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PART I. LISTENING
Part 1. Question 1-7. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer
Goodbye party for John
Venue: College Dining Room
Invitations (Tony)
Who to invite - John and his wife
- Director
- The (1)____________________________
- All the teachers
- All the (2)____________________
Date for sending invitations: (3)__________________________
Present (Lisa)
Collect money during the (4)___________________________
Suggested amount per person: $ 6
Check prices for: - CD players
- (5)__________________________
- Coffee maker
Ask guests to bring: - snacks
- (6)_____________________________
- Photographs
Ask student representative to prepare a (7)_____________________
Part 2. Question 8-15. Listen to the passage and then complete the sentence.
Cavers explore the underground places such as mines and (8) …as well as
caves.
When cavers camp underground, they choose places which have both space and
(9) …available. In the UK, the place Mike likes best for caving is Wales. As a physical
activity, Mike compares caving to (10) …………Cavers can pay as much as £20 for a
suitable hard hat. Cavers can pay as much as £50 for the right kind of (11) …, which
is worn on the head. Mike recommends buying expensive (12) …… to avoid having
accidents. Caving is a sport for people of (13) …… and backgrounds. Some caves in
Britain are called “places of (14) ………” . The need for safety explains why people
don’t organise caving (15) ………….
Your answers:
8. ……………………………………. 12. …………………………………….
9. ……………………………………. 13. …………………………………….
10. ……………………………………. 14. …………………………………….
11. ……………………………………. 15. …………………………………….

Part 3. Question 16-20. You will hear a dialogue between two friends. As you
listen, indicate whether the following statements are true or not by writing
T for a statement which is true;
F for a statement which is false
? if there is insufficient information
____16. Now some people still take a risk when the police officer is away on Newland
Street.
____ 17. The police officer there doesn’t get any pay for the work.
____ 18. Officer Springirth is a real man and he is a volunteer there.
____ 19. Officer Springirth helps the police to reduce the crime rate in Chase Village.
____ 20 . The police department will put more mannequins on other roads.

Part 4. Question 21-25. Listen and choose the correct letter A, B or C

21. To find out how much holidays cost, you should press button
A. one B. two C. three
22. Travelite currently offer walking holidays
A. only in Western Europe B. all over Europe C. outside Europe
23. The walks offered by Travelite
A. cater for a range of walking abilities
B. are planned by guides from the local area
C. are for people with good fitness levels
24. On Travelite holidays, people holidaying alone pay
 A. same as other clients
B. only a little more than other clients
C. extra onluy if they stay in a large room
25. Entertainment is provided
A/ when guests request it B. most nights C. every night
II. LEXICO- GRAMMAR
Part 1. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D to complete each sentence
1. General Custer was confident of victory despite being vastly __________ by the
enemy
A. outnumbered B. outclassed C. overcome D. overtaken
2. The lawyer insisted that his client ____________never have been arrested in the
first place
A. must B. should C. would D. could
3. I wish the neighbors_____________ making so much noise
A. would stop B. will stop C. stopped D. stopping
4. This painting stands a good ______________ of winning a prize
A. possibility B. opportunity C. certainty D. chance
5. I expect ____________the course next year
A. completing B. to complete C. will complete D. completed
6. Do not _____________ the driver while the bus is in motion
A. disturb B. distract C. convert D. interrupt
7. At their time of year farmers____________ their crops and store them for winter
A. gather B. remove C. pick up D. take in
8. The cliffs on this part of the coast are being_______________ by the sea
A. worn B. eroded C. demolished D. deteriorated
9. Anyone ___________ticket has been stolen should contact the airline immediately
A. his B. their C. whose D. which
10. Mrs. Archer is known ______________the finest collection of twentieth century
art in private hands
A. as hand B. having C. by having D. to have
11. He ___________ his life to the skill of the surgeons
A. owes B. keeps C. preserves D. maintains
12. ______________ we understand his reasons, we can not condone his behavior
A. Even if B. Only if C. What if D. As if
13. I don’t think that this fashion will_____________
A. catch on B. catch up C. catch out D. catch over
14. If you do not repay the money we will., as a last______________, take you to the
court
A. measure B. attempt C. act D. resort
15. The two train came______________ ten metres of collision
A. just B. near C. within D. almost
16. All but two of the injured were___________________ from hospital within
twenty-four hours
A. discharged B. released C. sent D. allowed
17. He was awarded a medal in ___________________of his services to the Queen
A. view B. recognition C. regard D. light
18. _____________had I left the hotel when I was surrounded by the photographers
A. No sooner B. Immediately C. Just D. Hardly
19. You must refrain ______________ tea or coffee while taking this medicine
A. to drink B. from drinking C. drink D. drinking
20. There is nothing we can do ______________than wait
A. except B. other C. rather D. moreover
Part 2. Use the correct form of the words in the brackets
1. I was late because I ______________how much time I will need ESTIMATE
2. There was ice on the pavement which made it very difficult to walk as it was so
__________________ SLIP
3. Despite the star-studded cast, the film was only _____________ successful PART
4. How can you _________________the fact that some people live in mansions while
others live in slums? JUST
5. My brother lives in an attractive ___________part of Paris RESIDENT
6. The car in front was going very slowly, so John__________________ it TAKE
7. I _____________________met an old friend last week EXPECT
8. There’s been yet another_________________ of cholera in Delhi BREAK
9. The lovers stood, hand in hand, gazing at the _______________ sky STAR
10. There was a heavy ____________yesterday afternoon which completely ruined the
church Garden Party POUR
Part 3. Identify and correct ten mistakes in the following passage.
As more things are make to be sold and more people have services to sell,
advertising grows. Today it is one of the bigger businesses. Every year people spend
billion of dollars on advertising
Advertising help sell more things to more people. This in turn makes it possible
produce more things to sell. Sometimes it even helps make things cost less. In the
beginning, for example, radios costed much more than they do today so they were
turned out slowly and expensive by hand. Yet, advertising made more people want
radios. When manufacturer began making them by the thousands, they found quickly
and cheaper ways of doing the job. Because advertising encourages us to buy and
produces more things, it is sometimes called the spark of the business world
Part 4. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition/particle
1. When she was told that her father had passed________________, she broke down
2. The police were called in to break ______ the fight outside the dance hall
3. My father was called up two days after the war broke______________
4. Unless the group turned ____________ soon we will have to cancel the concert
5. James came_______________ quite a large sum of money when his parents were
killed in the plane crash
6. I came _______ these old books while I was clearing out the attics
7. You will back me _______________at the meeting, won’t you, Bill?”
8. He lost his job ________________ no fault of his own
9. You must account ______________ the manager for the money you used
10. Stop wasting time! Get to my office ___________the double
III. READING
Part 1. I. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best
fits each space .
The latest addiction to trap thousands of people is the Internet, which has been
(1) ______ for broken relationships, job losses, financial ruin, and even suicide.
Psychologists now recognize Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) (2)______ a new
illness that could cause serious problems and ruin many lives. Special help groups
have been set up to (3) ______ sufferers help and support.
Psychologists have described many worrying examples, including one man who
took his own life after (4) ______ more than ₤ 14,000 to feed his addiction, and a
teenager who had to receive psychiatric treatment for his 12-hour-a-day (5) ______.
"This illness is not fake, and it must be seriously," said an expert in behavioral
addiction at Nottingham Trent University. "These are not sad people with serious
personality defects; they are people who were fine (6) ______ they found the Internet."
IAS is similar (10)to other problems like gambling, smoking and drinking:
addicts have dreams about the Internet; they need to use it first thing in the morning;
they (7) ______ to their partners about how much time they spent online; they wish
they could cut down, but are unable to do so. A recent study found that many users
spend up to 40 hours a week on the Internet; (8) ______ they felt guilty, they became
depressed if they were made to stop using it.
Almost anyone can be at risk. Some of the addicts are teenagers who are
already hooked on computer games and who (9) ______ it very difficult to resist the
games on the Internet. Surprisingly, (10) ______, psychologists say that most victims
are middle-aged housewives who have never used a computer before.
1. A. blamed B. faulted C. mistaken D. accused
2. A. like B. such C. as D. for
3. A. offer B. suggest C. recommend D. advise
4. A. gaining B. lending C. borrowing D. winning
5. A. custom B. habit C. manner D. routine
6. A. before B. after C. as soon as D. when
7. A. betray B. deceive C. cheat D. lie
8. A. although B. despite C. unless D. without
9. A. say B. feel C. find D. have
10. A. but B. therefore C. however D. so
Part 2. Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with only ONE
word
Linguistics believe that early men used many gesture to communicate with one
another. This, it is thought, was a man’s first form of (1)_________________and the
only one he had for a long period of time. Even today we use some sign language; for
example, we shake our (2)________ to indicate yes or no, we point and we wave.
The first spoken words may have been early man’s attempt to (3)___________
the sound made by animals. Then he may have developed sounds of his own.
Gradually, man may have repeated certain sounds so (4)_______________ that they
became familiar and understandable to others. Once spoken language had begun,
perhaps man invented new words as he needed them to express himself verbally
(5)________________ to name new objects. In this way we can imagine language
growing.
By using words, parents were able to teach them to their children. The children
in turn probably made up new (6)_________. Each generation, therefore, in the
development of language, knew more words than the generation (7)________ it.
Language is still growing and changing. Can you think (8)_____________ some
words you use today (9)_______________ were not used by your parents or
grandparents (10)________________ they were children?
Part 3. Read the passage following and choose the letter A, B, C or D to answer
each question
In Death Valley, California, one of the hottest, most arid places in North
America, there is much salt, and salt can damage rocks impressively. Inhabitants of
areas elsewhere, where streets and highways are salted to control ice, are familiar with
the resulting rust and deterioration on cars. That attests to the chemically corrosive
nature of salt, but it is not the way salt destroys rocks. Salt breaks rocks apart
principally by a process called crystal prying and wedging. This happens not by
soaking the rocks in salt water, but by moistening their bottoms with salt water. Such
conditions exist in many areas along the eastern edge of central Death Valley. There,
salty water rises from the groundwater table by capillary action through tiny spaces in
sediment until it reaches the surface.

Most stones have capillary passages that suck salt water from the wet ground.
Death Valley provides an ultra-dry atmosphere and high daily temperatures, which
promote evaporation and the formation of salt crystals along the cracks or other
openings within stones. These crystals grow as long as salt water is available. Like tree
roots breaking up a sidewalk, the growing crystals exert pressure on the rock and
eventually pry the rock apart along planes of weakness, such as banding in
metamorphic rocks, bedding in sedimentary rocks, or preexisting or incipient fractions,
and along boundaries between individual mineral crystals or grains. Besides crystal
growth, the expansion of halite crystals (the same as everyday table salt) by heating
and of sulfates and similar salts by hydration can contribute additional stresses. A rock
durable enough to have withstood natural conditions for a very long time in other areas
could probably be shattered into small pieces by salt weathering within a few
generations.

The dominant salt in Death Valley is halite, or sodium chloride, but other salts,
mostly carbonates and sulfates, also cause prying and wedging, as does ordinary ice.
Weathering by a variety of salts, though often subtle, is a worldwide phenomenon. Not
restricted to arid regions, intense salt weathering occurs mostly in salt-rich places like
the seashore, near the large saline lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and in desert
sections of Australia, New Zealand, and central Asia.
( Reading Practice TOEFL)
1. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) The destructive effects of salt on rocks.
(B) The impressive salt rocks in Death Valley.
(C) The amount of salt produced in Death Valley.
(D) The damaging effects of salt on roads and highways.
2. The word "it" refers to
(A) salty water (B) groundwater table
(C) capillary action (D) sediment
3. The word "exert" is closest in meaning to
(A) put (B) reduce (C) replace (D) control
4. Why does the author compare tree roots with growing salt crystals?
(A) They both force hard surfaces to crack.
(B) They both grow as long as water is available.
(C) They both react quickly to a rise in temperature.
(D) They both cause salty water to rise from the groundwater table.
5. The author mentions the "expansion of halite crystals...by heating and of sulfates
and similar salts by hydration" in order to
(A) present an alternative theory about crystal growth
(B) explain how some rocks are not affected by salt
 (C) simplify the explanation of crystal prying and wedging
(D) introduce additional means by which crystals destroy rocks
6. The word "durable" is closest in meaning to
(A) large (B) strong (C) flexible (D) pressured
7. The word "shattered" is closest in meaning to
(A) arranged (B) dissolved
(C) broken apart (D) gathered together
8 The word "dominant" is closest in meaning to
(A) most recent (B) most common
(C) least available (D) least damaging
9. According to the passage, which of the following is true about the effects of salts on
rocks?
(A) Only two types of salts cause prying and wedging.
(B) Salts usually cause damage only in combination with ice.
(C) A variety of salts in all kinds of environments can cause weathering.
(D) Salt damage at the seashore is more severe than salt damage in Death Valley.
10. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about rocks that are found
in areas where ice is common?
(A) They are protected from weathering.
(B) They do not allow capillary action of water.
(C) They show similar kinds of damage as rocks in Death Valley.
(D) They contain more carbonates than sulfates.
The Reading Passage has five paragraphs (A-E). Choose the most suitable
heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate
numbers (i-vi) in boxes 1-5 on your answer part
NB There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all of them.
PAPER RECYCLING
A. Paper is different from other waste produce because it comes from a sustainable
resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are
replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the
environment when it is discarded. While 45 out of every 100 tones of wood fibre used
to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes directly from
virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a good
performance since the world-wide average is 33 per cent waste paper. Governments
have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the
paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have
paved the way for even greater utilization of used fibres. As a result, industry’s use of
recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibres over the coming
years.

B. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in
the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled
content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the
community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper
products; for example stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There
also needs to be support from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not
only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be
separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips,
string and other miscellaneous items.

C. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and
some paper products cannot be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of
books and permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly
contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and
retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are
delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output,
paper converters and printers and lastly households which discard newspapers and
packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also
incur the collection cost.

D. Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by hand by people trained to recognise
various types of paper. This is necessary because some types of paper can only be
made from particular kinds of recycled fibre. The sorted paper then has to be repulped
or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called
stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is
made from mixed waste paper which has had little sorting. Various machineries are
used to remove other materials from the stock. After passing through the repulping
process, the fibres from printed waste paper are grey in colour because the printing ink
has soaked into the individual fibres. This recycled material can only be used in
products where the grey colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the
grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. This involves adding
chemicals such as caustic soda or other alkalis, soaps and detergents, water-hardening
agents such as calcium chloride, frothing agents and bleaching agents. Before the
recycled fibres can be made into paper they must be refined or treated in such a way
that they bond together.

E. Most paper products must contain some virgin fibre as well as recycled fibres and
unlike glass, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-cycled which
means that a product made from recycled paper is of an inferior quality to the original
paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour and
capital that go into producing virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the use of fossil
fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to collect the waste paper from the community
and to process it to produce new paper. And the recycling process still creates
emissions which require treatment before they can be disposed of safely. Nevertheless,
paper recycling is an important economical and environmental practice but one which
must be carried out in a rational and viable manner for it to be useful to both industry
and the community.
(Cambridge IELTS)
i. Process of paper recycling
ii. Less threat of waste paper to the environment
iii. Collection of paper for recycling
iv. Sources of paper for recycling
v. Bad sides of paper recycling
vi. Contribution of community to recycling paper
Your answer
1. Paragraph A __________
2. Paragraph B __________
3. Paragraph C __________
4. Paragraph D __________
5. Paragraph E __________
SUMMARY
Complete the summary below of the first two paragraphs of the Reading Passage.
Choose ONE OR TWO WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write
your answers inboxes 30-36 on your answer sheet.
From the point of view of recycling, paper has two advantages over minerals
and ...........oil.......... in that firstly it comes from a resource which is ........ (1) ........ and
secondly it is less threatening to our environment when we throw it away because it
is ....... (2) ...... Although Australia’s record in the re-use of waste paper is good, it is
still necessary to use a combination of recycled fibre and ........ (3) ........ to make new
paper. The paper industry has contributed positively and people have also been
encouraged by .........(4) ......... to collect their waste on a regular basis. One major
difficulty is the removal of ink from used paper but ......... (5) ......... are being made in
this area.
IV. WRITING
Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly
the same as the sentence printed before it
1. The only way you can become a good student is by studying hard everyday
-> Only by___________________________________________________
2. Would you mind not smoking in here?
-> I’d rather___________________________________________________
3. The value of sterling has fallen considerably in the past week
-> There has___________________________________________________
4. My father was sound asleep in his chair worn out after his day in the field
-> So________________________________________________________
5. My new boss has difficulty in getting up early in London
->My boss is__________________________________________________
Part 2. Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets. Do not alter the
words given
1. I don’t like him because he boasts a lot ( MOUTH)
->__________________________________________________________
2. This mix-up is not my fault ( BLAME)
->__________________________________________________________
3. There is nothing new about defence alliances (HILLS)
->__________________________________________________________
4. My impression of him was that he was a very capable person (STRUCK)
->__________________________________________________________
5. The man in that painting reminds me of my uncle (RESEMBLANCE)
->__________________________________________________________
Part 3. Write a paragraph about 200 words
Children should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do
so. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer
-THE END_