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I. Choose the best answer for each of the following questions. Write your answers (A,B,C, or D) in
the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
1. He was rather ____ me. He just said ‘No!’
A. short with B. crude to C. rude with D. tactless to
2. _______ when they learned that the chairman would not be able to join the meeting.
A. When they realized why they were all there in that early time of the day
B. Hardly had the committee learned the reason of the meeting
C. However professional they tried to be seen
D. It wasn’t until they got a phone call about an urgent meeting the next day
3. He agreed to accept the position _______ that he would be given a share of the company’s profit.
A. in the agreement B. on the understanding C. with the purpose D. with the aim
4. Remember not to cough or sneeze at the table. ______, excuse yourself.
A. For necessary B. As necessary C. With all need D. If need be
5. The scientists _____ the festival of Ramadan, but they were too busy with their research in the
laboratory.
A. would have liked to commemorate B. would have loved to have observed
C. would prefer to have obeyed D. would sooner have celebrated
6. Police have warned people to be ______ when strangers call at the door and to ask to see proof of
identity.
A. choosy B. cagey C. wary D. scarey
7. New consumer protection legislation comes into ____ next April.
A. law B. force C. statute D. act
8. The factory is working below ______ because of the shortage of essential materials.
A. range B. scope C. capacity D. denstiy
9. If the work-force respected you, you wouldn't need to ____ your authority so often.
A. assert B. affirm C. maintain D. inflict
10. Jonelle is a(n) ______ of the kind of student we seek: someone who is both academically strong
and actively involved in the community.
A. paradox B. mandate C. catalyst D. exemplar
11. Abdul found his ten-hour shifts at the paper clip factory repetitive and ______.
A. fatuous B. nebulous C. wearisome D. malleable
12. I’m not all that well ____ the ways of the world in economic terms.
A. off with B. up to C. on with D. up on
13. This old jacket of mine is _____.
A. wearing out B. throwing out C. fallen out D. worked out
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14. Martin just loves to ______ his teeth into a really challenging crossword.
A. grind B. get C. put D. sink
15. I kept trying to convince him that it was a good idea until I _____, but he’s so stubborn, he just
kept disagreeing with me!
A. was blue in the face B. lent color C. was beet red D. had a yellow streak
II. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the others. Write
your answers (A,B,C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet
16. A. scissor B. dessertspoon C. connoisseur D. disposses
17. A. plush B. glands C. calf D. splinter
18. A. epitome B. eloquence C. perishable D. essence
III. Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others. Write your
answers (A,B,C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
19. A. world-famous B. peace-loving C. well-founded D. best-seller
20. A. honorable B. intimacy C. participate D. interviewer
IV. Read the text below and decide which answer best fits each gap. Write your answers (A,B,C, or
D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. There is an example at the beginning
(0).
BACK TO NATURE
While I was walking through my neighborhood park recently, I was (0)___B. pleasantly____ surprised
to find that I was not alone in my desire to get out and see nature at its finest. The autumn season and
its accompanying (21) _____ of leaves had brought us city-dwellers out in (22) _____.
With wisdom of (23) _____, I realize I really shouldn't have been as surprised as I was because nature
has a way of attracting crowds. Even travel agents have (24) _____ and each year sees more and more
'eco-holidays' on (25) _____ for those wishing to 'reunite' themselves with the great outdoors. It is
fact, too, that the world's zoos and aquariums attract more people annually than all professional events
(26) _____.
According to Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard ecologist, humans have an (27) _____ love of nature and
an actual need to (28) _____ themselves in it. Children are the greatest examples of what Wilson has
termed 'biophilia' or love of life. Point out a butterfly or an anthill to almost any child and watch their
eyes (29) _____ up with interest and curiosity. Or, for that matter, just watch grown-ups as they stroll
through the park on a lovely autumn day. Their relaxed expressions are enough to show that they are
truly appreciative of their (30) _____, but beneficial, contact with nature.
(0) A. utterly B. pleasantly C. constantly D. congenially
21. A. throwing B. letting C. dropping D. shreddings
22. A. flocks B. schools C. mobs D. droves
23. A. retrospect B. review C. hindsight D. recollection
24. A. worked out B. caught on C. noted D. understood
25. A. show B. display C. sale D. offer
26. A. combined B. mixed C. added D. totaled
27. A. inner B. inherited C. innate D. deep-seated
28. A. drown B. boggle C. plunge D. huddle
29. A. glow B. light C. gleam D. shine
30. A. swift B. little C. tiny D. puny

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V. Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A,B,C, or D) to the questions that follow.
Write your answers (A,B,C, or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU SPEAK
Does the language you speak influence the way you think? Does it help define your world
view? Anyone who has tried to master a foreign tongue has at least considered the possibility. As have
those who have ever had a close foreign friend.
At first glance, the idea that language influences thought seems perfectly plausible. [A]
Conveying even simple messages requires that you make completely different observations depending
on your language. Imagine being asked to count some pens on a table. [B] Let’s say there are eleven.
[C] But a Russian also has to consider what gender the pens are (neuter) and then use the neuter form
of the word for eleven. [D] And a Japanese speaker has to take into account their shape (long and
cylindrical) as well, and use the word for eleven designated for items of that form.
On the other hand, surely pens are just pens, no matter what your language compels you to
specify about them. Little linguistic peculiarities, though amusing, don't change the objective
world we are describing. So how can they alter the way we think?
Scientists and philosophers have been grappling with this thorny question for centuries. There
have always been those who argue that our picture of the universe depends on our native tongue. Since
the 1960s, however, with the ascent of thinkers like Noam Chomsky and a host of cognitive scientists,
the consensus has been that linguistic differences don't really matter, that language is a universal
human trait and that our ability to talk to one another owes more to our shared genetics than to our
varying cultures. But now the pendulum is beginning to swing the other way as psychologists re-
examine the question.
The new generation of scientists is not convinced that language is innate and hard-wired into our brain.
“Language is not just notation.” says Dan Slobin of the University of California. “The brain is shaped
by
experience." Slobin and others say that small, even apparently insignificant differences between
languages do effect the way speakers perceive the world. “Some people argue that language just
changes what you attend to,” says Lera Boroditsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But
what you attend to changes what you encode and remember.”
This is what Slobin calls ‘thinking for speaking' and he argues that it can have a huge impact on
what we deem important. For instance, about a third of the world's languages describe location in
'absolute' terms: speakers of many Pacific Island languages would say 'north of the tree' or ‘seaward
from the tree' rather than ‘beside the tree', as we might in English. In these languages, you always need
to know where you are in relation to fixed external reference points, says Slobin. “Even when you are
in a dark windowless room, or travelling on a bus in the dark.” he says, "you must know your location
relative to the fixed points in order to talk about events and locations.” So, even if you didn’t use the
word 'north' in conversation, you would always know where it was.
Whether your language emphasises an object's shape, substance or function also seems to effect
your relationship with the world, according to John Lucy, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics. He has compared American English with Yucatec Maya, spoken in Mexico’s
Yucatan
Peninsula. Among the many differences between the two languages is the way objects are classified. In
English, shape is implicit in many nouns. We think in terms of discrete objects; and it is only when we
want to quantify amorphous things like sugar that we employ units such as ’cube’ or 'cup'. But in
Yucatec, objects tend to be defined by separate words that describe shape. So, for example, a 'short flat
leather’ is a wallet. Likewise, 'long banana' describes the fruit, while 'flat banana' means banana leaf
and a 'seated banana' is a banana tree.
Boroditsky also argues that even artificial classification systems, such as gender, can be
important. The word ‘sun’ is neuter in Russian, feminine in German and masculine in Spanish. Some
psychologists claim that these inconsistencies suggest gender is just a meaningless tag, but Boroditsky
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disagrees. “To construct sentences in these languages,” she says. “involves thinking about gender -
even if it’s arbitrary - thousands of times every day.”
To test how this affects the way people think, she presented Spanish and German-Speaking
volunteers with nouns that happened to have opposite genders in their native tongues. 'Key', for
instance, is feminine in Spanish and masculine in German and 'bridge' is masculine in Spanish and
feminine in German. Boroditsky asked the volunteers to come up with adjectives - in English - to
describe these items. German speakers described keys as ‘awkward’, 'worn', ‘jagged’ and ‘serrated’,
while Spanish speakers saw them as 'little’, 'lovely', 'magic' and 'intricate'. To Germans, bridges were
'awesome', 'fragile', ‘beautiful’ and 'elegant’, whereas Spanish speakers considered them 'big', 'solid',
‘dangerous’, 'strong' and ‘sturdy’.

31. A positive answer to the questions in the first paragraph would most probably be given by
_______.
A. a student at an advanced stage of foreign language learning
B. a person who has worked abroad but has not learned a second language
C. a person who has been involved in an intimate relationship with a foreigner
D. a foreigner who has many close friends
32. Which of the following square brackets [A], [B], [C], or [D] best indicates where in the paragraph
the
sentence “As an English speaker, you only have to count them and give the number.”can be
inserted?
A. [A] B. [B] C. [C] D. [D]
33. Which of the following sentences best expresses the meaning of the sentence in bold in paragraph 3?
A. Objective as it may seem, the world we are depicting is almost susceptible to intriguing linguistic
subtleties.
B. No matter how intriguing they are, minor peculiar linguistic features have no impacts on the
objective
world depicted.
C. The objective world being described is too amusing to be altered by any peculiar linguistic features.
D. However amusing it is, the world being depicted is not subject to any impacts of little linguistic
peculiarities.
34. The question in paragraph 4 is described as thorny because _______.
A. nobody knows the answer B. the answer varies according to the language
analysed
C. it is difficult to answer D. it has only recently been considered important
35. What is the purpose of the reference to the pendulum? (paragraph 4)
A. to show that genetic differences among races are insignificant
B. to suggest that Chomsky’s theory is no longer accepted as correct
C. to suggest that human speech patterns are hereditary
D. to state that cultural differences account for linguistic differences
36. According to Lera Boroditsky, what a person pays closest attention to reflects their_______.
A. linguistic prowess B. thought processes
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C. powers of observation D. intellectual abilities
37. In a typical Pacific Island language _______.
A. orientation is vitally important B. recognition of every type of vegetation is essential
C. descriptions of journeys are relatively brief D. north is always the point of reference
38. According to John Lucy, English speakers think of objects as_______.
A. needing units of measurement B. not having a dear shape
C. separate and distinct D. masculine or feminine
39. An amorphous object in paragraph 7 is one which has _______.
A. an indefinite shape B. an indistinct smell
C. a strong flavor D. a dense texture
40. The presence of gender in a language _______.
A. leads to confusion for native English speakers
B. determines the way complex sentences are constructed
C. determines the order in which adjectives appear
D. affects the way objects are perceived
VI. You are going to read four different reviews from 4 different posts about the movie “The
Graduate”. For questions 41–50, choose from the reviews A – D. Choices may be chosen more than
once.
Which review
41. uses more than one contradiction to make its point?
42. neglects to identify the powerful role played by music in this film?
43. is critical of the rhythm of the film?
44. suggests the film contains elements which are hard to believe?
45. feels an actors contribution was not appreciated as much as it should have been?
46. makes the point that the story on which the film was based is distasteful?
47. offers the suggestion that this film has become a cinematical reference?
48. looks at the film from different points in time?
49. offers a fleeting glimpse into the unfair way male and female behaviour is judged in society?
50. seems unnecessarily preoccupied by the timing of various elements of the film?
“THE GRADUATE”
(A) [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
The Graduate, the pungent story of the sudden confusions and dismays of a bland young man fresh
out of college who is plunged headlong into the intellectual vacuum of his affluent parents' circle of
friends, it fashions a scarifying picture of the raw vulgarity of the swimming-pool rich, and it does so
with a lively and exciting expressiveness through vivid cinema. Further, it offers an image of silver-
spooned, bewildered youth, standing expectantly out with misgiving where the brook and the
swimming-pool meet, that is developed so wistfully and winningly by Dustin Hoffman, an amazing
new young star, that it makes you feel a little tearful and choked-up while it is making you laugh
yourself raw. That's all. And yet in pursuing this simple story line, which has been adorned with
delicious incidents and crackling dialogue in the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry,
based on a novel by Charles Webb, the still exploring Mr. Nichols has done such sly and surprising
things with his actors and with his came, or, rather, Robert Surtees's camera, that the overall picture
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has the quality of a very extensive and revealing social scan. Funny, outrageous, and touching, The
Graduate is a sophisticated film that puts Mr. Nichols and his associates on a level with any of the best
satirists working abroad today.
(B) [THE GUARDIAN]
If ever a movie captured the audience's imagination with its musical soundtrack, it was The Graduate,
that irresistibly watchable 1967 classic. Simon and Garfunkel's eerie and sublime The Sound of Silence
perfectly captures both Ben's alienation and bewilderment about what he should do with his life, and
then his postcoital disenchantment and self-loathing. The Graduate itself does not seem the same in
2017 as it did in 1967. Then the emphasis was on sophisticated black comedy with a hint of 60s
radicalism and student discontent, mediated through the older generation of suburbanites. Watched in
the present day, the element of predatory abuse is inescapable. You cannot see it without wondering
how it might look and feel if the sexual roles were reversed. But a modern audience might also,
paradoxically, be much less content with the villainous role the film finally assigns to Mrs Robinson,
be more sympathetic to her midlife crisis, and remember the pathos of her abandoned interest in art.
Calder Willingham and Buck Henry's screenplay, adapted from Charles Webb's 1963 novel, cleverly
allows you to wonder if Mr Robinson was, in some conscious or subconscious way, complaisant in his
wife's adventure. The excellence of Katherine Ross as Mrs Robinson's daughter, Elaine, is often
overlooked. A hugely pleasurable film.
(C) [THE TELEGRAPH]
The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft and directed by Mike Nichols, is actually a
very nasty film, and a very, very funny one. As the benchmark for every inter-generational relationship
film since, it tends to live in the male public imagination largely as a reference point for cheeky
forbidden fantasies regarding older women the world over. It takes about three minutes, roughly the
length of time it takes Hoffman to get down the moving walkway to Simon and Garfunkel's Sound of
Silence and from the airport to the suffocating atmosphere of his graduation party, where he gets
gradually trapped into a relationship with one of his parents' friends, to realise that The Graduate is
actually a very nasty film, and a very, very funny one. Directorially, it is as cutting-edge late-Sixties as
you can get, all fish-bowl juxtapositions, dappled light and pensive close-ups. But the world we're in
here is essentially a Fifties hangover, a staid, suburban one still ruled over by The Old Folk, a place
where the reason you get together with a seductively smoking alcoholic in her forties is not so much
because you find her attractive but because she's the only person in the vicinity as bored as you. The
result is an exercise in claustrophobia that makes Panic Room look like a western by comparison. By
the end, it doesn't matter that the lesson he's learned is the one that the old folks were telling him in the
first place, that he should find a nice girl his own age. The feeling of freedom is immense.
(D) [VARIETY]
The Graduate is a delightful, satirical comedy-drama about a young man's seduction by an older
woman, and the measure of maturity which he attains from the experience. An excellent screenplay by
Calder Willingham and comedy specialist Buck Henry, based on the Charles Webb novel, focuses on
Hoffman, just out of college and wondering what it's all about. Predatory Miss Bancroft, wife of
Murray Hamilton, introduces Hoffman to mechanical sex, reaction to which evolves into true love with
Miss Ross, Miss Bancroft's daughter. In the 70 minutes which elapse from Hoffman's arrival home
from school to the realization by Miss Ross that he has had an affair with her mother, pic is loaded
with hilarious comedy and, because of this, the intended commentary on materialistic society is most
effective. Only in retrospect does one realize a basic, but not overly damaging, flaw that Hoffman's
achievements in school are not credible in light of his basic shyness. No matter, or not much, anyway.
Only in the final 35 minutes, as Hoffman drives up and down the LA-Frisco route in pursuit of Miss
Ross, does the film falter in pacing, result of which the switched-on cinematics become obvious, and
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therefore tiring, although the experience is made tolerable by the excellent music of Simon and
Garfunkle.
VII. Supply the correct form of the words given in brackets. . Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A MUSLIM HERO
In Algiers Barbarossa took over as the (0) __leader__ (LEAD). In the face of (51)____ (NEW)
Spanish pressure Barbarossa showed his political cunning and sought help from Süleyman the
Magnificent, the Islamic sultan of the vast Ottoman Empire centered in Constantinople (present-day
Istanbul, Turkey). Süleyman sent him 2,000 janissaries, the elite of the Ottoman army. In exchange,
Algiers became a new Ottoman sanjak, or district, which allowed Barbarossa to carry on his (52)____
(PIRATE) while conquering additional strongholds. Nevertheless, the main threat remained right on
his doorstep: the Spanish still occupied the Peñón of Algiers. In 1529 he (53)____ (BOMB) the
garrison into surrender before beating its commander to death.
Barbarossa’s (54)____ (FAMOUS) spread throughout the Muslim world. Experienced corsairs,
such as Sinan the Jew and Ali Caraman, came to Algiers, drawn by the prospects of making their
fortunes. But Barbarossa fought for (55)____ (POLICY) as well. When Charles V’s great Genovese
(56)____ (ADMIRATION) Andrea Doria captured ports in Ottoman Greece, Süleyman (57)____
(SUM) Barbarossa, who quickly answered the call. To impress the sultan, he loaded his ships with
luxurious gifts: tigers, lions, camels, silk, cloth of gold, silver, and gold cups, and 200 (58)____
(SLAVERY) women for the harem in Istanbul. Süleyman was delighted and made Barbarossa admiral
in (59)____ (MISCHIEF) of the Ottoman fleet. (Explore the pages of a pirate's pilfered atlas.)
Barbarossa now commanded over a hundred galleys and galliots, or half galleys, and started a strong
(60)____ (NAVY) campaign all around the Mediterranean.
(Source: National Geographic)
VIII. Read the text below and think of ONE word which best fits each gap. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
Face-to-face conversation is a (61)_______ process: You speak to me, I reply to you and so on. Two-
way (62)_______ depends on having a coding system that is understood by both (63)_______ and
receiver, and an agreed convention about signaling the beginning and end of the (64)_______. In
speech, the coding system is the language like English or Spanish; the convention that one person
speaks at a time may seem too obvious to (65)_______. In fact, the signals that people use in
conversation and meetings are often non-verbal. For example, lowering the pitch of the (66)______
may mean the end of a sentence, a sharp intake of breath (67)_______ signal the desire to interrupt,
catching the chairman’s (68)_______ may indicate the desire to speak in a formal (69)_______ like a
debate, a clenched fist may indicate anger. When these (70)_______ signals are not possible, more
formal signals may be needed.
IX. There are 10 mistakes in the passage. Find and provide correction on your answer sheet. (71-80)
1 Unlike many other species of turtle, the red-ear terrapin is not rare. In fact, four to five
million hatchings are exported annually from American farms. About 200,000 are sold in the
United Kingdom.
It is ranked that as many as 90 per cent of the young terrapins die in their first year because
5 of the poor conditions in which they are kept. Those which survive may live for 20 years and
arrive the size of a dinner plate. At this staging they require a large tank with heat and specialized
lightning.
Terrapins carry salmonella bacteria which can poison people. This is why the sale of
terrapins was banished in the United States in 1975. They are still, however, exported to the
United Kingdom.
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10 Modern turtles come from a very antique group of animals that lived over 200 million
years ago. At this time dinosaurs were just beginning to establish them.
Different types of turtles have interesting features: some box turtles are known to have
lived for over 100 years, since other species of turtles can remain underwater for more than 24
hours. And the green turtle is the most prolific of all reptiles, lying as many as 28,000 eggs each
15 year.
If unwanted pet turtles are unleased into the wild, many will die and those which survive
will threaten the lives of native plants and animal.
X. Complete the second sentence, using the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the
sentence printed before it. Write between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given in
brackets, in the space provided on the answer sheet. Do not change the word given in brackets in
any way. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
81. They tried to pull the door instead of pushing it. (IN)
 They tried to ______________________________________________________it.
82. It’s unlikely that he will appear on time. (TURN)
 There’s ______________________________________________________ on time.
83. Her special ability is fast thinking which is the main factor to her success. (OF)
 She is ______________________________________________________ her feet.
84. It’s not difficult to be well-trained in organizing your timetable. (OFF)
 You can ___________________________________________ with no difficulties.
85. The team trained hard so as to make it through the final round. (ADVANCING)
 The team trained hard with ___________________________________________ .
XI. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that is exactly the same as the sentence
printed before it. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
86. Because of her carelessness, she failed miserably in the final exam.
 Now ___________________________________________.
87. It has been rumored that you would get married soon.
 I have heard ___________________________________________.
88. Her singing career has stopped forever since the scandal.
 It was ___________________________________________________________ standstill.
89. Because of my lacking concentration on studying, I had failed.
 If I had applied ____________________________________________________.
90. The boy exaggerated himself on wearing luxurious clothes.
 The boy was vain _____________________________________________ .
XII. “Are non-famous figures real inspiration for children’s development?”
Write a paragraph of at least 140 words discussing about the statement.
THE END
BEST OF LUCK

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