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TEST 2 CaO ar Wy Wesxea sats Tip Strip Question 1: You are looking for a word which goes with ‘ambition’ Question 3: Only one of these words can be followed by the preposition "to" in this context. Question 7: Which of ‘these verbs means ‘go in the direction of when followed by ‘for’? Question 8: Oniy one of these words creates a common expression with ‘the two prepositions. 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). In the exam, mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A number B amount C quantity —-D_ crowd Where to go whale watching When asked to list the things they would most like to experience in life, a surprising (0) ........ of people mention seeing whales in their natural habitat. It's an ambition that can be (1) ........ surprisingly easily. It is (2) ........ that the seas around Iceland are home to over five thousand orca whales. But their behaviour, and therefore your chances of seeing them, varies (3).........to the season. In summer, the whales have a (4) ........ to hang out near the coast and can be seen swimming up fjords and inlets. During the winter months, however, the animals are generally to be found (5) out at sea. (6) ........ Season you choose for your trip, whale-watching trips are very easy to organise, and there's a chance you'll get to see other whale species too. Besides Iceland, another option is to (7) ........ for northern Norway between October and January. Orcas arrive here at this time of year in (8) ........ of large shoals of herring, which form an important part of their diet. 1 A answered B rewarded © C honoured D fulfilled 2 A estimated B counted C guessed D totalled 3A according BB depending ¢ relying D agreeing 4 A custom B tendency habit D trend 5 A longer B wider © broader D further 6 A Whenever B Whoever C Whichever D However 7 A head B set © poi D pick 8 A hunt B follow © pursuit D seek TEST 2: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH Question 9: Which verb completes the expression with ‘as a surprise’? 12: Which licates a point in timein the past? Question 13: Which preposition usually follows ‘inspiration’? Question 14; A modal verb is needed here Part 2 For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet, The Mini-Monet Kieron Williamson is a very successful landscape painter. His paintings, (0) ....... mostly depict the peaceful countryside around his home village in eastern England, sell very well. Perhaps this shouldn't (9) ........ a8 that much of a surprise. It's a beautiful Part of the world, and landscape paintings are always popular. The strange thing about Kieron, however, (10) ...... that he is only seven years old Ata recent exhibition of his work, all the paintings were sold in half an hour, some for £100,000 each. Kieron now has fans all over the world, and has gained the nickname the ‘Mini-Monet’ What's even (11) ........ surprising is that Kieron doesn't come from an artistic family, and only started painting two years (12)........ . He first got inspiration (13)......... some boats he saw on holiday at the seaside. Kieron asked his parents if they (14) ...... buy him a sketch pad and pencils (15) that he could draw them. Only when they saw (16) ........ well he drew did they realise that he was talented, TEST 2: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH Tip Strip Question 17: You need to add a suffix to this verb to make a noun. Question 19: Add both a refix and a suffix to make a negative adjective. Question 20: To make a noun from this adjective, you change the last letter and add a vowel, Question 24: Add a suffix to turn this adjective into an adverb. Part 3 For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same li ‘example at the beginning (0). ie. There is an In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet, Example: [0] (r|e/s]e[4|R|c|H] | l COO Don’t catch cold According to recent (0) ........., at least some of the advice about health that was passed down to our grandparents by Previous generations may actually contain some (97) oe ‘good example is the (18) .......... between feeling cold and catching a cold. My grandmother was convinced that being outside when the temperature is low, or simply dressing in (19) . clothes for the cold weather, was a sure way of catching a cold. Now, as we know, colds are caused by viruses. Therefore, in the (20) .......... of a virus, you cannot catch a cold — no matter how low the temperature or how (21) .. your clothing, But (22) .. bodies already, which are just waiting for the chance to turn now think that we may have viruses in our into a cold. In cold weather, for example, blood vessels in the nose get smaller to stop heat escaping, (23).........., this also allows the cold virus to attack the nose or throat more (24) .......... So, perhaps Granny was right! SEARCH TRUE RELATION suit ABSENT APPROPRIATE ‘SCIENCE FORTUNATE EASY TEST 2: READING AND USE OF ENGUSH EEN Tip Strip Question 26: You need to use the word ‘except” in this sentence. Question 27: You need to use the past perfect tense in this clause. Question 28: Which verb form comes after. ‘be used to’? “ Question 29: You need to transform ‘broke’ into another form of the verb. Question 30: You need to make a multi-word verb here, Part 4 For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0), Example: 0 What type of music do you like best? FAVOURITE What .. .-- type of musi The gap can be filled by the words ‘is your favourite,’ so you write: Example: |0| | IS YOUR FAVOURITE In the exam, write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. 25. Tania hasn't played volleyball for three years. SINCE Meseseceeete, .. Tania last played volleyball 26 The only thing Carl forgot to buy was a new battery for his watch. EVERYTHING Carl remembered to .... for his watch, a new battery 27 Declan was angry because Claire arrived late. TIME, If Claire been angry. ; Declan would not have 28 | don't usually wear a hat and so it feels strange. USED lam . . a hat and so it feels strange. 29 Rob said to Jennifer: ‘You broke the strap on my new camera.’ ACCUSED Rob... .. the strap on his new camera. 30 Mark can’t wait to use his new computer-games console. FORWARD. Mark is ...... console. .. his new computer-games 32 TEST 2: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH fine 15 line 37 Part 5 You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. In the exam, mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. ‘A whole year had gone by since Tyler and I'd hung out together and I'd grown used to people reporting bad things about him. Mostly I just sighed. I'd accepted the fact that he was no longer the lad I once knew. He'd chosen the wrong kind of people to hang around with and had got into trouble. I knew these things only too well. Still, che news that he was in hospital shook me all the same. Ie was Beth's brother who told me. “Wait for me outside Whitechapel station, Ashe, Beth had said, She was late and I kept looking at my mobile to check che time. ‘The odd thing was that I'd been thinking about Tyler since the previous afternoon. Td seen him while walking home from college. Hed got our of a car about ten metres in front of me. It had taken me only a second to recognise who it was and I'd darted into the doorway of a closed shop to avoid coming face to face with him. When eventually 1d peeked out, he was standing on the pavement speaking on the phone. He had a long coat on over jeans and boots. His hair was cropped and his face was pale. He wasn't wearing his glasses and his free hand was cutting the ai as if he was making points while talking, He was looking round but his attention was on the call, Suddenly, he brought it to an abrupt end and slipped the mobile into a pocket. He walked a couple of steps and then, to my dismay, he spotted me, He smiled and headed in my direction. I kept my face towards the glass window and studied one of the posters that had been stuck there, ‘Ashe!’ he'd called. ‘Oh, hit” “What are you up to?" he said, glancing ar the poster on the shop window. I stumbled out some words about looking for a gig to go to. I'd no idea what my hair looked like or if Td got 4 spot on my chin or if hed noticed me earlier watching him from the shop doorway. ‘Fancy 2 coffee” he said. ‘Tye got to be somewhere’ I said, stepping out of the shop doorway and making off “See you, Ashe,’ hed called after me. Affer about twenty metres, I looked round and saw that he was in exactly the same position, staring at me. He raised his hand in a tiny wave and I curned and went on. I didn’t look back again, Td thought about him on and off during the previous evening. Now, while waiting for Beth, I thought about him again. I wondered what he was doing, I pictured the funny brown glasses hed worn to read with and wondered if he still read books by George Orwell. Pethaps I should have gone for that coffee, I might not get another chance to find out what he was really up to these days. Beth was very late. A couple of cars started hooting and there were some raised voices from a group of pedestrians who were ignoring the red man and crossing the road, | looked through the shoppers to see if I could see Beth’s cheery face but there was no sign. I took my mobile out of my pocket again and stared at the screen, but again drew a blank, I wondered what to do. I ‘was stamping my feet with the cold. Something must have happened. Beth woulda just leave ime standing in the freezing cold for no reason. Tyler came into my mind again. That's when I saw her brother walking towards me. TEST 2: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH 34 In the first paragraph, Ashe is surprised to discover that Tyler Tip Strip Question 31: Look for A has got into trouble again. word in the text that i A eae B_ has made unsuitable fiends. Question aa cit rcteres. Chas been admitted to hospital the phone call Tyler was D_has been the subject of rumours. making. 50 which option ‘is correct? Question 35: Look at 32 How did Ashe feel when she'd first seen Tyler the previous day? the last sentence in the Pacem oye A unsure if it was him options is suggested by the use of ‘really up to"? B_ surprised that he was driving C keen that he shouldn't see her D__ upset that he didn’t recognise her 33. The word ‘it’in line 15 refers to A amovement. B_aconversation. away of looking. D_ apiece of equipment 34 When Tyler finally noticed her, Ashe felt relieved that he was smiling sure he'd been waiting for her. offended by something he said. concerned about her appearance. com> 35 After meeting Tyler the pre us day, Ashe had felt A. sorry that she'd been rude. B curious about his current life. © guilty about refusing his invitation. D convinced that she would see him again. 36 The phrase ‘drew a blank (line 37) suggests that A Beth had left no message. B_Ashe's mobile wasn't working. © Ashe had decided to wait no longer. D Beth was just being typically unreliable. HEE es1 2: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH Part 6 You are going to read an article about an amateur archaeologist. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A~G the one which fits each gap (37-42). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. In the exam, mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Treasure in the mud Lan Smith likes to spend his fice time looking for ancient objects Mudlark was the nineteenth-century name for someone who searched in river mud at low tide, on the lookout for objects that other people had lost or thrown into the water. For the original mudlarks ic was a way of making a living, Buc for Ian Smith ies a hobby, because he’ looking for objects of historical interest. Tan heads down to the River Thames at low tide with his electronic metal-detector and a spade. Working around fast and sometimes dangerous tides, he hunts for ancient everyday objects, from cups and coins to buttons and badges. Anyone can have a go, as long as they have permission, There are currently about 300 licensed mudlarks in Bricain. But lan, who is an antique dealer by profession, is not an ordinary one. After thirty years, there’ barely a patch of wet mud on any tidal river in the UK that he doesn't know. “You're not likely to find a chest of gold on a foreshoreand the spectacular stuff in museums is there because itis extremely rare,’ Ian tells me when I meet him under London's Tower Bridge shortly after breakfast. Here it’s more likely to be the everyday possessions of ordinary familics. [BBN] —__] Ics mostly rubbish — literally from a time when unwanted things were simply thrown into the river. Mudlarking involves working with a metal detector, but also using your eyes — studying the surface, picking it over and knowing what you're looking at when you see i Tip Strip Option B: What does base text for objects. “such objects’ refer to in that lan has found in this option? Check the the mud ‘Mudlarking, says Ian, is an activity that tends to attract solitary characters. “But) he adds, ‘irs also very tranquil. You may be in the middle of the city but the lapping of the water takes you away from the hustle.” We quickly make our first find, the sole from a sixteenth- century shoe. Then, much to my dismay, Ian casually tosses aside our find: "You get to see a lot of those over the years” he says. [ON | That piece of shoc leather, for example, is a give-away that the patch of mud around itis likely to have been eroded by the tides

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