TEST WSTĘPNY Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO
CZĘŚĆ II
TEST WSTĘPNY Z JĘZYKA ANGIELSKIEGO
CZĘŚĆ III
II. Select the gaps with an expression (a, b or c) which is most appropriate.
Neanderthals
much more advanced than has been thought, according to a new examination of finds from famous cave site that
that the creatures
their own jewellery.
It
that ormaments found with their bones were borrowed from ancestors of modern humans, or copied. This is now believed to have been a mistake.
Neanderthals lived in Europe long before the early humans, homo sapiens, 40,000 years ago. The two sub-species existed side-by-side for about 10,000 years, after which the Neanderthals
.
Research has shown that the two sub-species were genetically different. Neanderthals used stone tools, but experts are divided about whether they
of abstract thought
with signs of creativity such as works of art and decoration.
The new research
on the Grotte de Fees, a cave in central France. The fossil evidence suggests a late population of Neanderthals returned to the cave after modern humans had been living there for some time.
This is thought to explain the
artefacts found with their remains. But British and French scientists argue that the supposed evidence of late Neanderthal occupation was in fact ôbackdirtö from 19th century fossil hunting. They say the finds belonged to Neanderthals who lived there 44,000 years ago. That
they were making decorated bone points and items of jewellery before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa.
III. Transform the first sentence using an appropriate form of the word given so that the meaning remains unchanged. You cannot write more than 5 words altogether in each blank space.
Example: He looks like his father.
take
He takes after his father.
1. They believe that he cheated at the exams.
suspect
1. He
at the exams.
2. There is a restaurant in the former school building.
turn
2. The school building
a restaurant.
3. I can’t smoke so much.
cut
3. I need to
.
4.His talent enabled him to climb the company career ladder.
owe
4. He could climb the company career ladder
.
5. I was so embarassed when she mentioned that topic in the conversation with my boyfriend.
bring
5. I was embarrased because she
in the conversation with my boyfriend.
IV. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.
By 1997 most illegal drugs
the USA were going through Mexico. The president brought the armed forces into the fight
the drug mobs. Tijuana was the scene of literally hundreds of drug-related murders
those of judges, witnesses and policemen. Many people claim that organized
, or the mob, in the 1990s was controlled by the ruling
. The current president has been praised for the arrest of several major drug-cartel leaders.
V. Choose the correct option.
VI. Transform the first sentence using the word given so that the meaning remains unchanged. You cannot write more than 5 words altogether in each blank space.
1. Currently, Channel 4 is performing remarkably well, both as far as viewing figures and its financial results go.
terms
1. Currently, Channel 4 is performing remarkably well,
viewing figures and its financial results.
2. Above all, the genre Son Montuno deals ith relevant questions for the people of African descent and the humble.
else
, the genre Son Montuno deals with relevant questions for the people of African descent and the humble.
3. I couldn't discern what he was trying to convey.
put
3. What he
was impossible for me to discern.
4. As reliance on interconnected computers grows, digital security is becoming everyone's concern.
more
4.
interconnected computers, the more we become concerned with digital security.
5. Selling ice-creams to Eskimos used to be the definition of a tough sales pitch u but now it has been put in the shade.
no
Selling ice-creams to Eskimos
the definition of a tough sales pitch.
VII. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word.
I suppose the conflict began
the matter of a horse,
a twist in his temper, whom Pinecoffin sold to Nafferton, and by whom Naffeton was nearly slain. There may have been other
of offence; the horse was the official stalking-horse. Nafferton was very angry but Pincecoffin laughed and said he had never
the beast's manners. Nafferton laughed, too, though he vowed that he would
off his fall against Pincecoffin if he waited 5 years.