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UNIT 1
GRAMMAR

I. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct verb tenses to each
of the following questions.
1. According to researchers, happy people usually ………… lots of time socializing with family and
friends.
A. would spend B. spend C. are spending D. spent
2. For ten years, their company, Yoga Works, ………… fourteen studios in California and New
York.
A. had run B. ran C. has run D. run
3. By the time he left the school, he ………… his unusual gift for playing, composing, and
arranging music.
A. developed B. was developing C. had developed D. develops
4. Other employees ………… that the work atmosphere is pleasant.
A. are agreeing B. agreed C. were agreeing D. agree
5. Since the new laws took effect, physician assistants and nurse practitioners ………… many
common prescriptions.
A. wrote B. have written C. are writing D. had written
6. The Negro Leagues ………… in 1920, founded by pitcher Andrew “Rube” Foster.
A. were beginning B. would begin C. began D. had begun
7. They were top executives of an Internet search engine company, and their lives ………… full of
work and travel.
A. became B. become C. have become D. will become
8. Bicycles ………… cyclists to stay in shape both physically and financially.
A. allowed B. had allowed C. allow D. are allowing
9. Recently, their bodies ………… them that they are paying a high price for their busy schedules.
A. told B. tell C. have told D. had told
10. By the time of his death in 2004, Charles understood that he ………… many people.
A. had inspired B. inspired C. inspire D. would inspire

II. Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it.
1. How long have Catherine and Henry worked together in this company?
When ...............................................................................................................................................
2. I haven’t conducted such a difficult negotiation before.
It’s ...................................................................................................................................................
3. Tom learned to drive when he was nineteen.
Tom has ...........................................................................................................................................
4. She started working as a secretary five years ago.
She has ............................................................................................................................................
5. Who does this laptop belong to?
Whose .............................................................................................................................................
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VOCABULARY

I. SYNONYMS vocabulary

Circle a word or phrase that replaces or mostly relates to the word given on the left. Use a
dictionary if necessary

1. destination a place a time

2. a term a direction a word
3. to require to give to need
4. a detail a general idea a specific idea
5. majority less than a half more than a half
6. to state to believe to say
7. to allow to let to put
8. trembling afraid, nervous tired, sleepy
9. purchase to buy to persuade
10. entire 50% 100%

II. COLLOCATION

Fill in each blank with the word on the left that most natuarally completes the phrase on the
right. If necessary, use a dictionary to check the meaning of words you do not know.

1. in/on ____________ in __________________ brief

2. composed/ spread water is ______________________________ of

3. bright/ large a ______________________________ gap

4. convince/ vary ______________________________ considerably

5. hand/ month on the other ______________________________

6. banana/ flower to peel a ______________________________

7. almost / principal the_____________________________ reason for doing something

8. flight/ meeting to board a ______________________________

9. aisle/ though even ______________________________

10. of/ in differ ______________________________

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III. WORD FORM

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words given in capital.

At a (0) meeting held in Oxwell last Thursday evening a wide MEET

(1)________________of opinions was expressed on plans to build a large VARY
supermarket in the town. A (2) ________________ of the supermarket group DIRECT
stated that the supermarket would benefit the (3) ________________ of Oxwell INHABIT
as it would give people more (4) ________________ when shopping and would CHOOSE
lead to a (5) ________________ in the number of jobs available in the town, GROW
which has a high rate of (6) ________________. Although there was EMPLOY
(7) ________________ on the need for new jobs, some of those present AGREE
claimed that the supermarket would lead to a (8) ________________ of jobs as LOSE
small shops, (9) ________________ to compete with supermarket prices, ABLE
would be forced to close. The final (10) ________________ on whether or not DECIDE
to build the supermarket will be made next month.

IV. BUILDING BETTER VOCABULARY

Fill in the blanks with the words from the box Building better vocabulary

anniversary celebrate congratulated engaged have invited

married occasions together wish

I come from a very large family, but we all live in different places, so we don’t get

(1)______________ very often. We usually meet for special (2) _______________ like

weddings. Last year, we all met for my grandparents’ 50th wedding (3)_________________.

It was my birthday a few weeks ago, but I didn’t (4) _______________ a big party. I prefer

to (5) ______________ my birthday with my family and a few close friends. My cousin, who lives

in Australia, phoned to (6) _________________ me a happy birthday. She got (7)

___________________ last month and is going to get (8) __________________ next year. I

(9)________________ her on the great news. She’s (10) __________________ me to her wedding

next year. I'm so excited because I've never been to Australia before.
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READING COMPREHENSION

READING PASSAGE I
Public Libraries

A
The word public comes from a Latin word, publicus, meaning people. A public library is for all the
people in a community to use. It charges no fee for its services. The public library will have available,
within the limits of its budget, a wide variety of books and other materials. These books or other
materials may be borrowed, or taken out for a specific time, by anyone in the community. The library
loans its materials.
B
Public libraries are usually tax-supported. There are a few that are instead supported from
money that has been donated. And there are some that receive part of their money from taxes and part
from gifts.
C
Few public libraries are exactly alike. Not only ate the shapes and sizes of the buildings different, but
so are the number of books and other materials in each. Your nearest library may be like the Los
Angeles Public Library, which has over 4,538,458 books and bound periodicals (magazines and
journals) in its collection. Or it may be like the Cherokee County Public Library, which has only
about 3,800 books in its collection.
D
Libraries vary in other ways, too, for instance, in the number of hours (or days) they are open or in
the number of people who work there. Most public libraries, however, arrange their books and other
materials in similar ways. They divide their collections into two basic age groups, children and adult.
Adult books are in one place; children's books are in another. Then the books are further separated
by the kind of book. Storybooks -works of fiction - are separated from information, or fact books -
nonfiction.
E
People often want to refer to, that is, look something up in a certain basic information book.
Thus reference books, which are rarely read cover to cover, are put in a special place in the library, a
reference section or perhaps a reference room. Reference books are never to be taken out of the library
building.
F
Each library decides for itself how it should further arrange its books and other materials. In a large
city library, certain nonfiction materials may be put into a special area or separate room. For instance,
there may be a separate room just for all the materials a library has on music. In another large city,
the music materials might not be kept so separate. It would depend on what the people in that city
had indicated they found useful.
G
A library's holdings are everything the library has in its collection. These holdings almost
always reflect the community's special interests. Suppose, for example, there were a town where
Morgan horses were widely raised and trained. That town's library would most likely have a great
deal of material about Morgan horses. Since the people who were interested in Morgan horses would
probably be less interested in other breeds of horses, the library might have only a small amount of
material on Mustangs or Appaloosas.
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Questions 1-7
The reading passage has seven sections A-G.
Choose the most suitable heading for each section from the list of headings below.
List of Headings
i. Financial support
ii. Local decisions
iii. Influence of people’s interests
iv. Materials about Morgan horses
v. History of public libraries
vi. Certain books stay in the library
vii. Free services for everyone
viii. A wide variety
ix. Similar ways to arrange books

1. Section A 5. Section E
2. Section B 6. Section F
3. Section C 7. Section G
4. Section D

Questions 8-14
Choose from the passage NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to complete the following
sentences.
8. A public library provides free services to everyone ……………………… .
9. People who borrow the books can keep them for ……………………… .
10. The money used to support public libraries may come from donations, gifts and
……………………… .
11. The collections in most public libraries are arranged according to two age groups,
……………………… .
12. Books that people can only read in the library are probably ……………………… .
13. In some libraries, people may find certain nonfiction materials kept in ……………………… .
14. From the holdings a library has, we can see if the community has any ………………………
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READING PASSAGE II
The Pompidou Centre

More than three decades after it was built, the Pompidou Centre in Paris has survived its
moment at the edge of architectural fashion and proved itself to be one of the most remarkable
buildings of the 20th century. It was the most outstanding now building constructed in Paris for two
generations. It looked like an explosion of brightly coloured service pipes in the calm of the city
centre. However, when in 1977 the architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano stood among a large
crowd of 5,000 at the opening of the Centre Culturel d'Art Georges Pompidou (known as the
Pompidou), no one was really aware of the significance of this unusual building.
Rogers was only 38 when he and Piano won the competition to design a new cultural centre
for Paris in the old market site. Young, unknown architects, they had been chosen from a field of
nearly 700 to design one of the most prestigious buildings of its day. After six difficult years, with
25,000 drawings, seven lawsuits, battles over budgets, and a desperate last-minute scramble to finish
the building, it had finally been done.
Yet the opening was a downbeat moment. The Pompidou Centre had been rubbished by the
critics while it was being built, there was no more work in prospect for the architects, and their
partnership had effectively broken down. But this was just a passing crisis. The Centre, which
combined the national museum of modern art, exhibition space, a public library and a centre for
modern music, proved an enormous success. It attracted six million visitors in its first year, and with
its success, the critics swiftly changed their tune.
The architects had been driven by the desire for ultimate flexibility, for a building that would
not limit the movement of its users. All the different parts were approached through the same
enormous entrance hall and served by the same escalator, which was free to anyone to ride, whether
they wanted to visit an exhibition or just admire the view. With all the services at one end of the
building, escalators and lifts at the other, and the floors hung on giant steel beams providing
uninterrupted space the size of two football pitches, their dream had become a reality.
The image of the Pompidou pervaded popular culture in the 1970s, making appearances
everywhere - on record-album covers and a table lamp, and even acting as the set for a James Bond
1 film. This did much to overcome the secretive nature of the architectural culture of its time, as it
enabled wider audience to appreciate the style and content of the building and so moved away from
the strictly professional view.
The following year, Rogers was commissioned to design a new headquarters for Lloyd's Bank
in London and went on to create one of Britain's most dynamic architectural practices. Piano is now
among the world's most respected architects. But what of their shared creation?
It was certainly like no previous museum, with its plans for a flexible interior that not only had
movable walls but floors that could also be adjusted up or down. This second feature did not in the
end survive when the competition drawings were turned into a real building. In other ways, however,
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the finished building demonstrated a remarkable degree of refinement - of craftsmanship even - in

the way the original diagram was transformed into a superbly detailed structure. It was this quality
which, according to some critics, suggested that the Pompidou should be seen as closer to the 19th-
century engineering tradition than the space age.
Nevertheless, as a model for urban planning, it has proved immensely influential. The
Guggenheim in Bilbao and the many other major landmark projects that were built in the belief that
innovatively designed cultural buildings can bring about urban renewal are all following the lead of
the Pompidou Centre.
Other buildings may now challenge it for the title of Europe s most outlandish work of
architecture. However, more than a quarter of a century later, this construction - it is hard to call it a
building when there is no façade, just a lattice of steel beams and pipes and a long external escalator
snaking up the outside - still seems extreme.
Today, the Pompidou Centre itself still looks much as it did when it opened. The shock value
of its colour-coded plumbing and its structure has not faded with the years. But while traditionalists
regarded it as an ugly attack on Paris when it was built, they now see it for what it is - an enormous
achievement, technically and conceptually.
Questions 1-4
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
1. What does the writer sav in the first paragraph about the opening of the Pompidou Centre?
A. The elderly did not like it.
B. The architects were not present.
C. The atmosphere was very noisy.
D. The people did not realise its importance.
2. What does the writer say in the second paragraph about the construction of the Pompidou?
A. There was a hurry to complete it.
B. It cost less than expected.
C. Other experts helped draw the plans.
D. The market location was criticised.
3. What is the writer’s main purpose in the third paragraph?
A. to explain the multi-functional role of the centre
B. to praise the architects for their design ideas
C. to say why some people’s opinions quickly altered
D. to show how the media benefited from its success
4. What was the architects’ ‘dream’, referred to in the fourth paragraph?
A. to become famous
B. to provide entertainment
C. to allow visitors to use it freely
D. to build the biggest museum in the world
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Questions 5-8
Complete each sentence with the correct ending, A-F, below.
5. The escalators and lifts inside the Pompidou
6. In the 1970s, pictures of the Pompidou
7. The original plans for the floors of the Pompidou
8. The detailed structure of the finished building

A. reminded some people of past building styles.

B. were used to decorate everyday objects.
C. fitted in well with the external surroundings.
D. were situated on one side of the building.
E. showed people which area to visit.
F. were changed during the construction process.

Questions 9-14
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? Write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
9. The Pompidou has influenced the way cities are designed.
10. The Guggenheim has been more popular than the Pompidou.
11. The word building fits the Pompidou better than the word construction.
12. The Pompidou’s appearance has changed considerably since it opened.
13. Nowadays, the design of the Pompidou fails to shock people.
14. The traditionalist view of the Pompidou has changed over the years.