PRACTICE TEST

I. Choose the best option to complete each of the following sentences.

1. Ann’s encouraging words gave me a(n) ________ to undertake the demanding task once again.

A. point B. resolution C. incentive D. target

2. We are going to build a fence around the field with a(n) _______ to breeding sheep and cattle.

A. goal B. view C. reason D. outlook

3. It was Tony who ________ in asking for another glass of brandy and got drunk in the end.

A. endured B. kept C. maintained D. persisted

4. They did have a _________ escape. Their car stopped right at the river bank.

A. near B. fine C. narrow D. slight

5. The hijackers have demanded a ______ to be paid for releasing the civilian hostages from the plane.

A. currency B. revenue C. ransom D. deposit

6. I hope you won’t take _______ if I say that your project needs more improvement to be accepted.

A. hatred B. offence C. nerve D. anger

7. The secretary doesn’t answer my phone as a _______, but yesterday I was too busy to do it myself.

A. normality B. rule C. regularity D. principle

8. The local press has been pouring _________ on the mayor for dissolving the council.

A. blame B. hatred C. scorn D. disapproval

9. It’s no wonder the children felt disappointed because first their parents promised to take them to
Disneyland and then they _________ on their word.

A. played down B. went back C. came off D. drew out

10. If it hadn’t been for the hint that the professor ______, nobody would have found out the correct
answer.

A. cast B. dropped C. threw D. flung

II. Read the text and decide which answer best fits each space.

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile (1)_______ in
conditions described as close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for one of the major
high street (2)__________.
 Speaking to a British newspaper, the children described long hours of (3)__________ work and
threats and beatings. The company said it was unaware that cloting intended for its (4)__________ had
been improperly (5)_________ to a (6)_________ that used child labour. It further announced it had
witdrawn the garments involved until it had investigated the alleged (7)___________ of the
(8)_________ code it imposed on manufacturers three years ago.

The discovery of these children working in appalling conditions in the Sagpur Jat are of Delhi
has renewed concerns about the outsourcing by some large retail chains of their (9)_________
production to India, recognised by the United Nations as one of the world hotspots for child labour.
According to one (10)________, over 20 percent of India’s economy is(11)_________ on children,
which comes to a total of 55 million youngsters under 14 working.

Consumers in the West shoould not only be demanding answers from retailers about how their
(12)________ are produced but also should be looking into their consciences at how they spend their
money and whether cheap prices in the West are worth the suffering caused to so many children.

1. A. office B. facility C. factory D. bureau

2. A. warehouse B. warehouses C. retailers D. retailer

3. A. impaid B. unpaid C. without pay D. without payment

4. A. stores B. branch C. outlet D. warehouses

5. A. outsource B. outsourcing C. outsources D. outsourced

6. A. association B. closed shop C. retailer D. sweatshop

7. A. errors B. branches C. mistakes D. wrongdoings

8. A. ethical B. ethnic C. ethnical D. ethic

9. A. garments B. garment C. raiment D. raiments

10. A. estimated B. estimating C. estimates D. estimate

11. A. depends B. dependent C. dependant D. dependence

12. A. goods B. ware C. stuff D. garment

III. Read the text and think of ONE word which best fits each space.

If there is just one single thing more astonishing than the ability of the adult human being to
talk, it is the process by (1)_____which_____ someone learn to do this. Some parts of the process are
still (2)____pretty/very____ much a closed book, but it is for the (3)_____most____ part possible to
describe what the child is doing at various stages in its development, (4)____even____ if we cannot
account (5)____for______ how exactly it learns to do these things.

In fact, research carried out by various linguists has (6)____given_____ rise to as (7)____
_____ theories as there are differences in the rate of development. A baby actually makes sounds from
the moment it is born, but for quite some time these are rather far removed (8)____________ articulate
speech. In something like year, a baby will probably be at the stage where one or two syllables
represent the peak of its achievement as a speaker, one more year and it will be (9)_______ out with
short phrases, and after this it seems (10)___________ time at all before the child is (11)__________
of uttering complete sentences.

Despite (12)____being____a truly remarkable feat of learning, this is one that is performed by
the vast (13)___majority____ of human beings. Complex operations are brought (14)_____into____
play in these dealings with speech and language; the key lies in brain-work, though toungue-work and
ear-work play a (15)_____part/role_____ in the whole process.
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Task 2

Some people believe that school children should not be given homework by their
teachers, whereas others argue that homework plays an important role in the
education of children. Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.
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