12 SUMMER TEST 3+4

SECTION A. LISTENING
I. You will hear a travel expert talking about weight gain on holidays. For questions 1 – 8,
complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
1 Returning home from holidays can be a(n) ________ experience when you’ve gained weight.
2 People spoil themselves on holiday and find ___________ to justify eating more.
3 It’s easier to overeat and gain weight when the food you are eating is of the highest _______ .
4 Weight gain is worse for people on cruises and __________ package holidays that include meals.
5 It’s very easy to overeat when the food available is __________ and free.
6 When people chose more ________ types of holiday, they are unlikely to gain extra pounds.
7 It’s best that you avoid ____________ if you are not wanting food.
8 Holidays are a time to foreign food and diets can wait till later.

II. You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about health and medicine.
Complete both tasks as you listen.
Task 1
For questions 1 – 5, choose from the list (A – H) the person who is speaking.
1 Speaker 1
2 Speaker 2
3 Speaker 3
4 Speaker 4
5 Speaker 5
A a pharmacist
B a nurse
C a personal trainer
D a stay-at-home mum
E a doctor
F a psychologist
G a cosmetic surgeon
H a working parent
Task 2
For questions 6 – 10, choose from the list (A – H) what each speaker is expressing.
6 Speaker 1
7 Speaker 2
8 Speaker 3
9 Speaker 4
10 Speaker 5
A indifference to a health problem
B annoyance at a common practice
C a reluctance to get fit
D a commitment to stay healthy
E concern about a health risk
F inability to help the very sick
G fear of seeking medical advice
H advice for a better quality of life

SECTION B. LEXICAL AND GRAMMAR

I. Select the best option for each sentence. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers.
1. I had ______ feelings about leaving home. I was excited but at the same time, I knew I would miss my
family.
A. puzzled B. jumbled C. mixed D. muddled
2. The voucher is valid between July and December and ______ you to 10% off all overseas flights.
A. confers B. entitles C. grants D. credits
3. I left the company by ______, not because I was forced to.
A. choice B. option C. selection D. preference
4. Each day, we see signs of poverty and cases of severe need before our ______ eyes.
A. very B. right C. actual D. real
5. His change of job has ______ him with a new challenge in life.
A. familiarized B. presented C. initiated D. introduced
6. Nothing, to me, is as mesmarizing as seeing ______ of tiny, multi-colored fish swimming over the coral reef
under the sea.
A. swarms B. flocks C. packs D. shoals
7. Everyone was ______ to the fact that the holiday was over and went back work.
A. conformed B. complied C. confessed D. resigned
8. A growing ______ of evidence shows that weight gain is associated with lack of sleep.
A. body B. quantity C. figure D. hand
9. Arsenal eventually won a ______ victory of 4 – 3 over Chelsea.
A. thin B. near C. narrow D. mere
10. People are asked not to smoke in the ______ of health.
A. request B. demand C. requirement D. interest
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Complete EACH sentence with ONE suitable phrasal verb by combining ONE verb in A and ONE particle in B to
make a meaningful sentence. Use the correct form of the verb. Write your answers in the numbered boxes for
answers.
A B
go bank look fall run through for on off under
pick take put get do in on across up out
1. I don't think you can ______
bank ______
on Tom coming tonight - he's really unreliable.
2. It’s unbelievable that you ______
look ______
in such a lot of milk in a day.
3. Don’t forget to ______
put me through
______ when you come to Atlanta.
4. More than 7,000 businesses have ______
gone ______
under in the last three months due to a financial crisis.
5. Don’t let the restaurant’s decor ______
get you ______ off – the food is really good.
6. It’s easy to ______
take Jane ______
for Jill as they look so alike.
7. Yesterday I ______ ______ an old friend whom I lost touch with for a long time.
ran across
8. He keeps ______
picking______
on me and I really don't know what I've done wrong.
9. I’m completely ______
done ______up after a day of hard work and I really need a rest.
10. Ted and Josh ______
fell ______
out when Ted disagreed with Josh's proposal for their new project.
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. There are TEN mistakes in the text below. UNDERLINE THE MISTAKES and WRITE THE CORRECTIONS on the
CORRESPONDING LINES in the box for answers. There is an example.
Answers
The deodorants, perfumes and soaps that keep us smelling well are 0. well  good
fouling the air with a harmful type of pollution — at levels as much as much
__________ high
 __________
emissions from today cars and trucks. __________  __________
today today's
__________  __________
__________  __________
__________  __________
 Researchers found that petroleum-based chemicals using in __________
using  __________
used
perfumes, paints and other consumer product can, taken together, product products
emit as much air pollution in the form of volatile organic __________  __________
compounds, and V.O.C.s, as motor vehicles do. __________
and  __________
or
__________  __________
The V.O.C.s interact with other particles in the air to create the __________  __________
building blocks of smog, namely ozone, which can trigger asthma and __________  __________
permanent scar the lungs, and the other type of pollution permanent permanently
known as PM2.5, fine particles that are linked to heart attacks, strokes __________  __________
and lung cancer. __________  __________
__________  __________
Smog is generally associated with cars, but in the 1970s __________
in  __________
since
regulators have pushed automakers to invest in technologies that __________  __________
have substantially reduced V.O.C. emissions from automobiles. So the
rising shares of air pollution caused by things as pesticides and hair shares share
products is partly an effect of cars getting cleaner.

IV. Use the word given in CAPITALS to form a word that fits in each space. Write your answers in the numbered
boxes for answers.

HANG SON DOONG, THE WORLD'S LARGEST CAVE

Located in the heart of the UNESCO-listed Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in
Vietnam's Quang Binh province, Hang Son Doong is one of the most (1)
__________ destinations that can be experienced in Southeast Asia. More people
captivating 1. CAPTIVITY
have stood on the summit of Mount Everest than have witnessed the (2)__________
surreal
beauty inside these enormous chambers. Translated as Mountain River Cave, it was 2. REAL
first discovered in 1990 by Ho Khanh, a local farmer who was seeking shelter from
a (3) __________
passing storm in the jungle. He noticed clouds and the sound of an 3. PASS
underground river gushing from a large hole in the limestone, and reported his (4)
__________
findings to the British Caving Research Association (BCRA), who were (5) 4. FIND
__________
stationed in Phong Nha at the time. Unfortunately Ho Khanh lost his bearings 5. STATION
during his return, and the exact location of the cave remained (6)__________
lost for
18 years. 6. LOSS

In 2008 while hunting for food he stumbled across the (7) __________
entrance again, and 7. ENTER
returned the following year with Howard and Deb Limbert from the BCRA. They
began the (8) exploration
__________ of the cave, and in 2010 determined it to be the largest 8. EXPLORE
ever discovered in terms of the size of its cross-section. The news shook the caving
world.
The eco-system inside Hang Son Doong is as unique as it is large, and it even has
its own (9) __________
localized weather system. Rare limestone cave pearls are scattered 9. LOCAL
in dried pools, and the largest stalagmite ever found stands 80 meters (262 feet)
tall. Collapsed ceilings have created (10) __________
openings known as dolines, allowing 10. OPEN
foliage to grow inside the cave.
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION C. READING
I. Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. Write your answers in the
numbered boxes for answers.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TECH ADDICTION

 Tech insiders are rallying against the companies and products they helped create.

Former employees at companies such as Google and Facebook are (1)______ for tech companies to rethink and
redesign addictive and intrusive tools under a new organization called Center for Humane Technology.

The Center for Humane Technology is partnering with nonprofit Common Sense on a campaign (2)_____ “Truth
About Tech”, which will serve to educate and inform consumers about the (3)_____ of current technology through
a consumer ad campaign, and outreach to 55,000 public schools in the U.S.

Researchers have found that screen time has had a negative (4)______ on happiness levels for teens and that
frequent use of smartphones, and apps like Facebook and Twitter can result in higher (5)______ of depression
and suicide.

In January, two Apple investors called on the tech giant to (6)______ an example about the obligations of
technology companies to their youngest customers and urged the company to develop more (7)______ parental
controls. Most recently, child development advocates have (8)______ with Facebook to discontinue its new
Messenger Kids app, targeted at 6 to 12 year olds who are, according to experts, not ready to use social media.

Truth About Tech is being (9)______ with $7 million from Common Sense and money raised from the Center for
Humane Technology. Companies such as Comcast and DirecTV have agreed to donate (10)______ to the ads.

1. A. pushing B. asking C. falling D. making

2. A. branded B. held C. dubbed D. known
3. A. dodges B. excuses C. loopholes D. pitfalls
4. A. impact B. impression C. implication D. imprint
5. A. dangers B. risks C. threats D. perils
6. A. take B. give C. set D. make
7. A. complex B. complicated C. sophisticated D. intricate
8. A. demanded B. pleaded C. appealed D. insisted
9. A. funded B. subsidized C. favoured D. sponsored
10. A. exposure B. coverage C. promotion D. airtime

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

II. Read the following passage and complete it by filling each blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers
in the numbered boxes for answers.

WHAT SHAPE TABLE?

Most of us only have room in the dining room for one table and shape is normally determined by convenience, but
the choice of shape is significant.

Round tables are democratic; no one is (1) __________

given precedence. For that reason politicians describe meetings
between representatives of different countries (2)__________
as ‘round table conferences’, fostering the pleasant
illusion that (3)__________
all nations are equal, even though, in George Orwell's famous phrase: ‘some are more
equal than others.’

however most tables are either square or oblong. This is partly for reasons of space, but
In restaurants, (4)__________,
also (5)__________
because they make the waiters' task of serving easier. Above all, bearing in (6)__________ the bill and
in particular the tip, they enable them to identify the host, preferably seated at the head of an oblong.
(7)__________
In Chinese, on the other hand, blending ancient philosophy with common sense, disapprove of sharp
edges, and consequently prefer round or oval tables.

Those (8)__________
who manufacture tables to order, catering (9)__________
for people who can afford a number,
suggest different ones for different (10)__________
ocassions - round tables for friendly gatherings, small oblongs for
business meetings, and for banquets with many people invited, long, narrow oblongs, encouraging them to
converse with the person opposite.

Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Read the text below.

CURRENT ACCOUNTS OF THE FATE OF THE PLANET
Steve Connor on a vast sea search for clues to climate

In their darker moments, climatologists talk about their own ‘nightmare scenario’. This is one where global warming
has brought about such significant climatic changes that ocean currents change direction. One scene from the
nightmare has the Gulf Stream moving south or even going into reverse, making winter in London look and feel
like a St Petersburg January.

The ocean is a great moderating influence on the planet, soaking up heat around the tropics and depositing it in
the cooler polar regions. Yet scientists know surprisingly little about how the sea does this - they estimate that the
North Atlantic alone moves energy equivalent to the output of several hundred million power stations.

Last year oceanographers began their biggest international research initiative to learn more about ocean circulation.
The first results from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment demonstrate just how complex the movement of sea
water can be. They have also given scientists a glimpse of the amount of heat being exchanged between the
oceans and the atmosphere. As part of the experiment, researchers are monitoring the speed and direction of
ocean currents, water temperature and salinity.
Research ships taking part will gather detailed measurements at 24,000 points or ‘stations’ along carefully
designated trans-ocean routes. This undertaking dwarfs the 8,000 hydrographic stations created in the past
hundred years of ocean surveying. A fleet of ships, buoys, seabed sensors and satellites will collect so much data
that Britain, one of the 40 countries taking part, has opened a research institute, the James Rennell Centre for
Ocean Circulation in Southampton, to process them.

One of the justifications for the experiment, says John Woods, director of marine and atmospheric sciences at the
Natural Environment Research Council, is that the oceans hold the key to understanding long-term changes in the
global climate. The Earth has two ‘envelopes’ - the ocean, consisting of slowly circulating water, and the
atmosphere, made of fast-moving air. Far from being independent, they interact, one modifying the other until a
balance is reached between them. The present balance came about at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000
years ago. Scientists hope that knowing more about the ocean's "weather patterns" will help them to predict
climate changes further ahead.

Knowing how heat is moved around the ocean is crucial to such long-term forecasting. The top three metres of
the ocean store more heat than all of the atmosphere. Some of the heat can be transported downward between
30 metres and several thousand metres. The deeper it goes, the longer it stays out of the atmosphere. Water
heated in the equatorial region flows in shallow currents north or south towards the poles, where it releases its
heat to the air and, as it becomes colder and denser, sinks to the sea floor, where it forms deep, cold currents that
flow back to the equator.

John Gould, one of the British scientists taking part in the ocean circulation experiment, is discovering just how
this occurs in the North Atlantic. Shallow currents, less than 500m deep, of warm water at about 8°C flow from
the Atlantic into the Norwegian Sea, mainly along a path that follows the point where the continental shelf ends
and the deep mid-ocean valleys begin. Meanwhile, at depths down to 5,000m, deep currents of cold water at about
minus 1°C flow south into the Atlantic along the deep ocean valleys. (Salt water at this depth does not freeze at
0°C.)

Sensors positioned on the seabed have given Dr Gould and his researchers an accurate assessment of just how
much cold water is flowing back into the North Atlantic having given up its heat to the atmosphere over northwest
Europe. In total, he estimates, about 5 million cubic metres of water per second flows in these deep currents
between Greenland and the British Isles. This means the warm water of the North Atlantic must be giving up about
200 million megawatts of energy to the atmosphere over northwest Europe. '

Research at the other end of the world, in the seas around Antarctica, is also finding that seafloor topography
plays a crucial role in determining the direction of ocean currents. In the past, oceanographers have assumed, for
instance, that surface currents such as the Gulf Stream do not extend much beyond a kilometre in depth. But an
analysis of currents in Antarctic waters has shown that currents are not concentrated in the top kilometre, but
reach down to the submerged mountain ranges.

Dr Woods believes such research will help to save lives. "More deaths can be prevented by ocean forecasting than
by weather forecasting, and our economic and social well-being are more vulnerable to change in the ocean than
in the atmosphere."

Choose the answer A, B, C, or D which fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the numbered boxes
for answers.

1. Some scientists believe that global warming could

A. modify ocean currents.
B. change wind directions in the polar regions.
C. reduce the influence of currents.
D. increase wind speeds.
2. The first results have already confirmed
A. that heat is stocked at great depths.
B. that the last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.
C. the complexity of ocean currents.
D. that Gulf Stream currents are situated in the surface layer of water.
3. Heat is transferred from the tropics to the poles
A. in the surface currents.
B. in the atmosphere.
C. in the deep currents.
D. along the seabed.
4. The atmosphere and the ocean
A. influence the climate independently.
B. interact and create a global climatic balance.
C. have no effect on the climate.
D. have only modified the climate since the last Ice Age.
5. Why is this research considered to be of great importance?
A. It will enable scientists of the future to prevent extreme climatic changes.
B. It will help scientists predict climate changes.
C. It unites a large number of different countries.
D. It will help dissipate the climatologists’ ‘nightmare scenario’.

Complete this summary with words taken from the text above . Use NO MORE THAN TWO words for each gap.
Write your answers in the numbered boxes for answers.

Scientists believe that oceans play a vital role in global climate regulation. In a big international ocean (6)
__________ project, scientists are collecting vast amounts of data in the 24,000 different stations placed on
circulation
strategic ocean routes. The first available results from the North Altlantic show that shallow, warm currents follow
the edge of the continental shelf and the deep, cold currents follow along the ocean (7) __________
valleys at depths of
around 5,000m. These currents tranfer enormous quantities of (8) __________
heat to the North Atlantic. Research in
Antarctic has found that (9) __________
seafloor is vital in determining the (10) __________
direction of the ocean currents.
topography
Answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

SECTION D. WRITING
I. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the original one.
1. The wind was so strong that we could hardly move.
a strong wind that we could hardly move
 Such ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… .
2. I only noticed that my glass was broken when I filled it.
 Only ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
when I filled my glass did i notice that it was broken .
3. I didn’t realize how much his brother had an influence on him.
 I didn’t realize the extent …………………………………………………………………………………
to which he was influenced by his brother .
4. Melvin bought the car that his friend recommended him to.
 Melvin bought the car on …………………………………………………………………………………
the recommendation of his friend .
5. If it hadn’t rained, the farmers could have lost all of their crops.
 But ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
for the rain, the farmer could have lost all of their crops .

II. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it is closest in meaning to the one printed before
it. Use the word given. Do not alter the word given in any way.
1. Public pay phones have almost disappeared in most major cities. BUT
 Public pay phones ……………………………………………………………………
have all but disappeared in most major cities.
2. None of us expected to have a test this morning. BLUE
out of the blue this morning
 This morning's test came……………………………………………………………… .
3. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that. TIME
the time that I have made stupid mistakes like that
 Many's …………………………………………………………………………………… .

4. Our children are crazy about Korean singers. HEAD

 Our children are ……………………………………………………………………
head over heals in love with Korean singers.
5. He was shouting as loud as he could. TOP
 He was ………………………………………………………………………………..….
shouting at the top of his voice.