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AKADEMIA ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKA IM. JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO W KIELCACH
ZAKŁAD NEOFILOLOGII
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ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
th September 2001
This examination consists of the following parts:
- written part SCORING
1. Listening Comprehension............................................... 10 points
2. Definitions………………........................ .................….... 10 points
3. Cloze............................................................................... 20 points
4. Transformations ............................................................. 20 points
5. Word Building ........................................................…..... 20 points
6. Translation ..............................................................….... 20 points
7. Reading Comprehension ................................................ 10 points
8. Error Recognition............................................................ 10 points
9. Sentence Paraphrase ……………………………………. 20 points
10. General Knowledge Component...........................….... 10 points
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150 points
- oral part: .................................................................................... 50 points
Total: 200 points
TIMING: 3 hours.
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Do not write on these pages.
Write only on the answer sheets you are provided with.
1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Choose the best option according to the text you will hear.
1. The relationship between travel and poetry is that
a) the former encourages the latter.
b) the latter discourages the former.
c) the latter is typically produced abroad.
d) the former originates from periods of transition.
2. Coleridge, while in Malta,
a) took an examination as a descriptive poet.
b) met an Englishman from Devonshire.
c) lovingly recorded details of exotic plants and their surroundings.
d) had no experience of what oranges or lemons were.
3. Mont Blanc is essential to Romantic poetry because
a) of the right of way.
b) the poets used its image in their poems.
c) all Romantics found it divine.
d) of the gulf below the man standing on its peak.
4. The Romantic travellers were typically
a) travelling by themselves.
b) reading other travel accounts to pass the time.
c) quite athletic and enjoyed running.
d) opium-eaters.
5. The recommendation to travellers has been to
a) visit Poland before seeing Paris.
b) carry a pack of cards at all times.
c) socialise with the locals.
d) keep a record of their observations.
2. DEFINITIONS
Decide which of the three example sentences uses each word or phrase correctly. Only one answer is correct in each case.
1. iffy
a) He may or may not get the job, it’s all rather iffy.
b) If you’re going to the Post Office, could you get me a large iffy bag so that I can send Mum her present?
c) The new manager’s great – really iffy.
2. in-depth
a) I was really in-depth when I lost my brother’s credit card.
b) She’s got a new in-depth CD player.
c) The commanding officer gave an exclusive in-depth interview to Time magazine.
3. couch potato
a) I’m starving – let’s go and get a couch potato in the High Street.
b) Switch the telly off, for goodness’ sake. You’re turning into a couch potato.
c) She doesn’t say much but she’s got a lot of couch potato.
4. whinge
a) I don’t want my bike to be stolen; I must get a whinge for it.
b) He’s always whingeing about how unlucky he is.
c) He was whinged on charges of corruption.
5. gutter press
a) People’s lives are ruined every day by the gutter press.
b) When you buy an old house, you usually have to have it gutter-pressed.
c) He was wearing a gutter press shirt and blue jeans.
6. trump card
a) Thanks for the trump card and the flowers – they cheered me up.
b) Trump card losses and mortgage debt are crippling the economy.
c) Her trump card is that she’s the only one who speaks Russian.
7. drop somebody in it
a) My mother-in-law needed a lift to the station, so I dropped her in it.
b) You really dropped me in it when you told Susan about the party, you idiot! I told you I hadn’t invited her.
c) We used to be friends and then one day Nick just dropped me in it.
8. bumbag
a) I’m not going to work here for peanuts – that’s a bumbag deal.
b) I hate this haircut – I look like a bumbag.
c) She reached into her bumbag for her bus fare.
9. earth-shattering
a) We had to use a bulldozer for the earth-shattering when we reshaped the garden.
b) Lots of people left the disco because the music was so earth-shattering.
c) At two o’clock they got the earth-shattering news – they had won the lottery!
10. sit-up
a) I did 50 sit-ups, and then went for a run at lunchtime.
b) Sit-up properly at the table and don’t slump.
c) He was sacked for not doing something he hadn’t been asked to do – it was a complete sit-up.
Adapted from: OALD Teacher’s Pack
3. CLOZE
Fill in each of the gaps with one word only.
In all 1) .................., one of our first actions of the day is to talk to someone. What is so remarkable about that? Most of the 2) .................. three billion people in the world do the same thing. But suppose a dog, or any animal, awoke one morning and 3) .................. talking. It would make the front page of every newspaper in the world as well as the evening news. We are so accustomed to talking, and hearing other people talk, that we occasionally forget 4) .................. a marvellous attribute language is. Only when we consider the plight of not being able to talk 5) .................. we fully appreciate its importance. Consider an aphasiac, a person, that is, 6) .................. has lost the ability to talk. He may still understand what is said and even 7) .................. in writing; but such a person is as badly handicapped as one with the most distressing physical impairment. He needs institutional care in the same way as any disabled person, or special training, at least, to enable him to carry on in the outside world. One of the authors recently communicated with an aphasiac who could say almost nothing, and even said the reverse of what he meant – an intended "No" coming out "Yes," and 8) .................. versa. The man was a wealthy Florida realtor, yet one day he wrote: "Believe me, I'd give all my property and savings if I 9) .................. only talk again."
By contrast, reading and writing – marks on paper that 10) .................. for speech – are much less important. In fact, half the adults on earth, even in this modern and advanced day, are 11) .................., or unable to read and write. And many of the world's languages, probably a 12) .................. majority, have no writing system at all. Although literacy is a tremendous advantage in modern industrialized societies, it is by no 13).................. essential. That is, we can still get along without 14) .................. able to read or write. Of course, this does not alter the fact that illiteracy is one of the world's great social and educational 15) .................. . The point is that illiteracy does not incapacitate humans as 16) .................. as aphasia does. People who cannot read and write can still get along reasonably well in our society, but the aphasiac must seek professional help 17)................... he is cured or rehabilitated.
Some people 18) .................. there is nothing men could not do if they really understood each other's language. Utopia requires far more than that, no 19) .................., but it is true that a shared language tends to unite people, while different languages divide them. Those of us who have ever lived in an environment in which we did not understand the language know from personal experience how welcome a few words of our native speech can seem. Even in the strange accents of strangers, our native language sounds 20) .................. to us, and we have a shared feeling for those who speak as we do.
Hayes, Ornstein, Gage, The ABC's of Languages and Linguistics
4. TRANSFORMATIONS
Paraphrase each of the sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the sentence printed before it, using the given word. The form of the word must not be changed in any way.
EXAMPLE:
0. They did not allow us to do it. ...
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