GGEP 8 Quiz 2(U7-U8)

I. Listening

Listen. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

- Accommodation Form – Student Information
- Example: 0. Type of accommodation: _hall__ of residence
- Name: Anu 1.
- Date of Birth: 2.
- Country of study: India
- Course of study: 3.
- Number of years planned in hall: 4.
- Preferred catering arrangement: half board
- Special dietary requirements: no 5. (red)
- Preferred room type: a single 6.
- Interests: the 7. , badminton
- Priorities in choice of hall: to be with other students who are 8. , to live outside the 9. , to have a 10. area for socializing
- Contact phone number: 667549

II. Reading

The Search for Happiness

Section I

A question frequently asked of young children is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” One or two generations ago you would have got a definite answer, a specific dream profession, trade or job. Particular favorites among young boys were train driver and pilot. The answers back then might have depended on the expectations of the children asked, the opportunities that life presented them, and on the social and financial status of their parents. But you got a proper answer.

Section II

Things are different now. Tim Baldock, a schoolteacher, has asked this question of his pupils over a twenty-year career, and is almost in despair at the answers – or rather, the answer – he is getting more and more often. “It’s pandemic,” he says. “Everyone wants to be famous, and when asked ‘famous for what?’, the answer is just ‘famous’.” When asked what he thinks the reasons for this are, he says, “I know what you expect to hear: It’s celebrity culture and the influence of the media, especially those reality shows on TV, not to mention YouTube. But I think it’s more than that.”

Section III

For these adolescents, fame equals success, success equals wealth, and this adds up to – what? Happiness? This desirable state, or trying to reach it, has become big business these days. Apart from the self-help gurus, there are professorships of happiness at world-famous universities and governments call in well-being experts to help with public policy. Tim Baldock reckons that mistaken ideas of what happiness is are part of the reason for this desire for fame without effort.

Section IV

Many people confuse pleasure with happiness. Pleasure lasts as long as you are doing the thing that brings you pleasure, whether it’s eating chocolate, or skiing. We think of happiness as a more settled condition – possibly a state of mind. “What these kids don’t take into account,” Tim Baldock says, “are any of the other things that help make the good life, that might make them happier. They go straight for the end goal without thinking of what it takes to get there. For example, close and lasting friendships, work that means something to them, helping others – the list is endless.” He adds, “A sense of reality would help.”

Section V

Aristotle saw happiness as an end in itself – he thought it meant living a virtuous life. Happiness, then, is a by-product of going about your daily life in a certain way. So perhaps we need to look at the whole of our lives rather than the things that bring us pleasure if we are to find happiness. It can occur on a small scale too: have you ever been so absorbed in a task that, when done, you can only recall that state of absorption and self-forgetfulness as one of happiness?

Section VI

So hunting for happiness doesn’t work, nor does assuming that by getting something you want – fame, riches, success – happiness will immediately follow. Perhaps it lies, as Tim Baldock suggests, in a firm grip on reality, or perhaps in that state of absorption and self-forgetfulness. As the poet W. H. Auden wrote: “though one cannot always / Remember exactly why one has been happy, / There is no forgetting that one was.”

The reading passage has six sections I–VI. Choose the most suitable heading for each section II–VI from the list below. Write the appropriate letter (a – i) for each section.

a. Misunderstanding Happiness

b. Getting Answers

c. The Media is the Problem

d. Everyone Has Got the Fame Bug

e. Call in the Experts

f. Look at the Bigger Picture

g. Happiness is Like a Disease

h. Just Do the Things That Please You

i. How Not to Find Happiness
1. Section I Heading:
2. Section II Heading:
3. Section III Heading:
4. Section IV Heading:
5. Section V Heading:
6. Section VI Heading:
Complete the notes below. Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the reading passage for each answer.

7. Most people think , particularly reality TV, is the reason for this obsession with fame.

8. In Tim Baldock’s opinion, one reason kids want instant fame is that they have about happiness.

9. As well as ignoring many things that might make them happy, many of them lack a .

10. Happiness can occur as a of being totally involved in some task.

III. Vocabulary

Complete the sentence with the correct word form from the word bank. Some words are unnecessary.

wholly persuasive owe

complicated commitment pleasure

analysis distribute outcome

1. Volunteers hurried to food and water to the people affected by the hurricane.

2. The ad was so that we bought a product we didn’t need.

3. I my success to my older sister, who helped me finish school.

4. He agreed that he was responsible for the poor results. No one else was to blame.

5. We have to do a careful before we’ll know if the experiment is a success.

6. Moving from a small college to a large university is a big .

7. The of the story was disappointing to most readers.

achieve measure status

image downside emphasize

due to ruin lack

8. The to some jobs is they don’t leave time for relationships.

9. A person who spends too much time at work may his or her marriage.

10. If you like your job, don’t worry about your in the company.

11. I’d just like to how important it is for people to learn foreign languages.

12. What we in this house is space to store things.

13. Many people success after working hard for many years.

14. Some people their success by their salaries and job titles.

III. Vocabulary

Match the word with the correct definition. Use the given examples as a clue.

With the exception of one player, everyone on the team participated.
It can take several months to recover from an overuse injury.
professional sports.
The child’s tears were a sign that she was in a lot of pain..
The referee made a motion with his hand to stop the game.
Professional athletes have a demanding.
It can be risky to invest in a brand-new company.
Businesses are interested in the expansion of F1 racing into new countries.
The soccer team’s uniforms show the names of companies that sponsor the team.
Bosses expect their employees to be responsible and dependable.

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exception
recover
Sign
motion
demanding
invest
expansion
sponsor
dependable

a person or thing that is not included
to get better after an illness or accident
a movement or way of moving
needing a great deal of effort
to put money into something to make a profit
the increase of something in size, number, or importance
to support an activity by giving money
able to be trusted to do what is needed

IV. Grammar_Type of Sentence

Read the sentence. Identify the sentence type. Write a, b, c, or d in the box.

1. I can’t believe I got the highest score!

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

2. Did you expect to spend your money so quickly?

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

3. Many people spend too much money.

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

4. Have you had a change in your financial circumstances?

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

5. Stop spending so much.

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

6. Have you had a change in your financial circumstances?

A. declarative       B.   interrogative          C.   imperative             D.   exclamatory

IV. Grammar_ Subordinators and Conjunctions

Provide a fitting coordinating conjunction to fill the gaps in these sentences.

1. I think I will buy the red car, I will lease the blue one.

2. I really want to go to work, I am too sick to drive.

3. I am counting my calories, I really want dessert.

4. He ran out of money, he had to stop playing poker.

5. They got there early, they got really good seats

Provide a fitting subordinator to fill the gaps in these sentences.

6. I’m going to the bank I need some money.

7. I made lunch I got home.

8. it’s raining, she’s going for a walk in the park.

9. she finishes her homework soon; she will fail the class.

10. He decided to trust Tim he was an honest man.

IV. Grammar_Fragment

Write C for complete sentence and F for fragment sentence.

1. Anyone could have stolen the money.
2. Without saying a word, Sam left the party.
3. Although Heather rarely spends time with her husband’s relatives.
4. The reason being a lack of understanding the problem.
5. Before I had a chance to ask a question.
6. I can finish reading the book tonight.
7. At the end of the novel, the war begins.
8. There being only a month’s difference in our ages and living close to each other.
9. The winner, a politician who had made promises to the voters.
10. The fog was so thick that I could not see my hand in front of my face.

IV. Grammar_Present Perfect_Past Simple

Complete the sentences with the verb in brackets in past simple or present perfect.

1. ‘This is my house.’ ‘How long have you lived here?’ ‘I (live) here since 1997.’
2. He lived in London for two years and then he (go) to Edinburgh.
3. When I left school, I cut my hair and (wear) it short ever since.
4. Shakespeare (write) a lot of plays.
5. My brother (write) several plays. He has just finished his latest.
6. I (not see) him for three years. I wonder where he is.
7. He (not smoke) for two weeks. He is trying to give it up.
8. In 2000, Chopin (compose) some of his music in Majorca.
9. ‘When (he/arrive)?’ ‘He arrived at 2 o’clock.’
10. ‘I (never/drink) whiskey.’ ‘Well, have some now!’

Sopheavik February 16, 2022

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achieve	measure	status
image	downside	emphasize
due to	ruin	lack