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2 ● Siblings need space to be on their own sometimes with their own things and their own friends. However, time is the great healer. Research shows that after the age of 25, siblings (12) _______ each other much better. (Adapted from Friends Global) Question 7. A. Other B. Much C. Each D. Several Question 8. A. number B. standard C. amount D. scale Question 9. A. annoying B. annoyed C. to annoy D. annoys Question 10. A. in place of B. rather than C. in view of D. apart from Question 11. A. made B. put C. laid D. taken Question 12. A. come up with B. get on with C. cut down on D. drop out of Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the best arrangement of utterances or sentences to make a meaningful exchange or text in each of the following questions from 13 to 17. Question 13. a. Shop assistant: Certainly, but can you let me know about your needs first? b. Tim: I’m a student, so I’d like a cheap and light laptop. c. Tim: I’m looking for a laptop. Could you please recommend something good to me? (Adapted from Global Success) A. b – a – c B. c – a – b C. a – c – b D. b – c – a Question 14. a. Nam: Could I join you on the next trip? b. Lan: Great! I’m so happy and relaxed now, though at first I was confused. I didn’t understand the purpose of the trip. c. Nam: You look cheerful today, Lan! I heard you went on a volunteer trip to the mountains. How was it? d. Lan: Yes, we went as a team. Now we are preparing for our next volunteer trip in the summer. e. Nam: Did you go there with other members of the volunteer club? (Adapted from Global Success) A. c – d – e – b – a B. a – b – e – d – c C. a – d – c – b – e D. c – b – e – d – a Question 15. Hi Andy, a. It was an amazing performance; the music was lively and the band were talented. b. We arrived at the place on time, but there was such a big crowd, so the concert started nearly an hour late! c. The band played their most famous songs and we sang along to all of them. d. Luke and I went to the pop concert and it was brilliant! e. If you get the chance to see them live, you should definitely go. Write back soon. Mike (Adapted from Bright) A. d – b – c – a – e B. a – c – d – b – e C. c – a – e – d – b D. e – d – b – a – c Question 16. a. I’ve always been fascinated by computers and enjoyed learning all the amazing things I could do with them. b. Now, I’m able to do what I love and get paid for something I had been doing for free for years.
3 c. This course helped me improve my technical abilities and problem-solving skills, which later led to a job as a software developer in the capital city. d. What makes this even more exciting is that I now work on widely-used software with millions of downloads worldwide, turning my dream into reality. e. Over time, I began to take more interest in creating simple apps and programmes, and after finishing high school, I pursued a university course in software development. (Adapted from Bright) A. d – b – a – e – c B. e – c – b – a – d C. a – e – c – b – d D. b – a – e – c – d Question 17. a. As a result, blue lighting appears to act as a deterrent to criminal activity. b. Overall, the use of blue lighting has proven effective in curbing crime rates. c. The decline in recorded crime has been attributed to the calming effect of the blue light, which some psychologists believe lowers stress and aggression. d. Following the installation of blue-light street lamps in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street, local authorities observed a noticeable reduction in crime, particularly petty offences like pickpocketing and bag snatching. e. This initiative has garnered international attention, with several neighbourhoods in Japan adopting the strategy and experiencing similar results. (Adapted from Friends Global) A. c – e – a – d – b B. d – c – a – e – b C. d – e – a – c – b D. c – d – a – e – b Read the following passage about an innovative business idea and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 18 to 22. In 2007, design graduates, Joe Gebbie and Brian Chesky, were struggling to pay the rent for their San Francisco apartment. Hearing that there was a conference coming to town and there were no hotel rooms available, (18) _______ . Only six days later, they had three guests sleeping on their floor. They knew immediately that this was the start of something big. (19) _______ , the pair decided to take their idea further. They enlisted Gebbie's former flatmate, Nathan Blecharczyk, a computer science graduate, to develop their website. Their idea was to target conferences and festivals across the USA, getting local people to list their rooms and travellers to book them. The new website was completed just in time for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, (20) _______ . Within a week, they had 800 listings, an achievement which dealt in part with the shortage of hotel rooms, but did not solve their financial problems, as the site was not making any money. (21) _______ . They began to charge three per cent to the host and between six and twelve per cent to the traveller, depending on the price of the booking. Meanwhile, investors had started showing interest in the company. By April 2009, when larger investments began to arrive, they moved the company out of their flat into a new state-of-the-art office and hired more staff. Since then Airbnb has gone from strength to strength. The company now has over 1.5 million listings in 34,000 cities in 190 countries, and (22) _______ . (Adapted from Friends Global) Question 18. A. they advertised three airbeds in their home regardless of using the website airbedandbreakfast.com B. they created the website airbedandbreakfast.com where they advertised three airbeds in their home C. the website airbedandbreakfast.com was developed so that they could advertise three airbeds in their home D. three airbeds in their home were advertised through the website airbedandbreakfast.com created by themselves