ADVANCE LEVEL 7 – PRACTICE FOR TEST
*Homework: Làm hết tới điền prep*
Indicate the best option to complete the sentences below
1. It is expected that all members wil _______ to the rules of the club. A. comply B. concede C. conform D. compromise
2. Poor management brought the company to the _______ of collapse. A. brink B. rim C. fringe D. brim
3. The truant was ________ from school for unbecoming behavior. A. dispel ed B. repelled C. expel ed D. compel ed
4. Because of an unfortunate___________ your order was not dispatched by the date requested. A. hindrance B. oversight C. negligence D. transgression
5. Don’t wash that sweater in really hot water or it’ll __________ A. diminish B. shrink C. reduce D. decrease
6. When the forces on an object are balanced, you can say that the object is in………….. A. collusion B. equilibrium C. collision D. incubation
7. Apparently, before the fight some of the youths had __________ themselves with knives. A. fitted B. installed C. armed D. readied
8. We al have to follow the rules, and none of us is __________the law. A. beyond B. over C. above D. onto
9. The local authorities need to ___________ down on illegal parking, in my opinion. A. hit B. force C. move D. crack
10. There wasn’t a _________ of truth in what he said. A. ray B. lump C. grain D. pinch
11. It took him a long time to come to _________ with the fact that he was homeless. A. terms B. acceptance C. tabs D. agreement
12. Beyond all _________, it was Alice who gave away our secrets. A. fail B. conclusion C. dispute D. contradiction
13. I’ve just heard that argument before and quite frankly it just doesn’t __________! A. face the music
B. hit the nail on the head C. carry weight D. hold water
14. The spendthrift has been…………………money out of his old parents. A. squeezing B. pressing C. torturing D. squandering
15. I always get _________ in my stomach before visiting the dentist. A. worms B. butterflies C. crabs D. hedgehogs
16. The best soil was ______ away by a torrential rainstorm. A. gushed B. flowed C. flooded D. washed
17. Many athletes have reached their ________ by the time they are twenty. A. summit B. top C. point D. peak
18. I was kept awake for most of the night by the __________ of a mosquito in my ear. A. whine B. moan C. groan D. screech
19. Lend me $20, please, John. I’m _________ at the moment. A. broke B. down the rain C. stuck up D. a bit thick
20. The escaped prisoner fought _________ before he was finally overpowered. A. head over heels B. tooth and nail C. heart and soul D. foot and mouth
21. There has been a slight improvement in his health, but he is not out of the………………yet. A. forests B. woods C. mountain D. cave
22. She is a very dominant woman; she certainly has her husband under her………………. A. head B. finger C. thumb D. hand
23. Do you think your family members would………………ranks if criticized? A. close B. bridge C. order D. join
24. He is tough, ambitious, and he is nobody’s………………- He is our best hope as a manager. A. boss B. slave C. maid D. fool
25. She bought that ugly big house because she has got more money than………………. A. sense B. mind C. thought D. reason
26. Going on this diet has real y………………me good. I've lost weight and I feel fantastic! A. made B. taken C. done D. had
27. Dr. Parker gave my mum a lovely………………for spaghetti carbonara. A. recipe B. prescription C. receipt D. paper
28. The first sign of vitamin A disorder is night……………… A. loss of sight B. lack of vision C. invisibility D. blindness
29. As a model, you have to………………the art of walking in high heels. A. master B. grasp C. study D. gain
30. They are bring in………………changes to the way the office is run. A. large B. radical C. deep D. immense
31. The leaves of the white mulberry provide food for silkworms………………silk fabrics are woven A. whose cocoons
B. from cocoons C. whose cocoons are from D. from whose cocoons
32. He’ll be very upset if you………………his offer of help. . A. turn away B. turn from C. turn down D. turn against
33. As………………in Greek and Roman mythology, harpies were frightful monsters that were half woman and half bird. A. described B. to describe C. description D. describing
34. She’s got a new job. She’s been put in………………of the Loans Department in the bank. A. control B. authority C. power D. charge
35……………………..is that a chicken stands up to lay its eggs.
A. Because many people don’t realize
B. That many people don’t realize
C. It is that many people don’t realize
D. What many people don’t realize
36. Prices continued to rise while wages remained low………the Government became increasingly unpopular. A. on condition that B. with the result that C. provided that D. in order that
37. My arm hurt so much I felt sure I………………it. A. should have broken B. must have broken A. might have broken D. ought to have broken
38………………sighting an approaching car, some drivers tend to speed up.
A. When slowing down instead of
B. Instead when slowing down at
C. When instead of slowing down
D. Instead of slowing down when
39. On his desk………………, which he usual y sits in front of and looks at. A. stood the picture of us B. it is the picture of us C. standing the picture of us D. stands the picture of us
40. It is necessary that the problem solved right away. A. would be B. might be C. be D. is
41. We had to………………in the back of the car for an hour to find the missing keys. A. bed out B. ransack C. root around D. turn upside down
42. If the basket is removed with more citric acid added, it may be used to manufacture or ____ alcohol. A. amend B. patch up C. rectify D. remedy
43. They spend so much time arguing that, when it comes to the ___, decisions are often deferred. A. crunch B. outcry C. panic stations D. uproar
44. We were bitterly disappointed when our team were ___ to the second division from the first. A. allocated B. designated C. relegated D. stipulated
45. Working night shifts at the weekend is _______ of any job in hospitality. A. cut and thrust B. ebb and flow C. nuts and bolts D. part and parcel
46. The altitude _______ his breathing, making him a bit spaced out and disorientated. A. played downed B. played havoc with C. played himself in D. played up to
47. Materialism traps us _______ in a world of possessions hag-ridden by irrational fears of likely loss and lurking dangers. A. impromptu B. off the cuff C. on a whim D. unawares
48. Although she had been told quite ____to pull herself together, she simply couldn’t stop crying. A. rigidly B. sternly C. unrelentingly D. unsympathetically
49. These men share a tendency toward ballade ring that _______ me the wrong way. A. bothers B. provokes C. riles D. rubs
50. He was highly knowledgeable on the areas. Many would say he was something of a _______. A. novice B. probationer C. tenderfoot D. veteran
51. The interviewees are supposed to give their answers to the job offers…………………. A. on the spot B. all in al C. beyond the joke D. within reach
52. When he suddenly……the subject of genetic engineering, there was an embarrassed silence. A. took over B. showed up C. brought up D. came up with
53. The accountant………………the company fund and ran away to another country. A. swallowed B. confiscated C. embraced D. embezzled
Find the mistakes in the following sentences and correct them
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7. It has demonstrated that men were already traveling across the snow by means of primitive
skis before the invention of the wheel been
8. Ski resorts and al the activity that they generate are the main source of wealth in many
mountain regions, which were previously remote and inaccessible. Activities
Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle
1. We could only try and guess who was __at__fault even though the facts indicated Jim’s guilt.
2. I got up at six, started my work half an hour later and stayed there until five p.m. with no free time __in___ between.
3. She real y goes __in for_ reading intel igent books.
4. I met her at the party and he asked ___after___ you.
5. You should always check the sell __by__ date of things you buy in the supermarket.
6. I think it would be best if you put___down__ your complaint in a letter addressed to the manager.
7. The concert was so popular that people who had not bought tickets in advance was turned _away_
8. At the age of seventeen, Ronald was called ___up__ and stationed in Texas
9. Stop smoking and give up fatty food just ___for__ the sake of your own health
10. John has grown ____out of__ his habit of playing truant.
Fill in the blank with one suitable word. CHANGING CITIES
What will the city of the future look like? This question has been asked so many times over the
past 500 years – and answered inconsequentially (1) …an…..equal number of times- that we can
be sure of (2)……one….. thing only: no one can predict with any degree of accuracy how cities
will look 50 or 500 years from now.
The reason is simple. Cities change continual y. In the last fifty years they (3) …have……
changed so rapidly that the oldest residents will remember a time (4) …when…..their city seemed
to belong not just to another era (5) …but……..to a different dimension.
(6) ……It…..is true both of planned and unplanned cities. Planned cities such as New York
and Paris, which are closely organized on a grid or diagram of streets and avenues, have
effectively burst at the seams this century, (7) ……while…..unplanned cities such as London,
Tokyo and Los Angeles have grown just (8) ………as………..dramatically. Although their
centers might remain much as they were many years ago, their suburbs have spread (9) ………
like……….. the tentacles of an octopus.
Some economists argue that expansion is a sign of a healthy economy and that expanding
cities are (10) ……those……..that attract international investment.
For questions 1-5, read the following text and then choose from the list A-I the best phrase
given below to fill each of the spaces. Write one letter (A-I) in the correct space. Each
correct phrase may be used only once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all.
ROBOTS- DREAM OR NIGHTMARE?
Members of the staff of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, USA were puzzled. The museum had
acquired (0)--I--, but no one knew how old it was, who had made it, or exactly what it was meant to
do. Once its mechanism was restored, however, the figure wrote out a short poem in French- and
eerily signed it with the words “Written by Mail ardet’s automation”.
This robot, and others made by Henri Mail ardet in the early 19th century (1) __D___ designed to
mimic the actions of living creatures. As long ago as the second century BC, Hero of Alexandria
wrote of a theatre manned by mechanical performers, and Leonardo de Vinci is said to have built a
mechanical lion to greet the King of France on his visit to Milan in 1507.
Not until the 20th century did such inventions (2) __G___. The word first appeared in 1921, in a
Czech play about rebellious humanoid machines, and is derived from the Czech word for “forced
labour”. It is mainly as helpmates, though, (3) __F___from fiction into the real world. In particular,
they are used to perform many tasks too dangerous, difficult or boring for humans.
For example, robots have explored the wreck of the Titanic, and a robot even (4) _E__. But the
main use of robots has been in industry. In Japan, which employs twice as many robots as the rest
of the world put together, one company has built a factory in which robots (5) __A__.
But the dream ( or nightmare) of the future is of robots which can build other robots-a prospect
that would open up such exciting possibilities as the exploration of deep space by machines which
could renew themselves unendingly.
A. work nightshifts al on their own
B. has been known to make the occasional mistake
C. that robots have found their way
D. were by no means the first mechanical devices
E. helps doctors to perform brain surgery
F. may never learn to show human emotions
G. come to be known as “robots”
H. has to perform a mil ion calculations a second
I. what seemed to be a mechanical doll? Reading Comprehension
HELIUM’S FUTURE UP IN THE AIR
A) In recent years we have al been exposed to dire media reports concerning the impending
demise of global coal and oil reserves, but the depletion of another key non-renewable resource
continues without receiving much press at all. Helium – an inert, odorless, monatomic element
known to lay people as the substance that makes bal oons float and voices squeak when inhaled –
could be gone from this planet within a generation.
B) Helium itself is not rare; there is actually a plentiful supply of it in the cosmos. In fact, 24
per cent of our galaxy’s elemental mass consists of helium, which makes it the second most
abundant element in our universe. Because of its lightness, however, most helium vanished from
our own planet many years ago. Consequently, only a miniscule proportion – 0.00052%, to be
exact – remains in earth’s atmosphere. Helium is the by-product of millennia of radioactive decay
from the elements thorium and uranium. The helium is mostly trapped in subterranean natural gas
bunkers and commercial y extracted through a method known as fractional distil ation.
C) The loss of helium on Earth would affect society greatly. Defying the perception of it as a
novelty substance for parties and gimmicks, the element actually has many vital applications in
society. Probably the most well-known commercial usage is in airships and blimps (non-flammable
helium replaced hydrogen as the lifting gas du jour after the Hindenburg catastrophe in 1932,
during which an airship burst into flames and crashed to the ground killing some passengers and
crew). But helium is also instrumental in deep-sea diving, where it is blended with nitrogen to
mitigate the dangers of inhaling ordinary air under high pressure; as a cleaning agent for rocket
engines; and, in its most prevalent use, as a coolant for superconducting magnets in hospital MRI
(magnetic resonance imaging) scanners.
D) The possibility of losing helium forever poses the threat of a real crisis because its unique
qualities are extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible to duplicate (certainly, no biosynthetic ersatz
product is close to approaching the point of feasibility for helium, even as similar developments
continue apace for oil and coal). Helium is even cheerfully derided as a “loner” element since it
does not adhere to other molecules like its cousin, hydrogen. According to Dr. Lee Sobotka,
helium is the “most noble of gases, meaning it’s very stable and non-reactive for the most part … it
has a closed electronic configuration, a very tightly bound atom. It is this coveting of its own
electrons that prevents combination with other elements’. Another important attribute is helium’s
unique boiling point, which is lower than that for any other element. The worsening global shortage
could render millions of dollars of high-value, life-saving equipment totally useless. The dwindling
supplies have already resulted in the postponement of research and development projects in
physics laboratories and manufacturing plants around the world. There is an enormous supply and
demand imbalance partly brought about by the expansion of high-tech manufacturing in Asia.
E) The source of the problem is the Helium Privatisation Act (HPA), an American law passed
in 1996 that requires the U.S. National Helium Reserve to liquidate its helium assets by 2015
regardless of the market price. Although intended to settle the original cost of the reserve by a U.S.
Congress ignorant of its ramifications, the result of this fire sale is that global helium prices are so
artificially deflated that few can be bothered recycling the substance or using it judiciously.
Deflated values also mean that natural gas extractors see no reason to capture helium. Much is
lost in the process of extraction. As Sobotka notes: "the government had the good vision to store
helium, and the question now is: Wil the corporations have the vision to capture it when extracting
natural gas, and consumers the wisdom to recycle? This takes long-term vision because present
market forces are not sufficient to compel prudent practice”. For Nobel-prize laureate Robert
Richardson, the U.S. government must be prevailed upon to repeal its privatisation policy as the
country supplies over 80 percent of global helium, mostly from the National Helium Reserve. For
Richardson, a twenty- to fifty-fold increase in prices would provide incentives to recycle.
F) A number of steps need to be taken in order to avert a costly predicament in the coming
decades. Firstly, al existing supplies of helium ought to be conserved and released only by permit,
with medical uses receiving precedence over other commercial or recreational demands.
Secondly, conservation should be obligatory and enforced by a regulatory agency. At the moment
some users, such as hospitals, tend to recycle diligently while others, such as NASA, squander
massive amounts of helium. Lastly, research into alternatives to helium must begin in earnest.
Questions 1–5: Reading passage has six paragraphs, A–F. Which paragraph contains the following information? INFORMATION PARAGRAPH
1) a use for helium which makes an activity safer C
2) the possibility of creating an alternative to helium D
3) a term which describes the process of how helium is taken out of the ground B
4) a reason why users of helium do not make efforts to conserve it E
5) a contrast between helium’s chemical properties and how non-scientists think A about it
Questions 6–10: Complete the summary below.
Choose no more than two words from the passage for each answer.
Sobotka argues that big business and users of helium need to help look after helium stocks
because (6) __ prudent practice_ wil not be encouraged through buying and sel ing alone.
Richardson believes that the (7) __ privatisation policy__needs to be withdrawn, as the U.S.
provides most of the world’s helium. He argues that higher costs would mean people have (8) _
incentives_to use the resource many times over.
People should need a (9) _ permit__to access helium that we still have. Furthermore, a (10) __
regulatory agency__should ensure that helium is used carefully. Sentence transformation
1. The staff have always esteemed the headmaster very highly. (ESTEEM)
……__ have always been held in high esteem……………
2. The best way to make them work hard is to promise them a reward. (PROMISING)
…There is no better way to make them work hard than by__………
3. His mother claims that he can easily be infected with flu. (SUSCEPTIBLE)
……___ he’s susceptible to flu…………
4. He wasn’t very willing to accept anybody else’s demand. (TAKE KINDLY)
…He didn’t take kindly to anybody else’s demand………
5. I preferred to take a course in psychology instead of wasting my time at the mathematics department. (RATHER)
…I would rather take___ than__……
6. I wasn’t expecting you to begin singing when they asked you to speak. (ABACK)
…I was taken aback by your singing__……………
7. You should have phoned the police. (WRONG)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
8. Who has to lock the doors when the office closes? (BLAME) ……take blame for……
9. She doesn’t fit in well with her boss. (TERMS)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
10. The holiday wasn’t as good as we had expected. (UP)
…………………………………………………………………………………………
11. Jane didn’t go to bed only when her father went home.
Not until ……………………………………………………………………
12. “If you wanted to use my car, you should have asked me first, Tom” said Mary.
Mary criticized …………………………………………………………………….
13. I have 2 hats. I don’t like either of them.
I have 2 hats, …neither of them are to my liking………
14. Jack may be very intel igent, but he should be careful about this.
No matter ……………………………………………………………………
15. It is not certain that Jones wil get the job.
It is open …to question…………………………………………………………………
16. Bil reckoned that his success was due to incredible luck
Bil put…………………………………………………….
17. The film didn’t come up to my expectations
The film fell ……………………………………..
18. Only the managing director and the chief chemist know the details
Knowledge ……of the details is restricted to the__…….
19. He is determined to become a doctor.
He sets…………………………………………………...
20. She didn’t cry when the story end in tragedy.
Not a…………………………………………….
21. I feel that to brand her ideas unworkable at this stage would be wrong. (WRITE)
I don’ think we.....................................................................................at this stage
22. I have often contemplated emigrating (THOUGHT)
Many’s.......the time have I thought of......emigrating
23. The inhabitants were far worse-off twenty years ago than they are now. (NOWHERE)
The inhabitants are......nowhere near as badly-off as they..........were twenty years ago
24. It was stupid of me to have asked someone like Mark for money! (BETTER)
I ....................................................than to have asked someone like Mark for money!
25. It's crucial for us to control the juvenile inmates in a very strict way. (REIN)
It's crucial for us.................................................................the juvenile inmates REMEMBER! 1. Be held in high esteem
2. (not) Take kindly to Sb/St = not like
3. Write Sb/St off as ….
4. Contemplate = think of/about St
5. Know better than that/than to do St = Sensible enough not to do St
6. Keep a tight rein on St/Sb = Control Sb/St strictly/carefully