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Grammar
1 Complete the article with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

The hardest game

Do you want to get fit? Do you like water? I do, and now that I (1) (discover) underwater hockey
(or Octopush), I couldn’t be happier!
Octopush is a game of hockey which (2) (play) in a pool, where 12 players compete in teams to score
goals with the disk (or puck). It (3) (invent) in England in the 1950s by Alan Blake, and since then it
(4) (export) to several countries including the USA, South Africa and Australia.
Before joining an Octopush club, I (5) (get) really bored on Sundays, especially in winter when it’s too
cold to swim in the sea. One day a friend I (6) (know) for a very long time invited me to one of her
practice sessions, and I (7) (fall) in love with it instantly! It’s the hardest game I’ve ever played and it
really makes you fit, fast. It’s a lot of fun but be ready for your muscles to (8) (push) to the limit!
I (9) (practise) Octopush for six months now, and I (10) (make) loads of friends on the way. It’s
such a great way to socialise! I recommend it wholeheartedly.

2 Correct the mistakes in the underlined words and phrases in each sentence.

1 I would be much fitter when I was younger. Now I can barely walk up the stairs without running out of breath!
2 If I were you, I will talk to your boss about it. Your colleague can’t treat you like that.
3 Never stop to believe in your dreams. If you work hard, you can achieve anything.
4 I’m glad to see that Joan is more happy now. Last time I saw her I was a bit worried about her.
5 Please don’t forget switching the oven off, or the fire alarm will go off again.
6 Ten years ago this comedian would be funny, but now he’s just a bit boring.
7 If you have time tomorrow, I would come and visit you at work at around 3pm. What do you think?
8 Let’s go to my house for lunch – yours is father than mine.
9 Julie is lovely but she tends to speaking too much when she’s nervous.
10 If my office was closer to my house, I will save a lot of money on transport.

3 Circle the correct option, the or no article (0) in each sentence.

1 The / 0 suitcases over there are mine. Where are yours?

2 The / 0 traffic jams are a real problem around here. People should use public transport more.
3 The / 0 piece of advice you gave me was great. Thank you for your help.
4 The / 0 suggestions that customers make help us to improve our services.
5 Taking the / 0 luggage on planes is expensive. You’d better fly with a small bag only.
6 The / 0 pictures of the views from the top of the mountain came out all blurry. What a shame.
7 The / 0 most important piece of information can be found at the top of page 35.
8 Have you seen the / 0 dollar that was on the kitchen counter? I need it to pay for parking.
9 I like this cake – it’s very light. Have you used the / 0 oil instead of butter?
10 The / 0 electric vehicles are the future. Soon no one will drive petrol cars anymore.

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Vocabulary
4 Match the beginnings and the ends of the phrases.

1 touch A shape
2 to keep one’s brain B sharp
3 to be back on C batteries
4 to keep in H one’s feet
5 to recharge one’s I and go
6 to be over the D heart
7 to pull an all- E out
8 to learn by F moon
9 to stand G with
10 to keep up J nighter

5 Complete the text with the words in the box.

filled  board  jetlagged  rush  jam  departure  announcement  diesel  cockpit  runway

The worst journey of my life was to Los Angeles. We left the house at 5am, not because our flight was that
early, but because we wanted to avoid (1) hour – there’s nothing worse than getting stuck in a traffic
(2) on your way to the airport. We got in a taxi and started our 40-minute drive to the airport. On the
motorway, however, we noticed the taxi driver slowing down. Well, believe it or not, he was running out of
petrol! We had a hard time finding some services, but we finally did, and the driver (3) up the tank. He
was so flustered though that he filled it with (4) … and his car was petrol! We called another taxi while
the driver waited for help. By this point, we were really late. We arrived at the airport and in only 30 minutes we
were in the (5) lounge, checking the gate. That’s when we saw the (6) : our flight had been
delayed by four hours. We eventually managed to get on (7) . I got a glimpse of the pilot sitting in the
(8) , clearly annoyed at the delay. After half an hour they let the plane on the (9) to gain speed,
and off we went. We got to Los Angeles tired, stressed and (10) – it was 3am for us!

6 Match the words (1–10) with the definitions (A–J).

1 cram A someone whose husband or wife has died

2 overdo B money given by a school or university to pay for
3 aching someone’s studies
4 widow C someone who loves reading
5 bookworm D to do something too much
6 stepson E the man or woman you are going to marry
7 fiancé F the final project or assignment in university
8 copycat G someone who doesn’t produce original work
9 dissertation H your husband’s or wife’s son from a previous
relationship
10 scholarship
I when your muscles are in pain
J to study a lot the day before an exam

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Grammar and vocabulary
7 Complete the text with the words in the box.

the  out  despite  if  up  on

Starting a new job can be daunting. (1) the initial excitement at the prospect of working on new
projects and meeting new people, (2) first few days in a new office can be really difficult and full of
doubt. What (3) I don’t get (4) with my new colleagues? And if I don’t find anyone to hang
(5) with at lunch? Will my new manager be as good as my old one, who I really looked (6) to?

get  as  sure  rather

Instead of despairing, take a few simple steps to ensure you fit right in your new team. First of all, make
(7) you say hi to everyone, introduce yourself and show interest in your co-workers. I recommend
repeating their names straight away so you have a better chance to remember them. There’s nothing (8)
embarrassing as sitting next to someone for a month and not remembering their name! Secondly, let them take
the lead when it’s decision-making time (9) than trying to take the lead straight away. Even though
some might tell you to show strength from the beginning, this can lead you to fall out with your new team really
quickly. After all, you’ve just started, so take your time to (10) used to how the team operates.

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Reading and Use of English Part 1
For questions 1 – 8, 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 factor B attraction C feature D trait

THE HISTORY OF THE BLACKBOARD

The blackboard has been a common (0) of classrooms since Babylonian times, when lines were made on
clay tablets using a sharp object (1) as a stylus. It was possible to erase the lines or even bake the clay to
produce a permanent document.
Later, pupils wrote on their own individual slate, a flat piece of grey stone. However, with the expansion of
universal education, small slates (2) it impossible for teachers to present material to larger classes.
The Scottish headmaster James Pillans (3) with a solution by creating a large slate blackboard on the
classroom wall in full (4) of his pupils. Using a stick of chalk to write on this enabled him to (5)
the attention of the whole class on the material he wished to present.
The 1980s saw traditional blackboards being (6) by whiteboards, which allowed teachers to write using
special pens and rub out what they had written. However, blackboards remain in (7) around the world,
and we can expect this remarkably (8) tool to live on in classrooms.
1 A said B known C regarded D called
2 A found B made C brought D caused
3 A came up B thought up C put up D brought up
4 A sight B vision C seeing D view
5 A pay B focus C catch D grab
6 A exchanged B switched C replaced D altered
7 A application B fact C use D employment
8 A continuous B durable C endless D constant

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Reading and Use of English Part 5
You are going to read an extract from a newspaper article about a travel writer called Janet Montgomery, who
writes guides to small towns. For questions 31 - 36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think best fits
according to the text.

Anyone who has travelled through Britain’s lesser-known towns and villages will be familiar with the name Janet
Montgomery.

I went to meet Janet at her flat in Leicester, where she’s lived since retiring as a school teacher. A cheery
welcome awaited me, and Janet showed me into a living room lined with bookshelves, where she gave me an
insight into her writing.

‘I grew up in a small town in West Yorkshire, the kind of place you might pass through on your way to somewhere
else,’ says Janet. ‘Geography was always my passion, not surprisingly, being brought up where I was. A charming
place, but rather out of the way. As a child, I’d look out of the window at the rain coming over the hillside and
wonder what was on the other side of it. And further afield, beyond the next hill. So I suppose you could say I
caught the travel bug quite early on, in a way.’

As a girl, she came across a pile of old Baedeker travel guides in a little-used cupboard while visiting family.
These turned out to belong to a great-uncle of hers, Charles Montgomery. After serving in the First World
War, he returned to France on regular holidays, by himself as it happened, always armed with his camera and
trusty Baedekers. Mainly landscapes and views of monuments, his photographs were painstakingly catalogued,
a process that Janet came to realise was crucial to her later work as a travel guide author. ‘Obviously, times
were hard then and his finances didn’t allow him to go as far as he’d have liked to, but his photographs are a
fascinating insight into life in the inter-war period and after the Second World War. In my own way, I feel I’m
continuing with his work, filling in the gaps by visiting the places that he was never able to see.’ I look over at the
black-and-white photos on the bookshelves.

She left her hometown to study geography at Glasgow University, her first experience of being away from home
for any length of time and one she admits was quite an eye-opener for a girl with a sheltered upbringing. She
noted down her impressions, and wrote lengthy letters to relatives, including her great-uncle Charles. After
returning from a short trip to Northern Ireland, Janet wrote about her experiences for the university magazine.
‘It wasn’t much of a guide in the sense we now know, and I was taken aback when a writer on a local newspaper
contacted me about writing a similiar guide to the Loch Lomond area. They must have seen something in the
way I wrote, attention to detail, who knows. It didn’t lead to much at the time, but on leaving university, I sought
out opportunities to write short pieces, for parish magazines, that sort of thing, and it just went on from there.
Having a small readership never bothered me.’

Times have changed in the 40 years since she took her first steps in the publishing world, and I ask Janet how
she feels about the impact of the internet on what she does. ‘You can find everything you want on the internet
and that’s marvellous. So many people are writing now. Still, I’m fairly sure there’ll be a market for what I do.’
She explains: ‘Some will always feel more secure with a book in their hands, having everything in one place. That
said, I am aware that my readership might be becoming a little more limited, you might say, as I am clearly more
popular with the older generation.’

With that Janet hands me her latest pocket guide to Welsh village churches and cheerfully bids me farewell, as if
sending me off on the kind of journey she herself has made numerous times.

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31 What does Janet say about her interest in travel?
A It is related to where she lived when she was young.
B She was born into a family of travel enthusiasts.
C It was a consequence of an unhappy childhood.
D It came from her interest in nature.
32 What does Janet mean by ‘caught the travel bug’ in line 7?
A She felt annoyed that she was unable to travel.
B She became interested in insects from other continents.
C She had the desire to see other places.
D She became a travel writer.
33 How did her great-uncle’s work influence her?
A She wanted to return to the places he’d visited.
B She realised the importance of being organised.
C She felt sad that he hadn’t seen everything he wanted to.
D He left her a large number of documents to work through.
34 What does the word ‘one’ in line 16 refer to?
A a girl
B a time
C an experience
D a university
35 How did she feel about her first published work?
A She was disappointed by readers’ reactions.
B She was confident about her style.
C She felt it was a natural consequence of her effort.
D She was surprised by the interest in her work.
36 How does she feel about the future?
A She feels jealous of younger writers.
B She hopes to write internet travel guides.
C She worries about the kind of information on the internet.
D She realises there will be fewer people buying books like hers.

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Listening Part 1 TT1

You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1 – 8, choose the best answer (A, B or C).

1 You hear a man talking about a train journey.

What problem did he have at the station?
A He got lost.
B The train was delayed.
C His property was stolen.
2 You hear a salesman talking to a customer about a new mobile phone.
He says the phone’s best feature is
A the applications
B the screen
C the battery
3 You hear two friends talking about exercising at their gym.
What do they agree about?
A The gym equipment is in good condition.
B The behaviour of the other gym users is rude.
C The instructor’s exercise programme is too hard.
4 You hear a woman talking about a wedding she’s currently at.
What is disappointing about it?
A the music
B the venue
C the food
5 You hear a famous cyclist talking about preparing for a bike trip.
The last thing he does before setting off is
A He looks at the map.
B He checks his bike.
C He chooses the right clothing.
6 You hear a woman leaving a message on the answerphone.
Why is she calling?
A to cancel a meeting
B to postpone a meeting
C to change the location of a meeting

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7 You hear two sociology students talking about an assignment.
What are they both unsure about?
A who they need to get information from
B how long they have to complete the assignment
C how they should submit their findings
8 You hear part of an interview with a footballer.
What does he say about the match he’s just played in?
A He wasn’t satisfied with his performance.
B He thought the crowd was too quiet.
C He felt the referee was unfair.

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Writing part 1 - Essay
You must answer this question. Write your answer in 140 – 190 words in an appropriate style.

In your English class you have been talking about the ways people communicate in the world today. Now, your
English teacher has asked you to write an essay.
Write an essay using all the notes and give reasons for your point of view.
“How have methods of communication changed in recent years?”
Notes
Write about:
1 letters
2 internet
3 ......................….. (your own idea)

Writing part 2 – Article

Write your answer in 140 – 190 words in an appropriate style.
You have seen this announcement in an English-language magazine.

ARTICLES WANTED
Effective ways to learn English!
Have you got some techniques for learning English that you could share with other
learners?
You should tell us about the ways you’ve learned English, how effective these methods are,
and what you would recommend to somebody starting to learn English.

Write your article.

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Speaking Part 1
Family and friends
• Who are you most similar to in your family? (In what way?)
• Do you normally celebrate special occasions with friends or family? (Why?)
• Tell us about a family celebration you have enjoyed (Why did you enjoy it?)
• How do you prefer to spend your time with your friends? (Why?)
• Tell us about your best friend. (What is he / she like?)

Health and fitness

• Tell us what you do to stay healthy. (Why?) (What do you do?)
• How important is it to you to keep fit? (What do you do?) (Why?)
• Are exercise and sport the key to being healthy? (Why?)
• How important is food for good health? (Why? / Why not?)

Communication
• Do you use the internet much to communicate with others? (Why? / Why not?)
• How important is communicating by phone to you? (Why?)

Education and Study

• What is / was your favourite subject at school? (Why?)
• Would you like to study English all your life? (Why? / Why not?)
• Do you use the internet for learning new things? (How? / Why?)
• What new skill would you like to learn? (Why?)

Holidays and travel

• Do you prefer holidays with family or friends? (Why?)
• Tell us about your last holiday (Where did you go?)
• Is there a place you would really like to visit? (Why?)
• How do you prefer to travel around the area where you live? (Why?)

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