ENGLISH PRACTICE 4

A. LISTENING

PART I. Questions 1-6

Complete the table using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each
answer.

Hostel Price Facilities Extras

East Coast Example
Backpackers Bunkhouse $ 5.90 /
night Cabins at $ 1.00 / 5 minutes to beach
night or 2. ................................ 3. ...................................
1.................................. package
with air conditioning
Emu Park Hostel Weekly cost to share Rooms overlooking Good for
room beach have
4. ................................. 5. ............................ 6. ................................
Questions 7-10
Complete the notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
East Coast Backpackers' Hostel address: 7. ......................................................................... Road.
Bus will have words 8. ................................................................... written on the front.
Computer access costs 9 .......................................................................... .
Shop stocks things like 10. ..................................... and .............................................

PART II. You will hear people talking in 5 situations. For questions 1-5, choose the best answer,
A, B or C
1. you hear a man talking about a football match. Why was the match cancelled?
A. because of the bad weather B. because of football hooligans
B. C. because of an accident
2. you hear someone talking on a mobile phone. Who is she talking to?
A. a customer B. a colleague C. a relative
3. You overhear two people in a travel agent’s arguing about a trip. What do they disagree about?
A. how warm it will be B. how sunny it will be C. how humid it will be
4. You hear a weather forecast on the radio. What will the weather be like tomorrow in the
North?
A. wet B. windy C. bright
5. Listen to this news report about a flood. What was the probable cause of the flood?
A. a river bursting its banks B. a broken pipe C. heavy rainfall

B. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Part I: Grammar and Vocabulary – Choose the best answer
1. Our holiday was_________ by the weather.
A. spoilt B. damaged C. overcome D. wasted
2. The________ charged by the architect for the plans of the new building were unusually high.
A. hire B. price C. fees D. sum
3. He_________ his son of the dangers of driving too fast in his new car
A. warned B. remembered C. threatened D. concerned
4. The child was_________ by a lorry on the safety crossing in the main street.
A. knocked out B. run across C. run out D. knocked down
5. When Ali arrived in London he spent all his time_________ and visited all the important
museums and buildings.
A. sight-seeing B. traveling C. looking D. touring
6. If you want a cheap air ticket you must_________ well in advance.
A. book B. engage C. reserve D. buy
7. His sister was full of_________ for the way in which he had so quickly learned to drive a car.
 A. pride B. admiration C. surprise D. jealousy
8. He asked if we would_________ to share the room.
A. accept B. consider C. agree D. approve
9. I wondered whether you would like to_________ to the theater tomorrow.
A. visit B. go away C. go out D. walk out
10. _________ I would like to say how pleased I am to be here.
A. Primarily B. Foremost C. Earliest D. First
11. The independent arbitrator managed to_________ the confrontation between the union and the
employers.
A. refuse B. confuse C. refute D. defuse
12. When I heard the footsteps behind me I was_________ that I would be attacked.
A. horrified B. terror-struck C. terrorized D. terrified
13. His illness made him_________ of concentration.
A. incompetent B. unable C. incapable D. powerless
14. Has the committee_________ a decision yet?
A. done B. made C. arrived D. voted
15. I am a bit hungry. I think_____________ something to eat.
A. I’ll have B. I’ll be having C. I’m going to have D. I’m having
16. What do you plan to do when you_____________ your course at college?
A. finish B. will finish C. have finished D. is going to finish
17. Where_____________? Which hairdresser did you go to?
A. did you cut your hair B. have you cut your hair
C. did you have cut your hair D. did you have your hair cut
18. ‘Shall I stay here?’ ~ ‘I’d rather_____________ with us’.
A. you come B. you to come C. you would come D. you came
19. I_____________ saying what I think.
A. believe B. believe in C. believe for D. believe when
20. Somebody ran in front of the car as I was driving. Fortunately I_____________ just in time.
A. could stop B. could have stopped
C. managed to stop D. must be able to stop
Part II: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and write their correct forms
in the space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example.
Traditional, mental tests have been divided into two types. 0. traditional → traditionally
Achievement tests are designed to measure acquiring skills and 1. _____________________
knowledge, particularly those that have been explicitness taught. The 2. _____________________
proficiency exams required by few states for high school graduation 3. _____________________
are achievement tests. Aptitude tests are designed and measure a 4. _____________________
person’s ability to acquire new skills but knowledge. For example, 5. _____________________
vocation aptitude tests can help you decide whether you would do 6. _____________________
better like a mechanic or musician. However, all mental tests are in 7. _____________________
some sense achievement tests because they assumption some sort of 8. _____________________
past learning or experience with certainly objects, words, or 9. _____________________
situations. The difference between achievement and aptitude tests is 10. _____________________
the degree and intention use.

Part III: Give the correct form of the words in brackets to fill in the blanks.
Dark black clouds in a dull sky meant one thing and one thing only: there was going to be a
(1.thunder)….. Not one of us had brought an umbrella, or even a (2.rain)……. So when Jack suggested
we should go to a museum, we all agreed immediately. As we had been (3. shop)………all morning
we were now feeling very tired, it would be a (4. pleasant)………...to sit down. We took a bus and
arrived just as large shops of rain were beginning to fall.
The museum was quite (5.desert)……and very peaceful. We sat down in the main hall and listened to
the rain (6. beat)…….against the windows.
Suddenly, there was a great (7. disturb)……..at the (8. enter)……… a large party of schoolboys were
(9. lead) ………in by a teacher. The poor man was trying to keep them quiet and threatening to punish
them, but they did not pay the (10.slight)……. attention.
Part IV: Fill in each blank with a suitable word to fill in the blanks.
Vitamins are substances (1. REQUIRE)………… for the proper functioning of the body. In
this century, thirteen vitamins have been discovered.
A lack of any vitamins in a person’s body can cause illness. In some cases, an excess of
vitamins can also lead to illness. For example, sailors in the past (2. BE)………… prone to suffer from
scurvy that is a disease (3. RESULT)………… from the lack of vitamin C. It causes bleeding of the
gum, loss of teeth and skin rashes. Sailors suffer from scurvy because they did not eat fruits and
vegetables. Fruits and vegetables contain vitamin C which is necessary for good health
Vitamin B complex (4. COMPOSE)………… of eight different vitamins. A lack of any of
these vitamins will lead to different diseases. For instance, a person who has too little vitamin B1 will
suffer from beri-beri, a disease that causes heart problems and mental disorders. A lack of vitamin B2
results in eye and skin problems while deficiency of vitamin B6 causes problems of the nervous
system. Too little vitamin B12 will cause anemia. The knowledge that vitamin deficiencies caused
certain diseases led doctors to cure people (5. SUFFER)………… from these illnesses by giving them
doses of the necessary vitamins.
Today, vitamins are available in the form of pills and can easily be bought at any pharmacy.

Part V: Fill in each gap with a suitable preposition.

1. She complimented him ………….. his exellent German.
2. She sacrificed everything ……………. her children.
3. Sit down and make yourself ……………. home.
4. He works away …………… home during the week.
5. The searchers spread ………….. to over the area faster.

C. READING
Part I:
The shark is a meat- eating fish and one of the most feared animals of the sea. Scientists (1)
………… about 250 species of fish as sharks. These fish live in oceans (2)………..the world, but they
are most common in warm seas.
Sharks (3)………….greatly in size and habits. Whale sharks, the largest kind of shark, may grow
60 feet long. A whale shark weighs up to 15 tons, more than twice (4)…………….much as an African
elephant. The smallest shark may (5)…………..only 4 inches long and weigh less than 1 ounce. Some
kinds of sharks live in the depths of the ocean, but (6)……………are found near the surface. Some
species live in coastal waters, but others (7)……………far out at sea. A few species can even live in
(8)…………..water.
All sharks are carnivores (meat- eaters). Most of them eat (9)…………fish, including other sharks.
A shark’s only natural enemy is a large shark. Sharks eat their prey whole, or they tear off large
chunks of flesh. They also (10)………………..on dead or dying animals.
1. A. classify B. divide C. organize D. arrange
2. A. all B. through C. throughout D. over
3. A. grow B. rise C. evolve D. vary
4. A. as B. so C. very D. exactly
5. A. stretch B. measure C. develop D. expand
6. A. some others B. others C. different kinds D. some sharks
7. A. dwell B. exist C. emigrate D. migrate
8. A. fresh B. sweet C. light D. clear
9. A. uncooked B. live C. lively D. alive
10. A. eat B. swallow C. exist D. feed

Part II: Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question.
PAINTERS OF TIME
‘The world’s fascination with the mystique of Australian Aboriginal art.’
Emmanuel de Roux
A The works of Aboriginal artists are now much in demand throughout the world, and not just in
Australia, where they are already fully recognised: the National Museum of Australia, which opened in
Canberra in 2001, designated 40% of its exhibition space to works by Aborigines. In Europe their art is
being exhibited at a museum in Lyon, France, while the future Quai Branly museum in Paris – which
will be devoted to arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas – plans to
commission frescoes by artists from Australia.
B Their artistic movement began about 30 years ago, but its roots go back to time immemorial.
All the works refer to the founding myth of the Aboriginal culture, ‘the Dreaming’. That internal
geography, which is rendered with a brush and colours, is also the expression of the Aborigines’ long
quest to regain the land which was stolen from them when Europeans arrived in the nineteenth century.
‘Painting is nothing without history,’ says one such artist, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra.
C There are now fewer than 400,000 Aborigines living in Australia. They have been swamped by
the country’s 17.5 million immigrants. These original ‘natives’ have been living in Australia for
50,000 years, but they were undoubtedly maltreated by the newcomers. Driven back to the most barren
lands or crammed into slums on the outskirts of cities, the Aborigines were subjected to a policy of
‘assimilation’, which involved kidnapping children to make them better ‘integrated’ into European
society, and herding the nomadic Aborigines by force into settled communities.
D It was in one such community, Papunya, near Alice Springs, in the central desert, that
Aboriginal painting first came into its own. In 1971, a white schoolteacher, Geoffrey Bardon,
suggested to a group of Aborigines that they should decorate the school walls with ritual motifs, so as
to pass on to the younger generation the myths that were starting to fade from their collective memory.
He gave them brushes, colours and surfaces to paint on – cardboard and canvases. He was astounded
by the result. But their art did not come like a bolt from the blue: for thousands of years Aborigines
had been ‘painting’ on the ground using sands of different colours, and on rock faces. They had also
been decorating their bodies for ceremonial purposes. So there existed a formal vocabulary.
E This had already been noted by Europeans. In the early twentieth century, Aboriginal
communities brought together by missionaries in northern Australia had been encouraged to reproduce
on tree bark the motifs found on rock faces. Artists turned out a steady stream of works, supported by
the churches, which helped to sell them to the public, and between 1950 and 1960 Aboriginal paintings
began to reach overseas museums. Painting on bark persisted in the north, whereas the communities in
the central desert increasingly used acrylic paint, and elsewhere in Western Australia women explored
the possibilities of wax painting and dyeing processes, known as ‘batik’.
F What Aborigines depict are always elements of the Dreaming, the collective history that each
community is both part of and guardian of. The Dreaming is the story of their origins, of their ‘Great
Ancestors’, who passed on their knowledge, their art and their skills (hunting, medicine, painting,
music and dance) to man. ‘The Dreaming is not synonymous with the moment when the world was
created,’ says Stephane Jacob, one of the organisers of the Lyon exhibition. ‘For Aborigines, that
moment has never ceased to exist. It is perpetuated by the cycle of the seasons and the religious
ceremonies which the Aborigines organise. Indeed the aim of those ceremonies is also to ensure the
permanence of that golden age. The central function of Aboriginal painting, even in its contemporary
manifestations, is to guarantee the survival of this world. The Dreaming is both past, present and
future.’
G Each work is created individually, with a form peculiar to each artist, but it is created within
and on behalf of a community who must approve it. An artist cannot use a ‘dream’ that does not
belong to his or her community, since each community is the owner of its dreams, just as it is anchored
to a territory marked out by its ancestors, so each painting can be interpreted as a kind of spiritual road
map for that community.
H ‘By exporting their paintings as though they were surfaces of their territory, by accompanying them
to the temples of western art, the Aborigines have redrawn the map of their country, into whose depths
they were exiled,’ says Yves Le Fur, of the Quai Branly museum. ‘Masterpieces have been created.
Their undeniable power prompts a dialogue that has proved all too rare in the history of contacts
between the two cultures’.
Question 1-6: The passage has nine paragraphs, A-H. Choose the correct heading for
paragraphs A-F from the list of headings, i-viii, below.
List of Headings
i Amazing results from a project
ii New religious ceremonies
iii Community art centres
iv Early painting techniques and marketing systems
 v Mythology and history combined
vi The increasing acclaim for Aboriginal art
vii Belief on continuity
viii Oppression of a minority people
1. Paragraph A __________
2. Paragraph B __________
3. Paragraph C __________
4. Paragraph D __________
5. Paragraph E __________
6. Paragraph F __________

Question 7-10: Complete the flow chart below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the
passage for each answer.
For (7) __________, Aborigines produced ground and rock paintings.
â
Early twentieth century: churches first prompted the use of (8) __________ for paintings.
â
Mid-twentieth century: Aboriginal paintings were seen in (9) __________.
â
Early 1970s: Aborigines painted traditional patterns on (10) __________ in one community.

Part III:
BITTER WATER HITS THE BIG TIME
Chocolate, which has its origins in South America, is now part of a multi-million pound
worldwide business.
At Easter, British people spend over $230 million on chocolate. A massive eight per cent of
all chocolate is bought at this time.
(1)____. Although the large scale industrial production of chocolate began in the last century,
the cacao plant was first cultivated by the Aztec, Toltec and Mayan civilizations of Central America
over three thousand years ago.
The cacao tree is an evergreen, tropical plant which is found in Africa, South and Central
America, the West Indies and South East Asia. The fruit of this tree is melon-sized and contains 20-40
seeds. (2)____. In English – speaking countries, they are called cocoa beans. This is a misspelling from
the 17th century when they were also called cacoa and cocao beans.
The Aztecs used cocoa beans as money. (3)____. This is from the world in the Aztec
language, Nahuatl, meaning “bitter water”. (4)____. The Spanish found the drink more palatable
mixed with cinnamon and sugar, but the recipe did not spread to the rest of Europe for another century.
In the late 17th century, chocolate houses were set up in Europe’s capital cities, where people gathered
to drink chocolate.
(5)____. But in 1826, CJ van Houten of the Netherlands invented chocolate powder. (6)____.
The age of the chocolate bar as we know it began in 1847 when a Bristol company, Fry and
Sons, combined cocoa butter with pure chocolate liquor and sugar to produce a solid block that you
could eat. (7)____.
At the turn of the century, the British chocolate market was dominated by French companies.
In 1879 the English company Cadbury even named their Birmingham factory Bournville (ville is the
French word for town) in the hope that a little glamour would rub off. But then came Cadbury’s
famous Dairy Milk bar which began life as a Dairymaid in 1905. (8)____.It seems that, for the time
being at least, chocolate intake in Britain has established at about four bars each week. (9)____. The
latest market trick is the so-called “extended line”. This is when the humble chocolate bar becomes an
ice cream, a soft drink or a dessert, to tempt chocoholics who have grown tired of conventional snacks.
At the other end of the production process, cacao farmers are still feeling the effects of a crash
in cocoa bean prices at the end of 1980s. (10)____. Perhaps you could spare a thought for them as you
munch your next chocolate bars.

A. This was made by extracting most of the cocoa butter from the crushed beans.
B. A Swiss company then introduced milk solids to the process which gave us milk chocolate.
 C. They also used them to make a drink called xocoatl.
D. Until the last century, the chocolate drink was made from solid blocks of chocolate which had to
be melted down in hot water.
E. When dried they become cacao beans, which can be used to make chocolate.
F. Clever advertising which associated it with the healthy qualities of milk from the English
countryside quickly established the bar as a rival to the more decadent French brands.
G. British manufacturers include up to 5 per cent vegetable fat in their chocolate, something
forbidden elsewhere.
H. As most cacao farmers operate on a very small scale, many were forced out of business.
I. This has forced manufacturers to look for new ways to attract customers.
J. In Aztec times the chocolate drink was flavored with spices and used on ceremonial occasions and
for welcoming visitors.
K. Only at Christmas do people eat more of the cocoa-based foodstuffs.

D. WRITING
Part I: Rewrite the following sentences so that they have a similar meaning with the first one.
1. “Don’t forget to phone the police”, she said
She reminded him .................................................. .................................................. .........
2. It is believed that the man escaped in a stolen car.
The man............................................... .................................................. ...................
3. A small church lies at the foot of the hill.
At the foot .................................................. .................................................. .....................
4. If you changed your mind, you’ll be welcome to join our club .
Were you .................................................. .................................................. ......................
5. We don’t have to do so many things to please him.
It is .................................................. .................................................. .................................
6. I’m sure he didn’t do it by himself.
He................................................ .................................................. ........................................
7. He can’t afford to go to America this summer.
He doesn’t .................................................. .................................................. ......................
8. Timmy has become confident as a result of his success .
Timmy’s success has turned............................................ ................................................
9. I haven't seen my uncle for a long time.
It's a long time .................................................. .................................................. ....................
10. She dances beautifully and she sings sweetly, too.
Not only .................................................. .................................................. .............................

PART II: Rewrite the sentence, using the given word.

1. You should think about the price before you decide whether to buy it or not. (consideration)
→………………………………………………………………………………………….
2. People don’t want to buy cars with large engines any more. (call)
→………………………………………………………………………………………….
3. Twenty years ago this region produced twice as much coal as it does now.(halved)
→………………………………………………………………………………………….
4. The prime minister in unlikely to call an early general election. (likelihood)
→………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. The policeman acted quickly and averted an accident (prompt)
→………………………………………………………………………………………….

Part III: Write a composition (300 words) about the following topic:
How do movies and television influence people’s behavior? Use reasons and specific examples to
support your answer.