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11B 2A 3D 4B 5D 6C 7C 8B
2 2iltle experience 3 few opportunities 4a litle research
5 few professions 6 a litle overtime
3 11'Ihelp 2takes 3won't mind 41'm seeing
5 will have been working 61 be surfing
4 Ldiscoveries 2 graduation 3economist 4 accountant
Siibrarian Gelectrician 7 attendant 8 employee
READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
Medical vocabulary
1a people: ure, patent, pore, specials, surgeon
b injures and ilnessc: ache bre: sas, fever, ctr,
faz, infecton pan, sprain, temperature, Wound
€treament bandage, injection, medicine, operation, pater,
prescrpto, sith, ables, thermomecier
4 sight probably before she was born 2 yes
5 Suggested answers
2 from Dr Percival closed... and stare athe ight
3 fom she ted her fee away 10. Ton" know wha
4 fom Overhe next fo weeks 10
5 from But Dr Percival was patient ... 10
6 Exam usk answers
1B 24 3C 4B SC 6B
LISTENING
Part1
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1. You hear a woman telling a neighbour in the street about a
road accident she has just seen. What happened?
Lan event 2a woman and a neighbour 3 in the stret
4 o describe the accident 5 very recently
210 2A 3B
3
Recording seript
You hear a woman telling a neighbour in the street about a
road accident she has just seen.
Itall happened so quickly. A car came racing out of that
side street without stopping, and the poor cyclist had no
chance. He came off and fell onto the road really hard,
| thought he must have broken an arm or a leg. I've had
some medical training so | would've given him first aid it
hetdneeded boLamazioay he didn and thera dan’,
‘seem any point in calling an ambulance, either. The cyclist
really told the driver what he thought of him, though,
because he could have been badly hurt. And I don’t think
he would've been able to ride that bike anywhere: it was
pretty badly damaged in the crash.
as (aaueneer
me
4 Asthere didn't seem any point tx calling an ambulance, either’
~ it didn’t actually happen
T would've given him first aid if he'd needed it, but
‘amazingly he didn’t ~ she didn’t actually need to give fist
aid, so we can infer he was not hurt Plus thought he must
have broken an arm or a leg and he could have been bly
wt, neither of which were actually the ease but could be
misunderstood,
C21 would've given him frst aid ifhe'd needed it
Comrect answer: B
5 question? woman, sireet, Where, now; | place, 2 woman to
friend, 3 in the street, 4 no information on why,
Snow
‘question 3 patient, phone, What, dislike, hospital; | opinion!
attitude, 2 patient to someone on the phone,
3 hospital, 4 to complain, 5 no information on
when
question 4 10, doctor's; How; fel, now; | feelings, 26wo
people, 3 doctor's waiting room, 4 to express
feelings, 5 now
question 5 young woman, race, What, agree; 1 agreement,
2 young woman to friend, 3/5 to discuss a race,
4/5 no information on where or when
‘question 6 woman, phone, Why: 1 purpose, 2 woman to
someone on the phone, 3/5 no information on
where or when
6 Exam task answers
1B 2C 3B 4c 5A 6A
Recording seript
You will hear people talking in six different situations. For
questions 1-6, choose the best answer (A, B or C).
1 You overhear @ man in a restaurant talking to a
colleague about his work,
‘The other day I saw a teenager who spend all his time.
doing sports and he had a whole series of problems:
stitf knee, swollen ankles, sore elbow, and so on. I think.
ted inkl
for something that would instantly sort everything out,
land was obviously disappointed when | told him no such
‘magic cure existed. | suggested instead that he should
‘try doing less training and take a day off each week, as
hhe was clearly overdoing it. t was tricky because many
young men in Newtown, where he grew up, are involved
in crime. The only ones who aren’t are those who are mad.
about sports, and I didn't want to put him off.2 You hear a woman talking to friend in the street
I'm afraid | can’t stop long, I've got to pick up something
for this evening and they close in half an hour. | was on
my way back fram seeing Nathan, who's in hospital, and
suddenly | remembered there's nothing in the fridge for the
kids. They're going into town to see a film that begins at
seven and Lcan't send them off with empty stomachs, so
| had to get off the bus a couple of stops early and head
this way. Fortunately Nathan is due out of hospital on
Monday, which is wonderful news, so tomorrow should be
my last visit there
3. You hear a patient talking on the phone.
| know there's a lot in the papers about things going
wrong in hospitals, doctors making mistakes and patients
‘catching infections and things like that, but | can't say |
have any complaints in that respect. Even the meals they
give you aren't as bad as everyone says, certainly no
‘worse than what | cook for myself at home! Lwould like a.
‘bit more peace and quiet, though. There always seems to
V7 and in ike this
travels a long way. Stil, the nurses say | should be out of
here by the weekend, so I'll soon be back at the house.
4 You overhear two people talking in a doctor's waiting
Man: Actually | wes here last week after my
daughter's pet rabbit bit me.
Really? | thought rabbits were supposed to be
friendly animals.
Me too, until Bunny sank his teeth into my arm.
When I told a friend of mine about ithe couldn't |
stop laughing, but | didn't realy see the funny
side of it and | got abit cross with him at the
time,
‘And what did the doctor do?
She gave me an injection and told me to come
back if there were any signs of infection, but s0.
{far there haven't been, I'm glad to say. I've kept
away from Bunny, though, justin case he gets
nasty again
‘Woman:
Man:
Woman:
Man:
5 You hear a young woman talking to a friend about a
cross-country race.
‘Man: My knee still hurts, and I've got that cross-
country race coming up in two weeks.
‘Maybe it'd be best to miss it this time. There
‘might be something seriously wrong with your
knee,
| don’t think so. My own feeling is that i'l have
cleared up in time for the race.
It won't if you keep training so hard every day.
[realise that, But | don't want to lose fitness in
the meantime,
: Sowhy don’t you do something different? Go
down to the poo), for instance? That's just as
‘good for keeping fit.
:Lthink you're probably right. I'll do that each
evening, instead of going out running.
Woman:
6 You overhear a woman on the phone.
| had an appointment with the dentist on Friday morning
but without any warning at all I've just received an email
saying that its been put off til Monday, and | just can’t
make that. 'm actually going away on Saturday for a
fortnight, and | certainly don't intend spending my entire
holiday with toothache. I'm now going to have to ring up
my old dentist and ask her if she can see me this week,
‘but even if she can give me an appointment at such short
notice it means a ten-mile journey to and from her surgery,
and that really s quite inconvenient,
Grammar
Phrasal verbs with up
1. grew up means “became an adult’, coming up means ‘geting
nearer in time’, cleared up means “got better
2 Veat,d 2use,j 3tidy,i speak, Sspeed,e 6 split,a
Theoled,h Sang Odug.f 10sum,c
Relative clauses
3-1. bonly has one sister, @ has more than one
2. had never seen a match before, a had only seen boring
matches before
3. which could be left out in a because it is a defining relative
clause, and the relative pronoun is the object of the clause
4 Adefining 2non-defining 3 non-defining; immediately
before the relative pronoun, and possibly also atthe end of the
relative clause
answer xex SESE