Part 1

Listen to the conversation. Then choose all the correct answers

1. The host is introducing people who

2. According to the host, Celia Johnson

3. Celia Johnson believes that

4. What kind of financial problems is the city having, according to Celia Johnson?

Part 2

Listen to the conversation. Then choose the correct answers. 

5. According to the host, William Winston

6. The host describes Winston as 

7. William Winston says that

8. Where will the candidates be after they finish answering questions?8.

Part 3

Listen to the conversation. Then circle the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 

9. Giselle thinks Fiona’s shoes are ……….

10. Fiona thinks her shoes are ………..

11. The wedding reception is going to be ………..

12. Fiona’s dress is………..

13. Giselle thinks that Fiona should ………..

Part 4

Choose the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 

14. The violinist was talented but ………..; she wore strange clothes and played with her back to the audience.

15. Marco is really ………… He can have a conversation with anyone for hours.

16. Don’t be such a ………..; the staff is starting to hate you because you’re working them too hard. 

17. Hiro always asks me for help with his work even when I tell him that I’m really busy. He’s a ………..

18. To be a successful singer you will need to have a lot of talent, but you will also need to believe in yourself. You will not make it without being …………

19. Jun is a gifted musician and writes music that is really ……….. . His lyrics make me want to cry.

20. Gina is eccentric and doesn’t listen to any ………. music. She says popular  lacks passion.

21. If you want to have a career in sales, it helps to be a people person. Employers are looking for people who are ………. and friendly. 

22. Tourists’ leaving their trash and not cleaning up after themselves is just ……….. Their bad behavior spoils the natural beauty of the area. .

Part 5

Select the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 

23. Don’t forget ………. to see if the computer is fixed and ready to be picked up.

24. Would you consider ………. a job in another country?

25. ………. a career in music requires passion .

26. My goal is ………. track of my expenses this year. 

Part 6

Write the present perfect or the present perfect continuous form of the verb in parentheses.

Example: ____Have you listened______ (listen) to that travel podcast I recommended yet? It is so exciting!

Part 7

Put the words and phrases in the correct order to make sentences. 

32. to lock / them / We warned / the door.

33. long-term plans / us / encouraged / Our parents / to make

34. I object / leaving / their / before 8:00 / to

35. them / for dinner / We convinced / to stay

36. with a question / your / interrupting me / I don’t mind

37. does not permit / more than 15 hours a week / The government / to work / students

Part 8

Write the future perfect tense of the words in parentheses.

Example: By this time next month, Priya ____will have worked______ (work) at our company for 25 years.

Part 9

Circle the answer that correctly completes each sentence. 

43. ………. business has its own set of challenges and problems .

44. ……….guests wore something formal to the awards ceremony.

45. There is not ……………. interest in formal fashion as there once was.

46. There is ………. money in the budget for community projects.

47. There have been ………. dangerous epidemics in the past ten years.

Part 10

Match the prefixes on the left with the words on the right. Then use the words to complete the sentences.

Part 11

Read the article. Then answer the questions. Circle the correct answers.

Howard Hughes

Engineer, pilot, movie producer

Howard Hughes was born in 1905 to a wealthy family involved the Texas oil industry. By the age of eleven, Hughes had demonstrated a great deal of talent in both math and mechanical engineering.  Three years later, at the age of fourteen, he took his first flying lesson, which sparked his lifelong passion for anything connected to airplanes. At this young age, the energetic and hardworking Hughes had set himself ambitious long-term goals. He predicted that he would become the world’s best golfer, its greatest pilot, and its most famous movie producer. Amazingly, during his lifetime he achieved two out of three of these ambitions.

Hughes’s father died when Howard was just nineteen, but the young Hughes was already planning his professional career. He used the money from his father’s business to start a life in Hollywood as a film producer. As a producer, Hughes was often hard to please, and many considered him to be a tyrant. Even after a film was completed, he would sometimes send it back to the director if he was not satisfied with it. The budgets for his films were often astronomical. Hell’s Angels, a film released in 1930 about fighter pilots, cost $3.8 million and took four years to make. The high cost was due, in part, to Hughes’s constant and often somewhat irrational demands. Once, when his pilot refused to attempt a particularly dangerous shot for the film, Hughes decided to fly the plane himself.  He succeeded in getting the shot that he wanted, but he also ended up crashing the plane. When the film was nearly complete, Hughes decided that silent movies were too dated and old-fashioned, so he reshot the film, this time with sound. With the success of Hell’s Angels, Hughes established a reputation for thinking creatively and never hesitating to go in new directions.

Hughes was also a powerful and successful businessman. Always interested in planes and aviation, in 1932 he founded Hughes Aircraft Company. As a pilot and self-taught engineer, he actively participated in the company. He often tested the company’s planes himself and set many world speed records in the process. In 1938, he set a record when he flew around the world in just 91 hours. In 1943, Hughes was testing an aircraft his company had been working on when the plane crashed, killing his two passengers and seriously injuring Hughes. Even in the face of such disaster, though, Hughes was not discouraged and continued to make aviation history. Today, many Hughes aircraft are considered classics. The Hughes H-1 Racer was the fastest plane in the world in its day and is now displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

As Hughes grew older, however, he started to become more and more eccentric. His behavior became strange and somewhat troubling. Before eating peas, for example, he would sort them by size on his plate. He watched his favorite movie more than 150 times. He was so terrified of germs that he avoided shaking hands. By the 1950s, his health had grown worse and he had disappeared from public life, living in hotel rooms, where he covered all the windows. Rumors circulated about his odd behavior. It was said that he wore tissue boxes as shoes and that he used paper towels to cover any object before he touched it. In spite of his poor health and strange behavior, Hughes continued to follow his passions. In 1953, he established the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a center for biomedical research, by donating money and Hughes Aircraft stock. The Institute has been conducting important medical research ever since. Hughes died in 1976, but the world continues to benefit from his wide range of interests and accomplishments.

53. Which of the following is the best description of Howard Hughes?

54. Which of these statements can you infer from the passage?

55. What does Hughes’s decision to fly the plane himself in the movie Hell’s Angels suggest about him?

56. How would the people who worked with Hughes on Hell’s Angels probably describe him?

57. How could Hughes’s role in the Hughes Aircraft Company be described?

58. What was the focus of Hughes’ concerns as he grew older?

59. What does the author mean when he says that many Hughes aircraft are considered classics?

60. What does the author mean when he says that rumors circulated about Hughes’s odd behavior?

 Writing Test

Part 1

Choose one of the following topics below to write about. Write a paragraph of at least four to five sentences.

Topic 1

Describe someone you have known for a long time who has changed during that time. What was he or she like before and what is he or she like now? How did the person’s behavior change? What do you think changed the person?

Topic 2

Identify a problem in your town or city. What do you think should be done to solve it? Who should be responsible for fixing it?

Part 2

Write about your financial strategies. What strategies are the most important for managing your money? What has been successful? What has been less successful? What are your short-term and long-term financial goals? Write three paragraphs.