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    The document is a listening and writing exam for Vietnamese students. It contains 4 parts: 1. A listening comprehension section with multiple choice questions about appeals from charities and reports on current events. 2. A second listening comprehension with multiple choice questions about a radio discussion on imaginary friends. 3. A third listening section involving blank filling about an agriculture and environment lecture. 4. A writing section involving summarizing a text about fingerprint identification, analyzing a chart on emergency room visits, and writing a 300 word essay arguing for or against radical life extension.

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    LISTENING & WRITING 3

    Date: 01/9/2020
    Họ và tên thí sinh : ………………………………………………… Lớp : ……………

    Part 1. For questions 1-5, listen to an appeal from a charity and decide whether these statements are
    True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
    1. Benedicto spends his earnings in the plantation shop.
    2. Plantation owners employ children because they are willing and docile workers.
    3. Supermarkets are uninterested in improving pay and conditions for food producers.
    4. When fair trade principles are applied, the need for child labour declines.
    5. The information pack gives suggestions on how to raise money for exploited workers.

    Your answers
    1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

    Part 2. For questions 6-10, listen to a report about the reaction of a country after the
    announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize and do the following tasks.
    Questions 6-7:
    Which TWO facts are mentioned about Ethiopia? Choose TWO letters A-E and write your
    answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
    A. The victory celebration was in full swing in the capital Addis Ababa of Ethiopia.
    B. National pride has long been known as an intrinsic part of this country.
    C. Ethiopia established the long-standing democracy, which earned recognition from Western
    countries.
    D. A severe famine in the past was a source of Ethiopia’s prejudice towards Westerners.
    E. Ethnic tension is still a crippling burden in this country.
    Questions 8-10:
    Which THREE facts are mentioned as achievements of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed?
    Choose THREE letters A-F and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
    provided.
    A. resolved a long-running border conflict with a neighbouring country
    B. welcomed home opposition groups and acknowledged past mistakes
    C. granted amnesty to political leaders
    D. set up a female-dominated cabinet
    E. named a woman as head of the Supreme Court
    F. got a firm grip on Ethiopia’s internal displacement problem

    Your answers
    6. 7. 8 9. 10.

    Part 3. For questions 11-15, listen to a radio discussion about children who invent imaginary friends
    and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear. Write your
    answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
    11. What does the presenter say about the latest research into imaginary friends?
    A. It contradicts other research on the subject.
    B. It shows that the number of children who have them is increasing.
    C. It indicates that negative attitudes towards them are wrong.
    D. It focuses on the effect they have on parents.
    12. How did Liz feel when her daughter had an imaginary friend?
    A. always confident that it was only a temporary situation
    B. occasionally worried about the friend's importance to her daughter
    C. slightly confused as to how she should respond sometimes
    D. highly impressed by her daughter's inventiveness
    13. Karen says that one reason why children have imaginary friends is that
    A. they are having serious problems with their real friends.
    B. they can tell imaginary friends what to do.
    C. they want something that they cannot be given.
    D. they want something that other children haven't got.
    14. Karen says that the teenager who had invented a superhero is an example of
    A. a very untypical teenager.
    B. a problem that imaginary friends can cause.
    C. something she had not expected to discover.
    D. how children change as they get older.
    15. According to Karen, how should parents react to imaginary friends?
    A. They should pretend that they like the imaginary friend.
    B. They shouldn't get involved in the child's relationship with the friend.
    C. They should take action if the situation becomes annoying.
    D. They shouldn't discuss the imaginary friend with their child.

    Your answers
    11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

    Part 4. For questions 16-25, listen to a talk given by a lecturer on Agriculture and Environment and
    supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR
    A NUMBER taken from the recording for each answer in the space provided.
    16. Frederick was the name of the duke made famous in a well-known________________.
    17. Frederick was aged_____________ when he was sent to war.
    18. His battles against the_______________ ended in total disaster.
    19. In 1798, George III gave his son a______________ within the ranks of the military.
    20. Frederick should not be held wholly accountable for failing: the__________________ of his fighters
    made victory difficult to achieve.
    21. The people Frederick commanded were mostly old men, new conscripts or_______________.
    The Grand Old Duke of York:
    — wanted to enlist better types of 22__________________
    — made the army better by bringing in chaplains, medics and 23_________________
    — established a college for preparing army 24__________________
    — established school in Chelsea for sons of soldiers
    — gave up the position of Commander-in-Chief in 1807 because of a 25_______________
    — re-appointed later (in 1811) by his brother (George IV)
    — died in 1827

    Your answers:
    16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

    21. 22. 23. 24. 25.


    II. WRITING (60 points)

    Part 1: Read the following text and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should
    be about 140 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original.

    To detectives, the answers lie at the end of our fingers. Fingerprinting offers an accurate and infallible
    means of personal identification. The ability to identify a person from a mere fingerprint is a powerful
    tool in the fight against crime. It is the most commonly used forensic evidence, often outperforming other
    methods of identification. These days, older methods of ink fingerprinting, which could take weeks, have
    given way to newer, faster techniques like fingerprint laser scanning, but the principles stay the same. No
    matter which way you collect fingerprint evidence, every single person's print is unique. So, what makes
    our fingerprints different from our neighbor's?
    A good place to start is to understand what fingerprints are and how they are created. A fingerprint is the
    arrangement of skin ridges and furrows on the tips of the fingers. This ridged skin develops fully during
    foetal development, as the skin cells grow in the mother's womb. These ridges are arranged into patterns
    and remain the same throughout the course of a person's life. Other visible human characteristics, like
    weight and height, change over time whereas fingerprints do not. The reason why every fingerprint is
    unique is that when a baby's genes combine with environmental influences, such as temperature, it affects
    the way the ridges on the skin grow. It makes the ridges develop at different rates, buckling and bending
    into patterns. As a result, no two people end up having the same fingerprints. Even identical twins possess
    dissimilar fingerprints.
    It is not easy to map the journey of how the unique quality of the fingerprint came to be discovered. The
    moment in history it happened is not entirely dear. However, the use of fingerprinting can be traced back
    to some ancient civilisations, such as Babylon and China, where thumbprints were pressed onto clay
    tablets to confirm business transactions. Whether people at this time actually realised the full extent of
    how fingerprints were important for identification purposes is another matter altogether. One cannot be
    sure if the act was seen as a means to confirm identity or a symbolic gesture to bind a contract, where
    giving your fingerprint was like giving your word.
    Part 2. The chart below shows figures for attendances at hospital emergency care departments in
    Northern Ireland by age group in December 2016 and December 2017.

    Attendances at emergency care departments per 1000-population

    Part 3. Write an essay of 300 words on the following topic:


    People tend to enjoy longer life span. Some people argue that radical life extension is at odds with
    the natural and cultural process of life and death. However, other people maintain that longer life
    span increases an individual’s ability to contribute wealth to society. Which viewpoint do you
    approve of? Should we accept a natural end or should we find a cure to ageing.
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