INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE – EXÁMENES 2023

NAME: 4th YEAR

MOD TIME: 2 hours

2
A B FINAL MARK
SET

PART A

WRITE THE WORDS USING THESE CLUES 4 x 0.25 = 1 mark

1 M 1-A film about a serious topic. It sometimes makes you cry.

2 A 2-A person with an attractive personality.
3 N 3-Your husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend.
4 G 4-Cooked above or below strong direct heat (e.g. meat)
O

CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS 4 x 0.25 = 1 mark

1 Nick always warms before playing football. a) down b) up c) out

2 Sarah set up her own business two years . a) since b) yet c) ago

3 I´ll have a shower I get home. a) before b) as soon as c) until

4 He remembered her face somewhere before. a) to see b) had seen c) seeing

EXCHANGES. Match a line from ‘A’ with a line from ‘B’ to make short exchanges.
Write the corresponding letter from ‘B’ in the box. There are three extra phrases in ‘B’. 4 x 0.2 = 0.8 mark

A B B
1 I saw Brad Pitt at a party last night. a How awful! It was fantastic!
2 Shall we have some pasta? b Not at all.
3 Do you mind if I use your phone? c What a great idea! I’d love to.
4 My car was stolen yesterday. d Really? Is he really a good-looking person?
e Sorry! I don’t eat meat.
f You´re kidding!
g Happy to hear that!

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 REWRITE THESE SENTENCES. Use the words in brackets without changing them. 8 x 0.4= 3.2 marks

1- Perhaps the children are not at home now. (MIGHT)

2- ‘Are you going to the party tomorrow?’ David said to his wife. (ASKED)

3- They´re repairing the roof at the moment. (BEING)

4- I advise you to speak to your boss about this. (SHOULD)

5- Your train leaves at 8.45. It’s 8.30 now. Hurry up or you will miss it! (UNLESS)

6- I can´t make a cake because I don´t have any eggs. (IF)

7- Linda didn´t like cherries as a child. Now she loves them. (USE)

8- ‘I need some money, Mum.’ said Emily. (TOLD)

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT EMOJIS WITH THE CORRECT TENSE OR

VOICE OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS. Use the Present Simple or Continuous, 10 x 0.30 = 3 marks
the Past Simple or Continuous, the Present Perfect Simple or Continuous, the Past
Perfect,
the ‘Going to’ or the Simple Future.

When the Oxford English Dictionary 1) (announce) its word of the year 2015, the surprise was it

wasn´t a word. It was the “face with tears of joy” Emoji. In 2015, Hilary Clinton asked students to tell her

how they felt about student loans in emojis and their answers 2) (translate) into emojis.

Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, says he 3) (avoid) using emojis himself

until now – he didn´t want people to think he 4) (try) to get into the teen culture. Emojis were

originally popular with Japanese teenagers and in the UK a third of people over 40 5) (never use)

them in their lives. However, Grathwohl feels it 6) (become) acceptable for older people to use

them now, and even the messages his mother 7) (send) him are full of them. Worldwide, six

billion emojis 8) (send) every day, and the “face with tears of joy” is used the most.

Emojis 9) (help) us to communicate better, but they 10) (not replace) text language.

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 READING. Read this article and do Tasks A and B. 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

Can the Digital World Ever Replace the Physical World?

A
It was Amazon that started Internet shopping by moving book sales online. So why on earth did they later
open a physical bookstore? It seems they discovered that people may buy a book online, but what makes them
want to buy the book is seeing it as a real object in a physical place.

B
Nearly all workers today spend time sitting in front of a computer screen, and we seem to lose touch with the
physical world. We even forget that many of the words we use digitally come from the real world. For
example, graphic designers used to CUT out text and pictures with scissors, and PASTE them into a document
to get everything in the LAYOUT right!

C
People thought downloading and streaming would take over music sales completely, and that we'd enjoy
being free of physical CDs. But the sales of even vinyl records are booming, and it´s the same in other areas.
Board games are still popular, although there are lots of digital games around. And the number of high-quality
print magazines has been growing, too.

D
Perhaps Amazon realized that although we may enjoy the convenience of e-books, we don’t love them in the
same way that we love real books in our hands and on our shelves. We don´t even feel that the e-books we´ve
bought are ours. And it just doesn´t seem right that the greatest of all the classics, War and Peace, looks the
same on an e-book screen as a two-page report on traffic problems.

Task A: Match the headings to the paragraphs. One has already been done.

GETTING BACK TO BASICS C

1 USEFUL AND EASY, BUT NOT SO ATTRACTIVE

2 SAME WORDS, NEW MEANINGS

3 A NEED FOR THE GENUINE THING

Task B: Circle T for true and F for false. Correct the false statement/s on the blank line/s below.

4 According to the writer, Amazon opened a physical bookstore because people prefer
T F
to read physical books rather than online.

5 Things that were replaced by more technologically advanced versions have come back
T F
into fashion.

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WRITING 10 marks

Write one composition using 120 to 160 words. Choose either option A or option B and circle
the letter corresponding to your choice.

A- Last weekend you celebrated your birthday with a big party. Write a LETTER to your English
friend, who lives in London, and tell him/her all about it (who you invited, what you did at the
party, what you liked best about it and what went wrong.)

B- Write a STORY. Begin like this:

‘He decided to leave home early. It would be a long journey.’

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WORDS: 1-drama 2-charming 3-partner 4-grilled
CIRCLE: 1-b 2-c 3-b 4-c
EXCHANGES: 1) d 2) c 3) b 4) f
REWRITE: 1-The children might not be at home now. 2-David asked his wife if she was going to the party the following
day. 3-The roof is being repaired at the moment. 4-You should speak to your boss about this. 5- Unless you hurry up, you’ll
miss the train. 6-If I had some eggs, I could/would be able to make a cake. 7-Linda didn´t use to like cherries. 8-Emily told
her mum (that)she needed some money.
TENSES: 1-announced 2-were translated 3-has been avoiding 4-was trying 5-have never used 6-is becoming/has become
7-sends 8-are sent 9-help 10-aren´t going to replace /won´t replace/don’t replace/haven’t replaced
READING: TASK A 1 D - 2 B - 3 A TASK B 4-F (Seeing a book in a bookstore makes people want to buy it.) 5-T

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