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1  Listen to a recent graduate talking about the 3 Some of the sentences contain one mistake. Put a
challenges she faced when she left university and tick beside the sentences that are correct, and
started work. Decide if the statements are true correct the sentences with mistakes.
or false, according to what the speaker says.
1 My boss had me to completely rewrite the legal
1 It was difficult to adjust to working to a fixed report from scratch.
schedule. TRUE / FALSE ________________________________________
2 The length of the journey to her workplace added to ________________________________________
the difficulties. TRUE / FALSE 2 Leyla had her car stolen from a car park in the town
3 She was surprised by the fact that there was so centre last week.
much competition between junior staff members. ________________________________________
TRUE / FALSE ________________________________________
4 It took very little time to establish friendships with 3 We’re finally having our apartment block
new colleagues. TRUE / FALSE redecorated starting next week.
5 To make progress in your career, having a good ________________________________________
relationship with your manager is more important ________________________________________
than hard work. TRUE / FALSE 4 Harriet said she simply wouldn’t get her new
secretary explain to her how to run the company!
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________________________________________
2 Complete the sentences using the correct
5 Our local council has had several people complain
preposition from the words in italics.
about the poor state of the roads recently.
1 I wouldn’t eat that fish if I were you. I think it’s ________________________________________
over / off. ________________________________________
2 All the phone lines are off / down due to last night’s 6 Marek got his neighbour feed his pets while he was
storm. on his business trip.
3 Leo and Henri argued over / off who was ________________________________________
responsible for damaging the car. ________________________________________
4 There has been a lot of debate recently over / off 7 Anya is very hard-working and she’ll have her staff
how to improve the electoral system. working right up to 5 p.m. every day, too.
5 It’s always best to try and negotiate when buying ________________________________________
goods. You might get some money down / off. ________________________________________
6 Kara is immobile these days and that’s over / down 8 I’ve started getting my hair doing at Kutz – it’s
to the fact that she’s sprained both ankles. much cheaper than most other places.
7 I’d say the idea of people living in space is still a ________________________________________
very long way off / down. ________________________________________
8 Over / Off the course of this week, we’ve learnt a 9 Boris won’t have anyone point out mistakes in his
lot about how the new system will work. work.
9 It seems that tonight’s theatre performance is ________________________________________
down / off as two of the lead actors are ill. ________________________________________
10 As your tutor gives you directions for completing 10 My fitness instructor got me run around the park at
the test, try to get the important details down / over. six in the morning yesterday.
________________________________________
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4 Two friends are discussing a recent news story. 5 Complete the following sentences with one word
Complete the dialogue with phrases a–e. from the reading passage. The word must be in
the text.
Jayesh I suppose I should be grateful that I had a
good holiday this year. 1 The internet and other people can be ___________
of information that we rely on instead of our own
Kazumi Why? What’s happened?
memories.
Jayesh 1 _____ the couple who had a complete 2 Before search engines were invented, people
nightmare on theirs? typically referred to ___________ to get
Kazumi I don’t think I did, no. 2 _____ information.
3 Some of the ___________ the study participants
Jayesh Just last week, actually. worked with were likely to be unfamiliar to them.
Kazumi So what happened? 4 The participants were given ___________ to help
them remember some of the information in the
Jayesh Well, when they turned up at the airport they
experiments.
were told that the flight was full and only one of them
5 We can’t be sure yet what the ___________ of the
could board. The other one would have to go on a later
results of Wegner’s tests might be.
flight.
Kazumi 3 _____ I mean, if people have booked and
paid for a flight, then they should be allowed to get on 2 points for each correct answer 10
it!
6 Complete the collocations with words from the
Jayesh Exactly! And when they got to their hotel, box. There are three words that you don’t need.
they were told that there was no record of their having
booked a room. Can you imagine? cite conduct effective short significantly
specifically treat triggers
Kazumi You’re joking! 4 _____
Jayesh And it doesn’t end there. 5 _____ the woman 1 We need to come up with some __________
had her handbag stolen that night, with loads of cash in strategies for dealing with staff absence.
it, her credit cards … the whole lot went. 2 The Burj Al Arab hotel was __________ designed
Kazumi You couldn’t make this up, could you? in the shape of a sail to reflect local fishing history.
3 You must ___________ all your sources when you
a That must have been really annoying. are doing your assignment.
b That’s incredibly frustrating. 4 The smell of freshly-baked bread always
c What made it even worse was that __________ childhood memories of home for me.
d This was in the summer, was it? 5 If you’ve got a __________ attention span, you’re
e Did you read that story about unlikely to remember much from a long
presentation.
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9 It’s good to _____ on the mistakes you’ve made

7 Choose the correct option a–c to complete the
during this training process and learn from them.
sentences.
a insist
1 Many customers have _____ to some extra charges b congratulate
the company want them to pay. c reflect
a objected 10 The Prime Minister clearly _____ his views on the
b complained matter on live television.
c apologized a promised
2 Our new employee has already been _____ her b stated
effective presentation style. c insisted
a warned against
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b accused of
c complimented on
3 Did you hear that someone _____ to have beaten
the world record for cooking an omelette in the
fastest time?
a suggests
b reveals
c claims
4 The medical department’s research has been _____
by several doctors, which is great news.
a emphasized
b admitted
c endorsed
5 We are all being _____ to monitor the amount of
sugar in our diets.
a urged
b acknowledged
c suggested
6 When questioned, the man _____ not following the
necessary safety procedures and causing the
accident.
a apologized
b admitted
c agreed
7 Despite our concerns, we were _____ that
everything would work out well with the project.
a reassured
b encouraged
c asserted
8 Judges of the competition _____ that it had been
very difficult to come to a decision.
a informed
b revealed
c convinced

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8 Read the text. information would not be saved. Once the participants
had typed the facts, they were asked to write down as
While most of us take for granted that we can connect much of the information as they could remember. It
to the internet 24/7 and visit websites containing was found that those who had been told that the
information on just about every topic under the sun, information wouldn’t be stored by the computer were
should we be questioning the effect this may be having considerably more likely to retain it in their heads. In
on our ability to think logically and to retain another experiment, participants were asked to type
information? While some would argue that being able statements which they were told would be stored in
to access such a range of information leads to a more particular folders on the computer. They were then
educated population, others fear that we may be losing asked to remember the statements. When subsequently
vital mental skills because of our reliance on such prompted with clues and asked in which folders each
sources. statement had been stored, they were less able to
In the not-so-distant past, it was usual to turn to remember the statement itself than in which folder it
encyclopaedias or reference books in order to find was located.
particular pieces of information. We could then take So what are the implications of these findings? Is
notes on the key points of interest, referring back to knowing that we have this world of facts at our
these written records as and when required. Nowadays, fingertips really dumbing down our mental abilities?
however, all we need to do is type a topic or question While it isn’t yet clear what the effects on our capacity
into a search engine and a whole world of facts for logical thinking might be, Wegner argued that we
becomes immediately available to us. In a similar way, are still exercising the power of recall, but we are
we rely on our mobile phones to store telephone applying it to a different range of things and have
numbers, and GPS (Global Positioning System) to get reorganized the way in which we use our memories.
us from A to B in our cars without the effort of Furthermore, the situation may not be all bad. An
remembering specific directions. example he used to illustrate this is how, in the past,
Understandably, while we are more likely to commit to students were not permitted to use a calculator during
memory information we aren’t sure we’ll be able to maths exams or some lessons, whereas nowadays they
retrieve from another source, it seems we no longer are more likely to be encouraged to see what they can
make an effort to remember things we believe are achieve when using this valuable tool. Wegner was
stored elsewhere. For example, in the same way that keen to investigate further not only our dependence on
we might rely on a family member to know when computers, but what he saw as our interdependence
another relative’s birthday is, we depend on other with technology.
sources, including the internet, to store key
information for us, making it part of our ‘transactive
memory’ – a term coined by former Harvard professor
of psychology, the late Daniel Wegner, to refer to a
form of memory external to our brain.
As part of his research into how our memories work,
Wegner conducted a number of tests using a range of
types of recall, in order to examine the participants’
reliance on computers. In one experiment, they were
told various facts – some of them not considered
common knowledge, such as ‘an ostrich’s eye is larger
than its brain’. Each participant was then told to type
these facts into a computer, but half of the subjects
were led to believe the computer would save what they
wrote, while the other half were told that the
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Decide if statements 1–5 are true or false. If 10 Read the sentences and put a tick beside the five
there is no information in the passage about this, that have unusual word order.
choose ‘not given’.
1 According to the writer, being able to access the 1 I’ve pointed out the problem with the course
internet has made us generally more educated. schedule to my tutor I don’t know how many times.
TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN _____
2 The writer says that drivers who use GPS are often 2 I can’t recall how often I was asked to do
not very good at reading maps. TRUE / FALSE / presentations while I was doing the course. _____
NOT GIVEN 3 Sophia plans to spend a whole year there gathering
3 ‘Transactive memory’ is a source of information her data. _____
available to us outside our own recall. TRUE / 4 The main idea behind the project is to establish how
FALSE / NOT GIVEN modern families spend their free time these days.
4 In Wegner’s experiments, the participants who _____
believed the information would be stored tended to 5 What I would say about working on a tablet is that
remember less of it. TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN it’s incredibly convenient. _____
5 Wegner uses the example of the calculator to show 6 The government has spent considerable funds on an
how poor our memories are now compared to the awareness campaign about the dangers of smoking.
past. TRUE / FALSE / NOT GIVEN _____
7 Somewhere in Australia, that’s where she’s moving
2 points for each correct answer 10 to as soon as she’s completed her apprenticeship.
_____
9 Complete the sentences with the correct words.
8 She identified several areas for concern during her
The first letter of each word is given.
analysis of the data. _____
9 What Pat didn’t mention was the fact that he’d
1 The metal bar, once heated, did not r__________
forgotten to send out the questionnaires. _____
its shape. It became very soft.
10 Effective visual aids, that’s what can make all the
2 If this project is to be a success, it’s absolutely
difference to your assignment. _____
f__________ that we do not exceed our budget.
3 Once the students had been shown how to create 1 point for each correct answer 10
3-D graphs, they were soon able to r__________
them independently.
4 Although my lecturer didn’t say directly that he was
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i__________ it with some positive comments.
5 Now that you’ve had time to analyse it, what’s your
i__________ of the data? Do you think our initial
theory is correct?

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