PART III CLOZE [15 MIN]

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.

  A person’s home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n) “(31) ______ home”. But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical (32) ________ of cash and location on achieving that idea.

  Cash (33) ________, in fact, often means that the only way of (34) _________ when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things (35) _________ financially. There are obvious (36) ________of living at home—personal laundry is usually (37) _________ done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established circle of friends to (38) _________. And there is (39) _________ the responsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.

  On the other hand, (40) _________ depends on how a family gets on. Do your parents like your friends? You may love your family—(41) _________do you like them? Are you prepared to be (42) __________ when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back? If you find that you cannot manage a(n) (43) _________, and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you (44) _________ finding somewhere else to live?

  If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are (45) _________well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always (46) _________. If you are going to work in a (47) _________ area, again there are the papers—and the accommodation agencies, (48) _________ these should be approached with (49) _________. Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the (50) ________ of the first week’s rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.

  31. A. ideal??? B. perfect??? C. imaginary?? D. satisfactory
  32. A. deficiencies?? B. weaknesses?? C. insufficiencies?? D. limitations
  33. A. cut?? B. shortage?? C. lack?? D. drain
  34. A. getting over?? B. getting in?? C. getting back?? D. getting along
  35. A. improve?? B. enhance?? C. develop?? D. proceed
  36. A. concerns?? b. issues?? C. advantages?? D. problems
  37. A. still?? B. always?? C. habitually?? D. consequently
  38. A. call in?? B. call over?? C. call upon?? D. call out
  39. A. always?? B. rarely??? C. little?? D. sometimes
  40. A. little??? B. enough?? C. many?? D. much
  41. A. and?? B. but?? C. still?? D. or
  42. A. tolerant?? B. hostile?? C. indifferent?? D. good-tempered
  43. A. agreement?? B. consensus?? C. compromise?? D. deal
  44. A. go about?? B. go over?? C. go in for?? D. go through
  45. A. seldom?? B. less?? C. probably?? D. certainly
  46. A. dependent?? B. a good source of information?? C. of great value?? D.
  reliable
  47. A. familiar?? B. cold?? C. humid?? D. new
  48. A. though?? B. while?? C. since?? D. as
  49. A. enthusiasm?? B. hesitation?? C. caution?? D. concern
  50. A. same?? B. equivalent?? C. equal?? D. simiarity

  PART IV GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY????? [15 MIN]

  There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

  51. If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise
  you much better than I can.
  A. would be???????? B. will have been????? C. was???????? D. were

  52. _________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.
  A. Although he is a socialist???????????????? B. Even if he is a socialist
  C. Being a socialist??????????????????????? D. Since he is a socialist

  53. His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.
  A. so as to????????? B. such as to??????? C. such to?????????? D. as much as to

  54. James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.
  A. will come??????? B. was coming?????? C. had been coming?? D. came

  55. _________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.
  A. I was and always will be??????????????? B. I have to be and always will be
  C. I had been and always will be??????????? D. I have been and always will be

  56. Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have
  to install _________ solar heating device in our home.
  A. some type of???????????????????????? B. some types of a
  C. some type of a??????????????????????? D. some types of

  57. I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the
  journey in exactly two days.
  A. must take?????????????????????????? B. must have made
  C. was able to make???????????????????? D. could make

  58. I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.
  A. something but??????????????????????? B. anything but
  C. nothing but????????????????????????? D. not but

  59. Do you know Tim’s brother? He is _________ than Tim.
  A. much more sportsman????????????????? B. more of a sportsman
  C. more of sportsman???????????????????? D. more a sportsman

  60. That was not the first time he ________ us. I think it’s high time we
  ________ strong actions against him.
  A. betrayed…take??????????????????????? B. had betrayed…took
  C. has betrayed…took???????????????????? D. has betrayed…take

  61. What’s the chance of ________ a general election this year?
  A. there being?????????????????????????? B. there to be
  C. there be????????????????????????????? D. there going to be

  62. The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.
  A. objected having??????????????????????? B. were objected to having
  C. objected to have??????????????????????? D. objected to having

  63. ________ you _______ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer
  for advice.
  A. If, had?????????????? B. Have, had????????? C. Should, have??????? D. In
  case, had

  64. He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he
  paid me back the following week.
  A. on occasion????? B. on purpose??????? C. on condition?????? D. only if

  65. Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.
  A. them??????? B. /????????? C. it????????? D. theirs

  66. CWhy are you staring?
  CI’ve never seen ______tree before.

  67. There are still many problem ahead of us, but by his time next year we can
  see light at the end of the _________.
  A. battle?????????? B. day?????? C. road???????? D. tunnel

  68. We realized that he was under great _________, so we took no notice of his
  bad temper.
  A. excitement????? B. stress????? C. crisis???????? D. nervousness

  69. The director tried to get the actors to _________ to the next scene by hand
  signals.
  A. move on??????? B. move off??? C. move out???? D. move along

  70. His ideas are invariably condemned as ________ by his colleagues.
  A. imaginative????? B. ingenious?? C. impractical??? D. theoretical

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