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Đề Thi Khảo Sát Chất Lượng Cuối Năm Năm Học 2021-2022 Môn Thi Tiếng Anh 11 - Trường Thpt Chuyên Bắc Ninh Tổ Tiếng Anh

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TRƯỜNG THPT CHUYÊN BẮC NINH

TỔ TIẾNG ANH

(Đề thi gồm có 16 trang)

ĐỀ THI KHẢO SÁT CHẤT LƯỢNG CUỐI NĂM

NĂM HỌC 2021-2022

Môn thi: Tiếng Anh 11

Ngày thi: 29/4/2022

Thời gian: 180 phút , không kể thời gian giao đề

HỌ VÀ TÊN/LỚP Giám thị 1 Giám thị 2 Điểm bài thi

Họ tên: Họ tên: Bằng số:

Chữ ký: Chữ ký: Bằng chữ:

* Ghi chú: - Đề thi gồm 16 trang. Thí sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề thi.

- Thí sinh không được sử dụng từ điển. Giám thị coi thi không giải thích gì thêm.

A. LISTENING (50 points):

HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU

 Bài nghe gồm 4 phần; mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 05 giây; mở đầu và kết thúc

mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu. Thí sinh có 20 giây để đọc mỗi phần câu hỏi.

 Mở đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 03 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu

nhạc kết thúc bài nghe.

 Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe

Part 1: You will hear two sports commentators called Heidi Stokes and Rob Aslett taking part in a

discussion on the subject of gyms. For questions 1-5, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) which

fits best according to what you hear. (10pts)

1. What do Rob and Heidi think about government proposals regarding the problem of obesity?

A. They over-emphasize the role of dietary factors.

B. They represent a radical solution that must be worth trying.

C. They over-estimate the extent to which the fitness industry can help.

D. They are attempting to accommodate too many varied perspectives.

2. Heidi agrees with the suggestion that regular gym attendance

A. can discourage people from keeping fit in other ways.

B. may lead to obsessive behaviour in some cases.

C. generally forms the basis of a healthy lifestyle.

D. could be harder to keep up in rural areas.

3. When asked about motivation, Rob suggests that many gym clients lose interest

A. if they don’t get good value for money.

B. if they don’t find it enjoyable on a social level.

C. if they don’t make it part of a wider fitness regime.

D. if they don’t perceive real gains in personal fitness.

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4. What does Heidi suggest about memership levels in gyms?

A. The best ones restrict access at peak times.

B. Most recruit more people than they cope with.

C. It is impossible to predict demand with any accuracy.

D. Over-recruitment can be counter-productive in the long run.

5. Rob thinks the key to successful gym markeing lies in

A. remaining true to the core values of fitness and strength.

B. appealing to a wide cross-section of the population.

C. joining forces with providers of the related activities.

D. specialising in the needs of certain key groups.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 2: For questions 1-5, you will hear a radio interview with the gardening experts Jed and Helena

Stone. 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. (10 pts)

1. Helena feels amused that she and Jed have a name people tend to remember.

2. Jed would appreciate it were he in public places without being recognised.

3. When Helena started her work on The Travel Show, she felt obliged 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 3. You will listen to a piece of news and answer each of the following questions with NO MORE

THAN 5 WORDS. Write your answers in the space provided (10 pts)

1. What could the loss of various rainforest flora and fauna result in?

________________________________________________________________________________

2. What are the Madagascar rosy periwinkle’s two anti-tumor drugs used to fight?

________________________________________________________________________________

3. Regarding conflicts over palm oil, what did the forces of US-backed security get involve in during

2014?

________________________________________________________________________________

4. In other regions of the world, what are decimated for the purpose of commercial deforestation and

razing practice?

________________________________________________________________________________

5. What is the Amazon rainforest well-known for?

________________________________________________________________________________

Part 4. Listen to the news and fill in the following blank with a suitable phrase. Write NO MORE

THAN THREE WORDS in each blank. (20 pts)

Winding its way through the countryside of China, The Great Wall, a 13,000 mile dragon of earth and

stone has a long and ____________________(1) history.

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During the regime of Chunqiu ,with a view to preventing ____________________(2)from the North,

individual feudal states attempted to construct the Great Wall in the form of a plethora of wall from

____________________(3)

To defend the mountains in the north against Mongol, Turkish, and Xiongnu invasions, the Emperor Qin

Shi Huang expanded the small walls, which are built by his predecessors, by way of connecting some and

____________________(4) others.

On the way to complete the structures’ construction, it was countless ____________________(5)who are

unwilling for the task, that were summoned.

Likewise, during hundreds of thousands of builders recorded during the Qin Dynasty, several peasants

were ____________________(6) while others were criminals serving out sentences.

After the Ming dynasty took over in 1368, they were about to ____________________(7)the wall with

the usage bricks and stones collected from local kilns.

____________________(8) was let through small openings along the wall, while larger ones enabled

stones to drop although even this new and modified wall was not enough.

Without regular reinforcement, the wall fell into disrepair, while brick and stone were

____________________(9) for building materials.

As one of the largest man-made structures on Earth, it was granted UNESCO World Heritage Status in

1987.

Despite the Wall’s limited visibility from the moon, it's the Earth we should be studying it from because

new sections are still discovered every few years, ____________________(10) from the main structure

and expanding this remarkable complex to human achievement.

Your answers:

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

PART B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (30 points)

Part 1.

Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) to complete each of the following sentences.

(10 points)

1. After the earthquake, the entrance hall was turned into a _________ casualty ward.

A. mainstay B. piecework C. makeshift D. wayside

2. My uncle pulled a few _________ and got me a job in the company where he works.

A. ropes B. threads C. strings D. chords

3. Nobody wanted to tell Richard he wasn’t invited, but I drew the short _________ so I had to do it.

A. straw B. stick C. pole D. rod

4. She's such a ______ of strength that everyone relies on her in a crisis.

A. tower B. pillar C. post D. support

5. After their release, the hostages described the_________ they had been through.

A epic B ordeal C burden D quest

6. After his long illness, the old man appeared so thin and ______ that a gust of wind might have blown

him away.

A. flimsy B. faint C. withered D. frail

7. I don’t believe for a moment that if you play that record backwards, you’ll hear a ________ message

in the background.

A. subsiding B. sublingual C. subliminal D. telepathic

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8. Every room in the hotel was characterized by shabby furniture and ________ lighting.

A. morose B. nagative C. glum D. sullen

9. You could tell that she wasn't happy about the news by the way she _______ her face in disapproval.

A. came on B. brought round C. settled for D. screwed up

10. You won’t get away with this!’ the old woman ________ angrily.

A chirped B hooted C screeched D croaked

Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. The passage below contains 5 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and correct them. (5 points)

Line

Some experts think that children nowadays are missing out the benefits that helping in the house

can bring. It is thought that doing house chores can nurture a caring and more considerate attitude

among young people, as they are learning to contribute directly to home life. Asking children to

help on a regular basic encourages a sense of responsibility. If the task is not done, another

members of the family will suffer. If the task is appreciated by members of the family, however,

the child will experience a sense of satisfaction gained from doing a job well. Additionally,

children benefit from physical activities, and often like to be outside, so car washing and

gardening can be enjoyable. Some children like to help their parents directly and learn by

watching them do jobs around the house. This also means parents get to spend qualified time with

their children.

Pessimists may say that children are too involved in computers and techno gadgets to find helping

in the house remotely like fun. This may be true in some cases, but not if children are brought up

with the feeling that they have a valuable role to play in family life. This not only emphasises the

importance of family unity, but also promotes an increased feeling of self-worth and confidence

which come through having even a small amount of responsibility.

Your answers

Line Mistake Correction

Part 3. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. Write your

answers in the space provided. (5 points)

1. You shouldn't buy that car. I know the engine is fine, but most of the bodywork has been eaten ___ by

rust.

2.The ceiling caved ___ and several people were trapped.

3.They said ___ the news that the price of petrol is going up again.

4. The football player got back ______ his detractors by scoring a hat trick in his next game.

5. I was so sick on the ferry that I threw _____.

Your answers

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals in brackets to form a word that fits in

the gap. (10 points)

Social networking is here to stay and (1. ACT) __________ between people all over the world has never

been (2. EASE) __________. We can share our lives with our network friends who can help us solve

problems or offer advice. Although these sites can act as a kind of group therapy session with people who

seem to care and who will listen, there is little or no (3. CENSOR) __________, so cyber-bullying is a

growing problem. Perhaps there need to be more (4. CONSTRAIN) __________ on what people are

allowed to say. Nevertheless, social networking sites can be a great way to find people with shared

interests and they can also be very (5. INFORM) __________ if used wisely. For many people, it offers

them a feeling of (6. ESCAPE) __________ from the real world. Furthermore it gives them a chance to

chat about anything and everything, often quite (7. MEAN) __________, without fear of being rejected

by others. Whatever the drivers, it has become a (8. COMPEL) __________ activity for many, so it is

hardly surprising that some people feel a sense of (9. CONNECT) __________ if they are unable to get

online for any period of time. And when they do get back online after a few hours of downtime, there is

an (10. MISTAKE) __________ feeling of relief at being a part of the world once more.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART C. READING (60 points)

Part 1. Choose the option A, B, C, or D that best fits each blank in the following passage. (10

points)

The knowledge and eloquence that people gain through travelling is usually perceived as the best

fulfillment in life. It is the inquisitive human nature that (1) _________ people to seek thrilling

experiences and to set out on an exploration trip. Those who travel frequently and to (2) ________ places

benefit from establishing new relationships and (3) ________ a better knowledge about other cultures

and lifestyles. However, there is a (4) _______ of truth in the assumption that people are prone to (5)

__________ clichés and unfounded prejudices about other nations and their characteristics. Sometimes, it

is only the first-hand encounter that can help change the approach towards the so-called “inferior

communities”. This direct contact with different civilization enables travelers to (6) _______ their

baseless assumption and get acquainted with the real concept of life in all four corners of the globe. (7)

________ question, travelling (8) ________ friendship and makes it easier for many individuals to

acknowledge the true value of different traditions and customs. Yet, it does not always mean enjoyment.

It may also (9) _______ coming close with the atrocities of real existence as well as becoming aware of

the challenges and hardships that other people have to struggle with. Hence, a true voyage is the one with

a good deal of experience to (10) ________ about, very often combined with exposure to abhorrent

sights and incredible ordeals. The learning to be complete, thus, requires an ability to observe and

analyze the surroundings, both their glamour and brutality.

1. A. impels B. involves C. entails D. pursue

2. A. reverse B. averse C. diverse D. converse

3. A. acquiring B. educating C. learning D. exacting

4. A. speck B. grain C. scrap D. tip

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5. A. persevering B. persisting C. indulging D. cherishing

6. A. drop B. cease C. fail D. quit

7. A. Apart B. Beyond C. Unfailing D. Beneath

8. A. incites B. affords C. elicits D. facilitates

9. A. involve B. derive C. consist D. enclose

10. A. commemorate B. resemble C. reminisce D. remind

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word that best fits each space. Use only one word in

each space. (15 points)

Over the last century the world has become increasingly smaller. Not geographically, of course,

but in the (1)___________ that media, technology and the opening of borders has enabled the world’s

citizens to view, share and gain access to a much wider range of cultures, societies and world views. In

this (2)___________ pot that the world has become, today’s child is privy (3)___________ facets of the

human experience that his immediate predecessors had no inkling even existed. It (4)_____________ to

reason that in order to absorb, configure and finally form opinions about this information-laden planet,

children must be supplied with certain tools. (5)______ in this list of ‘tools’ are: education, social skills,

cultural awareness and the acquisition of languages, the most important of these being the latter. Until

recently, a child who had the ability to speak more than one language would have been considered a very

(6)_____________ entity. This one-language phenomenon could be attributed to a combination of

factors. One of them is that the monolingual environment in which a child was raised played a strong

role, (7)____________ did the limited, biased education of the past. With regard to immigrants, the sad

fact was that non-native parents tended to withhold the teaching of the mother tongue so that the child

would acquire the ‘more prestigious’ language of the adopted country. Nowadays, the situation has

(8)___________ an almost complete reversal. In the majority of North American and European

countries, most children are given the opportunity to learn a second or even a third language. Children

acquire these foreign languages through various and diverse means. In many countries, learning a foreign

language is a compulsory subject in the state school (9)_____________. Other children rely on language

schools or private tuition to achieve their goal. In other instances, children are (10)___________ to

bilingual parents, who, if they so desire, may teach the children two languages.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Read the

following passage

and mark the

letter

A, B, C, or D on your

answer sheet

indicate

the

correct answer

each

of the

questions.

(10 points)

Majority Rule & Minority Rights

While it is correct that the American system of government allows for some popular input -there

are relatively free and fair elections, for example-it is not technically a direct democracy. From the Greek

words meaning "rule by the people," the term democracy does not apply, in its strictest sense, to any

modern system of national government. This is because no truly direct democracy could ever work

efficiently in a society of more than a few thousand people. The American form of government can be

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classified as a republic, or a representative democracy. This system was designed to avoid certain

features of other democratic models that the American founders saw as dangerous flaws.

One central issue concerned the powers that majorities and minorities are afforded. In a

democracy, all citizens take part in the political process by voting, at least that is the ideal. In a direct

democracy, issues are decided not by elected representatives of the voters but by the voters themselves.

The majority of the voters, often defined as half plus one, could decide to raise taxes, to declare war, or

even to change a country's basic constitution. The founders of the American nation recognized,

however, that a majority could thereby take important rights away from the minority group.

Imagine a direct democracy in which, say, thirty percent of the voters were very tall. A question comes

up for a vote: "Since tall people have interests so different from those of the rest of society, should they

be prevented from voting in public elections?" If a strong anti-tall feeling happened to be running

through society at that time, the non-tall seventy percent could vote "yes" and stop the tall thirty percent

from ever again peacefully changing public policy. Nothing in the system would prevent the non-tall

from keeping their hold on power indefinitely, even if population changes eventually placed tall people

in the majority. Since tall people could not vote, it would not, officially matter how many of them there

were. As you might guess, this situation, which started out as an exercise in direct democracy, would

probably end in a revolution.

The framers of the US system, notably Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, knew that such a

"tyranny of the majority" could threaten democratic systems, and they felt obliged to protect against it.

In the 200-some years since the ratification of the Constitution, this protection has occasionally proved

inadequate, but it remains nonetheless. The two fought very hard to include a Bill of Rights in the

Constitution in order to protect the rights of minorities. For instance, the First Amendment grants the

right to speak freely and to petition the government. The government is bound by the Constitution to

allow such expression, and it is not within the government's power to change it without the approval of

three-fourths of the states. Even if the majority dislikes what a certain minority asks for, the minority's

rights are protected by a law outside the control of a temporary majority. Madison was adamant that such

limitations be in place because, as he saw it, equality in political rights should not depend on equality in

wealth or social standing. Madison was correct to see that a lower economic status could equal lower

political rights if limitations were not clearly set out and protected in a document beyond the reach of the

majority.

During and after the War of Independence, the thirteen colonies formed a weak central

government under the Articles of Confederation. Each state had its own system of government, many of

which included legislatures that were highly pliable in the hands of strong majorities. With no equally

powerful branch of government to force a broader view, these legislatures were essentially free to shape

the law to the current purposes of such majorities. They had little reason to pay attention to minority

viewpoints, because minorities do not win elections. A series of tracts called The Federalist, written in

large part by Madison and Alexander Hamilton, called for a remedy in the form of a national system of

checks and balances. Their ideas prevailed for the most part and were written into the new US

Constitution, which created restraints on any over-ambitious majority trying to hijack the system. The

judicial branch, for example, helps restrict the power of the legislative branch, as when the Supreme

Court rules that a law passed by a majority in the Congress is unconstitutional. In this way, even if the

majority of the day tries to overturn the laws that protect minorities, the judicial branch can step in with a

judgment based on a stable, hard-to-change statement of larger principles.

1. Which of the following can be inferred about direct democracy from paragraph 1?

A. It helps keep elections fair. B. It is the foundation of all republics.

C. In some situations, it might work. D. So far, no society has tried it.

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2. The word afforded in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. spent B. lent C. divided D. given

3. Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in paragraph 2?

Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

A. The founders knew that majorities might force minority groups to do most of the work.

B. The founders knew that majorities could use direct democracy to harm minorities.

C. The founders recognized a conflict between majority rule and democratic principles.

D. The founders recognized that the majority's point of view is not always correct.

4. The author mentions the conflict between a tall minority and a non-tall majority in order to _______.

A. illustrate how a majority might oppress a minority

B. show how a minority might protect its rights

C. note how a society might be destroyed by prejudice

D. provide an example of how direct democracy leads to revolutions

5. The word tyranny in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. basic rights B. high percentage C. excessive control D.

social change

6. The word it in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

A. the US system B. the tyranny of the majority

C. the democratic system D. the interests of short people

7. Which of the following is protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution?

A. The Bill of Rights B. Freedom to criticize the government

C. Representative democracy D. The stability of the Constitution

8. The word pliable in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.

A. effective B. powerful C. changeable D. accessible

9. According to paragraph 4, which of the following is true about the Supreme Court?

A. It is part of the judicial branch. B. It is part of the legislative branch.

C. It opposes majority rule. D. It was established by The Federalist.

10. Paragraph 4 states that, to effectively protect the rights of minorities, a constitution should do all of

the following EXCEPT

A. be easy to manipulate B. be hard to change

C. include a system of checks and balances D. restrain the power of the majority

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)

Questions 1 – 6. The reading passage has six sections, A - F. Choose the correct heading for each

section from the list of headings below.

List of Headings

i. Tough words that have to be said

ii. Passion leads to great coffee

iii. Getting the message out

iv. Preparing young people for employment

v. Too much emotion

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vi. A harder time ahead

vii. Back to school

viii. Results are not enough

ix. Preparing for change

Your answers

1. Section A: _______ 2. Section B: _______ 3. Section C: _______

4. Section D: _______ 5. Section E: _______ 6. Section F: _______

Should we recalibrate what we think of as success?

'High Mistress' Clarissa Farr believes that a rounded education and realistic expectations

are as important as top exam grades for her pupils at St Paul's.

'There's far too much passion everywhere these days; we're drowning in it,' observes Clarissa Farr, the

head of the elite private St Paul's School for Girls in west London, with a note of dry humour. She is

referring, however, not to the age-old problem of broiling teenage hormones, but the modern

phenomenon of shamefully over-excitable adults.

A. 'We were interviewing various companies about designing a new prospectus, and they were all

declaring how passionate they were,' she elucidates. Cafes put signs up announcing their passion for

serving coffee or making sandwiches - and it's a reflection of how overhyped the world has become. Our

society has been in thrall to the max; maximum working, maximum earning, maximum reaction, and the

extreme language is a symptom of that. 'An important part of my role is to teach intelligent restraint, to

turn the temperature down and encourage my girls to take a step back and engage in thought rather than

simply adding their voices to the confusion.'

B. Of late, Miss Farr has been sharing her intelligent thoughts with us all. She has written to newspapers

to give her opinions on the character-building importance of extra-curricular challenges. She has made

headlines with the revelation that she was staging parenting classes at her school, which counts Rachel

Weisz, the actress; Alexandra Shulman, the editor-in-chief of Vogue; Jennifer Saunders, the comedian;

Stephanie Flanders, the BBC economics editor; and Carol Thatcher, the journalist among its alumnae -

the Old Paulinas.

C. Right now, Miss Farr, officially known-as the High Mistress, is calmly saying the unsayable; namely

that even young people who attend top-flight places of learning such as hers will struggle to find

employment. 'We need to prepare young people for the world as it is now, not as we would wish it to be,'

she says crisply. 'This generation I'm looking at now isn't going to be chasing super-salaries. A lot are

going to struggle to get employment - at present, the best-educated graduates are coming out of

university without jobs'. Cue gasps of anguish from pushy parents everywhere, but Miss Farr, 54, tall and

impeccably dressed, cuts an imposing figure who brooks no argument. She commands respect within the

school walls and far beyond; when she speaks, educationalists listen. Her school's liberal ethos -

embodied in the absence of uniform - is balanced by its mission to 'educate the prodigiously gifted.' Miss

Farr is unabashed by this elitist reputation, but believes that a rounded education instils more than a

rigorous work ethic.

D. Today's teenagers will need more than just a series of top exam grades if they are to shine.

Resourcefulness, confidence and a flexible mindset will be just as - perhaps even more - important. 'We

need to recalibrate what we think of as success. What will success look like in the future? Most probably

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not a job for life, and that process of altering perspective begins at school.'

Recalibration doesn't come cheap; after shelling out fees of £18,000 a year, parents could be forgiven for

assuming that their daughters will be able to pick and choose their own career paths.

Given the current pressure on leading universities to admit more students from the state sector, Old

Paulinas might even find the odds are, for the first time in the school's 108-year history, stacked against

them. But Miss Farr refuses to complain at what is perceived by other independent head teachers as a

blatant unfairness.

E. 'When our girls go to interview for university places, they're given a tough time, and quite rightly so,

she says. 'They've had access to excellent teaching and have had the opportunity to hear extraordinary

speakers from a whole range of professions. This is a high-octane intellectual environment, and they

should have to work harder to prove themselves.' Miss Farr, who is married to John Goodbody, the sports

journalist, has two children: a 16-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son, both of whom are at single sex

independent schools. As a parent, she can empathize with other parents' concerns. 'A school like this can

have a reputation for being detached and stand-offish,’ she says. 'But we see ourselves as working

alongside parents in bringing up their girls. What have been billed in the press as "parenting classes" are

more a sort of seminar, a forum where parents can meet and share experiences?'

F. Miss Farr has bluntly pointed out to high-flying professional parents who work long hours and often

travel abroad that they are ‘deceiving themselves if they think they can bring up children by iPhone’. It's

not necessarily the message today's hard-pressed parents want to hear, but it is, avers Miss Farr, the

message they need to hear. Subjects under discussion thus far have included the Internet, discipline and,

most recently, how to support girls through the stressful exam period. Needless to say, the high-achieving

girls of St Paul's won't turn a hair at the plan by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, to let

universities preside over the setting of significantly tougher A-levels. Some state schools, however, will

find it a tough readjustment. But Miss Farr - disingenuously, perhaps - claims that there is no gulf

between the two sectors. 'I don't see a divide; the independent sector is another component within a

mosaic of provision that includes faith schools, academies and the maintained sector, she says. 'In this

school, we have a very particular purpose: to look after the needs of very academically gifted girls. That's

our contribution, and through our bursary and outreach work, we are trying to be as accessible as we can

to any girls who would benefit. ' But education isn't just about the students; effective learning begins with

good teaching, but the pressures of the job mean that as in the state sector,’ the independent sector is facing

something of a leadership crisis. 'There are not enough people wanting to go into the top job; nobody

wants to be the one held responsible,' says Miss Farr. 'A generation of deputy heads needs to be

encouraged to stand up and become the point beyond which the buck can't be passed.' Much of the

mistrust felt by those in school management stems from the way education is invariably treated as a

political football. 'I feel very strongly that education needs to stand outside political motivations; one of

the problems we face is that as every new government comes to power, we are forced to swing between

policies.'

'We need a slow-burn, evolutionary strategy that will serve us for the long haul. At the moment, there's a

lot of integrated thinking, which is encouraging, as it fosters a bespoke rather than a one-size-fits-all

approach to providing education.' At St Paul's School for Girls, where learning is tailored to the

proverbial crème de la crème, Miss Farr is in her element and keen to proselytize to those considering

education as a career. 'It's up to schools to rebalance people's thinking and reset the co-ordinates for a

different kind of future. Shaping young people's values is an important, exciting role.'

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(adapted from www.telegraph.co.uk)

Questions 7-10. Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?

Write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

7. Miss Farr's ideas are only relevant for parents and pupils of St Paul's School.

8. Miss Farr has an unwelcome message about the future of her pupils.

9. Miss Farr abandoned school uniform as part of the school's philosophy.

10. Miss Farr believes business success can lead to poor parenting decisions.

Your answers:

7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 5. You are going to read about the experiences and opinions of five educators’ online courses

and learning. For questions 1-10, match the information with a suitable section (A-E). The sections

may be chosen more than once. (15 pts)

ONLINE STUDY

A. Educators have known for 30 years that students perform better when given one-on-one tutoring and

mastery learning – working on a subject until it is mastered, not just until a test is scheduled. Success also

requires motivation, whether from an inner drive or from parents, mentors or peers. For years my

colleagues and I have given artificial-intelligence courses: we lectured, assigned homework and gave

everyone the same exam at the same time. Each semester just 5 to 10 per cent of students regularly

engaged in deep discussion; the rest were more passive. We felt there had to be a better way, so we

created a free online course, which was completed by only 23,000 participants of an initial ‘intake’ of

100,000. Our second scheme was more successful as we made learning happen actively. This helped us

increase motivation and keep attention from wavering, both of which led us to a much lower dropout

rate. For our class. Teachers analyzed the data generated by student participation, but an artificial-

intelligence system could perform this function and then make recommendations for what a student could

try next to improve.

B. Today students in most classrooms sit, listen and take notes while a professor lectures. Despite there

being 20 to 300 students in the room, there is little or no human interaction. Exams often offer the first

opportunity to get real information on how well the students digested the knowledge. If the exam

identifies a lack of understanding of a basic concept, the class still moves on to a more advanced concept.

Virtual tools are providing an opportunity to rethink this methodology. If a lecture is available online,

class time can be freed for discussion, peer-tutoring or professor-led exploration. If a lecture is removed

from class time and we have on-demand adaptive exercises and diagnostic, we can enter the realm of

‘blended learning’. In the blended learning reality, the professor’s role is moved up the value chain.

Rather than spending the bulk of their time lecturing, writing exams and grading them, they can interact

with their students. Rather than enforcing a sit-and-listen passivity, teachers will mentor and challenge

their students to take control of their rate of learning- the most valuable skill of all.

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C. Digital technologies have the potential to transform Indian higher education. A new model built

around massive open online courses (MOOCs) that are developed locally and combined with those

provided by top universities abroad could deliver higher education on a scale and at a quality not possible

before. India has experimented with online classes before, but their impact has been marginal. A decade

ago, the country began using the internet to distribute video and Web-based courses under a government-

funded initiative, the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. Developers created over 900

courses, focused mainly on science and engineering with about 40 hours of introduction each. With

limited interactivity and uneven quality, these courses failed to attract a large body of students. Now,

though, MOOCs have given Indian academics a better sense of how a lecture could be restructured into

short, self-contained segments with higher interactivity to engage students more effectively. This appears

to be a step in the right direction, but what is really needed is the right model to use MOOCs in an Indian

context. With a decade of experience in this space and a vibrant technology ecosystem, India will most

likely find its way very soon.

D. The rapid evolution of digital resources like video, interactive multimedia and new modes of

assessment challenges us to reimagine what we can and should do when we are face-to-face with our

students. As I develop online courses on cellular metabolism, for instance, I hypothesise that the blend of

animation and appropriate embedded assessments will communicate the intricacies of electron transfer

more effectively than that portion of my traditional lecture. After rebalancing class assignments to

include both reading and online materials, while maintaining the same overall workload, I nonetheless

gain time with my students in the classroom to discuss and critically analyse the metabolic consequences

of experimentally disrupting electron transfer. Underlying this progress is the awareness that

experimentation is the key and that we do not yet know how best to harness the enormous positive

potential of the online revolution for on-campus learning. This is why every course or module should

have an associated research component where student progress is measured.

E. Technology is transforming education for the worse and one of its dubious uses is to grade essays.

Major testing companies are using software to score written test answers as machines can work faster

than teachers. However, they cannot evaluate the imaginative use of language. Thus, students will learn

to write according to the formula that the machine responds to best at the expense of accuracy, creativity

and imagination. Worse, the teacher will abandon the important job of reading what the students write

and will be less informed about how they think. That is a loss for the quality of education. A more

worrisome use of technology is the accumulation and storage of personal, confidential data on a cloud.

Who needs all this personal information and why is it being shared? Advocates say that the goal is to

create better products for individual students. Critics believe that the information will be given or sold to

vendors, who will use it to market products to children and their parents.

In which section are the following mentioned?

a strategy that helped the learners focus 1.

the reason why more data is required to make the best use of computer-based learning 2.

digital resources leading to the standardization of student learning 3.

the necessity to adapt online courses to a specific culture 4.

a claim that information will be used to enhance product quality 5.

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personally, combining digital and traditional tools to provide a more effective learning

experience 6.

the problem of gaps in students’ knowledge not being addressed 7.

humans undertaking a task that machines could carry out 8.

the importance of students progressing at their own pace 9.

computer-based courses that attracted a disappointing number of participants 10.

PART D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should be

140 words long. (15 points)

In its most recent report, which took hundreds of scientists six years to prepare, the IPCC

(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations) states that much of the global

warming that has occurred since 1950 is “very likely” to have been directly caused by human activity.

This comes as no surprise to environmentalists, who have been exhorting us for years to open our eyes to

the gravity of the situation concerning rising sea levels and the accumulation of dangerous greenhouse

gases in the atmosphere.

The ramifications of inaction on the part of governments will be dramatic, according to the IPCC. In

the event that industrialized countries do not drastically curb their burning of coal and oil and implement

non-polluting energy solutions, the planet could experience a short-term rise in average temperatures of

up to eight degrees or more. Sea levels are predicted to rise by as much as twenty-three inches by 2100,

as opposed to the six-to nine-inch increase of the twentieth century.

Even more alarming are the worst-case scenarios that computer simulations have allowed IPCC

climatologists to scrutinize. The report warns that, if the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the

atmosphere is allowed to continue, the increase in global temperatures will lead to the melting of huge

areas of polar ice, which in turn will result in sea levels rising by as much as twenty feet, the highest in

125,000 years. In that case, whole islands, not to mention coastal towns and cities, would disappear off

the map.

However, the panel has been accused of fear-mongering by some prominent members of the

scientific community, who argue that global warming is nothing new, and point to a number of warming

events over the millennia as proof that the planet can undergo extreme climate shifts without any help

from human beings. They warn that people should not try to interfere in this process. Moderates,

meanwhile, remind us that, in any case, as practices which are ecologically sound also benefit human

health, it is better to err on the side of caution than risk contributing to our own destruction.

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