FINAL EXAM 2022 ANSWER KEY

Level: ADULTS UPPER-INTERMEDIATE (B2)

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LISTENING
1) You will hear an interview with Laura Bartlett, a successful florist. Choose the correct answer (A,
B or C).(14) (2PTS EACH)

1 Laura's parents

A were professional gardeners.

B had a successful florist's shop.

C loved cultivating plants.

2 Laura originally wanted

A to work as a graphic designer.

B to become an artist.

C to write articles for a magazine.

3 She became a florist

A because she didn't know what else to do.

B as soon as she resigned from the magazine.

C as the result of an accident.

4 In the beginning, Laura

A was not skilled al working with flowers.

B didn't work with flowers at all.

C only delivered flowers to customers.

5 She had to learn

A the names of different species of flowers.

B which flowers florists could use in their work.

C how to prepare flowers for arrangements.

6 Laura suggests that a young person who is thinking of being a florist must be prepared

A to send flowers to people who are ill.

B to work long hours at certain times of the year.

C to spend a lot of time at the flower market.

7 Laura advises young people who would like to become florists

A to work at a florist's while they are attending courses in floristry.

B to study floristry full-time at a college before they get a job.

C to learn how to programme a computer

READING

2) READ the article and CHOOSE the correct answers below. (10)(2PTS EACH)

You are going to read an article about a wildlife cameraman called Doug Allan. Choose the answer (A, B, C or
D) which you think fits best according to the text

Wildlife cameraman
Doug Allan films wild animals in cold places. If you’ve ever been amazed by footage of polar bears in a nature
documentary, it’s probably been filmed by him. His perfect temperature, he says, is -18°C. Allan trained as a
marine biologist and commercial diver. Diving was his first passion, where he learned about survival in cold
places. His big break came when a TV crew turned up in Antarctica, where Allan was working, to film a
wildlife documentary. ‘I ended up taking the crew to different places, and after 48 hours I realized that being
a wildlife cameraman ticked all the boxes: travel, adventure, underwater.’
He is now a top cameraman and has worked on many major TV wildlife series. ‘I came along at a good
time. When I started, hardly anyone had been to the Antarctic. You had coral people, elephant people,
chimpanzee people. I just became the cold man. It was like all these amazing sequences were just waiting to
be captured on film.’ The camera and communications technology was very basic when he started 35 years
ago. ‘It is certainly easier to film today. If you shot something then, you had to remember it. Today, with
digital technology, you can shoot a lot and look at it immediately. You used to have to think what shots you
needed next, and what you had missed. You shot less. Film was very expensive. Today you can have too much
material.’
‘My value is field experience in cold conditions. I have a feel for it. I have spent so much time on sea ice it
now feels like crossing the street. I do get cold toes but the poles are healthy places. There are no leeches,
no diseases or mosquitoes.’ Wildlife filming, Allan says, is full of great successes, but also failures and
embarrassments. Once, he was in the Orkneys to film kittiwakes. Unfortunately he could not identify
which birds they were.
When Allan recently got permission to film sequences for a major TV series in Kong Karls Land, a group of
islands in the Arctic Ocean, he did not expect an easy assignment. It is a world of polar bears and is strictly
off limits to all but the most fearless or foolish. Usually
-32°C in April, the wind is vicious and hauling cameras in the deep snow is a nightmare. After walking five or
more hours a day and watching polar bear dens in the snow slopes for 23 days, however, Allan had seen just
one mother bear and her cub. By day 24, though, he says, he was living in bear world, at bear speed, with
bear senses.
 ‘We find a new hole and wait. We shuffle, hop, bend, stretch and run to stay warm. Five hours of watching
and then with no warning at all I catch a glimpse so brief that I almost miss it. But the camera’s locked on
the hole on full zoom and my eye’s very quickly on the viewfinder. Nothing for a couple of seconds and then
an unmistakable black nose. Nose becomes muzzle, grows bigger to become full head and in less than a minute
she has her front legs out and is resting on the snow in front of the hole. She’s looking at me but she’s not
bothered. I’ve just taken a close-up, thinking this can’t get much better … when she sets off on a long slide
down the slope. I’d swear it’s partly in sheer pleasure,’ he recounts, adding that two cubs then appeared at
the den entrance. ‘Clearly it’s their first view of the world … It’s show time on the slopes and we have front-
row seats.’
Now Allan would like to make his own film about climate change in the Arctic, talking to the people who live
there and experience the impact of it first hand. He says he would be able to make an extraordinary
documentary

1. What do we learn about Allan in the first paragraph?

A He had to train as a diver in order to become a wildlife cameraman.
B Becoming a cameraman suited the interests he already had.
C He was given the chance to work as a cameraman by a TV crew he met.
D Finding work as a cameraman allowed him to remain in Antarctica.
2. What does Allan say about the first documentaries he worked on?
A He has very clear memories of them.
B Most of what he filmed was new to viewers.
C They were shorter than those he makes nowadays.
D He would have liked to have been able to choose where he worked.
3. Why does Allan compare spending time on sea ice to crossing the street?
A It is an ordinary occurrence for him.
B He thinks it presents a similar level of danger.
C He has learnt to approach it in the same way.
D It requires skills that can be used in winter conditions anywhere.
4. When Allan had been on Kong Karls Land for a while, he began to
A stop worrying about the dangers he was facing.
B feel a deep understanding of how polar bears lived.
C get used to the terrible conditions for filming.
D be more hopeful that one bear would lead him to others.
5. What feeling does Allan describe in the fifth paragraph?
A panic when he nearly fails to film a fantastic sequence
B concern that he has disturbed an adult female with her young
C amazement at being lucky enough to capture some great shots
D delight at being able to move around after waiting quietly for ages
 USE OF ENGLISH(12) (1PTS EACH)

3) Read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, Cor O) best fits each gap.

The Old Gate

In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. They (1} ……....... to defend
the city, but they also kept out undesirable people, like those with contagious (2) ...................
Most of London’s gates had been (3)………………………. by the end of the eighteenth century.
However, by a (4) ...... of luck, the last of them was preserved. This gate is, in (5) ……………………………......
fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (6) …………………………….. between
the old City of London and Westminster. However, as the (7) ………………………………….. of traffic through
London increased, Temple Bar became a(n) (8)………………………………. to its free flow. In 1878 it was
decided to take it down, so its stones were numbered, dismantled and put in (9)……………………. a couple of
years later a wealthy businessman bought the stones and re-erected them at his house in Hertfordshire.
In the 1970s the Temple Bar Trust was (10) with the intention of returning the gate to the City of London.
Much of the money for this project was (11) ………………………………… from the Temple Bar Trust. The
stonework needed a lot of restoration, which was (12) …………………….. outby the Cathedral Works
Organisation. Today, Temple Bar stands next to St Paul's Cathedral.

1 A SUPPOSED B SERVED C EXPECTED D MEANT

2 A INJURIES B SYMPTOMS C COLDS D DISEASES
3 A DEVOTED B DEMOLISHED C DECLARED D DECREASED
4 A STROKE B WAVE C HIT D BLOW
5 A REAL B CURRENT C ACTUAL D DEFINITE
6 A DIVISION B PART C LINE D BOUNDARY
7 A AMOUNT B QUANTITY C BULK D NUMBER
8 A PROBLEM B PREVENTION C DIFFICULTY D OBSTACLE
9 A STORAGE B STORE C STOREROOM D STOCK
10 A SET OUT B SET UP C SET OFF D SET BACK
11 A AWARDS B PRESENTS C DONATIONS D AIDS
12 A MADE B PERFORMED C DONE D CARRIED
 4) Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. (20) (4PTS EACH)

1) You've got to decide what you really want to do with your life.
TIME
IT'S TIME YOU DECIDED WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO DO WITH YOUR LIFE.
2) Each month he goes to the local hairdresser's for a haircut.
GETS
EACH MONTH HE GETS HIS HAIR CUT AT THE LOCAL HAIRDRESSER'S.
3) I lent her a dictionary last week.
BORROWED
SHE BORROWED A DICTIONARY FROM ME LAST WEEK.
4) The doctor told her to reduce the amount of sugar in her diet.
CUT
THE DOCTOR TOLD HER TO CUT DOWN ON THE AMOUNT OF SUGAR IN HER DIET.
5) l'm sure he hasn't forgotten about the meeting.
HAVE
HE CAN’T HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE MEETING.

5) Put the verbs in brackets into the correct infinitive form or the -ing form. (10)
(2 PTS EACH)

1 You should try ......MAKING............................... (make) your own clothes. lt's much cheaper.

2 l'm sorry. I didn't mean……TO BREAK……………………………. (break)your vase.

3 Being a teacher means (correct) ……CORRECTING……………………..a lot of homework.

4 I like ......TO TIDY................. (tidy) my room at weekends because I don't have time during the week.

5 They Iike .....PLAYING................................. (play) in the sea on hot weather

6) Choose the correct answer. (10) (1 PTS EACH)

1 'Are you going shopping tonight?' - No, I………….... yesterday.'

A went B had gone C had been going

2 'Did you see Nathan?' - 'No, he ............ by the time I arrived at his house.'

A was leaving B had been leaving C had left

3 'Where is Scott?' - 'He ............ on the phone when I saw him.'

A was talking B talked C had talked

4 'How often do you clean your house?' 'I ............ clean it once a week.'

A seldom B usually C never

5 'Did Alan arrive on time?' -'No, I ............ for an hour before he arrived.'

A was waiting B had waited C had been waiting

6 'Did you go out for dinner last night?' - 'No. I ............ a lot at lunch, so I wasn't hungry.'

Ahad been eating B had eaten C was eating

7 'What time do you finish work?' 'Actually, I…………………….. '

A have just finished B finish C finished

8 'Did you enjoy your holiday?'- 'Yes, we ............ in a fabulous hotel.'

A have stayed B had stayed C stayed

9 'I like your dress. Is it new?' 'No. I ............ it for ages.'

A had B have C have had

10 'How is John now?'- 'He ............ better slowly.'

A gets B is getting C has been getting

7 ) Turn the following sentences into reported speech.(10) (2 PTS EACH)

1) ‘I’m going to bed early tonight” Caroline said(THAT) SHE WAS GOING TO BED EARLY THAT NIGHT

2) 'My mother is coming to visit us’ I SAID (THAT) MY MOTHER WAS COMING TO VISIT US

3) ‘We don't want to watch a film tonight’· the children said (THAT) THEY DIDN'T WANT TO

WATCH A FILM THAT NIGHT.

4) 'He's playing in the garden now,' his mother said (THAT) HE WAS PLAYING IN THE GARDEN AT

THAT TIME/THEN.

5) She said, 'You must do your homework now. SHE SAID (THAT) I MUST/HAD TO DO

MY HOMEWORK IMMEDIATELY/THEN.

8) WRITING (14 PTS)

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