Checking for cheats

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Checking for cheats

• MC Cloze
• Section C 2005

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Checking for cheats

• How common do you think the use of performance
  enhancing drugs is among top athletes?
• What kind of qualifications do you think you
  would need to get a job testing for drug cheats?

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At weekends, he transforms (17) a super-powered
urine collector, with the (18) to make
world-class athletes pee on command. (62)

• 17. A. into
• B. as
• C. from
• D. through

• What preposition follows transforms?
• Transforms is similar in meaning to change.
• ACorrect

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At weekends, he transforms (17) a super-powered
urine collector, with the (18) to make
world-class athletes pee on command. (46)

• 18. A. decision
• B. necessity
• C. authority
• D. requirement

• He can make them do what he says.
• He can command them to do what he says, so he has
  power.
• CCorrect

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Heppelle, 39, is a doping control officer (19)
the IOC clamp down (20) drug cheats. (75)

• 19. A. helps
• B. helped
• C. helping
• D. has helped.

• The sentence could end after officer and it
  would be a complete sentence.
• The rest of the sentence is just giving extra
  information.
• Ex. The man is an employee (working for the
  company).
• CCorrect

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Heppelle, 39, is a doping control officer (19)
the IOC clamp down (20) drug cheats. (32)

• 20. A. from
• B. on
• C. after
• D. against

• Clamp down sudden action taken to reduce crime
• What preposition follows clamp down?
• BCorrect

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He works part-time for a firm (21) by the IOC to
collect urine samples from athletes across Japan.
(43)

• A. consulted
• B. involved
• C. reported
• D. commissioned

• The IOC cannot collect all the urine samples.
• It has to hire a firm (company) to do it.
• DCorrect

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It might not be the most appealing career choice,
but Heppelle says it (22) its rewards. (74)

• A. plays
• B. does
• C. has
• D. finds

• Only one option is a common collocation with
  rewards.
• CCorrect

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Youre not going to be very popular, but if you
do your job professionally, you (23) a certain
amount of respect. (94)

• A. gain
• B. pay
• C. give
• D. present

• Not being popular is a disadvantage.
• An advantage is that you earn a certain amount of
  respect.
• ACorrect

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(24) he presents himself and shows his ID card,
he cannot let the athlete (25) until he has
obtained a sample - (57)

• 24. A. Before
• B. Once
• C. While
• D. Although

• From the moment he introduces himself, he must
  stay with them at all times until he gets a
  sample. He does this to make sure they dont
  escape or cheat.
• BCorrect

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(24) he presents himself and shows his ID card,
he cannot let the athlete (25) until he has
obtained a sample - (76)

• 25. A. away from view
• B. out of the way
• C. on their own
• D. out of his sight
• He must stay with them until he gets a sample to
  make sure they dont cheat or escape.

• B doesnt make sense.
• Which of A, C or D sounds better with let?
• DCorrect

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The athlete has one hour to (26). (37)

• A. carry out
• B. decide
• C. fulfil
• D. comply

• The athlete has no choice. He/she must give the
  sample.
• B doesnt make sense.
• carry out the order, etc.
• fulfil the request, etc.
• D. correct

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Heppelle grabbed (27) bicycle and gave hot
pursuit along the riverbank. (72)

• A. a close
• B. a nearby
• C. an adjoining
• D. an immediate

• C and D dont make sense.
• Close and nearby have the same meaning, but
• One is usually followed by to.
• The other is more commonly used in front of a
  noun.
• BCorrect

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He has to see the urine pass from the body into
the bottle since athletes (28) to take evasive
action, (58)

• A. know that
• B. know what
• C. have been known
• D. are known for

• The public, testers and the IOC know that
  athletes sometimes cheat. (active voice)
• Athletes (passive voice)
• Do not need the preposition for.
• CCorrect.

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I felt a bit uncomfortable when I first started,
but the top-level athletes are used to it by now
and (29), Heppelle said. (58)

• A. Im too
• B. I do too
• C. so am I
• D. me as well

• Contractions like Im are followed by a noun,
  an adjective or a verb ending in ing.
• X A.
• CCorrect

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An athlete has a right of refusal but this
means automatic failure Heppelle says hes
known it to (30) only once. (72)

• A. become
• B. happen
• C. proceed
• D. come on

• Someone refusing a test is something that he has
  seen occur only once.
• BCorrect

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Some athletes have tested positive, but he
doesnt know whether it was his sample or another
(31) failed and he is not (32) to name names.
(68)

• 31. A. that
• B. what
• C. he
• D. it

• He doesnt know which sample failed his or
  someone elses.
• The sentence could end after another.
• failed is extra information about his sample
  or another.
• ACorrect

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Some athletes have tested positive, but he
doesnt know whether it was his sample or another
(31) failed and he is not (32) to name names.
(16)

• 32. A. at liberty
• B. on record
• C. in confidence
• D. with authority

• He is not allowed/free to give the names of those
  who tested positive.
• ACorrect

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This isnt the kind of work most people search
out and Heppelle (33) his part-time job through a
friend of a friend (34) principal occupation was
testing ships crews for drugs. (57)

• 33. A. stumbled into
• B. pointed out
• C. passed over
• D. fell onto

• Most people dont search out this kind of work,
  so we can assume that he found his job by
  accident.
• This expression is used when you accomplish
  something, like getting a job, without trying too
  hard.
• ACorrect

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This isnt the kind of work most people search
out and Heppelle (33) his part-time job through a
friend of a friend (34) principal occupation was
testing ships crews for drugs. (65)

• 34. A. whom
• B. what
• C. which
• D. whose

• The friends principal occupation was testing
  ships crews.
• His occupation was testing ships crews.
• DCorrect