Ese) PERS PAPER 4 PAPER Ir Use of English ‘You are going to read an article about life in the countryside. For questions 1-8, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, Listening Speaking hhave been living in London for more than 60 years, but ilk when I'm driving and take some clever back- street short cut, I catch myself thinking: how extraordinary that it me doing this! For a moment the town mouse | have become is being seen by the country ‘mouse | used to be. And although, given @ new start, I would again become a town mouse, when | visit relations in the country, | envy them. Recently | stood beside a freshwater lake in Norfolk, ‘made by diverting a smal river. near where my brother lives. AS he was identifying some of the birds we could se0,in came seven swans. They circled, chen the haunting sound of their wing beats gave way to silence as they slided down for splashdown, Ie is not a ‘picturesque’ part of the coast, but it has a definite character of line and light and colour."You do live in a lovely place! | said to my brother, and he answered, Yes, | da’ There are probably few days when he does not pause to recognise its loveliness as he Works with his boats ~ he teaches sailing — or goes about his many other occupations. ‘The lake's creator is a local landowner, continuing a tradition whereby the nature of our countryside hae been determined by those who own the land. Formerly, landowners would almost certainly have made such changes fr their own benef. but this time ie was dane to help preserve the wildlife here, whichis avaiable for any visitor to see, providing they do nothing to disturb 2 the birds. fe is evidence of change: country Iie is changing fast. ‘One of the biggest changes | have witnessed is that secondshomers, together with commuters, have come to be accepted as a vital part of the country scene, I CAME TO ENVY THE COUNTRY MICE ‘And the men and women who service their cars, dig thelr gardens, install their phones, repair their word processors, lay their carpets and do all the other things they need are vital to modern country life. leis quite likely thatthe children of today’s workers may bbe moving into the same kind of jobs as the second- homers and the retired. Both the children of a country woman | know are at university, and she herself, now that chey have left home.is working towards a university degree. One of the delights of country life today, it seems, is that there you can see how fast social mobility s« 's increasing. ‘Much depends. cf course, on the part of the countryside You are living in and on personality ~ your own and that fof your neighbours. In my brother's Norfolk vilage, social life seems dizzying to @ Londoner: In addition to dropping in on neighbours, people throw and attend parties far more often than we do. My brother's wife ‘Mary and her friends fly off on the most dashing bargain breaks in Krakow or Prague or Venice, and are always going into Norwich for 2 concert or to King’s Lynn for an exhibition. The boring country life that people from Cities talk about isa thing of the past ~or perhaps it was shane mainly in thar eine ‘This is very unlike living in a London street for 50 years and only knowing the names of four other residents. In these 50 years | have made only one real friend among them. 1 do enjoy my life, and Mary says that she sometimes envis it (the grass on the other side of the fence ..); but whenever I go to Norfolk, lend up feeling that the lives of country mice are more admirable than ry own, 24 FCE Test 2 >> PAPER 1 Reading > Part 1Essential tips > After reading the text for ‘general undorstanding, ‘2ach question and see if you ‘can locate the answer in the ‘text. When you locate the answer in the text, underline it. Some questions refer to specific ines in the text (Question 6), while others refer to specific paragraphs (Question a). > Look carefully tthe key ‘words in the four options. For ‘example, in question 1, option ‘A the key wards are ‘driving ‘through back streets’ and ‘source of surprise. This ‘option can only be correct if the writer does drive through bback streots and is surprised to Find hersett doing this ‘Question 2: The text refers to the ‘sound’ of the swans landing. Doss it say thatthe sound wes vary loud, in which case “deafening’ would be the correct ‘answer? How is ‘haunting’ used hore? {Question 5: The question asks you what is ‘suggested’ about ‘between the lines’ and see what is implied in the tex. Question 8: The answer to this ‘uestion can be found in the whole of the last paragraph, 1 It is sometimes a source of surprise to the writer A to find herself driving through back streets, B_ that she has been in the city for so long, © to realise how much she has got used to living in London, D that she lives in the city when she prefers the country. 2 The atmosphere created by the writer when she describes the swans is: A magical. B frightening, © deafening, D disturbing 3 What does the writer's brother think of his village? A He thinks itis very picturesque, B He prefers the sea to the land, © He finds it dull and boring. D_ He is often struck by the beauty of the countryside. 4 What does tt’ in line 29 refer to? A the lake B_ the fact that the lake belongs to a landowner here © the reason for the landowner’s action D_ the fact that wildlife now needs to be preserved '5 What is suggested about outsiders who now live in the country? that country people no longer reject them that they often do work like servicing cars and digging gardens that the men and women who work for them are from the city that many of them have been in the countryside for a long time com> What does ‘social mobility’ in line 44 mean? A Country people are going to university. B Young people are moving away from the countryside. c D Children of country people are taking jobs in cities, People from workers’ families are moving into higher social classes. 7 Social life in the country A” depends completely on where you live. Bis not as boring as people in cities think i is. € is not affected by your neighbours. D is always less exciting than life in the city. '8 What do we learn about the writers attitude to London? ‘A She can't adjust to living in London. B She has regretted moving to London. © The people in her street are unusually unfriendly. D Life there is very different to country life. FOEToet 2 >> PAPER’ Rosana Pant 25)TEST ee PAPER 2 Writing PAPER 3 Use of Enalish PAPER 4 Listening Busey PAPER 5 Speaking You are going to read an article about a computer-generated pop star. Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A-H the ‘one which fits each gap (9-15). There is one extra sentence which you do not need: ‘Merk your answers on the separate answer sheet. COMPUTER GENERATED ta }mee a me tonne POP STAR Young music fens right s00n find themselves buying records by 18 new star called CyberGirl CyberGirl is blonde and very ottrective, She has the looks of a supermodel, and Fashion magazine has booked her for their next issue. She has # great voice and looks like a typical pop star in many ways, but at the same time she is fundamentally different. She is computer generated and doesrit realy exist. Or does she? The company behind CyberGir, Anfield Promotions. has constructed a website for her. and is working on apap video for her ttt single. which wil be released next summer. Why isthe response to this vitual popstar so sstonishing? Cyber hae been successfully promoted ae an orcinary sitoon-yeor-cld teenage singer. Teonagers, especialy gil, have identitied themselves with CyberGir who dyes her hair and worries abou: fashion Over the last few months, the CyberGirl website has been Visited by over 100,000 teenagers. Fans can email questions ‘and receive anewers trom CyberGin! harsal. [HO] This ives virtual pop stars @ competitive advantage aver mat marketed artists or boy bands who ha very litle contact with chair fans {beri may not be rea. but her erestors deny that she is marcy 8 cheap aterstve to a real singer. A] |] “Shea cool and will never do embarassing things! Fe Says “Vitual pp stars comet dsogree with ter managers because they have diferent ideos about songs, styles end marketing policies. With computer generated pop stars, there willbe no arguments between stars, managers and their companies: project her image on 9 huge screen, maybe with 9 hologram Imago of her on stage’ He likens the prosnect of évbar Creation going on tour to watching a film in a cinema: You know ‘the people you see on that screen arerit real — it’s just o trick one with lights but you still get very movad by the experience of watching f it's done wel? ‘A French male cyberstar, Cy-Lui, has enjayed considerable success, with hundreds of emails each day from taenage girls, 13] y-Lut hes ols hed an amasing number of marriage proposals, ‘Fans will test ertificial pop stars as real op stars provided they lke their music’ says Tomlinson. “t's lencouraging that i fans tke the music, they will gnere the fact ‘hot the artist is not real! Sarah Underwood, Professor of Media Studies at Cumbria University, seys we have nothing to worry about ‘t's just like the soap opera obsession that has been around for about 60 years! she says. Viewers identify so closely with the characters in 8 soap opera that if one of them is in hospital, an increclible ‘number of people send flowers and chocolates to the TV studios. [IA The some applies to fans of artificial Rob Cooper of the pop music magazine Musical World has no time for this latest idea: “ls juet another way for business: people to make maney from teenagers, and this time the teonagers aren't evan idalising @ real person. ‘Young people cen be really crazy i they're convinced something is fashionable’ 26 FOE Test 2 >> PAPER 1 Reading >> Part 2A Could CyberGirl ever go on tour? B Research has established that weaknesses as their fans. jols must have the same strengths and © The people who do that aren't crazy ~ they're just getting a bit carried away. The fans want to know whether he gets hungry in outer space, and what his favourite cyberfood is. E In fact, Tommy Tomlinson of Anfield Promotions is convinced that CyberGirl has a great many advantages over flesh-and-blood acts F The important question is whethor or not CyberGirl has been modelled on a real-life person or whether she is simply the product of someone's imagination. G It’s utterly pathetic, sad and a bit ridiculous, but 'm afraid it will probably work. H_ When asked if she is real, CyberGirl replies enigmatically that she is as real a8 any of the teen groups around these days, adding defiantly that atleast | sho is always there for her fans. Essential tips re main text from which paragraphs have been ‘Question 9: The sentence before the gap tells us how ee Secs aaa ee ea te eb ince mittee > Look carefully at the sentences before and after the gap. sentence option links the 1wo ideas? ‘Ace there any words that show you what the missing Question 13: The sentence before the gap talks about a ‘sentance is about? ‘male cyberstar. Two sentence options refer to males, but > There are many ways you can link parts ofa text. It could Sree mule ne Tale oioartisy bbe a contrast, a comparison, an example, etc. Look for ‘Question 14: The sentence before the gap describes how linking expressions that connect ideas in'a text. some viewors react to characters in soap operas. The ‘sentence option that fits this gap refers to these people's > Pay special attention to nouns, pronouns, words like reactions and links with the santence after the ‘this’ and ‘that’ and any other words or phrases that ‘efer to what has gone before or what comes after them. FCE Test 2>> PAPER 1 Reading b> Part2 27PAPER 3. Use of English PAPER 4 Listening PAPER 5 Speaking 28 PAPER 2 Writing You are going to read an article about the activities organised by different schools for Environmental Awareness Day. For questions 16-30 choose from the schools {A-D). The schools may be chosen more than once. ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, Which school(s) became well known after Environmental Awareness Day? ih provided onlin information about the environment? a asked specialist to give a talk? a 34 money to help wildlife? Sa asked pupils to write about environmental problems? a organised a trip tothe coast? a stared a project about endangered species? a] is studying changes in goneral weather conltions? a arranged a tk on pollution and local architecture? a encouraged the use of bieylos? a carefully examined air pollution in a local area? a meesured noise pollution? | te? a is located inthe contre ofthe ety? a4 decided to protect a local historical Essential tips > Road the questions first, and underline key words. Make sure you understand what the question asks. > Locate the answers in the text and undertine them, > When you read the text, look for words/phrases which express similar ideas. Do not lo¢k for identical words. ‘Question 23: How can we provide online information? ‘Questions 25,26: How can a schoo! raise money? When, you try to lecste the answer, do ‘not Took forthe verb “aise” Look for the idea of raising’ money. ‘Question 30: Can you find another way of saying “general weather conditions”? FCE Test 2 >> PAPER 1 Reading >> Part 5Se aE AWARENESS DAY A Plumpton High School ‘This school decided to arrange a variety of activities, some aimed at achieving a better understanding of environmental problems, and others designed to be of practical help. For instance, the school magazine brought out a special edition ‘on the subject, full of articles and stories where pupils ‘expressed their feelings about the threats facing our environment. In another attempt to find out for themselves how serious these threats really are, the pupils decided to study the problem of pollution by making a survey, run by the Science Department, into air pollution in the local shopping centre. On the practical side, the school held a sponsored walk and handed over £750 to the World Wildlife Fund, Pupils prepared a campaign to ban cars from the city centre ‘and reduce traffic congestion. They cycled through the city and handed out brochures about the benefits of cycling and walking. This gained a lot of publicity for the school B Cresswell College The staff and students at Cresswell College held a meeting and discussed a number of suggestions. The most popular suggestion turned out to be the most practical one; it was decided that the local environment should be brightened up. ‘Teams were sent out to plant flowers and young trees on areas of land in the neighbourhood. Within the school, the senior students prepared a report monitoring the progress Of species threatened with extinction. It was hoped that this would help publicise the problem. As part of that project, a leading expert on wild birds was invited to come and give a talk about the dangers faced by these creatures. He explained the importance of the food chain and asked people +0 support local wildlife reserves. C Smithson Institute This school had already been involved in some projects connected with the environment, though naturally efforts were increased for Environmental Awareness Day. For the last two years the school had been studying the effects of changes in climatic patterns around the world and how these can affect. wildlfe. A film about those magnificent marine mammals, whales, war shown to the whole school as part of Environmental Awareness Day, which was received with great ‘enthusiasm by pupils. Meredith Summers, architect, was invited to talk about how pollution can destroy historic buildings in the region. Following that, pups decided to launch a campaign for the restoration of the medieval square in the city centre and asked local authorities to support them financially. D Halliwell Comprehensive ‘The pupils at ths inner-city comprehensive school felt that the best way to mark Environmental Awareness Day would be to help people in the area understand how important the environment Is to them. One suggestion thac was greeted with enthusiasm ‘was to measure the levels of noite in Stanley Road, a busy local shopping street. The information was then placed on a website ‘that the school had started. In an effort to prowde airect assistance to people who are working to save the environment, a jumble sale was held at the school, and £1,000 was donated to the local office of the Wildife Rescue Service. Finally, the school took pupils co the coastal marshes of Easton-on-Sea. Many pupils reported afterwards that they had never realised how terrible the effects of pollution could be on coastal wildlife, ee eee ee FCE Test 2 >> PAPER 1 Reading >> Parts 29