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I. Choose the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each
of the following questions from 1 to 2. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding
numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
1. A. pneumonia B. pseudonym C. preciosity D. psychology
2. A. wisdom B. slight C. tighten D. night
II. Choose the correct answer to complete each of the following questions from 3 to 17. Write
(A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
3. Look! There's no point in trying to overturn the decision. It's all……………………
A. cut and dried B. head and shoulder
C. tooth and nail D. chop and change
4. Buy me a newspaper on your way back, ………………………..?
A. don't you B. have you C. do you D. will you
5. Mary gave me a………………… box on my last birthday.
A. jewelry metal small square B. metal small jewelry square
C. small square metal jewelry D. square small jewelry metal
6. I was disappointed when I saw the film. It was a real……………….
A. lay-by B. setback C. let-down D. knockout
7. In the early 20th century, physicians discovered that blood transfusions often failed because the
blood type of the recipient was not compatible………….. the donor.
A. to that of B. with that of C. to those of D. with those of
8. She could sleep well …………………. the loud music the neighbour played last night.
A. although B. despite C. regardless D. but
9. Our prices are ……………… of all flights and accommodation, and represent excellent value.
A. self-catering B. economical C. inclusive D. packed
10. If the level of VAT is ………………. this year, small businesses will be affected.
A. raised B. arisen C. risen D. raising
11. They managed to …………………… doing the work by pretending to be busy.
A. get out of B. get away with C. make up to D. make off with
12. It was extremely extravagant of us to stay in a luxurious hotel, but we wanted to
……………….. ourselves
A. pride B. pledge C. justify D. treat
13. By appearing on the soap powder commercials, she became a………………name.
A. housewife B. housekeeper C. house D. household
14. I wish I hadn't…………………. him for his brother.
A. thought B. considered C. confused D. mistaken
15. Make sure that the memo is sent to…………………
A. all the involved people B. all who are involved people
C. all the people involved D. all of people involved
16. The guest tasted the dessert……………..
A. appreciatively B. appreciative C. appreciated D. appreciation
17. It's true that older people are a bit……………….. when it comes to things like technology, but on
the whole I think they're probably more open-minded than they used to be.
A. out of work B. out of touch
C. out of control D. out of order

Choose the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each
of the following questions from 18 to 20. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the
corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
18. A. administer B. catastrophe C. intimacy D. laboratory
19. A. accurate B. persevere C. sumptuous D. applicant
20. A. cuisine B. parade C. hotel D. engine

Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following
questions from 21 to 22. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered
boxes on the answer sheet.
21. Did she get the better of you in the argument as to whether milk is good for our health?
A. gain an advantage over C. try to beat
B. gain a disadvantage over D. try to be better than
22. Once I realized I was not cut out for the job, I decided to hand in my notice.
A. was laid off by the company
B. did not have the necessary qualities and abilities
C. did not take the necessary action to resolve
D. lacked relevant working experience

Read the text and decide which answer best fits each gap of the following questions from 23 to
32. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer
sheet.
Why people laugh
Sunday May 4th will be World Laughter Day. Dr Madan Kataria, who introduced this annual event,
says we need more laughter in our lives to (0) …………..the global rise of stress and loneliness. But
surely that strange sound that we make periodically can't be the (23)………….to such problems.
If an alien (24) ……………..to land on our planet and take a stroll among a crowd of earthlings, it
would hear a lot of 'ha-ha' noises. It might wonder what purpose this strange habit (25)
………………...If we ask ourselves what (26)………………a good laugh, the obvious answer is that it is a
response to something funny. But one scientist, Robert Provine, says humour has surprisingly (27)
……………..to do with that. Instead, it lies at the (28)………………of such issues as the perception of self
and the evolution of language and social behaviour. Provine realised that you cannot capture (29)
…………… laughter in the lab because as soon as you place it under scrutiny, it vanishes. So, instead,
he gathered (30) ………….. by hanging around groups of people, noting when they laughed.
He collected 1,200 laugh episodes - an episode being defined as the comment immediately (31)
……………. the laughter and the laughter itself. His analysis of this data revealed some important
facts about laughter. "It's a message we send to other people - it virtually disappears when we're by
ourselves," he says. "And it's not a choice. Ask someone to laugh and they'll either try to fake a laugh
or say they can't do it on (32)………………..”

0. A. struggle B. combat C. threaten D. contest

23. A. answer B. means C. response D. question
24. A. should B. were C. had D. are
25. A. served B. asked C. caused D. made
26. A. results B. concludes C. leads D. prompts
27. A. few B. much C. little D. many
28. A. head B. root C. back D. stem
29. A. authentic B. current C. artificial D. contemporary
30. A. noise B. data C. fun D. news
31. A. defining B. following C. paralleling D. preceding
32. A. intention B. support C. command D. accident

Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following
questions from 33 to 34. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the corresponding numbered
boxes on the answer sheet.

33. A celebrated psychologist who expanded our knowledge of how children think and develop
was a Swiss named Jean Piaget.
A. obscure B. renowned C. prominent D. conservative
34. Downpours had drenched Hanoi all day, but that did not dampen the enthusiasm of red-clad
spectators.
A. irrigate B. flood C. replenish D. kindle

Read an article about the effects of digital media on people's minds and choose the best
answer to the following questions from 35 to 40. Write your answers (A, B, C, or D) in the
corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
Is the Internet making us stupid?
In an article in Science, Patricia Greenfield, a developmental psychologist who runs UCLA's
Children's Digital Media Centre, reviewed dozens of studies on how different media technologies
influence our cognitive abilities. Some of the studies indicated that certain computer tasks, like
playing video games, increase the speed at which people can shift their focus among icons and
other images on screens. Other studies, however, found that such rapid shifts in focus, even if
performed adeptly, result in less rigorous and 'more automatic' thinking.
In one experiment at an American university, half a class of students was allowed to use internet-
connected laptops during a lecture, while the other half had to keep their computers shut. Those
who browsed the web performed much worse on a subsequent test of how well they retained the
lecture's content. Earlier experiments revealed that as the number of links in an online document
goes up, reading comprehension falls, and as more types of information are placed on a screen, we
remember less of what we see.
Greenfield concluded that 'every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others'.
Our growing b use of screen-based media, she said, has strengthened visual-spatial intelligence,
which can strengthen the ability to do jobs that involve keeping track of lots of rapidly changing
signals, like piloting a plane or monitoring awęd patient during surgery. However, that has been
accompanied by 'new weakness in higher-order cognitive processes', including 'abstract
vocabulary, mindfulness, reflection, inductive problem-solving, critical thinking and imagination'.
We're becoming, in a word, shallower.
Studies of our behavior online support this conclusion. German researchers found that web
browsers usually spend less than ten seconds looking at a page. Even people doing academic
research online tend to 'bounce' rapidly between documents, rarely reading more than a page or
two, according to a University College London study. Such mental juggling takes a big toll. In a
recent experiment at Stanford University, researchers gave various cognitive tests to 49 people
who do a lot of media multitasking and 52 people who multitask much less frequently. The heavy
multitaskers performed poorly on all tests. They were more easily distracted, had less control over
their attention, and were much less able to distinguish important information from trivia. The
researchers were surprised by the results. They expected the intensive multitaskers to have gained
some mental advantages. That wasn't the case, though. In fact, the multitaskers weren't even good
at multitasking. 'Everything distracts them', said Clifford Nass, one of the researchers.
It would be one thing if the ill effects went away as soon as we turned off our computers and
mobiles, but they don't. The cellular structure of the human brain, scientists have discovered,
adapts readily to the tools we use to find, store and share information. By changing our habits of
mind, each new technology strengthens certain neural pathways and weakens others. The
alterations shape the way we think even when we're not using the technology. The pioneering
neuroscientist Michael Merzenich believes our brains are being 'massively remodelled' by our ever-
intensifying use of the web and related media. Not long ago he said that he was profoundly worried
about the cognitive consequences of the constant distractions and interruptions the internet
bombards us with. The long- term effect on the quality of our intellectual lives, he said, could be
'deadly'.
Not all distractions are bad. As most know, if we concentrate too intensively on a tough problem,
we can get stuck in a mental rut. However, if we let the problem sit unattended for a time, we often
return to it with a fresh perspective and a burst of creativity. Research by Dutch psychologist Ap
Dijksterhuis indicates that such breaks in our attention give our unconscious mind time to grapple
with a problem, bringing to bear information and cognitive processes unavailable to conscious
deliberation. We usually make better decisions, his experiments reveal, if we shift our attention
away from a mental challenge for a time.
But Dijksterhuis's work also shows that our unconscious thought processes don't engage with a
problem until we've clearly and consciously defined what the problem is. If we don't have a
particular goal in mind, he writes, 'unconscious thought does not occur'. The constant
distractedness that the Net encourages is very different from the kind of temporary, purposeful
diversion of our mind that reflects our thinking. What we seem to be sacrificing in our surfing and
searching is our capacity to engage in the quieter, attentive modes of thought that underpin
contemplation, reflection and introspection.

35. What do we learn about Patricia Greenfield's research in the first paragraph?
A. It did not produce consistent patterns in connection with computer use.
B. It focused on problems resulting from use of media technologies.
C. It involved collating the results of work done by other people.
D. It highlighted differences between people when using computers.
36. Two of the experiments mentioned in the second paragraph concerned ……………….
A. the amount of attention people pay to what they see on computers.
B. the connection between computer use and memory.
C. changes that happen if people's computer use increases.
D. the use and non-use of computers for studying.
37. One of Greenfield's conclusions was that ………………….
A. too much emphasis has been placed on the benefits of computer use.
B. people do not care about the effects of computer use on their minds.
C. computer use has reduced a large number of mental abilities.
D. certain claims about the advantages of computer use are false.
38. One of the pieces of research mentioned in the fourth paragraph indicated that………..
A. people read online material less carefully than other material.
B. beliefs about the effectiveness of multitasking are false.
C. some people are better at multitasking than others.
D. 'mental juggling' increases the mental abilities of only a few people.
39. What is the writer's purpose in the fifth paragraph?
A. to present opposing views on the consequences of use of new media technology
B. to advise on how to avoid the bad effects of new media technology
C. to summarise the findings of the previously-mentioned research
D. to warn about the damage done by use of new media technology
40. The writer mentions Ap Dijksterhuis's research in order to make the point that …………
A. problem-solving can involve very complex mental processes.
B. not all research supports beliefs about the dangers of computer use.
C. the mind functions in ways that computers cannot.
D. uninterrupted concentration on something is not always a good thing.

Read the article about teenagers. Five paragraphs have been removed. Choose from the
paragraphs (A-F) the ones which best fit each gap of the following questions from 41 to 45.
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.

Rebels with a Cause

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square
holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree
with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is to ignore them. And while
some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people, who are crazy enough to
think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
41. _____________
Typically, there is not a lot of praise to be heard for teenagers. But teenage rebellion and risk-taking
is a natural result of the development of the brain, and a necessary step to reach adulthood. Our
teenage years are like no other period in our lives, and we should view this stage as a unique
opportunity rather than only a time of drama and danger.
42.______________
For example, one of the best things about being a teen is having an amazing ability to learn, and this
is a positive side effect of being willing to take risks. Teens are less afraid of failure, and one of the
biggest limitations people face in life is the tendency not to try something new because they might
fail. Teens, however, are wide open to trying new things.
43. ______________
This sensitivity can make teens highly motivated at tasks that interest them. And while the task that
interests them might be playing video games, it could also be playing the guitar, writing poetry, or
even learning about physics. It is the age when obsessive practice is the easiest it will ever be, and
that practice is one aspect of genius.
44. ______________
Adults might view this as naivety, after all, making changes happen in society is extremely difficult,
could be a waste of time, and would probably upset people. However, we can be sure that if no one
bothers to try, change is impossible. And while change might be scary, and risky, it is not always
bad. In fact, sometimes it is essential.
45. ______________
So perhaps it is time to start celebrating teenage rebellion rather than dreading it. Of course,
parents and teachers need to set safe limits, but they should also feel proud of teens' newfound
opinions, positive risk- taking and creativity. After all, they will need those skills in the future in
order to build a better world.
A. In addition, teens' brains are very sensitive to reward, and this also helps them learn. Succeeding
at a task gives teens a powerful incentive for repeating, and remembering, rewarding behaviours.
B. Essentially, what we can learn from this isn't that teens necessarily have better memories than
adults, but rather the way in which they remember is different. They are able to connect different
things and build a richer understanding of the world.
C. And, although not essential, even teenage rebellion against family authority has a good side.
Researchers have found that teens who argued with their parents were more likely to resist peer
pressure to drink. It turns out that the family home is a safe place for teens to practise standing up
for what they believe in.
D. This quote could easily be used to describe teens that rebel against authority, are emotional and
make impulsive decisions. But, like the crazy ones, they are also creative, committed to doing things
their own way, and are often agents of social change.
E. It's true that it's a dangerous age. For example, teen drivers are three times more likely than
adults to be involved in a fatal accident. And while this issue is real, let's not overlook the fact that
not all risk- taking is negative.
F. Another positive aspect of teenage risk-taking is their belief that they can change society. They
are more likely than adults to speak out for what they think is right or find innovative solutions to
problems.

Read the following passage and answer the following questions from 46 to 55. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
YOUTH WORKS
As the pace of today's working life blurs the line between personal time and work time, so it
increasingly mixes personal lifestyle and work style. And as companies concentrate on attracting
and keeping a younger workforce for its technical skills and enthusiasm for change, office culture is
becoming an extension of youth culture. This may be no bad thing. Along with the company games
room come things that matter deeply to young people: opportunity, responsibility, respect. For
most of human history the middle-aged have ruled. With years came wisdom, experience,
connections and influence. Rarely did they change jobs, years of loyal service counted most.
However, in the future, older workers will not disappear, or even reduce in numbers, but they will
have to share power with fresh-faced youths.
There have been a number of reasons for this change; the most dramatic of these is
technology. Children have always been more expert than their parents at something, but usually a
game or a fashion, not the century's most important business tool. The Internet has triggered the
first industrial revolution in history to be led by the young. This is the age group that created
Netscape, the first commercial web browser; Napster, the music-sharing technology that shocked
the music industry; Yahoo! and many of the other web giants. Though there have been youth
revolutions before, none of them made the leap from teen bedroom to boardroom the way the
Internet has. Throughout the twentieth century, had a young person wanted to enter corporate
America they needed to leave their youth behind. They got a haircut, and probably a suit or at least
a tie. Now the same hair, same clothes, even nearly the same hours apply to office and home.
Had it not been for the Internet, this change could not have happened. However, it did not
happen. because of the Internet only, the corporate restructuring of the 1980s and 90s broke down
traditional hierarchies. In many companies, rigid seniority-based hierarchies have given way to
hierarchies based on merit. No longer are the abilities to navigate internal bureaucracies and please
your superiors the most valued skills. Today's employees are free agents who stay with companies
only as long as they feel challenged and rewarded; moving from job to job is now a sign of ambition
and initiative. Today's young people are valued as workers for different reasons than their
predecessors: they welcome change; they think differently; they are independent; they are
entrepreneurial; they want opportunity more than money and security and finally, they demand
respect.
This revolution is not just about the young. Youth itself is being redefined. Increasingly, 35-
year-olds listen to the same music as 20-year-olds, dress like them and even look almost like them.
Never before has there been a time when there was so little difference between age groups.
Imagine a society converging on an age somewhere between 20 and 30, and you have a fair picture
of New York or San Francisco now, with other American cities not far behind.
 The rise of the young is a good thing, not least because it gives people at their most creative
stage in life more opportunity to put their ideas and energy into practice. But will there be a
takeover by the young? A good place to look for an answer is Microsoft. Microsoft's most important
employees are not its managers, but individual programmers. They have great independence in
choosing how to do their job. By and large, the managers' task is not to tell the programmers what
to do, but to clear obstacles from the path they choose. Microsoft workers are valued most for their
ability to think for themselves, they are trusted to find their own solutions to business problems.
Managers hold back, knowing that the more specific their order, the more it is likely to undermine
their employees' ability to find creative solutions. So they concentrate on the diplomatic tasks that
most of the independent young programmers are not much good at: co-ordinating with other
teams, resolving conflicts, motivating people and ensuring that everybody is happy. Microsoft starts
to look like a model for the workplace of the future: programmers tend to be in their twenties and
early thirties, whereas the managers are about a decade older. Many of the managers are former
programmers who reached a point where they no longer wanted to sleep under their desk. The
effect of all this is that youth and youth qualities apparently dominate, but the experience and
maturity of older employees is put to good use too.
Decide whether the statements reflect the claims of the writer.
Write YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer.
NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer.
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this.
46. The number of older workers in companies will decline.
47. The Internet is the most important development since the industrial revolution.
48. In many companies, the ability to make the superiors pleased is not one of the most valued skills
any longer.
49. Microsoft's most important employees are individual programmers.
Complete the summary below. Use NO MORE THAN THREE words or a number.
In today's workplace (50) …………..and work are becoming mixed and older workers are losing
power in their companies. The most important reason for this is (51)………….. which has allowed
fresh-faced youths to enter the workplace and make changes. A second reason was the changes
made to company (52) ……………..in the 80s and 90s which emphasized (53)………………… over
seniority. The final reason is that values have changed. Today's workers want opportunity more
than (54)……………Another effect is that older people are behaving like younger people with
society's average age between 20 and 30 in some US cities. At Microsoft the manager's role is not to
give workers orders but to (55)………….from their way and help them discover solutions to business
problems.

Read the text below and use ONE word which best fits each gap of the following questions from
56 to 65. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
Britain has gone mad for bananas. Over the past 12 months Britons have consumed an
unprecedented 3.5 billion pieces of the tropical fruit, forcing the (56)………….. apple into second
place. The nation's banana boom is one of the most remarkable nutritional trends of recent years, a
guide not only to the growing (57)………….. consciousness of the British people but also to the
country's economic health. (58)…………… is amazing is that bananas were virtually unheard of
during the 19th century and even up until the end of the 1920s (59)………….. anyone in Britain had
tasted or (60) …………..seen them. Early attempts to introduce them to northern countries had met
with failure because by the time they had been shipped to Britain, they had rotted (61)……………
recognition. However, thanks to the development of refrigerated shipping, all this changed.
Refrigerated shipping meant that then, as now, bunches of imported bananas could arrive in good
condition at (62)………………houses in dockyards where they were stored. The first commercial
refrigerated shipment arrived 100 years ago, triggering an enthusiasm from (63)……………. Britons
have never looked back...
"The banana has everything going for it", says Jeanette Scott of the Banana Group marketing
organization.o "It's easy to open, it is packed (64)……………… energy and vitamins and is low in
calories. It is also a first-class cure for upset stomachs and it stabilises blood (65)……………., so its
popularity should not be seen as that surprising."

Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap of the
following questions from 66 to 75. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
on the answer sheet.
The American painter George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) was the only son of an elderly
couple who (66. EXAMPLE) ……………. the Midwestern values of honest business practice and strict
morality. From earliest childhood he seemed determined to become an artist. Before graduating
from Ohio State University, and in the face of stiff parental (67. OPPOSE)…………….. he moved to
New York to study art. There he was strongly influenced by "The Eight", or American Ashcan
School. For the (68. REMAIN) ……………..of his life, his work was characterized by realist subject
matter, (69. LIE) ………….which was a traditional approach to composition. Heb was also fascinated
by the various systems of colour (70. RELATE) …………that painters were using at the time,ma and
studied them in detail. The truly outstanding work that he produced in these early days (71.
SHADOW) ……………and contributed to much of his later painting.
Despite his identification with common, even low-life themes, he was elected an associate of the
(72. PRESTIGE) ……………..National Academy at the exceptionally early age of 27. One of the
reasons the Academy honoured Bellows, while (73. HOLD) ………….. approval from many of the
other members of "The Eight", was the fact that there were unmistakable references to the old
masters in Bellows' work. He was one of the few artists who (74. INSTINCT)……………. combined a
modern verve and energy with an appreciation of (75. ART)…………….tradition, and his almost
universal appeal was therefore not surprising.

Finish each of the following sentences from 76 to 80 in such a way that it means exactly the
same as the sentence printed before it. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes on the answer sheet.

76. It was such a difficult task that expert assistance was required.
→ So______________________________________________________________________
77. He is unlikely to be promoted.
→ There ______________________________________________________________________
78. Susan tries hard, but she doesn't get anywhere.
→ However ______________________________________________________________________
79. They believe that the manager absconded with the company's pension fund money.
→ The manager ______________________________________________________________________
80. "Please, please don't tell anyone you've seen me!" the boy said to me.
→The boy begged ______________________________________________________________________
Complete the second sentences from 81 to 85 so that it has a similar meaning to the first one,
using the given. Do not change the word given. You must use between THREE and SIX words,
including the word given. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the
answer sheet.
81. She is certainly not a good cook. (MEAN)
→ She ______________________________________________________________________ good cook.
82. I could tell by the tone of his voice how serious the situation was. (HOME)
→The tone of his voice________________________________________how serious the situation was.
83. No one stands a chance of beating him in this year's championship. (FOREGONE )
→ It's _______________________________________________that he will win this year's championship.
84. We ask travellers not to use their mobile phones when they pass through security.
(REFRAIN)
→ Travellers _______________________their mobile phones when they pass through security.
85. The festival was so well organized that everything went smoothly. . (CLOCKWORK)
-> Everything at the festival__________________________ thanks to the excellent organization.
Recently young people are said to be "Welcome Generation" as they are willing to face any
difficulties. Write an essay of about 250 words about how people of your age in your country
deal with challenges in their life.
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