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Read the four texts below. There are ten questions about the texts. Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your
answer sheet to indicate which text tells you the answer to the questions from 1 to 10.
My French teacher
B My big sister A
Choosing just one person who has had a major Inevitably, I have to say – my older sister, Ruby.
influence on my life is practically impossible! I say ‘inevitably’ because from the moment I There have
been people at all stages of my life could walk I absolutely worshipped her! She was who I have both
admired and been motivated by my idol. As far as I was concerned Ruby was for different reasons.
However, if I have to perfect and I used to copy her every move. Her mention just one it would have
to be my French favourite colour was my favourite colour – her teacher at secondary school. After all,
it’s favourite food was mine too. Even into our because of her that I took a particular career path teenage
years I followed her taste in clothes, and ended up where I am today. Her passion and music, and boys!
Now, looking back I think what enthusiasm for the subject touched everyone in I admire most about
her was her patience with the class and I knew from the very first moment me. I must have been a
complete pain but she she started teaching that languages were going to never lost her temper. She gave
up a lot of her figure somewhere in my life. It’s quite scary time to help me with school work and she
would really, to see how significant a teacher’s regularly sit down with me and talk through any
influence can be. He or she can bring a subject problems I had. Back then I copied her because I alive
for the students – or totally kill it off! Miss thought she was beautiful and clever and I Winters was
with us only for a term but a lot of wanted to be just like her but now I understand her passion for
languages rubbed off on me and that in fact her influence also went a lot deeper. I for that I will always
be grateful. hope I’ve developed into a caring, patient person
and if so, then I certainly learned it from her.
A character in a film
C Without doubt, the person who has had the D My best friend
greatest influence on my life wasn’t a real living Then I saw the film. It gave me the confidence to
person at all – but a character in a film! I was a ask for dancing classes and it also altered everyone
very shy ten year old boy when I first saw Billy else’s perception of boy dancers. There was no
Elliot on the big screen. I had always wanted to more teasing or making fun of me. I stayed at the
dance but had never been allowed to. It was my dancing school until I left full-time education and
sister who went to the ballet classes and me who now dancing is my career.
tried to copy her steps in our living room. The kids When you get into real trouble and think there’s no
at school knew I wanted to dance too – and I came way out, the last person you want to talk to is your
in for so much teasing it used to really upset me. family. You feel that you’ve let them all down. I’d
Where I came from, boys just didn’t do dancing – got into a bad state. I was into drugs and I was
like Billy Elliot! I still had this deep desire to going round with the wrong people when my best
dance – but I’d been covering it up for a long time. friend realised what was happening and persuaded Page 1
me to get out. It can’t have been easy – I wasn’t different – I might not even be here at all. Boyd
listening to anyone at the time. But he stayed with helped me see life in a different way and because
it and refused to abandon me. And in the end he of him I gave up my job in insurance and retrained
talked me into getting counselling and the people to be a counsellor so that I could help other young
I spoke to really helped me turn my life around. people.
Without him my life would have been completely Which person
1. gave advice to the writer at a time when he/she was not at all receptive?
2. is one of many people who have been important to the writer?
3. was easier to talk to than a relative?
4. influenced the writer more than he/she first realised?
5. changed the way a lot of people thought?
6. was the reason for the writer changing career?
7. only knew the writer for a short time?
8. influenced the writer’s peers as well as the writer?
9. stopped people laughing at the writer?
10. always remained calm?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
or phrase for each of the blanks from 11 to 20.
Britain’s dilemma with regard to extended European Union is characteristic of the nation’s divided global
attitudes over the past two hundred years. In many homes Brits are (11) _____ to be somehow best, natural
leaders, people who have proved themselves the automatic choice to be in charge of their own and others’
affairs. They feel that joining a single European currency – when the concept of European unity has not exactly
(12) _____ itself through the ages – is (13) _____ with dangers, and find it extremely difficult to have faith
(14) _____ any of the various manifestos that pro-Europeans have put into circulation. The idea of European
power has gone (15) _____ a joke, they say, with Brussels as a centre of that power (16) _____ itself with a
million bureaucratic print-outs a day. They appeal for a return to 20th century values.
These sceptics, of course, (17) _____ violently with their pro-European opponents, (18) _____ supporters of
union, who point to the need for countries to co-exist and to (19) _____ themselves to a common goal,
welcoming countries (20) _____ with debts and financial, political and/or sociological difficulties into the fold. 11. A. rated B. pronounced C. assumed D. estimated
12. A. distinguished B. prided C. achieved D. modelled
13. A. surrounded B. fraught C. related D. conversant 14. A. with B. on C. for D. in 15. A. over B. below C. beneath D. beyond 16. A. busying B. devoting C. dedicating D. exposing 17. A. diverge B. collide C. clash D. oppose 18. A. staunch B. practising C. fierce D. devout 19. A. aim B. target C. commit D. embrace
20. A. attacked B. stung C. full D. riddled
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 21 to 25. Page 2
It’s one thing for a child to watch television at home and see commercials. It’s another to see them at school.
Back at the end of the 1980s, a young entrepreneur in Tennessee named Chris Whittle had an idea. He believed
that a great untapped market was the nation’s schoolchildren and that if he could find a way to bundle them
together as a group – to corner them in the same place at the same time – advertisers would beat a path to his door.
It didn’t take a lot of imagination to realise that this audience was already wrapped up in one neat package –
it’s called school – and that, thanks to satellite technology, the market was ripe for Whittle’s plucking. His
problem was how to get satellite receivers into schools. He knew he couldn’t go to schools and say, ‘buy a
bunch of televisions and let me send programs to your kids’. Most schools were too strapped for resources. So
he went to schools across the country and said ‘here’s $22,000 worth of free stuff.’ All he wanted in return was
access to every student between the ages of 12 and 18 each day. And 12,000 schools fell for it.
Having snatched the attention of 8 million students, Whittle began broadcasting 10 minutes of soft news a
day, together with 2 minutes of hard commercials. Of the ten minutes devoted to news, 2–3 usually report on
current events. That leaves 7–8 minutes to devote to feature stories, some of which are product-oriented, such
as how Nike sneakers are made. Technically, the programming is slick. But those 2–3 minutes of hard news
cover an average of around seven stories. The 2 minutes of commercials are devoted to 4 spot ads. In other
words, each ad runs almost twice as long as each hard news story.
21. The writer thinks the idea of children seeing commercials at school is _____.
A. a fact of life B. a matter of concern C. a welcome advance D. a valuable idea
22. At the end of the 80s, Whittle believed that schoolchildren were _____.
A. a possible new target for advertisers C. an impossible goal for advertisers B. popular with advertisers
D. an unsuitable market for advertisers
23. Whittle faced a problem because schools _____.
A. were against his ideas
C. were wary of how children would be targeted
B. didn’t want to use televisions for studying D. didn’t have much money 24. The writer suggests
that Whittle’s scheme was _____. A. imaginative B. ambitious C. cunning D. praiseworthy
25. It seems that Whittle’s broadcasts _____.
A. have more spot ads than feature stories B. C. are poorly made
contain a lot of hidden advertising
D. include too many hard commercials
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the rest in the position of
the main stress in each of the following questions.
26. A. safeguarding B. returnee C. horizontal D. mausoleum
27. A. agriculture B. architecture C. literature D. manufacture
28. A. photography B. ministerial C. discourteous D. incredible
29. A. legislature B. repository C. magnificent D. initiative 30. A. lunatic B. nomadic C. aroma D. heroic
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 31 to 35.
If by “suburb” is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than it’s already developed interior, the
process of suburbanisation began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the
nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved
about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1830’s and 1840’s
were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the
thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by Page 3
proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against
this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbours. In 1854,
for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal manoeuvres
took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status
only by incorporating the communities along their borders.
With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress
conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful
electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric
streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanisation
that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass – scale
suburbanisation was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle class whose desires for
homeownership in neighbourhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of singlefamily housing tracts.
31. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The growth of Philadelphia C. The Development of City Transportation
B. The Origin of the Suburb
D. The Rise of the Urban Middle Class
32. The author mentions that areas bordering the cities have grown during periods of _____. A. industrialisation
B. inflation C. revitalisation D. unionisation
33. The word “encroachment” refers to which of the following?
A. The smell of the factories
C. The development of waterways
B. The growth of mill towns D. The loss of jobs
34. Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the passage as a factor in nineteenth-century suburbanisation? A. Cheaper housing
C. The advent of an urban middle class B. Urban crowding
D. The invention of the electric streetcar
35. It can be inferred from the passage that after 1890 most people travelled around cities by _____.
A. automobile B. cart C. horse-drawn trolley D. electric streetcar
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
36. I was surrounded by a number of good choices but the _____ was a recent talk to a friend. A. stimulation B. inspiration C. clincher D. muse
37. At the end of the week, all the sales staff were _____ exhausted. A. utterly B. evenly C. actually D. reasonably
38. These chocolates are so _____. I can’t stop eating them. A. moreish B. tender C. sweetened D. sugary
39. It’s a shame that the apartment hasn’t got a parking lot _____. A. of it B. owned by it C. on its own D. of its own
40. Many linguists believe that the human ability to learn language is _____, an essential part of our nature. A. intricate B. inadvertent C. innate D. intrinsic
41. I found it hard to _____ with a complete stranger. A. bow to B. barrel through C. strike up D. partake in
42. How can I pull myself together when this is not _____ a challenge?
A. so much a worry as B. more a worry than C. worth worrying for 43. The D. as worrying as
reason for her late arrival at the meeting was _____ a traffic jam. A. owing to B. due to C. a result of D. as to
44. Paul’s been in Alice’s bad _____ ever since he offended her at the party. Page 4 A. books B. eyes C. likes D. treats
45. The little boy did nothing but _____ during the party. A. crying B. cry C. to cry D. for crying
46. Sophia _____ when she was a child.
A. used to be often ill
B. would be ill-stricken
C. used to be ill often D. often had illnesses
47. He’s not very sensible as far as money _____ are concerned. A. matters B. objects C. things D. aspects
48. I appealed to all _____ people to support me and I was successful. A.
same-minded B. thought-sharing C. familiar-thinking D. like-minded
49. The reason it _____ is that you haven’t plugged it in. A.
didn’t work B. won’t work
C. wasn’t working D. doesn’t work
50. As part of our Community Project, our class went to the park to pick up _____. A. litter B. sewage
C. garbage D. filth
51. I am afraid that you will be _____ responsible if anything goes wrong. A. taken B. held C. carried D. brought
52. The new teacher was _____ to the needs of all the children in her care. A. attentive
B. observant C. earnest D. meticulous
53. It is with _____ regret that we have to inform you that your scholarship has been withdrawn. A. heavy B. intense C. deep D. extreme
54. Tim has a _____ nose and he’s sneezing. A. feverish B. stuffed C. aching D. runny
55. Lauren is often labelled easy-going as she tends to appear mild and relaxed rather than tense and _____. A. sullen B. likeable
C. humorous D. excitable
56. I didn’t mean to lose my temper with you. I just got _____ away for a minute. A. melted B. taken C. blown D. carried
57. The estimated damage _____ that people were commanded to evacuate soon in advance. A. was to be such
B. would be so influential C. was so far-flung D. would have
been so great 58. His findings are of great importance _____ it explains the correlation between alcohol and aggression. A. which may mean B. which C. in which D. in that
59. _____ do you think Ann feels at the end of her typical day? A. To which extent B. In what way C. How D. What
60. _____ ten people came forward of their own accord. Despite this, we decided not to recruit more participants. A. As few as B. As many as
C. Even more than D. Not many as
61. Ellie does a(n) _____ each week for the local newspaper. It’s usually quite funny. A.
comic B. comedian C. animation D. cartoon
62. Knowing the confidential details gave him a(n) _____ over the other candidates. A.
edge B. possibility C. exertion D. fringe
63. Instant Power is ready to take over when the rechargeable battery goes _____ at an inconvenient time. A. dry B. flat C. dull D. blank
64. Your health can benefit a lot from fruits and vegetables _____. A.
to be rich in vitamins B. that are vitamins rich C. with rich vitamins D. enriched by
vitamins 65. She likes spoiling people’s fun. She is really a _____. A. couch potato B. wet blanket C. hard nut D. cold fish
66. The old lady is on _____ for her heart condition. A. healing B. fight
C. treatment D. medication
67. The director’s recommendation was that the secretary _____ a crash course in accounting.
A. begin B. had better begin C. should have begun D. ought to begin Page 5
68. After running up the stairs, I was quite _____ breath. A. far from B. out of C. beyond D. without
69. “How do you like your beefsteak done?” ~ “_____.” A. Very little B. Not medium
C. Very much D. Rare
70. The professor, along with his students, _____ the meeting held in Toronto next week. A. attends B. attend C. is attending D. are attending
71. Come on! I wish they _____ that terrible noise on the upper floor. A. all could stop B. had all stopped C. would all stop D. are all stopping
72. There’s no place for _____ if we want to stay in this competition. A. complaisance B. competence C. complacency D. commendation
73. I reckon Martin is _____ of a nervous breakdown. A. in charge B. under suspicion C. on the verge D. indicative
74. “I’ll do the washing-up, shall I?” ~ “_____!” A. Kid’s stuff
B. Ah, music to my ears C. Not at all
D. It’s a great pleasure
75. _____, Jane was guilty of the murder. A. At heart B. By all accounts C. By all means D. At random
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part is pronounced
differently from that of the rest in each of the following questions.
76. A. PREFERABLE B. DERIVATION C. PREPARATION D. PRELIMINARY
77. A. SABOTAGE B. COLLAGE C. COTTAGE D. BARRAGE
78. A. PARACHUTE B. MACHINERY C. PREACH D. CHATEAU
79. A. ACCREDIT B. SALAMANDER C. MAJESTY D. SALIVA
80. A. MERCHANT B. SERGEANT C. SERVANT D. MERCURY
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word
for each of the blanks from 81 to 90.
There have been great (81) _____ in technology over the last forty years. For examples, the uses of mobile
phones and email communication are common these days. However, machines could never do as good a job
as a human, especially when it comes to interpreting what people are (82) _____. Of course, machines can
translate plain statements such as “Where is the bank?” but even simple statements are not always (83) _____
because meaning depends on more than just (84) _____. For instance, the word “bank” has a number of
different meanings in English. How does a translating machine know which meaning to take?
In order to understand what people are saying, you need to take into account the (85) _____ between speakers
and their situation. A machine cannot (86) _____ the difference between the English expressing “Look out”
meaning “Be careful!” and “Look out” meaning “Put your head out of the window”. You need a human being
to (87) _____ the situation. (88) _____ with written language, it is difficult for a machine to know how to
translate (89) _____ because we rarely translate every word. On the contrary, we try to take into consideration
how the idea would be (90) _____ in the other language. This is hard to do because every language has its own way of doing and saying this.
81. A. advantages B. progress C. steps D. advances 82. A. speaking B. saying C. talking D. telling
83. A. direct B. straight
C. straightforward D. obvious 84. A. sentences
B. vocabulary C. grammar D. words
85. A. relationship B. attitude C. action D. relations
86. A. say B. speak
C. separate D. tell
87. A. understand B. think
C. interpret D. believe
88. A. In addition B. Similarly C. In contrast D. However Page 6 89. A. accurately B. exactly
C. rightfully D. righteously
90. A. said B. written
C. translated D. expressed
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
91. Neil Armstrong attained an aeronautical engineering degree from Purdue University and a master’s in A B C
aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. D
92. What does the ageing process cause – and can it be reversed? It’s a question that has baffled some of A B C mankind’s
best minds for centuries while the consequences are clear. D
93. When it comes to keeping up with the times the elephant shark is not in a hurry. The genome of the A
B bizarre-looking Australian
fish has changed little in the last 450 million years, researchers have found. C D
94. Hands up who have ever played recordings in their sleep as a last-ditch attempt to cram for an exam or test? A B C
Well, it might not be such a bad idea after all. D
95. If you want to map the Universe accurately, you’re going to need a prettily impressive ruler – now there is one. A B C D
96. Many researchers across the globe are working on the development of quantum computing and the A
NASA fears if there may be implications for national security should another country build a working B C D quantum computer first.
97. The brightly-eyed children spoke only a little English but were more than happy to burst into song. A B C D
98. At the plantation, the students were first taught the process of growing black tea and later taken on a tour A B
of the processed plant which dries, mills, sorts and packages the tea for retail. C D
99. To appreciate the advantages that legs offer over wheels, you have only examined the dust accumulating
A B C D on stairs of any household cleaned by a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner.
100. What’s your approach in the series to making complicated scientific concepts more easily understand? A B C D
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A. Complete the passage below by writing one word in each gap.
To be fair, scientists understand next to (1) __________ about how dolphin communication works. They have,
however, discovered that dolphins possess a skill that is otherwise unknown in the (2) __________ kingdom
– except for among humans. In some dolphin species, (3) __________ individual has its own signature whistle
that it will use throughout its life, and that might (4) __________ as a ‘name’. Page 7
We know that dolphins can remember the signature whistles of their relatives and playmates, (5) __________
whistles that they’ve not heard in over 20 years. And recent research suggests that dolphins also respond when
hearing their own signature whistle, (6) __________ means it’s possible that dolphins call each other by name
on occasion. Although Lilly could not have known it at the time, he might well have been witnessing this (7)
__________ behaviour during his experiments half a century (8) __________.
If dolphins are trying to get each other’s (9) __________ by calling each other’s names, it might mean that
they have some awareness of the minds of others around them. (10) __________ most great apes, dolphins
seem to be able to spontaneously understand the human pointing gesture. This suggests they might attribute
mental states like seeing or intending (11) __________ the pointing humans. (12) __________ an animal that
has no arms can understand a human pointing is a real (13) __________. And while there is no evidence that
dolphins fully understand the inner thoughts and beliefs of others (something (14) __________ theory of
mind), dolphins do point (15) __________ their heads to direct humans’ attention towards objects they want them to look at.
B. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each sentence to form a word that fits in the space.
1. Various __________ campaign has been launched for growing concern over the environment among pro- thinkers. POLLUTE
2. Many people may find themselves at a loss to comprehend recent __________ policies passed by the
government because of their lack of practicability. CONSIDER
3. My friend was quite surprised when she found out that some traditional games for kids are still
__________ popular among children of her age 60 years ago. DURATION
4. __________ reporting is widely employed by stakeholders to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of
an organisation’s activities. SUSTAIN
5. Nowadays, students and workers commonly bring their __________ meals to school or work to eat during lunchtime. COOK
6. The way the author __________ her characters’ passion for love in her novel is very gripping. ROMANCE
7. Doctors announced their success in separating a newly-born __________ twin after the operation. JOIN
8. __________ Ann produced the best answer immediately after she was presented with it. WIT
9. New foreign students often have no difficulty __________ here, so don’t worry about that. SIMILAR
10. __________ in hospital is attributed to the increase in baby mortality rate. STAFF
C. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.
1. Many creatures still survive and thrive in the harsh conditions of the deserts.
Harsh ______________________________________________________________________________
2. Only time can tell whether he will succeed or not.
It remains ___________________________________________________________________________
3. I’m a teacher now because of one of my former teacher’s strong influence on me.
I would _____________________________________________________________________________
4. The practice of this kind of ritual used to be common among these tribes.
No _________________________________________________________________________________
5. Rumour about the president’s non-stop embezzlement from the charity has gone round recently. The
president ________________________________________________________________________
6. He is nominated for his persistent work for 15 years to find out the important theory.
The work he _________________________________________________________________________
7. We are unable to decide now because it would be the toughest decision we have ever made. Page 8
Such _______________________________________________________________________________
8. Apparently, he was more receptive to strange ideas than anybody else.
Nobody seems _______________________________________________________________________
9. Jimmy had a terrible cold so he was absent from class for two days.
Coming _____________________________________________________________________________
10. The whole story is very likely to be forgotten by next term.
In all _______________________________________________________________________________
D. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original
sentence, but using the word given. This word must not be altered in any way.
1. We shouldn’t overstate the importance of finishing on time. EMPHASIS
2. I didn’t notice that my house was broken into until he told me about that. REALISATION
3. He was unwilling to accept that he was responsible for the accident. BLAME
4. Martha panicked when she realised she had lost her handbag. HOT
5. They fired him because he was not competence. GROUNDS
E. Write an essay to express your views about the following statement. Write your answer in 150–200 words. “It
is hard to imagine that people can live without friends.” THE END OF THE TEST Page 9