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SECTION A: LISTENING (15 pts)
Question I. Listen to the passage and complete the form below. Use NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS or A NUMBER for each answer. (5 pts)
CENTRAL MUSEUM
The museum gardens were first created in the year (1) _________.
There are exhibitions of English furniture and (2) __________ art.
In the museum shop, visitors can buy (3) __________, card and books.
Cars can be parks at the (4) __________ near the museum.
Regular buses to the museum leave from both the city centre and the (5) ________.
Question II. Listen to Adam and Emma talking about holidays and decide whether each of the
following statements is True (T) or False (F).(5 pts)
6. Adam has already booked his holiday. T/F
7. Emma doesn’t like sitting on beaches all day. T/F
8. Emma might not go on holiday this year. T/F
9. Adam usually goes to Scotland in the summer. T/F
10. Emma thinks that hotels in Scotland are expensive. T/F
Question III. You will hear Peter Walsh being interviewed for a job. Listen and choose the correct
answer for each question.(5 pts)
11. What does the man want to do after he graduates?
A. He wants to become a teacher. B. He hopes to go on to graduate school.
C. He'd like to work at a hotel.
12. What is the woman majoring in?
A. history B. French C. computer science
13. How does the woman pay for college?
A. She has a part-time job. B. She received a scholarship. C. Her parents are paying
for it.
14. Where does the man work part-time?
A. at a bakery B. in a library C. at a restaurant
15. What thing did the man NOT say about his job?
A. His co-workers are friendly. B. He works long hours. C. The pay is okay.
SECTION B: PHONETICS (5 pts)
Question I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the rest in the
same line.
16. A. husband B. raise C. distinct D. reserve
17. A. ivory B. crisis C. determine D. digest
18. A. teammate B. reading C. seaside D. creating
Question II. Find the word with the stress pattern different from that of the other three words in
each question.
19. A. preference B. mechanic C. convenience D. official
20. A. interference B. architect C. engineer D. cigarette
SECTION C: VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (30 pts)
Question I. Choose the most suitable word or phrase to complete each sentence.
21. We regret_______ that the sightseeing tour has been cancelled because of the bad weather.
A. telling you B. saying you C. to say you D. to tell you
22. Most of the computers in the laboratory are ________now.
A. out of order B. out of function C. out of working D. out of work
23. Faraday’s accomplishments seem more wonderful when we realize that he had very_______
education.
A. few B. a few C. little D. a little
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24. The judge ____________the murderer to a lifetime imprisonment.
A. convicted B. accused C. prosecuted D. sentenced
25. The boy who failed the exam has to take another one, ?
A. did he B. hasn’t he C. didn’t he D. doesn’t he
26. _______ , a brick fell on his head.
A. Turning the corner B. Having turned the corner
C. When he turned the corner D. Being turned the corner
27. Not only _______ , but he also plays the piano and writes his own songs.
A. does Billy Joel sing B. Billy Joel sings
C. if Billy Joel sings D. what Billy Joel sings
28. Jeans have never been ______ fashion, and today young generation is still fond ______ wearing
them.
A. out of /of B. out of/ in C. about/on D. with/of
29. You are old enough to take _______ for what you have done.
A. responsible B. responsibility C. responsibly D. irresponsible

30. John. “Do you think that we should use public transportation to protect our environment?”
Laura. “__________________________________ ”
A. Yes, it's an absurd idea B. There's no doubt about it
C. Of course not. You bet D. Well, that's very surprising
Question II. Put each verb in brackets into an appropriate form. Write the answers on your answer
sheet. (8 pts)
31. It is essential that the plan (inform) ____________to everyone in advance.
32+33. I couldn’t resist (laugh) ________________ at the way he (answer) _________ my question.
34. I can't find my book anywhere. I (leave) _______________ it on the train. I am not sure.
35. No wonder he was sacked! He seems (fiddle) _____________ the accounts for years.
36+37. The meat (taste) ______________ better if it (not cook) _______________ so long.
38. There (be) ________________ great changes in our village in the past few years.
Question III. Put each word in brackets into an appropriate form. Write the answers on your
answer sheet. (7pts)
39. At the __________ of summer, the temperature can reach 50oC. (high)
40. Welcome to another edition of the club newsletter. A list of ____ events for the autumn is being
prepared. (come)
41. The main witness had ________________ disappeared. (mystery)
42. He claimed that his___________ had caused him to become a criminal. (bring up)
43. The old theater of our city is being enlarged and ____________ (modern)
44. Advertising is particularly efective on people who are highly _________ . ( suggest)
45. I don’t want to_____ the agony for you, but I’m afraid you’ll have to wait another two days
( long)
Question IV. The passage below contains 5 mistakes (from 46 to 50). Recognize the mistakes and
write their correct forms in your answer sheet. (5 pts)
Line How many times have you come back from what was meant to be a relaxing holiday
1 and said, “If only I stayed at home”? Why are holidays often more stressful than staying at
2 home? It is not very surprising that foreign travel is tired and it is not just because of the
3 distances involved. A successful trip needs planning and very careful preparation – this is a
4 hard work. Having set off, you will probably have to spend hours in stuffy airports because
5 of endless delays. Flying, as everyone know, is itself a stressful experience for most people.
6 Finally, you arrive in an unfamiliar environment with perhaps no knowledge whatsoever of
7 the local language. It is almost like becoming a child again: one feels so helpless and stupid.
Imagine not to be able to explain what you want to eat to a waiter or where you are staying
with a taxi driver!

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 SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)
Question I. Fill in each gap with ONE suitable word to complete the text below.
The majority of lottery winners change their lives (51) __________ little, and continue on their
settled way happy ever after. A couple of years ago, a Mr. David Horabin won a million. He had been
struggling to (52) _________ a success of his dry cleaning shop for the past 12 months. He accepted
his cheque in a small ceremony (53) ________ the premises at 2.30, and by three o'clock he had
reopened for business. The reaction of Mr. Pasquale Consalvo who won $30 million in the New York
state lottery was very (54) _________. He was unhappy not to be able to fulfill his desire to go to
work as (55) ___________ on the day he won. He also said that if the money made him (56)
____________ he would give it back. In fact, the chances of his life being made a misery by his new-
found wealth are almost (57) ___________ slim though not quite as the sixty million-to-one odds he
beat to take a jackpot (58)__________ had remained unclaimed through six previous draws. Gambling
small amounts (59) __________ the lottery is a harmless if futile hobby. (60) __________, gambling
can become an addiction, increasingly so as the activity becomes socially acceptable.
Question II. Read the following passage and then choose the most suitable word or phrase for each
space.
PROBLEMS OF WATCHING TELEVISION IN BRITAIN
British parents are always complaining that their children spend too much time gluing to the
telly and not enough time (61) ________ other activities like sports and reading. A survey recently
carried out on people’s viewing habits (62) ________ not disapprove it. It shows that young people in
Britain spend on (63)__________ twenty three hours a week in front of the television, (64) ________
works out at over three hours every day.
What is surprising, however, is the fact that the average adult watches even more: an incredible
28 hours a week. We seem to have become a nation of telly addicts. Just about (65) _________
household in the country has a television and over half have two or more. According (66)
___________ the survey, people nowadays don’t just watch television sitting in their living room, they
watch it in the kitchen and in bed as well.
The Education Minister said a (67) ____________weeks ago that Britain’s pupils should spend
more time reading. Unfortunately , parents are not setting a good example: adults do (68) __________
reading than young people. In fact, reading is (69) _________ the bottom of their list of favorite
pastimes. They would (70) __________ listen to the radio, go to the cinema or hire a video to watch
on their television at home.
61. A. at B. on C. for D. in
62. A. does B. do C. is D. has
63. A. time B. Sunday C. weekend D. average
64. A. which B. what C. who D. where
65. A. none B. neither C. every D. all
66. A. for B. to C. with D. on
67. A. lot B. little C. number D. few
68. A. more B. better C. less D. most
69. A. on B. to C. at D. in
70. had better B. prefer C. like D. rather

Question III. Read the passage and choose the best answers to questions below.
To South Americans, robins are birds that fly north every spring. To North Americans, the
robins simply vacation in the south each winter. Furthermore, they fly to very specific places in
South America and will often come back to the same trees in North American yards the following
spring. The question is not why they would leave the cold of winter so much as how they find their

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way around. The question perplexed people for years, until, in the 1950s, a German scientist named
Gustavo Kramer provided some answers and. in the process, raised new questions.
Kramer initiated important new kinds of research regarding how animals orient and navigate.
Orientation is simply facing in the right direction; navigation involves finding ones way from point
A to point B.
Early in his research, Kramer found that caged migratory birds became very restless at about
the time they would normally have begun migration in the wild. Furthermore, he noticed that as they
fluttered around in the cage, they often launched themselves in the direction of their normal
migratory route. He then set up experiments with caged starlings and found that their orientation
was, in fact, in the proper migratory direction except when the sky was overcast, at which times there
was no clear direction to their restless movements. Kramer surmised, therefore, that they were
orienting according to the position of the Sun. To test this idea, he blocked their view of the Sun and
used mirrors to change its apparent position. He found that under these circumstances, the birds
oriented with respect to the new "Sun." They seemed to be using the Sun as a compass to determine
direction. At the time, this idea seemed preposterous. How could a bird navigate by the Sun when
some of us lose our way with road maps? Obviously, more testing was in order.
So, in another set of experiments, Kramer put identical food boxes around the cage, with food
in only one of the boxes. The boxes were stationary, and the one containing food was always at the
same point of the compass. However, its position with respect to the surroundings could be changed
by revolving either the inner cage containing the birds or the outer walls, which served as the
background. As long as the birds could see the Sun, no matter how their surroundings were altered,
they went directly to the correct food box. Whether the box appeared in front of the right wall or the
left wall, they showed no signs of confusion. On overcast days, however, the birds were disoriented
and had trouble locating their food box.
In experimenting with artificial suns, Kramer made another interesting discovery. If the
artificial Sun remained stationary, the birds would shift their direction with respect to it at a rate of
about 15 degrees per hour, the Sun's rate of movement across the sky. Apparently, the birds were
assuming that the "Sun" they saw was moving at that rate. When the real Sun was visible, however,
the birds maintained a constant direction as it moved across the sky. In other words, they were able
to compensate for the Sun's movement. This meant that some sort of biological clock was operating-
and a very precise clock at that.
What about birds that migrate at night? Perhaps they navigate by the night sky. To test the idea,
caged night-migrating birds were placed on the floor of a planetarium during their migratory period.
A planetarium is essentially a theater with a domelike ceiling onto which a night sky can be
projected for any night of the year. When the planetarium sky matched the sky outside, the birds
fluttered in the direction of their normal migration. But when the dome was rotated, the birds
changed their direction to match the artificial sky. The results clearly indicated that the birds were
orienting according to the stars.
There is accumulating evidence indicating that birds navigate by using a wide variety of
environmental cues. Other areas under investigation include magnetism, landmarks, coastlines,
sonar, and even smells. The studies are complicated by the fact that the data are sometimes
contradictory and the mechanisms apparently change from time to time. Furthermore, one sensory
ability may back up another.

71. Which of the following can be inferred about bird migration from paragraph 1?
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 A. Birds will take the most direct migratory route to their new habitat.
B. The purpose of migration is to join with larger groups of birds.
C. Bird migration generally involves moving back and forth between north and south.
D. The destination of birds' migration can change from year to year.
72. The word „perplexed‟ in the passage is closest in meaning to .
A. defeated B. interested C. puzzled D. occupied
73. The word ‘preposterous’ in the passage is closest in meaning to .
A. unbelievable B. inadequate C. limited D. Creative
74. According to paragraph 3, why did Kramer use mirrors to change the apparent position of the Sun?
A. To test the effect of light on the birds' restlessness
B. To test whether birds were using the Sun to navigate
C. To simulate the shifting of light the birds would encounter along their regular migratory route
D. To cause the birds to migrate at a different time than they would in the wild
75. According to paragraph 3, when do caged starlings become restless?
A. When the weather is overcast
B. When they are unable to identify their normal migratory route
C. When their normal time for migration arrives
D. When mirrors are used to change the apparent position of the Sun
76. Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 4 about Kramer’s reason for filling one
food box and leaving the rest empty?
A. He believed the birds would eat food from only one box.
B. He wanted to see whether the Sun alone controlled the birds' ability to navigate toward the box
with food.
C. He thought that if all the boxes contained food, this would distract the birds from following their
migratory route.
D. He needed to test whether the birds preferred having the food at any particular point of the
compass.
77. According to paragraph 5, how did the birds fly when the real Sun was visible?
A. They kept the direction of their flight constant.
B. They changed the direction of their flight at a rate of 15 degrees per hour.
C. They kept flying toward the Sun.
D. They flew in the same direction as the birds that were seeing the artificial Sun.
78. The experiment described in paragraph 5 caused Kramer to conclude that birds possess a
biological clock because_ _ _ _ _ .
A. when birds navigate they are able to compensate for the changing position of the Sun in the sky
B. birds innate bearings keep them oriented in a direction that is within 15 degrees of the Suns
direction
C. birds' migration is triggered by natural environmental cues, such as the position of the Sun
D. birds shift their direction at a rate of 15 degrees per hour whether the Sun is visible or not
79. According to paragraph 6, how did the birds navigate in the planetarium's nighttime environment?
A. By waiting for the dome to stop rotating
B. By their position on the planetarium floor
C. By orienting themselves to the stars in the artificial night sky
D. By navigating randomly until they found the correct orientation
80. Which of the following best describes the author's presentation of information in the passage?
A. A number of experiments are described to support the idea that birds use the Sun and the night
sky to navigate.
B. The author uses logic to show that the biological clock in birds is inaccurate.
C. A structured argument about the importance of internal versus external cues for navigation is
presented.
D. The opposing points of view about bird migration are clarified through the study of contrasting
experiments.
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 SECTION E: WRITING (20 pts)
Question I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it. Write the answers on your answer sheet. (5 pts)
81. Mr. Smith knew little about the Internet, so he didn’t invest into any computer companies.
=> Had ________________________________________________.
82. When she got to the party, everyone was dancing and singing.
=> On __________________________________________________.
83. This old car probably won’t last for more than three years.
=> It’s unlikely ___________________________________________.
84. They estimated the price, including all the costs.
=> Taking _______________________________________________.
85. It's nobody's fault that the meeting was cancelled.
=> Nobody ______________________________________________.
Question II. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it is as similar as possible in
meaning to the sentence printed before it but using the word given. Do not change the form of the
given word.
86. My father is not feeling well these days. (weather)
_____________________________________________________________
87. I don’t think this record will ever be popular. (catch)
_____________________________________________________________
88. His arrival was completely unexpected. (took)
_____________________________________________________________
89. The success of our local theater has made our city famous. (map)
_____________________________________________________________
90. I hate watching late night films on TV. (stand)
_____________________________________________________________
Question III. Essay writing (10 pts)
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “ Television has destroyed
communication among friends and family.” In 200-250 words, write an essay, using reasons and
specific examples to support your opinions.

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