PAPER 3 Use of English 45 minutes For questions 1-12, 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 A doing B_ making © being D having THE IDEAL INTERVIEW When you are (0) .... interviewed, 80 per cent of your mental effort (1) to say and about 20 per cent ‘0 how to say it. The interviewer measures you the (2) .... way round According (3) one expert, you (4) ..... to practise your role. (8) .-.. of confidence at an interview puts employers off, (6) .... sit on a chair in front of a mirror before the interview and rearrange yourself (7) you look confident. Make sure you sit up straight and do ‘everything in a (8) .. to listen to your voice. Ifyou are nervous, you are (10) way. If you look forced, you will feel tense. Get (9) to talk in a dull tone. But if you talk faster (11) ..... you normally do, what comes out is likely to be nonsensical. A good interviewer will (12) .... open-ended questions, 80 try and give answers which are clear and precise.10 "1 12 falls next for must Lack and provided loose someone possibly than say puts other by need Scarcity when until simple them really as give breaks wrong with study Failure 80 while relaxed one likely like ask goes best to got Absence but unless gentle him probably then reply GFEnatish (3Practice Test 1,Paper3) For questions 13-24, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0), Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: | 0 |[T|H | E NORTHERN LIGHTS ‘Aurora borealis — the northem lights — is one of (0) world's most magical firework displays. These displays (13) light are most intense around the North pole, so in (14) to experience them fully on a dark winter's night, you should ideally be in the Arctic Circle. The lights are actually tiny glowing particles from the sun, travelling on a solar wind. When these particles come past the earth, they are trapped by (15) magnetic field and rapidly fall towards the pole. Although the displays occur all year round, the number varies in (16) .... depending (17) .. one year, the sunspot cycle. You need to be (18) properly, and people (19) brightest it's possible to read a book in the middle of the (21) from the glow of the city on a cloudless night to see the northem lights have witnessed them say they are unforgettable. At (20) se a8 the whole area is lit up. Great sheets of light move across the sky in constantly-changing patterns (22) ....... huge colourful curtains. However, you don't have to go (23) the lights. (24) of Scotland, especially from some of the northernmost islands. the ends of the earth to get a really good view of to many people, it's possible to see the effect on dark nights from the far northest 1 For questions 25-34, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example:| 0 || 1|/N|V/E|N/T/O/R ERNO RUBIK Erno Rubik is the well-known (0) .. of the Rubik’s Cube, which sold over INVENT men in WEALTHY 100 million in its first ten years. He is one of the (25) Hungary and says that his most important tools are his (26) . IMAGINE and his brain. He enjoys geometry and the problems of (27) .. CONSTRUCT He says that he has many (28) . ; Who bring their dreams to visit and want him to turn them into (29) .. , but it's his own dreams that REAL really excite him. Before he invented his famous Cube, he was a (30)... in interior LECTURE from an office in Budapest, but ORGANISE .. fo appear on television or == WILL agree to APPEAR design. Now he runs his own (31) .. is rarely seen in public. He is usually (32) make guest (33) .. attend an (34) anywhere, although one year he ww of Hungarian design in London. * EXHIBIT GF Engiisn (15)Practice Test 1,Paper3 > For questions 35-42, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). Examp! 0 The suitcase is not light enough for me to carry. Too The suitcase . for me to carry. The gap can be filled by the words ‘is too heavy’ so you write: 0 || 1s TOO HEAVY Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. 35 Despite the heat Sam kept his jacket on. OF In .. Sam did not take his jacket off. 36 Swimming in the river is forbidden. ALLOWED You in the river. 37 Most of my neighbours travel to work in the city. IN Most of the people ons. travel to work in the city.38 39 40 a 42 I'm really sorry | missed you when you were here. REGRET I The apples were too sour to eat. ‘SWEET The apples were Why did Gemma change her plans? REASON What ... | am not very interested in sport. INTEREST Sport My friends are bringing the music for the party. BEING The music for the party ... @ Test 1 you when you were here. her change of plan? me. my friends. Gee EVGIsn O)