Đề thi chính thức chọn học sinh giỏi dự thi HSG quốc gia THPT năm học 2020-2021

PHẦN ĐỀ VÀ BÀI LÀM CỦA THÍ SINH Điểm Điểm Mã phách Họ, tên chữ ký (bằng số) (bằng chữ) Chủ tịch HĐCT ghi Giám khảo 1: Giám khảo 2:
SECTION 1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
• Bài nghe gồm 04 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 02 lần, mỗi phần thí sinh có 20 giây để chuẩn bị trước khi nghe.
• Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
• Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1. Two oversea students called Spiros and Hiroko have just finished the first semester of their
university course. They are discussing with their English language teachers how they coped with the course.
Write your answer with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each question in the space provided.
1. Why did Spiros feel happy about his marketing presentation?
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2. What surprised Hiroko about the other students’ presentations?
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3. After giving her presentation, how did Hiroko feel?
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4. How does Spiros feel about his performance in turtorials?
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5. Why can the other students participate so easily in discusions?
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Your answers: (0.1/ea) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2. For Questions 6-15, complete the notes below. Write ONLY ONE WORD for each answer. Page 1 of 18 The History Of Coffee
Coffee in the Arab world
• There was small-scale trade in wild coffee from Ethiopia.
• 1522: Coffee was approved in the Ottoman court as a type of medicine.
• 1623: In Constantinople, the ruler ordered the 6 ____________ of every coffee house.
Coffee arrives in Europe (17th century)
• Coffee shops were compared to 7 ____________
• They played an important part in social and 8 ____________ changes.
Coffee and European colonisation
• European powers established coffee plantations in their colonies
• Types of coffee were often named according to the 9 ____________ they came from.
• In Brazil and the Caribbean, most cultivation depended on 10_______________
• In Java, coffee was used as a form of 11 ____________
• Coffee became almost as important as 12 ____________
• The move towards the consumption of 13 ____________ in Britain did not also take place in the USA. Coffee in the 19th century
• Prices dropped because of improvements in 14 ____________
• Industrial workers found coffee helped them to work at 15 ____________
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 3. You will hear a man called Neil Brown giving a talk about cycling. For questions 16-24,
complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
The Cycle Campaign Network promotes cycling as a (16) …………………………, a sport, and a means of transport.
Cycling helps reduce pollution caused by (17) ………………………… from cars and also traffic noise.
Local authorities are starting to emphasise (18) ………………………… by developing special cycle routes.
Cycling is now being taught at a number of (19) ………………………… However, if the project is to
develop, (20) ………………………… will be needed. Page 2 of 18
A regimen of regular cycling can prevent (21) ………………………… disease and strokes.
It also makes your body better able to recover from (22) …………………………
Neil suggests that an individual's (23) …………………………may be enhanced by cycling to work.
The majority of organised cycling events are (24) ………………………… anyone wishing to take part.
Your answers: (0.2/ea) 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Part 4: You will hear an interview with Harry Newland, a young film actor. For questions 25-29,
choose the answer (A. B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
25. Harry believes his acting talent to be largely the result of A. an inherent ability. B. his theatrical upbringing C. training from an early age.
D. conscious efforts to develop it.
26. Harry looks back on his early parts in television dramas with A. embarrassment. B. gratitude C. derision D. pride
27. How does Harry explain the attitude of other actors towards him?
A. They took great care not to offend him.
B. They appreciated his level of commitment.
C. They were keen to keep him in his place.
D. They made allowances for his difficulties.
28. When working on big productions, Harry finds it best to
A. follow the lead of other actors.
B. bring his own ideas to the role.
C. keep the finished product in mind.
D. focus on his own performance .
29. Looking back, Harry realises that his parents
A. put too much pressure on him on occasion.
B. may not always have had his best interests at heart.
C. were well aware of the potential pitfalls of his situation.
D. tended to be over-protective in their attitude towards him.
Your answers: (0.2/ea) 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Page 3 of 18 SECTION 2: Lexico-Grammar
Part 1. For questions 1-15, choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following
sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. The old house was ____________ furnished and we had to buy almost everything new. a. thinly b. sparsely c. mildly d. rarely
2. You shouldn't have bought so many ____________ presents on this holiday. You won't have any
money left when you go back home. a. rich b. lavish c. worthy d. invaluable
3. My company has just spent two million dollars, ____________ a world famous artist to paint a huge
mural for the main entrance foyer. a. asking b. ordering c. consulting d. commissioning
4. That old house hasn't been lived in for nearly thirty years, hence the fact that it looks so _________. a. decrepit b. trashed c. rotten d. derelict
5. You can exercise your ____________ to cancel the contract immediately, but you wouldn't receive any money at that point. a. duty b. obligation c. right d. possibility
6. There was a veritable ____________ of angry phone calls from members of the public complaining
about the new controversial series on TV. a. gale b. flood c. storm d. earthquake
7. The sound of the jet taking off from the nearby airport ____________ the peace of the countryside and startled the horses. a. crushed b. crashed c. flattened d. shattered
8. The walls of the local military command were ____________ by anti-government graffiti and that
was the first sign of general rebellion in the city. a. defaced b. destroyed c. mutilated d. deformed
9. That old house is ____________ with rats! There is no way I would ever go and live there without at least five cats. a. riddled b. infected c. crowded d. inflicted
10. Bill and Mary resolved their problems after her brother got them to sit down and have a(n)
____________ talk with each other. a. candid b. overt c. servile d. piteous
11. Now I am unemployed, I have too much time ____________ and don't know what to do with myself! a. to hand b. on my hands c. in hand d. in my hands
12. We won the ____________ part of two million dollars on the lottery. a. most b. best c. largest d. greatest
13. If we walk ____________ enough, we should arrive at the hostel before it gets dark. a. sharply b. warmly c. briskly d. fluently
14. ____________ my boss notices what I do in the office, I might as well not be there! a. Concerning b. For all c. Whenever d. With regards to
15. We replaced the broken vase with a very similar one that we found the next day in the market and
they were ____________ the wiser when they returned from their vacation. a. not b. none c. less d. nothing
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 2. For questions 16-20, use the word given in CAPITALS in bracket to form a word that fits in
the space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Page 4 of 18
The experts said, ‘If we operate, one will certainly die, the other
might live. If we don’t operate, neither will survive a year.’ The
parents were faced with the absolute (0. POSSIBLE) ___________ (0) IMPOSSIBILITY
of the choice between losing both or just one of their children. The
seemingly interminable debate about the Siamese twins and their (16) _________________
fate was a(n) (16. EXPLAIN) _______ popular subject even
amongst the British media and their seemingly (17. QUENCH) (17) _________________
_______ thirst for overblown drama. Some felt that in such
situations the death of one twin was somehow (18. ORDAIN) (18) _________________
_______ and that the argument for losing one was irrefutable. (19) _________________
Others felt the inevitable death of one through the operation was
(19. ETHICS) _______ behaviour and verging on the immoral. It (20) _________________
was difficult to discern what (20. CONCEIVE) _______were
colouring people’s opinions, but informal surveys suggested that
people were predominantly in favour of the operation taking place.
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 3. For questions 21-30, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word.
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Nothing's New In Medicine
Throughout the ages, disease has stalked (0) our
species. Prehistoric humans must quickly have
learnt what could be eaten without danger, and how to avoid plants that could (21) ……………………
about illness. They found leaves, berries and the bark of different trees that could actually heal wounds
and cure the sick, and (22) …………………… soon became a special skill to understand natural medicine.
Ever (23) …………………… the dawn of history, medicine men and wise women have always been
expert in treating diseases and have dispensed medicine with ritual and magic. Through trial and error
they discovered treatments for almost (24) …………………… affliction prevalent at the time. The
precious recipes for preparations which could relieve pain, stop fits, sedate or stimulate were (25)
……………………down from generation to generation, although there was (26) ……………………
exact understanding of the way in (27) …………………… the medicines worked. Nevertheless, (28)
…………………… the power of these primitive medicines, generations were still ravaged by disease.
During the last 150 years, scientists and doctors (29) ……………………work has focused on these
early medicines, have learnt that their power derived from certain chemicals which were found in
herbal remedies or could be synthesised in the laboratory. In just (30) ……………………a way,
advances in modern medicine continue, aided by the discoveries made centuries ago by our ancestors.
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Page 5 of 18 III. READING
Part 1: For questions 1-6, read the following text and then choose from the list A-I given below the
best phrase to fill each of the spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some of the
suggested answers do not fit at all.
The Problems Of Public Speaking
For most people, one of the biggest fears in life is having to make a speech, whether at school, at a
wedding, or in our business lives. There are several good reasons for this, not least amongst them the
fear that no-one will have the slightest interest in what you are saying. If you are on stage, as is often
the case with such speeches, there's no problem. (1) ........................ you to see the audience, because
the lights blind you the moment you step up. The only area of the stage that may have no light
whatsoever is the lectern where you put your notes - it will be in total darkness.
(2) ........................ you probably realise that you've left your glasses at home. (3) ........................, you
now have to improvise a 40-minute speech based on those few words of your notes you can actually
see. It's then that the technical faults start to come into play. First, if you need any, your slides and
illustrations won't work. (4) ........................, you'll accidentally push the wrong button and show
everything upside down. (5) ........................, they will show the wrong picture at the wrong time, and
even jump a couple. If you're lucky, the lights will fail at this point and the speech will have to be abandoned!
(6) ........................ the technical support is excellent, which allows you to make a good and lasting
impression. It's important to start well. To fight nerves, it's a good idea to grip the lectern with both
hands, but not too tightly, because they have been known to collapse! A It's at about this time that
B If professionals are in charge C It's always a good thing D If it's in your hands
E Fortunately, it is not possible for
F There are times, however, when
G However, if it isn't the case
H Despite having spent ages preparing it I With this in mind
Your answers: (0.2/ea) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Part 2: You are going to read a newspaper article. For questions 7-12, choose the answer (A, B, C
or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
Parking Hell: The Parking Industry Investigated
Local authorities in England and Wales now make more than £1 billion from the parking business. Yet
there are growing accusations of sharp practice, and all over the country motorists are gearing up for battle. Page 6 of 18
Wednesday, 3.20pm: David Nicknam, a North London parking attendant until last May, shuffles
nervously down Hampstead High Street explaining the "tricks" he says he was taught here for issuing
what he nonchalantly calls "dodgy tickets".
"I was told to give tickets no matter how legally a car was parked," Nicknam says with a disapproving
frown, his greying ponytail and wispy beard incongruous among the impeccably groomed ladies
strolling up the hill. "If a driver's got a disabled badge, you write that there's no badge. If there's a
visitor's permit, sometimes you ignore it - it's a question of 'Who's going to believe the driver?' And if
you ask me if you can park for five minutes to collect someone, I'd be expected to say OK - and then
ticket you once you've gone. He doesn't have your name, the thinking goes, so what's he going to do?"
Nicknam, 39, was taking home £226.79 for a 42-hour week when he says he was sacked after three
months' probation. The reason, he says, is that he found grounds to ticket only five or six cars "legally"
in a typical day, rather than the ten or more he says his superiors expected. "If I wanted to survive, to
get a permanent job, I was told I'd have to bring in at least ten tickets no matter how," he says with ill-
disguised contempt. The scams, he says, ranged from falsely claiming that bays had been suspended to
hand-issuing deliberately mistimed tickets after claiming his computer was down. "I told them, I can't
do that. I said I believed in God. I asked my supervisors, 'How do you sleep? Do you lie there
dreaming about ticketing cars all night'?"
Camden council rejects his allegations, and, as a clearly disaffected former employee of the council's
parking contractor, Nicknam is by no means neutral. He readily accepts that he bears grudges against
NCP, whose management, he says, refused to hear his complaints and promoted supervisors who
openly broke the rules. Yet his claims - of attendants falsifying observation times, issuing "ghost"
tickets when cars were not present, dishonestly claiming tyres were outside parking bays - have all
been made by other London parking attendants (PAs) in recent months. At stake is public confidence
in the entire system of parking enforcement.
"You have to ask why drivers hate the PAs," Nicknam reflects as he crosses into Prince Arthur Road, a
favourite spot, he explains, for colleagues to hide before pouncing on cars left for three minutes at
school pick-up time. "How many people have spoken out before me? You have to ask why the council
doesn't want PAs to help the drivers. You might call it cheating, but I call it stealing." He shakes his
head and whispers disapprovingly. "It's money, isn't it? Money talks."
Council coffers are swelling not simply through parking tickets and bus-lane fines, but also from meter
feeds and the sale of permits. Yet by any standards, the business of ticketing, clamping and removing
cars is booming as never before.
The London boroughs issued almost seven million penalty charge notices in last year, up from 5.4
million in three years ago. Outside London, English and Welsh councils handed out almost three
million more. By law, local authorities must regulate parking not primarily to raise money, but "to
secure the expeditious, convenient and safe movement of vehicular and other traffic". Yet as the
surpluses have risen over the years, so have public suspicions about the councils' true agenda. As Brian
King, director of the RAC Foundation, sees it, local authorities now see parking as "a convenient and
easy way to raise money, rather than as a policy issue".
Public tolerance is being tested with every television investigation alleging corruption, and with each
outraged report of target-fixated attendants ticketing buses, fire engines, even a rabbit-hutch whose
owner, delivering to a Manchester pet shop, moved his van before a warden could pounce.
"It's the biggest fraud that goes on," claims Jim Carlson, a Pimlico accountant who runs Appeal.com,
one of a growing number of websites campaigning against what they see as unjust use of parking
regulations to make money. Carlson has heard it all: PAs falsifying information in their notebooks to
"prove" that correctly parked cars were elsewhere; motorists illegally ticketed long after they had
driven off. He makes an annual award to the victim of what he considers the most absurd abuse of a
PA's powers. Its latest winner was Nadhim Zahawi, who was, handed a penalty charge notice in central
London as he lay in the road with a broken leg after coming off his scooter. Page 7 of 18
"The councils are very happy to allow a poor system to continue, because they get the revenue,"
Carlson says wearily. "Nobody now has faith in the system. I certainly don't.”
7. It is claimed in the article that 'dodgy tickets' are A. given to disabled drivers.
B. unfairly given to legally parked cars.
C. given in excess to illegally parked cars.
D. still being issued by Nicknam. 8. Nicknam was fired A. with no warning.
B. for giving out illegal tickets.
C. for not giving out enough tickets.
D. because he didn't want a permanent job.
9. Nicknam's reasons for disobeying his employer are A. moral. B. corrupt. C. deceitful. D. profitable.
10. Multiple claims of dishonest ticketing are
A. not being taken seriously by too many.
B. making people distrustful of the parking system.
C. posing no threat to the parking system.
D. getting a lot of employees fired.
11. The business of ticketing, clamping and removing cars is
A. becoming increasingly illegal.
B. under inspection by the RAC.
C. making more money than in the past.
D. becoming an important policy issue.
12. The conclusion of the article is A. hopeful. B. pessimistic C. neutral. D. passionate.
Your answers: (0.2/ea) 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Part 3. You are going to read an article about media coverage of the weather. Seven paragraphs
have been removed from the extract. For questions 13-19, choose from the paragraphs A-H the one
which fits each gap. There is one extra paragraph you do not need to use.
How Popular Are Weather Reports?
Getting up early on the morning of January 24th, I thought the city seemed oddly quiet, but it wasn’t
until I looked out the window that I saw the snow. The “Surprise Storm” that had hit the East Coast of
the United States that morning was making earnest headway, having dumped as much as twenty inches
of snow on Raleigh, eight and a half on Philadelphia, and six on New York. This was a big shock
considering the unusually mild weather that had been settled over New York as recently as just a day Page 8 of 18 ago. 13________________
Forecasters had seen a low-pressure system moving toward the southeast on the National Weather
Service’s satellite pictures, but all the major computer models indicated the storm would head back out
to sea. As Elliot Abrams, the chief forecaster and senior vice-president of the State College,
Pennsylvania, forecasting company Accu-Weather, told me later, “Who am I to say the numerical guidance is wrong?” 14________________
Ever since widespread weather-data collection began, shortly after the invention of the telegraph, in
the 1840s, accurate forecasting has been the goal of the weather report. But in recent years TV weather
has given increasing time and emphasis to live pictures of weather, usually in the viewing area, but
sometimes elsewhere if the weather is atrocious and the pictures dramatic enough - and this is
transforming the modern-day weather report. 15________________
The Weather Channel acknowledged this in a recent ad created by Chiat Day which depicted weather
enthusiasts in the guise of sports fanatics, their faces painted like weather maps, rooting for lows and
highs in a fictional “weather bar” known as the Front. At the same time, the news, which once stuck to
human affairs, now includes an ever-growing number of weather-related stories. 16________________
And the weather’s upward climb in the newsworthiness stakes has also coincided with another trend;
wild weather is also now a standard component of reality-based programming on Fox and the
Discovery Channel. And in book publishing recent best-sellers like "The Perfect Storm", "Into Thin
Air", and "Isaac’s Storm" have helped create a hot market for weather-related disaster stories. 17________________
This newsier approach to weather, with its focus on weather events to help boost ratings, means certain
kinds of weather get overblown while less telegenic but no less significant weather is overlooked. Take
heat, for example. Eight out of the ten warmest years on record occurred in the nineteen-nineties, the
two others in the eighties. If the planet continues to warm at the present rate, some climatologists
predict an increase in global surface temperatures of between 2.5 and 6 degrees by the year 2100. 18________________
This is an old complaint - that ratings - driven, storm-of- the-century-style coverage makes it harder to
get accurate information about the weather - and it has been heard here in New York at least as far
back as when the over-hyped Hurricane Gloria struck in 1985. 19________________
However grateful we may be for this lack of danger, through war and bloodshed, it creates a
psychological need for some kind of real-life drama on our TV screens. So, when a big storm comes
along, you can almost feel the nation girding its loins as people gratefully turn their attention away
from “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” A
But heat doesn’t do particularly well on television. You can track down a blizzard on Doppler radar as
it moves up a map of the East coast, but you can’t watch heat. And drought, as Robert Henson, a writer
at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the author of a book about TV weather-
casting, told me recently, “is the ultimate non-event. You usually hear about drought only when some
rain event comes along to end it.” Page 9 of 18 B
From 1989 to 1995, according to the Centre for Media and Public Affairs, weather coverage wasn’t
among the top-ten topics on the nightly network news. In 1996, it was eighth, and in 1998 it was fourth
- more than eleven hundred weather-related stories ran altogether. C
For the previous three weeks, unreasonably balmy conditions had been the topic of small talk every-
where: Why was it so warm? Wasn’t it weird that there was no snow? Was it another sign of global
warming? Then, wouldn't you know, the first big storm of the season comes along, and the National
Weather Service, the federal government’s agency, doesn’t put out an advisory until ten o’clock the
night before. (The N.W.S. had been on the network news just a week earlier, announcing new weather
super computers, which are supposed to make forecasts even more accurate.) D
Opinions concerning the causes of global warming remain highly contentious. But many climatologists
now believe that rising temperatures produce more extreme weather - not just more frequent heatwaves
and droughts but also more storms and floods. E
But it’s not only the broadcasters’ doing: the public’s fascination with wild weather is apparently
inexhaustible. We live in peaceful, prosperous times, when the only tangible external threat to home and hearth is weather. F
This is not so much a new market, though, as a revival of one of the oldest genres in publishing.
This increased in Mather’s 1684 book "Remarkable Providences", which includes several chapters on
extreme weather around New England and was one of the early thrillers of the New World. G
In some respects, these broadcasts seem more like news than like “weather” in the traditional sense.
Weather “events” are hyped, covered, and analysed, just like politics and sports. H
I turned on the Weather Channel, as I always do for big storms. The forecast may have been
inadequate, but the live coverage was superb. In New York City, the Weather Channel was out in
force, filming cars driving through slushy puddles and reporters sticking rulers into the snow in Central
Park. I settled in for a little voyeuristic weather-watching, an experience that has become a condition of modern life.
Your answers: (0.2/ea) 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
Part 4. Read the passage and do the task that follows. Henry Moore (1898-1986)
The British sculptor Henry Moore was a leading figure
in the 20th-century art world
Henry Moore was born in Castleford, a small town near Leeds in the north of England. He was the
seventh child of Raymond Moore and his wife Mary Baker. He studied at Castleford Grammar School
from 1909 to 1915, where his early interest in art was encouraged by his teacher Alice Gostick. After
leaving school, Moore hoped to become a sculptor, but instead he complied with his father’s wish that
he train as a schoolteacher. He had to abandon his training in 1917 when he was sent to France to fight in the First World War.
After the war, Moore enrolled at the Leeds School of Art, where he studied for two years. In his first Page 10 of 18
year, he spent most of his time drawing. Although he wanted to study sculpture, no teacher was
appointed until his second year. At the end of that year, he passed the sculpture examination and was
awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. In September 1921, he moved to
London and began three years of advanced study in sculpture.
Alongside the instruction he received at the Royal College, Moore visited many of the London
museums, particularly the British Museum, which had a wide-ranging collection of ancient sculpture.
During these visits, he discovered the power and beauty of ancient Egyptian and African sculpture. As
he became increasingly interested in these ‘primitive’ forms of art, he turned away from European sculptural traditions.
After graduating, Moore spent the first six months of 1925 travelling in France. When he visited the
Trocadero Museum in Paris, he was impressed by a cast of a Mayan sculpture of the rain spirit. It was
a male reclining figure with its knees drawn up together, and its head at a right angle to its body.
Moore became fascinated with this stone sculpture, which he thought had a power and originality that
no other stone sculpture possessed. He himself started carving a variety of subjects in stone, including
depictions of reclining women, mother-and-child groups, and masks.
Moore’s exceptional talent soon gained recognition, and in 1926 he started work as a sculpture
instructor at the Royal College. In 1933, he became a member of a group of young artists called Unit
One. The aim of the group was to convince the English public of the merits of the emerging
international movement in modem art and architecture.
Around this time, Moore moved away from the human figure to experiment with abstract shapes. In
1931, he held an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. His work was enthusiastically
welcomed by fellow sculptors, but the reviews in the press were extremely negative and turned Moore
into a notorious figure. There were calls for his resignation from the Royal College, and the following
year, when his contract expired, he left to start a sculpture department at the Chelsea School of Art in London.
Throughout the 1930s, Moore did not show any inclination to please the British public. He became
interested in the paintings of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, whose work inspired him to distort the
human body in a radical way. At times, he seemed to abandon the human figure altogether. The pages
of his sketchbooks from this period show his ideas for abstract sculptures that bore little resemblance to the human form.
In 1940, during the Second World War, Moore stopped teaching at the Chelsea School and moved to a
farmhouse about 20 miles north of London. A shortage of materials forced him to focus on drawing.
He did numerous small sketches of Londoners, later turning these ideas into large coloured drawings in
his studio. In 1942, he returned to Castleford to make a series of sketches of the miners who worked there.
In 1944, Harlow, a town near London, offered Moore a commission for a sculpture depicting a family.
The resulting work signifies a dramatic change in Moore’s style, away from the experimentation of the
1930s towards a more natural and humanistic subject matter. He did dozens of studies in clay for the
sculpture, and these were cast in bronze and issued in editions of seven to nine copies each. In this
way, Moore’s work became available to collectors all over the world. The boost to his income enabled
him to take on ambitious projects and start working on the scale he felt his sculpture demanded.
Critics who had begun to think that Moore had become less revolutionary were proven wrong by the
appearance, in 1950, of the first of Moore’s series of standing figures in bronze, with their harsh and
angular pierced forms and distinct impression of menace. Moore also varied his subject matter in the
1950s with such works as Warrior with Shield and Falling Warrior. These were rare examples of
Moore’s use of the male figure and owe something to his visit to Greece in 1951, when he had the
opportunity to study ancient works of art.
In his final years, Moore created the Henry Moore Foundation to promote art appreciation and to
display his work. Moore was the first modern English sculptor to achieve international critical acclaim
and he is still regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. Page 11 of 18
Questions 20-26. Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN to the following statements referring to
the information given in Reading Passage.
20. On leaving school, Moore did what his father wanted him to do.
21. Moore began studying sculpture in his first term at the Leeds School of Art.
22. When Moore started at the Royal College of Art, its reputation for teaching sculpture was excellent.
23. Moore became aware of ancient sculpture as a result of visiting London museums.
24. The Trocadero Museum’s Mayan sculpture attracted a lot of public interest.
25. Moore thought the Mayan sculpture was similar in certain respects to other stone sculptures.
26.The artists who belonged to Unit One wanted to make modern art and architecture more popular
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.
Questions 27-32, complete the notes below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Moore’s career as an artist 1930s
• Moore’s exhibition at the Leicester Galleries is criticised by the press
• Moore is urged to offer his 27 __________ and leave the Royal College 1940s
• Moore turns to drawing because 28__________ for sculpting are not readily available
• While visiting his hometown. Moore does some drawings of 29__________
• Moore is employed to produce a sculpture of a 30 __________
• 31__________ start to buy Moore's work
• Moore’s increased 32__________makes it possible for him to do more ambitious sculptures 1950s
• Moore's series of bronze figures marks a further change in his style
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Page 12 of 18
Part 5. The passage below consists of six people marked A, B, C, D, E and F. For questions 33-48,
read the passage and choose from the list of people (A-F) on the right below. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Note: When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order Who dislikes the idea of relaxing? 33 ... helped a friend in difficulty? 34 ... appreciated the simple life? 35 ....
received understanding from family members? 36 ...
failed to take the necessary precautions? 37 ... A Bill Bryson
pretended to be enjoying things? 38 ... enjoyed getting some exercise? 39 ... B Naim Attallah
was in a place with facilities that were not 40 ... C Ines dela Fresange appreciated?
found activities were dependent on the weather? D Quentin Crisp 41 ... E Maureen Lipman
went on holiday at a time that was not the best? 42 ...
was obliged to do something dangerous? 43 .... F Malcolm McLaren were forced into the holiday? 44 ... 45 ... 46 ....
had a parent whose feelings about the place were 47 ... similar?
was a victim of unfriendly animals? 48 ....
Best of Times, Worst of Times Bill Bryson Travel writer
The happiest holiday I ever had was on Lundy Island with my wife and three children. It is run by the
Landmark Trust, and unspoilt. There are no towns or shops and nothing to do but go for invigorating
walks and look for puffins. The island generates its own electricity which is turned off at 10 o’clock at
night. Having tucked the children up in lied, we would build a roaring fire in our little cottage and read
by the firelight. It was perfect. Naim Attallah Publisher
I hardly ever take holidays but fourteen years ago I was pressurised into going to the Costa Smeralda
with my wife and son. I enjoyed the first day: I hired a boat, sat in the sun for about twenty minutes
and had tea on the veranda. By the second the novelty of doing nothing had worn off. I love the bustle
of towns and my excitement comes from working. I can't stand people who appear lazy. All I could see
were people sitting and frying in the sun. 1 got very agitated: the holiday was turning into a nightmare
and we went home immediately. My wife and son were not upset because they know my nature. Ines de la Fresange Model
When I was seven I was sent to boarding school in England to learn English during the summer
holidays. The school was supposed to be a paradise for children. There was a tennis court, a swimming
pool and horses, but I hated tennis, thought it was too cold to swim and was afraid of horses. The
school was filled with foreigners learning English, but I was very shy and didn't like the other children.
I cried all the time and wrote long letters to my grandmother saying I was lonely. As I was quite tiny,
my family decided that my nanny should stay in a nearby hotel for the month I was at school. I was
allowed to see her on Sundays when she took me to her hotel which was full of old people who danced at teatime. Page 13 of 18
I remember crying and crying on Sunday evenings when I had to catch the bus back. It was a
nightmare for a child, but I was sent back several years running because my family was obsessed with my learning English. Quentin Crisp Writer
All my childhood holidays were nightmares. My family had a cottage near Hastings on the south coast
where we went year after year, and it was absolute hell. I went for the whole summer with my mother
and brothers and sisters. My father came down for two weeks: he hated everything. It was no holiday
for my mother. She had to cut sandwiches for us all and carry them to the beach. There were wasps
everywhere and sand in everything. I can't understand why we didn't eat at home and then go and sit
on the beach. I pretended I loved the seaside because I wanted to be like other people, but I never
succeeded. I got on with my brothers and sisters in a half-hearted way, but they teased me
unmercifully. We went on jolly outings when it wasn't raining I'm no good at sport and I can't ride a
bike. When I was eleven the cottage was sold and we stopped going, which was a great relief to me. Maureen Lipman Actress
This year my husband Jack and I went skiing in Switzerland with the actress Julia McKenzie and her
husband Gerry. Although the holiday was a laugh, the skiing part was a nightmare. It probably wasn't
the best time to learn: we clock up about two hundred years between us. It was also April and there
wasn't much snow, just lots of hardpacked ice. Jack, who has got his hip and his head screwed on,
refused to go near the slopes; Gerry could ski a bit and went into the big boys' class, Julia and I started
on the nursery slopes. I could snow plough, but Julia kept skiing into a fence, I had to pick her up,
which is not easy when you're over forty and have big wooden things on your feet. After she had fallen
several times, Julia gave up and headed for the restaurant I was more foolhardy, and went up the
mountain with the rest of the class. Our instructor told us to ski down. After a couple of zig-zags my
heart was pounding. I took off my skis and said. “I’m walking." It took me an hour and a half to get
down. I reached a farm and was attacked by three dogs. By the time someone came to call them off, I
was terrified and weeping. When I reached the bottom I could hardly speak. Malcolm McLaren Record Producer
While I was an art student I decided to travel to Libya and halfway there I realised I'd forgotten to have
the jabs. I was courting Vivienne Westwood at the time and she joined me in Marseilles. We slept in a
tent on the beach, and one morning we woke up to discover we were floating in the middle of the
ocean. We found a sympathetic baker who let us dry out by his ovens, but we lost everything - it had
all floated away. We had no money, and I thieved fruit and sardines from the local market so we could
eat. There was a bullring in Marseilles and if you stayed in the ring with the bull for a certain length of
time you got fifty francs. I did it because we were desperate, but I was terrified.
Your answers: (0.1/ea) 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.
SECTION 4: WRITING (4.5 points)
Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarise it. Your summary should
be between 100 and 120 words long. (1 point)
Is Honesty The Best Policy? Page 14 of 18
Radical honesty therapy, as it is known in the US, is the latest thing to be held up as the key to
happiness and success. It involves telling the truth all the time, with no exceptions for hurt feelings.
But this is not as easy as it may sound. Altruistic lies, rather than the conniving, self-aggrandising
variety, are an essential part of polite society.
‘We all lie like mad. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress,’ says Brad Blanton,
psychotherapist and founder of the Centre for Radical Honesty. He has become a household name in
the US, where he spreads his message via day-time television talk shows. He certainly has his work cut
out for him. In a recent survey of Americans, 93 per cent confessed to lying ‘regularly and habitually’
in the workplace. Dr Blanton is typically blunt about the consequences of being deceitful. ‘Lying kills people,’ he says.
Dr Blanton is adamant that minor inconveniences are nothing at all compared with the huge benefits of
truth telling. ‘Telling the truth, especially after hiding it for a long time, takes guts. It isn’t easy. But it
is better than the alternative.’ that, he believes, is the stress of living ‘in the prison of the mind,’ which
results in depression and ill health.
‘Your body stays tied up in knots and is susceptible to illness,’ he says. ‘Allergies, high blood pressure
and insomnia are all made worse by lying. Good relationship skills, parenting skills and management
skills are also dependent on telling the truth.
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Part 2. The bar chart below shows the top ten countries for the production and consumption of
electricity in 2014. (1.5 point)
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. Page 15 of 18 Electricity 10 Korea Rep. 449.5 485.1 9 Germany 582.5 526.6 8 Brazil 455.8 530.7 7 France 462.9 561.2 Consumption 6 Canada 499.9 618.9 (billion KW) Production 5 India 698.8 871 (billion KW) 4 Japan 856.7 936.2 3 Russia 1038 1057 2 United States 3866 4099 1 China 5322 5398 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000
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Part 3. Write an essay of 300 words on the following topic: (1.5 point)
It is high time for not only governments but also individuals to take serious actions to protect
the global environment as natural disasters are threatening to put an end to our lives. In what way do
you think they will have to do? Why? Support your arguments with examples.
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