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PRACTICE TEST C66

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs
from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Question 1: A. established B. reserved C. designed D. organized
Question 2: A. danger B. educate C. strange D. applicant
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three
in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Question 3: A. moment B. event C. cancer D. offer
Question 4: A. participate B. psychology C. ability D. temporary
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction
in each of the following questions.
Question 5: The office furniture that was ordered last month have just arrived, but we’re not sure
whether the manager will like it.
A. was ordered B. have just arrived C. whether D. will like
Question 6: The first national known male singers of popular music appeared during the 1920s.
A. The B. national C. of D. appeared
Question 7: Dreaming, like all other mental processes, it is a product of the brain and its activity.
A. like all B. it is C. of the brain D. its activity
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each
of the following questions.
Question 8: My supervisor is angry with me. I didn't do all the work I ______ last week.
A. should have done B. may have done C. need to have done D. must have done
Question 9: She is very absent-minded: she ______ her cell phone three times!
A. has lost B. loses C. was losing D. had lost
Question 10: Whenever he had an important decision to make, he ______ a cigar to calm his nerves.
A. would light B. would be lighting C. would have lit D. had lit
Question 11: He always ______ the crossword in the newspaper before breakfast.
A. writes B. makes C. works D. does
Question 12: Not until the end of the 19th-century ______ become a scientific discipline.
A. plant breeding has B. did plant breeding
C. plant breeding had D. has plant breeding
Question 13: "How can you live in this messy room? Go and ______ it up at once."
A. dust B. sweep C. tidy D. do
Question 14: This factory produced ______ motorbikes in 2008 as in the year 2006.
A. twice as many B. as twice as many C. as twice many D. as many as twice

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Question 15: Preparing for a job interview can be very ______.

A. stress B. stressful C. stressed D. stressing
Question 16: In many big cities, people have to ______ up with noise, overcrowding and bad air.
A. keep B. catch C. face D. put
Question 17: Had she worked harder last summer, she ______.
A. wouldn't have been sacked B. wouldn't have sacked
C. wouldn't sack D. wouldn't be sacked
Question 18: Nobody’s got to stay late this evening, _______?
A. is it B. have they C. isn’t it D. don’t they
Question 19: With hard work and study, you can ______ the goals you set for yourself.
A. establish B. succeed C. achieve D. increase
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the most suitable response to complete
each of the following exchanges.
Question 20: - "Our team has just won the last football match."
- "______"
A. Good idea. Thanks for the news. B. Yes. I guess it's very good.
C. Well, that's very surprising! D. Yes, it's our pleasure.
Question 21: - "I can't speak English well enough to apply for that post."
- "______."
A. Me neither B. Me too C. Me either D. Me also
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 22: Other experiments were undertaken in Europe and America, but the arc light eventually
proved impractical because it burned out too quickly.
A. funded B. discovered C. failed D. carried out
Question 23: He surprised me in a later conversation by mentioning he was taking steps to remedy the
problem.
A. understand B. improve C. face D. encounter
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the
underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Question 24: I take my hat off to all those people who worked hard to get the contract.
A. admire B. congratulate C. treasure D. disregard
Question 25: This flat is a far cry from the house they had before.
A. be completely different B. be exactly the same
C. be better than D. be worse than
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest
in meaning to each of the following questions.
Question 26: “It’s not true! I have never been arrested.”
A. Harry denied ever having been arrested.
B. Harry denied not having been arrested.

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C. Harry said that it was not true to have been arrested.

D. Harry refused having been arrested.
Question 27: There’s no point in phoning Caroline – she’s away.
A. Don’t waste your time if you phone Caroline.
B. It would be a waste of time phoning Caroline.
C. Don’t save your time to phone Caroline because she’s away.
D. It isn’t a waste of time to phone Caroline.
Question 28: Under no circumstances should you press both buttons at once.
A. Neither of the buttons shouldn’t be pressed at once under any circumstances.
B. Both buttons shouldn’t be pressed at once under no circumstances.
C. You should not press both buttons at once under any circumstances.
D. Pressing both buttons at once should be performed under any circumstances.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best
combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Question 29: We couldn’t squeeze through the door. It was very narrow.
A. We couldn’t squeeze through the door, which it was very narrow.
B. Since the door was very narrow, that we couldn’t squeeze through it.
C. The door was so narrow for us to squeeze through.
D. So narrow was the door that we couldn’t squeeze through.
Question 30: You must read the instructions. You won’t know how to use this machine without reading
them.
A. Reading the instructions, so you will know how to use this machine.
B. Without reading the instructions, the use of this machine won’t be known.
C. Unless you read the instructions, you won’t know how to use this machine.
D. You will know how to use this machine unless you read the instructions
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct
word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35.
In the United States and Canada, it is very important to (31) ______ a person directly in the eyes when you
are having a conversation with him or her. If you look down or to the side when the (32) ______ person is
talking, that person will think that you are not interested in what he or she is saying. This, of course, is not
polite. If you look down or to the side when you are talking, it might (33) ______ that you are not honest.
However, people who are speaking will sometimes look away for (34) ______ seconds when they are
thinking or trying to find the right word. But they always turn immediately back to look the listener directly
in the eyes. These social "rules" are (35) ______ for two men, two women, a man and a woman, or an adult
and a child.
Question 31: A. talk B. notice C. get D. look
Question 32: A. others B. another C. one D. other
Question 33: A. seem B. become C. turn D. come
Question 34: A. a little B. a few C. little D. few
Question 35: A. like B. the same C. likely D. such as

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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 36 to 41.
The Ring of Fire is an enormous chain of volcanoes all around the Pacific Ocean. The ring goes from New
Zealand up to Asia and across the ocean to Alaska. From Alaska, the ring continues southward along the
coast of both North and South America. More than seventy-five percent of the world's volcanoes are located
in this ring. Scientists are interested in studying the Ring of Fire because they can observe plate tectonics
at work there. In 1912, a German scientist, Alfred Wegener, came up with the first theory of land movement.
Wegener said continents are made up of lighter rocks resting on heavier material. Similar to the way large
things move while floating on water, Wegener suggested that the positions of the continents were not fixed,
but that they moved slightly. Later, scientists discovered most of Wegener's ideas were right on the mark.
They then developed the theory called plate tectonics. According to plate tectonics, the surface of the Earth
consists of a number of enormous plates or sections of rock, each about eighty kilometers thick. The plates
float and slowly move at speeds between one to ten centimeters every year. That is about the rate your
fingernails grow! Within the Ring of Fire, new material for the Earth's plates is constantly being created as
hot liquid rock called magma flows from the center of the Earth up to the ocean floor. All the existing plates
on the Earth's surface have to move slightly to make room for the new material. As plates move both away
from and toward each other, they run into each other. When they hit each other, one plate might move under
another. This process is called subduction. Subduction frequently causes earthquakes. It may also result in
the bottom plate melting due to the extreme temperatures under the top plate. The magma created in this
process can rise to the Earth's surface and come out through volcanoes, as can be seen along the Ring of
Fire.
Question 36: What is the main focus of this reading?
A. The most active volcanoes found in the Ring of Fire
B. The location of the Ring of Fire
C. How the plates on the Earth’s surface move in different ways
D. How plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes are related
Question 37: The word “fixed” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______________.
A. not changing B. unstable C. moving D. floating
Question 38: According to the reading, which is true about the Ring of Fire?
A. All of the volcanoes along the ring are active.
B. Most of the volcanoes on Earth are part of the ring.
C. The ring gets bigger each year.
D. The ring was discovered in the 20th century.
Question 39: What does “subduction” mean in this reading?
A. Rocks moving under volcanoes B. Erupting liquid rock
C. The theory of moving plates D. Movement of a plate under another
Question 40: What is NOT a result of shifting tectonic plates?
A. Earthquakes B. Extreme temperatures inside the Earth
C. Volcanoes D. Subduction
Question 41: Which question is NOT answered in the reading?

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A. How fast do tectonic plates move? B. How thick are the plates in tectonic theory?
C. What is the most active volcano today? D. Where is the Ring of Fire?
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 42 to 50.
On a winter night last June, José Antonio Tuki, a 30-year-old artist on Easter Island, sat on Anakena
beach and stared at the enormous human statues there – the moai. The statues are from four feet tall to 33
feet tall. Some weigh more than 80 tons. They were carved a long time ago, with stone tools, and then
they were moved up to 11 miles to the beach. Tuki stares at their faces and he feels a connection. ‘This is
something that was produced by my ancestors’, he says. ‘How did they do it?’
The first Polynesians arrived at Rapa Nui (Easter Island), probably by canoe, hundreds of years ago. The
island is 2,150 miles west of South America and 1,300 miles east of its nearest inhabited neighbour,
Pitcairn. Nowadays 12 flights arrive every week from Chile, Peru and Tahiti. In 2011, 50,000 tourists –
ten times the island’s population – flew to Easter Island. Almost all of the jobs on Easter Island depend on
tourism. And the tourists go there for only one thing: the moai. People around the world became curious
about the statues after the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made Easter Island famous, and there
are different theories about how the statues were moved to the beach. Many researchers think the statues
were pulled along the ground using ropes and wood. Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond has suggested
that many people were needed to build and move the moai. As a result, the island’s trees were cut down
for wood and to create farming land. This open land was fragile and it was soon eroded by the strong
winds, so it was very difficult to grow food. The situation was an early example of an ecological disaster,
according to Diamond. On the other hand, archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl
Lipo of California State
University Long Beach have a more positive view of the island’s history. They suggest that the
inhabitants actually pioneered a type of sustainable farming – they built thousands of circular stone walls,
called manavai, and grew food inside them. And their theory about how the moai were moved is that they
were ‘walked’ along using a system of only ropes and a few people.
As José Tuki contemplates these enormous statues, he doesn’t mind that there are no definite answers
about the history of his island. ‘I want to know the truth,’ he says, ‘but maybe knowing everything would
take its power away’.
Question 42: The Easter Island statues __________.
A. are new constructions to attract tourists.
B. aren’t completely understood by archaeologists
C. were destroyed by the islanders.
D. were made by José Antonio Tuki.
Question 43: On Easter Island today, the statues _________.
A. are very important for the island’s economy.
B. have lost their significance.
C. are abandoned.
D. are regarded as a problem.
Question 44: The people of Easter Island today _________.

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A. are isolated from the modern world.

B. are often unemployed.
C. are very rich.
D. depend on foreign visitors.
Question 45: Studying the moai __________.
A. can tell us about the people who lived on the island.
B. is important to the farmers on Easter Island.
C. helps us to understand the art of José Tuki.
D. is not important to the people on Easter Island.
Question 46: The moai __________.
A. are statues of animals. B. are all the same size.
C. were made by José Tuki‟s ancestors. D. are small human statues.
Question 47: Jared Diamond thinks that _________.
A. the forest resources on Easter Island were poor.
B. there were never any forests on Easter Island.
C. the people on Easter Island used to be very poor.
D. it became difficult to grow food after the forests were cut down.
Question 48: Hunt and Lipo’s theory about the movement of the statues involves using ________.
A. wood and stone. B. ropes and people. C. wood and ropes. D. ropes and stone.
Question 49: The word “fragile” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. easily broken B. firm C. hard D. dry
Question 50: The story of the moai can teach us lessons about _________.
A. our interaction with the environment. B. the role of art in society.
C. island communities. D. ecological disasters

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