XI. Read the text, and match the headings (A-F) with paragraphs (1-5). There is one extra
heading that you do not need.
A – Why do “friends” websites seem dangerous?
B – How do “friends” websites work?
C - What’s the best advice for people who want to use “friends” websites?
D – Where do Millie’s friends live?
E – How can I find “friends” websites?
F – Why are “friends” websites popular?
1. _______ Millie is 14 years old and lives in Miami. She has 204 friends – and she makes two
or three more friends every week. About 20 of her friends also live in Miami. Some go to the
same school, and others go to the same music clubs and sports centers. She often sees them. The
others live in other cities and other countries: England, Canada, Japan … She never meets these
friends, but she talks to them on the Internet. They are her “MySpace Friends”.
2. _______ Because of websites like MySpace, Yahoo 360 and Bebo, people can make friends
online. These websites are very popular all over the world, especially with young people. Users
have their own homepage. They give information about themselves. They write letters for their
webpage, show photos and give opinions. They write about their favourite films, music and TV
programmes.
3. _______ For many young people, a good homepage is an important part of their image. It
says: “This is me! I have something to say. These things – and these people – are important in
my life.” And these websites are also an easy way to talk to a lot of different people. That is
why teenagers likes these “friends” websites.
4. _______ But some people are worried that these websites aren’t safe. For example, it is
impossible to know that the information on a homepage is true. Perhaps the 14-year-old girl you
talk to online is really a 40-year-old man. So here is some advice.
5. _______ Keep your webpage private. (only friends can see a private homepage). Do not put
photos of yourself on your homepage. Do not meet people that you only know because of the
website. And finally, remember that online friends are fun, but they are not the same as real
friends.
 

I. Read the following article. Ten sentences or parts of a sentence have been removed form the article. Choose from the list (A-L) the one which best fits each gaps (1-10). There are two extra options which you do not need to use.                                                PARENT TALK

It is well known that (1)____ . One of the most common things that parents do is (2)____. In fact, over 40% of what parents say to their young children is questions. This is much, much more question asking than you will hear (3)____ . Parent – child questioning falls into a few different categories. Most common is a “test question”. Parents often ask this kind of questions to find out (4)____ . For example, a father may ask, “what’s that?” when a child picks up a toy. Obviously, the father knows the answer; he just asks to see (5)____ . Very young children enjoy and benefit from questions like such. These questions are different from “request for information”. (6)____ is when a child is in the living room and the mother is in the kitchen and asks, “What are you doing?”(7)____. “Directives” are often stated (8)____. For example, a parent might say, “can you put these toys away?” or “Put these toys away, OK?” (9)____ but simply to follow the direction. “Interaction markers” are also common.(10)____. For example, if a father doesn’t understand what a child is saying, he might say, “what?” Or if the child doesn’t answer, he might say, “Huh?” Some language experts think that asking a lot of all these types of questions helps children to learn language more quickly.

List of sentences/ parts of sentences

A. if the child knows what it is

B. Parents ask these types of questions in order to keep a conservation going C. as a request or as a command in question form

D. so that everything is clear

E. The parent actually wants to know

F. An example of this type of question

G. what a child knows

H. young children learn a lot from their parents

I. The child can always understand them

J. The parent does not expect the child to answer

K. when adults talk to adults

L. ask their children questions
GIÚP MÌNH VỚI MỌI NGƯỜI

Read the passage below. For each paragraph, choose the most suitable heading from the list which follows. There is one extra heading you do not need to use.

PROCESSED FOOD
A. Not all doctors agree.
B. Adequate nourishment essential.
C. Additives disguise bad ingredients.
D. Diet to be fat-free, sugar-free.
E. Coffee increases risk of heart disease.
F. Tea and coffee bad for you.
G. Processed food may be bad for you.
H. Doctor's argument not logical.

1. ..........................
After the cigarette manufacturers, it has become the turn of the food processors to suffer the attacks of those who would have us lead a healthy life. Sometimes you have the feeling that almost everything you eat is liable to damage your brain, clog your arteries, ulcerate your stomach, or impact your intestine. On the other hand, it is certainly true that there is nothing like reading the list of ingredients on the back of a cereal packet or a pot of jam to put you off your breakfast.
2. ..........................
One dietician writes of pork pies as follows: "People wouldn't buy a pork pie if chemicals had not been designed into them. A pork pie can contain as much as 50 per cent of highly saturated fat which is bad for the heart and arteries. A perfectly good pork pie could be made from reasonable ingredients but it is cheaper to make it with additives because less meat is then needed. The additives in the pie do little harm in themselves. The fat is made acceptable by a perfectly safe emulsifier. Added colour makes the fat look like meat. The additives in it deceive our senses and persuade us to eat too much fat. Even if the additives themselves are considered to be relatively safe, the nutritional consequences are appalling."
3. ..........................
Since a study by Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, Baltimore, in the mid-eighties, coffee has been on everyone's blacklist. According to the study: "Regardless of the measure of coffee consumption used, analyses found that heavy coffee drinkers were almost three times more likely to have coronary disease than were non-drinkers. Even one or two cups of coffee a day appear to be associated with a small extra risk of heart disease - a one-third increase over non-drinkers." The one piece of good news appears to be that the risk decreases rapidly once a person stops drinking coffee.
4. ..........................
Few arguments create greater passion among medical experts than the supposed link between diet and heart disease. Some doctors, however, refuse to accept any connection between the two. They have argued that diets which cut back on dairy produce, although unlikely to cause physical harm, could lead to malnutrition, particularly among children. They are appalled that breakfast, that traditional British meal, should be under attack by the spectre of disease. Come between some doctors and their bacon and eggs and feelings will run high.
5. ..........................
The nutritionists have fought back. They remain convinced that sugary, fatty foods lead to preventable ill health. One doctor argues that a fibre-rich diet is only of use to those who suffer from diabetes. Rubbish, say the nutritionists, and go on to point out that "over one third of British adults are constipated. At least one in seven takes laxatives. And dietary fibre is of proven value in the treatment of constipation."
6. ..........................
Yet another doctor argues that dental decay should really be seen as a disease which results from a lack of fluoride. What we need to do is clean our teeth like crazy, have them coated with sealants, and take fluorides daily. The nutritionist blasts back by pointing out that you might as well say that headaches are caused by a lack of aspirin.
7. ..........................
What we do know is that nutrition does affect health. Too little food and too much food are both bad for you. In Britain, poor boys tend to be two inches shorter on average than rich boys.

1. Reading (Đọc hiểu)

Read the text and match the interview question A-E with paragraphs 1-4. There is one extra question.

(Đọc văn bản và nối câu hỏi phỏng vấn A-E với đoạn văn 1-4. Có một câu bị thừa.)

A. What is the most dangerous part of being a firefighter?

(Điều gì là phần nguy hiểm nhất khi trở thành một lính cứu hỏa?)

B. How physically fit do you have to be? 

(Bạn phải khỏe đến mức độ nào?)

C. How did you become a firefighter?

(Bạn đã trở thành lính cứu hỏa như thế nào?)

D. Why did you decide to become a firefighter? 

(Tại sao bạn lại quyết định trở thành lính cứu hỏa?)

E. What other skills do you need?

(Những kĩ năng khác cần có là gì?)

(1) _____ I'm Jack Gomez, a firefighter in California. I remember watching an interview with a firefighter pilot when I was a child. He'd been fighting a fire for about five days. He was exhausted then. However, he was so optimistic and committed that I thought that I wanted to do the same thing. And I never changed my mind.

(2) _____ I did a training camp to get my wildfire qualification card - you can't fight fires in the US without one. I learned how to light controlled fires, how to put them out again, and how to use all the equipment. The camp was really hard, but I passed first time! After that I was lucky enough to get a job.

(3) _____ One of the things you have to do in the early days is the pack test. This consists of a five - kilometre walk while carrying a twenty-kilogram backpack. You have to complete it in forty-five minutes or less without jogging or running. This shows how strong you are. 

(4) _____ You can be out alone in vast forests and national parks, and sometimes the smoke is so thick that you can hardly see. So, it is important to be able to read map, and to use a compass. Also, you must know how to put up a tent, cook outdoors, drive a truck, and have other basic survival skills.

Fill the blanks with the words given. There is one extra word you do not need to use.

            People in the country enjoy some advantages that people in the city cannot enjoy. Firstly, the country has space for people to ( 1 ) …………………….... things. Actually, they have space to ( 2 ) ……………………….. flowers and space to ( 3 ) …………………..…. animals. That is why it is easy for them to ( 4 ) ……………………………….…… fresh vegetables, fruit, and milk ( 5 )………………………………. low prices. Secondly, they are always in close contact ( 6 ) ……………………………… nature. They often make friends ( 7 ) ………………………..….. trees, soil, cows, and dogs. They ( 8 ) …………...….. fresh air. They fight against strong winds. Thirdly, they get a lot of ( 9 ) …………..……. when they work ( 10 ) ………………………. the land. They can listen to the song of birds while working. This contact with nature is good for their health. Finally, they can save a lot of money because everything is always cheap in the countryside.

            Living in the countryside brings a lot of useful things. Elderly people are especially fond of its life.

• You are going to read a magazine article about a painting created by a computer. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A–G the one which fits each gap (1 – 6). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

                                                                                     A computer-generated painting

   Born in Amsterdam in 1606, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is one of the world’s most renowned artists. The prolific painter was famous for his portraits and was admired for his ability to capture real emotions. Unfortunately, like many artists of his time, Rembrandt’s talents were not recognized during his lifetime. The artist died penniless in 1669, after suffering many years of hardship. Interestingly, a painting unveiled in Holland in 2016 has made headlines around the world because it looks as if it was painted by a famous 17th-century Dutch artist.

1. ____________________________________________________________

   It is, in fact, a brand new painting that uses technology to mimic his technique so perfectly that it could easily be mistaken for one created by the great artist himself. The clever forgery, called the ‘Next Rembrandt’, took 18 months to complete and is the result of a collaboration between computer experts and art experts. The team collected data from the Dutch artist’s 346 known paintings to help them imitate as closely as possible his technique, choice of color, structure, texture, and topic. They used facial recognition software and a unique computer program to analyze the individual features of his style. 

2. ______________________________________________________________

   The computer needed as much data as possible to enable it to mimic the artist’s work accurately. Rembrandt painted a large number of portraits, many of which were of men with mustaches wearing black suits with white collars 3. ___________________ They decided that the ‘Next Rembrandt’ would be a portrait of a white male between 30 and 40 years old, wearing black clothes, a white-collar, and a hat.

4. ____________________________________________________________

   The special software system that the team had designed gathered information about Rembrandt’s style based on his use of geometry, the way he placed the objects and people concerning one another in his paintings, and his choice of paint colors. The data was used to generate the facial features for the ‘Next Rembrandt’. The individual elements were put together to form the face and the chest in the same proportions as the original paintings created by the Dutch artist.

5. ____________________________________________________________

   When this had been done, a 3D printer was used to bring the ‘Next Rembrandt’ to life. Comprising 148 million pixels and 13 layers of ultra-violet ink, the ‘painting’ is a clever forgery that looks exactly like an original Rembrandt, at least to the untrained eye. The goal of the project was to start a discussion about how data and technology could become an essential part of the art world. The project was not universally popular and did receive some criticism 6. _______________________________________ They aimed to ensure that the ‘Next Rembrandt’ would be a masterpiece, one that even the famous Dutch artist would be proud of, and they seem to have succeeded.

+ ANSWER:

A. However, many art historians, including Rembrandt experts, were incredibly supportive.

B. Once the subject had been determined, the next stage of the process could begin.

C. These included details like painting strokes, the artist’s preferred angle, and so on.

D. As a result, they actually considered giving up on it at this point.

E. The team then used technology to add depth and texture to their image.

F. The authentic-looking masterpiece is not the work of Rembrandt, though.

G. For this reason, the team settled on creating something similar.

Part 5. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the phrasal verbs in the box. Use each once only. There is one extra phrasal verb which you do not need to use. 

56. That woman certainly tried hard to ..... her abilities.

57. When I was looking through my papers, I .........this picture.

58. Did the workers ............the foreman’s instructions carefully?

59. Is the committee going to ...........his application for admission?

60. Should we ..........the lesson now or ...it .....until later tonight?

Part 6. Fill in each gap with a correct preposition. 

61. When you join a club, you have to abide ………… its rules.

62.  The student was punished for acting ………… in class.

63. It suddently came ………… her that she should become a teacher.

64. If we can’t afford a car, we’ll just have to do ………… one.

65. We all burst ………… laughing when the monitor hid his imitation of our English teacher.