MULTIPLE CHOICE

LISTENING

1. Lisa _______________ for her client.

a. can't decide on an advertising strategy

b. is using advertising to find products

c. is planning to go shopping

ANS: A

2. Lisa's client _______________.

a. sells services from other countries

b. uses the Internet to ship products

c. provides a shopping service

ANS: C

3. Lisa likes infomercials because _______________.

a. people buy more products

b. they're more personal

c. they're expensive

ANS: B

4. Bart advises Lisa advertise on the Internet because _______________.

a. it's cheaper and reaches more people than infomercials

b. it's cheaper and more difficult than infomercials

c. the audiences are bigger for infomercials

ANS: A

5. Henry _______________.
a. has made a lot of new friends recently

b. is feeling out of place in a new city

c. wishes he could move back home

ANS: B

6. Nancy tells Henry that his experience _______________.

a. is unusual for people new to Los Angeles

b. is out of the ordinary for Los Angeles

c. is typical for people new to Los Angeles

ANS: C

7. Nancy advises Henry to _______________.

a. follow the crowd

b. be his own person

c. conform to what other people want

ANS: B

8. Nancy made friends _______________.

a. at work

b. with people from back home

c. immediately after moving to Los Angeles

ANS: A

VOCABULARY

9. I use a _______________ to keep in touch with my friends abroad.

a. webcam

b. computer virus
c. download

ANS: A

10. In high school, most teens will do whatever they need to do to _______________ and
be like everyone else.

a. fit in

b. be nonconformist

c. make waves

ANS: A

11. Joe hates to confront people. It's hard for him to _______________.

a. follow the crowd

b. conform

c. stand up for himself

ANS: C

12. That man just threw a _______________ on the ground. He should be fined for
littering.

a. bus wrap

b. banner ad

c. flier

ANS: C

13. When meeting people for the first time, you should try to be non _______________.

a. sensitive

b. motivated

c. judgmental

ANS: C
14. Being late to work and stealing is _______________ behavior.

a. acceptable

b. ethical

c. irresponsible

ANS: C

15. My brother Dennis is very self- _______________, which makes it easy for him to
travel on his own.

a. judgmental

b. sensitive

c. assured

ANS: C

16. Unless you want to get arrested, you probably shouldn't do something
_______________.

a. illegal

b. unfair

c. scrupulous

ANS: A

17. My sister got a new coat and I didn't. It's so _______________.

a. rational

b. untrustworthy

c. unfair

ANS: C

18. A chef must use _______________ in creating new recipes.

a. innovative
b. innovation

c. innovatives

ANS: B

GRAMMAR

19. If Meg _______________ to put gas in the car, we _______________ in the middle of
nowhere.

a. neglects, wouldn't be stranded

b. had neglected, would strand

c. hadn't neglected, wouldn't be stranded

ANS: C

20. If Gwen _______________ about the discount travel website, she _______________ so
much money on her plane ticket.

a. knew, wouldn't spend

b. had known, wouldn't have spent

c. had known, wouldn't have been spending

ANS: B

21. Alex still wears clothes from high school, which explains _______________.

a. why he's such a good student

b. why he works in a pet store

c. why his pants are too short

ANS: C

22. My parents are going to visit Italy next month, which is _______________.

a. great because they might buy me some good olive oil there

b. too bad because they're going to love it

ANS: A

23. Computer dance games _______________ in some schools currently to help children
get more active.

a. will be used

b. are being used

c. are going to be used

ANS: B

24. By the end of this year, I _______________ for 20 years at the same company.

a. will work

b. will have been working

c. will have be worked

ANS: B

25. I would let a friend borrow money from me _______________ he promised to pay me
back quickly.

a. only if

b. even if

c. unless

ANS: A

26. Carly said she wanted to study abroad but wouldn't go _______________ a friend went
with her.

a. unless

b. only if

c. even if

ANS: A
27. _______________ most children don't have cell phones; almost all adults own one
these days.

a. While

b. Unlike

c. Except for the fact that

ANS: A

28. _______________ the number of blogs I read every day, I only read one magazine.

a. Except for

b. In contrast to

c. Except for the fact that

ANS: B
29. _______________ Max be careful about throwing his mail away in the trash?
a. Shouldn't
b. Doesn't
c. Wouldn't
ANS: A
30. Megan went over her text message limit again, _______________?
a. didn't she
b. wouldn't she
c. isn't she
ANS: A
31. As a child, I _______________ catch lightning bugs at night.
a. use to
b. would
c. will
ANS: B
32. Our school's basketball team _______________ win nearly every game when Ryan
played.
a. used to
b. would
c. both answers are correct
ANS: C

33. Creating your own home videos is very popular, and every day new videos
_______________ to the Internet.

a. have been uploaded

b. will be uploaded

c. are being uploaded

ANS: C

34. Don't turn off your computer while files _______________.

a. are being downloaded

b. are going to be downloaded

c. have been downloaded

ANS: A

35. Someone ______________ in learning languages might love to be a translator.

a. interesting

b. interested

c. interest

ANS: B

36. Any person _____________ Italian food will enjoy eating at Mario's Restaurant.

a. is liking

b. liking
c. likes

ANS: B

37. How _______________ so happy about cold weather is something I can't understand.

a. people can be some

b. can some people be

c. some people can be

ANS: C

38. It is beyond me how _______________ to eat at restaurants several times a week.

a. can afford people

b. can people afford

c. people can afford

ANS: C

39. I wish I _______________ the time to visit my family more often.

a. find

b. had found

c. have founded

ANS: B

40. I wish I _______________ more time studying for my exam last week.
a. spent
b. could spend
c. had spent
ANS: C
41. One thing _______________ Jim about his new apartment was his noisy neighbor
_______________ lived upstairs.
a. that bugged, that
b. bugged, who
c. both answers are correct
ANS: A
42. The thing _______________ I can't stand is people _______________ always complain
about the weather.
a. that, who
b. that, that
c. both answers are correct
ANS: C

READING

43. Jenny moved to Winnipeg _______________.

a. to start a new job

b. to meet a new family

c. to go to school

ANS: C

44. Unlike people in Shanghai, Jenny thinks that many people in Winnipeg
_______________.

a. conform to the same fashions

b. wear unconventional clothing

c. are rebellious in their style

ANS: A

45. Jenny misses how her friends _______________.

a. would see each other once a week

b. used to hang out almost every day

c. didn't use to go to the coffee shop

46. Jenny prefers Shanghai, _______________.

a. except for the pace of life

b. except for the typical food

c. except that people in Shanghai eat fatty foods

ANS: A

47. Radiohead has tried _______________.

a. to copy protect its new album

b. a new sales strategy for its new album

c. new technology to prevent illegal downloads of its new lbum

ANS: B

48. Radiohead's new album costs _______________.

a. $1

b. 99

c. whatever the user wishes to pay, up to $212

ANS: C

49. Radiohead _______________ what the average customer paid for their album.

a. probably made a profit from

b. is disappointed in

c. has announced

ANS: A

50. Music insiders think that Radiohead's experiment _______________.

a. won't work for other bands

c. will never work for Radiohead again

ANS: A