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PÍSEMNÝ PŘIJÍMACÍ TEST - ČERVEN 2010
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1. The novel Robinson Crusoe was written in the _________ century.
a) 15th
b) 16th
c) 17th
d) 18th
2. The Middle English hero Sir Gawain is a knight at the court of King:
a) Alfred
b) Arthur
c) Adalric
d) Athelstan
3. Gulliver’s Travels was written by
a) Lemuel Gulliver
b) John Milton
c) Laurence Stern
d) Jonathan Swift
4. New England DOES NOT include:
a) Maine
b) Virginia
c) Massachusetts
d) New Hampshire
5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Henry VIII of England?
a) He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
b) He married Catherine of Aragon as his first wife.
c) He separated the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
d) He defeated Richard III and united the houses of Lancaster and York.
6. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the American Civil War?
a) One of the causes of the war was the institution of slavery.
b) During the war Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
c) The Confederate States of America defeated the Union.
d) The war broke out in 1861.
7. Which of these compounds is the odd one out in terms of primary stress placement (in
British English)?
a) paper plate
b) apple crumble
c) peach brandy
d) almond cake
8. Which of these phrases is the odd one out in terms of the linking sound (in British
English)?
a) three apples
b) try it
c) do it
d) free animals
9. Which of these words is the odd one out in terms of where the primary stress lies (in
British English)?
a) controversy
b) contraception
c) controversial
d) contribution
10. Find the word whose underlined part cannot be read as both /i:/ and /e/ depending
on the meaning.
a) pear
b) lead
c) read
d) tear
11. There are ___________ tourists in London this year than last year.
a) little
b) fewer
c) few
d) lesser
12. The left wing of the party prospers ___________ the right wing seems to be losing
ground.
a) until
b) whether
c) unless
d) while
13. I doubt ___________ the company will make any profit at all this year.
a) when
b) whether
c) since
d) so that
14. ___________ Mary, give her my love.
a) If you had seen
b) Do you see
c) By seeing
d) Should you see
15. The Minister was pleased to be able to announce that another 500 miles of motorway
___________ by the end of last year.
a) had been built
b) have been building
c) are being built
d) were building
16. Joe is going away, isn’t he?
Maybe, but he ___________ for long because he hasn’t taken a suitcase.
a) hasn’t to go
b) mustn’t go
c) can’t go
d) can’t be going
17. I didn’t dare to admit that I’d dropped his laptop. He ___________ so angry with
me.
a) will have been
b) would have been
c) can have been
d) can’t have been
18. His life style was ___________ that everyone knew he was rich.
a) so much
b) such
c) so
d) like
19. Please remember ___________ some money for me before you go out.
a) to leave
b) that you leave
c) leave
d) leaving
20. Don’t upset her ___________ you do!
a) whoever
b) whenever
c) however
d) whatever
21. The government was warned ___________ indulge in too much borrowing this
financial year.
a) not to
b) to not
c) never
d) do not
22. Contrary ___________ public opinion, this area has long been a haven for all forms
of insect life.
a) with
b) at
c) for
d) to
23. I asked her to marry me but she turned me ___________.
a) over
b) down
c) off
d) aside
24. You’ll never guess who I happened to run ___________ the other day!
a) along
b) into
c) through
d) away
25. The ___________ of his first novel appeared in The Times yesterday.
a) survey
b) inspection
c) appraisal
d) review
26. Can you ___________ the difference between a frog and a toad?
a) say
b) make
c) tell
d) choose
27. What does she do for a living?
She ___________ a computer software company.
a) runs
b) leads
c) makes
d) conducts
28. At the end of term, we all have to ___________ a written test.
a) do
b) make
c) give
c) get
29. He’s forever complaining about one thing or another. He’s a real ___________ in the
neck.
a) twist
b) ache
c) pain
d) itch
30. The dead woman was still ___________ the flower in her hand.
a) grabbing
b) grasping
c) clutching
d) clenching
31. I was very ___________ to hear that the party had been cancelled.
a) deceived
b) disillusioned
c) disabused
d) disappointed
32. She was so angry that she ___________ him across the face.
a) clapped
b) slammed
c) slapped
d) strapped
33. Several houses were pulled down to make ___________ for a new bypass.
a) way
b) road
c) hole
d) area
CLOZE TEST
Read the following text, then choose the only alternative which is correct from A – D to
fill each numbered gap.
A community choir
34. Open Voices is a community choir ___________ in the town of Kingston, in Ontario,
Canada.
a) based
b) centred
c) built
d) stationed
35. It was founded last year by a man called Andy Rush, an accomplished musician with
a 16-year ___________ record as a choir director.
a) course
b) track
c) path
d) line
36. Andy began by researching the way other community choirs were ___________,
a) set down
b) set off
c) set up
d) set on
37. before deciding on the ___________ he wished to use for his own choir.
a) guide
b) model
c) sample
d) pattern
38. He then advertised for people to come and try out the choir. There were no auditions
and a ___________ in music was not necessary.
a) backup
b) backdrop
c) background
d) backlog
39. The purpose of the trial session was simply to give people the opportunity to sing in a
choir and get a ___________ for the experience
a) touch
b) mood
c) sense
d) feel
40. before making any ___________ to it.
a) commitment
b) allegiance
c) dedication
d) assurance
41. In order to ___________ the barriers that can prevent people from joining groups
like this, he provided transportation, child care, and subsidized membership fees for
those who needed them.
a) overlook
b) overcome
c) overwhelm
d) overtake
42. His goal was to make Open Voices inclusive and welcoming, and to ___________
people from a variety of musical, cultural and social environments.
a) catch on
b) pull up
c) take out
d) bring in
You are going to read a newspaper article. For questions 43 - 50, choose the answer (A,
B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
An Elephant Orphanage
Last October, a land cruiser truck carrying the limp body of a month-old African elephant
pulled up to the gate of Daphne Sheldrick’s property just outside Kenya’s Nairobi National
Park. It had been found wandering alone outside another park dazed and dehydrated, its
floppy ears badly sunburned. ‘The babies are always ill and sometimes severely traumatised,’
says Sheldrick as she tends the new arrival, applying antiseptic powder to its ears and to a
wound on its leg. ‘Constant attention, affection, and communication is crucial to their will to
live. They must never be left alone.’
Remarkably, those that make it to Sheldrick homestead never are. Until they are two, they get
all attention that a human infant would receive, including having a keeper sleep at their side
every night. Sheldrick, 61, the widow of David Sheldrick, a renowned naturalist and founder
of Kenya Tsavo National Park, opened her elephant and rhino orphanage in 1977 and has
become a leading authority on infant elephant behaviour. After 25 years of frustrating trial
and error, she developed a system for nurturing baby elephants. Her method includes a
skimmed-milk coconut oil formula devised for human babies – young pachyderms cannot
digest the fat in cow’s milk – a small amount of elephant dung to provide digestion-enhancing
bacteria and round-the-clock human contact. In 1987 she became the first person to hand-raise
a wild, milk-dependent baby elephant. Since then, she and her staff of eight keepers have
raised 12 elephants from infancy – the highest success rate in the world.
‘What Daphne gives them is hands-on care,’ says Tony Fitzjohn, a Kenya conservationist.
‘It’s what they need and it’s extremely hard work.’ Especially when elephants arrive
damaged. The newest, which Sheldrick has named Sungelai (Swahili for ‘mighty warrior’),
consumes about 10 litres of formula – plus 8 litres of additional fluid and salts – to help him
rehydrate. He receives his bottles through a hole in a grey blanket hung between two trees,
which replicates the shape and feel of a mother elephant’s belly. Sheldrickʼs keepers rotate 6hour shifts, playing with him, taking him on walks – and occasionally disciplining him.
‘Infant elephants are very similar to human infants,’ says Sheldrick. ‘They can be naughty,
competitive and disobedient. When you say “No,” they want to do it.’ If punishment is called
for, Sheldrick gives them a little zing on the bottom with a battery-powered cattle prod. ‘It’s
an unfamiliar sensation, so it’s unpleasant for them. But then,’ she adds, ‘you have to be
careful to make friends with them again.’ Prodigious memory may explain why zookeepers
are occasionally killed by elephants they have known for years. ‘They’ve done something to
the elephant which they’ve forgotten, but the elephant hasn’t,’ Sheldrick explains.
For every step forward, there were painful retreats. In 1974, while at Tsavo, Sheldrick
achieved a breakthrough when she nursed a newborn, Aisha, to 6 months. But then she had to
leave for 2 weeks to attend her daughter Jill’s wedding. Aisha, who had bonded exclusively
with Sheldrick stopped eating. ‘She died of a broken heart,’ says Sheldrick, who now rotates
keepers to prevent babies from bonding with only one person.
The orphans remain at Sheldrick’s Nairobi compound until the age of 2, when they are fully
weaned onto a vegetable diet. Once they are able to feed themselves, they are trucked to
Tsavo National Park, 150 miles away, where they are put into a stockade and gradually
introduced to local herds. Eleanor, 38, who was rescued by Sheldrick’s first husband and
reintroduced into the wild in 1970, has become a willing adoptive mother. ‘The little
elephants are always welcome in a wild herd,’ says Sheldrick.
But the adults can also be stern parents. ‘If the matriarch gives them a smack with her trunk,
they’ll come flying back to their human keepers,’ says Sheldrick, who makes sure the
youngsters are free to come and go from the stockade. ‘It takes 12 to 15 years (of their 60- to
70-year lifespan) before the baby becomes independent of his human family. Eventually they
get bored stiff with people because they’re having more fun with elephants.’
For their part, elephants can make it instantly clear when humans have overstepped their
welcome. Last year, Sheldrick was visiting Tsavo when mistakenly she thought she had
spotted Eleanor. ‘I called to her, and she came over,’ she recalls. ‘I talked to her for about 10
minutes and touched her ear. She didn’t like that at all and used her tusk and trunk to send me
flying into a pile of boulders.’ Despite a shattered right knee and femur from which she is still
recovering, Sheldrick doesn’t hold a grudge. ‘On the contrary,’ she says, ‘I’m very flattered
that a completely wild elephant would come and talk to me.’
43. What is the most important element in Daphne Sheldrick’s approach to rearing baby
elephants?
a) Providing them with companionship 24 hours a day.
b) Feeding them with a dairy-based milk powder devised for human babies.
c) Not giving them too much attention after they turn two.
d) Getting the keepers to sleep with them.
44. Why is it important to make friends with an elephant after you have punished it?
a) They are like human children and can be naughty.
b) They might never forgive you for punishing them.
c) They will kill you if you don’t.
d) They will forget the punishment too quickly.
45. Why was it a mistake for Sheldrick to nurse the baby elephant Aisha on her own?
a) She couldn’t leave Aisha to attend her daughter’s wedding.
b) Aisha became too attached to her.
c) The other keepers didn’t know how to look after Aisha.
d) Elephants like to have a variety of people looking after them.
46. Why are the baby elephants kept in a stockade after they are taken to Tsavo
National Park?
a) The wild elephants do not accept them.
b) They are still not able to feed themselves.
c) They have not been yet adopted by Eleanor.
d) The process of assimilation into a herd takes time.
47. Why do the young elephants eventually stop coming back to the stockade?
a) They prefer the company of other elephants.
b) The other elephants are too rough with them.
c) The keepers stop them because they are too old.
d) The humans get bored with them.
48. A “stockade” is
a) a place originally used as a warehouse.
b) an enclosure built around a farm to provide security.
c) an African variety of European ZOOs.
d) a place for breeding cattle.
49. Why did Sheldrick touch the wild elephant’s ear?
a) She wanted to make the elephant feel welcome.
b) She had confused her with another elephant.
c) She had already been talking to her for about 10 minutes.
d) She was flattered by the elephant’s attention.
50. What overall impression does the author of the article give of work with elephants?
a) It is dangerous.
b) It is depressing.
c) It is rewarding.
d) It is unpleasant.