OZIMED™ GAMSAT PRACTICE TEST 1 SECTION I - REASONING IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 75 QUESTIONS TIME LIMIT: 100 MINUTES Copyright © 2001-2004 www. ozimed.com Rev 3.03 October 2004 Instructions: You have 10 minutes perusal time. ‘You may NOT make notes on the question paper during that time You may NOT make any mark on the answer sheet during perusal Atthe end of ten minutes, start the exam. Mark your answers in the ANSWER GRID on Page 75 You have exactly 100 minutes (not including perusal time) to complete this section of the exam. GAMSAT is the Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admission Test OZIMED is a trademark of www.ozimed.com.UNIT 4 Questions 1-7 Cartoo There are certain organisations that handle all the complicated details involved in the production and Gisttibution of cartoons. When a cartoon strip is very popular, like Peanuts or Blondie, it may appear in over a thousand newspapers all around the world, The companies that take care of all this arranging and keeping track are called syndicates. They represent cartoonists and protect their legal rights. They arrange schedules and make sure the cartoons get to the right place at the right time. ‘Another very important thing they do is produce ‘and sell all the side products of the cartoon. The syndicates will publish a collection of the cartoons in book or magazine form. They will arrange for the production of toys or shirts or posters that show the cartoon’s characters, You can walk into many toy stores and buy a small statue or toy figure of Snoopy or Mickey Mouse or Superman and quite a few other characters who first saw the light of day in a daily comic strip. All this sort of thing is handled by syndicates. For cartoonists trying to get a start, the first and most urgent task is to find 2 syndicate that will take them on, Once the cartoonist is represented by a syndicate, the job of sales and promotion is in the hands of specialists, and the cartoonist’s career is off to a good start, Most cartoonists do all the writing and drawing themselves. Others work as part of a team. One person may be the writer and another will draw the pictures. This is the usual case with comic books that are published frequently and have many pages. The team can, in fact, be fairly large. There will be an editor or general supervisor, the writer, and one or two people who do the drawings in pencil. Then there will be someone to ink in the pencil drawings, a letterer, someone to take care of the colour, and one or two more people who deal with all the other odds and ends. When a cartoonist dies or retires a comic strip is sometimes abandoned if the drawing and writing ‘are so distinctive that nobody else is able to carry it on. But in many cases the strip is taken over by another cartoonist. If the readers are so attached to a strip that they demand it continue, the syndicate will find somebody to take it over. Sometimes several people work on a comic strip over a period of years. This happened to Little Orphan Annie, Blondie, and many others. Little Orphan Annie, for example, has been in existence since 1924, and during that time many different people have worked on it. It is still going strong with much the seme characters and much the same drawing style. 1. When cartoonists are taken on by a syndicate ‘They will be able to concentrate on drawing. Their incomes will rise. They will be better cartoonists. ‘Their work will be promoted more widely. Which of the following is the main task of a syndicate? Bublishing, _. Marketing. Artistic control. Encouragement. 3. The phrase "characters who first saw the light of day in a daily comic strip" refers to the first time these characters were 2» Conceived. . Published. Marketed. BD, Revealed, 4, The information presented in the third paragraph is designed to ilustrate why syndicates like dealing with teams. Show the relationship between the team members, Explain why working with @ team is effective. Give an example of the composition of a team. Test 1-Page 2 Copyright ® 2004 www.ozimed.comone-storey shops in Smith Street, a glare of plate- 5. The person who has the job of supervising the glass and new yellow brick; groceries and team is the ~s é SY taunaries and chemist shops to supply the more Writer. © {immediate needs of East Side housewives. The Béitor. SSS market gardens in Dutch Hollow, their shanties ‘SS patched with corrugated iron and stolen doors. Letterer. Billboards with crimson goddesses nine feet tall Cartoonist advertising cinema films, pipe tobacco, and \ taleum powder. The_old ‘mansions’ along Ninth “Street, like aged dandie} in filthy linen; wooden castles tuimed into-beafding houses, with muddy 3 walks and rusty hedges, jostled by fast-intruding - garages, cheap blocks of flats, and fiuit-stands _*. conducted by bland, sleek vendors. Across the 6. A popular comic strip may be abandoned on the cartoonist's death 5 Af no other cartoonist can copy the style. Because cartoons have a limited belt of railway lines, factories with high-perched production span. water tanks and tall stacks - factories producing If the cartoonist has left no plans for, condensed milk, paper boxes, lighting fixtures, future strips > motor cars. Then. the , business centre, the He thickening darting traffic, the crammed trams Because cartoons die with the cartoonist. unloading, and high doorways of marble and polished granite, 7. Which of the following would be another : appropriate ttle for this passage? It was big - and Babbitt respected bigness in anything: in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, Selling your cartoons. or words. He was, for a spring-enchanted moment, ‘the lyric and almost unselfish lover of Zenith. He thought of the outlying factory a How to be a better cartoonist. suburbs; of the Chaloosa River with its strangely How to be a richer cartoonist. The cartoon business. eroded banks; of the orchard-dappled Tonawanda Hills to the north, and all the fat dairy land and big bams and comfortable herds. As he dropped his passenger he cried, "Gosh, I feel pretty good this morning!" UNIT 2 Questions 8 - 13 8. On this moming, Babbitt felt Driving to Work in 1922 ge Suddenly free of commitments. Invigorated by the beautiful day. Interested in leaming more about Zenith. Babbitt fell into a great silence and devoted himself to the game of beating tramway cars to the comer: a spurt, a tail-chase, nervous speeding between the huge yellow side of the tram and the i Depressed by the amount of work he had Jagged row of parked motors, shooting past as the to do. tram stopped - a rare game and valiant. a it 9. The last district that Babbitt described before And all the while he was aware of the loveliness he reached the business centre was a of Zenith. For weeks together he had noticed nothing but clients and the vexing To Let signs of sf" Dairying district, rival agents. Today, in a mysterious way, the light Residential district. of spring so enchanted him that he lifted his head and saw. Factory district. . Fruit-growing district. He admired each district along his familiar route to the office. The bungalows and shrubs and winding irregular drives of Floral Heights. The Copyright © 2004 wonw.ozimed.com Test 1 - Page 3land 10. Babbit's description of the ‘mansions’ along Ninth Street implies that they were once Attractive and are now run-down, Occupied and are now empty. Popular and are now ignored. Se “Di, Isolated and are now hemmed-in. 11. The entrances to buildings in the business , centre of Zenith were designed to look ney a $e Intricate S158 Obirusive. ‘ Practical Impressive. 12. Babbit's description of his drive to work introduces the reader to a city which is Unhurried, Orderly, Sprawling. Ancient, 13. Which of the following is likely to have the greatest impression on Babbitt? A person's Jutward appearance of wealth and wuccess Educational qualifications Appreciation of the beauty and diversity of Zenith Ability to conduct business fairly UNIT 3 Questions 14 - 19 wie What can we do about Unplain English? Compared with many foreign tongues, English is not an especially difficult language. Yet many People find it remarkably hard to say what they mean in a straight-forward way. Even governments sometimes fail to communicate, The application for the Seniors Card in one Australian State — a useful official initiative for residents aged 60 years or over — contained this classic ambiguity: Jam not in the full-time workforce Yes No Should the correct answer for a retired person have been Yes, J am not in the full-time workforce or No, Iam not in the full-time workforce? ‘Aré you in customer-oriented mode or focused on personal recreation?" ‘The American State of Pennsylvania has a ‘plain English’ law for its own statutes. This requires an average word length of less than 1.55 syllables and an average paragraph length of less than 75 words. No sentence may exceed 50 words and no paragraph may be longer than 150 words. The attempt to force style by legislation, while no doubt well-intentioned, seems naive in the extreme. Style is not a matter of mathematics — there is no such thing as an ‘ideal’ size for a word, ( ,.a sentence or a paragraph. f More often, the problem lies in the use of stilted °F or pretentious words, slang, jargon, worn clichés, Hchaic terms, mixed meiaphors, tautological expressions and acronyms which are meaningless) totheir readers, p,-0- Many people believe that the answer lies in teaching people to write plainly. Certainly the Seniors Card application form breaks a basic postulate of plain writing - that questions containing negatives are almost invariably ambiguous. But would re-education help with any of the following? Test 1 - Page 4 Copyright © 2004 winw.ozimed.comThrough focusing on the company's objectives, Critical Suecess Factors (CSFs) and risk profile we can determine an optimal audit/review approach and resources requirements and skills to ensure maximum value is realised from the function, Letter from a leading firm of accountants to a client «the cost savings achieved through close cluttering due to the nature of the products; for example, whether they are specialised products with a high information content, the nature of agglomeration economies and whether existing or potential externalities exist through common use of indivisible factor outputs. Report of a Task force on Employment and Unemployment This is no laughing matter. All the above are quite genuine extracts from local material created with a serious intent, All these pieces were written by people who can be assumed to be intelligent, and probably capable of making a clear statement in any situation where a clear statement is required. Why, then, did they produce all this nonsense? 14. In the article the author's main complaint is that English is especially difficult to leam. an Too many forms contain questions with negatives, People do not write using straight- forward language. Some American states are trying to control English through legislation. 15. According to the author an effective writing style is one that S% Can be successfully legislated. Is a result of a good education. EG! Requires a retumn to plain English = Should be a matter of mathematics. 16. The author would agree that the ideal length of 2 paragraph should be GQ Determined by legislation. 1 Approximately 50 words Fewer than 150 words, Decided by the writer. 17, The phrase "a basic postulate" is closest in meaning to A simple claim. A guide for writing forms, A controversial regulation. A fundamental condition. 18. The caption beneath the cartoon is intended to Make fun of people who feel they are superior. Llustrate how ‘unplain’ English feils to communicate. Ee Test the understanding of those who read the article. Be an example of the language used by the well educated, 19. The author of this article would agree with the statement that There is a need for a re-education program amongst professional writers nan attempt to be impressive, writers often fail to communicate effectively. Writers should be trained in the effective use of paragraph and sentence length. Archaic terms and tautological~ 2 expressions are the greatest cause of ambiguity in texts,“ Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.com Test 1- Page 5UNIT 4 Questions 20 - 25 Norway Denmark| Sweden Hetherlands Luxembourg ‘Switzerland Australia Port Germany Rus Belgium Finland Britain Japan Spain aly Iretand New Zeatand 2 usa| 0.0% UN Target 0.7% _ 02% 0.4% 0.6% 08% 1.0% 12% ‘0% Aid Receipts as % GNP g 3. 3 & S 8 3 = Rwanda and Mozambique received more aid in 1994 than their total income from all other sources. All the counties listed here receive so much foreign aid as a proportion of their income that they are "dependent" - without aid their economies would collapse. China is the largest Totat Official Aid as % oast of Donors’ GNP. 030% o2ss, 0.20% on PE) Peg exon Pe] Peet oss hoz) (a3) pes = 0.00% UI ham — | . eS single recipient (over $3 billion in 1993), followed by Egypt ($2.3 billion), Indonesia ($2.0 billion) and India ($1.5 billion). Israel too is a major recipient ($1.2 billion). Rich donors have major strategic interests in all of these countries which either have large populations like China, India and Indonesia or, like Israel, are wealthy - so aid is a much less significant part of their total income. The graph "Moving Target" shows how aid has shifted away from spending on health and education » the core tasks of poverty reduction - towards debt relief and emergencies. In fact, MOVING TARGET Trends in the distribution of aid between sectors 1 WEI 1987-1989 (3)1993 Test 1 - Page 6 Copyright © 2004 www.zimed.comoverall, considerably more than half is not aid at all, but retums to the donors in interest payments and purchases of goods and services ODA Overseas Development Assistance, or "official" government aid, which must come from governments, be intended for development purposes and be in the form of grants rather than commercial loans. DAC Development Assistance Committee of the OECD GNP Gross National Product - A calculation of total national income, including money from abroad. OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development - The “club” of rich nations. NGOs Non-Government Organisations 20. Which of the following groups of countries met the UN target for aid in 1994? GSE US, Spain, Canada and Austria -e S55, Japan, US, Germany and France Norway, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands 2 Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway and Britain 21. In 1993, the country that received the most aid was dia Rwanda. China. Mozambique. 22. One thing that Congo, Haiti and Tanzania have in common is that in 1994 ¢& Their economies collapsed. Their economies would not withstand the withdrawal of aid, They all experienced civil wars. “DE They provided substantial amounts of aid to other countries, 23. — Since 1986, the total official aid as a percentage of donor's GNP has Increased considerably Remained constant pach eB8et ee > 2 } a z = 2 24. According to the-ffaph Moving Target, which of the following-statéments about aid is TRUE? More aid was given in education related ‘unding than in health related funding. 3etween 1987 and 1989 the greatest mphasis was on providing aid in the orm of transport and communication. There were more emergencies in poorer sountries in 1993 than there were petween 1987 and 1989.9 Poorer nations have failed to establish an effective education system. 25. You could conclude from the information . majority of countries in the world give SBE apan gave mote than 0.5% of its GNP in = IDA in 1994, BEE corer countries place a high emphasis i agriculture, 11994 Belgium gave less than 0.5% of ts GNP in ODA. UNIT 5 Questions 26 - 34 Julius Caesar Irony is frequently used in literature as a tool to achieve dramatic impact. This is well illustrated by Mark Antony's speech after the death of Caesar in the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Caesar was murdered by a small group of Ser-tors who considered him too ambitious. One member of this group was Brutus, a’man who was generally considered trustworthy and of high integrity. Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: Icome to bury Caesar, not to praise him The evil that men do lives after,them; The good is oft interred-With their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was « grievous fault; Copyright © 2004 waw.ozimed.com Test 4 - Page 7And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it, Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men, Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious: And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man ‘You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, Ke is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here 1 am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, - not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! - Bear with me: My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. 26. Prior to Mark Antony's speech Brutus and a group of Senators had killed Caesar, In the context of the passage, “Brutus is an honourable man” represents Antony's», attempt to curry favour with Brutus and the other Senators. disbelief that such a good men as Brutus could have murdered Caesar. use of irony in damning Bratus with faint praise. eae indecision as to whether Brutus has done the right thing in killing Caesar. 27. — Sccording to the passage: Sin Caesar brought massive revernes to the Roman Treasury by ransoming captives = Caesar was crowned king on the Lupercal, SE The good that men do lives after them. SP Brutus admitted that he himself was “ambitions. % 28, It may be reasonable to infer from the passage that: from more ancient sources, Caesar was an important Emperor of ad Rome. cd Brutus killed Caesar hoping to succeed aim as Emperor. & Shakespeare paraphrased this speech é sa Dj Antony was an important supporter and =" Giend of Julius Caesar. 29. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? Ss Caesar was ambitious and that is the evil that will live after him, even though Antony moums him as a friend. = Both Brutus and Caesar had right on their side and we can only mourn the outcome. = Brutus and his fellow conspirators were acting honourably but were misguided and we should mourn Caesar's loss as a , tragedy. & Caesar was a great man, murdered by =a! jealous, petty men and all should mourn for him as Antony does, 30. The overall point made by Shakespeare’s use of the phrase “Lend me your ears” =e, SAS2 5s that Antony wants them to listen very sarefully to him. {s that Antony is deaf to the arguments of Caesar’s opponents, [s that Antony will cut off the ears of =. atyone who doesn’t listen to him, SBA ts that the crowd is deat now they have lost the oratory of Caesar. » 31. The main purpose of the passage is to: Provide a platform for Mark Antony's own ambitions. - Allow Antony to praise Caesar without offending Brutus. Test 1-Page 8 Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.comey Show Antony’s love for Caesar, = Praise Caesar and damn his murderers 32. Which of the following quotes from the passe is not an example of irony: The noble Brutus” BB Ambition should be made of steer aft” <— ‘My heart is in the coffin there with Zaesar” j SUM ‘And grievously hath Caesar answered It” yal 33. In the context of the passage, “brutish beasts” represents: All who do not mourn for Caesar. All humanity Brutus and the Senators who killed Daesar, All of the above 34. Which of the following conchisions could be challenged? & Antony is grief stricken over Caesar’s “murder. 3 © antony is a magnificent orator) ~ € srutus is a brutish, ignoble, dishonourable man. {Caesar had accomplished many great ae things. eons, UNIT 6 Question 35 "Thate to leave him- he was developing into a useful leg-spinner." 35. The cartoon suggests that SE Cficket-lovers are fanatical about their =S° Sport Apes are capable of many skilled tasks. People will form bonds and play games in any social situation. WO) The British exported cricket to many “5 countries Copyright © 2004 vaww.czimed.com Test 1 - Page 9UNIT 7 Questions 36 - 42 The Meeting Interior. Hotel Albion, Brighton 1940. A large table in bay window. A German air raid is in progress and bombing can be heard fairly. close. Churchill, the British Prime Minister, is with Montgomery, who is Aifiy-three, but looks younger, foxy, and over-confident. Unlike any other general, Montgomery wears ordinary battledress. His forceful, nasal delivery and inability to pronounce the letter ‘R' accentuate his oddness. Churchill is tucking into a huge luncheon with great relish, I fills his half of the large-table. In contrast, = Montgomery is picking at the odd bit of cracker biscuit MONTGOMERY — (very earnest) What I most need, Prime Minister, is double-decker buses. We're the only fully operational division in the whole of England, ready to meet the Hun. But some fool in the War Office has made us immobile! CHURCHILL I know. MONTGOMERY We should be given buses, and held in strategic reserve for counter-attack, CHURCHILL Shock tactics, eh? MONTGOMERY I've got tip-top troops, 100 Per cent fit. They run ten miles each day, every man jack of them, Women are not allowed, and alcohol strictly discouraged, CHURCHILL Ibelieve you make your senior officers run too? MONTGOMERY Ido, sir. One of my brigadiers had a heart attack because of it. I said jolly good. CHURCHILL You did? MONTGOMERY Better to find the weak links now, I said, than when the Hun’s at your throat. CHURCHILL Hrumph. You're not drinking General? MONTGOMERY I neither drink nor smoke, and I'm 100 per cent fit. CHURCHILL Ginstantly) Well, 1 both drink and smoke, and I'm 200 per cent fit. (He opens another boutle a champagne.) MONTGOMERY hope you'te going to kick Some of our useless generals out, Prime Minister, s Perceptive could give you five or six examples, CHURCHILL Treally don't think you should talk to me like that, MONTGOMERY — Why not? Plain speaking when alone, can't do any harm, surely? Besides, they know they're useless. CHURCHILL How do they know? MONTGOMERY [tell them. (He munches a dry biscuit.) CHURCHILL You must be a very popular man in the British Army, General Montgomery. MONTGOMERY — I don't care about popularity. I just want to beat the Germans. 36. Incontrast to Churchill, Montgomery is presented sa man Oa sag [rds Abstains from lavish food and wine, Tends to over-indulge. Cannot afford a luxurious life-style. Will spend money only on necessities. ang Pe y only 37.__ It becomes clear in the scene that Churchill Was an old acquaintance of Montgomery. Has been given information about Montgomery, = Was trying to get rid of Montgomery. Believes that Montgomery is a very reliable leader 38. When he suggests’ that Montgomery is very popular in the British Army, Churchill is 7 SOT ARI being z Blusiveg 9. Tronic. Ambivalent. ley 39. Churchill replies quickly to Montgomery's” claim to be "100 per cent fit" in order to BS Prevent Montgomery from commenting on his eating habits. Test 4 - Page 10 Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.comAttempt to vein in Montgomery's fanatical attitude to fitness. Defend himself ag; criticism, \st Montgomery's Suggest to Montgomery that he should be more relaxed. 40. The beginning of the scene suggests that Montgomery attended the meeting to persuade Churchill to Take care of his health, Dismiss some ineffective generals./~7'/ Overrule a War Office decision Agree to fitness training for all troops. 41. Inthe line, "I really don't think you should talk to me like that", Churchill is attempting to: Protect the other generals from criticism Make Montgomery understand that he is speaking inappropriately Suggest that suitable action has already been taken. Prevent Montgomery from becoming > more unpopular with his troops. 42. — Montgomery could best be described as Excitable and naive, ‘ent and careful, t and intolerant, Posnasive and courageous UNIT & Questions 43 - 48 The Rehearsal One noon in 1892, a young man stood in front of the new Gewanahaus in Leipzig, and watched the neat, grass-Isid square, until then white and silent in the sunshine, grow dark with many figures. The public rehearsal of the weekly concert was Just over, and, from the half. light of the warm- coloured hall, which for more than two hours had held them secluded, some hundred: of people hastened, with renewed anticipation, towards Sunlight and street sounds. There was a medley of tongues, for many nationalities were represented in the crowd that surged through the ground floor and out of the glass doors, and much noisy ado, for the majority was made up of young people, at an age that enjoys the sound of its own voice. In black diverging lines they poured through the heavy swinging doors, which flapped ceaselessly to and fro, never quite closing, always opening afiesh, and on descending the shallow steps they told off into groups, where all talked at once, with lively gesticulation. A few faces had the strained look that indicates a conscientious listener; but most of these young musicians were under the influence of a stimulant more potent than wine, which manifested itself in a nervous garrulity and a nervous mirth, They hummed like bees before a hive. Maurice Guest, who had come out among the first, lingered to watch a.scene that was new to him, of which he was as yet an onlooker only, Here and there came a member of the orchestra; with violin-case or black-swathed wind instrument in hand, he defily threaded his way through the throng, bestowing, as he went, a hasty greeting upon a colleague, a sweep of the hat upon an obsequious pupil. The crowd began to disperse and to overflow in the surrounding streets. Some of the stragglers loitered to swell the group that was forming round the back entrance of the building: here the Jank- haired Belgian violinist would appear, the wonders of whose technique had sent thrills of enthusiasm through his bearers, and whose close proximity would presently affect them in precisely the same way. Others again made off, not for the town, with its prosaic suggestion of work and confinement, but for the, freedom of the woods that lay beyond, 43. Before watching the crowd in the square, Maurice Guest had been Walking in the town, Attending the concert rehearsal Playing in the orchestra. Talking to musicians in the square. Copyright © 2004 wivw.ozimed.com Test 1 - Page 1144. The word in the passage which refers to the quality of talking excessively is "Medley." J “Proximity.” "Gamality." "Gestioulation.” 45, "They hummed like bees before a hive." ‘The function of this sentence is to 46. "He deftly threaded his way through the throng". ‘In’ this quotation, the word "he" refers 47. The people who waited for the Belgian violinist wanted to Suggest the vastness of the square. Sum up the aural impressions of the second paragraph, Hint that the students worked hard for long hours. Reveal Maurice Guest's anxiety about the sight in front of him. A music student, The Belgian violinist. Maurice Guest. A member of the orchestra, Study his technique. Catch another glimpse of him. Ask him to play again, Follow him to his home. 48. Which of the following best reflects the narrative technique used by the author? The author describes a scene Using dialogue and unusual images In Maurice Guest's own words, Largely through the eyes of the central character, iD, BD, We Using first person narration. do UNIT 9 Questions 49 - 56 My Childhood I spent my childhood on the mountain above «fj ActHobart, From the window-seat in our sunroom, I, (ot would gaze out over a heart-stopping vista of ranges and peninsulas, broken by a succession of ¢/ inlets and fiords, which finally petered Sut in the “f] great empty expanse of the*Southem Ocean, Beyond that, a long way beyond, lay the icy wastes of the Antarctic. It was the most lovely place for a child to grow. At the top of our steep, untended garden of rhododendrons, waratah and pussy willows was a grove of old pine trees where my father had constructed a precarious tree house in the upper branches. This was for my brother and out of bounds to me, but I'd climb up there anyway, trembling with terror, because up there it was easy to believe I was perched at the very top of the very end of the world. Behind the overgrown European facade of garden ‘was the pipeline, a track which followed the water pipe the whole length of the mountain through the Gripping forest of giant manferns, where tendrils of water seeped from every crevice in the rock- face and the ground squelched beneath my feet. It was full of secluded hideaways: denk, magical, musty. It belonged in fairytales with goblins end when snow-covered it became the remote empire of Hans Christian Andersen's fieree Snow Queen. Before I understood anything wise about my exquisite birthplace, I understood it was far, far away from everywhere else 1 had ever heard about. School was a quite different experience. I was disliked by the teachers as an untidy chatterbox and smarty pants. My teachers were not the least impressed that I knew Greek myths and Norse fables; their concern was that I could not recite my tables, nor could I spell, that my ink always blotted and smudged and my colouring.in ran over the lines. In fourth grade, still so vivid in my memory that I dream about it, I was the only gir! in the school who had to share her desk with a boy. “And you can be sure he was regarded as the school lout. We were being jointly punished, our deficiency in niceness was made a daily example. The really terrible thing was, I knew he was appalled to be sat next to me and his misfortune was a constant source of teasing. As the Test 1 - Page 12 Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.comheadmaster was to remind me more than once, a boy for punishment. Asa result the boy Princes St Primary School, Sandy Bay, was not i the appropriate place for me. My parents did not live in the elegant, well-kept, securely upper middle-class suburb which fed the school and nor were their bohemian views on child-rearing and lifestyle appreciated. It was a source of great Gismay his school was forced to accept the kind of riffraff who lived up the mountain. But at least the few other children who caught the bus down every moming leamt to conform to the school's expectation of good behaviour. I was incorrigible! Tt was not an easy thing to feel that my life would consist of being a despised outcast in a place I could never find in books, Became the school lout Improved his behaviour, Was teased by the other children. Complained to the headmaster. 93. The headmaster believed that all the children from the mountain were Unable to leam properly. - Brought up badly. Obliged to attend his school. Too fond of myths and fables. 49. Itis most likely that there was no school on the mountain because 54. The writer reveals that as a child she was There was no suitable public transport. Adventurous, imaginative and co- operative. Intelligent, unapproachable and insecure. Only a few families lived there. It was too steep to build a school there. The people who lived there did not Intelligent, introverted and co-operative. “approve of education. Disobedient, outspoken and imaginative. 50. The writer describes the Princes St 55. Later in life the writer Primary School as "a place I could never find in books". By this she means that it was a place ‘ Remained an outcast and continued to live on the mountain. ‘Maintained the relationships she had That had none of the magic and mystery eee la kereuaee 0 she found in the books she read, ‘Was grateful she had been brought up on That was beyond the realms of her the mountain. imagination, Continued to immerse herself in her +t well-behaved chil Where only quiet well-behaved children Sasha hte were welcome. Where the teachers had made her lose her enthusiasm for reading. 56. In dealing with the children from the mountain, the headmaster was 51. Most of the children who came down from the mountain to attend Princes St Primary Dismissive. Discriminatory. School Impetuous..- SA, Were polite to the headmaster. sierérent ‘Be’ Complied with the schoot's rules (E* Sueceeded at their learning. (D) Were approved of by the headmaster. 52. In fourth grade the writer had to sit next to Copyright © 2004 ww.ozimed.com Test 1 - Page 13UNIT 10 Questions 57 - 60 WORLD WEATHER’GUIDE AUSTRALIAN EASTERN STANDARD TIME (EST) man_| aen_|_way_| wv_| su _| ave ‘4112.00 noon, Austrafan Eastem Standard Tie, the standard time in foreign az [as | 104 [a see [$8 }ion [ae] mio fre] [me ces Sas alow as [ot |r fr frone fia] ea Yar] sae fae] sae [er sia i] veer |oves fe [ove [as Adee (Sh Aust). 113Dam, “Motel Canada) nn 990 pm Wee | at fake vee as P ‘Abens (Greed 40am. 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Tokyo apa) af 4m Ten [ae Leningrad (Soviet Union)... 80am, “Vancouver Canad)... 600¢.n "| [Vaeanne 108 Liston Porat 20am. Viera usta) 3008 | Pree ager Loncon (Engin oo 20a, ‘ "Denotes prvous cay (Aut real sunmarne where eppicabe) AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL NORTHERN TERRITORY TERRITORY VICTORIA 1Fobruay — - 8 font | 25 January 22 January 2 ev eat 25une | 26 Apil 2 ly ‘ae 18 ne Wy =e September | 18.uly = 47 September 13.uy —- 24 Saptembar W1Ociber TT Deeanber | 4 Graber 4Cdobor 10 December NEW SOUTH WALES: ‘QUEENSLAND ‘TASMANIA, ‘SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1 Febuary 1 Febuary Shor | 18 Febuay - 28May| 25 January - Asa ‘Ad Bane} 194g - rene | t5uine = 27 August | Zr Apah- 2 Ty +26 Soptomber | 5 dy 47 Saperbor | 19 September - 22 Deconber| 19 July 24 Soper 11 Ostber W December | 4 Ccobar 17 December W2Odcber = 17 Dacember Its last term ends after all other states’ last 57. The Tasmanian school year is different to the school years of other states because terms Ithas 3 terms and other states have 4 58. A tourist brochure advertising a New York Its frst holiday break is longer than any holiday in June, July and August, would other state. recommend Ithas 2 holiday breaks and the other @A2 Summer clothing with something warmer states have 3. ie Test 1- Page 14 Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.comfor the evening. Mid-season clothing with a warm coat for the evening, Mi¢-season clothing with strong walking boots. Very warm clothing and snow boots 59. Ifaman in Sydney telephones a friend in London at midnight (EST), the time in London is 2am. 10 am. 2pm. 10 pm. 60. A Queensland businesswoman is planning attrip to Tokyo, She would like to take her children with her but does not want them to miss too much school. The best time for them to go would be August. May. July, June. UNIT 12 Questions 61 - 68 Animal Farm George Onwell, widely acknowledged as one of the great satirists of the twentieth century, wrote Animal Farm in 1945. The story uses a fable about animals to satirize the struggle for a proletarian revolution and Communism. As with humans, the lofty ideals of the animals are lost amid power struggles, comuption, and lies. ‘Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the bam and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. At the beginning they met with such stupidity and apathy. Some of the animals talked of the duty of loyalty to Mr. Jones, whom they referred to as ‘Master’, or made clementary remarks such as 'Mr. Jones feeds us. If he were gone, we should starve to death.’ Others asked such questions as ‘Why should we care what happens after we are dead?’ or ‘If this rebellion is, to happen anyway, what difference does it make whether we work for it or not”, and the pigs had great difficulty in making them see that this was contrary to the spirit of Animalism. The stupidest questions of all were asked by Mollie, the white mare. The very first question she asked Snowball ‘was: "Will there siill be sugar after the Rebellion” ‘'No,' said Snowball firmly. 'We have no means of making sugar on this farm, Besides, you do not need sugar. You will have all the oats and hay you want." "And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane? asked Mollie ‘Comrade,’ said Snowball, ‘those ribbons that you are 50 devoted to are the badge of slavery, Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons” Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced. ‘The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract, the lies put’ about by Moses, the tame raven. Moses, who was Mr Jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was“also a clever talker. He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died, It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sunday seven days a week, clover was in season all the year round, and lump sugar and linseed cake grew on the hedges. The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did not work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place. Their most faithful disciples were the two carthorses, Boxer and Clover. These two had great difficulty in thinking anything out for themselves, but having once accepted the pigs as their teachers, they absorbed everything that they were told, and passed it on to the other animals by simple arguments. They were unfailing in their attendance at the secret meetings in the bam, and led the singing of ‘Beasts of England’, with which the meetings always ended. Copyright © 2004 www.ozimed.com Test 1 - Page 15