MOCK TEST 5

PART I: LISTENING (50 points)

Question 1: Complete the notes below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in
the spaces provided. (14 points)
CAR INSURANCE
Example Answer
Name: Patrick Jones

Address: (1)……………………, Greendale

Contact number: 730453
Occupation: (2) ……………………
Size of car engine: 1200cc Type of car:
Manufacturer: Hewton
Model: Sable
Year: 1997
Previous insurance company: Any insurance claims in the last five years?
(3) …………………… Yes 
No
If yes, give brief details:
Car was (4) ……………………in 1999
Name(s) of other driver(s): Uses of car: - social
Simon (5) …………………… - traveling to work
Relationship to main driver:
(6) ……………………
Start date: 31 January
Recommended Insurance arrangement
Name of company: (7) ……………………
Annual cost: $450

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4.
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5. 6. 7.

Question 2: You will hear a photographer called Ian Gerrard talking about his career.
For question 1 – 8, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase. (16 points)
Ian Gerrard – photographer
The subject that Ian studied at university was (1)………………………
Ian did a presentation on (2) ………………………as part of his final year.
Ian worked for a (3) ……………………….in the USA for a year after leaving university.
When he travelled around the USA, Ian choose (4) ………………………as the theme for his
photographs.
Ian says that (5) ……………………….in the season when he takes the best photographs.
Ian says he was surprised by how few photographers specialize in shots of (6)………………
communities.
The title of Ian’s book is (7)………………………
Ian has chosen (8) ……………………… as the theme for his next tour.

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.

Question 3: Indicate whether the following statements are true or false by writing T for
true, F for false and (?) if there is insufficient information. (10 points)
1. Now some people still take a risk when the police officer is away on Newland Street.
2. The police officer there doesn’t get any pay for the work.
3. Officer Springirth is a real man and he is a volunteer there.
4. Officer Springirth helps the police to reduce the crime rate in Chase Village.
5. The police department will put more mannequins on other roads.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Question 4: Listen to the recording and circle the appropriate letter. (10 points)
1. What does Peter want to drink?
A. tea B. coffee C. a cold drink
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2. What caused Peter problems at the bank?
A. The exchange rate was down.
B. He was late.
C. The computers weren’t working.
3. Who did Peter talk to at the bank?
A. an old friend B. an American man C. a German man
4. Henry gave Peter a map of
A. the city. B. the bus routes. C. the train system.
5. What do Peter and Sally decide to order?
A. food and drinks B. just food C. just drinks
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART II: LEXICO-GRAMMAR (50 points)

Question 1: Choose the most suitable word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) to fill in each blank
(20 points)
1. Her hands were swollen and wrinkled, but she still had her nails _____ regularly.
A. manufactured B. manicured C. Maintained D. managed
2. The girl’s large, heavy earrings had __________ her earlobes permanently
A. displaced B. dismayed C. disfigured D. diseased
3. More and more people are having satellite dishes ___________ on their roofs
A. installed B. introduced C. implanted D. inserted
4. Cut flowers may ______ through lack of water.
A. faint B. collapse C. wilt D. drop
5. The actor was so nervous that he could only remember small _________ of dialogue
A. shreds B. pieces D. patches C. snatches
6. The ________ cheered when the final goal was scored in the match today.
A. viewers B. onlookers C. spectators D. audience
7Most people _____ family heirlooms and keep them safe.
A. cosset cherish C. nourish D. nurture
8. She is traveling to work by train today because her car is being ________.
A. stopped B. broken C. serviced D. rented
9. I would like to thank you , _______my colleagues, for the welcome you have given us.
A. on account of B. on behalf of C. because of D. instead of
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10. Anything he does is in ………….with the law and that’s why I have suggested him for
the post.
A. compliance B. obedience c. commitment D. responsibility
11. When the automobile salesman described the car so ______, we became very unpleasant
about buying it.
A. ambiguity B. ambiguousness C. ambiguous D. ambiguously
12. There was _______ evidence to bring charges against the man.
A. insubstantial B. interior C. ineffective D. insufficient
13. The automobile, along with several other important inventions ___ an incredibly complex
world.
A. has creased B. have creased C. have been creased D. has been creased
14. Even the other convicts considered it a ______________ crime .
A. guilty B. hard-bitten C. heinous D. hell-bent
15. She resigned …………. No one forced her to do so.
A. for her own sake B. of her own accord C. with a will D. on purpose
16. There are so many people _____ me in the crowd that I couldn’t hold the camera steady.
A. jostling B. jerking C. obstructing D. agitating
17. Strong protests were made, _______ with demands for an international enquiry.
A. joined B. added C. coupled D. included
18. ______, it is certain that in the future some things will be very different.
A. It can be better or worse B. For better or for worse
C. Either better or worse D. Better than worse
19. I parked in a restricted area and the police ………….my car.
A. imprisoned B. impounded C. impaled D. interned
20. Richard Burton was noted for his clear ………….of words.
A. enunciation B. interpretation C. announcement D. accentuation
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

Question 2: Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the number space provided
in the column on the right. (10 points)
1. If I hadn’t __economize______ on food and water, we wouldn’t have survived a single
day in the cave (ECONOMY)
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2. The witness claimed she was capable of discovering the man’s evil intentions from the
murderous____ look in his eyes. (MURDER)
3. Jane’s been granted a one year _scholarship____ at one of the most renowned universities
in Europe. (SCHOOL)
4. My friend is unbelievably self- centered and arrogant. He’s a complete _ego-maniac____.
(EGO)
5. He cast his eyes _heavenwards____ as if imploring God for help or pity. ( HEAVEN)
6. Charon was name of the boat name in Greek ____mythology____. ( MYTH)
7. The doctor gave him some tablets to relieve______ his pain . ( RELIEF)
8. It is ___frightening_____ even to think of the horrors of nuclear war. ( FRIGHT)
9. Grandfather rarely showed the affection he felt for his family. He was very
_undemonstrative_____ person.
(DEMONSTRATE)
10. Lisa is very _photogenic_____. She always manages to look good in photographer.
( PHOTO)
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question 3: Find 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them (10 points)
Because different tree species adapting to different climates and soil types have evolved
over millennium, many kinds of forests occupy the earth today. The primitive forests of
several hundred million years ago consisted of less kinds of trees. In fact, the earliest “ trees”
which grew nearly 500 million years ago, were like giant club mosses. They lack true roots
and consisted of a confused mass at specialized branches that climbed at rocky ground. Fifty
million years later came the dense forest of tree ferns that prevailed on tropical climates of
that era. The forerunners of modern conifers-trees that bear cones- were on the 300 million
years ago, when plant life abundant colonized marshy land, building the tremendous coal and
oil reserves so important today. By the time the dinosaurs roamed the earth some 180 million
years before, seed bearing trees that shed their leaves in winter evolved:; from these have
sprung our present deciduous forests. .
Your answer
MISTAKES CORRECTIONS MISTAKES CORRECTIONS

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2. 7.
3. 8.
4. 9.
5. 10.

Question 4: Complete each of the following sentences with a suitable preposition(s) or

particle(s). (10 points)
1. The final year at the secondary school is the time for teenagers to get down___to thinking
about choosing job.
2.Antibiotics are only available _on_____ prescription. .
3. Everybody wears the black suit _______ the heist.
4. We heard the waves washing _against_______ the boat sides .
5. The sun disappeared __behind_____ the clouds.
6. I am told to stay behind after ____ school.
7. The paper has two sections, _of____ equal weighting.
8. It’s easier to think and write __without_____ a lot of distractions
9. Chris settles __into______ the monotony of life without hope.
10. I have an aversion …to……….……spiders.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

PART III: READING (50 points)

Question 1: Choose the best word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank
space in the following passage. (10 points)
Traffic pollution damages kids’ lungs
Road pollution is a (1) ____ danger to children’s health. That’s the worrying
conclusion of the longest and largest study* ever (2) ____ into the effects of traffic fumes on
child development. Researchers from the University of Southern California spent 13 years
studying children who lived within 500 meters of busy highways. They found that most of
the 3,600 children in the study had (3) ____ weakened lungs. Researchers said this meant the
children could have breathing problems for the rest of their lives. The main author of the
study W. James Gauderman said: "Someone suffering a pollution-related (4) ____ in lung
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function as a child will probably have less than healthy lungs all of his or her life.” He added:
"If you live in a high-pollution area and live near a busy road, you get a (5) ____ of the
damage.”
Gauderman and his team conducted their research on (6) ____ who lived near busy
roads. Once a year, the team measured the children's lung power. It checked how much air
the children could release in one (7) ____ and how quickly it could be released. The team
found that by their 18th birthday, children who lived within 500 meters of a highway (8)
____ three per cent less air compared with children who lived one-and-a-half kilometers
away. Further, the highway children’s lung power was seven per cent weaker in the rate at
which they could exhale. Gauderman said that: "Even if you are in a (9) ____ low regional
pollution area, living near a road produces lung problems." About a third of the children
moved away from busy roads during the study but stayed near the same community. Their
lungs developed more (10) ____.
1. A. series B. seriousness C. seriously D. serious
2. A. undertaker B. undertaken C. overtaken D. partaken
3. A. significantly B. signifying C. signify D. significant
4. A. deficits B. deficient C. deficit D. surplus
5. A. double B. double park C. doubling D. doubting
6. A. youngish B. youngsters C. young D. youth
7. A. breath B. breathe C. breathing D. breathless
8. A. exhaled B. inhaled C. impaled D. polluted
9. A. relate B. relatively C. relatives D. relativity
10. A. healthily B. healthy C. healthful D. health check

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question 2: Read the passage and fill in each blank with ONE suitable word. (10 points)
HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE?
The obvious answer is that there are five; but, like most such answers, this one is
wrong. In (1) ……… to the generally recognized sense of vision, hearing, touch, smell and
taste, human beings (2) ……… known to have a further one, called kinaesthesia, (3) ………
we are aware of the relative position of our limbs, the tensions in our muscles and so on.
Clearly, then, psychics and fortune tellers should talk about having “a seventh sense” (4)
……… than a sixth! There has been a lot of debate, most (5) ……… which has been

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conducted outside scientific circles, about the possible existence of such a sense – or, to be
more accurate, set of senses. We generally refer to them collectively (6) ……… ESP (Extra
Sensory Perception), thereby embracing the supposed abilities of telepathy, clairvoyance and
precognition. But in so (7) ………, we are probably – assuming that these abilities exist at all
– mixing chalk with cheese. Clairvoyance, for example, has (8) ……… little to do with
precognition as vision (9) …… to do with touch. The problem is that we do not as yet have
any way of knowing for sure and, (10)……… scientists reluctant to address the subject,
answers may be a long way off.
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question 3: Read the following passage and choose one of four options A, B, C, or D to
answer each question. (10 points)
Modern surgery
The need for a surgical operation, especially an emergency operation, almost always
comes as a severe shock to the patient and his family. Despite modern advances, most people
still have an irrational fear of hospitals and anaesthetics. Patients do not often believe they
really need surgery – cutting into a part of the body as opposed to treatment with drugs.
In the early years of the 20th century there was little specialization in surgery. A good
surgeon was capable of performing almost every operation that had been advised up to that
time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were not
even dreamed of fifty years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its valves repaired.
Clogged blood vessels can be cleaned out, and broken ones mended or replaced. A lung, the
whole stomach, or even part of the brain can be removed and still permit the patient to live a
comfortable and satisfactory life. However, not every surgeon wants to, or is qualified to
carry out every type of modern operation.
The scope of surgery has increased remarkably in the past decades. Its safety has
increased too. Deaths from most operations are about 20% of what they were in 1910 and
surgery has been extended in many directions, for example to certain types of birth defects in
new born babies, and, at the other end of the scale, to life-saving operations for the
octogenarian. The hospital stay after surgery has been shortened to as little as a week for
most major operations. Most patients are out of bed on the day after an operation and may be
back at work in two or three weeks.
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 Many developments in modern surgery are almost incredible. They include the
replacement of damaged blood vessels with stimulated ones made of plastic; the replacement
of heart valves with plastic substitutes; the transplanting of tissues such as the lens of the eye;
the invention of the artificial kidney to clean the blood of poisons at regular interval and the
development of heart and lung machines to keep patients alive during very long operation.
All these things open a hopeful vista for the future of surgery.
One of the most revolutionary areas of modern surgery is that of organ transplants.
Until a few decades ago, no person, except an identical twin, was able to accept into his body
the tissues of another person without reacting against them and eventually killing them.
Recently, however, it has been discovered that with the use of X-rays and special drugs, it is
possible too graft tissues from one person to another which will survive for periods of a year
or more. Kidneys have been successfully transplanted between non-identical twins. Heart and
lung transplants have also been reasonably successful.
“Spare parts” surgery, the simple routine replacement of all worn-out organs by new
ones, is still a dream of the future but surgery is ready for such miracles. In the meantime,
you can be happy if your doctors say to you, “Yes, I think it is possible to operate on you for
this condition.”
1. Most people are afraid of being operated on….
A. in spite of improvements in modern surgery
B. because they think modern drugs are dangerous
C. because they do not believe they need anaesthetics
D. unless it is an emergency operation
2. Surgeons in the early 20th century, compared with modern ones…..
A. had less to learn about surgery
B. needed more knowledge
C. could perform every operation known today
D. were more trusted by their patients
3. A patient can still live a comfortable life even after the removal of….
A. his brain
B. his lungs
C. a major organ such as the stomach or one lung
D. part of the stomach or the whole liver
4. The word “clogged” in paragraph 2 is most likely to correspond to…
A. clean B. blocked C. covered D. unwashed
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5. Today, compared with 1910…
A. 20% fewer of all operation patients die
B. 20% of all operation patients recover
C. operation deaths have increased by 20%
D. five times fewer patients die after being operated on
6. What is the similar meaning to the word “octogenarian” in paragraph 3?
A. eighteen-year-old B. person in his eighties
C. person having eighth operation D. eye specialist
7. Some of the more astonishing innovations in modern surgery include…
A. ear, nose and throat transplants B. valveless plastics hearts
C. plastic heart valves D. leg transplants
8. The main difficulty with organ transplant is…
A. it is difficult to find organs of the same size
B. only identical twins can give permission for their organs to be exchanged
C. the body’s tendency to reject alien tissues
D. the patient is not allowed to use drugs after them.
9. Which of the following has the same meaning as “vista” in paragraph 4?
A. support B. prospect C. history D. visit
10. You can be happy if your surgeon can operate because it means….
A. he thinks your condition may be curable
B. he is a good doctor
C. he knows you will survive
D. you are getting better already
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Question 4:
1. Reading the passage, there are nine paragraphs (A-I). Choose the most suitable
heading for the paragraphs (from A to F) from the list of headings below. Write the
appropriate numbers (i-vi) in boxes 1 – 5 on your answer sheet. Paragraph A has been
done for you as an example. (10 points)
List of Headings
i. The loneliest place on Earth
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 ii. A choice of routine
iii. Alternative routes - 3
iv. Looking ahead
v. A varied community
vi. The need for human contact

DARK DAYS
Example Answer
Paragraph A i
A.
The last ship of the season has left; the next will not be here until December. There will be
eight months of isolation, cut off from the rest of the world on the edge of the world's
coldest, remotest continent: Antarctica.
B.
The people who spend the winter at Davis Station in Antarctica regard the departure of the
last ship not with fear but with something like a feeling of relief. Gone are the busy days of
summer, the helicopters, and the crowd of people. Now life starts again.
C.
There are more than 40 research projects being carried out in Antarctica but many of the
scientists have left by the time winter arrives. The station is home to physicists, biologists,
weather observers, mechanics, communications technicians, electricians, carpenters,
plumbers, a doctor and a chef. There is also a station leader whose job is to keep everyone
happy and productive and to look after all the paperwork. When most of the team arrives
each year in December, the sun never sets. By the beginning of the following June it will
never rise, so people have to get used to many dark days.
D.
It does not matter what hours people choose to walk so long as the work gets done, so they
can start and finish work at whatever times suit them. The first real meal of the day, a hot
breakfast, is served at 10 A.M. There is a hot lunch and a hot supper but putting on weight is
a potential problem for many people. The doctor is there to advise on diet and exercise and a
gym is available to help people keep fit.
E.
Inevitably, small social groups develop within this isolated community. There is usually a
group of smokers, a group of video watchers, a group of people who sit and chat. As people
try to maintain contact with home so the cost of phone bills increases, but in any case there is
nothing else to spend money on.
F.
It is quite common for the sea to freeze during April and instead of waves lapping the beach,
thick plates of ice lift and move with the tide. Once the sea ice has been checked to see if it is
strong enough to walk on, one can ski over and fish through the holes. Eventually it becomes
strong enough for vehicles to drive on it and the researchers can open up a new road system
to enable them to drive around the coast in minutes, to huts which could only be reached after
hours of walking in summer.
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Trips to the huts are the only means of physically escaping from life on the station. Some
trips are for science, others for recreation and a way of having some personal and private
space. Some trips can be made on foot or skis, but in winter they are usually in vehicles.
H
There are no animals as they all leave for the winter, but in spring seals and seabirds and
penguins arrive. Only humans stay in Antarctica for the full year, and although their lives are
comfortable they are still isolated and imprisoned. They have good food, comfortable
buildings, telephones, entertainment, the internet, but for many months at a time no chance of
leaving.
Your answers:
Paragraph Answer

1. Paragraph B

2. Paragraph C

3. Paragraph D

4. Paragraph E

5. Paragraph F

2. Read the text and then choose from the list A–F given below the best sentence to fit
each gap (1–5). Question (0) has been done as an example.

Sentences
A. Here, on the ocean floor, is a huge area of underwater volcanoes, their chimneys
all blowing out black smoke.
B. Here I am on the bottom of the sea, and no one else on this planet has ever before
seen them.
C. “No one has tested it yet, but I do not think it would be a very pleasant journey.”
D. When it did not happen, we could not believe it.
E. This pours out at a rate of one metre per second and at a temperature of 350
degrees.
F. She is a lecturer at the Oceanography Centre at Southampton University.

IN HOT WATER
Rachel Mills is a scientist who spends as much time as she can at the bottom of the Atlantic
Ocean. Rachel Mills teaches and does research into marine geochemistry, which means she
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she lowers herself into a steel vehicle, a vessel for underwater exploration the size of a small
car, and dives three kilometres down into the Atlantic Ocean to study underwater volcanoes.
“Inside,” she says, “space is so limited that I can reach out and touch the two pilots.” They
are used to these conditions, which mean they cannot stand up or move, and they must stay
inside until someone opens the door from the outside. A dive can last for 16 hours – three
hours to reach the ocean floor, ten hours gathering samples of rock and water and then three
hours to get back up to the surface again.
“If anything happens, and you have a problem and have to get to the top quickly, you can hit
a panic button.” The outside drops away leaving a small circular escape vessel that gets
released, and it is like letting go of a ping-pong ball in the bath – it goes rapidly to the
surface. (1) ………
“I didn’t know how I was going to react the first time I climbed into the vehicle. It was on the
deck of a ship and I got in with an instructor. He then talked me through the emergency
procedures, including what to do if the pilot has a heart attack! They were testing me to see
how I would react to being in such a small place.”
Now Rachel has made six dives. Last year she dived with a Russian crew. “We went to a site
which was a five-day sail west of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic. (2) ……… It is where
the Atlantic Ocean comes alive. The Russian team were dropping off some scientific
equipment there to discover the effect of a multi-national programme that would make a hole
150 metres through a volcano.”
When she is not at sea, Rachel is in her office at the Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
“Two thirds of my salary comes from teaching which I love, but I do it so I can get on with
my research into the ‘black smokers’. This is just another name for underwater volcanoes –
water comes out of the rock and turns into what looks like black smoke. (3) ………
The only time I have been frightened is when I first went down with the Americans. We were
towing equipment on a 50-metre rope when suddenly there was an explosion. There was this
immense bang as the shock waves hit our vehicle and I thought, ‘I am going to die.’ We
stared at each other in silence, waiting. (4) ……… The relief was incredible – we were still
alive!”
“It is such an adventure diving down to the deepest part of the ocean. Every time I look out
of the porthole and see those chimneys, there is such a sense of wonder. (5) ……… I had
studied the black smokers for three years for my PhD. When I got down there and saw them
for real, it was such an amazing feeling.”
Your answers:
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 0. F 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART IV: WRITING (50 points)

Question 1: Rewrite the following sentences beginning with the given word. (10 points)
1. She doesn’t know why they are attracted to spending all day on the beach
 She can’t see …the atraction of spending all day on the beach
………………………………………………………………
2. I thought about what has happened all those years before .
 I cast ……cast my mind back to what has happened all those years before
…………………………………………………………………….
3. His disabilities did not prevent him from sailing around the world.
 Despite the fact that he was disabled, he still sailed
Around the world
………………………………………………………………
4. Far more people live to retirement age in Britain than in the Philippines.
 Not.........as many people live to retirement age in Britain as in
Philipines ............................................................................................................
5. She never seems to succeed eventhough she studied much .
 Much…as she studies , she …. ……………………………….
………………………………………..
Question 2: Rewrite the following sentences, using the word given in brackets. You must
not alter the word in any way. (10 points)
1. I don’t think she likes doing other people’s work for them. (OBJECTS)
………………I think she objects to doing
……………………………………………………………………………….
2. There is no hot water because the central heating has broken down. (ORDER)
…………………there is no hot wter since the central heating was out of order
…………………………………………………………………………….
3. The primer Minister resigned because of his sudden illness. (RESULTED)
……………………the primer minister ‘s sudden illness resulted in his resignation
………………………………………………………………………….
4. There is a risk that the black rhino will become extinct. (THREATENED)
………the black rhino is threatened with extiction
……………………………………………………………………………………….
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5. He offers them more money to encourage them to do the job quickly. (INCENTIVE)
…………………he offers them more money as an incentive to do the job quickly
…………………………………………………………………………….
Question 3: ( 35 points )
Write a composition of about 200 – 250 words on the following topic: (30 points)
A large number of parents and students think that the current college entrance examination
should be abolished altogether. What do you think?
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