Test za provjeravanje predznanja engleskog jezika prije razredbenog postupka na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu, 7.7.2005.

I Circle the appropriate answer - A, B or C for the blanks in the text. DO NOT WRITE IN THE BLANKS, circle A, B or C beneath the text. a) You Must Remember This Sometimes you might feel that if you (1.)____________ a perfect memory, all your problems with learning (2.)_________________ solved . You would be able to sail (3.)_________ exams without (4.)________________ revision. You would never again face (5.)_________ embarrassment of forgetting someones name. But imagine, for a moment, not (6.)___________ anything not even last years shopping lists; you would be overloaded with information. With hard work you can recall the parts of a verb or the layout of a town as you need them, so that you can learn a foreign language or gain a taxi drivers licence. But the memory feats called for by some professions are only one of the roles memory plays in our (7.)________. Memory covers a wide range of actions and needs. (8.)_______ we know about the brain is far from complete, so philosophers and scientists find it difficult to be precise about the nature of (9.)_________. Remembering and forgetting can be understood in many different ways but broadly, three distinct classes of memory (10.)______________: personal, cognitive and habit memory. Personal memories are those (11.)_________________ of remembering which refer specifically to each (12.)_______________ life history. If you say, I remember the first time I travelled (13.)_______ train, you will probably have an image in your mind of (14.)__________ occasion and be able to describe things in it. Cognitive memory helps us (15.)__________, for example, stories, a speech or a piece of music. Habit memory covers those abilities needed to perform actions such as typing or driving. All these actions must be learned, but once they have been, you will rarely remember anything consciously as you perform them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. A) have A) will be A) to A) much A) an A) having forgotten B) had had B) would be B) through B) lot of B) the B) to forget C) had C) would have been C) across C) many C) a C) forgetting

7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

A) living A) That A) the memory

B) life B) What B) memories

C) lives C) Which C)memory C) were C) activities C) persons C) with C) an C) learning

A) have been established established A) actions A) persons A) on A) the A) to learn

B) are established B) acts B) personal B) by B) such B) learn

b) [The same instructions as under a) above] 'No Smoking Day' Research Studies Teenagers are (1.) ____________ vital weapon in the battle to stop people smoking, according to research published to coincide with No Smoking Day. The study shows that at any given point in time more than 75 per cent of teenagers (2.) ____________ to persuade their parents to quit. Even youngsters who admit to (3.) ____________ themselves say they have nagged their parents to give up. The survey of 11- to 15-year olds suggests that children and teenagers (4.) _______________ smoking as rebellious and trendy any more. They are more concerned about the effects of their parents habit on their own health. Smokers with children (5.) ____________ also more likely to want to quit and to have tried to give up. The researchers who carried out the study (6.) _____________ that almost three-quarters of 10,000 asthmatic youngsters (7.) _______________ took part in the survey believed other peoples cigarette smoke had made their condition worse. Of those, 31 per cent (8.) _________________ with someone who (9.) ________________ at some stage. Two further studies (10) ______________ to mounting evidence that genes play an important role in nicotine addiction. People taking part in the survey who had started smoking at 16 or younger or who had failed (11.) _____________ to successfully kick the habit share a common genetic make-up. But genes hardly tell (12.) ___________ full story. In about 25 per cent of identical twin pairs only one twin smokes, though they share the same genes. Clearly, (13.) ________________ environment and willpower play a role as well. Last year, two (14.) _____________ people took part in No Smoking Day with an estimated 40,000 giving up for good. Over the past 10 years an estimated half a million people (15.) _____________ helped to stop smoking by the venture.

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A) a A) were trying A) smoking A) have not seen A) have been A) are finding A) which A) were living A) smokes A) have added A) repeated A) a A) a A) million A) were

B) the B) tried B) smoke B) do not see B) were B) have found B) who B) live B) was smoking B) are adding B) repeatedly B) the B) the B) millions B) have been

C) C) are trying C) smokes C) did not see C) are C) found C) they C) are living C) had smoked C) added C) repeating C) made C) made C) millions of C) had been

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III Read the following text carefully. There will be some comprehension questions for you to answer. Circle the correct answer a), b) or c). 1 2 3 to 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 been 14 15 16 a futuristic action-adventure, but for most Americans the premise was strict naturalism, with the sole exception of the locks, which ought by rights to have been in place. drop dead? If you told people almost everywhere in the country then that you lived in New York, they tended to look at you as if you had boasted of dining on wormwood and gall. Images of the city on big or small screens, fictional or ostensibly journalistic, were a blur of violence, drugs, and squalor. A sort of apotheosis appeared in John Carpenters Escape from New York (1981), in which the city has become a maximum-security prison by default. The last honest folk having abandoned the place, the authorities have merely locked it up, permitting the scum within to rule themselves, with the understanding that they will before long kill one another off. The story may have Suspicion in the hinterlands of New York City's moral fiber and quality of life, rampant since the early nineteenth century, reached new heights during the 1970s. Hadn't the president himself urged the city

from My Lost City, by Luc Sante

The word rampant in line 2 means: (a) widespread (b) at a lull (c) stagnant

The phrase in the country in line 4 means: (a) in the United States of America (b) in rural areas (c) in the suburbs of New York City The verb boasted in line 6 means: (a) complained (b) cooked over an open fire (c) bragged the phrase on big or small screens in lines 6 and 7 means: (a) in both movies and television programs (b) in both high- and low-budget films (c) in both feature-films and short-length films In line 7, ostensibly journalistic means: (a) based on someones personal diary (b) in which the main character is a news reporter (c) apparently based on a true story The word squalor in line 8 means: (a) disease (b) filth (c) organized crime The phrase by default in line 10 means: (a) of the citys own fault (b) because no one did anything to stop it (c) because the city went bankrupt The word scum in line 12 refers to: (a) politicians and lawyers (b) worthless members of society (c) members of ethnic groups

The word themselves in line 12 refers to (a) honest folk (b) scum (c) authorities The phrase the premise was strict naturalism in lines 14 and 15 means: (a) it was too fantastic to be true (b) the plot illustrated the principle of survival of the fittest (c) the story was quite realistic IV. Put a circle round the correct choice - a), b) or c): 1. England became a Protestant country in: a) the fifteenth century b) the sixteenth century c) the seventeenth century 2. The maple leaf is a national symbol of: a) Canada b) Australia c) Ireland 3. He is said to have lived with his Merry Men in Sherwood Forest near Nottingham during the rule of King Richard I. He is: a) Robin Hood b) King Arthur c) Falstaff 4. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. These words are taken from: a) the inaugural speech of Elizabeth II b) the Declaration of Independence c) Shakespeare's Hamlet 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray was written by: a) G. B. Shaw b) Charles Dickens

c) Oscar Wilde 6. Queen Victoria reigned: a) from 1558 to 1603 b) from 1720 to 1776 c) from 1837 to 1901 7. In addition to a number of comedies, history plays and tragedies, William Shakespeare also authored: a) heroic epics b) novels c) sonnets 8. The Iron Lady is a nickname describing: a) the wife of Jeremy Irons b) Margaret Thatcher c) Lady Diana 9. The term McCarthyism stands for: a) the anti-Communist crusade in postwar America b) the civil rights movement in the 1940s and 1950s c) the triumph of liberalism in the 1960s 10. The Pilgrim fathers are: a) the fathers of Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales b) novels written in imitation of The Pilgrims Progress c) the 102 English people who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620