E11C-ONLINE REVIEW 1

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST

I. PHONOLOGY
 Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose stressed syllable is placed
differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided.
1. A. preferable B. maturity C. undercurrent D. speculative
2. A. interchange B. subsection C. co-writer D. underlie
3. A. supernatural B. hyperactive C. counterclockwise D. technobabble
4. A. democracy B. infrastructure C. negotiate D. creditable
5. A. compromise B. picturesque C. European D. guarantee
 Choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word whose underlined part is
pronounced differently from that of the others. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
6. A. erosion B. invasion C. suspension D. explosion
7. A. crunch B. champagne C. brochure D. crèche
8. A. buffet B. draught C. ballet D. mistletoe
9. A. Chile B. recipe C. catastrophe D. kerosene
10. A. collapsed B. transfused C. conversed D. decreased

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE

 Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
11. I wish you would stop wasting so much time on computer games and do something a little more
________.
A. welcome B. enviable C. feasible D. worthwhile
12. I don’t want to do the course in applied statistics, but it’s ________.
A. compulsory B. inevitable C. bound D. indecisive
13. After the investigation, the accident was put down to human ________.
A. mistake B. wrong C. error D. slip
14. I always clean the flat before my mom comes round, but she always find at least one ________
of dust and says it’s filthy.
A. scrap B. gust C. speck D. blade
15. Warning: anyone caught stealing from these premises will be ________.
A. advocated B. undermined C. prosecuted D. enforced
16. Having seen the film that won the Oscar, I was disappointed as it wasn’t all that it’s up________
to be.
A. creased B. cracked C. lined D. valued
17. For months I sat with my binoculars watching a bird ________ its young.
A. rear B. breed C. bring up D. grow
18. Breaking his leg dealt a ________ to his chances of becoming a professional footballer.
 A. thump B. strike C. hit D. blow
19. It was impossible for me to make a decision, so I ________ a coin.
A. tossed B. threw C. flung D. cast
20. I prefer to practice the violin alone in my bedroom as having other members of the family
listen really my ________ style.
A. restricts B. impedes C. obstructs D. cramps
21. I’d rather you ________ a noise last night; I couldn’t get to sleep.
A. wouldn’t make B. hadn’t made C. didn’t make D. haven’t made
22. She regrets ________ enough time to finish the exercise.
A. not to have B. not have had C. not having D. to not have
23. She is anxious ________ for the post of the Personal Assistant to the Director in the recently
affiliated Jacobs Sussard Company
A. to select B. to have selected
C. to be selected D. to be selecting
24. - “How much time do I have to make a choice?” – “I suggest you ________ a quick decision.”
A. having made B. to make C. made D. make
25. Louisa is still in Palma, so you ________ her at the library.
A. couldn’t see B. mustn’t have seen
C. weren’t able to see D. can’t have seen
26. I’d love to have lived in the old days, when people ________ to markets by horse and carriage.
A. have been travelling B. would travel
C. got used to travelling D. had been travelling
27. I woke up late for my interview because I ________ about it all the night and didn’t get much
sleep.
A. worried B. have been worrying
C. had been worrying D. had worried
28. There ________ between 4,000 to 6,000 languages in the world, depending on how you count
them.
A. say to be B. are said that
C. are said to be D. said being
29. make sure you mix the ingredients well, ________ you might get lumps in your cake.
A. unless B. otherwise C. provided D. supposing
30. ________ a scholarship, I entered the frightening and unknown territory of private education.
A. To award B. To be awarded
C. Having awarded D. Having been awarded

Your answers:
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.

III. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS

 Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
31. Jim’s a tough character and certainly won’t let anyone push him ________.
A. up B. off C. around D. through
32. Ben crept ________ on Lisa and put his hands over her eyes.
 A. out B. round C. off D. up
33. I couldn’t decide what to write about, when I suddenly ________ upon the idea of doing
something on writer’s block.
A. thought B. chanced C. hit D. arrived
34. We all creased ________ when Nick walked in wearing a skirt.
A. up B. off C. on D. out
35. She blurted ________ his name, then gasped as she realized what she’d done.
A. up B. out C. on D. through
36. Police have ________ the garden up looking for evidence.
A. swept B. taken C. ploughed D. dug
37. I can’t believe he got ________ when there was so much evidence against him.
A. up B. out C. through D. off
38. They ________ ahead regardless the objection.
A. threw B. pushed C. kicked D. pressed
39. I’m ________ with work at the moment.
A. snowed under B. piled up C. messed up D. knocked off
40. The rumours ________ the town very quickly, didn’t they?
A. got around B. flowed into C. hit upon D. grew on

Your answers:
31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
IV. READING COMPREHENSION
 Read the following passages then answer the questions. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Passage 1.
Life originated in the early seas less than a billion years after Earth was
formed.
Yet another three billion years were to pass before the first plants and animals appeared on the
continents. Life transition from the sea to the land was perhaps as much of an evolutionary
challenge as was the genesis of life.
What forms of life were able to make such a drastic change in lifestyle? The traditional view of
(5) the first terrestrial organisms is based on mega fossils - relatively large specimens of essentially
whole plants and animals. Vascular plants, related to modern seed plants and ferns, left the first
comprehensive mega fossils record. Because of this it has been commonly assumed that the
sequence of terrestrialization reflected the evolution of modern terrestrial ecosystems. In this
view, primitive vascular plants first colonized the margins of continental water, followed by
(10) animals that fed on the plants, and lastly by animals that preyed on the plant-eaters. Moreover,
the mega fossils suggest that terrestrial life appeared and diversified explosively near the
boundary between the Silurian and Devonian periods, a little more than 400 million years ago.
Recently, however, paleontologists have been taking a closer look at the sediments below this
Silurian-Devonian geological boundary. It turns out that some fossils can be extracted from
(15) these sediments by putting the rocks in an acid bath. The technique has uncovered new evidence
from sediments that were deposited near the shores of the ancient oceans-plant microfossils and

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microscopic pieces of small animals. In many instances the specimens are less than one-tenth of
millimeter in diameter. Although they were entombed in the rocks for hundreds of millions of
years, many of the fossils consist of the organic remains of the organism.
These newly discovered fossils have not only revealed the existence of previously unknown
organisms. Our views about the nature of the early plant and animal communities are now being
revised. And with those revisions come new speculations about the first terrestrial life-forms.
41. The word “drastic” in line 4 is closest meaning to
A. widespread B. radical C. progressive D. risky
42. According to the theory that the author calls “the traditional view,” what was the first
form of life to appear on land?
A. Bacteria B. meat-eating animals
C. plant-eating animals D. Vascular plants
43. According to the passage, what happened about 400 million years?
A. many terrestrial plant-forms died out
B. New life-forms on land developed at a rapid rate
C. The mega fossils were destroyed by floods.
D. Life began to develop in the ancient seas.
44. The word “extracted” in line 14 is closest in meaning to
A. located B. preserved C. removed D. studied
45. What can be inferred from the passage about the fossils mentioned in life 14-19?
A. They have not been helpful in understanding the evolution of terrestrial life.
B. They were not found in approximately the same numbers as vascular plant fossils.
C. They are older than mega fossils.
D. They consist of modern life-forms.
46. The word “instances” in line 17 is closest in meaning to
A. methods B. processes C. cases D. reasons
47. The word “they” in line 18 refers to
A. rocks B. shores C. oceans D. specimens
48. The word “entombed” in line 18 is closest meaning to
A. crushed B. trapped C. produced D. excavated
49. Which of the following resulted from the discovery of microscopic fossils?
A. The time estimate for the first appearance of terrestrial life-forms was revised.
B. Old techniques for analyzing fossils were found to have new uses.
C. The origins of primitive sea life were explained.
D. Assumptions about the locations of ancient seas were changed.
50. With which of the following conclusions would the author probably agree?
A. The evolution of terrestrial life was as complicated as the origin of life itself.
B. The discovery of microfossils supports the traditional view of how terrestrial life
evolved.
 C. New species have appeared at the same rate over the course of the last 400 million
years.
D. The technology used by paleontologists is too primitive to make accurate
determinations about ages of fossils.
Your answers:
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.