FINAL EXAM (GRADE 11 – ADVANCED)

Year of 2021-2022
(Elite Selection – First Round)

Please record all your answers on the provided answer sheet. The test consists of 8 pages with 100 questions.
You are allowed 1 hour 30 minutes to complete the test. You may not use a dictionary during the test.

Part 1 (GRAMMAR) Choose from A, B, C or D the most suitable answer for each question.
1 Can you believe that my son Carl ate a(n) .............. box of chocolates yesterday?
A few B all C whole D some
2 If people drove their car less often, the air .............. so polluted.
A isn’t B wouldn’t be C won’t be D wouldn’t have been
3 They asked me .............. I wanted to join them in the upcoming project or not.
A if B what C how D whether
4 She .............. to her parents about her exam results. Now they are not talking to each other.
A needed to lie B can’t have lied
C ought not to lie D shouldn’t have lied
5 Had she not stayed up late last night, she .............. sleepy now.
A wouldn’t feel B won’t feel C doesn’t feel D wouldn’t have felt
6 While my car .............., I strolled around the neighborhood looking for a smoke.
A was being serviced B serviced
C had been serviced D was servicing
7 Everyone agrees that the man deserves .............. the truth.
A knowing B know C to know D being known
8 Owning a motorbike is .............. owning a car.
A as expensive than B much more cheaper than
C less expensive than D more and more cheaper as
9 .............. the book twice, he refused to watch the movie adaptation.
A Reading B Having read C To read D Read
10 Not until she came to the show .............. how wonderful it was.
A that she realised B does she realise
C did she realised D did she realise
11 The boy was made .............. his room before he was allowed to hang out with his friends.
A to tidy B tidied C tidying D tidy
12 The house .............. basement flooded during the storm is now being sold at a reasonable price.
A which B that C who D whose
13 The director insists that each and every one of the new employees .............. on time for work.
A arrives B arrive C to arrive D should have arrived
14 You should do .............. you have been instructed to avoid disappointing the boss.
A as B like C such as D unlike
15 Most of us think that little boy is not very .............. .
A blue-eye B poor-behaved C thin-paper D well-mannered
16 .............. my friends agree to tag along, I won’t come to the party as I like having company.
A If B Unless C Supposed D As far as

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17 Before she immigrated to the US, she .............. as an elementary school teacher for 5 years.
A has worked B would have worked
C had been working D was going to work
18 He told you the news personally, ..............?
A wasn’t it B was it C didn’t he D did he
19 A new idea for the school’s festival has yet .............. .
A come up B to come up C coming up D to be come up
20 .............. I need right now is a good sleep.
A That B It is C What D Which

Part 2 (WORD FORM) Supply the correct forms of the words in bold.
21 The ........................ in the weather patterns in this region makes it impossible to forecast whether it is
going to rain tomorrow. CHANGE
22 The investigators found some sort of ........................ ring at the crime scene with the initials J.K on the
inside of the ring. ENGAGE
23 Sandy is one of the most ........................ people I’ve ever known. GO
24 A set of protocols for handling a patient who has just been tested positive for COVID-19 should be
........................ as soon as possible. STANDARD
25 The boxes have been stacked very ........................, and I’m afraid that they will fall onto someone.
EVEN
26 Betty’s grandfather is considered to be the most ........................ activist here. INFLUENCE
27 The military’s interference in the peace talks has not gone ........................ by the international press.
NOTICE
28 The newly-erected marble wall serves as a(n) ........................ landmark to the fallen soldiers.
COMMEMORATE
29 When asked what the most ........................ skill in English is, most students gave the answer ‘Writing.’
CHALLENGE
30 The language became popular and began to be spoken ........................ in 1998. GLOBE

Part 3 (SENTENCE GAP) Fill in each blank with a suitable word from the givens. Some will not be
used.
dread historically childishly devastated
fussy promoted intimidate overthrown
imitate charitable efficiency apologetically
31 The villages along the coast were ........................ by the hurricane last month.
32 The ........................ of public services can determine how prosperous a community is.
33 Children as young as 3 years old have a tendency to ........................ what their parents do.
34 Due to a lack of government’s funding, the organisation has to rely on ........................ donations from
the public.
35 The waiter ........................ asked if we could move to a different table, but we refused.
36 The news reported on TV today was so awful that it filled me with ........................ .

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37 She decided to break up with him because she felt that he had been behaving ........................ and
irresponsibly.
38 He said that Allende's government in Chile was ........................ by the army and the CIA in 1973.
39 He worked very hard and was ........................ to the position of CEO in just under 2 years.
40 The city will provide grants to help restore ........................ significant buildings.

Part 4 (GUIDED CLOZE) Choose from A, B, C or D the most suitable word or phrase to fill in each
blank.

Ewan McGregor
Seven years ago, Ewan McGregor was still at drama school. Now he's
the 41.............. British actor of his generation. “So how do you audition
for Star Wars, one of the most popular phenomena in Hollywood
history?”
“That was really scary.” Ewan McGregor smiles 42.............. real
enthusiasm. “I was more nervous than I 43.............. for a long time.
Sitting there, feeling really scared again. It was brilliant!”
44.............. every young actor in Hollywood was competing for a part,
McGregor simply met the casting agent, talked to director George
Lucas and did a screen test. During the interview he sounds 45..............
casual as you like, trying to sum up his life right now. “It's all going so
unbelievably well,” he admits, “you start to worry that something really
terrible is going to happen.”
The Star Wars project was kept 46.............. a secret that McGregor wasn't allowed to tell anyone,
47.............. his parents and his wife, Eve. “When I found out, I walked all day around with my eyes wide
with delight, but 48.............. knew what I was excited about.”
McGregor wanted to be an actor from the age of nine and has pursued his dream since then with
49.............. burning enthusiasm and determination.
Evidently, he was so keen on acting that even his parents, who were teachers, gave him their blessings
to leave school at 16. “I didn't hate school,” he explains. “I just didn't get it. I just remember 50..............
many of the teachers. They said I had attitude problems.”

41 A leading B pioneering C heading D hitting

42 A in B on C under D with
43 A have been B was C had been D am
44 A Because B While C Therefore D Until
45 A just B as C like D more
46 A so B too C such D much
47 A apart B apart for C except from D except
48 A everybody B somebody C anybody D nobody
49 A almost B most C mostly of D most of
50 A not to like B to like C not liking D liking

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Part 5 (PHRASAL VERBS) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions to make meaningful phrasal
verbs.

51 Her friends think that she takes ........................ her father in that they both like fishing.

52 Children brought ........................ in remote areas are often not properly schooled.

53 They gambled away all their savings and ended ........................ with nothing left in their bank
accounts.

54 It was difficult to pass ........................ messages during time of war because communication was
often intercepted by the enemies.

55 The ongoing conflicts call ........................ a peaceful settlement before they escalate into a full-scale
war.

56 Yesterday I met my old school friends and we spent hours catching ........................ on the good old
days.

57 According to some experts, petrol prices will likely go ........................ in June and won’t drop until
September.

58 We should do ........................ with all the formalities and get down to business immediately.

59 The man had to sell three of his houses to pay ........................ his wife’s debts.

60 I can’t make ........................ anything you say due to all this loud music.

Part 6 (MULTIPLE MATCHING) You are going to read a text about five people who got into serious
trouble with the police when they were young but went on to become respectable members
of society. For questions 61-74, choose from the people (A-E). The people may be chosen
more than once. There is an example.

Which of the people

• went back to school? Example D

................

• were forced to leave home? 61 ................ 62 ................

• did the same job as his father? 63 ................
• have children? 64 ................ 65 ................
• belonged to a gang? 66 ................ 67 ................
• are grateful to somebody? 68 ................ 69 ................
• was good at sport? 70 ................
• had a supportive parent or parents? 71 ................ 72 ................
• injured a friend? 73 ................
• was arrested for stealing? 74 ................

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A Michael Madsen
Hollywood actor Michael Madsen had a long history of delinquency before he decided to leave his life
of crime behind. When he was twenty-one, Madsen and his friend, Mark, were caught robbing a sports
goods store in Arizona. Madsen recalls seeing a police officer pointing a gun at his head, ready to shoot.
‘I think at that moment it could have been over for me,’ he says. As a juvenile, he had been arrested for
various things including car theft, drink driving and burglary, but it wasn’t until this arrest that he
realised that the criminal life wasn’t for him. After his release, he went to see a theatre production of Of
Mice and Men, which inspired him to become an actor, and, as his acting career took off, Madsen’s life
began to straighten out. ‘I am a good role model to my kids,’ says the father of five, who often plays a
criminal on screen.

B Alan Simpson
Former US Senator, Alan Simpson, served two years’ probation when he was seventeen for vandalising
property. Simpson, whose father had also been a US senator, grew up in a loving, stable home. His
mother once told Time magazine that Alan did have a temper’, and she recalls punishing him for
throwing rocks at other children. Simpson remembers the look his parents gave each other when the
judge passed sentence. ‘They must have thought: “Where have we failed?” ’ Simpson thanked his
probation officer publicly during his first election campaign, saying he had been a great influence on
his life and had helped him make it to that moment. He strongly believes in giving kids a second chance
and believes that most children will and do turn out all right in the end.

C Terry K Ray
Terry K Ray got into trouble from an early age. When he was ten, he threw a bottle top at his best friend
during a fight. Unknown to him, the bottle top had a piece of glass in it, cutting his friend above the eye.
The friend’s father called the police and filed a complaint, and Ray was put in a juvenile detention centre
for six months. During the next few years Ray constantly got into fights. His mother punished him by
beating him, but when, aged fourteen, he refused to let his mother hit him any longer, she kicked him
out. Reflecting on this period of his life, Ray remarked, ‘I had so much anger, so little respect for authority
and such a short fuse that I could easily have killed someone.’ Today Ray is a successful criminal
defence lawyer and family man. He says he owes this to several individuals - teachers and counsellors
- who helped him.

D Lawrence Wu
Son of Chinese immigrants who both had university degrees, Lawrence Wu was an extremely bright
child. Wu’s problems didn’t start until his early teens when his father left home, leaving his mother to
raise him and his brothers. When the family was forced to move to a poorer neighbourhood, Wu joined
a local gang. It was an instant jump to ‘coolness’. But, when he started coming home with low grades,
his mother kicked him out. Wu gradually dropped out of school. He was constantly in trouble for fighting
rival gangs, but when he was arrested along with a friend for attempted murder, he decided he had to
leave the gang. Wu moved back in with his mother, who helped him make the transition from gang life
back to school. He eventually made up his lost years of education, and graduated in law. Wu now works
as a corporate tax lawyer, but still thinks about the damage and pain he caused his family.

E Bob Beamon
Former long-jump Olympic athlete, Bob Beamon, was already getting into trouble by the time he was
nine. Beamon’s mother had died when he was an infant and his step-father had done little in the way
of parenting, ending up in prison himself. At fourteen, Beamon ran away from home, joined a gang and
regularly got into fights. He vividly recalls the day when he stood in front of the judge accused of
assaulting a teacher. ‘The judge was obviously interested in helping kids. He must have seen something
in me,’ Beamon reflects. ‘He said he was going to take a chance. Instead of sending me to jail, he sent
me to an alternative school along with other juvenile delinquents.’ It was a place where he had time to
learn that there was more to life than trouble.
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Part 7 (OPEN CLOZE) Read the text and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word only.

Enrico Rastelli
Enrico Rastelli was probably the greatest juggler the world has ever known. Juggling involves throwing a
number of objects up into the air and catching them 75......................... dropping a single one. Rastelli was
able to juggle as many as eight balls at the same time. However, 76......................... made him a genius
was his perfect style, rather than the quantity of objects he 77......................... juggle.
Rastelli’s contributions to juggling were many. He started using rubber balls 78......................... of the
cotton balls that were 79......................... use at the time. These rubber balls are now standard. It was
Rastelli, too, who began the now commonly seen practice 80......................... throwing a ball into the air,
and then catching 81......................... on a stick held in his mouth.
Enrico Rastelli was born into a circus family in Siberia in 1896. Although he spent some of his early years
in Italy, it 82......................... in Russia that he acquired his juggling skills. It was not uncommon
83......................... him to practise twelve hours a day, and this dedication was reflected in his astonishing
performances. The degree of control shown 84......................... Enrico Rastelli has never been equalled.

Part 8 (READING COMPREHENSION) Read the passage and choose from A, B, C or D the most
suitable answer for each question.

Volcanoes: Sleeping threat for millions

They died where they stood. Violently, with almost no warning. Wealthy women in their jewels. Armed
soldiers. Babies. Almost 2,000 years ago a seaside town in southern Italy had the misfortune to be in the
shadow of Mount Vesuvius - one of Europe’s active volcanoes - at the wrong time. The 16,000
inhabitants of the Roman towns of Herculaneum and neighbouring Pompeii who were buried beneath
30 metres of dust on an August night in ad 79 bear silent witness to the destructive force of volcanoes.
Objects of terror and fascination since the beginning of human time, volcanoes take their name from
Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. Today there are some 1,350 active volcanoes in the world. At any given
moment, somewhere between one dozen and two dozen are throwing out ash and molten rock from the
earth’s core. Approximately one billion people live in their dangerous shadows. Experts expect the
number to rise. The rapid growth of population, greater competition for land and an increase in urban
migration are driving more and more people to settle around volcanoes, significantly increasing the
potential loss of life and property in the event of eruptions.
Despite major advances in technology, the ability to predict when a volcano might erupt remains
imprecise. But meeting the challenge is vital because volcanoes are ‘people magnets.’ A recent study
identified 457 volcanoes where there are one million or more people living within 100 kilometres. Many
of these volcanoes - several in Indonesia and Japan, for instance - have surrounding populations greatly
exceeding one million. Today, 3.75 million people live within 30 kilometres of the summit of Mount
Vesuvius in the southern Italian city of Naples. ‘What do they do if it starts erupting? No one can imagine
evacuating a city the size of Naples,’ said C Dan Miller, chief of the US Geological Survey’s Volcano
Disaster Assistance Program.
Persuading people to move permanently out of hazard zones is not usually an option. Many of the land-
use patterns are long established, and people just won’t do it,’ Miller went on. ‘The only thing you can do
is have systematic volcano monitoring to detect the earliest departure from normal activity.’
Nowadays it is easier to predict volcanic activity, but evaluating the threat of eruption is frequently still
difficult. Mexico City knows the problem well. The city, which has a population of more than twenty

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million, lies within 60 kilometres of the summit of Popocatepetl, a volcano which has erupted at least
fifteen times in the last 400 years. The flanks and valleys surrounding ‘Popo’ have been evacuated
several times since 1994 in response to earthquakes and eruptions of volcanic ash and plumes of steam.
Each time the mountain has settled down without a major eruption, although some activity has
continued. Yet when, or if, a major eruption will occur next remains unknown.
‘There could be weeks, months, or years between the time a volcano shows some activity and the time
of its eruption,’ said Miller. ‘It may never erupt. Most people are willing to be evacuated once. But if
nothing happens, the loss of credibility could cause people to ignore future warnings.’
Volcanic eruptions, when they do come, are sometimes relatively slow and quiet. There was no loss of
life when the world’s largest active volcano erupted in 1984. The people who lived in the r proximity of
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano had plenty of time to get out of the way when it erupted in 1984. Its lava
crept down the slope at about the speed of honey. At other times the eruption is sudden and violent, and
evacuation unfortunately comes too late.

85 What happened when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79?

A The rich managed to escape.
B It covered many towns with dust.
C A few people were killed.
D People were unprepared.
86 What do experts think will happen in the future?
A More volcanoes will become active.
B People will move away from volcanic areas.
C More people will set up home near volcanoes.
D Around one billion people will die in volcanic eruptions.
87 According to the article, what is the present situation regarding volcanic eruptions?
A Eruptions are most likely to happen in Indonesia and Japan.
B Experts can predict when there will be a volcanic eruption.
C Most large cities have no appropriate evacuation plans in place.
D People will be less affected than before.
88 What does ‘do it’ in paragraph 4 refer to?
A go and live somewhere else
B build farms on the land
C force people to leave the area
D leave the area until the danger has passed
89 What does the article say about Popocatepetl?
A There was a major eruption in 1994.
B Experts expect a major eruption within a few years.
C Nobody knows whether it will erupt again.
D People who live nearby are fed up with being evacuated.
90 Why was the eruption of Mauna Loa less dangerous?
A People had been evacuated from the area beforehand.
B People were able to keep ahead of the lava.
C Scientists had warned people well in advance.
D It was not a major eruption.

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Part 9 (SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION) Complete the second sentence so that its meanings stay
the same with the first sentence. Your answer has to include the word in bold with its
unchanged form. You must use between THREE and SIX words including the word given.
91 We had lunch in a small room on the second floor of the diner.
WAS
→ ……………………………………………………... a small room on the second floor of the diner that we had lunch.

92 I’ll introduce you to a girl. Her name is Helen.

IS
→ The girl who I will introduce you to ……………………………………………………... .

93 They thought that the painting had been stolen by a famous artist.
BELIEVED
→ The painting ……………………………………………………... by a famous artist.

94 Not only was the presentation long, but it was also very boring.
AND
→ The presentation ……………………………………………………... .

95 You should take a map because you might get lost in these mountains.
CASE
→ Take a map ……………………………………………………... in these mountains.

96 She has never watched such a thrilling film before.

SO
→ Never before ……………………………………………………... a film.

97 We’ve got a dishwasher, so it wasn’t necessary for you to wash the dishes.
WASHED
→ You needn’t ……………………………………………………... because we’ve got a dishwasher.

98 I haven’t been skiing for three years.

BEEN
→ It ……………………………………………………... I last went skiing.

99 Everyone expects that the director will win an award for her film.
EXPECTED
→ The director ……………………………………………………... an award for her film.

100 Tim is the only person to have made a sculpture for the school exhibition.

FROM
→ ……………………………………………………... made a sculpture for the school exhibition.

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