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SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG 
 ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
 (Đề gồm có 04 trang) MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 251
 Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 01 to 06.
 For thousands of years, there weve no epidemic diseases. However, when people started ...(1)... in towns, infections could ...(2)... more easily. When traders and armies travelled from city to city, they brought bacteria and viruses with them and spread infections to new populations. Children were in the greatest danger: in the nineteenth century, fifty per cent of children ...(3)... before the age of five.
 Most infections are spread in the same way: bacteria or viruses are passed on by coughing, sneezing or by touching food with infected hands. People began to understand this as early as the 1300s. During the plague in Milan, the streets were regularly cleaned and the clothes of plague ...(4)... were burned.
 In the nineteenth century, Ignaz Semmelweiss observed that infection was spread by doctors' dirty hands and recommended washing hands before touching ...(5).... Another early way of avoiding disease was quarantine - sick people were isolated from healthy ones.
 Vaccines were first used in the eighteenth century. In 1796, Edward Jenner vaccinated people ...(6)... smallpox. Nowadays, in many countries, people are vaccinated against many common diseases, such as measles or TB.
[Adapted from “NEW CHALLENGES 3”, Student’s Book, Pearson, 2015]
 Question 1:A. living	B. alive	C. livelihood	D. life
 Question 2:A. sowed	B. extended	C. spread	D. expanded
 Question 3:A. dead	B. diceased	C. died	D. death
 Question 4:A. persons	B. victims	C. humans	D. deaths
 Question 5:A. those	B. them	C. patients	D. things
 Question 6:A. out	B. from	C. against	D. off
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
 Question 7:A. improve	B. drove	C. move	D. prove
 Question 8:A. ground	B. southern	C. founder	D. plough
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 9: After a lot of difficulty, he.......to open the door.
A. managed	B. obtained	C. realized	D. succeeded
Question 10: There’s.......to be frightened of the dog; he’s quite harmless.
A. any reason	B. a fear	C. no need	D. no fear
Question 11: He has the slightest.......of winning her affection.
A. means	B. chance	C. luck	D. occasion
Question 12: You can stay here.......you don’t make a loud noise.
A. unless	B. otherwise	C. so long as	D. nevertheless
Question 13: The purpose of the examination was to.......the students’ knowledge of the subject.
A. test	B. inspect	C. try	D. prove
Question 14: I’ll have to.......to you, otherwise he will hear.
A. say	B. whistle	C. shout	D. whisper
Question 15: He always takes full.......of the mistake made by these competitors.
A. profit	B. advantage	C. benefit	D. advice
Question 16: My employer’s.......of my work does not matter to me at all.
A. meaning	B. opinion	C. belief	D. expression
Question 17: I don’t think that........of yellow suits you very well.
A. colour	B. tone	C. degree	D. shade
Question 18: I have been looking for this book for months, and......I have found it.
A. at last	B. at the end	C. at present	D. in time
Question 19: On hearing the news she fainted and it was half an hour before she.......again.
A. came up	B. came round	C. came forward	D. came over
Question 20: The heavy rains have ruined the fruit........in the south of Greece.
A. produce	B. crop	C. productivity	D. growing
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
 Question 21:A. immediate	B. intelligent	C. experiment	D. ecosystem
 Question 22:A. metropolis	B. deficiency	C. alternative	D. continental
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Question 23: ~ A: "So, what's your room like, Sarah? Our room's quite nice." ~ B: "..............."
A. I don't think so. It's too small and you snore! I need earplugs.
B. Yes, I like very much. I can afford it.
C. It's too high to reach. I need a ladder, perhaps.
D. Will you put me up for tonight? I missed the last bus home.
Question 24: ~ A: “Ian and Sarah’ve just recorded their album.” ~ B: “..............”
A. They were said to have divorced three years ago.	B. Didn’t they twitter their photos?
C. That’s amazing! Let’s drink to creativity!	D. No. It sounds scratching and too soft.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 25: Mary was exactly the same as everybody else but this particular night she wanted to let her hair down.
A. comb her hair	B. wash her hair	C. really enjoy herself	D. really comb her hair
Question 26: They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects. 
A. flaccid	B. severe	C. strong	D. sympathetic
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 27 to 33.
MR. ROBOTO IN OUR HOME?
 In a robotics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the torso of robot grabs a box and holds it out to a roboticist as he cleans up the lab. We may consider it mindless work, but Aaron Edsinger says it takes intelligence for this robot named Domo to lend a helping hand with household chores. "Our big goal is to have the robot adapt to the world instead of having the world adapt to the robot," he says. "This is key, he says, "because robots without artificial intelligence can currently perform very complex tasks, like assembling an automobile; but they must be taught beforehand exactly what to do. "A lot of the really advanced robotics that you see particularly coming out of Japan right now, these robots are very prescripted," says Edsinger. "The actions they're going to take are sort of figured out beforehand. You hit play, and it sort of does the same thing over and over again."
 Edsinger has been getting Domo to work in domestic settings, exposing the robot to objects it hasn't seen before. "Adaptivity is going to be critical as soon as we want robots to come out of the car factory and into our homes, into our daily lives, because we can't program it with everything it needs to know," says Edsinger. For example, he says, household robots must be able to distinguish the countless objects within our home. "A car factory can be very well understood and predicted ahead of time. Your kitchen and all your dishes in the kitchen sink are much harder for a robot to understand," he says.
[Adapted from CAE PRACTICE TESTS, Virginia Evans, 2010]
Question 27: What is the writer’s attitude about robots?
A. advertising	B. neutral	C. criticizing	D. advocating
Question 28: The aim of the roboticists at the MIT is to develop robots which......
A. remove the need for humans to do household chores.
B. can perform more and more complicated tasks.
C. can perform tasks without being shown how first.
D. are programmed to perform a large variety of tasks.
Question 29: According to Aaron Edsinger, the robot Domo can lend a helping hand with household chores because......
A. it can perform very complex tasks	B. it has prescripted intelligence
C. it does it out of nindlessness	D. it has been adapted to the work
Question 30: Aaron Edsinger compares a car factory and a kitchen in order to demonstrate......
A. how a household robot will deal with its environment.
B. what main limitation a household robot will have.
C. in which room a household robot will face its greatest challenge.
D. why a household robot needs a particular skill.
Question 31: The robot Domo must be adapted to working in domestic settings because.....
A. it rejeccts what it doesn’t know about household chores
B. there are objects it hasn’t been adpated to before.
C. there are too many things for it to get used to.
D. it is not intelligent enough
Question 32: What does the writer imply about when saying, “A lot of the really advanced robotics that you see particularly coming out of Japan right now.”?
A. Japan is the spearhead in manufacturing robots.
B. Those robots need prescipting before performance.
C. Those robots are functioning in monotony.
D. Robots from Japan are not intelligent enough to do household chores.
Question 33: The word “critical” is closest in meaning to.......
A. causing terror	B. erroneous	C. of great importance	D. being criticized
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 34 to 40.
HOW TO WRITE A DETECTIVE STORY
 I've been writing detective stories since I was a teenager. Some people think it's a strange profession for a woman, but I think crime fiction is for everyone. I've started giving creative writing classes and the most common question people ask is, 'Where do you start?' It's impossible to give fixed rules, but there are some general tips that people often find useful.
 Before you start writing, choose a time period and place that sound realistic. A useful tip is to 'write about what you know'. If you were born in Paris or London, it makes sense to set your story in a European city. Of course, you can write about any continent and any century, but you'll need to do a lot more research to make your story believable.
 The character of your detective is very important. He or she must have qualities that help them solve the crime, but they also need characteristics that make them an individual. He or she must also fit in the time and place of your story. Readers are very knowledgeable and they will notice if you get any details wrong about the time period.
 Every detective story needs a crime, of course. You need to explain what happens before the crime, the crime itself and what happens afterwards. Remember that you don't always have to write about a murder. Some readers don't enjoy stories full of guns and blood. So, why not write about a theft, kidnapping, or something different like an environmental crime?
 Clues are important to keep the reader's interest. They must be interesting, but not too complicated or repetitive. The readers also need to know who the suspects are and if they have an alibi. Decide at the beginning how all the cklues will be brought together. Readers love a "twist" and the end of the story - a surprise or a new fact that brings the action to its conclusion.
[From: CHALLENGES 4, Workbook, Pearson, 2010]
Question 34: Why is it a good idea to ‘write about what you know?
A. You won’t have to do so much research.	B. You will have time to do your research.
C. You can write about any period in history.	D. You will believe in your story.
Question 35: The writer of the text is......
A. a woman.	 B. a teenager.	C. a criminal.	D. a man.
Question 36: The word “knowledgeable” is closest in meaning to...
A. quick at unserstanding 	B. needing knowledge	C. knowing a lot	D. informative
Question 37: What does the writer say about readers of crime fiction?
A. They don’t care about the time or place.
B. They are only interested in the detective.
C. They know if the writer has made a mistake in the context.
D. They don’t know how to solve the crime.
Question 38: The word “twist”is synonymous with......
A. a new incident	B. an unexpected ending
C. a surprising change of happenings	D. a varied conclusion
Question 39: What two points does the writer make about detective stories?
A. Don’t write about murder and give a lot of clues at the beginning of the story.
B. You should explain the crime but don’t say who the suspects are.
C. You can write about a range of crimes and readers like a shock at the end of a story.
D. You can write about guns and blood but don’t surprise readers at the end of the story.
Question 40: Why did the author write this text?
A. to give advice on writing a detective story	B. to describe being a writer
C. to keep the readers’ interest	D. to tell a detective story
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 41: Nothing - not even the prospect of dinner - could lift his spirits. 
A. tear his heart out	B. make him angry	C. make him happier	D. play him out
Question 42: I stretched out and listened to the sound of the rushing stream. 
A. flowing	B. swaggering	C. dawdling	D. trickling
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 43: Could you please pass me my book?
A. Never mind my reading the book when you pass.
B. Would you be so kind as to pass me my book?
C. Please come over here and read this book with me.
D. Would you mind not passing when I read my book?
Question 44: Andrew's behaviour was unforgivable.
A. No one will forgive Andrew's behaviour.	B. Andrew is not forgiven for his bahaviour.
C. Andrew had an unforgivable behaviour.	D. There's no excuse for the way Andrew behaved.
Question 45: I'm sure Sarah didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
A. I'm sure Sarah had no intention of hurting your feelings.
B. Not hurting your feelings was certainly Sarah's intention.
C. Sarah surely meant to hurt your feelings unintentionally.
D. It's certain that Sarah meant to hurt your feelings unintentionally.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
Question 46: Along the beach was several small boats that had been washed ashore.
A. was	B. Along	C. had been	D. small boats
Question 47: My brother doesn’t care how much does the car cost because he is going to buy it anyway.
A. doesn’t care	B. because	C. is going to buy	D. does the car cost
Question 48: Betty’s homework is usually more organized than those of any other students in the class.
A. organised	B. is	C. those	D. other
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 49: My uncle has been out of work for two years. He’s trying to look for a job.
A. My uncle has been out of work for two years because he’s trying to look for a job.
B. Because my uncle has been out of work for two years, he’s trying to look for a job.
C. My uncle has been out of work for two years so that he’s trying to look for a job.
D. Despite having been out of work for two years, my uncle’s trying to look for a job. 
Question 50: He removed the evidence. Then he phoned the police.
A. To remove the evidence, he phoned the police.
B. Having removed the evidence, he phoned the police.
C. He’d phoned the police after he removed the evidence.
D. Removing the evidence, he phoned the police.
The End
SỞ GIÁO DỤC ĐÀO TẠO ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG 
 ĐỀ CHÍNH THỨC NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
 (Đề gồm có 04 trang) MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 278
 Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Question 1: ~ A: "So, what's your room like, Sarah? Our room's quite nice." ~ B: "..............."
A. Yes, I like very much. I can afford it.
B. It's too high to reach. I need a ladder, perhaps.
C. I don't think so. It's too small and you snore! I need earplugs.
D. Will you put me up for tonight? I missed the last bus home.
Question 2: ~ A: “Ian and Sarah’ve just recorded their album.” ~ B: “..............”
A. They were said to have divorced three years ago.	B. That’s amazing! Let’s drink to creativity!
C. No. It sounds scratching and too soft.	D. Didn’t they twitter their photos?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
 Question 3:A. improve	B. drove	C. prove	D. move
 Question 4:A. southern	B. ground	C. plough	D. founder
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
 Question 5:A. immediate	B. experiment	C. ecosystem	D. intelligent
 Question 6:A. metropolis	B. deficiency	C. alternative	D. continental
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 7: They believe that judges are too lenient with terrorist suspects. 
A. flaccid	B. strong	C. severe	D. sympathetic
Question 8: Mary was exactly the same as everybody else but this particular night she wanted to let her hair down.
A. comb her hair	B. really enjoy herself	C. really comb her hair	D. wash her hair
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 9: I stretched out and listened to the sound of the rushing stream. 
A. flowing	B. swaggering	C. trickling	D. dawdling
Question 10: Nothing - not even the prospect of dinner - could lift his spirits. 
A. make him angry	B. tear his heart out	C. make him happier	D. play him out
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 11: You can stay here.......you don’t make a loud noise.
A. so long as	B. unless	C. nevertheless	D. otherwise
Question 12: The purpose of the examination was to.......the students’ knowledge of the subject.
A. try	B. test	C. inspect	D. prove
Question 13: The heavy rains have ruined the fruit........in the south of Greece.
A. crop	B. growing	C. produce	D. productivity
Question 14: I have been looking for this book for months, and......I have found it.
A. at the end	B. at last	C. at present	D. in time
Question 15: I’ll have to.......to you, otherwise he will hear.
A. whisper	B. say	C. shout	D. whistle
Question 16: I don’t think that........of yellow suits you very well.
A. shade	B. tone	C. colour	D. degree
Question 17: He has the slightest.......of winning her affection.
A. chance	B. luck	C. means	D. occasion
Question 18: There’s.......to be frightened of the dog; he’s quite harmless.
A. no need	B. no fear	C. any reason	D. a fear
Question 19: My employer’s.......of my work does not matter to me at all.
A. expression	B. belief	C. meaning	D. opinion
Question 20: He always takes full.......of the mistake made by these competitors.
A. advice	B. profit	C. advantage	D. benefit
Question 21: On hearing the news she fainted and it was half an hour before she.......again.
A. came up	B. came round	C. came over	D. came forward
Question 22: After a lot of difficulty, he.......to open the door.
A. succeeded	B. realized	C. managed	D. obtained
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 28.
 For thousands of years, there weve no epidemic diseases. However, when people started ...(23)... in towns, infections could ...(24)... more easily. When traders and armies travelled from city to city, they brought bacteria and viruses with them and spread infections to new populations. Children were in the greatest danger: in the nineteenth century, fifty per cent of children ...(25)... before the age of five.
 Most infections are spread in the same way: bacteria or viruses are passed on by coughing, sneezing or by touching food with infected hands. People began to understand this as early as the 1300s. During the plague in Milan, the streets were regularly cleaned and the clothes of plague ...(26)... were burned.
 In the nineteenth century, Ignaz Semmelweiss observed that infection was spread by doctors' dirty hands and recommended washing hands before touching ...(27).... Another early way of avoiding disease was quarantine - sick people were isolated from healthy ones.
 Vaccines were first used in the eighteenth century. In 1796, Edward Jenner vaccinated people ...(28)... smallpox. Nowadays, in many countries, people are vaccinated against many common diseases, such as measles or TB.
[Adapted from “NEW CHALLENGES 3”, Student’s Book, Pearson, 2015]
 Question 23:A. living	B. life	C. alive	D. livelihood
 Question 24:A. expanded	B. extended	C. spread	D. sowed
 Question 25:A. death	B. dead	C. died	D. diceased
 Question 26:A. humans	B. persons	C. deaths	D. victims
 Question 27:A. them	B. patients	C. things	D. those
 Question 28:A. against	B. out	C. from	D. off
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 29: My uncle has been out of work for two years. He’s trying to look for a job.
A. Despite having been out of work for two years, my uncle’s trying to look for a job. 
B. Because my uncle has been out of work for two years, he’s trying to look for a job.
C. My uncle has been out of work for two years because he’s trying to look for a job.
D. My uncle has been out of work for two years so that he’s trying to look for a job.
Question 30: He removed the evidence. Then he phoned the police.
A. To remove the evidence, he phoned the police.
B. Having removed the evidence, he phoned the police.
C. He’d phoned the police after he removed the evidence.
D. Removing the evidence, he phoned the police.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 31: I'm sure Sarah didn't mean to hurt your feelings.
A. It's certain that Sarah meant to hurt your feelings unintentionally.
B. Not hurting your feelings was certainly Sarah's intention.
C. Sarah surely meant to hurt your feelings unintentionally.
D. I'm sure Sarah had no intention of hurting your feelings.
Question 32: Andrew's behaviour was unforgivable.
A. Andrew is not forgiven for his bahaviour.	B. No one will forgive Andrew's behaviour.
C. There's no excuse for the way Andrew behaved.	D. Andrew had an unforgivable behaviour.
Question 33: Could you please pass me my book?
A. Would you be so kind as to pass me my book?
B. Please come over here and read this book with me.
C. Never mind my reading the book when you pass.
D. Would you mind not passing when I read my book?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 34 to 40.
MR. ROBOTO IN OUR HOME?
 In a robotics lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the torso of robot grabs a box and holds it out to a roboticist as he cleans up the lab. We may consider it mindless work, but Aaron Edsinger says it takes intelligence for this robot named Domo to lend a helping hand with household chores. "Our big goal is to have the robot adapt to the world instead of having the world adapt to the robot," he says. "This is key, he says, "because robots without artificial intelligence can currently perform very complex tasks, like assembling an automobile; but they must be taught beforehand exactly what to do. "A lot of the really advanced robotics that you see particularly coming out of Japan right now, these robots are very prescripted," says Edsinger. "The actions they're going to take are sort of figured out beforehand. You hit play, and it sort of does the same thing over and over again."
 Edsinger has been getting Domo to work in domestic settings, exposing the robot to objects it hasn't seen before. "Adaptivity is going to be critical as soon as we want robots to come out of the car factory and into our homes, into our daily lives, because we can't program it with everything it needs to know," says Edsinger. For example, he says, household robots must be able to distinguish the countless objects within our home. "A car factory can be very well understood and predicted ahead of time. Your kitchen and all your dishes in the kitchen sink are much harder for a robot to understand," he says.
[Adapted from CAE PRACTICE TESTS, Virginia Evans, 2010]
Question 34: The aim of the roboticists at the MIT is to develop robots which......
A. remove the need for humans to do household chores.
B. can perform more and more complicated tasks.
C. are programmed to perform a large variety of tasks.
D. can perform tasks without being shown how first.
Question 35: What is the writer’s attitude about robots?
A. neutral	B. criticizing	C. advertising	D. advocating
Question 36: The robot Domo must be adapted to working in domestic settings because.....
A. it rejeccts what it doesn’t know about household chores
B. there are objects it hasn’t been adpated to before.
C. it is not intelligent enough
D. there are too many things for it to get used to.
Question 37: According to Aaron Edsinger, the robot Domo can lend a helping hand with household chores because......
A. it does it out of nindlessness	B. it has prescripted intelligence
C. it can perform very complex tasks	D. it has been adapted to the work
Question 38: What does the writer imply about when saying, “A lot of the really advanced robotics that you see particularly coming out of Japan right now.”?
A. Those robots need prescipting before performance.
B. Japan is the spearhead in manufacturing robots.
C. Robots from Japan are not intelligent enough to do household chores.
D. Those robots are functioning in monotony.
Question 39: Aaron Edsinger compares a car factory and a kitchen in order to demonstrate......
A. in which room a household robot will face its greatest challenge.
B. how a household robot will deal with its environment.
C. what main limitation a household robot will have.
D. why a household robot needs a particular skill.
Question 40: The word “critical” is closest in meaning to.......
A. erroneous	B. causing terror	C. being criticized	D. of great importance
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 41 to 47.
HOW TO WRITE A DETECTIVE STORY
 I've been writing detective stories since I was a teenager. Some people think it's a strange profession for a woman, but I think crime fiction is for everyone. I've started giving creative writing classes and the most common question people ask is, 'Where do you start?' It's impossible to give fixed rules, but there are some general tips that people often find useful.
 Before you start writing, choose a time period and place that sound realistic. A useful tip is to 'write about what you know'. If you were born in Paris or London, it makes sense to set your story in a European city. Of course, you can write about any continent and any century, but you'll need to do a lot more research to make your story believable.
 The character of your detective is very important. He or she must have qualities that help them solve the crime, but they also need characteristics that make them an individual. He or she must also fit in the time and place of your story. Readers are very knowledgeable and they will notice if you get any details wrong about the time period.
 Every detective story needs a crime, of course. You need to explain what happens before the crime, the crime itself and what happens afterwards. Remember that you don't always have to write about a murder. Some readers don't enjoy stories full of guns and blood. So, why not write about a theft, kidnapping, or something different like an environmental crime?
 Clues are important to keep the reader's interest. They must be interesting, but not too complicated or repetitive. The readers also need to know who the suspects are and if they have an alibi. Decide at the beginning how all the cklues will be brought together. Readers love a "twist" and the end of the story - a surprise or a new fact that brings the action to its conclusion.
[From: CHALLENGES 4, Workbook, Pearson, 2010]
Question 41: What does the writer say about readers of crime fiction?
A. They are only interested in the detective.
B. They know if the writer has made a mistake in the context.
C. They don’t care about the time or place.
D. They don’t know how to solve the crime.
Question 42: The writer of the text is......
A. a woman.	B. a man.	C. a criminal.	D. a teenager.
Question 43: Why did the author write this text?
A. to keep the readers’ interest	B. to give advice on writing a detective story
C. to tell a detective story	D. to describe being a writer
Question 44: The word “twist”is synonymous with......
A. a varied conclusion	B. a surprising change of happenings
C. a new incident	D. an unexpected ending
Question 45: Why is it a good idea to ‘write about what you know?
A. You will believe in your story.	B. You will have time to do your research.
C. You can write about any period in history.	D. You won’t have to do so much research.
Question 46: What two points does the writer make about detective stories?
A. You can write about guns and blood but don’t surprise readers at the end of the story.
B. You should explain the crime but don’t say who the suspects are.
C. You can write about a range of crimes and readers like a shock at the end of a story.
D. Don’t write about murder and give a lot of clues at the beginning of the