Varianta: DOPLNÍ STUD. ODDĚLENÍ

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1 / What is the main theme of The Waste Land written by T.S. Eliot?
A / the regeneration of society after World War II
B / the regeneration of society after World War I
C / the regeneration of society after the end of communism
D / the regeneration of society after the end of colonialism
2 / Which of the following pairs of characters come from a Samuel Beckett play?
A / Vladimir and Estragon
B / Jimmy and Cliff
C / Alison and Helena
D / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
3 / James Joyce’s Ulysses is set in
A / London
B / Dublin
C / Edinburgh
D / Brussels
4 / The Interior Secretary in the U.S.A. is responsible for:
A / National Parks
B / Police
C / The maintenance of the White House
D / Immigration
5 / Which of the following is NOT considered a “founding father” of the U.S.A?
A / Thomas Jefferson
B / James Madison
C / Abraham Lincoln
D / Alexander Hamilton
6 / Supreme Court judges in the U.S.A. serve:
A / A four year term
B / Until the president recalls them
C / As long as their state approves of their decisions
D / Until they die or retire
7 / Which of the words does not contain a silent sound?
A / numb
B / pseudo
C / frequent
D / colonel
8 / Which is the correct spelling?
A / endavour
B / endeavour
C / endevoure
D / endaevor
9 / Which word is pronounced with a long vowel?
A / foot
B / hood
C / story
D / wool
10 / Which word is correctly stressed?
A / reMAIN
B / suDDENly
C / UNhappy
D / eduCAted
11 / We ____ for Paris at midnight.
A / set off
B / made for
C / went off
D / got down
12 / How could you have ____ him for your brother?
A / confused
B / considered
C / thought
D / mistaken
13 / It is vital that we ____ a change in people's attitudes.
A / bring down
B / bring back
C / bring about
D / bring up
14 / We'll have to ____ down the options before coming to a decision.
A / slow
B / narrow
C / bring
D / wind
15 / I think a couple of coffees will ____ off the meal nicely.
A / go
B / send
C / wear
D / round
16 / Your car's very ____. It hardly seems to use any petrol at all.
A / economical
B / economic
C / ecological
D / ecumenical
17 / I'm in a terrible ____. I just don't know what to do.
A / problem
B / quandary
C / loss
D / trouble
18 / It's hard to do ____ to such a masterpiece.
A / judgement
B / justice
C / fair play
D / fairness
19 / I'm afraid you've got the wrong end of the ____ .
A / loaf
B / pot
C / stick
D / leg
20 / The soldier who saved the lives of three of his comrades was given a ___ award.
A / prenatal
B / posthumous
C / postprandial
D / predicted
21 / The World Health Organisation has stated that smallpox has been almost completely ____ .
A / uprooted
B / eradicated
C / obliterated
D / extinguished
22 / John and Mary ___ when I walked into the room, but they stopped as soon as they saw me.
A / had argued
B / had been arguing
C / argue
D / have argued
23 / We live ___ five kilometres from the airport, so the aircraft noise is very bad.
A / fewer
B / fewer than
C / less than
D / less
24 / I certainly ___ the night alone in that house. It's supposed to be haunted.
A / intended to not spend
B / don't intend to spend
C / not intend to spend
D / intended not to spend
25 / As children we ___ polite to adults.
A / were taught to be
B / were taught being
C / taught to be
D / were taught be
26 / ___ to use, I waited until other people had started eating and copied them.
A / Not knowing which knife and fork
B / Not known which knife and fork
C / Knowing not which knife and fork
D / Knowing which knife and fork not
27 / Jane works very hard, so ___ she shouldn't do well in the test.
A / it is no reason
B / there is no point
C / it is no chance
D / there is no reason
28 / Do you smoke? - I must admit ___.
A / so I do
B / so
C / that I do
D / I so do
29 / I'd borrowed my father's car and found that I ___ it into reverse gear.
A / can't put
B / wasn't able put
C / weren't able to put
D / couldn't put
30 / We need more police officers, and ___ to walk the streets.
A / only people then will feel safe
B / only then will people feel safe
C / only people will feel safe then
D / only then will feel safe people
31 / I used to be in the scouts, so it won't be the first time I ___in a tent.
A / have slept
B / had slept
C / was sleeping
D / slept
32 / Mike led the expedition ___500 miles of rain forest in central Brazil.
A / over
B / along
C / underneath
D / through

CLOZE TEST

Read the following text and then decide which word, A,B, C or D, best fits each space.

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

Police are hunting for a hit-and-run driver who knocked a teenage cyclist off her bike in East Street. Sarah Tucker, 17, had a lucky escape on Friday, 13th May, when she was sent reeling by a black Volvo on her way home from work.

She bruised her thigh and shoulder and her bicycle was (33) ______. The driver stopped for a moment but then drove off without (34) ______a name or address and before Sarah could get his number. “I tried to (35) ______out of his way, but I couldn´t,” she said. “Everyone at work kept (36) ______on about it being Friday 13th. I´m not a bit superstitious and wouldn´t change any of my plans just because Friday 13th is supposed to be unlucky, I don´t usually take any (37) ______of that sort of thing but I will now. I think I´ll stay in bed.”

The accident took place at the (38) ______with Westwood Road at about 6.30pm as Sarah was making her way home to the Harley Estate.

The Volvo (39) ______out of Westwood Road onto Henley Road in front of the teenager´s bicycle. “He could at least have helped her up. I don´t see why he should get away with it,” said her father, Derek. “Sarah was lucky. I don´t know why the driver didn´t see her. He can´t have been paying attention. It is (40) ______that nobody took down the number.” Though still too (41) ______to ride a bike, Sarah was able to go back to work in Marlow on Monday.

33
A / crashed
B / harmed
C / devastated
D / damaged
34
A / leaving
B / presenting
C / noting
D / suggesting
35
A / go
B / get
C / be
D / stay
36
A / chatting
B / running
C / going
D / rambling
37
A / notice
B / consideration
C / note
D / care
38
A / junction
B / joining
C / roundabout
D / crossing
39
A / pulled
B / thrust
C / ran
D / crashed
40
A / unfavourable
B / inopportune
C / undesirable
D / unfortunate
41
A / discouraged
B / shaken
C / overcome
D / confused

READING COMPREHENSION

For questions 42-50, find the right answers in the following text:

The travel writer

Yet actual journeys aren’t like stories at all. At the time, they seem to be mere strings of haps and mishaps, without point or pattern. You get stuck. You meet someone you like. You get lost. You get lonely. You get interested in architecture. You get diarrhoea. You get invited to a party. You get frightened. A stretch of country takes you by surprise. You get homesick. You are, by rapid turns, engrossed, bored, alert, dull, happy, miserable, well and ill. Every day tends to seem out of connection with every other day, until living from moment to moment turns into a habit and travelling itself into a form of ordinary life. You can’t remember when it wasn’t like this. There is a great deal of liberating pleasure to be had from being abroad in the world, continuously on the move, like a lost balloon, but a journey, at least as long as it is actually taking place, is the exact opposite of a story. It is a shapeless, unsifted, endlessly shifting accumulation of experience.

For travelling is inherently a plotless, disordered, chaotic affair, where writing insists on connection, order, plot, signification. It may take a year or more to see that there was any point to the thing at all, and more years still to make it yield an articulate story. Memory, not the notebook, holds the key. I try to keep a notebook when I’m on the move (largely because writing in it makes one feel that one’s at work, despite all appearances to the contrary) but hardly ever find anything in the notebook that’s worth using later. Trifles are described at inordinate length. Events that now seem important aren’t mentioned at all. The keeper of the notebook sounds stupid and confused. He grouses too much about tides and timetables, and all the forgettable mechanics of the journey; he fails to notice what I remember observing in near-photographic detail. When I’m writing the book, I get precious little help from him… the odd proper name, a date, an ascertainable fact here and there, but little or nothing in the way of intelligent comprehension of what he was doing at the time. Why was he so blind? Because he was traveling and I am writing, and the two activities are chalk and cheese.

Memory, though, is telling stories to itself, filing experience in narrative form. It feeds irrelevancies to the shredder, enlarges on crucial details, makes links and patterns, finds symbols, constructs plots. In memory the journey takes shape and grows; in the notebook it merely languishes, with the notes themselves like a pile of cigarette butts confronted the morning after party.

In 1998, I took six months to sail slowly round the British Isles, stopping at every place I’d known as a child or adolescent. A year later I was still trying to begin the book that was based on the journey. I had 30,000 words but they seemed forced and wrong. There was writing, but as yet no story worth the telling. There was a title ForeignLand but it didn’t fit the writing.

(from For Love and Money by Jonathan Raban)

42 / A real journey is different from a story because …
A / it is difficult to tell what happened.
B / it rather is a series of disconnected events than a coherent narrative.
C / on the move you have little time for writing stories.
D / the journey is “real” but the story is fictitious.
43 / Are journeys a happy experience for the writer?
A / Yes and no. There are both misfortunes and pleasant things happening.
B / No, he often falls ill.
C / No, because he feels homesick and cannot get used to the life on the move.
D / Yes, that is how he makes his living.
44 / Why doesn’t he write his books straight after his return from a journey?
A / Because he feels exhausted and needs a holiday.
B / Because he needs to rewrite his illegible notebook.
C / Because he needs some time to collect more facts and photos.
D / Because he needs to discover a story behind his journey.
45 / Why does he always take notes during a journey?
A / Because he is afraid he would forget important details.
B / Because it is part of his job.
C / Because all his notes are crucial for the future writing.
D / To keep himself busy.
46 / How is a travel writer “two people”?
A / He is both a traveller and a diary keeper at the same time.
B / He is the one who experiences the journey and after some time tells it to others in the form of a narrative.
C / He is both a traveller and an entrepreneur.
D / He is both a traveller and a photographer.
47 / Why are his memories of a journey more productive than his notes?
A / His notes are illegible and he has to rely on his memories.
B / There are many inaccuracies in his notes.
C / The notes contain only unimportant information.
D / The memories reflect the journey more accurately while his notes are of little help.
48 / What useful information can he get from his notebook?
A / None or very little.
B / Intelligent descriptions of what he was doing.
C / Some data, names, timetables etc.
D / Precious information that helps him to construct the future story.
49 / How did the writer travel around Britain in 1998?
A / By car.
B / He hitchhiked.
C / In a ship.
D / On a bike.
50 / In the second paragraph, the word Trifles refers to
A / important meetings
B / unimportant things
C / exciting events
D / misfortunes

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