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PART 1
Choose the correct option to complete the sentence:
#1 Suzy was ill at home last week so it (…) have been her that you saw on the train.
1) can 2) couldn’t 3) must 4) shouldn’t
#2. A Christmas tree (…) by the children before their parents came home.
1) decorated 2) been decorated 3) being decorated 4) had been decorated
#3. Josh (… ) overslept yesterday morning.
1) nearer 2) near 3) nearly 4) nearlier
#4. Mother didn’t let him (…) supper until he washed his hands.
1) has 2) have 3) to have 4) having
#5. The coach congratulated the team on (…) all their games.
1) win 2) having winning 3) winning 4) have to win
#1 William heard his cousin (…) the whole story of his life.
1) told 2) tell 3) have told 4) has told
#2. Mum advised her daughter (…) buying expensive clothes.
1) to give up 2) give up 3) giving up 4) would give up
#3. We knew that by the following year Thomas (…) his Master’s degree.
1) is going to take 2) will take 3) would have taken 4) will have taken
#4. Patience and kindness (…) as female qualities.
1) often see 2) are often seen 3) are often seeing 4) will often see
#5. It is generally accepted that people work (…) money.
1) earn 2) being earning 3) have earned 4) to earn
#1 Jennifer kept (…) hints that she expected him to be her partner.
1) to throw 2) throw 3) throwing 4) being thrown
#2. Credit cards companies encourage users to pay off bills (…) people to sink into debts.
1) being caused 2) causing 3) to cause 4) caused
#3. Gazing (…) at him Sheila could see a muscle beating in his jaw.
1) help 2) helpless 3) helpful 4) helplessly
#4. We had better (…) or we’ll be late for the lecture.
1) run 2) running 3) to run 4) having run
#5. He only wished he (…) her ten or twelve years before.
1) would meet 2) will meet 3) had met 4) met
#1 I heard that neither of the attendants (…) guilty in yesterday’s trial.

1) find 2) is found 3) was found 4) has found
#2. How long is it since you (…) to your new house?
1) moved 2) have moved 3) has moved 4) had moved
#3. If I were you, I (…) stay in the sun without sunscreen.
1) will 2) won’t 3) won’t have 4) wouldn’t
#4. She must (…) everybody to her party.
1) has invited 2) have invited 3) should invite 4) invited
#5. Most parents would like to see their children (…) academically.
1) to succeed 2) have succeed 3) succeeding 4) been succeeding
#1 We watched the ship (…) slowly over the horizon.

1) to disappear 2) to be disappearing 3) disappearing 4) have disappeared
#2. Your new furniture (…) in the hall upstairs.
1) are 2) be 3) is being 4) is
#3. The landslides are believed (…) by recent floods.
1) to cause 2) be caused 3) to have been caused 4) being caused
#4. Julie prefers to sing rather than (…) the guitar.
1) plays 2) play 3) to be playing 4) playing
#5. The thief was accused of (…) the man’s wallet.
1) to steal 2) stealing 3) being stolen 4) have stole
#1 I’d rather you (…) with us as the rent is very high.

1) should live 2) live 3) lived 4) living
#2. I wish they (…) us something to eat.
1) brought 2) bring 3) to bring 4) will bring
#3. She felt as though she (…) living alone with her children.
1) would 2) were 3) has been 4) could
#4. The new computer system (…) installed next week.
1) is been 2) will being 3) has been 4) will be
#5. Mr. Brown (…) to give details of his bank account yesterday.
1) made 2) was made 3) has made 4) is being made
#1 I wonder what we (…) this time next year.

1) do 2) are doing 3) will have been doing 4) will be doing
#2. Unless you (…) over the money, I’ll shoot.
1) hand 2) will hand 3) won’t hand 4) don’t hand
#3. She heard the boy (…).
1) is screaming 2) scream 3) screams 4) were screaming
#4. I couldn’t help (…) when you fell down.
1) the laugh 2) to laugh 3) at laughing 4) laughing
#5. If you were found guilty of exceeding the speed limit, you (…) to pay a fine.
1) would have 2) have 3) will have 4) would have had
#1 The murderer confessed (…) the crime.

1) to commit 2) committing 3) to having committed 4) with having committed
#2. If you feel tired, you (…) go.
1) better 2) had better 3) better had to 4) rather
#3. They asked me where (…).
1) is the station 2) was the station 3) the station has been 4) the station was
#4. (…), and I am out of work.
1) I’ve given to the sack 2) The sack has given to me 3) I’ve been given the sack 4) The
sack was given me
#5. Guests are requested (…) their rooms by midday.
1) vacation 2) to vacate 3) being vacated 4) vacating
#1 It was (…) sunset that we photographed it.

1) as beautiful as 2) as beautiful 3) so beautiful 4) such a beautiful
#2. (…), I wasn’t hungry.
1) Already eating 2) Having already eaten 3) Already eaten 4) I had already eaten
#3. The closer you are to the Equator, (…).
1) it gets hotter 2) it gets hot 3) the hottest it gets 4) the hotter it gets
#4. The man (…) George was obviously in a hurry.
1) to be followed 2) followed 3) following 4) follows
#5. While I (…), I had a strange dream.
1) was sleeping 2) slept 3) have slept 4) had slept
#1 By the end of the century, we (…) out of oil.

1) are running 2) have run 3) have been running 4) will have run
#2. They wish they (…) married.
1) had never got 2) never get 3) have never got 4) would never have got
#3. I (…) to get through for the last half hour, but the line’s been engaged.
1) had been trying 2) tried 3) was trying 4) have been trying
#4. I could have done it better if I (…) more time then.
1) have had 2) had had 3) will have had 4) had
#5. I’m going to take the bus (…) money.
1) for to save 2) saving 3) to save 4) by saving
#1 I wish I (…) the first bus. Now I’ll have to walk.

1) didn’t miss 2) hadn’t missed 3) wouldn’t miss 4) hadn’t been missed
#2. I hope you (…) the work by the time I return to the office.
1) will have finished 2) finish 3) going to finish 4) have finished
#3. He watched Mary (…) the flowers.
1) is cutting 2) cut 3) cuts 4) was cut
#4. She is used (…) a car.
1) drive 2) to drive 3) driving 4) to driving
#5. After (…) school, Robert took an accounting course.
1) finished 2) finishing 3) has finished 4) he finishes
#1 Jack’s parents should (…) because his grades are poor.

1) force him study 2) insist to study 3) tell him study 4) make him study
#2. Excuse me, officer, I’d like you (…) me.
1) helping 2) help 3) to help 4) for helping
#3. Janet was absent this morning because she had her tooth (…).
1) filling 2) to fill 3) fill 4) filled
#4. We (…) to change our advertising campaign since last year.
1) plan 2) planned 3) have planned 4) are planning
#5. At the moment we (…) a range of concepts to choose from.
1) develop 2) are developing 3) developed 4) will develop
#1 Ms. Guth (…) rather not invest that money in the stock market.
1) has to 2) could 3) must 4) would
#2. When I graduate from college next June, I (…) a student here for five years.
1) will have been 2) have been 3) has been 4) will being
#3. You were (…) the New York office before 2 p.m.
1) suppose call 2) supposed to call 3) supposed calling 4) supposed call
#4. I have only a (…) Christmas cards left to write.
1) few 2) fewer 3) less 4) little
#5. Each of the Olympic athletes (…) for months, even years.
1) have been training 2) were training 3) has been training 4) been training
#1 However, this week she (…) in a seminar on intercultural awareness.

1) participate 2) participates 3) are participating 4) is participating
#2. If Laurie arrived after 2:00, I (…) the meeting.

1) lead 2) would lead 3) would have lead 4) led
#3. Max (…) for the CIA since 1992.
1) will work 2) is working 3) works 4) has been working
#4. By the time Bob gets back from the war, his daughter (…) from school.
1) graduate 2) graduates 3) will have graduated 4) has graduated
#5. He (…) met the school Director until he bumped into him in the supermarket.
1) have never 2) had never 3) didn’t 4) never did
#1 Why did Max leave while we (…)?

1) talk 2) had talked 3) have talked 4) were talking
#2. After her parents were killed she (…) by her uncle.
1) was grown up 2) was brought up 3) were brought 4) brought
#3. Tom (…) travel a lot. These days he doesn't go away very often.
1) got to 2) uses 3) used to 4) is used to
#4. I don't mind (…) if you're tired.
1) driving 2) to drive 3) to be driving 4) drive
#5. I avoided (…) the child, but I couldn’t help running over the dog.
1) to hit 2) hit 3) for hitting 4) hitting
#1 They asked me whether I (…) the news.
1) hear 2) have heard 3) had heard 4) was hearing
#2. She (…) the head of her department more if he took a more professional attitude towards
his work.
1) has respected 2) would respect 3) respects 4) has been respecting
#3. They (…) their house yet. They only put it up for sale yesterday.
1) haven’t been selling 2) needn’t have sold 3) ought not sell 4) can’t have sold
#4. It’s not easy learning Chinese at home. Do you think I (…) an evening course?
1) must have taken 2) have taken 3) should take 4) used to take
#5. Guns (…) away securely so that children can’t reach them.
1)had better lock 2) ought to be locked 3) may be locking 4) could lock
PART 2

#1. I’m tired. I wouldn’t mind just (…).
1) to stay at home tonight
2) to be staying at home tonight
3) staying at home tonight
#2. We shall start tomorrow, time (…).
1) permitted
2) permitting
3) permit
#3. Sometimes children complain about not (…).
1) understanding by their parents.
2) being understood by their parents.
3) to be understood by their parents.
#4. I lay down again and slept, my eyes (…).
1) being very heavy
2) to be very heavy
3) be very heavy
#5. The house door (…).
1) be open, she went in
2) being opened, she went in
3) to be opened, she went in
#1. Tim’s mother would rather he worked closer to home than he (…).
1) did
2) does
3) was
#2. I’ve just bought a book (…).
1) was written last year
2) to write by A. Christie
3) written by A. Christie
#3. She can (…).
1) to correct all mistakes in your paper
2) correct all mistakes in your paper
3) all the mistakes were being corrected in your paper
#4. Let them (…).
1) do not play tennis today
2) play tennis today
3) to be playing tennis today
#5. The delegation is expected (…).
1) to arrive on Monday
2) will have to arrive
3) is being arrived
#1. The article will have been translated (…).
1) by the time you come
2) by the time you were coming
3) by the time you had come
#2. If he knew Spanish better, (…).
1) he would read Spanish books in the original
2) he will read Spanish books in the original
3) he were read Spanish books in the original
#3. If he had known the truth, (…).
1) he will be informed about it
2) he would informed about it
3) he would have informed about it
#4. He didn’t have to wait long for the professor as when I came the last student (…).
1) had been examining already
2) was being examined
3) to have been examined
#5. The police found out that (…).
1) he has known the victim of the accident before
2) he to have known the victim of the accident before
3) he had known the victim of the accident before
#1. I think it’s time (…).
1) the government did something about the air pollution
2) the government should to do something about the air pollution
3) should be done something about the air pollution
#2. I wish (…).
1) they stop arguing over such trifles
2) they stop to argue over such trifles
3) they stopped arguing over such trifles
#3. If he had been more attentive while driving, he (…).
1) shouldn’t have had any accident
2) wouldn’t have had any accident
3) can’t be having any accident
#4. I wonder when you (…).
1) will stop arguing over these matters
2) will be stopped argue over these matters
3) will be stopped to arguing over these matters
#5. The manager hoped that the assignment (...).
1) would be fulfilled by all employees
2) will be fulfilled by all employees
3) will have to be fulfilled by all employees.
#1. The members of the Society heard his name (…).
1) being mentioned by the chairman several times
2) to mention it several times
3) to have mentioned it several times
#2. He has been just asked to wait (…).
1) for his order to be fulfilled
2) for his order be fulfilling
3) his order fulfilling
#3. Despite being very busy (…).
1) I should tell you about it
2) I should be told you about it
3) I should have been told you about it
#4. What would you do if (… )?
1) your documents were stolen one day
2) your documents stole one day
3) your documents would be stolen one day
#5. He said he would contact me (…).
1) but he neither wrote nor phoned
2) didn’t write or phoned
3) neither wrote or didn’t phone
#1. This order can’t (…).
1) have been fulfilled yet
2) be fulfilled yet
3) being fulfilled yet
#2. Had they arrived at the sale early, (…).
1) they will find better selection
2) they would have found better selection
3) will have found better selection
#3. The professor is very busy today as there are plenty of students (…).
1) to be examined by him
2) has to be examined by him
3) were to examine by him
#4. If all the students had been ready for the exam yesterday, the professor (…).
1) had examined them already
2) will have examined them by 5 p.m. today
3) would have examined them
#5. The mayor of the city has not come yet. He (…).
1) can be still open a self-service canteen
2) was being opened a self-service canteen
3) must be still opening a self-service canteen
#1. Don’t have your dinner at home. A nice self-service canteen seems (…).
1) to have been opened already
2) to open
3) being opened
#2. The guests are always fond of (…).
1) have been met at the airport
2) being met at the airport
3) to be met at the airport
#3. The pages of the book were so yellow that it seemed as if (…).
1) they have been published a hundred years ago
2) they had been published a hundred years ago
3) they would be published in the nearest future
#4. The time of the exhibition is coming and the editors are (…).
1) denied having published the books already
2) busy publishing the books
3) are for being published books so quickly
#5. I think it’s interesting to watch the workers (…).
1) doing their work step by step
2) be done the work step by step
3) being done the work step by step
#1. If we manage to find enough paper, the book (…).
1) have been published already
2) will be published in the nearest future
3) was to be published a month ago
#2. If he spoke more clearly (…).
1) people would understand him better
2) people would have understand him better
3) people would be understanding him better
#3. When the writer returned back to the city (…).
1) his new book was still discussing
2) his new book is still being discussed
3) his new book was still being discussed
#4. He was ordered (…).
1) to go there right away
2) to have gone there right away
3) having gone there right away
#5. Tom’s friends observed him (…).
1) to paint the fence either
2) painting the fence
3) being painted the fence
#1. She wouldn’t have been injured (…).
1) if she had worn a seat-belt
2) if she had been worn a seat-belt
3) if she had being worn a seat-belt
#2. Seeing that the bus was rather far from him Nick decided not to catch it because (…).
1) the driver will drive off
2) the driver would drive off before he reached it
3) the driver has driven off
#3. After all the passengers get on the bus (…).
1) the driver will drive off
2) the driver had driven off
3) drove off
#4. He decided to go to the country right after (…).
1) he has taken his car from the workshop
2) he will be able to take his car from the workshop
3) he had taken his car from the workshop
#5. As soon as he comes (…).
1) I’ll explain everything to him
2) he explain everything to his parents
3) he had been explained everything
#1. If you manage to find enough paper the book (…).
1) have been published.
2) will be published in the nearest future
3) will publish in the nearest future
#2. Alex is a polyglot and he is said (…).
1) learn Chinese every day
2) to be learning Chinese now
3) learning Chinese
#3. If you had arrived at this time yesterday, (…).
1) you would participate in the auction
2) you would have participated in the auction
3) you will have participated in the auction
#4. I couldn’t help being thrilled when I (…).
1) heard the news. It was exciting
2) hear the news today
3) to have heard the news
#5. Deborah’s face was indifferent. I suspect her of (…).
1) having heard the news much earlier
2) to have heard the news already
3) hear the news
#1. My brother doesn’t smoke now but he used (…).
1) to smoke heavily after school
2) to have given up smoking three years ago
3) to give up smoking
#2. She wished (…).
1) she had written her essay in the library yesterday. There was plenty of material there
2) she have written her essay already
3) she has been writing an essay since the morning
#3. As far as I know, she can go to the skating-rink. She (…).
1) must have written her essay already
2) to have written her essay in the library yesterday
3) shall have written her essay by Monday
#4. He would be able to give you a more detailed account of his business trip (…).
1) if he were given more time for preparing his report
2) if he will be given more time for preparing his report
3) if he being given more time for preparing his report
#5. We don’t approve of her (…).
1) being washed the linen at home. It takes a lot of time
2) having been washed the linen at home. It takes a lot of time
3) washing the linen at home. It takes a lot of time
#1. Julia was grateful for (…).
1) her taking on a drive to the country
2) her being taken on a drive to the country
3) her have taken on a drive to the country already
#2. The dinner wouldn’t have been spoiled (…).
1) had you turned up when you promised you would
2) can’t you have turned up by one o’clock a month ago
3) must you have turned up neither
#3. Though the line was engaged she went on (…).
1) ring him today
2) ringing him
3) to deny having rung him yesterday
#4. He may be reading hard for his exam. I’d rather not (…).
1) had rung him
2) ring him today
3) ringing him
#5. When the clown appeared on the arena the children burst out (…).
1) laughing. He looked so funny
2) to be laughed again and again
3) to have been laughing
#1. The children are still in the circus. They are sure (…).
1) to be laughing now
2) to be laughed again and again
3) to have been laughed a lot
#2. As soon as Peter had his car repaired (…).
1) he will be able to get it from the workshop
2) he has driven his car home from the workshop
3) he made up his mind to go to this ancient city
#3. Hardly had she placed both her feet on the ground when (…).
1) her husband drove off
2) her husband will drive off
3) her husband had driven off
#4. I see no point in (…).
1) being postponed this important engagement
2) postponing this important engagement
3) somebody having been postponed this important engagement
#5. This actor must (…).
1) to cancel all his recent performances because of being ill
2) be cancelled all his recent performances because of being ill
3) have cancelled all his recent performances because of being ill
#1. The performance is so boring. The spectators (…).
1) can’t have been laughing at it for two hours
2) will have laughed at it by the evening
3) were laughing at it at four o’clock yesterday
#2. The BFI IMAX screen is a 20 meters high and 26 meters wide making it (...).
1) farther the largest screen in Great Britain
2) as far the largest screen in Great Britain
3) by far the largest screen in Great Britain
#3. It is not like Patrick (…).

1) forgetting his appointments
2) to forget his appointments
3) having forgotten his appointments
#4. The old lady came near to (…).

1) die of pneumonia but to everyone's amazement she pulled through
2) being died of pneumonia but to everyone's amazement she pulled through
3) dying of pneumonia but to everyone's amazement she pulled through
#5. Try as I (…).

1) should, I couldn't turn the key
2) might, I couldn't turn the key
3) will, I couldn't turn the key
#1. Only on very rare occasions (…).

1) would make the old lady an appearance before midday
2) the old lady would make an appearance before midday
3) would the old lady make an appearance before midday
#2. Jeremy is not (…).

1) so fast a runner as Jonathan
2) a so fast runner as Jonathan
3) such fast runner like Jonathan
#3. He escaped by (…).

1) a hair's breadth
2) the hair breadth
3) hair breadth
#4. I can reassure you that everything (…).

1) will be dealt as quickly as possible
2) will deal with as quickly as possible
3) will be dealt with as quickly as possible
#5. I' m sure he only said those things (…).

1) for annoying me
2) to annoy me
3) for annoy me
#1. In such a plight (…).

1) we found ourselves that we had no choice but to radio for help
2) did we find ourselves that we had no choice but to radio for help
3) we ourselves found that we had no choice but to radio for help
#2. Thank you very much – I haven't been to (…).

1) a so enjoyable party for ages
2) so enjoyable a party for ages
3) so enjoyable party for ages
#3. Why do you object to (…).

1) him being taken on
2) he being taken on
3) him be taken on
#4. Mr. Steinberg had his office (…).

1) breaking into last night
2) being break into last night
3) broken into last night
#5. If you can win his attention (…).

1) the better so much for you
2) so much the better for you
3) the much so better for you
PART 3
Fill in the blanks with a proper word:

#1. Kim’s parents don’t (…) of her leaving school at sixteen.
1) confirm 2) consent 3) agree 4) approve
#2. The journalist wouldn’t (…) her source irrespective of pressure I put on her.
1) revise 2) release 3) reveal 4) open
#3. All of us know that keeping our heritage alive is important for (…) our identity.
1) continuing 2) following 3) holding 4) maintaining
#4. The rescue worker sat in the (…) because he felt dizzy.
1) shadow 2) shade 3) cover 4) site
#5. The ideal situation is to be bilingual though it makes (…) to keep one’s language alive.
1) logic 2) sense 3) aware 4) reason
#1. The authorities promised to (…) the claims of corruption.
1) look into 2) look up 3) look at 4) look after
#2. Most engineers agree that the car engine was ahead of its (…).
1) model 2) structure 3) time 4) function
#3. The trouble with credit is that some people (…) more money than they can afford.
1) borrow 2) lend 3) give 4) ask
#4. There was a long line of traffic waiting to cross the US/Mexico (…).
1) boundary 2) border 3) edge 4) lane
#5. Teenagers tend to (…) arcades spending money on video games.
1) hang up 2) hang on 3) hang to 4) hang around

#1. He was the son of a coat manufacturer who (…) control of his business through bankruptcy.
1) lost 2) failed 3) missed 4) wasted
#2. Many cosmetic companies claim that they don’t carry out (…) on animals.
1) attempts 2) efforts 3) trial 4) experiments
#3. Please, (…) in mind that smoking is not allowed in this building.
1) hold 2) keep 3) catch 4) store
#4. I started the conversation with the person sitting next to me to (…) the time.
1) run 2) bear 3) pass 4) keep
#5. People who (…) self-esteem have problems feeling good about themselves.
1) lack 2) miss 3) undermine 4) trust
#1. Katty puts some money in the bank every month for a rainy (…).
1) weather 2) day 3) spell 4) cyclone
#2. Kim could be (…) at times and often got upset easily.
1) sensible 2) reliable 3) arrogant 4) sensitive
#3. We all (…) our breath when the winner of the competition was being announced.
1) held 2) kept 3) bore 4) run
#4. It’s not just humans that (…) hands when they meet – chimpanzees also touch hands.
1) shrug 2) clench 3) shake 4) tap
#5. Live music can be (…) over the radio, TV or Internet.
1) broadcast 2) passed 3) referred 4) delivered
#1. The World Wildlife Fund updates its list of (…) species every year.
1) warned 2) endangered 3) risky 4) threatened
#2. My parents forbade me to take the car on Saturday night saying that it was out of (…).
1) control 2) place 3) question 4) date
#3. Mentally (…) people need our support to become part of the community.
1) poor 2) derived 3) abused 4) handicapped
#4. The famous athlete Jesse Owens (…) four Olympic records in 1936.
1) broke 2) changed 3) drew 4) took
#5. The law states that parents must (…) their children with a full time education.
1) give 2) serve 3) provide 4) deliver
#1. Many people are living in temporary shelters after days of intense rain that caused (…)
damage in the provinces of Indonesia.
1) intimate 2) sufficient 3) substantial 4) flexible
#2. The vast majority of Egypt's inhabitants live in the Nile valley and delta, and the rest of the
country is (…) populated.
1) sparsely 2) considerately 3) remarkably 4) eagerly
#3. The jury reached a verdict of not guilty as there wasn't (…) evidence to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt he intended to kill his boss.
1) loyal 2) abstract 3) obsolete 4) sufficient
#4. William Harvey’s significant discoveries impacted science immensely and without his (…),
the field of science would not be how we know it today.
1) reversal 2) disturbance 3) contribution 4) evolution
#5. The young graduate has made a wonderful speech and said he is extremely grateful to his
parents and loved ones who have always supported and (…) him in his studies.
1) constricted 2) encouraged 3) confessed 4) demolished
#1. At least 2,000 domestic and international flights were disrupted by the storm, when it
knocked out electricity and (…) roofs, towers, fences and other equipment.
1) eliminated 2) interrupted 3) contributed 4) destroyed
#2. Over the past decade the energy (…) of America has increased by more than 12 percent,
while its production has increased by less than 1 percent.
1) consumption 2) reputation 3) evolution 4) evaporation
#3. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, W.E.B. Du Bois became the most (…) and
effective spokesperson for the full rights of African Americans before World War II.
1) unbearable 2) insignificant 3) respected 4) manipulated
#4. The rebels (…) the police station killing twenty-three police officers and freeing about fifty
prisoners.
1) came across 2) took over 3) looked after 4) ran over
#5. Until he won a great amount of money from the lottery, he had been living in (…) for more
than 30 years.
1) poverty 2) temptation 3) welfare 4) vacancy
#1. Your lawyer’s being present in the court room is (…) since he may prevent your chance of
being misdirected.
1) official 2) mutual 3) hostile 4) critical
#2. Whether you are in love with her or not, I will never (…) to this marriage.
1) argue 2) approve 3) consent 4) decline
#3. If you are late to the meeting, it will be really difficult to (…) the subjects which have been
discussed.
1) look for 2) catch up with 3) drop in 4) give for
#4. The police officer confessed that shooting the burglar was a(n) (…) made decision and he
regretted that.
1) instinctively 2) approximately 3) mercifully 4) dramatically
#5. Working at a box office, I was told that selling forty tickets a day was (…), but when I sold
more than fifty I would get an extra payment.
1) restrictive 2) considerate 3) delicate 4) satisfactory
#1. When the U.S. and England proclaimed war against Iraq, the antiwar protesters all around
the world (…) practically all the roads to the famous squares.
1) took on 2) turned over 3) blocked off 4) passed away
#2. Theft and (…) are still among the most serious crimes in many countries.
1) ignorance 2) homicide 3) sacrifice 4) welfare
#3. It is a very strange fact that frogs (…) water through their skins.
1) absorb 2) access 3) accelerate 4) balance
#4. We must have an (…) supply of food before we start our journey.
1) absolute 2) abundant 3) aboard 4) abstract
#5. In twenty years' time, the food supplies will be so (…) for some countries that people will
start immigrating in huge numbers.
1) scan 2) scale 3) scare 4) scarce
#1. In this part of the country, a third of the population is (…) in the coal mining industry.
1) obtained 2) responded 3) employed 4) insisted
#2. Every region's linguistic and cultural identity is quite (…) from that of the rest of the
country.
1) distinct 2) coward 3) diligent 4) aggressive
#3. Aging research has (…) dramatically in the last several years, with much now known of the
biochemical and genetic components of aging.
1) rejected 2) opposed 3) prevented 4) advanced
#4. For any healthy business, there comes a point when the owners must decide to take the (…)
of a new growth strategy.
1) conscience 2) risk 3) immunity 4) misunderstanding
#5. The spokesman of the Labour Party claimed that many problems can be (…) traced to
unfavorable job conditions.
1) miserly 2) selfishly 3) directly 4) jealously
#1. His strong (…) helps him to cope with the tragedy.
1) faith 2) elusion 3) uselessness 4) distress
#2. The country has few natural resources and its economy has been (…) for some time now.
1) unwell 2) sickening 3) diseasing 4) ailing
#3. (…) to popular belief, Pluto is not a planet.
1) opposite 2) compared 3) contrary 4) conversely
#4. In her speech the Prime Minister (…) tribute to the valuable contributions to society made
by voluntary organizations.
1) brought 2) paid 3) sent 4) attracted
#5. What do you (…) as the main issues affecting the situation?
1) receive 2) perceive 3) deceive 4) retrieve
#1. After the football match the crowds (…) out of the stadium into the nearest bars and cafes.
1) poured 2) leaked 3) trickled 4) dripped
#2. The UN has called for an immediate (…) of hostilities.
1) deletion 2) ceasefire 3) cancellation 4) cessation
#3. The nuclear industry (…) most of the country's electrical power.
1) originates 2) generates 3) engenders 4) initiates
#4. My sister likes wearing tight tops and close-fitting dresses but I prefer (…) sweaters and
jeans.
1) slappy 2) floppy 3) baggy 4) flabby
#5. Every year many small companies get (…) up by large multinationals.
1) swallowed 2) burnt 3) drowned 4) digested
#1. Hayley is a very (…) girl. She knows where she wants to be in five years' time and how she
is going to get there.
1) arrogant 2) ambitious 3) self-conscious 4) snobby
#2. The measures taken by the government are obviously intended to (…) public confidence in
the current economic policy.
1) surrender 2) collaborate 3) submit 4) restore
#3. As an international organization, Interpol (…) the police forces of different countries to help
each other to solve crimes.
1) derives 2) executes 3) enables 4) suggests
#4. Because of their workload at schools, teachers have a limited amount of time to (…) with
each child.
1) interact 2) possess 3) imply 4) separate
#5. Mr. Smith, the head of our department, was forced to (…) early at his forty because of his ill
health.
1) revolve 2) retire 3) range 4) despise
#1. Thousands of animal species around the globe are (…) with extinction today.
1) enriched 2) dedicated 3) expired 4) threatened
#2. As the hotel can (…) up to five hundred guests, our boss wants to hold the annual meeting
there next month.
1) innovate 2) participate 3) accommodate 4) distract
#3. Some plant species (…) a warm and humid environment to grow well.
1) require 2) determine 3) represent 4) stay
#4. Many people behave (…) and violate traffic rules without caring for the consequences of
their actions.
1) significantly 2) inconsiderately 3) truly 4) collaboratively
#5. If people take an interest in the campaign and donate (…), it will be of great help for
tsunami victims.
1) hardly 2) rarely 3) nastily 4) generously
#1. Commercially (…) since the late 1930s, the television set has become a common household
communications device in homes, particularly as a source of entertainment and news.
1) gigantic 2) superficial 3) available 4) rigid
#2. The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way (…) to mailing
letters predates the creation of the Internet.
1) similar 2) profound 3) resentful 4) diverse
#3. The cost of raw materials has risen (…) during the last months. Accordingly, some
companies have been forced to increase the prices of their products.
1) considerately 2) sharply 3) patiently 4) respectfully
#4. It is known that a (…) number of aircraft accidents are the result of a human error.
1) traditional 2) defective 3) creative 4) significant
#5. Due to his (…) adherence to the rules, the manager wasn't liked by the staff and was forced
to resign.
1) identical 2) sparse 3) strict 4) portable
PART 4
Fill in the gaps with the correct preposition or conjunction:
#1. I confided (…) her because I thought I could trust her immensely.
1) of 2) about 3) in 4) on
#2. The course in African Studies at SOAS appeals (…) me the most.
1) by 2) to 3) on 4) up to
#3. I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Could you speak (…) a little, please?
1) over 2) on 3) up 4) upon
#4. Negotiations between the two sides broke (…) after just two hours.
1) down 2) downwards 3) up 4) in
#5. The fire brigade needed more than six hours to put (…) the blaze.
1) off 2) on 3) out 4) up with
#1. I'm not trying to put you (…) buying it, but the price IS very high.
1) onto 2) down 3) off 4) up
#2. It was cloudy and raining in the morning but it cleared (…) before lunch time.
1) up 2) out 3) off 4) about
#3. It's a very expensive city but we get (…). We have enough to live on.
1) over 2) down 3) alone 4) by
#4. Our son's being bullied at school – other kids pick (…) him.
1) out 2) up 3) on 4) over
#5. I went to bed at 10 o'clock but didn't drop (…) till midnight.
1) off 2) in 3) down 4) up on
#1.. I'll come and see you tomorrow. I'll drop (…) around 5 o'clock.
1) on 2) by 3) into 4) through
#2. I'm going to call the dentist and make an appointment for next week. My tooth's been hurting
for ages and I can't put it (…) any longer.
1) off 2) on 3) up 4) out
#3. I'm really getting (…) gardening – it's a great way to relax.
1) on 2) in 3) off 4) into
#4. I took a pencil and edited the text by crossing (…) all the unnecessary sentences.
1) out 2) on 3) through 4) off
#5. I arrived at about three o'clock but Paul didn't turn (…) until half past five.
1) in 2) to 3) up 4) over
#1.. I asked her to marry me but she turned me (…).

1) down 2) up 3) off 4) in
#2. Simon and Helena have broken (…). They'd been together for five years.
1) down 2) up 3) off 4) out
#3. I always show a new employee (…) the company on their first morning.
1) around 2) over 3) through 4) in
#4. Burglars broke (…) our house last week. They somehow managed to open our super modern
lock.
1) into 2) up 3) to 4) down
#5. He asked his mother (…) money just because he desperately needed some.
1) for 2) by 3) after 4) of
#1. My country is famous (…) historical sights.
1) of 2) in 3) for 4) with
#2. My grandfather died (…) cancer.
1) of 2) by 3) for 4) with
#3. It’s 7 a.m. We need to leave (…) work at once or else we’ll miss the bus.
1) for 2) to 3) up to 4) at
#4. Wreckage from the plane was scattered (…) a wide area.
1) at 2) from 3) in 4) over
#5. The toilet is straight (…) that door, then up the stairs on the left.
1) through 2) in 3) next 4) around
#1. He makes reading-lamps (…) old wine bottles.
1) with 2) by 3) out of 4) of
#2. She sighed (…) relief.
1) with 2) on 3) of 4) at
#3. The chairman is opposed (…) giving the affair any publicity.
1) to 2) at 2) by 3) with
#4. He divided his property (…) his daughter and his sister.
1) among 2) between 3) amongst 4) within
#5. She got married (…) her childhood sweetheart.
1) in 2) with 3) at 4) to
#1. Her dress is too wide (…) the sleeves.
1) on 2) in 3) of 4) about
#2. Turkey has come (…) a new agreement with Germany.
1) to 2) with 3) by 4) on
#3. This is the solution (…) all your complicated problems.
1) in 2) by 3) with 4) to
#4. The country is rich (…) natural resources.
1) for 2) by 3) with 4) in
#5. If you are (…) the North Pole, every direction is south.
1) against 2) around 3) by 4) at
#1.. I kissed her (…) both cheeks.
1) in 2) on 3) by 4) to
#2. They moved the chair because it was (…) their way.
1) at 2) on 3) off 4) in
#3. (…) a nine-month follow-up, not a single case of chicken pox occurred in the vaccinated
group.
1) by 2) within 3) during 4) as
#4. The safe had been blown open (…) dynamite.
1) through 2) by 3) at 4) on
#5. The situation had occurred (…) a misunderstanding.
1) for 2) of 3) with 4) because of
#1. The police accused him (…) going through a red light.
1) of 2) for 3) in 4) through
#2. They are very similar. I often mistake one (…) the other.
1) through 2) of 3) with 4) for
#3. He suffers rather badly (…) migraines.
1) of 2) from 3) for 4) as
#4. Animals are not completely devoid (…) intelligence.
1) on 2) in 3) of 4) without
#5. The teacher was disappointed (…) the work of the class.
1) at 2) on 3) for 4) with
#1. Divide 16 (…) 4. 4 is the square root of 16.
1) by 2) with 3) into 4) for
#2. Bill was too ill to travel (…) a doctor or a nurse.
1) through 2) without 3) by 4) against
#3. In Denmark, teachers are (…) the best-paid workers.
1) between 2) among 3) of 4) out of
#4. Flu and measles are both caused (…) a virus.
1) by 2) with 3) for 4) on
#5. He recovered (…) his illness only last week.
1) on 2) up 3) over 4) from
#1. He is longing (…) the day when he will be able to earn his own living.
1) with 2) for 3) at 4) against
#2. The boy who got full marks was suspected (…) cheating.
1) by 2) from 3) of 4) for
#3. She complained (…) pains in her back.
1) by 2) with 3) over 4) about
#4. He became addicted (…) drugs and went from worse to worse.
1) on 2) with 3) to 4) by
#5. Please turn (…) the volume of the radio. I’m getting deaf.
1) on 2) into 3) over 4) down
#1. As the boxer realized he was getting (…) the end of the round he started to relax.
1) ahead of 2) at 3) away from 4) towards
#2. Did you hear about the architect who designed a three-story house (…) any stairs?
1) off 2) without 3) instead of 4) in spite of
#3. Whether you like it or not, you will have to carry (…) this plan.
1) into 2) out 3) away 4) in
#4. Perhaps she didn’t know him very well but Charlie didn’t know him (…) all.
1) in 2) by 3) at 4) for
#5. They have made an urgent request (…) international aid.
1) for 2) to 3) towards 4) forward
#1. Everyone understood that such an answer was good (…) nothing.
1) for 2) to 3) with 4) towards
#2. How dare you come and poke your nose (…) my family affairs?
1) into 2) to 3) for 4) towards
#3. This statue was erected (…) honour of the great man.
1) by 2) into 3) in 4) with
#4. If you need a help I and my friend are (…) your disposal.
1) to 2) for 3) at 4) within
#5. The police said they wouldn’t rest (…) all the criminals were caught.
1) on 2) around 3) until 4) while
#1. The accident resulted (…) the death of two passengers.
1) in 2) at 3) for 4) onto
#2. He did it just (…) purpose. Everything he does is often deliberately aimed to irritate us.
1) with 2) in 3) on 4) for
#3. Wherever he goes he is kept (…) strict observation.
1) beneath 2) under 3) in 4) within
#4. When he came there the discussion was (…) full swing.
1) on 2) in 3) at 4) with
#5. You could be (...) greater help if you didn’t interfere with us.
1) in 2) of 3) with 4) up to
#1. Don’t look out of the window. Concentrate (...) what you are doing.
1) in 2) on 3) about 4) into
#2. This new evidence throws doubt (...) the new theory.
1) on 2) to 3) into 4) for
#3. His speech made a strong impression (...) the audience.
1) across 2) throughout 3) with 4) on
#4. If you go (...) behaving like that you’ll go to bed without any supper.
1) towards 2) through 3) up 4) on
#5. The attendant will show you (...) your seats.
1) round 2) to 3) in 4) for
PART 5
Choose the paragraph of the text corresponding to each statement:
#1) The disastrous collapse of markets and financial institutions have been a reality.
#2) What triggered the breakdown off?
#3) Mysterious investments are considered less significant.
#4) Loans are the way to prosperity.
#5) To understand the essence of leverage you must contrast it with investment.
Leverage
1. In 2008 the world financial system came close to a complete meltdown. No one wants a
repeat of that terrible crash, but how can a repeat be avoided?
2. In the first instance we need to understand what brought us to the brink - what we were doing
wrong during the good times that was unwittingly leading us to the cliff edge.
3. Just what led to the meltdown? Certainly there wasn't a single factor that was to blame. From
the mid1990s financial institutions were putting more and more money into new kinds of
very risky investments.
4. Some of these investments “ like credit default swaps “ are very difficult to understand (the
New York Times called them "arcane" in one article) but the particular investments are a
less important factor than the technique called leverage that was (and is) used to make those
investments.
5. Arguably, understanding what leverage is, is the key to understanding the meltdown.
6. So what is leverage? In essence, it just refers to the practice of borrowing money to make an
investment.
7. To see how it works and to see both how attractive it can seem and how extremely and how
extremely risky it is, let’s compare leverage with an old-fashioned investment.
8. Say you have $20,000 to invest in property. You buy land worth $20,000. Over a period of
time its market value increases by 10%. You make $2,000. Not bad. And in the old days you
might have been happy with that.
9. $2,000 is nice, but more would be better, wouldn't it? So why not leverage?
10. If you have $20,000 (and if the economy is ticking over quite nicely) you should be able to
persuade a financial institution to lend you a lot more. Let's say you are loaned 19 times
your original amount, making the total sum $400,000. Wow! So you invest $400,000 in
property.
#1) The US economic science has a major tendency towards free market ideas.
#2) Large firms usually attract their own groups of customers.
#3) Price reduction does not necessarily bring about more demand.
#4) Prices are normally fixed either by separate agreement or associations.
#5) Regulated price rates are not proved to prevent economic growth.
Free Market
1. Most economists in the United States seem captivated by spell of the free market.
Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of
the free market.
2. A price that is determined by the seller or for that matter, established by anyone other than the
aggregate of consumers seems pernicious. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to
think of price – fixing as both “normal” and having a valuable economic function.
3. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself
provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it
requires.
4. Hence a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of
consumers.
5. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its
products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-
markets economic theories.
6. But each large firm will also act with full consideration of the needs that it has in common
with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus avoid
significant price cutting, because price cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest
in a stable demand for products.
7. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect it to be brought
about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not.
8. More over those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without
interference is the most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the
economies of non socialist countries other than the United States. These economies employ
intentional price-fixing usually in an overt fashion.
9. Formal price fixing by cartel and informal price fixing by agreements covering the members
of an industry are common place.
10. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price
fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered
drastically in their economic development. There is no indication that they have.
#1) Financial institutions are not very likely to make the headlines.
#2) The IMF and the World Bank used to play a preventive role.
#3) The state cuts down on financing some projects.
#4) TV news is overwhelmed with natural disasters.
#5) Lower profits and reduced investments are the signs of depression.
Financial institutions
1. Most people who watch the evening news on TV everyday will hear about every major
natural disaster that happens in the world: every earthquake, every drought, every fatal
landslide, every tornado and hurricane.
2. Rarely will they hear a thing about the two most powerful financial institutions in the world:
the IMF (the international monetary fund) and the World Bank, and yet these institutions
probably have a bigger impact on the lives of more people than do all those natural disasters
that we hear about so regularly.
3. Here we present a brief introduction to these two institutions - two institutions that are
supposed to be the forces of good in the world, though they seem to many of us like the true
axis of evil.
4. With so many European cities in ruin at the end of World War II the IMF and the World Bank
were set up primarily to finance European reconstruction. There was also a longer term goal:
to ensure that there was no repetition of the global economic depression that occurred in the
1930's.
5. (An aside: what does an economic depression look like? It looks like a downward spiral. For
one reason or another companies experience falling profits so they start to cancel
investments and lay off workers. Unemployment rises and the demand for goods falls.
6. The government's income from taxes also declines, so publicly funded projects have to be cut
back.
7. All of this makes it even more difficult for companies to make a profit so they make more
cutbacks and the spiral continues downwards. This can spread to other countries when they
start to suffer a loss of demand for their exports.)
8. To avoid the spreading downward spiral of another global depression the idea was that
governments could turn to the IMF to borrow money to help reduce unemployment and
maintain demand for consumer goods whenever a local economic crisis started.
9. The objectives of the IMF and World Bank changed fundamentally in the 1980's.
10. Instead of simply providing assistance to market economies that get into trouble, they
became instruments of a much more aggressive drive to open up new markets around the
world that companies in the more advanced countries could then gain access to and exploit.
#1) Cheaper goods imported in great amounts eventually lower the living standards.
#2) The two institutions control by means of certain economic rewards and punishments.
#3) The funds provided by the IMF and the World Bank put home companies at a disadvantage.
#4) The two organizations pursue the pattern of free market economy which favours the
strongest players.
#5) The rural area developed owing to the state support in other more developed countries.
The IMF and World Bank methods
1. At the time of World War II the Third World countries had been the sole responsibility of
their imperial masters. Now, when they got into trouble and needed foreign loans, the IMF
and World Bank stepped in.
2. They had a carrot and a stick. The carrot was the desperately needed loan. The stick was the
threat to withhold the money unless the country reformed its economy so that big foreign
firms could come in and make money.
3. A key word here is "protection". All of the more developed economies used measures such as
import controls in the past to protect their agriculture and industry.
4. Such controls let companies grow until they are powerful to be able to compete in the
international market.
5. According to the new philosophy there is no excuse for the world's poorest countries trying to
protect their agriculture and industry.
6. If they need foreign loans they must open their markets up to big foreign companies even
though their own companies may have no hope of competing. In the light of the original
philosophy of the IMF this makes no sense at all.
7. The influx of cheap goods from foreign companies may mean a slightly lower cost of living
for many families but as local companies close and unemployment rises overall economic
activity is likely to fall and levels of poverty will rise.
8. In effect these two agencies have become two of the strongest proponents of today's form of
globalisation - a process whereby all the countries of the world are forced to open their
markets, thereby maximising the opportunities for the largest and most powerful companies
in the world.
9. Some people have called the new philosophy of the IMF and the World Bank "market
fundamentalism". This means an insistence upon free markets that disregards the
consequences for local communities and their traditional ways of life.
10. Take, for example, the poor African countries that previously subsidised agricultural
activities in remote rural areas. When they needed help from the IMF they were forced to
stop these subsidies and let the local markets operate without the "distortions" introduced by
government intervention. As a result, incomes in remote rural areas dropped so low that
their communities were no longer viable.
#1) Unemployment consequences are less severe than they used to be since two people per
family are more often employed.
#2) Some employed people earn so little that their families still live in poverty.
#3) Those in forced idleness include, besides the unemployed, both underemployed part-time
workers and those not actively seeking work.
#4) Unemployment and earnings figures can exaggerate the amount of economic hardship
since earnings may be received from more than one job per worker.
#5) Unemployment is a social policy issue.
Unemployment statistics
1. How many really suffer as a result of labor market problems? This is one of the most critical
yet contentious social policy questions.
2. In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship. Unemployment does
not have the same dire consequences today as it did in the 1930's when most of the
unemployed were primary bread-winners, when income and earnings were usually much
closer to the margin of subsistence.
3. Increasing affluence, the rise of families with more than one wage earner, the growing
predominance of secondary earners among the unemployed, and improved social welfare
protection have unquestionably mitigated the consequences of joblessness.
4. Earnings and income data also overstate the dimensions of hardship. Among the millions with
hourly earnings at or below the minimum wage level, the overwhelming majority are from
multiple-earner, relatively affluent families.
5. Most of those counted by the poverty statistics are elderly or handicapped or have family
responsibilities which keep them out of the labor force, so the poverty statistics are by no
means an accurate indicator of labor market pathologies.
6. Yet there are also many ways our social statistics underestimate the degree of labour-market-
related hardship. The unemployment counts exclude the millions of fully employed workers
whose wages are so low that their families remain in poverty.
7. Since the number experiencing joblessness at some time during the year is several times the
number unemployed in any month, those who suffer a result of forced idleness can equal or
exceed average annual unemployment, even though only a minority of the jobless in any
month really suffer.
8. For every person counted in the month unemployment tallies, there is another working part-
time because of the inability to find full-time work, or else outside the labor force but
wanting a job.
9. Finally, income transfers in our country have always focused on the elderly, disabled, and
dependent, neglecting the needs of the working poor, so that the dramatic expansion of cash
and in kind transfers does not necessarily mean that those failing in the labor market are
adequately protected.
10. There is only one area of agreement in this debate that the existing poverty, employment,
and earnings statistics are inadequate for one of their primary applications, measuring the
consequences of labor market problems.
#1) Purchasers of free-standing appliances are tending to buy more expensive models.
#2) Among built-in ovens, the proportion of gas ovens has grown.
#3) Sales of dishwashers have been influenced by an increase in the number of types of
dishwasher available.
#4) Cooking appliances account for a higher proportion of built-in appliances than of free-
standing ones.
#5) Sales of extractor hoods have been affected by trends in sales of cooking appliances.
Kitchen Appliances Report
1. Growth continued in the market last year, although at a much lower rate than in previous year.
The trend from free standing towards built-in appliances is gathering pace.
2. In the free-standing sector, growth has mainly been concentrated at the upper end of the
market, as an increasing proportion of consumers trade up to higher-specification
appliances.
3. The major sector within built-in appliances is cooking (including microwaves) with 79% by
volume.
4. Within the free-standing market, cooking takes 28% by volume, compared to refrigeration
(31%), laundry (33%) and dishwashers (8%).
5. The built-in cooking market comprises ovens, hobs and hoods.
6. The built-in oven sector is the largest by value. Although gas has made some gains in share in
recent years, the sector is primarily electric, estimated at 65 per cent.
7. Unlike ovens, the hob sector is predominantly gas, which accounts for around 59 per cent,
with electric hobs accounting for the balance.
8. The built-in cooking market has experienced considerable growth in terms of volume, and this
has spread to increased demand for extractor hoods.
9. The free-standing cooking appliance market consists of cookers and microwaves. Compared
to other household appliances, the dishwasher market remains at a relatively low level of
household penetration.
10. The wider product range, including slimline and compact dishwashers, and increased
consumer awareness of the benefits the dishwasher can offer, have contributed to growth in
this sector.
#1) A balance can be negotiated to suit individual needs.
#2) There are advantages for both sides.
#3) A broader range of employees can benefit.
#4) The requirements of staff have changed.
#5) Work can take over your life even at the weekend.
Finding a work/life balance
1. Like many people in full-time employment, you may be experiencing increasing pressure to
stay late at night, take work home or just 'pop into the office' at the weekend.
2. As a result, you feel growing dissatisfaction, as you find the boundaries between life and
work beginning to blur.
3. On the other hand, finding your job satisfying does not make you want to spend all your time
at work either, as other things in your life matter, too
4. The good news is that some employees are making it easier to find a balance. For example,
you can discuss your free-time activities commitment with your boss who will do his best to
build them into the work schedule.
5. You will find it easier to arrange time off when you want it as you become more experienced
in the job- and more important to your employer.
6. Employees are increasingly looking for flexible working conditions which acknowledge
lifestyle choices, including family, self-education, progressive return to the workplace or
easing out of the workforce altogether.
7. When it works, it's a win-win situation. The employee has greater flexibility, and the
employer is rewarded with greater commitment.
8. Work/life balance developed out of the 'family-friendly' policies introduced in the late 80s
and early 90s.
9. Where family-friendly policies were mainly seen as a women's initiative, designed to support
mothers with children, work/life balance is less gender specific and recognizes other
commitments as well as family.
10. A number of policies and practices, such as flexible working hours, working from home and
job sharing, make an organization more responsive to the needs of its workforce
#1) Downshifting challenges society's preoccupation with consumer choice and its recent
elevation in importance.
#2) The current volume of people opting to downshift makes it a numerically important
phenomenon.
#3) Downshifting involves the individual concerned in a form of withdrawal from the social
expectations that pervade all strata of modern life.
#4) One negative aspect of downshifting is that the individual's social status may be
diminished.
#5) It is inevitable that the decision to downshift and consequent lifestyle changes will have an
impact on the voting patterns of those concerned.
Downshifting
1. Downshifting, with its emphasis on a better quality of life, appears to be a growing trend in
many parts of the world.
2. Evidence suggests that the decision to downshift requires a process of untying oneself from
overriding social expectations, which are manifested at the broadest level of society and
which seep down to the personal reactions of close friends and family.
3. Since downshifting is now such a significant phenomenon - it is a choice made by nearly a
quarter of adult people (23% of those aged 30-59) - it has become a social force.
4. Downshifting is not yet a conscious political force, although the shift in priorities of this
segment of the electorate must be beginning to influence voting patterns.
5. In a world where we are unconsciously, or semi-consciously, influenced by powerful forces to
behave and think of ourselves in certain ways, living more consciously is a radical act.
6. For most downshifters, the change is one which involves taking control of one's life and living
more consciously, and that making the change takes courage.
7. This is paradoxical in a society that celebrates individual freedom and which, over the last two
decades, has been dominated by the modern politics of neoliberalism that places so much
importance on consumer choice.
8. Why does it take an act of courage to choose to devote less time to earning money and
acquiring things and more time to other pursuits?
9. The answer is that, despite all of the rhetoric, only certain forms of choice are socially
permissible, those that are consistent with acquisitiveness and the desire to get on.
10. The result is that downshifters often lose friends and lose status, and their relationship to
society changes, sometimes in a fundamental way.
#1) Innocent people can be imprisoned.
#2) The justification is given for compromising the principle that people ought not to be kept in
prison without being given a fair trial.
#3) An alternative policy has been adopted in a European country.
#4) Suspected terrorists can stay in jail indefinitely.
#5) Some intelligence reports that often form the basis for the arrest of suspected terrorists are
far from perfect.
The Rule of Law: a Victim In the War Against Terrorism?
1. If the police in the UK or the USA receive information alleging that someone is connected
somehow with a terrorist organization, they can arrest the person and hold him in a prison
cell indefinitely.
2. Suspects have been locked up for years like this, without being taken to court and tried and
without even being told why the authorities suspect that they are terrorists.
3. This contravenes one of the basic principles established over the centuries in our legal
systems. There may be a number of people the government would like to lock up or execute
or deport but if there is respect for the rule of law it will have to gather the evidence and
prove its case in court.
4. Instead, it is argued that when you have someone who may be plotting to kill hundreds of
thousands of people, you don't want to take any risks, even when it means trampling on a
few long-established principles.
5. The problem is many innocent people are locked up along with the few individuals who are
determined to wreak havoc.
6. One of the reasons why it happens concerns the intelligence reports that are usually the basis
for the arrest.
7. Some experts say they have seen reports which were little more than gossip – reports which
relied, for instance, on unproven allegations.
8. Is there an alternative approach?
9. In Sweden, when the government debated the issue of whether to detain terrorist suspects
without a proper trial or to maintain the high standards of their legal system, they chose the
latter.
10. When evidence was lacking they adopted the policy of releasing suspects and then keeping
them under constant surveillance.
#1) Three different suppliers will most likely be involved in the production of apple's new
iPhone screens.
#2) Companies are making bigger display screens because consumers are using phones for things
they used to do on their laptops.
#3) Apple's new screen will be bigger, compared to the old one.
#4) Apple is competing against a South Korean company.
#5) Not all the suppliers are in Japan.
Apple Inc To Increase Screen Size On iPhones
1. Apple Inc plans to use a larger screen on the next generation iPhone and has begun to place
orders for the new displays from suppliers in South Korea and Japan.
2. The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner. That would represent a
roughly 30 per cent increase in viewing area, assuming apple keeps other dimensions
proportional.
3. Apple has used a 3.5 inch screen since introducing the iPhone in 2007.
4. Early production of the new screen has begun at three suppliers: Korea's LG Display Co LTD,
Sharp Corp and Japan Display Inc, a Japanese government-brokered merger combining the
screen production of the companies.
5. It is likely all the screen suppliers will get production orders from Apple, which could begin as
soon as June.
6. That would allow the new iPhone to go into production as soon as August, if the company
follows its own precedent in moving from orders for prototypes for key components to
launch.
7. Apple's decision to equip the next iPhone with a larder screen represents part of a competitive
Response to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
8. Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch touch-screen and a
faster processor earlier this month.
9. With consumers becoming more and more comfortable using smartphones for tasks they once
performed on laptops, like watching video, other smartphone manufacturers have also
moved toward bigger displays.
10. A report in March by a South Korea business newspaper said Apple would use a "retina"
display on the next iPhone, the same technology in its latest iPad that enhance image quality.
#1) The balance of power concept was believed to sustain peace.
#2) Some states attempt to revise the existing international order.
#3) Diplomacy is a form of power.
#4) There used to be two poles in the international system.
#5) There is a theory suggesting some states take advantage of others.
Concepts in International Relations
1. International relations are often viewed in terms of levels of analysis. The systemic level
concepts are those broad concepts that define and shape an international environment.
2. The concept of ‘power’ in international relations can be described as the degree of resources,
capabilities, and influence in international affairs. It is often divided up into the concepts of
‘hard power’ and ‘soft power’.
3. Hard power relates primarily to coercive power, such as the use of force, and soft power
commonly covers economics, diplomacy and cultural influence.
4. Polarity in international relations refers to the arrangement of power within the international
system. The concept arose from bipolarity during the Cold War, with the international
system dominated by the conflict between two superpowers. The collapse of the Soviet
Union led to ‘unipolarity’, with the United States as a sole superpower.
5. Several theories of international relations draw upon the idea of ‘polarity‘.
6. The balance of power was a concept prevalent in Europe prior to the First World War, the
thought being that by balancing power blocs it would create stability and prevent war.
7. Hegemonic stability theory also draws upon the idea of polarity, specifically the state of
unipolarity. Hegemony is the preponderance of power at one pole, and the theory argues this
is a stable configuration because of mutual gains by both the dominant power and others in
the international system.
8. Many advocate that the current international system is characterized by growing
interdependence, the mutual responsibility and dependency on others.
9. Dependency theory is most commonly associated with Marxism, stating that a set of core
states exploit a set of weaker periphery states for their prosperity.
10. States can be classified by whether they accept the international status quo, or are revisionist
seeking to fundamentally change the rules and practices of international relations, feeling
disadvantaged by the status quo.
#1) The UN emerged on the basis of another organization.
#2) The UN aims at promoting cooperation between the countries.
#3) The UN member states provide financial support to the organization.
#4) The UN activities are determined by a special document.
#5) Not all the countries of the world are members of the UN.
The United Nations

1. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate
cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social
progress and human rights issues.
2. The UN was founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between nations
and to provide a platform for dialogue.
3. In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations
Conference on international organisation to draw up the United Nations Charter.
4. It has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
5. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October.
6. The Charter is the constituting instrument of the United Nations, setting out the rights and
obligations of Member States, and establishing the organisation’s organs and procedures.
7.The purposes of the United Nations, as set forth in the Charter, are to maintain international
peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving
international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect
for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions
of nations in attaining these ends.
8. There are now 192 member states. The organisation is divided into administrative bodies,
primarily: The General Assembly, The Security Council, The Economic and Social Council,
The Secretariat and The International Court of Justice.
9. The programmes, funds and agencies have their own governing bodies and budgets, and set
their own standards and guidelines. Together, they provide technical assistance and other
forms of practical help in virtually all areas of economic and social endeavour.
10. The UN is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from member states which
are assessed on a scale approved by the General Assembly.
#1) One of the techniques of negotiations involves convincing the other side by degrees.
#2) Negotiation is an important means of solving conflicts.
#3) Negotiators are usually experts in a particular area.
#4) Negotiations are common in everyday life
#5) In addition to the conflicting parties, negotiation can involve a neutral participant.
Negotiations
1. Negotiation is a dialogue intended to resolve disputes, to produce an agreement upon courses
of action, to bargain for individual or collective advantage, or to craft outcomes to satisfy
various interests.
2. It is the primary method of alternative dispute resolution.
3. Negotiation occurs in business, non-profit organisations, government branches, legal
proceedings, among nations and in personal situations such as marriage, divorce, parenting,
and everyday life.
4. The study of the subject is called negotiation theory. Those who work in negotiation
professionally are called negotiators.
5. Professional negotiators are often specialized, such as union negotiators, leverage buyout
negotiators, peace negotiators, hostage negotiators, or may work under other titles, such as
diplomats, legislators or brokers.
6. Negotiation typically manifests itself with a trained negotiator acting on behalf of a particular
organisation or position.
7. It can be compared to mediation where a disinterested third party listens to each side’s
arguments and attempts to help craft an agreement between the parties.
8. It is also related to arbitration which, as with a legal proceeding, both sides make an argument
as to the merits of their “case” and then the arbitrator decides the outcome for both parties.
9. “Cherry picking” is used primarily in purchasing negotiations, although the principles are
applicable to many other situations. In essence, the purchaser examines the proposals of
several potential vendors, picks out the best components, and then tries to negotiate based
upon their “ideal” proposal.
9. Salami sausages are eaten a slice at a time, they would be indigestible if taken in a single
large piece. This aspect has led negotiators to use salami tactics for a negotiating technique
that tries to do just that: to win concessions in small doses (slices) when the other party
would probably reject them if they were put on the table all at once.
#1) The salami technique is confined to only one type of negotiations.
#2) One need to be very confident to win salami-style negotiations.
#3) Salami tactics involves more than one stage.
#4) You can resort to salami tactics when purchasing, e.g. vehicles.
#5) To be successful in salami tactic you must push for a collective agreement.
Salami Tactics
1. Some negotiators just love to play tactical games. If the union negotiators decide to use the
salami tactic they will present just one of their demands for discussion and push hard to
reach agreement on it.
2. Let’s say they focus on a 6% pay rise and after a long discussion they agree on 4%. That’s
just the first slice of the salami and there is a whole sausage yet to come.
3. The next slice of salami might be to try to implement the pay deal earlier than usual.
Whatever happens to the timing of the pay deal they have yet another slice of salami waiting
– the holiday arrangements.
4. And so the slicing of the salami sausage continues: private health, pension, canteen,
allowances, and so on.
5. The salami is not restricted to management-union negotiations. Any negotiator who has a list
of things on which they want to gain agreement can use it.
6. Try it when you next buy a car. Are you buying just one item, the car? Or are you gaining
agreement on several things: buying the car, filling the petrol tank, replacing worn tires if
it’s a used car, a free service next year … and whatever else you can think of.
7. So, what do you do if you are on the receiving end and the other party tries to salami you?
Your first line of defense is to recognize what they are doing and your second is to put a stop
to it.
8. You will need to be assertive about this but the response is quite straightforward. The salami
tactic works because the person being sliced does not recognize what is happening. Once
you do, you can fight it.
9. How? Simply refuse agreement on any one slice until you have everything out on the table.
Once everything is out in the open put forward a proposal on a collective agreement –
bundle the lot together.
10. Then the discussion can begin in earnest and you can now bring out your negotiating skills.
Continue like that until you are happy with the deal, then close.
#1) Use of the Internet enables epidemics of diseases to be controlled in poor countries.
#2) The Internet provides people with a source of information, so they can make their own
choices in life.
#3) A company's telecommunications bill demonstrates how information and communication
technology can cut costs.
#4) Important issues that need to be addressed include improving computer skills.
#5) An international organization has submitted a distance learning scheme in Africa which
depends on ICTs.
Information technology
1. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can benefit the two-thirds of humanity
in a number of ways.
2. First, there are the economic advantages of these technologies.
3. One small company from Tanzania replaced $20 faxes with 10 cent e-mails and saw its
telecommunications bill go from over $500 per month to $45 per month.
4. Health services also benefit from ICTs.
5. Using the Internet, doctors can keep up with the latest developments in their field as well as
seek help from their peers.
6. Throughout Africa, for instance, individual cases of meningitis are tracked over the internet so
that epidemics can be stopped early.
7. ICTs can make it easier to reach a broad segment of the population in education too.
8. The African Virtual University is a project which is partly financed by the World Bank and
uses satellites to broadcast televised courses to students who communicate with teachers by e-
mail and telephone.
9. In addition, the Internet gives people access to information which allows them to make
informed decisions on subjects that affect their lives.
10. Finally, in order to allow global use of Icts, people need to have confidence to use this
technology as well as practice.
PART 6
Find the Ukrainian equivalent for the word or phrase underlined:

#1. The parties undertake to refrain from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent
with the purposes of the UN.
1) запобігати 2) відхилятися 3) відмовлятися 4) утримуватися 5) удаватись до
#2. The parties will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will
encourage economic collaboration.
1) розвивати діяльність 2) заохочувати співпрацю 3) сприяти порозумінню 4)
забезпечувати взаємообмін 5) надавати допомогу
#3. The officials agreed to increase public awareness of the enhanced political dialogue between
the two countries.
1) усвідомлення громадськості 2) поінформованість громадськості 3) знання
громадськості 4) участь громадськості 5) публічна дискусія
#4. The terrorists invalidated the cease-fire agreement by launching the attack on the embassy.
1) укласти договір 2) втілилити договір 3) анулювати договір 4) анексувати договір 5)
підписати договір
#5. The high-ranking official dismisses the corruption allegations as pure conjecture.
1) звинувачення у корупції 2) сумніви у корупції 3) ствердження про корупцію 4)
припущення про корупцію 5) докази корупції
#1. The agreement stipulates that two countries will cooperate in the sphere of nuclear tests.
1) угода вказує 2) угода підтримує 3) угода передбачає 4) угода наголошує 5) угода
зобов’язує
#2. The state promotes the development of science and the establishment of scientific relations
with the world community.
1) держава пропагує 2) держава нав’язує 3) держава допомагає 4) держава контролює
5) держава рекламує
#3. After a long discussion the parties decided to make amendments to the agreement.
1) скасувати зміни 2) внести пропозиції 3) вдосконалити 4) внести поправки 5) внести
пункти
#4. The objectives of the OSCE is to foster the protection of human rights, democratic freedoms
and settlements of regional conflicts.
1) пропагувати захист 2) контролювати захист 3) сприяти захисту 4) наглядати за
захистом 5) обмежувати захист
#5. The law envisages criminal liability for involving juveniles in criminal activities.
1) закон передбачає 2) закон контролює 3) закон наголошує 4) закон стверджує 5)
закон знімає
#1. The speaker announced that such political statements would engender resentment, mistrust
and disrespect among people.
1) породжуватимуть обурення 2) заспокоять обурення 3) вплинуть на обурення 4)
прискорять обурення 5) збільшити обурення
#2. Apparently the purpose of the meeting is not so much to improve the relations but to prevent
their further deterioration.
1) подальше поглиблення 2) подальше розширення 3) подальшу ескалацію 4) подальше
погіршення 5) подальший розбрат
#3. According to the expert, the employment of the explosive devices caused an enormous
number of casualties.
1) кількість вибухів 2) кількість збитків 3) кількість жертв 4) кількість пригод 5)
кількість аварій
#4. They admit they made a mistake by not considering the issue of financial assets.
1) фінансові актив 2) фінансові заощадження 3) фінансові групи 4) фінансові договори
5) фінансові питання
#5. The agreement will encompass the whole range of political, financial and economic issues.
1) великий обсяг 2) великий об’єм 3) цілий спектр 4) повний ряд 5) загальний спектр
#1. This issue has been a stumbling block during all talks between the countries.
1) головна тема 2) спірний блок 3) другорядне питання 4) камінь спотикання 5)
додаткове питання
#2. Under the circumstances, there could be no question of granting citizenship to refugees.
1) нагородження громадянством 2) надання громадянства 3) гарантування
громадянства 4) підтримання громадянства 5) фінансування громадян
#3. Ukraine welcomes investments in Ukraine’s economy and creates favorable climate for
international investors.
1) необхідні умови 2) конкуренті умови 3) сприятливі умови 4) приємний клімат 5)
жорсткий клімат
#4. The exercise of some rights may be restricted by law only in the interests of national
security and territorial indivisibility.
1) територіальна суверенність 2) територіальна цілісність 3) територіальна безпека 4)
територіальна прозорість 5) територіальний конфлікт
#5. All goods transported through customs territory are subject to close inspection.
1) піддаватись випробуванню 2) підлягати перевірці 3) підлягати реєстрації 4)
піддаватись критиці 5) вимагати перевірки
#1. In modern democracies' supreme authority is exercised for the most part by representatives
elected by popular suffrage.
1) налагоджувати 2) визнавати 3) визначати 4) здійснюватись 5) виправляти
#2. The new prime minister has launched far-reaching reforms necessary to sustain the country's
economic growth.
1) проводити 2) підтримувати 3) надавати 4) створювати 5) контролювати
#3. Members may be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership or
expelled by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
1) забезпечити виконання 2) призупинити здійснення 3) вирішити суперечку
4) прискорити здійснення 5) скасувати використання
#4. Politicians seeking office make extensive use of counseling services provided by public
relations specialists.
1) претендувати на посаду 2) керувати офісом 3) працювати в офісі
4) забезпечувати виконання 5) шукати посад
#5. The preparation of the budget was complicated when parliament approved a motion put
forward by the rightwing alliance.
1) внести пропозицію 2) дотриматись порядку 3) прийняти зобов'язання
4) ухвалити пропозицію 5) схвалювати поступ
#1. The small centre parties were considering to break ranks.
1) вийти зі складу 2) зламати опір 3) розпочинати справу 4) розкрити таємницю 5)
ліквідувати партію
#2. The fact that the opposition didn't muster its full numbers in the chamber of deputies ensured
a narrow majority for the government.
1) керувати 2) мобілізувати 3) навчати 4) захищати 5) визнавати
#3. The president announced that he had decided to accept the premier's resignation and that he
would be obliged to dissolve parliament.
1) скликати 2) обрати 3) розпустити 4) розкритикувати 5) переобрати
#4. Such a collapse would be sure to cause some social upheaval and short-term economic pain.
1) потрясіння 2) покращення 3) розвиток 4) діяльність 5) реформування
#5. Consuls are entitled to some but not all diplomatic privileges and immunities.
1) позбавлені права 2) мати право 3) брати до уваги 4) приймати до розгляду
5) заслуговувати на титули
#1. The cold war spawned a number of regional mutual-defense alliances.

1) засудити 2) розширити 3) розформувати 4) породити 5) знищити
#2. The term 'statute' is a used to denote an accessory instrument to a convention setting out
certain regulations to be applied.
1) основний 2) установчий 3) допоміжний 4) остаточний 5) керівний
#3. Distant events often have an immediate and significant impact, blurring the boundaries of our
personal worlds.
1) розмиваючи 2) укріплюючи 3) захищаючи 4) встановлюючи
5) розмежовуючи
#4. These documents denote agreements of a binding nature between the states concerned.
1) обов'язковий 2) суперечливий 3) спільний 4) непостійний 5) факультативний
#5. The act affirms the principle of inviolability of one another's frontiers of all states in Europe.
1) захист 2) непорушність 3) розширення 4) визнання 5) суперечність
#1. The reform program failed to win people's indispensable support.

1) надзвичайний 2) неупереджений 3) особливий 4) необхідний 5) одностайний
#2. Each year, hundreds of exhibitors gather from all parts of the world and thousands of
transactions are concluded.
1) залучати 2) укладати 3) змінювати 4) скасовувати 5) завершувати
#3. Whatever the constitution or legal system of a nation, it cannot use its domestic law as an
excuse to breach an international agreement or violate an international rule.
1) дотримуватись 2) досягати 3) порушувати 4) втручатись 5) доповнювати
#4. NATO activities are no longer confined only to Europe.

1) обмежуються 2) спрямовуються 3) керуються 4) зосереджуються
5) розгортаються
#5. We have to remove the causes which stir up enmity among multinational communities.
1) загрожувати 2) провокувати 3) засуджувати 4) враховувати 5) обмежувати
#1. The head of the board has refuted rumours about his possible resignation.
1) компенсувати шкоду 2) висловити занепокоєння 3) спростувати чутки
4) підтвердити необхідність 5) поширювати чутки
#2. In 1990 the United Nations condemned Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and imposed a trade
embargo on Iraq.
1) схвалити 2) обмежити 3) підтримати 4) засудити 5) обуритись
#3. Realization of this project depends not on economic expediency or national interests but
functionaries.
1) доцільність 2) досвід 3) очікування 4) видатки 5) втручання
#4. By the end of World War II in 1945, the United Sates had the greatest productive capacity of
any country in the world, and the words “Made in the USA” were a seal of high quality.
1) виробничі потужності 2) продуктивний обсяг 3) продуктивна правоздатність 4)
товарна спроможність 5) виробничі потреби
#5. Most Americans believe that the rise of their nation as a great economic power could not
have occurred under any system except capitalism.
1) економічний авторитет 2) держава з розвиненою економікою
3) економічна влада 4) економічна держава 5) економна держава
#1. Although the matter can still provoke heated discussion, the argument in favour of dropping
the bombs was that casualties on both sides would have been greater if the allies had been
forced to invade the country.
1) сторони 2) союзники 3) вороги 4) суперники 5) сусіди
#2. Although Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had promised to support free elections in all the
liberated nations of Europe, Soviet forces imposed Communist dictatorships in Eastern
Europe.
1) засудити диктатуру 2) встановлювати диктатуру 3) призначати диктатуру
4) оголошувати диктатуру 5) скинути диктатуру
#3. The Korean War and the Soviet development of atomic and hydrogen bombs instilled fear in
Americans.
1) зменшити страх 2) розвіяти страх 3) вселяти страх 4) підсилити страх
5) збільшити страх
#4. Foreign leaders are voicing concerns over the crisis but seem to be in disagreement.
1) заявляти протест 2) приймати рішення 3) відкидати застереження
4) висловлювати занепокоєння 5) виголосити протест
#5. Let’s hope that the international community’s recent efforts to facilitate a peaceful solution
will pay off.
1) сприяти вирішенню 2) знайти вирішення 3) домагатися вирішення
4) отримати вирішення 5) шукати вирішення
#1. The Russia-Georgia War in 2008, brief but bloody, resulted in a humiliating defeat for US-
ally Georgia.
1) принизлива поразка 2) жахлива катастрофа 3) жалюгідна перемога
4) ганебний вчинок 5) ганебний крок
#2. Main tasks of the Press Service lie in meeting information needs of Ukrainian and foreign
communities concerning both foreign policy activities of Ukraine and day-to-day work of
the MFA.
1) задовольняти потреби 2) спростовувати потреби 3) виявити потреби
4) визначити потреби 5) збільшити потреби
#3. The opposition’s leaders refused to accept the government’s concessions, which included
the resignation of Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
1) пропозиції 2) поступки 3) нововведення 4) альтернативні варіанти 5) укази
#4. Due to the President’s refusal to release the opponent during the height of the protests, the
opposition leader even turned down a concessionary offer made by the president that would
have allowed him to become Prime Minister.
1) прийняти пропозицію 2) розглядати пропозицію 3) відхилити пропозицію
4) взяти до уваги пропозицію 5) критикувати пропозицію
#5. The IMF has refused to loan money because the government did not implement the financial
reforms that the IMF required.
1) прискорювати реформи 2) схвалювати реформи 3) здійснювати реформи
4) заохочувати реформи 5) розробити реформи
#1. The answer to the question if the president should step down seems to depend on the extent
to which the government is to blame for restricting civil liberties and inciting riots.
1) придушувати повстання 2) підбурювати до повстання
3) засуджувати повстання 4) розігнати повстання 5) заспокоїти повстання
#2. The current president was in charge of the city’s Committee of External Relations, a post in
which he was responsible for attracting foreign investment.
1) залучати інвестиції 2) перешкоджати надходженню інвестицій
3) скорочувати інвестиції 4) припинити інвестиційну діяльність
5) поважати інвесторів
#3. The United States followed the lead of northern European nations in asserting a right to
“civilize” the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
1) зберігати за собою право 2) надавати право 3) поширювати право
4) відстоювати право 5) скасовувати право
#4. Human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights
are the core values of the EU.
1) верховенство права 2) закон і порядок 3) національне законодавство
4) закон про правопорушення 5) правило закону
#5. Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the OSCE Monitoring Mission is withholding
information on the use of force by security services against civilians in the southeast of the
country.
1) приймати інформацію 2) збирати інформацію 3) приховувати інформацію
4) оприлюднити інформацію 5) вимагати інформацію
#1. When there is peace to keep between warring factions, the world asks the UN to mobilize
peacekeepers, oversee elections, and create stability.
1) спостерігати за виборами 2) впливати на результати виборів
3) бойкотувати вибори 4) ігнорувати вибори 5) заохочувати до виборів
#2. The United Nations Foundation links the UN’s work with others around the world,
mobilizing the energy and expertise of business and non-governmental organizations to help
the UN tackle issues including climate change, global health, peace and security.
1) надавати великого значення питанням 2) порушувати питання
3) досліджувати питання 4) вирішувати питання 5) закрити питання
#3. Today's peacekeeping operations facilitate the political process, protect civilians, assist in
the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants; protect and
promote human rights and assist in restoring the rule of law.
1) роззброєння 2) озброєння 3) оснащення 4) екіпірування 5) постачання зброї
#4. On Election Day, observers monitor the opening of polling stations, checking whether ballot
boxes are empty and properly sealed, and whether all ballots are accounted for.
1) кабінки для голосування 2) приміщення для голосування 3) виборчі дільниці 4)
вибори 5) виборчі округи
#5. Chemical weapons were used in the Iraq-Iran war, when the Iraqi army used weaponized
mustard to repel attacks by Iranian forces.
1) розпочати наступ 2) відбивати напад 3) посилити наступ 4) запобігти нападу 5)
спровокувати напад
#1. Nowadays, terrorists resort to violence and other overwhelming scenarios such as
kidnapping, explosions, murder and hostage taking.
1) підбурювати до застосування сили 2) виправдовувати насилля
3) породжувати насилля 4) вдаватись до насилля 5) спровокувати насилля
#2. Large companies usually reimburse employees’ travel expenses incurred on a business trip.
1) нести витрати 2) відшкодовувати витрати 3) відносити до витрат
4) нараховувати витрати 5) відмовитись компенсувати витрати
#3. Legal and Treaty Department provides support for the foreign policy activities of the
country.
1) відмовляти у підтримці 2) відмовлятись від підтримки 3) надавати підтримку 4)
просити підтримки 5) залучати підтримку
#4. Production requires raw materials, tools and workers to operate the machinery.
1) переробний матеріал 2) відходи 3) використаний матеріал 4) сировина
5) обладнання
#5. One of the main tasks of the Ministry is to ensure integrity of the country.
1) гарантувати безпеку 2) забезпечити цілісність 3) сприяти інтеграції
4) підтримувати національні інтереси 5) забезпечити інтеграцію

#1. Since no more funds will be made available for this project, we cannot afford to squander
money.
1) заощаджувати гроші 2) перераховувати гроші 3) витрачати гроші
4) інвестувати гроші 5) економити гроші
#2. The President has dissolved the parliament to pave the way for fresh elections.
1) розпустити парламент 2) скликати парламент 3) відвідати парламент
4) виступити у парламенті 5) оголосити про вибори до парламенту
#3. Top officials of both countries who have met for the first time since last year have pledged
to conduct negotiations.
1) закликати до перемовин 2) провести перемовини 3) запланувати перемовини 4)
ігнорувати перемовини 5) відмовитись від перемовин
#4. Following long negotiations the US President visited the country to resume diplomatic
relations.
1) налагодити дипломатичні відносини 2) розірвати дипломатичні відносини
3) відновити дипломатичні відносини 4) сприяти дипломатичним відносинам
5) підтримувати дипломатичні відносини
#5. The department coordinates the activities in the field of external relations in accordance with
delegated powers.
1) широкі повноваження 2) втрачені повноваженні 3) надані повноваження
4) обмежені повноваження 5) скорочені повноваження

#1. All information about missing in action must be disclosed.
1) діючі військові 2) зниклі безвісти 3) загиблі 4) військовозобов’язані
5) полонені
#2. No one seems to know why he declined the invitation to take part in the talks.
1) прийняти запрошення 2) отримати запрошення 3) надіслати запрошення
4) відхилити запрошення 5) дати відповідь на запрошення
#3. The Executive Board of the company is accountable to shareholders.

1) підзвітний акціонерам 2) залучає акціонерів 3) очолює акціонерів
4) втрачає акціонерів 5) консультується з акціонерами
#4. Corporations often have subsidiaries that are more or less autonomous.
1) субсидії 2) філії 3) партнери 4) компенсації 5) конкуренти
#5. The peace treaty ended hostilities between the two countries.
1) мирні перемовини 2) мирне протистояння 3) мирний договір
4) мирне населення 5) мирна поведінка

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