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TEST 1 Part I. Choose the correct answer to complete each of the following sentences. (20pts) 1. We love our teacher very much because whenever we look tired in class time, he tells us a small story which makes us ______. A. split on it B. split off C. split on him D. split our sides 2. Feel free to come to us at all _______ if you need our advice. A. whiles B. moments C. hours D. occasions 3. The sprinter paid the price of her misuse of drugs and died of heart ______ at the age of 38. A. attack B. failure C. stoppage D. pressure 4. Please don’t talk about the day – I want to ______________ it all behind me. A. block B. stir C. summon D. put 5. ______benefits include a new car and free health insurance. A. Well B. Fringe C. Edge D. Verge 6. Has anyone managed to ________ the meaning of the declaration? A. seize B. snatch C. grip D. grasp 7. So as not to get another bad mark in the final exam, she is ________ herself. A. exert B. absorb C. endeavour D. deploy 8. I had a small accident with the car. One of the wings was a little ________. A. stained B. dented C. jammed D. cracked 9. He was given a 24-month imprisonment sentence for fraud and _____ debts. A. outstanding B. accumulative C. bad D. heavy 10. The spokesperson said the information campaign was a ______ to hide the most regressive tax in history. A. fig leaf B. red curtain C. book cover D. witch cloak 11. Was it really necessary that I _______ there watching you the entire time you were rehearsing for the play? It was really boring watching you repeat the scenes over and over again. A. sits B. am sitting C. be sitting D. To sit 12. ______ as taste is really a composite sense made up of both taste and smell. A. That we refer to B. What we refer to
C. To which we refer D. What do we refer to 13. ______ the increasing depletion of the Earth resources, it’s vital to recycle on a wider scale than we do at present. A. Given B. In spite of C. Irrespective of D. Providing 14. On the island _______ the only representation of the island’s handicraft. A. remain B. does it remain C. did it remain D. remains 15. _________, the balcony chairs will be ruined in this weather. A. Leaving uncovered B. Having left uncovered C. Left uncovered D. Been left uncovered 16. Ancient civilizations were not aware that the earth ________ a sphere. A. is B. was C. had been D. has been 17. I ________ with the performances but I got flu the day before. A. had helped B. helped C. was to help D. was to have helped 18. "Why did Laura go to town?" - "________for was to attend an interview.” A. What she went B. That she went C. Why she went D. She went 19. She said that she would be punctual for the opening speech, ______she were late? A. but what if B. how about C. and what about D. so if 20. In her time, Isadora Duncan was ______ today a liberated woman. A. what calling we would B. who would be calling C. what we would call D. she would call her Part II. Read the sentences below. Use the word given in capitals in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap. (10pts) 1. Most common in the Northern Hemisphere, around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere or 11% of the global surface is ....................... by permafrost LAY 2. The framework also explains how high-seed-yielding ....................... perennials could be developed through selection, despite their rarity in natural ecosystems. HERB 3. The latter is then reinvested in the underlying ......................., and a second round option written on its price. PERPETUAL
4. Your presence has enriched our lives ............................. MEASURE 5. The slight ....................... in his left hand was corrected by surgery. FORM 6. All risky and ....................... sports should be excluded from the school curriculum. INJURY 7. Most irrational fears begin in the first instance as mild forms of anxiety, and only develop gradually into .............................................. phobias BLOWN 8. His recent …………… behaviour keeps me wondering whether there is something wrong going on. TYPE 9. It's sad, yet hardly a surprise, that such behavior could be taken as ........................ SUPERCILIOUS 10. A mother has to be a nurse, house keeper, shopper, cook, teacher, etc. She plays a ..................... role. LATERAL PART C. READING Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. THE CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION Charles Darwin may well be the most controversial scientist who ever lived. Although ‘On the Origin of Species’ was his highly acclaimed book, he did not invent the concept of evolution. When he was a student in Edinburgh in the late 1820s, evolution was already the (76) _______ of the town. But evolution was rejected by the establishment. Those who (77) ______ to evolutionary thinking were called Lamarckists, after the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first proposed that species are not static but change over time and give (78) ______ to new species. Lamarck had presented this (79) _____ in a book published in 1809. However, a correct mechanism for (80) _____ species change into each other was missed out. Later on, the mechanism was discovered first by Charles Darwin and independently by Alfred Russel Wallace. From reading the economist Thomas Malthus’s works, Darwin was aware of the consequences of (81) ______ growing populations. Once resources become limited, only a (82) _____ of individuals can survive. Additionally, Darwin, as an (83) _____ observer of animal breeders, analyzed their (84) _____ and studied their results. Slowly but (85) _____, he understood that nature is like a gigantic breeder. 1. A. talk B. topic C. gossip D. subject 2. A. combined B. cohered C. cleaved D. complied 3. A. occasion B. evidence C. raise D. rise 4. A. standpoint B. mindset C. panorama D. vista 5. A. which B. how C. way D. mode
6. A. expressly B. exponentially C. exquisitely D. exclusively 7. A. plethora B. division C. portion D. fraction 8. A. agile B. arduous C. ardent D. amorous 9. A. methodologies B. methods C. manners D. behaviors 10. A. surely B. definitely C. ultimately D. clearly Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. Write your answers in the numbered boxes provided. (15 points) ACADEMIC OVERDRIVE Student life is becoming increasingly difficult. Not only are students expected to perform and complete within the class, but also to (1) _______ time and energy to extra-curricular activities as well as struggle with an increasing load of homework. The push to get into the top universities has caused many overachieving students to (2) _______ on heavier workloads and more challenging classes. This push, however, doesn’t end once students reach (3) _______. In fact, when they reach the top places they have worked so hard to get into, many students are forced to work even harder than they did in high school. Once in the top universities, the (4) _______ is on to secure place into the top graduate school. But it doesn’t end there. Once students have graduated with best results, they find that they must continue to overextend themselves in order to secure the top (5) _______ in their particular field. Such is the emphasis in academic success. There are many who claim that this entire system is wrong because it puts too much (6) _______ on measuring achievement and not enough on true learning. This in turn has inevitable (7) _______ on the students themselves. In such a high-pressure learning environment, those that find the pressure overwhelming have nowhere to turn. In an academic world (8) _______ only by academic success, many students begin to feel a low sense of worth, yet they fear to turn to anyone for help as this world would be perceived as a signal of failure, an (9) _______ to cope with that which other students appear to have no problem. This can be particularly hard for foreign students as they find themselves isolated (10) _______ familiar cultural or family ties in their new environment and thus they concentrate solely on their work.