Reading passage 1

A. China should be given better access to lucrative European markets as a reward for opening its own economy to western companies, David Cameron said earlier today. Steps to allow its currency to rebalance against western currencies, making its exports more expensive, would also support its case for further integration, he said. Talking to a group of students at Peking University during his two-day trip to China, Cameron said he was prepared to lobby on China's behalf for preferred status within the European Union if it further opened its borders to trade with British and continental European companies. B. His speech also urged the world's new economic superpower to embrace human rights and democracy. He said the Chinese could not shut down debate about democracy, urging them instead to recognise that political freedom, the rule of law and a free press represent the best path to stability and prosperity. Cameron's main mission on the trip was to promote the prospects of British businesses and tie up a series of trade deals. C. In a question-and-answer session after his speech one student asked why fees for overseas students were high. Cameron said fees for domestic students needed to rise to maintain funding levels and prevent the many excellent British universities from losing out in competition with rivals in China, India and the US. He said the rise also kept fee rises to foreign students in check. D. "We won't go on increasing so fast fees for overseas students because in the past we have been pushing up the fees and using it as a way of keeping down the rest," he said. "Overseas students will still [have to pay] a significant amount of money, but we should be able to keep that growth under control." In the speech he said the Chinese authorities should be rewarded for pushing forward with reforms to its domestic economy, albeit over a slower timescale than many EU countries would like. E. He said: "If China is prepared to pursue further opening of its markets and to work with Britain and the other G20 countries to rebalance the world economy and take steps over time towards internationalising its currency that will go a long way towards helping the global economy lock in the stability it needs for strong and sustainable growth. "And just as importantly, it will go a long way in securing confidence in the global community that China as an economic power is a force for good," he said. F. France and many other EU countries have balked at offering China preferred access to European markets without a crackdown on intellectual property theft by Chinese companies. Aggressive deals in Africa and South America to secure food supplies and essential commodities have also made the EU authorities anxious about closer ties with China. However, Cameron said China should be encouraged to embrace further reforms and not shut out from the international community. "I will make the case for China to get market economy status in the EU but China needs to help, by showing that it is committed to becoming more open, as it becomes more prosperous. G. "And we need to work together to do more to protect intellectual property rights because this will give more businesses confidence to come and invest in China." Also today, Michael Gove, the education secretary, who is accompanying Cameron, announced a partnership with China to train more than 1,000 Mandarin teachers for English secondary schools. Gove said he was

"delighted to be building a stronger education partnership with the Chinese", adding: "This is not just about fostering a better understanding of China among our young people. Offering every young person the chance to learn Mandarin will help to encourage mobility between the two countries, equip the next generation with the skills they need to succeed, and ensure the long-term success of our economy and society." Source: The Guardian Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 to 14 which are based on Reading Passage 1 Questions 1 to 7 Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs A G. From the list of headings below, choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers I ix in boxes 1 7 on your answer sheet.

i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix.

Overseas students. China needs access to western market. Internationalising its currency. The shutdown of debate about democracy. The fees for domestic students. The success of our economy and society. The overseas companies. Intellectual property theft. Protection of intellectual property rights.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Paragraph A Paragraph B Paragraph C Paragraph D Paragraph E Paragraph F Paragraph G

Questions 8 10 Choose the correct letters, A, B, C or D

Write your answers in boxes 8 10 on your answer sheet. 8 Fees for domestic students needed to rise to maintain A. B. C. D. 9 A. B. C. D. 10 Funding levels. Student strength. Attraction. Compete with the European universities. The Chinese could not shut down debate about Autocracy. Democracy. Diplomacy. Education policy. and many other EU countries have balked at offering China preferred access to European markets France. England. Portugal. Ecuador.

A. B. C. D.

Questions 11 14 Complete each of the following statements (questions 11 14) with the best endings A G from the box below Write the appropriate letters A G in boxes 11 14 on your answer sheet. 11 Protection of intellectual property rights will give more businesses confidence 12 Cameron was prepared to lobby on China's behalf 13 China is prepared to pursue further 14 Offering every young person the chance to learn Mandarin

A B C D E F G

Opening of its markets. Among early students might be succeeding. Theyve given a good fight. Will help to encourage mobility. For preferred status within the European Union. To come and travel in China. To come and invest in China.

Reading passage 2 A. First, she was the shoo-in. Then she was the underdog. Now, in the closing moments of a quirky midterm election season, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) appeared to be on the verge of making history as the first successful write-in candidate for Senate in more than 50 years. In a six-week blitz aimed at defeating the tea party-backed candidate who toppled her in the primary, Murkowski barnstormed the state, handing out bracelets and reminding voters how to spell her name. She rebuffed fellow Republicans who implored her to drop out. She seemed to be having fun. B. By late Wednesday, with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Murkowski was presumed to be on the brink of re-election. That's because 41 percent of Alaska voters wrote in their choice for Senate, compared to 34 percent who voted for Republican nominee Joe Miller and 24 percent who voted for Democrat Scott McAdams, according to preliminary results. Final tallies likely won't be available for weeks. C. A Murkowski victory would be a remarkable turnaround for an incumbent who had been disowned by her party, and signalled the limitations of novice tea party candidacies. Many of the movement's candidates have been skilful at pushing the GOP to the right and energizing primary voters. But some, like Miller, found greater difficulty appealing to a broader electorate this season. Lisa Murkowski's decision not to accept a primary defeat may be a lesson for other Republicans worried about insurgent attacks in the future. Not that mounting a winning write-in campaign for Senate is easy. No one has done it successfully since South Carolina's Strom Thurmond in 1954. D. Alaska is vast of land but sparse of voters, a state where campaigning door-to-door can mean climbing into a puddle-jumper. It is known for its political dynasties and its family feuds, one of which, between the Murkowskis and the Palins, played out in this election. (Sarah Palin, who defeated Murkowski's father, Frank, for governor in 2006, was a big backer of Miller's campaign.) "There is a very, very strong propensity to elect Republicans" in Alaska, said Ivan Moore, a pollster in the state whose clients include Republicans and Democrats. "But from an ideological standpoint, there is a very, very large moderate centre up here. It was the centrists who elected Lisa yesterday because of Scott McAdams's inexperience and Joe Miller's loonytunes, firebrand style of conservatism." E. Not that Miller is conceding the race. "With tens of thousands of absentee votes yet to be counted, and the disposition of the write-in ballots cast unknown, who will be Alaska's next United States senator is yet to be determined," spokesman Randy DeSoto wrote in an e-mail to The Washington Post. "We will all have to have some patience as we allow the Division of Elections to complete the ballot counting process." Election officials in Alaska say they are still counting absentee ballots and have yet to develop a plan to start scrutinizing the write-in ballots. Once they begin, they will be studying the ballots for "voter intent," a subjective standard that will have attorneys from both sides hovering over the canvassers' shoulders. Depending on the closeness of the results, there could be lawsuits.

F. But Tuesday night, a beaming Murkowski all but declared victory at an election party in Anchorage. "We are in the process of making history," she told a CNN reporter. "They said it couldn't be done . . . We looked at that and said, 'If it can be done anywhere, it can be done in Alaska.' "Miller, meanwhile, kept a low profile on election night and has since. Though he was the front-runner for weeks, his public approval rating took a nose dive after it emerged that, while working for the Fairbanks North Star Borough, he used a government computer for political purposes and lied about it. In addition, he earned ridicule after his private security guards handcuffed a reporter who sought to question him at a campaign event. G. As Senate races go, this one was among the stranger stories of 2010. Murkowski, a one-term senator, was one of those establishment-blessed candidates who was expected to cruise to victory. But she was caught off guard by the tea party, whose activists were bent on rattling the sense of entitlement they felt so many in power held. In August, Miller, a politically inexperienced attorney from Fairbanks, surged to a surprise win in the primary with the help of tea party voters. He had the backing of the Tea Party Express, which poured $500,000 into his campaign, and the endorsement of former governor Palin, a personal friend whose enmity with the Murkowski family is legendary in Alaska politics. Source: The Washington Post Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15 27 which are based on Reading Passage 2 Questions 15 19 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? In boxes 15 -19 in your answer sheet write TRUE FALSE NOT GIVEN 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. if the statement agrees with the information if the statement contradicts the information if there is no information on this

The lady is winning with a record support from the voters. The Tea Party had a great support for Murkowski. Alaskas next senator is yet to be decided by the voters. The land of Alaska if scarcely populated. Murkowski has a family background in politics.

Question 20 23 Look at the following topics (questions 20 23) and the list of statements below. Match each topic to the correct statement. Write the correct letter A G in boxes 1 4 on your answer sheet. 20. Murkowski 21. Ivan Moore

22. Sarah Palin 23. Joe Miller A B C D E F G Defeated Murkowskis father. Is going to be the Alaska senator. Are now relying more on the Tea Party. Is a pollster. Is fighting in the election. Is a Republican nominee. Is a very hopeful for the victory.

Questions 24 27 Complete the following statements with the correct alternative from the box. Write the correct letter A F in boxes 24 27 on your answer sheet. 24. 25. 26. 27. Spokesman Randy DeSoto wrote in an e-mail to Murkowski, a one-term senator, was one of There is a very, very large moderate centre up Only 41 percent of Alaska voters wrote in

A Honest to analysts. B The Washington Post. C Alaska. D Their choice for Senate. E Those establishment-blessed candidates. F Their choice for Murkowski.

Reading Passage 3 A. Former president George W. Bush writes in a new memoir that he briefly considered dropping his vice president, Richard B. Cheney, from his 2004 re-election ticket but said he still considers Cheney a steady adviser who helped him achieve his goals. The memoir, which was leaked to several news outlets in advance of its formal release next Tuesday, details Cheney's advocacy of war with Iraq. It says he asked Bush at a luncheon whether he was "going to take care of this guy, or not," referring to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. B. Bush writes that he still considers the war justified and said he believes it left America safer, despite the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that prompted Defense Secretary

C.

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F.

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Donald H. Rumsfeld to offer his resignation privately to Bush. He said he turned Rumsfeld's offer down because he feared the change in leadership would send a bad signal to U.S. troops. The former president defends his handling of some of the most intense controversies of his presidency, acknowledging at one point that he personally approved the waterboarding, or simulated drowning, of alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a practice that the CIA has since forsworn and both President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have described as torture barred by international law. "Damn right," Bush said he told the CIA when they sought his permission. He offered his regrets for flying over New Orleans to survey the post-Katrina damage, a move that provoked criticism, and says that he mistakenly brought too many troops home from Iraq too soon. But he has described as "disgusting" the televised accusation from recording artist and producer Kanye West that his response to Katrina was tainted by racism, calling that one of the low points of his tenure. The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key moments in his life, including his decision to stop drinking after some embarrassing conversations in bars. Bush said he realized as his daughters got older that, if he did not stop, they would think it was okay to drink and drive. And he said that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq gave him a "sickening" feeling that persists. Bush says he considered dropping Cheney in favour of then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (RTenn.) but appreciated the fact that Cheney helped him "do the job" at the White House. The two men disagreed over Bush's decision to fire Rumsfeld because the war in Iraq was going badly, and over Bush's refusal to pardon Cheney deputy I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after Libby's conviction for lying about his role in the Valerie Palme affair. But Bush said they have patched up their friendship since then. He also praises Obama for deploying more troops to Afghanistan and defends the 2008 bank bailout that has been attacked by many Republican candidates for Congress this year, arguing that it sent a useful signal that the economy would not be allowed to fail.

Source: The Washington Post Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28 40 which are based on Reading Passage 3. Questions 28 32 The passage has seven paragraphs labelled AG. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 28-32 on your answer sheet. NB: You may use any letter more than once. 28. George W. Bush has written a memoir recently.

29. 30. 31. 32.

The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key moments in his life. Bush justified his stand about the decision of war against Iraq. The book is titled as Decision Points. The move regarding the Katrina drew a lot of criticism in the US.

Questions 33 36 Complete the sentences below with words taken from Reading Passage 3. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 33-36 on your answer sheet.

33. 34. 35. 36.

Cheney helped him "do the job" at the . His response to Katrina was tainted by racism, calling that one of the low points . The revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prompted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld . Rumsfeld's offer down because of .

Questions 37 40 Complete the summary of the paragraphs E G below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet. The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key 37 . The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq gave him a 38 He considered dropping Cheney in favour of thenSenate Majority Leader 39 . He also praises Obama for deploying more troops 40