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Číslo testu: DOPLNÍ STUD. ODDĚLENÍ
1 / What kind of literary genre is Shakespeare’s King Lear ?A / A comedy
B / A tragedy
C / A sonnet
D / A fable
2 / In which century was the novel Wuthering Heights written?
A / the seventeenth century
B / the eighteenth century
C / the nineteenth century
D / the twentieth century
3 / Which city is most reflected in the work of Charles Dickens?
A / London
B / Paris
C / Dublin
D / Manchester
4 / The current Secretary of State of the U.S.A. is:
A / John Kerry
B / Joe Biden
C / Dick Cheney
D / Hillary Clinton
5 / The Great Lakes are in which part of the United States?
A / The North
B / The South
C / The West
D / The Middle
6 / U.S. senators serve:
A / a4 year term
B / a 6 year term
C / as long as their state approves of their decisions
D / until they die or retire
7 / Which of the following words is pronounced with the same vowel as in the word NATION:
A / mainly
B / national
C / says
D / manly
8 / The word pronounced /ɪksˈpekt/ is spelt:
A / expact
B / except
C / accept
D / expect
9 / Which two words are pronounced the same:
A / late – laid
B / made – maid
C / then – than
D / Ross – Rose
10 / Which one of the following words is pronounced withthe stress on the second syllable?
A / hotel
B / comfortable
C / neighbour
D / interested
11 / She burst into ______when she saw him leaving.
A / crying
B / sadness
C / misery
D / tears
12 / The children were in no danger because the water was ______.
A / little
B / gentle
C / shallow
D / small
13 / Berlin has been the capital city of Germany ______1991.
A / from
B / since
C / for
D / in
14 / The crowd ______as the team came onto the pitch.
A / roared
B / grunted
C / hummed
D / barked
15 / We’re offering up to 40% ______selected books.
A / on
B / off
C / down
D / of
16 / When I was a teenager my parents always wanted me to ______chores around the house.
A / make
B / do
C / have
D / get
17 / My cousin is ______a baby in September.
A / waiting
B / hoping
C / looking forward
D / expecting
18 / To ______advantage of this offer, please put your order in now.
A / make
B / take
C / have
D / draw
19 / I rang several times but couldn’t ______through to her.
A / phone
B / get
C / call
D / dial
20 / I’m sure Jake didn’t leave the door unlocked. He’s much too ______.
A / sensible
B / sensitive
C / selfish
D / sympathetic
21 / It is now widely accepted that pollution ______the environment.
A / injures
B / hurts
C / wounds
D / harms
22 / We are completely lost! I ______find any street names around here on the map.
A / am not able
B / cannot
C / must not
D / need not
23 / We ______taken the wrong turning at the traffic lights about a kilometre back.
A / must have
B / have got to have
C / can have
D / could might have
24 / He insisted ______for the meal.
A / to pay
B / on paying
C / for payment
D / to paying
25 / The interviewer started off ______me why I wanted the job.
A / to ask
B / by asking
C / when asking
D / to asking
26 / Jim is on holiday. He ______to Italy.
A / is gone
B / has gone
C / has been going
D / has been
27 / Everything is going well. We ______any problems so far.
A / did not have
B / do not have
C / have not had
D / had not had
28 / ______tomorrow, so we can go out somewhere.
A / I am not working
B / I do not work
C / I will not work
D / I will have worked
29 / You missed a great party last night. You ______. Why didn't you come?
A / must have come
B / should have come
C / ought to had come
D / can come
30 / Jane ______a car with the money I'd won in the lottery.
A / suggested that I buy
B / suggested for buying
C / suggested me buying
D / suggested me to buy
31 / I am not tired enough to go to bed. If I ______to bed now, I would not sleep.
A / go
B / went
C / had gone
D / would go
32 / If I were rich, ______a yacht.
A / I'll have
B / I can have
C / I'd have
D / I had
CLOZE TEST
Read the following text, then choose the only alternative which is correct from A - D to fill each numbered gap.
A Love of Travelling
For Nigel Portman, a love of travelling began with what’s called a ‘gap year’. In common with many other British teenagers, he chose to take a year out before settling down to study for his degree. After doing various jobs to (33) …….. some money, he left home to gain some experience of life in different cultures, visiting America and Asia. The more adventurous the young person, the (34) …….. the challenge they are likely to set themselves for the gap year, and for some, like Nigel, it can (35) …….. in a thirst for adventure.
Now that his university course has (36) …….. to an end, Nigel is just about to leave on a three-year trip that will take him (37) …….. around the world. What’s more, he plans to make the whole journey using only means of transport which are powered by natural energy. In other words, he’ll be (38) …….. mostly on bicycles and his own legs; and when there’s an ocean to cross, he won’t be taking a (39) …….. cut by climbing aboard a plane, he’ll be joining the crew of a sailing ship (40) …….. .
As well as doing some mountain climbing and other outdoor pursuits along the way, Nigel hopes to (41) …….. on to the people he meets the environmental message that lies behind the whole idea.
A / achieve
B / raise
C / advance
D / win
34
A / shorter
B / wider
C / greater
D / deeper
35
A / result
B / lead
C / cause
D / create
36
A / come
B / turned
C / reached
D / brought
37
A / just
B / complete
C / whole
D / right
38
A / relying
B / using
C / attempting
D / trying
39
A / quick
B / short
C / brief
D / swift
40
A / anyway
B / alike
C / instead
D / otherwise
41
A / leave
B / keep
C / pass
D / give
You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 42-50 choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
On the very last day of a bad year, I was leaning against a pillar in the Baltimore railway station, waiting to catch the 10:10 to Philadelphia. There were a lot more people waiting than I had expected. That airy, light, clean, polished feeling I generally got in the station had been lost. Elderly couples with matching luggage stuffed the benches, and swarms of college kids littered the floor with their bags.
A grey-haired man was walking around speaking to different strangers one by one. Well-off, you could tell: tanned skin, nice sweater, soft, beige car-coat. He went up to a woman sitting alone and asked her a question. Then he came over to a girl standing near me. She had long blond hair, and I had been thinking I wouldn´t mind talking to her myself. The man said, ´Would you by any chance be travelling to Philadelphia?´
´Well, northbound, yes,´ she said.
´But to Philadelphia?´
´No, New York, but I´ll be...´
´Thanks, anyway,´ he said, and he moved toward the next bench.
Now he had my full attention.
´Ma´am,´ I heard him ask an old lady, ´are you travelling to Philadelphia?´ When the woman told him ´Wilmington, ´ he didn´t say a thing, just marched on down the road to one of the matched-luggage couples. I straightened up from my pillar and drifted closer, looking toward the platform as if I had my mind on the train.
Well, Iwas going to Philadelphia. He could have asked me. I understood why he didn´t, of course. I struck him as unreliable. He just glanced quickly at me and then swerved off toward the bench at the other end of the waiting area. By now he was looking seriously stressed. ´Please!´ he said to a woman reading a book. ´Tell me you´re going to Philadelphia!´
She lowered her book. She was thirtyish, maybe thirty-five – older than I was, anyhow. A school-teacher sort. ´Philadelphia?´ she said. ´Why, yes, I am.´
´Then, could I ask you a favour?´
I stopped several feet away and frowned down at my left wrist. (Never mind that I don´t own a watch.) Even without looking, I could sense how she went on guard. The man must have sensed it too, because he said, ´Nothing too difficult, I promise!´
They were announcing my train now. People started moving toward Gate E, the older couples hauling their wheeled bags behind them like big pets on leashes. Next I heard the man talking. ´My daughter´s flying out this afternoon for a study year abroad, leaving from Philadelphia. So I put her on a train this morning stopping for groceries afterward, and came home to find my wife in a state. She hardly said “hello” to me. You see my daughter´d forgotten her passport. She´d telephoned home from the station in Philadelphia; didn´t know what to do next.´
The woman clucked sympathetically. I´d have kept quiet myself. Waited to find out where he was heading with this.
´So I told her to stay there. Stay right there in the station, I said, and I would get somebody here to carry up her passport.´
A likely story! Why didn´t he go himself if this was such an emergency?
´Why don´t you go yourself?´ the woman asked him.
´I can´t leave my wife alone for that long. She´s in a wheelchair.´
This seemed like a pretty poor excuse, if you want my honest opinion. Also, it exceeded the amount of bad luck that one family could expect. I let my eyes wander toward the two of them. The man was holding a packet, not a plain envelope, which would have been the logical choice, not one of those padded envelopes the size of the paperback book. Aha! Padded! So you couldn´t feel the contents! And from where I stood, it looked to be stapled shut besides. Watch yourself, lady, I said silently.
42 / What was the narrator´s impression of the station that morning?A / People were making too much noise.
B / It was unusually busy.
C / There was a lot of rubbish on the ground.
D / The seating was inadequate.
43 / The expression ‘well-off’ means that the stranger
A / was well-dressed
B / liked women
C / had a lot of money
D / was healthy
44 / Why does the narrator show interest in the grey-haired stranger?
A / He was fascinated by the stranger´s questions.
B / He was anxious about the stranger´s destination.
C / He was jealous of the stranger´s appearance.
D / He was impressed by the stranger´s skill with people.
45 / What does the writer mean by ‘she went on guard’?
A / The woman was employed by the railway company.
B / The woman was ready to call the police.
C / The woman was surprised by the man´s attitude.
D / The woman was cautious in her response.
46 / According to the stranger, how was his wife feeling when he got home?
A / relieved to see him
B / annoyed by their daughter´s call
C / upset about their daughter´s situation
D / worried about planning the best course of action
47 / What does ‘this’in bold letters in the text refer to?
A / the story
B / the passport
C / the station
D / the telephone call
48 / When the narrator had heard the stranger´s explanation, he felt
A / sympathetic towards the stranger´s daughter.
B / willing to offer his assistance.
C / doubtful about the combination of events.
D / confused by the story the stranger told.
49 / When the narrator sees the packet, he thinks that the woman should
A / remain on the platform.
B / proceed carefully.
C / ask to check the contents.
D / co-operate with the man.
50 / What do we learn about the narrator´s character from reading this extract?
A / He enjoys talking to strangers.
B / He has a strong sense of curiosity.
C / He has a kind-hearted attitude to people.
D / He interferes in the affairs of others.
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