PRACTICE TEST 3

USE OF ENGLISH (40 pts)

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that best completes the sentence.
1. They told me he was _______ home then.
A. a great place from B. far away C. a distance of D. a long
way from
2. Don’t you think they are able to help _______?
A. each other one B. their own C. one another D. together
3. Up high in the sky ______.
A. is a plane flying past B. the plane is flying C. past flew a plane D. is flying past a
plane
4. He doesn’t drink much ________ the police catch him as he drives home.
A. in the event B. in case C. despite D. otherwise
5. He gave me a lot of information, and I couldn’t remember _______.
A. them all B. it all C. nothing D. none of it
6. This plan is very good _______ its feasibility.
A. in contact with B. in terms of C. in return for D. in addition to
7. They may have their flight rescheduled, _______ they will let you know.
A. in which event B. in which case C. by which time D. at which
point
8. She seldom goes shopping without her mother by her side, _______?
A. doesn’t she B. does she C. is she D. wouldn’t she

9. Men cause _______ fatal accidents as women do for every mile they drive.
A. twice more B. twice as many C. double as much D. as double
10. Had we known they _______ a road right there, we would never have bought the house.
A. were building B. could have built C. must be building D. were going to build
11. The government set up a(n) _______ body on the use of drugs in sport.
A. advisable B. inadvisable C. well-advised D. advisory
12. The principal doesn’t allow _______ in the auditorium.
A. us smoke B. smoking C. to smoke D. us smoking
13. I'm not _______ them staying with us, as long as it's only for a couple of days.
A. disagreeing with B. looking forward to C. opposed to D. objected to
14. That worker is ______ than sick.
A. lazier B. more lazy C. so lazy D. much lazy
15. There is one kind of sports which I like playing above all _______, and it is tennis.
A. sports B. other of sports C. of others D. others
16. He drove away as soon as the lights ______ green.
A. became B. turned C. changed D. grew
17. The spectators hurled ______ at the referee when he disallowed the goal.
A. abuse B. complaint C. petition D. objection
18. He’s so ______. He’ll believe anything you say.
A. generous B. stubborn C. believable D. gullible
19. He promised her a loan but disappointingly he _______ on his word.
A. turned over B. stood off C. went back D. sat down
20. I feel a bit dizzy; I didn’t sleep _______ last night.
A. an eye B. a wink C. a jot D. an inch
21. That was not a genuine Van Gogh. It’s a ______.
A. fraud B. fake C. counterfeit D. wreck
22. Your steak looks really ______; mine is so tough I can’t chew it.
A soft B. flexible C. tender D. mild
23. Our planning for the sales _______ at the last minute.
A. went up B. fell through C. came apart D. broke away
24. I’d rather ______ it differently in that situation!
A. be doing B. to have done C. I did D. have done
25. I could play the guitar well. I _______ a professional guitarist, but I decided to become a
businessman instead.
A. may have become B. would become C. could have become D.
was becoming
26. We can’t bear ______ nothing.
A. to sit around to do B. sitting around to do C. sitting around doing D. to sit
around without doing
27. People came from _______ to take part in the peace demonstration in Washington.
A. round and round B. out and about C. there and back D. far and
wide
28. The teacher requested all the assignments _______ by the end of this week.
A. are submitted B. be submitted C. should submit D. will have
been submitted
29. “Would you like tea or coffee?” “________”
A. Yes, please. B. Please, do. C. I’d prefer both. D. Either will do
30. Lose this important match, ________.
A. or you will have been sacked B. you will be fired
C. so you will be sacked immediately D. and you’ll be fired right away
31. She would make an excellent lawyer - she's conscientious and has a ______ mind.
A. well-trained B. well-intentioned C. well-built D. well-informed

32. The baby cannot crawl yet, ______ walk.

A. let alone B. not to mention C. least of all D. by degrees
33. The internship in a psychiatric ward ________ for the rest of his life.
A. had an influence on him B. had influenced on him C. had him as an influence D. exerted
an influence for him
34. Since he changed professions, Fred's yearly income has _______.
A. nearly tripled B. got almost three times bigger
C. almost grown by three times D. just about gone up three times
35. Advertising ______ people into buying things that they don’t really want.
A. makes B. blackmails C. brainwashes D. threatens

Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C, or D) that is incorrect.

36. Nearly all the electricity for industrial use almost comes from large generators driven by steam
turbines.
A B C D
37. The class leader, on behalf of the others, promised not to come to the school late again any more.
A B C D
38. We all should increase the usage of alternative energy since it helps reduce the emission of
carbon dioxide.
A B C D
39. There are now some interesting handsome Spanish tall exchange students staying in our hostel.
A B C D
40. Printmaking is the generic term for a number of processes, which woodcut and engraving are two
prime examples.
A B C
D
WORD FORMS (40 pts)
A. Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the word given in brackets.
1. For all his _________________, he never really connects with other people. (SOCIAL)
2. The work was done well thanks to their _____________ attitude. (OPERATE)
3. They started the search in a _____________ farm. (DESERT)
4. He’s one of the best _______________ we have ever worked with. (NEGOTIATE)
5. Her ________________ is more important to her than anything else. (DEPEND)
6. The rate of crime is _______________ high in the area, and the authorities must do something
about it. (INCREASE)
7. They made certain ________________ about the market. (ASSUME)
8. Isn’t it time for you to have a medical ________________. (CHECK)
9. They are discussing the _______________ of the effectiveness of the system. (MAXIMUM)
10. The hobby of studying wild birds in their natural environment is called _________________.
(BIRD)
B. Put the words given in the correct blanks. You have to use their correct forms to make a
meaningful passage. There are two extra words that you cannot use.
wander plenty ease camp cruise starve
spirit probable politics concept vary study
It is a common (11) _____________ that people in the Stone Age lived on the edge of (12)
__________, in small groups, (13) ____________ around from place to place. On the contrary, recent
(14) ____________ of archaeological sites have in fact shown that life was a great deal
(15)____________ than it was for later farming communities. After the Ice Age the weather was
warmer than it is today and food was (16) ____________. There were large numbers of animals to
hunt, fish could easily be caught in rivers and the sea, and a huge (17) ___________ of plants and
berries grew in the forests.
During the Stone Age or Mesolithic Period, as it is known to archaeologists, men and women
led an active social and (18) ____________ life. Large (19) ___________, where up to 200 people
may have lived, have been found in several parts of Europe, in addition to the remains of communal
tombs and temples. Making stone tools was (20) ____________ seen as a communal activity, in
which even children used to take part.

GUIDED CLOZE TEST (10 pts)

Read the passage and choose the best option (A, B, C or D) for each blank space.
Speech – the act of uttering sounds to (1)_______ meaning – is a kind of human action. Like any
other repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally
(2)_______ and apparently automatic process.
As far as we can determine, human beings do not need to be (3)_______ to speak; most babies
seem to possess a sort of instinctive drive to produce speech-like noises. How to speak and what
(4)_______ are another matter altogether. These are learned from a particular society (5)_______ the
baby is born: so that, like all conduct that is learned from a society – from the people around us –
speech is a patterned activity.
The meandering (6)_______ and chatter of young child are eventually channeled by imitation into a
few orderly grooves that (7)_______ the pattern accepted as meaningful by the people around him.
Similarly, a child's indiscriminate (8)_______ of putting things into his mouth becomes limited to
putting food into his mouth in a certain day. The sounds that a child can make are more (9)_______
and numerous than the sounds that any particular language utilizes. However, a child born into a
society with a pattern of language is encouraged to make a small (10)_______ of sounds and to make
these few sounds over and over until it is natural for him to make these sounds and no others.
1. A. transmit B. describe C. convey D. reveal
2. A. unconscious B. unknown C. insensible D. irrational
3. A. explained B. forced C. directed D. learned
4. A. to talk B. telling C. to say D. speaking
5. A. into where B. into which C. into this D. into that
6. A. blabber B. chirp C. babble D. croon
7. A. represent B. express C. tell D. give
8. A. routine B. practice C. custom D. habitation
9. A. changed B. distorted C. varied D. reflected
10. A. gathering B. accumulation C. get-together D. selection

READING COMPREHENSION (10 pts)

Choose the item (A, B, C or D) that best completes the unfinished statement about the
passage.
Large animals that inhabit the desert have evolved a number of adaptations for reducing the
effects of extreme heat. One adaptation is to be light in color, and to reflect rather than absorb the
Sun's rays. Desert mammals also depart from the normal mammalian practice of maintaining a
constant body temperature. Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the
body, which would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their
temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees
Celsius have been measured in Grant's gazelles. The overheated body then cools down during the
cold desert night, and indeed the temperature may fall unusually low by dawn, as low as 34 degrees
Celsius in the camel. This is an advantage since the heat of the first few hours of daylight is absorbed
in warming up the body, and an excessive buildup of heat does not begin until well into the day.
Another strategy of large desert animals is to tolerate the loss of body water to a point that
would be fatal for non-adapted animals. The camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight as
water without harm to itself, whereas human beings die after losing only 12 to 13 percent of their body
weight. An equally important adaptation is the ability to replenish this water loss at one drink. Desert
animals can drink prodigious volumes in a short time, and camels have been known to imbibe over
100 liters in a few minutes. A very dehydrated person, on the other hand, cannot drink enough water
to rehydrate at one session, because the human stomach is not sufficiently big and because a too
rapid dilution of the body fluids causes death from water intoxication. The tolerance of water loss is of
obvious advantage in the desert, as animals do not have to remain near a water hole but can obtain
food from grazing sparse and far-flung pastures. Desert-adapted mammals have the further ability to
feed normally when extremely dehydrated, it is a common experience in people that appetite is lost
even under conditions of moderate thirst.

1. What is the main topic of the passage?

(A) Weather variations in the desert (B) Adaptations of desert animals
(C) Diseases of desert animals (D) Human use of desert animals.
2. According to the passage, why is light coloring an advantage to large desert animals?
(A) It helps them hide from predators. (B) It does not absorb sunlight as
much as dark colors.
(C) It helps them see their young at night (D) It keeps them cool at night.
3. The word "maintaining" is closest in meaning to
(A) measuring (B) inheriting (C) preserving (D)
delaying
4. The author uses of Grant's gazelle as an example of
(A) an animal with a low average temperature (B) an animal that is not as well
adapted as the camel
(C) a desert animal that can withstand high body temperatures (D) a desert animal with a
constant body temperature
5. When is the internal temperature of a large desert mammal lower?
(A) Just before sunrise (B) In the middle of the day (C) Just after sunset (D) Just after
drinking
6. The word "tolerate" is closest in meaning to
(A) endure (B) replace (C) compensate (D) reduce
7. What causes water intoxication?
(A) Drinking too much water very quickly (B) Drinking polluted water
(C) Bacteria in water (D) Lack of water.
8. What does the author imply about desert-adapted mammals?
(A) They do not need to eat much food. (B) They can eat large quantities
quickly
(C) They easily lose their appetites. (D) They can travel long distances
looking for food.
9. Why does the author mention humans in the second paragraph?
(A) To show how they use camels. (B) To contrast them to desert
mammals.
(C) To give instructions about desert survival. (D) To show how they have
adapted to desert life.
10. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an adaptation of large desert animals?
(A) Variation in body temperatures (B) Eating while dehydrated
(C) Drinking water quickly (D) Being active at night.

OPEN CLOZE TEST (60 pts)

Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word to make a meaningful passage.
PASSAGE A
For years, concern has been (1) ____________ by parents and teachers about the effect of
computer games on the moral and (2) __________ make-up of the next (3) __________. Some have
warned that a relentless diet of whiz-bang ‘shoot-‘em-ups’ fosters antisocial behavior, (4)___________
playground violence. (5) ___________ believe that the age of the zombie is upon us.
But expert opinion is (6) ___________ radically. Psychologists in America and Britain now
suggest that (7) ___________ computers games hold some dangers for children, they also provide
opportunities their parents (8) ____________ enjoyed to amplify powers of concentration and
memory. Researchers (9) ____________ also highlighted the positive (10) ____________ of children
to the way computer games reward success, thereby spurring (11) ____________ on to look for
greater challenges – a boon if the same attitude is applied to school (12) __________. A leading
academic at the University of Washington has even claimed that children think (13) ____________
when they play computer games, learning to deal with problems in parallel rather than in sequence. In
(14) ____________, children are being trained to tackle problems in a (15) ___________ which is not
only more rapid but also more effective.

PASSAGE B
The geographical (1) ___________ of a country and its physical characteristics are very
important to its (2) ____________ and progress. The United States is very fortunate in this (3)
______________.
First of all, it has a good climate. In (4) ___________ all sections of the country it is possible to
live comfortably during the (5) __________ year. It is true that in the south it sometimes gets very (6)
___________, and in the north very cold. But the people who live in these (7) ___________ become
accustomed to the climate and never suffer (8) ___________ when the weather is either very hot or
very cold.
In a large country (9) ___________ is usually a great variety of different physical
characteristics. In the United States, there are wide plains and high (10) __________, thousands of
lakes and rivers of all sizes, cool forests and hot (11) __________, and a coastline several thousand
miles long.
The many lakes and rivers, as well as the long coastline, have been of great (12)
___________ to the development of the country, since they have made (13) ___________ the easy
transportation of people and all the things they need. Transportation by water is still necessary and
important. In modern (14) ____________, however, trains, automobiles, trucks and airplanes are
doing much of the work which was (15) _________ done by ships and boats.

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20 pts)

Rewrite each sentence in such a way that it means almost the same as the one printed before
it. Use the word in brackets without making any change to it.
1. He took little notice of the man standing at the gate. (WAS)
→ He didn’t pay __________________________________________________________________
2. She burst into tears immediately after saying it. (HAD)
→ No sooner ___________________________________________________________________
3. The artist’s performance attracted such a big crowd that it had to start late. (SHOWED)
→ So many ___________________________________________________________________
4. I should have bought the car at last week’s auction. (AUCTIONED)
→ If only _______________________________________________________________________
5. The farmer and his children used to do most of the farm work. (WELL)
→ Most of ______________________________________________________________________
6. The attendance at the football match was very low. (SEE)
→ Hardly ______________________________________________________________________
7. Although he perhaps has some faults, meanness is not one of them. (INCLUDE)
→ Whatever ____________________________________________________________________
8. Everyone heard about the accident before I did. (INFORMED)
→ I was ________________________________________________________________________
9. Someone has suggested banning cars from the city center. (AUTHORITY)
→ It ___________________________________________________________________________
10. You cannot find that precious book anywhere else except in her private library. (RATHER)
→ It is _________________________________________________________________________

THE END OF THE TEST