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Advanced 5 Answers Cambridge English

This document contains passages and questions from practice exams for the Cambridge English Advanced exam. It covers topics like early map-making, the game of Go, and the Victoria Falls. Vocabulary words are also provided with their part of speech or definition. The writing sections provide prompts for a report on the first week of college, letters, and analyzing passages from books. Overall, the document appears to be sharing content that could appear on the Advanced exam to help students prepare and practice different question types.

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ADVANCED 5 ANSWERS Cambridge English

Test 1
Paper 1 Reading
Part 1
Introducing de-perimeterisation
Jangling the nerves: poner los pelos de punta.
Harbingers: precursor.
Digital doom: sentencia, ruina, muerte.
Innocuous: inofensivo.
Unhindered: sin trabas, sin obstculos.
1D 2C 3D 4A 5B 6C
What is Design?
A row: pelea, bronca.
Mismatch: discordancia, incompatibnilidad.
Maverick: inconformista.
Ostensibly: aparentemente.
Interview with Dr Andrew Steele, Astrobiologist
Lying through my teeth:
A bloke: un to, amigo.
To figure out: resolver, dares cuenta, entender.
To pigeonhole on: clasificar, encasillar.
Dismissive attitude: despectivo, depreciativo.
Part 2
Spadework thats truly rewarding
To squat: sentarse en cuclillas, agacharse; invadir, okupa.
To scrape: raspar, rayar, araar.
A trowel: pala (de jardinera).
Damp circumstance: hmedo, mojado. Amortiguar.
To burrow: cavar, excavar, rebuscar.
To shift: desplazar.
To sift: cribar, filtrar, tamizar.
To be committed to: comprometido.
Slot: ranura, hueco.
A pit: cantera, hoyo, hueso, semilla.
On cue: a la cola, pista, pie, entrada, inducer.
Drizzle: lloviznar.
Elicit: obtener, sonsacar.
Crouched figures: agachado.
A ditch: zanja, cuneta.
Minutiae: minucias, pequeeces, pormenores.
Painstakingly: meticulosamente, cuidadosamente.
To pop in: dares una vuelta, dejarse caer. Meter.A Spade:
To Strip away: pelar, despegar, quitar.

The jumble: mezclar, desordenar, revolver.


Rubbish tip: basurero.
To clamber in and out: trepar.
Have all but stripped away: desposedo, despojado. All but:
prcticamente. Salvo.
He teams pin-up: poner, fijar.
7E 8F 9A 10B 11D 12G
Part 3
Never too old to rock
A splosh:
Latterly: despus, recientemente, ultimamente.
Double-jointedness: articulado, plegable.
The ability to pat ones head while rubbing ones stomach:
A knack: truco, tranquillo.
To overstate: exagerar.
To dispense with: dejar de lado.
An autocue: chuleta.
A whim: antojo, capricjo.
To be dragged away: llevar a la fuerza, apartarlo.
To suspend: suspender, aplazar, posponer.
To hold back the years: contener.
Bygone era: pasado, antigue, obsoleto.
Drift into: inlinarse hacia.
Barely: apenas.
A mumble: murmuro.
The jowls: carrillos.
A streak: mancha, rayo.
Grumbling: quejoso, malhumorado.
13b 14b 15c 16b 17d 18a 19a
Part 4 An Undying Art
Slick: rebanada, rodaja, loncha.
Sake: en nombre de, bien, beneficio.
Whereas: mientras que.
Dismaying: consternacin, desaliento.
Roughs: borrador, boceto.
Take in: pillar, pescar, asimilar.
To pounce: saltar, precipitarse.
Grappling with: lidiar con.
To be bound by: estar ligado.
Ballpoint: bolgrafo.
Charcoal: carboncillo.
Paper 2 Writing
Part 1
1. Write a report for first week of college (events, suggest changes).

Part 2
2. Our leisure activities and hobbies have been changed
dramatically by technology. To what extent do you agree with this?
3. Letter of application: An opportunity to travel and help children
(volunteers to teach read and write English qualifications relevant,
experience, and why you would like to work with children).
4. Which character from a film you would like to be?
Why you would like to be this character?
What your day as a character would be like.
5. Answer one of following:
a. Through a glass, Darkly by Donna Leon is a sequence of thrilling
events with a surprising ending. To what extent do you agree with
this?
b. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Write an article of a
memorable event that takes place in Of Mice and Men. Describe an
event, explain why you think it is memorable and say why it is
important to the story.
Paper 3 Use of English
Early map-making
Plump babies: regordete.
Puffed-out cheeks: inflar.
Blowing along:
Engage: entablar, emplear, contratar, engage in: involucrarse.
Evenly: uniformemente, horizontalmente, imparcialmente, en partes
iguales.
Breadth: anchura, amplitud.
Enliven: avivar, alentar.
Enlighten:
Commissioned: encargar.
At large: prfigo, suleto, en toda su extension.
Edge (filo) border (frontera) limit verge (orilla, margen).
Renovated: reataurar.
Renewed: renovar.
1C 2A 3D 4C 5D 6B 7D 8C 9B 10A 11C 12B
Part 2
The game of Go
Fiendishly:
13The 14Be 15As 16Them 17Of 18Since 19From 20Whose 21Up
22Although/Though/While/Whilst 23A 24Which 25On 26Where
27Even
The Victoria Falls

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