Multilevel Full Mock Test 3
Multilevel Full Mock Test 3
Test 3
Part 1
You will hear some sentences. Choose the best reply to each sentence.
A. Yes, I did.
2 B. I will later.
C. I can do it tomorrow.
A. Tuesday is fine.
3
B. I'm running a little late.
C. Morning would be best.
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Part 2
For each question, write the correct answer in the gap. Write one or two words or
a number or a date or a time. You will hear a travel writer talking about different holiday
destinations.
HOLIDAY DESTINATIONS
The Canary Islands
Nice weather throughout the year.
La Gomera is a good place for 7.
Prices start at 8pounds each for a fortnight.
Sardinia
Variety of water sports available.
You can get a 9certificate.
Adults travelling with children cannot go in 10. Iceland
Travel around Reykjavik on a 11. Askja region has beautiful mountains.
Cost for adults £1,200 – accommodation and 12are included in the price.
Part 3
You will hear five different people talking about incidents at work involving children. For
questions 13-17, choose from the list A-H which occupation each speaker has. Use the
letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.
Use the letters only once. There are three extra letters which you do not need to use.
A. shop assistant
B. doctor
12.Speaker 1
C. executive
13.Speaker 2
D. nursery teacher
14.Speaker 3
E. bus driver
15.Speaker 4
F. lawyer
16.Speaker 5
G. video games expert
H. debt collector
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Part 4
Label the map below. Write the correct letter, A-l, next to Questions 18-23
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Part 5
You will hear three different extracts. For questions 24-29, choose the answer (A, B or C)
which fits best according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract.
Extract One
You hear two friends, Lizzie and Raphael, talking about playing the keyboard and the drums.
Extract Two
26 What does the woman say about meeting clients for the first time?
Extract Three
You hear a chef, called Nick, talking to his sister about his work.
28 How did Nick feel when he made a dish he used to love as a child?
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C. embarrassed that it tasted so unpleasant
Part 6
You will hear a woman, called Diana, giving a talk about her experience as a volunteer at
a riding school in Costa Rica in Central America. For questions 30-35, complete the
sentences with a word or short phrase.
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READING TEST
Part 1
Read the text. Fill in each gap with ONE word. You must use a word which is somewhere
in the rest of the text.
Eight firefighters have been called in to help find an escaped hamster. Two crews used a
chocolate-covered camera and a vacuum cleaner to try and locate the missing
1 , called Fudgie, at the home of a six-year-old girl in Dunbar, Scotland.
The girl’s mother said: ‘We came down for breakfast and discovered Fudgie had opened the
top lid of her cage and had made her way into the kitchen and we think she has
gone through a small hole in the floor.'
The fire crews spent five hours trying to recover the pet after it ran down a hole in the
kitchen floor. But, the hamster still refused to come out of the 2 .
In the search for 3 , the firefighters took the family cooker and gas pipes
apart. They also dropped a mini-camera coated with chocolate under the floorboards. They
then hoped to take out the hamster using a vacuum cleaner. Despite all their efforts, they
failed to find Fudgie.
In the end, the 4_ put another camera down the hole and left it under the
floorboards, connected to the screen of the family home computer, to see if Fudgie
appeared. Besides, the 5 and her parents regularly dropped food through the
6 for the 7 .
At last, after eight days the hamster returned to her cage safe and sound. She crawled from
the hole in the kitchen floor early in the morning. It was the girl’s father who first found
Fudgie and locked the runaway hamster.
The girl said that day it was like Christmas morning for her. Her parents added that they too
felt extremely happy when Fudgie had finally 8 .
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Part 2
The people all want to attend a course. Read the descriptions of eight courses. Decide
which course would be the most suitable for each person. For Questions 9-13, select the
best course.
9. Harriet is 71, and is interested in painting and drawing. She would like to go
somewhere in the summer where she can learn new tips and paint attractive
scenery.
10.Belinda works for a large Art Company and she feels she needs to improve her
computer skills. She already has a basic understanding of some common computer
programmes, but she wants to learn how to organise her work and store
information.
11.Jenny is interested in a career in design, and wants to learn how to create art and
change photographs using special computer programmes. She wants a course that
will fit into her normal school day.
12.George is unable to travel because he has difficulty walking, but he wants to learn
more about the wildlife and scenery in different parts of the world.
13.Chris wants a change in career, so he’s looking for a full-time course in which he can
learn everything there is to know about photography and how to use computers to
change and sell his work.
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already have a good understanding of photography and their own equipment. The
class is suitable for everyone, as there is very little walking involved.
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.
List of
14.Paragraph A headings
15.Paragraph B
1.Failing relationships and negative feelings
16.Paragraph C
2.Winning the lottery may not make you happier
17.Paragraph D3. What is Hedonic Adaptation?
18.Paragraph E4. Philanthropy benefits the giver
19.Paragraph F5. Wealth management issues
20.Paragraph G6. Spend your winnings wisely
21.Paragraph H 7. What you do, not what you buy
8. Behavioral Changes
9. Сase of Lisa Arcand
A. This is partially due to a phenomenon called hedonic adaptation or the hedonic
treadmill. This describes our tendency to become used to the happiness after
experiencing it for the first time. For example, landing the job that you have always
wanted may give you happiness but the thrill wears off after a certain period of time.
Though it may sound a little bit counterintuitive, hedonic adaptation helps us
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maintain a steady and emotional equilibrium which makes us less sensitive to any
changes including negative events. This phenomenon allows us to revert back to our
default emotional state after experiencing high levels of emotion whether good or
bad.
B. Piecing together this information, winning the lottery would make you happy but
only for a short period of time. After getting used to the luxuries of having enough
funds for grandiose homes, better food, and nicer clothes, we go back to how we
used to feel before we won the prize. Therefore, winning the lottery doesn’t
guarantee happiness, in fact, lottery winners even reported being unhappy after they
have won the prize.
C. One of the reasons why this is so is because large sums of money can be a lot to
manage. Take for example the case of Lisa Arcand from Massachusetts. She won $1
million in 2004 and like all winners, she went on lavish vacations and bought a nice
house. However, a million dollars isn’t much for taxes; she even opened a restaurant
to keep the cash flowing but to no avail, losing everything in 2007. Another example
is Michael Caroll who turned from lottery winner to factory worker, even after
winning £9.7 million in 2002. Janite Lee, Willie Hurt, and Lou Eisenberg, are just some
of the many names that have won the lottery but went from rags to riches and back
to rags because of poor financial decisions.
D. Aside from difficulty in managing finances, winning the lottery can be an isolating
experience. Unwanted attention and unwanted requests for money from peers can
make us paranoid and anxious. Eventually, lottery winners wind up cutting
themselves from others because of the fear of being used as a just a source of money
than a source of friendship.
E. While the constant fear of losing everything can haunt lottery winners, some even
become greedier than they were before winning. A study conducted by social-
psychologist Paul Piff at the UC Berkeley Campus in California, proves that gaining
wealth can actually change our behaviour drastically. Using a rigged game of
Monopoly, Piff chose a player at random to play the game at a certain advantage
such as more starting money, and better ability to move around the board. In just
after 15 minutes, the advantaged players displayed dramatic change in behaviour
including forceful movement of boardgame pieces, speaking louder, and even minute
things such as eating more snacks compared to other players.
F. Winning the lottery will make you happy but thanks to hedonic adaptation, the thrill
and excitement of spending all that cash won’t last long. While most of us would
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indulge in a fabulous lifestyle after winning, there are ways that winning the lottery
can make us happier than having the latest supercar in your garage. It’s that old
saying it’s not what you have, but what you do that counts. The key to happiness, it
seems, is to invest in experiences. Think carefully before you start spending.
G. Having a lot of money can open new opportunities for us to enjoy life more than just
having expensive things. With hedonic adaptation embedded in our systems, finding
what really guarantees happiness can be a hurdle on the way. However, findings
show that people tend to adapt faster to extrinsic and material things than we do on
experience. Travelling, exploring, and even learning a new skill, gives us more
gratification than having the latest clothes from your favourite designer or luxury
brand. Therefore, investing in experiences makes us happier than investing in things.
H. Another thing that would help you convert your money into happiness is through
charity. Believe it or not, giving others provides more happiness than spending it on
yourself. A study by the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School
proved that spending more on others provides more happiness than spending it on
yourself. Participants were asked to spend money however they wish, be it on
themselves or unto others. Afterwards, a survey was conducted to rate their level of
happiness. The group who donated their money to charity feel happier than those
who spent it on themselves.
While having money does make us happy today, it doesn’t guarantee our happiness
in the long-run. Thanks to hedonic adaptation, we get used to the emotions that we
feel but we can get around it by making every penny count – not on materialistic
things – but on experiences and by giving back to the community.
Part 4
Comedy writer Armando Iannucci has called for an industry-wide defence of the BBC and
British programme-makers. "The Thick of It" creator made his remarks in the annual
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MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.
"It's more important than ever that we have more strong, popular channels... that act as
beacons, drawing audiences to the best content," he said. Speaking earlier, Culture
Secretary John Whittingdale rejected suggestions that he wanted to dismantle the BBC.
'Champion supporters'
Iannucci co-wrote "I'm Alan Partridge", wrote the movie "In the Loop" and created and
wrote the hit "HBO" and "Sky Atlantic show Veep". He delivered the 40th annual
MacTaggart Lecture, which has previously been given by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, former
BBC director general Greg Dyke, Jeremy Paxman and Rupert Murdoch. Iannucci said: "Faced
with a global audience, British television needs its champion supporters."
He continued his praise for British programming by saying the global success of American
TV shows had come about because they were emulating British television. "The best US
shows are modelling themselves on what used to make British TV so world-beating," he
said. "US prime-time schedules are now littered with those quirky formats from the UK -
the "Who Do You Think You Are"'s and the variants on "Strictly Come Dancing" - as well as
the single-camera non-audience sitcom, which we brought into the mainstream first. We
have changed international viewing for the better."
With the renewal of the BBC's royal charter approaching, Iannucci also praised the
corporation. He said: "If public service broadcasting - one of the best things we've ever
done creatively as a country - if it was a car industry, our ministers would be out
championing it overseas, trying to win contracts, boasting of the British jobs that would
bring." In July, the government issued a green paper setting out issues that will be explored
during negotiations over the future of the BBC, including the broadcaster's size, its funding
and governance.
Primarily Mr Whittingdale wanted to appoint a panel of five people, but finally he invited
two more people to advise on the channer renewal, namely former Channel 4 boss Dawn
Airey and journalism professor Stewart Purvis, a former editor-in-chief of ITN. Iannucci
bemoaned the lack of "creatives" involved in the discussions.
"When the media, communications and information industries make up nearly 8% our GDP,
larger than the car and oil and gas industries put together, we need to be heard, as those
industries are heard. But when I see the panel of experts who've been asked by the culture
secretary to take a root and branch look at the BBC, I don't see anyone who is a part of that
cast and crew list. I see executives, media owners, industry gurus, all talented people - but
not a single person who's made a classic and enduring television show."
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For questions 22-30, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on the
answer sheet.
25. Ianucci believes that British television has contributed to the success of American TV-
shows
26. There have been negotiations over the future of the BBC in July
A. US shows
B. British shows
C. Corporation
D. British programming
A. five people
B. two people
C. seven people
D. four people
29. Who of these people was NOT invited to the discussion concerning BBC renewal?
A. Armando Iannucci
B. Dawn Airey
C. John Whittingdale
D. Stewart Purvis
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30. There panel of experts lacks:
A. media owners
B. people who make enduring TV-shows
C. gurus of Television industry
D. top executives
Part 5
'Don't be modest'
Iannucci suggested one way of easing the strain on the licence fee was "by pushing
ourselves more commercially abroad".
"Use the BBC's name, one of the most recognised brands in the world," he said. "And use
the reputation of British television across all networks, to capitalise financially oversees. Be
more aggressive in selling our shows, through advertising, through proper international
subscription channels, freeing up BBC Worldwide to be fully commercial, whatever it takes.
"Frankly, don't be icky and modest about making money, let's monetise the bezeesus Mary
and Joseph out of our programmes abroad so that money can come back, take some
pressure off the licence fee at home and be invested in even more ambitious quality shows,
that can only add to our value."
Mr Whittingdale, who was interviewed by ITV News' Alastair Stewart at the festival, said he
wanted an open debate about whether the corporation should do everything it has done in
the past. He said he had a slight sense that people who rushed to defend the BBC were
"trying to have an argument that's never been started".
"Whatever my view is, I don't determine what programmes the BBC should show," he
added. "That's the job of the BBC." Mr Whittingdale said any speculation that the
Conservative Party had always wanted to change the BBC due to issues such as its editorial
line was "absolute nonsense".
Questions 31-35
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Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
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SPEAKING TEST
PART 1
Sleeping
Physical Exercises
PART 2
Describe a place you know where people go to listen to music such as theatre or a music
hall.
where it is
what kind of music is performed there
what type of people go there
why people go there
how you know this place
and explain your impressions of this place
PART 3
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