PRACTICE TEST 1

A.MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 points)

1. PHONOLOGY (5 points)
Choose the word whose underlined part is Choose the word whose stress pattern is different
pronounced differently from the other three. from that of the other three.
1. A. dragon B. mammal C. annual D. various 6. A. intimacy B. scenario C. arithmetic D. geneticist
2. A. bought B. sought C. drought D. fought 7. A. influenza B. controversial C. demonstrative D.
3. A. auger B. gymnastics C. germ D. ginger preferential
4. A. complain B. bargain C. ascertain D. 8. A. humane B. comment C. cement D. unique
campaign 9. A. condolence B. encounter C. determine D.
5. A. champagne B. choleric C. chef D. chauffeur consonant
10. A. majesty B. gazelle C. maltreat D. maintain
2. VOCABULARY (5 points)
Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences (5 points)
1. Even though they don‟t agree with what‟s happening, they‟re too _____ to protest.
A. outgoing B subdued C. quiet D apathetic
2. Don‟t make a _____ decision. Think about it first A. snap B. jump C. careless D. spontaneous
3. It is not very _____ to talk with your mouth full. A. tactful B. gentle C. polite D. educated
4. John‟s got very _____ feelings about taking on more responsibility at the moment.
A. puzzled B. jumbled C. mixed D. muddled
5. All those late nights must be _____ their toll because Becky looks quite exhausted.
A. taking B. having C. holding D. keeping
6. The kids had too much sugar today. They are all running around like _____ with their heads cut off.
A. cows B. nails C. pennies D. chickens
7. Kara is acting like a snob lately. Yesterday, she _____ me off completely.
A. blew B. darned C. kicked D. shocked
8. Does your tone _____ that he can‟t be responsible? A. imply B. infer C. say D. tell
9. The editor of the newspaper was _____ as lacking integrity. A. loathed B. condemned C. despised D. put
off
10. Everyone was surprised by his _____ because nobody had ever seen him get angry before.
A. explosion B. outburst C. outpouring D. frustration
3. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5 points)
Choose the best answer that grammatically fits each of the blanks in the following sentences
1. _____, he washed the cup and put it away.
A. Having drank the coffee B. Drinking the coffee C. Having drunk the coffee D. After drank the coffee
2. It is better to lose one‟s life than _____.
A. if you lose your spirit B. losing his spirit C. to lose one‟s spirit D. your spirit getting
3. Consult _____ for questions about earthquakes.
A. the six index B. sixth index C. index six D. index numbering six
4. The idea for the new machine came to Mr. Lane _____ to work last week.
A. as he drives B. while was driving C. while driving D. when he has driven
5. Thank you, but I _____ now.A. do not like any coffee B. would not rather have any coffee
C. do not care for any coffee D. would not like no coffee
6. I remember _____ for the job, but I forget the exact amount.
A. to be paid B. that I receive pay C. get paid D. being paid
7. I recommended that the student _____ his composition as soon as possible.
A. finishes writing B. should finish the writing C. finish writing D. finished writing
8. Measles is a highly contagious viral disease _____ by a characteristic skin rash.
A. accompany B. is accompanied C. accompanied D. it is accompanied
9. How were the workers paid here? - As a rule, they were paid _____
A. by an hour B. by the hour C. by hour D. by hours
10. With its long days, lack of atmosphere, and wide-open spaces, _____ moon would also make an ideal
place to put massive solar power plants. A. no article / a B. an / the C. the / a D. an / no article
4. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS. ( 5 points)
1. I‟ll lend you some money to _____ you over to the end of this month. A. hand B. tide C. get D. make
2. He didn‟t _____ out to be a singer; he just wanted to sing for fun. A. set B. go C. begin D. watch
3. Sorry, I can‟t make it tonight as I‟m so _____ under with my homework. A. iced B. stormed C. snowed
D. fogged
4. Over 1,000 workers of the company have been announced to be _____ off.A. left B. laid C. set D. given
5. Anna‟s going to leave early this morning but she says she‟ll _____ up the hours tomorrow.
A. find B. make C. catch D. bring
6. Before going to Japan, Mai had to spend a fortnight steeping herself _____ Japanese culture.
A. into B. in C. onto D. for
7. The little girl screamed _____ the top of her voice in order to get attraction. A. to B. on C. at D. above
8. The new supermarket seems to have been _____ construction for quite some time.
A. in B. under C. on D. below
9. We all have to follow the rules, and none of us is _____ the law.A. beyond B. over C. above D. onto
10. Much _____ our astonishment, he got good marks though he was so slow in class.
A. as B. to C. with D. in
5. READING COMPREHENSHION (10 point)
Reading passage 1 (5 points)
A useful definition of an air pollutant is a compound added directly or indirectly by humans to the
atmosphere in such quantities as to affect humans, animals, vegetation, or materials adversely. Air pollution
requires a very flexible definition that permits continuous change. When the first air pollution laws were
established in England in the fourteenth century, air pollutants were limited to compounds that could be seen
or smelled-a far cry from the extensive list of harmful substances known today. As technology has
developed
and knowledge of the health aspects of various chemicals has increased, the list of air pollutants has
lengthened. In the future, even water vapor might be considered an air pollutant under certain conditions..
Many of the more important air pollutants, such as sulfur oxides, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides,
are found in nature. As the Earth developed, the concentrations of these pollutants
were altered by various chemical reactions; they became components in biogeochemical cycles. These
serve as an air purification scheme by allowing the compounds to move from the air to the water or soil. On
a
global basis, nature‟s output of these compounds dwarfs that resulting from human activities. However,
human production usually occurs in a localized area, such as a city.
In this localized region, human output may be dominant and may temporarily overload the natural
purification scheme of the cycles. The result is an increased concentration of noxious chemicals in the air.
The concentrations at which the adverse effects appear will be greater than the concentrations that the
pollutants would have in the absence of human activities. The actual concentration need not be large for a
substance to be a pollutant: in fact the numerical value tells us little until we know how much of an increase
this represents over the concentration that would occur naturally in the area. For example, sulfur dioxide has
detectable health effects at 0.08 parts per million (ppm), which is about 400 times its natural level. Carbon
monoxide, however, has a natural level of 0.1 ppm and is not usually a pollutant until its level reaches about
15 ppm.
1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The economic impact of air pollution B. What constitutes an air pollutant
C. How much harm air pollutants can cause D. The effects of compounds added to the atmosphere
2. The word “adversely” in lines 2-3 is closest in meaning to _____
A. negatively B. quickly C. admittedly D. considerably
3. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _____
A. water vapor is an air pollutant in localized areas
B. most air pollutants today can be seen or smelled
C. the definition of air pollution will continue to change
D. a substance becomes an air pollutant only in cities
4. The word „altered” in line 11 is closest in meaning to. A. eliminated B. caused C. slowed D. changed
5. Natural pollutants can play an important role in controlling air pollution for which of the following
reasons? A. They function as part of a purification process.
B. They occur in greater quantities than other pollutants.
C. They are less harmful to living beings than are other pollutants.
D. They have existed since the Earth developed.
6. According to the passage, which of the following is true about human generated air pollution in localized
regions?
A. It can be dwarfed by nature‟s output of pollutants in the localized region.
B. It can overwhelm the natural system that removes pollutants.
C. It will damage areas outside of the localized regions.
D. It will react harmfully with naturally occurring pollutants.
7. The word “noxious” in line 17 is closest in meaning to _____
A. harmful B. noticeable C. extensive D. weak
8. According to the passage, the numerical value of the concentration level of a substance is only useful if
__A. the other substances in the area are known B. it is in a localized area
C. the naturally occurring level is also known D. it can be calculated quickly
9. The word “detectable” in line 24 is closest in meaning to
A. beneficial B. special C. measurable D. separable
10. Which of the following is best supported by the passage?
A. To effectively control pollution, local government should regularly review their air pollution laws.
B. One of the most important steps in preserving natural lands is to better enforce air pollution laws.
C. Scientists should be consulted in order to establish uniform limits for all air pollutants.
D. Human activities have been effective in reducing air pollution.
Reading passage 2 (5 points)
“EXOTIC AND ENDANGERED SPECIES”
When you hear someone bubbling enthusiastically about an exotic species, you can safely bet the speaker
isn‟t an ecologist. This is a name for a resident of an established community that was deliberately or
accidentally moved from its home range and became established elsewhere. Unlike most imports, which
can‟t take hold outside their home range, an exotic species permanently insinuates into a new community.
Sometimes the additions are harmless and even have beneficial effects. More often, they make native
species endangered species, which by definition are extremely vulnerable to extinction. Of all species on the
rare or endangered lists or that recently became extinct, close to 70 percent owe their precarious existence or
demise to displacement by exotic species. Two examples are included here to illustrate the problem.
During the 1800s British settlers in Australia just couldn‟t bond with the koalas and kangaroos, so they
started to import familiar animals from their homeland. In 1859, in what would be the start of a wholesale
disaster, a northern Australian landowner imported and then released two dozen wild European rabbits
(Oryctolagus cuniculus). Good food and good sport hunting-that was the idea. An ideal rabbit habitat with
no natural predators was the reality.
Six years later, the landowner had killed 20,000 rabbits and was besieged by 20,00 more. The rabbits
displaced livestock, even kangaroos. Now Australia has 200 to 300 million hippityhopping through the
southern half of the country. They overgraze perennial grasses in good times and strip bark from shrubs and
trees during droughts. You know where they‟ve been; they transform grasslands and shrublands into eroded
deserts
They have been shot and poisoned. Their warrens have been plowed under, fumigated, and dynamited.
Even when all-out assaults reduced their population size by 70 percent, the rapidly reproducing imports
made a comeback in less than a year. Did the construction of a 2,000-mile-long fence protect western
Australia?
No. Rabbits made it to the other side before workers finished the fence.
In 1951, government workers introduced a myxoma virus by way of mildly infected South American
rabbits, its normal hosts. This virus causes myxomatosis. The disease has mild effects on South American
rabbits that coevolved with the virus but nearly always had lethal effects on 0. cuniculus. Biting insects,
mainly mosquitoes and fleas, quickly transmit the virus from host to host. Having no coevolved defenses
against the novel virus, the European rabbits died in droves. But, as you might expect, natural selection has
since favored rapid growth of populations of 0. cuniculus resistant to the virus.
In 1991, on an uninhabited island in Spencer Gulf, Australian researchers released a population of rabbits
that they had injected with a calcivirus. The rabbits died quickly and relatively painlessly from blood clots in
their lungs, hearts, and kidneys. In 1995, the test virus escaped from the island, possibly on insect vectors. It
has been killing 80 to 95 percent of the adult rabbits in Australian regions. At this writing, researchers are
now questioning whether the calcivirus should be used on a widespread scale, whether it can jump
boundaries and infect animals other than rabbits (such as humans), and what the long term consequence will
be.
A vine called kudzu (Pueraria lobata) was deliberately imported from Japan to the .United States, where
it faces no serious threats from herbivores, pathogens, or competitor plants. In temperate parts of Asia, it is a
well-behaved legume with a well- developed root system. It seemed like a good idea to use it to control
erosion on hills and highway embankments in the southeastern United States. [A] With nothing to stop it,
though, kudzu‟s shoots grew a third of a meter per day. Vines now blanket streambanks, trees, telephone
poles, houses, and almost everything else in their path. Attempts to dig up or burn kudzu are futile. Grazing
goats and herbicides help, but goats eat other plants, too, and herbicides contaminate water supplies. [B]
Kudzu could reach the Great Lakes by the year 2040.
On the bright side, a Japanese firm is constructing a kudzu farm and processing plant in Alabama. The
idea is to export the starch to Asia, where the demand currently exceeds the supply.
[C] Also, kudzu may eventually help reduce logging operations. D] At the Georgia Institute of
Technology, researchers report that kudzu might become an alternative source for paper.
1. Based on the information in paragraph 1, which of the following best explains the term “exotic species”?
A. Animals or plants on the rare species list B. A permanent resident in an established community
C. A species that has been moved to a different community
D. An import that fails to thrive outside of its home range
2. The word “itself‟ in the passage refers to
A. most imports B. new community C. home range D. exotic species
3. The word bond in the passage is closest in meaning to
A. move B. connect C. live D. fight
4. According to the author, why did the plan to introduce rabbits in Australia fail?
A. The rabbits were infected with a contagious virus. B. Most Australians did not like the rabbits.
C. No natural predators controlled the rabbit population. D. Hunters killed the rabbits for sport and for food.
5. All of the following methods were used to control the rabbit population in Australia EXCEPT
A. They were poisoned. B. Their habitats were buried.
C. They were moved to deserts. D. They were surrounded by fences.
6. Why does the author mention mosquitoes and fleas in paragraph 5?
A. Because they are the origin of the myxoma virus
B. Because they carry the myxoma virus to other animals
C. Because they die when they are infected by myxoma
D. Because they have an immunity to the myxoma virus
7. According to paragraph 6, the Spencer Gulf experiment was dangerous because
A. insect populations were exposed to a virus B. rabbits on the island died from a virus
C. the virus may be a threat to humans D. some animals are immune to the virus
8. Why does the author give details about the kudzu farm and processing plant in paragraph 8?
A. To explain why kudzu was imported from abroad
B. To argue that the decision to plant kudzu was a good one
C. To give a reason for kudzu to be planted in Asia
D. To offer partial solutions to the kudzu problem
9. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the author‟s opinion about exotic species?
A. Exotic species should be protected by ecologists.
B. Importing an exotic species can solve many problems.
C. Ecologists should make the decision to import an exotic species.
D. Exotic species are often disruptive to the ecology.
10. Look at the four squares [ ] that show where the following sentence could be inserted in the passage.
Asians use a starch extract from kudzu in drinks, herbal medicines, and candy. Where could the sentence
best be added?
6. GUIDED CLOZE TEXT (10 points)
GUIDED CLOZE TEST 1 (5 points)
Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best fits each space.
I‟m sure that many people in this lecture hall have, at some time, attempted to open up an image file in
order to (0) A their photos onto a social (1) _____ site, only to find the file has been corrupted
You find there‟s no way to (2) _____ your digital memories as you‟ve already erased the photos from
your memory card. Worse is the realization that your entire hard drive has (3) _____ and that you never
made
back-up copies of your dissertation, years of research, and so on. Right now, I‟m afraid, there‟s no guarantee
that any of our data will survive in the format currently available. You see, manufacturers want to (4) _____
the speed and capacity of drives, but aren‟t worried about long-term stability. Flash memory drives are not a
reliable alternative as they have an estimated (5) _____ lifespan of ten years. Top-end CDs with the gold and
the phthalocyanine dye layers will (6) _____ longer. The other issue of course, is that technology is
constantly becoming (7) _____
Many of your parents will have video cassettes at home but unless you have a video player still in (8)
_____ ,you are unlikely to ever view the content. The same goes for any documents saved on floppy disks;
no modern PC comes with a (9) _____ drive. It‟s ironic, of course, that paper, the old (10) _____ of
transferring information, is actually more durable than its modern equivalents.
0. A upload B. paste C. share D. display 1. A meeting B. discussion C. networking D. chatroom
2. A. retrieve B. return C. retrace D. reform 3. A. collapsed B. crashed C. fallen D. broken
4. A. excel B. build C. boost D. uplift 5. A. top B. maximum C. peak D. upper
6. A. spend B. act C. produce D. last 7. A. terminal B. obsolete C. expired D. invalid
8. A. operation B. order C. function D. occupation 9. A. fitting B. required C. compatible D. matched
10. A. opportunity B. medium C. source D. technology
GUIDED CLOZE TEST 2 (5 points)
+
B. WRITTEN TEST (70 points)
1. OPEN CLOZE TEST (20 points)
Open cloze test 1 (10 points)
Fill in each gap in the following passages with an appropriate word.
THE HAMSTER‟S BODY CLOCK
Hamsters have no need for alarm clocks. In the strange world of circadian rhythms - the twenty-four-hour
cycle that governs almost every biological process in every living thing, (1) _____ body temperature to
digestion to sleeping and waking – the hamster is (2) _____ equivalent of the Swiss watch. (3) _____ to
Professor Michael Antle from the University of Calgary‟s Department of Psychology, you can predict to
within a minute when a hamster is going to wake up. Humans, however, are more (4) _____ a cheap
supermarket wall-clock, since their sleeping patterns are less reliable.
Professor Antle is studying the group of 20,000 cells in the brain that (5) _____ up the circadian clock.
He‟s hoping to explain something astonishing that‟s happening to his hamsters. (6) _____ turning on their
light for fifteen minutes in the middle of the night, he can make them wake up an hour earlier the next day.
But if instead he gives them a new drug that he‟s experimenting (7) _____, they‟re up and about eight hours
early. They will still need their usual fourteen hours‟ sleep, but their biological clocks appear to have been
set back. When he saw the effect initially in his laboratory. Antle was Shocked at (8) _____ big it was. An
eighthour adjustment is something useful - it means that a hamster could be transported from its home in
Canada (9) _____ the way to London without suffering from jetlag. If it could do this for people, Antle
really would be (10) _____ to something.
Open cloze text 2 (10 points)
Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
SUSHI CHEF
Kazutoshi Endo has been making the Japanese fish and rice delicacy known as sushi for thirteen years.
Yet he wants to (1) _____ it clear that he is still (2) _____ much a beginner. In fact, he is quite adamant
about it, despite being head sushi chef at one of London‟s leading Japanese restaurants.
Endo comes from a hard- working family in the port city of Yokohama and is a third generation sushi
chef. Although as a child he was (3) _____ encouraged to follow (4) _____ his father‟s footsteps, and
actually trained to be a PE teacher instead, it was always Endo‟s ambition to do so. Yet he was never taught
(5) _____ to do. The way you learn in Japan is to watch. Some chefs spend three years washing sushi rice,
whilst at the same time watching their masters at work.
It (6) _____ some concentration to keep an eye on Endo‟s hands as he makes sushi, however. All it takes
is just a (7) _____ quick cuts with his knife and a neat pile of perfectly sliced octopus sits on the counter. A
sushi roll may look like a piece of rice, but apparently it takes years to get the touch, to be (8) _____ to roll
rice (9) _____ exactly the right amount of pressure. As Endo says: “Sushi (10) _____ to be mastered. I can‟t
explain the process in words.”
2. WORD FORMS (20 điểm)
a. Read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space (10 points)
A JAPANESE TRADITION
Of the myriad of Japanese ceremonies introduced to the West, the Japanese tea ceremony would have to
be the least (0 ACCESS) accessible. Like many aspects of Japanese culture, the practice of drinking tea was
brought from China well over a thousand years ago. In Japan, green tea developed its own character, and the
Japanese tea ceremony has evolved into a (1 PECULIAR) _____ Japanese phenomenon. The modern tea
ceremony can be traced back to the 17th century where it developed alongside another singular Japanese (2
ADAPT) _____ of Chinese culture: the philosophy of Zen. The tea ceremony eventually became established
as a recognized form of high art, where it was practised in diverse (3 LOCATE) _____, from a Zen temple
to an ordinary home. Even today, the simplest and most secular tea ceremony still embraces the Zen
aesthetic of simplicity, (4 AUSTERE) _____ and devotion. During the ceremony strictly prescribed words
of invitation and (5 GRATEFUL) _____ are murmured quietly; tea maker and guests play their roles with (6
HUMBLE) _____ and respect. A brief moment of profound tranquillity has been (7 COMMUNE) _____
created and shared. It is simultaneously an aesthetic, social and (8 SPIRIT) _____ moment. Significantly, it
is a Japanese moment, fleeting and poignant with its own(9 PEACE) _____ where the noise and confusion
of the everyday world is temporarily suspended as a vague, (10 DEFINE) _____ sense of the eternal
pervades.
b. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word given in parentheses. (10 points)
1. If our _____ (hypothesis) individual bought the house at age 32 and worked until age 67, Social Security
taxes would have been paid for 35 years.
2. This would be better than their promoting home _____ (own) by pushing low down payments and risky
loans.
3. Postnatal depression is usually due to hormonal _____ (balance).
4. _____ (expect) of life for both men and women has improve greatly in the past 20 year.
5. _____ (history), Mars was thought to be the most likely planet to harbor life.
6. In 1984, 70,000 American women filled out a questionnaire concerning their _____ (diet) habits.
7. There is an _____ (current) of menace and barely suppressed violent that gives the pictures of symbolic
edge.
8. In spite of their _____ (predicate), these sea creatures look very much still alive.
9. John‟s conviction of his score‟s _____ (precocity) brilliance was infectious and not totally unjustified.
10. I‟m afraid that your report is full of _____ (accurate)
3. ERROR IDENTIFICATION
The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and write their correct forms in the
space provided. MARRIAGE
A great major of adults in the industrial world -in fact, about 0. major → majority
90 per cent - will be married at some time in their lives. Of 1 _____
those who do not, some may choose to remain single, but 2 _____
others still have no choice. An alarm number who marry will 3 _____
divorce, but this is not because marriage itself has lost its 4 _____
attractive , instead people give up on particular relationships 5 _____
and try again. For example, of the four out of ten American 6 _____
marriages that end in divorce, 80 per cent are preludes to 7 _____
further unities. Every society has its own definitions of what a 8 _____
perfect marriage should be. In the Western world, it seems 9 _____
that, a husband and wife have a perfect marriage if they love 10 _____
each other, have no other sexy partner, display trust, loyalty
and intimate, confide in each other, show mutual respect, are
willing to listen to their partner‟s concerns, and agree with
their children‟s upbringing. However, from time to time the
balance of social expects shifts. For example, a study carried
out in 1986 showed that 74 per cent of American-couples rate
„equal in the relationship‟ as an important component of
marriage. We can be fairly sure that their great- grandparents
(and particularly their great-grandfathers) did not place the
same valuable on this.
4. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 points)
a. Complete the second sentences so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and eight words, including the
word
given. (10 points)
1. It seems that no one predicted the final outcome of the negotiations.
No one _________________________________________________________________
2. They often went to the zoo with their parents as children.
Their parents would _______________________________________________________
3. The company will decide very soon whether to close the Beijing office.
The company is on ________________________________________________________
4. We would have preferred them not to have stayed so long, that‟s true.
We would sooner _____________________________________________ so long, that‟s true.
5. Her remarks simply made his rage more uncontrollable.
Her remarks simply added __________________________________________________
b. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given. (10 poinst)
6. We found it easy to do the test. NO
7. The new plans for the road have been approved by the local authority. MET
8. We all discussed the issue at length, but came to no decision. HAD
9. I haven‟t seen John for a long time. EYES
10. Whenever we go out for meals, we share the cost. HALF