Содержание
- Part 1 Listening (15 minutes)
- Part 2 Reading (15 minutes)
- Part 3 Use of English (30 minutes)
- Audioscript
- KEYS
Part 1 Listening (15 minutes)
Maximum points – 5
You will hear a conversation between a boy, Leon, and his sister, Zara, about his room. Decide if each sentence 1–5 is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, put a tick in the box under A for YES. If it is not correct, put a tick in the box under B for NO.
| A YES | B NO | |
| 1. Zara understands why Leon is unhappy with his room. | ||
| 2. Zara says that his room should be painted white. | ||
| 3. Zara thinks Leon should get permission before he paints anything. | ||
| 4. Leon wants to have smaller furniture in the room. | ||
| 5. Leon and Zara agree that there should be a mirror on the wall. |
Part 2 Reading (15 minutes)
Maximum points – 6
Read a newspaper article about school. Choose from the list A–H the sentence which best summarizes each part 1–6 of the article. There are two extra sentences you do not need to use.
- They were more interested in the school’s past than its present.
- In many ways they behaved just as they had done 20 years earlier.
- Despite all that had happened, everyone seemed quite happy and satisfied.
- Many of the women said that they would attend.
- They were doing jobs that the school had not expected them to do.
- The head teacher met them to welcome them back to school.
- Once they had eaten it was as if they were schoolgirls again.
- Anne’s aim was to let them know about her achievements.
Back to school
Nicolette Jones attends a school reunion and finds that times change, people do not
(1) When Anne Bechar set out to find the 80 or so women – myself included – who were at Leeds Girls’ High School with her until 1979, it was, she admits, because she had lots of good news she wanted to tell them. ‘I wasn’t very academic at school, and I felt I was a nobody,’ she says. “Now I have lived for years in Paris and eight years in the Middle East, I have a family and I run a successful business. I feel that I am somebody.”
(2) Anne’s detective work resulted in the tracking-down of all but a dozen of our exclassmates. Then we received our invitations and 44 of us, astonished by the realization that we had been old girls for 20 years, agreed to show up for a lunch. Another 20 sent news, good wishes and apologies.
(3) So, once we’d had our hair done – and wondering whether we would recognize each other – we assembled in a dining hall that made us think of cabbage and sponge pudding. By the end of lunch it could have been 20 years ago; it was like a bad episode of soap opera in which everything that had happened since was a dream.
(4) It was not simply that in our own eyes we were unchanged. It was that we had gone back to the roles of two decades ago. Bryony, our head girl, who is now a doctor, asked kind questions with exactly the grace towards younger girls that made her popular then. Anne was told off by her friend Ruth for talking down to her, exactly as she had done at school. I showed off. We had become 14-year-olds in 37- year-old bodies.
(5) The school authorities, who had arranged a tour of new buildings for us, found us uncooperative. We didn’t want to see the new language labs and the new music block. We all wanted to see desks we sat at, we all walked along the corridors we had regularly raced down and talked in, and remembered. We wanted to meet the ghosts of our childhood selves.
(6) We were amazed, though, at the well-stocked careers room. In our day, careers advice was a teacher who mostly suggested nursing and secretarial work. Her limited imagination had not had much effect. Among us were doctors, lawyers, accountants, pharmacists and laboratory technicians. Diane, who was enough of a rebel at school to break the rules about wearing make-up, is now a beautician. Mandy is now a school governor. And I became a journalist.
Part 3 Use of English (30 minutes)
Maximum points – 39
Task 1
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question 1–10, mark the letter next to the correct word – A, B, C or D. The first one is done for you.
Example answer: 0 A B C D
Weather
Weather influences the lives (0) _______ everyone. The climate of any country depends on its position on Earth, its (1) ________ from the sea and how high it is. In countries which have sea all (2) _______ them, like Britain and New Zealand, winters are mild and summers are cool. There is not a huge change from one season to (3) ______ . Countries near the Equator have hot weather all year with some (4) ______ rain, except in deserts where it rains (5) ______ little. Above the desert there are no clouds in the sky so the (6) ______ of the sun can easily warm the ground during the day but it gets very cold at night. People are always (7) _______ in unusual weather and pictures of tornadoes, for example, shown on television. Strong winds and rain can (8) _______ a lot of damage to buildings and in spite of modern (9) ______ of weather forecasting they can (10) _____ surprise us.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 0 | of | from | by | to |
| 1 | distance | space | depth | length |
| 2 | through | beside | around | near |
| 3 | next | another | later | other |
| 4 | hard | large | heavy | great |
| 5 | not | quite | more | very |
| 6 | heat | fire | light | temperature |
| 7 | attracted | interested | keen | excited |
| 8 | make | happen | have | cause |
| 9 | jobs | tools | methods | plan |
| 10 | yet | still | already | ever |
Task 2
Read the text below and choose the correct word A, B, C or D for each question 11- 29. The first one is done for you.
A friend in the rain
Last week I (0) _В___ home after playing tennis when it (11) _______ raining very heavily. ‘O, no, I (12) ________ soaked before I (13) ________ home’, I thought. ‘I wish I (14) __________ to bring my raincoat’. But unfortunately I (15) _________ it at home. How stupid of me! I (16) _________ to bring it with me. Luckily just then a friend of mine passed in her car and offered me a lift. ‘(17) _________ home?’ she asked, ‘or (18)_________ to go for a cup of hot tea?’ ‘I think I’d rather you (19) _________ me home,’ I said. ‘If I (20) ____________ my clothes, I know I (21) ________ ill, and then I (22) ___________ to play in the tennis tournament next week. And I (23) ___________ hard for the last month.’ ‘I (24) _________ for you to change if you (25) __________,’ she told me.’ ‘I think it’s time you (26) _________ for a change. You (27) ___________ too much about things lately. And the one who (28) __________ too much (29) ____________ ill more easily. It’s got nothing to do with the rain!’
| A | B | C | D | |
| 0 | walk | was walking | walked | have been walking |
| 11 | had started | was starting | started | start |
| 12 | will get | would get | was getting | got |
| 13 | reached | reach | will reach | would reach |
| 14 | remember | remembered | will remember | had remembered |
| 15 | leave | have left | had left | left |
| 16 | always forgot | always forget | always forgetting | forgot always |
| 17 | will you go | do you going | are you go | are you going |
| 18 | are you wanting | do you want | are you want | will you want |
| 19 | take | will take | took | have taken |
| 20 | don’t change | will not change | did not change | would not change |
| 21 | fall | felt | would fall | will fall |
| 22 | am not able | won’t be able | wasn’t able | would not be able |
| 23 | was practising | had been practising | have been practising | had practised |
| 24 | will wait | wait | would wait | am waiting |
| 25 | likes | will like | liked | like |
| 26 | will relax | relaxed | relax | are relaxing |
| 27 | have been worrying | had been worrying | have worried | are worrying |
| 28 | worried | is worrying | worries | worry |
| 29 | falls | felt | will fall | fall |
Task 3
There’s a word missing in each of these proverbs 30–39. Choose the correct one from the three possibilities.
- An Englishman’s home is his …..
- a) security
- b) castle
- c) palace
- Let sleeping dogs …..
- a) sleep
- b) dream
- c) lie
- Many ….. make light work.
- a) servants
- b) hands
- c) cooks
- It takes all sorts to make a …..
- a) world
- b) war
- c) salad
- Prevention is better than …..
- a) cure
- b) punishment
- c) medicine
- ….. is thicker than water.
- a) coffee
- b) blood
- c) soup
- A miss is as good as a …..
- a) mister
- b) mile
- c) wife
- Birds of a ….. flock together.
- a) family
- b) cage
- c) feather
- It’s no use crying over …..milk.
- a) sour
- b) spilt
- c) tinned
- ….. begins at home.
- a) charity
- b) learning
- c) love
Audioscript
Look at Part 1.
You will hear a conversation between a boy, Leon, and his sister, Zara, about his room. Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it is correct, choose YES. If it is not correct, choose NO. You will hear the conversation twice. You have 20 seconds to look at the questions.
(Pause 20 seconds)
Now we are ready to start.
Leon: What do you think of my room, Zara? Don’t you think it looks small? I haven’t got much furniture, but it feels like there’s very little space here.
Zara: Well, it’s exactly the same size as my room and I’m quite happy there, but (1) I see what you mean, Leon. Your room just seems smaller than it really is.
Leon: Why do you think that is?
Zara: The first thing, I think, is that it’s too dark. The walls and the ceiling, I mean.
Leon: So would it be a good idea to paint everything white?
Zara: Well, that might make it look a bit like an office or a hospital. (2) Yellow or light green would be better, I think. Then you could get things like cushions in the same colour, and perhaps do something about the colour of the furniture. Some of that’s very dark, too.
Leon: Yes, and I could paint things like the cupboards myself. I noticed the other day that the supermarket is selling big tins of paint really cheaply, so I could start straight away.
Zara: Hmm. I’m not sure about that. (3) It’s probably best to ask Mum and Dad what they think first.
Leon: Oh, I don’t think they’ll mind.
Zara: Or perhaps you could get some new furniture. If you do, I’d suggest looking for things that don’t need so much space. Some of those you have now, like that desk, are too big for the room really.
Leon: (4) No, I don’t agree with you about that. I need quite a big desk top for my computer and all the things that go with it, as well as something to write on. There’s all that homework I have to do.
Zara: Yes, I suppose so. But there are other things you could do.
Leon: Such as?
Zara: Well, you get a lot of sunshine coming in through the window, so how about putting a big mirror on the wall opposite?
Leon: Hmm. You may be right. It would make the place a lot brighter, particularly in winter. (5) Yes, I think I’ll do that. Let’s go shopping on Saturday morning!
Now you have 20 seconds to fulfil the task.
(Pause 20 seconds)
Now listen again.
(The recording is repeated)
Now you have 15 seconds to check your answers.
(Pause 15 seconds)
This is the end of Part 1.
KEYS
Part 1 Listening
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| A | B | A | B | A |
Part 2 Reading
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| H | D | G | B | A | E |
Part 3 Use of English
Task 1
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| A | C | B | C | D | A | B | D | C | B |
Task 2
| 0 | B | 20 | A |
| 11 | C | 21 | D |
| 12 | A | 22 | B |
| 13 | B | 23 | C |
| 14 | D | 24 | A |
| 15 | C | 25 | D |
| 16 | B | 26 | B |
| 17 | D | 27 | A |
| 18 | B | 28 | C |
| 19 | C | 29 | A |
Task 3
| 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 |
| B | C | B | A | A | B | B | C | B | A |