SAMPLE TEST

1. Put the words in brackets into the correct form and part of speech to complete the text.

a) Checking out job …………………… (advertise) is popular with executives worldwide. Some companies
use the services of…………………… (recruit) agencies. Our agencies usually specify the required
…………………… (qualify) The British give …………………… (important) to social, political and
………………… (leader) skills. The candidates, or …………………….…… (apply) for the advertised job
are invited to an interview.

b) An important aspect of my job involves making sure the product meets the marketing ……………………
(require) once it is completed. On Tuesday we are presenting the ……………………. (innovate) features of
the new version to our main customers. They are sure to appreciate our ………………………. (flexible) in
meeting the customers’ demands.

2. Complete the definitions with appropriate words (6 definitions - 15 points)

1. Dividend – is ................................... that a business or organisation .................................. over a period of

time, esp. from selling .......................................... or services.

2. Open outcry – is a method of trading by .................................., when each ...................................... in the

market calls out the commodities he wishes to sell or buy, and the ........................... .

3. Replace the definitions in italics with the correct form of appropriate words initial letters of which
are provided. (12 points)

1. In 1983 Philips l________________________ (introduced onto the market) the compact disc.

2. The French and German adverts are v__________________ (not clear in shape or form) about material
rewards.

3. They must have serious p_____________________ (thorough skill gained by practice) in technical sports.

4. Manufacturers prefer business with Richer Sounds because it can handle small numbers of i _____________
(single things, especially parts of a list, group, or set).

5. A database of b ______________________________ (the receivers of the advantage, esp. money or property)

[suppliers, employees] is maintained on your PC.

6. The company had to j __________________________ (to give a good reason for, to explain satisfactorily) the
$2 to $10 premium per garment.

7. Regular work suits me but I don't like it to i _______________________ (prevent something from succeeding
or happening in the way that was planned) with my private life.

8. Sales f ______________________ (rose and fell irregularly) from May to September.

4. In the remaining part of the test there are various topics concerning the grammar and other topics
included in the second parts of the lessons, like for example, tenses, passive voice, conditionals,
reported speech, phrasal verbs, word formation (prefixes, suffixes...), describing graphs, expressing
contrast, etc. Any of them is EQUALLY LIKELY TO BE INCLUDED. Some examples follow.

A. Change into reported speech.

When has he started working here? – She asked me when .................................................................... .

Our company is introducing a new technology. – He said .................................................................... .

B. Conditionals

If we buy the shares now, we ...................................... (enjoy) at least 10 % profit by the end of the year.

He would not fail at the exam, if he ........................................... (work) harder.

C. Phrasal verbs

He would never reach this position if his friends in the headquarters did not ............................ him
......................... (supported him).

We have enough reserves to ................................... ............................... (take action about) this situation.

D. Use since or for in the following sentences.

Do not be afraid o fit. I am going to stay there only ...................... a couple of days.

Where have you been so long! I have been waiting for you ....................... 9 o’clock.
 Sample test
Mathematics

1. Vocabulary
Fill a suitable expression or phrase into each gap.
1. P……………………. can be understood as a fraction with a denominator of 100.
1. A list of numbers like, for example, 1, 4, 9, … n2, …, where n is a natural number is called a
s………………… .
3. Circumference C of the circle is the limit of the …………………..……… of the inscribed regular
polygon as the number of its sides becomes very large.
4. The least common …………………………………. of 2 and 3 is 6.
5. Decimals like 0.22222… are called repeating ………………………………. decimals.
6. Zero is neither negative …………………………………. positive.
7. Number 3.1415956535 is exact to ten decimal ………………………………..
8. Polynomial is formed by the …………………………….. of any number of monomials. A third set
which contains all the members common to both set A and set B is known as ………………… .
9. A third set which contains all the members of both set A and set B is known as ………………… .
10. If two sets A and B have precisely the same elements, we say that A and B are ………………….. .

2. Prepositions
Fill in the correct preposition into each gap.
11. A function is continuous ………….. the point x = c, if lim f(x) exists, f(c) exists and lim f(x) = f(c).
12. In this section we concentrate …………………………. some basic concepts concerning calculus.
13. Every even number is divisible ……………………..…….. number 2.
14. Two expressions joined together ……………………… an equality sign form an equation.
15. A universal set is the set consisting ………………….. all the elements we wish to consider.

3. Word formation
Put the words in the brackets into correct form and/or part of speech to complete the text.
In around 500 AD Aryabhata devised a number system which was a ……………….. (position)
system. He used the word "kha" for position and it would be used later as the name for zero. There is
……………….. (evident) that a dot had been used in earlier Indian manuscripts to denote an empty
place in this ………………… (to note). We have an ………………. (to inscribe) on a stone which
contains a date which corresponds to 876. We now come to considering the first …………………. (to
appear) of zero as a number. From early times numbers are words which refer to collections of objects.
……………………. (Certain) the idea of a number became more and more abstract and this abstraction
then makes possible the ………………… (to consider) of zero and negative numbers which do not
arise as properties of collections of objects.
4. Vocabulary
Fill a suitable expression into each gap. Choose from the expressions above the text.
in small sufficiently relative insufficiently without
within increasingly of f(x) either approaches

THE LIMIT OF A FUNCTION

The number b is called the limit of the function f(x) as x → a (read: "as x …………………….. a") if
as x approaches a ……………………… from the right or the left, the value ……………..……….. f(x)
approaches b ……………………………….. bound. Note that it is assumed that the function f(x) is
defined within some interval containing the point x = a (at all points on the left and on the right of a); at
the point x = a itself, the function f(x) is either defined or is not (the latter case is no less important than
the former).
Definition. The number b is called the limit of the function f(x) as x → a, if the absolute value of the
difference f(x) – b remains less than any preassigned positive number ε every time that the absolute
value of the difference x – a, for x ≠ a, is less than some positive number δ (dependent on ε).
More briefly (but less rigorously): the number b is the limit of the function f(x) as x → a, if the
absolute value of f(x) – b, is arbitrarily ……………..……….. when the absolute value of x – a, is
……………………….. small.

Read the text and find words having similar meanings to the following ones:
to begin ………………. type ……………….
to desire ………………. to be the same as ……………….
to receive ………….……. conclude ……………….
to answer ………………. altitude ……………….

AREA
Another measure of a polygon is area. The area of a polygon tells us how many square units (inches,
feet, yards, meters, centimetres, and so on) that polygon contains.
Suppose we want to put tiles on the floor of a room. Suppose that the room is of a 10 feet by 8 feet,
and the tiles are 1 foot by 1 foot. How many tiles do we need to cover the floor of the room? One way
to do this would be to start laying the tiles down on the floor, placing one next to the other until the
entire floor is covered. Because the tiles measure 1 foot by 1 foot, they are squares, and we can say that
their measure is 1 square foot. Counting the number of tiles we see that there are 80 of them, that is,
there are 80 square feet of tiles on the floor. We can also say that the area of the floor is 80 square feet.
Recall that the area of a polygon tells how many square units of a certain kind that polygon contains.
Note that we could have also obtained the answer 80 square feet by multiplying 10 × 8 = 80. Therefore,
we can conclude that:

The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its length and width; that is, area of a
rectangle = length × width.
Symbolically, we have
A=l⋅w or A=l⋅w
We can also say that the area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and its height. The term
base is another name for the length of a rectangle, and the term height is another name for the width of a
rectangle. Therefore,
A=b⋅h