AKADEMIA ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKA IM. JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO W KIELCACH
ZAKŁAD NEOFILOLOGII
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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
FULL-TIME COURSE
5thSeptember 2005
This examination consists of the following parts:
written part SCORING
1. Definitions .................................................................... 10 points
2. Multiple Choice Questions............................................... 20 points
3. Cloze............................................................................. 20 points
4. Paraphrasing.................................................................. 20 points
5. Word Building ............................................................... 20 points
6. Translation (Polish to English).......................................... 20 points
7. Reading Comprehension ................................................. 10 points
8. Error Recognition............................................................ 10 points
9. Phrasal Verbs............................................................... 10 points
10. General Knowledge Component...................................... 10 points
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150 points
oral part: .............................................................................. 50 points
Total: 200 points
TIMING: 3 hours. .
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Write only on the answer sheets you are provided with.
1. DEFINITIONS
Choose the correct definition of each word in bold. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
NOTE: Only one answer is correct in each case.
EXAMPLE:
0. The computer is.
a piece of equipment that you speak into to record your voice or make it louder when you are speaking
a piece of electronic equipment which you use to listen to programmes that are broadcast, such as music and news
an electronic machine that can store information and do things with it according to a set of instructions called a programme
1. If something is done deliberately it is done
intentionally
carelessly
indifferently
2.To abandon somebody means to
a) adore somebody
b) employ somebody
c) leave somebody
3.”The pub was frequented by young people” means that
a) it was often visited by them
b) it was often criticised by them
c) it was often vandalised by them
4.The dawn of a civilization is
a) its beginning
b) its peak
c) its end
5.If a species is threatened it is
a) domesticated
b) endangered
c) interesting
6. An illiterate person
a) is not interested in literature
b) cannot read or write
c) hates writing letters
7.If somebody is a gatecrasher they
a) come uninvited to parties
b) behave in a ruthless and brutal way
c) have innovative ideas
8. Flammable substances are the ones which
a) can preserve heat easily
b) can change colour
c) can catch fire easily
9. “She was tired but she was too well-bred to ask her visitors to leave” means that
a) she was too polite
b) she was too shy
c) she was too hungry
10. If somebody is tight-fisted they are
a) willing to work hard
b) unwilling to spend money
c) likely to cause trouble
2. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Four phrases are printed after each of these incomplete sentences. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0. The suspected murderer has been ... for three days now, but the police are doing their best to catch him.
a) on the level b) in the know c) at large d) the tip of the iceberg
1.The professor insisted on ... the lecture at nine sharp.
beginning b) we begin c) to begin d) begun
2. Janet was ... from her first job because she kept taking days off.
a) retired b) discharged c) released d) dismissed
3. Look out! That tree ... .
a) will fall b) will be falling c) is going to fall d) will have fallen
4. I hate soap operas. I wish there ... fewer of them on TV.
a) had been b) are c) will be d) were
5. This car is very … - it consumes very little petrol.
a) economic b) economical c) efficient d) economizing
6. The baby's temperature has suddenly ... by three degrees.
a) risen b) raised c) arisen d) rose
7. You ...the dress yourself, didn't you?
a) sew b) sewn c) sewed d) sow
8. .... spectators were watching the parade.
The hundreds c) Hundreds of
b) The hundreds of d) Hundreds
9. The accident is still … .
being talked c) talking about
b) been talked about d) being talked about
10. Help … piece of cake.
yourself to other c) you to another
b) yourself to another d) her to the other
11. She is so shy, she starts crying when asked the time by a … .
a) passer-by b) bypasser c) on-goer d) getter-on
12. John became famous mainly on … of his achievements in sport.
a) a case b) account c) view d) regard
13. Rick is perhaps intelligent but he obviously … common sense.
a) lacks b) fails c) misses d) wants
14. The Morrissons set off early … to avoid the worst of the traffic.
a) so that b) in so far c) in order d) so long as
15. Jerry sat on the sofa with his arms … doing nothing, waiting for Lisa.
a) flapped b) folded c) turned d) twisted
16. No one knows why he resigned, … ?
a) does one b) don't they c) does he d) do they
17. ... Mr. Brown call, tell him I'm in the office.
a) Shall b) Will c) Should d) Would
18. I like the Grangers very much, but I'd rather they … to see us so often.
a) don't come b) didn't come c) not to come d) not come
19. This umbrella should be got rid of. Even the slightest wind can blow it … .
a) inside out b) outside c) outside in d) open out
20. I wish my sister ... give up this idea of becoming a pop singer.
a) will b) had c) would d) can
3. CLOZE
Fill each gap with a suitable word. Write your answers on the answers sheet.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis 1) _____ existed on the fringes of medicine for more 2) _____ 200 years. The eighteenth century Viennese doctor Franz Anton Mesmer invented the technique
3) _____ he passed magnets over his patients' bodies to put them 4) _____ a trance. Later, the Scottish surgeon James Esdaile successfully performed amputations
5) _____inducing trancelike states in his patients. And before Freud hit upon free associations, Esdaile had used hypnosis to 6) _____ his psychoanalytic patients discover memories long buried in the unconscious.
Modern research has dispelled some of the popular misconceptions 7) _____ hypnosis. For 8) _____ , it has shown that the hypnotized subject is not asleep. The brain-wave patterns 9)_____ persons under hypnosis are entirely 10)_____ from those of a sleeping subject, and actually demonstrate a state of intense concentration 11) _____ which the subject is both attentive and responsive.
About 70 per cent of people can 12) _____ hypnotized, but some go into 13) _____ trances than others. Dr Herbert Spiegel, an American psychiatrist, has developed a test to 14) _____ a subject's trance capabilities. It is called the Hypnotic Induction Profile. The patient is 15) _____ to roll his eyes upward and, while holding the gaze, lower his eyelids. He is scored on a scale of zero to four on the basis of 16) _____ much of the white of the eye is exposed during the test. No white visible gets 17) _____ lowest score, and if only the whites are visible , the patient is 18) _____ a four. In the second 19)_____ of the test, a high scorer would be expected to put up his arms readily at the mere suggestion that his arm is light and that it will float 20) _____ . A low scorer would need a more concrete suggestion, such as being told that a balloon attached to his arm is helping it rise.
4. PARAPHRASING
Paraphrase each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it, using the word given. The form of the word may not be changed in any way. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0. I'd like to make a few suggestions.
FORWARD
I`d like to put forward a few suggestions.
1.Max is the most intelligent dog I have ever seen.
NEVER
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2. Why don't you have a glass of brandy?
FEEL
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3. Can I call you Pat?
MIND
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4. It is quite possible that your telephone was out of order yesterday.
MUST
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5. People believe she is very rich.
BELIEVED
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6. You will not reach the station in less than five minutes.
TAKE
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7. I eat less and less, yet I surprisingly gain more and more weight.
THE
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8. I will go only if you pay all my debts.
UNLESS
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9. Everyone said the defeat was the goalkeeper's fault
BLAMED
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10. He finds it hard not to eat sweets when they are offered to him.
RESIST
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5. WORD BUILDING
The underlined words in capitals can be used to form a word that completes suitably the meaning of each sentence. Give the form of the proper word. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0. Is there any ............ of hiring a boat? POSSIBLE ............[possibility]
1. What you have done can definitely be called sheer … [STUPID]
2. Just imagine what a/an … [COURAGE] the headmaster's criticism was for poor Emily!
3. Many artists had been ... [ESTIMATE] during their own lifetime. They became known
only after their death.
4. Tony is the army officer who has been accused of. ... [COWARD]
5. It was a very ... [REST] day for the mother who was preparing the twins' birthday party.
6. The customs officer insisted on examining the ... [CONTAIN] of our bags. 7. The most ....... [STAND] feature of Mary's character is her great compassion for the poor.
8. This film may be watched by children only under parental … [GUIDE]
9. Never forget to … [CONNECT] the iron before leaving the house.
10.The girl's … [OBJECT] behaviour was the only reason for which she was expelled from school.
11.You have to change your eating habits. Your diet is … [DEFICIT] in fruit and vegetables .
12. It's still raining and I think there is little … [LIKE] that it will clear up by tomorrow.
13. The ... [DISASTER] force of the hurricane sweeping through Florida surprised everyone.
14. He denies that but I'm sure he hit me ... [PURPOSE].
15.Irregular meals can lead to chronic ... [DIGEST] or even ulcers. 16.Such ... [CHILD] behaviour cannot be accepted at this school. 17.He recovered ... [CONSCIOUS] two hours after the operation. 18. We must finish our project as soon as possible, ... [PREFER] before Monday. 19. Extreme poverty and water ... [SHORT] are two of the most serious problems in Africa.
20. It is ... [HONEST] not to pay income tax.
6. TRANSLATION
Translate the following sentences into English. Write words only in the spaces given. Do not be misled by the amount of space in between prompted words. You may not change words already given. Write your answers on the answer sheet
EXAMPLE:
0. Gdzie mieszkasz?
Where do you live?
1.Włosy Lucy są o wiele za długie. Ona musi je ściąć.
Lucy's.............................. long. She……...............her hair...……...............….
2.Jennifer miała przyjść w południe, ale widocznie coś poważnego musiało się stać.
Jennifer................... have........................but something.......................... happened.
3. Kiedyś mieszkałam w Mediolanie. Szkoda, że przeprowadziłam się do Rzymu.
I.................. live in Milan. I wish............................................................................
4.Ledwie odłożyłam słuchawkę, kiedy znowu zadzwonił telefon. Głos brzmiał jak Anny, ale to nie była ona.
............ sooner.............. the telephone.............. The voice…........… but……….............
5.Nie wolno ci jeść tyle tłuszczu. Lepiej się zacznij odchudzać.
......................fat. You …...........…. start……............................................................
6.Im szybciej porozumienie zostanie osiągnięte, tym lepiej. Mam dość tych negocjacji.
The..............................is reached.................I……......................…these negotiations.
7.Przykro mi, że muszę ci powiedzieć, że nie masz racji. Nikt nie mógł przypuszczać, że akcje zostaną sprzedane tak szybko.
I regret............ . No one..............................................shares............................. .
8. Ku naszemu zaskoczeniu, Tomkowi udało się zdać wszystkie egzaminy.
To...................................................Tom succeeded.............................................
9.Profesor Cork opublikował tylko jedną książkę do 1990 roku. Później nie było od niego żadnych wiadomości, kiedy okazało się, że wykłada na Harvardzie.
.............................................................by the ....................................................
10.Mimo licznych ostrzeżeń matki, dzieci znowu bawiły się w lesie. One nigdy nie zwracają żadnej uwagi na to co ona mówi.
Despite.......................................... . They .................................notice...................
7. READING
Read the text and answer the questions that follow it. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
Father got holes in his socks even oftener than we boys had in ours. He had long athletic toes, and when he lay stretched out on his sofa reading and smoking, or absorbed in talking to anyone, these toes would begin stretching and wiggling in a curious way by themselves, as though they were seizing on this chance to live a life of their own. I often stared in fascination at their leisurely twistings and turnings, when I should have been listening to Father's instructions about far different matters. Soon one and then the other slipper would fall off, always to Father's surprise, but without interrupting his talk, and a little later his busy great toe would peer out at me through a new hole in his sock.
Mother felt that it was a woman's duty to mend things and sew, but she hated it. She rather liked to embroider lambrequins, as a feat of womanly prowess, but her darning of Father's socks was an impatient and not too skilled performance. She said there were so many of them that they made the back of her neck ache.
Father's heavily starched shirts, too, were a problem. When he put one on, he pulled it down over his head, and thrust his arms blindly out right and left in a hunt for the sleeves. A new shirt was strong enough to survive those strains without splitting,but life with Father quickly weakened it, and the first thing he knew he would hear it beginning to tear. That disgusted him. In his anger he would strike out harder than ever feeling around for the sleeve. Then would come a sharp crackling noise as the shirt ripped open, and a loud wail from Mother.
Buttons were Father's worst trial, however, from his point of view. Ripped shirts and socks with holes in them could still be worn, but trousers with their buttons off couldn't. The speed with which he dressed seemed to discourage his buttons and make them desert Father's service. Futhermore, they always gave out suddenly and at the wrong moment.
He wanted help and he wanted it promptly at such times, of course. He would appear at Mother's door with a waist-coat in one hand and a disloyal button in the other, demanding that it be sewn at once. If she said she couldn't just then, Father would get as indignant as though he had been drowning and a lifeguard had informed him that he would save him tomorrow.
1.Father would lay on the sofa to
A) sleep while his toes were moving.
B) read, smoke and converse.
C) deliberately make holes in his socks.
D) instruct his son how to avoid making holes in his socks.
2. The son remembers that
A) at times he couldn't concentrate on listening to his Father.
B) he would sometimes take off his Father's sleepers.
C) he was frightened by his Father's toes.
D) he had more holes in his socks than his Father did.
3. The mother's approach to some of her home duties was that she
A) was keen on mending her husband's clothes
B) preferred work of more artistic kind.
C) was very skilled in darning socks.
D) didn't darn socks until there were many of them gathered.
4. The problem with shirts was that
A) they were too starched.
B) Father was rather careless in putting them on.
C) there were only old shirts that Father wore.
D) the shirts crackled.
5. Father used to hate it when
A) his trousers had buttons.
B ) he had to dress quickly.
C) the lifeguard refused to save him.
D) mother initially refused to sew his buttons on.
8. ERROR RECOGNITION
Some of the following sentences are correct, but some have a word which should not be there. If a sentence is correct put a tick by its number on the answer sheet. If a sentence has a word which should not be there, write the word on the answer sheet. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0. Thank you for the book which you had sent me for my birthday last week. 0. had
00. Coffee is made from the beans that grow in the coffee bush. 00. √
1. I am learning English because I am studying law.
2. When I will finish my course I would like to work for a big company.
3. I will be continue my studies in Britain or the USA.
4. To do it, it is important to reach at a certain level of English.
5. Another reason is that I want to communicate with foreigners because of nowadays countries are becoming closer and closer.
6. You need to be able to speak a foreign language if you want to travel without any problems.
7. My sister, who lives in England, she says that life is very different there and the weather is not so good.
8. Later this year I'm going to visit England and stay with my sister.
9. I hope that to improve the level of my English during that time.
10. I am certainly looking forward much to spending my summer in England.
10. PHRASAL VERBS
Choose the one Phrasal Verb that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0. He had a bad time in the army but he has .......c........ .
a) put it down b) put it forth c) put it behind d) put it out
1.The wonderful supper … for the bad service in the restaurant.
a) kept in b) bore with c) looked up d) made up
2.We will have to … a holiday this year. We cannot afford it.
a) make without b) look under c) do without d) see under
3.If you can't hear the children for 10 minutes it is more than certain that they are….
getting up to something c) growing out of something
b) going in for something d) looking forward to something
4. Let's ... your plans once more and see if they are feasible.
a) come for b) come across c) go up d) go over
5.I do not think Mr. Slater is a fair teacher. He is always … boys.
a) picking on b) making for c) standing to d) getting over
6.The club authorities decided to … the match in fear of the riots from the football hooligans.
a) call up b) call off c) call down d) call over
7.Harry was offered a very good job but apparently without reason he … it.
a) made it up b) thought it over c) wore it up d) turned it down
8.When the drug … you may feel slight pain again.
a) wears off b) comes out c) shows off d) takes out
9.Michael is very good at … his teacher. He is very amusing , I think he has real talent.
a) making up b) taking off c) getting rid d) putting up
10.I think the rain has ... the day.
a) set down on b) set up in c) set in for d) set up for
10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE COMPONENT
Four phrases are printed after each of these incomplete sentences. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
EXAMPLE:
0......................... is the capital of Great Britain.
a) Edinburgh b) Cardiff c) London d) Belfast
1.Benjamin Franklin invented ... .
the steam engine c) cotton loom
b) the lightning rod d) the microscope
2.President ... was involved in the Watergate scandal .
a) Ronald Reagan b) George Bush c) Harry Truman d) Richard Nixon
3.Isaac Newton was a(n) ... .
artist c) soldier
scientist d) businessman
4.Joseph Heller wrote ... .
Catch 22 c) The Crying of Lot 49
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest d) The House of the Seven Gables
5.The New Deal was introduced by ... .
Andrew Jackson c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln d) Lyndon B. Johnson
6. ... is frequently referred to as “The Iron Lady”.
Hillary Clinton c) Madeleine Albright
Margaret Thatcher d) Queen Victoria
7.Besides plays William Shakespeare wrote ... .
a) odes b) sonnets c) epigrams d) limericks
8.William the Conqueror won the battle of ... .
a) Hastings b) London c) Britain d) Naseby
9.The famous jazz musician Miles Davis played the ... .
a) violin b) guitar c) piano d) trumpet
10.Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of ... .
a) Henry II b) Henry IV c) Henry V d) Henry VIII
THIS IS THE END OF THE TEST** THANK YOU*
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