PRACTICE TEST

I. Choose the best answer.

1.I’m ____ not inviting Susan to my party.I’ve never liked her.
A. certainly B. surely C. absolutely D. completely
2.____ boil the water,then add salt,then put in the patatoes.
A. At first B. First C. At the first D. At first sight
[Link] ______ by without television viewers witnessing some sort of violence or crime on their screens.
A. does a day go B. a day goes
C. a day doesn’t go D. has a day gone
[Link] for the new car is still _____ in spite of an increase in production.
A. satisfied B. dissatisfied C. unsatisfactory D. unsatisfied
5._____ plans were carried out to discover the cause of the recent train accidents.
A. exhausted B. exhausting C. exhaustive D. exhaustible
6. My uncle showed great ______ in sellling his house when he did because soon afterwards the market fell
dramatically.
A. forecasting B. prediction C. guessing D. foresight
[Link] soldiers _____ when they heard that the war was over.
A. gloated B. revolted C. gladdened D. rejoyed
[Link] on unemployment ____ collected and analyzed by government labour officies in most countries.
A. were B. was C. are D. is
[Link] wild animals means _____ with a good environment to live in.
A. stopping killing it and providing it B. to stop killing it and to provide it
C. to stop killing it and to providing it D. stopping killing it and to provide it
[Link] to lock all the doors securely _____ alone.
A. when be home B. when home C. since home D. since be home
11. He felt great _____ at being treated like a child.
A. angry B. angrily C. anger D. angrier
[Link]’s nothing better to do;we ____ watch the play on TV.
A. may B. might as well C. could have to D. must
13.I met her in Paris,______is when I fell in love with her.
A. which B. at which point C. when C. that
14.A dog ____ on his owner’s lap may refuse to eat from a bowl on the floor.
A. is fed B. was fed C. fed D. to fed
[Link] got ____ the bus and walked toward the shool gate.
A. off B. on C. out of D. into
16.I’ve got _____ money to lend you now. You can ask Jane for some.
A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
[Link]’ve spent three years sitting around the house. You shouldn’t spend ______ three years doing nothing like
that.
A. other B. another C. the other D. others
[Link] was a terrible experience and it _____ her off flying forever.
A. gave B. brought C. took D. put
[Link] impact of two vehicles can cause a lot of _____ to both.
A. damage B. damages C. damaging D. damagings
[Link] killer remained _____ large for weeks.
A. in B. at C. for D. off
II. WORD FORM
1. He suffered a(n) (operate ) ……………..brain tumour.
2. Philip is so young that he cannot travel (company)…………………..
3. Would passengers on Flight SA 721 please go to the .............. lounge? ( depart )
4. Sales forecasts indicate a poor ................ for the clothing industry . ( look )
5. The document was (due) …………….signed and authorized by the inspector.
6. The ............. system of some countries used to be based on gold ( money )
7. Everybody expected that film was good but it turned out to be (describe) ………….boring.
9. Please turn down the radio. The noise is (deaf) ……………loud.
[Link] of the (produce) ……………..of unemployment is an increase in crime.

IV. The following passage contains 10 mistakes . Find them and correct them.
SOME OF THE PROBLEMS FACING LEARNERS OF ENGLISH.
Today I’d like to talk about some of the problems that students face when follow a course of study through the
medium of English- if English is not their mother‘s tongue .
The problems can be divided into three board categories: psychological, cultural or linguistic. The first two
categories mainly affect those come to study in Britain. I’ll comment only brief on these two categories and then
spend most of the time to look at linguistic difficulties which applies to everyone. Some of the common
psychological problems really involve fearful of the unknown: for example, whether one's academic studies will
be too difficult. Looking at the cultural problem, we can see that some of them are of a very practical nature, e.g
arranging satisfactory accommodations . Others are less easier to define.

V. Fill each blank with one suitable word . Write your answer in the space provided .
A vitamin is a complex substance that is essential to the human body (1).......... health and growth . But human
beings do not (2) ............ vitamins for fuel . Fuel is supplied by (3) ……..... and carbohydrates .The human body
(4)............. some vitamins itself , but often in amounts (5)............ small to meet its needs . Others are not made in
the (6)............ at all , and must be supplied . All the functions of many of the vitamins are not completely known .
But doctors do know that vitamins have such (7) ............. uses that one cannot replace , or act for another. The
continued lack of one (8) ………....... in an otherwise complete diet results (9) ……...... a deficiency disease ,
such as rickets , scurvy , and pellagra .
The best way to obtain vitamins is to eat foods in which they occur (10) …….... . There are also preparations of
pure vitamins that contain a (11) .............. vitamin , or a (12) ..... of several vitamins . Vitamin preparations should
be used only if (13)............... by a doctor .
 Scientists have discovered about twenty five different vitamins that are important to the (14) ……..... needs of
human beings , animals . and microorganisms . Investigators believe that further study will show (15)
…………...... actually are more vitamins .

VI. GUIDED CLOZE

TOMORROW’S CRIME
In the time it takes you to read this article, it is absolutely certain that two events will have taken place on a very
large (1) ……… indeed. The first of these certainties is that many crimes, mostly (2) …. but some serious will
have been (3)…... Crime has been an (4) ……fact of life for many centuries and it is (5)……. to say , will
continue to be so for the (6) …….future.
The second undisputed event is that our world will be populated by hundreds, even thousands, of new human
beings, arriving bloody, screaming and kicking , and opening their eyes to (7) ……the future. Inevitably, some of
these new-born babies will grow up to become the adolescents and adults who steal from cars, (8) …..houses,
mug people late at night, (9) ……..fires, rape and kill.
And the million-dollar question is: Which of these new-born infants will become tomorrow’s criminals? There are
several predictors that they can give us some (10) …….Firstly, antisocial childhood behaviour, including
misbehaviour at school, dishonestly and agressiveness. There is a higher chance of child (11) ……to crime if there
is a history of criminality in the family, including (12) …….parents and delinquent older siblings. Family poverty
is also a contributing (13)……., whether it be due to low family (14) ………, large family size and poor housing.
Poor parental child-rearing behaviour, including, harsh and authoritarian discipline, poor supervision, parental
conflict and separation from parents also (15) ……….their part.
1. A. size B. scale C. area D. grid
2. A. silly B. stupid C. trivial D. small
3. A. committed B. done C. made D. tried
4. A. unchangeable B. unstoppable C. unpreventable D. inescapable
5. A. safe B. sure C. secure D. correct
6. A. known B. foreseeable C. expected D. predictable
7. A. attempt B. confront C. achieve D. face
8. A. burgle B. thieve C. rob D. steal
9. A. set B. start C. light D. commence
10.A. guesses B. help C. clues D. tips
11.A. turning B. moving C. going D. tending
12.A. condemned B. tried C. convicted D. prosecuted
13.A. factor B. help C. clues D. tips
14.A. income B. incomings C. wage D. tips
15.A. perform B. role C. play D. reach

VII. Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to the questions.
Glass is a remarkable substance made from the simplest raw materials. It can becolored or colorless, monochrome
or polychrome, transparent, translucent, or [Link] is lightweight impermeable to liquids, readily cleaned and
reused, durable yet fragile, and often very beautiful Glass can be decorated in multiple ways and its (5)
optical properties are exceptional. In all its myriad forms - as table ware, containers,in architecture and design -
glass represents a major achievement in the history oftechnological developments.
Since the Bronze Age about 3,000 B.C., glass has been used for making variouskinds of objects. It was
first made from a mixture of silica, line and an alkali such as (10) soda or potash, and these remained the basic
ingredients of glass until the development of lead glass in the seventeenth century. When heated, the mixture
becomes soft and malleable and can be formed by various techniques into a vast array of shapes and sizes. The
homogeneous mass thus formed by melting then cools to create glass, but in contrast to most materials formed in
this way (metals, for instance), glass lacks the (15) crystalline structure normally associated with solids, and
instead retains the random molecular structure of a liquid. In effect, as molten glass cools, it progressively stiffens
until rigid, but does so without setting up a network of interlocking crystals customarily associated with that
process. This is why glass shatters so easily when dealt a blow. Why glass deteriorates over time, especially when
exposed to moisture, (20) and why glassware must be slowly reheated and uniformly cooled after manufacture to
release internal stresses induced by uneven cooling.
Another unusual feature of glass is the manner in which its viscosity changes as it turns from a cold
substance into a hot, ductile liquid. Unlike metals that flow or "freeze" at specific temperatures glass progressively
softens as the temperature rises, (25) going through varying stages of malleability until it flows like a thick
syrup. Each stage of malleability allows the glass to be manipulated into various forms, by different techniques,
and if suddenly cooled the object retains the shape achieved at that point. Glass is thus amenable to a greater
number of heat-forming techniques than most other materials.
1. Why does the author list the characteristics of glass in lines 1-5?
A. To demonstrate how glass evolved B. To show the versatility of glass
C. To explain glassmaking technology D. To explain the purpose of each component of glass
2. The word "durable"' in line 3 is closest in meaning to
A. lasting B. delicate C. heavy D. Plain
3. What does the author imply about the raw materials used to make glass?
A. They were the same for centuries. B. They are liquid
C. They are transparent D. They are very heavy.
4. According to the passage, how is glass that has cooled and become rigid different from most other rigid
substances?
A. It has an interlocking crystal network. B. It has an unusually low melting temperature.
C. It has varying physical properties. D. It has a random molecular structure.
5. The word "customarily" in line 17 is closest in meaning to
A. naturally B. necessarily C. usually D. certainly
6. The words "exposed to" in line 19 are closest in meaning to
A. hardened by B. chilled with C. subjected to D. deprived of
7. What must be done to release the internal stresses that build up in glass products during manufacture?
A. the glass must be reheated and evenly cooled. B. the glass must be cooled quickly.
C. The glass must be kept moist until cooled. D. The glass must be shaped to its desired form immediately.
8. The word "induced" in line 21 is closest in meaning to
A. joined B. missed C. caused D. lost
9. The word "it" in line 22 refers to
A. feature B. glass C. manner D. viscosity
10. According to the passage, why can glass be more easily shaped into specific forms than can metals
A. It resists breaking when heated B. It has better optical properties.
C. It retains heat while its viscosity changes. D. It gradually becomes softer as its temperature rises.

VIII. Read the passage and choose the best answer.

The Return of Artificial Intelligence
It is becoming acceptable again to talk of computers performing human tasks such as problem-solving and pattern-
recognition
A. After years in the wilderness, the term 'artificial intelligence' (AI) seems poised to make a comeback. AI was
big in the 1980s but vanished in the 1990s. It re-entered public consciousness with the release of Al, a movie about
a robot boy.(3) This has ignited public debate about AI, but the term is also being used once more within the
computer industry. Researchers, executives and marketing people are now using the expression without irony or
inverted commas. And it is not always hype. The term is being applied, with some justification, to products that
depend on technology that was originally developed by AI researchers. Admittedly, the rehabilitation of the term
has a long way to go, and some firms still prefer to avoid using it. But the fact that others are starting to use it
again suggests that AI has moved on from being seen as an over-ambitious and under-achieving field of research.

B. The field was launched, and the term 'artificial intelligence' coined, at a conference in 1956 by a group of
researchers(5) that included Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Herbert Simon and Alan Newell, all of whom went
on to become leading figures in the field. The expression provided an attractive but informative name for a
research programme that encompassed such previously disparate fields as operations research, cybernetics, logic
and computer science.(2) The goal they shared was an attempt to capture or mimic human abilities using
machines. That said, different groups of researchers attacked different problems, from speech recognition to chess
playing, in different ways; AI unified the field in name only. But it was a term that captured the public
imagination.

C. Most researchers agree that AI peaked around 1985. A public reared on science-fiction movies and excited by
the growing power of computers had high expectations. For years, AI researchers had implied that a breakthrough
was just around the corner. Marvin Minsky said in 1967 that within a generation the problem of creating'artificial
intelligence' would be substantially solved. Prototypes of medical-diagnosis programs and speech recognition
software appeared to be making progress. It proved to be a false dawn. Thinking computers and household robots
failed to materialise, and a backlash ensued. `There was undue optimism in the early 1980s; says David Leaky, a
researcher at Indiana University. 'Then when people realised these were hard problems, there was retrenchment.
By the late 1980s, the term AI was being avoided by many researchers, who opted instead to align themselves with
specific sub-disciplines such as neural networks, agent technology, case-based reasoning, and so on.

D. Ironically, in some ways AI was a victim of its own success. Whenever an apparently mundane problem was
solved, such as building a system that could land an aircraft unattended, the problem was deemed not to have been
AI in the first plate. 'If it works, it can't be AI; as Dr Leaky characterises it. The effect of repeatedly moving the
goal-posts in this way was that AI came to refer to 'blue-sky' research that was still years away from
commercialisation. Researchers joked that AI stood for `almost implemented'. Meanwhile, the technologies that
made it onto the market, such as speech recognition, language translation and decision-support software, were no
longer regarded as AI. Yet all three once fell well within the umbrella of AI research.

E. But the tide may now be turning, according to Dr Leake. HNC Software of San Diego, backed by a government
agency, reckon that their new approach to artificial intelligence is the most powerful and promising approach ever
discovered. (1)HNC claim that their system, based on a cluster of 30 processors, could be used to spot
camouflaged vehicles on a battlefield or extract a voice signal from a noisy background - tasks humans can do
well, but computers cannot. 'Whether or not their technology lives up to the claims made for it, the fact that HNC
are emphasising the use of AI is itself an interesting development; says Dr Leaky.

F. Another factor that may boost the prospects for AI in the near future is that investors are now looking for firms
using clever technology, rather than just a clever business model, to differentiate themselves. In particular, the
problem of information overload, exacerbated by the growth of e-mail and the explosion in the number of web
pages, means there are plenty of opportunities for new technologies to help filter and categorise information -
classic AI problems. (4)That may mean that more artificial intelligence companies will start to emerge to meet this
challenge.

G. The 1969 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, featured an intelligent computer called HAL 9000. As well as
understanding and speaking English, HAL could play chess and even learned to lipread. HAL thus encapsulated
the optimism of the 1960s that intelligent computers would be widespread by 2001. But 2001 has been and gone,
and there is still no sign of a HAL-like computer. Individual systems can play chess or transcribe speech, but a
general theory of machine intelligence still remains elusive. It may be, however, that the comparison with HAL no
longer seems quite so important, and AI can now be judged by what it can do, rather than by how well it matches
up to a 30-year-old science-fiction film. 'People are beginning to realise that there are impressive things that these
systems can do; says Dr Leake hopefully.
Questions 27-31
Reading Passage 81 has seven paragraphs, A-G.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 27-31 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.

27 how AI might have a military impact - E

28 the fact that AI brings together a range of separate research areas-B
29 the reason why AI has become a common topic of conversation again- A
30 how AI could help deal with difficulties related to the amount of information available electronically-F
31 where the expression AI was first used- B

Questions 32-37
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 81?
In boxes 32-37 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

32 The researchers who launched the field of AI had worked together on other projects in the past. NG
33 In 1985, AI was at its lowest point.
34 Research into agent technology was more costly than research into neural networks.
35 Applications of AI have already had a degree of success.
36 The problems waiting to be solved by AI have not changed since 1967.
37 The film 2001: A Space Odyssey reflected contemporary ideas about the potential of AI computers.

Questions 38-40
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
38 According to researchers, in the late 1980s there was a feeling that
A a general theory of AI would never be developed.
B original expectations of AI may not have been justified.
C a wide range of applications was close to fruition.
D more powerful computers were the key to further progress.
39 In Dr Leake's opinion, the reputation of AI suffered as a result of
A changing perceptions. B premature implementation.
C poorly planned projects. D commercial pressures.
40 The prospects for AI may benefit from
A existing AI applications. B new business models.
C orders from Internet-only companies. D new investment priorities.

Rewriting
1. We could use the hotel swimming pool as often as we liked. (disposal)
 The hotel swimming pool…………………………………………………..
2. He was not given details of the company’s new plans (dark )
 He …………………………………………………………………………..
3.I was too scared to tell him what I really thought. (lacked)
 I ……………………………………………………………………………..
[Link] years ago this region produced twice as much coal as it does.(last)
 Coal production in this region ……………………………………………..
5. He got married without his parents’ knowledge. (were)
His parents ..........................................................................................................
[Link] you was saying has nothing in common with the facts. DOES
What……………………………………………………………………………….
4.I really think you should be more assertive about your rights. UP
It’s about ……………………………………………………….more.