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9. The agenda for the meeting is still not_________ (FINAL) 10. The management decided the office was _________ and sacked three junior typists. (MAN) II. Fill each blank with a suitable phrasal verb in the correct form or tense to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (10 pts) bring out tum out stick out put by take of give over to pull off dry up go off stand up to 1. Mimi became jealous when Jack's career started_________ 2. Janine said she'd win the tournament and she actually_________ it_________ 3. By_________ only £50 a month you will have enough for a new bike in two years. 4. The factory_________ only one hundred cars a year, that's why they are so expensive. 5. This room is. _________ entertaining foreign visitors. 6. Harriet_________ in the photograph because of her bright pink blouse. 7. The piece of equipment is very well made and can_________ the roughest treatment. 8. Because of the transport strike, supplies_________ and we had to stop production. 9. Even though two of the bands are dead, a new 'The Beatles' album called Love was recently_________ 10. My son has_________ computer games because they are not as interesting as before. III. The following passage contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes on your answer sheet. Number 0 is an example. (10 pts) Example: 0. Line 1. so→ such Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5 Line 6 Line 7 Line 8 Line 9 Line 10 Line 11 Line 12 Line 13 Line 14 Social networking sites (0) so as Facebook, MySpace and Orkut are now estimated to have more than 700 million users worldwide. Like users can create any profile of themselves they choose, you might expect them to portray themselves in the best possible light. When users put up a profile, it would be reasonable for us to present flattering images, choose sophisticated and discerning interests, and careful express their thoughts so as to appear more intelligent than in real life. But according to recent research, this is not the case. Far from presenting themselves in a flattering way, almost users' profiles reflect their true personalities and reveal both psychological weaknesses and natural physical flaw. Research was carried out for 250 Facebook users who put in a personality questionnaire. Its results were compared with the same people's Facebook profiles. A survey was conducted to assess not only the participants' actual personality, but their "ideal" personality in another words, what kind of person they would be if they actually possessed all their ideal characteristics. These results were then compared with the participants' Facebook profiles. What emerged was astonished: far from being idealized versions of themselves, the versions are agreeable, extroverted, conscientious, neurotic and sociable as these people are in real life. PART C: READING Fill in each blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (5 pts) SAVING THE WHALE As part of Project Pelagos, a marine reserve covering the same area as Switzerland and located in the Ligurian Sea is being planned. (1) _________ programme was devised by environmentalists from the University of Genoa (2) _________ response to growing concern about the number of whales and dolphins (3_________ harmed in those waters. Every year large numbers of dolphins, rorquals and finback whales migrate to this area from Atlantic waters in search of food. (4) _________ studies estimate that correspondingly large numbers never return to mate in native waters. The deaths are being (5) _________ by the presence of DDT, a pernicious insecticide voluntarily banned in Britain, in the seas off the Ligurian coast. Its (6) _________ on marine animals is cumulative rather than instantaneous, so whales returning to the same area year after year are particularly vulnerable. The (7) _________ major problem is the use of large fishing nets to trap dolphins and whales. Very recent laws prohibit Italy's fishing boats, some of (8)_________ have drag nets up to 10 kilometres in length, from entering the area, but (9) _________ yet there is nothing to prevent foreign boats from fishing there. The nets are a particular problem and (10) _________ has been estimated that approximately 400 dolphins perish in them each year.

II. Choose the word whose main stress position is different from that of the other three in each of the following questions. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet. (2.5 pts) 6. A. confront B. convene C. conquer D. consent 7. A. resurrect B. entertain C. interpret D. comprehend 8. A. signature B. instrument C. discipline D. appliance 9. A. photography B. publicity C. original D. infrastructure 10. A. technological B. understandable C. agricultural D. authoritative PART F: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet. (5pts) 11. I usually buy my clothes __________. It's cheaper than going to the dressmaker. A. on the house B. off the peg C. in public D. on the shelf 12. __________ have settled, one of their first concerns has been to locate an adequate water supply. A. Wherever people B. There are people who C. Where people D. People 13. Politicians should never lose __________ of the needs of the people they represent. A. view B. sight C. regard D. prospect 14. Her boss took her under his __________ after fully realising her potential. A. hand B. wing C. arm D. leg 15. It was noticeable how a few people managed to __________ their will on the others. A. focus B. judge C. impose D. break 16. The headlights of the approaching car were so __________ that the cyclist had to stop riding. A. gleaming B. dazzling C. glittering D. glowing 17. Kate: "I wish you wouldn't smoke in here!" -Liam: "__________” A. There's nothing wrong here. B. Sorry, shall open the window? C. I don't agree, I'm afraid. D. Thank you for telling me. 18. __________ the invention of the steam engine, most forms of transport were horse-drawn. A. Akin to B. Prior to C. In addition to D. With reference to 19. __________, the town posted notices urging people to boil their water before use. A. After discovering pollution in the municipal well B. The pollution of the municipal well having been discovered C. The municipal well's pollution being discovered D. When having made the discovery of the pollution of the water in the municipal well 20. Martin is the first __________ the scholarship this year. A. wins B. to win C. winning D. won PART G: READING 1. Read the following passage and choose the correct option to fill in each of the blanks from 21 to 30. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) on your answer sheet. (5 pts) A QUESTION OF SAFETY Life involves a certain amount of risk, or at least it did. These days, however, governments seem to have become (21) __________ with the idea of protecting us from it. As a result, what we actually risk most is not being allowed to live at all. For example, (22) __________ a recent edict which emerged from the British government's Health and Safety Department. It would be amusing if it wasn't so serious. Circus artists performing on tightropes or the flying trapeze are being (23) __________ to wear the type of hard hats more usually (24) with the construction industry. Under a relatively new law (25) __________ as "the temporary work at heights" directive, such a hat must be worn for any working activity taking (26) __________ above the height of an 'average stepladder. Now you might think that sounds (27) __________ reasonable, but the absurd thing is that the rule is being (28) __________ to circus performers as well. The first to be hit by this rule were baffled members of the Moscow State Circus, who were touring England at the time. Used to flying through the air without even the (29) __________ of a safety net, they pointed out that trapeze artists often break arms and legs, (30) __________ rarely heads. This simple fact was apparently lost on the bureaucrats at the government department, however, who insisted that the rule be followed. 21. A. prone 22. A. get B. obsessed B. make C. addicted C. take D. devoted D. bring