Progress test key

As a child, I'd rvanted to earn my living as a rvrite4

but my father said, 'It's too risk¡,. Get u p.ope.
Reading CAE Paper l career'. Mv teachers r.verent encouraging eithe¡, so
I gave up my dream. But I carried on rn,iitins as a
Part 3: Multiple choice
hobbll, and shou,ed the
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Laurlér I u,rote
1 w,ruLc to my-bcs1
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1C 2A 3C 48 5A 6A 7D friend. He said he liked them, but I'd no idáa if thev
rvere really any good.

Then, one Saturday thirty years iater, fate stepped

Use of English CAE Paper 3 in. I'd spent the morning in our iocal library dting
research for something I was writing, and f went
Part 1: Multiple-choice cloze ilto a eoffecshep next door for a break, There, on
lD 2C 38 4D 5C 6D the table where I was sitting, was an advertisement
for a writing course in France. I didn't hesitate. I got
7B 8A 9D lOA 11C 12A straight on to the Internet and booked a place.
Tr,r,o weeks iater I r.l'as in France. The location of the
Part 2t Open cloze
course was a complex of buildings, set in a garden.
1 where 6 have 11 nobodyino one For centuries it had been a place where winé was
produced, and we had our lectures and workshops in
2 for 7up l2 there the.great open-sided construction u,here the grapes
3at 8 who 13 of had been pressed.
4be 9 was 14 so
5 the 10 into 15 had/used Our tutors \ /ere two young writers, both successful
and established nor¡elists. On the first day we each
had to say rvhat u,e hoped to get out of the course.
Part 5: Key word transformations M¡, ambition was to r.r,rite childrent books and short
I is hardly likely/going to turn storigs. Other people wanted to work on, poetry
novels and plays. We u,ere all passionate ábout
2 improve/increase your chances of getting or haye rvriting, and desperate to get into print.
more chances of getting
3 as if the fridge has broken The main work was done in the moming. By
4 since I have beaten my brothe¡ afternoon the temperature had soared, ind iocal
people retired to their cool houses to sleep. The
5 would sooner David had shops were closed, and waiking was out of the
ó I had keplremainedlstayed quiet about question. There u,as a pool in the garden, so we
7 might/may/could have caughr/been set (on) spent our time swimming and reading under the
8 it hadntihad not been for trees. Paradisel

At the end of the course the tutors said encouraging

Vocabulary things about mv r.vork, and I went home with mv
mind and imagination buzzing. I wrote something in
I lifestyle 10 adjust a month, and sent it off to an agent. Rejection. I was
2 method devastated. But then one of the tutors invited me to a
11 gather part¡i and introduced me to her publisher. This man
3 motivation 12 end liked my work, and I u,as on my \\¡av.
4 success 13 misleading
5 aroma 14 conceirrably My nife and I have left London and live near the
6 behaviour Mediterranean. I'd have liked to find a house near
l5 lifelong the place in France where I learnt my r.vriter's craft,
7 vary L6 significantly but in the end we settled in a villagein southern
8 smell 17 cost-effective Spain, opposite the coast of Morocco. And I write
9 take up 18 welcome from morning to nighr.

Listening CAE Paper 4

Part 2z Sentence completion
I accountant 5 short stories
2 best friend 6 swimming
3 coffee-shoplcafélcafeteria 7 publisher
4 wine 8 Spain

Listening script Part 2 Sentence completion

It was in early summer of 1998 that a massive

upheaval began in my life. Over a fer.r,months there
tvas to be a change in mv house, country and career.
At the time I lived in London and rvorked as an
accountant in the City. My wife was an architect,
and our son was studying architecture at universitv.
A respectable, comfortably-off family.