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VOCABULARY 2 Complete the words. The first and last letters

1 Complete the sentences with these adjectives.
Not all of the adjectives are needed.
confused confusing disappointed
disappointing embarrassed embarrassing
frightened frightening relaxed relaxing
are given.
1 I’m so sorry I forgot your name earlier. I was
really e mbarrasse d about that.
2 I thought the ending of the book was quite
c onfusin g. I didn’t really understand it.

1 I was confused by the painting. I quite 3 The first time I tried painting something, I was
liked it, but I didn’t really understand what I was d isappointe d by the results. I thought it looked
looking at and I wasn’t quite sure what the artist really bad!
was trying to do.
4 As a child, I used to live near a very beautiful
2 That horror film was really frightening – and interesting building. I found it really
I couldn’t get to sleep afterwards. i nspirin g, and I think maybe because of it,
I decided to study architecture at university.
3 I was disappointed by the TV series. It
wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. 5 I don’t want to feel r elaxe d by art. I want
it to shock and surprise me!
4 When the teacher asked me who Pablo Picasso
was, I couldn’t remember at first. I was so SCORE: /5
embarrassed , my face went red.

5 Listening to calm, quiet music always makes

me feel relaxed after a difficult and
tiring day.

SCORE: /5

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LEARNING
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GRAMMAR 4 Choose the correct option to complete the

sentences.
3 Complete the conversation with the correct
form of these verbs. 1 I enjoyed dancing, but I was a bit by the
time we finished.
ask be have hear play
a tired
Paula: My neighbours have stopped smiling at me
b tiring
and saying ‘hello’. I don’t know why.
2 I’m sorry, but I thought the film was really .
Liam: If you 1 asked them, I’m sure they
I couldn’t stay awake.
would tell you.
a bored
Paula: If I 2 had more time, I’d do that. But
I’m usually in a hurry when we meet. b boring

Liam: They might be annoyed because you play 3 When I was in Rio de Janeiro, I had an
the drums a lot in the evening. time at the carnival.
a amazed
Paula: If I 3 played the electric piano or
something, it would be easy to wear b amazing
headphones. I can’t do that with drums.
4 Some kinds of art make us feel , but other
Liam: If you practised in the afternoons, maybe kinds can shock or even frighten us.
your neighbours wouldn’t 4 hear
a relaxed
you.
b relaxing
Paula: But I’m not at home in the afternoon.
5 The documentary film about famous painters
Liam: Well, if I 5 was / were you, I’d go and see made me feel to learn more.
the neighbours, and find out what the
problem really is. Maybe then, you can try to a inspired
come up with a solution. b inspiring

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READING

Artist of the month – Rueben Wu

There is a saying that ‘the camera never lies’. Photographs usually show us the real world.
However, the images made by photographer Rueben Wu (who is also a music producer) do
something different. Firstly, he doesn’t usually take photos during the daytime, which is
unusual. Secondly, his photos show things that you would never see in real life.
The word photography means ‘drawing with light’, and that’s a good way to describe what
Rueben Wu does. He has been to places like the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, Sarakiniko Beach in
Greece and the Valles de las Animas in Bolivia. These are usually empty places, with interesting
rocks, deserts, lakes or beaches. Wu waits until night before setting up his camera.
Of course, light is important when taking a photo. He controls his camera so that it opens for up
to 30 seconds. This allows enough light from the stars to come in. Wu also uses drones – small
flying machines – to fly around the sky in front of the camera. The drones have small lights on
them. These create strange rings or other shapes. The results are beautiful – strange-coloured
rocks or water, with stars in the background and shapes in the sky that really don’t belong there.
Wu came up with the idea for making these strange images completely by accident. He was
trying to take photos in the dark in Death Valley, California. He wanted to try taking a photo
of the desert, with the stars in the night sky. While he was in the middle of taking a 30-second
photo, a truck drove near his camera. The lights from the truck made everything bright for a few
seconds. At first Wu was really annoyed. But later, he looked at the image, and saw the strange
effect that the truck lights had created. A new form of art was born – photos of natural places,
with completely unnatural light.

5 Read the article. Match the beginnings of the sentences (1–5) with the endings (a–e).

1 Rueben Wu takes photos a rings and other strange things.

2 Wu uses b of places such as beaches, lakes or rocks.
3 In his photos, you can see c a camera and another type of machine.
4 He creates his own special form d by accident.
5 His idea for creating these photos happened e of photography.

SCORE: /5

6 Read the article again. Complete the summary. For each gap, write no more than two words
from the article.

Rueben Wu is a 1 music producer and photographer who takes photos of natural places such as
2 deserts , rocks, beaches and lakes during the night. He uses 3 stars / the stars for
natural light, and he also uses a 4 drone to create unusual light shapes in the sky. The
idea for this came when 5 a truck passed by while he was photographing Death Valley in
California.

SCORE: /5

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LISTENING
7 5.1 Listen to a talk. Are the statements true or false?

1 The speaker believes that most music on the radio is very good. True False

2 Valerie Salimpoor was feeling unhappy before she heard some music by Brahms on the radio. True False

3 Salimpoor was a university student when she first heard Brahms’s Hungarian Dance True False
Number 5.

4 Salimpoor discovered that people can get excited by music they haven’t heard before. True False

5 Listening to new music and smelling delicious food both have a similar effect on our brains. True False

SCORE: /5

8 5.1 Listen to the talk again. Complete the sentences with no more than two words from the talk.

1 Valerie Salimpoor heard a piece of music she loved immediately while she was driving ,
and had to stop in order to continue listening to it.

2 She felt happy / extremely happy when she heard the music, despite feeling quite differently before.

3 Using machines to find out what was happening inside people’s brains, Salimpoor
noticed that parts of the brain responded strongly to certain types of music.

4 Salimpoor believes that we can predict what a song or piece of music will be like
after just a few seconds.

5 When we listen to a few seconds of music, we expect a reward , in a similar way to

smelling something delicious.

SCORE: /5

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WRITING
9 You see this advert for articles online. Think about an event you have been to. Imagine that you were
organizing it. Write a description of your event.

Are you planning an interesting local event?

What is it about and who is it for?
Tell us why people should come along. Don’t forget to include information
about the place, date and the price of tickets.
We will publish the best upcoming events on our website.

Write about 100 words.

Students’ own answers.

SCORE: /10

TOTAL MARKS, ALL SECTIONS: /50

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