• For questions 1−10, read the text below and then decide which answer best fits each gap.

                                                                                         HAVING A LAUGH

In one study conducted in 2016, samples of laughter from (1) _________ of English-speaking students (2) _________ at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A team made up of more than 30 (3) __________ scientists, anthropologists, and biologists then played these recordings to listeners from 24 (4) __________ societies, from indigenous tribes in New Guinea to city-dwellers in India and Europe. Participants were asked (5) __________ they thought the people laughing were friends or strangers. On average, the results were remarkably consistent: worldwide, people’s guesses were correct approximately 60% of the time.

  Researchers (6) __________ that different types of laughter serve as codes to complex human social hierarchies. A team led by Christopher Oveis from the University of California, San Diego, found that (7) __________ individuals had different laughs from low-status individuals and that strangers’ judgments of an individual’s social status (8) ____________ by the dominant or submissive quality of their laughter. In their study, 48 male college students (9) _____________  to groups of four, with each group (10) _____________ two low-status members, who had just joined their college fraternity group, and two high-status members, older students who had been active in the fraternity for at least two years.

1, A. couples          B. combines         C. put together         D. pairs

2, A. have recorded         B. recorded      C. were recorded          D. being recorded

3, A. intellectual        B. spiritual        C. psychological         D. physical

4, A. diverse          B. various        C. miscellaneous         D. disparate

5, A. that     B. whether     C. jeopardize        D. when

6, A. were further found     B. were found      C. had thus found      D. have also found

7, A. exalted      B. high-status    C. high-position    D. higher-reputation

8, A. were influenced      B. were affected     C. was being influenced    D. has been impacted

9, A. were eventually assigned    B. were randomly allocated     C. were randomly assigned 

10, A. inclusive of      B. comprised      C. incorporated       D. composed of

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I, Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

1, Equally important to researchers is _____________ determinants earlier in life help people to develop these strengths and thrive as young adults.

A. which    B. who     C. whose      D. when

2, Today, research _____________ conducted into his condition and the majority of introductory psychology textbooks mention Gage.

A. was still being      B. is still being     C. was being       D. will being

3, It is involved in a whole range of high-level cognitive functions, such as ________________.

A. make decision       B. determination     C. policymaking        D. decision-making

4, With the constant increase in temperatures, it's very _____________ to deny that climate change is happening.

A. incongruous       B. hilarious     C. outlandish       D. ridiculous

5, However, many educators question ____________ such courses are really necessary and point out that it is the school's responsibility to prepare students for exams.

A. that        B. whether       C. if       D. when

6, Our moves were monitored by your admirers and all of our needs ______________ for by our management and other interested parties.

A. answered       B. catered     C. afforded       D. granted

7, University was once seen as a place where adolescents went to satisfy their (a) ________________ curiosity before settling on a job and career.  

A. intellectual        B. cognitive       C. anti-intellectual        D. conceptual

8, You would have read the latest novel, been familiar with the work of poets, and been wholly ______________ with the current state of art and music.

A. converse        B. conversation       C. conversant       D. conversancy

9, The tutor explained to the students that their assignments would count ____________ 50 percent of their total grade.

A. on        B. out       C. towards      D. upon

10, It attacks the nervous system, causing _________________ shaking even after the waves of pain have ceased, as well as disorientation and hallucinations.

A. recalcitrant        B. unquenchable       C. decontrolled      D. uncontrollable

I, Complete the sentences with the nouns formed from the verbs below.

(colonise/ consume/ destroy/ extract/ implement/ integrate)

1, A certain amount of environmental will ______________ be caused by the proposed high-speed railway line.
2, _________________ of too much red meat is generally thought to be not very good for our health.
3, It's quite easy to accept new measures. It's their _______________ that causes the most problems.
4, The of oil and other fossil fuels often ________________ happens in areas where there are potential problems for the natural surroundings.
5, Unfortunately, the attempted ________________ of indigenous peoples into a different type of culture has often failed.

I, Choose the best option (A, B, C or D) to complete each of the following sentences:

1, Choose the word in each group that has the underlined part pronounced differently from that of the others.

A. efficient           B. ingenuous           C. businesslike            D. immemorial

2, Choose a word in each line that has a different stress pattern.

A. unrecognizable           B. climatologist           C. psychological            D. definitely

3, Jean Michel sat at the helm of his 47-foot sailboat, Aweigh, and __________ toward the calm blue waters of Richardson Bay.

A.  signaling         B. gesticulation        C.  kinesics        D. gestured

4, As soon as the problem at work blew up, he instantly thought about how he could come out of it looking good. He is such a ____________ person.

A.  self-evident         B. self-conscious        C.  self-centred        D. selfless

5. Another noteworthy promise made by the White House boss is to spend $ 1 trillion on ______________, using American products to build bridges and roads and many other projects.

A.  infrastructure         B. underpinning        C.  cornerstone        D. database

6, I have been back to the doctor three times and he still hasn't ____________ the reason for all the pain I have been suffering from recently.

A.  indicated         B. highlighted        C.  pinpointed        D. looked up

7. The accidental ____________ of four listed buildings near the city centre caused a huge outcry and the manager of the building company was jailed for three months.

A.  disruption         B. demolition        C.  injuring        D. squashing

8. The couple’s 25th wedding anniversary provided a good ____________ for gathering together all their old photographs in one large album.

A.  opportunity         B. possibility        C.  lucky chance        D. capitalization

9. Interview: ‘Why don't you demand a bigger say in the running of the company?’

- Peter: “ Your _____________ acceptance of every decision is harming the health of the business.”

A.  undoubtedly         B. unquestioning        C.  definitely        D. interrogation

10. Peter: “Are you planning to do anything special this weekend?” – Amanda: “_________________”

A. Well, let's see probably I'll prepare some research side project tomorrow.

B. No, there's nothing special.

C. Absolutely, I'll be taking part in the camping trip in the rainforest.

D. I intend to organize dinner parties this weekend who hope to come.

• For questions 1 - 7, read the three texts below and decide which answer (A, B, c, or D) best fits each gap.

This book began when I (1) ............. a suggestion to try my hand as a political journalist nine years ago. What makes this (2) .............  so wonderfully bearable is that unfashionable as it now is to say so, I'm rather fond of British Members of Parliament. They can be dreadfully silly, of course, and there are days when they irritate (3) ............. measure. Occasionally, even, comes a moment when an MP's speech or behavior (4) .............  genuine anger, goading me into an attempt at lofty (5) ............. But I always regret it. It rarely reads well the next day. There are other journalists to ride high horses and my mission, I think, is to remind readers that their MPs are often more (6) .............  than they are wicked and that, through the laughter, we may discern the outlines of arguments, ambitions, even principles. MPs are mostly human, rarely scaling the heights nor often touching the depths to (7) .............   the famous figures of history fly. Only a handful among them are of unusual intelligence but many are effective and most are hard-working.

1, A. agreeable B. approved       C. accepted     D. agreed

2, A. slavery       B. servitude     C. maid      D. charwoman

3, A. far off      B. yonder     C. further on    D. beyond

4, A. arouses       B. awake     C. set off        D. enkindle

5, A. condemnation   B. condemn     C. self-condemnation    D. admonition

6, A. ludicrous   B. ridiculous     C. laughable     D. outrageous

7, A. whichever   B. whose     C. whomsoever     D. which

We can't swim in this river because the weather is very dirty.

-> Because of ....................................................................