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Multilevel reading - Mock test 6

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Part 1

Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is
somewhere in the rest of the text.

Onions

Onions are very important in Bangladesh cooking. However, it is more difficult

to buy them. There is a shortage. This means prices have gone up a lot. The
price of one kilogram has risen from US36 cents to around $3.25. This is nearly a
ten-fold increase. Many Bangladeshis now cannot afford to (1) __________ onions.
(2) __________ usually imports them from its neighbour India. Recent monsoon
rain in India damaged a lot of India's onion harvest. This made India ban exports
to Bangladesh. Bangladesh's opposition party has called for nationwide protests
because of the record (3) __________.

The onion crisis is very serious. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed has
stopped using it in her (4) _________. She is using onion alternatives in her dishes.
Some onions are on sale in Dhaka markets at twice their usual price. Hundreds
of people queued for hours to buy one kilo. One person said he would stand for
two (5) __________ more to save some money. He has never seen onion prices so
high. A Dhaka resident said (6) __________ in her neighbourhood have stopped
eating onions. She last bought a kilo of onions 15 days ago. Many street-food
sellers can no longer make their onion-based snacks.
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Part 2

Read the texts 7-14 and the statements A-J. Decide which text matches with
the situation described in the statements.

Each statement can be used ONCE only. There are TWO extra statements which
you do not need to use.

Mark your answers on the answer sheet.

7 TRAX INDOOR KARTING CENTRE

Experience the fun and thrills of indoor racing driving in our mini open-topped
karts. No experience necessary. Individuals and groups welcome. Refreshments
available in new burger bar. Spectators welcome.

All drivers must meet the minimum height requirement of 5 feet (1.52 m), and
participate at their own risk.

Open: all year daily 10 am to 6 pm (later times by appointment) except

Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Charges: from £11 per person.

8 WESTHAVEN LIFEBOAT MUSEUM

The Westhaven Lifeboat Museum is an exciting display illustrating over 150

years of courage — photos with texts of epic rescues, models of lifeboats and
video displays. Try our hands-on simulator — take charge of a daring rescue on
a stormy sea. Ideal for school groups! A must for all ages. Souvenir shop. No
charge for admission but donations welcome.

Open: 25th March to 26th October, 10 am to 5 pm.

27th October to 2nd January, 10 am to 4 pm.

9 Lifeventure Mini Travel Document Wallet

This is a waterproof wallet, which uses anti-RFID (radio frequency identification)

material so your financial details will be safe. It is black with smart sky-blue
finishing touches and has a small internal compartment, a smartphone pocket
and an external pocket. It can fit two passports.
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10 STAR LEISURE CENTRE

Exciting leisure complex with four pools, wave machine, two thrilling flumes,
bubble pool, fitness suite, special programme for under-fives, organised holiday
activities and much, much more.

Open: all year daily.

Charges: Check our website at www.starfeisute.ca.uk for current rates.

11 LLOYD’S LANES

20 fully computerised ten-pin bowling lanes, amusement area, fast food area,
large-screen Sky TV — Lloyd’s Lanes is ideal for a whole fun day out!

Open: ten-pin bowling daily, 10 am till late — 7 days a week.

Charges: Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm: non-members £3.50; members

£2.50.

other times: non-members £4.50; members £3.75.

appropriate footgear essential to protect bowling

surfaces shoe hire £1.00 at all times

12 WESTHAVEN GOLF CLUB

Beautiful lakeside course; a pleasant, manageable walk through nine

challenging holes. 24-bay driving range, suitable in rain, wind or sun; three golf
professionals can give affordable coaching. Restaurant: good food served all
day. Visitors welcome.

Open: all year from 7.30 am to 10 pm.

Charges: 9 holes £10; 18 holes £15.

13 Cath Kidston Breton Stripe

A wallet so slim it could easily pass for a small notebook. The inside
compartment labels identifying each separate section all have silver lettering on
them. The wallet has a special coating which makes it easy to wipe anything like
sand off.
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14 Bath International Music Festival

From electronic to folk, jazz and classical, this festival is renowned for bringing
world-class musicians to this historical city. Starting with a great night of free
music, ‘Party in the City’ this year is going to be no exception.

A Users of this wallet do not need to worry about taking it out in the rain.

B Something is provided for writing.

C Some basic information is published in another place.

D Parts of the inside of this wallet have categories printed on them in one
colour.

E Expert instructors are available for lessons.

F They will open at unscheduled times if you make an arrangement.

G It is not necessary to pay for one of the events here.

H There is a restriction on what you can wear.

I This wallet would suit someone who needs to keep several passports
together.

J It has a feature especially recommended for educational parties.

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Part 3

Read the text and choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list
of headings below.

There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them. You
cannot use any heading more than once.

Mark your answers on the answer sheet.

1. Just in time

2. Just in case

3. Eventful life

4. A curious case

5. Reduced Expectations

6. Royal brother

7. Royal ancestor

8. Double trouble

15. Paragraph A

16. Paragraph B

17. Paragraph C

18. Paragraph D

19. Paragraph E

20. Paragraph F

A. I am a mother of identical, mirror-image boys — David and John. No one but

me can tell them apart. I am constantly amazed at how close they are. Once
when they were babies David was ill, but it was John who begun crying wildly. I
tried to calm John first since nothing was wrong with him.
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But he only cried louder. Finally I gave some medicine to David — who really
was unwell. As soon as John sensed his brother felt better, he immediately
settled to sleep.

B. The 12 year old was playing near the Platte River in North Bend, Nebraska.
The river was high and as the boy stepped in, the current pushed his legs away.
He floated off, spinning in the powerful current. At the last possible moment
before the rapids, his yells were heard by his dog. It jumped in, reached the boy
and towed him ashore. Another second and the boy would have been swept
away to certain death.

C. Armgaard Karl Graves, referred to in press reports as 'the Glasgow Spy', was
convicted in Scotland under the Official Secrets Act (1911) for spying on the
British Navy. He spent years successfully creating an identity as an Australian
doctor and in Scotland even conducted important clinical experiments. But he
was eventually caught by a suspicious post office worker as he sent and
received post under a variety of assumed names.

D. Zsa Zsa Gabor was born in Budapest on February 6th, 1917. Now in her 90s
she has had a long and varied life. She was a beauty queen and singer before
becoming a famous screen actress. She was married 8 times but only had one
child with second husband, Conrad Hilton. Her last marriage to Frederic von
Anhalt gave her the honorary title Prinzessin von Anhalt.

E. "Who do you think you are" is one of my favourite TV programs. Each episode
re¬searches the family history of a celebrity, back into the mists of time. In the
UK there are good records of births, marriages and deaths going back hundreds
of years. One of the best episodes was on Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
He was thrilled when he discovered he was directly related to King George II.

F. Paris Hilton is a famous socialite, media personality, actress, model and

singer. In 2007 her grandfather Barron Hilton pledged 97% of his estate — a
value of more than 2 billion US dollars — to a charitable foundation. Many now
believe that Paris and the other grandchildren have had their potential
inheritance sharply reduced. Others have commented that this news was
unlikely to change her future life style.
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Part 4

Read the following text for questions 21-29.

Lucky Break

For the first ten years of my life my father was in the RAF (Royal Air Force). This
meant that he was frequently posted to different air bases around the UK and I,
as frequently, changed schools. One year we moved no fewer than three times
and each time I tried, in vain, to settle and make friends. For a young child this
frequency of change can only have a detrimental effect and I still have school
reports stating that I was "lazy" and a "dreamer".

When I reached ten, my worried parents decided I needed a personal tutor. She
turned out to be a kindly and patient old lady who presented me with a large,
black book of tests. She made me complete it as a home task and I scored about
20 out of 100. At out next meeting, on a Saturday morning, she went through it
with me item by item, until I completely understood each task. She then made
me retake the test and of course I got almost every question correct. Then we
again moved house!

In our new town I took and failed the 11 plus exam (my excuse was that I was
still only ten!) and my prospects looked dim. I was destined to go to the local
comprehensive which had a reputation for being quite rough. But also nearby
was an ancient public school, set in a castle. This was a place for rich kids only —
apart from every year they gave 2 free places to the highest performing local
boys (it was a boys only school) in their entrance exam.

My crazy parents decided I should enter the exam. I had as much chance of
succeeding as going to the moon — or so I thought. But when I sat down to take
the test, a rather familiar black book of 100 tests was placed on the desk!

I did the test and kept quiet and the next term, as a terror struck 11 year old in
an ill fitting suit, I arrived for my first day at "the castle".
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For questions 21-24, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. Mark your

answers on the answer sheet.

21. Because of the father's job the boy had to

A) visit UK air bases.

B) change home three times a year.

C) often change schools.

D) behave as a dreamer.

22. With his personal tutor the boy

A) read a big book.

B) did test items.

C) answered her questions.

D) learned how understand the tasks.

23. Failing the 11 plus exam meant that the boy

A) was to enter a comprehensive.

B) had to wait another year to retry

C) was to study with rich kids.

D) became a highest performing local boy.

24. What helped the boy to enter the public school?

A) familiarity with the tests.

B) his parents.

C) his knowledge.

D) keeping quiet.
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The giant panda

The giant panda also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to
south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches
around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant
panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda.
Though it belongs to the carnivore, the giant panda's diet is over 99 % bamboo.
Giant pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even
meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, they may receive
honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially
prepared food. Pandas eat any of 25 bamboo species in the wild, such as
Fargesia dracocephala and Fargesia rufa. Only a few bamboo species are
widespread at the high environment pandas now inhabit. Bamboo leaves
contain the highest protein levels; stems have less.

The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in
Sichuan province, but also in neighboring provinces, namely Shaanxi and Gansu.
As a result of farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda
has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.

The giant panda is one of the endangered species. A 2007 report shows 239
pandas living in captivity inside China and another 27 outside the country. As of
December 2014, 49 giant pandas live in captivity outside China, living in 18 zoos
in 13 different countries. Wild population estimates vary; one estimate shows
that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study
estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. Some reports also
show that the number of giant pandas in the wild is on the rise.

While the dragon has often served as China's national emblem, internationally
the giant panda appears at least as commonly. As such, it is becoming widely
used within China in international contexts, for example as one of the five
mascots of the Beijing Olympics.

The giant panda is a terrestrial animal and primarily spends its life roaming and
feeding in the bamboo forests of the Qinling Mountains and in the hilly Sichuan
Province. Giant pandas are generally solitary, and each adult has a defined
territory, and a female is not tolerant of other females in her range. Pandas
communicate through vocalization and scent marking such as clawing trees.
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For questions 25-29, decide if the following statements agree with the
information given in the text. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.

25. Giant panda and red panda live at the same habitat.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

26. Farming and deforestation made panda leave its primary habitat

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

27. The majority of pandas live in zoos.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

28. Panda has become China’s national emblem because of the Beijing
Olympics.

1. TRUE

2. FALSE

3. NOT STATED

29. Pandas prefer to have only one home.

1. TRUE 2. FALSE 3. NOT STATED

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Part 5

Read the following text for questions 30-35.

Understanding hares

With its wild stare, swift speed and secretive nature, the UK’s brown hare is the
rabbit’s mysterious cousin. Even in these days of agricultural intensification, the hare
is still to be seen in open countryside, but its numbers are falling.

Like many herbivores, brown hares spend a relatively large amount of their time
feeding. They prefer to do this in the dark, but when nights are short, their
activities do spill into daylight hours. Wherever they live, hares appear to have a
fondness for fields with a variety of vegetation, for example short as well as
longer clumps of grasses. Studies have demonstrated that they benefit from
uncultivated land and other unploughed areas on farms, such as field margins.
Therefore, if farmers provided patches of woodland in areas of pasture as well
as assorted crops in arable areas, there would be year-round shelter and food,
and this could be the key to turning round the current decline in hare
populations.

Brown hares have a number of physical adaptations that enable them to survive
in open countryside. They have exceptionally large ears that move
independently, so that a range of sounds can be pinpointed accurately.
Positioned high up on their heads, the hares’ large golden eyes give them 360°
vision, making it hard to take a hare by surprise. Compared to mammals of a
similar size, hares have a greatly enlarged heart and a higher volume of blood in
their bodies, and this allows for superior speed and stamina. In addition, their
legs are longer than those of a rabbit, enabling hares to run more like a dog and
reach speeds of up to 70 kph.

Brown hares have unusual lifestyles for their large size, breeding from a young
age and producing many leverets (babies). There are about three litters of up to
four leverets every year. Both males and females are able to breed at about
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seven months old, but they have to be quick because they seldom live for more
than two years. The breeding season runs from January to October, and by late
February most females are pregnant or giving birth to their first litter of the
year. So it seems strange, therefore, that it is in March, when the breeding
season is already underway, that hares seemingly go mad: boxing, dancing,
running and fighting. This has given rise to the age-old reference to ‘mad March
hares’. In fact, boxing occurs throughout the breeding season, but people tend
to see this behaviour more often in March. This is because in the succeeding
months, dusk – the time when hares are most active – is later, when fewer
people are about. Crops and vegetation are also taller, hiding the hares from
view. Though it is often thought that they are males fighting over females,
boxing hares are usually females fighting off males. Hares are mostly solitary,
but a female fights off a series of males until she is ready to mate. This occurs
several times through the breeding season because, as soon as the female has
given birth, she will be ready to mate again.

But how can females manage to do this while simultaneously feeding

themselves and rearing their young? The reason is that hares have evolved such
self-sufficient young. Unlike baby rabbits, leverets are born furry and mobile.
They weigh about 100 g at birth and are immediately left to their own devices by
their mothers. A few days later, the members of the litter creep away to create
their own individual resting places, known as ‘forms’. Incredibly, their mother
visits them only once every 24 hours and, even then, she only suckles them for a
maximum of five minutes each. This lack of family contact may seem harsh to
us, but it is a strategy that draws less attention from predators. At the tender
age of two weeks, leverets start to feed themselves, while still drinking their
mother’s milk. They grow swiftly and are fully weaned at four weeks, reaching
adult weight at about six months.

Research has shown that hares’ milk is extremely rich and fatty, so a little goes a
long way. In order to produce such nutritious milk, females need a high-quality,
high-calorie diet. Hares are selective feeders at the best of times: unlike many
herbivores, they can’t sit around waiting to digest low-quality food – they need
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high- energy herbs and other leaves in order to sprint. This causes them
problems when faced with the smallest alterations in food availability and
abundance. So, as well as reductions in the diversity of farmland habitat, the
decline in the range of food plants is injurious to hares.

The rapid turnaround in the breeding cycle suggests that hares should, in
principle, be able to increase their populations quickly to exploit new habitats.
They certainly used to: studies show that hares evolved on the open plains and
spread rapidly westward from the Black Sea after the last ice age (though they
were probably introduced to Britain as a species to be hunted for the pot by the
Romans). But today’s hares are thwarted by the lack of rich farmland habitat.
When the delicate herbs and other plants they rely on are ploughed up or
poisoned by herbicides, these wonderful, agile runners disappear too, taking
with them some of the wildness from our lives.

For questions 30-33, fill in the missing information in the numbered spaces.

Write no more than ONE WORD and / or A NUMBER for each question.

Brown hares

The brown hare is well known for its ability to run fast, at speeds of up to 70
kph, largely due to the length of its legs as well as the unusual size of its heart.
An increased amount of blood also gives it the necessary 30………………… to
continue running fast for some time. A running hare resembles
the 31………………… more closely than its relative, the rabbit.

The hare has some other characteristics that help it to avoid capture. The first is
its excellent all-round 32………………… .This means that predators cannot easily
creep up behind it. Another feature is its ability to position its
massive 33………………… separately, to sense the slightest indication of danger.
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For questions 34-35, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. Mark your

answers on the answer sheet.

34 According to the writer, what is the ideal habitat for hares?

A open grassland which they can run across

B densely wooded areas to breed in

C areas which include a range of vegetation

D land that has been farmed intensively for years

35 When leverets are living alone they are not visited often by their mother
because

A this helps to protect them from being eaten by other animals.

B the ‘forms’ are so far apart.

C they are very energetic from a surprisingly early age.

D they know how to find their own food from birth.