PART III CLOZE [15 MIN.? ]

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.

A person’s home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n) “(31) _____ home”. But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical (32) ________ of cash and location on achieving that idea.

Cash (33) ________, in fact, often means that the only way of (34) _________ when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things (35) _________ financially. There are obvious (36) _____of living at home—personal laundry is usually (37) _________ done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established circle of friends to (38) _________. And there is (39) _________ the responsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.

On the other hand, (40) _________ depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends? You may love your family—(41) _________do you like them? Are you prepared to be (42) __________ when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back? If you find that you cannot manage a(n) (43) _________, and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you (44) _________ finding somewhere else to live?

If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are (45) _________well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always (46) _________. If you are going to work in a (47) _________ area, again there are the papers—and the accommodation agencies, (48) _________ these should be

approached with (49) _________. Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the (50) ________ of the first week’s rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.

31. A. ideal??? B. perfect??? C. imaginary? D. satisfactory

32. A. deficiencies? B. weaknesses? C. insufficiencies? D. limitations

33. A. cut? B. shortage? C. lack? D. drain

34. A. getting over? B. getting in? C. getting back? D. getting along

35. A. improve? B. enhance? C. develop? D. proceed

36. A. concerns? b. issues? C. advantages? D. problems

37. A. still? B. always? C. habitually? D. consequently

38. A. call in? B. call over? C. call upon? D. call out

39. A. always? B. rarely??? C. little? D. sometimes

40. A. little??? B. enough? C. many? D. much

41. A. and? B. but? C. still? D. or

42. A. tolerant? B. hostile? C. indifferent? D. good-tempered

43. A. agreement? B. consensus? C. compromise? D. deal

44. A. go about? B. go over? C. go in for? D. go through

45. A. seldom? B. less? C. probably? D. certainly

46. A. dependent? B. a good source of information? C. of great value? D. reliable

47. A. familiar? B. cold? C. humid? D. new

48. A. though? B. while ?C. since? D. as

49. A. enthusiasm? B. hesitation? C. caution? D. concern

50. A. same? B. equivalent? C. equal? D. simiarity

PART IV GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY????? [15 MIN? ]

There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

51. If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.

A. would be?? ?????

B. will have been?????

C. was???????

D. were

52. _________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.

A. Although he is a socialist???????????????

B. Even if he is a socialist

C. Being a socialist???????????????????????

D. Since he is a socialist

53. His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.

A. so as to?????????

B. such as to???????

C. such to?????????

D. as much as to

54. James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

A. will come???????

B. was coming?????

C. had been coming?

D. came

55. _________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.

A. I was and always will be???????????????

B. I have to be and always will be

C. I had been and always will be???????????

D. I have been and always will be

56. Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.

A. some type of???????????????????????

B. some types of a

C. some type of a???????????????????????

D. some types of

57. I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.

A. must take?????????????????????????

B. must have made

C. was able to make???????????????????

D. could make

58. I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.

A. something but???????????????????????

B. anything but

C. nothing but?????????????????????????

D. not but

59. Do you know Tim’s brother? He is _________ than Tim.

A. much more sportsman?????????????????

B. more of a sportsman

C. more of sportsman???????????????????

D. more a sportsman

60. That was not the first time he ________ us. I think it’s high time we ________ strong actions against him.

A. betrayed…take???????????????????????

B. had betrayed…took

C. has betrayed…took??? ????????????????

D. has betrayed…take

61. What’s the chance of ________ a general election this year?

A. there being?????????????????????????

B. there to be

C. there be?????????????????????????????

D. there going to be

62. The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.

A. objected having???????????????????????

B. were objected to having

C. objected to have???????????????????????

D. objected to having

63. ________ you _______ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice.

A. If, had?????????????

B. Have, had?????????

C. Should, have???????

D. In case, ha

64. He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.

A. on occasion?????

B. on purpose???????

C. on condition?????

D. only if

65. Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.

A. them???????

B. /?????????

C. it?????????

D. theirs

66. –Why are you staring?

–I’ve never seen ______tree before.

67. There are still many problem ahead of us, but by his time next year we can see light at the end of the _________.

A. battle?????????

B. day?????

C. road???????

D. tunnel

68. We realized that he was under great _________, so we took no notice of his bad temper.

A. excitement?????

B. stress?????

C. crisis???????

D. nervousness

69. The director tried to get the actors to _________ to the next scene by hand signals.

A. move on???????

B. move off???

C. move out???

D. move along

70. His ideas are invariably condemned as ________ by his colleagues.

A. imaginative?????

B. ingenious?

C. impractical???

D. theoretical

71. Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.

A. contradict???????

B. reform???

C. counter?????

D. protest

72. The majority of nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are in a _________.

A. minority???????

B. scarcity?????

C. rarity?????

D. minimum

73. Professor Johnson’s retirement ________ from next January.

A. carries into effect???????????????????

B. takes effect

C. has effect???????????????????????????

D. puts into effect

74. The president explained that the purpose of taxation was to ________ government spending.

A. finance???????

B. expand?????????

C. enlarge???????

D. budget

75. The heat in summer is no less _________ here in this mountain region.

A. concentrated???

B. extensive???????

C. intense???????

D. intensive

76. Taking photographs is strictly ________ here, as it may damage the precious cave paintings.

A. forbidden?????

B. rejected?????????

C. excluded?????

D. denied

77. Mr. Brown’s condition looks very serious and it is doubtful if he will_________.

A. pull back?????

B. pull up???????

C. pull through? ??????

D. pull out

78. Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit the customer’s _________ rather than the company’s.

A. benefit???????

B. availability???

C. suitability???????

D. convenience

79. The priest made the ________ of the cross when he entered the church.

A. mark???????

B. signal?????????

C. sign?????????

D. gesture

80. This spacious room is ________ furnished with just a few articles in it.

A. lightly???????

B. sparsely???????

C. hardly???????

D. rarely