ADVANCED PRACTICE TEST 8

PART A. LISTENING

I. You have 20 seconds to read questions 1-5 below. You will hear an interview with someone whose family spent a
year living without television. For questions 1-5, choose the answer (A, B, C, or D) which fits best according to
what you hear. You will hear the recording ONCE only.
1. One reason why the family decided not to have a television was that 1. .............
A. the reception from the communal aerial was often poor.
B. they did not think the satellite technician would do the job properly.
C. linking up with the communal aerial was complicated.
D. they preferred to enjoy the beauty of their new surroundings.
2. One thing that Miranda enjoyed about not having a television was 2. .............
A. telling other people about what they did instead.
B. returning to hobbies they had previously given up.
C. observing the reaction of others when they found out.
D. feeling more energetic during the evening.
3. Miranda says that one disadvantage of not having a television was 3. .............
A. the fact that they could not follow their favourite series.
B. a constant desire to be more up-to-date with the news.
C. being unable to discuss topics they had previously discussed.
D. feeling out of touch with what other people talked about.
4. What does Miranda say about getting connected again? 4. .............
A. She felt it would be of some benefit to the whole family.
B. She agreed because her attitude towards television had changed.
C. She initially disagreed with her husband about doing so.
D. She felt that they were doing so because they were lazy people.
5. Miranda says that since they got a television again, her children 5. .............
A. are more able to distinguish good programmes from rubbish.
B. sometimes refuse to watch it when she suggests they do so.
C. have decided not to return to the habit of watching it.
D. never watch it simply because they are feeling lazy.

II. You will hear part of a radio programme, in which the history of Ty-Phoo Tipps - a brand of tea that is well-
known in Britain - is described. For questions 6-15, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase. Listen
carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only.

In 1835, William Sumner appeared in a publication called the (6) ..............................................

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Sumner’s business sold (7) ....................... and (8) ......................... in addition
to groceries.
Mary found that a certain type of tea was good for (9) ..............................................
John was told that people would not wish to buy tea that resembled (10) ..............................................
John thought that the name he chose for the tea sounded like a word that was (11) ..............................................
The name of the tea has double ‘p’ because of a (12) ..............................................
To promote the tea, customers were offered a big (13) ..............................................
John wanted people to know his tea came from the (14) ..............................................
John was given an honour for his (15) ..............................................

PART B. PHONETICS
I. Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others. (1pt.)
16.A. bought B. sought C. fought D. drought
17.A. experience B. exhibition C. exercise D. exhale
18.A. resume B. statistics C. position D. designer
19.A. seizure B. measure C. confusion D. tension
20.A. guilty B. busy C. bury D. build
II. Choose one word whose stress pattern is different from that of the others. (1pt.)
21.A. tsunami B. terrorist C. involvement D. disaster
22 A. processor B. windsurfing C. semester D. challenger
23.A. obedience B. curriculum C. benefactor D. moustache
24.A. conundrum B. assassinate C. arithmetic D. agriculture
25.A. inheritance B. mathematician C. communication D. tuberculosis

PART C. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

I. Choose the word or phrase A, B, C, or D which best completes each sentence. (1.5 pts)
26.I must take this watch to be repaired as it ........... over 20 minutes a day.
A. increases B. progresses C. accelerates D. gains
27.Many wild animals are protected ........... the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
A. against B. for C. under D. from
28.She ........... her work by being careless.
A. threatened B. spoiled C. stained D. puzzled
29.Only a few companies were found to be in ........... with the new law.
A. submission B. obedience C. compliance D. fulfillment
30.Miguel felt he was being overlooked, which is why he ........... back rudely when his manager finally asked him
what he thought.
A. answered B. responded C. replied D. uttered
31.As Mary was an ........... member of the team, everyone was disappointed when she announced her resignation.
A. intensive B. interior C. internal D. integral
32.When the electricity failed, he ........... a match to find the candles.
A. rubbed B. scratched C. struck D. started
33.I usually buy my clothes ........... . It’s cheaper than going to the dressmaker.
A. on the house B. off the peg C. in public D. on the shelf
34.My father ........... when he found out that I had damaged his car.
A. hit the roof B. saw pink elephants C. made my blood boil D. brought the house down
35. According to the captain, his special units can take an immediate action against terrorists should such a need .........
A. arise B. originate C. evoke D. experience
36. The hijackers have demanded a ........... to be paid for releasing the civilian hostages from the plane.
A. currency B. revenue C. deposit D. ransom
37. She was kept awake for most of the night by the ........... of a mosquito in her car.
A. whine B. moan C. groan D. screech
38. If I were you, I would regard their offer with considerable..........., because it seems too good to be true.
A. suspicion B. doubt C. reservation D. disbelief
39. My sister’s confidence in her ability to play the piano was badly ........... by her last music teacher.
A. subsided B. undermined C. weakened D. loosened
40. Your grandfather is rather tired so do not ........... your visit. Let him have a rest.
A. shorten B. lengthen C. delay D. prolong

II. Give the correct form of the words given in brackets.

THE WORD ‘BOGUS’
For years ‘bogus’ was a word the British read in newspaper (41. LINE) but tended not to say. Its popularity
among the teenagers of America changed that, although they didn’t use it with its original meaning. It came
from the Wild West. Its first appearance in print, in 1827, was in the Telegraph of Painesville, Ohio, where
it meant a machine for making (42. FORGE) of coins. Soon, those ‘boguses’ were turning out ‘bogus
money’ and the world had (43. GO) a change from noun to adjective.
By the end of the 19th century, it was well-established in Britain, applied to anything false, spurious or
intentionally (44. LEAD). But the computer scientists of 1960s America, to whom we own so much (45.
LANGUAGE) innovation, redefined it to mean ‘(46. FUNCTION)’, ‘useless’, or ‘unbelievable’, especially
in relation to calculations and engineering ideas. This was followed by its (47. EMERGE) among Princeton
and Yale graduates in the East Coast computer community. But it was the (48. ADOPT) of the word by
American teenagers generally, who used it to mean simply ‘bad’, that led to it being widely used by their
counterparts in Britain.
(49. INTEREST)……., ‘bogus’ is one of the only about 1,300 English words for which no sensible origin
has emerged. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection with a New England word,
‘tantrobogus’, meaning the devil. A rival US account sees it as a (50. CORUPT) of the name of forger,
called Borghese or Borges.

III. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions or adverbial particles.

51. There was tremendous excitement in the streets and the shouting didn’t die _____ till after midnight.
52. My father’s going to go _____ the wall when he finds out that I’ve lost the car keys.
53. She feels it is _____ her to socialise with uneducated people.
54. My teacher and I got _____on the wrong foot, but now we are good friends.
55. The book centres _____ a woman who becomes an astronaut.
56. I love watching TV, but it does bite _____ my free time.
57. She left the potatoes cooking for so long that the water boiled _____ and the potatoes were burnt.
58. He was wearing very shabby, dirty clothes and looked very down _____ heel.
59. I’m passing the studio on my way home so I’ll pop _____ and see if the photos are ready.
60. You let him slipped _____ your fingers again! We had him surrounded.

IV. There is a mistake in each of the following sentences. Find and correct it.
61. I believe that only very self-confident, knowledge and attentive students will prefer 100% of eye contact time.
62. It is likely that all people in Hanoi live in skyscrapers by 2050.
63. It is important that cancer is diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to assure a successful time.
64. The board reviewing the courses offered by the college found that the quality of academic programs were
generally good but somewhat uneven.
65. The whale died because the rescuers did not have proper equipments to support its weight.
66. Hypnosis is sometimes employed as a means of helping people to quit to smoke.
67. The organization is in need for volunteers who will go to work in remote areas.
68. If they took their language lesson seriously from the very first beginning, they would be able to communicate with
the locals now.
69. The Girls Scouts, found by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, has grown to a current membership of more than three
million girls.
70. Dentistry is a branch of medical that has developed dramatically in the last twenty years.

V. Choose one word from the box on the left and combine it with one from the right to make a collocation. Then try
to match your combinations with the spaces in the sentences below. (2pts.)

ultimate valid marital initial status responsibility the hypothesis

reverse tense constant temperature reason a link results
minimum put forward establish atmosphere the verdict requirement

71. If you submit work late, you will lose marks and may even be given a fail grade, unless you have a ______ such as
illness.
72. At the bottom of the ocean, the water remains at a ______ irrespective of changing weather conditions at the
surface.
73. Investigators have been able to ______ between childhood illnesses and industrial pollution.
74. Following the demonstrations by thousands of students, there was a very ______ in the capital, with many
choosing to leave the city and head for the countryside.
75. Unfortunately, although the ______ were very promising, the project failed in the long run because of a lack of
interest.
76. The Managing Director may run the company, but ______ rests with the Board of Directors.
77. On the form, please give your name, nationality, address and indicate your ______.
78. When some scientists originally ______ known as global warming, the idea was not taken seriously, and yet today
it is accepted by nearly everyone.
79. In some instances, a Court of Appeal may ______ reached at the first trial and released somebody who has been
wrongly held in prison.
80. Most universities require international students to have an IELTS score of at least 6 as a ______ for English
language competence.

PART D. READING
I. Choose the answer answer A, B, C or D which best fits each gap. (1pt.)
HORSES
Of the more than 4,000 species of mammals that have (81) ........... our earth over the past 10,000 years, the horse is
one of fewer than a dozen which have been successfully domesticated. Domestication is not simply a ( 82) ........... of
human intention. If it were, it is possible that we would now be sitting in our fireside chairs with a hyena curled at our
feet.
Much of what we take for (83) ........... as useful in the modern horse - speed, size and intelligence, for example - can
be explained through the evolutionary changes it has (84) ........... in response to a changing diet. As the Ice Age
advanced and forests (85) ........... away, to be replaced by windswept savannah, many herbivores were (86) ........... to
change their diets from leaves to grass. The little leaf-browsing (87) ........... of our modern horse - the ur-horse - begin
to change and adapt to a new ecological niche on the plains. The head ( 88) ........... longer, with the eye positioned at
some (89) ........... from the mouth, so that in exposed spaces it could keep a careful (90) ........... for predators while it
grazed. A larger brain began to develop, probably because, as a grazer, it needed greater tactile sensitivity in its lips to
choose its food.
81. A. resided B. settled C. dwelt D. inhabited
82. A. concern B. business C. point D. matter
83. A. assumed B. granted C. given D. read
84. A. subjected B. undergone C. submitted D. committed
85. A. died B. passed C. dwindled D. vanished
86. A. coerced B. enforced C. compelled D. necessitated
87. A. expanded B. increased C. grew D. enlarged
88. A. predecessor B. descendant C. precedent D. assessor
89. A. space B. extend C. stretch D. distance
90. A. lookout B. heed C. vigilance D. alert

II. Read the following passage and circle the correct answer according to the nature of the item.
Fortunately, there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. This numbers, however,
are depleted almost daily, it seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration
and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.
Ostensibly, overuse of salt causes high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United
States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby
food.
Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to obligate them to label their products to show sodium
content. Because doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much
salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn’t the only harmful
ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content, why not require him to list every ingredient and
specify which are detrimental to our health? Cigarettes have a warning printed on them. Shouldn’t the same type of
warning appear on canned foods that are notoriously oversalted?
There are endless ifs and buts in the controversy, but the most telling of these is the questionable proof of salt’s
diabolic effect upon the blood pressure. True, people who cut their salt intake lowered their blood pressure, but where
is the scientific proof that something other than salt didn’t do the trick? The most common means of providing
dubious proof that salt causes hypertension is to compare societies that use little salt with those that use mountains of
salt in their daily diets. Which group has the higher rate of hypertension? Whose blood pressure is lower? What
happens when salt is introduced into a group where salt is a novelty? Does the blood pressure rise significantly?
Studies of the Japanese indicate that as the world’s greatest salters, they suffer the most from hypertension. On the
other hand, the simple , salt-free cuisine of several tribes in the Solomon Islands has kept older tribesmen and women
from developing hypertension and high blood pressure, ailments traditionally killing their peers in America. No
account is taken of the effects of inflation, recession, pollution, crime, and sundry other ills to which Americans,
unlike people on primitive islands, are exposed.
To salt or not to salt? That is the question. Now that the question has arisen, it must not be treated with levity but,
rather, with searching scientific investigation so that those of us who are preoccupied with both savory food and
longevity may decide which of the two is worth its salt.

91.The attitude of the author of this passage toward the salt controversy is that
A. we must stop eating salt immediately salt immediately
B. she is not convinced that salt is harmful
C. the Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors
D. soon there won’t be anything tasty left to eat.
92.The author’s approach to the topic is
A. angry B. humorous C. scientific D. sympathetic
93.Presumably a gourmand is a
A. person B. theory C. food D. protest
94.Food manufacturers don’t want to label packagers with sodium content because
A. they disagree with the FDA
B. salt doesn’t stick to potato chips
C. they would have to spend more money
D. it isn’t important to single out salt
95. True or false? At present baby food contains salt. …..
96. Canned goods should have the same type of warning as cigarettes because
A. both contain salt.
B. the author likes to smoke and eat.
C. the cigarette warning reduces smoking.
D. both are harmful to your health.
97. True or false? Comparing societies is a scientific means of determining the dangers of salt consumption.
98. According to the passage, the Japanese use a lot of salt
A. but they suffer from hypertension.
B. and they suffer from hypertension.
C. because they suffer from hypertension.
D. when they suffer from hypertension.
99. True, false, or information not given? People in societies that use little salt never have high blood pressure.
100. The author suggests that Americans suffer from hypertension as a result of
A. too much salt B. emotional stress C. salt-free cuisine D. ailments

III. Read the article about environmental problems in Australia. Choose headings for the paragraphs (1-6) from
the expressions in the box below.
coastal erosion overfishing invasive species urban development
nuclear accidents deforestation intensive agriculture
waste treatment overgrazing oil spills
101________________
When a large numbers of trees are cut down, the salinity of the soil can greatly increase. Salt water draining from such
areas can affect downstream water quality.
102._________________
Pasture mismanagement is one of the main pressures on biodiversity. The unsustainable use of grazed pasture without
giving plants time to recover has modified vast areas of grasslands. This kind of continued defoliation has led to
desertification and erosion.
103.__________________
Australia ‘s fisheries are already close to collapse because of this activity, and the problem is getting worse. There are
two major factors which account for the problem: slow regeneration of marine populations and depletion of fish stocks
by commercial over - exploitation.
104. __________________
It is estimated that Australian gains around 20 new pests each year. Example include cane toads, willows and, more
recently, red fire ants. Historically, feral cats and foxes have been a cause of local extinctions and reductions in range
for native species through a combination of habitat modification and predation. Weeds are an equally significant
pressure on ecosystems, with more than 2,500 species of introduced plants now thriving in the wild in Australia. They
have invaded every part of the landscape.
105.__________________
Bio-intensive farming is affecting Australia’s coasts and oceans, particularly estuaries and environments near the
shore. Estimates are that each year almost 19,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 141,000 tonnes of nitrogen are discharged
into rivers flowing to the coast.
106.__________________
Of continuing concern for Australia is population growth along the country’s coastline. The formation of massive
metropolitan centres with intensive population density on Australia’s coasts could displace much valuable biodiversity
and “high-value” agriculture land.

IV. Find ONE word to fill in each blank. (2pts.)

THE SLOW ARRIVAL OF THE WHEEL
It is nearly impossible in our post-industrial society to conceive (107) ........... a world without wheels. From clocks to
huge machinery and from cars to computer discs, (108) ...........employs cogs, wheels or other types of cylindrical
components that spin on an axis. Yet the wheel took a relatively long time to be ( 109) ........... and several civilisations
(110) ........... a relatively high level of technological sophistication without it. The most likely explanation is
(111) ...........neither terrain nor climate suited the wheel. Until 10,000 BC, much of the world was (112) ...........the
grip of the last vestiges of the Ice Age. (113) ...........was not under ice sheet was covered by desert, jungle or bog -
conditions obviously unsuited for something like the wheel.
Most experts agree that the wheel evolved (114) ...........the fact that Neolithic man was familiar with moving heavy
objects (115) ...........putting a roller, such as a tree trunk, under the load. (116) ...........techniques were used to move
the huge stone blocks to build the pyramids around 2980 BC.

PART E. WRITING
I. Write the new sentences using the words given. Do not alter the given word in any way. (2pts.)
117. It costs a lot of money now, but over a longer period it will be a good investment. RUN
 ......................................................................................................................................................................................
118. Your attitude will have to change if you want to succeed. LEAF
 You have to..................................................................................................................................................................
119. Soon the whole town heard the news about the bank robbery. WILDFIRE
 The news......................................................................................................................................................................
120. If there are any problems, I can be there right away. MOMENT’S
 I can be.........................................................................................................................................................................
121. Mark got lucky when he got the leading role. STROKE
 It was a ........................................................................................................................................................................
122. After the play finishes, I plan to relax and enjoy time off. FEET
 I’m ...............................................................................................................................................................................
123. If you hadn’t changed our original agreement, everything would have been fine. STUCK
 Had...............................................................................................................................................................................
124. After a long hard journey, I cheered up when I saw my home again. SIGHT
 I cheered up.................................................................................................................................................................
125. He didn’t want to get into a position where he might lose all his money. POSSIBILITY
 He didn’t want to expose.............................................................................................................................................
126. The dietician advised us not to eat between meals. EATING
 The................................................................................................................................................................................