I. Multiple choice.

1. I didn’t suspect anything first, but when I noticed her going through the office drawers I
began to smell ……………
a. a rat b. a pig c. a thief d. a culprit
2. He may be shy now, but he’ll soon come out of his …………when he meet the right girl.
a. shoe b. shell c. shed d. hole
3. Of course you won’t become more intelligent if you eat a lot of first- that’s just an old …..tale
a. maids’ b. ladies’ c. mothers’ d. wives’
4. He had a soft ……….for his niece and thoroughly spoilt her.
a. heart b. way c. smile d. spot
5. Everyone bosses me about at work; I’m nothing but a ………
a. lame duck b. blue-eyed boy c. general dogsboy d. marked man
6. Samuel is as ………………as a pig when he eats.
a. sloppy b. stupid c. dirty d. lazy
7. They eventually took the brone medal, finishing a ………..third behind Poland.
a. tight b. final c. close d. late
8. I ordered a ………….salad to have with my spaghetti dish.
a. spare b. side c. supplementary d. part
9. It’s the ………….of stupidity to go walking in the mountains in this weather.
a. height b. depth c. source d. matter
10. Train travel works out considerably cheaper if you buy a monthly …………..ticket.
a. periodical b. overtime c. season d. prize
11. I bought the chocolates on ……………: I saw them while I was queueing up to pay.
a. desire b. urge c. liaison d. impulse
12. You are ………to be fined if you break the law.
a. liase b. liberal c. subject d. liable
13. The accident occurred at the road …………
a. conjunction b. juncture c. junction d. union
14. The king ordered his knights to ……….the rebellion.
a. resist b. suppress c. distinguish d. reveal
15. At the request of the defence lawyer, the judge ………the trial.
a. adjourned b. altered c. transformed d. converted
16. The boy made a ……….of himself and was told off by the manager.
a. nonsense b. nuisance c. nuance d. native
17. You have to ………the rules of the club if you become members.
a. abide by b. comply in c. face with d. come to
18. One common ………..among successful businessmen is their determination to succeed.
a. expect b. accept c. spectre d. aspect
19. The judo exponent threw his ………..onto the floor with one swift motion.
a. repellent b. opponent c. component d. proponent
20. The manager told his assistant to ……….the mistake immediately.
a. rectify b. maltreat c. sanction d. banish
21. Dr Jin discovered that his home had been …………..by burglars.
a. annihilated b. exterminated c. ransacked d. eliminated
22. After a hotly-contested, the team from China ……….as the winners.
a. submerged b. reversed c. emerged d. converged
23. The …………heat makes us feel too tired to do anything.
a. sweltering b. extreme c. high d. real
24. After much investigation by the police, the mystery was finally ……..
a. wiped out c. cleared out c. cleared up d. sorted out

II. Word form.

1. The government reiterated its resolve to ………………the truth. ( cover )
1. He was too …………….with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. ( occupy )
2. Everyone was taken aback at his being ……………………dressed at the funeral. ( land )
3. The English team was completely ………………. ( gun )
4. Pupils have to pay no school fees . It is a ………………….school. ( aid )
5. She had had the ……………to prepare herself financially in case of an accident. ( sight )
6. Bert was a …………….., unemployed actor. ( loose )
7. Unluckily, there has been a ……………. within the Conservative party. ( unite )
8. They thought the arrival of television would deal a ……………… to mass media audiences .
( blow )
9. It’s hard to keep track of the children’s ……………….. ( go )
10. Unexpectedly, these results seem ……………………( intuition )
11. He was hoping for some lively political ………………..at the meeting. ( course )
12.These theories are now largely ……………..among linguists . ( credit )
13. We will discuss this when you are in a better …………………( mind )
14.Not everyone is prepared to welcome such a ……………………piece of research . ( break )
15.She was awarded a …………….degree in English. ( class )

Location is Everything
Our distant ancestors led pretty simple lives. Until around 10,000 BC , all humans were 1.
……………………( gather ) and lived a nomadic life, searching 2. ……………….( end ) for food.
It was the development of agriculture that enabled humans to settle down and live, first as farmers
and then as villagers. Around 3500 BC , small towns began appearing in Mesopotamia , surrounded
by 3. …………………( defend ) high walls, and 4. ……………….( irrigate ) fields that fed the
town’s population.
In the thousand years that followed, when agriculture had become more of a science and crop
yields had risen , 5. …………….( many ) people were needed to produce food. People took their
jobs, became 6. …………………( wealthy ) and more and more chose to live in towns 7.
………………( close ) to shops and markets. This worked well for centuries. Towns flourished and
eventually one of the 8. ………………..( grand ) , Rome, became the world’s first city of more than
one million people around 100AD.
Although the fertile lands 9. ………………( surround ) Rome could have adequately fed the
city, the Roman people began importing food and became 10. ……………..( rely ) on long supply
chains. When Gaiseric the Vandal began 11. ………………..( hold ) vital North African grain 12.
………………….( supply ) from Rome in 455Ad, the city’s power went into steep decline. The
Dark Ages that ensued saw people 13. …………………( desert ) cities across Europe and returning
to the countryside.

Retail therapy
 force /anticipate / science/ object /rapid / buy / /check / much /possibility / reason /
able / shop /
The marketing industry has spent billions of dollars 1. …………………..perfecting ways to
appeal to shoppers’ primitive brain responses of instinct and emotion so that they buy products
which their 2. …………….. higher brain knows that they don’t need or particularly want. The good
news is that much of this research can be turned on its head, 3. ………………. us to control our
instincts and spend 4. ……………..
To take a simple example: pausing briefly between choosing something and taking it to the 5.
…………………… can dramatically increase the chance of resisting the urge to buy, according to a
study in the Journal of Consumer Research . Wendy Liu, of the University of California , Los
Angeles , ran four tests where she interrupted people’s purchasing . She found that a break in the 6.
……………….. process changed their priorities. Before the interruption , shoppers focused on
whether the object they desired was a bargain, whereas after the interruption , they returned with a
far more 7. …………………, higher-brained view, which questioned whether they really wanted the
item at all.
The need to cool off our consumer brain is 8. ………………. by Gregory Berns , a
neuroscientist at Enory University, Atlanta , Georgia . His brain scan studies show how the feel good
chemical dopamine is released in waves as shoppers see a product and consider buying it. However,
it is only the 9. ………………………., rather than the buying , that releases the chemical. Once an
item has been purchased , the chemical high dissipates 10. ………………., often leaving a sense of
regret. In fact, with practice it is 11. ……………… to stimulate the dopamine release merely by 12.
…………………… , without making any purchase .

III. Rewrite, keeping the same meaning .

1. He often goes for long walks on his own. ( given )
He is ……………………………………………………………
2. He was very upset by his wife’s death.
He took …………………………………………………..
3. The police accused her of manslaughter . ( had )
He ……………………………………………………… .
4. When the election approached , people became more excited. ( ran )
Feelings ………………………………………………. .
5. What was shown on television made me realize how serious the problem was .
Television brought …………………………………………………
6. The work was thought to have been completed .
Everyone was under ………………………………………..
7. He happily let it be known that he supported this campaign . ( name )
He was more than ………………………………………………….this campaign .
8. Jack has promised to help me out of my bad situation . ( give )
Jack has ………………………………………………….
9. I consider my children the most important thing .
My children are ……………………………………life.
10. The second half of the match finally became more exciting .
The match finally came ……………………………………..second half.
11. When you see Mary, tell her I wish her the best of everything . .
Give Mary …………………………………………….her.
12. He couldn’t do anything with her trusting smile.
Her trusting smile ………………………………………heart.
13. Someone who is responsible for the breakages is stilled expected by the teacher. ( up )
The teacher is still …………………………………………………..the breakages.
14. No one can clearly accept his remarks. ( beyond )
His remarks are ……………………………………
15. His wife leads him by the nose.
His wife …………………………………………………hand .
16. You will never sell your house if you let the rumors persist of its being haunted. ( carry )
You …………………………………………………………….if you want to sell your house.
17. It was kind of you to help us clean up, but it really wasn’t necessary. ( helped )
You ………………………………………………………………the cleaning up.
18. It doesn’t matter when he comes, I am not bothered .
He can ……………………………………………………………………concerned.
19. I asked the press to keep her a secret so she would remain anonymous. ( had )
In order ………………………………………………………………keep her name a secret .
20. Eliza did better than usual at her debut performance, even though she had a sore throat .
( excelled )
Despite ………………………………………………………………..at her debut performance .

IV. Phrasal verbs and preposition .

1. Just hark ………… him ! Who does he thinks he is .
2. You were great. I didn’t know you had it …………. you.
3. You didn’t really, did you ? You’re not having me ………….., are you ?
4. He is always willing to help …………..
5. You should qualify ………….. help with the costs of running a car .
6. We gazed ………………into the valley from on high .
7. He was ………….. a real high after winning the competition.
8. I recognized his father ………….. him.
9. His articles provided the main impetus ………… change.
10.There is a considerable imperfection ………… the terminology used .
11. He was knighted by the Queen ………. his services ……….. industry .
12. The news knocked 13% ………….. the company’s shares.
13. He knocks ………….. five books a year.
14. I suggest you take the forms ………. and read them ………… your leisure.
15. I cannot for the life ……….. me imagine why they want to leave .
16. We end the news today ……….. a story about a duck called Quackers.
17. This place is lousy ……….. tourists in August .
18. Make sure he doesn’t try to palm you …………. with faulty goods.
19. Even the impressive scenery began to pall …………. me after a few hundred miles.
20. I palled …………… with him and his sister at school.

V. Gap fill.
Hurry Sickness
According to statistics, it is becoming increasingly rare in many western countries for 1.
………………….. to eat together. It means that people no longer have time to enjoy a meal, much
 2. …………… buy and prepare the ingredients. Meanwhile, fast food outlets are proliferating .
Further evidence of the effects of the increasing pace of life can be seen 3. …………. all sides.
Motorists drum their fingers impatiently at stop lights. Tempers flare in supermarket queues .
Saddest of all is the success of an American series of books called One Minute Bedtime Stories.
What, one has to ask, do parents do with the time thus 4. ……………. ?
According to Barton Sparagon, M.D, medical director of the Meyer Friedman Institute in San
Francisco , and an expert on stress-related illness, the above are 5. ……………. symptoms of a
modern epidemic called hurry sickness. The term was invented nearly 40 years ago by a prominent
cardiologist, who 6. ……………… that all of his heart disease patients had common behavioral
characteristics , the most obvious being that they were in a chronic 7. …………... Hurry sickness
has been an issue in our culture ever since, but the problem is escalating in degree and intensity,
leading to rudeness, short-tempered behavior and 8. ………….. violence, alongside a range of
physical ills.
The primary cause, according to Spapragon , is the increasing prevalence of 9. …………….. –
like email, cell phones, pagers and laptop computers. We can bring work 10. …………., into our
bedrooms and on our vacations. Time has sped up for so many people, and there is increased
pressure to do more in the 11. ……………. number of hours, says Sparagon .
Jill Stein, a sociologist at the University of California at Los Angeles , aggress that 12.
………….. is being more compressed than ever. “ In the past, an overnight letter 13. ………… to
be a big deal. Now if you can’t send an email attachment , there’s something 14. ……………….
Because the technology is available to us, there is an 15. ……………… urge to use it.”

The Ecology of Hollywood

Los Angeles is an unlikely city. Built over a major seismic fault, on the edge of one of the
world’s most inhospitable deserts, the city has developed 1. ……………. the extension of a
Hollywood movie set, sprawling urban fantasy which many people feel 2. …………… not really
exist . Scientists have estimated that the land and water in the area could 3. ……………… support
200,000 people, not the 12 million that live there.
Since the 1880s, Los Angeles has been transformed a sleepy cattle town with a population of
4,000, to a seething metropolis that now 4. ……………..for nearly one percent of global
greenhouse emissions. It is the car culture par excellence, with nine million cars 5. ……………..to
the ubiquitous smog and air pollution and 40 per cent of the population suffering from respiratory
problems due to vehicle emissions. 6. …………….., LA is now becoming the forum of the most
progressive environmental thought in the US.
The city is 7. …………….of contradictions. Often regarded as the apotheosis of consumerism
and material extravagance, it is seen 8. ……….. the essence of anti-nature. Paradoxically, people
often move to Los Angeles because of nature; 9. ……………. by its climate, the snow-capped
mountains, the ocean and the 10. ……………... The movie industry came here because of the
clarity of the light, the 270 days of 11. ……………. per year and the diversity of location 12.
…………………. by.

The Walking School Bus

In recent years, there has been a significant decline in the number of school children who walk
to school every day, 1. ………………… with the previous generations. In an attempt to alter this
trend, a healthy and environmentally-conscious 2. ……………….. called the walking school bus has
developed and promoted in some school districts. The main goal is to have students walk to school,
under the guidance of adults, and thus enjoy the benefits of 3. …………………… activity.
On a walking school bus, a driver ( adult ) calls at specific stop along a set route to collect “
passengers” ( children ) and they walk 4. …………………. to school. At the end of the school day,
all of the walking school bus riders and drivers congregate at a designated school location and begin
the walking journey to 5. …………….. passenger’s home, simply reversing their earlier route. It has
been suggested that , for safety purposes, a diver should be at the front of the “ bus” and a conductor
6. ………………… walk at the rear ( Kearns , Collins and Neuwelt , 2003 ) . Families can depend
on the consistency of the walking school bus, which operates to a regular timetable , 7.
………………….. of the weather.
Perhaps the 8. ……………………. advantage of the walking school bus is the health benefits
of regular physical exercise . With the rise of childhood 9. …………………, this is a significant
factor. Studies show the approximately 14 per cent of young people are not physically active
( Nelson 2004 ) while approximately 10 percent of children aged 2 to 6, and 15 percent of children
aged 6 to 9 in the United States are considered overweight ( Ogden, Flegal, Carol and Johnson ,
2002 ). The implementation of the walking school bus may support efforts to reduce 10.
……………………. substantial percentages.

VI. Mistake correction.

Find and correct five mistakes in ech passage .
Hurry Sickness
Hurry sickness is not a new condition but it has increased by both degree and intensity in
recent years, mainly as a result of the rapid development of technology. Typical symptoms exclude
chronic impatience, which experts believe can have potentially serious effects not only on those
around us but also on our physical health. The fact that children are also beginning to suffer from a
variety of health problems suggest that they are as vulnerable to the pressures of modern life as
their parents. Curing a condition is a slow process, which requires the sufferers to become unaware
of the stress in their lives, and try to change their behavior patterns.

Compulsive buying
Scientists have developed a new test which aims to tell if you are a shopaholic . The test is
designed to realize consumers who regularly spend money on items regardless of need, and who
have difficulty in resisting the impulse to buying. This condition is known as compulsive buying .
When the test was administered to a sample of 550 university staff members, the results revealed
that nearly 8.9 % were considered compulsive buyer. The authors concluded that we are living in a
consumption-orientating society and people need to be educated to recognize whether compulsive
buying is a problem in their lives so that they can seek help.

The water cycle

The heating of the sun causes water to evaporate from seas, rivers and lakes. In addition to ,
water vapor is released from the soil and from plants. As the water vapor then rises into the
atmosphere, it cools and condenses into clouds. The clouds are blown by winds until they reach
high ground. In this stage, the water droplets fall back to earth as rain, hail or snow. After rain has
fallen on land, it neither evaporates into the air or it is absorbed by soils and plants. Some of it also
runs into rivers and lakes and eventually reach the sea.