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A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 PTS)
I. PHONOLOGY: (5PTS)
Choose the word which has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest.
1. A. poor
B. moor
C. door
D. boor
2. A. embassy
B. chamber
C. banyan
D. climbing
3. A. stronger
B. singer
C. finger
D. longer
4. A. folk
B. milk
C. walk
D. half
5. A. occasion
B. television
C. dimension
D. invasion
Choose one word whose stress pattern is different. Identify your answer by circling the
corresponding letter A, B, C, or D.
6. A. colonialist
B. bargain
C. financial
D. peculiar
7. A. organism
B. mischievous

C. supportive
D. metaphor
8. A . maintain
B. infamous
C. determine
D. develop
9. A. mysterious
B. preferential
C. modernity
D. historical
10. A. automatic
B. conversation
C. disadvantage
D. reasonable
ll. VOCABULARY (5PTS)
Choose the best answer that best completes each sentence:
11. A child’s mind is like a …….. .
A. fresh book
B. blank sheet
C. white paper
D. new leaf
12. Colin was so ................. because of his exam that he could not sit still for five minutes.
A. on the verge
B. on edge
C. on border
D. on rim
13. She …………….. for olives during her holiday in Greece.
A. acquired a taste
B. came of age
C. gave a full

D. plant a bug
14. They got married without their parents' ………………
A. agreement
B. allowance
C. consent
D. permit
15. Many college students are attracted to the..........life of a journalist; the prospect of exploring
the world is very appealing.
A. peripatetic
B. conventional
C. remunerative
D. coordinated
16. Do you think paparazzi's taking photos of celebrities is an ………….. of privacy?
A. attack
B. invasion
C. intervention
D. offence
17. The driver's charge was finally reduced to …. because he hadn't killed the girl deliberately.
A. homicide
B. murder
C. killing
D. manslaughter
18. I'm sorry that looks awful. Those two colors …………..
A. crash
B. smash
C. clash
D. hash
19. Since Rooney was offside. His goal was ……….…
A. disallowed
B. disagreed

C. refused
D. denied
20. After arriving late for the third time in one week, Sam was finally given the …………… slip.
A. red
B. black
C. yellow
D. pink
III. STRUCTURES AND GRAMMAR (5PTS)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences :
21. He said that the plane had already left and that I … arrived an hour earlier.
A. must have
B. had to
C. should have
D. was supposed to
22. The front door is warped from the humidity. We have a difficult time ……….… it.
A. for opening
B. opening
C. having opened
D. to open
23. Your ideas, …….. …, seem unusual to me.
A. as hers
B. like hers
C. similar as hers
D. different than hers
24. ………… appears considerably larger at the horizon than it does overhead is merely an
optical illusion.
A. The moon
B. That the moon
C. When the moon D. The moon which
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25. Mrs. Lincon has …………… that she is unable to get a job.
A. such small education
B. so little education
C. a such little education
D. a so small education
26. ………… his advice, I would never have got a job.
A. Except
B. But for
C. Apart from
D. As for
27. ………… the phone rang later that night did Ann remember the appointment.
A. No sooner
B. Only
C. Not until
D. Just before
28. She demanded that she ……….. allowed to meet her son in prison.
A. was
B. might be
C. be
D. could be
29. ……….., he felt so unhappy and lonely.
A. In spite of his being wealth
B. Rich as was he
C. Rich as he was
D. Despite his wealthy
30. If you hadn’t taken the money, you ……………. in prison now.
A. wouldn’t have been B. wouldn’t be
C. hadn’t been

D. haven’t been
IV. PHRASAL VERBS AND PREPOSITIONS (5PTS)
Choose the best answer that best completes each sentence:
31. A general amnesty for political prisoners may be …….… the offing.
A. on
B. at
C. in
D. through
32. Thomas is always flying ……..… the handle at the slightest thing.
A. off
B. over
C. around
D. through
33. Gareth Bale is a brilliant young footballer who is ………… the up and up.
A. in
B. to
C. through
D. on
34. No agreement was reached. The strikers decided to ……… out for a better deal.
A. keep
B. watch
C. hold
D. draw
35. That dietician is going to bring … a book on healthy eating next month
A. on
B. up
C. forward
D. out
36. He ………. up a lot of debts in the town and then disappeared without a trace.
A. put

B. ran
C. brought
D. made
37. She got a bit hot ……… the collar when a colleague started criticizing her work.
A. under
B. on
C. beyond
D. from
38. Although the antique table looked nice from across the room, ……… close quarters you
could see how badly damaged it was.
A. in
B. on
C. to
D. at
39. The press thought the football manager would be depressed by his dismissal but he just ……
A. ran it down
B. brought it off
C. turned it down
D. laughed it off
40. If the rain doesn’t …….… soon, we shall have to look for a taxi.
A. turn in
B. let up
C. die down
D. go off
V. GUIDED CLOZE TEST (10PTS)
CLOZE TEST 1
Read the passage and choose the best answer:
The quality of life these days is something most of us take for (41)…….. . It takes some
radically different experience to (42)…… this fact home to people. In my (43)……., it was
spending three weeks aboard a yacht with twelve other people, competing in a major sailing race.

(44)……… I was officially a guest, it was (45) ………. clear to me from the start that there was
to be no room for passengers, and that I'd have to (46) …..… my weight.
For the first few nights, none of us was able to sleep for more than a couple of hours at a
(47) …….… before being rudely awoken by an aggressive command. Then we'd do physically
exhausting work in total darkness. Every few minutes we’d be completely soaked to the (48)
……….. by a large wave we couldn't see coming. I shared sleeping (49) …….… . With six other
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women, with barely enough room to stretch my legs. Soon I found myself (50) ……….. for my
comfortable sheets back home, a hot chocolate and a warm bath.
41. A. given
42. A. bring
43. A. example
44. A. Although
45. A. done
46. A. offer
47. A. piece
48. A. flesh
49. A. quarters
50. A. desiring

B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.
B.

B.
B.

accepted
push
instance
However
taken
move
time
skin
premises
yearning

C. granted
C. sweep
C. case
C. But
C. made
C. use
C. period
C. bones
C. dormitories
C. dreaming

D. read
D. carry
D. experience
D. Therefore
D. announced

D. pull
D. moment
D. tones
D. digs
D. craving

CLOZE TEST 2:
Read the passage and choose the best answer:
Book reviews on-line
Although the act of writing a book is by necessity a (51)………………process, it’s
often after publication that the sense of isolation is strongest. Many writers (52) ……………
critical feedback, but have little (53) …………… to the average reader’s opinion. While it may
be true that good reviews in newspapers and magazines can be gratifying, they’re of little help in
establishing what ordinary people think of your work. So, well done to those websites (54)
………….anyone with access to the Internet can post an opinion about any book. (55)
………………this, these customer reviews are not without risk.
Most writers can (56)………………..some glowing praise from family or friends but
these reviews are easy to recognize since they tend to be sent in anonymously. On the other hand,
visits to these websites can also result in great anxiety. It might well be the (57) …………….that
you receive an unkind review and there is no kind editor to shield you. You can expect most
reviewers to be brief but there are (58)…………….. write long, strangely formal essays, usually
containing references to classical literature, presumably in (59)…………….to impress others with
their literary knowledge. If you are a (60)…………………author, I suggest you think twice before
you go off searching for reviews on-line rather than in the safer, traditional places.
51. A. lonely
52. A. long for
53. A. approach
54. A. where
55. A. Said
56. A. hope

57. A. situation
58. A. people
59. A. an attempt
60. A. sensible

B. solitary
B. wait on
B. reaching
B. which
B. Having said
B. expect
B. circumstance
B. those
B. a try
B. reasonable

C. alone
C. hope for
C. access
C. who
C. To have said
C. look forward
C. case
C. who
C. effort
C. offensive

D. own
D. expect for
D. interaction

D. that
D. Had said
D. believe
D. occasion
D. those who
D. an order
D. sensitive

VI. READING COMPREHENTION: (10PTS)
Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each of the questions below.
Passage 1:
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the
classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly
meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become
commonplace. One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply
because reading aloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical
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development of silent reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most
adults mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of
readers. As the number of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus
there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew
less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as
libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other
readers.
Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books
should be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials
such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us

still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was
replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a
specialised readership on the other. By the end of the twentieth century, students were being
recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if
not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural and technological changes in the century
had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.
61. Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because ______.
A. people relied on reading for entertainment
B. silent reading had not been discovered
C. there were few places available for private reading
D. few people could read to themselves
62. The word “commonplace” mostly means “______”.
A. for everybody’s use
B. most preferable
C. attracting attention
D. widely used
63. The development of silent reading during the last century indicated ______.
A. an increase in the average age of readers
B. an increase in the number of books
C. a change in the nature of reading
D. a change in the status of literate people
64. Silent reading, especially in public places, flourished mainly because of ______.
A. the decreasing need to read aloud
B. the development of libraries
C. the increase in literacy
D. the decreasing number of listeners
65. It can be inferred that the emergence of the mass media and specialised reading materials was
an indication of ______.
A. a decline of standards of literacy
B. a change in the readers’ interest

C. an alteration in educationalists’ attitudes
D. an improvement of printing techniques
66. The phrase “a specialised readership” mostly means “______”.
A. a requirement for readers in a particular area of knowledge
B. a limited number of readers in a particular area of knowledge
C. a reading volume for particular professionals
D. a status for readers specialised in mass media
67. The phrase “oral reader” mostly means “a person who ______”.
A. is good at public speaking
B. practises reading to an audience
C. takes part in an audition
D. is interested in spoken language
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68. All might be the factors that affected the continuation of the old shared literacy culture
EXCEPT _____.
A. the inappropriate reading skills
B. the specialised readership
C. the diversity of reading materials
D. the printed mass media
69. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Reading aloud was more common in the past than it is today.
B. Not all printed mass media was appropriate for reading aloud.
C. The decline of reading aloud was wholly due to its distracting effect.
D. The change in reading habits was partly due to the social, cultural and technological
changes.
70. The writer of this passage is attempting to ______.
A. explain how reading habits have developed
B. change people’s attitudes to reading

C. show how reading methods have improved
D. encourage the growth of reading
Passage 2:
It is estimated that over 99 percent of all species that ever existed have become extinct.
What causes extinction? When a species is no longer adapted to a change environment, it may
perish. The exact causes of a species’ death vary from situation to situation. Rapid ecological
change may render an environment hostile to a species. For example, temperatures may change
and a species may not be adapt. Food resources may be affected by environmental changes,
which will then cause problems for a species requiring these resources. Other species may
become better adapted to an environment, resulting in competition and, ultimately, in the death
of a species.
The fossil record reveals that extinction has occurred throughout the history of Earth.
Recent analyses have also revealed that on some occasions many species became extinct at the
same time - a mass extinction. One of the best - known examples of mass extinction occurred 65
million years ago with the demise of dinosaurs and many other forms of life. Perhaps the largest
mass extinction was the one that occurred 225 million years ago, when approximately 95 percent
of all species died. Mass extinctions can be caused by a relatively rapid change in the
environment and can be worsened by the close interrelationship of many species. If, for
example, something were to happen to destroy much of the plankton in the oceans, then the
oxygen content of Earth would drop, affection even organisms not living in the oceans. Such a
change would probably lead to a mass extinction.
One interesting, and controversial, finding is that extinctions during the past 250 million
years have tended to be more intense every 26 million years. The periodic extinction might be
due to intersection of the earth’s orbit with a cloud of comets, but this theory is purely
speculative. Some researchers have also speculated that extinction may often be random. That is,
certain species may be eliminated and others may survive for no particular reason. A species’
survival may have nothing to do with its ability or inability to adapt. If so, some of revolutionary
history may reflect a sequence of essentially random events.
71. The underlined word “ ultimately “ is closest in meaning to…
A. exceptionally

B. unfortunately
C. eventually
D. dramatically
72. What does the author say in paragraph 1 regarding most species in Earth’s history?
A. They have been able to adapt to ecological changes.
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B. They have caused rapid change in the environment .
C. They have remained basically unchanged from their original forms
D. They are no longer in existence.
73. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as resulting from rapid ecological
change?
A. Availability of food resources
B. Introduction of new species
C. Temperature changes
D. Competition among species
74. The word “demise” is closest in meaning to………………….
A. help
B. death.
C. recovery
D. change
75. Why is “ plankton” mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. To emphasize the importance of food resources in preventing mass extinction
B. To illustrate a comparison between organisms that live on the land and those that live in the
ocean
C. To point out that certain species could never become extinct
D. To demonstrate the interdependence of different species
76. According to paragraph 2, evidence from fossils suggests that …………….
A. There has been only one mass extinction in Earth’s history.

B. Extinction of species has occurred from time to time throughout Earth’s history.
C. Extinctions on Earth have generally been massive.
D. Dinosaurs became extinct much earlier than scientists originally believed.
77. The underlined word “ finding” is closest in meaning to ………..
A. published information
B. research method
C. scientific discovery.
D. ongoing experiment
78. Which of the following can be inferred from the theory of periodic extinction mentioned in
paragraph 3?
A. The theory is no longer seriously considered.
B. Most scientists believe the theory to be accurate.
C. Many scientists could be expected to disagree with it.
D. Evidence to support the theory has recently been found.
79. In paragraph 3, the author makes which of the following statements about a species’
survival?
A. It is associated with astronomical condition
B. It may depend on chance events.
C. It does not vary greatly from species to species
D. It reflects the interrelationship of may species.
80. According to the passage, it is believed that the largest extinction of the species occurred…
A. 65 million years ago
B. 250 million years ago
C. 225 million years ago
D. 26 million years ago
B. WRITTEN TESTS (60PTS)
VII. OPEN CLOZE TESTS (20PTS)
OPEN CLOZE TEST 1
Read the test and fill in the missing words.
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Blood is indeed (81) ______ the news, for on the heels of that announcement comes a
report of tests carried (82) _________ in the United States and Japan on artificial blood. After an
accident, time is crucial for a person suffering (83)________ extensive blood loss, and a
transfusion of real blood must often (84) ______preceded (85) _________ a time-consuming test
for blood type. Plasma does not require such a test but, because it can carry little oxygen it is not
a wholly satisfactory substitute. Perfluorocarbons appear to offer an answer. They are utilized in
combination (86) _____ and emulsion called Fluosol-DA, (87) _________ provides a number of
additional advantages over real blood. These include the absence of need for blood tests, (88)
_______ fact that it can be frozen for as (89) _______ as two years, its elimination eventually as
a gas through the lungs, and the impossibility of its transmitting such problems (90) _______
hepatitis.
OPEN CLOZE TEST 2
Read the test and fill in the missing words.
Many of us are still unaware (91)_________or are indifferent to the need to preserve rare
species. Some people argue that species have (92)_________dying out since life began.
"So (93)_________ should we worry about them now?" (94)_________ ask. They calmly believe
that others would take their place. What these people (95)_________not realize is that it
will (96)_________ millions of years before a set of species is evolved to replace
(97)_________ we are rapidly losing. These species are (98)_________national heritage. We
should not let (99)_________die off. They (100)_________ be preserved for our descendants.
VIII. WORD FORM (10PTS)
Give the correct form of the words in brackets.
101. Visitors complained about the (organize) ___________________ in the old museum.
102. When Jenny made up for the play, she was (recognize) __________________.
103."Time of our lives" was the (office)________________song of the World Cup 2006.
104. Tom was accused of stealing some (confidence) ________________ documents.
105. The cost of (admit)________________ to the show is quite reasonable.
106. I watch the news everyday because it very (inform) ________________.

107. I (sleep)________________ this morning and was late for school.
108. He hoped the (employ) _________________ agency would find him a job.
109. Our school has a lot of (qualify)________________teacher .
110. I don’t like your (child) ________________ behavior.
IX. ERROR IDENTIFICATION (10PTS)
The following passage contains 10 errors. Identify and correct them.
Passage

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When it comes to the study of the English language, Crystal David 1
enjoys cult state. He has written a number of entertaining books for the 2
subject and he is a frequent guest on radio. Over next few issues we will be

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talking to him about various aspects of the “world's favorite language”. 4
This month we begin his latest and most successful book, “Spell It out: The

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Singular History of English Spelling”. Here he discusses a question that is a 6
nightmare for mother tongue speakers and foreign learners like; why is 7
English spelling so absurdly difficult? The story of English spellings is 8
essentially the story of a system originally which was very regular and very 9
phonetic, you know, you could read Old English very, very easily indeed, 10
the language of the Anglo Saxons. But then, progressively, over sequent 11

centuries various people messed it up. Along come the French in 1066 and 12
they mess it up, introducing all kinds of French spellings for the Germanic 13
system. A couple of centuries ago along come the printers and they mess it 14
up a bit, adding new conventions there. Then along com the classical 15
language enthusiasts who introduce lots of Latin spellings and they mess it 16
up, and so it goes on and on and on, with new layers of complexion being 17
added to an originally very simple system, and so these days we’d been left 18
with a system which is quite complex.

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X. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20PTS)
Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it:
121. The keeper had no sooner opened the cage door than the lion attacked him.
 Hardly _______________________________________________________.
122. When you lie, some gestures can show you are lying.
 Some gestures _______________________________.
123. He never suspected that the money had been stolen.
 At no _____________________________________.
124. My decision to get up and dance coincided with the band's decision to stop playing.
 The moment ________________________________________________________.
125. The only way to eliminate world terrorism is by untied opposition.
 Only by _______________________________________________.
Rewrite the sentences, use the given words and do not change them.
126. We have made neither a profit nor a loss this year. (even)
 ..................................................................................................................................
127. The house shouldn’t be left unlocked for any reason . ( ACCOUNT )
 ..................................................................................................................................
128. Someone paid five thousand pounds for the painting. (WENT)

 ..................................................................................................................................
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129. He unwillingly asked her for help. (Turned)
 ..................................................................................................................................
130. He is different form his brother in almost all respects. (Bears)
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