FLSS/practice_tests/G11 PRACTICE TEST 9 Time allowed: 90mins Full name: …………………………… I. Class:……… Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others in each line. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A. detention A. insecure A. attractive A. confidant A. medium B. dilemma B. opportunity B. barrister B. conservative B. menial C. secretarial C. usable C. academic C. promote C. reveal D. meritocracy D. university D. album D. personal D. retail II. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the others in each line. 6. A. interview 7. A. experience 8. A. embarrass 9. A. predominantly 10. A. ordinary B. applicant B. maturely B. painstaking B. irrelevancy B. euphemism C. advantage C. reclusion C. assistant C. terminology C. immediately D. imbecile D. destitute D. bilingual D. vocabulary D. dedicated III. Choose the word which best fits each gap in the following sentences. 11. These figures show a _____ in the number of unemployed people in England and Wales. A. reduction B. lessening C. loss D. lowering 12. Two _____ were sacked, because they were always turning up late. A. applicants B. applications C. employers D. employees 13. People who take on a second job inevitably _____ themselves to greater stress. A. offer B. field C. subject D. place 14. Students sometimes support themselves by _____ of evening jobs. A. ways B. methods C. efforts D. means 15. _____ of all the staff, I would like to wish you a happy retirement. A. Instead B. On behalf C. In place D. On account 16. Automation in factories has made many _____ workers redundant. A. manual B. hand C. fabrication D. manufacturing 17. She tried to _____ Tom’s importance to the company in order to gain a promotion for herself. A. reduce B. diminish C. dwindle D. shrink 18. Could you be more specific about what is _____ in this particular job? A. enclosed B. involved C. presented D. concentrated 19. For some jobless people, joining the _____ queue is humiliating experience. A. benefit B. grant C. dole D. ration 20. There weren’t any _____ in the factory for bilingual secretaries. A. situations B. offers C. spaces D. vacancies 21. Luckily, he realized that he had forgotten his passport in time to return to the hotel and collect it; otherwise, we _____ the hovercraft. A. must not have caught B. needn’t have caught C. hadn’t been caught D. couldn’t have caught 22. Medicines and chemical cleaning liquids _____ out of children’s reach. A. need to keep B. must have kept C. should be kept D. have kept 23. Advertising is very old. Examples of advertising _____ as far back as ancient Greece, where criers shouted out messages about their client’s wares to the public. A. have found B. would be found C. can be found D. might be found 24. Because the waiter didn’t _____ what I ordered, he brought me a mutton steak instead of the chicken wings that I’d want. A. call on B. stay up C. take down D. check in 25. A cheaper guitar won’t be much good to you _____ you are hoping to play professionally later on. A. until B. if C. whether D. as if FLSS/practice_tests/G11 26. Through the dense fog in the harbor, the captain and crew were barely able to _____ the lights on the dock. A. look up B. make out C. called away D. left out 27. As Japan has a large population _____ little level land, its cities are extremely crowded. A. so B. but C. thus D. due to 28. _____ many college graduates in India are unemployed, companies across the country complain of a lack of skilled people. A. As to B. In spite of C. While D. Meanwhile 29. I know that your situation seems very bad at the moment, but your problems will soon _____. A. take after B. blow over C. hang out D. live down 30. We will get their order _____ another company quotes them a lower price, which I doubt will happen. A. because B. as if C. unless D. supposed that IV. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. CULTURE CLASHES One (31. CHARACTER) of the modern world is that people increasingly find themselves living side by side with people from other cultures. While in the past people with different cultures were able to live quite (32. SEPARATE), high mobility and freedom of movement mean that we are more likely today to be confronted with people whose way of life is (33. FAMILIAR) to us. In such circumstances, (34. RACE) is a real danger. People feel a tremendous (35. LOYAL) to their own culture, and are often unwilling to develop an (36. APPRECIATE) of the positive aspects of other cultures. They may feel that another culture presents a threat to their own (37. INHERIT), one that could even lead to the (38. APPEAR) of certain aspects of their way of life. Often, however, this threat is more a matter of (39. PERCEIVE) than reality and different groups live in (40. RELATE) harmony in many parts of the world. characteristic 31. _____________ separately 32. _____________ unfamiliar 33. _____________ racism 34. _____________ 35. _____________ loyalty appreciation 36. _____________ heritage 37. _____________ 38. _____________ disappearance perception 39. _____________ relative 40. _____________ V. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) in the space by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, underline the word and write it in the space. A HOLIDAY JOB So you want to earn some extra money during the summer holidays? I can tell you one job that I’d certainly will avoid if I were you. Last year, I have heard that an easy way to make some extra cash was to go on fruit picking. You don’t need any special skills and you spend all day outside in the sunshine. I wish I had known what I was letting it myself in for. Basically, you have to fill up baskets with strawberries which are then weighed and then you get paid according to how much you have and picked. Of course, they don’t pay you anything for the ones what you eat, but after a few days in the fields, I never been wanted to see another strawberry again in my life! My hands were permanently red and sticky and my back ached from so much all bending down. And what’s more, where there’s fruit, there’s bound to be wasps. I spent a fortune on both insect repellent and still got stung twice! The best way to make it fun is if only a crowd of mates do it together, but the farmers are not always so keen on this because they think as you’re going to fool around and not get on with the work. Given that it was so much boring, they were right! 41. ____________ 42. ____________ 43. ____________ 44. ____________ 45. ____________ 46. ____________ 47. ____________ 48. ____________ 49. ____________ 50. ____________ 51. ____________ 52. ____________ 53. ____________ 54. ____________ 55. ____________ FLSS/practice_tests/G11 VI. Read the following text and choose the best answer for each question. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the American educational system was desperately in need of reform. Private schools existed, but only for the very rich. There were very few public schools because of the strong sentiment that children who would grow up to be laborers should not ‘waste’ their time on education but should instead prepare themselves for their life’s work. It was in the face of this public sentiment that educational reformers set about their task. Horace Mann, probably the most famous of the reformers, felt that there was no excuse in a republic for any citizen to be uneducated. As Superintendent of Education in the state of Massachusetts from 1837 to 1848, he initiated various changes, which were soon matched in other school districts around the country. He extended the school year from five to six months and improved the quality of teachers by instituting teacher education and raising teacher salaries. Although these changes did not bring about a sudden improvement in the educational system, they at least increased public awareness as to the need for a further strengthening of the system. 56. The best title for the passage could be _____. A. The Beginnings of Reform in American Education B. Nineteenth - the Century of Reform C. A Fight for Change D. American Education in the Beginning of the 19th Century 57. The passage implied that to go to a private school, a student needed _____. A. a high level of intelligence B. a strong educational background C. a lot of money D. good grades 58. The word ‘desperately’ in the passage mostly means _____. A. obviously B. urgently C. completely D. partly 59. The author of the passage puts the word ‘waste’ in quotation marks because he _____. A. does not want students to waste their time on education B. is quoting someone else who said that education was a waste of time C. thinks that education is not really a waste of time D. wants to emphasize how much time is wasted on education 60. According to the passage, Horace Mann wanted a better educational system for Americans because _____. A. Massachusetts residents needed something to do with their spare time B. education at the time was so cheap C. all citizens should be educated in a republic D. people had nothing else to do except go to school 61. The word ‘reformers’ in the passage mostly means _____. A. people who try to change things for the better B. people who believe that education is wasted C. people who really enjoy teaching D. people who work for the government 62. The word ‘citizen’ in the passage mostly means _____. A. a person who lives in a particular city B. a person who works in a particular place C. a person who works, especially one who does a particular kind of work D. a person who has the legal right to belong to a particular country 63. From 1837 to 1848, Horace Mann _____. A. raised money for the educational development in Massachusetts B. managed education in the state of Massachusetts C. funded many projects to improve the educational system for Americans D. worked as a headmaster in a school in the state of Massachusetts 64. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT TRUE? A. Horace Mann suggested schools prepare children for their life’s work. B. Horace Mann was a famous US educational reformer. C. Horace Mann brought about changes in many schools in the United States. D. Horace Mann began raising teachers’ salaries. FLSS/practice_tests/G11 65. According to the passage, which of the following is a change that Horace Mann instituted? A. Increased pay for students B. The matching of other districts’ policies C. Better teacher training D. The five-month school year VII. Choose the best word or phrase to fill in each blank in the following passage. PROACTIVE JOB HUNTING Once upon a time, people left school or university, joined a company and stayed with it until they retired. The concept of a job for life is now long (66) _____, and nowadays many employees find it hard to stay loyal to their companies for even a relatively short (67) _____ of time. According to a recent survey, this is particularly (68) _____ in London, where more than half of those asked said that they constantly (69) _____ one eye on other job opportunities, (70) _____ they are fairly happy in their existing jobs. A high number of London workers say that they are always on the (71) _____, although they are content and motivated in their current position. Job seekers find that the internet (72) _____ them with a quick and easy way to find out what’s available, and 53 per cent said that they had applied for a job or registered with an employment agency in the past 12 months. This proactive (73) _____ means that people can look for a perfect job match with the minimum of effort. But while this is good for job hunters, the growing lack of company loyalty could (74) _____ up being a big problem for employers. Perhaps surprisingly, the (75) _____ factor attracting job seekers was not more money, but challenging and interesting work. 66. A. gone 67. A. stage 68. A. right 69. A. hold 70. A. just as 71. A. lookout 72. A. serves 73. A. manner 74. A. come 75. A. biggest VIII. B. over B. point B. true B. put B. as well B. search B. delivers B. approach B. end B. widest C. done C. section C. actual C. keep C. so that C. watch C. provides C. style C. lead C. largest D. finished D. period D. real D. place D. even if D. pursuit D. fulfils D. custom D. run D. highest Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word to complete the following passage. Dear Sir, make I would like to (76) ____________________ a complaint about an article that appeared in your out newspaper last week. In the article, entitled ‘Why they are (77) ____________________ of work’, for the writer suggested that the unemployed were responsible (78) ____________________ their own situation. If the writer had (79) ____________________ their job properly and made a little effort to speak to local unemployed people, they might have realised that this is not the (80) ____________________. case Let me begin (81) ____________________ saying that most unemployed people want to work. by for They apply (82) ____________________ jobs and (83) ____________________ a great deal of put effort into changing their situation. on The truth is that local businesses are simply not taking (84) ____________________ new staff. The blame government is to (85) ____________________ for the way in which economic growth has slowed down, making life difficult for many businesses. I look forward to reading a more balanced article in the future. Yours faithfully, Rebecca Winterson FLSS/practice_tests/G11 IX. Rewrite the following sentences so that they have the same meaning as the original ones. 86. I strongly advise you to tell her you’re sorry. APOLOGIZE better apologize to @ I think you’d .................................................................................................................. her. 87. It is likely that my friends haven’t received my letter yet. UNLIKELY are unlikely to receive @ My friends .......................................................................................................my letter yet. 88. He seemed to be worried about something. IMPRESSION got the impression that something @ I ............................................................................................................ was worrying him. 89. I’ve never seen anyone play so skillfully before. MUCH play with so much skill @ I’ve never seen anyone ........................................................................................... before. 90. What caused him to change his mind? REASON the reason for his change @ What was .............................................................................................................. of mind? 91. When should we collect the books we ordered last week? SUPPOSED are we supposed to pick @ When .......................................................................... up the books we ordered last week. 92. “It is important that you don’t tell anyone else what I’ve told you,” she said to him. REPEAT me not to repeat to @ She urged ................................................................... anyone else what she had told him. 93. I was surprised to discover that the hotel was a long way from the city center. TURNED my surprise, it turned out @ To ......................................................... that the hotel was a long way from the city center. 94. She would like a job that will allow her to travel abroad a lot. GIVE give her the opportunities to @ She would like a job that will ................................................................. travel abroad a lot. 95. You took it without paying for it, didn’t you?” the shopkeeper said to her. ACCUSED @ The shopkeeper .................................................................................. without paying for it. accused her of having taken X. Choose the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the questions from 96 to 100 96. “Isn’t it an interesting film?” A. It is not an interesting film, is it? B. Is it an interesting film? C. It is not an interesting film. D. It is an interesting film. 97. I wondered if my English teacher is from Australia. A. I am sure my teacher from Australia speaks English. B. I wondered my Australia teacher is English. C. I wondered if my teacher’s English is Australian English. D. I am not sure whether my English teacher is Australian. 98. It is undeniable that the internet plays a vital role in our life nowadays. A. Our life without the internet is deniable. B. The internet’s vital role is denied in our modern life. C. That the internet is important to modern life is obvious. D. The internet is hardly undeniable in our life. 99. Although they are twins, they are not identical. A. They look alike but they are not twins. B. They are not alike because they are not twins. C. The twins do not have the same identity. D. They are twins but they don’t look exactly the same. 100. By the time we arrived at the airport, the shuttle bus had left. A. We got to the airport just in time. B. The shuttle bus left at the time we got to the airport. C. The shuttle bus had left before we got to the airport. D. We got to the airport before the shuttle bus ran. - The end -