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HORSE-RIDING THERAPY
(1) _______ day, many years ago, Joe Royds took a pony called Jupiter along to a (2)
_______ centre for mentally handicapped children and, with his wife, Felicity, started to
give the children rides. He thought that severely handicapped children (3) _______ riding
horses.
Today, more than 130 special schools (4) _______ country have “put their children
up’’, (5) _______ Joe, a retired businessman, terms it. Seventeen more schools (6)
_______ adopt horse-riding therapy (7) _______ next summer. Joe has even introduced
horse therapy to South Africa, (8) _______ delivered a paper on the subject to the
psychology faculty of Witwatersrand University a few months ago. The (9) _______ that
the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children’s Riding Fund, of (10) _______
he is manager, is now having discussions with. Plessey, the radio communications
company, about the (11) _______ measuring the mechanism of horse therapy.
Joe believes that there may be an inexplicable rapport between horses and severely
mentally handicapped children that (12) _______ the child, a well-attested increase (13)
_______ confidence and sociability, and in the horses a remarkable docility.
The most significant improvement in the child was in (14) _______ “There are 27
cases (15) _______, of children speaking (16) _______ from the saddle.”
He thinks there may be several ways in which horse therapy works. One is (17)
_______ up on a horse, the child senses a completely unprecedented psychological
advantage. The children also appear (18) _______ fear and horses (19) _______ a
fearless rider. (20) _______ bred the horse, the more effective the communication.
1.
2.
3.

A. A day
B. One
C. One time
A. new opening

B. newly opening C. new opened
A. might derive B. can derive some benefit of

D. Once upon a time
D. newly opened

some benefit of
C. might derive D. can derive some benefit from
4.

some benefit from
A. all over the
B. all through the

C. by the whole

D. for the whole


5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

A. like

B. as
C. that
D. which

A. are likely to B. will likely
C. are probable to D. will probable
A. at
B. in
C. on
D. by
A. where he
B. where he has
C. in which he
D. in which he has
A.
later B. latest development is
development is
C.
later D. latest development it’s

10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

development it’s
A. that
A. better way in
A. produce, in
A. to the
A. speech
A. I know of

B. which
C. the which
B. better way of C. best way in
B. produces, in C. produce, to
B. to his
C. in the
B. talk
C. the speech
B. what I know of C. of that I know

D. what
D. best way of
D. produces, to
D. in his
D. the talk
D. of whom I
know

16.

A. its first words B. its first words never
ever
C.
their

17.
18.
19.

first D. their first words never

words ever
A. being B. to be
C. that being
A. showing any B. showing no
C. to show any
A.
reply B. reply immediately at

D. that to be
D. to show no

immediately to
C.
respond D. respond immediately at
20.

immediately to
A. For better
B. The better
C. How much D. So much better
better

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THE GREAT DETECTIVES
Sherlock Holmes is probably the archetype for most great detectives in modernfiction. But while I (1) _______ stories like The Hound of the Baskervilles (2) _______, I
sometimes wish Conan Doyle’s success (3) _______ great influence on other writers.
Writers like Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, in their different ways, have made people
(4) _______ either that murder is a game you play after dinner or else that violence is

always justified, (5) _______ the right side. There (6) _______ I can’t stand their
detectives - Poirot and James Bond - either. In Agatha Christie’s case, it is her appalling
dialogue and unreal characters (7) _______ me. Fleming, (8) _______, is like a chemist
measuring out doses of sex, violence and, (9) _______ all, snobbery, and mixing them
together.
(10) _______ you what I don’t like, I ought to say something about my favourite
detectives. Philip Marlowe, created by Raymond Chandler in the 1930s, is a tough
American private detective, trying to keep (11) _______ his clients. But what makes
Marlowe memorable is Chandler’s picture of the corrupt society of California (so
beautifully recreated in the film Farewell My Lovely,(12) _______ Marlowe), and
Marlowe’s sense of humour. In one novel, Marlowe is about (13) _______ up by
gangsters when an enormous policeman appears, knocks them out, and without (14)
_______ to Marlowe, goes into a restaurant for dinner. One of the gangsters, holding his
jaw, says: “That’s Big Willy. He thinks he’s tough.” “You mean he’s not sure?” remarks
Marlowe, looking (15) _______.
Crime is real in Chandler’s novels and the same is true of the greatest of all detective
stories, (16) _______ Inspector Maigret is the opposite of James Bond. He is happily
married. (17) _______. He solves crimes by patient investigation and a deep
understanding of the human mind. But there is more to it than that. In Maigret, Simenon
succeeded (18) _______ an ideal of justice, one that seems infinitely preferable (19)
_______ the technicalities of the law and one that we can all respect and (20) _______
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

A.
C.
A.
C.
A.
C.
A.
A.
C.
A.
C.

enjoy to read
am enjoying to read
as much as anyone else
so much as anyone else
had not had a so
would not have had a so
think
B. to think
in case you are in
provided you are in
are good reasons that
exist good reasons that

B. enjoy reading
D. am enjoying reading
B. as much as anyone other
D. so much as anyone other
B. had not had such a

D. would not have had such a
C. thinking
D. that they think
B. in case you are on
D. provided you are on
B. are good reasons why
D. exist good reasons why


7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

A. that upsets B. what upsets
A. in the other hand
C. in the contrary
A. above
B. over
A. Saying

B. Telling
A. faith to
B. the faith to
A. playing Robert Mitchum
C. with Robert Mitchum as
A. being beat B. being beaten
A. saying anything
C. to say anything
A. him up
B. him down
A. these of Simenon
C. the Simenon’s ones
A. He seldom uses force
C. He seldom uses the force
A. to create
B. in creating
A. than
B. that
A. sympathise B. sympathise in

C. that upset
D. which upset
B. on the other hand
D. on the contrary
C. more than
D. the most of
C. Having said
D. Having told
C. faith with
D. the faith with

B. being Robert Mitchum
D. with Robert Mitchum in
C. to be beat
D. to be beaten
B. saying nothing
D. to say nothing
C. up to him
D. down at him
B. those of Simenon
D. Simenon’s ones
B. Seldom he uses force
D. Seldom he uses force
C. on creating
D. the creating
C. to
D. for
C. sympathise to
D. sympathise with

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A MONKEY WITH A MOUSTACHE
Sharing even (1) _______ big thing as a marquee with fifty monkeys was an
exhausting experience, for these (2) _______ animals can create an awful lot of trouble
when they put their minds to it. Of all the monkeys we had, there are three (3) _______.
These were Footle, the moustached monkey, Weekes, the red-headed mangabey, and, (4)
_______, Cholmondeley, the chimpanzee.
Footle, when he arrived in the camp, was the (5) _______ seen, for with the exception
of his long tail, he (6) _______ fitted very comfortably into a teacup, and then left a
certain amount of room to spare. His fur was a peculiar shade of grey, and his chest was
(7) _______ shirt front; his head, like (8) _______ most baby monkeys, looked (9)

_______ big for his body. But the most astonishing thing about him was the broad curved
band of white fur across his upper lip, which made him (10) _______ he had a big
moustache. I had never seen (11) _______ so ridiculous as this tiny monkey wearing this
enormous Santa-Claus-like decoration on his face. (12) _______ days Footle lived in a
basket by my bed and (13) _______ fed with milk from a feeding bottle. The bottle was


about (14) _______ as he was and he (15) _______ on it with cries of joy when it arrived,
stuff the end into his mouth, and wrap his arms and legs round it firmly, (16) _______ I
could not take it away before he had finished. He would (17 )

hold the bottle for

him, presumably in case I (18) _______ any of the contents, and so he would roll about
on the bed with it in his arms, looking just (19) _______ wrestling with an airship.
Sometimes he would be on top, sometimes it would be the bottle, but (20) _______ he
was on top or underneath, Footle would still suck away at the milk.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

A. such
B. a such
A. alive
B. live
A. that I remember better
C. what I remember better
A. for the last
C. last but not least
A. most small monkey I had ever
C. smallest monkey I had ever
A. had
B. may have
A. like a nice white
C. as a nice white
A. this one of
B. that one of
A. much too
B. too much
A. look like
B. look as though
A. anything quite
C. nothing quite

A. For the few first
C. On the few first
A. must have been
C. had to be
A. two times as big
C. twice as big
A. used to throw
C. was used to throw
A. for
B. in order
A. even not let me
C. even not let me to
A. would rob
B. would steal
A. like he has been
C. as if he has been
A. whether
B. if

C. such a
D. a so
C. living
D. lively
B. that I remember best
D. what I remember best
B. for the least
D. least but not last
B. most small monkey I had never
D. smallest monkey I had never
C. should have

D. would have
B. like a white nice
D as a white nice
C. this of
D. that of
C. to be much too D. to be too much
C. to look like
D to look as though
B. anything rather
D. nothing rather
B. For the first few
D. On the first few
B. should have been
D. ought to be
B. two times so big
D. twice so big
B. used to throw himself
D. was used to throw himself
C. preventing
D. so that
B. not even let me
D. not even let me to
C. robbed
D. stole
B. like he were
D. as if he were
C. either
D. or

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IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING IS NOT SO SIMPLE
There are many reasons (1) _______ the enormous popularity of the Impressionnists;
but there (2) _______ doubt about the main one. The pictures look (3) _______ easy, easy
to understand, easy to enjoy.
The Impressionists, a hundred years ago, enshrined a vision of life that (4) _______ a
popular ideal. They belonged to an industrial society, but (5) _______ the odd smoke
stack in the distance (6) _______ signs of industry appear in Impressionist painting. (7)
_______ demeaning sense, is virtually banished.
But Impressionist painting is very deceptive. It may look simple but that is essentially
a tribute, not to (8) _______ innocence (9) _______ to their sophistication, their ability to
create the proverbial art that conceals art. (10) _______ aware of the complexities and
paradoxes of painting than Edgar Degas. He was committed to a form of naturalism but
knew (11) _______ well that copying (12) _______ you is only a part of the process of
creation.
There was (13) _______ objectivity: “ (14) _______ wishes to see,” Degas once
remarked, “and it is that falsity that constitutes art.” He knew it was really a matter of
equivalents, of observing and representing visual material in a way that (15) _______
justice not only to the observable facts of everyday life but also to the inherent properties
of (16) _______, form, colour, texture, line. You cannot get life on to the canvas but you
can suggest the restless flow of life by developing the right fragment pictorially (17)
_______ to take on larger overtones without sacrificing its naturalistic appearance in (18)
_______ given work.
Degas was reserved and self-conscious. “(19) _______ fate it is always to be the
spectator of the public, never part of it,” Virginia Woolf was later to confess in her diary.
Degas (20) _______ agreed.
1.
2.
3.

4.

A. for
B. why
A. can be any
B. can be no
A. as
B. so
A. represents yet
C. yet represents

C. of
C. may be any
C. to be as
B. represents still
D. still represents

D. because
D. may be no
D. to be so


5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

A. in spite
B. except that
A. nearly any
B. nearly no
A. Work, in any
C. The work, in any
A. artist’s
B. artists’
A. instead
C. but rather
A. Anyone was more
C. No one was more
A. fairly
B. quite
A. that is opposite
C. what is opposite
A. no such thing as
C. no such thing as the
A. One sees as you
C. You see as you
A. shall do

B. shall make
A. art itself
C. arts themselves
A. for it is able
C. so that it is able
A. any
B. some
A. How
B. So
A. was
B. had

C. apart from
D. together with
C. hardly any
D. hardly no
B. Work, in some
D. The work, in some
C. the artist’s
D. the artists’
B. on the other hand
D. but better
B. Anyone was so
D. No one was so
C. rather
D. completely
B. that is in front of
D. what is in front of
B. not such thing as
D. not such thing as the

B. One sees as one
D. You see as one
C. will do
D. will make
B. the art itself
D. the arts themselves
B. for it is capable
D. so that it is capable
C. however
D. whatever
C. What
D. What a
C. had to have
D. would have

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LEARNING HOW TO GET A JOB
Every week a van pulls (1) _______ workshop in a run-down Nottingham back street
carrying a varied (2) _______ slides for playgroups, hand-made desks and leisure
materials for handicapped children But through the commercial cost of having these
made individually would (3) _______ the customers to (4) _______, the Beaver
workshop’s main aim is much more than simply (5) _______ their needs at cost. The
volunteers who spend a 60-day stint doing woodwork and joinery are, (6) _______, there
to learn (7) _______ a job. This (8) _______ workshop takes men who have been (9)
_______ an average of two years and for a variety of reasons. Most have struggled to get
a job - any job - in an area of declining industry
(10) _______ have in common, according to Beaver manager John Lowe, a former


civil engineer, is a lack of identity - the legacy of long-term unemployment. (11) _______

jobs they’ve done in the past, it’s (12) _______ never been employed. They’ve lost
confidence (13) _______ “It’s easy for the rest of us to say someone should be able to go
on and on looking for work but when (14) _______ ‘turned down (15) _______ it
reinforces your hopeless view of yourself.”
Most of the men who agree (16) _______ in the project have been recommended by
probation officers or hostel managers and virtually all of them stick (17) _______. The
first assessment of their success rate afterwards suggests that at (18) _______ 60% have
got a job within months of leaving, (19) _______ the fact that those with a prison record
feel obliged (20) _______ their prospective employers.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.

A. off a looking-ordinary

C. out of a looking-ordinary
A. merchandise
B. load
A. avoid
C. make impossible
A. afford them at all
C. afford all them
A. the supplying
B. to supply them
A. primary
C. first and foremost
A. applying
B. applying for
A. only
B. unique
A. out of work for
C. outside work for
A. That which they all
C. What they all
A. However
C. It doesn’t matter the
A. as though they
C. like as if they
A. in each other
B. on each other
A. one has been
B. one was
A. most of the time
C. such a long time
A. to take part

B. to take place
A. it up
B. it out
A. least a
B. last a
A. despite
B. in spite

B. off a ordinary - looking
D. out of an ordinary - looking
C. goods
D. commerce
B. prevent
D. make it impossible for
B. pay them at all
D. pay all them
C. to supply to them D. to supply
B. once and for all
D. over all
C. how to apply
D. how to apply for
C. sole
D. indifferent
B. out of work since
D. outside work since
B. That which all they
D. What all they
B. Whatever
D. It doesn’t matter
B. as though they had

D. like as if they had
C. in themselves
D. on themselves
C. you have been D. you were
B. all the times
D. time after time
C. with take part
D. with take place
C. up it
D. out it
C. least
D. last
C. although
D. however


20. A. in say

B. in saying

C. to tell

D. to telling

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THE VILLAGE SCHOOL
Cattistock is (1) _______ people mean (2) _______ a typical English village. It has
some 580 inhabitants, a pub called The Fox and Hounds, a rebuilt Tudor church and a
Victorian village school. The only blemish is a closure notice which the country council
has pinned to (3) _______ door. Unless the notice is lifted, (4) _______ is unlikely, that

door will probably shut for the (5) _______ the summer. And unless the parents then take
over the building and the primary schooling of the children-as (6) _______ at Madingley
in Cambridgeshire have done-the (7) _______ pupils will join larger classes at Maiden
Newton two miles away.
If Cattistock (8) _______ survive as something more than a home for its oldest
inhabitants and for the middle-aged, middle-class immigrants (9) _______ children have
(10)

school, it needs to attract more young couples. And (11) _______ drawn them to

Cattistock in the past is the presence of a successful-school on their doorstep.
(12) _______ little doubt that (13) _______ its size, and because of it, Cattistock
Primary School has (14) _______. (15) _______ a head teacher and one assistant, it is a
cheerful building in the very center of the village. Parents are (16) _______ the place all
the while, helping with cookery and crafts and listening (17) _______. And (18) _______
children in the school are (19) _______ average a year ahead in reading age.
“That’s not a middle-class phenomenon, (20) _______ the way,” says the acting
headmaster. “It’s spread throughout the school. What we lose in competition we gain by
dose attention.”
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

A. that most
A. as

A. a school
A. what
A. last time in
A. these
A. about thirty
A. is to

B. what most
B. like
B. a school’s
B. that
B. latest time in
B. those
B. around thirty
B. has to

C. that the most
C. by
C. the school
C. but
C. last time on
C. these ones
C. thirty or so
C. shall

D. what the most
D. for
D. the school’s
D. which
D. latest time on

D. those ones
D. thirtyish
D. will


9. A. which
B. whose
10. A. already left B. yet left
11. A. that which has often
C. what often has
12. A. It is a
B. It is
13. A. as well despite
C. both despite
14. A. done a good job
C. made a good job
15. A. Staffed by B. Staffed with
16. A. on and off B. in and out of
17. A. the children reading
C. the reading children
18. A. it results that B. the result that
19. A. for
B. by
20, \. by
B. in

C. of whom
C. already left their
B. that which often has
D. what has often

C. There is a
B. as well in spite
D. both in spite
B. done a good work
D. made a good work
C. It is staffed by
C. up and down
B. to the children reading
D. to the reading children
C. for a result
C. in
C. on

D. who’s
D. yet left their
D. There is

D. It is staffed with
D. to and fro
D. as a result
D. on
D. through