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on 4 th Item: The word Furthermore in the following passage is closest in meaning to: The avuncular King Abdullah is popular amongst his subjects.. inasmuch as 5 th Item: Choose the word

1 st QUESTION MULTIPLE CHOICE – 20 SCORES – MARK: 6,00

1 st Item: Choose the alternative in which all the words have the same sound /z/.

A ( ) isolate – resurrect – this – azure

B ( ) parasite – decisive – these – erase

C ( )anxiety – dissolve – jersey – xylophone

D ( )fantasy – serious – case – chaos

E ( ) leprosy – circus – oasis – disappear

2 nd Item: The number of syllables of the words below is, respectively:

fascism - faked - naked – basically – temperature

A ( ) 3 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 3

B ( ) 2 – 2 – 2 – 4 – 5

C ( ) 3 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 4

D ( ) 2 – 2 – 2 – 3 – 5

E ( ) 3 – 1 – 1 – 3 – 5

3 rd Item: Choose the alternative that best fits the following statement:

They were the first people I saw arriving in Brazil

A ( ) by

B ( ) with

C ( ) at

D ( ) into

E ( ) on

4 th Item: The word Furthermore in the following passage is closest in meaning to:

The avuncular King Abdullah is popular amongst his subjects His family, the Al Saud, are numerous and deeply rooted (they’ve been ruling since at least the 1740s) and are not the product of European colonialism or some

military coup Furthermore, given the size of oil revenues, they have enormous economic means at their

disposal to co-opt the population and to put in place economic development policies that can provide jobs for a young and restless population

A ( ) In that

B ( ) moreover

C ( ) although

D ( ) because

E ( ) inasmuch as

5 th Item: Choose the word that best fits the following passage:

6 th Item: In one of the sentences below there is a cataphoric ellypsis:

A ( ) I have eaten more than you

B ( ) Mary's car is cleaner than John's

C ( ) He's leaving now but I'm not

D ( ) I know we haven't finished yet, but we will

E ( ) If you want me to, I'll talk to him

7 th Item: Choose the correct sentence:

A ( ) Someone has been knocking at the door, hasn't it?

B ( ) They are not worthy of receive the prize

C ( ) I'm looking forward to see the show next week

D ( ) He is now the president elect

E ( ) Some people believe that violence stems of poverty

8 th Item: One of the characteristics of the Audiolingual Method is:

A ( ) The teacher does not make a point of correcting errors

B ( ) There isn't much use of tapes, language labs, and visual aids

C ( ) Successful responses are not reinforced

D ( ) Very little use of the mother tongue by teachers is permitted

E ( ) Learning is facilitated by problem solving involving the material to be learned

Read the texts and decide which answer (A,B,C,D or E) best fits each space.

TEXT 1

When Gerard Mercator was born in 1512, the geography of the globe still remained a mystery It was unclear whether America was part of Asia, if there was a vast expanse of sea at the top of the world or if Australia was connected to Antarctica

Mercator's childhood was spent chiefly in Rupelmonde, a Flemish trading town on the river, and it was here that

his geographical imagination was (9 th item) _ by the ships which passed to and from the rest of

the world Alongside imagination, he developed two very different skills The first was the ability to gather,

assimilate and co-ordinate the geographical information (10 th item) _ by explorers and sailors

who frequented the margins of the known He also had to be able to imagine himself

(11 th item) _ from the heavens, to achieve the visionary perspective of gods in the skies, gazing down on the world The main reason why Mercator's name is familiar to us is because of the Mercator Projection: the solution he devised to represent the spheroidal surface of the globe on a two-dimensional

plane

9 th item A ( ) raised B ( ) reared C ( ) supplied D ( ) fitted E ( ) nourished

10 th item A ( ) granted B ( ) conferred C ( ) contributed D ( ) provided E ( ) bestowed

11 th item A ( ) suspended B ( ) located C ( ) situated D ( ) attached E ( ) fixed

TEXT 2

When Hubert Cecil Booth visited the Empire Music Hall in London one afternoon in 1901, he wasn't planning on saving the world A fairground ride engineer, he went to a demonstration of a railway carriage cleaning machine

It was a bag that blew air into the carpet, raising the dust, which it hoped to catch in a box Booth went

backstage and suggested to the inventor that the machine should (12 th item) _, not blow The

inventor, he later called, remarked that this was impossible and then walked away

(13 th item) _ the problem over in a restaurant, Booth laid his handkerchief on a plush chair, put his lips against it, breathed in – and (14 th item) _ on the dust Then he went home and invented the

vacuum cleaner Not our push-along variety, it was a roaring, red, horse-drawn machine Booth sold several to

royalty – a neat PR move – but preferred to hire them out for £ 13, the annual wages of a dirty-work servant

Guests at “vacuum tea parties” watched the liveried male attendants feed hoses in through the windows and whisk away the dirt

13 th item A ( ) Mulling B ( ) Reflecting C ( ) Contemplating D ( ) Dwelling E ( ) Wondering

14 th item A ( ) strangled B ( ) blocked C ( ) choked D ( ) clogged E ( ) hampered

TEXT 3

Once upon a time, it was only metal that could be stressed out Now, it seems that most workers are feeling the

(15 th item) _ Stress is described, with a certain paradoxical exuberance, by some as a “modern

plague”; by others as weak-minded nonsense fuelled by a community of therapists and counselors , eager to

(16 th item) _ troubled minds Stress is in (17 th item) _ of becoming one of those

words – along with empowerment and creativity – that is made worthless through distortion and overuse It is certainly the case that each survey on stress seems to outdo the last – but the findings may not indicate a real rise in stress levels The trouble with statistics like these is that they influence each other

16 th item A ( ) soften B ( ) appease C ( ) soothe D ( ) compose E ( ) stifle

TEXT 4

Dr Yealland came out of his room, flanked by two junior doctors, shook hands briskly with the physician he had

agreed to show around the hospital and said that he thought the best general (18 th item) _ was perhaps simply a ward round The party (19 th item) _ of Yealland, the two junior doctors who

were being put through their paces, a ward sister, who made no contribution and was invited to make none, and

a couple of orderlies who hovered in the background in case they were required to lift Yealland was an

impressive figure In conversation he did not merely meet your eye, but stared so (20 th item) _

that you felt your skull had become transparent His speech was extremely precise Something in this steady, unrelenting projection of authority made Rivers want to laugh, but he didn't think he'd have wanted to laugh if he'd been a junior doctor or a patient

18 th item A ( ) acquaintance B ( ) presentation C ( ) establishment D ( ) introduction E ( ) debut

19 th item A ( ) comprised B ( ) consisted C ( ) composed D ( ) contained E ( ) constituted

20 th item A ( ) thoughtfully B ( ) dully C ( ) diligently D ( ) emotionally E ( ) intently

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS – 40 SCORES – MARK: 4,0

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given in parentheses Do not change the word given You must use

between three and eight words, including the word given.

1 st item:The news of the merger came as a complete surprise to the workers.

(aback)

The workers _were (completely) taken aback by _the news of the merger

2 nd item: I seem to have been in this queue for hours.

(joined)

It seems like _(many) hours have passed since I joined the queue

3 rd item: What explanation can we offer for this sudden drop in temperature?

(account)

How can we account for the fact that the _temperature has suddenly dropped?

4 th item: In particular, the school library was criticised by the inspectors because of its poor lighting.

(singled)

The inspectors _singled out the school library for criticism because of its poor lighting

5 th item: You are absolutely forbidden to smoke anywhere in the factory.

(total)

There _is a total ban on smoking anywhere in the factory

6 th item: Henry meant well so you mustn't be offended by his comments.

(amiss)

Please _don't take Paul's comments amiss _ because he meant well

7 th item: Someone rang the police with information about an impending robbery.

(tipped)

The _police were tipped off about an impending robbery

8 th item: Their marriage failed probably because of their incompatibility.

(down)

The failure of their marriage was probably down to their incompatibility

9 th item: Success will come if you adopt a more serious approach to our work.

(seriously)

You need to _work more seriously if _ you want to succeed

10 th item: Brian was about to blurt out my secret when I attracted his attention.

(eye)

Had I _not caught Brian's eye he would have _blurted out my secret

For items 11 – 15, write one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

11 th item: His uncle's resignation cleared the way for Tom to take over the business

Susan _cleared a shelf to make room for the books she had recently bought

As a result of new evidence produced in court today, Smith was cleared _ of all blame

12 th item: Peter has _claimed an enormous amount in travelling expenses following his trip to

the USA

My boss has claimed _ to be a direct descendant of the famous explorer

The bank's collapse claimed many victims in the cities financial institutions

13 th item: When she goes out too much, Anne starts to fall behind with her homework

The magazines on the market tend to fall _ into three main groups

Following the opening of a rival night club, Cinderella's has begun to _fall _ out of favor with the city's young people

14 th item: Eve set out , armed with a stout stick, to _beat _a path through clumps of bushes and

enormous ferns

The midday sun _beat _ down mercilessly on the withered crops in the dried-up fields

Just beat _ the egg white until it's frothy, and fold it into the mixture

Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the words in capitals:

The image that we have of science has undergone radical change in the last hundred

with a number of very real (17 th item) _anxieties about the

environment and all the moral and political ramifications of economic growth have

(18 th item) unquestionably _ put science at the centre of public debate

ANXIOUS QUESTION

The twentieth century began with a challenge to the (19 th item) _assumption

that human knowledge was approaching completion It will come, perhaps, as something

of a surprise to all of us to realise that the emergence of this highly

(20 th item) destructive process came both from within and outside

science

ASSUME DESTROY

New scientific theories (21 st item) overwhelmingly reveal the

limitations of the old perspective We had thought that the world, understood through the

medium of rational (22 nd item) beings , was, indeed, the real

world Now we know that this was no more than a simplification that just happened to

work Once we realise this, though, we can move in a number of opposing directions We

can re-evaluate all knowledge (23 rd item) pessimistically _ and decide

that it is eternally fragmentary and full of a vast number of

(24 th item) _imperfections , or we can be more positive and view these

vast explosions of scientific awareness as new challenges still to come and as

celebrations of the (25 th item) _heights that the human

imagination has so far scaled

OVERWHELM BE

PESSIMISM PERFECTION HIGH

Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the words in capitals:

For a period of its history, the city of Coventry had a considerable reputation as the main

centre of clock and watchmaking in Britain, and Coventry timepieces made then were

(26 th item) synonymous with both quality and

(27 th item) _reliability _ Few people in the city today will have heard

of Samuel Watson, but he almost (28 th item) single-handedly _ paved the

way for Coventry's involvement in the clock and watch business He was at the

(29 th item) forefront _ of the watchmaking revolution in the

1680s, and although it is not known how Watson became involved in the trade, he was

a trailblazer for others

SYNONYM RELY HAND FRONT

Watson made his name in 1682 when he sold a clock to king Charles II and was invited

to be the King's (30 th item) mathematician _ The following year he

began work on an astronomical clock for the king, complete with planets and signs of

the zodiac, which took seven years to build It not only told the time of day but also the

(31 st item) positional changes of the planets Queen Mary

acquired it in 1691 and it is still in the (32 nd item) _ownership of

the Royal Family

MATHEMATICS

POSITION OWN

He built several other clocks, and by 1690 the clamour for Watson's clocks was such

that he left Coventry and took up (33 rd item) residence _ in London RESIDE

He became Master of the London Clockmakers' Company in 1692, which is testament

In 1712, Samuel Watson's name disappears from the records of the London

Clockmakers' Company, and the (35 th item) likelihood is that he

Using the verbs and particles given in the boxes, make up phrasal verbs which complete the sentences:

Item 36 th : If you _stumble on _something, you discover it unexpectedly

Item 37 th : If you divest yourself _of a belief or attitude, you realize that you were wrong

Item 38 th : If you rise _ above _ a difficulty or a problem, you manage to deal with it without

letting it affect you

Item 39 th : If you put _by a sum of money or a supply of something, you save it so

that you can use it later

Item 40 th : When you drift _ off , you gradually fall asleep

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