0 Part 4 Caner) eset For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fils each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exan, mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A term Bile caption D_ label ape? oA 2S k Renewable Energy Comes of Age ‘The (0) ..... ‘alternative energy’ was once used to describe the generation of wind, ‘water and solar power. These days, we tend to (1)... energy’ and the use of this name (2) .......@ real change in their status. These to them as ‘renewable sources of energy, have now become mainstream and are (3) ...... to make @ significant contribution to energy needs in the future. ‘Two closely linked developments (4) ........ behind this change in status. Firstly, the price of ol and gas has been rising (6) ......, reflecting the extent to which reserves: of these fossil fuels are becorning (6) . Equally important is the growing consensus that carbon emissions must be curbed. The scientific evidence for climate change is now irrefutable, and both policy makers and the (7) ...... public are finally in agreement that doing nothing about the prospect of global warming is no longer @ Viable opton. Renewable energy represents one real way of (B)....... both issues. 1 A consider B refer © mention —-D_ regard 2 A regards B reproduces © reminds —D_reflects 3A set B held © put D stood 4A si B reside © lie D recline 5 A equably —-B_serenly habitually steadily 6 A depleted B decroased © C depressed + D_debased 7 A deeper B greater © larger D wider 8 A coping B engaging addressing Dealing BEDE esr 7: neAvING ano use oF encussPart 2 For questions 916, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ane word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. The Demise of the Motor Car Henry Ford's invention of the mass-produced car transformed Westem civilisation. It changed the shape of our cities (0) ........ accelerating migration to the suburbs. It (9) .....- ise to vast new factory-based industries making vehicles and their components. It opened (10) ........ unprecedented leisure and holiday opportunities by letting people travel wherever they wanted. What's (11) ....... it gave us shopping malls, theme parks, motels and fast-food outlets. (12) .....« € long time, people loved their cars. Many still (13) ...... . For some, they are a status symbol a very visible, and mobile, demonstration of their wealth. For (14) ........ they are an extension of their personality, or of the one they would most like to project. Many more derive (15) ........ @ powerful feeling of independence from having a car parked outside the door that, paradoxically, they become dependent onit. But car ownership is not (16)... means that mobility is correspondingly reduced, and the advantages of owning . itwas, Ever worsening traffic congestion a car diminish.Part 3 For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end ‘of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an ‘example at tre beginning (0). In the exam, write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. example: [o] [EINE [TILED] ] Do Green Products Make us Better People? Arrecent report in the journal Psychological Science was (0) TITLE Do Green Products Make us Better People? After conducting a series of experiments, psychologists reached the conclusion that those who buy (17) ethical products were just as ‘SUPPOSE likely to be cheats and (18) ......... 8s those who did not. In other CRIME words, there was no direct correlation between a social or ethical conscience about one aspect of ife, and (19)......... in another. BEHAVE Despite being an occasional buyer of organic vegetables, | myself take great (20) from the study because it fits in with a SATISFY long-held hypothesis of my own. It is what | call the theory of finite niceness. We use the word ‘nice’ to describe those people ‘we encounter who seem (24) and kind, Yet, itisnota word = CHARM |we use often to describe those to whom we are closest, because we know that there is a (22) In their characters. We ‘COMPLEX. understand them and realise that they are people who (23) DouBT have both faults and virtues, and that these do (24) ......... ome VARIABLE ‘out in different ways. Ty TEST 7: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH