Directions : In this part you will read a selection of texts, such as magazine and newspaper articles, letters, and advertisements. Each text is followd by several questions. Select the best answer for each question and mark the letter (A), (B), (C) or (D) on your answer sheet.

 

 

 

First ................. in the 1920s, the red phone boxes have become synonymous with London. But how much longer will they survive?

 

Use of the phone boxes dropped with the rise of mobile phones.  Today, many of the phone boxes are in poor shape. But a group of Londoners has decided to fix them up.

 

« Just because phone boxes are British icons for them to look ............ in the photos that are going all back around the world with tourists after their holiday, I didn’t like that idea. So I thought, why not clean them up ? »

 

« Seeing one in a completely sorry state was almost like seeing an elderly relative in distress or something. »

 

« We like to help Emily because I think we think it’s worthy cause and we’re loyal friends. It looks nice that they’re all scrubbed up. »

 

Emily and other volunteers clean the phone boxes for sightseers, but their efforts might not be enough to save them.

 

« They are difficult to keep clean, and they are not very easy for people with disabilities to use. And we are ............ to have a quite a high percentage of the payphones which can be used by people with disabilities. »

 

New wi-fi enabled street phones are being unveiled across London. They are accessible and free to use. Some of the beloved phone boxes ................ put up for sale, or offred to local communities to repurpose. Some have been transformed into public libraries. Other have been rented out to local businesses.  

 

« If you think : all the conversations these four walls must have overheard, declarations of love, cries of emergency, or whispers of espionage. These walls have heard it all. Every type os conversation. And I think it’s sad to see them now empty. »

There is no set date for when the red phone boxes will de removed.

 

Decide wich of the choices (A), (B), (C) or (D) best completes the sentence.

 

1) First ................. in the 1920s, the red phone boxes have become synonymous with London. But how much longer will they survive?

          A.  introducing

          B.  introduce

          C.  introduced

          D.  introduction

 

2) Just because phone boxes are British icons for them to look ............ in the photos...

          A.  scruff

          B.  scruffily

          C.  scruffy

          D.  scruffed

 

3) And we are ............ to have a quite a high percentage of the payphones...

          A.  obliging

          B.  obligation

          C.  obligate

          D.  obliged

 

4) Some of the beloved phone boxes ................ put up for sale, ...

          A.  have been

          B.  has been

          C.  had been

          D.  were









PART 7 TOEIC

Directions : In this part you will read a selection of texts, such as magazine and newspaper articles, letters, and advertisements. Each text is followd by several questions. Select the best answer for each question and mark the letter (A), (B), (C) or (D) on your answer sheet.

When, suddenly and without explanation, Fan Bingbing, China’s most famous actress and its highest-paid celebrity, vanished, in July, conspiracy theories abounded. Had she been abducted? Was she in exile? Or had “the No. 1 beauty under the heavens,” as she is known, been having an affair with the Vice-President, and been forced into hiding? In China, where the movie industry favors fantasies and mysteries, the story of Fan’s disappearance suggested the kind of thriller in which she herself might star. But, last week, after an absence of more than three months, she resurfaced to issue a statement that could have earned her a part in a well-known TV drama series: the coerced public apology.

Fan did not speak on camera, but it was hard to imagine what could have prompted a more lip-quivering performance than the open letter that she published on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, where she has sixty-two million followers. After ………  “deep shame and sorrow,” she admitted to years of underreporting her earnings, through the practice of “yin and yang” contracts, in ……. a smaller contract is disclosed but a larger one is paid to the star. She was ordered to pay a hundred and thirty million dollars in back taxes and penalties. Her actions amounted not only to a personal misstep, she wrote, but to a betrayal of China. “I owe my success to the support from my country and the people. Without the great policies of the [Chinese Communist] Party and the country, without the love of the people, there ……… be no Fan Bingbing,” she wrote. “I have failed my country. ”

In a nation of runaway economic growth, where tax evasion is rampant among the wealthy, what struck many people was not Fan’s alleged misdeed—that was predictable enough to be banal—but the startling way in which her case was handled. The state has a record of disappearing human-rights activists and political ……… , whose absences tend to attract little notice in the country. But the apparent detention of China’s top star—the South China Morning Post reported that she had been held in a “holiday resort”—marks a new era that also seems like a return to an older one.


Pick the best answer, (A), (B) or (C), to complete the following sentences.

1- in ….. a smaller contract is disclosed but a larger one is paid to the star. l(16)

A.      Which

B.      witch

C.       Where

D.      What

2- there …..be no Fan Bingbing,” she wrote… l(22)

A.      Won’t

B.      Would

C.       Will

D.      had

 

3- The state has a record of disappearing human-rights activists and political …….. l(28)

A.      fellow

B.      stranger

C.       dissident

D.      allies

4- After …….“deep shame and sorrow”….. l(14)

A.      expressed 

B.      expressing

C.       express

D.      expose