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LISTENING
SECTION 1: Questions 1-10
Anna 1 ………Grieg…………………..
Name:
2 ………15/03/1980
Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy):
4 3 ………Ellendale………………… St.
Address:
4 ……………W52HT……………..
Post code:
Nationality: Grenadian
5 …………O……………….
Number of previous burglaries:
6 …………8 Months……………….
Time of apartment tenancy:
7 ……………1…………….
Number of occupants:
8 ……………Back door…………….
Entry point of burglar:
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9 ………G4168770………………….
• Serial number of lost computer:
10 ……………Silver-colored…………. cloth
• Material of stolen purse:
Academic 7 minutes
- 15 ……teacheing
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menthod…………………..
16 ………accommodation……………….. 6 minutes
- Cafeteria
- 17 …flats………………………
- 18 disco
- 19 international everning
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B. focus on the opinion of the interviewees
C. take consideration of both sides
26. Why is this subject particularly important to John?
A. to earn respect from professors in the department
B. to raise his grade
C. to impress his professor
Questions 27-30
What is the source of each one below in this survey?
Choose FOUR answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-F, next to questions 27-
30.
A radio
B council meeting
C the television
D newspaper
E journal
F the Internet
27 E Map
28 D Photo
29 A Budget
30 B Comment
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C. It is often mentioned in some literature of the library.
32. The Town Market originally made a large profit selling
A. handcrafts
B. vegetables
C. animals
33. The money that the marketers made contributes to local
A. reconstruction
B. development
C. defense
34. Market sales plummeted due to a lack of viable
A. agriculture
B. transport
C. city planning
35. Mayor John C. Wiley decided the Clock tower would be used as a ……………. in the
early stages of the uprising.
A. clock
B. grounds for battle
C. jail
Questions 36-40
Complete the table below.
Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Research Methods Objects Problems
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READING
Reading passage 1
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein is perhaps the best-known scientist of the 20th century. He received the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1921 and his theories of special and general relativity are of great
importance to many branches of physics and astronomy. He is well known for his theories
about light, matter, gravity, space and time. His most famous idea is that energy and mass are
different forms of the same thing.
Einstein was born in Wurttemberg, Germany on 14th March 1879. His family was Jewish but
he had not been very religious in his youth although he became very interested in Judaism in
later life.
It is well documented that Einstein did not begin speaking until after the age of three. In fact,
he found speaking so difficult that his family were worried that he would never start to speak.
When Einstein was four years old, his father gave him a magnetic compass. It was this
compass that inspired him to explore the world of science. He wanted to understand why the
needle always pointed north whichever way he turned the compass. It looked as if the needle
was moving itself. But the needle was inside a closed case, so no other force (such as the
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wind) could have been moving it. And this is how Einstein became interested in studying
science and mathematics.
In fact, he was so clever that at the age of 12 he taught himself Euclidean geometry. At
fifteen, he went to school in Munich which he found very boring. He finished secondary
school in Aarau, Switzerland and entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
from which he graduated in 1900. But Einstein did not like the teaching there either. He often
missed classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play the violin instead.
However, he was able to pass his examinations by studying the notes of a classmate. His
teachers did not have a good opinion of him and refused to recommend him for a university
position. So, he got a job in a patent office in Switzerland. While he was working there, he
wrote the papers that first made him famous as a great scientist.
Einstein had two severely disabled children with his first wife, Mileva. His daughter (whose
name we do not know) was born about a year before their marriage in January 1902. She was
looked after by her Serbian grandparents until she died at the age of two. It is generally
believed that she died from scarlet fever but there are those who believe that she may have
suffered from a disorder known as Down Syndrome. But there is not enough evidence to
know for sure. In fact, no one even knew that she had existed until Einstein's granddaughter
found 54 love letters that Einstein and Mileva had written to each other between 1897 and
1903. She found these letters inside a shoe box in their attic in California. Einstein and
Mileva's son, Eduard, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He spent decades in hospitals and
died in Zurich in 1965.
Just before the start of World War I, Einstein moved back to Germany and became director of
a school there. But in 1933, following death threats from the Nazis, he moved to the United
States, where he died on 18th April 1955.
Questions 1-8
Do the following statements agree with the information given in the text?
For questions 1-8, write:
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1. The general theory of relativity is a very important theory in modern …
physics. T…………
………
2. Einstein had such difficulty with language that those around him thought ………
he would never learn how to speak. T…………
…
3. It seemed to Einstein that nothing could be pushing the needle of the ………
compass around except the wind. F……………
Questions 9-10
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text for each answer.
He tried hard to understand how the needle could seem to move itself so that it always 9
pointed north
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He often did not go to classes and used the time to study physics 10 on his own or to play
music.
Questions 11-13
B. is a mystery.
12. His teachers would not recommend him for a university position because
A. Swiss origin
B. Jewish origin
C. American origin
D. Austrian origin
Reading passage 2
A. At the very beginning of the 20th century, the American grocery stores offered
comprehensive services: the customers would ask help from the people behind the counters
(called clerks) for the items they liked, and then the clerks would wrap the items up. For the
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purpose of saving time, customers had to ask delivery boys or go in person to send the lists of
what they intended to buy to the stores in advance and then went to pay for the goods later.
Generally speaking, these grocery stores sold only one brand for each item. Such early chain
stores as A&P stores, although containing full services, were very time-consuming and
inefficient for the purchase.
B. Born in Virginia, Clarence Saunders left school at the age of 14 in 1895 to work first as a
clerk in a grocery store. During his working in the store, he found that it was very inefficient
for people to buy things there. Without the assistance of computers at that time, shopping was
performed in a quite backward way. Having noticed that this inconvenient shopping mode
could lead to tremendous consumption of time and money, Saunders, with great enthusiasm
and innovation, proposed an unprecedented solution—let the consumers do self-service in the
process of shopping—which might bring a thorough revolution to the whole industry.
C. In 1902, Saunders moved to Memphis to put his perspective into practice, that is, to
establish a grocery wholesale cooperative. In his newly designed grocery store, he divided the
store into three different areas: A 'front lobby’ served as an entrance, an exit, and included
checkouts at the front. ‘A sales department’ was deliberately designed to allow customers to
wander around the aisle and select their needed groceries. In this way, the clerks would not
do the unnecessary work but arrange more delicate aisle and shelves to display the goods and
enable the customers to browse through all the items. In the gallery above the sales
department, supervisors can monitor the customers without disturbing them. ‘Stockroom’,
where large fridges were placed to maintain fresh products, is another section of his grocery
store only for the staff to enter. Also, this new shopping design and layout could
accommodate more customers to go shopping simultaneously and even lead to some
unimaginable phenomena: impulse buying and later supermarket.
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clearly priced, and no one forced customers to buy the things they did not need. As a matter
of fact, the biggest benefit that the Piggly Wiggly brought to customers was the money-
saving effect. Self-service was optimistic for the improvement. ‘It is good for both the
consumer and retailer because it cuts costs,’ noted George T. Haley, a professor at the
University of New Haven and director of the Centre for International Industry
Competitiveness, ‘if you look at the way in which grocery stores (previous to Piggly Wiggly
and Alpha Beta) were operated, what you can find is that there are a great number of workers
involved, and labour is a major expense.’ Fortunately, the chain stores such as Piggly Wiggly
cut the fat.
E. Piggly Wiggly and this kind of self-service stores soared at that time. In the first year,
Saunders opened nine branches in Memphis. Meanwhile, Saunders immediately applied a
patent for the self-service concept and began franchising Piggly Wiggly stores. Thanks to the
employment of self-service and franchising, the number of Piggly Wiggly had increased to
nearly 1,300 by 1923. Piggly Wiggly sold $100 million (worth $1.3 billion today) in
groceries, which made it the third-biggest grocery retailer in the nation. After that, this chain
store experienced company listing on the New York Stock Exchange, with the stocks
doubling from late 1922 to March 1923. Saunders contributed significantly to the perfect
design and layout of grocery stores. In order to keep the flow rate smooth, Saunders even
invented the turnstile to replace the common entrance mode.
F. Clarence Saunders died in 1953, leaving abundant legacies mainly symbolised by Piggly
Wiggly, the pattern of which spread extensively and lasted permanently.
Questions 14-18
Reading Passage 1 has six paragraphs, A-F.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-F, on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once
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16 ……D…………. How Clarence Saunders’ idea had been carried out
17 ……A…………. How people used to shop before Clarence Saunders’ stores opened
Questions 19-23
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers on your answer sheet.
19 Clarence Saunders’ first job was as ………clerk……………… in a grocery store.
20 In Clarence Saunders’ store, people should pay for goods at a front lobby
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Reading passage 3
The Olympic Torch
Since 776 B.C., when the Greek people held their first-ever Olympic Games, the Games were
hosted every four years at the city of Olympia. Back then, a long journey for the Olympic
torch was made before the opening ceremony of each Olympic Games. The Greek people
would light a cauldron of flames on the altar, a ritual devoted to Hera, the Greek Goddess of
birth and marriage.
The reintroduction of flame to the Olympics occurred at the Amsterdam 1928 Games, for
which a cauldron was lit yet without a torch relay. The 1936 Berlin Summer Games held the
first Olympic torch relay, which was not resumed in the Winter Olympics until 1952.
However, in that year the torch was lit not in Olympia, Greece, but in Norway, which was
considered as the birthplace of skiing. Until the Innsbruck 1964 Winter Olympics in Austria,
the Olympic flame was reignited at Olympia.
The long trip to the Olympic area is not completed by one single torch, but by thousands of
them, so the torch has to be replicated many times. Approximately 10,000 to 15,000 torches
are built to fit thousands of runners who take the torches through every section of the
Olympic relay. Every single runner can choose to buy his or her torch as a treasurable
souvenir when he or she finishes his or her part of the relay.
The first torch in the modern Olympics (the 1936 Berlin Games) was made from a slender
steel rod with a circular platform at the top and a circular hole in the middle to jet flames.
The name of the runner was also inscribed on the platform as a token of thanks. In the earlier
days, torches used everything from gunpowder to olive oil as fuels. Some torches adopted a
combination of hexamine and naphthalene with a flammable fluid. However, these materials
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weren’t exactly the ideal fuel sources, and they could be quite hazardous sometimes. In the
1956 Olympics, the torch in the final relay was ignited by magnesium and aluminium, but
some flaming pieces fell off and seared the runner’s arms.
To improve safety, liquid fuels made their first appearance at the 1972 Munich Games. Since
then, torches have been using fuels which are pressurised into the form of a liquid. When the
fuels are burnt, they turn into gas to produce a flame. Liquid fuel is safer for the runner and
can be stored in a light container. The torch at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics is
equipped with an aluminium base that accommodates a tiny fuel tank. As the fuel ascends
through the modified handle, it is squeezed through a brass valve that has thousands of little
openings. As the fuel passes through the tiny openings, it accumulates pressure. Once it
makes its way through the openings, the pressure decreases and the liquid becomes gas so it
can bum up.
The torch in 1996 was fuelled by propylene, a type of substance that could give out a bright
flame. However, since propylene was loaded with carbon, it would produce plenty of smoke
which was detrimental to the environment. In 2000, the designers of the Sydney Olympic
torch proposed a lighter and cheaper design, which was harmless to the environment. For the
fuel, they decided to go with a combination of 35 per cent propane (a gas that is used for
cooking and heating) and 65 per cent butane (a gas that is obtained from petroleum), thus
creating a powerful flame without generating much smoke.
Both the 1996 and 2000 torches adopted a double flame burning system, enabling the flames
to stay lit even in severe weather conditions. The exterior flame bums at a slower rate and at a
lower temperature. It can be perceived easily with its big orange flame, but it is unstable. On
the other hand, the interior flame bums faster and hotter, generating a small blue flame with
great stability, due to the internal site offering protection from the wind. Accordingly, the
interior flame would serve as a pilot light, which could relight the external flame if it should
go out.
As for the torch of 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the top section was made of glass in
which the flame burned, for the purpose of echoing the theme of ‘Light the Fire Within’ of
that Olympics. This torch was of great significance for the designs of following torches.
Questions 27-29
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 27-29 on your answer sheet.
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The Olympic torch, as requested by the Olympic Committee, will be carefully designed so
that it is capable of withstanding all kinds of 27 … severe weather conditions
…………………. Generally, the design of the modern Olympic torch has both 28 aesthetic
and practical value.
The torch must be copied, and thousands of torches are constructed to accommodate
thousands of runners who will carry them through each leg of the Olympic relay. Each runner
has an opportunity to purchase the torch as a(n) 29 treasurable souvenir at the end of his or
her leg of the relay.
Questions 30-35
Look at the following statements (Questions 30-35) and the list of Olympic torches below.
Match each statement with the correct Olympic torch, A-H.
Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes 30-35 on your answer sheet.
List of Olympic Torches
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Questions 36-40
Label the diagram below.
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 36-40 on your answer sheet.
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WRITING
Writing Task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Percentage of UK people who consumed daily recommended amount of fruit and vegetables
in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make
comparisons where relevant.
You should write at least 150 words.
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