seeking advice on how to become a TA.C. The professor is giving a student the schools new rules and regulations.

D. The professor is advising the student on how to get into a tutoring program.

2. What can be inferred about how the student feels about himself?

A. The student feels he is very capable.

B. The student feels sorry for the professor.

C. The student feels hungry and will talk later.

D. The student feels the new rules can be a problem.3. What does the professor tell the student?

A. He tells the student all about a TAs duties.

B. He tells the student to study hard for the TA exam.

C. He tells the student that they dont need anymore TAs.

D. He tells the student that TAs get low pay and no respect.

4. According to the professor, what are some of the duties a teaching assistantperforms? Choose 2 answers.

A. Grader B. Test writer

C. Lecture writer D. Tutorial leader

5. Listen again to part of the conversation. Then answer the question.

What does the professor imply about a teaching assistant position?

A. The student should have more credentials.

B. The department is not interested in hiring TAs.

C. The department can always use bright grad students as TAs.

D. The student should reapply when he starts the next semester.

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B. READING AND WRITING (80 points)

I. Read the following passage and answer the questions. Write your answer(s)on your answer sheet. (20 points)

In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention toenvironmental problems and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized.Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public

transportation and parking lot capacities.Skyscrapers are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one

recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New YorkCity raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts-enough to supplythe entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.

Glass- walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain)through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typicalmasonry wall filled with insulation board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double glazed panels

of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare aswell as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of thesurrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.

Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a citys sanitation facilities, too. If fullyoccupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate2.25 million gallons of raw sewage each year-as much as a city the size of Stamford,Connecticut, which has a population of more than 109,000.

Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways, andobstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960's, some people even feared that shadows

from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always

built them personal ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largestpossible amount of rentable space.

1. What is the main purpose of the passage?

2. What is one disadvantage of skyscrapers that have mirrored walls?

3. Which aspect of skyscrapers were some residents of Boston concerned with in the late1960s?

4. Why do people keep on building skyscrapers despite their disadvantages?5. Where in the passage does the author compare the energy consumption of skyscraperswith that of a city?

II. Read the text and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space.Write your answer(s) on your answer sheet. (10 points)

THE PRICE OF FAME

Charlotte Church looks like a normal teenager, but she is far from average. Shehas an amazing voice. Her fans stand in (1)_______ for hours to get tickets for herconcerts and she is often on television. Charlottes singing (2)_______ began when she

performed on a TV show at the age of 11. The head of a record company was so

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impressed by her voice that he (3)_______ her up on the spot. Her first album rose tonumber one in the charts.

Charlotte still attends school in her home town when she can. ( 4)_______, she isoften away on tour for weeks at a time. She doesnt miss out on lessons, though, becauseshe takes her own tutor with her! She (5)_______ three hours every morning with him.Her exam results in all the (6)________ she studies are impressive.

But how does she (7)_______ with this unusual way of life? She (8)_______thatshe has the same friends as before. That may be true, but she can no longer go into townwith them because everybody stops her in the streets to ask for her (9)________. It seemsthat, like most stars, she must learn to (10)________these restrictions and the lack of

privacy. Its the price of fame!

1. A. rows B. queues C. ranks D. files

2. A.professions B.job C. labour D. career

3. A. signed B. wrote C. made D.picked

4. A. Although B. While C. For D. However

5. A. takes B. utilises C. spends D. uses

6. A. titles B. materials C. subjects D. lessons

7. A. cope B. adjust C.bear D. tolerate

8. A. denies B. refuses C. insists D. complains

9. A. signature B. autograph C. sign D. writing

10. A. look down on B. make do with C.put up with D. run out of

III. Read the text and choose the option best fits each of the spaces. Write youranswer(s) on your answer sheet. (10 points)

for facts inform however other occupy called defined absent leaders

THINKING ABOUT THE FAMILY LIFE

Family life continues to (1)_____ a somewhat ambiguous position in public debateand policy in Britain today. On the one hand, references to the importance of the family,however (2)_____ or understood, are rarely (3)_____ from speeches at political partyconferences or statements from religious (4)_____ . On the (5)______ hand, in contrast to

some other European countries, we do not have a minister with special responsibilities(6)______ the family and nor do we have anything like a coherent programme thatcould be (7)______ a family policy.

Some sociologists might lend their support to particular programmes or socialpolicies, on the basis of the evidence as they see it. More often, (8)_______, the popularimpression would seem to be that the sociologists provide the (9)______ about family lifeand that these facts, thus discovered, provide the basis for public statements or,

possibly, public policy. For instance, sociologists may provide facts about thecircumstances of lone mothers and their children and these studies may (10)______

policy-makers.

IV. Read the text and think of the word which best fits each space. Use onlyone word in each space. Write your answer(s) on your answer sheet. (30 points)

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PANAMA HATS

When summer(1)______ and the sun appears, its (2)______ to have a hat. Manypeople have traditionally gone for the panama hat. Stylish, light and cool on the head,these palm leaf hats are flexible enough to roll up and (3)______ in a pocket or bag.

Nowadays, panamas can be found in fashionable shops (4)______ over the world,sometimes at exorbitant (5)_______ . However, the hat itself originated in rather humble

(6)______ in the jungles of South America. In a long tradition (7)_______ down fromgeneration to generation, the palm leaves are (8)______ by the men and the hats arewoven by the women. It can (9)______ up to 12 palm leaves to make a (10)______quality hat. Each leaf is split up to 25 times to obtain a straw that is fine enough to bewoven into a hat. The womens job is dictated by the weather and visibility : there must

be enough light for them to (11)______ the fine straw, but the air must be moist enoughfor it to (12)______ flexible. This means that the women can usually only work in the(13)______ morning. (14)______ panama hats are expensive, back in the villages thecraftsmen and women are struggling to keep the tradition (15)______ and often receiveonly a fraction of the price you pay in the shops.

V. Read the text and find 10 mistakes in the text. Write your answer(s) onyour answer sheet. (10 points)

Sample answer: 0. Line 1: by

A TIDY HOME

There were eight of us in my family. We lived by in a very small house. It wasalways untidy because we left our toys lying down around. At first our parents picked ourthings up of for us. But eventually they decided not to put up with our untidiness anylonger. They worked out an original way to make us tidier. They placed one big box byon the front door for all the things that we dropped by on our way into the house from the

garden. Each of us had our own personal box indoors, too. So when anyone tidied thehouse, they could put by things into boxes instead of taking them upstairs. Our parentsmade us pay a fine if we didnt pick up to our things. We hated this punishment morethan being told it off. We didnt get much pocket money and didnt want to waste it onfines. So, we sat down and worked out a schedule for tidying the house. We took offturns cleaning and made out sure the house was tidy when our parents came home. Wehave all grown it up and left home now but we agree that our parents definitely had theright idea.

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