Cosmic lila Reading and Use of English Part 1 In this pert you read alec with eight gops 1 choose from four options /A,B, Cor Do fill ach gop Useful language Verbs + prepositions A. Which prepositions ~ on, with, i of o for ~ can follow the verbs etowe CTBT Use rove voaauln notabk eof ay new words year 9 \write the correct prepostions inthe gaps. Some of the verbs can go with norm. vg nape nanos ‘more than one preposition. time, yn oar ae. W's easier ddepond 2... result paricipate. ‘eremomber thm net way co-opercte RPFONE on rely sucesed opoleaive insist consist. concentote believe . 12 Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs from Exercise 4, (AF Remember that he pepostons you neo oak a a answer 3 question ae nt ays eter the gap. For 1 ty to (0). B0Ptiaate in 2s many spats 3s ean atschoot fetampe, 10k a sue 7. bout be honest pretty Ropes! Anyay, st Weck Laced ty to ge onto the school ray tan as they re considered relly oo. Ad amazing after some runing ea, actually o ‘in geting place ~ only 382 reserve for ormpeitians, but tll Then | ealsed that ws jst the beginning The other team members dat exaety obec oa newcomer, but Leo tel eey tally (2) — of my beng there. As sa the tear (2) oF the best ports people in the soo, joining them was. el honour. Ac ay ‘aces they were in usualy (8) In nin Anyway ‘he anual school sports Hay was coming up so hought Fl beter stat proctising. ally ports day came, and | was 2 wll prepared col be nd knew my endl (8). in meso that helped @ ot But just then we heard hat anater team mene haben injured sa they'd Be (6) on me a help ‘her win This was my ance stared (0) nn har ould on the ask ahead | was incre nervous wating forthe runner behind me tops re the baton, But sudenly there he was and Iwas of Ang sues what? Ian faster than anyother members of the tam ~ and we won It as fartasti! But he best par was that after the acs, the esta the team (8) ‘on carrying me round the rack on ener shoulders i never Forget it 20 | Test 4 Training Reang and Use of Engish Part 3Useful language Verb collocations ‘3 Wich pases go with the following verbs? Wite the phrases on the (Tis In Pat. you need in krow correct ines below. Some phrases can go with more than one verb. ome ase 6s yourhomework yourtime a good imo fun 2 diforence. break sure aproto your best fanexam —ashower — apary ou good a mess te washing uo some esecise (Choose the verbs from the box which go with each group of nouns. Can you add any more nouns to each group? Some groups can go with more ‘man one ver, Use a sletionary if necessary. pass spond miss go play cross save cath move change run aco, obs sn voll he piano money, ine = th bes yor Kendle shepping,owoy on bday Your min, you estar ceca 0 ‘2 compeny @ computer progrom ‘Complete the sentences below with the correct forms ofthe verbs from Exercisos 3 and 4. Example: Whane¥6¢ $2 nnn Owe 69 haley, really AEE... my fiends at home I need to. some money to shopping with my frends atthe weekenc. (ea ond Maid nnn the fad and rant the bus sop but hey sill the bus. oe to be abe eo the gute, but lean afford latsoms. Weve jst house, 40 haven managed 12 nan many ands her yh Ben's eocher told him io. is ima when eons it maths Romework, instead of rshing I. Crising the bet che couldn the exam, and 8 ore she nnd Mum asked me to — the washingp bere | o— Flot — ashower nn mas f building his new bookcate, becouse te nshuction die Reading and Use of ngish Part 3 eae aUseful language Phrasal verbs 6 Use the particles inthe box to complete the phrasal verbs, according to the meanings given. Use a dictionary if necessary. Ta You wi fen noe to use Pras verbs in Par questions. eor0ss away by down ito. ff foutot over tough up upwith Phrasal verb Mecning esp up wit, understand something he’s chonging fost pe discourage pick : collec! brook stop working come find by chorce fol plans that al oe ‘void doing something you don't wart to look Investigate, find out mere pul ‘0p 07 the side ofthe road ‘un Lt cope send = apport somone who's in dificaly ‘Complete these sentences with the correct form of the phrasal verbs trom Exercise 6. Example: When Horry hod problem inthe spor tean, his fiends all. 56004. BY him, 1 The dog sipped of its leod ond but ucily his owner found hi, 2 Tom was busy, s his mum bis now crcke! bat fr him fom the spots shop, 13 twas raining so ord that Jock’s dad had fo... onthe side ofthe road for while 4 lion managed fo. eling his mother wih he weshingupby saying he had alot of homework 5 Owcar onthe way tothe mach, 0 we wee te gating there. {6 Most people are —-n---eaing this cheese by the smal av © comect one mistake in each ofthese sentences written by exam cancldates, Underine the wrong word and write the correct word inthe space. | would agree tothe opsion that keeping animals in 200s is crue : ‘When lan reading and the television ison, i bors me becouse | am concentting in re0ding my Boo IF you decide io come in my country, | would advise you to vit he capital lam always fscinoed of your goede one This shows hot it shouldbe token to consideration, ‘We cou finish by some Sponish lessons Testa ee Reacing and Uso of Enis Part 4.Focus Meanings of words 2 For each group of four sentences (2-<), choose the correct wor from the box for ch gap. Use each word once only, Sometimes capil letters are needed. support assist cooperate bereft Many people inthe town the plone for @ new sypermortt | ikl realy rem el he avaling Ym planning to do. ‘As part oF Tom's sume fb, he hod 1 nuns fh manager wih various task inthe fice Will people on with he police fo help ind he criminal? Surely absolutely totaly dentely (Horeoy soho’ be hare hal orgie the poy. F Untrinatay fd _—---frgoten fd ogced 0 mee! Gaza in ow 18 Te cake thot Kate ade Wo! — oon nene liious fhm surpised ou ands are hte ye, mene YS have called it ‘hare was a pecblan? secident confusion ertor faut ‘A lat people were trying fe get onthe bus ard inal he ‘Somantha lt he bog. Robert know he was ot...» nd decided to apologise. lovis made o basic sss. is maths homework cnd it cas him five masks. Sethe edt intended lo delete his homework les, He didi completly by achieved resuted managed succeeded 1m ve red bokng cots ll f mes, but they've italy one hire =e ‘one wont eat them 18 bo tilled i fnlly sn posing my exam! © Al ot laewe the hovse jst inne a catch the school bus. chy sn mehing omeing = she's ban ccnp eh chal ay ‘wom Reading and Uso of Eagish Part ‘ost Taining | 3Pte curic ey Reading and Use of English + Part 1 For questions 1-8, ead the text below and decide which answer Tat Rerranbarto read the example oe (A.B, Cor D) best fits each gap. There isan example at the i to you me beginning ta Look carey a he wor at Example: meteor and ater sacha the te. © A support B assist © co-operate eenefit [Ta fy0u on'tkraw whieh option is es song Ts eso veers Dolphins ‘Thore have been countoss stories of dolphins appearing to (} ith humans. Buta recent incident has convince! group of equa that ‘somo dofphins were (1) attempting to help them ~ by protecting them from a shar The tfeguarcs were on a traning exercise inthe sea when the dolphins swam tonerds them at considerable (2) nen creed ther repeated iting the eurface et the water wth thot. At fst the swimmers wore puzied bythe dolphin” (3) batten began to {oar they dsm too close to some baby dolphins by 4) and disturbed them. Suctdonty, on of the Hoguards spotted a smal hak some way of. Ho raid that the dolphins ad bean 6 alot of noise ac causing general chaos in ocr to (6) cof he shark, And to his reef, they ()—--—--in doing so, bocaus he shark oon disappeared, However, tne doptins insisted on staying ui a colleagues bos sal (the swimmers. Wha an experience 1A surely B absolutaly € totaly iitoly = a fina 7 ony eneprt car 00 2A distan 8p: cui D speed eee 3A occupation wviour situation att gt pm pt pation B behaviour © situation atttude ype 4 Aaccident Bont ° eect fusion onto D fault Fiuiuead nh ver ong wh nae? 5A doin B makin vi " making © raving =D tying 7 On f ese verbs oan esd in in Yu ed fo 8 Acal B set © put D take {in ator ve meoningo ‘choose eevee en. 7 Armanaged —_B suecesced achieved resulted 8 A pickedup -B came over © got away caught up 14 | Testa Exam practice Teet Exam practi Reading and Use of Engich Part 3Test 1 Tr [Fy Reading and Use of English + Part 2 In this pert you: (THE spot ust vo read et wih ight gope ou ent ete and ¢ think of word ht il eoch gop corey hte, perune sd Useful language Relative clauses ‘to answer question that tost fod prose, posal vera ang 4. relative clauses, which ofthe words inthe box are used to deserve the shines below? whieh whose where whe when oe 4 reason _ — 5 athing 7 ann 6 possesion (GoE Wronjou ave mists, ea 2 Complete the text with relative pronouns from Exercise. One of tho (Tet renouneve rms, rag, toon on elf Can oso wh on? te fas nina oreoe v (mmae| con the coastn the south of France, (2). _ Wo us who wish Wat when theca ger wel bw poss Wet Sanne, o Shear on a. ey oo tp oan oe a Tews goo = ie maige See. Anat clic od 9). oe she ard ner famiy choose somewhere that's so dierent | rom thot nome tow. know thee are lots of tourists (6... aosolutly lve coming to this wn, But i not th ese if you i here - you need a change from time to tim” sys Anais. ras loves going skiing, ad her three brothers, ()_....hobies range from snowboarding to oo skating, ctr looking forward to thal hoday soon asthe summer's over, ‘We know (@) the temperature stars to crop slightly hee thats tne to Prepare our winter sports equipment’ he says, ‘And the amount of stuf (9) we take away wih us auld probably equip the entre resort! Which ofthe gaps outa also be fled by the word that’? Reading and Use of Engi Part 2 Testa Ting | 35Useful language Linking expressions 3 Choose a tinkng expression from the box that has the same meaning as the words in tli In ‘these sentences. Thore are some expressions you dont need to use. whereas despite the factthat inorder: owingto as longas Instead ot despite inspite of 1. Even though twos peuring with rin, Bon sil yeled to schoo. 2 Joseph's quite extrovert end socioble, while is sister is more reserved, 3 The school rp had 1 be postponed because ofthe rain srk 4 Leon and Clore decided to walk eto town rather than going onthe bus, as it was expensive, 5 The homework deadline was extardad so asf give everyane mare lime to complete i {6 You con come camping with us provided tha you get your paren’ permission. (Choose the coroct inking expression from the box to complete these sentences about Anais Marin from Exercise 2. Uuness inviewof laaddtion so.aste yet uni The Marin fam lve neo the boosh, ‘hey enjoy toting thei hoays somewhere cold Thoy abvays tovel oa ski resort get complete change of sanery They Wait... the weather chengos bore they sat preparing her oquipment The family’s hobbies cre probably quite unvsud.. -- where they lve 10 all he usual wine sports like sing and sting, hr brothers are also good ot Joe hockey is quite hord 1 dolts of winter sports... yout reasonably physically ft. Complete the text below about an unusual s2a creature, Use relative clauses and inking expressions from Exerises 1-4, Have you ever heard ofa creetue called a bioofish? Ithit he headings (0)... WER... it mas voted “the world's uglest arimal’ The blobtish,(. -onsRalural habla Is deep inthe ooean Cf Australia, spends ts fe swimming around in the dark. largely unnoticed. However, various factors have reduced the numbers of bios to cangerDuSly ow IIS aNd, 2) nn FT, ‘conservationiats as tying to take action to 20% (8) ono dition, some conservationists have suggested that previous projacts have ignored the bobfah (8) =o it Ualy appearance, ‘2 that people ae not Keen 1 protect Spaces (8) anon thy OOK te ‘Another such creature is the kaka). Istheonly species of parot that can't fy. Moons the fact that there have been many campaigns to save these and other creatures, there 70 vary few ot in the wild. So we need to think about creatures such as these, (@) focusing onthe more atractive-ooking ones, such as pandas. 16 1 Testa Te se eating and Use of Engleh Part 2Useful language Articles, quantifiers and determiners {Complete the story below with words ftom the bex. You may need to use some words moe than once ‘Sometimes capt letters are needed. 2 an bom the ary many mae most some every none one few (0) Oy (1) nn oy ale Mat was waking down f).—-. sst when he saw 3 ois bop iyng on) pavement bya bus lop. There We nnn her eon arcu, soe picked up and had) lank ns, Tis eur, he four ute 2 a coms.in@) bag, nc even (9). ane nie a sal purse, 10). | wich wasn notes. There were ls some Books, ut (1) nf them had he rameor acess of :he ane wen athe. Fora rement, Mat wa imped to Keep tho bag. But he kad to thnk he wos | (12) hana person, 2 ne ook tothe pole station. ‘There were very (19)... people ede whan he arived, part rom wo Gls who Wor 14) ona looking very Wome. AS 80 8 (98) Oft i a (16) nn aD, she shed overt i "Thats ine! she Si, 17) namo Igo 04, eve Kt behind somewnerel Thanks so much fr Anda 1 Yu' fartastic" Mat elt embarsed, so he murbled something in eply then blushed and it. 1m wrting in order to reply fo the advertisement in my local paper who / which asks fr prope fo help no summer comp, This 's the moment thot / when we must work fs. They wil tke you to your hotel which / thas elle the Loughborough Fm convneed that z003, 0 insitons that / who tale care of enimals, can play @ good rle ‘She wanted to ses her husband which / who che had not saen for ver to months. ‘We ere a private clinic who / which woot al kinds of ness. | | TQ choose the correct word in italics in these sentences writen by exam candidates. Reading and Use of English Part 2 esta Waning | a7[eaten Reading and Use of English + Part 2 For questions 9-16, read the text bolow and think ofthe word which [Gigs You mit ata ou can thik oF best fits each gan. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example severe orcs nich oul 0 gp atthe beginning 0). ‘Radner aroun he gop ven" rely sony one word wl Example: [0] [wule]H] | On Water ee eee of tas possible, Vet in (). ofthis, many of us stil don't drink enough, so bottled water good way of (10). SU we de lean Water While We'eon me move, 8 Ms srece ferrasing whe Usforunataly hough the manufacture fal hot plastic botlescanesutin alt ofwaste, etre fe soi om. 10 the amount of oll required. t's actually (12)... equivalent of keeping "eed 9 contrasting link amon carson he cad for ayer Als, Fey bots ere ame batt, (2) Proper isposed of, hay can caus a mje pltlon hazard reason or patos However thee ae steps we can take to improve the station. Far example very ois snaeer (14) of he paste betes we us gt eel. $0 (8). ofrong them 3 por fe inthe bin we sould send them toa recyeing cee whee the last canbe re-used, Anse eps or inmany counts now, he water 16) comes sight ron te pis petecty antares clean and safe to dink 0 perhaps mary of us dont ced to by boted wate a al ce nt 38 1 Test Exam p Exam practice Reading and Use of English Part 2Test 1 Trai [Pg Reading and Use of English + Part 3 In thie part your reed etext with eight oops | 8 form on appropriate word foreach goo from he word in copa eters tthe end of he line Useful language Suffixes ‘La. Add sutfes fom the bx to the words below to make other words. You ‘may need to make some spelling changes. (Remember The campy ofa word ean «range wen we ae sutos fomnecnde words. 2. hely | i mess -ly ship -ment ve. fon -ful er ish {ad)) + y= loki (60), The j-th ce oc Sg nee Sesion 0 2 ine cannon totes by inp se-+b Imre iprnt+oninrmon 1 ei 4 ogee 7 ihe 10 Fand Zone See Bae pe 3 camiot—G aeemph 9 comes 12 that 1 Now ut all he word the te words ad ow word int th tab It emaye ponte to compte each com he bese word [boseword [noun verb [tiers [eden 7] ingen [impreicn [rrr meni | ingealy chi chided | = chi iy | 2 complete the sentences with a wort formed from the word in brackets and a suftx ftom Exercise 2. Example: The sea was.. Ursin. surprise} warm whan we wert fora swim, 1 Finns faerie very (svecess lawyer, 2 My mum wort ploy golf at the loca lb, but (member ic very expensive, 3 Conservotioniss work forthe (survive oF endongored species. 4 The whole family red to make Dod's SOM birthday os... memory! 2s posible 5 Bras palnting otacel lol of (edie, os i woe eo origin 6 Judging by Ma's (appear, he'd walked oleng way inthe rin 7 Athough my grandmother is in her eighties, she's sil very a oe 8 There's 0 much trafic going into he cy now tht fe avers will have fo coo What does Dan mean when he says he'd ‘got the hang of it’ in ine 267 A He'd progressed as far as he was going to. He'd understood what he was supposed to do. (He'd decided he was ready to give up D He'd persuaded himself that he was talented. ‘What would be a suitable tie for the story? A My talented friends B An impossible ambstion © The best concert I've ever beon to D Away of joining in | Test 4 exam Practice Reading and Use of English Pat 8Reading and Use of English * Part 6 pert your rood atx with six sentences missing choose the correct semence fo teach gop 4 Workwth» parte Look a thet of weds that canbe wot in BTL wot ada, Part 6 In the Remember box. Choose the best words and pases to canidemeweetaas complete these sentencos. Sometimes capital letters are noedod. Eiri jou inpormis hia shan, 1 Nathan had a problem at football pace yesterday, as he hodh’t got «sek Woh sentences ke hie eporte kt wih him he'd Fergotn ol his mam os, he'd be home late (rama 2. IF you wont to mate on omelet, fist beat some eggs together. puto clin pan and hee up = 7) 3 My ssf eres ploying computer games. sways enn [ae ||| frat In at he ore whenever one cones oul [ie 7ahe7@ wReTHt rower 4 | was rally Keen fo hy some dark chocolate, but frat at Jenne cme || Found it tse foro biter Forme. ee demented 5 Witching fms an TV i grea si 50 comfortable ‘ton besides ts || ‘woching them athe cena lets yu se them os the dvedoritended a 6 My elder brothers 0 rsoorch ont. Ho's locking into he effects of crtain medicines on aiferent peooe 7 Theo lites listening o really loud mesic in his bedroom seems 1 be « problem for his sites, ashe doesnt ‘hore hi musca otes| } 8 Chioe doesn't usvally enjoy classical music, she ‘greed to go oa concer wth me. 2. What are the words and phrases doing in Questions 1-8? Which «lve what tine thew istlking abou? b reir back 1 something oeody mentioned? odd a snilaro: contasting pace oF information? ‘3a Road the fllowing paragraph and choose the correct sentence (A.B orc) to mt ene gap, ookontakabon Irmecns thar you'teunikaly 0 be completely hoppy living mils rom People often talk about whether living in a city . cnywbere unless you've got ery access ‘rin the countryside is better OF course it rather depends on your teste and the things toa town {OU enjoy dong. f your favourite activity ls B_ Abome out in the countryside, on the ‘shopping, say, then thie may well ratet your ‘ther hand, might sit you choice. —---And that ean be quite | © What's more, ing in city can bring hard te achieve without good publ transport. cll srs of expected discchantoges, Tike nose rd polation, 'b Compare your answer with your partner. Why are the other two sentences wrone? Reading and Uso of Enlch Part © Test 4 Taing | 29corm scuri cee Reading and Use of English « Part 6 ‘You aro going to read an article about diamonds in epace. Six ‘sentences have been removed from the article. Choase from the (Feat Root veg ech saeg0h wr crouly, Wtf ach one bik? sentences A-G the one wtich fits each gap (87-42). There is one ‘extra sentence which you do not need to use, ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. DIAMONDS IN THE SKY ‘We're probably al amir with the fing of waking out ‘ofthe door, ony to find the weether is miserable. Grey skies hang overhead, Is cily and i's pouring down, 87 |__| And botove itor rot, this ort tho start of ‘he ates Slercefetion story rom a fantasy magazine, Rosearch by scientist indicates thats exactly what could be happening around planes ike Jupiter ane ‘Satur. There's evidence to suogest tat tne tmosphore surrounding these two huge planets could be filed with sonormous ~ and priceless - diamonds. | 38 However the precious objects would have to be collected befor they got too near to the planet's surface, as they might be motte by the temperatures thee and the extreme pressure in the planet's mosphere. ‘Ad the dlamonde in question could be biggor than anyone has ever seen. Some may be nat much more than ‘tow centimeties across, which is stil enough to make ‘hom very vauable.{ 39 | |However, others could have grown to each a substarial siz, which would pose sonitcant problems or anyone trying to coleet them, For anyone intrested in chomisry, tha scence hind the formation of thse diamonds is intresting ‘Apparently, the iamofds may have been formed by Storms, in which the flashes of ighting have tranformed ‘928 called methane, present on Jupiter 40 | —_|it is thought the process is due, among other ngs tthe Intense heat ofthe lightning. The material then hardens Into pleoes of raphite ~ used in pencis- whieh in turn ‘eventually becomes iamond —the hardest substance rown to man 20 | Tost Gxam practice ‘ipeerc he? Plessant ‘38 me peragrapn ‘aking seat catectng {he amend hy mit For scientist this has come as something of a surprise Iwas previously thought that planets such as Uranus and Neptune might well contan precious stones, but ‘twas boleved that Jupter and Saturn aid not have suitable ctmospheres. Howover, after more research into ‘onions onthe two planets, lenis have agrand that diamonds cout easly be raining down, on Saturn n panicular They ate careful to pont out, though that Closer tothe planet the tomperature Isso extromo that the slamonds would be unabie to remain in ther solid form. [41 [Arc because ofthe size oto planets, ‘quantity of lamonda there could be considerable Ot couse roone has been blac eel 9 ter Satu or pte sf o cont what his (aq) been cet, pling Gud methane unr arse rrssue to obenve treet Who ese eat Was 20 epoed, clavod dt we famed, paws that sch compen chr actors may wel ba lng pce these pets he ear, wits ar ‘tomatoe wil undoubted waste no tein vg thee imagination ears hedge fray fre and books And wo fron —in yen o come slate ‘advances may mean that these stores no longer appear s0 fantastic aftr al theory is conect "Tho same conditions have Reading and Uso of English Part 6‘A. Thisis ued into carbon, whichis the elamart that diamonds are made up of 1B Theres even the possibilty that they could be brought back hee o earth one day. (© However, scientists have setup their own ‘experiments in lbs to replicate what may be happening on theee ges gant 1D They could eran be impressive enough to create an eye-catching piece of jewelry. Reading and Use of Englah Part © It could even be that there's sea of amonds on ‘the eure ofthe pane, ‘That means the story may actully be les exciting than everyone imagines. ‘But out in epece, this experience might be much loss unpleasant ~ because what would be fling might well be pracious stones! Testa Exam practi |coe mc gy Reading and Use of English » Part 7 In this part your 1¢ read through one long tes dived ino actions, or up osx short txts ‘find information in he lex tho motches ton shot questions Tip Moke sure you eae the 1. Row rou whet Male sy shut erat fmt skingip. Ten man CH Heavy eas perl te tet nw she tata about woeevastes 1 how optimistic her dad was about how the family would feel regarding the trip. ‘Then read through the sare oan 2 semaing fey dl hal dou proved very tl cient 3 what her dad hod overloked when colelating whether they could afrd it ap yu na te ane. 4 ber fom’ etde to going somenhere cold for a halide, think was my dad's dea that we should ave a skiing holly ary - Gespte te fact hat, as a family, weve actualy never baen very keen on chily weather, snow, and all those other things you have to cope with on ps to places tke the average ski reset But, determined noo be put of, he went ahead and booked it, hoping that our entwsiasm ‘would arow ence the departure date crow a bit nearer. Of course, uit he was fst deciding whether we coud pay foritall he hadn't reckoned on athe extra expense involved - warm clothes, gloves, ski-lft pas. Sut we wee al touched by th fact that he realy want to give usa special est, 80 we put ona brave aoe, and even went to get in ‘some practice onthe dry sk slope nesr aux home bafore wo lft—which we were all gle weld done inthe event, ‘2a Which one of these sentences matches most closely what Mase says about the tip? [A They realy opprocoted whet ther dad war tying fede for thom B They fored they weren't going f enjoy sing, however hard they ted. They chonged their minds about the ip when they realized sing wasnt os hard os they‘ thought 1b why are tho other two options wrong? | 8 Now read what Marko says about his rst time out onthe si slopes. Find the part in which he talks about: 1 the discomfort he fl while attempfing io ski 3. the sudden chango in his eval of ability 2 whet he'd imagined himealf achiving 4. ie ination of the lack of wering from others | OF course, nobody had told me what it would really be Ske tobe on his, ad they? They'd |_| somenow carsflly avoided mentioning it would be vitualyimpassibe to stand up on ‘kisi, never mind glng skifly down the spe, doing an amazing jump or tur at the bottom, and hearing gasps of adrsation rom everyone watching. I spent most ofthe {st hou or so down onthe ground, ankes buring with the pain of being twisted ove my Uunforgivng boot, But | was determined to keep going, and R wast long betere something ‘amszing happened and | acualyexoerienced what It fe ike to ska short stance without ‘xashing over From then on | didn't look back— and by the end ofthe weak, my instructor had actually promoted me out ofthe beginners’ group, Way to go! ‘4a wich of these sentences most closely matches what Marko says about his sking experience? Undertine the part ofthe toxt wheve he says this ‘Aris early ctompts made him redise he prebobly wasn'ta nahral sie. He refused to bo put off by his intial lock oF success. © Abo his peor performance his insruc' response came oso comple surprise 1b Why ae the other two options wrong? a2 Test 4 Trating Reading and Use of Engish Part 7Renting an ne ot gh «Prt ‘You are going to rea an article about four young people taking (ist Res lose when you tink you ave part in swimming races in open water. For questions 43-52, found te snaverto@aveston There may ‘choose from the people (A-D). The people may be chosen eLearn Perec weritee cape cee n oo, Chak ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet ctu ‘Which person made a costy mistake about what strategy to use in the i water? found they were handing poor conditions more easily than some other competitors? ‘as lucky to have escaped being injured while ewinening? was on the way to victor at an early point in ther race? {elt confident about producing a good performance prior tothe race? remained unaware for some time that others in the race ‘were in dificuty? fa fj faya) fa fe ‘exceeded their own expectations inthe inital stages? missed out on winning due to an unfortunate occurrence? received much-needed support at aertcal point? {olt they'd learned from the race despite not being ssuccosstul? fe] [S] [3] [8 ing and Use of Engish Part 7 Test 4 Exam practice | 33‘A. Angela {As Iwas about to set off, ust kept thinking bout what my coach had told me: ‘The ones ‘who are ready are the ones who win.” And | knew I'd done everything | possibly could to prepare, even swimming the course a few days previously, so Het his words really applied to ime. On the day ofthe race, the water was calm but | couldn't see far ahead, and Id lost sight of the other competitors, s0 | hoped | was leaving them behind. Then suddenly | felt a huge bang ‘on my chest and realised other people were actually ahead of me ~ and one had kicked ime hard. She apologised and no damage was done, fortunately, but it was.a reminder to try and keep my distance, if possible, Anyway, the inoldent cnt affect the result =I was so far back by then that | couldn't possioly have won anynay! B sam On race day, | was a bit cautious getting into the wator as it was rough. And there were 2 lot of other people swimming the same route, 80 my plan was to try and keep up with ther, while also avoiding them so that I didn't get kicked, cfficult though that might be. Once in ‘the water, | actually began to swim a lot harder than Id ever done in practice and I suddenly realised | was keeping up with swimmers who were clearly strongor than me in taining, However, I soon noticed they'd all switched to a more relaxed breaststroke, presumably to pace ‘themselves and conserve their eneray, while I'd made up my mind to maintain the faster overarm crawl, and becoming wom out in the process. Anyway, to cut along story short, | just {decided to put this race down to experience. | found myself further and further behind, and in the end realised I'd never be able to win! 34 | Tost Exam practice © krista ‘There were so many swimmers taking part that | knew Id have to swim tactically. The only problem was, | didn't relly know any tactics But | decided to up my speed to pass the ‘swimmer ahead of me, and then settle into rhythm before | passed the next one. That'd always seemed to work OK belore, as long as | managed to swim wide around them to avoid getting hit Anyway, | was soon up among the leaders and in with a good chance. The aim (ofthe race was to swim out around a marker, then back ta the beach, and run straight to our ‘coach who'd be timing us. The three fastest times would win. However, as | hadn't got my {lasses on, | rushed up tothe wrong person, ‘sadly. and dropped out ofthe first three places as a result. Oh well D Tom ‘The sea conditions were pretty dire on race day, with big waves roling towards the shore. | decided I'd just let others go anead of me and simply aim to finish ~that in itsolf would bo an ‘achievement. | resolved to see each wave as ‘a challonge and meot each one head on, then {90 withthe current as much as possible, The trouble wae, doing that, | couldn't relly 208 hat the other swimmers were up to, 80 | was ‘emazed when | heard some of them call out that it was too rough and they were giving up! ''d been coping OK, so | ploughed on, although | was getting tired. What rally got me through, though, was finding my close fiend swimming Just nearby, 80 we made a promise to each ‘other then to keep going now we'd come so far ~ and we dict That's what | call teamwork — ‘even though we didn't wint Reaiing and Use of English Port 7