Test B - Reading
Test B - Reading
Test B - Reading
Reading
Part 1
Questions 1-5
Example:
John should
To 11 John A contact Nell after phoning the cinema.
From 11 Nell
Can you call the cinema from home and B ring Nell after arriving at the cinema.
check film time before leaving? Let me
know what time we should get there. C go to the cinema to check when the film starts.
A B C
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when you buy a coat today C We have gloves to match the coats we sell.
3 A We give lost property away if it is not collected after
two weeks.
Part 2
Questions 6-10
6 Jan is sixteen and she loves shopping for clothes and reading stories about
people and things in the news. She wants to read some entertaining light fiction.
7 Paul is nineteen and is very keen on sport. He doesn't enjoy fiction much,
but does like reading about the lives of sporting heroes of the past.
8 Susan is eighteen and enjoys good writing. She would like something which offers
information as well as entertainment. She's interested in history and plans to
travel round Europe this summer.
10 Sonia is twenty-four and works for an international airline. She enjoys love
stories of the past, especially if they contain descriptions of beautiful houses,
clothes and parties.
11 The writer says many women joined armies before the twentieth century.
One English woman soldier in the seventeenth century was Christian Walsh, the wife
of a man who was made to join the army, although he did not want to be a soldier.
Christian refused to accept the situation, unlike most women in those days. She cut
off her hair, dressed as a man and joined the army, calling herself Kit Cavanagh, in
order to look for her husband. It was thirteen years before she found him and during
that time she fought in several different countries. She was only discovered to be a
woman when doctors were operating on her for an injury she had received while
fighting.
A rather different example, from around the same time, is Anne Bonney. It is not
certain why she left Ireland, where she was born, and went to the islands which are
now called the Bahamas. However, we know that when she got there, she fell in love
with a sailor called John Rackham. She worked with John to steal a ship from the
local port. They obviously chose the ship carefully, because it was the fastest one in
the port at the time. For the next ten years they sailed round the Caribbean,
attacking other ships and stealing everything valuable from them, as well as taking
sailors to help on their own ship.
One day, Anne was surprised to discover that a boy they had taken off another ship
in this way was really a young woman. She told Anne her name was Mary Read. She
said she had dressed like a man to increase her opportunities, because in those days
of course most women were expected to stay at home. Earlier, Mary had fought in
the army, but had stopped pretending to be a man for a short time when she married
a soldier who had realised that she was a woman. Unfortunately her husband died,
and so Mary started to dress as a man once again and became a sailor.
Anne and Mary continued their criminal career with John Rackham, but in the
end their ship was caught by the navy. The two women went on fighting even after
all the men were taken prisoner, but they avoided punishment and disappeared.
Nobody knows what happened to them after that. Perhaps they pretended to be
men and joined another ship, or maybe they got married.