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Practice 3.12.2
Practice 3.12.2
Practice 3.12.2
Part 4: You will hear part of a talk by a man called David Barns, who is a director of a
company that will be building a new shopping mall. Complete the sentences by writing NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. Write your
answers in the space provided. (2.0pts)
Whitesea shopping mall
The mall is expected to open in (16) ______________________ next year.
The total cost will be (17) ______________________ billion pounds.
A new (18) ______________________ will be built next to the shopping mall.
The car park will be situated (19) ______________________ and will have spaces for 3,000 cars.
Three (20) ______________________ will be provided to help shoppers with children.
One section of the mall has a (21) ______________________.
There will be (22) ______________________ cinemas showing a wide range of current films.
(23) ______________________ films will be shown twice a day.
There will be walkways with (24) ______________________ between different areas of the mall.
There will be an exhibition focusing on the (25) ______________________ of the area.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
Part 2: The passage below contains 10 mistakes. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections
FAMILY HISTORY
Line 1 In an age which technology is developed faster than ever before, many
2 people are being attracted by the idea of looking back into the past. One way they can
3 make this is by investigating their own family history. They can try to find out more
4 about what their families came from and what they did. This is now a fast-growing
5 hobby, especially in countries with a fairly short history, alike Australia and the United
6 States.
7 It is one thing to spend some time going through a book on family history
8 and taking the decision to investigate your own family past. It is quite another to carry
9 out the research work successfully. It is easy to set about it in a disorganizing way and
10 cause yourself many problems that could have avoided with a little forward planning.
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12 If your own family stories say you that you are connected with a famous
13 character, whether hero or criminal, not to let this idea take over your research. Just
14 treat it as an interesting possibility. A simple system for collecting and storing your
information will be adequate to start with; a more complex one may only get under
your way. The most important thing, though, is to get started. Who knows what you
might find?
Your answers:
Line Mistakes Correction
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Part 3: Complete each sentence with one suitable particle or preposition. Write your answers
in the corresponding numbered boxes provided. (1.0pt)
1. Moral and social responsibility should be integrated ______________ every child’s schooling.
2. It’s impossible to attend _____________ a task properly if you’re worrying about something
else.
3. Kelly has great confidence ______________ her children’s abilities.
4. It’s a good idea to make notes ______________ what you’re reading if you want to remember
it.
5. Unfortunately, many university courses do not provide students ______________ the basic
study skills they really need.
6. Jack took early retirement as he was losing his grip ______________ the job.
7. Apparently, an interest in reading in later life is closely related ______________ how much
your parents read to you as a child.
8. Ron usually primes himself ______________ plenty of black coffee before starting the night
shift.
9. I find it very hard to commit historical dates ______________ memory.
10. Lack of sleep can seriously interfere ______________ your ability to think rationally.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 4: Give the correct form of each bracketed word in the following passage. Write your
answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0pt)
In an effort to escape from their hectic and (1. MATERIAL) _______________ city lives,
more and more Northern Europeans are buying houses in rural areas of France, Spain, Italy and
Greece. Some relocate permanently in search of a more meaningful existence. Those who cannot
afford to give up their jobs seek a (2. THERAPY) _______________ respite from their stressful
lifestyle by relaxing for a few weeks each year in their second home in the sun.
However, many of those who relocate permanently find that life in the country is not as
quiet and (3. EVENT) __________ as they had anticipated. Aspects of village life which seemed
delightfully (4. ATMOSPHERE) ____________ in the context of a two-week holiday can grate
on the nerves when you love with them on a daily basis. Recently a group of British residents in
an Italian village took local farmers to court because they found the smell of the villagers’ pigs (5.
TASTE) _______________. In other cases, foreigners have complained to neighbors about the
enthusiastic early-morning crowing of their cockerels, or to village priests about the regular tolling
of church bells.
(6. UNDERSTAND) __________, the local inhabitants are somewhat (7. RESENT)
_________ of these attitudes. They argue that the foreigners have an (8. REAL) ___________
view of what country life is like and that, since no one forced them to come and live in a village,
they are being (9. CRITIC) ____________ by now complaining about the (10. CONVENIENT)
____________ of rural life.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
C. READING (5.0pts)
Part 1. Read the following passage and decide which answer (A, B, C, or D) best fits each gap.
Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0 pt)
MICHAEL JACKSON
Jackson was born Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958, and
entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father Joe Jackson had been a guitarist, but was (1)
______ to give up his musical ambitions, following his marriage to Katherine (Scruse). Together,
they prodded their growing family's musical interests at home. By the early 1960s, the older boys
Jackie, Tito and Jermaine had begun (2) ______ around the city; by 1964, Michael and Marlon
had joined in. A musical prodigy, Michael's singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature,
and he soon became the (3) _______ voice and focus of the Jackson 5. An opening act for such
soul groups as the O-Jays and James Brown, it was Gladys Knight (not Diana Ross) who officially
brought the group to Berry Gordy's attention, and by 1969, the boys were producing back-to-back
chart-busting (4) ______ as Motown artists ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say
Goodbye," "Got to Be There," etc.). As a product of the 1970s, the boys emerged as one of the
most accomplished black pop / soul vocal groups in music history, successfully evolving from a
(5) ______ like The Temptations to a disco phenomenon. Solo success for Michael was inevitable,
and by the 1980s, he had become infinitely more (6) _______ than his brotherly group. Record
sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, "Thriller" in 1982.
A TV natural, he ventured rather uneasily into films, such as playing the Scarecrow in The Wiz,
(7) _______ had much better luck with elaborate music videos. In the 1990s, the downside as an
1980s pop phenomenon began to rear itself. Michael grew terribly (8) _______ and introverted by
his peerless celebrity. A rather timorous, androgynous figure to begin with, his physical
appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew alarmingly bizarre, making him a
consistent target (9) ________ scandal-making, despite his numerous charitable acts. Two brief
marriages – one to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley – were forged and two children
produced by his second wife during that time, but the purposes behind them appeared image-
oriented. Despite it all, Jackson's (10) _______ and artistry as a singer, dancer, writer and
businessman are unparalleled, and it is these prodigious talents that will ultimately prevail over
the extremely negative aspects of his seriously troubled adult life.
1: A. forced B. asked C. suggested D. introduced
2: A. singing B. travelling C. performing D. appearing
3: A. important B. dominant C. major D. special
4: A. songs B. records C. products D. hits
5: A. school B. class C. group D. team
6: A. common B. famous C. popular D. excellent
7: A. but B. and C. although D. because
8: A. child-like B. childhood C. childless D. childish
9: A. to B. by C. with D. for
10: A. love B. passion C. feeling D. attention
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 2: Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE
word in each space. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes. (1.5 pts)
The future at your fingertips
There is a scene in the film Minority Report in which Tom Cruise stands in front of a vast Perspex-
like screen housed in the police department’s Pre-Crime Unit. He gazes (1)______________
earnest at the transparent surface, waving his hands across the tablet to swirl great chunks of text
and moving images across the screen to form a storyboard of yet-to-be-committed crimes. (2)
______________ a simple twist of his finger or a flick of his wrist, pictures expand and enlarge,
words scroll, and whole trains of thought come to tangible fruition with there on the board. The
year is 2054. Yet it seems the era of true touch-screen technology is already here. Indeed, when
Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in San Francisco a few years ago, he grandly declared:
“We’re reinventing the cell phone.” One of the main reasons for Jobs’ bold claim was the iPhone’s
futuristic user interface “multi-touch”. (3)______________ demonstrated on stage by Jobs
himself, multi-touch was created to (4) ______________ the most of the iPhone’s large screen. (5)
______________ most existing smart phones, the iPhone has only one conventional button - all
the (6) ______________ of the controls appear on the screen, adapting and morphing around your
fingertips as you use the device, (7) ______________ the giant tablet in Minority Report. The
demonstration iPhone handset certainly looked like re-invention, but multi-touch, while it was new
for Apple, is (8) ______________no means a new technology. The concept has been around for
years, waiting for the hardware side of the equation to get small enough, smart enough and cheap
enough to make it a reality. While it still remains something of a novelty now, there’s a good
chance that the (9) _________ years will bring many more computers and consumer gadgets that
depend wholly or (10) ___________on multi-touch concepts.
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Part 3. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following
questions. Write your answers in corresponding numbered boxes. (1.0pt)
GARBAGE GURU
Steve Bradley freely admits his work is garbage. “It’s true,” he says. “My work is rubbish.” As an
environmental artist, Steve’s spent most of his working life picking up the things that other people
have thrown away, and devising new ways to use art and humour to get us thinking about the
environment. His work has been concerned with what our attitudes to rubbish and the environment
say about out society. But these aren’t abstract gallery pieces for people in smart suits to spend a
fortune on. Steve believes in taking art to the people: a market stall in the city of Hull; a window
on a street in downtown Tallahassee, Florida; and now, the Visitors' Centre in an English National
park where we meet.
I’d read about Steve in a tabloid newspaper. He explains the project that had earned this notoriety:
“In Hull, I picked up used lottery scratchcards off the streets and sold them on a market stall, three
for 50p. Of course, they were worthless, and that was the whole point. Kids wanted to know what
I was doing, and I’d explain the disappearing act to them, how something could be worth a pound
(the cost of a scratchcard), then worth nothing. It was a ploy, you know, to get them thinking about
the value of things. You look at any drinks can, or a bottle; the material you throw away is often
worth more than the product you have paid for and consumed!”
“When I called the National Park authorities for permission to pick up rubbish in a famous beauty
spot and do something unspecified but vaguely arty next to the Visitors’ Centre, they were
understandably wary that I might give people the impression that our National Parks are filthy.
But the truth is, the problem of litter isn’t confined to the National Parks. Litter costs taxpayers
410 million pounds a year, or at least that’s what it costs local government authorities to clean up
across the UK. However, on private land – such as farmland – the cost of clearing litter is met by
the landowner, so the real cost is even higher. The National Park has now erased all bins from car
parks and laybys, because it encourages people to take their litter home rather than leave it for
overstretched local authorities to deal with.
But there’s still plenty to be found – Steve and I are filling large black bin-liners with the stuff. He
notices that most crisp packets have been obsessively folded into any of origami-like structures,
or tied into a knot: “I’ve seen this in a few places; I call it pre-litter anxiety. There is obviously a
time lapse between consuming the contents and discarding the waste… it’s really rather creative
behavior.”
On the grounds of the Visitors’ Centre, Steve sets up the campus where he’ll display the litter
we’ve just collected. A garden net is strung up between three trees and pegged to the ground by
one corner. After about one hour, a coachload of would-be art critics arrived, invited over for the
occasion from a local school. They are intrigued and eager to join in. they tie rubbish to the net
and surround Steve with cheeky questions until they’re chivvied back onto the coaches to their
long-suffering teachers. Steve’s in his element as he adopts the role of lively, gesticulating artiste.
“So, Steve,” I say, surveying the scrasps of debris, drinks sweet wrappers which have been
retrieved and recruited into a new existence as art, rather than “What does it all mean?”
Refreshingly, he’s more interested in what the kids made of it than what he, as the artist, wants the
work to say: “I’m not looking for people to see anything specific in my work. If pressed, I want
the audience to be surprised, then laugh; but any emotion or reaction is good. It’s about raising
their awareness of the environment they live, work and play in.”
After spending the day with Steve, I’ve succumbed to garbage fever. As we untie the net, I feel a
bit of regret at destroying our original piece; this is my first venture into the world of modern art.
From rubbish to litter to art, then back to rubbish, our installation, entitled “Net Deposit”, is rolled
into a bin-liner to be thrown away (again) when we get home. Everyone has their own reasons for
hating litter, but until now I’ve always kept my dislike of detritus quiet. Who cares about a few
crisp packets? Well, in his book, My first Summer in the Sierra, published in 2011, the Scottish
nature lover John Muir came to the conclusion that: “when we try to pick out anything by itself,
we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” In a nutshell, and about 70 years before a
single Greenpeace calendar was sold, he’d summed up the essence of ecology; that everything
matters, even the same things matter than others. I’m guessing, and suspect John Muir would never
have dropped his own packet at a beauty spot.
Part 4. Read the following extract and answer do the tasks that follow. (1.5pts)
A The world’s first wild algae biodiesel, produced in New Zealand by Aquaflow Bionomic
Corporation, was successfully test driven in Wellington by the Minister for Energy and Climate
Change Issues, David Parker. In front of a crowd of invited guests, media and members of the
public, the Minister filled up a diesel-powered Land Rover with Aquaflow B5 blend bio-diesel and
the drove the car around the forecourt of Parliament Buildings in Central Wellington. Green Party
co-leader, Jeanette Fitzsimons was also on board. Marlborough-based Aquaflow announced in
May 2006 that it had produced the world’s first bio-diesel derived from wild microalgae sourced
from local sewage ponds.
B “We believe we are the first company in the world to test drive a car powered by wild
algae-based biodiesel. This will come as a surprise to some international bio-diesel industry people
who believe that this break-through is years away,” explained by Aquaflow spokeperson Barrie
Leay. “A bunch of inventive Kiwis, and an Aussie, have developed this fuel in just over a year”,
he comments. “This is a huge opportunity for New Zealand and a great credit to the team of people
who saw the potential in this technology from day one.”
C Bio-diesel based on algae could eventually become a sustainable, low cost, cleaner burning
fuel alternative for New Zealand, powering family cars, trucks, buses and boats. It can also be used
for other purposes such as heating or distributed electricity generation. There is now a global
demand for billions of litres of biodiesel per year. Algae are also readily available and produced
in huge volumes in nutrient rich waste streams such as at the settling ponds of Effluent
Management Systems (EMS). It is a renewable indigenous resource ideally suited to the
production of fuel and other useful by-products. The breakthrough comes after technology start-
up, Aquaflow, agreed to undertake a pilot with Marlborough District Council late last year to
extract algae from the settling ponds of its EMS based in Blenheim. By removing the main
contaminant to use as a fuel feedstock, Aquaflow is also helping clean up the council’s water
discharge – a process known as bio-remediation. Dairy farmers and many food processors too, can
benefit in similar ways by applying the harvesting technology to their nutrient-rich waste streams.
D Blended with conventional mineral diesel, bio-diesel can run vehicles without the need for
vehicle modifications. Fuel derived from algae can also help meet the Government B5 (5%
blended) target, with the prospect of this increasing over time as bio-fuel production increases.
“Our next step is to increase capacity to produce one million litres of bio-diesel from the
Marlborough sewerage ponds over the next year,” says Leay. Aquaflow will launch a prospectus
pre-Christmas test as the company has already attracted considerable interest from potential
investors. The test drive bio-diesel was used successfully in a static engine test at Massey
University’s Wellington campus on Monday, December 11.
E Today Algae are used by humans in many ways; for example, as fertilizers, soil
conditioners and livestock feed. Aquatic and microscopic species are cultured in clear tanks or
ponds and are either harvested or used to treat effluents pumped through the ponds. Algaculture
on a large scale is an important type of aquaculture in some places. Naturally growing seaweeds
are an important source of food, especially in Asia. They provide many vitamins including: A, B,
B2, B6, niacin, and C, and are rich in iodine, potassium, iron, magnesium and calcium. In addition
commercially cultivated microalgae, including both Algae and Cyan-bacteria, are marketed as
nutritional supplements, such as Spirulina, Chlorella and the Vitamin-C supplement, or Dunaliella,
high in beta-carotene. Algae are national foods of many nations: China consumes more than 70
species, including fat choy, a cyano-bacterium considered ad a vegetable; Japan, over 20 species.
The natural pigments produced by algae can be used as an alternative to chemical dyes and coloring
agents.
Questions 1-6:
Which paragraphs contain the following information? Write the correct numbers i -vii in
the spaces provided. There are two pieces of information that you do not need.
i. It is unnecessary to modify vehicles driven by bio-diesel.
ii. Some algae are considered edible plants.
iii. Algae could be part of a sustainable and recycled source.
iv. A promising future is awaiting the algae bio-diesel.
v. Algae bio-diesel is superior to other bio-fuels in lots of ways.
vi. New Zealanders have welcomed a new alternative fuel form.
vii. Overgrown algae also can be a potential threat to environment.
1 Paragraph A ___________
2 Paragraph B ___________
3 Paragraph C ___________
4 Paragraph D ___________
5 Paragraph E ___________
Questions 6-10
Complete the following summary of the paragraphs of Reading Passage, using no more than
two words from the Reading Passage for each answer. Write your answers in the spaces
provided.
Bio-diesel based on algae could become a substitute for (6) ________ in New Zealand. It could be
used to (7) ________ vehicles such as cars and boats. As a results, billions of litres of bio-diesel
are required worldwide each year. Algae can be obtained from (8) ________ with nutrient
materials. With the technology breakthrough, algae are extracted and the (9) ________ is removed
from the settling ponds. Dairy farmers, and many processors can adopt such (10) ________
technology.
Your answers:
6. 7. 8. 9. 10