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Some groups offer trairing courses to help cyclists integrate themselves with ‘other trafic, This is part of the (24) cycle path debate, 25 | did't fin it hare to answer their questions. difficulty ty their questions. 2b wich he would wop ertcing my work. faule | wish he would stop . my work. 27 The factary may he forced to cloce if damand dewey incrance facing ‘The factory may if demand doesn’ increase. 28 It doesn't make a difference to me what you decide to do. matter Your ss is tome. 29 You definitely will not win the lottery. chance You have got. the lottery 30° Ieetmpoatble so ay who wil win the match telling ‘There's és «= who will win the match, Practice Test 9 CAE Practice Test 9 Part 5 Paper | - Reading and Use of English You are going to read a newspaper article. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Cee aT Deru aut ete ere Tocal authorities in England and Wales now make more than | £1 billion from the parking business. Yet there are growing ‘accusations of sharp practice, and all over the country motorists are gearing up for battle Wednesday, 320m: David Nickram, a North London parking attendant unt last May, shuffles nervously down Hampstead High Stret explaining the "tricks" he says he was taught here for issuing wrat he nonchalantly cals "dodgy tickets. "I was told to give tickets no matter how legally a car was parked" Nicknam says with a disapproving frown, his greying ponytail and wispy beard incongruous among the impeccadly ‘groomed ladies stroling up the hl. "if a driver's got a dis ‘abled badge, you write that there's no badge. If there's a visitor's permit, sometimes you ignore it = it's a question of ‘Who's going to believe the driver? And if you ask me if you ‘can park for five minutes to collect someone, 'd be expect ‘ed to say OK - and then ticket you once you've gone. He ‘doesn't have your vame, the thinking goes, so what's he Boing to do?" Nicknam, 39, was taking home £226.79 for a 42-hour week ‘when he says he was sacked after three months! probation The reason, he says, i that he found grounds to ticket only five or six cars "legally" in typical day, rather than the ten ‘or more he says his superiors expected," | wanted to sur vive, to get a permanent job, | was told fd have to bring m at least ten tickets no matter how," he says with ils ‘iced contemat The scams, he says, ranged from faleely claiming that bays had been suspended to hand:ssuing deib- erately mistimed tckets after claiming his computer was down." told them, | cant do that. | said | believed in God. asked my supervisors, ‘How do you sleep? Do you lie thers dreaming about ticketing cars allright? Camden council rejects his allegations, and, as a clearly ds- affected former employee of the counci's parking contrac- tor, Nicknam is by no means neutral. He readily accepts that he bears grudges against NCP, whose management, he seys, refused to hear his complaints and promoted supervisors who openly broke the rules. Yet his claims - of attendants falsifying observation times, issuing "ghost" tickets when cars were not present, cishonestly claiming tyres were out- side parking bays - have all been made by other London parking attendants (PAS) in recent months. AL stake is pubic Confidence in the entre system of parking enforcement. "You have to ask whiy drivers hate the PAs" Nicknam reflects as he crosses into Prince Arthur Road, a favourite pot, he explains, for colleagues to hide before pouncing on Cars left for three minutes at school pick-up time. "How ‘any people have spoken out before me? You have fo ask iy the council doesn't want PAs to help the divers. You right cal it cheating, but | call t stealing” He shakes his head and whispers disapproving. "t's money, isnt it? Money talk Council coffers are sweling not simply through parking tick: ets and bus-ane fines, but aso from meter feeds and the sale of permits. Yet by any standards, the business of tick: ting, clamping and removing ca's is booming as never | before. ‘The London boroughs issued almst seven milion penalty charge notices in last year, up from 54 milion in three years ago. Outside London, English and Welsh councils hand- €ed out almost three milion more. By law, lal authorities | must regulate parking not primarily to raise money, but "to __ secure the expedtious, convenient and safe movement of | vehicular and other traffic. Vet as the surpluses have risen ‘over the years, so have public suspicions about the councis’ true agenda. AS Brian King, director of the RAC Foundation, | sees it, local authorities now see parking as "a convenient | and easy way to raise money, rather than as @ policy issue". | Public tolerance is being tested with every television investi ‘ation alleging corruption, and with each outraged report of target-fixated attendants ticketing buses, fire engines, even | a rabbit-hutch whose owner, delivering to a Manchester pet | shop, moved his van before a warden could pounce. “it's the biggest fraud that goes on," claims Jim Carlson, a | Pimlico accountant who runs Appealcom, one of 2 growing umber of websites campaigning against what they see as | unjust use of parking regulations to make money. Carlson has heard it alt PAs falsfying information in their notebooks to "prove" that correctly parked cars were elsewhere; | motorist legally ticketed long sfter they had driven off He makes an annual award to the vetim of what he considers the most absurd abuse of a PA's powers. Its latest winner was Nachim Zahawi, who was, handed a penalty charge atice in central London as he lay in the road with a broken leg after coming off his scooter "The councils are very happy to alow a poor system to con- ine, because they get the revenue," Carlson says weary Nobody now has faith inthe system. | certainly dortt* 331° ele calmed in the anicle that ‘dodgy ticket are ‘A given to disabled drivers. 1B. unfaty given to lel parked cars . gven in excess to legally parked cars D. stl being issued by Nickram, 32. Nicknam was fired ‘A. with no warring B. for giving out leg tckes. € ornse ging crenagt obese D. because he dirt want a permanent jo. 32. Nicknams reasons for dlobeying his employer are A moral. 8, corrupt deceit D. profitable 34 utope cams of eshonese ckerng are ‘A. not being taken seousy by too many. 8B, making people dtu ofthe parking sytem, CC. posing no threat to che parking system . gotting a lot of erployoes fred, 35. The business of tickeng, clamping and removing ears & ‘A becoming increasingly legal. 'B. under inspection by the RAC. ‘C. making more money than in the past. D. becoming an impertant policy issue. 36 The conclusion ofthe atc it ‘A hopall B. pessimistic. neutral . passionate Paper Banana fibre is wed in the production of banana paper. Banana paper is used in two diferent (0) to wo toa paper made fram the bark ofthe banana tree, mainly used for artistic purposes, or paper made| from Banana’s fibre, (2) nn. ff0m an industrialised process, from the stem and tye non utlisable fruits, This paper ean be either hand-made or made by machine. The volume of raw (3) .....~... for making banana paper ‘around the world on plantations is vast and largely unutiised, The market for banana paper is seen as a growth industry. Since 1988, in Costa Rica, companies like EcoPaper.com and Costa Rica Natural Paper have been pro- ‘ducing 100% industrialised fine environmental and ecological papers (4) _ from natural banana fibres, for the writing and stationery market. In only 15 counties, the banana agro-ndustry processes each year 42 milion tons of tananas with 2 milion hectares planted This industry (5) numerous waste products such as: the pastic that wraps the bananas, plastic cords to tie the wrapping, damaged bananas and the pinzote (stems). An alarming quantity of over| 10 million metric tons of pinzote is thrown in landfils or even worse in local rivers. The pinzote i (6) of 92% of water, 3% of resins and 2% glucose: the rest is vegeta fre. This (7) composition makes it decompose without the solid component being destroyed. This causes a severe impac: on the (8) ecosystems - much to the detriment of rivers and underground waters. 1A refer B concen © name D direct 2 A received B obtained € accepted D gined 3 A materials B tools € cloth D fabric 4 A pulled B derived C eliminated D displaced 5A develops B causes C generates D makes 6 A created B constructed € collected D composed 7 A particular B prevalent C private D premature 8A circling B surrounding € nearing D rounding A This is not a time to beat abour the bush. Billy Eliot strikes me as the greatest British musical | have ever seen and | have not forgotten Lionel Barts Oliver! or Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. There Isa rawness, a warm humour and a sheer humanicy here that are words removed from the soulless slck- ness of most musicals. Yes, there are rough edges thet would give Cameron Mackintosh a fit of the vapours, yes. there are occasional scenes that are not as pow- erful played as those in the film. But there isso ‘much more that is big and bold, imaginative and sgreat-hearted. Once upon a time, they used to make ims out of stage musicals, but these days the traffic ail the other way. Following The Producers, Mary Poppins and Spomelat, comes this stage version of Seephen Daldry's beautiful and moving Bri fick abour an | -year-old boy from a coal-mining vilage in ‘County Durham, wha is determined to become a ballet dancer. B ‘Turning small-scale movies into big musicals is treacherous business I falled with The Full Monty, ‘whieh lost all ofits grity truth when musiealised. Bue Billy Eli succeeds brillantly because Elton John's music and, especially, Peter Darling's choreography ‘enhance Lee Halls cinematic concept. The musical, fen more than the flm, counterpoints Bills person- al triumph with the community’ deciine. Eleven-year- ‘ld Bill is an Easington miner's son who overcomes family bigotry and financial hardship to rake it to the Royal Ballet School. But a show that begins with grainy newsreel footage celebrating the nationalisation of the coal industry ends with the collapse of the 1984 miners’ strike. Bill's aspirations have been realised, but a local community faces ruin. Ie the tension between those two facts that gives the musi- cal its drive. But, even more significantly, dance is. used to express narrative in a way that evokes West Side Story. You see ths early on in an extraordinary sequence where the choreographed conflict between the miners and police invades Mrs Wilkinson's dance academy, filed wih litle girls in tutus. The effect is both comic and tragic, in that it suggests no aspect o! Easington life is untouched by a savage industrial dispute. Which reviewer unlike the other three, does not compare the musical to previous ‘musicals in the West End? highlights the importance of the economic backdrop from which the ‘musieal is set, lke reviewer C? like reviewer B refers to a historical event that serves to accentuate Billy's success? disagrees with the other three reviewers, in finding certain aspects of the film better than the musical? c [Not since Blood Brothers first opened in 1983, has there been a new British musical to combine social commentary with a heartfelt stary of adolescence, as powerfully and melodically as Billy Eliot. Adapted for the stage from the hit film of 2000 by its original director Stephen Daldry, screenwriter Lee Hall and choreographer Peter Darling, who are newly joined bby composer Elton John, the material has been deepened and given a vibrant immediacy that can only ‘come from the dynamics of live performance. And the rites-of-passage journey the show charts - of an year-old boy transcending his working class ‘background to gain admitcance to the Royal Ballet ‘School - is played out against the background of the 1984 Miners’ Strike, implying the fierceness of Billy's ‘own struggle, D “Together, Stephen Daldry and Lee Hall have concocted apiece that's tougher, bolder and, as my tear-duets can attest, no matter how hard | tried to disguise it, ‘more moving than its admittedy admirable celluloid precursor, With its rags-to-riches, or rather poverty- {o-pirouette, tory, the piace irvites zentimentality But that’s almost entirely missing in the Geordie pit village where young Bily discovers he has a gift for dance. Billy not only has to struggle against a society that could not understand a young boy wanting to enter the world of ballet, but he also, to a certain extent, is forced to turn his back on the traditional job of mining that his father and grandfather before him had endured. 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