Test S READING AND USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 15 minutes) Part 1 For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A basically B naturally regularly necessarily a a) ee Why do we dream? Dreams are (0) .......... stories and pictures that our brains create when we're asleep. It is ay ‘our eyes begin to move quickly under our eyelids. This is called Rapid Eye Movement, or REM. knowledge that the majority of dreams take place while we're in deep sleep, and Although dreams can (2).......... at any point during the night, REM dreams are typically the most memorabie and realistic, ‘Some experts believe that dreams are a way to (8) .......... all the events of the day helping us to . of what has happened, Others suggest that dreams are the result of our orains make (4) .... trying to solve (5) .......... problems. Dreams may also be our brain’s attempt to interpret what Is going on around us while we sleep. For example, the sound of the radio may be included in the content of our dreams. (6) .... dreaming could be a sort of clean-up operation, refreshing our that dreams minds in preparation for the next day. However, there are also experts who (7) . have no real (8).......... at all,> > > > > > PF typical exist deal reason definite Particulany claim aim routine result process logic specific Especially realise purpose o 9° 8 49 @ G4 ° ordinary occur cope point absolute Alternatively wonder intention Reading and Use of English ooo 8 oO common reveal arrange sense determined Consequently expect designTest 5 Part 2 For questions 8-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an exampie at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. examote: [0] [oul] T LYI tity) Bed making made easy Do you help (0) me, you do, but you hate making your bed! Well, there’s good news, thanks (10).. ». With jobs that need doing around the house? If you are anything (9) ... @ Spanish . You can press a button, which company which has designed a bed that makes (11) automatically makes the bed after you get out of it, Your bed will be made in just 50 seconds, leaving you time to do other things, As the inventor explained: ‘Many people hate feaving home - Made their bed, but they are often in too (13) ... boring that they keep (19) ... ‘An unmade bed can be the cause of arguments between parents and their children.’ The design of . of a hurry to bother, without (12) ... . it off until tater. For others, the job is simply (14) ... the bed making machine (16).......... being finalised now and the bed should be avallable for sale in the near future. Good news for lazy people!Reading and Use of English Part3 For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. example: [0] [x] 1[ 8] T]o[R] 1] c[a]e Young People and History Most famous (0) .... been shaped by children and teenagers. .. figures are adults, and yet our world has also. ‘The German (17)..........., Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), made the first of several important (18) school. One day, his teacher asked him to add up all the numbers while he was still in elementary from 1 to 100. To the teacher’s great surprise, Carl (19) ... the answer in seconds. The formula he devised to do this is still used by scientists worldwide to (20) .......... them to come up with 21).......... to other maths problems. Young people have also contributed to cultural history. In 1816, horror writing was changed forever when, at eighteen, Mary Shelley, the English (22) .......... , began work on Frankenstein. US teenage fiction was changed (28) .......... when 15-year-old S. E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders in 1965. Both these books gained long-lasting popularity, but the writers’ ages are rarely mentioned. Now, however, there is far more interest in celebrating the many (24) .......... of young people throughout history. HISTORY MATHEMATICS DISCOVER PRODUCT ABLE SOLVE NOVEL DRAMA ACHIEVETest 5 Part 4 For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). Example: © Prizes are given out when the school year finishes. . PLACE Prize-giving . ... end of each school year. The gap can be filled by the words ‘takes place at the’, so you write: Example: | 0 | TAKES PLACE AT THE Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. 25 My geography homework is to think of at least three ways to collect water in the desert. COME My geography homework Is to ..... coliect water in the desert, 1 at least three ways to 26 Rav will need to try harder if he wants to win the race. MORE Rav will need to an effort if he wants to win the race. 27° My parents don't like me lending my skateboard to my friends. RATHER My parents would .... .. my friends borrow my skateboard.Reading and Use of English 28 I sometimes find my littie brother annoying. NERVES My little orother ..... .... sometimes. 29 The teacher asked me whether | was interested in history. FIND "Diss ?’, the teacher asked me. 30 Adam hates volleyball, so how did the coach manage to persuade him to join the tearn? SUCCEED Adam hates volleyball, so how did the coach join the team? him to