8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about rocks that are found in areas where ice is common?

A. They are protected from weathering.

B. They do not allow capillary action of water.

C. They show similar kinds of damage as rocks in Death Valley.

D. They contain more carbonates than sulfates.

III. Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I

for each part (1-7) of the passage. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. One example has been done for you.

A. Indoor climbing is preferred

B. Early imperfections

C. Putting up with nature

D. Useful attachments

E. Something in common

F. The demand for indoor practice

G. The inventor of the wall

H. A lighter construction method

I. Watching the expert

GOING UP THE WALL

The crowd holds its breath. High above them on the climbing wall, hanging upside down by the tips of two fingers, is the French climber Francois Lombard. He is competing in the World Cup Climbing Championships at Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena.

The National Indoor Arena is more famous for staging the TV show Gladiators, but the television programme and the World Cup Climbing Championships share at least one feature - The Wall. And the fact that either event is possible is the result of a new and rapidly developing technology.

Until the mid- 1960s, climbers practiced their skills on cliffs in areas where there was a plentiful supply of good climbing angles. During the winter they would either tolerate the cold weather, go walking instead or climb on snow and ice in Scotland.

However, as the sport developed it was increasingly important for top climbers to keep fit. With the cliffs unusable for much of the year, they used brick-edges or stone buildings to ‘work out’ on. This allowed them to keep their fingers strong and beat off the boredom of not being able to climb. It wasn’t long before many sports centre started building walls specifically for the task, using bricks with special edges to cling on to.

Many of these early walls followed the example set by Don Robison, a teacher of physical education who, during the mid- 1960s, constructed a climbing wall in corridor of his department at Leeds University. Robison developed the idea of setting natural rock in a block of concrete, which could then be included in a wall.

Scores of climbing walls of this kind were built in sports halls up and down the country throughout the 1970s but they had obvious design problems. Walls could only be built in a vertical plane, whereas cliffs outside have features like overhangs and angled slabs of rock. There was the added drawback that once the walls were up they couldn’t be altered and climbers would eventually tire of their repetitive nature, despite thinking of every combination of holds possible.

In 1985, a Frenchman, Francois Savigny, developed a material which he moulded into shapes like those that climbers would find on the cliffs. These could be fixed onto any existing wall and then taken off when climbers got bored with a particular combination.

French manufactures also began to experiment with panels on steel framework. Concrete had proved too heavy to create overhanging walls without major building work, but steel frames could be erected anywhere as free - standing structures. A system of interchangeable fixtures gave climbers an endless supply of new holds.

PART E: WRITING

I. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it has a similar meaning to the original one. You must not change the word given.

1. There is no point in waiting any longer. He’s not going to come. (WORTH)

→ It ___________________________________________________________.

2. They said he wasn’t tall enough to play basketball in the national team. (TOO)

→ According ____________________________________________________.

3. The number of students applying for our scholarship has increased dramatically. (INCREASE)

→ There has ____________________________________________________.

4. “You broke my bicycle, Minh!” said Hoa. (ACCUSED)

→ Hoa _______________________________________________________.

5. He was so angry that he was lost for words. (ANGER)

→ Such was ____________________________________________________.

II. Write a paragraph within 150 words on the following topic.

“Social network sites like Facebook are not good for teenagers, especially students at lower secondary schools.”

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

Use specific reasons and details to support your answer

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Họ và tên thí sinh:................................................................... Số báo danh:..................

HƯỚNG DẪN CHẤM

PART A: LISTENING (10 points – 1p/ item)

2. 17^th October

3. 12.30

4. Single/ one-way

5. Kitchener

6. 3303 8450 2045 6837

II.

1. C

2. A

3. C

4. A

5. A

PART B: PHONETICS (10pt – 1p/ item)

1. B

2. B

3. D

4. A

5. A

II.

6. D

7. A

8. B

9. C

10. B

PART C: VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR (30 points)

I. (15 points -1p/ item)

1. C	2. A	3. D	4. B	5. B
6. D	7. D	8. C	9. D	10. C
11. A	12. A	13. D	14. C	15. B

II. (8 points – 1p/ item)

	*Mistake*	*Correction*		*Mistake*	*Correction*
1	other	others	5	Included	Include
2	plan	planning	6	but	and
3	because of	because	7	such	so
4	that	who	8	them	it

III. (7points – 1p/ item)

1. correspondence	5. behavior
2. usually	3. slippery	7. happiness
4. impatient

PART D: READING (25 points)

I. (10 points – 1p/ item)

1. C	2. A	3. C	4. B	5. B
6. A	7. D	8. A	9. D	10. C

II. (8 points – 1p/ item)

1. A

2. A

3. A

4. B

5. C

6. B

7. C

8. C

III. (7points – 2p/ item)

1. B 2. G 3. C 4. F 5. A

6. C 7. H

PART E: WRITING (25 points)

I. 5 points – 1p/ item

1. It is not worth waiting any longer. He’s not going to come.

2. According to them, he was too short to play basketball in the national team.

3. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of students applying for our scholarship.

4. Hoa accused Minh of breaking her bicycle/ Hoa accused Minh of having broken her bicycle

5. Such was his anger that he was lost for words.

II. 20 points

Correct form of paragraph writing

(20 points)

- Contents: a provision of all main reasons and appropriate supporting ideas and relevant examples (10pts)

- Language: a variety of vocabulary and appropriate structures (5pts)

- Presentation: coherence, cohesion, and appropriate style (5pts)

paragraph writing

(15points)

- Contents: a provision of all main reasons and appropriate supporting ideas and relevant examples (8pts)

- Language: a variety of vocabulary and appropriate structures (4pts)

- Presentation: coherence, cohesion, and appropriate style (3p)

* Total: 100 points.

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