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LISTENING PART
SECTION 1
Questions 1-10
Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS of A NUMBER for each answer.

Event details
Type of event: Example
Race details

Dragon Boat Race

Day & date: (1) ...........................

Place: Brighton (2) .......................
Registration time: (3) .....................
Sponsorship
- aim to raise over (4) ........................... as a team and get a free t-shirt
- free Prize Draw for trip to (5) ...................................
Team details
- must have crew of 20 and elect a (6) .....................
- under 18s need to have (7) .......................... to enter
- need to hire (8) .......................................
- advised to bring extra (9) .................................
- must choose a (10) .................................... for the team

Section 2
Questions 11-20
Questions 11-12
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
11. The story illustrates that dogs are ............................ animals.
12. The people of the town built a .................................. of a dog.
Questions 13-20
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

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TYPE OF WORKING DOG

ESSENTIAL
CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE
JOB

ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION

Sheep dogs

Smart, obedient

Herd sheep and (13) .........

them

Guide dogs

Confident and (14).........

Training paid for by (15)

.........

Guard dogs and (16).........

and ......... dogs

Tough and courageous

Dogs and trainers available

through (17).........

Detector dogs

Need to really (18).........

In Sydney they catch (19)

......... a month

Transport dogs

Happy working (20) .........

International treaty bans

huskies from Antarctica

SECTION 3:
Questions 21-30
Questions 21-23
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
21. Andrew has worked at the hospital for
A. two years.
B. three years.
C. five years.
22. During the course Andrew's employers will pay
A. his fees.
B. his living costs.
C. his salary.
23. The part-tie course lasts for
A. one whole year.
B. 18 months.
C. two years.
Questions 24-25
Choose TWO letters A-E.
What TWO types of coursework are required each month on the part-time course?
A. a case study
B. an essay
C. a survey
D. a short report
E. a study diary
Questions 26-30
Complete the summary below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.

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Modular courses
Students study (26) ................ during each module. A module takes (27) ................
and the work is very (28) ................ . To get a Diploma each students has to study (29)
................ and then work on (30) ................ in depth.

SECTION 4
Questions 31-40
Questions 31-35
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN RWO WORDS AND/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.
HOUSEHOLD WASTE RECYCLING
31. By 2008, carbon dioxide emissions need to be .............. lower than in 1990.
32. Recycling saves energy and reduces emissions from landfill sites and ..............
33. People say that one problem is a lack of '..............' sites for household waste. At the 'bring
banks', household waste is sorted and suitable items removed.
34. Glass designed to be utilized for .............. can not be recycled with other types of glass.
35. In the UK, .............. tons of glass is recycled each year.
Questions 36-40
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Companies working with recycled materials

Material

Company

Product that the company manufactures

Glass

CLF Aggregates

Material used for making (36) ..............

Paper

Martin's

Office stationery

Papersave

(37) .............. for use on farms

Pacrite

(38) .............. for collecting waste

Waterford

(39) ..............

Johnson and Jones

(40) ..............

Plastic

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READING PART
Reading Passage 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1
below.

Let's go bats
A Bats have a problem how to find their way around in the dark. They hunt at night, and can not
use light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles. You might say that this is a problem of their
own making, one that they could avoid simply by charging their habits and hunting by day. But
the daytime economy is already is already heavily exploited by other creatures such as birds.
Given that there is a living to be made at night, and given that alternative daytime trades are
thoroughly occupied, natural selection has favored bats that make a go of the night-hunting
trade. It is probable that the nocturnal trades go way back in the ancestry of all mammals. In the
time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy, our mammalian ancestors probably
only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night. Only after
the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors
able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers.
B Bats have an engineering problem: how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of
light. Bats are not the only creatures to face this difficulty today. Obviously the night-flying
insects that they prey on must find their way about somehow. Deep-sea fish and whales have
little or no light by day or by night. Fish and dolphins that live in extremely muddy water can not
see because, although there is light, it is obstructed and scattered by the dirt in the water. Plenty
of other modern animals make their living in conditions where seeing is difficult or impossible.
C

Given the questions of how to man oeuvre in the dark, what solutions might an engineer
consider? The first one that might occur to him is to manufacture light, to use a lantern or a
search light. Fireflies and some fish (usually with the help of bacteria) have the power to
manufacture their own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy.
Fireflies use their light for attracting mates. This doesn't require a prohibitive amount of energy:
a male's tiny pinprick of light can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night, since
her eyes are exposed directly to the light source itself. However, using light to find one's own way
around requires vastly more energy, since the eyes have to detect the tiny fraction of the light
that bounced off each part of the scene. The light source must therefore be immensely brighter if
it is to be used as a headlight to illuminate the path, than if it is to be used as a signal to others.
In any event, whether or not the reason is the energy expense, it seems to be the case that, with
the possible exception of some weird deep-sea fish, no animal apart from man uses
manufactured light to find its way about.

D What else might the engineer think of? Well, blind humans sometimes seem to have an uncanny
sense of obstacles in their path. It has been given the name 'facial vision', because blind people
have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch, on the face. One report tells of a totally
blind boy who could ride his tricycle at good speed round the touch near his home, using facial
vision. Experiments showed that, it fact, facial vision is nothing to do with touch or the front of
the face, although the sensation may be referred to the front of the face, like the referred pain in
a phantom limb. The sensation of facial vision, in turn out, really goes goes in through the ears.
Blind people, without even being being aware of the fact, are actually using echoes of their own
footsteps and of other sounds, to sense the presence of obstacles. Before this was discovered,
engineers had already built instruments to exploit the principle, for example to measure the
depth of the sea under a ship. After this technique had been invented, it was only a matter of
time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of the submarines. Both sides in the
Second World War relied heavily on these devices, under such codenames as Asdic (British) and
Sonar (American), as well as Radar (American) of RDF (British), which uses radio echoes rather
than sound echoes.

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The Sonar and Radar pioneers didn't know it then, but all the world now knows that bats, or
rather natural selection working on bats, had perfected the system tens of millions of years
earlier, and their radar' achieves feats of detection and and navigation that would strike an
engineer dumb with admiration. It is technically in correct to talk about about bat 'radar', since
they do not use radio waves. It is sonar. But the underlying mathematical theories of radar and
sonar are very similar, and much of our scientific understanding of the details of what bats are
doing has come from applying radar theory to them. The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who
was largely responsible for the the discovery of sonar in bats, coined the term 'echolocation' to
cover both sonar and radar, whether used by animals or by human instruments.

Questions 1-5:
Reading Passage 1 has five paragraphs, A-E.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

examples of wildlife other than bats which do not rely on vision to navigate by
how early mammals avoided dying out
why bats hunt in the dark
how a particular discovery has helped our understanding of bats
early military uses of echolocation

Questions 6-9:
Complete the summary below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 6-9 on your answer sheet.

Facial Vision
Blind people report that so-called 'facial vision' is comparable to the sensation
of touch on the face. In fact, the sensation is more similar to the way in
which pain from a (6) ............ arm or leg might be felt. The ability actually
comes from perceiving (7) ............ through the ears. However, even
before this was understood, the principle had been applied in the design of
instruments which calculated the (8) ............ of the seabed. This was
followed by wartime application in devices for finding (9) ............

Questions 10-13:
Complete the sentences below:
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answer in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.
10. Long before the invention of radar, ............. had resulted in a sophisticated radar-like system
in bats.
11. Radar and sonar are based on similar .............
12. The word 'echolocation' was first used by someone working as a .............

13. The word 'echolocation' was first used by someone working as a .............

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Reading passage 2
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on Reading Passage 2
below.
Questions 14-19
Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs A-G. From the list of headings below choose the most
suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers (i-x) in boxes 14-19 on your
answer sheet.

List of headings
i
ii
iii
iv
v
vi
vii
viii
ix
x

14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.

Paragraph
Paragraph
Paragraph
Paragraph
Paragraph
Paragraph

Some success has resulted from observing how the brain functions.
Are we expecting too much from one robot?
Scientists are examining the humanistic possibilities.
There are judgements that robots cannot make.
Has the power of robots become too great?
Human skills have been heightened with the help of robotics.
There are some things we prefer the brain to control.
Robots have quietly infiltrated our lives.
Original predictions have been revised.
Another approach meets the same result.

A
B
C
D
E
F

Example
Paragraph G

answer
ii

ROBOTS
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work
that is dangerous, boring, onerous, or just plain nasty. That compulsion has culminated in robotics the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines.
A

The modern world is increasingly populated by quasi-intelligent gizmos whose presence we

barely notice but whose creeping ubiquity has removed much human drudgery. Our factories
hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals
that thank us with rote politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by
tireless robo-drivers. Our mine shafts are dug by automated moles, and our nuclear accidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl - are cleaned up by robotic mockers fit to
withstand radiation.
Such is the scope of uses envisioned by Karel Capek, the Czech playwright who coined the term
'robot' in 1920 (the word 'robota' means 'forced labor' in Czech). As progress accelerates, the
experimental becomes the exploitable at record pace.

Other innovations promise to extend the abilities of human operators. Thanks to the incessant
miniaturisation of electronics and micro-mechanics, there are already robot systems that can
perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy - far greater

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precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. At the same time,
techniques of long-distance control will keep people even farther from hazard. In 1994 a tenfoot-tall NASA robotic explorer called Dante, with scrambled over the menacing rim of an
Alaskan volcano while technicians 2,000 miles away in California watched the scene by satellite
and controlled Dante's descent.
C

But if robots are to reach the next stage of labour-saving utility, they will have to operate with
less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves-goals that
pose a formidable changllenge. 'While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,'
says one expert, 'we can't yet give a robot enough common sense to reliably interact with a
dynamic world.' Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence (Al) has produced very mixed
results. Despite a spasm of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s, when it appeared that
transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to perform in the same way as the human
brain by the 21st century, researchers lately have extended their forecasts by decades if not
centuries.

What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain's roughly one hundred
billion neurons are much more talented - and human perception far more complicated - than
previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the misalignment of a machine
panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can
glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 per cent that is irrelevant,
instantaneously focusing on the woodchuck at the side of a winding forest road or the single
suspicious face in a tumultuous crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can't
approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don't know quite how we do it.

Nonetheless, as information theorists, neuroscientists, and computer experts pool their talents,
they are finding ways to get some life like intelligence from robots. One method renounces the
linear, logical structure of conventional electronic circuits in favour of the messy, ad hoc
arrangement of a real brain's neurons. These 'neural networks' do not have to be programmed.
They can 'teach' themselves by a system of feedback signals that reinforce electrical pathways
that produced correct responses and, conversely, wipe out connections that produced errors.
Eventually the net wires itself into a system that can pronounce certain words or distinguish
certain shapes.

In other areas researchers are struggling to fashion a more natural relationship between people
and robots in the expectation that some day machines will take on some tasks now done by
humans in, say, nursing homes. This is particularly important in Japan, where the percentage of
elderly citizens is rapidly increasing. So experiments at the Science University of Tokyo have
crated a 'face robot' - life-size, soft plastic model of a female head with a video camera imbedded
in the left eye-as a prototype. The researchers' goal is to create robots that people feel
comfortable around. They are concentrating on the face because they believe facial expressions
are the most important way to transfer emotional messages. We read those messages by
interpreting expressions to decide whether a person is happy, frightened, angry, or nervous. Thus
the Japanese robot is designed to detect emotions in the person it is 'looking at' by sensing
changes in the spatial arrangement of the person's eyes, nose, eyebrows, and mouth. It
compares those configurations with a database of standard facial expressions and guesses the
emotion. The robot then uses an ensemble of tiny pressure pads to adjust its plastic face onto an
appropriate emotional response.

Other labs are taking a different approach, one that doesn't try to mimic human intelligence or
emotions. Just as computer design has moved away from one central mainframe in favour of
myriad individual workstations - and single processors have been replaced by arrays of smaller
units that break a big problem into parts that are solved simultaneously - many experts are now
investigating whether swarms of semi-smart robots can generate a collective intelligence that is
greater than the sum of its parts. That's what beehives and ant colonies do, and several teams
are betting that legions of mini-critters working together like an ant colony could be sent to
explore the climate of planets or to inspect pipes in dangerous industrial situations.

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Questions 20-24
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? In boxes 20-24
on your answer sheet write:
YES
if the statement agrees with the information
NO
if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.

Larel Capek successfully predicted our current uses for robots.

Lives were saved by the NASA robot, Dante.
Robots are able to make fine visual judgements.
The internal workings of the brain can be replicated by robots.
The Japanese have the most advanced robot systems.

Questions 25-27
Complete the summary below with words taken from paragraph F . Use NO MORE THAN THREE
WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 25-27 on your answer sheet.

The prototype of the Japanese 'face robot' observes humans through a (25) ....... which is
planted in its head. It then refers to a (26) ....... of typical 'looks' that the human face can
have, to decide what emotion the person is feeling. To respond to this expression, the robot
alters it's own expression using a number of (27) ....... .

Reading Passage 3
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3
below.

THE ART
OF HEALING
As with so such, the medicine of the Tang dynasty left its European counterpart in
the shade. It boasted its own 'national health service', and left behind the
teachings of the incomparable Sun Simiao.
If no further evidence was available of the sophistication of China in the Tang era, then a
look at Chinese medicine would be Sufficient. At the Western end of the Eurasian Continent
the Roman empire had vanished, and there was nowhere new to claim the status of the
cultural and political centre of the world.in fact, for a few centuries, this centre happenedto
be the capital of the Tang empire, and Chinese medicine under the Tang was far ahead of its
European counterpart. The rganizational context of health and healing was itructured toA
degree that had no precedence in Chinese History and found no parallel elsewhere.
An imperial Medical Office had been inherited from previous dynasties: it was
immediately restructured and staffed with directors and deputy directors, chief and
assistant medical Directors, pharmacists and curators of medical herb gardens and further
personnel. Within the first two decades after consolidating its rule, the Tang administration
set up one central and several provincial medical colleges with professors, lectures, clinical
practitioners and pharmacists to train students in one or all of the four departments of
medicine, acupuncture, physical therapy and exorcism.

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Physicians were given positions in governmental medical service only after passing
qualifying examinations. They were remunerated in accordance with the number of cures
they had effected during the past year.
In 723 Emperor Xuanzong personally composed a general formulary of prescriptions
recommended to him by one of his imperial pharmacists and sent it to all the provincial
medical schools. An Arabic traveler, who visited China in 851, noted with surprise that
prescription from the emperors formulary were publicized on notice boards at crossroad to
enhance the welfare of the population
To ophthalmology. They reflect the Indian origin of much Chinese knowledge on ailments
of the eye and, in particular, of cataract surgery. Sun Simiao was the most eminent
physician and author not only of the Tang Dynasty, but of the entire first millennium AD. He
was a Broadly educated intellectual and physician; his world view integrated notions of all
three of the major currents competing at this time Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism.
Sun Simiao gained fame during his lifetime as a clinician ( he was summoned to the imperial
court at least once) and as author of the prescriptions worth thousands in gold
(Qianjingfang) and its sequel. In contrast to development in the 21st century, physicians
relied on prescriptions and single substances to treat their patients illnesses. The theories of
systematic correspondences, characteristic of the acupuncture tradition, had not been
extended to cover pharmacology yet.
Sun Simiao rose to the pantheon of Chinese popular Buddhism in about the 13th century.
He was revered as paramount medicine God. He gained this extraordinary position in
Chinese collective memory not only because he was an ethical concerns. Sun Simiao was the
first Chinese author known to compose an elaborate medical ethical code. Even though
based on Buddhist and Confucian values, his deontology is comparable to the Hippocratic
Oath. It initialed a debate on the task of medicine, its professional obligations, social
position and moral justification that continued until the arrival of western medicine in the
19th century.
Despite or more likely because of its long lasting affluence and political stability, the
Tang dynasty did not add any significantly new ideas to the interpretation of illness, health
healing. Medical thought reflects human anxieties; changes in medical thought always occur
in the context of new existential fears or of fundamentally changed social circumstances.
Nevertheless, medicine was a most fascinating ingredient of Tang civilization and it left a
rich legacy to subsequent centuries.

Question 28-30
Choose the appropriate A-D and write them in boxes 28-30 on your answer sheet.
28. In the first paragraph, the writer draws particular attention to
A. The lack of medical knowledge in china prior to the Tang era.
B. The western interest in Chinese medicine during the Tang era.
C. The systematic approach taken to medical issue during the Tang era.
D. The rivalry between Chinese and western cultures during the Tang era.
29. During the Tang era, a government doctors annual salary depended upon
A. The effectiveness of his treatment.
B. The exact to his medical experience.
C. The number of people he had successfully trained.
D. The breadth of his medical expertise.
30. Which of the following contravened the law during the Tang era.
A. A qualified doctors refusal to the practice

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B. The use of unorthodox medical practices
C. a patient dying under medical treatment
D. the receipt of money for medical treatment
Questions 31-37
Do the following statements agree with the information given in reading passage 3?
In boxes 31-37 on your answer sheet write
YES
if the statement agree with the information
NO
if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage
31. Academic staff sometime taught arrange of medical subject during the Tang era.
32. The medical knowledge available during the Tang era only benefited the wealthy.
33. Tang citizens were encouraged to lead a healthy lifestyle.
34. Doctors who behaved in a fraudulent manner were treated in the same way as ordinary
criminals during the Tang era.
35. Medical reference books published during the Tang era covered practical and academic issues.
36. Watai miyao contained data from the Tang era.
37. Chinese medical authors are known to have influenced Indian writing.
Questions 38-40
Complete the sentences below with words taken from reading passage 3.
Use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet.

The first known medical writing in china dates back to the (38) ......... During the
Tang era, doctors depend most on (39)......... and ......... to treat their patients.
(40) ......... is famous for producing a set of medical rulers for Chinese physicians.

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Writing Part
Writing task 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The chart below show the number of Japanese tourists travelling abroad between 1985 and 1995
and Australia's share of the Japanese tourist market.
Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.
You should write at least 150 words.

Writing task 2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no special knowledge of the following
topic.
In many countries children are engaged in some kind of paid work. Some people regard
this as completely wrong, while others consider it as valuable work experience,
important for learning and taking responsibility.
What are your opinion on this?
You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with
examples and relevant evidence.
You should write at least 250 words.

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Speaking
Part 1
The examiner asks the candidate about himself/ herself, his/her home, work or studies and other
familiar topics.
Example
Your country
- which part of your country do most people live in?
- Tell me about the main industries there.
- How easy is it to travel around your country?
- Has your country changed much since you were a child?
Part 2
Describe a song or a piece of music you like.
You should say:
- what the song or music is
- what kind of song or music it is
- where you first heard it
and explain why you like it.
Part 3
Music and young people
Example questions:
What kinds of music are popular with young people in your culture?
What do you think influences a young person's taste in music?
How has technology affected the kinds of music popular with young people?
Music and society
Example questions:
Tell me about any traditional music in your culture.
How important is it for a culture to have musical traditions?
Why do you think countries have national anthems or songs?

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