English test
45’
I.Listening
A. Choose the best option to complete the sentences.
1. Thanks to the process of urbanisation, people from rural areas have access to ….. Jobs, education and health care
better-paid B. badly paid C. prestigious
2. After moving to cities, rural people become less……..
Traditional B. conservative C. progressive
3. Many people benefit from urbanisation, but not everyone has the opportunity to ……….
receive a good education B. get a high-paying salary C. find stable employment
4. The shortage of accommodation in big cities can result in ……. with no sanitation or clean water.
low-cost houses
development of high-cost housing
creation of very poor areas
5. The shift of workers from agriculture to industries can lead to …… in food production.
a fall B. a rise C. a fluctuation
Listen and fill in the blank with one word you hear
Cindy: Welcome to our talk show with guest speaker Mr Andy Lewis, a sociologist. Mr Lewis...
Andy: Please call me Andy. I don`t want to be too formal.
Cindy: No problem, Andy. These days, our audience seem to be (6)…………………………overwhelmed with stories in the newspapers or on the Internet - stories about celebrities, political figures, or even ordinary people around us.
Andy: You mean we`re living in a world of stories and (7)…………………….scandals?
Cindy: Right. As a sociologist, do you have any advice for our audience?
Andy: I think there`re two sides to this issue. We need some life skills to protect ourselves. First, we don`t want other people to take advantage of our stories. They may use our private lives for blackmail or (8)………………………….slander... in order to harm our reputation or just for fun.
Cindy: For whatever purpose, it could be extremely damaging.
Andy: Exactly. So we should not reveal too much of our private life on social networking sites.
Cindy: I agree. But how about the stories of other people? Should we read or (9)…………………..follow these stories?
Andy: That`s the second point I want to discuss. Another life skill is learning from other people`s lives. Everyone`s life story is like a book that can teach us something. So we should open that book and read it (10)…………………………critically.
II. Language
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
1.A. sustainable B. geothermal C. replenishment D. organically
2.A. respiratory B. initiative C. eco-friendly D. renewable
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
3.A. asthma B. habitat C. biomass D. safer
4.A. consumed B. gjudged C. mended D. caused
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Question 5: Sarah and I _________ reserved the rooms in the same hotel. She was really surprised to see me there.
A. intentionally B. practically C. coincidentally D. deliberately
Question 6: Not until Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave had been completely explored in 1972_________
A. when was its full extent realized B. the realization of its full extent
C. was its full extent realized D. that its full extent was realized
Question7.The continued ________ of our ozone may cause terrible destruction to our planet.
A. redundancy B. removal C. change D. depletion
Question8. We use compact florescent light bulbs, ________ last 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs.
A. what B. that C. which D. they
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 9: The weather-beatenfaces staring out from old photographs are no longer around to tell of the hardships of life in a remote mining community 100 years ago.
A. pale B. dark C. suntanned D. fair
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 10: Danny put the cat among the pigeonsby suggesting that the company might have to make some redundancies.
A. made other people disappointed B. made other people nervous
C. made a lot of people satisfied D. made a lot of people annoyed
Choose
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