KEY

I. LISTENING
PART 1:
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. D 5. D
PART 2:
1. FALSE 2. FALSE 3. TRUE 4. FALSE 5. TRUE
PART 3:
1. A budget hotel.
2. Within the last twelve months.
3. The restaurant suggestions
4. Detailed maps (and/or background information) (of the area)
5. Twitter tourism
PART 4:
1. a monster storm 6. National Hurricane Center.
2. Mandatory evacuation orders 7. landfall
3. Category 4 hurricane 8. fluctuated
4. uninhabitable 9. potentially even strengthening
5. abnormal rise 10. costal communities

II. LEXICO-GRAMMAR
Exercise 1: (Total: 10pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. c 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. b 6. b 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. c
Exercise 2: (Total: 5pts, 0.5pt/each correct identification + 0.5pt/each correction)
1. Line 2: in => at
2. Line 3: psychologically =>psychology
3. Line 7: however => whatever
4. Line 9: what => which/that
5. Line 11: expected => unexpected
Exercise 3: (Total: 5pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. up 2. of 3. on 4. out 5. into
Exercise 4: (Total: 10pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. saltwater 3. segmented
2. established 4. asserting

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5. enthusiasts 8. irreparable
6. scavengers 9. nocturnal
7. voracious 10. disturbance

III. READING
Exercise 1: (Total: 10pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. a 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. d 8. a 9. d 10. d
Exercise 2: (Total: 15pts, 1.5pts/each correct answer)
1. source
2. first
3. them
4. shoulders
5. losing
6. what
7. behind
8. health
9. behalf
10. evasion

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Exercise 3: (Total: 10pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. A 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. D 8. D 9. B 10. D
Exercise 4: (Total: 10pts, 1pt/each correct answer)
1. ii   2. iii   3. v   4. iv   5. viii   6. vii  
7. FALSE   8. FALSE   9. NOT GIVEN  10. TRUE  
Exercise 5: (Total: 15pts, 1.5pts/each correct answer)
1. C 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. A 6. D 7. C 8. B 9. C 10. D

IV. WRITING
Notes:
The mark given to parts 1, 2 and 3 is based on the following scheme:
1. Content: (35% of total mark)
a. Providing all main ideas and details as required
b. Communicating intentions sufficiently and effectively
2. Organization & Presentation: (30% of total mark)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion, and clarity
b. The essay is well-structured
3. Language: (30% of total mark)
a. Demonstration of a variety of vocabulary and structures appropriate to the level of
English language gifted upper-secondary school students
b. Good use and control of grammatical structures
4. Handwriting, punctuation, and spelling (5% of total mark)
a. Intelligible handwriting
b. Good punctuation and no spelling mistakes
Markers should discuss the suggested answers and the marking scale thoroughly before
marking the papers.

Section 3
Tim: I'm Tim Cole, and as an experienced travel writer, I'm here to tell you not to believe
everything you read in guidebooks because following some of the recommendations they
give can result in the most bizarre situations. I'll never forget the night I arrived in Sydney,
for example. I'd turned up at the address of what I thought was a budget hotel given in the
guidebook at 1 a.m., exhausted and looking forward to a few hours' rest, but instead found
myself at a comedy club, which at the time I didn't find at all funny.
The problem is that too many travellers are too trusting of their guidebooks and don't
bother to research even the most basic facts before they set off. Some guidebooks are only

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updated every couple of years, so it's no wonder many things have moved on by the time
you get there. The most important thing when choosing a guidebook is to check the
publication date; if it's not within the last twelve months, don't buy it.
Then the other thing to think about is who the guidebook is aimed at. If you're into the
history and culture of a place, don't buy a guidebook full of information on the alternative
nightlife scene. But my pet hate, and something I'm always extremely wary of, are the
restaurant suggestions. So often I've turned up somewhere and the menu, price and décor
bear no relation to the place I've been reading about – if they haven't already gone out of
business and shut down, that is.
Other things to look out for in a guidebook are the maps. These need to be detailed but not
so small you can't read them. You don't want to have to carry a magnifying glass around
with you. Books that include unnecessary information are another thing I find annoying –
like photos of famous places, for example. We already know what the Eiffel tower looks like!
Why not include more background information instead?
Of course, most guidebooks are also now available in a digital format and many travellers
prefer using these because they're obviously not heavy to carry, so you can download as
many as you like. But I don't find them easy to use at all because navigation is much harder
than flicking through the index at the back of a book. Life's just too short and you can never
guarantee you'll have wifi access anyway. Until I can get a digital travel guide which is
tailor-made for my individual trip, I'm happy to stick with the traditional form of guidebook.
However, on my trip to Hawaii last summer I experimented with a new way of getting good
travel advice: Twitter tourism. Instead of using a guidebook, I decided to rely on the advice
of locals and visitors alike – and let them choose what I should visit, where I should stay
and what I should eat. I didn’t mind as long as their advice was based on a recent
experience. It actually worked out really well and it felt like a real adventure. Without the
Twitter travel tips I'd never have visited the Ukulele Festival or eaten spam sushi. One thing
I'd never imagined doing – and I'm so grateful for the advice – was a ten-kilometre kayak
expedition along the coast for a night time swim with manta rays in a huge cave. A truly
magnificent sight. And my top tip for anyone visiting Hawaii!
Section 4
Hurricane Florence ready to Hit Mid-Atlantic as a Category 4 hurricane;
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UPDATED.

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Thank you for downloading, streaming or just plain watching
CNN 10. I`m Carl Azuz explaining world news from the CNN Center. First today, get away
from the coast. That`s what a Americans in the U.S. Southeast are being told as a monster
storm brews in the Atlantic Ocean. It`s name is Hurricane Florence. It`s already triggered
mandatory evacuation orders for more than 1 million people in the states of North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia. And Florence is uniquely dangerous. For one thing it`s
powerful. Its wind speeds hovered around 140 miles per hour Tuesday. 

That makes Florence a Category 4 hurricane. That makes Florence strong enough to blow
the roofs off houses, knock down walls, snap most trees, take out power. The area it hits
could be uninhabitable for months. For another it`s storm surge could be catastrophic. This
is the abnormal rise in sea levels as a hurricane blows water ashore. A CNN meteorologist
says Hurricane Florence could bring a 20 foot storm surge. That would make the tide 20 feet
higher than it normally is as Florence blows in. 

The National Hurricane Center says anything more than a 12 foot storm surge is life
threatening. Third, scientists tracking this storm predict it will slow down after it makes
landfall. That`s a major problem as far as flooding is concerned. Last years Hurricane
Harvey was a slow moving
storm. It poured rain on Houston, Texas for more than a week and that caused scenes like
this. Predicting exactly what storms like Florence will do is still like predicting the weather.
There`s uncertainty about it. This hurricane`s wind speeds fluctuated Tuesday. Forecasters
didn`t agree
on whether it would still be a Category 4 storm at landfall, if it would get stronger or weaker
before it blows ashore. But here`s how things looked yesterday afternoon. 

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We now have Hurricane Watches along the coastal region of South
Carolina all the way up to the border of Virginia and same goes for Storm Surge Watches
that have been issued across the region but everything else remains the same. Still a
Category 4, still 140 mile per hour sustained winds and the storm still pushes off to north

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and west northwest that are 15 miles per hour. But here we go with this and we know water
temperatures from here forward will just continue to get warmer. You need water temps of
82 degrees Fahrenheit to maintain a tropical system. 

We`ll go to about 85 eventually to about 88 before it makes landfall. That`s why there is
that outside shot of this potentially even strengthening further up to a Category 5 as it
approaches land. But, you take a look. That rapid intensification in place, 36 hour period
from a Cat 1 to Category 4, remarkable system. And of course, we`ve looked very carefully
at where it`s going to end up and consistency has been all the name of the game with this
as far as pinpointing South Carolina on into North Carolina even including portions of
Virginia. At this point, the latest models bring this in sometime into the overnight hours now
of Thursday and potentially early Friday morning coming in as a Category 4, somewhere
around the costal regions of North Carolina from Wilmington up towards Cape Hatteras. 

The spaghetti model guidance kind of shows the concentration of which right around areas
around Wilmington as the best likelihood for landfall and Hatteras certainly in line as well.
And when you take a look at the comparison of the most reliable models we typically go to
the American and European, American in red. European coming in in blue. Very similar as
far as where they`re lined up here going into the overnight hours of Thursday. But notice,
once they make landfall both models kind of want to have it hover around for maybe a day
or potentially more. That`s what really becomes a danger in scenario here with potential
rainfall amounts as much as 20 or more inches on some of these costal communities.