112. Rather than disturb the meeting, I left without saying goodbye.

113. The moment I decided to get up to dance, the band decided to stop playing.
114. At no time did he suspect that the bicycle had been stolen.
115. Other than to offer to lend her some money, how could I help?
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116. his achievements are unsurpassed. 117. pulled a face as he swallowed.
118. will take longer than originally planned, which is. 119. whetted my appetite for the rest
of.
120. not to drive for fear of.

ENGLISH PRACTICE 23

section I: Phonetics

Question 1. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently

1.A. manufacture B. mature C. pasture D. agriculture

2.A. breathe B. mathematics C. southern D. trustworthy

3.A. special B. social C. official D. society

4.A. answered B. crowded C. enjoyed D. failed

5.A. horrifying B. honey C. vehicle D. hit

Question 2. Pick out the word whose stress is placed differently

6.A. examine B. introduce C. determine D. peninsula

7.A. inventory B. circumstance C. monastery D. personnel

8.A. safeguarding B. returnee C. horizontal D. mausoleum

9.A. existential B. appellation C. colonialist D. Argentina

10.A. defective B. deficit C. reference D. deference

Your answers

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section II: Vocabulary and grammar

Question 1. Choose the word that best completes each sentence

1. These figures give you some ideas of the cost of .............. your car for one year.

A. controlling B. handling C. managing D. maintaining

2. It takes a great deal of ................. for the class to make a trip abroad.

A. arrangement B. organization C. expense D. business

3. Paper making began in China and from there it ............. to North Africa.

A. spread B. sprang C. spilled D. flowed

4. When will it ........... on you that I am right and you are wrong?

A. descend B. come C. dawn D. arise

5. They are fighting to eradicate the ............. of starvation caused by the civil war.

A. leaving B. legacy C. tradition D. remains

6. He had to .............. a new syllabus as the old one was out-dated.

A. make up B. do up C. take up D. get up

7. They say he inherited his money from a ............ relative he had never met.

A. far away B. remote C. distant D. far

8. I was thinking of going out, but on .............. thoughts, it might be better to stay in.

A. strong B. second C. good D. deep

9. I have been working very hard, I hope I will ........... my math exam.

A. get through B. get round C. get through to D. get up

10. Marrying into such a rich family had always been ............. his wildest dreams.

A. under B. above C. over D. beyond

11. Here is an example of an ancient ............. Chinese vase.

A. beautiful B. tiny C. patterned D. exotic

12. Because of its warm typical climate, Hawaii ............ subzero temperature.

A. almost experiences never B. almost never experiences

C. experiences never almost D. experiences almost never

13. After the accident, there was considerable doubt ............. exactly what had happened.

A. in the question of B. as to C. in the shape of D. for

14. Turn to page 35 to find out at a ............. which courses are available to you.

A. glance B. stare C. glimpse D. look

15. The actor was so nervous that he could only remember small ............. of dialogue.

A. shreds B. pieces C. patches D. snatches

16. The truant was ............. from school for unbecoming behavior.

A. dispelled B. repelled C. compelled D. expelled

17. The light from the car .............. as it receded into the distance.

A. seeped out B. faded away C. shone out D. rolled away

18. Nobody would call me an alcoholic, but I like to have a drink of beer ............. and then.

A. now B. when C. often D. there

19. I really don‘t like the shoes, and ............. they aren‘t my size, so I don‘t want to buy them.

A. further B. however C. anyway D. even if

20. The musical comedy Oklahoma did much to expand the potential of the musical stage, and it
encouraged others to attempt .............. .

A. original themes B. to original themes

C. that were original themes D. how original themes

Your answers

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11......... 12 13........ 14 15 ........ 16 17 18......... 19 20.........

........ ........ ....... ........ .........

Question 2. Mistake correction

There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Find them and correct them
 Many different kinds of insurance are available to deaf people today but weren‘t in past. It
was the year 1898 that an insurance company for deaf people was born. A small group of young
deaf man had a meeting in this year. They were all worried. At that time, only deaf people were
not allowed to buy insurance. The group worked hard during the three years making research.
They were ready for action at the second meeting. That meeting was historic because the men
found the Fraternal Society of the Deaf. The first few years on the Fraternal Society of the Deaf
were difficult. There was no money for an office, so they worked in their home. Since the
company was very young, there was no money to pay for deadly benefits. If a member passed
away, each of the other members gave one dollar to help pay for burial costs. As time passed by,
the company grew. As it grew, the benefits improved. Health insurance has added. In 1905, the
first office opened in Chicago, Illinois. In 1907, the name of the company changed. The new
name, still is used today, was the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf, NFSD.

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4 ....................... 5 ....................... 6 ....................

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10 .....................
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Question 3. Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition

1. He got ............... his examination fairly well although his health had broken down a few days
before it started

2. I couldn‘t understand a thing they were talking about. I was ............... sea.

3. I hate people who give ............... the end of film that you haven‘t seen .

4. When you look .............. the matter in the library, did you find any question?

5. Someone who robs an old lady of all her savings is ............. contempt and deserves to be
punished.

6. He was poor, but he rent a mansion and set himself .............. as a millionaire.

7. I must find the time and energy to get ............. to doing that job.

8. The dog ran away from me and disappeared ............. the hill .

9.As nobody seems to know what to do next, may I put .............. a proposal?
10. ............ all likelihood, we will never know the real reason.

Your answers

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.......... .......... ......... ........... ........... ........... ........

section III: reading comprehension

Question 1. Read the passage and choose the best option to each question

Since the dawn of time, people have found ways to communicate with one another.
Smoke signals and tribal drums were some of the earliest forms of communication. Letters,
carried by birds or by humans on foot or on horseback, made it possible for people to
communicate larger amounts of information between two places. The telegraph and telephone set
the stage for more modern means of communication. With the invention of the cellular phone,
communication itself has become mobile.

For you, a cell phone is probably just a device that you or your friends use to keep in
touch with family and friends, take pictures, play games, or send text messages. The definition of
a cell phone is more specific: it is a hand-held wireless communication device that sends and
receives signals by way of small special areas called cells.

Walkie-talkies, telephones, and cell phones are duplex communication devices: they
make it possible for two people to talk to each other. Cell phones and walkie-talkies are different
from regular phones, because they can be used in many different locations. A walkie-talkie is
sometimes called a half-duplex communication device, because only one person can talk at a
time. A cell phone is a full-duplex device because it uses both frequencies at the same time. A
walkie-talkie has only one channel. A cell phone has more than a thousand channels. A walkie-
talkie can transmit and receive signals across a distance of about a mile. A cell phone can
transmit and receive signals over hundreds of miles. In 1973, an electronic company called
Motorola hired Martin Cooper to work on wireless communication. Motorola and Bell
Laboratories (now AT&T) were in a race to invent the first portable communication device.
Martin Cooper won the race and became the inventor of the cell phone. On April 3, 1973,
Cooper made the first cell phone call to his opponent at AT&T while walking down the streets of
New York City. People on the sidewalks gazed at Cooper in amazement as he walked down the
street talking on his cellular phone. Cooper‘s phone was called Motorola Dyna-Tac. It weighed a
whooping 2 ½ pounds (as compared to today‘s cell phones that weigh as little as 3 or 4 ounces).
 After the invention of his cell phone, Cooper began thinking of ways to make the cell
phone available to the general public. After ten years, Motorola introduced the first cell phones
for commercial use. The early cell phone and its service were both very expensive. The cell
phone itself cost about $3,500. In 1977, AT&T constructed a cell phone system and tried it out
in Chicago with over 2,000 customers. In 1981, a second cellular phone system was started in the
Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. It took nearly 37 years for cell phones to become
available for general public use. Today there are more than sixty million cell phone customers
with cell phones producing over thirty billion dollars per year.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. the difference between cell phones and B. how Cooper competed with AT&T
telephones

C. the history of a cell phone D. the increasing number of people using cell phones

2. What definition is true of a cell phone?

A. Something we use just for playing games. B. A version of walkie-talkie

C. The first product of two famous D. A hand-held wireless communication device

corporations

3. What is wrong about a walkie-talkie?

A. Only one person can talk at a time. B. It has one channel.

C. It was first designed in 1973. D. It can be used within a distance of a mile.

4. The word “duplex” in line 10 is closest in meaning to

A. quick B. modern C. having two parts D. having defects

5. To whom did Cooper make his first cell phone call?

A. a person on a New York Street B. his assistant at Motorola

C. a member of Bell Laboratories D. the director of his company

6. How heavy is the first cell phone compared to today‘s cell phones?

A. ten times as heavy as B. much lighter C. 2 pounds heavier D. as heavy as

7. When did Motorola introduce the first cell-phones for commercial use?

A. in the same year when AT&T constructed a cell phone system

B. in 1983

C. in the same year when he first made a cell-phone call

D. in 1981

8. When did AT&T widely start their cellular phone system?

A. 37 years after their first design B. in 1981

C. in 2001 D. in 1977

9. What does the word “gazed” in line 21mean?

A. angrily looked B. glanced

C. started conversation D. looked with admiration

10. The phrase tried it out in the last paragraph refers to?

A. tested the cell-phone system B. reported on AT&T

C. introduced the cell phone system D. made effort to sell the cell-phones

Your answers

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Question 2. You are going to read a newspaper article about sleep. Five paragraphs have been
removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A – F the one which fits each gap (1 –
5). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

Enough Sleep?

Tiredness, it is often claimed, has become the modern conditions. As the richer, busier
countries have grown, so sleeplessness and anxiety have also grown in the popular psyche.
Research in the USA has found 40 million Americans to be chronically affected, and some recent
best-selling novels in Britain have featured insomniacs as protagonists, or sleep-research
laboratories as their settings.

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 Recently, a sleep researcher fried an experiment. He offered his subjects the opposite of the
modern routine. ―I allowed them to sleep for up to 14 hours a night for a month. It took them
three weeks to reach an equilibrium of eight-and-a-quarter hours. That indicates a great rebound
of sleep – sleep that they hadn‘t been getting.

For guinea pigs, they advertise in the student newspapers. Subjects are picked up by taxi, paid
$ 5 an hour, and asked to adjust their sleeping patterns according to instructions. Dr. Louise
Reyner provides reassurance: ―Some people are quite worried, because you‘re putting electrodes
on their heads, and they think you can see what they‘re dreaming or thinking.‖

The young men all deny they are going to fall asleep. Dr. Reyner has a video recording of one
trying not to. At first the person at the wheel is very upright, wet and bleary eyes determinedly
fixed on the windscreen. Then he begins to blink briefly, every now and again; then for longer,
and more often, with a slight drop of the head. Each nod grows heavier than the last. The blinks
become a 10-second blackout. Every time, he jerks awake as if nothing has happened. But the
car, by the second or third occasion, has shot off the carriageway.

But apart from these findings, what else do we know about human sleep with any kind of
certainty? It is known that humans sleep, like other mammals, according to a daily cycle. Once
asleep, they switch between four different stages of unconsciousness, from stage one sleep, the
shallowest, to the stage four, the deepest. When dreams occur, which is usually during the
lightest sleep, the brain paralyses the body except for the hands and eyelids, thus preventing
injuries.

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 However, there is a strong degree of certainty among scientists that women sleep for half an
hour longer than men, and that older people require less sleep, though they don‘t know why.
When asked what sleep is for, some sleep researchers reply in cosmic terms: ―Sleep is a tactic to
travel through time without injury.‖

______________________________________________________________________________
_________

A. Beyond this, certainties blur into theories. It is often suggested, for example, that sleep repairs
body tissue, or restores muscles, or rests the frontal section of the brain that controls speech and
creativity. But all of this may happen more quickly during relaxed wakefulness, so no one is
really sure.

B. Part of this interest is in sleep in general: in its rhythms, its uses and in problems with
sleeping. But a central preoccupation remains. ―People need more sleep,‖ says one leading sleep
researcher. ―People cut back on sleep when they‘re busy. They get up too early to avoid rush
hour.‖

C. The sleep researchers seem interested in this theory. But the laboratory is not funded to
investigate such matters. Its sponsors what its research to lead to practical solutions such as
deciding where Take a break signs should be placed on motorways, and how different kinds of
food and drink can affect driving and sleeplessness.

D. A coffee might have helped. Two cups, Dr. Reyner says, even after no sleep at all, can make
you a safe driver for half an hour or more. She recommends a whole basket of alertness products:
tablets, energy drinks, caffeinated chewing gum. Shift workers, she is quite sure, could probably
use them.

E. In fact, the laboratory‘s interest is more physical. In a darkened room stands a motorway
simulator, the front section of a car facing a wide projection screen. The subjects are always told
to arrive at 2pm, in the body‘s natural mid-afternoon lull, after a short night‘s sleep or no sleep at
all. The projector is switched on and they are asked to drive, while answering questions. An
endless road rolls ahead, sunlight glares; and the air is warm.
F. In Europe, such propositions are perhaps most thoroughly tested in a small, unassuming
building on a university campus in the English midlands. The university sleep research
laboratory has investigated, among many subjects, the effects of fatigue on sailors, the effects of
airport noise on sleepers, and the dangers of motorway driving for flagging drivers.

Your answers

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section IV: Use of English

Question 1. Read the passage and choose the word that best fits each gap

Why did you decide to read this and will you keep reading to the end? Do you expect to
understand every single part of it and will you remember anything about it in a fortnight's time ?
Common sense (1) ......... that the answers to these questions depend on ―readability" whether the
(2) ......... matter is interesting, the argument clear and the layout attractive. But psychologists are
discovering that to (3) ......... why people read - and often don't read -technical information, they
have to examine so much the writing as the reader.

Even the most technically confident people often (4) ......... instructions for the video on home
computer in favour of hands-on experience. And people frequently (5) ......... little consumer
information, whether on nutritional labels or in the small print of contracts a Psychologists
researching reading (6) ......... to assume that both beginners and competent readers read
everything put in front of them from start to finish. There are arguments among them about the
(7) .........of eyes, memory and brain during the process. Some believe that fluent readers take (8)
......... every letter or word they see: others (9) ......... that readers rely on memory or context to
carry them from one phrase to another. But they have always assumed that the reading process is
the same: reading starts, comprehension (10) ......... then reading stops.

1.A. suggests B. transmits C. advises D. informs

2.A. content B. topic C. subject D. text

3.A. ensure B. determine C. value D. rate

4.A. miss B. omit C. pass D. ignore

5.A. get B. pay C. take D. make

6.A. tend B. undertake C. lead D. consent

7.A. concern B. role C. share D. relation

8.A. up B. over C. out D. in

9.A. insist B. direct C. urge D. press

10.A. sets B. occurs C. issues D. establishes

Your answers

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Question 2. Read the passage and fill each gap with ONE suitable word

It is not surprising that actors want to be pop stars and vice versa. (1) ..................... that is
deep in a part of our brain that most of us manage to keep under control, we all want to be pop
stars and actors.
Sadly, there‘s nothing about the (2) ..................... profession that automatically qualifies you for
the other, except, of course, for the fact that famous actors and singers are already surrounded by
people who never say no to them. (3) ..................... the whole, pop stars tend to fare better on
screen than their (4) ..................... numbers do on CD. Let‘s (5) ..................... it: not being able to
act is no big drawback in Hollywood, whereas not being able to play or sing still tends to count
(6) ..................... you in the recording studio.
Some stars do display a genuine proficiency in both disciplines, and a few even maintain
successful careers in both fields, but this just (7) ..................... a bad example for all the others.
For every success, there are two dozen failures. And most of them have no idea how terrible
they are. (8) ..................... as power tends to corrupt, so celebrity tends to destroy the ability to
gauge whether or not you‘re making a fool of (9) ..................... .
But perhaps we shouldn‘t criticize celebrities for trying to expand their horizons in this way.
(10) ..................... there is one good thing about actors trying to sing and singers trying to act, it
is that it keeps them all too busy to write books.
Your answers

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6 ........................
7 8 ......................... 9 10
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Question 3. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. N0(0) has been done
 People of the Forest

This TV (0. DOCUMENT) ................................ follows a family of chimpanzees which live

in the forest of Tanzania. Set in (1. SPECTACLE) ................................ scenery the programme
gives us a fascinating insight into the life and social (2.ACTION) ................................ of these
creatures. Apparently, we humans share 98% of our genes with chimpanzees; indeed, they are
our closest (3.RELATE) ................................ in the animal (4. KING) and scenes in the
documentary offer clear evidence of our (5. SIMILAR) ................................ . The focus of the
film is on Fifi and we first see her as a (6. PLAY) ................................ five-year-old who spends
all her time annoying her younger brother. Meanwhile, the older male chimps seem to be
involved in an endless fight for (7. SUPREME) ................................ . And it is no surprise to
learn that while all this is taking place the females are left to deal with the day-to-day (8.
ORGANISE) ................................ matters. Make sure you set aside an hour to watch this. The
(9.GEOGRAPHY) ................................ splendour of the location makes this programme
worthwhile viewing, although our (10. LIKE) ................................ to these animals will make
you think.
Your answers

0. DOCUMENT documentary

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6 ......................... 7 ....................... 8 ......................... 9 ......................... 10 ......................

section V: Writing
A. Sentence transformation
Question 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the
sentence before it
1. You must be at the airport by 2 o‘clock, no matter what you have to do.
At all .................................................................................................................... .
2. One advantage of living in the city is the range of clothes shops.
One point ............................................................................................................ .
3. For further information, please send a self-addressed envelope to the above address.
Further information can ....................................................................................... .
4. The thought of what might happen next fills me with horror.
I dread .................................................................................................................. .
5. The realization that I had mad a big mistake came later.
Only ................................................................................................................... .
Question 2. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as
possible in meaning to the original sentence. Use the word given and other words as
necessary. Do not change the form of the given word
1. It was Peter who pointed the mistake out to me.
( attention)
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2. Don‘t you remember anything about your lifetime in London as a child?

( recollection)

................................................................................................................ ?

3. ― I don‘t mind where the money goes as long as the people are the real beneficiaries.‖ ( matter)

.................................................................................................................... .

4. You should pay more attention to those road signs about speed limits.
( notice)

................................................................................................................... .

5. She herself admits to being rather selfish.

( admission)

.................................................................................................................... .

B. Essay writing

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? High schools should allow students to
study the courses that students want to study. Use specific reasons and examples to support
your opinion.
Write at least 250 words
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