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Câu hỏi 1-8

Question 1: What’s your name?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

My name is Linh. It’s a name that’s quite common in my country, and it holds significant meaning for me. In our language, Linh signifies a spirit or a soul, and it’s often associated with someone who is capable of great understanding and intuition. While I believe that we forge our own identities, I like to think that my name serves as a gentle reminder to strive for depth and insight in my interactions with the world.

Question 2: Does your name have any special meaning?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

My name, though common, holds a special place in my heart as it was chosen by my grandfather. He was a historian and had a fondness for traditional values, so he selected a name that reflected strength and resilience. He believed that a name can subtly influence a person’s path in life. Whether that’s true or not, I’ve always tried to live up to the virtues my name stands for, and this has become a part of my identity.

Question 3: Where do you come from?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

I hail from a small coastal town that is known for its vibrant fishing community and stunning seaside landscapes. It’s a peaceful place where everyone knows each other, and there’s a strong sense of belonging and shared history among the residents.

Question 4: What kind of landscape surrounds your hometown?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

The landscape around my hometown is quite diverse. We have the ocean on one side, providing breathtaking views of the sunrise over the water. Inland, there’s a mixture of rolling hills and flat farmlands, with several rivers that cut through the terrain, creating lush valleys that are especially green in the spring.

Question 5: What is the main crop in your hometown?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

The main crop cultivated in my hometown is rice. There are vast paddy fields that turn a brilliant shade of green during the growing season. The rice harvesting period is a significant time of year for us, and it brings the community together in a celebration of our agricultural heritage.

Question 6: What is the difference between Hanoi and your hometown?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

The contrast between Hanoi and my hometown is quite pronounced. Hanoi, as the capital city, is a hub of political and cultural activity with a rich history that’s reflected in its architecture and museums. It’s lively, with the hustle and bustle of urban life and streets lined with vendors and motorbikes. In contrast, my hometown is a serene place where life revolves around nature and the sea. It’s quieter and moves at a gentler pace, where the sounds of the city are replaced by the rhythm of the waves and the chatter of the local wildlife.

Question 7: What are the main places of interest in your hometown?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

In my hometown, which is a serene coastal town, the main attractions reflect our rich history and natural beauty. One of the most visited spots is the ancient lighthouse that has been guiding ships safely for centuries. Its history intertwines with that of the town itself. Additionally, we have the old market, which is a vibrant mosaic of local crafts and fresh produce, offering a taste of our local culture and traditions. For those inclined towards nature, the botanical gardens house an array of exotic plants and provide a tranquil escape from the everyday hustle. These places are not just tourist attractions; they are the heartbeat of our community, representing the spirit and resilience of our people.

Question 8: What is the climate like in your hometown?

Sample Band 6.5 Answer:

The climate in my hometown is classified as subtropical. We experience warm and humid summers with occasional monsoons, while winters are mild and rarely see frost. Spring and autumn are particularly pleasant, with moderate temperatures and a fair amount of sun

Chữa reading cam 18 test 1 passage 1

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Reading Passage 1: Urban Farming

In Paris, urban farmers are trying a soil-free approach to agriculture that uses less space and fewer resources. Could it help cities face the threats to our food supplies?

On top of a striking new exhibition hall in southern Paris, the world’s largest urban rooftop farm has started to bear fruit. Strawberries that are small, intensely flavoured and resplendently red sprout abundantly from large plastic tubes. Peer inside and you see the tubes are completely hollow, the roots of dozens of strawberry plants dangling down inside them. From identical vertical tubes nearby burst row upon row of lettuces; near those are aromatic herbs, such as basil, sage and peppermint. Opposite, in narrow, horizontal trays packed not with soil but with coconut fibre, grow cherry tomatoes, shiny aubergines and brightly coloured chards.

Pascal Hardy, an engineer and sustainable development consultant, began experimenting with vertical farming and aeroponic growing towers – as the soil-free plastic tubes are known – on his Paris apartment block roof five years ago. The urban rooftop space above the exhibition hall is somewhat bigger: 14,000 square metres and almost exactly the size of a couple of football pitches. Already, the team of young urban farmers who tend it have picked, in one day, 3,000 lettuces and 150 punnets of strawberries. When the remaining two thirds of the vast open area are in production, 20 staff will harvest up to 1,000 kg of perhaps 35 different varieties of fruit and vegetables, every day. ‘We’re not ever, obviously, going to feed the whole city this way,’ cautions Hardy. ‘In the urban environment you’re working with very significant practical constraints, clearly, on what you can do and where. But if enough unused space can be developed like this, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t eventually target maybe between 5% and 10% of consumption.’

Perhaps most significantly, however, this is a real-life showcase for the work of Hardy’s flourishing urban agriculture consultancy, Agripolis, which is currently fielding enquiries from around the world to design, build and equip a new breed of soil-free inner-city farm. ‘The method’s advantages are many,’ he says. ‘First, I don’t much like the fact that most of the fruit and vegetables we eat have been treated with something like 17 different pesticides, or that the intensive farming techniques that produced them are such huge generators of greenhouse gases. I don’t much like the fact, either, that they’ve travelled an average of 2,000 refrigerated kilometres to my plate, that their quality is so poor, because the varieties are selected for their capacity to withstand such substantial journeys, or that 80% of the price I pay goes to wholesalers and transport companies, not the producers.’

‘Produce grown using this soil-free method, on the other hand – which relies solely on a small quantity of water, enriched with organic nutrients, pumped around a closed circuit of pipes, towers and trays – is ‘produced up here, and sold locally, just down there. It barely travels at all,’ Hardy says. ‘You can select crop varieties for their flavour, not their resistance to the transport and storage chain, and you can pick them when they’re really at their best, and not before.’ No soil is exhausted, and the water that gently showers the plants’ roots every 12 minutes is recycled, so the method uses 90% less water than a classic intensive farm for the same yield.

Urban farming is not, of course, a new phenomenon. Inner-city agriculture is booming from Shanghai to Detroit and Tokyo to Bangkok. Strawberries are being grown in disused shipping containers, mushrooms in underground carparks. Aeroponic farming, he says, is ‘virtuous’. The equipment weighs little, can be installed on almost any flat surface and is cheap to buy: roughly €100 to €150 per square metre. It is cheap to run, too, consuming a tiny fraction of the electricity used by some techniques.

Produce grown this way typically sells at prices that, while generally higher than those of classic intensive agriculture, are lower than soil-based organic growers. There are limits to what farmers can grow this way, of course, and much of the produce is suited to the summer months. ‘Root vegetables we cannot do, at least not yet,’ he says. ‘Radishes are OK, but carrots, potatoes, that kind of thing – the roots are simply too long. Fruit trees are obviously not an option. And beans tend to take up a lot of space for not much return.’ Nevertheless, urban farming of the kind being practised in Paris is one part of a bigger and fast-changing picture that is bringing food production closer to our lives.

Questions 1-3: Sentence Completion

Complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer.

  1. Vertical tubes are used to grow strawberries, ______ and herbs.
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    Đáp án: lettuces
    Vị trí: Đoạn 2: “From identical vertical tubes nearby burst row upon row of lettuces…”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc liệt kê các loại cây trồng trong ống thẳng đứng (vertical tubes) gồm strawberries, herbs và “lettuces”.

  2. There will eventually be a daily harvest of as much as ______ in weight of fruit and vegetables.
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    Đáp án: 1,000 kg
    Vị trí: Đoạn 3: “…20 staff will harvest up to 1,000 kg of perhaps 35 different varieties…”
    Giải thích: Cụm từ “daily harvest” tương ứng với “harvest… every day” trong bài. Trọng lượng được đề cập là 1,000 kg.

  3. It may be possible that the farm’s produce will account for as much as 10% of the city’s ______ overall.
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    Đáp án: consumption / food consumption
    Vị trí: Đoạn 3: “…target maybe between 5% and 10% of consumption.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc nói về mục tiêu cung cấp (target) khoảng 10% lượng tiêu thụ (consumption) của thành phố.

Questions 4-7: Table Completion

Complete the table below. Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.

Intensive farming Aeroponic urban farming
– wide range of (4) ______ used
– quality not good
– (6) ______ receive very little of overall income
– techniques pollute air
– varieties chosen that can survive long (5) ______ 		– no soil used
– produce chosen because of its (7) ______
  1. Đáp án câu 4

    Đáp án: pesticides
    Vị trí: Đoạn 4: “…treated with something like 17 different pesticides…”
    Giải thích: “Wide range” tương ứng với “17 different”. Thứ được sử dụng là thuốc trừ sâu (pesticides).

  2. Đáp án câu 5

    Đáp án: journeys
    Vị trí: Đoạn 4: “…withstand such substantial journeys…”
    Giải thích: “Survive long” tương ứng với “withstand such substantial”. Từ cần điền là journeys.

  3. Đáp án câu 6

    Đáp án: producers
    Vị trí: Đoạn 4: “…80% of the price I pay goes to wholesalers… not the producers.”
    Giải thích: Bài viết nói phần lớn tiền không đến tay “producers” (nhà sản xuất), tức là họ nhận được rất ít (receive very little).

  4. Đáp án câu 7

    Đáp án: flavour / flavor
    Vị trí: Đoạn 5: “You can select crop varieties for their flavour…”
    Giải thích: Đối với phương pháp Aeroponic, giống cây được chọn dựa trên hương vị (flavour) chứ không phải khả năng chịu vận chuyển.

Questions 8-13: True / False / Not Given
  1. Urban farming can take place above or below ground.
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    Đáp án: TRUE
    Vị trí: Đoạn 6: “Strawberries are being grown in disused shipping containers, mushrooms in underground carparks.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc đề cập việc trồng trên mái nhà (above ground) ở đoạn đầu và nấm trồng ở “underground carparks” (below ground) ở đoạn 6. Thông tin khớp hoàn toàn.

  2. Some of the equipment used in aeroponic farming can be made by hand.
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    Đáp án: NOT GIVEN
    Vị trí: Đoạn 6: “The equipment weighs little… and is cheap to buy…”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc có nhắc đến thiết bị (equipment) nhẹ và rẻ, nhưng không có thông tin nào nói về việc làm thủ công (made by hand).

  3. Urban farming relies more on electricity than some other types of farming.
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    Đáp án: FALSE
    Vị trí: Đoạn 6: “…consuming a tiny fraction of the electricity used by some techniques.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc nói nó tiêu thụ một lượng điện rất nhỏ (tiny fraction) so với các kỹ thuật khác, trái ngược với “relies more” (phụ thuộc nhiều hơn) trong câu hỏi.

  4. Fruit and vegetables grown on an aeroponic urban farm are cheaper than traditionally grown organic produce.
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    Đáp án: TRUE
    Vị trí: Đoạn 7: “…prices that… are lower than soil-based organic growers.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc xác nhận giá bán thấp hơn (lower) so với sản phẩm hữu cơ trồng trên đất (soil-based organic).

  5. Most produce can be grown on an aeroponic urban farm at any time of the year.
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    Đáp án: FALSE
    Vị trí: Đoạn 7: “…much of the produce is suited to the summer months.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc nói phần lớn sản phẩm phù hợp với các tháng mùa hè (summer months), trái ngược với “any time of the year” (bất kỳ thời điểm nào trong năm).

  6. Beans take longer to grow on an urban farm than other vegetables.
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    Đáp án: NOT GIVEN
    Vị trí: Đoạn 7: “And beans tend to take up a lot of space for not much return.”
    Giải thích: Bài đọc có nhắc đến đậu (beans) nhưng lý do không trồng là vì tốn diện tích (space) và lợi nhuận thấp (not much return), không hề nhắc đến thời gian trồng lâu hay mau (take longer).

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The line chart compares the number of bushels of corn and wheat sold from 2012 to 2016.

In general, It can be seen that the amount of wheat gradually increases while that of corn sees a slight decrease in the last 2 years, and the sales of wheat are always higher than those of corn.

In 2012, about 1,250,000 bushels of wheat were sold. In the next 5 years, the figures for wheat continuously increased before reaching a peak at 2.400.000 in 2016.

Regarding Corn, it began at 1.000.000 in 2012. Then, it went up significantly to 1.500.000 which was a peak. At this point, the number of bushels of corn saw a slight decrease, standing at 1.450.000 and 1.400.00 in 2015 and 2016, respectively. 

In conclusion, the differences between Corn and wheat are gradually larger in the given period.

Hướng dẫn viết task 1: table

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The table compares the temperature of 5 big cities in the world (regarding the high and the low). 

In general, Rome has the highest temperature while Bogota and Sydney have the lowest temperature for the low and the high respectively  

Rome has the temperature of  89  for the high and 67 for the low, both of which are the highest among 5 cities. 

Next, Tokyo ranks second with 82  for the high and 66  for the low, compared to London which has temperature of  73 for the high and 60 for the low. 

After that, Bogota has the temperature of 62 which is in the fourth place for the high and the temperature for the low is 42,  being the lowest temperature. Finally, Sydney is in the last place for the high (60), and slightly  higher than Bogota for the low (45) 

In conclusion, the positions of all cities for the high are the same as for the low except Bogota and Sidney 

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