SECTION A: USE OF ENGLISH

I. Select the best option to complete each of the following sentences. Write your
answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided.

1.
I find her ___________ . She never stops talking.

A. exhaustion
B. exhaust
C. exhausting
D. exhausted
2.
Look at these two pieces of material I have just bought. Which do you like
__________ ?

A. better
B. best
C. more than
D. most
3.
Have this one, __________ ?

A. do you
B. will you
C. don’t you
D. haven’t you
4.
Half the people in the office have __________ a strange illness.

7.
When our friends have bad fortune, we try to show___________.

A. love
B. sympathy
C. affection
D. pity
8.
She should have been here but she’s _____________ flu.

A. come in for
B. gone through
with
C. gone down
with
D. come up against
9.
The instructor on the course was hopeless __________ explaining things.

A. in
B. of
C. at
D. to
10.
I’m afraid there are no seat left. Every seat is ____________.

A. reserved

D. one another
15. The Tories won the election in 1979.

A. came into
effect
B. came into power
C. came to
power
D. came to the power
16. While attempting to reach his home before the storm, ____________.
A. Tom had an accident on his bike
B. the storm caught Tom
C. it happened that Tom’s bike broke
down
D. the bicycle of Tom broke down
17. After several hours on that road, they became __________ to the fact that they
would never reach
the hotel by nightfall.

A. dejected
B. resigned
C. depressed
D. disillusioned
18. He perceived a change in temperature.

A. was afraid of
B. was fond of
5. The new leisure centre doesn’t quite come up to my __________.
(EXPECT)
6. The floor of the attic needs _________ if we’re going to make it into a
bedroom.
(STRONG)
7. Is it possible to __________ between a hobby and an interest?
(DISTINCT)
8. This used to be a rural area but it has become ___________.
(INDUSTRY)
9. I’m surprised at what you’ve done. I hope my confidence in you has not been
________.
(PLACE)
10. This jewel is not simply valuable. It is __________.
(VALUE)

III. Read the text and look carefully at each line. Tick (

) the lines which are
correct and pick out the unnecessary words. There are two examples at the
beginning (0 and 00). Write your answers on the right lines provided.
CAMPING
0. You’ve finally arrived at your destination place and you’re looking
for somewhere
____place_
00. to set up your tent. So what should you be looking for? You need
to look for
_____


10. can be enjoy the site. Leave it as you would like to find it yourself.
__________

SECTION B: READING COMPREHENSION

I. Read the text below and choose the best word or combination of words to fill in
each blank. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided.

AUDIOBOOKS - BOOKS ON CASSETTE
In the modern world, there is a wealth of leisure activities to choose from
Entertainment industries (1) __________ for your leisure time. You can watch TV,
listen to music, go to an art gallery or concert or, of course, read a book.
Sometimes it seems that reading is (2) __________ because, (3) __________
you’re a fast reader, it can take a (4) __________ amount of time to finish a novel,
for example. But in the modern world, time is something that can be in short
supply.
Book publishers haven’t been (5) __________ to realize this and are now
selling a product which needn’t (6) __________ as much of your time but still tells
you an excellent story. The new products is the audiobook - cassette recordings of
shortened novels, often read by well-known personalities or the authors
themselves. Audiobooks are relatively new but people are becoming more aware of
them and sales are increasing (7) __________.

One of the attractions of audiobooks is that they’re (8) __________ listening
to the radio, only better. You can listen to what you want when you want, and you
won’t ever miss anything. Much of their appeal (9) ________ in their flexibility.
They allow you do to other things while you’re listening, such as driving or (10)

A. take up
B. fill out
C. go through
D. pass by
7.
A. ever since
then
B. all the time
C. up until
now
D. from then on
8.
A. as
B. same
C. like
D. both
9.
A. stands
B. belongs
C. bases
D. lies
10.
A. doing
B. running
C. making
D. cleaning

II. Fill in each of the numbered blanks with ONE suitable word. Write your
answers (A, B, C or D) in the box provided.


The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take
some sports. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing
football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by
the people who are simply watching them. It is an illusion to think that you will get
fit by going to watch the football match every Saturday, unless you count the effort
required to fight your way through the crowds to get to the best seats. For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports – and it is
especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them – there are such solitary
activities as cycling, walking and swimming. What often happens, though, is that
you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that is doubtful if you are doing
yourself much good, apart from the fact that you have at least managed to get up
out of your armchair. Of course you can be very thorough about exercise, even
fanatical. Many sports shops now sell frightening pieces of apparatus, chest-
expanders and other mysterious gadgets of shiny spring steel, which, according to
the advertisements, will bring you up to an Olympic standard of fitness, provided
that you follow a rigorous and regular programme of exercises. Such programmes
generally involve long periods of time bending these curious bits of metal into
improbable shapes.
It all strikes me as utterly boring and also time-consuming. Somebody
suggested recently that all such effort was pointless anyway because if you spend
half an hour every day jogging round the local park, you will add to your life
exactly the number of hours that you wasted doing the ‘jogging’ in the first place.
The argument is false even if the facts are correct, but there is no doubt that
exercise in itself can be boring.
Even after you have found a routine for keeping in shape, through sport or
gymnastics or isometrics, you are still only half way to good health, because,
according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete metal and
physical relaxation. Now, this does not mean snoozing in the armchair or going

C. fit enough to play them D. a solitary kind of person
6. The reason we don’t get much out of solitary sports such as walking is that we
do not _________.
A. do them often enough B. have the encouragement of
others
C. take them seriously enough D. do them vigorously enough
7. The writer does not like keep-fit programmes because he thinks ___________.
A. they take up too much time B. there are much easier ways
of getting fit
C. they are a waste of time D. the apparatus is very silly
8. To be healthy we must ___________. A. keep fit and active B. keep fit and learn to relax
C. be active and practise Yoga D. be very careful about what we
eat and drink
9. Many people believe that in order to practise Yoga ___________.
A. you must learn a special vocabulary B. it is better to become a
Buddhist
C. you must learn to relax completely D. you must wear special
clothing
10. Our forefathers were healthy because ___________.
A. their way of life involved both exercise and relaxation
B. they were careful to get plenty of fresh air and keep fit
C. they lived in the country and spent time out of doors
D. they had simple work to do and very little to worry about

SECTION D: WRITING

I. Finish each sentence in such a way that it means exactly the same as the one

__________________________________________________________________.
2. A police car has just stopped outside. (UP)
_________________________________________________________________.
3. They didn’t punish Karen, only gave her a warning.
(GOT)
_________________________________________________________________.
4. What are you trying to say? (AT)
________________________________________________________________.
5. Graham stopped talking to deal with a customer. (OFF)
________________________________________________________________.
III. The Internet is now getting more and more popular all over the world. So, how
important is it to your life? Write a paragraph of about 120 words to answer this
question.