PRACTICE TEST 21

PART A. PHONETICS (10 POINTS)

Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others’.

1. A. vertical B. mineral C. vulnerable D. wilderness

2. A. creature B. nurture C. capture D. mature
3. A. teenage B. dosage C. voyage D. carriage
4. A. individual B. graduate C. schedule D. endure
5. A. procedure B. proficient C. profession D. prominent

Choose the word whose main stress is different from that of the others’.

6. A. concept B. absorb c. arrest D. compile

7. A. tobacco B. dietary c. aggressive D. intuitive
8. A. juvenile B. submarine c. underline D. comprehend
9. A. untrustworthy B. inattentive c. biographer D. appropriate
10. A. supernatural B. ecotourism c. infrastructural D. beneficiary

PART B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (40 POINTS)

Choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.
11. It has been a good year. I_____two books and several short stories, all of which are
now in print.
A. have written B. have been writing c. will have written D. had written
12. Liverpool beat local___, Everton, by two goals to one last Saturday.
A. opponents B. supporters c. enemies D. foes
13. Most newspapers are usually____towards a certain political outlook.
A. prejudiced B. justified c. presumed D. biased
14. Do you expect him____treated in this way?
A. to not object to be B. not to object to be
c. not to object to being D. not object to being
15. She____for her parents' support during her university education, but she preferred
to work part-time and support herself.
A. should have asked B. could have asked
c. must have asked D. ought to ask
16. It took the woman a few minutes to_____after she had fainted.
A. get round B. come round c. get by D. come by
Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following passage.
Nowadays, we use different products for personal cleanliness, laundry, dishwashing and
household cleaning, but this is very much a 20 th-century development. The origins of cleanliness
date back to (36. HISTORY]________________________________times. Since water is
essential for life, the (37. EARLY) ____________ people lived near water and knew
something about its cleansing properties - at least that it rinsed mud off their hands.
During the excavation of ancient Babylon, evidence was found that (38. MAKE - SOAP)
_________________was known as early as 2800 BC. Archaeologists discovered cylinders
made of clay, with inscriptions on them saying that fats were boiled with ashes. This is a method
of making soap, though there's no (39. REFER)___________________to the purpose of
this material.
The early Greeks bathed for (40. AESTHETE)___________reasons and apparently
didn't use soap. Instead, they cleaned their bodies with blocks of sand, pumice and ashes, then
anointed themselves with oil, and scraped off the oil and dirt with a metal instrument known as a
strigil. They also used oil mixed with ashes. Clothes were washed without soap in streams. The
ancient Germans and Gauls are also (41. CREDIT) ____________ with discovering how to
make a substance called 'soap', made of melted animal fat and ashes. They used this (42.
MIXTURE)_to tint their hair red.
Soap got its name, according to an ancient Roman legend, from Mount Sapo, where
animals were sacrificial, leaving deposits of animal fat. Rain washed these deposits, along with
wood ashes, down into the clay soil along the River Tiber. Women found that this mixture (43.
GREAT)_____________________reduced the effort required to wash their clothes.
As Roman (44. CIVIL) ____________ advanced, so did bathing. The first of the
famous Roman baths, supplied with water from their aqueducts, was built around 312 BC. The
baths were luxurious, and bathing became very popular. And by the second century AD, the
Greek physician Galen recommended soap for both (45. MEDICINE) and cleansing
purposes.
(adapted from learnenglish.britishcouncil.org')

Find one word that can fill in the blank of the three given sentences.
Example:
0.____mouth____
a. In small villages news travels fast. It is spread by word of_________.
b. Their house was built near the__________of the river.
 c. The bad smell that was coming from his_________put off all the girls in our class.
46. __________
a. Wait till you hear this. It’ll blow your___________.
b. When discussing influential modem artists, three names immediately come to___.
c. Stacy couldn't stand it anymore. She decided to speak her__________.
47.
a. He was asked to__________for his presence at the scene of crime.
b. She retired early on__________of ill health.
c. The company takes___________of environmental issues wherever possible.
47. __________
a. The government had abandoned the refugees to their___________.
b. By a strange twist of__________, Andy and I were on the same plane.
c. It would be tempting__________to say that we will definitely win the game.
48. __________
a. The discos also includes a/an___________from one of his earlier operas.
b. They are unlikely to___________much benefit from the trip.
c. The dentist had to__________the tooth as it was badly decayed.
49. __________
a. He received the award in__________of his success over the past year.
b. He glanced briefly towards her but there was no sign of___________.
c. There is a general__________of the urgent need to reform.

PART c. READING (35 POINTS)

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
In Britain, the average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which is
around four per cent of their income. That might not sound like much, but that figure hides two
far more (51)____________________trends for society and for the environment. First, a
lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently (52) __________
approximately £670 per adult to credit card companies. That's 66 per cent of the average
wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don't have, they're using it to
buy things they don't need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which
(53)______________________landfill sites.
People might not realize they are part of the (54)_______clothing problem because
they donate their unwanted clothes to charities. But charity shops can't sell all those unwanted
clothes. 'Fast fashion' goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to
recycle; people don't want to buy it second-hand. Huge quantities (55) being thrown away,
and a lot of clothes that charities can't sell are sent
abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.
However, a different trend is springing up (56) ________ consumerism - the 'buy
nothing' trend. The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US,
where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber
Monday during Thanksgiving weekend. On Buy Nothing Day people organize various types of
protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organize the (57)
____________________________________and repair of items they already own.
The trend has now reached (58)______on social media who usually share posts of
clothing and make-up that they recommend for people to buy. Some YouTube stars now
encourage their (59)______not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year. Two
friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months,
they learned how to live (60)_____________buying electrical goods, clothes or things for
the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example haircuts, eating out at
restaurants or buying petrol for their cars. In one year, they'd saved $55,000.
[adaptedfrom iearnenglish.britishcouncil.org)
51. A. concerning B. worrying c. concerned D. worried
52. A. pay B. send c. owe D. borrow
53. A. falls to B. goes into c. comes into D. sends to
54. A. disposable B. disposal c. disposing D. disposed
55. A. lead off B. end up c. turn out D. result from
56. A. in objection to B. in contrast with c. on contrary to D. in opposition
57. A. exchange B. sharing c. changing to D. trading
58. A. leaders B.starters c. influencers D. headers
59. A. readers B. listeners c. watchers D. viewers
60. A. on B. by c. without D. in

Read the following passage and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. BLACKPOOL
Many English people now go abroad for their holidays in search of better weather. For
many years these were the only commercial trams still operating in Britain. By far the biggest of
these resorts is Blackpool, which still welcomes some six million visitors every year.
At the beginning of the 19th century, Blackpool was a little-known fishing village on the
north-west coast of England with a population of fewer than 500. The arrival of the railways in
1846 linked Blackpool with the industrial towns in the counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
This gave the inhabitants of these towns the chance to (61)_________________________
away from their smoke-filled environment and seek fresh air on the coast.
The visitors soon began to demand organized entertainment and Blackpool was quick to
oblige. Theatres and dance halls were quickly provided for the holidaymakers, but the (62)
______________________striking building was Blackpool Tower, which was erected
between 1891 and 1894. The tower was built in imitation of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (63)
_______________it is hardly half the height of the French original. Nevertheless, for
many years it was Britain’s tallest structure. The Tower contained a highly decorated ballroom
and the Tower Circus.
Along a large part of the seafront is the so-called Golden Mile, a lively area of hot- dig
stands, amusement arcades and fortune tellers. At the southern end of the seafront stands the vast
Pleasure Beach, (64)________________________of exciting rides and more amusement
arcades. The Pleasure Beach, which has more visitors every year than any other tourist
attraction(s) in Britain, has provided Blackpool with a second tower. This is a 50-metre- high
column (65)________________the Space Tower, which an observation car ascends to
give a panoramic view of the coastline.
One of the principal attractions of Blackpool to many people is the trams which run along
the seafront. For many years these were the only commercial trams still operating
in Britain. However, in recent years several cities (66)____________re-introduced trams
on to their streets.
Blackpool has the longest holiday season of any seaside town in Britain. Whilst summer is,
no doubt, the busiest time of year, conferences and exhibitions (67) place in spring and
autumn. From early September until the end of October, crowds come in their thousands to see
the Illuminations, when the seafront is transformed (68) a glittering display of colored lights
and scenes, with
trams disguised as moon rockets and American showboats.
Blackpool is not (69)____________everyone's taste but it is a town with a basic
honesty. It does not claim to be smart and sophisticated but simply a place (70) people can
come and have fun.
(adapted from How to pass FCE - Exam practice in Reading)

Read the following passage and choose from the film (A-H) to each question. Some of the
films may be chosen more than once.
Which film ...
71. is about a person who moves to another part of the country for work? ___________
72. concerns people for whom work is the only thing that matters? _____
73. has people bringing different values to another community? _____
74. is successful largely because of a young actress? _____
75. has a young woman mixing with women much older than herself? _____
76. shows how a new situation can change a person's character? _____
77. might be rather dull if it were not for the scenery in it? _____
78. is about two men in love with another man's wife? _____
79-80. from what we read, does not contain a romantic or love theme? _____
Film A
Stealing Beauty is a moving and often very amusing film, which owes its charm to an
intelligent script and a magnificent performance by Liv Tyler. The film 19-year-old Lucy, played
by Tyler, moves from the USA, following the death of her mother, to stay with family friends in
a farmhouse in Italy. The house is owned by Ian Grayson, an artist, who is to paint her portrait.
Lucy, however, has a hidden agenda; she wants to see the boy she fell in love with four years
earlier and to learn the identity of her real father, clues to which lie in one of the poems written
by her mother.
Film B
August is set in a country house in North Wales during the late 19 th century when a group
of people gather at the home of the Davis family. The visitors are the tyrannical Professor
Alexander Blathwaite, the absentee owner of the estate, and his second wide, the much younger
American, Helen. They waste little time in imposing their London ways on the rural inhabitants,
including leuan, brother of Blathwaite's first wife, and the professor’s plain daughter, Sian. leuan
falls passionately in love with Helen although she shows no interest in him. Sian conceals a
secret love for the local doctor, Michael Lloyd, who is also in love with Helen. leuan tries to find
comfort in drink and, in a series of tragicomic episodes, the ordered calm of the household
begins to disintegrate.
Film c
Dead Man is a cowboy film with a difference, breathtakingly shot in black and white. In
the film William Blake, an honorable accountant, has come to the west to take up a job which
fails to materialize. A stranger in town, he finds himself alone and without money, and so begins
a chain of encounters which lead this law-abiding citizen into crime. The central theme of the
film is that life is unpredictable and that unexpected circumstances can completely change the
course of a person's life.
Film D
Denise Calls Up is a funny and thoroughly modern story about a group of young
Americans whose lives are based totally on work. Their days consist of talking on mobile
phones, answering taxes and watching computer screens. Lunch dates are made and missed,
parties are organized but never attended, and the friends even fail to turn up at the funeral of one
of their pals (killed in a car accident while talking on her car phone). Then along comes Denise,
an outsider to the group. She has an urgent personal problem, but will she be able to find enough
time in her busy schedule to deal with it?
Film E
A Month by the Lake is based loosely on a romantic story by H.E.Bates. In the film
Vanessa Redgrave plays Miss Bentley, an independent and impetuous middle-aged woman, who
travels to a resort by Lake Como in Italy following the death of her father in 1935. There she
meets and falls in love with fellow holidaymaker Major Wilshore, an eccentric but likeable man.
After various unsuccessful dates, it seems unlikely that the romance will ever really get going
until a couple of other people begin to show more than a passing interest in the pair. If the film is
unremarkable in its content, it makes good use of its beautiful Italian locations.
Film F
The oddly named How to make an American Quilt tells the story of Finn, an American
graduate student, who heads off to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother and great
grandmother. Soon she is introduced to a group of elderly ladies who spend much of their time
together sewing. The work they are producing is useful for her studies on women's handicrafts
but the stories Finn is told about their youth, family histories, loves and marriages soon prove far
more interesting than their sewing skills. Meanwhile her own love life is in difficulty as she
cannot choose between her good, reliable boyfriend and an incredibly attractive newcomer.
(adapted from How to pass FCE - Exam practice in Reading)

Read the following passage and choose the correct sentences from A to G the one which fits
each gap.
Traditionally, children have begun studying foreign languages at secondary school, but
introducing them earlier is recommended by some educationalists. (81)_________.
The obvious argument in its favour is that young children pick up languages much more
easily than teenagers. (82)___________. The greater flexibility of the primary timetable
allows for more frequent, shorter sessions and for a play-centred approach, thus maintaining
learners' enthusiasm and progress. Their command of the language in later life will benefit from
this early exposure, while learning other languages subsequently will be easier for them. (83)
____________________________.
(84) _____. Primary school teachers are generalists, and may not have the
necessary language skills themselves. If specialists have to be brought in to deliver these
sessions, the flexibility referred to above is diminished. If primary language teaching is not
standardized, secondary schools could be faced with a great variety of levels in different
languages within their intake, resulting in a classroom experience which undoes the earlier gains.
There is no advantages if enthusiastic primary pupils become demotivated as soon as they
change schools. However, these issues can be addressed strategically within the policy adopted.
Anything which encourages language learning benefits society culturally and
economically, and early exposure to language learning contributes to this. (85)______.
{adapted from IELTS15 Academic Student's Book'}

Missing sentences:
A. They may also gain a better understanding of other cultures.
B. There are some people who state their objections to this policy for several reasons.
c. Young children’s innate abilities should be harnessed to make these benefits more achievable.
D. Their brains are still programmed to acquire their mother tongue, which facilitates learning
another language, and unlike adolescents, they are not inhibited by selfconsciousness.
E. There are, however, some disadvantages.
F. This policy has been adopted by some educational authorities or individual schools, with
both positive and negative outcomes.
G. On the contrary, the proponents of this policy have their own arguments.

PART D. WRITING (15 POINTS)

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
86. The only thing that makes this job worthwhile is the money.
Were _________________________________________________________________
87. "You stole the jewels!" the inspector said to him.
The inspector accused___________________________________________________
88. I’m sure it wasn’t Mrs. Elton you saw because she's in Bristol.
It can’t ______________________________________________________________
89. If I were him, I would return home no later than 11 o’clock.
It is advised that_______________________________________________________
90. Immediately after winning the race, Sandy began training for the next one.
No sooner____________________________________________________________
Rewrite the second sentence using the given word(s) so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence. Write between FOUR and SIX words including the given words.
91. You mustn’t miss the opportunity to attend this festival. (ADVANTAGE]
You________________________________the opportunity to attend this festival.
92. Rob’s teacher is very happy with him at the moment. (BOOKS)
Rob_____________________________________________at the moment.
93. Mrs. Smith wasn't sure whether she should submit her proposal. (DOUBTFUL)
Mrs. Smith_________________________________________her proposal.
94. What was your inspiration for creating such a fantastic character in your new novel? (TO)
What___________________________such a fantastic character in your new novel?
95. As far as I know, no one's talking about you behind your back. (BEST)
To_____________________________no one's talking about you behind your back.

Rewrite the second sentence using the given word(s) so that it has a similar meaning to the
first sentence.
96. He was really jealous when he saw his brother’s new car. (GREEN)
He was_______________________________________________________________.
97. Austin and his father are very similar, aren't they? (AFTER)
Austin _______________________________________________________________?
98. After working for six hours, I finally managed to finish the report. (IN)
I finally_______________________________________________________________.
99. Are you sorry that you invited Liam to join US on the trip? (REGRET)
Do ___________________________________________________________________?
100. The arrangement is that you are staying with Mr. and Mrs. Andrews. (FOR)
We have .