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SPRING TERM PROFICIENCY EXAM
JUNE 3rd,2013
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
PROFICIENCY EXAM JUNE 3rd,2013
LISTENING PART
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SCORING OF THE LISTENING PART
PART 1: 1×8 ₌ 8 POINTS
PART 2: 1×7 ₌ 7 POINTS
TOTAL SCORE OF THE LISTENING PART: 15 POINTS
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LISTENING PART 1
You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8 choose the best
answer (A, B or C) (1 x 7 = 7 points)
1- You hear a woman talking to her friend. Why is the friend angry with Ben, her husband?
A) He didn’t remember her birthday.
B) He spent too much on her birthday present.
C) He bought her something she hates.
2- You hear a man talking on the radio. What is his profession?
A) a writer
B) a musician
C) a film-maker
3- You hear a news reporter describing a major event. What is the event?
A) a celebrity wedding
B) a sporting event
C) a national election
4- You hear two men talking about a restaurant. What did they both like about it?
A) the large quantity of food
B) the fast service
C) the cheap prices
5- You hear a singer talking about the start of her career. How did she use to feel while
performing?
A) shy
B) annoyed
C) confused
6- You hear a teenager talking about his family. What do they all have in common?
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A) They all love acting.
B) They all have a sense of humour.
C) They all argue a lot.
7- You hear a police officer talking to a suspect. What crime has just been committed?
A) burglary
B) shop-lifting,
C) vandalism
8- You hear a scientist talking about her job. What does she enjoy most about it?
A) facing mental challenges
B) working with interesting people
C) knowing that her work is important
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LISTENING PART 2
You will hear a journalist talking on the radio about adults in their 20s and 30s who still
live with their parents. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer (A,B or C) (1 x 8 = 8
points)
1- The Survey shows that the European country with the lowest number of “kidults” living
with their parents is
A) France
B) Sweden
C) the UK
2 -In the Southern Europe young adults continue to live at home because of
A) low salaries
B) close family ties
C) a shortage of affordable housing.
3 -In the USA people are leaving home later because
A) they are getting married later
B) they have to pay off students debts
C) their relationships with their parents are good.
4-“Kidults” living at home say the main advantage is
A) being able to have money
B) having someone to do their washing and ironing.
C) being free from responsibilities
5 -One disadvantage mentioned by “kidults” in the survey is
A) the lack of time spent alone
B) worrying what people think of them
C) being treated like a child.
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6 -Having adult children at home can be a problem for parents because it can
A) restrict their freedom
B) be expensive
C) damage their marriage
7-The most common source of conflict between parents and “kidults” is
A) household chores
B) mealtimes
C) financial arrangements
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PROFICIENCY EXAM JUNE 3rd,2013
READING PART
STUDENT SURNAME: ________________________________________________________
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SCORING OF THE READING PART
PART 1: 1×7 ₌ 7 POINTS
PART 2: 1×8 ₌ 8 POINTS
TOTAL SCORE OF THE READING PART: 15 POINTS
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READING PART 1
LAUGHTER THERAPY
Whenever you see a group of people rolling about with laughter, you want to know one
thing: what’s the joke? If Julie Whitehead is responsible for it, the answer is that there
simply is no joke. (1)_____________________ Whitehead is at the forefront of moves to
make laughter an integral part of the National Health Service in Britain.
Whitehead’s movement, Laughter Yoga, was started in Mumbai by a man called Dr Kataria,
and has spread to groups around Europe. Several groups and charities, involving comedians,
coaches and clowns, are working with health service doctors who realise that joy and
happiness have a serious role in the treatment of patients.
Proffessor Duncan Geddes, a consultant in chest medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital,
says: ‘Laughter is an important medicine. It is an expression of happiness, and happiness is
good for all of us in three main ways. (2) _____________________ Laughter therapy is
developing fast and new research is looking into the ways that laughter happens, how it
stimulates the brain and how it makes us all healthier and happier’.
Whitehead says ‘Laughter has wonderful health benefits and, unlike most drugs, there are
no side-effects. It’s also free. (3) _____________________’She adds: ‘New research at
Indiana State University compared groups of people who watched either comedy films or a
boring tourist film, and found the group who laughed had their immune system boosted by
40 per cent.’
Whitehead’s laughter sessions last around an hour and a quarter. We start by clapping
hands, and saying ‘ho,ho ho, ha,ha ha’, while maintaining eye contact with each other.
(4) _____________________Other exercises involve laughing higher and higher. This can all
feel excruciatingly embarrassing, but the idea is that soon it should turn into real laughter.
When Dr. Kataria first developed the concept of Laughter Yoga, he tried using jokes. Not
everyone, however, laughs at the same gags, so instead the club used simulated laughter
exercises. They have the same physical benefits for breathing and circulation. There is also a
psychological side, as Whitehead explains: ‘ We encourage childlike openness.
(5) _____________________It builds confidence and helps you look people in the eye,’ she
claims.
Meanwhile, ‘clown doctors’ are being introduced into British hospitals to make sick children
laugh themselves back to health. (6) _____________________I toured the hospital with
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them in the early days, and was amazed at their warmth and depth of emotional generosity.
It takes a lot to bring joy to a building filled with sick children. The project has proved a
lasting success and now a team of nine clowns works in a growing number of hospitals
entertaining about 27,000 children and families every year.
But it’s not all ‘hee-hee, ha-ha’ for pioneers of healthy humour. When Roland Schutzbach
and his partner, Christine Fleur de Lys, both from Switzerland, tried to cheer up the Scottish
town of Aberdeen, the locals failed to see the gag. Last month, the pair took the streets
dressed in bright red-and-orange wigs, enourmous spectacles, huge ties and angel wings at
the start of a three- year mission to look for the ‘laughter cities’ of Europe.
(7) _____________________’Aberdeen is a difficult case, ‘ Schutzbach admits. ‘People did
not laugh with us. They did not even look at us. ‘
Read the text carefully, then choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap
(1-7). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. (1 x 7 = 7points)
A. That’s why it doesn’t make the drug companies very happy!
B. Instead, it’s part of a deadly serious form of medical treatment.
C. The first two were introduced to a children’s hospital in London almost ten years ago.
D. Next we do the lion laugh, a yogic practice that involves sticking out to your tongue.
E. For this reason, most people are reluctant to laugh freely when they are surrounded
by strangers.
F. But the couple found that their style of humor failed to amuse the Scots.
G. In order to achieve this, we play silly games and sing nursery rhymes, breaking down
inhibitions.
H. It stimulates the body’s defenses, reduces pain and helps recovery from illness.
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READING PART 2
YOU’RE NICER THAN YOU USED TO BE
Personality is one of the most interesting ways in which people are different from one another. But
where does our personality come from? Are we born with it or does it change as we get older? A great
deal of research into personality (notably the studies carried out on twins) indicates that people’s
personalities are more or less fixed before they are born.
However, not everyone is convinced. Psychologist Sanya Srivastava and a team of researchers from the
University of California, Berkeley, have just completed a large-scale study into personality, via the
Internet. Srivastava explains what he and his team were trying to find out: “one of the major theories
of personality asserts that personality traits are largely set by genetics, and, by consequence, changes
in personality traits should slow as we get older. We set out to test that theory.” The researchers
evaluated the data from 132, 515 adults aged between 21 and 60. The team focused on five
personality traits – what scientists call “The Big Five”. These are:
1 Conscientiousness – how careful, thorough and self-disciplined are you?
2 Agreeableness – how considerate and helpful are you?
3 Neuroticism – how self-conscious and tense are you?
4 Openness – how curious, imaginative and open to new experiences are you?
5 Extraversion – how sociable, assertive and energetic are you?
The huge amount of data, collected over the Internet, allowed for the five traits to be studied across
many age groups. What they found contradicted long-held assumptions about when personalities are
set. Conscientiousness, a trait marked by organization and discipline and linked to success at work and
in relationships, was found to increase through the age ranges studied, with the most change occurring
in a person’s twenties. Similarly agreeableness, a trait associated with being warm, generous and
helpful, contradicted the theory that personalities don’t change after the age of 30. On the contrary,
people in the study showed the most change agreeableness during their thirties and continued to
improve through their sixties. This even happened among men, which debunks the concept of
“irritable old men”, Srivastava claims.
The changes in these two traits revealed in the study seem to correspond with the experiences that
people tend to have at certain stages of their lives. Common sense tells us that people become more
responsible and conscientious as they mature and become better at managing their jobs and
relationships. Similarly agreeableness most changes in people’s thirties when many of them are raising
a family and take on the role of carers. Openness showed small declines in both men and women over
time, a change that indicates less interest in forming new relationships,and reflects the tendency we
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have as we get older to spend more time with a small group of well-known relatives and friends, and
less time going out and meeting new people.
The personality traits were generally consistent between men and women, except for neuroticism and
extraversion, with young women scoring higher than young men in both. “When people talk about The
Big Five”. Srivastava says, “neuroticism is probably the one that marks women and men out most
clearly from one another – and it is something that’s been demonstrated before.” However, the
difference in neuroticism is only apparent in youth and young adulthood, and the gap between men
and women in both neuroticism and extraversion narrows as people age.
The data collected by Srivastava and his team throws doubt on the conclusion, drawn from studies of
twins, that our personalities are largely determined by our genes. The issue is still hotly debated
among psychologists and a great deal more research will be required before the experts are able to
agree.
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For questions 1-8, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best,
according to the text. (1 x 8 = 8 points)
1) Research on identical twins shows that
A. personality makes people different from one another.
B. people are interested in personality.
C. our personalities change as we grow older.
D. our personalities do not change through life.
2) Srivastava and his team wanted to
A. test a new theory
B. test an existing theory
C. carry out a study larger than the previous ones.
D. show that they could do research using the internet.
3) The Study
A. looked at people’s lives over many years.
B. looked at people’s lives over a short period.
C. looked at adults of many different ages.
D. took many years to complete.
4) The results showed that people who are conscientious generally
A. change a lot during their twenties.
B. become less conscientious as they get older.
C. don’t change.
D. have unsuccessful relationships.
5) Srivastava thinks that
A. old men are irritable.
B. both men and women get nicer as they get older.
C. women get nicer but men don’t
D. people are generally more agreeable when they are younger.
6) The results of the study
A. correspond with people’s actual experience.
B. contradict common sense.
C. tell us that nobody changes.
D. revealed no change in openness.
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7) What differences between men and women did the study reveal?
A. It didn’t reveal many differences.
B. It revealed that men and women differ in all of the “Big Five” traits.
C. It revealed differences in early adulthood which lessen as people get
older.
D. It revealed that men score higher in two “Big Five” traits.
8) Srivastava has
A. made further research into personality unnecessary.
B. convinced other psychologists that he is right.
C. made people question the results of previous research.
D. asked for more research to be done.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
PROFICIENCY EXAM JUNE 3rd,2013
USE OF ENGLISH PART
STUDENT SURNAME: ________________________________________________________
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SCORING OF THE USE OF ENGLISH PART
PART 1: 1×10 ₌ 10 POINTS
PART 2: 1×10 ₌ 10 POINTS
PART 3: 0,5×10 ₌ 5 POINTS
PART 4: 1×10 ₌ 10 POINTS
TOTAL SCORE OF THE WRITING PART: 35 POINT
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USE OF ENGLISH PART 1
For questions 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best
fits each gap. (1x10=10 pts)
THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
The scientists who currently work and study in Antarctica are fortunate. They are able to
1)……on the regular arrival of supplies by ship and plane, they are 2)…… protected against
the cold in comfortable, centrally-heated huts and they have specially 3)…... vehicles called
snowmobiles to move around in. But Antarctica still 4)…… adventurers.
In 1992 two British men, Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Straud, 5)…… to walk across
Antarctica, without any of these modern aids. They had expected to suffer a lot, and after
walking for 95 days in temperatures below -40° C, they were in a terrible state. However, they
managed to 6)…… from one side of the continent to the other. Luckily, they were 7)…… to
radio for an aircraft, which came and 8)…… them up from the ice.
So, why did they do it? One explanation is that some human beings have an unusually strong
desire to compete both with themselves and against nature. In the past, such people might
have gone off to discover new lands. Today, such people 9)…… new challenges, trying to
10)…… something that no human being has ever done.
1 A) live
B) trust
C) count
D) claim
2 A) accurately
B) severely
C) exactly
D) properly
3 A) intended
B) designed
C) drawn
D) formed
4 A) appeals
B) leads
C) attracts
D) catches
5 A) set out
B) got away
C) set up
D) got by
6 A) reach
B) cover
C) cross
D) arrive
7 A) adequate
B) able
C) capable
D) efficient
8 A) picked
B) kept
C) put
D) held
9 A) search
B) look
C) watch
D) seek
10 A) achieve
B) touch
C) win
D) make
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USE OF ENGLISH PART 2
Complete this text by filling gaps 1-10 with the correct verb form, A, B, C or D.
(1x10=10pts)
KAREN & DAVE
Karen sat at her desk. She couldn’t concentrate on her work because she was thinking about
Dave. They 1)…… together for three years and she 2)…… him more than any of her other
colleagues. They had never had an argument. They used to be able to talk about anything
together- work matters or things that were affecting their private lives at the time. But now,
everything had changed she felt that Dave was being very strange. 3)…… some terrible
secret? She decided to speak to him about it.
Dave 4)…… a coffee in the canteen when she found him. She got straight to the point. ‘Dave’
she said, ‘I 5)…… you for years. We 6)…… working here at the same time and we have
always got on well together. But you’ve been behaving very strangely. What’s happened?
Have I done something to upset you?’ Dave said nothing at first. He 7)…… there in silence.
The he leaned forward and whispered, ‘No, you 8)…… anything wrong. It’s me. For the past
couple of months, I 9)…… something I shouldn’t. But I can’t tell you about it now.’ And then
he got up and left. As he disappeared, Karen 10)…… what on earth it could be.
1 A) have worked
B) had been working
C) were working
D) used to work
2 A) was always liking B) had always been liking C) has always liked D)had always liked
3 A) had he
B) did he have
C) was he having
D) did he used to have
4 A) had
B) has been having
C) was having
5 A) ‘ve known
B) knew
C) used to know
D) was knowing
6 A) used to start
B) have started
C) started
D) were starting
7 A) had sat
B) has been sitting
C) used to sit
D) sat
8 A) haven’t done
B) hadn’t done
C) weren’t doing
D) used not to do
9 A) had done
B) used to be doing
C)’ve been doing
D) was doing
C) had wondered
D) had been wondering
10 A) used to wonder B) wondered
D) has had
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USE OF ENGLISH PART 3
Choose the correct answer. (0,5x10=5pts)
1 I ________ with my aunt when I go to Mexico next summer.
A)
B)
C)
D)
stay
staying
‘II be staying
‘II have been staying
2 ‘Mary got the job ________ she wasn’t qualified.’
‘Really! That’s good news.’
A)
B)
C)
D)
actually
even though
in fact
despite
3 ‘Hello, darling-sorry I’m late.’ ‘I thought you said that you _____ leave work early today.’
A)
B)
C)
D)
will
are going to
were going to
going to
4 He told us to stop ______.
A)
B)
C)
D)
talking
to talk
talked
having talked
5 Why lie to him about your condition? You _____ tell him the truth or things might get
worse.
A)
B)
C)
D)
should better
would
had better
would rather
6 It has been raining for days now. I wish it ____________ soon.
A)
B)
C)
D)
will stop
would stop
stops
had stopped
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7 The marathon is __________ to be a very physically demanding race.
A)
B)
C)
D)
known
know
knowing
knew
8 The book, ______ I only bought last week, is falling apart already.
A)
B)
C)
D)
what
which
who
that
9 Christina is a __________ driver than I thought.
A)
B)
C)
D)
better
the best
very good
more good
10 You shouldn’t borrow my clothes without ____________.
A)
B)
C)
D)
ask
you ask
to ask
asking
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USE OF ENGLISH PART 4
Complete this text by filling gaps 1-10 with the correct verb form, A, B, C or D.
(1x10=10pts)
NEIGHBOURS INFLUENCE BUYING DECISIONS
However objective we believe ourselves to be, most of us do not judge a product solely on
its merits, considering quality, value and style before making a decision. 1) ________, we are
easily influenced by the people around us.
There is nothing 2) ________with this. It is probably a smarter way to make decisions than
3)_______ on only our own opinions. But it does make life hard for companies. They have
long understood that groups of friends and relatives tend to buy the same products, but
understanding the reasons has been tricky. Is it because they are so similar with 4)_______
to how much money they make and what television ads they watch that they independently
arrive at the same decision? Or do they copy one another, perhaps 5)_______ envy or
perhaps because they have shared information about the products?
Research in Finland recently found overwhelming evidence that neighbours have a big
influence on buying decisions. When one of a person’s ten nearest neighbours bought a car,
the 6)_______ that that person would buy a car of the same brand during the next week and a
half 7)_______ by 86 per cent. The researchers argued that it was not just a 8) ______ of
envy. Used cars seemed to attract neighbours even more than new cars. This suggested that
people were not trying to 9)_______ up with their neighbours, they were keen to learn from
them. Since used cars are less reliable, a recommendation of one can 10) _______ influence
buying decision.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
A)
What's more
wrong
basing
connection
for
chances
boosted
thing
keep
fiercely
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
B)
Instead
silly
trusting
regard
as to
potential
rose
point
stay
strongly
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
C)
Unlike
bad
supposing
relation
out of
possibilities
enlarged
matter
hold
firmly
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
D)
In place
daft
relying
concern
about
forecast
lifted
fact
follow
intensely
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FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
PROFICIENCY EXAM JUNE 3rd,2013
WRITING PART
STUDENT SURNAME: ________________________________________________________
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SCORING OF THE WRITING PART
1 ESSAY = 20 POINTS
TOTAL SCORE OF THE WRITING PART : 20 POINTS
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WRITING PART
Choose ONE of the topics below, and write a well-organised essay about it. (at least 350
words)
1) Homeless people are an important problem in the modern world. What can be some
possible solutions for homeless people?
2) Today people live in crowded cities and they are exposed to many problems. What are
some effects of noise pollution?
3) Some animals are endangered because of overhunting. Should hunting be banned
completely?
4) Compare and/or contrast online and traditional (in class with teacher) education.
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SPEAKING PART
STUDENT SURNAME: ________________________________________________________
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SCORING OF THE SPEAKING PART
TOTAL SCORE OF THE SPEAKING PART: 15 POINTS
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