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Test: Books and Reading
PAPER 1. READING
Part 1. You are going to read a brief summary of the book "Black Beauty". Choose the most suitable heading from the list (A–H) for each part (1–6) of the article. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).
A A cruel and greedy owner
B Unable to trust
C Time to take it easy
D A gentle teacher
E In the wrong hands
F Hard but satisfying work
G Life as a cart horse
H A fatal accident
BLACK BEAUTY
THE LIFE OF A HORSE IN NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Anna Sewell (1820–1878) wrote only one novel during her lifetime, a book describing the life of a beautiful, black horse, Black Beauty. Sewell was very concerned about animals and used the book to write about the terrible treatment of horses in England at the time. The book is written from the point of view of the horse, which helps us to understand the influence that good and bad treatment had on the horses in the story. Black Beauty had a great effect on the treatment of animals and changed the way that people thought about horses.
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Black Beauty spent his early years in a picturesque, green field with his mother and some other young colts. When it was time for him to be trained to serve men, he was gently and patiently broken in by his master. He learned to wear a saddle and bridle, and carry a human quietly on his back.
Black Beauty learnt about the way horses can suffer because of men very early in life. He witnessed a hunting expedition in which a horse was pushed too hard and fast by an inexperienced and overconfident rider. The consequences were tragic. The rider took a fall that killed him and the fine horse broke his leg and was then shot.
At his next home, one of the horses with whom he shared a stable, had the reputation of being wild and aggressive. This horse, Ginger, said this was because she had been treated very badly at a young age. Ginger was taken away from her mother, not long after birth, and was trained to work, in a very rough manner, by men who did not care for horses. Although her new master and his employees were very kind, she could not help being suspicious of men.
Black Beauty's kind owner was forced to move abroad for the sake of his wife's health. This marked the beginning of a string of owners with different personalities. Some were well-intentioned but allowed their grooms full control of their animals. Unfortunately, in Black Beauty's case, this often proved to be harmful. He was often either neglected or misused.
Fortunately, after some time Black Beauty was bought by Jem Barker, a kind cab owner. There, he was treated very well. Although being a cab horse was very hard work, Black Beauty always did his best because he enjoyed pleasing his master. Black Beauty was very well cared for. He was given good food to eat, a warm stable to sleep in and lots of kind words. Black Beauty learned many things from his new owner, such as the advantages of not being greedy and of being fair and kind to all creatures. Black Beauty spent a couple of very happy year there.
This pleasant life came to a sudden end when Jerry was forced to sell his horses. After several other owners, Black Beauty was sold to Nicholas Skinner. He had to work every day with no rest, insufficient food and poor accommodation. Although he was still a cab horse, it was a different world. Black Beauty's various drivers would swear at him and whip him. Eventually, Black Beauty became very ill from all this hard work and bad treatment. His owner wanted to have him killed when he could no longer do the job. Luckily, a vet convinced Skinner to allow Black Beauty to rest and recover, and then sell him, so that he would make a bigger profit. The owner agreed to have the horse's life spared, but only for the sake of money.
After spending years on London's streets, Black Beauty's next home was a pleasant farm, with a caring master. After nursing him back to good health, the farmer decided that Black Beauty needed to be in a place more appropriate than a farm. He sold Black Beauty to two kind young sisters, who lived on a pleasant country estate with a large, green meadow. Here the weary but content horse finally found the rest and peace of mind that he so desired and deserved.
Part 2. Seven sentences have been removed from the text. You have to choose from the sentences A-H the one which best fits each gap (1-7).
A They looked at each other and he pointed at their different clothes, his
thick jacket, her T-shirt and shorts.
B Most were moving towards the road, but some were wandering about in
seemingly random directions.
C But Julian shook his head, knowing that this was not the explanation.
D He could not see where it was coming from.
E She turned, and seemed to realise the situation for the first time as she
saw the other people.
F He was standing on a road – a flat, black surface with the familiar white lines down the middle.
G It reached almost to his shoulders and left seeds sticking to his clothes.
H But there was nothing – only a seemingly endless field of grass, tall,
yellowing and waving gently in the warm breeze.
STRANGE LANDINGS
The force of his landing made Julian gasp. He lay stunned and disoriented for a long moment, then rose unsteadily to his feet. ‘This is not at all right’, he thought. There was no sign of college, the whole part of North London that he had just been in. In fact, there was no feature he could recognise at all in the landscape before him. Even its shape was wrong.
He remained perfectly still for a moment, gazing around. His surroundings seemed strange, almost dreamlike. Then he turned in a slow circle, trying to catch a glimpse of anything familiar. 1.____In the distance ahead of him, the land rose up steeply towards something that made a straight horizontal line. A road, perhaps? He decided that, dream or not, there was no point in staying where he was. He would walk to the top of the hill.
He picked up the bag of books he had dropped when he hit the ground and started to make his way through the tall grass. 2.____Halfway up, he paused to take his jacket off. In London it had been winter, but here it felt like May or June. He looked behind him. Here and there were other lone figures moving about, leaving trails of flattened grass like his own behind them as they walked. 'What's happening?' Julian wondered. 'It looks as if we all just dropped out of somewhere. But never mind right now. Just get up the hill, and take it from there.'
He finally reached the top of the slope, and pulling himself up the last few feet, found that he had been right. 3.____ It stretched straight before him, leading as far as he could see into the distance. There was no sign of any traffic.
He looked back again at the other people scattered through the meadow. 4.____Then just ahead of him, a girl climbed onto the roadway, wearing shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt. She smiled at him and said: 'Excuse me, but are you from around here? I was wondering if you would direct me…’ Her words trailed off as he shook his head.
'Sorry. I came from out there, too.' He pointed at the field behind her. 5.____'Where did they all come from?' she murmured softly. Julian realised that she had an American accent. He shrugged. 'No idea. I know as much as you. I was just coming out of a lecture. I tripped over something and landed here.'
'I was out jogging. I slipped and fell.'
6.____'Where exactly were you?' he asked.
'In Irvine. Just outside Los Angeles,' she said. 'I was in London. It was snowing.' 'In August?'
'No. January. You were in August?' He thought about this. 'What year?' '1999. You?' '2010.'
She stared at him, then looked away. 'It must be a dream,' she said. 'Maybe I hit my head when I fell. I expect I'll wake up in a minute with a splitting headache.' 7.____He didn't know how or why they were here, but the reality was starting to sink in.
Part 3. You will read an extract from an article on J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think best fits according to the text.
THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY
A classic of our times or an escapist yarn? Although its popularity is unparalleled, some intellectuals dismiss The Lord of the Rings as boyish fantasy, Andrew O'Hehir defends Tolkien's ‘true myth’ as a modern masterpiece, and attempts to discover the secret of its success.
In January 1997, reporter Susan Jeffreys of the London Sunday Times informed a colleague that J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings had been voted the greatest hook of the 20th century in a readers' poll conducted by Britain's Channel 4 and the Waterstone's bookstore chain. Her colleague responded: “What? Has it? Oh dear. Dear oh dear oh dear.”
Attitudes in America are arguably more relaxed about this kind of thing. No one from the American educated classes expressed much dismay when a 1999 poll of American on-line bookshop Amazon.com customers chose The Lord of the Rings as the greatest book not merely of the century but of the millennium. Tolkien's book is so deeply ingrained in popular culture, after all, that a great many of today's American academics and journalists probably still have those dog-eared paperbacks they read avidly in eighth grade with their hallucinatory mid-1970s cover art, stashed somewhere in the attic.
Furthermore, members of the U.S. intelligentsia fully expect to have their tastes ignored, if not openly derided, by the public at large. To some American intellectuals it seems gratifying, even touching, that so many millions of readers will happily devour a work as complicated as The Lord of die Rings. Whatever one may make of it, it's a more challenging read than Gone With die Wind (runner-up in the Amazon survey), not to mention Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (fifth place).
Hugely ambitious in scope, The Lord of the Rings occupies an uncomfortable position in 20th century literature. Tolkien's epic-poses a stern challenge to modern literature and its defenders. (Tolkien on his critics: “Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”) Yet The Lord of the Rings has enjoyed massive and enduring popularity, it would seem that Tolkien's work supplied something that was missing among the formal innovations of 20th century fiction, something for which readers were ravenous. But what was it, and why was it important?
Answering this question properly would probably require a book rather than an article. But it seems that the crux of the matter lies in Tolkien's wholehearted rejection of modernity and modernism. This is what so powerfully attracts some readers, and just as powerfully repels others. In his book J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, T.A. Shippey expands on this notion by arguing that Tolkien saw his realm of Middle-earth not as fiction or invention, but as the recovery of something genuine that had become buried beneath fragments of fairy tale and nursery rhyme.
“However fanciful Tolkien’s creation of Middle-earth was,” Shippey writes, “he did not think that he was entirely making it up. He was ‘reconstructing’, he was harmonising contradictions in his source-texts, sometimes he was supplying entirely new concepts (like hobbits), but he was also reaching back to an imaginative world which he believed had once really existed, at least in a collective imagination.”
The book is also deeply grounded in Tolkien's linguistic expertise – he invented whole languages for his characters. Sometimes he became so absorbed in the creation of languages, in fact, that he put the story itself aside for months or years at a time, believing he could not continue until some quandary or consistency in his invented realm had been resolved. But Tolkien's immense intellect and erudition is not the source of success; without his storytelling gift, The Lord of the Rings would be little more than a curiosity. And this gift seems to stem straight from his refusal to break from classical and traditional forms.
Tolkien himself often spoke of his work as something ‘found’ or ‘discovered’, something whose existence was independent of him. It’s wise to tread lightly in this sort of interpretation, but it seems clear that he believed his work to be something given, something revealed, which contained a kind of truth beyond measure. As a result, his details have the weight of reality, linguistic and otherwise, and because of this his great sweep of story feels real as well: you might say that his imaginary castles are built with a certain amount of genuine stone. Other writers’ fantasy worlds are made up. Tolkien’s is inherited.
A many Americans were annoyed.
B some people didn't believe it.
C some people found the fact shocking.
D American academics disagreed.
2. It is implied in the second paragraph that The Lord of the Rings
A is more popular in the States than in the UK.
B is taught in many schools throughout the world.
C is mainly appreciated by academics and journalists.
D is mostly read by school children.
A It was once more popular than The Lord of the Rings.
B It is seen as more challenging than The Lord of the Rings.
C It was voted one place behind The Lord of the Rings.
D It is more touching than The Lord of the Rings.
4. What was Tolkien's reaction to criticism of The Lord of the Rings?
A He felt it was unjustified.
B He wasn't bothered by it.
C He couldn't understand it.
D He partly agreed with it.
5. According to Shippey, Tolkien believed that the world he described
A was full of unresolved contradictions.
B was completely accurate, historically.
C was imaginative but not pure fantasy.
D was as incredible as his sources.
6. Making up languages for The Lord of the Rings
A helped Tolkien to take the story forward.
B was more interesting to Tolkien than writing the story.
C was sometimes rather frustrating for Tolkien.
D resulted in lengthy interruptions to Tolkien's writing.
7. According to the writer of the article, the details in Tolkien's work
A are sometimes rather difficult to follow.
B make the story seem more realistic.
C include some modern elements.
D can be interpreted in many different ways.
Part 4. You will read an article about American astronauts of the 1960s. For questions 1–15, choose from the answers A–F. You will need to choose some of the people more than once.
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A – Neil Armstrong D – Wally Schirra B – Buzz Aldrin E – Charlie Duke C – Michael Collins F – Rusty Schweickart |
Which astronaut …
MOONSTRUCK
Today, NASA is ridiculed for its multiple failures, and the astronauts who carved its reputation 30 years ago have faded from popular memory. But for the photographer Steve Pyke, those once great space missions have become ever more intriguing. Report by Sean O’Hagan.
On July 20, 1969, the collective imagination of the planet was captured by the grainy black-and-white images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. On a family holiday in Bettystown, County Louth, my childish thoughts were focused not on the two indistinct figures beamed back from the Moon’s surface, but on the other guy; the one left behind in the spaceship circling above them, waiting in limbo for what must have seemed like an eternity for the safe return of his comrades.
Michael Collins, the astronaut in question, missed out on the great symbolic moment of man setting foot on the moon, yet his role in the unfolding drama seemed to me the most heroic, certainly, the most lonely, of all. “Collins moved through a continual succession of sun-drenched lunar day, soft earthlight, and unyielding blackness,” writes Andrew Chaikin, in his extraordinarily detailed and evocative book about the Apollo missions, Man On the Moon. “For 48 minutes out of each orbit, from Loss of Signal to Acquisition of Signal, he knew a loneliness unprecedented in human history.”
Collins was alone in the Columbia spacecraft for 22 hours. In the event, he did not even get to hear the most famous words uttered in the 20th century. As Neil Armstrong stepped on to the lunar surface – “That’s one small step for man…” then, that Shakespearean pause, “…one giant leap for mankind” – the Columbia has just slipped behind the far side of the moon and he had lost the moon-earth-moon link-up engineered by mission control for his benefit. By the time he reappeared, Armstrong and Aldrin were planting the American flag on the Sea of Tranquillity, but a technical fault kept him cut off. While an estimated 600 million people on planet earth watched and listened, transfixed, the man closest to those momentous events could only imagine them.
Reading Chaikin’s book brought home to me the full responsibility and risk of Apollo the adventures. If disaster had struck Apollo 11 – say, if the Eagle, the landing craft, had malfunctioned doing its take-off from the moon, or if it had later failed to dock with the Columbia craft – Collins would have had to do the unthinkable: leave his partners behind and journey back to earth alone. For the rest of his life he would have had to carry an impossibly heavy burden: the loss of his friends, and the death of the greatest of all American dreams. It would have been a disaster with implications we can barely imagine.
Pyke never got to meet Collins, who declined to be photographed for personal reasons – he had just lost his son – nor Armstrong, who now fiercely protects his privacy and had retreated to a remote home in rural Ohio, but he did photograph and talk to the other Apollo 11 astronaut, Aldrin, as well as 10 other men who had been in outer space. He asked each of them what space meant to them and, unsurprisingly, got some interesting answers.
“I was ordered to Washington DC in 1959 to listen to overtures about going into space in a capsule on top of a rocket,” replied Wally Schirra, whose career spanned both the Gemini and Apollo missions. “I was not interested, and I lost interest completely when it was added that they would launch monkeys and chimpanzees first. Later, I realized that, as a fighter pilot, if I wanted to go higher, faster and farther, this was the way. I left earth three times and found no other place to go. Please, take care of Spaceship Earth.”
To Pyke’s surprise, he found that many of the American space pioneers had, like Yuri Gagarin before them, been treated shabbily by the government that was, simultaneously, holding them up as the ultimate exemplars of the American dream. “Armstrong was sent out on extraordinary meet-and-greet itineraries, doing maybe 15 interviews a day as well as speeches, but nobody really looked after him. He was booked into cheap hotels, often he didn’t have time to eat all day.”
If Armstrong took his destiny in hand and retreated voluntarily from the glare of celebrity, Buzz Aldrin had an altogether more difficult time: he struggled with maniac depression before finding a new role as a one-man think tank, designing everything from new launch vehicles to scenarios for returning on the Moon. Charlie Duke, the tenth man to walk on the Moon, went the other way and set up his own church in Texas. In all there have been six successful missions to the Moon (and one unsuccessful one, Apollo 13), and 12 men have walked on it, two during each mission.
Rusty Schweickart, known to his compatriots as ‘the hippy astronaut’ because he preferred to listen to the Grateful Dead in space rather than the regulation country-and-western recordings, brought a collection of quotations by John and Robert Kennedy, the Dalai Lama, Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. He secretly attached them to the inside of his spacesuit, and they were there with him when he walked out of Apollo 9 into space.
Schweickart also experienced something that no other astronaut, before or since, has: because of a technical hitch that occurred just as he stepped outside the craft, he had to wait five minutes while it was corrected. Instead of working at his tasks quickly and intensely, as he had been trained to, he suddenly had breathing space, time to try and take in where he was, what he was doing. He held on to the rail of Apollo 9 and – for five long minutes – glided through the vastness and silence of space. Below him he could see America drift by, and even, after a while, make out southern California, where he lived. It was a life-changing moment, and, like the rest of them, Schweickart has, to some degree, lived in the shadow of that moment ever since.
The last word goes to Frank Borman, who journeyed into space on Apollo 8: “My experience on Apollo 8 helped me to see how isolated and fragile our earth really is. It was also beautiful. It was the only object in the entire universe that was neither black nor white.”
PAPER 2. USE OF ENGLISH
Part 1. Read the text about two coincidences below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space (1–12). There’s an example at the beginning (0).
Coincidence – or fate?
In the (0) A 1800s, French astronomer Camille Flammarion was writing an important book about the Earth's atmosphere. The book (1) ___ many aspects of the topic, (2) ___ the climate. One day, as Flammarion was sitting near the open window of his study working on the (3) ___ about the weather, a sudden gust of wind blew in, lifted the pages he had just written off his desk, and carried them through the window and out of (4) ___. Flammarion was upset about losing his work, and (5) ___ this was an age without computers, he had no (6) ___ of what he had written. (7) ___ he knew that he would have to rewrite the missing pages, he decided to leave it for a few days while he calmed (8) ___. Several days passed, and he was about to start work when to his amazement he received a manuscript of his book from his publisher – including the lost pages. He was completely (9) ___ to understand this. He called on his publisher and (10) ___ what had happened. By (11) ___,
a delivery boy working for the same publisher had been passing his
house just as the wind carried the pages out of the window. The boy
had simply picked (12) ___ all the scattered pages from the street
and taken them to the publisher.
0 A late B back C end D final
1 A dealt B handled C crossed D covered
2 A including B also C additionally D moreover
3 A plot B subject C chapter D story
4 A sight B glance C look D vision
5 A due to B through C as D on account of
6 A imitation B replica C pattern D record
7 A Owing to B Although C However D Even
8 A down B out C in D off
9 A on the way B out of touch C at a loss D in the end
10 A found out B got over C gave in D made up
11 A fate B fortune C opportunity D chance
12 A on B up C at D from
Part 2. For questions 1-13, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There’s an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers in the answer boxes provided.
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Stephen King is a very famous author today (1) ____it was not always that way. He had to work hard to become successful, (2) ____most writers. Until he began to make money from his writing, he worked in a laundry and then later (3) ____a teacher. Although his stories are full of strange characters and terrifying events, at the same time they (4) ____to be very realistic to most readers.
A few years ago, King himself was involved (5) ____a terrible accident. He was walking along a country road (6) ____he saw a car coming towards him. It was moving dangerously from one side of the road to the other almost (7) ____if there was no one driving it. In fact, there was a driver but he was drunk. Although King tried (8) ____hard as he could to get out of the way, the car hit him. The driver was not hurt but behaved as (9) ____he didn't care at all.
King said later that he felt just (10) ____a victim in one of his novels. The man even looked (11) ____someone King had once written about. It took Stephen King (12) ____than a year to recover from the accident and even things he had always loved doing, (13) ____writing, were almost impossible for him.
1. ____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________
4. ____________________
5. ____________________
6. ____________________
7. ____________________
8. ____________________
9. ____________________
10. ____________________
11. ____________________
12. ____________________
13. ____________________
Part 3. For questions 1-20, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Use the word given and other words to complete each sentence (between two and five words). Do not change the word given. There is an example at the beginning (0).
was After he complained about the long delay, he was given a free meal.
1. I found an old photograph of my sister the other day.
across The other day________________an old photograph of my sister.
2. There's no point in going to Pete's house – he won't be in.
waste It's__________________going to Pete's house – he won't be in.
3. I couldn't see the car anywhere.
sign There was_______________________the car.
4. It's very noisy – what's happening in here ?
on It's very noisy – what's__________________________ in here?
5. I never discovered who had written the book.
out I never_________________________who had written the book.
6. Mrs Stevens went up the path to the front door of the house.
made Mrs Stevens_____________up the path to the front door of the house.
7. The doctor told me the injection would not hurt very much at all.
hardly The doctor told me the injection ___________________at all.
8. I think the concert will probably not take place.
highly I think it's______________________the concert will take place.
9. Make sure you wear clothes that don't restrict your movements.
allow Make sure you wear clothes that__________________freely.
10. You don't have to pay to go into that museum.
get You can___________________free.
11. People who make more effort usually do better than others.
try People who usually do better___________________than others.
12. I thought his behaviour was very silly.
behaved I thought he________________________________way.
13. He didn't stop on the way home.
straight He_______________________home.
14. I haven't received any news from Pedro since the end of July.
heard I __________________Pedro since the end of July.
15. We decided to spend the afternoon exploring the shops.
looking We decided to spend the afternoon______________ the shops.
16. I haven't had a chance to examine the documents for the meeting yet.
look I haven't had a chance____________ the documents for the meeting yet.
17. I got the information about the scholarship through a friend of mine.
heard I______________the scholarship from a friend of mine.
18. I will always remember that year as a very happy one.
look I will always________________that year as a very happy one.
19. I don't understand why he couldn't recognize the truth about her.
see I don't understand why he couldn't___________________her.
20. I shouted at him to be careful but he still ran across the road without looking.
out I shouted at him to ___________but he still ran across the road without looking.
Part 4. For questions 1-11, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
A GOOD SHORT STORY
Reading has always been an enormous source of (1) ____ for me. I particularly like short stories, especially those with surprising (2) ____.
One of the most (3) ____stories I've ever read is called Exit. It was in a (4) ____of short stories we read when I was at school. It is not exactly a ghost story, but it is very (5) ____.
In the story, a group of people at a country hotel are playing party games. A man called Desmond says he can make one of the other guests vanish without a trace. At the beginning of the story, there is a brief (6) ____ of each of the people so the reader knows that two of the guests are on their honeymoon.
The lights are turned out so that the room is in total (7) ____. The game starts, but none of the guests is taking it very (8) _____. Desmond describes the physical sensations that the person who is going to vanish will feel. When the game ends, the lights are switched back on and everyone laughs and says how (9) ____it was. They all get ready to go to bed. It is only then that the reader realises that the girl who was on her honeymoon is now single. Neither she nor any of the other guests is aware of the (10) ____of her husband. In fact, they don't have any recollection of his (11) ____. He has, as Desmond promised, vanished without trace.
Part 5. The following extract contains ten underlined mistakes. Correct the mistakes and say what kind of mistake each one is by matching them to the following definitions.
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• unnecessary word • passive voice • omitted word • wrong tense • spelling • gerund/infinitive • wrong preposition • wrong choice of word • wrong linker • punctuation |
‘Shadowlands’ is the true story of the love affair between C.S Lewis, the writer, and Joy Gresham, an American poet. 1) Joy visited Lewis, in Oxford and falls in love with the crusty old man. He, however, 2) denies to accept that he has also fallen in love, although he does enter into a marriage of convenience in order to enable her to 3) stay to England. Events take a dramatic turn when it is discovered that Joy has cancer. Lewis 4) forces to confront his feelings and marries her for the second time in a moving bedside ceremony. There follows a period of two years, during which Joy's cancer is in remission and the two are blissfully happy. This happiness is 5) tragicaly cut short 6) while Joy finally succumbs to her illness and dies, leaving Lewis to pick up the pieces of his life.
What director Richard Attenborough 7) manages achieving in this film, helped by another spectacular performance by Anthony Hopkins, 8) it is a tremendous insight into the mind of one of England's greatest writers. 9) Debra Winger who plays Joy, also puts in a very accomplished performance. And the beautiful photography gives us an authentic glimpse of what life was like 10) in Oxford in 1950s.
PAPER 3. LISTENING
Part 1. You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions 1-8, choose the best answer, A, B or C. You will hear each extract twice.
1. You hear a woman talking about museums in New Zealand. Why did she like looking at the textbooks?
A because there was someone to explain about them
B because they had a personal appeal
C because she learned about education in the past
2. You hear the presenter of a radio programme. What sort of programme is it?
A a science programme
B a history programme
C a discussion programme
3. In an art gallery, you overhear this conversation. What does the man want to do?
A come back the next day
B have a guided tour
C go to another part of the gallery
4. You hear a woman talking on the radio about her career ambitions. What does she want to be?
A a writer
B an archaeologist
C an artist
5. You overhear two people talking about a football match. How does the woman feel?
A uninterested
B disappointed
C angry
6. You overhear a man talking to a friend about his new job. What good thing about the job does he mention?
A the pay
B the travelling
C the amount of work
7. You hear the weather forecast on the radio. What will the weather be like tonight?
A cold
B windy
C cloudy
8. You switch on the radio and hear part of a radio play. Where does the conversation take place?
A in an airport
B in a bus station
C in a train station
Part 2. You will hear an interview with a writer. For questions 1–7, choose the best answer, A, B or C.
A she was always writing stories as a child.
B she wanted to do what her aunt did.
C she was keen to do any job that did not involve routine.
A The writing courses she did were a waste of time.
B She learnt to write by doing it.
C She found it harder than she expected.
3. What does she say has been a problem for her?
A learning to use a computer
B finding a reliable editor
C promoting her books
4. What does Alice like most about being a writer?
A the fact that she has become quite famous
B the unpredictable nature of the work
C the freedom to choose when she works
5. What does she say about the money that she earns?
A She makes sure that she saves some of it.
B She dislikes the system of payment.
C She finds it difficult to live on.
6. What does she say about travel?
A She wishes she had more time for it.
B She can't afford to do it very often.
C She feels it interferes with her work.
7. Which of the following best describes Alice's attitude to her job?
A She thinks she isn't capable of doing another – job.
B She regards it as more difficult than just a job.
C She thinks that her income from it should be higher.
Part 3. You will hear two friends, Anna and Brendon, talking about coincidences. Read through the options for each question. Then listen and choose the best answer, A, B or C.
1. Why did Anna's Aunt Carrie go to Paris?
A for a special holiday
B to do some shopping
C to meet her husband
2. How did Aunt Carrie feel about the book she found?
A surprised someone had put her name in it
B curious about how it had got to Paris
C confused because she had one the same at home
3. In Brendon's story, what was special about the music he chose to play?
A It was written for trumpet only.
B It was by a little-known composer.
C It was very difficult to play.
4. How was Brendon feeling when he arrived at the concert hall?
A nervous about the competition
B stressed because he'd been delayed
C ill because the journey had been uncomfortable
5. Where did Brendon find a copy of the music he needed?
A in a waste paper basket
B in another bag
C in a cupboard
6. In the story about the baby, Anna is unsure
A how the baby was saved.
B where the baby fell from.
C whether the baby was hurt or not.
7. Brendon thinks that the second time the baby fell, Mr Figlock was lucky because
A he didn't drop the baby.
B he was ready to catch the baby.
C he wasn't hurt by the baby.
Part 4. You will hear five people talking about what they read. Read through the statements below and choose from the list A-F what each speaker says. Note that the statements are not in the same order as the information you hear. Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.
A I am prepared to try reading books that seem difficult.
B I think that some of what I read is a waste of time.
C I like reading books that are part of a series.
D I find that reading is a way of relaxing.
E I enjoy reading books that have been made into films.
F I choose books connected with the career I want to follow.
Speaker 1 _______________
Speaker 2 _______________
Speaker 3 _______________
Speaker 4 _______________
Speaker 5 _______________
PAPER 4. SPEAKING
Get ready to speak on the situations, connected with the following topics:
Recommended Literature:
Яковенко І. В.? Селіванов С. А. Books and Reading. – Чернігів: ЧНПУ імені Т. Г. Шевченка, 2013. – 68 с.
Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс [B. Д. Аракин и др.]. – М.: ВЛАДОС, 2006. – С. 84–117 (don’t forget about vocab. notes and essential vocabulary).
Next Submodule – ‘Music In People’s Life’
Task for April 8th – primary reading and translation of the text ‘Ragtime’ by E.L. Doctorow, pp. 118-121.