PART I: LISTENING (15 pts)

PART 1:
1. The weekly radio programme is on
A topics suggested by listeners.
B local news items.
C listeners' hobbies
2. The process of stamp production is
A difficult.
B expensive.
C time consuming.
3. In the search for suitable subjects, people are invited to
A research a number of topics.
B give an opinion on possible topics.
C produce a list of topics.
4. Topics are sent for final approval to
A a group of graphic artists.
B the Board of Directors.
C a designers' committee.
5. Australian artists receive money
A only if the stamp goes into circulation.
B for the design only.
C for the design and again if it is used.
PART 2:
Questions 1 – 5:

WESTLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM
Example answer:
NAME: Camden
FIRST NAME: Peter
ADDRESS: Flat 5
53 (1) _________________________________
Finsbury
POSTCODE (2) ____________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH 8th July (3) _____________________________
HOME TEL None
MOBILE TEL (4) ___________________________________
PROOF OF RESIDENCE PROVIDED (5)_____________

Questions 6 – 8:
What type of books does Peter like?
A Wildlife books
B Romance books
C Travel books
D Historical novels
E Science Fiction novels
F Mystery books
Questions 9 and 10:
9. How much does it cost to join the library?
________________________________
10. How much does it cost to rent a DVD?
________________________________
PART II: PHONETICS (5pts)
I. Choose the word - A, B, C or D - that has its underlined part pronounced
differently from the other three in each question. (2.5pts)
1. A. mischief B. relief C. belief D. chief
2. A. canary B. share C. baron D. pharaoh
3. A. chorus B . chore C. chronicle D.
synchronize
4. A. perfect B. correct C. hectare D. select
5. A. southern B. truth C. south D. cloth
II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others
by circling A, B, C, or D. (2.5pts)
1. A. admirable B. accessible C. compatible D.
respiratory
2. A. humane B. unite C. colleague D. canteen
3. A. descent B. dissent C. discontent D. content
4. A. eradicate B. kilometer C. characterize D.
communism
5. A. technical B. origin C. agriculture D. cathedral
PART III: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
I. Choose the best word or phrase to fill in each gap in the following sentences.
(5pts)
1. He got his university degree last year. Now he’s doing ............ studies.
A. graduate B. graduating C. postgraduation D. graduation
2. I will only sign the papers ............ my solicitor.
A. within reach B. of the agreement of
C. under surveillance of D. in the presence of
3............. our pre-paid order, they failed to send us the items in time.
A. With respect to B. Regardless of
C. On behalf of D. Without any notice of
4. Not only……….in the project, but he also wanted to becom the leader.
A. did Jack involve B. had Jack been involved
C. was Jack involved D. Jack was involved
5. I assure you that I ............ no prejudice against what you are doing.
A. harbor B. shelter C. imply D. shadow
6. I felt a bit ............and seemed to have more aches and pains than usual.
A. out of sorts B. on the mend C. over the worst D. under the
fevers
7. The inn owner was so generous. What we consumed was ............ the house.
A. in B. on C. off D. of
8. Although the cyclist was unhurt, his bicycle was ............ between the lorry and
the wall.
A. clapped B. crushed C. split D. banged
9. The school was closed for a month because of a serious ............ of fever.
A. outcome B. outburst C. outset D. outbreak
10. You should iron out the ............ in that dress.
A. wrinkles B. crumples C. folds D. creases
11. I don’t think he’s ever been there, ............?
A. do I B. has he C. do you D. hasn’t
he
12. I would appreciate ............ it a secret
A. you to keep B. your keeping C. that you keep D. that you
will
keep
13.After congratulating his team, the coach left, allowing the players to let their
............ down for a while.
A. hair B. heads C. hearts D. souls
14. ............there are more cars in Los Angeles than people.
A. Fact that B. As fact that is C. The fact that D. It is a
fact that
15. The management are making ............ to increase the company’s efficiency.
A. measures B. steps C. moves D. deeds
16. They had a four-day holiday, then began work ............
A. on end B. out of bounds C. in proportions D. in
earnest
17. The draw’ took place yesterday, but the competition winners ............
 A. are yet to be announced B. haven’t been yet announced
C. yet are to be announced D. haven’t announced yet
18. I haven’t seen Jane for nearly ten years, ............she had got married and had
two children.
A. for that duration B. at that point C. during which time D. in that
time
19. He is a nice guy but I don’t know why he ............so rude today.
A. is B. has been C. is being D. is to
be
20. Lisa: “It’s nearly the end of the holiday already.” Mary: “........................!”
A. How time flies B. Let’s call it a day
C. It’s a small world D. There’s nothing to it
II. Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them.(5pts)
The Chinese are very generous when it comes to the education of their children.
No caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or
even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their
children to take extra – course activities which they will either learn a musical
instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The
Chinese believe that the most expensive an education. Even poor couples will buy
a computer for their son or daughter. However, what most parents fail to see is that
the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents
can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in the
others. What most parents fail to realize, though, is that today children lack self-
respect and self-confidence. The problem is that parents are only educating their
children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents
are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy,
or clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills as cooking, sewing,
and doing another housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve much of the
skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an
enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his
cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully.
His result, a well-cook dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-
confidence.
1 __no___ __not____ 2 __which___ ___in
which___
 3 __most___ ___more___ 4 __the others___
___others___
5 __as___ __such as____ 6 __another___ ___0___
7 _____much ___many___ 8 __experience___
__experiment____
9 __well-cook___ __well-cooked____ 10_____
______
III. Fill in the blank with a suitable preposition: (5pts)
1. The murderer has been condemned ……to……. death.
2. I was ill for 2 weeks, so I’ve fallen …behind…….with my work.
3. My plans for starting a restaurant fell ……through…….for lack of capital.
4. …among……….those present at the ceremony was the local MP, Claire Sims.
5. The cat jumped ……over…….the wall and landed in next door’s pond.
6. At the library yesterday, I ran ……into…….an old friend.
7. Before you say no, please calm ……down…….and listen.
8. How could you stand……by…….and watched him beat the children like that?
9. Nobody was taken ……in…...... by his story although it seemed convincing at
first.
10.You can’t talk me …into……….giving you more money. I’ve given you
enough
already.
11.The only way one can tell the twins……apart…….is by their haircuts.
12.The death penalty was done …away……….in Britain many years ago.
13.Tom got carried …away……….by the music and wouldn’t stop singing.
14.The doctor thinks he’ll pull……through.……..now. His temperature has gone
down.
15.She swims so well that she really should go ……for.……..the competition.
16.Because she kept putting ……off…….going to the dentist, her toothache got
worse.
17.Are you going to sit ……around……. and let me do everything?
18.The Democratic Party came ……into…….power this year.
19.This composition would be better if you cut ……down…….the second
paragraph.
20.After the flood, hundreds of volunteers came…forward……….with offers of
assistance.
IV. Use the most suitable form of the verbs in brackets: (5pts)
1. Sally! I.........didn’t expect.........(expect not) to see you here! What...are you
doing ...................(you do) here
in New York?
2. Whatever........happens............(happen), I.....will week.................(meet) you here
in a week's time.
3. Since I....paid................... (pay) for our lunch, I...tried.............(try) to attract the
waiter’s
attention.
4. You (not buy) .........needn’t have brought.............. your umbrella for we are
going by car.
5. You should have been more careful. You (avoid) …should have avoided……
having had this
accident.
6. Not until later did they discover that the picture (steal) …had been stolen
………
7. I waited under the clock! - So did I, but I didn’t see you! We (wait) ...had been
waiting. under different clocks.
8. She was breathing fast and deep, as if she (run) …had run……..
9. It is very cold. Mr. Taylor, who has been ill recently, is walking along the road
without a coat. He (wear) …is wearing…….. a warm coat.
11.Although (found) …founded…….many centuries earlier, Luxor did not reach
preeminence until about 2000 B.C.
12.I would like (give) …to have been given……... the chance to explain my point
of view, but they
weren’t interested.
13. There (be) .......being...........nothing else to say, he declared the meeting close.
14.The police are stopping all the cars. They (look for) .....are looking
for...................the escaped
prison.
15. I didn’t do the test well. I (prepare) …should have prepared…… it very
carefully at home.
16. My uncle would rather that I (not leave) …hadn’t left …….yesterday.
17.Just inside the outer layer of the earth’s atmosphere (be) …are…… the
elements
necessary to protect it from ultraviolet rays, extreme temperatures, and
threatening foreign substances.
V. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. (5pts)
The Desire to Know
Curiosity goes back to the dawn of human (0) _____ EXIST
existence _____. This irresponsible desire to know is not a (1) CHARACTER
___characteristic______ of inanimate objects. Nor does it
seem to be
attributable to some forms of living organism which, for that RECOGNISE
very reason, we can scarcely bring ourselves to consider alive.
A tree, for example, does not display (2) CEREMONIO
__recognizable_______ curiosity, nor does a sponge or even US
an oyster. If chance events bring them poison, predators or DEPEND
parasites, they die as (3) __ceremoniously_______ as they ORDINARY
lived. RIGID
Early in the scheme of life, (4) ___independent____ motion
was ZEAL
developed by some organisms. It meant an (5) CONSERVE
_extraordinary________
advance in their control of the environment. A moving ROUND
organism no longer waited in stolid (6) ___rigidity______ for
food to come its way, but went out after it. The individual that INCREASE
hesitated in the (7) ___zealous______ search for food, or that
was
overly (8) ___conservative______ in its investigation,
starved.
As organisms grew more complex, more messages of greater
variety were received from and about the (9)
___surrounding______ environment. At the same time, the
 nervous system, the living
instrument that interprets and stores the data collected by the
sense organs, became (10) ____increasingly_____ complex.

VI. Fill in each gap with the most suitable phrase or sentence provided. Some
of the suggested answers do not fit at all. (5pts)
WELLS AMI BENNETT
During their lifetimes, H.G Wells and Arnold Bennett achieved a public
fame of a kind that has been accorded to (1) ....M.............. before or since. They
would not have had it if (2) ..........A......., and yet the nature of the fame (3)
.......K........... as such. It was essentially that of the journalist, the popular pundit (4)
..........B....... with complete self - assurance. With Shaw, (5) .........J......... was also
a product of journalism, they divided between them the empire of the press,
(6) ......C............
All that (7) .........D......... as novelists. Both were men (8) .......G........... in
fiction, to say nothing of their short stories, Wells wrote nearly fifty novels,
Bennett thirty. Of these, perhaps ten of Wells’s are still valuable (9) ..........F........ if
the best of the scientific romances are included, and, (10) ........E.........., five of
Bennett’s.
A. they had not been novelists in the first place
B. prepared to pronounce on any subject under the sun
C. the most highly paid writers in the Anglo-Saxon world
D. has nothing to do with their merit
E. more certainly
F. in their own right
G. of vast output
H. if they had wanted to
I. is generally acknowledged
J. whose popular reputation
K. had little to do with their novels
L. was undeniably
M. no other English novelist
 PART V: WRITING (20pts)
I. Rewrite the following sentences, using the words in the bracket or beginning
as shown. The second sentence must be as close as possible in meaning to the
first. (5 pts)
1. Interrupting when someone is speaking is rude. (CUT)
- It’s rude to cut in……………………..when someone is speaking.
2. They had to dismantle their vehicles to get them across the gorge. (PIECES)
..... They had to take their vehicles to pieces to get them across the
gorge..........................................................................................
3. I’m interested in finding out something about fire-fighting. (GIVE)
..............................................................................................
4. My father is going to be really angry when he finds out that I’ve lost the car key.
(WALL)
... My father is going to go up the wall when he finds out that I’ve lost the car
key...........................................................................................
5. The Conservative Party won the election that year. (POWER)
....... the Conservative Party come into power that
year.......................................................................................
6. My brother’s not feeling terribly well these days.
My brother ..is out of sorts these days.........................................................................
7. Her success went beyond her expectation.
Never..did she expect her
success..................................................................................
8. I wasn’t a bit surprised to hear that Karen had changed her job.
- It came as no surprise to me that Karen had changed her
job..............................................................................
9. Just thinking about his face at that moment makes me laugh.
The very...thought of his face at the moment makes me
laugh .............................................................................
10. He had just begun his speech when there was a noise of breaking glass.
- He was on the point of beginning his speech when there was a noise of breaking
glass.

II. Write a paragraph (about 150 words): (15pts)

Do you agree with the following statement :
“Mobile phones are of great use. Therefore students should be
allowed to use them at school.”
Agree
Body:
-support:
+ help students in their study (search for information to answer the teacher
question)
+ can use mobile phones to take a picture of the lesson to study later when
they can’t catch up with what the teacher is saying
+ teacher can use different methods to teach when the students bring their
phone such as Kahoot
- counterarguments
+ some students may just keep playing games on their phones so they pay no
attention to the lessons
+ Students/school have to pay money for 3G/wifi to access the internet
- THE End -