SPEACIAL TEST TO CELEBRATE THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

On the occasion of 8-3, I would like to send best wishes to women all
over the world . Wishing you to be more and more beautiful and
successful in life.
I.
PART ONE: PHONOLOGY
I. Pick out the word whose bold part is pronounced differently from those of the others.
1. A. creature B. creative C. creamy D. crease
2. A. get B. gentle C. give D. guest
3. A. enough B. cough C. though D. rough
4. A. cloth B. clothes C. both D. boat
5. A. chooses B. houses C. rises D. horses
6. A. purple B. third C. journey D. there
7. A. warm B. thought C. got D. saw
8. A. lead B. great C. seat D. east
9. A. trouble B. flu C. tooth D. shoe
10. A. nose B. seen C. useful D. bus

II. Underline the stressed syllable of the following words.

pharmaceutical, preliminary, atmosphere, coincidence, inventory, picturesquely, canary, refugee, complimentary,
wholesale
PART TWO: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
I. VOCABULARY
a. Complete the following text by writing each missing word on the answer sheet. Use only one word for each
space.
NEW HORIZONS
There is a body of literature making forecasts – most of them believable – about the near future and (1)
___________ catalogue of predictions is getting fatter by the day.
These predictions range (2) ___________ the listing of new devices to the ways (3) ___________ which they will
alter the daily habits of the citizen. In general, we shall spend more time at home as it (4) ___________ easier to
communicate without (5) ___________ to meet other people – for example, shopping by television and attending
video conferences. It is said that it will be easier than ever (6) ___________ to leave the house. In fact, (7)
___________ narrowing of horizons is already (8) ___________ offer, particularly in the field of leisure.
There are computerized programmes (9) ___________ the market (10) ___________ can take you to visit a
museum. You switch on the computer screen and select a route. You enter the room you have (11) ___________
and look at the exhibits. You can stop in front of a picture, enlarge (12) ___________ detail you may wish to and
ask for information. You can stay as (13) ___________ as you like, (14) ___________ any time of the day or night,
(15) ___________ meeting any tourists. You don’t need to pay an entrance fee - (16) ___________ you have to do
is connect the computer in the comfort of your own home.
b. Complete the following passage with the suitable forms of the words given.
SKIING HOLIDAYS IN COLORADO
To ski or snowboard in Colorado is to experience the pinnacle of winter sports. The SPECTACLE
state of Colorado is known for its (1) ___________ scenery and (2) ___________ BREATH
views, which inspire today’s travelers as much as they spurred on the (3)___________ SETTLE
who first arrived in this part of the US over a century ago. And whether you’re seeking LIFE
the outdoor adventure of a (4)___________ exciting nightlife or a great getaway, CONSIST
Colorado has everything you need. LEGEND
November through April, snow conditions are (5) ___________ and reliable, featuring REAL
Colorado’s (6) ___________ “champagne powder” snow. Extensive snowmaking and PICTURE
grooming operations always keep trails in top shape. PARALLEL
The mountain destinations in the Colorado Rockies can turn your wildest ski dreams
into thrilling (7) ___________. There, you’ll find the best skiing and snowboarding on CARE
(8) ___________ slopes, as well as the finest ski schools in the US. Together, they
present an (9) ___________ winter paradise. And the best part is that you’ll enjoy COMMIT
friendly, (10) ___________ service in resorts that are (11) ___________ to delivering
the highest quality amenities.

II. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes
1. Most people feel a slight _______of nostalgia as they think back on their schooldays.
A. feeling B. surge C. pang D. chain
2. The cost of a new house in the UK has become _______high over the last few years.
A. totally B. astronomically C. blatantly D. utterly
3. The entire staff was thrown off _______when the news of the takeover was announced.
A. composure B. disarray C. stable D. balance
4. Mr Simkins is the big _______ in the company as he has just been promoted to the position of Managing
Director.
A. bread B. cheese C. apple D. meat
5. Of all entries received, his was _______ out for special raise.
A. isolated B. brought C. opted D. singled
6. I was in a _______ as to what to do. If I told the truth, he would get into trouble, but if I said nothing I would be
more in trouble.
A. doubt B. quandary C. hitch D. complexity
7. The matter has been left in _______until the legal ramifications have been explored.
A. recess B. suspension C. abeyance D. criticism
8. It was an extremely hostile article which cast _______on the conduct of the entire cabinet.
A. criticism B. aspersions C. disapproval D. abuse
9. He's so lazy! We all have to work harder because he's always _______ his duties.
A. evading B. shirking C. ducking D. dodging
10. I found the information for the project in the encyclopedia but I couldn't give ______and verse on it.
A. chapter B. unit C. poem D. extract
11. The engineer _______the machine with a hammer and, miraculously, it roared back to life.
A. slapped B. smacked C. whacked D. punched
12. The Oscar winning actress simply _______charm and professionalism in her acceptance speech.
A. exuded B. excluded C. expunged D. extricated
13. The carrots are ready; could you drain them in the _______and put them in the serving dish?
A. casserole B. colander C. whisk D. blender
14. Sue went for a _______when she injured her foot and broke several toenails.
A. manicure B. pediment C. foot massage D. pedicure
15. What I find most ________ about it is that he didn’t even have a decency to say that he was sorry.
A. galling B. furious C. touchy D. blazing
16. I’m hoping that this work experience will stand me in _______in my future career.
A. good grounding B. good stead C. fine precedent D. stable footing
17. A meal in that restaurant costs the _______but still it is always packed.
A. world B. soil C. earth D. moon
18. Terry is an old _______of mine. We split up nine years ago but we’ve stayed friends.
A. fire B. spark C. flame D. blaze
19. Take the doctor's advice into consideration. He's in _______ earnest about the epidemic.
A. deadly B. fatally C. gravely D. mortally
20. What's that horrible noise downstairs?'
'It's only Sam. He always screams _______ murder when we take him to the dentist.'
A. red B. black C. yellow D. blue

Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do
not change the word given. You must use between three and eight words, including the word given.
1. I always enjoy this film, no matter how often I see it. (tire)
However ___________________________________________________________ this film.
2. I don’t know why Fred made such an extraordinary decision. (prompted)
I don’t know _______________________________________________________ a decision.
3. Inefficient treatment of customers creates a bad impression of the company. (reflects)
Treating customers with a lack ______________________________________ the company.
4. The organizers planned everything as carefully as they could possibly have done. (utmost)
Everything was planned ________________________________________ by the organizers.
5. Coming second didn’t make her feel any better because she only wanted to win. (consolation)
Coming second _______________________________________ was all that mattered to her.
6. I promised him that the situation would not be repeated in the future. (word)
I ________________________________________ no repetition of the situation in the future.
7. Tim tried to be like one of his heroes when he was a young musician. (modelled)
As ________________________________________________________ one of his heroes.
8. Diane finds that creating things stops her from thinking about her work. (mind)
Diane finds that being _______________________________________________ her work.
9. I tried not to get involved in that situation. (mixed)
I tried to avoid ___________________________________________________ that situation.
10. After announcing his resignation, he said that he had done nothing improper. (deny)
After announcing his resignation, he went ________________________________ improper.
PART THREE: ERROR ANALYSIS
In most lines in the following text, there is one unnecessary word. Pick out this word and write it down
on your answer sheet. If the line is correct write C (Correct).
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. English has for more than a century and a half been called a
2. world language. The number of people who speak it
3. as for their mother tongue has been estimated
4. being at between three hundred million and four
5. hundred million. It is recognized as an official language
6. in countries where 1.5 billion people live there.
7. In China, the importance which attached to learning English
8. is such so that a televised teaching course drew audiences
9. of us to 100 million. But this spread of English throughout the
10. world is relatively recent although. In the late sixteenth century
11. English was spoken by just under five million people. The after
12. arrival of English in North America was the key step in its
13. world-wide expansion. The United States is a huge commercial
14. market and this one has tended to promote the English language
15. in many other nations. About an eighty per cent of the data
16. stored on the world’s computers is believed as to be in English
17. and nowadays the insufficient knowledge of English can
18. be a problem in business. Frequently it is that the language
19. used at international conferences and when people are
20. doing themselves business together.

PART FOUR: READING

I. Read the text below and then decide which word below best fits each space.
THE MOTORING BOOM IN THE US
The 1920s saw the emergence of widespread car ownership in the US. Assembly-line production made cars
wonderfully cheap, credit was available on the cheapest (1) ___________ and the irresistible (2) ___________ of
the car to the consumer did the rest. The result was a complete (3) ___________ of American life.
The car began to break (4) ___________ the ancient sharp division between town and country. The movement
perhaps began with the prosperous middle class, (5) ___________ for a holiday from New York, who were
delighted to discover the rest of their country. But the cheap car also enabled the working class to travel, for
pleasure or in (6) ___________ of work. Even poor country people, it (7) ___________ out, could own cars and
when they did so, many of them used the freedom thus (8) ___________ to depart to the West or to the cities.
Even more important, perhaps, was the (9) ___________ of the car on daily life. It came into (10) ___________ for
all sorts of short (11) ___________, to work or to the shops, which had previously been made by trolley bus or
railway. It made a whole new pattern of living possible. Vast suburbs began to (12) ___________ over the land. No
longer did you have to live in comparatively cramped (13) ___________ near the railroad station. Nor did you have
to (14) ___________ your annual holiday at one of the traditional, crowded resorts nearby. Instead, you could (15)
___________ over the hills and far away.
1. A. obligations B. terms C. guarantees D. repayments
2. A. appeal B. outlook C. impression D. fancy
3. A. transfer B. variation C. revision D. transformation
4. A. down B. off C. in D. away
5. A. concerned B. willing C. anxious D. fond
6. A. hunt B. search C. chase D. inquiry
7. A. found B. turned C. brought D. set
8. A. gained B. gathered C. reached D. benefited
9. A. force B. product C. impact D. trace
10. A. advantage B. use C. worth D. function
11. A. travels B. trips C. tours D. routes
12. A. spread B. widen C. scatter D. broadcast
13. A. housing B. residence C. surrounding D. settlement
14. A. make B. place C. take D. set
15. A. press B. speed C. stir D. pace

II. Read the following advertisement and choose the one best answer A, B, C, or D to each question.
To succeed in Saudi Arabia, you need space and a convenient location. Access to transportation, electric power
and manpower are also needed. A dynamic and cooperative landlord wouldn’t hurt.
The Dammam Industrial Zone has all of this and more, and it’s available now. Our location is hard to beat: just
ten minutes from King Fahd International Airport. The existing airport highway takes you to the port of Gizan.
Adequate water and power are assured and both you and your management and staff Basic development
Corporation will also provide expert assistance with approvals, licenses and permits. Our situation is perfect for
light or heavy manufacturing, as well as for research and development.
1. Which type of business is the advertiser hoping to attract?
A. Manufacturing companies
B. Airline companies
C. Water purification facilities
D. Management consultant
2. What help is being offered?
A. Transportation to and from the airport
B. Securing building permits
C. Obtaining drivers licenses
D. Helping the staff to relocate to the area
3. What could the new tenants be assured of?
A. A skilled work force
B. Extensive market research
C. Docking permits at the port of Gizan
D. Adequate electricity
4. What is particularly favorable about the location?
A. Warehousing is available in the Eastern Province.
B. Shipping and docking facilities are available.
C. It is near an airport.
D. It is easy to beat the traffic.

2.
PART ONE: PHONOLOGY
I. Choose the word in each group that has the bold part pronounced differently from the rest.
1. A. slaughter B. draught C. naughty D. plaudit
2. A. chooses B. houses C. rises D. horses
3. A. although B. laugh C. enough D. cough
4. A. division B. divisive C. divisible D. dividend
5. A. school B. Scot C. science D. scared
6. A. adventure B. advantage C. advertise D. addition
7. A. surprise B. surmise C. signature D. piracy
8. A. socialize B. welcome C. police D. polemic
9. A. leisure B. pleasure C. pressure D. assure
10. A. sound B. doubt C. wood D. count
II. Underline the stressed syllables of the following words.
irrespective pneumonia imperialist terrific
philosophical telecommunication campaign
artificial ballerina environmentally

PART TWO: VOCABULARY

Read the following passage carefully and then answer the given questions.
I get a lot of letters at this time of year from people complaining that they have a cold which won't go away. There
were so many different stories about how to prevent or cure a cold, it's often difficult to know what to do. Although
colds are rarely dangerous, except for people who are already weak, such as the elderly or young babies, they are
always uncomfortable and usually most unpleasant. Of course you can buy lots of medicines which will help to
make your cold less unpleasant, but you must remember that nothing can actually cure a cold or make it go away
faster. Another thing is that any medicine which is strong enough to make you feel better could be dangerous. If you
are already taking drugs for some other illness, always check with your chemist or doctor to see whether they are all
right for you. And remember they might make you sleepy - please don't try to drive if they do! Lastly, as far as
avoiding colds is concerned, whatever you may be told about magic foods or drinks, the best answer is to keep
strong and healthy. You'll have less chance of catching a cold, and if you do, it couldn't be so bad.
1. This is from __________________.
A. a doctor’s notebook B. a diary
C. a magazine D. a school biology book
2. What is the writer’s intention?
A. To write in an amusing way.
B. To give general advice.
C. To complain about his / her health.
D. To describe personal experiences.
3. Who should talk to the doctor before buying medicine for a cold?
4. What is the writer’s opinion of “magic foods and drinks”?

PART THREE: VERB FORMS

Supply the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.
1. Last year we (visit) _______________ the White House. I was very disappointed. Next time we
(apply)_______________ early for a pass.
2. Her father pays her fee; otherwise, she (not be)_______________ here.
3. He talks about Rome as though he (be)_______________ there himself.
4. It is necessary that they (start)_______________ to repair the church at once.
5. (Convince)_______________ that they (try)_______________ to poison him, he refused to eat anything.
6. By the end of last year he (read)_______________ four Shakespeare’s plays and by next year he
(read)_______________ two more.
7. It (take)_______________ a moment before Nick (realise) _______________ he (offer)_______________ a
cigarette by a stranger.
8. The secretary (type)_______________ all the documents long before the manager comes.
9. The first voice (speak)_______________, and the sounds faded on the (drift)_______________ wind; yet those
words that (utter)_______________ at the dawn of time (echo)_______________ through the centuries.
10. As the history of language is uncovered layer by layer, each discovery brings new insights into the past. It
(indeed, be)_______________ that language itself (be)_______________ the critical factor in defining
Homosapiens and in ensuring the survival of our species, perhaps at the expense of our then contemporaries the
Neanderthals, who (long, be)_______________ extinct.

PART FOUR: PREPOSITIONS AND PARTICLES

Supply a correct prepositions into each given space.
1. Do you know of a cure _______________ baldness?
2. Don’t sit _______________ for me. I shall probably be back very late.
3. Let’s push _______________ and try to reach the coast by tonight.
4. Put _______________ the cigarette, please. I don’t like the smell _______________ your tobacco.
5. _______________ the whole, I agree with you.
6. Milk and orange juice are good _______________ your health.
7. The thief made _______________ _______________ a valuable necklace.
8. Please, think it _______________ and you’ll find it easy to find the solutions to the problems.
PART FIVE: WORD FORMS
Supply the correct form of the word in parentheses.
1. The judge told him it was _______________ to drink and drive and banned him for a year. (RESPONSIBLE)
2. Most doctors are _______________ after they learn general medicine. (SPECIAL)
3. Peter’s gained so much weight because he can’t stop _______________. (EAT)
4. The sun and the moon are often _______________ in poetry. (PERSON)
5. The work is still at very _______________ level. (EXPERIMENT)
6. She wants to be an actress but her parents _______________ of her intention. (APPROVE)
7. In the Middle Ages, salt was very valuable so that slaves were _______________ with it. (COMPARE)
8. The _______________ of the trains and the buses cause frustration and annoyance. (FREQUENT)
9. It is usually forbidden to destroy _______________ buildings. (HISTORY)
10. This matter is very _______________. Don’t discuss it outside the office. (CONFIDENCE)
PART SIX:
For questions 1-15. Read the following passage and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write
your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15pts)
The coolest kids in Europe share a single (1) ______ they want to get married, have children and live
happily ever after. They know it means (2) ______ their children first and sticking with their spouses even if they
(3) ______ out of love. This news comes from the report of a new study that (4) ______ out to find the answer to
the modem riddle: What will today's (5) ______ really, really want tomorrow?
Poignantly, one of the clearest answers is that they want to have happy families. Even in the most (6)
______countries there was condemnation for divorce, demands that parents should keep their marriage (7) ______
and admiration for stable couples.
It appears that among the middle classes, the quality of our children's lives has suffered from the (8) ______
on parents in high-stress professions. In the days when the concept of 'quality time' first (9) ______ , I remember
seeing a TV producer on (10) ... dial home on her mobile phone to read her son a (11) ______ story. This is just not
good enough.
Quality time cannot be time (12) ______. Children need unconditional time in the same (13) ______ that
they need unconditional love. This study found a generation that had given up trying to (14) ______ its parents'
attention but was (15) ______ to do better by its own children.
1. A. drive B. eagerness C. ambition D. yearning
2. A. putting B. keeping C. having D. wanting
3. A. drop B. fall C. slip D. jump
4. A. made B. aimed C. looked D. set
5. A. youth B. young C. juniors D. juveniles
6. A. loose B. relaxed C. generous D. liberal
7. A. oaths B. vows C. pledges D. promises
8. A. pressures B. weights C. burdens D. loads
9. A. proceeded B. revealed C. emerged D. rose
10. A site B. place C. situation D. location
11. A bedtime B. goodnight C. pyjama D. dream
12. A organized B. managed C. controlled D. disciplined
13. A system B. respect C. way D. method
14. A have B. make C. get D. take
15. A determined B. firm C. persistent D. stubborn
Part 4: Read the passage and do the tasks that follow. (15pts)
The True Cost of Food
A. At an organic farming conference in Winnipeg, Canada, a woman in the audience stood up and said: “Organic
foods are not going to become popular with mainstream consumers until they became quick, convenient, and
cheap.". The comment causes much thinking about the nature of our food system and about what we have done to
try to make foods quick, convenient, and cheap for consumers.
B. At the ‘farm level, our never-ending quest for cheap food is the root cause of the transformation of agriculture
from a system of small, diversified, independently operated, family farms into a system of large-scale,
industrialized, corporately controlled agribusinesses. The production technologies that supported specialization,
mechanization, and ultimately, large-scale, contract production, were all developed to make agriculture more
efficient to make food cheaper for consumers. Millions of farmers have been forced off the land, those remaining
are sacrificing their independence, and thousands of small farming communities have withered and died all for the
sake of cheap food. These were the consequences of progress, so we were told. The agricultural establishment has
boasted loudly that ever fewer farmers have been able to feed a growing nation with an ever-decreasing share of
consumer income spent for food.
C. Changes in the food system have brought considerable cost to the environment and human health. Such
problems have been widely documented over recent decades, but it is only recently that efforts to put a monetary
cost on them have begun to emerge. These costs are telling us something fundamentally important about the real
costs of modern food and farming. A group of scientists at the University of Essex recently completed the first
national study of the environmental and health impacts of modern farming. They looked at what are called
“externalities”^the costs imposed by an activity that are borne by others. These costs are not part of the prices paid
by producers or consumers. And when such externalities are not included in prices, they distort the market. They
encourage activities that are costly to society even if the private benefits to farmers are substantial.
D. A heavy lorry that damages a bridge, or pollutes the atmosphere, externalizes some of its costs and others pay
for them. Similarly, a pesticide used to control a pest imposes costs on others if it leaks away from fields to
contaminate drinking water. The types of externality encountered in the agricultural sector have four distinct
features; 1) their costs are often neglected; 2) they often occur with a time lag; 3) they often damage groups whose
interests are not represented; and 4) the identity of the producer of the externality is not always known.
E. The study sought to put a cost on these externalities in the UK. It concentrated on the negative side-effects of
conventional agriculture in particular the environmental and health costs. Two types of damage cost were estimated;
1) the treatment or prevention costs incurred to clean up the environment and restore human health to comply with
legislation or to return these to an undamaged state and 2) the administration costs incurred by public agencies for
monitoring environmental, food and health implications. It is conservatively estimated that the total costs are
£2.34billion for 1996 alone in the UK. Significant costs arise from contamination of drinking water with pesticides
(£120 million per year), nitrate (£ 16m),Cryptosporidium (£ 23m) and phosphate and soil (£ 55m), from damage to
wildlife, habitats, hedgerows and dry stone walls ( £ 124m), from emissions of gases (£ 1,113m), from soil erosion
and organic carbon losses (£ 96m), and from food poisoning ( £ 169m) .
F. Water is an interesting case. Twenty-five million kilograms of pesticides are used each year in farming and some
of these get into water. It costs water companies £ 120 million each year to remove pesticides not completely, but to
a level stipulated in law as acceptable. Water companies do not pay this cost they pass it on to those who pay water
bills. This represents a hidden subsidy to those who pollute. Some of the costs are straightforward to measure,
others more difficult. How do we know about the effects of the greenhouse gases methane, nitrous oxide and carbon
dioxide produced by farming? Economists have been able to put a£ /tonne cost on these gases based on agreed
estimates about the effects of future climate change. The study has been very conservative, using lower estimates of
costs. But still the costs are great.
G. Each of these costs should provoke questions about how they could be reduced or even removed . Where does
this leave us in policy terms? Is it conceivable that we could evolve sustainable agriculture systems that maximize
their production of positive externalities goods that the public enjoys and is willing to pay for as well as minimizing
the environmental and health costs? The answer is clearly yes. We know enough about sustainable methods of
farming to be confident. Sustainable farming has substantially lower negative externalities than conventional
farming. We roughly estimate these to be no more than a third perhaps £ 60 - £70 per hectare. Sustainable farming
also has higher positive externalities the other side of the equation.
H. Although it only represented around 3%of the total EU utilized agricultural area (UAA) in 2000, organic
farming has in fact developed into one of the most dynamic agricultural sectors in the European Union. The organic
farm sector grew by about 25% a year between 1993and 1998 and, since 1998, is estimated to have grown by
around 30% a year. Organic farming has to be understood as part of a sustainable farming system and a viable
alternative to the more traditional approaches to agriculture. Since the EU rules on organic farming came into force
in 1992, tens of thousands of farms have been converted to this system, as a result of increased consumer awareness
of, and demand for, organically grown products.
I. The sustainability of both agriculture and the environment is a key policy objective of today’s common
agricultural policy (the “CAP”):
 “Sustainable development must encompass food production alongside conservation of finite resources and
protection of the natural environment so that the needs of people living today can be met without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
This objective requires farmers to consider the effect that their activities will have on the future of agriculture and
how the systems they employ shape the environment. As a consequence, farmers, consumers and policy makers
have shown a renewed interest in environmentally friendly farming. UK Farm Minister Margaret Beckett has
announced a series of new measures , backed by 500 million pounds sterling of funding over the next three years, to
specifically help British farmers reduce their dependence on subsidies, as well as to protect the environment and
promote healthy, local food. The long-awaited Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food contains “green" targets
for farms, promotion of local foods and other measures to bring farmers closer to consumers.
From the list of headings below choose the five most suitable headings for paragraphs
NB: There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
Example Answer List of Headings
Paragraph B: iv i. Fewer farmers and decreasing cost of food
Paragraph I: ii ii. A renewed interest in environmental- friendly agriculture
1. Paragraph C: iii. Features of externalities in agricultural production
2. Paragraph D: iv. Transformation of farming to industrialized agribusiness
3. Paragraph E: v. Aim and focuses of the study
4. Paragraph G: vi. Difficulties of calculating external costs
5. Paragraph H: vii. The concept of externalities
viii. The case of water pollution
ix. Sustainable farming and its merits
x. Issues raised by external costs of food
xi. The conversion to organic farming

Questions: 6->10. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage to complete the summary
below.
The first national study of the environmental impacts of modern farming has defined externalities as the additional
expenses caused by other activities and those not paid by (6)__________________.Externalities misrepresent the
market by encouraging farmers to pursue (7) __________________at the cost of the society. As externality in
agricultural production is usually shown with a time lag, its costs often tend to (8) __________________. While the
victim’s interests are not represented, exactly who has produced the externalities often remains a mystery. The study
measures two types of externalities; the costs of (9) __________________for the environment and human health to
recover to the original state, and the money spent by (10) __________________on monitoring environmental and
food safety.

PART SEVEN: WRITING

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed
before it.
1. She was just as good as they had thought.
She quite definitely came___________________________________________________
2. The boy’s work can surely be improved.
The boy’s work must ______________________________________________________
3. It is not a habit of mine to sleep in the afternoon.
I am ___________________________________________________________________
4. How could I help, except to offer to lend her some money.
Other _________________________________________________________________?
5. It wasn’t necessary for you to go to so much trouble on my behalf.
You needn’t ____________________________________________________________

II. For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning to the original
sentence, using the words given. The words must not be altered in any way.
1. Stop criticizing everybody! (DOWN)
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2. Terry has just insured her life. (OUT)
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3. In the end it was discovered that Joe was the thief. (OUT)
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4. I need a calculator to arrive at the total. (OUT)
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5. I met your friend David the other day. (INTO)
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6. I think you’ve been overcharged, old son! (OFF)
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7. I think we should increase the pressure on her to resign. (UP)
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8. I won’t allow swearing in my classroom. (FOR)
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9. The company was bought up by a large multinational. (OVER)
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10. Your story is different from the facts. (WITH)
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PART SEVEN: TRANSLATION

Translate into English.
Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh là một trung tâm thương mại, văn hoá và kinh tế của cả nước. Thành phố nổi tiếng
với những con đường dài, với những hàng cây xanh cao vút. Ở trung tâm thành phố có những thương xá sang
trọng, các siêu thị hiện đại, các cao ốc nguy nga, những đại lộ rộn rịp xe cộ ngày đêm. Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
còn là một thành phố cảng quan trọng với những con tàu từ nhiều nơi khác đến.