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PART ONE: LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal kiss twice. Before you listen to it, you have
1 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions
and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole
text, you have 3 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B
or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers.
1. The royal kiss was very long and passionate.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
2. The royal wedding is said to have been watched worldwide.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
3. The royal wedding took place in Canterbury Cathedral.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
4. The queen herself publicly commented on the ceremony after returning to
Buckingham Palace.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
5. An admirer from the audience warned William to think his marriage over.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal marriage twice. Before you listen to it, you
have 2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the
questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the
whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing
among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your
answers.
6. The narrator believes Kate and Williams royal marriage will stand the test of time
because
A) Kate is more mature than Diana was.
B) Kate has experience with the media.
C) Kate has known William for years.
D) All of the above.
7. Kate and William seem to be deeply in love despite
A) their awareness of each others flaws.
B) what they show in public.
C) Prince Williams problems with publicity.
D) the unsuccessful rehearsals of the wedding.

8. Kate and Williams separation in 2007

A) lasted for several months.
B) started while vacationing together.
C) was caused by mutual friend Sam Waley-Cohen.
D) began after a serious argument.
9. The Queen
A) initially disapproved of Williams choice.
B) would rather call Williams wife Kate.
C) highly appreciates Kates family background.
D) None of the above.
10. Kates parents
A) are millionaires by birth.
B) have taught her what hard work means.
C) were in the ground aviation business.
D) are now in the entertainment business for adults.
Directions: You will hear a text about some mysteries twice. Before you listen to it, you have
2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the
questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the
whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing
among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your
answers.
11. The Mars Face was first captured on camera in
A)1976.
B) 1975.
C) 2003.
D) None of the above.
12. The Mars Face was eventually identified for what it is by
A) Viking 1 orbiter.
B) some ET-believing organizations.
C) the European space agency.
D) a representative of NASA.
13. The mysterious Ica Stones were
A) covered with paintings.
B) sold to farmers.
C) made by cavemen.
D) never identified.
14. Among the rumors surrounding the discovery of the Mary Celeste were all EXCEPT
A) the meals on her were still hot.
B) all the sailors belongings were on her.
C) there were burn circles on her deck.
D) the crew left her because of a technical problem.

15. The most likely reason for the Mary Celeste abandonment
A) was the invasion of aliens.
B) was the unusual noises she produced.
C) was her sinking under her weight.
D) was the crew uprising against the captain.
PART TWO: READING COMPREHENSION
Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best
answer to each question among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your answer sheet.

The Bront Sisters

A small building on the edge of beautiful, lonely fields is a place many thousands visit
every year. Haworth Parsonage, in Yorkshire, Northern England, is the place where three
remarkable sisters worked on their great love writing poetry and romantic fiction. Their
books stand out like true landmarks of English literature.
The girls parents were not local, they came from Ireland and Cornwall and married and
settled there, near the lively Yorkshire city of Leeds. Their father, the strict Reverend Patrick
Brunty, took a post at the local church and he changed his name to Bront to honour Lord
Nelson whose title it was.
From early childhood the countryside of heather-covered wild moors provided inspiration
for the sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront, who all had literary works published under
pseudonyms. Publishing new work seems to have been as hard a road 150 years ago as it is
today. The first of the sisters novels, Charlottes Jane Eyre, was published in October 1847
and it met with increasing success. Then came Emilys chance for fame, Wuthering Heights
and Annes Agnes Grey followed later the same year. In spite of their literary success, the
Bront sisters remained in Yorkshire, rarely travelled (even to London) and worked mostly in
solitude, helping one another in their literary attempts. They had a routine of discussing their
works together at the dining room table in the evening, planning the plot of their novels and
the description of their main characters.
It is difficult to focus on just one of these fascinating women. To speak of one is to bring
in all three, for their fortunes were closely interrelated. Lets take Charlotte, for example. She
went to school at Roe Head, where she later worked as a teacher. She fell ill, suffering from
melancholia, and gave up the post. Charlotte traveled a bit, going to London and also to work
in Belgium twice (once with Emily) where she fell disastrously in love. Coming back to
Yorkshire, she married her fathers assistant, the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls. Her first love
though was writing, creating an imaginary world as she had done since childhood. At the age
of 21 she asked poet Robert Southeys advice about her writing prospects. Literature cannot
be the business of a womans life, he answered. So her first novel, The Professor, was not
published in her lifetime but, not discouraged, she started on Jane Eyre, which immediately
captivated Victorian readers.
Jane Eyre is a powerful novel about an educated but poor orphan and her love for her
hero, Mr. Rochester, who turns out to have an insane wife hidden in the attic of his grand
house. It remains popular today, both in film and TV versions, as well as in printed word.
Many people wonder how such a dramatic work could have been written by a shy and
reclusive woman. The answer must be that all three girls were gifted with colossal and unique
imaginations and they sparked one anther on.

16. The girls father took the name of Bront because

A) he was a very strict priest.
B) he had to have an aristocratic title.
C) he deeply respected Lord Nelson.
D) Lord Nelson was patron of the local church.
17. Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront
A) took their literary inspiration from their travels.
B) used their real names when publishing their work.
C) wrote only one novel each in their whole lifetime.
D) exchanged ideas and shared opinion in the process of work.
18. Charlotte Bront
A) never had another job beside being a writer.
B) was not put off by her colleagues advice.
C) became famous for her first novel.
D) never achieved fame during her lifetime.
19. Charlotte
A) married her first love.
B) always travelled alone.
C) enjoyed perfect health.
D) was a rather shy person.
20. The novel Jane Eyre
A) is a typically romantic novel.
B) is autobiographic in character.
C) wasnt very popular in its own time.
D) has never been adapted into a screen-play.

Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best
answer to each question correspondingly among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your
answer sheet.

A Short History of Google

Nowadays we use computers every day. This piece of technology has become a huge
part of our lives. The same can be said about Google, without which we could hardly find a
simple website on the World Wide Web. But how exactly did it all start?
Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both of whom were
studying at Stanford University in California. In their PhD research project they came up
with a plan to make a powerful search engine. Before creating Google, the two friends
developed BackRub, a less refined version of the search engine that ran for over a year on
the servers of Stanford University before it was closed down because it was using too
much of the universitys band width.
That setback did not make Larry and Sergey end their project. With the financial
support of Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, the two friends

bought their own servers and set up a shop in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, who was
Sergeys sister-in-law. They also changed the name of the search engine to Google. The
name originated from a play on the mathematical term googol, which is the number 1
followed by 100 zeros. This name was perfect for what Larry and Sergey had in their
minds a large-scale search engine with the ability to organize an unlimited amount of
information on the internet. The domain google.com was registered on September 14, 1997
and Google Corporation was formed a year later in September 1998.
Since then Google has come a long way from the garage office and the imperfect
mechanism of BackRub. Today it has about a thousand employees, working in Googleplex
in California, as well as in offices outside the US. The company has expanded globally by
releasing Google in 26 languages and launching many additional applications and services
for internet users. Google continues to develop and improve how people experience the
internet theres no doubt that it will remain a very influential part of our lives in years to
come.
21. Larry and Sergey knew each other before they came to Stanford University.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
22. BackRub was discontinued because it couldnt do what it was created for.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
23. The two friends business project was initially funded by Sergeys sister-in-law.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
24. The new name Larry and Sergey chose for their search engine had a symbolic
meaning for them.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
25. Most of Googles employees work in the Californian office of the company.
A) True.
B) False.
C) No information in the text.
Directions: Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best
answer to each question correspondingly among A, B, C or D, marking your answers on your
answer sheet.
A 58-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts won one of the biggest prizes in U.S. history
$294 million. If she had taken the 26-year payout, Doris Stevens would have received $11
million a year for 26 years, before taxes.
Mrs. Stevens decided to take the lump sum payment. People who take the lump sum get paid
within 60 days, but their total payment is reduced by almost 40 percent. Mrs. Stevenss lump
sum was $168 million, but after the federal tax was applied, she received $110 million. Thats
the amount that Mrs. Stevens got to put in her purse.
Recently divorced, Stevens says that her ex-husband has already called her to ask about a
loan. She laughed. I wouldnt lend him a quarter to call the police if he was getting robbed.
Let him borrow money from his new young girlfriend who makes him so happy.

What is she going to do with her unexpected wealth? Well, the first thing I'm going to do is
to help out my children and grandchildren, of course. Next, I hope to revolutionize the
housecleaning industry.
A housewife for her entire life, Mrs. Stevens says shes going to establish a National
Housecleaner Helper Corporation. Her corporation would focus on giving money to various
individuals and research firms to develop more efficient and more powerful housecleaning
solvents and tools.
When was the last time you saw something new in housecleaning? Mrs. Stevens asked.
They keep claiming theyve invented new products that remove any and all stains, but they
still havent invented a product that removes an ordinary ballpoint ink stain from your
ordinary white shirt. This industry needs some new products. I hope to revolutionize the
cleaning world, so that my sisters will have an easier time of it in the future. Weve all spent
too much time on our hands and knees. If men had to do housecleaning, you know that theyd
be inventing more powerful products every week.
26. The prize which Mrs Stevens won could have been paid
A) in yearly sums, free from federal taxes.
B) within 60 days with a tax of almost 40%.
C) as a total payment, reduced by 40%, and no taxes.
D) in at least 26 instalments, reduced by taxes.
27. Mrs Stevens was asked for money by
A) her husband.
B) her children.
C) her grandchildren.
D) All of the above.
28. Mrs Stevens intends to invest in
A) her grandchildrens education.
B) various research projects.
C) the housecleaning industry.
D) trade with cleaning products.
29. Mrs Stevens claims that
A) the cleaning industry is developing very slowly.
B) new cleaning products should be invented every week.
C) the cleaning industry is run entirely by men.
D) there should be universal cleaning products.
30. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A) Mrs Stevens has been working as a professional housecleaner all her life.
B) Mrs Stevens is determined to relieve the heavy everyday duties of housewives.
C) Mrs Stevens thinks that men dont understand the problems of housecleaning.
D) Mrs Stevens thinks she can contribute to the improvement of housecleaning products.

PART THREE: USE OF ENGLISH

Section One: Cloze Test
Directions: Read the text below and for each numbered gap choose the letter (A, B, C or D)
of the word or phrase that best suits the gap, marking your answers on your answer sheet.
Photography
In 1760, a man named Tiphaigne de la Roche made an (31) . prediction. In an
imaginary story called Giphanrtie, mirror images of (32) .. from nature could be
captured permanently on a canvas covered with a sticky material. After the material dried in
darkness, the image would (33) . on the canvas forever. At the time, the idea was
unheard of. It was not until the following century that the (34) .. of photography was
born, starting with some (35) .. conducted by Nicephore Niepce.
Nicephore Niepce, who was a French inventor, was interested in lithography, which is
a printmaking (36) .. . He was working in his lab when he found a way of copying
engravings onto glass plates using a chemical that changes when it is (37) .. to light. He
learned to burn images onto the plates and then print the images on paper. He shared his
(38) .. with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, who improved the process and (39) . it
to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839. The Daguerreotype, the photography method
named (40) . Daguerre, met with great success. It was so successful, in fact, that French
newspapers said the French (41) . had an illness called Daguerreotypomania!
Daguerreotypes were inexpensive and were suitable for portraiture. People called the
Daguerreotype a mirror with a memory. Some portrait artists went (42) .. business
when Daguerreotypes came into (43) . . Others became Daguerreotypists, now known as
photographers.
Photography (44) . and today includes You Tube fans, I-Reporters, and
everybody with a cell phone camera. Today photography captures life around the globe. The
prediction of Mr. de la Roche has come true.
But how was de la Roches prediction of mirror-image pictures made in the first
place? Was it just a lucky (45) .? Or was the Daguerreotype a picture-perfect case of life
imitating art?
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Section Two: Sentence Completion

Directions: For each of the sentences below, choose the letter A, B, C or D of the word or
phrase that best completes its meaning, marking your answers on your answer sheet.
46. Shes not so young as she looks. She has a _____ son.
A) twenty-year
B) twenty-years
C) twenty-years-old D) twenty-year-old
47. Are you going to eat at some roadside restaurant or _____ make you some
sandwiches for lunch?
A) I shall
B) shall I
C) will I
D) I will
48. Do you believe that your father _____ all day yesterday?
A) worked
B) had been working C) has worked

D) has been working

49. This cathedral may not be very stylish, but you must admit it looks _____.
A) mostly impressive
B) most impressively
C) most impressive
D) mostly impressively
50. _____ happened twenty years ago between us does in no way concern our children.
A) That what B) That which
C) What
D) Which

Section Three: Sentence Transformations

Directions: On your sheet for open-ended answers complete the second sentence so that it is
as close as possible in meaning to the first one.
51. I started working here three months ago.
I _________________________________________________________ for three months.
52. Her father managed to persuade her to study medicine.
Her father succeeded ______________________________________________________.
53. Jessica was the only one who did not enjoy the film.
Everybody __________________________________________ apart _________ Jessica.
54. It wasnt necessary for you to cook all this food!
You neednt _____________________________________________________________!
55. Its a good thing you phoned me, or I wouldnt have known about the meeting.
If you __________________________________________________________________.
56. Have you ever seen the Star Wars films? I asked her.
I asked her ______________________________________________________________.
57. Computer World are supplying our company with computers.
Our company ______________________________________________ Computer World.

58. Im pretty sure that shes driving home her car isnt here.
She ________________________________________________ home her car isnt here.
(use a modal verb)
59. People think that three convicts have escaped from Dartmoor Prison.
Three convicts ___________________________________________________________.
60. It is a long way to their house: we cannot walk there.
Their house is so ______________________________________________________ .
PART FOUR: WRITING
Directions: On your sheet for open-ended answers write a composition in standard English
of about 160-170 words on ONE of the following topics, marking the topic you have chosen
on the sheet:
1.Tell about the last time you or your friend cheated at an exam. Why did you cheat? Was
it worth it? How did you feel?
2. It is 2099. What is your prom dress like? How are you going to celebrate your graduation?
Mind that in case of indecent language, plagiarism, identical texts or if your composition is
under 80 words or totally irrelevant to the chosen topic it will get 0 points.

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Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal kiss twice. Before you listen to it, you have
1 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the questions
and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the whole
text, you have 3 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing among A, B
or C. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your answers.
Britain's Prince William and his new bride Kate stepped onto the balcony of Buckingham
Palace two hours after saying their vows in church and gave an estimated audience of two
billion people what they had all waited for: a royal kiss.
It was a very brief kiss so conservative a touch on the lips that many in the crowd may
have missed it. They followed it with a second, equally short kiss for the cameras.
Some two billion people across the globe were believed to have tuned in as the future
king and queen of England started their lives as husband and wife with the two simple words
"I will." The couple looked nervous but happy and recited their vows without stumbling
before Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
An hour and 9 minutes after the ceremony began, the royal couple came out from the
Westminster Abbey and the crowds cheered the couple and waved British flags along the
entire route, until the carriage disappeared within the walls of Buckingham Palace.
Upon her arrival at the palace, the Queen herself expressed approval of her grandson's
wedding, calling the ceremony "amazing", according to the BBC.
A million well-wishers as well as some protesters flooded into the areas
surrounding Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and other London landmarks. Crowds
were up at dawn waving flags for television and erupted with excitement as huge television
screens began broadcasting at Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park.
However, right before the ceremony, an admirer dressed as a bride held a sign that said:
"Will, it's not too late!"
Directions: You will hear a text about the Royal marriage twice. Before you listen to it, you
have 2 minute to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the
questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the
whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing
among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your
answers.

Only time will tell. But there is reason to be optimistic. At 28, Catherine Middleton, is
much older than Diana was when she wed Prince Charles at only 20. Kate is an old bride by
Royal standards. Kate also has already had practice dealing with the media.
Prince William and Kate have dated on and off for years, so they know of each others
flaws of character. Unlike Diana and Charles who only had a few dates before they married.
And from all appearances they genuinely seem to adore and love each other. Even so William
admits he is nervous and his knees were "knocking together" during a rehearsal, due to the
thought of the world watching the event so closely.
Prince William and Kate Middleton split up for several months in 2007. The two were
brought together after going to the party of a mutual friend, Sam Waley-Cohen, at his wealthy
family mansion. They talked intently at the party, and must have resolved their problems
because soon after they were seen vacationing together.
The royal family is said to approve of Middleton, the daughter of self-made
millionaires. The Queen apparently approves of "Kate". However, the Queen prefers to
address her by her full name "Catherine".
Since Kate's parents are self-made millionaires, they have no doubt taught their
daughter the value of hard work. Her father worked for an airline and her mother was a flight
attendant before the family started a mail order business specializing in children's parties.

Directions: You will hear a text about some mysteries twice. Before you listen to it, you have
2 minutes to read the questions. While listening for the first time, you can look at the
questions and the suggested choices, but you are not allowed to take notes. When you hear the
whole text, you have 4 minutes to answer the questions on your answer sheet, choosing
among A, B, C or D. Then you will hear the text again and will have 1 minute to check your
answers.
Sometimes there are rational explanations to the mysteries we love. For instance, the
Cydonian region on Mars attracted a great deal of attention because one of its hills looked
remarkably man-made. The region was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 orbiter, which
was launched in 1975. Several photos including one taken in 1976, showed for the first time
that one of the Cydonian flat-topped hills had the appearance of face. Scientists dismissed the
face as a trick of light and shadow. Then a second image also showed the face at a different
sun-angle. This caught the attention of organizations interested in extraterrestrial intelligence
and some talk-show hosts. They believed the face was a long-lost Martian civilization. In
2003, the European space agency launched Mars Express which was able to combine data
from a high resolution stereo camera and create a 3D representation of the Face on Mars. It
shows a round massif but no face in sight.
Another mystery was the Ica Stones - stones discovered in a cave in Peru. The cave
was never identified. The Stones have drawings on them such as Aztec men fighting
dinosaurs, extinct fish, open heart surgery and other things that show an advanced civilization.
A farmer was arrested for selling these stones to tourists. In his defence, he said he had been
making them himself. To get that ancient look, he said he left the stones in his chicken coop,
and let the chickens do the rest. Others have also made and sold Ica Stones. There is no
evidence of a civilization in that area, no ruins, bones or anything.
Last but not least is the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered floating in the sea minus her
crew. Stories range from finding meals, still hot and ready to eat, to the ship being found
abandoned but with no personal items taken, with strange circular burns on the deck
indicating people had been kidnapped by aliens. The truth is much more boring. The ship that

discovered the Mary Celeste saw signs that the crew had left in a hurry. They also noted the
ship was making strange noises. The captain probably thought his ship was sinking, so he left
with the crew.



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