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LỚP 11 ĐÊ THI CHÍNH THỨC
Thời gian làm bài : 180 p h ú t
Lưu ý : fìề thi này có 8 trang.
❖ Thí sinh tàm phần trắc nghiệm (M ULTIPLE CHOICE) trên phiếu
trả lờ i trắc nghiệm và phần tự luận (W RITTEN TEST) trên phiếu
trả lời tự luận.
❖ Trên phiếu trả lời trẳc nghiệm, th í sinh tô thêm 2 số 00 vào trước sổ
báo danh (bằng bút chì).
❖ Phần mã đề thi trên phiếu trắc nghiệm, th í sinh tô vào ô 001. A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 PTS)
I. P H O N O L O G Y (5PTS)
Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. 1. A. absinthe B .soothe c. loathe D. wreathe 2. A. abstemious B. apotheosis c. abrogate D. apartheid 3. A. assessment B. passage c. passionate D., pessimism 4. A. exhilarate B. pharaoh c. diarrhea D. hauteur 5. A. doubt B. thumb c. subtle D. absorb
Choose the word which is stressed differently from the other three. 6. A. unaccented B. unadjusted c. unarguable D. unbearable 7. A. consortium B. consummate c. operatorship D. cowardice 8. A. discrepancy B. convivial c. gimmickry D. irrevocable 9. A. renaissance B. remonstrate c. rendezvous D. relevance 10. A. orchestrating B. bedevilment c. interchanges D. poignancy II. W ORD CHOICE (5 PTS):
Choose the best options to com plete the following sentences.
11. Poor management brought the company to the -___o f collapse. A. brink B, rim c . fringe D. brim
12. My brother takes a (n )______ view o f getting a good job. A. low B. opposing c . dim Đ. gloomy
13. It is public knowledge that new magazines often use free gifts or other to get people to buy them. A. gimmicks B. snares c . plots D. scams
14. When his manager went on a business trip, Mario stepped into t h e ___ and chaired the meeting. A. hole B. breach c . pool D. crack
15. The storm ripped our tent t o ____ A. slices B. shreds c . strips D. specks 272 f
16. After the concert, everyone had t o _____ home through the thick snow. A. trudge B. tread c . trace D. trickle
17. If you have a minor illness, it’s usually better just to let the nature take its___ . A. time B. path c. way \ . D. course
18. After their catastrophic defeat, th e ______ o f the army made their way back to their mountain strongholds. A. survivors B. remnants c . wounded D. deserters
19. Don’t take it a s ______ that you’ll be promoted in your job; other colleagues stand a good chance too. A. fixed B. standard , c . read D. word 20. In time-honoured -
the chairman offered a toast to the shop-floor workers. A. protocol B. path c . fashion D. procedure
III. GRAM M AR AND STRUCTURES (5PTS):
Choose the best options to com plete the following sentences.
21 . _____ , we missed our plane. A. The train is late . Ẹ. The train was late c . To be late Đ. The train being late
22. The clim ate in Sapa is much c o ld e r______ o f Hanoi. A. than it B. than c . than that D. than this
23 . _______ around stones that are sunwarmed, even the smallest o f stones creates tiny currents o f warm air. A. The cool air B. If the air is cool c . That the air cools D. The cooler the air
24. They turned down the pro p o sal______ th a t it didn’t fulfill their requirement. A. by reason
B. on the grounds c . as a cause D. allowing
25. We all decreed t h a t ______ .
A. there be an end to their quarrel
B. their quarrel should put an end to
c . they ended their quarrel then
D. their quarrel be com ing to an end. 26. I have never seen . before. I A. such good film B. so good film c . so good a film D. such good a film
27. “Is Dennis buying a house?” / “Yes. '
he’s earning more money now, he can afford one.” A. For B. Due to c . Since D. Because o f
28. D o w n _____________for three days. ’ A. the rain poured B. poured the rain c . did the rain pour D. does the rain pour
29 . _____ that took American art out o f the romanticism o f the m id-1800’s and
carried it to the most powerful heights o f realism.
A. W inslow H om ers’ paintings
B. It was Winslow H om ers’ paintings
c . When Winslow Hom ers’ paintings D. Paintings o f Winslow Hom ers’
30. S u ch _______ that we all felt numb. A. a cold weather was it B. was a cold weather c . cold was the weather D. was cold weather 273
IV. PH R A SA L V ER B S AND P R E P O S IT IO N S (5 PTS)
31. The children showed no anim osity______ her step mother. A. over B. up c . towards D. with
32. When the Chairman ran off with his secretary, the Board tried t o _____ the matter. A. switch o ff B. hush up c . calm down D. tuck away
33. I m u ddled______ the jigsaw pieces and the children did the puzzle again. A. up B. o ff Cl over D. for
34. She p lay ed ______ the fact that I’d enjoyed studying Shakespeare at school
and suggested that I audition for a part. A. o ff B. over c . by D. up
35. If yờu don’t switch the lights o ff for the day, you risk running battery before the end o f the day. A. out B. o ff c . down D. through
36. The crowd a ll______ towards to stadium as the time for kick o ff drew closer. A. gravitated B. entered c . embarked D. aspired
37. One o f the most disappointing things in life is to b e ______ by a friend when
you truly need his/her support. A, stood for B. backed out c . let down D. marked up
38. Two o f the students in our class are identical twins and m ost o f the teachers c a n n o t_______ . A. see between them B. tell them apart c . see them through D. find them between
39. There’s nơ point in d o in g __________ the old regulations if you’re going to
introduce equally stupid new ones. A. up with B. away with c . down against D. up against
40. I really cannot believe that anyone w o u ld ______ to such underhand tactics. A. dabble B. stoop c . reach D. conceive
V. G U ID ED C L O Z E (10 PTS)
Read the texts below and decide which answer best fits each space. Passage 1: RAISING AW ARENESS
In cities around the world a wide range o f schemes is being instigated to
promote environmental awareness. 'It's just as easy to (41) _____ o f litter
properly as it is to drop it on the streets,' says city councilor M ike Edwards, who
has ( 4 2 ) _____ on the governm enfto mount a concerted campaign to deal with
the problem of litter. 'It's just a matter o f encouraging people to do so as a (43)
_____ o f course. Once the habit is ingrained, they won't even ( 4 4 ) ______ they
are doing it. After all, think what we have achieved with recyclable waste in the
home. Sorting paper, glass, aluminium and plastic waste and then depositing it in
the appropriate container outside is (45) _____ a great chore any more. People
have become accustomed to doing this, so it doesn't (4 6 ) _____ to them that they
are spending any additional time in the process. Only if they have to carry this
waste for some appreciable distance to find a suitable container do they feel they arc (4 7 )..... ....... 274
Most people know they should behave in a responsible way and just need (48)
____to do so. So a quirky, (4 9 )___ gimmick might be enough to change behaviour.
With this in (50) _____ , the city o f Berlin is introducing rubbish bins that say
'danke', 'thank you1 and 'merci' — Berlin is a cosmopolitan city — when someone
drops an item of rubbish into them. It might just do the trick in this city, too. 41. A. dispose B. discard c. jettison D. throw 42. A. appealed B. called c. approached D. urged 43. A. principle B. system c. matter D. duty 44. A. notice B. remark c. comprehend D. appreciate 45. A. almost B. barely , • c. virtually D. hardly 46. A. concern B. occur c. impress D. strike 47. A. inconvenienced B. sacrificed c. complicated D. imposed 48. A. ordering B. prompting c. forcing D. obliging 49. A. lighthearted B. mundane c. subjective D. intense 50. A. context B. thought c. spirit D. mind Passage 2:
SOUND ADVICE FO R LANGUAGE LEARNERS
A recent issue o f a language learning magazine has consulted a num ber of
experts in the (5 1 )______ o f second language acquisition. Their advice may prove
invaluable for those ( 5 2 ) ______ a language course. One suggestion is that you
(5 3 )______ whether you are likely to be successful-at learning a language. Did
you enjoy studying languages at school, for example? Do you have enough time to
learn a language? The major (5 4 )_____ _ will be your own time and effort.
If proof o f your level o f proficiency is important you must make sure that the
course on offer leads to a ( 5 5 ) ______ qualification. Also, be realistic in your (56) _
If you don't set achievable aims you are more likely to give up. Do not be deceived (57) •
thinking that the most expensive courses are the 1
best. ( 5 8 ) ______ around to get the best possible value for money. You should
also bear in mind that the quicker you learn a language the more quickly you
forget it. Sandra Miller, a French teacher, tried to teach herself German by
enrolling on a ( 5 9 ) _____ _ course. Already fluent in four languages and with a
sound knowledge o f teaching methodology her chances o f ( 6 0 ) ______ progress
\\ere high. Three years on she remembers very little. She feels her biggest
mistake was not to follow up her first experience. "I should have consolidated
what I'd learn by continuing to study, even if it were by myself." 51. A. domain B. branch c. field D. area 52. A. wondering B. thinking c. looking D. considering 53. A. assess B. review c. balance D .survey 5 4 .A. change B. cost c. price D. evaluation 55. A. recognized B. understood c. valued D. regarded 56. A. sights B .ends c . objects D. goals 57. A by B .about c. into D. in 58. A. Nose B. Push c. Run D .S hop 59. A. rapid B. crash c. quick D. fast 60. A. achieving B. doing c, gaining ' D. making 275
VI. READING PASSAGE (10 PTS)
Read the texts below and choose the best answer to each question. Passage 1: Line
Life originated in the early seas less than a billion years after the Earth
was formed. Yet another three billion years were to pass before the first
plants and animals appeared on the continents. Life’s transition from the
sea to the land was perhaps as much o f an evolutionary challenge as was the genesis o f life.
What forms o f life were able to make such a d ra stic change in lifestyle?
T h e tra d itio n a l view of the first terrestrial organism s is based on
megafossils-relatively large specimens o f essentially whole plants and
animals. Vascular plants, related to modern seed plants and ferns, left the 10
first comprehensive megafossil record. Because o f this, it has been
commonly assumed that the sequence of terrestrialization reflected the
evolution o f modern terrestrial ecosystems. In this view, primitive vascular
plants first colonized the margins o f continental waters, followed by
animals that feed-on the plants, and lastly by animals that preyed on the 15
plant-eaters. Moreover, the megafossils suggest that terrestrial life
appeared and diversified explosively near the boundary between the
Silurian and the Devonian periods, a little more than 400 million years ago.
Recently, however, paleontologists have been taking a closer look.át the
sediments below this Silurian-Devonian geological boundary. It turns out 20
that som e fossils can be extracted from these sediments by putting the
rocks in an acid bath. The technique has uncovered new evidence form
sediments that were deposited near the shores o f the ancient oceans- plant
microfossils and microscopic pieces o f small animals. In many instances
the specimens are less than one-tenth o f a millimeter in diameter. Although 25
they were entombed in the rocks for hundreds, o f millions o f years, many
o f them fossils consist o f the organic remains o f the organism.
These newly discovered fossils have not only revealed the existence of
previously unknown organisms, but have also pushed back these dates for
the invasion o f land by multicellular organisms. Our views about the nature 30
o f the early plant and animal communities are now being revised. And with
those revisions come new speculations aboilt the first terrestrial life-forms.
61. The word “ d ra stic ” in line 6 is closest in meaning to 7 A. widespread B. radical c . progressive D. risky
62. According to the theory that the author calls “th e tra d itio n a l view,” what
was the first form o f life to appear on land? A. Bacteria B. Meat-eating animals c. Plant-eating animals D. Vascular plants
63. According to the passage, what happened about 400 million years ago?
A. Many terrestrial life-forms died out
B. New life-forms on land developed at a rapid rate 276 ▼
c . The megafossils were destroyed by floods.
D. Life began to develop in the ancient seas. (
64. In what order did the organisms first appear on earth?
A. vascular plants, plant-eating animals, carnivores
B. carnivores, plant-eaters, megafossils
c . mega fossils, prey hunters, plant-eaters I
D. seed plants, ferns, megafossils ' 65. What can be
inferred from the passage about the fossils mentioned in lines 17-20? / A. They have
not been helpful in understanding the evolution o f terrestrial life.
B. They were found in approximately the same numbers as vascular plant fossils,
c . They are older than the mega fossils.
D. They consist o f modern life-forms.
66. What is the following paragraph likely to discuss?
A. the existence o f previously unknown organisms
,B. the revision o f human views on the nature o f early plant and animal comm unities '
c . comparison and contrast between the first terrestrial life forms and newly discovered fossils
D. what the first terrestrial life forms might have been
67. The word ‘‘th ey ” in line 25 refers to ______ . a ! rocks B. shores c . oceans. D. specimens
68. The word “e n to m b ed ’' in line 25 is closest in meaning t o _____ A. crushed B. trapped c . produced D. excavated
69. Which o f the following resulted from the discovery o f m icroscopic fossils?
A. The time estimate for the first appearance o f terrestrial life-forms was revised.
B. Old techniques for analyzing fossils were found to have new uses,
c . The origins o f primitive sea life were explained.
D. Assum ptions about the locations o f ancient seas were changed. 70.
With which o f the following conclusions would the author probably agree?
A. The evolution o f terrestrial life was as complicated as the origin o f life itself.
B. The discovery o f microfossils supports the traditional view o f how terrestrial life evolved.
c . New species have appeared at the same rate over the course o f the last 400 million years.
D. The technology used by paleontologists is too primitive to make accurate
determ inations about ages o f fossils. Passage 2:
In the city, we are barraged with images o f the people we might become.
Identity is-presented as plastic, a matter of possessions and appearances; and a
very large proportion o f the urban landscape is taken up by slogans,
advertisements, flatly photographed images o f folk heroes - the man who turned
into a sophisticated dandy overnight by drinking ạ particular brand o f drink, the
girl who transform ed herself into a fem m e fatale wịth a squirt o f cheap scent. 277
The tone o f the wording o f these advertisements is usually pert and facetious
comically drowning in its own hyperbole. But the pictures are brutally exact:
they reproduce every detail of a style o f life, down to the brand of cigarette-
lighter, the stone in the ring, and the economic row o f books on the shelf.
Even in the business o f the mass-production o f images o f identity, this shift
from the general to the diverse and particular is quite recent. Consider another
line o f stills: the back-lit, sofit-focus portraits o f the first and second generations
o f great movie stars. There is a degree o f romantic unparticularity in the face of
each one, as if they were communal dream-projections o f society at large. Only
in the specialized genres o f westerns, farces and gangster movies were stars
allowed to have odd, knobbly cadaverous faces. The hero as loner belonged to
history or the underworld: he spoke from the perimeter o f society, reminding us of its dangerous edges.
The stars o f the last decade have looked quite different. Soft-focus photography
has gone, to be replaced by a style which searches out warts and bumps, emphasizes
the uniqueness not the generality o f the face. Voices, too, are strenuously
idiosyncratic; whines, stammers and low rumbles are exploited as features of
“star quality” . Instead of romantic heroes and heroines, we have a brutalist, hard-
edged style in which isolation and egotism are assumed as natural social conditions.
In the movies, as in the city, the sense o f stable hierarchy has become
increasingly exhausted; we no longer live in a world where we can all share the
same values, the same heroes. (It is doubtful whether this world, so beloved of
nostalgia moralists, ever existed; but lip-service was paid t it, the pretence, at
least, was kept up.) The isolate and the eccentric push towards the centre o f the
stage; their fashions and mannerisms are presented as having as good a claim to
the limelight and the future as those o f anyone else. In the crowd on the
underground platform, one may observe a honeycomb o f fully-worked-out
worlds, each private, exclusive, bearing little comparison with its nearest
neighbor. What is prized in one is despised in another. There are no clear rules
about how one is supposed to manage one’s body, dress, talk, or think. Though
there are elaborate protocols and etiquettes among particular cults and groups
within the city, they subscribe to no common standard. For the new arrival, this
disordered abundance is the city’s most evident and alarming quality. He feels as
if he has parachuted into a funfair o f contradictory imperatives. There are so
many people he might become, and a suit o f clothes, a make o f car, a brand o f
cigarettes, will go some way towards turning him into a personage even before
he has discovered who that personage is. Personal identity has always been
deeply rooted in property, but hitherto the relationship has been a simple one - a
question o f buying what you could afford, and leaving your wealth to announce
yo.ur status. In the modern city, there are so many things to buy, such a quantity
of different kinds o f status, that the choice and its attendant anxieties have
created a new pornography o f taste.
The leisure pages o f the Sunday newspapers, fashion magazines, TV plays,
popular novels, cookbooks, window displays all nag at the nerve o f our 278
uncertainty and snobbery. Should we like American cars, hard-rock hamburger
joints* Bauhaus chairs...? Literature and art are promoted as personal
accessories: the paintings of Mondrian or the novels o f Samuel Beckett “go”
with certain styles like matching handbags. There is in the city a creeping
imperialism o f taste, in which more and more commodities are made over to
being mere expressions o f personal identity. The piece of furniture, the pair of
shoes, the book, the film, are important not so much in themselves but for what
they com m unicate about their owners; and ownership is stretched to include
what one likes or believes in as well as what one can/buy.
71. What does the writer say about advertisements ifi the first paragraph?
A. certain kinds are considered more effective in cities than others.
B. the way in'which some o f them are worded is cleverer than it might appear,
c . they often depict people that most other people would not care to be like.
D. the pictures in them accurately reflect the way that some people really live.
72. What does a fem m e fatale refer to? A. a potential good wife
B. an attractive woman who may bring unhappiness to men.
c . a gorgeous woman who realizes most m en’s dream.
D. a beautiful woman who spends her time enjoying herself.
73. The word “facetious” is closest in meaning to A. impudent B flippant c . complacent.. D. prevalent
74. The writer says that if you look at a line o f advertisements on a tube train, it is clear that
A. city dwellers have very diverse ideas about what image they would like to have.
B. some images in advertisements have a general appeal that others lack.
c . city dwellers are more influenced by images on advertisements than other people are.
D. some images are intended to be representative o f everyone’s aspirations.
75. What does the writer imply about portraits o f old movie stars?
A. they tried to disguise the less attractive features o f their subjects.
B. most people did not think they were accurate representations o f the stars in them,
c . they made people feel that their own faces were rather unattractive.
D. they reflected an era in which people felt basically safe.
76. What does the writer suggest about the stars o f the last decade?
A. some o f them may be uncomfortable about the way they come across.
B. they make an effort to speak in a way that jjiay not be pleasant on the ear.
c . they make people wonder whether they should become more selfish.
D. most people accept that they are not typical o f society as a whole.
77. The writer uses the crowd on an underground platform to exemplify his belief that
A. no single attitude to life is more common than another in a city.
B. no one in a city has strict attitudes towards the behavior o f others,
c . views o f what society was like in the past are often accurate.
D. people in cities would like to have more in common with each other. 279
78. The writer implies that new arrivals in a city may
A. change the image they wish to have too frequently.
B. underestimate the importance o f wealth,
c . acquire a certain image without understanding what that involves.
D. decide that status is o f little importance.
79. The novels o f Samuel Beckett is an example of
A. what is wanted by the majority in the society.
B. literature works o f high artistic value.
c . classic literature works that make their owners feel superior to other people.
D. possessions that show ow ners’ identity.
80. What point does the writer make about city dwellers in the final paragraph?
A. they are unsure as to why certain things are popular with others.
B. they are aware that judgments are made about them according to what they buy.
c . they want to acquire more and more possessions.
D. they are keen to be the first to appreciate new styles.
B. WRITTEN TEST (70 PTS) I. CLOZE TEST (20 PTS)
Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each spacc. Use
only O N E WORD fo r each spacc. Passage 1 THE VIDEO LOGGERS
One rather unlikely word that has recently ( 1 ) _____________ the language is
'blog', a shortened form o f'w e b log'. A blog is a diary posted on the Internet by
the person writing it - the 'blogger’ — who presumably expects other people to
read it. It is ironical that modern technology is being used to (2) ____________
new life into such an old-fashioned form as the personal journal. And now, as
the technology behind video cameras is making them easier to use, we have the
video log, or 'vlog'. Vlogging does not require ( 3 ) _____________ sophisticated
equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed Internet connection and a host
are all that is needed. Vlogệers can put anything that (4) ;_____________their
fancy onto their personal web site. Some vloggers have no am bitions ( 5 ) ______
than to show films they have shot while on holiday in exotic places. However,
vlogs can also serve more ambitious ( 6 ) _______________For instance, amateur
film-makers who want to make a ( 7 ) _______________for them selves might
publish their work on the Internet, eager to receive advice or criticism. And
increasingly, vlogs are being used to publicize political and social issues that are
not newsworthy enough to warrant ( 8 ) _____________ by the mass media. It is
still too early to predict whether vlogging will ever ( 9 ) __^___________o ff in a
major way or if it is ju st a ( 1 0 ) _____________ fad, but its potential is only now becoming apparent. 280 Passage 2: LETTER TO I HE E D IT O R
The Prime M inister’s (1 1) _____________ yesterday on education spending
miss the point, as the secondary education system also needs a major overhaul.
Firstly, the system only views the weakest learner as hating special needs. The
brightest and most conscientious students are not encouraged to develop to their (12)
________ potential. Secondly, there’s too much testing and not enough
learning. M y fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has ju st spent the first
month or ( 1 3 ) _____________ cramming for ex,ams. These aren’t even real,
important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They’re ju st (14) ________
exams. Is the work she’s been doing really going to make her more knowledgeable
about her subjects, or will she forget it (15) ____ ________ tom orrow? I suspect the (1 6 )_____________ .
Thirdly, the standard curriculum doesn’t (17) _____ students any tuition in
developing practical work-related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary
for higher education. How many students' entering university have the first idea
what the difference is between plagiarizing someone else’s work and making
good ( 1 8 ) _____________ o f someone else’s ideas? Shouldn’t they have been
taught this at school? How many o f them are really able to (19) ^ ______
about self-study - a skill that’s essential at university because there are no
teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way? Indeed, how many students
graduate from university totally (2 0 )______________ to spell even simple English
words correctly? The system is letting our children down.
II. W O R D F O R M A T IO N : (20PTS)
PART 1: Complete each sentence, using the correct form of the word in parentheses.
1. I’m afraid that the hospital is desperately________ at the moment. (STA FF)
2. Private school feared losing i t s ________________________________________ .__ with the state’s university system. (C R E D IT )
3. He gave me a g o o d ____________ for forgetting the meeting. (T E L L )
4. I think my last statem ent___ _________ the situation pretty well - at least, I
can’t think o f any better surainary. (C A PSU LE)
5. When the lab findings and the results w e re _____________ , an amazing
discovery came to light. (R E L A T E )
6. The small country is faced w ith __________ debt. (M O U N T)
7. Zimbabwe is a _____________country; so much o f its trade depends on
having access to ports in Mozambique. (LAND)
8. The two pairs o f twins make a p le a s a n t____________ during the game o f golf. (F O U R )
9. Y ou’ll never talk him into going swimming because he suffers from . (P ĨIO B ÌC )
10. She bought s o m e _________________coffee as she cannot stand caffeine. (CAFFEINE) . . \ 281
PART 2: Complete the passage with appropriate forms from the words given in the box. enter construct text conduce dialect universe whole structure synthesis fo rm a lity
The arguments around reading pooled into two different classroom methodologies: (1 1 )
and behaviorism. The constructivist methodology grew from
a (1 2 )_____________ conception o f knowledge creation that understood reading
and writing to be innate, humanistic, and interpretative practices that suffered
when they were Spliced and (13) _____________ within rigid doctrines, strict
rules, and universal skill-sets. Constructivists associate words with meanings;
each word might be thought o f as a Chinese ideogram. Students are encouraged
to learn individual words and skip over and guess words they do not understand,
or learn to interpret those words by situating them within the lexical (14) __________ _
o f the sentence and the story’s wider narrative. These practices
materialize as learning processes centered on guided group reading and
independent reading o f high-quality, culturally diverse literature or textual
composition that emphasizes pupils conveying their own thoughts and feelings
for real purposes such as letters for pen pals or journal (1 5 )_____________ .
Behaviorism sees the pedagogical process in a less (1 6 )_____________ fashion
- words are initially taught not lexically, as vehicles to convey meaning, but rather
sub-lexically, as a combination of features that can be separated and learned in a
schematic process. The behaviorist approach does not focus on words at all in the
early stages o f learning. Rather, it is centered on a (17) ______ applicable method
o f teaching students to isolate graphemes and phonemes with the intention that
students will eventually learn to (18)________ these individual parts and make
sense o f spoken words ( 1 9 ) _____________ . In this way, individual components
are not equated with the strokes o f a brush on a Chinese ideogram, but rather as
the focal pieces o f interpretation - as in, for example, learning to read musical
notations or Morse Code. Because o f its emphasis on universal rules,
behaviorism is much more ( 2 0 ) _____________ to formal exam ination and the
consolidation o f results across regions and countries. The ability to master
language is considered to rest in the acquisition o f a set o f skills that exist
independently o f individuals. Classroom learning is, therefore, based upon the
transmission o f knowledge from tutor to student, rather than seen as an
internalized process that erupts within the students themselves.
III. ERROR CORRECTION: (10PTS)
The following passage contains 10 errors. Identify and correct them.
Line We are descendents o f the ice age. Periods o f glaciation have extended the
whole o f human existence for the past 2 million years. The rapid melting of
the continental glaciers at the end o f the last ice age spurred one o f the
most dramatic climate changes in the history o f the planet. During this 5
interglacial time, people caught up in a cataclysm o f human accomplishment,
including the development o f agriculture and animal husbandry. Over the 282
past few thousands years, the Earth’s climate has been extraordinarily
beneficial, and humans have been prospered exceedingly well under a benign atmosphere.
10 Ice ages have dramatically affected life on Earth mostly from the very
beginning. It is even possible that life itself has significantly changed the
climate. All living organisms pull carbon dioxide out o f the atmosphere and
eventually store it in sedimentary rocks within the Earth’s crust. If too much
carbon dioxide is lost, too much heat escapes out into the atmosphere,
15 thus causes the Earth to cool enough for glacial ice to spread across the land.
In general the reduction o f the level o f carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
been equalized by input o f carbon dioxide from such events as volcanic
eruptions. Man, however, is upsetting the equation by burning fossil fuels and
destroying tropical rain forests, all o f which release stored carbon dioxide. This 20
energizes the greenhouse effect and causes the Earth to warm. If the warming
is significantly enough, the polar ice caps eventually melt.
The polar ice caps drive the atmospheric and oceanic circulation systems.
Should the ice caps melt, warm tropical waters could circle around the
globe and make this a very warm, inhospitable planet.
IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORM ATION: (20 PTS)
Rewrite the following sentences using the words given.
1. “T here’s no point in writing it all out in longhand-'if you can use a typewriter, isn’t there?”
She d is s u a d e d '_____________ _____ _________________________________
2. If the w eather is fine, we may go camping at the weekend.
W eather _J______ __________ _________________________________________
3. Sally distrusts m odem technology strongly.
Sally h a s ______ ______ ______________________________ ______________
4. When faced with a fierce opponent, even the most skilled swordsmen must be careful. In the _________ ___
________________________ has to be careful.
5. Do you think we can stew this kind o f meat? (LEND)
6. The group, considered to be One o f the funniest in Canada, performed so well
that its audiences laughed a lot at last night’s concert. (ROLLING) A s _______ ______ _______ ■
___________ _________________ ■ _______
7. We can’t possibly imagine how we are going to Ểfford a new car. (REMOTEST)
We _________ ;__________________________. ■■ ___________________ _
8. He may be inexperienced but he makes up for it by being enthusiastic. (LACKS)
What ____________________________________ ;_______________________
9. There don’t seem to be many talented athletes at the moment. (PAUCITY)
We seem to be suffering _____ _________ ____________ ________________
10. Normally, the money is released within about three months. (COURSE) In \ 283