Part A: Grammar and Vocabulary

Directions: Questions 1-12 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases marked (1), (2), (3), and (4). Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then mark your answer sheet

The employees …………………………. to the manager as soon as they occurred realized that they were more easily and quickly solved

It is important for every single individual living in this World ………………………… hard to protect the environment

They …………………………. the race they took part in, but they didn’t try hard enough

She read the agreement again ……………………. she would make sure there was nothing wrong in it

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday, today is the hope, but also can become tomorrow’s ………………………….

The researchers would …………………………. several other areas where the Inkley nation used to live to collect more information about them

It is …………………………… for you to have your health condition checked before you decide to climb Mount Everest

Not to be able to overcome his foot injury to be able to play on his team in next month’s important game is the footballer’s main …………………………….

Port Aransas is a city in which the people’s income is entirely dependent on tourism. That is why they do whatever ………………………… to make the city attractive for them

I think the Johnsons should ……………………. their child more: he is always getting into trouble at school

Here in Paris, as well as just about everywhere these days, it’s possible to pay for ………………… everything with a credit card or a phone

The mother asked the teacher to kindly keep her …………………………. her child’s progress at school

Part B: Cloze Test

Directions: Questions 13-17 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

James Anderson writes about the waste of energy in hotels: overheated rooms, lights (13) …………………. on all night, towels that are used once and then sent to be washed. He is right, but why stop with hotels? Would it not be better (14) ………………… all the other mindless waste that characterizes modern life? In the morning I walk down the high street past shops whose doors are wide open, (15) ……….……. hot air into the street. At the supermarket I take my frozen vegetables from a (16) …………………. that is completely open. My children leave their computers (17) ………………………… when they go out and their phone chargers plugged in with no phone the other end. What does all this waste show?

Question 13:

Part B: Cloze Test

Directions: Questions 13-17 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

James Anderson writes about the waste of energy in hotels: overheated rooms, lights (13) …………………. on all night, towels that are used once and then sent to be washed. He is right, but why stop with hotels? Would it not be better (14) ………………… all the other mindless waste that characterizes modern life? In the morning I walk down the high street past shops whose doors are wide open, (15) ……….……. hot air into the street. At the supermarket I take my frozen vegetables from a (16) …………………. that is completely open. My children leave their computers (17) ………………………… when they go out and their phone chargers plugged in with no phone the other end. What does all this waste show?

Question 14:

Part B: Cloze Test

Directions: Questions 13-17 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

James Anderson writes about the waste of energy in hotels: overheated rooms, lights (13) …………………. on all night, towels that are used once and then sent to be washed. He is right, but why stop with hotels? Would it not be better (14) ………………… all the other mindless waste that characterizes modern life? In the morning I walk down the high street past shops whose doors are wide open, (15) ……….……. hot air into the street. At the supermarket I take my frozen vegetables from a (16) …………………. that is completely open. My children leave their computers (17) ………………………… when they go out and their phone chargers plugged in with no phone the other end. What does all this waste show?

Question 15:

Part B: Cloze Test

Directions: Questions 13-17 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

James Anderson writes about the waste of energy in hotels: overheated rooms, lights (13) …………………. on all night, towels that are used once and then sent to be washed. He is right, but why stop with hotels? Would it not be better (14) ………………… all the other mindless waste that characterizes modern life? In the morning I walk down the high street past shops whose doors are wide open, (15) ……….……. hot air into the street. At the supermarket I take my frozen vegetables from a (16) …………………. that is completely open. My children leave their computers (17) ………………………… when they go out and their phone chargers plugged in with no phone the other end. What does all this waste show?

Question 16:

Part B: Cloze Test

Directions: Questions 13-17 are related to the following passage. Read the passage and decide which choice (1), (2), (3), or (4) best fits each space. Then mark your answer sheet.

James Anderson writes about the waste of energy in hotels: overheated rooms, lights (13) …………………. on all night, towels that are used once and then sent to be washed. He is right, but why stop with hotels? Would it not be better (14) ………………… all the other mindless waste that characterizes modern life? In the morning I walk down the high street past shops whose doors are wide open, (15) ……….……. hot air into the street. At the supermarket I take my frozen vegetables from a (16) …………………. that is completely open. My children leave their computers (17) ………………………… when they go out and their phone chargers plugged in with no phone the other end. What does all this waste show?

Question 17:

Part C: Reading Comprehension

Directions: In this part of the test, you will read two passages. Each passage is followed by four questions. Answer the questions by choosing the best choice (1), (2), (3), or (4). Then mark your answer sheet.

PASSAGE 1:

She remembers the moment the photographer took her picture. The man was a stranger, but he asked if he could and she agreed to let him take it. She had never been photographed before and until they met a second time seventeen years later, she was not photographed again.

The photographer, Steve McCurry, remembers the moment too. It was 1984 and he was recording the lives of Afghan refugees in a camp in Pakistan. She was looking out of the school tent and he admits thinking at the time that the picture would be nothing special. Yet the ‘Afghan girl’, as the picture is now known, became, after a few years, one of the most iconic images. McCurry used her intense expression, so untypical of an average, carefree girl, to warn us not to ignore the victims of war, especially its young victims.

In 2002 National Geographic encouraged McCurry to return to Pakistan to look for the girl. After showing her photo around the refugee camp, he found a man who had known her as a child and knew where to find her. He offered to bring her from her home in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan and after three days returned with Sharbat Gula, a woman perhaps 29 years old. McCurry knew at once that this was her.

It can be understood from the passage that the first time Sharbat Gula was photographed she was about ………………………

PASSAGE 1:

She remembers the moment the photographer took her picture. The man was a stranger, but he asked if he could and she agreed to let him take it. She had never been photographed before and until they met a second time seventeen years later, she was not photographed again.

The photographer, Steve McCurry, remembers the moment too. It was 1984 and he was recording the lives of Afghan refugees in a camp in Pakistan. She was looking out of the school tent and he admits thinking at the time that the picture would be nothing special. Yet the ‘Afghan girl’, as the picture is now known, became, after a few years, one of the most iconic images. McCurry used her intense expression, so untypical of an average, carefree girl, to warn us not to ignore the victims of war, especially its young victims.

In 2002 National Geographic encouraged McCurry to return to Pakistan to look for the girl. After showing her photo around the refugee camp, he found a man who had known her as a child and knew where to find her. He offered to bring her from her home in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan and after three days returned with Sharbat Gula, a woman perhaps 29 years old. McCurry knew at once that this was her.

According to the passage, the picture Steve McCurry took form the Afghan girl …………………….

PASSAGE 1:

She remembers the moment the photographer took her picture. The man was a stranger, but he asked if he could and she agreed to let him take it. She had never been photographed before and until they met a second time seventeen years later, she was not photographed again.

The photographer, Steve McCurry, remembers the moment too. It was 1984 and he was recording the lives of Afghan refugees in a camp in Pakistan. She was looking out of the school tent and he admits thinking at the time that the picture would be nothing special. Yet the ‘Afghan girl’, as the picture is now known, became, after a few years, one of the most iconic images. McCurry used her intense expression, so untypical of an average, carefree girl, to warn us not to ignore the victims of war, especially its young victims.

In 2002 National Geographic encouraged McCurry to return to Pakistan to look for the girl. After showing her photo around the refugee camp, he found a man who had known her as a child and knew where to find her. He offered to bring her from her home in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan and after three days returned with Sharbat Gula, a woman perhaps 29 years old. McCurry knew at once that this was her.

According to the passage, when Steve McCurry came back in 2002 to took another picture ……………………

PASSAGE 1:

She remembers the moment the photographer took her picture. The man was a stranger, but he asked if he could and she agreed to let him take it. She had never been photographed before and until they met a second time seventeen years later, she was not photographed again.

The photographer, Steve McCurry, remembers the moment too. It was 1984 and he was recording the lives of Afghan refugees in a camp in Pakistan. She was looking out of the school tent and he admits thinking at the time that the picture would be nothing special. Yet the ‘Afghan girl’, as the picture is now known, became, after a few years, one of the most iconic images. McCurry used her intense expression, so untypical of an average, carefree girl, to warn us not to ignore the victims of war, especially its young victims.

In 2002 National Geographic encouraged McCurry to return to Pakistan to look for the girl. After showing her photo around the refugee camp, he found a man who had known her as a child and knew where to find her. He offered to bring her from her home in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan and after three days returned with Sharbat Gula, a woman perhaps 29 years old. McCurry knew at once that this was her.

The passage is most likely to continue with …………………….

PASSAGE 2:

People love to compare and contrast. In most parts of England, you buy your bus ticket on the bus. In France, you buy it at a metro station. In Australia, you can buy it from a newsagent. We all find this kind of comparison amusing. Books on cross-cultural communication use our curiosity by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior, the roles they play in society, their viewpoint towards money, the importance of their body language, etc.

Proxemics, the study of different standards of personal space, is one example. How close I stand to someone when I am speaking to them depends not only on my relationship to them, but also on my culture. This is important because if the person I am with is not used to standing as near as I do when we are talking to each other, they might feel uncomfortable. Statistics tell us that the average distance at which two people stand in a social context-neighbors talking together, for example-is anything between 1.2 meters and 3.5 meters. In Latin cultures (South America, Italy, etc) and also in China this distance tends to be smaller, while in Nordic cultures (Sweden, Denmark, etc.) people usually stand further apart.

Which of the following best describes the way the information in the passage is presented?

PASSAGE 2:

People love to compare and contrast. In most parts of England, you buy your bus ticket on the bus. In France, you buy it at a metro station. In Australia, you can buy it from a newsagent. We all find this kind of comparison amusing. Books on cross-cultural communication use our curiosity by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior, the roles they play in society, their viewpoint towards money, the importance of their body language, etc.

Proxemics, the study of different standards of personal space, is one example. How close I stand to someone when I am speaking to them depends not only on my relationship to them, but also on my culture. This is important because if the person I am with is not used to standing as near as I do when we are talking to each other, they might feel uncomfortable. Statistics tell us that the average distance at which two people stand in a social context-neighbors talking together, for example-is anything between 1.2 meters and 3.5 meters. In Latin cultures (South America, Italy, etc) and also in China this distance tends to be smaller, while in Nordic cultures (Sweden, Denmark, etc.) people usually stand further apart.

According to the passage, how close we stand to someone we are communicating with varies based on the following factors EXCEPT …………………….

PASSAGE 2:

People love to compare and contrast. In most parts of England, you buy your bus ticket on the bus. In France, you buy it at a metro station. In Australia, you can buy it from a newsagent. We all find this kind of comparison amusing. Books on cross-cultural communication use our curiosity by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior, the roles they play in society, their viewpoint towards money, the importance of their body language, etc.

Proxemics, the study of different standards of personal space, is one example. How close I stand to someone when I am speaking to them depends not only on my relationship to them, but also on my culture. This is important because if the person I am with is not used to standing as near as I do when we are talking to each other, they might feel uncomfortable. Statistics tell us that the average distance at which two people stand in a social context-neighbors talking together, for example-is anything between 1.2 meters and 3.5 meters. In Latin cultures (South America, Italy, etc) and also in China this distance tends to be smaller, while in Nordic cultures (Sweden, Denmark, etc.) people usually stand further apart.

According to the passage, the distance at which people stand in a social context ……………….

PASSAGE 2:

People love to compare and contrast. In most parts of England, you buy your bus ticket on the bus. In France, you buy it at a metro station. In Australia, you can buy it from a newsagent. We all find this kind of comparison amusing. Books on cross-cultural communication use our curiosity by focusing on differences between people across the world: in social behavior, the roles they play in society, their viewpoint towards money, the importance of their body language, etc.

Proxemics, the study of different standards of personal space, is one example. How close I stand to someone when I am speaking to them depends not only on my relationship to them, but also on my culture. This is important because if the person I am with is not used to standing as near as I do when we are talking to each other, they might feel uncomfortable. Statistics tell us that the average distance at which two people stand in a social context-neighbors talking together, for example-is anything between 1.2 meters and 3.5 meters. In Latin cultures (South America, Italy, etc) and also in China this distance tends to be smaller, while in Nordic cultures (Sweden, Denmark, etc.) people usually stand further apart.

Which of the following is defined in the passage?