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Read the passage and choose the best option to each question

Since the dawn of time, people have found ways to communicate with one another. Smoke signals and tribal drums were some of the earliest forms of communication. Letters, carried by birds or by humans on foot or on horseback, made it possible for people to communicate larger amounts of information between two places. The telegraph and telephone set the stage for more modern means of communication. With the invention of the cellular phone, communication itself has become mobile.           For you, a cell phone is probably just a device that you or your friends use to keep in touch with family and friends, take pictures, play games, or send text messages. The definition of a cell phone is more specific: it is a hand-held wireless communication device that sends and receives signals by way of small special areas called cells.           Walkie-talkies, telephones, and cell phones are duplex communication devices: they make it possible for two people to talk to each other. Cell phones and walkie-talkies are different from regular phones, because they can be used in many different locations. A walkie-talkie is sometimes called a half-duplex communication device, because only one person can talk at a time. A cell phone is a full-duplex device because it uses both frequencies at the same time. A walkie-talkie has only one channel. A cell phone has more than a thousand channels. A walkie-talkie can transmit and receive signals across a distance of about a mile. A cell phone can transmit and receive signals over hundreds of miles. In 1973, an electronic company called Motorola hired Martin Cooper to work on wireless communication. Motorola and Bell Laboratories (now AT&T) were in a race to invent the first portable communication device. Martin Cooper won the race and became the inventor of the cell phone. On April 3, 1973, Cooper made the first cell phone call to his opponent at AT&T while walking down the streets of New York City. People on the sidewalks gazed at Cooper in amazement as he walked down the street talking on his cellular phone. Cooper’s phone was called Motorola Dyna-Tac. It weighed a whooping 2 ½ pounds (as compared to today’s cell phones that weigh as little as 3 or 4 ounces).           After the invention of his cell phone, Cooper began thinking of ways to make the cell phone available to the general public. After ten years, Motorola introduced the first cell phones for commercial use. The early cell phone and its service were both very expensive. The cell phone itself cost about $3,500. In 1977, AT&T constructed a cell phone system and tried it out in Chicago with over 2,000 customers. In 1981, a second cellular phone system was started in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. It took nearly 37 years for cell phones to become available for general public use. Today there are more than sixty million cell phone customers with cell phones producing over thirty billion dollars per year.

Text 2:

Read the passage and choose the word that best fits each gap

Why did you decide to read this and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to understand every single  part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight's time ? Common sense (1) ......... that the answers to these questions depend on “readability" whether the (2) ......... matter is interesting, the argument clear and the layout attractive. But psychologists are discovering that to (3) ......... why people read - and often don't read -technical information, they have to examine so much the writing as the reader. Even the most technically confident people often (4) ......... instructions for the video on home computer in favour of hands-on experience. And people frequently (5) ......... little consumer information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts a Psychologists researching reading (6) .........    to assume that both beginners and competent readers read everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are arguments among them about the (7) .........of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (8) ......... every letter or word they see: others (9) ......... that readers rely on memory or context to carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is the same: reading starts, comprehension (10) ......... then reading stops.

 

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Read the passage and fill each gap with ONE suitable word

It is not surprising that actors want to be pop stars and vice versa. (1) ..................... that is deep in a part of our brain that most of us manage to keep under control, we all want to be pop stars and actors. Sadly, there’s nothing about the (2) ..................... profession that automatically qualifies you for the other, except, of course, for the fact that famous actors and singers are already surrounded by people who never say no to them. (3) ..................... the whole, pop stars tend to fare better on screen than their (4) ..................... numbers do on CD. Let’s (5) ..................... it: not being able to act is no big drawback in Hollywood, whereas not being able to play or sing still tends to count (6) ..................... you in the recording studio. Some stars do display a genuine proficiency in both disciplines, and a few even maintain successful careers in both fields, but this just (7) ..................... a bad example for all the others. For every success, there are two dozen failures.   And most of them have no idea how terrible they are. (8) ..................... as power tends to corrupt, so celebrity tends to destroy the ability to gauge whether or not you’re making a fool of (9) .....................  . But perhaps we shouldn’t criticize celebrities for trying to expand their horizons in this way. (10) ..................... there is one good thing about actors trying to sing and singers trying to act, it is that it keeps them all too busy to write books. 

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Give the correct form of the words in brackets.

N0(0) has been done People of the Forest This TV (0. DOCUMENT) ................................ follows a family of chimpanzees which live in the forest of Tanzania. Set in (1. SPECTACLE) ................................ scenery the programme gives us a fascinating insight into the life and social (2.ACTION) ................................ of these creatures. Apparently, we humans share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees; indeed, they are our closest (3.RELATE) ................................ in the animal (4. KING) and scenes in the documentary offer clear evidence of our (5. SIMILAR) ................................ . The focus of the film is on Fifi and we first see her as a (6. PLAY) ................................ five-year-old who spends all her time annoying her younger brother. Meanwhile, the older male chimps seem to be involved in an endless fight for (7. SUPREME) ................................ . And it is no surprise to learn that while all this is taking place the females are left to deal with the day-to-day (8. ORGANISE) ................................  matters. Make sure you set aside an hour to watch this. The (9.GEOGRAPHY) ................................  splendour of the location makes this programme worthwhile viewing, although our (10. LIKE) ................................ to these animals will make you think.

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Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently

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Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently

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Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently

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Câu 22:

Because of its warm typical climate, Hawaii ............ subzero temperature.

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Câu 42:

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What is the main idea of the passage?

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Câu 43:

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What definition is true of a cell phone?

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What is wrong about a walkie-talkie?

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Câu 46:

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To whom did Cooper make his first cell phone call?

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How heavy is the first cell phone compared to today’s cell phones?

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When did Motorola introduce the first cell-phones for commercial use?

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When did AT&T widely start their cellular phone system?

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What does the word “gazed” in line 21mean?

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Câu 51:

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The phrase tried it out in the last paragraph refers to?

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Câu 52:

You are going to read a newspaper article about sleep. Five paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A – F the one which fits each gap (1 – 5). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

                                                          Enough Sleep?

Tiredness, it is often claimed, has become the modern conditions. As the richer, busier countries have grown, so sleeplessness and anxiety have also grown in the popular psyche. Research in the USA has found 40 million Americans to be chronically affected, and some recent best-selling novels in Britain have featured insomniacs as protagonists, or sleep-research laboratories as their settings.

However, there is a strong degree of certainty among scientists that women sleep for half an hour longer than men, and that older people require less sleep, though they don’t know why. When asked what sleep is for, some sleep researchers reply in cosmic terms: “Sleep is a tactic to travel through time without injury.”

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A. Beyond this, certainties blur into theories. It is often suggested, for example, that sleep repairs body tissue, or restores muscles, or rests the frontal section of the brain that controls speech and creativity. But all of this may happen more quickly during relaxed wakefulness, so no one is really sure.

 

B. Part of this interest is in sleep in general: in its rhythms, its uses and in problems with sleeping. But a central preoccupation remains. “People need more sleep,” says one leading sleep researcher. “People cut back on sleep when they’re busy. They get up too early to avoid rush hour.”

 

C. The sleep researchers seem interested in this theory. But the laboratory is not funded to investigate such matters. Its sponsors what its research to lead to practical solutions such as deciding where Take a break signs should be placed on motorways, and how different kinds of food and drink can affect driving and sleeplessness.

 

D. A coffee might have helped. Two cups, Dr. Reyner says, even after no sleep at all, can make you a safe driver for half an hour or more. She recommends a whole basket of alertness products: tablets, energy drinks, caffeinated chewing gum. Shift workers, she is quite sure, could probably use them.

 

E. In fact, the laboratory’s interest is more physical. In a darkened room stands a motorway simulator, the front section of a car facing a wide projection screen. The subjects are always told to arrive at 2pm, in the body’s natural mid-afternoon lull, after a short night’s sleep or no sleep at all. The projector is switched on and they are asked to drive, while answering questions. An endless road rolls ahead, sunlight glares; and the air is warm.

 

F. In Europe, such propositions are perhaps most thoroughly tested in a small, unassuming building on a university campus in the English midlands. The university sleep research laboratory has investigated, among many subjects, the effects of fatigue on sailors, the effects of airport noise on sleepers, and the dangers of motorway driving for flagging drivers.


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