1.

In those days, my father _______ never eat dinner after eight

o’clock.
 Would
 Will
 used to
2. He _______ finished cooking when we arrived.
 Have
 Had
 Has
3. If you were a better cook, you _______ need to eat out all the time.
 won’t
 wouldn’t
 hadn’t
4. The passenger _______ a fine because he didn’t have the right
ticket.
 Given
 was given
 didn’t give
5. There were _______ than fifty people in the audience last night.
 Fewer
 Lesser
 Few
6. I’m _______ happy with my new car. It’s brilliant!
 So
 Quite
 a bit
7. I’m not sure about my future. _______ I’ll start a business.
 Sometimes
 Perhaps
 Always
8. Please, ________ the street if the light is red.
 cross not
 not cross
 do not cross
9. Why _______ you apply for the job, you’ve got the experience.
 Are
 don’t
 not
10. I _______ London but it’s expensive.
 Likes
 Like
 Liking

11. We _______ through France during the summer.

 was travelling
 travelling
 travelled
12. John: I love riding bikes.
Paul: _______? Me too!
 Really
 Right
 Anyway
13. I’m really not sure what to do at work. I need _______ advice.
 The
 piece of
 some
14. I think, in the future, space travel _______ as common as plane
travel is now.
 will become
 has become
 is becoming
15. Please don’t come in the morning. I will _______ if you do.
 have worked
 be working
 work
16. San Francisco is the most beautiful city I _______ visited.
 Ever
 Have
 Had
17. I’m sorry to let you_______, but I can’t come to your party.
 Down
 On
 Under
 18. You missed a great party on Saturday night. You _______ have
come.
 Must
 Ought
 should
19. _______ the cold weather, she went swimming.
 Although
 Despite
 In spite
20.He had been working for hours when he _______ asleep.
 has fallen
 falls
 fell
21. Before she got married, she _______ go out most evenings.
 Should
 Would
 Must

22.It _______ been snowing heavily, so we decided to go skiing.

 Has
 Had
 would have
23.It is expected that two million copies of the novel _______ sold by
December.
 will have been
 have been
 will have being
24.If I _______ harder at school, I wouldn’t be doing this job now.
 has worked
 have worked
 had worked
25.The way I see it, you _______ have sold the land then – prices are
higher now.
 mustn’t
 shouldn’t
 can’t

VOCABULARY
1.

 oppose 1. Accept
2. Assume
 unite 3. Choose
4. Disagree
5. Doubt
 complete
6. Finish
7. Join
 say 8. Large
9. Realise
10. Tell
 vote 11. Touch

2.

 To say no is to... 1. Cover

2. Estimate
 To look at something is to... 3. Follow
4. Improve
5. Instruct
 To wrap something is to...
6. Link
7. Measure
 To give orders is to... 8. Observe
9. Refuse
10. Share
 To guess something is to...

3.

 Whack 1. catch
2. chase
 Tread 3. dance
4. excite
5. fix
 Arrest
6. hit
7. laugh
 Mend 8. mix
 9. stand
 thrill 10. step

4.

 millionaire 1. businessmen
2. employee
 epidemic 3. hunters
4. joint
5. programme
 diploma
6. proportions
7. shoppers
 windscreen 8. size
9. subject
10. wipers
 bargain

5.

 I don’t buy _______ food because it’s 1. Calm

expensive andI think it’s a waste of money. 2. Catch
 He was an excitable man and was very 3. Extravagant
_______ aboutbeing unhappy. 4. Furious
 It was one of the ugliest things I’ve ever 5. Organic
seen. It wasabsolutely _______. 6. Ripe
 They’d spent a huge amount of money on 7. Secret
the wedding. It was very _______. 8. Swift
 When the player found out he’d lost the 9. Vicious
point, he wasabsolutely _______. 10. Vocal

READING PART 1

Bulgaria’s Population is Shrinking

Bulgaria, a southeastern country in the European Union, is one of the 1.______ fastest

shrinking countries. In the last forty years, the population of Bulgaria has fallen from 9
to 7 million. Young people often leave the country for postsecondary studies and do not
return for 2.______years. Approximately 1 million Bulgarians currently live abroad.
Bulgarians are also having 3._____ children. Despite the shrinking population, some
Bulgarians do return after realizing that they miss some aspects of home, including the
4._____ and relaxed pace of living.

1. A) spot          B) place          C) world’s

2. A) a lot          B) many         C) several
3. A) few            B) fewer         C) more few
4. A) culture     B) tradition    C) habit

READING PART 2

1. Vincent Van Gogh

A. However, due to continuous failures and misfortunes such as mental illness and
improper bonding in the relationships forced him to commit suicide at an early age of
merely 37 years.
B. This famous personality has been known as one of the greatest painter and artist
along with a world-renowned icon in world history. 
C. During the entire lifespan, this person sold only a single painting which
revolutionized him in the world of arts and paintings which is alive to date.

READING PART 3

Canada- It’s not the USA

Para elegir: survival; in spite of; identity; being; welfare; such; because of: shopping;
tune in to; insistence; dozens; no matter, so

Imagine yourself sitting in a café one day in your home town, when on the next table
you hear some people speaking English with a strong North American accent. 1.
________ a friendly person, you lean over and say, “Hi! Are you American?” “No,”
comes the immediate answer. “Canadian!”
Calling a English-speaking Canadian an American can be as bad as telling a Scotsman
that he’s English or a Swiss person he’s German. 2. ___________ a common language,
there are differences in culture and national feeling. “No,” many Canadians will tell you
with 3. __________, “We’re not Americans! We’re Canadians”

In the same way as Quebecers are determined to keep their 4. __________, Canadians
from the other provinces are determined to keep Canada’s identity. Although the
Canadian way of life is more and more like the American way of life, lots of details are
different, and many Canadians, particularly Quebecers, are worried about the 5.
_________ of their own differences.
Canadians use metres and kilometres and measure temperatures in Celsius; Americans
use feet and miles, and measure temperature in Fahrenheit. The USA has states, Canada
has provinces.
Yet about 80% of Canadians live within 150 km. of the U.S. border, and this has had a
bad effect on the Canadian economy. Like most European countries, Canada has a
national health service, and a good social security system; but good 6. __________
services have to be paid for by high taxes, so the cost of living in Canada is high. 7.
____________  this, hundreds of thousands of Canadians often get in their cars and
drive over to the USA to go 8. _________. This is one cause of economic problems in
Canada. Over half of Canada’s imports come from the United States, and Canada has
a trade deficit with the USA.
But the American influence is not just a question of shopping. Lots of Canadians drive
American cars, and cars are almost as important in Canada as they are in the USA.
There is television too. While Quebecers tend to watch their own French-language TV
stations, English-speaking Canadians have a choice between local English-speaking
channels, national programmes from CBC, and 9. ________  of American channels
brought to them by cable or satellite. Unless they specifically want to watch local
stations, they’re just as likely to 10. ___________ one of the big American channels as
they are to a Canadian channel.
Perhaps it is not surprising if some Canadians are afraid that their country will soon be
just like another part of the USA. If, one day, Quebec becomes independent, many
Canadians fear that the rest of Canada could break up. Perhaps that’s an exaggeration;
many Canadians feel it is a real risk.

READING PART 4

Off to a bad start

0 - Hugo Chavez burst onto the national scene in Venezuela in a failed

military uprising in 1992 alongside many men he had recruited from the
military academy where he taught. Operation Zamora had intended to capture
communication points, overwhelm military locations and eventually assassinate
the current president, Carlos Andres Perez. Nonetheless it failed and Chavez
even appeared on television urging his fellow coup members to lay down their
arms. The revolt had claimed 18 lives and left 60 injured before Chavez gave
himself up.

Initially sentenced to jail, he was soon pardoned in 1994 after 2 years as the
Venezuelan government did not consider either him or his movement much of a
threat although he was not allowed to return to the military. However he then
relaunched his party as the Movement of the Fifth Republic and made the
transition from soldier to politician. He capitalised on the corrupt political system
and promised “revolutionary” social policies in contrast to the two main parties who
had alternated in power since democracy in 1958 and who were accused of
squandering the country´s vast oil wealth. As a result Mr Chavez was swept into
power in the 1998 elections in landslide elections.

Once in power, his domestic policy was radical, with a particular focus on
groundbreaking social programmes. As the old Venezuelan order was falling apart
he centred on new "missions" dedicated to improving access to health, education,
social security, food and land for the poorest sectors of society. An alliance began
to take shape with Cuba in order to fulfil these ambitions. His support among the
poor soared as these programmes, especially in rural areas, made social services
and government jobs available to large swaths of the population, resulting in a drop
in the poverty rate from 48.6 percent in 2002 to 29.5 percent in 2011. The infant
mortality rate also declined while literacy rates and access to free public
education increased.

The socialist left wing ideology of “Chavismo” gained many followers and it’s
populist policies appealed to the masses.

Particularly key in its ideology was the strong opposition to neoliberalism, in

particular the policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
According to Chavez, this particular brand of socialism accepts private property
but promotes social property too. Nonetheless numerous critics have disputed
Chavez’s policies as being truly socialist, some going so far as to say that to even
hint at it being such was an absurdity. It was highlighted that Capitalists were
free to undermine the economy in all sorts of ways, such as massive exports of
capital.

The prospect of "Chavismo" becoming permanently established in Venezuela

created a backlash among those who had benefited from the old order. A counter-
revolution was soon under way and President Chavez was ousted from the
presidential palace in April 2002. Domestically, Mr Chavez's targets had included
the traditional political class with its strong ties to the US. The US did not plan
the counter-revolution, but it almost certainly knew what was happening and made
no attempts to warn the Venezuelan authorities. Mr Chavez was restored to power
in 48 hours by a military that at first appeared to have supported the coup and he
immediately embarked on a vigorous campaign against his enemies at home and
abroad.
5

To counter their influence in the media, President Chavez promoted state

television and pressured the judiciary to restrict the influence of privately-owned
means of communication. In foreign affairs, President Chavez followed an
aggressively anti-imperialist policy in which verbal attacks on the US became
frequent. He went out of his way to cultivate enemies of the US and deepened the
relationship with Cuba. Yet his most important goal was the building of an alliance
among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, starting with the
Petrocaribe - a scheme to provide cheap oil to the countries of Central America
and the Caribbean that depend on imports. This was followed by the Alba regional
integration scheme, a new regional architecture designed to embrace all American
states except the US and Canada and UNASAR. All these enacted schemes would
surely have fulfilled the frustrated dream of his great hero, South American
independence leader Simon Bolivar, two centuries before.

It is clear that it was due to the social policies that he won the enduring loyalty of
the country's poorest strata. But his government's policies failed to address
several problems that increasingly concern all sectors of society. The first is the
high level of common criminality, illustrated most clearly by the exceptionally high
homicide rate. The second is the level of inflation, which has been exacerbated by
the devaluation of the currency despite the high oil price. The third is the
continuation of government corruption, including allegations of nepotism against
the Chavez family, accusations they have long denied. Finally, there is the issue of
mismanagement of state resources as a result of the politicisation of the
bureaucracy, the judiciary and state-owned enterprises. Any successor to Hugo
Chavez, whether from his own party or the opposition, has been left to tackle
these issues, but they have done so without the undoubted charisma that
sustained Chavez's popularity for many years. If this finally happens, Venezuela
will embark on a new chapter in its 200-year history.

1. A tale of contradictions
2. Enduring challenges
3. Gone but not forgotten
4. Making a comeback
5. Off to a bad start
6. Out with the old
7. Policies designed to divide
8. The poor dominate
9. Turning a blind eye
WRITING PART 1

WRITING PART 2

WRITING PART 3
WRITING PART 4