Bộ 5 Đề thi cuối kì 2 Tiếng Anh 12 Friends global có đáp án ( Đề 5)

Read the following pieces of news and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 6.

GREEN TOURISM TRENDS

Trashtag: Challenge to clean up trash in tourist locations

On March 5, Facebook account Byron Román launched the (1) ______ by uploading a ‘before/after’ photo of a tourist landscape after being cleaned up trash. Immediately, Byron’s photo went (2) ______ with 87 thousand likes and 290 thousand shares.

In Việt Nam, environmentally conscious youths without hesitation (3) ______ this. In March 2019, ‘garbage hunter’ Lekima Hùng went on a 7,000 km journey along the coast of Vietnam and collected plastic bags, bottles, and household waste in the sea and canals.

Travelling like a farmer

This type of travelling requires both tourism workers and travellers to be nature lovers. In Việt Nam’s mountainous areas, tourists can join farmers (4) ______ farming, growing mulberry trees, raising silkworms, and learning (5) ______ brocade.

In coastal areas, travellers will (6) ______ the experience of setting sail with fishermen, going out to sea, and fishing at night.

(Adapted from THiNK)

Read the following leaflet and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 7 to 12.

MASS MEDIA AROUND THE WORLD

Digital billboards: (7) ______ a traditional billboard which can only show one printed image, a digital billboard can change between different messages. Digital billboards are also considered more attractive than traditional ones, and people are more likely (8) ______ them. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine places like Times Square in New York, Piccadilly Circus in London, or Shibuya in Tokyo without (9) ______. Although they are growing in popularity, there have been concerns about their impact on the surrounding environment, particularly light pollution. The constant light (10) ______ by digital billboards often confuses birds, harms insects, and causes health issues in humans, too.

Public loudspeakers: In the past, they were used during the war to warn people of air attacks. Today, they are still employed in parts of Japan, the Philippines, and the US to alert people (11) ______ natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, and tornadoes. In Viet Nam, they are used to communicate important public (12) ______ to residents. However, the noise from a city-wide loudspeaker system can be a problem to some people.

(Adapted from Global Success)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the best arrangement of sentences to make a meaningful exchange or text in each of the following questions from 13 to 17.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22.

Some of the most successful crowdfunding projects ever

Every day sees hundreds of new projects being launched on different crowdfunding websites, but what have been some of the most successful projects? Perhaps unsurprisingly, (18) ______. Take, for example, Flow Hive, a new type of beehive which allows people to remove the honey without disturbing the bees. After setting a target of $70,000, (19) ______!

Or what about the BauBax, a travel jacket that comes with more features than you could ever ask for. With built-in neck pillow, eye mask, gloves, earphone holders and drink holder, the BauBax has clearly captured the public’s attention, raising more than $10 million so far. (20) ______. So far, more than $100 million has been raised to fund their three-wheel vehicle, (21) ______. Elio plans for the car to do an amazing 84 miles per gallon, and to cost just $7,300.

In short, there doesn’t seem to be a magic rule for creating a successful crowdfunding project. But the examples above suggest that projects which are original and innovative (22) ______.

(Adapted from C-21 Smart)

Read the following passage about a project and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the following questions from 23 to 30.

THE REAL JUNK FOOD PROJECT

Adam Smith is the founder of The Real Junk Food Project. He is passionate about collecting food that has been discarded by supermarkets, and transforming this wasted food into healthy nutritious meals.

Smith worked as a head chef for ten years and thought of the idea for the project when he was travelling in Australia and witnessed the scale of food waste in the agricultural sector and catering industry. The global statistics are shocking: roughly one third of food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted. Smith founded The Real Junk Project to fill the gap between hunger and excess food, and to raise awareness about how much food goes to waste.

Smith started the project and opened the first Real Junk Food café in his hometown Leeds in 2013. Since then, the concept has been exported as far away as Los Angeles and Brazil, Warsaw and Zurich. The idea is simple: volunteers go out and collect food from various sources: farms, restaurants, factories and supermarkets. Meals are produced and sold in cafés on a ‘pay-as-you-feel’ (PAYF) basis so that nobody is excluded. The cafés are for the community in general, not only for the poor. Those who can afford it pay what they think the meal is worth, while those who can’t afford to buy meals from the café can earn their meals by volunteering – for instance, they can help with the washing up.

The Real Junk Food Project is an inspiring idea of how a real, pressing issue can be tackled step by step, starting from the local then going global. Efforts such as this one show us that with collective effort, determination, and innovative ideas, any problem can be faced and the wellbeing of people can be enhanced.

(Adapted from English Discovery)

Read the following article and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the option that best fits each of the following questions from 31 to 40.

Shoppers who use the internet to research hotels, books, electronics and other purchases are being misled by millions of ‘fake’ reviews orchestrated by companies to trick potential customers, the consumer watchdog warns today as it begins an inquiry.

More than half of the adults in Britain, around 25 million people, use online review websites such as Amazon, Tripadvisor, Expedia and Checkatrade to find the best deals. But their impressions are ‘distorted’ by the growth of a ‘secretive’ market for fake reviews, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) has discovered. It found some companies were breaking the law by writing flattering posts about themselves to boost their rankings. Others were offering money, free product samples or other ‘rewards’ to people who write positive reviews or give five-star ratings. In some cases, rival firms were posting disparaging remarks to cloud the judgement of potential customers. And some review websites were hiding negative reviews because they had commercial arrangements with the companies facing criticism.

The scale of the issue is unknown because fake reviews are difficult to spot, the CMA said. [I] However, it expressed concern that abuse could be widespread. [II] Although some websites told the regulator just 2 per cent of their reviews were false, other sources claimed the proportion was ‘much higher’. [III] An investigation will now commence, and firms found to be acting illegally will be fined and their bosses may face prison. [IV]

One of the best-known specialist sites is Tripadvisor, which hosts hundreds of millions of reviews written by and for holidaymakers. Booking agents such as Expedia and retailers such as Amazon also provide reviews alongside their primary function of selling a product or service. Checkatrade has 1.8 million reviews of electricians, plumbers, builders and other tradesmen, while Reevoo and Feefo collect and manage reviews on behalf of clients. Many of these are free to use with revenues coming from advertising, paid-for links, payments or commissions from the companies listed or the provision of ‘reputation management’ services to these firms. Some sites have developed systems to detect and verify fake reviews, but others have not, the CMA said.

It warned that websites were in some cases ‘selectively ordering’ reviews so that positive ones came to the front. ‘Hiding’ negative reviews is against the law, it said. The different commercial arrangements might influence the reviews and the way they were obtained was not always clear to users. Customers were also trying to abuse the system by ‘blackmailing’ companies by threatening to leave a negative review.

(Adapted from THiNK)