SECTION b: pronunciation and SPEAKING I.

Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the other three. Write your answer in the box provided 1. A. secondary B. eloquence C. college D. collection 2. A. abuse B. refuse C. fuss D. future 3. A. chorus C. chaos D. scholarship D. Cherish 4. A. touch B. enough C. cousin D. doubt 5. A. conserve B. preserve C. reserve D. observe Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. Pick out the word which is stressed differently from the other three. Write your answer in the box provided 1. A. violence B. dinosaur C. gorilla D. pharmacy 2. A. economics B. occupation C. sentimental D. traditional 3. A. discussion B. character C. expensive D. assistant 4. A. obedient B. confidence C. mischievous D. reference 5. A. pleasure B. believe C. pursuit D. describe Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. III. Rearrange the following sentences of the conversation. Number the sentences in order. Write your answer in the box provided. Number 0 has been done for you. A: Wow, it does look pretty long. B: No, I changed my mind and opted for history instead. And youre doing biology, if I remember correctly. C: How much reading have you got? I was given an amazingly long list of books to read. See! D: Tim! How are you? Have you been here long? E: Yes, although to start with I couldnt decide between that and geography. F: Yes, I know, but I wanted to get my things moved into my room, and just take a look around. So, did you decide to do English in the end? G: I arrived yesterday, on Sunday. How about you? H: Well, its as long as yours, but its still pretty big. There are 43. I dont know how Im going to get through them all. I: I got here a few days ago, on Saturday. Whats today? Sorry Friday, not Saturday. J: Well, I counted 57. I could hardly believe it! Whats your list like? K: But we didnt have to be here till today. Your answers 0. D 1. G 2. I: 3. K: 4. F: 5. B: 6. E: 7. C 9. J 10. H 8. A SECTION c: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR I. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Write your answer in the box provided. 1. Dont take any ______of Mike. Hes always rude to everybody. A. look B. attention C. notice D. sight 2. I think it a bit ______to hope that we can beat them easily. They are much younger and better. A. reality B. really C. realized D. unreal 3. It is recommended that he ______ this course.
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A. took B. takes C. take D. taking 4. She went ______a bad cold just before Christmas. A. down with B. in for C. over D. through 5. He lost his job ______ no fault of his own. A. through B. by C. with D. over 6. Lora: Let me pay for the meal. ~ Maria: ______. A. Its on me. B. No problem! C. Its my round D. Never mind! 7. We had so many problems with the car that ______ we sold it and bought a new one. A. at the end B. in the end C. by the end D. to the end 8. Although he was _____ as a furniture- maker, he produced the most beautiful chairs. A. unable B. uneducated C. untrained D. incapable 9. ______ my students like learning English. A. Most B. Most of D. Almost D. Nearly 10. ______ a painter, but he also took an interest in the flight of birds. A. Not only Rembrandt was B. Although Rembrandt was C. Despite Rembrandt being D. Not only was Rembrandt Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. Complete the sentences with the appropriate form of the word in brackets. Write your answer in the box provided. 1. He was imprisoned for two years because he (FALSE)__had falsified ___ some important documents. 2. The scheme looked good on paper but in practice it proved to be (WORK)_unworkable ____. 3. In nursing, women tend to (NUMBER)_outnumber____ men by four to one. 4. The film is entertaining but full of historical (ACCURATE)_inaccuracies ____. 5. Mary (ORDINARY)___ordinarily __ has lunch with her husband, but today hes out of town on business. 6. We are going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of national (UNIFY)_unification ____. 7. He was a very (ATTEND)__inattentive___ pupil and spent most of the time looking out of the window. 8. A quarter of men think that women are better (SUIT) suited to looking after the home than men. Your answers 1. 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. III. The following paragraph has 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes, the lines which contain the mistakes. Write your answer in the box provided.

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TEXT For most people, the distinction between vegetables and fruits is fairly clear. Scientists, however, have varied opinions on this regard. For example, horticulturists categorize a watermelon as a vegetable despite of its general acceptance as a fruit. Botanists identify a tomato as a fruit even if it is common used as a vegetable. These differences stem from the ways in which fruits and vegetables are classify. For a botanist, a fruit is the seed bearing portion of a flowered plant or tree. According to this definition, a tomato is a fruit. With a horticulturist, a vegetable is the cartable portion of a plant that must replanted annually. According to this view, a watermelon is a vegetable. A horticulturist sees a fruit as coming from a plant or tree that lives at last two years. When fruits and vegetables that meet the criteria of both groups of such as apples or potatoes, there is no conflict. Correction In this regard Despite / in spite of commonly classified a portion Lin Mistake With must replant at last that meet Correction For must be at least Meet scientists

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SECTION d: READING COMPREHENSION I. Read the following text and choose the best answer for the questions below. Write your answer in the box provided. When the first white men came to America, they found vast amounts of natural resources of tremendous value. Forests covered a large part of the nation; later gas, oil and minerals were found in unbelievable amounts. There was a great abundance of very fertile soil. Forests, prairies, streams and rivers abounded with wildlife. So vast were these resources that it seemed that they could never be used up. So forests were destroyed to make way for farmland. Grassland and prairies were ploughed and harrowed. Minerals and oil were used in great quantities to supply a young industrial nation. Almost every river became the scene of factories, mills and power companies. Mammals and birds were slaughtered for food and sport. Within a short time, the results were obvious. Floods caused millions of dollars worth of damage yearly. The very fertile soil washed away or blew up in great clouds. The seemingly inexhaustible oil and minerals showed signs of depletion. Rivers were filled with silt from eroding farms and wastes from factories. Many of the rivers were made unfit for fish. Several species of birds disappeared, and some mammals seemed on the verge of going. Future timber shortages were predicted. In short, Americans soon came to realize that some sort of conservation program must be set up, if future, as well as present, Americans were to share in the resources that are the heritage of every American. 1. The title that best expresses the main theme or subject of this selection is_____. A. What the first white men found in America
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B. The cause of timber shortages C. The loss of topsoil D. The story of Americas natural resources 2. It seemed to the early American settlers that _____. A. mammals were disappearing B. forests should not be cut C. the natural resources were inexhaustible D. there was a shortage of minerals 3. The use of Americas natural resources by the early settlers was _____. A. careless B. scientific C. unbelievable D. predicted 4. Much of the fertile soil of America has _____. A. sunk deep into the earth B. been eroded by wind and water C. been covered by lakes D. become the scene of factories 5. Another word for slaughtered is _____. A. killed B. caught C. reared D. wounded Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. II. Choose from the phrases/sentences (in the box) the one which best fits each gap in the passage. There are phrases/sentences you do not need to use. Write your answer in the box provided. A be an important educational influence F go into much more detail B concentrates all the way through G reach a much wilder audience C if their particular interest isnt featured H find the item they want D still make sense I then a reporter summing everything up E they can hardly remember what theyve seen J struggle to do the impossible THE PROBLEMS OF TELEVISION NEWS The trouble with television news bulletins is that not only will they never please all the people all the time, theyll probably annoy most of the people a lot of time. In only half an hour, they cover the globe and (1) ____________. All the words in one television bulletin would fit onto just the front page of one large newspaper. Yet viewers expect to see as much as there is in a whole newspaper. No one reads a newspaper from cover to cover: Readers can flick through and (2) ____________. On television, they have to sit through all the stories they dont want and may be disappointed (3) ____________. The typical news story contains a twenty-second introduction from the presenter, two twenty second quotes from key people, forty seconds of commentary over pictures, and (4)____________. How much can you cram into that tight format and (5)____________? Television is the hardest, most demanding kind of journalism there is. Some viewers complain that bulletins should be longer and (6)____________. However, it appears that a mass audience will not watch for more than half an hour. And how much of the news do people really take in anyway? I doubt if anyone ever watches the news from start to finish, and (7)____________. There is no right answer, no perfect bulletin. Large numbers of viewers will always complain. Your answers 1. G 2. H 3. C 4. F 5. D 6. F 7. E

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III. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answer in the box provided. Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world climate. Many scientists put the blame for the recent natural disasters on the increase (1) _______ the world temperatures and are convinced that, more than (2) _______ before, the earth is at (3) _______ from the force of the wind, rain and sun. (4)_______ to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, even as hurricanes and droughts even more severe and causing sea levels all around the world to (5)_______ . Environmental groups are putting pressure on governments to take action to reduce the (6)_______ of carbon dioxide which is given off by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem as its source. They are in favour of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace existing power stations. Some scientists, (7)______, believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we (8)______ have to wait several hundred years to know the results. Global warming, it seems, is to stay. Your answers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. SECTION e: writing I. Finish the second sentence in such a way that it has the same meaning as the first one. 1. Its common knowledge that he has been in prison several times. He is known 2. His memory gradually failed as he grew older.3 The older . 3. Im certainly not going to give you any more money. I have no ... 4. I dislike it when people criticise me unfairly. I object 5. Do you think much about your future? Do you give a II. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Use the word given in brackets. Do not change the form of the given word. 1. We havent visited the museum before. VISIT 2. He took over the family business because his father decided to retire early. BUT FOR 3. If you dont believe it, youll never be able to do it. OR 4. You should study harder. DO 5. Please dont mention it again. RATHER
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 III. Write a composition of about 250 words to your colleague to support your ideas on the following topic: Self-confidence is said to be very important to a teacher.

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