Read the following mtlgaDne artic/e about a book and choose one best answer A, B, Cor D for each question.. Where the book came from is a mystery, and I have never met anyone who has hea
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I PHONETICS
a Choose one word whose stress pattern is dijJerent Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C.or D.
b Choose one word whose underlined part is pronounced dijJerently from the rest Identify your answer by circling the corresponding letter A, B, C.or D.
1 Circle the best answer A, B, Cor D and write it up to complete the sentence.
11 Henry into the restaurant when his friend was drinking coffee
12 The player is veryskilIful playing football on the left side
13 It's kind you to help me do this terrible work
14.In the future many things by computerized control
15 That house isn't big enough for us, and , it's too expensive
16 A good basic knowledge of English is essential advanced work
18 This year's sales figures go our expectations What a marvelous thing!
19 I'd rather to Elvis Presley than BeatIes' music
20 I want to sing this song to ~_all of my friends
21 He refused to take what he had said even though he knew he was wrong
22 people go to the movies now than 10 years ago
A offered! accept B offered! accepted C offer/ accept D offer/ accepted
D·primary D.leftQver
D treatment
D d~vote
D e§Pecial
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25 "Are you taking this term? "Yes, I like cooking and embroidering That's why I'm taking this course."
26 The weather was terrible we decided to delay our trip
27 The train was an hour late .,I managed to get to the meeting in time
A impersonal B disrespectful C unfriendly D inattentive
29 She feels when she speaks in front of the crowds
30 I was just walking along the street when I someone I hadn't seen for years
2 Give the co~etfonn of the wordsgiven andjill in the blanks to completethe sentences.
A new study carried out by (0)-!,esearchers_ at the University of O.RESEARCH Warwick claims to show (31) _ : :- that money can buy 31 CONCLUDE you happiness The study, which is based on the (32) 32 RESPONSE _ of 9,000 families in the 1990s, looked at the
effects of windfalls - such as a lottery win or the receipt of an (33) 33 INHERIT on people's wellbeing It found that receiving
just £ 1,000 is enough to change the average person's (34) 34 LOOK
on life, though it would take at least 1 million to
jump from being very unhappy and (35) ~ to being very 35 SATISFY happy and contented However, it seems the' happiness gained from
get used to it Professor Andrew Oswald, who led the research, also
points out that money is not the only source of (37)
', and other factors, such as a strong marriage, 37 CONTENT play an important role
3 Give the co"ect tense and form of the verbs in the brackets.
Millions of powids' worth of damage (38 cause) by a storm which (39 sweep) across the North of England last night The River Ribble (40 burst) its banks after heavy rain Half an hour later, many people (41 rescue) from the floods by fire-fighters, who (42 receive) hundreds of calls for help Wind speed (43 reach) ninety miles an hour in some places Roads (44 block) by fallen trees, and electricity lines (45 bring) down, leaving thousands of homes without electricity all that night "Everything possible (46 do) to get things back to normal," a spokesman (47 say)
4 Replace the underlined part in each sentence with the suitable form of a phrasal verb.
48 Can I depend on you to water the flowers when I am away?
5 Fill in the numbered blank with one suitable word.
In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander opened a business called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace By (0) doing so, he gave the word something completely new - the department store Before this, no one had tried to bring together such a wide
Trang 3(53) of goods wxler a single roof The business did very well It (54) rapidly and soon had a staff of two thousand For Stewart even that was not enough, however In 1862 he (55) to an eight-storey building nearby, (56) he renamed AT Stewart's Cast-Iron Palace It was, and for many years would rern8in, the largest shop in the world OtherS followed Stewart's example and soon there were stores (57) his in many nuYor cities in the United States We don't know when people started (58) them department stores The expression wasn't used (59) print mtil1893, when it appeared in Harper's magazine, but the way that it is used there (60) it clear that it was already widely understood (61) is certain is that department stores completely changed the shopping experience for millions of people They offered not only an enonnous range of goods, but also levels (62) comfort, luxury and excitement previously unknown to customers Almost from the start they had restaurants, toilets and many other facilities, so there was no need to go elsewhere for anything
ID.READlNG
a Read the following mtlgaDne artic/e about a book and choose one best answer A, B, Cor D for each question •
Each month we ask one of our experts to tell us what wildlife book- noveL guide or textbook- has· most influenced on him or her Here, Martba Holmes, marine biologist, TV presenter and film producer, reveals all "I'm very keen reader, but selecting the book with a natural-history theme which has influenced on me most was some challenge, mtil I thought back to my childhood Then it was easy Where the book came from is a mystery, and I have never met anyone who has heard ofa It is Rita Richie's 'The Golden Hawks ofGenghis Khan' I read it when I was 10 years old and I remember to this day the effect it had on me Set in 1218, it is a story of a rich boy whose parents ate dead He is growing up in the splendid city of Samarkand and has a fascination for hawks, those magnificent hmting birds There is a great deal of mystery surromding his' past, but he is led to believe that a band of Mongols killed his father to steal a rare type of bird-the golden hawks Detennined to get these birds back, he nms, away :from Samarkand and joins a group of people traveling to the comtry of Mongolia What follows is a grand adventure centered on the city ofKarakorum, where the great Mongol chiefGenghis Khan was then based
The book combines adventure, mystery, honor, mendship, danger, suffering - all seen through the eyes of the young hero, JaIair I still find this fantasy a thrilling read Jalair's great love for the birds was enviable and inspiring But most of all it was the sense of place that stayed with
me The book gives the reader an idea of the vast open spaces of central Asia and its huge skies, without the use of the long descriptive passages The emptiness of the Gobi Desert, the TJaIl Shan Momrtains and the excitement of riding through forests and over rolling hills fascinated me The book gave me more than hawks, horses and a desire for wild places It also gave me a set of values The Mongols in 'The Golden Hawks' were totally uninterested in possessions, a characteristic that is absolutely essential for people who spent their lives traveling :from place to place They were never mean Generosity, goodwill and optimism were highly valued, hard woJt was enjoyed and the rest was pure ftm They simply loved life Two years ago, I fulfilled a life-long ambition and went riding in Mongolia's mountains I was not
inted."
63 Whenfirst asked to choose a book, Martha Holmes 66 The main interest of the hero of the book is -.:
B chose one she had read recently B the desire to see different countries
C had difficulty in making a decision C the beauty ofhis homeland
D was pleased to have been approached D his passion for particular birds
64 What does "t!."refer to? - -c 67 Where does most of the story take place? - - :
65 Martha say.v the book 'The Golden Hawks ofGenghis 68. What did Martha enjoy about the book? - '
A was recommended by a mend B The geographical settings D The changes of atmosphere
B was very popular when she was a child 69 What values did Martha learn from the book? - -,- '
C is known to very few people A The importance of a sense of hum Or C The need to protect your goods
D is one of many mystery books she has read B How to be a successful traveler D How to get1he most out of life
be70-75 Read thefoUowing text about Children UsingCotnouter Games The reading passage below has six paragraphs ~-F) The opening sentence in each paragraph has been taken out Comp1etethe ardcIe by putting the sentences 1- 7into the IobeIedgapsA-F: There is one extra sentI!1Ice.
70 A The computer games range from high educational, creative, delightful ones such as Sim City, which is training a whole new generation of enlightened city plarmers, via games of skills such as ski, flight, skateboard, and sailing simulations, to pretty disgusting violent ones such as the Carmageddon series and Carpocalypse Now and Tom Raider, artfully designed to lure teenagers and alanns parents It always amazes me to hear the parents of a nine or ten-year-old saying 'He's up playing games.' And when you ask which games he likes they do not know Would these people, if asked who was babysitting, say 'Oh, some guys from the parlc'?
71 B Walk past, discuss what the game is about while you· get on with the supper Encourage sharing with other children Any game using two controllers is better than the lonely one
72 C Give warning, let a level be finished, but enforce it
73 D If you have a teenager who spends a lot of time playing computer games, you probably need the software that records every website via time spent, you may want one of the 'filter' programmes out dodgy sites Unfornmately, these appear to cave- \ man simple things such as cutting out anything with the word ~sex' in it, which can seriously rot your A-level bio student's research material and cause undue resentment
74 E This, during teenager years, can be a problem but it is worth preserving it If a parent or relative is aromd enough time, slow to leap to judgment or hysteria and willing to listen, then important issues eventually come up
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Lbt of_diD&!:
1 Probably the bell guarantee against damage or confusion is the normal communication you have with your child
2 Enforce screen breaks for the sake of the eyes and the nerves.
3 When the children get to the age for games, try to know what they are playing.
4 Indeed, personal happiness and reasonable self-esteem are best weapons against any kind of computer brain invasion.
5 As a parent, ensure that your child only use computer for educational purposes.
6 As with television set, keep the computer gaming in one of the shared parts of the house.
7 It is self-evidenced that parental responsibility has to be applied to Web-surjingjust as it must to every other kind of encounter.
IV WRITING· a.!d!£k.the incorrect part in the following sentences (A, B, Cor Dj and ~ them.
76 Everybody in the house (A) comes to help of the shopping (B) on Saturday, except Brad.(C) because he has to do (0) football practice
77 'Twelfth Night' was written CA)by Shakespeare in (B) 10days after he invited (C) to write (0) a play for Queen Elizabeth 1
78 Evidence has been put forward (A) showing (B) that astronauts exposed (C) to long periods of weightlessness have effected (0) quite severely
79 After the social science lecture (A) all students are invited to take part in (B) a discussion of the issue (C) which were raised in (0) the talk
- 80.Passports are legal (A) documents issued by (B) governments to give their bearers an authorization cross nation borders (C) and seek protection (0) in an emergency
b RewriU tlurjoUowing sentences using the words in bold, in such a way that it means tlur same as tlur one given.
Do not alter the" words in any way .
81 Pauline isn't trying to solve her financial problems (etJort)
c.' 86-100 "East or West, home is the best" How do you understand thiS English statement? ExPress ytJIll' opinion in
200 words inside this space.