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A22 PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: 2 pts Question 1: Listen to the conversations in the tape two times then pick out ONE best option A,B,C or D in each question: 1.. Questi

A22

PART I : LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ( 2 pts )

Question 1: Listen to the conversations in the tape two times then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C

or D ) in each question:

1. The car needs replacing

2. Finally, the tourist decides to book a wake-up call at

A 6.30 o’clock B 7.00 o’clock

C 7.15 o’clock D 6.45 o’clock

3 The patient goes to see the doctor because she has got

A a headache B a stomachache

C a toothache D a backache

4 The doctor tells the patient

A to stay in bed for some days

B to take some medicines

C to stop reading and watching telly

D to have her eyes tested

Question 2 : Listen to the conversations in the tape two times then pick out the information to complete these sentences:

baggage

moment? _

PART II :VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR ( 8 pts )

Question 3: Pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) to complete sentence :

look at its beauty

A When B Since

C While D Unless

2 This is the stone bed………the king had lain before he died in the 14th century

A however B of which

C wherever D where

3 It’s so long since I last saw him that I almost failed to………….him

A recognize B receive

C approve D accept

4 The coal and steel industries are among the productions……… by the government

A control B to control

C controlling D controlled

5 His play made a tremendous………….on audience

A result B affect

C impact D collision

6 Unmarried middle-aged ladies usually dislike being called ……….although it is

technically the correct word to use

A old maids B spinsters

C maidens D bachelors

7 She’s so………in doing her research that she never has time to relax

A involved B included

C complicated D approved

8 I apologize I shouldn’t……… my temper

A have made B have lost

C have showed D have given

Question 4 : Complete these sentences, using the suitable forms of the words in

brackets:

( fortunately )

( convenience )

to have a translator here ( useful )

her ( suspect )

Question 5 : There are 8 errors in the passage below Read the passage, find out these

errors then correct them The number (o) is an example:

Social engagements follow rather definite rules of etiquette, but there are varying ( o

degree-> degrees ) of formality and informality Invitations for formal parties and

dinners and to such important occasions as weddings and graduations, is usually made in

writing on formal printed or engraved cards Quite often the invitation will indicate the

type of cloth to be worn, but if this is not clear, it is perfectly permissible to telephone

the host or hostess to inquire about this If the native costume of foreign visitors is

different with the usual local style of dress, it is always correct to wear the costume one

would wear at home for an occasion of comparable formality

The person invited should never reply, as promptly as possible, to let the hostess

know whether or not he or she can accept the guests Usually the hostess must plan for a

specific number of guests and any time in that number will also require changes in the

sitting arrangements, or in the amount of food to be prepared

Before attending a social function to which he or she has been invited by a written

invitation , the guest may send a thank – you card to the hostess

Question 6 : Choose ONE option ( A,B,C or D ) corresponding to the best sentence

which is made up from the given cue words

PART III : READING ( 6 pts )

Question 7 : Read the passage below then pick out ONE best option ( A,B,C or D ) in

each question :

I left school at fifteen I was an academically bright lad who was urged by some of his teachers not to leave, but I wanted out, to see life, and I didn’t want to reach beyond the expectation of the friends who left school with me I worked for a year in a laundry, as a van-boy delivering dry cleaning

On turning sixteen I applied to be, and eventually began working as, a trainee heating engineer with a medium-sized company in East Belfast The first months were boring The work was not demanding but I

found the environment of the factory annoying I remember my first week I left the factory to meet up with a friend and I realized that I had forgotten to collect my wages My friend thought I was an idiot After many months working in the factory, I was sent off to college to study for my Certificate in Heating Engineering I found the classroom routine unpleasant and I remember feeling a sense of limitation Five years of this- to end up as a heating engineer and continue with that for the foreseeable future was not an exciting thought Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue

my studies in literature at evening classes It was a boring walk from one end of the city to another and to sit amongst adults was confusing I was the youngest in the class, so the companionship I knew at school was absent I put up with it for a short period It was too long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to concentrate on Shakespeare with wet shoes and soaking trousers So I carried on reading books and started writing poetry at home

By chance, I won some prizes and literary awards in national competitions A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day She told me in the quiet of the corridor that I had won a national poetry award I stared at her in astonishment and disbelief She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said: ‘ No, I couldn’t do that.’ Not that I had any real excuse I was just frightened She eventually persuaded me that I should do it the following day

Off I went to Shaws Bridge, on the outskirts of Belfast They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I was forever after occupied with a fascination for words I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not stand the idea of spending the rest of my days dealing with pipes So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to return to school They were shocked and, I think, a little afraid but they did not try to persuade me not to They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I was aware that if I gave up my training it would be very difficult to get a good job But nothing could put me off, and they pursued the matter no further

B. He couldn’t earn enough for his life

Question 8 : Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word to complete the

passage below:

New drivers could be asked to play a sophisticated video game as part of their training and driving test, under proposals to be announced by transport ministers next week The Department of Transport has been

considering a test devised by researchers which tests people’s “ hazard and perception…( 1 )…”, that is how

quickly they are aware of a dangerous situation and how quickly they react to it This is a particular weak point of new and learner drivers

Dr Frank McKenna, the psychologist heading the £200,000 research project, says: ‘…( 2 )

people, despite popular belief and, particularly their own estimation of their driving, do not have faster reaction times than older drivers Although they may be slightly quicker once they notice something

dangerous, they are much…( 3 )…at spotting a possible crisis

Dr McKenna says that the video is a much better tool for training and testing than written

questionnaires, which were an alternative suggestion put forward in a consultation paper by the department

last August:”…( 4 )…may be cheaper, though they are quite expensive to mark, but there is no relationship

between being good at answering the questions and being good at avoiding accidents.”

Rather than developing a…( 5 )…programme involving high technology, Dr McKenna has concentrated

on a scheme that could be carried out quickly and cheaply.” There will be no excuse for not implementing this test.”

Drivers being assessed watch a ten-minute video and push a button as soon as they see a dangerous …( 6 )

….While some of the situations on the video were acted by the research team, several were not, including a

dangerously wobbly cyclist who cuts across traffic to go along the white line in the middle of the road, and a woman stepping out into the traffic from a bus stop

Dr McKenna is working on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council on how drivers judge their own driving skills His preliminary work suggests that people usually think that their skills are above average which of course, is a nonsense statistically

Indeed, in one…( 7 )…survey in the US not one person from a large sample thought their skills were below

average

He believes that one way of reducing road deaths is to get people to realize that they are not as good as

they think He gets them to think of an accident they have…( 8 )…and then to imagine the results This

training is successful at making drivers more careful and Dr McKenna hopes it may become a routine part of driver instruction

Question 9 : The article below is not complete and logical Eight paragraphs have been removed from

it Find out one of the suitable paragraphs ( A- I ), then insert it into the gaps ( 1- 8 ) where it should be

to make the article a good one There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use:

ADMIRING THE SKILLS OF THE AMERICAN SKYWRITERS

Skywriting isn’t quite a dying art, but you have to scan the American skies pretty carefully these days to find white smoke puffing out a message Skywriters have a skill that’s seen by nearly all, but no more than a dozen pilots in the USA regularly practise it

1

With this information, gunners on the ground could more easily aim their fire at the enemy beneath the smoke In the mid-1920s a US company began the first advertising campaign in the sky, promoting cigarettes The plane flew over Philadelphia sending out a message in the air to the people below This is how skywriting began and it has continue to fascinate us

2

The memory of that moment stayed with him when he followed in his father’s footsteps as a pilot and now,

as head of the Aerial Sign Company in Hollywood , it comes back when he puts floating adverts up in the sky himself

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4

He says the pilots need to be highly skilled: Most skywriters work about two miles high Everything has to be square, otherwise it’s simply poor penmanship that everybody sees You have to know where your plane is at all times

5

Together they try it out on the runway, taking half-steps at different corners and turning at angles to be followed in the sky later on

6

Pepsi-Cola certainly agrees Fourteen years ago the soft drink company, searching for someone to carry on a tradition begun in the early 1930s, looked through some 3,000 applicants for a skywriter, and chose a 21-year-old woman pilot from Oregon

7

She says that when you are two miles away from your audience, you forget how big an impression it makes

on the people below Kids stop playing ball and traffic comes to a complete standstill You can’t actually see while she ‘s writing, of course But during the descent and on landing she can look back and see what she’s

written

8

Children come up to Asbury- Oliver after her shows She says that they are really curious because they are learning and form their own letters and they imagine her aeroplane as apencil Their parents are often surprised when they meet her

Each letter is about half a mile across, so a simple IT’S FESTIVAL TIME !, including punctuation and spacing, takes up about eight miles of sky !

Your answer is:

THE REMOVED PARAGRAPHS :

out to put his wife’s name, Regla, up in the air The drawing looks like her name backwards, as if in a mirror, with arrows, angles, numbers of seconds, and dotted lines showing the pilot what to do

festivals and fairs Suzanne and her husband, Steve, who flies aerobatic man oeuvres, live in Colorado but keep their plane in Illinois

backyard to see a plane writing in the skies

girls to meet me At first they’ll approach my husband and say, “Look what he did,” and he’ll say,”

No, she did that.” They’re astonished.”

say to yourself, I did a good job If a letter isn’t quite right, you become your own worst critic, and you say, I can’t believe I did that.”

much longer he will continue training sky writers

able to fly straight and parallel lines and judge their work without using equipment.”

attention to detail, and they’re less likely to depart from procedure.”

a British pilot squirted some light oil into his plane’s exhaust system to make a mid-air spot of smoke above an enemy position

PART IV : WRITING ( 4 pts )

Question 10 : For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in meaning

to the original one, but using the word given This word must not be altered in any way:

Example: ( o ) There was no conclusion at the end of the workshop

Conclude

They did not conclude anything at the end of the workshop

Absence

2. Our environment is polluted seriously

Pollution

3. We cannot make any comparison with her sacrifice Compare

4. A huge investment has been put into the field of hydro-electricity Invest

5. They speak English in a high proficiency Proficiently

6. He tried his best but he couldn’t succeed Success

7. Regular practice will make us skilful Practise

8. If the factory is opened, everyone will have a job Unemployed

Question 10: Write about how you spend your leisure time and write about leisure-time activities that interest you (in about 150 – 200 words)

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