Part 1: You will hear people talking in eight different situations.

For
questions 1-8, choose the best answer (A, В or C).
1. You hear a restaurant manager talking about the cooks who work for him.
What does he say about them?
A They dislike cleaning tasks.
B They have a choice of jobs.
C They help to decide the menu.
2. You hear a woman talking about a new book. What does she particularly like
about the book?
A It is educational.
B It is well organised.
C It is enjoyable.
3. You hear the writer of a television soap opera being interviewed about the
programme. What will happen next in the story?
A Someone will make an important decision.
B Someone will go away unexpectedly.
C Someone will learn the truth at last.
4. You hear part of a radio interview. Who is speaking?
A a taxi driver
B a porter
C a tourist guide
5. You hear a woman talking about how she keeps fit. Why did she decide to
take up line dancing?
A She thought the pace would suit her.
B She had heard about it on television.
C She wanted to try exercising to music.
6. You overhear a conversation in a restaurant. What does the woman think
about the food she has just eaten?
A It was expensive.
B It was delicious.
C It looked wonderful.
7. You turn on the radio and hear a man talking. What is he talking about?
A drawing pictures
B writing fiction
C composing music
8. You overhear a student phoning her parents. What is her opinion of the place
she is living in while at college?
A She is not sure she will have enough room to study.
B She has difficulty in working because of the noise.
C She does not get on well with her room-mates.

Part 2: You will hear people talking in eight different situations. For
questions 1-8, choose the best answer (A, В or C).
1. You hear a customer talking to a shop assistant about a coat she bought. What
does she want?
A a different kind of item
В the same item but in a different size
C her money back
2. You hear a weather forecast on the radio. Tomorrow, the weather in the east
of the country will be
A stormy in the morning.
В sunny in the afternoon.
C foggy in the evening.
3. You hear an office worker talking about cycling to work. What does she
enjoy most about it?
A getting some exercise each morning
В avoiding the traffic into town
C thinking about the day ahead
4. You hear a radio announcer talking about a competition for writers of short
stories. The man says that one of the rules is that
A you have to be over sixteen to enter.
В you can submit more than one entry.
C your entry must be emailed.
5. You hear a conversation about reading. The man enjoys reading books which
A have characters that remind him of people he knows.
В describe situations that he finds highly amusing.
C are set in places that he is unlikely ever to visit.
6. You hear two people talking about watching films on the Internet. What do
they agree about?
A the advantages of buying films online
В the usefulness of reading film reviews
C the pleasure of watching films at home
7. You hear a woman at an airport talking on the phone. Why did she miss her
flight?
A She was held up by traffic.
В There was a long queue at check-in.
C She went to the wrong terminal.
8. You hear a man talking about his new job. What attracted him to this job?
A the type of work
В the opportunities for promotion
C the salary offered
Part 3: You will hear an expert snowboarder called Brad Mitchell
talking about the sport of extreme snowboarding. For questions 9-
18, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
Extreme snowboarding
Brad says there are no 1_______ to warn extreme snowboarders of dangers.
Brad advises snowboarders always to follow the 2_______ when descending.
Brad always wears a 3_______ when he goes into the mountains.
According to Brad, you need a lot of 4_______ to set off down the mountain.
Brad particularly enjoys doing several 5_______ when he is going down a
slope.
Brad says at first he found it difficult to do a good 6_______ on steep slopes.
Brad says you must never 7_______ if you feel you’re about to fall.
Brad advises against putting your weight on your 8_______ in a fall.
Brad always carries a 9_______ in case he is in difficulty following a fall.
In the future, Brad would most like to try 10_______ snowboarding.
Part 4:
Questions 1-6: Watch the video and complete the sentences below using NO
MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER.
1. NASA uses smartphones as ____________________ for low-cost, high-
performance solutions.
2. A project called Phonesat used a smartphone as a satellite on-board computer
in _____________________

.3. Smartphone industry is worth more than ______________________ dollars

these days.
4. The mobile phone Internet usage overtook PC Internet usage for the first time
in history in ________________________

5. ___________________________ has the fastest growing smartphone market

in the world.

6. 70% of people in ______________________ use only mobile instead of

laptops or PCs.
Questions 7-10: Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
7. The students think that Michael Jackson is a president.
A TRUE
B FALSE
C NOT GIVEN
8. When was the first ever, general-purpose fully electronic computer was
created?
A In 1946
B In 1955
C In 1974
9. How many Eniac computers are needed to have the power of one smartphone
chip?
A 62 million
B 72 million
C 82 million
10. How much space are needed to store Eniac computer components to have
the power of one smartphone chip?
A A football stadium
B A small city
C More than the area of the United States of America