FCE Practice Test 2 ~ CESS srarsss |} You are going to read an extract from a science fiction novel called “1984”. For questions 1-8, choose the answer (A,B, Cor D) which you think fits best according to the text. ‘How Is the Dictionary getting on?’ said Winston, ralsing his voice to overcome the noise. “Slowly,’ said Syme. ‘I'm on the adjectives. It's fascinating.’ | be covered by only six words - in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.8.'s Idea originally, of course,’ he added as an afterthought. He had brightened up immediately at the mention | _ A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's ‘of Newspeak. He pushed his bow! aside, took up his face at the mention of Big Brother. Nevertheless hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in | Syme immediately detected a certain lack of enthusi- the other, and leaned across the table so astobe | asm. able to speak without shouting. | "You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak. “The Eleventh Edition fs the definitive edition,’ he | Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write said. "We're getting the language into Its final shape - | it you're stil thinking in Oldspeak. I've read some of the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks those pieces that you write in “The Times* occasional- anything else. When we've finished with it, people I. They're good enough, but they're translations. In like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, = your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all I dare say, that our chief job is Inventing new words. _ Its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You But not a bit of it! We're destroying words - scores don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. ‘of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting ! Do you know that Newspeak Is the only language in the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition | the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?” won't contain a single word that will become obso- ‘Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sym lete before the year 2050.’ pathetically he hoped, not trusting himself to speak. He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a ‘Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured couple of mouthfuls, then continued speaking, with a | bread, chewed it briefly. and went on: sort of pedant’s passion. His thin dark face had ‘Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking _|_ to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall expression and grown almost dreamy. | make thought crime literally impossible because "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. OF | there will be no words in which to express It. Every course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjec- concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed tives, but there are hundreds of nouns that canbe __by exactly one word, with its mear idly defined {got rid of as well. It isn’t only the synonyms; there | and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and for- are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is gotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not there for a word which Is simply the opposite of far from that point. But the process will still be con- some other word? A word contains Its opposite in _tinuing long after you and I are dead. Every year Itself. Take “goocr, for Instance. If you have a word fewer and fewer words, and the range of conscious- like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad'? ness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, *Ungood' will do Just as well - better, because it’s an there's no reason or excuse for committing thought- exact opposite, which the other Is not. Or again, if | crime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality- you want a stronger version of "good", what sense Is | control. But in the end there won't be any need even there in having a whole string of vague useless for that. The Revolution will be complete when the ‘words like "excellent" and "splendid" and all the rest language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc Is. of them? *Plusgood" covers the meaning, or “double- | Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfac- plusgood" if you want something stronger stil. Of tion. “Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by Course we use those forms already. But in the final the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the being will be alive who could understand such a con- end the whole notion of goodness and badness will | versation as we are having now?’FCE Practice Test 2 Paper | - Reading 1. Winston ond Syme are A Inc cafeteria, B. at o porty. at school. D. in an office. 2, Syme likes 'A the food. 8. hearing Winston's opinions. talking about his work .t0 shou. 3. Syme’s work with the dictionary involves, 2 inventing new words. B. eliminating words. C. explaining a theory. ©. teaching people to think. 4, What kind of words are being the mast greatly reduced? A adjectives 8. verbs ond adjectives C.nouns . everything except antonyms '5. What does the author show in paragraph 7 at the top of column 2? ‘A. Winston tries to seem apprecictive but is not realy Winston hos great enthusiasm for Newspeak. CC. Syme doubts Winston but this in unjustified, . Winston does not believe a word that Syme has said. 6. What can be gathered about Winston's atlude towards Newspeck? ‘A.He finds It exciting B. He studies it engerly. C. He is outspokenly against D. He accepts it unhappily 7. Which of the following best describes Newspeok? AAI Isc historical language being reconstructed B. 111s a highly simplified language designed to prevent thought C1! was invented to help citizens escope an oppressive government D. It is @ new language that is incredibly dificult to earn, '8, What kind of future does Syme imagine? ‘A Everyone will be better educated. 8. People willbe safe because there will be no violent crime. People will not have enough language to think at ol , People will communicate better and more effectively. ZT ISO 99199e1gae ae FCE Practice Test 2 CIRM Parr? | You are going to read a magazine article about a volcano in New Zealand, now a nature reserve, and the experience of the native people in the past when it erupted. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. From the sen- tences A- H, choose the one which fits each gap (9-15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. Rangitoto By Alastair Jamieson Off-track the ground Is menacing. Lava, ike anary waves frozen In mid-chop only moments ago, claws at ‘the soles of my boots and threatens to shred my knees if | place a foot wrong. The surface is so uneven that progress is extraordinarily difficult. Occasional smooth stone channels course like petrified streams through the rougher ground, their solid surfaces a welcome pathway amid teetering plates of broken lava ‘and treacherous bouldery rubble. Out of the shade of the dense thickets of bush, it's as hot as a furnace. All ‘that black rock absorbs and radiates enough heat to melt Antarctica. It’s as hostile a spot as you could find anywhere in New Zealand, yet when I turn around, there is downtown Auckland in plain view just a few kilo- meters away. HER) tts symmetrical cone isa relaxed cousin of those higher and steeper volcanoes Taranakl and Ngauruhoe but Rangitoto is a truly astonishing wilderness right on the doorstep of the city. Landing on the Island, the graceful sweeping curves seen from a distance quickly glve way to a magnificent mosale of the tortuous lava I've been scrambling through and scrubby, impenetrable pohutukawa forest. Of course, t was not avays ike this MME] However. the emergence of the youngest and largest of the fifty-odd volcanoes in Auckland's volcanic field, was witnessed by Maori living on adjacent Motutapu Island. FEI) con afterwards there would nave been a thundering roar. The ration of the sandy ground beneath therm would surely have jotted them from their nomes. MEM] 4 wing shit and the familiar smells of the camp—wood smoke, the sea, and even the penetrating stench of shark flesh drying on frames—were soon overpowered by the pungent, suffocating odour of sulphur dioxide. Running across the beach and dragging boats into the sea, shoals of dead fish bumped against their tegs as they waded nto the cola shatiows. MEM) Looking benind them, the cataclysm was becoming clearer in the first light of day. Black clouds were blasting out from the base of a rolling column of steam, fiying boulders were arcing white streamers through the sky and splashing Into the sea. HEI] the footprints of a small group of adults and children were found sandwiched between lay- ers of Rangitoto ash. Markings show where the around was prodded with sticks and that one of the dos withthe group paused to crnk from a puddle. INEM] wether these neonle were footharay or brave, lured by curiosity, or a desire to retrieve their treasured possessions, we'll never know.