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A. Complete the second sentence in the following pairs so that it is very similar in meaning to the sentence before it.

Name: __________________________________________

 

A. Rewrite the following sentences, changing the meaning as little as possible.

1. Is this the cheapest way to travel to Paris? Isn’t there ___________________________________

2. She told us not to arrive late for the party. She said “___________________________________”

3. It’s time the children went to bed. The children _______________________________________

4. There’s nothing I can do to help you. I ______________________________________________

5. You must leave now, or your parents will be angry. Your parents will be angry _________________

6. How old do you think this church is? When do you _____________________________________

7. It was very kind of you to help my brother. Thank you ____________________________________

8. The heavy traffic makes it almost impossible to cross the road.

It is almost impossible_________________________________

9. I had expected the exam to be more difficult. The exam is not______________________________

10. You need not wait for me. It is __________________________________________

 

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B. Complete the following sentences. Each dot represents one letter.

In the past, smokers were free to indulge their ha… almost anyw . They would smoke in pubs, restaurants and off…. . They would even go to their friends’ homes and li… up a cigarette without even asking for permi….. . All that is now in the pa.. .

In Ireland it was until rece…. considered traditional for men to go to the pub and smoke. Then a new law was ena…. , which made it ill…. to smoke in any place of work. Si… barmaids work in pubs, smoking is now stri…. forbidden in them. Pub owners tho…. it would be a disa…. – that their clientele would rebel, and would either ins… on smoking des…. the law, or that they would stay at home in pro…. . Some even pred….. that there would be a bloody revolution! – but in fact nothing much occ….. . Smokers nowadays congregate peace….. outside the pub, in the yard. The pub itself has had to be refurbished, as cust….. no longer want to spend their even…. sitting in a smelly room.

 

C. Fill in the blanks, using a form of the word in brackets. You may need to write more than 1 word.

1. The police should take _____________________ against pickpockets. (ACT)

2. What is the _______________________ of that building? (HIGH)

3. You should have _____________________ to her in French, not English. (SPEAK)

4. The water should be ____________________ to a temperature of 70 oC. (HOT)

5. The exam is much ____________________ than I had expected. (DIFFICULT)

6. There are many _____________________ buildings in Prague. (REMARK)

7. Do you have any ______________________ about what happened? (INFORM)

8 The ______________________ must be submitted on or before March 25th. (APPLY)

9. A packet of cigarettes is an ____________________ present for a young child. (SUIT)

10. When does the ______________________ to Frankfurt depart? (FLY)



 

D. Complete the following passage. Write ONE WORD ONLY in each space.

An influential proposal to make drivers pay according _to_ the amount of time they _spend_ behind the wheel and the number ____________ traffic jams they endure will ____________ presented to the British Prime Minister ____________ morning. It is the ____________ radical idea ever proposed for Britain's roads and it ____________ present the prime minister with a major political headache.

The report was _______________ by the Commission for Integrated Transport. __________ states something that many people ____________ known for years, but have been too frightened ____________ admit: roads need "congestion charging" ___________ stop people from using them as ____________ they were an unlimited resource.

Making the proposals work will ____________ fitting a "transceiver" system to ____________ car, linked to a smartcard with a ____________ identity number that can be tracked by satellites. These will ____________ where a car was and send a bill ____________ the owner according to the type of road and the time. For ____________, rush hour in London will cost 45 pence per mile; motorways an average of 3.5p per mile; rural ____________ at peak times 1p per mile, and at quiet times nothing. The intention is to reduce the ____________ of cars using the ____________ roads.

E. Write a well-organised and well-argued essay that answers all the questions, in English. Write between 150 -200 words. In your studies, to what extent do you use information from a) books, b) lectures and seminars, c) electronic sources? How important are teachers for you? How could university teachers best help you in your studies?

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ENGLISH TEST 70 minutes.

Name: __________________________________________

 

A. Complete the second sentence in the following pairs so that it is very similar in meaning to the sentence before it.

1”Come in and sit down, David,” the old man said. The old man told __________________________

2. The height of the wall is 3 metres. The wall is ___________________________________________

3 “How much did he pay for that map?” I’d like to know how ________________________________

4. When did you start studying English? How _____________________________________________

5. Never forget how important it is to have good friends. The importance _______________________

____________________________

6. Jan does not know where he left his books. “Where ____________________________?” Jan asked.

7. Are these the best apples you could find? Couldn’t _______________________________________

8. A nine-year-old boy is driving that car. That car _________________________________________

9. I had never seen such an amazing sight. It was the ______________________________________

10. Examinations used to be more difficult than they are now. Examinations are__________________

_____________________________

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B. Complete this text. Each underlined point in the text represents ONE LETTER.

After eat… his meal, George Aitken went stra…. back to work. When he rea…. his office, he made an alarming disc….. . The money! Where was it! It was mis….! He had lost the dep…. on his new flat! His girlfriend would kill him! He rus… back to the restaurant, and was very reli…. when he saw the waitress that had ser… him, and she greeted him with the wo… , “Have you come for the enve…. you left here?” She han… it over to him, and then sta… at him in disbelief as he opened it and cou…. out thirty thousand Euros. “It’s all here. God bl… you!” George said, tak… two new fifty Euro notes and putting them into her ha... . “This is a rew… for your hon…. ,” he said. The waitress tho…. to herself, “I wish I’d known what was in there. I’d have ke.. it for myself!”

 

C. Fill in the blanks, using a form of the word in brackets. You may need to write more than 1 word.

1. The police should take ___________________ against pickpockets. (ACT)

2. What is the _____________________ of that building? (HIGH)

3. You should have ___________________ to her in French, not English. (SPEAK)

4. The water should be __________________ to a temperature of 70 oC. (HOT)

5. The exam is much ___________________ than I had expected. (DIFFICULT)

6. There are many ___________________ buildings in Prague. (REMARK)

7. Do you have any ____________________ about what happened? (INFORM)

8. The ___________________ must be submitted on or before March 25th. (APPLY)

9. A packet of cigarettes is an _________________ present for a young child. (SUIT)

10. When does the ___________________ to Frankfurt depart? (FLY)


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