Test 1 Reading and Use of English Part 1 FCE for Schools For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. ‘There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 Areduction B lessening C cutback 0 A B [> Dying Dolphins Inthe last twenty-five years, there has been a dramatic (0) ... inthe numbers of dolphins. General overfishing is thought to be one of the causes at (1) .. for one kind of dolphin, the porpoise. Porpoises have to find their food very, very quickly and if the fish are (2) .. where they live, porpoises may simply not survive long enough to find food elsewhere. Getting caught in fishermen’s nets which are believed to be (3) to dolphins, seems to be another cause of their diminishing numbers. Marks, cuts and ropes on the dead bodies of the dolphins being washed up on the beaches of Cornwall and France (4) .. to the fact that the dolphins must have been caught by fishing nets. Another serious (5) ... to dolphin populations is waste and other substances found 6) . in the sea in great quantities. Consider the case of pesticides, for example. Such poisons are normally fat soluble, which means that they can be (7) and stored in the bodies of dolphins. And then, in turn, they can be (8) onto the young through their mother's milk A least B last most all A separated removed divided apart A unseen hidden invisible unknown ‘A swear plead witness testily A trouble caution warning threat A floating swimming sinking dropping A swollen digested eatable leaked m6 6 G6 GO @ ¢ A accepted inherited passed D handedools gap. hins, 1, the from asto fthe that Test 1 FCE for Schools Part 2 Reading and Use of English For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of a word which best fits each gap. Use only one Word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). White your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: @ AIKiEIn No more zoos! Proponents of zoos usually refer back to our childhood experiences when we were (0) sn to the 200 for the first time. They remind us (9) ... the excitement we felt at seeing wild animals live, for the first time, and point out the educational value of such (10) ... expetience. They ‘also emphasise the (11) ..... that 2oos provide opportunities for relatively inexpensive scientific research and that trey help protect animals (12) extinction. They fail, however, to give an adequate response to the age-old argument against zoos (13) ...00s is that animals are still being kept in cages. It may be true that such cages are much larger than they (14) have been twenty years ago, but they are, nevertheless, cages. It is also true that there has been an honest attempt (15) ...... these cages to resemble natural habitats but looking natural doesn't make it so. No matter (16) they look like, they are stil restricted and artificial.Test 1 Reading and Use of English Part 3 FCE for Schools For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. o RIA[I [L[WIAlY THE TUBE The first underground passenger (0) in the world ‘opened in London in 1863. This was done by digging up the road, laying the tracks and then building a strong roof over the tracks before building a new road surface on top of the roof. ‘Steam engines were used to pull the (17) .. . producing (17) CARRY lots of smoke and noise which made it rather (18) . (18) PLEASANT for the passengers. Nevertheless, the railway soon proved to be agreat (19) and within a period of (20) (19) SUCCEED than a year, tens of thousands of people had started using it on (20) LITTLE a(2).. basis. (21) DAY Later, the (22) of electric-powered engines and lifts (22) ARRIVE made it possible for (23) .. to construct railways in a (23) ENGINE system of (24) long channels which has become (24) DEEPEN known as the Tube.ols the (0) Test 1 TCE for Schools Part 4 Reading and Use of English For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between two and five words, including the word given. Here is an example (0). Example: © _ You must do exactly what the boss tells you CARRY You must. .. instructions exactly. The gap can be filed by the words ‘carry out the boss’s', so you write: (@) [Carry OUT THE BOSS'S Write only the missing words IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheel. 25. | am sure the teacher didn't mean to upset you. INTENTION I'm sure the teacher . 26. Prizes are given out when the show finishes, PLACE Prize giving .. end of the show. 27. Advance payment isn't necessary for gym membership. IN You don't need .. to become a gym member. 28. | haven't seen my sister since she left for Canada. Last The my sister was before she left for Canada. 29. | couldn't understand the teacher because she spoke rather fast. Too The teacher .. to understand, 80. | only invited Mary because you asked me to. HAVE Mary if you hadn't asked me to,Test 1 Reading and Use of English Part 5 FCE for Schools You are going to read an extract from a novel about two brothers who wanted to go to university. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. The shouts of the village boys playing outside came in through the window but the two brothers worked on. They. were sitting in their bedroom reading Greek and Latin. It was no tale of Homeric blows and knocks, Argonautio voyaging, or Theban family woe that inflamed their imaginations and spurred thom onward, They were pladging way at the Greek Testament, immersed in a chapter ofthe idiomatic and cificult Epistle to the Hebrews, The open window wich admitted the remote sounds now brought the voice of someone close at hand, I was thet lite sister, 2 pretty girl of eleven, who siood in the yard below. ‘I can see the tops of your heads! What's the use of staying up there? | like i that you don't go out with the street boys, but do come and play with ma!” They put hor off as poftely as they could and she went away disappointed. Soon there was a dul noise of heavy ‘ootstops atthe side ofthe house, and one of the brothers sat up, 'I fancy heaving him coming,’ he murmured, his eyes on the window. A man in the ight drab clothes of an old-fashioned country tradesman approached trom ‘round the corner. The elder son flushed with anger, rose from his books, and descended the stairs. The younger sat on, til ater the lapse ofa few minutes, his brother re-entered the room, ‘Did Linda see him?" ‘No. ‘Nor anybody?" ‘No, What have you done with him?" ‘He's in the shed. | got him in with ‘some difficulty, and he has fallen asleep. | thought this would be the explanation af his absence!” ‘What is the use of poring over this!" said the younger, shusting up his book with a slap. ‘Oh, if only we had been able to keep mother’s thirty thousand pounds, what we could have done and what we could do! How well she had estimated the sum necessary! Fifteen thousand each, she thought. And | have no doubt that we could have done ‘ton that, with care and economy.’ This loss of the thirty thousand pounds had, indeed, been a sharp blow. It was a sum which their mother had ‘amassed with great difficulty and selfdenial, by adding to a small inheritance from her grandfather other small ‘amounts that she could lay her hands on from time to time. With this sum she had intended to see her sons, Jason ‘and James through university. She'd been told that fifteen thousand each might carry them through three years of university provided they spent it very carefully. But she had died a year or two before this time, probably wom out by her efforts to raise this amount, and the money, which came into the hands of thelr father, had been nearty all wasted. With its exhaustion went all opportunity and hope of a university degree for the sons. ‘itdrives me mad when | think oft’ said Jason, the elder. ‘And here we study and study without being able to afford a tutor, and the mast we can hope for is an admission 19 a theologicel college.” ‘We can always apply for a student loan, lke everyone else does,’ said the younger brother but Jason dismissed ‘he idea saying that he didn't fancy spending the rest of hislfe tying to pay off his student loan, James sald nothing because he didn't ike to contradict his brother. ‘Let us make the best of it, and grind on,’ he said after a pause. The other was silent, and they drearly bent over their books again, “The cause of allthis gloom was now sleeping in the shed. In the months following their mother's death, their father had developed a drinking problem. He drank, he said, because he couldn't deal with the loss of his wife, but the ‘wo brothers knew otherwise.autic ing, apen ister, treet sted, from nger with sed aing ther the Test 1 Reading and Use of English 1. The two brothers were studying A Homer's Iliad. B Homer's Odyssey. © the Argonautic expedition. D ancient languages. 82, The boys’ younger sister ‘A was playing with the village boys outside. B didn't lke pleying with the village boys. € wanted to play with her brothers. D was standing right outside the boys’ window. 8 line 15, what does this refer to? the man’s sleeping in the shed that the boy had trouble getting him in | that Linda did not see him the fact that the man was absent gom> 34, The boys’ mother had ‘A inherited £30,000 from her grandfather. B inherited less than £30,000. C left the boys £30,000 when she died. D loft each of the boys £15,000. 35. Who did the heavy footsteps belong to? A aman who was selling old-fashioned clothes B the boys’ father © the elder son's tutor D an old county gentleman 36. What is implied about the boys’ father? A He had gambled away all his wife's money. B There was more to his drinking problem than he admitted. He had never loved his wife. D_He had always relied on his wite for money.Test 1 Reading and Use of English Part 6 FCE for Schools You are going to read an article about a teenage actor called George Frangis. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A to G the one which fits each gap (37-42). There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. George Frangis: Acting and Looks Itis very difficult not to become obsessive about the way you look when you're a young actor like me. Every time | change my clothes or the way | wear my hair | seem to attract so much ‘comment and criticism that it really gets to me. I have to make a lot of effort to try to distance myself from it al. | have to ignore iti 'm going to develop my own style and not just dress the way everyone else thinks | should be dressing. a Incidentally, all of my teenage friends seem to be going through the same phase but at least they are luckier in that they are not attracting so much comment because they are not famous. My mother says that most teenagers grow ut of it eventually and that | shouldn’t be too concerned about it. For example, when we're filming, there's always an actor who will move in a certain way so as to make sure that the camera gets the right angle on their face rather than concentrating on the scene. Unfortunately, in my line of work, looks are important. But at least it's also true that it fs talent and hard work that will move yoy through the open doors to a successful acting career. Now that I've been in a couple of films | feel a lot more confident about myself and my ability to act and so, when I'm acting, | am less self-conscious than before and more absorbed in my role. | certainly don't worry about such details as how my hair is parted or whether my clothes are appropriate. At least, not while I'm acting. |try to visit a gym regularly but of course actors don’t work regular hours so it's hard to keep it up. (40| | Super Kid was a very demanding role physically, and so | felt I needed a break. It took me a month before | felt ready to visit the ‘gym again but | still didn’t exercise as often as | did during the filming, In fact, acting is very demanding not only physically, but also mentally. Standing up to perform during endless rehearsals and going over certain scenes again and again actually ses up an enormous amount of energy. That's why | like to take time off and relax between films. In fact, | have @ pretty relaxed attitude about looking after myself because | learnt the basics on a Greek island when | was very young, And it's more pleasant keeping fit when you lead an outdoor kind of life. Running along the beach or playing volleyball on the sand beats jogging around the city streets through the car fumes by a long shot and that's why more people do it. | know cities have nice parks but most people aren't prepared to drive a long way for a quick jog, are they? ‘The weather in Greece also means that you follow a healthier diet. Most people over there don't eat the fatty junk food that you often find here in England, 'They are far more likely to have freshly squeezed fruit juice instead. As for their main meals, they usually have grilled meat and fresh salads. I'm not a meat eater myself, although | am not a vegetarian by any. stretch of the imagination, but | do try to eat a balanced diet because | believe it makes a difference to how I look. Having said that, | will now reveal to you the ‘real’ secret of looking good which I have discovered recently. How you feel within reflects on how you look. Feel good, look good, get it?vols rave gap kit the as! only 2 to 2ing rally at's een ude the ing. nen ong FCE for Schools Part 6 ‘A Atleast inttialy. They can certainly open doors for you. B She's right, of course, and I do know it's only a passing phase for the average teenager, but I also happen to know older actors who have never overcome it, © I'm sure no one on the island would have an ‘English breakfast’. D People over there are much more aware of their bodies simply because of the E Of course, | try to develop my own style without being influenced by anyone else. F After many months of filming ‘Super Kid’, for which | had to keep super fit, | decided | needed a rest. G But itis particularly dificult for me at the moment because I'm going “hrough @ period of worrying about my looks. Test 1 Reading and Use of English } | | | i aTest 1 Reading and Use of English Part 7 FCE for Schools You are going to read an article about four teenagers who talk about live television programmes and their audiences. For questions 43-52, choose from the people (A-D).The people may be chosen more than once. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Which person claims that = | studio audiences consist ofall kinds of people? television viewers are being deceived? despite the disadvantages, it is enjoyable to be in a studio audience? aan rnmn een they don't understand the reasons for wanting to be in a studio audience? TF being in a studio audience i, for some people, | preferable to watching television at home? they once believed that being in a studio audience would be fun? getting to be in a studio audience requires effort? they do not regret having been in @ studio audience although they didn't ike it? [Bi] _| ‘common ideas about what happens when you are in a studio audience are not always correct?ools for Schools Part 7 mes Adam Brown always wanted to be in the audience when television programme was being made so, | was offered the chance, | was only too to accept. | thought it was going to be a of fun but | was disappointed. I'm glad | did though because I know the truth now, which that live studio audiences are not really lve. minutes into the show, there was a break for commercial advertisements during which We, the audience, were asked to perform for the camera and we obliged. We were filmed shaking our heads, nodding, saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’, smiling and assuming whatever facial expressions we were asked to wear. They then incorporated parts of this filming into the live show at times that seemed appropriate. What a fiasco! peepee B, Oliver Green ‘As anyone who works in television will attest, most live television audiences will do almost anything they are asked to do in exchange for two seconds of fame. However, it would be wrong to suggest that there is such a thing as a typical television audience. Studio audiences come from all walks of life, classes and professions. In ‘act, television actually aims to attract different kinds of people for different types of programmes. But | have to admit, | am completely bemused as to why anyone would want to be in the audience. What on earth possesses them to goto so much trouble, when they can watch the programme in the comfort of their own living rooms? As a member of the audience told me a few months ago, she'd had to apply for a ticket, travel a long distance and sutter long, boring hours in the discomfort of a studio, only to be allotted a seat behind a very tall, broad shouldered man who blocked her view of the stage. noone L Test 1 Reading and Use of English Live television audiences C. Susan Potter There are many different reasons why someone would want to be in a studio audience. A common misconception is that all that people ‘wants the chance to appear on television. While this may be true of some people, i: is certainly not true of all audience members. Some people are curious to find out what goes on behind the scenes, while others tind themselves in the audience by a lucky coincidence such as, a friend giving them a ticket or a television crew recruiting an audience in the street. Another ‘common misconception is to imagine that being in such an audience necessarily involves sitting uncomfortably among complete strangers, while someone flashes cards with APPLAUD or LAUGH or NOD on them, and you applaud of nod accordingly. There is no doubt that this sort of thing does go on, but there are certainly plenty of shows being made thet are good enough not to require such tactics. D. Sarah Granger The question most people ask is, is there any real difference between watching a show at home and seeing it live in the studio? The answer depends on what you like. Clearly, for some people, being in the studio is much more exciting because it's all happening right in front of you and it makes you feel as if you are actually taking part in the making of the programme. Of course, | am not suggesting ‘that going to a studio could replace watching television because a studio may well be rather uncomfortable and the whole process rather inconvenient. | am merely suggesting that it can be a lot of fun, especially since it doesn't cost anything,