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THI TH TUY N SINH L P 10 THPT CHUYÊN

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Read the four texts below. There are ten questions about the texts. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your
answer sheet to indicate which text tells you the answer to the questions from 1 to 10.

A My French teacher B My big sister

Choosing just one person who has had a major Inevitably, I have to say – my older sister, Ruby.
influence on my life is practically impossible! I say ‘inevitably’ because from the moment I
There have been people at all stages of my life could walk I absolutely worshipped her! She was
who I have both admired and been motivated by my idol. As far as I was concerned Ruby was
for different reasons. However, if I have to perfect and I used to copy her every move. Her
mention just one it would have to be my French favourite colour was my favourite colour – her
teacher at secondary school. After all, it’s favourite food was mine too. Even into our
because of her that I took a particular career path teenage years I followed her taste in clothes,
and ended up where I am today. Her passion and music, and boys! Now, looking back I think what
enthusiasm for the subject touched everyone in I admire most about her was her patience with
the class and I knew from the very first moment me. I must have been a complete pain but she
she started teaching that languages were going to never lost her temper. She gave up a lot of her
figure somewhere in my life. It’s quite scary time to help me with school work and she would
really, to see how significant a teacher’s regularly sit down with me and talk through any
influence can be. He or she can bring a subject problems I had. Back then I copied her because I
alive for the students – or totally kill it off! Miss thought she was beautiful and clever and I
Winters was with us only for a term but a lot of wanted to be just like her but now I understand
her passion for languages rubbed off on me and that in fact her influence also went a lot deeper. I
for that I will always be grateful. hope I’ve developed into a caring, patient person
and if so, then I certainly learned it from her.
C A character in a film
Without doubt, the person who has had the D My best friend
greatest influence on my life wasn’t a real living When you get into real trouble and think there’s
person at all – but a character in a film! I was a no way out, the last person you want to talk to is
very shy ten year old boy when I first saw Billy your family. You feel that you’ve let them all
Elliot on the big screen. I had always wanted to down. I’d got into a bad state. I was into drugs
dance but had never been allowed to. It was my and I was going round with the wrong people
sister who went to the ballet classes and me who when my best friend realised what was
tried to copy her steps in our living room. The happening and persuaded me to get out. It can’t
kids at school knew I wanted to dance too – and have been easy – I wasn’t listening to anyone at
I came in for so much teasing it used to really the time. But he stayed with it and refused to
upset me. Where I came from, boys just didn’t abandon me. And in the end he talked me into
do dancing – like Billy Elliot! I still had this getting counselling and the people I spoke to
deep desire to dance – but I’d been covering it up really helped me turn my life around. Without
for a long time. Then I saw the film. It gave me him my life would have been completely
the confidence to ask for dancing classes and it different – I might not even be here at all. Boyd
also altered everyone else’s perception of boy helped me see life in a different way and because
dancers. There was no more teasing or making of him I gave up my job in insurance and
fun of me. I stayed at the dancing school until I retrained to be a counsellor so that I could help
left full-time education and now dancing is my other young people.
career.
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Which person
1. gave advice to the writer at a time when he/she was not at all receptive?
2. is one of many people who have been important to the writer?
3. was easier to talk to than a relative?
4. influenced the writer more than he/she first realised?
5. changed the way a lot of people thought?
6. was the reason for the writer changing career?
7. only knew the writer for a short time?
8. influenced the writer’s peers as well as the writer?
9. stopped people laughing at the writer?
10. always remained calm?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase for each of the blanks from 11 to 20.
Britain’s dilemma with regard to extended European Union is characteristic of the nation’s divided global
attitudes over the past two hundred years. In many homes Brits are (11) _____ to be somehow best, natural
leaders, people who have proved themselves the automatic choice to be in charge of their own and others’
affairs. They feel that joining a single European currency – when the concept of European unity has not
exactly (12) _____ itself through the ages – is (13) _____ with dangers, and find it extremely difficult to
have faith (14) _____ any of the various manifestos that pro-Europeans have put into circulation. The idea of
European power has gone (15) _____ a joke, they say, with Brussels as a centre of that power (16) _____
itself with a million bureaucratic print-outs a day. They appeal for a return to 20th century values.
These sceptics, of course, (17) _____ violently with their pro-European opponents, (18) _____
supporters of union, who point to the need for countries to co-exist and to (19) _____ themselves to a
common goal, welcoming countries (20) _____ with debts and financial, political and/or sociological
difficulties into the fold.
11. A. rated B. pronounced C. assumed D. estimated
12. A. distinguished B. prided C. achieved D. modelled
13. A. surrounded B. fraught C. related D. conversant
14. A. with B. on C. for D. in
15. A. over B. below C. beneath D. beyond
16. A. busying B. devoting C. dedicating D. exposing
17. A. diverge B. collide C. clash D. oppose
18. A. staunch B. practising C. fierce D. devout
19. A. aim B. target C. commit D. embrace
20. A. attacked B. stung C. full D. riddled

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 from 21 to 25.
It’s one thing for a child to watch television at home and see commercials. It’s another to see them at school.
Back at the end of the 1980s, a young entrepreneur in Tennessee named Chris Whittle had an idea. He
believed that a great untapped market was the nation’s schoolchildren and that if he could find a way to
bundle them together as a group – to corner them in the same place at the same time – advertisers would
beat a path to his door.
It didn’t take a lot of imagination to realise that this audience was already wrapped up in one neat
package – it’s called school – and that, thanks to satellite technology, the market was ripe for Whittle’s
plucking. His problem was how to get satellite receivers into schools. He knew he couldn’t go to schools and
say, ‘buy a bunch of televisions and let me send programs to your kids’. Most schools were too strapped for
resources. So he went to schools across the country and said ‘here’s $22,000 worth of free stuff.’ All he
wanted in return was access to every student between the ages of 12 and 18 each day. And 12,000 schools
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 Having snatched the attention of 8 million students, Whittle began broadcasting 10 minutes of soft news
a day, together with 2 minutes of hard commercials. Of the ten minutes devoted to news, 2–3 usually report
on current events. That leaves 7–8 minutes to devote to feature stories, some of which are product-oriented,
such as how Nike sneakers are made. Technically, the programming is slick. But those 2–3 minutes of hard
news cover an average of around seven stories. The 2 minutes of commercials are devoted to 4 spot ads. In
other words, each ad runs almost twice as long as each hard news story.
21. The writer thinks the idea of children seeing commercials at school is _____.
A. a fact of life B. a matter of concern C. a welcome advance D. a valuable idea
22. At the end of the 80s, Whittle believed that schoolchildren were _____.
A. a possible new target for advertisers C. an impossible goal for advertisers
B. popular with advertisers D. an unsuitable market for advertisers
23. Whittle faced a problem because schools _____.
A. were against his ideas C. were wary of how children would be targeted
B. didn’t want to use televisions for studying D. didn’t have much money
24. The writer suggests that Whittle’s scheme was _____.
A. imaginative B. ambitious C. cunning D. praiseworthy
25. It seems that Whittle’s broadcasts _____.
A. have more spot ads than feature stories C. are poorly made
B. contain a lot of hidden advertising D. include too many hard commercials

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the
position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
26. A. safeguarding B. returnee C. horizontal D. mausoleum
27. A. agriculture B. architecture C. literature D. manufacture
28. A. photography B. ministerial C. discourteous D. incredible
29. A. legislature B. repository C. magnificent D. initiative
30. A. lunatic B. nomadic C. aroma D. heroic

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 from 31 to 35.
If by “suburb” is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than it’s already developed interior, the
process of suburbanisation began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the
nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved
about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1830’s and
1840’s were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for
the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by
proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense
against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbours.
In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal
manoeuvres took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved
such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress
conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful
electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric
streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanisation
that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass – scale
suburbanisation was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle class whose desires for
homeownership in neighbourhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-
family housing tracts.
31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The growth of Philadelphia C. The Development of City Transportation
B. The Origin of the Suburb D. The Rise of the Urban Middle Class
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32. The author mentions that areas bordering the cities have grown during periods of _____.
A. industrialisation B. inflation C. revitalisation D. unionisation
33. The word “encroachment” refers to which of the following?
A. The smell of the factories C. The development of waterways
B. The growth of mill towns D. The loss of jobs
34. Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the passage as a factor in nineteenth-century suburbanisation?
A. Cheaper housing C. The advent of an urban middle class
B. Urban crowding D. The invention of the electric streetcar
35. It can be inferred from the passage that after 1890 most people travelled around cities by _____.
A. automobile B. cart C. horse-drawn trolley D. electric streetcar

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following
questions.
36. I was surrounded by a number of good choices but the _____ was a recent talk to a friend.
A. stimulation B. inspiration C. clincher D. muse
37. At the end of the week, all the sales staff were _____ exhausted.
A. utterly B. evenly C. actually D. reasonably
38. These chocolates are so _____. I can’t stop eating them.
A. moreish B. tender C. sweetened D. sugary
39. It’s a shame that the apartment hasn’t got a parking lot _____.
A. of it B. owned by it C. on its own D. of its own
40. Many linguists believe that the human ability to learn language is _____, an essential part of our nature.
A. intricate B. inadvertent C. innate D. intrinsic
41. I found it hard to _____ with a complete stranger.
A. bow to B. barrel through C. strike up D. partake in
42. How can I pull myself together when this is not _____ a challenge?
A. so much a worry as B. more a worry than C. worth worrying for D. as worrying as
43. The reason for her late arrival at the meeting was _____ a traffic jam.
A. owing to B. due to C. a result of D. as to
44. Paul’s been in Alice’s bad _____ ever since he offended her at the party.
A. books B. eyes C. likes D. treats
45. The little boy did nothing but _____ during the party.
A. crying B. cry C. to cry D. for crying
46. Sophia _____ when she was a child.
A. used to be often ill B. would be ill-stricken C. used to be ill often D. often had illnesses
47. He’s not very sensible as far as money _____ are concerned.
A. matters B. objects C. things D. aspects
48. I appealed to all _____ people to support me and I was successful.
A. same-minded B. thought-sharing C. familiar-thinking D. like-minded
49. The reason it _____ is that you haven’t plugged it in.
A. didn’t work B. won’t work C. wasn’t working D. doesn’t work
50. As part of our Community Project, our class went to the park to pick up _____.
A. litter B. sewage C. garbage D. filth
51. I am afraid that you will be _____ responsible if anything goes wrong.
A. taken B. held C. carried D. brought
52. The new teacher was _____ to the needs of all the children in her care.
A. attentive B. observant C. earnest D. meticulous
53. It is with _____ regret that we have to inform you that your scholarship has been withdrawn.
A. heavy B. intense C. deep D. extreme
54. Tim has a _____ nose and he’s sneezing.
A. feverish B. stuffed C. aching D. runny
55. Lauren is often labelled easy-going as she tends to appear mild and relaxed rather than tense and _____.
A. sullen B. likeable C. humorous D. excitable
56. I didn’t mean to lose my temper with you. I just got _____ away for a minute.
A. melted B. taken C. blown D. carried

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57. The estimated damage _____ that people were commanded to evacuate soon in advance.
A. was to be such B. would be so influential C. was so far-flung D. would have been so great
58. His findings are of great importance _____ it explains the correlation between alcohol and aggression.
A. which may mean B. which C. in which D. in that
59. _____ do you think Ann feels at the end of her typical day?
A. To which extent B. In what way C. How D. What
60. _____ ten people came forward of their own accord. Despite this, we decided not to recruit more participants.
A. As few as B. As many as C. Even more than D. Not many as
61. Ellie does a(n) _____ each week for the local newspaper. It’s usually quite funny.
A. comic B. comedian C. animation D. cartoon
62. Knowing the confidential details gave him a(n) _____ over the other candidates.
A. edge B. possibility C. exertion D. fringe
63. Instant Power is ready to take over when the rechargeable battery goes _____ at an inconvenient time.
A. dry B. flat C. dull D. blank
64. Your health can benefit a lot from fruits and vegetables _____.
A. to be rich in vitamins B. that are vitamins rich C. with rich vitamins D. enriched by vitamins
65. She likes spoiling people’s fun. She is really a _____.
A. couch potato B. wet blanket C. hard nut D. cold fish
66. The old lady is on _____ for her heart condition.
A. healing B. fight C. treatment D. medication
67. The director’s recommendation was that the secretary _____ a crash course in accounting.
A. begin B. had better begin C. should have begun D. ought to begin
68. After running up the stairs, I was quite _____ breath.
A. far from B. out of C. beyond D. without
69. “How do you like your beefsteak done?” ~ “_____.”
A. Very little B. Not medium C. Very much D. Rare
70. The professor, along with his students, _____ the meeting held in Toronto next week.
A. attends B. attend C. is attending D. are attending
71. Come on! I wish they _____ that terrible noise on the upper floor.
A. all could stop B. had all stopped C. would all stop D. are all stopping
72. There’s no place for _____ if we want to stay in this competition.
A. complaisance B. competence C. complacency D. commendation
73. I reckon Martin is _____ of a nervous breakdown.
A. in charge B. under suspicion C. on the verge D. indicative
74. “I’ll do the washing-up, shall I?” ~ “_____!”
A. Kid’s stuff B. Ah, music to my ears C. Not at all D. It’s a great pleasure
75. _____, Jane was guilty of the murder.
A. At heart B. By all accounts C. By all means D. At random

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
76. A. PREFERABLE B. DERIVATION C. PREPARATION D. PRELIMINARY
77. A. SABOTAGE B. COLLAGE C. COTTAGE D. BARRAGE
78. A. PARACHUTE B. MACHINERY C. PREACH D. CHATEAU
79. A. ACCREDIT B. SALAMANDER C. MAJESTY D. SALIVA
80. A. MERCHANT B. SERGEANT C. SERVANT D. MERCURY

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word for each of the blanks from 81 to 90.
There have been great (81) _____ in technology over the last forty years. For examples, the uses of mobile
phones and email communication are common these days. However, machines could never do as good a job
as a human, especially when it comes to interpreting what people are (82) _____. Of course, machines can
translate plain statements such as “Where is the bank?” but even simple statements are not always (83)
_____ because meaning depends on more than just (84) _____. For instance, the word “bank” has a number
of different meanings in English. How does a translating machine know which meaning to take?
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 In order to understand what people are saying, you need to take into account the (85) _____ between
speakers and their situation. A machine cannot (86) _____ the difference between the English expressing
“Look out” meaning “Be careful!” and “Look out” meaning “Put your head out of the window”. You need a
human being to (87) _____ the situation. (88) _____ with written language, it is difficult for a machine to
know how to translate (89) _____ because we rarely translate every word. On the contrary, we try to take
into consideration how the idea would be (90) _____ in the other language. This is hard to do because every
language has its own way of doing and saying this.
81. A. advantages B. progress C. steps D. advances
82. A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling
83. A. direct B. straight C. straightforward D. obvious
84. A. sentences B. vocabulary C. grammar D. words

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85. A. relationship B. attitude C. action D. relations
86. A. say B. speak C. separate D. tell
87. A. understand B. think C. interpret D. believe
88. A. In addition B. Similarly C. In contrast D. However
89. A. accurately B. exactly C. rightfully D. righteously
90. A. said B. written C. translated D. expressed

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Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
91. Neil Armstrong attained an aeronautical engineering degree from Purdue University and a master’s in
A B C
aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.
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92. What does the ageing process cause – and can it be reversed? It’s a question that has baffled some of
A B C
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mankind’s best minds for centuries while the consequences are clear.
D
93. When it comes to keeping up with the times the elephant shark is not in a hurry. The genome of the
A B
bizarre-looking Australian fish has changed little in the last 450 million years, researchers have found.
C D
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94. Hands up who have ever played recordings in their sleep as a last-ditch attempt to cram for an exam or test?
A B C
Well, it might not be such a bad idea after all.
D
95. If you want to map the Universe accurately, you’re going to need a prettily impressive ruler – now there is one.
A B C D
96. Many researchers across the globe are working on the development of quantum computing and the
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NASA fears if there may be implications for national security should another country build a working
B C D
quantum computer first.
97. The brightly-eyed children spoke only a little English but were more than happy to burst into song.
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A B C D
98. At the plantation, the students were first taught the process of growing black tea and later taken on a tour
A B
of the processed plant which dries, mills, sorts and packages the tea for retail.
C D
99. To appreciate the advantages that legs offer over wheels, you have only examined the dust accumulating
A B C D
on stairs of any household cleaned by a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner.
100. What’s your approach in the series to making complicated scientific concepts more easily understand?
A B C D

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 PH N T LU N (5 đi m)
A. Complete the passage below by writing one word in each gap.
To be fair, scientists understand next to (1) __________ about how dolphin communication works. They
have, however, discovered that dolphins possess a skill that is otherwise unknown in the (2) __________
kingdom – except for among humans. In some dolphin species, (3) __________ individual has its own
signature whistle that it will use throughout its life, and that might (4) __________ as a ‘name’.
We know that dolphins can remember the signature whistles of their relatives and playmates, (5)
__________ whistles that they’ve not heard in over 20 years. And recent research suggests that dolphins
also respond when hearing their own signature whistle, (6) __________ means it’s possible that dolphins
call each other by name on occasion. Although Lilly could not have known it at the time, he might well have

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been witnessing this (7) __________ behaviour during his experiments half a century (8) __________.
If dolphins are trying to get each other’s (9) __________ by calling each other’s names, it might mean

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that they have some awareness of the minds of others around them. (10) __________ most great apes,
dolphins seem to be able to spontaneously understand the human pointing gesture. This suggests they might
attribute mental states like seeing or intending (11) __________ the pointing humans. (12) __________ an

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animal that has no arms can understand a human pointing is a real (13) __________. And while there is no
evidence that dolphins fully understand the inner thoughts and beliefs of others (something (14) __________
theory of mind), dolphins do point (15) __________ their heads to direct humans’ attention towards objects

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they want them to look at.
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B. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits in the space.

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1. Various __________ campaign has been launched for growing concern over the environment among
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pro-thinkers. POLLUTE
2. Many people may find themselves at a loss to comprehend recent __________ policies passed by the
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government because of their lack of practicability. CONSIDER

3. My friend was quite surprised when she found out that some traditional games for kids are still
__________ popular among children of her age 60 years ago. DURATION
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4. __________ reporting is widely employed by stakeholders to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of
an organisation’s activities. SUSTAIN
5. Nowadays, students and workers commonly bring their __________ meals to school or work to eat
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during lunchtime. COOK

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6. The way the author __________ her characters’ passion for love in her novel is very gripping.
ROMANCE
7. Doctors announced their success in separating a newly-born __________ twin after the operation. JOIN
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8. __________ Ann produced the best answer immediately after she was presented with it. WIT
9. New foreign students often have no difficulty __________ here, so don’t worry about that. SIMILAR
10. __________ in hospital is attributed to the increase in baby mortality rate. STAFF
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C. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it.
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1. Many creatures still survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the deserts.
Harsh ______________________________________________________________________________
2. Only time can tell whether he will succeed or not.
It remains ___________________________________________________________________________
3. I’m a teacher now because of one of my former teacher’s strong influence on me.
I would _____________________________________________________________________________
4. The practice of this kind of ritual used to be common among these tribes.
No _________________________________________________________________________________
5. Rumour about the president’s non-stop embezzlement from the charity has gone round recently.
The president ________________________________________________________________________

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6. He is nominated for his persistent work for 15 years to find out the important theory.
The work he _________________________________________________________________________
7. We are unable to decide now because it would be the toughest decision we have ever made.
Such _______________________________________________________________________________
8. Apparently, he was more receptive to strange ideas than anybody else.
Nobody seems _______________________________________________________________________
9. Jimmy had a terrible cold so he was absent from class for two days.
Coming _____________________________________________________________________________
10. The whole story is very likely to be forgotten by next term.
In all _______________________________________________________________________________

D. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original
sentence, but using the word given. This word must not be altered in any way.

1. We shouldn’t overstate the importance of finishing on time. EMPHASIS

2. I didn’t notice that my house was broken into until he told me about that. REALISATION
3. He was unwilling to accept that he was responsible for the accident. BLAME
4. Martha panicked when she realised she had lost her handbag. HOT
5. They fired him because he was not competence. GROUNDS
E. Write an essay to express your views about the following statement. Write your answer in 150–200 words.
“It is hard to imagine that people can live without friends.”
THE END OF THE TEST

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