Test 1 Key Reading and Use of English (1 hour 30 minutes) Part 1 1B 2D 3C 4A SD 6B 7c 8D Part 2 9 anybody/anyone 10 like 11 make 12 for 13 by 14 havelstand 17 favourablefavorable 18 unexpected 19 beginners 20 21 endanger 22 solution 23 alternatively 24 mouneaincer(s) Part 4 5 not to LET Iher/ the childeen /kids watch 26 make it ILLEGAL Ito drive 27 “Tom / he had lefe | on fin TIME OR Tom he had been on /in TIME leaving 28 to be (a) THOROUGH revision to / of f revising of 29 was a GRADUAL | tise increase improvement in 30 was of lno CONSEQUENCE OR was not / wasnt ofl (any) ‘CONSEQUENCE Part § 3D 32B 33C MB 35A 36¢ Part 6 37D 38A 39 B 40 Part 7 $C ME 8G 4A 45F 46D Part 8 47C WA 49D SOB SIA 20 SIA SHO SSD SoB Writing (1 hour 30 m Candidate responses are marked using the assessment scale on pages 108-108, 0Listening (approximately 40 minutes) Part 1 1B 2C 3 Part 2 12 seabird 13 birthplacelplace of bith 14 icebreaker Parts ISA 16 ¢ Part 4 UB DWE Transcript PART 1 Enact One Man: Woman: 8 media studies 9 sneakers 10 aceanogeaphers 11 shipping 7B C 19D wD 30 8B BF WD 8H WH WD WE 29 Thies the Cambridge English: Advanced, Test One 1 introduce each part ofthe test and give you time At the start of each pice owl bear this sound Yow hear each piece twice Remember, while you're listening, write 9 have five minutes the end ofthe test. 9 1 the question pape rs onto the Ther'l now bea pens. Please ash any questions now, because yo ining the test. Now open your question paper and look at Part One Ipawse] You'l ear three different extracts, For questions 1-6, ts best according to what yon bear Thre a hear to friends talking about ane Now look a restons one and tw Ipause] So, what's i ike, working in that ultra-modern building? ‘Well, really werd at frst, but 'm getting used to it. One thing is not having your own desk, but 've worked like that before, The latest thing is that youTest 1 Key Mari Woman Mani Woman Extract Too Man: Woman: Man: Woman: a get moved around diferent parts of the building How are people coping? Varying degrees of success, as you can imagine. The technology available is amazing ~ everybody has a mobile laptop, a mobile phone, so you can work anywhere — with others, by yoursel, n'a funky design space, ina space like a garden. That's abit tough ~ people lke to define and personalise their working area - they're rally taken out oftheir comfort zone, Work isn't a place anymore I's what you do that counts. Teams arent fixed ether. You ‘can be in aciferent one each week, But there's plenty of direction and you know what neads to be done, How do you fool about all the moving around? I's supposed to be healthier for you - I'm not sur. It hardly matches up {to a session in the gym! But sometimes you can bump into somebody tinexpectedly, and it's good to bounce ideas off each other. I's thought that ‘make people focus betta on their output, but that remains to be seen. laws] [he recording repeated Ipause You hear two friends discussing business travel Now loo at questions vee and fowe Inawse ‘So you're back from the Far East. Do you reckon the company'll be cutting back om trips like that? ‘Well, you'd hope they'd make more use of digital communication things tke Video = but honestly, there's often no real alternative to face-to-face meetings Incertain crcumstances anyway. | suppose it all comes down to being sure to book with the companies whose planes use bio-fuel. Responsible travel You could calt. Because there's no way I can foresee business travel doing Anything other than growing inthe future... estimates put i between ten and fifteen per cent, or so I read recently in an analyst's report. Thats certainly what they're saying ~ so let's hope aiines and rail companies, worldwide wil be responsible when it comes to planning. Thoc'll have to be plenty ofthat to deal withthe expected growth. All too often they just Concentrate on immediate results ~ tke the instant profit they seem to be ‘obsessed with. Though obviously they do have to make things pay. And is always a good thing for them i they can promote ther plans by saying how ‘much work willbe provided. Above all hough, what's needed isa strategy to cope with what future trends are likely to throw up. You're right ther. [pause11K Ipavsel Woman: | saw a fascinating programme last night - about research info human sel interest. "Man: What's to research? Selfishness is just not giving others @ second though surely? Woman: No there were experiments, they showed that when you give people a financial windal, they're happier if you insist they spend it on themselves Man: Who woulda’ be? Woman: You're missing the point. Man; So what dd the research consist of exactly? Woman: Well. they gave two groups of people a sum of cash. One group could choose between keeping itor giving I to char; the other group had to spend iton themselves. And this second group, vitally forced to be sel interested, tured out to be the happiest. Those that voluntary kept cash ‘were less happy ~ presumably because ofthe undertow of gui of having madi that choic. Man: 1m glad | didn't have to! Not easy! Woman: One thing ! tok from the programme was how i's a good idea to pre-commit to-any actives that are‘sel-interested. So... make plans to soe rlends that are hard to break, buy cinema tickes for next weekend now. 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An easy option would have been to board an ailine, and get {an idea ofthe vast frozen wastes from above ~ but | wanted to get through though, so | opted for enlisting as a crew member on anice-breaker ~no ordinary vessel this but one tasked with cutting a sea-passage through the frozen waste. We found no frogs or beavers but felt a renewed respect for the toys’ remarkable endurance, 124PART 3 Interviewer Jessica Interviewer: Jessica: Interviewer Jessica Inteeviewer 80 before | g6 on. [face] Insc Bart Two again [The recording is epeated.] pause] That's the end of Part Teo Now tur to Part Thre Iause} You wilh and Paul ‘hoose the anaver (A,B, Cor D} which fis best according to what you hea You now have 70 seconds to lok at Part Three (pause Welcome to today’s programme, where I'm talking to slentists Jessica Conway and Paul Flower about exploration and discover. Fist of all Jessica these days surely everything on Earth has been discovered and mapped? Absolutely not- we've begun. You can use eatelites to estimate the shape of the landscape under the oceans. for example. but its only an estimate, inthe ‘Antarctic recently, investigating undersea volcanoes, we found crater in the ‘ocean floor, about four kilometres across and well over one kilometre deep ‘and it wasn't on any map, We had no idea it was there. And that just amazed me, because there's nowhere beyond the shoreline where we can trip over ‘such big geographical features that we don't already know about. ‘And are you finding many new animal species around these underwater craters? Will as we get closer to finding everything out there, it's going to get progressively harder to find new species, but at the moment there's no sign ofthe rate of discovery slackening off. The real question is just how many more new species there might be there. At least one new species has been lscovered every month over the thirty-five years we've been exploring deep. sea craters ~ and wove sill got plenty lt to record, So you're clearly expecting to make similar geographical finds elsewhere? ‘Sure, we're going to be exploring these sorts of features and comparing what \we find for quite some while. Thee are stl huge unexplored areas, 90 there be ots to focus our minds om inthe coming decades, with the aim of all of us ‘across different disciplines bulding up a kind of jigsaw puzzle of what exists whee. What do you think Paul?Test 1 Key Pau Interviewer Pau Interviewer Pau Pau PART 4 126 ‘Well... our diferent backgrounds make for very diferent research method: but the ultimate goals the same. For example, recent work on glaciers by & US researcher has helped me re-evaluate my own data on climate change. In this business the figures can alter from day to day and you have to keep on top of Now Paul, you've actually walked where no one's ever walked before what's that ike? ‘Yes - every year I goto Greenland, climb new mountains and travel on previously untouched ice cape... there are iteally hundreds of these. There's {sense of freedom — think that's what I gt. You're stil avare your body is, ‘exhausted, and yet by traveling to new areas everytime thare’s this renewed feeling that this is where 'm meant to be. Its an experience ike no other What about other people accessing remote areas”? ‘You stil see great areas where there are no roads, no vilages, no permanent habitation whatsoever - despite the current population exposion and the need for development. m obviously keen to explore uncharted teitory but not, of course, with the ‘checklist’ mentality ofthe wealthy globetrotte. These ‘days of course everyone can go everywhere, it seems, But surly in coming generations the urge to explore will begin to dwindle as these places are visited, catalogued, mapped? | wouldn't want the next generation thinking, “Huh! I's all been done before. ‘And besides, I can get tal off the Internat" Because you can, you see. ‘You can spend your life looking ata computer with the world's best search engines, but i's nowhere near the same as actualy standing there on a mountain top, You ean do all the research you like, but when you stand there, it's 20 intense, so life-giving, it doesnt mater that someone might have been there belore, because now you are. And, regacless of your standpoint on ‘green issues, | think people will aways hold that view. Ipawse} [Nowe youl bear Bart Three again [The recording s repeated] [aus That's the end of Part Thee [Now tur to Bart Fo Prt Four consit of to tasks. You'l hear five short extracts in which peopl talking about taking up anew spot, Look at Task One. Fr questions 21-25, Choose from the list (A-H) why each speaker took up their particular sport. Ne took af Task Tivo, For questions 26-30, choose from the list (A-H) whut advice ich speaker gives about taking np a sport. While you listen you must complete bath tasks.Speaker One! ‘Speaker Three: Speaker Four: You now have 45 seconds to look at Part Fou: {started judo when | was ten. I'd boon good at other martial arts, so I didnt think itd be too difficult, and t went along because my fiend kept going on bout how brillant the instructor was, and how id do me good. | was soon taking part in competitions with people my age and older, eventhough I didn't think Iwas that great. But | got there by sheer force of wil | think, and I'd say that’s the key — knowing what you thik you can achiove and then making yoursalf go that ite bit futher each time. Yes, watching what you eat can go Some way towards helping you succeed, but its what goes on in your head that really counts. |tecentty moved from athletics to powering. It happened quite by chance = one day in the gym out of curiosity I set myself the task of finding out the ‘maximum weight | could lI wasnt that much actualy, but still enough to {got me hooked. Although I'm stil quite new to the spor, I'm keeping up prety wel, and I'm hoping to go tothe USA soon to da a course with a coach that's ‘over there wio's gota great reputation. That's essential, | think = to have ‘someone on board wiho knows ther stuff when it comes to training. That take you a long way down the road to success, especially as your fitness improves. [pause] | picked up karate a few years ago, my prime motivation being to take part inthe fighting bit, think! You're pitting yourself against another person and you've got to win. 've probably got an addictive personality where taining’s concerned, but with any contests I take part in, I end to do really well as a result Its @ good feeling knowing that kids folow your example ~ Td say its ‘a rewarding thing to fx your sights on. Obviously if you'e net very good, that isn't going fo happen, but If you ean dish it out in this sport, your standing really goes up ~ and that's a good place to be. Doing any sport brings huge rewards, anc! among them fs the opportunity tomake all kinds of fiends, once you gat to a certain level. An for anyone ‘wishing to take up my spor, wheelchair racing, Pd stress the need to have total, unquestioning faith in your own abilty, ‘cause without that you'e going absolutely nowhere. I certainly got me a long way, ‘cause my international competitions have literally taken me all over the place, and I'm relly orteful for what the sport has given me in that respect. And that's what | went into for, aftr al,Test 1 Key | wash’ that keen to play badminton when my frlends suggested it, but i the end it was a case of ‘anything to keep them quiet. Anyway tomy utter astonishment | turned out tobe a natural at i, even beating off one or two \who'd been competing for years, go that persuaded me, and I've been thrashing the shuttlecock across the net aver since. | can get very into it though, at times, and | have to be careful so that | make space for other things. My coach always tells me to maintain a sense of proportion and Pm with i on that ~ after all, what's the point i its not fun? Ipause Now you'l ear Part Four a The recording is repeated [pause That's the end of Part Fow There n Separate nse sh Be sre to fol ‘mite left 20 that you'e sure to ‘one mine lee That's the end ofthe tes, Please sto question papers and ansiver sheets