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TIẾNG ANH (CHUYÊN) — Mã đề 134

Thời gian làm bài: 120 phút

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LEXICO-GRAMMAR (1–25)

Choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

Shelves ____, the hypermarket was ready to open its doors to the public.

The new employee ____ a lot of time in familiarising himself with all the company's procedures.

He pointed out that his wages ____ no relation to the amount of work he did.

I'm not keen on ____ holidays. I'd rather have the option of eating out if I want to, without thinking that I've already paid to eat at the hotel.

Everything was at ____ when we arrived, as they had only moved into the house the day before.

Every parent has their own ____ on their child's use of the Internet.

The boy wasn't at all hungry, and could only ____ with the food on his plate.

When I advised you to change your job, I had your best ____ at heart.

I'd rather Ann ____ my laptop while I was gone.

The solution to this problem isn't going to be easy. I wish there was a ____ answer, but there isn't.

Mary: So did you enjoy going out to the cinema last night?
Peter: No, not really. I'd sooner ____ at home to watch TV.

The satellite photographed a ____ moon in orbit around Saturn.

Her responsibilities go beyond the ____ of most junior internships.

We wouldn't have missed the train ____ an out-of-date timetable.

Widely reproduced in magazines and books, ____.

When the fire alarm went off, our teacher stayed ____. She quietly put down her book and led us all quickly and calmly to the emergency exit.

When he saw me, he ____ in the other direction.

We've made them an offer for the furniture. Now the ball's ____. We'll just have to wait for their decision.

Two for the price of one; that's certainly great ____ for money!

It's a common ____ to see Black Friday shoppers hanging out at the shopping mall.

The science teacher ____ as a homework assignment.

The result of the survey will be published ____ due course.

The boy became an Internet ____ when his video went viral.

Jane has just got engaged to Tom. She is on ____ nine.

From an investor's viewpoint, getting ____ advice is the key to making sound investment decisions.

PRONUNCIATION (26–27)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

Pronunciation (26) · pleasure / desert / resort / design

Pronunciation (27) · ecosystem / knowledge / commodity / technology

STRESS (28–30)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.

Stress (28) · accurate / industry / average / reliable

Stress (29) · downtown / offshore / uptake / outlive

Stress (30) · refrigerator / technological / homeopathy / multinational

CLOZE — The Kangaroo Generation (31–40)

Choose the word that best fits each gap.

THE KANGAROO GENERATION
The French have a name for them – la génération kangourou – because kangaroos carry their young around in a pouch for months after birth. They are the 20-somethings who have realised that living at home with their parents is (31) ______ to struggling to be independent. A few years ago, anyone approaching 30 still (32) ______ under the parental roof would have been an object of concern, if not ridicule. Today it is fast becoming the norm. To a certain (33) ______ this shift is due to economic pressures; (34) ______ prices in Western Europe have soared, making mortgage payments out of (35) ______ for most young people on starting salaries. And why pay a fortune to rent a (36) ______ bedsit when relatively luxurious accommodation is available rent-free? These days, parents also seem more willing to continue to perform (37) ______ chores like cooking, washing and ironing. Nevertheless, some mums and dads were unprepared for the burden of (38) ______ to go on so long. The previous generation, who often married young, generally (39) ______ that once their children left for university, their years of freedom would begin. They are now finding that times have changed and there is a (40) ______ possibility that their kids will want to stick around indefinitely.

GAPPED TEXT — The Modern Office (41–46)

Choose from paragraphs A–G. ONE extra paragraph.

THE MODERN OFFICE
For decades the typical workplace meant rows of private offices. That model has largely been replaced by open-plan layouts intended to save space and, in theory, to make colleagues more visible to one another.
(41) ______
Informal seating, coffee bars and so-called chance encounters between staff are now treated as design features rather than interruptions.
(42) ______
'Cellular working' – sitting alone in a closed room all day – is less often required. Mobility and collective thought are presented as the new virtues of office life.
(43) ______
A survey of workplaces recently found that more than 8 million people in the UK worked in open-plan offices, but their rigid layouts forced almost 70% of them to sit at the same desk with the same coworkers each day. The survey — which covered the whole country and all industries — found that these workers scored lowest in terms of innovation, while employees who were offered a broader variety and choice of workplaces scored significantly higher.
(44) ______
To this end, architects and designers are looking not only at the hospitality and residential sectors for inspiration, but also to the technology industry where experience design has played an important role in office design for years. One of the most significant borrowings from hotel design to office design is thinking about the total experience of the visitor from beginning to end, from the moment you enter to the moment you leave.
(45) ______
Another development is that over the past few years, many co-working spaces have opened up, targeting start-up companies and freelancers looking for affordable offices. The variety of users of these shared office spaces has forced designers to create diverse settings within one building.
(46) ______
Workplaces with such collaborative, informal and social spaces are the ones where employees report the highest levels of pride, enjoyment and productivity. And it's not just tech companies and start-ups: banks, retailers and manufacturers are jumping on the bandwagon too.

MISSING PARAGRAPHS
A. Once the seeds were sown by the tech companies, other companies wanted to compete with them, and soon realised that they had to come up with more innovative ways to engage employees and respond to what people wanted in a workplace.
B. These results confirmed to employers the benefits of a more stimulating office environment. In fact, employees across all sectors and generations now look for a more stimulating 'experience' at the office. With the average person spending the majority of their waking hours in an office, it makes sense to open up offices in this way. There should be more of an overlap between work, socialising and home environments, many believe, and the new talk is of the 'experience economy' and 'experience design'; indeed, more and more people are adopting it.
C. The rather dull design features of the open plan office are being replaced in favour of plush upholstery, curated bookcases and leafy pot-plants. More space is being given over to socialising to encourage workers to move away from their desks. These features, borrowed from the hospitality industry, are seen as valuable resources in offices.
D. Greater pooling of ideas is just one of the many positive outcomes of people working in offices like these. This is what many believe office working is meant to be; it's about exploring and assisting the intellectual capital of employees to the fullest extent. It encourages and makes the best use of what each employee has to offer.
E. But the frivolous innovations brought in to keep their employees happy — water-slides, themed rooms, and so on — were not wanted by the more traditional organisations, even though they were keen to change. They sought to introduce more sophisticated stimuli.
F. In an age when so many of our conversations take place digitally, even within the office, the immediacy of a face-to-face conversation can provide greater clarity, prevent misunderstandings and prevent employees getting the wrong idea about what task it is they are to perform. The idea is to stop people working in a bubble and to interact more.
G. These range from the completely private to the deliberately social and noisy. Choice and adaptability of workspaces are key here. The demand is for less structured workspaces, with those involved appreciating that productivity is not necessarily linked to time spent behind a desk.

READING — Volunteering (47–59)

47–52: which paragraph A–I. 53–56: MCQ. 57–59: endings A–F.

VOLUNTEERING: ENRICHING OTHERS AND HELPING ONESELF
A. Volunteering, some might mistakenly think, embraces a plethora of people from all walks of life as well as activities, but data from the other side of the world suggest otherwise. A 2001 survey on who participated in volunteering by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the United Kingdom (UK) revealed that people in higher-income households are more likely than others to volunteer. In England and Wales, 57 per cent of adults with gross annual household incomes of £75,000 or more have volunteered formally (such as raising or handling money for a charity or being a member of a committee) in the 12 months prior to the survey date. They were almost twice as likely to have done so than those living in households with an annual income under £10,000.
B. As well as having high household incomes, volunteers also tend to have higher academic qualifications, be in higher socio-economic groups and be in employment. Among people with a degree or postgraduate qualification, 79 per cent had volunteered informally and 57 per cent had volunteered formally in the previous 12 months. For people with no qualifications the corresponding proportions were 52 per cent and 23 per cent. But voluntary work is certainly not the exclusive preserve of the rich, nor should it be. Does the answer not lie perhaps in the fact that the rich tend to have money to allow them the time to become involved in voluntary work compared to less well-off people?
C. A breakdown in the year 2000 of the range of volunteering activities taken from The Australian Bureau of Statistics gives an idea of the scale of activities in which people are typically involved. Eleven sectors are given ranging from Community and Welfare, which accounted for just over a quarter of the total hours volunteered in Australia, to Law/justice/politics with 1.2 per cent at the other end of the scale. Other fields included sport/recreation, religious activities and education, following at 21.2 per cent, 16.9 and 14.3 per cent respectively. Foreign/international volunteer work accounted for 2.4 per cent of the total hours. The data here also seem to point to a cohort of volunteers with expertise and experience.
D. The knock-on effect of volunteering on the lives of individuals can be profound. Voluntary work helps foster independence and imparts the ability to deal with different situations, often simultaneously, thus teaching people how to work their way through different systems. It therefore brings people into touch with the real world; and, hence, equips them for the future.
E. Initially, young adults in their late teens might not seem to have the expertise or knowledge to impart to others that say a teacher or agriculturalist or nurse would have, but they do have many skills that can help others. And in the absence of any particular talent, their energy and enthusiasm can be harnessed for the benefit of their fellow human beings, and ultimately themselves. From all this, the gain to any community no matter how many volunteers are involved is immeasurable.
F. Employers will generally look favourably on people who have shown an ability to work as part of a team. It demonstrates a willingness to learn and an independent spirit, which would be desirable qualities in any employee. So to satisfy employers' demands for experience when applying for work, volunteering can act as a means of gaining experience that might otherwise elude would-be workers and can ultimately lead to paid employment in the desired field.
G. But what are the prerequisites for becoming a volunteer? One might immediately think of attributes like kindness, selflessness, strength of character, ability to deal with others, determination, adaptability and flexibility and a capacity to comprehend the ways of other people. While offering oneself selflessly, working as a volunteer makes further demands on the individual. It requires a strength of will, a sense of moral responsibility for one's fellow human beings, and an ability to fit into the ethos of an organization or community. But it also requires something which in no way detracts from the valuable work done by volunteers and which may seem at first glance both contradictory and surprising: self-interest.
H. Organizations involved in any voluntary work have to be realistic about this. If someone, whatever the age, is going to volunteer and devote their time without money, they do need to receive something from it for themselves. People who are unemployed can use volunteer work as a stepping-stone to employment or as a means of finding out whether they really like the field they plan to enter or as a way to help them find themselves.
I. It is tempting to use some form of community work as an alternative to national service or as punishment for petty criminals by making the latter for example clean up parks, wash away graffiti, work with victims of their own or of other people. This may be acceptable, but it does not constitute volunteer work, two cardinal rules of which are the willingness to volunteer without coercion and working unpaid.

a description of what does not satisfy the criteria for volunteer work

the impact of voluntary work on the development of individuals

the requirement for both selflessness and self-interest in volunteers

various areas in which people volunteer

the benefit of voluntary work for the young

Volunteering (47–59) — a mistaken view of volunteering

Why was the ONS survey conducted?

Which of the following is NOT true according to paragraph B?

Rich people volunteer, MOST probably because they have ____.

Volunteer work benefits people by providing them with ____.

One of the requirements of being a volunteer is being able to ____

Volunteering can be used as a way for the unemployed to ____

Volunteering (47–59) — Employers in general tend to ____

WORD FORMATION — Can you trust the Internet? (60–68)

Change the form of the word in capitals. (0) truly is an example.

CAN YOU TRUST THE INTERNET?
Most would agree that the golden age of the library has well and (0. TRUE) truly passed and that the internet has (60. TAKE) ______ as provider of global information. At the same time, there is growing awareness and (61. SUSPECT) ______ that online articles which seem to be based on thorough research, evidence and academic study, are not as (62. FACT) ______ as they claim. Online, a writer has the kind of (63. EDIT) ______ powers that no ordinary journalist or author would ever have, and the reader is forced to distinguish between what is actually (64. OBJECT) ______ or what is mere opinion. And even sites which were once thought to be reliable now suffer from attacks carried out by internet vandals intending to cause deliberate (65. ACCURATE) ______ with statistics, or publish personal abuse against a well-known person, for example. Another controversial issue is that of writers claiming to have academic backgrounds or (66. EXPERT) ______ in an area when they do not. In 2007 online encyclopedia Wikipedia admitted that one of their editors, a professor of religious studies who other editors believed to be entirely (67. TRUST) ______, was actually a 24-year-old student called Ryan Jordan. Before he was (68. MASK) ______, Jordan had made over 20,000 alterations to the entries people had posted on the encyclopedia.

that the golden age of the library has well and (0. TRUE) truly passed and that the internet has (60. TAKE) ______ as provider of global information. At the same time, there is growing awareness and (61. SUS

0. TAKE) ______ as provider of global information. At the same time, there is growing awareness and (61. SUSPECT) ______ that online articles which seem to be based on thorough research, evidence and academic stud

articles which seem to be based on thorough research, evidence and academic study, are not as (62. FACT) ______ as they claim. Online, a writer has the kind of (63. EDIT) ______ powers that no ordinary jo

and academic study, are not as (62. FACT) ______ as they claim. Online, a writer has the kind of (63. EDIT) ______ powers that no ordinary journalist or author would ever have, and the reader is forced to di

or author would ever have, and the reader is forced to distinguish between what is actually (64. OBJECT) ______ or what is mere opinion. And even sites which were once thought to be reliable now suffer fr

be reliable now suffer from attacks carried out by internet vandals intending to cause deliberate (65. ACCURATE) ______ with statistics, or publish personal abuse against a well-known person, for example. Another

example. Another controversial issue is that of writers claiming to have academic backgrounds or (66. EXPERT) ______ in an area when they do not. In 2007 online encyclopedia Wikipedia admitted that one of thei

one of their editors, a professor of religious studies who other editors believed to be entirely (67. TRUST) ______, was actually a 24-year-old student called Ryan Jordan. Before he was (68. MASK) ______, Jor

entirely (67. TRUST) ______, was actually a 24-year-old student called Ryan Jordan. Before he was (68. MASK) ______, Jordan had made over 20,000 alterations to the entries people had posted on the encyclopedi

ERROR CORRECTION — Island in the Sun (69–75)

There are 8 mistakes. Example (0) tropic → tropical. Find the other seven.

ISLAND IN THE SUN
Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island
Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. A naive nanny arrives
Line 3 to work for the widowed Marquis De Banqueth; therefore the story should
Line 4 be a satisfying mystery. Instead it seems to be lost its way. The Marquis's
Line 5 past is sketched enough promisingly at first, then abandoned. Readers
Line 6 follow an endless, rambling path with little resolution. The nanny discovers
Line 7 a mysterious secrecy in the household but never a motive that holds.
Line 8 Bray can write a scene, yet the novel as a whole remains unfinished.
Line 9 One closes the book waiting for an ending that never quite arrives.

Example: Line 2: tropic → tropical

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 69 (line 1) → clever → cleverly

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 70 (line 1) → intrigued → intriguing

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 71 (line 3) → therefore → however

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 72 (line 3/4) → be → have

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 73 (line 5) → enough promisingly → promisingly enough

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 74 (line 7) → secrecy → secret

Line 1 Despite a clever plot and an intrigued cast, Daniel Bray's latest novel Island Line 2 in the Sun, set on a tropic island, feels half-cooked. — sửa: 75 (line 9) → for → to

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (76–80)

Complete the second sentence so that it means the same.

It could be possible that people didn't know oxygen existed back then.
→ People ______________________________________.

People started arguing over the project because it was very confusing.
→ It was so ______________________________________.

People are persuaded by adverts to spend more than they can afford.
→ Adverts tempt ______________________________________.

I've spent hours by the phone just waiting for his call.
→ Many's ______________________________________.

Fortunately, the boat hadn't left.
→ By a stroke ______________________________________.

KEY WORD TRANSFORMATION (81–85)

Use three to eight words, including the word given. Do not change the given word.

I've never really been able to follow all the details of the argument. OUTS
→ I've never been able to ______________________________________.

Most people seem to think that I will be next to be promoted. LINE
→ Most people seem to think that ________________________ a promotion.

Your scheme is brilliant, but it won't succeed. DOOMED
→ Brilliant though ________________________ failure.

It is likely that local residents will be suspicious of the company's plans for development in the area. MAY
→ The company's plans for development ________________________ suspicion by local residents.

The police have to verify the details of everyone taking part in the event today. MUST
→ Everyone taking part in the event today ________________________ the police.

WRITING — Paragraph (86)

Write a paragraph of approximately 140 words.

An increasing number of students are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help them with their studies. Is this a positive or negative development?

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