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PART 3. You will hear two neighbors, a woman, Natasha, and a man.
Colin, talking about running.
For question 11-15, decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, write T for True. If it is incorrect, write F for False.
Write your answer in the space given. (10 points)
11. Natasha has decided to take the day off work to go running.
___________
12. Colin found running to work was bad for his health.
___________
13. Natasha would like to wear her sports clothes at work.
___________
14. Natasha will run in the big race because she hopes to win it.
___________
15. Colin and Natasha will prepare for the big race together.
___________
PART 4. You will hear a singer called Tim Tanner who sings with his
twin brother Sam Tanner, talking about their lives and career.
For questions 16-25, complete the sentences. (20 points)
Singing twins: Tim and Sam Tanner
The name of the talent competition which the twins won is
(16)______________________.
Tim is exactly (17)______________________ older than Sam.
The twins were born in the month of (18)______________________.
The main physical difference between Tim and Sam is their
(19)_____________________.
Tim has a less (20)______________________ personality than Sam.
At school, both Tim and Sam were good at (21)___________________.
Sam started taking (22)_______________ lessons when he was thirteen.
The fact that the twins share the same (23)_____________________
sometimes leads to arguments.
Tim says a key part of the twins' image is the (24)___________________
they wear.
The title of the twins’ next album is (25)______________________.
SECTION II: LEXICO – GRAMMAR (50/200)
PART 1. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
Write your answer in the numbered boxes. (20 points)
1. The comtemporary dialogue for me struck a slightly _______ note.
A. disembodied B. discordant C. dismissive
D. disconcerting
2. We decided to celebrate by going out and painting the town ________.
A. red B. purple C. gold D. brown
3. The series became so popular that it was moved to the ________ time
spot of 8 pm.
A. leading B. prime C. main D. major
4. The current economic _______ is very good for small businesses.
A. disposition B. whirlwind C. climate D.
daze
5. He hit the other boy reluctantly as his friends __________ him on.
A. happened B. egged C. ground D. played
6. The actors gave a very ________ performance, and the critics expressed
their disapproval in their reports the following day.
A. pie-in-the-sky B. run-of-the-mill
C. good-for-nothing D. behind-the-scene
7. He was _________ devastaled by the news.
A. utterly B. extremely C. deeply D.
immensely
8. The Red Cross is ________ an international aid organization.
A. intriguingly B. intrusively C. intrinsically D.
intrepidly
9. I know it’s got his name on the cover, but he used a ________.
A. corrrespondent B. model C. ghost writer D. fellow
10. Our lecturer _________ the importance of taking clear notes.
A. responded B. reiterated C. retained D.
recruited
11. Suppose she _______ that outrageous story circulating aroundthe
office, she’d be furious.
A. has heard B. would hear C. were heard D. had heard
12. People can make themselves walkon nails or through fire. It’s a
question of mind over ______.
A. body B. material C. matter D. facts
13. Our plan to start our own business seem ________to failture.
A. doomed B. fated C. compelled D.
designed
14. ________ my buying tuna if you detest eating fish.
A. Is it any good B. As well as
C. It’s not much use D. There is nothing good
15. We welcome the new regulations, which become________ on the first
of next month.
A. effective B. efficient C. efficacious D. effete
16. The chemicals spilled over the road and left drivers ________ for
breath.
A. suffocating B. inhaling C. gasping D. wheezing
17. It is impossible to miss the ______ of the Generation X in America.
A. manifestation B. advancement
C. initiation D. acknowledgement
18. He has been trying to improve his grades but instead, they have
remained as ______ as possible.
A. static B. on coming C. parasitic D. virtual
19. They go to the seaside _____ they should be disturbed by the noise of
the city.
A. in order B. for C. so that D. lest
that
20. I haven’t got the time to do my own work, ______ help you with yours.
A.leaving B. let alone C. apart D. aback
aside
PART 4. Fill in each blank with the most suitable form of the word in
brackets. Write your answer in the numbered boxes. (10 points)
Rafflesia is a rare parasitic plant species found in Southeast Asia.
Rafflesia has been 1.(LIKE) to a fungus because it lacks chlorophyll and is
incapable of phontosynthesis. Perhaps the only part of Rafflesia that is
discernible as distinctly plant-like is the flower, which is said to be the
world’S largest.
Many 2.(BOTANY) have been keen to discover why the flower is so
large, so they recently conducted 3.(MOLECULE) analysis on the plant.
This resulted in the 4.(REVEAL) that it has evolved almost 80 times from
its origin as a tiny bud to today's seven-kilo mega-bloom. Although this 5.
(ORDINARY) transformation took tens of millions of years, such an 6.
(EVOLUTION) spurt is still one of the most dramatic size changes ever
reported. Such growth rates in humans would be 7.(COMPARE) to us being
146 metres tall today.
The plant is also unusual in another way. Its smell is extremely 8.
(PLEASE) but this horrible trait attracts such 9.(POLLINATE) as flies. It is
thought that Rafflesia’s huge flower helps radiate the smell over long 10.
(DISTANT).
PART 3. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer A, B, C
or D. Write your answer in the space provided. (10 points)
There are only a few clues in the rock record about climate in the
Proterozoiccon. Much of our information about climate in the more recent
periods of geologic history comes from the fossil record, because we have a
reasonably good understanding of the types of environment in which many
fossil organisms flourished. The scarce fossils of the Proterozoic, mostly
single-celled bacteria, provide little evidence in this regard. However, the
rocks themselves do include the earliest evidence for glaciation, probably a
global ice age.
The inference that some types of sedimentary rocks are the result of
glacial activity is based on the principle of uniformitarianism, which posits
that natural processes now at work on and within the Earth operated in the
same manner in the distant past. The deposits associated with present-day
glaciers have been well studied, and some of their characteristics are quite
distinctive. In 2.3-billion-year-old rocks in Canada near Lake Huron (dating
from the early part of the Proterozoic age), there are thin laminae of fine-
grained sediments that resemble varves, the annual layers of sediment
deposited in glacial lakes. Typically, present-day varves show two-layered
annual cycle, one layer corresponding to the rapid ice melting and
sediment transport of the summer season,and the other, finer-grained,
layer corresponding to slower winter deposition. Although it is not easy to
discern such details in the Proterozoic examples,they are almost certainly
glacial varves. These fine-grained, layered sediments even contain
occasional large pebbles or “dropstones,” a characteristic feature of glacial
environments where coarse material is sometimes carried on floating ice
and dropped far from its source, into otherwise very fine grained sediment.
Glacial sediments of about the same age as those in Canada have been
found in other parts of North America and in Africa, India, and Europe.
This indicates that the glaciation was global, and that for a period of time in
the early Proterozoic the Earth was gripped in an ice age.
Following the early Proterozoic glaciation, however, the climate appears
to have been fairly benign for a very long time. There is no evidence for
glaciation for the next 1.5 billion years or so. Then, suddenly, the rock
record indicates a series of glacial episodes between about 850 and 600
million year ago, near the end of the Proterozoiccon.
PART 2. Rewrite the following sentences with the given word. The
given words can’t be changed. (10 points)
1. These rainy Monday morning make me feel miserable. (GET)
_________________________________________________________.
2. You have said exactly the right thing. (NAIL)
_________________________________________________________.
3. He maintained his position against his adversary. (GROUND)
_________________________________________________________.
4. Since she met that boy, she’s been thinking only about him.
(WRAPPED)
_________________________________________________________.
5. My husband will be angry when I tell him. (ROOF)
_________________________________________________________.