PRACTICE TEST 70

SECTION : LEXICO- GRAMMAR (40 points)

Part 1. For questions 26-45, choose the best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following sentences and
write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (20 points)
26. At the turn of the 20th century, Edward Muybridge’s pictures of a runner ______ in every history of
photography.
A. exhibit B. show C. feature D. demonstrate
27. Sports photographers today can ______ in a single dramatic moment the real emotions of the participants.
A. seize B. grasp C. capture D. secure
28. These buildings are used extensively for State ceremonies and official entertaining and are opened to the
______ as much as these condiments allow.
A. public B. humans C. people D. strangers
29. ______, the meeting stops here.
A. If no question being asked B. Without any questions, however
C. No questions asked D. There being no question
30. He started hammering on the adjoining wall but Mary carried on ______.
A. notwithstanding B. regardless C. irrespective D. nevertheless
31. The scientists ______ the festival of Ramadan, but they were too busy with their research in the
laboratory.
A. would have liked to commemorate B. would have loved to have observed
C. would prefer to have obeyed D. would sooner have celebrated
32. James didn’t take ______ to your suggestion that she was mean with money.
A. kindly B. pleasantly C. cheerfully D. agreeably
33. My camera was stolen from my bag at the airport so I ______ a claim on my insurance.
A. had B. did C. took D. made
34. If you want a flat in the center of the city, you have to pay through the ______ for it.
A. teeth B. head C. nose D. arm
35. Public television stations are different from commercial stations ______.
A. because they receive money differently and different types of shows
B. for money and program types
C. in the areas of funding and programming
D. because the former receives money and has programs differently from the latter
36. The company had to cough ______ a lot of money to indemnify for the victims in the accident.
A. up B. out C. into D. away
37. “Why don’t we go for a picnic this weekend?”
- “That’s what I was just about to suggest. Great minds ______.”
A. think alike B. think the same C. meet each other D. meet likewise
38. “Mind your business” - “______”
A. What, again? B. I don’t mind.
C. Thank you. D. All right. I didn’t mean to be noisy.
39. The book is such a ______ that I cannot put it down.
A. page-turner B. best-seller C. duvet-coverD. mind-reader
40. In the ______ of security, personnel must wear their identity badges at all times.
A. requirement B. interests C. demands D. assistance
41. In a situation like this, there are no ______ rules. You just have to use your own discretion.
A. clear and cut B. hard and fast C. up-and-coming D. out – and –out
42. I won’t pay 80 dollars for the coat; it is not worth _______.
A. all that much B. that all much C. much that all D. that much all
43. People in this village have got an ______ appetite for news.
A. inexorable B. inevitable C. insatiable D. inedible
44. As I suffer from migraine, I avoid cheese and ______ like coffee, red wine and spirits which are generally

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maintained to trigger and attack.
A. stimulations B. stimulants C. stimulus D. stimulating
45. The horses were approaching the finishing line. They were ______.
A. neck and neck B. head and shoulder
C. head and tail D. ups and downs
Part 2. For questions 46-55, fill each gap with the correct form of the words in brackets. Write your answer
in the boxes provided on the answer sheet. (10 points)
46. For twenty-five years, he (PAIN) ______ amassed evidence to support his hypothesis.
47. Mary thinks some (LIGHT) ________ curtains would look best in her new apartment.
48. You should practise good personal protection against mosquito bites to prevent (MOSQUITO) ________
infections.
49. Many new immigrants have not yet (SIMILAR) ________ fully into the new culture.
50. The externalist approach focuses on the way a belief is produced in order to assess its epistemic
(CREDIT) ________.
51. We need to (CONTEXT) _______ the problem before we can understand its origin.
52. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland appeared on television to read a special (APOLOGIZE)
_______ for detention without trial.
53. He took off his hat and a pigeon flew out. It was (GUILE) ________ a trick.
54. The building looks a bit (FUTURE) _________ from the outside but it’s quite traditional inside.
55. His misunderstanding of the situation resulted in his (COMPOSE) _________. Everyone could make out
the embarrassing remarks on his face.
Part 3. For questions 56-65, complete each of the following sentences with suitable preposition(s). Write
your answer in the boxes provided on the answer sheet. (10 points)
56. I polished ______ the remains of that chocolate cake when I got home last night – I was so hungry!
57. Barbara’s a nice girl but I don’t think she’s very bright. I just can’t get ______ to her.
58. My father was very active as a young man, but he doesn’t get ______ very much now.
59. One good way to drum ______ support is to get people in the neighborhood to sign a petition.
60. He tore ______ the meat with his bare hands.
61. John had his light-hearted face ______ again.
62. It often happens that a girl who has been very close to mother suddenly grows ______ from her as she
makes new friends, and her horizons widen.
63. The deal fell ______ because we couldn’t agree on a price.
64. She is ______ suspicion. Nobody would ever suspect her.
65. It was a difficult task, but we brought it ______.
SECTION C: READING (60 points)
Part 1. For questions 66-75, read the following passage and decide which option (A, B, C, or D) best fits
each gap. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15 points)
Today, many people carry a loyalty card entitling them to (66) ______ at specific stores. Similar in size
to a credit card, you present it when (67) ______ a purchase and a certain number of points are then added
to the card. These points can be exchanged for a wide (68) ______ range of benefits, from free cinema tickets
to cheap flights. However, a loyalty card is not quite the (69) ______ it appears to be. The best offers (70)
______ require a huge number of points. To cover the cost of loyalty schemes, retailers (71) ______ up their
prices and then reduce them for card-holders only. In effect, the price remains the same.
The advantage of the retailer is obvious – given the choice between two stores, the (72) ______ are
customers will shop at the one which rewards them with points. Furthermore, loyalty cards allow retailers to
scrutinise the shopping habits of customers. Each swipe of your card (73) ______ a computer program which
sends details about items you buy into a databank of your purchase history – information which is (74)
______ by the retailer. Such a databank enables a supermarket, for example, to analyse which customers
frequently buy a given product. It may then expand its range of this product with high-profit brands. These
customers would then receive enticing offers in order to encourage them to try the new (75) ______ and
switch to a more expensive brand, which translates into greater profits for the retailer.
66. A. recessions B. profits C. discounts D. budgets

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67. A. obtaining B. making C. performing D. doing
68. A. range B. display C. extent D. spread
69. A. loan B. value C. business D. bargain
70. A. invariably B. reliably C. steadily D. decidedly
71. A. bank B. size C. bump D. pick
72. A. bets B. cards C. dice D. odds
73. A. embarks B. triggers C. commences D. originates
74. A. exploited B. profited C. benefited D. capitalised
75. A. retail B. marketing C. merchandise D. commerce
Part 2. For questions 76-85, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable word and write
your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15 points)
There are techniques that exist which can improve memory, the most popular of which must be mnemonics,
or ways to (76) ______ information into a form that aids retention in the brain. Those who have difficulty
memorising facts, for example, can (77) ______ the information by using a memorable phrase. A famous
example is “Richard of York gave battle in vain”, (78) ______ each word replaces a colour of the rainbow
starting with the same colour. Mnemonics (79) ______ because our brains find it easier to retain information
that is surprising, personal or humorous, than that (80) ______ is abstract and impersonal. Association also
plays an important part in helping us recall information. This technique involves creating something
memorable to (81) ______ the information you want. For instance, by (82) ______ a picture or word in your
language to a word in the foreign language that you are trying to learn, the visual or verbal (83) ______ can
help you remember the word. Recollection of facts is obviously easier if you know your particular learning
style so that you can (84) ______ your clues. As anyone who has had to create a password knows, easily-
remembered information is information that is personally meaningful. The best passwords are those that have
a (85) ______ significance for their users, but whose meaning would baffle anyone else. There are lots of
tricks to try; the most important thing is to remember to use them.
Part 3. For questions 86-95, read the following passage and circle the best answer to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes provided on the answer sheet. (15 points)
TEENAGER SELF-PORTRAITS
When The Times invited anyone aged 11 to 18 to submit a self-potrait, the response
was phenomenal.
You were interested in how your face and hair looked. We were interested in honesty, courage and
lack of self-consciousness. And on Monday our mutual concerns met. A panel of judges that included a
professor of drawing, Stephen Farthing; the Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry; and myself, an art
critic, assembled to assess the entries for the Tate Times Drawing Challenge. The competition invited anyone
from 11 to 18 10 pick up their pencils and submit a self-portrait, the best of which would be displayed in the
Tate. There were more than 1,000 entries.
A self-portrait can be about ruthless honesty. But equally, it can be all about ways of deceiving. Artists
can rival actors when it comes to obscuring or making themselves look better. Think of the difference between
that public face that you practise in the mirror and that embarrassing grimace in the
camera snap. The construction of an image involves dozens of decisions. To study a self-portrait is to
understand how an artist wants to be seen. In the case of young people, it would seem that for every pretty-
faced teenager who would like to imagine themselves as some soft-focus fashion model there is another who
is keen for the world to know that they are lurking alone and misunderstood in their rooms. Despite all the
worst intentions, a self-portrait reveals how its sitter sees the world.
The judges were looking for a vision that seemed enlivening or truthful, courageous or
unselfconsciously fresh. Sometimes the panel burst out laughing at the sheer exuberance - though that was
mostly in the work of the younger entrants before the toothy grins gave way to grimacing teenage angst.
There were pictures of young people doing anything from brushing their teeth, to donning funny hats to
listening to iPods. But the most interesting images were less self-consciously presented: it was as if the sitters
had been caught unprepared.
The judges tended to prefer the pictures in which the artist had really tried to look in a mirror rather
than copy the surface of a photograph. “The best images,” says Stephen Farthing, professor of drawing at

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University of the Arts, London, “are those done by someone who has spent time drawing from life, not just
trying to make pictures that look as if they are finished.” Most of the most obviously perfect images were
passed over by the panel. “The distortions and quirks are where the subconscious leaks out,” Grayson Perry
says.
It was notable how many entrants mapped out the spots on their faces. Clearly this matters a lot to a
teenager. Hair was not her obsession, though several got so caught up that their images were more like
advertisements for L'Oréal. They weren't worth it. Most judges preferred the bad-hair days of entrants such
as l3-year-old Daniel Adkins, in whose self-portrait the hair took on a character all of its own.
Drawing may be unfashionable - and not least in our art colleges - but it was heartening to see not
only how naturally talented so many of the entrants were, but also how naturally drawing could be taught.
Three of the self-portraits were by pupils of the English Martyrs Sixth Form College, Hartlepool. Where
some schools submitted work that arrived in cloned clumps, here, it seems, is a teacher who knows how to
tease out and develop innate talent. And that matters.
Drawing is a means of expression as much as writing and mathematics. It's a tool to be sharpened so that
you can take it out when you need it and do whatever you want. But what does this competition tell us about
the entrants? It offered a portrait of young people who are engaged, enthusiastic and eager. Once, young
people aspired to be bankers and doctors and lawyers. But who wants to go to the office when they could be
an artist?
86. When the panel of judges met, they discovered that _______.
A. they shared the same objectives as the competitors
B. both entrants and judges were equally satisfied with the results
C. the entrants' and the judges' differing objectives were achieved
D. the winning entries combined good looks with other positive qualities
87. According to the writer, what do all self-portraits have in common?
A. They reflect exactly what the artist sees.
B. They are used to improve the artist's image.
C. They deceive both the artist and the viewer.
D. They reflect the artist's altitudes and concerns.
88. The word “angst” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. vitality B. contentment C. apprehension D. quorum
89. The word “quirks” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. idiosyncrasies B. theocrats C. quibbles D. dorks
90. How did the children's work generally differ from that al the adolescents?
A. It was livelier.
B. It was more honest.
C. It was more humorous.
D. It showed more self-awareness.
91. The judges were least interested in the sell-portraits which _______.
A. showed spontaneity
B. concentrated on excellent drawing technique
C. produced unintended results
D. were incomplete
92. How does the writer feel about the way competitors drew their hair?
A. It was better when it was untidy.
B. It deserved more attention from the artists.
C. It was more attractive than their spots.
D. It took up too much time for some artists.
93. The English Martyrs Sixth Form College is an example of _______.
A. how schools can help pupils to develop their natural abilities
B. why schools should teach unfashionable subjects
C. how some schools teach all their pupils to draw in the same style
D. why only naturally gifted pupils should be taught how to draw

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94. What impression does the writer have of those who took part in the competition?
A. They suffer from the typical anxieties of teenagers.
B. They are extremely interested in what they are doing.
C. They generally prefer drawing to writing or mathematics.
D. They are more artistically talented than previous generations.
95. The word “clumps” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. clusters B. accounts C. messes D. schools
Part 4. For questions 96-105, read the passage and do the following tasks. Write your answers in the
corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15 points)
COMPUTER PROVIDES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
A. The island of Antikythera lies 18 miles north of Crete, where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean.
Currents there can make shipping treacherous – and one ship bound for ancient Rome never made it. The
ship that sank there was a giant cargo vessel measuring nearly 500 feet long. It came to rest about 200 feet
below the surface, where it stayed for more than 2,000 years until divers looking for sponges discovered the
wreck a little more than a century ago.
B. Inside the hull were a number of bronze and marble statues. From the look of things, the ship seemed to
be carrying luxury items, probably made in various Greek islands and bound for wealthy patrons in the
growing Roman Empire. The statues were retrieved, along with a lot of other unimportant stuff, and stored.
Nine months later, an enterprising archaeologist cleared off a layer of organic material from one of the pieces
of junk and found that it looked like a gearwheel. It had inscriptions in Greek characters and seemed to have
something to do with astronomy.
C. That piece of “junk” went on to become the most celebrated find from the shipwreck; it is displayed at the
National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Research has shown that the wheel was part of a device so
sophisticated that its complexity would not be matched for a thousand years – it was also the world’s first
known analogue computer. The device is so famous that an international conference organized in Athens a
couple of weeks ago had only one subject: the Antikythera Mechanism.
D. Every discovery about the device has raised new questions. Who built the device, and for what purpose?
Why did the technology behind it disappear for the next thousand years? What does the device tell us about
ancient Greek culture? And does the marvelous construction, and the precise knowledge of the movement of
the sun and moon and Earth that it implies, tell us how the ancients grappled with ideas about determinism
and human destiny?
E. “We have gear trains from the 9th century in Baghdad used for simpler displays of the solar and lunar
motions relative to one another – they use eight gears,” said François Charette, a historian of science in
Germany who wrote an editorial accompanying a new study of the mechanism two weeks ago in the journal
Nature. “In this case, we have more than 30 gears. To see it on a computer animation makes it mind-boggling.
There is no doubt it was a technological masterpiece.”
F. The device was probably built between 100 and 140 BC, and the understanding of astronomy it displays
seems to have been based on knowledge developed by the Babylonians around 300-700 BC, said Mike
Edmunds, a professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University in Britain. He led a research team that
reconstructed what the gear mechanism would have looked like by using advanced three-dimensional-
imaging technology. The group also decoded a number of the inscriptions. The mechanism explores the
relationship between lunar months – the time it takes for the moon to cycle through its phases, say, full moon
to the full moon – and calendar years. The gears had to be cut precisely to reflect this complex relationship;
19 calendar years equal 235 lunar months.
G. By turning the gear mechanism, which included what Edmunds called a beautiful system of epicyclic
gears that factored in the elliptical orbit of the moon, a person could check what the sky would have looked
like on a date in the past, or how it would appear in the future. The mechanism was encased in a box with
doors in front and back covered with inscriptions – a sort of instruction manual. Inside the front door were
pointers indicating the date and the position of the sun, moon and zodiac, while opening the back door
revealed the relationship between calendar years and lunar months, and a mechanism to predict eclipses.
H. “If they needed to know when eclipses would occur, and this related to the rising and setting of stars and
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physicist at the University of Athens who co-wrote the Nature paper. “It is a mechanical computer. You turn
the handle and you have a date on the front.” Building it would have been expensive and required the
interaction of astronomers, engineers, intellectuals and craftspeople. Charette said the device overturned
conventional ideas that the ancient Greeks were primarily ivory tower thinkers who did not deign to muddy
their hands with technical stuff. It is a reminder, he said, that while the study of history often focuses on
written texts, they can tell us only a fraction of what went on at a particular time.
I. Imagine a future historian encountering philosophy texts written in our time – and an aircraft engine. The
books would tell that researcher what a few scholars were thinking today, but the engine would give them a
far better window into how technology influenced our everyday lives. Charette said it was unlikely that the
device was used by practitioners of astrology, then still in its infancy. More likely, he said, it was bound for
a mantelpiece in some rich Roman’s home. Given that astronomers of the time already knew how to calculate
the positions of the sun and the moon and to predict eclipses without the device, it would have been the
equivalent of a device built for a planetarium today – something to spur popular interest or at least claim
bragging rights.
J. Why was the technology that went into the device lost? “The time this was built, the jackboot of Rome
was coming through,” Edmunds said. “The Romans were good at town planning and sanitation but were not
known for their interest in science.” The fact that the device was so complex, and that it was being shipped
with a number of other luxury items, tells Edmunds that it is very unlikely to have been the only one over
made. Its sophistication “is such that it can’t have been the only one,” Edmunds said. “There must have been
a tradition of making them. We’re always hopeful a better one will surface.” Indeed, he said, he hopes that
his study and the renewed interest in the Antikythera Mechanism will prompt second looks by both amateurs
and professionals around the world. “The archaeological world may look in their cupboards and maybe say,
‘That isn’t a bit of rusty old metal in the cupboard.’”
Questions 96-99
The Reading Passage has ten paragraphs A-J
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter A-J, in boxes 1-4 on your answer sheet.
96. The content inside the wrecked ship
97. Ancient astronomers and craftsman might involve
98. The location of the Antikythera Mechanism
99. Details of how it was found
Questions 100-103
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using NO MORE THAN TWO
WORDS from the Reading Passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 100-103 on your answer sheet.
An ancient huge sunk (100)………………………….. was found accidentally by sponges searcher. The ship
loaded with (101)……………………….. such as bronze and sculptures. However, an archaeologist found a
junk similar to a (102)……………………….. which has Greek script on it. This inspiring and elaborated
device was found to be the first (103)………………………… in the world.
Questions 104-105
Use the information in the passage to match the people (listed A-C) with opinions or deeds below. Write the
appropriate letters A-C in boxes 104-105 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once
A Yanis Bitsakis
B Mike Edmunds
C François Charette
104. More complicated than the previous device
105. Anticipate to find more Antikythera Mechanism in the future

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