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🎧 Phần 1 – Listening (khoảng 20 phút)
Section A – Part 2 (câu 1–10)
🎧 Bài nghe
A volunteer coordinator welcomes new volunteers at a city museum (giả định)
Nghe tối đa 2 lần trước khi xem lời thoại.
📄 Xem lời thoại (sau khi làm bài)
- Grace
- Good morning and welcome to your first day as volunteers at the City Museum. I'm Grace, the volunteer coordinator. I'll explain how things work, and then you'll have a tour of the building.
- Grace
- Shifts are three hours long, and we ask you to commit to at least two shifts a month. Please sign in at the staff entrance on Mill Street – not the main entrance, which is for visitors only.
- Grace
- Your main role will be in the galleries, answering visitors' questions. You don't need to know everything. In fact, we'd much rather you said 'I don't know, but I'll find out' than guessed. Each gallery has a folder with background information you can check.
- Grace
- Visitors may take photos almost everywhere. The one exception is the textile gallery, where flash can damage the fabrics, so we ask people not to take photographs there at all.
- Grace
- If you come across a child on their own, please stay with them and call security on your radio. Don't leave the gallery to look for the parents yourself.
- Grace
- For breaks, there's a volunteers' room on the second floor, next to the library. Tea and coffee are free. Lunch isn't provided, I'm afraid, but you get a twenty per cent discount in the café.
- Grace
- There's a compulsory training session on handling objects on the first Monday of each month, and you can't work in the handling area until you've done it.
- Grace
- Finally, there's no strict uniform. We'll give you a lanyard and a badge, and we just ask you to wear dark clothes.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
✅ Câu 1–5: chọn A, B hoặc C
1. Where must volunteers sign in?
2. What is the minimum commitment?
3. What should volunteers do if they cannot answer a question?
4. Where are visitors asked not to take photographs?
5. What should a volunteer do if they find a child alone?
Câu 6–10: ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
- 6. Volunteers' room: on the floor, next to the library
- 7. Café discount: %
- 8. Handling training: first of each month
- 9. Volunteers receive a lanyard and a
- 10. Clothing: clothes
Section B – Part 4 (câu 11–20)
🎧 Bài nghe
A lecturer talks about street names as historical evidence (giả định)
Nghe tối đa 2 lần trước khi xem lời thoại.
📄 Xem lời thoại (sau khi làm bài)
- Lecturer
- Today I'd like to look at something we pass every day without noticing: street names. Historians have increasingly come to see them as a kind of public record – a trace of decisions about who or what a society chooses to remember.
- Lecturer
- In many older towns, streets were originally named after their function – Market Street, Mill Lane – or after a destination, such as the road leading to a neighbouring town. These names were practical: they told you where you were, or where you were going.
- Lecturer
- From roughly the nineteenth century, a different pattern emerged in many places. Streets began to be named in honour of individuals – politicians, military leaders, benefactors. Such names are commemorative rather than descriptive, and that makes them vulnerable to changing values.
- Lecturer
- When political systems change, street names often change with them. Renaming can be a way of marking a break with the past, but it can also be costly: businesses must reprint their addresses, and residents may resist losing names that feel like part of their identity.
- Lecturer
- Researchers have also noticed that, in many cities, women are considerably under-represented among the people commemorated in street names, although several councils have recently adopted policies to address this.
- Lecturer
- An interesting compromise that some cities have tried is to keep a controversial name but add an explanatory plaque, giving context rather than erasing the past. Critics, however, argue that this can look like an attempt to avoid a difficult decision.
Giọng đọc là giọng máy của trình duyệt; giọng và tốc độ khác nhau tùy thiết bị. Bài thi thật dùng giọng người với nhiều giọng địa phương.
Câu 11–20: Complete the notes. ONE WORD ONLY.
- 11. Street names: a kind of public
- 12. Older names described the street's …
- 13. … or a , e.g. a neighbouring town
- 14. Later: streets named in of individuals
- 15. These names are commemorative rather than
- 16. Renaming can mark a with the past
- 17. Renaming can be for businesses
- 18. Residents may feel names are part of their
- 19. Women are among people commemorated
- 20. Compromise: keep the name and add an explanatory
📖 Phần 2 – Reading (20 phút, câu 21–34)
Rebuilding the past
(Bài đọc tự viết; quan điểm là của tác giả bài viết, nội dung ở mức phổ thông.)
A When a historic building is destroyed – by fire, war or natural disaster – the community it belonged to faces a difficult choice. It can leave the ruins as they are, as a reminder of what happened; it can build something entirely new; or it can attempt to reconstruct the building as it was.
B The case for reconstruction is often stronger than specialists admit. Familiar buildings are part of how people understand where they live, and ordinary residents frequently want their skyline back rather than an architect’s bold alternative. Reconstruction can also bring practical benefits, not least by attracting visitors whose spending supports local businesses.
C Yet some of the most widely cited conservation principles of the twentieth century were deeply wary of rebuilding. A copy, they held, could never replace an original, and any new work should be clearly distinguishable from what survived. On this view, a reconstructed building risks deceiving the public about what is genuinely old.
D In practice, however, things have been far more flexible than these principles suggest. A number of celebrated historic town centres are, in fact, substantially rebuilt, and many visitors are unaware of it. This suggests that authenticity is not simply a matter of the age of the materials. A building that is used in the same way, by the same community, and carries the same meaning may be authentic in a sense that matters at least as much.
E Reconstruction nonetheless carries real risks. It depends on detailed documentation – drawings, photographs, measurements – and where such records are poor, rebuilding becomes guesswork. There is also a temptation to reconstruct not the building as it actually was, with its later alterations and imperfections, but an idealised version that may never have existed.
F No universal rule can settle these questions. What matters, I would argue, is that decisions are made openly and that the result is honest about itself: what is new should be identified as new, even if discreetly. And because a historic building belongs, in the end, to the people who live around it, the local community should have a real voice in deciding its future.
✅ Câu 21–25: Do the statements agree with the views of the writer? YES, NO hoặc NOT GIVEN
21. A community whose historic building is destroyed has only two realistic options.
22. Reconstruction can benefit the local economy.
23. All twentieth-century conservationists opposed reconstruction.
24. Most visitors to rebuilt historic town centres know that the buildings are reconstructions.
25. Authenticity depends only on how old a building's materials are.
✅ Câu 26–29: chọn A, B, C hoặc D
26. What is the purpose of paragraph D?
27. According to paragraph E, what is one risk when records are poor?
28. What does the writer recommend in paragraph F?
29. Which best describes the writer's attitude to reconstruction?
Câu 30–34: Complete the summary. ONE WORD ONLY from the passage.
- 30. Reconstruction depends on detailed .
- 31. Without good records, rebuilding becomes .
- 32. Builders may be tempted to create an version of the building.
- 33. The writer believes the result should be about itself.
- 34. The local should have a real voice in the decision.
📊 Phần 3 – Phân tích lỗi (20 phút)
| Phần | Số câu | Số đúng | Lỗi chính (từ vựng / bẫy / thời gian / chính tả) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening Part 2 (1–10) | 10 | ||
| Listening Part 4 (11–20) | 10 | ||
| Reading Y/N/NG (21–25) | 5 | ||
| Reading MC (26–29) | 4 | ||
| Reading summary (30–34) | 5 |
🧭 Phần 4 – Tự đánh giá giữa chặng (20 phút)
Tổng hợp buổi 28, 29, 30 vào một bảng:
| Kỹ năng | Điểm mạnh rõ nhất | Điểm yếu lặp lại | So với buổi 1 (↑ / = / ↓) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening | |||
| Reading | |||
| Writing | |||
| Speaking |
Rồi chọn 3 ưu tiên cho tuần 7–12. Mỗi ưu tiên phải đo được, ví dụ:
- Writing: “Số lỗi trong sổ ở mỗi bài Task 2 ≤ 3.”
- Speaking: “Part 2 có ít nhất 45 giây phản tư.”
- Reading: “Y/N/NG đúng ≥ 85% trong mọi bài.”
✅ Tự kiểm tra
Nghe lại bản ghi của mình và tích những điểm bạn đã làm được. Ô tích chỉ lưu trên máy này.
🗓️ Tổng kết tuần 6 – History and collective memory (thi thử giữa khóa)
- Listening: Part 4 – cấu trúc tương phản (not X but Y, rather than) mang đáp án.
- Reading: bài dài nhiều dạng, kế hoạch thời gian, phân tích lỗi theo dạng.
- Thi thử: Writing 60 phút (buổi 28), Speaking ghi âm liên tục (buổi 29), Listening 20 câu + Reading 14 câu (buổi 30).
- Tự đánh giá giữa chặng: so sánh với buổi 1, chọn 3 ưu tiên đo được cho nửa sau.
- Dùng ngay: đặt câu hỏi mở, mô tả vấn đề lưu trữ hồ sơ.