PRACTICE TEST 3

SECTION II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1: Choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence. Write your answer A, B, C
or D in the numbered boxes.
1. John’s score on the test is the highest in the class. He ___________.
A. should study very hard B. must have studied very hard
C. must have to study well D. should have studied all the time
2. John contributed fifty dollars, but he wishes he could contribute ___________.
A. the same amount also B. more fifty dollars
C. another fifty D. one other fifty dollars
3. Bill was growing ___________ as I told him the news.
A. angrier and angrier B. more and more angry
C. angry and angry D. more and more angrily
4. I am ___________ tired to think about that problem at the moment.
A. simply B. far too C. much more D. nearly
5. Where’s that ___________ dress that your grandma gave you?
A. lovely, pink, long, silk B. lovely, long, pink, silk
C. pink, long, lovely, silk D. long, pink, silk, lovely
6. Don’t let anyone ___________ you into buying a new car.
A. talk B. turn C. look D. come
7. The question of late payment of the bill was ___________ again at the meeting.
A. raised B. risen C. brought D. taken
8. The building ___________ is being restored.
A. which built more than a century ago B. that built more than a century ago
C. was built more than a century ago D. built more than a century ago
9. I like my new job; the only fly in the ___________ is the fact that I have to work every other
weekend.
A. fat B. porridge C. ointment D. soup
10. Mrs Smith: “There’s someone at the door.” - Mary: “___________ it.”
A. I answer B. I’m answering C. I answered D. I’ll answer

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Choose the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined words or phrases that are
INCORRECT in each of the following questions.

1. In America, the Indians used crude oil for fuel and medicine hundreds of years before the first white
A B C
settlers arrive.
D
2. Have you considered to move to another city to find a new job that uses the same skills but offers a
A B C
better salary?
D
3. I would enjoy myself more if we could have all problems to solve before we start our holiday.
A B C D
4. During that terrible snowstorm, the police demanded that people stayed away from Highway 101
A B C
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D
5. Historically, it was the 3rd Asian Games in Japan that tennis, volleyball, table tennis and hockey
A B C
were added
D

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 3: Complete each sentence with suitable prepositions or particles. Write your answers in the
numbered boxes.
1. I don’t like to make friends with the person who always runs ___________ his old friends.
2. Because I hate doing ___________ my shoes, I have bought a pair of shoes without any laces.
3. I knew nothing about the treasure hidden in my garden. I came ___________ it while I was digging
the earth.
4. Jack took early retirement as he was losing his grip ___________ the job.
5. The oral examination was difficult. The examiner tried to catch me ___________ by asking some
tricky questions

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 4: Complete each sentence using an appropriate form of the word given in capitals.
1. The ___________ of the swamps will destroy the mosquitoes’ breeding places. (DRAIN)
2. We will hire new staff when the ___________ arises. (NECESSARY)
3. Keeping large animals in cages is ___________ (HUMANE)
4. The record of 47 hours for watching TV without stopping was set last year and is still ___________.
(BREAK)
5. Some children are very rude. They just don’t speak to adults ___________. (RESPECT)

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Part 5: For each question, write ONE word which can be used in all three sentences.

0. I was just __________to go home, but that’s okay.

It’s__________ time you got home –we’ve been worried sick!
We’re definitely going to have to do something __________ increasing our market share.

Answer: about.

1. I think we are running ____________of petrol.

Nick would be a terrible teacher –he’s got such a ____________temper.
At least she apologized for calling me in at such ____________notice.
2. She’s only eight, but she has the ____________age of an 18-year-old.
Many ____________ illnesses can be cured these days.
I’m not very good at ____________arithmetic.
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3. I don’t understand what ____________Michael to leave his family like that.
The kids almost ____________me crazy when we were on holiday.
I thought the journalist __________his point home well, and the politician didn’t know what to say.
4. A record number of businesses are predicted to ____________in the next 12 months.
Now carefully ___________the paper in two, and you can begin to see the shape of the paper plane.
Don’t ____________ your arms and talk to me in that tone of voice.
5. The headteacher punished Aaron severely in order to make an____________of him.
Why can’t you follow your brother’s ____________ and go to university?
Give me one ____________of a place round here where young people can go in the evening.

Your answers:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

SECTION III. READING (6.0 POINTS)

Part 1: Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answer in the numbered boxes.

TEEN FASHION

It is widely believed that boys are less interested in fashion than girls. While it is true that fashion for
guys is not as widely followed as fashion for girls, it is becoming more and more important. Girls’ fashion
(1) _________ to change more often, or at least it is more widely advertised. You can’t help (2) _________
when fashion gets serious. One minute everyone is wearing one (3) _________ brand of trainers; six
months later, something new is in and a perfectly good pair of trainers gets pushed to the back of the
wardrobe.
At some schools, the abolition of school uniform has also had (4) _________ an impact on what
teenagers wear. In other schools, where uniforms are more common, keeping up with teenage fashion is
less (5) _________ than in schools where kids can wear casual clothes. Nowadays, it costs more and more
to stay (6) _________ fashion and this can mean some students feel (7) _________ if what they are
wearing is not trendy enough. Some kids may even feel ashamed (8) _______ their parents don’t have
enough money to buy them the latest gear. The pressure from friends and the media to be trendy is so great
that it is difficult to (9) _________. For adults, it is easier to ignore the peer pressure, but (10)________ a
teenager - boy or girl - you need a lot of courage to say no to fashion.

1. A. looks B. comes C. becomes D. seems

2. A. to notice B. noticing C. to raise awareness D. awareness raising
3. A. similar B. same C. particular D. peculiar
4. A. fairly B. quite C. very D. really
5. A. profitable B. wealthy C. economic D. expensive
6. A. at B. by C. for D. in
7. A. embarrassed B. shameful C. shameless D. shy
8. A. if B. unless C. provided D. whether
9. A. refrain B. resist C. react D. retain
10. A. as B. from C. with D. like

Your answers:

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 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your answer
in the boxes.
This winter, in offices and workplaces throughout the country, people are (1) _________ risk of
becoming a health danger to their colleagues. These are the people, (2) _________ are carrying flu but
noble to the end, have dragged (3) _________ into work in spite of the high temperature, headache,
sore throat and coughs that they are suffering from. Most experts agree that people with flu ought to
stay at home, certainly in the case of those (4) _________ jobs involve public safety – airline pilots,
air traffic controllers of train divers.
A diet rich in vegetables and fruit, good general health and regular exercise may help avoid (5)
_________ illness. Experts are doubtful whether taking lots of vitamin C will make any difference, but
reducing stress levels may help. Basic hygiene is certainly important, though, especially in the office.
We know that the illness (6) _________ be passed on from cups and saucers, so do more than simply
rinse them under the tap with all the others. Wash surfaces. Remember to wash them properly (7)
_________ hot water and use disinfectants to clean surfaces. Remember to wash your hands regularly
and don’t touch your face (8) _________ flu enters the body through eyes, nose or mouth. Other tips
on prevention include (9) _________ rid of cloth handkerchiefs, which provide a home for germs.
Change to paper tissues and throw them (10) _________ afterwards.

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Answer questions 1-10 by referring to the magazine article describing new technologies
and choosing the right paragraph (A-G) that matches with each of the following statements.
Some of the choices may be required more than once.
About which new aspect(s) of technology are the following mentioned?

It has become smaller over the years. 1 ...........

It may prove to have a negative effect on employment. 2. ...........
It required one family member to help another. 3. ...........
The use of an animal advanced in development. 4. ...........
A malfunction caused people to view it in a different light. 5. ...........
It has allowed some people's lives to be prolonged. 6.............
It was named by a person who wrote for the stage. 7. .........
There was a long lapse between its conception and its invention. 8. .........
It hasn’t advanced in line with people’s expectations. 9. .........
It once had to be housed at a special place. 10. .........

Our Changing World

So many new technologies have appeared in the past half-century that it's impossible to list
them all. But these eight high-tech breakthroughs stand out over the last 50 years because they've
revolutionized the way we live.
Paragraph A
In 1954, Dr Joseph Murray removed a kidney from one human patient and implanted it in
another. The recipient accepted the kidney as its own rather than rejecting it as a foreign body. It was
more than skillful surgery: Murray had chosen a pair of identical twins, Ronald Herrick and his
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terminally ill brother Richard, in the hope that their similar genetic makeup would reduce the
likelihood of Richard's body rejecting Ronald's kidney. Soon afterward, though, other researchers
developed drugs that could suppress a transplant recipient's immune system long enough for the new
organ to become incorporated into its new body. Each year, thousands of people receive a new heart,
kidney, liver, lung, pancreas or intestine - and are given a new lease of life.
Paragraph B
The term 'robot' was coined by Czechoslovakian playwright, Karel Capek, in 1920 - ‘robota’
being a Czech word for tedious labour - but the first real industrial robot was built in 1954 by George
Devol. Five years later, the Massachusetls Institute of Technology founded its Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory in a quest to mechanically mimic human minds as well as hands. Today, robots assemble
products better, faster and often cheaper than manual labourers. Still, some individuals eye such
systems with the cynical view of novelist Kurt Vonnegut, whose 1952 story Player Piano warned that
the machines might leave people without a way to make a living or a purpose in life.
Paragraph C
When the Queen herself threw the switch on the world's first atomic power plant at Calder Hall
outside London in 1956, nuclear reactors were seen as a source of cheap, pollution-free energy. But a
partial meltdown in 1979 at the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania soured the world on nuclear
energy as a safe source of power. Nonetheless, in Britain today there are 16 active plants that generate
25 percent of the nation's electricity and they have been steadily increasing their capability. Will the
next 50 years bring a better alternative?

Paragraph D
The idea for a mobile phone service dates back at least to 1947, but the first call was not
actually made until 1973. This initial call was made on the pavement outside the Manhattan Hilton by
Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher, who rang up his rival at AT&T Bell Labs to test the new phone.
Thirty years later, it appears that almost everyone in the Western world has a mobile device growing
out of their ear and cellular networks are beginning to serve Internet access at broadband speeds
through thin air.
Paragraph E
Viewers of the famed moon walk in 1969, who are now decreased, would have been
disappointed to learn we never went further than the Moon - no Mars colony, no 2001 odyssey to
Jupiter, no speed-of-light spaceships. Even the Shuttle is in trouble. But the space race against the
Russians that dominated the American psyche (and a good chunk of its budget) in the ‘60s and ‘70s
pushed the development of hundreds of enabling technologies, including synthetic fibres and
integrated computer circuits, necessary to fly astronauts to the moon and back. And, far more
importantly, the astronauts brought back a lesson from space: ‘We saw the earth the size of a coin, and
we realised then that there is only one earth.’
Paragraph F
Before IBM recast the desktop computer from hobbyist's gadget to office automation tool in
1983 - followed by Apple’s people-friendly Macintosh a year later - a ‘minicomputer’ was the size of a
washing machine and required a special air-conditioned room. But the trained technicians who
operated the old mainframes already knew computers were cool: they could use them to play games,
keep diaries, and trade messages with friends across the country, while still looking busy. Today,
thanks to the PC, we all look busy.
Paragraph G
Everyone knows Walson and Crick, who unravelled the secret of DNA in 1953. But have you
heard of Boyer and Cohen, who constructed the first organism with combined DNA from different
species in 1973? They inserted toad genes into a bacterium that then replicated itself over and over,
passing the toad's genetic code down through generations of bacteria. Thirty years later, an estimated
70 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified ingredients, such as soybeans or corn
engineered for higher crop yields. Of course, the much bigger potential - good and bad - is in
engineering humans. It might prevent birth defects, and diseases later in life. But the side effects could
be disastrous and, do we really have the right to interfere with Mother Nature?
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Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION IV. WRITING (5.0 POINTS)

Part 1: Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence before it.

1. Driving at that speed is dangerous although you are an experienced driver or not.
-->However____________________________________________________________
2. The boy was about to cry when he was reprimanded by his mother.
-->The boy was on ________________________________________________________
3. House prices have risen sharply this year.
-->There has ________________________________________________________
4. He said that he had won as a result of good luck.
-->He attributed__________________________________________________________
5. All that stood between Binh and a gold medal was Long’s greater speed.
-->But for ____________________________________________________________

Part 2: Use the word given in brackets and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence
in such a way that it is as similar as possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do NOT change
the form of the given word. You must use between three and six words, including the word
given. (0) has been done as an example.

0. It took me a fairly long time to answer all my emails. (QUITE)

I spent ________ quite a long time answering ________ all my emails

1. I may not come first in the race, but I’ll try as hard as I can not to come last. (DO)
-->I may not come first in the race, but I’ll ______________________________ not to come last.
2. I would strongly advise you to apologise for your mistake. (BETTER)
-->You ____________________________________________ your mistake.
3. He didn’t think much of the musical show yesterday. (OPINION)
-->He ________________________________________ the musical show yesterday.
4. They will try John for murder at the High Court next week. (TRIAL)
-->John ___________________________________________ at the High Court next week.
5. Could you tell me where you were last night, Mr Johnson? (ACCOUNT)
--> Could you __________________________________ your whereabouts last night, Mr Johnson?

Part 3:
Write about the following topic from 230 to 250 words:

Some people think that international competitive sports such as football

create conflicts between people of different age groups and nationalities.
Others think sport is helping reach an understanding between people and
nations.

Discuss both point of views and give your opinion.

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