VỀ ĐÍCH- TEST 15

Hướng dẫn thí sinh:

- Phần thi nghe gồm 3 bài. Thí sinh được nghe mỗi bài 2 lần liên tiếp.
- Thí sinh đọc kĩ yêu cầu của từng bài trước khi nghe.
-Hướng dẫn chi tiết bằng Tiếng Anh có trong đĩa nghe. Bắt đầu và kết thúc bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc.
SECTION A: LISTENING (5.0 points)
Part 1. You will hear a man telephoning to ask about a job in a hotel. For questions 1-5, write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.
West Bay Hotel – details of job
Newspaper advert for 1. …………….
Vacancies for 2. ………..............
Two shifts
Can choose your 3. ………………………
Pay £5.50 per hour, including a 4. ……………….
A 5. ……………………. is provided in the hotel
Total weekly pay £231

Part 2.
You will hear two people discussing a survey connected to the “nanny state.” For each of the following
questions, choose the option which best fits to what you hear. You will listen to the recording twice.
1 What does the man say about the woman’s opinion of the “nanny state?”
A He used to agree with it.
B It may not be widely shared.
C It isn’t logical.
2 The man says that the survey indicates that most people ________.
A have changed their minds about the “nanny state”
B feel that there is no such thing as the “nanny state”
C want the government to tell them what to do on certain issues
3 The woman believes that government action on various health issues ________.
A is the right thing for the government to do
B shows that the “nanny state” can be a good thing
C annoys a great many people
4 The woman thinks that the survey results ________.
A suggest that people have the wrong attitude
B show that people have become very confused
C do not indicate approval of the “nanny state”
5 The woman says that the report in the paper ________.
A may change people’s view on the “nanny state”
B won’t be believed by most readers
C has interpreted people’s opinions incorrectly

Part 3.
You will hear a conversation between a boy, William and a girl Sophie in a music shop. Listen and decide if the
following sentences are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.

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 1. Sophie’s mother works in the town where they live. _________
2. Sophie enjoys shopping in Birmingham. _________
3. William feels confidents about finding his way around Birmingham. _________
4. William can persuade Sophie to buy a different CD from him. _________
5. Sohie is disappointed to have her birthday present early. _________
B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)
Part 1. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. I am going to go round the _________ if they don’t turn that music down soon.
A. bell B. bend C. leg D. stock
2. I was so tired that I couldn’t even think _________
A. mind B. doubt C. focus D. straight
3. The cat slept peacefully _________ in the long grass.
A. huddled B. nestled C. snuggled D. cuddled
4. Mr. Wright _________ his vegetable garden very carefully.
A. tends B. grows C. maintains D. attends
5. She _________ a few clothes into the case and hurried to the airport.
A. shoved B. scattered C. piled D. heaved
6. No teenager really knows what _________ for them career-wise in the future.
A. knuckles own B. lies head C. whiles away D. crops up
7. The consultant called in by the firm brought a _________ of experience to bear on the problem.
A. wealth B. realm C. bank D. hoard
8. Several passengers received minor injuries when the train unexpectedly came to a _________
A. delay B. halt C. break D. stand
9. John refused to put his career in _________ by opposing his boss.
A. jeopardy B. hazard C. risk D. stake
10. The area is famous for its _________ gardens, where all kinds of different vegetables are grown for cash.
A. market B. hothouse C. trade D. greenhouse
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections
in the corresponding numbered boxes.
Example: Line 1: wrongly à wrong
Human memory, formerly believing to be rather inefficient, is really more sophisticated than that of
a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variation of viewpoints have all concluded
that there is a great deal more storing in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder
Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgery, proved that by stimulating their brains electrically, he can elicit
the total recall of specific events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and another minor events
supposedly forgotten for many years suddenly emerged in details. Although the physical basic for
memory is not yet understood, one theory is how the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is the
result of an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cell, stimulated by
patterns of activity. Repeated references with the same information support recall. In other words,
improved performance is the result of strengthening the chemical bonds in the memory.

Your answers:
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Part 3. Write the correct form of the words given in the brackets. Write your answers in the spaces provided
below.
WITH MANY THANKS
Many people have given (0. ASSIST) ...assistance… to me during the writing of this book, but it is to Miss
Leigh Keith, senior editor of Ramsay and Brown that I am most deeply (1. DEBT) _________ for her loyalty
and (2. DEVOTE) _________ during the four years the project lasted. She gave her time and advice (3.
STINT) _________ in order for this work to be completed, giving both moral and (4. PRACTICE) _________
support for the lengthy research into social conditions the project (5. NECESSARY) _________ Her
assurance and encouragement sustained me in my (6. BELIEVE) _________ that this was valuable work and
it was (7. DOUBT) _________ what enabled me to continue in the face of often discouraging circumstances. I
must also thank my father, who has been a (8. WILL) _________ collaborator in all my efforts and who spent
long hours in libraries and on trains to distant parts of the country in search of material. I know that he will
say that he enjoyed it, but without his (9. FLAG) _________ enthusiasm this book would never have been
written. Finally, I would like to thank my friends and family, who have had to put up with what must have
seemed to them an (10. EXCEPT) _________ long drawn out piece of writing. Thank you, all of you, very
much.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

C. READING (6.0 points)

Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your
answers in corresponding numbered boxes.
WHAT IS GENEALOGY?
Genealogy is a branch of history. It concerns family history, 1______ than the national or world history
studied at school. It doesn’t 2_______ involve drawing a tree, however - tracing your family history can also
3_______ in learning about your roots and your identity. The internet enables millions of people worldwide to
4________ information about their family history, without great 5_______. People who research their family
history often 6______ that it’s a fascinating hobby which 7_______ a lot about where they come from and
whether they have famous ancestors. According to a survey involving 900 people who had researched their
family history, the chances of 8________ a celebrity in your past are one in ten. The survey also concluded

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that the 9________ back you follow your family line, the more likely you are to find a relation who was much
wealthier than you are. However, the vast majority of people who 10________ in the survey discovered they
were better off than their ancestors.
1. A. instead B. rather C. except D. sooner
2. A. clearly B. merely C. rarely D. wholly
3. A. cause B. mean C. result D. lead
4. A. accomplish B. access C. approach D. admit
5. A. fee B. price C. charge D. expense
6. A. describe B. define C. remark D. regard
7. A. reveals B. opens C. begins D. arises
8. A. catching B. acquiring C. discovering D. revealing
9. A. older B. greater C. higher D. further
10. A. attended B. participated C. included D. associated
Your answer:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2. Read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your
answers in corresponding numbered boxes.
(SOURCE: http://lopngoaingu.com/examinations/index.php?id=reading_comprehension/c-hiu-
toefl-bi-154)
Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in
business, the demands of caring for families, and lack of business training had kept the number of
women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40
billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As
Carolyn Doppelt Gray, an official of the Small Business Administration, has noted, "The 1970s was
the decade of women entering management, and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman
entrepreneur". What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn
advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are
still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, had noted, "In
the 1970s women believed if they got an MBA and worked hard they could become chairman of the
board. Now they've found out that isn't going to happen, so they go out on their own".
In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in "women's" fields: cosmetics and clothing,
for example. But this is changing. Consider ASK Computer Systems, a $22-million-a-year computer
software business. It was founded in 1973 by Sandra Kurtzig, who was then a housewife with degrees
in math and engineering. When Kurtzig founded the business, her first product was software that let
weekly newspapers keep tabs on their newspaper carriers-and her office was a bedroom at home,
with a shoebox under the bed to hold the company's cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper

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software system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs.
When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra
Kurtzig owns $66.9 million of stock.
Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still
face hurdles in the business world, especially problems in raising money; the banking and finance
world is still dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are
still quite small. But the situation is changing; there are likely to be many more Sandra Kurtzigs in the
years ahead.
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Women today are better educated than in the past, making them more attractive to the business
world.
B. The computer is especially lucrative for women today.
C. Women are better at small businesses than men are.
D. Women today are opening more businesses of their own.
2. The word "excluded" in line 13 is closest in meaning to
A. not permitted in B. often invited to C. decorators of D. charged admission to
3. All of the following were mentioned in the passage as detriments to women in the business world
EXCEPT
A. women were required to stay at home with their families
B. women lacked ability to work in business
C. women faced discrimination in business
D. women were not trained in business
4. In line 17, "that" refers to
A. a woman becomes chairman of the board
B. women working hard
C. women achieving advanced degrees
D. women believing that business is a place for them
5. According to the passage, Charlotte Taylor believes that women in the 1970s
A. were unrealistic about their opportunities in business management
B. were still more interested in education than business opportunities
C. had fewer obstacles in business than they do today
D. were unable to work hard enough to succeed in business
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A. show the frugality of women in business
B. show the resourcefulness of Sandra Kurtzig
C. point out that initially the financial resources of Sandra Kurtzig's business were limited
D. suggest that the company needed to expand
7. The expression "keep tabs on" in line 24-25 is closest in meaning to
A. recognize the appearance of B. keep records of
C. provide transportation for D. pay the salaries of
8. The word "hurdles" in line 33 can be best replaced by
A. fences B. obstacles C. questions D. small groups
9. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that businesses operated by women are
small because
A. women prefer a small intimate setting
B. women can't deal with money
C. women are not able to borrow money easily
D. many women fail at large businesses
10. The author's attitude about the future of women in business is
A. skeptical B. optimistic C. frustrated D. negative
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3. Read the following text and do the tasks that follow.

Why companies should welcome disorder

A. Organisation is big business. Whether it is of our lives – all those inboxes and calendars – or how
companies are structured, a multi-billion-dollar industry helps to meet this need. We have more strategies for
time management, project management and self-organisation than at any other time in human history. We are
told that we ought to organize our company, our home life, our week, our day and seven our sleep, all as a
means to becoming more productive. Every week, countless seminars and workshops take place around the
world to tell a paying public that they ought to structure their lives in order to achieve this. This rhetoric has
also crept into the thinking of business leaders and entrepreneurs, much to the delight of self-proclaimed
perfectionists with the need to get everything right. The number of business schools and graduates has
massively increased over the past 50 years, essentially teaching people how to organise well.

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B. Ironically, however, the number of business that fail has also steadily increased. Work-related stress has
increased. A large proportion of workers from all demographics claim to be dissatisfied with the way their
work is structured and the way they are managed. This begs the question: what has gone wrong? Why is it that
on paper the drive for organisation seems a sure shot for increasing productivity, but in reality, falls well short
of what is expected?

C. This has been a problem for a while now. Frederick Taylor was one of the forefathers of scientific
management. Writing in the first half of the 20th century, he designed a number of principles to improve the
efficiency of the work process, which have since become widespread in modern companies. So the approach
has been around for a while.

D. New research suggests that this obsession with efficiency is misguided. The problem is not necessarily the
management theories or strategies we use to organise our work; it’s the basic assumptions we hold in
approaching how we work. Here it’s the assumption that order is a necessary condition for productivity. This
assumption has also fostered the idea that disorder must be detrimental to organizational productivity. The
result is that businesses and people spend time and money organising themselves for the sake of organising,
rather than actually looking at the end goal and usefulness of such an effort.

E. What’s more, recent studies show that order actually has diminishing returns. Order does increase
productivity to a certain extent, but eventually the usefulness of the process of organisation, and the benefit it
yields, reduce until the point where any further increase in order reduces productivity. Some argue that in a
business, if the cost of formally structuring something outweighs the benefit of doing it, then that thing ought
not to be formally structured. Instead, the resources involved can be better used elsewhere.

F. In fact, research shows that, when innovating, the best approach is to create an environment devoid of
structure and hierarchy and enable everyone involved to engage as one organic group. These environments
can lead to new solutions that, under conventionally structured environments (filled with bottlenecks in terms
of information flow, power structures, rules, and routines) would never be reached.

G. In recent times companies have slowly started to embrace this disorganisation. Many of them embrace it in
terms of perception (embracing the idea of disorder, as opposed to fearing it) and in terms of process (putting
mechanisms in place to reduce structure). For example, Oticon, a large Danish manufacturer of hearing aids,
used what it called a ‘spaghetti’ structure in order to reduce the organisation’s rigid hierarchies. This involved
scrapping formal job titles and giving staff huge amounts of ownership over their own time and projects. This
approach proved to be highly successful initially, with clear improvements in worker productivity in all facets
of the business.

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In similar fashion, the former chairman of General Electric embraced disorganisation, putting forward the idea
of the ‘boundaryless’ organisation. Again, it involves breaking down the barriers between different parts of a
company and encouraging virtual collaboration and flexible working. Google and a number of other tech
companies have embraced (at least in part) these kinds of flexible structures, facilitated by technology and
strong company values which glue people together.

Questions 1-7. Reading Passage 4 has seven sections, A-G. Choose the correct heading for each section from
the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-ix, in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i Complaints about the impact of a certain approach

ii Fundamental beliefs that are in fact incorrect

iii Early recommendations concerning business activities

iv Organisations that put a new approach into practice

v Companies that have suffered from changing their approach

vi What people are increasingly expected to do

vii How to achieve outcomes that are currently impossible

viii Neither approach guarantees continuous improvement

ix Evidence that a certain approach can have more disadvantages that advantages

1. Section A ___________

2. Section B ___________

3. Section C ___________

4. Section D ___________

5. Section E ___________

6. Section F ___________

7. Section G ___________
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Questions 8-10
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage?
In boxes 8-10 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
8. Both businesses and people aim at order without really considering its value.
9. Innovation is most successful if the people involved have distinct roles.
10 Google was inspired to adopt flexibility by the success of General Electric.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

D: WRITING (5.0 points)

I. Write an email of about 150 words: (2.0 points)
As an international student in Sweden, you have an account with a local bank. The monthly bank
transfer you receive from your parents has been delayed this month due to an error at your parents’ bank.
Write a letter to your bank. In your letter: introduce yourself and ask for a loan, say why you need the money
and tell how you intend to pay back the money.

Your email:
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II. Paragraph writing: (3.0 points)

Some people regard video games as harmless fun, or even as a useful educational tool.
Others, however, believe that videos games are having an adverse effect on the people who
play them. In your opinion, do the drawbacks of video games outweigh the benefits?

You should write at least 150 words.

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