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East European University 2016

Doctoral Programme Entrance Examination

Test (B) in the English language

Level: B2

Name: ____________________________________

Last name: _________________________________

Speciality: __________________________________

Date: ______________________________________

Total Score: ___________/ 100

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PAPER 1

READING

1. Write the answers in the spaces provided.

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2. Reading

the correct answers are:

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3 Comprehension

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4. Vocabulary

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2. Read the text about beauty and then answer questions 1 to 4.

Women today have fewer babies, have them later, are less exposed to the elements, and are better nourished

and less disease-ridden than their ancestors. They can look like an ancestral teenager well into middle age.

Women also have techniques to stimulate and exaggerate the clues to youth, femaleness, and health: eye

make-up (to enlarge the eyes), lipstick, eyebrow plucking (to reduce the appearance of a masculine brow

ridge), make-up products that increase the lustre, thickness, and colour of hair, and hundreds of potions

alleged to keep the skin looking young. Dieting and exercise can also help, to keep the waist thinner and the

waist-to-hip ratio lower.

Why do they do this? Is it merely an attempt to look sexy? It could be. But people decorate their bodies for

many reasons: to look rich, to look well connected, to look ‘in’, to earn membership of a particular social

group. People outside a culture usually agree with the people inside about who is beautiful and who is not,

and people everywhere want to attract good-looking partners. Even three-month-old babies prefer to look at

a pretty face.

(1) ‘the elements’ (line 1) is closest in meaning to: a) the weather b) chemicals c) illness

(2) The article implies that…

a) women with big hips are sexy. b) women with waists thinner than their hips are sexy. c) dieting and exercise will reduce hip size.

(3) The article states that…

a) women today have to wear make-up to keep them looking young in middle age. b) there is no universal agreement about what is or isn’t beautiful. c) women today have children older than they did in the past.

(4) According to the article…

a) three-month-old babies like their mothers to wear make-up.

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b) three-month-old babies have an awareness of what is or isn’t beautiful. c) pretty three-month-old babies like to look at their own reflection in a mirror.

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PAPER 2

USE OF LANGUAGE

3 Underline the most appropriate word in italics in the sentences below.

(1) The cottage has a wonderful fireplace with a lovely porch / mantelpiece / banister above it.

(2) What lovely peepholes / shutters / parquets you have at the windows.

(3) She’s 95 years old and confined to a wheelchair, so a bungalow / houseboat / chalet will be perfect for

her.

(4) The bedrooms look out / up / down over the mountains and the lake.

(5) The house has floor-to-floor / back-to-front / wall-to-wall carpeting.

4. Rewrite the sentences below using the correct form of the passive.

(6) Someone in China invented paper.

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(7) They are building the houses next to a lake.

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(8) My brother told me not to tell you about the scandal.

I______________________________________________________________.

(9) They’ll announce their decision next week.

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(10) We interview the candidates in this room.

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(11) They have sent him to prison.

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5. Underline the correct words in italics in the sentences below.

(12) Most / Most of / Much of the questions were fairly easy to answer.

(13) There aren’t / isn’t / hasn’t much furniture in this apartment.

(14) There are very few / little / a little reasons why I should stay with him.

(15) He eats far too much / far too many / far too few fast food.

(16) He has hardly no / hardly much / hardly any money.

(17) Several of / Several / A little people left the cinema before the end of the film.

6. Complete the sentences below by adding a suitable prefix or suffix to each word in parentheses to

make an adjective.

(18) I wish George were a bit more ___________ (help). He’s so lazy!

(19) Now come along everyone, could I have your ________ (divided) attention please!

(20) We just sat in the cold and the rain for over 12 hours. It was a _________ (hell) day.

(21) Umm. These chocolates are ___________ (resistible)!

(22) __________(Regard) of what I do, he’s never satisfied with my work.

7. Underline the correct word in italics in the sentences below.

(23) ‘I like people who are calm and relaxed, you know, kind of laid-back / stand-offish / absentminded.’

(24) ‘She was always reasonably nice to me, but then I discovered yesterday that she’s been saying all these

horrible things about me. She’s so self-assured / open-minded / two-faced.’

(25) ‘Just because she’s got loads of money and I haven’t, she thinks she’s better than me. She’s so stuck-up

/ grown-up / quick-witted.’

(26) Beauty is in the face / eye / mind of the beholder.

(27) ‘My mum won’t let me go out with my boyfriend alone. We always have a guard / supervisor /

chaperone with us.’

(28) ‘I’m so in love with him. I’m in a maze / craze / daze most of the time!’

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8. Write the second sentence using Passive Report structures and the verb in parentheses so that it means the same as the first.

(29) He will be in prison for the rest of his life.

(expect) ________________________________________________________________. (30) A few people are suggesting that he could be the next Prime Minister.

(suggest) ________________________________________________________________. (31) Most people thought he wasn’t up to the job.

(feel) ________________________________________________________________. (32) They have investigated allegations that he accepted bribes.

(allege)

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PAPER 3

WRITING

9. You are going to write the advantages and disadvantages c o m p o s i t i o n between 120 – 180

words.

Some people think that the best way to stop people smoking would be to ban the sale of

tobacco.

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of such a policy?

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