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1. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the
word given.

a) Programming a video recorder is more difficult than I thought.
easy
Programming a video recorder is __________________________________ I
thought.
b) It wasn’t easy for me to find the holiday I wanted.
difficulty
I __________________________________the holiday I wanted.

c) I don’t like being told what to wear at school.
others
I don’t like __________________________________ to wear at school.


2. Find the unnecessary word for each sentence.

a) I could not avoid from being late for work.

___________
b) The boss told them to stop wasting of time drinking coffee. ___________
c) Sam and I am hardly ever argue – we are good friends.

___________


3. Fill in the correct word derived from the word in bold.

a) For your English Literature lesson you will be asked to read a
___________________ of texts.
VARY
b) I’m afraid her abilities have been ____________________; there are
much better scientists than her.
ESTIMATED
c) An individual’s _______________________ has nothing to do with
their education.
INTELLIGENT

4. Fill in the missing word.

a) I haven’t heard ____________ John for a long time.
b) I don’t know what to write at the end of my CV! I’ve run _______________ of the ideas.
c) Pop music is popular___________ most of today’s teenagers.


5. Choose the correct item.

1. The prime minister delivered his ___________ in German.
A speech C talk
B tongue D accent

2. Paula is in a meeting at the moment, but I’ll ask her to ___________ you back as soon as it’s
over.
A hang C call
B get D put

3. While we were travelling in France we passed ___________ some beautiful little villages.
A via C en-route
B by D through

4. He speaks five European languages, but his mother ___________ is Japanese.
A speech C tongue
B language D talk

5. With the weekend free, we decided to take a two-day ___________ to the nearest island.
A travel C journey
B trip D flight

6. There will always be some tourists who prefer more unusual holiday destinations off the
beaten ___________.
A track C path
B way D course

7. On 5
th
November 1605, Guy Fawkes tried to blow ___________ the Houses of Parliament in
London.
A down C up
B off D away

READING

Time: 20 minutes
You are going to read an article about job satisfaction. Read the article and tick () A, B, or C.
CREATING YOUR OWN JOB SATISFACTION
A lot of people think that job satisfaction is only for other people. They look with envy on people who
love their jobs and who don’t think of them as work. The idea of earning a living from something you
really like doing only applies to a few very lucky people, they think. But this isn’t so. It’s not only people
in the so-called ‘glamour professions’, for example, who can get genuine job satisfaction. You don’t have
to be in the arts or a sports person to get enjoyment from what you do for a living. Even if you’re in a
boring job, it’s quite possible to get some satisfaction from it. The key to this is your attitude. One thing
you can do is to set yourself challenges. Think about what you can do for yourself to make your work a
little bit more interesting.
For some people, it’s not boredom that’s the problem, it’s the fact that their jobs involve a significant
amount of unpleasantness. But if you keep telling yourself your job is horrible and there’s nothing you
can do about it, you’ll get stuck in a rut and you’ll never get out of it. Focus on developing a positive
attitude and try to keep any negative thoughts about your job out of your mind. Keep a sense of
perspective – if something’s gone wrong on a particular day, decide whether it really matters or not. If it
isn’t actually all that important, don’t dwell on it, let it go. Learn from it, and take an upbeat view of
what’s happened – you’ll know how to avoid the problem in future, or what to do about it if it happens
again.
Of course, you may reach the point where you feel totally trapped in a job. If this mindset starts to
overwhelm you, check out the options you may have in the place where you work. Map out a plan for
improving your situation there. Are there other roles in the organization you could apply for? Could you
ask to be given different tasks? Could you get a different kind of assignment or go to another department
where your skills are required? Finding out there are other options will give you a sense of control over
your own working life. Even if you have no job satisfaction right now, you’ll feel better if you know that
there is a realistic prospect of work that gives you a degree of it.
Expectations are another key ingredient in job satisfaction. Take a long hard look at what you really are
capable of. Sometimes it’s important to accept that you couldn’t really do the much more interesting or
high-powered job you aspire to. Try to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses. Focus on the
things you really are good at, rather than on things that, if you’re really honest with yourself, you couldn’t
actually do. Make the most of your situation and feel good about what you can do, rather than feeling bad
about what you can’t do.
Work is a very important part of most people’s lives and it’s important to get at least some satisfaction
from it. If you really dislike your time at work, the rest of your life is affected too, and you can easily get
a negative outlook on life in general. It’s in your own hands to avoid this. Even if you can’t get the job of
your dreams, you can take steps to create your own job satisfaction.


1. What is the writer’s advice if something goes wrong?
A Pretend that it didn’t happen.
B Use the experience to your advantage.
C Don’t think about it until later.

2. The writer says that people who feel ‘trapped’ in a job should consider ________.
A discussing their unhappiness with managers
B moving to a different company or organization
C changing the kind of work they do

3. The writer says that you will feel better about your working life if you ________.
A think that some job satisfaction is possible in the future
B choose a particular career option for the future
C stop aiming for job satisfaction for a while

4. What does the writer say about expectations of work?
A Too many people have unrealistic ones.
B They should be based on real ability.
C They may change as time passes.

5. Which of the following best sums up the writer’s view in the text as a whole?
A Some people find it easier to get job satisfaction than others.
B Everyone can get a certain amount of job satisfaction.
C Job satisfaction is the most important issue in the workplace today.

Section 4
Read each text and put a cross (□) by the missing word or phrase, as in the example.
Example: The value of older books is determined by many of the same criteria as modern books:
condition, content, and edition. Many people think that just because a book is old, it is valuable, but a
book has no collectible value by ______________________

□ A age alone □ В normal standards □ С today's collectors
22. Whether you're an absolute beginner, a more advanced player or somewhere in between, you'll find
music lessons______________ your skill level. Learn at your pace in the comfort of your home when it's
convenient for you

□ A tailored to □ В evident in □ C agreeing with
23. Project Funding is designed to_____________________ ticket and travel costs and is generally
available for school excursions to performing arts centres, galleries and museums. Funding is intended to
remove barriers for disadvantaged government schools to participate in high quality performances and
exhibitions.

□ A subsidise □ В submit □ C subtract
24. Breathing in polluted city air may be worse for our health than the fallout of a nuclear disaster,
according to a new report published in the medical journal BMC Public Health.
The report studied the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and found it may be no
greater than risks from much more common environmental and _______________

□ A living elements □ В everyday considerations □ C lifestyle factors
25. By trapping particles from the water, xenophyophores can concentrate high levels of lead, uranium
and mercury and are thus likely to be highly resistant to large doses of heavy metals. They are
also____________a life of darkness, low temperature and high pressure in the deep sea.

□ A free from □ В destined for □ C well suited to
26. An uncritical acceptance of all things "alternative" is as irrational as a slavish dependence on
technology. Many alternative therapies claim therapeutic benefits due to "energies" as yet indefinable by
science, or allege results that are backed______________

□ A by anecdote only □ В by most experts □ C by experiment

Section 6
Read the newspaper article below and answer the questions.
A Tricky Business
Our governments have chosen to allow a strange system for developing medicines to build up. Most of

the work carried out by scientists to bring a drug to your local pharmacist is done in government-funded
university labs, paid for by our taxes.
Drug companies usually come in late in the process of development, and pay for part of the expensive,
but largely uncreative final stages. In return, they then own the exclusive rights to manufacture and profit
from the resulting medicine for years. Nobody else can make it. Public pressure won a small concession
in the global trading rules. It was agreed that, in an overwhelming public health emergency, poor
countries would be allowed to produce generic drugs. They are the exact same product, but without the
brand name. So under the new rules, countries which most need the drugs should be entitled to start
making as much generic Tamiflu as they want. But the drug company that owns the patent doesn't want
the poor world making cheaper copies for themselves.

Example: Where does most of the money for drug development come from? taxes
36. What are drug companies granted at the manufacturing stage?

___________________

37. What led to permission being granted to make some generic drugs?
___________________


38. What is the one thing missing from generic drugs?

_________________________

39. What is the drug company that makes Tamiflu attempting to dissuade poor countries from producing?

____________________________


Section 7
Read the newspaper article below and complete the notes. Write no more than three words from the
newspaper article in each gap.
Butterflies in Britain
Some of Britain's most endangered butterflies appear to have enjoyed a comeback this year because of
the recent spells of dry, warm weather, which may have ended the run of three wet summers in a row,
scientists said yesterday.
Butterfly experts are cautiously optimistic that if the good weather continues beyond midsummer, many
species might make significant recoveries from the destruction of recent years, when butterfly
populations plummeted largely because bad weather added to the long-term pressures of habitat loss and
intensive farming.
Martin Warren, chief executive of the charity Butterfly Conservation, said there were early signs of a
striking population explosion for many species of early summer butterfly that have been of the greatest

concern to conservationists. The small Duke of Burgundy, for instance, has had one of its best early
summer sightings in years.
"It's a huge relief to see so many of our rarest butterflies doing well after three dire years. It looks as
though some of our conservation work is beginning to pay off, but it will be a long haul to recover their
populations after decades of habitat loss. We hope that the good weather continues to allow other species
to recover," he said.
Most species of butterfly are vulnerable to bad weather, notably strong winds and rain, which stop them
from flying and breeding. Their caterpillars also tend to do less well in cool, wet conditions, which can
encourage the spread of viruses and other infections that attack the young butterflies.
The wet summers of 2007 and especially 2008 were particularly bad for most species of butterfly. The
UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme found that butterfly numbers had fallen dramatically at the 1,000 sites
regularly monitored by scientists. After these two bad summers, experts were hoping last year for a
recovery, but July 2009 turned into one of the wettest on record.

Although official statistics on butterfly numbers have not yet been collated nationwide for this year, there
is plenty of anecdotal evidence to show that some of the most threatened species have enjoyed an
increase in numbers during May and the first week of June, Dr Warren said, "We've seen record numbers
of Duke of Burgundy with hundreds of adults being sighted at several places. It is partly due to the good
weather, but also down to attempts to restore habitats," he paid.
Matthew Oates, a nature conservation adviser for the National Trust, said that May is a particularly
important month for the early summer butterflies said this May was, in contrast to previous Mays, largely
devoid of any seriously bad weather. This enabled many butterflies to fly significant distances and breed.
Despite the welcome signs of a butterfly resurgence, conservationists warned that there is still the
problem of a longer-term fall in numbers – seven out of ten British butterfly species are in decline and
half are threatened with extinction. Five species of British butterfly have become extinct, including the
large blue, which had to be re-introduced into southern England from Sweden in 1984.
Example: Scientists put down the recent increase in butterfly numbers to a period of dry, warm weather
40. Increase in numbers depends on good weather
lasting_________________________________________
41. One species showing signs of recovery is
the________________________________________________
42. Conservation work will take some time to offset the effects of long-
term__________________________
43. Viruses occur
during___________________________________________________________________
44. Experts' hopes were confounded by what happened in
________________________________________

45, The belief that there have been increases in numbers in May and June is borne out
by________________
46. Unlike in the past, in the current May little_________________________________________
occurred.

Section 8
You will have 10 seconds to read each question and the corresponding options. Then listen to the
recording. Alter the recording you will have 10 seconds to choose the correct option. Put a cross (□) in the
box next to the correct answer, as in the example.
Example: What is this an extract from?
□ A an announcement
□ В аn advertisement
□ С a message

1. Scientists have found that
□ A a quarter of mammals are in danger of extinction.
□ В mass extinction has occurred six times before.
□ С the scale of extinction is worse than believed.
2. Where are the people?
□ A outside a cinema
□ В outside an art gallery
□ С outside a concert hall
3. The woman was worried because
□ A she thought she wouldn't be able to sing.
□ В it was the first time she'd had a sore throat.
□ С she had never tried the remedy before.
4. The woman is talking about
□ A picking up litter.
□ В searching for insects.
□ С helping small animals.
5. What is offered in the laboratory sessions?
□ A insights into the ways that innovators think
□ В access to potential future employers
□ С opportunities to observe famous scientists at work
6. What is the man's job?
□ A a comedian
□ В an actor

□ С a critic
7. What does the man imply?
□ A The woman should choose a more appropriate activity.
□ В The woman is not benefiting from her yoga classes.
□ С The woman was charged too much money for her classes.
8. The woman was able to learn more about chickens because
□ A she had raised many thousands of them.
□ В she always kept them in a barn.
□ С she started to observe them more closely.
9. What is the result of the trial?
□ A People will get fewer infections from water in the future.
□ В There will be no dirty water in developing countries.
□ С The new drug is likely to become available soon.
10. The man's main point is that people
□ A relate to art.
□ В are interested in science.
□ С have trouble making conversation.