1. NIVELL C1.

ÚS DE LA LLENGUA
(USE OF ENGLISH)

PART 1. OPEN CLOZE. Read the text and fill in the blanks with ONE word. The
activity begins with an example (0). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET in
the task booklet.

Healthy Alternatives

Many Britons are sighing (0) ……with……… relief across the UK in response to the British
government’s decision (1) …………. at the end of last year, to integrate some complementary
medicines (2) …………. the National Health Service. The decision followed a report by a House of
Lords select committee, (3) …………. called for doctors and nurses to listen to patients’ growing
demands and recognise the potential for good results (4) …………. unconventional medicines.
Currently there is (5) …………. scientific evidence to prove the effectiveness of some therapies
and so there is continued scepticism in the medical profession (6) …………. to how effective
some forms of complementary and alternative medicines are. Yet, the government and the
medical profession have had to acknowledge statistics, (7) …………. as the number of people
using unconventional treatments in Britain doubling (8) …………. 1999 and 2009. According to a
survey carried (9) …………. for the BBC in 2003, one in five Britons are now opting (10) ………….
such therapies. Treatments such as osteopathy, acupuncture, reflexology, aromatherapy and
yoga have all been gaining (11) …………. popularity. The most popular therapies (12) ………….
those who used them, according to the BBC poll, were herbal medicine and aromatherapy,
(13) …………. by homeopathy and acupuncture. The British Medical Association put the
increased appeal for unconventional treatments (14) …………. to a desire to spend more time
with a practitioner: (15) …………. the average GP consultation lasts eight minutes, it can be an
hour with an alternative therapist who will ask about emotions and life stresses.
Adapted from Speak up!

PART 2. WORD BUILDING. Read this text about dividends. For questions 1-10,
use the word in brackets to help you write a related word which fits the context.
Remember that some of the words may require a negative/plural affix. The
exercise begins with an example (0). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET
in the task booklet.

Why Do Leaves Change Colour?

Like hibernating (0) …WILDLIFE (LIFE) , trees start to shut down their systems for winter.
Food (1) ……….. (NUTRITION) move slowly out of the leaves and into the tree’s branches, trunk
and roots. To (2) ……….. (SURE) survival, the tree sheds its leaves to prepare for the deep
freeze (3) ……….. (HEAD). The colour and timing of peak colours can also vary from one (4)
……….. (LOCATE) to another depending on the combination of light and shade the trees (5)
……….. (RECEPTION) and the chemicals present in the leaf. When the temperature drops,
leaves produce a chemical called anthocyanin that (6) ……….. (COUNT) for the striking reds and
purples often found. The colours yellow and orange are always present in leaves, but are often
(7) ……….. (MASK) by the green of chlorophyll. As leaves continue to lose moisture and colour,
they are soon picked up by the wind and fall on the (8) ……….. (ROUND) area below. Helping to
hold in (9) ……….. (WARM) and moisture in winter, fallen leaves protect grasses and other
plants until spring when the process starts over again and the ground becomes (10) ………..
(PROGRESS) warmer.
Adapted from Speak up!

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 PART 3. MULTIPLE CHOICE LEXICAL CLOZE. Read the following text and then
decide which of the words (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. An example (0) has
been done for you. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET in the task booklet.

Get Out of My Space!

Even if we have spent all our lives living in a busy city, all human beings have an instinctive
(0) …need………. for personal space. Besides attempts to (1) …………. privacy, which are efforts
to (2) ………….physically or psychologically from the social world into a private world, city
dwellers have had to adapt and make changes to their personal space. Personal space is a
psychological construct referring to the physical distance or boundary we all attempt to
maintain between us and the people that surround us. In general, this space is (3) ………….
circular but with a larger space in front of us than behind. We find ourselves being comfortable
with a/an (4) …………. distance between others and ourselves around us and will move to (5)
…………. this distance. The exact distance is (6) …………. upon a number of individual, social and,
particularly in the city, situational factors. In the city we find it difficult to keep people out of
our space bubbles and to escape.

In the city there are (7) …………. situations where the general rules of personal space are (8)
…………. upon. Any trip on a crowded underground train or standing on a bus (9) …………. close
contact with strangers.

The city has created a different culture of personal space by (10) …………. many situations as
ones where personal space will be invaded and the (11) …………. of flight is removed.
Consequently, city dwellers have developed finely honed skills to deal with situations where
(12) …………. is so close as to be on an intimate level with strangers. It is quite acceptable to be
in close physical contact with strangers in these situations, but we still use classic strategies of
non-verbal signals to create a/an (13) …………. between ourselves and others. We withdraw our
bodies, turn away from people, try to avoid skin-to-skin contact and apologise when our hands
touch.

We also avoid eye contact, as this is a signal to (14) …………. a conversation. Instead, in the
absence of a book or newspaper, which city people have become skilled in interposing between
themselves and others, we adopt the middle distance (15) …………. , an unfocused steady look
across the crowd or in elevators at the indicator as the lift moves.

Source: “The Human Jungle: An intriguing look at how we have adapted to cope with city life”. Newman
and Lonsdale. Ebury Press.

0. A need B want C lack D desire

1. A keep B sustain C retain D engage
2. A recede B withdraw C advance D depart
3. A irregularly B coarsely C roughly D approximately
4. A singular B exact C particular D special
5. A adjust B regulate C arrange D set
6. A subject B formed C dependant D subordinate
7. A several B various C unfolded D countless
8. A run B crushed C stampeded D trampled
9. A involves B excludes C comprises D embraces
10. A choosing B providing C dictating D determining
11. A preference B option C choice D alternative
12. A closeness B proximity C nearness D vicinity
13. A fence B gate C hurdle D obstacle
14. A initiate B avoid D make D end
15. A glimpse B stare C expression D glare
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 PART 4. KEY WORD TRANSFORMATIONS. 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. The activity starts with an example (0). Write your
answers on the ANSWER SHEET in the task booklet.

0. It’s quite possible that the emergency call was a hoax.

WELL
The emergency call might well have been a hoax.

1. The managing director never admitted that his strategy had failed.
TIME
At ……………………………………………………………………………that his strategy had failed.

2. People only began to realise how talented she was after she had acted for the new soap
opera.
START
Only after she had acted in the new soap opera …………………………………………… how talented she
was.

3. He liked people to think of him as a highly respectable man.

THOUGHT
He liked …………………………………………………………… as a highly respectable man.

4. I know you would like to go out to the pub but I would like us to stay at home tonight.
SOONER
I know you would like to go out to the pub, but ……………………………………………at home tonight.

5. There will be a clear reduction in productivity if they adopt this policy.

SHOULD
There will be a clear reduction in productivity ……………………………..……….…………………… adopted.

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 2. NIVELL C1. COMPRENSIÓ LECTORA
(READING COMPREHENSION)

Part 1. GAPPED TEXT. You are going to read an extract from a novel by Paul
Auster. Nine paragraphs have been removed from the extract. From the
paragraphs A-I, which are in your task booklet, choose the one which fits each
gap (1-8). The exercise begins with an example (0) which corresponds to
paragraph D. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET in your task booklet.

Overture

I had been collecting stories for years and as l had spent the bulk of my working life in the
business of death, I had probably heard too many grim stories to stop myself from
thinking about them when my spirits were low.

0. D. All the people I had visited over the years, all the policies I had sold, and
the dread and desperation I'd been made privy to while talking to my clients.

Eventually, I added another box to my collection. I labelled it "Cruel Destinies," and the
first story I put in there was about a man named Jonas Weinberg. I had sold him a
million-dollar universal life policy in 1976, an extremely large sum for the time.

1.

We met in his apartment on Central Park West, and once I had talked him through the
pros and cons of the various policies available to him, he began to reminisce about his
past. He had been born in Berlin in 1916, he told me, and after his father had been killed in
the trenches of World War One, he had been raised by his actress mother; the only child
of a fiercely independent and sometimes obstreperous woman who had never shown the
slightest inclination to remarry.

2.

He was seventeen when Hitler took control of the government, and within months his
mother was making preparations to get him out of Germany. Relatives of his father's lived
in New York, and they agreed to take him in.

3.

Her family had been Germans for hundreds of years, she told her son, and she'd be
damned if she allowed some two-bit tyrant to chase her into exile. Come hell or high
water, she was determined to stick it out.

4.

She radically altered her appearance - not hard for an actress who specialized in eccentric
character roles -and under her new Christian name she wrangled herself a job as a
bookkeeper for a dry goods store in a small town outside Hamburg, disguised as a
frumpy, bespectacled blonde. When the war ended in the spring of 1945, she hadn't seen
her son in eleven years. Jonas Weinberg was in his late twenties by then, a full-fledged
doctor completing his residency at Bellevue Hospital.

5.
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Everything was worked out to the smallest detail. The plane would be landing at such and
such a time, would be parking at such and such a gate, and Jonas Weinberg would be
there to meet his mother. Just as he was about to leave for the airport, however, he was
summoned by the hospital to perform an emergency operation. What choice did he have?
He was a doctor, and anxious as he was to see his mother again after so many years, his
first duty was to his patients.

6.

A key would be left for her with the doorman at his building, and she should go upstairs
and wait for him in the apartment. Frau Weinberg did as she was told and promptly found
a cab. The driver sped off, and ten minutes into their journey toward the city, he lost
control of the wheel and crashed head on into another car. Both he and his passenger
were severely injured.

7.

When he had finished his work, the young doctor washed his hands, changed back into his
clothes and hurried out of the locker room, eager to return home for his belated reunion
with his mother.

8.

It was Jonas Weinberg's mother. According to what the doctor told me, she died without
regaining consciousness.

Source: Adapted from The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster.

PART 2. MULTIPLE CHOICE. You are going to read a text about a journey. For
questions 1 – 8, which are in your task booklet, choose the answer (A, B, C or D)
which you think fits best according to the text. The exercise begins with an
example (0). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET in your task booklet.

The Trip to McCarthy

McCarthy is a couple of hundred miles east of Anchorage, on the way to the border with
the Yukon territory of Canada. It is surrounded by one of the largest areas of wilderness in
the world, where four of the great mountain ranges of North America collide. Nine of the
highest peaks in the USA are there, surrounded by enormous glaciers, rivers and canyons,
and teeming with seriously wild wildlife. McCarthy, old by Alaskan standards, dates from
the first decade of the twentieth century, when it developed as a social hub for the copper
mines at Kennicott, five miles away. When the mines closed it went into decline, and for a
while became a ghost town. The current year-round population, depending on which
source you consult, is somewhere between fourteen and twenty. There seems a good
chance I’ll be able to meet them all, if only I can get there.

Unlike the other places I have been visiting, McCarthy has no known Irish connection.
Something about it, though, is calling out. Hidden at the end of one of the loneliest roads
on earth, the town seems the right place to end a journey that has been driven as much
by instinct as by design, and which has paid me back with many happy accidents. So I’m
going there because we share a name; and because, like most people, I’ve always fancied
going to Alaska, because it’s big, scary and far away. But as well as all this, I also have a
hunch. I didn’t have it when I first set out, but now I want to pursue it all the way to the
end of the road.

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“Aviation in itself is not dangerous, but like the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any
carelessness, incapacity or neglect,” says a sign on the wall of the hut. Outside on the
airstrip a tiny red and yellow plane sits on its skis among the piles of snow, looking like a
toy. This is how I will get to McCarthy, if the pilot ever comes back.

The guy in the hut says he’s gone into town to pick up some shopping. I’ve had a look
inside the plane. There are two seats and sixteen cases of beer! I’ve hopped between
tropical islands on these little bush planes, but I’ve never been on one in the kind of
landscape we’ll be going through today. My afternoon departure time has already been
put back twice when:

“Hi. I’m Kelly,” says a big, bearded, genial man who’s just walked into the hut. It’s
straight out to the plane, door shut, headphones and seatbelt on, taxi what seems about
fifteen yards along the runway, then we’re up in the air and heading directly towards
those enormous snowy mountains. “This is real flying, eh?” says Kelly, as I nod and smile
and try to come to terms with the worrying sensation of being airborne in this tiny
machine.

We fly to the left of the mountain range that faces the airstrip, then on through a
dreamscape of white peaks we can almost reach out and touch. Far below are frozen
rivers and crystal glaciers glinting turquoise and emerald in the brilliant afternoon sun.
Kelly’s skilful hand on the controls inspires confidence. We talk using headsets with
microphones attached, looking like singers in a boy band. He’s good company and points
out the different mountain ranges. As he sees me relax, however, his stories start to stray
from what you want to be hearing when you’re hovering at this height:

“There was a forecast for some turbulence on the way back today, but looks like we
might have missed it. My wife and I stopped overnight along the coast one time and we
meant to carry on home the next day. The forecast was for extreme turbulence, but we
thought we’d try anyway because sometimes those predictions are way out. Well, it was
so wild up there . . .”

There’s a little electronic sign on the dashboard that says it’s only fifty miles to our
destination, and now Kelly is pointing out of my wide window and tilting the plane, not to
push me out, but to show me the McCarthy road. I can see where it skirts the edge of the
glacier and the melting ice has made it impassable. As we’re rounding the glacier, hugging
the side of the mountain, the winds suddenly hit. It’s seriously bumpy for the first time—
but, like the man said, this is real flying, and he seems to be in control—and, against all
my better instincts, I find myself wanting it to bump a little bit more as we swoop low over
the first buildings we’ve seen since the hut at the airfield in Anchorage. McCarthy is just a
handful of wooden houses. A little further on we sweep low past the deserted structures of
the Kennicott mine. We bank steeply to our left over the glacier, and make a perfect
landing on the McCarthy airstrip. Kelly turns off the engine, and I get out and listen to the
most silent place I have ever heard.

Adapted from Advanced Placement English Tests. Macgraw Hill. 2008.

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Part 1: Extracts A - I from the text “Overture”. Remember to write your
answers on the ANSWER SHEET in THIS BOOKLET.

A. The moment he found out that his mother had survived the war, he
began making arrangements for her to come visit him in America.

B. A new plan was hastily put in motion. He telephoned the airline company
and asked them to send a representative to speak to his mother when she
arrived in New York, explaining that he had been called away at the last
minute and that she should find a taxi to take her into Manhattan.

C. By then, Dr. Weinberg was already at the hospital, about to perform his
operation. The surgery lasted a little over an hour.

D. All the people I had visited over the years, all the policies I had
sold, and the dread and desperation I'd been made privy to while
talking to my clients.

E. Just as he stepped into the hall, he saw a new patient being wheeled into
the operating room.

F. In contrast to the headstrong Frau Weinberg, the young Jonas was a

quiet, bookish boy who excelled at his studies and dreamed of becoming a
scientist or a doctor.

G. By some miracle, she did. Dr. Weinberg offered few details (it's possible
he never learned the full story himself), but his mother was apparently
helped by a group of Gentile friends at various critical junctures, and by
1938 or 1939 she had managed to obtain a set of false identity papers.

H. Because of his profession, Dr. Weinberg had a keen sense of the frailty
of human existence, of how little it takes to remove our names from the
book of the living.

I. He left in the spring of 1934, but his mother, who had already proved her
alertness to the impending dangers for non-Aryans of the Third Reich,
stubbornly rejected the opportunity to leave herself.

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Part 2: Questions on “The Trip to McCarthy”. Remember to write your
answers on the ANSWER SHEET in THIS BOOKLET.

1. This article is taken from a …

a. report on flying in hazardous conditions.
b. book about a very long journey.
c. natural history book.
d. book about living in Alaska.

2. The tone of the text is …

a. humorous but respectful.
b. reverent and respectful.
c. serious yet condescending.
d. scornful and unsympathetic.

3. In the area around McCarthy you would NOT be surprised to find ...
a. that the wild animals had retreated to the highest mountain peaks.
b. a few examples of dangerous wild animals.
c. that a lot of animals had been hunted to extinction.
d. a lot of dangerous wild animals.

4. Around a hundred years ago McCarthy was ...

a. a small mining town located at a distance from the rest of the mining
community.
b. an important centre for the mining community.
c. scarcely populated.
d. inhabited mainly by young people.

5. The reason the writer wants to visit McCarthy is because ...

a. he and the town share the same history and a name.
b. he wants to visit a huge, frightening place where his ancestors lived.
c. he has a feeling that he is going to find something there.
d. the town is the next to last stop of a long journey.

6. While waiting for his flight, all the evidence leads to the writer feeling …
a. reminiscent of his experiences flying between tropical islands in small aircraft.
b. confident that the plane is up to the journey.
c. unsure that he will ever get to his destination.
d. extremely frightened.

7. Early in the flight, the pilot ...

a. tells the writer his previous experience flying this route.
b. shows such mastery that the writer feels at ease.
c. terrifies the writer with stories of bad weather on route.
d. warns the writer that there will probably be bad weather.

8. On a previous trip the pilot and his wife ...

a. had to stop off overnight due to bad weather.
b. missed turbulence that had been forecast for their route.
c. had a really smooth flight despite weather warnings.
d. ignored a bad weather forecast.

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 3. NIVELL C1. COMPRENSIÓ AUDITIVA
(LISTENING COMPREHENSION)
Part 1: You are going to listen to an interview about English as a global language.
You have TWO minutes to read the questions carefully. Choose the best answer
from the options (A, B or C). You will hear the recording twice. The task begins
with an example (0).

LISTEN:

Lingua Global. How English Became “Globish”

0. The journalist Robert McCrumm has written a book about ...

a. English linguistics.
b. English grammar.
c. The triumph of English.

1. According to McCrum, the Anglo-Saxon language has its origins in what is present day …
a. Sweden.
b. Denmark.
c. Germany.

2. According to what you have heard, which of the following statements is true?
a. There is no written history of the period around 500 AD.
b. The invasion of the people who spoke Anglo- Saxon was chronicled.
c. The Celts spoke English.

3. Many present day Anglo-Saxon English words are closely related to …

a. farming and artisan activities.
b. the language of warriors.
c. courtly language.

4. Modern English is a mix of …

a. Anglo-Saxon, Viking Norse and French.
b. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French.
c. German, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon.

5. When McCrum refers to the Norman invasion as the “mother of all invasions”, he means
the invaders …
a. imposed their will on virtually every aspect of peoples’ lives.
b. imposed French on the country.
c. were very cruel and zealous.

6. What happened to English during the time of the Norman invasion?

a. It vanished.
b. It continued in the written chronicle.
c. It was only spoken by the ordinary people.

7. McCrum believes that what gave English its staying power is the fact that in the colonies …
a. English was imposed on the people by the government.
b. English was introduced by ordinary people, generally the troops.
c. the British presence was a benign factor in most matters.

8. McCrum believes it is important to know about how English evolved because …

a. it is important to know about history.
b. English is now everyone’s second language.
c. it helps us to understand international matters better.

Source: http://www.npr.org

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 Part 2. You are going to hear a talk about Impressionist painting. You will have
TWO minutes to read the text below carefully. Fill in the numbered gaps with
ONE or TWO words that you will hear in the recording. You will hear the
recording TWICE. The activity begins with an example (0).

LISTEN:

The Impressionists

Two great influences on Impressionists were (0)INDUSTRIALIZATION and (1) _________/

__________ .

The start of the Impressionist movement coincided with the upper classes going to the Normandy

coast to bathe in the sea for (2)___________ reasons.

The Impressionists followed these people attracted by the light, the sandy beaches and (3)

_______________ views.

Monet’s painting, Impression Sunrise, depicting a (4)______________ball, actually gave the

movement it’s name, although it was called (5)__________ by its critics.

Unlike painters of previous generations, the Impressionists (6) ___________ modernity and

painted the locomotives, train stations and (7)____________ that sprung up with the Industrial

Revolution.

During this period people were able to take the train to get out of the city and the Impressionists

painted many scenes of the Seine as it (8)______________ towards Normandy.

At the “guingettes”, the popular dancing restaurants, people wore their (9) ________

/___________to go boating.

Diego Candil, (10) __________ of the Giverny museum’s newest exhibit, refers to this village as

an American colony which created its own ambiance in the village.

This summer, Giverny will attempt to recreate this mood by throwing (11)_____________ picnics

and inviting Parisians to dance at a (12) _______________ “guingette” on the river.

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126548391

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 4. NIVELL C1. EXPRESSIÓ ESCRITA
(WRITTEN COMPOSITION)

Write TWO of the following composition exercises. You must do PART 1 and
choose ONE topic from PART 2. Make sure that you follow the instructions for
each task carefully and include all the information required. Use your own words
as far as possible, as marks cannot be given for the parts of your writing which
are copied from the task instructions.

PART 1. (180-200 words):

You recently attended an exhibition. The exhibition was either in an Art Gallery or a
museum. Write a review of the exhibition for a local magazine.

In your writing you should:

 describe the artist’s work / the content of the exhibition

 describe your reaction to it
 evaluate the success of the exhibition

PART 2. (230-260 words):

Write about ONE of the following topics

A). Write a narrative for a writing competition about a young person who decided to
spend a year travelling at the age of 18, before going to university. Describe his/her
initial expectations and the realities he/she experienced.

B). You were the successful candidate in a local election recently. Write your diary for
the day the results were announced describing your reaction to your success and
saying what you hope to achieve in your first year.

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 5. NIVELL C1. EXPRESSIÓ ORAL
(SPEAKING TEST)
Total score: 25 Pass mark: 15 (60%)
The oral test addresses the curricular topics.
Sample task: Health and Medicine Preparation time: 10 mins.

2 3

1. Conversation Talk about the following questions with your partner. The
pictures are here to help you. You should talk for approximately 5 minutes.

1. Do you think alternative medicine is compatible with modern medicine?

2. Do you think the National Health Service will still exist in 15 years’ time?
3. Have you ever considered donating your organs?
4. Are medical services on the internet to be trusted?

2. Partner A Below there are some issues related to the topic. You must talk
about at least two of them for approximately 3 minutes. You may be asked
further questions about the topic when you have finished.

 Are people too concerned with physical appearance?

 Are medical ethics important nowadays?
 If you had the option of freezing your body in the hope that science would
someday be able to bring you back to life, would you do it?

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 PROVES DE NIVELL D’ANGLÈS

SOLUCIONS A LES MOSTRES DE PROVES DE NIVELL (KEYS)

NIVELL C1

1. USE OF ENGLISH

PART 1. OPEN CLOZE - Healthy Alternatives

AMONG/
0 with 4 FROM/IN/OF 8 BETWEEN 12
AMONGST
TAKEN/MADE/
1 5 LITTLE 9 OUT 13 FOLLOWED
ANNOUNCED
2 INTO 6 AS 10 FOR 14 DOWN
IN (OR A WHERE/
3 WHICH 7 SUCH 11 SUITABLE 15 WHEREAS/
ADJECTIVE) WHILE/WHILST

PART 2 . WORDBUILDING - Why Do Leaves Change Colour?

0 wildlife 3 AHEAD 6 ACCOUNTS 9 WARMTH

1 NUTRIENTS 4 LOCATION 7 MASKED 10 PROGRESSIVELY

2 ENSURE 5 RECEIVE 8 SURROUNDING

PART 3. MULTIPLE CHOICE LEXICAL CLOZE - Get Out of My Space!

0 A B C D
1 A B C D
2 A B C D
3 A B C D
4 A B C D
5 A B C D
6 A B C D
7 A B C D
8 A B C D
9 A B C D
10 A B C D
11 A B C D
12 A B C D
13 A B C D
14 A B C D
15 A B C D

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 PART 4. KEY-WORD TRANSFORMATIONS. 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. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. The activity starts
with an example (0).

0. It’s quite possible that the emergency call was a hoax.

WELL
The emergency call might well have been a hoax.

1. The managing director never admitted that his strategy had failed.
TIME
At no time (whatsoever) did the managing director (ever) admit that his strategy
had failed.

2. People only began to realise how talented she was when she had acted in the new soap
opera.
START
Only when she had acted in the new soap opera did people start/begin to realise how
talented she was.

3. He liked people to think of him as a highly respectable man.

THOUGHT
He liked to be/being thought of as a highly respectable man.

4. I know you would like to go out to the pub but I would like us to stay at home tonight.
SOONER
I know you would like to go out to the pub, but I would sooner we stayed at home
tonight.

5. There will be a clear reduction in productivity if they adopt this policy.

SHOULD
There will be a clear reduction in productivity should this policy be adopted.

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2. READING COMPREHENSION

PART 1. GAPPED TEXT

Overture

0 D 3 I 6 B

1 H 4 G 7 C

2 F 5 A 8 E

PART 2. MULTIPLE CHOICE

The Trip to McCarthy

0 B 3 B 6 B

1 A 4 C 7 D

2 D 5 C

3. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

PART 1. MULTIPLE CHOICE

How English Became “Globish”

0 C 3 A 6 C

1 B 4 A 7 B

2 B 5 A 8 C

PART 2. GAPPED TEXT

The Impressionists

0 INDUSTRIALIZATION
SMOKE STACKS/
1 LEISURE TIME 7
SMOKESTACKS
2 THERAPEUTIC 8 MEANDERED

3 CLIFF 9 SUNDAY BEST

4 FIERY 10 CURATOR

5 WALLPAPER 11 GIANT

6 EMBRACED 12 REBUILT
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3. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Part 1: You are going to listen to an interview about English as a global

language. You have TWO minutes to read the questions carefully. Choose the
best answer from the options (A, B or C). You will hear the recording twice.
The task begins with an example (0).

Lingua Global - How English Became “Globish”

0. The journalist Robert McCrum has written a book about ...

a. English linguistics.
b. English grammar.
c. The triumph of English.

1. According to McCrum, the Anglo-Saxon language has its origins in what is

present-day …
a. Sweden.
b. Denmark.
c. Germany.

2. According to McCrum, which of the following statements is true?

a. There is no written history of the period around 500 AD.
b. The invasion of the people who spoke Anglo- Saxon was chronicled.
c. The Celts spoke English by 500 AD.

3. Many present day Anglo-Saxon English words are closely related to …

a. farming and artisan activities.
b. the language of warriors.
c. courtly language.

4. Modern English is a mix of …

a. Anglo-Saxon, Viking Norse and French.
b. Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and French.
c. German, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon.

5. When McCrum refers to the Norman invasion as the “mother of all invasions”, he means
the invaders …
a. imposed their will on virtually every aspect of peoples’ lives.
b. imposed French on the country.
c. were very cruel and zealous.

6. What happened to English during the time of the Norman invasion?

a. It vanished.
b. It continued in the written chronicle.
c. It was only spoken by the ordinary people.

7. McCrum believes that what gave English its staying power is the fact that in the colonies …
a. English was imposed on the people by the government.
b. English was introduced by ordinary people, generally the troops.
c. British presence was a benign factor in most matters.

8. McCrum believes it is important to know about how English evolved because …

a. it is important to know about history.
b. English is now everyone’s second language.
c. it helps us to understand international matters better.

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 Part 2. You are going to hear a talk about Impressionist painting. You will
have TWO minutes to read the text below carefully. Fill in the numbered
gaps with ONE or TWO words that you will hear in the recording. You will
hear the recording TWICE. The activity begins with an example (0).

The Impressionists

Two great influences on Impressionists were (0) INDUSTRIALIZATION and (1) LEISURE

TIME .

The start of the Impressionist movement coincided with the upper classes going to the

Normandy coast to bathe in the sea for (2) THERAPEUTIC reasons .

The Impressionists followed these people attracted by the light, the sandy beaches and (3)

CLIFF views.

Monet’s painting, Impression Sunrise, depicting a (4) FIERY ball, actually gave the

movement it’s name, although it was called (5) WALLPAPER by its critics.

Unlike painters of previous generations, the Impressionists (6) EMBRACED modernity and

painted the locomotives, train stations and (7) SMOKESTACKS/SMOKE STACKS that

sprung up with the Industrial Revolution.

During this period people were able to take the train to get out of the city and the

Impressionists painted many scenes of the Seine as it (8) MEANDERED towards Normandy.

At the “guingettes”, the popular dancing restaurants, people wore their (9) SUNDAY BEST to

go boating.

Diego Candil, (10) CURATOR of the Giverny museum’s newest exhibit, refers to this village

as an American colony which created its own ambiance in the village.

This summer, Giverny will attempt to recreate this mood by throwing (11) GIANT picnics and

inviting Parisians to dance at a (12) REBUILT “guingette” on the river.

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