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QUESTION
MULTIPLE CHOICE – 20 SCORES – MARK: 6,00
1
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Item: Choose the alternative in which all the words have the same sound /z/.
A. ( ) isolate – resurrect – this – azure
B. ( ) parasite – decisive – these – erase
C. ( )anxiety – dissolve – jersey – xylophone
D. ( )fantasy – serious – case – chaos
E. ( ) leprosy – circus – oasis – disappear
2
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Item: The number of syllables of the words below is, respectively:
fascism - faked - naked – basically – temperature
A. ( ) 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 3
B. ( ) 2 – 2 – 2 – 4 – 5

C. ( ) 3 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 4
D. ( ) 2 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 5
E. ( ) 3 – 1 – 1 – 3 – 5
3
rd
Item: Choose the alternative that best fits the following statement:
They were the first people I saw ______________arriving in Brazil.
A. ( ) by
B. ( ) with
C. ( ) at
D. ( ) into
E. ( ) on
4
th
Item: The word Furthermore in the following passage is closest in meaning to:
The avuncular King Abdullah is popular amongst his subjects. His family, the Al Saud, are numerous and deeply
rooted (they’ve been ruling since at least the 1740s) and are not the product of European colonialism or some
military coup. Furthermore, given the size of oil revenues, they have enormous economic means at their
disposal to co-opt the population and to put in place economic development policies that can provide jobs for a
young and restless population.
A. ( ) In that
B. ( ) moreover
C. ( ) although
D. ( ) because
E. ( ) inasmuch as
5
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Item: Choose the word that best fits the following passage:
Many of us believe that bed linens, pillows and mattresses must be replaced regularly to prevent them from
becoming home to vast colonies of these nasty creatures,_______________ their feces spread and cause

allergic reactions in family members.
A. ( ) however
B. ( ) thus
C. ( ) namely
D. ( ) lest
E. ( ) whereas
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Item: In one of the sentences below there is a cataphoric ellypsis:
A. ( ) I have eaten more than you.
B. ( ) Mary's car is cleaner than John's.
C. ( ) He's leaving now but I'm not.
D. ( ) I know we haven't finished yet, but we will.
E. ( ) If you want me to, I'll talk to him.
7
th
Item: Choose the correct sentence:
A. ( ) Someone has been knocking at the door, hasn't it?
B. ( ) They are not worthy of receive the prize.
C. ( ) I'm looking forward to see the show next week.
D. ( ) He is now the president elect.
E. ( ) Some people believe that violence stems of poverty.
8
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Item: One of the characteristics of the Audiolingual Method is:

A. ( ) The teacher does not make a point of correcting errors.
B. ( ) There isn't much use of tapes, language labs, and visual aids.
C. ( ) Successful responses are not reinforced.
D. ( ) Very little use of the mother tongue by teachers is permitted.
E. ( ) Learning is facilitated by problem solving involving the material to be learned.
Read the texts and decide which answer (A,B,C,D or E) best fits each space.
TEXT 1
When Gerard Mercator was born in 1512, the geography of the globe still remained a mystery. It was unclear
whether America was part of Asia, if there was a vast expanse of sea at the top of the world or if Australia was
connected to Antarctica.
Mercator's childhood was spent chiefly in Rupelmonde, a Flemish trading town on the river, and it was here that
his geographical imagination was (9
th
item) ___________ by the ships which passed to and from the rest of
the world. Alongside imagination, he developed two very different skills. The first was the ability to gather,
assimilate and co-ordinate the geographical information (10
th
item) ___________ by explorers and sailors
who frequented the margins of the known. He also had to be able to imagine himself
(11
th
item) ___________ from the heavens, to achieve the visionary perspective of gods in the skies, gazing
down on the world. The main reason why Mercator's name is familiar to us is because of the Mercator
Projection: the solution he devised to represent the spheroidal surface of the globe on a two-dimensional
plane.
9
th
item A. ( ) raised B. ( ) reared C. ( ) supplied D. ( ) fitted E. ( ) nourished
10
th

item A. ( ) granted B. ( ) conferred C. ( ) contributed D. ( ) provided E. ( ) bestowed
11
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item A. ( ) suspended B. ( ) located C. ( ) situated D. ( ) attached E. ( ) fixed
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TEXT 2
When Hubert Cecil Booth visited the Empire Music Hall in London one afternoon in 1901, he wasn't planning on
saving the world. A fairground ride engineer, he went to a demonstration of a railway carriage cleaning machine.
It was a bag that blew air into the carpet, raising the dust, which it hoped to catch in a box. Booth went
backstage and suggested to the inventor that the machine should (12
th
item) ___________, not blow. The
inventor, he later called, remarked that this was impossible and then walked away.
(13
th
item) ___________ the problem over in a restaurant, Booth laid his handkerchief on a plush chair, put his
lips against it, breathed in – and (14
th
item) ___________ on the dust. Then he went home and invented the
vacuum cleaner. Not our push-along variety, it was a roaring, red, horse-drawn machine. Booth sold several to
royalty – a neat PR move – but preferred to hire them out for £ 13, the annual wages of a dirty-work servant.
Guests at “vacuum tea parties” watched the liveried male attendants feed hoses in through the windows and
whisk away the dirt.
12
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item A. ( ) gasp B. ( ) puff C. ( ) suck D. ( ) gulp E. ( ) sniffle

13
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item A. ( ) Mulling B. ( ) Reflecting C. ( ) Contemplating D. ( ) Dwelling E. ( ) Wondering
14
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item A. ( ) strangled B. ( ) blocked C. ( ) choked D. ( ) clogged E. ( ) hampered
TEXT 3
Once upon a time, it was only metal that could be stressed out. Now, it seems that most workers are feeling the
(15
th
item) ___________ . Stress is described, with a certain paradoxical exuberance, by some as a “modern
plague”; by others as weak-minded nonsense fuelled by a community of therapists and counselors , eager to
(16
th
item) ___________ troubled minds. Stress is in (17
th
item) ___________ of becoming one of those
words – along with empowerment and creativity – that is made worthless through distortion and overuse. It is
certainly the case that each survey on stress seems to outdo the last – but the findings may not indicate a real
rise in stress levels. The trouble with statistics like these is that they influence each other.
15
th
item A. ( ) crimp B. ( ) strain C. ( ) pull D. ( ) heave E. ( ) stretch
16
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item A. ( ) soften B. ( ) appease C. ( ) soothe D. ( ) compose E. ( ) stifle
17
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item A. ( ) threat B. ( ) danger C. ( ) menace D. ( ) hazard E. ( ) jinx
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TEXT 4
Dr Yealland came out of his room, flanked by two junior doctors, shook hands briskly with the physician he had
agreed to show around the hospital and said that he thought the best general (18
th
item) ___________ was
perhaps simply a ward round. The party (19
th
item) ___________ of Yealland, the two junior doctors who
were being put through their paces, a ward sister, who made no contribution and was invited to make none, and
a couple of orderlies who hovered in the background in case they were required to lift. Yealland was an
impressive figure. In conversation he did not merely meet your eye, but stared so (20
th
item) ___________
that you felt your skull had become transparent. His speech was extremely precise. Something in this steady,
unrelenting projection of authority made Rivers want to laugh, but he didn't think he'd have wanted to laugh if
he'd been a junior doctor or a patient.
18
th
item A. ( ) acquaintance B. ( ) presentation C. ( ) establishment D. ( ) introduction E. ( ) debut
19
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item A. ( ) comprised B. ( ) consisted C. ( ) composed D. ( ) contained E. ( ) constituted
20
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item A. ( ) thoughtfully B. ( ) dully C. ( ) diligently D. ( ) emotionally E. ( ) intently
2

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QUESTION
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS – 40 SCORES – MARK: 4,0
Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given in parentheses. Do not change the word given. You must use
between three and eight words, including the word given.
1
st
item:The news of the merger came as a complete surprise to the workers.
(aback)
The workers _____were (completely) taken aback by___________________________the news of the merger.
2
nd
item: I seem to have been in this queue for hours.
(joined)
It seems like _______(many) hours have passed since I joined________________________the queue.
3
rd
item: What explanation can we offer for this sudden drop in temperature?
(account)
How __________can we account for the fact that the___________temperature has suddenly dropped?
4
th
item: In particular, the school library was criticised by the inspectors because of its poor lighting.
(singled)
The inspectors ___singled out the school library for criticism________because of its poor lighting.
5
th
item: You are absolutely forbidden to smoke anywhere in the factory.
(total)

There ___________is a total ban on smoking____________________________anywhere in the factory.
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6
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item: Henry meant well so you mustn't be offended by his comments.
(amiss)
Please _______don't take Paul's comments amiss_______________________ because he meant well.
7
th
item: Someone rang the police with information about an impending robbery.
(tipped)
The _________police were tipped off________________________________about an impending robbery.
8
th
item: Their marriage failed probably because of their incompatibility.
(down)
The ________failure of their marriage was probably down to________their incompatibility.
9
th
item: Success will come if you adopt a more serious approach to our work.
(seriously)
You need to _____work more seriously if___________________________________ you want to succeed.
10
th
item: Brian was about to blurt out my secret when I attracted his attention.
(eye)

Had I _______not caught Brian's eye he would have_____________________blurted out my secret.
For items 11 – 15, write one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.
11
th
item: His uncle's resignation __cleared__________ the way for Tom to take over the business.
Susan ___cleared__________ a shelf to make room for the books she had recently bought.
As a result of new evidence produced in court today, Smith was ____cleared_________ of all blame.
12
th
item: Peter has ___claimed__________ an enormous amount in travelling expenses following his trip to
the USA.
My boss has ____claimed_____________ to be a direct descendant of the famous explorer.
The bank's collapse ____claimed__________ many victims in the cities financial institutions.
13
th
item: When she goes out too much, Anne starts to ____fall____________ behind with her homework.
The magazines on the market tend to ____fall_____________ into three main groups.
Following the opening of a rival night club, Cinderella's has begun to _____fall_________ out of
favor with the city's young people.
14
th
item: Eve set out , armed with a stout stick, to _____beat_____a path through clumps of bushes and
enormous ferns.
The midday sun _____beat___________ down mercilessly on the withered crops in the dried-up
fields.
Just ____beat_______ the egg white until it's frothy, and fold it into the mixture.
15
th
item: The local buses charge a _____flat____ fare of 95 cents to the town center.
Steve's demand for a meeting with management was met with a ______flat_________ refusal.

My car battery's completely _____flat_____________, because I must have left the lights on all
night.
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Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the words in capitals:
The image that we have of science has undergone radical change in the last hundred
years. An enormous (16
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item) _____technological________ explosion, together TECHNOLOGY
with a number of very real (17
th
item) _____anxieties______________ about the
environment and all the moral and political ramifications of economic growth have
(18
th
item) ______unquestionably_______ put science at the centre of public debate.
ANXIOUS
QUESTION
The twentieth century began with a challenge to the (19
th
item) _____assumption____
that human knowledge was approaching completion. It will come, perhaps, as something
of a surprise to all of us to realise that the emergence of this highly
(20
th
item) ____destructive____________ process came both from within and outside
science.

ASSUME
DESTROY
New scientific theories (21
st
item) ____overwhelmingly__________ reveal the
limitations of the old perspective. We had thought that the world, understood through the
medium of rational (22
nd
item) ______beings________________, was, indeed, the real
world. Now we know that this was no more than a simplification that just happened to
work. Once we realise this, though, we can move in a number of opposing directions. We
can re-evaluate all knowledge (23
rd
item) ______pessimistically_______ and decide
that it is eternally fragmentary and full of a vast number of
(24
th
item) _____imperfections__________, or we can be more positive and view these
vast explosions of scientific awareness as new challenges still to come and as
celebrations of the (25
th
item) ___heights__________________ that the human
imagination has so far scaled.
OVERWHELM
BE
PESSIMISM
PERFECTION
HIGH
Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the words in capitals:
For a period of its history, the city of Coventry had a considerable reputation as the main

centre of clock and watchmaking in Britain, and Coventry timepieces made then were
(26
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item) ______synonymous____________ with both quality and
(27
th
item) _____reliability___________. Few people in the city today will have heard
of Samuel Watson, but he almost (28
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item) ______single-handedly_____ paved the
way for Coventry's involvement in the clock and watch business. He was at the
(29
th
item) ____forefront_______________ of the watchmaking revolution in the
1680s, and although it is not known how Watson became involved in the trade, he was
a trailblazer for others.
SYNONYM
RELY
HAND
FRONT
Watson made his name in 1682 when he sold a clock to king Charles II and was invited
to be the King's (30
th
item) __mathematician_____________. The following year he
began work on an astronomical clock for the king, complete with planets and signs of
the zodiac, which took seven years to build. It not only told the time of day but also the
(31
st
item) ____positional______________ changes of the planets. Queen Mary
acquired it in 1691 and it is still in the (32

nd
item) _______ownership__________ of
the Royal Family.
MATHEMATICS
POSITION
OWN
He built several other clocks, and by 1690 the clamour for Watson's clocks was such
that he left Coventry and took up (33
rd
item) ______residence_________ in London. RESIDE
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He became Master of the London Clockmakers' Company in 1692, which is testament
to his (34
th
item) ______standing_____________ in the growing industry. STAND
In 1712, Samuel Watson's name disappears from the records of the London
Clockmakers' Company, and the (35
th
item) ________likelihood________ is that he
died in that year.
LIKELY
Using the verbs and particles given in the boxes, make up phrasal verbs which complete the
sentences:
VERBS PARTICLES
rise divest stumble by off above
put drift on of

Item 36
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: If you _____stumble on _______________something, you discover it unexpectedly.
Item 37
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: If you __divest__ yourself _____of________ a belief or attitude, you realize that you were wrong.
Item 38
th
: If you __rise_____ ____above___ a difficulty or a problem, you manage to deal with it without
letting it affect you.
Item 39
th
: If you ____put____ _____by______ a sum of money or a supply of something, you save it so
that you can use it later.
Item 40
th
: When you __drift___ ____off______ , you gradually fall asleep.

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