PART I. LISTENING (2.

0 PTS)
Section I. (1.0 pt)
1-10. Listen and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer in
the corresponding numbered blanks to complete the following sentences.
ANTARTICA
GEOGRAPHY
- world’s highest, coldest and windiest continent
- more than (1) ________________________ times as big as the UK
- most of the area is classified as (2) ________________________
RESEARCH STATIONS
- international teams work together
- (3) ________________________is integrated with technical support
- station contain accommodation, work areas, a kitchen, a (4) ________________________and a gym
- supplies were brought to Zero One station by sledge from a (5) ________________________at the edge
of the ice 15 km away
- problem of snow build-ups solved by building stations on (6) ________________________with
adjustable legs
FOOD AND DIET
- average daily requirement for an adult in Antarctica is approximately (7) ________________________
kilo calories
- rations for field work prepared by process of freeze-dying
RESEACH
The most important research focuses on climate change, including
- measuring changes in the ice-cap (because of effects on sea levels and (8)
________________________)
- monitoring the hole in the ozone layer
- analyzing air form bubbles in ice to measure (9) ________________________ caused by human activity
WORK OPPORTUNITIES
Many openings for (10) ________________________people including
- research assistants
- administrative and technical positions

Section 2: (1.0 pt)

11-20. In this part, you will hear five speakers. Each speaker talks about a related topic. In this example all
the speakers are talking about holidays. Write down ONE letter from A to H next to each speaker to show
what issue they are talking about.
For questions 11-15, choose from the list (A to H) the type of holiday the person had.

11. Speaker 1 A. a mini-break

B. a stay with relatives
12. Speaker 2 C. a walking holiday
D. a cottage holiday For questions 16 –
13. Speaker 3 20, choose from the
E. a break at home
list (A to H) what
14. Speaker 4 F. a tropical destination
each speaker is
G. a camping trip expressing.
15. Speaker 5 H. a family wedding

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 A. it wasn’t as restful as expected
16. Speaker 1 B. it was a break from the usaul
routine
17. Speaker 2 C. it had several unforgettable
moments
18. Speaker 3
D. it was a surprisingly a good place
19. Speaker 4 for shopping
E. it was a great cultural experience
20. Speaker 5 F. it was less problematic than past
holidays
G. it was a surprisingly relaxing
H. it was a wonderful achievement

PART II. PHONETICS (0.5 PT)

I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others by circling the
letter A, B, C or D. (0.3 pt)
1. A. artisan B. C. craftsman D. refusal
cosmopolitan
2. A. comfortable B. apprehension C. appliance D. advantage
3. A. decade B. decay C. development D. destruction
II. Choose the word whose main stress pattern is different from that of the others by circling the letter A, B, C or D.
(0.2 pt)
1. A. octopus B. dialect C. momentum D. monastery
2. A. puppeteer B. committee C. appearance D. restriction

PART III. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (3.0 PTS)

I. Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences. (1.0 pt)
1. A child’s mind is like a ________ and what your draw on it is what the child will be. 
A. fresh book B. blank sheet C. white paper D. new leaf
2. I don’t take ________ to being disobeyed. That’s a warning!
A. well B. gently C. nicely D. kindly
3. You should not ________ breakfast because the first meal provides you with energy for the morning.
A. skip B. miss C. omit D. leave
4. My car was so old that I could only sell it for ________.
A. rubbish B. scrap C. debris D. waste
5. Tina and her new classmate are getting on like a ________ on fire.
A. tree B. bush C. pan D. house
6. On the island ________ the only representation of the islands’ handicraft.
A. remains B. does it remain C. did it remain D. has it remained
7. The lecture’s been cancelled, so we might ________ go for lunch now.
A. at least B. at all C. as well D. or else
8. This evidence should prove ________ that he was telling the truth.
A. once and for all B. from time to time C. now and then D. over and above
9. Snow is still falling ________ so the Met Office is advising people to stay at home.
A. skin and bones B. cats and dogs C. thick and fast D. chalk and cheese
10. ________, he felt so unhappy and lonely.
A. Despite his wealthy B. Rich as was he
C. In spite of his being wealth D. Rich as he was
II. Complete each sentence using a verb from column A in the correct form and a suitable particle from column B.
You can use any particle more than once. (1.0 pt)

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 A B
bring – run – push – see – take – pay – set – off – out – up – ahead – through –
get – cut – look about – aback – around

1. The forecast has revealed that the world’s reserves of fossil fuel will have _________________ by 2025.
2. My sister decided to _________________ with the aim of becoming the youngest ever winner of the championship.
3. Whenever I read a mystery novel, I always _________________ to find out the ending to the story.
4. They will _________________ the gas supply to the flat if the tenants fail to pay their bill.
5. I’m not going to give your car back until you have _________________ the whole debt you owe me.
6. It's getting late - I'd better _________________ lunch.
7. I was very _________________ by her aggressive attitude.
8. I didn’t want to discuss the matter but he insisted on __________ it __________.
9. I tried to call her, but I couldn’t _________________.
10. When we were kids, my older brother liked to __________ me __________.

III.Think of one word which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Number ‘0’ is an example. (0.5 pt)
0. After being responsible for two false starts, the athlete was disqualified from the sprint.
I couldn’t understand what Grandma was saying until in her false teeth.
Making false statement to the police is an offence.
1. He took off his hat as a ________ of respect for her dead husband.
She had a red ________ on her arm where she'd burned herself.
I've put a ________ on the map where I think we should go for a picnic.
2. You should ________ more respect to your parents.
The drug does not ________ up in blood tests because it is effective in very small quantities.
Recently, he's really starting to __________ his age.
3. There's a growing __________ that this country can no longer afford to be a nuclear power.
We have poor brand __________ in the Asian market.
She gained __________ as an expert in energy conservation.
4. He has the ability to get straight to the __________ of a problem.
The earth's __________ is a hot, molten mix of iron and nickel.
When I heard the news, I was shaken to the __________.
5. I’m fortunate because my job has __________ hours, and I can come and go pretty much as I want.
The wire has to be __________ enough to go around corners of the room.
Companies can now be more __________ about where they site their operations.

IV. Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the passage bellow. (0.5 pt)
Cacti have enjoyed an (1. edure) __________________ popularity among gardeners spanning several
centuries. Perhaps this is due in part to their unusual appearance: more often than not, they consist of (2. swell)
__________________ stems covered in spines. Unlike other plants, cacti can squat in their pots, (3. appear)
__________________ in suspended animation, for months, showing little sign of growth or ovservers with
their (4. glory) __________________ vibrant colours. Added to this is the fact that they come in a huge variety
of shapes, sizes and forms, so many gardeners, myself included, find themselves (5. resist)
__________________ drawn to these extraordinary plants.

PART IV. READING (2.5 PTS)

I. Choose the best option A, B, C or D that best fits each of the blanks to complete the passage. (1.0 pt)
From the moment they leave the security of their accustomed environment, travelers are at risk. (1)
_________ arise not just from strange diseases they meet on their travels but from other factors too: seemingly
uninspiring home (2) _________ such as safe water supplies, sanitation and public hygiene controls, legal
safety standards for monitoring vehicles and road (3) _________, are easily taken for granted, but simply do
not exist in many countries. Environmental factors such as arduous conditions, (4) _________ climate, and
high altitude may constitute a danger; and so may travelers’ own behavior, free from the (5) _________ of the
daily routine, and determined to have a good time with scant regard for the consequences.
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 When illness or injury occur abroad, travelers are again at a disadvantage – from (6) _________ to
communicate with a doctor on account of language or cultural difficulties, or being unable to find a doctor
owing to (7) _________ of the local medical system. There may be a complete (8) _________ of skilled
medical care, or of medical facilities of a standard acceptable to travelers from technologically sophisticated
countries.
When symptoms of an illness (9) _________ abroad do not appear until after return home a final hazard
becomes apparent: the symptoms may be unfamiliar, may pass (10) _________, and the correct diagnosis may
not be considered until it is too late.
1. A. Complications B. Questions C. Hazards D. Changes
2. A. cares B. comforts C. aids D. helps
3. A. maintenance B. quality C. improvement D. technology
4. A. worsening B. unusual C. sudden D. adverse
5. A. regulations B. restraints C. certainties D. assurance
6. A. difficulty B. inflexibility C. timidity D. inability
7. A. misuse B. doubt C. ignorance D. disbelief
8. A. absence B. disruption C. failure D. breakdown
9. A. formed B. received C. gained D. acquired
10. A. unrecognized B. unknown C. unforeseen D. unearth
II. Read the following article. Five sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the
sentences A-F the one that fits each gap. There is one extra sentence that you do not need to use. (0.5 pt)
Traditional education creates, in time, an in complete image on family’s gender roles. From generation to
generation children interiorize theirs parent’s model known as “ separated world’s myth ” – a wife and a
mother only cooking, doing laundry and taking care of the child “contrasting” with a husband and a father
working or fixing different things. (1) D.

Changing traditional gender roles seems to be difficult not because woman or man don’t have the necessary
skills for other one’s tasks but because everyone carries on a symbol of his “world”. (2) F.

Women of our days have more liberty to choose between the “family model” – these ones are being more
obedient and anchored in tradition (the feminine type) and the “feminist model” – whose priority is the career
(the anti-feminine type) or the middle model adopted by the “double career” type of woman – profession and
family. On the base of any of these choices are variables like social-status, race, education level, culture’s
values etc.

(3) __________. Women are motivated to choose the career by elements as the wish for financial
independency, the need to prove her capacities, to open and better integrate in modern society and the
possibility to control and not being only controlled. All this reasons offer her a psychological equilibrium.

(4) __________. Even at first side man and children are felling the stress generated by the new status of
woman, she’s living an interior conflict as well. Woman need to understand her need for self- accomplishment
but the remains of traditional mentality still affect her modern vision.

So our children should make a difference on gender roles perspective but we are in a vicious circle because
every family is raising their kids for a passed time, influenced by their own mentality and resistance to change.
(5) __________.

A. We are assisting to a reprioritization of women’s needs and so professional success became more interesting
and even attractive than family one probably because it brings something new.
B. The main idea is that both women and men should consider this role’s exchange like a challenge and also
accept that a man as well as a woman can do anything with willing.
C. Alternatively, it is the process for women to redefine gender roles that allows for them to acquire the ability
to choose between known alternatives whom have otherwise been restricted from such an ability.
D. According to this mentality each partner has established responsibilities in private and public life that other
one couldn’t take over.

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E. Most of the men consider women’s career as a conflict source having arguments like: women will neglect
theirs family attributions, the imminent change of man’s authority, his incertitude concerning the professional
competition and the risk to deteriorate the marital relation.
F. Society’s evolution especially on woman valorization redefines gender roles promoting a woman more
active, ambitious and independent and a man more emotional and involved in household tasks.

III. Fill each blank with a suitable word to complete the passage. (1.0 pt)
The fact that we are not sure (1) ________ ‘intelligence’ is, nor what it is passed on, does not prevent us from
finding it a very useful working concept, and placing a certain amount of reliance (2) ________ tests which
‘measure’ it.
In an intelligence test we take a sample of an individual’s (3) ________ to solve puzzles and problems of
various kinds, and if we have taken a representative sample it will (4) ________ us to predict successfully the
level of performance he will reach in a wide variety of occupations.
This became particularly important when, as a (5) ________ of the 1944 Education Act, secondary schooling
for all became law, and grammar schools, with the exception of a small number of independent foundation
schools, became available to the whole population. Since the number of such schools in the country could
accommodate at most approximately 25 per cent of the total child population of 11-plus, some kind of (6)
________ had to be made. Narrowly academic examinations and tests were felt, quite rightly, to be heavily
weighted in favour of children who had had the (7) ________ of highly-academic primary schools and
academically biased homes. Intelligence tests were devised to counteract this narrow specialization, by
introducing problems which were not an (8) ________ to access the general ability to any child to think,
reason, judge, analyze and synthesize by (9) ________ him with situations, both verbal and (10) ________,
which are within his range of competence and understanding.

PART V. WRITING (2.0 PTS)

I. Rewrite each of the following sentences using the word given in bold in such a way that it means the same
as the original one. (0.5 pt)
1. It was only when the film had ended that I remembered to switch off the oven. did
Not ___________________________________________________________________ to switch off the oven.
2. You cannot justify your recent behaviour with that excuse. no
That excuse is _____________________________________________________________ behaving recently.
3. If you refuse to go to bed until three, naturally you’re going to be tired. insist
If you ________________________________________________________________________________
until three, naturally you’re going to be tired.
4. He often gets ill at this time of year. prone
He ______________________________________________________________________ at this time of year.
5. As it was my first offence, I was just given a warning. let
I ______________________________________________________________ because it was my first offence.
II. Rewrite each of the following sentences beginning with the words given so that it has the same meaning
as the original one. (0.5 pt)
1. If Mike hadn’t been interested, the trip would have been cancelled.
But ______________________________________________________________________________________.
2. They have been having discussions on the issue for over two weeks.
Discussions ______________________________________________________________________________ .
3. He could certainly make a decision on whether learning abroad is a good idea.
There is every ___________________________________________________________________________ .

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4. Jack doesn’t know all the answers, though he pretends to.
Jack acts ________________________________________________________________________________.
5. The tourists were unharmed after the train crash.
The tourists were none ____________________________________________________________________.