Look at the pictures below. What do they make you think of?

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Here are some suggestions:

- What can you see in each picture?

- What changes in society can you see when comparing the two pictures? (Compare and give detailed examples)

- What do you think about the changes?

Write the information in brackets as a relative clause (defining or non-defining) in an appropriate place in the sentence.

1. Julia's father has just come back from a skiing holiday. (he is over 80) → e.g. Julia's father, who is over 80, has just come back from a skiing holiday.

2. The problems faced by the company are being resolved. (I'll look at these in detail in a moment.)

3. She was greatly influenced by her father. (she adored him)

4. Parents are being asked to take part in the survey. (their children are between four or six)

5. He isn't looking forward to the time. (he will have to leave at that time)

6. The Roman coins are now on display in the National Museum. (a local farmer came across them in a field)

7. He pointed to the stairs. (they led down to the cellar)

8. These drugs have been withdrawn from sale. (they are used to treat stomach ulcers)

9. The singer had to cancel her concert. (she was recovering from flu)

10. We went to the Riverside Restaurant. (I once had lunch with Henry there)

11. My aunt is now a manager of a department store. (her first job was filling shelves in a supermarket).

12. John Graham's latest film is his first for more than five years. (the film is set in the north of Australia)

13. The newspaper is owned by the Mears group. (its chairperson is Sir James Bex)

14. The Master's course is no longer taught. (I took this course in 1990)

15. The minister talked about the plans for tax reform. (he will reveal them next month)

Use a relative pronoun to combine each pair of sentences. Put in the commas where necessary.

1. Ann is very friendly. She lives next door.

2. The man is a famous actor. You met him at the party last night.

3. There are some words. They are very difficult to translate.

4. The sun provides us with heat and light. It is one of millions of stars in the universe.

5. Students will be punished. Their homework is late.

6. I was looking for a book this morning. I've found it now.

7. Is that the car? You want to buy it.

8. Sandra works in advertising. You were talking to her.

9. Lake Prespa is a lonely beautiful lake. It's on the north Greek border.

10. The little girl ate sweets the whole way. She sat next to me on the coach.

[1-10] Fill each blank with a suitable word to complete the passage.

Many countries regard income first and foremost (1) _____ the primary means of determining their success in (2) _____ with other country. The measure divides the value of a country’s annual production (3) _____ the number of people resident in the country. In 1998, however, the King of Bhutan announced that in the future his nation’s main measure of success would be happiness (4) ____ than income. He did this with a (5) _____ to showing the world that money does not (6) _____ happiness.

A year later, the King had the fateful decision to allow television into his country. Until then, it had been banned, as (7) _____ all forms of advertising. But in 1999, TV sets began to be imported into the country and, as a result, people started to spend a lot of time watching television programmes. Around the (8) _____ time, children began fighting more, crime (9) _____ and more (10) _____ couples separated or divorced.

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[1-5] Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it.

Question 1: Tom didn't celebrate until he received the job offer in writing.

=> Not until___________________________________________________.

Question 2: The number of students applying to this university has increased by 10 %.

=> There______________________________________________________.

Question 3: They believe that the manager absconded with the company's pension fund money.

=> The manager________________________________________________.

Question 4: You pay $ 20 a month for a period of one year.

=> You pay in__________________________________________________.

Question 5: It wasn't necessary for you to go to so much trouble on my behalf.

=> You needn't_________________________________________________.

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[1-10] Read the text below and decide which answers best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example: (0):D

Early Speech Development

If you're the proud parents of a toddler or preschooler, you are probably (0) ______ of the (1)______ of speech development. It seems almost as though virtually overnight those heart-warming gurgles and coos have (2) _________ into words and, later, into coherent sentences. According to recent research, language development begins much sooner than any of us had ever suspected. It is now (3) ________ believed that babies can hear while they are in the womb and this explains why babies that are only hours old can distinguish between their own mother's voice and the voices of other women.

Language development is grounded in imitation. Babies (4)_________ language by listening to those around them and then copying the sounds and speech (5) __________ that they are exposed to. Most child psychologists are of the (6) _________ that babies respond better to "baby talk" - speech that is (7) ________ pitched and melodious. They stress, however, that baby talk should be spoken in (8) _______ and that a combination of baby talk and normal conversation is the ideal way to promote language development. Some parents worry that their toddler is (9) _________ behind its peers when it comes to speech development. Experts are quick to advise them, however, that these (10) _______ starters will gradually catch up with their more communicative counterparts.

Example 0:      A. acquainted         B. familiar       C. attentive          D. aware

Question 1.    A. miracle               B. sensation    C. revelation    D. marvel

Question 2.    A. converted           B. switched     C. turned          D. adapted

Question 3.    A. mutually             B. routinely      C. normally      D. commonly

Question 4.   A. obtain                 B. get               C. gain             D. acquire

Question 5.   A. schemes            B. patterns       C. models         D. designs

Question 6.   A. idea                    B. mind            C. concept        D. notion

Question 7.   A. high                    B. strong          C. shrill             D. loud

Question 8.   A. moderation        B. limitation      C. restraint        D. measure

Question 9.   A. lagging               B. lingering      C. loitering        D. dallying

Question 10. A. late                     B. belated        C. delayed        D. slowed

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[1-10] Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

Question 1: __________, all the students couldn’t do it well.

A. Giving the test at short notice

B. The teacher gave the test at short notice

C. At short notice did the teacher give the test

D. The teacher giving the test at short notice

Question 2: Jane promised _______ me up at 5 o’clock.

A. me to pick                                                  B. me that she would pick

C. to me that she would pick                          D. to me to pick

Question 3: Jane: Which one can I have? - Anne: Take your _______, mate. It’s first-come, first-served.

A. choice                     B. pick                       C. pluck                   D. vote

Question 4: I think you’re being _____ pessimistic.

A. worthlessly             B. unduly                    C. undeservedly     D. abundantly

Question 5: The _______ of Cat Tien National Park includes 105 listed mammal species, 351 species of birds, over 120 reptile and amphibian species and over 130 species of freshwater fish.

A. species                   B. creatures                C. flora                   D. fauna

Question 6: We must prepare for the attack. Every ______ counts.

A. second                    B.hour                         C. day                    D. minute

Question 7: Miss McCrea was ______ anyone could have had. She never lost her temper with even the stupidest pupils.

A. as patient teacher as                                   B. so patient teacher as

C. as patient a teacher as                                D. so patient a teacher as

Question 8: Once the story ______ the headlines, everyone was talking about it.

A. smashed                 B. hit                           C. crashed                 D. struck

Question 9: The clown was wearing a ______ wig and a red nose.

A. red funny plastic French                            B. French funny plastic red

C. funny red French plastic                            D. red French plastic funny

Question 10: Hillary was an effective speaker and her audience seemed to ______ on her every word.

A. hang                       B. cling                       C. hold                    D. catch

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[1-10] Use the word given in brackets to form a word that fits in the gap. 

The first one has been done as an example (0).

Example: (0). PROJECTIONS/ projections

Today, population growth largely means urban population growth. United Nation (UN) (0. PROJECT)____ show the world’s rural population has already stopped growing, but the world can expect to add close to 1.5 billion (1. URBAN)____ in the next 15 years, and 3 billion by 2050. How the world meets the challenge of sustainable development will be (2. INTIMACY)___ tied to this process.

For many people, cities represent a world of new opportunities, including jobs. There is a powerful link between urbanization and economic growth. Around the world, tows and cities are responsible for over 80 per cent of the gross national product. While urban poverty is growing around the world, this is largely because many people – including the poor – are moving to urban areas.

The opportunities there extend beyond just jobs. Cities also offer greater opportunities for (3. SOCIETY)____ mobilization and women’s empowerment. Many young people, especially young women, regard the move to cities as an opportunity to escape traditional patriarchy and experience new freedoms. Urban areas also offer greater access to education and health services, including sexual and reproductive health care, further (4. PROMOTE)____ women’s empowerment and the realization of their reproductive right. This contributes to significantly reduces (5. FERTILE)___ in urban areas changing the trajectory of overall population growth.

This process, which is particularly (6. PRONUNCIATION)____ in Africa and Asia, where much of the world’s population growth is taking place, is also an enormous opportunity for sustainability if the right policies are put in place. Urban living has the potential to use resources more (7. EFFICIENCY)___, to create more sustainable land use and to protect the (8. DIVERSE) ____ of natural ecosystems.

Still, the face of (9. EQUAL)___ is increasingly an urban one. Too many urban residents grapple with extreme poverty, (10. EXCLUDE)_____, vulnerability and marginalization.

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Read the following article about how to be environmentally friendly and decide in which paragraph (A - E) the following are mentioned. Write your answer (A, B, C, D, or E). Write one letter for each answer. The paragraphs may be chosen more than once.

A. FAIR TRADE

Farmers in developing countries are some of the most vulnerable people on earth, prey to world commodity markets, middlemen and the weather. So-called “fair trade” arrangements guarantee co-operative groups a price above the world market and a bonus on top. The growing fair-trade market has distributed hundreds of millions of pounds to more than 50 million people worldwide. But critics say that fair trade will never lift a country out of poverty; indeed, it may keep it there, because the money generated from the sale goes almost in its entirety to rich countries which promote the products. As a simple guide, only about 5% of the sale price of a fair-trade chocolate bar may actually go to a poor country.

B. ORGANIC FOOD

For food to be organic it must be free of added chemicals, both in the growing of the food and in the killing of the pests that might damage the crop. In a world where many manufactured chemicals have never been properly tested for safety, this is a very big selling point. Parents are thus prepared to pay a premium for organic food, especially when chemicals suspected of causing a variety of problems have been found, albeit in tiny quantities, in most children’s blood. The problem is that many farmers have not switched to organic in sufficient numbers to satisfy this growing market. As a result, supermarkets are often forced to fly vegetables as they can label “organic” halfway around the world, at a great cost to the planet in extra greenhouse gases. Environmentalists are now urging shoppers to buy locally produced vegetables, even if they are not organic and have been sprayed with pesticides.

C. RECYCLING

A great shift has taken place in the way we think about rubbish. Where once we were happy to bury it in landfills or dump it at sea, we are now being urged by national and local governments to recycle it and think of waste as a resource. The wheelie-bin culture is being replaced by a series of kerbside collections for paper, metals, plastic, bottles, clothes and compost. The idea is to cut landfill as well as saving the planet. It is, however, having some unexpected consequences. Most of Britain's plastic and paper is now being sent for recycling in China or India, which creates more greenhouse gases just to get it there, plus workers then have to separate it. Meanwhile, some paper and bottles carefully sorted out by householders end up being dumped in landfills after all, because the demand for recycled materials constantly fluctuates.

D. BEING CARBON NEUTRAL

If you want to make yourself feel better about the planet, there are lots for you to ease your conscience by becoming “carbon neutral”. One of the most appealing methods is to pay for someone to plant trees, preferably creating or regenerating new forests. The theory is that trees grow by absorbing carbon dioxide and giving out oxygen storing the carbon in their trunks. But woods and forests create their own mini-climate, which collects and stores water and creates rainclouds. Added to this, there is the potential problem that planting trees often releases carbon stored in the soil – and what happens if the forests catch fire, or are chopped down and harvested for timber? Another and perhaps better solution might be to invest in small-scale hydro-electric schemes, so that people who live in the Himalayas, for example, and currently do not have electricity, can develop a 21st-century lifestyle without polluting the planet.

E. ECO-TOURISM

The idea of “green” tourism is to persuade local people not to chop down forests, shoot elephants or wipe out tigers, but to preserve them so rich tourists visit and peer at the wildlife through binoculars. Unfortunately, the best money is made from reintroducing animals for trophy hunting by the very rich- an idea which does not always meet with approval and has caused much debate. While tourists may help sustain some national parks, they often create as many problems as they solve. One is that they tend to demand all mod cons in their hotels, such as a great deal of water for showers; a luxury sometimes not available for locals. Eco-tourism, when properly managed, can offer the locals and the animals a brighter future. Sometimes, though, the only winners are a few business people who own hotels.

In which section is the following mentioned?

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[1-5] Choose the word whose primary stress is placed differently from that of the others.

Question 1: A. respond           B. vacate            C. comprise          D. forecast

Question 2: A. conclusive       B. provincial        C. parental           D. ultimate

Question 3: A. compromise    B. decorate          C. determine       D. constitute

Question 4: A. exponential     B. executive         C. explanatory    D. exemplary

Question 5: A. diligence         B. religion             C. slavery           D. rivalry

[6-10] Choose the word whose in bold part is pronounced differently from that of the other.

Question 6: A. charcoal        B. cholera             C. chemistry     D. charisma

Question 7: A. sewage          B. teenage            C. image           D. advantage

Question 8: A. elaborate       B. apostrophe       C. economic     D. catastrophe

Question 9: A. complained    B. hatred               C. naked           D. ragged

Question 10:A. drought         B. dough               C. mould           D. though

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