Practice Test 9ca de TP 2017 2018 [PDF]

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PRACTICE TEST 9CA Time allowed: 120 minutes

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PART ONE. Multiple choice (20 pts) Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the sentence. 1. It's time the boss ___ for the next meeting. A. must leave B. should have left C. was leaving D. were to leave 2. He ___ five times to get her on the phone. A is trying B. has tried C. has been trying D. tries 3. Mike went with a group of people, were correctly equipped for such a climb. A. a few of them B. most of those C. all of that D. few of whom 4. Would you consider the property? A. to sell B. selling C. about selling D. that you sold 5. Either you or some else in the staff ___ responsible for the reception at the next conference. A. is B. have to be C. are D. ought to have been 6. Although the pilot was badly hurt, he ___ what had happened during the hijack. A. could report B. could have reported C. was able to report D. succeeded to report 7. My new computer costs _ _ __ A. twice times as much than his computer does B. twice more than his computer does C. two times as much than him does D. twiCe as much than his does 8. It is determination ___ your success in life. A. which brings about B. to bring about C. that brings about D. for bringing about 9. I wish they less noise; I'm trying to concentrate. A. are making B. could make C. would be making D. had made 10. I met expert at the conference. A. an American handsome middle-aged B. a handsome middle-aged American C. a middle-aged American handsome D. an American middle-aged handsome 11. It's difficult to pay one's bills when prices keep _ __ A. rising B. growing C. gaining D. raising 12. I really can't put up with the ___ noise level coming from the neighboring factory. A. intolerant B.. acceptable C. intolerable D. inexplicable 13. It is cold outside. Do not go out, please. A. bitterly B. scorching C. frozen D. ice 14. In order to buy his house he had to obtain a large _ _ _ from his bank. A. finance B. capital C. debt D. loan 15. The threat of failing an exam provides students with the to work harder. A. go-ahead B. incentive C. inspiration D. vitality 16. The teacher them the cause of the inflation. A. explained B. said C. discussed D. told 17. We found a(n) ants taking food out from the bowl. A. herd B. army C. flock D. shoal 18. Young kids should not violating school rules such as cheating in exams. A. get away with B. come out of C. make off with D. check up on 19. Lucie as a nice girl. A. looks upon B. falls under C. takes up D. comes across 20. Can you ___ Helen to see if she needs anything from the supermarket? A. stop over B. look in on C. call by D. see off PART TWO. Word Forms (40 pts) . A. Use the correct form of the word given to fill in each blank. (20 pts) 1. It was fantastic that our team won two penalty shootouts in the U23 Championship. (decide) 2. They are good friends, but in business they are . (arch} 3. Professional football, with frequent tough physical contact, is a(n} sport. (injure) 4. When we move into a new home, I'd like to get a pet, a dog. (prefer) 5. They are carrying out a protest against cuts in ___ benefits. (able) 6. I must argue that the of gambling will bring about more miseries than benefits. (crime) 7. Mike was able to move to the next round by his opponent. (score) 8. I would like to express my admiration for his courage and . (wise) 9. Don't you know that your good result will make your parents proud of you? (measure) 1O. Having fed it with different kinds of food, the biologist sui;mests that the strange creature is . (herb) B. Put the words given in the correct blanks. You have to use their correct forms to make a meaningful passage. There are two extra words that you cannot use. (20pts) gradual efficiency connect quick nature major satisfactory relate worth associate advance communicate Do you write letters anymore? In this age of (1 )___ telephone networks and electronic mail, it seems that fewer and even fewer people are taking the time to sit down and write letters to friends and ( 2 ) _ . For hundreds of years, letters were the only way to keep in touch with people who were any distance away, and letter- writing was seen as an important skill for all educated people to master. (3)___, however, the importance of letter-writing has decreased to a point where the (4)___ of us have to make a special effort to tum out something (5)___ when we apply for a job or make a complaint. Personal letters, when we bother to write them at all, are often not much more than a stream of (6)_.__ thoughts. In business

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circles, the tendency is for routine (7)_ _ _ to become shorter and, although clients may appreciate ~ deta}!ed letter, an employee who sends out long letters is often regarded as (8)___. Many people prefer the telephone m all ci~cumstances · and, (9)___, its speed is vital in many situations but how often have you put the phone down, (10)___ with what you have managed to say? I don't think I'll throw my pen away yet. · PART THREE. CLOZE TESTS (90 pts) . Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) for each blank space. PASSAGE A (15 pts) When you buy something from a shop, you are rnaking a contract. This contract means that it is (1 )___ the shop - not the manufacturer - to deal with your complaints if the goods are not satisfactory. If the shop sells you faulty goods, it has or use them, go back to the shop, say that you (2) its side of the contract. If goods are faulty when you first (3) cancel the purchase and ask for a complete (4) . If you prefer, you can accept a repair or a (5) . If the goods break down through no (6) of your own, after you have used them for a time, you may still be , (7) to some compensation. In some cases it would be reasonable to expect all your money back - if, for (8) without misuse your shoes (9) after only one day's wear, or your washing machine (10) broke down after only three wash days. But if your washing machine worked perfectly for a while and then broke, you could only expect some of the purchase price back. You and the supflier must (11) · a reasonable settlement. You need never accept a (12) for faulty goods. If you do so, then later find you do not want anything else in the shop or store, you may not get your money back. If you have to spend money as a (13) result of goods being faulty, you can also (14) this from the shop. You could, for example, demand the cost of using a laundry while the washing machine wasn't working. But you should keep such (15) down to a minimum. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

A. up to A. distracted A. inspect A. replace A. substitution A. mistake 7. A. ensured 8. A. good 9. A. broke up 10. A. illegally 11. A. negotiate 12. A. promotion 13. A. close 14. A. announce 15. A. costings

8.on B. conformed B. touch B. reuse 8. transform 8. error B. adjusted 8. the time being B. came apart B. irreparably 8. argue B.check 8. straight B.claim B. mortgages

C.for C. terminated C. investigate C. return C. modification C. fault C. contributed C. instance C. reached out C. irreversibly C. quarrel C. money bill C. direct C. take C. spendings

D. up with D. broken D. inquire D. refund D. replacement D. sin D. entitled D...: ;• all time D. fell through D. unreasonably D. conclude D. credit note D. final D. obtain D.expenses

PASSAGE B (15 pts) Undoubtedly one of the most (1)___ film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has (2)_ _ big-grossing, critically acclaimed (3)___ to his name, i:is a producer, director and writer. Moviegoers around the world have been looking forward to filmmaker Steven Spielberg's next film. What has he been working on these days? He hasn't discussed the details of his latest (4)___, but judging from the popularity and box-office success of his last several movies, he's been working with his unusual ( 5 ) _ and passion. Steven Spielberg has been making films ( 6 ) _ all his life. Born in 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Spielberg made his first film - (7)___ his father's Smm camera -when he was only 12. In 1970, he (8)___ attention with his short film that he made around the time he (9)___ from California State University, Long Beach. He became one of the youngest television directors at Universal Studio, and he was soon making theoretically (10)___ motion pictures. His second film, Jaws, the (11)_ _ about a great white shark, has been frightening (12) _ _ since 1975. The string of (13)_ _ that followed Jaws - (14)_ _ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the Academy Award-winning Schindler's Ust (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Minority Reporl (2002) - has made Steven Spielberg the most (15)___ successful director of all time. 1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7.

8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

A. preferential

A. countless A. A. A. A. A. A. A.

rewards transaction production mostly thanks to created left A. released A. action story A. spectators A. hits A. consisting of A. commercially

B. B. B. B. 8. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. 8.

perfect numerical prizes project absurdity most according to paid graduated shown science-fiction watchers bests containing considerably

C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C.

influential uncountable credits exchange creativity utmost except for expressed finished held thriller audiences busters comprising economically

D. crucial D. numbered D.-bonuses D. business D. hobby D. almost D. aside from D. attracted D. quit D. kept D. romance D. onlookers D. successions D. including D. figuratively

Fill in each of the blanks In the following passage with ONE suitable word. PASSAGE C (30 pts) A musician friend of (1)___ once went on an English course during his summer holidays. What he really wanted to do was to improve his ability to think and react quickly and correctly in (2)_ _ English. He said speaking a foreign language always made him (3)___, even after three years of study. It (4)___ out that one of the teachers on the course had very

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strong views on music, and was not afraid to (5)___ them in the lessons. He claimed that music was a (6)__ _, just like alcohol or cigarettes, and people who could not live their (7)___ without it were to be pitied. (8)___ was the subject of the lesson, the teacher always managed to include some (9)___ to this idea. You can imagine that my friend was not very impressed. In the end, he lost his (10)___, and spent most of the remaining lessons arguing about music and its (11 )_ __ in people's lives. When his course had finished, he came home (12)___ angry about the experience. However, whether he enjoyed the course or not, my friend had to (13) ___ that the teacher's technique had (14)___ since his nervousness in Englis~ had completely (15)___ and he was speaking far more fluently than before. PASSAGE D (30 pts) About 442,000 people in the United States die each year from illnesses caused by cigarette smoking. Smoking (1)___ for nearly 90 percent of lung cancer (2)___. Additionally, smokers.are at (3)___ risk for cancer of the larynx, oral cavity, esophagus, bladder, kidney, and pancreas. One-third of smoking-related deaths are caused by coronary (4)___ disease or chronic airway (5)___. Smoking also increases the risk of stroke by 50 percent - 40 percent among men and 60 percent among women. Other research has shown that (6)___ who smoke give (7)___ more frequently to (8)___ or underweight babies, probably because ofa decrease in blood (9)___ to the placenta. Babies born ( 10) those who smoke during ( 11 )___ are also at risk for sudden infant death syndrome. Even nonsmokers are at risk from smoking. Recent research has focused on the effects of (12)___ tobacco smoke (ETS) - that is, the effecfof tobacco smoke on nonsmokers who must (13)___ the same environment with a smoker. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that (14)___ to ETS, which contains all the toxic agents . inhaled by a smoker, causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths and an estimated 35,000 deaths from heart disease per year among nonsmokers (15)___ smoke can aggravate asthma, pneumonia, and bronchitis, and impair blood circulation. PART FOUR. Reading Comprehension (20 pts) Choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best completes the unfinished statement about the passage. PASSAGE A (10 pts) Because many predators kill only when their prey is moving, an animal that pretends to be dead may succeed in causing a predator to lose interest and move along in search of more lively prey. Hognose snakes have a complex repertoire of antipredator mechanisms, of which feigning death is one option. These fairly large nonvenomous or slightly venomous snakes occur in sandy habitats in the eastern United States. When first disturbed, the hognose opts for bluffing the predator - it flattens and expands the front third of its body and head, forming a hood, causing it to look larger. It then curls into an exaggerated sshaped coil and hisses, occasionally making false strikes at its tormentor. When further provoked, however, it drops the bluff and begins to twist its body violently. Then it rolls onto its back with its mouth open and tongue hanging out loosely. If the predator loses interest in the "corpse" and moves away, the snake slowly rights itself and crawls off. The complete repertoire of antipredator mechanisms occurs in young hognose snakes. Researchers have shown that newborn snakes are capable of making very subtle assessments of the degree of threat posed by a particular predator. Two experiments were conducted in which the recovery from death-feigning (i.e., crawling away) of newly hatched snakes under various conditions was monitored. In one experiment the recovery of snakes was moliltore# in the presence or absence of a stuffed screech owl mounted on a tripod one meter from the overturned snake. In another experiment the snake recovered (1) in the presence of a human staring at the snake from a distance of one meter, (2) in the presence of the same person in the same location but with eyes averted, and (3) in a control condition in which no human was visible. Both the presence of the owl and the direct human gaze resulted in longer recovery times relative to the respective control conditions. When the human eyes were averted, the recovery time was immediate. Thus, young snakes are capabre bf using rather subtle cues to make adjustments in their antipredator behavior. 1. From the first sentence in the passage, it can be inferred that many predators prefer {A) small prey (B) dead prey (C) complex prey (D) active prey 2. How is feigning death an "antipredator mechanism"? (A) It frightens a predator. (8) It allows the prey to prepare a surprise attack. (C) It causes a predator to lose interest. (D) It distracts a predator, allowing prey to escape unnoticed. 3. For which of the following reasons does a hog nose snake expand the front third of its body and head? (A) To hide the back portion of its body (8) To protect its head from being attacked (C) To make its body appear larger than it actually is (D) To increase its strength in order to strike a predator 4. The word It in line 5 in the passage refers to (A) the hognose (8) the predator (C) head (D) a hood 5. All of the following are part of bluffing EXCEPT (A) rolling over (8) making false strikes (C) hissing (D) forming a hood 6. When does the hognose snake feign death? (A) Immediately upon seeing a predator (8) When attempts to bluff a predator fail (C) After it has injured a predator (D) When the predator begins to lose interest 7. The author mentions the snake's tongue hanging out loosely as an example of (A) how the snake provokes a predator (B) what happens when the snake flattens its head (C) the snake's recovery (D) how the snake pretends to be dead 8. The word ojgl:f!fS't,e,d in line 12 in the passage is closest in meaning to (A) defined (8) published (C) controlled (D) observed 9. The experiments described in paragraph 2 measured how long it took for snakes to (A) notice a predator (8) stop feigning death (C) learn how to feign death (D) recover from the attack of a predator 10. Which of the following is a subtle assessment made by young snakes that is mentioned in the passage? (A) The difference between a stuffed owl and a real owl (8) How far a predator is located (C) Whether or not they are being observed {D) The difference between an owl and a human

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PASSAGE B (10 pts) Beads were probably the first durable ornaments humans possessed, and the intimate relationship they had with their owners is reflected in the fact that beads are among the most common items found in ancient archaeological sites. In the past, as today, men, women, and children adorned themselves with beads. In some cultures still, certain. beads are often worn from birth until death, and then are buried with their owners for the afterlife. Abrasion due to daily wear alters the surface features of beads, and if they are buried for long, the effects of corrosion can further changed their appearance. Thus, interest is imparted to the bead both by use and the effects of time. Besides their wearability, either as jewelry or incorporated into articles of attire, beads possess the desirable characteristics of every collectible: they are durable, portable, available in infinite variety, and often valuable in their original cultural context as well as in today's market. Pleasing to look at and touch, beads come in shapes, colors, and materials that almost compel one to handle them and to sort them. Beads are miniature bundles of secrets waiting to be revealed: their history, manufacture, cultural context, economic role, and ornamental use are all points of information one hopes to unravel. Even the most mundane beads may have traveled great distances and been exposed to many human experiences. The bead researcher must gather information from many diverse fields. In addition to having to be a generalist while specializing in what may seem to be a narrow field, the researcher is faced with the problem of primary materials that have" little or no documentation. Many ancient beads that are of ethnographic interest have often been separated from their original cultural context. The special attractions of be~ds contribute to the uniqueness of bead research. While often regarded as the "small change of civilizations", beads are a part of every culture, and they can often be used to date archaeological sites and to designate the degree of mercantile, technological, and cultural sophistication.

1. What is the main subject of the passage? (B) How beads are made (A) Materials used in making beads (D) Different types of beads (C) The reasons for studying beads 2. The word "adorned" in line 3 is closest in meaning to (A) protected (B) decorated (C) purchased (D) enjoyed 3. The word "attire" in line 7 is closest in meaning to (D) history (A) ritual (B) importance (C) clothing 4. All of the following are given as characteristic of collectible objects EXCEPT (A) durability (B) portability (C) value (D) scarcity 5. According to the passage, all of the following are factors that make people want to touch beads EXCEPT the (A) shape (B) color (C) material (D) odor 6. The word "unravel" in line 12 is closest in meaning to (A) communicate (B) transport (C) improve (D) discover 7. The word "mundane" in line 12 is closest in meaning to (A) carved (B) beautiful (C) ordinary (D) heavy 8. It is difficult to trace the history of certain ancient beads because they (A) are small in size (B) have been buried underground (C) have been moved from their original locations (D) are frequently lost 9. Knowledge of the history of some beads may be useful in the studies done by which of the following? (A) Anthropologists (B) Agricultural experts (C) Medical researchers (D) Economists 10. Where in the passage does the author describe why the appearance of beads may change? (A) Lines 2-3 (B) Lines 4-5 (C) Lines 9-10 (D) lines 15-16 PART FIVE: SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (30 points) Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before it. Use the word in brackets without making any change to it.

1. I wish John still wrote to me.

(from)

71miss:----,.--.,.----------------------2. Martin hasn't mentioned the party to me at all. (word) 7 Martin hasn't _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

3. Apparently, Helen wasn't listening to me.

(appear)

7 Helen-.,.------------------------4. We lost the game because of my mistake. (win)

71twas_.,,,._------------------------~

5. I regret telling Dennis the secret.

(away) 7 I'd r a t h e r - - : - - - . , . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6. We always know he, never pays attention to our pay rise request. (ear) 71tis _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

7. Do phone us when you arrive at the airport, even if it is late.

(arrival)

7No-,--..,------------------------8. It's about time you started to go if you want to get there before dark. (cracking) +I'd sooner _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 9. We have to settle this matter in a definitive manner. (all) 7 This matter _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

10. The students can use the lab again when they are told to. (closed) 7 Until further _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

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