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Advanced: Test 1
Reading and Use of English 1 hour 30 minutes
Part 1
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).
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
Example:
0 A measure B consider C regard D notice

0 A B C D

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

People have been debating the principles of general, so perhaps a face may seem beautiful
beauty for thousands of years, but it still seems because of the (5) …………….. between its
impossible to (0) …………….. it objectively. German two sides. Studies have shown that babies spend
philosopher Immanuel Kant (1) …………….. more time looking at symmetrical faces than
whether something can possess an objective asymmetrical ones and symmetry has also been
property that makes it beautiful. He concluded (6) …………….. as more attractive by adults looking at a
that although everyone accepts that beauty exists, series of photos. So although there seems to be no
no one has ever (2) …………….. on the precise criteria by universal consensus on what (7) …………….. beauty,
which beauty may be (3) …………….. . there is at least an understanding that facial
Symmetry may have some significance. It has been symmetry is an important (8) …………….. .
proved to be attractive to the human (4) …………….. , in

1 A argued B decided C disputed D questioned

2 A concurred B agreed C debated D written
3 A judged B appreciated C awarded D viewed
4 A appearance B sight C eye D vision
5 A equality B reflection C opposition D similarity
6 A voted B rated C selected D valued
7 A constitutes B contains C involves D comprises
8 A reason B one C role D factor
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Part 2
Read the text and the test questions. Before you answer the test questions, go to the
Further Practice and Guidance pages which follow.
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).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.
Example:
0 WHICH

On the other hand?

We left-handed people tend to lack pride (0) ......................... means that we rarely complain
about having to live in a ‘right-handed’ world. I used to say whenever someone
watched me sign my name and remarked that they were also left-handed: ‘You
and me and Leonardo da Vinci!’ That was a weak joke, yet it was symptomatic
(9) ......................... my often unconscious desire to belong to Left Pride, a social movement
that (10) ......................... far doesn’t exist but I hope may one day come.

Now, years later, (11) ......................... the amount of research that has been carried out,
researchers in the field still find it hard to decide precisely what we mean (12) .........................
left-handed. Apparently a third of those (13) ......................... write with their left hand throw
a ball with their right, whereas those using their right hand for writing rarely throw
with their left. Without doubt, the skill of writing is one that becomes crucial at a most
impressionable age, and defines (14) ......................... you will call yourself. I have never used
scissors, baseball bat, hockey stick or computer mouse with anything but my right;
(15) ......................... so, I still regard myself as left-handed, as (16) ......................... everyone else.
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What’s tested? Tips

Part 2: Open cloze • Always read through the text for general
understanding before you begin to fill the gaps.
Part 2 of the Reading and Use of English paper is
primarily a test of structural control, with many • Before you decide what the word should be, read the
questions involving the completion of grammatical whole sentence including the sentences before and
structures. Missing words can include articles, after it.
conjunctions, prepositions. Some questions may
involve completing collocations and fixed phrases.

A detailed study
A Before you check your answers to Part 2 of Test 1, choose from the following:
9 a of b behind c with d for
10 a so b as c this d by
11 a although b however c nevertheless d despite
12 a as b for c by d with
13 a can b people c types d who
14 a what b how c this d which
15 a more b yet c even d and
16 a is b does c was d has
Now read the following information on conjunctions.

However
There are three ways to use however:
1 Jane doesn’t have much money. However, she bought an expensive car last week.
• We can use However for one subject: Jane + she.
2 Jane doesn’t have much money. However, her sister, Mary, is quite rich.
• We can use However for two subjects: Jane + Mary.
• However starts the second sentence.
• Notice the position of the comma.
3 Jane doesn’t have much money, however, she bought an expensive car last week.
• however can be placed between two clauses.
• Notice the position of the two commas.
Nevertheless
Jane doesn’t have much money. Nevertheless, she bought an expensive car last week.
• We can use Nevertheless for one subject: Jane + she
• Nevertheless starts the second sentence.
• Notice the position of the comma.
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Despite/In spite of
There are four ways to use despite or in spite of:
1 Jane doesn’t have much money. Despite this, she bought an expensive car last week.
(Despite + this)
2 Despite the fact that Jane doesn’t have much money, she bought an expensive car last
week. (Despite the fact that ... )
3 Despite her lack of money, Jane bought an expensive car last week. (Despite + noun)
4 Despite not having much money, Jane bought an expensive car last week. (Despite + -ing)
In spite of can be used in the same way as despite in all four sentences.

Although/Even though/Though
1 Although/Even though Jane doesn’t have much money, she bought an expensive car last
week.
• Although/Even though start the first clause.
• Notice the position of the comma.
2 Jane doesn’t have much money. She bought an expensive car last week, though.
• though is informal and used in spoken English and in informal letters.
Whereas
There are two ways to use whereas:
1 Whereas Jane doesn’t have much money, her sister is quite rich.
2 Jane doesn’t have much money whereas her sister is quite rich.
• Whereas is used to contrast two subjects: Jane + her sister
• Notice the position of the comma in the first sentence.
B Use the correct conjunctions to fill the gaps in the following sentences. There may be more
than one possible answer.
1 ................................. rising unemployment, the government still feel confident of winning the
next election.
2 ................................. the position requires experience, we would consider hiring a graduate
with excellent qualifications.
3 We were told that the price was all-inclusive. ................................. , we then found out we had to
pay for our meals.
4 ................................. some journalists are keen to expose the truth, others seem keener on
making up lies.
5 A healthy diet can prolong life ................................. a diet of junk food can be harmful to your
health.
6 People say ‘travel broadens the mind,’ ................................. , it might depend on how open-
minded you already are.
7 ................................. working longer hours, some workers are actually taking fewer holidays.
8 Learning Italian was a real challenge for me. ................................. , I found the lessons very
interesting.
9 ................................. the fact that I enjoy working for my present company, I would welcome
the chance to work abroad.

Now check your answers to Part 2 of the test.

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Part 5
Read the text and the test questions. Before you answer the test questions, go to the
Further Practice and Guidance pages which follow.
You are going to read a newspaper article about the diaries of two famous explorers, Robert
Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. For questions 31–36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D)
which you think fits best according to the text.
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

What do the diaries of Shackleton and Scott reveal?

Rebecca Hunt, once a diary-keeper herself, examines the Roald Amundsen, he slowly returns. His account is drawn
legacy of the great explorers’ diaries. from the perspective of someone whose chances of
survival are being steadily destroyed. It displays just as
I was once a conscientious diary-keeper but having realized much ‘unflinching determination’ as Shackleton’s, yet
its treacherous potential, I buried it in the bin. In a move far despair seeps from the page as the distance that Scott and
more decisive than mine, my aunt torched her diaries in a his four men have left to travel becomes impossible to
bonfire. The third diarist in my family is my great- square with diminishing supplies and deteriorating
grandfather, who fought in the first world war. The many health. ‘Loneliness is the penalty of leadership,’
letters he wrote to my great-grandmother aren’t exactly a Shackleton wrote, which is possibly why Scott unburdened
diary, yet they document his experiences on the battlefield in himself so freely on paper. In his last entries Scott reveals a
a similar way. He didn’t do anything as extreme as my aunt man who could be depressive, snappish and critical.
or me – we edited our pasts into ash and landfill – but my People irritate him, their performance dissatisfies him and
great-grandfather’s letters are still edited. The words are he makes biting asides about incompetence. But he was
brave and considered rather than raw and desperate, since equally impatient with himself. His rigid belief in self-
they were for his wife, who must have been sick with worry discipline was the result of a lifelong disgust at his own
and had three young sons to care for. I’m sure he never inclination towards laziness. While in the navy, he wrote
foresaw me, the granddaughter of one of those boys, ‘of the hope of being more worthy; but how shall I ever
reading his letters 100 years later, nor that they would be on be?’ This relentlessness of Scott’s was often a beneficial
display in the Imperial War Museum. quality but his willingness to punish himself could also be
A few years before the first world war began, Captain Robert considered a form of self-abuse.
Falcon Scott had set off for the South Pole. And in 1914, Ernest ‘Scott’s diary, had he lived, would have formed the basis of
Shackleton started out on another Antarctic expedition; his the book he would have written,’ fellow explorer Apsley
object to cross the entire continent. With curious symmetry, Cherry-Garrard later noted. There is no doubt Scott planned
both Scott and Shackleton’s lives ended up being defined by a to revise his diary into something more selective. I’m certain
journey of around 800 miles, which were documented by Shackleton revised his diary, just as I’m certain anyone
both men in diaries. Scott, I suspect, never had it in mind for would. Such edits aren’t necessarily a misrepresentation of
his to be made public yet I, like countless other people, have events, but reflect the diplomacy of retrospection. As
found it greatly absorbing. (Indeed, I have relied on it for my Captain Lawrence Oates, who died two weeks before Scott,
new novel, Everland, dealing with the conflict between once wrote to his mother: ‘Please remember that when a
historical records and the realities of human relationships.) man is having a hard time he says hard things about other
Ernest Shackleton, however, would not have been surprised: people which he would regret afterwards.’ For my great-
he edited his journal into the book published three years after grandfather, and the hundreds of thousands of other men
he returned from Antarctica. Scott’s journal, in contrast, was who were sent to fight a year later, Scott’s story was an
retrieved from his pocket after he had been dead for eight inspirational example of courage. It continued to be so for
months. The difference would prove to be important. several decades, until a newer, determinedly sensational
With his ship crushed by the ice and the crew marooned on form of biography became fashionable and Scott’s
Elephant Island, Shackleton and five men then sailed more admissions of self-doubt were used to destroy his character
than 800 miles in a boat to South Georgia to get help. and explain the failure of his expedition.
Incredibly, they made it. His book South! describes one of the Shackleton didn’t initially receive the same recognition as
most astonishing journeys ever made. And despite the Scott. It took another 30 years after his death before he
overwhelming probability that no one from Endurance began to gain similar levels of public renown. Their most
would survive, a spirit of cheerfulness permeates the book. famous expeditions are technically about failure but to
Any mention of the conflict or anguish that occurred is brief classify them only as failures is deliberately to misunderstand
to the point of non-existence. As Shackleton remarks in the what makes these two expeditions so extraordinary.
preface, the story is of ‘high adventure, strenuous days, Shackleton and Scott tell their stories in their own words, yet
lonely nights, and, above all, records of unflinching Scott’s contains the reflexive frustration and turmoil of a
determination’. Writing retrospectively, his focus is naturally man writing privately at the end of each day. He never had
on the larger triumph of the rescue and escape rather than the chance to appraise the situation objectively, so we read it
the smaller, spikier aspects of their ordeal. as he went through it, blind to what the next 24 hours will
The story of Scott’s last 800 miles, however, is one of bring. It makes for a more intimate, but perhaps less
grinding torture. Beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian comprehensive account.
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31 When referring to the diarists in her family, the writer says

A her great-grandfather had probably not imagined he would be writing for posterity.
B she had considered it a personal obligation to uphold a family tradition.
C the family diary-keepers are all prone to occasions of melodramatic behaviour.
D her great-grandfather was more cautious in what he wrote compared to her aunt.
32 What point does the writer make about Scott and Shackleton in the second paragraph?
A Scott’s story of tragedy lends itself more to fictional interpretation.
B Unlike Shackleton, Scott had no say in the decision to publish his diary.
C Reading Shackleton’s writing feels much less like an invasion of privacy.
D Shackleton was frustrated by the inevitable comparisons to Scott.
33 What does the writer suggest about Shackleton’s book South?
A it contains elements of embellishment characteristic of adventure writing
B it omits the detail that would have made a more engaging read
C it includes a balance of factual information and personal reflection
D it is unswervingly positive in the conveyance of tone and mood
34 When describing Scott’s diaries in the fourth paragraph, the writer shows appreciation for
A the form of encouragement Scott gave his men so that they would persevere.
B Scott’s acceptance of responsibility for the circumstances his team found
themselves in.
C Scott’s unambiguous admission of defeat regarding the attempt to reach the
South Pole.
D the way Scott applied the same exacting standards to himself and to those working
with him.
35 What point does the writer make about the editing of biographical material?
A any alteration detracts from the truth and is therefore unjustifiably deceptive
B the benefit of hindsight may make certain revisions acceptable
C the deliberate misrepresentation of a person creates an iconic image
D modern types of memoir may in fact be more discreet than older ones
36 In the final paragraph, the writer concludes that
A without the existence of his diary, Scott’s fame would have faded by now.
B there needs to be a public reassessment of Scott and Shackleton’s accomplishments.
C Scott’s diary provides us with a genuinely empathetic experience.
D it is ironic that fame and credit for achievement are often acquired only after death.
Before you check your answers, go to page 17.
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What’s tested? Part 5: Multiple choice

In Part 5, there is a single long text and six 4-option
The texts in Parts 5–8 of the Reading and Use of English
questions. The order of the questions follows the same
paper come from a variety of sources, for example,
order as the corresponding information in the text. In
newspapers, magazines, brochures, non-technical
Part 5, the final question may sometimes test your
journals and books, and may deal with a range of
overall understanding of the text, for example, you
topics with an academic flavour. You will need a high
may need to interpret the writer’s purpose for writing
level of vocabulary to understand the texts so it is
the text, or their attitude or opinion towards the
important that you read articles or extracts from these
subject matter.
kinds of sources as often as possible. A range of
reading skills are tested:
Tips
Part 5: understanding detail, opinion, tone, purpose,
main idea, implication, attitude, and recognizing how Read the text first to get a general understanding of the
certain text organization features show main points. (If you look at the questions first, you may
exemplification, comparison and reference. choose an answer because you think it ‘looks right’ or
is ‘the most likely answer’. This often doesn’t work!)
Part 6: understanding opinion and attitude: After reading the text, highlight the key words in the
comparing and contrasting of opinions and attitudes questions and the four options. Carefully read the part
across texts. of the text where you think the relevant information is
Part 7: understanding text structure, cohesion and contained. Make sure the option you choose
coherence and global meaning. paraphrases the information in the text exactly.

Part 8: understanding detail, opinion or attitude and

locating specific information.

A detailed study
The exercise below will help you to make sure you have chosen the correct options for the
Part 5 questions 31–36 on page 16. Use a dictionary ([Link]
to help you, where necessary.

31 Look at the first paragraph.

A What does the word ‘posterity’ mean? Can you find any examples of ‘posterity’ in
the text?
B Diary keeping is something that three family members do, but is there a paraphrase
for ‘obligation’ in the text?
C What examples of ‘melodramatic behaviour’ appear in the text? Do all family
members behave this way?
D Is there a synonym for ‘cautious’ in the text? Is there a comparison between the
content of the aunt and great-grandfather’s letters?

32 Look at the second paragraph.

A Is there any reference to fiction in the text? Is it about Scott and his journey?
B The phrase ‘had no say in the decision’ means ‘wasn’t involved in the decision’. Is
there a phrase in the text that paraphrases this idea?
C In the text, what event might be considered ‘an invasion of privacy’? Does the writer
say that she feels guilty about reading Scott’s diary?
D In what way(s) are Scott and Shackleton similar? Are we told how Shackleton felt
about this?
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33 Look at the third paragraph.

A The writer says that South! describes ‘one of the most astonishing journeys’. Is there
anywhere in the text where the writer suggests that Shackleton has exaggerated?
B Which phrase in the text is a probable paraphrase of ‘detail’? Look at the
surrounding sentence. Is it a match for B?
C Is there anything in the text that refers to ‘factual information’? What about ‘personal
reflection’? Does the writer say that these two things are given equal attention in the
book South! ?
D What does the phrase ‘spirit of cheerfulness’ mean? And ‘any mention of ... anguish …
is brief’?

34 Look at the fourth paragraph.

A Where in the text does it mention Scott’s men/team? What kind of encouragement
might he have given them? Are there examples of this in the text?
B What ‘circumstances’ did Scott and his men find themselves in? Is there a sentence
in the text which means something similar to ‘Scott knew it was his fault.’?
C What does ‘unambiguous’ mean? In Scott’s diary, does he say ‘I know we aren’t
going to survive’?
D ‘To have exacting standards’ means to have ‘high expectations of a person’s work or
behaviour’. Is this expressed anywhere in the text?

35 Look at the fifth paragraph.

A Which word or phrase in the text might be a paraphrase of ‘detracts from the truth’?
Is the surrounding sentence an exact match for option A?
B Having ‘the benefit of hindsight’ means that you think more wisely and make better
decisions about an event after it has occurred. Is this a point of view that the writer
expresses in the text?
C In the text, who sees Scott as an iconic image? Was Scott ‘deliberately
misrepresented’ (lied about) in his published diary?
D Which phrase in the text is similar to ‘modern types of memoir’? Do ‘discreet’ and
‘sensational’ mean similar or opposing things?

36 Look at the sixth paragraph.

A Does ‘fade’ mean ‘to get stronger’ or ‘to disappear’? Does the writer refer to the level
of Scott’s fame decreasing or increasing in the text?
B Which word in the text is a synonym for ‘assess’? Is the surrounding sentence
referring to Scott and Shackleton an exact match for option B?
C What does the phrase ‘he went through it’ mean in the penultimate sentence? And
who is it referring to in the phrase ‘blind to what the next 24 hours will bring’?
D The writer says that Shackleton became as famous as Scott 30 years after he had died.
Does she suggest that this is a generally strange occurrence?

Now return to page 16 and use these exercises to help you answer the questions.
Now check your answers to Part 5 of the test.
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Part 6
Read the text and the test questions. Before you answer the test questions, go to the
Further Practice and Guidance pages which follow.
You are going to read four extracts from books on the subject of travel. For questions 37–40,
choose from the extracts A–D. The extracts may be chosen more than once.

Travel and travel writing

Four writers comment on the experience of travel C Now that nearly every inch of our planet has
and the function of travel writing been televised, it might be thought that the
works of travel writers must become an
A Naturally, as a travel writer, I had read much in obsolete genre. Certainly we do not need to be
this genre before embarking on my own career. informed about what foreign places look like.
Early on, it was the unpretentious sort of guide But what they feel like is another matter
book with recommendations for budget entirely. A travel writer records the impressions
accommodation and quirky entries on of a temple or a fish market on their own self,
outlandish local customs. I travelled and took expressing the experience not the occurrence.
numerous pictures of folk I encountered and It is subjective, and therefore, whether or not
landscapes I found compelling. Certainly many the location is a saturated tourist destination or
of my jaunts were eye-opening experiences and I a far-flung polar town, the experience is
like to think they had a constructive effect on my individual. Yet the reader has empathy with
character. I must concede, however, that this these feelings, and that is, and always has been,
kind of book has probably lead to the spoiling of the point of true travel writing. I am not
many ‘off the beaten track’ village and the referring to guide books, which encourage the
displacement of its inhabitants. Later, I began to exploitation of already-underprivileged groups.
read more reflective volumes for the chance to Real travel is about approaching experience
explore without being there, and this is the goal with the excitement of a newcomer and gaining
of true travel writing, I believe. If the description insight and maturity from it. And unlike some
allows readers that intense sensory experience in the field, I bear no hostility towards the
of local spices, of the taste of the air, of the glare taking of simple snaps; these images we later
of the sun on extraordinary architecture, then its peruse at our leisure are souvenirs doing no
mission is fulfilled. harm to the environment.

B Shortly before finishing this book, I was in the D Travel writing, even at its most well-intentioned,
remote Egyptian village of El Nazla, captivated can never claim more than entertainment as its
by the hands of an elderly craftsman turning a end goal. But it is since the 1960s that an
grey lump of clay into a perfectly proportioned epidemic of the so-called guidebook has spread
pot. It was a transformation needing to be to library shelves and more recently onto
witnessed wholly by the eye and processed websites. Professing to enlighten the amateur
through imagination, not merely documented traveller, in fact they encourage little interaction
by the intrusive camera lens. As I watched the that will benefit the long-established inhabitants
mud take shape, I could sense the ancestral subsisting beyond the boundaries of tourist
connection, and knew that this was a skill passed resorts, places which often take away livelihoods
down through countless generations. It is when land and other resources become
moments like these when any scepticism inaccessible. Does travel expand one’s own
regarding the notion that travel broadens the horizons? For many, it merely serves to validate
mind is swiftly put down – moments that make existing prejudices; the local cuisine is indeed
me need to put pen to paper and encourage unpalatable, the language unfathomable. Even
others to set forth and experience other worlds so, digital recording devices are ubiquitous,
firsthand. This is a key reason for the existence of flashing at people who have no say in the matter,
travel writing. Even a basic guidebook has the and whose sense of offence is ignored for the
potential to encourage people to visit remote sake of a memento.
locations – their money is often crucial to the
sustaining of family-run industry.
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Which writer

has a different opinion from the others on the effect of travel on people’s
37
personal development?

shares writer B’s opinion of the validity of travel photography? 38

expresses an opposing view to writer C regarding the way in which a genre of

39
travel writing impacts on local communities ?

takes a similar view to writer C on the purpose of travel writing? 40

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Part 6: Cross-text multiple matching single topic that the four different writers are all
commenting on.
In Part 6, there are four short texts followed by four
multiple-matching questions. Candidates must read • Read the four questions to identify the most
the texts to match a prompt (one of the four questions) important information to focus on.
to information in the text. • Quickly read the four texts to get a general
understanding of what each one is about.
Tips • Read each text more carefully to locate a reference to
each of the four questions.
• Read the instructions, the title and the sub-title
carefully. This will give you a good idea about the
• Identify the opinion that each writer has on each
question and compare it to that of the other writers.
central theme of the four texts; in other words, the

A detailed study
The exercise below will help you to make sure you have chosen the correct options for the
Part 6 questions 37–40 on page 20. Use a dictionary ([Link]
com/) to help you where necessary.

1 Match the underlined words in each sentence with the definitions below.
Question 37 (the effect of travel on people’s personal development)
A many of my jaunts were (a) eye-opening experiences and ... they had a (b) constructive
effect on my character.
B It is moments like these when any (c) scepticism regarding the notion that travel broadens
the mind is swiftly (d) put down …
C Real travel is about approaching experience with the excitement of a newcomer and
gaining (e) insight and (f ) maturity from it.
D Does travel expand (g) one’s own horizons? For many, it merely serves to (h) validate
existing prejudices …
1 the range of a person’s knowledgeor experience g
.........

2 productive, useful .........

3 to bring an end to something .........

4 an understanding of the true nature of something .........

5 disbelief, doubt .........

6 revealing, surprising .........

7 confirm, endorse .........

8 experience, wisdom .........

Question 38 (the validity of travel photography)

A I travelled and took (a) numerous pictures of folk I encountered and landscapes I found
compelling.
B It was a transformation needing to be witnessed wholly by the eye and processed through
imagination, not merely documented by the (b) intrusive camera lens.
C … I bear no (c) hostility towards the taking of simple (d) snaps; these images we later
peruse at our leisure are souvenirs doing no harm to the environment.
D digital recording devices are (e) ubiquitous, flashing at people who have no say in the
matter, and whose sense of (f ) offence is ignored for the sake of a memento.
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1 insult .........

2 resentment, aggression .........

3 many, various .........

4 disturbing, invasive .........

5 unsophisticated photo .........

6 everywhere, inescapable .........

Question 39 (a certain genre of travel writing impacts on local communities)

A ... guide book ... this kind of book has probably lead to the (a) spoiling of many ‘off the
beaten track’ village and the (b) displacement of its inhabitants.
B Even a basic guidebook has the potential to encourage people to visit remote locations
– their money is often (c) crucial to the sustaining of family-run industry.
C I am not referring to guide books, which encourage the (d) exploitation of already-
underprivileged groups.
D an epidemic of the so-called guidebook has spread to library shelves and more recently
onto websites. (e) Professing to (f ) enlighten the amateur traveller, in fact they encourage
little interaction that will benefit the long-established inhabitants …
1 very important, necessary .........

2 abuse, taking advantage .........

3 inform, make clear to .........

4 pretending, claiming falsely. .........

5 (unwanted) relocation .........

6 destruction .........

Question 40 (the purpose of travel writing)

A If the description allows readers that (a) intense (b) sensory experience ... then its mission
is fulfilled.
B … to put pen to paper and encourage others to (c) set forth and experience other worlds
(d) firsthand. This is a key reason for the existence of travel writing.
C But what they (foreign places) feel like is another matter ... the reader has (e) empathy with
these feelings, and that is … the point of true travel writing.
D Travel writing, even at its most (f ) well-intentioned, can never claim more than
entertainment as its end goal.
1 understanding (of another person’s feelings/situation) .........

2 having a desire to do something good, but often

producing bad results .........

3 relating to the physical senses .........

4 powerful, concentrated .........

5 personally, directly .........

6 to begin a journey .........

Now check your answers to Part 6 of the test.