Test 2 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 30 minutes) Part 1 For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. There is an example at the beginning (0). 1 A correspondingly B similarly C accordingly D appropriately 2 A respond B reply C adapt D answer 3 A reacting B dealing C handling D bargaining 4 A ease B calm C quieten D cool 5 A perfectly B completely C reasonably D competently 6 A Associating B Attributing C Accrediting D Admitting Example: 7 A support B decide C confirm D maintain 0 A distinguish B sense C feel D identify 8 A desirable B preferable C advisable D suitable 0 A B C D The way we see the things around us 'Pastry,' once wrote a cookery expert, 'like horses and children, seems to (0) .......... if you are afraid of it and plays up (1) ..........' Had she been writing today, she might well have mentioned that computers are just the same. Like small children, they do not (2) .......... well to force, and just as one way of (3) .......... with a fractious child is to send it to its room to (4) .......... off, so quite often, if the machine is giving trouble, the first thing to try is simply switching it off and doing something else; quite why the machine works (5) .......... when you boot it up again I have no idea. (6) .......... human emotions and feelings to inanimate objects is, of course, extremely unscientific; it's only those who don't understand machines who believe that they behave like people. But I would (7) .......... that, although treating machines like people may be misguided, it is (8) .......... In general, to treating people like machines.