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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
After the test, do not do anything with your answer sheet and hand it in
to your supervisor.
Do not open this paper until further instructions are given to you.
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SECTION 1: LISTENING (2 pts)
This section consists of TWO parts. You will hear each part TWICE. You will
have time to read the questions at the beginning of each part. At the end of
this section, you will have time to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet.
PART 1 (1pt)
You will hear a talk to members of the public about plan for a new housing
development near a town called Nunston.
Question 1-2
What are the TWO main reasons why this site has been chosen for the housing
development?
Question 3-4
Which TWO aspects of the planned housing development have people given positive
feedback about?
Question 5-10
7 Clinic …. 10 Playground ….
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PART 2 (1pt)
You will hear five extracts in which people talking about evening courses they
attended. While you listen, you must complete both tasks.
TASK ONE
For questions 11-15, choose from the list (A-H) each speaker’s main reason for
attending the course.
TASK TWO
For questions 16-20, choose from the list (A-H) what surprised each speaker
about the course they did.
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SECTION 2: USE OF ENGLISH (2 pts)
For questions 1-20, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Mark your
answers on your separate answer sheet.
2 It goes without saying that Linda ……….. her achievements during the show, but
that only made people criticize her. She should not have done that, especially as a
famous actress.
3 Because of his ridiculous attempt to get her, he had ……. on his face.
4 Penny is asking Darwin about what happened at the Elmore Junior High School.
But he is too embarrassed to tell her.
7 This event will be the biggest success ever, …... all famous scientists around
the world.
8 That was ………….. this one, truthfully, nobody could own it at that time.
10 I suppose they’re …… . Don’t you realize that they have the same objectives?
A could not be able B cannot be able C could not have been able D could be able
A does a can lie B lies a can C a can lies D a can does lie
When I came in Rob’s house, I was taken aback that his room was shipshape.
A under the influence B beyond dispute C under false pretences D under constraint
For a long time, T-Rex, one of the most ferocious dinosaurs, had been out of
existence.
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19 In ......., many people had ended up dying due to chickenpox.
PART 2 (1 pt)
For questions 21-30, read the text below and think of the word that best fits
each space. Use only ONE word in each space. Write your answers on your
separate answer sheet.
BUSES
The relevant news stories are everywhere. The people in (21)….. of the South
Yorkshire mayoral combined authority – which (22)….. Sheffield, Barnsley,
Doncaster and Rotherham – are warning (23)….. “horrible” cuts, which will mean
increases to fares for children and young people. In Kent, where the county council
says its bus system is “broken”, there will soon be cuts to services in such places as
Maidstone, Folkestone and Ashford. Last month, 20 routes in County Durham and
Darlington (24)….. scrapped, amid claims that the bus company Arriva was holding
local councils “to ransom”.
For questions 31-35, read the text below and use the word given in capitals at
the end of some gaps to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers on your separate
answer sheet.
Example: 0 handful
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ARCHITECTS AT PRESENT
A (0)……(HAND) of little green blocks flashes up on the screen, filling a building site
with a neat grid of uniform cubes. One second they form rows of towers, next they
morph into low-rise courtyards, then they flip back into long slender slabs, before
cycling through hundreds of other iterations, in a hypnotic (31)……(SPEED) ballet of
bristling buildings.
I watch this while on a Zoom call with Wanyu He, an architect based in Shenzhen,
China, and the founder of XKool, an (32)……(ARTIFACT) intelligence company
determined to (33)……(REVOLVE) the architecture industry. She freezes the
dancing blocks and zooms in, revealing a layout of hotel rooms that fidget and
reorder themselves as the building swells and contracts. Corridors switch sides,
furniture dances to and fro. Another click and a(n) (34)……(VISION) world of pipes
and wires appears, a matrix of services bending and splicing in mesmerizing unison,
the location of lighting, plug sockets and switches automatically optimized. One
further click and the construction drawings pop up, along with a cost
(35)……(BREAK) and components list. The entire plan is ready to be sent to the
factory to be built.
PART 1 (1pt)
For questions 1-10, read the text below and choose the best answer (A, B, C or
D) which best fits for each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark
your answers on your separate answer sheet.
0 A B C D
The rainbow-checked scarf arrives on time, by post, in a Ziploc bag. The tag reads
Acne Studios, a (0)...... Swedish label, but the wording looks … off. I send a photo to
a typographer friend. “It’s pretty obvious it’s fake,” she says. “Look at the e and s –
they’re different (1).......” Inside, the washing label advises “dry cean only”. I (2)...... it.
It feels genuine – not unlike the £250 bouncy wool and mohair real thing. But it’s not.
Unsurprisingly, perhaps, for the £22 I spent. I email the seller and point out the
discrepancies. There’s no reply.
This was not my first (3).... In my 20s, I went to Vietnam and returned with a “Chanel”
2.55 handbag and two “Kipling” holdalls bought from Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh
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market, (4)...... for its rich pho soup and cheap knockoffs. Before that, aged 18, it
was “Ralph Lauren” shirts with skewwhiff jockey logos from Bangkok’s MBK Center.
To me they were all obvious fakes. With the scarf, I thought I’d bagged a (5)....... I
had been (6)......
Around a third of us will (7)..... buying a fake in the UK, knowingly or not. Today’s
counterfeit problem is second only to drugs in terms of criminal income: it’s thought
42m fakes were seized as they entered the country in 2021, of which, (8)........ not-
for-profit trade organisation the Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG), 3m fell under
fashion and accessories. And if that doesn’t sound like much, that’s because it isn’t:
not every counterfeit is caught, not every person who buys one would (9)....... to it,
and since we left the EU, “we simply haven’t had the same level of regulation of what
comes in”, says Phil Lewis, director general of the ACG. His biggest (10)...... is
people believing that the only victims are the brands. “They just don’t care,” he says
with a sigh.
You will read a review of two books about the internet. For questions 11-15,
choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
Mark your answers on your separate answer sheet.
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Open a street map of any city and you see a diagram of all the possible routes one could take in traversing or
exploring it. Superimpose on the street map the actual traffic flows that are observed and you see quite a
different city: one of flows. The flows show how people actually travel in the city, as distinct from how they could.
This helps in thinking about the internet and digital technology generally. In itself, the technology has vast
possibilities, as several recent books emphasise, but what we actually wind up doing with it is, at any point in time,
largely unknown.
Ethan Zuckerman is excited by the possibilities the web provides for linking far-flung populations, for sampling
different ways of life, for making us all digital cosmopolitans. His central thesis, however, is that while the internet
does, in principle, enable everyone to become genuinely cosmopolitan, in practice it does nothing of the kind. As
the philosopher Anthony Appiah puts it, true cosmopolitanism ‘challenges us to embrace what is rich, productive
and creative’ about differences; in other words, to go beyond merely being tolerant of those who are different.
Much of the early part of Rewire is taken up with demonstrating the extent to which the internet, and our use of it,
fails that test. line 13
‘We shape our tools,’ said the philosopher Marshall McLuhan, ‘and afterwards they shape us.’ This adage is
corroborated every time most of us go online. We’ve built information tools (like search and social networking
systems) that embody our biases towards things that affect those who are closest to us. They give us the
information we think we want, but not necessarily the information we might need.
Despite all the connectivity, we are probably as ignorant about other societies as we were when television and
newspapers were our main information sources. In fact, Zuckerman argues, in some ways we were better then,
because serious mainstream media outlets saw it as their professional duty to ‘curate’ the flow of news; there
were editorial gatekeepers who determined a ‘news agenda’ of what was and wasn’t important. But, as the
internet went mainstream, we switched from curation to search, and the traditional gatekeepers became less
powerful. In some respects, this was good because it weakened large multimedia conglomerates, but it had the
unanticipated consequence of increasing the power of digital search tools – and, indirectly, the power of the
corporations providing them.
Zuckerman – a true cosmopolitan who co-founded a web service dedicated to realising the net’s capacity to
enable anyone’s voice to be heard – provides an instructive contrast to excessively optimistic narratives about
the transformative power of networked technology, and a powerful diagnosis of what’s wrong. Where he runs out
of steam somewhat is in contemplating possible solutions, of which he identifies three: ‘transparent translation’ –
simply automated, accurate translation between all languages; ‘bridge figures’ – bloggers who explain ideas from
one culture to another; and ‘engineered serendipity’ – basically, technology for enabling us to escape from filters
that limit search and networking systems. Eventually, the technology will deliver transparent translation; cloning
Ethan Zuckerman would provide a supply of bridge figures, but, for now, we will have to make do with pale
imitations. Engineering serendipity, however, is a tougher proposition.
Aleks Krotoski might be able to help. She is a keen observer of our information ecosystem, and has been doing
the conference rounds with an intriguing contraption called the ‘Serendipity Engine’, which is two parts art line 36
installation and one part teaching tool. Untangling the Web is a collection of 17 thoughtful essays on the impact of
comprehensive networking on our lives. They cover the spectrum of stuff we need to think about – from the line 38
obvious (like privacy, identity and the social impact of the net) to topics which don’t receive enough attention (for
example, what medics, with a sniff, call ‘cyberchondria’ – how the net can increase health anxieties).
line 40
Although she’s a glamorous media ‘star’ (having fronted a TV series about the internet), people underestimate
Krotoski at their peril. She’s a rare combination of academic, geek, reporter and essayist, which her chapter on
the concept of friendship online exemplifies: she’s read what the key social theorists say on the subject, but she’s
also alert to what she experiences as ‘emotional anaemia’ – ‘the sense that…..you might not feel the online love
from the people you should, because your nearest and dearest may be drowned out in the ocean of sociability.’
Which, in a way, brings us back to Zuckerman’s thoughts about the difference between what networked
technology could do and what it actually does.
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11 What do the words ‘that test’ in line 13 refer to?
A People often struggle to find what they are looking for on it.
13 What does the reviewer suggest about Zuckerman in the fifth paragraph?
15 What does the reviewer suggest about Aleks Krotoski in the final paragraph?
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PART 3 (0.5 pts)
You are going to read a newspaper article about the old video games. Six
paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs
A-G the one which fits each gap (16-20). There is one extra paragraph which
you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your
answers on your separate answer sheet.
Example: 0 A B C D E F G
Buoyed by the astonishing success of Jetpac, the Stampers created several more impressive hits for
the Spectrum. Pssst, Cookie and the driving game Tranz Am all appeared in the summer of 1983,
before Ultimate left the 16K Spectrum behind, moving to the heady heights of the 48K model. Lunar
Jetman was released in the autumn of 1983 to massive praise throughout the dedicated Spectrum
press. “Well, what can you say? Marvellous seems inadequate,” gushed one Crash reviewer.
Lunar Jetman was another smash, and the Stampers quickly followed it up with the brilliant adventure
game Atic Atac. At the same time, with incredible foresight, the brothers were already investigating a
new console emerging from Japan, “the Nintendo”. Ultimate’s contacts in the Japanese arcade
industry had led them to this new, dedicated games machine.
0 D
Tim and Chris spent several months learning all about what would soon become the Nintendo
Entertainment System (NES), while simultaneously working on a game that would redefine the ZX
Spectrum and create a new genre. With six high quality games under its belt in less than a year,
Ultimate had established itself as one of the UK’s finest games publishers. Incredibly, it was about to
get even better.
In 1984 Ultimate released Sabre Wulf, the first adventure for a new hero, Sabreman – quickly followed
by his second. Then there was Knight Lore. Presented in trademarked “Filmation”, the isometric
graphics – a thing of cartoon beauty on such limited technology – predictably wowed reviewers,
gamers and programmers alike. “I was handing over Match Day to Ocean when [Ocean boss] David
Ward said I needed to look at this game they were distributing,” says Jon Ritman, the coder behind
Spectrum isometric classics Batman and Head Over Heels. “I loaded it up and was just blown away. It
was like a Disney film you could play … I didn’t even understand how they made the graphics overlay
each other … cleanly as well, not in straight lines, but diagonals. It was just great.”
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All these games received glowing reviews, and with its output now retailing at a pocket-money-busting
£9.95 (compared to the average of £6-8 at the time), Ultimate was at its peak. So naturally, in 1985,
the Stamper brothers decided it was time to bail out of the home computer market. Rival software
publisher US Gold purchased the Ultimate brand, and the Stampers reinvented their company as the
console-focused Rare.
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“It was sort of an introduction process,” said Chris in 1988. “We had to show Nintendo that we had the
capability before they could give us the rights to go ahead and produce for their system.” After the
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video game crash in the US, the Stampers saw that the market was returning, and predicted that the
Nintendo Entertainment System would be at the forefront of this revival. “We knew a market was
going to boom in Japan and America, and we set up Rare to handle that,” noted Tim in Crash.
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“They were very mysterious, mainly because they were so busy and didn’t have the time,” says
Ritman. “They had decided to start this new company [and] there was this huge interview in Crash. So
I called the magazine, got a phone number and gave them a ring!” Supremely confident, it never
occurred to Ritman that Rare might not be interested in his talents. “Fortunately, they’d played my
games. Years later, Tim told me he’d never seen someone so certain they would be offered work!”
By the early 90s, Rare had published more than 30 games for the NES. And then the Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtle-inspired Battletoads became its conduit into Nintendo’s next-generation console, the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). By now, so confident was Nintendo in its premier
western partner it even entrusted the developer with one of its own properties, Donkey Kong.
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Arcade beat-’em-up Killer Instinct followed, together with two further Donkey Kong Country games.
But it would be with Nintendo’s next console that Rare would achieve its highest fame. Renowned
today as one of the best movie licence video games of all time, GoldenEye 007 energised FPS
gaming on consoles and, along with the underrated Blast Corps and manic Banjo-Kazooie, cemented
Rare’s position in the top tier of UK games developers.
Then the 00s brought a new era of consoles, and Rare struggled to hit the heights of the previous
decade. Microsoft purchased the developer in 2002, and the Stampers departed in 2007. The family
atmosphere of the 90s, when Chris and Tim sat in on interviews and left their talented developers to
work unhindered, offering occasional golden nuggets of advice, was long gone. “Microsoft and Rare
was a bad marriage from the beginning,” Rare’s Martin Hollis told Eurogamer in 2012. “The groom
was rich. The bride was beautiful. But they wanted to make different games, and they wanted to make
them in different ways.”
Like most enduring marriages, the couple found a way to manage the relationship. The Stampers may
be gone but Rare continues today, tasting success again with a popular online pirate game, Sea of
Thieves. Despite its travails, Rare is still a hotbed of talent.
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A “[Shigeru Miyamoto] was admirably hands-off, actually,” recalled Rare’s Gregg Mayles in
Retro Gamer magazine. “I mean, he handed one of his characters over to us, and we
changed the look of it completely.”
B “With all the talent in the UK and with all those thousands of people writing games, I feel
it should be UK companies producing the No 1 arcade games,” signed off Chris Stamper in
that 1988 Crash magazine interview. “And then everyone in the world following that –
because Britain’s got the best talent, without a doubt.”
C By 1988, Rare had released several NES games including the downhill skiing simulation
Slalom, and action platform game Wizards & Warriors. The company was rapidly
approaching 20 employees, one of whom was Ritman, the creator of one of the most
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D “It had colossal potential,” said Tim in the Crash interview. “We looked at this, and we
looked at the Spectrum – and the Spectrum was hot stuff – but this was incredible.”
E It was the biggest switch in UK gaming history: the country’s most critically and
commercially successful programmers (at least on the ZX Spectrum – things weren’t quite
so rosy for Ultimate on the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC) had suddenly left behind the
computer that had made them. Ultimate’s entire home computer catalogue appeared to be
merely a calling card for bigger things.
F Initially, Ultimate focused on the UK’s predominant home computer, the ZX Spectrum,
despite reservations about its technical constraints. “When the Spectrum came out, we
thought ‘what a piece of garbage,’” proclaimed Tim Stamper in his 1988 interview for Crash.
But the Sinclair computer grew on the brothers and its ubiquity (at least in the UK) led them
to appreciate the commercial opportunities.
G Like many of his peers, Ritman soon worked out and even improved upon the Knight
Lore engine, so similar games proliferated, particularly on the Spectrum. The Stampers had
an inkling this would happen: Knight Lore, and a considerable portion of its follow-up, Alien 8,
were already completed when the company released Sabre Wulf.
For questions 1-5, complete the second sentence in such a way that has a
similar meaning to the one printed before. Here is an example (0).
0 It wasn’t until Jack went back that he realized he hadn’t locked the door.
Not until………………………………………
This can be filled with the whole sentence “Jack went back did he realize he hadn’t
locked the door”, so you write:
Example: 0 Jack went back did he realize he hadn’t locked the door
1 Provided that there are no more questions,I suppose we can end the meeting now.
There………………………………………………………………………..
Andrew stood………………………………………………………………
It goes………………………………………………………………………
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4 As far as I know, someone cut the electric lines on 12 Avenue.
To the…………………………………………………………………….
5 Rob stole the money on the bank and got arrested by the police.
It……………………………………………………………………………
For questions 6-10, complete the second sentence so that it has the same
meaning to the first one, using the word given. Do not change the word given.
You must use between THREE and EIGHT words, including the word given.
Here is an example (0).
This can be filled with the phrase “hit the roof”, so you write:
7 Penny looks in the bad mood because she argued with her dad yesterday.
10 That the confidential documents were leaked made people doubt that the
government wasn’t reliable.
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PART 3 (2 pts)
Some people prefer to spend their lives doing the same things and
avoiding change. Others, however, think that change is always a good thing.
Discuss both views and give your own opinion. You should write between
250-300 words.
NB For this part, you can ask for extra papers if necessary.
“That is just the beginning of your ultimate journey. Believe in yourself, stay
determined and learn actively. Somedays, you will be successful in your path.”
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just a blank page lmfao