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). In the exam, mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, Example: 0 A meet B fink © join Dunit . oJ FF Se What is a coincidence? ‘A coincidence is a surprising thing that happen to us. For example, two friends ao shopping alone on the same day. When they (0) ........ up afterwards, they discover that they've each bought an identical T-shirt. Many people (1) ........ coincidences as ‘could be that friends tend to have significant or mysterious. But the simple (2) .. similar taste in clothes. 1 In reality, life is (3) ........ of coincidences, but normally we don't notice them. For example, in almost fifty percent of all football matches, two players share the same birthday. This seems surprising, (4) ........ that there are 365 possible birthdays in the year. But most of these matches will be played without anybody being (5) that the coincidence exists. (6) ........ your birthday is today or tomorrow, you don't generally go around telling people when it is. What's more, without realising it, you probably (7) ........into contact with lots of people born on the same day as you. But when a coincidence is (8) ....... 0 your attention, it still seems amazing, 1A regard B think © consider —D_believe 2 A explanation B definition © G motivation —D_ resolution 3 A heavy B rich cc full D crowded 4 A given B except © even D instead 5 A noticed B_ known © aware D intelligent 6 A Therefore B Wheraas © G Meanwhile 1 Linless 7 A make B come © have D go 8 A taken B carried © brought D_ shown HERZ «ss! 0: READING AND USE OF ENGLISHPart2 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 the separate answer sheet, Example: [0] [T]HE |] 5] €] Lv] e] s| The Recyclists What do you do to help fight climate change? Two teenage boys from Scotland have just won an award for their efforts. Niall Watson and Roarke Hughes call (0)........the Reoyclists. They pedal (9) ........ their neighbourhood on their bikes collecting rubbish to be recycled. In the area (10) the boys live, the local council only collects a few types of refuse to be recycled, so the boys help their community to recycle more, in (11) ........ for a small fee. Their business venture started three years (12) ....,... a8 @ way of making some extra pocket money. Now Niall and Roarke have expanded their business. They have invested (13) ... (14) ........ they cycle round the town. ‘some chickens and now also sell their own organic eggs ‘The judges of the ‘Ethical Kids Award’, (15) ........ the boys won, were very impressed by them, saying: ‘The Reoyclists captured our imaginations straightaway. Their idea was innovative and green at the (16) ....... time.’ Test 6: READING aND Use oF eNGUSH REE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). In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet, Example: [0] {t|we[N|t]z]€[T]H|_ Travel posters Travel posters were an important form of advertising in the first part of the (0) .......... century. The classic travel poster was designed to TWENTY make people believe that they could (17) ..........@ more luxurious Joy lifestyle. They aimed to tempt people away from their ordinary working lives by presenting them with images of (18) ......... RELAX and glamour. As travel became less (19) Posters were produced to ‘SPEND advertise railways, cruise liners, motoring and airlines, as well as individual tourist destinations. The golden age of posters, however, was the period from 1910-1950, before television made other ways of advertising more (20) ......... EFFECT The value of a poster is often linked to the (24) ......... who ART created the original. Some of the leading poster designers, influenced by (22) ........ Such as cubism and surrealism, MOVE created their own style and use of colours, which is (23) ...... INSTANT recognisable. Posters designed by these people are often the ‘most striking and can command (24) .......... high prices. ‘SURPRISE ia TEST 6: READING AND USF OF FNGLISH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 n. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). Example: 0 What type of music do you like best? FAVOURITE . What. type of music? The gap can be filled by the words ‘is your favourite’, so you write: | | TS YOUR FAVOURITE Example: In the exam, write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. 25 Isit all right if | turn the television off? ‘MIND Would ... 26 We're not going to have our car washed because it costs too much AFFORD We ..... srt have our car washed. 27 Grace knows a lot about Web design, even though she has never studied it. HAVING Despite ...... Web design. Grace knows a lot about 28 Damon looked so funny in his brother's tracksuit that we had to laugh, HELP Ne srcrerepnnemanneranrecccenerinmvesansenien at Damon because he looked so funny in his brother's tracksuit 29 An electric fence kept visitors away from the animals, PREVENTED An electric fence ........ animals. close to the 30 Graham likes to spend time alone just before a race. BY Graham likes to spend time .. xevcercascncenea just before a race. TEST 6: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH Ti