GRADE 11

Part I. LISTENING SKILLS (25 questions x 2 = 50 points)

For questions 1-10, you will hear a lecturer discussing how birds are affected by environmental
change. Listen to the lecture and complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each
answer.
The Effects of Environmental Change on Birds
Mercury (Hg)
• Highly toxic
• Released into the atmosphere from coal
• In water it may be consumed by fish
• It has also recently been found to affect birds which feed on (1) ………………………………
Research on effects of mercury on birds
• Claire Varian-Ramos is investigating:
- the effects on birds’ (2) ……………………………… or mental processes, e.g. memory
- the effects on bird song (usually learned from a bird’s (3) ………………………………)
• Findings:
- songs learned by birds exposed to mercury are less (4) ………………………………
- this may have a negative effect on birds’ (5) ………………………………
• Lab-based studies:
- allow more (6) ……………………………… for the experimenter
Implications for humans
• Migrating birds such as (7) ……………………………… containing mercury may be eaten
by humans
• Mercury also causes problems in learning (8) ………………………………
• Mercury in a mother’s body from (9) ……………………………… may affect the unborn
child
• New regulations for mercury emissions will affect everyone’s energy (10)
………………………………
• (Source: Cambridge English IELTS 12 Academic © Cambridge University Press, Test 7)

For questions 11-15, you will hear Mika talking about her homestay in London. Listen to her talk
and answer the following questions.
11. What date did Mika leave for her homestay?
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12. What made her feel at ease when she first met her host family?
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13. What was the main reason why she decided to study at Oxford House College?
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14. Where did the other homestay student who lived with Mika’s host family come from?
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15. How many other Japanese students were in Mika’s classes?
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(adapted from Select Readings – Pre-intermediate by Linda Lee & Erik Gundersen © Oxford, Chapter 2)

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For questions 16-20, you will hear a talk about an experiment on sleep. Listen to the talk carefully
and decide whether the statements are true (T), false (F), or not given (NG). Tick the correct box.

Statements T F NG
16. Randy Gardner was a university student when he did his experiment.
17. During the experiment, Gardner slept for several hours every night.
18. During the experiment, Gardner had no trouble speaking clearly.
19. During the experiment, Gardner saw things that weren’t really there.
20. Gardner stayed awake for eleven days by watching television.
(adapted from Select Readings – Pre-intermediate by Linda Lee & Erik Gundersen © Oxford, Chapter 1)

For questions 21-25, you will hear a radio discussion about children who invent imaginary friends.
Circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the answer which fits best according to what you hear.
21. In the incident that Liz describes, _____________.
A. her daughter asked her to stop the car
B. she had to interrupt the journey twice
C. she got angry with her daughter
D. her daughter wanted to get out of the car
22. What does the presenter say about the latest research into imaginary friends?
A. It contradicts other research on the subject.
B. It shows that the number of children who have them is increasing.
C. It indicates that negative attitudes towards them are wrong.
D. It focuses on the effect they have on parents.
23. How did Liz feel when her daughter had an imaginary friend?
A. always confident that it was only a temporary situation
B. occasionally worried about the friend’s importance to her daughter
C. slightly confused as to how she should respond sometimes
D. highly impressed by her daughter’s inventiveness
24. Karen says that one reason why children have imaginary friends is that __________.
A. they are having serious problems with their real friends
B. they can tell imaginary friends what to do
C. they want something that they cannot be given
D. they want something that other children haven’t got
25. According to Karen, how should parents react to imaginary friends?
A. They should pretend that they like the imaginary friend.
B. They shouldn’t get involved in the child’s relationship with the friend.
C. They should take action if the situation becomes annoying.
D. They shouldn’t discuss the imaginary friend with their child.
(Source: Cambridge Advanced Practice Tests by Mark Harrison © Oxford, Test 3)

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Part II. LANGUAGE KNOLWEDGE (30 questions x 1 = 30 points)
For questions 26-40, read the sentences carefully and circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the
correct answer.
26. Laura took ____________ on the homeless man and bought him some groceries.
A. sorrow B. shame C. grief D. pity
27. The man gave the police a full ____________ of what had happened among the crash survivors
on the deserted island.
A. explanation B. account C. interpretation D. story
28. Every day we get ____________ calls on the phone from total strangers trying to sell us
something. That’s annoying!
A. cold B. warm C. hot D. chilling
29. In the end, it all ____________ down to the fact that you don’t really care about me.
A. goes B. turns C. comes D. gets
30. She’s ____________ with Jonas Brothers and collects anything and everything connected with
them.
A. devoted B. addicted C. absorbed D. obsessed
31. How often do you ____________ at the gym?
A. work out B. wear out C. catch out D. watch out
32. It had been a terrible day for him and when he learned finally that he had lost his job, he simply
blew his top. “Blew his top” means ____________.
A. lost his nerve B. lost his courage
C. lost his temper D. lost his respect
33. My boss is always talking ____________ to me as if I’m not worth consideration!
A. at B. down C. through D. back
34. My English teacher, Mr. Sean Hughes, was a ____________ figure in my education, and the vital
reason why I went on to study English at university.
A. key B. prime C. critical D. main
35. He ran and hid behind a tree in order to be ____________.
A. out of reach B. out of control
C. out of breath D. out of danger
36. Mark seemed very young, but he was ____________ older than all of us.
A. in secret B. in reality C. in theory D. in private
37. Even though James has suffered the most damage in life, no one has ever heard him
____________ a groan or a word of complaint.
A. yell B. murmur C. shout D. utter
38. We’ve got so much work on that we’ve had to ____________ more staff.
A. take on B. take up C. take in D. take apart
39. She has a real ____________ for detail, which makes her very good at her job.
A. mind B. brain C. head D. eye
40. I can’t imagine Mary dancing on a table - she’s much too prim and ____________.
A. perfect B. correct C. right D. proper

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For questions 41-50, read the text carefully. Use the words in the boxes to the right of the text to
form one word that fits in the same numbered space in the text. Write the new word in the correct
numbered space below the text. The task begins with an example (0).
Example: (0) supportive
How a Break-Up Could Affect Control of The World’s Most Valuable Company
“When you have loving and (0) ___________ people in your life, SUPPORT
like Mackenzie … you end up being able to take risks.” So declared Jeff
Bezos, boss of Amazon, the e-commerce giant, last April. This
affirmation by the planet’s richest man of the contribution of his wife of
25 years to the company (she was in the founding team) takes on a new
(41) ___________ now that the power couple is preparing to split. SIGNIFY
When a founder divorces, it can affect firms and shareholders in
several ways. Most (42) ___________ changes are in corporate control. CONSEQUENCE
In the case of Wynn Resorts, a casino group, for example, its founder,
Steve Wynn, was challenged for control by his former wife, Elaine, after
a bitter divorce in 2010. She became the largest shareholder in the group
and demanded (43) ___________ reforms. GOVERN
Mr. Bezos is not thought to have a prenuptial agreement. In the
state of Washington, where the couple mainly lives, Ms. Bezos is (44) ENTILEMENT
___________ to half of her husband’s $137bn fortune (if the divorce is
filed elsewhere, her share may be lower.) Critically, Mr. Bezos owns a
smaller proportion of his firm than other tech founders: whereas Mark
Zuckerberg, for example, controls 51.3% of Facebook’s voting rights
through a dual-class structure, Mr. Bezos controls only about 16% of
Amazon and has no special voting rights.
The divorce could weaken his hand in two ways. His stake could
be cut to 8% (though Ms. Bezos may accept some cash or put her shares
in a trust), (45) ___________ the balance of power with the largest CHANGEABLE
institutional investors – Vanguard has a 6% stake, for example. And she
may demand a board seat. It is (46) ___________ that she might then CONCEIVE
oppose her ex-husband’s plans at the company. She might push for pay
rises for workers, say, that hurt profits (Amazon is already under pressure
in this regard).
To reassure shareholders, (47) ___________ William Klepper of RECKONING
Columbia Business School, author of “The CEO’s Boss”, Amazon’s
board must now hold discussions with Mr. Bezos about how any share
transfer will take place and (48) ___________ relevant points to COMMUNICATOR
shareholders. The board will need to be vigilant on other fronts, too, says
David Larcker of Stanford Graduate School of Business. Executives
going through a divorce often get (49) ___________, which explains why DISTRACT
a company spokesman insisted this week that “Jeff remains focused”.
Studies have also shown that a big reduction in wealth through divorce
can lead a boss to make more aggressive corporate bets in the hope of
clawing back riches. Some boards have even awarded CEOS extra pay to
tamp down such behavior.
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 Mr. Bezos’ best defense may not be legal maneuvering, but
continuing to do his job well. Amazon has (50) ___________ the S&P PERFORMANCE
500 index by 33% over the last year, and by over 2,000% over the past
decade. A recent survey by Stanford found him (and not Tesla’s Elon
Musk) to be “the most difficult CEO to replace”. For now, the love affair
between Mr. Bezos and investors is still going strong.
(adapted from The Economist January 19th 2019, page 65)

Write your answers here:

41. ________________________
42. ________________________
43. ________________________
44. ________________________
45. ________________________
46. ________________________
47. ________________________
48. ________________________
49. ________________________
50. ________________________

This is the body paragraph from an essay on social networking. There are FIVE mistakes in the
text. They are either grammatically incorrect or do not fit in with the sense of the text. For
questions 51-55, find and underline the mistakes and write your corrections in the spaces given
below the text. The task begins with an example (0).
Example: (0) arguing → arguments
Social Networking Sites
One of the main (0) arguing against social networking sites is that people
sometimes reveal information on them that often should be kept private. Recently,
another development has provided more support for this argument: College admissions
committees are now using social networking sites as part of the application process.
According with a survey by Kaplan Test Prep (2010), over 80 percent of college Line 5
admissions officers use social networking sites to communicate with students. The
claiming that many colleges make is that they use these sites to attract new students or
to stay in contact with former students. However, some colleges admit that they are also
using social networking as part of the admissions process. The main argument for using
social media is that it helps colleges evaluate candidates at a time when these colleges Line 10
are experiencing large numbers of applicants. Many admissions officers believe that
colleges need all the information they can get on applicants in order to make decisions
because the admissions process has become very competitively. One college interviewer
in a recent survey reported that if she has to choose between two students who are equally
qualified in terms of grades and test scores, she looks at their online profiles to make the Line 15
final decision. In addition, applicants also use social networking sites against each other.
Another admissions officer revealed that his office often receives anonymous messages
with links to sites that have negative information on or pictures of other applicants. Many
colleges and universities have not had official policies yet on whether to use social media
as part of the application process. Until these policies will become clearer, prospective Line 20
college students should keep their social networking pages private or remove anything
that might make them look more attractive to admissions committees.

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 (adapted from Grammar and Beyond 4 by John D. Bunting, Luciana Diniz, & Randi Reppen © Cambridge)

51. _________________________________
52. _________________________________
53. _________________________________
54. _________________________________
55. _________________________________

Part III. READING SKILLS (50 questions = 60 points)

For questions 56-65, read the text below and then decide which word best fits each space. Circle
the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate your answer for each question. The task begins with an example
(0).
Example: (0) C. governed
The Body Clock
Scientists used to believe that our 24-hour cycle of sleeping and waking was (0) ________
entirely by external factors. The most notable of these, they thought, were the rising and (56)
________ of the sun. But they have now (57) ________ that there is a daily rhythm to a wide range
of biological functions – including temperature, digestion, and mental (58) ________ – which are
regulated internally by a special time-keeping mechanism within the brain.
The main function of this “body clock” is to anticipate and (59) ________ for external
changes so that, for example, our body temperature starts to rise around dawn, gearing us up for the
day, and begins to (60) ________ in the early evening, winding us down for sleep.
Some people’s body clocks (61) ________ poorer time than others, which can greatly disturb
their lives and even threaten their health. Insomnia, depression, fatigue, poor work performance, and
even accidents can all be (62) ________ or aggravated by inaccurate body clocks.
Equally severe problems can result from the difficulties of (63) ________ to different time
zones and working by night instead of by day. Shift workers are known to run a higher-than-average
(64) ________ of having a number of health problems and the disruption of normal body rhythms is
one possible (65) ________ for this.

0. A. conducted B. steered C. governed D. managed

56. A. descending B. diving C. plunging D. setting
57. A. established B. fixed C. settled D. assured
58. A. operation B. activity C. process D. occupation
59. A. dispose B. scheme C. steady D. prepare
60. A. fall B. reduce C. lessen D. subtract
61. A. keep B. hold C. support D. preserve
62. A. put B. formed C. caused D. made
63. A. altering B. adjusting C. fitting D. suiting
64. A. risk B. danger C. threat D. hazard
65. A. account B. solution C. explanation D. source
(adapted from CAE Practice Tests by Mark Harrison & Rosalie Kerr © Oxford, Paper 3 – Part 1)

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For questions 66-75, complete the following magazine article by writing each missing word on the
space given below the text. Use only ONE word for each space. The task begins with an example
(0).
Example: (0) which
How Do We Make Decisions?
In cafés, there’s a wide range of coffees to choose from, from skinny latte to triple caramel
frappuccino (that’s coffee blended with caramel, milk, and ice topped with a layer of dark caramel
sauce, whipped cream, caramel drizzle and crunchy sugar topping, if you’re wondering). How do
you decide (0) ………………. coffee to have? Do you analyze or even know how much caffeine
you’d like or need? Do you know or care how many calories are in the drink? Most people think the
best option is the most expensive and if they can afford it, will choose it. There have been a number
of studies where price tags have been switched and people’s choices switch to the most expensive as
a result. (66) ………………. would suggest that decision-making is not at all rational.
Have you ever considered whether your decisions are influenced by the power of suggestion?
If you were handed a warm drink on a cold winter’s day and then asked your opinion of someone
you had recently met, the (67) ………………. are you’d have a favorable opinion of the person.
Conversely, if you were given a cold drink, your description of the person would be “colder”. You
would have literally been influenced by the warmth or cold of the drink and your judgement would
have been clouded.
Our decisions are influenced in many different ways. We all know that the answers to
questions in surveys depend largely on the wording of the question. A (68) ………………. worded
question will probably elicit a positive response. The human brain plays tricks on us too. In many
cases, when we ask for advice, we don’t really listen to and consider all of the advice, we just hear
the parts that confirm (69) ………………. we wanted to hear. Our decision-making may also largely
depend on our personality. An optimistic person may overestimate the positive outcomes of making
a decision (70) ………………. a pessimistic person may decide against doing something for fear of
a negative result.
Even when we believe we are making a rational decision based on previous experience, this
may not be the case. If you went on holiday to a particular resort last year and had a great time, it
does not necessarily (71) ………………. that you will have a great time this year. The place may
have changed, the weather might not be the same and your expectations will have been raised because
of your previous positive experience. To help us make balanced and rational decisions, we are advised
to make two columns and write down all the reasons (72) ………………. a decision in one column
and all the reasons against in the other. But I don’t know about you, but when I tried this, when I saw
the “against” column getting longer, I stopped trying to find negatives and found more positives. At
least it made me realize that I really (73) ………………. want to do whatever it was but I still couldn’t
explain why. It was just a gut feeling and I was willing to manipulate the “system” to (74)
………………. the outcome I wanted.
In my view, much of the discussion about how we make decisions is not very scientific at all.
However, (75) ………………. do seem to be ways of explaining why we make certain decisions, if
we look below the surface. For example, maybe we want to aspire to make more money, or maybe
the power of suggestion plays a huge role, or maybe we always just go with our instincts. What do
you think?
(adapted from Objective Advanced © Cambridge University Press, Unit 12, page 75)

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Write your answers here:
66. _________________________
67. _________________________
68. _________________________
69. _________________________
70. _________________________
71. _________________________
72. _________________________
73. _________________________
74. _________________________
75. _________________________

For questions 76-85, read the article carefully and circle the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the
answer which you think fits best according to the article.
The Museum of Failed Products
Our business editor paid a visit to the graveyard of good ideas

In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor in Michigan stands a poignant
memorial to humanity’s shattered dreams. It doesn’t look like that from the outside, though. Even
when you get inside, it takes a few moments for your eyes to get used to what you’re seeing. It appears
to be a vast and haphazardly organized supermarket; along every aisle, grey metal shelves are
crammed with thousands of packages of food and household products. There is something unusually
cacophonous about the displays and soon enough you work out the reason: unlike in a real
supermarket, there is only one of each item.
The storehouse, operated by a company called GfK Custom Research North America, has
acquired a nickname: the Museum of Failed Products. This is consumer capitalism’s graveyard or, to
put it less grandly, it’s almost certainly the only place on the planet where you’ll find A Touch of
Yogurt shampoo alongside the equally unpopular For Oily Hair Only. The museum is home to
discontinued brands of caffeinated beer and self-heating soup cans that had a regrettable tendency to
explode in customers’ faces.
There is a Japanese term, mono no aware, that translates roughly as “the pathos of things”. It
captures a kind of bittersweet melancholy at life’s impermanence – that additional beauty imparted
to cherry blossoms, for their fleeting nature. It’s only stretching the concept slightly to suggest that
this is how the museum’s manager, an understatedly stylish GfK employee named Carol Sherry, feels
about the cartons of Morning Banana Juice in her care or about Fortune Snookies, a short-lived line
of fortune cookies for dogs. Every failure, the way she sees it, embodies its own sad story on the part
of designers, marketers, and salespeople. It is never far from her mind that real people had their
mortgages, their car payments, and their family holidays riding on the success of products such as A
Touch of Yogurt.
The Museum of Failed Products was itself a kind of accident, albeit a happier one. Its creator,
a now retired marketing man named Robert McMath, merely intended to accumulate a “reference
library” of consumer products, not failure per se. And so, starting in the 1960s, he began purchasing
and preserving a sample of every new item he could find. Soon, the collection outgrew his office in
upstate New York and he was forced to move into a converted granary to accommodate it. Later,
GfK bought him out, moving the whole lot to Michigan. What McMath hadn’t taken into account
was the three-word truth that was to prove the making of his career: most products fail. According to
some estimates, the failure rate is as high as ninety percent. Simply by collecting new products

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indiscriminately, McMath had ensured that his hoard would come to consist overwhelmingly of
unsuccessful ones.
By far the most striking thing about the museum, though, is that it should exist as a viable,
profit-making business in the first place. You might have assumed that any consumer product
manufacturer worthy of the name would have its own such collection – a carefully stewarded resource
to help it avoid making errors its rivals had already made. Yet the executives who arrive every week
at Sherry’s door are evidence of how rarely this happens. Product developers are so focused on their
next hoped-for success, so unwilling to invest time or energy thinking about their industry’s past
failures that they only belatedly realize how much they need to access GfK’s collection. Most
surprising of all is that many of the designers who have found their way to the museum have come
there to examine – or been surprised to discover – products that their own companies had created,
then abandoned.
It isn’t hard to imagine how one downside of the positive thinking culture, an aversion to
confronting failure, might have been responsible for the very existence of many of the products lining
its shelves. Each one must have made it through a series of meetings at which nobody realized that
the product was doomed. Perhaps nobody wanted to contemplate the prospect of failure; perhaps
someone did but didn’t want to bring it up for discussion. By the time the truth became obvious, the
original developers would have moved to other products or other firms. Little energy would have
been invested in discovering what went wrong. Everyone involved would have conspired, perhaps
without realizing what they’re doing, never to speak of it again. Failure is everywhere. It’s just that
most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact.

76. According to the writer, what is the reason why the storehouse does not resemble a supermarket?
A. its appearance on the outside B. the dimly-lit space
C. the size of the building D. the range of products on each shelf
77. The word “haphazardly” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. logically B. randomly C. greedily D. roughly
78. What is the writer’s main purpose in paragraph 2?
A. to provide an idea of what the museum contains
B. to give reasons why these products were rejected by consumers
C. to explain how obvious it was that self-heating cans failed
D. to illustrate how the museum is organized and operated
79. What is Carol Sherry’s attitude to the failed products?
A. She feels particularly attached to some products.
B. She has sympathy for the people inventing them.
C. She prefers failed products to successful ones.
D. She appreciates the concepts behind the products.
80. The word “fleeting” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. intractable B. durable C. selective D. brief
81. According to the writer, Mr. McMath failed to realize that his collection would ______________.
A. be better if it were more selective B. grow so quickly
C. contain so many failed products D. be so difficult to store
82. The word “indiscriminately” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. in a planned way B. in an expected way
C. in an unexpected way D. in an unplanned way
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83. According to the writer, what is remarkable about the product developers who visit GfK?
A. their ignorance of the existence of the collection
B. the lack of attention paid to previous failures
C. the way they dismiss their own companies’ failures
D. their tendency to repeat past failures
84. What point is the writer making in the last paragraph?
A. that failure should have been prevented
B. that failure is an acceptable part of life
C. that people are afraid to talk about failure
D. that thinking negatively often leads to failure
85. The word “aversion” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to _____________.
A. dislike B. willingness C. affection D. approval
(adapted from Gold Advanced by Sally Burgess & Amanda Thomas © Pearson, pages 40-41)

For questions 86-95, read the text carefully and do the tasks below it.
What’s the Purpose of Gaining Knowledge?
A. “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any subject.” That was the
founder’s motto for Cornell University, and it seems an apt characterization of the different
university, also in the USA, where I currently teach philosophy. A student can prepare for a career in
resort management, engineering, interior design, accounting, music, law enforcement, you name it.
But what would the founders of these two institutions have thought of a course called “Arson for
Profit”? I kid you not: we have it on the books. Any undergraduates who have met the academic
requirements can sign up for the course in our program in “fire science”.

B. Naturally, the course is intended for prospective arson investigators, who can learn all the tricks
of the trade for detecting whether a fire was deliberately set, discovering who did it, and establishing
a chain of evidence for effective prosecution in a court of law. But wouldn’t this also be the perfect
course for prospective arsonists to sign up for? My point is not to criticize academic programs in fire
science: they are highly welcome as part of the increasing professionalization of this and many other
occupations. However, it’s not unknown for a firefighter to torch a building. This example suggests
how dishonest and illegal behavior, with the help of higher education, can creep into every aspect of
public and business life.

C. I realized this anew when I was invited to speak before a class in marketing, which is another of
our degree programs. The regular instructor is a colleague who appreciates the kind of ethical
perspective I can bring as a philosopher. There are endless ways I could have approached this
assignment, but I took my cue from the title of the course: “Principles of Marketing”. It made me
think to ask the students, “Is marketing principled?” After all, a subject matter can have principles in
the sense of being codified, having rules, as with football or chess, without being principled in the
sense of being ethical. Many of the students immediately assumed that the answer to my question
about marketing principles was obvious: no. Just look at the ways in which everything under the sun
has been marketed; obviously it need not be done in a principled (= ethical) fashion.

D. Is that obvious? I made the suggestion, which may sound downright crazy in light of the evidence,
that perhaps marketing is by definition principled. My inspiration for this judgement is the
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philosopher Immanuel Kant, who argued that any body of knowledge consists of an end (or purpose)
and a means.

E. Let us apply both the terms “means” and “end” to marketing. The students have signed up for a
course in order to learn how to market effectively. But to what end? There seem to be two main
attitudes toward that question. One is that the answer is obvious: the purpose of marketing is to sell
things and to make money. The other attitude is that the purpose of marketing is irrelevant: Each
person comes to the program and course with his or her own plans, and these need not even concern
the acquisition of marketing expertise as such. My proposal, which I believe would also be Kant’s,
is that neither of these attitudes captures the significance of the end to the means for marketing. A
field of knowledge or a professional endeavor is defined by both the means and the end; hence both
deserve scrutiny. Students need to study both how to achieve X, and also what X is.

F. It is at this point that “Arson for Profit” becomes supremely relevant. That course is presumably
all about means how to detect and prosecute criminal activity. It is therefore assumed that the end is
good in an ethical sense. When I ask fire science students to articulate the end, or purpose, of their
field, they eventually generalize to something like, “The safety and welfare of society,” which seems
right. As we have seen, someone could use the very same knowledge of means to achieve a much
less noble end, such as personal profit via destructive, dangerous, reckless activity. But we would not
call that firefighting. We have a separate word for it: arson. Similarly, if you employed the “principles
of marketing” in an unprincipled way, you would not be doing marketing. We have another term for
it: fraud. Kant gives the example of a doctor and a poisoner, who use the identical knowledge to
achieve their divergent ends. We would say that one is practicing medicine, the other, murder.

The text has six sections A-F. For questions 86-90, choose the correct heading for each section
from the list of headings below. Write the correct number, i-viii, in spaces 86-90 given next to the
sections. The task begins with an example (0).
Example: (0) Section A _vi_
List of Headings
i Courses that require a high level of commitment
ii A course title with two meanings
iii The equal importance of two key issues
iv Applying a theory in an unexpected context
v The financial benefits of studying
vi A surprising course title
vii Different names for different outcomes
viii The possibility of attracting the wrong kind of student

86. Section B _____________

87. Section C _____________
88. Section D _____________
89. Section E _____________
90. Section F _____________

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For questions 91-95, read the following statements carefully and decide whether they agree with
the views of the writer in the text. In spaces given next to the statements, write
YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer
NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

91. ________ It is difficult to attract students onto courses that do not focus on a career.
92. ________ The “Arson for Profit” course would be useful for people intending to set fire to
buildings.
93. ________ Fire science courses are too academic to help people to be good at the job of
firefighting.
94. ________ The writer’s fire science students provided a detailed definition of the purpose of their
studies.
95. ________ The expectation is that the students completing the “Arson for Profit” course will
become investigators specializing in arson.
(Source: Cambridge English IELTS 12 Academic © Cambridge University Press, Test 5)

For questions 96-105, read the magazine article about bees carefully. Which of the following
actions has been believed to produce the results listed A-J? Some choices my required more than
once. The task begins with an example (0).
Example: (0) D
taking bees across water (0) _______

turning a beehive round on the owner’s death (96) ______

A. bees get angry
using swear words close to bees (97) ______
B. bees recover from illness
lifting a beehive as a coffin passes (98) ______ C. serious misfortune
D. bees die
a bee coming into the room (99) ______ E. bees go away
F. someone comes to see you
inviting bees to a funeral (100) _____ G. bees cannot concentrate on their
activities
arguing a lot in front of bees (101) _____
H. someone visits you for a long
forcing a bee out of your home (102) _____ time
I. bees continue to be healthy
keeping a bee in a purse (103) _____ J. wealth

a bee making noise at a window (104) _____

failing to tell bees the names of a couple (105) _____

getting married

Beliefs about Bees

Paul Prossart looks at some of the superstitions surrounding bees
You don’t find many people these days who would keep a bee in their purse. But catching the
first bee seen in the spring was once considered the height of good luck, and if you kept it in your
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purse, you were certain never to be short of money. Probably because you would be too afraid to
open it! This is just one of the many superstitions surrounding bees.
Next time a bee flies in through your window, expect a visitor very shortly. Take a closer
look at bee: if it has a red tail, your visitor will be a man, a white tail means a woman. If the bee
happens to be buzzing at the living-room window, make sure there’s an ample supply of food – your
visitor is probably intending to stay a while. Whatever you do, don’t drive the bee out of the house.
That would bring incredibly bad luck. Housekeeping would never be the same again.
And were you aware that bees dislike bad behavior? Years ago, bee-keeping was much more
common. A hive or two would provide some honey in the summer months and it wasn’t unusual to
have a few hives in the back garden. You would never consider owning a hive of bees if your family
was quarrelsome. A magazine of the 1850s declared that “if a man and his wife quarrel, the bees will
leave them.”
Bad language should never be used near beehives as it disturbs the bees, affecting their honey-
making. Bees, it seems, are paragons of virtue. And make sure you’ve had a bath if you are going to
collect honey from a hive. Bees are fussy about cleanliness. As early as 77AD, Pliny, in his book
Natural History, advised his readers: “It is particularly recommended that he person who takes the
honey should be well washed and clean.” Bees obviously take a dim view of dirty hands on their pure
honey.
They also have mixed feelings where water is concerned because tradition has it that if you
move a hive of bees, they must never be taken across a stream or river because they will all die.
There was much concern for bees in the 17th century. It was believed that if the owner of the
hives were to die, all the bees would die too, unless they were moved to another place. From this the
superstitious custom developed of turning round the beehives that belonged to the deceased, so that
the bees would survive.
Once, at the funeral of a rich farmer in the 1790s, someone duly called out to a servant “Turn
the bees”, as the body was being placed in the hearse and the horseman was about to pull off in the
funeral procession. This servant, having no knowledge of the custom, lifted up the hive and laid it on
its side. The bees, naturally, didn’t like this, and instantly attacked and fastened onto the horses and
riders. The horses bolted and galloped off, with the bees in hot pursuit, and as a mourner commented
later: “A general confusion tool place, with loss of hats and wigs.”
By the end of the 19th century, this custom had become a mere lifting of the hives a few inches
off the ground as a token gesture whenever a funeral passed the house, as it was still considered
necessary for the well-being of the bees.
During that century, when a death occurred, it was thought the done thing to send an invitation
to the funeral to the bees in their hives, otherwise they would die. Bees obviously still observe this
tradition - and literally, at that – for the Shrewsbury Chronicle as recently as 1961 related the story
of the death of a beekeeper who was devoted to his bees. At a memorial service in the village, the
bees left their hives and settled in a great swarm all over the flowers on the deceased master’s grave.
It was the custom at weddings and funerals to give a piece of the wedding cake or funeral
biscuit to the bees, telling them the name of the person married or dead. If the bees didn’t know of
the former they became very annoyed and stung everyone within reach and if they were ignorant of
the latter they would become sick and might even die.
So next time you are in the queue at the supermarket and a bee flies out of the purse of the
woman in front, don’t be surprised – she is just being superstitious.
(Source: CAE Practice Tests by Mark Harrison & Rosalie Kerr © Oxford, Test 4 – Part 1)

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Part IV. WRITING SKILLS (3 questions = 60 points)
Read the passage below and summarize it using 1-3 sentences. Your answer will be judged on the
quality of your writing and on how well your answer presents the key points in the passage.

Despite having started life as a broadsheet in 1964, The Sun has become not only the premier
tabloid in the United Kingdom, but also the biggest-selling paper of any kind, with a daily circulation
of over three million. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, an Australian who now holds US citizenship, and
who does not pay tax in the UK, the paper has traditionally been to the right of the political spectrum.
Much of its rise in popularity has been attributed to its introduction of topless models on page
three in 1970 and of bingo in the 1980s. Loved and loathed in equal measure, the paper’s staple diet
is celebrity gossip and exposés, and it is also renowned for its way with catchy, punning headlines.
Over the years, the paper has frequently been sued for libel and has had accusations of
sexism, homophobia, jingoism and vicious personal attacks on public figures levelled against it, yet
little seems to dent its popularity!
(Source: Outcomes Advanced Student’s Book © 2012 Heinle, Cengage Learning EMEA, page 95)

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The chart below shows the countries which were the top sources of plastic waste clogging up global
sea lanes in 2010.
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Write an essay about the topic below. Your answer will be judged on how well you develop a
position, organize your ideas, present supporting details, and control the elements of standard
written English. You should write 300-400 words.
“Schools should prepare students for university, rather than for work.” How far do you agree with
this statement? Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own
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 KEY
Part I. LISTENING SKILLS (25 questions x 2 = 50 points)
Questions 1-10 (2 points for each question)
1. insects 2. behavior
3. father 4. complex/complicated
5. reproduction/breeding 6. control
7. duck(s) 8. language
9. food 10. cost(s)/price(s)/bill(s)
Questions 11-15 (2 points for each question)
11. February 11
12. their warm welcome
13. It had reasonable fees and there weren’t many Japanese students there.
14. France
15. at least two in each class
Questions 16-20 (2 points for each question)
16. FALSE 17. FALSE
18. FALSE 19. TRUE 20. NOT GIVEN
Questions 21-25 (2 points for each question)
21. B 22. C
23. A 24. C 25. B
Part II. LANGUAGE KNOLWEDGE (30 questions x 1 = 30 points)
Questions 26-40 (1 point for each question)
26. D. pity 34. A. key
27. B. account 35. D. out of danger
28. A. cold 36. B. in reality
29. C. comes 37. D. utter
30. D. obsessed 38. A. take on
31. A. work out 39. D. eye
32. C. lost his temper 40. D. proper
33. B. down
Questions 41-50 (1 point for each question)
41. significance 46. conceivable
42. consequential 47. reckons
43. governance 48. communicate
44. entitled 49. distracted
45. changing 50. outperformed
Questions 51-55 (1 point for each question)
One of the main (0) arguing against social networking sites is that people sometimes reveal
information on them that often should be kept private. Recently, another development has provided
more support for this argument: College admissions committees are now using social networking
sites as part of the application process. According with a survey by Kaplan Test Prep (2010), over
80 percent of college admissions officers use social networking sites to communicate with students.
The claiming that many colleges make is that they use these sites to attract new students or to stay
in contact with former students. However, some colleges admit that they are also using social
networking as part of the admissions process. The main argument for using social media is that it
helps colleges evaluate candidates at a time when these colleges are experiencing large numbers of
applicants. Many admissions officers believe that colleges need all the information they can get on
applicants in order to make decisions because the admissions process has become very
competitively. One college interviewer in a recent survey reported that if she has to choose between
two students who are equally qualified in terms of grades and test scores, she looks at their online
profiles to make the final decision. In addition, applicants also use social networking sites against
each other. Another admissions officer revealed that his office often receives anonymous messages
with links to sites that have negative information on or pictures of other applicants. Many colleges
and universities have not had official policies yet on whether to use social media as part of the
application process. Until these policies will become clearer, prospective college students should
keep their social networking pages private or remove anything that might make them look more
attractive to admissions committees.

51. with → to 52. claiming → claim

53. competitively → competitive 54. will become → become
55. more → less

Part III. READING SKILLS (50 questions = 60 points)

Questions 56-65 (1 point for each question)
56. D. setting 57. A. established 58. B. activity 59. D. prepare
60. A. fall 61. A. keep 62. C. caused 63. B. adjusting
64. A. risk 65. C. explanation
Questions 66-75 (1 point for each question)
66. This
67. chances
68. positively
69. what
70. whereas/ while
71. follow
72. for
73. did
74. get/ achieve/ have
75. there
Questions 76-85 (1 point for each question)
76. D 77. B 78. A 79. B 80. D
81. C 82. D 83. B 84. A 85. A
Questions 86-95 (2 points for each question)
86. viii 87. ii 88. iv 89. iii 90. vii
91. NOT GIVEN 92. YES 93. NO 94. NO 95. YES
Questions 96-105 (1 point for each question)
96. I 97. G 98. I 99. F 100. I
101. E 102. C 103. J 104. H 105. A

Part IV. WRITING SKILLS (3 questions = 60 points)

1. Summarizing (10 points)
• The quality of the writing (word choice, form, accuracy) (maximum 5 points)
• How well the key points are presented (maximum 5 points)
2. Describing a bar chart (20 points)
• The writing covers all the key features and presents a clear overview of the information
presented. (maximum 4 points)
• Information and ideas are logically organized. (maximum 4 points)
• There is a flexible and useful range of cohesive devices. (maximum 4 points)
• Lexical choice shows flexibility and precision, and includes less common items. (maximum
4 points)
• Grammatical structures are used flexibly and accurately. Most sentences are error-free.
(maximum 4 points)
3. Essay Writing (30 points)
Content (maximum 8 points)
• 3 points for each argument included.
• 1.5 point if part of an argument is included but not developed.
• 0 points if an argument is not relevant.
Form (maximum 6 points)
• 6 points for correct format.
• 3 points if only part of format is used.
• 0 point if format is not used at all.
Range (maximum 8 points)
• 8 points for using a good range of vocabulary and structures.
• 6 points for using a reasonable range of vocabulary and structures.
• 0 point for using a poor range of vocabulary and structures.
Accuracy (maximum 8 points)
• 8 points for accuracy over 80%.
• 6-7 points for accuracy between 60% and 80%.
• 5 points for accuracy below 60%.
• 0 point for accuracy below 20%