For questions 1 ~8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D} best fits each gap. There is ‘an example at the beginning (0). In the exam, you mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. Example: OA cot B planned worked D put oe Soe Football as an art form When two filmmakers (0) .. ‘out to make an art-house movie about the legendary French footballer Zinedine Zidane, they chose to film just one match. But (1) ....... of following the progress of the game, the 90-minute film showed something that hadn't been seen before; the precise detailed movements of one player. Every (2) ‘competitiveness in (3) .. gesture is captured so that the audience can appreciate the player's gtace, athleticism and detail. Those who aran’t regular watchers of football will be astonished at how (4) ......... Zidane becomes actively 8) - In the game. For much of the time he moves around the field relatively slowly; saying nothing, ‘expressing even less, and only occasionally (6) ..m into a lethargic jog. But when the ball arrives at his feet, there's a flurry of bewildering activity. The cameras struggle to (7) up, and the defenders don’t stand a chance. In a few touches, a couple of checks and feints, Zidane has 8)...» them all behind, He crosses from the tightest of angles and his teammate has the simplest of shots to score a goal. 1A altemative B instead © rather D preference 2 A one B single © lone D sole 3A giant B big © vast D great 4A partly B scarcely © rarely D_ haraly 5 A concemed B involved © associated D regarded 6 A breaking B changing © opening D starting 7A take B speed © keep D_ make 8 A missed B loft © lost D dropped TEST 4 READING AND USE OF ENGLISHRe For questions 9 ~ 16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0), In the exam, you write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. Example: | 0 | F/ R| O|M An intriguing letter ‘Some years ago, | received aletter (0) advice. Joanna had an aunt (9) ... Joanna had never read these diaries, her aunt was known to be a woman ._@ stranger called Joanna King, asking for my had kept a diary from the age of 13 until she was strong opinions, and so she thought they might be interesting. Joanna had read a memoir I'd written about my own grandmother, an ordinary woman with (12) soo Particular claim to fame, and it had made her wonder (13) ..[Link] there Was ‘some value in her aunt’s diaries as a social document. Could I suggest (14) ...... might bbe done with them? | replied saying that the idea of someone keeping @ diary over (15) a long period ‘was intriguing and that I'd love to read them myself. This was clearly the response Joanna had been hoping for because she then proceeded to offer them to me (16)... @ SOUTC® ‘of inspiration for my own writing. | hadnt, in fect, meant that, but once suggested, the idea began to take hold in my ming. | | : | | READING AND USE OF ENGUSH TEST 4oA ic; OF ENGLISH READIN For questions 17 ~ 24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end Cf some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an ‘example at the beginning (0). Inthe exam, you write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. 1 Example: [0 | | &[N] T Time management Julie Morganstern’s book (0) Time Management from the inside Out aims to help people organiss their time better. For Julie, getting yourself organised is what she calls 2 ‘leamable’ ski One common reason she (17) . bo it tasks at work, study (18) ther free time, is that they don’t set aside a (19)... time in which to .» for people not getting things dene, . oF things they hope to achieve in do things. Inother words, they're always trying to fit new activities into an existing full schedule and (20) result, they get behind schedule, and miss deadlines, .. how long tasks are actually going to take. As a To avoid this, Julle suggests making a list of ‘must do’ tasks and putting atime (21) next to each, This means that a direct comparison can be made between time spent on each task and how long you (22) ‘thought it would take you. Inno time at all, you'll be able to make an expert (23)... (24) osonn.n about how much you set out to achieve in the first place. . about how long aetivities really take, meaning that you're more TEST 4 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TITLE IDENTITY OBJECT SPECIFY ESTIMATE ALLOW ORIGIN JUDGE REALFor questions 25 ~ 30, 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. You must use between three and six words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). Example: 0 Trevor persuaded his sister to enter the competition. TALKED Trevor .. entering the competition. ‘The gap can be filled with the words ‘talked his sister into’, so you write: Example: | 0) | TALKED HIS SISTER INTO In the exam, you write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on a separate answer sheet. 25 The first employee to arrive in the morning should tum on the heating. WHICHEVER, ‘The heating should morning. of staff arrives frst in the 26 We will have no choice but to reinforce the fence if those dogs keep getting through. ALTERNATIVE Reinforcing the fence ... through. if those dogs keep getting 27. Leila’s interference in her sister’s wedding plans has only caused trouble. NOTHING Leila’s interference in her sister's wedding plans has led trouble. 28 — The students did not return from the end-of-term party until dawn. BEFORE It was... . back from the end-of-term party. 29 “Ifyou stay a bit longer, you'll enjoy yourself even more,” said our host at the party. MORE Our host at the party said that the ourselves, ‘would enjoy 30 We were horrified to see smoke coming out of the bedroom windows, couLD Much .. ‘smoke coming out of the bedroom windows. READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TEST 4 8)READING AND USE OF ENGLISH ‘You are going to read an extract trom a book. For questions 81 ~ 36, choose the answer (A, B, G or D) which you think fits best according to the text. In the exam, you mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. t's a commonplace of parenting and modern genetics that parents have litte or no influence on the characters of ‘their children. As a parent, you never know who you are going to get. Opportunities, health, prospects, accent, table ‘manners ~ these might le within your power to shape. But what realy determines the sort of person who's coming to live with you is chance. Cheerful ot neurotic, kind or greedy, curious or dull, expansive or shy and anywhere in between; it can be quite an affront to parental self-regard, just how much of the work has already been done. On the fother hand, it can let you off the hook. The point is made for you as soon as you have more than one child; when two entirely ifferent people emerge from their roughly similar chances in life Here in the cavernous basement kitchen at 3.65 a.m., in a single pool of ight, as though on stage, is Theo Perowne, 18 years old, his formal education already long behind him, reclining on a tled-back kitchen chair, his legs in tight black jeans, his feet in boots of soft black leather (paid for with his own money) crossed on the edge of the table. AS Unlike his sister Daisy as randomness will alow. He's drinking from a large tumbler of water. Inthe other hand he holds the folded-back music magazine he’s reading. A studded leather jacket lies in a heap on the floor. Propped agalnst cupboard is his guitar in its case. It's already acquired a few steamer trunk labels ~ Trieste, Oakland, Hamburg, Val d'isere. There's space for more. From a compact stereo player on a shelf above a library of cookery books comes the ‘sound, ike soft drizzle, of an allright pop station. Henry Perowne sometimes wonders if, in his youth, he could ever have guessed that he would one day father a blues musician. He himself was simply processed, without question or complaint, ina polished continuum from school, through medical school, to the dogged acquisition of clinical experiance, in London, Southend-on-Sea, Newcastle, Bellevue Emergency Department in New York and London again. How have he and Rosalind, such dutiful conventional types, given rise to such a free spirit? One who dresses, with a certain Irony. In the style of the bohemian fifties, who won't read books of let himself be persuaded to stay on at school, who's rarely out of bed before lunchtime, whose passion is for mastery in all the nuances of the blues guitar tradition, Delta, Chicago, Mississippi. and for the sucess of his band, New Blue Ridor. In the confined, gossipy world of British blues, Theo is spoken of as ‘a man of promise, already mature in his grasp of the idiom, who might even one day walk with the gods, the British {GoUis that is ~ Alexis Korer, John Mayall, Eric Clapton. Someone has written somewhere that Theo Perowne plays like an angel Naturally, his father agrees, despite his doubts about the limits ofthe form. Ho likes the blues well enough — in fact, he was the one who showed the nine-year-old Theo how it worked. After that, grandfather took over. But is there a litetime's satisfaction in 12 bars of three obvious chords? Perhaps it's one of those cases of a microcosm giving you the whole world. Like a Spode dinner plate. Or a single cell, Or a Jane Austen novel. When player and listener together know the route so well, the pleasure isin the deviation, the unexpected turn against the grain. ‘And there's something in the loping authority of Theo's playing that revives for Henry the inexplicable lure of that simple progression. Theo is the sort of guitarist who plays in an open-eyed trance, without moving his body or ever glancing down at his hands. He concedes only an occasional thoughtful nod. Now and then, curing a set he might tit back his head to indicate to the others that he is “going round’ again, He carries himself on stage as he does in conversation, quietly, formally, protacting his privacy within a shell ct friendly politeness. if he happens to spot his Parents at the back of a crowd, he'll lit nis left hand from the fret in a shy and private salute, TEST 4 DING AND USE OF ENGLISH31 inthe frst paragraph, the writer suggests that parents, ‘Aare often disappointed by their children’s behaviour. B have relatively little impact on their children’s personality. © sometimes leave too many aspects of child development to chance. D__often make the mistake of trying to change their children’s character. 32 Which phrase is used to suggest that parents are not to blame for how their children turn out? A anywhere in between (line 4) B _ anaffront to parental self-regard (line 5) © let you off the hook (line 6) D roughly similar chances (line 7) 83 What do we Jearn about Theo Perowne in the second paragraph? A He has successfully completed his studies, B He isnot particulary interested in travel © He isnot making a living as a musician. D_ He has itt in commen with his sister. 34 Theo's parents are described as the sort of people who ‘A have let their careers take precedence over family have found it quite dfficult to settle down in life, © regret the rather predictable nature of their lives. have always done what was expected of them. 35 With regard to his music, we leam that Theo is A dedicated to one particular style. B__ planning to form a band of his own. unable to take it completely seriously. D already admired by some famous people. 36 According to the writer, how is blues music similar to a Jane Austen novel? A Ithas stood the test of time well. B__Ithas an easily recognised structure. © _ itis open to individual interpretation. D__ itis full of unexpected changes of direction. READING AND USE OF ENGUSH TEST 4 83Bp READING AND USE a4 aon} You are going to read four commentaries on an exhibition at a museum. For questions 87 ~ 40, choose from the extracts A ~ D. The extracts may be chosen more than once. In the exam, you mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. Commentator A ‘The current exhibition at the Bridgefoot Museum — Domestic Life in Renaissance Italy ~ Is predictably pulling in the crowds, and there are fascinating treasures on display, even if some of the best are concealed in rather dimly lit ‘comers. The ‘Domestic Life’ in the title rather suggests that you're going to see everything from the most fabulous riches to the Kitchen sink. Sadly, this isn't the case, however. No doubt the truth is that what survives down the centuries, and what finds its way into museum collections, tends to be those abjects of greatest valu, at the time, ‘ven the quality of the materials used and the craftsmanship expended on them, There is a beautiful set of silver knives in the first room, which makes this point most powerfully. This, Ike other exhibits, Is accompanied by a comprehensive caption board which provides background detail on its provenance and construction. Commentator B The Bridgefoot's latest blockbuster show transports us to home life in Itely In the 18th century. As we've come to except from such an experienced team, the exhibition is carefully laid out with clever use of space and imaginative lighting. This ensures that visitors move fluidly and comfortably between differant aspects of daily existence. It's rather like intruding on a series of calm and unhurried domestic scenes from several centuries ago. Interpretation of the exhibits is supported by the somewhat uninspiring information panels, which unintentionally serve to underline just how unusual it would be to have all these items under the roof of a single home. One slight oversight perhaps is the lack of any truly commonplace objects, especially in the service areas. A few glimpses of the realty of lfe for the huge army of servants needad to support the lifestyle implied by the vast array of precious objects would have besn welcome. Commentator C ‘Any major exhibition with the words ‘Italy’ and ‘Renaissance’ in its title is bound to attract widespread interest and the long ,but briskly moving queue when | visited the Bridgefoot Museum last week was testimony to that. So it was with some relief that | discovered an imaginatively designed and spacious area which seemed to swellow up the visitor numbers with ease. | was able to quietly appreciate the glorious range of iteris on display; everything from aan engraved esily form of toothbrush to a scintilating set of gold tableware was competently shown aff to its best by clever use of concealed lighting. Neary all the items here are functional as well as being of great beauty and rather more detail on how they were used on a daily basis would have been welcome, rather than the somewhat dry descriptions listing the maker and materials used. Commentator D It's generally a treat to visit a special exhibition at the Bridgefoot Museum and the current offering should tick all the boxes for those of us who are fans of the Italian high renaissance. Popularity comes at a price, of course, and finding quite so many enthusiastic and vocal visitors in such close proximity to each other was something of a distraction {rom the interesting variety of precious objects on display. These ar all loosely linked to Italian home life five centuries ‘ago, but are joined by surprisingly uninformative captions positioned adjacent to the display cases. The treasures are imaginatively organised, however, following a range of themes: entertaining Visitors, food preparation, personal hygiene, etc., but the generally subtle uplighting does favour the more substantial pieces at the exponse of ‘smaller, but no less fascinating, objects. which make less impact than they deserve, TEST 4 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH| i Which commentator shares A's view about the range of exhibits on show? has a different opinion to C regarding the written information available about the exhibits? ‘expresses a different view from the others about the impact of the number of people attending the exhibition? shares D’s views about the use of lighting at the exhibition? 37 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TEST 4 8a ag SAID) EUAN Dyess OF ENGLISH 86 You are going to read an extract from an account of a sailing race. Six paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A~ G the one which fits each gap (41 ~ 46). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. {In the exam, you mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. Stiff breeze, no cocktails Victor Mallet set sail on the yacht Moonblue 2 in a three-day race across the South China Sea which tuned out to be packed with incident and excitement. ‘The sailing in the San Fernando Race was glorious; one of the best in the 30-year history of the event. From the outset, all the front unners were spared the windless calms that ccan cause such frustration in events like this. Apart from the unaccustomed speed, a few ‘other things about Moonbiye 2 took some getting used to for me. There was the novelty ‘of being on such a luxurious cruiser-racer, and the overall excellence of the food and drink on board. { wasn’t used to such luxury, and | can't recall racing in a boat where you can take a shower when your period of watch ‘comes to an end. [42 | Despite such minor inconveniences, the race had been going wel, but suddenly we fit @ problem. Peter, the normally cheery skipper andowner of Meonbive2, was shouting almost angrily rom somewhere betow, demanding to know where the cocktal blender was. Pater repeated his question in frustration, adding: “Didn't anyone bring it back from the party at the yacht club?” We looked studiously into the darkness while we struggled to trim the salis and bring the boat under control. No, no one had brought it back from the pre-race arty two nights sartior, TEST 4 READING AND USE OF ENGUSH ‘Once the penny had dropped, we realised it wasn't such a crazy request after all. It ‘seemed that not for the first time, the high- strength line connecting the wheel to the rudder had snapped. Peter wanted the lender's long electric cable because it could be used to replace it. Just two hours later, three crew members ~ there were 13 of us ‘on board altogether — fixed the steering not with the blender cable but with the help of a spare length of aerial cable, and we were able to continue racing. Part of the challenge of sailing for me is that anything can go wrong, feven on a superbly equipped yacht such as Moonbiue 2. LT) Such complicated yachts as Moonbive 2 also require constant attention and minor adjustments to the steering, in contrast to an ‘old-fashioned yacht that almost steers itself For the crew on this trip, however, there were mercifully few sail changes during the race Until the very end. But even at that stage, ‘we stil had one last small mishap to contend with. When we crossed the finishing line off San Femando at midnight, two-and-a-half days after the start, a local captain who was ‘Supposed to quide us in to a safe anchorage took us straight on to a mudbank. Bo And of the 18 starters, Moonbiue 2 was second to finish, a fantastic result overall — with or without the cocktail blender!a A This had become apparent the previous weekend on a pre-race practice run when first the propeller had been entangled in rope and then again in industrial plastic in the space of an hour. On each occasion one of the orew had had to dive into the water with a knife and a pair of goggles to clear the debris. B But any large boat, however stylish, also has its drawbacks. in rough seas it was tricky getting from one end of the spacious cabin to the other because the hand holds were so far apart. © Afterall, the pre-race discussion had revolved largely around the issue of how just euch a situation might be dealt with, Fortunately, however, an unexpected solution was at hand. D It could have been worse, however. Our Australian rival, Strewth, was lad into a reef with a crunch, so we actually had quite a lucky escape. E To those of us out on deck, however, this didn’t seem to be quite the moment for any kind of a drink. It was eight hours into the race, there was a stiff breeze, rough waves and the steering had just failed completely. F This wasn't an entirely enjoyable time for me, though, as in the initial 36 hours we were driven by a north-east monsoon wind that sometimes whipped up a rough and uncomfortable sea. On the plus side, however, we sped southwards under full sail, making amazing time. G A few uncomfortable moments. passed, nobody wanting to break this: piece of news to him, Then we we suddenly saw what he was on about. READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TEST 4 87You are going to read an article about novels set in places that the author isn’t actually ‘familiar with, For questions 47 - §8, choose from the novels (A ~ D), The novels may be chosen more than once. In the exam, mark your answers on a separate answer sheet. fey a i _ : at = a a About which novel is the following stated? So re It attracted a criticism which pleased its author. a oS i — ee, It contrasts the lives of people living in different locations, 48 w = _ It was the author's first book of this type. 48 Itfalls to make all ofits local references clear to the reader. 50 i It’s regarded as one of the best novels of its type. 51 lt may give a rather unrealistic impression of the country concerned. 52 It contains at least one inaccurate detail It was written by somebody who chose to visit the area only briefly. It was praised for the way it describes ordinary people. 55 Its writer tacked the financial resources to visit the area. 88 TEST 4 READING AND USE OF ENGLISHGullible’s travels Novels are works of the imagination, But what happens when an author writes about a part of the world they've never heen to? A Something like a house ‘A few years ago, presenter Mark Lawson conducted a memorable radio interview with the ‘author Sid Smith who had just won an award for his debut novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution, the novel recelved critical acclaim for its evocation of peasant lif. Lawson, imprassed by Smith’s depiction, asked if he spoke fluent Chinese. Smith said no, he dici’t, Lawson asked it he'd worked in China. No, he hadn't, At this point Lawson became agitated. "But you've been to China,” he said. There was a short pause, followed by Smith's ‘calm assertion that actually he hach't. Lawson was right to be astounded. Although set in the past and told through an Englishman, the story is full of odd details about lfe in the China of the period that you'd think would take years of first-hand experience to note, Not just physical things, such as the river sand in the bottom of a cup of tea, but social niceties such as Madame Tao judging her neighbours by how far up the valley they collect their water. What was most enjoyable about the interview, though, was Smith’s refusal to be even slightly apologetic. He found his China in the London Library, from fms, newspapers and the internet. Who's to say that this gave him any less valid a picture of China than one he might have gained on a trip to modern-day Beijing? B Waterland Annovel often cited as exemplary in depicting place is Wateriand, Graham Swift's saga of several generations of Fenlanders. The Criok family lacks ambition and drive, driven to ‘unquiet and sleep-defeating thoughts’ by the insistently flat, monotonous land: while the Atkinsons, who live on the only hill, get ‘ideas’, spot gaps in the market, and make a fortune brewing beer. As an example of how landscapes shape characters it is perhaps unmatched in contemporary fiction. Yet, Swift is not a Fentander, and according to his agent made just a few fleeting visits to the Fens after he'd begun his navel, Swift lives in London and presumably could have travelled to the Fens more often had he wished to. Is it possible that a partial knowledge of the place sulted him? © Welcome to hard times ‘American novelist E. L. Doctorow wrote this western ‘never having been west of Ohio’ Although it's 2 wholly satisfying example of the genre, such an approach is vulnerable to errors, After the book came aut, an old lady from Texas wrote to Doctorow to say that she could tell ha'd never been out west because of the character who ‘made himself a dinner Of the roasted haunch of a prairie dog’; a prairie dog's haunch, she said, ‘wouldn't fill a teaspoon’. Doctorow was delighted and let the line stand in future editions, being ‘leery of perfection’. Too much accuracy, he realised, might suck the life out of the novel. D Eclipse of the sun Too ardent a straining for accuracy is a charge that could be levelled at Phil Whitaker's novel, Eclipse of the sun. Set in a fictional town in an imagined India (Whitaker has said that he couldn't atford the trip), the novel has clearly been meticulously researched. He has grasped ‘the implied insult of answering in English a question posed in Marathi; that indians love the word ‘auspicious’. He gives us bidis and rikkas, crores and lakhs, plates of jalebi and the performances of yagnas while resisting the urge to explain, The BBC’s India correspondent Mark Tully found no fault in its depiction of small-town India, Yet Whitaker runs the risk of making his characters too Indian, too perfect. Perhaps if he'd been to India he'd have found. ‘a people that were odder, fess typical, than the country he discovered through research, Or perhaps, if he’d gone to India, he wouldn't have weitten the book at all ~he might have become aware of how much he dicin’t know. READING AND USE OF ENGLISH TEST 4