1. Your face looks red. You’ve really caught the sun, haven’t you?. ​ A. caught 2.At first Tom insisted he was right, but then began to back down. A. down 3. The strike was called off owing to a last-minute agreement with the management. B. called off 4. Actually any other politician would have given way to this sort of pressure years ago. C. Actually 5. I know you have been working very hard today. Let’s call it a day and go home. B. call it a day 6. Buying shares in this company is as safe as houses . There’s no way you can lose your money. A. houses 7. On seeing they both turn their heads in his direction, he knew they were interested. B. On seeing they both turn 8. When he examined the gun, the detective’s suspicion turned into certainty . A. certainty 9. I usually buy my clothes off the peg . It’s cheaper than going to the dressmaker. B.off the peg 10.My father hit the roof when he found out that I had damaged his car. D.hit the roof 11.I was in a quandary as to what to say. A.as to 12.We’ll have to take what he says on trust . A.trust 13.All building work must be carried out in compliance with safety regulations.. C.in compliance with 14.The rents in this area are far and away the highest in the city. C.far and away 15.General Custer was confident of victory despite being vastly outnumbered by the enemy. A.outnumbered 16.This painting stands a good chance of winning a prize D.chance 17.When the Chairman ran off with his secretary, the Board tried to hush up the matter. B.hush up 18.For most male spiders courtship is a perilous procedure, for they may be eaten by females. C.dangerous 19.It must be true. I heard it straight from the horse's mouth.​ B.horse's 20.It was some time before she came to grips with the fact that she had lost.​ C.grips Section 2. Use the correct form of the words in the brackets 1. Some skeptical (OCCUPY) commentators poured scorn on this decision, claiming that an actor would not have the right credentials to present an arts programme on TV. 2. There was ice on the pavement which made it very difficult to walk as it was so slippery (SLIP)​​​​​​​ ​ 3. The first time I tried out my new bike I lost balance (BALANCE) and fell off. 4. How can you justify (JUST) the fact that some people live in mansions while others live in slums? ​​​​​​ ​ 5. Men are less likely to suffer phobia than women, but attempts by either men or women simply to disregard (REGARD) them can exacerbate the problem. 6. The car in front was going very slowly, so John overtook (TAKE)it​. 7. In fact, those who practise meditation with any regularity (REGULAR) see their doctors less and spend, on average, seventy per cent fewer days in hospital. 8. There’s been yet another outbreak (BREAK) of cholera in Delhi​. 9. Sarah stood there completely expressionless (EXPRESS), so I had no idea at all what she was thinking 10.The upper layers of Earth’s oceans have cooled significantly (SIGNIFY) over the past two years, even though the planet as a whole is warming up. Section 3: Find the mistakes in the passage and correct them When constructing eco-friendly homes, builders allocate specific types of energy-efficient resources to specific areas of the home. For instance, it is common to affix single or double panels to the tops of hot water heaters to absorb solar energy and provide a cost-effective, continual, renewable power source. These types of hot water heaters are inexpensive to install and unobtrusive to the eye. In the case of wind power, it is neither attractive nor particularly efficient to erect a towering turbine next to a single home; rather, it is built in an area where it can power several homes at once. Furthermore, where homebuilders position their homes influences their energy efficiency. A home with south-facing windows will absorb the natural radiation from the sun, thus heating the home without using any energy-producing device. And builders line homes with the best forms of insulation so that any energy used to heat a home, whether it is natural or from electricity transmitting through the grid, will not easily escape from it. Language is thought to be a mechanism for transmitting information within thoughts. One experiment used to demonstrate this idea requires subjects to listen to a short passage of several sentences, then repeat the passage. Most people will accurately convey the gist of the passage in the sentences they produce but will not come close to repeating the sentences verbatim. It appears that two transformations are occurring. Upon hearing the passage, the subjects convert the language of the passage into a more abstract representation of its meaning which is more easily stored within memory. Then in order to recreate the passage, the subject recalls this representation and converts its meaning back into language. This separation of thought and language is less intuitive than it might be because languages can be a powerful tool with which to manipulate thoughts. It provides a mechanism to internally rehearse, critique, and modify thoughts. This internal form of communication is essential for a social animal and could certainly be in part responsible for the strong selective pressures for improved language use. 1. A. indication 2. A. requires 3. C. gist 4. A. transformations 5. D. retrieved 6. D.recalls 7. C.tool 8. B.modify 9.C .essential 10.C.for