Practice Test 2
Practice Test 2
Part 1
1) Speaker 5. Speaker
A) No, I was ill A) I am into fashion
B) Yes, he wrote a letter B) We are keen on football
C) Let‟s go to the cinema. C) I am fond of chess
2. Speaker 6. Speaker
A). Yes, I know them very well. A) No, I hate dancing
B) No, I can‟t swim B) Yes, what time shall we meet?
C) Yes, let‟s phone them C) What shall we have to eat?
3. Speaker 7. Speaker
A) I want to stay at home A) Yes, sounds good
B) I wrote an essay B) I saw them yesterday
C) They were at the party. C) Yes, that is a good place to visit
4. Speaker 8) Speaker
A) Yes, let‟s play tennis A) Yes, I saw him yesterday
B) Why don‟t we get some pizza B) Yes, let‟s send her a massage.
C) Yes, let‟s that film again C) We bought it last week
PART 2
Questions 9 – 14
Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer
Ocean Biodiversity
Biodiversity hotspots
• areas containing many different species
important for locating targets for 9) ______________
at first only identified on land
Boris Worm, 2005
Part 3
Match each speaker (15-18) to the place where the speaker is (A-F). Use the letters only once.
There are TWO EXTRA places which you do not need to use.
Part 4
You will hear someone giving a talk. Label the places (19-23) on the map (A-H). There are
THREE extra options which you do not need to use.
Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
19. Scarecrow……………
20. Maze………………
21. Cafe………………
22. Black Barn………………
23. Covered picnic are ………………
Part 5
Questions 21-30 Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
Rocky Bay field trip
Q24. Sophia’s positive qualities are that she’s …
A) conscientious and assertive.
B) patient and loyal.
C) considerate and sociable.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
READING
Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere in the
rest of the text.
Robot teachers
If you think of the jobs robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top
of the list. It's easy to imagine 1)__________ cleaners and factory workers, but some jobs need human
connection and creativity. But are we underestimating what robots can do? In some cases, they already
perform better than doctors at diagnosing illness. Also, some patients might feel more comfortable
sharing personal information with a machine than a person. Could there be a place for robots in
education after all?
British education expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. And he even has a date for the robot takeover of
the classroom: 2027. He predicts robots will do the main job of transferring information and
2)___________will be like assistants. Intelligent robots will read students' faces, movements and
maybe even brain signals. Then they will adapt the information to each 3)__________ It's not a
popular opinion and it's unlikely robots will ever have empathy and the ability to really connect with
humans like another 4) ___________ can.
One thing is certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world,
there aren't enough teachers and 9–16 per cent of children under the age of 14 don't go to school. That
problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won't get stressed, or
tired, or move somewhere for an easier, higher-paid job.
Those negative aspects of teaching are something everyone agrees on. Teachers all over the
5)___________ are leaving because it is a difficult job and they feel overworked. Perhaps the question
is not 'Will robots replace teachers?' but 'How can robots help teachers?' Office workers can use
software to do things like organise and answer emails, arrange meetings and update calendars.
Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking
homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking 6) __________ and writing reports,
teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.
PART 2
Read the texts 7-14 and the statements A-J. Decide which text matches with the situation described in
the statements. Each statement can be used ONCE only. There are TWO extra statements which
you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
A) This course will be dedicated to Phonetics of English.
B) You should apply to these positions by yourself through the web site.
C) These course doesn‟t provide you with books.
D) You are not permitted to use any means of communication during the study process.
E) This course enables you to learn about phonetics of English.
F) The club trainings last until 7:00 every Wednesday
G) You are asked to join a team for three days next month.
H) You are required to have a certain language degree to apply for this course.
I) You need to have some job experience before applying for this job
J) You are asked to come to the hall to take part in a meeting for students.
7) 11)
8) 12)
9) 13)
10) 14)
PART 3
Read the text and choose the correct heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of them. You cannot use any
heading more than once. Mark your answers on the answer sheet.
List of headings
A) Early years of Gilbert
B) The soul of the earth 15. Paragraph 1 ______
C) Questioning traditional astronomy 16. Paragraph 2 ______
D) A pair of founders of contemporary science 17. Paragraph 3 ______
E) Professional and social recognition 18. Paragraph 4 ______
F) The great works of Gilbert 19. Paragraph 5 ______
G) His change of focus 20. Paragraph 6 ______
H ) His discovery about magnetism
2) Gilbert‟s birth pre-dated Galileo. Born in an eminent local family in Colchester County in the UK,
on May 24, 1544, he went to grammar school, and then studied medicine at St John‟s College,
Cambridge, graduating in 1573. Later he travelled in the continent and eventually settled down in
London. He was really talented and gifted child and he was very interested in learning various subjects
including science.
3) He was a very successful and eminent doctor. All this culminated in his election to the president of
the Royal Science Society. He was also appointed personal physician to the Queen (Elizabeth I), and
later knighted by the Queen. He faithfully served her until her death. However, he didn‟t outlive the
Queen for long and died on November 30, 1603, only a few months after his appointment as personal
physician to King James. He tried to wrote several manuals for his researches .
4) Gilbert was first interested in chemistry but later changed his focus due to the large portion of
mysticism of alchemy involved (such as the transmutation of metal). He gradually developed his
interest in physics after the great minds of the ancient, particularly about the knowledge the ancient
Greeks had about lodestones, strange minerals with the power to attract iron. In the meantime, Britain
became a major seafaring nation in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was defeated, opening the way to
British settlement of America. British ships depended on the magnetic compass, yet no one understood
why it worked. Did the Pole Star attract it, as Columbus once speculated; or was there a magnetic
mountain at the pole, as described in Odyssey, which ships would never approach, because the sailors
thought its pull would yank out all their iron nails and fittings? For nearly 20 years, William Gilbert
conducted ingenious experiments to understand magnetism. His works include On the Magnet,
Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the Earth.
5) Gilbert‟s discovery was so important to modern physics. He investigated the nature of magnetism
and electricity. He even coined the word “electric”. Though the early beliefs of magnetism were also
largely entangled with superstitions such as that rubbing garlic on lodestone can neutralise its
magnetism, one example being that sailors even believed the smell of garlic would even interfere with
the action of compass, which is why helmsmen were forbidden to eat it near a ship‟s compass. Gilbert
also found that metals can be magnetised by rubbing materials such as fur, plastic or the like on them.
He named the ends of a magnet “north pole” and “south pole”. The magnetic poles can attract or repel,
depending on polarity. In addition, however, ordinary iron is always attracted to a magnet. Though he
started to study the relationship between magnetism and electricity, sadly he didn‟t complete it. His
research of static electricity using amber and jet only demonstrated that objects with electrical charges
can work like magnets attracting small pieces of paper and stuff. It is a French guy named du Fay that
discovered that there are actually two electrical charges, positive and negative.
6) He also questioned the traditional astronomical beliefs. Though a Copernican, he didn‟t express in
his quintessential beliefs whether the earth is at the centre of the universe or in orbit around the sun.
However, he believed that stars are not equidistant from the earth but have their own earth-like planets
orbiting around them. The earth itself is like a giant magnet, which is also why compasses always
point north. They spin on an axis that is aligned with the earth‟s polarity. He even likened the polarity
of the magnet to the polarity of the earth and built an entire magnetic philosophy on this analogy. In
his explanation, magnetism is the soul of the earth. Thus a perfectly spherical lodestone, when aligned
with the earth‟s poles, would wobble all by itself in 24 hours. Further, he also believed that the sun and
other stars wobble just like the earth does around a crystal core, and speculated that the moon might
also be a magnet caused to orbit by its magnetic attraction to the earth. This was perhaps the first
proposal that a force might cause a heavenly orbit.
Part 4
Read the following text and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on the
answer sheet.
Activities for Children
A. Twenty-five years ago, children in London walked to school and played in parks and playing fields
after school and at the weekend. Today they are usually driven to school by parents anxious about
safety and spend hours glued to television screens or computer games. Meanwhile, community playing
fields are being sold off to property developers at an alarming rate. „This change in lifestyle has, sadly,
meant greater restrictions on children,‟ says Neil Armstrong, Professor of Health and Exercise
Sciences at the University of Exeter. „If children continue to be this inactive, they‟ll be storing up big
problems for the future.‟
B. In 1985, Professor Armstrong headed a five-year research project into children‟s fitness. The
results, published in 1990, were alarming. The survey, which monitored 700 11-16-year-olds, found
that 48 per cent of girls and 41 per cent of boys already exceeded safe cholesterol levels set for
children by the American Heart Foundation. Armstrong adds, “Heart is a muscle and need exercise, or
it loses its strength.” It also found that 13 per cent of boys and 10 percent of girls were overweight.
More disturbingly, the survey found that over a four-day period, half the girls and one-third of the boys
did less exercise than the equivalent of a brisk 10-minute walk. High levels of cholesterol, excess body
fat and inactivity are believed to increase the risk of coronary heart disease.
C. Physical education is under pressure in the UK – most schools devote little more than 100 minutes
a week to it in curriculum time, which is less than many other European countries. Three European
countries are giving children a head start in PE, France, Austria and Switzerland – offer at least two
hours in primary and secondary schools. These findings, from the European Union of Physical
Education Associations, prompted specialists in children‟s physiology to call on European
governments to give youngsters a daily PE programme. The survey shows that the UK ranks 13th out
of the 25 countries, with Ireland bottom, averaging under an hour a week for PE. From age six to 18
British children received, on average, 106 minutes of PE a week. Professor Armstrong, who presented
the findings at the meeting, noted that since the introduction of the national curriculum there had been
a marked fall in the time devoted to PE in UK schools, with only a minority of pupils getting two
hours a week.
D. As a former junior football international, Professor Armstrong is a passionate advocate for sport.
Although the Government has poured millions into beefing up sport in the community, there is less
commitment to it as part of the crammed school curriculum. This means that many children never
acquire the necessary skills to thrive in team games. If they are no good at them, they lose interest and
establish an inactive pattern of behaviour. When this is coupled with a poor diet, it will lead inevitably
to weight gain. Seventy per cent of British children give up all sport when they leave school, compared
with only 20 per cent of French teenagers. Professor Armstrong believes that there is far too great an
emphasis on team games at school. “We need to look at the time devoted to PE and balance it between
individual and pair activities, such as aerobics and badminton, as well as team sports. “He added that
children need to have the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of individual, partner and team
sports.
E. The good news, however, is that a few small companies and children‟s activity groups have
reacted positively and creatively to the problem. Take That, shouts Gloria Thomas, striking a disco
pose astride her mini space hopper. Take That, echo a flock of toddlers, adopting outrageous postures
astride their space hoppers. „Michael Jackson, she shouts, and they all do a spoof fan-crazed shriek.
During the wild and chaotic hopper race across the studio floor, commands like this are issued and
responded to with untrammelled glee. The sight of 15 bouncing seven-year-olds who seem about to
launch into orbit at every bounce brings tears to the eyes. Uncoordinated, loud, excited and emotional,
children provide raw comedy.
F. Any cardiovascular exercise is a good option, and it doesn‟t necessarily have to be high intensity.
It can be anything that gets your heart rate up: such as walking the dog, swimming, miming, skipping,
hiking. “Even walking through the grocery store can be exercise,” Samis-Smith said. What they don‟t
know is that they‟re at a Fit Kids class, and that the fun is a disguise for the serious exercise plan
they‟re covertly being taken through. Fit Kids trains parents to run fitness classes for children. „Ninety
per cent of children don‟t like team sports,‟ says company director, Gillian Gale.
G. A Prevention survey found that children whose parents keep in shape are much more likely to
have healthy body weights themselves. “There‟s nothing worse than telling a child what he needs to do
and not doing it yourself,” says Elizabeth Ward, R.D., a Boston nutritional consultant and author of
Healthy Foods, Healthy Kids . “Set a good example and get your nutritional house in order first.” In
the 1930s and ‟40s, kids expended 800 calories a day just walking, carrying water, and doing other
chores, notes Fima Lifshitz, M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist in Santa Barbara. “Now, kids in obese
families are expending only 200 calories a day in physical activity,” says Lifshitz, “incorporate more
movement in your family‟s life park farther away from the stores at the mall, take stairs instead of the
elevator, and walk to nearby friends‟ houses instead of driving.” In the 1930s and ‟40s, kids expended
800 calories a day just walking, carrying water, and doing other chores, notes Fima Lifshitz, M.D., a
pediatric endocrinologist in Santa Barbara. “Now, kids in obese families are expending only 200
calories a day in physical activity,” says Lifshitz, “incorporate more movement in your family‟s life
park farther away from the stores at the mall, take stairs instead of the elevator, and walk to nearby
friends‟ houses instead of driving.”
25. According to Neil Armstrong inactive children may have problem in the future.
A) True B) False C) No Information
26. According to Neil Armstrong 40 percent of girls suffer from obesity.
A) True B) False C) No Information
27. Majority of children never have enough essential skills for team games.
A) True B) False C) No Information
28. Thin children never complain about their health and eyesight.
A) True B) False C) No Information
29. Riding a bicycle on regular basis is sometimes harmful for heart.
A) True B) False C) No Information
Part 5
But we live in changing times, and Whitebread is mindful of a worldwide decline in play,
pointing out that over half the people in the world now live in cities. „The opportunities
for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming
increasingly scarce,‟ he says.Outdoor play is curtailed by perceptions of risk to do with
traffic, as well as parents‟ increased wish to protect their children from being the victims
of crime, and by the emphasis on „earlier is better‟ which is leading to greater
competition in academic learning and schools. International bodies like the United
Nations and the European Union have begun to develop policies concerned with
children‟s right to play, and to consider implications for leisure facilities and educational
programmes. But what they often lack is the evidence to base policies on.
„The type of play we are interested in is child-initiated, spontaneous and unpredictable –
but, as soon as you ask a five-year-old “to play”, then you as the researcher have
intervened,‟ explains Dr Sara Baker. „And we want to know what the long-term impact of
play is. It‟s a real challenge.‟Dr Jenny Gibson agrees, pointing out that although some of
the steps in the puzzle of how and why play is important have been looked at, there is
very little data on the impact it has on the child‟s later life.Now, thanks to the university‟s
new Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL),
Whitebread, Baker, Gibson and a team of researchers hope to provide evidence on the
role played by play in how a child develops.
„A strong possibility is that play supports the early development of children‟s self
control,‟ explains Baker. „This is our ability to develop awareness of our own thinking
processes – it influences how effectively we go about undertaking challenging
activities.‟In a study carried out by Baker with toddlers and young pre-schoolers, she
found that children with greater self-control solved problems more quickly when
exploring an unfamiliar set-up requiring scientific reasoning. „This sort of evidence
makes us think that giving children the chance to play will make them more successful
problemsolvers in the long run.‟If playful experiences do facilitate this aspect of
development, say the researchers, it could be extremely significant for educational
practices, because the ability to self regulate has been shown to be a key predictor of
academic performance.
Gibson adds: „Playful behaviour is also an important indicator of healthy social and
emotional development. In my previous research, I investigated how observing children
at play can give us important clues about their well-being and can even be useful in the
diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.‟Whitebread‟s recent research has
involved developing a play-based approach to supporting children‟s writing. „Many
primary school children find writing difficult, but we showed in a previous study that a
playful stimulus was far more effective than an instructional one.‟ Children wrote longer
and better-structured stories when they first played with dolls representing characters in
the story. In the latest study, children first created their story with Lego *, with similar
results. „Many teachers commented that they had always previously had children saying
they didn‟t know what to write about.
With the Lego building, however, not a single child said this through the whole year of
the project.‟Whitebread, who directs PEDAL, trained as a primary school teacher in the
early 1970s, when, as he describes, „the teaching of young children was largely a quiet
backwater, untroubled by any serious intellectual debate or controversy.‟ Now, the
landscape is very different, with hotly debated topics such as school starting age.
„Somehow the importance of play has been lost in recent decades. It‟s regarded as
something trivial, or even as something negative that contrasts with “work”. Let‟s not
lose sight of its benefits, and the fundamental contributions it makes to human
achievements in the arts, sciences and technology. Let‟s make sure children have a rich
diet of play experiences.‟ Lego: coloured plastic building blocks and other pieces that can
be joined together
For questions 30-33, fill in the missing information in the numbered spaces.
Children's play:
For questions 34-35, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on the answer
sheet.
34) Plato praised the advantages of playing as a type of improving abilities for …
A) immature
B) children
C) for the deaf
D) adults
(Work)
(Volunteer Works)
Describe an advertisement that persuaded you to buy a product. You should say
What advertisement it was
Was it shown on TV, radio or newspaper
What was good about that advertisement
Explain why you think that advertisement made the product seem attractive.
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Talk about a painting you would like to have in your home. You should say:
what is it
how you know about it
how much it would cost you
and explain why you want to have it in your home
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Talk about a book you are reading now or have read recently. You should say:
How and why you got it
How long you it took you to read it or how long you have been reading it
What kind of book it is
And say if you would like to read something else similar or not, and why
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Talk about a book you have never read but would like to read. You should mention:
How well known it is
Why you would like to read it
Why you have never read it before
And say how you think it will compare to other books you have read
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Describe a positive change in your life. You should say:
what the change was about
when it happened
describe details of the change happened
And describe how it affected you later in life.
You work for an international company. You have seen an advertisement for a training course
which will be useful for your job.
Write a letter to your manager. In your letter
describe the training course you want to do
explain what the company could do to help you
say how the course will be useful for your job
Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write any addresses.
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Writing Task 2
Some people say that it is possible to tell a lot about a person’s culture and character from their
choice of clothes. Do you agree or disagree?
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Answer Key for listening READING ANSWERS
PART 1 PART 1
1 C Let’s go to the cinema 1 robot
2 C Yes, let’s phone them 2 teacher
3 A I want to stay at home 3 student
4 B Why don’t we get some pizza 4 human
5 C I am fond of chess 5 world
6 B Yes, what time shall we meet? 6 homework
7 A Yes, sounds good 7 I
8 B Yes, let’s send her a massage. 8 B
PART 2 9 E
9 conservation 10 H
10 food 11 J
11 surface 12 D
12 oxygen 13 C
13 mammals 14 G
14 ice 15 D
PART 3 16 A
15 C 17 E
16 F 18 G
17 D 19 H
18 B 20 B
PART 4 21 C
19 F Scare screw 22 B
20 G Maze 23 C
21 D Café 24 A
22 H Black barn 25 A-(True)
23 C Covered picnic area 26 B-(False)
PART 5 27 A-(True)
24 C considerate and sociable. 28 C-Not given
25 A a rash and a sore throat 29 C-Not given
26 B It‟ll be quite hot. 30 creativity
27 B wear shirts that were too small. 31 rules
28 C fed up 32 cities
29 C in his coat. 33 traffic
PART 6 34 D
30 Attitude/ attitudes 35 B
31 numbers
32 time / minutes
33 software
34 patients
35 emotions / feelings
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