Name: .................................

Time : 150 minutes

MOCK EXAM 1
Listening
1. You are going to hear an interview with someone who started the activity known as “free
running”. Listen and answer questions by circling the appropriate letter A, B, or C.
1. Sebastine says that he does free running because
A. other activities became boring for him
B. it feels like a natural activity
C. it is an individual activity
2. What does Sebastine say about fitness and taking up running?
A. Fit people are keen to do difficult things immediately.
B. People who are not fit don’t learn very quickly.
C. Free running is a good way of getting fit.
3. What does Sebastine say about the danger of free running?
A. It is not as great as some people think.
B. Most free runners pay not attention to it.
C. It is reduced as much as possible
4. What does Sebastine say about his fear of heights?
A. People don’t believe that he has it
B. He always has to overcome it
C. It is not as great as it used to be.
5. What does Sebastine say about where free running can be done?
A. People’s opinions on this are changing.
B. his own opinions on this have changed
C. Some people have the wrong idea on this

2. Listen to a talk about the song “Happy Birthday” and fill in the gap.
The song was first called “Good Morning (1)..................................................
It was originally intended that (2)..................................would sing the song every morning.
The song then became known as Good Morning (3)..................................
Children began to sing the song with “Happy Birthday” words when they were (4).................................
The song was sung with 'Happy Birthday' words in a (5).................................. in 1931 and then in another
one in 1934.
The legal situation concerning the song remains valid (6)..................................
The song is among the (7).................................. songs most frequently sung in English.
Money has to be paid for using the song in any (8).................................., eg a TV show, a toy, etc.
The Hill sisters set up (9)..................................that receives money for use of the song.
The song consists of just four (10).................................. but it is one of the most famous songs in the world

PHONETICS
Circle the letters which are pronounced differently from the rest
1. A. supportive B. funeral C. institute D. humor
2. A. colleague B. league C. create D. release
Circle the words whose stress pattern is different from the rest.
3. A. secure B. oblige C. vacant D. equip
4. A. presidential B. foundation C. confidential D. recreation
5. A. disease B. obtain C. desert D. apply
LEXICO-GRAMMAR
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1. …………….. regards the future, I think we'll just have to wait and see.
A. With B. As C. In D. What
2. It's essential that every student ______ the exam before attending the course.
A. pass B. passes C. would pass D. passed
3. He found______ to answer all the questions within the time given.
A. that impossible B. it impossible C. it impossibly D. that impossibly
4. ______ be needed, the river basin would need to be dammed.
A. Hydroelectric power should B. When hydroelectric power
B. Hydroelectric power D. Should hydroelectric power
5. The players were cheered by their______ as they came out of the pitch.
A. audience B. supporters C. viewers D. public
6. He spent______ dollars on food and drinks.
A. only few B. only a few C. very a few D. only a little
7. Look! The yard is wet. It______ last night.
A. must rain B. couldn't have rained C. must have rained D. should have rained
8. These days almost everybody______ the dangers of smoking
A. know of B. are aware of C. is aware about D. is aware of
9. Don’t forget to let me know you’ve arrived safely, ________ ?
A. haven’t you B. do you C. won’t you D. will you
10. According to a recent survey, most people are on good ________ with their neighbours.
A. relations B. terms C. acquaintance D. relationships
11. This factory produced _________ motorbikes in 2008 as in the year 2006.
A. twice as many B. as twice as many C. as twice many D. as many as twice
12. It was not until ________ home _________ that he had taken someone else's bike.
A. he got/ that he realized B. he got/ did he realize
C. did he get/ he realized D. he got/ he did realize
13. There are many ways _________ to Rome
A. is leading B. are leading C. leading D. led
14. - “What a beautiful bracelet you are wearing!”
- “________________________.”
A. Thank you very much. I’m afraid B. Thank you. That’s a nice compliment
C. You are telling a lie D. Yes, I think so.
15. Cars have become much more complicated. ________, mechanics need more training than in the past.
A. However B. Therefore C. Otherwise D. Furthermore

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to
the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
1. My cousin tends to look on the bright side in any circumstance.
A. be optimistic B. be confident C. be smart D. be pessimistic
2. The whole village was wiped out in the bombing raids.
A. changed completely B. cleaned well
C. destroyed completely D. removed quickly
3. I couldn’t see what she was doing. It was so dark down there.
A. make up B. make out C. make for D. make from

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is
OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
1. The Red Cross is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to reducing the sufferings of wounded
soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.
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2. She was unhappy that she lost contact with a lot of her old friends when she went abroad to study.
A. made room for B. put in charge of C. lost control of D. got in touch with
Fill in each numbered blank with ONE appropriate word. Write your answer in the numbered box.
HEALTH AND CIGARETTES
In many Western countries, girls are more (1) ………….. to smoke than boys. It's the girls who want to
look "tough and grown-up." The result is that (2) ……………. lung cancer in American men has fallen for
the first time in 50 years, the disease is (3) …………. in women. The decrease in the disease among men
is attributed to a decrease in smoking among men since the government's first warning of a (4)
……………. between cigarettes and disease in 1964. On the other hand, lung cancer is now expected to
overtake breast cancer (5) ………... the principal fatal cancer among women. (6) …………. your son or
daughter is a non-smoker, there is another good reason for rejecting a smoker as a life-long mate. Smokers
don't just ruin their own health by (7) ……………. They are a menace to (8) ……………. Second-hand
smoke is lethal. As the 18th report on smoking by the United States Surgeon General: "Involuntary
smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in healthy non-smokers." (9) ………….. to the
report, at home, the children of parents who smoke (10) ……………. the effects in their respiratory
systems. Smokers make their own kids sick.

Provide the correct form of the words given

2. hunting 3. Government 4. Explosion 5. Critics 6. Successful

7. relaxing 8. Sight 9. Effective 10. Defining 11. Opponents
Read the following passage and choose the best option complete the blanks.
The money that some professional sportsmen earn shouldn’t impress anyone when you take into
(1)_________the fact that only a few of them manage to attain immortality and everlasting fame. And
once they reach their (2)_________and display their talent at their best, they are fully conscious that their
brilliant careers won’t last forever. They live under a constant pressure of being (3)__________and
subsequently replaced by someone who is younger, faster and more accomplished. For that reason,
objectives like retirement benefits and pensions are (4)_________great concern to all professional
athletes.
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against any policy unresponsive to their demand (5)__________the younger professionals seek more
upgrading solutions to the problem as more and more of them attach a proper significance to
(6)__________a solid education, even at university level. Such an approach should help them find
interesting and well-paid jobs (7)__________their sports career is over.
A completely new strategy has been devised by the schools priding themselves (8)___________
supporting their own teams. Their authorities insist that the sports clubs members achieve high academic
standards or else they are debarred from partaking in certain sports events, which may lead to further
disruption in their professional careers.
By these practical and most effective (9)___________, combining education with sports activity, the
(10)__________of the professional athlete as being brainless and unintelligent may eventually be
changing to the sportsmen’s benefit.
1. A. reflection B. attention C. examination D. consideration
2. A. prime B. shape C. best D. capacity
3. A. outcast B. outshone C. outstayed D. outgrown
4. A. with B. in C. at D. of
5. A. whereby B. whereas C. whereupon D. wherein
6. A. mastering B. learning C. receiving D. attending
7. A. right away B. promptly C. barely D. once
8. A. with B. on C. for D. in
9. A. grounds B. results C. factors D. means
10. A. vision B. outlook C. image D. judgment
Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
correct answer to each of the questions.
For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming back to an
empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hide. But all of them have
something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They are called “latchkey children”. They are
children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad condition has become a
subject of concern. Lynette Long was once the principal of an elementary school. She said, “We had a
school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached. I was
constantly telling them to put the keys inside shirts. There were so many keys; it never came to my mind
what they meant.” Slowly, she learned that they were house keys. She and her husband began talking to
the children who had keys. They learned of the effect working couples and single parents were having on
their children. Fear was the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. One in three latchkey
children the Longs talked to reported being frightened. Many had nightmares and were worried about their
own safety. The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding. They may hide in
a shower stall, under a bed or in a closet. The second is TV. They often turn the volume up. It’s hard to get
statistics on latchkey children, the Longs have learned. Most parents are slow to admit that they leave their
children alone.
1. The phrase “an empty house” in the passage mostly means ______.
A. a house with no people inside B. a house with no furniture
C. a house with nothing inside D. a house with too much space
2. One thing that the children in the passage share is that ______.
A. they all watch TV B. they spend part of each day alone
C. they are from single-parent families D. they all wear jewelry
3. The phrase “latchkey children” in the passage means children who ______.
A. close doors with keys and watch TV by themselves
B. like to carry latches and keys with them everywhere
C. are locked inside houses with latches and keys
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4. The main problem of latchkey children is that they ______.
A. are also found in middle-class families B. watch too much television during the day
C. suffer a lot from being left alone D. are growing in numbers
5. What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. How kids spend free time. B. Why kids hate going home.
C. Bad condition of latchkey children. D. Children’s activities at home.
6. Why did a lot of kids have chains around their necks with keys attached?
A. They had to use the keys to open school doors.
B. Schools didn’t allow them to wear jewelry, so they wore keys instead.
C. They were fully grown and had become independent.
D. They would use the keys to enter their houses when they came home.
7. What do latchkey children suffer most from when they are at home alone?
A. Fear. B. Tiredness. C. Boredom. D. Loneliness.
8. Lynette Long learned of latchkey children’s problems by ______.
A. visiting their homes B. delivering questionnaires
C. interviewing their parents D. talking to them
9. What is the most common way for latchkey children to deal with fears?
A. Hiding somewhere. B. Talking to the Longs.
C. Having a shower. D. Lying under a TV.
10. It’s difficult to find out the number of latchkey children because ______.
A. most parents are reluctant to admit that they leave their children alone
B. they do not give information about themselves for safety reasons
C. they hide themselves in shower stalls or under beds
D. there are too many of them in the whole country

You are going to read a newspaper article in which a former ballet dancer talks about the physical
demands of the job. Six sentences have been removed from the article on the left. Choose the most
suitable sentence from the list A-G on the right for each part (1-6) of the article. There is one extra
sentence which you do not need to use.
A. Through endless tries at the usual exercises and frequent failures, ballet dancers develop the
natural pathways in the brain necessary to control accurate, fast and smooth movement.
B. The ballet shoe offers some support, but the real strength is in the muscles, built up through
training.
C. Ballet technique is certainly extreme but it is not, in itself, dangerous.
D. The principle is identical in the gym- pushing yourself to the limit, but not beyond, will
eventually bring the desired result.
E. No one avoids this: it is ballet's great democratizer, the well-established members of the
company working alongside the newest recruits.
F. It takes at least a decade of high-quality, regular practice to become an expert in any
physical discipline.

GOOD PREPARATION LEADS TO SUCCESS IN BALLET DANCING

A former classical ballet dancer explains what ballet training actually involves
What we ballet dancers do is instinctive, but instinct learnt through a decade of training. A dancer's
life is hard to understand, and easy to misinterpret. Many a poet and novelist has tried to do so, but even
they have chosen to interpret all the hard work and physical discipline as obsessive. And so the idea
persists that dancers spend every waking hour in pain, bodies at breaking point, their smiles a pretence.
As a former dancer in the Royal Ballet Company here in Britain, I would beg to question this.
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capacity of the healthy human body. Contrary to popular belief, there is no need to break bones or tear
muscles to achieve ballet positions. It is simply a question of sufficient conditioning of the muscular
system.
Over the course of my dancing life I worked my way through at least 10,000 ballet classes. I took
my first at a school of dance at the age of seven and my last 36 years later at the Royal Opera House in
London. In the years between, ballet class was the first thing I did every day. It starts at an early age, this
daily ritual, because it has to. 2 But for a ballet dancer in particular, this lengthy period
has to come before the effects of adolescence set in, while maximum flexibility can still be achieved.
Those first classes I took were remarkably similar to the last. In fact, taking into account the
occasional new idea, ballet classes have changed little since 1820, when the details of ballet technique
were first written down, and are easily recognized in any country. Starting with the left hand on the barre,
the routine unrolls over some 75 minutes. 3 Even the leading dancers have to do it.
These classes serve two distinct purposes: they are the way we warm our bodies and the
mechanism by which we improve basic technique. In class after class, we prove the old saying that
'practice makes perfect'. 4 And it is also this daily repetition which enables us to
strengthen the muscles required in jumping, spinning or lifting our legs to angles impossible to the
average person.
The human body is designed to adapt to the demands we make of it, provided we make them
carefully and over time. 5 In the same way, all those years of classes add up to a fit-for-
purpose dancing machine. This level of physical fluency doesn't hurt; it feels good.
As technology takes away activity from the lives of many, perhaps the ballet dancer's physicality is
ever more difficult for most people to imagine. But they should not be misled: there is a difference
between hard work and hardship. Dancers have an everyday familiarity with the first. Hardship it isn't.

Write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the words given.
1. It's a waste of time to persuade him to stay back. (point)
……………………………………………………..…
2 . They don't let us wear casual clothes on weekdays (allowed)
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3. When I entered my room, I caught him reading my diary. (on)
……………………………………………………………..…
4. Winning the football pools meant we could buy a new car. (enabled)
… ………………………………………………………
5. After six months, Joe’s search for a job was successful. (managed).
…………………………………………………………..…

Write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, beginning with the
words given:
1. Thank for helping me.
It was kind ………………………………
2. The policies of the two parties are very similar.
There isn’t any…………………………………..…
3. You needn’t read the paper unless you want to.
There is no ………………………....................…
4. Please don’t interrupt me when I’m speaking.
I’d rather……………………………………….…
5. What a shame you didn’t tell me earlier!
If only ………………………………………….…
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university or college is the best route to a successful career, while others believe that it is better to
get a job straight after school. Discuss both views.
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