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Example Answer
Guest Name: Sandra MacKay Gallery 2 12 ............ 10 March 10 a.m. to No
of the 21st 4 April 3 p.m. charge
Date of arrival: Century Mon, Wed,
1 ................. December
Date of departure: exhibition Fri &
2 ................. December
Room number: by students weekends
3 502 and .................
Room rate: 4 $ ................. Theatre 1 Shakespeares 5 March Daily at Adult
Deposit: 5 Paid ................. Romeo & 3 April 8 p.m. 13 $ .......
Receipt
Juliet Senior
In name of: 6 Zoe ................. $20
Questions 19 and 20
Complete the sentences below. Jans comments Steves comments
Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
27 ............................
19 Michaels father went ..................... to work.
Getting consent could Not legal in Europe to
20 Michaels ..................... was also a singer, be the main make money from
and was an inspiration for him. 28 ................... using someones
in the presentation private details without
Listening Section 3 their direct consent
21 Jan suggests doing their joint The free information Browser companies
............................ on copyright or IP law. nature of the internet may solve the
has led to this problem by
22 Steves suggested topic is ............................ problem introducing a
30 ............................
23 A database may collect statistics on your system
date of birth, income, legal history, previous
jobs, ............................ or health record.
Questions 3640
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR
A NUMBER for each answer.
including his romance with a French actress evolution, a necessary path that allowed him to
and some musical partnerships that ruptured release his full musical potential.
as a result of creative disputes. Davis was also
frustrated by his perception that he had been Questions 2026
overlooked by the music critics, who were Do the following statements agree with the
hailing the success of his collaborators and views of the writer in Reading Passage 2?
descendants in the cool tradition, such as In boxes 2026 on your answer sheet, write
Gerry Mulligan and Dave Brubeck, but who YES - if the statement agrees with the views of
afforded him little credit for introducing the cool the writer
sound in the first place. NO - if the statement contradicts the views of
the writer
E NOT GIVEN - if it is impossible to say what the
In the latter decades of his career, Davis broke writer thinks about this
out of exclusive jazz settings and began to 20. Davis trumpet teacher wanted him to play
diversify his output across a range of musical with vibrato.
styles. In the 1960s, he was influenced by early 21. According to Davis, studying at Julliard
funk performers such as Sly and the Family helped him to improve his musical abilities.
Stone, which then expanded into the jazz-rock 22. Playing in jazz clubs in New York was the
fusion genre of which he was a frontrunner best way to become famous.
in the 1970s. Electronic recording effects and 23. The Birth of Cool featured music that was
electric instruments were incorporated into his faster and louder than most jazz at the
sound. By the 1980s, Davis was pushing the time.
boundaries further, covering pop anthems such 24. Davis personal troubles had a negative
as Cyndi Laupers Time After Time and Michael effect on his trumpet playing.
Jacksons Human Nature, dabbling in hip hop, 25. Davis felt that his contribution to cool jazz
and even appearing in some movies. had not been acknowledged.
26. Davis was a traditionalist who wanted to
F keep the jazz sound pure.
Not everyone was supportive of Davis change
of tune. Compared to the recordings of his
early career, universally applauded as Reading Passage 3
linchpins of the jazz oeuvre, trumpeter
Wynston Marsalis derided his fusion work as You should spend about 20 minutes on
being not true jazz, and pianist Bill Evans Questions 2740, which are based on Reading
denounced the corrupting influence of record Passage 3 below.
companies, noting that rock and pop draw A
wider audiences. In the face of this criticism In the early days of mountaineering, questions
Davis remained defiant, commenting that his of safety, standards of practice, and
earlier recordings were part of a moment in environmental impact were not widely
time that he had no feel for any more. He considered. The sport gained traction following
firmly believed that remaining stylistically inert the successful 1786 ascent of Mont Blanc, the
would have hampered his ability to develop highest peak in Western Europe, by two
new ways of producing music. From this French mountaineers, Jacques Balmat and
perspective, Davis continual revamping of Michel-Gabriel Paccard. This event
genre was not merely a rebellion, but an established the beginning of modern
mountaineering, but the sole consideration over trodden an untrodden mountain top.
the next hundred years was the success or
failure of climbers in reaching the summit and D
claiming the prestige of having made the first Climbing purists aside, it was not until the
ascent. 1970s that the general tide began to turn
against bolting and pitons. The USA, and much
B of the western world, was waking up to the
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, damage it had been causing to the planet, and
however, developments in technology spurred environmentalist campaigns and new
debate regarding climbing practices. Of government policies were becoming
particular concern in this era was the widespread. This new awareness and
introduction of pitons (metal spikes that sensitivity to environmental issues spilled over
climbers hammer into the rock face for into the rock climbing community. As a result, a
leverage) and the use of belaying 2 techniques. stripped- down style of rock climbing known as
A few, such as Italian climber Guido Ray, clean climbing became widely adopted. Clean
supported these methods as ways to render climbing helped preserve rock faces and,
climbing less burdensome and more acrobatic. compared with older approaches, it was much
Others felt that they were only of value as a simpler to practise. This was partly due to the
safety net if all else failed. Austrian Paul Preuss hallmark of clean climbing the use of nuts
went so far as to eschew all artificial aids, which were favoured over bolts because they
scaling astonishing heights using only his shoes could be placed into the rock wall with one
and his bare hands. Albert Mummery, a well hand while climbers maintained their grip on
known British mountaineer and author who the rock with the other.
climbed the European Alps, and, more
famously, the Himalayas, where he died at the E
age of 39 attempting a notoriously difficult Not everyone embraced the clean climbing
ascent, developed the notion of fair means as a movement, however. A decade later, debates
kind of informal protocol by which the use of over two more developments were erupting.
walk-through guidebooks and equipment such The first related to the practice of chipping, in
as ladders and grappling hooks were which climbers chip away pieces of rock in
discouraged. order to create tiny cracks in which to insert
their fingers. The other major point of
C contention was a process that involves setting
By the 1940s, bolts had begun to replace pitons bolts in reverse from the top of the climb down.
as the climbers choice of equipment, and Rappel bolting makes almost any rock face
criticism surrounding their use was no less climbable with relative ease, and as a result of
fierce. In 1948, when two American climbers this new technique, the sport has lost much of
scaled Mount Brussels in the Canadian Rockies its risk factor and sense of pioneering spirit;
using a small number of pitons and bolts, indeed, it has become more about muscle
climber Frank Smythe wrote of their efforts: I power and technical mastery than a
still regard Mount Brussels as unclim bed, and psychological trial of fearlessness under
my feelings are no different from those I should pressure. Because of this shift in focus, many
have were I to hear that a helicopter had amateur climbers have flocked to indoor
deposited its passenger on the summit of that climbing gyms, where the risk of serious harm
mountain just so that he could boast that he had is negligible.
2
Fastening or controlling of a climbers rope by wrapping it around a metal device or another person 9
1940s
New equipment becomes controversial. Frank
Smythe says that Mt Brussels is effectively
35 .................... because of the techniques that
were used in order to scale the mountain.
1970s
36 .................... is more environmentally
friendly. 37 .................... are introduced as a
climbing aid.
Question 40
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Writing Task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graph shows the percentage of male and female academic staff members across the faculties
of a major university in 2012.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons
where relevant.
Writing Task 2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
Solar energy is becoming more and more popular as a source of household energy in many
countries around the world.
Why is this?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of solar energy?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.
Speaking PART 2
Talk about someone you know who takes
good photos.
you should talk about:
- Who he/she is
- What he/she takes photos of
- What he/she does with his/her photos
And explain why you think he/she is a good
photographer.