Exam Overview 4 Practice Test 5 101 Paper 1 Reading 101 Practice Test 1 6 Paper 2 Writing 110 Paper 1 Reading 6 Paper 3 Use of English 112 Paper 2 Writing 14 Paper 4 Listening 119 Paper 3. Use of English 17 Paper Speaking 124 Paper 4 Listening 24 Paper 5 Speaking 29 Practice Test 6 125 . Paper 1 Reading 125 Practice Test 2 30 Paper2 Writing 434 Paper 1 Reading 30 Paper 3. Use of English 136 P§per 2 Writing 38 Paper 4 Listening 143 Paper 3 Use of English 40 Paper Speaking 148 Paper 4 Listening 47 Paper 5 Speaking 52 Visuals for Paper 5 149 . Test 1 Speaking 149 Practice Test 3 53 Test 2 Speaking 152 Paper 1 Reading Le Test 3. Speaking 155 Paper 2. Writing 62 Test4 Speaking 158 Paper 3 Use of English 64 Test 5 Speaking 161 Paper 4 Listening 1 Test 6 Speaking 164 Paper 5 Speaking 76 : OMR Answer Sheets 167 Practice Test 4 7 Paper 1 Reading 7 Answer Key 170 Paper 2 Writin 86 ; Paper 3 Use of énglsh 88 Tapescripts Ns Paper 4 Listening 95 Paper5 Speaking 100 Top 20 Questions 192The Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) consists of five papers. Each paper tests a different area of ability in English and is worth 20 percent of the final result. A candidate's overall CAE grade is based on the total score gained in all five papers as it is not possible to pass or fail individual papers. A, 8 and C are pass grades; D and E are fail grades, fae} Paper 1 lasts 1 hour 15 minutes and contains four parts with a total of 34 questions. There are texts of varying lengths taken from a variety of real-world sources with a range of text type and style of writing. For,example, there may be extracts from newspapers, magazines, websites, novels and non-fiction books, ‘as well as material taken from brochures, leaflets and other short texts. Candidates have to answer all the questions, The four parts are as follows: Part 1 (Multiple choice: Questions 1-6) consists of three short texts on a theme, The texts are taken from different sources and represent a tange of style and genre. There are two four-option multiple-choice questions on each text which test a range of reading and language skis. Part 2 (Gapped text: Questions 7-12) consists cof one long text from which six paragraphs have ‘been removed and placed in jumbled order after the text. Candidates use their knowledge of vocabulary, referencing and text structure to reconstruct the text. Part 3 (Multiple choice: Questions 13-19) consists of one long text, There are seven fouroption multiple-choice questions which fellow the order of the text and test a range of reading and language skills. Part 4 (Multipie-matching: Questions 20-34) consists of one long text which is divided inta several sections. The text is preceded by fifteen prompts which report information and ideas from the text. Candidates must match each prompt to the correct section of text. Paper 2 lasts 1 hour 30 minutes and is made up of ‘two tasks. In Part 1 all candidates do the same task, which is based on input information provided on the auestion baper. In Part 2, candidates have a choice of asi In Part 1, candidates read around 150 words of input information, which may come from various real- world texts, and use this information to complete a structured writing task of 180-220 words. Marks are awarded for the inclusion of the target information, language ability and for writing in an appropriate style for the given task (e.g. letter, report, proposal or article). In Part 2, candidates select one situationally based task from a choice of five which may include: atticle, competition entry, essay, letter, proposal, report, review, information sheet or a contribution toa longer piece (e.g. book, research document, etc), Marks are awarded for content, organisation, cohesion, range of language and task achievement. NB: Two of the five options relate to the set texts which some candidates may have studied. Paper 3: Use of English Paper 3 lasts for one hour and contains five parts with a total of 50 questions. Candidates answer all the questions. The five different parts are as follows: Part 1 consists of a multiple-choice cloze. This is a text from which twelve words or phrases have been removed, which i followed by twelve four-option multiple-choice questions. The focus is on knowledge of vocabulary and the relationships between words (eg. collocation, complementation, etc) Part 2 consists of an open cloze. This is a text from which fifteen words have been removed. Candidates use their knowledge of grammar, sentence structure and text structure to complete the gaps. Part 3 consists of a word-formation task. This task features a text from which ten wards have been removed. The base form of each missing word is given as a prompt. Candidates must use their knowledge of grarnmar and wordbuilding to insert the correct form of the given word Part 4 consists of a gapped-sentences task with five questions. Each question in this task features a set of three independent sentences. The same word has been removed from each of the three sentences Candidates use their knowledge of vocabulary to find the common missing word.Part 5 consists of a key-word transformation task ‘with eight questions. Each question in this task features two sentences which express the same meaning in different ways, plus a key word. Three to six words have been removed from the second sentence. Candidates use their knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure to complete the gap using the given key word ry ROU} Paper 4 lasts for approximately 40 minutes and contains four parts with a total of 30 questions. There ate listening texts of varying lengths taken from a variety of real-world sources with a range of text type, contexts and speakers. For example, there may ie extracts from media broadcasts, announcements, talks and interviews, as well as material taken from everyday situations. All the listening texts are heard twice and candidates have to answer all the questions, Part 1 consists of three short independent listening texts, The texts are taken from different sources and feature a range of voices and styles of delivery, There are two three-option multiple-choice questions on each text which test a range of listening skil Part 2 consists of a monologue lasting approximately three minutes. A set of eight sentences reports the main points from the text, A word or short phrase has been removed from each sentence. Candidates listen and complete the missing information. The rain focus is on locating and recording specific information from the text. Part 3 consists of an interview or discussion lasting approximately four minutes. There are six fouroption multiple-choice questions which follow the order of the text and test a range of listening skills. The main focus is on understanding the attitudes and opinions of speakers, Part 4 consists of five short monologues on a theme of around 30 seconds each. The set of extracts is heard once and is then repeated. Candidates have to complete two tasks as they listen. Each task features a set of eight short prompts. As candidates listen, they match each speaker to one of the eight prompts in each task. The focus is on understanding the gist of what the speakers are saying Cae ut) Paper 5 lasts for 15 minutes and is taken by candidates in pairs. The standard format involves an interview between two candidates and two examiners, One of the examiners is an interlocutor who speaks to the candidates; the other examiner only assesses the candidates and does not speak. The different parts are as follows: In Part 1 the interlocutor asks the candidates questions about themselves, their lives and their interests, in turn. The focus is on general interactional and social language, This part lasts approximately ‘three minutes, In Part 2 each candidate has a long turn lasting approximately one minute. Each candidate has a different set of photographs to use as a prompt. The second candidate will make a short response after his/her partner has spoken. This whole part lasts approximately three to four minutes and the focus is on language organisation In Part 3 the candidates interact. They are given a sheet of visual prompts and a situation or issue to discuss for around four minutes. This part focusses on the language of interaction: exchanging ideas, expressing and justifying opinions, agreement, etc. 4m Part 4 there is a general discussion related to the topic of the Part 3 task. The interlocutor asks questions which broaden out the discussion from the specific task in Part 3. This part lasts around four minutes. EXAM OVERVIEWa0 oa Part 1 best according to the text You are going to read three extracts which are all concerned in some way with cars and driving. For questions 1-6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits The case of the runaway trolley “There was nothing particuladly interesting about the story of an ‘empty supermarket trolley in York thar, driven by high winds, collided with a car. But it was nonetheless reported in detail in the city’s Evening Press newspaper, Incredibly, however, this report has led to a record 323 responses on the newspaper's website. “The level of debate has been high, with readers attempting to negotiat: the moral maze of apportioning blame for the incident. Was it the supermarket, legal owner of the toley, or was it Julie Bearing, 46, whose newish Citroen suffered a dented wing? Mrs Bearing told che Pres that, although unhure in the collision, she had been wounded by the supermarker’ refusal to pay for the damage. Initial responses were of disdain that che press should descend to such trivias but it soon became apparent that the reporter, Matthew ‘Woodcock, who had written a story of commendable detail and balance, had also in the process touched on matters that went to the very roots of society. “The supermarket has a dury 10 control those trolleys; said one respondent, claiming it should make customers pay a deposit of £1 for a trolley, which is refunded when it is returned. Mrs Bearing did not, ‘on the whole, draw a great deal of support, several people telling her to calm down, shut up, and claim om her insurance. Yet many people blamed neither Mrs Bearing nor the supermarker, but the trolleys themselves, which appear to be ganging up on humani things are becoming a menace to society. Cant you see they want revenge for their dreary life?” one respondent wrote. 1 Inthe writer's opinion, the original story about the trolley ‘A. was justly criticised on the newspaper's website. B_ was an example of a well-written piece of journalism. C was not worthy of the amount of attention it received D__ was designed to begin a public debate on a serious issue. 2. Inthe final paragraph, the writer is A B c D ‘explaining why the topic became so popular. ‘commenting on the likely outcome of the dispute. reviewing the various contributions to the website. ridiculing the opinions of some of those responding, look at each question, or question. TEST 1 stern; don't look at the options (A-B) yet. Can you find the piece of text “where the answer i? Undeine any key. swords and ideas in the tet Can you the anwer without ooking atthe ‘options? Nowlook at the options (A, B. Cor “D) and coose the one wihich best _Thatches'your ovin answer to the ‘question. "== Check that the other options are al definite wrong, fF you're stil unsure, hich ofthese options can be ued PAPER 1: READING ‘gies ¢ personel optic ab ‘figinal article. What did he thi Question 2: “Bok at whet the wt ‘says. What is his purpose in this” paragraph? <0 Question : Underline the wor tenard ted these paris of the tet ~ very carefully. 4 z Question 5: Read the second sentence of the tent very caretully to find the anne,EXTRACT FROM A NOVEL Nick did not regret agreeing to go. He had long earned to accept the consequences of every decision he took with a degree of equanimity: Regret, then, was hardly the word for it. But consequences hatch slowly, and not always sweetly. ‘The long drive west had reminded him of the point more forcefully with every mile. His past was a hostile country, his present a tranquil plain. By going home he was not only abandoning a refuge, but proclaiming that he no longer line 4 needed one ~ which, naturally, he would have said was selevidently true. Bue saying and believing are very different things, as different as noise and silence. And what he heard most through the tinted glass and impact-proof steel of his sleek grey company car... was silence. Sunday would be his eldest brother fiftcth birthday. A birchday party at Trennor~ a gathering ofthe siblings — would do them all good. Itwasa summons Nick could not very well ignore. But in luring him down, lrene had admitted that line 9 there was more to it than that. "We need to talk about the future, I dont see how Dad can cope at Trennor on his own ‘much longer. A possibilitys cropped up and we'd like your input.’ She had declined to be specific over the telephone, fine 11 line 12 hoping, he infeed, o arouse his curiosity as well as his conscience, which she had done, chough not as conclusively as she must have hoped. Nick had agreed in the end because he had no reasonable excuse not 0. 3 How was Nick feeling as he drove westward that evening? sorry that he said he would go sad at the thought of retuming home worried about the length of the journey D_ unsure what the results of the trip might be 4 Which phrase used earlier in the text introduces the idea that Irene had intended to ‘arouse his curiosity’ (line 12)? A. ‘abandoning a refuge’ line 4) B_ ‘asummons' (line 9) ‘luring him down’ (line 9) D ‘cropped up’ (line 11) down the volume. I spotted a white Ford whose stereo was Could you possibly turn it down, please? several decibels louder than the aircraft fying overhead, You'e staring mindlessly into space at the traffic lights when shock waves of sound dent the car’ side panels. IF you're under thirty, you probably take it in your stride and, with uttermost cool, give a barely perceptible nod of recognition. But if your heart starts pounding and you have an overwhelming desire to hit something, then the chances, are you're either the wrong side of forty or completely out of touch or extremely bad-tempered. Or in my case, all three. This is where the story ends for most people, but I wanted to see what would happen if I asked the other driver to turn. and waited sill it had parked up. A young man in a striking yellow vest got out. ‘Why should I turn it down,’ he said "Te paid for isi’ legal’ I try another tack. ‘So how loud can it go?’ ‘Deafening loud,’ he laughs. ‘T've spent serious money on this system. Most car stereos just have alot, of bottom, this has got middle and top, too. I've entered competitions with it.’ I discover that the cars with the best acoustics are hatchbacks. Bigger cars, such as BMWs, have so ‘much more steel in them that you have to spend a great deal to get the bass to penetrate through the boot. I thank him ~ it been an illuminating conversation, 5 According to the writer, when people under thirty hear loud music in a passing car, they ‘A may subtly indicate approval to the driver. B_ will avoid revealing their opinion of it. Care unlikely to pay any attention to it. D_ maybe keen to hide their annoyance. 6 How did the writer feel after talking to the man in the yellow vest? A. better able to tolerate loud music in cars B_ more informed about how car music systems work C even angrier about the loud music than he was previously D_ sorry that he had injured the man’s pride in his music system TEST 1, PAPER 1: READINGPart 2 You aré going to read an extract from a newspaper article. Six paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (7-12). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. - On a wing and a woof Michael Cassell’s close encounter with a paragliding puppy inspires a desire to try out the sport Tove dogs, but a dog's place is at your feet, enthusiasts simply because of the jagged ridge of not flying above your head. I was holidaying _red rock that towers three hundred metres above on the Céte d’Azure in France, and I couldnt. _sea level behind our house ~ the best jumping-off quite believe what I was seeing, I think it was spot for miles around. some form of testier, although it was hard to cell ae a | beciuse it wore goggles and a little bandana and ne speed as it passed over the 4 forty-five-minute climb from the beach to uses this ridge-top and although the gliders weigh a around 7kg, there are a harness and helmet and | boots and other bits and pieces to carry as well. I T kept my eye on the pair and saw them land on calculate that each flight lasts about four minutes the beach, where they received warm applause and some of the keenest fans trudge past my gate from early bathers. I'm sure they were breaking three or four times a day. I tucked in behind ane every rule in the book and if the police had group to watch them get ready for the jump. intervened I imagine the dog at least could have seer] lost his licence. — ‘The reality, of course, is that with proper waining and preparation paragliding is a very safe Paragliding, by contrast, relies entirely on thermic sport; there are accidents, but most are rarely air and the skill of its pilot; to rake to the skies that serious and uswally occur on launching or on such a lightweight contraption is to soar free landing, ‘This group, however, knew theie stuff. and silently in the arms of mother nature, The To forsake a long run and lift off for a virtual leap sport has spawned more than 650 clubs across _into space takes experience and supreme con- France, and fans travel from actoss Europe to. _ fidence. enjoy the mix of wild scenery and placid weather | gy} that the country offers. The most popular regions are the Alps, the Pyrenees and Corsica, and ther im not a natural-bomn daredevil and wouldrit are plenty of paragliding schools in those regions aye have found chat experience thrilling, But that will get beginners off the ground in two Or 1 am nevertheless sorely tempted to have a go ies a ~ maybe on a gently sloping hillside. ‘You'll need Be 7) Ca nedical certificate at your age,’ declared one of the group, instantly extinguishing the flame ‘The Cote d’Azute, however, is not in itself natural of adventure, But then if puppies can paraglide, paragliding countey, and we have found ourselves why shouldn't an old dog like me? under the flight path of a growing number of TEST 1, PAPER 1: READINGA. But this is no place for beginners. There are no gentle, grass-covered slopes to run down = the rocks are vertical and unyielding and anyone who leaps off them could easily got into difficulties unless they know what they are doing. B For the more courageous, the pleasures of advanced thermalling await, but if you are of a more timid disposition and want to hold someone's hand, you can take a tandem course; if you are a dog, the experience must be like sticking your head out of the car window and lecting the wind beat your ears round the back of your head. © Nocall of these untrained novices reach the beach, however. In recent days, one paraglider has landed on a neighbour's pool terrace, wrecking several terracotta pots and a previously unblemished flight record. D_ Despite such unexpected intrusions on my privacy, I've decided that paragliding, with or without the canine companion, is immensely superior to microlight fying, in which the airborne are propelled by a motor so clamorcus and noisy that any idea of soaring serenely through the heavens is soon lose. E The biggest surprise was that they were not all strong. strapping young men, intent upon ticking off another item on some checklist of ‘dangerous things to do before 1 die’. OF the six preparing to jump, three were wornen and the average age appeared to be somewhere in the mid-thirties. F The puppy was paraglidi tiny, intrepid recruit to the sport that has taken off big time across the country. The creature was not ~ on its own, thank goodness, but on a machine piloted by a young man who greeted me cheerily as they swooped beyond the end of the terrace and dived down the hillside. G There was one nasty moment when one of the women leapt and, instead of instantly catching the air beneath her canopy, plunged alarmingly down the face of the cliff; but within seconds she had caught an updraft, was whooping gleefully and on her way. another way of saying ‘smal Question 9: The previous arsora is talking about paragliding sc TEST 1, PAPER 1: READINGPart 3 You are going to read an article about the actress Nancy Cartwright, who is the voice of a well-known cartoon character. For questions 13~19, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. The voice of Bart Simpson ‘The woman I've come to meet is sitting atop a large plastic caw in the grounds of her Los Angeles home. Small and blonde, she holds an umbrella aloft and gives a mischievous smile for an American magazine photographer. ‘Hi, there!” she says, giving me a warm, almost motherly wave from her umusval vantage point. Her real name is Nancy Carewright. Her stage name, however, isa ltcle more familiar: Bart Simpson, the obnoxious, skateboard-rousing ten-year-old from the cartoon metropolis of Springfield. Its hard ro believe, bur this forty-six-yeat-old mother of two, dressed in a sensible green top and blue trousers, is the yellow-hued rascal who instructed the world to eas his short. Lcan bring him out at will,’ says Carewright, with a hine ofa rsised eyebrow, her naturally husky voice always seemingly on the verge of breaking into a Bartism, punctuated by his crue, gloating laughter. ‘Think about it, its kind of ideal, is i? IFT go to a party and someone brings @ kid up to me I can go, “Hey ‘man, what’ happening?” and watch the kid's face. I love doing that.’ My own gawping response is probably similar. The ten-year-old voice coming out of Cartwright is scarily incongruous. It belongs to another world — certainly not here in the lush Californian suburb of Northridge, with its white picket Fences, tennis courts, swimming pools and three-car garages. Reckless skateboarding would certainly not be tolerated. Cartwright, however, has grown tired of deploying Bart’ voice as a means to claim traditional celebrity perks, such as a table at the famous Sky Bar, ‘I tried it once,’ she says. ‘It’s embarrassing. People are like, "So what?” She has had similarly disappointing encounters with unamused traffic cops and havtied light attendants. Now Cartwright has learnt to relish her anonymous celebrity status, ‘Ie’ probably because 1 haave the choice to be able to doit whereas most celebrities don't’ she concludes, “They're kind of, you know, at the whim of the public, and that must be unnerving” But theres, of course, something profoundly odd about the fact that Nancy Cartwright is at once both an Aclist celebrity and a faceless nobody. So odd, in fac, that ir has inspired Carrwtight to produce a one- ‘wornan show based on what she calls ‘My life as a ten-year-old boy’, which she is bringing to the Edinburgh Festival. The one-woman show takes the audience through Cartwright’s real life as @ ten-year-old — living in the Midwestern ‘nowheresvile’ of Dayton, Ohio — when she won a school competition with a performance of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘How the Camel Got His Hump’. After that came other competitions, other trophies, and a gradual realisation that her voice was perfect for casvoons. By her lace teens, Cartwright was working for a radio station where she met a Hollywood studio representative who gave her the name and phone umber of Daws Butler, the legendary voice of cartoon favourites Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Beat. At just 19, and with only that one contact, Cartwright, like so many other wannabe starlets, packed her bags and headed west, transferring her university scholarship from Ohio to che University of California Carewrright, however, was no ordinary blonde starlet. ‘Most people who come co Hollywood are looking to get on camera,’ she says. “My story is quite different. My purpose was to hook up with this pioneer of the Voiceover industry so that’s what I did.’ He put her in couch withthe directors t the Hanna-Barbera studio and helped her get the voice of Gloria in Richie Rich — the adventutes of the richest boy in the world ‘Then came the call from the producers of a 30-second cartoon spot on “The Tracey Ullman Show’. They ‘wanted her to play the role of Lisa Simpson, a nerdy and morally upstanding know-all with a bratty litle brother, Bart. ‘I went in, saw Lisa, and didn't really see anything I could sink my teeth into,’ says Cartwright. “But the audition piece for Bare was sight there, and I'm like, “Whoa, ten years old, underachiever and proud of ic”, and I'm going, “Yeah, man ~ that’s the one {wanna do!” She knew the audition was a success when Matt Greening, the creator of The Simpsons, started cracking up and shouting, “That it! That's Bart! Its no surprise to learn that Bart's catchphrase ~ ‘Eat my shorts!’ — was originally an ad lib by Cartwright. The Bart voice had long been a part of Cartwright’ repertoite, but it didn't come alive until she saw the pictures of him and read the sctipt. The material, meanwhile, which was pretty heady stuff in the late cighties, didnt shock her. “fou know what, she says, T couldnt believe I was actually getting paid for doing things I would get into trouble for doing as a kid. fine 11 TEST 1, PAPER 1: READING13 14 15 16 7 18 In the first paragraph, the writer reveals that on meeting Nancy, he was ‘A unprepared for her age. B struck by her ordinariness, C reassured by her appearance. D_ embarrassed by her behaviour. ‘The word ‘gawping’in line 11 describes A atypical reply. B asortoflaugh Ca facial expression. D_ an involuntary movement. How do adults tend to react when Nancy uses Bar's voice in public? A They are confused by it B_ They are unimpressed by it. © They give her special treatment. D_ They accept that she is a celebrity. How does Nancy feel about keeping a relatively low profile? ‘A nervous about the effects on her future career B_ unsure that it was a good choice to make C relieved not to be more in the public eye D sorry not to be recognised more often ‘What do we learn about Nancy's one-woman show? A It features the wide range of voices she can produce. B_texplores the strangeness of voiceover work. € It celebrates other famous cartoon characters. D_ ittraces the development of her early career. Why did Nancy originally decide to go to Hollywood? A. She had got a place on a course there. B_ She already had the offer of a job there. Her ambition was to become a film star there. D_ There was somebody who could help her there. 19. Nancy got the part of Bart Simpson as @ result of ‘A. volunteering to do an audition for it. B_ being rejected for the part of his sister. C contributing to part of the script of the show. D_ successfully playing a male character in another show. TEST 1, PAPER 1: READINGPart 4 You are going to read an article in which four readers suggest locations for watching wildife, For questions 20-34, choose from the readers (A-D). The readers may be chosen more than once. Which reader .., offered money in return for the chance to interact directly with ‘some animals? feels that visiting the location has been a life-changing experience? says the location may well become mote renowned in the future? has a suggestion for the novice wildlife tourist? mentions a physical reaction to the excitement of spotting certain animals? got involved in activities designed to help various types of animal directly? feels it unwise to bank on seeing one particular species? mentions an abundance of animals belonging to one particular species? mentions unpaid work being offered as part of a trip? suffered some discomfort in order to witness one wildlife event? mentions one particularly enjoyable form of transport? Points out the relative safety of an isolated location? mentions a possible health advantage for visitors choosing one location? got particular pleasure from an activity that was unplanned? AME RABE AP 8 ee feels that independent travel is a realistic option in the area? WER Citesr 1, paren 1: reavineWildlife encounters Four readers suggest great locations where you can watch wildlife in its natural surroundings CENA MEE eee The first time you see a bear, when you realise that just you, the guide and that bear, your mouth definitely goes dry. Unlike in other more frequently visited areas, the bears at Hallo Bay don't associate humans with food as nobody's ever fed them, so they pose no risk to people. You can watch the bears fish in the river, nurse their cubs, photograph them hunting for clams on the beach or find them ‘sleeping with their full belies nestied in a hollow they've dug in the sand. For me, Hallo Bay's a magical place. I've always been a person who was structured and organised, but I've said for years now that I lost my list in Alaska. One thing which makes. Hallo Bay so special is that the remote camp has just a dozen guests at a time, with guided groups of no more than half that many heading out to search for the bears. And there's no shortage of them; Hallo Bay has one of the world’s healthiest populations of coastal browns, maybe because of the plentiful food supply. It must be how the planet was several hundred years ago. Admittedly, Hallo Bay would be a bit challenging if you'd never been wildlife watching before. But for me, even without the bears it would be a gorgeous place to visit. ERO REGIA uta a South Africa It's so hard to recommend just one location in Aftica to go in search of the big five! However, if you've never been on safari before, then travel is straightiorward in South Africa and its parks are the cheapest if you're short of money. Also, if you want to take children with you there are parks, such as Madikwe Game Reserve, that are malaria-free. This doesn't mean you can't have an adventure. The parks have well-equipped campsites and good- quality roads, so it's perfectly possible to fiy in, hire a four-by-four, fully equipped with everything you need for a fortnight's camping, and head off on your own. There's also an impressive selection of volunteer projects involving animals, particularly around the country's biggest parks. | spent four weeks helping ata veterinary practice with African Conservation Experience. | got the chance to work with lion, cheetah, sable antelope, elephant and buffalo, The work's extremely hands-on and you have to be ready for anything, whether it's taking a lion's, temperature or treating a dog for a snake bite! TINA Rear ry fesevatte With concerns mounting about the pressure on the Galapagos Islands, Costa Rica’s popularity as a wildlife venue could be about to take off, and deservedly so. It boasts the world's highest biodiversity according to some guidebooks and packs in 850 species of birds and a quarter of the world’s species of butterfly. From cloud forest to Caribbean beaches and from dry tropical forest to mangrove swamps, Costa Rica has it all: iguanas at ‘your feet, capuchin monkeys overhead, sloths are to be seen, and if you're really lucky you'll catch sight of one of Costa Rica’s jaguars. However, perhaps the most magical thing to do here is watch turtles lay their eggs on a moonlight drenched beach. It does require patience; we waited two nights, napping on hard benches at the Playa Grande sanctuary, before one of the wardens shook us awake to say a female had been spotted laboriously making her way out of the surf, The turtles go into a sort of trance and we were allowed quite close to watch her dig a hole with her flippers and deposit hundreds of eggs, the size of golf balls. She then casually covered them up and headed off back down the beach — the last she'll see of her young, The eggs are then gathered by the wardens and taken to their hatchery to protect them from predators, ‘AMY: Chitwan National Park, Nepal With tigers, snow leopards and one-horned rhinoceros, Nepal certainly has its share of endangered animals. The snow leopard is perhaps the most exotic of them all but, with only a maximum of five hundred of these cats left in the country, they're incredibly difficult to spot. Snow leopard treks are organised regularly, but if you go on one you need to enjoy it for the sheer magnificence of the scenery and not fee! let down if you don't spot your ultimate prey. It could be a life-changing experience, but it's not that likely to happen. | visited Chitwan at the foot of the Himalayas. The park was set aside for wildlife in 1959 and is the place to see Indian rhinoceros as well as being one of the last refuges of the Bengal tiger. One of the best ways to view both is from the back of an elephant something —_| that is rather fabulous in itself. We were having breakfast one day when two elephants were being taken for their daily wash on the river bank near our hotel. We made a small donation and asked to help — it was one of the most amazing animal ‘encounters possible, sitting on the backs of those huge elephants scrubbing their backs whilst they knelt in the water and sprayed us from their trunk! All the more special as it was so impromptu TEST 1, PAPER 1: READING ee)TEST 1, PAPER 2: WRITING‘fiend, you are giving © sefious information 6 he Part 1 You must answer this question. Write your answer in 180-220 words in an appropriate style. 4 Last summer you worked for a month for an intemational company that organises adventure holidays. Your friend Carlo wants to do the same job this year, and hhas written to you asking for information. Read the extract from Cario’s letter and from your diary below, and write a letter to Carlo saying whether or not you would recommend the job and why. Should | apply for the job? | Love adventure sports and it would be great to do thene for free! I'd Like to ineprove ney English, and the work experience would Look. good on my CV, What do you thinker carlo, 4 1 Busy day - too much paperwork! No chance to-do- anything else. 7 tal haven't done: : Helped othery - eryc cxpladnung treage lo peoples} different nedionaitts English getting better! 10 Organised presentation for important English visitors. Good experience: Now write your letter to your friend, You do not need to include postal addresses. TEST 1, PAPER 2: WRITINGPart 2 ‘Write an answer to one of the questions 2-4 in this part. Write your answer in 220— 260 words in an appropriate style. 2 You see the following advertisement in an international magazine: We are planning a television documentary about the ten greatest actors or actresses of all time. Nominate your favourite for inclusion in the programme and win a DVD! Write to us describing the actors’ or actress’ achievements and explaining why he or she should be included in the programme. Write your competition entry. - 3 Your class has been discussing how individuals can help with some environmental issues today: Your teacher has now asked you to write an essay explaining what some of the issues are and suggesting possible ways in which individuals can help. Write your essay. ‘An international magazine regularly features a page of book reviews written by magazine readers. You decide to contribute to the column. Write a review of a book you have read, saying why you did or did not enjoy it and whether you would recommend it to others. Write your review. TEST 1, PAPER 2: WRITINGan 3 oa USE OF ENGLISH Part 1 For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam you mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. Example: © A going B getting © making D_ setting Whose wave power is it? Construction of the world's biggest wave-energy installation is (0) ...... ahead off the coast of Cornwall in southwest England, More than twenty-one millon pounds’ (1)... of funding has been agreed for what is (2) ...... as Wave Hub, a giant electrical terminal on the seabed ten miles off the coast. Wave Hub will allow a number of different wave-energy devices operating in the area to transmit the energy they generate along a high-voltage undersea cable, back to the shore. Once itis in (3) ..... operation, Wave Hub is (4) ..... to support the largest concentration of wave-energy machines anywhere in the world. It will also mark an ‘enormous (6) ..... forward in the development of wave power, which has tended {0 (6)...... behind its cousins in the other main (7) ...... of renewable energy technology: wind power and solar power. But surfers in the southwest have (8) ...... concerns about the project. Cornwall is Britain's principal surfing region (9) ...... of the size of the Atlantic rollers hitting the. beaches there, and surfers are concerned that the energy taken from the waves may (10) ......in a reduction of as much as eleven percent in the height of those waves when they (11)....... the shore, But an independent study reported this week that any effect on wave height will probably be much less than the surfers had (12) ...... . 0 A going B getting © making D setting 4A amount B value © worth D- quantity 2 A referred B called C entitled D_ known 3 A whole B full C entire D thorough 4 A ikely B probable plausible © D_ surely 5 A tread B strike © pace D step 6 A lag B leave © drag D delay 7 A limbs B branches © wings D_ prongs 8 A explained — B_ spoken © expressed _D commented 9 A because — B_account © season D_ thanks 10 A. upshot B result © conclude —D_arise 11 A. arrive B realise © reach D_ achieve 12 A. scared B worried frightened -D_ feared TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISHPart 2 For questions 13-27, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam you write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. Example: | 0 || S| € | T | ‘Spacemen’s autographs Only twelve astronauts actually (Q} ...... foot on the moon during the US Apollo space programme between 1969 and 1972. Some have since (13) ...... household names — like Neil Armstrong, (14) ...... made the eriginal ‘giant leap for mankind’ and Buzz ‘Aldrin, his co-pilot on that mission. The other ten are less well-known, even (18) ...... each made his own contribution to the programme, But to Paul Prendergast, a postal worker from London, they are all pioneers, worthy to be mentioned in the (16) ...... breath as the great explorers of earlier eras, (17)....... 88 Christopher Columbus. Paul's fascination (18) .... the subject began in 2000 (19) ...... he attended 2 convention for people (20) ...... hobby is collecting autographs. There he met Alan Bean (fourth man on the moon) and Ed Mitchell (sixth), As he remembers: ‘There were television stars there, people from Bond smovies, and so (21)......., but these men had walked on the moon. | headed straight . to meet them and ask for their autographs.’ For a collector, the challenge of . hold of the remaining ten proved iresistible, Yet Paul's quest was never going to be entirely straightforward. After (24) . at that time, only nine of the astronauts were still alive and two (25) ...... given up signing autographs years before. Paul eventually (26) ...... to achieve his goals, (27) ...-.., by establishing contacts with other collectors, by buying from reputable dealers and by attending specialist auctions, TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISHPart3 For questions 28-37, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam you write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet Example: [0 |/—E | x|c{alvi/a{Tt|tlo|[n The world’s oldest perfume Archaeologists working at an (0) ....on the island of Cyprus EXCAVATE have discovered what are thought to be the world’s oldest known perfumes. Remnants of fourteen different fragrances were found ina (28) ...... of mixing jugs, bottles and stills which were SELECT (29) ..... on the site of an ancient perfumery. The building was EARTH destroyed by an earthquake nearly four thousand years ago, at a time when Cyprus already enjoyed a (30) ...... as a centre of REPUTED perfume-making, After undergoing scientific (31) .... the perfumes were found to ANALYSE contain a range of (32)....... available ingredients, such as extracts LOCAL of anise, pine, coriander, lemon, orange, bergamot, almond and parsley, amongst others Having (33) ...... what each perfume contained, the scientists then IDENTITY set about remaking them using (34) ..... techniques to find out TRADITION what they would actually have smelt like. They first (38) ..... uP GRIND the extracts, then mixed them with olive oil in clay jugs before distilling them. This method is the one recorded by writers in Ancient Roman times. Although (36) ...... simple by today's standards, the resulting ADMIT aromas provide us with an olfactory window onto the ancient world, and are evidence of the loving craftsmanship that must have been applied by their (37) .... CREATE rest paper a:use or encush = EEPart 4 For questions 38-42, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example (0). Example: 0 Iwas on the ...... of booking my fight when my boss said that | might have to change my holiday dates. ‘As the meeting drew to a close, the chairperson moved on tothe final ..... on the agenda. ‘Theo couldn't see the ...... of getting to the airport too early, as the check-in desk ‘only opened one hour before the flight departed. The three gaps can each be filled with the word ‘point’, so you write: Example: [0 |/P | o] 1 [N|T In the exam you write only the missing word IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. 38 Although not a native speaker, Max can express his ideas in English with a ..... degree of accuracy. hair. All members of Melanie's family have the same very ... Wallace didn't think it was ..... that he was asked to work longer hours than his colleagues. 39 Our teacher ...... us through the poem line by line, after which we began to understand it. ‘Andrew ...... extensive notes during the lecture, because he wanted to remember exactly what the scientist had said. Zoe ...... down the name and address of the company that her uncle said was looking for temporary staff. “i Eq TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISH40 a 42 Just because your parents are both teachers, it doesn't ...... that you'll be one, too, To get to the campsite, ..... the road round to the left and then turn right opposite the supermarket. Millions of viewers ...... the fortunes of the characters in the soap opera every week. When groups of visitors come to the castle, guides ...... them round and answer their questions. The fact that sales of classical music CDs have fallen just goes to ...... how much is being downloaded from the Internet. Any imperfections in the material will ...... up when its put under a microscope. There has been a steady ...... in the number of guidebooks published recently As she'd taken on a lot of extra responsibilty at work, Martina felt justified in putting in for a ‘The ancient farmhouse had been built on a slight ...... overlooking the vast open plain. TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISH 21TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISH Part 5 For questions 43-50, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You ‘must use between three and six words, including the word given, Here is an example (0). Example: 0 Chloe would only eat a pizza if she could have a mushroom topping. ON Chioe ...... a mushroom topping when she ate a pizza. The gap can be filed with the words ‘insisted on having’, so you write: [0 ][insisteo on Havinc Inthe exam you write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. 43 There were a lot of things to think about before we made our decision. TAKEN Lots of things needed ...... consideration before we could make our decision. 44, Could I ask you if you'd mind looking after my dog while I'm away on holiday? WONDERING |... willing to look after my dog while I'm away on holiday? 45 | know that it was wrong of me to get angry in front of the children. Lost | know that | should ...... in front of the children. 46 If you need any further information, please calll me, HESITATE If you need any further information, ......me a call.47 It hasn't snowed quite as much this year as it did last year. SLIGHTLY This year, there has ...... than there was last year. 48 Unless the team’s performance improves, they may find they have to resign from the league. FORCED Ifthe team’s performance doesn't get ...... resign from the league. 49 | don't mind whether we go to the seaside or not this year. 7 DIFFERENCE It doesn't ...... whether we go to the seaside or not this year. 50 It's possible that the burglars got into the building by forcing open a fire exit. GAINED The burglars may ...... by forcing open a fire exit. TEST 1, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISHy | a a Pa You will hear three different extracts. For questions 1-6, choose the answer (A, B | or C) which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. ‘You hear two guests on a radio programme discussing travel and holidays. 1 What do they agree about? ‘A. Watching television can spoil a holiday. B_ Holidays are for getting away trom itall ee It's important not to lose touch with realty on holiday. 2 How does the woman feel about travelling? A It's always enjoyable B It's not the best part of a holiday. | C _Itgenerally makes her feel restless. ‘You hear part of an interview with a Formula One racing driver. 3 What does the driver say about keeping fit? A. Working out in the gym tends to bore him. B_ Playing other sports helps develop key muscles. _ Ee C Driving is actually a good way to maintain general fitness. 4 Inhis opinion, what makes a great Formula One driver? ‘A an outstanding natural ability behind the whee! B_ enough mechanicat knowledge to help design cars the flexibility to perform well in a range of vehicles. TEST 1, PAPER 4: LISTENINGYou hear two people on a radio programme talking about a short story competi 5 The presenter says that each of the finalists in the compet A. win a money prize. B_ be invited to a prestigious event. _ C_ have their story published in the press. 6 Moira advises those entering the competition to A. write about their own life and experiences. B_ base their story on one by a well-known writer. mn | © avoid being over-ambitious in the scope of the story. TEST 1, PAPER 4: LISTENINGPart2 You will hear an outdoor activities trainer called Eric Duncan giving a talk about trekking in the Himalayas. For questions 7-14, complete the sentences. Trekking in the Himalayas Eric says that you need neither experience nor an especially oases (a eo Eric recommends the months of and BB tor ‘trekking in the region. Erig reminds us that we shouldn't regard the trek as a Ba Trekking in Nepal can sometimes feel like walking through (es restate Eric says that many people buy a FEE thats not good enough. Eric says that organising an independent trek can be [Bas wet 2s saving money. Ete pints out hat aide wil oen also werk as a[ RR nese Eric recommends finding a guide through a local, ey TEST 1, PAPER 4: LISTENINGPart 3 You wii! hear part of an interview with the comedian Kevin Burke. For questions 15-20, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. 15 When it is suggested that he is not really as happy as he appears, Kevin A. admits that he conforms to a stereotype. B_ explains why people might assume that. © accepts that he is an untypical comedian. D_ confirms that depression can be a problem. 16 What does Kevin value mast about the book entitled Laughter? A. It was written with comedians in mind. B thelps him see why some comedians fail. C It shows him why audiences react as they do. D_Itaims to show what makes certain jokes funny. 47 What does Kevin say about his time at university? A. He regrets his choice of degree subject. B_ He is proud of his academic achievements, C He enjoyed getting involved in a range of activities. D_ He had a lot in common with other students on his course. 18 After leaving university, Kevin ‘A. was determined to build a career as a journalist. B didn't really enjoy the type of work he was doing. set his sights on getting work as a television presenter. D_ took the opportunity to develop his skilis as a performer. 19 What does Kevin say about his television career? A. It’s not where he does his best work. B_ He wishes he hadn't accepted certain offers. It's not as demanding as working on stage with a live audience. D_ He feels most comfortable doing a range of different programmes. 20 Kevin believes that he is successful on stage because A he is able to make audiences feel sorry for him. B_ he can convince audiences that he is in control. he is able to laugh at his own appearance. D_ he can appeal to people's sense of logic. win TTesti-eor TEST 1, PAPER 4: LISTENINGgueyeeds pscteeds e soyeads zseyxeads AABAR | zaxeeds, “y 1290 uN AU 2424 01 OHH | “sanBe9}j00 ym Bunes Aofus | {yon 40} ein @Azy AlOse: | “Bunee w,j yey eonou AIpueY | “ao104yo pood & art | “yeyy@60}e yNo Y SSI O} PUB} | mo Au asederd 0} 2% | pepinoid S} SOnO}eAA YEO | aoaowuosr v Hf) ses HE] vcs _| oes ay erred | Lseyeads “sxse} WIOq o}9;dwOD ysnw Nok Us}SI| NOK OY youn) jnoge skes uosied yoes Jeym (H-Y) 1SIl 84} Way Ssooys ‘gE-9z SUONSENb 104 OMLS¥L quepuene 1U6Iy sesseupiyeu sexy0m a1U20-1!29 quobe janen seydesBojoud queysisse dous sive dn-ayeut tf mo0oowu OF ysiuondeoas e}0y wonednace s,uosied yoed (H-¥) 1S!] 84) Woy asooyp ‘sz-LZ SudNseNb Jo4 INO SVL ~Aep yowe Youn] 10} op Key yey jNoge Bupyey ese SeAKoydwe YOIYM Vi S}ORsIXS HOYS AY LOY MNO, 4 pued e z aTEST 1: SPEAKING CAE 5 Speaking (15 minutes) Lela (3 minutes) The interiocutor will ask you a few questions about yourself and what you think about different things. For example, the interlocutor may ask you about your + area of work or study + general interests + plans and ambitions for the future + experiences of travel + daily fe and routines ie (3-4 minutes) Tum to pictures +~3 on page 149 which show people taking a short break from work. Candidate A, compare two of the pictures, and say why the people might need a short break from work, and whether the short break is really important to all the people. Candidate B, who do you think needs the short break the most? Tur to pictures 1-3 on page 150 which show people doing things carefully Candidate B, compare two of the pictures and say why it might be important to do these things carefully, and what might happen if great care is not taken. Candidate A, who do you think has the greatest responsibility to do the things carefully? ava (4 minutes) ‘Tum to the pictures on page 151 which show some images of college life that a college has chosen to use in its brochure. Talk to each other about what impression of college life each picture gives. Then decide which aspect of college life is most important for new students to know about. uae (4 minutes) ‘Answer these questions. 1 Which s more important fr young peogle nowadays, going to colege or geting a job? 2 Some people say that students have an easy life. What do you think? 3. How long do you think a course at college or university should last? 4. Do you think it's important to study academic subjects or should students only learn vocational skills? 5 Who should pay for students doing university courses? 6 Should everyone have the chance to go to university whatever their age? TEST 1, PAPER 5: SPEAKINGPart 1 TEST READING You are going to read three extracts which are all concemed in some way with music. For questions 1~6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Ics a string thing You only have co think of the expression ‘tugging at the heartstrings’ to be reminded of the way we connect emotionally with the sound of the violin. But for yeas, the strings have been marginalized in the world of pop ~ sidelined to the slushy world of ballads, ally used vo suggest drama or sophistication. To al inten and purposes, stings had become the sonic ‘equivalent of the highlighter pen, Sut suddenly chings have changed Ardsts like Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens made a breakthrough with a broader kind of orchestral pop a few years ago, playing sellout shows ar classical venues, and the trend continues. So what has brought on ou fancy foe stsings? Pop’ relentless, synthesized technical evolution has made more people start longing for a more organic sound. And in a way, the sound of violins is revolutionary; punk was once synonymous with electric guitars and shouting, but since thar’ now the norm, its no longer shocking. Is far more innovative to use a classical instrument in a way is never been played befor, ‘Will our love of strings endure? Well, given the average age of a pop musician is 25, and the average age of a concert violin is 150 years old, maybe its not violins that are the craze within pop — but pop that is the craz inthe constantly exalving story ofthe violin. 1. Inthe first paragraph, the writer is ‘A. explaining why the violin is generally unsuited to pop music. B_ describing how violins have been used until recently in pop music. praising the use of the vialin to give emotional power to pop music. D_ defending the way violins were used in traditional types of pop music. 2 According to the writer, the current interest in violins in pop music A. is just a phase that will soon pass. B is related to changes in classical music. € is part ofa search for something new in pop music. is a result of technological improvements to the instrument. ° TEST 2, PAPER 1 READINGEXTRACT The environmentally friendly CD Bric Prydz’ single ‘Proper Education’ was the first music CD to be totally carbon neutral, from the production process through to point of sale. The charity Global Cool calculated that a total of 58.4 tons of carbon dioxide needed to be offset for the 40,000 CDs to be carbon neutral. To arrive at tis figure they worked out, with the fine 3 help of the recording company, how much of the gas was produced by the cameras, staf, travel costs, editing time, shipping and sale of the CDs. In the end, over half of ie was produced during distribution rather than production. ‘he emissions created through the entire process were offset through the Te Apiti wind farm project in New Zealand. The site’ vuthines generate enough emission-fiee clectricty to power 45,000 homes. “The video itself echoed the CD's environmental credentials. Set on a London housing estate, it shows a gang breaking into a block of ats, but instead of committing crimes, they switch appliances off standby, change light bulbs for more energy-efficient alternatives and place water-saving bricks in toilet cisterns. ‘Proper Education’ samples Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ ~ the frst time the band has ever sanctioned such a use of the work. Prydz said: “Pink Floyd would always use their videos to get a message across and I really wanted to carry con that spirit” a 3° The word ‘they’ in line 3 refers to A. anumber of CDs. B a recording company. the stages in a process. D_ charitable organisation. 4 In the second paragraph, we lear that the visual content of the CD ‘A was devised by another band, B_ matched the advice given in the song. was part of an official environmental campaign. D__was intended to reinforce the carbon neutral message. Book review Fiction struggles to compete with the glamour and grungy ‘The band doesnt have a name, which in hip LA makes i excess of rock music. It may surpass it in its capacity to probe seem cool and edgy, chough it might reasonably be taken as a and provoke, but novel ends not to be as immediately sign of limited imagination; its members are stil at the stage alluring asan album, and alive reading rarely sets the pulse where they juggle day jobs and the trials oftheir unstatry racing the way a high-octane gig will. Novels abour bands personal lives with the demands of crafting and performing and about the music busines have rarely proved successful. songs. The tersitory defined here is unambiguously hip, Jonathan Lechems The Fortes of Solitude (2003) and there i a great deal that seems contrived ~ some of it demonstrated his flair for Writing about music and popular winsome, some of i irritating. Cesainly, there are plenty of culture. Now after the complex sprawl of that fine novel, You deeply embedded jokes about musicians and theis foibles. Don't Love Me Yetlooks at a comparatively narrow stretch of But amid all this drollery, the reader may labour to summon the music business, zeroing in on an indie band from Los _up much sympathy for Lethem’s cast of precious, nerdy Angeles which finds itself teetering on the brink of success. _poseuts. 5 The reviewer feels that Lethem's first novel A. didnot enjoy the level of success that it deserved. B_ was too narrowly focussed to interest the general reader. C__ was better than most others dealing with this subject matter. D_ made the music business seem more complicated than it really is. 6 What criticism does the reviewer have of Lethem's latest novel? A. Itlacks a clear message. B_ The characters are unappealing C The plot is rather unconvincing D_ It fails in its attempts at humour. TEST 2, PAPER 1: READING EEPart 2 You are going to read an extract from a travel book. Six paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (7-12). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. | The long way home On the last day, { walked down to the harbour. Having slept late, I had breakfast on my own. and, as Charley was still sleeping, went for a wander. I wanted to get to the ocean; ! needed to see the Pacific. I stumbled down the hill, through rows and rows of tenements, nodding, smiling and waving at the people I passed, eventually arriving at the waterfront. I turned round and lifted my camera to my eye and took a photograph ZC I walked on. The path led to the beach. Although it was the last day of June, it was the first day the sun had shone in Magadan that year. Three weeks earlier, it had snowed. But that day, the air was warm and soft, the sky a cloudless blue. ‘Women wore bikinis and small children were running naked across the sands. Families were eating picnics or cooking on barbecues. I walked. past them all, along the entire length of the beach, until I came to the harbour, a All we knew then was that we wanted to get from London to Magadan. With the maps laid out in front of us, Charley and I drew a route, arbitrarily assigning mileage to each day, not knowing anything about the state of the roads. Time and again we were told by experienced travellers that our plans were wildly optimistic and that we didn’t know what we were letting ourselves in for. 'd never ridden off-road and Charley had never properly camped. ‘The chances of failure were high, they said. I thought back to the day a month or so earlier when we had been in Mongolia. It was afternoon and we were riding through a beautifil valley. I pulled over and got off my bike. Charley, ahead of me, stopped, too. He swung his bike around and rode back towards me. Before he even attived, I could feel it coming off him: why are we stopping? We're not getting petrol, we're not stopping to eat: why are we stopping? _ Ic was where we were going to stop at in the middle of an afternoon so that we could cool our sweaty feet in the water while catching fish that weld cook that evening on an open fire under a star-speckled sky. I'd seen that spor half an hour earlier. There was no question at all chat it was the one. A beautiful expanse of water and nobody for hundreds of miles. And weld ridden straight past it. eererereneemeeerenea| ‘Then we got back on our bikes and moved on. A few weeks later, we arrived at the first big river in Siberia. It was too wide, 100 fast and too deep to cross on a motorbike. ‘There was a bridge, but it had collapsed. a2] Tunderstood now that it didn't really matter that we hadn't stopped beside that cool, fast-flowing ‘Mongolian river. The imperfections in our journey were what made it perfect. And maybe we wouldn't be in Magadan now if wed not had that burning desire to keep going. After all, che river would always be there. Now that I knew what was out there, I could always return. TEST 2, PAPER +: READINGA Yet here we were in Magadan, as far around the globe from home as it was possible to go, and vied astived one day ahead of our schedule, o We then guessed our way from west f0 cast, actoss two continents, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as far as it was possible to ride a motorbike in a straightish line. I walked away from Charley. I didn’t want to tell him it was because weld passed the place. The place that had been in my dreams, “The place we'd fantasised about months before wel even set off from London. A place with a river of cool, white water and a field nearby to pitch our tents. D There it was: Magadan, Siberia. The place that had been in my dreams and thoughts for two years like a mythical city forever beyond my reach. I wanted to capture it, somehow hold on to it, take a part of it with me when Charley and I began the long journey back. E 7 I thought Charley would be itching to get ahead, impatient with che hold-up. But he was in his element. He knew that someone or something would be along to help. The delays were the journey, Wed get across it when we got across it. Isat down for five minutes, just needing to look at the countryside around us. The countryside that we often didn’ have time to take in because we were always so intent on keeping to our schedule. ‘There, I climbed up on to the quay and sat on a mushroom- shaped bollard. An Alsatian came over and sat next to me, T scratched its head for a while, gazed out at the ocean and thought back ro the day when Charley and I had sat in a little workshop in west London, surrounded by motorbikes, with dreams of the open road in our heads. TEST 2, PAPER 1: READINGPart 3 You are going to read an article about a fashion model. For questions 13~19, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Model citizen An interview with the supermodel Erin O'Connor Erin O'Connor is curled up ina chair in an office at ICM Models, the agency thar represents her. You hear a lot about Erin being ‘a freak of nature’, and she can look so extraordinary on the catwalk — all jutting hips, jagged nose and towering height. But here she is in person ~ the muse to Jean-Paul Gaultier, to Valentino, to Lagerfeld —a delicate, pretty young woman, not that tall afterall, but effortlessly stylish in wide-legged jeans and a stripey top, her cropped hair pulled back, in an orange scarf. At first, when you arrive in the room, you could be forgiven for taking her for an assistant if a second look didnt ceveal her prettiness: ‘Gosh, aren't you beautiful,’ I say, sore of to apologise, and, blow me, if the woman who's launched a thousand shows doesn't blush. In her eleven years on the catwalk and on magazine covers, Erin has accrued extraordinary personal wealth, but despite having been, amongst ochers, the face of Chanel, Givenchy and Gucci, she’s managed to keep her profile relatively low. Even more admirably, in an industry renowned for its bitchiness (‘you have to take it head on,’ she confides), she has kept a reputation as ‘the nice face of fashion’. She was one of the girls followed in the TV documentary “This Model Life’, and was breathtakingly level-headed and amusing in it. Asa friend to the model Karen Elson, who has admitted to anorexia, as well as in her new role as vice chairman of the British Fashion Council (BEC), Erin has talked cogently about the responsibility the industry has towards both models and the girls who try to emulate them. She is keen co foster a better telationship with the press (‘at the moment chey want to vilify or victimise us), she gives talks to each year’s new faces and, through the BEC, helps allocate sponsorship to new designers. And — the reason she has agreed to 2 rate incerview ~ she is appearing in, and helping plan, ‘A Night in Fashion’, the opening of a music festival in London and a star-studded catwalk show that will benefit two leading charities, Erin O'Connor grew up in Walsall, the middle of three girls. She was training to be a nursery nurse and ‘sceuggling through her final year at schoo!’ when she was spotted at a ‘Clothes Show’ live event. She has talked a lot about how uncomfortable she was with her body when she was growing up. ‘T outgrew my dad when I was 17. I outgrew everyone: aunties, sisters, mother, boyfriends.’ Success wasn't immediate, but years of balfet classes meant she was a natural on the catwalk. “Walking in heels felt like a holiday after pointes.’ Her big breakthrough didn't come until 1999 when, on a shoot in Brazil for Harpers & Queen, she chopped off her long haie. ‘I found my femininity for the first time, my version of it.’ She taps her fingers to her heart, a gesture she makes often, “Then it all went crazy.’ Jean-Paul Gaultier has said thee Erin is‘an interpreter; not just a model’. Erin talks about it as a job. ‘Ie doesn't make you vaia, because it’s not teally about your looks. You get into character, you fulfla role. You're not just a woman wearing a beautiful outfit. For me, my job is to wear clothes and make shapes with them — very simply in order to make them desirable enough for people to want to buy eem. But it’s not about my body. It’s about how I use my body to interpret what I'm wearing.’ ‘We'te having a suitably adult conversation about ali this when Erin’s agent, Tori Edwards, comes in with tea. Tori, now one of the directors at JCM, has been by Erin's side since they both started out as models. ‘I'm not allowed to go to “A Night in Fashion”, Tori says. ‘I'm never allowed to watch. If she’s having her photo taken, J have to turn round and not look at her, because I make her laugh.’ Erin says: ‘We're too close. { can’t have my family there, either, nor my boyftiend. I don't think he's ever met my alter ego. I wipe the facade off quite literally when I come home. I collapse on the sofa and get the Wet Wipes out.’ When Tori has left the room again, she adds, ‘I couldn't be in this industry wichout her. Trying to find a balance of normality - that’s what I personally need. Tori has taught me everything, She always says that to be humble is to be sane.’ TEST 2, PAPER 1: READING13 According to the writer, at first glance the real Erin O'Connor appears A incredibly tall B strikingly unusual © extremely attractive. D_ surprisingly ordinary. 14 How did Erin react to the writer's first comment? A She revealed her embarrassment. B She kept her feelings to herself. © She accepted the compliment. D_ She showed her amusement 45 What did the writer realise about Erin from the documentary ‘This Model Life"? A how uncompetitive she is B_ how easily hurt she is Chow shy she really is Dhow sensible she is 16 In the third paragraph, we learn that Erin A _ helps girls to find work as modeis. B_ gives regular interviews to the press. C_ is involved in providing talented people with funds. D_ organises support for models with personal problems. 417 Asa schoolgirl, Erin A. did some training that was later to prove useful B_ overcame feelings of self-consciousness about her height. was not studying with a view to following any particular career. D decided to change her appearance in order to get herself noticed 18 How does Erin feel when she’s on the catwalk? A. proud of her physical appearance aware that she's giving a performance unconcerned about what people think of her able to express her own feelings about the clothes, vow 19 In the final paragraph, we learn that Erin A. finds it impossible to keep her work and private life separate, B_ feels like a different person when she’s working. C gets nervous if her agent watches her at work. D_ finds her work increasingly demanding. rest 2, paper 1: reaps EEI) l Part 4 You are going to read a magazine article in which restaurant owners talk about raising money for charity. For questions 20-34, choose from the restaurant owners (A-D).The restaurant owners may be chosen more than once. wi restaurant owner mentions ... dealing with customers who do not wish to make a donation? feeling uncomfortable about the inequalities that exist in the world? a disappointing response to an attempt to raise awareness? a reason for choosing this charity over others? being approached by a range of fundraising organisations? long-term projects organised by the charity? a local tradition of charitable work? activities aimed at increasing the amount individuals donate? a feeling of goodwill towards participating restaurants? the need for more restaurants to get involved? the need for customers to be aware that they are donating? famous people taking on an unfamiliar role? how much of the money collected reaches the people in need? ‘a commercial benefit of taking part in the project? ca AAA AAAAAAARS making customers feel that the week is special? TEST 2, PAPER 1: READINGCHARITY BEGINS AT THE DINNER TABLE Restaurants all over Britain have raised £100,000 to fight hunger in the Third World. We spoke to the owners of participating restaurants, ‘As a business, we weren't looking for a charity to support, but when we heard about this one, we just knew it was right for us. The campaign is making ‘areal difference in the daily fight against hunger, and it’s not just a question of saving the lives of severely malnourished children when there’s a crisis, though that happens, it’s also about helping to enable people in over forty countries to feed themselves and their families in the future, That way hunger can be kept at bay and crises averted. The aim at the moment is to bring as many restaurants on board as possible, because by coming together, the catering community can make a real impact. Each customer giving a small donation, each managet or chef putting together a local fundraising event, it all contributes enormously to she fight against hunger. And the chatity makes sure that a high percentage of the funds collected actually find their way to the people who need it most. ‘The charity is particularly important for people in this profession. What we do is essentially superficial and frivolous, and it makes me uneasy at times to think that while people here are spending lavishly on slap-up meals, people elsewhere are going hungry, We simply put a surcharge on every customer's bill, openly, of course, because they need to appreciate what they are a part of, Most people cooperate willingly, but anyone who feels strongly can ask to have the donation removed, though, of course, it’s disappointing when that happens. Ie’s important to celebrate the food we have, and we're not in the business of making our customers feel guilty about the relative plenty they enjoy, but at the same time, we should be mindful of people less fortunate than ourselves. We're also organising a gala dinner where well-known TV celebrities will be putting in an appearance. Tickets for that will be at a premium, and the restaurant will be doing the dinners at cost. We've been targeted by a whole raft of charities in recent years, bur this one stood out for me asa very relevant choice for a restaurant business. Although customers don't generally object to a donation being added to their bill, we've found. that actually engaging their interest Jeads to enhanced donations. Competitions such as guessing the weight of a cake, local TV celebrities serving at table, demonstrations by the head chef, etc. All these TEST 2, PAPER 1: READING things bring people into the restaurant during the wee of the appeal and creates a festive atmosphere, even if they are mostly regular customers, We don’t set out ro inctease trade through our charizy work, although I would hope that customers will feel well disposed to establishments that show they have a conscience. For us, the charity week: came just when we needed something to give us a boost. We've only recently taken | over the restaurant from a manager who'd been involved with various local fundraising initiatives. But increased competition had eaten into his profitability and he'd decided to sell up. We knew, therefore, that there was an existing client base out there, who had been generous in the past, and we were looking for a way of raising our profile, “We leafleted local businesses, colleges and libraries with details of the charity's work and our involvement with it. Although relatively few people came in during the week, which was a bit of a setback for us, the write-up in the local press did wonders in terms of spreading the word that we were here. So we took a long-term view and thought it was worth having another go this year. We've been working on a booklet of recipes which we'll give customers in return for a donation next time, which will also highlight local produce and recipes.rues oe acy You must answer this question. Write your answer in 180-220 words in an appropriate style. 1 Last month you went on a week's training course to improve your time management skills. Your line manager has asked you to write a short report on the course. Read the email from your manager and the notes you made during the course, and write a report for your manager describing the course and saying whether or not you would recommend it to colleagues and giving your reasons, Dear Pedro, Could you write a short report on the course last month? I'm considering sending others, so I'd like to know what you did and whether you would recommend it. Thank you, Janice Wis we wore a saler group — could ask many questions about the tier nd idea thi hey fr thal Seti = ey dy packed th sine i activites pati hery ‘Never though lke thi before 1U be mac, ware efficient i fre Really glad I did thist Now write your report for your manager. TEST 2, PAPER 2: WRITINGPart 2 Write an answer to one of the questions 2~4 in this part. Write your answer in 220, 260 words in an appropriate style. 2. You see the following announcement in an international magazine. Have you had an exciting or unusual holiday? For example, sailed anywhere interesting, gone rock climbing or walked through unusual countryside? If you have, write us an article and tell us about it, explaining why you enjoyed it. We will publish the most interesting artictes? Write your article. ‘ 3. You have been asked to write part of an information sheet giving advice to new students about the best way to start college life. Your section should include advice on finding suitable accommodation, methods of study and ways of meeting people, Write your section of the information sheet. 4 You have been asked to provide a reference for a friend who has applied for a job as a Social Activities Officer in a busy English language college. The person needs to be good at dealing with people, and have excellent social skills. They also need to be well organised and reliable. ‘You shoud inelude information about your friend's personal qualities, skills and relevant work experience, and give reasons why you would recommend them for this job. Write your reference. * Atetefence may be inthe “letter, but the have Seen and how they were laid out ‘They often use bullet points and/or a person, and make recom headings in order to make them easy to about them. Don’t forget to ine read and to enable the reader to pick ___both of these in the reference, out key information. ‘and always finish with a final + Ifyou choose to sé bullet points, tecommendation. rememiberyon stil have to demonstrate» Always make sure that you irarlide ange of language, Be careful not to instruction carehly a be too simple kal ofthe job and ils tod in ‘In this task, the three content areas this task, the person needsit6 | rata in the question finding sutable at deaing with people, have accommodation, methods of study and _0ciel skills and be well orgar sways of meeting people) could form and reliable. Use these: the headings forthe information sheet, framework and organi Inthis task you have to give advice and -.» feference. S support itwith deta TEST 2, PAPER 2: WRITINGre Part 4 AACN For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: 0 A recognises B believes C agrees D_ approves The texting pigeons Not everybody (0) ...... the benefits of new developments in communications technology. Indeed, some people fear that text messaging may actually be having a negative (1) ...... on young people's communication and language skills, especially when we hear that primary school children, may be at (2) ...... of becoming addicted to the habit. So widespread has texting become, however, that even pigeons have started doing it. (3) ....., in this case, i's dificult to view the results as anything but positive. ‘Twenty of the birds are about to (4) to the skies with the task of measuring air poltution, each (6) ...... with sensor equipment and a mobile phone. The (6) made by the sensors will be automatically (7) ...... into text messages and beamed to the Internet — where they wil (8) ..... on a dedicated ‘pigeon blog’ photos, . Each The birds will also each have a GPS receiver and a camera to capture ae and researchers are building a tiny ‘pigeon kit containing all these (9)... bird will carry these in a miniature backpack, (10) ......, thats, from the camera, which will hang around its neck. The data the pigeons text will be displayed in the (11) ...... of an interactive map, which will (12) ...... local residents with up-to-the-minute information on their local air quality. 0 A recognises B_ believes © agrees D approves 1A result B outcome effect D_ conclusion 2 A danger B threat © isk D peril 3A Therefore © B What'smore C Whereas D Thatis 4A make B launch © reach D take 5 A armed B loaded © granted D_ stocked 6 A studies B readings C_reviews D_ inquiries 7 A adapted B converted revised D applied 8 A attend B present © issue D appear 9 A gadgets B_ utensils © appliances —D_ implements 10 A_ instead B except © apart D_ besides 11 A. shape B way © form D size 12 A offer B produce C donate D provide TEST 2, PAPER 3: USE OF ENGLISH