Language Assessment Part ofthe Unversiy of Cambridge CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH PRELIMINARY ENGLISH TEST Reading and Writing D241/01 Saturday 12 MARCH 2016 Test 163 Time 1 hour 30 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so. Write your name, centre number and candidate number on your answer sheets if they are not already there. Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully ‘Answer all the questions in Reading Parts 1 — 5 and Writing Parts 1 and 2. Answer only one question from Writing Part 3 Read the instructions on the answer sheets. Write your answers on the answer sheets. Use a pencil. You must complete the answer sheets within the time limit. At the end of the test, hand in both this question paper and your answer sheets. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES READING Questions 4 ~ 35 carry one mark aa WRITING Questions 4 - 5 carry one mark. Part 2 (Question 6) carries five marks. Part 3 (Question 7 or 8) carties fifteen marks, pve 500124140, @UCLES 2016 Cambridge English Entry Level Certficate in ESOL International (Entry 3)Reading Part 4 Questions 1-5 Look at the text in each question, What does it say? Mark the correct letter A, B or C on your answer sheet. Example: ‘A The six-week course is cheaper if you also 7 rs do the one-day class Special one-day drama class this Saturday. B The one-day class is free for those who book Price - £50 per person. the six-week course. Anyone who attends will be able to book our new six-week course at c You must pay for the six-week course before a discount. you do the one-day class. Answer: Part 2 Questions 6 - 10 The people below all want to go on holiday by exchanging homes with someone else for two weeks. On the opposite page there are descriptions of eight homes available for a holiday exchange. Decide which home would be the most suitable for the following people. For questions 6 - 10, mark the correct letter (A - H) on your answer sheet. Malika wants to escape the big city. She enjoys walking and 6 cooking. She'd like to bring two friends and go out in the evenings to have fun. They also want to go on cycle rides. Julia loves cooking and using fresh ingredients. She wants to be close to the sea and needs somewhere safe for her car. ‘Adam and Holly would like to swim in the sea during the day and 8 : spend their evenings somewhere lively. They'd like to be able to see the sea from where they're staying. Tomas and Renée want somewhere with plenty of space indoors for their six-year-old son and need things for him to play 7 with. They enjoy jogging and also want to find some good family entertainment, but don't drive. liver tikes staying in old buildings and wants quiet area, He 10 enjoys exhibitions ‘and cultural events, and doesn't mind travelling to see them, but not by car.Homes available for holiday exchange as Falby Big, bright new apartment near city ‘centre. Good public transport to tourist attractions for all ages. Close to large park popular with runners. ‘Two bedrooms, bathroom, large living room and kitchen, pleasant shared garden. Satellite TV and plenty of kids’ toys, three bicycles. Gramlingford D Recently decorated eighth-loor modem apartment with huge living room, large kitchen, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Comfortable accommodation for four adults - plenty of ktchen equipment. Fantastic views ‘over the surrounding city. Very convenient for exploring cultural attractions and enjoying nightie. Ardoigne Pretty 19th-century home located near one of the area’s most beautiful lakes. Sandy beach a few minutes away. Perfect for couple with children, great for jogging and walking too, Car essential, as nearest big shops, restaurants and cultural activities are a two-hour drive away. Large TV. Stanton H This quiet, traditional-style flat is in a former castle. Living room, kitchen, two single bedrooms, and shower room. Garage and small garden — guests are welcome to pick the fruit and vegetables. It's a five-minute walk from a sandy beach and there are plenty of bike paths in the area — good for walking and jogging too. Breeden Stylish apartment with beds for four people and fantastic views in a picturesque mountain resort. Large shared swimming pool, private car park. Perfect location for mountain walks, running and mountain biking, Great nightlife in the local cafés and discos. Good kitchen equipment, children’s toys, four bikes. Lancutter Modern one-bedroom fiat with views over Lancutter Bay. Situated away from the road so very quiet and safe for children. On-road parking. Beaches easy to reach by bus or train. Close to city centre's busy nightlife. Corville Attractive, 18th-century stone cottage, with one large double bedroom opening on to small pool in garden, Close to river for great walks. Only 30 minutes by bus from the busy city centre and its art galleries and museums, but feels like the heart of the countryside. Marnwood Beautiful sunny flat in the centre of the city on a quiet street. Ina modern block, perfect for up to four people. Walking distance from great restaurants, cinemas and theatres. You can buy locally grown fruit and vegetables from the market nearby. Turn over >Part 3 Questions 11-20 Look at the sentences below about a woman who makes and sells bread. Read the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. Ifitis correct, mark A on your answer sheet. Ifitis not correct, mark B on your answer sheet "1 12 13 14 15 16 7 18 19 20 Lucy Taylor gave up a successful career to open her own bread shop. Lucy worked in a restaurant in order to get experience for her bread-baking business. Lucy made the decision to try selling bread as a result of a conversation she had, Lucy now imports most of the ingredients she uses in her recipes. (On the days that the shop is open, Lucy bakes bread twice a day. Lucy sees working in the shop as a waste of her time. Lucy intends to teach someone to help her in the kitchen. Lucy wants to keep control of the running of the business. Lucy admits she spent too much money on advertising when she first opened the shop. Lucy uses a computer to help her see what profit she can earn on her bread.Lucy’s Kitchen Three years ago Lucy Taylor started a new career baking bread, which she now sells from her shop. “For years | didn’t know what I wanted to do, and had various jobs waitressing and serving in shops. Then I went to a careers advisor who suggested I should take a Business Studies degree. During my studies, 1 supported myself by helping with the cooking in a restaurant at weekends, and I really enjoyed preparing meals there. ‘The idea of baking bread came to me one day when someone was complaining to me there was nowhere in our area to buy top-quality bread. I realised this could be a fantastic business opportunity. So, I made 20 loaves and took them to a market to see if they’d sell — after an hour they'd all gone! I started going to various markets and soon built up a group of regular customers. Six months ago I opened a shop. I bake all the bread myself — 200 loaves a day. I’m currently doing about 30 different types, and I’m adding new recipes all the time. My best-sellers are goat’s cheese bread, flat breads using recipes from France, Morocco and India, and traditional German breads. Whenever possible, I try to buy my ingredients locally and have found that nearly all that I need is available. I love my work, but it’s six ong days a week and very ring. I start at 3am and bake for about four hours. Then I deliver my first load of bread to the shop and get things ready there before driving back to the kitchen and making the next load, which has to be ready by 2pm, I choose to serve in the shop for several hours a day as that's how I discover what customers think of my recipes. I also pay two people to serve in the shop, which is a great help. I've considered training one of them to be a itchen assistant, but, to be honest, I prefer to keep my recipes a secret as I’m the only person doing anything like this in my town, I've thought about looking for a business partner, but I don’t feel like sharing the management with anyone else. Having a business degree has been useful for knowing how to advertise the shop, for example, realising you can avoid expensive advertising by contacting newspapers, as I did, and getting them to write an article about your new business. The degree has also helped with the financial si — working out how much things cost to make and what I can sell them for. I've got a software programme that does this for me. I haven’t had a holiday in three years but it’s been worth it!” Turn over >Part4 Questions 21 - 25 Read the text and questions below. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. Guédelon Castle Deep in the forests of central France lies a building site like no other. Here, a team of workers are building a 13th-century castle. They wear clothes from the period and use only the techniques and materials that were available at the time. The site was very carefully chosen, as everything needed to build the castle, from stone and wood to water, had to be close by. The castle is called Guédelon and work on it began in 1997. It is not expected to finish until well into the 2020s, at the earliest. Guédelon is owned by Michel Guyot, who first had the idea for the project while repairing another castle. His aim is to solve some of the mysteries about how such castles were built. Each year, the team at Guédelon draw up building plans based on research at other 13th-century castles. A group of architects then studies these plans and will only permit building work to continue when they are happy with them. Many history professors are also involved and this has helped both the project and them. By watching the builders, the professors have discovered a huge amount about the human side of castle building. Today, Guédelon employs some 50 people, of whom 35 work on the building site itself. Some were already qualified but others have learned their skills on site. The project has also become a major tourist attraction, welcoming around 300,000 people every year. And while the crowds of 21st-century visitors with their cameras and bright umbrellas do rather spoil the 13th-century atmosphere of the place, they are essential to the project. For the past decade, all the work at Guédelon has been paid for by entrance fees and shop sales. 21 Whatis the writer doing in this text? advertising a site for tourists to visit describing an unusual experiment explaining how a problem was solved giving a review of a recent experience von> 22 What do we learn about Guédelon from the first paragraph? ‘A Workis going faster than expected. B_ The idea seemed impossible before 1997. The location is suitable for its purpose. D It's hard to find workers with the right skills. i23 25 ‘What is the role of the architects on the project? A B c D to approve plans made by the team at Guédelon to research building techniques at 13th-century castles to suggest designs for the following year’s building work to prevent earlier mistakes made at Guédelon being repeated How does the writer feel about tourists to Guédelon? A B c D He wishes they were more interested in history. He feels they could be charged higher entrance fees. He thinks the information given to them could be improved. He understands that it's necessary for their numbers to be high. What would a worker at the site say about Guédelon? | don't know when the work will My favourite part of the job is finish, but I've gained a lot of when the tourists come and we knowledge here. | think the dress up for them in experts have too! 413th-century clothes. Michel is an excellent boss. I's We have a few problems with hard to believe he had no the history professors on the previous building experience site, but generally the project before this, has been a big success. Turn over >10 Part 5 Questions 26 - 35 Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet. 0 A was B had Cc is D has Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (0)... born in 1908 near Paris. He is (26)........... to be one of the 20th century's best photographers and his pictures now hang in art galleries around the world. Cartier-Bresson studied art (27) .......... taking up photography in 1931. Many of his early photographs were of street (28).......... taken in and around Paris in the early 1930s. During this (29)..... moving images and in 1937 he made a film with Jean Renoir. he started experimenting with In 1947 he helped (30).......... up the picture agency Magnum Photos. His work as a photojournalist took him all (34) ........ the world, but in 1968 he (32). to drawing and painting, the art forms that had been his first (33) Photography was once believed to be little more than a hobby, but Cartier- Bresson helped to (34)........... people’s attitudes. It was through his work, and that of others, that people began to (35) ....... photography as a real profession.28 29 30 34 32 33 34 35 respected before positions period turn along removed love control argue considered since shapes age set over remained prize join agree " discussed for scenes season put about reached importance change allow decided when places year bring through returned taste direct accept Turn over >12 Writing Part1 Questions 1-5 Here are some sentences about running. For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three words. Write only the missing words on your answer sheet, You may use this page for any rough work. Example: oO It is best to start by running short distances. You ee eeeee run short distances to start with. Answer: | 0| should 1 Itis essential to have good shoes for running, Good shoes «2... essential for running. 2 Remember to take a water bottle with you in hot weather. Don’ to take a water bottle with you in hot weather. 3 It is important to keep warm when you've finished running. Itis important ..... fossiiussiisseiusseens tO get Cold when you've finished runi 4 Some people like running on the road better than running on a racetrack. Some people ........ foveesessussssessesee Running on the road to running ona racetrack, 8 A ‘fun run'is shorter than other races. A ‘fun run’ isn'tas . .. as other races.13 Part2 Question 6 You left your mobile phone at your friend Kim's house. Write an email to Kim. In your email, you should ‘© describe the mobile phone ‘© explain where you think you left it ‘© suggest how Kim could return it to you: Write 35 — 45 words on your answer sheet. Turn over >4 Part 3 Write an answer to one of the questions (7 or 8) in this part. ‘Write your answer in about 100 words on your answer sheet. Tick the box (Question 7 or Question 8) on your answer sheet to show which question you have answered Question 7 ‘+ This is part of a letter you receive from an English penfriend, Tve just moved to a different town. I'm shy so L_| it's difficult for me to get to know new people. What's your advice? How do you make new friends? + Now write a letter, answering your penfriend’s questions. + Write your letter in about 100 words on your answer sheet. Question 8 * Your English teacher has asked you to write a story. «Your story must begin with this sentence: Bill arrived in the town as it was getting dark. ‘* Write your story in about 100 words on your answer sheet.