II. PREPOSITIONS AND PHRASAL VERBS (10 pts) Complete each blank with a suitable preposition. 1. I don’t care ________ the expense; I want the party to be a real success. 2. The doctor thinks he’ll pull ________ now. His temperature has gone down. 3. The oral examination was difficult. The examiner tried to catch me ________ by asking some tricky questions. 4. The old lady fainted but the nurse was soon able to bring her ________. 5. If the boss tries to land you ________ another report, just say you can’t do it this week. 6. We put his rude manner ________ to ignorance of our customs. 7. She couldn’t catch up with the other runner because she had fallen too far ________. 8. I am not friends with Peter anymore. We’ve fallen ________. 9. Amy’s husband has run ________ and left her with two children to bring up. 10. The announcer on the radio suddenly broke ________ the middle of a piece of music and informed the audience that there was a storm coming. III. WORD FORMS (10 pts) Supply the correct form of the word provided in brackets. 1. They ___misjudged_____ the time of their arrival and missed the plane. (JUDGE) 2. The United Nations will act as ________ of the peace settlement. (GUARANTEE) 3. The union claimed that some of its members had been ________ for taking part in the strike. (VICTIM) 4. This house has been so ________ decorated that it is very popular. (TASTE) 5. The doctors are doing some ________ tests to try and find out what’s wrong. (EXPLORE) 6. It is a form of anaemia which is nearly always fatal if left ________. (TREAT) 7. The things they are doing are to help the ________. (ADVANTAGE) 8. Hundreds of unemployed could be pushed back towards crime by the closure of job training programs. (PRISON) 9. Are all those ________ they put in food really necessary? (ADD) 10. They all cheered ________ as their team came out. (ENTHUSIASM) IV. ERROR IDENTIFICATION (10 pts) The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Underline the mistakes and correct them in the space provided in the column on the right. (0) has been done as an example. 0. For almost people, the distinction between vegetables and fruits is fairly clear. 1. Scientists, therefore, have varied opinions in this regard. For example, 2. horticulturists categorize a watermelon as a vegetable although its general 3. acceptance as a fruit. Botanists identify a tomato like a fruit even if it is 4. common used as a vegetable. These differences stem from the ways in which 5. fruits and vegetables are classifying. For a botanist, a fruit is the seed bearing 6. portion of a flowered plant or tree. According to this definition, a tomato is a 7. fruit. With a horticulturist, a vegetable is the cartable portion of a plant that 8. must replant annually. According to this view, a watermelon is a vegetable. A 9. horticulturist sees a fruit as coming from a plant or tree that lives at last two years. 10. When fruits and vegetables that meet the criteria of both groups of scientists, such as apples or potatoes, there is no conflict. 0. most _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ V. OPEN CLOZE TEST (10 pts) Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. In the early eighteenth century the New World still belonged to Britain. However, here people found (1) ________ free from the power of kings and priests, and there was no aristocracy (2) ________ owned all the land. In 1776, the British Americans (3) ________ independence from Britain and, after fighting and winning a war against the British, established a new nation called the United States of America. They were now (4) ________ free from the power of the European kings, and in 1789 they wrote a Constitution for the new nation. This Constitution (5) ________ the values which Americans had fought (6) ________ and when they wrote it they wanted to make sure that the freedom which they (7) ________ fought to win would continue. They wanted to be (8) ________ that the government of the new country would not (9) ________ too strong, that the power of the church would also be limited, and that there would never (10) ________ a hereditary’ aristocracy in America.