Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
I. You will hear part of a radio programme in which details of a competition are announced.
Complete the notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap. Write your answers in
the box provided (9 pts)
II. You will hear a local radio broadcast about transport and travel. Complete the notes using
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap.
Listen very carefully as you will hear the recording ONCE only. Write your answers in the box
provided (7 pts)
• Road works causing delays on approach to (1) _____________________.
• Stadley station closed due to (2) _____________________, buses available for those with
(3) _____________________.
• Main road through Chorley village is (4) _____________________.
• Airport is open, no (5) _____________________ but several international flights (6)
_____________________.
• City centre bomb scare still causing (7) _____________________.
III. You will hear part of a radio programme about dancing. Choose the correct answer A, B,
C or D.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (6 pts)
1. What makes Shirley dance?
A. certain types of music
B. other people dancing
C. the beat of music
D. being in a good mood
2. How does Tony choose which song to play first?
A. according to the age of the crowd
B. according to the atmosphere in the place
C. according to musical fashions at the time
D. according to the type of event it is
3. What happens at some company dances, according to Tony?
A. People feel obliged to dance.
B. The bosses don’t dance.
C. There is more talking than dancing.
D. People are too shy to dance.
4. According to Emma, why is dancing important to young people?
A. It gives them a sense of identity.
B. It reflects their cultural background.
C. They have more energy than older people.
D. They gain a greater understanding of music.
5. Emma believes that musical taste
A. shows there are no barriers between people.
B. is a reflection of cultural influences.
C. reflects people’s political views.
D. shows how individual people are.
6. What is Tony’s opinion of dancing?
A. It brings all social classes together.
B. It makes young people happy.
C. It enables people to make friends.
D. It can be enjoyed by everyone.
Part 4: You will hear five short extracts in which different people are talking about
performances that they have been to. Choose the correct answer A, B or C.
You will hear the recording TWICE. Write your answers in the box provided (10 pts)
1. The concert was unusual because the musicians didn’t use
A. microphones.
B. instruments.
C. a stage.
2. In talking about the concert, the speaker says she
A. hadn’t heard that kind of music before.
B. hadn’t really liked the music.
C. hadn’t understood the music very well.
3. What does the speaker say about the concert?
A. The musicians were very old.
B. The songs were too unfamiliar.
C. The sound quality was poor.
4. The audience were
A. appreciative.
B. dissatisfied.
C. inattentive.
5. What does the speaker say about the theatre?
A. It had recently moved.
B. It was overcrowded.
C. It was unusually small.
6. The play was spoilt because the actors
A. forgot their lines.
B. were unenthusiastic
C. had too much make-up on
7. At the start of the concert, the speaker was surprised by the number of
A. people who arrived late.
B. people he recognized.
C. female performers.
8. What section of the orchestra did the speaker find disappointing?
A. the violins
B. the brass
C. the drums
9. The acrobatic acts were
A. impressive.
B. alarming.
C. repetitive.
10. How did the speaker feel at the end of the performance?
A. She didn’t realize it was so late.
B. She felt it should have ended earlier.
C. She would have preferred an evening ticket.
PART II: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (60 points)
I. Select the best option for each sentence. Write your answers in the box provided (20 pts)
1. Lack of sleep over the last few months is finally ________ Jane.
A. catching up with B. getting on with C. coming over D. putting on
2. Sally has an ________ command of the Chinese language.
A. extreme B. outstanding C. utter D. intensive
3. I’ve had this car for 12 years, but now I’m having more and more problems with it. Clearly it’s
________.
A. on its hind legs B. got its back up C. got its heart set D. on its last
leg
4. All things ________, she is the best student to represent our school.
A. considered B. involved C. taken D. dealt with
5. To succeed in this job, you have to be utterly ________.
A. hot-blooded B. single-minded C. kind-hearted D. near-
sighted
6. The Prime Minister gave a press conference to deny the charges ________ at him.
A. leveled B. accused C. targeted D. blamed
7. When the morning came, the scene of where the bomb had fallen was one of ________
devastation.
A. great B. utter C. entire D. extreme
8. There is still a ________ of hope that the rescuers will find survivors.
A. spray B. ray C. light D. spot
9. ________, modelling is actually hard work.
A. Even it may seem glamorous B. Yet it may seem glamorous
C. However glamorous it may seem D. Glamorous as though it is
10. The city zoo is building a new section to ________ their larger mammals.
A. house B. store C. shade D. capture
11. After so many years, it is great to see him ________ his ambitions.
A. get B. realise C. possess D. deserve
12. The review committee ________ three practicing lawyers and a retired businessman.
A. consists B. comprises C. is made up D. encloses
13. Don’t worry: this is nothing that ________ you.
A. matters B. entails C. concerns D. complicates
14. As always, I am ________ with everything you say.
A. agree B. agreeing C. agreeable D. in
agreement
15. It may be raining, but I’m ________ enjoying myself.
A. thoroughly B. highly C. extremely D. desperately
16. In the event, we found your advice absolutely ________.
A. unworthy B. valuable C. invaluable D. impecunious
17. In the end, I just lost my ________ and started gabbling incoherently.
A. head B. mind C. brain D. intelligence
18. Despite all the interruptions, he ________ with his work.
A. stuck at B. held on C. hung out D. pressed on
19. When the funds finally ________, they had to abandon the scheme.
A. faded away B. clamped down C. petered out D. fobbed off
20. The team won the championship four years ________.
A. running B. passing C. following D. rotating
II. There are TEN mistakes in the passage below. Read the passage carefully, underline the
mistakes and write your corrections on the corresponding lines in the box for Answers. (20 pts)
Answers
Each week Hilary Mullock, also known as Doctor Doppit, visiting London’s ____________
General Hospital. Carrying balloons and magic tricks better than a stethoscope, she ____________
administers her own special kind of medicine. Employed by the Theodora ____________
Children’s Trust, Hilary brings fun and laughter for the patients in the children’s ____________
wards, making a hospital staying a less difficult experience for these young patients. ____________
Having studied drama at university, Hilary later became interested in ____________
children’s theatre. Seeing an advert with a clown doctor, she knew she had founded ____________
the ideal job. Before taking up the position, Hilary had to complete four weeks of ____________
training, being instructed in balloon modeling and magic tricks. ____________
According to a spokesperson for the Theodora Children’s Trust, hospitalized ____________
children, having been excluding from their normal day-to-day routine and the family ____________
environment, are likely to be frightening and homesick. Clown doctors like Hilary ____________
has a valuable part to play in helping them forget their problems for a while. ____________
Humour, it has been seen, has a positively impact on health. In fact, certain ____________
chemicals produced in the body by laughter have even been shown to act as natural ____________
painkillers. Laughter really is the best medicine, it seems. ____________
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III. Select a suitable phrasal verb from the list to fill the gap in each of the sentences. Make
change to the form of the verb when necessary. Write your answers in the box provided. (10 pts)
A I am sometimes asked why anyone who is not a teacher or a librarian or the parent of little kids
should concern herself with children’s books and folklore. I know the standard answers: that many
famous writers have written for children, and that the great children’s books are also great
literature; that these books and tales are an important source of archetype and symbol, and that
they can help us to understand the structure and functions of the novel.
B All this is true. But I think we should also take children’s literature seriously because it is
sometimes subversive: because its values are not always those of the conventional adult world. Of
course, in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what
matters is art, imagination and truth. In what we call the real world, what usually counts is money,
power and public success.
C The great subversive works of children’s literature suggest that there are other views of human
life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and
express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and
purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew
our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. That is why such literature is worthy of our
attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
D An interesting question is what – besides intention – makes a particular story a ‘children’s
book’? With the exception of picture books for toddlers, these works are not necessarily shorter or
simpler than so-called adult fiction, and they are surely not less well written. The heroes and
heroines of these tales, it is true, are often children: but then so are the protagonists of Henry Jame’s
What Maisie Knew and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Yet the barrier between children’s books
and adult fiction remains; editors, critics and readers seem to have little trouble in assigning a given
work to one category or the other.
E In classic children’s fiction a pastoral convention is maintained. It is assumed that the world of
childhood is simpler and more natural than that of adults, and that children, though they may have
faults, are essentially good or at least capable of becoming so. The transformation of selfish, whiny,
disagreeable Mary and hysterical, demanding Colin in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret
Garden is a paradigm. Of course, there are often unpleasant minor juvenile characters who give
the protagonist a lot of trouble and are defeated or evaded rather than reeducated. But on occasion
even the angry bully and the lying sneak can be reformed and forgiven. Richard Hughes’s A High
Wind in Jamaica, though most of its characters are children, never appears on lists of recommended
juvenile fiction; not so much because of the elaborations of its diction (which is no more complex
than that of, say, Treasure Island), but because in it children are irretrievably damaged and
corrupted.
F Adults in most children’s books, on the other hand, are usually stuck with their characters and
incapable of alteration or growth. If they are really unpleasant, the only thing that can rescue them
is the natural goodness of a child. Here again, Mrs. Burnett provides the classic example, in Little
Lord Fauntleroy. (Scrooge’s somewhat similar change of heart in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol,
however, is due mainly to regret for his past and terror of the future. This is one of the things that
makes the book a family rather than a juvenile romance; another is the helpless passivity of the
principal child character, Tiny Tim.).
G Of the three principal preoccupations of adult fiction – sex, money and death – the first is absent
from classic children’s literature and the other two either absent or much muted. Money is a motive
in children’s literature, in the sense that many stories deal with a search for treasure of some sort.
These quests, unlike real-life ones, are almost always successful, though occasionally what is
found in the end is some form of family happiness, which is declared by the author and the
characters to be a ‘real treasure’. Simple economic survival, however, is almost never the problem;
what is sought, rather, is a magical (sometimes literally magical) surplus of wealth. Death, which
was a common theme in nineteenth-century fiction for children, was almost banished during the
first half of the twentieth century. Since then it has begun to reappear; the breakthrough book was
E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. Today not only animals but people die, notably in the sort of books
that get awards and are recommended by librarians and psychologists for children who have lost a
relative. But even today the characters who die tend to be of another generation; the protagonist
and his or her friends survive. Though there are some interesting exceptions, even the most
subversive of contemporary children’s books usually follow these conventions. They portray an
ideal world of perfectible beings, free of the necessity for survival.