ENGLISH TEST 87
Read the following passage and choose the correct word for each of the blanks
Parrots and macaws have become so (01)......... that special varieties of these birds are (02) ......... up to £9,000 each
on the black market in Britain. Macaws from Brazil cost from £1,000 and parrots from Australia can cost £7,500 a pair.
The demand for parrots, cockatoos and macaws has led to a (03)......... increase in thefts from zoos, wildlife parks
and pet shops. London and Whipsnade zoos are among the many places from which parrots have been stolen. Some thefts
have not been (04)......... in an effort to prevent further (05).......... Parrot rustling, as it is known among bird fanciers, has
increased rapidly in Britain since 1976 when imports and exports of (06)......... birds became (07)......... controlled.
Quarantine controls, (08)......... with the scarcity of many types of parrots in the wild in Africa, Australia,
Indonesia, and South America, have caused a shortage of birds which can be sold legally under (09)..........This has sent
prices to (10)......... levels. Working at night and equipped with wire-cutters, nets and substances to dope the birds, the
rustlers are prepared to (11)......... serious risks to capture the parrots they want. At Birdworld, a specialist zoo, thieves
(12)......... two parrots after picking their (13)......... through an enclosure containing cassowaries, The cassowary is a large
flightless bird, related to the emu, which can be extremely (14)......., and has been (15)........ to kill humans with blows from
its
powerful
legs.
01. A. costly
B. extinct
C. outlandish
D. rare
02. A. raising
B. reaching
C. lifting
D. fetching
03. A. acute
B. peak
C. sharp
D. high
04. A. published
B. publicised
C. advertised
D. told
05. A. happenings
B. incidents
C. acts
D. activities
06. A. unusual
B. uncommon
C. exotic
D. strange
07. A. tightly
B. hardly
C. toughly
D. grimly
08. A. coupled
B. doubled
C. attached
D. accompanied
09. A. warranty
B. guarantee
C. licence
D. law
10. A. unknown
B. unheard
C. record
D. highest
11. A. sustain
B. assume
C. take
D. make
12. A. thieved
B. robbed
C. misappropriated
D. stole
13. A. way
B. road
C. path
D. lane
14. A. aggressive
B. fighting
C. bad-tempered
D. rough
15. A. heard
B. known
C. considered
D. able
Choose the word that differs from the rest in the position of the main stress in each of the following questions.
16. A. popularity
B. conscientious
C. apprenticeship
D. personality
17. A. horizon
B. ignorant
C. determinedly
D. librarian
18. A. consonant
B. divisible
C. significant
D. mosquito
19. A. consignation
B. abnomality
C. supplementary
D. dictionary
20. A. garment
B. comment
C. cement
D. even
Read the following passage and choose the correct answer
In the last third of the nineteenth century a new housing form was quietly being developed. I n 1869 the
Stuyvesant, considered New York’s first apartment house was built on East Eighteenth Street. The building was financed
by the developer Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to graduate
from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Each man had lived in Paris, and each understood the economics and social
potential of this Parisian housing form. But the Stuyvesant was at best a limited success. In spite of Hunt’s inviting façade,
the living space was awkwardly arranged. Those who could afford them were quite content to remain in the more
sumptuous, single-family homes, leaving the Stuyvesant to newly married couples and bachelors.
The fundamental problem with the Stuyvesant and the other early apartment buildings that quickly followed, in the
1870’s and early 1880’s was that they were confined to the typical New York building lot. That lot was a rectangular area
25 feet wide by 100 feet deep–a shape perfectly suited for a row house. The lot could also accommodate a rectangular
tenement, though it could not yield the square, well-lighted, and logically arranged rooms that great apartment buildings
require. But even with the awkward interior configurations of the early apartment buildings, the idea caught on. It met the
needs of a large and growing population that wanted something better than tenements but could not afford or did not want
row houses.
So while the city’s newly emerging social leadership commissioned their mansions, apartment houses and hotels
began to sprout in multiple lots, thus breaking the initial space constraints. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century,
large apartment houses began dotting the developed portions of New York City, and by the opening decades of the
twentieth century, spacious buildings, such as the Dakota and the Ansonia finally transcended the tight confinement of row
house building lots. From there it was only a small step to building luxury apartment houses on the newly created Park
Avenue, right next to the fashionable Fifth Avenue shopping area.
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