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ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST
Time: 45 minutes

I. LISTENING
1. Listen to a conversation and match Nam`s hobbies and leisure activities with different stages in his life. You will listen TWICE.
 
Stages of life
Hobbies/Leisure activities

1. childhood
A. volunteering

2. primary school
B. playing with toys

3. secondary school
C. playing tennis

4. university
D. reading comics

5. marriage
E. hanging out with classmates

 
2. Listen to Amy talking about British unusual festivals. Match the festival with its correct information. You will listen TWICE.
 
1. Pancake Festival
A. The winner gets lots of lettuce.
 

2. Who can pull the ugliest face?
B. The festival ends with a massive firework display.
 

3. World Championship Snail Racing
C. Frying pans can’t be lacked in this festival.
 

4. Cheese rolling festival
D. The festival takes place down the hills.
 

5. Burning the Clocks Festival
E. The winner had no teeth.
 

II. READING
1. Read the passage about Glastonbury music festival. Fill each blank in the summary with no more than THREE words.
 
Glastonbury is the largest outdoors festival of music and performing arts in the world which each year hosts some of the biggest and best artists in the world. Located in the Southwestern county of Somerset on a giant 900-acre farm site in the Vale of Avalon, a place of ancient myths and Kind Arthur legends, festival goers here can expect enlightenment, rude awakenings, bizarre happenings, etc. The festival usually takes place on the second or third weekend in June. The site generally opens on the Wednesday of the festival with impromptu music happening each night until the festival starts proper on the Friday, running through until the Sunday.  The original festival was by donation of a mere £1 (under $2) which included free milk - as the festival is still held today on the site of Worthy Farm, a working dairy farm owned by Britain`s hippest farmer, Michael Eavis. Despite the steep admission charges today, profits do go to good causes - in particular Greenpeace (who sponsor the main Pyramid Stage), Oxfam, Water Aid, and other humanitarian charities.

 
Glastonbury music festival
Location: (1) ___________  Time: (2) ___________ until Sunday  Festival goers can expect (3) ___________, rude awakenings, bizarre happenings  Activities: (4) ___________ music Profits go to (5) ___________ like Greenpeace, Oxfam, Water Aid and others

2. Fill each blank with one suitable word from the box. Write the word in the gap.
 
living
satisfaction
interviews
salary
optimistic



 
A new survey has found that Brit ish people who live in the countryside are more (1)__________ than those who live in big cities. According to it, between January and September 2013, the (2)___________ ratings of people living in the countryside leapt from 20.5 to 30.8 per cent, an increase of five per cent compared to the previous year. These rural people all shared that the cost of (3)___________, medical service and education had improved significantly. As a result, they feel less pressure and enjoy life more. At the same time, people in big cities were worried and their confidence about job and the economy fell 3.9 per cent. The quality of life, obtained from (4)__________, was reported to be three times higher in the countryside than that in the city. Nevertheless, young people still prefer big cities because of higher job demand, higher (5)_________ and more interesting life.

III. WRITING
1. Write a paragraph about a fairy tale you have read. Write 80-100 words.
 
You should write about:

- What the story is about

- Who the main characters in the story are

- What happened in the story

- What the meaning of the story is

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2. Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use the word in brackets. You must not change the word. Write no more than THREE words.
 
 
Here is an example.

0.
The bookshop is opposite the library.

 
_______________ a bookshop opposite the library. (THERE)

 
Answer: 0. There is

1.
Herding buffaloes is more difficult than loading the rice.

Loading the rice is ______________________ herding buffaloes. (EASY)



2.
Life in a mountainous village is more boring than life in a big city.

Life in