Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. LISTENING (4 points)
PART 1: You will hear somebody talking about the short break in Barcelona. For each question, fill
in the missing information in the numbered space.
Extras
Pay more for a (4)……………………………… card (allows money off city sights and some
restaurants)
Travel Dates
5th – 31st (5)…………………………………….
PART 2: Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER
for each answer.
ORANA WILDLIFE PARK
Facts about Orana
• Orana means “ (6) ……………………..”
• The park has animals from a total of (7) ……………………………
• The animals come from many parts of the world.
Things to do at Orana
• feed the (8) ……………………………………… at 12 or 3 pm.
• touch the animals in the (9) ……………………………….. (good for children)
• watch the cheetahs doing their (10) ………………………………… at 3.40
PART 3: Listen to the recording and give short answers for the following questions. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
11. What kind of difficulties might people experience?
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12. What is the first problem that the man mentions?
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13. How often do drop-in sessions take place?
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14. How long do drop-in sessions usually last for?
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15. Who runs the workshops on personal development?
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PART 4: You will hear an interview with a writer.
For questions 16-20, choose the best answer (A, B or C)
16. Jack started writing when he A. worked at a school.
B. gave up his job as a teacher.
C. was very young.
18. Jack eats his lunch A. at the same time every day.
B. away from his computer.
C. While he is writing.
20. What does Jack do after he has finished a novel? A. He goes away on his own.
B. He stops writing for a while.
C. He starts writing something else.
22. “How did the bride wear her hair?” – “She _____________ into a bun.”
A. has had it styled B. has been styled it C. has styled it D. had it styled
23. Where is that ____________ dress that your grandma gave you?
A. lovely long pink silk B. pink long lovely silk
C. lovely pink long silk D. long pink lovely silk
24. It is very important that we __________ as soon as there is any change in the patient’s condition.
A. be it notified B. being notified C. were notified D. be notified
25. He _______ a big fortune when he was young, so he didn't have to work hard.
A. came into B. came up C. came across D. came round
27. Meg had a ______ escape when she was hang-gliding yesterday.
A. slender B. close C. near D. narrow
28. I can’t tell you the exact amount, but I can give you a ______ estimate.
A. smooth B. tidy C. rough D. similar
29. The company has plunged $37 million into the ………………….
A. pink B. black C. red D. purple
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30. My father is always willing to give a ___ with cleaning the house.
A. head B. assistance C. hand D. support
31. Some schools have used green cleaning products which do not release harmful ____ into the
environment.
A. chemicals B. chemists C. chemistry D. chemical
32. The captain praised his men's courage and __ in dealing with a very dangerous situation.
A. generosity B. perseverance C. dependence D. pessimism
Part 2: Fill each gap of the following passage with the correct form of the word in brackets. Write
your answers in the correspondent numbered boxes.
According to some scientists, high-risk sports can be particularly (33. VALUE) ………………
for certain types of people. Such activities help them to learn that being (34.FRIGHT) ……………….
doesn't mean that they have to lose control. The recent fashion for jumping from bridges attached to a
(35. LONG) ………………. of elastic rope, known as "bungee jumping", has now been tried by over
one million people (36. WORLD) ………………. and interest in it is continuing to grow. Before the
special elastic rope (37.TIGH) ………………. around them, jumpers reach speeds of nearly l 60kph.
First-timers are usually too (38. TERROR) ………………. to open their mouths, and when they are
finally (39. LOW) ………………. safely to the ground, they walk around with broad smiles on their
faces, saying (40. REPEAT) ………………. how amazing it was. However, for some people, it is only
the embarrassment of refusing to jump at the last minute that finally persuades them to conquer their fear
of heights and push themselves off into space.
Part 3: For questions 21-25, choose the letter A, B,C or D to indicate the word or phrase that is
CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.
41. The same questions repeated over and over soon made them weary.
A. suspicious B. tired C. disturbed D. cautious
42. They have radically changed the rules since I played football.
A. slightly B. completely C. fundamentally D. reasonably
43. If we hadn't had a cat, the garage would have been inhabited with mice.
A. interred B. furnished C. infested D. inflated
44. Doctors of medicine are among the most wealthy members of American society.
A. adroit B. affluent C. adjacent D. acrid
45. The question of why prehistoric animals became extinct has not been conclusively answered.
A. predominantly B. extensively C. especially D. decisively
Part 4: For questions 26-30, mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word
or phrase that is OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions
46. The charity aims to provide assistance to people in need.
A. People who are rich B. people who lack food
C. people who don’t have enough money D. people who lack supply
47. The young are now far more materialistic than their precedents years ago.
A. monetary B. spiritual C. object-oriented D. greedy
48. Population growth rates vary among regions and even among countries within the same region.
A. fluctuate B. stay unchanged C. restrain D. remain unstable
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49. If you are at a loose end tomorrow, I will show you round the city.
A. free B. busy C. confident D. reluctant
50. Although they persuaded him for a long time, he stood his ground.
A. left early B. felt sorry for us C. disagreed with them D. changed his mind
Part 2: Complete the passage, fill in each numbered space with ONE suitable word
Energy is one of the (61) _______ that many people are interested in. It is not an unfamiliar
word. It is heard, said, discussed day after day. It is close to everyone’s (62) _______ life. You turn on
the lamp and it is (63) _______ that gives you light. You turn on a TV and it is energy that gives you
pictures and sound. You ride a motorcycle and it is energy that gives you (64) _______. You cook your
meals and it is energy that gives you heat to boil rice.
The problem is that the (65) _______ for energy is rising and that the price of energy is getting
higher and higher. The supply of energy on earth is limited. It cannot provide us all forever. The (66)
_______ of energy in the future is inevitable. Therefore, saving energy is a must if we want to (67)
_______ to live in a safe and sound world.
If we save energy, the environment will be (68) _______ polluted and our health will be better and
we will live a more meaningful life and more happily. Perhaps the best solution to the problem of energy
is a (69) _______ of clean energy coming from the sun: solar energy. This kind of energy is easily
available, free, and inexhaustible. Furthermore, it does not cause (70) _______.
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Part 3: You are going to read a magazine article about various local campaigns. For Questions 1-
10, choose from the people (A-E).
A. Penicillin
While the brilliant yet notoriously absent-minded biologist Sir Alexander Fleming was researching a
strain of bacteria called staphylococci, he noticed that one of the glass culture dishes he had accidentally
left out had become contaminated with a fungus, and so threw it away. Soon he observed that the
staphylococcus bacteria seemed unable to grow in the area surrounding the fungal mould. Fleming did
not even hold out much hope for his discovery, it was not until 1945 after further research by several
other scientists that penicillin was able to be produced on an industrial scale, changing the way doctors
treated bacterial infections forever. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they are the
first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases.
B. Fingerprints
Although, there is some evidence that links man’s first discovery of fingerprints back to 3000 B.C. in
Egypt, fingerprints were not used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th century. In 1858,
an English magistrate named Sir William Herschel, who at that time was working in India, tried to
reduce fraud by recording the residents’ fingerprints when signing business documents. In 1883, Mark
Twain’s Life on the Mississippi included the identification of a murderer using a fingerprint. He would
use the same trick again in his other novels. Starting in 1888, Sir Francis Galton began publishing works
about fingerprints, identifying patterns, creating a system of classification, and determining that the odds
of two people having the same fingerprint were vanishingly small, thus making them suitable for
forensic work.
C. DNA
It has been believed that in the 1950s an American biologist James Watson and an English physicist
Francis Crick discovered DNA. In fact, this is far from being the case as DNA was first recognised in
the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher. Then, in the decades following other scientists, such
as Phoebus Levene and Erwin Chargaff, carried out a series of research efforts that soon revealed
additional details related to the DNA molecule, particularly its primary chemical components and the
ways in which they are joined with one another. The scientific foundation provided by these pioneers,
allowed Watson and Crick to reach their groundbreaking conclusion of 1953, stating that the DNA
molecule exists in the form of a three-dimensional double helix.
E. Atomic Bomb
Atomic science began many centuries ago with experimenting and probing into the nature and structure
of matter. This began with ancient philosophers and alchemists. Science began emerging with Thales of
Miletus (634-546 BC), the Ionian Greek, who described the power of attraction in electricity long before
electricity was known. In the case of the atomic bomb there is clearly one man who is the originator of
the idea, that is Leo Szilard. He was the instigator of the project that led ultimately to the successful
construction of the atomic bomb, and was a principal investigator in the early R&D both before and after
the founding of the atomic bomb project – making a number of the key discoveries himself.
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Which discovery (‘s) PARAGRAPH (A-E)
71. was a component of an investigation in few books?
72. had been mistakenly connected with a massive blow-up?
73. actual identification goes over 100 years back?
74. was discovered by chance?
75. was used by an English official working abroad?
76. had been a revelation of two scientists working together?
77. creator can be unhesitatingly named?
78. was soon widely acclaimed by all its field’s scholars?
79. had been used to treat formerly incurable illnesses?
80. particle was discovered during an experimentation that had
started hundreds of years ago?
Part 4: Read the following passage and do the tasks that follows. Write your answer in the space
provided
Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow.
The reading passage has seven paragraphs, A-G. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph
from the list of headings below. Paragraph D and F have been done for you as an example.
List of Headings
81. Paragraph A _____
i How deforestation harms isolated trees
ii How other plants can cause harm 82. Paragraph B _____
iii Which big trees support the most diverse species
iv Impact of big tree loss on the wider environment 83. Paragraph C _____
v Measures to prevent further decline in big tree populations
vi How wildlife benefits from big trees Paragraph D __ix___
vii Risk from pests and infection 84. Paragraph E _____
viii Ways in which industry uses big tree products
ix How higher temperatures slow the rate of tree growth Paragraph F __i___
x Factors that enable trees to grow to significant heights
85. Paragraph G _____
Trees in trouble
What is causing the decline of the world's giant forests?
A. Big trees are incredibly important ecologically. For a start, they sustain countless other species. They
provide shelter for many animals, and their trunks and branches can become gardens, hung with green
ferns, orchids and bromeliads, coated with mosses and draped with vines. With their tall canopies
basking in the sun, they capture vast amounts of energy. This allows them to produce massive crops of
fruit, flowers and foliage that sustain much of the animal life in the forest.
B. Only a small number of tree species have the genetic capacity to grow really big. The mightiest are
native to North America, but big trees grow all over the globe, from the tropics to the boreal forests of
the high latitudes. To achieve giant stature, a tree needs three things: the right place to establish its
seedling, good growing conditions and lots of time with low adult mortality. Disrupt any of these, and
you can lose your biggest trees.
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C. In some parts of the world, populations of big trees are dwindling because their seedlings cannot
survive or grow. In southern India, for instance, an aggressive nonnative shrub, Lantana camara, is
invading the floor of many forests. Lantana grows so thickly that young trees often fail to take root. With
no young trees to replace them, it is only a matter of time before most of the big trees disappear. Across
much of northern Australia, gamba grass from Africa is overrunning native savannah woodlands. The
grass grows up to four metres tall and burns fiercely, creating superhot fires that cause catastrophic tree
mortality.
D. Without the right growing conditions trees cannot get really big, and there is some evidence to
suggest tree growth could slow in a warmer world, particularly in environments that are already warm.
Having worked for decades at La Selva Biological Station in Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica,
David and Deborah Clark and colleagues have shown that tree growth there declines markedly in
warmer years. “During the day, their photosynthesis shuts down when it gets too warm, and at night they
consume more energy because their metabolic rate increases, much as a reptile’s would when it gets
warmer,” explains David Clark. With less energy produced in warmer years and more being consumed
just to survive, there is even less energy available for growth.
E. The Clarks’ hypothesis, if correct, means tropical forests would shrink over time. The largest, oldest
trees would progressively die off and tend not to be replaced. According to the Clarks, this might trigger
a destabilisation of the climate; as older trees die, forests would release some of their stored carbon into
the atmosphere, prompting a vicious cycle of further warming, forest shrinkage and carbon emissions.
F. Big trees face threats from elsewhere. The most serious is increasing mortality, especially of mature
trees. Across much of the planet, forests of slow-growing ancient trees have been cleared for human use.
In western North America, most have been replaced by monocultures of fast-growing conifers. Siberia’s
forests are being logged at an incredible rate. Logging in tropical forests is selective but the timber
cutters usually prioritise the biggest and oldest trees. In the Amazon, my colleagues and I found the
mortality rate for the biggest trees had tripled in small patches of rainforest surrounded by pasture land.
This happens for two reasons. First, as they grow taller, big trees become thicker and less flexible: when
winds blow across the surrounding cleared land, there is nothing to stop their acceleration. When they hit
the trees, the impact can snap them in half. Second, rainforest fragments dry out when surrounded by
dry, hot pastures and the resulting drought can have devastating consequences: one four-year study has
shown that death rates will double for smaller trees but will increase 4.5 times for bigger trees.
G. Particular enemies to large trees are insects and disease. Across vast areas of western North America,
increasingly mild winters are causing massive outbreaks of bark beetle. These tiny creatures can kill
entire forests as they tunnel their way through the inside of trees. In both North America and Europe,
fungus-causing diseases such as Dutch elm disease have killed off millions of stately trees that once
gave beauty to forests and cities. As a result of human activity, such enemies reach even the remotest
corners of the world, threatening to make the ancient giants a thing of the past.
Part 5: Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions.
It’s often said that we learn things at the wrong time. University students frequently do the
minimum of work because they’re crazy about a good social life instead. Children often scream before
their piano practice because it’s so boring. They have to be given gold stars and medals to be persuaded
to swim, or have to be bribed to take exams. But the story is different when you’re older.
Over the years, I’ve done my share of adult learning. At 30, I went to a college and did courses in
History and English. It was an amazing experience. For starters, I was paying, so there was no reason to
be late – I was the one frowning and drumming my fingers if the tutor was late, not the other way round.
Indeed, if I could persuade him to linger for an extra five minutes, it was a bonus, not a nuisance. I
wasn’t frightened to ask questions, and homework was a pleasure not a pain. When I passed an exam, I
had passed it for me and me alone, not for my parents or my teachers. The satisfaction I got was entirely
personal.
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Some people fear going back to school because they worry that their brains have got rusty. But
the joy is that, although some parts have rusted up, your brain has learnt all kinds of other things since
you were young. It has learnt to think independently and flexibly and is much better at relating one thing
to another. What you lose in the rust department, you gain in the maturity department.
In some ways, age is a positive plus. For instance, when you’re older, you get less frustrated.
Experience has told you that, if you’re calm and simply do something carefully again and again,
eventually you’ll get the hang of it. The confidence you have in other areas – from being able to drive a
car, perhaps – means that if you can’t, say, build a chair instantly, you don’t, like a child, want to destroy
your first pathetic attempts. Maturity tells you that you will, with application, eventually get there.
I hated piano lessons at school, but I was good at music. And coming back to it, with a teacher
who could explain why certain exercises were useful and with musical concepts that, at the age of ten, I
could never grasp, was magical. Initially, I did feel a bit strange, thumping out a piece that I’d played for
my school exams, with just as little comprehension of what the composer intended as I’d had all those
years before. But soon, complex emotions that I never knew poured out from my fingers, and suddenly I
could understand why practice makes perfect.
87. The writer’s main point in paragraph 2 is to show that as people grow up, ………………… .
A. they have a more positive attitude towards learning
B. they cannot learn as well as younger learners
C. they tend to learn less as they are discouraged
D. they get more impatient with their teachers
88. The phrase “For starters” in paragraph 2 could best be replaced by “…………………” .
A. First and foremost B. At the starting point
C. At the beginning D. For beginners
89. While doing some adult learning courses at a college, the writer was surprised ………………… .
A. to get on better with the tutor B. to feel learning more enjoyable
C. to have more time to learn D. to be able to learn more quickly
92. All of the following are true about adult learning EXCEPT ………………… .
A. adult learners have fewer advantages than young learners
B. adults think more independently and flexibly than young people
C. experience in doing other things can help one’s learning
D. young people usually feel less patient than adults
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93. It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that maturity is a positive plus in the learning process because
adult learners ………………… .
A. pay more attention to detail than younger learners
B. are able to organize themselves better than younger learners
C. are less worried about learning than younger learners
D. have become more patient than younger learners
94. It is implied in the last paragraph that when you learn later in life, you ………………… .
A. should expect to take longer to learn than when you were younger
B. can sometimes understand more than when you were younger
C. are not able to concentrate as well as when you were younger
D. find that you can recall a lot of things you learnt when younger
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Part 2: The graph shows the number of hours children aged 10 – 11 spend on watching TV and
computers in the UK from 2000 to 2009.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown. Write about 120 words.
25
20
Hours per week
15
Television
Computer
10
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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Part 3: Write an essay of about 300 words on the following topics
The job market is becoming more challenging in the trend of growing globalization nowadays.
What would you do to prepare yourself to meet higher job requirements and be successful in the
future? Give reasons to support your answer.
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