INSTITUTO CAMBRIDGE de Cultura Inglesa EXAMENES

2015

NAME:
5TH. YEAR
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TIME: 2 hours
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A B FINAL MARK SET

PART A

WRITE THE WORDS USING THESE CLUES 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

1 C 1- a person who teaches at a university or college.

2 R 2- a short description of a book found on the back cover.
3 I 3- strange, unusual.
4 M 4- the crime of attacking sb violently in order to steal their money.
5 E 5- to make sb pay as an official punishment for a crime.

CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION a, b or c TO COMPLETE THE BLANKS 5 x 0.3 = 1.5 marks

1- Shes never satisfied _____ what shes got. a) of b) with c) for

You wont get paid for time off _____ you have a doctors
2- a) if b) provided c) unless
note.
3- _____ applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work. a) Despite b) Instead of c) Even though

4- Can you _____ what these words mean? a) work out b) look into c) get in

5- The jury _____ him of all charges. a) charged b) blamed c) acquitted

COMPLETE THE CONVERSATION. Choose a suitable expression. There are three 4 x 0.20 = 0.8 mark
extra ones. Write the letter in the blank.

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 B: It may be Katie and Emma are talking about a co-worker at the office.
driving him
crazy. K: Can I have a word with you Emma?
A: I bet you
are. E: Sure.

K: Have you heard the latest gossip about Peter?

C: Anyway, What
about you? E: No, I havent.
D: Is he?
Why s that? K: Well, apparently hes going to quit.

E: 1) _____ Did he get a better job?

E: I hope youre
right. K: Exactly. Actually, he got a job in Spain with an important
multinational company
F: In what way?
E: 2) _____

K: Yes, he definitely is. He really deserves it. 3) _____ Have

G: He must be over the
you made up your mind about going abroad yet?
moon.
E: Not yet. Im still thinking about it.

K: 4) _____ Moving abroad is a difficult decision to make.

REWRITE THESE SENTENCES Use the words in brackets without changing them 8 x 0.4 = 3.2 marks

1- I live in a very noisy area and I dont like it. (CANT STAND)

2- You gave us the wrong directions so we got lost. (IF)

3- Paul is very hard-working. He is sure to get a promotion at work. (BOUND TO)

4- I ve asked you to stop three times but you keep making that stupid noise. (EVEN THOUGH)

5- My brother didnt allow me to use his computer. (LET)

6- My eldest son is in Hong Kong at the moment. His job takes him all over the world. (WHOSE)

7- The flight was cancelled because there was thick fog. (DUE TO)

8- When I was a kid, I went on a long bike ride every Saturday. (WOULD)

COMPLETE THE TEXT ABOUT A STRANGE EXPERIENCE WITH THE 10 x 0.25 = 2.5 marks
CORRECT TENSE, VOICE OR FORM OF THE VERBS IN BRACKETS

Last month, I attended a reunion of students who 1) _________________ (be) on the same course as me at university
ten years earlier. When I left university, I didnt keep in touch with many people-just my closest friends-so I
2) _______________ (not know) who or what to expect.
When I arrived at the hotel where the reunion 3) _______________ (hold), most of the guests 4) ______________
(already arrive). They 5) __________________ (chat) in small groups, or in the queue of food, or at the bar. Everyone
seemed to have someone to talk to except me.

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 I made my way to the bar and stood patiently waiting for the barman to notice me. After what seemed an age, I
was tapped on the shoulder and someone shouted, I 6) _________________ (not believe) it! You, at the university
reunion! I turned around quickly and 7) _________________ (see) a man of about my age that I didnt recognize at all.
He seemed to know me, though, and continued. How are you? What 8) (you do) ________________________since
we left? Instead of 9) _________________ (explain) that I didnt know him, I found myself answering all his
questions. For the next hour, this man told me his whole life story while I 10) ____________________ (desperately
search) for someone that I knew. I managed to talk to some people, but my strongest memory of that night is that I had a
reunion with someone that I didnt even know!

READING: Read this article and do tasks A and B 5 x 0.2 = 1 mark

Matt Drudge founded Drudge Report, the first and most successful online newspaper. People have called
Drudge the latest blogger but he doesnt accept the description. He considers the Drudge Report to be a
proper newspaper, very different from the thousands of weblogs which have appeared on the Internet.

Drudges fascination for news and gossip is the result of a childhood job delivering papers for The
Washington Star. A ____ Uninterested in school work or sport, Drudge developed a fanatical obsession with
rumours and political gossip. Following a series of dull jobs Drudge ended up in Los Angeles in the 1990s,
just in time for the beginning of what was to become the Internet.

The incipient World Wide Web was a fertile area for Drudge to grow professionally. He spent hours
examining the newsgroups and rudimentary websites that then existed. B ____ He launched the Drudge
Report website in 1995, a daily rumour bulletin containing his version of the latest and juiciest gossip from
Hollywood and Washington. C ____

Now with an annual income of over $1 million and thousands of subscribers, the Drudge Report has become a
must see newspaper for those hungry of the latest news and gossip.

Task A Insert sentences/clauses 1 to 3 in the corresponding blank and complete the boxes with A, B or C

Drudges success was assured when he became the first person to publicise the Monica
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Lewinsky scandal in 1998.

2 It gave him plenty of time and opportunity to catch up with the latest news.

3 He searched for rumours and inside stories from the political and entertainment worlds.

Task B Circle T for true and F for false. Correct the false statement/s on the blank lines below

4 The article describes the origins of a successful enterprise. T F

5 Drudge calls himself the latest blogger. T F

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WRITING 10 marks

Write one composition using 120 to 160 words. Choose either option A or option and circle the letter
corresponding to your choice.

A. Write an ESSAY mentioning the pros and cons of shopping online.

B. Write a DESCRIPTION of Buenos Aires: include location, things to see and do, why it is famous
and some negative aspects.

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WRITE: 1-lecturer 2-blurb 3-weird 4-mugging 5-fine
CIRCLE: 1-b 2-c 3-a 4-a 5-c
CONVERSATION: 1-D 2-G 3-C 4-A
REWRITE: 1- I cant stand living in this... 2- If you hadnt given us the wrong directions, we wouldnt
have got lost 3-Hes bound to get a promotion at work 4-Even though Ive asked you to stop three times,
you keep making that stupid noise/You keep making that stupid noise even though Ive asked you 5-
My brother didnt let me use his computer. 6- My eldest son, whose job takes him all over the world, is in
Hong Kong at the moment 7-The flight was cancelled due to the (thick) fog. 8-When I was a kid, I would
go on a long bike ride every Saturday.
TENSES: 1-had been 2-didnt know 3-was being held 4-had already arrived 5-were chatting 6-dont
believe 7-saw 8-have you been doing 9-explaining 10-wassearching
READING: Task A 1-C 2-A 3-B Task B 4-T 5-F (People have called the newspaper the
latest blogger)

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