Đề thi đề nghị môn: Tiếng Anh khối 10 - Đề 6

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1. SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐĂKLẮK TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN NGUYỄN DU KỲ THI OLYMPIC TRUYỀN THỐNG 30 - 4 LẦN THỨ 2 ĐỀ THI ĐỀ NGHỊ MÔN: ANH LỚP : 10 II. WORD CHOICE (5pts) Choose the best options to complete the following sentences. 1. The man’s choice to run away virtually ___ to an admission of guilt. A. resulted B. came C. amounted D. added 2. Environmental pollution has ___ many species to the verge of extinction. A. sent B, thrown C. brought D. driven 3. After years of working together, the partners found themselves ___ linked. A. permanently B. indelibly C. perpetually D. inextricably 4. It was decided that the cost of the project would be ___ and so it was abandoned. A. repressive B. prohibitive C. restrictive D. exclusive 5. Living by the ocean really ___ your ___. Once you’ve lived there, you never want to leave. A. came in/heart B. get in/heart C. run in/blood D. came in/blood 6. Tamara has set her ___ on becoming a ballet-dancer. A. feet B. brain C. head D. heart 7. Paul’s been in Alice’s bad ___ ever since he offended her at the party. A. eyes B. books C. likes D. treats 8. Knowing the confidential details gave him a(n) ___ over the other candidates. A. edge B. possibility C. exertion D. fringe 9. He promised me an Oxford dictionary and to my great joy, he ___ his word. A. stood by B. stuck at C. went back on D. held onto 10. His new play is not only interesting but also unique. It is really off the beaten ___. A. track B. road C. path D. route Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. C 2. D 3. D 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. A
2. III. STRUCTURE AND GRAMMAR (5pts) Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. 1. John: “Our teacher, Mr. Jones, is not very flexible. He always requires us to submit his assignments on time.” Jack: “___. He should know that we have to learn many subjects.” A. I can’t disagree with you more B. I can’t agree with you more C. That can be true D. I am not with you here 2. The more expensive carpet is a good choice ___ it will last longer. A. by means of B. due to C. in that D. in view of 3. There was no one downstairs; so he turned off the lights again and decided that she ___ imagined things. A. must have B. should have C. can’t have D. needn’t have 4. Little Deon : “This herb smells horrible!” Mommy: ___, it will do you a power of good. A. Be that as it may B. Come what may C. How much horrible is it D. Whatever it smells 5. ___ I’ve told him not to go out with those people, but he wouldn’t listen. Just let him face the music now. A. Many a time B. Many the time C. Quite a time D. For a time 6. ___ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell. A. That we refer to B. What we refer to C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to 7. ___ the water clear but also prevent the river from overflowing. A. Not only the hippo’s eating habits keep B. Keep not only the hippo’s eating habits C. The hippo’s eating habits not only keep D. Not only keep the hippo’s eating habits 8. Computer are said to be ___ for the development of mankind. A. here today B. here and there C. here to stay D. neither here nor there 9. Did the minister approve the building plans?- Not really, he turned them down ___ that the costs were too high. A. in case B. provided C. on the grounds D. supposing 10. It was such a loud noise ___ everyone in the house A. as to wake B. that to wake C. so as to wake D. that waking Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. A 2. C 3. A 4. A 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. C 9. C 10. A 2
3. IV. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS (5pts) Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. 1.He ___ a big fortune when he was young, so he didn't have to work hard. A. came into B. came up C. came across D. came round 2. Are you taking ___ all of these phrasal verbs? A. for B. down C. off D. in 3. The medicine takes one hour to ___. . A. bear with B. kick in C. make out D. get by 4. Have you ___ with your homework yet? A. gotten through B. taken over C. thought up D. checked over 5. Jennifer ___ the invitation to join us for dinner. A. called on B. come out C. got out of D. passed on 6. If he's clumsy, he can bump ___ the desk. A. by B. over C. into D. through 7. We can put you ___ for a few days if you have nowhere else to live. A. on B. out C. up D. off 8. Mary was astonished that she was ___ for the counselor's position. A. got by B. turned down C. caught on D. come to 9. After running up the stairs, I was ___ breath. A. without B. out of C. no D. away from 10. She nearly lost her own life ___ attempting to save the child from drowning. A. with B. for C. at D. in Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. C 7. C 8. B 9. B 10. D 3
4. IV. COLLOCATIONS AND IDIOMS (5 pts) 1. I felt a bit ___ and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual. A. out of sorts C. on the mend B. over the worst D. under the fever 2. A: ‘Oh, I’m exhausted! I’ve been doing homework all day.’ B: ‘Come and put your ___ up for 5 minutes and I’ll make you a cup of tea.’ A. hands B. hair C. heart D. feet 3. His English was roughly ___ with my Greek, so communication was rather difficult! A. levelled B. on a par C. equal D. in tune 4. Although she had never used a word-proceesor before, she soon got the ___ of it. A. feel B. touch C. move D. hang 5. I overslept this morning and caught the last bus to school by the skin of my ___. A. mouth B. leg C. neck D. teeth 6. If you want a flat in the centre of the city, you have to pay through the ___ for it. A. teeth B. back of your head C. nose D. arm 7. You will be putting your life on the ___ if you take up skydiving. A. ground B. line C. way D. lane 8. As far as her future goes, Olivia is ___. She hasn't got a clue what career to follow. A. on the level B. all at sea C. behind the scenes D. in the know 9. Your husband was a bit out of control at the party, to ___ mildly. A. take it B. put it C. say D. tell 10. There is a large effort ___ to rebuild arts education in the New York city public schools. A. under way B. a long way C. out of the way D. in the way Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. A 2. D 3. B 4. D 5. D 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. B 10. A 4
5. V. READING COMPREHENSION (10PTS): Read the pasages below and choose the best answer to each question. Passage 1 They are just four, five and six years old right now, but already they are making criminologists nervous. They are growing up, too frequently, in abusive or broken homes, with little adult supervision and few positive role models. Left to themselves, they spend much of their time hanging out on the streets or soaking up violent TV shows. By the year 2005 they will be teenagers–a group that tends to be, in the view of Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, “temporary sociopaths–impulsive and immature.”. If they also have easy access to guns and drugs, they can be extremely dangerous. For all the heartening news offered by recent crime statistics, there is an ominous flip side. While the crime rate is dropping for adults, it is soaring for teens. Between 1990 and 1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17, the age group that in the early ’90s supplanted 18- to 24- year-olds as the most crime-prone. And that is precisely the age group that will be booming in the next decade. There are currently 39 million children under 10 in the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s. “This is the calm before the crime storm,” says Fox. “So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we’re winning the war against crime, we may be blindsided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the future.” Demographics don’t have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime–single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools – are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of “super predators,” youngsters who are coming of age in actual and “moral poverty,” without “the benefit of parents, teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them unconditional love.” Predicting a generation’s future crime patterns is, of course, risky; especially when outside factors (Will crack use be up or down? Will gun laws be tightened?) remain unpredictable. Michael Tonry, a professor of law and public policy at the University of Minnesota, argues that the demographic doomsayers are unduly alarmist. “There will be a slightly larger number of people relative to the overall population who are at high risk for doing bad things, so that’s going to have some effect,” he concedes. “But it’s not going to be an apocalyptic effect.” Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology at the University of Chicago, finds DiIulio’s notion of super predators too simplistic: “The human animal in young males is quite a violent animal all over the world. The people who put forth the theory of moral poverty lack a sense of history and comparative criminology.” 5
6. Yet other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. “All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse,” says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. “There’s a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that’s a very high-risk group of kids. We’re not creating new jobs, and we’re not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist.” Can anything defuse the demographic time bomb? Fox urges “reinvesting in children”: improving schools, creating after-school programs and providing other alternatives to gangs and drugs. DiIulio, a law-and-order conservative, advocates tougher prosecution and wants to strengthen religious institutions to instill better values. Yet he opposes the Gingrich-led effort to make deep cuts in social programs. “A failure to maintain existing welfare and health commitment for kids,” he says, “is to guarantee that the next wave of juvenile predators will be even worse than we’re dealing with today.” DiIulio urges fellow conservatives to think of Medicaid not as a health-care program but as “an anticrime policy.” (Source: Time Magazine) 1. Young children are making criminologists nervous because ___. A. they are committing too much crime B. they are impulsive and immature C. they may grow up to be criminals D. they have no role models 2. The general crime rate in the US is ___. A. increasing B. decreasing C. not changing D. difficult to predict 3. The age group which commits the highest rate of crime is ___. A. 14 – 17 B. 18 – 24 C. 24 + D. the old 4. James Fox believes that the improvement in crime figures could ___. A. make us complacent in the fight against crime B. result in an increase in teenage violence C. make us become fooled and blindsided D. result in a decrease in teenage violence 5. According to paragraph 3, the government ___. A. cutting down on the budget B. is doing everything it can to solve the problem C. is not interested in solving the problem D. is not doing enough to solve the problem 6. In comparison with James Fox, Michael Tonry is ___. A. more pessimistic B. less pessimistic C. equally pessimistic D. indifferent 6
7. 7. Jonathan Kozol believes that ___. A. there is no solution to the problem B. employment and education are not the answer C. employment and education can improve the situation D. people can solve the problem by improving schools 8. Professor DiIulio thinks that spending on social programs ___. A. should continue as it is B. should be decreased C. is irrelevant to crime rates D. is a better solution to the problem 9. The word ‘lurking” in the paragraph 2 can be best replaced by ___. A. happening B. hiding C. impending D. looming 10. The sentence “This is the calm before the crime storm.” means "___.". A. There will be population booming in in the next decade B. The age group committing crime most in the next decade is now under 10 C. The age group 14 – 17 will commit the most crimes in the next decade D. People will be successful in dealing with the war against crime in the next decade Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. B 7
8. Passage 2: For questions 1-6, read the text below and choose the correct heading for each paragraph B–G from the list of headings below (i-x). There are more headings than paragraphs. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning. (5pts) HOW DOES THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICK? A. Our life span is restricted. Everyone accepts this as 'biologically' obvious. ‘Nothing lives for ever!’ However, in this statement we think of artificially produced, technical objects, products which are subjected to natural wear and tear during use. This leads to the result that at some time or other the object stops working and is unusable ('death' in the biological sense). But are the wear and tear and loss of function of technical objects and the death of living organisms really similar or comparable? B. Our ‘dead’ products are ‘static’, closed systems. It is always the basic material which constitutes the object and which, in the natural course of things, is worn down and becomes 'older’. Ageing in this case must occur according to the laws of physical chemistry and of thermodynamics. Although the same law holds for a living organism, the result of this law is not inexorable in the same way. At least as long as a biological system has the ability to renew itself it could actually become older without ageing; an organism is an open, dynamic system through which new material continuously flows. Destruction of old material and formation of new material are thus in permanent dynamic equilibrium. The material of which the organism is formed changes continuously. Thus our bodies continuously exchange old substance for new, just like a spring which more or less maintains its form and movement, but in which the water molecules are always different. C. Thus ageing and death should not be seen as inevitable, particularly as the organism possesses many mechanisms for repair. It is not, in principle, necessary for a biological system to age and die. Nevertheless, a restricted life span, ageing, and then death are basic characteristics of life. The reason for this is easy to recognise: in nature, the existent organisms either adapt or are regularly replaced by new types. Because of changes in the genetic material (mutations) these have new characteristics and in the course of their individual lives they are tested for optimal or better adaptation to the environmental conditions. Immortality would disturb this system - it needs room for new and better life. This is the basic problem of evolution D. Every organism has a life span which is highly characteristic. There are striking differences in life span between different species, but within one species the parameter is relatively constant. For example, the average duration of human life has hardly changed in thousands of years. Although more and more people attain an advanced age as a result of developments in medical care and better nutrition, the characteristic upper limit for most remains 80 years. A further argument against the simple wear and tear theory is the observation that the time within which organisms age lies between a few days (even a few hours for unicellular organisms) and several 8
9. thousand years, as with mammoth trees. E. If a lifespan is a genetically determined biological characteristic, it is logically necessary to propose the existence of an internal clock, which in some way measures and controls the aging process and which finally determines death as the last step in a fixed programme. Like the fife span, the metabolic rate has for different organisms a fixed mathematical relationship to the body mass. In comparison to the life span this relationship is ‘inverted’: the larger the organism the lower its metabolic rate. Again this relationship is valid not only for birds, but also, similarly on average within the systematic unit, for all other organisms (plants, animals, unicellular organisms). F. Animals which behave ‘frugally’ with energy become particularly old for example, crocodiles and tortoises. Parrots and birds of prey are often held chained up. Thus they are not able to ‘experience life’ and so they attain a high life span in captivity. Animals which save energy by hibernation or lethargy (e.g. bats or hedgehogs) live much longer than those which are always active, The metabolic rate of mice can be reduced by a very low consumption of food (hunger diet) They then may live twice as long as their well-fed comrades. Women become distinctly (about 10 per cent) older than men. If you examine the metabolic rates of the two sexes you establish that the higher male metabolic rate roughly accounts for the lower male life span. That means that they live life ‘energetically’ - more intensively, but not for as long. G. It follows from the above that sparing use of energy reserves should tend to extend life. Extreme high performance sports may lead to optimal cardiovascular performance, but they quite certainly do not prolong life. Relaxation lowers metabolic rate, as does adequate sleep and in general an equable and balanced personality. Each of us can develop his or her own ‘energy saving programme’ with a little self-observation, critical self-control and, above all, logical consistency. Experience will show that to live in this way not only increases the life span but is also very healthy. This final aspect should not be forgotten. For question 1-6, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-x, in the corresponding numbered boxes. LIST OF HEADINGS i The biological clock ii Why dying is beneficial iii The ageing process of men and women iv Prolonging your life v Limitations of life span vi Modes of development of different species vii A stable life span despite improvements 9
10. viii Energy consumption ix Fundamental differences in ageing of objects and organisms x Repair of genetic material Example answer: Paragraph A: v Your answers: 1. Paragraph B ___ 2. Paragraph C ___ 3. Paragraph D ___ 4. Paragraph E ___ 5. Paragraph F ___ 6. Paragraph G ___ Questions 77- 90, complete the notes below Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 77-90 Objects age in accordance with principles of (7) ___ and of (8) ___ Through mutations, organisms can (9) ___ better to the environment. (10) ___ would pose a serious problem for the theory of evolution. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. ix 7. physical chemistry 2. ii 8. thermodynamics 3. vii 9. adapt 4. i 10. immortality 5. viii (7 and 8 can be in either order) 6. iv 10
11. VI. GUIDED CLOZE TEST (10pts): Read the following passages and decide which option A,B, C or D best fits each space. Passage 1 The coolest kids in Europe share a single (1) ___ they want to get married, have children and live happily ever after. They know it means (2) ___ their children first and sticking with their spouses even if they slip out of love. This news comes from the report of a new study that (3) ___ out to find the answer to the modem riddle: What will today's youth really, really want tomorrow? Poignantly, one of the clearest answers is that they want to have happy families. Even in the most (4) ___ countries there was condemnation for divorce, demands that parents should keep their marriage (5) ___ and admiration for stable couples. It appears that among the middle classes, the quality of our children's lives has suffered from the pressures on parents in high-stress professions. In the days when the concept of 'quality time' first (6) ___, I remember seeing a TV producer on (7) ___ dial home on her mobile phone to read her son a bedtime story. This is just not good enough. Quality time cannot be time (8) ___. Children need unconditional time in the same way that they need unconditional love. This study found a generation that had given up trying to (9) ___ its parents' attention but was (10) ___ to do better by its own children. 1. A. drive B. eagerness C. ambition D. yearning 2. A. putting B. keeping C. having D. wanting 3. A. made B. aimed C. looked D. set 4. A. loose B. relaxed C. generous D. liberal 5. A. oaths B. vows C. pledges D. promises 6. A. proceeded B. revealed C. emerged D. rose 7. A site B. place C. situation D. location 8. A organized B. managed C. controlled D. disciplined 9. A have B. make C. get D. take 10. A determined B. firm C. persistent D. stubborn Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys : 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. B 6. C 7. D 8. B 9. C 10. A 11
12. Passage 2 KIWI SURPRISE When a work project gave me the opportunity to return to New Zealand, I spent several weeks (1) ___ a country I had left in my early twenties. I’d forgotten about the petrol stations where men in smart uniforms (2) ___ to you. They fill your tank, check your oil and still (3) ___ you less than one third of the British price for fuel. And the people rush to your assistance if they see you (4) ___ over a map. Or the blissful absence of tips. Locals simply cannot understand why anybody should expect to pay extra for friendly efficient service. Given that New Zealand has about 3,000 kilometers of coastline, it should come as no (5) ___ that social life (6) ___ around the sea. When Auckland office workers leave their desks at the end of the working day, they don’t (7) ___ home. Instead, they (8) ___ a beeline for the marina and spend the evening under sail on the Hauraki Gulf. There are more yachts in Auckland than in any other city in the world- no wonder it’s called the City of Sails. Even those who can’t afford a (9) ___ of their own will always know someone who has one, or at the very least, will windsurf the offshore breezes at speeds that make the commuter ferries appear to stand (10) ___. 1. A. regaining B. recapturing C. refamiliarizing D. rediscovering 2. A. assist B. attend C. supply D. serve 3. A. charge B. ask C. require D. demand 4. A. pointing B. doubting C. clamoring D. puzzling 5. A. wonder B. surprise C. amazement D. news 6. A. centers B. revolves C. turns D. gathers 7. A. move B. aim C. head D. divert 8. A. have B. do C. get D. make 9. A. vehicle B. hull C. vessel D. receptacle 10. A. still B. dead C. afloat D. upright Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. C 8. D 9. C 10. A 12
13. B. WRITTEN TEST (70pts) I. OPEN CLOZE TEST (20 pts): Read the passages below and fill each blank with ONE word. Cloze Test 1 (10pts) As a result of the recent discovery of lunar water, the moon has suddenly become a far more interesting place for investors, (1) ___ must now view the long-term prospects with optimism. The last manned mission to the moon drew (2) ___ a close in 1973, when two astronauts from Apollo 17 climbed back into their lunar module, (3) ___ collected a lot of moonrock, but bereft (4) ___ any future plans. Now the moon shines brighter for astronauts and scientists alike, (5) ___ to the existence of (6) ___ might be billions of tonnes of water at the poles. There is (7) ___ high-tech substitute for water in space exploration. To support the international space station, (8) )___ has cost at least $100,000 a day to send water into orbit. Not only would lunar water cut these costs, but it would additionally be used for rocket fuel, (9) ___ two components, liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, are the elements found in water. Scientists are particularly excited (10) ___, given the absence of an atmosphere, lunar water has never been recycled and they believe, therefore, that it could very well hold clues to the formation of the solar system itself. Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Keys: 1. who 2. to 3. having 4. of 5. due 6. what 7. a 8. it 9. including 10. that 13
14. Cloze Test 2 (10pts) For over two hundred years, scholars have shown an interest in the way children learn to speak and understand their language. Several small-scale studies were carried out, especially towards the end of the nineteenth century, (1)___ data recorded in parental diaries. But detailed, systematic investigation did not begin until the middle decades of the twentieth century, when the tape recorder (2) ___ into routine use. This made it possible to keep a permanent record of samples of child speech, so that analysts could listen repeatedly to obscure (3) ___, and thus produce a detailed and accurate description. The problems that have (4) ___ when investigating child speech are quite different from (5) ___ encountered when working with adults. It is not possible to carry out certain kinds of experiments, because aspects of children’s cognitive development, such as their ability to (6) ___ attention or to remember instructions, may not be sufficiently advanced. (7) ___ is it easy to get children to (8) ___ systematic judgments about language – a task that is virtually impossible below the age of three. Moreover, anyone who has tried to make a tape recording of a representative sample of a child’s speech knows how frustrating this can be. Some children, it seems, are innately programmed to (9) ___ off as soon as they notice a tape recorder (10) ___ switched on. Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 8. 9. 10. Keys 1. using/ analysing 6. pay 2. came 7. nor 3. extracts/ sounds/ utterances 8. make 4. faced/ tackled/ considered/ solved 9. switch 5. those 10. being 14
15. II. WORD FORMATIONS (20 pts) Part 1: Complete the sentence with the correct form of the given word. (10 pts) 1. The private school feared losing its ___ with the state's university system. (CREDIT) 2. That the child behaved ___ made the couple happy. (DEAR) 3. The candidate made a(n) ___ speech that incensed all those who heard it. (FLAME) 4. The business is ___ as it can no longer meet the repayments on its debt. (SOLVE) 5. A ___ is a popular place for tourists and travellers to send and receive e-mails. (CAFÉ) 6. In Scotland, there is greater emphasis on ___ by individual schools. (VALUE) 7. Babies affected by the disease will be born small, ___ and brain-damaged. (FORM) 8. She stood there completely ___, so I had no idea at all what she was thinking. (EXPRESS) 9. “What if” questions involving ___ are familiar in historical speculations. (FACT) 10. The Prime Minister warned the people of his country that they must be ready for any ___ - even the possibility of war. (EVENT) Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 Keys: 1. accreditation 6. self-evaluation 2. endearingly 7. deformed 3. inflammatory 8. expressionless 4. insolvent 9.counter-factuals 5.cyber-café 10. eventuality 15
16. Part 2: Complete the passage with appropriate forms from the words given in the box. (10pts) OFFEND) RESPECT IRRITATE TEMPER TOLERATE GROUND CONSTRUCT ORGANIZE COMPOSE BURST ANGER We’ve all felt anger at some time, whether as faint annoyance or blind rage. Anger is a normal, sometime useful human emotion, but uncontrolled (1) ___ of temper can be destructive. People who give free rein to their anger, regardless of the (2) ___ this may cause, haven’t learned to express themselves (3) ___ , says Martin Smolik, who runs weekend residential courses in anger management. ‘It is important to maintain your (4) ___ and put your case in an assertive, not aggressive manner without hurting others. Being assertive doesn’t mean being pushy or demanding; it means being (5) ___ of yourself and other people.’ He adds that people who are easily angered are (6) ___ of frustration, inconvenience or irritation and, not surprisingly find relating to other people very difficult. But what causes people to behave like this? It seems there is evidence to support the idea that some children may be born (7) ___ and prone to anger and this tendency is sometimes apparent from a very early age. However, research also suggests that a person’s family (8) ___ may have an influence. Very often, people who are (9) ___ and often find it difficult to express their emotions come from (10) ___ and disruptive families. Write your answers here: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 8. 9. 10. Keys 1. outbursts 2. offence 3. constructively 4. composure 5. respectful 6. intolerant 7. . irritable 8. background 9. . quick- 10. disorganized tempered/ hot-tempered/ bad-tempered 16
17. III. ERROR CORRECTION (10 pts): Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Underline the errors and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0). Line 1 The arrival of satellite TV has brought up a whole new world of viewing into our living 2 rooms – if we can afford to pay for it, that is, major sport events can now be seen live. 3 Beside this, a wider variety of sports is now available. The viewer can choose anything 4 from dog-racing and sumo wrestling. Certain channels show 20 film every day, again, 5 the choice is enormous-from old classics to the latest Hollywood releases. For them who 6 like to keep informed, 24-hour news is available for the touch of a button. Children are 7 not forgotten neither. A special junior channel broadcasts cartoons and children’s films. 8 But do we really need all this choice? The danger is that we will become a population of 9 passive couch-potato with square eyes and fingers glued to the remote-control. Of 10 course choice is a good thing, but viewers should use his ability to select the best and 11 disregard of the rest. Your answers: 0. up → on (line 1) Write your answers here: line Correction line Correction 0. line 1 up Ø Keys: Lines Mistakes Correction Lines Mistakes Correction 0. (l. 0) Up Ø 1. (l. 2) sport sports/sporting 6. (l. 6) for at 2. (l. 3) Beside Besides 7. (l. 7) neither either 3. (l. 4) and to 8. (l. 9) couch-potato couch-potatoes 4. (l. 5) film films 9. (l. 11) his their 5. (l. 6) them those 10. (l. 11) of Ø 17
18. IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 PTS): Rewrite the following sentences using the words given. Part 1: Complete the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. (10 points) 1. I was too scared to tell him what I really thought. → I lacked 2. It’s a widespread assumption that George was wrongly accused. → George 3. He declared his disapproval of the behaviour of some of his supporters. → He let it 4. The collision didn't damage my car much. → Not a great 5. Although he is 8 years older than her, they were good friends. → Despite Part 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one. Use the word given in block letter, and this word must not be changed in any way. (10 points) 6. I presume you are coming to the party Miriam. READ → Can I you are coming to the party Miriam? 7. After a long hard journey, I cheered up when I saw my home. SIGHT → After a long hard journey, my spirits of my home. 8. Yvonne did everything she could to ensure the trip was successful. LENGTHS → Yvonne to ensure the success. 9. Russ’s opinions on the new management policies were very different from those of his fellow workers. ODDS → Russ the new management policies. 10. I tried as hard as I could to make sure that this problem would not arise. POWER → I did this problem from arising. Keys: 1. I lacked the courage to tell him what I really thought. 2. George is widely assumed to have been wrongly accused. 3. He let it be known that he disapproved of the behaviour of some of his supporters. 4. Not a great deal of damage was done/caused to my car by the collision. 5. Despite a 8-year-old difference they were good friends. 18
19. Part 2: 10 points (2x5=10) 6. Can I take it as read that you are coming to the party Miriam? 7. After a long hard journey, my spirits rose/were raised/lifted up when I caught sight of my home. 8. Yvonne went to great lengths to ensure the success. 9. Russ was at odds with his fellow workers over/concerning the new management policies. 10. I did everything within my power to prevent this problem from arising. THE END 19