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SECTION 1: LISTENING
There are FOUR parts of the listening test. Before listening, you will have 20 seconds to
look through the questions in each part.
Part 1: You will hear a man phoning to inquire about hotel information. Listen to the
recording and complete the table below with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A
NUMBER for each answer:
For each question, fill in the missing information in the numbered space.
You will hear the recording TWICE.
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GLASGOW
Arrival by car
City centre car parks are (6) ______. Leave car at hotel.
“Discovering Glasgow” tour bus
Departs from George (7) ______ every 30 minutes.
Buy tickets from (8) ______.
Walking
Go to Welcome Centre for information – free (9) ______
available.
Places to visit
Glasgow Cathedral – built in (10) ______.
Merchant City area – shops selling (11) ______ and clothes.
Byres Road – student area.
Botanic Gardens – glasshouses close at (12) ______.
Part 3: You will hear a radio interview with the manager of a summer activity course.
Listen to the recording and choose the correct option A, B or C.
You will hear the recording TWICE.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Part 2: Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each gap.
WRITE your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
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26. 27. 28. 29. 30.
Part 3: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only ONE
word in each gap. WRITE your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
In my childhood, the whole family would sometimes go (0) ___on___ a diet. (31)
______ that we were all oversize; far from it. In fact, one of my brothers was and (32) ______
is one of the thinnest people I have (33) ______ known. The (34) ______ for all this dieting
was partly my father’s health and partly my mother’s strange ideas. My father had heart
trouble for (35) ______ some time and the doctor advised him to (36) ______ down on fats
and smoking. My mother took this as a sign that all of us should restrain (37) ______ from
overeating and she immediately cut our food portions (38) ______ half. My brothers and I
were (39) ______ hungry that we had to spend our pocket money on cream cakes. We should
not have worried (40) ______. After (41) ______one week we surprised our mother secretly
(42) ______ a slice of fruit cake in the kitchen. We teased her (43) ______ this and my father
said life wasn’t (44) ______ living unless you could eat (45) ______you wanted. So, she
agreed to start cooking more.
Part 4: Read the text below. Give the correct form of the words numbered in brackets.
WRITE your answers in the box below. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Part 5: Read the following passage and circle the best option A, B, C or D to each of the
following questions. WRITE your answers in corresponding numbered boxes.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Sometimes the road to the future leads through the past. Such was the case for
Americans Scott and Brennan Olson, who used an old idea to launch a hot new trend in sports:
inline roller skating.
In 1979, these siblings found a pair of antique roller skates while checking out bargains
at a used sporting – goods store. The skates they found had four wheels in a single row instead
of the traditional parallel pairs of wheels in front and back. this single row of wheels intrigued
the Olsons. They were avid hockey players, and they immediately noticed the similarity
between the inline wheels and the long, single blade found on the bottom of ice skates. Could
these unusual skates somehow be used to practice hockey off the ice?
The Olsons set about trying to modify the design of the antique skates that they had
found. First, they tested out the antique skates to see how well they worked. From those tests,
they tried to come up with ways to improve the old design. One improvement involved using
special materials to make the skates stronger and easier to steer. The Olsons also added reliable
brakes to their inline skates. In 1980, the Olsons founded a company called Rollerblade to
make and sell their “new” invention. Sales skyrocketed, and soon millions of people
worldwide were “rollerblading,” as inline skating was mistakenly called.
At first, inline skating was recreational. People enjoyed skating in parks and on streets
and some even danced on skates at giant roller discos. Today, inline “group skates” are popular
all over the world. In cities such as San Francisco, Paris and Berlin, as many as 20,000 skaters
might meet on a free day and skate together through the streets. Many people see inline skating
as a great way to exercise and socialize.
By the mid -1990s, inline skating had become more than just a recreational sport. It had
developed into several competitive sports. One of the most popular, even today, is aggressive
skating. This involves performing tricks and jumping over objects such as boxes, ramps and
rails. Other kinds of competitive skating include speed skating, artistic skating, downhill racing
and skating marathons.
So, what about hockey? Well, the Olsons achieved their goal. Inline hockey leagues
sprang up almost immediately. Then in 1999, inline hockey joined the lineup at the Pan –
American Games. There are rumours that inline skating may even become part of the Summer
Olympics someday.
56. What is the main idea of this reading?
A. Why inline skating is popular.
B. The history of inline skating competitions.
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C. How inline skating developed.
D. The story of Scott and Brennan Olson.
57. Which word is closest in meaning to the word” sprang up” in this reading?
A. helped eagerly
B. moved suddenly
C. happened anually
D. developed quickly
58. What was a problem with the early inline skates?
A. They were too heavy.
B. They were not easy to stop.
C. They were uncomfortable.
D. They were made of expensive metal.
59. What is NOT true according to the passage?
A. At first, only hockey players were interested in the Olsons’ skates.
B. The Olsons started a new company.
C. In the 1980s, most people called inline skates rollerblades.
D. Rollerblades became very popular almost from the beginning.
60. What can be inferred about the antique inline skates found by the Olsons?
A. They were not widely sold.
B. They were used mainly by Europeans.
C. They were more popular than bicycles.
D. They were used by hockey players in the summer.
Part 6: From the list of heading below, choose the most suitable heading for each
paragraph. There are FOUR extra headings which you do not need to use. WRITE your
answers in the numbered boxes from 61 to 65:
There is an example at the beginning (0)
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LISTS OF HEADINGS
A. Sustainable fishing techniques
B. Regulating fishing activities
C. Gregorio Dano
D. Alternative sources of income
E. Peculiar creatures
F. Tiger – tail seahorses
G. Medicinal use of seahorses
H. Stephen Casey’s effort
I. Getting all parties to work together
J. Finding ways to protect seahorses
Gregorio Dano is a seahorses fisherman, and he’s not happy. A decade ago, he and the other
subsistence fishers from the central Philippine village of Handumon supported their families
by collecting dozens of seahorses a day from the coral reefs of nearby Danajon Bank. But as
the six - month – long seahorse – fishing season begins next month, Dano will be lucky to
catch a half dozen of the elusive fish in a full night ‘s diving, enough to buy only a day’s worth
of rice.
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Seahorses and their relatives, the only animal species whose males, rather than females,
become pregnant, are popular with home collectors and public aquariums alike. Since the
charismatic fish die easily in capacity, they must be replaced frequently from the wind. Dried
seahorses are prized by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, in remedies for
everything from asthma to impotence. As disposal income in China has risen over the last
decade, so too has demand for seahorse – based cures. That has caused overfishing at Danajon
Bank and throughout the fishes’ range, leading to the loss of at least 20 million wild seahorses
a year. Populations have been plummeting everywhere seahorses are fished – in sea grass beds
and mangrove stands from Florida to Ecuador, and on coral reefs from India to Vietnam.
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Last week 35 researchers and representatives of major public aquariums from around the world
met at Chicago’s John G. Shedd Aquarium to discuss what can be done to reverse the trend.
“We’ve seen population declines of 50 per cent over the last five years, and that’s
unacceptable,” says Amanda Vincent, a conservation biologist at Montreal’s McGill University
and co – founder of Project Seahorse. One way to reduce aquariums’ dependence on wild
stocks is to improve captive breeding techniques. Jorge Gomezjurado, a biologist at San
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Francisco’s Steinhart Aquarium, has spent the last year trying to raise Hippocampus ingens, the
Giant Pacific seahorse. Prized as the largest of the seahorses at up to 12 inches long, H. ingens
is also one of the trickiest to breed. Like all seahorses, they’re are fussy eaters and in captivity,
they’re susceptible to disease. By experimenting with food supplements, Gomezjurado has
managed to raise three successive generations.
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Another researcher, a Ph.D. candidate at the London Institute of Zoology named Stephen
Casey, has been studying the six – inch – long Tiger – Tail seahorse (H. comes), the most
heavily exploited species on the Danajon Bank. Casey spent six weeks in Handumon, going
out with seahorse fishers nightly to collect specimens. He paid the fishers the going rate for
their catch, a few pesos each, which allowed him to sample without further depleting the
population. His research will help determine whether seahorses can move from one spot on a
reef to another. Adults rarely stray more than a few feet from their small home range, but
juveniles might be transported to distant areas by waves or currents. If so, the progeny of an
isolated pocket of reproducing adults would spread out, recolonizing distant reefs that have
been depopulated by fishing.
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The Shedd Aquarium is tackling the depopulation problem from a different angle. Together
with Project Seahorse, Shedd’s merchandizing department developed a project with the
Handumon villagers to lessen the dependency on seahorses. The Shedd gift shop now stocks
34 different products made by Handumon fishers and their families. Straw beach mats and
handbags with seahorse motifs are big sellers. Dano and his wife have gone into business
making wooden diving googles, sold at the Shedd gift shop for $7, and have earned enough to
get out of debt and buy food and medicine for their six children.
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Part 7: You are going to read a magazine about the Hebrides Islands in Scotland. FIVE
sentences have been removed from the article. Choose ONE sentence from A to F which fits
each gap (66 – 70). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
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and you will feel you will want to return to them, as I felt when I approached the end of my
journey in Marguerite Explorer.
1. They lost not only their money but their passports as well. (ADDITION)
................................................................................................., they lost the passports as well.
2. He celebrated his birthday party las Saturday. (PLACE)
His birthday ........................................................................................................last Saturday.
3. Your silly question distracted me. (DROVE)
You ....................................................................................................with your silly question.
4. I’ve never had such comfortable shoes. (FAR)
These shoes are .........................................................................................ones I’ve ever worn.
5.Poeple think that the robber was killed last night. (BEEN)
The robber is............................................................................................................. last night.
6. He is a generous person. (NAME)
Generosity is ............................................................................................................................
7. My treasure has been stolen. (OFF)
Someone has .........................................................................................................my treasure.
8. I don’t care what you do with the money. (INTEREST)
What you do with money ...................................................................................................me.
Part 2: Rewrite each of the following sentences using the word in capital so that it has the
same meaning as the printed one. Do not change these words. WRITE yours answers in the
space provided. 0.25/each
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