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TEST 1
PART A
Section 1. You will hear part of a radio interview in which the comedian and writer
Jane Clarkson is talking about her work. For questions 1- 5, choose the answer (A,
B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear.
(10 points)
1 What did Jane find difficult about writing a book?
A She couldn’t travel around the country.
B She didn’t get any instant reaction to her work.
C She had to spend time looking after her daughter.
D She found the process itself very challenging.
2 According to Jane, why did some critics dislike her novel?
A They didn’t think the book was funny.
B They were dismissive of her initial success.
C They thought her male colleagues were better writers.
D They thought she should stick to being a comedian.
3 Which aspect of Jane’s work as a comedian helped her to write?
A her patience
C her habit of watching people

B her ability to listen
D her rational way of thinking

4 According to Jane, how do many people react to female comedians?
A They’re convinced women can’t tell jokes.
B They’re afraid the women will break down.
C They find women’s humour too intense.
D They find women’s jokes embarrassing.
5 What was the disadvantage of the stage image which Jane developed?
A It frightened the audience.
B It made the audience angry.

C People thought it reflected her real personality.
D People did not take her seriously any more.


Section 2. Listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are
true (T) or false (F). (10 pts)
1. The speaker has come from the Theosophical Society.
2. One of the main points of the talk is to save money.
3. She thinks students should do more housework.
4. She argues that plastic containers won't biodegrade quickly.
5. She warns that asthma sufferers should be careful with her recipes.
Section 4: Listen and fill in the blanks with the missing information
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Over the past few years as first lady, I have had the (1)______________ of
traveling all across this country and everywhere I’ve gone and the people I've met and the
stories I’ve heard, I have seen the very best of the (2)______________.
See, our life before moving to Washington was, was filled with simple joys.
Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house, and a date night for Barack and
me was either dinner or movie because as an exhausted mum I couldn’t stay awake for
both.
Even back then when Barack was a senator and (3)______________ to me he was still
the guy who picked me up for our dates in a car that was so (4)______________ that I
could actually see the pavement going by in a hole in the passenger side door. He was the
guy whose (5)______________ was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster.
Well today, after so many (6)______________ and moments that’ve tested my
husband in ways I never could have imagined, I have seen first-hand that being president
doesn’t change who you are. No it (7)______________who you are.
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those
folks to told him to leave (8)______________ for another day, another president. He
didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically, no that's not how he was raised.

He cared that it was the right thing to do.


When we were first married our combined monthly student loan bill was actually
higher than our (9)______________.
Yeah!! We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
If we wanna give all of our children a foundation for their dreams and
opportunities worthy of their promise. If we wanna give them that sense of
(9)______________, that belief that here in America there was always something better
out there if you're willing to work for it. Then we must work like never before, and we
must once again come together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep
moving this great country forward.
My husband, our president, Barack Obama.
Thank you, God bless you, God bless America.
PART B
Part 1:
1. In total, the repairs will cost somewhere in the _______ of £3000.
A. region
B. field
C. area
D. zone
2. Both of the jobs I’ve been offered are fantastic opportunities – I’m in such ______!
A. a constituency
B. a deviation
C. an arrhythmia
D. a
quandary
3. Sharon is such a positive person – she ______ her problems, whatever they are.
A. goes light on
B. throws light to

C. makes light of
D. sheds light upon
4. He never buys cigarettes; he always______ them from his friends
A. lends
B. sponges
C. scrounges
D. craves
5. The government spokesman glossed ______ the administration’s policy mistakes.
A. out
B. away
C. over
D. bac
6. Tom didn’t know anything about business, so starting his own was ______.
A. a leap into the clouds
B. a breakthrough
C. pure and simple
D. a leap in the dark
7.Fred has a ________ of staying out of trouble at the office - he never gets involved.
A. trait
B. ability
C. skill
D. knack
8.Anyone who lies under oath will be charged with ________ the course of justice.
A. perverting
B. inverting
C. converting
D. diverting
9. It is imperative ...................... what to do when there is a fire.
A. that everyone know
B. that everyone knows

C. he must know about
D. that he knew


10. Security at the event has been tightened since last year. ______, about 1000 managed
to get in without tickets.
A. Nonetheless
B. Notwithstanding
C. At any rate
D. Any way you slice it
11. He didn’t mention his recent promotion for fear that it would ________ trouble
amongst his colleagues.
A. set off
B. spark off
C. set out
D. lead off
12. The recession has heavily impacted our small business so much that we have had no
option but to ________ staff.
A. let up
B. give up
C. lay off
D. leave off
13. If a bus doesn’t come, you can always flag ______ a taxi.
A. after
B. for
C. off
D. down
14. I've
how many times she's been late for work this month.
A. lost my marbles of

B. lost count of
C. lost my head of
D. lost my mind of
15. That wall would fall over if it wasn’t ______ with planks of wood.
A. propped up
B. watered down
C. chanced upon
D. stored up
16. In the end it all ______ a question of trust.
A. gets round to
B. adds up to
C. feels up to
D. comes down to
17. I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong end of the ________.
A. loaf
B. pot
C. leg
D. stick
18. From mass production clothing to managing factory lines to understanding the nature
of different fabrics, he kept _______ and that has brought him where he is today.
A. a millstone around his neck
B. a sword in the stone
C. his heart of stone
D. his nose to the grindstone
19. The weekend is over, so tomorrow morning it’s back to the ________.
A. grind
B. labour
C. drudgery
D. toil
20.He _________ the cart before the horse by buying the ring before he had proposed to

her.
A. fastened
B. tied
C. put
D.
coupled
Part 2: There are ten mistakes in the following passage. Find and correct them.
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Skiing is one of the most popular sports in the world. According to recent

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estimation, about one hundred millions of people ski regularly or occasionally.

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Sliding across the snow on skis is also one of the most ancient methods of

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transport known to the man. It has demonstrated that men were already travelling

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across the snow by means of primitive skis before the invention of the wheel. In

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the Asiatic region of Altai and in Scandinavia, for example , the remains of skis

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have been found which dated back to 4,000 BC. Further evidence is supplied by

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ancient cave paintings which depict people skiing, and a Norway saga which tells

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the story of an invasion of its territory 8,000 years ago by a tribe of skiers who

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came from the north.

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Nowadays, skiing, apart from a sport, has become a big industry and a

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notable feature of leisure culture. Ski resorts and all the activity that they generate

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is the main source of wealth in many mountain regions, which were previously

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remote and accessible. And far from its once elitist image, skiing is now enjoyed

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by an increasingly broader spectra of society.

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Part 3: WHY SPEAKING TO YOURSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON
MAKES YOU WISER Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns
around in your head – isn’t the answer to true wisdom. It’s likely to cause you to
become stuck in the (1) _______ of your own thoughts and (2) _______ in the
emotions that might be leading you astray. Certainly, research has shown that people
who are (3) _______ to rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making

under pressure, and are (4) _______ a substantially increased risk of depression.
Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient
rhetorical method favoured by the (5) _______ of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’
– or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was (6) _______ in 1809 by
the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin ille meaning ‘he, that’). If I was
considering an argument that I’d had with a friend, for instance, I might start by silently
thinking to myself: ‘David felt frustrated that…’ The idea is that this small change in


perspective can clear your emotional (7) _______, allowing you to see past your
biases.
A bulk of research has already shown that this kind of third-person thinking can
temporarily improve decision making. Now a preprint at PsyArxiv, which is the (8)
_______ of the psychologist Igor Grossmann at the University of Waterloo in Canada,
finds that it can also bring long-term benefits to thinking and emotional regulation. The
researchers said this was ‘the first evidence that wisdom-related cognitive and affective
processes can be trained in daily life, and of how to do so’.
1. A. mud

B. gut

2. A. immersed
3. A. apt

C. rut

B. consumed
B. inclined

4. A. under

B. in

C. at

B. duplicates

6. A. minted

B. coined

8. A. impregnation

C. submerged
C. likely

5. A. likes

7. A. fog

D. hut

B. mist

D. prone
D. within

C. copies
C. Launched
C. smog

B. coinage

D. occupied

C. brainchild

D. Matches
D. founded
D. dew
D. harness

Your answers:
1.

2.

Part 4: For questions 1-10, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE
suitable word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided. (10pts)
THE HAPPINESS APP
Until recenly, if psychologists wanted to know in (1) ____________________
way an experience or activity affected us, they had to put their trust (2)
____________________ our ability to remember. With the advent of smartphone apps,
that has changed. Researchers at Havard University have persuaded thousands of people
to take (3) ____________________ in studies in which an app downloaded to their
phones periodically asks (4)____________________ they happen to be in their city or


town, what they’re doing, what they’re thinking and how happy they feel. I’m one of (5)

____________________.
It’s

been

an

irritating

but

enlightening

experience.

More

often

(6)

____________________ not, I’ve found myself muttering “Leave me alone!” when my
phone beeped at some inopportune moment but it’s also made me aware of how
frequently

I’m

distracted

and

how,

when

distracted,

I

feel

a

lot

(7)

____________________ contented than I want to be. It seems I’m not the (8)
____________________ one. The researchers have found that whatever we’re doing, if
we’re thinking about something (9) ____________________, we just don’t feel as happy
as we might. So focus! It will (10) __________________ you good.
Your answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

9.
10.
Part 5: Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D)
according to the text. Write your answers (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding
numbered boxes. (10 pts)
THE CREATORS OF GRAMMAR
No student of a foreign language needs to be told that grammar is complex. By changing
word sequences and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs and suffixes, we are able to
communicate tiny variations in meaning. We can turn a statement into a question, state
whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word
tricks to convey subtle differences in meaning. Nor is this complexity inherent to the
English language. All languages, even those of so-called 'primitive' tribes have clever
grammatical components. The Cherokee pronoun system, for example, can distinguish
between 'you and I', 'several other people and I' and 'you, another person and I'. In
English, all these meanings are summed up in the one, crude pronoun 'we'. Grammar is
universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it is. So the
question which has baffled many linguists is - who created grammar?


At first, it would appear that this question is impossible to answer. To find out how
grammar is created, someone needs to be present at the time of a language's creation,
documenting its emergence. Many historical linguists are able to trace modern complex
languages back to earlier languages, but in order to answer the question of how complex
languages are actually formed, the researcher needs to observe how languages are started
from scratch. Amazingly, however, this is possible.
Some of the most recent languages evolved due to the Atlantic slave trade. At that time,
slaves from a number of different ethnicities were forced to work together under
colonizer's rule. Since they had no opportunity to learn each other's languages, they
developed a make-shift language called a pidgin. Pidgins are strings of words copied
from the language of the landowner. They have little in the way of grammar, and in

many cases it is difficult for a listener to deduce when an event happened, and who did
what to whom. [A] Speakers need to use circumlocution in order to make their meaning
understood. [B] Interestingly, however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex
language is for a group of children to be exposed to it at the time when they learn their
mother tongue. [C] Slave children did not simply copy the strings of words uttered by
their elders, they adapted their words to create a new, expressive language. [D] Complex
grammar systems which emerge from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are invented
by children.
Further evidence of this can be seen in studying sign languages for the deaf. Sign
languages are not simply a series of gestures; they utilize the same grammatical
machinery that is found in spoken languages.

Moreover, there are many different

languages used worldwide. The creation of one such language was documented quite
recently in Nicaragua. Previously, all deaf people were isolated from each other, but in
1979 a new government introduced schools for the deaf. Although children were taught
speech and lip reading in the classroom, in the playgrounds they began to invent their
own sign system, using the gestures that they used at home. It was basically a pidgin.
Each child used the signs differently, and there was no consistent grammar. However,
children who joined the school later, when this inventive sign system was already around,


developed a quite different sign language. Although it was based on the signs of the
older children, the younger children's language was more fluid and compact, and it
utilized a large range of grammatical devices to clarify meaning. What is more, all the
children used the signs in the same way. A new creole was born.
Some linguists believe that many of the world's most established languages were creoles
at first. The English past tense –ed ending may have evolved from the verb 'do'. 'It
ended' may once have been 'It end-did'. Therefore it would appear that even the most

widespread languages were partly created by children. Children appear to have innate
grammatical machinery in their brains, which springs to life when they are first trying to
make sense of the world around them. Their minds can serve to create logical, complex
structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.
1. In paragraph 1, why does the writer include information about the Cherokee language?
A. To show how simple, traditional cultures can have complicated grammar structures
B. To show how English grammar differs from Cherokee grammar
C. To prove that complex grammar structures were invented by the Cherokees.
D. To demonstrate how difficult it is to learn the Cherokee language
2. What can be inferred about the slaves' pidgin language?
A. It contained complex grammar.
B. It was based on many different languages.
C. It was difficult to understand, even among slaves.
D. It was created by the land-owners.
3. All the following sentences about Nicaraguan sign language are true EXCEPT:
A. The language has been created since 1979.
B. The language is based on speech and lip reading.
C. The language incorporates signs which children used at home.
D. The language was perfected by younger children.
4. In paragraph 3, where can the following sentence be placed?
It included standardised word orders and grammatical markers that existed in neither the
pidgin language, nor the language of the colonizers.


A

B

C

D

5. 'Make-shift' in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to:
A. complicated and expressive

B. simple and temporary

C. extensive and diverse

D. private and personal

6. Which sentence is closest in meaning to the highlighted sentence?
Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it
is.
A. All languages, whether they are spoken by a few people or a lot of people, contain
grammar.
B. Some languages include a lot of grammar, whereas other languages contain a little.
C. Languages which contain a lot of grammar are more common that languages that
contain a little.
D. The grammar of all languages is the same, no matter where the languages evolved.
7. All of the following are features of the new Nicaraguan sign language EXCEPT:
A. All children used the same gestures to show meaning.
B. The meaning was clearer than the previous sign language.
C. The hand movements were smoother and smaller.
D. New gestures were created for everyday objects and activities.
8. Which idea is presented in the final paragraph?
A. English was probably once a creole.
B. The English past tense system is inaccurate.
C. Linguists have proven that English was created by children.
D. Children say English past tenses differently from adults.

9-10. Which TWO ideas best sum up the main ideas of the passage?
A. Some children are better at grammar than others.
B. Children have the mental capacity to create complex languages.
C. Children are better at learning grammar than adults.
D. Children prefer to invent their own grammar rules than to copy existing rules.
E. All creole languages were perfected by children.


Your answers:
1.
6.

2.
7.

3.
8.

4.
9.

5.
10.

Part 6: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. Write your answer in
the space provided. (10 pts)
HURRICANES
A. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone, an area of intense low pressure in the tropics
surrounded by a violent rotating storm. It is called a hurricane in the North Atlantic, the
Northeast Pacific east of the dateline, and the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E; west of

the dateline it is called a typhoon, and in the Indian Ocean, a cyclone. It becomes a
hurricane officially if its wind speeds reach 75kmh, or force 12 on the Beaufort scale;
below that it is a tropical storm. Every year, there are about 100 tropical storms and about
50 of them reach hurricane strength. The name comes from "Hurican", the Carib god of
evil.
B. Hurricanes need precise meteorological conditions to form: the sea surface
temperature needs to be above 26.50C. They are formed over the tropic ocean when
strong clusters of thunderstorms drift over warm water. Warm air from the storm and the
ocean surface combine and begin to rise, creating an area of low pressure on the ocean
surface. Rising warm air causes pressure to decrease at higher altitudes. Air rises faster
and faster to fill the low pressure, in turn drawing more warm air up off the sea and
sucking cold air downwards. The cluster of thunderstorms merge to become a huge
storm, which moves west with the trade winds. While it remains over warm water the
tropical wave begins to grow. Wind speeds increase as air is sucked into the low pressure
centre. If the depression strengthens and its wind speed climbs above 40mph it becomes a
tropic storm and is named by the US National Hurricane Centre. Once the sustained
winds exceed 74kmp, the storm becomes a hurricane. It can take as long as several days
or only a few hours for a depression to develop into a full-blown hurricane. The fully


developed hurricane is made up of an eye of calm winds surrounded by a spinning vortex
of high winds and heavy rainstorms.
C. Hurricanes produce the highest wind speeds, up to 200mph in the most extreme cases,
which only the strongest structures can withstand. They produce enormous amounts of
rain which can lead to catastrophic flash floods. Sometimes most seriously, they produce
a phenomenon known as a storm surge. This is a huge raising of the sea level, caused
jointly by the huge winds and the very low atmospheric pressure. In the most extreme
cases it can be as much as 25ft above normal. The hurricane pushes this heightened sea
along in front of its path and when it hits the coastline, especially the low-lying coasts,
there can be disastrous inundations, especially when the surge combines with torrential

rain. Once a hurricane reaches land, it tends t die out fairly quickly as there is no more
warm water to supply heat, but out in the open ocean it can last for a fortnight or more.
D. Hurricanes are now measured between strengths 1 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale,
formulated in 1969 by Herbert Saffir, a consulting engineer, and Dr Bob Simpson, the
director of the US national Hurricane Center. The scale was devised in the aftermath of
Hurricane Camille in 1969, one of the most violent storms ever to hit the continental
United States. Its categories run like this.
Category one (minimal): winds 75 to 95mph, minor flooding, slight structural damage,
storm surge up to 1.5m.
Category two (moderate): winds between 96 and 110mph, roof and tree damage, storm
surge 1.8 to 2.4m.
Category three (extensive): winds between 111 and 130mph, houses damaged, severe
flooding, storm surge 2.7 to 3.7m.
Category four (extreme): winds of between 131 and 155mph, major structural damage to
houses and some roofs destroyed, storm surge of between 4 and 5.5m.
Category five (catastrophic): winds above 155mph, many buildings destroyed, smaller
ones blown away completely, severe inland flooding, storm surge of more than 5.5m.
E. Although global warming is confidently expected to produce more violent storms,
scientists cannot yet prove a link between current hurricane rates and climate change.


There does seem to have been an increase in the number of category five hurricanes
worldwide. 2004 was more active than 2003 and 2002 but less active than the four years
before that.
F. All tropical storms are named, to provide case of communication between forecasters
and the general public about forecast, watches and warnings. Since the storms can often
be long lasting and more than one can be occurring in the same region at the same time,
names can reduce the confusion about which storm is being described. Before the 20th
century, especially in the Caribbean, hurricanes were sometimes named after the saint's
day on which they struck land. During the Second World War, US Navy meteorologists

gave them the female names of wives and loved ones, but by 1950 a formal naming
strategy was in place for North Atlantic cyclones, based on the phonetic alphabet of the
time (Able, Baker, Charlie and so on.) In 1953 the US Weather Bureau decided to switch
to female first names, and with the agreement of the World Meteorological Association,
included male first names in the list in 1979. Each meteorological region of the world
now has an agreed list of names. The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are not used because few
names begin with these letters. Quite a few hurricane names, including Andrew, Betsy,
Bob, Camille, Hugo and Hilda, have been officially retired because the storms concerned
caused damage on a scale unlikely to be repeated. About 50 names have been retired; a
country can request retirement.
The reading passage has six sections A-F. Choose the correct heading for sections B-F
from the list of headings below.
List of headings

Your answers

i. Process of formation

0. Section A

ii. Effect of a storm surge

1. Section B

___________

iii. Defining characteristics

2. Section C

___________

iv. Systems for identifying

3. Section D

___________

v. Damaging effects

4. Section E

___________

vi. History of hurricanes

5. Section F

___________

vii. System for classification

iii


viii. Speculation about cause
ix. Effect of low pressure
x. The Carib god of evil
Complete the summary. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for
each answer. Write the words in the space provided.

Hurricanes, also known as cyclones and typhoons, commonly occur in the
6.___________. The lowest 7. ___________ hurricane may cause only minor damage,
while the most severe will see many buildings destroyed or even blown away completely.
No proof yet exists of a connection between an increased number of severe hurricanes
and 8.___________ . Various systems have been used for identifying hurricanes, but only
since 1979 have they been described using

9.___________. Hurricane names are

allocated to a meteorological region and in special circumstances can be
10.___________.
Your answers:
6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Part 7: Read the text below and answer the questions. (15 pts)
You are going to read a magazine article about the use of gadgets by people doing
outdoor activities. For questions 7–20, choose from the sections of the article A–E. Some
of the choices may be used more than once. Transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
In which section of the article are the following mentioned?
1. why people were willing to suffer outdoors in the past
2. the need to understand certain terminology
3. a belief about what the reason for doing outdoor activities should be

4.a feeling of reassurance provided by a certain gadget
5.how many people have taken up outdoor activities because of gadgets
6.a criticism of the motivation of people who get a lot of gadgets for outdoor activities
7.a belief that gadgets may prove not to be useful
8.a belief that someone with gadgets would not be a good companion in certain
circumstances


9.the high level of demand for gadgets connected with outdoor activities
10.an advantage of outdoor gadgets in addition to the benefits for users
Kit Man
Gadgets that bring home comforts to the great outdoors have given rise to a new breed of
outdoor adventurer. But purists are unconvinced.
A
Up there, in the clear fresh air, it isn't just the stars that are glowing. You can climb a
mountain and find at the top of it a nightmare of hi-tech gadgetry and hardship-avoidance
devices. Worried about getting lost? Relax with a handheld GPS unit, featuring 3D and
aerial display, plus built-in compass and barometric altimeter. Even the sacred covenant
between outdoor types and wet socks has come unravelled with the development of
'hydrophobic' fabrics which repel all moisture. At next month's Outdoors Show in
Manchester, all this kit and more will be on display for an audience which seemingly
can't get enough of it. 'When we ask people what they come to the show for, they list two
things,' says the event's sales manager, Geff Simons. 'One is the inspiration to get
outdoors in the first place. And the other is to see the new gear, the gadgets, the
breakthroughs. That's what they love.' The event, the showcase of Britain's booming
adventure business shows everything the tech- savvy adventurer could wish for, from
solar-heated sleeping bags to remote- controlled lanterns.
B
The rise of Kit Man, as the gizmo-fixated menace of the 21st century mountains has been
christened, reflects both changing social trends and the dizzying speed of scientific

advance. Modern hikers have moved on from the Spartan routines of 50 years ago, when
discomfort, bad food and danger were seen as part of the authentic outdoor experience
They also have more money and a conditioned attachment to life's luxuries. However,
basic pioneering disciplines —map-reading, camp-laying, First Aid — have declined, to
be shakily replaced by the virtual skills offered by technology. With so much gear now
available, Kit Man and his kind stand accused by the old-schoolers of being interested
only in reaching the summits of gadgetry.
C
'I think these people are completely missing the point,' huffs author and TV presenter Guy
Grieve, who spent a year living alone in the Alaskan wilderness. The whole idea of going
into the wild is to get away from the things that tie you in knots at home. I'd prefer to take
as little as possible — a tent, a rifle, and a few pots and pans. All this technology, I mean,
it might look fantastic on paper, but when there's a real problem, it's almost certainly
going to let you down. What will see you through is the old stuff, the maps and the bits


of rope. There are times when you need that kind of dependability. Who'd want to be
stranded out in the wild with a gadget freak? ' Travel and adventure writer Clive Tully
agrees. 'Be suspicious of anything that claims to make your life easier,' he warns. 'My
experience is that people who depend on technology are woefully ill-prepared in other
ways. You still need to be able to read a map and do the basic stuff.'
D
None of which is enough to keep Kit Man from his toys. The mountains and hills are
alive with the sound of ringing mobiles, beeping biometric pressure metres, clicking
ultra-violet radiation sensors and the whirring of the current ultimate in gadget chic — a
micro helicopter which can be controlled from an iPod to send back live pictures of the
route ahead. Thus tooled up, Kit Man must consider what he is to wear. And as any visit
to a contemporary outdoor store shows, this involves not only acquiring new clobber, but
new jargon. When he asks about a pair of trousers, he will learn about Moisture Vapour
Transfer Rate, Hydrostatic Heat Resistance and Wickability.It is tempting to scoff at Kit

Man, but not everyone sides with the romantics. Many in the adventure business say
gadgets have encouraged thousands who would otherwise not have ventured into the
great outdoors Evidence from the American market also suggests that technology has
had a positive environmental impact, and increased safety standards
Part 8:
1, Tom’s presence at parties adds to everyone’s enjoyment.

SOUL

_______________________________________________________________
2: The young actress was very nervous before the audition.
The young actress had butterflies _____________________________________
3: The community spoke enthusiastically about the recently elected mayor.
The community sang ______________________________________________
4: The new musical has delighted theatre audiences throughout the country.
The new musical has taken __________________________________________
5. Even now, I still don’t understand why he did it.
To this __________________________________________________________
6. We only ingratiated ourselves with our teacher because Kate insisted. (CURRIED)
It was at……………………………………………………….our teacher.
7 It is recommended that you take water with you as wells are few and far between in this
area.
(LEST)
Travellers to this area are advised to carry water …………………………… ground.
8 Nobody expected it of him but Sam was laid off.
(RANKS)


Against all…………………………………………unemployed.
9 The jumper you knitted for my daughter no longer fits her.

(GROWN)
My daughter …………………………………………………………………….for her.
10. I found the plot of the book too complicated to follow.
(HEAD)
I couldn’t ……………………………………………………..the book
KEY
PART A
Section 1. (10 pts)
1B

2D

3C

4B

5C

Section 2. (10 pts)
1. F

2. T

3. F

4. T

5. F

Section 4. (20 pts)

1. extraordinary privilege

2. American spirit

3. a presidental candidate

4. wasted out

5. proudest possession

6. struggles and trials

7. reveals

8. health reforms

9. mortgage

10. limitless responsibility

TAPESCRIPT
Section 1
Int: Today I’m with the much-loved comedian and writer
Jane Clarkson. Obviously Jane, this year has been quite a turning point for you ...
Jane: Well, I’ll never stop doing comedy, but there were practical reasons for wanting to
take some time off and write a book. I felt my daughter had been neglected. She was just
about to make the tricky transition from primary to secondary school and I thought she
needed her mum around. I seem to have spent most of her life in a van touring from
venue to venue for my comedy act.
And I did enjoy being at home for a bit, although I

missed the applause and the laughter. When I finished writing in the evening, I’d turn the
computer off and there’d be nothing, which was hard to get used to.


Int: How was your novel received?
Jane: Well, a lot of male comedians had written books, so there was a bit of a bandwagon
waiting to be jumped on, but with my impeccable timing I jumped slightly late, when
everyone was starting to get heartily sick of comedians’ books. Also there’s a kind of fury
coming from some journalists about comics writing books.
They’re absolutely livid, as if they see your book in a bookshop and they jump up and
down, shouting, ‘It’s not fair! Why should she make money out of writing as well as
performing?’
Int: Was it a difficult transition?
Jane: Well, if you think logically, writing is the obvious step.
I’ve spent years trying to make people listen to my
anecdotes, so that must count for something! Also, if you’ve been an observational
comedian, which I am, it’s not a great leap to use those skills you’ve developed, like
observing odd mannerisms to use for jokes, and turn them into a book. At least that’s
what I felt, but you don’t become a writer instantly. I’ll have to wait and see whether it
was just beginners’ luck.
Int: I think why people give you a hard time about the novel is surely because we’re so
trapped into thinking Jane Clarkson is a comedian. It’s as though, you know, you can’t do
anything else, which is quite ridiculous because
you’ve been writing radio comedy for years.
Jane: Yes, people do become obsessed about what you are. The character I adopted for
my comedy act became rather a burden after a while. When I started going on stage
alone, I was very young and I wasn’t entirely convincing as a comedian because nervous
young women on stage actually frighten audiences.
They’re convinced you’re going to fail and burst into tears, which will be very
embarrassing. So there’s a palpable tension in the room

and some audiences actually boo the female comedians
off the stage.


Int: How did you deal with that?
Jane: Well, I had to counteract that stereotype so I started
coming on shouting and being madder and crosser than
any audience could ever be and that defused the
tension. In fact, I rather overdid it and my character got
cruder than I ever really intended. I got so good at it that
people got confused between the everyday Jane and the
stage Jane.
Int: What attracted you in the first place to performing, and
particularly to making people laugh?
Jane: Oh, from an early age, I knew I wanted to be an actress. I
innocently thought I was going to be a glamorous film
star. The reason I started to do comedy acts was that in
the 1980s a lot of small provincial theatres closed down.
In the past, girls would’ve come out of drama school and
if they had a leaning towards comedy they’d join one of
these small theatres and play a variety of comedy roles
in all sorts of plays from Shakespeare to contemporary
stuff. All of a sudden, with the demise of these theatres,
rooms above pubs opened up and comedians started
telling jokes and developing their acts there. It was
cheap, one performer one microphone, and anyone
could do it. In some ways, it’s a healthier performance
art than acting, because with acting you’re at the mercy
of everybody else deciding whether you can work or notWith stand-up comedy, you
might only get paid peanutsbut nobody can stop you from just driving to a venue,

often hundreds of miles in terrible weather, and going
on stage.
Int: But what is it when you’re actually on stage … [fade]


Section 2
A talk from a member of the conservation Society about 'green cleaning'
Good morning everyone. It's a pleasure to be here as a representative of the Conservation
Society, to talk to you about "Green Cleaning", in other words about ways you can help
to save the environment at the same time as saving money.
I'll start with saving money - as we're all interested in that, especially students who are
living on a tight budget. Probably none of you has sat down and calculated how much
you spend on cleaning products each year everything from dishwashing detergent,
window cleaners and so on through to shampoos and conditioners for your hair, and then
those disasters products to get stains out of carpets, or to rescue burnt saucepans. I can
see some nods of agreement, even if you don't spend a lot of time on housework you'd
end up spending quite a lot of money over a period of time, wouldn't you? We can save
money on products and also use products which are cheap, biodegradable and harmless to
the environment - these I will call 'green' products. Unfortunately most cleaning products
on sale commercially are none of these, and many of our waterways and oceans are
polluted with bleach, dioxins, phosphates and artificial colourings and perfumes. Also
think how many plastic bottles each household throws away over a year -they'll still be
around in land-fill when you are grandparents! So we often feel there's nothing we can do
to make a difference, but we can. The actual 'recipes' are on handouts you can take at the
end of the talk: The sorts of ingredients I'm referring to are things like bicarbonate of
soda, eucalyptus oil, ammonia, vinegar, lemons, pure soap. Lastly many people find
they're allergic to modem products, so for all you asthma sufferers keep listening.
Nothing in these recipes should cause you any problems, an end to itching and wheezing!
So let’s start with spills and stains. Soda water is wonderful as an immediate stain
remover: mop up the excess spill don't rub but apply soda water immediately - it's great

for tea coffee wine beer and milk - as is salt or bicarbonate of soda, which will absorb the
stain - then vacuum when dry and shampoo if necessary.
While we are talking about disasters lets quickly look at some others that can be avoided.
Bicarbonate of soda is wonderful for removing smells, especially in the fridge - an open


box in the fridge will eliminate smells for up to three months. And those terrible burnt
saucepans? Either sprinkle with our good friend bicarb again and leave it to stand, or
cover with vinegar and a layer of cooking salt.
Bring it to the boil and simmer for ten minutes, then wash when cool. Much cheaper than
a new saucepan! Then there are heat rings on wooden furniture. Simply rub with a
mixture of salt and olive oil, or for scratched furniture use olive oil and vinegar.
Now let's look at general cleaning - first the floors. If your floor covering is made of
slate, cork or ceramic tiles or lino it probably only needs a mop or a scrub with vinegar in
a bucket of water. Carpets can be shampooed using a combination of pure soap washing
soda, cloudy ammonia and some boiling water. You put a small amount of this mixture
onto the mark on the carpet, rub with a cloth until it lathers and then wipe off the excess.
A smelly carpet can be deodorized by sprinkling bicarbonate of soda on the surface,
leaving overnight and vacuuming off the next day. Cleaning in the kitchen, bathroom and
toilet is the next section....
Section 4
Over the past few years as first lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling
all across this country and everywhere I’ve gone and the people I've met and the stories
I’ve heard, I have seen the very best of the American spirit.
See, our life before moving to Washington was, was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at
soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house, and a date night for Barack and me was
either dinner or movie because as an exhausted mum I couldn’t stay awake for both.
Even back then when Barack was a senator and a presidential candidate to me he was still
the guy who picked me up for our dates in a car that was so wasted out that I could
actually see the pavement going by in a hole in the passenger side door. He was the guy

whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster.
Well today, after so many struggles and trials and moments that‘ve tested my husband in
ways I never could have imagined, I have seen first-hand that being president doesn’t
change who you are. No it reveals who you are.
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks to


told him to leave health reforms for another day, another president. He didn’t care
whether it was the easy thing to do politically, no that's not how he was raised. He cared
that it was the right thing to do.
When we were first married our combined monthly student loan bill was actually higher
than our mortgage.
Yeah!! We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
If we wanna give all of our children a foundation for their dreams and opportunities
worthy of their promise. If we wanna give them that sense of limitless possibility, that
belief that here in America there was always something better out there if you're willing
to work for it. Then we must work like never before, and we must once again come
together and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country
forward.
My husband, our president, Barack Obama.
Thank you, God bless you, God bless America.

PART B
Part 1:
1A 2D
3C 4C
5C 6D
7D
8A
9A

10A
11 B
12C
13.D
14.B 15.A 16.D
17.D
18.D 19A
20C
1. In total, the repairs will cost somewhere in the _______ of £3000.
A. region
B. field
C. area
D. zone
(somewhere) in the region of=approximately
2. Both of the jobs I’ve been offered are fantastic opportunities – I’m in such ______!
A. a constituency
B. a deviation
C. an arrhythmia D. a quandary
In a quandary" -> nghĩa là trong tình huống khó xử, lúng túng, khơng biết phải làm gì.
3. Sharon is such a positive person – she ______ her problems, whatever they are.
A. goes light on
B. throws light to
C. makes light of
D. sheds light upon
Make light of = xem,coi nhẹ điều gì
4. He never buys cigarettes; he always______ them from his friends
A. lends
B. sponges
C. scrounges
D. craves

Scrounge=to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying
them or working for them
5. The government spokesman glossed ______ the administration’s policy mistakes.


A. out
B. away
C. over
D.
back
gloss over sth=to avoid considering something, such as an embarrassing mistake, to make
it seem not important, and to quickly continue talking about something else
6. Tom didn’t know anything about business, so starting his own was ______.
A. a leap into the clouds
B. a breakthrough
C. pure and simple
D. a leap in the dark
Leap in the dark' (nhảy trong bóng tối) nghĩa là làm một việc mạo hiểm, liều lĩnh
(something you do without being certain what will happen as a result), nhắm mắt nhảy
liều.
7.Fred has a ________ of staying out of trouble at the office - he never gets involved.
A. trait
B. ability
C. skill
D. knack
Have a knack of something / doing something: chỉ các tài năng bẩm sinh có sẵn hoặc làm
gì đó rất tốt (sở trường về điều gì đó)
8.Anyone who lies under oath will be charged with ________ the course of justice.
A. perverting
B. inverting

C. converting
D. diverting
Pervert the course of justice" = cản trở, làm sai lệch tiến trình xét xử của toà án -> vi
phạm luật pháp ảnh hưởng đến xét xử công bằng.
9. It is imperative ...................... what to do when there is a fire.
A. that everyone know
B. that everyone knows
C. he must know about
D. that he knew
=> Thức giải định
10. Security at the event has been tightened since last year. ______, about 1000 managed
to get in without tickets.
A. Nonetheless
B. Notwithstanding
C. At any rate
D. Any way you slice it
. Nonetheless = despite what has just been said or done
Notwithstanding=despite the fact or thing mentioned
Any way you slice it" = dù có mổ xẻ , phân tích nó ra hay nhìn thấy như thế nào, thì...
11. He didn’t mention his recent promotion for fear that it would ________ trouble
amongst his colleagues.
A. set off
B. spark off
C. set out
D. lead off
Spark off= gây ra điều gì thường là rắc rối,khó khăn
12. The recession has heavily impacted our small business so much that we have had no
option but to ________ staff.
A. let up
B. give up

C. lay off
D. leave off
Lay off= sa thải ai đó
Have no option but to V = khơng cịn cách nào khác ngoài việc
13. If a bus doesn’t come, you can always flag ______ a taxi.
A. after
B. for
C. off
D. down
flag down something/someone=to signal that a vehicle or person should stop by waving
14. I've
how many times she's been late for work this month.
A. lost my marbles of
B. lost count of


C. lost my head of
D. lost my mind of
lose count of something=to not be able to remember a total
15. That wall would fall over if it wasn’t ______ with planks of wood.
A. propped up
B. watered down
C. chanced upon
D. stored up
prop sth up=to lift and give support to something by putting something under it/to give
support to something, especially a country or organization, so that it can continue to exist
in a difficult situation:
16. In the end it all ______ a question of trust.
A. gets round to
B. adds up to

C. feels up to
D. comes down to
come down to sth=If a situation or decision comes down to something, that is the thing
that influences it most
17. I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong end of the ________.
A. loaf
B. pot
C. leg
D. stick
The wrong end of the stick" = Điểm sai sót của cái gậy -> Khơng hiểu ý, truyền đạt sai
hoặc xuyên tạc và bóp méo sự thật
18. From mass production clothing to managing factory lines to understanding the nature
of different fabrics, he kept _______ and that has brought him where he is today.
A. a millstone around his neck
B. a sword in the stone
C. his heart of stone
D. his nose to the grindstone
Keep (one's) nose to the grindstone (đá mài)" = Chúi mũi vào công việc, bắt ai làm việc
mửa mật; bắt ai làm việc không ngơi tay lúc nào.
19. The weekend is over, so tomorrow morning it’s back to the ________.
A. grind
B. labour
C. drudgery
D. toil
back to the grind= trở về ban đầu,trở về cuộc sống thường nhật
20.He _________ the cart before the horse by buying the ring before he had proposed to
her.
A. fastened
B. tied
C. put

D. coupled
Put the cart before the horse' = đặt cỗ xe phía trước con ngựa, nghĩa là sự việc rối lên, sai
trật tự (to have things in the wrong order; to have things confused and mixed up); làm
chuyện ngược đời.
Part 2:
Mistakes
1. estimation - Line: 2
2. millions of - Line: 2
3. the man - Line: 5
4. has - Line: 5
5. dated - Line: 8
6. Norway - Line: 10
7. a sport - Line: 12
8. is - Line: 14

Correction
estimates
million
man
has been
date
Norwegian
being a sport
are


9. accessible - Line: 15
10. spectra - Line: 16
Part 3: 1. C 2. A

3. D

inaccessible
spectrum
4. C

5. A

6. B

7. A

8. B

Simple rumination – the process of churning your concerns around in your
head – isn’t the answer to true wisdom. It’s likely to cause you to become stuck in the
(1) _______ of your own thoughts and (2) _______ in the emotions that might be
leading you astray. Certainly, research has shown that people who are (3) _______ to
rumination also often suffer from impaired decision making under pressure, and are (4)
_______ a substantially increased risk of depression.
Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient
rhetorical method favoured by the (5) _______ of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’
– or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was (6) _______ in 1809 by
the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Latin ille meaning ‘he, that’). If I was
considering an argument that I’d had with a friend, for instance, I might start by silently
thinking to myself: ‘David felt frustrated that…’ The idea is that this small change in
perspective can clear your emotional (7) _______, allowing you to see past your
biases.
A bulk of research has already shown that this kind of third-person thinking can
temporarily improve decision making. Now a preprint at PsyArxiv, which is the (8)

_______ of the psychologist Igor Grossmann at the University of Waterloo in Canada,
finds that it can also bring long-term benefits to thinking and emotional regulation. The
researchers said this was ‘the first evidence that wisdom-related cognitive and affective
processes can be trained in daily life, and of how to do so’.
1. A. mud

B. gut

C. rut

D. hut

Be (stuck) in a rut” có rut là vết lún sâu của bánh xe trên đất mềm, vết xe; vết đường
mòn -> cụm từ này nghĩa là mắc kẹt (cuộc sống, cơng việc...) theo lối mịn.
2. A. immersed

B. consumed

C. submerged

D. occupied

immerse yourself in sth=to become completely involved in something:
3. A. apt

B. inclined

C. likely

D. prone

be prone to sth/do sth=likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative
one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness
4. A. under

B. in

C. at

D. within

at the risk of doing sth=used before you say something that may seem offensive or
stupid