Listening

You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For questions, 1–7, choose the best
answer (A, B or C).

1 You hear two young people talking. What is the boy doing?

A) Reminding the girl about something

B) Offering to do something

C) Recommending something

2 You hear a message on a telephone answering machine. How is the woman feeling?

A) She is sad. B) She is angry C) She is worried

3 You hear two people talking about a parking problem. Why did the boy’s father get a fine?

A) He arrived back too late. B) He parked incorrectly. C) He didn’t display the ticket.

4 You hear a voicemail message. Why is Tim phoning?

A) to explain something that has happened B) to apologize for doing something

C) to describe something

5 You hear a woman talking on the radio. What does she say about being an only child?

A) She regrets it now that she is an adult.

B) She disliked it a lot when she was younger.

C) She used to be envious of her friends’ families.

6 You hear two students talking on the phone. What does the boy think?

A) The girl should get some help.

B) The girl ought to have a break.

C) The girl does not need to do so much work.

7 You overhear two people talking on a station platform. What does the man point out?

A) The woman was on the wrong train.

B) The woman did something that was not permitted.

C) The woman spoke too loudly on her phone.

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Word Formation

For questions, 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some
of the lines to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: 0 HIGHLY

House sharing
Sharing a house or flat while studying away from home is an experience I
would recommend to anyone. It teaches you (0) _____ important life skills HIGH
and can be great fun! But living together successfully is (1) _____ and CHALLENGE
it’s important that everyone does their fair share of the housework. When
I first shared a house with two friends, we loved the (2) _____ , but DEPENDENT
we were rather (3) _____ to begin with and didn’t really make any ORGANIZE
(4) _____ about who should tidy, clean or wash up. We were also very DECIDE
(5) _____ and had lots of friends round and parties whenever we felt SOCIETY
like it. However, the need to be (6) _____ hit us pretty soon. We then SENSE
sorted out a system whereby we took turns at cooking and cleaning,
even organizing our rubbish into different containers. Surprisingly, this
actually helped to (7) _____ the relationship between us. We became STRONG
more of a team and our house-sharing days were more (8) _____. ENJOY

Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with the correct words (A, B or C).
1 How long has Dave been going ______ with Tanya?
A) on B) out C) at
2 I’ve never been very ______ when choosing a holiday. I usually go to the same places
again and again.
A) excitable B) mature C) adventurous
3 My sister’s face was always ______ when she was little because she played in the sun a lot.
A) freckled B) sensitive C) expressive
4 The boss ______ us off today for spending too much time chatting in the office.
A) said B) told C) crossed
5 What are you so ______ about today? Have you won some money?
A) cheerful B) sociable C) moody
6 Kate ______ a good living working as a manager in an IT company.
A) gains B) takes C) earns
7 Many people were made ______ last month because of the drop in orders this year.
A) flexible B) redundant C) resigned
8 I just need a reliable car that won’t keep ______ me down!
A) putting B) letting C) making
9 Helena shouldn’t ______ up with the way Tom treats her. It’s ridiculous.
A) put B) take C) accept

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10 I’ve eaten so much I need to ______ my belt!
A) widen B) loosen C) fatten
11 All the men in my dad’s family ______ bald before they were fifty years old.
A) made B) started C) went
12 I feel like resigning because I just can’t get ______ with my boss.
A) up B) on C) in
13 Can you finish the essay by the beginning ______ next week?
A) of B) on C) for
14 It isn’t easy to bring ______ young children when you’re trying to do a job as well.
A) off B) over C) up

Transformations
For questions 1–6, 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 2 and 5 words, including
the word given. Here is an example (0).
Example:
0 It’s impossible to find someone to fix my bike today.
GET
I CAN’T GET ANYONE TO fix my bike today.

1 I hit a man’s car yesterday and he rang me about it this morning.

WHOSE
The man ______________________ rang me about it this morning.
2 Someone is cleaning our windows later today.
CLEANED
We ______________________ later today.
3 We had to stay behind after class today.
MADE
We ______________________ after class today.
4 They should have turned left at the last junction.
SUPPOSED
They ______________________ at the last junction.
5 My parents said I couldn’t go to the concert with my friends.
ALLOW
My parents ______________________ go to the concert with my friends.
6 I think we should tidy up before Mum gets home.
BETTER
We ______________________ before Mum gets home

Grammar
A) Use the correct past tense.
Julie………….. (walk) for hours when she suddenly noticed that the sun…………. (sink)

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in the sky. She……………..(lose) track of time because she…………..(think) about the most
important decision she'd ever had to make in her life.

Things…………..(not be) the same between Julie and her fiance, David, since he accepted
a job in Paris. They…………..(know) each other for almost five years, and in that time, they
had never argued much. Lately, though, their relationship……………..(become) stormy. They
…………(seem) to be finding fault with each other and disagreeing about everything.
For the first time, she……………(start) to wonder if she…………(be) ready for marriage.
And with the wedding only twenty days away, she…………. (need) to make up her mind soon.

Use the correct causative form of HAVE in correct tense.

1. We ask someone to check the accounts every month. We …………………… every month.
2. Someone sends the money to my bank account in London.
I have…………………………………to my bank account in London.
3. My stereo isn’t working properly. It needs cleaning.
I’m going to…………………………….
4. My camera’s being repaired at the moment.
I’m …………………………………at the moment.
5. Someone delivers the newspapers. We…………………………………………
Someone cleaned the carpets every year. I……………………………………every year.

C) Join these sentences using relative pronouns beginning with the words given.

1. The girl is my sister. I'm talking to the girl. The girl…………………………..is my sister.
2. This is the chair. The carpenter repaired it last week. This is the chair…………………………
[Link] is married to a man. He is richer than her. She is married to a man………………………
[Link] is the swimming-pool. I used to go swimming there. That is the swimming-pool………….
5. That is the man. His wife is a famous actress. This is the man…………………………………
6. I went to a restaurant last week. It was very expensive. The restaurant…………………………..
was very expensive.

D) Join these sentences using relative pronouns beginning with the words given.
Add commas if necessary.
1. My school is very big. It is in Madrid. My school………………………is very big.
2. Robert Pattinson is a British actor. He plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga.
Robert Pattinson………………………………..is a British actor.
3. I bought this cake yesterday. It tastes delicious. The cake……………………. tastes delicious.
4. Michael is a policeman. His father is a judge. Michael………………….. is a policeman.
5. I was given a dog. It is very friendly. The dog …………………………… is very friendly.

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Reading and Use of English
Part 5 Multiple choice
You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 1–6, choose the answer (A, B,
C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
1 From the first paragraph, we believe
that the writer is 4 The writer believes that the classes
A looking forward to doing sports at school. are named after two birds because
B concerned about appearing A the school wants to encourage
immature. competition.
C worried about learning new literacy B the school wants to increase an
skills. awareness of nature.
D excited about earning some extra C the school wants to show parents the
pocket money. different levels.
D the school wants children to feel the same.
2 How does the writer feel on the first
day of school? 5 The writer’s younger child
A He can understand how the other A profits from his brother’s absence.
parents are feeling. B expects his brother to return soon.
B He is sure that his son will do well at C enjoys special treats while his brother is
school. away.
C He is sad that he cannot stay. D wants to be grown-up enough to go
D He is nervous about meeting the to school too.
other parents.
6 When the older son returns from
3 What does the word ‘nostalgic’ in line 22 school he appears
refer to? A proud of his new knowledge.
A the fact that the writer’s son is B eager to share his day’s
growing up experiences.
B the way some first schools have C superior to the rest of the family.
changed D unchanged by the whole
C the writer’s memories of his own first experience.
school
D the writer’s previous experience as a
teacher

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My first day at school – too bad my son was there too
Everyone remembers their first day. For me, the whole summer holiday had been leading up to
it. I arranged and rearranged pencils in a pencil case. I worried about the selection of a
lunchbox. I liked one with little blue owls on it, but was it too babyish? Would it lead to teasing?
I approved of red gym shorts and white tops and, for the first time, I had plimsoll* shoes so
impressively specialized that they have no other use outside the school gymnasium. I talked about
the wonders of school endlessly. Reading, for goodness’ sake! And writing! Imagine how one could
live with a skill such as writing. One could earn, oh, maybe even enough to buy plimsolls. Yes, I
was so thrilled about going to big school that the summer went by in a blur, and when the big day
arrived, I was very, very excited.

I walked proudly through the school gate. All the other children and their mums and dads were there,
standing nervously in the playground. I was so proud to have got to this stage in my life. I felt
terrifically grown-up. I remember it as if it were yesterday – because it was. Oh, and our eldest son
came, too. As a matter of fact, they let him stay for the whole day. It was a bit hard for me to be told
I had to leave him in the Robins class and make my way home alone. One of the mums put a
sympathetic hand on my arm. ‘It’s OK,’ she said. ‘It’s perfectly normal, of course you’re going to
miss him.’

‘But you don’t understand,’ I said. ‘It isn’t the boy I miss; I see him all the time. No, it’s the
poster paints. It’s the glue pots, the brushes, the glitter. Oh, don’t tell me you’re not a little nostalgic?’
She looked at me as if I was quite, quite mad but then again, she was a mum from the Sparrows class,
over which we Robins are naturally starting to develop a sense of superiority. The school is
completely fair, and I like to imagine they had chosen two birds of roughly equal status to name the
two classes for the new children.

Back home, I found our two-year-old mad with joy. For the first time in his little life, big brother
wasn’t there to take the praise for doing everything first. Junior was taking full advantage,
treating everyone to a performance of his physical skills and funny jokes, bathing in the attention,
like a dolphin in a marine show, and looked devastated and betrayed when our older boy came home
at the end of the day. I guess when we’d explained to the little fellow that his brother was going to
big school, we hadn’t thought to mention that he would regularly come back.

Our older boy’s entrance was quite extraordinary. He solemnly hung his coat on the peg. And
that one gesture (he normally just throws it on the floor) indicated a level of maturity that other
people were unlikely ever to reach. He gazed at the rest of us with an expression close to pity. He
had been to big school. We had not. There were things, therefore, that we could not possibly
understand. There was a whole universe of triangles, gold stars and wall bars that we simply knew
nothing about.

So, go on, what did you do at school today? I asked eagerly. Our older boy gave a sigh and a
shrug. ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘you know. Nothing.’

*plimsoll: a light shoe made from strong cotton on the top and rubber on the bottom, used
for playing games and sports