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NAME: Valentin SURNAME: Casal

TEENS FOUR FINAL EXAM Paper 4 (L)

Time allowed: 2 hs
SECTION A: Reading Comprehension
Read the text below and mark the statements true (T) or false (F).

A Beautiful Mind
This 2001 drama starring Russell Crowe, which won four Academy Awards, was loosely based on the book of the
same name about the life of the remarkable American mathematician, John Forbes Nash. Nash has one of the
most brilliant minds ever to emerge from the United States, but during his life he has had to battle with a serious
mental illness.
From an early age, Nash was interested in science, and by the age of twelve he was already carrying out scientific
experiments alone in his room. He spent very little time with his classmates, who rejected him because of his
superior attitude. When the Second World War broke out, other boys of his age were imagining themselves as
soldiers while Nash was inventing secret codes.
After graduating in mathematics Nash went on to develop his games theory at Princeton University where he did
his doctorate. This theory became known as the 'Nash equilibrium’, and it explains business arrangements
between competitors. The ‘Nash equilibrium' has been applied in the world of business since the 1950s.
From Princeton University, Nash moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach mathematics.
There he met and married one of his students, Alicia López, but it was also there that he began to experience
symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. This mental illness started to manifest first in the form of paranoia; he
believed that men who wore red ties were all part of a communist conspiracy against him. Soon, he became
unable to teach or do research and he was admitted to psychiatric hospitals for treatment several times. Alicia
divorced him and he spent the next twenty years wandering around the campus at Princeton.
However, over the years his mental condition improved slowly, until in the late1980s, he began to make
contact with other mathematicians who realized that his new work had value. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Economics in 1994 and he and Alicia remarried soon afterwards. He had a post in mathematics in Princeton until
sadly on May 23, 2015, Nash, at age 86, and his wife were killed in a car crash while riding in a taxi in New
Jersey.
(Adapted from Solutions Intermediate WB – Oxford)

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1. John Forbes Nash was the actor in the film ‘A Beautiful Mind.’ T/F only

2. Nash preferred to be on his own when he was a child. T/F 1st

3. While he was at university, he developed a business theory. T/F

4. Nash had to stop teaching because he married a student. T/F 2nd

5. Nash eventually became well enough to work again. T/F

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SECTION B: Language in Use R

I. Choose the most suitable alternative.

1. I don’t think my uncle will ever be able to give smoking. AACI use
a) after b) for c) up only

2. Daniel is so about his trip to London; it’s all he talks about. 1st
a) excited b) exciting c) bored

3. Did you eat vegetables when you were a child? 2nd

a) use to b) used to c) get used to

4. Paul is still sleeping. He tired of all his training. 3rd

a) must be b) mustn’t be c) can’t be

5. He suggested more exercise. R

a) to do b) do c) doing
 II. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

How honest are you? (1) HAVE YOU EVER TOLD(you/ ever/ tell) a lie? Did people believe you?

According to research, whether it’s to avoid (2) GETTING (get) in an argument or to get what we

want, we (3)

HAVE ALWAYS TOLD (always/ tell) lies. Linda White is a good example. Last year Linda

got engaged. Unfortunately, she (4) DIDN´T LIKE (not like) some of the friends her

husband had invited to the engagement party. What did she do? She invited them all, but on the wrong day!
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People also lie about their careers. Some add extra qualifications to their CV. Robert Pool (5)HAVE
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WORKED (work) as a retail manager for three years. When he (6)DID THE INTERVIEW

(interview) for his job he said that he 2nd

(7) STUDIED (study) at university. He hadn’t, but his employers believed him. Luckily, they (8) 3rd

HAVE NEVER FOUND OUT (never/ find out). But how can we tell if
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someone is lying? The answer is their body language. So if you make a new friend, (9)

WATCH (watch) their body language. It (10)

WILL PROBABLY REVEAL (probably/ reveal) more than you think!

(Adapted from Matrix Intermediate - Oxford)

III. Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the original
sentence.

1. “What’s your favourite film?” he asked me. MY

He asked

Me What my favourite film was .

2. When he was little he played a lot of football but when he was 16 he gave up. USED

He used to play football but he gave up at 16.

3. It’s very important that we are early. MUSTN’T

We mustn´t be late .

4. Someone repaired my bike for me last week. REPAIRED

I had my bike repaired last week .

5. I didn’t go to see the film because I had already seen it. SEEN

I would have seen the film if I hadn’t seen it before.

6. London is the biggest city in Europe. The 2012 Olympic games were held there. WHERE

London,where the 2012 Olympic games were held is bigger than any other city in Europe.

7. A man from Liverpool has won the £10-million prize. BY

The £10-million prize was won by a man from Liverpool .

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8. The chances of my father buying me a computer are small. LIKELY only

My father is likely to buy me a computer . 1st

9. “I’m going to marry Cathy,” Nick said. HE

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Nick told us that he was going to married to Cathy.
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10. I don’t have permission to borrow my father’s car. ALLOWED

Im not allowed to borrow my my father’s car. R

 SECTION C: Writing
Choose one of the following tasks. Write between 100- 120 words.

1. You have decided to enter a short story competition. The competition rules say that your story
must begin with the following sentence:
One evening Pat was walking home alone. It was dark. Suddenly she heard some voices. She
turned round and...
Write your story.

2. Here’s part of an e-mail you have received from a friend.

Last weekend I went to a party, it was great! What was the last party you went to like? Did you enjoy
it? Why (not)? Where was it? Who was invited?
Write an email, answering the questions.

Crazy shadow
One night, Pat was walking home alone. It was dark. She suddenly heard some voices. She turned around and saw
him... that person she thought about all day...

To better understand let's go back a few hours earlier. 9 at night, Pat is working late shift and has a headache, to finish
the job she decides to go to the bathroom to wash her face and when she blinks she sees a black figure behind her
but she quickly closes her eyes and disappears; She thinks it might be because of her headache and doesn't care.

When he finishes his tasks, he turns off all the lights in the office and in the reflection of a window he sees the same
figure again and at that moment he gets scared and runs out of the office.

We return to the present, Pat is walking alone and hears voices and on impulse she turns around and sees the same
figure as before,

Pat closes her eyes and when she opens them she is in a hospital tied up without being able to do anything since all
she saw was for not taking her medication

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