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A.MULTIPLE CHOICE (40PTS)

I. WORD CHOICE (5PTS)

Choose the best alternative to fill the gap in each of the following sentences

1.When asked if she had ever been in trouble with the police before, she replied in the ________.
A. aggressive B. assertive C. affirmative D. abrasive
2. It is hard to know whether to believe such _________ of doom, possibly because what they are
saying seems too terrible to be true.
A. champions B. warriors C. prophets D. giants
3. Furiously, she banged down the ________ and immediately dialed the complaints department.
A. headset B. handle C. recipient D. receiver
4. New restaurants often try to attract customers by using ________ to homes in the surrounding area.
A. postal adverts B. mailshots C. mail flyers D. mailboxing
5. The young lad was the __________of his father.
A. image B. likeness C. picture D. portrait
6. The salesman demonstrated how a push of the button would cause the aerial to ________.
A. rebound B. retreat C. recoil D. retract
7. Patrick is too ________ a gambler to resist placing a bet on the final game.
A. instant B. spontaneous C. compulsive D. continuous
8. Several soldiers of the squad were taken ________ by the enemy forces.
A. capture B. hostage C. kidnap D. torture
9. The newspaper is well-known for being ________ against trade unions.
A. biased B. skewed C. twisted D. distorted
10.We have always tried to peace with our unfriendly neighbors.
A. gain B. reserve C. live D. preserve

II. GRAMMAR AND STRUCTURES (5PTS)

Choose the best alternative to fill the gap in each of the following sentences
1.Peter: Why were those three men arrested?
Tom: They were suspected of being at Nairobi National Park.
A. poaching B. poached C. poacher D. poach
2. Not to waste time searching, Alex kept everything just_______ he could get his hand on it.
A. where B. as C. when D. if
3. You can no more swim than I can fly. The sentence means:__________.
A. Both of us can’t swim or fly
B. You can never swim, which I am sure of.
C. Either you or I can fly
D. You can swim as I can fly
4. Her father insisted that she seriously ill and that a doctor for at once.
A. was / was sent B. was / be sent C. be / be sent D. being / sending

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5. What a terrible thing to happen! Just think, if we hadn’t missed the plane, we ______ dead for
certain.
A. were B. would have been C. would be D. are
6. What surprised me most was to find ________little boys could make_______ much progress in
________ a short time.
A. such, so, so B. such, so, such C. so, so, such D. so, such, such
7. I won’t pay 80 dollars for the coat; it is not worth________.
A. all that much B. that all much C. much that all D. that much all
8. With profits at record levels, the company’s certainly sitting ______ this year.
A. pretty good B. pretty well C. prettily D. pretty
9. Because we hadn’t seen each other for ages, we sat ______ for hours.
A. to have talked B. to have been talking C. talking D. to be talked
10. John: _________what he has said be true?
Mary: Yes, it________ be true.
A. May/may B. Can/can C. May/must D. Can/must

III.PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS (5PTS)

Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition or particle.
1. The front page was full of the reports given by the reporters________ the scene of the road
accident.
A. in B. on C. at D. of
2. The winds changed and it seemed our sailing team might ________out on top.
A. float B. come C. reach D. get
3. Let’s row over________ the other side of the lake.
A. on B. along C. to D. off
4. If you feel bad about what she said, then it up with her – don’t let it go.
A. get B. sit C. put D. take
5. He gave ______ his seat on the bus to an elderly woman.
A. over B. in C. up D.
back
6. The doctor _____ all night with the patients in the hospital.
A. sat out B. sat up C. sat in D. sat on
7. I was allowed to sit ______ on an executive meeting.
A. about B. in C. at D. up
8. His latest book deals with the social problem______ the day.
A. on B. in C. for D. of
9. Unfortunately, some really ill animals have to be ________ by our center.
A. put down B. turned over C. passed away D. taken out
10. The new regulations have ________up a number of problems for the company.
A. come B. thrown C. got D. moved
IV.IDIOMS AND COLLOCATIONS. (5PTS)
Choose the best option to complete the following sentences.
1. Those stones have been here since time ______.
A. immemorable B. immemorial
C. immortal D. innumerable
2. The art teacher gave the children a free ______ in their creative compositions.
A. offer B. hand C. gift D. kick
3. Once at the skating rink, Ivan was allowed to skate to his heart’s ______.
A. happiness B. contentment C. content D. delight
4. After making several bad business deals the company was losing money hand over ______.
A. finger B. thumb C. wrist D. fist
5. The government is making little ______ in its fight to beat inflation.
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A. headway B. improvement C. advance D. forward
6. We at Buyrite fling down the ______ to competitors to match us for price, quality and service.
A. mitten B. sword C. gauntlet D. hat
7. The drama group ______ a sketch about a couple buying a new house.
A. created B. carved C. did D. painted
8. Has the show finally jumped the ______?
A. salmon B. herring C. shark D. dolphin
9. I can’t tell you ______ the population of Prague, but there’s an encyclopedia in the cupboard.
A. in hand B. at hand C. off-hand D. on hand
10. During pioneer days a lot of land in the United States was up for ______.
A. gain B. taking C. promotion D. grabs

V. READING COMPREHENSION (10PTS)

1/ READING COMPREHENSION 1(5PTS)
Read the passage and choose the right answer for each question:
Musicals are a wonderful form of entertainment. While plays are theatrical productions which tell a
story through the written words of a script and are presented by actors, musicals are stories told
with lyrics and music. In New York many of the theaters where the famous and well-known
musicals are performed are on or near Broadway and for that reason the musicals are often referred
to as “Broadway Musicals”. Some of the lesser known productions, whether theatrical or musical,
are also performed in New York but these are usually performed in other areas of the city and are
referred to as “Off-Broadway” productions.
Some of the same musicals being performed in New York are also being performed throughout the
world in major cities. And not all musicals are first performed in New York. Sometimes shows
open in London’s West End which is home to numerous theaters where musicals, as well as plays,
are performed with great frequency and regularity to full-house audiences.
One of the world’s most prolific and well-known songwriters is an Englishman, Andrew Lloyd
Webber. Webber grew up in a family whose interests centered on music. Andrew’s father was a
music professor and his mother a singer and musician, and Andrew’s talents seemed to take center
stage when he was very young. He began playing the violin when he was three years old and by the
time he was nine he was composing music for the small theater which had been built in his home.
One of Webber’s first musicals was a short production about a religious topic and was written for a
school’s end of the year concert. The production later became a musical known to the world as
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Based on the biblical story of Jacob and his son
Joseph, the musical tells the story of Jacob giving his son, Joseph, a beautiful multi-colored coat
and the resulting jealousy of Joseph’s brothers who have Joseph sold as a slave.
As the story continues in song, Joseph is jailed, explains his dreams to other prisoners, and is later
asked by the Egyptian pharaoh to help explain the pharaoh’s dream. The dream, signifying an
impending famine, is correctly interpreted by Joseph and as a result Joseph is held in high esteem
by the ruler. The musical concludes happily when Joseph’s brothers, who need food from Joseph as
a result of the famine, are no longer jealous of him and he forgives them.
Cats, which is based on an English author’s poems about cats, is a favorite of nearly everyone. It
tells the story of cats who are beautiful and of cats who are old. Some of the cats are magical and
others are mischievous. One cat reminisces about her youth and the others also become person-like
as their stories are told. And the cats come in all shapes and sizes, too. Some are chunky while
others are lean. Some have seen better days and some are waiting for better days. To make the
musical even better, in some of the productions the cats-all human sizes and shapes, of course - find
their ways down the aisles to the stage to begin each act. The lyrics in Cats follow T. S. Eliot’s

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poetry and as the songs are sung by cats they are about cats. And one of the most interesting aspects
of the production is that the human-like personalities of the cats are readily apparent to the viewers.
The award-winning Evita was another Webber’s masterpiece. Evita is the story of Eva Peron, and
tells of her rise to power and the influence she had among the people of Argentina. The play begins
with her death. This musical, unlike some others, begins with the immediate - Evita’s death - and
then flashes back to the beginning of her life, showing her rise in importance in her South American
homeland. Historically significant, Evita has brought to the world’s attention the plight of
Argentina and its people as well as presenting some of the story of the dictatorship of Juan Peron
and the lasting impact Eva Peron had on the people of her country. This musical, while serious in
subject matter, leaves the audience with a greater understanding of a country and its people. The
lyrics and music of 'Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” are hauntingly uplifting rather than sad and
demonstrate Evita’s continually encouraging attitude to the struggling poor in her homeland.
Throughout the years Webber has written lyrics to a variety of productions. The rock musical, Jesus
Christ Superstar, began its run in 1969 and has been a favorite of touring companies since then.
Sunset Boulevard is set in Los Angeles and tells the story of a silent movie star who desperately -
ants to revive her fame and reputation with a comeback in the talkies. And perhaps one of the all-
rime greats is the highly acclaimed production, Phantom of the Opera. The setting, in the bowels of
a great opera house, is significant to the story line because the phantom of the opera has established
his domain there. Love, lost love, and intrigue are all facets of the phantom’s story and his role in
assisting a talented young woman who aspires to be one of the opera’s greats.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has made significant contributions to the arts and especially to the musical
theater through the numerous lyrics he has written for musicals. His prolific productivity continues
as he has, for the past several years, written a new musical about every two years. And in 1992 he
was recognized and knighted for his services to the arts.
1. Why does the author discuss Joseph in the passage?
A. A pharaoh is the central character and is a necessary inclusion in the musical to convey the
meaning of the story.
B. Usually a biblical story is not set to music as Lloyd Webber saw fit to do.
C. The plot of the musical involved a famine which had dire effects on the people of the Middle
East.
D. Egypt is the setting for the musical and is important to the story line of the musical.
2. What is the main idea about Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals presented in the passage?
A. He is an Australian member of Parliament who decided to write songs in his spare time.
B. As a New Zealander. Webber felt it important to promote the British Commonwealth of Nations.
C. As an Englishman honored for his musical talents, the musicals present a wide variety of
settings, lyrics, and interest areas for theater attendees.
D. He is of Scottish descent and wanted to show his appreciation to the British royalty for showing
positive responses to his works.
3. Musicals are different from plays in that_________ .
A. musicals are stories produced with scripts whereas plays can be scripted or unscripted.
B. while plays and musicals both tell stories, in a play the stories are not set to music.
C. plays are noted for their seriousness while musicals only provide entertainment to the attendees.
D. plays are only informative while musicals are never informative.
4. Webber, who is noted for the variety of subject matter in his famous musicals, has chosen to
write music for existing literature in which of the following musicals?
A. Evita B. Sunset Boulevard
C. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat D. Cats
5.What does the author mention about Webber’s other musical talents other than
composing music?

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A. His singing ability gave him opportunities to try new verse ideas on people who were inclined to
appreciate his work.
B. Playing the piano provided the necessary background for understanding how the piano played an
important part in musical, Sunset Boulevard, which was the story of a silent movie star.
C. Playing the violin helped Webber understand the different musical qualities an instrument could
provide, which in turn helped him understand the importance of variety in lyrics.
D. Dancing, an important part of all musicals, was better appreciated by Webber when he began to
write lyrics.
6 Which of the following is mentioned about a famine in one of Webber’s musicals in the
passage?
A. People in England understood the famine in connection with the British rule of its
Commonwealth of Nations.
B. The famine was central to the plight of the Egyptians during the time period in which the
musical was set.
C. The Middle East had never experienced a famine and the reader needed to be aware of the
ramifications of such an event.
D. Americans did not understand the significance of a famine other than the potato famine in
Ireland which resulted in the migration of many settlers to America.
7. Evita is the beautifully told story of___________.
A. Argentina’s havoc-wrecked rural society during the 1930s
B. dictators and rulers in a power hungry nation during the 1940s
C. the leadership in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century
D. Eva Peron’s influence over the masses in a poverty-stricken country
8. In what aspect was the introduction of Jesus Christ Superstar to the stage and to the
world a monumental undertaking?
A. It was able to put a serious subject matter to a type of music which many found offensive or
unacceptable.
B. It became highly acclaimed and extremely popular with the younger adults during the 1980s.
C. It has the controversial nature of the subject matter and the widely accepted musical basis
D. It was first shown in Los Angeles even though most US musicals are first shown on stage in
New York City.
9.The word ‘plight’ in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to________ .
A. serious epidemics B. difficult situation
C. natural disasters D. poor cooperation
10.The word ‘intrigue’ in paragraph 8 is closest in meaning to________ .
A. security B. plot C. betrothal D. surety

2/ READING COMPREHENSION 2(5PTS)

Read the passage and choose the right answer for each question:
In February 2001, at the age of 24, Ellen Mac Arthur became the youngest and fastest ever
woman to sail round the world. After 94 days alone on board her yacht Kingfisher, she finished
second to Michel Desjoyaux of France in the single-handed Vende Globe event.
In sport, like life, the winner is usually feted, and runners-up quickly forgotten. This time the
roles were reversed and it was Ellen, weighing just 50 kilos and barely 1m60 tall, that really
captured people's imaginations and emotions. One newspaper in France, where she was and is a real
heroine, summed up the national mood there with the headline 'Well done, Michel, brave Ellen'.
As with many spectacular achievers, the signs were there from an early age, even in the
unpromising nautical terrain of landlocked Derbyshire. Her great-grandparents were sailing people
and a great-uncle was a merchant seaman, but any real link with the sea is tenuous. There was,
however, an Auntie Thea who lived on the east coast of England and had a 26-foot sailing boat
called Cabaret. It took just one trip on the open sea with her aunt to spark off Ellen's lifelong
passion. She was eight years old. She began saving her pocket money and spent all her spare time
reading sailing books in the library, absorbing information like a sponge. With her savings and the
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help of her grandmother she bought an 8-£00t fibreglass dinghy, and from that moment on there
was no keeping her away from the water.
Sailing round Britain single-handed at the age of 18 was just the start; Ellen had long since
set her sights on the Vende. But finding the money to undertake round-the-world voyages is no
easy feat. She wrote 2,000 letters requesting sponsorship and received just two replies, from the
Kingfisher company who were looking to expand into France. And in terms of race preparation, if
thoroughness was the key to success, Ellen could certainly be considered one of the favourites. In
the eight months leading up to the start of the race, she sailed no fewer than 60,000 miles at the
helm of her 60-£001 Kingfisher, far more than the rest of the fleet put together in the same period.
During her three months at sea MacArthur negotiated deadly icebergs, gigantic waves and
gale-force winds. She endured the freezing cold of the Antarctic and suffered the blistering heat of
the windless doldrums. Racing conditions meant sleeping in 10-minute bursts, a survival suit that
stayed on for weeks at a time and hands and wrists covered in sores and cuts. Food was dried or
frozen. Water came from a desalinator, which passes sea water through a membrane. 'You don't
really wash in the icy waters of the southern ocean,' she laughs. 'Anyway, there's no one to tell you
that you smell.'
As Kingfisher crossed the finishing line Ellen was surrounded by hundreds of spectator boats
and a cheering crowd of 200,000 lined the shore. Stepping off her yacht she looked remarkably
composed and seemed to take the change from solitude to public adulation very much in her stride.
Her thoughts, she later confessed, were on the realization that she had fulfilled the ambition that
had dominated her life for the previous four or five years. 'Throughout that time my sole focus had
been crossing the finishing line, and in the fastest possible time.' Now she could savour that
moment.
But despite MacArthur's belief that everyone who finishes the Vende is a winner, she still
feels a sense of disappointment that, having taken the lead from the eventual winner Michel
Desjoyaux 10 days from the finish, she did not quite have the energy or good fortune to turn her
advantage into victory. 'You have to believe you can win from the start,' she asserts. 'Deep down
you're a competitor, you don't climb the mast and come back black and blue just for a cruise. You
do it because it's a race.'
The public will now be hoping to see a suitable encore, some new feat of endurance to justify
her celebrity status. For Ellen can no longer claim, as she did in her post-race press conference, to
be the simple Derbyshire girl with 'no mobile, no credit cards, no money, no nothing'; she is a
heroine and an inspiration to others of her generation. As if to reinforce this, and despite her
reluctance to take on this role, she later commented: 'If there's one thing I've learned in this past
year, it's that deep down in your heart, if you have a dream, then you can and must it happen.'

1. The word feted in the second paragraph means __________ .

A. to make somebody pleasant. B. to praise somebody.
C. to make somebody happy. D. to give somebody a reward.
2. At the time of her achievement we learn that Ellen ____________ .
A. enjoyed only short-lived success.
B. was more famous in France than anywhere else.
C. attracted more attention than Michel Desjoyaux.
D. became popular because of her size.
3. The word landlocked in the third paragraph means ______________.
A. having no seaport. B. having no fresh water .
C. having no land. D. having no sea coast.
4. Where did Ellen's initial interest in sailing come from?
A. She came from a family of sailing enthusiasts: B. She went to see one of her relatives.
C. She read widely on the subject. D. She lived near the sea.
5. The word single-handed in the fourth paragraph means ____________ .
A. without any help from anyone else. B. using only one of one's hands to row.
C. on a boat with only one paddle. D. on a boat with only one sail.
6. What do we learn about Ellen at the start of the race?

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A. People thought she had a very good chance of winning.
B. She was a more experienced sailor than the other racers.
C. She had been waiting for this moment since she was 18.
D. She had gone to great lengths to achieve her ambition.
7. The writer suggests that one cause of discomfort for Ellen at sea was___________ .
A. the shortage of water. B. her failure to sleep.
C. extremes of temperature. D. a lack of cooking facilities.
8. According to the writer, when Ellen finished the race, she was ______________ .
A. overwhelmed by her new-found fame.
B. surprised by the number of people who came to greet her.
C. able to reflect on her achievement.
D. delighted to be amongst people again.
9. According to the writer, Ellen _____________ .
A. thinks she deserved to win the race. B. has mixed feelings about the outcome of the race.
C. knew she would win the race. D. thinks Michel Desjoyaux was lucky to beat her.
10. Which of the following views does the writer express in the last paragraph?
A. She has the power to motivate. B. She has no right to fame yet.
C. Her comments lack depth. D. She needs to change her lifestyle.

VI. CLOZE TEST

1/ CLOZE TEST 1 (5PTS)
Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space.
Lee Kuna Yew was appointed as the first prime minister of Singapore in 1959 when the
nation became a self-governing state. At that time, Singapore per (1) ______ income was only
about USD 400. When Lee (2) ________ down in 1990, the figure was USD 11,000 and in 2014 it
went up to over 56,000, even higher than that of its former (3) _______, Great Britain. In his (4)
________ published in 2000, he wrote ‘They laughed at us, but I was confident that we would have
the last laugh.’
Born into a middle-class Chinese family in Singapore, Lee was (5) _______ by the language
and institutions of the British rulers. He was (6) _________ to go to the UK to study law, but the
Second World War broke out and he had to go to the local Raffles College where he learnt some
economics. It was not until 1946 when he talked his way to Cambridge and graduated three years
later with a starred first. It was during this time that he nurtured ambitions (7) ______ starting a
legal career back home.
As a prime minister, he has always been described as an efficient and inventive person. He
was one of the greatest statesmen who proved to the whole world that human (8) ______, not
natural resources, is the essential element of prosperity. Lee is also believed to be very (9) _______.
When Singapore gained independence in 1965, he decided to keep English as the main language to
increase economic benefits. Although many of his policies are still considered (10) ______, they
helped Singapore to overcome many obstacles and become one of the most admired international
business and financial centers around the world.

1. A. personal B. capita C. capital D. national

2. A. sat B. settled C. stepped D. passed
3. A. colonizer B. colonial C. colony D. colonization
4. A. journals B. agenda C. autography D. memoirs
5. A. rooted B. affected C. influenced D. educated
6. A. scheduled B. ordered C. made D. pushed
7. A. to B. beyond C. over D. of
8. A. ability B. sources C. intelligence D. ingenuity
9. A. open-minded B. innovative C. forward-looking D. imminent
10. A. skeptical B. disbelieving C. controversial D. contradictory

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2/ CLOZE TEST 2 (5PTS)
Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each space.
Sunday May 4th will be World Laughter Day. Dr Madan Kataria, who introduced this annual event,
says we need more laughter in our lives to (1) _____ the global rise of stress and loneliness. But
surely that strange sound that we make periodically can’t be the (2) _____ to such problems.
If an alien were to land on our planet and (3) _____ a stroll among a crowd of earthlings, it would
hear a lot of ‘ha-ha’ noises. It might wonder what (4) _____ this strange habit served. If we ask
ourselves what (5) _____ a good laugh, the obvious answer is that it is a response to something
funny. But one scientist, Robert Provine, says humour has surprisingly little to do with that. Instead,
it lies at the (6) _____ of such issues as the perception of self and the evolution of language and
social behaviour.
Provine realised that you cannot capture (7) _____ laughter in the lab because as soon as you (8)
_____ it under scrutiny, it vanishes. So, instead, he gathered data by hanging around groups of
people, noting when they laughed.
He collected 1,200 laugh episodes – and episode being defined as the comment immediately
preceding the laughter and the laughter itself. His analysis of this data revealed some important
facts about laughter. “It’s a message we send to other people – it (9) _____ disappears when we’re
by ourselves,” he says. “And it’s not a choice. Ask someone to laugh and they’ll either try to (10)
_____ a laugh or say they can’t do it on command.”

1. A. struggle B. combat C. threaten D. contest

2. A. way B. answer C. end D. response
3. A. make B. get C. walk D. take
4. A. reason B. purpose C. idea D. meaning
5. A. results B. leads C. prompts D. concludes
6. A. root B. stem C. head D. back
7. A. complete B. authentic C. contemporary D. current
8. A. place B. lay C. stand D. keep
9.A. absolutely B. constantly C. undoubtedly D. virtually
10.A. offer B. pretend C. fake D. imagine

IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20PTS)

1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it.
1.Managing the company will probably be much more complicated than they say.
 Managing the company should not …………………………………………………… easy as
they say.
2.Because my father went away for the weekend, his secretary was in charge of the business.
 Had ……………………………………………………………store in terms of business.
3.The family members find it hard to accept their father’s fortune will go to charity. (resistance)
There ……………………………………………………………………………………….
4.If she fails to accomplish her mission, her job will be put at risk. (line)
Should………………………………………………………………………………………

2. For questions 5-10, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence, using the word given. Write only the missing words on the separate answer sheet.
5.The day after I lost my job, I did not feel like getting out of bed. (inclination)
……………………………………………………………………………………………
6.It is necessary to free our business from the influence of the bureaucracy right now. (hand) It is

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necessary to free …………………………………………………………………….
7.The train is too crowded with the commuters during the morning rush hour. (sardines)
The commuters on the train were……………………………………………………………
8.The club has been very successful since the beginning of the season. (on)
………………………………………………………………………………………………
9.The boys fixed all their attention on what the teacher was saying in order not to miss any small
details. (zeroed)
………………………………………………………………………………………………
10.He causes so much trouble that we can do nothing besides from leaving him to worry and suffer
the unpleasant effect of his own actions. (juice)
………………………………………………………………………………………………