Đề ôn thi tốt nghiệp Trung học Phổ thông môn Tiếng Anh - Năm học 2017-2018 - Mã đề 322

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 322
 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 answer to each of the questions from 01 to 07.
REAL-LIFE ROMEOS
 When we use the word Romeo for a romantic young man, we hardly think of the character from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. But a sure sign of an author having created a successful character is that the character's name enters the language and becomes a word. Despite only writing in Spanish, Shakespeare's contemporary Cervantes achieved the feat of creating a new word in a different language - English, the adjective quixotic. This word comes from the title character of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It describes a person who has great imagination and makes incredible plans, but whose plans are unfortunately impossible to achieve.
 One author who was particularly successful in seeing his characters enter the language was the novelist Charles Dickens. In modern English a Scrooge is used to describe someone who is mean and tries to avoid spending money at all. The word comes from the protagonist of Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, who treats the employees who work in his office poorly and makes them work in terrible conditions. As well as Scrooge, Dickens also had success with Fagin, the villain of Oliver Twist. In the novel Fagin controlled a group of child criminals. His name is often used in the press to describe real-life adult leaders of youthful gangs.
 The Victorian era (1837-1901) in which Dickens wrote was a major period for the English novel. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson achieved enormous success with his masterpiece Treasure Island. Stevenson also brought two of his characters into everyday speech. A Jekyll and Hyde character is a person whose personality can quickly change from being kind to being angry, impolite or aggressive. The name comes from the scientist protagonist of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde whose strange experiments turn him from man to murderous monster, and back again. Stevenson was not alone in seeing success from the field of Gothic Horror. At the age of twenty one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and the name of her mad scientist is now used as an adjective to describe any kind of science that seems to be out of control. Frankenstein foods, for example, is a term that people can understand to describe genetically modified ingredients.
 It does seem strange that villains enter the language more often than heroes. Sometimes in fact these characters need hardly appear in the original work at all. The television series Big Brother is named after the all-powerful dictator who rules the London of the future in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother himself is never encountered during the story: we only ever see his face on posters along with the ominous message 'Big Brother is Watching You'. This is why the presence of more and more cameras watching the streets, and greater government controls over the everyday lives of people, has led to the suggestion that we live in a 'Big Brother society'. Interestingly, Orwell achieved the double feat of creating a character that has entered the language as well as entering the language himself. The word Orwellian is used to describe a society which tries to control every aspect of people's lives, as happened in the pages of Nineteen Eighty Four. Like the novel, it's a word that seems to be getting more and more popular all the time.
[From SPOTLIGHT ON FIRST, Exam Booster, Cengage Learning, 2015]
Question 1: How does the writer feel about genetically modified foods?
A. He opposes them.	B. He thinks they taste horrible.
C. He thinks they are an amazing scientific achievement.	D. He is undecided.
Question 2: What was Ebenezer Scrooge?
A. a criminal	B. a businessman	C. a hero	D. a very poor man
Question 3: The word 'quixotic'.....
A. is a criticism.	B. is very old-fashioned.
C. can mean one of two things.	D. is a comptiment.
Question 4: What is the effect of the posters of Big Brother?
A. They advertise a television programme.	B. They give people orders.
C. They make people feel nervous	D. They are used in election campaigns.
Question 5: What kind of people use the word 'Fagin'?
A. criminals	B. journalists	C. politicians	D. children
Question 6: What does the writer mean by 'Stevenson also brought two of his characters into everyday speech'?
A. The characters spoke very naturally.
B. The characters were named after words people used in their daily lives.
C. The author changed the characters' names to make them more popular.
D. The names of the characters are used by people as part of a common expression.
Question 7: The word “ominous” is opposite in meaning to...
A. well-timed	B. benevolent	C. auspicious	D. ill-fated
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 8:A. mixture	B. future	C. failure	D. measure
Question 9:A. taxi	B. anxiety	C. maximum	D. fox
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 10 to 15.
THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL JOB APPLICATIONS ... EVER!
 Job hunting is one of the most stressful times in your life. You can spend hours perfecting a CV or filling in online application forms. For many people, the result is the same: a polite 'no thank you'. You know you have the personal qualities to do the job, but you can only show them when you meet your employer face to face. So how can you get that elusive interview? Here are some of the most surprising ways, and they're all real.
 One of the very best was the job applicant who arrived at a company with a takeaway pizza, with his CV printed on the box. The interview took place while they ate and the applicant got the job before they had finished. In this case, it's important to pick the right toppings. Crime was the inspiration for Kelly Weihs of Baltimore, USA. Looking for a job as a designer, she decided to show off her design work with her own CV. She used a series of old fonts and interesting colours to make her CV look like a nineteenth-century Wanted poster from the Wild West. Her imaginative approach worked and she got the job.
 However, it can be risky to make a CV like this. Kelly's poster idea was perfect because she was looking for a job in design. Other people make less intelligent CV decisions. For example, some job candidates record a video of themselves singing for their new potential employers, even if they are only applying for a position as a PA. This is never going to work. It's too obvious that the candidate wants to be in the more exciting world of the music business, not answering the phones all day in an accountant's offices.
 America seems to be the home of the creative CV, no doubt because it has one of the world's largest populations and thousands of people are competing for every job. Think about the poor managers who have to read through hundreds and hundreds of applications in a day. It's one of the most boring jobs in the world. Anyone might start thinking about more interesting things, like a break for coffee. So imagine what happens when you get a free chocolate bar, completely out of the blue, with a CV wrapped around it. That's was Nick Begley's big idea. Nick printed his CV on a chocolate wrapper with his skills in the ingredients section. He then placed it around a Nestle Crunch bar and he sent it in. It paid off immediately because Begley got two job offers and ended up working in ... you guessed it, marketing. 
 So if you want to stand out from the crowd, try one of these ideas for yourself. Just remember that if you apply for a job at my company, I hate anchovies and black olives.
Question 10: This blog has been written to......
A. entertain people.	B. train people.	C. criticise people.	D. shock people.
Question 11: When did the applicant with the pizza apply for the job?
A. When he brought the pizza to the company.	B. When he saw the job advertisement online.
C. When they had eaten the whole pizza.	D. When he received the order for the pizza.
Question 12: The video idea may not be successful because......
A. people were shocked by the loud music and the dancing.	B. it was the riskiest idea.
C. it showed the person wanted a different job.	D. nobody watched it.
Question 13: Kelly Weihs got her inspiration from......
A. adverts.	B. history.	C. books.	D. paintings.
Question 14: What does the writer mean by out of the blue in line 20?
A. In the beginning.	B. At the wrong time.
C. Without warning.	D. When you are feeling tired.
Question 15: From the text, we understand that the author's favourite CV idea was......
A. the Wanted poster.	B. the video with singing.
C. the pizza box.	D. the chocolate bar.
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 16: I bet that computer knocked you back several hundred.
A. cost you	B. wasted up to	C. helped you to save	D. won back for you
Question 17: We drove through a barren, rocky landscape. 
A. unproductive	B. narrow	C. dry	D. not fresh
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 18: He's dead on his feet after the long run.
A. out of his ears	B. got deep feet	C. as fresh as a daisy	D. head over heels
Question 19: Relations between those two nation leaders are said to be cordial. 
A. detached	B. frigid	C. amiable	D. friendly
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 20: ~ A: “You seem to have never been bed ridden.” ~ B: “......................”
A. Yes. My eldest sister works as a nurse at the local hospital.	B. I keep fit by going jogging every day.
C. Never. Only on winter days.	D. Luckily, we got in before the downpour.
Question 21: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “I am. I need to lose some weight.”
A. Have you ever been on a diet?	B. Are you having diabetes?
C. This dress seems too tight on you, Betty.	D. I don’t like girls with fat thighs.
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 22:A. exhaustion	B. exercise	C. exchange	D. examine
 Question 23:A. maternity	B. beautifully	C. generalize	D. comfortable
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 24: Parents can't expect to raise their children without making any sacrifices for them.
A. Children expect their parents to make an awful lot of sacrifices for them.
B. Raising a child is probably the most self-sacrificing thing a person can do.
C. Bringing up children is not always a painless experience for parents.
D. Parents have to be prepared to give up some things for their children while bringing them up.
Question 25: With your qualifications, it would be surprising if you didn't find a job.
A. If you want to find a job, you should become better qualified.
B. The better your qualifications, the more likely you are to find a job.
C. You are so well-qualified that you are almost certain to find a job.
D. I wonder why you haven’t found a job, because you have such good qualifications
Question 26: They were being very secretive about what had happened at yesterday's meeting.
A. Whatever happened at yesterday's meeting, it's obvious that they won’t let it be known by others.
B. They wouldn't give out anything about the things that occurred at the meeting the previous day.
C. They told everyone that whatever had happened at the previous meeting was going to be kept secret.
D. The contents of the meeting held the previous day were confidential, so they refused to talk about them.
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 27 to 33.
WHY MARRIAGE LEADS TO A LONG LIFE
 An analysis of the benefits of relationships has confirmed a truth that many have long held to be self-evident: marriage is good for you. Not only does it ...(27)... physical health in men and mental well-being in women, but the longer it lasts, the greater the benefits all round, ...(28)... in a longer and more satisfying life. A study ...(29)... millions of people over many years across seven European countries,has ...(30)... that married couples had mortality rates I0 -15 per cent below the population as a factor. This figure rises w ith the longevity of a marriage.
 The selection hypothesis argues that well-adjusted individuals are more likely to ...(31)... long-term relationships, suggesting that the determining ...(32)... might not be marriage itself, but more the kind of people who are likely to wed and stay wed.The authors ofthe study argue that commitment is also ...(33)... to higher living standards, with the associated network of supportive families,shared friends and healthy lifestyles bringing a range of benefits.
[From: “READY FOR ADVANCED, Coursebook”, Roy Norris. Macmillan, 2018]
 Question 27:A. endure	B. enhance	C. enjoy	D. enchant
 Question 28:A. improving	B. resulting	C. finalizing	D. leading
 Question 29:A. implying	B. composing	C. consisting	D. involving
 Question 30:A. manifested	B. revealed	C. exposed	D. considered
 Question 31:A. establish	B. launch	C. found	D. base
 Question 32:A. moment	B. factor	C. part	D. event
 Question 33:A. linked	B. joined	C. combined	D. blended
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 34: We had better to review this chapter carefully because we will have some questions on it on our test tomorrow.
A. carefully	B. better to review	C. on our test	D. have some
Question 35: No one in our office wants to drive to work any more because that there are always traffic jams at rush hour.
A. wants	B. at rush hour	C. because that	D. are
Question 36: Many of the population in the rural areas is composed of manual labourers.
A. is composed	B. labourers	C. in the	D. Many
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 37: Be quite! It’s rude to.......people when they are speaking.
A. interrupt	B. interfere	C. prevent	D. introduce
Question 38: Sometimes advertising signs.......down during a storm and people are injued by them.
A. blew	B. blow	C. were blown	D. are blown
Question 39: He.......me to buy my air ticket immediately or it would be too late.
A. suggested	B. convinced	C. advised	D. insisted
Question 40: There are many........on television where a team of people have to arnsver questions.
A. riddles	B. quizzes	C. puzzles	D. inquiries
Question 41: When he left school, Tom decided to.......a priest instead of studying languages.
A. train for	B. study for	C. change to	D. become
Question 42: Don’t worry about trying to catch the last train home, as we can easily.......you up for the night.
A. put	B. keep	C. take	D. set
Question 43: He is known.......a man who keeps his word.
A. in	B. for	C. at	D. as
Question 44: ~ "You look so exhausted." ~ "I.......round the town all day."
A. ran	B. had run	C. had been running	D. have been running
Question 45: I am late because my alarm clock never.......this morning.
A. rang out	B. came on	C. went off	D. turned on
Question 46: I walked away as calmly as I could......they thought I was the thief.
A. to avoid	B. in case	C. owing to	D. or else
Question 47: His.......had always been to become an architect.
A. imagination	B. want	C. direction	D. ambition
Question 48: The tenants were.......not to disturb other tenants after 1 p.m.
A. requested	B. appealed	C. demanded	D. informed
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: No one knows what colour dinosaurs were. No sample of their skin has survived.
A. No one knows what colour dinosaurs were which is because no sample of their skin has survived.
B. No sample of dinosaurs' skin has survived because no one knows what colour they were.
C. No one knows what colour dinosaurs were because no sample of their skin has survived.
D. Because no one knows what colour dinosaurs were, no sample of their skin has survived.
Question 50: We have been friends for years. It is quite easy to share secrets between us.
A. We find it quite easy to share secrets, being friends for years.
B. Being friends for years, we find it quite easy to share secrets.
C. We have been friends for years so that it is quite easy to share secrets between us.
D. Having been friends for years, we find quite easy to share secrets between us. 
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 778
 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 word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
 Question 1:A. comfortable	 B. maternity	C. beautifully	D. generalize
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 3: I bet that computer knocked you back several hundred.
A. wasted up to	B. cost you	C. won back for you	D. helped you to save
Question 4: We drove through a barren, rocky landscape. 
A. not fresh	B. narrow	C. dry	D. unproductive
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 5:A. maximum	B. fox	C. taxi	D. anxiety
 Question 6:A. failure	B. mixture	C. measure	D. future
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 7: Sometimes advertising signs.......down during a storm and people are injued by them.
A. are blown	B. blow	C. blew	D. were blown
Question 8: When he left school, Tom decided to.......a priest instead of studying languages.
A. study for	B. change to	C. become	D. train for
Question 9: I walked away as calmly as I could......they thought I was the thief.
A. to avoid	B. or else	C. in case	D. owing to
Question 10: He.......me to buy my air ticket immediately or it would be too late.
A. suggested	B. insisted	C. convinced	D. advised
Question 11: ~ "You look so exhausted." ~ "I.......round the town all day."
A. had run	B. had been running	C. ran	D. have been running
Question 12: He is known.......a man who keeps his word.
A. as	B. at	C. in	D. for
Question 13: The tenants were.......not to disturb other tenants after 1 p.m.
A. requested	B. demanded	C. appealed	D. informed
Question 14: There are many........on television where a team of people have to arnsver questions.
A. quizzes	B. inquiries	C. puzzles	D. riddles
Question 15: Don’t worry about trying to catch the last train home, as we can easily.......you up for the night.
A. put	B. keep	C. set	D. take
Question 16: Be quite! It’s rude to.......people when they are speaking.
A. interrupt	B. interfere	C. introduce	D. prevent
Question 17: His.......had always been to become an architect.
A. direction	B. imagination	C. ambition	D. want
Question 18: I am late because my alarm clock never.......this morning.
A. came on	B. went off	C. turned on	D. rang out
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 19 to 25.
REAL-LIFE ROMEOS
 When we use the word Romeo for a romantic young man, we hardly think of the character from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. But a sure sign of an author having created a successful character is that the character's name enters the language and becomes a word. Despite only writing in Spanish, Shakespeare's contemporary Cervantes achieved the feat of creating a new word in a different language - English, the adjective quixotic. This word comes from the title character of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It describes a person who has great imagination and makes incredible plans, but whose plans are unfortunately impossible to achieve.
 One author who was particularly successful in seeing his characters enter the language was the novelist Charles Dickens. In modern English a Scrooge is used to describe someone who is mean and tries to avoid spending money at all. The word comes from the protagonist of Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, who treats the employees who work in his office poorly and makes them work in terrible conditions. As well as Scrooge, Dickens also had success with Fagin, the villain of Oliver Twist. In the novel Fagin controlled a group of child criminals. His name is often used in the press to describe real-life adult leaders of youthful gangs.
 The Victorian era (1837-1901) in which Dickens wrote was a major period for the English novel. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson achieved enormous success with his masterpiece Treasure Island. Stevenson also brought two of his characters into everyday speech. A Jekyll and Hyde character is a person whose personality can quickly change from being kind to being angry, impolite or aggressive. The name comes from the scientist protagonist of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde whose strange experiments turn him from man to murderous monster, and back again. Stevenson was not alone in seeing success from the field of Gothic Horror. At the age of twenty one, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, and the name of her mad scientist is now used as an adjective to describe any kind of science that seems to be out of control. Frankenstein foods, for example, is a term that people can understand to describe genetically modified ingredients.
 It does seem strange that villains enter the language more often than heroes. Sometimes in fact these characters need hardly appear in the original work at all. The television series Big Brother is named after the all-powerful dictator who rules the London of the future in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother himself is never encountered during the story: we only ever see his face on posters along with the ominous message 'Big Brother is Watching You'. This is why the presence of more and more cameras watching the streets, and greater government controls over the everyday lives of people, has led to the suggestion that we live in a 'Big Brother society'. Interestingly, Orwell achieved the double feat of creating a character that has entered the language as well as entering the language himself. The word Orwellian is used to describe a society which tries to control every aspect of people's lives, as happened in the pages of Nineteen Eighty Four. Like the novel, it's a word that seems to be getting more and more popular all the time.
[From SPOTLIGHT ON FIRST, Exam Booster, Cengage Learning, 2015]
Question 19: The word “ominous” is opposite in meaning to...
A. ill-fated	B. auspicious	C. benevolent	D. well-timed
Question 20: What was Ebenezer Scrooge?
A. a criminal	B. a hero	C. a businessman	D. a very poor man
Question 21: How does the writer feel about genetically modified foods?
A. He opposes them.	B. He is undecided.
C. He thinks they taste horrible.	D. He thinks they are an amazing scientific achievement.
Question 22: What kind of people use the word 'Fagin'?
A. criminals	B. children	C. politicians	D. journalists
Question 23: The word 'quixotic'.....
A. is very old-fashioned.	B. is a criticism.
C. can mean one of two things.	D. is a comptiment.
Question 24: What is the effect of the posters of Big Brother?
A. They are used in election campaigns.	B. They give people orders.
C. They make people feel nervous	D. They advertise a television programme.
Question 25: What does the writer mean by 'Stevenson also brought two of his characters into everyday speech'?
A. The author changed the characters' names to make them more popular.
B. The characters spoke very naturally.
C. The names of the characters are used by people as part of a common expression.
D. The characters were named after words people used in their daily lives.
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 26: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “I am. I need to lose some weight.”
A. Have you ever been on a diet?	B. This dress seems too tight on you, Betty.
C. Are you having diabetes?	D. I don’t like girls with fat thighs.
Question 27: ~ A: “You seem to have never been bed ridden.” ~ B: “......................”
A. Yes. My eldest sister works as a nurse at the local hospital. B. I keep fit by going jogging every day.
C. Luckily, we got in before the downpour.	 D. Never. Only on winter days.
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 28 to 34.
WHY MARRIAGE LEADS TO A LONG LIFE
 An analysis of the benefits of relationships has confirmed a truth that many have long held to be self-evident: marriage is good for you. Not only does it ...(28)... physical health in men and mental well-being in women, but the longer it lasts, the greater the benefits all round, ...(29)... in a longer and more satisfying life. A study ...(30)... millions of people over many years across seven European countries,has ...(31)... that married couples had mortality rates I0 -15 per cent below the population as a factor. This figure rises w ith the longevity of a marriage.
 The selection hypothesis argues that well-adjusted individuals are more likely to ...(32)... long-term relationships, suggesting that the determining ...(33)... might not be marriage itself, but more the kind of people who are likely to wed and stay wed.The authors ofthe study argue that commitment is also ...(34)... to higher living standards, with the associated network of supportive families,shared friends and healthy lifestyles bringing a range of benefits.
[From: “READY FOR ADVANCED, Coursebook”, Roy Norris. Macmillan, 2018]
 Question 28:A. enchant	B. endure	C. enhance	D. enjoy
 Question 29:A. finalizing	B. leading	C. resulting	D. improving
 Question 30:A. involving	B. implying	C. consisting	D. composing
 Question 31:A. manifested	B. considered	C. revealed	D. exposed
 Question 32:A. establish	B. found	C. launch	D. base
 Question 33:A. part	B. event	C. moment	D. factor
 Question 34:A. combined	B. linked	C. joined	D. blended
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 35: He's dead on his feet after the long run.
A. head over heels	B. as fresh as a daisy	C. out of his ears	D. got deep feet
Question 36: Relations between those two nation leaders are said to be cordial. 
A. detached	B. frigid	C. amiable	D. friendly
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 37 to 42.
THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL JOB APPLICATIONS ... EVER!
 Job hunting is one of the most stressful times in your life. You can spend hours perfecting a CV or filling in online application forms. For many people, the result is the same: a polite 'no thank you'. You know you have the personal qualities to do the job, but you can only show them when you meet your employer face to face. So how can you get that elusive interview? Here are some of the most surprising ways, and they're all real.
 One of the very best was the job applicant who arrived at a company with a takeaway pizza, with his CV printed on the box. The interview took place while they ate and the applicant got the job before they had finished. In this case, it's important to pick the right toppings. Crime was the inspiration for Kelly Weihs of Baltimore, USA. Looking for a job as a designer, she decided to show off her design work with her own CV. She used a series of old fonts and interesting colours to make her CV look like a nineteenth-century Wanted poster from the Wild West. Her imaginative approach worked and she got the job.
 However, it can be risky to make a CV like this. Kelly's poster idea was perfect because she was looking for a job in design. Other people make less intelligent CV decisions. For example, some job candidates record a video of themselves singing for their new potential employers, even if they are only applying for a position as a PA. This is never going to work. It's too obvious that the candidate wants to be in the more exciting world of the music business, not answering the phones all day in an accountant's offices.
 America seems to be the home of the creative CV, no doubt because it has one of the world's largest populations and thousands of people are competing for every job. Think about the poor managers who have to read through hundreds and hundreds of applications in a day. It's one of the most boring j