A. replenish B. reinforce C. replete D. restore

7. A. depressed B. declined C .reduced D. dropped 8. A. volume B. amount C. dimension D. quantity 9. A. advertise B. promote C .respect D. admire 10. A. brisk B. hard C. crisp D. brief

B. WRITTEN TEST I. OPEN CLOZE (20pts): Fill in each gap with one suitable word PASSAGE 1

THE SIGHTS AND SMELLS OF MOROCCAN MARKETS

As you approach the city of Fes, you are overwhelmed by the incredible noise of the traffic. Roads are unmarked, there are no traffic lights, and people are sounding their car horns all the time, (1)………….a terrible din. The traffic noise abates (2)…………. you enter the market, as the streets are too narrow for cars to get (3) ………….

The medina (market) of Fes has a unique smell that is hard to describe, and even harder to forget. It smells (4)…………. raw meat that has been in the sun too long, combined with the stench of rancid oil and olives. The sound of flies buzzing is everywhere.

It is easy to escape from this smell if you enter a pharmacy. The shopkeeper speaks both Arabic and English fluently. He listens intently to his customers and then tells them (5)…………. medicines they need. Giant bottles of herbs and spices give (6)…………. a fragrant scent of fresh mint and lavender.

There is a restaurant nearby, where lunch is being served. Big platters of fresh vegetables come out first, but many tourists (7)…………. clear of raw vegetables in case they get ill from the water (8)……… were washed in. Then, the main course is served - curried chicken. It looks and smells appetizing and tastes delicious. The diners eat it with relish, washed (9)………….with cola, even though many of them have seen chickens being killed in the market (10)…………. a few minutes earlier.

PASSAGE 2

THE ORIGINS OF CRICKET

Cricket is often considered the quintessential English sport, but in fact, there are many theories about how the game (1)………….. One theory suggested that the game was devised by shepherds, who would hit balls of wool with their crooks or ‘cricces'. (2)…………. speculates that it was started by children. The idea was that the person holding the crook would (3)…………. the wicket gate to the sheep-pen from the person throwing the woolen ball. However, it is (4)………….that the game we know today would have evolved from a single inspiration, and cricket probably came (5) …………. as an amalgamation of different games played over the centuries.

The (6)…………. reference in history to a game similar to cricket dates back to 1300, when King Edward I, also (7)………….as Edward Longshanks, is noted as playing a game called ‘creag’. In 1597 we come across a reference to the game in Surrey, where a witness in a land dispute stated he remembered playing ‘krekett’ almost fifty years (8)………….. The first recorded match took place in 1646 and at the end of the century it was so popular that (9)…………. Missed church to attend a game was (10)…………. to a fine! The first written rules of cricket weren't drawn up until 1744.

II. WORD FORM (20pts) PART 1. Supply the correct form of the word in the bracket in each sentence. 1. Eighty percent of people interviewed…………. declared that the use of endangered wild animals such as elephants and tigers as a form of entertainment should be prohibited. (EQUIVOCAL). 2. There is evidence to indicate that most animals face ………….on a daily basis. (TREAT) 3. …………. at this school is severely punished, so remember to mind your manners both during the lessons and outside the classroom. (OBEY). 4. There are various myths surrounding bats, those…………. creatures of the night. (ENIGMA) 5. Some species feed primarily on fruit and so aid in seed…………. . (DISPERSE)

141 6. The draft law was passed by 134 votes to 19, with 5 …………. (ABSTAIN) . 7. For some young people, online games have become…………. addictive to the extent that is threatening their mental and physical health. (RESIST) 8. You do not have to be an expert to grow cacti, and the …………. needn't be concerned about cultivating them because they are among the easiest of plants to care for. (INITIATE) 9. Girls are almost invariably expected to express their feelings, but it would be…………. to believe that they are born weaker, more sensitive or with a greater natural inclination to cry. (ERROR) 10. What children need is more encouragement in their…………. years in order not to succumb to feelings of depression later on. (FORM)

PART 2 Complete the following passage with the correct forms of the given words.

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We are (1)…………. by the experts that we are, as a species, designed for face-to-face communication. But does that really mean having every meeting in person? Ask the bleary-eyed sales team this question as they struggle (2)………….through their weekly teambuilding session and that answer is unlikely to be in the (3) ………….. Unless you work for a very small business or have a(n) (4)…………. high boredom threshold, you doubtless spend more time sitting in meetings than you want to. Of course, you could always follow business guru Archie Norman ’s example. He liked to express (5)…………. with customers queuing at the checkout by holding management meetings standing up.

Is email a realistic (6)…………. ? It’s certainly a powerful tool for disseminating information, but as a meeting substitute it’s seriously flawed. Words alone can cause trouble. We're all full of (7)…………. that can be (8)………….triggered by others and people are capable of reading anything they like into an email. There is also a (9)…………. for email to be used by people who wish to avoid ‘real’ encounters because they don’t want to be (10)………….with any awkwardness.

III. ERROR IDENTIFICATION (10pts) There are ten mistakes in the following paragraph. Find them then give the correction.

Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major directions: the realistic and the formalistic. Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than absolute, term. When using to suggest a tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but at the end they are still just labels. Few films are exclusive formalist in style, and fewer yet are completely realist. There is also an important difference between realism and reality, although this distinct is often forgotten. Realism is a particular style, where physical reality is the source of all the raw materials of film, both realistic and formalistic. Virtually all movie directors go to the photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with this material - what they shape and manipulate it - determines their stylistic emphasis.

Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of concrete reality with a minimum of distortion. In photographing objects and events, the filmmaker tries to suggest the copiousness of life himself. Both realist and formalist film directors must select (and hence emphasize) certain details from the chaotic sprawl of reality. But the element of selectivity in realistic films is less obvious. Realists, in short, try to preserve the illusion that their film world is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world. Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense. They deliberately stylize and distort their crude materials so that only the very naive should mistake a manipulated image of an object or event to the real thing. 1…………….. 2…………….. 3…………….. 4…………….. 5…………….. 6…………….. 7…………….. 8…………….. 9……………..