NAME: _________________ GRADE: __________/ 51 PTS

SECTION I- VOCABULARY

Questions 1-10: Choose the best answer to make meaningful sentences.

1. Changes in the American economy generally have a serious ________ on our economy here in
Canada.
a) strategy b) impact c) feature d) focus
2. Most immigrants to Canada try to preserve the culture and _________ of their home country for their
children.
a) credits b) aspects c) traditions d) strategies
3. Water and salt both work to ______ the water content of the body.
a) secure b) regulate c) invest d) reside
4. People in this ________ want to keep the area safe for children to play in.
a) community b) chapter c) journal d) range
5. I don't really think that it is _________ to wear jeans to the office.
a) complex b) relevant c) distinct d) appropriate
6. The Great Wall of China was _________ to keep out enemy invaders.
a) evaluated b) conducted c) consumed d) constructed
7. There are 109 different ________ in the Periodic Table in chemistry.
a) elements b) categories c) designs d) surveys
8. Tian Hsu works hard to ________ close friendships with the students she studied with in London.
a) transfer b) assist c) maintain d) affect
9. My great-grandfather came to Boston to _______ his fortune in the early 1800s.
a) administer b) seek c) perceive d) equate
10. Scientists are only beginning to recognize the _________ benefits of using ocean tides as a source
of endless, clean energy.
a) final b) normal c) potential d) primary

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SECTION II – USE OF ENGLISH
Questions 11-20: Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap.

Young children are always curious and (11) ____ to discover and learn. They are curious (12) ____ around
them. Any child between the ages of four months and four years is said to be (13) ____ an adult scientist.
Adults sometimes regard a child’s curiosity as a lack of ability to concentrate. The truth is (14) ____ children
begin to learn at birth, and (15) ____ they begin school at the age of five or six, they (16) ____ an amazing
amount of information. This is perhaps more than (17) _____ in the rest of their lives. The role of adults in
the learning process of children (18) ____. Adults should appreciate a child’s curiosity (19) _____ them to
learn. Only then can they contribute to the knowledge (20) ____ children absorb.

11. A) attempting
16. A) have already absorbed
B) to attempt
B) will be absorbing
C) would attempt
C) could absorb
D) for attempting
D) absorb

12. A) about everything

17. A) learning
B) in everything B) they learned
C) for nothing C) they will learn
D) on anything D) having learned

13. A) curious enough

18. A) wouldn’t be underestimated
B) the most curious of
B) must be underestimated
C) more curious than
C) can’t have been underestimated
D) too much curious
D) shouldn’t’ be underestimated

14. A) why
19. A) to encourage simultaneously
B) when
B) for encouraging simultaneously
C) which
C) during simultaneous encouragement
D) that
D) while simultaneously encouraging

15. A) as soon as
20. A) that
B) by the time B) of which
C) on which
C) no sooner then
D) whose
D) soon

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Questions 21-24: Choose the option which best rewrites each sentence.

21. As there was a great deal of traffic on the roads, the journey took us longer than we had expected.
a) There was a lot of heavy traffic on the roads, so we had to go slowly.
b) In spite of the heavy traffic, the journey took hardly any longer than we had expected.
c) We were surprised at how long it took us to get there as there was so little traffic.
d) The journey turned out to be much longer than we’d foreseen, owing to the heavy traffic.

22. You knew I needed your help this weekend, so you shouldn’t have promised to go out with your friends.
a) You’d promised to help me this weekend, so I don’t see how you can agree to go off with your friends like
that.
b) Why didn’t you arrange to go out with your friends over the weekend after you said you wouldn’t help me?
c) I suppose you’ve arranged to go off with your friends this weekend because you didn’t want to help me
though you had promised to!
d) It was not right for you to promise your friends that you’d go out with them this weekend since
you knew I had to have some help from you.

23. This material is suitable for students of eighteen years and up.
a) The material is suitable for students who are over eighteen.
b) The material may be suitable for students of over eighteen years of age.
c) Students of eighteen years and over can use this material.
d) Only 18-year-old students will find this material suitable.

24. A virus, which is too small to be seen except with a powerful microscope, causes measles.
a) The strong virus which causes measles can easily be seen with a microscope.
b) A virus causes measles and it is hard to see it even with a powerful microscope.
c) The virus that causes measles can only be seen with a microscope by an expert as it is too small.
d) Measles is caused by a virus which is not big enough to be seen without using a powerful
microscope.

SECTION 3- READING

Questions 25-43: Choose the best answer according to the passages below.

TEXT I
Rosa Parks
1 On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks became the inspiring public face of the civil rights struggle in the
United States. On that day, in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused to obey a bus driver and give up her seat
in the front of the bus to a white man. In Alabama, as in many other states, laws required that blacks could
only travel at the back of the bus. Parks was arrested by the police for not giving up her seat, but her action
was the turning point in the fight to make every American an equal citizen under the law.

2 Rosa Parks was forty-two when this happened and had lived in a world defined by race. She was the
daughter of a carpenter and a teacher, James and Leona McCauley, who separated when she was young.
Raised by her maternal grandparents, Parks and her younger brother grew up on a farm outside
Montgomery, the capital of Alabama.

3 In Alabama, as in all the former slave-holding states, the black slaves had been freed at the end of
the Civil War in 1865. But freedom did not mean equality. Many states, particularly in the south, had laws to
segregate blacks from whites, and to deny them an equal position in society. Blacks could not eat at the
same restaurants, attend the same schools, or worship at the same churches. Furthermore, blacks were
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often the victims of racial violence; house burnings and murders of blacks were common. As a child, Parks
would lie awake at night, frightened that the Ku Klux Klan, a white extremist society, might come and burn
down the house. Parks once said: "Back then we didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival,
of existing from one day to the next."

4 After studying at a private school for black girls and at the High School of the Alabama State
Teachers College, Rosa married a barber, Raymond Parks. He was already active in the civil rights
movement and was the first activist she had ever encountered. Because of the dangers of violence or
arrest, it was not usual for women to get involved in the struggle for civil rights, but Rosa was determined to
lend her hand. Despite her husband's worries, she became an active member of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights groups.

5 In 1955, the nation's civil rights leaders wanted to challenge the segregation laws that kept
blacks separate from whites. They needed a case that could test the legality of these laws under the United
States Constitution. Looking for a person of moral strength and courage, they chose Rosa Parks. As they
had expected, she was arrested when she refused to give up her seat and in response, the black leaders in
Montgomery formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). As president, they elected a minister
who was new to town, the twenty-six-year-old Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

6 The next year was difficult for blacks in Montgomery. To call attention to their fight for civil rights, MIA
organized a boycott of the city buses. Because they refused to ride the buses, some people had to walk as
many as 20 miles to work. Blacks were arrested for no reason, and violence against black families
increased, with bombings of homes and churches. At the same time, Reverend King's leadership and
inspiring speaking style captured the nation's attention. The court case brought by MIA went ahead to the
Supreme Court, which on November 13, 1956, ruled that the separation of blacks and whites on buses was
illegal. Access to public services had to be open to all on a first-come, first-served basis, with no
discrimination on the basis of race.

7 The day after the ruling became final, Rosa Parks took her seat on a Montgomery bus with a white
man sitting behind her. She and all the blacks of Montgomery could now ride the bus freely. But the struggle
for equality for blacks was not over. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., who had made a name for himself
in Montgomery, continued to fight for civil rights—in the schools and at the workplace becoming the greatest
civil rights leader America has known.

8 In Montgomery, both Rosa and Raymond Parks lost their jobs because of their activism. Following
the court ruling, they received threats to their lives and safety, so they decided to move out of the South,
settling in Detroit, Michigan, in 1957, where they lived out the rest of their days. From the 1960s until she
retired in the late 1980s, Rosa Parks worked as a staff member for John Conyers, U.S. Representative.
Colleagues and friends remember her as a quiet and modest woman, who never wished to be the center of
attention, even when Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, called her onstage during a Detroit visit in
the 1990s.

9 After her husband's death in 1987, Rosa Parks cofounded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for
Self-Development, an organization that sponsors programs to help teenagers travel the country and learn of
its civil rights history. President Bill Clinton awarded Rosa the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, and in
1999 the U.S. Congress gave her a Congressional Gold Medal.

10 When she died at age ninety-two, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution allowing her body to lie in
honor in the U.S. Capitol Building. Rosa Parks was the first woman in history to be given this honor.
Speaking after her death, the civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson summed up why Rosa Parks was
so important to America's struggle for civil rights: "She sat down in order that we might stand up."
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25. Choose the statement that best expresses the overall thesis of the passage.
a. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama.
b. Rosa Parks was a member of several civil rights groups in Alabama.
c. Rosa Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.
d. Rosa Parks played a key role in black Americans' fight for civil rights.

26. In the 1950s in Alabama and other states _____________

a. there were still black slaves in many cities.
b. laws kept blacks and whites separate.
c. laws gave blacks the same rights as whites.
d. blacks were free to go anywhere they wanted.

27. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

a. When Rosa Parks was a child, white people sometimes burned down the houses of black families.
b. Rosa Parks saw the Ku Klux Klan come to their house and burn it
c. When the black slaves had been freed and they had equal rights with the white people
d. The black people had civil rights and they were proud to be given these rights to survive in the society.

28. You can infer from this passage that in the mid-twentieth century____________
a. there was probably very little violence of any kind in American society.
b. black people who were violent against whites were probably not severely punished.
c. white people who were violent against blacks were not severely punished.
d. violent actions were probably always severely punished by American courts.

29. The Montgomery Improvement Association _____________

a. worked for civil rights for blacks.
b. was a religious association.
c. aimed to improve life in the city.
d. organized activities for black women.

30. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr._____________

a. was arrested for his work on Park's case.
b. worked as a lawyer on Park's case.
c. brought Park's case to national attention.
d. was the first activist in Montgomery.

31. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

a. After the court ruling, Rosa and her husband’s life was in danger.
b. Rosa Parks stopped working in the late 1980s
c. According to her colleagues Rosa Parks was a quiet and modest person.
d. Rosa and Raymond Parks got their jobs back after the boycott in Montgomery.

32. Rosa Parks was the first woman in American history to ____________
a. start an organization helping teenagers learn about civil rights.
b. be arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
c. meet Nelson Mandela, the president of South Africa.
d. lie in the U.S. Capitol Building after her death.

TEXT II

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Some 130 million years ago, a spike-backed dinosaur walked heavily through the wilderness of what came
to be Australia, and left its footprints as a gift for the future. They were the world’s best impressions of a
dinosaur’s two-ton footfalls. When they were found seven years ago in a remote valley in northern Australia,
they provided scientists with the first clear evidence that dinosaurs had lived in Australia. This discovery
provided further evidence for the theory that Australia was once joined to a vast super-continent that
included what is now South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.

33. It is clear from the passage that, millions of years ago, Australia _____.
a) was undoubtedly the only suitable place in the world for the survival of dinosaurs
b) was almost certainly not, as it is today, a separate continent
c) was, for the first time, inhabited by a large variety of dinosaurs
d) was for the most part a wilderness where no living being could survive

34. The passage makes it clear that the dinosaur footprints discovered in Australia in recent years _____.
a) are the same as those also found in South America, Africa, India and Antarctica
b) have little attracted many a scientist interested in the distant past of the continent
c) could only have been made by dinosaurs weighing a lot more than two tons
d) are in surprisingly good condition although millions of years have passed since they were made

35. One reason why the discovery of the dinosaur in Australia is so important is that ____.
a) previously, no one knew for certain whether this country had ever been inhabited by dinosaurs
b) contrary to the popular view, this continent had always been a vast wilderness
c) until this discovery, nothing was known about the early climate of this continent
d) presumably, they will provide clues for future geological changes in this continent

TEXT III
For most people, being a member of a large family is sometimes hard. Usually there isn’t enough money, so
everyone has to do without various things. There are, however, certain advantages; in fact, there are
probably more advantages than disadvantages. The other day I saw a family setting off on a day out. The
parents, who looked remarkably young themselves, were carrying various bags. The biggest child, who was
perhaps fifteen, carried a football. His sister, perhaps two years younger, carried what looked like the family
lunch. The four smaller children also had things to carry. The youngest of them carried a toy bear
that was almost as big as herself. The family was catching a bus and looked so contented. I wished I could
have gone with them wherever they were going.

36. It is clear from the passage that the family described here _____.
a) isn’t used to going out for the day like this
b) knows how to share its duties
c) seldom takes a bus at weekends
d) very rarely has a day out together

37. We understand from the passage that, although these parents have six children, _____.
a) they spend very little time with them
b) they don’t really seem to care about them
c) it seems that life has not aged them
d) they are reluctant to spend much money on them

38. From the passage we can conclude that the narrator _____.
a) himself comes from a large family
b) is very critical of large families
c) is more interested in the parents than in the children
d) seems to favour large families

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TEXT IV
Mrs. Gaskell was a nineteenth-century English novelist. She wrote social novels, the most famous of which were
Mary Barton and North and South. The first, which is set in Manchester, an industrial city in the north of England,
vividly describes the terrible conditions of the working class, which she knew at first hand. It is a powerful novel
that made a considerable impression upon readers in nineteenth century England. The other novel, North and
South, contrasts two regions of England, through its heroine Margaret Hale, who leaves southern England to live
in the industrial north. Both these novels present a balanced view of social problems in this period of English
history.

39. As it is pointed out in the passage, both in Mary Barton and in North and South, Mrs. Gaskell _____.
a) is mainly concerned with the conditions of working life in the industrial north of England
b) tells the tragic story of a young country girl called Margaret Hale
c) compares the working conditions of men and women in southern England
d) failed to capture the interest of readers in her time

40. We understand from the passage that the manner, in which Mrs Gaskell approached the working conditions
of her time, _____.
a) is generally regarded now as being unfair
b) was disliked by her readers
c) was more critical in Mary Barton than in North and South
d) was not one-sided

41. We learn from the passage that Mrs. Gaskell uses the story of Margaret Hale to _____.
a) show how the living conditions in the north were far better than those in the south
b) illustrate the differences between the north and south of England
c) draw attention to the special problems of young women in nineteenth-century England
d) tell the story of her own life in Manchester

42. The word “vividly” has the closest meaning to __________?

a) clearly b) vaguely c) thoroughly d) carelessly

43. What does the word “its” refer to?

a) England’s b) novel’s c) 19th century’s d) region’s

SECTION IV- LISTENING

NOTE – TAKING

44. SETI means ________.

a. Search For Extra Torrential Intelligence
b. Search For Expert Terrestrial Intelligence
c. Search For Extra Torrential Imagination.
d. Search For Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

45. According to the lecture, most scientists believe that it is ________.

a. unlikely that there are beings living on other worlds
b. possible that there are beings living on other worlds
c. likely that there are beings living on other worlds
d. almost certain that there are beings living on other worlds.

46. To search for life on other worlds, the SETI program uses ________.
a. long-range spacecraft
b. short-range radio waves
c. large radio telescopes
d. television signals

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47. According to the lecture, scientists are hoping that beings on other worlds ________.
a. have advanced technology, such as long-range spacecraft
b. can use wormholes to reach Earth
c. are friendly
d. are also sending out signals

48. According to the speaker, finding intelligent life on another world would ________.
a. change very few things on Earth
b. alter how we see ourselves and the universe
c. lead to the end of organized religion
d. cause panic on Earth

49. According to the lecture, radio signals are useful for all of the following reasons except ________.
a. they travel very quickly
b. they can travel over long distances
c. they can travel through objects floating in space
d. they are easy to understand

50. According to the speaker, sending spacecraft to search for beings on other worlds is impractical because
________.
a. they have a narrow range
b. they are too expensive to operate
c. they could be frightening to alien beings
d. the astronauts would not survive the journey

51. One problem with SETI that can be inferred from the lecture is ________.
a. the high cost of the program
b. that the number of personnel needed to operate it is too great
c. that it will take jobs away from astronauts
d. that primitive alien societies might not be able to send or receive radio signals