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C1 PROGRESS TEST
Test 3
Time 50 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS
Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.
Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully.
Answer all the questions. Write your answers on the question paper.
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Part 1
Questions 1 – 8
You will hear eight short recordings. For each one, choose the best answer. You will hear each
recording twice.
1 You hear a man talking about his experience of buying travel tickets.
What decision did the man make about the future as a result of his experience?
What point does the man make about the city of Cusco?
4 You hear a woman talking about a place she visited on her last holiday.
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5 You hear part of an interview with a young woman who did volunteer work abroad.
7 You hear two people talking about a problem one of them had while travelling.
What did the man think about his experience on the bus?
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Part 2
Questions 9 – 16
9 Another jump in interest rates will leave borrowers facing financial ............ as they attempt to
repay their loans.
10 Many believe that it is right for people from more ............ societies to help those in poverty.
11 Until I qualified for a pay rise, I used to struggle to live ............ my means.
12 The south of the city has long been its most ............ area, with incomes well below average.
13 Very little light came through the forest ............ far above us, and it was nearly dark even at
midday.
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14 The vegetation was so ............ at that point that we just couldn't go on any further.
15 The countryside here is one of rich, green ............ , filled with wildflowers and cows grazing.
16 It's hard to believe there are many areas of ............ wilderness out there where people rarely
set foot.
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Part 3
Questions 17 – 24
Read the sentences about people and places. What are the missing words?
Some letters are already there. There is one space for each other letter in the word.
18 These days I only m _ _ _ e _ _ _ m _ _ _ by doing a second job – without it, I'd have big
money problems.
19 We were a comparatively w _ _ _ o _ _ family – we were the only ones in our street with a
second car, for example.
21 Chile's Atacama Desert is the most a _ _ _ in the world, receiving as little as 1mm of rainfall
annually.
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22 We struggled through the mosquito-infested s _ _ _ _ , hoping to reach dry land by nightfall.
23 What first attracted visitors to the island were its p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ beaches, so peaceful and
not changed or damaged by tourism in any way.
24 At its centre, the desert is a mass of huge s _ _ _ d _ _ _ _ stretching for many kilometres
in every direction.
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Part 4
Questions 25 – 32
I'd always wanted to escape, to get back to nature. But (25) ………… last year did I manage –
briefly – to make my dream come true when, with an equally adventurous friend, I (26) …………
myself on a beautiful deserted island somewhere in the Philippines. (27) ………… had I felt so
alive.
It was everything I (28) ………… : stunningly beautiful, long sandy beaches and nobody in sight!
This was just what my friend and I (29) ………… about for so long!
On our first night we wanted to set up camp, cook our rice, and watch the sunset. (30) …………
did we know that swarms of starving mosquitos had other ideas. Forced into hiding, we went
hungry for the night! Only when morning came were we finally able to eat.
But we learned and things got better – our days were spent swimming, making fires, and cooking.
Every morning I (31) ………… to catch fish, usually unsuccessfully. Time almost ceased to exist.
We had no commitments other than surviving, and home seemed a world away, but reality
inevitably caught up with us. (32) ………… had we arrived, it seemed, than we had to leave.
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25 A only when B not until C only in D not once
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Part 5
Questions 33 – 40
33 You should never be late for your classes at school for any reason.
circumstances
realise
35 We didn't get any calls at all from Carrie while she was away.
once
36 We didn't know the concert was over until the lights came on.
when
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37 From take-off to landing, our flight to Australia took 19 hours.
flying
38 The horse Steve was riding on the beach kicked him, leaving a large bruise on his leg.
by
39 My childhood dream of visiting the jungle one day had come true, and now here I was.
visit
When I was a child, I dreamed that ……………………………………….. one day, and now
here I was.
40 When she got to the airport check-in desk, Alison suddenly remembered her passport
needed to be renewed.
forgotten
It wasn't until she got to the airport check-in desk that Alison realised that
……………………………………….. renew her passport.
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