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Task 1

Read this short article about Aboriginal culture. Choose the most suitable and
grammatically correct form of the words in brackets (1-7). Write your answers on the
lines below. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

Australian Aboriginal Culture

Australian Aboriginal culture can claim to be the oldest continuous living culture on the planet.
Recent dating of the earliest known 0) _______________(archaeology) sites on the Australian
continent - using thermo-luminescence and other modern dating techniques - have pushed back
the date for an Aboriginal presence in Australia to at least 40,000 years. Some of the
1)_______________ (evident) points to dates over 60,000 years old. The hallmark of
Aboriginal culture is 'oneness with nature'. In traditional Aboriginal 2)_____________ (believe)
systems, nature and landscape are comparable in 3)_____________ (important) to the Bible in
Christian culture. Prominent rocks, canyons, rivers, waterfalls, islands, beaches and other
4)____________ (nature) features - as well as sun, moon, visible stars and animals - have their
own stories of 5)_____________ (create) and inter-connectedness. To the
6) _________________(tradition) Aborigine they are all sacred: environment is the essence of
Australian Aboriginal godliness. Out of this deep reverence for nature Aborigines learned to
live in 7) ______________(remark) harmony with the land and its animals. It seems there's a
lot our modern world can learn from these people.

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Task 2

Read the text below about a special dog and supply the missing words. Find the best nswer
(A,B,C or D) for each gap (8-16). Only ONE solution is correct. Write your answers in the
boxes after the text. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

Dog Saves Blind Owner's Life By Using Phone To Call Police

An elderly woman is lucky to be alive after her dog pulled her to 0) _________and called
the police when a fire broke out in her home, police in Pennsylvania said. Philadelphia
police 8) ___________that the heroic service dog 9)__________ the 60-year-old blind
woman after the home they shared 10)______ fire on Thursday morning. The dog named
Yolanda dialled 911 11)___________ a specialized phone and alerted police about the fire,
and fire-fighters 12)____________ responded to the scene. They were able to rescue
Yolanda's 13)_____________, Maria Colon, and she was taken to a hospital to be treated
14)______ smoke inhalation. Yolanda was 15)______________ with food, toys, treats and
supplies. This was not the 16)_______________ time that the dog called the police. Last
year, the dog's owner fell in the house and was unconscious when it called the police.

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A)safety

B)safely

C)saved

D)saving

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A)says

B)spoke

C)tells

D)said

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A)saved
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C)serviced

D)served

10)

A)took

B)started

C)caught

D)got

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A)about

B)with

C)to

D)until

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A)lately

B)quickly

C)recently

D)hardly

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A)hers

B)own

C)her

D)owner
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A)for

B)against

C)out

D)into

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A)awarded

B)rewarded

C)prized

D)given

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A)one

B)once

C)only

D)first

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Task 3

You are going to read about how the purpose of houses has changed in England. Some
words are missing from the text. Your task is to write the missing words on the dotted
lines (17-26) after the text. Use only ONE word in each gap. There is an example (0) at
the beginning.

HOUSES THROUGH HISTORY

The purpose of a house (0) ________ changed over the centuries, especially the rooms inside.
What rooms would you include (17) ________ you could design a house? I bet you would have
several rooms including different ones (18) ________ cook in, sleep in, play in, wash in etc.
You would expect your house to have running water, electricity and gas. You would want it to
be warm in winter, cool in summer and keep you dry when (19) ________ rains. You would
also want it to be reasonably secure - large windows to let the sunlight in
(20) ________ keep the burglars out.

Your needs today (21) ________ very different to those of people who lived in houses long
(22) ________ . Take for example the Celtic family. They all lived in one room. In fact their
house only consisted (23) ________ one room and they sometimes brought in their animals too
to keep (24) ________ safe from predators.

I wonder (25) ________ a Victorian gentleman would think of your list of rooms. Did you
include rooms for your servants? A Victorian worker would (26) ________ amazed at the
number of toilets or bathrooms in your house. He would have had to share an outside toilet with
everyone else in his street!

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