TEST 2 Forquestions English (1hour30 minutes) 120d the text below and decide which answer (5, or) bests each ‘0p. There isan example atthe beginning (0). lok your onsen the separa camp ok gin) tel fejaaee primary novel Mary Heath was the Queen of the Skies, one ofthe best-known women in the world daring the age of aviation, She was the frst woman in Britain {o gain a commercial plo’ leence, the fist to? ____a parachute jump ~ and the first Brtsh women’s javelin champion. ‘She scandalized 19208" British society by marrying three times (at the 3 __of her fame she wed politician Sir James Heath ~ har second husband 45 years her senor Tn 1928, aged 31, she became the fst plot Mary Heath, female pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, sol, from South Afi t Bayt, 4 9.000 miles inf ‘three months. Iwasa triumph. Lady Heath was S_____ asthe nation’s sweetheart and called “Lady lamas by the pres. However, he ie was 6. ‘ragically short. Only a year late she 7a hottie aeldent atthe National Air Show In Ohio inthe USA, when her plane crashed ‘through the roof of a building. Her health was never the & again, an she ded in May 1939, ‘A golden B sweet A put B hold 2 A crest B height Accovering stretching 5 Acclaimed —B declared © Aut Bk A undertook 8 suffered A ike B equal 28 CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS bright D shiny C take D make fulness D top € crossing ranging C halle D quoted € stopped brought C receives underwent beter D samePART2 For questions )~i5, read the text below and think ofthe word which bes fits each gap. Use ‘only 2°= word in each gap. There isan example at the beginning (2) Write your answers) CAPITAL. LETTERS on the seperate answer gig LOGE eases Stun Hayes had taunched ims n a promising carer 4 swimmer when something odd happencd 2 imate oc! pol Moggi up ad down forthe umpicenth time, he suddenly realized 10 ‘bored he had hecome with the monotony, Wasnt there @ ‘more interesting way of 1i___ sporty, for heaven's sake? There was and here is the colour, sveat and sheer ‘emotion of triathlons, Stuart became a world-class tathlete and won the London Triathlon, the biggest event of 2nd inthe world, ‘iiathons are 13 __ but boring, Combining swimming, eyling and running in one physical onslaught, they offer inge variety within a single racing framework. In Britain the spor is growing by 10 per cent @ year. People are moving away 1 just running, and are looking for new challenges; says Nick Rusling, event director for the London Triathlon. Triathlons are a 15 ____deal more Interesting to traln for and you can vary talning to fit busy Iifestyle, swimming in your lunch break and 1° ‘CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICETESTS “AD)NC AND USE OF ENGLISH 29Test2 PART 3 Forquestions \7-2, read he text below, Use the word given in capitals atthe end of some ‘ofthe lines to form a word that fits in the gap vhe === line, There isan example at the beginning (0). Write your answers i CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer shest, Example: 0] SRE RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR (One more chancel That’ all wee giving you to tell us about your favourite restaurant and boost its chances of becoming the O_ wv ‘of our Restaurant ofthe Year competition. This is the las time the NATE official 17 form wil appear in the paper and next Thursday 0 isthe fina date for 18___of complete forms. RECEWE ‘Over the past few weeks we have been swamped by a paper mountain 2519__acrossthectyjot down the compeling reasons why DINE they believe their20___restaurant should definitely win our CHOOSE hotly 21__ competition. ont (Once the 22____has passed, our judges wil st down and count DEAD allthe forms. The thre restaurants which receive the most vate will, ‘then be visited bythe judges, These vist wll of course be 23__, sa the restaurants thereles will not know thatthe WNNOUN Judges are there After their vss, the judges wil make their nal {decision over who wins the 24 tile Restaurantofthe Year", PRESTIGE 30 CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS AG W40 USE OF ENGLISHPARTS For questions 25~30, complete the second sentence so that ithas asimilar meaning tothe {first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the wor aven. You must use erween ‘hues and six words, including the word given. Heres an example 0), Example: 0 Ididtttnow the way there, so got lst. cer Not______ there, got ost o] |[RNOWING HOW TO GET Weite only the missing wordsN CAPITAL LETTERS onthe separate answer sheet, 25 Ietook me some time to understand fully what happened. WHILE ‘twas____ understood what had happened, 26 Theres no point arguing about this small etal n my opinion. wort This smaldetat________.n my opinion, 27 Hf your order is delayed, we will contact you. DELAY Should___twyourorde, we wil contact you. 28 Tha two situations are completely afferent. common ‘The two situations dort ________ eachother. 29 Iwas amazed because there were no problems throughout the holiday. ‘wenT To______ wrong throughout te holiday. 30 Ihave nointention of doing another kind of ob. DREAM feces other kind ofjob. ‘AMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS READING ANDUSE OF ENGLISH 38 zasalPARTS Youare going to read a newspaper article about management. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (5, Cor) which you think ts best according to the txt. Mark your answers Simply ticking the boxes isn’t enough "hve bon ae what hin sboat ‘he iden o vesting n People’ The best answe ean gies that thin ‘hat what rest aeier- basally staking hein betwen business Improvement a focosing on the sees ofthe people who work ora ngainaton =i get My problem is ‘eth oaniations who aubenbe ot few to belp the et eter, when ‘hey don bother to unteatand where ‘hey went wo in theta. They eed oak what expla ight pole nd procedies they haven ‘lee that prevent thal pepl fom dng able odo the ight thing for the ihr ensne Tram se tat here ae ages cout thee mo dont know ay beter, sd ssume tat 0 manage toy sity zed opt pressure on the people fom. But people dont denonstate ‘gh perfomance becaoe they ae ‘old. They doit bere they see ‘he ee to doit and make the cece to doco The do itbeeae they re annected o he business ols ‘hey seo ter eontebutions can Isp aciee them. Sach manages may ‘ell themeas they can put ik Inthe wecarabout peopl bn. But sly pti tk in bose fad {itdoe reesei ow of company that wat concerned thats people weeding, ‘the ight hing” hat puta place ‘ere of mete to mena thelr ‘Hatvenets Sofa, s0 god. Bat one trie "Narbe of potent asters ‘en in one doy. These pene oat este alos on ging ‘tom oe eastomer’ feo another, sd soto doing da. Intad ofthe ‘cepayer beaming ve efeie, ‘they ese on geting the ones ‘eke. Good intent; por thinking “Another company wanted timprove ‘the peed wth which twas abet Inueduce new products Competition ‘eas beating it tothe market place, end onsoquent the eompany ws ng ‘ae hae. Seior management feat eu the message to ees the time pentn geting procs nto casters ands withthe explanation ‘hat they count td ly. This vasa mati cay tank, expecially Since the ime spent testing the proc sot cso the time esscon The el was ew products were inode in es ‘ethan tne of he empaiton bat son ee estes or ove ait Good intent ess ‘plementation “Ahiedcompany law tying and to hp empleo that they ofthe objectives making sect) have soe conta ovr the fie Sols cals~ mantel aelfn the ‘Th ompany nsituted «programe 52. CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTIETESTS 206 0 USE OF CUS sith ik ‘Creating oro fue’ or sameting ike that A ‘odie: the pooper Inthe fue ofthe company, Bat Instead of he employes necoming ‘ote ocontibat, they anv tall eee onthe part of Senior mangenent wh ate pat ad pl it tenon wanting ther ha geting theo doe hay could report rat earings. Yes, the programe was abet ft, tat wala ‘the mins of the people thst it wae eine ‘Anal examples ofa company that bought n one of these Investing In People’ programmes to change the a he company was ran. Assessors ‘wee running ound I ery, bnlping manages examine how they ‘managed. They told managers bow they ‘onld manage bet. And when the programme as ov, the company was able say they hd done it = tha invested ts people and life was row od. Bt he manages snp we back to sis ar al. AReral, the asters were gone, and they had tamer ie All tee example ae representative of sesie management whose the ae improve thi in thee gale, bt dort ce how todo It Pera sat, pogamme targeted improving things sonia good ‘ninagenents ait motte the pope. And when the employees simply se the programme asa bor tieking eer, then ft hopeless.21 The write think that putting the concept of vesting in People into practice 1 frequently ets in confusion among the peopl itis uppozed tel. © voles more efor than come organization ar prepare to make, may reat probes where previously there had not been any robes ca 1 ssomething that some organisation should ot ettempt toda. 432 The writers main pointin the second paragraph thatthe performance of employees |A- maybe very good even if management i pot 5 cannot be accurately measured by any box ticking exercise ca | isolated to their knowledge ofthe organization asa whole, | isnot as unprecctable as some managers belive to be, i 22 What pont does the writer mate about the frst company he describes? ‘temas not ely interested n mesuring the ffectveness of employes. 1 Thetargets that set or staf were unease i efaled to understand the el neds ots employees ca j 1 Theda that it coected id not measie what wae suposed to measure zasal 14 What pont does the writer mate about the second company he desc? ‘ema wha shoul have been an este nt complicated ane 5 aes to foresee the consequences ofan incon emisnderstod uty ane approach as eq D erefisedto takeing account the ews of employees. 235 What does the writer ay about the programme introduced by the third company he mentions? 2 Employees dd ot believe tat it had been introduced fr ther benef Employees et thatit was in fact way of making ther jobs even hardet. ce (C_The eason given for introccng fea not the rel reson why it wae introduced 1 Tewas an inappropsae kind of programme fortis particular organization, 36 The ter sys thatthe programe ins fina example ‘Aas 0 demanding for managers to maa gem. 8 at wet ar aselcotane xr by managers € inoled some sone eas on ow managers could improve. Oa 5 cuted managers to Bleve that thet pres methods had been bte ‘CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS fcADINC3 CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS PART 6 You are going to read four extracts from introductions to books on popular culture For questions 3"~0, choose {fiom the extracts \~0. The extracts may be chosen more than once. ‘Mark your answerson the separate answersheet, | An introduction to popular culture | Four writers summarize their beliefs about various aspects of popular cultur ‘The whole con of popular culate relatively moder one a a a phenomenon its key tothe understanding of any moder society Bareststufics abound on the subject and inded there are whol branches of academia edited to esearch and theories on the topic but in many cases what these do is ove-complcat something tats in realty ‘elt smple mater Popolr clare spring fiom anal poops of ie-minded people geting opt with new ‘eas an thea It spreads out to the population a ae ite nd these ess appealing, Mach of teats tothe young and fr them tes happy sense of being separate fom othe generations and therfore pei income way a | Poplar clare may once hate sprung fom the popl thers, and nes this was the erga defriton of the term for many eer, bt te nave to consider tat thi resins the cg, Instead, thas become something imposed | nthe peblictrom on high, businass cammedity that mer pretends to hae its ets inthe ratty of the | people’ but infact is simply @ money-making etepie ike any other What people choose to buy and consume inthe | tea of popular clture sedis volumes about their society nd is msi inet of what that society ke. This | specially tee inthe ares of youth elt here the young gin a sense of self and belonging i share tastes and otressons, Sie of popu cate ten ta oss on the mone exciting agpets and ono the more mane, ‘hich ironically are often the mot intersting ‘To summarizit brit popular cultures developed by the people for the poople and when it has besme popular enough, commode for profit hy the business worl, Studies of popular cle have plied ove the yes, sd experts inthe eld have developed their vm vocabulary and eter or anasingt. These stair often tes the socal aspects rather han the commercial ones. Forte younge participants in popu culture, thee issues are Snlevnt, a5 what they get fom it isa senoo of identipng with a particular contemporary grou, a comforting sense ot ‘commaniy: They ae csnclined to anal this thenssires fie wort remembering, however that at ny age, poplar ‘uses often a minty ines ~ today's medi ket give the impression that the ast sort of people are swept up nit whereas this fequenty no the ce. ‘Wondinary members ofthe public were to read moet ofthe wort studs of populr culture that academies produce, ‘hey woud fnd them overblown ad ical in taking such everday and essential vil things vo secu. the media excitable journalists and experts exaguatethe importance to meet people of the curent popular elure phonomens, which in reality do nat much acupy the minds af most people. The one re whore thes observations ‘may not hold true, however, it mong the young, where popular ature can have undue infuence, encouraging then to ‘sequlre unealte dens about how they ca iv he Wes and therefore potently having a damagiag eect on thet futures. one ofthe more intresting aspects of popular clare forall ages sits unpredictability anew phenomenon can sudden emerge that rps a section of society and that takes the commercial wold ene by suprise, orcingit to act sity o keep up and to capitalize on that nts phenomenon,Wich writer takes ilar ew to writer Aon studles of popular cuture? dies rom the others on what causes popular cure aris? hres writer 85 opinion onthe significance of popular cure? has adifecent opinion from the others onthe impact of popular culture on young people? ‘AMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS. READING AKO USE OF GGLSH 35, zusatTEST2 Listening (40 minutes) PART You will hear thre different extracts. or questions 6, choose the answer 8 or {is best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. Youearprtt ara programme about famous tendon hotel 1 thepreserter’ aim inherinseductonisto 1 covet nsunsersanngs soit the Cad 2 provide acualnomaton she he Gand oa Seouge stereo goto the ard 2 Whatisthe manager onrd the cstmes? 1 wishes that ore of them were ot ch pope © Hetreas them antes wo tepardeso who they re a Heatmaps tno at eee they elon extract Two ‘You hear two presenters talking ona scence programme. 3. The ale presenter sys thatthe research produced data on 1 the period of time that some teaspoons were missing how quctly a cereain sumber of teaspoons disappeared o where disappearing teaspoons had gone. 4 The female presenter says that disappearing teaspoons i atopic which | has procuced some interesting theories. concerns a growing phenomenon. CH hase great significance extract Three ‘Yu hear two people talting about popular musk 5. The woman'smain pontis that it isno longer possible to crete genuinely orginal popular muse Ball modern popular musi a poor imitation of older musi popular music has aways been an overrated form of music. 5 What does the woman say about modern performers? ‘A Theyare not intrested inthe views of older people, BTheyare taking advantage oftheir audience oa © Theyare infuenced without realizing it i “2 (CAVBRIOGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS LSE