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Listening
Task 1
Listen to the dialogue and decide to whom John (A), Sarah (B) or to both of
them (C) refer the following statements. You'll hear the dialogue twice.
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Task 2
Listen to a part of a lecture and decide whether the following statements are
True (A) or False (B). You'll hear the text twice.
According to the lecturer...
True False
11 ... the culture shock is experienced by every person making the
rules.
13 ... the culture shock is a relatively simple thing.
social group.
16 ... a person always has knowledge of the existing social rules.
17 ... the social rules are not important if a person doesn't encounter
culture.
20 ... experiencing the culture shock people often behave
unreasonably.
Transfer your answers to the ANSWER SHEET!
Listening
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LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Task 1
Listen to the dialogue and decide to whom John (A), Sarah (B) or to both of
them (C) refer the statements 1-10 in your booklet. You'll hear the dialogue twice.
Sarah: John, I've just had some good news. Susan has had her baby.
John: Do you know when she had it?
Sarah: Yesterday. The tenth of August.
John: Oh, my father was born on August the tenth. Give me the details and I'll make a
note for everyone at work.
Sarah: OK.
John: Well, was it a boy or a girl?
Sarah: It's a boy.
John: And what are they going to call him?
Sarah: Tom. Tom Lightfoot. It sounds quite good, don't you think?
John: Yes, that has quite a good ring to it.
Sarah: You know he's quite a big baby. He weighed four and a quarter kilos when he
was born.
John: That does sound big, four and a quarter kilos.
Sarah: And he's long too, forty-six centimeters.
John: Mmmmm. Tall parents. He'll grow up to be over two meters. I'd say.
Sarah: With masses of black hair, curly black hair. You know, we should go and visit
them in hospital. What about tomorrow afternoon at around 1 pm?
John:Yes, OK.
Sarah: Where should we meet? ...Ah, I could come and pick you up at your house if
you like.
John: Yes, that would be wonderful. My car is still off the road.
Sarah: Just refresh my memory. What's the address again?
John: It's 15 Chesterfield Road, Paddington.
Sarah: It's next to the library, isn't it?
John: Not exactly. It's next to a bank. The State Bank actually. The library is opposite
us, on the corner.
Sarah: That's right, and there's a garage on the other street corner. I remember now.
John: So, you'll pick me up at a quarter to one and we'll be there at one easily.
Sarah: Now what should we take? We must take them something.
John: I always think flowers are good to take to someone in hospital, don't you?
Sarah: Well, not really. Everyone always brings flowers and they don't last. I think it's
much better to take a pot plant, so she can take it home with her.
John: Yes, but then she has to remember to water it. What about a big box of
chocolates?
Sarah: OK, chocolates sound fine. We should get something for the baby too. What
do you think?
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John: Yes, you're right. What do you think of something like baby shampoo or talcum
powder?
Sarah: Or we could get a little hat, or something like that.
John: We don't know the size, or the right colour, do we?
Sarah: I think we should get something they wouldn't normally buy. What about a
soft toy of some sort?
John: Yes, a soft toy.
Sarah: What about a teddy bear?
John: I could get one early tomorrow at the market and I could probably get the
chocolates there too.
Sarah: Good.
John: So you'll pick me up at a quarter to one at my place and I'll make sure that I've
got the presents.
Sarah: You must remember how much you paid for the gifts, so I can pay you back
for the half. If they're going to be from both of us, 1 would like to go shares.
John: OK. I'd say the chocolates would be about $15 for something nice and not too
small and the toy would be around $35 or so, I'd think.
Sarah: Good, that'll be fine. About $25 each then. Good, I'll pick you up then on
Sunday at twelve forty-five.
John: OK.
Sarah: See you then. Bye.
<Pause 20 seconds>
Listen to the text again.
<Text repeated>
<Pause 30 seconds>
Task 2
Listen to a part of a lecture and decide whether the statements 11-20 in your
booklet are True (A) or False (B). You'll hear the text twice.
The subject of today's lecture is Culture Shock Group Pressure in Action.
Culture shock, as you know, is the term used to describe the experience many
people have when they travel to another country, and it can be seen as a manifestation
of group pressure in action. It's a good example of group pressure, because it shows
what happens when an individual suddenly experiences different cultural rules - the
rules of another cultural group.
Now culture shock is a complex phenomenon, but I'm going to focus on three
main ideas in this lecture. First of all, we will consider the reasons why people
experience culture shock. Secondly, I will describe the different stages of this
experience. Finally, I'll mention some possible applications of this research because
although you might think that culture shock affects, say, only travelers, that is not the
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case. In fact, cross-cultural studies have immense practical value for modern society.
First, then, why do people experience culture shock? Think about this for a
minute. When you grow up in a particular set of surroundings, naturally you get used
to the rules and guidelines that govern the behavior of the people around you. In a
sense, you become totally dependent on the rules of your social group. You tend not
to question them; you just accept them without thinking. These rules are often not
clearly articulated, and therefore, you're not aware of their impact. In other words,
you are not necessarily conscious of them. They only become important when, for
example, you go to another country or a different environment that's governed by a
different set of rules. In fact this experience can be so shocking that it has been
compared to having a bucket of cold water thrown over you. Culture shock happens
precisely because you cannot use your own culture as a map to guide your own
behavior and your own understanding of what surrounds you. You're totally out of
control, just as if you were driving along a highway in the dark, without a road map.
And because of this, people often behave irrationally. It's a highly stressful
experience, and there are different symptoms in different stages.
<Pause 20 seconds>
Listen to the text again.
<Text repeated>
<Pause 30 seconds>
Listening comprehension part is over. Transfer your answers to the Answer Sheet!
Listening
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Use of English
Time: 45 minutes
Task 1
For questions 1-10 read the text below and decide which word (, , or B)
fits the space best.
Example: (0) just
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Task 2
For questions 11-20 match two parts of 10 idioms. There is one extra part in
the second column.
11 To be as alike as
12 To be as different as
13 To be the apple of
the family
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15 To be tied to
16 To be your mother's
17 Blood is
two sisters
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apron
Task 3
For questions 21-31 Solve the clues and complete the puzzle. The puzzle deals
with different aspects of tourism. The sentence (0) is done for you as an example.
0. The place where someone is going or where something is being sent or taken is
called destination.
21. A time, often one or two weeks, when people are free to do what they want is
known as a/an __________________.
22. A business, which represents one group of people when dealing with another
group, is called a/an __________________.
23. __________________ is the business of providing services for people who are on
holiday.
24. An act of travelling in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and
come back again is called a/an __________________.
25. __________________ is an agreement in which you pay a company money and
they pay you costs if you have an accident or injury.
26. An act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle is known as
__________________.
27. He was a young sailor on his first sea __________________.
28. An American word meaning a period of time when you are allowed to be away
from work or school is called a __________________.
29. A/an __________________ is a short trip arranged for a group of people so that
they can visit a place of interest, especially while they are already on holiday.
30. A place at a border where travellers' bags are looked at to find out if any goods
are being carried illegally is known as __________________.
31. The airport was jammed with thousands of __________________ from delayed
or cancelled flights.
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For questions 32-36 look at the notices below with their 'translations' into
everyday English. Fill in the gaps. The sentence (0) is done for you as an example.
Notices
0. Reduce speed now.
'Translations'
Start going more slowly.
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Task 5
For questions 37-40 look at this gender-biased advertisement for an airline.
Change the underlined words into more neutral equivalents to make the
advertisement politically correct.
Example: 0. businessman business person
Now! Eagle Airlines offers even more to those who need comfort.
Any 0. businessman knows 37. he must arrive fresh and ready for work no matter
how long the journey. With Eagle Diplomat-Class you can do just that. Let us fly
you to your destination in first-class comfort, looked after by the best-trained 38. air
hostesses in the world. And, what's more, your 39. wife can travel with you on all
international flights for only 25% of the normal fare! We even sell fancy 40.
American Indian crafts on board!
37. he t_________
38. air hostesses f_________ a_________
39. wife s_________
40. American Indian N_________ A_________
TRANSFER ALL YOUR ANSWERS TO YOUR ANSWER SHEET
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Use of English
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Native American
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
Text 1
Task 1
Read the article and match the paragraph summaries (A-G) from the box
below with each paragraph (1-7).
A
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SOMETIMES Kenneth Hale was asked how long it would take him to learn a
new language. He thought ten or fifteen minutes would be enough to pick up
essentials if he were listening to a native speaker. After that he could probably
converse; obviously not fluently, but enough to make himself understood. To
those whose education, however admirable in other respects, had provided
only rudimentary language skills, he seemed a marvel.
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This is all the more confusing as language is much more complex than, say,
simple arithmetic, which often takes years to master. It is often hypothesised
that language is an innate human faculty, with its own specialised system in
our brain.
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One Indian language at its last gasp was spoken by the Wopanaak, the tribe
that greeted the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620. It is now spoken again by several
thousand people around Cape Cod. A Wopanaak who studied under Kenneth is
preparing a dictionary of her language. 'Ken was a voice for the voiceless,'
said Noam Chomsky. And he worked tirelessly to learn endangered languages.
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And these people are often particularly upset by a scholarly argument which
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surfaces from time to time about the desirability of keeping alive languages
that have little chance of survival. Occasionally the argument turns
nationalistic. For example, is what Kenneth called the 'revitalisation' of Welsh
merely a nuisance in Britain where, obviously, English is the working
language? Kenneth Hale had an indignant answer to that question. 'When you
lose a language', he told a reporter, 'you lose a culture, intellectual wealth, a
work of art. The damage that's done is irreparable. It's like dropping a bomb
on a museum, the Louvre.'
Task 2
Now choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap in the
text (8-13). There is one paragraph which you do not need to use.
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And he had discovered his talent for language when playing with Indian
friends who taught him Hopi and Navajo. Learning languages became an
obsession. In Spain he picked up Basque, in Ireland he learnt Gaelic, and he
mastered Dutch within a week. He sought to rescue languages that were dying
out.
And so he was. He had a gift. But he was also an academic, a teacher of
linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was aware
that many otherwise clever people find learning a second language extremely
hard. He sought to find laws and structures that could be applied to all
languages and the search took him into many linguistic byways, to the
languages of Native Americans and Australian aborigines and the Celtic
fringes of Europe.
However, for Kenneth bilingual dictionaries were an anathema and banned in
his classes. He held that meanings were too fluid to be captured and readily
translated word-for-word from one language to another. He always told his
students that meaning was intuitive: you either grasped it, or you didn't.
In addition to his feat of learning so many languages, he is likely to be
remembered by The Green Book of Language Revitalisation, which he helped
to edit. It was warmly welcomed, especially by those who may be a touch
aggrieved by the spread of English, which is blamed for brutally sweeping
other languages aside.
Kenneth could converse in about 50 languages, perhaps a world record. He
was the last person on earth to speak some languages. Hundreds are
disappearing, he said. 'They became extinct, and I had no one to speak them
with.'
Some students of linguistics believe that such an ability, if it exists, is
normally lost at the age of 12. But for Kenneth it was around this age that his
interest in language was just starting.
Still, there is much more to language than that. Noam Chomsky, like Kenneth
a teacher of linguistics at MIT, wrote: 'Language is really weird. There is
nothing else in the natural world that even approaches its complexity.
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him and looked at him from the side, I noticed dark half-circles below his eyes.
'Are you all right, then?' I said.
He raised his eyebrow again, and blew out through pursed lips. He looked as if
he were trying to pop the features off his face. Then he gave me the sort of
consolation smile you give people when they've asked a stupid question, batted his
lashy black-brown eyes and shrugged.
'You look a bit worn out,' I said.
'I should think I do,' he said. 'I've been doing twelve-hour days on the farm since
July. Sling your bags into the back of the van then.'
This was not as straightforward as he made it sound. He used the van as a
workshop, storage unit and mobile home, and so as well as the usual driving-dregs of
sweet wrappers and plastic bottles, there was farm equipment of an often surprising
scale straw bales, black polythene barrels, bundles of shovels and forks, metal
toolboxes which were themselves almost as large as small cars, and other tools which
I did not recognise or understand. Intermingled with that were random, inexplicable
household articles: sofa cushions, half a dozen plant pots and a roll of carpets.
I gingerly3 balanced my bags on some boxes, and then walked round the van and
climbed into the front passenger seat. Guy stamped down the accelerator and we shot
out of the car park. Guy looked straight ahead into the traffic, lifted his eyebrows and
moved his mouth in what may or may not have been a grin. As we drove through the
city, I watched his face to try to catch his expression when the half-grin lapsed, but he
just lost himself in nonchalant concentration on the other cars and vans around us.
For something to do, I turned on the radio and began retuning it. This caused a very
loud static noise to fill the cab, and Guy to jerk round in his seat, shouting, 'Don't
fiddle with that radio.'
I snapped it off, and looked at him again. 'Sorry'.
'Never mind,' he said. 'It only plays one station and it takes me ages to get that.
There are some CDs in the glove compartment. Put one of those on instead.'
I put a CD on but as we accelerated off at the bypass roundabout the music was
drowned out by the engine noise anyway.
It takes only twenty minutes to drive through the hills to our village, but that day
the journey seemed to take forever. Neither of us could think of anything to say to
each other so Guy pretended to concentrate on the speed of his windscreen wipers
which were keeping the driving rain off the windscreen so he could see the road
ahead. I, on the other hand, leant my forehead against the side window, looking out at
the scenery which was so familiar to me but was actually obliterated by the horizontal
rain.
14. What aspect of Guy's personality is the writer reinforcing when he says 'if he is
feeling particularly emotional, he may perform all three together'?
A His facial expressions are difficult to interpret.
His speech is always backed up by non-verbal expressions.
He is very controlled when expressing his feelings.
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Angela wants Bob to give her some money for each hour she walks.
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14 You will hear a woman talking about her job. How does she feel about her
boss?
1) She admires him.
2) She is jealous of him.
3) She feels sorry for him.
15 You will hear a man talking about a TV documentary. What did he think
was missing from the programme?
1) the opposite point of view
2) interviews with people involved
3) the historical context of the problem
16 You will hear a boy talking about his favourite football team. What does
he say about them?
1) They have achieved a lot recently.
2) They were a better team in the past.
3) The new players have performed badly.
17 You will hear a woman describing an art gallery she visited. How did she
feel about the gallery?
1) She found it dull.
2) She found it interesting.
3) She found it tiring.
18 You will hear a man talking about his business. Who does he have
problems with?
1) his business partners
2) his suppliers
3) his customers
19 You will hear an advertisement for a language course. Who is the course
for?
1) people who don't know any of the language
2) people who already know some of the language
3) people who already know a lot of the language
20 You will hear a woman talking about her home town. Why did she leave
the town?
1) She went away to university.
2) She got bored with it.
3) She got promoted at work.
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Tapescript A1-6
Tapescript A7-13
Bob: Hi Angela!
Angela: Hi Bob! I'm glad I ran into you,
actually. I was wondering if you'd sponsor
me.
Bob: What do you mean exactly?
Angela: Well, I'm a member of the Friends
of St Mark's. Have you heard of it?
Bob: No. What is it?
Angela: It's a charity. We raise money to
help the heal hospital. You know, St Mark's
Hospital, in the town centre.
Bob: Oh yes, I know. Good hospital. I had
some tests done there a couple of years ago.
The doctor was very polite and helpful. Nice
nurses, too!
Angela: Bob! Anyway, we're doing a
sponsored walk next Sunday and I'm trying
to get as many people to sponsor me as
possible.
Bob: Yeah, all right. I'll give you 15
towards it.
Angela: Wow! Thanks! But it doesn't
actually work like that. You see, we're not
asking for donations. We're asking people to
sponsor us per mile.
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Warm up
1 How often do you go to the cinema?
2 What kind of films do you enjoy most? Why?
3 Do you prefer watching films on your own or with other people? Why?
Interlocutor Card
Task 1 (3-3.5 minutes)
Let the student talk for 1.5-2 minutes.
Ask only those questions which the student has not covered while giving a talk.
1 What job do you want to do in the future? 3 Do you want to visit other countries in the
Why?
future?
2 Where do you want to live in the future? 4 What other things do you want to do when
Why?
you're older?
Situation 3
Teenage boy: The thing about United is that
they've always been a strong team. It's just
that that's rarely been reflected in the results
because they haven't had a manager who is
willing to take risks. Last season was
different, though, and that was all down to
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A7-13
A7: 2 A8: 2 A9: 1 A10: 2 A11: 2
A12: 3 A13: 3
Tapescript A7-13
Situation 1
Woman: I've been in the job for a year and a
half now. My boss is a man called John
Philips and I'm sorry, but he's been there less
time than I have and he's already been
promoted above me. Everyone admires him
for succeeding so quickly, but he's not the
only one who deserves it. I'm not saying he's
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Reading
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Participant's ID number
Creative Writing
Write your own version using the beginning and the end of the story.
You should write about 230-270 words.
Time: 1 hour
During the Christmas rush in London the intriguing story was reported of the
tramp4 who apparently through no fault of his own found himself locked in a wellknown chain store late on Christmas Eve.__________________________________
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The tramp was released from prison after seven days. The judge awarded no
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Speaking
Set 1
Student 1
Task 1
Deliver a mini report, using the information from CHART 1 (Monologue;
Time: 1,5-2 minutes).
Then answer 3 questions of your partner, using the information from CHART
1 (Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes).
CHART 1
Changes in modes of travel in England between 1985 and 2000
Average distance in miles travelled per person per year, by mode of travel.
Walking
Bicycle
Car
Local bus
Long distance bus
Train
Taxi
Other
All modes
1985
255
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3,199
429
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2000
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Task 2
Listen to the report of your partner, based on CHART 2, and ask 3 questions
about the information presented in CHART 2 (Dialogue; Time: 2 minutes).
CHART 2
Underground railway systems in six cities
City
Date opened
London
1863
Kilometres of
route
394
Passengers per
year (in millions)
775
Paris
1900
199
1191
Tokyo
1927
155
1927
Washington DC
1976
126
144
Kyoto
1981
11
45
Los Angeles
2001
28
50