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D.Education

Advanced exam Test 04 Part 2 for Cambridge FC, Proficiency, Ielts

Dimitris Sclias

INSTRUCTIONS please read carefully:
Time allowed for part2: 45 minutes

There are two parts in the preliminary proficiency test THIS IS PART TWO.
There are 13 questions in this paper. To complete the test you have to answer all 13 questions.
Time allowed to complete the test (all the questions) 45 minutes.
Do not waste any time, if you can't answer one question, guess it and continue.
You must try to complete the test within the time limit, otherwise you'll have to take the test again.
To pass the test successfully you must get at least 80% correct answers.
Questions 38-50 carry two marks.

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question 1

Seven paragraphs have been removed from this extract. Choose from paragraphs A-H
the one which fits each gap(38-44). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

PARAGRAPHS REMOVED
A… It was the American psychologist, Lewis Ternan, adapting Binet's test for the US, who first coined the term intelligence quotient (IQ), as the result gained by dividing someone's mental age by their chronological age and multiplying it by 100.IQ testing became all the rage in the States.

B… The test can be adapted for adults, where tasks might include answering questions about a story. But its focus on verbal skills means that those whose first language is not English may underperform.

C… Unsurprisingly, perhaps, 80 per cent were deemed to have a mental age of 12. In his book The mismeasure of Man. Steven Jay Gould suggests that psychometric testing led to a sharp rise in the numbers deported from the US for 'mental deficiency' in 1914 and 1915.

D… An average IQ is around 100 anyone getting a score greater than 130 is said to be 'intellectually gifted' and anyone whose score falls below 70 would be classified as having learning difficulties.

E… Later analysis revealed that the average mental age was only 13 years. It was said that
native-born Americans had higher 10 scores than immigrants, especially those from southern or eastern Europe. Carl Brigham, who was involved in the Army program, suggested that continued mass immigration would threaten the national IQ. In Germany in the 1930s, the idea that fain haired Nordic races were superior would, of course, lead to catastrophe.

F… The English geographer and anthropologist Francis Galton (1822-1911) was the father of intelligence testing. He was the first to research people's mental characteristics, discovering that around one person in 4,000 in Great Britain achieved some kind of eminence.

G… Meanwhile, public education was becoming widespread throughout Europe. A French psychologist, Alfred Binet, wondered how best to identify the children who could learn in a mainstream class and those who needed extra help.

H… 'IQ tests are still used e widely in the areas of education and research," says Professor Vie Dulewiez of the Henley Management College, an occupational psychologist who researches emotional intelligence. "Mental testing is very popular with organizations, too, although they have moved away from one single test towards a battery of tests that involve reasoning, creative thinking and anything else thought to be relevant to the job.

Choose from paragraphs A-H
the one which fits each gap(38-44).

4. FOCUS What is intelligence?
The difficulty of defining intelligence hasn't stopped psychologists from trying to measure it. Intelligence testing played an important role in widening access to education and, indirectly, towards creating a more equal society. On the other hand, testing also has a murkier past as a tool used to stigmatize people on the grounds of their mental ability.
38.
When he studied the backgrounds of the high achievers, he learned that talent seemed to cluster in families. This led him to believe that intelligence was probably hereditary. He suggested that society be enhanced by improving the gene pool, and put forward his theory of eugenics.
39.
He couldn't help noticing that some children learned faster, and this led to the first intelligence test, now known as the Stanford-Binet Test.
40.
From 1910 onwards, European immigrants arriving in New York - many of whom could not yet speak English were tested by a team of psychologists based on Ellis Island.
41.
Next, the 10 testers turned their attention to the US Army. The program was in full swing by early 1918 and by the time the war ended, nearly two million recruits had been tested. But, strangely, the Army never used the data to deploy soldiers to the jobs for which they were most intellectually suited.
42.
And, more recently The Bell Curve by Charles Murray and Richard I Herrnstein used alleged 10
differences between black and white Americans to argue against positive discrimination and educational opportunities for ethnic minorities - a view denounced by the American Psychological Association.
43.
The most widely-used test over time, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, includes verbal tasks for children, such as naming and recognizing objects. They're also required do spatial tasks involving geometric designs.
44.
The second most widely-used test is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale which has a more even balance between verbal and performance tasks and might be fairer to a wider population.
The verbal tasks include skills such as reporting on the similarities between words, while a typical performance task involves arranging pictures in a sequence

question 2

prtc04
Please choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.

It was always the same, he told himself, a chief clerk was never popular, but other men perhaps were strong enough to stay the course. They had some source of fresh strength. "I'm tired out," he said aloud, and his knuckles drummed on his desk. The sound woke him from introspection, the clerks' room was empty now, but the shadow of the manager still passed to-and-fro behind his glass door; it wasn't safe giving way even for a moment. If the manager heard him talking aloud with no-one in the room, he might mistrust him, his handling of the accounts and his ability to keep order; he might decide that it was time to see if the director's nephew could do his job. Conrad was e certain that one day that would happen. Meanwhile one must be calm, develop habits, think of other things, not take the problems of the office home with him, balance-sheets and incompetent clerks and the director's nephew fixed in his mind as securely as papers locked in a safe of which the combination has been lost.
He picked his hat from a peg, his umbrella from a stand, his attache-case from the desk. It was five minutes later than his usual hour for leaving the office, and it was possible that his table at the restaurant would have been taken by a stranger.
As he passed through the clerks' room he saw an evening paper spread out conspicuously on the desk of the director's nephew. It was a day old and open at the account of the legal case involving his brother. There was a smudgy photograph of his brother taken on the day of his wedding. He wore a stiff collar and a dark tie, and the formal clothes brought out a likeness to Conrad. Conrad's heart missed a beat. He was afraid that the manager would see it. He crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the wastepaper basket. But the manager might want something to read at lunch and pick it out again. If I could burn it, he thought, and felt his pocket for matches. But there was no fireplace. When he heard the manager's door open, he took the paper out of the wastepaper basket and stuffed it into his pocket.
He argued with himself all the way downstairs: the manager must know already. True. But he must not know that the clerks take advantage of me. "Discipline," he heard the manager saying, leaning across his desk, "we must have discipline in the office, Drover," and Conrad, his lips dry with despair, knowing that he was about to be given a month's notice, heard with astonishment and disbelief, "It's because I think you will be able to keep a firm hand on the clerks that I'm appointing you to Chine's position. You are young, Drover," and the manager had sucked his teeth and smiled. "There's nothing a young man can't do, given energy, given ambition."
Conrad was taken by surprise. All his life he had been taken by surprise. People had promoted him when he had expected dismissal; they had praised him when he had expected blame. One day, he knew, they would find out. The director's nephew was the first.

45. Conrad felt that he was different from other chief clerks because he

A suffered from poor health.
B was disliked by his subordinates.
C could not cope with his job.
D got no willing assistance from anyone.

46. Because Conrad was late in leaving the office, it was possible that

A he might lose his regular seat at lunch.
B he might be late returning from lunch.
C the restaurant might be full.
D he might have to eat with a stranger.

47. Conrad's enduring fear was that the manager would

A know that his brother was married.
B realise that he could not keep order.
C find the newspaper in the basket.
D connect the newspaper article with him.

48. The manager promoted Conrad because he

A preferred to encourage younger men.
B decided to give him a last chance.
C thought that younger men were more energetic.
D thought that he could maintain authority.

49 Conrad felt that people's behaviour towards him had always been

A unfair.
B illogical.
C forgiving.
D shrewd.

50 The director's nephew was the first to

A see through Conrad.
B want Conrad's job.
C praise Conrad's work.
D get Conrad dismissed.

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