PRACTICE TEST 3

SECTION I: LISTENING

Part 2: You will listen to a talk by the Water Project Manager of a charity called ‘Charity –Water’. For each of the
following questions, choose the option which fits best to what you hear.
1. The speaker’s job requires
A. a great deal of walking B. extensive travel C. clean water
2. Why is this story being told?
A. to promote Charity-Water B. for entertainment purposesC. to encourage Helen
3. When villagers heard of the charity workers’ arrival, they
A. had a party B. were suspicious C. took no notice
4. Helen is feeling
A. ecstatic about her new life B. curious about the charity workers C. nostalgic about her old life
5. What did the speaker notice about Helen?
A. that she had bathed recently
B. the care that she took with her appearance
C. that she was wearing a green uniform

Part 3: You will hear a piece of CNN news. Listen and decide if the following sentences are True (T) or False (F).
Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
1. A powerful earthquake jolted New Zealand after a midnight.
2. Earthquakes in New Zealand are massive.
3. Christchurch is home to 340,000 people.
4. The highest tsunami waves in New Zealand were eight-feet tall.
5. There are numerous volcanic and earthquake activities in Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire.

Part 4: You will hear a radio interview with an American woman called Kate Jenner, who practices the sport
of parkour, or ‘free running’ Listen and complete the sentences with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.
The objective of parkour is to get over such obstacles as trees, (1) ____________ and walls.
Kate says that parkour combines cross- country running with (2) ____________.
In order to join a parkour club, it is necessary to have a good (3) ____________ and to be fit.
Kate says that (4) ____________ is a problem for her in some situations.
When she is in town, Kate looks at (5) ____________ and courtyards as possible places to do parkour.
Parkour enthusiasts do not generally (6) ____________ with people when they are told to stop.
Kate and a professor are studying different techniques of (7) ____________ that are used in parkour.
If Kate teaches parkour in the college, there could be a problem with (8) ____________.
Kate has been in Los Angeles doing parkour for an advertisement for a (9) ____________.
A company that makes (10) ____________ may provide Kate’s club with funding.

SECTION II: LEXICO & GRAMMAR

Part 1. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each sentence.
1. When the storm prevented the climbers from reaching the top of the mountain, they were ____ disappointed.
A. bitterly B. savagely C. stormily D. angrily
2. He was absolutely __________ with anger when he found that I had scratched his car.
A. burned B. carmine C. fickle D. livid
3. He had an honest and __________ expression, which hid the fact he had a very devious mind.
A. competent B. trusting C. integrated D. integrity
4. I must admit, Fred is the __________ person I would have thought of to marry Jane.
A. last B. ultimate C. final D. end
5. The praise of his boss and his colleagues was __________to his ears.
A. song B. music C. harmony D. melody
6. You’ve obviously lost weight, and this dress will need to be __________ to fit you properly.
A. dressed up B. taken in C. put out D. taken of
7. In __________, it was a bad idea to pay him in cash.
A. hindsight B. consideration C. retrospect D. knowledge
8. We had a _______ of a time at Jason's party 10 yesterday.
A whale B period C whole D week
9. To get his proposal accepted, the Finance Manager had to __________ heavy pressure from colleagues.
A. laugh off B. fend off C. send off D. rose up
10. It is very appropriate that the prize __________ go to such a young architect.
A. could B. should C. need D. might
11. Casinos ensure there is a healthy __________ between what they take from gamblers and what they pay out.
A. balance B. profit C. margin D. difference
12. I revised my views comments from colleagues.
A. in the light of B. further to C. against D. consequent upon
13 They attempted to the painting to its original.
A. renovate B. restore C. repair D. refurbish
14. This is a matter of the __________ concern.
A. ultimate B. utmost C. utter D. universal
15.It is an impressive work at first but it does not really _______ close examination.
A. stand up to B. stand out from C. stand up for D. stand in for
16.The lecturer _______ a number of parallels between Blake's engravings and devotional art.
A. drew B. pulled C. tied D. linked
17.The course is intended for well qualified graduates who wish to improve their career ________
A. perspectives B. views C. prospects D. vistas
18.In these times of high unemployment everyone thought my giving up my job was ______ madness.
A. sheer B. steep C. high D. deep
19.That loud heavy metal music from next door is _______ me up the wall.
A. driving B. sending C. bringing D. pushing
20. Bright children who are ________ on the uptake may get bored easily if they are not stimulated enough at
school.
A. swift B. fast C. quick D. rapid

Part 2: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections in the
corresponding numbered boxes.
As more things are make to be sold and more people have services to sell, advertising grows. Today it is
one of the bigger businesses. Every year people spend billion of dollars on advertising
Advertising help sell more things to more people. This in turn makes it possible produce more things to
sell. Sometimes it even helps make things cost less. In the beginning, for example, radios costed much more
than they do today so they were turned out slowly and expensive by hand. Yet, advertising made more people
want radios. When manufacturer began making them by the thousands, they found quickly and cheaper ways of
doing the job. Because advertising encourages us to buy and produces more things, it is sometimes called the
spark of the business world

SECTION III. READING

Part 1. Read the following passage and choose the words that best complete the sentences.
AUTISM DAY
World Autism Awareness Day is (1)____ on April 2 nd and aims to promote understanding of all issues related to
people (2)______ as being on the spectrum of autism disorders. Like many neurological disorders, ASDs can
result in many (3)_____ that can lead to discrimination.
There are many within the autism community who dispute that the condition is a disorder at all and instead put
forward the view that autism is simply a normal neurological variation and part of the neurodiversity of the
human race and, as such, should not be pathologised.
This take (4) ______ ASDs had led to a certain amount of (5) _____ between the scientists researching autism
conditions and the organizations raising awareness of the conditions. A number of (6)______ groups fear that
researchers would like to find a cure for autism, which they maintain would rob them of the (7)_____ of their
individuality, while researchers claim to only want a better understanding of the condition and to be able to
offer help with some of the effects of autism such as (8)_____ social anxiety. Those involved in research into
ASDs (9)_____ that autism should not simply be eradicated but, (10)_____ , that it needs to be better
understood.
1. A. noticed B. regarded C. watched D. observed
2. A. tabulated B. classified C. graded D. pigeonholed
3. A. hallucinations B. impressions C. misconceptions D. delusions
4. A. toward B. on C. into D. against
5. A. scraping B. abrasion C. chafing D. fiction
6. A. support B. backing C. loyalty D. assistance
7. A. extract B. concentrate C. essence D. nectar
8. A. maiming B. limping C. hobbling D. crippling
9. A. scorn B. concur C. consent D. permit
10. A. nonetheless B. albeit C. notwithstanding D. however

PART 2. Fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
Linguistics believe that early men used many gesture to communicate with one another. This, it is thought, was
a man’s first form of (1)_________________and the only one he had for a long period of time. Even today we
use some sign language; for example, we shake our (2)________ to indicate yes or no, we point and we wave.
The first spoken words may have been early man’s attempt to (3)___________ the sound made by
animals. Then he may have developed sounds of his own. Gradually, man may have repeated certain sounds so
(4)_______________ that they became familiar and understandable to others. Once spoken language had begun,
perhaps man invented new words as he needed them to express himself verbally (5)________________ to name
new objects. In this way we can imagine language growing.
By using words, parents were able to teach them to their children. The children in turn probably made up
new (6)_________. Each generation, therefore, in the development of language, knew more words than the
generation (7)________ it. Language is still growing and changing. Can you think (8)_____________ some
words you use today (9)_______________ were not used by your parents or grandparents
(10)________________ they were children?

Part 3: Read the text and choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

It is often helpful when thinking about biological processes to consider some apparently similar yet
better understood non-biological process. In the case of visual perception an obvious choice would be color
photography. Since in many respects eyes resemble cameras, and percepts photographs, is it not reasonable to
assume that perception is a sort of photographic process whereby samples of the external world become
spontaneously and accurately reproduced somewhere inside our heads? Unfortunately, the answer must be no.
The best that can be said of the photographic analogy is that it points up what perception is not. Beyond this it is
superficial and misleading. Four simple experiments should make the matter plain.
In the first a person is asked to match a pair of black and white discs, which are rotating at such a speed
as to make them appear uniformly grey. One disc is standing in shadow, the other in bright illumination. By
adjusting the ratio of black to white in one of the discs the subject tries to make it look the same as the other.
The results show him to be remarkably accurate, for it seems he has made the proportion of black to white in the
brightly illuminated disc almost identical with that in the disc which stood in shadow. But there is nothing
photographic about his perception, for when the matched discs, still spinning, are photographed, the resulting
print shows them to be quite dissimilar in appearance. The disc in shadow is obviously very much darker than
the other one. What has happened? Both the camera and the person were accurate, but their criteria differed.
One might say that the camera recorded things as they look, and the person things as they are. But the situation
is manifestly more complex than this, for the person also recorded things as they look. He did better than the
camera because he made them look as they really are. He was not misled by the differences in illumination. He
showed perceptual constancy. By reason of an extremely rapid, wholly unconscious piece of computation he
received a more accurate record of the external world than could the camera.

In the second experiment a person is asked to match with a color card the colors of two pictures in dim
illumination. One is of a leaf, the other of a donkey. Both are colored an equal shade of green. In making his
match he chooses a much stronger green for the leaf than for the donkey. The leaf evidently looks greener than
the donkey. The percipient makes a perceptual world compatible with his own experience. It hardly needs
saying that cameras lack this versatility.
In the third experiment hungry, thirsty and satiated people are asked to equalize the brightness of
pictures depicting food, water and other objects unrelated to hunger or thirst. When the intensities at which they
set the pictures are measured it is found that hungry people see pictures relating to food as brighter than the rest
(i.e. to equalize the pictures they make the food ones less intense), and thirsty people do likewise with “drink”
pictures. For the satiated group no differences are obtained between the different objects. In other words,
perception serves to satisfy needs, not to enrich subjective experience. Unlike a photograph the percept is
determined by more than just the stimulus.
The fourth experiment is of a rather different kind. With ears plugged, their eyes beneath translucent
goggles and their bodies either encased in cotton wool, or floating naked in water at body temperature, people
are deprived for considerable periods of external stimulation. Contrary to what one might expect, however,
such circumstances result not in a lack of perceptual experience but rather a surprising change in what is
perceived. The subjects in such an experiment begin to see, feel and hear things which bear no more relationship
to the immediate external world than does a dream in someone who is asleep. These people are not asleep yet
their hallucinations, or so-called “autistic” perceptions, may be as vivid, if not more so, than any normal
percept.
76. In the first paragraph, the author suggests that
A. color photography is a biological process.
B. vision is rather like color photography.
C. vision is a sort of photographic process.
D. vision and color photography are very different.
77. What does the word “it”, underlined in the first paragraph, refer to?
A. perception B. the photographic process
C. the comparison with photography D. the answer
78. In the first experiment, it is proved that a person
A. makes mistakes of perception and is less accurate than a camera.
B. can see more clearly than a camera.
C. is more sensitive to changes in light than a camera.
D. sees colors as they are in spite of changes in the light.
79. What does the word “that”, underlined in the second paragraph, refer to?
A. the proportion of black to white B. the brightly illuminated disc
C. the other disc D. the grey color
80. The second experiment shows that
A. people see colors according to their ideas of how things should look.
B. colors look different in a dim light.
C. cameras work less efficiently in a dim light.
D. colors are less intense in larger objects.
81. What does the word “satiated”, underlined in the fourth paragraph, means?
A. tired B. bored
C. not hungry or thirsty D. nervous
82. What does “to equalize the brightness", underlined in the fourth paragraph, mean?
A. to arrange the pictures so that the equally bright ones are together
B. to change the lighting so that the pictures look equally bright
C. to describe the brightness
D. to move the pictures nearer or further away
83. The third experiment proves that
A. we see things differently according to our interest in them.
B. pictures of food and drink are especially interesting to everybody.
C. cameras are not good at equalizing brightness.
D. satiated people see less clearly than hungry or thirsty people.
84. The expression “contrary to what one might expect” occurs the fifth paragraph. What might one expect?
A. that the subjects would go to sleep.
B. that they would feel uncomfortable and disturbed.
C. that they would see, hear and feel nothing.
D. that they would see, hear and feel strange things.
85. The fourth experiment proves
A. that people deprived of sense stimulation go mad.
B. that people deprived of sense stimulation dream.
C. that people deprived of sense stimulation experience unreal things.
D. that people deprived of sense stimulation lack perceptual experience.

Part 4: Read the text, identify which section A–F each of the following is mentioned. Write ONE letter A–F
in the corresponding numbered space provided. Each letter may be used more than once. (1.5 pts)
In which extract _____
1._____ is a point of contention amongst scientists over the effects of something highlighted?
2._____ does the writer give an insight into their personal outlook on life?
3._____ is the difficulty in proving something likened to searching for an everyday object?
4._____ does the writer examine the different ways likeness can be interpreted?
5._____ does the writer hint at the inconveniences snowflakes can cause in everyday life?
6._____ is the composition of young snow crystals differentiated in some detail?
7._____ are the range of possible forms flakes can take defined as almost never-ending?
8._____ does the writer first explain that two developed snowflakes can rarely be the same?
9._____ does the writer suggest the closer something is inspected, the less likely an outcome is?
10.____ does the writer suggest that simplification can have a positive impact on the world?
A.
Well, although you wouldn’t think it to glance at them, snow crystals are rather intricate. For that reason, the
answer is by no means clear-cut. For instance, scientists remain unsure as to how temperature and humidity
affect growth. Indeed, moving somewhat tangentially for a moment, nor are they yet certain of the wider
climactic effect flakes have. For example, they know that clouds of snow crystals reflect sunlight during the
day, producing a cooling affect; although at night they sort of blanket the planet, absorbing the heat it gives
off, doing the reverse. So whether such clouds contribute to global warming or not is up for debate on account
of these competing effects.
B.
As for snow crystals themselves, they undergo various stages of formation before they become fully
developed snowflakes. In the developmental stages, they are more simple structures, then they later branch
out and become complex. To start with, they resemble fairly plain and uniform six-sided prisms that are hard to
distinguish from one another. Such underdeveloped crystals do often fall to the ground prematurely as
precipitation. In this case, the probability of close likeness amongst different ones is quite high in relative
terms. So, hypothetically, it’s quite possible to find two more or less the same, but, in practice, this would be like
looking for a needle in a haystack – two, actually, so good luck trying to prove it.
C.
However, snowfall is typically comprised of crystals at a more advanced stage of development – true
snowflakes, if you will – and here the odds change considerably with the likelihood of very close resem-blance
dramatically reduced. This is because the ways in which fully developed crystals can arrange themselves are
almost infinite. Once crystals have branched out to form large flakes, then, the chances of finding identical
twins are, therefore, extremely remote.
D.
Another problem with this question is how you define ‘alike’. After all, to the naked eye, most flakes look more
or less indistinguishable, irrespective of size or shape. Indeed, even under a microscope, more simple crystal
formations are strikingly similar to one another, though the unique characteristics of fully formed snowflakes
will be revealed. However, an understanding of the science of physics confirms the extreme rarity of identical
twins even amongst superficially similar flakes. In other words, at a molecular level, likeness is a near
impossibility, so the more closely we examine a flake and the more strictly we define the notion of likeness, the
less probable it becomes to ever identify two crystals which are truly alike.
E.
It is, in a way, somewhat reassuring, though, that something as seemingly simple as a snowflake which is in
actuality incredibly complex, can still be uniformly beautiful in another purer, more innocent sense. For, once
the flakes have made landfall and begun to amass, snow is, to a degree, just snow, and it takes on that kind of
magical, fairy-tale quality that only it can evoke in so many people, but particularly the young, who have less
need to worry about the logistical implications of it amassing in ever greater quantities, and, indeed, who
usually welcome the closure of facilities, particularly academic ones, that is normally commensurate with such
accumulations. For it is the way of the universe as a whole, is it not? Order springs from chaos, beauty is born
from the most unlikely, disordered and chance set of circum- stances. Indeed, as a self-proclaimed glass-half-
full person, I like to think that we, human beings, are not all that dissimilar to snowflakes, actually. After all,
each one of us is, on some level, utterly unique, and yet, remove all the complexities of life and the over-
analysis, and, on another, we are all precisely the same; hopeful, flawed, loving, caring, jealous and imperfect;
perfectly so. The sooner we understand that, the better for both our species and the wider world we inhabit,
snow-covered or otherwise.