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PART 1: LISTENING COMPREHENSION (V.9)

Estimated time needed: 25 minutes

Exercise 1:

You will hear an interview with a stuntman. For questions 1 – 8, choose the best answer A, B, C
or D. You will hear the recording twice.

1. When did the stuntman meet the interviewer? While ___

A. he was living in London.
B. he was visiting London.
C. he was working in London.
D. she was visiting London.

2. Why did the children watch him? They ___

7. How has Stanley avoided serious injury?
A. wanted him to fall from a tree.
A. He has a good safety record.
B. wanted him to go to hospital.
B. He has never broken any bones.
C. wanted to see him doing his stunt.
C. He is careful who he works for.
D. were worried he might get hurt.
D. He has been lucky.
3. When he took up mountaineering, ___
8. Stanley ___
A. he was sixteen.
A. used to wait a long time on set.
B. he went to hospital.
B. thinks it’s normal to wait around on set.
C. he found a job.
C. is impatient when he’s waiting.
D. someone tried to stop him.
D. takes days to film each stunt.
4. How did David help Stanley?
A. He gave him a job as a stuntman.
B. He told him about the course.
C. He told him he had got a job.
D. He took him to see the director.

5. Finding work after Stanley had got his first job was ___
A. easy because the film company helped.
B. difficult because no one helped.
C. very difficult in the beginning.
D. easy when he’d been in a film.

6. How long was Stanley in the air?

A. Less than a minute.
B. More than a minute.
C. A long time.
D. Forever.

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Exercise2:

You will hear an article about the rainforests. For questions 9 – 18, mark the sentences as True (T)
or False (F). You will hear the recording twice.

09. ____ According to the article, a piece of rainforest the size of a football field is destroyed every day.
10. ____ Only 10% of all the plants in the world have been given names by scientists.
11. ____ The rainforests have 30% of the world’s bird species.
12. ____ Only exotic fruits, nuts and spices are produced in the tropical rainforests.
13. ____ Bamboo furniture is made from tropical rainforests plants.
14. ____ Sometimes when we walk, play sports or decorate our homes we use rainforest products.
15. ____ Not many tropical plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
16. ____ The rainforest can be necessary for certain children.
17. ____ The rainforests of the globe influence world weather.
18. ____ Our rivers would be more polluted if our air wasn’t filtered by the rainforests.

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PART 2: READING COMPREHENSION (V.9)

Estimated time needed: 40 minutes

Exercise 1:
Read the following article and choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each question.

Find out all about why volunteers are important for making wishes come true in our interview
with Sophia Giorgi.

When 19-year-old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make-A-Wish
Foundation, nobody understood what she was talking about. But Sophia knew just how important
Make-A-Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for
one of her best friends. We were interested in finding out more, so we went along to meet Sophia and
listen to what she had to say.

Sophia said that the previous year Make-A-Wish had helped her best friend, Andreas, who was
seventeen years old and had been ill for a long time. “Andreas had always wanted to be a pilot, but he
knew it probably wasn’t possible because of his illness,” explained Sophia. “But thanks to the Make-
A-Wish Foundation in Greece, Andreas had a brilliant day at the Araxos Air Base. He flew in a
helicopter and learnt all about war planes.” Sophia said one of the pilots had spent a lot of time with
Andreas, answering his questions and explaining things to him. Andreas certainly had a day to
remember, and Make-A-Wish has helped nearly 90 other children in Greece to “live” their dreams.

But what exactly is Make-A-Wish? Sophia told us that Make-A-Wish is a worldwide organization
which started in the United States in 1980. “It’s a charity which helps children who have got very
serious, life-threatening illnesses. Make-A-Wish helps the children to feel happy even though they are
ill, by making their wishes and dreams come true,” Sophia explained.

We asked Sophia how Make-A-Wish had first started. She said it had all begun with a very sick young
boy called Chris, who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman. Sophia said lots of
people had wanted to find a way to make Chris’s dream come true – so, with everybody’s help, Chris,
only seven years old at the time, had been a “policeman” for a day. “When people saw how delighted
Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too, and that was
the beginning of Make-A-Wish,” explained Sophia.

When we asked Sophia if she could explain how Make-A-Wish worked, she told us the Foundation
tries to give children and their families a special, happy time. “Sometimes it’s hard for families with
children who are really ill to enjoy themselves and laugh together. They often feel sad a lot of the
time,” said Sophia. “A Make-A-Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the child what they would
wish for if they could have anything in the world.” Sophia said the volunteers were important because
they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things
that are necessary, like plane tickets or equipment, or by raising money or helping out in whatever they
can.

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We wondered what things the children wished for. Did a lot of them want to meet somebody famous?
Sophia agreed that a lot of children did ask to do this. But she said other children wanted to own
something special or go somewhere, and some children, like Chris, wanted to be a different person or
do a different job for a day. “Whatever the child’s wish is, Make-A-Wish tries to make it real for
them,” she said.

So, how did Sophia become a volunteer? She told us she’d had to ring the Make-A-Wish office in
Athens to get some more information. She said she’d become a volunteer the following week and that
she was glad to be doing something to help make children’s wishes come true. Sophia suggested that
other young people could also volunteer.

Make-A-Wish says that without the help of volunteers like Sophia they would not be able to perform
these “miracles” for children. Why not see if there’s something you can do to help?

For more information see www.wish.org and www.worldwish.org

1. How did Sophia first find out about the Make-A-Wish Foundation?
A. Her friend had volunteered to help.
B. Make-A-Wish had helped her friend.
C. It is a special organization.
D. Her friend had dreamt about Make-A-Wish.

2. What did the pilot do when he was with Andreas at the Araxos Air Base?
A. He gave Andreas lots of information.
B. He flew with Andreas in a war plane.
C. He asked Andreas lots of questions.
D. He reminded Andreas about his day.

3. According to the article, the Make-A-Wish Foundation ___

A. doesn’t exist in Greece.
B. is only in America.
C. isn’t a charity.
D. is an international organization.

4. A boy called Chris ___

A. had the idea that began Make-A-Wish.
B. was the first child Make-A-Wish helped after it had been set up.
C. gave people the idea of starting Make-A-Wish.
D. wanted people to help him to make his dream come true.

5. Make-A-Wish volunteers visit children and their families to ___

A. find out what the child’s wish is.
B. make the child happy.
C. make the family feel special.
D. see if the child is feeling sad.

6. Volunteers are important for Make-A-Wish because they ___

A. decide if the wish can come true.
B. help in lots of ways.
C. provide all the plane tickets.
D. know how to make people laugh.

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7. Which of these statements about the children’s wishes is true?
A. All the children want to meet famous people.
B. Most of the wishes involve owning something.
C. Lots of the children wonder what to wish for.
D. Children often want to meet someone special.

8. When did Sophia become a volunteer for Make-A-Wish?

A. On the day she first contacted the foundation.
B. Before she first contacted the foundation.
C. Approximately a week after she first contacted the foundation.
D. A few weeks after she had first helped a child for the foundation.

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Exercise 2:
You are going to read a newspaper article. Choose the sentence (A – H) which best fits each gap
(9 – 15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

Six months to transform an empty warehouse into a to-die-for apartment – can it be done by teenagers?
This is the story of the TV series Bricking It.

Ten teenagers are taking on the construction of a luxury flat. For trainees who have hardly ever picked up a
paintbrush – let alone a screwdriver – it’s no easy task to reach expert professional standards. They will learn
practical skills as well as develop key life skills like getting to work on time, leadership and financial
responsibility.

The teenagers were chosen from over 1,000 applicants. (9) _____ . These last potential trainees went through a
selection weekend. After showing how they dealt with learning basic carpentry, plumbing and decorating and
how they worked in a team, ten trainees were selected.

Project Manager Dr Phil Ashton attended the selection weekend: “It was great fun seeing them build a shed
together.” But Dr Phil was concerned about the motivation of some of the applicants; he said that the chance to
be on TV had attracted them, rather than anything else. (10) _____ . “Greg da Silva, though, wanted to be a role
model to his young brother. That’s good motivation.”

Over the six months, the trainees get the experience and responsibility of doing up a flat from scratch. They also
have hands-on tuition from master craftspeople. (11) _____ . Furthermore, there is a completion bonus of
£50,000 for the job. If the trainees damage materials or behave badly, however, this comes out of the bonus.
Whatever remains will be split between the trainees.

Dr Phil explains how he feels about some of the trainees: “It was difficult when Ricky got dismissed but I was
really impressed by Laurence. He did a pipe-bending task yesterday that looked really professional. (12) _____ .
I could see why he had always wanted to be a plumber.”

In the meantime, Dr Phil was getting tired of Greg’s excuses for being late and by week thirteen, he had already
had a verbal and written warning. When it happened for the sixth time, Dr Phil called him to his office and asked
him if he realized what he was doing. (13) _____ . Greg claimed that he was trying to be on time. But Dr Phil
wanted to give the trainees a taste of life in the real world: “No employer would put up with that. Why should
I?”

Meanwhile, he told us that it was fantastic to see Hannah excel at the formal exams. “At this stage, Hannah
continues to be a solid performer and totally reliable. Zac impressed me, too.” We asked him how the group had
reacted to leadership and authority. (14) _____ . “The other trainees rejected his authority and they blamed him
for things going wrong.”

Last day and the £350,000 apartment is ready. Zac’s told everyone that he’d be gutted if they didn’t get the
payoff in the end. At 11 a.m. the construction manager for the site arrives to approve the flat. (15) _____ . Six
months ago all of them were untrained teenagers. Now their work is on the line.

A. But others had more sincere reasons for wanting to go on the project.
B. This was a fantastic achievement considering it was his first experience of
this type of work.
C. It was interesting when David was foreman for the day.
D. The developers will be selling the flat in the autumn.
E. Through a process of interviews and workshops, this number narrowed
down to twenty.
F. He had been late and late again, and had finally run out of warnings.
G. This is make-or-break time and he won’t be afraid to tell them if he
doesn’t think the flat makes the grade.
H. This will help those who make it to the end of the project to get an
excellent apprenticeship.
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PART 3: USE OF ENGLISH (V.9)

Estimated time needed: 40 minutes

Exercise 1:

Read the text and complete the gaps with the word which best fits each space.

Food miles
Recent years have seen not only an increased interest (1) _____________________ the freshness
of what we eat but also where the food was actually grown. This is because ecologists have
pointed out that the distance the food (2) _____________________ travelled to arrive in the
supermarket or greengrocer has an important influence (3) _____________________ the
environment. The term “food miles” was invented as a way (4) _____________________
measuring the distance a food has (5) _____________________ transported until it reaches the
dining table. For example, a shopper in London may (6) _____________________ prepared to
pay a relatively high price for Japanese prawns that have been caught and flown over on the same
morning. However, this badly damages the environment because the plane and the lorry (7)
_____________________ have delivered the prawns have polluted the environment. Research
that has been carried out (8) _____________________ environmental groups has found out that
the environmental cost of food transport is more (9) _____________________ 15 million euros a
year. Although food miles make up only one part of the total cost of food production, they should
be taken (10) __________________ consideration in any discussion on the future of the world in
which we live.

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Exercise 2:
Read the following story and choose the correct option A, B, C or D.

The stolen bike

One morning last week I realized that my bike had been stolen from my garden. I phoned the police
and two officers called at my house the next day. They asked me if I had seen or heard anything. I told
them I had been out that evening, and I hadn’t noticed anything suspicious when I came home. “If I
had seen anything, (11) _____ you,” I replied. “It was raining hard too. If the weather (12) _____ so
bad, I would have ridden my bike.” The officers told me that lots of people (13) _____ their bikes
stolen lately. “The thieves (14) _____ to have put the bikes in a van,” said one of the officers. “I (15)
_____ I had known about that,” I said. “I saw a black van that evening. In fact, it (16) _____ opposite
my house.” The officers asked me what the van’s number was, but I couldn’t remember. “If you saw
the van again, (17) _____ you recognize it?” one of them asked. “It (18) _____ painting. I remember
that,” I replied. However, there was a happy ending to this story. After the officers had left, I (19)
_____ by a friend of mine. “By the way”, she said, “if you want your bike, I (20) _____ it back this
afternoon. I borrowed it a couple of days ago.”

11. A. would have called B. would call C. had called D. called

12. A. wouldn’t have been B. wouldn’t be C. hadn’t been D. wasn’t
13. A. had B. had had C. had to have D. hadn’t
14. A. think B. are thought C. have thought D. are thinking
15. A. would B. realise C. wish D. thought
16. A. was parked B. had parking C. is parked D. has parked
17. A. do B. can C. would D. if
18. A. needed B. had been C. looked like D. seemed
19. A. heard some news B. was phoned C. had a phone call D. called up
20. A. will have brought B. will bring C. will be brought D. am bringing

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Exercise 3:

For questions 21 to 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 and you must use between two and
five words, including the word given.

21. I don’t want you to go out alone at night. DID

I’d rather _________________________________________ alone at night.

22. “Will I ever pass my driving test?” Sophie asked herself. WONDERED
Sophie ___________________________________________ pass her driving test.

23. The pirates buried the treasure in a secret location. WAS

The treasure ______________________________________ a secret location by the pirates.

24. I’m sure they didn’t go mountain climbing without a guide. HAVE
They ____________________________________________ mountain climbing without a guide.

25. It was a mistake to buy a second-hand car. REGRET

I ______________________________________________ a second-hand car.

26. You press this button to switch off all the lights. WHEN
All the lights switch off ___________________________ this button.

27. The last time Mike was in England was in 2005. BEEN
Mike _________________________________________ England since 2005.

28. You ought to study harder for your exams if you want to pass this year. SHOULD
If you want to pass this year ________________________ harder for your exams.

29. In spite of the evacuation, many people could not leave town. HOWEVER
The town was evacuated; __________________________ leave.

30. When I have enough money, I will travel abroad. UNTIL

I ______________________________________________ I have saved enough money.

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Exercise 4:

Fill in the gaps with words derived from the words between brackets.

Archaeologists in the South American country of Uruguay have made an (31) ____________________
(AMAZE) discovery; they have dug up the scull of a giant rat. The rat was nicknamed Mighty Mouse
because of its (32) ____________________(BELIEVE) size. It lived approximately four million years
ago and weighed an (33) ____________________(IMPRESS) one tonne. Scientists were (34)
__________________ (PUZZLE) by the creature’s enormous teeth. They believe the huge teeth were
used for (35) ____________________ (PROTECT) against (36) ____________________ (BIG)
animals or to knock down trees. A large variety of rats have been discovered in South America, but this
one is the most (37) ___________________ (FASCINATE) because of its incredible size. About 65
million years ago, South America was an island, which allowed animals there to live in (38)
____________________ (ISOLATE). However, things changed when a land bridge was formed
between North and South America. The sudden (39) ____________________ (COMPETE) with other
mammals led to a (40) ___________________ (REDUCE) in the population of giant rats.

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PART 4: WRITING (V.9)

Estimated time needed: 60 minutes

Exercise 1:
You have seen the following advertisement and you are interested in finding out more because you love
cycling. Choose which course you would like to go on. Then, using your notes, write an email asking
for more information. Write about 100 words.

Whichever kind of cycling you’re

CYCLING
interested in, we’ve got just the training Who? Teachers?
TRAINING for YOU!!! We can help you be faster,
COURSES safer and more skilled on your bike. Cost?
Where?
My bike?

Contact Jim Barker now to find out more about intensive

courses in your area. Jim Barker can be reached at: 11 Beech
Mews, Vale Street, Willingston

MOUNTAIN BIKING – STUNT CYCLING – RACING –

ROAD SAFETY

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Exercise 2:

Choose one of the following topics A or B and write about 100 words.

A. This is part of a letter from a friend of yours who is going to a big social event in a few weeks.
Using the extract from your friend’s letter, and your own notes below, write an email to your
friend making suggestions and recommendations about what he / she could do.
Healthy diet – fruit and
vegetables?
Exercise? Gym?
… and I’m really looking forward to it. But what can
New clothes?
I do to lose a bit of weight and smarten myself up? New haircut?
Let me know if you’ve got any ideas! Stop eating chocolate and cakes?

By the way, when are you…

B. You have decided to enter a short story competition. You should write a story beginning with
the following sentence: “It was a storm which changed his life”.

______________________________________________________________________________

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 SPEAKING (V.9)

1. CONVERSATION

Interlocutor and Student A / B

 Greetings and introductions.

 Do you make friends easily?
 In your opinion, what’s the best way to learn a foreign language? Why?
 What are the main problems faced by young people and their families?
 Tell me something about your neighbourhood.
 If you had to choose between a place you’ve been to before, and liked, or a new
place that seems interesting, which would you choose?
 What are your future job / career plans?

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2. SUSTAINED MONOLOGUE (V.9)

Look at the two pictures about our environment. Compare and contrast the two pictures. Think
about the following questions:
- How do the pictures make you feel?
- Why is it important to keep the earth clean?
- What do you do to make your community a cleaner place?
- How can living near a polluted area affect your life?
- In what ways is water important in our life?
- Who is responsible for water pollution? What should be done about it?

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3. DISCUSSION (V.9)

You live near a stadium which was built for the last Olympic Games.

Unfortunately it is losing money and it’s in danger of being closed, unless it starts
making a profit. Plan a series of events to bring in the crowds. Remember, you
must raise as much money as possible. With your partner decide:

• which three events suggested below would generate the biggest profits.
• which event you think would be the least popular.
• what you would charge for entry.
• what other entertainment or facilities you would provide, e.g. refreshments.
• what other activity you could suggest to raise money to save the stadium.

Give your opinions, agree or disagree, defend your points of view, make comments.

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 ANSWER KEY 5.9

PART 1:LISTENING (total 20 points) PART 3: USE OF ENGLISH (total 20 points)

– 1.11 each - - 0.50 each –

1. B 01. in
2. D 02. has
3. A 03. on
4. C 04. of
5. C 05. been
6. A 06. be
7. C 07. which / that
8. B 08. by
09. than
09. F 10. into
10. T
11. T 11. A
12. F 12. C
13. T 13. B
14. T 14. B
15. F 15. C
16. T 16. A
17. T 17. C
18. T 18. A
19. B
PART 2: READING (total 20 points) 20. B
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21. you did not go out
1. B 22. wondered if / whether she would ever
2. A 23. was buried in
3. D 24. can’t / couldn’t have gone
4. C 25. regret buying / having bought
5. A 26. when you press
6. B 27. hasn’t been to
7. D 28. you should study
8. C 29. however, many people couldn’t
30. won’t travel abroad until
- Exercise 2: 1 point each -
31. amazing
09. E 32. unbelievable
10. A 33. impressive
11. H 34. puzzled
12. B 35. protection
13. F 36. bigger
14. C 37. fascinating
15. G 38. isolation
39. competition
40. reduction

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