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Part 1
For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer ( А, В, C or D) best fits each
gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:

A intended В wondered C decided D failed

New Cycling Schemes

The County Council has 0 _____ to give a higher 1 _____ to cycling and agreed a new
strategy to guide the way ahead in East Sussex.

Cycling is a 2 _____, healthy and environmentally-friendly form of transport. It is intended

to make it safer, more convenient and attractive, and to increase the 3 _____ of journeys
made by bicycle.

Cycling is being encouraged both for utility purposes (such as journeys to work, school
and the shops) and for 4 _____ trips for exercise and enjoyment, including longer trips by
tourists.

Recent cycle schemes carried out in conjunction with District Councils and other bodies
include the Brighton and Hove seafront route and the Cross Levels Way cycle route, in
Eastbourne.

5 _____ people will be consulted as the strategy is implemented. The County Council will
work with local cycling and other groups, and a countywide Cycling Forum will be formed
to 6 _____ that all bodies concerned with cycling are in regular 7 _____.

The objectives of the Cycling Strategy are given in a leaflet, and a 8 _____ of the full
strategy document can be seen in County Council Public Libraries.

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 1 A advantage B income C benefit D priority

2 A shortcut B high-speed C dangerous D low-cost

3 A size B proportion C provision D proposal

4 A recreational B useless C sufficient D promotional

5 A Abnormal B Proper C Country D Local

6 A improve B ensure C assert D maintain

7 A contact B basis C touch D account

8 A copy B book C letter D network

Part 2
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, write your
answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on tho separate answer sheet.

Example: USED

Holidays with friends

I always 0 _____ to go to Porchester 9 _____ my summer holidays. It is a quiet little town,
full of old and interesting buildings. Very 10 _____visitors ever go there, so there are no
crowds. I enjoyed its sleepy atmosphere. I work in a big city, so a holiday in Porchester
was a complete change 11 _____ my usual life. Besides, I found out about the history of
the place. I wanted to learn how life used to be in Porchester – the stories of 12 _____
people and buildings.

I made notes on all these things 13 _____ my holidays and I soon knew more about the
history of Porchester than most of the people 14 _____ lived there.

I am not a rich man and I cannot afford to stay in hotels. When Jack Thompson heard
that I wanted to spend my holidays in Porchester again all these years later, he invited
me to stay with 15 _____. Jack and I were in the Army 16 _____ during the war and we were
good friends.

Part 3
For questions 17-24, 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 gap in the same line. There is an example at the
beginning (0).
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In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.

Example: EXCITABLE

Mr Greaves had always been an 0 _____ man who should never 0.EXCITE
have had a 17 _____ position. 17.MANAGE
His bad temper was only just 18 _____ and there was often a 19 18.BEAR
_____ to tell him to sit down and relax. His office was chaotic with 19.TEMPT
papers everywhere and had 20 _____ no order to it. 20.ABSOLUTE
21.CONFER
Once he went to a 21 _____ in Paris and on his 22 _____ at the 22.ARRIVE
hotel he completely forgot who he worked for when the 23 _____ 23.RECEIVE
asked him. 24.INTEND
When he tried to help he was a hindrance although his 24 _____
were always good.

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Part 4
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 two
and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0).

Example:
0.They think the owner of the house is in France.
THOUGHT
The owner of the house _______________ in France.

Example: 0. IS THOUGHT TO BE

25. Michael’s wife finds getting up early every morning difficult.

USED
Michael’s wife _______________ up early every morning.

26. What a pity you didn’t come to the party.

WISH
I _______________ to the party.

27. The burglar failed to enter the house through the first floor window.
SUCCEED
The burglar _______________ the house through the first floor window.

28. My hair needs to be cut before the wedding reception.

MUST
I _______________ before the wedding reception.

29. “Why didn’t I ask her out last night?” John said to himself.
WONDERED
John _______________ asked her out the night before.

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30. They think that their school teacher is a very rich man.
BELIEVED
Their school teacher _______________ a very rich man.

Part 5
You are going to read an extract from a science fiction novel called “1984”. For questions 31-
36, choose the answer (А, В, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

‘How is the Dictionary getting on?’ said Winston, raising his voice to overcome the noise.

‘Slowly,’ said Syme. ‘I’m on the adjectives. It’s fascinating.’

He had brightened up immediately at the mention of Newspeak. He pushed his bowl

aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other, and
leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without shouting.

‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said. ‘We’re getting the language into its
final shape – the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve
finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say,
that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words –
scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the
bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before
the year 2050.’

He bit hungrily into his bread and swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, then continued
speaking, with a sort of pedant’s passion. His thin dark face had become animated, his
eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy.

‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the
verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It
isn’t only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there
for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its
opposite in itself. Take “good”, for instance. If you have a word like “good”, what need is
there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well – better, because it’s an exact
opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of “good”, what
sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like “excellent” and
“splendid” and all the rest of them? “Plusgood” covers the meaning, or “doubleplusgood”
if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already. But in the
final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of
goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word. Don’t
you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.’s idea originally, of course,’ he added as
an afterthought.

A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother.
Nevertheless Syme immediately detected a certain lack of enthusiasm.
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‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when
you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you
write in ‘The Times’ occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your
heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of
meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that
Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’

Winston did know that, of course. He smiled, sympathetically he hoped, not trusting
himself to speak. Syme bit off another fragment of the dark-coloured bread, chewed it
briefly, and went on.

‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the
end we shall make thought crime literally impossible because there will be no words in
which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly
one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out
and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the
process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer
words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course,
there’s no reason or excuse for committing thought crime. It’s merely a question of self-
discipline, reality control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The
Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc
is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‘Has it ever occurred to you,
Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive
who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?’

31. Winston and Syme are

A. in a cafeteria.
B. at a party.
C. at school.
D. in an office.

32. Syme likes

A. the food.
B. hearing Winston’s opinions.
C. talking about his work.
D. to shout.

33. What kind of words are being the most greatly reduced?
A. adjectives
B. verbs and adjectives
C. nouns
D. everything except antonyms

34. What can be gathered about Winston’s attitude towards Newspeak?

A. He finds it exciting.
B. He studies it eagerly.
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C. He is outspokenly against it.
D. He accepts it unhappily.

35. Which of the following best describes Newspeak?

A. It is a historical language being reconstructed.
B. It is a highly simplified language designed to prevent thought.
C. It was invented to help citizens escape an oppressive government.
D. It is a new language that is incredibly difficult to learn.

36. What kind of future does Syme imagine?

A. Everyone will be better educated.
B. People will be safe because there will be no violent crime.
C. People will not have enough language to think at all.
D. People will communicate better and more effectively.

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Part 6
You are going to read a magazine article about a volcano in New Zealand, now a nature
reserve, and the experience of the native people in the past when it erupted. Six sentences
have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-G the one which fits each
gap (37-42). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Rangitoto
By Alastair Jamieson
Off-track the ground is menacing. Lava, like angry waves frozen in mid-chop only
moments ago, claws at the soles of my boots and threatens to shred my knees if I place a
foot wrong. The surface is so uneven that progress is extraordinarily difficult. Occasional
smooth stone channels course like petrified streams through the rougher ground, their
solid surfaces a welcome pathway amid teetering plates of broken lava and treacherous
bouldery rubble. Out of the shade of the dense thickets of bush, it’s as hot as a furnace.
All that black rock absorbs and radiates enough heat to melt Antarctica. It’s as hostile a
spot as you could find anywhere in New Zealand, yet when I turn around, there is
downtown Auckland in plain view just a few kilometres away.

37 __. Its symmetrical cone is a relaxed cousin of those higher and steeper volcanoes
Taranaki and Ngauruhoe but Rangitoto is a truly astonishing wilderness right on the
doorstep of the city. Landing on the island, the graceful sweeping curves seen from a
distance quickly give way to a magnificent mosaic of the tortuous lava I’ve been
scrambling through and scrubby, impenetrable pohutukawa forest.

Of course, it was not always like this. 38 __. However, the emergence of the youngest and
largest of the fifty-odd volcanoes in Auckland’s volcanic field was witnessed by Maori
living on adjacent Motutapu Island.

The persistent yelping of dogs might first have awoken them. Soon afterwards there
would have been a thundering roar. The vibration of the sandy ground beneath them
would surely have Jolted them from their homes. 39 __. A wind shift and the familiar

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smells of the camp – wood smoke, the sea, and even the penetrating stench of shark
flesh drying on frames – were soon overpowered by the pungent, suffocating odour of
sulphur dioxide.

Running across the beach and dragging boats into the sea, shoals of dead fish bumped
against their legs as they waded into the cold shallows. 40 __. Looking behind them, the
cataclysm was becoming clearer in the first light of day. Black clouds were blasting out
from the base of a roiling column of steam, flying boulders were arcing white streamers
through the sky and splashing into the sea.

41 __.The footprints of a small group of adults and children were found sandwiched
between layers of Rangitoto ash. Markings show where the ground was prodded with
sticks and that one of the dogs with the group paused to drink from a puddle. 42 __.
Whether these people were foolhardy or brave, lured by curiosity, or a desire to retrieve
their treasured possessions, we’ll never know

A. The familiar form of Rangitoto did not exist for generations of Maori who first
inhabited the surrounding lands.
B. The low black cliffs of Rangitoto are just 1500m away, the centre of the eruption only 3
km further.
C. The impressions were so well preserved that the next blanket of ash must have
spewed from Rangitoto soon after they were made.
D. Paddling hard towards safety, the first wet ash began to fall, sticky and abrasive.
E. Outside, the familiar stars above and the scatter of bright campfires along the shore to
the west was hidden by a pall of steam, strobed by lightning and lit by a ferocious fiery
glow from beneath.
F. No landform is more familiar to Aucklanders than Rangitoto Island and yet how many
of them ever go there?
G. Proof exists that in the weeks or months following the onset of the eruption, people
came back to their campsite on Motutapu Island.

Part 7

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