SECTION I. LISTENING (5.

0 POINTS)
INTRODUCTION:
• There are 4 parts of the section.
• You'll hear each part twice.
• There is a prompting sound at the beginning and end of each part.
Part 1. Questions 1–5. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)
Listen to a news report and decide whether these statements are True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG).
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
1. A graduate girl studying in London fell in love with a man called Simon because of his good-looking
appearance and immeasurable wealth.
2. They had a good time together in the UK.
3. The man possessed an amenity-packed private jet that really impressed the young girl.
4. The man made the girl feel safe when he gave her a full sense of security.
5. When they had a date, the man usually left London very quickly.
Your answers:
1. .......................... 2. .......................... 3. .......................... 4. .......................... 5. ..........................
. . . . .

Part 2. Questions 6–10. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)

Listen to a report on types of cakes and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS
taken from the recording for each answer in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

6. What is the cake covered with after a second or even third round of layers
_________________________________________________________________________________
7. What begins with cake poked with a fork?
_________________________________________________________________________________
8. After being soaked in a blend of whole milk and chocolate, what is the cake topped with ?
_________________________________________________________________________________
9. What is soft, spongy cake sprinkled with after being finished with a dollop of fresh whipped cream?
_________________________________________________________________________________
10. What has become a staple treat since the 1920s?
_________________________________________________________________________________

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Part 3. Questions 11–15. (1.0 point - 0.2/each)
You will hear an interview with two authors, who are talking about getting started as a novelist. For
questions 11 - 15, choose the answer A, B, C or D which fits best according to what you hear.

11. Simon thinks that young would-be authors should ______.

A. attempt to get known in another field first.
B. have sufficient intrinsic motivation to meet the challenge.
C. secure the support of a publisher from the beginning.
D. to give most of their time to the more lucrative types of writing.
12. Naomi suggests that unpublished writers need to avoid ______.
A. becoming distracted from the task in hand.
B. trying to combine writing with another occupation.
C. exhausting themselves with a gruelling routine.
D. attempting to work with outdated equipment.
13. Naomi agrees with Simon's point that a first novel should ______.
A. explore an aspect of a glamorous lifestyle.
B. reflect the writer's own personal experience.
C. seek to replicate elements of recent bestsellers.
D. feature appealing characters in an everyday setting.
14. Naomi and Simon disagree about the extent to which young novelists should ______.
A. aim for established genres with large readerships.
B. allow prospective publishers to suggest a theme.
C. do research into unfamiliar subject areas or periods.
D. concentrate on producing a strong narrative.
15. What point does Naomi make about teenage fiction?
A. Feedback from readers can be very stimulating.
B. Novels need to deal with sophisticated issues.
C. It's easy to develop a loyal following.
D. The long-term rewards can be worthwhile.

Your answers:
11. .......................... 12. .......................... 13. .......................... 14. .......................... 15. ..........................
. . . . .

Part 4. Questions 16–25. (2.0 points - 0.2/each)

Listen to a news report related to waste treatment and supply the blanks with the missing information.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS taken from the recording for each answer in the space
provided.
16. Things could go very badly if the plant’s safety wasn’t being handled correctly, like a certain ______
from Springfield.
17. While the reactors were steady, a failure in the mechanical systems controlling the safe venting of
gases splintered, and allowed a large amount of ______ to escape.
18. A voluntary evacuation of a ______ around the plant followed.
19. A massive nuclear meltdown gave rise to major victims and ______ the Ukrainian plant unhabitable
until nowadays.
20. By recycling used fuel back into uranium-based and ______, current nuclear plants keep waste to a
minimum.
21. A number of ______ have a half-life of around thirty years, unlike other powerful artificial nuclear
ones.

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 22. ______ were two primary sources of nuclear waste.
23. The depleted uranium deriving from it is extremely dense and is often recycled into ______.
24. Aforementioned nuclear waste derives from spent fuel rods and is packed with ______ radiation.
25. The Uranium ______ created by the rough processing of uranium ore is the lowest-priority nuclear
waste.

Your answers:

16. ................................................. 21. .................................................

17. ................................................. 22. .................................................
18. ................................................. 23. .................................................
19. ................................................. 24. .................................................
20. ................................................. 25. .................................................

SECTION II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (3.0 POINTS)

Part 1. For questions 26-45. (2.0 points - 0.1/each)
Choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D) to each of the following questions and write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.

26. He believed even more deeply that no church should ______ itself into the sacred bond between a
husband and a wife.
A. insinuate B. instigate C. inseminate D. Insufflate
27. They substitute character attack and personal ______ for principled debate and discussion of the issues.
A. diachrony B. diatribe C. diapason D. Diastole
28. This ______ achievement ought to fill British hearts with pride, and most foreign ones with admiration
and gratitude.
A. colossal B. stupendous C. prodigious D. Herculean
29. Uninhibited by the risk of any sanction, is it any wonder that they go about their lethal business with
such apparent ______?
A. incandescence B. inamorata C. incontinence D. insouciance
30. It is unlikely he would have mistaken ______ for genuine knowledge.
A. billet-doux B. boo-hoo C. hocus-pocus D. also-ran
31. Taking the wrong turn, the patrol ______ into a group of heavily-armed enemy soldiers.
A. blundered B. plundered C. blurted D. Bungled
32. ______ is a principle to be remembered when buying second – hand goods.
A. Vox pop B. Caveat emptor C. Mumbo jumbo D. Magnum opus
33. No self-respecting activist desires to have his cause championed by no such loud-mouthed, blatant
______.
A. blatherskite B. cymbalist C. madrigalist D. sockdolager
34. A ______ man is a person who illicitly retrieves corpses for dissection from rivers, scenes of disaster,
or burial grounds.
A. resection B. resurrection C. resuscitation D. rescission
35. I told my friends to watch out because my mother was ______.
A. on the blink B. on the razzle C. on the warpath D. on the scrounge
36. Most of the fans sat crossed-legged in front of the stage and listened intently as the tunes were ______.

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 A. belted out B. busted out C. blasted out D. blurted out
37. Both these criticisms can effectively be rebutted by specifying a ______ feature of the universe other
than fitness for humanity.
A. felicitous B. loquacious C. garrulous D. rumbustious
38. Basset hounds are long and crooked-legged dogs, with ______ ears.
A. emulous B. sedulous C. pendulous D. petalous
39. Kirov ______ over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking
it safely into his inside pocket.
A. ducked B. slounged C. stooped D. drooped
40. The poor girl was absolutely _______ with him, not knowing that his tastes lie in quite a different
direction.
A. infatuated B. incapacitated C. captivated D. encapsulated
41. He seems to be on a ______ today and is stonewalling against everything.
A. rookie mistake B. slam dunk C. sticky wicket D. touch base
42. Rosie remained ______, smiling secretly as cats do in the midst of mouse dreams.
A. unabridged B. unmolested C. unruffled D. unleavened
43. That day he went off like a ______ cat and, understandably, his energy ran out in the testing conditions.
A. scalded B. pelted C. malted D. carded
44. This claim opens up new dimensions in the story line leading to new revelations: the plot ______ and
becomes more complex.
A. hastens B. quickens C. stiffens D. thickens
45. Maybe your items are still at the ______ center, the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down the
delivery.
A. fulfilment B. containment C. management D. department

Your answer here:

26. ........................... 30. ........................... 34. ........................... 38. ........................... 42. ...........................

27. ........................... 31. ........................... 35. ........................... 39. ........................... 43. ...........................

28. ........................... 32. ........................... 36. ........................... 40. ........................... 44. ...........................
29. ........................... 33. ........................... 37. ........................... 41. ........................... 45. ...........................

Part 2. For questions 46-55. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

a. Word-form Sentence. Write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right.
46. The exchange of musical attention, then, from back-up to lead 46. __________________
provides (SIMILE) of a sort, and encourages the audience to get
emotionally involved with the story.
47. (VARY) is the expected value of the product of the deviations of 47. __________________
two random variables from their respective means.
48. Embarked on this task, the wisest and most detached writer in the 48. __________________
world would have a hard time avoiding (TENDENCY)
49. The gummy smile deformity may be correlated with 49. __________________
abnormalities of the (FACE) soft and hard tissue structures.
50. __________________

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 50. This might be considered surprising since (SEPTIC) is often a
less discrete diagnosis than meningitis. 51. __________________
51. The sides are bluish green above, violet in the middle, red
beneath, (VARIANT) with oval spots of brilliant silver. 52. __________________
52. (PERSON) resources and the effectiveness of self-help groups
for bereaved older adults. 53. __________________
53. His watercolors of flowers, fruit, and vegetables have an almost
shocking (SENSE). 54. __________________
54. Any component of language needs to be characterized within a
context of historical constraints, deriving from developmental and
(GENE) constraints on form and physiology. 55. __________________
55. The human components of language include adaptations for
signaling (e.g. vocal imitation), for semantics (e.g. advanced
Theory of Mind, and a drive to share meanings), and for syntax
(e.g. recursive (COMBINE) operations).

SECTION III. READING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. For questions 56-65. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)
Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
To paraphrase the dilemma of Pericles, he needed a wife. A symbol of the sympathetic companion, a
(56)______ of light and love, a photogenic beauty, a (57)______ of virtue - in short his antithesis. To attract
such a woman he needed a new image. Sporting a monocle and piloting a monoplane, his peripatetic
(58)______ took him all over Greece until he met fair Aspasia. His friends noticed the metamorphosis and
(59)_______ at the (60)_______ of Pericles entering into a dialogue with someone, instead of his usual
monologue, and without his usual (61)______. Soon they married - he for love, she for social respectability.
They were (62)______ opposed and presently she became tired of the way he monopolised their monotonous
lives. She murdered him cleverly by putting antifreeze into his amphora of (63)______. She microwaved his
remains and buried them in the garden. Luckily, he was (64)______ biodegradable and disintegrated without
delay. A cruel murder - but surely a symptom of our (65)______ times.

56. A. sirocco B. wrangling C. mallow D. symphony

57. A. frenum B. epitaph C. caitiff D. paragon
58. A. odyssey B. ventricle C. harbinger D. backwash
59. A. disbursed B. chuckled C. perjured D. prowled
60. A. succour B. paradox C. potpourri D. sentinel
61. A. palpability B. quagmire C. antagonism D. paranoia
62. A. balefully B. pugnaciously C. diametrically D. tumultuously
63. A. retsina B. lupin C. mudlark D. geode
64. A. obligingly B. capriciously C. insolently D. niggardly
65. A. languorous B. barbarous C. prosthetic D. portentous
Your answer here:
56. .......................... 58. .......................... 60. .......................... 62. .......................... 64. ..........................
. . . . .
57. .......................... 59. .......................... 61. .......................... 63. .......................... 65. ..........................
. . . . .

Part 2. For questions 66-75. (1.0 point – 0.1/each)

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Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a
good chance you spent much of your walking (66)______ working toward a single business milestone: taking
your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry have always expressed skepticism and even
hostility toward the finance industry, tech's dirty secret was that it looked to Wall Street and the ritual of a
public offering for affirmation - not to mention wealth. But something strange has happened in the last couple
of years: the initial public offering of stock has become dexterous . For start-up entrepreneurs and their
employees across Silicon Valley, an initial public offering is no longer a main goal. Instead, many founders
talk about going (67)______ as a necessary evil to be postponed as long as possible because it comes with
more problems than benefits. Silicon Valley's sudden distaste for the I.P.O - (68)______ in part in Wall Street's
skepticism of new tech stocks - may be the single most important psychological shift underlying the current
tech boom. Staying private affords start-up executives the luxury of not worrying what outsiders think and
helps them avoid the quarterly earnings treadmill.
A recent report suggests that despite all the (69)______ start-ups have received in recent years, tech stocks
are not seeing usually high valuations. In fact, their (70)______ of overall market has remained stable for 14
years, and far off the peak of the late 1990s. That willingness to cut much slack to young tech companies
limits risk for regular investors. If the bubble pops, the unwashed masses, if that's what we are, aren't as likely
to get (71)______ out. Private investors, on the other hand, are making big (72)______ on so-called unicorns
- the Silicon Valley (73)_____ for start-up companies valued at more than a billion dollars. If many of those
unicorns flop, most Americans will escape unharmed, because losses will be confined to venture capitalists
and hedge (74)______ that have begun to (75)______ into tech start-ups, as well as tech founders and their
employees.
Your answer here:

66. ................................................. 71. .................................................

67. ................................................. 72. .................................................
68. ................................................. 73. .................................................
69. ................................................. 74. .................................................
70. ................................................. 75. .................................................

Part 3. For questions 76-88. (1.3 points – 0.1/each)

Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
Until the 1960s the most widely accepted geological explanation for the shape of the crust or surface of the
Earth was the so-called rigid Earth theory. This holds that the landscape of the Earth, with its oceans and
continents, has been fixed throughout its history. As the Earth has cooled after the first fluid eras of its
existence, the only change has been the formation of mountains due to the contractions caused by cooling. In
the 1950s a rather different theory began to take hold. In this explanation the Earth is plastic, the continents
drifting plates in a state of perpetual motion over a vast sea, their movement caused by the action of extremely
slow thermal convection currents originating in the Earth's core. In 1961 the theory of continental drift first
appeared in high school textbooks, and by 1966 the theory had gained widespread credibility. In 1963, the
journal Scientific American published an article by the eminent geophysicist Professor J.Tuzo Wilson, in part
of which he summarized new evidence for the theory of continental drift: Convection currents in the mantle
now play the leading role in every discussion of the large-scale and long-term processes that go on in the

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Earth. It is true that the evidence for their existence is indirect; the currents flow too deep in the Earth and too
slowly—a few centimeters a year—for direct observation. Nonetheless, their presence is supported by an
increasing body of independently established evidence and by a more rigorous statement of the theory of their
behavior. Recently, for example, S. K. Runcorn of Durham University has shown that to stop convection, the
mantle material would have to be 10,000 times more viscous than the rate of postglacial recoil indicates. It is,
therefore, highly probable that convection currents are flowing in the Earth. Perhaps the strongest
confirmation has come with the discovery of the regions where these currents appear to ascend toward the
Earth s surface. This is the major discovery of the recent period of extraordinary progress in the exploration
of the ocean bottom, and it involves a feature of the Earth's topography as grand in scale as the continents
themselves. Across the floors of all the oceans, for a distance of 40,000 miles, there runs a continuous system
of ridges. Over long stretches, as in the mid-Atlantic, the ridge is faulted and rifted under the tension of forces
acting at right angles to the axis of the ridge. Measurements first undertaken by Sir Edward Bullard of the
University of Cambridge show that the flow of heat is unusually great along these ridges, exceeding by two
to eight times the average flow of a millionth of a calorie per square centimeter per second observed on the
continents and elsewhere on the ocean floor. Such measurements also show that the flow of heat in the
trenches, as in the Acapulco Trench off the Pacific coast of Central America, falls to as little as a tenth of the
average. Most oceanographers now agree that the ridges form where convection currents rise in the Earth's
mantle add that the trenches are pulled down by the descent of these currents into the mantle. The possibility
of lateral movement of the currents in between is supported by evidence for a slightly plastic layer—called:
the asthenosphere—below the brittle shell of the Earth. Seismic observations show that the speed of sound in
this layer suddenly becomes slower, indicating that the rock is less dense, hotter and more plastic. These
observations have also yielded evidence that the asthenosphere is a few hundred kilometers thick, somewhat
thicker than the crust, and that below it the viscosity increases again. Here, then, is a mechanism, in harmony
with physical theory and much geologic and geophysical observation that provides a means for disrupting and
moving continents. It is easy to believe that where the convection currents rise and separate, the surface rocks
are broken by tension and pulled apart, the rift being filled by the altered top of the mantle and by the flow of
basalt lavas. In contrast to earlier theories of continental drift that required the continents to be driven through
the crust like ships through a frozen sea, this mechanism conveys them passively by the lateral movement of
the crust from the source of a convection current to its sink. The continents, having been built up by the
accumulation of lighter and more siliceous materials brought up from below, are not dragged down at the
trenches where the currents descend but pile up there in mountains. The ocean floor, being essentially altered
mantle, can be carried downward; such sediments as have accumulated in the trenches descend also and, by
complicated processes, may add new mountains to the continents. Since the material near the surface is chilled
and brittle, it fractures, causing earthquakes until it is heated by its descent. From the physical point of view,
the convection cells in the mantle that drive these currents can assume a variety of sizes and configurations,
starting up and slowing down from time to time, expanding and contracting. The flow of the currents on the
world map may therefore follow a single pattern for a time, but the pattern should also change occasionally
because of changes in the output and transfer of heat from within. It is thus possible to explain the periodicity
of mountain-building, the random and asymmetric distribution of the continents and the abrupt breakup of an
ancient continent. Effects of convection currents, schematized in the two illustrations on this page, provide
one possible means of accounting for the formation of median ridges, lateral ridges, mountain ranges and
earthquake belts. Rising and separating currents could break the crustal rock and pull it apart; the rift would
be filled by altered mantle material and lava flows, forming a median ridge. Sinking currents could pull the
ocean floor down. Drifting continent may be piled up, where it meets sinking currents, to form mountains like
those of the Andes. Since continents are lighter than the mantle material of the ocean floor, they cannot sink
but tend to be pushed over sinking currents, marked by deep earth quakes. Volcanoes continue to form over
rising currents, but drift may carry these volcanic piles away to either side of the ridge. Separated from their
source, the inactive cones form one or two lateral ridges.

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For questions 76-82
Complete this summary by choosing the correct phrase from the list in the box below. There are more
phrases in the list than you need.
A. dilation in the Earth’s mantle
B. mid-ocean ridges and trenches
C. continental drift
D. lava and altered surface substances
E. the appearance of the Earth
F. a mercurial existence
G. the propulsion of the currents in the same area
H. shrinkage in the cooling procedure
I. a scorching and whimsical nature
J. an unyielding pattern at an early date
K. the gradual drop in temperatures and formation of the continents
L. the rigidity of the continents
M. soar of the currents to the surface
N. the cascade of the currents down into the Earth’s core
O. faulted and rifted forces
As far as the obsolete hypothesis is concerned, (76)______ of the Earth was discernible and (77)______
was thought to sow the seeds of mountains. In another attempt to expound the contours of the continents, due
to the dissipation of Earth’s fluid nature and subsequently the rise of its cooling process, this has resulted in
(78)______. When it comes to the standpoint of continental drift, the (79)______ have attested the support for
the Earth as (80)______ with constant cycles of regions colliding, breaking up and reuniting. According to the
theory, the rise of currents to the surface engenders the formation of ridges, at which points the crust is
dismantled while the gap is progressively impregnated with (81)______ so as to generate the ridge. Eventually,
the trenches are created given (82)______.
Your answer here:

76. ........................... 78. ........................... 80. ........................... 82. ...........................

77. ........................... 79. ........................... 81. ...........................

For questions 83-88

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the reading passage? Write TRUE (T)
if the statement is true, FALSE (F) if the statement is false and NOT GIVEN (NG) if the information
is not given in the passage.
83. The cascade of the convection current precipitates the lowering of the continents at the point called the
ocean trench.
84. The subsidence of convection currents will instigate the incident of earthquakes

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 85. The far- flung location of lava flows from their provenance can be ascribed to the influence of
convection currents on continents.
86. Many people believe that the tendency of developing the process of the Earth’s surfaces’ raised part
could become known publicly.
87. The cracks separated by currents are always filled with mantle material and lava flows
88. continents are usually pulled down by the effects of currents.
Your answer here:

83. ........................... 85. ........................... 87. ...........................

84. ........................... 86. ........................... 88. ...........................

Part 4. For questions 89-95. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each of the questions that follow it.

At the end of what seemed a tedious while, I had managed to pack my head full of islands, towns, bars,
points and bends; and a curiously inanimate mass of lumber it was, too. However, inasmuch as I could shut
my eyes and reel off a good long string of these names without leaving out more than ten miles of river in
every fifty, I began to feel that I could take a boat down to New Orleans if I could make her skip those little
gaps. But of course my complacency could hardly get started enough to lift my nose a trifle into the air, before
Mr. Bixby would think of something to fetch it down again. One doy he turned on me suddenly with this
settler: 'What is the shape of Walnut Bend?' He might as well have asked me my grandmother's opinion of
protoplasm. I reflected respectfully, and then said I didn't know it had any particular shape. My gun-powdery
chief went off with a bang, of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives.
I had learned long ago that he only carried just so many rounds of ammunition and was sure to subside into
a very placable and even remorseful old smoothbore as soon as they were all gone. That word “old” is merely
affectionate; he was not more than thirty-four. I waited. By and by he said: ‘My boy. You’ve got to know the
shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night. Everything else is very blotted
out and gone. But, mind you, it hasn’t the same shape in the night that it has in the daytime’
'How on earth am I ever going to learn it then?’
'How do you follow a hall at home in the dark?’
Because you know the shape of it. You can't see it.
‘Do you mean to say that I’ve got to know all the million trifling variations of shape in the banks of this
endless river as well as I know the shape of the front hall at home?’
‘On my honour, you’ve got to know them better than any man ever did know the shapes of the halls in my
own house.’
‘I wish I was dead!’
‘Now I don’t want to discourage you, but…’
‘Well, pile it on me; I might as well have it now as another time.’
‘You see, this has got to be learned; there isn't any getting around it. A clear starlit night throws such heavy
shadows that, if you didn’t know the shape of a shore perfectly, you would claw away from every bunch of
timber, because you would take the black shadow of it for a solid cape; and you set you would be getting
scared to death every fifteen minutes by the watch. You would be fifty yards from shore all the time when you
ought to be within fifty feet of it. You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where
it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it. Then there's your pitch-dark night; the
river is a very different shape on a pitch-dark night from what it is on a starlit night. All shores seem to be
straight lines, then, and mighty dim ones, too, and you’d run them for straight lines, only yon know better.

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You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you’re knowing very well that
in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. Then there’s your gray mist.
You take a night when there's one of these grisly, drizzly, gray mists and then there isn’t any particular shape
to a shore. A gray mist would tangle the head of the oldest man that ever lived. Well, then, different kinds of
moonlight change the shape of the river in different ways. You see…’

‘Oh, don't say any more, please! Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred
thousand different ways? If I tried to carry all that cargo in my head it would make me stoop-shouldered.'

‘No! You only learn the shape of the river; and you learn it with such absolute certainty that you can always
steer by the shape that's in your head, and never mind the one that's before your eyes’
89. When the narrator felt able to take a boat down to New Orleans, he ______.
A. was interrupted by Mr.Bixby
B. was asked what the shape of Walnut Bend was
C. was reminded of his limitations
D. describe that Mr Bixby should bring it back
90. The word “inanimate” in line 2 in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. insensible B. guaniferous C. immiscible D. insentient
91. The phrasal verb “reel off” line 3 in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. say a long list of things quickly and without stopping
B. remember a long list of things
C. recall a brief list of things quickly
D. forget a short list of things quickly
92. What did the narrator do when Mr.Bixby asked him about the shape of Walnut Bend?
A. He thought of his relative's opinion of protoplasm.
B. He asked respectfully for some appropriate adjectives.
C. He simply stated that he had no idea.
D. He tried describing the shape using as many adjectives as possible.
93. The word “remorseful” in line 13 in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. piffling B. contrite C. pertinent D. pestilential
94. When the narrator asked how he could possibly learn the river's shape, Mr Bixby ______.
A. gave an analogy
B. explained that it was easier to learn in the dark
C. explained that it would be like knowing his own house
D. stated that the narrator's honour depended on learning it
95. Immediately before Mr.Bixby described the different types of night, the narrator ______.
A. felt suicidal.
B. accepted that he would have to learn the shape of the river.
C. understood that it was impossible to learn all the variations in the river's shape.
D. was too disheartened to try to learn the shape of the river.
96. According to Mr Bixby, during a clear starlit night ______.
A. you may go further from the shore than appropriate
B. you are likely to be closer to the shore than its safe
C. There is a greater chance of coming close to death than in other conditions
D. There are many light shadows which distort reality
97. The word “grisly” in line 38 in the passage is closest in meaning to ______.
A. caviling B. peevish C. odious D. surly
98. What do we learn about steering on a pitch-dark night?

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 A. The boat should not go in straight lines.
B. You should aim the boat for the shore.
C. Curves always appear straight.
D. It is best to steer without relying on vision.

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Part 5. For questions 99-108. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

You are going to read an extract from an article about where the novel meets the comic magazine. For
questions 99-108, choose from the sections (A-E). The sections may be chosen more than once.

WHERE THE NOVEL MEETS THE COMIC MAGAZINE

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The recent blockbuster film Inception, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, concludes with a 45 minute
set piece in which Leonardo DiCaprio's team of brain-hopping idea thieves descends through nested dreams,
in each of which time runs more slowly than In any previous layer. Any graphic novel tans in the audience
would have watched this complex sequence with nods of recognition. But perhaps with sighs of exasperation
too: the trim’s showpiece effect- creating the illusion of relative time, of events happening simultaneously but
being experienced at different paces - is much easier to achieve in the world of graphic novels. Years of
experimentation, combined with certain defining features of the form, have resulted in a complex medium that
excels at portraying multiple time schemes and shifting conceptions of reality. Three new works bear
testimony to this.

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Air by G.Willow Wilson is a love story in a breathless narrative of industrial espionage. Its protagonist, Blythe,
is plunged into a world of dizzy reversals, in which the only constant is the philosophical notion that by
redrawing our Impressions of the world we can remake it for ourselves. Character and motivation are almost
absent as Wilson's hapless heroine is dragged from pillar to post by an arbitrary narrative fuelled by fitful
quips. More seriously, the layout and structure show a distinct lack of invention. Just as hope is flagging,
however, Wilson pulls out of the dive, and Air becomes both stranger and more interesting in concept and
execution. One extended chapter consists of a sequence of flashbacks in a plane diving towards the ground,
as Blythe finds herself simultaneously inhabiting the memories of her lover. Drawings of a falling, entwined
couple are interleaved with the panels, a kind of metaphor for the movements of the plane.

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Matt Kindt’s graphic novel Revolver is an interesting addition to the genre in that it works around a single,
but effective, manipulation of narrative time. Each morning its protagonist Sam finds himself waking up either
in his everyday life, in which he edits pictures for a newspaper, or in an America under siege, where he is
forced to fight for his life. Drawn by its author in a scrappy, offhand style that belies a deft grasp of form and
scenic arrangement, Kindt s novel still ultimately feels like less than the sum of its parts. Although attractively
realized, the basic set-up, in which the audience is encouraged to wonder whether a troubled man is
hallucinating or not, is becoming something of a familiar trope after Fight Club. Memento and others. Where
Revolver succeeds is in the quiet suggestiveness with which his arrangement of panels blurs our perspective
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D.
Last and strangest, is Charles Burns’s X'ed Out, the first of a projected series of graphic novels by this
idiosyncratic writer-illustrator. Burns is revered in comic circles for Black Hole, a surrealist saga. Grotesque
but compelling. Burns’s drawings told the story of a group of teens who contract a disease that turns them into
mutants and social outcasts. The author’s subsequent contention that the book was a metaphor for adolescence
came nowhere near to explaining the work’s dark and haunting depths. X’ed Out is designed in full colour but
its seamless and troubling transitions between its teenage protagonist’s dreams and waking moments show
that Burns has lost none of his touch. He withholds many of the traditional devices used within the genre to
shape a reader's idea of t me and causality, such as sound effects, motion blurs, panel comments and the like.
The effect is highly unsettling.

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Graphic novels are good at representing complicated sequences in time, and contemporary creators seem
particularly interested in constructing stories that place this at the centre. We can posit reasons - pandering to
copular clichés of ‘comic-book' entertainment, generalised discontent with Hollywood five-act stories, or
simple celebration of a medium so suited to non-straightforward entertainment. Whatever its origin, a complex
interest in (me extends throughout the medium. Even the latest addition to the new Barman series, written by
Grant Morrison, skips wildly across the epochs of human history, following a Caped Crusader who has come
adrift in time. As the medium continues to evolve, this abiding formal interest in a largely unconscious process
of perception may come to seem its most defining feature.

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mentions individual bits of a work being better than the overall effect it has on the
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mentions an author improving on an earlier weakness
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suggests that an author’s newest work is as good as the previous one
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mentions the confusion of a main character in a world which lacks stability and
permanence
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mentions the possibility that graphic novel authors are influenced by a desire to
give readers what they expect
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suggests that the hurried, imperfect look of an author’s drawings is a deliberate
effect
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contains a suggestion that a work is more complex than its author claims
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mentions those familiar with the genre experiencing a mixed reaction
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contains a suggestion that the unoriginal nature of a work’s central theme may be
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mentions images from a character’s past serving as a visual symbol for what is
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Part 6. For questions 109 – 115. (0.7 point - 0.1/ each)

Read the article below. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the
paragraphs A-H below the one which fits each gap (109-115). There is one extra paragraph which you
do not need to use.

The beginnings of his professional career were played out by Balotelli at Lumezzane in the 2005/2006 season.
Often subjected to racist taunts and provocation from fans of the opposing teams, this did little to stem the
emerging volatility in his character; a temperamental Balotelli was soon known as much for his explosive
outbursts and often times odd behavior off the pitch as he was for his prolific talent on. But despite his
capriciousness and penchant for the bizarre, the Italian giant, Inter Milan, was prepared to roll the dice and
take a chance on him, banking on that prodigious talent more than compensating for probable off-field
shenanigans and devilment.

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It wasn't long before Mancini was back in football however, and, with Mourinho and Balotelli frequently
clashing both on and off the field, the possibility of a reunion, first sounded out by representatives of the
owners of Manchester City (Mancini’s new club) during the latter half of the 2009-2010 season, seemed more
and more likely. In die end, Balotelli had little option but to look towards pastures new; not only had his
manager grown tired of his antics, but so too, it seemed, had the tans, a number of whom even got into a
physical confrontation with him after a match: so much had feelings between them and the player
disintegrated.

110.

That Balotelli was a loose cannon was never denied by Mancini, who is quoted as saying. 'He's crazy ___ but
I love him because he's a good guy’. Besides, loose cannons, while capable of inflicting minor injuries on
those fuelling them also have the capacity, if properly deployed to deliver a terminal blow to the opposition-
so long as the PR damage Balotelli caused to his club was more than compensated for by his exploits with the
football, neither Mancini nor the Board of Directors of Manchester City Football Club would have too many
qualms about keeping him on their books.
111.
This much is clear when it comes to Balotelli; he has an aura about him that few footballers, past or present,
have ever had. He is magnetic and when he walks into a room, he soon has its occupants rapt; there is
something endearing about his unrefined persona. And perhaps this is what attracts young people to hint.
Mario Balotelli leaves it all out there; he is an open book, but not one which will gather dust on the coffee
table for weeks; his is the kind the pages of which you cannot stop turning once you’ve begun to read.

112.

The loyalty aside though, serious doubts remain about whether Balotelli will be the author of his own great
des tiny, or whether he is penning a tale of self-inflicted doom. His club has just won an historic league
championship for the first time in a generation, and the Italian national team in which he featured prominently
also gave an excellent account of itself on the European stage, beating the mighty Germans 2-0, courtesy of
two Balotelli specials, before falling at the final hurdle to the Spanish, who, as a team collective, are arguably
the greatest unit European football has ever produced. There can be no doubt about it; for now, at least.
Balotelli is riding high and his stock is on the up and up.

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 113.

It is, in many respects, refreshing to see a player in the glare of the media so confidently cast off the veil of
machismo that so many of his peers permanently wear and hide behind, and it makes it, perhaps, all the easier
to empathise with the man when we see this vulnerable, emotional, human side to him. This type of behaviour
only cements his place in the hearts of fans and wins him new ones.

114.

Silvia nursed him back to health and although Mario remained in contact with his birth siblings, Abigail,
Enoch and Angel, he became estranged from his real parents, never, it seems, able to bring himself to forgive
them for giving him up. Aged 11, when he first signed for Lumezzane, Mario refused to play under the
Barwuah name. Seven years on, he obtained his Italian citizenship, flanked by Silvia and her husband,
Francesco. The first the Barwuahs heard about this was when an article appeared in a local newspaper the next
day.

115.

Nevertheless, however much we can empathise with the little boy hart, and his tomfoolery, he remains
somewhat of a liability as long as it continues, and how those unwritten chapters will read is far from dear. At
only 21, he has, really, his whole life ahead of him, and the world is his proverbial oyster. His friends and
family must, hope that his antics will mellow in time.
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A But unlike Milan’s blind gamble, Mancini's City was taking a calculated one. After all, Mancini already
knew what would be coming his way, and, more importantly, he had handled, or, at least, tolerated, the player’s
indiscretions before. He was realistic enough not to expect the circus show to end just like that, but he did
expect its star clown to save his best performances for on the pitch and not to do anything too radical or
detrimental off.

B Just how much the newfound success meant to him on a personal level was plain to see in his behaviour
postmatch after the game against Germany. When the final whistle blew, Balotelli ran to the side of the pitch,
there to be greeted by a mother beaming with pride. The two embraced in a scene few could fail to be moved
by, and Balotelli clearly elated as he spoke to television crews from across Europe minutes later, went on to
dedicate his performance on the night to his mum Silvia.

C As things turned out, they needn't have been too concerned anyway. The Balotelli of the north-England
side was a new beast, as breathtakingly brilliant and precocious as ever when he donned the team jersey, but
far more docile than before in his other private and public forays. Indeed, the fans took him to their hearts at
once and he developed somewhat of a cult following among the City faithful. ‘All the kids want to be him',
commented one local football correspondent - perhaps a slightly worrying if accurate appraisal!

D It was after the transfer that Balotelli became acquainted with Robert Mancini for the first time, while the
latter was still heading things up at the club prior to his unceremonious sacking in May 2008. The two formed
an unlikely bond, Mancini identifying a goodness of character in the eccentric and unpredictable Balotelli
which he came to admire. But their football relationship was brought to an end prematurely with the
announcement that the cocky little Portuguese manager, Mourinho, was to replace Mancini - a first blot on
the latter's otherwise immaculate managerial record.

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E In theory, much of the story has yet to be written and his career at City is only the first of many new
chapters that should see him grow and mature into a great club and international striker, and a sporting
superstar, but with Balotelli only one thing is assured; the road will be a bumpy one and there will be lots of
twists and turns along the way. Meanwhile, his fans will continue to turn the pages as they are written, and
Balotelli can rest assured that, whatever happens, his readership won’t abandon him at least.

F But, delve deeper, beyond this fleeting show of emotion, and you discover the real story of Mario Balotelli,
and, if empathy is your thing, then it doesn't get much more evocative than this... For a start you may have
noticed (it is hard not to) that Mario and Silvia are not of the same ethnicity. The contrast between them is
stark; she is a pale-faced Italian and he has the very dark complexion one would if they were of Ghanaian
descent. In fact, Silvia is his foster mum, with whom he lived from the age of three onwards when social
services took him away from his birth parents, Thomas and Rose Barwuah, on account of their cramped living
conditions, which were not suitable for a child such as Mario, suffering from a life-threatening intestinal
condition.

G Other accounts of his unpredictability are far more endearing, though Balotelli himself has denied they
ever occurred. One such case is the story of a homeless man Balotelli presented with £1,000, exclaiming,
according to the recipient of the gift, that he liked his ginger dreadlocks. On another occasion, while signing
autographs, he was introduced to a child who had been bullied at school. He is then alleged to have
accompanied the child to his school grounds to confront the bullies. Imagine what they must have been
thinking to themselves as big Mario came towards them!

H Some psychologist, believe that Mario, scarred by his early-life experiences, behaves eccentrically to draw
attention to himself in a superficial kind of way; to give journalists the ammunition they need to write their
stories without having to delve deeper into his back- ground and personal life. The bravado and clowning
around, they say, is probably just a smokescreen. In any case, given the physical powerhouse the man has
become, his desire to forget a weak and vulnerable childhood, if it is that, is entirely understandable. And
perhaps he lives life on the wild side today simply by virtue of the fact that he can, something that was not
always guaranteed while he was growing up. Or perhaps his roguishness is his way of making the most of life,
Balotelli being, one can imagine, far more appreciative of what he has than are most of his footballing peers.

SECTION IV. WRITING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1. Writing summary (1.0 point)
Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary should be
between 100 and 120 words long. You MUST NOT copy the original.

“Strange Bedfellows!” lamented the title of a recent letter to Museum News, in which a certain Harriet
Sherman excoriated the National Gallery of Art in Washington for its handling of tickets to the much-
ballyhooed “Van Gogh’s van Goghs” exhibit. A huge proportion of the 200,000 free tickets were snatched up
by homeless opportunists in the dead of winter, who then scalped those tickets at $85 apiece to less hardy
connoiseurs.
Yet, Sherman’s bedfellows are far from strange. Art, despite its religious and magical origins, very soon
became a commercial venture. From bourgeois patrons funding art they barely understood in order to share
their protegee’s prestige, to museum curators stage-managing the cult of artists in order to enhance the market
value of museum holdings, entrepreneurs have found validation and profit in big-name art. Speculators,
thieves, and promoters long ago created and fed a market where cultural icons could be traded like
commodities.
This trend toward commodification of high-brow art took an ominous, if predictable, turn in the 1980s
during the Japanese “bubble economy.” At a time when Japanese share prices more than doubled, individual
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Saito, for example, purchased van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet for a record-breaking $82.5 million. The
work, then on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, suddenly vanished from the public domain.
Later learning that he owed the Japanese government $24 million in taxes, Saito remarked that he would have
the paining cremated with him to spare his heirs the inheritance tax. This statement, which he later dismissed
as a joke, alarmed and enraged many. A representative of the Van Gogh museum, conceding that he had no
legal redress, made an ethical appeal to Mr. Saito, asserting, “a work of art remains the possession of the world
at large.”
Ethical appeals notwithstanding, great art will increasingly devolve into big business. Firstly, great art can
only be certified by its market value. Moreover, the “world at large” hasn’t the means of acquisition. Only one
museum currently has the funding to contend for the best pieces–the J. Paul Getty Museum, founded by the
billionaire oilman. The art may disappear into private hands, but its transfer will disseminate once static
fortunes into the hands of various investors, collectors, and occasionally the artist.

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Part 2. Graph description (2.0 points)

The tables below show information and predictions regarding the change of Covid-19 pandemic in
New York and in the world from Sep 2020 to Sep 2022
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where
relevant. Write about 150 words.
Table 1: Change of Covid-19 deaths based on sex and underlying condition in New York in 2020

Number of deaths and share Number of deaths and share

based on sex based on underlying conditions
Age Number % of
With Without
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male female underlying underlying
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conditions conditions
0 - 17 9 0.1% 6 66.7% 3 33.3% 7 77.8% 2 22.2%
18 - 44 601 3.9% 105 17.5% 496 82.5% 476 79.2% 125 20.8%
45 - 64 3,413 22.4% 2,136 62.6% 1,277 37.4% 2,851 83.5% 562 16.5%
65 – 74 3,788 24.9% 2,600 68.6% 1,188 31.4% 2,801 73.9% 987 26.1%
75 + 7,419 48.7% 5,723 77.1% 1,696 22.9% 5,236 70.6% 2,183 29.4%
Total 15,230 100% 10,570 69.4% 4,660 30.6% 11,371 74.7% 3,859 25.3%

Table 2: Change of Covid-19 situation from Sep 2020 to Sep 2021 and a prediction in Sep 2022 globally

Sep 2020 Sep 2021 Sep 2022 % change from Sep

Cases
Number of cases Number of cases Number of cases 2020 to Sep 2022
Confirmed cases 33,303,209 233,632,159 16,345,256 49.1%
Confirmed deaths 1,002,383 4,780,873 2,283,312 227.8%
Recovered cases 24,634,061 210,450,505 214,000,721 868.7%
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Part 3. Essay writing (3.0 points)

Write an essay of 350 words on the following topic

Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old
ideas together in new ways.

What is your opinion on the aforementioned statement?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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