TEST 5

SECTION II: LEXICAL & GRAMMAR (30 POINTS)

Part 1: Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1.Hats like this may have been fashionable in the 60’s, but now they are the times.
A.beneath B. under C. over D. behind
2.- Why did you and mention the party to Roger? It was supposed to be a surprise.
A. have kittens B. put the cat among the pigeons C. let the cat out of the bag D. kill two birds with one stone
3.In the of security, personnel must wear their identity badges at all time.
A.requirement B. demands C. assistance D. interests
4.It was decided that the cost of the project would be so it was abandoned.
A.repressive B. prohibitive C. restrictive D. exclusive
5.Sending out e-mails that people haven’t asked for to addresses is often known as
‘spamming’.
A.sufficient B. multiple C. countless D. widespread
6.Two colleagues are talking with each other about their work at the office.
Jane: “How is our production department doing?” - Lynn: “ ”
A.It is running on a very tight schedule. B.Yes, I would not like to hear people complain.
C.I would hate to deal with unhappy customers. D.Yes, that is the one. Did we start production on it yet?
7.Don’t be angry with Sue. All that she did was in good .
A.hope B. belief C. idea D. faith
8.We cannot afford to carry members who are not .
A.doing things by halves B. making a meal of it
C. knowing beans about it D. pulling their weight
9.Don’t get yourself up over such a trivial matter.
A. done B. worked C. whipped D. worried
10.Peter: “I love your garden!” John: “Thanks. Yes, I suppose I’ve always .”
A.seen the wood for the trees B. turned over a new leaf
C. had green fingers D. let nature take its course
Part 2. Fill each gap of the following sentences with the correct form of the word in brackets. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 p)
THE STAIRLIFT
It’s ironic that very things that are supposed to provide access to the (1)
floors of buildings-stairs-often, in fact, make them (2) 1. UP
. For many elderly people and others with limited (3) 2. ACCESS
, getting upstairs can be a daily problem to be (4) . 3. MOBILE
However, stairlifts have been helping people solve that problem since they first 4. COME
appeared in the USA in the 1930s. Designs have (5) many 5. GO
changes over the years and stairlifts have become
(6) safer and easier to use. Most consist of a seat which moves 6. PROGRESS
along rails that run along the wall.
The user controls how (7) the seat moves along the rails as 7. RAPID
it travels from the bottom of the stairs to the (8) at the top. In 8. LAND
today’s models, the (9) is controlled by computers to give a 9. MOVE
smooth ride and the components are designed to (10) constant use. 10. STAND
Many people have been given a new lease of life by the stairlift.
Part 3: There are FIVE mistakes in the passage below. Find the mistakes and correct them. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (5 p)
Line
1 Things started to go wrong as soon as we got to the hotel. We were all completely
2 exhausted after our long journey and looking forward to shower and a rest. However, we
3 found that our room was not ready, which was very annoying, although the manager was
4 extremely apologetic. While we were waiting, we asked about the excursions to places of
5 an interest which we had read about in brochure. Imagine how we felt when we were told
6 they had all been cancelled! Apparently, the person responsible for organising them had left
7 suddenly and had not been replaced. Then Sally saw a notice pinning to the door of the
 8 restaurant, saying it has closed for redecoration, and Peter discovered that the swimming
9 pool was empty. When we eventually got to our room we were horrified to find that it was
10 at the back of the hotel, and we had a view of a car park, which seemed to be used as a
11 rubbish dump. We seriously began to wonder whether or not to stay.
Part 4: Complete each of the following sentences with one appropriate preposition/particle. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. Peter is really mature. He is completely independent his parents.
2. Make your mind now or we will go without you.
3. Kelly must be responsible the director for what she has just said.
4. Nowadays many people have been suffering cancer.
5. He really gets my nerves. He never stops complaining.
SECTION III: READING COMPREHENSION (30 POINTS)
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answer in corresponding numbered boxes. (10 p)
As time (1) , the power of newspapers seems to be on the increase. This is odd
because in the relatively (2) past people were predicting that the influence of the written
word would diminish in direct proportion to the rate of increase of the spoken word and moving image
through TV and video. The Internet, cable and satellite television, Tele text and multi-media
computers in (3) other home should surely have (4) for newspapers by now,
particularly alongside a perceptible resurgence in the audiences for news-carrying radio stations. How have
these organs survived, let alone flourished, particularly on a Sunday? Why do people who have seen a
football or tennis (5) live or on the small screen rush the next day to read a potted
version of it in four or five columns which surely cannot mean more to the reader than that self-same
viewer of the previous afternoon or evening? Why would anyone who has seen a film and formed a (6)
impression of it the following day read a review of the aforesaid film in a newspaper? To
see if he/ she is right? Isn’t that what friends are for? Don’t we have colleagues for just that purpose –
to see if our ideas on any (7) song, film or programme tally with others? What is this
product that (8) of not much more than outrageous headlines, wayward comment, subjective
editorials and hyperbolic sports pages still doing in our lives? It seems for the time (9) to be
leading a charmed life. When it finally goes, though, many may come to mourn its (10) .
1. A. flies B. passes C. goes D. drags
2. A. latest B. distant C. immediate D. recent
3. A. all B. any C. every D. one
4. A. done B. gone C. stood D. set
5. A. player B. set C. match D. meeting
6. A. direct B. coloured C. bright D. vivid
7. A. given B. taken C. subjected D. written
8. A. comprises B. contains C. consists D. informs
9. A. out B. being C. given D. present
10. A. perishing B. dying C. falling D. passing
Part 2. Read the passage and fill in each gap with ONE suitable word. (10 p)
In British English this standard accent is known as R.P. or Received Pronunciation. This coupled with the
sort of English described in grammar books is the accepted (1) . Its use, however, is restricted (2)
geographically and socially; it is most (3) used among the middle classes in the south of England.
Its speakers, (4) , carry both a geographical and (5)
label, as do the speakers of all its variants, although the more socially mobile someone is the more
complex his accent becomes, and so the more (6) he is to label. Attitudes towards this vary, from the
parents (7) train their children not to speak with a local (8) so that “they will have a better
chance in life”, to the liberal, trendy young manager who adopts a local accent (9)
a form of inverted snobbery. But these stances are extreme, but, nevertheless, the (10)
between language and social status is a potentially explosive subject in British society.
Part 3: Read the passage and choose the answer A, B, C, or D which you think fits best according to
the text.
What happens psychologically when one is lost at sea? Why does one person survive while another
perishes? Is there a personality type that makes one person better at handling the elements, fear and
loneliness? Until recently, science has been completely in the dark about what makes a survivor. Now
experts are intensifying their search to demystify the psychology of survival, analysing personality traits
among people who triumph over life-threatening crises – and those who succumb.
In a life-threatening situation the brain immediately triggers a state of shock, sending alarms through the
body. Your emergency response system shifts into gear. Blood pressure rises, muscles tense, adrenalin
pumps. If you survive initially, you then shift mental gears to longer-term planning – whatever you have to
do to survive. Next you go into the resistance phase; a chronic coping state, in which the body tries to
maintain balance in the face of threat, danger and deprivation.
Later, one of two things happens: you enter an exhaustion phase, in which the coping mechanisms are
overwhelmed, you lose strength, and die – as often happens – or you persevere long enough and get
rescued or escape the situation. Who survives, it turns out, isn’t determined by age, physical stamina, or
experience. Although one would expect people who are fitter to be the best candidates to make it back
alive, the mind, that great trickster, isn’t ruled by logic.
Last summer, for example, a sailboat sank. It was being steered by Nicholas Abbott, who often transported
pleasure boats from the Caribbean to New York. With him was his friend, Janet Culver, a reserved woman,
not a risk-taker, making her first long-distance cruise. If you worked for an insurance agency, you’d bet
Abbott would be the one to return alive. Yet he’s the one who died. After 10 days adrift in a tiny dinghy,
battling 16-foot waves and thundershowers, Abbott – hungry, thirsty, and delirious – said he was going to
swim home, jumped overboard and drowned. Culver, covered with sun blisters and too weak to sit,
would not give up. “Each day I stayed alive was another chance to be rescued,” she told me. “Something
deep inside told me to hang on one more day.” While Abbott let his depression get the better of him,
Culver evaluated his situation in small, manageable increments. She kept her mind open. It is important to
remain mentally active, dwelling on positive things. “Don’t give up”, say the experts. “Drive your thoughts
to things that make you happy. Have fantasies. In other words, play games with your mind. Don’t let it
play tricks on you, which experts say it does.
The mind goes from hope for rescue, to isolation, to depression. These feelings come, go and vary in order.
You have a better chance of survival with other people there. Just being able to say “I’m not going to do
what he’s doing” helps handle negative thinking. Highly destructive is the “last chance” phenomenon:
rescue is visible, but they don’t see you. You start thinking “That was my only chance; they won’t be back
again!” Then you feel doomed. In the end, long-term exposure causes delirium. You start drinking salt
water, which causes more delusions. In the cold, people sometimes start shedding garments and a
trail of clothes is found. Paradoxically, these people interpret their coldness as warmth.
Researchers studying people who triumph over life-threatening crises are finding survivors share common
personality traits: high self-esteem and optimism. Often the difference in mental, rather than physical
toughness determines who will endure. Survivors often have a strong belief system outside themselves, in
family and religion. Once you give into the sense of abandonment, you give up. Survivors tend to be
tenacious in a self-preserving way. They do the right things under pressure. Even though Culver was
technically less skilled at sea, she didn’t lose her head. Abbott panicked, left the safest position, and
exposed himself to death. The experts attribute this fighting spirit to an immeasurable factor. They can
measure weight, age, sex, swimming ability, flotation, quality of clothing – finite things. But they can’t
measure the will to live. The only true measure of it is who stares into the abyss and doesn’t blink.
1.Until recently, scientists in extreme situations
A.had no knowledge of why some people are less vulnerable.
B.had been experimenting with people in extreme situations.
C.believed that the personality of a survivor was defined by fear.
D.had not been interested in what makes a survivor.
12. According to the writer,
A.the exhaustion phase is preceded by a failure of coping mechanisms.
B.survival depends on how healthy you are. C.you need to be intelligent to survive a dangerous situation.
D.there are a number of phases in the survival process.
13. Why is it surprising that Janet Culver survived?
A.She had little or no relevant sailing experience. B.She didn’t take Abbott’s advice.
C.She didn’t appear to have a very strong character. D.She was nervous of being at sea.
14.What is one reason why the presence of other people with you in a survival situation can
sometimes help you to survive?
A.They tell you not to give up. A.It makes the person lose hope.
C. They remind you of how not to behave. C. It causes delirium.
15.Why is near-rescue destructive?
 A.You can play games with them to keep awake.
B. They can help you look out for rescue vehicles.
C,The person knows they will not get another chance.
C D. People usually try to swim to the rescue vessel.
16.Why can’t scientists measure the will to live?
.a.Because it is different in every person. B. Because it is an abstract quality.
C,Because it changes throughout a person’s life. D.Because people are reluctant to be analysed in
17.What do you think is the best title of the passage? such a way.
A. Survival at sea B. Nicholas Abbott C. Janet Culver D. Death at sea
18. Which best replaces the phrase “in the face of”?
A.due to B. including C. notwithstanding D. de facto
19.Why does the writer mention an insurance agency?
A.To explain the reasonability of Abbott’s death. B.To tell what people generally predict.
C.To reveal a bad habit of an insurance agent. D. To emphasize a terrible mistake of insurance
companies.
2-0.Which has the closest meaning to “tenacious”?
A,cohesive B. resolute C,. bound D. strong
SECTION IV - WRITING (20 POINTS)
Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it. Write your answers in the space provided.
1.He lent me a hand so that he would not look such a mean person in my eyes. So as
………………………………………………………………………
2.We were not surprised by his success.
>It came ……………………………………………………………………….
3.Alice and Charles did not decide to move to a bigger house until after the birth of their second child.
>Only when ………………………………………………………………………………………..
4.The only thing that kept us out of prison was the way he spoke the local dialect.
>But for his …………………………………………………………………………
5. It was raining cats and dogs last night. (TORRENTS)
>The rain was …………………………………………………………………………..
6..My brother finds staying at home every day annoying. (PUT)
>It is difficult for my brother………………………………………………… every day.
7.Many people nowadays find it increasingly difficult to exist on the money they earn. (ENDS
> ) Many people ………………………………………………..
8.Will you please stay with me for a while? (COMPANY)
>Will you………………………………………………………. ?
9.Recent research has changed theories about the causes of the disease. (LIGHT)
>Recent research ……………………………………………………………
10..Collecting stamps give me a lot of pleasure. (DERIVE)
>I ……………………………………………………………..……………..
Part 2: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and eight words, including the
word given. There is an example at the beginning (0).
0. ‘Why don’t we have a picnic this weekend?’ said Andy having
>Andy suggested..............................having a picnic that..................weekend.
1.It is recommended that you take water with you as well as few and far between in this area. (lest)
- > Travellers to this area are advised to carry water ground.
2Nobody expected it of him but Sam was laid off. (ranks)
>Against unemployed.
3.Getting to work should be much easier once the new underground line is ready.(commuting)
>The new underground line sailing.
4.Although the signs are optimistic, there are imminent dark clouds. (teeth)
> On the optimistic signs.
5.We only ingratiated ourselves with our teacher because Katie insisted. (curried)
>It was our teacher.
Part 3: Writing an essay (about 200 words) to express your opinion on the following topic:
The world grows more connected through social networks. Therefore, many people think that school
students should be allowed to use mobile phones in class.
Do you agree with the above point of vie
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