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Tổng điểm bài thi Giám khảo Số phách

(Do chủ tịch HĐ

chấm thi ghi) Bằng số Bằng chữ

Giám khảo 1

(kí, ghi rõ họ tên)

Giám khảo 2

(kí, ghi rõ họ tên)

CHÚ Ý: THÍ SINH VIẾT CÂU TRẢ LỜI VÀO BẢNG CHO SẴN TRONG ĐỀ

A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1. (20pts)

Question 1-7. Complete the note below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

HOW TO CHOOSE FLOORING MATERIALS

Source

1. There are some man-made materials like ………………………

2. Before being used, material undergoes ………………………

3. Wood should be cut and ………………………

4. Stone should be cut and ………………………

Selection

5. Aside from environmental factors, one should take ………………………into account

during construction.

6. Some properties of materials affect mood, such as ………………………, texture and color.

7. Use a mathematical formula to choose the type of wood, because ………………………are

subjective, which are ambiguous in verbal description.

Question 8-10. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A

NUMBER for each answer.

MATERIAL REFLECTANCE RATE

Polished silver Almost 1.0

White-painted plastic Approximately (8) …………………..

Quarry tile Approximately (9)………………….

(10) ………………………… Almost 0.0

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Listen to an introduction of a new invention and answer the following questions. Use NO

MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. (10 pts)

1. How much was the watch used by Fossett sold for?

……………………………………………………………………………

2. Where were the two men near when the accident happened?

……………………………………………………………………………

3. Who might benefit a lot from this watch?

……………………………………………………………………………

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4. What is the maximum range of the watch at sea?

……………………………………………………………………………

5. When was the self-winding watch invented?

……………………………………………………………………………

Your answers:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Part 3. You will hear an interview with a comedian, Lenny Henry. Listen carefully and decide the

following statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN according to what you hear. (10pts)

1. Lenny decided to do a degree because he was impressed by other actors who had been to the university.

2. Studying for a degree has made Lenny think more seriously about his career.

3. According to Lenny, comedy makes people more sensitive.

4. Lenny says when he visited Debre Zeit, he was moved by the way people there handled their situation.

5. Lenny hopes that he will soon become a famous film - maker.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4. You will hear an interview with a woman called Barbara Darby, who works as a casting director

in the film industry. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that fits best according to what you hear. (10 pts)

1. According to Barbara, a casting director needs above all _______

A. to learn from experience.

B. to be a good communicator.

C. to have a relevant qualification.

D. to have a natural feel for the job.

2. Barbara says that she looks for actors who _______

A. can play a variety of roles.

B. complement each other.

C. accept her way of working.

D. think deeply about a part.

3. At which stage in the casting process does Barbara meet the actors?

A. before she goes to see them performing live

B. once the director has approved them

C. before a final short list is drawn up

D. as soon as a final selection is made

4. Barbara explains that what motivates her now is a need for _______

A. personal satisfaction.

B. professional recognition.

C. a glamorous lifestyle.

D. financial security.

5. What made Barbara give up her job for a while?

A. She’d become tired of travelling.

B. She was ready to try something new.

C. She felt she’d been put under too much pressure.

D. She found that she was no longer as committed to it.

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Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (40 points)

Part 1. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence. (10 pts)

1. Money was short and people survived by _______and saving.

A. scrimping B. scavenging C. scouring D. scrounging

2. He left the meeting early on the unlikely _______ that he had a sick friend to visit.

A. claim B. pretext C. excuse D. motive

3. This is the _______ timetable for the conference. It may change later.

A. conditional B. indefinite C. provisional D. indeterminate

4. Drug-taking is a crime which society simply cannot _________.

A. approve B. acknowledge C. consent D. condone

5. The supervisor’s job is to _______ the work of his particular department.

A. overlook B. overrun C. oversee D. overview

6. Mr. Henson’s bitter comments on the management’s mistakes gave _______ to the conflict which has

already lasted for four months.

A. cause B. ground C. goal D. rise

7. I was scared _______ when I looked down from the top of the cliff.

A. tight B. stiff C. consent D. solid

8. There will of necessity be a ______ to the amount of money put at the new manager’s disposal.

A. ceiling B. roof C. hard D. solid

9. I was sitting on the bus when I heard this odd_______ of conversation.

A. lumps B. air C. snatch D. stab

10. Though he faced many difficulties, he could not be _______ from his goal.

A. hindered B. obstructed C. prevented D. deflected

Your answers

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Complete the following text with the correct forms of the words given in the brackets. (10 pts)

Although there is still fighting in Vietnam, and although the most pressing of his other problems

are domestic, President Nixon's first major act of policy is to announce a trip to Europe. This is not as (1)

................................ (TIME) as it seems. In fact, it is a (2) .............................. (FOOT) step from both his

(3) ........................... (POINT) and the nation's.

By acting in the foreign policy field, where any President is virtually omnipotent, Nixon asserts his

leadership of the whole nation. By turning first to Europe, he ends the (4) .............................. (OCCUPY)

with Vietnam Europeans have with reason resented. There are many neglected problems in the Atlantic

community, and while his (5) .............................. (ADMINISTER) is not prepared with any great policy

(6) ............................... (INITIATE), a working visit of exploration like this one can give future decisions

a sounder basis.

His first stop is Brussels, headquarters of NATO, which needs a new military strategy and stronger

common political purpose. Putting Brussels first indicates any Nixon plans for nuclear talks with Russia

will not be at the expense of the (7) ............................... (ALLY). His visit to Berlin, which East Germany

has been harassing again, will be a sign that the West is still determined to defend that

(8)............................... (POST). His visit to De Gaulle may or may not lay (9) ....................... (GROUND)

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for a Franco-American rapprochement. Nixon is unlikely to return from Europe with any big deals to

announce. But the proposed conversations should improve the transatlantic atmosphere.

The trip is further evidence of Nixon's grasp of his new office. Many of his most practiced critics,

in the Congressional opposition and in the press, acknowledge that he has made an excellent start. He is

moving with crispness and energy; some of the old (10) ........................... (WARY) is there, but there are

lively flashes of humor and imagination. We wish him a good trip and continued growth in his great

office.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them. (10 pts)

Line

1. First come the PC, then the internet and e-mail; now the e-book is

2. upon us, a hand-held device similarly in size and appearance to a video

3. cassette. The user simply rings up the website on their PC, selects

4. the desired books, downloads them onto their e-book machine and

5. sits down to read them. In turn a page, the user simply taps the

6. screen. E-book technology is evolving rapidly, and with some of

7. the latest handholds you will even get internet access.

8. But why would one want an e-book machine with preference to a book?

9. Well, one selling point companies emphasized, when these devices

10. hit the market a few years ago, which is the space they save when going

11. on holiday. E-books enlighten the load, literally. Ten large novels can

12. be put onto a device that weighs less than the average paperback. One

13. can understand why commercial interests seem to want us to change.

14. After all, the whole production process at first plan by author

15. until delivery to the printer has been doing electronically for a while

16 now, so why not save a few million trees and cut out the hard copy?

Your answers:

Number Line Mistake Correction

1.

2.

3.

4.

5

6

7

8

9

10

Part 4. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. (10 pts)

1. Have you changed the living room _______? It looks different.

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2. There was still another hour of the flight left, so I whiled the time _______ by doing a crossword.

3. The argument is centered_______ whether or not to lower the age limit.

4. I almost creased_______ when I heard Tim was going to play Romeo in the school play.

5. He is a coward _______ his own admission.

6. The speech was drowned _______ by the music coming from the next room. We couldn’t hear a word

she said.

7. Adam felt really sick at heart after his girlfriend had walked out _______ him.

8. It’s _______ any hope that the Italian champion will retain the title. Nobody’s giving her any chances

this year.

9. Our marketing manager keeps getting _______ me because he doesn’t think I’m creative enough.

10. He's always walking _______ things when he doesn't have his glasses on.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (50 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. (10 pts)

Broadcasting has democratized the publication of language, often at its most informal, even undressed.

Now the ears of the educated cannot escape the language of the masses. It (1) _____ them on the news,

weather, sports, commercials, and the ever-proliferating game shows. This wider dissemination of popular

speech may easily give purists the (2) _____ that language is suddenly going to hell in this generation, and

may (3) _____ the new paranoia about it.

It might also be argued that more Americans hear more correct, even beautiful, English on television

than ever before. Through television more models of good usage (4) _____ more American homes than

was ever possible in other times. Television gives them lots of (5) _____ English too, some awful, some

creative, but that is not new.

Hidden in this is a (6) _____ fact: our language is not the special private property of the language

police, or grammarians, or teachers, or even great writers. The (7) _____ of English is that it has always

been the tongue of the common people, literate or not.

English belongs to everybody: the funny (8) _____ of phrase that pops into the mind of a farmer

telling a story; or the (9) _____ salesman’s dirty joke; or the teenager saying, "Gag me with a spoon"; or

the pop lyric - all contribute, are all as (10) _____ as the tortured image of the academic, or the line the

poet sweats over for a week.

1. A. circles B. surrenders C. supports D. surrounds

2. A. thought B. idea C. sight D. belief

3. A. justify B. inflate C. explain D. idealize

4. A. render B. reach C. expose D. leave

5. A. colloquial B. current C. common D. spoken

6. A. common B. stupid C. central D. simple

7. A. genii B. genius C. giant D. generalization

8. A. turn B. twist C. use D. time

9. A. tour B. transport C. travel D. travelling

10. A. valued B. valid C. truthful D. imperfect

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each

space. (10pts)

THE CULT OF CELEBRITY

Once, children had ambitions to be doctors, explorers, sportsmen, artists or scientists. Now taking their

lead from TV, they just "want to be famous". Fame is no longer a reward for gallant service or great, perhaps

even selfless endeavor. It is an end in (1) ______, and the sooner it can be achieved, the sooner the lonely

bedroom mirror can be replaced by the TV camera and flash gun, the better. Celebrity is the profession (2

______ the moment, a vainglorious vocation which, (3) ______ some 18th- century royal court, seem to exist

largely so that the rest of us might watch and be amazed (4) ______ its members live out their lives in public,

like self-regarding members of some glittering soap opera.

Today, (5) ______ everyone can be famous. Never has fame (6) ______ more democratic, more

ordinary, more achievable. (7)______ wonder it's modern ambition. It's easy to see why people crave

celebrity, (8) ______ generations reared on the instant fame offered by television want to step out of the

limousine (9) ______ the flashlights bouncing around them. Who doesn't want to be the center of attention

at some time in their lives?

Modern celebrity, peopled by the largely vain and vacuous, fills a need in our lives. It peoples talks

shows, sells goods and newspapers and rewards the famous for, well, (10) ______famous.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (10 pts)

Over the last century the world has become increasingly smaller. Not geographically, of course,

but in the sense that media, technology and the opening of borders has enabled the world’s citizens to

view, share and gain access to a much wider range of cultures, societies and world views. In this melting

pot that the world has become, today’s child is privy to facets of the human experience that his immediate

predecessors had no inkling even existed. It stands to reason that in order to absorb, configure and finally

form opinions about this information-laden planet, children must be supplied with certain tools. Included

in this list of ‘tools’ are: education, social skills, cultural awareness and the acquisition of languages, the

most important of these being the latter. Until recently, a child who had the ability to speak more than one

language would have been considered a very rare entity. This one-language phenomenon could be

attributed to a combination of factors. Firstly, the monolingual environment in which a child was raised

played a strong role, as did the limited, biased education of the past. With regard to immigrants, the sad

fact was that non-native parents tended to withhold the teaching of the mother tongue so that the child

would acquire the ‘more prestigious’ language of the adopted country.

Nowadays, the situation has undergone an almost complete reversal. In the majority of North

American and European countries, most children are given the opportunity to learn a second or even a

third language. Children acquire these foreign languages through various and diverse means. In many

countries, learning a foreign language is a compulsory subject in the state school curriculum. Other

children rely on language schools or private tuition to achieve their goal. In other instances, children are

born to bilingual parents, who, if they so desire, may teach the children two languages.

Bringing up one’s child bilingually is not a decision to be taken lightly. Both parents must consider

long and hard the implications involved in raising a child in a two-language home. This decision is one of

those all-important choices which will affect not only the parents’ lives but also the life of the child.

Raising a child bilingually has a two-fold effect. Firstly, of course, the child learns the two languages of

the parents. Secondly, the parents’ decision will influence factors which will have a far-reaching effect on

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the child’s life. Some of these factors include: style and place of education; diameter of social circle;

employment potential and preference; and, most importantly, the way in which the child views himself

and his global environment.

One of the more advantageous by-products of being a member of a bilingual family is the

inherent awareness of two different cultures. This bicultural child inherits a wealth of knowledge brought

about by an exposure to: historical backgrounds; traditional songs and folklore; rituals of marriage;

models of social interaction; and therefore, two varying interpretations of the world. The monolingual

child seems to be at a disadvantage in comparison to the bilingual child, who has a set of languages and an

accompanying set of abstract cultural ideas. Practically speaking, when a child comes from a two-

language family, he must be taught both languages in order to communicate with the extended family

members. When, for example, the grandparents speak a language which differs from that of the child’s

locale, a monolingual child would be deprived of the interaction which occurs between grandparents and

grandchildren. On the other hand, a bilingual child will not only be able to speak to grandparents, but will

also comprehend where these people have ‘come from’. There will be a shared cultural empathy within

the family. Because all family members can communicate, on both a verbal and cultural level, no one will

feel excluded and the child will develop a sense of rootedness.

On a more abstract level, it has been said that a bilingual child thinks differently from a

monolingual child. Current research in linguistics indicates that there may be a strong correlation between

bilingualism and cognitive skills. This new research concerns itself with the fact that a bilingual child has

two lexical structures for any given physical or abstract entity. This leads logically to the assumption that

the child also has two associations for many words, as a word can mean different things in different

languages. For example, the word ‘fire’ in many western hemisphere languages connotes warmth and

relaxation. In the Inuit language however, where fire is a necessity of life, it may connote heat and

survival. For the bilingual child, then, vocabulary items and the abstract idea behind them are both dual in

nature and more elastic. Researchers maintain that this elasticity of ideas may allow the child to think

more flexibly and, therefore, more creatively.

1. In the author’s view, the world is becoming a _____.

A. more culturally diverse place

B. place where only privileged children will prosper

C. less complex place to live in

D. much more integrated place

2. According to the first paragraph, which of the following was true of immigrants?

A. Children were reluctant to use their mother tongue.

B. The mother tongue was considered less important.

C. Parents encouraged children to use their mother tongue.

D. Most parents made it a priority for children to grow up bilingual.

3. The phrase “privy to” in paragraph 1 mostly means _____.

A. acquainted with B. advised of

C. apprised of D. in the know about

4. The phrase “attributed to” mostly means _____.

A. ascribed to B. associated with

C. connected with D. held responsible for

5. According to the writer, second or foreign language learning is something _____.

A. people are still apathetic towards

B. mainly associated with private sector education

C. that few people take seriously

D. about which general attitudes have evolved considerably

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6. According to the article, the decision to raise bilingual children is difficult because ______.

A. it may limit the child’s choice of friends

B. though simple for parents, it can impact negatively on children

C. it may cause children to lose their sense of identity

D. it needs to be considered from many different angles

7. With regard to the ‘extended family’ in immigrant situations, the writer feels it is important that

_____.

A. adults try to understand the child’s difficult cultural situation

B. children are not pressured to speak their parents’ native language

C. adults recognize the child’s need to identify more with local culture

D. children can relate to all aspects of their parents’ native culture

8. The word “by-products” in paragraph 4 mostly means ___.

A. entailments B. knock-on effects C. side effects D. spin-offs

9. The word “connotes” in paragraph 5 mostly means _____.

A. underpins B. implies C. signifies D. smacks of

10. According to current research, the benefit of learning two languages is that _____.

A. different types of knowledge can be accessed in different languages

B. bilinguals become more aware the origin of words in languages

C. it helps to develop different capabilities of the mind

D. bilinguals develop a greater sense of the value of culture

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4. The reading passage below has 7 paragraphs A-G. Choose the correct heading for each

paragraph from the list of headings below. Paragraph A and B are taken as examples. (20 pts)

List of Headings

i. The advantage of an intuitive approach to personality assessment

ii. Overall theories of personality assessment rather than valuable guidance

iii. The consequences of poor personality assessment

iv. Differing views on the importance of personality assessment

v. Success and failure in establishing an approach to personality assessment

vi. Everyone makes personality assessments

vii. Acknowledgement of the need for improvement in personality assessment

viii. Little progress towards a widely applicable approach to personality assessment

ix. The need for personality assessments to be well-judged

x. The need for a different kind of research into personality assessment

Question 1-5

Paragraph A - vi

Paragraph B - ix

1. Paragraph C

2. Paragraph D

3. Paragraph E

4. Paragraph F

5. Paragraph G

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A. Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly

making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behavior to them in accordance with

these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbors on the street, an employer giving instructions to an

employee, a mother telling her children how to behave, a journey in a train where strangers eye one

another without exchanging a word - all these involve mutual interpretations of personal qualities.

B. Success in many vocations largely depends on skill in sizing up people. It is important not only to such

professionals as the clinical psychologist, the psychiatrist or the social worker, but also to the doctor or

lawyer in dealing with their clients, the businessman trying to outwit his rivals, the salesman with

potential customers, the teacher with his pupils, not to speak of the pupils judging their teacher. Social

life, indeed, would be impossible if we did not, to some extent, understand, and react to the motives

and qualities of those we meet; and clearly we are sufficiently accurate for most practical purposes,

although we also recognize that misinterpretations easily arise particularly on the part of others who

judge us!

C. Errors can often be corrected as we go along. But whenever we are pinned down to a definite decision

about a person, which cannot easily be revised through his 'feed-back', the inadequacies of our

judgments become apparent. The hostess who wrongly thinks that the Smiths and the Joneses will get

on well together can do little to retrieve the success of her party. A school or a business may be saddled

for years with an undesirable member of staff, because the selection committee which interviewed him

for a quarter of an hour misjudged his personality.

D. Just because the process is so familiar and taken for granted, it has aroused little scientific curiosity

until recently. Dramatists, writers and artists throughout the centuries have excelled in the portrayal of

character, but have seldom stopped to ask how they, or we, get to know people, or how accurate is our

knowledge. However, the popularity of such unscientific systems as Lavater's physiognomy in the

eighteenth century, Gall's phrenology in the nineteenth, and of handwriting interpretations by

graphologists, or palm-readings by Gipsies, show that people are aware of weaknesses in their

judgments and desirous of better methods of diagnosis. It is natural that they should turn to psychology

for help, in the belief that psychologists are specialists in 'human nature'.

E. This belief is hardly justified: for the primary aim of psychology had been to establish the general laws

and principles underlying behavior and thinking, rather than to apply these to concrete problems of the

individual person. A great many professional psychologists still regard it as their main function to

study the nature of learning, perception and motivation in the abstracted or average human being, or in

lower organisms, and consider it premature to put so young a science to practical uses. They would

disclaim the possession of any superior skill in judging their fellow-men. Indeed, being more aware of

the difficulties than is the non-psychologist, they may be more reluctant to commit themselves to

definite predictions or decisions about other people. Nevertheless, to an increasing extent psychologists

are moving into educational, occupational, clinical and other applied fields, where they are called upon

to use their expertise for such purposes as fitting the education or job to the child or adult, and the

person to the job. Thus a considerable proportion of their activities consists of personality assessment.

F. The success of psychologists in personality assessment has been limited, in comparison with what they

have achieved in the fields of abilities and training, with the result that most people continue to rely on

unscientific methods of assessment. In recent times there has been a tremendous amount of work on

personality tests, and on carefully controlled experimental studies of personality. Investigations of

personality by Freudian and other 'depth' psychologists have an even longer history. And yet

psychology seems to be no nearer to providing society with practicable techniques which are

sufficiently reliable and accurate to win general acceptance. The soundness of the methods of

psychologists in the field of personality assessment and the value of their work are under constant fire

from other psychologists, and it is far from easy to prove their worth.

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G. The growth of psychology has probably helped responsible members of society to become more aware

of the difficulties of assessment. But it is not much use telling employers, educationists and judges how

inaccurately they diagnose the personalities with which they have to deal unless psychologists are sure

that they can provide something better. Even when university psychologists themselves appoint a new

member of staff, they almost always resort to the traditional techniques of assessing the candidates

through interviews, past records, and testimonials, and probably make at least as many bad

appointments as other employers do. However, a large amount of experimental development of better

methods has been carried out since 1940 by groups of psychologists in the Armed Services and in the

Civil Service, and by such organizations as the (British) National Institute of Industrial Psychology and

the American Institute of Research.

Questions 6-10

Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in the reading passage?

In the boxes 6-10, write

YES If the statement agrees with the views of the writer

NO If the statement contradicts the views of the writer

NOT GIVEN If it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

6. People often feel that they have been wrongly assessed.

7. Unscientific systems of personality assessment have been of some use.

8. People make false assumptions about the expertise of psychologists.

9. It is likely that some psychologists are no better than anyone else at assessing personality

10. Research since 1940 has been based on acceptance of previous theories.

Your answer

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

D. WRITING (60 pts)

Part 1. Summarizing an extract (10 pts)

Read the following text on “Wannacry” and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary

should be between 120 and 140 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original.

It sounds like a Hollywood disaster film. A group of hackers uses a stolen cyber-weapon to try to

extort money from people worldwide. The ransom ware is known as “Wannacry”, “WanaCrypt0r”,

“WeCry”, “WanaCrypt” or “WeCrypt0r”. The attack cripples hospitals, causing ambulances to be diverted

and operations to be cancelled. This incident rammed home two unpleasant truths about the computerized

world. The first is that the speed, scalability and efficiency of computers are a curse as well as a blessing.

Digital data are weightless, easy to replicate, and can be sent around the world in milliseconds. That is

welcome if those data are useful, but not if they are malicious. Modern software can contain millions of

lines of code. Ensuring that no bugs slip through is almost impossible. A single vulnerability can affect

thousands or millions of machines, and the internet gives a single individual the power to compromise

them all at once. By comparison, paper files are heavy, cumbersome and awkward to work with. But at

least a couple of crooks thousands of miles away cannot cause them all to vanish simultaneously. If

WannaCry can cause so much random damage, imagine what might be done if hospitals were targeted

deliberately.

The second unpleasant truth is that opportunities for mischief will only grow. More things will become

vulnerable as computers find their way into everything from cars and pacemakers to fridges and electricity

grids. The ransom ware of tomorrow might lock you out of your car rather than your files. Cyber-attacks

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like WannaCry may seem like low-probability, high-impact risks. But the parlous state of computer

security and the computerization of the world risk turning such attacks into high-probability, high-impact

events.

Fortunately, there are ways to minimize the danger. Product regulation can force the makers of

internet-connected gizmos to include simple security features, such as the ability to update their programs

with patches if a vulnerability turns up. Software-makers routinely disclaim liability for defects in their

products. Changing that would not eliminate bugs entirely, but it would encourage software firms to try

harder. It would also encourage them to provide better support for their customers. The insurance industry

can also put pressure on computer users: just as home-insurance policies will not pay out if a burglar gets

in through an open door, so individuals should be held liable if they do not follow basic digital hygiene,

such as keeping their software up to date.

(Adapted from http://www.economist.com/news)

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Part 2. Describing graph(s) (20 pts)

The chart below shows male and female fitness membership between 1970 and 2000.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where

relevant. Write at least 150 words.

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Part 3. Essay writing (30 pts)

High school students should be allowed to study several selective courses. Do you agree or

disagree with this statement?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and

experience. Write at least 250 words.

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