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Part 1. For questions 56-65. (1.0 point - 0.1/each)

Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. Write your answers in
the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
SHOW ON THE ROAD
There are moments when you realise that the entire national consciousness has shifted slightly. Why?
Because something happens that would previously have been (56)______ impossible, but now passes
almost without comment. Take, for example, the newly completed London headquarters of the fashion
retailer, Monsoon. Another (57)______ high- tech business park building? No way. This is real, full-
blooded, original 1960s architecture, brought back from the (58)______. And it sings.
We’ve known for a while that some previously hated 1960s concrete architecture was coming to be
regarded with affection, especially by the (59)______. But Monsoon shows that ‘historic’ modernist
architecture can now command reverence (60)______ on awe. This successful company could have
moved anywhere it wanted. And it did, but not the way you’d expect. It chose to buy, restore and convert
the derelict, long- abandoned Paddington maintenance (61)______, which looms over the elevated urban
motorway of the Westway like an ocean liner.
The result is electrifying. This was a building designed in the early 1960s, with the then unbuilt
motorway in (62)______. It’s in love with the motorway; one curving wing slides underneath it, another
virtually kisses it. At its prow are two heroic funnels. It is set on a rising bend in the road, from which it
seems to be sailing towards you, on a collision (63)______. It would be (64)______ for such a building to
be built today. It would not be allowed to come so close to vehicles that, from inside, you can make eye
contact with the drivers. The staff restaurant is right by the road. It’s called, with (65)______ humour,
Bangers and Crash.

46.A. incestuously B. insanely C. insensibly D. inwardly

47.A. glittering B. gloating C. glowing D. gleaming
48.A. hell B. ravage C. doom D. dead
49.A. virtuoso B. rookie C. cognoscenti D. gourmet
50.A. subsisting B. bordering C. resting D. clambering
51.A. station B. shed C. stand D. depot
52.A. mind B. place C. progress D. concern
53.A. track B. spell C. course D. sequel
54.A. inconceivable B. incremental C. indictable D. incredulous
55.A. dim B. blurred C. faint D. dark