PRACTICE TEST 4

I/ LISTENING
Part 1: You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1-6, choose the answer (A,B or C) which
fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract.

Part 2: You will hear a radio programme in which two people, Max Verstapp and Cara O’Dell, are
discussing amateur photography. For questions 16-20, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits
best according to what you hear.
II/ GAP FILLING
MODERN TECHNOLOGY
Technology, or the making and using of artifacts, is a largely unthinking activity. It emerges (1) ... unattended to
ideas and motives, while it produces and engages (2) ... unreflected-upon objects. We make dinner, sew clothes,
build houses, and manufacture industrial products. We use tools, turn on appliances, answer telephones, drive
cars, listen to radios, and watch televisions. In our technological society, all this happens mostly (3) ... habit - but
even in less technologically framed cultures the context of making and using is not so different, (4) ... the kinds of
making and using certainly are, and artifice itself is (5) ... prevalent. The need to think about technology is
nevertheless increasingly manifest. Indeed, the inherent complexity and practical efficacy of modern technologies
call (6) ... diverse kinds of thinking - scientific and technical, of course, but also economic, psychological, political,
and so forth. Within (7) ... a spectrum of approaches and issues, (8) ... does it mean to think philosophically about
technology? What basic stance and distinctions characterize such thinking?
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III/ CLOZE TEXTS

 Cyberia
People defend that on which they depend. This has been the way since (1) _____ immemorial. So the uncivilised
savages of indigenous and (2) _____ lands defend mundane, unimportant things like the animal herds, rivers and
forests that their lives depend on, often with their bodies. E-Homo sapiens defend a (3) _____ way of life, with its
factories, supermarkets, cheap flights and online shopping. It's a (4) _____ within us that's as problematic as it is
understandable. For a start, the old ways have become (5) _____ to us. Tanning buckskins by using deer brains,
to make clothes not dependent on deforestation and (6) _____ extinction, is no longer part of our economic
lexicon. This is (7) _____ difficult for an ex-vegan such as myself. I have witnessed the (8) _____ that industrial
civilisation has had on wildernesses and the animal kingdom first hand. Polyester, after all, is hardly vegan.
(1) A time B hour C moment D period
(2)A hereditary B genealogical C tribal D familial
(3)A enterprising B advancing C accelerating D progressive
(4)A pattern B tendency C propensity D susceptibility
(5)A alien B estranged C intolerable D incongruous
(6)A multitudinal B extensive C complete D mass
(7)A principally B notably C especially D specifically
(8)A impingement B impact C collision D brunt

IV/ READING
Part 1: You are going to read an extract from an article about golfer Sergio Garcia. For questions 31-
36, choose the answer (A,B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
Part 2: You are going to read an extract from a fantasy novel. Seven parts have been removed from the extract.
Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (37-43). There is one extra paragraph which you do
not need to use.
Part 3: You are going to read extracts from a travel writer’s journal. For questions 44-53, choose
from the sections (A-E). The extracts may be chosen more than once.
V/ WORD FORM

VI/ LEXICO & GRAMMAR

Think ONE word which is suitable for the three sentences.
Choose the best answer.
1. Little did I imagine The Amazing Race would entail long-winded journey and ups and downs ____.
A. aplenty B. inexhaustibly C. profusely D. superabundant
2. Researchers have made a(n) ____ plea for more sponsorship so that they can continue their project.
A. compassionate B. dispassionate C. encompassed D. impassioned
3. The old ship will be towed into harbour and ____ .
A. broken up B. broken down C. broken in D. broken off
4. Making private calls on the office phone is severely____on in our department.
A. frowned B. criticised C. regarded D. objected
5. Strong protests were made ____ with demands for an international enquiry.
A. joined B. added C. coupled D. included
6. What her problems all seemed to ____ to was lack of money.
A. analyse B. condense C. boil down D. sum up
7. The archaeologist was amazed to sse that the body hadn’t____________at all.
A. mouldered B. rotted C. wasted D. decomposed
8. The entire staff was thrown off ____________when the news of the takeover was announced.
A. composure B. disarray C. stable D. balance
9. The matter has been left in____________until the legal ramifications have been explored.
A. recess B. suspension C. abeyance D. waiting
10. Mr Wellbred went to a school which______ good manners and self-discipline.
A. blossomed B. planted C. harvested D. cultivated.
11. The smell of the burnt cabbage was so __________ that it spread to every room.
A. pervasive B. effusive C. extensive D. diffuse
12. I really cannot believe that anyone would ______ to such underhand tactics.
A. dabble B. stoop C. reach D. conceive
13. A property company was making a take-over ________ for the supermarket site.
A. proposition B. bid C. tender D. proposal
14. I’m not keen on _______ control of the project to a relative newcomer.
A. undertaking B. charging C. entrusting D. allotting
15. I’m _______to listen to your pathetic excuses,” She said.
A. sick and tired B. in no mood C. having enough D. sick to death
16. I wish you would stop sitting on the_______and decide whose side you’re on.
A. fence B. crossroads C. wall D. middle
17. Young children often ask many questions because they are naturally _______.
A. intriguing B. inquisitive C. ingenious D. captivating
18. We _______ more time with our children before they left for university. We were too busy with our jobs to
think about that.
A. wish we spent B. were supposed to be spending
C. would like to have spent D. regret that we didn’t spend
19. Though she lost her job last month, she still wanted to save_____ so she said that she had left it willingly.
A. mouth B. face C. reputation D. fame
20. The final winner will be the one who breaks through ______ and survives till the last minutes.
A. obstacles B. difficulty C. hindrance D. impediment
21. __________ perform a function that requires water to perform that function, you had better give that water to
the body in advance of the event.
A. Any time you want to B. Unless you want to
C. What you want to D. You want to
22. If your invitations are met with repeated__________, you should just leave him alone.
A. hypotheses B. negatives C. blunts D. rebuffs
23. I had all the information at my__________ before attending the meeting.
A. fingertips B. thumbs C. hands D. fingers
Choose A, B, C or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences.
24. Tom snored all night. I didn’t sleep a wink.
A. I didn’t sleep a wink, which made Tom snore all night.
B. Tom snored all night as a result of my sleeplessness.
C. What with Tom (‘s) snoring all night, I didn’t sleep a wink.
D. What made Tom snore all night was my sleeplessness.
25. We came in the room. Our boss was sitting in the front desk.
A. We came in the room, our boss was sitting in the front desk.
B. When we came in the room, our boss had been sitting in the front desk.
C. When we came in the room, in the front desk was sitting our boss.
D. Hardly had we come in the room when our boss sat in the front desk.
Find out 10 mistakes in the passage and CORRECT them.
My husband and I have three young children. He works full time and I work part time in a demanding,
stressful job. He is a hand-on dad, sharing practical childcare duties when not at work. The problem is that I take
the tiger’s share of the mental load when it comes to family life: all the planning, organizing and ultimate
responsibility. If something slips over my net, he won’t catch it.
I have tried to redress this. We tried to divide tasks evenly into practical ones and “thinking ones”, such as
remembering when are the kids due a dentist appointment. My husband puts up with his tasks to a variable extent,
but it’s 50/50 whether he’ll notice that something is needed/due.
I tried several times to discuss this balance, but it just ends in an argument. My husband thinks he does an
equal share and that I’m being unreasonable. I can’t seem to illustrate to him how much mental load I carry. I
know one approach would be to simply stop to do some of what I do and let him catch up. I have tried to do this
a little, but there are things I find harder to let go.
The past few years have been tough for both of us; among that and my job, I need a bit of headspace,
which is why I’d like to be able to share the family responsibility more even. How can I do that?
VII/ WRITING
A. Sentence Transformation

9. I am most proud of the fact that I no longer smoke. (kicking)

………………………………………………………………………………….. habit is what I am most proud of.
10. Due to a weather alert, this afternoon’s meeting was instead held at 11 am so people could leave work early.
(brought)
Due to a weather alert, this afternoon’s meeting………………………………………………….. 11 am so people could
leave work early.
11. He wasn’t very remorseful for his crimes. (showed)
He ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. the crimes he had committed.
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