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PART 1
Questions 26 – 30
In what time period can the float projects help with the issues 26-30 below?
A At present B In the near future C In the long-term future
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Questions 4 – 8
Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the text for each
answer.
6 How much will you receive for an opened jar of contaminated Chicken Curry?
7 If you have eaten Chicken Curry from a jar with one of the batch numbers listed, whom
should you contact?
8 What is the maximum reward Fancy Foods is offering for information about who
contaminated their product?
If you have any jars with these batch numbers, please return them (preferably unopened) to the
supermarket where you purchased them. You can also return them to the factory (Fancy Foods Retailers,
Blacktown). Fancy Foods will pay $10 for each jar returned unopened and $5 for each jar already
opened.
No payment will be made for empty jars, which do not need to be returned. However, the Retailing
Manager will be interested to hear from people who have consumed chicken curry from any of the above
batch numbers. In particular, it will be helpful if they can give information about the place of purchase of
the product.
Jars of Fancy Foods Chicken Curry (Coconut) and Fancy Foods Chicken Curry (Mango) have not been
affected and do not need to be returned.
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Fancy Foods will pay a reward of $10,000 to $50,000 for information which leads to the conviction of any
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The invention of rockets is linked inextricably with the invention of 'black powder'.
Most historians of technology credit the Chinese with its discovery. They base their
belief on studies of Chinese writings or on the notebooks of early Europeans who
settled in or made long visits to China to study its history and civilisation. It is
probable that, some time in the tenth century, black powder was first compounded
from its basic ingredients of saltpetre, charcoal and sulphur. But this does not mean
that it was immediately used to propel rockets. By the thirteenth century, powder-
propelled fire arrows had become rather common. The Chinese relied on this type of
technological development to produce incendiary projectiles of many sorts, explosive
grenades and possibly cannons to repel their enemies. One such weapon was the
'basket of fire' or, as directly translated from Chinese, the 'arrows like flying leopards'.
The 0.7 metre-long arrows, each with a long tube of gunpowder attached near the
point of each arrow, could be fired from a long, octagonal-shaped basket at the same
time and had a range of 400 paces. Another weapon was the 'arrow as a flying
sabre', which could be fired from crossbows. The rocket, placed in a similar position
to other rocket-propelled arrows, was designed to increase the range. A small iron
weight was attached to the 1.5m bamboo shaft, just below the feathers, to increase
the arrow's stability by moving the centre of gravity to a position below the rocket. At
a similar time, the Arabs had developed the 'egg which moves and burns'. This 'egg'
was apparently full of gunpowder and stabilised by a 1.5m tail. It was fired using two
rockets attached to either side of this tail.
It was not until the eighteenth century that Europe became seriously interested in the
possibilities of using the rocket itself as a weapon of war and not just to propel other
weapons. Prior to this, rockets were used only in pyrotechnic displays. The incentive
for the more aggressive use of rockets came not from within the European continent
but from far-away India, whose leaders had built up a corps of rocketeers and used
rockets successfully against the British in the late eighteenth century. The Indian
rockets used against the British were described by a British Captain serving in India
as ‘an iron envelope about 200 millimetres long and 40 millimetres in diameter with
sharp points at the top and a 3m-long bamboo guiding stick’. In the early nineteenth
century the British began to experiment with incendiary barrage rockets. The British
rocket differed from the Indian version in that it was completely encased in a stout,
iron cylinder, terminating in a conical head, measuring one metre in diameter and
having a stick almost five metres long and constructed in such a way that it could be
firmly attached to the body of the rocket. The Americans developed a rocket,
complete with its own launcher, to use against the Mexicans in the mid-nineteenth
century. A long cylindrical tube was propped up by two sticks and fastened to the top
of the launcher, thereby allowing the rockets to be inserted and lit from the other end.
However, the results were sometimes not that impressive as the behaviour of the
rockets in flight was less than predictable.
Questions 7 – 10
Look at the following items (Questions 7-10) and the list of groups below.
Match each item with the group which first invented or used them.
Write the correct letter A-E in boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
7 black powder
A the Chinese
B the Indians
C the British
D the Arabs
E the Americans
Make
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- Part 1: The Examiner will ask a series of simple questions on familiar topics; e.g. your daily activities, etc. Relax and
answer the questions, and try to use more than one word or phrase in your answer. Incomplete answers will result in
the Examiner asking you, “Why?” or “Why not?” to get more language from you.
- Part 2: The Examiner will give you a topic to speak about. First you will have one minute to organize what you want
to say, and you can make some notes if you wish. Your notes will not affect your score. You cannot choose your own
topic. You need to speak on the topic for one to two minutes. It is always better to speak until the Examiner asks you
to stop.
- Part 3: The Examiner will engage in a brief conversation with you about something related to what you spoke about
in Part 2. Keep your answers general. Talk about most people in your country or culture. Avoid talking about yourself
here.
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Fluency and Coherence Lexical Resource
How easily can you keep talking? Do you Do you use a variety of words in your
use organizing and sequencing words? responses? Do you use them correctly?
Do you understand the vocabulary the
Examiner uses in her/his questions and
comments?
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