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III. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently. Write your answers in
the space provided. (10 points)
1. A. notice B. post C. monument D. comb
2. A. river B. rivalry C. icon D. stripe
3. A. muscles B. needles C. routes D. wardens
4. A. sacred B. died C. naked D. wanted
5. A. catastrophe B. confidence C. recipe D. sesame
IV. Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three of the group. Write
your answers in the space provided. (10 points)
1. A. readable B. satisfy C. evidence D. distinguish
2. A. relationship B. deliberate C. customer D. equipment
3. A. participate B. literature C. intimate D. powerful
4. A. baggy B. chairman C. dumping D. severe
5. A. antonym B. consequence C. opponent D. lunatic
VI. There is one mistake in each sentence. Identify the mistake and write your correction in
the space provided. (10 points)
1. Humus, a substance found in soil, is soft and spongy and enables plant roots to send out
tiny hair through that they absorb water and food.
2. From the monitoring of earthquake waves it is evidence that the Earth’s outer core is
liquid, whereas the inner one is solid.
3. People tend to make a lot of shopping at Xmas time.
4. Stuart stopped to write his letter because he had to leave for the hospital.
5. A fully grown male mountain lion may be eight long feet.
VII. Supply the correct form of the words in bracket. Write your answers in the space
provided. (10 points)
1. She supports her theory with......................evidence. (COPY)
2. Will it ever be possible for the human race to reach the extreme............. of the universe?
(BOUND)
3. He says he had no intention of hurting me, but I am sure he hit me...........
(PURPOSE)
4. Safety tests on old cars have been............................... throughout Europe. (STANDARD)
5. The teacher warned the children that if they................again, they would be punished.
(BEHAVE)
Write your answers here:
VIII. Supply the correct form and tense of the verbs in brackets (10 points)
1. We would like (invite) ....... to the president’s reception, but we weren’t.
2. Did you know that Oscar Wilde (live) .......... in Paris during his final years?
3. There was no sign indicating that the cottage (break) .......... into.
4. Without their valuable assistance we (never, gather) ........... enough money for our son’s
operation.
5. By the time I go to bed tonight, I (write) .......... more than ten pages of the novel.
SECTION 4. READING
IX. Exercise 1: Read the passage and choose the best option to complete the passage (20
points)
Why is it that many teenagers have the energy to play computer games until late at night but
can’t find the energy to get out of bed (1) ________ for school? According to a new report,
today’s generation of children are in danger of getting so (2)_______ sleep that they are putting
their mental and physical health at (3)_______. Adults can easily survive on seven to eight
hours’ sleep a night, (4)_______teenagers require nine or ten hours. According to medical
experts, one in five youngsters (5)________ anything between two and five hours’ sleep a night
less than their parents did at their age.
This (6) _____ serious questions about whether lack of sleep is affecting children’s ability to
concentrate at school. The connection between sleep deprivation and lapses in memory, impaired
reaction time and poor concentration is well (7) _______. Research has shown that losing as little
as half an hour’s sleep a night can have profound effects (8) ______how children perform the
next day. A good night’s sleep is also crucial for teenagers because it is while they are asleep
(9)______ they release a hormone that is essential for their ‘growth spurt’ (the period during
teenage years when the body grows at a rapid rate). It’s true that they can, to some (10) ______,
catch up on sleep at weekends, but that won’t help them when they are dropping off to sleep in
class on a Friday afternoon.
1. A. behind time B. about time C.in time D. at time
2. A. few B. less C. much D. little
3. A. jeopardy B. threat C. risk D. danger
4. A. or B. because C. whereas D. so
5. A. puts B. gets C. brings D. makes
6. A. raises B. rises C. results D. comes
7. A. organized B. arranged C. established D. acquired
8. A. in B. on C. to D. at
9. A. at which B. which C. where D. that
10. A. rate B. extent C. level D. point
X. Exercise 2: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question. (10
points)
Universally acclaimed as America’s greatest playwright, Eugene O’Neill was born in 1888 in
the heart of the theater district in New York City. As the son of an actor he had early exposure to
the world of the theater. He attended Princeton University briefly in 1906, but returned to New
York to work in a variety of jobs before joining the crew of a freighter as a seaman. Upon
returning from voyages to South Africa and South America, he was hospitalized for six months
to recuperate from tuberculosis. While he was recovering, he determined to write a play about
his adventures on the sea. He went to Harvard, where he wrote the one-act Bound East for
Cardiff. It was produced on Cape Cod by the Provincetown Players, an experimental theater
group that was later to settle in the famous Greenwich Village theater district in New York City.
The Players produced several more of his one-acts in the years between 1916-1920. With the
full-length play Beyond the Horizon, produced on Broadway in 1920, O’Neill’s success was
assured. The play won the Pulitzer prize for the best play of the year. O’Neill was to be awarded
the prize again in 1922, 1928, and 1957 for Anna Christie, Strange Interlude, and Long Day’s
Journey Into Night. Although he didn’t receive the Pulitzer prize for it, Mourning becomes
Electra, produced in 1931,is arguably his most lasting contribution to the American theatre. In
1936, he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
O’Neill’s plays, forty-five in all, cover a wide range of dramatic subjects, but several themes
emerge, including the ambivalence of family relationships, the struggle between the sexes, the
conflict between spiritual and material desires, and the vision of modern man as a victim of
uncontrollable circumstances. Most of O’Neill’s characters are seeking for meaning in their
lives. According to his biographers, most of the characters were portraits of himself and his
family. In a sense, his work chronicled his life.
1. How many times was O’Neill awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
A. Five B. Three C. Four D. One
2. The word “briefly” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to__________.
A. without enthusiasm B. on scholarship
C. seriously D. for a short time
3. What does the author mean by the statement in paragraph 2: “According to his biographers,
most of the characters were portraits of himself and his family. In a sense, his work chronicled
his life”?
A. His biographers took pictures of him with his family.
B. His biography contained stories about him and his family.
C. He had paintings of himself and members of his family.
D. He used his family and his own experiences in his plays.
4. The author mentions all of the following as themes for O’Neill’s plays EXCEPT__________.
A. adventures at sea B. life in college
C. relationships between men and women D. family life
5. We can infer from information in the passage that O’Neill’s plays were not __________.
A. autobiographical B. controversial
C. popular D. optimistic
XI. Exercise 3: Gap-filling. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (20 points)
Every culture has its own unwritten list of behavior that is acceptable. Every society
.....(1)..... has its taboos, or types of behavior that are considered the violation of .....(2) .....
manners. If you travel to .....(3) ..... country, on business or vacation, it is really helpful to learn
some of that country's customs so that you needn't insult .....(4) ..... local people there.
The word “taboo” comes .....(5)..... the Tongan language and it is used in modern English to
describe .....(6)..... and non-verbal behavior that is forbidden .....(7)..... to be avoided. In spite of
people's common thought, .....(8)..... are not universal and they tend to be specific to certain
.....(9)..... or country, and usually form around a community’s values and beliefs. Therefore,
.......(10)...... is considered acceptable behavior in one country may be a serious taboo in another.
Write your answers here:
SECTION 5. WRITING
XII. Sentence transformation (20 points)
Complete the second sentence, using the word given in bold. Do not change the word given.
You must use between three and six words, including the word given. There is an example at
the beginning (0).
8. The meeting probably won’t last more than a few minutes. likely
The meeting............................................................. on for more than a few minutes.
9. Last night the theater was almost empty.
anybody
Last night..................................................................... the theater.
10. I can’t promise that you will get the job.
guarantee
There................................................................will get the job.
II. REWRITE.
1. I am having a lot of trouble now because I host my passport last week. If I.....
2. When the police caught him, he was climbing over the garden wall. The police
caught........
3. It’s sad, but unemployment is unlikely to go down this year. Sad.......
4. It is believed that the man escaped in a stolen car. The man is.........
5. Since we had nothing else to do, we decided to go for a walk. Having......
6. “Nothing will persuade me to sleep in that haunted house,” she said. She flatly........
7. It wasn’t necessary for them to call for help after all. They.........
8. You won’t find a more dedicated worker anywhere than Mrs Jones. Nowhere.........