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Certificate in English for Overseas Candidates

Masters Level Paper A - Practice 2003

Time allowed – Three hours.

Candidates should answer ALL questions.

Write your answers in PEN in the spaces provided.You may use correcting fluid if necessary.Ask for extra paper if you need it.

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Section A Listening. (10 marks)

You are going to listen to an interview with a writer, called Anna Michaelson. Answer all the questions below by marking the correct box with a tick (√).

1. What does Anna like about Seattle?

a) its lively atmosphere b) its unique architecturec) its beautiful surroundings

2. How are Seattle and London particularly alike, according to Anna?

a) They are both cultural centres.b) They are both excellent for shopping.c) They are both have clearly separate districts.

3. Anna is particularly fond of one of Seattle’s

a) streets.b) parks.c) theatres.

4. How would Anna spend her ideal day in Seattle?

a) She’d sit at a pavement cafés.b) She’d look round the antique shops.c) She’d visit monuments.

5. Where does Anna prefer to eat in the evenings?

a) at home aloneb) at seafood restaurantsc) at friends’ apartments

6. What advice does Anna have for visitors to Seattle?

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a) Avoid the winter months.b) Plan everything ahead.c) Bring an umbrella.

7. What’s the best holiday Anna has ever had?

a) hiking in New Englandb) cruising the Mediterranean c) exploring the rain forest

8. Where is Anna going next?

a) Australiab) Singaporec) England

9. What does Anna never travel without?

a) her medicinesb) her favourite foodc) her journal

10. What does Anna least like doing on holiday? a) campingb) sunbathingc). climbing

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Section B Listening and Writing. (10 points)

You are interested in seeing a new production of the ballet Nutcracker! at Sadler’s Wells, London. You hear an advertisement for the production on the radio. Take notes as you listen to the advertisement and then use your notes to write a letter to a good friend of yours who is coming to London, suggesting that you go the ballet together. Your friend is a student at university. Let your friend know

where the production is when it is on at what times how much tickets cost

Write your notes here: These notes are for your own use and are not marked by the examiner.

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Section C Use of English Part One (10 marks) Write ONE word only in each gap.

1. All the cars stopped while the shepherd led his large _____________________ of sheep across

the road.

2. I will get in ______________ with you next week, OK?

3. We had no idea he was so ill. The news came out of the __________________

4. When we told her the bad news, she went as white as a ___________________.

5. Could you keep an ______________ on the baby for me?

6. She makes beautiful clothes out of odds and ______________

7. We took her to the Doctor. I'm sure there's nothing wrong, but better safe than _____________.

8. The minister __________________ in for a lot of criticism over his dodgy business affairs.

9. I saw him after he won the award. He was over the __________________ about it.

10. The young woman was scared ____________________ before her driving test.

Section C Use of English Part Two(15 marks) Write a new sentence which is as close to the meaning of the given sentence as possible, using the word or phrase given. You may not change the word or phrase in any way.

1. I've no idea what to do next. (to turn)

2. The management decided to ignore what he was doing. (blind)

3. My mother always defends me in an argument. (stands)

4. I promised them. (word)

5. What are you trying to tell me? (driving)

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6. It's completely impossible. (the question)

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7. The news was passed on orally. (mouth)

8. The car seems expensive now but it'll be worth it eventually. (run)

9. We should share the driving. (turns)

10. He was dismissed. (sack)

11. You absolutely must not tell anyone the number of the safe. (account)

12. I really regret being late to work that day! (only)

13. I believed the con-man. (taken)

14. The politician had a lot of things in his past that he didn't want anyone to know about. (skeletons)

15. The class paid no attention to their teacher's advice. (notice)

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Section D Reading (10 marks)

There are fifteen headlines below and ten short news stories on the next page. In the

answer grid below the headlines, match each story letter with the best headline number. There

are five headlines you do not need.

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS HERE. Match the number of the headline to the letter of the article:

A B C D E F G H I J

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1. CORRECTION

2. LOST IN THE POST

3. ANCIENT STONE STOLEN

4. HOMES ARE THE BEST INVESTMENT

5. UNUSUAL STOCK STILL FOR SALE

6. STORYTELLER DID REPLY AFTER ALL

7. TWO-YEAR-OLD IN DEEP COMA

8. ZOO RESISTS ELEPHANT REMOVAL

9. TODDLER SAVES SICK GRAN

10. LITTLE HOPE FOR MISSING PERSON

11. SAFEST ROOM

12. WHAT CAUSED AIRBORNE DEBRIS?

13. SPACE AT LAST - JUMBO JOY!

14. AIR DISASTER STRIKES

15. MODERN MATERIALS MAKE MODERN HOMES

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A Several llamas are still looking for a home after a herd of 18 was only partly sold by auction yesterday, fetching several thousand pounds, at Little Ash Echo, Farm, Throwleigh, Devon.

BA rare letter from the fairytale writer, Hans Christian Anderson to his mother has been found in a Copenhagen library. “We know he received at least 25 letters from her, but experts have been saying for years that none existed from him to her,” said Kirsten Dreyer, who has been commissioned to write a biography of him by the Royal Library.

CIn a brief item headed Stone falls short, page 10 yesterday, we said that after the abandonment of an attempt to move an 8ft stone from Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge “using stone age methods” the stone had been placed in “a botanic garden in Carmarthenshire”. In fact, it is the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

D An inquiry has been launched into how a section of an aircraft wing fell off and landed in a back garden near Stansted, Essex. An investigation will be carried out by the Civil Aviation Authority. Meanwhile, the plane has been grounded.

ELesley Simonson, 50, of Cardiff, told how her two-year-old grandson Ben came to her aid when she started to slip into a diabetic coma. He fetched her blood-sugar testing kit and a bottle of Lucozade which he put to her lips. Mrs Simonson, who has had diabetes for 35 years, said he grandson was shouting to keep her awake.

FHouse prices have increased by up to 450 percent during the past 20 years in London, according to figures from the Halifax, the UK’s biggest mortgage lender. Nationwide, the average home had risen from £29,000 in 1983 to £122,000 at the end of last year.

GSo much rubbish is being washed up on coasts that hermit crabs are strating to make homes in plastic bottle tops and glass, instead of shells discarded by other shellfish, according to a study published in the science journal The Biologist..

HA pensioner survived a gas explosion which wrecked his home, buckled the walls and scattered debris 50 yards. Albert Sotheran, 70, of Hartlepool, escaped injury because he was in the lavatory, at the centre of the house, which was unscathed.

JThe Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire is preparing to transfer a group of African elephants to a zoo in France where there will be more room in which to roam and breed.

I Police searching for missing woman Vivian Starling, 54, who vanished in the early hours of Monday morning are now deeply pessimistic about her, after retrieving a number of her possessions, including handbag containing a purse, letters and a passport from a ditch near her home.


Section E Reading (20 marks)Read this article about the environmental effects of people living alone, and answer all the questions.

Single people are putting the planet at risk

An international trend towards living alone is accelerating the extinction of endangered species and eating up natural resources at an alarming rate, according to a study recently published. Rare animals, such as the giant panda, the bald eagle, and the golden lion tamarin are facing fresh risks as a result. Scientists say the problem of shrinking home units has become so acute that it now poses a more serious challenge to conservation than human population growth. Small households of just one or two occupants are very inefficient users of natural resources, when compared with the traditional nuclear family unit of five or more. Declining household size means that more homes have to be built to accommodate the same number of people, bringing urban sprawl and the destruction of vulnerable habitats, as a study at Michigan State University and Stanford University has shown. Small households also use much more energy per head than larger ones and create more waste, making their ecological footprint still worse. A one-person flat and a four-person house, for example, will typically each have one refrigerator, at considerable cost to energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions.In Britain, between 1985 and 2000 the number of households increased at 4.5 times the rate of population growth, and demand for housing is rising even in countries such as Romania, where the population is falling. Late marriage, high divorce rates and ageing populations are largely responsible for the phenomenon in developed countries, while migration to cities in search of work is the prime driver of change in the developing world. The impact is most serious in countries that contain “bio-diversity hotspots” - regions with many native species that are threatened by human activity - because these can least afford the damage to their fragile ecosystems. Had the number of households in such countries remained static between 1985 and 2000, rather than growing at 3.1 per cent every year, some 155 million homes would not have had to be built, Dr Liu said. By 2015, another 233 million households will be set up in hotspot countries if current trends continue, according to the study published in the online version of the journal Nature.The phenomenon is adding to the risks faced by many of the world’s most critically endangered species. In the Wolong Nature Reserve in China, giant pandas and red pandas live alongside human settlements that are growing more quickly than expected from population trends. “Over the past two decades the population has grown by 70 per cent, but the number of households is up by 110 per cent,” Dr Liu said. “As this number grows, the villages use up more land, cut more firewood for fuel and put increasing pressure on the environment.In the Cerrado and Atlantic forest regions of Brazil, home to rare species such as the golden lion tamarin and the buffy-headed marmoset, a similar process is taking place. While the human population has grown at 1.7 per cent per year, the number of households has increased at a rate of 3.2 per cent, driven by an annual reduction in household size of 1.2 per cent. Similar trends are under way in four other bio-diversity hotspots examined: New Zealand, the Mediterranean Basin parts of Italy, the island of Rodrigues in Mauritius, and Indian River County in Florida. Dr Liu called on governments to think of ways to persuade people to live in larger households. “One thing we can do is to give tax incentives to people to share their houses,” he said. “When a family’s children move out, they could offer that space to a lodger. If governments provide economic incentives, people will think about it.”

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1. Replace these phrases or words with other phrases or words of your own so that the article still reads correctly, both grammatically and in the sense of what is said. The words or phrases are all underlined in the article so that you can find their context easily. One of them has been done for you as an example. There may be more than one possible answer; answer the way you think best.

a) accelerating __________________________________________________________

b) alarming rate __________________________________________________________

c) shrinking home units _____________________________________________________

d) urban sprawl: ____________________________________________________________

e) high divorce rates: ___the large numbers of marriages breaking up___________

f) prime driver of ___________________________________________________________

g) native species: ____________________________________________________________

h) remained static : ___________________________________________________________

i) growing more quickly than expected ___________________________________________

j) an annual reduction in: ____________________________________________________

k) live in larger households ____________________________________________________

2 Summarise the article in no more than 150 words. You may use the space below to make notes. Write your finished summary on the next page.

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Section F Writing (25 marks)

Use your own ideas, the notes below, and, if you wish, facts and ideas from the article in Section E, to write a structured composition of between 300 and 350 words on the following topic:

What are the major kinds of environmental pollution on our planet today, what causes them

and are there any solutions?

air pollution (industrial, car, plane, holes in ozone layer from CFCs/chemicals) warmer weather pressure of population exploitation of resources using biodegradable materials water pollution (industrial, oil spillage, waste products) acid rain recycling cutting down rain forests oil on beaches international agreements soil pollution (farm fertilisers, pesticides, waste products) loss of habitats for animals and birds over fishing

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