1 East European University 2016 Doctoral Programme Entrance Examination Test (B) in the English language Level: B2 Name: ____________________________________ Last name: _________________________________ Speciality: __________________________________ Date: ______________________________________ Total Score: ___________/ 100
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2. Read the text about beauty and then answer questions 1 to 4.
Women today have fewer babies, have them later, are less exposed to the elements, and are better nourished
and less disease-ridden than their ancestors. They can look like an ancestral teenager well into middle age.
Women also have techniques to stimulate and exaggerate the clues to youth, femaleness, and health: eye
make-up (to enlarge the eyes), lipstick, eyebrow plucking (to reduce the appearance of a masculine brow
ridge), make-up products that increase the lustre, thickness, and colour of hair, and hundreds of potions
alleged to keep the skin looking young. Dieting and exercise can also help, to keep the waist thinner and the
waist-to-hip ratio lower.
Why do they do this? Is it merely an attempt to look sexy? It could be. But people decorate their bodies for
many reasons: to look rich, to look well connected, to look ‘in’, to earn membership of a particular social
group. People outside a culture usually agree with the people inside about who is beautiful and who is not,
and people everywhere want to attract good-looking partners. Even three-month-old babies prefer to look at
a pretty face.
(1) ‘the elements’ (line 1) is closest in meaning to: a) the weather b) chemicals c) illness
(2) The article implies that…
a) women with big hips are sexy. b) women with waists thinner than their hips are sexy. c) dieting and exercise will reduce hip size.
(3) The article states that…
a) women today have to wear make-up to keep them looking young in middle age. b) there is no universal agreement about what is or isn’t beautiful. c) women today have children older than they did in the past.
(4) According to the article…
a) three-month-old babies like their mothers to wear make-up.
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b) three-month-old babies have an awareness of what is or isn’t beautiful. c) pretty three-month-old babies like to look at their own reflection in a mirror.
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PAPER 2
USE OF LANGUAGE
3 Underline the most appropriate word in italics in the sentences below.
(1) The cottage has a wonderful fireplace with a lovely porch / mantelpiece / banister above it.
(2) What lovely peepholes / shutters / parquets you have at the windows.
(3) She’s 95 years old and confined to a wheelchair, so a bungalow / houseboat / chalet will be perfect for
her.
(4) The bedrooms look out / up / down over the mountains and the lake.
(5) The house has floor-to-floor / back-to-front / wall-to-wall carpeting.
4. Rewrite the sentences below using the correct form of the passive.