I have two brothers. _______ names are Phil and Roger.

A: Where is your house?B: It is _______ Manchester.

How old are you?

I can’t _______ French.

_______ four books in my bag.

A: What is she doing now?

He is _______ football player.

How _______ pens do you want?

Jack: Hello Jane. _______ is Fred.Jane: Nice to meet you, Fred.

A: _______ does your mother work?B: In a bank.

A: Look! It is snowing.B: Yes. Don’t open the window, please. It is very _______.

That is _______. It is very big.

Her brother _______ jazz music.

My mother has two sisters. They are my _______.

She isn’t _______ her friend.

I _______ still in bed when she called me.

What time _______ you go to school yesterday?

I took this photo three years _______.

Hannah is _______ hardworking person in our office.

I _______ a new pair of shoes last weekend.

We _______ when the doorbell rang.

She never speaks to other students in class. She is very _______.

Henry is _______ fashion.

Jennifer and I _______ to meet tomorrow morning

Have you ever _______ to Spain?

She _______ in Rome all her life. She is 80 years old now.

He had a car accident _______ his holiday in France.

Jane doesn’t speak English fluently_______ she studied biology in the UK.

I have visited London, Bristol, Manchester and many _______ cities in the UK.

The payments _______ next Wednesday.

A: Your friend Jack is waiting for you in front of the house.B: He _______ Jack. It is impossible. He flew to New York this morning.

I won’t lend you that money _______ you promise to give it back in a week.

I _______ since morning. I am so tired now.

I _______ to work, but now I take the bus.

If we lived in Germany, our kids _______ German very well.

Do you remember the restaurant _______ we met for the first time?

You are 40 years old, _______?

I hate doing the ironing, but I _______ cleaning the house.

I am looking forward _______ from you.

I don’t remember how long we _______ each other when we decided to get married.

I hate _______ to do the chores. Why do they always want me to do so?

_______ Jack _______ Natalie need new costumes for the party.

I can’t find my umbrella. I_______ it on the bus.

I think I _______ dinner by the time you arrive. We will eat together.

It looked _______ it had been raining all night.

LISTENING 1:   Listen to the answer phone message from a travel agency. Make notes on the pad about the message. Do not use more than three words for each note. The first one has been done for you.

Message Pad

Message  from _____ Apex Travel _________(0)

Reason for call: (1)

New flight departure date: (2)

New departure time: (3)

New flight number: (4)

Extra cost: (5)

LISTENING 2:   Listen to the lecture about Diets and write TRUE or FALSE in uppercase. 

6. C.D.C stands for the Centre of Disease Control.
7. 23% of the people in the world suffer from obesity.
8. You can benefit from the three diets if you do them temporarily.
9. The Mediterranean diet does not include any type of fat.
10. The Mediterranean diet tastes delicious.
11. The Best Life diet includes grains, vegetables and low-fat meats.
12. In the Best Life diet, changes in exercise and diet should be done step by step.
13. According to the Traffic Light diet, broccoli is a good example of a “red” food.
14. The idea of the three diets is to make changes in your food habits and way of life.

LISTENING 3:   Listen to a politician talking about a new project called Workfare. Choose the correct answers.

15. There are _____ people who have never worked.

16. Which of the following is NOT given by Workfare to the unemployed?

18. Some people are concerned about Welfare because they think ________.

19. The unpaid work will be ________ .

20. From April, the unemployed people who refuse to go on training courses will ______ .

PART 2 READING

Reading 1: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

                                                           Let Your Body Talk

1          When interviewing for a new job, you might think that if you are the candidate with the best answers to the interview questions, you’ll get the job. However, giving great answers is just one aspect of a successful interview. Sometimes your nonverbal communication, or body language, can make the difference between getting your dream job or not.

2          Experts say that body language can count for as much as 55% of the force of an answer. This means that nonverbal communication is as important, or possibly even more important, than verbal communication. And remember, nonverbal communication starts the moment you walk into a company’s lobby. If your nonverbal communication makes a bad impression from the start, it won’t matter how well you answer the interview questions.

3          To make sure you make a good impression and stand out in an interview, there are a few simple rules. Follow these, and you’ll have a head start on your competition.

4          First, be sure to relax and make eye contact naturally with the interviewer. Smile and nod at appropriate times when the interviewer is talking—but don’t overdo it. Keep it natural.

5          Be sure to keep your feet on the floor, sit up straight, and lean a little towards the interviewer to show that you are interested and engaged in the interview. Never lean back. You will look too casual and seem like you are not keen on the interview.

6          Not sure what to do with your hands? Try your best not to move your hands too much. Hold a pen and a notebook, or relax your hands on your lap, or on the arms of your chair. Make sure to stay calm, and don’t move around anymore than is natural.

7          Of course, your verbal responses to questions are also important. Be sure to be polite. Always speak clearly. Don’t use slang, don’t interrupt, and don’t laugh unless the interviewer does first. Listen carefully and try to answer questions honestly and in a positive way. At the end of the interview, be sure to thank the interviewer for taking time to meet with you. Make a good first impression when you begin, and leave with a good impression as well.

8          When practicing for an interview, work on your nonverbal communication, as well as your other skills. It might just be the factor that gets you the job.

22. The reading passage is mainly about _____.

23. In paragraph 3, the phrase “a head start” could be replaced with _____.

24. Which of the following tells the interviewer you’re NOT interested in what he/she is saying?

25. What is one thing you should NOT do with your hands during an interview?

26. According to the passage, it’s OK to laugh _____.

27. At the end of the interview, you should _____.

28. This passage was probably written for _____.

Reading 2: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

                                                           Women in Business

1          Until recently, most American entrepreneurs were men. Discrimination against women in business, the demands of caring for families and lack of business training had kept the number of women entrepreneurs small. Now, however, businesses owned by women account for more than $40 billion in annual revenues, and this figure is likely to continue rising throughout the 1990s. As Carolyn Doppelt Gray, an official of the Small Business Association, has noted: "The 1970s was the decade of women entering management and the 1980s turned out to be the decade of the woman entrepreneur."

2          What are some of the factors behind this trend? For one thing, as more women earn advanced degrees in business and enter the corporate world, they are finding obstacles. Women are still excluded from most executive suites. Charlotte Taylor, a management consultant, has noted: "In the 1970s, women believed that if they got an MBA and worked hard, they could become chairman of the board. Now, they've found out that isn't going to happen, so they go out on their own."

3          In the past, most women entrepreneurs worked in "women's fields" such as, cosmetics and clothing, but this is changing. Consider ASK Computer Systems, a $22-million-a-year software business. Sandra Kurtzig, who was then a housewife with degrees in maths and engineering, founded it in 1973. When Kurtzig started the business, her first product was software that let weekly newspapers keep track of their newspaper carriers - and her office was a bedroom, with a shoebox under the bed to hold the company's cash. After she succeeded with the newspaper software system, she hired several bright computer-science graduates to develop additional programs. When these were marketed and sold, ASK began to grow. It now has 200 employees, and Sandra Kurtzig owns $6.9 million of stock.

4          Of course, many women who start their own businesses fail, just as men often do. They still face obstacles in the business world, especially problems in raising money because the banking and finance world are still dominated by men, and old attitudes die hard. Most businesses owned by women are still quite small, but the situation is changing; there are likely to be more Sandra Kurtzigs in the years ahead.

29.  All of the following are mentioned in the text as problems that women faced in the past EXCEPT that women _________.

30. According to the passage ___________ were the golden age for female entrepreneurs.

31. The phrase “this trend” in paragraph. 2 refers to the fact that ___________.

32. The word “this” in paragraph 3 refers to the fact that ___________.

33.  In paragraph 4, the word “obstacles” can best be replaced by__________.

34.  It is understood from the text that women still have problems in getting money from banks to finance their businesses because ______________.

35.  What is the main idea of this passage?

Reading 3: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

                                                           WHAT’S IN A NAME

1. Creap coffee creamer is a big seller in Japan, and Bimbo bread is extremely popular in Mexico, but people in English-speaking countries would be unlikely to buy these products. Why? Because their names have unfortunate meanings in English. As companies go global, it is becoming increasingly important to find brand names that can travel from country to country.
2. According to Bridget Ruffell, a director of The Brand Naming Co., which specializes in creating brand names for clients, finding the right name for an international brand is expensive, time-consuming and full of difficulties. In addition to the problems of meaning and pronunciation, all names have to be legally registered, which involves long and expensive searches to make sure that they have not already been taken by another company.
3. Finding the right product name and avoiding the wrong ones is so important that The Brand Naming Co. has created a “black museum” of products with names that make them virtually unsellable in English-speaking countries. For instance, there’s “Nuclear”, a brand of clothes whitener in Spain. The Brand Naming Co. also cautioned about a Turkish cookie called “Bum” and a Mexican beer called “Nude”, although consumers in Ankara and Mexico City told they had never heard of those products.
4. Companies from English-speaking countries that want to sell their products in non-English-speaking countries also have a lot of problems finding good product names. The sounds R and L, for instance, are often confused among some speakers of Asian languages. Jonathan Mercer, managing director of Brand Guardians, a firm that specializes in creating brand names, said companies have to be careful to avoid names with unsuitable meanings.
5. One of the most famous stories about a brand-naming problem involves an American car. The marketing department of Chevrolet decided to name their new car “Nova”. They thought that they’d found a good name. “Nova” means “star” in Latin. However, in Spanish, the two words no va mean “doesn’t go”, which is not a very good name for a car.
6. There is more than one way to find a name for a new product. Sometimes, to avoid the problems that choosing a real word might cause, companies actually make up a word that (they hope) does not exist in any language. One very successful made up name is “Kodak”. It was chosen because it is pronounceable by people who speak many different languages. However, even when a company invents a name, it can still have name problems. For example, a number of years ago, Esso Oil Company wanted a new name for their gasoline that would be acceptable all over the world. After spending a lot of time and even more money, they came up with “Exxon”. Unfortunately, it didn’t work well in Japan. The Japanese pronounce it “Eki-son”, which sounds like the Japanese phrase meaning “loss of profit”.
7. It can take a long time to find the right name for a new product. First, a company recruits a group of creative people to brainstorm a list of possible names. This list may have as many as 100 names on it. Then they often ask consumers to choose the names that they like the best. This technique can have surprising results. A few years ago a French publishing company was going to publish a new series of English-Language text books. Until they could think of a name for the series, they called it “Method Orange” (like calling a product “Brand X). When the publishers sent their list of possible names to consumers, one of them added this name to the list. To everyone’s surprise, it was the most popular name chosen by the consumers, and the series “Method Orange” was born.
8. When a company has found a name that consumers seem to like, the naming process is still not over. They must then research the name to make sure that it is not the name of another product. They usually choose the best three or four names so that they can be certain of finding one that works. This research takes a long time because each name must be researched in every country. For example, if you wanted to name a laundry detergent “Fresh”, in addition to searching the names of laundry soap in each country, you would also have to look at the names of other types of products that you think might have that name. A search can cost $500 per name per country.

36. “Black museum” mentioned in paragraph 3 is probably …

37. Which of the following brand names does not have a good meaning in English?

38. The example of the brand name “Exxon”, which was invented by Esso Oil Company, shows that …

39. Which of the following is NOT one of the steps that companies go through to name a product?

40. We can infer from paragraph 7 that ______ .

41. “recruit” in paragraph 7 probably means…

42. What is the main idea of this text?

Part 3 WRITING

Task 1

You have received this email:

Thank you very much for inviting me for a job interview on 18th May.

I regret to inform you that I will not be able to make it as my present job does not finish until 19th May. However, I will be available for interview at any time from the 20th. I would be very pleased if you could arrange an interview on another date.

Could you please inform me if I need anything to do to prepare for the interview or that I should bring on the date of the interview?

Yours sincerely

John Kennan.

Write an email replying to John Kennan, including relevant information:

-Suggest another date for the interview.

-Ask him to prepare a short presentation on his future career

-Ask him to bring copy of his CV

You should write between 70 and 80 words. You have 25 minutes for this task.

Task 2. Write an essay about the following topic. Give reasons for your answer and include relevant details to support your opinion. Write between 250-300 words. You have 50 minutes for this task.

As well as making money, businesses also have a responsibility towards society. To what extent do you agree or disagree