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1A

1
1 T
2 F
2
1 Leather-jacketed, and very popular in various American talkshows, he is the head of some kind of New York Pentecostal ministry,
which was established with the lead singer of a Christian rock band, and is called Hillsong.
2 His attitude in the videos he made was inappropriate.
3
1 lead / head
2 recently
3 judged
4 attitude
4
1 Justin Bieber was prepared by Carl Lents for the baptism.
2 Carl Lents said, ‘I spent/ had spent a week doing intensive Bible study with Justin.’
3 Many celebrities, whose lives are very similar to Justin Bieber’s, have done similar things.
1B
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 D
5 C
2A

A
1 T
2 T
B
1 The solar panel malfunctioned on Saturday and the man turned back, but sent out the distress call when he couldn’t find his way.
2 To make a convenient plan before taking long trips.
C
1 spotted
2 equipment
3 distress
4 treacherous
D
1 A Coast Guard crew was directed to the man by a helicopter.
2 The expert said that his preparation had allowed him to call for help but that he was very lucky to be alive.
3 If the man hadn’t been spotted on time, he could have died.
2B
1 C
2 D
3 A
4 B
5 D

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3A

A
1 F
2 F
B
1 Socio-economically deprived areas tend to have higher rates of people who are overweight. There is a community effect: you are
more likely to be overweight if your friends and neighbours are and you see it as the norm.
2 Children could be the first in the history of the United States to live less healthy and shorter lives than their parents.
C
1 norm
2 deprived
3 moderate
4 severe
D
1 He can’t have lost three kilos.
2 If teenagers aren’t careful with the information they share, it could lead to dangerous situations.
3B
1 A
2 A
3 D
4 A
5 D
4A

A
1 T
2 T
B
1 Unconcerned about how information about them is being used commercially.
2 40% of users had never changed their privacy settings and 80% said they were not concerned or did not care.
C
1 saturate
2 team
3 crucial
4 available
D
1 Facebook, which became very popular ten years ago, is still very popular.
2 WhatsApp is more popular than Facebook.
3 The team, whose members knew each other very well, worked for many months.
4B
1 B
2 A
3 A
4 B
5 D

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5A

1
1 F
2 T
2
1 The doodle features a ball in the Brazilian colours of green and yellow rolling across the screen, before a scene that shows some of
the country’s most famous landmarks.
2 Neymar hoped to help his team in the best possible way.
3
1 landmarks
2 tournament
3 fulfil
4 implement
4
1 Brazil has been preparing for the World Cup for four years. / Brazil, who started preparing for the World Cup four years ago, is still
preparing things.
2 Mr Scolari said (that) the time had arrived that all Brazilians and the whole world had been waiting for.
3 It was thought that the pitch conditions were not very good.
5B
1 B
2 D
3 A
4 D
5 A
6A

A
1 T
2 F
B
1 No, he doesn’t feel well considered. ‘I feel that I have not been considered appropriately in a number of departments, and would
at least appreciate a bottle of cheap wine or a pair of new underpants, size XL.’
2 He wonders why he shouldn’t complain. There’s a lot to complain about.
C
1 cheap
2 blame
3 acknowledge
4 credit
D
1 He said that he had been complaining about the food because he didn’t like it.
2 Even if the sun was shining in the morning, it (then) started to rain and it didn’t stop.
6B
1 B
2 C
3 C
4 A
5 C

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7A
1 F (The most important person in the English-language world is Frank Sinatra)
2 F (The point of the study was to discover if the online encyclopaedia was precise in the level of attention it gives to various figures,
by gender, time, or location.)
B
1 By using methods borrowed from Google to analyse Wikipedia pages and determine which individuals have the most important
articles linking to them.
2 A page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.
C
1 various
2 precise
3 gender
4 feature
D
1 Frank Sinatra was better considered than Michael Jackson.
2 David has lived / has been living in Iran for ten years.
3 Carl Linnaeus, who was an 18th-century Swedish naturalist, is considered the most important person in the world.
7B
1 B
2 B
3 A
4 C
5 C
8A

A
1 T
2 F
B
1 Apparently people subconsciously assume storms with female names are less threatening and so take fewer precautions, which
results in more deaths.
2 For nearly 30 years all hurricanes were given female names. Add the fact that back then warning systems and the science behind
making buildings weather-resistant were all far less developed.
C
1 assume
2 gender
3 staring
4 data
D
1 Scientists, whose work is very important, have been doing a lot of research on hurricanes.
2 The storm has destroyed their house.
8B
1 C
2 A
3 D
4 C
5 D

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9A

A
1 F
2 T
3 F
B
1 He went to Switzerland to continue with his education.
2 Einstein applied for a job as a university teacher and as a high school teacher but wasn’t accepted.
C
1 avoid
2 fluids
3 distract
4 applied for
D
1 Although Einstein was born in Germany, he gave up his German nationality.
2 A job was taken by Einstein with the Swiss patent office in 1902.
3 If his articles hadn’t been published, people wouldn’t have known about his discoveries.
9B
1 C
2 C
3 A
4 C
5 A
6 B
10A

A
1 T
2 F
3 T
B
1 Good company, attractive, confident.
2 She found a new style playing roles in alternative films.
C
1 confess
2 swiftly
3 aware
4 hugely
D
1 It is said that many actors adapt very professionally to their roles.
2 Unless you have new challenges, you can get bored.
10B
1 C
2 B
3 A
4 D
5 A
6 A
7 C

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11A

A
1 F (visiting couples have done the same thing to other bridges in the French capital. Forty locks are reported to have been
removed from the Eiffel tower).
2 T (protesters have started a petition to have them removed. There are also campaigns on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram)
3 F (the heart of Paris has been made ugly, robbing Parisians of quality of life and the ability to safely enjoy their own public spaces
along the Seine, which has itself been polluted by thousands of lock keys)
B
1 It was evacuated because part of the railings collapsed.
2 The objective is to return the centre of Paris, and specially the bridges, to their original shape.
C
1 celebrated
2 vandalism
3 petition
4 vast
D
1 Unless people stop attaching locks to the bridge, the bridge will collapse.
2 One of the petitioners said that in a few short years, the heart of Paris had been made ugly.
3 The couples throw the key into the River Seine.
11B
1 B
2 C
3 C
4 A
5 B
6 C
12A

A
1 F
2 T
3 T
B
1 To describe the significance of the hipster with the change of the century.
2 A person who knows how to shop.
C
1 significance
2 opposition
3 miserably
4 settled
D
1 A hipster, whose definition was created in the 1980s, is a contemporary manifestation.
2 He wondered what a hipster was.
3 He can’t have been a punk.

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12B
1 c
2 d
3 a
4 a
5 b
6 A

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