MA TEST BOOKLET 21 SECTION ONE: LISTENING Part 1 Questions 1-9 Youll hear a conversation between a senior student and

a freshman. The freshman asks about the direction. Fill the information about campus facilities in the map below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer TIME ALLOWED: 10 minutes

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Main Gate Part 2 Questions 1 10 Fill in the following blanks according to what you hear. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Meeya thinks that Neol should open two bank accounts. Firstly he needs a 1 . for saving his money but he can only 2 .. money after 100 days. This account pays 4% 3 . before tax. The other account she suggests is a 4 for the money that you need to use 5 .. If Neol wants to borrow money for a house then he needs to get a 6 but for a car he needs a 7 .. The bank will give Neol a free card for his bank account. If he also wants a 8 he will have to pay $ .. each year. Neol decides what he wants and then together they 10 the necessary forms.

SECTION TWO: READING Passage 1 Read the text below and answer questions 1 - 6

TIME ALLOWED: 20 minutes

Why Company Lose Their Best People

A. The best people are difficult to find. It may take weeks of looking through CVCs and then hours of interviewing to make sure you get the right person for the job. Even if you do find that person, he or she might take up an offer from another firm at the last minute. Although these employees are gold dust, far too often once they are working for you, you take them for granted and soon they are looking to leave. Here are a few tips on how to keep your highest achievers. B. However appealing a job is, nobody works just for the love of it. If your top people feel that what they earn is out of line with the rest of the market, they may look to greener pastures. Checking the going rate at the time you employ someone is fine, but thats not the end of it. Get constant updates on how the market is changing your staff will certainly be doing just that. C. Some managers think that managing means being in total control. If he or she is not the one making every decision about every issue, then he or she isnt doing the job. Office juniors might need constant supervision, but your high achievers will expect to enjoy some independence. Able people dont want to think that the boss is watching their every move. D. The best employees want to come to work, get on with the job and learn something new. They dont want to be surrounded by bickering colleagues or get involved in disagreements and arguments. They want to work in a friendly environment where people get on, and they certainly dont want to worry that something they do or say will make anyone think that they are taking sides. E. High-fliers want to be challenged and they want to learn something new whenever they can. They got where they are by achieving goals not by performing repetitive mundane tasks. Take time to check that your best people are working on projects that are appropriately motivating and that they are not working on the same one for too long. F. Achievers just hate it when projects they are working on dont progress or materialized into something they can feel proud of. There may be all sorts of good reasons why a project stalls, but successful people will feel useless and get frustrated if they are constantly giving one thing up and starting something else. Do whatever you can to make sure that projects are concluded and make sure people know its not their fault when they are not. For questions 1 6 match the headings (i viii) on the left with the sections in the text. There are two headings that you do not need. i Too many orders ii Office politics 1 Section A 2 Section B

iii Dont let them go iv No friends v Unfinished business vi Bored vii Out-of-date practices viii Not paid enough

3 Section C 4 Section D 5 Section E. 6 Section F.

Passage 2 Read the text below and answer questions 7 16

HOW WELL DO BABIES SEE?

A. People used to believe that newborn babies saw the world as a meaning blur of lines and colours swimming in their field of vision. Physiologist William James said in 1800s that the newborn sees a blooming, buzzing confusion. We now know that newborns are able to see a lot of the world around them. B. Although their visual system has not fully developed, newborns see quite well at close distances. You will probably notice your baby scanning your face with great interest, especially when you come within a foot or so. A normal newborn can even track a slowly moving object, and will sometimes turn his head to follow it. C. However, a newborn cannot adjust his focus the way an adult can. His eye has a fixed focus, which allows him fairly clear vision at a distance of eight to twelve inches. He quickly learns to focus, or accommodate, so that by six weeks of age, he can focus at a distance of about two feet. by the age of four months, he can see objects that are close or far, almost as well as an adult can. By the age of six months, he will see as clearly as he ever will. D. Most babies prefer to look at complex patterns, such as your face or the face on a toy. They prefer patterns with curved lines rather than straight. At the age of one to two months, your baby will probably begin to smile while studying your face. At the age of three or four months, he will be able to tell your face from the face of a stranger, and he will express pleasure when he sees you. E. Newborn babies do not have good depth perception. They do not have full ability to see things in three dimensions. There are special cells that receive input from the left and right eyes, which are responsible for the development of good depth perception. The baby must also be able to coordinate his two eyes, so that they point in the same direction. He can do this to some extent right from birth, but not perfectly well until the age of three to five months. F. Colour vision is not well developed at birth. It is surprising how unimportant colour seems to be to babies before the age of six months. It is not completely certain whether newborn babies have colour vision at all. By the age of two months, babies notice colours of red, orange, green and yellow, and a little later are able to see blue.

G. It is a joy to watch your new baby develop his or her visual skills during the first months of life. Most babies develop excellent sight, depth perception and colour vision. You should consult your doctor if you are concerned that your babys vision is not developing properly. It is especially important to watch for an eye that wanders constantly or remains turned. You should report any excessive watering of the eyes or a noticeable discharge. H. The body of a newborn may be tiny, but its eyes are only 30% smaller than those of an adult. Part of what is so appealing about a newborn baby is the size of its eyes. Modern methods of studying visual development show that they can see a lot more, and are a lot less confused, than was once thought. The passage has eight paragraphs, labeled A-H. For questions 7 10, say which paragraph contains the following information. Write the appropriate letters in the spaces 7. What parents should do if they are worried about their babys eyesight. 8. At what age babies can show a parent that they are happy. 9. Why most people like looking at babies. 10. Newborn babies see the world as a flat surface. For questions 11 16, complete the flow chart with words from the passage. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. At birth babies have clear vision, but with a11. At six weeks babies can focus on objects.12 At two months babies will look at a parents face and .13.. At three to four months babies can recognize whose 14.they are looking at At four months babies have vision similar to that of ..15. At sixmonths babies can see everything ..16

SECTION THREE: WRITING

TIME ALLOWED: 30 minutes

Choose one of the following questions and write an essay of approximately 200 words for a lecturer at a university. Tick the box to indicate which question you have answered. Either: 1) Some people think that advertising encourages people to buy things that they do not need, and spend money that they do not have. Other people think that advertising is necessary because people can learn about new products that can improve their lives. What is your view of this argument? Or: 2) Computers are now used in all areas of business and education. They are used in hospitals, and they are used to drive trains and fly planes. They are used in many forms of home entertainment. Some people say we rely too heavily on computers, and worry about how far the use of computers will go in the future. What are your views on this topic?