Actual Test

Should parents push their children to get prizes?
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Children are at an impressionable age, so adults can interfere in their ways 
of thinking. Some measures can be adopted to change children’s mindset, and 
one is by raising their awareness via realistic and practical action. Parents can 
show their kids that they can do rapid calculations if they learn math properly at 
school, or they can sing well when they grow up if they don’t skip music classes.
What do you think employers can do to help motivate their employees to 
perform better at work, besides giving them a pay raise?
There is a number of ways that bosses or supervisors can adopt to raise their 
employees’ morale and enhance the overall work productivity apart from 
offering them higher salary. I guess the most effective approach would be for 
companies to organize annual excursions so that their workers can socialize 
with one another and cultivate team spirit while they can escape from the 
stress for a while. The second one is that more a flexible working schedule 
should be brought in, because this would allow workers to have more quality 
family time and a worry-free set of mind at work. 
 
27/ Describe a kind of food people eat during a special event 
You should say:
 
- what it was
 
- what event people usually eat it
 
- how it is cooked/made
 
- and explain why it is for the special event
 
I’m going to tell you about a traditional dish of New Year in my country. If you 
aren’t familiar with it, it’s a family-oriented holiday to celebrate the New Year.
It is called “Banh Trung”, which could roughly be translated to “Trung Cake”, 
“Mung Bean Cake,” or “Rice cake” in English. I’m unsure of its origins, but I do 
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know that New Year Eve wouldn't be New Year Eve without it. Although it’s a 
bit difficult to explain, I will try my best. First, let me tell you what goes into the 
dish. 
It’s no easy task to prepare the Trung cake, actually, it usually requires several 
people to make it. The main ingredients are glutinous rice, pork, and beans 
wrapped in a square bamboo leaf. Another important detail is that the rice needs 
to be soaked in water for an entire day beforehand. You must carefully wrap 
the ingredients in the bamboo leaf, neither too tight nor too loose, then boil it 12 
hours in a wooden container. 
As I said before, I’m not certain of the actual origin, but I believe that it could 
have something to do with our tradition of eating rice. Furthermore, the 
Vietnamese generally regard our ancestors, so we can feel closer to them by