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Class: ___________________________________
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Listening
1 [Track 18] Listen to four people talking about job
interviews. Match statements A-E with speakers 1-
4. There is one extra statement.

The speaker

A was surprised that he/she was taken on.

B was able to improve the terms offered.

C had had the wrong kind of work experience.

D felt it was a very rigorous selection process.

E turned down the offer of a job.

1 _____

2 _____

3 _____

4 _____

___ /8 2 [Track 19] Listen to an interview about learning.

Choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
1 According to the professor, in order to learn well
you need to

A have access to information online.

B read or listen to information more than once.

C have good handwriting.

2 The reason why writing with a pen helps us to

learn is that

A the pen touches your hand in certain places.

B you have to think about what you are writing

more carefully.

C you are more likely to re-read handwritten notes.

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3 According to the professor, one thing that can

stop you concentrating is Use of English
A moving around too much. 3 Complete the text with the correct option, A, B, C
B eating too many snacks. or D.
C feeling hungry.
Hiking in Nepal

Having worked extremely long hours in the field of

4 The professor believes that music
A helps some people more than others.
B can help us to remember things.
C is as distracting as other kinds of noise.
5 Which of these, according to the professor, helps
to motivate learners?
A Making interesting mind maps
B Having reachable goals
C Finishing the working day with a walk
6 The programme’s main aim is to
A encourage more people to study.
medicine for a number of years, I decided to quit my
job and go on an adventure. I’ve always loved the
outdoors so I (1) _____ my friend Peter to go to
Nepal with me and hike in the foothills of the most
beautiful mountains in the world. The Annapurna
circuit is considered to be one of the most beautiful
treks in the world and I was not disappointed. The
views were breathtaking.
Although it’s not as physically demanding as some of
the higher altitude treks in the region, I came
(2)_____ against a few problems. From the (3)_____
I struggled with painful blisters on my feet and
I realised on the first day that I had chosen the wrong
travel companion. Peter complained from morning
till night. If I could change one thing about the trip,
I’d (4)_____ on my own.

B compare different kinds of learners.

C suggest ways to improve people’s learning skills. 1 A insisted B persuaded C suggested D proposed

2 A back B off C by D up
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3 A outdo B set off C outset D set out
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4 A had gone B be going C have gone D go

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4 Complete the text with one word in each gap.

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ONLINE DISTRACTIONS
After learning French for a number of years I
decided it was high time I took an exam. I didn't
want to put (1) ____________ revising for the exam
till the last moment, so I prepared a great study
schedule. I was going to learn a bit every day.
It worked well at the beginning. After lunch,
(2) ____________ go to my room and study for
about two hours. It all went wrong one day when
I needed to use an online dictionary.
(3) ____________ gone online, I saw some new
messages from my friends, replied to them, watched
a few videos and, before I knew it, it was
dinnertime. In the end, I did very (4) ____________
revising and I failed the exam. Going online while
studying is not always a good idea!
Recently my dad has shown me an application which
he uses to manage his time at work. It simply blocks
access to Facebook and other pages. If (5) ________
I had discovered it before! Maybe I'd have passed
the exam and wouldn't have to retake it now!
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5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of
the words in brackets. Make any changes
necessary, but do not change the order of the
words.
1 By this time next year, I ___________________
___________________ (graduate) from
university.
2 You ____________________________________
(need / not / come) so early but since you're
here, you can help me with those boxes.
3 For a long time I __________________________
_______________ (warn / she / start) revising
for the exam as soon as possible, but she ignored
my advice completely.
4 It ______________________________________
(time / you / apply) a better-paid job.
5 You ____________________________________
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(ought / ask / me) before you invited my ex to
the party.
6 _____________________________________
( What / I / say) we should have planned the
project better in the first place.
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I
6 Complete the second sentence so that it has a
similar meaning to the first. Use between two and
five words, including the word in capitals.
1 I don’t eat out because it’s too expensive. AVOID
I _________________________ because it’s too
expensive.
2 Carla said that Paul had cheated in the exam.
ACCUSED
Carla _________________________ in the exam.
3 I’ll only come if you pay for the tickets. UNLESS
I ________________________ for the tickets.
4 Everyone recognises her now because she was on
a reality TV show. IF
People wouldn’t recognise her _______________
____________ on a reality TV show.
5 It was a mistake to spend so much money on this
dress! WISH
I _______________________ so much money on
this dress!
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Reading
7 You are going to read an article about counterfeit
goods. Complete gaps 1-5 with sentences A-F.
There is one extra sentence.
A Some people purchase cheaper options
deliberately, knowing they aren’t genuine but
hoping they won’t do any harm.
B However, unlike an illegal fake, you have got an
item of superb quality and you won’t have broken
the law by buying it.
C The problem with these products is that they look
so similar to the real thing that police officers and
customs officials are unable to distinguish
between them.
D They don’t mind, as long as they feel they have
got a bargain.
E When you include the value of products which are
sold in the country they are produced in, this
amount more than doubles.
F If you only buy from reputable shops and their
websites, you can be sure that you are buying the
right product.
1 _____
2 _____
3 _____
4 _____
5 _____
SAVE MONEY WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAW
Fake brand-name goods have been popular for
many years. Most people who buy them know
that what they are buying isn’t really made by the
company whose name is on the label. (1) _____
Although the quality can’t be guaranteed, they
can, at least for a short while, pretend to
themselves and their friends that they are wearing
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the same clothes, watches, perfume and jewellery
as the celebrities they admire.
Now, however, the problem is growing. The
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development estimates that the value of
counterfeit goods crossing international borders is
over $250 billion a year. (2) _____ This reduces tax
revenues for national governments and makes it
more difficult for them to finance schools,
hospitals and other essential services.
However, the problems are not only financial. The
Internet has seen potentially harmful fake
products being offered for sale. The most
dangerous of all are fake medicines. (3) _____
Others, who would never deliberately buy any
drugs not regulated by the government, are fooled
by authentic-looking websites. Whatever the
reason, the purchase can be deadly. Large
numbers of children have been killed by fake
drugs and baby products in countries such as
China, Panama and Nigeria in recent years. Almost
certainly individuals have suffered in the same
way in many other places.
It is easy to avoid fake products. (4) _____ By
careful searching, you can find which of these
stores is selling the products you want for the
lowest prices.
You can save even more money, though, by
searching for cheap, but legal alternative
products. A quick search shows that a Rolex
Explorer II watch can cost from about $3,000 to
over $5,000 depending on the model you prefer. A
fake Rolex is cheaper but it may not work or it may
not even arrive. However, an original Steinhart
Ocean II can be yours for under £500 and it is
reasonably similar to a Rolex. It doesn’t have the
more famous name on it and people may not be
as impressed by it as by a fake Rolex. (5)
_____ You will also have a receipt in case anything
goes wrong.

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We all like a bargain and some products are
extremely expensive but buying counterfeit goods
is not the best way to find one.
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8 Read the two texts. For questions 1–5, choose the
correct answer, A, B, C or D.
1 According to the first text, the Luddite protests
started because
A unemployment benefits had stopped.
B there was no work for unskilled workers.
C a lot of people didn’t have enough money to eat.
D the government broke their promise to help
people.
2 The writer of the first text does not mention
A any deaths resulting from the protest.
B how factory owners fought back against
protestors.
C how the protests affected the law in Britain.
D in which parts of the country the attacks
happened.
3 Ned Ludd
A is as famous now as the group which took his
name.
B and his attack on machinery was reported in the
newspapers at the time it happened.
C was in the British army before becoming a
protestor.
D first became well-known in the same year that the
protests took place.
4 The author of the second text says that
A we should find jobs that won’t change over our
lifetime.
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B technology is threatening a wider range of jobs
now than in the past.
C technology nowadays is not really threatening
jobs in the same way that it used to.
D people are to blame if they have lost their job to
technology.
5 The two texts talk about
A the effect of new technology on the workforce.
B how the word Luddite is misunderstood.
C individuals who have made technology work for
them.
D a mythical person leading a protest group.
WHO WERE THE LUDDITES?
The beginning of the 19th century was a very
difficult time for workers in the UK.
Unemployment was high and, at a time when
unemployment benefits were non-existent, this
could mean starvation for the jobless workers and
their families. There were food riots in many cities
but an unsympathetic government acted against
the protestors rather than trying to help them. At
the same time, new machinery in factories meant
that traditional skills were no longer needed.
Something had to happen and, in early 1811, it
did.
At the start of the year, factory owners in the
Nottingham area started receiving mysterious
letters from someone who called himself General
Ned Ludd. The letters threatened that businesses
which took advantage of improvements in
technology by reducing wages and replacing
skilled workers with unskilled machine operators
would suffer. When nothing happened, the
threats started to be carried out. Attacks took
places on factories and cotton mills, and
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machinery was destroyed. The riots soon spread
to other industrial areas in the north of Britain.
When the protests continued into 1812, troops
were sent to keep order and many industrialists
also hired their own armed guards. At the same
time, a new law introduced the death penalty for
causing industrial damage. The attacks continued
but slowly law and order was restored and, by
1817, the Luddite movement died out. Attacks on
factories still took place occasionally but most
workers were forced to return to work, earning
less money for longer hours while the factory
owners became rich thanks to the machinery that
the Luddites had failed to destroy.
What about General Ludd himself? No one
actually knows whether he existed at all. He
certainly wasn’t a real general and the only army
he might have been a part of was an army of
protestors. A newspaper article stated that, in
1779, after being punished for laziness, he took
revenge by destroying two machines at his
workplace.
However, the story was only published after
the Luddite attacks broke out in 1811. As one of
the stories of General Ludd says that he based
himself in nearby Sherwood Forest, it is clear that,
whether or not a Ned Ludd ever existed, his
supporters were trying to build him up into a
Robin Hood style hero. Ned Ludd may be
forgotten but his name lives on in the English
language. A Luddite is now defined in dictionaries
as anyone who is opposed to using modern
machines and methods.
ARE YOU A LUDDITE OR A BRADITE?
According to a new report, up to ten million jobs
in the UK could be lost in the next twenty years to
robots and computers. In the past, the most likely
people to suffer were those in low-paid, unskilled,
repetitive jobs such as factory workers, whose
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numbers have dropped alarmingly because of
automation.
However, it isn’t only the old, traditional
industries which are now affected. Who could
have guessed only a few years ago that so many
bank branches would be closed because of the rise
in Internet banking? What will happen to taxi
drivers and lorry drivers when driverless cars
become affordable and commonplace? No one’s
job can be guaranteed to be safe anymore. Even
teachers may be replaced by laptops and
computerised lessons. So what can we do to
protect ourselves in this ever-changing world?
The most important advice is not to despair.
There is one thing that everyone can do. We can
and must embrace new technologies and learn to
live with them. It is now vital to develop new skills
and continue to develop them throughout our
working lives. We almost certainly won’t be still
doing the same job when we retire as when we
leave education and successful people will be
willing to retrain many times.
In the past, workers threatened by machinery
joined the Luddites and attempted to halt the
march of progress by smashing things up. Perhaps
we should form a new group. How about the
Bradites who follow the example of Brad Colburn,
a self-made millionaire who made his money by
filming himself playing his favourite video games
while describing them and posting the films on
YouTube. That’s not a bad way to earn a living!
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