ADVANCED PROGRESS TEST

Class of 2008
Code: 001 Time: 90 minutes

A. LISTENING (20)
I. Listen to a radio programme about two writers. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to
complete each of the questions. (10 points)
1. The novelist J. D. Salinger went to university but _______.
A. was asked to leave B. received poor grades in his first year.
C. left before finishing the first year. D. did not regard getting a degree as ‘success’
2. Salinger’s famous novel about adolescence was _______.
A. popular mainly because it was controversial.
B. only popular with younger readers.
C. extremely popular but condemned by some people.
D. not taught in many schools at first.
3. Because Salinger refused to be in the public eye, _______.
A. people stopped asking him for interviews. B. nobody was even sure what religion he was.
C. he was rarely talked about. D. his fame actuality increased.
4. Harper Lee’s education was _______.
A. not as successful as she had hoped. B. more successful than Salinger’s.
C. not as successful as Salinger’s. D. very similar to Salinger’s.
5. How did Harper Lee find time to write her first novel?
A. A friend paid for her to take a year off work.
B. A friend got her work as a songwriter in New York.
C. She couldn’t find a job in New York.
D. She wrote slowly for ten years in total.

II. Listen to five descriptions of an event. For each description, decide if it is TRUE or FALSE.
Write T (True) or F (False) in the box (10 points)
Recording 1
1. A dog ran on during the match and one of the linesmen caught it.
2. A golfer sneezed at the same time as playing a shot and ended up playing a bad one.
3. The winner of the race was angry with another competitor.
4. A young boy played a few points because the professional was angry with himself.
5. When the fight started, the other players didn’t try to stop it.
Recording 2
1. When his father left, Matt lived with five other members of his family.
2. Matt's mother encouraged her sons to be creative.
3. As a Child, Matt loved to pretend he was someone else.
4. His first success came when he met Ben Affleck.
5. Matt doesn't devote all his time and energy to acting.

B. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (30)

Part 1. Choose one of the words marked A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the following
sentences. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
1. You say you need new clothes but your wardrobe is full to ________ with dresses.
A. overflowing B. overfilling C. overlaying D. overstepping
2. The economic situation makes many people unwilling to take the ________ and open their own
businesses.
A. initiative B. bull C. plunge D. opportunity
3. Looking after a house, four children, a lazy husband and two dogs is real ________.
A. labour B. drudgery C. toil D. grind
4. Serena is still _______ ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.

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 A. blissfully B. decorously C. jubilantly D. ecstatically
5. I'm afraid we got our _______ crossed — I thought my husband would be picking up the children
and he thought I was doing it.
A. minds B. purposes C. wires D. fingers
6. Marlene is quite _______ - I don't know she manages to fit everything in.
A. inexhaustible B. tiresome C. inexorable D. indefatigable
7. The princess's nanny's autobiography really gives the _______ on life among the royals.
A. show-down B. know-how C. low-down D. look-out
8. Anyone who lies under oath will be charged with _______ the course of justice.
A. perverting B. inverting C. converting D. diverting
9. You can try reformatting your computer, but once you open that ________, you'll probably be
working on it for days,
A. apple of discord B. can of worms C. load of cobblers D. spot of bother
10. I've searched ________ for that old photo album, but I can't find it anywhere.
A. high and low B. long and short
C. straight and narrow D. thick and thin
11. Sheila swore that she would ________ after she figured out that I had started the rumor about her.
A. fight shy of me B. get even with me C. lie heavy on me D. run afoul of me
12. As a celebrity he was rather unusual in that he preferred to ________ the limelight in as much as
was possible.
A. gorge B. renege C. milk D. shun
13. ________, the diners settled the bill and left the restaurant.
A. Having hunger satisfied B. Their hunger satisfied
C. Hunger been satisfied D. Satisfying their hunger
14. I don’t like the way that Jack is always trying to ________ trouble between us.
A. dish out B. rub up C. stir up D. spark out
15. In fact, the criminals _______ in because the front door was wide open and so they just walked in.
A. needn't have broken B. shouldn’t have broken
C. didn’t need to break D. couldn’t have broken
16. In bas-relief sculpture, a design projects very slightly from its background, _______ some coins.
A. as on B. because C. the way that D. similarly
17. _______ workers found accidentally while constructing a new subway line in London yielded new
information about previous civilizations in the area could be well-documented.
A. Relics that B. That relics that C. It was relics that D. Not until relics that
18. Declared an endangered species in the United States, .
A. the ginseng root has been gathered almost to the point of extinction.
B. gathering the ginseng root almost to the point of extinction.
C. people have gathered the ginseng root almost to the point of extinction.
D. the near extinction of the ginseng root to excessive gathering.
19. I eventually managed to find the office, _______.
A. but not until after I’d got lost several times.
B. so I had been looking for over an hour.
C. that was easy and didn’t take very long.
D. since it wasn’t clearly marked on the map I had.
20. Round and round _______.
A. the wheels of the engine went B. did the wheels of the engine go
C. went the wheels of the engine D. going the wheels of the engine

Part 2. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the
corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
Example: Because of  Because

Line 1 Because of different tree species adapting to different climates and soil types
Line 2 have evolved over millennium, many kinds of forests occupy the earth today.

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 Line 3 The primitive forests of several hundred million years ago consisted of less
Line 4 kinds of trees. In fact, the earliest ‘trees’, which grew nearly 500 million years
Line 5 ago, were like giant club mosses. They lack true roots and consisted of a
Line 6 confused mass specialized branches that climbed at rocky ground. Fifty million
Line 7 years later came the dense forests of tree ferns that prevailed tropical climates
Line 8 of that era. The forerunners of modern conifers-trees that bear cones – were on
Line 9 the scene 300 million years ago, when plant life abundant colonized marshy
Line 10 land, building the tremendous coal and oil reserves so important today. By the
Line 11 time the dinosaurs roamed the earth some 180 million years before, seed
Line 12 bearing trees that shed their leaves in winter evolved; from these have sprung
our present deciduous forests.

Write your answers here:

Number Line Mistake Correction
E.g. 0. Line 1 Because of Because
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Part 3. Give the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10 points)
BOOK PUBLICISTS
The (0) courteous (COURTESY) smile of an author selling books, signing copies or chatting
on television shows can be (1) _______ (DECEIVE). Behind the scenes of the book tour that has
become as much a part of the modern bestseller as print and paper, the writer may be a (2) _______
(CONTEND) for a Golden Dartboard Award.
This is the Oscar for authors (3) _______ (ALLEGE) behaving badly, an informal award
nominated by the weary, sometimes (4) _______ (TRAUMA), publicists who travel from city to city
garnering publicity and sales. They call themselves “(5) _______ (BABY)” and “wet nurses” as they
tend to the fragile egos and (6) _______ (CONVENTION) demands of authors freed from their word
processors.
Among the most feared (7) _______ (ASSIGN) for the publicists are the feminist writer who is
remembered for yelling at her publicists in public and in (8) _______ (COLOUR) language, and the
thriller writer whose publicists report that they have instructions from his publisher to speak only when
spoken to. One (9) _______ (SURVIVE) of a tour with him, who nominated him for a Golden
Dartboard, says: “He treats us all as his inferiors.” However, publicists on his most recent tour say that
he was an absolute (10) _______ (ENJOY) to work with.

C. READING (40)
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
People’s personalities _____ (1) considerably from one another as there are no two alike. Our
ingrained characteristics which _____ (2) the patterns of our behaviour, our reactions and
temperaments are unparalleled on _____ (3) of the diversified processes that _____ (4) our personality
in the earliest _____ (5) of human development.

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 Some _____ (6) of character may to some _____ (7) be hereditary simulating the attributes that
_____ (8) our parents. Others may _____ (9) from the conditions experienced during pregnancy and
infancy in this way reflecting the parents’ approach towards _____ (10) their offspring. Consequently,
the environmental factor _____ (11) a crucial role in strengthening or eliminating certain behavioural
systems making an individual more prone to _____ (12) to the patterns that _____ (13) a prize.
Undoubtedly, human personality _____ (14) the most profound and irreverible formation
during the first period of its development, yet, certain characteristics may still be _____ (15) to
considerable changes conditioned by different circumstances and situations.
1. A. distinguish B. converge C. vary D. differentiate
2. A. denote B. resolve C. inflict D. determine
3. A. account B. means C. token D. event
4. A. mould B. design C. conceive D. fabricate
5. A. states B. instants C. stages D. terms
6. A. factors B. traits C. items D. breeds
7. A. scope B. area C. extent D. length
8. A. pertain B. recognize C. associate D. identify
9. A. stem B. relate C. rise D. formulate
10. A. breeding B. rearing C. growing D. yielding
11. A. makes B. does C. finds D. plays
12. A. comfort B. pledge C. aquiesce D. obey
13. A. yearn B. deserve C. wish D. necessitate
14. A. underacts B. undertakes C. undergoes D. underlies
15. A. practicable B. feasible C. subject D. potential

Part 2. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in
each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (15 points)
Some current evidence (1) _______ that dreams may serve no useful psychological or
physiological function, and perform no adaptive role in maintaining our psychological health. In fact,
some researchers believe that dreams are merely (2) _______ evolutionary by-product of sleep (3)
_______ with a gradually awakening consciousness in human beings – a developmental cognitive
achievement assigned to the healthy functioning of a complex neural network (4) _______ in specific
(5) _______ of the forebrain.
Nevertheless, the way dreams reflect our emotional preoccupations or run (6) _______ to our
awakened states of consciousness may explain why, throughout history, dreams have been (7)
_______ to various uses. For (8) _______, in many societies, dreams would be used by shamans or
witch doctors as a means to diagnose or (9) _______ illnesses, or to (10) _______ off evil spirits.
Occasionally, dreams would be used to predict the weather or (11) _______ prophecies. In modern
times dreams have been used by psychotherapists as a means of understanding the patient’s (12)
_______ of mind, or simply to induce him or her to talk about repressed feelings. Dreams may (13)
_______ be used socially, (14) _______ an ice-breaker, or as a way for some people to express
fantasies. But there are emergent functions, coming (15) _______ as a result of dreams rather than
causing them.

Part 3. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C, or D to answer the questions. Write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points)
If food is allowed to stand for some time, it putrefies. When the putrefied material is examined
microscopically, it is found to be teeming with bacteria. Where do these bacteria come from, since
they are not seen in fresh food? Even until the mid-nineteenth century, many people believed that
such microorganisms originated by spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process by which living
organisms develop from nonliving matter.
The most powerful opponent of the theory of spontaneous generation was the French chemist
and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Pasteur showed that structures present in air closely
resemble the microorganisms seen in putrefying materials. He did this by passing air through
guncotton filters, the fibers of which stop solid particles. After the guncotton was dissolved in a

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mixture of alcohol and ether, the particles that it had trapped fell to the bottom of the liquid and were
examined on a microscope slide. Pasteur found that in ordinary air these exists a variety of solid
structures ranging in size from 0.01 mm to more than 1.0 mm. Many of these bodies resembled the
reproductive structures of common molds, single-celled animals, and various other microbial cells.
As many as 20 to 30 of them were found in fifteen liters of ordinary air, and they could not be
distinguished from the organisms found in much larger numbers in putrefying materials. Pasteur
concluded that the organisms found in putrefying materials originated from the organized bodies
present in the air. He postulated that these bodies are constantly being deposited on all objects.
Pasteur showed that if a nutrient solution was sealed in a glass flask and heated to boiling to
destroy all the living organisms contaminating it, it never putrefied. The proponents of spontaneous
generation declared that fresh air was necessary for spontaneous generation and that the air inside the
sealed flask was affected in some way by heating so that it would no longer support spontaneous
generation. Pasteur constructed a swan-necked flask in which putrefying materials could he heated to
boiling, but air could reenter. The bends in the neck prevented microorganisms from getting in the
flask.
Material sterilized in such a flask did not putrefy.

1. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Pasteur’s influence on the development of the microscope.
B. The origin of the theory of spontaneous generation.
C. The effects of pasteurization on food.
D. Pasteur’s argument against the theory of spontaneous generation.
2. The phrase “teeming with” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. full of B. developing into C. resistant to D. hurt by
3. Which of the following questions did the theory of spontaneous generation attempt to answer?
A. What is the origin of the living organisms are seen on some food?
B. How many types of organisms can be found on food?
C. What is the most effective way to prepare living organisms for microscopic examination?
D. How long can food stand before it putrefies?
4. The purpose of the “guncotton” mentioned in paragraph 2 was to _______.
A. trap particles for analysis
B. slow the process of putrefaction
C. increase the airflow to the microscopic slide
D. aid the mixing of alcohol and ether
5. The author mention “1.0 mm” in paragraph 2 in describing the _______.
A. thickness of a layer of organisms that was deposited on an object
B. diameter of the fibers that were in the guncotton filters
C. thickness of the microscope slides that were used
D. size of the particles that that were collected
6. The word “postulated” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. analyzed B. doubted C. persuaded D. suggested
7. The objects that Pasteur removed from the air in his experiment were remarkable because they were
A. primarily single-celled organisms
B. no different from objects found in putrefying materials
C. fairly rare
D. able to live in a mixture of alcohol and ether
8. The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to _______.
A. a nutrient solution B. a glass flask C. boiling D. spontaneous
generation
9. According to paragraph 3, proponents of spontaneous generation believed that which of the
following was important for the process to succeed?
A. A sealed container B. Fresh air
C. Heat D. The presence of nutrients
10. It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that Pasteur employed a swam-necked flask to _______.

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 A. store sterilized liquids for use in future experiments
B. prevent heat from building up in a solution
C. disprove a criticism of his conclusions
D. estimate the number of organisms in a liter of air

D. WRITING (10)

Part 1. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the one
printed before it. Write your answers in the space provided. (10 points)

1. I won’t go all that way to visit him again on any account!

 On no account …………………………………………………………………………………………
2. I wasn’t surprised when they refused to pay me.

 As I …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. We have credited the money to your current account at this bank.

 We have placed ………………………………………………………………………………………

4. Your silly questions distracted me.

 You drove …………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. Edward eventually organised himself and started work.

 Edward eventually got his ……………………………………………………………………………

Part 2. Rewrite the sentences below in such a way that their meanings stay the same. You must use
the words in capital without changing their forms. Write your answers in the space provided (10
points)
1. She wasn’t speaking seriously. (TONGUE)

 …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………

2. Mike is never reluctant to make tough decisions as a manager. (SHRINKS)

 …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………

3. They designed the stadium to make hooliganism impossible. (SUCH)

 …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………

4. My friend took no notice of my advice. (DEAF)

 …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………

5. He didn’t think much of the musical show yesterday. (OPINION)

 …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………

THE END.