A. For B. By C. In D. With

My wife and I have always enjoyed travelling by sea, and last year we decided to go for a Mediterranean cruise (1)………….. our holiday was rather expensive we thought that the high standard of accomadation, the first-class food and the many interesting places we saw were well (2)………….. the price we paid.

We found that most of the other passagers were friendly and interesting, but there was a man, Mr James, who irrated and annoyed us, and not (3)…………..us but all the others who shared our table at dinner. Whatever subject we talked about, it seemed that he was an expert (4)………….. He, had, apparently, read more books, visited more countries and studied more languages, than anyone else. After a few days, we ate our meals in (5)………….., because nobody wanted to begin a conversation that would soon be taken (6)………….. by this man.

Then my wife had an idea. Fortunately, the ship had a library, and she suggested that we (7)………….. think of an unsual subject, look it up in encyclopaedia and then talk about it at dinner. If it were unusual enough Mr James could not (8)………….. know anything about it. The subject we chose was “English Agriculture in the Eleventh Century” . At diner that night we discussed this subject with (9) enthusiam. Mr James was silent. We realised we had at last (10)…………..to find something he knew nothing about.

B. WRITTEN TEST (70PTS) I. CLOZE TEST (70PTS): Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD for each space. PASSAGE 1:

THE WORLD OF DREAMS

Most people feel that when they dream, they (0) are carried off to another world. (1)………….. the contrary, dreams are often connected to our daily lives. (2)………….. our whole mind (3)…………..filled with something, when we are either very upset or when we are in good spirit, à dream will represent this reality in symbols. It is often said that we benefit from dreams because they help the spirit to heal itself, when things (5)………….. wrong. Dreams are therefore a kind of escape, almost a holiday from (6) …… life, with its fears and responsibilities. It is, (7)………….. , a strange (8)………….. of holiday because whether we have a wonderful time or whether it turns (9)………….. to be a nightmare, we quickly forget it. Most dreams disappear forever, (10)…………..you are one of those people disciplined enough to write them down as soon as you wake up.

PASSAGE 2:

LOOKING FOR A JOB

I finished university six month (11)………….. , I've got a degree in business administration. I enjoyed the course very much (12)…………... I realize I should have studied a lot harder! A few of my friends have already got full-time jobs but most, me, are still waiting (13)…………..something suitable to turn up. Meanwhile, I make sure that I keep myself busy. I look through the job advertisements (14)………….. the newspapers every day and I also ask all the people I know to tell me if they hear of any vacancies (15)…… they work . What I am looking for is something challenging and I would certainly be happy to move to another city or even work abroad for a while. The (16)…………..is not so important at this stage, provided I earn enough to live on, because I don’t want to continue. having to depend on my parents, although they are (17)………….. generous to me. At the moment, I'm working in a nearby restaurant two evenings (18)…………..week, washing up and generally helping out, which brings a little money. The other people working there are very friendly, and many of them are in the same (19)…………..as me, so we have lots of to talk (20) …………..

II. WORD FORMATION (20PTS) PART 1: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the word given: 1. She left school with good………….. (QUALIFY)

149 2. The bride was ………….. dressed in white. (STYLE) 3. The………….. of the agriculture in our country is very necessary. (ELECTRIFY) 4. Jim’s …………..of the crime only made matters worse. (DENY) 5. You can raise your hand to show that you need ………….. (ASSIST) 6. We had the phone………….. because we are moving tomorrow. (CONNECT) 7................... there are black holes in space . (THEORY) 8. One of the aims of the organization is to provide………….. aid to the refugees. (HUMAN) 9. Dozens of…………..are injured on the city road each year. (CYCLE) 10. It was…………..of him to leave the children on their own in the pool. (RESPONSE)

PART 2: Read the text below. Fill in each of blank space with the correct form of the word from the box.

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Some recent research into (1)................between men and women has produced results which will surprise few women. Men are always interrupting women when they talk. One (2)................feels that men regard female talk as a kind of conversational (3).............. They expect women to play a supporting role. So a man interrupts in a display of (4)........... ...of control. Men also have a much more (5) ................listening style. Whereas a woman uses gestures or say: “mm”, a man will say such thing as “ring” or “okay” thus settle the stage for an (6)................ Conversation of this kind, then, hardly has (7)................communication. Male talk is often (8)................while women are more tentative, asking more questions and tending to build up their replies on what the other person had said. The research would indicate that women are better (9)..... than men. Yet, listening secretly to conversation between groups of women, one has the (10)................of several simultaneous monologues into man would be able to get a chance to speak.

III. ERRORCORRECTIO N (10PTS): There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.

Man has always depended on plants of food and many other useful products. For this reason, farming is that of the world’s most important industries. At firstly, early man did not know how to plant seeds and raise crops. He gathered wild fruits and vegetables where he found them. Then man discovered how to grow his own food. He planted seeds and waited for the crop to grow. For the first time, he could be reasonable sure of his food supply. He could settle down and build shelters in the places which he grew food. Population began to increase; the demand for food became greater. Old-fashioned tools and farming methods were inefficient in meeting the demand. So man cultivated more still more land and invented more complicated machines to make his work easier. Tractors replaced horses and other farm animals. Scientists studied and experimented with plants. They told farmers how to control plant diseases, and how too grow bigger and gooder crops. Now another man, with the knowledge of plants and the help of machines, can cultivate hundred of acres. He can raise plants which did not originally grow in the soil or climate of his community. 1………………. 2………………. 3………………. 4………………. 5………………. 6………………. 7………………. 8………………. 9………………. 10.……………..

IV. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (20PTS) * Finish the second sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it 1. Even though I admire his courage, I think he’s foolish.