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D.Education

Advanced exam Test 05 Part 1 for Cambridge FC, Proficiency, Ielts

Dimitris Sclias

INSTRUCTIONS please read carefully:
Time allowed for part1 : 45 minutes

There are two parts in the preliminary proficiency test THIS IS PART ONE when you finish it
Please open petc…PART2.
There are 37 questions in this paper. To complete the test you have to answer all 37 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 1-37 carry one mark.

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question 1

TEST05 petc05part1

Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with one suitable word.

In ancient Rome, the practice of more cultivated music reached public attention (1) of that notorious emperor (2) love of music seems to have been his (3) redeeming feature. In Ms early twenties, Nero introduced festivals of music on the Greek pattern, to take place (4) five years in Rome, and the first of these was (5) in A.D. 60. He actually took (6) as a lyre-player in the Greek Olympic Games of 66, where, (7) to rumour, it was (8) bribery that he won the first (9) . Nero took care (10) his voice: he dieted and employed an official to warn him (11) he risked vocal strain, and if Nero spoke too loudly in (12) of advice to the contrary, this person had orders forcibly to restrain him! His voice was thin and husky, perhaps (13) we should call a light tenor, but he (14) have had stamina, for his concerts, (15) which large audiences were invited, sometimes lasted for hours. Nobody was allowed to be inattentive or to leave before the concert was over.

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Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the space.
5. LANGUAGES

Within the (0)......(NATION) -> NATIONAL group, our prejudices tend to be very mixed and, because they operate mainly on an (16) (CONSCIENCE) level, not easily
(17) (RECOGNIZE). We can be natives of great cities and still find a town dialect less pleasant than a country one. And yet, hearing prettiness and (18) (QUAINT) in a Dorset or Devon twang, we can also despise it, because we associate it with rural stupidity or (19) (BACKWARD).
The ugly tones of Manchester or Birmingham will, because of their great civic associations, be at the same time somehow (20) (ADMIRE). The whole business of ugliness and beauty works strangely. A BBC announcer says 'pay day'; a Cockney says 'pie die'.
The former is thought to be beautiful ', the latter ugly, and yet the announcer can use the Cockney sounds in a (21) (STATE) like 'Eat that pie and you will die' without anybody's face turning sour. In fact, terms like 'ugly' and 'beautiful' cannot really apply to languages at all. Poets can make beautiful patterns out of words, but there are no standards we can use to (22) (FORMULA) aesthetic (23) (JUDGE) on the words themselves.
We all have our pet hates and loves among words, but these always have to be referred to associations. A person who dislikes beetroot as a vegetable is not likely to love 'beetroot' as a word. A poet who, in (24) (CHILD), had a pan full of hot stewed prunes spilled on him is, if he is a rather stupid poet, e capable of writing 'And death, terrible as prunes'. We have to watch associations without (25) (CARE), remembering that a language is a public, not private, medium, and that questions of word-hatred and word-love had best be tackled very coldly and rationally.

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Please choose the right answer A, B, C or D.
5. NANDA KAUL

The care of others was a habit Nanda Kaul had mislaid. It had been a religious calling she had believed in till she found it 26...... It had happened on her first day alone at Carignano. After her husband's death, her sons and daughters had come to help her empty the Vice-Chancellor's house, pack and crate their belongings and 27...... them; then escort her to Kasauli. For a while they had stood 28...... like too much furniture. She had wondered what to do with them. Fortunately, they had gone away.
29...... by her to be busy and responsible, they all had families and employments to tend. None could stay with her. When they left, she 30...... the house, proprietorially, feeling each stone in the paving with her 31......feet.

26. A. forged B. imitation C. fake D. false
27. A. distribute B. share C. dispense D. allot
28. A. out B. about C. up C. down
29. A. brought about B. brought round C. brought up D. brought down
30. A. paced B. stepped C. treated D. waddled
31. A. naked B. bleak C. bald D. bare

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Please choose the right answer A, B, C or D.

JOURNALISM
Resentment of the masses, who are 32...... reportage's audience, is plainly a factor in the development of this 33....... The terms used to express it are often social in their implications. 'High' culture is distinguished from the 'vulgarity' said to 34...... reportage. But the disparagement of reportage also 35...... a wish to promote the imaginary above the real. Works of imagination are, it is maintained, inherently superior, and have a 36...... value absent from 'journalism'. The creative artist is in touch 37...... truths higher than the actual, which give him exclusive entry into the soul of a man.

32. A. regarded for B. regarded as C. regarded on D. regarded like
33. A. superstition B. prejudice C. ageism D. engrossment
34. A. analyse B. realize C. personalize D. characterise
35. A. renders B. hits C. reflects D. retrospects
36. A. spiritual B. mental C. uranian D. pneumatic
37. A. with B. on C. over D. for

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