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VOCABULARY 3 Swap the words in bold to complete the definitions.

0 A(n) shoplifter (blackmailer) is a person who demands
1 Choose the correct answer. money from someone by threatening to make
0 He’s sure to be found guilty if he doesn’t get himself information about them public.
a good judge / lawyer. 1 When a(n) hijacker ( ) abducts
1 There was only one barrister / witness to the crime, someone, they always ask the person’s family for
but she was very short-sighted. money.
2 The jury / solicitor took only two hours to 2 A(n) smuggler ( ) is responsible
reach agreement on the verdict. for illegally setting fire to a building.
3 The defence / prosecutor called three witnesses who 3 A(n) blackmailer ( ) steals things
all confirmed that Taylor had been nowhere near the from shops.
scene of the crime on that day. 4 Someone who imports a product illegally is a(n) arsonist
4 When the barrister / judge sentenced him to life ( ).
imprisonment, the victim’s family looked very 5 A(n) kidnapper ( ) takes control of
happy. a vehicle in order to use it for their own purposes.
5 I’m going to speak to a prosecutor / solicitor to 5
get some legal advice on this situation. 15
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GRAMMAR
2 Complete the sentences with the nouns below.
burglary conspiracy espionage forgery fraud vandalism 1 Complete the second sentence with the correct
passive form so it has a similar meaning to the first.
0 Someone took the injured man to hospital.
0 The recent damage to the children’s play area is The injured man was taken to hospital.
another example of the vandalism that is becoming so 1 They will give us our results next week.
common. We our results next
1 Although the victim was killed by only one person, three week.
others were charged with to commit 2 Someone found the wallet under a hedge.
murder. The wallet under a
2 People who are involved in industrial hedge.
try to steal secret information about a company. 3 They have talked about this plan for ages.
3 Experts are dismissing claims that the painting is a This plan for ages.
, as it contains many elements that 4 They publish a report of the match in the paper
link it to the famous artist. each week.
4 After discovering that the woman had used hundreds A report of the match
of stolen cards to pay for goods, police charged her in the paper each week.
with credit card . 5 We noticed that they had turned the cinema into a
5 Because his flat was usually very untidy, Neil café. We noticed that the cinema
didn’t realize at first that he’d been the victim of a café.
a
.
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2 Underline the by phrase in any sentences where it is 5 Complete the sentences with utterly, very or rather.
not needed.
0 Everyone thought that the food was utterly delightful.
0 I discovered that the tyres on my car had been stolen by 1 When she heard the terrible news, she felt
someone. sad.
1 The New Young Playwrights award was won this year 2 The hotel looked nice, but the rooms were
by
a student at our school. cold. In fact, we were freezing.
2 I didn’t get the job, but I was later offered a job 3 It’s going to start getting dark soon. It’s
by a different company. late to go out for a walk.
3 Successful candidates will be notified by us next week. 4 Having not eaten all day, everyone was
4 When Sandra last had a party, I wasn’t invited by her. starving by the time we arrived.
5 The restaurant’s food and poor service were criticized 5 I bought my bike about seven years ago, so it’s
by
a large number of customers. old now.
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3 Choose the correct answer. 6 Tick ( ) or correct the sentences. Some of them are
0 It’s feared / Is feared that the missing fishermen may wrong.
have drowned. 0 I need a break because I’ve been working very
1 Acting is considered / it’s considered to be a glamorous hardly recently.
career. I need a break because I’ve been working very hard recently.
2 Many years ago, it is thought / was thought that 1 Jane watched her son proudly.
people
who owed money were morally weak.
3 Crime in the capital is estimated that / to have fallen
this year. 2 In the square, lots of people were dancing lively.
4 It’s often said to be / that family background is the key
to understanding a criminal’s mind.
5 Isn’t / It isn’t widely known that humans actually have 3 I can’t speak freely about these matters in the office.
more than five senses.
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4 The cowardly thieves only robbed older people.
4 Tick ( ) the correct sentence, A or B.
0 A Strangely, I didn’t remember having met her before. 5 I’m fed up with my hair, so I’m getting it cut shortly
B I strangely didn’t remember having met her before. _ next week.
1 A The film was bad incredibly. _
B The film was incredibly bad. _
2 A I quickly ran to the door and closed it. _
B I ran to quickly the door and closed it. _ 5
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with him. _
B He hadn’t worryingly taken his mobile phone with
him. _
4 A She was tremendously pleased with her present. _
B Tremendously, she was pleased with her present. _
5 A We hard tried to make them feel at home. _
B We tried hard to make them feel at home. _
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READING

An insider’s view
1 Read the article and find words or expressions
that mean the following.
Donal Kelleher, 37, an inmate at HMP Cardiff in the
0 prisoner inmate
UK, wrote a letter to a local newspaper recently in 1 extremely good
which he described the food and accommodation 2 a service for washing clothes
as ‘of outstanding quality, with toiletries and laundry 3 quality or level
provided. I am better off in here’. He also stated 4 contributed to buying
that 5 revealed
the education department at Cardiff was of a very high 6 decently
standard. He pointed out that he was doing a GCSE 7 system
in Maths, for which he was being paid 10 pounds a 8 too comfortable
week, a sum that went towards cigarettes, chocolate 9 in a useful way
10 considered
and ‘other luxury goods’.
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A prison officer who has worked at Cardiff for 15
years commented that inmates were simply sitting in 2 Read the article again and correct the sentences.
their cells watching snooker on TV or playing
0 Donal Kelleher contacted a newspaper by email recently.
computer games. Donal Kelleher contacted a newspaper by letter recently.
He added that a new healthcare centre ‘put local 1 In his letter, he complained about the facilities
hospitals to shame’ and offered speedier access to a and conditions in jail.
dentist than on the ‘outside’. The extraordinary
claims were made after it was disclosed recently that
2 He has to pay £10 a week to study for his
jails had become so comfortable that some inmates
Maths qualification.
were ignoring chances to escape.
The local MP, who visited the prison last year,
said, ‘It seems to be an unwritten rule that if they 3 A prison officer said that prisoners had to wait a long
are left time to see a dentist.
alone to do whatever they want, they won’t cause any
trouble. They have a right to be treated humanely,
4 Glyn Travis isn’t concerned about the prison system.
but we have to remember they are in prison to be
punished.’
Glyn Travis, the assistant general secretary of the 5 Sian West thinks that more needs to be done to
Prison Officers’ Association, said the latest make prisons less comfortable places.
disclosure confirmed his fears and that ‘we need to
address the root of what prisons are all about’.
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In response, Sian West, the governor of Cardiff
prison, defended the regime: ‘It’s ludicrous to say Reading total 15
that prison is cushy. We endeavour to challenge all
prisoners to use their time in Cardiff constructively.’
She said that prisoners could rent TV sets for use in
their cells at
a weekly rental fee of £1, but that the sets could be
removed from prisoners whose behaviour was
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LISTENING WRITING
1 7 Listen to a radio programme and put a tick ( ) if 1 Read part of a witness statement and find five
the things happened or a cross ( ) if they didn’t. examples of the following kinds of descriptive
0 Jewell’s actions at the Atlanta Olympics helped prevent language: physical description, non-physical
a lot of injuries or deaths. description, gerunds describing actions and words
1 Jewell was arrested on the same day as he found describing a sequence of events.
the bomb. _ As I was crossing the road, I saw two people get out of a
2 Jewell admitted that he was guilty at first. _ car. They stood on the pavement for a while. Then they
3 The FBI took things away from Jewell’s home. _ walked calmly into the jeweller’s shop. It was a man and a
4 Barbara Jewell met President Clinton. _ woman. They were middle-aged and seemed ordinary. He
5 Richard Jewell was dressed informally when he had short grey hair and glasses. She was slightly taller than
appeared on TV. _ him, with mid-length brown hair. I didn’t think anything of
6 Jewell was emotional at the news conference. _ it and I went into the bank. A bit later on, I was just
6 leaving the bank and I heard the sound of an alarm.
When I turned round, I saw the couple running away from
2 7 Listen again and put the events in order. the jewellery shop.
The police searched Jewell’s apartment. _ Physical description:
Jewell passed a lie detector test. _ 0 middle-aged
Two of the bomb victims filed a lawsuit against Jewell. 1
_ Jewell worked as a sheriff’s deputy. 1
Non-physical description:
Richard Jewell discovered a bomb. _
2
Jewell appeared at a TV news conference. _
Barbara Jewell appeared on TV. _ Gerunds describing actions:
Jewell was hailed as a hero. _ 3
FBI agents interviewed Jewell. _ 4
Jewell was told that he was no longer under investigation. Words describing a sequence of events:
_
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Listening total 2 Imagine you were a witness to an incident and the
police have asked you for a written statement.
Mention when and where it happened, who you saw
or heard, and the sequence of events. Include the
following:
- your name, age and occupation
- the reason you were in the area
- clear, concise language
- as many descriptive words as possible

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Writing total 15
Speaking 10
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