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A
You mustn’t take the computers out of
0. IT IS FORBIDDEN TO
this room without asking the headteacher.
MOVE COMPUTERS FROM
B You should check with the headteacher
THIS ROOM WITHOUT
before using the computers in this room.
PERMISSION FROM
C You must ask the headteacher for permission
THE HEADTEACHER
to move the computers into this room
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NOTICE
A After you use books, put them back on the shelves.
1. BOOKS MUST BE
LEFT ON TABLES B Leave books on the table when you finish using them.
AND NOT PUT BACK
ON SHELVES C If you find books on tables, take them to the librarian.
Alton Zoo A Visitors can see how the monkeys are fed at 9.00 a.m.
3. The monkeys are fed
Daily at 9.00 a.m. B Visitors should never try to feed the monkeys before
9.00 a.m.
Visitors are welcome
to watch. C Visitors can help feed the monkeys at 9.00 a.m.
NEW A You can have a haircut every day but not on Saturday.
4. HAIRDRESSER
Opening 17th February
B You can pay less for a haircut with this advert.
Show this advert and get
10 % discount
C You can get a cheaper haircut only on the opening day.
( Except Saturdays)
POINTS 4
TASK 2 Read the article carefully and choose the most suitable
heading(A-H) for each
part (5-9) of the article. F is done for you
0 F
I first decided to give skiing a try when I was 21. I headed for the nursery slopes where I spent the morning
fooling around, teaching myself and not learning how to turn or even stop. Then my friend dragged me to
the top of a mountain in a blizzard, and left me to get down. Many freezing hours later I returned exhausted,
scared and having been cursed by everyone on the slopes.
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I remember thinking that skiing wasn’t that easy, or fun. It seemed an expensive and dangerous sport for the
rude and stupid who treated beginners like slush. For thirty years, I enjoyed simple winter pleasures
on Welsh hillsides, or in faraway sunshine. The Alps in winter? Keep them.
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And then, three years ago, I went with girlfriend / ski instructor, Jenny, to a cheerful little hotel called
La Belle Etoile in the Chamonix valley. One by one, all those prejudices against the sport had to be
rethought. The slopes were not full of rude head-bangers but sweet families and locals. They weren’t
crowded or even very expensive and there were plenty of middle-aged beginners.
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But can you really coax an unfit old man down a precipitous slope? Well I was determined to have a go
and Jenny risked our relationship deciding on the tough love approach. ‘Feel the edges’, she cried. ‘Bend
the knees’, ‘bum in, grip your poles, roll the skis, weight on the front ski’. By day three, I had grasped the
theory of parallel turns.
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Then illusions set in. Some fool at the bar that evening said he wanted to do the Vallée Blanche,
the longest offpiste ski run in the Alps, 26km down a glacier starting at 12,000ft. He’d been skiing for
umpteen years and at last felt ready for it. With him I formed a foolhardy plan: to do black runs
– the hardest – by the end of week one, and the Vallée Blanche by the end of week two. ‘Forget it,’ said
Jenny. And I did.
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Twelve months later we went back to the same place, this time straight on to harder runs. Slopes that had
looked impossible a year before now seemed pretty easy. I now found it possible to enjoy myself. Those
mountains stretched forever, beautiful and awesome. The next day, with adrenalin flowing, I was finally
on the black runs with Jenny. It was a fulfilling experience that will remain with me for ever … but the
Vallée Blanche still calls.
TASK 3 Read the text about two great women POINTS 10 inventors to
decide if each is sentence
True or False. If it is True mark T . If it is False mark F .
T F
1. There were a large number of women inventors in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
2. When Margaret Knight was twelve, she told her parents she wanted to work in a factory.
3. Margaret Knight’s first invention made a machine stop when it became dangerous to use.
4. Margaret Knight won her fight to be considered the inventor of a machine to make paper bags.
5. In the 19th century, being an inventor was as difficult for a woman as being a business person.
6. Margaret knight always had great difficulty finding a buyer to her inventions.
7. Women found that the covers of Beulah Henry’s parasol often came off in the wind.
8. Beulah Henry was encouraged to invent her parasol by large umbrella manufacturers.
9. There is plenty of information about Beulah Henry’s private life.
10 Beulah Henry was prepared to admit that her technical skills were not very developed.
The nineteenth-century inventor Margaret Knight was born in the USA in 1838. As a young girl, she was
made to work in a cotton factory by her parents. While she was working there, there was an accident and
somebody was almost killed by a machine. Margaret was only 12 at the time, but she invented a way to fix
the machine so that if there was the same fault again, straight away the machine would shut down
completely.
She had more than eighty inventions, from a machine for cutting shoes to improvements for the steam
engine. But her most important invention – a machine that produced paper bags with flat bottoms – never
made her much money. In fact, the idea for the original invention was stolen by the person who made the
model for the machine. She had to go through a long legal battle to be finally recognized as the owner of
the idea.
In those days, women were not encouraged to be business people any more than they were
encouraged to be inventors. Once Margaret Knight had produced an invention, she would usually sell it to
somebody for not much cash, and when she died in 1914, all she left was 275 dollars.
These women’s lives and achievements will always inspire future generations of inventors.
Beulah Henry also began inventing things when she was a young girl. In 1912, at age 25, she got her
first patent for an ice-cream freezer. A year later, she patented a parasol – an umbrella for the sun – with
changeable covers so that a woman could match her parasol with her clothes. Working out how to fix the
covers so that they would not only fly away on windy days was difficult, but she managed to do it. In fact,
as she herself put it, ‘The biggest umbrella men in the country told me it could not be done.’ The invention
earned her about 50, 000 dollars from the manufacturers.
In all, she patented 49 inventions. But for someone with such a long career, surprisingly little is known
about Beulah Henry’s personal life. She was born in the USA in 1887 and grew up in an artistic family.
She entered university in 1909 and we suppose her education did not include technical or mechanical
subjects, as she was always honest about her lack of such skills.
POINTS 10
TASK 4 Read the article, choose and circle the best
alternative to answer
the questions. (2 points for each correct answer).
Lake Vinney
My favourite place for watersports is Lake Vinney, but it has only existed since 1975 when the
valley was filled with water to provide electricity. Under the water is the village, Vinnthorpe. Last
week I talked to Pat Smithers, who runs a shop on the edge of the lake and looks after the huge
car park. She gets up early to travel to her shop to sell newspapers and food and doesn’t finish
work till late because of the car park. She said drowning the village was the best thing that ever
happened as it brought a lot of business to the area, and the number of visitors from all over the
country continues to increase, especially as there is a new road which means it is easier to get
to. When I asked people enjoying the watersports, they said they never thought about the
drowned houses and streets. When I spoke to some people sitting in the cafe overlooking the
lake, I was surprised to find they still get angry about what happened. They used to live in
Vinnthrope and were moved to other places in the area, among them thirty children who are
now middle-aged, but they still miss the village. They say that nobody asked them what they
wanted – they were told one day that everything was decided. They were separated from their
friends and had to get buses to new schools instead of walking there together. It is a shame that
these people lost their homes, and I hope something similar never happens again in the future. I
would miss the watersports if they weren’t there, however, and I must say that I hadn’t ever
thought about what was under the water until last week.
POINTS
TASK 5 10
Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space For each questions, mark the letter
next to the correct word A, B, C or D . The first (0) is done for you.
Fashions have always changed with time. No (0) A Roman girls worried about having the
latest hairstyle and boys in Ancient Egypt wanted to have sandals (1) _____ were cool and
not the sensible ones their mothers preferred.
Looking (2) _____ over recent times, there seem to be two main differences in the (3) _____
fashions have changed compared to earlier times. Firstly, (4) _____ more people have a choice
of clothes available to them. There are few places (5) _____ the world where the trainers, the
caps or the T-shirts of teenagers do not change from one year to the next. Secondly, styles are
(6) _____ within a much shorter time than they (7) _____ to be. For instance, in the 1960s,
(8) _____ had the same low waists narrow skirts as forty years before.
In the early years of the 21st century, the shops are (9) _____ of long skirts and coloured
scarves like the ones in fashion only thirty years before. Soon, we will find that the really
fashionable people look on different from the (10) _____ of us, because it is only ten years
since their clothes were in fashion before!
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TASK 6 For these questions circle A, B, C or D. ( 1 point for each correct answer)
1 …….. from Nigel, all the group arrived on time.
A Except B Other C Besides D Apart
2 ‘I did this painting all …….. my own, Dad,’ said Milly.
A on B with C for D by
3 As I had missed the Chemistry lesson, my friend went …….. the homework with me.
A by B after C over D on
4 This food must be eaten …….. two days of purchase.
A within B before C over D under
5 He’s still getting …….. the shock of losing his job.
A across B by C over D through
6 This application …….. be handed in until the end of the week.
A doesn’t need B doesn’t have C needn’t D hasn’t got
7 You ….. better check whether all the details are correct before we send it off.
A would B had C should D did
8 Sixty-five? No, James ……. be so old!
A can’t B mustn’t C wouldn’t D needn’t
9 John doesn’t need a calculator. He …….. do very difficult sums in his head.
A must B can C would D may
10 She ……. to take part in the competition by her doctor.
A wasn’t allowed B didn’t have C wasn’t able D might not
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POINTS 10
TASK 8 Complete the second sentence so that it means the
same as the first.
(2 points for each correct answer).
9. I can’t pick you up. Two mechanics are repairing my car at the moment.
I ........................................................................................................... at the moment.
- Some students think that cheating during a test is not a big fault, others believe that it
is not right. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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Keys B1
TASK 1 TASK 6
1 has gone
2 is working
3 would go
4 broke
5 had seen
6 have
7 was listening
1–B 8 wanted 1–D
2- C 9 wrote 2-A
3–A 10 am eating 3-C
4- B 4 -A
TASK 2 5-C
5- G 6-C
6–B 7-B
7- A 8-A
8–D 9-B
9–C 10 - A
TASK 3
1–T TASK 7
2–F
3–T
4- T
5 -T
6–F
7–F
8–F
9–F
10- T
TASK 4
1–A
2–D
3–C
4–B
5–C
TASK 5
TASK 8
1–B
2- C 1 old enough
3–D 2 when my brother had joined
4–C
3 has been
5–A
4 as interesting as
6–D
5 use
7–C
6 he had arrived
8–A
9–C 7 had her wedding dress made
10 - C 8 would/should
9 am having my car repaired
10 narrow