[2023-2024] Đáp án Tham khảo Đề thi Thử chuyên Anh Sư Phạm (lần 3)

Với các thí sinh đang muốn dự thi vào chuyên Anh Sư phạm, không thể bỏ lỡ Đề thi thử chuyên Anh lần 3 năm 2023-2024 này! Với đúng form của đề Sư phạm (đề dài, bài đọc dài & khó), Đề thi thử là cơ hội để bạn nhìn lại bản thân một lần trước thời gian thi chính thức. Đề thi lần này sử dụng chủ yếu là ngữ liệu của CAE (C1), qua một số cuốn sách như Spotlight on CAE (cuốn này cũng vừa được Sở HCM lấy 1 bài đục lỗ năm 2022 vừa rồi), Cambridge English First Masterclass. Có 1 bài đọc form IELTS, cần có khả năng đọc và xử lý từ vựng tốt.

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For questions 1-8, read the text below and write the answer (A, B, C or D) that best fits each gap on the answer sheet. 

MARY HEATH, FEMALE PILOT 

Mary Heath was the original Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women in the world during the (1) ________ age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a commercial pilot’s licence, the first to (2) ___________ a parachute jump- and the first British women’s javelin champion. She scandalized 1920s’ British society by marrying three times (at the (3) ______ of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath – her second husband, 45 years her senior). 

In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South Africa to Egypt, (4) ____________ 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath was (5) ______ as the nation’s sweetheart and called ‘Lady Icarus’ by the press. 

However, her life was (6) _____________ tragically short. Only a year later, she (7) __________ a horrific accident at the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her plane crashed through the roof of a building. Her health was never the (8) __________ again, and she died in May 1939. 

Question 1. A. sweet B. shiny C. golden D. bright 

Question 2. A. put B. hold C. make D take 

Question 3. A. fullness B. top C. height D. crest

Question 4. A. stretching B. crossing C. ranging D. covering 

Question 5. A. hailed B. exclaimed C. quoted D. declared

Question 6. A. cut B. stopped C. left D. brought 

Question 7. A. undertook B, underwent C. received D. suffered 

Question 8. A. equal B. like C. better D. same 

Write the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 

Question 9. ___________ he was determined to continue to climb up the mountain. Finally, he was there at the top of the mountain at the end of the day. 
A. Tired as he might feel
B. He felt very tired though
C. Tired as it was
D. As he might feel tired 

Question 10. I am in a ___________ as how to use this CD Rom. 
A. difficulty
B. loss
C. mind-game
D. quandary

Question 11. I will never forget the festival that I took part in last year. Up _______, and the people cheered. 
A. did the balloon go
B. does the balloon go
C. went the balloon
D. goes the balloon 

Question 12. If things are going well, our company will get huge profits. In fact, business is _________.
A. rolling
B. blooming
C. leaping
D. soaring 

Question 13. I was all set to take the job in Tokyo, but at the last minute I _______ and decided to stay in Britain. 
A. held my horses
B. called it a day 
C. pulled my finger out
D. got cold feet 

Question 14. Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no _______ improvement in her condition. 
A. legible
B. intelligible
C. decipherable
D. discernible

Question 15. The police couldn’t persuade the man to _______ the source of his information. 
A. discover
B. concede
C. divulge
D. uncover 

Question 16. The bank where James worked for 3 months last year is reported in the local newspaper _________ in broad daylight yesterday. 
A. having been robbed
B. to be robbed 
C. to have been robbed
D. robbed 

Question 17. This disagreement is likely to _________relations between the two countries. 
A. disaffect
B. sour
C. estrange
D. alienate 

Question 18. Jake recommended that Susan ______ immediately. She shouldn’t stay at home all the time anymore. 
A. hires
B. be hired
C. hired
D. hire 

Question 19. We _________ last night, but we went to the concert instead. 
A. should have studied
B. must have studied
C. would study
D. might study 

Write the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions. 

Question 20. A. massage B. carriage C. voyage D. dosage

Question 21. A. compassionate B. overwhelming C. collection D. opportunity

For questions 22-26, read the following passage and write the correct answer for each of the questions about it on your answer sheet. 

CATS ON THE COUCH 

Nicholas Bagnall reviews Cat Confidential by Vicky Halls 

Vicky Halls is a ‘cat behaviour counsellor’. The idea of such a person would have been incomprehensible to those brought up on Rudyard Kipling, who plainly didn’t think much of cats and thought they could manage perfectly well without humans. Cats in those days were generally thought effeminate anyway, not like gruff and manly dogs. We know better now, yet it’s still surprising how little we understand them. 

Vicky Halls has often been called in to sort out some wretched animal that’s making messes all over the house or obnoxiously wetting the furniture (the commonest symptom of anxiety or distress), and has discovered that either it is frightened of another cat in the household, or is missing a dead one, or is jealous of other cats or of humans, or it can’t stand the wood chips in its litter tray, while its doting owners have had no idea what has been going on in its unhappy head. 

Sometimes the problem is obvious enough, as in the case of a cat called Chester whose owner let him sleep with her when her husband was away, and who then became so jealous that he actively and sometimes painfully came between husband and wife when all three were in bed. Most of us would have got rid of the cat, but instead they summoned Ms Halls who eventually broke up this absurd triangle by arranging alternative pleasures for Chester, such as a comfy bed of his own and more time outdoors. 

Our own two cats are lucky enough to be able to come and go as they please, and I feel sorry for the ones that can never leave the house or flat. No wonder some of them get a touch neurotic. Ms Halls prescribes a range of devices to distract the indoor cat, perhaps a few cardboard boxes to hide in, or a high shelf to sit on with a view through another window. And she’s full of common sense tips. (Don’t put the litter tray near the food bowl.) 

Her views on cat flaps are more contentious. She thinks of a cat flap as a swing door. How would you like to have a front door like that, she asks, with no defence against thieves and invaders? No wonder your cat you like starts spraying all over the place. (Spraying is also a cat’s way of registering its presence and marking its territory.) If you must have a flap, try locking it shut at night. This seems to me rather hard on the cat, a semi- nocturnal beast. 

Ms Halls is pleasantly free of mawkishness. She realises that for many people, particularly if they live alone, a cat becomes the focus of their love, and she herself quite plainly adores them, describing the looks and foibles of individual specimens with touching precision; but she manages to keep her emotional distance and is an excellent story-teller. Only towards the end, when offering bereaved owners some grievance counselling, does she become too sentimental, too anthropomorphic if you like, for my taste. But then cats have always evoked strong emotions. 

Question 22. What can we infer about cat behaviour counsellors? 
A. They are a relatively new breed of professionals. 
B. People felt that they were strange in the past. 
C. They believe that cats shouldn’t be domesticated. 
D. They claim dogs are generally viewed in a more favourable way than cats. 

Question 23. What does Vicky Halls say about the mess cats make? 
A. It is normally the cat owner’s fault. 
B. It can be put down to stress. 
C. It demonstrates that they should be put out at night. 
D. It is natural if there is more than one cat at home. 

Question 24. What is Vicky Hall’s view of indoor cats? 
A. She believes they enjoy being able to see outside. 
B. She pities them. 
C. They should be encouraged to go out. 
D. They are more likely to suffer from extreme anxiety. 

Question 25. What do we learn about the writer of the text and Vicky Hall? 
A. They both make use of cat flaps in their homes. 
B. They have varying opinions on the use of cat flaps. 
C. They believe cat flaps act as an invitation to criminals. 
D. They have doubts about how useful cat flaps are. 

Question 26. The main aim of the writer of the text is to 
A. promote behaviour counselling for cats. 
B. point out the difficulties involved in keeping pets. 
C. review Ms Hall’s book. 
D. praise people who work with animals. 

Write the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions. 

Question 27. A. hospi’tality B. fa’cilitate C. flexi’bility D. inte’raction
Question 28. A. ap’prentice B. mal’function C. ‘demonstrate D. re’warding 

There are 6 errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, write the line number and correct them. The first error numbered (0) is done as an example. Write your answers in the numbered spaces corresponding to questions 29-33 on your answer sheet. 

Example: (0) line 1: up → out 

Write the correct form of the word in capitals that fits each blank in the text below in the corresponding numbered box on your answer sheet. 

Write the suitable preposition(s) in each of the following blanks in the corresponding numbered box on your answer sheet. 

44. _____To_____ my utter astonishment, she remembered my name.

45. I like this photograph so much that I’m going to have it blown ___up____

46. They are planning to wind _____down____ their operation in china and concentrate on ASEAN countries.

47. The news about Sue’s pregnancy leaked _____out____quickly despite her efforts to keep secret.

48. My cousin talked ___at___ length about his recent holiday and bored everyone to death.

For questions 49-55, read the text below and write the word which best fits each gap on the answer sheet. Use only ONE word in each gap. 

BEYOND THE PAIN BARRIER 

Alongside extreme sports, endurance sports are gaining in popularity. (49) _Since___ its debut at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the triathlon has become one of the world’s fastest developing ‘multi-sport’ endurance challenges, with thousands of races (50) ___being______ held every year. 

Usually, races consist (51) _____of______ a swimming section, followed by a cycling stretch, then culminating (52) ___in/with____ a run. The individual legs of each course may vary in distance, and events are held on different levels. For instance, the Olympic event involves a 1.5 km swim, a bike ride of 40km, with a 10km run to finish. This is (63) ___known___ as the ‘standard course.’ For those masochists who really want to push (54) ____themselves/far____ beyond the pain barrier, there are the Ironman long-distance triathlons, requiring competitors to swim 3.8km, cycle a gruelling 180km and then run 42 km. 

However, few athletes have the stamina to endure such distances. Most (55) ___find____ the Olympic course more accessible. 

For questions 56-61, you are going to read an article about dealing with addiction. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. 

A. Half an hour of intense aerobic exercise can produce five times the amount you’d have if you were sitting down. 
B. Low concentrations of these are closely linked to depression. 
C. It may be, though, that the thrill can never quite compare with that achieved by taking drugs. 
D. People become addicted to something because there’s an underlying unhappiness. 
E. Steve, a personal trainer, used his work to mask his secondary addiction. 
F. The thrill from the exercise is the thing, the drug-like feelings brought about by the activity are what addicts want. 
G. With a negative addiction, on the other hand, exercise overrides everything. 

KICKING THE HABIT 

The term ‘exercise addiction’ was coined in 1976 by Dr William Glasser when he was studying long-distance runners. He noticed that many of them experienced low moods when they couldn’t train, and he came to differentiate between positive and negative addictions: a positive addiction involves a love of the activity, and the exercise is scheduled around other everyday activities. You run your running schedule, for example, rather than it running you, and an enforced day off isn’t the end of the world. The results are increased feelings of physical and psychological wellbeing. (56) ____G – With a negative addiction, on the other hand, exercise overrides everything____. Relationships and work suffer, a day away from the gym causes distress, and health can decline as overtraining leads to injury and illness. 

Two types of negative exercise addiction have since been defined. Secondary addiction is probably the most common, where the compulsion to exercise is driven by a need to control and change one’s body shape, and is often accompanied by an eating disorder. (57)_E – Steve, a personal trainer, used his work to mask his secondary addiction___ ‘Whatever workout my client was doing, I’d do it, too, alongside them, supposedly to motivate them, but in fact it was to keep my weight down. In total, I was doing several hours of cardio every day, and I didn’t actually enjoy the exercise. I hated the feeling of not having the perfect body even more, though.” 

With Primary addiction, body image isn’t so central. (58) ____F – The thrill from the exercise is the thing, the drug-like feelings brought about by the activity are what addicts want _____ It works like this: when we exercise strenuously, we activate our sympathetic nervous system, causing a rise in the concentration of serotonin and other chemicals in the brain which make us feel happy.  

At the same time, the body produces endorphins which shut down pain signals reaching the brain. (59) ___A – Half an hour of intense aerobic exercise can produce five times the amount you’d have if you were sitting down ___ Add all these together, and you have a recipe for mild euphoria. Unfortunately, just as the body’s tolerance of drugs increases, so it is with endorphins: more are required to produce the same thrill, so the exercise intensity has to be increased. (60) _____C – It may be, though, that the thrill can never quite compare with that achieved by taking drugs____. Tony, who took drugs daily for almost a decade, then took to running half-marathons. He admits that getting the kick got harder. He said he’d lie awake at night thinking about the next day’s session. It still wasn’t as good as the drugs he was on before. Sports and exercise psychologist Paul Russell has encountered many people like Tony. ‘Exercise addiction tends to be a more temporary addiction, marking time before the person returns to the basic ones, like drugs. (61) __D – People become addicted to something because there’s an underlying unhappiness___ If they haven’t sorted out the reasons for this state, via counselling for example, they’ll have to direct that need to something else.” 

For questions 62-75, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ‘ARTIFICIAL LIFE’ 

They come into a world where they must struggle to survive. Over many generations, they evolve. But are they alive? Of course, you might say. But we’re not talking about amoebae, ants or alligators. We’re talking about computer programs. 

‘Artificial life’ exists only within PCs and more powerful computers, but existence in its electronic universe parallels many elements of life in the biological world. Some programs flock like birds. Others organise like bees. Some mutate swiftly from chaotic hordes to complex, stable populations in a process eerily akin to Darwinian evolution. 

As a group, artificial life programs represent the most exciting work on the edge of computer research. Study of artificial life holds promise for new ways of solving complex problems and fresh opportunities to model biology and society. Perhaps, far in the future, such research will yield the ability to blueprint living organisms. 

The basics behind artificial life are surprisingly simple. The programs follow a few simple rules, applying them with a speed and persistence that’s possible only inside a computer. When many such programs are run simultaneously, amazingly complex patterns can emerge. In many cases, these patterns are spooky replications of natural behaviours. Programs ‘band together’ against common enemies and devise new ways of surviving when their environment changes. These results aren’t surprising when you consider that biological life itself consists of nothing more than variations on four simple rules: the four compounds that constitute DNA, the building block of all genes and therefore all life. In artificial life, computer instructions take the place DNA code. 

The father of modern artificial life research, Christopher Langton of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S., sees his work this way: ‘For us, artificial life is the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviour characteristics of natural living systems. We’re attempting to abstract logical forms of life, not matter. We can obtain some of the same dynamics as life, albeit with different materials.” 

In the early 1980s, Langton took up the study of self-replicating programs begun more than 30 years earlier by John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician whose theories contributed to the development of the programmable digital computer. An example of how programs mimic biology can be found in cellular automata-literally, ‘cell-like machines’: structures that arise from tiny programs that each display a seemingly independent existence based on a few simple rules. Analogies between programs like this and actual life forms are inevitable. When simulated organisms cluster together, leaving rectilinear tracks on the screen, researchers call them ‘ants’. When they do this in a three-dimensional model, they’re called ‘bees”. And perhaps the most disturbing analogy with biological life can be found in computer ‘viruses’, self- replicating programs that display purposeful behaviour and tolerate perturbations in their environment. Although some scientists regard viruses as the first programs capable of existing without the wilful cooperation of humans, the fact is that without humans to design them, they wouldn’t exist at all. 

Still, some of the work demonstrated at a recent gathering of the artificial life research clan causes the biological heart to flutter. 

‘During five intense days’, said Langton, ‘we saw a wide variety of models of living systems, including mathematical models for the origins of life, self reproducing automata, computer programs using the mechanisms of Darwinian evolution to produce co-adapted ecosystems, simulations of flocking birds and schooling fish, the growth and development of artificial plants, and much, much more.’

Craig Reynolds of Symbolics demonstrated his ‘boids’, computer-animated, bird-shaped creatures that flock like real birds. Reynolds programmed the ‘boids’ to follow three simple rules: they maintain a minimum distance from the nearest object; they match velocity with the nearby flock; and they fly toward the greatest concentration of the flock.

The resulting flocking behaviour is shockingly real.’Ants’, the creation of David Jefferson and Robert Collins, also appeared. Colonies of these randomly generated creatures have developed the ability to navigate electronic mazes and search for symbols that represent food.

Independent programmer John Nagle argued that the next generation of supercomputers should challenge researchers to create ‘squirrels’, computer models with the intelligence level of a biological rodent with one gram of brain mass.

Langton’s contribution, ‘Computation at the edge of chaos’, was one of the most unusual presentations. Biologists maintain that life began in a spontaneous outburst of activity that occurred when Earth’s environment reached critical thresholds of heat, atmosphere and chemical composition. A few variations on any of these variables would have altered the course of the planet into either chaos or barrenness.

Langton’s presentation was based on a computer model demonstrating similar principles. Changing a parameter in the model acts like changing the temperature of a computer-generated petri dish of single-cell creatures. When this variable passes a critical threshold, the colonies of Langton’s artificial life programs neither freeze nor evaporate but settle into recurring patterns conducive to the orderly transmission of information. ‘At one end, activity freezes; at the other end, it’s too volatile,’ notes Langton. As a result, he wonders whether ‘computation may emerge spontaneously and come to dominate the dynamics of physical systems’ much as life has. In fact, Langton speculates that life itself may have started as a chance computation on the cusp of liquid and gaseous states.

And which of these simple programs, we might wonder, will someday hoist itself out of the electronic soup (as creatures once dragged themselves out of ancient seas), look around at the new surroundings and wonder who made it all happen? To Langton, that’s not an odd image. In the scale of geologic time,’ he observes, ‘this may be the end of an era in our little part of the universe. We’re not the end point of evolution. Some artificial life form we create may be the next step on the evolutionary ladder.’

“We haven’t really needed a definition of “life” before,” he says. “We were it. But the computational structures that we’re looking at do exhibit a lot of the criteria that biologists use for describing life: they’re complex, purpose-driven structures. They reproduce. They use the energy resources of their host for their own ends. Are real viruses alive? We’re not so sure now. There’s a grey area in here where our definitions just don’t work.’

Apart from spawning sci-fi speculations, artificial life has begun to show commercial promise. Danny Hillis, the founder of the Thinking Machines Corporation in the U.S., for instance, has unveiled a program that follows a process similar to Darwinian evolution to optimise the problem-solving efficiency of software – a method that could lead to continuously self-improving programs.

QUESTIONS 62-67 

Complete the following summary of part of the passage by choosing the correct word or phrase from the box below and writing its letter in the numbered space on the answer sheet. There are more word and phrases than you will need. 

The reading passage discusses possible similarities between ‘real’ or biological life and (0) ____F______ . In biological life, (62) ___B__ are the basis of life and behaviour. Recently, computer researchers have begun to study so-called ‘artificial life’, computer-generated graphics in which the on-screen images seem to imitate the behaviour of (63) ___I______. In these programs (64) ___D_____ take the place of DNA codes. 

These computer-generated ‘life forms’ include some which behave like insects and birds and others which mutate from (65) ___J____ into highly organised, complex populations. The researchers inevitably draw parallels with (66) ___F___ and compare them to actual life forms, even to the extent of giving them names like ants and bees. 

Eventually, the study of ‘artificial life’ may allow researchers to re-evaluate models of (67) ___H___ and biology.

QUESTIONS 68-70 

From the passage, name the computer phenomenon described in each of the definitions below. Write your answers in the numbered boxes on the answer sheet. 

68. Onscreen objects that group together, moving in straight lines.  -> ants 

69. Three-dimensional model of images onscreen moving in straight lines. -> bees

70. Programs that reproduce themselves and seem to have a purpose. -> viruses

QUESTIONS 71-75 

Read the statements below. In boxes 71-75 on the answer sheet, write 
TRUE if the statement is true 
FALSE if the statement is false 
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage 

71. Computer viruses may be the ‘artificial life’ programs that most closely resemble biological life, but they ultimately depend on humans. T

72. The following generation of ‘artificial life’ programs may be ‘squirrels’ which would be self-replicating.  NG

73. Langton speculates that life started as a chance computation and goes on to say that one day computations in computers may generate life. T

74. His work in ‘artificial life’ systems has led Langton to offer a new definition of ‘life’ itself. F

75. Research into ‘artificial life’ programs, resembling as it does science fiction rather than fact, will generally speaking, not be useful until far into the future. F

Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. 

76. The soldiers entered the castle while it was dark. 
Under __cover of darkness, the soldiers entered the castle____

77. In a nutshell, Joe’s not up to the job.
The long and ___the short of it that Joseph’s not up to the job_______

78. What alienated the workforce was that management never consulted them. 
It was ___the fact that management never consulted them that alienated the workforce____

79. There aren’t many other books which explain this problem so well. 
In few other books ___would one see this problem so well explained_______

80. If the government urged you to join the army, would you accept it? 
Were ___you to be urged to join the army by the government, would you accept it?_____

Complete the second sentence in each pair so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. You must write between three and six words, including the word given, in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. Do NOT change this word. 

81. This recipe is really a lot more imaginative than the others in this book. MOST 
This recipe is by ____far the most imaginative in this book_______

82. The day after I lost my job, I did not feel like getting out of bed. INCLINATION 
I _had no inclination toward getting___ out of bed the day after losing my job

83. It was Jane who came up with the idea for the sales promotion. BRAINS 
Jane __was the brains behind_____ the sales promotion.

84. It won’t be easy for anyone to take over John’s job when he retires. 
When John retires, it will be difficult for anyone ___to fill his shoes__

85. It’s true that I like to work on tasks by myself. BEING 
I _____admit to being___ a person who prefers to work alone.

Write an opinion paragraph on the answer sheet to answer the following question: 

Is it OK to lie online?