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A. LISTENING — Part I

You will hear four short extracts in which people are talking about their visits to famous locations to take photos. Match each statement (1–8) with the correct speaker (A, B, C or D). Write your answers in the numbered boxes. You will hear the recording twice.

A. LISTENING — Part I (TTS từ transcript)
Transcript — A. LISTENING — Part I (TTS từ transcript)
The battery quickly lost power and it automatically shut down, ending my day's photography session.
On a previous visit to the five villages of Italy's Cinque Terre... This time, despite high-season tourism, I managed to get a room...
...and the eight-hour train journey from Beijing seemed brief in comparison to what it would've taken in earlier times.
After having so many online applications to visit it turned down, at last I had my pass.
It was March, a time when the Zambezi River is full and the Falls are a truly amazing sight...
...but the risk of falling rocks had closed the footpath and I had to make do with photos from other angles.
...the massive volume of water crashing into the deep valley below created so much rising mist that... only one section was visible... To do that I'll have to return outside the rainy season.
I spent hours taking photos, including a great one of The Wave when the sun hit it without any shadows.

A technical problem prevented me from taking more photos.

It was the second time I had visited the area.

Travelling to the location took less time than it used to.

It was difficult to get permission to visit the location.

It was the time of year to see the most beautiful scenery.

It was too dangerous to take certain photos.

It was the wrong time of year to get the photos I wanted.

One impressive photo was taken when the lighting conditions were ideal.

A. LISTENING — Part II

Listen to the recording about Gyroscopes and complete the summary below with ONE WORD ONLY in each blank. Write your answers in the numbered boxes. You will hear the recording twice.

A. LISTENING — Part II (TTS từ transcript)
Transcript — A. LISTENING — Part II (TTS từ transcript)
Gyroscopes are used in laser and optical devices...
The aim of the assignment is to create something practical, functional and beneficial for consumers.
...what we want to do is design a ball which can be held in the palm.
This will create considerable resistance and an excellent lower-arm strengthening aid.
...it could also be beneficial to people in rehabilitation who have suffered serious lower-arm injuries.
GYROSCOPES
Applications
- In laser and (9) _____ devices
- In consumer appliances
Strong points
- A practical, (10) _____, beneficial consumer product
- A cheap and effective muscle-strengthening aid
Operation
- Shaped into palm-sized (11) _____
- Set in motion by the movements of the arm and wrist in synch
Purposes
- Create considerable (12) _____
- Aid to strengthen the lower arm
- Could be used as an everyday toning and exercise device
Targeted customers
- Those suffering from serious lower-arm (13) _____
- High-performance athletes

Applications: In laser and (9) _____ devices

Operation: Shaped into palm-sized (11) _____

Purposes: Create considerable (12) _____

Targeted customers: Those suffering from serious lower-arm (13) _____

A. LISTENING — Part III

Listen to an interview about the Slow Food Movement. Choose the best answer (A, B or C) for each question. Write your answers in the numbered boxes. You will hear the recording twice.

A. LISTENING — Part III (TTS từ transcript)
Transcript — A. LISTENING — Part III (TTS từ transcript)
The Movement itself was started by an Italian called Carlo Petrini. He was protesting because a McDonald's had opened near the Spanish Steps - one of the most well-known monuments in the centre of Rome.
That essentially is what it is: excellent natural, tasty food that we appreciate.
...the problem is that wherever you sit down for a meal, whether it's in Tokyo, Milan or Cape Town, the food you're given is too similar. It makes eating, and life in general, boring.
It's not just about food. It's about how we live and finding time to enjoy our lives.
It even has its own trade fair, the Salone del Gusto. Producers of traditional food come from all over the world to exhibit their food and meet each other.
But one of the amazing things is just how many of the visitors are from Britain and how much interest there is in Britain for these sorts of things.
And if we can make these two things happen, then I believe we will start to see differences in what I think really matters most: the way we live together as families!

The Slow Food Movement was originally started because ______

What, according to Valerie, is Slow Food?

What does Valerie say is the problem with fast food companies?

According to Valerie, the main aim of the Movement is to improve people’s ______.

What is the Salone del Gusto?

What surprised Valerie about the Salone del Gusto?

Who does Valerie think will benefit most from the Slow Food Movement?

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR — Part I

Read the passage below and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to fill in each blank. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

The Transcontinental Railroad
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad presidents gathered on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah, to drive a ceremonial final spike into a rail line that (1) ______ their companies.
For the first time in American history, (2) ______ by railroad over the country. Travellers headed towards the West would no longer have to (3) ______ the exhausting and hazardous voyages by wagon train or by boat.
Statesmen in the East and the West had (4) ______ the necessity for a connection between the two coasts at least since 1832. However, Congress did not approve funding (5) ______ 1853.
Conditions for the Union Pacific workforce were (6) ______ because of harsh winters, excruciating summer heat, and the lawless, (7) ______ nature of newly established western cities.
(8) ______ all the hardships they faced, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific employees were able to complete the railroad by 1869, (9) ______ of schedule and under budget by (10) ______ approximately 2,000 miles of track.
Travelling by wagon train took months, and travelling by water took weeks. Now, it took only days.

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B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR — Part II

Give the correct form of the bold words in capital to complete the following passage. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

IT’S ONLY SKIN DEEP
We are the only animal that chooses what it will look like. True, the chameleon changes colour - but not (11. WILL) __________. Unlike us, it doesn't get up in the morning and ask itself, “What shall I look like today?”, but we can and do.
Indeed, the (12. ANTIQUE) __________ of body decoration points to the conclusion that it is a key factor in our development as the dominant life-form on our planet. By (13. CUSTOM) __________ their physical appearance, our ancestors distanced themselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Within each tribe this helped them to mark out differences of role, status, and kinship. Our ancestors apparently developed (14. ORDINARY) __________ techniques of body decoration for practical reasons. How to show where one tribe ends and another begins? How to underline in a lasting way the significance of an individual becoming an adult member of society? Arguably, without the expressive capabilities of such ‘body language’ we would have been (15. FINITE) __________ less successful as a species.

Supply the correct form of WILL for blank (1):

Supply the correct form of ANTIQUE for blank (2):

Supply the correct form of CUSTOM for blank (3):

Supply the correct form of ORDINARY for blank (4):

Supply the correct form of FINITE for blank (5):

B. LEXICO - GRAMMAR — Part III

There are 5 errors in the following passage. Identify and correct them. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

Line 1: Nostalgia is the feeling that things was better in the past. It's what makes us fondly
Line 2: remember our childhood and teenage years as ‘the best years of our lives’, while
Line 3: conveniently forget all the bad stuff that went on in those days. It makes us listen endlessly
Line 4: to the music from our generation and re-watch old movies and TV shows.
Line 5: Nostalgia is behind the inevitably irrational revival of vinyl LPs and even cassettes -
Line 6: technologies that really ought to have been consigned to the dustbin of history.
Line 7: In the 17th century, nostalgia was considered an illness, inflicting soldiers and other who
Line 8: spent extended periods away from home. As late as the 19th century, doctors believed
Line 9: nostalgia arose from a so-called ‘pathological bone’, even though they were unable
Line 10: to locate such a bone somewhere in the human body.
Line 11: Nowadays, we have a better understanding of nostalgia, which is no longer perceived
Line 12: as an infliction to be cured. In fact, it may even be good for you, in which it can make
Line 13: you more optimistic, inspired and creative, and it increases the desire to try new things.
Line 14: As long as we don't allow our memories of the past to distort our view of the present,
Line 15: a few nostalgic reminiscences from time to time can do it a power of good.

Identify the mistake in Line 3 and write the correct word:

Identify the mistake in Line 7 and write the correct word:

Identify the mistake in Line 10 and write the correct word:

Identify the mistake in Line 12 and write the correct word:

Identify the mistake in Line 15 and write the correct word:

C. READING — Part I

Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following passage. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

The Hamster’s Body Clock
Hamsters have no need for alarm clocks. In the strange world of circadian rhythms - the twenty-four-hour cycle which governs almost every biological process in every living thing, (1) ______ body temperature to digestion to sleeping and waking - the hamster is the equivalent of the Swiss watch. According to Professor Michael Antle from the University of Calgary's Department of Psychology, you can predict to within a minute when a hamster is going to wake up. Humans, however, are more (2) ______ a cheap supermarket wall-clock, since their sleeping patterns are less reliable.
Professor Antle is studying the group of 20,000 cells in the brain that (3) ______ up the circadian clock. He’s hoping to explain something astonishing that’s happening to his hamsters. By turning on their light for fifteen minutes in the middle of the night, he can make them wake up an hour earlier the next day. But if (4) ______ he gives them a new drug that he’s experimenting with, they’re up and about eight hours early. They will still need their usual fourteen hours’ sleep, but their biological clocks appear to have been set back.
When he saw the effect initially in his laboratory, Antle was shocked at how big it was. An eight-hour adjustment is something useful - it means that a hamster could be transported from its home in Canada all the way to London without suffering from jetlag. If it could do (5) ______ for people, Antle really would be on to something.

C. READING — Part II

Read the following passage and choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each of the questions. Write your answers in the numbered boxes.

Venus
In the history of astrology, the first maps of Venus were made using radar beams transmitted from Earth. Radar was the only way to map its surface, because the clouds on Venus are so thick that the surface cannot be seen through them. The results of these early attempts were relatively crude and difficult to interpret, although the regions known as Alpha and Beta Regions were discovered. This created a challenging mission for astronauts in the early twentieth century. The first direct view of the surface came from probes, which were landed on Venus in 1975 by the spacecraft Venera 9 and 10, and showed a dry rock-strewn surface.
With much effort, maps of the surface improved dramatically in 1978, when the Pioneer-Venus 1 spacecraft went into orbit around Venus, furnished with a radar altimeter. It showed huge rolling plains stretching right around the planet, some lowland areas, and two highland regions called Ishtar and Aphrodite.
In this scientific research project, the peaks of the highest mountains, Maxwell Montes, in the eastern part of Ishtar, were found to be 12,000 metres above the general surface level, so they are appreciably higher than the Himalayas. The second region, Aphrodite, which is larger than Ishtar, has a vast rift valley at its eastern end nearly 3,000 metres deep, 2,200 kilometres long, and 280 kilometres wide. Two shield volcanoes, broad volcanoes formed of successive outpourings of lava, which are much larger than any found on Earth, were also found isolated from the two upland areas. Six years later a great many impact craters and small volcanoes were found by Venera 15 and 16 orbiters.
Later yet, the Magellan spacecraft entered orbit around Venus in August 1990, and over the next two years completed a detailed radar mapping of the surface. It found that the surface is mostly volcanic, with large lava-flooded plains and thousands of volcanoes. There are also signs of tectonic activity, which has caused, for example, multiple faulting and deep fractures. Besides, there are a number of rift valleys, some of which have been partly flooded by molten lava, and a number of impact craters, the density of which has enabled the scientists to estimate how old various areas are. The absence of impact craters in an area suggests an age of no more than a few tens of millions of years.

The passage mainly discusses how ______.

The passage mentions that radar beams were used to obtain the first maps of Venus because they ______.

What is the phrase “these early attempts” in paragraph 1 refer to which activity?

In which paragraph, the first picture of Venus surface is mentioned?

The word ‘furnished’ in paragraph 2 is CLOSEST in meaning to ______.

The author discusses Maxwell Montes together with the Himalayas in the passage in order to ______.

The word ‘appreciably’ in paragraph 3 is CLOSEST in meaning to ______.

Pioneer-Venus 1 discovered that Venus had all of the following features EXCEPT ______.

The Magellan spacecraft discovered that most of the surface of Venus is covered with ______.

It can be inferred from the passage that scientists use the density of impact craters on Venus to determine which of the following?

C. READING — Part III

Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.

Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence
A. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can already predict the future. Police forces are using it to map when and where crime is likely to occur. Doctors can use it to predict when a patient is most likely to have a heart attack or stroke. Researchers are even trying to give AI imagination so it can plan for unexpected consequences.
Many decisions in our lives require a good forecast, and AI is almost always better at forecasting than we are. Yet for all these technological advances, we still seem to deeply lack confidence in AI predictions. Recent cases show that people don’t like relying on AI and prefer to trust human experts, even if these experts are wrong. If we want AI to really benefit people, we need to find a way to get people to trust it. To do that, we need to understand why people are so reluctant to trust AI in the first place.
B. Watson for Oncology, one of technology giant IBM’s supercomputer programs promoted to cancer doctors, was perceived as a PR disaster. Although 80% effective recommendations on the treatment of 12 cancers were promised to deliver, doctors are in a rather difficult situation at the first time they interacted with Watson. On the one hand, if Watson provided guidance about a treatment that coincided with their own opinions, physicians did not see much point in Watson’s recommendations. The supercomputer was simply telling them what they already knew, and these recommendations did not change the actual treatment.
On the other hand, when Watson recommended an opposing point with the experts’, particularly without any explanation why its treatment was plausible, it was considered to be incompetent. This is because its machine-learning algorithms were simply too complex to be fully understood by humans. Consequently, this has caused even more suspicion and disbelief, leading many doctors to ignore the seemingly outlandish AI recommendations and stick to their own expertise.
C. This is just one example of people’s lack of confidence in AI and their reluctance to accept what AI has to offer. Trust in other people is often based on our understanding of how others think and having experience of their reliability. This helps create a psychological feeling of safety. AI, on the other hand, is still fairly new and unfamiliar to most people. Even if it can be technically explained (and that’s not always the case), AI’s decision-making process is usually too difficult for most people to comprehend. And interacting with something we don’t understand can cause anxiety and give us a sense that we’re losing control.
Many people are also simply not familiar with many instances of AI actually working, because it often happens in the background. Instead, they are acutely aware of instances where AI goes wrong. Embarrassing AI failures receive a disproportionate amount of media attention, emphasizing the message that we cannot rely on technology. Machine learning is not foolproof, in part because the humans who design it aren’t.
D. A recent study has been conducted to explore people’s feelings regarding AI, in which participants watched a wide range of science-fiction films about automation, then answered some questions about AI in everyday life. Their attitudes about AI were polarized by just watching a cinematic vision of human technological future regardless of positive or negative light in the film they were exposed to. In other words, optimists became more extreme in their enthusiasm for AI and sceptics became even more guarded.
This suggests that relevant evidence about AI is used in a biased manner to support their existing attitudes, a deep-rooted human tendency known as ‘confirmation bias’. As AI is represented more and more in media and entertainment, it could lead to two groups in society, either benefiting from AI or rejecting it. More pertinently, refusing to accept the advantages offered by AI could place a large group of people at a serious disadvantage.
E. Fortunately, we already have some ideas about how to improve trust in AI. Simply having previous experience with AI can significantly improve people’s consciousness about the technology. Evidence also suggests the more frequently users expose to other technologies such as the Internet, the more you trust them.
In addition, to change people’s attitudes about this tool, it is recommended that the algorithms which AI uses and the purpose they serve should be revealed more. Several high-profile social media companies and online marketplaces already release transparency reports about government requests and surveillance disclosures. A similar practice for AI could help people have a better understanding of the way algorithmic decisions are made.
F. Research suggests that allowing people some control over AI decision-making could also improve trust and enable AI to learn from human experience. For example, one study showed that when people were allowed the freedom to slightly modify an algorithm, they felt more satisfied with its decisions, more likely to believe it was superior and more likely to use it in the future.
There is no need to understand the intricate inner workings of AI systems, but if people are given a degree of responsibility for how they are implemented, they will be more willing to accept AI into their lives.

List of headings
i. An increasing divergence of attitudes towards AI
ii. The advantages of involving users in AI processes
iii. Why decisions by AI do not gain trust as humans’ ones
iv. The superiority of AI projections over those made by humans
v. The importance of mechanism in improving AI functions
vi. An unexpectedly high-performing application of AI
vii. Experts’ distrust towards a pioneering AI application
viii. Encouraging openness about how AI works

Paragraph B: Watson for Oncology, one of technology giant IBM’s supercomputer programs promoted to cancer doctors, was perceived as a… — chọn heading

Paragraph C: This is just one example of people’s lack of confidence in AI and their reluctance to accept what AI has to offer. Trust… — chọn heading

Paragraph D: A recent study has been conducted to explore people’s feelings regarding AI, in which participants watched a wide range … — chọn heading

Paragraph E: Fortunately, we already have some ideas about how to improve trust in AI. Simply having previous experience with AI can … — chọn heading

Paragraph F: Research suggests that allowing people some control over AI decision-making could also improve trust and enable AI to le… — chọn heading

Some people might be reluctant to accept AI because its complexity makes them feel that they are at a disadvantage.

Subjective descriptions of AI in sci-fi films make people change their opinions about automation.

Portrayals of AI in media and entertainment are likely to become more positive.

Familiarity with AI has very little impact on people’s attitudes to the technology.

AI applications which users are able to modify are more likely to gain consumer approval.

D. WRITING — Part I: Letter Writing

Write a letter of 120-150 words to your friend. You must NOT write your own name and address. Begin and finish your letter as: Dear Ann, ... Yours, Mark.

One of your friends recently had a birthday celebration, but you missed it and you forgot to tell your friend that you couldn’t attend. Write a letter of 120-150 words to your friend.
• apologize for missing the birthday celebration
• explain why you missed it and why you didn’t tell your friend
• say what you would like to do to show that you are sorry

D. WRITING — Part II: Essay Writing

Write an essay of about 200-250 words on this topic. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Some people think that it is better for children to study hard when they are young, while others believe it is better for children to have more time to play. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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