Test 1 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, G 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 gather B produce find gain 0 LD Sess Alfred Wainwright Alfred Wainwright came from a relatively poor family but managed to (0) qualifications in .. but for his pictorial accountancy. However it is not for his skill in accountancy that he is (1) .. guidebooks to the English Lake District. The Lake District is in the north-west of England and (2) an area of some 2,292 square it is an area of lakes and mountains. Alfred first went there on Kilometres. As its name (3) a walking holiday in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the area. He (4)... (6) ....... entirely of copies of his hand-written manuscripts. All have descriptions of walks with hand-drawn maps and sketches of views from the summits of the different mountains. He the Lake District into seven parts and wrote a guide for each of them. The guides intended the books to be just for his own personal (6) but was eventually (7) ....... to publish them. They are beautiful books which (8)... as popular as ever.iiicisiisaauiiannenunsttiy > bP bp > > reminded reaches implies distributed involve application persuaded stay recollected extends represents assigned consist use impressed keep ° °° 9 0 referred ranges Proves divided include employment caused continue Reading and Use of English D remembered D covers D_ means D allocated D contain D practice D_ influenced D remainTest 2 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 15 minutes) Part1 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 Aways Bmethods manners D types Tea bags Over the centuries, tea has been made in many ferent (Q) ........ across the world. In the USA, until a little over a hundred years ago, dried tea was always sold and consumed as loose leaves. ‘To make a drink, bolling water was poured over the tea leaves and (1)... to stand while the water (2) the flavour of the leaves. In 1908, Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea salesman, had the (3) ......... idea of putting tea leaves as samples to potential customers. Sullivan (6) ........ the tea to be in small silk bags to (4) temoved from the bags before making a drink in the conventional manner. However, for the sake Of (6) vases his customers (7) up with the revolutionary practice of dipping the silk bag, contents and all, into boiling water. Cheap paper bags were intraduced in the 1990s, completing the design of the modem tea bag. Today billions of (8) worldwide, paper bags of tea are sold annually 30set immersed sharp putin intended satisfaction thought distinct kept soaked bright give up determined benefit came particular filled light hand out designed convenience started specific Reading and Use of English D saved D absorbed D keen D_ make over D_ established D_ opportunity D made D_ individual 31Test 3 READING AND USE OF ENGLISH (1 hour 15 minutes) Part1 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 Adevised B invented thought constructed Wee mec: Imaginary friends in early childhood Many children have an imaginary friend ~ that is a friend they have (0)... thought that only children who had difficulty in (1) ... relationships with others had imaginary friends. In fact, having an imaginary friend is probably a common (Q)......... of a normal childhood as many children with lots of real friends also have an imaginary friend. The imaginary friend may help some children (3) is just fun. Most children, it appears, realise that their imaginary friend is not real. If people (4) asking about an imaginary friend, children often say, ‘You know, my friend isn’t real ~ | (6) ........ him up. There is no firm evidence to say that having an imaginary friend (6) ......... us anything about what a child will be like in the future. One (7) .. that adults who ~ . of research, though, has (8) ‘once had imaginary friends may be more creative than those who did not. 52 . It was once - .. with emotional difficulties, but for many, having an imaginary friend =forming state handle keep got reveals item suggested creating aspect accept persist put informs section displayed o 0 09 0 ° gaining situation support maintain made tells unit presented Reading and Use of English D producing point cope stay set advises piece notified 53Test 4 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 Apoints Bmarks C shows D finds An ancient cave interests scientists At the base of a hill in South Africa, a cluster of huge stones (0) the entrance to one of humanity’s oldest known dwelling places. In fact, humans have (1) ......... Wonderwerk Cave for 2 million years - most recently in the early 1900s, when a farming family (2) ........ it their home. Wonderwerk holds another distinction as well: the cave contains the earliest (8) ........ evidence that our ancient ancestors were using fire for cooking. Like many archaeological finds, this one was accidental. Researchers were trying to (4) the age of primitive stone tools that had been unearthed in the cave. In the process, they 6) 10 be remains of food from a million years ago. That was 200,000 years older than any (7) across the ashes of a campfire containing what turned (6) . discovered remnants cof human-controlled fire. At Wonderwerk, the researchers are digging ever deeper, analysing soil up to 1.8 million years old, (8) ......... evidence of even older fires. 74> > bP D> > > > Db occupied built heavy conclude came out last ‘enquiring stayed found fixed detect looked in previously looking settled used solid notice went off once seeking Reading and Use of English D remained D made D dense D_ determine D fell D back D_ formerly D chasing 75