Practice Test 10

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I. VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
Part 1: Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. Circle the letter A, B, C or D next to
the correct word or phrase.
1. The social services are chiefly ………..with the poor, the old and the sick.
A. Influenced B. related C. suffered D. concerned
2. I know you’re annoyed, but you must try to control your…………..
A. blood B. storm C. explosion D temper
3. It was a hot day, and many people were………….their way to the beach.
A. taking B. hitting C. making D. setting
4. After a lot of difficulty, he ………….to open the door.
A. managed B. succeeded C. obtained D. realized
5. The car was badly smashed up, but the driver escaped without serious…………
A. damage B. pain C. wound D. injury
6. The country’s annual………..of coffee beans has increased each year since 1977
A. produce B. growth C. outcome D. production
7. he kept his marriage a secret for years ,but eventually the truth……………
A came out B. came through C. went out D turned out
8. Jo was shocked when I disagreed with her . She’s so used to getting her own…………
A. mind B. way C. opinion D. views
9. When he sings, he has the ............................. ability to make songs sound good.
A. sparse B. rare C. infrequent D. scarce
10. The management are making ............................. to increase the company's efficiency.
A. measures B. steps C. moves D. deeds
11. I know this is a big disappointment but don't take it to .............................
A. soul B. mind C. spirit D. heart
12. I was told yesterday that the car had been fixed but it's broken down ............................. again!
A. even B. still C. yet D. right
13. Simon ............................. in me on the understanding that I wouldn't tell anyone else.
A. confided B. intimated C. confessed D. disclosed

Part 2: Read the text below. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits
in the space in the same line.
Unusual beliefs
Despite the fact that this is now the 21st century an
(1) .............................. number of English people appear INCREASE
to (2) .............................. in the paranormal. What is BELIEF
the (3) .............................. for this? EXPLAIN
(4) .............................. have found the answers to many of SCIENCE
our questions, but the more (5) .............................. we make, DISCOVER
the more we want to know. The (6) .............................. need PSYCHOLOGY
for (7) .............................. that we have appears to be very SECURE
strong. For this reason, a belief in the (8) .............................. EXIST
of aliens. and especially, the (9) .............................. of contact POSSIBLE
with alien life forms is (10) .............................. common. EXTREME

Part 3: Put the verbs in brackets into the suitable tenses, including passives if necessary

The mystery of the Mary Celeste is one of the greatest mysteries of the sea. An American sailing ship,
the Mary Celeste set sail from New York on 5 November 1872 - bound for Genoa in Italy, with a cargo of 1,700
barrels of commercial alcohol. A month later - on 5 December - she (1 sight) ............................................east of
the Azores, in the eastern Atlantic, by a British ship, the Dei Gratia. By an amazing coincidence, the master of
the British ship, Captain David Reed Morehouse, and the master of the Mary Celeste , captain Benjamine
Spooner Briggs (2 dine) ...........................................together in New York the night before the Mary Celeste (3 set
sail) ............................................ So Morehouse (4 realize) ..........................................., that the Mary Celeste (5
sail) ........................................... in the wrong direction. What could be the ship doing, he (6
wonder) ...........................................? Having hailed his friend's ship and got no reply, he (7
go) ........................................... to investigate. There (8 be) ...........................................nobody on board. Captain
Briggs, his wife and two-year-old daughter (9 all vanish) ............................................ The last entry in the ship's
log was for 25 November, on which day the Mary Celeste (10 be) ........................................... within six miles of
the Azores.
An enquiry (11 hold later) ........................................... in Gibraltar, but to this day the mystery of the Mary
Celeste ( 12 never solve) ...........................................
II. READING
Part 1 Fill in each gap with ONE appropriate word. The first gap has been done as an example.
EVOLUTION
It is generally accepted that present-day animals and plants differ from those of the past, (0) ...having ...
changed by a general process called evolution. But this theory has been widely accepted for little (1) ................
than a hundred years. The present theory of evolution was developed (2) ................ two naturalists – Charles
Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace – working independently.
When he was a young man (3) ................ 22, Darwin went as naturalist on a round-the-world, map-
making cruise aboard a British naval survey ship, HMS Beagle. The cruise began in 1831 and lasted
(4) ................ 1836. In the Galapagos islands, Darwin came (5) ................ a group of birds, later to become
known (6) ................ “Darwin’s finches”. They were similar to one (7) ................ in their colour, song, nests and
eggs, and were clearly descended (8) ................ the same finch stock, (9) ................ each had a different kind of
beak and was adapted (10) ................ a different way of life. (11) ................ were seed-eaters, fly-catchers,
woodpeckers and various other types.
Darwin assumed that the ancestors of all (12) ................ types had been blown to the islands in bleak
weather, had survived and changed somehow (13) ................ the various forms. In the years after the voyage,
Darwin gradually came to the conclusion that individuals better suited (14) ................ their environment would
tend to leave more offspring while those (15) ................ well adapted would die out.
Part 2: Read the following passages and choose the best answers to the comprehension questions.
The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the stimulated Emission
of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when
atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy by themselves, without any outside
intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule
5 holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper
published in 1917. However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules
always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus
always would be much weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists
10 began trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one atom or
molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New
York. Instead of working with light, however, he worked with microwaves, which have a
much longer wavelength, and built a device he called a “maser”, for Microwave Amplification
15 by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the
first maser was not completed until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists
were building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated emission at even
shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell
20 Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify
stimulated emission of visible light waves. At about the same time, similar ideas crystallized
in the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote
them down in a series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a
scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application. Three decades
25 later, people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser.
1. The word “coined” in line 1 could best be replaced by
A. created
B. mentioned
C. understood
D. discovered
2. The word “intervention” in line 4 can best be replaced by
A. need
B. device
C. influence
D. source
3. The word “it” in line 6 refers to
A. light bulb
B. energy
C. molecule
D. atom
4. Which of the following statements best describes a laser?
A. A device for stimulating atoms and molecules to emit light
B. An atom in a high-energy state
C. A technique for destroying atoms or molecules
D. An instrument for measuring light waves
5. Why was Towne’s early work with stimulated emission done with microwaves?
A. He was not concerned with light amplification.
B. It was easier to work with longer wavelengths.
C. His partner Schawlow had already begun work on the laser.
D. The laser had already been developed.
6. In his research at Columbia University, Charles Townes worked with all of the following EXCEPT
A. stimulated emission
B. microwaves
C. light amplification
D. a maser
7. In approximately what year was the first maser built?
A. 1917
B. 1951
C. 1953
D. 1957
8. The word “emerged” in line 23 is closest in meaning to
A. increased
B. concluded
C. succeeded
D. appeared
9. The word “outlining” in line 24 is closest in meaning to
A. assigning
B. studying
C. checking
D. summarizing
10. Why do people still argue about who deserves the credit of the laser?
A. The researchers’ notebooks were lost.
B. Several people were developing the idea at the same time.
C. No one claimed credit for the development until recently.
D. The work is still incomplete.
III. WRITING
Part 1: Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence.
1.They intend to travel round the world when they retire. go
They are……………………………………………………………………………….
2.The weather forecast predicts a drop in temperature tomorrow. will
They say tomorrow…………………………………………………………………..
3.I can’t come at eleven on Saturday, as I have an appointment with the hairdresser. having
I can’t come …………………………………………………………………………..
4.The time of departure for your flight to Rio is six o’clock. takes
The plane to Rio ……………………………………………………………………..
5.It looks like that old bridge is ready to fall down. is
It looks like that old bridge ………………………………………………………….
6.I suppose you are very tired after your long walk. must
You ………………………………………………………………………………..….
7.’I won’t come home late from late the party.’ she said. promised
She…………………………………………………………………………
8.It would have been better if you had gone to bed earlier. should
You……………………………………………………………………………….……
9.We were allowed to stay up late if there was a good film on television. let
 My parents…………………………………………………………………………....
10.’Don’t swim just after you have eaten,’ she said to them. warned
She………………………………………………………………………………….…
11. The police accused him of stealing the wallet. charged
He...........................................................................................................................................
12. He would not stop talking although no one was listening. insisted
He...........................................................................................................................................
13. The house was in darkness except for a light in the kitchen. apart
The house was completely.......................................................................................................
14. I have had enough of tidying after you every day. tired
I...............................................................................................................................................
15. They continued to look for the girl till it got dark. search
The..........................................................................................................................................
Part 2: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a
word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (). If a line has a word which should not be
there, write the word.
Brain training
Do you remember how at school certain subject seemed be impossible 0…be
to understand? However much the teacher tried to explain geography, 00…
for example, you still did not grasp even though the basics? Now some 1……
psychologists are suggesting that learning difficulties may be in the way 2……
the subjects are been presented rather than being a failure on the part 3……
of the children. According to a method that called NLP ( Don’t worry what 4……
the letters stand for now), people fall into groups depending on how they 5……
do learn best – through sight, sound or feeling. For example, a visual 6……
child will to learn best through diagrams, an auditory child through spoken 7……
words, while a kinesthetic child will benefit most from and practical 8……
examples. It is easy to find out at which group your child belongs to. 9……
All you have to do is ask him or her a question such as “ What was your 10…. .
day at school like?”. According to the new theory of NLP, the way the child 11……
will answers will tell you whether they learn through sight, sound or feeling. 12……
So, a visual child, when answering, will look up to your right, whereas 13……
an auditory child will look from left to right. A child that has learns best 14..…
through feeling will look down to the left and right before giving an answer. 15…..
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