Did you know that studying English is almost as tough as studying medicine or law? Well here are a few tips and pieces of advice for you: 1. Get used to the idea that from now on you are going to sleep 20 hours...per week. 2. Good news! The high school hasn't finished yet. Here you have the opportunity to continue your way of learning. You will have to do homework for every day; and write tests... at least one every week. 3. From now on the dictionary will be your Bible. 4. You will have a busy schedule: from Monday till Friday you will have classes from 8 AM. to 8 PM., in the weekends you will have enough to learn. 5. You will have the opportunity to know the building because you'll be here more than anywhere else. 6. Don't be too curious about what exams are like! You might take them twice. 7. We have some good news as well. The University has Internet and a nice lab where you have free access to it. BUT don't raise your hopes! The lab is always full. We can access Internet in our phonetics lab as well, but not during the lessons. On other occasions the lab is closed. 8. Your teachers will be human beings, who drink, smoke, dance and even sing at parties. But keep in mind what you have read at point number 6! 9. If you are thinking of skipping a few seminars or courses…. Forget about it.

Time allowed: three weeks. Do not write on both sides of the paper at once.
1. Outline the most important features of astronomical theory under the later Babylonian empire OR give the first name of Ringo Starr.
2. Would you ask William Shakespeare to
A) build a bridge
B) go sailing with you
C) lead an army
D) write a play?
3. What time is it when the big hand is on one and the little hand is on twelve?
4. How many commandments (approximately) was Moses given?
5. Spell 'psychoanalytically'.
6. Six kings of England have been called George, the last being George the sixth. Name the previous five.
7. Can you explain Einstein's special theory of relativity? (Answer Yes or No.)
8. How long did the Seven Years War last?
9. Which is the odd man out: cat cat saxophone cat?
10. Who wrote Beethoven's fifth symphony (dr. Budai László - Horváth József, Angol Nyelvkönyv V.)

Puzzle Word-breaking I am a fruit. Behead me and a row, line or series of things is left. Cut of my tail and you will have the past tense of a very common verb (meaning to give out a musical metallic sound). Curtail me again and you will have the past tense of a verb even more common than the first (meaning to move fast). Now behead me and you will find a very short grammatical word very frequently used. If you curtail me again, you will still find something meaningful though very short (related to the proceeding word).