MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

EDUCATIONAL EXAMINATION
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
250 minutes
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No further explanation may be asked or given.

Examinees are strictly forbidden to use other materials, including
dictionaries. Violation of this rule may result in instantaneous
disqualification.

EXAMINATION OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

CONSOLIDATION PAPER II
Student Name: ................................................................................
Class: ..............................................................................................
School: ............................................................................................
MARK

SECTION ONE. PHONETICS

Part 1. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from the others of the same line. Write your answers in the
numbered box.
1. A. particularly
B. marvellously
C. darkness
D. pardoning
2. A. embraceable
B. empathically
C. emancipation
D. emphatically
3. A. essentially
B. gradually
C. mutualised
D. unpunctually
4. A. recognisance
B. solidify
C. recessionary
D. responsiveness
5. A. saffron
B. sacrament
C. saddlery
D. sabbatical
Part 2. Choose the word whose main stressed syllable is different from the others of the same line. Write your answers in the numbered
box.
6. A. irrevocably
B. unconditional
C. impartially
D. descendeur
7. A. empowerment
B. omnisciently
C. ludicrousness
D. momentum
8. A. consortium
B. consummate
C. operatorship
D. cowardice
9. A. mahatmas
B. localisable
C. correctitude
D. outrageously
10. A. morbidly
B. crossbreds
C. southernmost
D. journalese
Your answers
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SECTION TWO. LEXICOGRAMMAR
Part 3. Choose the word that best substitutes for the underlined word or phrase in each sentence. Write your answers in the numbered
box.
11. The old man stood by the seashore, gazing into the horizon.
A. immobile
B. motionless
C. stationery
D. stationary
12. Lisa is in her mourning as her grandmother has just passed away.
A. suit
B. apparel
C. accessory
D. attire
13. Mrs Smith is a woman who makes all the decisions for her family.
A. determined
B. despicable
C. domineering
D. dominant
14. The immature girl takes a very view of things, which makes us wonder whether moderation is even in her dictionary.
A. extreme
B. absolute
C. defined
D. impetuous
15. The railway track has been constructed in such a way as to allow space for on a hot day.
A. extension
B. expropriation
C. expansion
D. explosion
16. We have yet to find an means to divide the profits we made from the bazaar.
A. equable
B. equivocal
C. equilateral
D. equitable
17. My brother has a for pink items, so he loves strawberry ice-cream.
A. favour
B. preference
C. keenness
D. temptation
18. My brother, who is in the army, has to suffer the of army life.
A. trials
B. impossibilities
C. rigours
D. hardness
19. The thief made a of the keys he had stolen.
A. copy
B. duplicate
C. replica
D. reprint
20. Worried about the declining population, the government the citizens to have three or more children per family.
A. induced
B. rewarded
C. pushed
D. motivated
21. We are sincerely sorry if we you by any chance.
A. inconvenience
B. impose
C. induct
D. output
22. Two days without any trace of waterwe were beginning to lose hope.
A. elated
B. elaborated
C. eclipsed
D. elapsed

23. Could you help me to his handwriting?

A. pronounce
B. understand
C. detach
D. decipher
24. The employees are against the new manager of the company.
A. compelled
B. prejudiced
C. repelled
D. humiliated
25. Have you the babys milk bottles yet? I need them now.
A. sterilised
B. roasted
C. purified
D. cured
26. The union leader will with the employer regarding the bonus of the workers.
A. negotiate
B. comply
C. necessitate
D. meditate
27. The story was blown out of by the media.
A. proportion
B. contortion
C. distortion
D. presentation
28. Do not against the wall as the paint has not dried yet.
A. lay
B. lean
C. fall
D. blob
29. Ralph his fists tightly and tried to control himself.
A. clung
B. clinched
C. clenched
D. cleaved
30. We have to do something to save our children from violence because the number of cases of child has increased tremendously.
A. employment
B. adoption
C. rupture
D. abuse
Your answers
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Part 4. Fill in each blank with one suitable preposition or particle from the following box. Each word can only be used once. Write your
answers in the numbered box.
from
in
with
along
at
back
of
together
over
through
for
into
31. She left the coffee to boil in the kitchen and had to clean it up afterwards.
32. I can hardly believe that she actually won in the face of competition such a fiery writer.
33. The worsening condition of the president is giving cause concern.
34. Local people had to take matters their own hands because the governors failed to deliver their promise.
35. Some communities, unfortunately, still remains divided religious lines.
36. Their garden is over ten thousand square metres extent.
37. Only when they have discussed the matter great length will they draw any conclusion.
38. Without any prior preparation, Peter sailed his final exams.
39. I am afraid to say that the notes do not seem to hang .
40. For sufficient records are kept, Helen can trace her ancestry to the 1700s.
Your answers
31.
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Part 5. Match the verbs in column A with the appropriate prepositions in column B to fill in the blanks. Make sure that the verbs are in
the correct form. Each word may be used only once. Write your answers in the numbered box.
A
B
head
grow
turn
tip
dispense
to
upon
with
on
up
tear
tide
try
infringe
look
over
off
between
for
away
41. Camera surveillance, as we all know, can the privacy of shoppers in the mall, but it helps when it comes to their security.
42. Bill was asked the technical team of the company.
43. The previous gas leak seems to necessitate with the gas cooker.
44. I only need thirty dollars me till the end of next month.
45. She has to all her previous experience to answer that one tricky question of her students.
46. At some point of life, we from our parents and live independently.
47. She found herself her love of singing and her fear of performing in public.
48. The police must beforehand, otherwise they would not have been able to capture the criminals.
49. Only two people tried to help us, the rest just in silence.
50. They a baby but fortune has not smiled on them yet.
Your answers
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Part 6. Supply the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Write your answers in the column on the right.

Industrial relations in football in Britain, it seems, (51. TIE) to a form of language that makes (52. MEASURE) assessment difficult and
causes ill feeling by its very nature. Just as playermanager relations (53. CONDUCT) in the (54. OUTDATE) language of the traditional
factory floor, so the terminology (55. USE) (56. DESCRIBE) changing jobs, buying and selling players, (57. DISTORT) the reality.
Both sides suffer from this: the management accuses some players of greed or disloyalty, while the players feel the club (58. TREAT) them
cynically, as if they were disposable objects.
In the real world, though, people move from one job to another all the time. They (59. NOT BUY) or (60. SELL), they resign, sign a new
country with another business, have a change. Sometimes, if they have signed a long-term contract, their old employers refuse to let them
go, or demand (61. COMPENSATE). In fact, life in the corporate world is generally less well paid, less secure and more demanding than it
is in the world of professional football. The resentment that players feel about (62. SELL), (63. PROBABLY CREATE) more by the
language used to describe the process than by the process itself. This all has a tendency (64. DESCEND) into stereotypes: the gentleman
chairman who considers himself a good model of good business behaviour, and the hypersensitive player who thinks he (65. TREAT) as a
disposable commodity.
Your answers
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
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Part 7. Fill in each blank with the most suitable form of the word in brackets. Write your answers in the column on the right.
There is little to disagree about in the notion that a good voice, whether in opera or rock music, is one
66. ...................................
that moves its audience and brings a sense of release and fulfilment to the singer. But contemporary pop
67. ...................................
and rock music have come about due to (66. SUBSTANCE) advances in technology. Here, the impact of
68. ...................................
the microphone should not be (67. ESTIMATE), as it has (68. ABLE) the magnification of quiet,
69. ...................................
intimate sounds. This, in turn, allows, the singer to experiment with the (69. EMPHATIC) on mood
70. ...................................
rather than on strict (70. ADHERE) to proper breathing and voice control.
Donna SotoMorettin, a rock and jazz vocal trainer, feels that (71. ANATOMY) reasons may account
71. ...................................
for the raspy sound produced by certain rock singers. Her (72. SUSPECT) is that swollen vocal chords,
72. ...................................
which do not close properly, may allow singers to produce deeper notes. She does not, however, regard
73. ...................................
this as detracting (73. NOTICE) from the value of the sound produced. Singing, she maintains, has an
74. ...................................
almost (74. SEDUCE) quality and so our response to it has more (75. SIGNIFY) than its technical
75. ...................................
qualities.
Part 8. In most lines of the following text, there is one extra word. Identify this word by underlining and writing it in the column on the
right. Some lines, however, are correct. Put a tick () in the right column to indicate them.
Stainless steel was discovered by an accident in 1913 by the British metallurgist Harry
76. ..............................................
Brearley. He was experimenting with steeling alloyscombinations of metalsthat they
77. ..............................................
would be suitable for making gun barrels. A few months later he had noticed that most of
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his rejected specimens had rusted although one was containing 14 percent chromium had
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not. The discovery led to the development of stainless steel. Ordinary steel goes rusts
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because it reacts easily with oxygen in the air to produce crumbly red oxides. Other
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materials, such as aluminium, nickel and chromium, also react in a much the same way but
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their oxides form an impermeable surface layer, stopping oxygen to reacting with the metal
83. ..............................................
underneath. With Brearleys steel, the chromium formed such as a film, protecting the
84. ..............................................
metal from further attack, and the whole success of stainless steel is based well on the fact
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that it has this one unique advantage. In fact, a variety of stainless steels are now made.
86. ..............................................
One of the commonest contains of 18 percent chromium and 8 percent nickel and is used
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for kitchen sinks. Kitchen knives are made of steel containing about 13 percent chromium.
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A more corrosionresistant alloy is achieved by adding up an incredibly small amount of
89. ..............................................
the metal molybdenumthese steels are used as cladding for buildings.
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Part 9. There are ten errors in the following passage. Underline them in the text and correct them in the numbered box. Question (0)
has been done as an example.
For more than century, robberies of every kinds have plagued nations around the world.
0. century a century
Bank and house robberies were common occurrence. As many were caught so those who
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were not and over the year, many continued to turn to these get rich quick methods. Despite
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the nature of these occupation, media reports glorified the ingenious ways the robbers
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managed to escape with loot. Then, films, too, were made about famous robberies and
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criminals were turned for celebrities.
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More and more people began robbing houses and banks and its techniques became more
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sophisticating, making it close to impossible for them to get caught. To compound this
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problem, many robbers returned to their countries where they were no rules of extraditions.
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As a result, many of them simply returned to their home countries to prevent the foreign
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countries from punishing them.

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SECTION THREE. READING

Part 10. Choose the word that best fits each of the blanks in the following passage. Write your answers in the numbered box.
Roaring across the bay in a motorised rubber boat, we were told by the captain to (101) our eyes open. With the engine turned off, it was
not long before half a dozen dolphins (102) swimming around us. Eventually, two came up (103) beside the boat and popped their heads out
of the water to give us a wide grin.
Dolphin watching was just one of the many unexpected attractions of a holiday in South Carolina, in the USA. The state has long been
popular with golfers and, with dozens of (104) in the area, it is (105) a golfers paradise. But even the keenest golfer needs other diversions
and we soon found the resorts had plenty to (106).
In fact, Charleston, which is midway along the (107), is one of the most interesting cities in the USA, and is where the first shots in the
Civil War were (108). Taking a guided horse and carriage tour through the quiet back streets you get a real (109) of the citys past. Strict
regulations (110) to buildings so that original (111) are preserved.
South of Charleston lies Hilton Head, an island resort about 18kkm long and (112) like a foot. It has a fantastic sandy beach (113) the
length of the island and this is perfect for all (114) of water sports. Alternatively, if you feel like doing nothing, (115) a chair and umbrella,
head for an open space and just sit back and watch the pelicans diving for fish.
101.A. stand
B. keep
C. hold
D. fix
102.A. started
B. headed
C. kept
D. came
103.A. direct
B. right
C. precise
D. exact
104.A. courses
B. pitches
C. grounds
D. courts
105.A. fully
B. truly
C. honestly
D. purely
106.A. show
B. provide
C. offer
D. supply
107.A. beach
B. coast
C. sea
D. shore
108.A. thrown
B. aimed
C. pulled
D. fired
109.A. significance
B. meaning
C. sense
D. comprehension
110.A. apply
B. happen
C. agree
D. occur
111.A. points
B. characters
C. factors
D. features
112.A. formed
B. shaped
C. made
D. moulded
113.A. lying
B. running
C. going
D. following
114.A. manner
B. matter
C. manifesto
D. kind
115.A. change
B. lend
C. hire
D. loan
Part 11. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Everybody looks forward to progress, whether in ones personal life or in the general society. Progress signifies a persons ability to
reshape the way he is living at the moment. The collective elucidation given to change from the lower and upper echelons of society is
something that is positive and can only have rewarding outcomes. Progress must lead to a better life and a better way of doing things. All
these, however, remain true only in so far as people want to embrace technology and move forward by finding new and more efficient ways
of doing things.
However, at the back of the minds of many people, especially those who miss the good old days, efficiency comes with a price. When
communication becomes more productive, people are able to contact one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish
to. The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or see each other without even leaving their homes. With these new
communication gadgets, people often do not take the effort to visit one another personally. A personal visit carries with it the additional trait
of having to be in the persons presence for as long as the visit lasts. We cannot unnecessarily excuse ourselves or turn the other person off.
With efficiency also comes mass production. Such is the nature of factories and the success of industrialisation today. Factories have
improved efficiency. Menial tasks are left to machines and products are better made and produced with greater accuracy than any human
hand could ever have done. However, with the improvements in efficiency also comes the loss of the personal touch when making these
products. For example, many handicrafts are now produced in a factory. Although this means that the supply is better able to increase
demand, now that the supply is quick and efficient, the demand might fall because mass production prunes the quality of the handicrafts and
it is difficult to seek peerless designs on each item. Many tourists opt to visit the indigenous people in their natural habitats and purchase
souvenirs from them than from the shops amidst the cities. Perhaps, blood, sweat and tears do make a difference to what is being produced.
Nonetheless, we must not commit the mistake of analysing progress only from one point of view. Ironically, it is progress that has
allowed tradition to persevere. It is only with progress and the invention of new technology that many old products can be refurnished to
their old state. New technology is required for old products to stay old. Vinyl records are a classic example. Many might have been
destroyed if not for the ability to store them properly. Additionally, players for these records have also been restored. They look and work
exactly like their original state but it is technology that has given them this new lease of life.
It is peoples attitude towards progress that causes the type of impact that technology has on society. Technology is versatile. There is no
fixed way of making use of it. Everything depends on peoples mindset. The worst effects of progress will fall on those who are unable to
rethink their attitudes and views of society. We can reminisce about the past but lamenting the effects of progress will cause the past to
stagnate in our minds. When we embrace progress and adapt it to suit out needs, a new past is created.
Answer the questions 116123 by choosing A, B, C or D. Write your answers in the numbered box.

116. It can be inferred from the passage that .

A. production of handicraft in profusion escalates the price of items
B. progress allows decrepit ways to plough on
C. it is impartial to say that progress comes with solely impediments
D. progress is the only thing with which tradition can flourish
117. The word this in the third paragraph refers to .
A. the production of handicraft in a factory
B. the improvements in efficiency
C. the loss of the personal touch when producing handicraft
D. the success of industrialisation
118. Which of the following points is made in the second paragraph?
A. All progress is harmful in some way.
B. Inferior tasks are usually done by machine.
C. Efficiency, to many people, is not without its downsides.
D. New communication gadgets encourage personal visits.
119. What is not referred to when the author uses the phrase the good old days in the beginning paragraph?
A. The times before the excessive use of technology.
B. The positive impacts of old times.
C. The times when manufactured production was unavailable.
D. The time of increased productivity.
120. Which of the following is stated as a negative impact of manufactured production?
A. The quantity of products has drastically improved.
B. The luxuriance of goods remains unchanged.
C. Streamlined productions allow greater accuracy.
D. The authenticity of goods is shrunken.
121. The term refurnished in the fourth paragraph is closest in meaning to .
A. predated
B. perceived
C. precluded
D. rehabilitated
122. The word lamenting in the last paragraph can be best substituted by .
A. embracing
B. rethinking
C. unleashing
D. mourning
123. The word versatile in the last paragraph can be replaced by .
A. obdurate
B. multipurpose
C. hidebound
D. unwavering
For each of the following sentences 124128, decide whether they are true (T), false (F), or not given in the passage (NG).
124. Shaping progress to serve our needs produces more supreme way of life.
125. It is a recurrent mistake of people to regard progress only from the negative viewpoint.
126. The very worst effects of progress befall those incapable of adapting to changes.
127. Change is regarded with solely positivity.
Your answers
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.
121.
122.
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126.
127.
Part 12. Read the following extract from a novel. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the excerpt.
If Heather should return now, of course, or even five minutes from fitis Ilias made itself known. Silence, he rather thought, was at the
now, it would still be all right. Harrys thought that he might never bedrock of its mood. Silence the empty hotel and the ruined villas in
see her again could then be dismissed as a delusion, an absurd over- the woods around seemed merely to magnify, as if abandoned
reaction to an excess of solitude and silence. And from the notion habitations were worse than no habitations at all.
that, at any second, Heather would return, calling to him as she came
131.
down the track, part of his mind could not be dislodged: the orderly, For he could not help remembering that, when they had first left the
the housetrained, rational part.
car and strolled down to admire the view the hotel commanded, he
128.
had glanced up at the wooden balconies and red-painted shutters that
To spend half an hour sitting on a fallen tree trunk halfway up a gave the building its stolid, alpine qualityand seen a figure
pine-forested mountainside, whilst the warm glow of the afternoon withdraw abruptly from one of the unshuttered first floor window.
sun faded towards a dusty chill and silenceabsolute, windless,
132.
pitiless silencequarried at the nerves, was enough to test anyones It had been a stiff climb from the hotel up the uneven, overgrown
selfcontrol. He wished now that he had gone with her to the path towards the summit, and Heather had set a sharp pace. Out of
summit, or stayed in the car and listened to the radio. Either way he breath and far from his normal stamping grounds, Harry had been
should really have known better than to wait where he was. He took willing enough, in the circumstances, to stop at a point where a
a deep breath.
fallen tree blocked their route while she went on to the top.
129.
133.
Nor, if the truth be told, did he ever want to again. Two hours ago, Peace of mind, he reckoned now, had lasted no longer than a minute
he and Heather had been basking in the sun just down the coast. or two. Since then, his thoughts had ranged over many subjects, but
Now even visualising the scene was difficult, for Profitis Ilias always they had returned to what in his surroundings adamantly
possessed the power to consign every memory and perception refused to be ignored: silence so total that the ears invited a halfbeyond its own domain to half-forgotten remoteness. And Profitis heard chorus of whispering voices in the trees around, silence so
Ilias had been Heathers choice. We could drive up there in half an complete that his straining senses insisted that somewhere, above or
hour from here, she had said. It is a fantastic place. Deserted old around him, something must be watching him.
Italian villas. And stupendous views. You must see it.
134.
130.
Or he could follow the path to the top, in case she was in some
At first Harry had detected nothing amiss in the growing isolation. It difficulty or had simply lost track of time. That, he concluded, was
was not until they had reached the hotel that the road served and really the only choice open to him. He started along it, feeling at
found it, as expected, closed for the winter, that the character of Pro- once the relief that action brings after the suspense of indecision.

Choose from the paragraphs AH the one which best fits each gap (128134). There is one extra paragraph that you do not need to use.
A Harry had felt no such obligation, preferring the dcor of a E It was only in the chaotic realm of instinct and sensation that a
dozen cafs he could think of to any vista of nature, however
contrary suspicion had taken root, only, as it were, in the part
supposedly breathtaking. Nevertheless, he had raised no
of himself that he did not care to acknowledge. Besides, Harry
objection. And so they had come, driving up the winding road
had every justification for blaming his anxious state on the
through the village of Salakos, till all the other traffic was left
position in which he found himself.
behind and only the limitless ranks of pine and fir stood witness
to their progress.
B Two months ago, the hotel would still have been open for the F At the time, he had dismissed it as a trick of the light, but now
season, the children of its guests playing in the grounds,
the memory added its weight to all the other anxieties by which
perhaps even climbing on the very tree trunk where Harry sat. It
he was beset. Why had she not returned? She had seemed so
was surprising to discover how uncomfortable he found it to be
confident, so reassuringly certain that she would be back before
alone. If, that is, he was alone.
he had had a chance to miss her.
C Take the keys, she had said, in case you want to go back to G But first he had to find Heather. Dismayed by how reluctant he
the car. Then she had added, noticing his frown: Dont worry.
felt to shout her name aloud, he began to follow the path, still
I will not be long. I cannot turn back now, can I? And so
faithfully bordered with flints, as it twisted along the ridge
saying, she had scrambled up round the tree, smiled back at him
between outcrops of rock and gnarled, wind-carved cedars. If
once, and then gone on. Nearly an hour ago, and seemingly a
she had kept to the path, he could not fail to find her. But if she
world away, that last smile beckoned to Haran from up the
had not
wooded slope.
D Harry looked at his watch. It was nearly four oclock, which H It was growing cold now in the shadow of the mountain, yet the
meant that there was little more than an hour of daylight left.
costal plain below was still bathed in warm, golden sunlight.
He could return to the car, in case Heather had done so herself
Only here, on the thickly conifered slope, could the waning of
by a different route. He could stay where he was, on the
the day no longer be ignored. Why had she not returned? She
grounds that that was where she would expect to find him. But
could scarcely be lost, not with the guidebook and a compass.
one glance around reminded him that he could bear to remain
After all, she had been to Profitis Ilias before, which Harry
there no longer.
never had.
Part 13. Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one suitable word. Write your answers in the numbered box.
ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
Most animals manage, (135) some extent, to communicate with members of the same species. Honeybees, for example, can
convey to one (136) the direction, distance and quality of a source of nectar. Certain monkeys have several distinct vocalisations
including different alarm calls when they catch (137) of leopards, eagles and snakes.
Animal communication appears to be (138) two basic kinds. On the one hand, the calls of birds and nonhuman primates (139)
of a number of signals, (140) of which has a purpose, (141) it be a danger call, food call or distress call. On the
(142) hand, bees have an unlimited number of signals which show they are clearly (143) of conveying any combination of
distance, direction and quality but which cannot communicate anything else. In both cases, the signal manifests (144) only when the
appropriate stimulus is present. Contrast (145) with human speech: we do not necessarily begin talking about eagles the (146)
we see them; conversely, we can discuss eagles even when there are (147) of them about.
In recent decades, attempts have been made to teach human language to apes. These have met (148) extremely limited success.
(149) there may be some evidence that they can recognise large numbers of words, there is very little evidence to suggest that apes
are able to learn much, if (150) , grammar.
Your answers
135.
136.
137.
138.
139.
140.
141.
142.
143.
144.
145.
146.
147.
148.
149.
150.
SECTION FOUR. WRITING
Part 14. Use the word given in bold and make any necessary additions to write a new sentence in such a way that it is as similar as
possible in meaning to the original sentence. Do not change the form of the given word.
151.Without access to the statistics, I will not be able to complete the report.
HOLD
Unless...................................................................................................................................................................................................completed.
152.The head teacher is well known for his reliability and dedication.
REPUTED
The head teacher........................................................................................................................................................................................ person.
153.Managers intend to consult their staff about job descriptions.
ARE
Staff .............................................................................................................................................................. job descriptions by their managers.
154.She really enjoys going for a swim every morning.
ON
What she ......................................................................................................................................................... going for a swim every morning.
155.Louise is an expert in all aspects of the business except marketing.
OF

With........................................................................................................................................................................in all aspects of the business.

156.When faced with a fierce opponent, even the most skilled swordsmen must be careful.
FROM
In ................................................................................................................................................................................................has to be careful.
157.We suppose the new models are about ten thousand dollars.
VICINITY
The new models ..................................................................................................................................................................ten thousand dollars.
158.We are having problems because we did not take out medical insurance.
COST
We are .................................................................................................................................................................................................... taken out.
159.The students in his class come from many different places, which makes the place very special.
WIDE
The students in his class ......................................................................................................................... , which makes the place very special.
160.I do not expect another accident of the same type to happen here again
STRIKE
It is not my ................................................................................................................................................................................................... twice.
Part 15. For Questions 161 200, write a composition of between 400 and 700 words on the following topic.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. Explain the value of each day in a
persons life. How have you lived for the present?
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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

EDUCATIONAL EXAMINATION
Concerned Subject:
Approximate Time:

ENGLISH LANGUAGE
250 minutes

EXAMINATION OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH

CONSOLIDATION PAPER II
ANSWER KEY

1. A
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. D
11. B
12. D
13. C
14. A
15. C
16. D
17. B
18. C
19. B
20. D
21. A
22. D
23. D
24. B
25. A
26. A
27. A
28. B
29. C
30. D
31. over
32. from
33. for
34. into
35. along
36. in
37. at
38. through
39. together
40. back
41. infringe upon
42. to head up
43. dispensing with
44. to tide / over
45. turn to
46. grow away
47. torn between
48. have been tipped off 49. looked on
50. have been trying for
51. are tied
52. measured
53. are conducted
54. outdated
55. used
56. to describe
57. distorts
58. treats
59. are not bought
60. sold
61. to be compensated
62. being sold
63. is probably created
64. to descend
65. is (being) treated
66. substantial/substantive 67. underestimated
68. enabled
69. emphasis/emphases
70. adherence
71. anatomical
72. suspicion
73. noticeably
74. seductive
75. significance
76. an
77. they
78. had
79. was
80. goes
82. a
83. to
84. as
85. well
81.
87. of
89. up
86.
88.
90.
91. kinds kind
92. a common
93. so as
94. over the years
95. this occupation
96. loot the loot
97. were turned into
98. its their
99. more sophisticated
100.where there were
101.B
102.D
103.B
104.A
105.B
106.C
107.B
108.D
109.C
110.A
111.D
112.B
113.B
114.A
115.C
116.B
117.A
118.C
119.D
120.D
121.D
122.D
123.B
124.T
125.NG
126.T
127.F
128.E
129.H
130.A
131.B
132.F
133.C
134.D
135.to
136.another
137.sight/glimpses
138.of
139.consist
140.each
141.whether/should
142.other
143.capable
144.itself
145.this/that
146.moment/second/etc.
147.none
148.with
149.while/although/etc.
150.any
151. I get hold of the statistics, the report | will not/cannot be
152. is reputed to be a reliable and dedicated
153. are (going) to be consulted | on/for/over/about
154. is really keep on/really enjoys spending time on | is
155. the exception of marketing, Louise is an expert
156. the face of competition from a fierce opponent, everybody
157. are supposed to be/are supposedly | in the vicinity of
158. counting the cost because medical insurance was not
159. come from far and wide
160. expectation that lightning | should/will | strike
Part 14. For this part of the Paper, markers may refer to the following scheme of grading the composition:
Contents, Organisation and Cohesion (18 marks): The student possesses the ability to argue confidently and wholly. Points are made
with both arguments and examples to support. The composition has a positive effect on the reader.
Command of Language (17 marks): The student employs a good range of vocabulary and a grammatical selection of appropriate
structures.
Handwriting and Presentation (5 marks): The students handwriting is intelligible and space is cleverly used.