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Sample SETI 2 Test
Sample SETI 2 Test
You have ONE minute to read the questions first. You will also have ONE minute between and after the recordings.
Markers’ area.
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5. What are the titles of the two books she read after moving to the US?
___________________and_________________________________________
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6. Her relationship with her parents was based on obedience. What is it based on now?
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9. When she is comparing Christ and Buddha, Lisa is saying that one similarity is that
A) face temptations.
B) solve political challenges.
C) perform a social duty.
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A) Much gain.
B) Much joy.
C) Fast joy.
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11. According to Lisa what does ’bride’ actually mean in Chinese?
A) New wife.
B) New woman.
C) New mother.
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12. Lisa says that with books …
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B) encourage reading.
C) tell us about an anecdote.
The cheap airlines are enabling an increasing number of people to travel to foreign countries. What
5advantages might there be to society in general?
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28. If you had been more ……… , this accident wouldn't have happened. (CARE)
31. She's good at sports and her school results are really ……… . (IMPRESS)
2032. The judge sentenced the criminal to five years' ……… . (PRISON)
33. The queue in front of the palace is very long despite the fact that the ……… fee is very high.
(ADMIT)
2534. The bank decided it would not risk investing in such a ……… venture. (SPECULATE)
35. I can't tell you with ……… when she will be home, I'm afraid. (CERTAIN)
W2: Gap-fill
Fill in the gaps with ONE suitable word. The first one has been done for you as an example.
Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet. Do not leave the gap blank. (15 points)
5Example:
The correct answer is: / A helyes megoldás: of
10 Egypt: the land (e.g.)…of… mystery, tradition and history. You (36)……… see pyramids,
beautiful sunsets and the desert sand. And dream (37)……… treasure.
Almost everybody has seen (38)……… “Indiana Jones” trilogy at least once during (39)
……… childhood years and wished to search for ancient relics inside Egypt’s beautiful pyramids. It
sounds exciting and there (40)……… always the promise of finding gold or treasure that will make
15you rich for the rest (41)……… your life. It may seem exciting but (42)……… fact, the job of
archeologists is often painstakingly slow and boring, and there is no guarantee that you will find
anything at (43)………, even if you keep searching for a lifetime.
However, amazing discoveries do sometimes happen, just like recently, (44)………
archeologists discovered the most beautiful mummy ever found. The 2300-year-old mummy is
20wearing a golden mask and its body is covered (45)……… highly coloured burial material. The
mummy (46)……… found within King Teti’s necropolis in Saqqara, around 129 km south of Cairo. It
was in a wooden sarcophagus buried in sand at the bottom of a six-metre shaft.
The necropolis contains many burial chambers, false doors (so that the souls of the dead (47)
……… leave their tombs) and temples. World-famous Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass lead the team
25responsible for the find. When the sarcophagus lid was removed, Hawass said: “We have revealed (48)
……… may be the most beautiful mummy ever found in Egypt.” But as (49)………, little is known
about the mummy. Hawass says it dates (50)……… to the 30th pharaonic dynasty (380-343 BC) and it
is hoped that CT scanning will reveal more about its identity and background. The mummy will then
go on display at Saqqara’s museum.
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Adapted from: Focus Magazine, July 2005
R1: Reading comprehension
Read the following text and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet. (15 points)
“Tulipomania”
51. Tulips have long held a significant role in Dutch history and culture ever since they were
5 introduced to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1500s. So strong was the
Dutch love affair with tulips during the Dutch Golden Age of the mid-1600s that a tulip bulb
bubble or "Tulip Mania" even occurred. Generally considered to be the first recorded financial
bubble, the Tulip Mania of 1636-1637 was an episode in which tulip bulb prices were
propelled by speculators to incredible heights before collapsing and plunging the Dutch
10 economy into a severe crisis that lasted for many years.
52. The Golden Century is the name of the period in Dutch history between 1600 and 1700 when
the port city of Amsterdam was one of the richest of all cities in Western Europe due to its
strong role in international trade. Dutch trade with foreign lands led to the importation of
15 exotic goods that were never seen before by Europeans. Tulips were first introduced to Europe
from Turkey when a sultan sent bulbs and seeds to Vienna. Shortly after 1554, these seeds
were sent to Amsterdam, where their popularity began to rise. With their intensely colorful
petals, tulips were unlike any other flower popular in Europe at that time and having tulips
growing in one’s garden became an important status symbol. As the Dutch tulip market
20 became increasingly sophisticated, tulips were classified into groups and priced according to
their rarity. In general, solid-colored tulips were worth less than those with multiple colors.
Tulips that were infected with the benign mosaic virus, which caused "flames" of color to
appear upon the petals, sold at a premium due to their unique beauty and rarity.
2553. Tulip prices steadily rose with their growing popularity and bulbs were purchased at higher
and higher prices by speculators who planned to turn around and sell them for a profit. From
1634 to 1637, an index of Dutch tulip prices soared from approximately one guilder per bulb
to a lofty sixty guilders per bulb. As the tulip bulb bubble peaked, already pricey tulip bulbs
experienced a twentyfold price explosion in just a single month. At the height of tulipomania
30 in February of 1637, a single tulip bulb was worth about ten times a craftsman’s annual
income.
54. Astronomically-high tulip bulb prices resulted in some equally astonishing anecdotes such as
the sailor who mistakenly ate an extremely rare Semper Augustus tulip bulb thinking it was an
35 onion. This "onion" was so valuable that it could have fed his whole ship’s crew for an entire
year. The hapless sailor was jailed for several months for his innocent but costly mistake.
55. Like all bubbles, the Dutch tulip bulb bubble continued to inflate beyond people’s wildest
expectations until it abruptly "popped" in the winter of 1636-37. A default on a tulip bulb
40 contract by a buyer in Haarlem was the main bubble-popping catalyst and caused the tulip
bulb market to violently implode as sellers overwhelmed the market and buyers virtually
disappeared altogether. Within just a few days, tulip bulbs were worth only a hundredth of
their former prices, resulting in a full-blown panic throughout Holland. The brutal popping of
the tulip bulb bubble ended the Dutch Golden Age and hurled the country into a mild
45 economic depression that lasted for several years.
Match the headings with the paragraphs of the text. There are two extra headings (1 point per
item). Put the letter of the correct headings in the second column on the Answer Sheet.
Paragraph A, B, C Heading
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51. A. An interesting story
52. B. Ties with the Netherlands and the Ottoman
empire
53. C. The Crash
54. D. The importance of tulip mania
55. E. The Mania Phase
F. The life cycle of tulips
G. Events Leading Up to the Tulip Bulb Bubble
5Provide very short answers to the following questions (1 point per item):
61. Tulips with one colour were more expensive than tulips with many colours.
15 62. One tulip bulb was worth 10 years’ salary of a skilled worker.
63. A sailor’s wife ate a tulip bulb because she thought it was an onion.
64. The tulip bubble crashed at the beginning of 1636.
65. The tulip crash resulted in a severe economic depression.
Do not forget to copy your answers on the Answer Sheet.
R2: Summary
Read the following article and fill in the gaps of the summary below with ONE appropriate word. (15
points).
5 Green Business: Jet Republic aiming to be carbon neutral
The aviation industry is often been hit hard by the downturn, some of these
perceived as one of the bad guys in the initiatives could fall by the wayside. To allow
climate change debate. As a mode of this to happen would be a grave mistake.
10transport, flying is regarded as being 55 Jet Republic identified climate change
particularly polluting because of the amount of as one area where they wanted to set the
fuel used at high altitude. And, it is estimated standard in the industry, and as a new entrant
to be responsible for around 3.5 percent of to the market they have been able to build a
global greenhouse emissions. commitment to carbon neutrality into the heart
15 The sector's reputation was damaged 60of their business operations. It was a
further when it was excluded from the targets consideration in their choice of the Learjet 60
outlined in the Kyoto agreement, which was XR as the model of aircraft in their 110 strong
interpreted by some as an example of its fleet. The 60 XR is the most fuel-efficient
disregard for the climate change issue. This is midsize aircraft in the world, something it
20unfair because the industry has taken great 65achieves by being built with light and strong
strides to reduce its environmental impact. For modern materials, and flying higher and faster
example, over the last 30 years, it has achieved than other aircraft.
a 60 percent improvement in fuel efficiency. Positioning is another important
There is a great deal of research being consideration that has an impact on the amount
25undertaken by manufacturers into more 70of fuel consumed; Jet Republic’s fleet is based
efficient technologies and alternative fuels, all across Europe, and the positions of their
while the Single European Sky initiative aims aircraft are carefully planned and managed so
to improve flight planning across Europe to that the number of "over flights" is kept to an
rationalise the amount of time an aircraft is in absolute minimum.
30the sky. Practically everything we do in our 75 Jet Republic wanted to be 100 percent
everyday lives has a carbon cost attached to it, carbon neutral from launch so the company
but aviation is an element that has come in for partnered with ClimateCare, one of Europe's
an undue level of criticism, when in fact it is most experienced providers of carbon offsets,
arguably working harder than most industries where each project is rigorously audited and
35to address the issue of climate change. 80monitored for quality.
The reaction to this criticism from With the impact of aviation on climate
governments has been taxation. But making a change being widely reported, people care
special case of aviation fails to address the more than ever about their carbon footprint
wider issues. Aviation fuel is carbon taxed, but when using air travel. While the overwhelming
40why is this tax not applied on other types of 85majority have not changed the amount they
fuel such as electricity and gas? travel because of it, it is certainly becoming a
Punitive taxation, which is driving up more important consideration and people are
the cost of air travel, will ultimately end up asking more questions before travelling.
being absorbed by the operator or by Jet Republic’s attitude towards
45passengers. This, coupled with the current 90mitigating the effect their business has on the
economic downturn, represents a significant environment has actually become a business
threat to progress in the aviation industry as it benefit. By acknowledging responsibilities in
could lead to a stifling of innovation and the area of climate control and putting tangible
development. measures in place, they have received
50 Meeting the challenge of climate 95considerable positive feedback from clients
change costs money. As an industry which has and business partners.
Adapted from cnn.com
Summary
The aviation industry is said to (e.g.) contribute 3.5% to global greenhouse emissions and the
However, the industry has taken enormous (67) …………………… to improve fuel
efficiency. Manufacturers have (68) ……………………. in research for new technologies and
planning.
10Governments have made a special case of aviation by imposing tax on aviation fuel, which is
of the economic downturn, makes it extremely difficult for the industry to (72)
Jet Republic, a relatively new (73) …………………… on the market, is fully committed to
15addressing the issue and has been 100% carbon neutral from the (74) …………………. The
monitoring and auditing environmental projects. The most (76) ………………… aircraft in
their fleet is Learjet 60XR, which flies higher and faster than other midsize aircraft. In
addition, in order to (77) ……………………… “over flights”, they pay special attention to
Jet Republic’s attitude and environmental consciousness has been (79) ………………………
for the company since people are more and more (80) ………………………. of their carbon