ANSWER KEYS TO TEST 153

I. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (40 points)

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 1: These figures give you some ideas of the cost of ____________ your car for one year.
A. controlling B. handling C. managing D. maintaining
Question 2: It takes a great deal of ______________ for the class to make a trip abroad.
A. arrangement B. organization C. expense D. business
Question 3: Paper making began in China and from there it ______________ to North Africa.
A. spread B. sprang C. spilled D. flowed
Question 4: When will it ______________ on you that I am right and you are wrong?
A. descend B. come C. dawn D. arise
Question 5: They are fighting to eradicate the ____________ of starvation caused by the civil war.
A. leaving B. legacy C. tradition D. remains
Question 6: They say he inherited his money from a ______________ relative he had never met.
A. faraway B. remote C. distant D. far-flung
Question 7: I was thinking of going out, but on __________ thoughts, it might be better to stay in.
A. strong B. second C. good D. deep
Question 8: After the accident, there was considerable doubt _______ exactly what had happened.
A. in the question of B. as to C. in the shape of D. for
Question 9: Turn to page 35 to find out at a _____________ which courses are available to you.
A. glance B. stare C. glimpse D. look
Question 10: The actor was so nervous that he could only remember small _________ of dialogue.
A. shreds B. pieces C. patches D. snatches
Question 11: The truant was _____________ from school for unbecoming behavior.
A. dispelled B. repelled C. compelled D. expelled
Question 12: Nobody would call me an alcoholic, but I like to have a beer __________ and then.
A. now B. there C. after D. out
Question 13: _________, we tried our best to complete it.
A. Difficult as the homework was B. Thanks to the difficult homework
C. As though the homework was difficult D. Despite the homework was difficult
Question 14: His neighbors found his ______ manner bossy and irritating, and they stopped inviting him
to backyard barbeques.
A. insentient B. magisterial C. preparatory D. restorative
Question 15: Levina unknowingly ________ the thief by holding open the elevator doors.
A. coerced B. proclaimed C. abetted D. sanctioned

Your answers
1.D 2.B 3.A 4.C 5. B
6. C 7.B 8.B 9. A 10.D
11. D 12. A 13.A 14.B 15.C

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the
following questions. Correct the mistakes.
Question 00: Despite the fact that he was innocent, he was founded guilty by association due to his
connection to the known criminals.
A. innocent B. founded C. by association D. known criminals
Question 16: They had a discussion about training not only the new employees but also giving them some
challenges.
A. about B. training not only C. giving D. some challenges
Question 17: If you have some sufficient knowledge of English, you can make yourself understand almost
everywhere.
A. some B. of C. understand D. almost
Question 18: You mustn’t have seen Linda, for she has left for Australia for almost 2 months.
A. mustn’t have seen B. for C. has left D. almost
Question 19: Plants are known to need about the same vitamins for growth and development as animals are.
A. Plants are known B. about the same C. for growth D. as animals are
Question 20: I often drink a cold glass of white Australian wine when I knock off work.
A. drink B. cold glass C. white Australian wine D. knock off

Your answers

00. B  found 18.A  can’t/couldn’t have seen

16.B  not only training 19. D  as animals do

17.C  understood 20. C  Australian white wine

Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following text.
The Swedish Academy announced on Friday morning that there would be no Nobel laureate or
literature selected in 2018, as it attempts to come to terms with controversy over its links to a man accused
of sexual assault. For the first time since 1940, the (21. SECRET) ______________________ jury that
hands out the world’s most prestigious literary award will not unveil a winner this autumn, instead
revealing two winners in 2019. The decision comes after a string of sexual assault allegations made against
the French photographer Jean- Claude Arnault.
With academy members engaging in (22. PRECEDE) _____________________ fights in the
Swedish press, permanent secretary of the academy Sara Danius resigned on 12 April – to widespread
protests in Sweden over the implication that she was taking the hit for male (23. BEHAVE)
_________________________ - as did Frostenson, after a three-hour meeting. (24. MEMBER)
________________________ of the academy, which was established in 1786 by Swedish king Gustav III,
is intended to be (25. LIFE) ______________________, resulting in any resignations leaving an empty
chair until the jury member’s death. Following the spate of recent (26. BREAK) _________________,
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustav announced he would change the rules, allowing new members to be
appointed to replace resigning members. With only 20 active members on the 18-person jury, the academy
said it would spend the year (27. BUILD) _____________________ its structure and (28. HAUL)
____________________ its practice, including “modernizing” its statutes.
Chairman of the Nobel Foundation board, Carl-Henrik Heldin said: “The crisis in the Swedish Academy
has adversely affected the Nobel prize. Their decision (29. SCORE) ________________________ the
seriousness of the situation and will help (30. GUARD) _________________________ the long-term
reputation of the Nobel prize. None of this impacts the awarding of the 2018 Nobel prize on other prize
categories''.

Your answers:

21. secretive 26. breakaways

22. unprecedented 27. rebuilding

23. misbehaviour 28. overhauling

24. Membership 29. underscores

25. lifelong 30. safeguard

Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct preposition or adverb particle to complete each of the
following questions.
Question 31: The company have to ___________ways of reducing costs.
A. take in B. think over C. look on D. work out
Question 32: She would just sit in her chair, dreaming her life __________.
A. on B. out C. away D. over
Question 33: Sorry I’m late. Something cropped ___________ at the office.
A. up B. of C. out D. in
Question 34: I’m sure my brother will never get married because he hates being tied _________.
A. up B. in C. on D. down
Question 35: Check the bottles carefully to make sure they have not been tampered _________.
A. with B. at C. out D. at
Question 36: He was poor, but he rent a mansion and set himself ______________ as a millionaire.
A. down B. out C. up D. ∅
Question 37: It had been a trying afternoon, culminating at 6 p.m. ___ the television breaking down.
A. on B. in C. for D. upon
Question 38: I'm a little wary ______ giving people my address when I don't know them very well.
A. in B. of C. at D. against
Question 39: We all dream of a salary that is commensurate _______ our skills and experience
A. by B. for C. in D. with
Question 40: A good teacher is always attentive _______ their student's needs.
A. for B. in C. to D. alongside

Your answers
31.D 32.C 33. A 34.D 35. A
36. C 37.B 38.B 39. D 40.C
II. READING COMPREHENSION
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the
following questions.
Population ecology is the science that measures changes in population size and composition and
identities the causes of these fluctuations. Population ecology is not concerned solely with the human
population. In ecological terms, a population consists of the individuals of one species that simultaneously
occupy the same general area, rely on the same resources, and are affected by similar environmental factors.
The characteristics of a population are shaped by its size and by the interactions among individuals and between
individuals and their environment.
Population size is a balance between factors that increase numbers and factors that decrease numbers.
Some factors that increase populations are favorable light and temperature, adequate food supply, suitable
habitat, ability to compete for resources, and ability to adapt to environmental change. Factors that decrease
populations are insufficient or excessive light and temperature, inadequate food supply, unsuitable or destroyed
habitat, too many competitors for resources, and inability to adapt to environmental change.
Another important characteristic of any population is its density. Population density is the number of
individuals per unit, such as the number of maple trees per square kilometer in a county. Ecologists can rarely
determine population size by actually counting all individuals within geographical boundaries. Instead, they
often use a variety of sampling techniques to estimate densities and total population sizes. For example, they
might estimate the number of black bears in a national park by counting individuals in a few sample plots
representative of the whole park. In some cases, they estimate population size through indirect indicators, such
as the number of nests or burrows, or signs such as tracks or droppings.
Another important population characteristic, dispersion, is the pattern of spacing among individuals
within the population’s geographical boundaries. Various species are distributed in their habitats in different
ways to take better advantages of food supplies and shelter, and to avoid predators or find prey. Within a
population’s range, densities may vary greatly because not all areas provide equally suitable habitat, and also
because individuals space themselves in relation to other members of the population.
Three possible patterns of dispersion are clumped, uniform, and random. A clumped dispersion pattern
means that individuals are gathered in patches throughout their habitat. Clumping often results from the
irregular distribution of resources needed for survival and reproduction. For example, fallen trees keep the forest
floor moist, and many forest insects are clumped under logs where the humidity is to their liking. Clumping
may also be associated with mating, safety, or other social behavior. Crane flies, for example, swarm in great
numbers, a behavior that increase mating chances, and some fish swim in large schools so they are less likely to
be eaten by predators.
A uniform or evenly spaced distribution results from direct interactions among individuals in the
population. For example, regular spacing of plants may result from shading and competition for water. In
animal populations, uniform distribution is usually caused completion for some resource or by social
interactions that set up individual territories for feeding, breeding, or resting.
Random spacing occurs in the absence of strong attraction or repulsion among individuals in a
population. Overall, random patterns are rare in nature, with most populations showing a tendency toward either
clumped or uniform distribution.
Populations change in size, structure, and distribution as they respond to changes in environmental
conditions. Four main variables- births, deaths, immigration, and emigration- determine the rate of change in
the size of the population over time. A change in the birth rate or death is the major way that most populations
respond to changes in resource availability. Members of some animal species can avoid or reduce the effects of
environmental stress by emigrating from one are and immigrating to another with more favorable
environmental conditions, thus altering the population’s dispersion.

41. Which sentence best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in paragraph 1?
A. Any species of life can be studied in population ecology.
B. Population ecologists care about the future of humanity
C. The growth of the human population is a major concern.
D. Population ecology does not consider humans worthy of study.
42. According to the passage, which factors might cause the population of a species to decrease in size?
A. A favorable amount of light and water
B. An ability to hide from or defend against predators
C. A large number of other species competing for food
D. A greater number of births than deaths
43. Which of the following is an indirect indicator of a population’s density?
A. The distribution of food in a given area
B. The number of nests in a given area
C. The number of births in a given period of time
D. The number of individuals counted in a given area
44. The distribution pattern of individuals within a population’s geographical boundaries is known
as__________
A. population ecology B. population density C. population change D. population dispersion
45. The word range in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to___________.
 A. territory B. control C. history D. shelter
46. The word their in paragraph 5 refers to___________.
A. resources B. trees C. insects D. logs
47. All of the following are given as reasons for clumping EXCEPT_________.
A. uneven resource distribution B. territorial disputes
C. mating behavior D. safety from predators
48. The phrase set up in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to __________.
A. forbid B. establish C. increase D. conceal
49. Which of the following situations would be most likely to result in a uniform dispersion pattern?
A. Birds compete for a place to build their nests.
B. Fish swim in large schools to avoid predators.
C. Whales develop strong bonds among relatives.
D. Elephants form a circle to protect their young.
50. Why does the author mention immigration and emigration in paragraph 8?
A. To identify factors affecting population dispersion
B. To give examples of territorial behavior in animals
C. To show that population balance themselves over time
D. To explain why animals populations are uniformly dispersed

Your answers
41.A 42. C 43. B 44. D 45. A

46. C 47. B 48. B 49. A 50. A

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct word that best fits
each of the gaps in the following passage.
Public awareness of the value of recycling materials such (51) ________ plastic, paper, and glass is
increasing daily in all corners of the globe. In some countries these efforts are being (52) ________ by the
local governments and in others, by individuals. Participation in these programs is at an all-time high. In
the small town of Truro in eastern Massachusetts, for example, space in the local landfill has run out;
therefore, residents have had to think of new ways to (53) ________ of their trash. With no room for items
such as newspaper, bottles, and old lumber at the land fill, local residents have come up with many (54)
________ programs to recycle and/ or reuse what was once (55) ________ of as only trash. For instance,
yard waste such as leaves and grass which used to be thrown in the landfill is now broken down and made
(56) ________ compost used by local people as fertilizer in their gardens. In addition, (57) ________
plastics, newspapers, bottles, and cans are sold to a recycling company, thereby bringing in revenue for the
town. The most popular local innovation, though, has been the founding of a “swap shop”. This is a
building to which people bring their unwanted clothing, books, and toys so that others who need them can
(58) ________ them. Since there is so much (59) ________ in all the recycling programs, the dump is seen
as a place to meet with friends and neighbors and catch up on local news. There is even an annual
September evening “dump dance”, where locals dance to live music and have picnics by candlelight at the
dump. This has become a highlight of the summer vacation season. As humankind continues to (60)
________ and the population grows, recycling efforts become even more important. These efforts must
continue so that we will soon see new innovations and ideas concerning the use of recycled materials.
Question 51: A. as B. alike C. with D. like
Question 52: A. introduced B. brought C. initiated D. participated
Question 53: A. disapprove B. dispose C. throw D. discard
Question 54: A. reforming B. progressive C. improved D. innovative
Question 55: A. believed B. regarded C. thought D. considered
Question 56: A. by B. into C. of D. from
Question 57: A. reproductive B. wasted C. circulating D. recyclable
Question 58: A. take B. offer C. steal D. bring
Question 59: A. distribution B. participation C. approval D. fertilization
Question 60: A. reproduce B. fertilize C. survive D. exist

Your answers
51.A 52.C 53. B 54.D 55. C
56. B 57.D 58.A 59. B 60.A

Read the following passage and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word.
Read the following passage and fill in each of the blanks with ONE suitable word.
If there is just one single thing more astonishing than the ability of the adult human being to talk, it is the
process by which someone learns to do this. Some parts of the process are still (61) ________ much a
closed book, but it is for the (62) _________ part possible to describe what the child is doing at various
stages in its development, even if we cannot account (63) ________ how exactly it learns to do these
things.
In fact, research carried out by various linguists has (64) _________ rise to as many theories as there are
differences in the rate of development. A baby actually makes sounds from the moment it is born, but for
some time these are rather far removed (65) _________ articulate speech. In something like a year, a baby
will probably be at a stage where one or two syllables represent the peak of its achievement as a speaker;
one more year and it will be (66) _______ out with short phrases, and after this it seems (67) ________
time at all before the child is capable of uttering complete sentences.
Despite being a truly remarkable feat of learning, this is one that is performed by the vast (68)
_________ of human beings. Complex operations are brought (69) ________ play in these dealing with
speech and language; the key (70) _______ in brain work, though tongue – work and ear – work play a part
in the whole process.

Your answers
61. very/pretty 62. most 63. for 64. given 65. from

66. coming 67. no 68. majority 69. into 70. lies

Read the following passage and do as required.

The passage has six paragraphs, 1-6. Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B - F from the list of
headings below. There are three headings you do not need.

List of headings
A. Predicting climate changes
B. The relevance of the Little Ice Age today
C. How cities contribute to climate change
D. Human impact on the climate
E. How past climatic conditions can be determined
 F. A growing need for weather records
G. A study covering a thousand years
H. People have always responded to climate change
I. Enough food at last

Example: Paragraph 1 ….H…..

1. Paragraph 2 ……………
2. Paragraph 3 ……………
3. Paragraph 4 …………….
4. Paragraph 5 …………….
5. Paragraph 6 …………….
THE LITTLE ICE AGE
1. This book will provide a detailed examination of the Little Ice Age and other climatic shifts, but, before I
embark on that, let me provide a historical context. We tend to think of climate – as opposed to weather – as
something unchanging, yet humanity has been at the mercy of climate change for its entire existence, with at
least eight glacial episodes in the past 730,000 years. Our ancestors adapted to the universal but irregular global
warming since the end of the last great Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, with dazzling opportunism. They
developed strategies for surviving harsh drought cycles, decades of heavy rainfall or unaccustomed cold;
adopted agriculture and stock raising, which revolutionised human life, and founded the world’s first pre-
industrial civilisations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Americas. But the price of sudden climate change, in
famine, disease and suffering, was often high.
2. The Little Ice Age lasted from roughly 1300 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Only two centuries
ago, Europe experienced a cycle of bitterly cold winters: mountain glaciers in the Swiss Alps were the lowest in
recorded memory, and pack ice surrounded Iceland for much of the year. The climatic events of the Little Ice
Age did more than help shape the modern world. They are the deeply important context for the present
unprecedented global warming. The Little Ice Age was far from a deep freeze, however, rather an irregular
seasaw of rapid climatic shifts, few lasting more than a quarter-century, driven by complex and still little
understood interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean. The seasaw brought cycles of intensely cold
winters and easterly winds, then switched abruptly to years of heavy spring and early summer rains, mild
winters, and frequent Atlantic storms, or to periods of droughts, light northeasterly winds, and summer heat
waves.
3. Reconstructing the climate changes of the past is extremely difficult, because systematic weather
observations began only a few centuries ago, in Europe and North America. Records from India and tropical
Africa are even more recent. For the time before records began, we have only ‘proxy records’ reconstructed
largely from rings and ice cores, supplemented by a few incomplete written accounts. We now have hundreds
of tree ring records from throughout the northern atmosphere, and many from south of the equator, too,
amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian
Andes, and other locations. We are close to a knowledge of annual summer and winter temperature variations
over much of the northern hemisphere going back 600 years.
4. This book is a narrative history of climatic shifts during the past ten centuries, and some of the ways in which
people in Europe adapted to them. Part One describes the Medieval Warm period, roughly 900 to 1200. During
these three centuries, Norse voyagers from Northern Europe explored northern seas, settled Greenland, and
visited North America. It was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there
were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature. Mean European temperatures were about the same as today,
perhaps slightly cooler.
5. It is known that the Little Ice Age cooling began in Greenland and the Arctic in about 1200. As the Arctic ice
pack spread southward. Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then ended altogether.
Storminess increased in the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Cooler, much wetter weather descended on
Europe between 1315 and 1319, when thousands perished in a continent-wide famine. By 1400, the weather
had become decidedly more unpredictable and stormier, with sudden shifts and lower temperatures that
culminated in the cold decades of the late sixteenth century. Fish were a vital commodity in growing towns and
cities, where food supplies were a constant concern. Dried cod and herring were already the staples of the
European fish trade, but changes in water temperatures forced fishing fleets to work further offshore. The
Basques, Dutch, and English developed the first offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier
Atlantic. A gradual agricultural revolution in northern Europe stemmed from concerns over food supplies at a
time of rising populations. The revolution involved intensive commercial farming and the growing of animal
fodder on land not previously used for crops. The increased productivity from farmland made some countries
self-sufficient in grain and livestock and offered effective protection against famine.
6. Global temperatures began to rise slowly after 1850, with the beginning of the Modern Warm Period. There
was a vast migration from Europe by land-hungry farmers and others, to which the famine caused by the Irish
potato blight contributed, to North America, Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa. Millions of hectares
of forests and woodland fell before the newcomers’ axes between 1850 and 1890, and intensive European
farming methods expanded across the world. The unprecedented land clearance released vast quantities of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time humanly caused global warming. Temperatures
climbed more rapidly in the twentieth century as the use of fossil fuels proliferated and greenhouse gas levels
continued to soar. The rise has been even steeper since the early 1980s. The Little Ice Age has given way to a
new climatic regime, marked by prolonged and steady warming. At the same time, extreme weather events like
Category 5 hurricanes are becoming more frequent.

b. Complete the summary using the list of words, A – I below.

Weather during the Little Ice Age
Documentation of past weather conditions is limited: our main sources of knowledge of conditions in the
distant past are (6) _______________________ and (7) _______________________ .We can deduce that
the Little Ice Age was a time of (8) _____________________________ rather than of consistent freezing.
Within it there were some periods of very cold winters, others of (9) _________________________ and
heavy rain, and yet others that saw (10) ___________________________ with no rain at all.

A. climatic shifts B. ice cores C. tree rings

D. glaciers E. interactions F. weather observations
G. heat waves H. storms I. written accounts

Your answers
71.B 72.E 73. G 74.I 75. D
76. B 77.C 78.A 79. H 80.G

III. WRITING
When it comes to seeking consolation, some teenagers view friends as a mental support, while others
claim this role is better done by family.
Write an essay of about 200 - 250 words to discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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