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HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9
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HỌC SINH GIỎI LỚP 9

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KỲ THI CHỌN HSG TỈNH NĂM HỌC 2017-2018
Khóa ngày 22 tháng 3 năm 2018
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH
LỚP 9 THCS
Thời gian làm bài: 150 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề gồm có 05 trang

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* Giám thị không hướng dẫn hoặc giải thích gì thêm.

SECTION ONE: LISTENING (15 pts)
* Bài nghe gồm 2 phần, mỗi phần được ghi âm 2 lần. Giữa 2 lần ghi âm của mỗi phần và giữa
các phần có một khoảng thời gian chờ.
Part 1: A customer is calling the reception to book a room for next week. Listen to the conversation
and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). (7 pts)
STATEMENTS

T

F

1. The customer wants to book a single room
2. There isn't any room available
3. The customer's name is Duncan Geoffrey
4. His telephone number is 5762 3821
5. He will arrive on the nineteenth and leave on the twenty-third of September.
6. He will pay 210 pounds in total.
7. He will pay cash on arrival.
Part 2: Listen and fill in the following blanks to complete thẹ passage. Use ONE OR MORE THAN
words or/and number in each blank. (8 pts)
Hello, everyone. Sorry to interrupt your class. I just want to make a quick announcement about
our (8)…………………… Shimmers Dance School will be offering new classes this spring due to
strong demand. Angela Stevenson will be back this term, running the (9)………….…….. class. This
class will be on Tuesdays, and instead of normal hour (10)………………….. , we'll be running the class
for an hour and a half, so it will continue until 8 o'clock. This means we have to charge higher fees, but
only slightly higher: from (11)………………..… That's only £2.00 for the extra half hour! Next, Janine
Davis will still be teaching the tango classes. Instead of being on Mondays these classes will be on
Wednesday nights from 7 o'clock to 8 o'clock. The (12) ………………………….... will still be £7.50
for the hour. Last but not least, Andrew is taking over the tap class. This class is for early risers as it
starts at 8.30 on (13) ………………… and finishes at 10. We expect this class to be very popular as tap
is a great way to get fit while learning new (14) ……………………... This will cost £11.00. All the
other classes remain the same as the (15) ………….…. timetable. We hope there's something for all of
you at Shimmers!
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SECTION TWO: PHONETICS (5 pts)
Part 1. Pick up the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others. (3pts)
16.
17.
18.

A. feather
A. orchestra
A. audience

B. leather
B. orchard
B. august

C. feature
C. chord
C. laugh

D. measure
D. chaos
D. taught

Part 2. Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others in each group. (2pts)
19.
20.

A. experiment
A. decorate

B. fabulous
B. disappoint

C. merchandise
C. festival

D. influence
D. primary

SECTION THREE: LEXICO - GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Part 1. Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) which best completes each sentence. (15 pts)
21. I must think that matter over carefully before I answer you.
A. remember
B. decide
C. consider
D. memorize
22. It's necessary that every student of our class _____ hard.
A. study
B. studying
C. to study
D. studies
23. Nobody is ready to go, ______?
A. isn't he
B. is he
C. are they
D. aren't they
24. When tropical storm ______ 120 kilometers per hour, it can damage a lot of things.
A. arrives
B. comes
C. reaches
D. runs
25. Peter : “What a lovely house you have!” –
Mary: “___________________________”.
A. Of course not, it's not costly
B. I think so
C. Thank you. Hope you will drop in
D. No problem
26. Some of my friends are taking extra classes in English ______ become tourist guides.
A. so that
B. so as
C. in order that
D. so as to
27. Peter and his friend were badly injured in the last match, so ______ can play today.
A. both of them
B. either one of them C. neither of them
D. not any of them
28. Nancy talks as if she ______ everything.
A. knows
B. had known
C. knew
D. know
29. ______ breakfast is the first meal of the day.
A. The
B. A
C. This
D. 0
30. We had a good time last summer.
A. enjoyed ourselves
B. had plenty of time C. had enough time D. had a useful time
31. I like school ______, but later I hate it.
A. at the first
B. at first
C. in the first time
D. in a first time
32. I must get that letter posted. I must ______.
A. post it
B. have posted it
C. have it posted
D. have got it to posted
33. Ha has ______ money that he can't afford to buy food.
A. so few
B. so many
C. so little
D. so much
34. The journey was rather long but really ______.
A. enjoy
B. enjoying
C. enjoyable
D. enjoyed
35. Do you know ______?
A. what it was wrong
B. what was it wrong C. what wrong it was D. what's wrong it
Part 2. Put the verbs given in brackets into the appropriate tenses or forms. (8 pts)
36. His sister ___________________ (give) a car for her twentieth birthday next year.
37. I _________________ (read) the book you lent me, so you can have it back now.
38. He ______________________ (elect) president of the football club at their last meeting.
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40. He recommended the old soldier ____________________ (write) about the Second World War.
41. Present day problems demand that we _____________________ (be) ready for any emergency.
42. You ____________________ (not go) there because he did not expect you.
43. By the time you come back home, you _____________
(complete) this examination.
Part 3. Read the sentences below. Put the words given in brackets into the appropriate forms (7pts)
44. Jewish people celebrate freedom from (slave) __________ on Passover holiday.
45. I am very (pride) ______________ to be chosen for the national team.
46. We often go to the town cultural house, which always opens on (publicity) __________ holiday.
47. Although the problems were rather difficulty, they managed to (solution) __________ all of them.
48. Could you (straight) ______________ the picture over the sofa?
49. She wanted to have her skirt (long) ___________ .
50. They are cheered (enthusiasm)
___________ .
SECTION FOUR: READING COMPREHENSION (25 pts)
Part 1. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE word in
each gap. (10 pts)
Everyone wants to reduce pollution. But pollution problem is ______(51) complicated as it is
serious. It is complicated ______(52) much pollution is caused by things that benefit people. For
example, exhaust ______(53) automobiles causes a large percentage of all air pollution. But automobiles
______ (54) transportation for millions of people. Factories discharge much of the material ______(55)
pollutes the air and water, but factories give employment to a large ______(56) of people. Too much
fertilizer or pesticide can ruin soil, but fertilizers and pesticide ______ (57) important aids to the
growing of crops. Thus, to end ______ (58) greatly reduce pollution immediately, people would have to
______ (59) using many things that benefit them. Most people do not want to do that, of course. But
pollution can ______ (60) gradually reduced in several ways.
Part 2. Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Choose A,B,C or D
to indicate your answer. (10 pts)
Recent research has (61)________ that a third of people in Britain have not met their (62)
_______ neighbors, and those who know each other (63)_______ speak. Neighbors gossiping over
garden fences and in the street was a common (64)________in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert
on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the
Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (65)_________. "Poor neighborhoods once
had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy," said Chinn.
Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large
(66)________ of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social
activity is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at (67)________.
Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in West London, with two flat mates,
who work in e – commerce. "We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our contact
comes via letters (68)________ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin
bags properly," said Mayer.
The (69)________ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries
and (70)_______ of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as
Neighborhood Watch, call on people who live in the same are to keep an eye on each others' houses and
report everything they see which is unusual.
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61. A. exhibited
62. A. side-on
63. A. barely
64. A. outlook
65. A. ties
66. A. deal
67. A. least
68. A. concerning
69. A. breakout
70. A. acts

B. conducted
B. next-door
B. roughly
B. view
B. joins
B. amount
B. once
B. regarding
B. breakup
B. shows

C. displayed
C. close-up
C. nearly
C. vision
C. strings
C. number
C. all
C. applying
C. breakdown
C. counts

D. revealed
D. nearside
D. virtually
D. sight
D. laces
D. measure
D. most
D. relating
D. breakaway
D. works

Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to
each question. (5 pts)
The culture of Vietnam is one of the oldest in the Southeast Asia region. Although Vietnam
lies geographically in Southeast Asia, long periods of Chinese domination and influence has
resulted in the emergence of many East Asian characteristics in Vietnamese culture, and generally
Vietnam is said to be a part of the East Asian cultural sphere, known widely as Chinese cultural
sphere.
Despite considerable foreign influence, Vietnamese people have managed to retain many
distinct customs. While Chinese culture has the largest influence on traditional Vietnamese culture,
there is also a much smaller influence from the Cham and later Western cultures, most notably of
France, Russia and the United States.
In term of prehistory, most Vietnamese historians consider the ancient Dong Son Culture to
be one of the defining aspects of early Vietnamese civilization. Vietnam's population in 2006 was
84,402,966, with a population density of 253 people per km2. Most people live in or near the
densely populous Red River or Mekong deltas. Due to the nation's southward expansion
throughout its history, along with the different climate and environment met by the settlers as they
moved further south, slightly different regional cultures began to emerge, most notably between
Northern and Southern Vietnam.
71. The culture of Vietnam______ .
A. is the youngest in Asia
B. does not get any Asian characteristics
D. was greatly dominated by that of Western
C. is influenced by that of China
72. Which culture has not affected the Vietnamese one?
A. Of the United States B. Of the United Kingdom C. Of Russia
D. Of France
73. Vietnamese people ______ .
A. cannot keep their own culture in their daily life
B. have many diverse nation customs
C. highly appreciate the Western influence on their culture
D. failed to retain the native customs
74.Through history, Vietnam expanded to the ______ .
A. south
B. north
C. east
D. west
75. Which statement is true?
A. The North and the South of Vietnam have the same regional cultures.
B. The Mekong delta is more populous than the Red River one.
C. Red River delta is densely populous.
D. Vietnamese people do not like living in the deltas.
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SECTION FIVE: WRITING (25 pts)
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between TWO AND FIVE words, including
the word given. (7 pts)
76. I met her while I was staying in Paris last summer.
stay
I met her......................................................................in Paris last summer.
77. I couldn't remember the name of my hotel when I got into the taxi.
called
I couldn't remember.............................................................when I got into the taxi.
78. We were all surprised when she suddenly left the job.
found
All.................................................................when she suddenly left the job.
79. "Are you a member of the club?" the receptionist said to me.
belonged
The receptionist asked.............................................................the club.
80. Do shops usually stay open so late in this country?
usual
Is.........................................................stay open so late in this country?
81. He doesn't often find it difficult to earn money.
trouble
He seldom............................................................money.
82. Jack has become confident as a result of his success.
turned
Jack's success has............................................................. person.
Part 2: Rewrite each of these sentences in such way that it means the same as the sentence printed
before it. (8 pts)
83. Gary is the best guitarist in the class
 No one else …………………………………………………………
84. Lan was sick but she still went to class yesterday
 Despite ……………………………………………………………..
85. People think that doing morning exercises is good for health.
 It ……………………………………………………………………
86. Follow the instructions carefully and you won't have any problems.
 As long as…………………………………………………………...
87. “I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong number” said Paul to Susan.
 Paul apologized…………………………………………………….
88. I have never seen such a mess in my life.
 Never…..…… …………………………………………………….
89. The people who were at the meeting will say nothing to the press.
 Nobody who………………………………………………………..
90. She didn't say a word as she left the room.
 She …………………………………………………………………
Part 3: Essay writing (10 pts)
Write about 200 - 250 words about the following topic: Computers can translate all kinds of
languages well, so children don't need to learn more languages in the future.
Do you agree with the statement? Give reasons and examples for your answer.

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC & ĐÀO TẠO
TỈNH X
ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC
Đề thi gồm 14 trang

KỲ THI HỌC SINH GIỎI CẤP TỈNH, THÀNH PHỐ
KHOÁ NGÀY: 13/3/2019 – NĂM HỌC: 2019-2020
MÔN: TIẾNG ANH - LỚP 9
Thời gian làm bài: 90 phút

PART I: PHONETICS (1 point)
I: Find a word in each line whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the other
three by circling A, B, C or D. (0.5 p)
1
2
3
4
5

A
A
A
A
A

B
B
B
B
B

allegedly
youths
equation
rise
substitute

confusedly
maps
television
rinse
muddled

C
C
C
C
C

D
D
D
D
D

supposedly
cigarettes
mention
browse
shutter

wickedly
months
decision
bruise
substantial

II: Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in each question
by circling A, B, C or D. (0.5 p)
1
2
3
4
5

A
A
A
A
A

academic
tuberculosis
casualty
magnificent
trigonometry

B
B
B
B
B

amphibian
C
mathematician C
habitual
C
memorial
C
explanatory C

D
D
D
D
D

apartheid
inheritance
characterize
tobacconist
immediately

aquarium
communication
ignorance
humanism
democracy

PART II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (7 points)
I: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Circle the letter A, B, C or D next
to the correct word or phrase. (2 p)
1. …… every industry in our modern world requires the work of engineers.
A. Wholly

B. Hardly

C. Most

D. Virtually

2. Jane had a problem with her finances, so we talked …… and now it's fine.
A. over

B. it over

C. over it

D. over and over

3. When the electricity failed, he …… a match to find the candles.
A. rubbed

B. scratched

C. struck

D. started

4. I usually buy my clothes …… . It's cheaper than going to the dressmaker.
A. on the house

B. off the peg

C. in public

5. My father …… when he found out that I had damaged his car.
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D. on the shelf

A. hit the roof

B. saw pink elephants

C. made my blood boil

D. brought the house down

6. According to the captain, his special units can take an immediate action against terrorists should such
a need ……….. .
A. arise

B. originate

C. evoke

D. experience

7. We were ……….. by the officers' decision to divert the whole traffic from the main route.
A. rambled

B. baffled

C. stumbled

D. shuffled

8. The book says that the revolution was …………. off by the assassination of the state governor.
A. launched

B. cropped

C. triggered

D. prompted

9. The hijackers have demanded a ……….. to be paid for releasing the civilian hostages from the plane.
A. currency

B. revenue

C. deposit

D. ransom

10. He's ………………………… work and cannot possibly see you now.
A. up to his ears in

B. very interested in

C. not involved with

D. concerned with

11. He suddenly saw Sue ………………… the room. He pushed his way ………………… the crowd of
people to get to her.
A.across/through

B. over/through

C. over/along

D. across/across

12. She tried to …………………..
A. talk out of me the plan

B. talk me the plan out of

C. talk me out of the plan

D. talk out me of the plan.

13. My cousin obviously didn't ………… much of an impression on you if you can't remember meeting
her.
A. create B. do C. make D. build
14. She was kept awake for most of the night by the………… of a mosquito in her car.
A. whine B. moan C. groan D. screech
15. Her business must be going rather well, ……….by the car she drives.
A. deducing B. deciding C. inferring D. judging
16. He looks very aggressive and threatening, and so his soft, gentle voice is rather………….

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A. disembodied B. disconcerting C. dismissive D. discordant
17. If I were you, I would regard their offer with considerable…………., because it seems too good to
be true.
A. suspicion B. doubt C. reservation D. disbelief
18. My sister's confidence in her ability to play the piano was badly……….. by her last music teacher.
A. subsided B. weakened C. undermined D. loosened
19. Your grandfather is rather tired so do not………….your visit. Let him have a rest.
A. prolong B. lengthen C. delay D. shorten
20. Their eventual choice of the house was……….by the time Peter would take to get to the office.
A. related B. consequent C. determined D. dependent
II. Put each verb given in brackets into an appropriate tense or form (1p)
In 1764 Dr. Johnson accepted the contract (1. produce) a dictionary. (2. rent) a garret, he took on a
number of copying clerks, who (3. stand) at a long central desk. Johnson (4. not have) a library available
to him, but eventually produced definitions of 40,000 words ( 5. write) down in 80 large notebooks. On
publication, the Dictionary immediately (6. hail) in many European countries as a landmark. According
to his biographer, James Boswell, Johnson's principal achievement was (7. bring) stability to the
English language: “It (8. be) the cornerstone of Standard English, an achievement which (9. confer)
stability on the language of his country”. As a reward for his hard work, he (10. grant) a pension by the
king.
III. Give the correct form of the words in brackets (1 p)
1. Please (know) ……………………………. our letter of the 25th. We have not had a reply.
2. Eating fish and lots of vegetables greatly increases your life (expect) ………………….
3. It is very rude to interrupt someone in ……………………… (sentence)
4. Wow, I'm afraid I am not very (photo)……………………..
5. The (forest) ………………………………. has caused many so-called man-made disasters.
6. All the …………… from the last lecture were not allowed to attend the interview for the coming
project. (absence)
7. The road was (pass) …………………………. because of the snow.
8. She spent hours getting the house (spot) ………………………clean.
9. Paul is a good employee, and is very …………. (conscience).
10. …………………….. children will not be allowed to cross busy roads. (accompany)
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IV. The passage below contains 11 mistakes. (0) has been done for you as an example. IDENTIFY
and CORRECT the other ten. (1 p)
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all complete –> completely

Things started to go wrong as soon as we got to the hotel. We were all complete exhausted after
our long journey and looking forward to shower and a rest. However, we found that our room has not
ready, which was very annoy, although the manager was extremely apologetic. While we were waiting,
we asked about the excursions to places of an interest which we had read about in brochure. Imagine
how we felt when we were told they had all cancelled! Apparently, the person responsible for organise
them had left suddenly and had not been replaced. Then Sally saw a notice pinning to the door of the
restaurant, saying it has closed for redecoration, and Peter discovered that the swimming pool was
empty. When we eventually got to our room we were horrified find that it was at the back of the hotel,
and we had a view of a car park, which seemed to be used as a rubbish dump. We seriously began to
wonder whether or not to stay.
V. Fill in each blank with one suitable preposition or particle (1 p).
1. Dishonesty is foreign ……………. his nature.
2.Yuri Gagarin lifted …………… into space aboard the Vostok 1 at 9.07 a.m. Moscow time
…………… 12th April, 1961.
3. She was free to indulge …………… leisure activity like reading.
4. Is it OK if I write …………… pencil?
5. If we leave ………… the station ……… once, we arrive ………… ten minutes ………… hand.
6. Her bright red hair made her stand …..……from the others.
VI. Insert the, a(n) or X (no article) where necessary (1 p).
I had long since prepared my mixture; I purchased at once, from (1)………… firm of wholesale
chemists, (2)……….. large quantity of (3)……….. particular salt, which I knew, from my experiments,
to be (4)…………. last ingredients required, and late one night, I mixed (5)………….. elements,
watched them boil and smoke together in (6)…………. glass, and when (7)………….. liquid had
cooled, with (8)………… strong glow of (9)……….. courage, drank off (10)………… potion.
PART III: READING (6 points)
I: Read the passage and use ONLY ONE suitable word to fill in each gap (2 p).
In a village on the east coast of Scotland, people were waiting for news. Two of fishing-boats had been
caught in the storm which had blown up during the night. In the cottages round the harbor people stood
by their doors (1)______ worried to talk.
The rest of the fishing fleet had (2)______ the harbor before dark, and the men from these ships waited
and watched with the wives and families of the missing men. Some had (3)______ thick blankets and
some flasks of hot drinks, knowing that the men (4)______ be cold and tired. When dawn began to
break over in the east, a small point of light was (5) ______ in the darkness of the water and a few
minutes later, (6) ______ was a shout.
(7)
________ long, the two boats were turning in, past the lighthouse, to the inside of the harbor.
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The men (8)______ helped out of their boats, and (9) ___ they were stiff (10)______ cold and tiredness,
they were all safe.
II: Read the passage carefully and then choose the best answer to each sentence by circling A, B, C
or D (1.5p)
While many nineteenth–century reformers hoped to bring about reform through education or by
eliminating specific social evils, some thinkers wanted to start over and remark society by founding
ideal, cooperative communities. The United States seemed to them a spacious and unencumbered
country where models of a perfect society could succeed. These communitarian thinkers hoped their
success would lead to imitation, until communities free of crime, poverty, and other social ills would
cover the land. A number of religious groups, notably the Shakers, practiced communal living, but the
main impetusto found model communities came from nonreligious, rationalistic thinkers.
Among the communitarian philosophers, three of the most influential were Robert Owen,
Charles Fourier, and John Humphrey Noyes. Owen, famous for his humanitarian policies as owner of
several thriving textile mills in Scotland, believed that faulty environment was to blame for human
problems and that these problems could be eliminated in a rationally planned society. In 1825, he put his
principles into practice at New Harmony, Indiana. The community failed economically after a few years
but not before achieving a number of social successes. Fourier, a commercial employee in France, never
visited the United States. However, his theories of cooperative living influenced many American
through the writings of Albert Brisbane, whose Social Destiny of Man explained Fourierism and its
self-sufficient associations or “phalanxes”. One or more of these phalanxes was organized in very
Northern state. The most famous were Red Bank, New Jersey, and Brook Farm, Massachusetts. An
early member of the latter was the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Noyes founded the most enduring and
probably the oddest of the utopian communities, the Oneida Community of upstate New York. Needless
to say, none of these experiments had any lasting effects on the patterns of American society.
1. The main topic of the passage is……..
A. nineteen-century schools.

B. American reformers

C. the philosophy of Fourierism

D. model communities in the nineteenth.

2. Which of the following is not given in the passage as one of the general goals of communitarian
philosophers?
A. To remake society

B. To spread their ideas throughout the United State

C. To establish ideal communities D. To create opportunities through education.
3. The Shakers are mentioned in paragraph 1 as an example of…….
A. a communal religious group

B. radical reformers

C. rationalistic thinkers

D. an influential group of writers.

4. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word impetusin paragraph 1?
A. Stimulus

B. commitment

C. Drawback

D. Foundation.

5. The “phalanxes” described in paragraph 2 were an idea originally conceived by….
A. Albert Brisbane

B. Robert Owen

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C. Charles Fourier

D. John Humphrey Noyes

6. Why does the author mention Nathaniel Hawthorne in paragraph two?
A. He founded Brook Farm in Massachusetts.
B. He was a critic of Charles Fourier.
C. He wrote a book that led to the establishment of model communities.
D. He was at one time a member of the Brook Farm community.
7. Which of the following communities lasted longest?
A. New Harmony

B. The Oneida Community

C. Red Bank

D. Brook Farm

8. The word oddestin paragraph 2 is closest meaningto which of the following?
A. Earliest

B. Most independent

C. Largest

D. Most unusual

9. The author implies that, for readers, the conclusion of the paragraph is……….
A. obvious

B. surprising

C. absurd

D. practical

10. Why did the author probably divide the passage into two paragraphs?
A. To compare nineteenth-century reforms with twentieth-century reforms.
B. To present an overview of a concept in the first paragraph and specific examples in the second.
C. To contrast the work of utopian thinkers with that of practical reforms.
D. To give the causes for a phenomenon in the first paragraph and its consequences in the second
III: Read the text and decide which word best fits each blank by circling the letter A, B, C or D (1.5p).
United Parcel Service (UPS) believes that its employees should give the firm a fair day's work
for a fair's day pay. The package delivery firm seems willing to give more than a fair's day pay. But in
(1) ____, UPS expects maximum output from its employees.
Since 1920s, the firm's industrial engineers have been studying every detail of every task (2) ____
by most UPS employees. From their studies have come time and motion standards that (3) ____ how
those tasks are performed and how long they should take. Drivers, for example, are expected to walk to
a customer's door at a speed of exactly three feet per second. They are told to knock as soon as they get
there, rather than (4) ____ time looking for a doorbell.
Work engineers are (5) ____ riding with drivers, timing everything from stops at traffic lights, to
wait at customers' doorway, to stairway climbs, to coffee break. And they are not (6) ____ to pointing
out the occasional inefficiency. Additionally, supervisors ride with the least good drivers, noting how
they work and constantly (7) ____ them until their work is up to standard.
The (8) ____of all this work engineering is efficiency, and UPS has been called one of the most
efficient companies anywhere. It's also a highly profitable company. Most drivers take the
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regimentation in stride: many show (9) ____ in meeting the UPS standards each day. Others, however,
feel that they are constantly being pushed, that it is impossible for them to (10) ____ at work. UPS
officials claim that the standards provide accountability. And, they say, employees who work according
to UPS standards should feel less tired at the end of the day.
1: A. fact

B. exchange

C. return

2: A. hold

B. performed

C. accepted

3: A. indicate

B. govern

C. demonstrate

4: A. wasting

B. spend

C. spending

D. short
D. under
D. tell
D. waste

5: A. consistently

B. continually

C. constructively

D. chronically

6: A. impolite

B. brave

C. intimate

D. averse

7: A. scolding

B. criticizing

C. encouraging

D. correcting

8: A. task

B. reason

C. object

D. target

9: A. pride

B. passion

C. interest

D. pleasure

10: A. rest

B. relieve

C. relax

D. restrain

IV. Read through the following text an...