Test No 1 for gifted students

1.5 pts Now we re getting the message’re getting the message Text messaging and email are changing the way people relate to each others.. Rather than retreating into themselves, people

Fulname : Test No 1 09/11/09

Part A : Phonetics ( 1 0 pts )

I Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words:

Part B : Vocabulary and Grammar ( 7.o pts )

I Choose the best word or phrase to complete each sentence.(3.0 pts)

1 He laughed when he was watching “ Tom and Jerry” on TV

2 Vietnam is a country _ exports a lot of rice

3 Were you _ of the regulation against smoking in this area ?

4 pollution control measures are expensive, many countries hesitate to adopt them

5 call the police

A Either you leave at once or I C Leave at once or I’ll

B You either leave at once or I will D Or you leave at once , or I will

6 If someone me that he never paid his debts, I _ him the money

A told / wouldn’t lend B had told / wouldn’t have lent C tells/ won’t lend D had told/ wouldn’t lend

7 She had to hand in her notice _ advance when she decided to leave the job

8 When are you going to get the roof ? It leaks quite badly

9 Police _ illegal drugs in a secret hiding place in the star’s home

10 So many _ people applied for the position that we won’t be able to make a decision for several weeks

11 In 1995 the political philosopher Hannah Arendt became the first woman a full professor at Princeton University

12 Next year is my parents’ 50th anniversary They for 50 years

A will be married B will being married C will have been married D will have married

13 allows some students from less affluent families to attend college

14 After you graduate _ the university, you still have to go studying

15 Send a full CV with your job _

II Choose the word or phrase with the same meaning as the underlined part (1.0 pts)

1 After the alien spacecraft hovered over the park for a short while, it vanished

2 I think the story he told us is completely incredible

3 This ring is made of plastic so it’s not valuable

4 She’d like to ask for further information

5 It was very difficult to understand what he was saying about the noise of the traffic

A make out B find out D pick up D turn out

III Give the correct form of the words in capitals in the same line Write your answers on the numbered blanks (3.0 pts )

There can be very few people who have not read about the (0) _of the 0 destroy

rainforest, and (1) _ still would say that nothing should be done 1 few

However, the idea that this could be achieved by (2) _developing countries 2 pressurize

is a highly dubious proposition It’s often suggested that the (3) countries 3 industrial

of the world have worked hard to limit population To a certain (4) extent, 4 limit

there’s some (5) _in this, and measures have been taken to stop the increase 5 true

in CFCs and other ozone(6) _gases: some cars are fitted with catalytic 6 destroy

converters, (7) _ is commonplace and lead-free petrol is widely 7 recycle

(8) However, the implication that we in the West are doing something 8 avail

to combat(9) _ whereas the developing world is not an over simplification 9 pollute

We are continuing to pour billions of tons of (10) _ into the atmosphere every year 10 pollute

Part C : Reading ( 7 0 pts)

I Read the text and decide which answer best fits each space (3.0pts)

Many English people worry that the education system fails to make sure that all children reach minimum standards of

(1) (= reading and writing ) and numeracy (= number skills) , and there are often demands for more (2) to be paid to the three R’s reading ( reading, writing and arithmetic ) Standards at individual schools are watched (3) by parents and government School are visited regularly by OFSTED inspectors and schools (4) pupils are not making adequate progress or in which discipline is poor risk being closed (5) _ School performance tables are (6) annually to show how well students in individual schools have done in tests and exams These “league table’s (7) _ parents to compare one school with another, but many people feel that it is unfair to base a comparison one school

on exam results alone

Educational (8) _ are often said to be falling This usually happens after GCSE and A level results are announced : If there are a lot of students with high (9) people say that the exams are too easy Others think that standards are rising and that it is now (10) harder to achieve good grades

II Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-H for each part (1-6) of the article There is one extra heading which you do not need to use (1.5 pts)

Now we re getting the message’re getting the message

Text messaging and email are changing the way people relate to each others Sara Gaines reports.

A The only problem

B Making it personal

C Future possibilities

D No need to think ahead

E Maintaining friendships over the years

F A more serious purpose

G Confidence to make the first move

H An unexpected benefit

0 H

destruction

When computers first started to be used on a wide scale, some people predicted that we would spend so long staring at computer screens that we would end up forgetting how to talk to one another But in fact, the rapid expansion of electronic communication in the 21th century has had the opposite effect Rather than retreating into themselves, people are using new technology, in particular email and text messaging, to find more and more ways to expand their networks of friends

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Alice Thompson, 23, is known as the Text Queen to her friends because she sends so many messages “My friends and I take our phones out with us and send messages to other friends saying, “ We’re in this club and it’s really good Come and meet us,” she said

“It means we don’t have to spend ages planning a night out You can send the same message to everyone.”

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Alice has found that text messaging has other advantages, too “If there is a guy I like, I find it easier to send text messages initially rather than phone him up,” she said “ Because we’re not face to face, I don’t feel nervous There is one guy, a friend of a friend, who

I don’t know well, but we’re started to text message each other and that’s how we communicate I would never have phoned him up but this way it feels OK.”

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Text messaging and email also help Alice keep in touch with old schoolmate she would probably have lost contact with otherwise She finds it much easier to send a message saying “Hi, thinking of you,” rather than having to write a long letter

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It seems these forms of communication have filled a gap offering something that face-to-face conversation does not Professor Pam Brings , a psychologist at the University of Northumbria, believes they have become popular because they offer people a chance to present themselves in the way that they want to “ People seem to really enjoy sending text messages and emails,” she says “ They can take their time planning their message, and they can be a bit more playful, adding jokes and little bits of video clips and so on They prefer it to the one-to-one communication of speaking on the phone to each other – maybe also because this way they can choose when they want to respond to someone.”

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The fact that text messages are so quick and easy is a big part of the attraction Many people also find text messaging more informal than making a phone call or writing a letter, and therefore simpler to use Annabelle Rose, who teaches at a London sixth form college, uses email and text messaging to keep in touch with her students They often email or text her with questions about their work “ They don’t find it so difficult to keep in touch that way, whereas they might feel that a phone call is more of an interruption,” she said “ I have always given my number out to students and told them to call me if they have any problems But no one ever did before text messaging really started taking off ”

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So is it all good ? Annabelle has identified one negative result of text messaging “ The popularity of this way of writing among my students can cause a few difficulties as they have started using these abbreviations in their normal writing, like writing “ tomoro” for

“tomorrow,” she said “But they are never rude If I text them back answering their queries, they always send another message saying “Thx, even though it’s not really necessary.”

III Read the passage and choose the best answer ( 2.5pts )

After two decades of growing student enrollments and economic prosperity, business schools in the United States have started to

face harder times Only Harvard’s MBA School has shown a substantial increase in enrollments Since 1990, the number of people

receiving Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degrees has dropped about 3 percents to 75,000, and the trend of

lower-enrollment rates is expected to continue

There are two factors causing this decrease in students seeking an MBA degree The first one is that many graduates of four-year

colleges are finding that an MBA degree does not guarantee a plush job on Wall Street or in other financial districts of major American Cities Many of the entry-level management jobs as well as those holding MBA degrees Students have asked the question

“ Is an MBA degree really what I need to be best prepared for getting a good job?” The second major factor has been the cutting of American payrolls and the lower number of entry-level jobs being offered Business needs are changing , and MBA schools are

struggling to meet the new demands.

1 What is the main focus of this passage ?

B Types of graduate degrees D How schools are changing to reflect the economy

2 The phrase “ two decades” in the first paragraph refers to a period of .

3 The word “prosperity” in the first paragraph could best be replaced by which of the following ?

4 Which of the following business schools has NOT shown a decrease in enrollment ?

5 The phrase “ trend of” in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to which of the following ?

6 As used in the second paragraph , the word “seeking” could best be replaced by which of the following ?

7 Which of the following descriptions most likely applies to Wall Street ?

A A center for international affairs C A major financial center

8 According to the passage, what are two causes of declining business school enrollments?

A Lack of necessity for an MBA and an economic recession C Low salary and foreign competition

B Fewer MBA schools and fewer entry-level jobs D Declining population and economic prosperity

9 The first paragraph is mainly concerned with which of the following ?

A Factors contributing to the decline in MBA students C A current trend affecting the nation’s business schools

B The difference between Harvard , Princeton, and Standford D Two decades of hard times for business schools

10 As used in the second paragraph the word “ struggling” is closest in meaning to

Part D : writing ( 5.0 pts)

I Complete each of the second sentences so that it has a similar meaning to the first.(2 0 pts)

1 I’d prefer you to sign the contract without any further delay.-> I’d rather

2 Lola said she was sorry she had not attended the meeting

-> Lola apologized for

3 The waitress will bring your drinks in a moment.-> Your drinks

4 There is no better teacher in this school than Miss Jones

-> Miss Jones is

5 No one has challenged his authority before -> This is the first time

6 Diamonds are said to be the most expensive jewelry -> It is

7 Everyone expects that Manchester United will win the Champion League

-> Manchester United

8 The robbers made the bank manager hand over the money

-> The bank manager

II Complete each of the second sentence using the given word DO NOT CHANGE THE WORD GIVEN (3 0 pts)

1 The trains couldn’t run because of the snow (prevented )

->

2 I didn’t arrive in time to see him (enough )

->

3 We had a local firm paint our house last week ( painted )

->

4 Don’t let him treat you like that again ( yourself )

->

5 They say Liza won the Nobel Prize ( said ) ->

6 My father does not intend to stop smoking ( intention )

->

7 I haven’t seen the man here before ( first )->

8 “ Are you leaving for New York tomorrow?” he said to me ( leaving )

->

9 “ I’ll give the money back tomorrow,” said Phillip ( promised )

->

10 Although Judy was severely disabled she participated in many sports ( despite)

->

I Find the word that has its underlined part pronounced differently from the other :

IV In most lines of this text there is one unnecessary word It is either grammartically wrong or does not make sense Write the unnecessary words on the spaces Tick(√) any lines that are correct (1.0pts)

0 .the2 In the United Kingdom women see their doctor on the average five times

01 a year, compared with a men who visit their doctor about three times a year

02 Two out of three women leave from their GP’s surgery clutching a prescription

03 Yet women have been taking tablets without knowing that what effect they

04 may have on their bodies, because of a scientific anomaly the most drugs are

05 tested on the men In addition, there are well-known examples of the way drugs

06 and other substances work differently in women The different balance of fat and

07 muscle in men’s and women’s bodies affects to the speed with which alcohol is

08 absorbed and broken down, for example It is being predicted that natural remedies

09 will continue to gain in the popularity as women, in particular, become more

10 aware of the possible side-effects of the powerful drugs currently being prescribed

When we got there, the tickets _ out