PRACTICE TEST 13

SECTION A: LISTENING (30 points)

Part I. Listen to Thomas Lambert talking about his life as a ballet dancer. Choose the correct answer.
(10 points)
1. How did Thomas feel about doing performing arts?
A. It was important to maintain a family tradition.
B. It was something he was born to do.
C. He wasn’t talented enough to become a pianist.
D. he found it interesting and important.
2. Thomas went to different ballet schools because
A. he liked performing in different places.
B. he enjoyed travelling to different countries.
C. he needed to find out what suited him best.
D. he wanted to get the widest range of experience.
3. What does Thomas like best about ballet?
A. It’s difficult to get it right.
B. It involves more than movement.
C. Each ballet tells a story and it attracts him.
D. It’s fun performing in front of an audience.
4. What does Thomas like best about awards?
A. Some of them are worth more than others.
B. It is very important to him.
C. Dancers have to win them while they are young.
D. It’s difficult to win them because dancers have a short career.
5. Thomas says that by the time he stops dancing he wants to have
A. studied more about ballet.
B. started to teach ballet to new students.
C. increased audiences for ballet.
D. made the most of his time on stage.

Part II. Listen and fill the information you hear in the numbered spaces. NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS
OR A NUMBER for each space. (10 points)

Transport from Airport to Milton

Example Answer
Distance: …….147…….. miles
Options
* Car hire
- don’t want to drive
* (1)…………..…
- expensive
* Greyhound bus
-$ 15 single , (2)……….… return
- direct to the City centre
- long (3)……………..…
* Airport (4)…..………..…
- door to door service
- need to (5)……………..…

Part III. You will hear a conversation between a girl and her father about what she’s going to study
next year. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. Put a (ü) in the box under A for YES and
under B for No. (10 points)
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 Yes NO
Statements
(A) (B)
0.Charlotte wants to study Spanish because she thinks Spanish is easy.
1. Chartlotte’s grandmother was born in England.

2. Charlotte’s father is sorry he can’t speak Chinese.

3. Charlotte’s father is keen on her studying in China.

4. Charlotte plans to go to China alone.

5. Charlotte and her father agree that her mother wants to visit China.

SECTION B. PHONETICS (10 points)

Part I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest. (5 points)
1. A. breathtaking B. breathe C. mouth D. monthly

2. A. spectacular B. sandal C. affordable D. negative

3. A. career B. peer C. pear D. appear

4. A. shortage B. carriage C. teenage D. storage

5. A. climber B. subtle C. debtor D. probable

Part II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group.(5 points)
1. A. volunteer B. understand C. temperature D. scientific
2. A. accidental B. sensitivity C. beneficial D. industrial
3. A. television B. information C. economic D. engineer
4. A. adolescence B. metropolitant C. multicultural D. spectacular
5. A. swallow B. extinct C. crisis D. journey
SECTION C. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (65 points)
Part I. Choose the word, phrase or expression which best completes each sentence. (15 points)
1. He thought the talk was fascinating. His friend, _______, fell asleep halfway through it.
A. although B. nevertheless C. therefore D. B or C
2. All of the students_______ the seniors will receive their grades in two weeks.
A. but B. so C. and D. or
3. The press puts _____ on the police forces who were unable to cope with the crowd of savage hooligans.
A. fault B. charge C. blame D. guilt
4. We couldn’t stay long so we only wished Mark many happy ________ of his birthday and hurried to the
airport.
A. days B. returns C. moments D. regards
5. "Did you like the novel that I gave you last week?”
- “ _________ the novels that I’ve read, I enjoyed this one the most.”
A. All of B. Of all C. For all D. From all
6. “Excuse me, is this seat free?” - “_____________”
A. No, you can’t sit here. C. Sorry, it is taken.
B. Yes, it is seated by a boy. D. Yes, but I don’t know so.
7. Noone who was invited to the party last night came, ___________?
A. didn’t they B. weren’t they C. did they D. was he
8. He may be shy now, but he’ll soon come out of his ______ when he meets the right girl.
A. shoe B. shell C. shed D. hole
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9. “By the way, have you heard the one about the Welshman, the Irishman and the pig?”
“Yes, we have. That joke’s as old as______”.
A. Solomon B. the hills C. a dinosaur D. Jupiter
10. Just think, ______ two years’ time, we’ll be 18!
A. under B. over C. after D. in
11. The referee called off the soccer game because of the darkness.
A. canceled B. postponed C. put off D. called up
12. Matthew has changed his ______ several times about buying a new car.
A. sight B. view C. head D. mind
13. We're living in an apartment for now, but soon we'll be looking for a house to buy.
A. in a hurry B. to shake hands C. for the time being D. up to now
14. Playing ____ violin was to be ____ great adventure for him. He knew _______ little about it.
A. ø/a/a B. the/ ø /a C. a/a/a D. the/a/ ø
15. Of the two shirts, this one is ___________
A. the prettiest B. the most pretty C. more pretty D. the prettier
Part II. Give the correct form of the words (20 points)
Computer skills in the office
To be (0) successfully in the bussiness market, it is vital for a company to keep up 0.Success
with all the latest technological development. Nowadays it is (1)____________ 1. Wide
accepted that running a company without computers, in particular, is virtually 2. Possible
(2)____________ . This is why businesses are so keen to hire the best people available
for their technology departments. 3. employ
Apart from the needs of the technology department, it is important that almost all 4. Familiar
(3)________ _ have some degree of (4) ___________ with personal or desktop 5. Complete
computers, even if this involves no more than the (5) __________ of a basic computer 6. Comfort
course. Like all new things, however, most people will only become (6)__________ 7. Difficult
with using computers after practical experience . 8. Organise
Thanks to computers, today’s businesses are run and managed with far less 9. Prepare
(7)__________ than companies could hope to achieve in the past. For example,
computers enable the (8)_________ of huge amounts of information and greatly speed 10. Like
up the (9) ___________ of documents and reports.
In short, although the average businessperson has no need to be a technology expert,
they are (10)__________ to get very far without at least a basic knowledge of
computers.
Part III. Give the correct tense or form of the verbs in brackets. (20 points)
1. You must tell me the truth. I insist on ( tell ) _____________the truth.
2. But for his help, her project (not complete) ______________so sucessfully.
3. (Not know) ___________ where the theater was, she asked for directions at the hotel reception.
4. There you are! I ( wait) ____________ for two hours. Where’ve you been?
5. Under the tree (some students/ stand) ___________ now.
6. I feel as if my head (be) ____________on fire now, doctor.
7. He would rather he (visit) _________________Halong bay last year.
8. I'd love ( go) __________ to the party, but it was impossible.
9. One of the most urgent problems (face) _________ us now is the need to control population growth.
10. It’s high time we (do) _________ something to save the earth now.
SECTION D. READING COMPREHENSION (50 points)
Part I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the following paragraph. (20 points)
Psychologists have long been interested in ___(0) how___ we judge intelligence in strangers. Now
scientists have designed tests ___________ try to discover which cues help people to judge IQ accurately,
and which cause them to get ____________ wrong. High school pupils were videotaped answering thought-
provoking questions and the videos were_________shown to groups of judge’s who were asked to assess

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the students’ physical type and monitor a variety of behavioural cues. Next the judges were asked to rate the
students’ intelligence. At the same time, each student was ___________ required to sit a standard IQ test.
Certain cues matched the _ of the IQ tests more closely than others. _________ speaking quickly,
using a lot of words or displaying ease of understanding caused the judges to rate the students’ intelligence
highly, and was reflected in the IQ tests __________ cues seemed to give judges an entirely false
impression of intelligence as measured by the IQ test. _________ the cues that led judges to assess students
as dull were factors ____________ as using halting speech or slang. Cues that led judges to view students
as bright included talking loudly and using proper English. ____________ of these straits correlated with
measured IQ, however.
Part II. Choose the best word A, B, C or D to fill in spaces in the following passage. (10 points)
NEW HUNT FOR LIFE IN SPACE
British space scientists are planning to join the American in the race to find evidence of life on
(1)___________ planets. Alan Penny and his team at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have designed a
telescope that is 40 times more powerful than Hubble. Known as ‘Darwin’, his telescope could tell if planets 50
(2) ___________ years away have any kind of life on them. Two days (3) ___________, NASA scientists had
shown a proof that one of Jupiter’s moons could support life, Penny announced that his telescope may be
included in a European Space Agency mission. The Darwin project, with a (4) ___________ of 500 million, is
on a short list of two proposals. If approved it will probably be (5) ___________around 2020, its destination
somewhere between Mars and Jupiter. The blueprint is actually for five telescopes positioned 50 meters apart in
space, slowly circling a (6) ___________ processing station. The combined data from these telescopes would
build up a full picture of a planet, picking out faint images that have never been seen before. Darwin would not
be able to take detailed photographs of the planets it (7) ___________, but Penny believes a second- generation
telescope could be sent up to do this. He claims it is worthwhile mapping the universe around our
(8)___________ galaxy, even though these planets lie (9) ___________our reach for the moment. The European
Space Agency will make its decision (10) ___________ Darwin within three years.
1. A. another B. other C. others D. the other
2. A. light B. lighten C. lightening D. lighting
3. A. following B. after C. next D. later
4. A. price B. schedule C. charge D. budget
5. A. driven B. fetched C. launched D. taken
6. A. central B. centre C. middle D. heart
7. A. invents B. searches C. discovers D. looks
8. A. alone B. same C. one D. own
9. A. out B. toward C. beyond D. over
10. A. of B. on C. about D. with
Part III. Read the passage and choose the correct answer. (20 points)
Water scarcity is fast becoming one of the major limiting factors in world crop production. In many
areas, poor agricultural practices have led to increasing desertification and the loss of formerly arable lands.
Consequently, those plant species that are well adapted to survival in dry climates are being looked at for an
answer in developing more efficient crops to grow on marginally arable lands.
Plants use several mechanisms to ensure their survival in desert environments. Some involve purely
mechanical and physical adaptations, such as the shape of the plant's surface, smaller leaf size, and
extensive root systems. Some of the adaptations are related to chemical mechanisms. Many plants, such as
cacti, have internal gums and mucilage which give them water-retaining properties. Another chemical
mechanism is that of the epicuticular wax layer. This wax layer acts as an impervious cover to protect the
plant. It prevents excessive loss of internal moisture. It also protects the plant from external aggression,
which can come from inorganic agents such as gases, or organic agents which include bacteria and plant
pests.
Researchers have proposed that synthetic waxes with similar protective abilities could be prepared
based on knowledge of desert plants. If successfully developed, such a compound could be used to greatly
increase a plant's ability to maintain health in such adverse situations as inadequate water supply, limited
fertilizer availability, attack by pests, and poor storage after harvesting.
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1. This passage deals mainly with ____.
A. desertification B. decreasing water supply
C. factors limiting crop production D. developing efficient plants
2. The word “arable” in the 1st paragraph is closest in meaning to ________.
A. fertile B. parched C. barren D. marsh
3. Which of the following is a mechanical or physical mechanism that desert plants use?
A. The plant’s shape B. The small root system
C. The vast leaf size D. The high water system
4. The word “extensive” in the 2nd paragraph is closest in meaning to _________.
A. spongy B. shallow C. widespread D. comprehensive
5. Which is one of the ways in which the epicuticular wax protects the plant?
A. It helps the plant to avoid excessive moisture intake
B. It helps the plant to attack aggressors.
C. It releases gases against plant pests.
D. It guards against bacteria.
6. The word “It” in the 2nd paragraph refers to________.
A. another chemical mechanism B. the epicuticular wax layer
C. an impervious plant like cover D. the loss of internal moisture
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7. The word “aggression” in the 2 paragraph is closest in meaning to_________.
A. attack B. agitation C. conditions D. surroundings
8. What is an example of an inorganic agent that may attack plants?
A. Bacteria B. Insects C. Gas D. Pests
9. It can be inferred that synthetic stimulate waxes_____.
A. have not been developed yet
B. have not succeeded
C. have been determined to be impervious to organic and inorganic agents
D. have the quality of causing bacteria
10. All of the following are examples of an adverse situation for crops EXCEPT________.
A. inadequate water B. insufficient fertilize
C. pest aggression D. proper storage
SECTION E. WRITING (45 points)
Part I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. (10 points)
1. Keith certainly can’t be held responsible for the accident.
- In no way ____________________________________________________
2. Melissa’s father was very busy, but he still played with her.
- No matter ____________________________________________________
3. “I hear you won the championship. Congratulations!” Jane said to John.
- Jane congratulated ____________________________________________________
4. You must park your car in the right place; otherwise the police will give you a ticket.
- Unless ____________________________________________________
5. They have said that the police caught the man stealing my car.
- The man ____________________________________________________
Part II. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the given one. Use the
given word in brackets. Do not change the bold word. (10points)

1. He doesn’t get on well with his colleagues. terms

____________________________________________________
2. He could not explain why he was always late to work. account
____________________________________________________
3. She doesn’t see or hear from her childhood friends any more. lost
- ___________________________________________________

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4. My boss says I can use his car whenever I want to as long as I am careful. disposal
- ____________________________________________________
5. That man reminds me a lot of my father. bears
- ___________________________________________________
Part III. Writing (25 points)
What are skills for teenagers to reduce stress and pressure ? In about 250 words, write an essay to
express your point of view.
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