C1 Unit 1 Test

Listening- Workbook page 8 online

Listen to the audio. Choose from the list (A-H) what caused each speaker to develop their
method for memorization.

Speaker 1 _____e_______

A. Health problems
Speaker 2 ______g______ B. Preparing for a celebration
C. Needing to occupy free time
D. Moving houses
Speaker 3 ____c________ E. Helping a teacher
F. Concentrating on a task
G. Revising for an exam
Speaker 4 ______f______ H. Taking a course

Speaker 5 ____a________

Listen to the audio again. Choose from the list (A-H) unexpected benefit the speaker mentions.

Speaker 1 _____b_______

A. Meeting new people

Speaker 2 ______h______ B. Being able to help others
C. Turning a hobby into a profession
D. Developing a training program for companies
Speaker 3 ____a________ E. Improving physical condition
F. Setting the world record
G. Achieving Olympic standard in memorization
Speaker 4 ______c______ H. Realization that new goals can be achieved

Speaker 5 ____e________
Use of English
Fill in the blank with an appropriate preposition.
1. I was encouraged __by___ the score I got in the memory test. Not bad at all!
2. My grandfather used to be very accomplished ___in___ playing the piano. He
even won prizes.
3. My brother is addicted __to____ computer games. He plays them non-stop.
4. I ordered some jeans online, but I wasn’t satisfied __with___ the quality of them,
so I sent them back.
5. It’s sensible to get an antivirus installed on your computer to protect you __from__
bugs.
6. I’m not sure what I want to study at university. In fact, I’m completely undecided _about
_ it.

Fill in the blank with the appropriate variation of the root word in parenthesis.
7. Janet gave all her ___savings________ to her mother so that she could pay for her
father’s burial. (SAVE)
8. A _____metallic_______ sound came from the cellar. (METAL)
9. Mr. Conwell was _____impatient__________ and ended the annoying conversation
after only 5 minutes. (PATIENT)
10. My sister can sometimes be very _____persuasive______, so just do what she
says. (PERSUADE)
11. I'm very worried about the level of ______irresponsibility_________ in some students.
They just don't seem to care about their education. (RESPONSIBLE)
12. It was an _______eventful______________ journey. We experienced a lot of problems
but were able to cope with all of them. (EVENT)
13. There are a lot of politicians who enjoy _________publicity_________ and always want
to be in the media. (PUBLIC)
14. The _______observing_________ referee saw the foul and sent the player
off. (OBSERVE)
 15. My mother suffers from _________periodic_______ panic attacks. (PERIOD)
Fill in the blank with the correct conjugation of the verb.
Each of the following verb tenses will be used only once: Present, Present Continuous, Present
Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect
Continuous, Future, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous
1. John ___was driving______ (to drive) to work last week when he __heard______ (to
hear) his favorite song on the radio.
2. Please _put______ (to put) the file on my desk, I _will look_____ (to look) at it later.
3. I _had been trying_______ (to try) to sleep for 2 hours before the neighbors finally
turned their music off.
4. I __have visited_______ (to visit) a total of 14 different countries.
5. By the end of the year, I __will have been exercising_______ (to exercise) at my gym for
five months.
6. If everything goes according to plan, tonight at 7:00 PM I __will have finished_____ (to
finish) cooking dinner at the same moment my wife arrives home from work.
7. I can’t go to the party tomorrow since I ___will be studying____ (to study) for my
science exam.
8. My family ___has been living______ (to live) in Posadas for 9 months while my wife __is
establishing_____ (to establish) her NGO.
9. I __had eaten______ (to eat) dinner just before my friends arrived.
Reading
Read the article and choose the paragraph (A-F) which best fits each gap between the
paragraphs in the article (1-6).
“The False Memory Archive”
Have you ever had a heated discussion with someone when you remember something
from the past vividly in detail, but they remembered it in a completely different way? Were you
ever convinced that something happened only to be told by someone else who shared the
same experience that it was different. How would you know which version of events to believe?
(1) ____b____
Although psychological experiments to manipulate and implant false memories have
been carried out for some time, it is only recently that investigations into examples of false
memories and why we create them have begun.
(2) ____d____
Theories developed through studying accounts like this demonstrate that the brain can
be as creative as it is inaccurate when it comes to memory and is able to transform made-up
stories and childhood emotions into remembered facts. This is the subject of a recently
published collection made-up of diverse real-life examples some of which are at times boring,
but at others incredibly strange. It depicts how we end up rejecting memories that we once
believed to be true.
(3) ___a_____
One contributor recalls the following memory: “I spent my childhood in a small rural
town in Peru, before my family moved to London in my early teens. My brother and I often
reminisced about our early years in Peru, especially about the succulent pear melons that we
used to pick off the tree in the front yard of the house directly across from ours before racing
back home before the owner caught us. 10 years later, my brother returned to Peru and found
that the pear melon tree was actually at the end of the road, about six houses down from ours.
I was skeptical but when I went back myself, I saw that he was telling the truth. The tree wasn't
even visible from our house. Not only that but the man who lived opposite was delighted to see
me.”
(4) ____c______
Another reason for determining a false memory is often quite simply its implausibility.
For example, it is fairly common for someone to have clear recollections of being invisible or
breathing underwater for unlimited amounts of time.
(5) _____f_____
Moving on to why we have subjectively vivid memories that contradict real events the
answer is not entirely clear; however, it could be due to a psychological process in which our
memories record events but they don't record accurately the source of the information. For
example, we might believe we saw something happen, and in fact we did see it happen, but it
was in a film or on TV.
(6) ______e_____
Considering that our very identity and the way we see ourselves is a result of the
innumerable events and experiences we have accumulated throughout our lives, it is
disconcerting, to say the least, to find that perhaps some of the memories we treasure most
never really happened in the first place.
Paragraph Choices
A. The root cause of this can often be as simply as a case of another person saying that the
events in question either never happened or else happened very differently from the
way they are remembered and we are persuaded that our memory was faulty.
B. You might trust your own memory over theirs, but would you be right? Unfortunately,
not always. Feeling convinced that something was true or having vividly accurate
memories that have no basis in real events is referred to as “non believed” memory and
further highlights the much-discussed fallibility of human memory.
C. This is just one of several examples in the collection where there is the possibility that a
person's memory was accurate and that it was the memories of those around him or her
that were at fault, either forgetting an event completely or remembering it incorrectly.
Nonetheless, as cited above, there is often indisputable external proof that the memory
cannot be true.
D. Before these studies, we only had access to unsubstantiated accounts of false
memories. One of these is the now well-known claim by a celebrated singer that at age
2 she had encountered a huge Black Panther in the woods near Exmoor while walking
with her nanny. The story even made the national press. Although the nanny later
admitted to having invented the sighting to “get into the papers” the singer still has a
vivid memory of the enormous black animal, a memory that she now knows to be false.
E. Alternatively, it could be caused by a difficulty in being able to differentiate between the
memory of something that physically happened and something that our minds created
such as a dream.
F. This is reinforced by one contributor's explanation that he truly remembers flying when
he was a child. The belief that he had the ability to travel from place to place in the air is
so strong that although he knows it to have been impossible he cannot forget the
amazing feeling of freedom that flying brought to him, even today.
Speaking
Hand this section over to the teacher when it’s your turn please 
Question 1: Picture

Question 2: What kind of people do you think deserve scholarships for education?

Question 3: What kind of criteria would you use to hire someone for a teaching position at your
school?

Question 4: What are some examples of positive body language?

Question 5: What are some things you can do to leave a good first impression with someone?

General Notes:
Writing
Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) on the following. What do you believe are the most effective
strategies which prepare students and young people to enter the workforce as adults? Use
your own voice and specific examples to support your answer.