CƠ SỞ BỒI DƯỠNG VĂN HÓA
ĐỀ LUYỆN TẬP 5
TRÍ PHAN
Lớp: 9 Chuyên Anh
SỐ 32 – 34 BÀU NĂNG 2 – ĐÀ NẴNG
Thời gian: 90 phút (bao gồm phần nghe & viết)
Họ Và Tên: ……………………………………………..
PART 1: LISTENING:
Section 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For the question 1-8,
choose the best answer [A, B, or C]. You will listen to each extract ONLY ONCE.
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Section 2: You will hear the radio programme about a bird called a peacock. For questions 9-
18, complete the sentences. You will listen ONCE.
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PART 2: USE OF ENGLISH:
Choose the best options to complete the following sentences.
1. The man‟s choice to run away virtually _______ to an admission of guilt.
A. resulted B. came C. amounted D. added
2. Environmental pollution has _______ many species to the verge of extinction.
A. sent B, thrown C. brought D. driven
3. After years of working together, the partners found themselves _______ linked.
A. permanently B. indelibly C. perpetually D. inextricably
4. It was decided that the cost of the project would be _______ and so it was abandoned.
A. repressive B. prohibitive C. restrictive D. exclusive
5. Living by the ocean really _______ your _______. Once you‟ve lived there, you never
want to leave.
A. came in/heart B. get in/heart C. run in/blood D. came in/blood
6. Tamara has set her _______ on becoming a ballet-dancer.
A. feet B. brain C. head D. heart
7. Paul‟s been in Alice‟s bad _______ ever since he offended her at the party.
A. eyes B. books C. likes D. treats
8. Knowing the confidential details gave him a(n) _______ over the other candidates.
A. edge B. possibility C. exertion D. fringe
9. He promised me an Oxford dictionary and to my great joy, he _______ his word.
A. stood by B. stuck at C. went back on D. held onto
10. His new play is not only interesting but also unique. It is really off the beaten ______.
A. track B. road C. path D. route
11. John: “Our teacher, Mr. Jones, is not very flexible. He always requires us to submit his
assignments on time.”
Jack: “_______. He should know that we have to learn many subjects.”
A. I can‟t disagree with you more B. I can‟t agree with you more
C. That can be true D. I am not with you here
12. The more expensive carpet is a good choice _______ it will last longer.
A. by means of B. due to C. in that D. in view of
13. There was no one downstairs; so he turned off the lights again and decided that she
_______ imagined things.
A. must have B. should have C. can‟t have D. needn‟t
have
14. Little Deon : “This herb smells horrible!” Mommy: _______, it will do you a power of good.
A. Be that as it may B. Come what may
C. How much horrible is it D. Whatever it smells
15. _______ I‟ve told him not to go out with those people, but he wouldn‟t listen. Just let him
face the music now.
A. Many a time B. Many the time C. Quite a time D. For a time
16. _______ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell.
A. That we refer to B. What we refer to
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C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to
17. _______ the water clear but also prevent the river from overflowing.
A. Not only the hippo‟s eating habits keep
B. Keep not only the hippo‟s eating habits
C. The hippo‟s eating habits not only keep
D. Not only keep the hippo‟s eating habits
18. Computer are said to be _______ for the development of mankind.
A. here today B. here and there
C. here to stay D. neither here nor there
19. Did the minister approve the building plans?- Not really, he turned them down _______
that the costs were too high.
A. in case B. provided C. on the grounds D. supposing
20. It was such a loud noise _______ everyone in the house
A. as to wake B. that to wake C. so as to wake D. that waking
21.He _______ a big fortune when he was young, so he didn't have to work hard.
A. came into B. came up C. came across D. came round
22. Are you taking _______ all of these phrasal verbs?
A. for B. down C. off D. in
23. The medicine takes one hour to _______. .
A. bear with B. kick in C. make out D. get by
24. Have you _______ with your homework yet?
A. gotten through B. taken over C. thought up D. checked over
25. Jennifer _______ the invitation to join us for dinner.
A. called on B. come out C. got out of D. passed on
26. If he's clumsy, he can bump _______ the desk.
A. by B. over C. into D. through
27. We can put you _______ for a few days if you have nowhere else to live.
A. on B. out C. up D. off
28. Mary was astonished that she was _______ for the counselor's position.
A. got by B. turned down C. caught on D. come to
29. After running up the stairs, I was _______ breath.
A. without B. out of C. no D. away from
30. She nearly lost her own life _______ attempting to save the child from drowning.
A. with B. for C. at D. in
31. I felt a bit _______ and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual.
A. out of sorts C. on the mend B. over the worst D. under the fever
32. A: „Oh, I‟m exhausted! I‟ve been doing homework all day.‟
B: „Come and put your _______ up for 5 minutes and I‟ll make you a cup of tea.‟
A. hands B. hair C. heart D. feet
33. His English was roughly _______ with my Greek, so communication was rather difficult!
A. levelled B. on a par C. equal D. in tune
34. Although she had never used a word-proceesor before, she soon got the _______ of it.
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A. feel B. touch C. move D. hang
35. I overslept this morning and caught the last bus to school by the skin of my _______.
A. mouth B. leg C. neck D. teeth
36. If you want a flat in the centre of the city, you have to pay through the _______ for it.
A. teeth B. back of your head C. nose D. arm
37. You will be putting your life on the _______ if you take up skydiving.
A. ground B. line C. way D. lane
38. As far as her future goes, Olivia is _______. She hasn't got a clue what career to follow.
A. on the level B. all at sea C. behind the scenes D. in the know
39. Your husband was a bit out of control at the party, to _______ mildly.
A. take it B. put it C. say D. tell
40. There is a large effort ________ to rebuild arts education in the New York city public
schools.
A. under way B. a long way C. out of the way D. in the way
PART 3: READING COMPREHENSION:
Section A: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer
sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
They are just four, five and six years old right now, but already they are making
criminologists nervous. They are growing up, too frequently, in abusive or broken homes,
with little adult supervision and few positive role models. Left to themselves, they spend
much of their time hanging out on the streets or soaking up violent TV shows. By the year
2005 they will be teenagers–a group that tends to be, in the view of Northeastern University
criminologist James Alan Fox, “temporary sociopaths–impulsive and immature.”. If they also
have easy access to guns and drugs, they can be extremely dangerous.
For all the heartening news offered by recent crime statistics, there is an ominous flip
side. While the crime rate is dropping for adults, it is soaring for teens. Between 1990 and
1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the
rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17, the age group that in the early ‟90s
supplanted 18- to 24-year-olds as the most crime-prone. And that is precisely the age group
that will be booming in the next decade. There are currently 39 million children under 10 in
the U.S., more than at any time since the 1950s. “This is the calm before the crime storm,”
says Fox. “So long as we fool ourselves in thinking that we‟re winning the war against crime,
we may be blindsided by this bloodbath of teenage violence that is lurking in the future.”
Demographics don‟t have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict
the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime–single-parent
households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools – are getting worse. At the same
time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the
cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and
public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of “super predators,” youngsters
who are coming of age in actual and “moral poverty,” without “the benefit of parents,
teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them unconditional
love.”
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Predicting a generation‟s future crime patterns is, of course, risky; especially when
outside factors (Will crack use be up or down? Will gun laws be tightened?) remain
unpredictable. Michael Tonry, a professor of law and public policy at the University of
Minnesota, argues that the demographic doomsayers are unduly alarmist. “There will be a
slightly larger number of people relative to the overall population who are at high risk for
doing bad things, so that‟s going to have some effect,” he concedes. “But it‟s not going to be
an apocalyptic effect.” Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology at the University of
Chicago, finds DiIulio‟s notion of super predators too simplistic: “The human animal in
young males is quite a violent animal all over the world. The people who put forth the theory
of moral poverty lack a sense of history and comparative criminology.”
Yet other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. “All the basic elements that
spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse,” says
Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx.
“There‟s a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that‟s a very high-risk group of
kids. We‟re not creating new jobs, and we‟re not improving education to suit poor people for
the jobs that exist.”
Can anything defuse the demographic time bomb? Fox urges “reinvesting in
children”: improving schools, creating after-school programs and providing other alternatives
to gangs and drugs. DiIulio, a law-and-order conservative, advocates tougher prosecution and
wants to strengthen religious institutions to instill better values. Yet he opposes the Gingrich-
led effort to make deep cuts in social programs. “A failure to maintain existing welfare and
health commitment for kids,” he says, “is to guarantee that the next wave of juvenile
predators will be even worse than we‟re dealing with today.” DiIulio urges fellow
conservatives to think of Medicaid not as a health-care program but as “an anticrime policy.”
(Source: Time Magazine)
1. Young children are making criminologists nervous because _______.
A. they are committing too much crime
B. they are impulsive and immature
C. they may grow up to be criminals
D. they have no role models
2. The general crime rate in the US is _______.
A. increasing B. decreasing C. not changing D. difficult to predict
3. The age group which commits the highest rate of crime is _______.
A. 14 – 17 B. 18 – 24 C. 24 + D. the old
4. James Fox believes that the improvement in crime figures could _______.
A. make us complacent in the fight against crime
B. result in an increase in teenage violence
C. make us become fooled and blindsided
D. result in a decrease in teenage violence
5. According to paragraph 3, the government _______.
A. cutting down on the budget
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B. is doing everything it can to solve the problem
C. is not interested in solving the problem
D. is not doing enough to solve the problem
6. In comparison with James Fox, Michael Tonry is _______.
A. more pessimistic B. less pessimistic
C. equally pessimistic D. indifferent
7. Jonathan Kozol believes that _______.
A. there is no solution to the problem
B. employment and education are not the answer
C. employment and education can improve the situation
D. people can solve the problem by improving schools
8. Professor DiIulio thinks that spending on social programs _______.
A. should continue as it is B. should be decreased
C. is irrelevant to crime rates D. is a better solution to the problem
9. The word ‘lurking” in the paragraph 2 can be best replaced by _______.
A. happening B. hiding C. impending D. looming
10. The sentence “This is the calm before the crime storm.” means "_______.".
A. There will be population booming in in the next decade
B. The age group committing crime most in the next decade is now under 10
C. The age group 14 – 17 will commit the most crimes in the next decade
D. People will be successful in dealing with the war against crime in the next decade
Section B: For questions 1-6, read the text below and choose the correct heading for
each paragraph B–G from the list of headings below (i-x). There are more headings
than paragraphs. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is
an example at the beginning.
HOW DOES THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK TICK?
A. Our life span is restricted. Everyone accepts this as 'biologically' obvious. „Nothing lives
for ever!‟ However, in this statement we think of artificially produced, technical objects,
products which are subjected to natural wear and tear during use. This leads to the result that
at some time or other the object stops working and is unusable ('death' in the biological
sense). But are the wear and tear and loss of function of technical objects and the death of
living organisms really similar or comparable?
B. Our „dead‟ products are „static‟, closed systems. It is always the basic material which
constitutes the object and which, in the natural course of things, is worn down and becomes
'older‟. Ageing in this case must occur according to the laws of physical chemistry and of
thermodynamics. Although the same law holds for a living organism, the result of this law is
not inexorable in the same way. At least as long as a biological system has the ability to
renew itself it could actually become older without ageing; an organism is an open, dynamic
system through which new material continuously flows. Destruction of old material and
formation of new material are thus in permanent dynamic equilibrium. The material of which
the organism is formed changes continuously. Thus our bodies continuously exchange old
substance for new, just like a spring which more or less maintains its form and movement,
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but in which the water molecules are always different.
C. Thus ageing and death should not be seen as inevitable, particularly as the organism
possesses many mechanisms for repair. It is not, in principle, necessary for a biological
system to age and die. Nevertheless, a restricted life span, ageing, and then death are basic
characteristics of life. The reason for this is easy to recognise: in nature, the existent
organisms either adapt or are regularly replaced by new types. Because of changes in the
genetic material (mutations) these have new characteristics and in the course of their
individual lives they are tested for optimal or better adaptation to the environmental
conditions. Immortality would disturb this system - it needs room for new and better life.
This is the basic problem of evolution.
D. Every organism has a life span which is highly characteristic. There are striking
differences in life span between different species, but within one species the parameter is
relatively constant. For example, the average duration of human life has hardly changed in
thousands of years. Although more and more people attain an advanced age as a result of
developments in medical care and better nutrition, the characteristic upper limit for most
remains 80 years. A further argument against the simple wear and tear theory is the
observation that the time within which organisms age lies between a few days (even a few
hours for unicellular organisms) and several thousand years, as with mammoth trees.
E. If a lifespan is a genetically determined biological characteristic, it is logically necessary
to propose the existence of an internal clock, which in some way measures and controls the
aging process and which finally determines death as the last step in a fixed programme. Like
the fife span, the metabolic rate has for different organisms a fixed mathematical relationship
to the body mass. In comparison to the life span this relationship is „inverted‟: the larger the
organism the lower its metabolic rate. Again this relationship is valid not only for birds, but
also, similarly on average within the systematic unit, for all other organisms (plants, animals,
unicellular organisms).
F. Animals which behave „frugally‟ with energy become particularly old for example,
crocodiles and tortoises. Parrots and birds of prey are often held chained up. Thus they are
not able to „experience life‟ and so they attain a high life span in captivity. Animals which
save energy by hibernation or lethargy (e.g. bats or hedgehogs) live much longer than those
which are always active, The metabolic rate of mice can be reduced by a very low
consumption of food (hunger diet) They then may live twice as long as their well-fed
comrades. Women become distinctly (about 10 per cent) older than men. If you examine the
metabolic rates of the two sexes you establish that the higher male metabolic rate roughly
accounts for the lower male life span. That means that they live life „energetically‟ - more
intensively, but not for as long.
G. It follows from the above that sparing use of energy reserves should tend to extend life.
Extreme high performance sports may lead to optimal cardiovascular performance, but they
quite certainly do not prolong life. Relaxation lowers metabolic rate, as does adequate sleep
and in general an equable and balanced personality. Each of us can develop his or her own
„energy saving programme‟ with a little self-observation, critical self-control and, above all,
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logical consistency. Experience will show that to live in this way not only increases the life
span but is also very healthy. This final aspect should not be forgotten.
Question 1-6, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from the list of headings
below. Write the correct number, i-x, in the corresponding numbered boxes.
LIST OF HEADINGS
i The biological clock
ii Why dying is beneficial
iii The ageing process of men and women
iv Prolonging your life
v Limitations of life span
vi Modes of development of different species
vii A stable life span despite improvements
viii Energy consumption
ix Fundamental differences in ageing of objects and organisms
x Repair of genetic material
Example answer: Paragraph A: v
Your answers:
1. Paragraph B __________
2. Paragraph C __________
3. Paragraph D __________
4. Paragraph E __________
5. Paragraph F __________
6. Paragraph G __________
Questions 7- 10, complete the notes below
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer. Write your
answers in boxes 7-10
Objects age in accordance with principles of (7) _______________ and of (8)
______________
Through mutations, organisms can (9) _______________ better to the environment.
(10) _______________ would pose a serious problem for the theory of evolution.
PART 4: WRITING:
Section A: WORD FORMATIONS: Complete the sentence with the correct form of the
given word.
1. The private school feared losing its _______ with the state's university system. (CREDIT)
2. That the child behaved _______ made the couple happy. (DEAR)
Section B: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION:
Questions 1-5: Complete the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same
as the sentence printed before it.
1. I was too scared to tell him what I really thought.
→ I lacked ..................................................................................................................................
2. It‟s a widespread assumption that George was wrongly accused.
→ George ...................................................................................................................................
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3. He declared his disapproval of the behavior of some of his supporters.
→ He let it ...................................................................................................................................
4. The collision didn't damage my car much.
→ Not a great ..............................................................................................................................
5. Although he is 8 years older than her, they were good friends.
→ Despite ....................................................................................................................................
Questions 6-10: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first
one. Use the word given in block letter, and this word must not be changed in any way.
6. I presume you are coming to the party Miriam. READ
→ Can I …………….........................………………… you are coming to the party Miriam?
7. After a long hard journey, I cheered up when I saw my home. SIGHT
→ After a long hard journey, my spirits……………….....………..................… of my home.
8. Yvonne did everything she could to ensure the trip was successful. LENGTHS
→ Yvonne ............................................................................................... to ensure the success.
9. Russ‟s opinions on the new management policies were very different from those of his
fellow workers. ODDS
→ Russ ………...…………………………………..………..... the new management policies.
10. I tried as hard as I could to make sure that this problem would not arise. POWER
→ I did ........................................................................................... this problem from arising.
Section C: Paragraph:
Be required to write a 100-word paragraph about possible measures to minimize the risk of
drowning.
Write your paragraph onto the answer sheet!
THE END
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