PRACTICE ENGLISH CERTIFICATE

PART A: LISTENING (5.0 points)

I. A man needs to buy a part for his car. He calls a company to order the part. Listen
and complete the details in the order form. (1 points)

Forename: Allan
Surname: (1)

Postcode: (2)

Postal address: 27 Park Hill Road, Nutley

Part required: Inside Light

Make: (3)
Model: Spirit

Year: (4)

Cost Including Tax and Postage: £35.76

Card Number: (5)

Expiry Date: 06/19

Security Code: (6)
 PART B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (5 POINTS)
I. Choose the best word or phrase to complete each sentence. (1.0 points)
1. You have never been to England, __________you?
A. haven’t B. have C. never D. ever
2. Ba dropped his watch when he was __________the bus.
A. turning off B. getting off C. taking off D. going off
3. The lion – tamer and his lion __________we saw on the stage came from Moscow.
A. who B. which C. that D. whom
4. Analysts suggested the country __________its infrastructure to get foreign investment.
A. improve B. to improve C. improves D. improving
5. The report showed the U.S. trade deficit __________in February.
A. shrink B. shrunk C. shrunken D. shrinking
6. The controversial film was nominated __________eight Academy Awards.
A. of B. about C. with D. for
7. Union members __________the privatization of the country’s airports.
A. replied B. annoyed C. protested D. identified
8. The advertising executive resigned over his inappropriate __________made at a
conference.
A. dress B. acting C. welcome D. remarks
9. Thieves made __________over twenty thousand pounds.
A. off with B. off C. up D. up with
10. The children __________to the zoo.
A. were enjoyed taken B. were enjoyed taking
C. enjoyed being taken D. enjoyed taking
* Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Give the correct form of words in a passage. (2 point)

John watched a (1.document) _________ on TV last night. It was all about the problems
(2.threaten) _________ our environment. He was shocked to find out how little he knew
about (3.globe) _________ warning or acid rain. He had heard the term before but he know
(4.practice) _________ nothing about the damaged they cause to our planet. He feels he
should do something to be (5.help) _________. He would like to join an (6.organize)
_________, but he doesn’t know which one to join. He has seen so many (7.advertise)
_________ in newspapers that he can’t make up his mind. However, he believes that it is
(8.acceptable) _________ not to be environmentally aware and he is (9.hope) _________
that one day everyone will be part of a world movement to save the earth. He was sure that
in this time of (10.technology) _________ advances, we find some ways to solve the
world’s problems.
* Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
III. There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Find and then correct them. You
should also write the line of the mistakes. (2 points)
1 Anthony Masters was a writer in exceptional gifts and prodigious energy. He began
2 his eventful and versatile career like a teenager, when he was expelled from school for
3 organizing a revolt against the school uniform. In order to earn a living, he fulfilled
4 his childhood ambition and took on writing. In 1964, at the age of 23, he published A
5 Pocketful of Rye, a collection of short stories where freshness of style earned him a
6 distinction of being runner – up in the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, an
7 established and prestigious British – based literacy award. He made the award two
8 years later with his novel The Seahorse, after which he continued to display his
9 considerable talent by writing both fiction or non – fiction. The inspiration for many
10 of his novels came from his experience helping the social excluded: he ran soup
11 kitchens for drug addicts and campaigned for the civic rights of gypsies and another
12 ethnic minorities. His non – fiction output was typically eclectic, ranged from
13 biographies to social histories, but it was a writer of children fiction that Masters
14 outshone his contemporaries. His work contains a sensitivity which remains
15 unequalled by some other writer of the genre.
* Your answers:
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PART C: READING COMPREHENSION (5.0 points)

I. Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word (2 points)
TRAVELING
A hundred years ago, most people traveled on foot, by train, or on horseback. Railways
made (1) _________ possible to travel rapidly over long distances. (2) _________ were also
becoming popular, after the invention of the air –filled tire, which made cycling a lot more
comfortable. Buses, trams, and underground railways (3) _________ invented, and cities all
over the (4) _________ already had traffic jams. There were very (5) _________ private
cars and city streets were still full of horses.
What a difference a hundred years have made? Nowadays we have got used (6) _________
the problem of private cars, and some cities are (7) _________ noisy and polluted that in
many places vehicles have been banned from the city centre. (8) _________ will we travel
in a hundred years’ time? Perhaps by then there will be only personal helicopters. (9)
_________ may be no need to travel to work or school in the future, since everyone will
have a computer at home. There might even be more (10) _________ walking and horse –
riding, for pleasure and exercise.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Read the following text, then circle the most correct answer for each question. (1
point)
Today we take electricity for granted and perhaps we do not realize just how useful this
discovery has been. Steam was the first invention that replaced wind power. It was used to
drive engines and was passed through pipes and radiators to warm rooms. Petrol mixed with
air was the next invention that provided power. Exploded in a cylinder, it drove a motor
engine. Beyond these simple and direct uses, those forms have not much adaptability. On
the other hand, we make use of electricity in thousands of ways. From the powerful voltages
that drive our electric trains to the tiny current needed to work a simple calculator, and from
the huge electric magnet in steel works that can lift 10 tons to the tiny electric magnet in a
doorbell, all are powered by electricity. An electric current can be made with equal ease to
heat a huge mass of molten metal in a furnace or to boil a jug for a cup of coffee. Other than
atomic energy, which has not as yet been harnessed to the full, electricity is the greatest
power in the world. It is flexible, and so adaptable for any task for which it is wanted. It
travels so easily and with incredible speed along wires or conductors that it can be supplied
instantly over vast distances. To generate electricity, huge turbines or generators must be
turned. In Australia they use coal or water to drive this machinery. When dams are built,
falling water is used to drive the turbines without polluting the atmosphere with smoke from
coal. Atomic power is used in several countries but there is always the fear of an accident. A
tragedy once occurred at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, at an atomic power plant used to make
electricity. The reactor leaked, which caused many deaths through radiation. Now scientists
are examining new ways of creating electricity without harmful effects to the environment.
They may harness the tides as they flow in and out of bays. Most importantly, they hope to
trap sunlight more efficiently. We do use solar heaters for swimming pools but as yet
improvement in the capacity of the solar cells to create more current is necessary. When this
happens, electric cars will be viable and the world will rid itself of the toxic gases given off
by trucks and cars that burn fossil fuels.
1. The author mentions the sources of energy such as wind, steam, petrol in the first
paragraph to _____.
A. suggest that electricity should be alternated with safer sources of energy
B. emphasize the usefulness and adaptability of electricity
C. imply that electricity is not the only useful source of energy
D. discuss which source of energy can be a suitable alternative to electricity
2. Before electricity, what was sometimes passed through pipes to heat rooms?
A. Gas. B. Petrol. C. Steam. D. Hot wind.
3. What does the author mean by saying that electricity is flexible?
A. It is cheap and easy to use. B. It is used to drive motor engines.
C. It can be adapted to various uses. D. It can be made with ease.
4. What do we call machines that make electricity?
A. Voltages. B. Electric magnets.
C. Generators or turbines. D. Pipes and radiators.
5. The main forms of power used to generate electricity in Australia are ____.
A. atomic power and water B. water and coal
C. sunlight and wind power D. wind and gas
6. The word "they" in bold refers to ______.
A. harmful effects B. the tides C. scientists D. new ways
7. Electric magnets are used in steel works to ______.
A. lift heavy weights up to ten tons B. test the steel for strength
C. heat the molten steel D. boil a jug of water
8. The advantage of harnessing the power of the tides and of sunlight to generate electricity
is that they ______.
A. do not pollute the environment B. are more reliable
C. are more adaptable D. do not require attention
9. Which of the following power sources causes pollution by emitting harmful gases?
A. Sunlight. B. Petrol. C. Water. D. Wind.
10. The best title for this passage could be ______.
A. “Types of Power Plants” B. “Electricity: Harmful Effects on Our Life”
C. “How to Produce Electricity” D. “Why Electricity Is So Remarkable”
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Read the following passage and fill each gap with a suitable word by choosing the
best option A,B, C or D. (1 point)
FUTURE LIFE
Over the next 20 to 50 years, it will become harder to tell the (1) _____ between the human
and the machine. All, body (2) _____ will be replaceable. Computers will function like the
human (3)_____ with the ability to recognize feelings and respond in a feeling way. They
will then produce fake people. We will then be able to create a machine duplicate of
ourselves (4) _____ we will appear to be alive long after we are dead. Maybe a few decades
later, a way will be found to transfer our spirit, including our (5) _____ and thoughts, to the
new body. Then we can choose to live for as (6) _____ as we want. It might be expensive.
When it becomes possible to do a spirit transfer, they will figure out (7) _____ to do them
automatically. So we will be able to reside within whichever duplicate we want, whenever
we want.
Miniature robots will be built to travel through your blood (8) _____ and repair damage.
Also, larger robots will be used when you are sick. When you have an upset stomach, you
will (9) _____ a very small cherry tasting robot which will travel through your stomach
taking video of the mess. It will be set up like a video game, so you can control the
exploring and the selection of images. Then you can replay the video to help a doctor (10)
_____ your illness, or to prove to your employer that you really, were sick
1. A. variety B. change C. difference D. appearance
2. A. region B. place C. role D. parts
3. A. brain B. limb C. skull D. liver
4. A. such B. as C. so D. but
5. A. experience B. memories C. actions D. health
6. A. long B. far C. much D. soon
7. A. what B. when C. why D. how
8. A. line B. creek C. stream D. river
9. A. swallow B. chew C. vomit D. drink
10. a. notice B. diagnose C. watch D. observe
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
You are going to read an article in a magazine about shooping. Four sentences have
been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-D the one which fits each
gap ( 1-5). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use (0) is an example .
( 1point)
A. If I spent more than five minutes in this environment, I’d have a nervous breakdown!
B. They’d rather wait to be given a pair for Christmas, even if it’s only July.
C. I do all my shopping locally and I still hate it
D. There’s nothing worse than enthusiastic shop assistants
E. They become depressed if they haven’t been shopping for a week.
F. Big supermarkets make huge profits, destroy small shops and spoil the community.
G. It bores me stiff and I can’t stand it
SHOPPING – A PERSONAL VIEW
There are many different types of shops – department stores, supermarkets, market
stalls, traditional shops, the list is endless. But whether I’m in a huge modern shopping
center , a cosy village shop or an outdoor market in Morocco , it’s all the same to me. It’s
shopping. (0)……..G……
There are three types of people. Those who love shopping, those who don’t have an
opinion, and those who hate it. Those who love it are “shopaholics”. They buy anything,
anytime, anywhere , and at any price. (1) _________. Those who don’t have an opinion will
usually do enough shopping for a comfortable life. They know how to say no to a bargain
and when their credit card is reaching its limit.
Those who hate it will try anything to get out of doing it . They ask their family, they
ask their friends. They happily go without milk or sugar in their coffee rather than go to buy
some more. They wear socks with holes in them and don’t buy new ones (2) _________. I,
of course am one of the “haters”, but when I’m absolutely forces to go because I have
nothing left to eat, drink or wear in the house, I like to be left alone. (3) _________. They
try to make you think they’re interested. They try to make you feel special. They tell you
that a pair of green trousers with red spots really suit you, but you know they only want
your cash. Give me a bore, rude, or disinterested shop assistant any day!
The sale? You won’t see me there. Think of those pushing crowds rushing about
looking for bargain, lines of people queuing up waving their credit cards (4) _________.
Of course there are also serious reasons why I dislike some shops. (5) _________.
Their prices are too high and they sell perfectly shaped perfectly coloured fruit and
vegetables which make you wonder what is done to them when they are being grown.
Shopping by computer, that‘s the answer. Press some buttons and the shopping is
delivered to your door. It probably wouldn’t affect the serious problems I have mentioned ,
but it would certainly get rid of the crowds and avoid the “ helpful” assistant.
Answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

PART D: WRITING ( 5 POINTS)

 I. Writing task 1: Write a summary of the passage in the question II part C:
reading. (2 points)
II. Writing task 2: (3 points)
Which life skills do you think teenagers in Vietnam need? Why?
Write an essay discussing about it.
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