PRACTICE TEST 2

(Time allotted: 60 minutes)

I. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

sentences that best completes each of the following conversations.
1. Tom sees his dad painting the windows.
- Tom: Dad, _____.
- Dad: Oh, thanks. That’s very kind of you.
A. can I give you a hand painting the window?
B. would you like a tennis match?
C. how could you do that perfectly?
D. why are you always talking to me like that?
2. Mai and mum are talking about her future job.
- Mum: Mai, Dad and I would like you to be a shop assistant.
- Mai: _____ That’s not possible. I want to go to medical school and
become a surgeon.
A. I’m afraid I disagree. C. I’m sorry.
B. Absolutely! D. You're right.

II. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

correct answer to each of the following questions.
1. Although Brenda came last, everyone agreed she had done her _____.
A. good B. well C. better D. best
2. ______ as it may seem, it is not impossible at all.
A. difficult C. difficulties
B. difficulty D. difficultly
3. _____ was last night that Sue borrowed my bike without permission!
A. There B. It C. That D. Here
4. The first week of our holiday was awful. On _____ Saturday, there was a
terrible storm with long-lasting floods.
A. A B. An C. the D. O
5. It’s no use crying all the time. You must _____ reality!
A. get away with
B. keep up with
C. look up to
D. face up to
6. Martin got _____ at a football match because of his violent behaviour.
A. arresting B. arrested C. to be arrested D. to arrest
7. People considered her _____ the finest pianist of her generation.
A. to be B. being C. be D. to being
8. I’m busy now. Answer the phone for me, _____?
A. shall you B. won’t you C. don’t you D. will you
 9. Your answer to the maths problem should be the same as mine, but they don’t
_____.
A. correspond B. integrate C. contradict D. attach
10. While I _____ the letter, somebody called my name in another room.
A. was opening B. opened C. ‘m opening D. had opened
11. The fireman put his life at _____ to rescue the child last night.
A. present B. risk C. danger D. trouble
12. By the time you come home, I _____ the decorating.
A. not finish B. ‘m finishing C. will finish D. ‘ve finished
13. I can’t stand a hot and crowded room. It _____ me a headache.
A. do B. make C. get D. give
14. To our surprise, Amy suddenly left the room _____ a word.
A. without B. within C. with D. in
15. My brother and I look exactly the same in appearance. We’re like two _____
in a pod.
A. carrots B. peas C. potatoes D. apples

III. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word
whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in
each of the following questions.
1. A. herbal B. humble C. handsome D. harmful
2. A. stale B. faith C. fair D. baker

IV. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word
that differs from the other three in the position of stress in each of the
following questions.
1. A. standard B. package C. plastic D. cartoon
2. A. attention B. document C. holiday D. journalist

V. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word in each of the
following questions.
1. I lifted my shirt, so the doctor could examine my painful chest.
A. improve B. touch C. experiment D. check
2. Due to the frequent loss of its properties, the company has laid down very
strict preservation procedures for this kind of situation.
A. introduced B. followed C. strengthened D. disobeyed
VI. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the
following questions.
1. These dog breeds are now a dime a dozen. You shouldn’t find it eye-opening
to see them.
A. popular B. rare C. plentiful D. expensive
2. The meeting was decorated with artificial flowers, which made it slightly
disappointing to the participants.
A. real B. wonderful C. man-made D. living

VII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each
of the numbered blanks.
Here is some brief information for anyone thinking of following a career
in the circus. There is of course a wide (1)_____ of jobs available: trapeze
artists, acrobats, clowns, magicians, fire-eaters and tight-rope walkers are all
to be found in the big top.
(2)_____ circuses train their own performers, but usually they are more
interested in someone who can already demonstrate a circus-related ability or
skill. Circus schools are the best way of obtaining the necessary training, and
can be either connected to a large circus or else totally (3)_____. Circus
performers need to be physically fit and possess the necessary mental
strength to cope with the intense training and obvious demands of the job.
They are also flexible and able to (4)_____ to new situations, particularly as
circuses are frequently on the move.
(5)_____, for many jobs within the circus, good concentration is
essential. Fire-eaters and acrobats cannot afford to be careless as mistakes
can have disastrous consequences.
(Adapted from Read for First)
1. A. area B. field C. sector D. range
2. A. A few B. A little C. Lot of D. Much
3. A. dependent B. independent C. undependable D. dependable
4. A. manage B. fail C. adapt D. look forward
5. A. Consequently B. However C. Therefore D. Additionally
VIII. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
From bicycle helmets to food packaging, from water bottles to
toothbrushes, plastic makes our lives easier. However, its production and use
are completely out of control. Factories produced more plastic in the first
decade of this 21st century than in the entire 20th century.
Plastic is ruining our beaches, choking the oceans, and poisoning our
food chain. The consequences are still not fully understood, but they are likely
to be devastating. We need to spurn and reject the main culprits: plastic bags,
packaging and single-use water bottles - a wasteful obscenity. These make up
the bulk of plastic garbage. Because tiny fragments of plastic in our oceans
are so small and look like food, they are being gobbled up by marine animals,
which in turn are eaten by larger ones - which in turn are consumed by us.
In Bangladesh and Kenya, they have done away with plastic bags
completely and replaced them with natural jute bags. The UK has joined the
growing number of countries which impose a tax on plastic bags, and the
small town of Modbury has banned them completely. Supermarkets around
the world are beginning to introduce plastic-free aisles, where none of the
goods on sale are wrapped in plastic. At stake is the future of beaches, our
seas, and the food chain. It is nothing short of an environmental emergency.
(Adapted from Oxford Headway Upper Intermediate)
1. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A. Save Our Beaches from Human Activities
B. Problems Facing Humans in 20th & 21th Centuries
C. Plastic Waste - The Main Cause of Ruining Our Food Chain
D. A Planet Poisoned by Plastic
2. In paragraph 1, plastic products are getting out of control because …
A. they are essential in our daily lives.
B. more of them have been manufactured nonstop in recent years.
C. they help simplify our everyday needs.
D. more of them will be in great demand within the next century.
3. The word ones in paragraph 2 refers to …
A. tiny fragments C. marine animals
B. oceans D. main culprits
4. The phrase nothing short of in paragraph 3 is CLOSEST in meaning to …
A. certainly B. typically C. emotionally D. doubtfully
5. All of the following statements are TRUE according to the passage, EXCEPT
A. Many plastic factories fully understand how harmful their products are.
B. Plastic waste threatens marine lives to various degrees.
C. Only Bangladesh and Kenya have taken action against plastic use.
D. Humans in the 20 & 21 centuries tend to avoid eating seafood.
IX. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your
answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
In a modern world where time is money, how have our reading habits
been affected? Are we reading more quickly or do we just expect the things
we read to be a great deal condensed into manageable chunks? The answer
perhaps lies in the type of text you are reading.
When we’re reading online, we skip rapidly from site to site, from
screen to screen in search of what we want. Does this mean that as readers
we now have far less patience and much shorter attention spans than we
used to? Not necessarily. Much of this activity is actually skimming or
scanning to check whether something is useful or interesting and whether we
want to read on. In many ways, we spend no less time on each piece of online
text than we would traditionally have done, flicking through a print
newspaper or magazine. In either case, it is not until a headline catches our
eyes that we slow down and take a bit longer to properly read the text.
For those writing for an online environment, this means finding more
creative ways of grabbing the reader’s attention before they click through to
the next link. Including the key information up front makes it more likely that
the time-poor website visitors will realise right away that they are in the right
place. Making key information easier to locate by using bullet points and
simple, descriptive headings will also keep your audience on your page a little
longer as they scroll down and spot more useful stuff coming up.
But what about when we’re reading literature, do the same rules apply?
The average reader works their way through a piece of prose at no more than
about 250-300 words per minute, which is roughly a page of text. If you try to
read through a novel significantly more quickly, then you start to lose a lot of
what makes literature such a pleasure. When we read for pleasure, we are
almost less focused on picking out useful information or key words. Instead,
the language itself and the way the writer puts words together is every bit as
important as the information conveyed. The longer you spend reading a
passage, the more vivid a picture you create in your mind.
Sometimes an escape from the fast-moving internet age is just what
we need, so maybe it’s time to slow down and lose yourself in a good book.
(Adapted from Navigate Workbook Advanced)
1. The passage is mainly about …
A. why we should alternate between different reading styles.
B. what is special about reading a literary text.
C. the best approaches for different types of reading.
D. people’s tendency to be selective about what they read.
2. The word condensed in paragraph 1 is CLOSEST in meaning to …
A. changed B. exchanged C. elaborated D. abridged
 3. In paragraph 2, the author states that …
A. it’s the modern reading habits that shorten readers’ attention spans.
B. people tend to filter out irrelevant information until they find it satisfying
to read.
C. the faster we read, the more useful our information will be.
D. our final reading goal is to find an eye-catching title.
4. The words flicking through in paragraph 2 is CLOSEST in meaning to …
A. navigating B. understanding C. overlooking D. browsing
5. What does the word they in paragraph 3 refer to?
A. your audience C. headings
B. bullet points D. website visitors
6. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Literary texts require less time to understand than print magazines.
B. Without descriptive language, readers are not able to pinpoint pieces of
key information.
C. The kind of text we read has an influence on our reading styles.
D. Today’s readers become more patient with unimportant reading details
than they were before.
7. After reading the whole passage, a reader might …
A. avoid reading articles with more detail-oriented headlines.
B. turn their back to time-consuming literary reading.
C. become conscious of their reading preference and the approach to
each one.
D. be in favour of fiction over mainstream media as the matter of pleasure.

X. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following
questions.
1. Minh left the show very early. He was the first person who did so.
A. Minh, who was the first person to do so, left the show very early.
B. Minh was the first person to leave the show, but he did it very early.
C. Minh was the first person to leave the show very early.
D. Despite leaving the show very early, Minh was the first person to do so.
2. Her plan for an awareness campaign is very interesting. However, it will be
difficult to carry out.
A. Even though her plan for an awareness campaign is very interesting, it
will be difficult to carry out.
B. Despite being difficult, she still continues to carry out her interesting
awareness campaign.
C. In spite of the fact that her awareness campaign is difficult to carry out,
it will be very interesting.
D. Her plan for an awareness campaign is very interesting, so it will be
difficult to carry out.
XI. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the
underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions.
1. Karl didn’t listen to my advice, and his test results were disastrous.
A. If Karl listened to my advice, his test results wouldn’t be disastrous.
B. Karl’s test result wouldn’t have been disastrous if he had listened to my
advice.
C. Without my advice, Karl’s test results would have been disastrous.
D. I wish Karl would listen to my advice since his test results are
disastrous.
2. It’s a good idea for parents to limit their teenagers’ screen time nowadays.
A. It’s not necessary for teenagers to be limited their screen time by their
parents.
B. Parents’ teenagers are not allowed unlimited screen time nowadays.
C. Parents have to limit their teenagers’ screen time nowadays.
D. Parents ought to limit their teenagers’ screen time nowadays.
3. ‘Don’t forget to raise your knees high when you jog on the spot’, said our
sports coach.
A. Our sports coach reminded us to raise your knees high when you jog
on the spot.
B. Our sports coach reminded us to raise our knees high when we jog on
the spot.
C. Our sports coach told us to raise our knees high when they jog on the
spot.
D. Our sports coach reminded us to raise their knees high when we jog on
the spot.

XII. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the

sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
1. Having not finished the homework before classes, James wasn’t allowed
A B
to stay in the classroom by his music teacher.
C D
2. Protected areas where many flora and fauna species are kept safe are called
A B C
natural reserve, national park and wildlife sanctuary.
D
3. In order to prove Smith is guilty of murdering his mother, we must find
A B
an evidence before it’s too late.
C D
THE END