IT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE PASSAGE THAT

5. It can be inferred from the passage that : A. Improvements in cancer treatment during the last half century have been relatively ineffective. B. The number of deaths caused by cancer has decreased substantially. C. Fewer people are susceptible to the effects of cancer. D. Scientists are close to eliminating cancer entirely. Your answers: 1……….. 2…………. 3………… 4………… 5……… Question II. For question from 1 – 5, read the following text carefully and then choose from the list A- I the best phrase given below to fill each of the spaces. Each correct phrase may only be used once. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all. The exercise begins with an example ( 0 ). MODERN ENGLISH Imperceptibly, during the 18

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century, English loses the most noticeable remaining features of structural difference ( 0 )...I...By the end of that century, with but a few exceptions, the spelling, punctuation, and grammar are very close to ( 1 )...If we take an essay by William Hazlett ( 1775 – 1830 ) or a novel of Jane Austen ( 1775 – 1817 ), for example, we can read for pages ( 2 )...We would find the vocabulary somewhat unfamiliar in places, the idiom occasionally unusual or old-fashioned, the style elegant or quaint, and we might feel that the language was in some indefinable way characteristic of a previous age : but we do not need to consult a special edition or historical dictionary at every turn ( 3 )...Jane Austen makes demands on our modern linguistic intuitions which seem little different from those required by Catherine Cookson or PD James. However, despite this apparent continuity, the language at the end of the 18

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century is by no means identical to what we find today. Many words, though spelt the same, had a different meaning. ( 4 )...we would also notice several differences in pronunciation, especially in the way words were stressed. And an uninformed modern intuition would achieve only a superficial reading of literary texts of the period. In reading a novel of the 1990s, we can make an immediate linguistic response to the social and stylistic nuances introduced into the text, ( 5 )...we recognise the differences between formality and informality, or educated and uneducated; we can sense when someone is being jocular, ironic, risqué, archaic or insincere. We can easily miss such nuances in the writing of the early 19

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century, especially in those works which take the manners of contemporary society as their subject. That world is more linguistically removed from us than at first it may appear. A. in order to understand the text. B. that deceive in its apparent continuity. C. because the context often enables us to see the intended sense. D. what they are today E. because we are part of its age F. when we know it had an additional meaning at that time G. if we had tape recordings of the time H. before a point of linguistic difference might make us pause I. which distance the Early Modern English period from us Question III. Read the following text and decide which word best fits each blank. OSCAR’S WINNING PERFORMANCE Two boats, engines paralysed are drifting helplessly towards rocks in a raging sea. Gale-force winds are blowing as a distress message is relayed to the (1 )...The west coast search – and- rescue helicopter takes off from Shannon; its destination is Clew Bay in County Mayo. The terrified crews on Sundancer and Healther Berry are only half a mile from disaster when Hotel Oscar, the Irish Marine Emergency Service helicopter arrives and the winch crew ( 2 )...saving their lives. There is no hope for the boats – the conditions are too bad for that. The threatening rocks will make matchwood of them. It’s not easy to get the rescue line down on the pitching, rolling decks as the pilot, Captain Al Lockey hovers directly ( 3 )...By the time the exhausted winchman has picked up the two crew members of Healther Berry , the helicopter is running ( 4 )...on fuel. The pair on Sundancer will have to be abandoned if ( 5 )...else is to survive. As if that decision isn’t difficult enough, screaming winds make for a treacherous flight out of the bay. For Captain Locky, 25 years a helicopter pilot and veteran of typhoon conditions off oil rigs in the South China Sea, this was the worst experience in a distinguished ( 6 )...In fact, a change in wind direction was to spare. Sundancer its horrible face, much to the ( 7 )...of the rescue crew whose hearts were breaking as they were forced to turn their backs and ( 8 )...for home. Medals, it is said should be given to those who have to make that most painful decision to say “ no ”. Fortunately, most crews can and (9 )...say “ yes ” in all conditions and at all ( 10 )...of night and day. That was Mission 47, accomplished just over three months after Hotel Oscar’s contract began in July 1991.