PRACTICE TEST 5 FOR C7K49
SECTION B:
SECTION B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 points)
Part 1. Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences. Write A, B, C or D in
the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. According to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, wisdom comes from the _______ of maturity.
A. fulfillment
B. achievement
C. establishment
D. accomplishment
2. It does not alter the fact that he was the man ______ for the death of the little girl.
A. accounting
B. guilty
C. responsible
D. obliged
3. The doctor is absorbedly ______ to research into the cause of cancer of the liver.
A. attentive
B. attractive
C. deceptive
D. diligent
4. We can rely on William to carry out the mission, for his judgment is always ______.
A. unquestionable
B. delicate
C. sound
D. original
5. As a swarm of mosquitoes attacked them for hours ______, the enemy soldiers could no longer hold on
in their hiding place.
A. in the end
B. on end
C. without end
D. no end
6. The final examinations were hard, but most students ______.
A. pulled out
B. pulled down
C. pulled through
D. pulled on
7. That boy is much a good violinist he will probably make quite a ______ for himself.
A. star
B. credit
C. name
D. character
8. The new principal is young and has little experience. ______, I believe that he has the strength of will to
make our school the best.
A. Despite
B. However
C. While
D. Although
9. _____ one after another, parallel computers perform groups of operations at the same time.
A. Conventional computers, by handling tasks
B. Since tasks being handled by conventional computers
C. Whereas conventional computers handle tasks
D. While tasks handled by conventional computers
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
10. Relaxation therapy teaches one not to fret over small problems.
A. worry about
B. get angry about
C. get involved in
D. look for
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
11. Getting an earnest apology from such a headstrong man like him was like getting blood out
of a stone.
A. out of the question
B. contrary to reason
C. hundred-to-one
D. a piece of cake
Choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the
following exchanges
12. “Which do you prefer: salted butter or unsalted one?” “__________”
A. Nonsense!
B. Anything will do.
C. It’s on me.
D. You’re the
doctor.
Your answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
The passage below contains 8 mistakes. Underline and correct them. Write your answers in the
box provided.
Technology is moving at so a breakneck speed that it is enough to make your head spin. It can be difficult
to keep up. Moreover, with each new technological marvel come consequences. Much of the research
conducted has shown the extent of the damage being made to our health by technology. It is a scary
thought, and with teenagers and children being heavy consumers and users of these gadgets, they run
the risk of being harmed the most. The digital revolution in music has enabled people to download, store
and listen to songs on a tiny, portable device called an MP3 player. The process is quick and afterwards
you can have access of a library of thousands of songs that can fit into your palm. But experts say that
continuous listening to loud music on these small music players can permanently damage hair cells in the
inner ear, resulting in hearing loss. For instance, old - fashioned headphones have replaced with smaller
ones that fit neatly into the ear, instead of over them, which intensifies the sound. In addition to that,
digital music does not distort and keeps its crystal clear sound, even on loud settings, that encourages
children to crank up the volume. Apart from hearing damage, there are other serious healthy risks. We
are living in a wireless. Calls can be made and received on mobiles from anywhere and the internet can
be accessed without the need for cables. The advantages are enormous, bringing ease and convenience
to our lives. It is clear that mobiles and wireless technology are here to stay but are we paying the price
for new technology? Studies have shown that the rapid expansion in the use of wireless technology has
brought with it a new form of radiation called “electropollution”.
ANSWERS:
L1: so-> such
L2: Moreover -> However
L3: made->done
L7: of->to
L8: continuous-> continuously
L9: replaced-> been replaced
l10: that-> which
L12: healthy-> health
GUIDED CLOZE TEST : FILL IN
COSMETICS
Both women and men, it seems, have always had a (0) ................. for changing their appearance (1)
............ the aid of paints, powders, dyes and other (2) ................. devices. The use of cosmetics, (3)
............ from being a product of civilization, originates from an inherent human (4) ............ for self decoration. As far (5) .......... as 100,000 years ago, (6) .............. probably is believed to have painted his
body, and at a later period the people of the Stone (7) .............. prehistoric man's decorated themselves in
a similar fashion. However, the original motivation (8) ............... use of paint was different from (9)
............... which inspired civilized cultures to adopt cosmetics (10) ................. a way of enhancing or
creating beauty. Prehistoric man must have been conscious that he was a weak animal struggling against
a hostile environment. He had to (11) ….......... his own tools for hunting because Nature had not provided
him (12) ............ sharp teeth or claws or the overwhelming physical strength of the wild beasts which
roamed the ancient world. He decorated his skin with the markings of the most powerful animals because
he believed that by representing their physical characteristics on his own body he acquired some of their
power. But his fear (13) ................. wild beasts remained as (14) …............ constantly disturbing and
inexplicable phenomenon, and inspired primitive man(15) ............. the belief that mysterious forces which
he was able neither to understand nor control were at work around him.
0.
A. marvel
B. fascination
C. wonder
D. fantasy
1.
A. in
B. to
C. with
D. through
2.
A. false
B. imitation
C. mock
D. artificial
3.
A. long
B. far
C. wide
D. away
4.
A. want
B. enjoyment
C. desire
D. tendency
5.
A. ago
B. long
C. back
D. old
6.
A. human
B. man
C. one
D. world
7.
A. Age
B. Epoch
C. Era
D. Period
8.
A. to
B. in
C. at
D. for
9.
A. that
B. which
C. what
D. such
10.
A. for
B. to
C. as
D. like
11.
A. develop
B. use
C. adopt
D. acquire
12.
A. for
B. in
C. with
D. through
13.
A. for
B. of
C. against
D. from
14.
A. ever
B. a
C. the
D. if
15.
A. in
B. for
C. on
D. to
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the passage with one suitable word.
LIVING IN SPACE
We are living at a critical point in our history. Once (0) upon……....... a time primitive people feared storms
and the night, and lived by superstitions. Then science rationalised things and created order, and brought
us to the point (1) .....where........ we could invent theories of creation and test them in the laboratory. We
began to feel omnipotent. We were aware that (2) .there.............. were man-made threats which could
wipe us off the ( 3 ) ……surface………. of the Earth. But the Universe would go on for (4)
…ever…………... . Now we are not (5) ……quite…………… sure. We are becoming increasingly aware of
our vulnerability, and so far have done very (6) ……little……..... about it. With planning we (7)
……may……..... one day, escape the Earth and colonise space. After (8) ………all…….... , transatlantic
flight is commonplace today but would have been (9)…only/just…….a dream in Columbus' time, five
hundred years ago.
More than a (10) ………few……….. scientists believe that mankind's arrival is so improbable that it is as if
Nature conspired to bring it ( 11 ) ..about....……… . They see hints that the Universe created life to be its
agents for immortality. As (12) …far………… as we know, we are the ones who have to carry out the task.
(13) ........if............. we can avoid extinction in the short term, then we may propagate throughout space
into the indefinite future. You and I have no (14) ……right…..... to life; we inherited it by chance. Now
that we are here, we have the duty to (15) ……play….... our part in the great human relay race.
Bilingualism in Children
A. One misguided legacy of over a hundred years of writing on bilingualism is that children’s intelligence
will suffer if they are bilingual. Some of the earliest research into bilingualism examined whether bilingual
children were ahead or behind monolingual children on IQ tests. From the 1920s through to the 1960s, the
tendency was to find monolingual children ahead of bilinguals on IQ tests. The conclusion was that
bilingual children were mentally confused. Having two languages in the brain, it was said, disrupted
effective thinking. It was argued that having one well-developed language was superior to having two halfdeveloped languages.
B. The idea that bilinguals may have a lower IQ still exists among many people, particularly monolinguals.
However, we now know that this early research was misconceived and incorrect. First, such research
often gave bilinguals an IQ test in their weaker language – usually English. Had bilinguals been tested in
Welsh or Spanish or Hebrew, a different result may have been found. The testing of bilinguals was thus
unfair. Second, like was not compared with like. Bilinguals tended to come from, for example,
impoverished New York or rural Welsh backgrounds. The monolinguals tended to come from a more
middle-class, urban families. Working-class bilinguals were often compared with middle-class
monolinguals. So the results were more likely to be due to social class differences than language
differences. The comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals was unfair.
C. The most recent research from Canada, the United States, and Wales suggests that bilinguals are, at
least, equal to monolinguals on IQ tests. When bilinguals have two well-developed languages (in the
research literature called balanced bilinguals), bilinguals tend to show a slight superiority in IQ tests
compared with monolinguals. This is the received psychological wisdom of the moment and is good news
for raising bilingual children. Take, for example, a child who can operate in either language in the
curriculum in the school. That child is likely to be ahead on IQ tests compared with similar (same gender,
social class, and age) monolinguals. Far from making people mentally confused, bilingualism is now
associated with a mild degree of intellectual superiority.
D. One note of caution needs to be sounded. IQ tests probably do not measure intelligence. IQ tests
measure a small sample of the broadest concept of intelligence. IQ tests are simply paper and pencil tests
where only ‘right and wrong’ answers are allowed. Is all intelligence summed up in such right and wrong,
pencil and paper tests? Isn’t there a wider variety of intelligence that are important in everyday functioning
and everyday life?
E. Many questions need answering. Do we only define an intelligent person as somebody who obtains a
high score on an IQ test? Are the only intelligent people those who belong to high IQ organizations such
as MENSA? Is there social intelligence, musical intelligence, military intelligence, marketing intelligence,
motoring intelligence, political intelligence? Are all, or indeed any, of these forms of intelligence measured
by a simple pencil and paper IQ test which demands a single, acceptable, correct solution to each
question? Defining what constitutes intelligent behavior requires a personal value judgment as to what
type of behavior, and what kind of person is of more worth.
F. The current state of psychological wisdom about bilingual children is that, where two languages are
relatively well developed, bilinguals have thinking advantages over monolinguals. Take an example. A
child is asked a simple question: How many uses can you think to offer a brick? Some children give two or
three answers only. They can think of building walls, building a house and perhaps that is all. Another
child scribbles away, pouring out ideas one after the other: blocking up a rabbit hole, breaking a window,
using as a birdbath, as a plumb line, as an abstract sculpture in an art exhibition.
G. Research across different continents of the world shows that bilinguals tend to be more fluent, flexible,
original and elaborate in their answers to this type of open-ended question. The person who can think of a
few answers tends to be termed a convergent thinker. They converge onto a few acceptable conventional
answers. People who think of lots of different uses for unusual items (e.g. a brick, tin can, cardboard box)
are called Divergers. Divergers like a variety of answers to a question and are imaginative and fluent in
their thinking.
H. There are other dimensions in thinking where approximately ‘balanced’ bilinguals may have temporary
and occasionally permanent advantages over monolinguals: increased sensitivity to communication, a
slightly speedier movement through the stages of cognitive development, and being less fixed on the
sounds of words and more centered on the meaning of words. Such ability to move away from the sound
of words and fix on the meaning of words tends to be a (temporary) advantage for bilinguals around the
ages four to six This advantage may mean an initial head start in learning to read and learning to think
about language.
Questions 1-3
Reading Passage 1 has eight paragraphs, A-H.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs B-G from the list of headings below.
i No single definition of intelligence
ii Faulty testing, wrong conclusion
iii Welsh research supports IQ testing
iv Beware: inadequate for Selling intelligence
v International research supports bilingualism
vi Current thought on the advantage bilinguals have
vii Early beliefs regarding bilingualism
viii Monolinguals ahead of their bilingual peers
ix Exemplifying the bilingual advantage
Example
Paragraph A vii
1
Paragraph B ii
2
Paragraph C vi
3
Paragraph D iv
4
Paragraph E i
5
Paragraph F ix
6
Paragraph G v
Questions 7-10
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage ? Write
TRUE, if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE, if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN, if there is no information on this
7. Balanced bilinguals have more permanent than temporary advantages over monolinguals.f
8. Often bilinguals concentrate more on the way a word sounds than on its meaning.f
9. Monolinguals learn to speak at a younger age than bilinguals.ng
10. Bilinguals just starting school might pick up certain skills faster than monolinguals.t
Part 5: You are going to read an article in which four young people say how they deal with the
everyday stress in their lives. For questions 1-10 below the text, choose from the people (A-D).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. (10 pts)
Beating Stress
A.
School student Ester Montoya knows she has to improve her marks in her main subjects. She’s trying
hard but it’s not easy and sometimes she feels she’s doing too much work. ‘I have to get away from it now
and then,’ she says, ‘so recently I’ve joined a local youth theatre group. It really helps because it takes my
mind off everything, it’s a kind of escape from reality. Also I’m meeting other people of my own age and
I’m hoping to make some friends there. Apart from that I suppose there’s TV, but there’s not a lot on. I’ve
read that laughing can be very relaxing, but I’m afraid none of the comedy series they’re showing right
now is worth watching. Something I’ve been meaning to try, though, is work helping others, perhaps old
people. A friend of mine does it, and she says it really makes a difference – both to them and to her.’
B.
For seventeen-year-old Steve Ellison, life if particularly busy right now. He’s revising for some important
exams but he still manages to find time for his favourite free-time activities, which include long-distance
running. ‘It’s funny,’ he says, ‘I only took to it recently when I found it helped me wind down, because at
school I never looked forward to those cross-country runs we had to do every Monday morning. Yet
nowadays I run a lot at weekends, and I do some voluntary work with local kids at the sports centre.’ As
well as doing plenty of exercise, he also tries to maintain a healthy diet. ‘I’ve told myself I must always eat
a variety of healthy food, with lots of fruit and green vegetables, though if I’m out with my mates I may give
in to temptation and have a burger and chips. I never drink coffee, though, because it makes you talk and
act nervously, and it keeps you awake at night, too, which is bad for your stress level.’
C.
First-year university student Amelie Lefevre believes that the best way to beat stress is to organize your
life more sensibly. ‘My life used to be pretty chaotic, there always seemed to be so much to do, often jobs
that other people should have been doing. So what I eventually learned to do was to say no, politely, to
extra work. That helped, as did making a list of priorities for each day, with some things scheduled for
today, others for tomorrow and some that could be postponed for longer. I also make rules for myself
about meal times, and the amount of sleep I need. There was a time when I was staying up until all hours,
but I was exhausted the next day so I don’t do that any more. I think I manage my time quite well now, but
nobody’s perfect and occasionally I still oversleep and turn up late for lectures!’
D.
Student Ndali Traore likes to get up early so he has a relaxed start to the day. ‘I hate leaving jobs till the
last minute, and I always try to do those I like least first,’ he says. ‘These days I always listen to music
while I’m working,’ he adds, ‘whereas a couple of years ago I found it annoying – it always seemed to spoil
my concentration.’ When he has some free time, he goes to the cinema, or out with friends. ‘If something’s
bothering me,’ he says, ‘I often find that just talking to them about it helps. Particularly, if you can make a
joke about it, because it always seems a lot less serious when you do that.’ If he’s on his own, he has a
special way of dealing with stress: ‘I try to relive occasions when I was really relaxed, such as spending
the day by a beautiful lake in the sunshine. That often works,’ he says.
Which person
1. regularly does a job without getting paid? B
2. no longer agrees to do things they don’t want to do? c
3. tries to see the funny side of things that are worrying them? d
4. accepts that they sometimes make mistakes? c
5. prefers to do unpleasant jobs as soon as possible? d
6. is not doing as well in their studies as they would like? a
7. likes to tell friends about their problems? d
8. sometimes breaks their own rules about eating when they are not alone? b
9. finds that acting makes them feel better? a
10. likes to think back to times when they felt less stressed? d
Part 5: You are going to read an article in which four young people say how they deal with the
everyday stress in their lives. For questions 1-10 below the text, choose from the people (A-D).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
PART IV: WRITING ( 60 pts)
Part 1: (5 pts)
a/ Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first one, using the word
given. Don’t change the word given. You must use between three and eight words including the
word given.
1.Russ’s opinions on the new management policies were very different from those of his fellow workers.
(ODDS)
Russ……………was at odds with his fellow workers over the new management policies
2. Tom’s presence at parties adds to everyone’s enjoyment. (SOUL).
Tom is the life and soul of the parties.
3. His colleague will do anything to avoid confrontation. (LENGTHS)
His colleage will go to great lengths to avoid confrontation.
b/ Complete the second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first sentence.
4. Whatever the methods used to obtain the result, drugs were definitely not involved.
-> There was no question of those drugs being involved whatever the methods used to obtain the results
5. Those terrapins which survive their first year may live to be twenty.
-> Should those terrapins survive their first year, they may live to be twenty
Part I: A friend has written to you asking for advice about a problem at school. You have had a similar
problem in the past.
Write a letter to your friend. In your letter:

tell your friend you understand the problem

explain what happened to you in the past

suggest a possible solution to this problem.