The English vocabulary test from the simulated exam

1.
(A) novice: a person who is not experienced in a job or situation
(B) notion: (a) belief or idea
(C) notice: (a board, piece of paper, etc. containing) information or instructions
(D) novelty: [U] the quality of being new and unusual
2.
(A) statute: a law which has been formally approved and written down
(B) statue: an object made from a hard material, especially stone or metal, to look like a person or animal
(C) stature: the good reputation a person or organization has, based on their behaviour and ability
(D) status: an official position, especially in a social group
3.
(A) segregate: to keep one group of people apart from another and treat them differently, especially because of race or sex
(B) deliberate: (often of something bad) intentional or planned:
(C) imitate: to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something
(D) regulate: to control something, especially by making it work in a particular way
4.
(A) outcome: a result or effect of an action, situation, etc
(B) outfit: a set of clothes worn for a particular occasion or activity
(C) outlet: a way, especially a pipe or hole, for liquid or gas to go out
(D) outskirts: the areas that form the edge of a town or city
5.
(A) invoke: to request or use a power outside yourself, especially a law or a god, to help you when you want to improve a situation
(B) evoke: to make someone remember something or feel an emotion
(C) revoke: to say officially that an agreement, permission, a law, etc. is no longer in effect
(D) provoke: to make or try to make a person or an animal angry

Some idioms and interesting sentences

A. Man is the lord of creation.
B. Heaven helps those who help themselves.
C. Dog him! (trace him!!)
D. Go to the john. (go to W.C.)
E. Don't chicken out!!!
F. Wealth makes people selfish.
G. Money talks.
H. While in Rome do as Romans do.
I. Please behave yourself.
J. In one's birthday suit = naked
K. I consider what he said of no importance.
L. I can't understand a word of what he said.
M. He writes a good hand.

A 5 / The Moon

    The moon is the earth's nearst neighbor. It is only about a quarter of a million miles away. This is a very short distance compared with other distance in space. The diameter of the moon is just a little more than one-fourth the diameter of the earth.
    The moon circles the earth every twenty-eight days. It also rotates on its ow axis. It makes one complete turn every twenty-eight days. It keeps the same side to the earth at all times.
    The moon gets its light from the sun. The moon shines during the day as well as at night. Moonlight is really only secondary sunlight.
    The moon has no atmosphere. So the moon is exposed to the radiation from the sun and the space. Human can not live on the moon.

A 4 / Fifth Avenue, New York

    Fifth Avenue is the heart of New York city. Churches, museums, and department stores line this important street. Radio City, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Museum of Modern are close neighbors. Greenwich Village and Harlem are at opposite ends of the avenue.
    There is a small zoo in Central Park near Fifth Avenue. Children call to the seals sunning themselves by their outdoor pool on summer afternoons. Children gather to watch the polar bears cooling themselves in their special pool nearby. Childern and adults gather to listen to the roar of the lions near mealtime.
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is popular with adults. It is Central Park, too. Both institutions are crowded on Sunday afternoons. The zoo is near Fifth Avenue. The museum is on Fifth Avenue.

A 3 / San Francisco's Chinatown

    San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest Chinese community in the United States. At least 45,000 Chinese live there. Chinatown occupies some of the choicest land in downtown San Francisco. It has a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean.
    Grant Avenue is the heart of Chinatown. The restaurants lining the avenue have red and gold dragons curling around their doorway. Ornamental dragons hold up the street lights with their claws. Red neon signs shine with Chinese letters. A few signs are regrettably Western in style. Lines of cars politely take turn in moving ar intersections. All traffic waits for pedestrians.
    The tourist finds carved chop sticks, jackets of Chinese silk, and blue and white rice bowls in shop after shop. Soprts jackets and television sets are also available. Chinese comic books for sale are in the "Culture Shop."
    A few restaurants offer a "tea lunch," mainly for Chinese patrons. A "tea lunch" consists of small pastries filled with pork, shrimp, mushrooms, fruit, or vegetables. The waiter brings a tray full of these pastries to the table. The patron makes his selection with pleasure. The chinese call this lunch a "Dim Sum."
    The residents of Chinatown are American-born. The young clerk in the shops speak unusually clear and pleasing American English. Such young men and women represent the possibility of preserving the best of two cultures.

Guided Writing practice A2

    Water surrounds San Francisco on three sides. Fog driftes in from the pacific Ocean late in the afternoon, particularly in July and Augest. The buoys floating in San Francisco Bay begins to ring their bell in warning to approaching ships. The ships themselves blows their foghorns. The fog closes in around hills, tall building, and cable cars. The sun, scattering the fog the following day, leaves the flowers brilliant and inhabitants comfortably cool.

buoys: objects with a bell, anchored and floating in water to warn of danger. Rising waves make the bell ring.

Guided Writing practice

The Cable Cars in San Francisco
    The streets are steep in San Francisco. They run uphill and downhill at angles astonishing to a newcomer. A few of this steepest streets have a unique means of transportation called cable cars.
    A cable car is tall and clumsy compared to a modern bus. It is pulled up and down hill by a steel cable under the street. Cable cars are a survival from the days before electric power.
    The front section of the car is open to the weather at all times. The passengers in this section sit parallel to the sidewalk. Timid newcomers hold onto a pole to keep from sliding into the street. Athletic young San Franciscans jump onto the narrow rinning board without waiting for the cable car to stop. (The maximum speed of a cable car is nine miles an hour.) At the end of the line, the passengers get out and help the motorman push the car around on its revolving platform for the return trip.
    The cable cars are more expensive to run than buses. They create a deficit for the city every year. San Francisians like them and keep them anyway.