PRACTICE TEST 7

I/ LISTENING
Part 1:For questions 16-25, listen to a talk about pandemic diseases and supply the blanks with the
missing information. Write NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS taken from the recording for each answer
in the space provided.
TOP 5 DEADLIEST PANDEMIC DISEASES
1. Smallpox
• first emerged around 400BC
• caused 16.______________________ all over the body
• the only disease declared to be 17.______________________
2. Bubonic Plague
• also known as the 18.______________________
• caused by a bacterium spread by 19.______________________
• 20.______________________, called buboes, occurred in the body
3. The Spanish Flu
• began and ended in a 21.______________________
• filled the lungs of patients with 22.______________________
4. Malaria
• categorized as a blood disease
• caused by 23.______________________
• Anopheles mosquitoes would 24.______________________ infected blood and pass it on to the next person they
bite
5. HIV/AIDS
• often sexually transmitted
• HIV 25.______________________ the immune system
Part 2: Listen to part of an interview with the manager of a famous theatre. For questions 1-5, choose
the best answer according to what you hear.

II/ LEXICAL READING

III/ READING
Part 1: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow.
Part 2: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow.
Part 3: You are going to read an article by a psychologist about laughter. For questions 47-56, choose
from the sections (A-D). The sections may be chosen more than once.
IV/ Find ONE mistake in each sentence and CORRECT it.
V/ Sentence Transformation
1. Lady Gaga is easily the most celebrated singer I’ve ever known.
I’ve yet _____________________________________________________________ singer as Lady Gaga.
2. He didn’t know it but his colleagues blamed the accident on him.
Unbeknownst _____________________________________________________________accountable for the
accident.
3. The assistants are on e-mail, otherwise they’d never have received the news when expected.
The assistants _____________________________________________________________dot.
4. It wouldn’t be much better for you to keep up to date with the latest changes.
You’d be far _____________________________________________________________of the latest changes.
5. Rio succeeds in making a serious point while at the same time being hysterically funny.
Not _____________________________________________________________stiches.
6. Sales just failed to reach their target.
Sales just fell _____________________________________________________________anticipated.
7. They tried but didn’t succeed in redeeming their sins.
In _____________________________________________________________ for their sins.
8. No matter what they did, they weren’t able to explain why she disappeared.
Try _____________________________________________________________ in mystery.
9. We have had very little equipment and even the bit we did have wasn’t of a good enough standard.
What _____________________________________________________________ mark.
10. She stood up as straight as she could and looked down on us disdainfully.
She drew _____________________________________________________________contempt.

VI/ WORD FORM unrelenting

1. The updated planetary vital signs we present largely reflect the consequences of (relent) _____________
business as usual.
2. Ocean (acid) _________
acidity is near an all-time record, and when combined with warmer ocean temperatures, it
threatens the coral reefs that more than half a billion people depend on for food, tourism dollars and storm surge
protection.
3. The authors also highlight the need for a (phase) __________ and eventual ban of fossil fuels, and the
development of global strategic climate reserves to protect and restore natural carbon sinks and biodiversity
4. We can set our own agenda and provide trustworthy journalism that’s free from commercial and political
influence, offering a (weigh) __________
weigh-in to the spread of misinformation.
5. They are thankful for the boost that Covid vaccinations gave to their poll ratings but grumble that the dividend
unmade
is being squandered while tough decisions go (make) ___________. disconnected
6. The researchers said human civilisation was “in a perilous state” due to the highly (connect) __________ and
energy-intensive society that had developed and the environmental damage this had caused.

The Route to Perfection

Can there be perfection without pain for those who are successful in the world of dance? Achieving excellence
indisputable
depends on many different things, including physique and luck. However, it is (1. Dispute)_______ that those
rigorous
who dance professionally must also follow a (2.rigour) _______ training regime, combining this with
complete (3.dedicate) dedication
_______ to their art – and this can certainly be painful. Dancers have to be
musicality
like (4.endure)endurance
_______ athletes but they also have to combine fitness with elegance and (5. Music) _______.
It’s said that giving a professional dance performance is not (5.similar)dissimilar
_______ to playing a football game as
dancers have to combine periods of sustained activity with short bursts of (6.explore) exploratory
_______ energy, while also
being able to recover quickly. In the past dancers trained mostly by going through (7.repeat) repetitive
_______ routines
but in the modern world, with its high standards of fitness, they use additional techniques such as gym routines to
gain muscle strength and stamina. Their ultimate aim is perfection.

VII/ GAP FILLING

Passage A:
Happiness is a state of mind
Research undertaken into the pursuit of happiness has produced some interesting ideas. Apparently, our level of
happiness depends on (1)how
_______ much we invest in it. The hypothesis is that happiness resembles a skill and
can therefore be learned — if people are willing to put time and effort (2) into
_______ perfecting it. Meditation seems
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to be a key factor and this (3) _______ be scientifically demonstrated. MRI scans performed on people who
meditated regularly showed raised levels of positivity in the left-hand side of (4) _______
their brains, the part usually
connected with happiness. At the same time, they managed to keep the more negative right side (5) _______ in
check. Does this mean only specialist meditators can be happy? Apparently (6)_______, as even people who only
not
meditated occasionally demonstrated greater positivity. This could indicate that tweaking the (7) _______ way we
make
channel out thoughts, modifying our perception of things around us, can (8) _______ a big difference to our sense
of well-being. If true, isn’t it worth putting in some effort?
Passage B:
Networking as a concept has acquired what is in all truth an unjustified air of modernity. It is considered in
as
the corporate world (1) ________ an essential tool for the modern businessperson, as they trot round the globe
drumming (2) ________
up business for themselves or a corporation. The concept is worn like a badge of distinction,
and not just in the business world.
People can be divided basically into those who keep knowledge and their personal contacts to themselves,
and those who are prepared to share what they know and indeed their friends with others. A person who is
insecure, for example someone who finds (3) it________ difficult to share information with others and who is
unable to bring people, including friends, together does not make a good networker. The classic networker is
someone who is strong enough within themselves to connect different people (4) ________ close friends with
into
each other. For example, a businessman or an academic may meet someone who is likely to be a valuable contact
in the future, but at the moment that person may benefit from meeting another associate or friend.
Because all things being equal, people move (5) in ________ circles and that person has the potential of
being (6) ________
introduced into ever-growing spheres of new contacts. It is said that, if you know eight people, you are
in touch with everyone in the world. It does not take much common (7) sense________ to realise the potential for any
take
kind of venture as one is able to (8) ________ on the experience of more and more people.
may
Unfortunately, making new contacts, business or otherwise, while it brings success, (9) ________ cause
problems. It enlarges the individual’s world. This is in truth not altogether a bad thing, but it puts more pressure
on the networker through his having to maintain an ever larger circle of people. The most convenient way out is,
perhaps, to cull old contacts, but this would be anathema to our networker as it would defeat the whole purpose
of networking. Another problem is the reaction of friends and associates. Spreading (10) out ________ thinly gives
one less time for others who were perhaps closer to one in the past. In the workplace, this can cause tension with
jealous colleagues, and even with superiors who might be tempted to rein in a more successful inferior. Jealousy
and envy can prove to be very detrimental if one is faced with a very insecure manager, as this person may seek
to stifle someone’s career or even block it completely.

VIII/ Find 10 mistakes in the passage and CORRECT them.

Film Noir
After the Second World War, a curious change came over the outlook of Hollywood films. Rather than the
positive, happy-ending story that dominated the silver screen before the war, a pessimism and negativity had
entered American cinema. This post-war disillusionment was evidently in Hollywood and the movement became
known as film noir.
One would be mistaken to call film noir a genre. Like westerns or romantic comedies, film noir cannot be
defined by conventional uses of setting or conflict in the way that is common to genre films. Film noir is more of a
movement, pinning to one specific point in time in much the same way as Soviet Montage or German Expressionism
was. Instead, the defined quality of film noir was linked to tone, lighting and an often a sombre mood.
True film noir refers to Hollywood films of the 1940s and early 1950s that dealt with dark themes such as
crime and corruption. These films were essentially critiquing certain aspects of American society in a way film has
never done before. Since that time there have occasionally been other great noir films made, such as Chinatown,
but the mood and tone are often different to the original film noir movies. One possible reason for this is the time
when the films were made. A common perception of art is that it reflects the society and time which it is made.
That makes film noir of the Forties and Fifties quite inimitable because, luckily, the world has not had to endure a
war of the scale and destruction of the Second World War again.
First were the films specifically about war and post-war disillusionment. Schrader believes these films were
not only a reflection of the war, but also a delayed reaction with the great economic depression of the 1930s. The
trend in Hollywood throughout this period and into the war was to produce films aimed at keeping people’s spirits
down, hence the positivity. As soon as the war ended, crime fiction started to become popular, which mirrored
growing disillusionment in America. Films such as The Blue Dahlia and Dead Reckoning picked up on a trend started
during the war with The Maltese Falcon in 1941, which is seen as the first example of film noir.
IX/ LEXICO & GRAMMAR

9. Her ___ attitude caused many problems at school as she was impolite to teachers.
A. disregarding B. unresponsive C. irrespective D. disrespectful
10. I wouldn’t have expected Sarah to cop out of ____ to her mistakes.
A. owning up B. petering out C. pulling out D. ladling out
11. Although he came to work the day before his retirement, everyone knew he was just ___.
A. going with the flow B. going through the motions
C. going against the grain D. going along with them
12. Her whole personality ____ a warmth which was very endearing.
A. germinated B. dazzled C. formulated D. generated
13. Now that you have more money, you’ll be able to ____ a little; you have no excuses any more.
A. live it up B. make a break C. cut and run D. fly off the handle
14. The child was really ___, and wanted to know what everything was.
A. inciting B. inquisitive C. grateful D. ham-fisted
15. It won’t__________ matter if you arrive a few minutes late.
A. greatly B. grandly C. considerably D. largely
16. People in Indonesia can get a good picture on television _______ a communication satelite.
A. by way of B. in view of C. by means of D. from
17. He said he would contribute money, but later he __________ of it.
A. backed down B. backed out C. turned away D. backed away
18. I am well _________ with the problems encountered in starting a business.
A. aware B. informed C. acquainted D. knowledgeable
19. You should have ______ your composition carefully before you handed it in.
A. seen through B. thought of C. looked in D. gone over
20. Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no ______ improvement in her condition.
A. decipherable B. legible C. discernible D. intelligible

Choose a word from the box to fill each gap.

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