I. Choose the best word or phrase to fill in each gap in the following sentences.
(5pts)
1.He got his university degree last year. Now he’s doing ... studies.
A. graduate B. graduating C. postgraduation D. graduation 2. I will only sign the papers ... my solicitor.
A. within reach B. of the agreement of
C. under surveillance of D. in the presence of 3... our pre-paid order, they failed to send us the items in time.
A. With respect to B. Regardless of
C. On behalf of D Without any notice of
4.Not only……….in the project, but he also wanted to become the leader.
A. did Jack involve B. had Jack been involved
C. was Jack involved D. Jack was involved
5. I assure you that I ... no prejudice against what you are doing.
A. harbour B. shelter C. imply D. shadow
6. I felt a bit ...and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual.
A. out of sorts B. on the mend C. over the worst D. under the fevers
7. The inn owner was so generous. What we consumed was ... the house.
A. in B. on C. off D. of
8. Although the cyclist was unhurt, his bicycle was ... between the lorry and the wall.
A. clapped B. crushed C. split D. banged
9. The school was closed for a month because of a serious ... of fever.
A. outcome B. outburst C. outset D. outbreak
10. You should iron out the ... in that dress.
A. wrinkles B. crumples C. folds D. creases
11.I don’t think he’s ever been there, ...?
A. do I B. has he C. do you D. hasn’t he
12. I would appreciate ... it a secret
A. you to keep B. your keeping C. that you keep D. that you will keep
13.After congratulating his team, the coach left, allowing the players to let their ... down for a while.
A. hair B. heads C. hearts D. souls
14. ...there are more cars in Los Angeles than people.
A. Fact that B. As fact that is C. The fact that D. It is a fact that 15. The management are making ... to increase the company’s efficiency.
A. measures B. steps C. moves D. deeds
16. They had a four-day holiday, then began work ...
A. on end B. out of bounds C. in proportions D. in earnest 17. Thedraw’ took place yesterday, but the competition winners ...
A. are yet to be announced B. haven’t been yet announced C. yet are to be announced D. haven’t announced yet
18. I haven’t seen Jane for nearly ten years, ...she had got married and had two children.
A. for that duration B. at that point C. during which time D. in that time
19.He is a nice guy but I don’t know why he...so rude today.
A. is B. has been C. is being D. is to be
20. Lisa: “It’s nearly the end of the holiday already.” Mary: “...!”
A. How time flies B. Let’s call it a day C.It’s a small world D. There’s nothing to it II. Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them.(5pts)
The Chinese are very generous when it comes to the education of their children.
No caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra- course activities which they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the most expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter. However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in the others. What most parents fail to realize, though, is that today children lack self-respect and self-confidence. The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy, or clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills as cooking, sewing, and doing another housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve much of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and
time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cook dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.
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III. Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition: (5pts) 1. The murderer has been condemned…………. death.
2.I was ill for 2 weeks, so I’ve fallen ………….with my work.
3. My plans for starting a restaurant fell………….for lack of capital.
4.………….those present at the ceremony was the local MP, Claire Sims.
5. The cat jumped………….the wall and landed in next door’s pond.
6. At the library yesterday, I ran ………….an old friend.
7. Before you say no, please calm………….and listen.
8. How could you stand ………….and watched him beat the children like that?
9. Nobody was taken ………….by his story although it seemed convincing at first.
10.You can’t talk me ………….giving you more money. I’ve given you enough already.
11.The only way one can tell the twins………….is by their haircuts.
12.The death penalty was done………….in Britain many years ago.
13.Tom got carried ………….by the music and wouldn’t stop singing.
14. The doctor thinks he’ll pull…….……..now. His temperature has gone down.
15.She swims so well that she really should go ………….the competition.
16.Because she kept putting ………….going to the dentist, her toothache got worse.
17.Are you going to sit …………. and let me do everything?
18.The Democratic Party came………….power this year.
19.This composition would be better if you cut ………….the second paragraph.
20.After the flood, hundreds of volunteers came………….with offers of assistance.
IV. Use the most suitable form of the verbs in brackets: (5pts)
1. Sally! I...(expect not) to see you here! What...(you do) here in New York?
2. Whatever...(happen), I...(meet) you here in a week's time.
3. Since I... (pay) for our lunch, I...(try) to attract the waiter’s attention.
4. You (not buy) ... your umbrella for we are going by car.
5. You should have been more careful. You (avoid) ……… having had this accident.
6. Not until later did they discover that the picture (steal)…………
7. I waited under the clock! - So did I, but I didn’t see you! We (wait) ...
under different clocks.
8. She was breathing fast and deep, as if she (run)………..
9. It is very cold. Mr. Taylor, who has been ill recently, is walking along the road without a coat. He (wear)………..a warm coat.
10.He got angry because he hadn’t been accustomed to (make) ……….. fun like that before.
11.Although (found) ……….many centuries earlier, Luxor did not reach preeminence until about 2000 B.C.
12.I would like (give) ………... the chance to explain my point of view, but they weren’t interested.
13. There (be) ...nothing else to say, he declared the meeting close.
14.The police are stopping all the cars. They (look for) ....the escaped prison.
15.I didn’tdo the test well. I (prepare) ………it very carefully at home.
16. My uncle would rather that I (not leave)……….yesterday.
17.Just inside the outer layer of the earth’s atmosphere (be) ……… the elements necessary to protect it from ultraviolet rays, extreme temperatures, and threatening foreign substances.
V. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. (5pts) The Desire to Know
Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human (0) _____ existence _____. This irresponsible desire to know is not a (1) _________ of inanimate objects. Nor does it seem to be attributable to some forms of living organism which, for that very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive.
A tree, for example, does not display (2) _________ curiosity, nor does a sponge or even an oyster. If chance events bring them poison, predators or parasites, they die as (3) _________
as they lived.
Early in the scheme of life, (4) _________ motion was developed by some organisms. It meant an (5) _________
advance in their control of the environment. A moving organism no longer waited in stolid (6) _________ for food to come its way, but went out after it. The individual that hesitated in the (7) _________ search for food, or that was overly (8) _________ in its investigation, starved.
As organisms grew more complex, more messages of greater variety were received from and about the (9) _________
environment. At the same time, the nervous system, the living
EXIST
CHARACTER
RECOGNISE
CEREMONIOUS DEPEND
ORDINARY RIGID
ZEAL
CONSERVE
ROUND
INCREASE
instrument that interprets and stores the data collected by the sense organs, became (10) _________ complex.
VI. Fill in each gap with the most suitable phrase or sentence provided. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all. (5pts)
WELLS AMI BENNETT
During their lifetimes, H.G Wells and Arnold Bennett achieved a public fame of a kind that has been accorded to (1) ... before or since. They would not have had it if (2) ..., and yet the nature of the fame (3) ... as such. It was essentially that of the journalist, the popular pundit (4) ... with complete self - assurance. With Shaw, (5) ... was also a product of journalism, they divided between them the empire of the press, (6) ...
All that (7) ... as novelists. Both were men (8) ... in fiction, to say nothing of their short stories, Wells wrote nearly fifty novels, Bennett thirty. Of these, perhaps ten of Wells’s are still valuable (9) ... if the best of the scientific romances are included, and, (10) ..., five of Bennett’s.
A. they had not been novelists in the first place
B. prepared to pronounce on any subject under the sun C. the most highly paid writers in the Anglo-Saxon world D. has nothing to do with their merit
E. more certainly F. in their own right G. of vast output
H. if they had wanted to I. is generally acknowledged J. whose popular reputation
K. had little to do with their novels
L. was undeniably
M. no other English novelist