10 Aug 2022 PRACTICE TEST 19 – ESC 20

PART I. LISTENING (50 points)

1. Section 1: Complete the form below. (10 points)
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Accomodation Form- Student Information

Name Anu (1)……………………………………….

Date of birtth: (2)……………………………………………

Country of origin: India

Course of study: (3) …………………………….

Number of years planned in hall: (4) ……………………………………

Preferred catering arrangement half board

Special dietary requirements: no (5)…………………… (red)

2. Section 2: You will hear three people discussing a film they have just seen at the cinema (Wendy,
Mrs Turner and Adrian). Choose the best answer A, B or C. (10 points)

1. Adrian mentions doing a course in order to show that

A. He wants to change the subject.
B. Mrs Turner is wrong about the dinosours
C. He knows what he is talking about
2. Adrian feels that watching a film at home
A. Is always better than going to the cinema
B. Is not something he wants to do again
C. Has advantages and disadvantages
3. What do Wendy and her mum disagree about?
A. Whether or not the film frightening
B. Whether or not Wendy covered her eyes
C. Whether or not the film is P.G rated
4. What is it suggested that they do now that the movie has ended?
A. Go straight home
B. Go for a drink
C. Go for dinner
5. Adrian doesn’t let Mrs Turner drive because
A. He enjoys driving
B. She will drink alcohol
C. They could get in trouble
3. Section 3: Listen to these two friends discussing the British national lottery. Choose T or F (10
points)

1. The man thinks that the lottery is nothing good.

2. This week was special for Tina because she went to Camelot.

3. Tina thinks that the lottery company keeps the money it makes.

4. Barry has played the lottery one time only.

5. Tina isn’t going to buy a lottery ticket next week.

4. Section 4: You will hear a part of a radio about an instruction that help addicts. Complete the
sentences with a word or a short phrase. (20 points)

There is one centre in the UK situated outside (1)…………………………The Thorndale method had had
success with people addicted to (2) ……………………………and (3)…………………

Addicts take part in a (4) ……………………of treatment. In a one-hour treatment session, smokers
cannot stop smoking even when they (5) ………………………

Smokers must keep smoking until they become (6)………………………….

Many patients find the course too difficult to finish and (7)……………………………….

Those who manage to finish the course are (8)……………………………to want to smoke again.

Alcoholics are allowed to become drunk under the watchful eyes of (9)…………………………

When they are later shown a video, most alcoholics feel (10)…………………………………

PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY  (50 points)

1: Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes the sentence. (20 points)
1. I’m ………………. too keen on visiting the Parkers again so soon.
A. that B. none C. such D. very
2 It’s no wonder the children felt disappointed because first their parents promised to take them to
Disneyland and then they …………. on their word.
A. played down B. drew out C. came off D. went back
3 It’s a change of a lifetime for me to see Tokyo, so I’ll try to ………………. the most of it.
A. catch B. do C. fulfill D. make
4 They are as like as two peas. It’s amazing how their parents can ………….. them apart.
A. tell B. mean C. distinguish D. see
5 Do you think this kind of meat …………….. itself to stewing?
A. allows B. gives C. offers D. lends
6 It was Martin who ……… the initiative in introducing our guest to the princess.
A. adopted B. took C. led D. pursued
7. I was awfully tired. However, I made up my mind to ………….. myself to the tedious task once again.

A. involve B. absorb C. engross D. apply

8 Ann’s encouraging words gave me ……….. to undertake the demanding task once gain.

A. a point B. an incentive C. a resolution D. a target

9 We are going to build a fence around the field with ………… to breeding sheep and cattle.
A. a goal B. an outlook C. a reason D. a view
10.You may feel sure the casting will be done perfectly, just ………….. your trust in me and you will see
I’m right.
A. lay B. forward C. grant D. allow
11. If hadn’t been for the hint that the professor ……………., nobody would have found out the correct
answer.
A. dropped B. cast C. threw D. flung
12. The Wilsons have found it terribly hard to make ………….. meet ever since they both lost their jobs.
A. ends B. strings C. coins D. limits
13. At first, Mark thought it would be great to building his own ranch, but he was forced to ………… the
idea when the bank refused to give him a loan.
A. depart B. leave C. cease D. abandon
14. Don’t …………. to phone Mrs. Whitman, I‘ve already talked to her.
A. concern B. bother C. mind D. worry
15. The …………. boards in the staircase would always wake us up whenever somebody climbed up at
night.
A. screeching B. cracking C. roaring D. creaking
16. We have to ……….. the hard times hoping that things will change for the better in the future.
A. maintain B. endure C. persist D. outlive
17. His parents have always wanted Phillip to set a good ……………. to his younger brothers both at
school and at home.
A. form B. model C. pattern D. guidance
18. The international conference of the Cardiological Association has been …………. in Cairo to discuss
the revolutionary discovery of doctor Gonzales from Mexico.
A. deployed B. collected C. mobilized D. summoned
19. To his own great …………… , professor Howard has discovered a new method of bulimia treatment.
A. reputation B. name C. fame D. credit
20. The book says that the revolution was ………….. off by the assassination of the state governor.
A. launched B. cropped C. triggered D. prompted
2. Fill in the blanks the most suitable preposition
1. When parents start to slit…………, it can be particularly for their children to cope.
2. People celebrate the Chinese New Year by letting ……… fireworks in the street.
3. Now that winter has set………, we can expect to spend more money on heating bills.
4.The examination has been put ………It’s now on Thursday instead of Monday.
5. I can’t do………..these buttons. Can you help me?
6. I’m done…………! Here comes my teacher and she’ll see I should be in my Maths lesson.
7. She’s trying to get on with her schoolmates but she doesn’t really fit ………..
8. He had to draw ………… his savings to pay his rent after he was made redundant.
9. I wish you wouldn’t fly…………. me like that every time I make a mistake
10. This composition would be better if you cut …………… the second photograph.
3. Give the correct form of the words in the brackets (10 points)
1. Be careful! That’s a ………………poison. (dead)
2. The talks were totally ………… We didn’t reach agreement on anything. (product)
3. The boy was very violent and his parents found him ………… (manage)
4. Tax exemption only applies to those with ………………… status. (resident)
5. …………………… books have been written on the subject. (number)
6. They are waiting for the doctor’s …………………. . (diagnose)
7. There was a heavy …………yesterday afternoon which completely ruined the church Garden Party.
(pour)
8. His contribution to medical science was outstanding laying the foundations for research by the
scientists who would follow in his (foot)..................
9. Cigarettes, coffee and alcohol and other (addict) ………….... are known to have an adverse influence
upon human health.
10. Marie Curie's life offers us a profound and fascinating (sight) ............ into the changing world of
women in science and academia
4. There are ten mistakes in the text . Identify each mistake, write it down and give your correction.
(10 points)
As far back as 700 B.C, man has talked about children to be cared for by wolves. 1. ____
Romulus and Remus, the legend twin founders of Rome, were purported to have been 2. ____
cared for by wolves. It is believed that why a she-wolf loses her litter, she seeks a human 3. ____
child to take its place. 4. ___
This seeming preposterous idea did not become credible until the late nineteenth 5. ____
century when a French doctor actually had found a naked ten-year-old boy wandering in 6. ____
the woods. He did not walk erect, could not speak intelligibly, or could lie relate to 7. ____
people. He only growled and stared of them. Finally the doctor won the boy's confidence 8. ____
and began to work with them. After many long years of devoted and patient instruction, 9. ____
the doctor was able to have the boy to clothe and feed himself, recognize and utter a 10. ____
number of word, as well as write letters and form words.
PART III: READING (60 points)
1. Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the text. (15 points)
Those who opt for a vegetarian diet must usually….(1) up a variety of aspects concerning the nutritional
value of vegetables and the adequacy of vegetarian meals in terms of the number of …… (2) provided to
the body. Vegetarianism is not a new concept, rather an ancient custom which evolved in the Far East
cultures on ethical or religious grounds. In today's world, it has been undertaken by many followers who
for a variety of reasons believe the vegetarian diet more preferable to that containing meat. For example,
there's the theory that animal meat wasn't originally a component of the staple human diet as mankind
evolved from foragers who later…..(3) a taste for flesh. Hence, our primeval ancestors are alleged to have
had a substantial…..(4) of proteins and vitamins from natural vegetation rather than from the meat of
hunted game . What's more, human teeth don't………….(5) much resemblance to those of animal
carnivores, and neither is our digestive system…….(6) to the meat eaters’ one. Apart from the enforced
vegetarianism of underdeveloped communities where populations deprived of animal protein ……. (7)
the natural vegetation, there's a rising acceptance of the vegetarian diet which …… (8) to be regarded as
an eccentricity……(9) from animal food, be it for religious, economic or humanitarian reasons, has been
a quickly spreading custom as, surprisingly, the vegetarian diet needn’t be dull or deficient. Yet, it does
involve taking good precaution to supply the body with a sufficient quantity of nutrients…….(10) from
corn, seeds and cereals.
1. a) judge b) weigh c) confer d) survey
2. a) nutrients b) foods c) cuisines d) condiments
3. a) generated b) acquired c) instituted d) accustomed
4. a) output b) offset c) upturn d) intake
5. a) infer b) assume c) bear d) pertain
6. a) equivalent b) reminiscent c) evocative d) synonymous
7. a) play down on b) come in for c) fall back on d) get on for
8. a) terminates b)ceases c) concludes d) finishes
9. a) Resistance b) Defiance c) Hindrance d) Abstention
10. a) comprising b) deriving c) procuring d) providing
2. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow by circling A, B, C, or D to indicate your
answers. ( 15 points)

Para 1
That night as Easton walked home through the rain he felt very depressed. It had been a very bad
summer for most people and he had not fared better than the rest. A few weeks with one firm, a few days
with another, then out of a job, then on again for a month perhaps, and so on.
Para 2
William Easton was a man of medium height, about 23 years old, with fair hair and moustache and
blue eyes. His clothes, though shabby, were clean and neat but the holes in his shoes made it painful to
walk.
Para 3
He was married: his wife was a young woman whose acquaintance he had made when he happened
to be employed with others painting the outside of the house where she was a general servant. Easton had
been in no hurry to marry for he knew that, taking good times with bad, his wages did not average a
pound a week. However, after going out for 18 months they were finally married.
Para 4
That was a year ago.
Para 5
As a single man he had never troubled much if he happened to be out of work. He always had enough
to live on and pocket money besides, but now that he was married it was different; the fear of being ‘out’
haunted him all the time.
Para 6
He had started for Rushton and Co. on the previous Monday after having been idle for three weeks
and, as the house where he was working hard to be done right through, he had congratulated himself on
having secured a job that would last till Christmas; but he now began to fear that what had happened to
Jack Linden – a very master craftsman – might also happen to himself at any time. He would have to be
very careful not to offend Bill Crass in any way. He was afraid that the latter did not like him very much
as it was. He knew that Crass would get him the sack at any time and would not scruple to do so if he
wanted to make room for some pal of his.
Para 7
Crass, the foreman, was quite without special abilities; he was if anything inferior to the majority of
the men he supervised. Even so, he pretended to know everything, and the vague references he was in the
habit of making to ‘tones’ and ‘shades’ and ‘harmony’ had so impressed Frederick Hunter that the latter
was completely taken in. It was by pushing himself forward in this way that Crass had managed to get
himself put in charge of the work.
Para 8
Although Crass did as little as possible himself, he took care to work the others hard. Any man who
failed to satisfy him was reported to Hunter as being ‘no good’ or ‘too slow for a funeral’ and was then
dispensed with at the end of the week. Knowing this, all the workers feared and hated the wily Crass.
Para 9
Some, by giving him pinefuls of tobacco and pints of beer, managed to stay in Crass’s favour and
often kept their job when better men were dismissed.
Para 10
As he walked home through the rain thinking of these things, Easton realized that it was not possible
to foresee what a day or even an hour might bring.

1. As he walked home, Easton felt depressed because__________.

A. it had been a bad summer for most people, including him
B. he was afraid of losing his job
C. he had recently got married, despite his low wages
D. his shoes were worn out and his feet were hurting
2. The fifth paragraph mentions Eason’s feeling of being ‘out’. This is a fear of________.
A. being unemployed C. having no where to live
B. not having any money D. falling out with his wife
3. Which word can best replace the word idle (paragraph 6)?
A. lazy C. useless
B. unemployed D. playing
4. The most senior person mentioned in the paragraph is___________.
A. Jack Linden C. Bill Crass
B. Frederick Hunter D. William Easton
5. Which of the following word has closest meaning to taken in (paragraph 7)?
A. deceived C. persuaded
B. absorbed D. influenced
6. Crass got his position because Hunter thought he was good at_________.
A. using language C. understanding color schemes
B. managing other people D. repairing or decorating houses
7. To keep his job, anyone working under Crass had to___________.
 A. work hard C. take care not to offend him.
B. give him presents D. make room for his ‘pals’ (friends)
8. Crass was__________.
A. a skilful worker but lazy C. not very skilful and also lazy
B. not very skilful but hard working D. a skilful man and a hard worker
9. What does the word dispensed with (paragraph 8) mean?
A. punished C. sent away
B. bullied D. sacked
10. A good title for the passage would be__________.
A. Foreman Crass C. Too Slow for a Funeral
B. An Uncertain Future D. A Miserable Walk
3. Fill each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered blanks provided below
the passage. (15 points)
CAMPING HOLIDAYS
Although it has a reputation for being rather basic in terms of home comforts, the modern material used in
(0) the manufacture of tents means camping is at least a lot less hard work. Nowadays tents are (1)
_________ lightweight that you hardly notice you're carrying them. They're easy to (2) _________ up yet
still a cheaper alternative to hotel accommodation.
Talk to an expert first before spending a lot of money (3) _________ a tent. Different tents suit different
needs and there's no point (4) _________ buying a mountaineering tent (5) _________ you're planning to
camp in these conditions. Don't (6) _________ tempted to splash out on all the latest equipment either.
Most of the fun of camping lies in the chance to get back to nature. There's no need to take anything more
(7) ________ the basics.
Always try to plan your arrival at the site long before (8) _________ gets dark. You will want to see (9)
_________ you're doing when you try to erect your tent. Don't forget to ask for permission if you're not
camping on a registered site, and remember to take a supply of food and drink with you in (10)
_________ the local shops are closed when you arrive. You can then enjoy your first meal under the stars
and begin to appreciate the joys of camping.
4. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A- E from the list of headings below (15 points)

Lists of Headings

I Seeking the transmission of radio signals from planets.

II Appropriate responses to signals from other civilizations

III Vast distances to Earth’s closest neighbors

IV Assumptions underlying the search fro extra-terrestrial intelligence

 V Reasons for the search fro extra - terrestrial intelligence

VI Knowledge of extra – terrestrial life forms

VII Likelihood of life on other planet

1. Paragraph B
2. Paragraph C
3. Paragraph D
4. Paragraph E
5. Paragraph A
Your answers

1 2 3

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?

The search for Extra- terrestrial Intelligence

The question of whether are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity for centuries, but we may now
stand poised on the brink of the answer to that question, as we search for radio signals from other
intelligent civilizations. This search, often known by the acronym SETI ( search for extra-terrestrial
intelligence), is a difficult one. Although groups around the world have been searching intermittently for
three decades, it is only now that we have reached the level of technology where we can make a
determined attempt to search all nearby stars for any sign of life.

The primary reason for the search is basic curiosity- the same curiosity about the natural world that drives
all pure science. We want to know whether we are alone in the Universe. We want to know whether life
evolves naturally if given the right conditions, or whether there is something very special about the Earth
to have fostered the variety of life forms that we see around us on the planet. The simple detection of s
radio signal will be sufficient to answer this most basic of all questions. In this sense, SETI is another cog
in the machinery of pure science which is continually pushing out the horizon of our knowledge.
However, there are other reasons for being interested in whether life exits elsewhere. For example we
have had civilization on earth for perhaps only a few thousand years, and the threats of nuclear war and
pollution over the last few decades have told us that our survival may be tenuous. Will we last another
two thousand years or we will wipe ourselves out? Since the lifetime of a planet like ours is several
billion years, we can expect that, if other civilizations do survive in our galaxy, their ages will range from
zero to several billion years. Thus other any other civilization we hear from is likely to be far colder, on
average, than ourselves. The mere existence of such a civilization will tell us that long-term survival is
possible, and gives us some cause for optimism. It is even possible that the older civilization may pass on
the benefits of their experience in dealing with threats to survival such as nuclear war and global
pollution, and other threats that we haven’t yet discovered.

B.

In discussing whether we are alone, most SETI scientists adopt two ground rules. First, UFOs
(Unidentified Flying Objects) are generally ignored since most scientists don’t consider the evidence for
them to be strong enough to bear serious consideration (although it is important to keep an open mind in
case any really convincing evidence emerges in the future). Second, we make a very a conservative
assumption that we are looking for a life form that is pretty well like us, since if it differs radically from
us we may well not recognize it as a life form, quite apart from whether we are able to communicate with
it. In other words, the life form we are looking for may well have two green heads and seven fingers, but
it will nevertheless resemble us in that it should communicate with its fellows, be interested in the
Universe, live on a planet orbiting a star like our Sun, and perhaps most restrictively, have a chemistry,
like us, based on carbon and water.

C.

Even when we make these assumptions, our understanding of other life forms is still severely limited. We
do not even know, for example, how many stars have planets, and we certainly do not know how likely it
is that life will arise naturally, given the right conditions. However when we look at the 100 billion stars
in our galaxy (The Milky Way) and 100 hundred billion galaxies in the Observable Universe, it seems
inconceivable that at least one of these planets does not have a life form on it; in fact, the best educated
guess we can make, using the little that we do know about the conditions for carbon-based life, lead us to
estimate that perhaps one in 100,000 stars might have a life-bearing planet orbiting it. That means that our
nearest neighbors are perhaps 100 light years away, which is almost next door in astronomical.

An alien civilization could choose many different ways of sending information across the galaxy, but
many of there either require too much energy, or else are severely attenuated while traversing the vast
distances across the galaxy. It turns out that, for a given amount of transmitted power, radio waves in the
frequency range 1000 to 3000 MHz travel the greatest distance, and so all searches to date have
concentrated on looking for radio waves in this frequency range. So far there have been a number
searches by various groups around the world, including Australian searches using the radio telescope at
Parkes, New South Waves. Until now there have not been any detections from the few hundred stars
which have been searched. The scale of the searches has been increased dramatically since 1992, when
the US Congress voted NASA$10 million per year for ten years to conduct a thorough research for extra-
terrestrial life. Much of the money in this project is being spent on developing the special hardware
needed to search many frequencies at once. The project has two parts. One part is a targeted search using
the world’s largest radio telescopes, the American-operated telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and the
French telescope in Nacy in France. This part of the project is searching the nearest 1000 likely stars with
high sensitivity for signals in the frequency range 1000 to 3000 MHz. The other part of the project is an
undirected search which is monitoring all of space with a lower sensitivity, using the smaller antennas of
NASA’s Deep Space Network.

There is considerable debate over how we should react if we detect a signal from an alien civilization.
Everybody agrees that we should not reply immediately. Quite apart from the impracticality of sending a
reply over such large distances at short notice, it raises a host of ethical questions that would have to be
addressed by the global community before any reply could be sent. Would the human race face the
culture shock is faced with a superior and much older civilization? Luckily, there is no urgency about this.
The stars being searched are hundreds of light years away, so it takes hundreds of years for their signal to
reach us, and a further few hundred years for our reply to reach them. It’s not important, then, if there’s a
delay of a few years, or decades, while the human race debate the question of whether to reply, and
perhaps carefully drafts a reply.

PART IV: WRITING (40 points)

1. Rewrite these sentences, using the word given. Do not change the words given. (10 points)

1. It was wrong of you to allow a 4-year-old child to walk home alone.

You should ..................................................................................................................................
2. Jane seems to come to the performance lat.
It looks .........................................................................................................................................
3. I could hold a big party due to my Mom’s help.
Had it ...........................................................................................................................................
4. Fiona was so disappointed that she could not keep on working.
Such .............................................................................................................................................
5. Although Richard is competent in his work, he does not know how to deal with this client.
Competent ...................................................................................................................................
2. Rewrite these sentences using the given words. You should not change the given words (10
points)
1) The villagers prepared themselves to withstand the coming storm. braced
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
2) All tenants must act in accordance with the regulations about guests. comply
………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
3) He became famous when his first book was published. publication
………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4) If you want to criticise, then the local authorities are the ones to blame. Criticism
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
5) The committee members said they would remain loyal to the Chairman. Pledged
………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. When taking about the quality of education in recent years some people say that it is still very
low because children’s mind bases on the exams. There is an opinion that exams should be
abolished. (20 points)

To what extent do you agree with the idea?

Use your own knowledge and experience , example to illustrate. ( 150- 200 words)

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