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.FCE Practice Test 2 Paper I - Reading The persistent yelping of dogs might first have awoken them. The familiar form of Rangitoto did not exist for generations of Maori who first inhabited the surrounding lands. The low black cliffs of Rangitoto are just 1500 m away, the centre of the eruption only 3 km further. a eee ‘The impressions were so well preserved that the next blanket of ash must have spewed from Rangitoto soon after they were made. Paddling hard towards safety, the first wet ash began to fall, sticky and abrasive. ‘Outside, the familiar stars above and the scatter of bright campfires along the shore to the west was hidden by a pall of steam, strobed by lightning and lit by a ferocious fiery glow from beneath. No landform is more familiar to Aucklanders than Rangitoto Island and yet how many of them ever go there? Proof exists that in the weeks or months following the onset of the eruption, people came back to their campsite on Motutapu Island.FCE Practice Test 2 You are going to read five different people's opinions about time travel. For questions 16 ~ 30, choose from the people (A~ £). The people may be chosen more than once. which person(s): thinks it is best to appreciate the present? would make a different relationship decision would try to help a family member? Practice Test 2 offers contemporary travel advice? prefers to stay in his/her own time? A is probably at least 50 years old? is probably less than 30 years olde interested in history? ‘would attempt to use time travel to prevent death? A is put off by old-fashioned clothes? thinks of impressing others would make an investment? A ARAB ABA BAB AD would not expect time travellers in general to receive a friendly welcome?FCE Practice Test 2 Paper | - Reading Time Travel ’d travel back to the year I was born, and live my life again, but only i | could know then what 1 know now! I'd love to see my parents and grandparents again. 'd persuade my dad to stop smoking, so that he wouldn't die so young, On the other hand, in the present, 1 have two wonderful grown-up children and two precious grandchildren. Perhaps the answer is to make the best of the present and stop han- ering after the past. If could visit other times just for a day, I'd love to meet my parents as children, and go into the future to meet the ‘great-great grandchildren Il not live to see! Go back in time? Who'd want that? | mean, as soon as some people spotted you, you'd be the ‘odd one out. And if you went back in time with all that futuristic equipment on and, for example, the alarm clock on your watch went off, you would be denounced as a devil; tortured, quar- tered and drawn, and then bumt at the stake! Travel to the future and you'd be a museum artifact! You'd be seen as some sort of primitive beast! I'm fine where | am at the moment, thank you. Also, to those of you intending to prevent the election/birth of various politicians, it won't work; if you succeeded, then you would have ‘no incentive to do so, and thus wouldn't have gone. That's the paradox. | would not exchange today for any previous era. have studied a lot of history and whilst | would be interested in certain eras there would be diff- culties. For example, Tudor times - interesting, bbut as a Catholic 1 might have had my head chopped off; Eighteenth and Nineteenth, Centuries - exciting, but too many petticoats to ‘wear, never mind about corsets. Then there is the lack of education and opportunity for ‘women to consider, and the lack of medical knowledge. No, today is the best time to live. Having said that, | would not mind the opportu- nity to take tea with Miss Austen - she would have been enormous fun. ae” | have always dreamed of being a sailor in the ‘merchant navy between 1920 and 1940. At that time, traveling to foreign ports like Yokohama, Saigon, Rangoon, Surabaya and such would have been the same as space travel is today. Imagine coming home after a long voyage, and telling the people in the pub all about your travels! You'd have such stories {o tall! Ihave seen the majority ofthe world's Cities now, and most look exactly the same as ‘each other. If you want to travel somewhere that is still unique today, without the time machine, see Asia but steer clear of package tours. ‘And hurry; do it now before it all becomes McDonaldised Liam Vd go back maybe about five years and try to do a better job this time. | would never have ‘ended the relationship with the love of my Ife. ‘wish I could've known better, and understood then what | understand now. | would also stay at college. Id register 250 of the best internet domains possible, so by now I'd be a billionaire without having done a thing. But | wouldn’t be selfish; | would change the world for the better with the money. Money can save lives and do unbelievable things in the right hands. Plus, | would have the girl! Oh well, back to reality. aie 85