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1. We owe the name and the concept of Atlantis to

Plato. It was first mentioned in his dialogues Timaeus 3. ______. It’s a piece of paper listing previous
and Critias, where he claims to be reporting a qualifications and experience. Increasing reliance on
conversation that had taken place between his paper qualifications and the multiplication of the
ancestor, Solon, and an Egyptian priest. The number of qualifications now available have led to a
dialogues tell us the overwhelming of a culture by a situation where this particular qualifications list and
catastrophe which by modern chronology would have its presentation are an essential first step towards
occurred about 9600 BC, at the end of the last Ice getting one’s foot in the door of a job.
Age. _____. Therefore, it’s hard for archaeologists to
believe that it’s fictitious and this has given rise to a A) In most of the job applications people tell lies or
host of speculations about where Atlantis might have they pretend that they have passed all the subjects
been and even to expeditions aiming to discover,
vestiges of the civilisation itself. in examinations that they’ve failed
B) Almost everyone who applies for a job these days
A) Nevertheless, the story doesn’t appeal to the must expect to attend an interview but whether or
logical reader not they should have curriculum
B) Atlantis was said to have been under the Atlantic C) Companies are employing professional assessors
Ocean in the accounts of Plato to find out in the course of interviews whether
C) In the dialogues, epic voyages in primitive craft candidates can substantiate their claims
proved that they could have sailed immense D) If you have failed to keep any job for very long,
distances simply by drifting with the current link a number of them together to suggest they all
D) Atlantis was destroyed by a group of primitive formed part of the same job
huge creatures which had human intelligence but a E) Many people prepare some documents related to
body of a monster their past before a job interview
E) The account is so realistic that you can even read
a detailed description of the geography, architecture
and social life of an advanced civilisation

4. Cosmology is the scientific inquiry into what the

universe is like. By making assumptions that are not
contradicted by the behaviour of the observable
universe, scientists build models, or theories, that
2. Every year about two and a half million animals are attempt to describe the universe as a whole,
used in scientific experiments in Britain. The number including its origin and its future. _____. Then the
has fallen in the last few years but it still provokes model must be modified or discarded. Cosmologists
the vigorous opposition of defenders of animal rights. usually assume that the universe, except for small
The scientists who carry out the experiments justify irregularities, has an identical appearance to all
them by the argument that thousands of people owe observers. This unproven concept is called the
their lives to medicines and techniques first cosmological principle.
evaluated and made safe by animal testing; in their
opinion, the benefit for humanity outweighs the A) In this way, they can examine the background of
inevitable suffering inflicted on animals. _____. Their
contention is that animals have feelings, like us, the events
which ought to be respected. B) These theories explain us how or when we came
into being
A) However, some thoughtless people are against
C) They use each model until something is found that
this because they don't care for human life
contradicts it
B) Logically, each side cites the aspects of the case,
D) They can speculate on our future by using several
likely to have the greatest impact on uncommitted
equipments during the observation
public opinion
E) Immortality of the universe has been proved
C) Then, it may be a better idea to make use of the
through these observations
findings of similar research in other countries
D) Animal rights activists, on the other hand, believe
that they should never be subjected to experiments
E) The government demanded from the scientists to
obtain as much information as possible from
experiments

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5. While it can be argued that the early Victorians 7. Before a child is 14 years old, he or she views 11
invented Christmas, reinvented would be a more thousand murders on TV. He or she begins to believe
accurate expression. _____. In fact, the idea that that there is nothing strange about fights, killings,
Christmas should be a time for feasting and and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that
merrymaking can be traced back to pagan festivals people become more violent after watching a certain
like the Roman Saturnalia, predating Christianity program. They may even do the things that they saw
itself, and the traditional Christmas pudding, in a violent program. _____. After it appeared on TV in
containing nuts and raisins, was already on the menu the United States, twenty-nine people tried to kill
two hundred years ago. The family in a Christmas themselves in a way similar to an event in the film.
Carol were following tradition in having goose for
their dinner, though turkey has now taken its place as A) A lot of children like watching horror and action
the cornerstone of the feast. movies including violence
A) Because many of the features of the modem B) Such movies as Harry Potter, The Ice Age. Shrek
Christmas are much older and Finding Nemo are among the films the children in
B) In the Victorian period Christmas was celebrated the USA enjoy watching
just in the family and nobody else was invited C) Today even cartoons and animations have
C) Therefore like Christmas - Carols were also first violence in them
invented in this age D) An example is the effect of the movie “The Deep
D) Christmas tree and Santa Clause are all imported Hunter”
from Germany E) Children are affected by the amount of violence
E) Since it’s been too recent for the Christmas to they watch on TV.
celebrate Christmas

8. Most of the world is changing rapidly. However, some

North American Indian leaders - called elders - do not
6. “Aborigines” are the first or original inhabitants of a want to give up traditions, their old ways. Technology
country. The Australian Aborigines have been living in does not impress them. Progress is not always good.
Australia for over 40,000 years. At one stage in their _____. Therefore, they keep the stories, the religion,
history, there were possibly over a million Aborigines. and the traditions alive.
_____. Today, only about 100,000 survive. Although
some still lead a traditional life in the remote and A) These native people of Canada, the United States,
desert areas of the Australian outback, many now
live in poor conditions in cities and towns. and Mexico want to teach their children the old ways,
their history and culture
A) The Aboriginal people know there is a long way to B) However, they can easily adapt to technological
go before they win back their land improvements
B) The huge rock, in the centre of Sydney, is of great C) Written literature kept on the computer is the way
importance to them they prefer rather than teaching orally
C) They are leading a luxurious life in their palaces in D) Because they even borrowed from others’ cultures
the biggest cities of the country via internet
D) It is clear that there has been a sharp increase in E) And this makes them fairly open to the new
their population developments in science
E) However, when the first white settlers arrived in
the 18th century and stole their land, many
Aborigines died fighting to protect it

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9. _____. Wherever they go, people turn out in the 11. Many people assume that music is mediated solely in
thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying the right brain. That is not so. It is true that the right
to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colourfully brain recognizes chords and melodies and seems to
dressed idols. They transported in their chauffeur- mediate pure and slow tones. _____. Fast music, such
driven Rolls-Royces, private permanent entourage of as bluegrass, requires judgements about sequencing
managers, press agents, and bodyguards. and rhythm, and for this, the left hemisphere lends
Photographs of them appear regularly in the press its services.
and all their comings and goings are reported,
because, like royalty, they are news. A) However, the left hemisphere is also involved in
music
A) A man working in a steady job and looking forward
B) As a result of this, the right brain cannot be
to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect
dominant in listening to music which is not slow
very high rewards
C) Both halves of the brain are involved in our mental
B) The financial rewards the famous actors receive
activities such as solving a puzzle
for the sacrifice they do cannot be calculated
D) When words are involved, again the right brain
C) Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was
dominates
once the prerogative only of royalty
E) The two hemisphere have acted as partners in
D) Most of the singers well-known all around the
language and communication
world say that they feel lonely because people ignore
them
E) For every famous star, there are hundreds of
others struggling to earn a living
12. A wise person thinks about the results of simple
actions. He or she thinks beyond the situation and
into the future. Part of being wise is intelligence.
_____. In this way, he or she can easily communicate
with people. A wise person is also someone who
10. For many years, people living in remote areas relied mulls causes and outcomes of his or her movements
on the sears or Montgomery Word’s catalogues to over is a wise.
purchase the necessities of life. These “wish books”
as they were often called helped people improve the A) Then a wise person doesn’t have to use a polite
quality of their lives. Nowadays, every household in
the country receives a barrage of various catalogues language with people
selling everything from electric golf cards to padded B) This is what most people look down on
coat hangers. _____. But so often these items are just C) Another component of it is understanding people
superfluous, absurd trifles.
well
A) Rather than improve the quality of our lives, such D) But sometimes people who have standard
items detract from it by wasting our time and money intelligence may do wise actions
B) The descriptions of these items suggest that they, E) Only intelligence can lead one to being wise
too, will help improve the quality of our lives by
providing convenience, comfort, and shortcuts to
improve our appearance.
C) Unfortunately, some of these clever items that
claim to save time might actually end up making us
waste time
D) All these items, whether they are designed to help
us in the kitchen, comfort us in the bathroom, or
improve the way we look and feel, are for the most
part unnecessary
E) Cluttering up our coffee tables and end tables
were those stacks of catalogues offering much more
such useless trifles

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13. In almost all major cities of the world, there are 15. ______. For example, customers see advertisements
homeless people. _____. Most of them do not have in magazines and newspapers. They often see
jobs because of the bad economic situation in the television ads or hear ads on the radio. The signs
country. Their families can no longer take care of along roads are advertisements. It is not unusual for
them because of the bad economy, so they live on people to get advertisements in the mail. However,
the streets. Taking care of these homeless people is a manufacturers are always looking for the best form of
serious problem because of their increasing numbers advertising. They know that the best ads
in many cities and countries. demonstrate products.

A) It can be observed that there is a sharp decrease A) In industrialised countries people are in short of
in their population raw material
B) However, almost all of them led a luxurious life in B) A television makes its money from the price
their bygone days people pay for it and also from the advertising it
C) They constitute only a small part of the whole carries
population, so they can be ignored C) Advertisement companies are thought to be
D) In cities such as Moscow, New York, and Warsaw, unimaginative by the employees
homeless people live in parks, railroad stations, D) Mass media is a phrase often used to describe
hallways, or any other place they can find ways of giving information and entertainment to very
E) Nobody wants to be homeless in a big city large numbers of people
E) Manufacturers have various ways of advertising
products

14. Gasoline comes from oil; oil is the raw material from
the Earth that is used for many important products.
_____. In other words, petroleum is a nonrenewable
resource. When the supply of this important raw 16. ______. In neurotic anxiety, the person fears that his
material is gone, there will be no more. instincts will get out of control and cause him to
behave in ways that will be punished. In moral
A) It had been the basic material used for the anxiety, the person feels conscience-stricken or
quality about unacceptable things that he feels he
construction of weapons in the army has done or even contemplates. Both neurotic and
B) However, the world’s supply of oil, petroleum, is moral anxiety are derivatives of reality anxiety, the
running out fear of real dangers in the external world.
C) The oil stock in the world today is sufficient and A) When anxiety can’t be handled by realistic
there is no risk for the future methods, the organism resorts to unrealistic defences
D) Without this vital raw material, there can be
nothing regarding technology B) The sequence of events in panic attack has been
E) Thanks to God, it seems we’ll have no problems in external danger, perception of danger and reality
finding oil in the future anxiety
C) In the psychodynamic view, the defence
mechanisms of people are primitive and desperate
D) Anxiety differs from other painful states because
the patient has a quality of consciousness during the
attack
E) Freud distinguished three kinds of anxiety

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17. _____. However, new technology may soon make this 19. When people first began to try to fly in the 18th
possible. Cars will have computers to tell drivers century, they used hot-air balloons. However, it was
which roads have the least traffic. That way the not really possible to control the balloons. They went
drivers will not waste time in traffic jams. There will wherever the wind was blowing. The idea of a real
also be less pollution because the car engines will be flying machine remained a dream for a long time to
running less. These new cars will be known as “smart come. _____. That year Wilbur and Orville Wright
cars.” made their first successful flight in an aeroplane.

A) There hadn’t been any such vehicle running with A) The two brothers who managed to fly across the
water ever to have been invented Atlantic Ocean wrote a scientific book about flying
B) According to the recent statistics, pollution caused experience over the Atlantic Ocean
by car engines will result in chaos B) People couldn’t fly in a modern vehicle until the
C) Most of the car manufacturers have been in a twentieth century
harsh rivalry to produce more advanced cars than C) The dream finally came true in 1903
each other for a long time D) The years between 1900 and 1910 were very
D) Have you ever dreamt of driving in such a car that important for the airplane industries in Europe
you can fly in? E) The balloons have been used as an entertainment
E) The idea of a car that knows where to go may means in the world
seem impossible

20. In order to answer some questions about life, we

have to consider the different development rates of
18. One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at
least one bank-issued credit card. _____. They give various animals. We know, for example, that
their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, mammalian lifespans vary from a few weeks to more
and hotels, at home, across the country, and even than a century. But is this a “real” distinction in terms
abroad, and they make many banking services of a mammal’s own perception of time and rate?
available as well. More and more of these credit cards Does a rat really live “less” than an elephant? ___.
have magnetic strips on the back which can be read The heart beats more rapidly and metabolism
by automatic tellers, making it possible to withdraw proceeds at a greatly quick rate. In fact, for several
or deposit money whether or not the local branch criteria of relative time, all mammals live about the
bank is open. same amount.

A) Actually the card adds little to people’s benefit in A) Then all living things involving people would
practice breathe about the same number of times during their
B) Computer is relied on more by manufacturers lives
nowadays B) Laws of scaling dictate that small, warm-blooded
C) Such a technology helps physicians and others in animals live at a faster pace than larger relatives
health fields to monitor patients' conditions C) Our methods of measuring time were not
D) These small plastic rectangles have truly appropriate for all human beings
remarkable abilities D) Human biology often provides a poor model for
E) Then, “a cashless society" is not on the horizon. the struggles of other organisms
It’s already here E) So why do we put the rats in zoos as well?

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21. ______. Because of this, they were known as “prize- 23. Pumas are large, cat-like animals that are found in
fighters”. However, boxing was very crude, for there America. When reports came into London Zoo that a
were no rules and a prize-fighter could be seriously wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of
injured or even killed during a match. London, they were not taken seriously. _____. Because
the descriptions given by people who claimed to
A) One of the most colourful figures in boxing history have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
was Daniel Mendoza
A) Therefore, the hunt for the puma began in a small
B) The use of gloves was not introduced until 1860
village where a woman picking blackberries saw “a
C) The Marquis of Queensberry drew up the first set
large cat” only five yards away from her
of rules in 1862
B) However, as the evidence began to accumulate,
D) This sport was adored by rich and poor alike
experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate
E) Boxers fought with bare fists for prize money
C) So the experts were now fully convinced that the
animal was a puma
D) it’s disturbing to think that a dangerous wild
animal is still at large in the quiet countryside
22. Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to E) The hunt has been going on for several weeks, but
extremes to provide their readers with unimportant
facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been the puma has not been caught
instructed by a well-known magazine to write an
article on the president’s palace in a new African
republic. _____. The article began: “Hundreds of steps
lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s
palace.” The editor at once sent the journalist a 24. There was a time when the owners of shops and
telegram instructing him to find out the exact businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of
number of steps and the height of the wall. money to gangsters in return for “protection”. If the
money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would
A) The journalist immediately set out to obtain these quickly put a man out of business by destroying his
important facts, but it took him a long time to send shop. _____. As long ago as the fourteenth ' century,
them an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the
remarkable discovery that people would rather pay
B) From the initial sentence to the last full-stop, the large sums of money than have their work destroyed
article will be perfect enough to satisfy the readers, by gangsters.
especially the editor
A) The police tried hard to cover up these gangsters’
C) When the article arrived, the editor read the first
illegal activities
sentence and then refused to publish it
B) When he died at the age of eighty, the
D) However, the journalist sent, the editor a telegram
government gave him a state funeral
in which he informed the editor that he had been
C) Paying “protection money” is very popular in the
arrested
United Kingdom today
E) The new president will not allow the journalist to
D) Obtaining “protection money” is not a modern
count the number of the steps in his palace
crime
E) He has been regarded as a noble gangster since
the last decade

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25. _____. She was carrying 1316 passengers and a crew

of 891. Even by modern standards, the 66.000 ton.
She was a colossal ship. At that time, however, she
was not only the largest ship that had ever been built
but was regarded as unsinkable, for she had sixteen
watertight compartments. Even if two of these were
flooded, she would still be able to float. The tragic
sinking of this great liner will always be remembered,
for she went down on her first voyage with heavy loss
of life.

A) The great ship, Titanic, sailed for New York from

Southampton on April 10th, 1912
B) Catherine Mansfield was the creator of the biggest
voyager with the most modern standards
C) 1500 lives were lost in the tragic and shocking
crash in the Atlantic Ocean
D) The captain realized to his horror that the plane
was falling rapidly, for both of its engines had already
been broken
E) The cry waters of North Atlantic have caused
many disastrous events that will never be forgotten

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Answer Key:

1: B 14: B
2: D 15: E
3: E 16: E
4: C 17: E
5: A 18: D
6: E 19: C
7: D 20: B
8: A 21: E
9: C 22: C
10: B 23: B
11: A 24: A
12: C 25: A
13: D

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