Đề thi môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 - Kỳ thi chọn học sinh giỏi năm học 2015-2016 - Trường THPT Nguyễn Tất Thành

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THPT NGUYEN TAT THANH NĂM HỌC: 2015-2016
Môn thi: TIẾNG ANH 
Thời gian thi: 180 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
Đề thi có 10 trang
LISTENING
HƯỚNG DẪN PHẦN THI NGHE HIỂU
Bài nghe gồm 3 phần, mỗi phần được nghe 2 lần, mỗi lần cách nhau 05 giây, mở đầu và kết thúc mỗi phần nghe có tín hiệu.
Mở đầu bài nghe có tín hiệu nhạc. Thí sinh có 3 phút để hoàn chỉnh bài trước tín hiệu kết thúc bài nghe.
Mọi hướng dẫn cho thí sinh (bằng tiếng Anh) đã có trong bài nghe.
Part 1: You will hear a tellephone message about a Business Studies course. For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space. (1mark)
BUSINESS STUDIES COURSE
Course start date: (1)______________________
Course begins with: (2)______________________ about business
What students mustn’t bring to class: (3)________________________
Visitors’ car park: next to the (4)________________________
Language classes available: Spanish and (5)________________________
Part 2: You will hear a man called Frank, talking on the radio about looking for ships that sank at sea long ago. Supply the blanks with missing details for questions 6-10. Write NO MORE THAN THREE words in each space provided. (1mark)
Frank is a teacher, not a full- time ___________________________
He is looking for ___________________________from an enormous ship called The Seabird.
He used gold which he found on an eighteenth- century sailing ship to make his ___________________________
He gave some things from his collection to ______________________
He ‘d advise people who enjoy diving to join some excellent diving___________________________
Part 3: You will hear a man telling a group of students about a trip to the theatre. Answer the questions, your answer should be short in the form of notes. (1mark)
What is the name of the play by Andrew Mc.Vitie?
_________________________________________
Where does he hand out the tickets?
_________________________________________
How much do the tickets cost?
_________________________________________
Where will they go for an ice cream and a coffee?
_________________________________________
Where can the students get off to take the bus home?
_________________________________________
Part 4: Listen to an interview with a woman called Rachel who is talking about the shows she puts on for children and choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) to questions 16-20. (1 mark).
16. Before the children were born, Rachel worked as
A. an art teacher.
B. a painter.
C. an actor.
D. a doctor.
17. Who first thought of doing a show at a party?
A. Rachel’s husband
B. Rachel’s children
C. Rachel’s parents
D. Rachel’s students
18. Rachel’s neighbour, Lena, helps by
A. making some dolls for the show.
B. performing in the shows.
C. writing the music for the shows.
D. preparing cloths for the shows.
19. When Rachel did a play about a lion
A. the children laughed too much.
B. the children were frightened.
C. the children’s parents complained.
D. the children loved it too much.
20. How do Rachel’s daughters help her?
A. They show new dolls to their school friends.
B. They think of ideas for new stories.
C. They give their opinions on her new plays.
D. They make new dolls for her plays.
II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part 1: Choose the correct answer (A, B, C, D) to each of the following questions and write their answers (A, B, C, D) in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.2 point)
1. For a family with two children who need full-time childcare, so-called ______________ in which one parent is always at home while the other is at work – saves an average of £11,700 a year.
A. shared parenting B. shift parenting C. attachment parenting D. filled parenting 
2. If you don’t take exercise you__________________the risk of getting ill.
A. stand B. face C. suffer D. run
3.We are all______________ the opinion that hydrocarbons in the atmosphere contribute to global warming.
A. of B. with C. on D. in
4. Can you wait thirty seconds while I________________in to the post office for some stamps?
A. saunter B. brezee C. pop in D. go
5. He bought his car on the _______________ , hy hire-purchase.
A. never-never B. now and now C. up and up D. pay tomorrow
6. The police are_______________an accident which took place this afternoon.
A. inspecting B. searching C. looking out D. investigating
7. The chess players tried very hard to___________ each other with every move in the tournament.
A. outnumber B. outwit C. outcome D. outweigh
8. If you are_____________with this test, perhaps you should attempt an easier one.
A. stumbling B. stressed C. struggling D. straining
9. I am doing badly. I’ll have to pull my_______________up.
A. stockings B. shoes C. socks D. trousers
10. ______________ caculations have shown that the earth’s resources may run out of before the end of the next century.
A. Raw B. Rude C. Crude D. Blunt
11. I dread _________________ what would have happened if there’d been an accident.
A. think B. to think C. to thinking D. the thought
12. His new method of teaching is like _____________ of fresh air to his students.
A. a blow B. a waft C. a wind D. a breath
YOUR ANSWERS:
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Part 2: Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the corresponding numbered boxes. (0.8 point)
THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
 Just over one hundred years ago, the last volume of a tremendous work of reference entitled The Dictionary of National Biography rolled off the printing presses. (13)...................(ADMIT), this 21-volume shelf-filler may not immediately sound like the most thrilling read in the world. As entertainment, you might imagine it ranks some way below a (14)...................(POLITICS) autobiography. But you would be very, very wrong.
 The DNB, like the Oxford English Dictionary, is one of the great monuments to British culture and also a hugely enjoyable work in its own right. It is, quite simply, an (15)...................(ALPHABET) dictionary of potted biographies of all the notable men and women who had lived in Britain since the year dot. It was produced between 1885 and 1900, and it remains (16)...................(EMPHASIS) an achievement of the Victorian period, richly redolent of 19th century confidence and (17)...................(CAPABLE), energy and optimism. It is also a monument to the enormous variety of the British national character, and the dictionary is immeasurably (18)...................(RICH) by this aspect. There are not only great statesmen, generals, writers, but also hundreds of wonderfully colourful characters, who you can discover only by leafing idly through a volume of the DNB on a wet afternoon down at your local library.
 The way in which the DNB was produced was very British too: on a shoestring, out of sheer dedication, and with no state (19) ...................(INTERFERE) whatsoever. It was the private endeavour of a group of (20)...................(ENTHUSE), scholars and freelance journalists, as opposed to, for instance, the Austrian equivalent, produced under the oppressive auspices of the imperial Academy of Vienna.
YOUR ANSWERS:
13.
14.
15.
16.
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20.
Part 3: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. (0.5 point)
21. The clubs meet on the last Thursday of every month in a dilapidated palace.
A. neglected	B. regenerated	C. furnished	D. renovated
22. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous
A. adjustment	 B. agility	C. flexibility	D. inflexibility
23. The International Organizations are going to be in a temporary way in the country. 
A. soak B. permanent  C. complicated  D. guess
24. The US troops are using much more sophisticated weapons in the Far East.
A. expensive B. complicated  C. simple and easy to use D. difficult to operate
25. There has been no discernible improvement in the noise levels since lorries were banned. 
A. clear  B. obvious C. thin  D. insignificant
YOUR ANSWERS:
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Part 4: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is the SAME meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions. (0.5 point)
26. My brother is obsessed with online games.
A. consumed by B. disliked C. interested in D. liked 
27. The new cow boy-film catches the fancy of the children.	
A. attracts	B. amuses	C. surprises	D. satisfies
28. Teenagers are often apathetic to politics.
A. different B. interested C. lackadaisical D. excited
29. His problems in study all stem from his laziness.
A. result B. caused C. effected D. leaded
30. If I were you, I would regard their offer with considerable reservation.
A. carelessness B. incautious C. imprudent D. carefulness 
YOUR ANSWERS:
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
READING
Part 1: Read the following passage, and write the letter A, B, C, or D in your numbered boxes to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 51 to 60. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1 mark)
Once upon a time, people left school or university, joined a company and stayed with it until they retired. The concept of a job for life is now long  (0), and nowadays many employees find it hard to stay loyal to their companies for even a relatively short (51) of time. According to a recent survey, this is particularly (52) in London, where more than half of those asked said that they constantly (53) on eye on other job opportunities, (54) they are fairy happy in their existing jobs. A high number of London workers say that they are always on the (55) , although they are content and motivated in their current position.
Job seekers find that the internet (56) them with a quick and easy way to find out what’s available, and 53 per cent said that they had applied for a job or (57) with an employment agency in the past 12 months. This proactive (58) means that people can look for a perfect job match with the (59) of effort. But while this is good job for job hunters, the growing lack of company loyalty could end up being a big problem for employers. Perhaps surprisingly, the (60) factor attracting job seekers was not more money, but challenging and interesting work.
0. A. done	B. over	C. gone	D. finished
51. A. stage	B. point	C. section	D. period
52. A. right 	B. true	C. actual	D. real
53. A. hold	B. put	C. keep	D. place
54. A. just as	B. as well	C. so that	D. even if
55. A. lookout	B. search	C. watch	D. pursuit
56. A. serves	B. delivers	C. provides	D. fulfills
57. A. engaged	B. registered	C. appointed	D. recorded
58. A. manner	B. approach	C. style	D. custom
59. A. least	B. maximum	C. lowest	D. minimum
60. A. biggest	B. widest	C. largest	D. highest
Your answers: 
51. 
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
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58.
59.
60.
Part 2: For questions 61-70, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding boxes provided below the passage. There is an example at the beginning (0). (1 mark)
They were all wipes out before science had a chance to discover (0) them , but only the dodo’s name has lived on. However, experts have now been (61) to reconstruct the appearance of dozens of long-extinct birds and animals from the same remote tropical isles (62) the dodo lived.
The islands of Mauritius, Reunion and Podrigues in the Indian Creatures Ocean were home to hundreds of unique and rare creatures before humans first set foot (63) in 1958. In about 150 years, at (64) 45 species had been lost forever as a (65) of hunting and the introduction of other species. “(66) happened on these islands is a sad tale,” says Dr Julian Hume, a pale ethnologist who worked on the project.
Now researchers have recreated what the extinct animals and birds would looked (67)from fragments of bone, fossils and descriptions made (68) travelers at the time. Following 30 years of research, they have managed to produce detailed pictures of (69) the extinct creatures looked and behaved for a new book (70) The Lost Land Of The Dodo.
Your answers: 
61. 
62. 
63. 
64. 
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70.
Part 3: Read the following passage and answer the questions 71–80.
A. My mum is the team manager for the Olympic diving team and when I was a baby I used to go with her to the pool and jump in and out now I practice diving every day after school and on Saturdays. I’m really too tall to be a great diver and my long legs make it difficult to do somersaults, so I don’t think I’ll ever make it to the top. But nevertheless, I find it exhilarating when I’m diving well. If it’s a complicated dive, I have to concentrate very hard, which is difficult if I feel nervous. My dad’s support is very motivating for me. I take part in about 10 competitions a year, both national and international. The best thing about it is that you make new friends from different countries. I do trampolining for the regional team, which prepares me for diving – the moves are similar but you don’t land in water! The one thing I don’t like about it is that doing my homework takes up my spare time and I don’t have much time to go out with my friends from school.
B. Last year our netball team was promoted to the top league and so the coach became very strict. At that level, every move is scrutinized and discussed, which makes everyone feel very pressured. There’s a lot of competition to get chosen for the team and sometimes I got substituted. When I played last year, I would look at the subs sitting on the sidelines and not really care, but when I started to become one myself I had a whole new perspective on the game. Now I realize that when you’re not the best at a sport it doesn’t seem as much fun as when you’re a top player. I left the team earlier this year, as the pressure of playing in matches was too much; it was becoming a frustration instead of a recreation. I still enjoy playing netball with my friends in gym classes, when I can relax without worrying about impressing my coach all the time.
C. I was good at football and I really enjoyed playing left back in the school team. Then one Saturday when I was 14, I went to watch the local ice hockey team play. It was so exciting and became a real turning point in my life. School football seems so dull in comparison. I discovered that there was a local women’s ice hockey team just being set up. At first, the coach thought I was too young and too inexperienced as I’d only done occasional fun skating on Saturday afternoons. But she agreed to give me a trial and I have been playing for three years now. I’ll really find out what I can do in June when we go to take part in a women’s international ice hockey competition in Prague.
D. I knew I was serious about rugby when I scored a try in my first game. I was named ‘player of the year’ at my club last year and I’m also captain of my school team. My uncle often comes to watch me play. He’s very competitive so that is probably why I am too. Losing makes me feel that I’ve done something wrong. It doesn’t happen very often, though. I’m not normally an aggressive person but, on the rugby pitch, I am. I don’t think girls should play rugby as it’s so aggressive and they could easily get injured. Most of my schoolmates play rugby and all of them are sporty. I can’t really imagine my life without rugby! I’m going to agricultural college when I leave school and eventually will take over my uncle’s farm, but l hope there’ll still be time for lots of rugby. If I have a son, I’ll want to help coach his team and I’d be disappointed if he wasn’t interested in sports. I’ll definitely be a competitive dad!
For questions 71–80 locate the paragraph in which the following information is mentioned. Write the letter of each paragraph in the corresponding boxes.
71. He / She thinks winning is the most important thing
72. He / She feel their sport has both a positive and negative impact on their social life
73. He / She thinks that their sport may be inappropriate for a particular group of people
74. He / She has changed their mind about participating in competitive sport
75. He / She has long-term plans which include continued involvement in their sport
76. He / She is realistic about their chances of being very successful
77. He / She thinks playing their sport changes their character
78. He / She is looking forward to a new challenge
79. He / She has friends locally who share their passion for sport
80. He / She thinks it is easier to perform well in their sport when they are calm.
Your answers: 
71. 
72. 
73. 
74. 
75.
76. 
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80.
Part 4: For questions 81-85, choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-G from the list of headings below. Write the correct numbers (i- x) in the corresponding numbered boxes. There is an example at the beginning (0) ( 1 mark)
Tobacco Industry Fumes over Passive Smoking
A	America’s tobacco industry has launched a fresh assault in its war against the anti-smoking movement. Six tobacco groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency, claiming that its recent report on the dangers of second- hand smoke is based on sloppy science and is unfairly damaging their trade. Anti- smoking groups say the lawsuit is a Canute- like attempt to stem a tide of anti- smoking legislation sweeping the US.
B	In January, the EPA released a long- awaited report on passive smoking. It considered more than 30 studies around the world that compared the incidence of lung cancer in non- smoking woman whose husbands smoked with that in those whose husbands did not. The report included that wives of smokers had a higher risk of developing lung cancer, and that the risk increased with the amount of smoke inhaled. Passive smoking causes 3,000 deaths a year from lung cancer in the US alone, it said. On the basic of this and other evidence- for instance, that smoke is clearly carcinogenic when inhaled directly- the EPA added environmental tobacco smoke to its list of known human carcinogens. The report also concluded that second- hand smoke aggravates asthma and causes respiratory illness and ear infections in children.
C	The tobacco industry countered that the study was shoddy and misleading, characterized by “ a preference for political correctness over sound science”. The tobacco groups pointed out that the increased incidence of lung cancer was seen only when the statistical test was relaxed from the usual 95 per cent confidence to a less rigorous 90 per cent. They also accused the EPA of ignoring several studies that the contradict the agency’s conclusion.
D	On 22 June, the six groups- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco and four groups representing growers and retailers- jointly sued the EPA to have the study declares null and avoid, and to throw out human carcinogen classification, which they claim goes beyond the EPA’s legal mandate. “ Unfortunately, it is the tobacco farmers, their families and the communities who- if the EPA is not stopped- will have to pay for this misguided actions”, says John Berry, a lawyer for the Council for Burley Tobacco of Lexington, Kentucky.
E	The EPA stands by its report. “ We’ve been hearing them for years”, says spokesman Dave Ryan. “ We think the suit is frivolous”. Major medical groups also back the report. “ This lawsuit is just another example of tobacco conglomerates blowing smoke in the faces of American”, says Lonnie Bristow, chair of the American Medical Association’s Board of Trustees. “ An industry that kills 450,000 citizens every year cannot be trusted”.
F	The charge of scientific manipulation is unfounded, says Morton Lippmann, a lung expert from New York University who chaired an external review of the EPA report. The 90 per cent confidence limit is reasonable given the difficulties of studying second- hand smoke, he says, as was the omission of some recent studies. “ You could wait forever for this study and the next study”, he says. In fact, the additional studies they’re so anxious to include couldn’t possibly change the conclusion. The omitted study most often cited by the tobacco industry found a 30 per cent increase in the risk of lung cancer in passive smokers exposed to the highest levels of smoke. Lippmann also notes that the EPA report, while the most complete, is not the first study to conclude that passive smoking increases the risk of cancer. 
List of headings
Danger of passive smoking
EPA’s opinion of the lawsuit
Tobacco industry vs. the EPA
Chances of developing lung cancer
Stop the EPA
Importance of cigarette warnings
A groundless report
A report as good as any
Paragraph A
81.Paragraph B
82.Paragraph C
83.Paragraph D
84.Paragraph E
85.Paragraph F
Your answers: 
0. iii
81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
Part 5. Read the following passage and answer questions (86- 95).
For questions 86- 95, choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) according to the text. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes.(1,0 mark)
ARE YOU A MACHINE OF MANY PARTS?
	What will future historians remember about the impact of science during the last decade of the 20th century? They will not be much more concerned with many of the marvels that currently preoccupy us, such as the miraculous increase in the power of home computer and the unexpected growth of the Internet. Nor will they dwell much on global warming, the loss of biodiversity and other examples of our penchant for destruction. Instead, the end of the 20th century will be recognized as the time when, for better or worse, science began to bring about the fundamental shift in our perception of ourselves.
	It will be the third time that science has force us to re- evaluate who we are. The first time, of course, was the revolution that began with Copernicus in 1543 and continued with Kepler, Galileo and Newton. Despite the Church’s opposition, we came to realize that the Earth does not lie at the centre of the universe. Instead, we gradually found we live on a small planet on the edge of a minor galaxy, circling one star in a universe that contains billions of others. Our unique position in the universe was gone forever.
	A few centuries later, we were moved even further from stage centre. The Darwinian revolution removed us from our position as a unique creation of God. Instead, we discovered we were just another part of the animal kingdom proud to have “ a miserable ape for a grandfather”, as Thomas Huxley put it in 1860. We know now just how close to the apes we are- over 90% of our genes are the same as those of the chimpanzee.
	Increasing knowledge of our own genetics, is one of the driving force in the third great conceptual shift that will soon take place. Others are the growing knowledge of the way our minds work, our new ability to use knowledge of the nervous system to design drugs that affect specific states of mind and the creation of the sophisticated scanners which enable us to see what is happening inside our brains. In the third revolution, we are taking our own selves to pieces and finding the parts which make up the machine that is us.
	Much of the new knowledge from genetics, molecular biology and the neuro- sciences is esoteric. But its cultural impact is already running ahead of science. People begin to see themselves not as wholes with a moral centre but the result of the combined action of parts for which they have little responsibility.
	It’s Nobody’s Fault is the title of the popular American book on “ difficult” children. Many different children, the book explains, are not actually difficult but are suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder ( ADD). There is nothing wrong with them or the way they have been brought up. Rather the part of the brain which controls attention is short of a particular neurotransmitter.
	ADD is currently the world’s fastest growing psychological problem. In the United States, a survey show that 1.5m children between the ages of five and eighteen were being treated with a drug, Ritalin, for the disorder. Since then the number taking the drug is believed to have doubled.
	You might, as many people do, question the way in which the disorder has been diagnosed on such a staggering scale. But that is not the point. The cultural shift is that people are not responsible for the disorders, only for obtaining treatment for t parts of them that have gone wrong.
	The more we know about the parts of ourselves, the more cures for our defects will appear. Prozac is one example. The best- selling Listen to Prozac claimed the drug “ can transform pessimists into optimists, turn loners into extroverts”. And Prozac, the book explained, “ was not so much discovered as planfully created, through the efforts of a large pharmaceutical firm the likely result of this form of research is not medicines that correct particular illnesses but medicines that affect clusters of functions in the human brain.”
	Even when a treatment is not to hand, the notion that we are made of “ clusters of functions” remains strong. Genetic analysis supports this view. A gene linked to alcoholism has been located and a Gallup poll has revealed that the great majority of Americans consider alcoholism to be a disease. There are claims of genes too for obesity, homosexuality and even for laziness.
	Some claims about genes may be silly. Or you may think that the current conceptual shift is just a re- run of old arguments about the relative roles of nature and nurture. Instead, take one drug, Viagra, as an example of the new way of thinking about ourselves. If you suffer from impotence, it might have a variety of physiological causes. Or you might just be anxious about sexual performance. But Viagra does not make such fine distinctions: it acts at the level of the chemical reactions that control the blood flow needed to maintain an erection.
	Once we can dissect ourselves into parts and know how the parts work, it really does not matter what was the initial cause of the problem. If you own a car and the brakes wear out quickly, it is not important whether you’ve been driving the car too hard or you bought cheap brake shoes to begin with. You just need to change the brakes.
	The more direct means we have of changing who we are, through changing the parts that we are composed of, the harder becomes the question of who was the person who made the decision to change, before becoming someone else. This will be the real issue for the 21th century: who are we, if we are the sum of our parts and science has given us the power to change those parts?
86.What is the most important scientific progress in the 20th century?
The development of computer technology.
The birth and growth of the Internet.
Mankind’s ability to control global warning.
People’s new knowledge of themselves.
87.What did Copernicus discover?
The Earth does not lie at the centre of the universe.
The Church was wrong about the history of mankind.
Human beings live on a small planet.
Mankind have a unique position in the universe.
88.What did Darwin discover?
Human beings were a unique creation of God.
Human beings and apes shared a common ancestor.
Human beings were lucky while apes were miserable.
Human beings and chimpanzees were nearly identical.
89. Which of the following is NOT “ one of the driving forces in the third great conceptual shift” ? ( paragraph 4).
Knowledge of our own genetics.
Knowledge of the way our mind works.
Knowledge of how to use sophisticated scanners.
Knowledge of how to design drugs that effect specific states of mind.
90.Which of the following is likely to be the main idea of the book It’s nobody’s Fault?
Many children are suffering from ADD.
ADD is the problem for the problematic children. 
Some people’s brains do not have neurotransmitters.
The way people are brought up determines their behavior.
How many people are taking Ritalin in the US?
Less than 1.5 million people.
1.5 million of the people aged 5-18.
3million of the people aged 5- 18.
More than 3 million teenagers.
92. Which of the following reflects the cultural shift?
More people are diagnosed to be suffering from mental disorders.
People do not responsible for the problems they have.
More people are seeking mental treatment.
People begin t question the accuracy of doctors’ diagnoses.
93.What is Prozac?
A book
A medicine
A type of people
A mental disorder.
94.Genetic analysis seem to have confirmed that there is a gene in our body that is responsible for
alcoholism
obesity
homosexuality
laziness
95.Which of the following does the drug Viagra illustrate?
“ Some claims about genes may be silly” ( Paragraph 11)
We have a “ new way of thinking about ourselves” ( Paragraph 11)
A physical disorder “ might have a variety of physiological causes”. ( Paragraph 11)
“ People are.obtaining treatment for the parts of them that have gone wrong.” (Paragraph 8)
Your answers:
86.
87.
88.
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WRITING
Part 1: For questions 96- 100, finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence printed before it.( 1 point)
96. The bus driver cannot be blamed for the accident in any way. 
=> In ...................................................................................................................
97. This button mustn’t be touched under any circumstances.
=> Under no.........................................................................................................
98. She doesn’t get on well with her neighbor any more.
=> She has...........................................................................................................
99. T