Test 1 Part3 ‘You are going to read an extract from the autobiography of the lyricist Tim Rice. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (27-33), There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, TIM RICE | was ushered into the young man's drawing room, an ‘sis of cultured sanity surounded by what appeared tobe a quite snambotle cluster of rooms in which the less enlororising members of tho Tamly operated Mouing rom the kitchen tis parlourwas an upgrade ‘om economy to business class 27 His name was Androw Lloyd Webber. He had won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxlord, to read history, and he hadnine months to kllbeore going up, ‘uring which time he intended to become Englancs answer to the composer Richard Rodgers 28 Consequently, when Andrew suggested a ‘completely new insane ambition for me, ie, 19 become as famous aiycst as Oscar Hammersoin, Thad no qualms about giving ita go. This was partly because within ten minutes of our introduction, he ‘was atthe plano and had played me three tunes he had composed ~ I could tll that he was good. ery ‘9004, ‘out on being a sidekick to a chap who was clearly ‘oing to lake the musical theats by storm probabsy By next weak, ei ea seen ol Beeman somata es a at But in the meantime | fet | had nothing to lose by ‘seeing Andrew again t would be fun to go and eae = ‘musical with him, 10 write woes hat apa rises Iytests rather than pop stars. And Ancrow was fascinating individual who talked of Good Food Guides and Vietran architecture, besides eupporing Leyton Orient footal team. 1 aad litle to impress him with in return, other than Instant praise for his musie and a bona fide, actualy released, sevensinch single of a song | had writen (both words and music) with which an unknown pop ‘g10up had deat the final bow thelr moribund career by recording three months previously, We parted, promising to meet again and to write something ‘ogether. I was stil mare interested in the charts than inthe West End theatre, but told mysolf on the bus back to my fat that | had just met somebody of rare ability anc determination, and | would be mad to miss 10 32 ‘The idea was the Ie ol Dr Thomas Barnard, the nineteenth. century philantopist who Tounded the orphanages that bear his name. His story was a worthy one indeed, but not one that ‘uly fred my imagination. Tha hero was too squeaky-clean atleast in Andrew's version of his ie, and the enterprise was, unoriginal in both conception and execution, owing far too much to Lonel Bart's ht show, Olver,Ea | eet to work with enormous enthusiasm, in particular for those songs that wore inlended fo be funny. ‘Andrew outined the pol, played me the tunes and in [A Andovenif the two of us fale to challenge the top ‘musical composers sucoestully, then we could try to knock the Bealles and Rating Stones off ‘air porches later, inthe summer. The Everly Brothers had just mado a comeback and would early be in need af some new maria By then | would have suraly grown out of pop music as my father had confenty predicted | would by the time | was twenty-one. Tis was wonying = ihe was night | only had a few more ‘menins of enjoying it © Ashe confdenty continued tobash out selections from some ofthe many shows he had writen and producedat school, was reminded many ofthe best show albums from my parenis'LP colton. He needed a new iris fr the outside wor. 1D Burt seemed to’ me that plenty of olher blokes around my age (twenty) and not overburdened ‘vith talent Wore making and I wished to be of their number There were even guys fom my home town and fram pubic school in the pop ‘charts ~ surely | had the quaiications, Paper 1 Reading ‘many instances gave mo the tte as well, most of lahich had presumably boen thought up by hie ex: \wordsmith sehool pal who had already had 2 go. | skipped a day atthe soicors' office, faking ines, to ‘wie my fist batch of theatrical yes. ci nct know ‘that day but | had cnanged carers | wasnt convinced by the idea for a musical that be had been werking on forthe past year, but in 1865 | was rarely convinced about anything, His falont was beyond question and he claimed to hhave all the contacts, | was. soon back In his ‘drawing room. F My own ambitions were just as insane as his; ‘wanted to bea pop sta, oral the heathy reasons "women, money and tame. The dilerence between Androw and mysel was tat my dreams were naver ifs or death tm though ifs easy 19 ‘say that now. They might have bacome so had | falea G On the other hand, Andrew's comicton of his seore's precocious bliance was infecfous anc ‘ot totaly unjustifed. What dd | know about rusleals? As David Land, later to be my agent or ‘vor a quarter of a century, memorably (and repeated) sald, if theres a demand for one hamburger bar onthe bock, there i fom for wo. ‘We could be the second hamburger jin 1H Hore was the largest collection of records | had fever seen, the fist stereo record player and tuner | had come across and the astonishing evidence that a teenager existed who had spent money on Georgian wine glasses, pictures anc fumiur. uTest 2 Part 3 You are going 10 read an introduction to a book. Seven paragraphs have been removed trom the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A~H the one which fits each gap (27-33). There is one extra Paragraph which you do not need to use. ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, Advertising on trial It you work for an advertising agency, the early years othe 1890s may wall ave been the toughest of your Professional ile. Tho receasion in Gustine wes ald ‘enough. It was longer, deeper and more severe than anticipated by even the most pessimistic, iting industrialised nations as hard as anything else for thirty years, Every single business in the county was affected, some ~ the vehicle and buling trades ~ finding thamseves 30 per cent down. A lot of people — lal ‘of companies ~ in a lot of counties suffered. Of ‘course, advertising people are scarcely unique in losing thei jos in such cific times, but ofall hose stim employment, they often feel parteuary under Pressure a [ary — ‘And ye, alongside these psychological an financial Imperatives lies an almost paradoxical rise in the Perceived importanco ofthe marketiny process The notion that companies should ba making sure they a Broxlucing services and goods that thei customers ‘want, as opposed 1o merely what i fs convenient for them to provido, isnot a new one, Sil its scarcely Unfair to say that thas beon only over the past en oF Iileen years that many companies seem lo have put the ‘dea Intentionally, rather than fartutousy, into practice. i) All these things have pleasingly Increased the status ‘of marketing peopl, while simultansously adding to ‘heir burden. Marketing is increasingly regarded as ‘hat which itis not: a universal panacea. With approximately half of most marketing budgets being 36 penton advertising, her's some ruth in saying hat the buck thon sop wth he acrpeopl. is cert ide tat he" Boe was tho decade’ in ch ‘verti never had itso good, te tro he ae sew the industry enduring te wera cowrtum era Generation. Tha was, of couse, pall a dea Consonuenoe ofthe eeenomiscimate a te ine. cous ee 2% Ee I And, goneraly. inthe absenco of cone, éorvining and quanitave evidence to th conta they hed o conclude thatthe Benois of adveriing mighibe qUostonatie. Aa ime nen onfusiagm sczount or every doar spent wa tural Nght was simpy not clear enough. to many sent companies exacy what bey wero going fr he large sums of manoy they wor sponding. Cai what rota they were seving on freirnvostment Advertising eer a inset exit the ueptens of the soap was, a8 a consequonce, more Pan ‘ve bet on tia a Now, while none of this should elet sympathy for a ‘thoroughly tough business, it does mean that many of those advertising people sil in work continue 10 face precisely the same problems as their clients how todo more with ess. this, in isl, suicienty ‘tying, @ number of ether factors have made the production of effective advertising particularly ifcut 2) = — ‘These _inclade, for example, the dramatic Jemographic changes facing much ofthe West the ‘burgeoning power of the rata: the changing needs land desires of consumers; the rise of sponsorship:the Increasingly onerous legab resticlons on adventsing, And, of course, for some companies there is the new challongo of advertsing abroad. ‘Together with the economic situation, itis those matters which have forced many of thase responsitia for atvorising ta rovst Lord LLeverhulme's commonplace that: ‘Only pall my ‘advertising works, Tho trouble is | don’ know wich halt? Because now more than ever before, the pressure is on to increase the proportion of advertising that works. = _ = ‘A. Thus, client companies almost everywhere took the view of ane of thei leaders quoted in the British trade magazine Carnpaign: We want beter strategies, better targeting, better ereativly,bottor media placement, better thinking. We aim to ‘ensure wa get advertising agencies best people fon our business and then ensure they are rmativaled to work the fingers to the bone, producing oustanding work fr us B The consequences have been that marketing ‘activities have at last begun to be given the fatention they deserve by management, that these people have acquired a litle learning about the subject, and that a few brands have actualy begun tobe genuinely marketed. © Utimately, the poverty ofthe current advertising ‘cana is duo to the nature of the relationship between agencies and ther clients, Me best way ot geting better acvertsing les parlly in Imoroving this, and party i adopting a more fempirieal approach io the whole advertising process, However, there was also evidence of more deep- ‘seated change which would nol simply be waved favay as, and when, economic prospects brightened. The fact wa that whl this recession Naturally caused potential clients to. review, reconsider andboften cut their budigts atthe te, italso made them examine more osely than over belore the economies of advertising, Paper 1 Reading ‘This means that hile conferences and seminars may provide some useful information, tha books currently ‘available on advertising, and how to dot, really don't ‘Those that are avaiable tend o treat the process of producing advertising with too much respect. To give the impression that the work advertising agencies produce Is invariably of the highest qualy, deeply Considered and remarkable value for money, is nether true nor likely to help those employees of the ‘lent company wo are uttmately responsible. E ts not teribly surprising that, atthe moment, help for those who want or naed todo jst thats far trom feely avaiable. Gororaly, companies ‘and the advertsing agencies they use have been far too busy simply coping with these CGreumstanoes o wish tak oF write about them, ‘wile those that have succeeded in Keeping thoit hheads above water are often underslandably ‘anvious to keep tho secrets of their success t0 themseives. F Seon, as they 270,10 spearhead efforts to support ‘the bottom Ine, they suppose themselves 10 be under close enough scrutiny from their colleagues, et alone ther bosses, Moreover, hey are also faced with the very considerable problem ‘of nereasingly being asked o do their aver more ificul jobe with emaller and smaller oudgets “They have been told that les must bo more. G Some of these are a droct consequence of the recession discussed earl: he controversy over production costs, and the disincination to take the Sort of sks that are konically often the essence (Of good advertising. Other events would have happened irespectve of local or global economic ‘conctons H In Briain, it meant in 1991 alone that while gross domestic product (GDP) dectined, interest rates remained puntvely high, consumer spending on almost everything other than staples fel, more {han half a milion people lost their jobs, and some 75,000 homes were repossessed, 7Test 3 Part3 ‘You are going to read an extract from a novel. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the ‘extract Choose from the paragrapiis A-H the one which fits each gap (27-33). There is one extra paragraph which you do not nead to use Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. THe WELL | had read somewhere tat trom a euificienty deep hole, one could see the stars. ifthe dav were clear. | hhad poreuadad you to help ma wath my scheme; ou \alched, eyes wid, sto mouth, 8 | winched up ne well bucket, steadied it onthe wall and then cimbos “RAO YeUNOWA Me Bown, 18d Fe MnaUETAND sow {ortho buckets much inoroased weight, your lack of ‘Stenath or ncinaton to just sland back and et what ‘would happen, happen. You helé the hand, taking Some ofthe stain as | pushed the bucket ofthe side of the wells stone surround. Froed of tho walls ‘suppor, | plunged immediataly You gave a litle shiek and made one altompt to brake the handle, then you lot It go. Yell nto the wel | racked my head, [AL the ime | was at fst ust dazed, then tightened, then raved, then finally both angry a yu fr leting ‘ne fall and afraid of what Mother would say Youcales down, asking i | wae all ight. opened my mouth to Shout and then you ealled again, @ note of ning panic'in your voice, and with those words stopped ‘ine in my throat. ay stil, eyes cracked enough to watch you through the foliage of lashes, You disappeared, cain out fr help. | waited a memant, ‘han quickly hauled and pusned my way to the top, then pulled myselt over the edge and landed on the courtyard cobbles. | >| Mother and Father both appeared alongwith you and ‘ld Arthur; Mother shrigked, taping her hands Feather shouted and tod Arthur to haul onthe winch handle. You stood back, looking pale and shocked, watching. was bowed inthe shadows, A fre of fierce lation filles me. Then I saw the ine of ops Tet from the wellto wire | now stood. looked in hoor e atthe spots, dark coins of ity wel water fallon from ‘nv soaking clothes on to the dy. gry cobbles. At my feet, inthe darkness, the water had formed a ile i ee a __) Diegee eee cet fart periesiionte cea mtoste Seelegesestieds mueeemcecie Seay ees el ed era vein Seg Sin hinic 7 ca _ Siting wp, comforted, my head in my weeping rota’ besom I went Phew ar saa‘On dar and id bravely and cao at ad found a sure {nna fom ih Soom to ol fo the moa and {cane ands slong tut go ev cabo tho bridge and ttre, exhausted, tough he passagenay. gg T) ‘Thinking I was plugging 99p, infact only adding anothor fog fo my pyre, | said that the seoret passage had fallen inser mo; there would be any Paitin, say, sanding somebody down ta look for It In fact the whole well was dangerous. 'd barely escaped with my fe, | loked into my fathers eyes and it was ko looking into a dark tunnel wath no Sars at the end, |My words dd in my thrpat.‘Don't be rslculous, boy! he ssi, investing more contemst in those few words than Ta have thought a whole language capable of conveying. He rose smoothly to his feet and walked away. a) ‘A. looked back into the courtyard, to where Father ‘was now shining a flashlight down into the well {and peering iio the gloom. The crops | had left sone in the sunlight. | could not believe that robody had seen them, Mother was screaming rnysterealy now a sharp, ating noise that | had ‘never heard before Itshook my soui, sufusod my conscience. What was | to do? | had had my revenge on you, but where dl | go trom here? To this day | tink was almost getting away with ‘it unt Fatisr appeared squatting in front of me, Hehad me repeat my story. dso, hesitating. His eyes narrowed. © Itdid not occur to ma then that | had succeeded, Jn a sence, in my plan. What | say wore lights, strange, inchoate and bizare. twas only later that | connected the visual symptoms ofthat fll and impact with the stylised stars and planets I was used to seeing drawn ina cartoon panol ‘whenever a comic characler suffered a similar whadk, twas as though he was seeing me for the first time, and as though l was looking down a secret [passage through ime, to an adult perspective, to the way the world and cocky, lying children's ‘stores would look to me when Iwas his age. Paper 1 Reading ln that pity was a rebuke as sovore and wounding as ‘nat my father had administered, and in as much that ‘Woont¢mad that tis was the mature judgemant of my ‘actions and my fate’, not some aberration I might be able io discount orignore affected me even more profouncly, E That was what racked me, spread upon the ‘castle's stones; that wes what gripped me lke a Col fist nsido and squeszed those cold and biter tears of grief from me and could nat be comforted by Mothor's soothing strokes and gentle pats and soft cooings. F The plan came to me ike a ieblt to a owning man. | gathered all my courage and lett my higing place, coming staggering out and binking. | cried ut faint, one hard to my brow, then yelled outa Iie louder when my fst ery Want unheodd, stumbled ona litle further, then collapsed ‘ramatically on the cobbies. @ could hear rased, alarmed voices coming trom the castle's main door. | ran the opposite way, ‘down to the passage leasing to the moat bridge, And hid inthe shadows ther, Hi Athurlooked down at ma, his expression regretful {and troubled, shaking his head or loklng tke he wanted to, not because | had had a temiying Adventure and thon boon unjustly disbotioved by my own father, but because he too could see through my forlorn and haplssile, and werried for the sou, the characte, the future maral standing of any child so shamoless ~ and so incompaten~ Ins too easily rasorted-o lying. 63Test 4 Part 3 You are going to read an extract fom a novel. Seven paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap (27-33). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. ‘Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet, The Wrong Country Uncle chose for them a package holiday at a very reasonable price: a tight rom Gatwick Airport, lve gis m Venice, te Tarylang ety, in the Pensions Concordia. When Ketth and Dawe went together to the travel agency to make the beoking, the counter clerk explained that the other members. of that paticular package were a school group tom the ‘euth coast, all of them learning lain. ut something went wrong, Ea LEE] | [At Gatwick they had handod thee tickets 10 a git in the yellowand-ed Yourkind-ot-Holisay uniform, ‘Sheld addressed them by name, had checked the ‘elas on thor tickets and said that that was level ‘An four later it had surprised tham to hear elderty people on the plane talking in North of England ‘accents. Keith ‘said there must have been a ‘cancelation, or poss the talan class was oo a second plan. ‘But the next morning, when it became apparent that they were being offered them forthe duration oftheir holiday, they became alarmed. ‘We have the lake, and the water birds’ the receptionist smilingly explained ‘And we may take the Steamer to Inecaken, ‘An aror haa been made; Keith informed the man, keeping the register of Ms voice even, for twas essential to be calm. He was aware of his wie agitated breathing close beside him, "Your group is booked twelve rights in the Edelweiss Hotel To make an alteration now, si, It you have ‘changed your minds 88 "We haven" changed aur minds. There's been @ mistake" “The recoptonist shook his head. He did not know about a mistake. ‘The man who made the booking’ Dawne interupted, was bald, wih glasses and a ‘mausiache’ She gave the name ofthe travel agency In London, 30 | ee ‘Again she gave the name of the travel agency and ‘scribed the bald-headed cauntor clerk, mentioning his spectacles and his moustache. Kethinteruptes het. it seems we got into the wong group. We reported tothe YourKind-a-Holiay git andl tal toner "We should have known when they weren't from Dover! Dave contributed. We heard them taking about Dartington: Keith made an impationt sound. He wished she'd leave te talking o him. a "Now, what | am endeavouring to say 10 you good people i tat all tekels and labels are naturally Similar, the yellow with the two rec bands’ Mrs Franks suddenly laughed. So If you simply folowed other people with the yolow-andved label you might Imagine you could end up in a wilde park! But of course, she added soothing, that could’ happen in a million years? = Mo ‘She saems quite kind? Dawne whispered, ‘that ‘woman! Keith wasn stenng, He bed fo go over in his mind every single thing hal had eccurred: handing the gi the fckets, siting down to wat, and then theCl loading tho way to the pla, and then the pilots ‘ice welcoming them aboard, and the air hostess vith the smooth black hair going round to see that everyone's seat belt was fastened, — | Keith walked out ofthe reception area and Dawne ‘ollowee him, On the forecourt ofthe hotel they cnt Paper! Reading say to one anathar that there was an irony in the talastophe that had occured. On tai rst holiday since their honeymoon they landed themselves ina Package four of edery people wien the whole point the holiday was to escape the needs and demands of the elder. In his bossy way Uncle had said 50 himset! when they tied 10 persuade him to ‘accompany them, ‘A "We noticed you at Gatwick? Keith said, We new you ware in charge of tings “And | notcod you. | couniod you, though | csaresay you did see me doing tat Naw, lk me ‘plan to you. Thore are mary places Your-Kind- CotHotday sends its cents to, many diferent holdays at diferent prices. There are, for instance, vila holidays forthe adventurous unde ‘hiry-hoo.Thare are traksto Turkey, ancl teks for ‘inglaa to the Himalayas’ We were meant to be in Venice, In the Pensions Concoria? “1 donot know the name, ‘Switzeriana’ "A coach isto take us on. Aa ofa said so on tne plane, She was here lastnight, that woman” si This is © _'Nice to have some young people along? an elderly man's voice interrupted Keith's though "Nottage tho name is'Tho old mans wit was wth him, both of them looking asi hey were in thelr ‘ightos. They slept Ike logs, sho said, bost night sleep they had for years, whic ofcourse ‘would be dio tothe lake ae. “Tat's nice: Dawne sai D_ The last ofthe elderly people slowly mado their ‘way fom the dining room, saying good night as they went. A day would coma, Dawno thought. ‘when they would go to Venice. on their oun inatve, with poopla tka the class from Dover ‘She imagined them in the Pansione Concordia, not one of ham a day older than themselves. EE Ethorin th travel agoncy ora the checkin dosk, or insome ananyious computer, a smallcalamty was conceived. Davie and Ketth ended up in & hotel caled me Edewelss, in Room 212, ‘Somewhere in Seitzerian F ‘Wee not meant to be in Switzerland! Keith doggedly persisted. ‘ll, les just soo, shat wo? Unexpectedly, Mrs Franks tumed and went away, leaving them standing. The receptionist was 90 longer bohind the reception desk. The sound of ‘typing could be hear G ‘Some problem, have we?” a woman sai, beaming at Keith. She was the stout woman he had referred to as an official, They'd seen her taking to the yellow-and-fed gl at Gatwick. On the plane shed walked Up and down the aise, smiling st people. ‘My namo is Franks; sho was saying now.‘Tm marted tothe man withthe ba log” ‘aro_you In. charge, Mrs Franks?” Oawne lenguied.“Only were in he wrong note” H They ordered imo arnks, and ten two more."Te coach lake us ony” a stout woman vith spectacles announced when they touched dow, ‘Koop all togather now There boon no mention cf an overnight stop inthe brechure, but whan the tach draw in at fs destination, Keith explained that that was clearly what this was. As thoy tapped out of the coach was cose on midnight fatigued and tavel-saned, they did not fool ike questioning their ight to the beds they were fared 89