Part 1
TEST
You must answer this question.
Write your answer in about 100 words. 1
Question 1
Read this email from Anna Jones, the organiser of a photography competition, and the
notes you have made.
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NewMessage **X
From: Anna Jones CcBcc
Subject: Winner of our new photography
competition
Hi
Congratulations! You’ve won our photography
competition! Great!
The first prize is a photography holiday. You’ll
spend a week with a professional photographer.
You can go and take photographs in the
mountains or in a big city. Which would you
prefer?
Explain
Two other people can go on the photography
holiday with you. Who would you like to take
with you? Tell Anna
If you’d like any more information, please ask!
Best wishes, Ask about …
Anna Jones
Write your email to Anna using all the notes.
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Part 1
TEST
Questions 1 – 5
1 For each question, choose the correct answer.
A You must tell us if you leave books
RIVER SCHOOL here for checking.
LIBRARY B Check that you have all your books
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Wait in this area while before leaving the library.
your books are checked.
C Do not leave here until we have
Thank you. checked your books.
In Deshini’s opinion, what is the
Countryside here’s OK. countryside’s disadvantage?
Mountains higher than we A the transport
expected. Very limited wildlife,
though the other people in the B the animals
group are fun and we have
easy transport. C the mountains
Deshini
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NewMessage *×
What does Sandra need to do?
To: Sandra CcBcc
From: Betty A Let Paula know who’s going to
the party.
Paula’s emailed twice about the
guest list for the party. Could B Send a party invitation to Paula.
you send it to her as soon as C Ask Paula who should be invited to
you can? the party.
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TEST
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A Students can get their ID cards in
the canteen.
SOUTHWOOD
COLLEGE CANTEEN B Staff must bring their ID cards if they
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want to use the canteen.
Staff and students C Students need to show staff their
cannot use the canteen ID cards.
without ID cards.
<Back Contacts
A We need to change the training time
because it’s full at 2 p.m. this week.
B We may have to train with a different
The football coach rang.
team this week.
Nobody from our team has
booked to come at 2, only
C We must go training at a later time
other teams. This week, to this week.
be together, we’ll have to
train at 4 instead.
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Part 2
TEST
Questions 6 – 10
For each question, choose the correct answer. 1
The people below are all looking for a magazine to buy.
On page 12 there are eight advertisements for magazines.
Decide which magazine would be the most suitable for the people below.
6 Omar is interested in architecture and wants to know more
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about it. He would like to meet people with the same interest
and to visit special buildings locally.
7 Cecile is very keen on sport and keeping fit, and particularly
enjoys long-distance running. She would like to improve her
technique and perhaps find other people to run with.
8 Duncan enjoys spending his free time in the countryside,
exploring different areas on foot and by bike. He wants to know
more about what he sees when he is exploring.
9 Heidi likes going to watch her favourite football team, although
she usually has to work at weekends, organising jazz concerts.
She’s keen to learn about the history of football.
10 Piotr is studying IT and business at university, but he’s very
interested in modern art, although he’s usually too busy to visit
galleries and museums.
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1 This month’s pick of the magazines
A World of Sport B History is Beautiful
This is the magazine for sports fans! All team Art and music lovers will really enjoy this
sports are covered, with reports on games (in magazine. It’s full of interesting articles
case you miss any), interviews with players about the history of concert music, classical
and much more. There are lots of photos and architecture around the world and the
special articles on subjects such as the early development of the great museums and
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beginnings of football and baseball clubs in galleries.
distant places.
C Footloose D Green World
Are you someone who loves being outside, The busier our city lives become, the more
looking after your body? Footloose is the we want to escape to the fields and hills.
magazine for the outdoor runner who takes Green World is the magazine to take with
their hobby seriously. Professional advice is you. There’s lots of information about birds,
given, with tips for achieving the best style on animals, trees and plants, together with maps
long runs. There are also lists of local clubs of great bike rides and walks to follow.
you can contact or join.
E Sport Business F Plan for Success
Interested in sport? Want a career in sport? This magazine is all about setting up
Want to study sport? This is the magazine for businesses that will succeed in today’s
you! Maybe you want to learn about setting difficult economic climate. With articles about
up a health club or a bike shop, or about how motivation from famous sportspeople and
football clubs operate in the business world. tips for running companies without waste,
It’s all in here. you can learn all you need to get ahead.
G How We Live H Pictures in Your Living Room
Houses, offices, museums, bridges … This is the magazine for today’s art lover.
Somebody designed them, somebody built Every month there are large high-quality
them – but most people walk straight past reproductions of famous pictures from the
them. Learn about the structures we live and twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Turn
work in. How We Live also contains a list of your home into an exhibition hall of these
local associations, so you can share your masterworks, building up a great collection.
enthusiasm with like-minded people nearby.
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Part 3
TEST
Questions 11 – 15
1 For each question, choose the correct answer.
Camping
Journalist Gary Timms writes about his love of camping.
When I asked a group of my friends whether they enjoyed camping, everybody had
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plenty to say. Camping was either terrible or wonderful – there was rarely anything
in between. Their opinions depended on their childhood experiences. If they’d had
fun staying in tents in the countryside when they were kids, then that was usually
the beginning of a life-long love of camping. But of course, the opposite was also
sometimes true.
Personally, I loved camping when I was younger and I believe that’s why I still do
today. My father worked in the music industry and my family moved from city to
city. I was sometimes rather lonely, I realise now, though I wasn’t unhappy. During
the holidays, I visited many different places and saw all sorts of interesting tourist
sights with my family. We often stayed in nice hotels, but for me, real holidays were
the ones when we got out into the countryside and slept in tents. I think every family
should have that opportunity.
The kind of camping I liked best was ‘wild camping’: not stuck in campsites, but
up in the mountains, in forests or by rivers. After all, if you’re camping with friends
or family, that’s who you want to be with, not a load of strangers. Although many
campsites have great showers and shops, and are usually good value for money,
they’re also quite boring places to be. However, a night at a campsite once in a
while allows you to get all your clothes clean and stock up with food. And wherever
you choose to camp, don’t pack too many things: keep it basic and you’ll have a
better time.
We took our three children camping last summer. We could see they loved it: the
freedom, cooking on a fire, looking at the stars at night. I like to think that they
understood the value of fresh air and water, sunshine, running and swimming, and
that it meant more to them than an expensive holiday touring countries on the other
side of the world.
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TEST
11 What did the writer discover when he asked his friends about camping?
A Some of them had never been able to try it.
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B They had very different views on the subject.
C The ones who liked it had the most to say.
D A few of them preferred not to discuss the topic.
12 What does the writer say about his childhood?
A He wished his father would spend more time at home.
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B He frequently felt rather miserable.
C He was glad his family could afford luxury accommodation.
D He enjoyed one type of holiday more than any other.
13 What does the writer say about campsites?
A It’s useful to stay in them occasionally.
B Most of them are rather expensive.
C They rarely have enough facilities.
D They’re a good place to meet new people.
14 The writer hopes that on their camping holiday his children learnt
A the importance of simple things.
B how to manage money carefully.
C the names of the stars they saw.
D how to cook new dishes.
15 What would the writer say to someone who wants to try camping?
A B
If you go camping, make It’s probably best to wait
sure you take a good map until your children are
with you that shows where older before you take
to find the best campsites. them on a camping trip.
C D
You must definitely try Remember that camping can be
camping with your kids, and quite dangerous, so plan your
the less you take with you, the trip very carefully and don’t go
more you’ll enjoy the experience. too far away from other people.
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Part 4
TEST
Questions 16 – 20
Five sentences have been removed from the text below. 1
For each question, choose the correct answer.
There are three extra sentences which you do not need to use.
The Mary Rose
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The Mary Rose was a sixteenth-century sailing ship used by King Henry VIII of
England to fight wars. The ship sank in July 1545 during a battle off the south coast
of England, near the city of Portsmouth. Soon afterwards, a number of attempts
were made to raise the Mary Rose. 16 The ship became half buried in
sand and clay, and lay at the bottom of the sea for more than 400 years.
During that time, the Mary Rose was occasionally disturbed. For example, during
the nineteenth century, two divers brought up a few objects from the sunken ship.
But over the following 100 years, the ship became completely covered up and
disappeared under the bottom of the sea. 17 Then, in 1965, a team
of volunteer divers started to search for the ship, exploring the area using sonar
technology. In May 1971, three large pieces of wood from the ship were discovered.
18 In 1982, after many years of hard work, most of the ship was brought
up out of the sea.
The Mary Rose had a large crew. When the ship was found again, thousands of
items like clothes and cooking equipment belonging to them were discovered inside
it. 19 After the ship was raised, experts were delighted to be able to study
them. The crew had also needed to entertain themselves during their free time.
20 All this gave historians useful information about what daily life was like
in the sixteenth century.
Naturally, the general public were also very interested, and followed the story of the
Mary Rose closely as it was reported in newspapers and on TV. Now, at a museum
in Portsmouth, visitors can see the remains of the ship and many of the objects it
was carrying when it sank.
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TEST
A They had finally found the Mary Rose!
1 B For instance, nobody expected that there would be so much in them.
C After all, there was no reason for anyone to keep on looking.
D So they had taken games and musical instruments with them, too.
E This is why they wanted to explain what had happened to it.
F As a result, the exact location of the Mary Rose was forgotten.
G Fortunately, many of these were still in excellent condition.
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H However, none of them were successful.
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Part 5
TEST
Questions 21 – 26
1 For each question, choose the correct answer.
Working from home
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Most people with jobs have to spend some of the day travelling. Some people may
(21) this is a waste of time, but not everyone can afford to live near their
(22) of work. And some people choose to live outside the city centre or
(23) in the neighbourhood where they grew up.
However, nowadays more and more people are choosing not to travel to work every
day. They work from home instead, (24) a space in their home as their
office, connected to their company by the internet. They prefer this way of working
because they feel they can do more and feel less tired at the end of the day.
If you want to do this too, make sure you have a (25) space to work in,
with good light and a comfortable chair. And remember to (26) regular
breaks!
21 A seem B wonder C think D look
22 A position B location C point D place
23 A remain B keep C continue D rest
24 A making B doing C using D putting
25 A correct B suitable C right D successful
26 A begin B take C follow D give
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Part 6
TEST
Questions 27 – 32
1 For each question, write the correct answer.
Write one word for each gap.
Hi Fran,
I’ve just been to a great new café in the town centre, called Café K. I liked it as
(27) as I went in because they were playing some really good jazz. As
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(28) know, I love that kind of music!
(29) are lots of plants and the whole place is very light and bright. The
staff are really friendly, too, and the coffee I had was absolutely wonderful. It was
so nice that I wanted to stay (30) day! It wasn’t too busy when I went,
(31) I’m sure it will become very popular when more people find out
about it.
So, when will you be free to come and visit Café K with me? I’m (32) work
tomorrow and the day after, but maybe we could meet on Thursday.
All the best,
Dani
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Part 2
TEST
Choose one of these questions.
Write your answer in about 100 words. 1
Question 2
You see this announcement on an English-language website.
Articles wanted!
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Films
What kinds of film do you like? Why?
Do you prefer watching films at the
cinema or at home?
We’ll publish the best articles on our
website next month!
Write your article.
Question 3
Your English teacher has asked you to write a story.
Your story must begin with this sentence:
I was glad when my phone started to ring.
Write your story.
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