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NÁZEV TESTU DOPLNÍ STUDIJNÍ ODDĚLENÍ
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Varianta: DOPLNÍ STUD. ODDĚLENÍ
Číslo testu: DOPLNÍ STUD. ODDĚLENÍ
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What is the main theme of The Waste Land written by T.S. Eliot?
the regeneration of society after World War II
the regeneration of society after World War I
the regeneration of society after the end of communism
the regeneration of society after the end of colonialism
A
B
C
D
Which of the following pairs of characters come from a Samuel Beckett play?
Vladimir and Estragon
Jimmy and Cliff
Alison and Helena
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
A
B
C
D
James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in
London
Dublin
Edinburgh
Brussels
A
B
C
D
The Interior Secretary in the U.S.A. is responsible for:
National Parks
Police
The maintenance of the White House
Immigration
A
B
C
D
Which of the following is NOT considered a “founding father” of the U.S.A?
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
A
B
C
D
Supreme Court judges in the U.S.A. serve:
A four year term
Until the president recalls them
As long as their state approves of their decisions
Until they die or retire
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B
C
D
Which of the words does not contain a silent sound?
numb
pseudo
frequent
colonel
A
B
C
D
Which is the correct spelling?
endavour
endeavour
endevoure
endaevor
A
B
C
D
Which word is pronounced with a long vowel?
foot
hood
story
wool
A
B
C
D
Which word is correctly stressed?
reMAIN
suDDENly
UNhappy
eduCAted
A
B
C
D
We ____ for Paris at midnight.
set off
made for
went off
got down
A
B
C
D
How could you have ____ him for your brother?
confused
considered
thought
mistaken
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B
C
D
It is vital that we ____ a change in people's attitudes.
bring down
bring back
bring about
bring up
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B
C
D
We'll have to ____ down the options before coming to a decision.
slow
narrow
bring
wind
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A
B
C
D
I think a couple of coffees will ____ off the meal nicely.
go
send
wear
round
A
B
C
D
Your car's very ____. It hardly seems to use any petrol at all.
economical
economic
ecological
ecumenical
A
B
C
D
I'm in a terrible ____. I just don't know what to do.
problem
quandary
loss
trouble
A
B
C
D
It's hard to do ____ to such a masterpiece.
judgement
justice
fair play
fairness
A
B
C
D
I'm afraid you've got the wrong end of the ____ .
loaf
pot
stick
leg
A
B
C
D
The soldier who saved the lives of three of his comrades was given a ___ award.
prenatal
posthumous
postprandial
predicted
A
B
C
D
The World Health Organisation has stated that smallpox has been almost completely
____ .
uprooted
eradicated
obliterated
extinguished
A
B
C
D
John and Mary ___ when I walked into the room, but they stopped as soon as they
saw me.
had argued
had been arguing
argue
have argued
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A
B
C
D
We live ___ five kilometres from the airport, so the aircraft noise is very bad.
fewer
fewer than
less than
less
A
B
C
D
I certainly ___ the night alone in that house. It's supposed to be haunted.
intended to not spend
don't intend to spend
not intend to spend
intended not to spend
A
B
C
D
As children we ___ polite to adults.
were taught to be
were taught being
taught to be
were taught be
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B
C
D
___ to use, I waited until other people had started eating and copied them.
Not knowing which knife and fork
Not known which knife and fork
Knowing not which knife and fork
Knowing which knife and fork not
A
B
C
D
Jane works very hard, so ___ she shouldn't do well in the test.
it is no reason
there is no point
it is no chance
there is no reason
A
B
C
D
Do you smoke? - I must admit ___.
so I do
so
that I do
I so do
A
B
C
D
I'd borrowed my father's car and found that I ___ it into reverse gear.
can't put
wasn't able put
weren't able to put
couldn't put
A
B
C
D
We need more police officers, and ___ to walk the streets.
only people then will feel safe
only then will people feel safe
only people will feel safe then
only then will feel safe people
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I used to be in the scouts, so it won't be the first time I ___ in a tent.
A have slept
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B had slept
C was sleeping
D slept
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B
C
D
Mike led the expedition ___ 500 miles of rain forest in central Brazil.
over
along
underneath
through
CLOZE TEST
Read the following text and then decide which word, A,B, C or D, best fits each space.
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
Police are hunting for a hit-and-run driver who knocked a teenage cyclist off her bike in East Street.
Sarah Tucker, 17, had a lucky escape on Friday, 13th May, when she was sent reeling by a black
Volvo on her way home from work.
She bruised her thigh and shoulder and her bicycle was (33) ____________. The driver stopped for
a moment but then drove off without (34) ____________ a name or address and before Sarah could
get his number. “I tried to (35) ____________ out of his way, but I couldn´t,” she said. “Everyone
at work kept (36) ____________ on about it being Friday 13th. I´m not a bit superstitious and
wouldn´t change any of my plans just because Friday 13th is supposed to be unlucky, I don´t
usually take any (37) ____________ of that sort of thing but I will now. I think I´ll stay in bed.”
The accident took place at the (38) ____________ with Westwood Road at about 6.30pm as Sarah
was making her way home to the Harley Estate.
The Volvo (39) ____________ out of Westwood Road onto Henley Road in front of the teenager´s
bicycle. “He could at least have helped her up. I don´t see why he should get away with it,” said her
father, Derek. “Sarah was lucky. I don´t know why the driver didn´t see her. He can´t have been
paying attention. It is (40) ____________ that nobody took down the number.” Though still too
(41) ____________ to ride a bike, Sarah was able to go back to work in Marlow on Monday.
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B
C
D
crashed
harmed
devastated
damaged
A
B
C
D
leaving
presenting
noting
suggesting
A
B
C
D
go
get
be
stay
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A
B
C
D
chatting
running
going
rambling
A
B
C
D
notice
consideration
note
care
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B
C
D
junction
joining
roundabout
crossing
A
B
C
D
pulled
thrust
ran
crashed
A
B
C
D
unfavourable
inopportune
undesirable
unfortunate
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B
C
D
discouraged
shaken
overcome
confused
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READING COMPREHENSION
For questions 42-50, find the right answers in the following text:
The travel writer
Yet actual journeys aren’t like stories at all. At the time, they seem to be mere strings of
haps and mishaps, without point or pattern. You get stuck. You meet someone you like. You get
lost. You get lonely. You get interested in architecture. You get diarrhoea. You get invited to a
party. You get frightened. A stretch of country takes you by surprise. You get homesick. You are,
by rapid turns, engrossed, bored, alert, dull, happy, miserable, well and ill. Every day tends to seem
out of connection with every other day, until living from moment to moment turns into a habit and
travelling itself into a form of ordinary life. You can’t remember when it wasn’t like this. There is a
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great deal of liberating pleasure to be had from being abroad in the world, continuously on the
move, like a lost balloon, but a journey, at least as long as it is actually taking place, is the exact
opposite of a story. It is a shapeless, unsifted, endlessly shifting accumulation of experience.
For travelling is inherently a plotless, disordered, chaotic affair, where writing insists on
connection, order, plot, signification. It may take a year or more to see that there was any point to
the thing at all, and more years still to make it yield an articulate story. Memory, not the notebook,
holds the key. I try to keep a notebook when I’m on the move (largely because writing in it makes
one feel that one’s at work, despite all appearances to the contrary) but hardly ever find anything in
the notebook that’s worth using later. Trifles are described at inordinate length. Events that now
seem important aren’t mentioned at all. The keeper of the notebook sounds stupid and confused. He
grouses too much about tides and timetables, and all the forgettable mechanics of the journey; he
fails to notice what I remember observing in near-photographic detail. When I’m writing the book, I
get precious little help from him… the odd proper name, a date, an ascertainable fact here and there,
but little or nothing in the way of intelligent comprehension of what he was doing at the time. Why
was he so blind? Because he was traveling and I am writing, and the two activities are chalk and
cheese.
Memory, though, is telling stories to itself, filing experience in narrative form. It feeds
irrelevancies to the shredder, enlarges on crucial details, makes links and patterns, finds symbols,
constructs plots. In memory the journey takes shape and grows; in the notebook it merely
languishes, with the notes themselves like a pile of cigarette butts confronted the morning after
party.
In 1998, I took six months to sail slowly round the British Isles, stopping at every place I’d
known as a child or adolescent. A year later I was still trying to begin the book that was based on
the journey. I had 30,000 words but they seemed forced and wrong. There was writing, but as yet no
story worth the telling. There was a title Foreign Land but it didn’t fit the writing.
(from For Love and Money by Jonathan Raban)
A
B
C
D
A real journey is different from a story because …
it is difficult to tell what happened.
it rather is a series of disconnected events than a coherent narrative.
on the move you have little time for writing stories.
the journey is “real” but the story is fictitious.
A
B
C
D
Are journeys a happy experience for the writer?
Yes and no. There are both misfortunes and pleasant things happening.
No, he often falls ill.
No, because he feels homesick and cannot get used to the life on the move.
Yes, that is how he makes his living.
A
B
C
D
Why doesn’t he write his books straight after his return from a journey?
Because he feels exhausted and needs a holiday.
Because he needs to rewrite his illegible notebook.
Because he needs some time to collect more facts and photos.
Because he needs to discover a story behind his journey.
A
B
C
D
Why does he always take notes during a journey?
Because he is afraid he would forget important details.
Because it is part of his job.
Because all his notes are crucial for the future writing.
To keep himself busy.
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How is a travel writer “two people”?
A He is both a traveller and a diary keeper at the same time.
B He is the one who experiences the journey and after some time tells it to others in the form
of a narrative.
C He is both a traveller and an entrepreneur.
D He is both a traveller and a photographer.
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A
B
C
D
Why are his memories of a journey more productive than his notes?
His notes are illegible and he has to rely on his memories.
There are many inaccuracies in his notes.
The notes contain only unimportant information.
The memories reflect the journey more accurately while his notes are of little help.
A
B
C
D
What useful information can he get from his notebook?
None or very little.
Intelligent descriptions of what he was doing.
Some data, names, timetables etc.
Precious information that helps him to construct the future story.
A
B
C
D
How did the writer travel around Britain in 1998?
By car.
He hitchhiked.
In a ship.
On a bike.
A
B
C
D
In the second paragraph, the word Trifles refers to
important meetings
unimportant things
exciting events
misfortunes
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Konec otázek testu.
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