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LEVEL A: A. CHOOSE THE WORD OR PHRASE (A, B, C, D) WICH
BEST COMPLETES EACH SENTENCE
1. He said the custom was grounded in good sence and…… back to the
period when many Londoners travelled to and fro on horseback.
A. dated
B. went
C. began
D. started
2. Im looking…….Tom. Have you seen him somewhere today?.
A. for
B. at
C. after
D. in
3. ………your head! The doorway is not very high.
A. Make
B. Care
C. Mind
D. Bother
4. Nonsmokers have bocome more (militarize)……… about smoking in
public places.
A. militaristic
B. military
C. militant
D. militarized
5. He retired at the…………of 60
A. old
B. age
C. older
D. elder

B. fare
C. hire
D. salary
12. He didn…t have a job for months, but………….the end he found work
as a waiter.
A. in
B. at
C. on
D. to
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13. You ought to do some work, …………… sitting there reading the
paper.
A. instead of
B. in spite of
C. in addition to
D. in accordance with
14. She…s very beautiful but that kind of woman doesn…t…… to me
A. attract
B. fancy
C. appeal
D. turn on
15. The criminal………….with the irritating boatman because he needed
the boatman…s help to escape.
A. put on
B. put off
C. put into
D. put up with
16. Can you please…………me the way to the post office?
A. talk
B. speak

manufactured and used.
A. properties
B. figures
C. characters
D. traits
23. Hurry up or we shall……… the bus.
A. run
B. miss
C. catch
D. deceive
24. Which of the following is NOT a word connected with fooball?
A. score
B. nil
C. kick
D. track
25. It…s often make of iron and can lead into a garden, it…s……….
A. a gate
B. a door
C. a port
D. a doorway
26. Could you hold……….a moment while I see if Peter is in his office?
A. out
B. at
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C. in
D. on
27. The workers went……….strike because they thought their wages
were too low.
A. on
B. at

increasing there as well. People are also eating more meat and dairy
products in other countries such as Cuba, Mauritius, and Hungary. Not
surprisingly, the disease rates in these countries are increasing along with
the change in diet. Consequently, doctors everywhere advise people to eat
more grains, fruit and vegetables and to eat less meat and fewer dairy
products.
1. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Eating meat causes cancer and heat disease
B. Doctors advise people to eat more grains, fruit and vegetables
C. The kind of diet we have can cause or prevent diseases
D. Chldren eat the same way their parents eat
2. Why do the Japanese have low rates of cancer and heart disease?
A. because they do not eat animal fat
B. because they eat a lot of grains and very little meat
C. because their diet changes
D. because they live longer than anyone else in the word
3. ……the Japanese live longer than anyone else in the worid.… What
does anyone else mean?
A. all other people
B. some other people
C. most other people
D. nobody
4. ……Moreover, as hamburgers, ice … cream, and other high … fat
foods become popular in Japan,…… What does.
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A. also
B. however
C. then
D. yet
5. ……the rates of heart disease and cancer are increasing there as

A. only violence
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B. many special show of real value
C. only crime
D. no educational programs
5. Some schools…………….
A. have regular class on TV
B. state that TV is not useful in education
C. do not like TV
D. do not like TV, and state that TV is not useful in education
III. Halloween is one of the most famous holidays in the U.S., and it is on
October 31. People carve pumpkins and make funny faces on them. These
are called “Jack – O – Lanterns”. On October 31, children wear a special
costume such as a witch, ghost, or clown. They go to many houses and they
knock on the door saying, “Trick or Treat!” It means that if people don’t
give them a treat, they will play some kind of trick on the household. So,
usually people give candy to them. I carved my first Halloween pumpkin at
my Friendship Family’s hous. First, I cut open the top of the pumpkin and
pulled the seeds out. Is was not good for me because is was sticky and
smelled bad. I had never carved a pumpkin, so it was interesting for me.
Next, I carved the eyes and the mouth. I put a candle inside. It was very
beautiful, so I was happy. I had a good experience because I learned one
new idea about American culture by taking part in it. I think Halloween is
an tinteresting American holiday which involves all family members and
neighbors too!
1. When is Halloween celebrated?
A. During the Fall
B. At the beginning of October
C. About 3 months before Christmas
D. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas

a great name in science and technology. In 1909, he shared the Nobel Prize
in physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, a German physicist, who worked on
wireless telegraphy and cathode rays. Marconi died in 1937.
3. One reason why the travellers took so long ton get to the river was
that…….
A. it was too hot to move quickly
B. there was no proper path
C. they all tried to go different ways
D. they could not follow the animal tracks
4. The travellers were happy when they reached the river
because…………
A. they had a sense of achievement
B. the going was much easier then
C. they were eager to see the waterfall
D. they knew they were near their destination
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5. To get past the waterfall the guide had to…………
A. use a fallen tree as a kind of bridge
B. cross the river above the waterfall
C. slide down a steep river bank
D. swing across the river form a high branch
IV. The elephant is the largest animal to walk on Earth. An elephant can
carry a load of 1200 pounds. They eat 300 pounds of food a day. An
elephant bady can weigh 200 pounds at birth. Elephants can live up to 70
year. Elephants can be trained to carry logs with their trunks, and have been
used in the forestry industry in Asia for many years. Elephants also use
their trunks for drinking water, bathing, and eating and communicating.
Recently it was discovered that elephants can communicate over a distance
of several miles using infrasonic sounds inaudible to humans. Elephants use
their earas as a cooling system. Blood flows through veins in the ears and as

V/When I opened the first “Body shop” in 1976 only object was to earn
enough to feed my children. Today “the Body shop” in an international
company rapidly rowing all around the world. In the years since we began I
have learned a lot. Much of what I have learned will be found in this book,
for I believe that we, as a company, have something worth saying about
how to run a successful business without giving up what we really believe
in. It’s not to normal business book, not is it just about my life. The
message is that to succeed in business you have to be different. Business
can be fun, a business can be run with love and it can do good. In business,
as in life. I need to enjoy myself, to have a feeling of family and to feel
excited by the unexpected. I have always wanted the people who work for
“the Body shop” to feel the same way. Now this book sends these ideas of
mine out into the world, makes them public. I’d like to think there are no
limits to our family’, no limits to what can be done. I find that an exciting
thought. I hope you do, too.
1. What is the writer…s main purpose in writing this text?
A. to tel the reader her life story
B. to introduce her ideas to the reader
C. to explain how international companies operate
D. to tell the reader how she brought up a family
2. What would someone learn from this text?
A. how to make a lot of money
B. how to write a book bout business
C. What the write’s family like
D. what the write’s book is about
3. How does the write feel about the business she runs?
A. She doesn’t care about success if her children are fed
B. She just runs if for her own entertainment
C. It is not like any other company
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9. Tom acted foolishly
Tom was foolish …….
10. The did their work carefully
They were careful………….
11. The students listened to their teacher with great attention
The students…………
12. The boy was excited about the war
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The film was…………
13. She is a very graceful girl
What…………
14. Mary was encouraged by the news
The news……………
15. He is not here now
I wish……………
16. London has more than thirty theatres.
There are………….
17. Remember to water the vegertables
Don’t………
18. She is a very graceful girl
What
19. She sang very beautifully
How………
20. I accomplished this task in 3 months
It took…………
21. She wrote the letter in 30 minutes
It took…………
21. She wrote the letter in 30 minutes
It took…………
Level B.

A. beg
B. collect
C. raise
D. rise
7. He wrote scripts. He was a………….
A. Writing scriptor
B. Writing script
C. script writer
D.scripting writing
8. He understands theis chemical……… and how they are
manufactured and used.
A. characters
B. fugures
C. properties
D. traits
9. Gravity is the force that attracts objects in space ……… each other
A. after
B. between
C. towards
D. before
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10. In a few seconds a computer can solve ……… that might take a man
years to solve alone
A. issues
B. troubles
C. difficulties
D. hurts
11. Please me when you are in the neighbourhood.
A. call off
B. call up

A. So have I
B. Neither had I
C. Neither have I
D. So I haven’t
18. Only because she had to support her family -………. To leave school
A. did Alice decide
B. does Ailice decide
C. that Alice decide
D. Alice decided
19. I did my homework………….
A. in a hurry
B. in hurry
C. with hurry
D. hurryingly
20. Which team ………. The game?
A. did they win
B. won
C. did it win
D. won it
21……………. Him a few words of Italian? The waiter.
A. Who did teach
B. What did he teach
C. Who taught
D. Whom did he teach
22. The wife of Steve Garvey, the baseball star…… about being left
alone too often
A. is being bitterly complaining
B. having complained bitterly
C. bittely has complained
D. has been complaining bitterly

C. was assassinated in Texas, Dallas, 1963
D. was assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1963
29. What particularly impressed me was………….
A. When she could study English well
B. She could study English well
C. her excellent command of English
D. because of her excellent English
30. Can you run 26 miles?…………
A. Yes, I do a lot
B. No, I cant
C. Yes, I can’t
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D. No, I cannot. I am not so strong
B. read the following passage and answer the questions
below
I. Three years ago on the last day of january, I had a big problem. I can’t
forget this day forever. The story began when my uncle, my cousin, and I
went to the desert. My uncle was the oldest at 72 years old, but he was still
strong. My cousin at that time was 10 years old, and I was 25 years old. All
of us liked hunting. Usually we went hunting on the weekend, especially in
winter, because winter is the hunting season. On the 25
th
of January, we
decided to go hunting. All things were ready in the car, a Range Rover with
four – wheel drive. We reached the place we were looking for at 5:15 PM.
First, we fixed the tent, then we made coffee and hea a few minutes of rest.
After that, we left to go on the hunt. We hunted using a falcon. Often, we
hunt birds and rabbits. We spent two hours without finding anything. We
decided to go back to the camp. On our way back, my cousin saw a rabbit.
He cried, “Raibbit!! Raibbit!!Quick” I took the falcon’s head cover and

C. The writer was younger than his uncle and his cousin
D. Winter is the hunting season, so they went hunting in January
2. Choose the correct answer
A. the range rover had front – wheel drive
B. after resting, they fixed their tent.
C. The group left for the hunting trip at 2.15 P.M
D. During the first two hours, the group found animals to hunt
3. Which happened last?
A. On their way back to camp, saeed’s cousin saw a rabbit
B. They ate delicious food and drank Arabic coffee
C. The group sat around the fire talking
D. The falcon flew up and down and caught the rabbit
4. Which is not true about the Bedouin man?
A. He was riding a camel
B. He took the writer to his house
C. He took the writer to get help
D. He allowed the writer to rest
5. What lesson did the writer learn from his experience?
A. Hunting is dangerous and he will not hunt again
B. When hunting in the desert, people should go in groups with two or more
cars
C. When hunting, the writer will use a fifferent type of car
D. Bedouins are not helpful to strangers in the desert
II. …Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty – that always helps when. I’m
angry And I am. It’s my neighbour, Bonzo, He’s the wilsons’ pet and he’s
terrible. He’s a dog, of cours. I’m a cat. My name is fred, and, listen
everybody, let me tell you something about Bonzo: - For example, when
peter calls Bonzo, he runs away – And when mrs Wilson takes him for a
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walk in the park, he always gets lost. – When I want to go to bed, he barks

C. On Sunday and Monday
D. On Thursday and Friday
III. Having reached the highest point of our route according to plan, we
discovered something the map had not told us. It was impossible to climb
down into the Kingo valley. The riverlay deep between mountain sides that
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were almost vertical. We couldn’t find any animal tracks, which asually
show the best way across country, and the slopes were covered so thickly
with bushes that we could not see the nature of the ground. We had
somehow to break through to the rirver which would give us our direction
out of the mountains into the inhabited lowlands. Our guide cut a narrow
path through the bushes with his long knife and we followed in single file.
Progress was slow. Then, When we thought we had really reached the river,
we fornd ourselves instead on the adge of a cliff with a straight drop of
1,000 feed to the water belew. We climbed back up the slope and began to
look for another way down. We climbed, slipped, sweated and scratched
our hands to pieces and finally arrived at the river. Happily we strode
downhill along its bank without having to cut our way. However, after a few
miles the river entered a steep – sided gap beween rocks and suddenly
propped thirty – five feet over a waterfall. There was no path alongside it
and no way round it. Then one of the guides saw a way of overcoming the
difficulty. There was a fallen tree lying upside down over the waterfall with
its leafy top resting on the opposite bank below the falls. Without hesitation
he climbed down the slipperty trunk to show us how easy it was. Having
got to the fork of the tree, he moved hand over hand along a branch for four
or five feet with his legs hanging in space, then he dropped onto the flat
bank the other side, throwing his arms in the air like a footbller who has
scored a goal, and cheerfully waving us on
1. Having reached the highest point on their route, the travellers
expected to be able to

C. 70 pounds
D. 1200 pounds
2. Hunters made umbrella holders out of…………….
A. Elephants’ feet
B. Elephants’ tails
C. Elephants’ trunks
D. Elephants’ teeth
3. An Indian Elephant has………… than the African Elephant.
A. smaller ears
B. a stronger trunk
C. a longer tail
D. bigger teeth
4. What part of an elephant…s body is used to cool the elephant?
A. The feet
B. the trunk
C. the tail
D. the ears
5. What animal is the most dangerous to an elephant?
A. lions
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B. Snakes
C. Human beings
D. Zebras
V. Our demand for water is constantly in creasing. Every year there are
more and more people in the world. Faconries turn out more and more
products and need more and more water. We line in a world of water. But
almost all of it – about 97% - is in the oceans. This water is too salty to be
used for drinking, farming, and manufacturing. Only about 3% of the
world’s water is fresh. Most of this water is not easily available to man
because it is locked in glaciers and icecaps. There is as much water on earth

5. The phrasal verb …turn out… in the second line is closest in meaning
to………….
A. Sell
B. Prove to be
C. Switch off
D. Produce
C. REWRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES SO THAT THEY HAVE
THE SAME MEANING AS THE SENTENCES PRINTED BEFORE
THEM. USE THE WORDS GIVEN AT THE BEGINNING.
1. He delivers his lecture with eloquence
He……………………………………………………………………………
2. Remember to check for spelling mistakes before you hand in your
composition.
Don’t : forget to check for spelling mistakes beforem you hand in your
composition
3. This lecture bores me to tears
I am boned with this lectore
4. Janes spends 3 houus a week sorting out stamps
Sorting out her stamps takes Tanes 3 hours a week to sort out stamps
5. That meal was excellent!
What an excellent meal
6. This tea is too hot for him to drink
This tea is so hot that he can’t drink
7. He spoke too fast for anybody to understand
He spoke so fart that no one to understant
8. Mind to fulfil your task
Don’t forget to fulfil your task
9. They did their work carefully
They were caruful to work
10. Your decision to get married before finishing your degree surprised