Practice test Reading Questions 1-5 Look at the text in each question. ‘What does it say? Part 1 Mark the correct letter A, B, or C on your answer sheet. Example: o i . a NOTHING OF VALUE IS LEFT P IN THIS VAN AT NIGHT = SN tal A Valuable objects are removed at night. B Valuables should not be left in the van. © This van is locked at night. In advance of the Latin American cinema season, there's a special showing tonight (19.00) of Woody Allen's very funny ‘movie Bananas. Also, don't forget our horror film tomorrow at 23.00! Dee ecg Pe ORR CuE aig Cea iy accompanied by an adult swimmer At the Film Club this evening, members can see A a filtp from Latin America. B acomedy. ¢ a horror movie. A Stay in one part of the pool with another person if you cannot swim, B Keep to the shallow end if you are on your own in the pool. © Accompany non-swimmers if they wish to be in the deep end.John ‘i kevin can't leave work until 6.30 so please pick up the other plajers tonight. Hel De at the. temis club by 7.0 for his match. You're playing later. Andrea BOOK YOUR NEXT HOLIDAY! PAYMENT DUE TWO WEEKS: BEFORE DEPARTURE (LESS 10% DEPOSIT NOW) sorta Simon thinks there's a spare veom available mn flat. Weuld you considér venting it A toad abe bee tant weekend - please phone me on OTI59 421822, Claire. ‘A. John should give some of the team a lift. B John has a tennis match with Kevin at 7.0. © ohn will pick Andrea up from work tonight. ‘A Book another holiday with us now to receive a discount of 10%. B Depart on holiday within two weeks and save your 10% deposit. © Pay only 10% of the holiday cost until a fortnight before you leave. Why does Claire want Marta to calll her? A to talk about Simon's offer of rent B to discuss sharing accommodation € to plan her visit this weekendPart 2 Questions 6-10 The people below all want to watch a programme on television tonight. ‘On the opposite page there are descriptions of eight TV programmes. Decide which programme would be the most suitable for the following people. For questions 6-10, mark the correct letter (A-H) on your answer sheet. Katie is looking for a programme to help her with a geography project she is doing on the mountains of Europe. She needs to find out some basic facts before tomorrow's lesson. A (ANS 5 ie Jake enjoys programmes about real people and would like to find one that involves travelling. As he wants to relax this evening, he would prefer to ‘watch something that isn't too serious. ‘Anna and Kim are hoping to have a short holiday soon. They would like to watch a programme which will give them some practical advice about where they could go atzan affordable price. David has promised his parents that he will redo their tiny kitchen. However, he lacks experience and wants a programme that will help him to carry out the work property. 10 Brian loves programmes about the past, where he can learn more about famous individuals. He is particularly interested in inventors of the nineteenth century.On TV tonight Do-it-yourself! Tonight, this practical look at home improvements considers how to make life easier for those who prepare the family meals! If you want to find out which is the right paint to use and explore new possibilities for even the smallest cooking spaces, you'll find all the answers you need tonight ~ or on the programme's seriously detailed website. Memorable people This series has looked at a number of important people, from the scientist Charles Darwin to Brunel, the great nineteenthcentury ‘engineer. Ton gnt’s programme will introduce us to Sir Humphry Davy, whose famous development of the Davy safety lamp in 1815 changed the lives of miners and their families forever. New homes Continuing the lives of people who have moved to different countries in the last twelve months, tonight's episode follows Berit as she leaves her home in Norway and drives south to her dream house in Spain, Even when she learns her furniture is stuck ona lorry north of the border, Berit doesn't stop smiling, Highly entertaining TV. Introducing the Matterhorn Terry Martin visits Switzerland to find out more about the famous mountain, filming it both in ‘winter and summer. He discusses how and when the Matterhorn was formed, and informs the viewer about the wildife and plants found beneath its snowline, as well as telling some amusing stories about nineteerth-century climbers. High challenge Tonight's true story is about one man’s attempt to reach the top of one of the most difficult mountains in the world fifty years ago. Recreated from diary entries and newspaper reports, this wonderful film will hold your attention right to the end, with its amazing camerawork and unusually detailed content on this little-known climber. Shelley’s kitchen Visit top chef David Shelley’s home tonight, for an amusing half-hour of recipes and personal stories. In his own kitchen, Shelley will be preparing recipes from the Italian mountain regions. He will cook a range of delicious mountain dishes consisting mainly of cheese, herbs and potatoes. Perfect entertainment for vegetarians! Friends like us This Australian comedy series has many fans, who love its gentle jokes and true-to-life characters, This evening, Va's cousin has come for a short holiday, and decides to redesign the apartment while everyone is out at work, which is very unpopular, and makes Val finally say what's on her mind. ‘Travel shop ‘Tonight's programme reviews four of the best holiday destinations in Europe and includes a special report on camping opportunities in the USA this summer. There's also a detailed look at the cut-price weekend breaks available on the internet, with advice on the best sites for last-minute bookings. practice test ©Part 3 Questions 11-20 Look at the sentences below about growing tea in Britain. Read the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If itis correct, mark A on your answer sheet. If it is not correct, mark B on your answer sheet. " 12 13 14 15 16 7 18 19 Vegetables used to be grown on the Tregothnan estate. The first tea plants at Tregothnan were introduced as an experiment. The next fields to be planted with tea are on flat land. Jonathan Jones has been able to learn about growing conditions in different countries recently. Jonathan Jones suggests that British people drink more tea than anyone else. Green tea is a more valuable product than white tea. The Tregothnan Estate wants to supply its tea in different forms commercially. Jonathan Jones believes that tea produced at Tregothnan would be fresher than imported tea. ‘Some tea plants at Tregothnan will be ready for commercial use before 2006. A well-known British tea company is interested in ordering some Tregothnan tea for its own shop.Britain’s first tea plantation High above the River Fal in south Cornwall, a team of gardeners is preparing to grow a much-loved plant for the first time commercially in Britain. On the Tregothnan Estate, fields that were once first tea plantation. used to grow potatoes, carrots and peas haye become the home of Britain’s In 1999, Tregothnan staff were unsure whether they could grow tea, so they planted five hundred tea plants. They are growing well and there are now plans to cover the hillsides with different varieties of tea all the way down to the river by 2005. This part of the country has a suitable climate for growing tea and because the fields face south, Jonathan Jones, Tregothnan’s head gardener, is especially hopeful: ‘We think we've got the perfect conditions,’ he says, and he should know, because he has just spent three months visiting tea plantations throughout Asia, Australia and Africa, on a research trip. Of course, no one is doubting the demand for the product, ‘The British are the biggest tea drinkers in the world apart from the Irish,” Mr Jones says. ‘We drink on average three cups a day, sc makes perfect sense to grow it here.’ However, it is not the commonly used black tea that will be grown, but green and white tea. For such special tea, the market is growing by 25% a year, with some 10% of tea drinkers having tried it. Green tea, which is said to lower cholesterol, reduce high blood pressure and prevent certain illnesses, is far more expensive than black tea, while the even rarer white tea can be sold for ten times the price of black tea. If all goes well, apart from producing the usual dried tea in packets, the Tregothnan Estate also aims to introduce fresh leaves, which are believed to have additional health benefits, for sale at supermarkets up and down the country. ‘The tea from around the world that reaches the supermarkets at the moment is nine months old, but we could get green tea on their shelves within 24 hours,’ says Mr Jones. Tea has to be grown for six years before it can be picked for sale, which means that Tregothnan staff will have to wait until 2005 to know whether their efforts have been successful. However, leaves that were picked after three years suggest that these particular plants do produce a light, refreshing and very drinkable green tea, Stephen Twining, the tenth generation of the Twining family to work for the famous tea firm, is positive: ‘We do think there's a market for this tea and provided the quality is there, we'd consider having it in stock in our specialist tea shop.’ Twinings has seen its sales of green tea increase by 43% this year. PRACTICE TESTPart 4 Questions 21-25 Read the text and questions below. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. 21 22 The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton ‘The old saying ‘It’s better to travel than to arrive’ is usually understood as an attack on destinations rather than a positive statement about travel. Indeed, people are always complaining about the horrors of travelling: crowded airports, overbooked flights, cancelled and dirty trains. However, I believe there are some unusual pleasures in the journeys we make. Take the aeroplane, for example, Few seconds in life are more exciting than those during take-off. Waiting at the beginning of a runway, we see familiar locations out of the plane window: grass, a road, modern hotels - the Earth as we have always known it, where we make slow progress even by car. Then suddenly, accompanied by the controlled noise of the engines, we rise smoothly into the sky and a huge space opens up for us, where we can imagine new possibilities in our lives. Trains are another wonderful travel environment. I love the atmosphere of half-empty carriages making their way across the countryside: enjoying the silence inside and the regular beat of the wheels against the track outside. A train journey can be like a dream, where we become involved in different thoughts and are able to recall distant memories. There's nothing like a moving train to encourage the mind to perform properly. Thinking can even improve when parts of the mind are busy with other tasks, like listening to music or following a line of trees. If we are attracted to air or train travel despite their disadvantages, itis perhaps because we feel that these experiences provide an important alternative to the habits and limitations of our ordinary world. What is the writer's main purpose in writing the text? A to disagree with an accepted saying B_ to complain about modern transport C to explain his ideas about travelling D_ to describe an unusual train journey ‘What does the writer say about travelling by air? A He finds the delay before take-off annoying. B__ He enjoys the feeling of freedom it gives. C__ He prefers it to driving, despite the time taken. D He wishes the engines were much quieter.When the writer travels by train, he likes to ‘A spend much of the journey asleep. B sit ina completely empty carriage. admire the countryside along the way. D listen to the movement of the wheels, ‘According to the writer, a train journey is good for us because ‘Ait encourages us to remember certain things. B__itallows us to forget about our daily problems. it lets our minds concentrate on a single idea. D__itoffersus the chance to be totally relaxed. Which of the following might the writer say? A B It we travelled less often,” Unless the destination is we would have better unusual, it is not worth memories of our visits. the effort of getting there. c D the speed of modern travel, there are too many disadvantages. Even though journeys can be uncomfortable, they are of benefit to our lives.Part 5 Questions 26-35 Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet, Example: 0 A something B everything © nothing D- anything Answer: |0|A B CD! Skateboarding: the early years Today, there are (0) ........... ike 20 million skateboarders around the world. It has (26) ........... about thirty years for this leisure activity to become (27) popular. There were actually a few ‘home-made’ skateboards in the 1960s, but it wasn't (28) .. 1970 that things really started to (29) eu, in the Pacific Ocean Park area of Los Angeles, California. One group of people in particular was (30) . for the development of skateboarding The ‘Z-Boys’, as they were called, were keen surfers and (31) sss. to transfer their skills to dry land. In the early 1970s, there was very little rain in California and many people had to (32) .. their swimming pools empty. These smooth, concrete spaces were excellent skateboarding locations for the Z-Boys, (33) . .. Soon became famous locally for using the skateboard in new and exciting (34) ............ . People were amazed at what the Z-Boys (85) .........+. do and immediately wanted to try skateboarding for themselves,31 32 33 34 35 until cause possible imaginee stay which manners could without handle manageable decided remain who ‘methods should during happen acceptable considered leave where points must beyond exist responsible thought miss ways need practice test @Questions 1-5 Writing Part 1 Here are some sentences about going out to a nightclub. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three words. Write only the missing words on your answer sheet. You may use this page for any rough work. Example: 0 My friend Gianni said | was spending too much time studying. My friend Gianni said ‘You Answer: are spending cuss to much time studying.’ 1 Gianni suggested going to a nightclub on Thursday. Gianni said ‘Why ...... .. we go to a nightclub on Thursday?” 2 _ Iwas too tired to go on Thursday, so we went on Friday. We went on Friday ... .... Thursday, because | was too tired then. 3 Atthe Blue Parrot nightclub, you can dance and there's also live music. At the Blue Parrot nightclub, there's dancing .. .. as live music. 4 Ourother friends didn't get there until 10.00. It was 10.00 ... our other friends got there. 5 Although the evening cost a lot, | really enjoyed myselt I really enjoyed myself ..... .. of spending a lot of money.Question 6 You are on holiday and have bought this postcard to send to your friend Pat. Write @ postcard to send to Pat. In your postcard, you should © ‘tell Pat where you are on holiday © say what the weather is like there © explain how fong you will be staying, Write 35-45 words on your answer sheet. nacriee reer @Part3 Wote an answer to one of the questions (7 or 8) in this part. ‘Write your answer in about 100 words on your answer sheet Put the question number in the box at the top of your answer sheet. Question 7 © This is part of a letter you receive from your English friend Alex. | really don’t read enough! What things do you enjoy reading? What else do you like to do in your free time? © Now write a letter, answering Alex's questions. © Write your letter on your answer sheet. Question 8 © Your English teacher has asked you to write a story. © Your story must have the following title: : A silly mistake © Write your story on your answer sheet.Practice Test Reading Pot 1B Pot2 6 G Pat3 11 A 16 B Pad 21 € Pan 26 B a1 B Writing Patt 1 don't 3 as well Pant 2 ‘Task Specific Markscheme: R 7 2 2 2 ove a> m> B Is 2B 28 3 ep ope a> 4 19 24 29 uM coe eee 2 rather than/instead of/not 4 before/when 5 in spite indication of where writer is on holiday mention of what the weather is like ‘explanation of how long writer will be staying. 10 6 20 25 30 35 opens b