PAPER 3 Use of English 45 minutes For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A makes B suggests C puts D gives ol ABE S| SCENTS IN THE OFFICE The word jasmine (0) ..... images of a delicate white flower with a wonderful perfume. Many people believe that the flower's perfume has the (1) ..... to heal, and studies are being (2) ..... out on the effects of this and other perfumes in an office (3) Researchers in Japan have found that (4) ..... the air was scented with jasmine, computer operators made 33% (5) ..... errors. Orange, rose and lavender perfumes have also been (6) ..... to make people work more efficiently and (7)... their stress levels. (8) ..... these studies originally took place in Japan, a recent (9)"..... in the UK found that 40% of employers (10) ..... the Idea ot scenting the workplace. In tact, one store nas already (11) . different perfumes into the front and the back of its shop in the hope that they will (12) effect on its customers. two calmingway taken ‘surround when less arranged lose For survey hold put build power helped area ‘smaller shown reduce Because support started make control given place for fewer shrink Despite examination provide introduced nave influence carried environment since little established weaken Although account consider set formPAPER 3 Use of English 45 minutes For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each gap. There is an example at the haginning (0) Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A kinds B means Cc ways D_ methods THE LIQUORICE PLANT Liquorice has been used in various (0) for thousands of years. Centuries ago the Chinese praised it for its healing (1) , and in ancient Greece doctors found the liquorice root (2) relief from chest complaints. It is claimed that Roman soldiers were given liquorice root to chew, as a means of (3) ..... their thirst on long marches. The liquorice plant looks like a small bush with pale blue flowers. (4) ..... , it is the root which is all important, for it is from the root that the juice is extracted to (5) ..... what we know as liquorice. The roots are soft and flexible and (6) .. and is fifty times sweeter (8) ... can be up to ten metres long. glycyrrhizin, which is one of the sweetest (7) ..... known to man, sugar. The roots take four years to grow (9) ..... , and by that time Liquorice harvesting has changed little over the (10) In the autumn, the plants are lifted and the upper parts are thrown (11) ..... The roots are then sorted, piled up and left to dry. After nine or ten monthe, when only 10% of tho moieturo romaine, the roots arc pressed into large bundles and taken to factories whera the juice is extracted. This extracted liquid is (12)... into a golden brown powder, and it is this raw material which is used in today's sweet-making industry.forms provided filing Because give hold substances then fully times off drawn standards was satisfying Since shape contain materials widely centuries away poured cures made improving However form construct features occasionally periods over removed qualities, bought cooling Also have raise solids than gradually seasons out arieaPAPER 3 Use of English 45 minutes aia ae For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C or D best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A occasions B times Cc events D days LETTER WRITING Because of national festivals such as Christmas or personal (0)... ike birthdays, there is undoubted pleasure in waiting for a letter to (1) .... through the letterbox, as opposed to a text or an email. People love receiving personal letters, but are not as (2) writers in the UK (3) prepared to (6) ..... emailing a friend they may never meet. on replying to them. A survey of letter that young people are among the most (4) ..... letter writers. They are also However, the survey also produced a strange (6) .... . While 94% of people (7) ..... that a letter 1 69% suid they would (9) showed thal sorneune had pul lime arid thought into its (8) 10 spend their time on other things than writing. Overall, almost a third thought that receiving good (10) ..... was the best thing about receiving letters. in the future. It is » but the web Not surprisingly, only 15% thought that postal communication would (11) .... expected that the internet and email will make personal letter writing even (12) ... designers are always looking at ways of giving technology a human face.10 ail 12 keen described usual do problem shared content rather information raise loceor enter anxious meant frequent begin matter wondered material consider facts increase emallor drop eager showed busy hold result liked substance prefer news ‘swell lower D_ push D concerned D made D_ often D write D decision D agreed D argument D enjoy D greetings D gain D rarer