INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa – Noviembre-Diciembre 2018

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A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

WRITE THE WORDS USING THESE CLUES 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

1 M 1- worth remembering
2 O 2- to send goods to another country for sale
3 N 3- lose a job because you are no longer needed: made _____
4 ➖ E 4- (of a plot) not likely to happen or be true
5 Y 5- currently popular or fashionable

CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS 5 x 0.3 = 1.5 marks

1- You should invest money _____ shares. a) in b) on c) at

2- If you change your car, you will _____ debt. a) get on b) get into c) get out

3- Why do you think that _____ people still continue smoking? a) so many b) so much c) as many

4- There was a leak in the bathroom, so I got it _____. a) fix b) fixing c) fixed

5- Sheila speaks _____ French nor German. a) neither b) either c) both

COMPLETE THE CONVERSATION. Choose a suitable expression. There are three 4 x 0.2 = 0.8 mark
extra ones. Write the letter in the blank.

John has an appointment for lunch with Lillian but he has had
A- Are you doing B- That´s not a a problem. They talk on the phone.
anything tomorrow? good idea.
John: Hi, Lillian. This is Tom.

C- I am sorry Lillian: Hi, Tom. Where are you? I’ve been waiting
that this is such for half an hour. I was worried about you.
D- Sorry, it’s a short notice.
John: I was on my way to the restaurant and I had
bad line. a puncture. I’m going to be late. Sorry, Lillian.

E- Well, it’s Lillian: John, hello? John 1) ___. What did you say?
worth a try. You are breaking up.

John: I’m talking on the mobile. 2) ____. I was telling you

F- I’m sorry but I don’t feel up to
I am going to be late for our appointment.
going there.
I had a puncture and I am delayed. 3) ____.

Lillian: OK. It’s alright. It’s not your fault. These things
G- I didn’t catch all happen. Shall we postpone our appointment?
of that.
John: I think we should. 4) ____.

Lillian: I’m free.

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REWRITE THESE SENTENCES Use the words in brackets without changing them 8 x 0.4 = 3.2 marks

1- Most actors have the dream of receiving an Oscar one day. (AWARDED)
Most actors have the dream of have awarded with an Oscar one day

2- My daughter regrets spending all her savings on that car. (WISHES)

My daughter wishes didn’t spend all her saving on that car

3- The best of my new flat is that it has a lot of places to store things. (WHAT)
What is the best of my new flat is thar it has a lot of places to store things

4- ‘What are they playing at the Odeon, James?’ said Pam. (ASKED)
Pam asked james what were them playing at the Odeon

5- You should be in bed by now. (IT’S TIME)

Its time to was in bed

6- I forgot to pack my scissors. How stupid of me! (SHOULD)

I should have didn’t forgot my pack scissors

7- It’s possible that she didn’t understand my message. (MAY)

May she haven’t understood my message

8- “I won’t go to the meeting,” the manager said. (REFUSED)

The manger refused to go to the meeting

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT FACEBOOK WITH THE CORRECT 10 x 0.25 = 2.5 marks
TENSE, VOICE OR FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Facebook is a real waste of time. You just spend hours checking other people’s profile, making new friends and looking

at pictures they 1) (post) _______________________. It’s true you can be back in touch with people you 2) (know)

_____________________ in primary school but you don’t actually say anything to each other. You just go onto their

page, look at their pictures and that’s it, but for some reason, you still find yourself checking it constantly. It has

happened to all of us.

Last year I 3) (contact) _____________________ by people I 4) (not see) _________________ in a long time and then

I realised that they’d changed a lot and I had actually nothing to talk about and there was no point in 5) (be) _______

friends, really. This sort of virtual friendship just 6) (lead) _____________ nowhere. It is such a huge waste of time that

some workplaces 7) (prohibit) ________________ its use nowadays because employees waste too much time 8) (look)

________________ at it since it’s incredibly addictive. However, some experts consider that in a couple of years most

of us 9) (delete) __________________ our Facebook accounts because most of us 10) (use) __________________

other social networks such as Twitter or Instagram.

READING: Read this article and do tasks A and B 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

MOBILE MAN

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 There are good reasons to be worried about adolescents’ excessive use of mobile phones.
Practically every teenager today owns one. Such density of mobile ownership has led to the
appearance of a new type of neurosis among young people. Adolescents, in particular, have become
fanatical about being “always available” and “always online”.

A recent survey conducted by a university suggests that adolescents have reasons of their own for
keeping hold of their best electronic friends that we, adults, are not taking seriously enough.

Sociologists see an alarming trend among the younger generation. Most adolescents tend to feel
socially isolated from their friends without regular access to a mobile phone. Teenagers can be seen
taking advantage of every spare minute to communicate with their friends. It is not the content of
the communication but the act of staying in touch that matters. Indeed, many become extremely
uneasy if unable to contact their friends on WhatsApp countless times each day, fearing they are
becoming socially isolated.

If this trend continues, two things are likely to happen. One is mobile phone addiction in which a
person becomes completely incapable of forming and maintaining relationships without the help of
mobiles. The second is that genuine conversation will be driven out by superficial communication
in which the act of contacting one another is all that matters, resulting in an important deterioration
in the quality of relationships. Indeed, the very fabric of society may be threatened.

Task A Underline the parts of the article that tell us the following things

1 The amount of cell phones adolescents have.

2 If teenagers cannot frequently contact their friends on the mobile phone, they feel cut off from them.

3 The impossibility to relate with people other than via cell phones.

Task B Circle T for true and F for false. Correct the false statement/s on the blank lines below.

Teenagers consider contacting their friends more important than what they actually
4 say to them. T F

5 This growing addiction will not affect the quality of the way we relate to each other. T F

PART B

WRITING 10 marks

Write one composition using 120 to 160 words. Choose either option A or option B and circle the letter
corresponding to your choice

A- Write an essay expressing your opinion about the following statement:

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 “Success and money are the most important things in life”

B- An American pen friend of yours is travelling to Argentina next summer. Write an EMAIL to him or
her recommending which cities to visit and suggesting the different things you can see and do there.
Also include some useful advice a tourist should follow in Argentina.

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WRITE: 1-memorable 2-export 3-redundant 4-far-fetched 5-trendy
CIRCLE: 1-a 2-b 3-a 4-c 5-a
CONVERSATIONS: 1-G 2-D 3-C 4-A
REWRITE: 1-Most actors (have the) dream of being awarded an Oscar one day. 2-My daughter wishes she had not
spent all her savings on that car. 3-What I like (most) about my new flat is that it has a lot of spaces to store things.
4-Pam asked James what they were playing at the Odeon. 5-It’s time you were in bed. 6-I should have packed my
scissors. 7-She may have misunderstood my message. 8-The manager refused to go to the meeting.

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TENSES: 1-post/have posted 2-knew 3-was contacted 4-hadn’t seen 5-being 6-leads 7-are prohibiting/prohibit/
have prohibited 8-looking 9-will delete/have deleted 10-will use/be using
READING: Task A: 1-Such density of mobile ownership 2-Most adolescents tend to feel socially isolated from
their friends without regular access to a mobile phone. (Par.3) 3-One is mobile phone addiction in which a person
becomes completely incapable of forming and maintaining relationships without the help of mobiles. (Par. 4) Task
B: 4-T 5-F (This addiction will deteriorate the quality of relationships)

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