TEST 3 ЧАСТ 1 (време за работа 60 минути)

PART ONE: LISTENING COMPREHENSION Task One You will hear a text twice. Before you listen to it for the first time, you have 30 seconds to read the tasks to the text. While listening for the first time you are not allowed to mark your chosen answers. After you listen to it for the first time, you have 1 minute to mark your chosen answers on your answer sheet. While listening to the text for a second time, you can mark your chosen answers. After you listen to the text for the second time, you have 1 more minute to check or correct your answers.

1. The languages spoken in South Africa are eleven. A. True B. False 2. Official steps have been taken to include South African Sign Language in the list of the country’s official languages. A. True B. False 3. The second widespread language in South Africa is spoken by fourteen percent of the population. A. True B. False 4. Afrikaans dominates in the media and in civic life. A. True B. False 5. In general, speakers of one of the represented Bantu languages can understand each other effectively. A. True B. False Task Two You will hear a text twice. Before you listen to it for the first time, you have 30 seconds to read the tasks to the text. While listening for the first time you are not allowed to mark your chosen answers. After you listen to it for the first time, you have 1 minute to mark your chosen answers on your answer sheet. While listening to the text for a second time, you can mark your chosen answers. After you listen to the text for the second time, you have 1 more minute to check or correct your answers.

6. The American bison’s natural habitat encompassed around one-third of modern-day US territory. A. True B. False 7. The biggest number of bison once inhabited the relatively flat region of North American grasslands in the West. A. True B. False 8. American bison preferred to live in areas covered in thick forests. A. True B. False 9. If people hadn’t hunted down the American bison, several different bison subtypes would have developed. A. True B. False 10. It is logical that bison inhabiting southern territories would develop longer hair as a distinct feature. A. True B. False

Task Three You will hear a text twice. Before you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to read the tasks to the text. While listening for the first time you are not allowed to mark your chosen answers. After you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to mark your chosen answers on your answer sheet. While listening to the text for a second time, you can mark your chosen answers. After you listen to the text for the second time, you have 1 more minute to check or correct your answers.

11. The caller explained that A. a friend of his had told him about the Happy Cauldron cookery course. B. he had read a classified ad in the local paper about the Happy Cauldron cookery course. C. he had received information about the Happy Cauldron cookery course by email. D. he had seen an advertisement about the Happy Cauldron cookery course on some website.

12. The caller says that he A. is capable of cooking some easy dishes. B. has never cooked in his life. C. is interested in more elaborate cooking techniques. D. wouldn’t join a course which focuses on the basics of cooking. 13. The organisers provide A. the ingredients needed for the course. B. a microphone and a webcam for the participants. C. extra lessons for those who struggle to acquire the target cooking skills. D. an online learning management system for the courses to take place on. 14. The participants A. have to watch instructional videos and then repeat what is shown in them. B. can make a recording of how they cook a particular dish and upload it. C. are required to upload videos of homework assignments. D. can pay for extra lessons in case they need them. 15. The receptionist explains that the rules on sharing own videos of cooking dishes A. are decided on by the course tutors and the participants themselves. B. have been already developed and are obligatory to observe. C. are unique to the Happy Cauldron Cookery School. D. are agreed on at least one week prior to the start of the course.

Task Four You will hear a text twice. Before you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to read the tasks to the text. While listening for the first time you are not allowed to mark your chosen answers. After you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to mark your chosen answers on your answer sheet. While listening to the text for a second time, you can mark your chosen answers. After you listen to the text for the second time, you have 1 more minute to check or correct your answers.

16. The extract presents A. advice to novice language teachers. B. information about teaching language classes in the past. C. a report about students’ achievements in English. D. recommendations to school authorities about organising language classes.

17. The end result of teaching grammar mentioned is A. good knowledge of grammar rules. B. excellent communication skills. C. fully relevant to the set aims. D. totally unsatisfactory.

18. It is stated that when acquiring ‘oral and written expression’ A. it’s not a good idea to follow models. B. making mistakes is very useful. C. participating in language exams helps a lot. D. getting a lot of practice is crucial.

19. It is recommended that A. teachers correct every error their students make when speaking or writing. B. students check their written work carefully before submitting it for evaluation. C. students do their best to eliminate and to avoid all types of error. D. teachers should provide students with enough out-of-the-classroom language practice.

20. Education can be regarded as accomplished when A. students are confident in their own knowledge and skills in oral and written expression. B. both teachers and students are satisfied with the results of their classroom activities. C. students are able to identify and correct their own errors independently.

D. students can identify their peer’s errors in oral and written expression.

Task Five You will hear a text twice. Before you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to read the tasks to the text. While listening for the first time you are not allowed to mark your chosen answers. After you listen to it for the first time, you have 4 minutes to mark your chosen answers on your answer sheet. While listening to the text for a second time, you can mark your chosen answers. After you listen to the text for the second time, you have 1 more minute to check or correct your answers.

21. The first dogs were domesticised in order to A. help man in hunting. B. help man to guard cattle. C. guard man from predators. D. keep man company. 22. Which of the statements is NOT true? A. We can say for sure what dogs’ ancestors were. B. It’s been a very long time since dogs were tamed. C. It’s really difficult to explain what dogs were like initially. D. Dogs were the first domesticised species. 23. The reason why it is so difficult to confirm dogs’ origins is A. the fact that there are many types of dogs now. B. that dogs resemble several wild species. C. that specialists’ opinions are too diverse. D. that dogs have been influenced by a multitude of factors. 24. Some researchers support the idea that A. dogs were a separate species from the very beginning. B. wolf babies were once captivated and tamed to turn into modern-day dogs. C. to understand dogs’ origins you should study how people have influenced them. D. all domesticated animals share closely related ancestors. 25. Which of the statements is TRUE? A. Dogs are the result of mixing the blood of jackals and wolves. B. There has been no evidence so far that jackals and wolves can be mixed. C. Modern-day dogs may be inclined to go back to either their jackal- or wolf-state. D. So far there have been a few instances of domesticising wolves and jackals. ЧАСТ 2 (време за работа 180 минути)

Write your answers on the separate answer sheet. PART TWO: READING COMPREHENSION Task One Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question, marking your answers on your answer sheet. How I started a career in printing From my childhood days I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable myself to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections; they were small cheap books, 40 or 50 p. in all. My father's little library consisted chiefly of books connected with religion, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman. I read abundantly Plutarch's Lives, and I still think that time spent to great advantage. There was also a book of Defoe’s, called an Essay on Projects, and another of Dr. Mather's, called Essays to do Good, which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life. This bookish inclination of mine finally made my father to make me a printer. My brother James returned from England with a press and letters to set up his business in Boston. I liked it much better than that of my father, but still had a longing for the sea. To prevent the dreaded effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. I tried to oppose him for some time, but at last I was persuaded, and I signed the necessary contracts when I was only twelve years old. I was to serve as an apprentice till I was twenty-one years of age, only I was to be allowed journeyman's wages during the last year. In a little time, I made great proficiency in the business, and became a useful hand to my brother. I now had access to better books. An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. I often sat up in my room reading for the biggest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, for fear of it being missed or wanted.

26. The author discovered his passion for reading when he started to work for his brother. A. True B. False 27. He regretted having read the books in his father’s collection as he wasn’t meant to become a priest. A. True B. False 28. The author had dreamed of a job not connected with printing despite his love for books.

A. True B. False 29. As an apprentice at his brother’s enterprise he didn’t receive any salary. A. True B. False 30. He used his connections with other apprentices to satisfy his ever-growing thirst for reading. A. True B. False

Task Two Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and choose the best answer to each question, marking your answers on your answer sheet.

Arthur Conan Doyle: From short stories to bigger volumes During the years before my marriage I had from time to time written short stories which were good enough to be marketable at very small prices but not good enough to reproduce. They were scattered about amid the pages of London Society, All the Year Round, Temple Bar, The Boy’s Own Paper, and other journals. They served their purpose in relieving me a little of that financial burden which always pressed upon me. I hardly earned more than £10 or £15 a year from this source, so the idea of making a living by it never occurred to me. After my marriage, however, my brain seemed to have quickened and both my imagination and my range of expression were greatly improved. Most of the short stories which appeared eventually in my Captain of the Polestar were written between 1885 and 1890. What gave me great pleasure and for the first time made me realise that I was ceasing to be a hack writer and was getting into good company was when James Payn accepted my short story Habakuk Jephson’s Statement for Cornhill. I had a reverence for this splendid magazine with its traditions from Thackeray to Stevenson and the thought that I had won my way into it pleased me even more than the cheque for £30, which came duly to hand. It was, of course, anonymous, such was the law of the magazine, which protects the author from abuse as well as prevents him from winning fame. One paper began its review by the phrase ‘Cornhill opens its new number with a story which would have made Thackeray turn in his grave.’ Another, more gracious, said ‘Cornhill begins the New Year with an exceedingly powerful story in which we seem to trace the hand of the author of The New Arabian Nights.’ It was great praise, but something less warm, coming straight to my own address, would have pleased me better. I soon had two other stories in the Cornhill — John Huxford’s Hiatus and The Ring of Thoth. It was about a year after my marriage that I realized that I could go on doing short stories for ever and never make headway. What is necessary is that your name should be on the back of a volume. Only so do you assert your individuality, and get the full credit or discredit of your achievement.

31. Arthur Conan Doyle A. prided himself as a skilled writer. B. wrote short stories to earn a living. C. considered his getting married favourable to his writing effort. D. struggled to find a good publisher for his literary pieces. 32. His early stories A. helped him with his financial affairs. B. were rejected by a number of magazines. C. were published in a collection under his own name. D. earned him altogether £15 to £30. 33. His writing improved after he got married because he A. gained more life experience. B. started meeting a more diverse society. C. was able to followed some established authors’ examples. D. was able to express himself better and had more varied ideas. 34. As used in the second paragraph, the expression ‘hack writer’ means A. a talented author. B. someone who writes low-quality staff. C. a person learning how to write. D. a journalist. 35. His short story Habakuk Jephson’s Statement A. was accepted for publication in a magazine of high reputation. B. received immediate literary acclaim. C. marked the beginning of his way to fame. D. was published under his own name. 36. It dawned on him that to make a name for himself in literature he would have to A. write more short stories. B. get better paid. C. publish a longer piece. D. find his own literary voice.

Task Three Read the text below. Then read the questions that follow it and answer each question with a sentence of your own. Write your answers on your answer sheet. Sentences copied word for word from the text will get 0 points. The Fairy Island Most people seem to think that the heart of Australia is nothing but a sandy desert. Well, that’s not quite correct. As a matter of fact, though not a great number know it, the very, very

centre is inhabited by Fairies. They live there on a beautiful island in the middle of a great lake; and all they have, including their wonderful city, is all due to the Magic Well! On their splendid Island there are hills covered with trees. And there are great valleys where wild-flowers grow; and springs and streams and waterfalls; and caves with stalactites in them; those funny things that look something like sheep’s tails frozen. These stalactites hang down from the cave-roofs. That may seem strange, but the way it happens is this: little drops of water, very slowly oozing down from the top of the cave, carry with them the tiniest bits of sand or limestone. The first pieces of sand or limestone just stick to the roof; and then, every other little piece, after it gets through, just clings to the piece that got there before it, so that, by-andby, thousands and thousands of them, all joined together, make a stalactite. But of course, there are many other things there beside those that hang in caves! For instance, there are the loveliest birds and butterflies, the most beautiful beetles and moths, and, above all, the rarest lot of Australian animals the eye could wish to see. Kangaroos, wallabies and woolly bears, possums, platypuses, and gaily-coloured lizards, big and little… And then, date palms, too, and lofty cocoanut trees, with the cocoanuts on them always ready to pull, and banana trees, with great yellow bunches of bananas hanging down most temptingly. Then there are bread-fruit trees, as well as fruit trees of every other description, and flowers, and flowering shrubs in untold number and variety. Can you imagine such a place? And all due to the Magic Well! For without that Well the Island could not have come into existence; and, if anything were to happen to it, the Lake would disappear, and the Fairies of Australia would have to find a new home! Strictly speaking, it should have been said that the ‘superior fairies’ would have to find a new home, for, as everybody knows, not all the fairies live in one place. Even those who belong to ‘Fairy Island’ are not always there. Over and over again they are sent travelling about on errands for their King and Queen. Sometimes they are given very important work to do. For example, they are constantly showing the rain-drops just exactly where to fall, coaxing the wind to blow more softly on the delicate flowers, pulling the dark clouds away so that the sun can steadily shine upon the Earth, warming the soil, causing things to grow — and making everything very sweet and pleasant for everybody!

37. Where is Fairy Island situated?

38. What causes the stalactites on Fairy Island to form?

39. What flora and fauna species are mentioned in the description of Fairy Island?

40. What would happen if the Magic Well stopped existing?

41. Where do the fairies live?

42. Why aren’t all the fairies on Fairy Island all the time?

43. Why do the fairies gently urge the winds to blow more softly?

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44. Read the task and write a formal letter (120 – 130 words), including the suggested prompts. You are the chairperson of an informal youth club at your neighbourhood interested in helping the elderly by doing their shopping, teaching them how to use modern means of communication and providing monthly community events. Write a letter to the Mayor asking for support. In your letter: •

explain why you think it is important to help the elderly;

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explain how you propose to do this;

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ask the mayor to provide a room to meet with the necessary equipment (e.g. tables, chairs, coffee and tea facilities, a few laptops, etc.).

Sign your letter with Andrew Brown / Andrea Brown.

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55. Read the task and write an essay (200 – 220 words), expressing your opinion on the set topic. While in secondary school, it is more important to concentrate on your studies than to pursue your personal interests. Do you agree or disagree? Give specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.

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