INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa –Noviembre-Diciembre 2020

NAME:
5TH. YEAR

3 TIME: 2 hours

A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

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

1 P 1-stomach illness caused by eating food with bacteria.

2 L 2-when a part of your body gets bigger than usual, it is___.(adj)
3 A 3-a long passage between rows of seats on a plane.
4 I 4-(pattern) having lines or bands of colour.
5 N 5-long narrow strip of ground used by airplanes to take off
and land.

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

1- Helen’s boss is indifferent and _____ helpful at times. a) a bit b) incredibly c) rather

2- My father _____ at the airport yesterday. a) dropped me off b) took me off c) got on

3- My wife bought a red _____ Italian sweater a) silk b) spotted c) beautiful

4- _____ the heavy traffic, she was able to arrive on time. a) Although b) However c) In spite of

5- I _____ on the sofa after lunch yesterday as I was very tired. a) lay down b) threw up c) came round

EXCHANGES Match a line from A with a line from B to make short exchanges. Write
4 x 0.2 = 0.8 mark
the corresponding number from B in the box. There are two extra phrases in B.

A B B
a I have lost my wallet. 1 Nor have I.
b I haven’t passed my driving test. 2 Does she? Is she a vegetarian?
c Meg hates eating meat. 3 Haven’t you? Poor thing.
d Melanie studies at Harvard University. 4 Really? What a shame!
5 Wow! So does my best friend.
6 Doesn’t she?

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

1- When you have many friends, you feel happy. (THE……THE)

2- Where have I left my pen? (I WONDER)

3- I was born in that house. (WHERE)

4- Meg will arrive soon. I will talk to her then. (WHEN)

5- If you don’t buy the tickets online, you will not get the 10% discount. (UNLESS)

6- It was a very warm day. We all went for a walk. (SO….THAT)

7- We didn’t hurry so we missed the bus. (IF)

8- We don’t eat enough vegetables. That’s why we don’t feel healthy. (IF)

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT LATE-NIGHT NOISES WITH THE 10 x 0.25 = 2.5 marks
CORRECT TENSE OR VOICE OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

By the end of the year Jill and Dan 1) (be married) _________________ for ten years. Jill loves Dan, but she
hates his snoring. It is so loud and disgusting. Sometimes, his snoring wakes her up, and she can't go back to
sleep. One night Dan's snoring was so loud Jill decided to sleep on the couch where she slept really well.
The next morning, Jill’s son, Timmy, saw her sleeping on the couch. He thought that she 2) (have)
__________ a fight with his dad. Timmy thought his parents 3) (get) _________ a divorce, so he asked his
mum. Jill laughed and hugged Timmy. ‘No Timmy, your dad just 4) (snore) _________a lot!’ Timmy asked if
she snored. Jill wasn’t sure.
Later, Jill asked Dan if she snored. ‘Yeah, you sometimes sound like a cat meowing,’ Dad said. ‘This week
you 5) (snore) _____________ three times already. Well… it's kind of annoying, but I deal with it,’ Dan said.
Jill felt embarrassed that she snored because she 6) (not tell) _______________ such a thing before. She went
to the doctor to see if she could do anything about it. The doctor gave her a few tips but said that there 7) (be)
___________ no medicine or cure for snoring. Jill went back home, feeling disappointed.  ‘All this time I
thought you were the annoying snorer, but I guess I am, too,’ Jill said to her husband. ‘Hey, that's what
8) (make) __________ us perfect together!’ Dan said. ‘I’m sorry, Dan, I 9) (be) _____________ unfair with
you all this time and I promise I 10) (not complain) ________________again.

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

DIGITAL HEAVEN

A
If you had the opportunity to live forever, would you take it? The obstacles to keeping your body alive
indefinitely still seem insurmountable, but some scientists think there is another possibility opened up by
digital technology: creating a digital copy of your ‘self’ and keeping that ‘alive’ online long after your
physical body has ceased to function.

B
In effect, the proposal is to clone a person electronically. Unlike the familiar physical clones - offspring that
have identical features as their parents, but that are completely separate organisms with a separate conscious
life - your electronic clone would believe itself to be you. How might this be possible? The first step would be
to map the brain.

C
How? One plan relies on the development of nanotechnology. Ray Kurzweil - one of the prophets of artificial
intelligence - predicts that within two or three decades we will have nano transmitters that can be injected into
the bloodstream. In the capillaries of the brain they would line up alongside the neurons and detect the details
of the cerebral electronic activity. They would be able to transmit that information to a receiver inside a
special helmet or cap, so there would be no need for any wires protruding from the scalp.

D
As a further step, Ray Kurzweil also envisages the nano transmitters being able to connect you to a world of
virtual reality on the internet, similar to what was depicted in the film 'Matrix'. With the nano transmitters in
place, by thought alone, you could log on to the internet and instead of the pictures coming up on your screen
they would play inside your mind. Rather than send your friends e-mails you would agree to meet up on some
virtual tropical beach.

Task A Match the heading to the paragraph. There are two extra headings.

1 A wireless practice

2 Stop virtual reality!

3 A new way to surf the Internet

4 A new approach to eternal life

5 Work done while sleeping

6 Electronic cloning B

Task B Find words in the text that mean:

1 children (noun)

2 described

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 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 a STORY beginning ‘Karen was sitting in the living room when she heard a loud noise.’

B- Write an ESSAY about the advantages and disadvantages of teenagers using technology.

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