Department of English and American Studies
Entrance Examination
Bachelor’s Degree Programme:
English Language and Literature
(2017)
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Subtest A [Time: 15 minutes] 32 points
Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage with the most suitable word, which
must begin with the letter given in brackets. Use only one word for each blank. Write your
answers in the spaces on the page opposite the text. Please write legibly.
‘Happy, happy Christmas… that can transport the sailor and the traveller,
thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside…’ (Charles Dickens)
The influence [1] 19th-century social novelist Charles Dickens had on the way [2] celebrate Christmas
can [3] be felt today. [4] the Romantic revival of Christmas traditions that occurred in Victorian times
had [5] contributors – Prince Albert introduced the German [6] of decorating the tree – the singing of
carols, [7] had all but disappeared at the turn of the [8] century, began to thrive again [9] to the
Victorian’s love of parlour music; and the [10] Christmas card appeared in the 1840s – it was Charles
Dickens’ stories, particularly [11] 1843 masterpiece A Christmas Carol, [12] rekindled the joy of
Christmas in this [13].
Dickensian Christmases were depicted as [14] ‘deep and crisp and even’. Flurries of snow and dark
wintry evenings necessitated roaring log fires [15] warming frozen fingers and chilblained toes.
Evergreen branches tied [16] banisters and doorposts, and wreaths [17] from pine boughs and cones,
berries, dried fruit and ribbons were [18] on the door to welcome guests. [19] bedrooms were given
some form of decoration, if [20] a simple garland hung on the bedpost. The Christmas tree [21]
decorated with small hand-made gifts, [22] asstitched dollsor children’smittens,and treats [23] sugar
biscuits. Hand-dipped candles [24] placed carefully on branches and the [25] was topped with a star.
Mince pies and a nip of Port were [26] for Father Christmas, as was a list of hoped [27] presents.
Dickens’ description of the holiday as “a kind, forgiving, charitable [28] when men and women seem
[29] one consent to open [30] shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people [31] them as if they really
were fellow passengers to the grave”, [32] hopes, encapsulates the essence of Christmas today.
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Subtest B [Time: 20 minutes] 16 points
In the following article, 8 passages have been removed. Read it carefully and choose the best
passage for each blank from A to J below the text. There are two extra passages which do not
fit anywhere. Write the letters of your answers in the numbered spaces on the opposite page.
Scrubbed up like an emperor
For more than 2,000 years, emperors, queens, tsars, composers and philosophers have
flocked to the German spa town of Baden-Baden to bathe in its curative thermal waters. There
are numerous clinics providing for every sort of unhealthy niggle, and decadent hotels provide
impeccable service.
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In this rich and one of the healthiest towns in Europe now, you come across signs describing a
combination of the Roman and Irish bathing traditions. But what do the Irish have to do with
Roman baths? As you will discover, a lot.
The first Victorian-Turkish baths in Western Europe, or Roman-Irish, as they are also known,
were built and perfected by an Irish doctor in Blarney, County Cork.
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When the first of Dr Barter’s patients began to die that year he made a discovery that would
save hundreds.
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Many of his patients survived. Dr Barter became convinced of the curative power of water.
Violent outbreaks of typhus, typhoid, smallpox, scarlet fever and influenza were also
common in 19th-century Ireland. Drugs were as yet unavailable to treat these diseases and
alternative remedies were desperately needed.
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As Urquart brilliantly explained: “Our body is a fountain of impurities, to which man is more
subject than the beast…we must have a standard of cleanliness as well as of truth – this standard
is the bath.”
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The main entrance was flanked by tall Romanesque pillars beyond which were sun rooms,
reading rooms, tennis courts, a theatre, an American bowling alley, elegant dining halls and
manicured gardens.
St Ann’s Hydro inspired the building of Roman-Irish baths in New York, Stockholm, Toronto,
Cape Town and hundreds of places in between.
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The difference between these baths and other forms of hot-air bath, such as Swedish
saunas, was that the air was dry.
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He believed that sweating out all the impurities in the body and replacing them with fresh water
was the best way of fighting these diseases. His prescription, for almost everything, was the purging
of the skin.
During World War I, St Ann’s Hydro was used as a military hospital and the Roman-Irish baths
were closed due to the lack of coal. This seemed to be a trend for hundreds of baths worldwide.
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Well, to experience the delights of the Irish bathing heritage, with hot dry air methods pioneered by
Dr Barter, you will have to travel to England, or of course, to Baden-Baden.
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A The medical thinking of the day was that cholera patients should not be given water to drink. In
opposition to this, Dr Barter took his patients to a clinic near his home in Blarney and fed them
copious amounts of water from his own well.
B Together, on a hill overlooking Blarney, in 1856 Urquhart and Dr Barter built the first “RomanIrish”
or “Improved Turkish” baths in Western Europe. St Ann’s Hydropathic Establishment
became a world renowned hotel and health centre, attracting thousands of patients from all over
Europe.
C Dr Barter found that patientscould withstand higher temperaturesin dryair than wet.Thehigher
temperatures brought out more of the causes of the diseases.
D This is a town where retired couples, in pressed white linen and pearls, sport gold-topped canes
and walk dachshunds on handmade leather leads. Everywhere there is an air of well-groomed
opulence.
E As James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom, a patron of Dr Barter’s establishments in Dublin explains: “Nice
smells these soaps have. Time to get a bath round the corner.”
F Taking his discovery further, Dr Barter studied the eccentric travel book of a Scottish diplomat,
David Urquhart, who extolled the virtues of the Turkish baths as a form of therapeutic
hydrotherapy.
G Dr Richard Barter developed the Roman-Irish bath not, as one might expect, to pander to the
frivolous, leisure pursuits of the rich, but to fight the rampant cholera epidemic of 1832. This
pandemic claimed almost 50,000 Irish lives in little over the year.
H Though the establishment was used for various other activities, the baths were never opened
again and the Hydro was finally shut down in 1956. Roman-Irish baths that were commonplace
in Victorian Ireland have now drifted into distant memory.
I To provide for this, the baths of Ireland, unlike the continental kind, supplied special bathing
costumes, separate entrances and bathing areas for women and men.
J There were more than 600 of these baths in Britain and Ireland alone. They were built in
hospitals, asylums, hotels, members clubs and private homes.
Write the letter of your answer into the box next to the number of the blank:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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Subtest C (Time: 15 minutes] 22 points
In most lines of the following text there is one word that is either grammatically incorrect or
does not fit in with the sense of the text. Read the text and where you find such a word, write
that word in the space next to the line. Remember that some lines are completely correct –
indicate these lines with a tick or checkmark //. The first three lines have been done for you as
an example.
Babies ‘eating too much salt‘ in processed food and sauces
Almost three quarters of eight-month-old babies consume too much salt because
they are fed too much all processed food, cow’s milk and bread, research claims.
Tinned pasta and salty flavourings such as gravies and yeast extract are among
the foodstuffs blamed by the University of Bristol researchers. When the
nutritionists who carried out from the study warned that high levels of salt while
very young can harm childish developing kidneys, give children a taste for salty
foods that can persist into adult life. High blood pressure established in childhood
can track through adulthood. It adds that it istoo “extremelyimportant” that parents
receive clear and precise information over “appropriate foods” when they are
having changing their child’s diet. Many people are unaware of the amount of salt
in manufactured foods and because those of “low socioeconomic status” tend to be
less well informed. The research is part of a long-term ongoing study of parents and
youngsters called Children of the 90s. Although the raw research which was done in
the early 1990s, the authors who claim it remains relevant and they would expect
the results be similar if it was carried out now. According to the research, with most
infants were first introduced to solids when between three and four months old.
The government’s scientific advisory committee on some nutrition advises that
infants aged between seven and twelve months receive no more than 1g of salt on a
day. The Bristol study found that 70% were receiving more than the recommended
amount and some were consuming double the advised level. Although those
consuming most salt tended to be taking cow’s milk as a main drink – which is not
recommended for children under a year – and never to be eating bread. The
nutritionists who conducted the research said: “These findings show no salt intakes
need to be substantially reduced in children of this age group. Every infants need
foods specifically prepared for them without added salt, so it is important and to
adapt the family diet.”
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Subtest D [Time: 10 minutes] 15 points
For questions 1-10, complete the following text with appropriate forms (parts of speech) of the
expressions given in capitals at the end of some lines. You will need to decide whether the form
is to be positive or negative. Write the answers in CAPITAL LETTERS in the numbered spaces
below the text. Correct spelling is important. The first item has been done for you as an
example [0].
Barnardo’s
Barnardo’s is the UK’s [0] children’s charity, supporting over
90,000 children, young people and families through more than 300
projects nationwide. Our work with women covers a wide range of
age groups and issues, including [1] teenage mothers whose children
have [2] or have been excluded from school, and women who have
decided to improve their [3] through community initiatives.
Tina is one of the many young women we are working with. After
a turbulent [4], mostly spent in children’s homes and foster
placements, she turned to drinking in her early teens. Starved of love
as a child, she formed relationships with [5], violent men. At the age
of sixteen she gave birth to a baby daughter. As her foster family
could not cope with her [6], her baby was placed on the Child
Protection Register. Tina was [7] to a Barnardo’s project, which offers
accommodation and help to vulnerable young parents and their
children. Tina learned about child [8] and how to care for her
daughter. With the charity’s support, she was able to move into a flat
with her daughter, whose name has now been removed from the
Child Protection Register.
Barnardo’s works with the most [9] children, young people and
families, helping them transform their lives. We believe that the lives
of all children and young people should be free from [10], abuse and
discrimination.
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Subtest E [Time: 10 minutes] 15 points
I. Match each city with its correct location. Write the letter of your answer in the space on the left.
1. _____ Newcastle A Canada
2. _____ Edmonton B Texas
3. _____ Phoenix C Ireland
4. _____ Limerick D England
5. _____ San Antonio E Arizona
II. Match the title of each work with its author. Write the letter of your answer in the space on the left.
6. _____ Wuthering Heights A William Shakespeare
7. _____ Leaves of Grass B Virginia Woolf
8. _____ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? C Edward Albee
9. _____ The Bluest Eye D Cormac McCarthy
10.____ Taming of the Shrew E Toni Morrison
11.____ Ivanhoe F Walt Whitman
12.____ Mrs. Dalloway G Emily Brontë
13.____ No Country for Old Men H Sir Walter Scott
III. Match the event or issue with the correct historical figure. Write the letter of your answer in the space on the
left.
14._____ Battle of Waterloo A Woodrow Wilson
15._____ World War I B David Cameron
16._____ Brexit C John F. Kennedy
17._____ Universal Declaration of Human Rights D Duke of Wellington
18._____ Cuban Missile Crisis E Eleanor Roosevelt
IV. Order the following individuals from the oldest to the most recent. Write your answers in the spaces on to the
left of the first name.
19. ____ ____ ____ A. Margaret Thatcher 20. ____ ____ ____ A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Tony Blair B. Jack Kerouac
C. Harold Macmillan C. William Styron
V. Match each name with what that person is best known as. Write the letter of your answer in the space on the
left.
21._____ Theresa May A Actor
22._____ Daniel Burnham B Politician
23._____ Tom Hardy C Singer
24._____ Ariana Grande D Inventor
25._____ Alan Turing E Architect
VI. Fill in the necessary expressions in the appropriate spaces. Write LEGIBLY. Correct spelling is important.
Donald J. T__________________ [26] is the 45th and current President ofthe United States. He was formally nominated
by the R__________________ [27] Party last July, and won the 2016 Presidential e__________________ [28] in a surprise
victory against his D__________________ [29] opponent Hillary Rodham C__________________ [30].