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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1:A. contents
B. continue
C. continent
D. constancy
Question 2:A. mature
B. machine
C. majority
D. majesty
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 3: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. easy with
B. lovelorn with
C. abhorent to
D. hard on
Question 4: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. filled up
B. flooded
C. moistened
D. wetted
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Question 5: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.
A. gained
B. earned
C. scored
D. won
Question 6: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.
A. spend
B. waste
C. save
D. make
Question 7: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. when
B. who
C. that
D. if
Question 8: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. both
B. each
C. either
D. all
Question 9: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. takes
B. costs
C. uses
D. spends
Question 10: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. suggest
B. suppose
C. determine
D. plan

Question 11: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. minded
B. realised
C. remarked
D. noted
Question 12: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. to have
B. had
C. was
D. have
Question 13: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. sports
B. cares
C. hobbies
D. professions
Question 14: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.
A. condition
B. type
C. matter
D. nature
Question 15: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. take place in
B. take part in
C. get on with
D. get in touch with
Question 16: She's.......interrupting me while I'm talking.
A. just
B. sometimes
C. always
D. never

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 17: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. credulous
C. curious
D. doubtful
Question 18: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Help yourself
B. Eat it slowly
C. Do not use too much
D. Be careful not to be
choked
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 19: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
B. Why not using my iPhone?
C. Are you having a running bowel?
D. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
Question 20: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Well, so much the better.
B. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
C. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
D. Oh, dear. Poor you!
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 21: Whom do you think will be ready on time?

A. Whom
B. on time
C. will
D. you
Question 22: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. leaving
B. further outburts
C. you
D. before
Question 23: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. by himself
B. much
C. the
D. him find


Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 29.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her
parents ...(24)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private
girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(25)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(26)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(27)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted
to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(28).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.

After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(29).... Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 24:A. made
B. got
C. set
D. left
Question 25:A. got
B. returned
C. came
D. went
Question 26:A. marry
B. date
C. invite
D. know
Question 27:A. one
B. the
C. Ø
D. a
Question 28:A. departed B. separated
C. left
D. missed
Question 29:A. issues
B. matters
C. affaris
D. problems
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 30 to 36.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE

by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also
boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’
against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least
half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30
p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party

if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]


Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. hoped they would find a table for four.
B. was worried that someone was missing.
C. looked forward to a good trip.
D. wondered why they were late.
Question 31: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. He had changed his mind about the trip.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. His wife had asked him to get something.
D. It was what he usually did.
Question 32: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. is depressed by their behaviour.
B. is determined to make better use of her time.
C. appreciates why they act as they do.
D. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.
Question 33: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will have better lives than her.
B. They will not follow her example.
C. They will not be influenced by family members.
D. They will trust to luck.
Question 34: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. arrive in time
B. get on early enough

C. waste much time
D. allow very little time
Question 35: The writer considers that her mother.....
A. provided a model to react against.
B. was inhospitable to relatives.
C. controlled her own anxiety.
D. set a bad example.
Question 36: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....
A. childish.
B. a sign of boredom.
C. illusory.
D. worthwhile.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 37 to 43.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.
When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.
Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.
Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."
Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has
shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the

night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible
noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.
Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.
He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple
recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential
employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late
for work all the time.


"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has

faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]

Question 37: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. It often makes sufferers lazy.
B. It can seriously affect the brain.
C. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
D. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
Question 38: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. fell over.
B. was very angry.
C. was a little surprised.
D. fell asleep.
Question 39: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He is able to remain positive.
B. He finds his situation amusing.
C. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
D. He is concerned about his wife.
Question 40: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. The clangers involved in employing him.
B. His fear of letting others down.
C. People's attitudes towards the disease.
D. His low self-esteem.
Question 41: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.
B. the form of medication he is taking.
C. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.
D. his apparent lack of tiredness.

Question 42: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. during a visit to his doctor.
B. when he became unemployed.
C. shortly after an incident at work.
D. when he was still at school.
Question 43: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. at the cinema.
B. when he is inactive.
C. when he works late.
D. in social situations.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 44:A. anchor
B. ancestor
C. anchovy
D. ancient
Question 45:A. crouch
B. shroud
C. through
D. proud
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 46: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
B. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
C. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
D. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
Question 47: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
B. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.

C. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
D. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
Question 48: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
B. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
C. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
D. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 49: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
B. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
C. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
D. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
Question 50: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
B. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
C. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1:A. majesty
B. mature
C. machine
D. majority
Question 2:A. contents
B. continent
C. continue
D. constancy
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 3:A. ancestor
B. anchovy
C. anchor
D. ancient
Question 4:A. through
B. shroud
C. crouch
D. proud
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 5: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. further outburts
B. leaving
C. before
D. you
Question 6: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. the
B. by himself

C. much
D. him find
Question 7: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. will
B. on time
C. you
D. Whom
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 8: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Eat it slowly
B. Be careful not to be choked
C. Help yourself
D. Do not use too much
Question 9: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. credulous
B. curious
C. doubtful
D. extraordinary
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 10: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. abhorent to
B. lovelorn with
C. easy with
D. hard on
Question 11: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. moistened
B. filled up
C. wetted

D. flooded
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 12: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
B. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
C. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
D. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
Question 13: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
B. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
C. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
D. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
Question 14: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
B. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
C. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 15: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. had
B. was
C. to have
D. have
Question 16: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. either
B. both
C. each
D. all
Question 17: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.

A. spend
B. save
C. waste
D. make
Question 18: She's.......interrupting me while I’m talking.
A. never
B. just
C. sometimes
D. always
Question 19: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. suggest
B. determine
C. suppose
D. plan
Question 20: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. uses
B. takes
C. costs
D. spends
Question 21: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. noted
B. realised
C. remarked
D. minded
Question 22: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.


A. scored
B. won
C. gained

D. earned
Question 23: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. hobbies
B. cares
C. professions
D. sports
Question 24: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. take place in
B. get in touch with
C. get on with
D. take part in
Question 25: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. if
B. who
C. that
D. when
Question 26: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.
A. type
B. condition
C. matter
D. nature
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 27 to 32.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her
parents ...(27)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private
girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(28)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(29)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(30)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted

to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(31).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(32).... Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 27:A. made
B. got
C. left
D. set
Question 28:A. got
B. went
C. returned
D. came
Question 29:A. invite
B. date
C. marry
D. know
Question 30:A. Ø
B. one
C. the
D. a
Question 31:A. departed B. separated
C. left
D. missed
Question 32:A. affaris
B. matters

C. problems
D. issues
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 33 to 39.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.
When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.
Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.
Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."
Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has
shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the
night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible
noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.

Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.
He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple
recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential
employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late
for work all the time.
"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has
faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]

Question 33: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.
B. the form of medication he is taking.
C. his apparent lack of tiredness.
D. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.

Question 34: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. fell asleep.
B. was a little surprised.
C. was very angry.
D. fell over.
Question 35: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He is concerned about his wife.
B. He finds his situation amusing.
C. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
D. He is able to remain positive.
Question 36: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. when he was still at school.
B. during a visit to his doctor.
C. when he became unemployed.
D. shortly after an incident at work.
Question 37: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. It often makes sufferers lazy.
B. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
C. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
D. It can seriously affect the brain.
Question 38: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. His low self-esteem.
B. The clangers involved in employing him.
C. His fear of letting others down.
D. People's attitudes towards the disease.
Question 39: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. when he works late.
B. in social situations.
C. when he is inactive.
D. at the cinema.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 40: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Oh, dear. Poor you!
B. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
C. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
D. Well, so much the better.
Question 41: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Are you having a running bowel?
B. Why not using my iPhone?
C. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
D. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 42 to 48.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE
by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also
boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’


Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’

against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least
half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30
p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party
if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]

Question 42: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. His wife had asked him to get something.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. He had changed his mind about the trip.
D. It was what he usually did.

Question 43: The writer considers that her mother.....
A. set a bad example.
B. controlled her own anxiety.
C. provided a model to react against.
D. was inhospitable to relatives.
Question 44: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will not be influenced by family members.
B. They will trust to luck.
C. They will not follow her example.
D. They will have better lives than her.
Question 45: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. appreciates why they act as they do.
B. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.
C. is depressed by their behaviour.
D. is determined to make better use of her time.
Question 46: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. hoped they would find a table for four.
B. looked forward to a good trip.
C. was worried that someone was missing.
D. wondered why they were late.
Question 47: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....
A. illusory.
B. worthwhile.
C. a sign of boredom.
D. childish.
Question 48: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. allow very little time B. waste much time
C. arrive in time
D. get on early enough
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in

the following questions.
Question 49: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
B. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
C. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
D. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
Question 50: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
B. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
C. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
D. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
The End


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ÔN THI TỐT NGHIỆP TRUNG HỌC PHỔ THÔNG
NĂM HỌC 2017- 2018
MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 645
Thời gian: 60 phút - không tính thời gian giao đề
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 1: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. doubtful
C. credulous
D. curious
Question 2: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.

A. Help yourself
B. Be careful not to be choked C. Do not use too much
D. Eat it slowly
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 3: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. to have
B. was
C. had
D. have
Question 4: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. sports
B. hobbies
C. cares
D. professions
Question 5: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. determine
B. suggest
C. plan
D. suppose
Question 6: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.
A. earned
B. gained
C. won
D. scored
Question 7: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. either
B. each
C. all
D. both
Question 8: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.

A. save
B. make
C. waste
D. spend
Question 9: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. noted
B. remarked
C. minded
D. realised
Question 10: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. that
B. when
C. if
D. who
Question 11: She's.......interrupting me while I’m talking.
A. always
B. never
C. sometimes
D. just
Question 12: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. get on with
B. take place in
C. get in touch with
D. take part in
Question 13: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. spends
B. costs
C. takes
D. uses
Question 14: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.

A. matter
B. type
C. condition
D. nature
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 15:A. ancestor
B. anchor
C. ancient
D. anchovy
Question 16:A. shroud
B. proud
C. through
D. crouch
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 17:A. contents
B. continent
C. continue
D. constancy
Question 18:A. majesty
B. majority
C. mature
D. machine
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 19: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. filled up
B. wetted
C. flooded

D. moistened
Question 20: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. hard on
B. abhorent to
C. lovelorn with
D. easy with
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 21: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. much
B. the
C. him find
D. by himself
Question 22: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. you
B. before
C. further outburts
D. leaving
Question 23: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. on time
B. will
C. you
D. Whom
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 00 to 00.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her
parents ...(24)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private
girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(25)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(26)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.

Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(27)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted
to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(28).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(29).... Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 24:A. left
B. made
C. got
D. set
Question 25:A. came
B. went
C. returned
D. got
Question 26:A. date
B. invite
C. know
D. marry
Question 27:A. a
B. one
C. the
D. Ø
Question 28:A. departed B. left

C. separated
D. missed
Question 29:A. matters
B. issues
C. problems
D. affaris
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 30 to 36.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE
by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also
boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’
against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least

half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30
p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party
if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]

Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. looked forward to a good trip.
B. wondered why they were late.
C. hoped they would find a table for four.
D. was worried that someone was missing.
Question 31: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.
B. is determined to make better use of her time.
C. appreciates why they act as they do.
D. is depressed by their behaviour.
Question 32: The writer considers that her mother.....


A. provided a model to react against.
B. set a bad example.

C. was inhospitable to relatives.
D. controlled her own anxiety.
Question 33: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....
A. a sign of boredom.
B. worthwhile.
C. illusory.
D. childish.
Question 34: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will not follow her example.
B. They will trust to luck.
C. They will have better lives than her.
D. They will not be influenced by family members.
Question 35: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. allow very little time B. get on early enough
C. waste much time
D. arrive in time
Question 36: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. He had forgotten something important.
B. His wife had asked him to get something.
C. He had changed his mind about the trip.
D. It was what he usually did.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 37 to 43.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.
When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.
Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.

Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."
Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has
shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the
night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible
noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.
Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.
He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple
recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential

employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late
for work all the time.
"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has
faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]


Question 37: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. when he was still at school.
B. during a visit to his doctor.
C. when he became unemployed.
D. shortly after an incident at work.
Question 38: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.
B. the form of medication he is taking.
C. his apparent lack of tiredness.
D. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.
Question 39: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. The clangers involved in employing him.
B. His low self-esteem.
C. People's attitudes towards the disease.
D. His fear of letting others down.
Question 40: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He is able to remain positive.

B. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
C. He finds his situation amusing.
D. He is concerned about his wife.
Question 41: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. in social situations.
B. when he works late.
C. when he is inactive.
D. at the cinema.
Question 42: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. fell asleep.
B. fell over.
C. was very angry.
D. was a little surprised.
Question 43: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. It often makes sufferers lazy.
B. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
C. It can seriously affect the brain.
D. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 44: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
B. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
C. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
Question 45: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
B. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
C. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
D. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 46: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
B. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
C. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
D. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
Question 47: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
B. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
C. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
Question 48: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
B. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
C. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
D. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 49: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
B. Are you having a running bowel?
C. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
D. Why not using my iPhone?
Question 50: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
B. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
C. Oh, dear. Poor you!

D. Well, so much the better.
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1:A. continue
B. continent
C. contents
D. constancy
Question 2:A. mature
B. machine
C. majesty
D. majority
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 3: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
B. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
C. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
D. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
Question 4: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.

A. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
B. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
C. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
D. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 5:A. crouch
B. proud
C. shroud
D. through
Question 6:A. anchovy
B. anchor
C. ancient
D. ancestor
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 7: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. either
B. all
C. both
D. each
Question 8: She's.......interrupting me while I’m talking.
A. always
B. sometimes
C. just
D. never
Question 9: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.
A. won
B. gained
C. earned
D. scored

Question 10: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.
A. make
B. spend
C. waste
D. save
Question 11: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.
A. nature
B. matter
C. condition
D. type
Question 12: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. get in touch with
B. get on with
C. take part in
D. take place in
Question 13: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. spends
B. takes
C. uses
D. costs
Question 14: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. noted
B. remarked
C. minded
D. realised
Question 15: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. that
B. who
C. if
D. when

Question 16: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. plan
B. suggest
C. determine
D. suppose
Question 17: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. was
B. had
C. have
D. to have
Question 18: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. hobbies
B. cares
C. sports
D. professions
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 19: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. moistened
B. flooded
C. filled up
D. wetted
Question 20: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. abhorent to
B. lovelorn with
C. easy with
D. hard on
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 21: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”

A. Are you having a running bowel?
B. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
C. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
D. Why not using my iPhone?
Question 22: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Oh, dear. Poor you!
B. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.


C. Well, so much the better.
D. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 23: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Help yourself
B. Be careful not to be choked
C. Eat it slowly
D. Do not use too much
Question 24: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. doubtful
C. curious
D. credulous
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 25 to 31.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE
by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also

boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’
against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least
half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30
p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party
if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.

With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]

Question 25: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will trust to luck.
B. They will have better lives than her.
C. They will not follow her example.
D. They will not be influenced by family members.
Question 26: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. His wife had asked him to get something.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. It was what he usually did.
D. He had changed his mind about the trip.
Question 27: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. allow very little time B. waste much time
C. get on early enough
D. arrive in time
Question 28: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....
A. illusory.
B. childish.
C. worthwhile.
D. a sign of boredom.
Question 29: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.
B. is determined to make better use of her time.
C. is depressed by their behaviour.
D. appreciates why they act as they do.
Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. was worried that someone was missing.

B. hoped they would find a table for four.
C. looked forward to a good trip.
D. wondered why they were late.
Question 31: The writer considers that her mother.....
A. was inhospitable to relatives.
B. controlled her own anxiety.


C. set a bad example.
D. provided a model to react against.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 32: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
B. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
C. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
D. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
Question 33: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
B. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
C. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
Question 34: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
B. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
C. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
D. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 35: Whom do you think will be ready on time?

A. you
B. Whom
C. on time
D. will
Question 36: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. before
B. you
C. further outburts
D. leaving
Question 37: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. by himself
B. the
C. much
D. him find
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 38 to 43.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her
parents ...(38)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private
girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(39)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(40)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(41)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted
to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(42).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(43).... Everyone loved her.

In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 38:A. set
B. left
C. got
D. made
Question 39:A. got
B. went
C. returned
D. came
Question 40:A. marry
B. invite
C. date
D. know
Question 41:A. a
B. the
C. Ø
D. one
Question 42:A. departed B. separated
C. left
D. missed
Question 43:A. problems B. matters
C. affaris
D. issues
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 44 to 50.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.
When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.

Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.
Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."
Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has


shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the
night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible
noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.
Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.
He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple

recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential
employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late
for work all the time.
"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has
faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]

Question 44: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
B. It often makes sufferers lazy.
C. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
D. It can seriously affect the brain.
Question 45: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. was very angry.
B. was a little surprised.
C. fell over.
D. fell asleep.
Question 46: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. His fear of letting others down.
B. The clangers involved in employing him.

C. People's attitudes towards the disease.
D. His low self-esteem.
Question 47: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. his apparent lack of tiredness.
B. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.
C. the form of medication he is taking.
D. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.
Question 48: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. at the cinema.
B. when he works late.
C. when he is inactive.
D. in social situations.
Question 49: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. when he was still at school.
B. shortly after an incident at work.
C. when he became unemployed.
D. during a visit to his doctor.
Question 50: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He finds his situation amusing.
B. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
C. He is concerned about his wife.
D. He is able to remain positive.
The End


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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1:A. contents
B. constancy
C. continent
D. continue
Question 2:A. majesty
B. mature
C. machine
D. majority
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 3: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. flooded
B. wetted
C. filled up
D. moistened
Question 4: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. easy with
B. abhorent to
C. lovelorn with
D. hard on
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 5: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. take part in
B. take place in
C. get on with

D. get in touch with
Question 6: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. realised
B. minded
C. noted
D. remarked
Question 7: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.
A. earned
B. gained
C. won
D. scored
Question 8: She's.......interrupting me while I’m talking.
A. just
B. always
C. never
D. sometimes
Question 9: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. costs
B. uses
C. spends
D. takes
Question 10: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. if
B. who
C. when
D. that
Question 11: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. both
B. either
C. each

D. all
Question 12: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. to have
B. have
C. had
D. was
Question 13: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. suggest
B. plan
C. determine
D. suppose
Question 14: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. hobbies
B. cares
C. sports
D. professions
Question 15: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.
A. waste
B. save
C. spend
D. make
Question 16: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.
A. nature
B. type
C. condition
D. matter
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 17: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Eat it slowly

B. Help yourself
C. Do not use too much
D. Be careful not to be choked
Question 18: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. credulous
C. curious
D. doubtful
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 19: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why not using my iPhone?
B. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
C. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
D. Are you having a running bowel?
Question 20: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
B. Oh, dear. Poor you!
C. Well, so much the better.
D. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 21:A. proud
B. through
C. crouch
D. shroud
Question 22:A. anchor
B. anchovy

C. ancient
D. ancestor
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 23 to 28.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her
parents ...(23)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private


girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(24)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(25)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(26)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted
to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(27).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(28).... Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 23:A. made
B. set
C. left
D. got
Question 24:A. returned
B. came
C. got
D. went

Question 25:A. marry
B. know
C. date
D. invite
Question 26:A. the
B. one
C. Ø
D. a
Question 27:A. missed
B. separated
C. left
D. departed
Question 28:A. matters
B. issues
C. problems
D. affaris
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 29 to 35.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE
by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also
boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’

against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least
half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30
p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party
if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]

Question 29: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will have better lives than her.
B. They will trust to luck.
C. They will not be influenced by family members.
D. They will not follow her example.

Question 30: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. is determined to make better use of her time.
B. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.


C. appreciates why they act as they do.
D. is depressed by their behaviour.
Question 31: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....
A. worthwhile.
B. childish.
C. illusory.
D. a sign of boredom.
Question 32: The writer considers that her mother.....
A. set a bad example.
B. provided a model to react against.
C. controlled her own anxiety.
D. was inhospitable to relatives.
Question 33: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. was worried that someone was missing.
B. hoped they would find a table for four.
C. looked forward to a good trip.
D. wondered why they were late.
Question 34: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. It was what he usually did.
B. He had forgotten something important.
C. He had changed his mind about the trip.
D. His wife had asked him to get something.
Question 35: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. allow very little time B. get on early enough
C. waste much time

D. arrive in time
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 36: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
B. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
C. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
D. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
Question 37: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
B. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
C. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
Question 38: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
B. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
C. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
D. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 39 to 45.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.
When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.
Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.
Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."

Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has
shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the
night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible
noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.
Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.


He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple
recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential
employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late

for work all the time.
"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has
faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]

Question 39: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
B. It often makes sufferers lazy.
C. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
D. It can seriously affect the brain.
Question 40: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. fell asleep.
B. was very angry.
C. fell over.
D. was a little surprised.
Question 41: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. shortly after an incident at work.
B. when he became unemployed.
C. during a visit to his doctor.
D. when he was still at school.
Question 42: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. the form of medication he is taking.
B. his apparent lack of tiredness.
C. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.

D. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.
Question 43: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. in social situations.
B. at the cinema.
C. when he works late.
D. when he is inactive.
Question 44: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. His fear of letting others down.
B. People's attitudes towards the disease.
C. His low self-esteem.
D. The clangers involved in employing him.
Question 45: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He is concerned about his wife.
B. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
C. He is able to remain positive.
D. He finds his situation amusing.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 46: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. before
B. you
C. further outburts
D. leaving
Question 47: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. you
B. on time
C. Whom
D. will
Question 48: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. much

B. by himself
C. the
D. him find
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 49: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
B. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.
C. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
D. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
Question 50: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
B. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
C. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
The End


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MÔN TIẾNG ANH ~ MÃ ĐỀ 467
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position
of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 1:A. machine
B. majesty

C. majority
D. mature
Question 2:A. constancy
B. contents
C. continue
D. continent
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other
three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 3:A. anchovy
B. ancestor
C. anchor
D. ancient
Question 4:A. proud
B. shroud
C. crouch
D. through
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 5: I am skeptical about his chances of winning.
A. extraordinary
B. doubtful
C. curious
D. credulous
Question 6: Sorry, Miss. Go easy with the roast beef - I haven't had any yet.
A. Do not use too much B. Eat it slowly
C. Be careful not to be choked
D. Help yourself
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or
phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 07 to 12.
Princess Diana was bom Diana Spencer in 1961 in Norfolk, England. She was the daughter of an aristocratic family. Her

parents ...(7)... divorced when she was very young. Then the Spencer children lived with their father. Diana went to a private
girls’ school in Switzerland. She ...(8)... to England and worked as a kindergarten teacher. Soon after, she started to ...(9)...
Prince Charles, who was a friend of the Spencer family.
Prince Charles and Diana became engaged, and in 1981, they got married. Hundreds of millions of people around the world
watched the wedding on television. They had two sons, William and Harry. Princess Diana became the most popular member
of the royal family. Wherever she went, ...(10)... press photographed her. She was tall, beautiful, and stylish. Women wanted
to look like Princess Diana. She became the most photographed woman in the world.
By 1992, the marriage had difficulties. Princess Diana and Prince Charles ...(11).... In 1995, Diana gave a famous television
interview. She talked about her personal life and why she was unhappy. The royal family never talked about personal
problems. The interview was unusual, but people liked the princess’s honesty. In 1996, Princess Diana and Prince Charles
divorced.
After the divorce, Diana continued her work to help people. She worked with the poor, with people who had AIDS, and
with people who had drug ...(12).... Everyone loved her.
In 1997, Diana had a romance with Dodi al-Fayed, an Egyptian millionaire. One evening they were in Paris. Photographers
followed their car. The car was going very fast, and it crashed. Diana and Dodi died in the accident. It was August 31, 1997.
Question 7:A. set
B. left
C. made
D. got
Question 8:A. got
B. returned
C. came
D. went
Question 9:A. invite
B. date
C. know
D. marry
Question 10:A. the
B. one
C. Ø

D. a
Question 11:A. missed
B. departed
C. separated
D. left
Question 12:A. affaris
B. issues
C. matters
D. problems
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following
exchanges.
Question 13: ~ A: “.................” ~ B: “Tom promised to pick me up but I can’t reach him on the phone.”
A. Why not using my iPhone?
B. Why looking so miserable, Anna?
C. What’s the matter with you, Alice?
D. Are you having a running bowel?
Question 14: ~ A: “The company I've been working for will close down next month and I've got to find something else to
do.”
~ B: “..................”
A. Oh, dear. Poor you!
B. No wonder. It’s been flourishing.
C. Count me on. I’ll pay for it.
D. Well, so much the better.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined
word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 15: I think Mike must be soft on Betty - he keeps sending her flowers and cards.
A. hard on
B. lovelorn with
C. abhorent to
D. easy with

Question 16: By this time all the wells had run dry.
A. wetted
B. flooded
C. moistened
D. filled up
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 17 to 23.
As a teenager, Dan Butler-Morgan used to nod off during lessons at school. He thought it was just what every rebellious
schoolboy did. But when Dan left school, got a job as a mechanic and continued to fall asleep during the day, he realized this
wasn't normal. None of his colleagues dozed off while servicing a car or spent their lunch break snoozing in a corner.


When his host threatened him with the sack, he knew he had to find out what made him so different from everybody else.
Dan's GP [General Practitioner = family doctor] was equally baffled and immediately sent him to a sleep centre, where he
was diagnosed as suffering from narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder that is known to affect at least 2,500 people in the
UK.
Narcoleptics fall asleep at irregular and unexpected times. "Most people,' says Dan, 'however tired, can stay awake if need
be. But with me, its like a blind is drawn. I can be having a conversation with the most interesting person, but inside, I am
fighting a constant battle to stay awake, it's like someone switches the lights off."
Dan once fell off his bike due to an attack, and has been thrown out of nightclubs by bouncers who thought he was drunk sufferers are often mistakenly considered to be inebriated or lazy.This, coupled with the factthat nobody is quite sure what
causes narcotepsy, makes it hard to diagnose. It is widely believed tobe the result of a genetic mutation, and research has
shown that sufferers have at deficiency of hypocretin, a small hormone produced in the brain which regulates the body's state
of arousal.
Most narcoleptics also experience cataplexy, a sudden loss of muscular control that can cause them to fall to the door, their
heads to slump or their jaws to drop, usually after a sudden surge of emotion such as happiness, anger or fear. During the
night, narcoleptics can also suffer from sleep paralysis - an inability to move just before falling asleep or just after waking up
- and hallucination.
Dan suffers from all of these symptoms. When I arrive for our interview he holds onto the door for support as his legs
buckle in an attack of cataplexy, because "I walked in and didn't recognize you, and I was a bit taken aback." He finds it hard
to describe the sleep paralysis and hallucinations, but says he begins "to go cold from the toesup, and then get these horrible

noises in my head - babies crying and a high-pitched squeal.Then I start to see things, either figures in the room or big bands
coming at me from behind the curtains."
The only person who can help Dan to snap out of the hallucinations is his 25-year-old wife, Claire, who is frequently tired
as she is woken by the attacks. "I put a hand on his shoulder and he will come round,but it can happen again and again during
the night," she says. At their worse, she estimates, the attacks can occur around 50 times a night.
Dan is remarkably fresh-faced for someone who is supposed to feel overwhelming fatigue. He puts this down to the new
tablets he takes to control his condition. He used to take an amphetamine-based form of medication, but found that his moods
fluctuated too much. But since he started taking amphetamine-free Modafinil, his moods have levelled out and his attacks
have decreased to just five or six times a night, three or four nights aweek.
He thinks that keeping busy also helps his condition. The couple have recently bought a house and Dan works on it every
night after work until midnight. "It's when I’m sitting still for any period of time that 1 knew I’m going to go." The couple
recently went to see a horror movie, and Dan slept through most of it ‘Tiny little things that most people take for granted have
been affected by my narcolepsy," he says "Socially, we can never really plan anything. We go out to dinner and I can just fall
asleep in my food."
He is amazed at people's lack of knowledge about the condition, and has often encountered prejudice. He desperately
wanted to join the police force, but was sent a rejection letter, saying he would be a health-and-safety risk. Another potential
employer turned him down, telling him the sales assistant in his local chemist had told him Dan would probably turn up late
for work all the time.
"It's not a disability," he says, forlornly. "But people's perceptions of it as one have led me to be a bit scared of trying to
pursue any other career opportunities, in case I get turned down. And I sometimes feel like I am bringing other people down
with it. It can make you feel like a nothing, a nobody."
His attempts to control the cataplexy have changed his personality. "I used to be this happy-go-lucky person, who was
always cracking jokes, but now I can't really laugh because it sets off the cataplexy." Despite all the obstacles that he has
faced, though, Dan still manages to look on the bright side. "Fortunately, I don't think I'll ever go back to being the teenager
who slept whole weekends without ever waking up. This morning, I got up at 5 am and I'll go to the house this evening and
work on it until late. In fact,’ he says, grinning at his wife,‘I think Claire's more tired nowadays than I am."
[From READY FOR CAE, Student’s Book, Roy Norris, 2015]

Question 17: When he first met the writer, Dan......
A. was very angry.

B. fell over.
C. fell asleep.
D. was a little surprised.
Question 18: Dan first knew he suffered from narcolepsy......
A. shortly after an incident at work.
B. when he became unemployed.
C. when he was still at school.
D. during a visit to his doctor.
Question 19: What do we leam about his feelings in the last paragraph?
A. He finds his situation amusing.
B. He wishes he could sleep like he used to.
C. He is able to remain positive.
D. He is concerned about his wife.
Question 20: The writer expresses her surprise at......
A. his wife's ability to cope with the situation.
B. his apparent lack of tiredness.
C. the frequency with which he suffers attacks.
D. the form of medication he is taking.
Question 21: Dan says he is most likely to fall asleep......
A. when he works late.
B. in social situations.
C. at the cinema.
D. when he is inactive.
Question 22: What do we learn about narcolepsy in the third paragraph?
A. The symptoms are not always correctly identified.
B. It often makes sufferers lazy.
C. It can be brought on by thinking too much.
D. It can seriously affect the brain.

Question 23: What, according to Dan, has been the main obstacle to him finding work?
A. His fear of letting others down.
B. His low self-esteem.
C. The clangers involved in employing him.
D. People's attitudes towards the disease.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to
each of the questions from 24 to 30.
NO TIME LIKE THE LAST MINUTE - FAMILY LIFE
by Mary Killen
As I boarded the train at Paddington Station one night, I was delighted by the unexpected sight of three friends also
boarding. ‘Hurray!’ we cried as we bagged a table for four in the dining car and settled down to the prospect of a delicious
meal and stimulating conversation. But with about three minutes to departure, I looked through the window to see one of our
party wandering along the platform. 'Where’s Rupert going?’ I asked his wife. ‘Oh, probably going to get a newspaper or
something,’ she shrugged. ‘He likes to give himself these little thrills. He never actually boards a train until the whistle has
actually blown.’ Three agonising minutes after the train had started rolling down the tracks, Rupert came gasping back to the
table, having just managed to get into the last carriage and walked all the way through the train.
Our friend Lucy’s husband, John, derives a similar thrill from not arriving at airports at the stated latest check-in time.
‘Even when we are there,’ says Lucy, he carries on shopping after the flight is called and says,’Don’t worry.’
Once you have checked in, it’s OK. They always call out your actual name ’Rupert and John’s penchant for ‘competing’
against time is unfortunately a vice I share. The thrill of ‘just making' a train is addictive, and what is more depressing than
hanging around a railway station or sitting in a motionless train? With life racing by so quickly, one wants to maximise every
moment’s potential. Yet this is not the whole story. As a child 1 always walked through the school gate at the exact moment
before I would be punished for being late, and experienced the thrill of triumph at having ‘made it’.
Now, in adult life, I find that each day holds the potential for a whole galaxy of bogus achievements of this nature. I never
start packing for a holiday until an hour before we are due to set off. I never get my clothes ready for a party until twenty
minutes before I have to leave home. I never send off my tax return until the last post on the day before it is due, even though
it requires a thirty-minute drive to the nearest 7 p.m. collection box, when I could have posted it in my own village at 3.13
p.m.
Looking back, I realise the habit probably set in during adolescence, when I noted that my mother was always ready at least
half an hour before she went out. On Tuesday nights when she set off to see friends, she used to be collected by car at 7.30

p.m From 7 p.m., she would be pacing the garden. If she was giving a dinner party, she would have the table laid with cutlers
the day before.
Once she even said she could not see a long-lost cousin who wanted to drop in on December 9 th because she would be too
busy in the run-up to Christmas’. We like to prove we can do things better than our parents, and therefore I stupidly windowshop in Oxford Street so that I have to take a taxi rather than a bus to Paddington Station, and arrive with my heart thumping.
I cut it so fine when going to catch a train that, when I leave from home, I regularly have to finish getting dressed in the car
on the way to the station.
Old habits die hard but I’m beginning to see the advantages that might accrue from being ready in time. Think how much
money I could save on taxis if I took buses in plenty of time instead. Think how much less panicky I would be at every party
if I weren't doing up my buttons as I walked through the door. Think how much less anxious I would be if only I could be
ready on time. One might even live longer without the stress of constantly competing against time.
With any luck my two little daughters will want to prove that they can do things better than I can and will take precisely the
opposite line, deriving a thrill from being well-prepared, like both their grandmothers.
[From FAST TRACK TO CAE, Workbook, Pearson, 2002]

Question 24: When thinking about Rupert and John, the writer.......
A. appreciates why they act as they do.
B. is depressed by their behaviour.
C. realises the potential dangers of their behaviour.
D. is determined to make better use of her time.
Question 25: Why did Rupert leave the train?
A. His wife had asked him to get something.
B. It was what he usually did.
C. He had forgotten something important.
D. He had changed his mind about the trip.
Question 26: What does the writer hope for her own daughters?
A. They will not be influenced by family members.
B. They will have better lives than her.
C. They will not follow her example.
D. They will trust to luck.
Question 27: The writer considers her ‘achievements’ to be.....

A. illusory.
B. childish.
C. a sign of boredom.
D. worthwhile.
Question 28: The writer considers that her mother.....
A. set a bad example.
B. controlled her own anxiety.
C. was inhospitable to relatives.
D. provided a model to react against.
Question 29: The idiom “cut it fine” is closest in meaning to.....
A. get on early enough B. allow very little time
C. arrive in time
D. waste much time
Question 30: When the writer saw her friends getting on the train, she......
A. hoped they would find a table for four.
B. looked forward to a good trip.
C. was worried that someone was missing.
D. wondered why they were late.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 31: The manager will reply to all letters.......are sent to him.
A. that
B. when
C. who
D. if


Question 32: She's.......interrupting me while I’m talking.
A. just
B. sometimes
C. always

D. never
Question 33: Since he was a boy, one of his.......has been stamp-collecting.
A. hobbies
B. sports
C. cares
D. professions
Question 34: It.......a lot of patience to be a nurse.
A. uses
B. spends
C. costs
D. takes
Question 35: In his first game for Newcastle, Keegan.......a goal after 58 minutes.
A. won
B. scored
C. earned
D. gained
Question 36: After I......finished working, I switched off the machine.
A. was
B. had
C. to have
D. have
Question 37: People still haven't.......how dangerous pollution can be.
A. noted
B. realised
C. remarked
D. minded
Question 38: I couldn't decide between the two records, so I bought......of them.
A. both
B. each
C. all

D. either
Question 39: He doesn't.......to take a holiday this summer.
A. plan
B. suggest
C. determine
D. suppose
Question 40: She has a lot of spare time and wants to know how best to.......it.
A. make
B. waste
C. spend
D. save
Question 41: Shy people often find it difficult to.......group discussions.
A. get in touch with
B. take part in
C. take place in
D. get on with
Question 42: He hated his job; as a......of fact he has now given it up.
A. condition
B. type
C. matter
D. nature
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in
the following questions.
Question 43: Her lecture was so elaborately worded. It was difficult to make it out.
A. We can’t make head nor tail about her elaboratedly-worded lecture.
B. Her lecture was such an elaborate one, so we can’t make it out.
C. Her lecture was given in an elaborate way and it was difficult to make it out.
D. Her lecture was very elaborately worded to make out.
Question 44: This hat does fit my hair. I’ll take it back to the shop.
A. Not finding the hat beautiful on my hair, I’ll exchange it with the shop.

B. Because this hat does not fit my hair, I’ll take it back to the shop.
C. This hat is not suitable for my hair, so I’ll shop it back.
D. The hat is so unfit to my hair that I’ll change it at the shop.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the
following questions.
Question 45: Unfortunately, I didn't remember to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home.
A. I really don’t remember telling him to collect the kid at the crèche on his way home.
B. Regrettably, I forgot to remind him to collect the kid at the crèche as be was coming home.
C. I tried not to forget to tell him that he should pick up the kid at the crèche as he was coming home.
D. I was going to tell him to pick up the kid at the crèche on his way home., but unfortunately, I forgot.
Question 46: I remembered his face when I ran into him, but his name escaped me.
A. When I saw him, I couldn’t recall his name.
B. His face seemed unfamiliar to me when I saw him.
C. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his name.
D. When I saw him, he tried to escape.
Question 47: Being an attentive listener during the lectures will enable you to understand them easily.
A. You won’t have any difficulty understanding the lectures if you listen to them carefully.
B. If you listened more carefully during the lectures, you wouldn’t find them too difficult to understand.
C. Only by listening to the lectures carefully will you be able to understand them.
D. Since you do not attend the lectures regularly, you will always find them difficult to understand.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions.
Question 48: Whom do you think will be ready on time?
A. Whom
B. on time
C. you
D. will
Question 49: We insist on you leaving the meeting before any further outburts take place.
A. before
B. further outburts

C. you
D. leaving
Question 50: After much consideration, the committee decided to leave him find out the truth by himself.
A. much
B. the
C. him find
D. by himself
The End