Đề thi tuyển dụng FPT
– Tiếng anh C – Đề 3
THE
CORPORATION FOR FINANCING AND
PROMOTING
TECHNOLOGY
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ENGLISH
TEST
Time
allowed: 60 minutes
50
questions
PART ONE
You
are going to read a magazine article about friendship. Choose from the list A-H
the sentence which best summarizes each part (1-6) of the article. There
is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
Mark
your answer on the separate answer sheet.
A Relationships with best friends provide more than just fun.
B Friendships with best friends develop naturally.
C Relationships with best friends continue for longer than
other relationships.
D Relationships with best friends can become strained.
E It is easy to overcome problems in relationships between
best friends.
F It’s a shame to go through life without a best friend.
G Best friends value their relationship with each other.
H People sometimes neglect their relationship with best
friend.
The
joy of best friends
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we
may complain and worry about love and romance, but how many of us spend time
and effort on the one relationship that can make the difference between a rich
and happy life and feeling lonely and depressed- the relationship we have with
our best friend?
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A
relationship with a best friend may not match the highs and lows of a love
affair, but in most cases it is a far more solid and reliable commiment, which
will outlast even the most passionate romance. Debbie and Sally have been best
friends since school. As teenagers they went shopping together on Saturday
mornings and then sat in cafes all afternoon, giggling about the idiotic
behaviour of the boys at school. Now in their early thirties, they talk on the
phone two or three times a week and meet once a fortnight to catch up on each
other’s lives. While boyfriends have come and gone, their friendship has
outlasted them all.
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‘Sally
knows me better than anyone else,’ says Debbie. ‘When I get fed up and
everything looks hopeless, she sits and listens when I tell her what’s getting
me down. When we’ve had a good chat, or spent hours laughing, I go home feeling
on top of the world.’ Sally feels the same. ‘A couple of years ago, Debbie was
thinking of going to Australia to work. I was devastated. It made me realise
how important our friendship is. I remember thinking that if she had decided to
go, it would have been like losing my right arm.
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While
a night out with your closest friend might be the best guarantee of a good
time, there is a serious side to all of this. Having a best friend to turn to
and confide in can have positive effect on your emotional health. In fact, your
best friend can prevent you from developing serious psychological problems,
such as depression and anxiety, and if you do find yourself depressed, he or she
can be the major force that enables you to get over it.
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But
best friendships aren’t all sweetness and light. As the old saying goes,
‘there’s a thin line between love and hate’, and the person you care about the
most can also be the one who can hurt you most deeply. Jealousy and competition
are major sources of difficulty. Two friends who have been close for years,
sharing a similar lifstyle, can find their relationship threatened if one
suddenly has a change in fortune.
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Best
friendships evolve with time- you cannot go out and pick your best friend. We
become friends with someone usually because we spend more time with them than
with anyone else, and because we can confide in them intimately.
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Best
friends have usually known each other for years and stuck together through good
and bad times. If you haven’t got one, perhaps you are being too distant with
people, or focusing too much on work or love affairs. That’s a sad loss,
because a best friend gives the best relationship many people ever have.
PART TWO
For
questions 7-21 read the text below and then choose the best answers. Put
the letter you choose for each question in the correct box on your answer
sheet. The exercise begins with an example (0).
Example:
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The Body Clock
Scientists
used to believe that our 24-hour cycle of sleeping and waking was (0)…
entirely by external factors. The most notable of these, they thought, were the
rising and (7)… of the sun. But they have now (8)… that there is
a daily rhythm to a (9)… range of biological functions- including
temperature, digestion and mental (10)… – which are regulated internally
by a special time-keeping mechanism within the brain.
The
main function of this ‘body clock’ is to anticipate and (11)… for
external changes so that, for example, our body temperature starts to rise (12)…
dawn, gearing us up for the day, and begins to (13)… in the early
evening, winding us down for sleep.
Some
people’s body clocks (14)… poorer time than others, which can greatly
disturb their lives and even (15)… their health. Insomnia, depression,
fatigue, poor work performance and even accidents can all be (16)… or
aggravated by inaccurate body clocks.
(17)…
severe problems can result from the difficulties of (18)… to different
time zones and working by night instead of day. Shift workers are known to run
a higher-than-average (19)… of having a number of health problems and
the disruption of (20)… body rhythms is one possible (21) … for
this.
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A conducted
B steered
C governed
D managed
7
A descending B diving C plunging
D setting
8
A established B fixed C settled
D assured
9
A wide B various C far
D grand
10
A operation B activity C process
D occupation
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A dispose B scheme C steady
D prepare
12
A beside B approximately C around
D nearly
13
A fall B reduce C lessen
D subtract
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A keep B hold C support
D preserve
14
A decline B spoil C injure
D threaten
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A put
B formed C caused D made
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A Parallel B Equally C Alike
D Compared
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A altering B adjusting C fitting
D suiting
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A risk B danger C threat
D hazard
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A common B conditional C normal
D used
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A explanation B solution C account
D source
PART THREE
Read
the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions 22-34
It
was the Victorians who were really obsessed with travel. They lived at a time
when travel really did harden the body and improve the spirit. It took a rare
breed of men to trudge through some malaria-infested swamp in a pith helmet
after the native bearers had drunk all the whisky, stolen the rations and run
off with the compass.
Since
then, travelers have thought of themselves as faintly noble and they look down
on mere tourists who stay in comfortable hotels and ride in air-conditioned
buses. To travelers it is a mark of pride to suffer as much as possible. They
get a perverse joy from spending all day squatting over a sordid cesspit.
Paul
Theroux, a best-selling travel writer is one of the people caught up in the
myth: “The nearest thing to writing a novel is traveling in a strange country.”
Travel, he declares, is a creative act. It isn’t. It may be fun. It may be
interesting, but travelers get no insight into eternal truths.
Travellers
learn a lot about shopping (good in Singapore, bad in China). They learn how to
avoid the young boys that follow you everywhere begging (look at them with a
condescending smile). They discover how to find a pension in Spain or
what sort of Mexican food to sample. In doing so they find out very little
about Orientals, Spaniards or Mexicans. A knowledge of Indian railway time
tables and hotel prices is not the same as understanding Indian culture.
Travellers acquire useless skills, such as how to make trivial
conversation with new acquaintances- discussing cameras or makes of car is a
sure-fire way of provoking long and boring discussions. Many people use travel
as an idiotic form of escapism. Oxford graduates, who would not be remotely
interested in getting to know British working-class people on council estates,
find it uplifting to go sightseeing among the poor of the Third World.
The
worst travelers are the long-term ones- often people with personal problems who
are keen, not so much to see the world, as to avoid returning home. As a rule,
the only people who travel for more than a year are simpletons, social
inadequates, or New Zealanders.
Travel
can sometimes close the mind altogether. I once hitched a lift with a van-load
of Aborigines. They had already picked up a hitch-hiker who had been traveling
round the world for four years. He had no fixed home and no fixed job and
didn’t care what his next destination was.
I- Which adjective best sums up the mood of the
passage?
22.
A hilarious
B disparaging
C
superficial
D argumentative
Choose the best answer to the questions below.
23.
Those of us who are best adventurous
in our attitude towards traveling should feel
A
guilty
B
reassured
C
self-satisfied
D
resentful
24.
To the Victorians travel was
something
A
addictive
B
commonplace
C
to be avoided
D
compulsory
25.
Modern travelers have a tendency to
regard themselves as
A
scapegoats
B
casualties
C
tormentors
D
martyrs
26.
The knowledge travelers have of the
world is
A
imperative
B
inaccurate
C
insufficient
D
invaluable
27.
The writer dismisses the motives of
many travelers as being
A
paradoxical
B
unadventurous
C
inexplicable
D
uninteresting
28.
The hitch-hiker’s main interest is
A
the beauty spots of the world
B
somewhere to sleep
C
the length of time he had been traveling
D
the desire to put down roots somewhere
III-
These words appear in the article. They are all used in a negative sense. Read
them again and then use them to complete the sentences below.
A.
idiotic
B. obsessed
C. infested
D. perverse
E.
sordid
F. condescending
G. trivial
- The government spokeman addressed
the press in a very superior, _____ tone.
- Robbing the rich to help the
poor always seemed _____ logic to me.
- Politicians are invariably
_____ with their own self-importance.
- The orphaned children were
squatting on the floor of one of the most _____ -looking buildings I have
ever seen.
- Pulling the alarm for a joke
was a particularly _____ thing to do.
- I once shared a flat which had
a cockroach-_____ kitchen.
- Please don’t bother me with
_____ matters when I am about to make one of the most important decisions
of my life!
PART
FOUR
You
are going to read a series of interviews in a magazine, in which people talk
about what they like and dislike about London. For questions 36-50,
choose from the people A-F. Some of the people may be chosen more than
once. When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Which
of the people A-F
Comments
on polution?
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Compares
London favourably with another place?
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Likes
to find places to relax?
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Likes
to see a lot of activity going on?
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Recommends
a change?
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Can’t
relax when in London?
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Finds
some people irritating?
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Compares
London unfavourably with another place?
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Doesn’t
like being in London as much as she used to?
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Complains
about official action?
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Doesn’t
have the same social life as before?
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Has
lived in different parts of London?
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Tell
me about it …
BEN
SHARRATT took to the streets of London to ask what people love and hate about
it
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Beverley, 25
I
love the street life. In Camden, the area where I work, there are a lot of
people doing their own thing, selling things they’ve made themselves. In the
summer it’s really lively and people are out until late. But new regulations
mean that many street traders aren’t allowed to go there any more. It’s pretty
sad. It annoys me, because they are doing nothing wrong, just trying to make a
living. It’s a real shame because that’s what Camden’s all about.
The
biggest improvement you could make to London would be to ban people wearing
sunglasses on the Underground! It really annoys me.
B
Miranda, 22
Rent
is really expensive here. I’m paying £70 a week, which in relation to my wage
is a lot. Before this I was living more centrally and paying £80 a week, which
wasn’t worth it at all. The more central the part you live in, the more you
pay. That’s normal in any place, but especially so here. In London you get
practically half the salary you would get in Australia, where I come from, while
still paying the same rent.
It’s
a beautiful city with lots of galleries and shops . But the standard of living
is much higher in Australia.
C
Bernice, 20
You
can’t beat London’s parks. The rest of the city is a bit too busy, especially
the centre of town. Hyde Park is my favourite; it’s a nice, big, green space.
The
worst thing is all the traffic and fumes on the roads. I wouldn’t ride a bike
in central London, I’m not that brave. I’m for having more pedestrian- only
streets; it would be safer, cleaner and quieter.
D
Jane, 29
There’s
too much litter and dirt on the streets. It’s like the whole city needs to be
washed from top to bottom. London’s got a lot of life, but to tell you the
truth, if I never came here again it wouldn’t really bother me. When I was
younger, I thought it was great. I did all the clubs and everything, but now
I’m hitting 30, that’s all over. When I come up by car for an evening out, I
spend the wholetime worrying about whether I’ve parked where I shouldn’t.
E
Cassandra, 34
The
educational opportunities are excellent. You can study anything that you are
interested in and there are so many facilities like clubs, museums and
exhibitions. In the city where I used to live, there was a total lack of things
like that. The transport system is pretty bad, though. It means, if I go out
late, I have to go somewhere where it won’t be too expensive in a taxi.
A
four-day working week would do a lot to improve life in London for everyone.
F
Sarah, 25
It’s
nice to be in the park in the middle of all the chaos and just spend lunch time
sitting and talking it easy. Or at an open-air swimming pool- anything to get
away from the rush. At my previous job in another town, there was no where you
could go to get away from it all.
I
only travel into London each day for the money and my career. When I’m
commuting, my brain just switchs off until I get into town and into work.
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27.
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A
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B
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D
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F
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B
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30.
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D
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F
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31.
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B
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D
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E
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A
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33.
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A
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34.
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C
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B
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35.
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G
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D
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E/F (any order)
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C
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F/E
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13.
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A
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C/F (any order)
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14.
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A
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F/C
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D
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A
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16.
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C
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A/C/E (any order)
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B
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A/C/E
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18.
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B
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A/C/E
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19.
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A
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D
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20.
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C
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A
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21.
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A
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B
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22.
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A
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D
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23.
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B
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A
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24.
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A
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D
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25.
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D
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B
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