MINI TEST 3

Designed by Trần Hưng Khải:

Part 3. Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle. Write your answer in
the boxes provided. (10 points)
1. Strictly ________ the record, his work is up to scratch. Don’t tell him.
2. When the police started asking questions, the suspect clammed ________.
3. Barry lost his job and his family had to scrape ________ on less than $100 a month.
4. Police cordoned _______ the area until the bomb was made safe.
5. The place was crawling _______ people, so it was difficult to breathe.
6. Stand ________! Let me through.
7. The company is keeping its employees _____ the dark about possible redundancies.
8. They were talking _____ cross purposes. He was talking about John and she thought he’d said Tom.
9. It’s ______ the cards that the cinema will close down.
10. We’ve spoken on the phone, but I’ve never met her _____ the flesh.
Part 4. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes. (10 points) (Adapted from The Guardian)
You on Netflix: the awful, sociopathic show we're absolutely Your answers:
addicted to 1._________________
The stalker thriller is tense, (1) _________(AUDACITY) – and makes no sense at
all. How did such an (2) ________ (FURIOUS) series become one of the biggest
2._________________
things on TV?
There are a great many annoying things about You, not least the immense difficulty
of simply trying to talk about it. In order to make it clear that you are talking about 3. _________________
You the show, rather than you the other person in the room, you (not You) need to
go through several steps of (3)________(CLEAR). “I can’t wait to see You.” “I’m
standing right here.” “I wonder what will happen with You?” “I’m fine, what’s wrong 4. _________________
with you?” “Well, it is fun, but I do have a problem with the notion of a sexy (4)
_______(PATH),” etc.
The hugely popular Netflix thriller released its second season the day after 5. _________________
Christmas. In the first, Penn Badgley was Joe Goldberg, a puppyish New York
bookshop manager with romcom good looks, who also stalked, wooed and
(5)______(EVENT) murdered Guinevere Beck, a lost-soul writer and poet who had 6. _________________
the misfortune to visit his store. It was tense, twisty, with about as little regard for
propriety as it had for common sense. Never has a show incited viewers to shout
“buy some curtains” at the screen with more (6)_____(URGENT). Don’t get me
started on the lack of password protection on any devices crucial to the plot. 7. _________________
To get away with a protagonist who stalks and kills women, and who views his (7)
_______(MOTIVATE) for doing so as fundamentally decent, was always going to be
a push, but season one chose its targets with skill. The careful curation of an image 8. _________________
via social media was taken to its horrific extremes; those who suffered most were
rich snobs with those airy literary (8) _____(PRETENSE). The first season ended
with not one, but two big twists. (You is rarely understated.) Joe ended up killing 9. _________________
Beck, whom he’d (9)______(PRISON) in his glass cage in the (10)_____(BASE),
and Candace, the first girlfriend Joe thought he had murdered, turned out to be alive
and looking for revenge. 10. ________________

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in each
space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
'It's like a war': the fight for rice and toilet roll as coronavirus convulses Hong Kong
It is (1) ___________ of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Queues form at the (2) __________ of dawn every morning in
front of supermarkets across Hong Kong, with people scrambling to lay their (3) _________ on the basics: rice, toilet
rolls and disinfectant.
For the third week in a (4) _________ , supermarkets shelves that usually heave with bags of rice – a staple food for
Hong Kongers – are now (5) _________, and packs of noodles are running out too, although there is still plenty of
meat and vegetables. Supermarkets have started to (6) ________ a rationing policy limiting customers to two items
of the products in short (7)________.
Although Hong Kong has only 50 confirmed (8) ________ of coronavirus and one fatality, there is widespread anxiety
that the epidemic could last many months and basic necessities will (9)________ out. A deepened sense of crisis
once again grips the community, which has been blighted by months of anti-government protests in which over 7,000
people have been (10)_________.