MONTHLY TEST - B

1. Sometimes it is a good thing to say what electrical _______ when you’re not using
you feel. At other times it’s better to keep them to make absolutely sure that they are
_______ about your feelings. safe.
a. peaceful b. quiet a. implements b. appliances
c. tranquil d. dumb c. particles d. conductors
2. Sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what 13. Fireworks cause tragedies every year.
it is you do feel. At other times feelings are Teach your children to _______ them
so strong they seem to _______ you. carefully.
a. overload b. flood a. set b. fix
c. inundate d. overwhelm c. operate d. handle
3. When you feel angry, do you _______ your 14. Perrugia was keen to _______ all
voice or shout at the person you’re angry responsibility for the theft, and it was
with? twenty years before the whole story came
a. lift b. rise out.
c. heighten d. raise a. set b. fix
4. When he feels happy, he usually goes c. declare d. claim
around with an inner _______. 15. Her parents were very ______ because
a. glimmer b. glimpse she was out so late that night.
c. glow d. gleam a. responsible b. sorry
5. When I feel sad, I usually talk to a friend c. worried d. overcome
about what’s _______ me. 16. After a lot of difficulty, he ______
a. upset b. downgraded to open the door.
c. downsized d. overthrown a. managed b. succeeded
6. Government is the _______ of ministers, c. obtained d. realised
who are responsible to the House of 17. The purpose of the examination was to
Commons, which is selected by the people. ______ the students’ knowledge of the
a. operation b. errand subject.
c. task d. service a. try b. inspect
7. The queen has the power to prevent any c. prove d. test
politician _______ a dictatorship. 18. I’ll have to ______ to you, otherwise he
a. establishing b. opening will hear.
c. inaugurating d. operating a. shout b. say
8. The queen is probably the wealthiest c. whistle d. whisper
woman in the world, most of the money 19. Eyeglasses have been in use since about
coming from family _______ rather than 1300.
the state. a. Spectacles b. Goblets
a. impeachments b. investments c. Binoculars d. Telescopes
c. statements d. movements 20. Hair is found exclusively in mammals.
9. In the late 1970s a newspaper conducted a. particularly b. commonly
an opinion _______ . c. exceptionally d. only
a. poll b. collection 21. While endeavoring to find a new route to
c. gathering d. pooling India, Columbus discovered America by
10. I saw the sharks coming towards me with accident.
my surfboard in its _______ . a. sailing b. failing
a. pincers b. bellows c. trying d. hoping
c. pliers d. jaws 22. Many countries nowadays restrict the
11. Many languages have words which are exportation of genuine archeological
_______ dangerous, holy, magic, or artifacts.
shocking, and which are used in certain a. particular b. rare
situations, or by certain people. c. authentic d. costly
a. considered b. rendered
c. supposed d. set
12. Always unplug the television and other 23. In a period of economic stagnation,
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 finding a job is particularly difficult for c. Although d. Due to
those in certain groups. 35. ________ undergraduate programs,
a. individual b. fundamental American universities also offer graduate
c. especially d. privately and professional courses.
24. The degree to which heat affects tennis a. Except for b. Besides
players' performance depends in part on c. Moreover d. As
the level of humidity 36. The traditional goal of science is to
a. extent b. temperature discover how things are, not how they
c. height d. strength ought ________ .
25. Some critics claim that links between a. are b. can be
academics and biotechnology companies c. to be d. be
are a menace to unfettered research. 37. ________ coming of the Space Age, a
a. an incentive b. a nuisance new dimension has been added to the
c. a threat d. an invitation study of the planets.
26. Because it rained very heavily all day they a. While b. When the
had to ________ the garden party until the c. It is the d. With the
following Saturday. 38. ________ have a powerful influence on
a. pre-arrange b. postpone the shape of the entire magazine industry.
c. re-arrange d. preserve a. That economic principles
27. The child was told to ________ for being b. Why economic principles
rude to his uncle. c. Economic principles
a. excuse b. apologise d. Economic principles that
c. forgive d. confess 39. _______ the bones of prehistoric man,
28. She walked to the ________ of the scientists hope to determine what their
swimming pool and jumped in. owners ate.
a. start b. side a. By studying b. In study of
c. extent d. border c. To study d. Studying
29. Modern techniques have made dentures 40. _______ the Christmas shopping season
virtually unnoticeable. begins.
a. false teeth b. surgical implants a. That is after Thanksgiving
c. artificial hair d. plastic surgery b. After Thanksgiving it is
30. Many properties of the atmosphere affect c. It is after Thanksgiving that
the amount of solar radiation that reaches d. It is Thanksgiving that
the earth. 41. Progressive farmers use several methods
a. belongings b. impurities to prevent top soil _______ .
c. levels d. characteristics a. from running off b. to run off
31. Not until 1856 ______ across the c. from to run off d. to running off
Mississippi River. 42. ________ to develop immunity to rheu-
a. the first bridge was built matic fever.
b. the first building of a bridge a. It not being possible
c. was the first bridge built b. It is not possible
d. the bridge building was c. Not possible
32. The population of cities in the Eastern and d. Is not possible
Northern areas of the United States is 43. The fuel used in nuclear-powered ships is
declining, while ______ Southern cities is usually uranium in either the metallic
growing. ________ .
a. that in b. that of a. as well as the oxide form
c. those of d. those in b. but also the oxide form
33. Bigamy is a situation in which a man c. or the oxide form
______two women at the same time. d. and the oxide form
a. marries to b. is marry to 44. One of the puzzles still mystifying biolo-
c. married d. is married to gists is ______ what to become in an
34. ______ the rainfall was adequate this embryo.
year, the apricot trees still did not produce a. how do cells know b. how know cells
a high yield. c. how cells know d. how cells knowing
a. Since b. However 45. The rhinoceros has a rather poor sense of
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 smell, nor ________ 53. John Glenn was not the first United States
a. can it see well b. it well can see astronaut to orbit the earth ______ cer-
c. it can see well d. well can it see tainly became the most famous.
46. ________ is the cause of most small-busi- a. and b however
ness failures is virtually an economic c. and he d. but he
truism. 54. ______, Renaldo Nehemiah decided to
a. Undercapitalization take up professional football in 1982.
b. Undercapitalization that a. Nevertheless he was unbeatable as a
c. Where undercapitalization hurdler
d. That undercapitalization b. As a hurdler he was virtually unbeatable
47. ______ is so limited (64,000 transistors c. Virtually unbeatable as a hurdler
and 64,000 capacitors in about one-twen- d. He was virtually unbeatable as a hurdler
tieth of a square inch), the manufacture of 55. Snowflakes ______ an infinite variety of
64K random access memories requires shapes.
highly sophisticated production technology. a. that exhibit b. in exhibiting
a. Because space b. As a result of c. exhibiting d. exhibit
space 56. Only one modern bird, ______, has claws
c. Being space d. Its space on its wings as did prehistoric birds.
48. Only one mammal, ______, is known to a. the South American hoatzin it is
bear routinely four identical young. b. which the South American hoatzin
a. it is the armadillo b. being the c. the South American hoatzin
armadillo d. it is the South American hoatzin
c. which the armadillo d. the armadillo 57. Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one
49. ______ brilliant, Aaron Burr was of the greatest composers ______.
unreliable. a. who ever lived b. he lived
a. Though b. He was c. when living d. while he lived
c. Though he d. Being 58. ________ some satellites have retrograde
50. ______ adults, young children find little motion is not yet understood.
difficulty in imitating sounds in foreign a. Why b. Whenever
languages. c. What d. Although
a. Not like b. Unlike 59. Researchers have recently confirmed
c. Being not d. Not as ______ Pygmies are missing an insulin-like
51. Before becoming President in 1928, Her- growth factor.
bert Hoover ______ as Secretary of Com- a. and that b. so that
merce. c. because d. that
a. has served b. was served 60. Seat belt laws were introduced ________
c. had served d. serving traffic fatalities would be reduced.
52. Electrical resistance is a common property a. so that b. then
of all materials, ______. c. when d. as if
a. differs only in degree
b. it only differs in degree
c. only in degree it differs
d. differing only in degree

Questions 61 - 64
The pig was the last animal to be fully domesticated by the farmer. Unlike the cow and the
sheep, it is not a grass-eater. Its ancient home was the forest, where it searched for different kinds
of food, such as nuts, roots and dead animals, and found in the bushes protection for its almost
hairless body from extremes of sun and cold. For many centuries the farmer allowed it to continue
there, leaving his pigs to look after themselves most of the time. As the woodlands began to shrink,
the pig slowly began to be kept on the farm itself. But it did not finally come into a shed, where it
was fed on waste food from the farm and the house, until the eighteenth century.
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 The pig, then, became a farm animal in the age of agricultural improvement in Britain in the
eighteenth century, but it was given little attention by special animal breeders, for the major farmers
of the time preferred to develop the larger kinds of animal. There were, however, various less
well-known farmers interested in pigs and they based their improvements on new types of pig from
overseas. These were the Chinese pig, and its various relatives, including the Neapolitan pig, which
were descended from Chinese pigs that had found their way to the Mediterranean in ancient times.
These were very different from the thin and leggy British woodland pigs. They were wider and
squarer, with shorter legs and flatter faces, and they matured earlier -and produced more delicate
meat. By the end of the eighteenth century these overseas pigs had influenced the colour, shape
and characteristics of the native British pig a great deal.
In the early nineteenth century, all sorts and conditions of pig-farmer worked at improving all sorts
and conditions of pig. Many of the special pigs they developed are now forgotten, but by the end of
the century they had established most of the kinds we know in Britain today.

61. In their original wild state pigs 63. The passage tells us that in the age of
a. ate the same food as other animals. agricultural improvement in Britain in the
b. wandered across the plains. eighteenth century
c. lived among trees. a. very fat pigs were developed.
d. did not go near cows or sheep. b. British types of pig were replaced with
overseas ones.
62. Why were pigs not fully domesticated in c. pigs received less attention than other
Britain until the eighteenth century? animals.
a. They could find food for themselves well d. important breeders concentrated on pigs.
enough in woodlands.
b. There was no suitable food for them on most 64. How did Chinese and Neapolitan pigs
farms. differ from native British pigs?
c. It was difficult to develop improved types of a. They were taller.
pig. b. They had shorter noses.
d. They did not grow well when kept indoors. c. They had stronger legs.
d. They were rounder.

Questions 65 - 69
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being
corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day
the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he
makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, children
learning to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught - to walk, run, climb, whistle,
ride a bicycle - compare their own performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make
the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his mistakes for
himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never
notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he
becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other
children if he wants it, what this word says, what the answer is to that problem, whether this is a
good way of saying or doing this or not.
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 If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer
book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work?
Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can’t find the way to get the right
answer. Let's end all this nonsense of grades, exams, marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the
children learn what all educated persons must some day learn, how to measure their own
understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as
school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school
and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as
ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, 'But suppose they fail to learn something essential,
something they will need to get on in the world?' Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into
the world and learn it.

65. What does the author think is the best way b. more important than other skills.
for children to learn things? c. basically different from learning adult skills.
a. by copying what other people do d. basically the same as learning other skills.
b. by making mistakes and having them
corrected 68. Exams, grades and marks should be
c. by listening to explanations from skilled abolished because children's progress
people should only be estimated by
d. by asking a great many questions a. educated persons.
b. the children themselves.
66. What does the author think teachers do c. teachers.
which they should not do? d. parents.
a. They give children correct answers.
b. They point out children's mistakes to them. 69. The author fears that children will grow
c. They allow children to mark their own work. up into adults who are
d. They encourage children to copy from one a. too independent of others.
another. b. too critical of themselves.
67. The passage suggests that learning to c. unable to think for themselves.
speak and learning to ride a bicycle are d. unable to use basic skills.
a. not really important skills.

Questions 70 - 72
In the primary school, a child is in a comparatively simple setting and most of the time forms
a relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school, a new world opens up and
frequently it is a much more difficult world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in the way he
speaks to teachers and even to his fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the free and easy ways
of the primary school, for he senses the need for a more cautious approach in the secondary school
where there are older pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the pressures of academic work
and seem to have less time to stop and talk. Teachers with specialist roles may see hundreds of
children in a week, and a pupil may be able to form relationships with very few of the staff. He has
to decide which adults are approachable; good schools will make clear to every young person from
the first year what guidance and personal help is available - but whether the reality of life in the
institution actually encourages requests for help is another matter.
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 Adults often forget what a confusing picture school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal
of movement, a great number of people - often rather frightening-looking people - and realises that
an increasing number of choices and decisions have to be made. As he progresses through the
school the confusion may become less but the choices and decisions required will increase. The
school will rightly expect the pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help he needs, for this is the
pattern of adult life for which he has to be prepared, but all the time the opportunities for personal
and group advice must be presented in a way which makes them easy to understand and within
easy reach of pupils.

70. According to the passage one of the b. be freed from any pressure of academic
problems for pupils entering secondary work.
schools is that c. be able to discuss his problems in class.
a. they are taught by many different teachers. d. be able to discuss his problems with any
b. they do not attend lessons in every subject. teacher.
c. the teachers do not want to be friendly.
d. the teachers give most attention to the 72. In this passage about secondary schools,
more academic pupils. the author is mainly concerned about
a. academic standards.
71. In secondary schools every pupil having b. the role of specialist teachers.
problems should c. the training of the individual teachers.
a. know how to ask for help. d. the personal development of pupils.

Questions 73 - 77
By far the most common snake in Britain is the adder. In Scotland, in fact, there are no other
snakes at all. The adder is also the only British snake with a poisonous bite. It can be found almost
anywhere, but prefers sunny hillsides and rough open country, including high ground. In Ireland
there are no snakes at all.
Most people regard snake bites as a fatal misfortune, but not all bites are serious, and very
few are fatal. Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn out to be more dangerous than the
bite itself, with amateurs heroically, but mistakenly, trying do-it-yourself surgery and other
unnecessary measures.
All snakes have small teeth, so it follows that all snakes can bite, but only the bite of the adder
presents any danger. British snakes are shy animals and are far more frightened of you than you
could possibly be of them. The adder will attack only if it feels threatened, as can happen if you
take it by surprise and step on it accidentally, or if you try to catch it or pick it up, which it dislikes
intensely. If it hears you coming, it will normally get out of the way as quickly as it can, but adders
cannot move very rapidly and may attack before moving if you are very close.
The effect of a bite varies considerably. It depends upon several things, one of which is the
body-weight of the person bitten. The bigger the person, the less harmful the bite is likely to be,
which is why children suffer far more seriously from snake bites than adults. A healthy person will
also have better resistance against the poison.

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 Very few people actually die from snake bites in Britain, and though these bites can make
some people very ill, there are probably just as many cases of bites having little or no effect, as
there are of serious illness.

73. Adders are most likely to be found c. aggressive towards anyone in their
a. in wilder parts of Britain and Ireland. territory.
b. in Scotland and nowhere else. d. not afraid of human beings.
c. on uncultivated land throughout Britain.
d. in shady fields in England. 76. If an adder hears you approaching, it will
usually
74. If you are with someone who is bitten by a. move out of your path.
an adder you should b. take no notice of you at all.
a. try to catch the adder. c. disappear very quickly.
b. make no attempt to treat the bite. d. wait until you are close then attack.
c. not worry about the victim.
d. operate as soon as possible. 77. We are told that in general British people
think snakes are
75. We are told that adders are a. not very common in Britain.
a. normally friendly towards people. b. usually harmless.
b. unlikely to bite except in self-defence. c. more dangerous than they usually are.
d. unlikely to kill people by their bite.

Questions 78 - 82
Through a series of experiments an American scientist has obtained an understanding of the
social structure of the most complex of ant societies. The ants examined are the only creatures
other than man to have given up hunting and collecting for a completely agricultural way of life. In
their underground nests they cultivate gardens on soil made from finely chopped leaves. This is a
complex operation requiring considerable division of labour. The workers of this type of ant can be
divided into four groups according to size. Each of the groups performs a particular set of jobs.
The making and care of the gardens and the nursing of the young ants are done by the
smallest workers. Slightly larger workers are responsible for chopping up leaves to make them
suitable for use in the gardens and for cleaning the nest. A third group of still larger ants do the
construction work and collect fresh leaves from outside the nest. The largest are the soldier ants,
responsible for defending the nest.
To find out how good the various size-groups are at different tasks, the scientist measured
the amount of work done by the ants against the amount of energy they used. He examined first
the gathering and carrying of leaves. He selected one of the size-groups, and then measured how
efficiently these ants could find leaves and run back to the nest. Then he repeated the experiment
for each of the other size-groups. In this way he could see whether any group could do the job
more efficiently than the group normally undertaking it.
The intermediate-sized ants that normally perform this task proved to be the most efficient
for their energy costs, but when the scientist examined the whole set of jobs performed by each
group of ants it appeared that some sizes of worker ants were not ideally suited to the particular
jobs they performed.
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78. In which way are the ants different from b. sense of responsibility.
other non-human societies? c. efficiency in working.
a. they do not need to search for food. d. willingness to work hard.
b. they do not need to look for shelter.
c. Individuals vary in social status. 81. The scientist's work was based on
d. Individuals perform different functions. a. occasional observations.
b. systematic observations.
79. It seems that smaller ants perform more c. observations of several nests.
of the d. observations of an undisturbed nest.
a. construction tasks.
b. domestic tasks. 82. The organization of the ants has the effect
c. defensive work. of
d. heavy work. a. getting the most work done.
b. dividing the work up systematically.
80. "Good" (first line of third paragraph) c. each ant helping with all the tasks.
refers to the ants' d. each ant doing what it can do best.
a. co-operation in working.

Questions 83 - 85
The minute investigations of the historians, the political scientists, and even the sociologists have
not succeeded in destroying or even seriously modifying the mental pictures created by the romantic
Southerners for themselves

83. Romantic Southerners have b. succeeded in changing romantic South-

a. done much research in the history of their erners.
area. c. investigated carefully and thoroughly.
b. not radically changed their views. d. created mental pictures.
c. modified their views as a result of in-
vestigations. 85. Romantic Southerners’ views are
d. become more realistic. a. not affected by exposure to facts.
b. clearly based on real fact.
84. Historians, political scientists, and c. not very firmly held.
sociologists have d. the same as those of the historians.
a. investigated only a little.

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