CHOOSE THE WORD WHICH HAS A DIFFERENT STRESS PATTERN FROM THE OTHERS....

45. The government has passed the law of……… (alcohol)

Question IV. There are FIVE mistakes in the text. Identify each mistake, write it

down and give your correction. (5pts)

Imaginative you’re walking across a college campus when an unknown man asks

you about directions. While you’re talking, two men pass between you carrying a door.

After an irritating minute of interruption you carry on describing the route. When

you’ve finished, you are inform that you’ve just taken part in a psychology experiment,

and asked if you noticed any changes after the two men passed with the door. “No,” you

reply uneasy. The unknown man then explains that the man who approached you

initially walked off behind the door, leaving this man in his place. You are stunned; the

two men are dressed differently and have differenty voices and haircuts.

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SECTION D: READING COMPREHENSION (30 pts)

I. Read the passage and fill in each numbered gap with ONE suitable word.

Teenagers today live in a very competitive world.It is (51) ……important than ever to

succeed at school if you hope to (52)……..a chance in the job market afterwards. It’s no

wonder that many young people worry (53)……letting down their parents, their peers

and themselves. To try to please everyone, they take on too (54)……..tasks until it

becomes harder and harder to balance homework assignments, parties, sports activities

and friends. The result is that young people (55)………from stress.There are different

ways of dealing with stress. Everyone knows that caffeine, in the (56)………of coffee

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or soft drinks,keeps you awake and alert. But caffeine is a drug which

(57)……..become addictive. In the end, like other drugs, caffeine only leads to more

stress. There are better (58)……..to deal with stress: physical exercise is a good release

for stress, (59)……….it increases certain chemicals in the brain which calm you down.

You have to get enough sleep to (60)………stress and to stay healthy and full of energy.

II. Read and circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete the passage. (2.0 pts)

One rather unlikely word that has recently entered the language is “blog”, a shortened

form of “web log”. A blog is a diary posted on the Internet by the person writing it – the

“blogger” – who presumably (61) ___ other people to read it. It is ironical that modern

technology is being used to (62) ___ new life into such an old-fashioned form as the

personal journal. And now, as the technology behind video camera is making them

easier to use, we have the video log, or “vlog”. Vlogging does not require (63) ___

sophisticated equipment: a digital video camera, a high-speed Internet connection and a

host are all that is needed. Vloggers can put anything that (64) ___ their fancy onto their

personal website. Some vloggers have no ambitions (65) ___ than to show films they

have (66) ___ while on holiday in exotic places. However, vlogs can also (67) ___ more

ambitious purposes. For instance, amateur film-makers who want to make a name for

themselves might publish their work on the Internet, eager to receive advice or

criticism. And increasingly, vlogs are being used to (68) ___ political and social issues

that are not newsworthy enough to (69) ___ coverage by the mass media. It is still too

early to predict whether vlogging will ever (70) ___ off in a major way or if it is just a

passing fad, but its potential is only now becoming apparent.