Practice Test 9.9 (A)
Practice Test 9.9 (A)
9 (A)
A. LISTENING
SECTION 1: Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/ OR A NUMBER for each
answer.
ACCOMMODATION FORM - STUDENT INFORMATION
Example
Type of accommodation: Hall of residence
Name: Anu (1) ________________
Date of birth: (2) ________________
Country of origin: India
Course of study: (3) ________________
Number of years planned in hall: (4) ________________
Preferred catering arrangement: Half-board
Special dietary requirements: No (5) ________________ (red)
Preferred room type: A single (6) ________________
Interests: The (7) ________________
Badminton
Priorities in choice of hall: To be with other students who are (8) ________________
To live outside the (9) ________________
To have a (10) ________________ area for socialising
Contact phone number 667549
SECTION 3: Questions 21 - 30
Questions 21 -24: Choose the correct letter A, B, or C
Self-Access Centre
21. Students want to keep the Self-Access Centre because
A. they enjoy the variety of equipment
B. they like being able to work on their own
C. it is an important part of their studies
22. Some teachers would prefer to
A. close the Self-Access Centre
B. move the Self-Access Centre elsewhere
C. restrict access to the Self-Access Centre
23. The students' main concern about using the library would be
A. the size of the library B. difficulty in getting help C. the lack of materials
24. The Director of Studies is concerned about
A. the cost of upgrading the centre
B. the lack of space in the centre
C. the difficulty in supervising the centre
Questions 25 - 30
Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer
NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE EXISTING SELF-ACCESS CENTRE
Equipment
Replace computers to create more space
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Resources
The level of the 25. ___________________________ materials, in particular, should be more clearly
shown.
Update the 26. ___________________________ collection.
Buy some 27. ___________________________ and divide them up.
Use of the room
Speak to the teachers and organize a 28. ___________________________ for supervising the centre.
Install an 29. ___________________________
Restrict personal use of 30. ___________________________ on computers.
II. Pick out the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those of the others.
1. A. engineer B. verb C. deer D. merely
2. A. dam B. planning C. plane D. candle
3. A. theory B. therefore C. neither D. weather
4. A. bury B. curtain C. burn D. turn
5. A. fork B. work C. pork D. corn
III. Circle the answer A, B, C or D which best fits in the blank in each of the sentences.
1. If this _________ is not signed this month, there will be no future cooperation between our countries.
A. treaty B. summit C. undertaking D. proposal
2. Maria: “ Thanks for the lovely evening”. You: “_________”
A. I’m glad you enjoyed it. B. Oh, that’s right.
C. No, it’s not good. D. Yes, it’s really great.
3. Alice didn’t expect_________ to Bill’s party.
A. asking B. being asked C. to ask D. to be asked
4. All the answers to your questions can be found in _________ two of that book.
A. serial B. participation C. poem D. volume
5. High school students should be ______ for their future jobs before leaving school.
A. ill-spoken B. well-prepared C. ill-prepared D. well-spoken
6. Peter doesn’t like scuba-diving. _______ does his brother.
A. Too B. Either C. So D. Neither
7.__________ a movie to be entertaining, it needs to have an interesting story.
A. So that B. In order that C. In order for D. In order to
8. It was announced that neither the passengers nor the driver ______ in the crash.
A. was injured B. are injured C. have been injured D. were injured
9. My new glasses cost me _______ the last pair I bought last month.
A. more than three times B. three times as much as
C. more three times than D. as much three times as
10. He shot at the running thief but he missed him by _____________________.
A. a short while B. a long hair C. long shot D. hair’s breadth
11. If you want to hang this picture you should first hammer _____________________ into the wall.
A. screws B. nails C. pins D. needles
12. It’s surprising the performance went so well after only three ________
A. rehearsals B. auditions C. applauses D. directions
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13. High risk sports have really taken _________
A. up B. off C. in D. on
14. The person _______ the orchestra was a young woman in her early twenties.
A. composing B. directing C. conducting D. leading
15. There was a(n) __________ against the College’s new syllabuses.
A. bang B. outcry C. scream D. whist
16. This cheese has gone _________. You’ll have to throw it way.
A. mouldy B. decayed C. stale D. contaminated
17. The steak looked tender, but it was as tough as _________.
A. a belt B. a saddle C. old boots D. rubber
18. Can you help me work _______ the answers to these maths problems ?
A. in B. out C. up D. off
19. I can agree with you to a certain ______, Professor, but not entirely.
A. pan B. level C. extent D. way
20. In writing the account of his summer adventures, Neville chose not to ________ his experiences
in the order in which they happened.
B. compose B. classify C. compare D. arrange
IV. Circle the letter A or B, C, D under the word or phrase that is used incorrectly.
1. I find that necessary to do something about traffic problems in our city.
A B C D
2. It was in 1971 that transatlantic supersonic transportation became commercially availability.
A B C D
3. The computer-based tests will test your ability to understand spoken English, to read
A B
nontechnical language, and writing correctly.
C D
4. Have you ever made any scientific research?
A B C D
5. I believe that most of reasons presenting in the report were convincing.
A B C D
V. Use the word on the right to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.
1. The police are interested in the sudden __________________ of the valuable painting. (APPEAR)
2. He is very __________________ about the history of the Boston Marathon. (KNOW)
3. He laid the ____________________ of his success by study and hard work. (FOUND)
4. Although her visit was _________________we made her welcome just the same. (EXPECT)
5. __________________, many houses have to be demolished to make ways for the roads.
(LUCKY)
6. Mr. Andrew enjoys _________________with his students after class. (SOCIAL)
7. It’s hoped that the Earth will be a happy planet where human beings and other animals
__________________ coexist. (PEACE)
8. People are charging a lot of chemical __________________ into the environment. (POLLUTE)
9. There are still enormous _________________ about life in space. (CERTAIN)
10. Louis Pasteur is known for inventing the process of ____________________ as well as some
vaccines. (PASTEURIZE)
11. Their___________________________ has lasted a life time. 1. FRIEND
12. Everyone has a number of _________________________but none has 2. ACQUAINT
many true friends.
13. He lives in an attractive ________________________ part of Sydney 3. RESIDE
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14. We must learn about keeping the environment__________________. 4. POLLUTE
15. Sam was accused of stealing some ___________________ documents 5. CONFIDENCE
16. There is a shortage of pure water in the city nowadays.
We have to use it ____________________________ . 6. ECONOMY
17. Little Jimmy has been a bit______________________________today. 7. TROUBLE
18. The ___________________________of those mountain villages is a 8. ELECTRIC
great achievement of the government.
19. Please complete and return the enclosed ____________________ 9. QUESTION
20. His health was seriously affected because he had suffered from constant
_________________________. 10. SLEEP
VII. Complete each sentence with one of the idiomatic phrases given. Use each phrase once only.
made her blood boil jumped out of her skin had a lump in her throat
kept her head lost her head gave me the cold shoulder
pulled her legs took her breath away
C. READING
I. Choose the best word that fits each gap of the passage
KNIFE–THROWING AT THE CIRCUS
Knife–throwing is a thrilling circus act, which is stressful for both the thrower and the assistant.
Obviously, assistants need to be especially courageous, since they are (1)___ to stand in front of a
board as knives land next to them at (2)___ speed. If a thrower’s aim is not accurate, there is a strong
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possibility that accident might (3)____ . Such people need to feel (4)____ about the circus and enjoy
the excitement of performing in front of hundreds of people. Not everyone is suitable for the work,
particularly not nervous people !
Knife – thrower, on the other hand, need to be extremely (5)____ people. They can’t (6)____
up for a performance feeling tired or having had an argument with their assistant because they have to
be perfectly at ease with what they are doing in order to be able to (7)____ their work full
concentration.
The knife – throwing tradition (8)____ partly because children follow their parents into the job.
One particularly well-known thrower, for example, has an assistant whose father was also a knife –
thrower. She first had knives thrown at her when she was only 12 and has (9)____ doing the same job
ever since. (10)___, over the last fifteen years she reckons that she has had about 300,000 knives
thrown at her.
1. A. insisted B. considered C. required D. demanded
2. A. wide B. heavy C. plain D. great
3. A. appear B. develop C. happen D. exist
4. A. caring B. passionate C. loving D. devoted
5. A. doubtless B. reliable C. dependent D. trusting
6. A. put B. do C. pick D. turn
7. A. take B. give C. get D. hold
8. A. maintains B. stays C. keeps D. survives
9. A. taken up B. come off C. carried on D. put in
10. A. Nevertheless B. In fact C. Despite that D. Even so
II. Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C or D next to the best answer.
1 In the folklore of the Navajo people, it was said that frogs and toads fell from the sky
when it rained. The phenomenon that gave rise to this belief involved the spadefood
toad, which remains dormant beneath the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, avoiding the heat
and drought for as long as eight or nine months. With the onset of summer
5 thunderstorms, however, the toads respond to the vibrations of drumming raindrops
and emerge, as if fallen from the sky with the rain, to begin their brief and frantic
mating season.
The male spadefoot sits in a muddy pool and fills the night with his calls, attempting
to attract a female of the same species. Once a female joins him, she may lay as many
10 as 1000 eggs in the small pool of life-sustaining rainwater. From that point it’s a race
against the elements for the young, who must hatch and mature with remarkable speed
before the pool evaporates beneath the searing desert sun. As the pool grows smaller
and smaller, it becomes thick with tadpoles fighting for survival in the mud, threatened
not only by the loss of their watery nest but also by devouring insects and animals. In
15 a few as nine days after fertilization of the eggs, those lucky enough to survive develop
through each tadpole stage and finally emerge as fully formed toads. After gorging
themselves on insects, the young toads, like their parents, burrow underground, where
they will lie dormant awaiting the next summer’s storms.
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on the ice below. As a glacier moves it carves out a U-shaped valley to a riverbed, but with much
steeper walls and flatter bottom.
D.
Besides the extraordinary rivers of ice, glacial erosion creates other unique physical features in
the landscape such as horns, fjords, hanging valleys, and cirques. Most of these landforms do
not become visible until after glaciers have receded. Many are created by moraines, which occur
at the sides and front of a glacier. Moraines are formed when material is picked up along the way and
deposited in a new location. When many alpine glaciers occur on the same mountain, these moraines
can create a horn. The matter horn, in the Swiss Alps is one of the most famous horns. Fjords, which
are very common in Norway, are coastal valleys that fill with ocean water during a glacial retreat.
Hanging valleys occur when two or more glacial valleys intersect at varying elevations. It is
common for waterfalls to connect the higher and lower hanging valleys, such as in Yosemite
National Park. A cirque is a large bowl-shaped valley that forms at the front of a glacier. Cirques
often have a lip on their down slope that is deep enough to hold small lakes when the ice melts away.
E.
Glacier movement and shape shifting typically occur over hundreds of years. While presently
about 10% of the earth land is covered with glaciers, it is believed that during the last Ice Age glaciers
covered approximately 32% of the earth’s surface. In the past century, most glaciers have been
retreating rather flowing forward. It is unknown whether this glacial activity is due to human impact
or natural causes, but by studying glacier movement, and comparing climate and agricultural
profiles over hundreds of years, glaciologists can begin to understand environmental issues such as
global warming.
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph
i. Glacial continents v. Glaciers through the years
ii. Formation and growth of Glaciers vi. Types of Glaciers
iii. Glacial Movement vii. Glacial Effects on Landscape
iv. Glaciers in the last Ice Age viii. Glaciers in National Parks
1. Paragraph A ………….
2. Paragraph B ………….
3. Paragraph C ………….
4. Paragraph D ………….
5. Paragraph E ………….
D. WRITING
I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the
sentence printed before it. Begin with the word(s) given.
1. I only recognized him when he came into the light.
Not until _________________________________________________________________________.
2. It was his own fault that he lost his job. He was late for work every morning.
If ______________________________________________________________________________.
3. The robbers made the bank manager hand over the money.
The bank manager _________________________________________________________________.
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4. He never suspected that the money had been stolen.
At no ___________________________________________________________________________.
5. They produce a lot of paper, so they need a lot of wood pulp.
The more ________________________________________________________________________.
6. The only way to eliminate world terrorism is by united opposition.
Only by _________________________________________________________________________.
7. The keeper had no sooner opened the cage than the lion attacked him.
Hardly __________________________________________________________________________.
8. I left without saying goodbye as I didn’t want to disturb the meeting.
Rather ___________________________________________________________________________.
9. We regret to inform you that your application has not been successful.
Much to _________________________________________________________________________.
10. People no longer smoke so many cigarettes as they used to.
The _____________________________________________________________________________.
II. Complete the sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word
given. Do not change the word given.
1. What he did next really surprised us. (TAKEN)
________________________________________________________________________________.
2. We will never forget that experience. (AN)
________________________________________________________________________________.
3. Nobody does her any harm. (FINGER)
________________________________________________________________________________.
4. The price of the house has been reduced as much as possible because the owner needs some
money. (BONE)
________________________________________________________________________________.
5. Some children treat their younger siblings badly. (CRUEL)
________________________________________________________________________________.
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