PRACTICE TEST 03

I. LISTENING (1 mark each / 40 marks)

SECTION 1 Questions 1-10

Questions 1-5

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Transport from Airport to Milton

Example Answer
Distance: ....147........miles
Options:
 Car hire
- don't want to drive
 1 ..............................
- expensive
 Greyhound bus
- $15 single, $27.50 return
- direct to the 2 ......................
- long 3 ...........................
 Airport Shuttle
- 4 ....................service
- every 2 hours
- $35 single, $65 return
- need to 5 ........................
Question 6-10

Complete the booking form below.

Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

AIRPORT SHUTTLE BOOKING FORM

To: Milton
Date: 6 .................................. No. of passengers: One
Bus time: 7 .................................pm Type of ticket: Single

Name: Janet 8 .............................

Flight No: 9 ................................ From: London Heathrow
Address in Milton: Vacation Motel,
 24, Kitchener Street
Fare: $35
Credit Card No: (Visa) 10...........................

SECTION 2 Questions 11-20

Questions 11-15
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

The Dinosaur Museum

11 The museum closes at ....................p.m. on Mondays.
12 The museum is not open on ......................... .
13 School groups are met by tour guides in the .......................
14 The whole visit takes 90 minutes, including ........................ .
15 There are ................ behind the museum where students can have lunch.

Question 16-18

Choose THREE letters, A-G.

Which THREE things can students have with them in the museum?
A food
B water
C cameras
D books
E bags
F pens
G worksheets
Questions 19 and 20

Choose TWO letters, A-E.

Which TWO activities can students do after the tour at persent?
 A build model dinosaurs
B watch films
C draw dinosaurs
D find dinosaur eggs
E play computer games

SECTION 3 Questions 21-30

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

COURSE FEEDBACK

21 One reason why Spiros felt happy about his marketing presentation was that
A he was not nervous.
B his style was good.
C the presentation was the best in his groups.

22 What surprised Hiroko about the other students' presentations?

A Their presentations were not interesting.
B They found their presentations stressful.
C They didn't look at the audience enough.

23 After she gave her presentation, Hiroko felt

A delighted.
B dissatisfied.
C embarrassed.

24 How does Spiros feel about his performance in tutorials?

A not very happy
B really pleased
C fairly confident

25 Why can the other students participate so easily in discussion?

A They are polite to each other.
B They agree to take turns speaking.
C They know each other well.

26 Why is Hiroko feeling more positive about tutorials now?

A She finds the other students' opinions more interesting.
B She is making more of a contribution.
C The tutor includes her in the discussion.
27 To help her understand lectures, Hiroko
A consulted reference materials.
B had extra tutorials with her lecturers.
C borrowed lecture notes from other students.

28 What does Spiros think of his reading skills?

A He reads faster than he used to.
B It still takes him a long time to read.
C He tends to struggle with new vocabulary.

29 What is Hiroko's subject area?

A environmental studies
B health education
C engineering

30 Hiroko thinks that in the reading classes the students should

A learn more vocabulary.
B read more in their own subject areas.
C develop better reading strategies.

SECTION 4 Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

'Self-regulatory focus theory' and leadership

Self-regulatory focus theory

People's focus is to approach pleasure or avoid pain.

Promotion goals focus on 31 ................................
Prevention goals emphasise avoiding punishment.

Factors that affect people's focus

The Chronic Factor
 comes from one's 32 .............................

The 33 .....................Factor
 we are more likely to focus on promotion goals when with a 34...................
 we are more likely to focus on prevention goals with our boss.

How people's focus affects them

Promotion Focus: People think about an ideal version of themselves, their

35 ........................... and their gains.

Prevention Focus: People think about their 'ought' self and their obligations.

Leaders

Leadership behaviour and 36 ........................affects people's focus.

Transformational Leaders:
 pay special attention to the 37 ..............................of their followers.
 passionately communicate a clear 38 .......................
 inspire promotion focus in followers.

Transactional Leaders:

 create 39 .......................to make expectations clear.

 emphasise the results of a mistakes.
 inspire prevention focus in followers.

Conclusion:

Promotion Focus is good for jobs requiring 40 .........................

Prevention Focus is good for work such as a surgeon.
Leaders' actions affect which focus people use.

II. READING (1 mark each / 40 marks)

READING PASSAGE 1
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on Reading Passage 1
below.

Questions 1-5
Reading Passage 1 has five paragraphs, A-E.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter, A-E, in boxes l-5 on your answer sheet.
NB You may use any letter more than once.

1 examples of wildlife other than bats which do not rely on vision to navigate by
2 how early mammals avoided dying out
3 why bats hunt in the dark
4 how a particular discovery has helped our understanding of bats
5 early military uses of echolocation

Questions 6-9
Complete the summary below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 6-9 on your answer sheet.

Facial Vision
Blind people report that so-called facial vision’ is comparable to the sensation of touch on the
face. In fact, the sensation is more similar to the way in which pain from a 6 ………………….. arm
or leg might be felt. The ability actually comes from perceiving 7 ………………….through the ears.
However, even before this was understood, the principle had been applied in the design of
instruments which calculated the 8 ………………. of the seabed. This was followed by a wartime
application in devices for finding 9 …………………. .

Questions 10-13
Complete the sentences below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS front the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 10-13 on your answer sheet.

10 Long before the invention of radar, ……………….had resulted in a sophisticated radar-like

system in bats.
11 Radar is an inaccurate term when referring to bats because ……………. are not used in their
navigation system.
12 Radar and sonar are based on similar …………………
13 The word ‘echolocation’ was first used by someone working as a ........................
 Let’s Go Bats

A
Bats have a problem: how to find their way around in the dark. They hunt at night and cannot use
light to help them find prey and avoid obstacles. You might say that this is a problem of their own
making, one that they could avoid simply by changing their habits and hunting by day. But the
daytime economy is already heavily exploited by other creatures such as birds. Given that there is
a living to be made at night and given that alternative daytime trades are thoroughly occupied,
natural selection has favoured bats that make a go of the night-hunting trade. It is probable that
the nocturnal trades go way back in the ancestry of all mammals. In the time when the dinosaurs
dominated the daytime economy, our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at
all because they found ways of scraping a living at night. Only after the mysterious mass
extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the
daylight in any substantial numbers.

B
Bats have an engineering problem how to find their way and find their prey in the absence of
light. Bats are not the only creatures to face this difficulty today. Obviously the night-flying insects
that they prey on must find their way about somehow. Deep-sea fish and whales have little or no
light by day or by night. Fish and dolphins that live in extremely muddy water cannot see because,
although there is light, it is obstructed and scattered by the dirt in the water. Plenty of other
modem animals make their living in conditions where seeing is difficult or impossible.

C
Given the questions of how to manoeuvre in the dark, what solutions might an engineer consider?
The first one that might occur to him is to manufacture light, to use a lantern or a searchlight.
Fireflies and some fish (usually with the help of bacteria) have the power to manufacture their
own light, but the process seems to consume a large amount of energy. Fireflies use their light for
attracting mates. This doesn’t require a prohibitive amount of energy a male’s tiny pinprick of light
can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night since her eyes are exposed directly
to the light source itself. However, using light to find one’s own way around requires vastly more
energy since the eyes have to detect the tiny fraction of the light that bounces off each part of the
scene. The light source must therefore be immensely. Reading brighter if it is to be used as a
signal to illuminate the path, than if it is to be used as a signal to others. In any event whether or
not the reason is the energy expense, it seems to be the case that, with the possible exception of
some weird deep-sea fish, no animal apart from man uses manufactured light to find its way
about.

D
What else might the engineer think of? Well, blind humans sometimes seem to have an uncanny
sense of obstacles in their path. It has been given the name ‘facial vision’, because blind people
have reported that it feels a bit like the sense of touch, on the face. One report tells of a totally
blind boy who could ride his tricycle at good speed round the block near his home, using facial
vision. Experiments showed that in fact, facial vision is nothing to do with touch or the front of the
face, although the sensation may be referred to the front of the face. We the referred pain in a
phantom limb. The sensation of facial vision, it turns out, really goes in through the ears. Blind
people, without even being aware of the fact, are actually using echoes of their own footsteps and
of other sounds, to sense the presence of obstacles. Before this was discovered, engineers had
already built instruments to exploit the principle, for example to measure the depth of the sea
under a ship. After this technique had been invented, it was only a matter of time before weapons
designers adapted it for the detection of submarines. Both sides in the Second World War relied
heavily on these devices, under such codenames as Asdic (British) and Sonar (American), as well
as Radar (American) or RDF (British), which uses radio echoes rather than sound echoes.

E
The Sonar and Radar pioneers didn’t know it then, but all the world now knows that bats, or
rather natural selection working on bats, had perfected the system tens of millions of years earlier
and their radar’ achieves feats of detection and navigation that would strike an engineer dumb
with admiration. It is technically incorrect to talk about bat ‘radar’, since they do not use radio
waves. It is sonar. But the underlying mathematical theories of radar and sonar are very similar
and much of our scientific understanding of the details of what bats are doing has come from
applying radar theory to them. The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who was largely responsible
for the discovery of sonar in bats, coined the term ‘echolocation’ to cover both sonar and radar,
whether used by animals or by human instruments.
READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage
2 on the following pages.

Questions 14-19
Reading Passage 2 has seven paragraphs, A-G.
Choose the correct heading for paragraphs A and C-G from the list below.
Write the correct number, i-x, in boxes 14-19 on your answer sheet.

List of Headings

i Disobeying FAA regulations

ii Aviation disaster prompts action
iii Two coincidental developments
iv Setting altitude zones
v An oversimplified view
vi Controlling pilots’ licences
vii Defining airspace categories
viii Setting rules to weather conditions
ix Taking off safely
x First steps towards ATC

14 Paragraph A

Example Answer
Paragraph B x

15 Paragraph C
16 Paragraph D
17 Paragraph E
18 Paragraph F
19 Paragraph G
Questions 20-26
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?
In boxes 20-26 on your answer sheet. Write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

20 The FAA was created as a result of the introduction of the jet engine.
21 Air Traffic Control started after the Grand Canyon crash in 1956.
22 Beacons and flashing lights are still used by ATC today.
23 Some improvements were made in radio communication during World War II.
24 Class F airspace is airspace which is below 365m and not near airports.
25 All aircraft in Class E airspace must use IFR.
26 A pilot entering Class C airspace is flying over an average-sized city.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE USA

A
An accident that occurred in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956 resulted in the
establishment of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to regulate and oversee the operation
of aircraft in the skies over the United States, which were becoming quite congested. The
resulting structure of air traffic control has greatly increased the safety of flight in the United
States, and similar air traffic control procedures are also in place over much of the rest of the
world.
B
Rudimentary air traffic control (ATC) existed well before the Grand Canyon disaster. As early as
the 1920s, the earliest air traffic controllers manually guided aircraft in the vicinity of the airports,
using lights and flags, while beacons and flashing lights were placed along cross-country routes to
establish the earliest airways. However, this purely visual system was useless in bad weather,
and, by the 1930s, radio communication was coming into use for ATC. The first region to have
something approximating today’s ATC was New York City, with other major metropolitan areas
following soon after.

C
In the 1940s, ATC centres could and did take advantage of the newly developed radar and
improved radio communication brought about by the Second World War, but the system remained
rudimentary. It was only after the creation of the FAA that full-scale regulation of America’s
airspace took place, and this was fortuitous, for the advent of the jet engine suddenly resulted in
a large number of very fast planes, reducing pilots’ margin of error and practically demanding
some set of rules to keep everyone well separated and operating safely in the air.

D
Many people think that ATC consists of a row of controllers sitting in front of their radar screens at
the nation’s airports, telling arriving and departing traffic what to do. This is a very incomplete
part of the picture. The FAA realised that the airspace over the United States would at any time
have many different kinds of planes, flying for many different purposes, in a variety of weather
conditions, and the same kind of structure was needed to accommodate all of them.

E
To meet this challenge, the following elements were put into effect. First, ATC extends over
virtually the entire United States. In general from 365m above the ground and higher, the entire
country is blanketed by controlled airspace in certain areas, mainly near airports, controlled
airspace extends down to 215m above the ground, and, in the immediate vicinity of an airport, all
the way down to the surface. Controlled airspace is that airspace in which FAA regulations apply.
Elsewhere, in uncontrolled airspace, plots are bound by fewer regulations. In this way, the
recreational pilot who simply wishes to go flying for a while without all the restrictions imposed by
the FAA has only to stay in uncontrolled airspace, below 365m, while the pilot who does want the
protection afforded by ATC can easily enter the controlled airspace.

F
The FAA then recognised two types of operating environments. In good meteorological conditions,
flying would be permitted under Visual Flight Rules (VFR), which suggests a strong reliance on
visual cues to maintain an acceptable level of safety. Poor visibility necessitated a set of
Instrumental Flight Rules (1FR), under which the pilot relied on altitude and navigational
information provided by the plane’s instrument panel to fly safely. On a clear day, a pilot in
controlled airspace can choose a VFR or 1FR flight plan, and the FAA regulations were devised in a
way which accommodates both VFR and 1FR operations in the same airspace. However, a pilot
can only choose to fly 1FR if they possess an instrument rating which is above and beyond the
basic pilot’s license that must also be held.

G
Controlled airspace is divided into several different types, designated by letters of the alphabet.
Uncontrolled airspace is designated Class F, while controlled airspace below 5,490m above sea
level and not in the vicinity of an airport is Class E. All airspace above 5.490m is designated Class
A. The reason for the division of Class E and Class A airspace stems from the type of planes
operating in them. Generally, Class E airspace is where one finds general aviation aircraft (few of
which can climb above 5,490m anyway), and commercial turboprop aircraft. Above 5.490m is the
realm of the heavy jets, since jet engines operate more efficiently at higher altitudes. The
difference between Class E and A airspace is that in Class A, all operations are 1FR, and pilots
must be instrument-rated, that is skilled and licensed in aircraft instrumentation. This is because
ATC control of the entire space is essential. Three other types of airspace, Classes D, C and B,
govern the vicinity of airports. These correspond roughly to small municipal, medium-sized
metropolitan and major metropolitan airports respectively, and encompass an increasingly
rigorous set of regulations. For example, all a VFR pilot has to do to enter Class C airspace is
establish two-way radio contact with ATC. No explicit permission from ATC to enter is needed,
although the pilot must continue to obey all regulations governing VFR flight. To enter Class B
airspace, such as on approach to a major metropolitan airport, an explicit ATC clearance is
required. The private pilot who cruises without permission into this airspace risks losing their
license.

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage
3 below.

Questions 27-30
Answer the questions below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 27-30 on your answer sheet.

27 What had to transfer from sea to land before any animals could migrate?
28 Which TWO processes are mentioned as those in which animals had to make big changes as
they moved onto land?
29 Which physical feature, possessed by their ancestors, do whales lack?
30 Which animals might ichthyosaurs have resembled?

Questions 31-33
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 3?
In boxes 31-33 on your answer sheet, write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

31 Turtles were among the first group of animals to migrate back to the sea.
32 It is always difficult to determine where an animal lived when its fossilised remains are
incomplete.
33 The habitat of ichthyosaurs can be determined by the appearance of their fossilized remains.
Questions 34-39
Complete the flow-chart below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER from the passage for each
answer.
Write your answers in boxes 34-39 on your answer sheet.
Method of determining where the ancestors of turtles and tortoises come from

Step 1
71 species of living turtles and tortoises were examined and a total of 34……………….
were taken from the bones of their forelimbs.

Step 2
The data was recorded on a 35………………. (necessary for comparing the
information).
Outcome: Land tortoises were represented by a dense 36……………... of points
towards the top.
Sea turtles were grouped together in the bottom part.

Step 3
The same data was collected from some living 37……………. species and added to the
other results.
Outcome: The points for these species turned out to be positioned about
38…………………. up the triangle between the land tortoises and the sea turtles.

Step 4
Bones of P. quenstedti and P. talampayensis were examined in a similar way and the
results added.
Outcome: The position of the points indicated that both these ancient creatures were
39…………………….

Question 40
Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
Write the correct letter in box 40 on your answer sheet.
According to the writer, the most significant thing about tortoises is that

A they are able to adapt to life in extremely dry environments.

B their original life form was a kind of primeval bacteria.
C they have so much in common with sea turtles.
D they have made the transition from sea to land more than once.
 THE HISTORY OF THE TORTOISE

If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history
enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes
even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and
cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us,
other groups that have succeeded out of water include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as
woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn’t
forget the plants, without whose prior invasion of the land none of the other migrations could
have happened.

Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing
and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned
around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again. Seals
have only gone part way back. They show us what the Intermediates might have been like, on the
way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales (Including the small whales we call
dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins the manatees, ceased to be land creatures
altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors. They don’t even come
ashore to breed. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent
to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago
and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one
respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs
on beaches.

There is evidence that all modern turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived
before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Proganochelys quenstedti and
Paloeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which appear to be close to the
ancestry of all modern turtles and tortoises. You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil
animals lived on land or in water, especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it’s obvious.
Ichthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies.
The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a
little less obvious. One way to tell is by measuring the bones of their fore limbs.

Walter Joyce and Jacques Gauthier, at Yale University, obtained three measurements in these
particular bones of 71 species of living turtles and tortoises. They used a kind of triangular graph
paper to plot the three measurements against one another. All the land tortoise species formed a
tight cluster of points in the upper part of the triangle; all the water turtles cluster in the lower
part of the triangular graph. There was no overlap, except when they added some species that
spend time both in water and on land. Sure enough, these amphibious species show up on the
triangular graph approximately half way between the ‘wet cluster’ of sea turtles and the ‘dry
cluster’ of land tortoises. The next step was to determine where the fossils fell. The bones of P.
quenstedti and P. talampaycensis leave us in no doubt. Their points on the graph are right in the
thick of the dry cluster. Both these fossils were dry-land tortoises. They come from the era before
our turtles returned to the water.
You might think, therefore, that modern land tortoises have probably stayed on land ever since
those early terrestrial times, as most mammals did after a few of them went back to the sea. But
apparently not. If you draw out the family tree of all modern turtles and tortoises, nearly all the
branches are aquatic. Today land tortoises constitute a single branch, deeply nested among
branches consisting of aquatic turtles. This suggests that modern land tortoises have not stayed
on land continuously since the time of P. quenstedti and P. talampayensis. Rather, their ancestors
were among those who went back to the water, and they then reemerged back onto the land in
(relatively) more recent times.

Tortoises therefore represent a remarkable double return. In common with all mammals, reptiles
and birds, their remote ancestors were marine fish and before that various more or less worm-like
creatures stretching hack, still in the sea, to the primeval bacteria. Later ancestors lived on land
and stayed there for a very large number of generations. Later ancestors still evolved back into
the water and became sea turtles. And finally they returned yet again to the land as tortoises,
some of which now live in the driest of deserts.

III. WRITING (40 marks)

WRITING TASK 1

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agriculture land becomes
less productive. The table shows how these causes affected three regions of
the world during the 1990s.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features,
and make comparisons where relevant.

Write at least 150 words.

WRITING TASK 2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:

It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, for
instance for sport or music, and others are not. However, it is sometimes
claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or
musician.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.

Write at least 250 words.