A. PHONETICS - Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR - I. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence. Write your answer in the space provided. (3.0 pts) ⇱
- Lan: “Mary, I’ve won a scholarship to study in the USA.”
- Mary: “_______________”
- Jack: “Can I borrow your pen, Paul?”
- Paul: “_______________”
II. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
III. Supply the correct form of the words in BOLD. Write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
IV. Find one error in each of the following sentences and correct it. Write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
C. READING - I. Read the passage and then choose the best option among A, B, C or D to fill the gaps. Write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
A lot of people in the world think of kimchi when they think about Korean cuisine. Kim chi is a side dish ___(36)___ is often served with meals in Korea.
People usually think of cabbage kimchi, ___(37)___ kimchi can be made with different vegetables. Here is one way to make kimchi. Put a vegetable in a container of salt water. Cover the container, and leave it alone for 12 to 24 hours. Then rinse the vegetable with cold water. Afterward, mix the vegetable with garlic, ginger, pepper powder, sugar and scallions. Put the ___(38)___ very tightly in a glass jar. Cover the jar. Put the jar in the cool, dark place for at least a day.
Uncover the jar ___(39)___ a few seconds, and then recover it again. Put the jar it refrigerator. Wait at least two days before eating the kimchi.
Now you can try to ___(40)___ this national dish of South Korea!
II. Read the following passage and choose the best answer among A, B, C or D for each question. Write your answers in the space provided. (1.0 pt) ⇱
If you think of the jobs robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top of the list. It’s easy to imagine robot cleaners and factory workers, but some jobs need human connection and creativity. But are we underestimating what robots can do? In some cases, they already perform better than doctors al diagnosing illnesses. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable sharing personal information with a machine than a person Could there be a place for robots in education after all?
British education expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. And he even has a date for the robot takeover of the classroom: 2027. He predicts robots will do the main job of transferring information and teachers will be like assistants. Intelligent robots will read students’ faces, movements and maybe even brain signals. Then they will adapt the information to each student. It’s not a popular opinion and it’s unlikely that robots will ever have empathy and the ability to really connect with humans like another human can.
One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren't enough teachers and 9-16 percent of children under the age of 14 don’t go to school. That problem can be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won’t get stressed, or tired, or move somewhere for an easier, higher-paid job.