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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 1 to 7.
Companies big and small are plotting their post-pandemic working futures, and it seems likely that ever fewer of us will fully return to the office as it was before. If the Covid-19 crisis subsides and economies can largely reopen, the experiences of so many people working from home over the past year will surely shape what happens next. For many of us, this could emerge as a return to the office for three days a week. Patterns will obviously vary, but a common aand Friday at home.
This coming shift will largely be driven by employers making a calculation between two different, equally important forces. One is what companies see as the need for in-person creativity and connections, which will spur their desire to bring people back into offices. For many, we are at our most creative working face to face, meeting people, talking over lunch and coffee, or gathering in groups. At home, however, we tend to be more efficient in the daily tasks that make up much of working life. This is the competing force that may keep many of us out of the office, even after Covid. Working at home under the right conditions - which means in your own room with good broadband and no children around - can be highly efficient. This greater efficiency on current tasks also combines with other factors, like the time saved by avoiding the daily commute, offering a compelling reason for people to stay at home. The past year of Covid home working has perhaps opened many more people's eyes to this.
As companies come to decisions on new working arrangements, they will be essentially making a basic trade-off: the expectation of greater creativity in new projects at the office, but greater productivity on existing tasks at home. And, as with most trade-offs, the right answer is not all or nothing - but something in the middle. Employees seem to prefer this working pattern too. In a recent survey of 5,000 employees in Britain, working in the office for three days a week was the most popular choice. Not only is this pattern more efficient for companies, then, but it also helps to keep employees happy and motivated.
Which could be the best title for the passage?
A. Advantages of home working
B. Home working: happier and more efficient
C. Post-pandemic working pattern
D. While-pandemic working pattern
The word “One” in paragraph 2 refers to _______.
A. Calculation
B. Shift
C. Employer
D. Force
The word "compelling” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. effective
B. various
C. convenient
D. sensible
What can be inferred about future working arrangements from this passage?
A. Employees should consider the benefits of a new working pattern.
B. Many businesses are likely to opt for a new working pattern.
C. Businesses must apply a new working pattern for the sake of their employees.
D. Many employers' awareness of a new working pattern needs raising.
According to the passage, all of the following statements are true EXCEPT:
A. Working at home can save time spent on the daily commute.
B. Companies still want to have staff at office to increase their creativity.
C. Working at home is productive under proper conditions.
D. The Covid-19 pandemic will not affect future working arrangement.
The word “spur" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. force
B. encourage
C. limit
D. discourage
According to paragraph 2, which of the following would best facilitate working from home?
A. Well-equipped working place
B. Daily commuting between home and office
C. Good internet connection and no kids surrounding
D. Face to face interaction with co-workers
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.
Are you willing to take on the job, with all of its associated risks?
A. collaborated
B. joined
C. separated
D. related
Cats rub their bodies against their owners' legs to show their affection
A. message
B. love
C. feelings
D. movement
It isn't necessary for us to prepare a present for him.
A. We needn't prepare a present for him..
B. We can't prepare a present for him.
C. We shouldn't prepare a present for him.
D. We may not prepare a present for him.
They have owned this car for three and a half years.
A. They bought this car three and a half years ago.
B. They was buying thissss car for three and a half years.
C. This car belonged to them for three a half years.
D. They have bought this car for three and a half years
“I am sorry mum, I slipped and broke the glass” the boy said.
A. The boy apologized to his mum for breaking the glass.
B. The boy denied having broken the glass.
C. The boy told his mum to break the glass.
D. The boy refused to have broken the glass.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
He is an economist who believes in the advantages of _______ competition.
A. rich
B. healthy
C. fertile
D. wealthy
_______ the apartment is, the cheaper the rent is.
A. The smaller
B. Smaller
C. Smallest
D. The smallest
I'm going to take part in this contest, _______?
A. hasn't I
B. don't I
C. am I
D. aren't I
More than 120,000 people _______ by the two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945.
A. were killing
B. were killed
C. killed
D. kill
I will send you the report _______________.
A. until I received it
B. after I had received it
C. the moment I receive it
D. when I received it
We are _______ an experiment to test how the metal reacts with water.
A. getting
B. doing
C. making
D. taking
Maintaining biodiversity is important _______ us in many ways.
A. for
B. about
C. with
D. of
I have the greatest respect for his ideas _______ I don't agree with them.
A. although
B. because of
C. in spite of
D. because
_______ difficult times together, they were very close friends.
A. Lived through
B. To live through
C. Having lived through
D. Being lived through
Scientists discovered the _______ butterfly at the Park Floral in Paris.
A. beautiful French pink
B. pink beautiful French
C. beautiful pink French
D. French beautiful pink
The new regulations may cause more _______ among the teachers.
A. confuse
B. confused
C. confusion
D. confusing
I _______ a terrifying dream when the alarm clock went off at six o'clock this morning.
A. had
B. is having
C. have
D. was having
You're refusing to speak to her now, but I suspect you'll feel differently in the cold _______ of day.
A. night
B. air
C. light
D. time
We need to find the _______ cause of our employees’ lack of motivation.
A. origin
B. roof
C. base
D. root
They _______ our electricity because we hadn't paid the bill.
A. put off
B. took off
C. got off
D. cut off
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.
A. accept
B. support
C. window
D. employ
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.
A. embarrass
B. introduce
C. defining
D. encourage
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.
When I told him what I'd done to his car, he was obviously very angry. He was literally shaking with rage
A. furious
B. relaxed
C. anxious
D. upset
Journalists shouldn't spend their time digging up dirt on celebrities. It's not in the public interest
A. publishing positive information
B. providing positive information
C. investigating negative information
D. concealing negative information
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 32 to 36.
In a major policy revision intended to encourage more schools to welcome children back to in-person instruction, federal health officials on Friday relaxed the six-foot distancing rule for elementary school students, saying they need only remain three feet apart in classrooms as long as everyone is wearing a mask. The three-foot rule also now applies to students in middle schools and high schools, as long as (32) _______ transmission is not high, officials said. When transmission is high, (33) _______, these students must be at least six feet apart, unless they are taught in cohorts, or small groups that are kept separate from others and the cohorts are kept six feet apart. The six-foot rule still applies in the community at large, officials emphasized, and for teachers and other adults (34) _______ work in schools, who must maintain that distance from (35) _______ adults and from students. Most schools are already operating at least partially in person, and evidence suggests they are doing so relatively safely. Research shows in-school spread can be mitigated with simple safety (36) _______ such as masking, distancing, hand-washing and open windows.
The three-foot rule also now applies to students in middle schools and high schools, as long as (32) _______ transmission is not high, officials said.
A. publicity
B. society
C. community
D. nation
When transmission is high, (33) _______, these students must be at least six feet apart, unless they are taught in cohorts
A. however
B. and
C. moreover
D. but
The six-foot rule still applies in the community at large, officials emphasized, and for teachers and other adults (34) _______ work in schools
A. that
B. whose
C. which
D. who
who must maintain that distance from (35) _______ adults and from students
A. other
B. the other
C. the others
D. others
Research shows in-school spread can be mitigated with simple safety (36) _______ such as masking, distancing, hand-washing and open windows.
A. means
B. procedures
C. approaches
D. measures
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best completes each of the following exchanges.
Nam and his tutor are talking about the entrance examination into high schools.
Nam: “I think it is not sensible to ask students to take 4th subject in this entrance examination."
Tutor: “__________. This will put unnecessary pressure on them."
A. I am not so sure
B. That's not true
C. Absolutely
D. I completely disagree
Kathy and Barbara are talking about Kathy's new dress.
Barbara: “Where did you buy this nice dress?”
Kathy: “____________”
A. It's very beautiful, isn't it?
B. It's at my house.
C. My mum bought it.
D. At the boutique on Park Avenue.
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.
The film was frightening. The children remained perfectly calm during the film.
A. Frightening though the film was, the children remained perfectly calm.
B. So frightening was the film that the children remained perfectly calm.
C. Frightening as was the film, the children remained perfectly calm.
D. But for the frightening film, the children remained perfectly calm.
I'd prefer to be out with my friends. I have too much homework now.
A. I wish I had no homework now and can be out with my friends.
B. If only I didn't have too much homework now and could be out with my friends.
C. If I don't have much homework now, I will be out with my friends.
D. Provided I have no homework now, I will be out with my friends.
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 following questions from 41 to 45.
In a recent interview with Quartz, an online publication, Bill Gates expressed skepticism about society's ability to manage rapid automation. To prevent a social crisis, he mused, governments should consider a tax on robots; if automation slows as a result, so much the better. It is an intriguing if impracticable idea, which reveals a lot about the challenge of automation. Mr. Gates argues that today's robots should be taxed either their installation, or the profits firms enjoy by saving on the costs of the human labour displaced. The money generated could be used to retrain workers, and perhaps to finance an expansion of health care and education, which provide lots of hard-to-automate jobs in teaching or caring for the old and sick.
Mr. Gates seems to suggest that investment in robots is a little like investing in a coal-fired generator: it boosts economic output but also imposes a social cost, what economists call a negative externality. Perhaps rapid automation threatens to remove workers from old jobs faster than new sectors can absorb them. That could lead to socially costly long-term unemployment, and potentially to support for destructive government policy. A tax on robots that reduced those costs might well be worth implementing, just as a tax on harmful blast-furnace emissions can discourage pollution and leave society better off. Reality, however, is more complex. Investments in robots can make human workers more productive rather than expendable; taxing them could leave the employees affected worse off. Particular workers may suffer by being displaced by robots, but workers as a whole might be better off because prices fall. Slowing the use of robots in health care and herding humans into such jobs might look like a useful way to maintain social stability. But if it means that health-care costs grow rapidly, gobbling up the gains in workers' income.
What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Bill Gates' proposal for taxing robots
B. Bill Gates' opposition to taxing robots
C. Bill Gates' opinion on automation
D. Bill Gates' support for automation
The word “it” in paragraph 2 refers to ________.
A. robot
B. investment
C. generator
D. cost
The word “displaced” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. changed
B. located
C. replaced
D. exchanged
According to the passage, which of the following is NOT TRUE about Gates' idea of taxing robots?
A. A tax on robots might have a negative impact on competitiveness and innovation.
B. Considering a tax on robots may help government to prevent a social crisis.
C. A tax on robots can be used to retrain displaced workers.
D. A tax on robots that replace human labour is a way to slow down the spread of automation.
Employees in general may benefit from the taxation on robots because ___________.
A. they get more opportunities
B. investment in robots increaseS
C. there is a drop in prices
D. the productivity improves
Women's access to position of leader and decision-making is constrained from the local to international level.
A. leader
B. decision-making
C. access
D. level
Every family has their own rules, and so does mine.
A. their
B. Every family
C. and
D. does
At school, he is always helping other students in his class.
A. is always helping
B. other
C. in
D. at
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.
A. applied
B. permitted
C. reviewed
D. dissolved
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.
A. bread
B. dear
C. dead
D. head
