Đề cương Tiếng Anh thi công chức năm 2016 tỉnh Quảng Nam

 CLOZE TESTS (20)
C1. We’ve just come back exhausted after a two-week holiday in France. We were really 
exhausted. On the last day, we drove non-stop from Marseille to Calais –we should have (1)__ 
__our journey in Lyon or Paris. As if that wasn’t enough, the sea was so rough in the English 
Channel that the (2)_ __ took three hours instead of one and a half. Next year, we plan to book a 
cheap (3) ____holiday to Italy. It sounds marvellous — the cost of the flight, the hotel and all our 
meals are (4)____ in the price. While we’re in Rome, we’ll be going on a guided (5to 
Coliseum. The last time I was (6)_____ Italy, I was in a business (7)_____. I couldn’t see many 
of the famous tourist (8) ___on that occasion, but my wife was really interested (9)_____ Italy. 
We have work hard these years to save money for the next trips in the (10)__ years.
broken/ expedition/ overall/included/tour/in/trip/sights/in/next
C2. According (1)_____computer models that were used to estimate the running speeds of 
dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex would have been able to outrun a footballer. The study shows 
that the dinosaur could reach a top (2)_____of 8 metres a second, which is (3)_____faster than 
the average professional footballer. There has been a lot of controversy (4)_____whether the 
Tyrannosaurus Rex was a predator or a scavenger; some believe that its highly developed sense 
of smell indicates that it was a scavenger, (5)_____others say that its keen eyesight shows that it 
was a hunter. The (6)_____group will appreciate the recent study, as a hunter is more (7)_____to 
require such speed. The University of Manchester study used a powerful supercomputer to 
calculate the running speeds of five meat-eating dinosaurs and used data taken (8)_____ from 
dinosaur fossils, (9)_____than referring to previous work on (10)_____animals.
To/speed/fractionally/about/while/later/likely/directly/rather/modern
C3. In 1993, Greg Mortenson took a (1)_____to Pakistan to climb K2, the second tallest 
mountain in the world. On his way down the mountain, he got lost. Food and water were 
(2)_____, but Mr. Mortenson found a small village. The people there saw that he was 
(3)______and helped him. While in the village, Mr. Mortenson watched the children write in the 
dirt for their school lessons. The village did not have money to build a school or (4)______a 
teacher. Before he left, Mr. Mortenson (5)______to return to the village and help them build a 
school. Mr. Mortenson returned to the US and wrote to many (6)______people. That idea did not 
work very well, but (7)______enough people heard about Mr. Mortenson's plan and helped him. 
That was the beginning of the Central Asia Institute, an organization that has (8)______in 
building or helping to build more than 130 schools in small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 
With the help of (9)______David Relin, Mr. Mortenson wrote the famous book Three Cups of Tea. Some people have criticized him, however, Mr. Mortenson was given an (10)_____in 2009 
by the government of Pakistan for his work in that country.
Trip/hard/need/pay for/volunteered/rich/at last/succeeded/journalist/prize
C4. Beijing is the capital city of the People’s Federal Republic of China. “Beijing” comes from 
the Chinese words “northern” and “capital” and follows a(n) (1) _____East Asian tradition of 
naming capital cities literally. Other similarly named cities (2)_____Nanjing in Southern China 
which means “southern capital”, and Tokyo in Japan, which means “eastern capital”. Beijing is 
the political and cultural (3) _____of China and is world-famous for its many historical 
attractions. Four million people visit Beijing each year to see (4)_____such as the magnificent 
Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and The Great Wall of China. It is also one of the world’s 
great modem metropolises and is (5)______of 21st century vitality. Towering skyscrapers, huge 
shopping malls, and modem commercial areas are just as much a (6)_____of modern-day 
Beijing. In 2001, Beijing celebrated the news that it had been selected to (7)______the 2008 
Summer Olympics. Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Chinese poured into Beijing’s streets, 
singing and cheering. Fireworks (8) _____up the sky as the city rejoiced. The morning after the 
(9) ______, the titles of all Beijing’s newspapers were printed in red — a special colour in 
Chinese (10)______that is reserved for good and important news.
Ancient/include/centre/sights/full/part/host/glowed/announcement/traditon
C5. Most people think that the capital of the (1)_____world is Hollywood, in the (2)_____. 
However, the real movie capital is Mumbai, in (3)_____. Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, 
and the movie industry there is often called “Bollywood.” Bollywood makes twice as many 
movies each year as Hollywood — more than 1,000 movies a year. The (4)_____ from 
Bollywood are very different from those made by Hollywood studios. For one thing, Bollywood 
movies are much (5)_____than most Hollywood movies. Most Bollywood movies are more than 
three hours long, and contain singing, dancing, action, adventure, mystery, and romance (but 
usually no kissing). Because Bollywood movies contain so many different features, this 
(6)_____of movie is sometimes called a “masala” movie — “masala” is an Indian word for a 
mixture of spices. Another big (7) _____between Bollywood and Hollywood movies is the way 
the movies are made. It takes much longer to make a movie in Hollywood than in Bollywood. 
(8)_____, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before the script is even finished. The 
director and writers can make (9)_____the story while the movie is being made. Sometimes they 
will even write the script by hand instead (10)_____taking time to type it. Bollywood actors are 
very popular and some are in such high demand that they may work on several movies at the 
same time.
Movie/united states/india/movies/longer/style/difference/in fact/up/of
 2 C6. There is an old English (1)_____, “Laughter is the best medicine”. One person who certainly 
would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins the editor of a magazine called 
Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also wrote and (2) _____about world peace and anti-
nuclear and anti-war issues, traveling (3)_____many different countries to share his ideas. In the 
1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins got 
sick. He discovered he had a rare disease known as ankylosing spondylitis that caused the 
joints between his bones to (4)_____ stiff. In less than a week after he got (5)_____, he could not 
stand. Every move that he (6)_____was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors 
told Mr. Cousins that they did not (7)_____how to cure his problem and he might never get over 
the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give (8)_____hope. Mr. Cousins thought that the 
illness could be caused (9)_____unhappy thoughts. He did not want to (10)_____medicine to 
cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness. 
Saying/spoke/to/become/back/made/know/up/by/take
C7. Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, (1)_____really much more 
sophisticated than that of a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variety of 
(2)_____of view have all concluded that there is a great deal more stored in our minds than has 
been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, proved that by 
stimulating (3)_____brains electrically, he could elicit the total recall of complex events in his 
subjects’ lives. Even dreams and other minor events supposedly forgotten (4)_____many years 
suddenly emerged in detail. The memory trace is the term for (5)_____forms the internal 
representation of the specific information about the event stored in the memory. Assumed to have 
been made by structural changes in (6)____brain, the memory trace is not subject to direct 
observation but is rather a theoretical construct that is used to speculate about how information 
presented at a particular time can cause performance at a later time. Most theories include the 
(7)____of the memory trace as a variable in the degree of learning, retention, and retrieval 
possible for a memory. One theory is that the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is the 
result (8)____an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cells, 
stimulated by patterns of (9)_____. Repeated references to the same information support recall. 
Or, to say that another way, improved performance is the result of (10)_____the chemical bonds 
in the memory.
Is/points/their/for/whatever/the/strength/of/activity/strengthening
 3 C8. Psychologists generally (1)_____memory into (2)_____least two types, short-term and long-
term memory, which combine (3)_____form working memory. Short-term memory contains 
what we are actively (4)_____on at any particular time, but items are not retained longer 
(5)_____twenty or thirty seconds without verbal rehearsal. We use short-term (6)_____when we 
look up a telephone number and repeat it to ourselves until we can place the call. On the other (7) 
_____, long-term memory can store facts, concepts, and experiences after we stop thinking 
(8)_____them. All conscious (9)_____of information, as in problem solving for example, 
involves both short-term and long-term memory. As we repeat, rehearse, and recycle information, 
the memory trace is strengthened, allowing that information to move (10)_____ short-term 
memory to long-term memory.
Divide/at/to/focusing/than/memory/hand/about/processing/from
C9. I have (1)____ to my hometown of Wilson Creek after an absence of 10 years. So many 
things have changed around here. When I left Wilson Creek, there (2)____ a small pond on the 
right as you left town. They have filled in this pond and they have built a large shopping mall (3) 
____ . A new post office has also been built just across from my old school. There is a baseball 
(4) ____ on the outskirts of Wilson Creek which has been changed (5) ____. They have now 
added a new stand where probably a few thousand people could sit. It looks really great. The 
biggest changes have taken place (6) ____ the downtown area. They have pedestrianised the 
centre and you can't drive there anymore. A European-style fountain has been (7) ____ and (8) 
____ benches have also been added along with a grassy area and a new street cafe. My street 
looks just the same as it always has but a public library has been built in the next street along. 
There (9) ____ to be a great park there but they have cut down all the trees which is a pity. The 
library now has a large green area in front (10) ____ it but it's not the same as when the park was 
there. 
Returned/was/there/stadium/completely/place/built/some/used/of
C10. Philology (1)__is___the traditional study of language, especially of written languages in 
their cultural settings. Because philology (2)__deal___with the relationship of languages, it is 
usually comparative; because these relationships evolve (3)__to___time, it is typically historical. 
Languages (4)_____ appear to change in the direction of greater diversity; one language 
tends to be superseded by several: a (5)__written___“dead” language preserves evidence of the 
earlier forms from which “living” languages developed. The descendants of Latin have diverged 
to the point that, though Italian is related (6)__to___English, they are now foreign to each other 
 4 as is their common “parent” to both. Also cultures change the meaning and use of many words. In 
English, piano is a keyboard (7)_ instrument ____; in Italian piano not only names the 
instrument, it also means “soft” as opposed to “loud”. The original name for the instrument was 
pianoforte (soft-loud), because it was more (8) __capable___of varying sound volume than 
instruments like the harpsichord that came before it. The special meaning of the Italian phrase 
results from its (9)__cutural___context and the distinctive feature of the instrument it names. 
But in English and other languages, we abbreviate it to piano. The English word still 
(10)_names____the same instrument but the abbreviation discards “and loud" from the original 
Italian phrase and hence becomes a name and not a description.
C11. Edward Patrick Eagan was (1)_____April 26, 1897, in Denver, Colorado, and his father 
died in a railroad accident when Eagan was only a year old. He and his four brothers 
(2)_____raised by his mother, who earned a small income from teaching foreign languages. 
Inspired (3)_____Frank Merriwell, the hero of a series of popular novels for boys, Eagan 
pursued an education for himself as well as an interest (4)_____boxing. He (5)_____the 
University of Denver for a year before serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery lieutenant during 
World War I. After the war, he entered Yale University and, while studying there, won the U.S. 
national amateur heavyweight boxing title. He graduated from Yale in 1921, attended Harvard 
Law School, and received a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford (6)_____he received 
his A.M. in 1928. While studying at Oxford, Eagan became (7)_____first American to win the 
British amateur boxing championship. Eagan won his first Olympic gold medal as a light 
heavyweight boxer (8)_____the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belgium. Eagan also fought 
at the 1924 Olympics in Paris as a heavyweight but failed to get a medal. Though he had 
(9)_____ the sport just three weeks before the competition, he managed to win a second gold 
medal as a member of the four-man bobsled team at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, New 
York. Thus he became the only athlete to (10)____gold medals at both the Summer and Winter 
Olympics.
Born/were/by/in/attended/where/the/at/taken up/win
C12. Vitamins, taken in tiny doses, (1)_____a major group of organic compounds that regulate 
the mechanisms by which the body converts food (2)_____energy. They should not be confused 
(3)_____minerals, which are inorganic in their makeup. Although in general the naming of 
vitamins followed the alphabetical order of their (4)_____, the nomenclature of individual 
substances may appear to be somewhat random and disorganized. Among the vitamins 
(5)_____today, five are produced in the body. Because the body produces (6)_____quantities of 
some but not sill vitamins, they must be supplemented in the daily diet. (7)_____each vitamin 
 5 has its specific designation and cannot be replaced by another compound, a lack of one vitamin 
can interfere with the processing of (8)_____. When a lack of even one vitamin in a diet is 
continual, a vitamin deficiency may (9)_____. The best way for an individual to ensure a 
necessary supply of vitamins is to maintain a balanced diet that includes a variety of foods and 
provides adequate quantities of all the compounds. Some people take vitamin supplements, 
predominantly in the (10) _____of tablets. 
Are/into/with/identification/known/sufficient/although/another/result/form
C13. What has caused these major changes? One reason (1)_____economic necessity may be that 
the husband has (2)_____his job and the wife must support the family. Or even if the husband is 
working, some families say they can’t survive on only (3)_____paycheck. But probably a 
(4)_____important influence has been the “women’s liberation movement”. Women are being 
told in (5)_____magazines and TV programs that “You can be successful on your own. Don’t be 
satisfied with (6)_____being a wife and mother. Use your intelligence and talents to do 
something bigger. And you should be paid (7)____much as a man.” (8)_____doubt this 
movement has accomplished much good. But it has also contributed to a selfish “me first” 
attitude that is breaking up many families. Sometimes women (9)_____are happy staying at home 
feel that working women look (10)____them. There are no easy answers to these problems. But 
certainly women’s influence will continue to grow in business, education and politics.
Is/lost/one/more/many/just/as/no/who/down on
C14. Leisure is generally seen as an (1)______ which takes place outside (2)_____ hours. The 
peak leisure time for most people is between 6.00 pm and 12.00 am, although in recent years 
there has been an increase in people working (3) ____hours and shifts, together with more 
"flexitime". Leisure is often thought of purely as a (4)____ activity, i.e. playing sport. Although 
many people use their (5) time in this way, there are plenty of other leisure opportunities that 
are more (6) ____in nature, such as of one's life- watching television or sunbathing on a beach. It 
is important to realise that leisure can embrace a whole range of experiences and activities, 
although personal choice may be limited due to factors such as age or provision of local 
(7)_____. The leisure emphasis will normally change at different (8)_____ cycle. Different types 
of leisure (9)______tend to be popular with varying age groups. It's probably true, however, that 
some members of the older (10)______are more capable of pursuing active pastimes than they 
are sometimes given credit for.
Event/working/unreasonable/physical/free/passive/facilities/activities/generation
 6 C15. Our journey to Greece began at six in the morning, when my family and I set off from the 
house in our old car. We'd only gone a mile when we got a (1) ____tyre, and after we'd fixed that 
we had to hurry to the airport. We (2)____to reach the check-in just before it closed, then went 
through to the departure lounge. Soon we were (3)_____the plane, and looking forward to our 
week on an island in the sun. I had a window seat, but since I was directly above the (4)____I 
couldn't see much, so I asked the flight (5)____if I could move to another seat. She found me one 
nearer the front of the plane, and later on I had a wonderful (6) ______ of the snow-covered 
mountains as we crossed over the Austrian Alps. The weather became sunnier as we approached 
Greece, and our plane arrived right on (7)____ at Athens' very smart new airport. Half an hour 
after we landed, we (8)____the train for the centre of Athens, where we (9)_____trains for the 
port of Piraeus. It wasn't long before we were on the waterfront. After a short wait we were on 
board our ferry and sailing out to sea. It was a lovely trip, and when finally we reached our 
destination, the holiday was a (10)___come true.
Broken/managed/flying/platform/attendant/view/time/got up/moved/dream
C16. Right now, I am (1)_____at a shelf full of relics, a collection of has-beens, old-timers, 
antiques, fossils. Right now, I am looking at a shelf full of books. If you have some spare cash 
(the going rate is about $89) and (2)_____looking to enhance your reading experience, then I 
highly suggest you consider (3)_____an e-reader. E-readers are replacing the books of old, and I 
welcome them with open (4)_____. If you haven't heard of an e-reader and (5)_____ know what 
it is, then please permit the following explanation. An e-reader is a device (6)_____allows you to 
read e-books. An e-book is a book-length publication in digital (7)_____, consisting of text, 
images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other 
electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional (8)_____book, e-books can also 
be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as "an electronic version of 
a printed book," but e-books can and do exist without any printed equivalent. So now you know 
what an e-reader is. But you still may be wondering why they put printed books to shame. E-
readers are superior to printed books because they (9)_____space, are (10)____friendly, and 
provide helpful reading tips and tools that printed books do not. 
Looking/are/purchasing/arms/do not/that/form/printed/save/environmentally
 7 C17. Many of us are trying to think of new (1)____to help the environment. Groups which are 
involved in protecting the environment think they may have found a long-term (2)_____. Most of 
the current ways of getting people involved in helping the environment mean that people have to 
(3)_____a large organisation and they can sometimes feel the problem is too large or (4)_____to 
manage. A new (5) _____is that groups are set up locally to deal with small issues that affect just 
the community they (6) _____in. It is hoped this will make people more (7) _____of the 
importance of helping. Also, this plan means that each community works together by contributing 
(8)_____the environment and this makes for a strong community. If every community does this 
then organisers are (9) _____the effect will be national. The government may even offer some 
(10) _____help for projects set up by these local groups. The idea came from someone who 
thought that reducing the size of what we do would actually be more productive. Also, it should 
mean that helping becomes a pleasure rather than a chore.
Approaches/solution/join/impossible/proposal/live/aware/to/imagining/financial
C18. E-readers are superior (1)_____printed books because they save space. The average e-
reader can store thousands of digital books, (2)_____a veritable library at your fingertips. 
Moreover, being the size and weight of a thin hardback, the e-reader (3)_____is relatively petite. 
It is easy to hold and can fit in a pocketbook or briefcase easily. The average novel is about 300 
pages (4)_____. Therefore, if a novel is printed 1000 times, it will use 300,000 pieces of paper. 
That's a lot of paper! If there are about 80,000 pieces of paper in a tree, this means it 
(5)_____almost 4 trees to make these 1000 books. We know that the average bestseller sells 
about 20,000 copies per week. That means that it takes over 300 trees each month to sustain this 
rate. And for the super (6)_____, these figures increase dramatically. For example, the Harry 
Potter book series has sold over 450 million copies. That's about 2 million trees! Upon viewing 
these (7)_____, it is not hard to grasp the (8)_____impact of printed books on the environment. 
Since e-readers use no trees, (9)_____represent a impact significant amount of preservation in 
terms (10)_____the environment and its resources.
To/providing/itself/long/takes/bestsellers/figures/serve/they/of
C19. The latest blockbuster to hit our cinemas is an adventure film which was made 
(1)______location in Spain. The (2)______is quite simple; a teenager discovers (3)_____secret 
papers which show that the President is in danger. Then she disappears! We interviewed the 
actress who (4)_____the part of the teenager in the film, Juliet Roberts. It (5)______things did 
not always go well during the production. First, Juliet nearly missed being in the film. 
 8 Apparently, a copy of the (6)______, which the producer had sent her to read, got lost in the post. 
Then, in the middle of filming, part of the background (7)_______fell on a member of the camera 
(8)_______. Luckily, the man was not seriously hurt but they had to (9)_____ another 
cameraman to take his place at short notice. Something even worse happened a few days later 
when the director slipped and broke his leg. It (10)_____him quite a long time to recover from 
the shock and he had to direct the final scenes of the film from his wheelchair.
On/plot/some/plays/seems/script/scenery/crew/hire/took
C20. Mona (1)_____ like to ask people for help. But it is hard (2)_____her to perform daily 
activities on her own. She is almost 13, yet she is no larger than a 5-year-old. Mona has trouble 
(3)_____her balance and can’t walk very far. When she uses a wheelchair, she can’t push it 
(4)_____. Fortunately, Mona has a wonderful service dog (5)_____Sam. A service dog is a dog 
that has been trained to assist someone who has a physical problem. Sam (6)_____Mona lean on 
him when she walks. He also pulls her wheelchair and turns lights on and off. When Mona drops 
something, Sam picks it up. He (7)_____pulls her socks off at night. Sam also helps Mona with 
everyday tasks at school. He carries her books from class to class in a special backpack. He puts 
Mona’s completed assignments in her teachers’ homework trays. In the lunchroom he throws 
away her trash. (8)_____making Mona less dependent on other people, Sam helps her lead a 
fuller life. Mona’s classmates flock around Sam like geese. This has helped her (9)_____friends. 
Sam also helps Mona be more active. With his aid, she raised over $500 in a walk-a-thon for her 
local society. Because of Sam, Mona doesn’t have to ask people for help. Sam brings her closer 
to other kids. And he even helps her (10)_____to her community.
Doen’t/for/keeping/herself/named/lets/besides/make/contribute
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