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Part 1 (10 points). Choose the correct answer from A, B, C or D to complete each of the following
sentences. Write it in ‘Your answers’ part.
1. Studies indicate _________ collecting art today than ever before.
A. there are that more people B. more people that are
C. that there are more people D. people there are more
2. I_________ my best suit - everyone else was very casually dressed.
A. needn’t wear B. mustn’t wear C. needn’t have worn D. mustn’t have worn
3. _________, it is obvious that the whole thing was a waste of time and effort.
A. None of us wanted to go in the first place
B. Staff meetings are often boring and have no apparent point to them
C. Since the results were far more satisfactory than anyone had expected
D. Seeing that we couldn’t solve anything in the end
4. _________ the high decrease in inflation, our currency seems to have increased in value.
A. Thanks to B. Despite C. As far as D. What’s more
5. Choose the word having the SIMILAR meaning to the underlined word.
The most important thing is to keep yourself occupied.
A. busy B. comfortable C. free D. relaxed
6. Helen was _________ disappointed when she learnt that she hadn’t won the beauty contest.
A. seriously B. bitterly C. strongly D. heavily
7. After congratulating his team, the coach left and allowed the players to let their _________ down and
enjoy themselves.
A. hearts B. heads C. hair D. souls
8. Choose the most suitable response to the following exchange.
Jennifer: “Hey, Tommy. What are you guys doing?”
Tommy: “_________”
A. We’re just chilling out. Do you want to come around?
B. I don’t think it’s a question I can discuss.
C. We’re talking to you, Jennifer!
D. I’m not sure if we’re doing something much.
9. The time has now come when it will be necessary to_________making a plan.
A. see about B. see over C. see through D. see into
10. We don’t have cupboards so we_________ boxes.
A. do away with B. make do with C. make allowance for D. keep an eye on
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: (10 points). There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in ‘Your answers’ part.
1 A newspaper makes its money from the price people pay for it and also from the
2 advertisings it carries. A popular newspaper with a circulation of over five millions daily
3 makes a lot of money. Less seriously newspapers are probably read just for entertainment.
4 They have big headings above the new stories, funny cartoons to look at and sensational
5 photos of violent. The gossip columns are full of stories of private live of famous people.
6 No one takes the political views of such papers seriously. On an other hand, in a free
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7 country where there is no censorship, serious papers are read principle for their news, send
8 to themselves by their correspondents around the world and by the big news agencies.
9 People also read these papers for their revisions of the new books, films and plays and for
10 their editorials what represent the opinion of the newspaper itself about the important events
and issues of the moment.
Your answers:
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1. 6.
2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.
Part 2 (10 points). Read the following text and choose the best answer for each question below. Write
your answer in “Your answers” part.
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Have you ever seen a ghost? I haven’t. And the only man I know who has seen a ghost is my
secretary, Mr. Steele. He is a quite careful man whose life is spent in dealing with facts. He is the last
person in the world to give way to fantasy. He has a wife and two children of whom he is proud, takes a
modest holiday abroad every year and spends his Sundays gardening. He is knowledgeable about art and
architecture, though he doesn’t pretend to be an expert by any means. It is, therefore, all the more
surprising that he should be so insistent about the ghost. It happened, so he said, like this:
He was travelling from London to the north of England by train. It was a misty November evening
and the train was half empty. In fact, for the first part of the journey Mr. Steele had the carriage to himself
and sat dozing over a newspaper. However, at the first stop a passenger jumped in, slamming the door
behind him. He seemed out of his breath as if he had been running. He was a striking looking young man
with dark, bushy hair and bright intelligent eyes. He was dressed rather oddly in a long waistcoat with
silver buttons, tight trousers and embroidered waistcoat. Mr. Steele didn’t pay much attention to this
because people wore all sorts of extravagant clothes these days and he had long grown accustomed to
them.
Presently, the two men got into conversation, as people do on long journeys. Mr. Steele was
interested to discover that the young man was very knowledgeable about art – in particular portraits. His
name, he said, was Robinson Hart, and he was on his way to visit an exhibition. It seemed that he worked
in a famous London Art Gallery – a picture restorer, perhaps, thought Mr. Steele, he seemed to know a
great deal about varnishes and paints, and even more about the subjects of certain portraits. When Mr.
Steele asked his opinion of the portrait of a famous judge by an artist he admired, his companion laughed
and said: “He’s only a reproduction – a good one I agree but you can’t talk to a reproduction”. He spoke
as though the person in the portrait were still living.
After a while the carriage got hot and steamy and Mr. Steele dropped off. He woke up just as the
train was drawing up at a junction with a grinding of brakes. His companion had disappeared.
A few days later, having returned to London, Mr. Steele found himself near the Art Gallery. Moved
by some impulse, he went in and inquired for Robinson Hart. The attendant directed him to a room
devoted to early nineteenth century portraits of well-known men. There was no one in the room and Mr.
Steele looked around him. Without knowing quite how he had got there, he found himself standing in
front of a full-length portrait of a young dark man in tight trousers and an embroidered waistcoat. The
eyes smiled at him with a hint of amusement. The name-placed at the foot of the picture read: Robinson
Hart, Gentleman, 1700-1744.
Part 3. (20 points) Read the following passages and do the tasks that follow.
A.
Aylito Binayo's feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning, she can run down the rocks to the
river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her village with a container of water on
her back. She has made this journey three times a day since she was a small child. So has every other
woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of south-western Ethiopia in Africa. Binayo left school
when she was eight years old, in part because she had to help her mother fetch water from the Toiro River.
The water is unsafe to drink; every year that the drought continues, the river carries less water, and its
flow is reduced. But it is the only water Foro has ever had.
B.
In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900
million people in the world have no access to clean water. Furthermore, 2.5 billion people have no safe
way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water and lack of proper hygiene cause disease and kill 3.3
million people around the world annually, most of them children. In southern Ethiopia and in northern
Kenya, a lack of rain over the past few years has made even dirty water hard to find. But soon, for the first
time, things are going to change.
C.
Bringing clean water close to villagers’ homes is the key to the problem. Communities where clean water
becomes accessible and plentiful are transformed. All the hours previously spent hauling water can be
used to cultivate more crops, raise more animals or even start a business. Families spend less time sick or
caring for family members who are unwell. Most important, not having to collect water means girls can
go to school and get jobs. The need to fetch water for the family, or to take care of younger siblings while
their mother goes, usually prevents them ever having this experience.
D.
But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are overwhelming. Locating
water underground and then reaching it by means of deep wells requires geological expertise and
expensive, heavy machines. Abandoned wells and water projects litter the villages of Konso. In similar
villages around the developing world, the biggest problem with water schemes is that about half of them
break down soon after the groups that built them move on. Sometimes technology is used that can't be
repaired locally, or spare parts are available only in the capital.
E.
Today, a UK-based international non-profit organization called WaterAid is tackling the job of bringing
water to the most remote villages of Konso. Their approach combines technologies proven to last - such as
building a sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that would otherwise drain away. But the real
innovation is that WaterAid believes technology is only part of the solution. Just as important is involving
the local community in designing, building and maintaining new water projects. Before beginning any
project, WaterAid asks the community to create a WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) committee of seven
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people. The committee works with WaterAid to plan projects and involve the village in construction.
Then it maintains and runs the project.
F.
The people of Konso, who grow their crops on terraces they have dug into the sides of mountains, are
famous for hard work. In the village of Orbesho, residents even constructed a road themselves so that
drilling machinery could come in. Last summer, their pump, installed by the river, was being motorised to
push its water to a newly built reservoir on top of a nearby mountain. From there, gravity will carry it
down in pipes to villages on the other side of the mountain. Residents of those villages have each given
some money to help fund the project. They have made concrete and collected stones for the structures.
Now they are digging trenches to lay pipes. If all goes well, Aylito Binayo will have a tap with safe water
just a three-minute walk from her front door.
The reading passage has six paragraphs, A-F. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from
the list of headings below. Write the answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
LIST OF HEADINGS
Your answers i Why some plans have failed
1. Paragraph A ______ ii A rural 2.and urban problem
Paragraph B ______ 3. Paragraph C ______
4. Paragraph D ______ iii A possible 5. Paragraph
success E ______ 6. Paragraph F ______
iv Explaining a new management style
Questions 7 – 10: v Some relevant statistics Complete the
sentences below. vi A regular trip for some people
Choose NO MORE vii Treating people for disease THAN TWO
WORD AND/OR A viii How water can change people’s lives NUMBER from the
passage for each answer. Write the
answers in the numbered space.
7. The water levels in the Toiro River are falling because of ______.
8. Globally, the number of people who die each year as a result of using dirty water is ______.
9. When families have clean water, they can spend more time ______.
10. Specialist knowledge and equipment are needed to dig ______.
Your answers:
7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 4 (15 points). Fill ONE suitable word into each numbered blank. Write it in ‘Your answers’ part.
Many people say that one of the most difficult decisions in their life is choosing what to do for a
living when they grow up. Starting our life (1)_____ a right profession is very important because the
future of young people depends on this choice. That is why they must choose it with utmost (2)_____
analyzing all pros and cons.
In our modern fast paced world, there are plenty of new interesting and socially important
professions. The future profession (3)_____ not be boring for you. It should (4)_____ your interests and
your features of character. You might choose working indoors or outdoors, (5)_____ with people or just
with papers. In other (6)_____, you should enjoy the work you do. It should also satisfy your career plans
and (7)_____ ambitions. It should provide us with a chance of professional growth and personal
development.
I am sure that all of us want to earn as much money as (8)_____. However many young people are
wise (9)_____ to follow a definite career and earn quite a low salary (10)_____ the beginning. They
realize they have so good prospects in a company which trains its staff (11)_____ soon they can climb the
career ladder. At the (12)_____ time, there are young people who prefer (13)_____ any kind of work
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because they just need an (14)_____. Even (15)_____ we must admit that any temporary jobs help us gain
much useful experience and we can learn a lot from working.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part 5 (15 points). You are going to read a magazine article about members of a part - time drama club
called The Globe Players. For questions 1-15, choose from the people A-F. The people may be chosen
more than once. When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
SECTION C. WRITING
Part 1 (10 points). Using the word in capital letters, complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first one. Do not change the word given.
1. What you are saying is quite irrelevant. (BESIDE)
= What you are saying ………………………………………………………………
2. In the end, it was such a good day. (OUT)
= After all, it …………………………………………………………………………………..
3. Unlike other languages, Esperanto has no irregular verbs. (UNIQUE)
= Its lack of …………………………………………………………………………
4. I don't mind which make of car you choose. (NO)
= It is of …………………………………………………………………….....................................
5. Perhaps my sister was bad-tempered because she was tired. (FACT)
= I put my sister’s …………………………………………………………………….................................
Part 2 (20 points). Your pen pal, Thu who lives in Ho Chi Minh city has sent you an email to invite you
to spend the summer holiday with her.
Write an e-mail to her. In your e-mail, you should accept the invitation, ask her about the details of the
holiday that you are going to have together.
You should write about 80 - 100 words.
You do NOT need to write your address.
Dear Thu,
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Best wishes,
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Part 3 (30 points). Write a story (about 120-150 words) beginning with the following sentence:
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SECTION D. LISTENING
Part 1 (10 points). You will hear part of a talk about taking a course in English. For questions 1-10,
fill in each blank with one missing word. Write A, B, C or D in “Your answers” part.
Hello, everyone. Before you start your course, we would like to tell you a little about the
background of how the course is designed. You will have an opportunity to discuss the (1)________ you
would like the course to have in the first two units. We are (2)______you will benefit from the course if
you can agree on what is important to do and how you would like it to be done.
The emphasis of this course is on (3)_______ how native speakers use English, describing how the
language is used, discussing difficulties, and practising the language as it is really used.
Much of the material, particularly in the second part of each unit, may seem simple; from a
(4)______and (5)_______point of view, that is. The emphasis, however, is not on knowing, nor even
understanding, such language, but on being able to use it yourself.
This course is not for those who want to know something about English, but for those who wish to
use it effectively as a means of spoken (6)_________.
The following (7)________ are made throughout the course:
1. It is possible to study the spoken language, and this is in no way (8)_______to the written language.
2. Some students find grammar rules helpful, others do not, but nobody finds rules helpful which are full
of (9)________.
3. It helps to learn more words, but it often helps more to learn to use those you already know more
effectively.
4. At your level, discussing the language and how it is used is an essential element in learning.
5. It helps to use (10)_______materials.
This course is not for those who want to know, but for those who want to use the language. The most
important objective of the course is to help you to be yourself in English.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2 (20 points): You will hear a woman asking a tutor for more information about a Media Studies
course at a university. For questions 11-20, listen and write whether the following statements are true
(T) or false (F). (Before listening you’ll have 1 minute to look at this part).
T/F
11. Louise worked at a radio station for about 4 years.
12. Louise doesn’t like her job at present because she thinks it has few promotion
opportunities.
13. Louise wants to do a Masters because employers like post-graduate qualifications.
14. Louise‘d like to study part-time.
15. It will take 4 years to do the Masters part-time rather than the modular route.
16. To join the course, Louis must have research experience and a completed thesis.
17. The fees for studying part-time are £2250 a year.
18. Universities only provide funds for students who meet criteria.
19. Students can find the details on funding on the university website.
20. Louise should phone the office in advance to make sure that Mark is available.
Part 3 (20 points): Listen to an interview with a health worker about vaccination programmes in less
economically developed countries. For questions 21-30 choose the best answer (A, B or C).
21. The proportion of the world’s children receiving vaccinations is...
A. just over two thirds.
B. just under three quarters.
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C. just over four fifths.
22. One achievement mentioned by the expert is that...
A. measles cases have fallen by one quarter.
B. polio has almost been eradicated.
C. there are 200,000 fewer tetanus cases since the 1980s.
23. The expert warns against...
A. investing too heavily in immunisation and neglecting other health issues.
B. assuming that recent achievements are sufficient and withdrawing funding.
C. giving children one vaccination and not delivering a full course of injections.
24. According to the expert, many children do not get immunized if they...
A. are already sick.
B. live in isolated rural areas.
C. do not live within an established system.
25. Leaflets are not effective means of advertising immunisation programmes because...
A. some people cannot read.
B. they are expensive.
C. they do not reach people in isolated areas.
26. To ensure that vaccinations reach everyone, it is necessary to...
A. have an education programme in place as well.
B. pinpoint where the system fails and address these issues.
C. only hire health workers who are well trained and trustworthy.
27. To solve the storage problem, the expert’s organisation is...
A. training health workers how to store vaccines properly.
B. building cheap fridges that work reliably without mains electricity.
C. creating vaccines that can be stored at any temperature.
28. The expert mentions that computers are necessary to...
A. manage distribution.
B. maintain communication.
C. keep knowledge up-to-date.
29. The expert advises against using vaccines which are...
A. cheap. B. unbranded. C. not pre-qualified.
30. A DALY is...
A. the amount of time lost when a person is ill or dies prematurely.
B. the amount of money a country spends on its health service.
C. the loss of earnings due to ill-health and caring for relatives.
Your answers:
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
_THE END_