10 Times Removed I Forget About Where It All Began
 | ZNO English Practice Test 6 |  |
You are going to read an extract from a novel.
For questions 1-8, choose the answer А-D which you think fits best according to the text.
Miss Rita Cohen, a tiny, pale-skinned girl who looked half the age of Seymour's daughter, Marie, but claimed to be some six years older, came to his factor)' one day. She was dressed in overalls and ugly-big :hoes, and a bush of wiry hair framed her pretty face. She was so tiny, so young that he could barely believe that she was at the University of Pennsylvania, doing research into the leather industry in New Jersey for her Master's degree.
Three or four times a year someone either phoned Seymour or wrote to him to ask permission to sec his factory, and occasionally he would assist a student by answering questions over the phone or. if the student struck him as especially serious, by offering з brief tour.
Rita Cohen was nearly as small, he thought, as the children from Mane's third-year class, who'd been brought the 50 kilometres from their rural schoolhouse one day, all those years ago, so that Marie's daddy could show them how he made gloves, show them especially Marie's favourite spot, the laying-off table. where, at the end of the process, the men shaped and pressed each and every glove by pulling it carefully down over steam-heated brass hands. The hands were dangerously hot and they were shiny and they stuck straight up from the table in a row. thin-looking, like hands that had been flattened. As a little girl, Marie was captivated by their strangeness and called them the 'pancake hands'.
He heard Rita asking, 'How many pieces come in a shipment?' 'How many? Between twenty and twenty-five thousand.' She continued taking notes as she asked, 'They come direct to your shipping department?'
He liked finding that she was interested in every last detail. 'They come to the tannery. The tannery is a contractor. We buy the material and they make it into the right kind of leather for us to work with. My grandfather and father worked in the Unnery right here in town. So did I, for six months, when I started working in the business. Ever been inside a tannery?' 'Not yet.' "Well, you've got to go to a tannery if you're going to write about leather. I'll set that up for you if you'd like. They're primitive places. The technology has improved things, but what you'll see isn't that different from what you'd have seen hundreds ot years ago. Awful work. It's said to be the oldest industry of which remains have been found anywhere. Six-thousand-year-old relics of tanning found somewhere — Turkey, I believe. The first clothing was just skins that were tanned by smoking them. I told you it was an interesting subject once you get into it. My father is the leather scholar; he's the otic you should be talking to. Start my father off about gloves and he'll talk for two days. That's typical, by the way: glovemen love the trade and everything about it. Tell гас, have you ever seen anything being manufactured, Miss Cohen?' 'I can't say I have." 'Never seen anything made?' 'Saw my mother nuke a cake when I was a child.'
He laughed. She had made him laugh. An innocent with spirit, eager to learn. His daughter was easily 30cm taller than Rita Cohen, fair where she was dark, but otherwise Rita Cohen had begun to remind him of Marie. The good-natured intelligence that would just waft out of her and into the house when she came home from school, full of what she'd learned in class. How she remembered everything. Everything neatly taken down in her notebook and memorised overnight.
'I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're going to bring you right through the whole process. Come on. We're going to make you a pair of gloves and you're going to watch them being made from start to finish. What size do you wear?'
1 What was Seymour's first impression of Rita Cohen?
| A | She reminded him of his daughter. |
| B | She was rather unattractive. |
| C | She did not look like a research student. |
| D | She hadn't given much thought to her appearance. |
2 Seymour would show students round his factory if
| A | he thought they were genuinely interested. |
| B | they telephoned for permission. |
| C | they wrote him an interesting letter. |
| D | their questions were hard to answer by phone. |
3 What did Seymour's daughter like most about visiting the factory?
| A | watching her father make gloves |
| B | helping to shape the gloves |
| C | making gloves for her schoolfriends |
| D | seeing the brass hands |
4 The word 'shiny' in paragraph 3 describes
| A | the look of the hands. |
| B | the size of the hands. |
| C | the feel of the hands. |
| D | the temperature of the hands. |
5 What does 'that' in paragraph 5 refer to?
| A | the tanner,' business |
| B | a visit to a tannery |
| C | writing about leather |
| D | working with leather |
6 Seymour says that most tanneries today
| A | have been running for over a hundred years. |
| B | are located in very old buildings. |
| C | are dependent on older workers. |
| D | still use traditional methods. |
7 What does Seymour admire about his father?
| A | his educational background |
| B | his knowledge of history |
| C | his enthusiasm for the business |
| D | his skill as a glovemaker |
8 When she was a schoolgirl, Marie
| A | made her parents laugh. |
| B | was intelligent but lazy. |
| C | easily forgot what she had learned. |
| D | was hard-working and keen. |
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You are going to read a newspaper article about human beings getting taller.
Seven sentences have been removed from the article.
Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (9-15).
There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
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You are going to read an article about guidebooks to London
For questions 16-30, choose from the guidebooks A-F.
The guidebooks may be chosen more than once.
When more than one answer is required, these may be given in any order.
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For questions 31-42, read the text below and decide which answer А-D best fits each gap.
While skyscraper offices and elegant apartment blocks remain the public face of most major cities, these cities also have a mass of secret tunnels and hidden pipes below ground which keep everything working. This other world exists, forgotten or neglected by all but a tiny (31)_____ of engineers and historians.
For example, there are more than 150 kilometres of rivers under the streets of London. Most have been (32)_____ over and, sadly, all that (33)_____ is their names. Perhaps the greatest (34)_____ to the city is the River Fleet, a (35)_____ great river which previously had beautiful houses on its (36)_____ . It now goes underground in the north of the city and ((37)_____ into the River Thames by Blackfriars Bridge.
The London Underground (38)_____ 1,000 kilometres of underground railway track winding under the capital and more than 100 stations below street level. Along some underground railway lines, commuters can sometimes catch a (39)_____ glimpse of the platforms of more than 40 closed stations which have been left under the city. (40)_____ some are used as film sets, most (41)_____ forgotten. Some have had their entrances on the street turned into restaurants and shops, but most entrances have been (42)_____ down.
| 31 | A number | B amount | C total | D few |
| 32 | A covered | B protected | C hidden | D sheltered |
| 33 | A stays | B stops | C remains | D keeps |
| 34 | A miss | B absence | C waste | D loss |
| 35 | A once | B past | C then | D prior |
| 36 | A borders | B coasts | C banks | D rims |
| 37 | A gets | B flows | C leaks | D lets |
| 38 | A holds | B contains | C has | D consists |
| 39 | A rapid | B brief | C fast | D sharp |
| 40 | A Despite | B Unless | C Although | D Since |
| 41 | A lie | B last | C live | D lay |
| 42 | A pulled | B broken | C brought | D cut |
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