Reading and Use of English (hour30 minutes) PART 4 Forquestions 2, read the text below ond decide which answer, 8, Corb) besfitseach 0p. There isan example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on tne separat Example: A interfering upsetting Aas o damaging 0 intruding Taking photographs ruins the memory, research finds Our obsession with recording every detail of ‘our happiest moments could be 0. ‘our ability to remember them, according to new research, Dr Linda Henkel, fom Fairfield University, Connecticut, described this as the ‘photo-taking Impairment effect She sad, ‘People often whip ‘out their cameras almost mindlessly to 1a moment, to the point that they are missing what is happening 2 in front of them. When people rely on technology to remember for them - 3____on the 1 A see 8 gresp 2 Aaute B right 3 Accounting setting 4 Rengage apply 5A result B aspect 6 Asterd = Brun TA accurate 8 falthful 8 A measured 8 compared ©. CAMBRIOGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS: ‘camera to record the event and thus not needing to ¢___ tot fly themselves ~ itcan have a negative 5 remember thelr experiences! In Dr Henkes experiment, a group of “university students were 6 on a tour fon how well they ‘of a museum and asked to cither photograph or ‘ty to remember objects on display. The next day cach student's memory was tested. The results showed that people were less 7_____in recognizing the objects they had photographed 8. with those they had only looked at capture snatch merely D barely assuming swearing attend D dedicate C extent D impact C tee D conveyed € exact D facta! matched confronted 1 | | i | | | |=e, | | | PART 2 For questions 9-16, read the text below and think ofthe word which bes fits each gap. Use ‘only one word in each gap. Thee isan example atthe beginning (0) Wate your answers li CAPITAL LETTERS on che separate answer sheet, Example: o| Fre LLLLL On the hunt for the best young female entrepreneurs Founded in 1872, the Vewe Clicquot Business Woman Awards celebrated in 27 counties. Veuve Cicquot has now introduced a new award 0____complementits Business Woman ofthe Year category. Called The New Generation Award, 9______recogrizes the best young female talent across business and corporate | Me. | “The fist winner ofthe award Kathryn Parsons, 10 innovative start-up company, Decoded teaches people to code ina day ha joined the judging panel to help i ths years winner: "The importance ofthese awards cannot 11 overestimate she says. "Women need role models that prove to 12__that they can dot, too ‘The New Generation Award is open to entrepreneurial businesswomen 13.___the ages of 25 and 3. ‘Thay can run 18_____owm businesses or lm corporate ife."This award ist about how much money you've made or how long you've been in Busines, its about recognizing young women 15_a mision and a vison’ says Parsons. We want to meet wornen who are working to 15 ____the worl beter place? CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICE TESTS cADNG AND USE OF asatTest. PART For questions 1-24, read the rext below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some ‘of the lines to form a word that fits in the gop inthe same lin. There san example atthe ‘Beginning (0). Write your answersIii CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet, Example: EXIT INTERVIEWS Ifyou are thinking of leaving your job you may think that handing inyourleter of 0 isthe end ofthe matter. But an increasing ASIC umber of companies now conduct ‘xi interviews with staff For the employee, an ext interview may fel lke an ideal opportunity torant and rave about every litle 17_____thathas troubled them _Ainiov since they got the job But 18 Inmind that you ill probably WEAR still need 219 from these people, itis best to avoid geting REFER angry or20___.andjust answer the questions a calmly and_——_=Eh0TION with as much 21 as possible. Honest For employers the exit interview isa rare opportunity to gather some: valuable information about the way staff perceive the company. Existing employees may not wish to cause 22__tothe boss ar damage their chances of promotion, so are uni to 23. ‘their eal feelings about the company However, someone who has already resigned is more likely to be 24 ___when ging thei opinions. 1! {8 CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICETESTS 0G AO USE OF ENGLISH —PART 4 For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence'o that thas a similar meaning tothe {first sentence, using the word given, Donat change the word given. You must use between ‘three and six words, including the word given. Here is an example (0) Example: © leit know the way there, so got lst. = _ there tgotiost de] KNOWN SEH NETe CEE Cont Write only the missing words I CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. 25 Wejust noticed that the car has almost run outof petrol HaRoLy Ie just naticed that leftin theca. 25 ditt tow that cars were so expensive inthis country IDEA ' __ sa muchin this county, 27 Dont get depressed bacauze of such a small problem, ut Its sucha small problem that youshoulast______ down 26 itis eported thatheis now recovering in hospital RECOVERY Helsreportes_________in hosptal now 29 Laura teacher says that she doesn havea serious enough atitude ther work SERIOUSLY Laura dosent to her teacher 30 What's confusing youso much? tor Whatisiethars ______confsion? ‘CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICETESTS READING AND USE OF ENGLISH 8 pisalPART You are going to read @ book review For questions 3-3, choose the answer, 8, Cor) which you think ts best according to the text. [Mark your answers on che separate answer sheet, The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House by Ben Highmore fn 910 the misc hall comedin Bly ‘Wiliams sored his biggest hit wth the song When Father Popered the Pour, mocking the incompetence athe amateur home deenator Fri year ltr, comedans Norman ‘Wisdom and Bruce Forsyth were stl entertaining milion onthe TV show Sunday Night a the London Pollo wth sma retin, but the joke was starting o look date, ‘The access of magaines such 8 The ‘Proce Houscholer wae alesdy roving that, ste 1957 Ideal Home Exhibition proclaimed, Do-eyourat isa home hobby that is hereto stay” ‘By this stage, Britain had mosiy completed its transition fom primitive housing eonditions, made Dearable fo those who could ford it-by serene and ndymen, ‘naa wor where fame locked er themselves in highly serviced emironments Resogniabiy "deen technology inthe form of telephones, telesons ae elect, ‘nad become ubiquitous and was to ransfm domestic ing ‘uterine coming yeas. The ‘makeover of rte homes nthe twentieth entry is recounted in Ben Highmore's entertaining and Informative new book He takes as ona whiind tour ofan everyday ‘house, fom entrance hall garden she, luminstd by extensive reference tn oral histories, popula smagaine and personal memoir tits entre, though, the way ‘hat our homes have elected wider secial changes. Tate isthe deine of 10. CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH: ADVANCED PRACTICETESTS. 0K focal, that ing rooms once fll ef hear funiture and Vitoran Iniclnacs are no dominated by television eee ad tered with stldens toys. There is a rowing Hnteationaliom in tate And there le thereof domestic democracy, withthe howsholdradigre and ‘telephone (lead in the hall) now replaced by iP pts and ‘mobiles in visual every room. Key to that deoentaization ofthe home and the ipl hit of power itin tithe advent of ental eating which pets pride of place ‘the norton tha allowed the ‘oleae to become ccrsibe at alltime of day and night Tling an ‘una cld o'g to your oom no Tonge seems mich of thet Highmote also documeats, ‘ower, some ess sucoeshl steps inthe ora march of domestic ‘machinery. Whatever happened to the gaspomeredtiges we ‘wee promised in 19467 Or tothe Diohmaster decade ater that promised to doa whole days ‘easing up in jst he minutes”? Rather ore cere thereon way 11902 Teermade ied occ on “hen the la loc trggred the sta match was trac, iting pil stove under the het You don't have tobe a health and safety fanatic occlu that «bedoomn Isnt the del pac for suche page. ‘gual disturbing to the modem reader is the pear obsession wth ttle ting tear Tews a Teleco enteenched thet vena ‘ic of sent merely agued thet inwintr, The eathy cd only ene abst thee hos ayn the pena as longa the day and night nursery windows ae always open” "Nowadys,thefesh i obsession has been replay rational eof honor oui the home I caler tough tthe bles of the pst, ‘nd Highmore doesn alway eis 2 Sense of medem super thou, forthe mot part e's an engaging ed uly guide, dispensing Sechlgi insights witout argon "The mssage shat even the language ofthe home has changed ‘merocaby- ring cupbours are ‘ing the fame way as daring ‘oom, As fo that Billy Wilms ‘omg, By the 1980, Highmore ‘ws, would be fposebe for ‘yon to imagine thal font oom parlour” witout seeming deeply ‘olddasioned He's at extiely ‘comet, for there was at lest one person who wae stil employing uch terminology. Prime Minister Margaret ‘Thatcher sed er menage with the use wat she calla ‘the parbles ofthe parlour, which suggests abe ‘understood the truth that, despite the eatlogue of chang, thee ie = ‘ore tha seems consistent. A 1946 ton of Housewie magazine pelt ‘toat:"men make houses, women ‘make homes” Whe you watch inal comedian toy doing a roatne bout hi ie’ atschimet to seater ‘ushons, ft gems Worth asking hae ‘theta dynamic realy moms a gest deal” +31 The reviewer's main topic inthe fist paragraph is improvernents in home decorating skis, how common twas for home decorating tobe discussed © how unfair descriptions of home decorating used tbe. _achangeln attitudes to home decorating 52 Inthe second paragraphs the reviewer says thatthe book includes evidence Mustrating 1 that ome drsh peoples homes were transformed more than others. the widespread nature of changes that took place in Bish homes, ca the perceived disadvantages of certain developments in British homes that the role of certain people in Brtish homes changed enormously 5 Inthe third paragraph the reviewer points toa change in 1 the extent to which different pats ofthe house are occupied, © ideas of which parts of shoure shoul be furnished ina formal way how much time iden spendin hele un rooms. Ei beliefs about what the most pleasant aspect of home lifes 26 Te revwar suggests inthe fourth paragraph tat 2 ontario aed bce they wee dangers © ters unscented Bene Sey ed a ro prope some unsuccessful inventions were not advertised appropriately. ca O thre wore nsuccenfaimetone whic ght goes 25 Inthe ft paragraph the reviewer sas that in is book Highmore A-sometines focses on strange ide that were not very commen inthe pt. © occasional apples the standard of today to practices nthe past. occasional expresses regret about how some attudeshave changed. ca © Sometimes nce ops ta are not dey rear othe main ope 26 Ihe fnalpragraph, the eewer sugges that Highmore maybe wrong about ‘when certain moder atthdes to heme fe rst developed. © hich changesin home fe Ban have been most widely welcomed © theextent to which ome ein Bain has changed a Dhow common ters sch asin cupboards aren modem Bain CAMBRIOGE ENGLISH: AQVANCED PRACTICE TESTS risa.Testi PART 6 You are going to read four reviews ofa documentary series on TV about large companies. For questions 37-0, ‘choose from the reviews A-D. The reviews may be chosen more than once. ‘Mork your answers on the separate answer sheet Inside Business Four reviewers comment on the TV documentary series Inside Business, which investigated the workings of a number of large companies A ‘The companies that nee the foes of each programme in the sere Fue Busines wore very vrei tems af the nature oftheir business and tho way they operte, but between them they demonstrated many of the key features ‘that characterize big oxganistion inthe modern wer. Each programme focused mostly on the peopl the top. The mount ofargon the ied kliely to have Deen oo much fr may viewers to contend with and they ay wel have ‘sven up. they aid tc withthe seri, homers thy wl ave bea ein ne daub sto ow enmplex the busines ‘of ranning ange organizations efor thor charg with dong. Ths was cer fom what the nerenees sai, but the quesonng wasnt ping ezagh an thy wee nad exp oy howe tees they B The overwhelming impression pve to any vce who watched lsc episodes of nse Busines was of he etesondinar pressure hat hace runing moder companie ar obliged to operate under. Unless they themselves ad ‘experience of working in large companies, weet, the) ae aly to hase ound some ofthe interes bewidetng~ the questioning was ery much of the‘one nse 6 aothe’vacety and many viewers wl have strug to follow ‘what wae beig dese, This apect detected some fom wht was an otherwiecompeling sgh into the ‘working of moder companies and may wll hate caused many Viewers to change channels. That's shame because in feral the cmpanlsfstured nthe ris usted very well the impact of modem management heres on & range flag onanizations. You dd oe to kno anything about bss to ba heated by the sexo Inside Busines, which gave an intigaing pice from the inside of how varous household nme companies stu operate. The companies chosen ‘made for god television becuse they al hid wey individual eultures and weys of operating and as sch oul not be said to tp the norm in the word of the moder company Entertaining this was, the portrayal of the rms ‘beged al sorte of questions which wee not ouch on inthe interviews. Thas gov the people in charge avery syd indeed, never challenging ther to bac up their oten vague and contenu pronounoement on thet ‘pproach to esership Indo the viewer wil he bees le with the spas elng that many large and apprenty scesflorganantions are run by pecple who en thei oles enor boat they moi he harer spect of. responsiblity by delegating them to others. > ‘The sels Ise Busnes took serious lola yt fn a madern large company eit waz’ fr the ca viewer, The sere equied some efor to get t ripe withthe tes covered, in partial in the interviews, which were ‘ot ely cressibe tthe ay person and wete ince coructed a one expert to another Having si tha, the vower ‘vo id pt effort in wae rewarded wih a absorbing insight Into the woke these weno fms. They Tad each been carefully chosen tobe representative of how lrge companies re structed and fneton a present, aed ‘hay had euch in nmmon with each other. The main messge put across was how adept thov in charge have tobe in doping to conta changing busines world OING AND USE OF ENGLISH }Which reviewer has lifferent opinion from the thers onthe choice of companies to focus onin the series? shares reviewer Bs opinion of the ikethood of viewers losin interestin the series after a wile? takes a diferent vew fom the others onthe Impression given nthe series of what itis ke to beat the top ofa large organization? Ca oo Os has similar view to reviewer Con the questions asked inthe interviews in the series? ‘CAMBRIDGE ENGLISHE ADVANCED PRACTICETESTS READING ANDUSEOF ENGLISH 35, Tasas