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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.

• shoots

• grounds

• concentrates

• forests

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.

• major

• native

• sailor

• 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.

• automatic

• reasonable

• mathematics

• preservation

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.

• contrary

• graduate

• document

• attendance

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following question.

Question 5: It can sometimes ________a home

• to take months to sell

• take several months to sell

• selling takes several months

• to sell taking several months

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever (6) ________ on the precise criteria by which beauty may be jugded.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the ‘golden proportion’, according to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably (7) ________ by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. Symmetry has been proved to be attractive to the human eye, so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetricalones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no (8) ________ agreement or even national consensus on what (9) ________ beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important factor.

In the meantime, if you look at your partner and regard them as beautiful, you can congratulate yourself with the thought that people generally end up with a partner of a (10) ________ level of attractiveness as themselves.

Question 6

• agreed

• written

• thought

• fixed

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever (6) ________ on the precise criteria by which beauty may be jugded.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the ‘golden proportion’, according to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably (7) ________ by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. Symmetry has been proved to be attractive to the human eye, so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetricalones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no (8) ________ agreement or even national consensus on what (9) ________ beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important factor.

In the meantime, if you look at your partner and regard them as beautiful, you can congratulate yourself with the thought that people generally end up with a partner of a (10) ________ level of attractiveness as themselves.

Question 7

• accompanied

• escorted

• joined

• coupled

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever (6) ________ on the precise criteria by which beauty may be jugded.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the ‘golden proportion’, according to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably (7) ________ by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. Symmetry has been proved to be attractive to the human eye, so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetricalones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no (8) ________ agreement or even national consensus on what (9) ________ beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important factor.

In the meantime, if you look at your partner and regard them as beautiful, you can congratulate yourself with the thought that people generally end up with a partner of a (10) ________ level of attractiveness as themselves

Question 8

• community

• global

• universal

• world

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever (6) ________ on the precise criteria by which beauty may be jugded.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the ‘golden proportion’, according to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably (7) ________ by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. Symmetry has been proved to be attractive to the human eye, so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetricalones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no (8) ________ agreement or even national consensus on what (9) ________ beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important factor.

In the meantime, if you look at your partner and regard them as beautiful, you can congratulate yourself with the thought that people generally end up with a partner of a (10) ________ level of attractiveness as themselves.

Question 9

• constitutes

• involves

• contains

• comprises

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems impossible to consider it objectively. German philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned whether something can possess an objective property that makes it beautiful. He concluded that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, no one has ever (6) ________ on the precise criteria by which beauty may be jugded.

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a scale called the ‘golden proportion’, according to which the width of the face should be two-thirds of its length, preferably (7) ________ by a nose no longer than the distance between the eyes. Symmetry has been proved to be attractive to the human eye, so a face may seem beautiful because of the similarity between its two sides. Babies spend more time looking at symmetrical faces than asymmetricalones and symmetry is also rated as more attractive by adults looking at photos. So although there seems to be no (8) ________ agreement or even national consensus on what (9) ________ beauty, there is at least some agreement that facial symmetry is an important factor.

In the meantime, if you look at your partner and regard them as beautiful, you can congratulate yourself with the thought that people generally end up with a partner of a (10) ________ level of attractiveness as themselves

• relative

• comparable

• comparative

• absolute