IV. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.
The Map Thief
For a couple of years, Gilbert Bland was a unique figure in the privileged world of antique map dealing. He made a 100% profit on every map he sold, (30) _______ because he was a clever businessman, but because he was a thief. In the mid-1990s, Bland crept around libraries in the USA, armed (31)_______ a sharp razor and a baggy shirt and sliced out those ancient maps which took (32)_______ fancy. Some were worth tens of thousands of dollars, and he (33)_______ on to sell them through both mail-order catalogues and his shop in Florida.
(34)_______ Bland's historical knowledge of maps was patchy at best, his knowledge of (35)_______ exact location in the rare book stacks was second to (36)_______. When he heard that early maps of, (37)_______, Seattle were becoming popular, he would know precisely (38)_______ to start slicing.
His crimes only came (39) _______ light when a researcher in a Baltimore library noticed that a man appeared to be tearing a page from a 200-year-old book (40)_______ if it were a newspaper. At (41) _______, it was assumed that this was an isolated case, and the library and the police were happy to (42)_______ Bland off with a warning. (43)_______ later did they (44)_______ across his notebooks, which contained elaborate details of all his thefts.
V. Read the following text and then choose from the list A-J given below the best phrase to fill each of the numbered spaces. Some of the suggested answers do not fit at all.
The History of @
The universal symbol of Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses (45)_______, is actually a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, a Rome academic has revealed. Giorgio Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, claims (46)_______ of the symbol's use, as an indication of a measure of weight or volume. He says the sign represents an amphora, a measure of capacity based on the terracotta jars used (47) _______ in the ancient Mediterranean world.
The professor unearthed the ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20th century, (48) _______. The first known instance of its use, he says, occurred in a letter written by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536. He says the sign made its way along trade routes to northern Europe, where it came (49)_______, its contemporary accountancy meaning.
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Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents bearing the symbol lying forgotten in their archives. 'The oldest example could be of great value. It could be used for publicity purposes and (50)_______,' he says. The race is on between the mercantile world and the banking world (51) _______.
A to describe the now omnipresent squiggle
B to represent 'at the price of'
C to see who has the oldest documentation of @
D to transport grain and liquid
E to save space and work
F to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia
G to learn how popular it has become
H to have stumbled on the earliest known example
I to enhance the prestige of the institution that owned it
J to signify the word 'at'
VI. Look at the sentences below. Each is followed by four words. Decide which of these words is the correct word to complete the sentence.
52. The city with the largest _____ in the world is Mexico City.
A density
B inhabitants
C number
D population
53. It was once called Tenocochtitlan but was later conquered _______ the Spanish.
A by
B from
C in
D of
54. Not only is it the capital city but it is also Mexico's _____ centre, with many offices, banks and shops.
A. commercial
B cosmopolitan
C economy
D industrial
55. The "Zocalo" is the world biggest square and is_______ in the historic quarter of the city.
A constructed
B located
C part
D stood
56. The Metropolitan Cathedral is the largest in all Latin America and houses many treasures from the______ period.
A colonial
B conqueror
C historic
D past
57. Though certain areas of the city suffer from high levels of crime, the centre is ______ safe for tourists.
A recommended
B relatively
C statistically
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D warned
58. There is a wide_____ of restaurants but eating tends to be quite formal.
A. category
B list
C road
D selection
59. One of the best known_____ is "La Hacienda de los Morales", which can offer a superb 17th century feast and a great choice of wines.
A establishments
B locations
C quarters
D zones
60. Mexico is very well ______, with an international airport, modern road network and trains linking it to the whole of Central America.
A connected
B contacted
C joined
D participated
61. The city is so big that taxi drivers work in ____ .So don’t expect them to be able to take you from one side of the city to the other!
A counties
B provinces
C states
D zone
VII. Read the passage below. If a line is incorrect because a word is in the wrong place in the sentence, write that word. If the line is correct, write 'OK’ by the number of the line.
62. The late part of the twentieth century saw a sudden
63. slowdown in a space exploration. In 1959 the USSR
64. sent back the first to pictures of the dark side of the
65. Moon. Two years later the first man went along into
66. space. Neil Armstrong finally landed on the Moon in
67. 1969. Less well-known are the two space probes that
68. reached at Mars in 1976. One probe then continued
69. its journey into outer space. Yet there are no more
70. further plans to send Man into space. The distances
71. it involved mean that journeys to other planets
72. are still not possible. Our dreams of then eventually
73. living on other planets are still a long way from realisation.
74.. Much more than thirty years after the Moon
75. landing, Mankind he is still waiting to conquer
76. its first planet.
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