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PAPER 1 Reading
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© UCLES 2008 Cambridge ESOL Level 1 Certificate in ESOL International
Part 1
You are going to read a newspaper article about attending a new attraction for film fans in the US.
For questions 1–8, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
It is a warm evening in Los Angeles, and I am shown into a lift and taken upstairs to the
standing in a long queue outside a fabulous- studio. I am to replace Genevieve Bujold as
looking place called Tinseltown Studios. the Queen of England in Anne of a Thousand
Nervous chatter and the noise of a distant, Days. They show me the scene, hand me a
six-lane freeway hum in the air. Women busily costume and push me in front of a camera.
re-apply their lipstick and smooth their My five lines are written onto a large white
dresses. Like me, they are hoping that they board and held in front of me. Suddenly, it is line 50
are about to get a taste of what it feels like to all over. Once all four nominees have been
be a star. filmed, we join the rest of the ‘stars’ in the vast
banquet room. Over the first course, videos
We are spending an evening at one of the are shown on a screen above us. The show
newest and strangest ideas dreamt up by the begins with the red carpet ‘interviews’ filmed
American entertainment industry. Tinseltown’s as we, the guests, arrived.
owners, Ogden Entertainment, claim that, for
one night only, they will ‘turn ordinary First up is a man called John Richardson. Is
individuals into screen legends’ – and I can he pleased to be nominated for an award
hardly wait. tonight, asks the ‘reporter’? ‘You know, being
a stunt man isn’t as glamorous as being an
Our evening begins at 7.30 p.m. Handing over actor,’ he replies. ‘Most of the time, people
my ticket, I walk down the long red carpet watching the picture think that it is the actors
ahead. ‘Fans’ approach and ask for my doing the stunts, so it’s good to finally get
autograph. I graciously agree. ‘Reporters’ ask some recognition.’ John’s friends, who are
where I got my outfit and who will star with me sitting at the table next to mine, are loving his
in my new film. On my right, a ‘television crew’ interview, applauding every time he speaks.
is interviewing two girls. A ‘journalist’ ‘Who’d have thought that, in real life, he is just
approaches. ‘Congratulations,’ she says, ‘you a dull computer programmer?’ says one of
are nominated as Best Actress tonight.’ them. He is right: as more ‘stars-for-a-night’
She turns out to be one of the organisers of are interviewed, I am struck by how
the event and she tells me that, along with competently these people express
three other nominees, I will be edited into a themselves.
scene from a famous movie so that it will A waiter approaches with a warning: I am
seem as if I am the star. The eight scenes about to be ‘spotlighted’. I am introduced to
(showing four men and four women) will then the audience, my blushing face appears on
be broadcast over dinner and the Best the big screen and then, as I squirm with
Actress and Best Actor chosen. Nominees are embarrassment in my chair, the film of me,
chosen by staff at the beginning of the edited (rather badly) into Anne of a Thousand
evening, on the basis of who they think looks Days, is shown. I am also handed a pre-
line 36 as if they have the most guts. So why did they scripted speech – with blanks so I can say a
choose me? Suddenly, the nerves that the thank-you to whomever I choose – just in
staff did not detect come to the surface. case I am chosen as Best Actress. However,
Coping with people who are pretending to be my performance was so wooden that I don’t
fans, journalists and TV crews is one thing, win. Yet now that I know I won’t have to make
but being broadcast acting badly in front of a speech, I feel a moment of real
200 people? I didn’t know if I could handle disappointment.
that. Then I and the other three nominees are
1 When the writer is waiting to go into Tinseltown Studios, she
A thinks she has little in common with the other people.
B wants to find that the claim the company makes is true.
C fears that the event may go on for too long.
D is surprised by the appearance of the building.
6 The writer notices that the other people who are interviewed
A try to respond in the same way that John Richardson did.
B try to appear more interesting than they really are.
C have similar jobs to John Richardson’s in real life.
D have little difficulty in giving good answers to questions.
8 When she discovers that she has not won, the writer
A understands why she was not chosen as the winner.
B is glad that she will not have to make a speech.
C wishes she had not agreed to be filmed.
D regrets not having a better part.
Part 2
You are going to read a newspaper article about a guitar-making course. Seven sentences have
been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (9-15).
There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
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B In fact, I realised that the sound of my guitar G Fortunately, Bailey is particularly skilful when it
had come from all my hard work over the five comes to talking his students through each
days. technique.
C What’s more, apart from mugs full of tea to H These are completely different from the mass-
keep us going, there were few breaks, so no produced guitars you buy in music shops,
one had much energy left for socialising however.
afterwards.
You are going to read some book reviews. For questions 16–30, choose from the reviews (A-E). The
reviews may be chosen more than once.
In which book
Which book
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Instructions
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Use a PENCIL (B or HB).
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Mark ONE letter for each A B C D E F G H
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question.
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For example, if you think
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the question, mark your A B C D E F G H
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answer sheet like this:
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B
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H
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wish to change using an
eraser. 14 A B C D E F G H 34 A B C D E F G H
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