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ASSORTED TEST 025 I. LISTENING
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 15 giây; mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 02 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu kết thúc bài nghe.
 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng Tiếng Anh) đã có trong đề bài nghe.
Part 1: For questions 1-5, you will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena
Stone. First, you have 30 seconds to look at Part 1. Then, listen and decide whether the following
sentences are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG) according to what you hear. Write your answers in the box provided.
1. Helena feels amused that she and Jed have a name people tend to remember. 2. Jed would appreciate it
3. When Helena started her work on The Travel Show, she felt to do it.
4. Jed was inspired to make a jewel garden by the illustrations at a talk he attended.
5. Helena agrees with Jed that the name “jewel garden” represents a way to positively combine both past and present. Your answers: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2: For questions 6-12, you will hear an archeologist talking about an experience he had in South
America. First, you have 1 minute to look at Part 2. Then, complete the notes below by writing NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question in the box provided.
- The (6) ______ visitors ruined city and the area around it.
- It appears that the (7) ______ humid air exhaled by visitors is damaging the walls.
- The archeologist wanted to survey a tomb near the site of a proposed (8) construction ______.
- Unfortunately, the tomb had been damaged by flood water from (9) ______.
- The archeologist lost his footing on some (10) ______. erosion
- As he fell, he broke his (11) ______. leg
- He was found when a (12) ______ heard his shouts for help. Tour guy Your answers: 6. 10. 7. 11. 8. 12. 9.
Part 3: For questions 13-17, you will hear an interview with Sue Millins, who has recently introduced
a new teaching approach into her school. First, you have 1 minute to look at Part 3. Then, choose the 1
answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the box provided.
13. The original cause of the school’s decline was ______.
A. the old-fashioned character of the school
B. the transformation of the neighbourhood
C. the number of families living in the area
D. the low number of children in the area
14. The school was not closed down thanks to ______.
A. the parent’s refusal to allow it
B. the decision to follow the national curriculum
C. the fact that the children were behaving better
D. the bad conditions the children live in
15. The traditional methods of teaching were abandoned because ______.
A. the children were not able to read
B. tests would be easier to mark
C. they would have made things worse
D. not enough research had been done
16. The aim of the lesson involving the bear is to ______. A. teach the children drama
B. make the children feel more at ease
C. teach the children about animals
D. help the children to read and write
17. The method is considered successful because ______.
A. the Department of Education wants to use it
B. children are interested in the arts
C. it allows teachers to use their intuition
D. there is better achievement in all subjects Your answers: 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Part 4: For questions 18-25, you will hear part of a lecture on soap and its role in society.First, you have 1
minute to look at Part 4. Then, complete the notes below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
for each question in the box provided.
- Until recently, Morrison’s soap was produced in rectangular bars of (18) ______ and detergent.
- Manufacturers of soap were among the earliest to make up (19) ______ for their products.
- In the days before mass production, the same kind of device was used by shopkeepers to cut blocks of soap and (20) ______.
- According to the speaker, any claims linking soap with longer (21) ______ are unfounded.
- In the past, the same piece of soap was used to clean items of (22) ______ and clothing, as well as for personal use.
- Manufacturers of household cleaning products are eager to use the word (23) ______ when talking about the fragrance of their goods.
- The speaker thinks that (24) ______ smells may soon become fashionable.
- Soap marketing campaigns increasingly focus on the benefits of soap for both (25) ______ and ______. Your answers: 18. 22. 19. 23. 20. 24. 21. 25. 2 II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1: For questions 26-45, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D to each of the following questions.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
26. Egypt is a fantastic country for tourists. It’s absolutely ______ in history. A. soaked B. drenched C. steeped D. saturated
27. I wanted to talk, but she was determined to sweep the matter under the ______. A. cupboard B. table C. carpet D. bed
28. The newspaper story was based on an interview which had been done off the ______. A. script B. record C. key D. tape
29. Before you make a decision you should ______all the issues involved. A. weigh through B. weigh out C. weigh up D. weigh down
30. I’m afraid that cycling is off the ______ until the weather improves. A. record B. card C. track D. menu
31. I read some pretty ______ news about the economy today. A. challenging B. jumpy C.disconcerting D. cutting
32. He spent too much on his credit card, and now he can’t ______the minimum payments. A. keep on B. keep in C. keep to D. keep up
33. Her condition is improving, but she's not out of the ______. A. dark B. cupboard C. woods D. fire
34. Some electric cars have a ______ of 150 kilometres. A. run B. distance C. range D. scope
35. ______, I’d like to say how much I’ve enjoyed our meeting. A. Finally B. At last C. Eventually D. After all
36. I’d give up my job ______ if only I could find a better one. A. at one swoop B. at the drop of a hat C. on the dot
D. on the spur of the moment
37. The hotel, though obviously grand in its day, appeared rather neglected and ______ when we checked in. A. tumble-down B. downcast C. down-and-out D. run-down
38. If you’d like to take a seat in the waiting room till the doctor can see you, you’ll find plenty of magazines to ______. A. refer to B. browse through C. look over D. stare at
39. I’d say let’s meet on Saturday, but I’m none ______ sure what’s happening at the weekend. A. so B. very C. that D. too
40. Since we had only one day left, we decided to make an ______ effort to finish the run in record time. A. all-in B. all-out C. overall D. all-round
41. As he was caught ______an offensive weapon, he was immediately a suspect. A. in possession of B. on ownership of
C. with handling with D. out of control with
42. We might just as well have stayed at home ______the enjoyment we had. A. on account of B. as far as C. for all D. concerning
43. You should only make serious accusations like that if they have a sound ______in fact. A. basis B. foothold C. framework D. principle 3
44. He hadn’t prepared a speech; he just made a few remarks ______. A. off the cuff B. at first sight C. up his sleeve
D. out of the back of his neck
45. Martin needs to get a ______on his finances if he’s not to face serious difficulties with the bank. A. grasp B. clutch C. grip D. clasp Your answers: 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
Part 2: For questions 46-50, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right.
Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the last of the great rulers of the Ottoman
house of Osman. As the immediate (46. SUCCEED) to two sultans 46. __________________
who had been deposed, he came to the throne a very nervous man. He
considered security at his palaces to be far too lax, and set about
building a new (47. PENETRATE) palace from scratch. To this end, 47. __________________
he secured the services of a dozen architects and (48. MISSION) each 48. __________________
to build just one twelfth of the palace, working in complete ignorance
of the progress of the other eleven. In effect, the Sultan built himself
the world's most elaborate and extensive prison. Every room was
connected to a secret underground passage and many of the rooms
were booby-trapped: at the flick of a switch, cupboards would fly
open and mechanically controlled revolvers would fire. The Sultan
employed thousands of spies and secret agents; the ones he
considered most trustworthy being the hundreds of caged parrots
which were hung on street corners and trained to squawk if they saw
a stranger. Another of his many (49. PECULIAR) was that he always 49. __________________
carried a pearl-handled revolver. No-one dared put their hands in
their pockets in his presence - to do so would have been an invitation
for him to take a pot shot. When one of his daughters once (50. 50. __________________
PLAY) gave him a shove from behind, he spun round and shot her before realizing who it was. III. READING
Part 1: For questions 51-60, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. ON THE OTHER HAND?
We left-handed people lack collective pride. We just try to get by, in our clumsy way. We make (51) ______
demands and we avoid a fuss. I used to say whenever someone watched me sign my name and remarked that
he or she was also left-handed: "You and me and Leonardo da Vinci!" That was a weak joke, but it
contained my often unconscious desire to (52) ______to Left Pride, a social movement that doesn't(53)
______ exist but I hope may one day come. There are many false stories about the left-handed in circulation: 4
for example, a few decades ago someone wrote that Picasso was left-handed, and others kept (54) ______it,
but the proof is all to the contrary.
The great genius Einstein is often still claimed as one of (55) ______, also without proof. And sadly, there is
also no truth in the myth that the left-handed (56) ______to be smarter and more creative. Despite the
amount of research that has been carried out, researchers in the field are still in two (57) ______about what
we mean by left-handed. Apparently a third of those who write with their left hand throw a ball with their
right. However, those using their right hand for (58) ______ rarely throw with their left. A difficult skill that
becomes crucial at a (59) ______ impressionable age, writing defines what you will call yourself. I have
never used scissors, baseball bat, hockey stick or computer mouse with anything but my right; even so, I
think I'm left-handed as (60) ______ everyone else. Your answers: 51. 56. 52. 57. 53. 58. 54. 59. 55. 60.
Part 2: For questions 61-70, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. THE ROBOTS ARE COMING
What is the current state of play in Artificial Intelligence? Paragraph A
Can robots advance so far that they become the ultimate threat to our existence? Some scientists say no, and
dismiss the very idea of Artificial Intelligence. The human brain, they argue, is the most complicated system
ever created, and any machine designed to reproduce human thought is bound to fail. Physicist Roger
Penrose of Oxford University and others believe that machines are physically incapable of human thought.
Colin McGinn of Rutgers University backs this up when he says that Artificial Intelligence ‘is like sheep
trying to do complicated psychoanalysis. They just don’t have the conceptual equipment they need in their limited brains’. Paragraph B
Artificial Intelligence, or Al, is different from most technologies in that scientists still understand very little
about how intelligence works. Physicists have a good understanding of Newtonian mechanics and the
quantum theory of atoms and molecules, whereas the basic laws of intelligence remain a mystery. But a
sizable number of mathematicians and computer scientists, who are specialists in the area, are optimistic
about the possibilities. To them it is only a matter of time before a thinking machine walks out of the
laboratory. Over the years, various problems have impeded all efforts to create robots. To attack these
difficulties, researchers tried to use the ‘top- down approach’, using a computer in an attempt to program all
the essential rules onto a single disc. By inserting this into a machine, it would then become self-aware and
attain human-like intelligence. Paragraph C
In the 1950s and 1960s great progress was made, but the shortcomings of these prototype robots soon
became clear. They were huge and took hours to navigate across a room. Meanwhile, a fruit fly, with a brain
containing only a fraction of the computing power, can effortlessly navigate in three dimensions. Our brains, 5
like the fruit fly’s, unconsciously recognize what we see by performing countless calculations. This
unconscious awareness of patterns is exactly what computers are missing. The second problem is robots’
lack of common sense. Humans know that water is wet and that mothers are older than their daughters. But
there is no mathematics that can express these truths. Children learn the intuitive laws of biology and
physics by interacting with the real world. Robots know only what has been programmed into them. Paragraph D
Because of the limitations of the top-down approach to Artificial Intelligence, attempts have been made to
use a ‘bottom-up’ approach instead – that is, to try to imitate evolution and the way a baby learns. Rodney
Brooks was the director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence laboratory, famous for its lumbering ‘top- down’
walking robots. He changed the course of research when he explored the unorthodox idea of tiny ‘insectoid’
robots that learned to walk by bumping into things instead of computing mathematically the precise position
of their feet. Today many of the descendants of Brooks’ insectoid robots are on Mars gathering data for
NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration), running across the dusty landscape of the
planet. For all their successes in mimicking the behavior of insects, however, robots using neural networks
have performed miserably when their programmers have tried to duplicate in them the behavior of higher
organisms such as mammals. MIT’s Marvin Minsky summarises the problems of Al: ‘The history of Al is
sort of funny because the first real accomplishments were beautiful things, like a machine that could do well
in a maths course. But then we started to try to make machines that could answer questions about simple
children’s stories. There’s no machine today that can do that.’ Paragraph E
There are people who believe that eventually there will be a combination between the top- down and
bottom-up, which may provide the key to Artificial Intelligence. As adults, we blend the two approaches. It
has been suggested that our emotions represent the quality that most distinguishes us as human, that it is
impossible for machines ever to have emotions. Computer expert Hans Moravec thinks that in the future
robots will be programmed with emotions such as fear to protect themselves so that they can signal to
humans when their batteries are running low, for example. Emotions are vital in decision-making. People
who have suffered a certain kind of brain injury lose the ability to experience emotions and become unable
to make decisions. Without emotions to guide them, they debate endlessly over their options. Moravec
points out that as robots become more intelligent and are able to make choices, they could likewise become
paralysed with indecision. To aid them, robots of the future might need to have emotions hardwired into their brains. Paragraph F
There is no universal consensus as to whether machines can be conscious, or even, in human terms, what
consciousness means. Minsky suggests the thinking process in our brain is not localised but spread out, with
different centres competing with one another at any given time. Consciousness may then be viewed as a
sequence of thoughts and images issuing from these different, smaller ‘minds’, each one competing for our
attention. Robots might eventually attain a ‘silicon consciousness’. Robots, in fact, might one day embody
an architecture for thinking and processing information that is different from ours – but also
indistinguishable. If that happens, the question of whether they really ‘understand’ becomes largely
irrelevant. A robot that has perfect mastery of syntax, for all practical purposes, understands what is being said. 6
The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-F, in boxes 61-67. You may use any letter more than once.
61. An insect that proves the superiority of natural intelligence over Artificial Intelligence
62. Robots being able to benefit from their mistakes
63. Many researchers not being put off believing that Artificial Intelligence will eventually be developed
64. An innovative approach that is having limited success
65. The possibility of creating Artificial Intelligence being doubted by some academics
66. No generally accepted agreement of what our brains do
67. Robots not being able to extend the intelligence in the same way as humans
Your answers: 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67.
Look at the following people (Questions 68-70) and the list of statements below. Match each person
with the correct statement A-E. Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 68-70. 68. Colin McGinn 69. Marvin Minsky 70. Hans Moravec A.
Artificial Intelligence may require something equivalent to feelings in order to succeed. B.
Different kinds of people use different parts of the brain. C.
Tests involving fiction have defeated Artificial Intelligence so far. D.
People have intellectual capacities which do not exist in computers. E.
People have no reason to be frightened of robots.
Your answers: 68. 69. 70.
Part 3: For questions 71-75, you are going to read an extract from an article. Five paragraphs have
been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-F the one which fits each gap (71-75).
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. A REALISTIC VIEW
One of the most memorable scenes from Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now shows a beach landing by
US troops under heavy fire. As the camera pans around, we catch a glimpse of Coppola himself, directing
another film crew, shouting ‘Don’t look at the camera!’ as the actors stream past. 71
The image, and especially the moving image, has a power that text and spoken word has not; the power of
immediate impact. Whereas before Vietnam, casualties of war would be reported in dry figures, now the
viewer could see the corpses strewn on the battlefield. The images of the Vietnam War undoubtedly played a
part in creating the anti-war movement back in the States, and the eventual ceasefire. 72
And because the camera is ever-present, the other mass media, especially newspapers, are being forced to
take steps to compete. No longer is it enough to collect various stories and patch together an article; the
modern-day journalist is expected to provide an eyewitness account of the front lines of a battle, must live
among the combatants and duck under the live bullets and avoid the explosions along with them. 73 7
It has also led to an extremely alarming rise in the numbers of casualties, including fatalities, among
members of the press. This reached such a level during the Bosnian War that staff from different media
networks banded together, refusing to send more than one camera crew into the field at a time and pooling all the footage obtained. 74
This means good pictures, certainly, and the gritty scenes that keep the viewer hooked. However, if every
news show has the same pictures, why should the viewers watch one show over another? What a news show
wants are the exclusive pictures; to be the only channel that shows this shot, that angle, these exciting sequences. 75
Journalists are often deeply ambitious, driven people, insatiable in their chase for the big story that will
make their name, their career. They know very well that news does not get any bigger than war news, and so
when a conflict breaks out, they flock to the scene, itching to get into the heat of the action. So when the US
invaded Afghanistan, it was not just troops that went over the border. Journalists, cameramen,
photographers, all went along for the ride, penetrating areas of the country shunned even by the US military,
all in search of that elusive goal, the exclusive, whether in the form of an article, a photograph or a video clip. The missing paragraphs A.
It leads to rather incongruous scenes. Enemies exchanging gunfire along a city street, hugging the
walls of buildings. Behind them, similarly crouched, is a cameraman aiming lens instead of gun; a reporter
clutching a microphone in a white-knuckled fist is hiding behind him, babbling commentary to a live audience. B.
However, sensible measures such as these are not good enough for the networks. The images thus
obtained may be real, may show the situation as it is happening on the ground, but what a news show wants
above all else is not the truth, especially. It wants good TV. C.
They come with their notebooks open and pens poised, their cameras loaded, ready to snap or roll.
They are the war correspondents, veterans of Bosnia, Somalia and Kosovo, battle-scarred and hardened,
more ready for combat than most of the soldiers they stop to interview. D.
Why was the mistake not taken out of the final cut? Because it fitted perfectly. The Vietnam War
was the first war to be properly televised, and scenes from it were part and parcel of the average American’s
experience of the war. So the scene in the film looks authentic precisely because it has a film crew on the
sidelines, shooting the soldiers going into action. E.
At every opportunity, the networks will be putting pressure on their staff to capture the fresh, the
new, to venture deeper and deeper into the battlefield in search of that award-winning scoop. And, if the
truth be known, they rarely find themselves running particularly short of volunteers. F.
So it has become expected that every war be accompanied by a visual commentary, and this has
necessitated the sending of camera crews into war zones to capture the moments on celluloid (or now,
video). A war is no longer a real war unless it is televised.
Your answers: 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 8
Part 4: For questions 76-85, read an extract from an article on language and choose the answer A, B,
C or D which you think fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. AN UNLIKELY MUSE
A new wave of music and arts projects has emerged, focusing on someone who may seem for some a
dubious source of inspiration. Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, is currently becoming the
subject of musicals, song cycles and shows on a worldwide arena.
When the Marcos regime collapsed in 1986, and Imelda and her husband Ferdinand were exiled in Hawaii,
they carried with them allegations of embezzlement, corruption and human rights abuses. Imelda had spent
the last twenty years living off a seemingly endless supply of funds, living an exotic and glamorous lifestyle
and rubbing shoulders with powerful figures worldwide. In 1972, when the superstar couple’s popularity
was fading and they were at risk of losing their power, Ferdinand Marcos instated martial, leading to an era
of chaos and plunder, and what is described by some as the second most corrupt regime of the twentieth
century. Ferdinand and Imelda fled in 1986 to escape the People’s Power Revolution, Imelda leaving behind some 2000 pairs of shoes.
After her husband died in Hawaii due to ill health, Imelda stood trial in the United States on behalf of her
husband. Following that, she returned to the Philippines to face seventy more counts of corruption and tax
evasion. She has now returned to congress in the Philippines, her make-up and gowns as flawless as ever.
So what makes Imelda Marcos such an appealing muse? Undoubtedly, Imelda Marcos’s resolute character
which has withstood exile, legal battles and the wrath of her enemies makes her an appealing heroine, but
film-maker Fenton Bailey attributes her iconicity to her sense of glamour and style, and her role as a cultural
trend-setter. And like so many women who let nothing come between them and their goals, she has gained a
certain iconic status, particularly among homosexuals, not unlike that of Judy Garland and Lady Gaga.
And now the story of Imelda Marcos can be seen in the format of a musical, an artistic genre which is quite
befitting for this flamboyant, entertaining figure of beauty and glamour. ‘Imelda – A new musical’ has
played in Los Angeles and New York. The artistic director of the musical, Tim Dang, realises that the
musical glosses over the darker aspects of the Marcos regime, but wanted to portray Imelda as a person with
all her faults on display, leaving the audience to come to a verdict. However, despite the glitz of the show,
reviews were mixed, stating the ‘the serio-comic spoof... had a vacuum at its centre’.
The story of Imelda Marcos has also been immortalised as a song cycle, ‘Here Lies Love’ written by David
Byrne and Norman Cook, in which Imelda comes across as both a hero and villain. Their reasoning was to
try to understand the story of how people can attain positions of such power and greed. They were also
inspired by Imelda’s love of dancing and clubbing, and how her own style of music could be incorporated
into their own. Byrne adds that their story is not black and white – the couple were very popular at first, and
Imelda headed a lot of public works in the Philippines and added much to the nation’s sense of culture and identity.
At the Cultural Centre of the Philippines, a tour named ‘La Vida Imelda’ led by Carlos Sedran describes the
life of Imelda Marcos, the cold war and martial law, while also portraying the glamour of the Imelda
lifestyle. He describes it as an eternal story, in which her extravagance can be seen as either distasteful or in some ways estimable.
There is a danger that these new art forms airbrush out the atrocity which accompanied the ostentation and
glamour. It was a time when democracy was suppressed, political enemies disappeared, and billions of 9
dollars which could have helped the poverty-stricken country were spent on the Marcos’s extravagant
lifestyle. However, the artists involved are keen to make clear that the regime also resulted in great leaps
forward in the country’s culture, architecture and infrastructure. The Marcos legacy remains in the form of
hospitals, Heart and Lung Centres, Folk Art theatres and homes for children and the elderly, notwithstanding
that the Marcos couple set their war-ravaged, poverty-stricken land onto the world stage.
76. Why are Imelda’s shoes mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. To illustrate how little she cared for her personal possessions
B. To illustrate her love of fashion and beauty
C. To indicate how quickly she had to flee the country
D. To illustrate the extravagance of her lifestyle
77. What aspect of Imelda’s character is emphasised in paragraph 3? A. her flamboyance B. her beauty C. her doggedness D. her forbearance
78. Why is Imelda compared with Judy Garland and Lady Gaga?
A. Due to her status as a gay icon
B. Due to her ambition and drive
C. Because she has created new fashions
D. Because she has triumphed over legal battles
79. The phrase “rubbing shoulders” in the second paragraph mostly means ______. A. hobnobbing B. abetting C. fostering D. conferring
80. Why was the musical of Imelda’s life criticised?
A. Because it did not portray Imelda’s faults
B. Because the show was too shallow
C. Because it was too glamorous and showy
D. Because it was both serious and comedic
81. What was it about Imelda’s story that interested David Byrne and Norman Cooke?
A. The ongoing themes of power, greed and music
B. The fact that the story had both a clear hero and villain
C. The reasoning why people such as Imelda become who they are
D. The fact that her musical taste was similar to theirs
82. The word ‘incorporated in the sixth paragraph is closest in meaning to _____. A. inverted B. infused C. integrated D. interbred
83. According to Carlos Sedran, how do people respond to Imelda’s expensive lifestyle?
A. Most people are shocked by it.
B. It evokes both positive and negative feelings. C. People want to be like her.
D. People realise why she did it.
84. The word ‘atrocity in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____. A. complexity B. indignity C. mendacity D. barbarity
85. Which of the following is not mentioned in the text as something Imelda Marcos did for the Philippines?
A. She made health services available to the people.
B. She gave the country a cultural identity.
C. She reduced the levels of poverty for Filipino people.
D. She drew the world’s attention to the country.
Your answers: 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85.
Part 5: For questions 86-95, you are going to read an article about the effects of tourism on local
people. Choose from the people (A–E). The people may be chosen more than once. 10 LIVING WITH TOURISM
Five people describe how tourism has affected their home town. A.Leonor Sousa
It can’t be denied that tourism has attracted investment, which has certainly raised living standards here, but
the cost in other respects has been extremely high. Take the effect on the environment, for instance. When
my parents were young this used to be an area of fields and woods, but now everything is covered in
concrete. The tourists themselves aren’t responsible for this; it’s the construction companies, property
developers and estate agents who are to blame because they’re the ones making all the money. They’re all
based in the big cities and bring in their own people, so they hardly create any employment at all for local residents. B.Yusuf Demir
When I was growing up in my home town there was a path I used to walk along to go to school, and last
summer I went to see if it was still there. It was, but the view from it had changed completely. Now there is
a vast shopping mall, with a cinema and cafés alongside. I don’t actually mind that, because it means there
are lots more things to do, and I also like the fact that it has a really international atmosphere. It’s good for
local people to meet visitors from other parts of the world, try new kinds of food and hear about different ways of living. C. Matt Walker
Tourism has changed this town so much, even in the years since I was at junior school. In those days, there
was a football pitch near the harbour where we would kick a ball around, but it’s gone now, which is a pity.
In the harbour itself luxury yachts owned by people from richer parts of the country have replaced the
fishing boats, to the extent that there is now no sign of what used to be the main source of income and
employment locally. In the evenings, the town is certainly a lot livelier, but sometimes people start doing
things they would never think of doing back in their own home towns, and then the police have to be called. D. Trisha Chandra
I was just a child when tourism first took off here, and those incredibly ugly houses were built for summer
visitors. The residents really should have protested about that. It was all the fault of the town council, who
only ever thought in the short term and seemed to give planning permission to anyone who applied to build
anything. Nowadays, there’s talk of ecological tourism, but that’s just a way of making people feel less
guilty about the harm they are doing by making a few insignificant changes, such as re-using towels in their hotel rooms. E. Daniela Navarro
I know some of the new hotels and holiday apartment blocks are unattractive, and that the bars, restaurants
and nightclubs that cater for tourists have changed the nature of the town, but without them, unemployment
– particularly among the young – would be far worse than it currently is. That, though, is as far as the
economic benefits to the town go, as the only ones making any real money out of all this are the big tour
operators and the owners of hotel chains, none of whom are actually based in this country. Also, very few
tourists learn our language. I know it must be difficult for them because most of them are quite old, but it
means there’s little communication between us and them. Which person ______ Your Answers
misses a place they used to go to as a child? 86.
states that tourism provides a considerable number of jobs for local 87. people? 11
wishes local people had opposed the construction of certain holiday 88. homes?
claims that tourism has destroyed a traditional industry? 89.
blames the tourist industry for spoiling the local countryside? 90.
feels that the presence of people from other cultures benefits the local 91. community?
criticises the behaviour of tourists in their town? 92.
says the town is wealthier than it was before it became a tourist resort? 93.
believes that most of the profits from the local tourist industry go abroad? 94.
is not convinced that so-called green tourism actually benefits the 95. environment? IV. WRITING
Part 1: The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different
countries in 2002. Describe the information in the table and make comparisons where relevant. You
should write about 150 words.
PERCENTAGE OF NATIONAL CONSUMER EXPENDITURE BY CATEGORY – 2002 *****
Country Food/Drink/Tobacco (%) Clothing/Footwear (%) Leisure/Education (%) Ireland 28.91 6.43 2.21 Italy 16.36 9.00 3.20 Spain 18.80 6.51 1.98 Sweden 15.77 5.40 3.22 Turkey 32.14 6.63 4.35
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Part 2: Write an essay of about 350 words on the following topic:
Some people think that schools should reward students who show the best academic results, while
others believe that it is more important to reward students who show improvements. Discuss both
views and give your own opinion.
Present argumentation to highlight your opinion on this matter. Give reasons and specific examples to support your opinions.
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