INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa – Noviembre-Diciembre 2016

NAME:
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A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

WRITE THE WORDS USING THESE CLUES 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

1 R 1) Know that something exists.

2 U 2) A talk on a subject, esp. at university.
3 S 3) Starting a fire in a building to damage it.
4 T 4) The story of a book, film, play, etc.
5 Y 5) Responsible for committing a crime.

CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS 5 x 0.3 = 1.5 marks

1- He never got used _____ in Italy. a) to live b) to living c) living

2- You can leave now _____ you finish the work tomorrow. a) unless b) suppose c) provided

3- Patrick has a serious problem with his son, _____? a) doesn’t he b) hasn’t he c) does he

4- I’m really sick _____ this rainy weather. a) with b) of c) by

5- The book we had to read at school _____ to be quite good. a) passed on b) worked out c) turned out

COMPLETE THE CONVERSATION. Choose a suitable expression. There are three 4 x 0.2 = 0.8 mark
extra ones. Write the letter in the blank.

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 Alice and James are neighbours. Alice is getting into the lift.
James is already there.
A: Let me B: It’s
killing me
James: Hi, Alice! 1)____ to help you with those bags?

C: Would you Alice: Hi, James! No, thank you. 2)____.

like me
D: I suppose
that’s true James: Well, this is our floor. Let me help you. I guess you’ve
spent a lot of money on this.

E: I can manage
Alice: Yes. Buying food is a nightmare these days! 3)____!

F: It costs a fortune James: Well, 4)____. I also have four children. It gets really
hard, doesn’t it?

G: I don’t think so

REWRITE THESE SENTENCES Use the words in brackets without changing them 8 x 0.4 = 3.2 marks

1- She went to school but she was not feeling well. (EVEN THOUGH)

2- ‘I won’t go with you,’ my daughter said to me. (REFUSED)

3- Our coach will probably win the race. (LIKELY)

4- The book’s about a teenage girl. She finds the key to happiness. (WHO)

5- Pete missed the football match because he had to work late. (IF)

6- ‘If I were you, I would go, Paul’. (HAD BETTER)

7- When my brother was a child, he never ate seafood. Now he loves it. (USE TO)

8- She doesn’t succeed in life because she’s lazy. (IF)

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT RED NOSE DAY WITH THE CORRECT 10 x 0.25 = 2.5 marks
TENSE, VOICE OR FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Comic Relief is a charity that 1) (found)_____________________ in 1985. It 2) (raise)_________________

money for over 20 years to fund causes that help poor and vulnerable people, both in the UK and around the
world’s poorest countries. One of the ways it 3) (raise)______________ money is through its Red Nose Day
fundraising campaign, which 4) (hold)_______________ in the spring every other year. Ordinary people
wear a red nose and do silly things to attract attention to the cause and raise money. This afternoon we were
out and about asking people what they 5) (do)______________________, and this is what they said. ‘We
came to work this morning in our pyjamas and 6) (take)_________________ a bucket round to collect money

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 from our colleagues,’ said Maria Dangello outside the office where she 7) (work)_________________. ‘It’s
been eye-opening, actually. I’ve been working here for a year and it’s the first time I 8) (speak)
________________ to some of my colleagues.’
Down the street, outside a shoe shop, manager Chris Bayley 9) (sit)______________ in a bath full of
something green. How did he feel? ‘I’m freezing. I 10) (sit)____________________ here for four hours, but
people walking by have been really generous! I feel wonderful!’

READING: Read this article and do tasks A and B 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

The truth about telly

A
Critics of TV have focused on bad language, violence and sex, and they have made these seem very significant and
threatening to society. These people have looked at the content of certain TV programmes and criticized them
severely. The truth is that the content is relatively insignificant, and it is in the insignificance of the content of TV
programmes that the significance of TV lies.

B
There is a continuous flow of things on TV: there is a story about a drought in Africa with 1,000,000 dying of
starvation, immediately followed by adverts for Italian spaghetti and the latest toothpaste. Then it is back to the
football highlights, before your favourite soap opera starts. Then, the adverts come on again and you decide to
change channels to watch the movie.

C
Admittedly, there are times when TV does manage to generate a response. Disturbing images of children dying of
hunger can prompt people to make a donation. But the channel can't keep showing the same pictures for long. Soon
there will be another disaster somewhere else and we will forget the starving children.

D
Without anyone intending this, TV silently conveys the message that nothing really matters in the world. Channels
choose stories to increase their ratings. Viewers hop from channel to channel to maximise their pleasure.

E
TV effectively trains people to leave the world exactly as it is. We have the brute facts about poverty, disasters and
disease, but we have so little analysis, and we are left with the impression that that is just the way things are and that
they couldn't be otherwise. Before we have time to think much or imagine how things might be different, the match
has started, it is our team and we have found something much more exciting to fill up our free time.

Task A Which paragraph in the article states the following ideas?

1 The people responsible for making TV programmes only care about having
a large number of viewers.
2 Television viewers usually get used to seeing images of people suffering on TV
and they don’t react.
3 Sometimes television images cause people to do something good for others.

Task B Circle T for true and F for false. Correct the false statement/s on the blank line/s below.

The constant succession of images on the television screen makes viewers become
4 T F
conscious of the serious problems people have around the world.

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 According to the writer, television viewers get the message that they can do
5 T F
something to change the world.

PART B

WRITING 10 marks

Write one composition using 120 to 160 words. Choose either option A or option and circle the letter
corresponding to your choice.

A. Write an ESSAY mentioning the pros and cons of working from home.

B. Write a DESCRIPTION of your favourite city. (Write about its location, places to see and things to
do, the best time of year for tourists to visit it and, finally, what you like and don’t like about it.)

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WRITE: 1-aware 2-lecture 3-arson 4-plot 5-guilty
CIRCLE: 1-b 2-c 3-a 4-b 5-c
CONVERSATION: 1-C 2-E 3-F 4-D
REWRITE: 1-Even though she was not feeling well, she went to school 2-My daughter refused to come
with me. 3-Our coach is likely to win the race. 4- ... a teenage girl who finds... 5-If Pete hadn’t had to
work late, he wouldn’t have missed... 6-You’d better go, Paul. 7-My brother didn’t use to eat seafood as
a child. 8-If she wasn’t/weren’t lazy, she would succeed in life.
TENSES: 1-was founded 2-has been raising/raised 3-raises 4-is held 5-were doing 6-took 7-works 8-
have spoken 9-was sitting 10-have been sitting
READING: Task A 1-D 2-E 3-C Task B 4-F (The constant succession of images don’t let
people think and become conscious of the problems.) 5-F (“We are left with the impression that that is
just the way things are and that they couldn’t be otherwise.”)

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