PRACTICE TEST

I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase.

1. I only ________ we were running low on petrol after we had passed the last filling station.
A. observed B. witnessed C. beheld D. noticed
2. Peter agreed reluctantly to sign the form but looked extremely ill at ______________.
A. agreement B. ease C. heart D. soul
3. Kate spent the morning __________ along the sea-front.
A. hiking B. rambling C. strolling D. crawling
4. We decided to celebrate by going out and painting the town ___________.
A. red B. purple C. gold D. brown
5. The bus stopped at the traffic lights with a ___________ of the brakes.
A. screech B. howl C. crash D. grind
6. The saucepans fell onto the floor with a great _____________.
A. clatter B. rattle C. crunch D. squeak
7. With the end of childhood, and the onset of_________ , young people experience profound
changes.
A. teenage B. childhood C. middle-age D. adolescence
8. Jean has a very easy-going _________ , which is why she is so popular.
A. role B. characteristic C. personality D. reputation
9. The barman began to ________ his fists in a threatening manner so I left.
A. gather B. fold C. bundle D. clench
10. We have just having a friendly _________ about football.
A. chat B. whisper C. gossip D. report
11. Employees who have a ____________ are encouraged to discuss it with the management.
A. hindrance B. grievance C. disadvantage D. disturbance
12. The police are ____________ certain who the culprit is.
A. in some ways B. more or less C. here and there D. by and by
13. Women’s participation ____________ in the workforce was lower in the countries which had less-
developed economies.
A. scale B. speed C. velocity D. rate
14. Although the patient received intensive treatment, there was no ____ improvement in her
condition.
A. indecipherable B. legible C. discernible D. intelligible
15. I’ve been doing my best to reduce the backlog but I must admit that I’ve hardly put ____________
in the problem so far.
A. a dent B. a foot C. a brave face D. damper
16. From time to time he ____________ himself to a weekend in a five-star hotel.
A. craves B. indulges C. treats D. benefits
17. Men still expect their jobs to take _________.
A. superiority B. imposition C. priority D. seniority
18. According to a recent survey, most people are on good _________ with their neighbours.
A. terms B. relations C. relationships D. acquaintance
19. The police have been ordered not to __________ if the students attack them.
A. combat B. rebuff C. retaliate D. challenge
20. The police finally arrested the __________ criminal
A. famous B. renowned C. respectable D. notorious
II. Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or adverbial particle
1. I'm very glad to get this awful business ______ with.
2. I can offer you a temporary job ________ a clerk.
3. Queen Victoria was not amused ________ naughty stories.
4. I think the chief let us go simply _____ ______ sympathy for our plight.
 5. Everyone was shocked _______ hearing your bereavement.
6. Herbert was a man _______ few words but he was a man _______ a sense of when to say the
right thing.
7. Every vote ________ me will be a vote ________ the party I oppose.
8. I was totally baffled _________ Tim's behavior.
9. Stop running everybody __________.
10. Guess who turned __________ at our party last night? Your ex-boyfriend, Harry.
III. Supply the correct form of the words in brackets
1. The _________ accused the government of an evasion of responsibility.(OPPOSE)
2. Two members of the expedition died from _________. (EXHAUST)
3. Carol's new catering business turned out to be very ___________. ( BENEFIT)
4. The weather _________ changes for the worse whenever we go on holiday. (VARY)
5. We have already made _________ progress towards solving the problem. (SUBSTANCE)
6. You can travel from one end of the park to the other on a __________ railway. (MINIMISE)
7. At the moment there is no _________ of the Prime Minister resigning. (LIKE)
8. Is it possible to _________ between a hobby and an interest ? (DISTINCT)
9. Our city has some open spaces, but they are not very __________. (ACCESS)
10. Two people have been arrested for illegal possession of _________ in a police raid. (ARM)
IV. Choose the best option to complete the following passage.
Crime-reversing the trend
Crime, as we are all aware, has been a growing problem all over the world in the last thirty
years. But we are not (1)________ against crime. Much is being done and more can be done to reverse
the trend. You can play a part in it.
The first step towards preventing crime is understanding its (2)_________. More crime is
against property, not (3)__________, and most crime is not carried out by professionals; nor is it
carefully planned. Property crimes (4)________ on the easy opportunity. They are often
(5)__________ by adolescents and young men, the majority of whom stop offending as they grow
older – the (6)________ age for offending is fifteen. Also, and not surprisingly, the (7)________ of
being a victim of crime (8)________ greatly depending on where you live.
This (9)________ by criminals on the easy opportunity is the (10)________ to much crime
prevention. Motor cars, for example, are a sitting target for the criminal. Surveys have shown that
approximately one in five drivers do not always (11)________ to secure their cars by locking all the
doors and shutting all the windows, add in 30 percent of domestic burglaries the burglar simply walks
in without having to use (12)________. If opportunities like these did not exist, criminals would have a
much harder time. The chances are that many crimes would not be committed, which would release
more police time for (13)______ serious crime.
Of course, the primary responsibility for (14)______ with crime rests with the police and the
courts, but, if you care about improving the (15)_______ of life for yourself and your community,
there many ways you can help reverse the trend.
1. A. unprepared B. hopeless C. weak D. powerless
2. A. type B. nature C. reason D. method
3. A. the public B. the victim C. residents D. citizens
4. A. increase B. happen C. develop D. thrive
5. A. committed B. started C. performed D. done
6. A. top B. major C. maximum D. peak
7. A. percentage B. risk C. rate D. seriousness
8. A. adjusts B. adapts C. transforms D. varies
9. A. reliance B. seizing C. awareness D. taking
10. A. answer B. key C. way D. method
 11. A. trouble B. care C. bother D. ensure
12. A. force B. threat C. tools D. tricks
13. A. removing B. facing C. dealing D. tackling
14. A. containing B. destroying C. coping D. lighting
15. A. quality B. peacefulness C. enjoyment D. way
V. There are 10 errors in the following passage. Identify, then underline and correct them.
Drug abuse is like a communicable disease it spreads - by example, by word of mouth, and by
imitation. Drug abuse is certainly increasing, but so are the number of young people who has tried
drugs and want out. As we provide treatment services for them, these young people become able to tell
other youth that the drug scene is not as great as they thought they was, before they got hooked. And,
of greater importance, they are beleived by their contemporaries before experimentation become habit.
Parents can help use drug usage by setting example, by knowledge, and by understanding. If they
are to talk to their children about drugs, they must be informed; usually they know far less about drugs
than do their children.
Ideally, before their child is tempted to experiment, they will have be able to explain to him the
undesirability of the drugged life. What is even more convincing to young people, they will have been
able to communicate of him the actual damage that a drug abuser does to their body.
VI. Supply the correct form of the capitalised words to complete the following sentences.

VII. Fill each of the numbered balnks in the following passage with ONE suitable word.
For over two hundred years, scholars have shown an interest in the way children learn to speak and
understand their first language. Several small-scale studeies were carried out, especially towards the
end of the nineteeth century, (1)___________ data recorded in parental diaries. But detailed,
systematic investigation did not begin until the middle decades of the twentieth century, when the tape
recorder (2)______________ into routine use. This made it possible to keep a permanet record of
(3)_____________, and thus produce a detailed and accurate description. The problems that have to be
(4)____________ when investigating child speech are quite different from (5)____________
encountered when working with adults. It is not possible to carry out certain kinds of experiments,
because aspects of children’s cogntive development, such as their ability to ___________ attention or
to remember instructions, may not be sifficiently advanced. (6)____________ is it easy to get children
to (7)____________systematic judgements about language – a (8)____________ that is virtually
impossible below the age of three. Moreover, anyone who has tried to make a tape recording of a
representative sample of a child’s speech knows/ realised/ understands how frustrating this can be.
Some children, it seems, are innately programmed to (9)___________ off as soon as they notice a tape
recorder (10)____________ switched on.
Task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The bar graph shows the number of boys and girls playing sport in an English town in 2012.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons
where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

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Task 2: The growing number of overweight people is putting a strain on the health care system in an
effort to the health issues involved. Some people think that the best way to deal with this problem is to
introduce more physical education lessons in the school curriculum. To what extent do you agree or
disagree?
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