PRACTICE TEST

Complete the sentences one of the following words: DO, MAKE, TAKE, HAVE
1. If you would like to __make_ an appointment with the doctor, please call the surgery between the hours of eleven
and five.
2. I'm not sure if the gallery is open today, but I'm going to _take__ a chance and walk down there anyway.
3. Please could you __do_ me a favour and buy some milk on your way home?
4. She is _making__ good progress, but she needs to work harder in her maths class.
5. We _do__ business with companies all over the world.
6. I would like to _make__ a complaint about the quality of service at your restaurant.
7. Stop _making__ me laugh! I can't breathe!
8. I need to _make__a phone call, please excuse me.
9. Could you _take__ a picture of my friend and I, please?
10. I _made__ a lot of mistakes in that test yesterday, I'm sure of it.
11. I'm going to _do__ the food shopping this afternoon.
12. I don't want to __do_ the washing up again!
13. He really needs to __have_ a haircut.
14. I __took_ her temperature and it was really high so I called the doctor.
15. I __have_ a problem. I think my boyfriend is cheating on me.

Rewrite the following sentences, using the words given

1. The company agreed to provide one-time food. (AGREEMENT)
The company …… made an agreement to provide one-time food. ………………
2. The gardener examined the plants carefully. (EXAMINATION)
The gardener…… made a careful examination of the plants…………
3. Sanyukta has prepared everything nicely. (PREPARATION)
Sanyukta has … done a nice preparation of everything. ……..
4. Vitamins and minerals nourish our body. (NOURISHMENT)
Vitamins and minerals … provide nourishment to our body….
5. The king announced to celebrate the victory. (CELEBRATION)
The king … announced the celebration of the victory…..
6. Your words contradict your gestures. (CONTRADICTION)
There is … a contradiction between your words and your gestures.…
7. Granny was always generous to her grandchildren. (GENEROSITY)
Granny always showed…… generosity for her grandchildren…..
8. Alok’s words are not clear. (CLARITY)
There’s …… no clarity in Alok’s words…………
9. Sagar is confident enough to win the gold medal. (CONFIDENCE)
Sagar …… has enough confidence to win the gold……….
10. Please do not insist upon my being present in the party tomorrow. (PRESENCE)
Please do not insist upon……………………………………………………..

B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

I. Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
6. I left at 5.30, ……..they were still arguing.
A. at the time B. all the time C. just in time D. at which time
7. Margaret was slow at school, but she went on ……..Prime Minister.
A. being B. to be C. having been D. to have been
8. I bought ………..jewellery for my sister but it wasn’t …………kind she likes.
A. the/ the . B. a/the C. the/a D. X/the
9. The idea of marriage doesn’t ………..to me.
A. attribute B. appeal C. apply D. confess
10. Nigel Kennedy, the ……….violinist, will perform
A. known B. recognized C. defamed D. celebrated
11. Mario has now ……..to the point where his English is almost fluent,
A. arrived B. approached C. advanced D. reached
12. You cannot see the doctor ………you have made an appointment with him.
A. otherwise B. unless C. however D. without
13. George took …………..of the fine weather to a day’s work in his garden.
A. chance B. interest C. advantage D. charge
14. It was not until she arrived in class………… she had forgotten her book,
A. and she realized B. when she realized C. did she realize D. that she realized
15. Before the group of doctors gave their opinion they wanted to ________ with each other.
A. confess B. confirm C. confer D. confide.
16. She’s………… kind a person that she can never say no to anyone.
A. so B. quite C. very D. such
17. If we can’t get any more bread, we’ll just have to .......
A. do but B. do up with C. do up D. do without.
18. No one appreciated his work during his lifetime, but... …..it is clear that he is a great artist.
A. in the aftermath B. by the time C. in retrospect D. in this eventuality
19. The factory is working below _________ because of the shortage of essential materials.
A. range B. scope C. capacity D. denstiy
20. Jerry has been burning the midnight ________ over the last few days; his final exam is soon.
A. lamp B. light C. candle D. oil
21. This school has the highest ……..standards in the area.
A. learning B. intelligence C. academic D. study
22. Nations that live in ................. are nations that live together in peace.
A. war B. harmony C. conformity D. happiness
23. Hardly a single old building _______standing after the council remodelled the town.
A. remained B. stayed C. kept D. continued
24. The food being cooked in the kitchen was giving ____________a wonderful smell.
A. up B. off C. round D. over
25. Why do you always ask me a favour when I have got my ________full?
A. palms B. brains C. hands D. arms
26. I wouldn’t go so far as to __________my professional career on the unsafe enterprise.
A. venture B. stake C. dare D. expose
27. They said I’d be on__________for the first two or three weeks as they want to find out about my skills.
A. testing B. examination C. inspection D. probation
28. We thank the host for their generous________and got under way.
A. hostility B. honesty C. hospitality D. hostage
29. It was …………to Mark that he had better withdraw from the game in case his knee injury got worse
A. argumented B. recommended C. insisted D. appealed
30. Thousands of newcomers imagine this place to be their El Dorado where they can easily make a
___________start in life.
A. plain B. fresh C. clean D. first

II. Supply the correct form of the word in bracket to complete the passage.
The world’s oldest perfume
Archaeologists working at an (0)... excavation..on the island of Cyprus have discovered EXCAVATE
what are thought to be the world’s oldest known perfumes. Remnants of fourteen
different fragrances were found in a (28).... selection....of mixing jugs, bottles and stills SELECT
which were (29).... unearthed..on the site of an ancient perfumery. The building was EARTH
destroyed by an earthquake nearly four thousand years ago, at a time when Cyprus
already enjoyed a (30)... reputation...as a centre of perfume-making. REPUTED

After undergoing scientific (31)... analysis...the perfumes were found to contain a range ANALYSE
of (32)... locally..available ingredients, such as extracts of anise, pine, coriander, LOCAL
lemon, orange, bergamot, almond and parsley, amongst others.
Having (33).... identified...what each perfume contained, the scientists then set about IDENTITY
remaking them using (34).... traditional....techniques to find out what they would TRADITION
actually have smelt like. They first (35)..... ground...up the extracts, then mixed them GRIND
with olive oil in clay jugs before distilling them. This method is the one recorded by
writers in Ancient Roman times. Although (36)... admittedly...simple by today’s ADMIT
standards, the resulting aromas provide us with an olfactory window onto the ancient
world, and are evidence of the loving craftsmanship that must have been
applied by their (37).. creators... CREATE
PART C. READING
I. Read the passage and choose the correct answer that best fill in the blank.
There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: (0): D. far
How (0) ______ should members of the public have to run the (1) ______ of personal harm where scientific or
technical innovation is (2) ______? In some legal systems, including European Union law, the (3) ______ of the
precautionary principle is a statutory requirement. The precautionary principle advises society to be cautious about a
technology or practice where there is scientific uncertainty, ignorance, gaps in knowledge or the (4) ______ of
unforeseen outcomes.
This runs counter (5) ______ the optimistic notion that any (6) ______ effects that arise unintentionally can be
addressed. Indeed, some claim these may provide an opportunity to (7) ______ new solutions, and in this way
contribute to economic growth. For this reason, the US chamber of Commerce dislikes the precautionary approach
and prefers the use of (8) ______ science, cost- benefit analysis and risk assessment when assessing a particular
regulatory issue. Its strategy is (9) ______ to “oppose the domestic and international adoption of the precautionary
principle as a basis for regulatory decision making.” Yet history reminds us that asbestos, halocarbons and PCBs
seemed like miracle substances at first, but turned out to be (10) ______ problematic for human and environmental
health.
(Adapted from www.hse.gov.uk)
0. A. much B. long C. fast D. far
1. A. risk B. danger C. hazard D. peril
2. A. analyzed B. concerned C. addressed D. discussed
3. A. operation B. utilization C. employment D. application
4. A. likelihood B. probability C. tendency D. trend
5. A. for B. to C. with D. about
6. A. contrary B. unfortunate C. adverse D. opposing
7. A. develop B. establish C. evolve D. advance
8. A. appropriate B. sensible C. sound D. tactical
9. A. however B. thereby C. therefore D. yet
10. A. highly B. exceedingly C. extensively D. intensely

II. Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer
to each of the questions.
Being aware of one’s own emotions – recognizing and acknowledging feelings as they happen – is at the
very heart of Emotional Intelligence. And this awareness encompasses not only moods but also thoughts about those
moods. People who are able to monitor their feelings as they arise are less likely to be ruled by them and are thus
better able to manage their emotions.(1)
Managing emotions does not mean suppressing them; nor does it mean giving free rein to every feeling.
Psychologist Daniel Goleman, one of several authors who have popularized the notion of Emotional Intelligence,
insisted that the goal is balance and that every feeling has value and significance. As Goleman said, “A life without
passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.” Thus, we
manage our emotions by expressing them in an appropriate manner. Emotions can also be managed by engaging in
activities that cheer us up, soothe our hurts, or reassure us when we feel anxious.
Clearly, awareness and management of emotions are not independent. For instance, you might think that
individuals who seem to experience their feelings more intensely than others would be less able to manage them.
However, a critical component of awareness of emotions is the ability to assign meaning to them – to know why we
are experiencing a particular feeling or mood. Psychologists have found that, among individuals who experience
intense emotions, individual differences in the ability to assign meaning to those feelings predict differences in the
ability to manage them. In other words, if two individuals are intensely angry, the one who is better able to
understand why he or she is angry will also be better able to manage the anger.
Self-motivation refers to strong emotional self-control, which enables a person to get moving and pursue
worthy goals, persist at tasks even when frustrated, and resist the temptation to act on impulse. Resisting impulsive
behavior is, according to Goleman, “the root of all emotional self-control.”
Of all the attributes of Emotional Intelligence, the ability to postpone immediate gratification and to persist
in working toward some greater future gain is most closely related to success – whether one is trying to build a
business, get a college degree, or even stay on a diet. One researcher examined whether this trait can predict a
child’s success in school. The study showed that 4-year-old children who can delay instant gratification in order to
advance toward some future goal will be “far superior as students” when they graduate from high school than will 4-
year-olds who are not able to resist the impulse to satisfy their immediate wishes.
1. Which of the following can we infer from paragraph 1?
A. If people pay attention to their feelings, they will not be able to manage them.
B. If people pay attention to their feelings, they can control their emotions better.
C. People who can manage their emotions will be controlled by them.
D. Some people can understand their feelings better than others.
2. The word “soothe” in paragraph 2 could be best replaced by ______.
A. worsen B. reduce C. weaken D. relieve
3. According to paragraphs 1 to 3, people should be aware of their emotions so that they can ______.
A. stop feeling angry B. manage their emotions appropriately
C. experience feelings more intensively D. explain their emotions to others
4. From paragraph 2, we can see that Daniel Goleman ______.
A. wrote about Emotional Intelligence
B. studied how people manage their emotions
C. trained people to increase their Emotional Intelligence
D. treated patients who had emotional problems
5. All of the following are mentioned in paragraph 2 about our emotions EXCEPT ______.
A. we can manage our emotions B. we should ignore some feelings
C. every feeling is important D. emotions are part of a satisfying life
6. The word “critical” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.
A. indecisive B. inessential C. dynamic D. important
7. The word “them” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
A. intense emotions B. psychologists C. individuals D. individual differences
8. In paragraph 3, the author explains the concept of awareness and management of emotions by ______.
A. giving an example of why people get angry
B. describing how people learn to control their emotions
C. comparing how two people might respond to an intense emotion
D. explaining why some people are not aware of their emotions
9. The word “pursue” in paragraph 4 mostly means ______.
A. be involved in something B. improve or develop something
C. try to achieve something D. find out about something
10. According to paragraph 5, children might be more successful in school if they can resist impulses because they
can ______.
A. have more friends at school B. easily understand new information
C. focus on their work and not get distracted D. be more popular with their teachers

Exercise 4: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
The question of whether we are alone in the Universe has haunted humanity forcenturies, 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 extraterrestrial 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.
A
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 a 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
exists 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 will we 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 any other civilization that we hear from is likely to be far older on average than
ourselves. The mere existence of such a civilization will tell of 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.(6)
B
In discussing whether we are alone, most SETI scientists adopt two ground rules (2). 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 also important to keep an open mind in casa any really convincing
evidence emerges in the future). Second, we make a very 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 e life form, quite
apart from whatever 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 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 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, leads us to estimate that perhaps one in 100,000 stars might have a life-bearing
planet orbiting it.(3) That means that our nearest neighbors are perhaps 1000 light years away. which is almost next
door in astronomical terms.
D
An alien civilization could choose many different ways of sending information across the galaxy, but many of these
either require too much energy. or else are severely attenuated while traversing the vast distances across the galaxy.
lt bums 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.(4) So far there have been a number of searches by various groups around the world, including
Australian searches using the radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales. Until now there have not been any
detections from the few hundred stars which have been searched.(8) 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 search for extra-terrestrial life. Much of the money in this project is being spent on developing the special
hardware needed to search many frequencies et 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 Nancy in France. This part of the project is searching the nearest 1000 likely stars with high sensibility
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 using the smaller antennas of NASA`s Deep Space Network.
E
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.(5) Quite apart from the impracticality of sending e 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 if 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. lt's not important, then, if there`s a delay of a few years, or decades, while the human race debates the
question of whether to reply and perhaps carefully drafts a reply.(10)

Questions 1- 5
Reading Passage has five paragraphs, A-E. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A-E from the
headings below.
List of Headings 1.ParagraphA V
i. Seeking the transmission of radio signals from planets 2. Paragraph B IV
ii. Appropriate responses to signals from other civilizations 3. Paragraph C VII
iii. Vast distances to Earth’s closest neighbors 4. Paragraph D I
iv. Assumptions underlying the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence 5. Paragraph E II
v. Reasons for the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
vi. Knowledge of extra-terrestrial life forms
vii. Likelihood of lite on other planets
Questions 6 – 10
Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage? In boxes 6 – 10 on your
answer sheet, 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 more than once.

6. Alien civilizations may be able to help the human race to overcome serious problems Y
7. The Americans and Australians have cc-operated on joint research projects.NG
8. So far SETI scientists have picked up radio signals from several stars.N
9. The NASA project attracted criticism from some members of Congress.NG
10. If a signal from outer space is received, it will be important to respond promptly.N

PART D. WRITING
I. Complete the sentences without changing the meaning of the given one.
Part 1. For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given. (10 points)
1. I fully intended to find out who is responsible for the graffiti. INTENTION
… I fully intend to find out who is responsible for the graffiti….
2. Absolute secrecy was crucial to the success of the mission. SUCCESS
… Without absolute secrecy, the mission wouldn’t have succeeded. …….
3. He would never agree to sell his business, even if he received a very temping offer. OFFER
… However tempting the offer, he would never agree to sell his business.…….
4. Something must be done quickly to solve the problem of homelessness. ACTION
…Urgent action must be taken to solve the problem of homelessness. ….
5. Philip’s inability to make decisions dates from his accident. UNABLE
… Ever since his accident, Philip has been unable to make decisions. ….

Part 2. For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1. Apparently, the restaurant in town has been bought out by someone else.
I hear the restaurant in town is ..... under new management......
2. Sarah cried her eyes out immediately she was told she'd failed her driving test.
Sarah broke..... down in tears as...........
3. The Government recently said our problems are the fault of the worldwide economic slowdown.
The Government have placed........ the blame on.......................
4. You led me to believe the job was mine if I wanted it.
I was left.........................................................................................................................................
5. He would never have guessed that at the age of 17 he would be playing for his country.
Little...... did he know that at the age of 17 he would be playing for his country........