PRACTICE TEST No.

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I. PHONETICS
A. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest
in each question.
1. A. ploughs B. laughs C. coughs D. stops
2. A. locked B. hoped C. kicked D. wicked
3. A. flood B. butcher /u/ C. brush D. some
4. A. closed /z/ B. closely C. house D. placed
5. A. heart /a:/ B. heard C. shirt D. return
B. Choose the word whose stress is different from that of the rest in each question.
6. A. vehicle B. disposal C. emission D. volcanic
7. A. preference B. achievement C. apparent D. machinery
8. A. controversial B. organizer C. competition D. universal
9. A. successfully B. presentation C. economy D. accompany
10. A. attendance B. atmosphere C. gathering D. etiquette
II. VOCABULARY&GRAMMAR
A. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tenses or forms
a. It's time we (11) (go) went If we (12) (not leave) don’t leave now, we (13) (miss) will
miss the train.
b. I know I (14) (write) oughtto / should have written to you before, but I (15) (be) haven
been so busy recently that I (16) (not have) haven’t had time for writing letters. I (17)
(telephone) should/ would have telephoned you instead, but I (18) (forget) have forgot
(ten) your number.
c. We will see Alice at the corner. She (19) (wait) will be waiting for us when we (20)
(arrive) arrive
B. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences
21. .................... students in this class have trouble finding time to work out.
A. Mostly all B. Many of C. Few D. A great deal of
22. The boy came .................... a cold walking in the rain for too long.
A. down with B. up with C. up against D. along with
23. Most people .................... to pay their bills by cheque nowadays.
A. require B. used C. practise D. tend
24. When I questioned him, he finally .................... stealing my pen.
A. admitted B. accused C. accepted D. confessed
25. As long as we .................... to the footpath, we won't get lost.
A. keep B. stay C. follow D. remain
26. He is staying at my house ....................
A. all in all B. all at once C. for the time being D. in advance
27. The twins are so alike that I can hardly ....................
A. see them both B. tell them apart C. go for them D. work them out
28. I really want to help you, but I've got .................... organizing the school play.
A. my head over heels B. up to my ears C. my nose choked D. my hands full
29. - Could I just do it right now? - ....................
A. Yes, you could B. Why not? Go C. Not for me D. Yes, let's
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30. - I think we should take some spare parts with us. - ....................
A. If I were you I would B. No. You can do it C. OK, just in case D. Just my luck, man
C. Use the correct form of the word given in capital at the end of each sentence to fill in each
blank
31. The kids found the show fascinating FASCINATE
32. The school is now very well-equiped That's why the quality of EQUIP
teaching and learning is much better.
33. Teenagers always try to show that they are independent of their parents. DEPEND
34. But more importantly, learning gives us the pleasure of discovery. IMPORTANCE
35. Their attempt to reach the top of the mountain was unsuccessful SUCCEED
because of the severe weather.
36. They had a chance to take part in a lot of cultural activities. CULTURE
37. Honesty is an admirable quality. ADMIRE
38. The computer can help us to get a lot of useful information from the Net. INFORM
39. What a nuisance! The Internet is sometimes unreachable at peak REACH
hours.
40. Parents sometimes complain about teachers giving a great number ASSIGN
of assignments to their children.
D. For questions 41 - 50, read the passage below and look carefully at each line to find ten
unnecessary words more in the following passage
Example: Question Unnecessary word
0 are (line 1)

Line When are faced with some new and possobly bewildering technological
change, most of people react in one of two ways. They either recoil from
anything new, claiming that it is unnecessary or too complicated, or that
it somehow makes our life less personal. Or they learn to adapt to the
5 new invention, and eventually wonder how they could possibly have
been esisted without it. Take computers as an example. Fow many of us,
they still represent a threat to our freedom, and give us a frightening
sense of a future in which all decisions will be taken by machines. This
may be because they seem like mysterious, and difficult to understand.
10 Ask most people what you can use a home computer for, and you usually
get vague answers about how "they give you information". In the fact,
even those of us who are familiar with computers and use them in our
daily work, have very a little idea of how they actually work. But it does
not take long to learn how to operate a business programme, even if
15 things occasinally go wrong for no apparent reason. Presumably much of
the same happened when the telephone and the television became widely
widespread. What seems to alarm most people is the speed of
technological change, rather than change itself. And the objections that
are made to new technology may well have a point to them, since change
20 is not always an improvement. As we discover during power cuts, there
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entertainment, such as books or board games, that don't have to be
plugged into the work.
III. READING
A. You are going to read a newspaper article about cars in London. For questions 51-56,
choose from the sentences A-H which one best summarizes each section of the article. There
is one extra sentence which you do not need.
A The number of cars in London has not fallen
B Little can be done to improve the traffic situation in London.
C New developments have prevented improvements in traffic conditions in London.
D Using a car in London continues to have advantages.
E Traffic movement in London today is just as bad as it was in the past.
F Travelling by other means of transport can be unpleasant.
G There has been a decrease in certain types of traffic in London.
H Driving in London is getting worse.
London and the car - facing the 21th Century together
0 H
Surrounded by other traffic, halted by thickening jams and constant roadworks, under
pressure from mounting regulations, rising costs and environmental reformers - there are plenty
of reasons why the London motorist could logically be considered a threatened species.
51 G
We all know it. Driving in the capital has been getting more problematic for years. There is
clear evidence that the increasingly unpleasant driving conditions in the capital are having some
effect on car use. The most marked is that commuting to work by car has fallen by a quarter over
the last decade, from 200,000 per peak to 150,000, though this has partly been due to job
relocation. The number of large commercial vehicles has fallen too and motorcycle and bucycle
use has declined, following a period of rapid growth ten years ago.
52 C
Any benefit from this has however been offset by a big increase in the numbers of light
commercial and service vehicles, and traffic levels on major roads in the capital have been
decreasing only ny one per cent a year through the 1990s. This benefit in turn has been
outweighed by increases in roadworks - one recent count of holes in the road found a 25
percent increase against a year ago. Clearly the ovverall situation is no better for the
motorist in the capital, despite the fall in recorded traffic volumes, a fact consistently
confirmed by Department of Transport surveys.
53 E
Speeds, for example, have hardly increased. In central London they are at times around
16 fph, horse-and-cart stuff, with the daytime traffic as heavy as traditional rush-hour flows,
but often travelling slower because fewer drivers are on familiar trips. Average speeds on
all main roads are around 25 kph in the busiest periods, the sort of speed a fast horse and
carriage might have achieved a century ago. It is worth remembering that reports from that
period speak of carriages packed so tightly together on London's streets that you could have
walked on their roofs from one side of the city to the other.

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54 A
So is the London motorist in total despair? Not yet. Fewer commuting cars may be
coming in, but there are 2.3 million cars registeres in the city, and no evidence that numbers
are falling. In 1971 half the households in London had cars, with more than 9 percent
having two or more. By 1991 (the last year for official figures) 60 percent had cars and
nearly 18 percent had two or more. Even in central London, where car-owning conditions
are hardly the most attractive, 46 per cent of households had a car and 10 per cent had two
or more. So even if the London motorist is using the car a bit less, that car-and increasingly
a second car - is still sitting outside.
55 D
And for all the problems of driving around and parking in London, the car can still be good
news for the traveller. The very latest statistics from the Department of Transport are based on
door-to-door travel times for a sample of identical journeys actually made by London residents
within the last 12 months. They reveal the following average total times in minutes: by car, 40;
by rail/tube, 43; by bus, 58; by bicycle, 37. These calculations took into account the time needed
to park and walk, and the time spent by bus and rail/tube travellers waiting for their transport.
Nearly three-quarters if the rail/tube journey time was taken up by waiting. Car travellers on the
same route spent one third of their time standing still.
56 F
The advantages of using a bicycle are self-evident in terms of travel time, and everyone
knows that the exercise is beneficial. But few who are not very keen pedallers would not be put
off by dangers of sharing roadspace with other traffic, by the fumes, by the limitations on what
can be carried on a bike, and by the fairly regular likelihood of arriving wet and cold.
B. Read the passage and choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Your body needs energy, protein, minerals, vitamins and fibre. In order to get all of
these it is important to have a varied and balanced diet, and to eat the right amount. Your
body "burns" food to get energy. The amount of energy provided by food is measured in units
called calories.
How many calories do you need? This depends on your weight and on what you do. When
you are asleep, your body uses nearly one calorie an hour for every kilogram of weight. So a
person who weighs seventy kilos uses about 560 calories while sleeping for eight hours; in other
words, he needs about 1680 calories just to stay alive for 24 hours, even without doing anything.
More calories are needed for different activities - from 100 calories an hour for reading or
watching TV, to 350 calories an hour for playing football. To calculate the number of calories
needed per day for an average person, first find out that person's ideal weight. (Your ideal weight
is what you should weigh. It depends on your height and your build, and it may be very different
from your present weight!). Then multiply the correct weight (in kilograms) by 40 for a woman or
46 for a man. A 57-kilo woman may need about 2300 calories a day - more if she does heavy
physical work or a lot of sport, less if she is very inactive.
If you eat more than you need, the extra calories turn into fat; if you eat less than you need, the
body burns fat to get energy and you lose weight. One way of losing weight is by dieting - eating less.
Another way is to go on eating the same amount, but to increase your body's need for energy by taking
more exercises. But be careful. It is important to slim - or to start an ecercise programme - gradually.
Don't try to lose a lot of weight fast. It doesn't usually work, and it can be dangerous.
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58. A balanced diet means ....................
A. one with the quality and variety of food needed for good health.
B. one with exact portions of food.
C. one with no fat at all.
D. one that helps you to lose weight.
59. The word "inactive" in paragraph 2 means D
60. The writer advised us to lose weight by ....................
A. eating as little as possible C. getting all the fat out of our body
B. eating no protein, minerals, vitamins and fibre at all D. having no extra calories
61. Another way of losing weight is ....................
A. exercising C. taking as much exercise as possible
B. doing a lot of homework D. starting an intensive exercise programme
C. Read the text below and then decide which answer best fits each space. Circle the letter you
choose
THE HISTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (62) .................... a huge difference to the world and we
might see it as the beginning of the (63) .................... Pieces of pottery with marks on that are
probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around 4000 BC.
Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (64) ....................around
Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from
around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (65) .................... alphabet was used by the
Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted
for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became
"alpha" and "beta", which gave us the (66) .................... word "alphabet".
The modern Eiropean alphabet is based on the Greek and (67) .................... to other
European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The
Romans added the letter G, and the letters J and V were (68) .................... to people in
Shakespeare's time.
If we (69) .................... the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts.
The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in (70) .................... to show that it
was a question. They started to write Qo in (71) .................... of the whole word, and then put
the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?".
62. A. did B. had C. made D. took
63. A. media B. bulletin C. programme D. journalism
64. A. distance B. area C. length D. earth
65. A. true B. accurate C. exact D. precise
66. A. new B. trendy C. modern D. fashionable
67. A. spread B. appeared C. was D. occurred
68. A. infamous B. unpopular C. unknown D. hidden
69. A. look into B. bring on C. make off D. hold up
70. A. turn B. fact C. order D. intention
71. A. position B. space C. spot D. place
D. Fill in each blank with one suitable word
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 MANAGING YOUR TIME
"Wasting time is (72) like wasting money". This is the slogan of Time Management
Systems. "Most people", says Sam Flowers of TMS, "waste too much time on doing (73)
trivial things like finding telephone numbers, looking for pieces of paper on (74) their desks,
and walking from one part of a building (75) to another. These can waste hours of your day.
Then you haven't got time (76) for the important things. This applies to both your
professional (77) and your personal life".
The first step towards managing your time better (78) is keeping a time log. In a time
log you record everything that you do (79)during the day. Then you calculate how much time
you spent on (80) each thing - traveling, telephoning, eating, chatting, washing, writing
letters, etc. "When they do a time log" says Sam Flowers, "most people are amazed (81)
athow much time they waste".
IV. WRITING
A. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use the
word given and no more than four other words to complete each sentence. Do not change the
word given.
82. I tried to talk to Jack about the problem but he was too busy. word
=> I tried to have a word with Jack about the problem but he was too busy.
83. "I don't mind which film we see", I said. matter
=> I said that it didn’t matter to me which film we saw.
84. If you don't take care of those shoes, they won't last for long. look
=> Unless you look after them (carefully), those shoes won't last for
long.
85. You've already lied to me once today. lie
=> This is not the first lie you’ve told
86. Did you enjoy the party? good
=> Did you have a good time at the party?
87. Whenever I hear this song, I remember the time when I was in Paris. reminds
=> Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of the time when I was in
Paris.
88. I can't describe people as well as you can. better
=> You're better at describing ppl than I am.
89. You didn't think carefully enough before you decided. ought
=> You ought to have thought more carefully before you decided.
90. The information I got from the assistant was so confusing that I didn't such
know what to do.
=> The assistant gave me such confusing information that I didn't know
what to do.
B. Write a paragraph of around 150 words about the benefits of reading books.