Completion

Complete each sentence or statement.

INSTRUCTIONS: Complete the sentences with one word for each blank.

1. Over a period of a hundred years, millions of people took part in a mass ____________________, leaving

their home countries for places like the USA.

2. A ____________________ is a person who studies and records events from past history.

3. Using the Internet could cause a computer to be infected by a ____________________, which will cause

serious problems.

4. ____________________ are very poor farmers who work at subsistence level and can barely feed their own

families with the produce of their farms.

5. Countries indulge in ____________________ ____________________ when they allow international trading

of goods without the imposition of tariffs, taxes or duties on competitors’ products.

6. During the great ____________________ ____________________ of the nineteenth century in Europe,

people changed from using manual and craft skills to the use of machines for the production and manufacture

of goods.

7. The ____________________ system existed in the Middle Ages, where poor people were given land and

protection by a lord when they worked and fought battles for him.

8. In periods of famine, people die of ____________________ because they have nothing to eat.

9. When people have no money, no job or prospect of a job in their own country, and they see the possibility of

a better life in another country, they will emigrate for ____________________ reasons.

10. ____________________ are people who leave their own country to live in another one.

11. Wars often drive technological development and many exciting____________________-____________________, such as the development of Radar from the second world ar, often result.

12. A group of people who leave their own country to live together somewhere else, but remain citizens of their

homeland, usually establish a ____________________ in the new territory.

13. Micro-organisms that can cause serious infections and diseases are called ____________________.

14. The traveller found the country very unfriendly, unwelcoming and ____________________ because nobody

would offer him food or shelter when he was destitute.

15. The presidential ____________________ were invited to take part in a TV debate before their election took

place, but both refused the invitation.

16. If chefs do not wash their hands before preparing food, they could ____________________ it with bacteria or

viruses from their own skins which could poison a lot of their customers.

17. We usually become ____________________ to a disease after we have had it, or had a vaccination against it,

so that we avoid catching it in the future.

18. The food supply was ____________________ because it became contaminated when harmful bacteria was

spread around the kitchen by an electric fan.

19. Prolonged heating and disinfectant have a ____________________ effect because both will kill germs and

bugs when applied to decontaminate an object.

20. A ____________________ is a small part or example of something collected by a scientist for further study nder laboratory conditions.

21. Works of literature classified into different ____________________, such as poetry, adventure stories or

science fiction novels.

22. A writer uses a ____________________ style to tell a story stage-by-stage to the reader throughout the course

of a book.

23. The ____________________ is the part of a joke or funny story which makes us laugh and is usually

delivered at the end for maximum effect.

24. The circumstances of the disappearance of the famous painting from the art gallery remained an

____________________ because they were mysterious and nobody ever understood what happened.

25. Some manual jobs, such as toilet cleaning, are regarded as ____________________-____________________

because the work is dirty and very poorly paid and other people look down on the workers.

26. Jane had a real ____________________ because she couldn’t decide between taking the new job for less

money, or staying in her present position where she was unhappy, but well paid.

27. An ____________________ group of people often has a great deal of power and influence in relation to its

size, for example a small number of army officers or directors within a company.

28. The divorce was very bitter and the legal settlement led to the complete ____________________ of both

partners as they became increasingly unfriendly, unsympathetic and unsupportive towards each other.

29. My friend has an extremely ____________________ view of human nature because he never believes people

have good, honest or sincere reasons for doing anything.

30. Marxist ____________________ was based partly on the ideas that people should work for the common good

of the state according to their ability and receive payment only according to their needs.

Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentence and decide which answer: a, b, or c, best matches the meaning of the

underlined words. Write your answer: a, b, or c, in the space provided.

____ 31. It is reckoned that the largest human migration in recorded history took place in the hundred years following

the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

a. it is certain

b. it is uncertain

c. it is estimated

____ 32. In the developing economies of the nineteenth century payments for goods in kind were replaced by payments

of money.

a. payment in cash

b. the exchange of goods for other goods

c. extended credit

____ 33. Many emigrants travelled to America from their native lands in the steerage compartments on steam ships

which crossed the Atlantic ocean.

a. first class apartments

b. cheap accommodation at the back of the ship

c. cheap accommodation on the deck of the ship

____ 34. Scientists have been surprised on more than one occasion to find thriving colonies of bacteria and organisms

on material which has returned to earth on space craft.

a. dead

b. living

c. alien

____ 35. The science of the Beagle space craft could have been jeopardised by spores picked up during manufacture.

a. enhanced

b. improved

c. adversely affected

____ 36. To prevent contamination of space vehicles, only a handful of highly trained researchers were allowed into

the sanitised rooms.

a. a large number

b. a select few

c. any employee who was trained

____ 37. The space craft Beagle also used its heat shield as a biological shield which allowed access to the real world

once construction of the instruments was completed.

a. protection against space dust

b. a barrier to prevent contamination from other worlds

c. a barrier to prevent contamination from bacteria

____ 38. TV news lacks a narrative element when compared to other genres and therefore loses viewer interest.

a. includes

b. does not include

c. uses

____ 39. Soap operas, in contrast to TV news programmes, offer the viewer highly developed narrative codes.

a. familiar story lines

b. secret messages

c. subtitles

____ 40. There is a contrast between what people are encouraged to believe in the media and what they believe

according to their own common sense.

a. uniformity

b. difference of opinion

c. agreement

　　Matching

Match the beginnings of sentences with the appropriate endings.

a. The period between the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of the First World War

b. The rise in population meant more people were trying to earn a living from the same

amount of land

c. Scientists were surprised when they examined a camera from a lunar expedition and

d. Critics say that TV news is unreal and

e. Interest in alien life has increased, so have concerns

____ 41. found bacteria which seemed to have survived the hazardous journey across space.

____ 42. that mankind could spread contamination to other worlds through bacteria.

____ 43. is populated by another race of beings which portray a socially distant world.

____ 44. could be regarded as representing the largest peaceful human migration of any kind.

____ 45. and, inevitably, some were squeezed off it.

Essay

46. Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the following topic.

Libraries in many countries are not receiving enough funds from government or local authorities to keep their

stocks of books up to date. In fact, a visit to a library is often disappointing because many of the books do not

contain relevant information for the modern world. Pages are often missing and reference books sometimes

have notes written on them by other borrowers.

We can now find any information we require on the Internet - we can just ’Google’ it. So much information is

available electronically that dusty libraries are now an anachronism which should be consigned to the past.

Do you think libraries are now irrelevant in modern society?

You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and

relevant evidence.

Write at least 250 words.

47. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The graphs below contain information about Scottish whisky and Irish whiskey export sales to three countries

over a period of ten years.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

Write at least 150 words.

Scottish whisky and Irish whisky sales by country. Figures are in millions of bottles.

Other

48. Read the topic card below carefully. You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes. You have one

minute to think about what you are going to say. You can make notes to help you if you wish.

Describe a good experience which you would like to have.

You should say:

what the experience would be

why you want to have this particular experience

if you would like to share the experience with anybody and explain how you would feel, or

what you would do, after you have had your special experience.

Answer Section

COMPLETION

1. ANS: migration

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

2. ANS: historian

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

3. ANS: virus

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

4. ANS: Peasants

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

5. ANS: free trade

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

6. ANS: industrial revolution

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

7. ANS: feudal

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

8. ANS: starvation

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

9. ANS: economic

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

10. ANS: Emigrants

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Sentence completion

11. ANS: spin-offs

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

12. ANS: colony

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

13. ANS: bacteria

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

14. ANS: inhospitable

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

15. ANS: candidates

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

16. ANS: contaminate

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

17. ANS: immune

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

18. ANS: poisoned

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

19. ANS: sterilising

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

20. ANS: sample

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Sentence completion

21. ANS: genres

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

22. ANS: narrative

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

23. ANS: punchline

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

24. ANS: enigma

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

25. ANS: low-status

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

26. ANS: dilemma

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

27. ANS: elite

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

28. ANS: alienation

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

29. ANS: cynical

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

30. ANS: ideology

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Sentence completion

MULTIPLE CHOICE

31. ANS: C

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

32. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

33. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 1

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

34. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

35. ANS: C

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

36. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

37. ANS: C

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 2

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

38. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

39. ANS: A

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

40. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passage 3

TOP: Paraphrasing multiple choice

MATCHING

41. ANS: C

REF: Test 2: Reading passages 1-3

TOP: Sentence matching

42. ANS: E

REF: Test 2: Reading passages 1-3

TOP: Sentence matching

43. ANS: D

REF: Test 2: Reading passages 1-3

TOP: Sentence matching

44. ANS: A

REF: Test 2: Reading passages 1-3

TOP: Sentence matching

45. ANS: B

REF: Test 2: Reading passages 1-3

TOP: Sentence matching

ESSAY

46. ANS:

Various answers

REF: Test 2: Writing Task 2

TOP: Essay

47. ANS:

Answers will vary

REF: Test 2: Writing Task 1

TOP: Graph

OTHER

48. ANS:

Various answers

REF: Test 2: Speaking Part 2

TOP: Long turn topic card