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SECTION 1 - VOCABULARY
Questions 1-10: Choose the best answer to make meaningful sentences.
1. Readers are invited to ______ their opinions on any of the issues discussed here.

a) counsel b) prohibit c) contribute d) monitor

CONTRIBUTE (TO) : To help to make something happen

2. First, I would like to ______ a common misconception and point out that we are not seeing a
rise in violence in schools.

a) defend b) accuse (OF) c) involve (IN) d) clarify

CLARIFY: to make something clearer or easier to understand

3. A famous footballer’s ______ income would be enough to support him for a life time; the
numbers are quite astronomical.

a) annual b) genuine c) peak d) excessive

ANNUAL: YEARLY

4. Despite facing numerous challenges, he continued to ____ in his pursuit of excellence.

a) persist b) pump c) confront d) care

PERSIST: to continue to do something, although this is difficult, or other people oppose it

5. As aliens may not necessarily be friendly, it is not so wise to ____ radio signals into space to
find out if we are alone in this universe or not.

a) contribute (TO) b) transmit c) distort d) deprive (OF)

TRANSMIT (TO) : to send out electronic signals, messages etc using radio, television, or other
similar equipment

6. After having been _______ by more than ten schools, Jack gave up his career as a teacher
and decided to take his chances in some other field.
a) inhabited b) rejected c) tolerated d) promoted
REJECT: To refuse to accept, believe in, or agree with something

7. The outcome of the experiment remained ______, leaving the researchers eager for the
results.

a) uncertain b dizzy c) uneasy d) superior

UNCERTAIN: feeling doubt about something SYN unsure uncertain whether/how/what
etc

8. She skillfully used the map to ______ through the dense forest, reaching her destination without
any confusion
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a) raise b) navigate c) brainwash d) meditate

NAVIGATE: to find which way you need to go when you are travelling from one place to
another

9. It is a _____ that red meat cannot be part of a healthy diet.

a) demonstration b) distinction c) regulation d) misconception
MISCONCEPTION: an idea which is wrong or untrue, but which people believe because
they do not understand the subject properly SYN fallacy

10. His attitude towards his job seemed consistent with his ______ attitude towards life.

a) overall b) intense c) unique d) smooth

OVERALL: considering or including everything

SECTION 2 – USE OF ENGLISH

Questions 11-20: Choose the best option to fill in the blank.
MARCH OF THE MACHINES

As a part of our experiment, we built lots of little robots on wheels. We gave them ‘eyes’ to see with,
a tiny brain to learn with – the same sort ____ (11) humans have, but much less powerful. And the
rest we let them _______ (12) for themselves. We didn’t programme them; we didn’t give them
instructions. And what did they do in the new world they found _______(13) in? Just like children,
they learned. One of them became a ‘leader’. ______(14) they wanted to, they chose a new leader.
And when one of ______(15) little robots became weak, with a low battery, ______(16) ‘bullied’ him.
They built up a whole social order of their own. ____(17) they were machines with less brain power
than a bee. A brain’s power __________(18) by the number of cell-connections in it. Our robots have
50 cell-connections, __________(19) a human brain has a billion. Our research team gave our robots
just one basic instinct: survival. The rest they found out _____(20) themselves.

11. a) that b) what c) who d) where

THAT / WHICH: We met somebody last night that did the speech therapy course two years after you.
(refers to a person)
The 8.30 is the train that you need to get. (refers to a thing)

12. a) to find out b) find out c) finds out d) finding out

LET + V1: My parents rarely let me go out at nights.

13. a) their own b) themselves c) them d) their

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THEIR / HIS / HER OWN etc: I’ll do it myself and I’ll do it in my own.
THEMSELVES: We often use reflexive pronouns when the subject and the object of the verb refer to the same
person or thing: Parents often blame themselves for the way their children behave.
THEM / HIM / HER etc: Subject / Object Pronouns:
A: Have you seen my keys? I never remember where I’ve left them.
B: They’re by the front door.
THEIR / HER / OUR etc: Is that [determiner] your scarf? It’s very similar to [pronoun] mine. (It’s very similar to
my scarf.)
That’s not [determiner] their house. [pronoun]
Theirs has got a red front door. It was [determiner] his fault not [pronoun] hers.

14. a) Where b) What c) Whether d) When

WHEN: Nobody spoke when she came into the room.
WHETHER: Whether you like it or not, you’re going to have to look after your sister.

15. a) them b) this c) these d) that

16. a) each other b) other c) the others d) another

EACH OTHER: Everyone in the family gave each other presents. (Each member of the family gave each
member of the family a present.)
OTHER: The embassy website has general information about visas. Other travel information can be obtained
by calling the freephone number. (additional or extra information)
THE OTHERS: These boxes are for books. The other boxes / The others are for clothes.

ANOTHER: I don’t like this place. Is there another café around here we could go to? (alternative or
different)

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17. a) Yet b) Moreover c) So that d) Therefore

YET: (CONTRAST) It felt strange and yet so wonderful to ski in the summer!
MOREOVER: (ADDITION) The whole report is badly written. Moreover, it's inaccurate.
SO THAT: (PURPOSE) We left a message with his neighbour so that he would know we’d called.
THEREFORE: (RESULT) We are a moral, ethical people and therefore we do not approve of their activities.

18. a) measures b) measured c) was being measured d) can be measured

* The usage of “by” needs PASSIVE. There are 2 passıves C and D. D is correct because its “ Present”
usage.
19. a) despite b) such as c) whereas d) in case
DESPITE (CONTRAST) Despite high inflation, everybody seems happy.
SUCH AS ( GIVING EXAMPLES) : I LIKE MARTIAL ARTS SUCH AS JUDO AND KARATE.
WHEREAS (CONTRAST) : Your hair has a natural wave whereas mine's just straight and boring.
IN CASE (PRECAUTION): I bought a chicken in case your mother stays to lunch.

20. a) for b) on c) through d) into

FOR: He wanted all the running of the business for himself.

Questions 21-25: Choose the option which best rewrites each sentence
21. Disparities in wealth are less visible in Americans’ everyday lives today than they were a
century ago. (disparity: a lack of equality or similarity, especially in a way that is not fair)
a) A hundred years ago, it was not easy to see the differences between the wealthy and the
poor in America in terms of their daily lives.
b) Everyday life in America is very different today from what it was a century ago, because
people are much wealthier now.
c) In American daily life today, you can’t see such big differences in the distribution of
wealth as you could a hundred years ago.
d) The everyday lives of most Americans show disparities in wealth which were not seen a
century ago.

22. You can’t possibly have eaten all that cake by yourself.
a) I don’t want to believe that you are greedy enough to eat all that cake.
b) You are not big enough to eat a whole cake alone.
c) It seems impossible for me to believe that you finished all the cake alone.
d) Surely some other people help you eat such a huge cake.
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23. It is so naïve of you to think that our boy will get together with his friends from college
and spend the whole night studying.
a) I don’t think our boy will just study all night with his friends, as he assured us; how can
you not see through this?
b) It is so easy to fool you when the issue is about our kid and his college friends.
c) You should have realized that our kid was not telling the truth about how he spent the
other night.
d) Next time when our boy wants to spend the night out studying with his friends, please
don’t be a fool to believe in him.

24. I could help you if both my hands were not full.

a) Wait until I finish my work so that I can help you.
b) I wish I had more hands to be able to help you.
c) I cannot carry your heavy bags as I am not that strong.
d) There is no way I can help you since I am already busy.

25. In factory farms where there is no space even to move, animals get so depressed that
they harm themselves.
a) It would be less depressing for animals to live on a farm instead of a factory as they could
move more freely.
b) What makes factory farms depressing is that animals are not provided with enough room
to move and hurt themselves.
c) Animals would not get distressed and hurt themselves if the factory farms were not so
packed.
d) Animals wouldn’t have hurt each other if the conditions in factory farms had been
slightly better.

SECTION 3– READING

TEXT I
(1) The average American adult spends over four hours a day watching television, and only a
small part of that is watching programmes and video clips on the Internet. But in 2016, online
video will become a more influential cultural force, changing conversations, communities and
what people watch. Several factors will speed up television’s move to the Internet. 26 Faster
broadband will make it easier to watch videos delivered online without having to wait ages
for them to load. People will buy more Internet-enabled “smart” television sets, bringing
websites once accessible mainly from laptops and tablets to bigger screens. In 2015 firms
such as Sony and Intel will launch “over the top” services, which deliver television
programmes over the Internet. Apple’s long-awaited television offering may come to fruition.
(2) Online video is getting more professional and less short-form. 28 Video-subscription services
like Netflix and Amazon, which stream films and television shows online, are investing in
their own high-quality “TV” shows. YouTube is trying to refashion itself into a direct
competitor to television, launching its own “channels” with professionally produced shows.

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In 2014, some of the world’s biggest creators of programmes, including Disney, will start to
make exclusive programmes for new platforms.
(3) This change in what people watch and how they watch it is already having a cultural impact.
The Internet has made people expect that they can access entertainment on their terms .
Binge viewing, in which audiences (no longer at the mercy of programmers’ line-ups) watch
multiple episodes or entire seasons in single sittings, is becoming common. 29 Netflix actively
satisfies consumers’ desire by putting whole seasons of its new shows online all at once.
More people will spend weekends without leaving the house, mesmerised by their monitors.
(4) The Internet will also change programming. It will support the development of more
serialised dramas, which historically have had a harder time succeeding on live television,
when people could easily miss some of the story’s important parts. 32 Producers and writers
will experiment with format and story structure. More content will be crowd-sourced, letting
viewers vote on which programmes get made, as they did with Amazon Studios’ shows, some
of which start in 2015.
(5) In some ways, television-watching will become more social thanks to the Internet, with
people tweeting about what they watch online.33 But it will also become less so, since fewer
people will watch the same shows in the company of others. Families may still gather in the
living room but they will be absorbed by different screens, with adolescents watching
programmes on their mobile devices while parents gaze at the television. With the exception
of live sports and a few big television programmes, the era of nations tuning in to a weekly
show at the same time, and talking about it the next day, will wane—if not in 2015 then soon
after. Colleagues will still discuss “Homeland” or “Downton Abbey”, but they are unlikely to
have just seen the same episode.

26. According to the first paragraph, _______.

a) American people spend almost four hours every day watching TV programs on the
Internet
b) it is very unlikely that watching videos online will replace TV viewing in the future
c) watching videos online will affect how large groups of people live and communicate
d) people will no longer buy TV sets once the Internet becomes more accessible

27. The word “them” in paragraph 1 refers to _______.

a) People b) videos c) TV viewers d) ages

28. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that _______.

a) online videos used to be shorter and less professional
b) Amazon and Netflix sell only high quality TV shows
c) YouTube has already taken over TV completely
d) Disney is the largest producer of exclusive TV programmes

29. The word “refashion” in paragraph 2 can be best replaced by ______.

a) Become b) adopt c) invest d) transform

30. According to paragraph 3, “Binge viewing” _______.

a) allows people to follow their own schedule of watching programmes
b) forces people to watch the whole season of a TV show at once
c) is the sole reason why people spend their weekends at home
d) means launching your own channels with professionally produced shows

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31. The word “mesmerised” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

a) taken b) interested c) hypnotized d) stuck

32. Which of the following is FALSE according to paragraph 4?

a) There will be a change in the content of TV programmes.
b) People’s opinion will be considered by TV producers.
c) People following shows online miss most of the story.
d) It is harder for people to follow TV series on TV.

33. We can infer from paragraph 5 that ______.

a) the Internet will turn TV watching into an entirely social activity
b) the Internet will stop people from communicating about what they watch.
c) thanks to the Internet, people don’t have to watch the majority choice
d) thanks to the Internet, everybody in the world will get the chance to watch “Homeland”

34. The word “company” in paragraph 5 can be best replaced by _______.

a) Presence b) cooperation c) firm d) friendship

35. The word “they” in paragraph 5 refers to ______.

a) “Homeland” and “Downtown Abbey”
b) Colleagues
c) People
d) TV viewers

TEXT II

While playing computer games is sometimes seen as a solitary pursuit, a study at Brigham
Young University shows that it actually enhances social connections. Studying the effect of
multiplayer online games on marriages, researchers found that in the 76% of the cases where
the couple played together, games actually aided the relationship. 38 In other words, couples
that gamed together stayed together. Games may have other effects on us too. The famous
psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, recently spoke out on the subject. In his 1971 Stanford Prison
Experiment, in which volunteers were assigned the roles of prisoner and guard in a haphazard
fashion, he showed that human behavior is heavily influenced by environmental and social
pressures. 38 More recently, Zimbardo even suggested that exposing children to morally
ambiguous situations in games could be useful in helping them to develop their own moral
compass. 37 One possibility is to explore virtual worlds through computer games that could
enable people to experience and understand concepts that they would otherwise find difficult
to imagine. 36 Games about society, populated by real people and open to all, could help test
how different cultural backgrounds could be brought together in peace. 38

36. It is stated in the passage that computer games ________.

a) enhance the feeling of loneliness if they involve more than one player all the time
b) lead to role conflicts among those who come from different cultural backgrounds
c) contributes little to strengthening the relationships of married couples
d) provide opportunities for people to meet unaccustomed ideas and worlds

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37. According to the passage, Zimbardo believes that ________.

a) his experiment refutes the findings of the study conducted at Brigham Young University
b) having children face ambiguous situations in computer games can cause psychological problems
c) computer games may actually help young people make more conscious decisions on ethical
issues
d) computer games populated by real people may not present the actual state of a society

38. We can infer from the passage that ________.

a) computer games are destructive to the relationships of younger people
b) the risks associated with playing computer games outweigh the benefits
c) social pressures force people to avoid playing computer games
d) computer games are capable of bringing in several unexpected benefits

39. We can easily say that the author’s attitude towards computer games is _______.
a) favoring b) satirizing c) tolerant d) pessimistic

FAVOR: the support or approval of something or someone

SATIRIZE: to use satire to make people see someone’s or something’s faults
TOLERANT: allowing people to do, say, or believe what they want without criticizing or punishing
them
PESSIMISTIC: expecting that bad things will happen in the future or that something will have a bad
result

40. The word “haphazard” can be best replaced by ________.

a) elaborate b) random c) systematic d) deliberate

ELABORATE: having a lot of small parts or details put together in a complicated way SYN intricate
DELIBERATE: intended or planned

TEXT III
To succeed in school, children must master three skills – reading, writing and arithmetic 44 –
but not all students readily grasp these basic skills. Among English-speaking children, an
estimated 2 to 15% have trouble with reading or spelling, broadly classified as dyslexia. 41
From 1 to 7% struggle to do math, a disability known as dyscalculia. Statistics vary but dyslexia
appears to be more common among English speakers than among speakers of highly phonetic
languages such as Turkish and Italian. It is believed that at least one child in most elementary
school classes in the US suffers from dyslexia. Both dyslexia and dyscalculia defy easy
explanation. Neither disorder is the result of faulty eyesight or hearing, both of which can also
delay language acquisition but are easily corrected. Instead, children with dyslexia and
dyscalculia have working sensory organs, apparently normal sensory and motor development
and, sometimes, above-average intelligence. 42 more than 15 years of research, investigators
now believe these conditions frequently involve so-called partial functional deficits of the
senses: 43 In affected children, the eyes and ears accurately register sights and sounds, letters,
numbers and spoken syllables, but that information is misinterpreted as it is processed in the
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41. As it is clearly stated in the passage, the disorder dyslexia ________.

a) is easily observed in phonetic languages like Turkish and Italian
b) occurs in people who have dyscalculia
c) could have something to do with the type of language children are acquiring
d) has not been documented for highly phonetic languages

42. According to the passage, physical disabilities ________.

a) are the main causes for children’s inability to read and calculate
b) are contributing factors responsible for dyslexia and dyscalculia
c) seem to play no role in the emergence of dyslexia and dyscalculia
d) can delay language acquisition in an estimated 2 to 15% of children

43. According to the passage, ________.

a) partial functional deficits could be to blame for dyslexia and dyscalculia
b) children with dyslexia and dyscalculia may have difficulty in speaking their native
language
c) children with dyslexia and dyscalculia do not have normal sensory and motor
development
d) people with dyslexia and dyscalculia are often below average intelligence

44. It is stated in the passage that ________.

a) if it were not for dyslexia and dyscalculia, American education would be free of
problems
b) reading, writing and arithmetic are areas crucial to academic success
c) dyslexia and dyscalculia are the learning disabilities most easily solved by
educationalists
d) dyscalculia appears to me more widespread than dyslexia in elementary school classes

45. The word “register” can be best replaced by ________.

a) avoid
b) cancel
c) produce
d) record

SECTION 4 – WHILE-LISTENING
Listen to a conversation between a student and an advisor on campus and choose the correct
answer for each question.

46. What is the purpose of this conversation?

a) To register the student for classes.
b) To register the student for placement tests.
c) To help the student change his major field of study.
d) To advise the student about the orientation to engineering program.

47. How many classes does the advisor advise the student to take?
a) Two b) Five c) Three d) Seventeen

48. What does the student need to be admitted to the examination?

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a) A driver’s license.
b) A permission slip.
c) A registration card.
d) Nothing.

49. What does the advisor suggest?

a) The student should return Friday afternoon.
b) The student should complete his registration now.
c) The student should take five classes.
d) The student should schedule the Math 130 class.

50. What do we know about the student?

a) He is majoring in mathematics.
b) He has never taken a chemistry course.
c) He is a freshman.
d) He does not like his advisor.

51. Which of the following is TRUE?

a) The student has to take a chemistry test.
b) There are three courses in the first quarter.
c) The student didn’t take any math course before.
d) The student will take the test on Friday afternoon.

SECTION 5 – NOTE TAKING

PART A: Listen to the lecture about “Frida Kahlo” and take notes. You will hear the audio twice.

OUTLINE
Frida’s Personal and Professional Life

Rivera’s Influence on Kahlo’s Work

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Kahlo’s Paintings

PART B / NOTE TAKING: Now use your notes to answer the following questions.

52. The lecture mainly describes ___________.

a) how painting helped Kahlo recover from a terrible disease.
b) How Kahlo managed to promote her country through her art
c) how Kahlo’s personal experiences shaped her art
d) how Kahlo’s husband helped her become famous

53. Which of the following information about Frida Kahlo is NOT correct?
a) She had a physical disability
b) She could never have children because of her condition
c) Her paintings never went public during her lifetime.
d) The accident made her focus more on art

54. Frida Kahlo’s paintings gained popularity lately because_______.

a) of her themes and the interest of famous people
b) she was the wife of a famous painter
c) of her tragic life
d) her life was full of violence that she painted

55. In her paintings, Frida Kahlo displays __________.

a) her love for her husband and her country
b) her stormy marriage and her experiences with physical pain
c) colourful scenes from Mexican life and culture
d) her political views and memories

56. Frida and Rivera’s marriage was based on their interest in _____.
a) art and science
b) communism and interest in the ancient culture of Mexico
c) the communist way of life and Mexican art
d) each other and their love of Mexican clothes

57. Which of the following cannot be said about Rivera?

a) He encouraged Frida in her work
b) He encouraged Frida to explore life fully
c) He encouraged her to explore the real sense of color
d) He encouraged her to explore physical pain

58. Frida expressed her strong devotion to her cultural background by ______
a) wearing traditional Mexican clothes
b) painting about Mexico
c) writing articles about Mexico
d) being politically active

59. The Lewin collection consists of __________.

a) flower paintings b) animations c) still life d) medical pictures

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60. Feelings are expressed through art. In Frida’s art, _____.

a) feelings of love and hate are mixed
b) it is people in pain
c) it is mainly the pain accompanied with love of life
d) her love of life is abundant

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