TEST 90

SECTION A. LISTENING
Section 1. Listen and complete the form below. Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR A
NUMBER for each answer. Question 1-5:

PAN ASIAN AIRWAYS

LOST PROPERTY REPORT FORM
Full name Kirsty Allen
Address (1) ___________________ Windham Road, Richmond
Postcode (2)___________________ Home Tel: 020 8927 7651
Mobile. Tel (3)___________________
Flight number (4)___________________
Seat number (5)___________________
From - To New York - London Heathrow

Question 6-8: Choose THREE letters from A to F. What items did Kirsty’s bag contain?
A. 17 pounds B. Pens C. Her passport
D. A book E. 200 dollars F. Her house keys
Question 9-10: Choose a letter (A, B, C, or D) that correctly answer questions 9 and 10.
9. What has Kirsty done regarding to the loss of her credit card?
A. informed the police but not the credit card company.
B. informed the credit card company but not the police.
C. informed both the police and the credit card company.
D. informed neither the police nor the credit card company.
10. What must Kirsty do after the call regarding to her lost handbag?
A. Call back after one hour and a half.
B. Just wait for a call back
C. Call back after one hour and a half if she has heard nothing.
D. Call back the next day if she has heard nothing.
Section 2. Choose the correct answer.
11. The Counseling Service may contact tutors if _______________.
A. they are too slow in making assignments B. they give students a lot of work
C. they don’t inform students about their progress D. they take students out too much
12. Stress may be caused by _____________.
A. new teachers B. time pressure
C. unfamiliar matter D. new teaching methods
13. International students may find stress difficult to handle because ______________.
A. they lack support from family and friends B. they don’t have time to make
friends
C. they find it difficult to socialize D. they are too shy
14. A personal crisis may be caused by ______________.
A. studying for too long overseas B. problems in the student’s
country
C. disruptions to personal relationships D. homesickness
15. Students may lose self- esteem if ______________.
A. they have to change courses B. they don’t complete a course
C. their family puts too much pressure on them D. they have to work part-time
16. Students consult Glenda Roberts if ______________.
A. their general health is poor B. their diet is too strict
C. they can’t eat the local food D. they become obese
17. Students in financial difficulties can receive ______________.
A. assistance to buy books B. a loan to pay their course fees
C. a no-interest loan to cover study expenses C. financial help from their friends
18. Loans are also available to students who______________.
A. can’t pay their rent B. need to buy furniture
C. can’t cover their living expenses D. need to buy reference books
19. The number counseled by the service last year was ______________.
A. 214 B. 240 C. 2,600 D. 340
20. The speaker thinks the Counseling Service ______________.
A. has been effective in spite of the staff shortages B. is under-used by students
C. has suffered badly because of staff cuts D. is not very effective

SECTION B : VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)

Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence. (10 pts)
1.“Go on, finish the desert. It needs _______ up because it won’t stay fresh until tomorrow.”
A. eat B. eating C. to eat D. eaten
2. My parents lent me the money. ________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip.
A. However B. Therefore C. Only if D. Otherwise
3. Her face turned _______when she heard that her mother met with an accident.
A. red B. blue C.white D. grey
4.That is the last _______ I am leaving.
A. straw B. pain C. limit D. nuisance
5.-“Do you mind if I take a seat?” - “______________”
A. Yes, I don’t mind B. No, do as you please
C. No I mind D. Yes, do as you please
6.Florida _______ Georgia to the North.
A. borders B. stretches C. frontiers D. boundaries
7. The new school complex cost _______ the city council had budgeted for.
A. twice more by far than B. twice much more than
C. almost twice as much as D. just twice as much as
8.When the electricity failed, he _________ a match to find the candle.
A. rubbed B.struck C. scratched D. started
9.I usually buy my clothes _________. It’s cheaper than going to the dress maker.
A. on the house B.in public C. off the peg D. on the shelf
10.I know this is a big disappointment but don’t take it to _______
A. soul B. mind C. spirit D. heart
Question II. There are TEN mistakes in the text. Identify each mistake, write it down and
give your correction.
As far back as 700 B.C, man has talked about children caring for by wolves. 1. ____
Romulus and Remus, the legendarytwin founders of Rome, are purported to have 2. ____
been cared for by wolves. It is believed that wherea she-wolf loses her litter, she 3. ____
seeks a human child to take its place.
 This seeming preposterous idea did not becomecredibleuntil the late nineteenth 4. ____
century when a France doctor actually found a naked ten-year-old boy wandering 5. ____
in the woods. He did not walk erectly, could not speak intelligibly, or could he 6. ____
relate to people. He only growled and stared for them. Finally, the doctor won the 7. ____
boy's confidence and began to work with him. After many long years of devoting 8. ____
and patient instruction, the doctor was able to have the boy to clothe and food 9. ____
him, recognize and utter a number of words, as well as write letters and form 10. ____
words.

Mistake Correction Mistake Correction

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

SECTION C: READING COMPREHENSION

I. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word
in each space.
There is growing evidence that urbanization has a sharp impact on (1)_____, causing
changes that(2)______wreak havoc on precipitation patterns that supply the precious resource
of water. The heavy amounts of heat and pollution rising from cities (3)_____delay and
stimulate the fallof precipitation, depriving some areas of rain while drenching others.
Cities are(4)_____average one to ten degrees warmer than surrounding underdeveloped
areas. Cities also produce large amounts of (5)_____called aerosols, gaseous suspensions of
dust particles or byproducts from the(6)_____of fossil fuels. Both heat and aerosols (7)_____
the dynamics of clouds. When hoisted (8)______ in the sky, the microscopic particles act as
multiple surfaces on which the (9)_____in clouds can condense as tiny droplets. This can
prevent or delay the formation of larger raindrops that fall more easily from the sky, (10)_____
it can cause the rain to fall in another location.
II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each
space.
Sound Advice for Language Learners
A recent issue of a language learning magazine has consulted a number of experts in the
(1) ____ of second language acquisition. Their advice may prove invaluable for those (2)____ a
language course. One suggestion is that you (3) ____ whether you are likely to be successful at
learning a language? Did you enjoy studying languages at school, for example? Do you have
enough time to learn a language? The major (4)____will be your own time and effort.
Therefore, you must be sure that the course on offer leads to a (5)_____ qualification. Also, be
realistic in your (6)______. If you don't set achievable aims, you are more likely to give up. Do
not be deceived (7)______thinking that the most expensive courses are the best. (8) ______
around to get the best possible value for money. You should also bear in mind that the quicker
you learn a language, the more quickly you forget it. Sandra Miller, a French teacher, tried to
teach herself German by enrolling on a (9)______course. Already fluent in four languages and
with a sound knowledge of teaching methodology her chances of (10)______ progress were
high. Three years on she remembers very little. She feels her biggest mistake was not to follow
up her first experience. "I should have consolidated what I'd learn by continuing to study, even
if it were by myself."
1.A. branch B. field C. area D. domain
2.A. wondering B. thinking C. looking D. considering
3. A. assess B. review C. balance D. survey
4. A. chance B. cost C. price D. evaluation
5.A. recognized B. understood C. valued D. regarded
6. A. sights B. ends C. objects D. goals
7. A. by B. about C. into D. in
8.A. nose B. push C. run D. shop
9. A. rapid B. crash C. quick D. fast
10. A. achieving B. doing C. making D. gaining
III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions below.
Tsunami is a Japanese word which means harbour waveand is used as the scientific term for
seismic sea wave generated by an undersea earthquake or possibly an undersea landslide or volcanic
eruption. When the ocean floor is tilted or offset during an earthquake, a set of waves is created
similar to the concentric waves generated by an object dropped into the water. Most tsunamis
originate along the Ring of Fire, a zone of volcanoes and seismic activity, 32.500 kilometres long that
encircles the Pacific Ocean. Since 1819, about 40 tsunamis have struck the Hawaiian Islands.
A tsunami can have wavelengths, or widths, of 100 to 200 km, and may travel hundreds
of kilometres across the deep ocean, reaching speeds of about 725 to 800 kilometres an hour.
Upon entering shallow coastal waters, the wave, which may have been only about half a metre
high out at sea,suddenly grows rapidly. When the wave reaches the shore, it may be 15 m high
or more. Tsunamis have tremendous energy because of the great volume of water affected. They
are capable of obliterating coastal settlements.
Tsunamis should not be confused with storm surges, which are domes of water that rise
underneath hurricanes or cyclones and cause extensive coastal flooding when the storms reach
land. Storm surges are particularly devastating if they occur at high tide. A cyclone and
accompanying storm surge killed an estimated 500.000 people in Bangladesh in 1970. The
tsunami which struck south and southeast Asia in late 2004 killed over 200 thousand people.
1.Scientifically, tsunami is the term for _______.
A. seismic sea wave. B. undersea earthquake.
C. undersea landslide. D.volcanic eruption.
72.What does the word “concentric” mean?
A.Wavy B.Having many centres
C.Having a common centre D.A ring
3.Which of the following may be a reason for a tsunami?
A.An inactive volcano. B.A landslide on the seashore.
C.An undersea earthquake. D.A storm.
4.What will happen when an object is dropped into the water?
A.Volcanic eruption may be a consequence. B.Some concentric waves will be generated.
C.There will be seismic activity. D. Earthquake may happen.
5. What is the zone of volcanoes and seismic activity in the world called?
A.The concentric wave. B.The tsunami.
C.The Pacific Ocean. D.The Ring of Fire.
6. What is the greatest speed of tsunamis travelling across the deep ocean?
A.200 kilometres an hour. B.700 kilometres an hour.
C. 800 kilometres an hour. D.150.000 kilometres an hour.
7. How high is the wave of the tsunami when it reaches the shore?
A.100 metres. B.200 metres. C.Half a metre. D.Fifteen metres.
8. How are tsunamis capable of obliterating coastal settlements?
A.They have tremendous energy due to the great volume of water affected.
B.They are a metre high or more.
C.They travel hundreds of kilometres.
D.They can strike the shore fifteen metres high.
9.What killed an estimated 500.000 people in Bangladesh?
A.A tsunami. B.A cyclone and accompanying storm surge.
C.A high tide. D.Flooding.
10.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Tsunamis only occur in Asia.
B.A cyclone along with storm surge happened in Asia in 1970.
C.Storm surges are domes of water rising underneath hurricanes or cyclones.
D. Storm surges cause extensive coastal flooding.

IV. Read the passage

Australia’s Convict Colonies

A. The 1700s in Britain saw widespread poverty and rising crime, and those convicted of crimes faced
harsh penalties, including transportation to one of Britain’s overseas colonies. Since 1615, convicts had
been transported to Britain’s American colonies, both as punishment and a source of labour, but this
practice was halted by the Revolutionary War in America (1775-1783). The British government decided
to establish a new prison colony, and Botany Bay in New South Wales was chosen as the site. (Captain
Cook, exploring the southeast coast of Australia in 1770, had named the land New South Wales and
claimed it for Britain.) Between 1787 and 1868, almost 160,000 convicts, of whom about 25,000 were
women, were sent to Australia to serve sentences ranging from 7 years to live.

B. Eleven ships set sail from England in 1787 to take the first group of about 750 British convicts to
Australia. The fleet reached Botany Bay in January 1788, but nearby Sydney Cove was selected as a
more suitable site for the new settlement, which later became the city of Sydney. The first few years
were difficult, with severe food shortages; by 1792, however, there were government farms and private
gardens. Convicts worked on these farms, or on construction projects such as building roads and
bridges. Although the settlement was a prison colony, few convicts served their sentences in jail. They
lived in houses they had built themselves, and established families, businesses and farms. A settlement
was also established on Norfolk Island, where some convicts were sent for crimes committed after
arrival in the colony. Two more settlements were established on Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania),
in 1803 and 1804.
C. Convicts not involved in public work were assigned to free settlers, providing labour in exchange for
food, clothing and shelter. Some masters treated the convicts cruelly, and the punishment of convicts,
particularly in the early days, could be arbitrary and savage. Lachlan Macquarie, governor of New South
Wales from 1809 to 1819, adopted a more humane approach. He encouraged convicts to reform by
rewarding good behaviour, even granting pardons to convicts before their sentence was completed.
These emancipists, as they were called, were given land and government assistance to help them start
farming. His policies were unpopular both with British authorities and wealthy free settlers, however,
and the next governors were under orders to ensure that life for convicts became much stricter and more
controlled. There were harsher punishments for second offenders, such as working in the Iron gangs’,
where men were chained together to carry out exhausting work on the roads, or being sent to penal
settlements where punishment was deliberately brutal so that it would act as a deterrent
D. In the early years of settlement, the convicts greatly outnumbered free immigrants and settlers. In
1810, convicts made up almost 60 per cent of the population, and over 20,000 new convicts arrived
between 1821 and 1830. Even in 1831, convicts still comprised 45 per cent of the population, with ex-
convicts and emancipists making up another 30 per cent. 25 per cent of the population now consisted of
people born in the colonies, and free people outnumbered convicts.
E. The first group of free settlers had arrived in Australia in 1793 to seek their fortune in the new land.
Their numbers grew, with about 8,000 free settlers arriving in the 1820s to take advantage of free land
grants and cheap convict labour. In 1831, the British government offered money to support new settlers,
hoping to attract skilled workers and single women as immigrants. Between 1831 and 1840, more than
40,000 immigrants arrived in Australia.
F. During the 1820s there was a lengthy campaign to win certain rights for emancipists, which was
opposed by wealthy free settlers. In the 1830s, free immigrants to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s
Land, unhappy about living in a prison colony where civil liberties were restricted and convict labour
resulted in low wages, increasingly voiced their opposition to transportation. Again, wealthy landowners
disagreed, but a growing number of reformers in England were also opposed to convicting
transportation. In 1838, a committee set up by the British Parliament recommended that the government
end transportation to New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, and abolish assignment. The British
duly abolished assignment, and transportation – at least to New South Wales – was halted in 1840.
G. Transportation continued, however, to other colonies and settlements. In the 1840s, most British
convicts were sent to Van Diemen’s Land, where the British government introduced a convict system
based on stages of reform, with the convicts gaining increasing levels of freedom for continued good
behaviour. Transportation to the eastern colonies was abolished in 1852. In contrast, the convict system
in Western Australia began in 1850, at the request of the Western Australian government, and continued
until 1868. Convicts served part of their sentences in Britain before being transported to the colony,
where they worked on badly- needed public construction projects under a system similar to that tried in
Van Diemen’s Land.
Which THREE of the following statements are true of free settlers in the Australian prison
colonies, according to the text?
Choose THREE letters A-H.
NB, Your answers may be given in any order.
A. They were mainly skilled workers and single women.
B. They all welcomed Governor Macquarie’s policies.
C. 25 per cent of them were born in the colonies.
D. 160,000 of them went to Australia between 1787 and 1868.
E. 8,000 of them arrived in Australia in the 1820s.
F. They established families, businesses and farms.
G.Convicts who were assigned to them provided them with labour.
H. They campaigned in favour of emancipist rights.
1----------------- 2----------------- 3-----------------
Reading Passage has seven paragraphs, A-G.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i. Free settlers
ii. Transportation of convicts
iii. The end of transportation
iv. Convict life
v. The colonial population
vi. The treatment of convicts
vii. Opponents of transportation
viii. The first settlements
Example Paragraph A – ii (answer)
4. Paragraph A ___ii___ . Paragraph B _________ 6. Paragraph C _________
7. Paragraph D _________ 8. Paragraph E ______ ___ 9. Paragraph F _________
10. Paragraph G _________
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Australia’s Convict Colonies
Events preceding first settlement
1615-convicts first transported to 11________________ controlled by Britain
1770 – Cook claims SE Australian coast for Britain, calling it 12_________________
*1775 – 1783 – Revolutionary War in America halts transportation there
1787 – Botany Bay chosen as site for new 13_________________ ; first convict fleet sets sail
1788 – fleet reaches Botany Bay but 14________________ chosen instead
V- Read the passage
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3
below.

Coming into the World

A little-known island community comes in from the cold.

A. Back in early 1961, few outside the corridors of dwindling British power had heard of the
archipelago centred on the main island of Tristan da Cunha, from which the scattered islands that make
up the group took their name. It would take a dramatic volcanic eruption, and an emergency evacuation
that would grab the attention of the media, to bring attention to this mysterious outpost of the British
Empire. It seemed that the islands, no more than pin-pricks in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, almost
equidistant between Buenos Aires in South America and Cape Town in South Africa, preferred not to be
found.
B. The same can be said of the 290 or so residents of Tristan da Cunha at that time. They lived on the
remotest island on the entire planet. There was no airport, nor was there space to build one on this
mountainous carbuncle projecting from the ocean. The only harbour, impenetrable during rough
weather, was 1,500 miles distant from the nearest mainland port. Cape Town. Communications with the
outside world relied predominantly on signals to passing fishing boats and the annual visit of the vessel
that supplied the islanders with the goods they could not produce themselves.
C. For this was a self-reliant community, proud of their ability to survive and help each other in times of
adversity. Colonized early in the 19 th century, until December 1942, money had not been exchanged on
the island. However, war-time conditions and new development, in particular a new fishing industry,
saw the beginnings of links which meant that the islanders had to accept they were now part of the
modern world, however much the older members of the community might resist such change.
D. The lives of the islanders ticked quietly along, largely ignored as the government of Britain struggled
with larger events on the world stage, until the beginning of August 1961. Earth tremors and rockfalls
began on the 6th, but by October the situation had got so bad that the island had to be evacuated. The
entire population eventually found themselves in England, where they were met with unwanted and
unexpected attention from the media. They were housed at a military camp just outside the port of
Southampton.
E. Coming from a sub-tropical island and having had little exposure to the illnesses and chill endured by
the natives of the British Isles during winter, several of the elder islanders succumbed. The government
did not seem to know what to offer the islanders, there was no news about what was happening to their
homeland, and the future looked very bleak. These were people who had built up their own way of life
for over one hundred and fifty years. They were a compact community who shared only seven family
names between them, and now it seemed that their way of life was to be destroyed.
F. Fortunately, and despite the islander’s reluctance to have any dealings with the media, who they
suspected looked on them as historical curiosities, the attention helped keep their plight in the public
eye. Eventually, word came through that the island was again habitable and, despite strong resistance
from the British Government, the vast majority of the islanders voted to return, turning their backs on
the temptations of the brighter lights of their temporary home in favour of their own.
G. The last of the returning islanders arrived in November 1963 and, with the rebuilding of the crawfish
canning industry and growing demand for the island’s stamps amongst dedicated collectors following
the publicity caused by the volcanic eruption, the local economy soon recovered, although
communications remained as difficult as they had ever been. Michael Parsons, a young British teacher
who was employed on the island, recalls that there was no television and mail from the outside world
arrived just eight times a year. ‘I was allowed to send a 100-word telegram home once a month,’ he
recalls,’ and getting news from home brought a lump to my throat’
H. Things have changed with developments in technology, but at the beginning of the present century,
the island was again cut off from the rest of the world when, on May 23 rd 2001, a hurricane tore through
the area. It caused extensive damage, knocking out the radio station and satellite telephone link as well
as leaving the islanders without electricity. It would be a week before news of the disaster reached
London and several more weeks before a rescue package could be agreed to help the islanders rebuild.
Today the island boasts its own internet café. For the first time, people can see what the items they wish
to obtain from abroad actually look like before they purchase them – a big bonus in a place where you
have to wait many months to receive an order which might prove to be unsuitable for the purpose you
had in mind. At last, it seems, Tristan da Cunha has joined the world.
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D and write them next to 27 and 28 on your answer sheet.
1. The writer describes the islands of Tristan da Cunha as
A. difficult to find in an emergency.
B. a place the media didn’t understand.
C. somewhere different countries claimed to own.
D. is unknown to most members of the public.
2. What does the writer say about the islanders?
A.They could go for years with no contact with outsiders.
B. They had no means of leaving the island to speak to others.
C. They exchanged messages with boats that went past them.
D. They travelled to the mainland on the supply ship.
Do the following statements agree with the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 3? Write
YES, if the statement agrees with the writer’s views
NO, if the statement contradicts the writer’s views
NOT GIVEN, if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
3. People living on Tristan da Cunha are self-sufficient.
4. The islanders often get ill.
5. Some islanders were reluctant to return after the volcanic eruption.
6. The selling of postage stamps has generated revenue for the islanders.
7. There is no television service on Tristan da Cunha.
8. Communications with the island are often interrupted.
Complete the summary.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
First colonised in the early part of the 19 th century, Tristan da Cunha remained unknown to many people
in the rest of the world until a 9_______________ forced the small population of this remote island to
evacuate their homes and brought their existence to the attention of 10________________. After
spending two years as refugees in
11_________________ , the British Government reluctantly allowed them to return to the island once it
had been established that the danger had passed. The
12___________________ of the island improved when rebuilding work had been completed, partly
because of a new interest in the 13_________________Disaster was to strike the island again nearly
forty years later when a 14_________________ destroyed many buildings on the island.

SECTION E: WRITING (20 pts)

I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence printed above it. (5 pts)
1. The company presents a gold watch to each of its retiring employees.
Each ______________________________________________________.
2. They tried hard so that they would pass the exam.
With _______________________________________________________.
3. On his way home Terry had an unfortunate accident .
Terry met _________________________________________________.
4.The Pacific Ocean is averagely deeper than the Atlantic.
The average _________________________________________________.
5.Peter said “I wish I were in your place”.
 Peter said ___________________________________________________.
II. Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning as the first one, using the
words given. You MUST use between TWO and FIVE words. (5 pts)
6. You’d feel better if you had a quiet holiday. (DO)
 A quiet holiday___________________.
7. By chance I was in that town when the earthquake started. (HAPPENED)
 I _________________that town when the earthquake started.
8. Despite knowing this place very well, I got lost. (THOUGH)
 I got lost_________________________very well.
9. Were Jack not so affluent a man, she would not be dating with him. (BUT)
__________________, she would not be dating with him.
10. They listened eagerly and attentively to the President’s speech. (EARS)
 They____________________ to the President’s speech.
III. Imagine that you have invited an English pen pal, Nick to stay with you this summer, but
there are some reasons that you have to cancel this plan. ( 10 pts)
Write an email (about 100-120 words) to Nick. (Your name is Phong).
These notes must be in your email.
* apologize to Nick
 * explain why the visit has to be delayed
* suggest when it would be convenient for Nick to come.
IV. Write a story about 200 words. You MUST FINISH with :
After all, Peter realized who were his true friends.