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LEXICO AND GRAMMAR

Part 1: Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, D which best completes each of the following sentences.
(20 points)
1. Don't go to the city centre during rush hour. You will be ______ like sardines.
A. canned B. packed C. pressed D. pushed
2. Last week, my mother gave me a ______ of ten-thousand notes to buy a bike.
A. fistful B. fist C. fisted D. fisticuff
3. They did have a ______ escape. Their car stopped right at the river bank.
A. narrow B. small C. near D. slight
4. It was Tony who ______ in asking for another glass of brandy and got drunk in the end.
A. endured B. kept C. persisted D. maintained
5. I had to ______ to make myself heard.
A. cry out B. yell C. shout D. scream
6. He is a teacher not for earning money but as a/n ______ of love.
A. labor B. work C. job D. occupation
7. The workers are paid weekly. Their ______ though not much can chiefly help them afford all their
necessities.
A. payments B. earnings C. salaries D. wages
8. Betty says she cannot stand looking at the rat, ______ touching it.
A. even so B. let alone C. what if D. as far as
9. Something began to go ______ with the experiment when the two scientists were forced to retire.
A. wrong B. stale C. ill D. faulty
10. However strict ______ we took, we couldn‟t eliminate the risk of any further riots in the streets.
A. controls B. discipline C. measures D. regulations
11. He gave me a furious look and ______ out of the room.
A. stormed B. hurled C. surged D. burst
12. He was sent to prison ______ default of payment.
A. in B. on C. of D. at
13. The confidence trickster ______ the old lady out of her life savings.
A. deceived B. misled C. robbed D. swindled
14. Nicholas crept in ______ his parents should wake up.
A. unless B. lest C. otherwise D. whereby
15. ______ of young people in the city are becoming addicted to cocaine.
A. An increasing number C. An increasing amount
B. The increasing number D. the increasing amount
16. I think that the Chinese ______ of education is rather different from the western one.
A. notion B. fancy C. opinion D. belief
17. Mrs. Smith: “I’d like to try on this dress, please.” - Shop-assistant: “______”
A. Why not? B. I’d love to. C. That’s right. D. By all means.
18. Many children who get into trouble in their early teens go on to become ______ offenders.
A. persistent B. insistent C. inverted D. innate
19. Jason: “What an attractive hairstyle you have got, Mary!” - Jean: “______.”
A. Thank you very much, I’m afraid B. Thank you for your compliment
C. You are telling a lie D. Don’t joke me
20. Advertisers often claim their campaigns at young people as they have considerable spending ______.
A. power B. force C. energy D. ability
Part 2: Read the passage below which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes.

Example: Line 1: feminine → feminist

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1 A feminine is a person, usually a woman, who believes that women
2 should be regarded as equally to men. She, or he, deplores
discrimination against women in the home, place of work or anywhere,
3 and her principle enemy is the male chauvinist, who believes that men
4 are naturally super. Tired of being referred to as “ the weaker sex”,
5 women are becoming more and more militancy and are winning the age-
6 old battle of the sexes. They are sick to death of sexy jokes which poke
7 fun at women. They are no longer content to be regarded as second-class
8 citizens in terms of economic, political and social status. They criticize
beauty contests and the use of glamour female models in advertisements
9
which they describe as the exploit of female beauty, since women in
10 these situations were represented as mere sex objects. We no longer in
11 the male-dominate societies of the past. Let us hope, moreover, that the
12 revolution stops before we have a boring world in which sex doesn’t
13 make much difference. We already have unisex hairdressers and
14 fashions. What next?
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Part 3: Complete each sentence with a suitable preposition or adverb particle (10 points)
1. ___ the Wimbledon Tennis Championship, the reigning champion was knocked ___ in the first
round.
2. Constant daydreaming doesn’t make ___ a successful career ___ music.
3. Steve threw ___ his chances of passing ___ spending too much time on the first question.
4. It falls ___ Mary to care ___ her mother since her sister moved.
5. They are certainly well ___ and they’d like to exchange this car ___ a new model.
6. She’s worked very hard ___ her tennis and she’s progressing ___ leaps and bounds.
7. Environmental groups are locked ___ argument with the council ___ the proposal.
8. We were taken ___ for a meal ___ the company’s expense.
9. I believe the apartment ___ sale is now ___ offer.
10. We must be grateful ___ the blessings that God has bestowed ___ us.

Part 4: Complete the passage with appropriate forms of the words given in the blank.
Shigeru Miyamoto is the most successful artist of the last 50 years. He has (1)______ (SINGLE) laid
the foundations for the world's largest entertainment industry. Sales of his video games, from Super Mario
Bros to Wii Sports, have (2)______ (ATOP) an incredible 500 million, and show no signs of slowing down.
Miyamoto, who joined Nintendo in 1977, has created eight of the top-10-selling video games of all time. His
latest smash, Wii Fit, has sold 23 million copies, becoming the second biggest-selling game in history. It's
made video games a daily part of life for a huge (3)______ (DEMOGRAPHY) of people who previously
dismissed them as child's play.
Yet over and above his phenomenal sales success, what really sets Miyamoto apart from anyone else in
any creative field is his marrying of genius with astonishing modesty. He cuts a(n) (4)______ (IMPOSING),
diminutive figure, sitting obediently in his chair. A Beatles T-shirt and mop top haircut are the only signs of
cultural (5)______ (REBEL), smoothed at the edges by a quiet (6)______ (REVERE) and politeness. It's
immediately apparent that unlike many of the Bafta Fellows to whose club he now rightly belongs,
impassioned (7)______ (TANTRUM) and theatrical outbursts are not his style.
Neither, as it turns out, are the glitz and glamour to which some may suggest he is entitled. "I'm not envious
of the attention of movie stars. I enjoy not being recognized," he says. "It allows me to get on with my life.
All I want is to be recognized through my work. It's funny – in America and the UK, they say I'm famous in
Japan. In Japan, they say I'm famous in America and the UK." Miyamoto's (8) ________ (PLACE)
temperament and genial (9)______ (TIMID) form a perfect fit with the universally (10)______ (LOVE)
nature of his work. Miyamoto has never produced a title that wasn't suitable for families to play together,
even in the days when video games were the unique preserve of teens in darkened bedrooms.