PRACTICE TEST 4 ( DN)

PART I. LISTENING (32 points)

I. You will hear part of a radio programme in which details of a competition are announced.
Complete the notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap. Write your answers in
the box provided (9 pts)

You will hear the recording TWICE.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR
Competition open to people aged 18 to 25.
Organized through a programme called (1) _____________________.
Last year’s competition won by a Turk who runs a (2) _____________________.
He was chosen from (3) _____________________ finalists.
All finalists are (4) _____________________.
Entry: - must be typed on one side of paper only.
- no longer than (5) _____________________.
- must have a person’s signature.
- person must not be (6) _____________________.
Include name, home and business addresses and (7) _____________________.
Closing date: (8) _____________________.
Final prizewinner’s name broadcast in (9) _____________________ programme.

II. You will hear a local radio broadcast about transport and travel. Complete the notes using
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap.
Listen very carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only. Write your answers in the box
provided (7 pts)
• Road works causing delays on approach to (1) _____________________.
• Stadley station closed due to (2) _____________________, buses available for those with
(3) _____________________.
• Main road through Chorley village is (4) _____________________.
• Airport is open, no (5) _____________________ but several international flights (6)
 _____________________.
• City centre bomb scare still causing (7) _____________________.
III. You will hear part of a radio programme about dancing. Choose the correct answer A, B,
C or D.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (6 pts)
1. What makes Shirley dance?
A. certain types of music
B. other people dancing
C. the beat of music
D. being in a good mood
2. How does Tony choose which song to play first?
A. according to the age of the crowd
B. according to the atmosphere in the place
C. according to musical fashions at the time
D. according to the type of event it is
3. What happens at some company dances, according to Tony?
A. People feel obliged to dance.
B. The bosses don’t dance.
C. There is more talking than dancing.
D. People are too shy to dance.
4. According to Emma, why is dancing important to young people?
A. It gives them a sense of identity.
B. It reflects their cultural background.
C. They have more energy than older people.
D. They gain a greater understanding of music.
5. Emma believes that musical taste
A. shows there are no barriers between people.
B. is a reflection of cultural influences.
C. reflects people’s political views.
D. shows how individual people are.
6. What is Tony’s opinion of dancing?
 A. It brings all social classes together.
B. It makes young people happy.
C. It enables people to make friends.
D. It can be enjoyed by everyone.

Part 4: You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about
performances that they have been to. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
1. The concert was unusual because the musicians didn’t use
A. microphones.
B. instruments.
C. a stage.
2. In talking about the concert, the speaker says she
A. hadn’t heard that kind of music before.
B. hadn’t really liked the music.
C. hadn’t understood the music very well.
3. What does the speaker say about the concert?
A. The musicians were very old.
B. The songs were too unfamiliar.
C. The sound quality was poor.
4. The audience were
A. appreciative.
B. dissatisfied.
C. inattentive.
5. What does the speaker say about the theatre?
A. It had recently moved.
B. It was overcrowded.
C. It was unusually small.
6. The play was spoilt because the actors
A. forgot their lines.
B. were unenthusiastic
C. had too much make-up on
7. At the start of the concert, the speaker was surprised by the number of
 A. people who arrived late.
B. people he recognized.
C. female performers.
8. What section of the orchestra did the speaker find disappointing?
A. the violins
B. the brass
C. the drums
9. The acrobatic acts were
A. impressive.
B. alarming.
C. repetitive.
10. How did the speaker feel at the end of the performance?
A. She didn’t realize it was so late.
B. She felt it should have ended earlier.
C. She would have preferred an evening ticket.
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)
I. Select the best option for each sentence. Write your answers in the box provided (20 pts)
1. Lack of sleep over the last few months is finally ________ Jane.
A. catching up with B. getting on with C. coming over D. putting on
2. Sally has an ________ command of the Chinese language.
A. extreme B. outstanding C. utter D. intensive
3. I’ve had this car for 12 years, but now I’m having more and more problems with it. Clearly it’s
________.
A. on its hind legs B. got its back up C. got its heart set D. on its last
leg
4. All things ________, she is the best student to represent our school.
A. considered B. involved C. taken D. dealt with
5. To succeed in this job, you have to be utterly ________.
A. hot-blooded B. single-minded C. kind-hearted D. near-
sighted
6. The Prime Minister gave a press conference to deny the charges ________ at him.
A. leveled B. accused C. targeted D. blamed
7. When the morning came, the scene of where the bomb had fallen was one of ________
devastation.
A. great B. utter C. entire D. extreme
8. There is still a ________ of hope that the rescuers will find survivors.
A. spray B. ray C. light D. spot
9. ________, modelling is actually hard work.
A. Even it may seem glamorous B. Yet it may seem glamorous
C. However glamorous it may seem D. Glamorous as though it is
10. The city zoo is building a new section to ________ their larger mammals.
A. house B. store C. shade D. capture
11. After so many years, it is great to see him ________ his ambitions.
A. get B. realise C. possess D. deserve
12. The review committee ________ three practicing lawyers and a retired businessman.
A. consists B. comprises C. is made up D. encloses
13. Don’t worry: this is nothing that ________ you.
A. matters B. entails C. concerns D. complicates
14. As always, I am ________ with everything you say.
A. agree B. agreeing C. agreeable D. in
agreement
15. It may be raining, but I’m ________ enjoying myself.
A. thoroughly B. highly C. extremely D. desperately
16. In the event, we found your advice absolutely ________.
A. unworthy B. valuable C. invaluable D. impecunious
17. In the end, I just lost my ________ and started gabbling incoherently.
A. head B. mind C. brain D. intelligence
18. Despite all the interruptions, he ________ with his work.
A. stuck at B. held on C. hung out D. pressed on
19. When the funds finally ________, they had to abandon the scheme.
A. faded away B. clamped down C. petered out D. fobbed off
20. The team won the championship four years ________.
A. running B. passing C. following D. rotating

II. There are TEN mistakes in the passage below. Read the passage carefully, underline the
mistakes and write your corrections on the corresponding lines in the box for Answers. (20 pts)
Answers
Each week Hilary Mullock, also known as Doctor Doppit, visiting London’s ____________
General Hospital. Carrying balloons and magic tricks better than a stethoscope, she ____________
administers her own special kind of medicine. Employed by the Theodora ____________
Children’s Trust, Hilary brings fun and laughter for the patients in the children’s ____________
wards, making a hospital staying a less difficult experience for these young patients. ____________
Having studied drama at university, Hilary later became interested in ____________
children’s theatre. Seeing an advert with a clown doctor, she knew she had founded ____________
the ideal job. Before taking up the position, Hilary had to complete four weeks of ____________
training, being instructed in balloon modeling and magic tricks. ____________
According to a spokesperson for the Theodora Children’s Trust, hospitalized ____________
children, having been excluding from their normal day-to-day routine and the family ____________
environment, are likely to be frightening and homesick. Clown doctors like Hilary ____________
has a valuable part to play in helping them forget their problems for a while. ____________
Humour, it has been seen, has a positively impact on health. In fact, certain ____________
chemicals produced in the body by laughter have even been shown to act as natural ____________
painkillers. Laughter really is the best medicine, it seems. ____________
____________
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III. Select a suitable phrasal verb from the list to fill the gap in each of the sentences. Make
change to the form of the verb when necessary. Write your answers in the box provided. (10 pts)

put up keep up wear down brush up move in do away

opt out come round figure out get through take to pull over

1. I’ve got a lot of work to ____ ____ before the holidays.

2. She felt rather sick when she ____ ____ after the operation.
3. After she got divorced, she ____ ____ with her mother.
4. Could you just ____ ____ for a second?
5. I’ve ____ ____ getting up much earlier.
6. I think I can ____ you ____ for a few days while you are here.
7. I don’t think I can afford to ____ ____ my piano lessons.
8. This constant criticism at work is really ____ me ____.
9. Quite a few of the members have ____ ____ of the trip.
10. Did you hear that they’re going to ____ ____ with private universities altogether?
IV. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the
space in the same line. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Until comparatively recent times science and technology performed different and
separate functions, the progress of one so often completely (1) ________ to the
progress of the other. RELATE
(2) ________ have established that, since the earliest times, the improvements in HISTORY
our way of life have resulted from an empirical approach, that is a process of trial
and error, by which equipment and tools are made to satisfy important needs. It is
to this approach that we owe the evolution of technology. Our modern concept of
science, both (3) ________ and pragmatic in approach, stems from the
seventeenth century, when extensive investigations into the natural laws PHILOSOPHY
governing the behavior of matter were (4) ________. It was this (5) ________
style of thought which led to a science-based technology. Scientific knowledge TAKE
was not in itself seen as a (6) ________ for the earlier system of trial and error, REVOLUTION
but it did help the technical (7) ________ to see which path of experimentation
might be more (8) ________. With the industrialization of the nineteenth century, PLACE
the bond between science and technology (9) ________. In our own time, the INNOVATE
mutual (10) ________ of one discipline upon the other has increased still further. FRUIT
STRONG
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PART III: READING (42 points)
I. Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the text. Write your answers in the box
provided (15 pts)
The knowledge and eloquence that people (1) ________ through travelling is usually
perceived as the best (2) ________ in life. It is the inquisitive human nature that (3) ________
people to seek (4) ________ experiences and to set out on an exploration trip. Those who travel
frequently and to (5) ________ places benefit from establishing new relationships and (6)
________ a better knowledge about other cultures and lifestyles.
However, there is a (7) ________ of truth in the assumption that people are prone to (8) ________
clichés and unfounded prejudices about other nations and their characteristics. Sometimes, it is
only the first-hand encounter that can help change the (9) ________ towards the so-called ‘inferior
communities’. This direct contact with a different civilisation enables travelers to (10) ________
their baseless assumptions and get (11) ________ with the real concept of life in all four corners
of the globe.
(12) ________ question, travelling (13) ________ friendship and makes it easier for many
individuals to acknowledge the true value of different traditions and customs. Yet, it does not
always mean enjoyment. It may also (14) ________ coming close with the atrocities of real
existence as well as becoming aware of the challenges and hardships that other people have to
struggle with. Hence, a true voyage is the one with a good deal of experience to (15) ________
about, very often combined with exposure to abhorrent sights and incredible ordeals. The learning
to be complete, thus, requires an ability to observe and analyse the surroundings, both their
glamour and brutality.
1. A. purchase B. exact C. gain D. nurture
2. A. completion B. fulfilment C. conclusion D. resolution
3. A. impels B. involves C. entails D. pursues
4. A. thriving B. throbbing C. thwarting D. thrilling
5. A. reverse B. averse C. diverse D. converse
6. A. acquiring B. educating C. learning D. exacting
7. A. speck B. grain C. scrap D. tip
8. A. persevering B. cherishing C. indulging D. persisting
9. A. prejudice B. manner C. outlook D. approach
10. A. drop B. cease C. fail D. quit
11. A. informed B. realized C. acquainted D. defined
12. A. Apart B. Beyond C. Unfailing D. Beneath
13. A. facilitates B. affords C. elicits D. incites
14. A. involve B. derive C. consist D. enclose
15. A. commemorate B. reminisce C. resemble D. remind
II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD
in each space. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Throughout our lives, right from the moment when (1) ________ infants we cry to express hunger,
we are engaging in social interaction of one form or another. Each and (2) ________ time we
encounter fellow human beings, some kind of social interaction will take place, (3) ________ it’s
getting on a bus and paying the fare for the journey, or socializing with friends. It goes without (4)
________, therefore, that we need the ability to communicate. Without some method of
transmitting intentions, we would be at a complete loss when it comes to interacting socially.
Communication involves the exchange of information, which can be (5) ________ from a gesture
to a friend signaling boredom to the presentation of a university thesis which may (6) ________
ever be read by a handful of others, or it could be something in (7) ________ the two.
Our highly developed languages set us apart from animals. But for these languages, we could not
communicate sophisticated or abstract ideas. (8) ________ could we talk or write about people or
objects (9) ________ immediately present. (10) ________ we restricted to discussing objects
already present, we would be unable to make abstract generalisations about the world.
III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
Exquisite patterns and surface ornamentation were an integral part of the aesthetics of the late
Victorian era. In America, these developments were incorporated into the themes of national
expositions and artistic movements, as cottage industries grew and productivity in the decorative
arts flourished. The last three decades of the 19th century saw a change in sensibility that resulted
in new stylistic approaches in American decorative arts, a departure from the previous era of
Rococo and Renaissance Revival excess. Shapes became more angular, smoother and less
flamboyant. The popular carvings and deep modeling of earlier years disappeared as
ornamentation became more linear and lighter in appearance. Decoration focused on the surface
with rich and elegant patterns adorning furniture, objects of every sort, and architectural and
interior decorations. This artistic reawakening was prompted by the effects of the Industrial
Revolution on contemporary design.
This new attitude, with its focus on ornament and decorative, was later referred to as the Aesthetic
Movement, but it also encompassed the early Arts and Crafts Movement as well. The purpose was
to bring a refined sensibility and components of “good taste” to the domestic interior. Art and good
taste not only denoted good character, but also could be used to induce proper moral conduct and
actions, thereby contributing to the betterment of society. This placed a heavy burden on
designers/decorators as well as on women as keepers of the home. Americans drew inspiration
from the writing and work of English artists. This was a period of great eclecticism. Tastes ranged
from the Modern Gothic through the Persian, Greek and Islamic, to the Japanese, and with more
than a nod to Mother Nature. Yet, regardless of the influence, surface pattern reigned supreme.
English reformers dictated that ornament should be derived from nature, and pattern should be flat
and stylized. Forms were accentuated by colored outlines, or often with touches of gold. The
emphasis was on art and on development of a refined sensibility. It was all a matter of taste.
1. What is the main topic of the passage?
A. Defining the “Aesthetic Movement”
B. Decorative arts in late 19th century America
C. English influences on American decorative arts in the late 19th century
D.The change in tastes from “Rocco and Renaissance Revival” to the “Aesthetic Movement” in
the late 19th century America
2. The word “integral” in line 1 is closest in meaning to
A. essential B. additional C. important D. beautifying
3. According to the passage, during the Aesthetic Movement popular carvings and deep modeling
of earlier years ________.
A. were popular B. again became popular
C. disappeared D. defined good taste
4. The word “elegant” is closes in meaning to ________.
A. beautiful B. ornamental C. colorful D. refined
5. According to the passage, the purpose of the Aesthetic Movement was to ________.
A. induce proper moral conducts and actions
B. define what was meant by good taste in the domestic interior
C. encompass Arts and Crafts as well as ornament and decoration
D. define good character and contribute to the betterment of society
6. The phrase “new attitude” refers to ________.
A. including the early Arts and Craft Movement as well
B. artistic reawakening
C. the Industrial Revolution
D. Rococo and Renaissance Revival
7. The word “denoted” is closest in meaning to ________.
A. promoted B. facilitated C. developed D. signified
8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. designers and decorators were mainly responsible for starting the new attitude
B. the movement led to a higher standard of morality in late 19th century America
C. the Americans considered the English to be the arbiters of good taste
D. women, as keepers of the home, faced a heavy burden
9. According to the passage, which of the following remained most important, regardless of
influences from other countries?
A. surface pattern B. English opinions
C. good taste D. Proper moral conduct and actions
10. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as feature of the Aesthetic Movement?
A. shapes became less flamboyant B. ornamentation became lighter in
appearance
C. forms were accentuated by colored lines D. decorations focused mainly on
 furniture
IV. There are seven paragraphs A – G. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph from
the list of headings below. Write your answers in the box provided. (7 pts)
List of Headings
I. Optimistic beliefs held by the writers of childrens’s literature 1. Paragraph A
II. The attitude of certain adults towards children’s literature 2. Paragraph B
III. The attraction of children’s literature 3. Paragraph C
IV. A contrast that categorises books as children’s literature 4. Paragraph D
V. A false assumption made about children’s literature 5. Paragraph E
VI. The conventional view of children’s literature 6. Paragraph F
VII. Some good and bad features of children’s literature 7. Paragraph G
VIII. Classifying a book as children’s literature
IX. The treatment of various themes in children’s literature
X. Another way of looking at children’s literature

A I am sometimes asked why anyone who is not a teacher or a librarian or the parent of little kids
should concern herself with children’s books and folklore. I know the standard answers: that many
famous writers have written for children, and that the great children’s books are also great
literature; that these books and tales are an important source of archetype and symbol, and that
they can help us to understand the structure and functions of the novel.
B All this is true. But I think we should also take children’s literature seriously because it is
sometimes subversive: because its values are not always those of the conventional adult world. Of
course, in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what
matters is art, imagination and truth. In what we call the real world, what usually counts is money,
power and public success.
C The great subversive works of children’s literature suggest that there are other views of human
life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and
express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and
purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew
our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. That is why such literature is worthy of our
attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
D An interesting question is what – besides intention – makes a particular story a ‘children’s
book’? With the exception of picture books for toddlers, these works are not necessarily shorter or
simpler than so-called adult fiction, and they are surely not less well written. The heroes and
heroines of these tales, it is true, are often children: but then so are the protagonists of Henry Jame’s
What Maisie Knew and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Yet the barrier between children’s books
and adult fiction remains; editors, critics and readers seem to have little trouble in assigning a given
work to one category or the other.
E In classic children’s fiction a pastoral convention is maintained. It is assumed that the world of
childhood is simpler and more natural than that of adults, and that children, though they may have
faults, are essentially good or at least capable of becoming so. The transformation of selfish, whiny,
disagreeable Mary and hysterical, demanding Colin in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret
Garden is a paradigm. Of course, there are often unpleasant minor juvenile characters who give
the protagonist a lot of trouble and are defeated or evaded rather than reeducated. But on occasion
even the angry bully and the lying sneak can be reformed and forgiven. Richard Hughes’s A High
Wind in Jamaica, though most of its characters are children, never appears on lists of recommended
juvenile fiction; not so much because of the elaborations of its diction (which is no more complex
than that of, say, Treasure Island), but because in it children are irretrievably damaged and
corrupted.
F Adults in most children’s books, on the other hand, are usually stuck with their characters and
incapable of alteration or growth. If they are really unpleasant, the only thing that can rescue them
is the natural goodness of a child. Here again, Mrs. Burnett provides the classic example, in Little
Lord Fauntleroy. (Scrooge’s somewhat similar change of heart in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol,
however, is due mainly to regret for his past and terror of the future. This is one of the things that
makes the book a family rather than a juvenile romance; another is the helpless passivity of the
principal child character, Tiny Tim.).
G Of the three principal preoccupations of adult fiction – sex, money and death – the first is absent
from classic children’s literature and the other two either absent or much muted. Money is a motive
in children’s literature, in the sense that many stories deal with a search for treasure of some sort.
These quests, unlike real-life ones, are almost always successful, though occasionally what is
found in the end is some form of family happiness, which is declared by the author and the
characters to be a ‘real treasure’. Simple economic survival, however, is almost never the problem;
what is sought, rather, is a magical (sometimes literally magical) surplus of wealth. Death, which
was a common theme in nineteenth-century fiction for children, was almost banished during the
first half of the twentieth century. Since then it has begun to reappear; the breakthrough book was
E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. Today not only animals but people die, notably in the sort of books
that get awards and are recommended by librarians and psychologists for children who have lost a
relative. But even today the characters who die tend to be of another generation; the protagonist
and his or her friends survive. Though there are some interesting exceptions, even the most
subversive of contemporary children’s books usually follow these conventions. They portray an
ideal world of perfectible beings, free of the necessity for survival.

PART IV: WRITING (50 points)

I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. (20 points)
1. That week, the train was late everyday except for Friday. RUN
Only once ___________________________________________________________.
2. I really think you should be more assertive about your rights. UP

It’s about time ________________________________________________________.

3. Graham took back his words on noticing there were fresh strawberries on the menu. TUNE
Graham sang _________________________________________________________.
4. Paul couldn’t stop thinking about the argument he had had with his brother. WENT
Paul ________________________________________________________________.
5. My grandmother would always make us eat everything on our plates when we visited her.
WASTE
Nothing we __________________________________________________________.
6. Alternative medicine is a complete mystery to some people.
Some people are ______________________________________________________.
7. You may be disqualified if you don’t obey the regulations.
Failure ______________________________________________________________.
8. He tried hard so that he could win the first prize.
Having ______________________________________________________________.
9. I only recognized him when he came into the light.
It was not until _______________________________________________________.
10. Mass tourism has been one of the causes of the environmental problems.
Mass tourism is _______________________________________________________.

II. Essay writing (30 points)

Write an essay of about 250 words in length on the following topic:
With the ageing of society, we are now beginning to see a growing interest in further
abolishment of mandatory retirement.
Do you think that mandatory retirement is obsolete or should be sustained?