jing and Use of English Part 7 ‘You are going to read a magazine article about people who lke clothes. For questions 1-10, choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen more than once. ‘Which person thinks people don't give enough importance to one kind of olthing? learned something atter an experience with some clothing? ‘made a decision to buy something they had always wanted? is happy with tho cocial roquirements oftheir job? admits not aiving imeortance to self-prometion? ‘chooses clothes s0 as not to craw attention to themselves? {id something out of character? never expected to go into their present ine of business? ‘mentions circumstances in which it s important to keep a sense of humour? no longer does something which they now consicer foolish? Me and my clothes A Paula, a clothes designer When you're young you can get away with cheap clothes, though I think | had expensive tastes even then. In fact I've always spent a lot on clothes and I've always loved what they can co for you but | never: anticipated making money from them. At one point when | didn't have a job my husband said, ‘Surely you must be able to make something’. That was the kick I needed to get me started. I'm mad about swimsuits. Because | make my own clothes, I'm always thinking about changing a collar ‘on something or changing a fabric, but because | don’t make swimsuits they're free from all that. | have several. People take one on holiday and think that's enough, yet they wouldn't cream of wearing the same trousers day after day. | don't understand that. B Len, a businessman \'ve enjoyed motorbikes since | was 16. But for a long time | didn’t own one; | rode my brother's instead. Then about two years ago | bought one. | thought if | don’t get one now, | never will.| always walked to ‘work every morning until | got the motorbike, but now | ride there most days. | bought a leather jacket as a solution to the problem of nesding to wear a suit to work and wanting to come in by bike. It would be impossible to be changing all the time. When | was younger | rode a bike several timas without a helmet, That was in parts of the United States where it wasn't compulsory, but it's madness. There’s enough risk ‘ona bike without adding more.© Marion, a singer When I was in a musical | wore wonderful skirts made by a designer but they were incredibly heavy, and during the first performance | fell over twice on stage perfermingin them. That hasn't happened to me again because | know now that you need much lighter clothes toperform in. A litte while after that, | was singing at a friend's wedcing ¢c | asked the same designer to make a really stunning dress for me. I've wom it just a few times since then - to awards ceremionies - but | feel great in it. My career’s never been structured. Perhaps it should have been but I'm hopeless at pushing mysett. | went to the United States when a film 1 was in, Enchanted April, was really big but | never dreamed of hing a publicist or anything. | suppose one measure of success was when I did my first TV advert and went into the sort of shop I'd always been ‘scared to go into before and bought something without looking at the price. That just wasn't ike me. D_ Tom, chief executive of a charity | worked as a lawyer until was in my forties but I've been director of a charity for ten years now. I'm out two or three nights a week at dinners to raise money. It goos with a job like this and it's fun too. | wear a suit and tie to most events. They're a kind of uniform, which is helptul because I'm not naturally @ stylish dresser. | like to feel comfortable and fit in, anc this way I'm not conscious of my appearance. If | was, I'd probably be horrendously shy. One of my big mistakes in my early days wes to make a speech that was too serious. People said afterwards that it was very powerful but that wasn't what I'd intended. If you're too serious in my kind of business it puts people off, Rea You are going to read an oxtract from a novel. For questions 1-6, choose the answer (A, B, © er D) which you think fits best according to the text. Falicon Park was @ typical English suburban road, some fifty years old. The individualty of tho properties had increased over the years as successive owners hac remodeled and added to thelr homes. Garages had been converted into kitchen extensions and lawns had become parking spaces while adventurous gardeners had experimented with rocks and olive trees or palm trees. ‘About halfway along the scuthern side of the road was number 18, It was a detached house, double-fronted. The paintwork was in good order although it was not fresh. The concrete driveway was scarred with cracks and oll stains, and the space for parking had been extended with gravel. ‘A yew hedge straggled across in front of the gravelled area. The curtains were firmly closed and the windows too. The place had an unloved air, uniixe the majority of its neighbours. Itwas a quiet morning, About eleven o'clock, @ car drew up outside number 18. Itwas agrey saloon, not very new, net very clean. There were two men init. They had an air of determination about them, with a hint of aggression. They could have been debt-colectors. The driver got cut and walked to the front door. He rang the bell. it echoed and re-echoed inside the house. No one opened the door. ‘The air was still and the house seemed deserted. The man took out his phone and called a number. He listened, then turned eway from the house, went back to the car and drove away. ‘Around midday the sky clouded over and a nippy little wind started. The children who had been playing a fairly unenthusiastic game of football around various parked cars therefore decided at tat Point to take themselves off to seeiif the weekend sport had begun on television,line 26 fine 33 The steet was almost empty when a large dark green van parked outside number 18 and three men in matching fleeces got out. The tallest of them approached a woman working in the garden of number 20 and asked her if she had a water meter. ‘We've had a report that there may be a leak round here,’ he explained. The woman at number 20 was no doubt mindful of a crime prevention circular she had received very recently and said thet she would expect them to know whether she had a water meter if they ‘were genuine employees of the water company. The tall man from the van showed 2 card to the sceptical woman, which seemed to satisfy her. She went into her house and left them to it. The three men busied themselves in the driveway of number 18. They raised a manhole cover, then one man got a toolbox from the van, went round the side of the house and into the back garden. After a few minutes the front door opened and he appeared at it, signalling to his colleagues. The tall man closed the manhole cover, took another toolbox ‘rom the van and went to the doorstep. He glanced around, then he also entered the house, leaving the front door iar. The third man reversed the van into the driveway. Suddenly, the two men came running out of the house and scrambled into the van as itaccelerated out of the drive and disappeared up the road, narrowly missing a teenager who was sauntering across it. Ten minutes later, a police car turned sharply into Falicon Park and drew to ahait outside number 18. Two uniformed officers got out and entered the house. Someone had forced the door ‘ona locked cupboard in the study and the police found the contents scattered on the floor and in the kitchen at the end of the halll the frosted glass in the back door had been neatly removed and placed under a bush. 1 Most of the houses in Faliccn Park 4 What made the woman at number 20 A. wore almost identical suspicious? B_ had large gardens. A She had heard a news report about were well looked atter. B She didn't ke the way the tall man spoke eve tober Jonged to large families. Be beoaaer © She was surprised to be asked about her 2 The writer suggests that the driver of the ‘water meter. grey car D She knew nothing about a leak in the area A. had visited number 18 before. B_ might threaten the residents in some way. © had been invited to call by the ownet. D_ was upset when no one answered the door. 5 Whal does ‘it in line 26 refer to? ‘A the tall man's card B_ the diveway of number 18 © the house next door D_ the work they had to do 3. The children decided to go indoors because ‘A. thore was a change in the weather. B_ there were too many cars in the road. © they had finished their game of foottall D_ they were missing the sport on television. 6 The word ‘scrambled’ is used in ine 23 to ‘emphasise the fact that te men were A. trying net to make a noise. B_ ina great hurry, © out of condition. D_ being chased by somebody.You are going to read an article about young people whe have started their own businesses. For questions 1-10, choose from the people (A~D), The people may be chosen more than once, Which person advises not giving up at an early stage? is doing something in a way they didn’t expect? Mentions an advantage they sometimes nave over other people in their business? went through a period when they felt unable to cope? realises that their own ways of doing things might not always be the best? realises that their fascination with their present business may not last? says thelr succass has not followed a steady path? mentions how determined they are when they decide to do something? received positive encouragement to start their own business? became aware of how much knowledge they already had in a particular area? | STARTED MY OWN BUSINESS We talked to four young people who started successful businesses when they wore teenagers A Santiago has a business designing websites | was going to do a course in graphic design when | left school but | started doing websites for some of my dac'’s friends when | was about 17 and realised | had acquired 2 lot of expertise from doing the school website. Since then I've hardly bean without work. | once had a client who didn't find out my age until after they had hired me and they mentioned that they might not have hired me if they had known my age. But I've also often had clients who have done so because of my age so it can work in my favour, When | asked them why, they said it was because they wanted a ‘fresh, younger approach’ to business. B Lucas started a magazine about skateboarding | wanted to do something that nobody else around me was doing and | love writing so | started my own magazine. I'm Ike my dad = if he says he's going to do something, nothing will get in the way of thet. | started the magazine when | was 13, so by the end of ths year I'll have produced 24 editions in four years. At one point recantly, | wondered if it was putting too much strain on me with homework and everything. | thought I might have to stop, despite the fact that the magazine wes doing well, but I got through that by asking for help from my family and | bounced back, I'l move on to something else if | get bored with it ~ maybe a blog or something related - but for the moment | stil find it inspiring.© Yana has a business making videos of musicians Young and inexperienced go together in a lot of people's minds but that's not the way I see it. Its a kind of projudica, 've certainly come up against it and most young people will face some prejudice before anyone recognises their talent and expertise. When | left school I toc my parents | cidn’t want to go to college. | wanted to be creative and make videos. They told me to give it a go and if it didn't work out after a year, could reconsider my options. They thought | would always regret it otherviise. I'm not sure | would have gone ahead without them behind me. Some people say, ‘This ismt a success and "ve been trying fora week" but you have to giveit more of a chance. Next month I will have been maxing videos for a year and they're now getting thousands of hits a day online. D Annie has a photography business ‘You won't know until you try whethera business will work. I's lke riding a roller coaster at the funfair. At every turn you take there is another twist to throw you off track. The lows for me have been low, but the highs can be really high and I'm now where! want to be. There will be timas, though, when you need to accent advice. If you're sill in or just through those teen years and you think you know everything, it's difficult to say to ‘somebody ‘You're right about that. How can limprove the way I'm doing this?" It's not something I'm really comfortable with but I've figured out that it is really important if | want to succeed, | always knew | wanted to do something | felt passionate about and that's photography. | realy wasn’t interested in business but | ended up starting my own just so | could spend my time doing what | enjoy. You are going to read an extract from the biography of a girl called (aR Ret theists an ie tile of Saran, who Is visiting Australia. For questions 1 ~ 8, choose the dea ciety through te whole answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text Hee Nhat eincbou? Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Australian road trip "2 Dad had been diving our family through the beautiful countryside of Australia for f= some days, mainly along the coast. Then he suddenly decided we should explore what the scenery was lke inlend too, so we turned away from the sea and drove for miles through the countryside. Dad was very optimistic about what an adventure i would be, but it wasn't long before the rest of us suspected it was going to be pretty dull not to mention uncomfortable as the roads were now full of hazarcous holes. spotted with eucalyptus trees and a few flowering plants somehow managing to survive the ough several towns — tiny groups of houses with sometimes punctuated by the odd house on the ‘The scenery was mostly dry plains, climate. It seemed just about the loneliest place I'd ever visited. We drove th a handful of stores ~ separated by miles and mites of empty road in between, roadside here and there.| was curious about the signs that pointed avray up endless long driveways to single houses, and started to wonder about the lives of people living there. But immediately the thought of ving in such 2 quiet remote plece made my heart sink, and! thought longingly of my own house thousands of miles away. iF ve were hoping to see some wildife, we weren't disappointed. Large adult kangeroos were a common sight a5 the sun started to go down, feeding off the rather thin grass on the roadside ~ probably because on the other side of the fences the cattle had eaten absolutely all the nicer stuf so nothing else reinained for the poor kengsroos. Lucklly they stayed amay from vehicles, so at least we weren't in danger of crashing into them. Further along the way, we met some cattle drovers whol been driving ther cattle thousands of miles over a period of months towards areas vihere they knew there'd been small amounts of rain, There were just five of them to look after more than 9 thousand animals, and we learn that they just drove their cattle cowards wherever itrained. They never knew what would happen from one day to the next, which seemed a strange, unattractive sort of Ife to me. Then we finally approached « big town, where there was a huge 200, By this time, we really wanted fo get out of our car end do something, 0 we parked up and went in, The zo0 had mainly Australian animals, some of which weld already come across along the way, so wre were quite keen fo find out more about them. We saw a crocodile show, where they gat crocociles to jump ovt of the water by hanging some meat in the ai. Far from being the quiet animals they look when they re fast asleep on 2 riverbank, they were transformed into Fierce, snapping creatures that reminded me of ancient, terrifying dinoseurs, While we were there, two new crocodiles arrived. The two adults had been found injured in the wi, and transported to the 200 in a plane, inside special long wooden boxes designed to keep crocodiles coo! and quiet during a Journey. Once they were at the 200, they were released into the'r pond, andl they ran straight into the water to coo! off sinking down until just their eyes ‘were visible ‘then we went off to see some kangaroos. Ths time, rather than just seeing them from afer, you could touch them if you wanted and fea their soft fur, One actually had a baby in its special pouch, lke a tie pocket, with ust the baby's tal sticking out The Keeper happened to mention that adult kangaroos can kick at their enemies really fiercely, 0 I decide against getting 190 near the mother, even though she was with the keeper, ‘and just settied for a photo instead, 4 Sarah says that when her dad drove off the coast road to explore thecountysioe ° IZ A he quickly decided he had made a mistake. Se B the family were relieved to be on better roads. one he was thrilled with the views they discovered. 4 by cows Sra ak chow D__ the family soon realised the drive wouldn't be very exciting. oo kets? 2 How does Sarah deserbe the towne they passed through? cece maculae’ A. There was no sign of life between each one. fear B_ They were located very far apart. There were a lot of gardens in each one. D They had quite a tew shops. 3 How was Sarah affected by the remote homes she saw along the way? She began to feel quite homesick She was keen to know more about the owners’ lifestyles, She found the thought of living there scary. She wondered why people wanted to live s0 far from other people. gourWhen Sarah first spotted some wild kangaroos, she A hoped they wouldn't be the only wildlife they saw. B_ was afraid they might be dangerous. C felt concered about their lack of food. D was surprised at their size. What did Sarah feel about the cattle drovers’ way of life? A She envied them their lifestyle. B_ It was very unpredictable, It was physically exhausting, D She decided she'd like to work with animals too. ‘When Saran saw the crocodile show at the zoo, she was, A _ frightened by their behaviour, B disappointed that they were asleep. © keen to have a better look at them. D__atiracted by their unusual appearance. Sarah says that the new crocodiles at the zoo appeared stressed by the journey they'd had hac been transported there in an unusual way. seemed pleased to be in their new hame. had been brought in because they were babies. voePr