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English Test /A variant/ Academical year: Name: Class: Level: Date: 2012-2013 MA students Intermediate May 21, 2013

A. Reading and Translating section Parties nominate candidates for the presidential election Political parties and coalitions with seats in the parliament began nominating candidates for the presidential election to be held on June 26. According to the Law on presidential elections, the political parties represented in parliament were to name the nominees before May 13. The Constitution and the Law on Election of the President says that the candidate running for President has to be at least age 45, has permanently resided in Mongolia for the last 5 years, and be a citizen of Mongolia. The person must be eligible for election, free of debt, and have no any criminal record. If a civil servant is being promoted, he or she must be released from state service. From the leading two political parties, the DP party nominated current President Ts. Elbegdorj without any opponent. The MPP promoted four candidates and MP b. Bat-Erdene got the majority vote from his party. The MPP defined candidates in two stages. When proposals were received from citizens and party members, those named for the President were b. Bat-Erdene, O. Enkhtuvshin, D. oyunkhorol, S. Bayar, N. Bagabandi, Su. Batbold and D. Lundeejantsan. At the meeting of the governing council of the MPP, some candidates withdrew their names B. Grammar section Fill in the words from the list. Feet, time, suitcase, move, line, weather 1. This new job in sales means that Ill have to live out of a . for months. 2. Ill drop you a . as soon as I get there and let you know whats going on. 3. I cant wait to put my up and forget about work. 4. Come on! If you dont get a . on, well miss the train. 5. Ive been feeling a bit under the . all week.

6. We arrived in the nick of .. . the show was about to start as we sat down. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense. Far from Earth Do you want a holiday that is really out of this world? Well how about booking tickets for two weeks in outer space. This 1) .. (be) a dream of science-fiction writers for decades but some scientists are predicting that soon this dream 2) . (become) a real possibility. It seems that big business 3) (also/realize) that there is plenty of money to be made from taking tourists into orbit. The race is on to build a cheap and reusable spacecraft to carry passengers and freight. Once they 4) .. (be) in space, these tourists 5) . (need) somewhere to stay. A Japanese company 6) .. (already/make) plans to build the first space hotel. They say that they 7) .. (be) ready to accept the first guests in as little as five years. The guests 8) . (pay) more than 40 000 and many 9) .. (suffer) from space sickness, but this isnt expected to put off people who 10) . (look for) the ultimate adventure holiday.