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MINI-SKILL TEST 1 ONLINE

LISTENING – FORM / NOTE COMPLETION


SECTION 1
Questions 1 – 4
Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Festival information
Date Type of event Details

17th a concert performers from Canada

18th a ballet company called 1 EUSTATIS

19th-20th type of play: a comedy called Jemima has


a play
(afternoon) had a good 2

20th (evening) a 3 compose show show is called 4

Question 5-10
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Workshops
 Making 5 cake food
 (children only) Making 6 poster
 (adults only) Making toys from 7 using various tools
Outdoor activities
 Swimming in the 8
 Walking in the woods, led by an expert on 9 insect
 See the festival organizer's 10 invironment for more information.
MINI-SKILL TEST 1 ONLINE
READING – SENTENCE COMPLETION / SHORT ANSWER QUESTION

PASSAGE 1

Dolphins
Dolphins are regarded as the friendliest creatures in the sea and stories of them helping
drowning sailors have been common since Roman times. The more we learn about dolphins, the
more we realize that their society is more complex than people previously imagined. They look
after other dolphins when they are ill, care for pregnant mothers and protect the weakest in the
community, as we do. Some scientists have suggested that dolphins have a language but it is
much more probable that they communicate with each other without needing words. Could any
of these mammals be more intelligent than man? Certainly the most common argument in favor
of man's superiority over them that we can kill them more easily than they can kill us is the least
satisfactory. On the contrary, the more we discover about these remarkable creatures, the less
we appear superior when we destroy them.

Question 1-3

Complete the sentences. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS/ OR A NUMBER from the
passage for each other.
1. It is clear that dolphins have a reputation for being the friendliest creatures to
humans.
2. We can kill dolphins more easily than they can kill us does not mean that we are

superiority to them.
3. Dolphins have some social traits that are more complex than people.

PASSAGE 2

The History of Easter Eggs


Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are special eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or
springtime. The practice of decorating eggshell is ancient. Ostrich eggs with engraved
decoration that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. In Europe, it was traditional to
use dyed and painted chicken eggs at Easter, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate
eggs, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as jelly beans.
Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of new life in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia,
Ukraine, and other Central European countries where they are concealed in the garden for
children to find. Eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth. Some magic
rituals, these days, often use eggs to promote fertility and restore virility (of the body and
mind); and to foresee the future.

Question 1-3
Answer the questions below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each
answer.
1. What is another name for Easter Eggs?
Paschal eggs

2. What type of eggs were formerly used at Easter in Europe?


Dyed and painted

3. What did eggs represent on the whole?


Fertility and rebirth

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