A.LISTENING (1.5 pts)(Time for listening: 3'25 x 2) - You will listen twice.
Listen to a conversation between Mrs. Phillips and Robert about library work, answer thequestions.
Questions 1-6: Answer the following questions. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR
A NUMBER for each answer. Write your answers into the box below.
1. What is Mrs. Phillip's job at the library?
2. What is Robert's job at the library?
3. What time does the library open?
4. What time does Robert can go home after he finishes his duty in the library?
5. Where are fiction and non-fiction books collected?
6. Where can children find their suitable books?
Your answers:
1. (a/the) head librarian
2. library assistant
3. 8.30 a.m
4. 4.30 p.m
5. second floor / 2nd floor
6. third floor / 3rd floor
Questions 7-11: Decide whether these statements are True (T) or False (F). Write your answers in the
box below.
7. The books in the brown cart are for republishing.
8. The books in the black cart need to be repaired.
9. The white cart books are to be sold as used books to raise money for the laboratory.
10. “Fashion show” is the most popular activity of the library.
11. It costs children nothing to see movies on Saturday noon.
Your answers:
7. F
8. T
9. F
10. F
11. T
Questions 12-15: Complete the table. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
for each answer. Write your answers into the box below.
Activity
Location
Day and Time
(12 ) ____________________
Children's Room
Thursday at 11:00
Family Movies
(13 ) ____________________
( 14) ____________________
(15 ) ____________________
Meeting Room
Friday at 6:30
Your answers:
12. Story Time
13. Reference Room
14. Saturday at 2:30
15. Lecture Series / Lectures
B. LEXICOLOGY AND GRAMMAR (3.5pts)
I. Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to complete each unfinished sentence or
substitute the underlined part.Write your answers into the box below.
1. Cars and factories _______ toxic fumes that pollute the environment.
A. commit
B. emit
C. admit
D. omit
2. Scientists are predicting that the volcano might erupt so people have been _______ from the area.
A. escaped
B. exported
C. emigrated
D. evacuated
evacuatesb from … (to …): to move people from a place of danger to a safer place
3.It was getting _______ dark so we decided to head for home.
A. utterly
B. totally
C. absolutely
D. fairly
4. His comments _______ little or no relation to the facts and the figures of the case.
A. reflect
B. bear
C. give
D. possess
bear no/ little relation to sth: be not much connected with sth
5. There wasn't a _______ of dust anywhere in the room, I had cleaned it carefully.
A. scarp
B. gust
C. speck
D. blade
speck of dust: a small piece of dirt
6. Dictators do not tolerate opposition of any kind.
A. understand
B. justify
C. execute
D. accept
7. The Rev. Dr. martin Luther King fought to put an end to racial segregation in the United States.
A. separation
B. education
C. torture
D. integration
8. Although they had never met before the party, Jim and Jane felt strong affinity to each other.
A. enthusiasm
B. attraction
C. moved
D. interest
9. The doctor advised me not to assume too much work in the office.
A. absorb in
B. go over
C. come into
D. take on
10. The inventor had to mull over his idea for several days.
A. scrutinize
B. remember
C. ponder
D. organize
Your answers:
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1. B
2. D
3. D
4. B
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. C
II. Join one word on the left with one word on the right to make compound nouns. There is one extra
in each box. Write your answers in the box below.
paper
bankjetcardheart full
lag backaccountattackphonemoon
1. I'm still suffering from _______ after my trip to Australia.
2. I only have coins on me and that's a _______. I will have to see if there is a public phone in that bar.
3. Continual hostility keeps your blood pressure high, and may increase your risk of _______.
4. The smooth surface of the lake reflected the bright _______.
5. Police are investigating how £20 million was illegally transferred out of the Trust's _______.
Your answers:
1. jet lag
2. card phone
3. heart attack
4. full moon
5.bank account
III. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the words in the box (there are 2 odd words in the box).
Write your answers in the box below.
pollute
occupy
jewel
peace
America
convenient
depend
evolve
believe
refer
practice
accept
Walking into an Amish community is like going back in time. You'll see girls in long dresses, horses
pulling buggies, and homes lit by kerosene lamps.
The Amish (pronounced 'Aahmish') are an American Protestant group with around 200,000 members
descended from European Anabaptists who arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1730s to escape persecution in
Europe. They are best known for their 19thcentury (1) _______ way of life.
Most Amish families make their living by farming and they won't let technology into their barn or
home. Some modern (2) _______, such as cars, electricity and telephones are avoided. They don't allow
telephones or electricity in their houses, because both of these technologies would literally connect them to
the world through their wires. Televisions, radios and stereos are not used, which helps keep the Amish (3)
_______ by the values advanced by the mass media. That's because Amish families live by a set of (4)
_______ that's more than a religion – it's a simple way of life centre around faith and family. Amish use
three languages, a German dialect called Pennsylvania Dutch at home, High German for worship and
English with outsiders.
The Amish believe that it's essential to keep themselves separate from the “world”, so they live in
their own small communities and differ from other (5) _______in their dress, language, work, travel and
education. Nevertheless, members of the community have many contacts with outsiders, who they call
“English”. The ideal Amish (6) _______is to be a farmer, but Amish men also do factory work.
Each Amish district is fully (7) _______and lives by its own set of unwritten rules, or Ordnung.
There is no central authority. Members of the community help each other, and the whole community will
work together to help a member in trouble. They do not accept state benefits or use insurance, but rely on
community support instead.
Amish only marry other Amish and don't divorce. They have large families averaging 7−8 children.
Amish women and girls wear plain dresses because patterned clothes are considered (8) _______. They also
wear aprons and bonnets as a sign of their respect for God. If an Amish woman is married, she wears a black
bonnet. If she is single, she wears a white one, and they never wear (9) _______or make-up. Men and boys
wear dark-coloured suits, plain shirts, suspenders and black or straw broad-brimmed hats. Belts, sweaters,
ties and gloves are forbidden. Amish men grow beards only after they marry and don't grow moustache.
The Amish stress simplicity and humility. They avoid anything associated with pride of position or
enjoyment of power.
The Amish have their own private education system of around 1,200 schools which stresses the 'four
Rs' of reading, writing, arithmetic and religion. Schooling stops at 14 after which they learn (10)
_______skills on the job because for Amish too much education makes children too “worldly,” or
sophisticated.
Your answers:
1. peaceful
2. conveniences
3. unpolluted
4. beliefs
5. Americans
6. occupation
7. independent
8. unacceptable
9.jewellery/
10. practical
jewelery
IV. Think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Write your
answers in the box below.
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1. _______
a. I had _______ feelings about leaving home - I was excited but at the same time I knew I would miss my
family.
b. Getting promotion is rather a _______ blessing - it means more money but I'll have to work longer hours.
c. There's a real _______ bag of people on our course - all ages and backgrounds.
2. _______
a. Did you hear that guy who lives in the flat upstairs has been _______ with burglary?
b. I couldn't believe they _______ me three dollars for a bottle of water!
c. The children ran out of the school gate and _______ down the hill.
3. _______
a. I didn't get the job in the end, but it's probably for the _______.
b. I know you are not very keen on art, but just do your _______ in the exam.
c. The caterers didn't turn up and the guest of honour was late so we had to make the _______ of a rather
disastrous situation
4. _______
a. Motorists should always show _______ for pedestrians crossing the street at a zebra crossing.
b. I'll give some to your proposals and get back to you.
c. We stupidly didn't take changes in interest rates into _______ when we got a mortgage for our house.
5. _______
a. I can't see the _______ of all this paperwork, can you?
b. I was so frustrated that I was on the _______ of giving up, but my piano teacher persuaded me to keep on
practising.
c. Now, let's move on to the final _______ for discussion at this meeting.
Your answers:
1. mixed
2. charged
3. best
4. consideration
5. point
V. Choose one given verb and give a correct preposition or adverb to make suitable phrasal verbs to
fill in the gaps below. Remember to use the correct forms of the verbs and each verb once only. There
are two extra verbs. Write your answers in the box below.
brush
takemake
snowcome
get
break
1. Are you really _______ _______ with work at the moment?
2. The professor _______ _______ her lecture when she heard a cell phone ringing.
3. I decided to have a few lessons to _______ _______ my German before I went on holiday.
4. Jill and I had a terrible row, but we soon _______ _______.
5. Losing my job was a great shock, but I think I'm _______ _______ it.
Your answers:
1. snowed under
2. broke off
3. brush up
4. made up
5. getting over
C. READING (2.5 pts)
I. Choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the passage.Write your answers in the box below.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
Work on the human brain has indicated how different parts are centres of activity for different skills,
feelings, perceptions and so on. It has also been shown that the left and right halves, or hemispheres, of the
brain are (1) _______ for different functions. While language is processed in the left, or analytical
hemisphere, music is processed in the right, or emotional hemisphere. (2) _______ of music like tone, pitch
and melody are all probably processed in different parts of the brain. Some features of musical experience
are processed not just in the auditory parts of the brain, but in the visual ones. We don't yet fully understand
the (3) _______ of this.
The tempo of music seems to be (4) _______ related to its emotional impact, with fast music often
(5) _______ as happier and slower music as sadder. It is the same with the major biological rhythm of the
body: our heart (6) _______ quickens when we're happy, but slows when we're sad. Military music may
have (7) _______ from attempts to get us ready for battle by using fast drumming to (8) _______ our hearts
into beating faster. Music is perhaps one of the most complex experiences the brain (9) _______with and it
has become an absolutely vital part of our rituals and ceremonies. It has power beyond language to (10)
_______mood and co-ordinate our emotional states.
1. A. amenable
B. dependable
C. responsible
D. reliable
2. A. Views
B. Aspects
C. Factors
D. Pieces
3. A. expectations
B. implications
C. assumptions
D. propositions
4. A. surely
B. plainly
C. evidently
D. directly
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5. A. felt
B. endured
C. encountered
D. touched
6. A. pulse
B. speed
C. pace
D. rate
7. A. evolved
B. extended
C. advanced
D. elevated
8. A. activate
B. motivate
C. stimulate
D. animate
9. A. manages
B. copes
C. bears
D. holds
10. A. notify
B. report
C. associate
D. communicate
Your answers:
1. C
2. B
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. D
II. Fill in each gap one suitable word to complete the passage. Write your answers in the box below.

Managing Change

Most people find change unsettling and difficult to (1) _______ to. Many societies have experienced
(2) _______ rapid change in the early years of the 21st century that life can feel very daunting (3) _______
times. Various commentators have (4) _______ forward suggestions for coping with change on a personal
level.
One suggestion involves thinking of three solutions to a problem, rather (5) _______ two.
Apparently, many people faced (6) _______ change respond by considering two possible courses of action,
but invariably tend to reject both of these. However, thinking instead of three potential solutions is a strategy
which, (7) _______ to research, provides a reliable way of finding a solution to the initial problem.
Another strategy advocates learning to avoid set patterns of routine behaviour. Something simple, (8)
_______ taking another route to work at (9) _______ once a week, is seen as encouraging confidence in the
face of uncertainty. (10) _______ the simplicity of these ideas, they nevertheless help prepare people
mentally to manage major change if necessary.
Your answers:
1. adapt
2. such
3. at
4. put
5. than
6. with / by
7. according
8. like
9. least
10. Despite
III. Read the passage and choose which of the-paragraphs A-F to fit into the numbered gaps in the
following magazine article. There is one extra paragraph whichdoes not fit in any of the gaps.(0) has
been done as an example. Write your answers in the box below.
DRUGS: SUPPLY AND DEMAND
Why has the illegal use of drugs become an epidemic worldwide? It is unlikely that there is one single cause,
and the demand for illegal drugs is paralleled by their legal prescription as tranquillizers and sedatives, and
by the entirely legal use of tobacco and alcohol. (0) _F_
The professor of addiction behaviour at the University of London's Institute of Psychiatry writes: “Being a
drug taker means “being someone” for the young person [or old person, one might add] who does not
otherwise know who he is, what he is worth, or where he is going. (1) _______
A drug taker becomes a member of a group. Once a member of the group, outside the normal structure of
family and work, he has nowhere else to go. Even something like glue-sniffing is nearly always a group
activity. (2) _______
With time, and increasing dependence on the drug, the need becomes physical as well as psychological. The
hunger must be assuaged, no matter how expensively. (3) _______
Government agencies have largely ignored the social reasons for addiction. They have attacked the growers,
the smugglers, and the dealers. By and large, their efforts have not been crowned with much success. For
example, in Malaysia, draconian laws have hanged 30 heroin dealers in the past five years and put another
40 on death row awaiting the noose. Despite these laws, 3.5 percent of Malaysia's population take the drug.
(4) _______
However, on America's own doorstep, in the Bahamas, the world's first modern drug epidemic has taken
place. It is an epidemic that has spread in the past year to the United States. In the Bahamas more than 10
percent of the population are addicts. Many are teenagers, hooked inside 10 minutes of their first
introduction to drugs by “free-basing”. Free-basing is a lethal method of smoking a “rock” of cocaine that is
80 per cent proof, compared with 30 per cent from sniffing. (5) _______
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A. In such places, the American government uses all possible means of economic persuasion to put
pressure on countries which tolerate the drug trade. In some parts of the world, a country's economy may
depend on the coca crop.
B.At this point drug-taking becomes not only antisocial but probably criminal, as the addict steals to
support his habit.
C.When the habit spread to New York, the substance became known as “crack”. Crack is instantly
addictive, and the addict, as usual, requires rapidly increasing quantities. Being addicted to free-basing is
just about as deadly as contracting Aids. You don't have much life left.
D.Hence the very apt remark by the American author and former drug addict, William Burroughs: “You
become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong enough motivation in any other direction. Junk
wins by default.”
E.Most of them, as elsewhere, are in their teens and early twenties, although, of course, drug users
cannot be expected to live to a ripe old age. Apart from local police forces, governments sign agreements
to control the trade, as between, for example, the United States and Pakistan or India.
F.In general, perhaps, addicts, both legal and illegal, are children. They are insecure, dependent. They
need to escape responsibility.
G.The individual becomes dependent not only on the drug itself but also upon the other people within the
drug-taking group. He needs their support.
Your answers:
0. F
1. D
2. G
3. B
4. E
5. C
D. WRITING (2.5 pts)
I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it.
1. His real identity will always remain a secret.
No one ________________________________________________________________________________
 No one will ever know his real identity.
2. The police didn't at all suspect that the judge was the murder.
Little _________________________________________________________________________________
 Little did the police suspect that the judge was the murder.
3. Something must be done to solve this problem.
Urgent ________________________________________________________________________________
Urgent action is necessary / essential to solve this problem. (Urgent measures are necessary / essential
to solve this problem.)
4. It was Peter who pointed the mistake out to me.
Peter drew_____________________________________________________________________________
Peter drew my attention to the mistake.
5. Tim was always an optimist even when things were going wrong.
Tim invariably looked ___________________________________________________________________
Tim invariably looked on the bright side even when things were going wrong.
II. Rewrite the sentence by using the word given in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. Do not alter the given word in any way.
1. Try to stay level with the other runners at the start of the race. (FALL)
Try _____________________________________ the other runners at the start of the race.
 Try NOT TO FALL BEHIND the other runners at the start of the race.
2. I really admire you for your improvement. (HAT)
I _____________________________________ to you for your improvement.
I TAKE MY HAT OFF to you for your improvement.
3. I sincerely promise you that I'm telling you the truth. (BOTTOM)
I promise you _____________________________________ that I'm telling you the truth.
I promise you FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART that I'm telling you the truth.
4. The exam was very easy and I made no mistake. (CAKE)
The exam _____________________________________ and I made no mistake.
The exam WAS A PIECE OF CAKE and I made no mistake.
5. Peter was in trouble with his boss because he didn't finish an important project by the deadline. (HOT)
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Peter _____________________________________ because he didn't finish an important project by the
deadline.
 Peter WAS IN HOT WATER WITH HIS BOSS because he didn't finish an important project by the
deadline.
III. Write an essay: Some people say that teachers should be able to ask disruptive children to leave
the class. Do you think it is the best way to deal with a disruptive child in the classroom? What other
solutions are there? You should write least 250 words in this space.
Sample answer:
A large amount of people are likely to support the idea that teachers have the authority to dismiss
disobedient children from the class. From a personal vantage point, it is not a counter-effective measure and
there exist other solutions relied on.
On the one hand, the possibility that forcing disruptive children to leave the class is a temporary method,
what's more, it can be arisen some adverse consequences. Firstly, as a result of severely mental effects, badbehaved children are prone to retreat into their shells and turn into violent individuals as well. Secondly, this
measure cannot be achieved educational goals. On the grounds of interrupting the class, learning's quality
might be affected tremendously. Furthermore, the obligation of teachers providing academic and moral
education tend to be uncompleted.
On the other hand, there are some effective alternative to address this problem. The first solution should be
noticed is that parents and teachers ought to join hands together to generate moral lessons for their children.
Thanks to the intimate relationship, parents can find easy to educate disruptive children and get them to turn
over a new leaf. The second solution concerns about other fruitful punishments. This can be exemplified by
the case that in some Japan school, disruptive children ask for plant trees, it is greatly constructive their
heath.
All things considered, asking bad-mannered children to leave the class cannot be considered an optimal
method. Additionally, other solutions should be mentioned to cope with this issue.
 THE END 

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