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In a seminar or tutorial, everyone should take part rather than allow one person to ______
the discussion.
A. overwhelm
B. dominate
C. oppress
D. empower
Many people were killed instantly at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but thousands more died
from ______ radiation sickness.
A. succeeding
B. following
C. subsequent
D. afterwards
Ill move ______ to achieve my goal.
A. heaven and earth
B. mountains and seas
C. paradise and hell
D. milky way and horizon
The 5% wage increases they propose are ______.
A. all for one
B. by and large
C. top to borrow
D. across the board
Sarah: I want you to give me some money
- Paul: ______
A. Oh you want, do you?
B. Oh youd like, would you?
C. Oh, you give, do you?
D. Oh you do, do you?
She often appears not to care about her work, but appearances can be ______.
A. cunning
B. deceitful
C. deceptive
D. insincere
As they watched the football match the huge crowd ______ in unison.
A. chanted
B. intoned
C. crowed
D. bellowed
Nothing you say will make a ______ of difference to my decision.
A. fragment
B. scrap
C. gram
D. grain
______, Carol s very punctual, but she was late tonight.
A. For a rule
B. Like a rule
C. For a rule of thumb
D. As a rule
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Question 2. Error Correction. The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes
and correct them in the space provided. (5pts)
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MTV stands for Music Television. Its a television channel dedicating to pop music. It was
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born on 1st August 1981 in the United States. Because of MTVs instant succeed in the US,
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the company expanded other areas. MTV Europe began operating on 1 st August 1978. MTV
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Europe broadcast 24 hours a day from it London studios. It can be seen in 33 countries and
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reaches an estimated audiences of 110 million viewers. People of 19 different nationalities
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work at London headquarters, and they try offering a mixture of music from all over
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Europe. The channel broadcasts in English but Germany provides the bigger number of
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viewers. Currently, one five of the music is by German artists. Most of TV output is video
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and concerts, but there is also a programme calling Unplugged, where major artist play live
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and acoustic in front of a small studio audience. In addition on music, the channels
programmes deal with news, movie information and comedy. MTV has also broadcast
special report on racism, immigrate and unemployed teenagers.
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Question 3: Fill in each blank in the sentences with a correct preposition or particle. (5 pts)
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VIOLATE
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PRODUCE
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She may look fierce but the lioness has ______ instincts like any other female animal.
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8. The fish in the river provide an ______ supply of fish for the young bears. ABOUND
9. Nowadays only a ______of wild crocodiles remain here.
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10. Patricia's skill in playing the piano is quite ______. No other child in this group can play the
difficult pieces with similar mastery.
COMPARE
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Question 5: Choose the best word(s) to fill in each blank in the following passage. (10pts)
Traffic lights
The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed outside the
House of Parliament in 1868. It (1)___ like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by
gas. (2)___, it explored and killed a policeman, and the accident (3)___ further development until
cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland in
1914. Three-colour signals, operated (4)___ hand from a tower in the (5)___ of the street, were
installed in New York in 1918. The (6)___ lights of this type to appear in Britain were in London,
on the junction between St. Jams Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed
(7)___ year later.
In the past, traffic lights were special. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los
Angeles the lights did not just (8)___ silently, but would ring bells to (9)___ the sleeping
motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been (10)___ by standard models which are
universally adopted.
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A. resembled
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C. showed
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A. Although
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A. forbade
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A. reproduced
B. replaced
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Question 6: Fill in the blank with one suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered
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If all countries had the same monetary units, a difficult problem of international trade would be
solved. One countrys money is not usually good in (1)___, however, and it is necessary to have a
system for (2)___ the currency of the buyer into (3)___ of the seller. Bankers handle this by doing
(4)___ is called buying or selling foreign exchange.
When an exporter sells his goods to a merchant in a foreign country, he makes (5)___ a bill of
exchange for the merchandise. The bill of exchange looks (6)___ a common bank check. The
exporter sends this bill to his bank and receives his money. (7)___, the exporter receives payment
in his own currency.
The exporters bank sends the bill of exchange to (8)___ branch bank which notifies the (9)___
who pays the bill in his currency. The branch bank keeps his money and uses it to pay future
(10)___ of exchange presented by merchants in that country who have goods to export.
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newly invented gramophone, which played a large disc carrying music and dialogue, was used as
a sound system. The biggest disadvantage was that the sound and pictures could become
unsynchronized if, for example, the gramophone needle jumped or if the speed of the projector
changed. This system was only effective for a single song or dialogue sequence.
In the sound - on - film system, sounds were recorded as a series of marks on celluloid which
could be read by an optical sensor. These signals would be placed on the film alongside the
image, guaranteeing synchronization. Short feature films were produced in this way as early as
1922. This system eventually brought us talking pictures.
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Question2: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I
for each part (1-7) of the passage. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
One example has been done for you. (7pts)
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The crowd holds its breath. High above them on the climbing wall, hanging upside down by the
tips of two fingers, is the French climber Francois Lombard. He is competing in the World Cup
Climbing Championships at Birminghams National Indoor Arena.
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The National Indoor Arena is more famous for staging the TV show Gladiators, but the television
programme and the World Cup Climbing Championships share at least one feature - The Wall.
And the fact that either event is possible is the result of a new and rapidly developing technology.
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Until the mid- 1960s, climbers practiced their skills on cliffs in areas where there was a plentiful
supply of good climbing angles. During the winter they would either tolerate the cold weather, go
walking instead or climb on snow and ice in Scotland.
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However, as the sport developed it was increasingly important for top climbers to keep fit. With
the cliffs unusable for much of the year, they used brick-edges or stone buildings to work out on.
This allowed them to keep their fingers strong and beat off the boredom of not being able to
climb. It wasnt long before many sports centre started building walls specifically for the task,
using bricks with special edges to cling on to.
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Many of these early walls followed the example set by Don Robison, a teacher of physical
education who, during the mid- 1960s, constructed a climbing wall in corridor of his department
at Leeds University. Robison developed the idea of setting natural rock in a block of concrete,
which could then be included in a wall.
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Scores of climbing walls of this kind were built in sports halls up and down the country
throughout the 1970s but they had obvious design problems. Walls could only be built in a
vertical plane, whereas cliffs outside have features like overhangs and angled slabs of rock. There
was the added drawback that once the walls were up they couldnt be altered and climbers would
eventually tire of their repetitive nature, despite thinking of every combination of holds possible.
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In 1985, a Frenchman, Francois Savigny, developed a material which he moulded into shapes like
those that climbers would find on the cliffs. These could be fixed onto any existing wall and then
taken off when climbers got bored with a particular combination.
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French manufactures also began to experiment with panels on steel framework. Concrete had
proved too heavy to create overhanging walls without major building work, but steel frames could
be erected anywhere as free - standing structures. A system of interchangeable fixtures gave
climbers an endless supply of new holds.
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Question 3: For questions 1-8, read the following text and then choose from the list A-K the
best phrase given below to fill each of the spaces. Write one letter (A-K) in the correct space.
Each correct phrase may be used only once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all.
London: A City for All Tastes
On first encountering England's splendid capital, many tourists are overcome by a sense of
complete and utter awe. It is the streaming lines of rush-hour traffic, the hurrying crowds on their
way to work, and the scurrying shoppers seeking out bargains (1)______.
Visitors are often at a loss as to where to go and what to visit first, and often worry about
how to best spend the limited time (2)______. Most tourists quickly discover (3)______, however,
for no matter where you go in the city (4)______. It is usually only then, after a long, but
rewarding day of sightseeing, (5)______. It suddenly dawns on them, weary, thirsty and hungry as
they are, (6)______!
London is teeming with diverse places to eat and drink. Whether you fancy a formal sitdown meal or a quick take-away kebab, this city has something to offer the most discriminating
tastes. Bear in mind, though, a trip to London would simply not be complete without a visit to one
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of the many traditional tea rooms (7)______.Treat yourself to a high tea of scones with jam and
clotted cream. You'll soon realise that this is just one of the many things (8)______.
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It was Sir Walter Barron who introduced potatoes and tobacco into England.
The English owe ..............................................................................................
Question 2: For each of the sentences below, write a new sentence as similar as possible in
meaning to the original sentence using the word given. This word must not be altered in any
way. (5 points)
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Many people nowadays find it increasingly difficult to exist on the money they earn.
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