HS2 2019 Unit6 p103 act9

Listening 1

Listen to the text. For statements choose T if the statement is true according to the text, F if it is false.

1 - Both speakers knew what the film was about.   [T, F]

2 - Everybody knew what time they were going to the cinema.   [T, F]

3 - The group might go for a meal after the film.   [T, F]

4 - One of the speakers is unable to go for a meal after the film.   [T, F]

5 - The speaker's cousins will also be going to the cinema.   [T, F]

6 - Both speakers agree to go to the film together.   [T, F]

Listening 2

Listen to the text. For questions choose the correct answer (A, B or C).

1. According to Patrick, what worries people most when they take a balloon trip?   [A, B, C]

A how far the wind will take them

B whether they will hit some obstacle

C what the experience of landing will be like

2. Why does Patrick recommend joining the ground crew?   [A, B, C]

A It's the best way of learning about balloons.

B It provides some experience of flying a balloon.

C It can be a fun way of earning extra income.

3. What makes the job of the ground crew particularly difficult?   [A, B, C]

A poor communication with the pilot

B unpredictable weather conditions

C the nervousness of the passengers

4. Patrick says that all members of the ground crew must   [A, B, C]

A be physically strong.

B have good social skills.

C know their area well.

5. Patrick finds it unsatisfactory when new crew members   [A, B, C]

A fail to cooperate with each other.

B distract him with unnecessary questions.

C don't accept the way things should be done.

6. What does Patrick say about balloon competitions?   [A, B, C]

A It is often difficult to determine who has won.

B The finishing target area is often unmarked.

C Some competitors are requesting clearer rules.

7. Patrick thinks his particular skills as a pilot result from   [A, B, C]

A the way in which he was trained.

B the fact that he's adventurous by nature.

C the amount of experience he has.

Reading 1

Read the text below. For (1-5) choose T if the statement is true according to the text, F if it is false.

THE TORTURE KING Control (ouch) of the Mind (ouch)

Tim Cridland, also known as Zamora The Torture King or The Human Pincushion, made his debut years ago with Jim Rose’s Circus Sideshow and has since appeared on Ripley’s Believe it or Not and Real TV. He is a man of many strange talents.

At a young age, Cridland became extremely interested in sideshows and the unusual stunts performed at them. Through books he learned about snake charmers and sword swallowers and he decided it was something he wanted to pursue.

“It was an ongoing interest of mine that kept growing bigger and bigger,” he said. Tim’s first side show accomplishment was fire eating. That was a feat he mastered at the young age of 15.

“I thought that was pretty cool,” said Cridland, “I thought that was something I’d like to see. But nobody was doing it, especially in the small town I lived in.” So he decided to learn the ropes himself. It was a slow process that took many years of studying mediation rituals and self-hypnosis to become the torture guru he is today.

“I’ve been doing fire eating the longest,” he says. “Then putting the skewers just through the skin on the fore arms, then it just went up from there.”

Zamora’s signature act is piercing his flesh with meat skewers. At the show I attended in Toronto, one skewer went through the arm and another went in his mouth, under his tongue and out the bottom of his chin. According to The Torture King, this act has made several people faint, including members of other sideshows. At different shows he pierces different parts of his body, although his arms and face seem to be the most common. For the Guinness Book of Records, he had 106 pins in his body at once. “I could have done twice as many,” he claims, “but it wasn’t really for the record, it was just an excuse to do fun stuff on TV.”

Because of his extensive studies and years of practice, Cridland is fully in tune with his body. He knows exactly where to put the skewers when piercing himself to produce the least amount of blood possible. Through self-hypnosis he has also learned to ignore the pain.

“There is nothing abnormal about me physically,” said The Torture King. “Everything I’ve done, I’ve trained myself to do. I’d say what I’m doing is demonstrating some kind of extreme examples of what you can do with your mind and combining that with your body. You could take the same techniques I use to overcome pain and use them in your own life to inspire you to persevere against the pains in life we all have to deal with.”

0 Tim Cridland started developing his strange talent from practicing snake charming and sword swallowing.   [T, F]

1 Tim Cridland took classes from an experienced sideshow guru.   [T, F]

2 The audience is usually shocked watching Tim Cridland pierce himself.   [T, F]

3 Tim Cridland believes he hasn’t reached the limit of his talents.   [T, F]

4 He explains his extraordinary skills with training mind and body.   [T, F]

5 He shows how he overcomes pain to inspire other people to try repeating his tricks.   [T, F]

Reading 2

Read the text below. Match choices (А-I) to (1-6). There are two choices you do not need to use.

This student mentions that:

A it is no use fighting against cheating.

В cheating at school may lead a person to fraud in future.

C a student can be expelled from the university for cheating.

D cheating is unfair for those who have prepared for a test.

E a student should cheat only when it is completely necessary.

F teachers should not keep an eye on students during the test.

G cheating may catch up with a student by his getting caught.

H s/he is proud of being able to outwit teachers on the exam.

I cheating on a test can spoil students’ career opportunities

0 VICKY, CANADA   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

Many times I have helped other fellow students to cheat from my examination paper and at the end when I saw that they had a good mark, I was very happy, even if you call it cheating! I have also cheated from my friend’s paper. Nothing can be done! Students are clever enough to find new ways to overcome the obstacles that [others] are trying to impose upon them.

1 KAYSSIE, CANADA   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

The people who say cheating is good sometimes are the ones who know that it is never good. They are just trying to justify themselves so that they do not feel guilty. There are a lot of cheaters out there and they are making it hard for other people to do well. If you don’t cheat you are making life easier for the other non-cheaters. I mean if only one person in your class cheated, they probably wouldn’t do so well.

2 GABRIELA, BRAZIL   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

I think that cheating is not a big problem, but it can harm your future! Because “once a cheater, always a cheater” and then you learn nothing. You will have difficulty in the examination test... Consequently, you don’t go to a university! So the best thing to do is to study hard!

3 WILLOW ROSENBERG, U.S.A.   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

I was doing my English test, when my friend asked me to exchange the tests. It was my first time cheating, so we tried, but we made a huge mistake. He took the first page of the test and I took the second. When the teacher turned to see what was going on, he saw each of us holding one page of the test. We both went to the principal’s office and got a zero. Yeah, I learned with my mistakes...

4 MICHAELA, U.S.A.   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

I think that cheating is bad, but truthfully everyone has tried it in some shape or form in their life.

I personally have and sometimes I am not successful, but most the times I am. Cheating is wrong: if you feel you have to hide and be secretive about something, it is wrong. This does not stop people from cheating. Some people make a job cheating people out of money and other things.

5 NOBERTO, U.S.A.   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

Well, I don’t think that the teachers should even care of a boy or girl who cheats on a test. They are just hurting themselves. But I do not think it is right for a teacher to say she has seen someone cheating because they have happened to talk. Some teachers just need to sit and get off our backs.

6 WALLART, U.S.A.   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I]

I think that cheating is common in schools and very understandable. This is because teachers give too much work and a lot of hard tests that force you into cheating. Therefore I think that teachers should STOP giving so much work and tests. Cheating is cool with me. I also think that teachers and people who work at school are bad at catching cheaters and that cheating is completely necessary at this current time. :) CHEAT ON!

Reading 3

Read the text. For questions (1-6) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D)

The Popular Way to Learn English in Japan

The speeches of the New United States President Barack Obama are proving to be a popular aid to learning English in Japan. A special compilation          [go, went, has gone, going] on sale lately, quickly becoming a national best-seller.

It’s been described by its publishers as a huge hit in Japan – a compilation of the speeches of Barack Obama has been sold in the number of 400,000 copies, and the students at an English class in Tokyo are even memorising the new             [President, President’s, Presidents, Presidents’] words to improve their own pronunciation and understanding.

Barack’s Obama’s message of change has been well received in Japan where politics is often                [characterize, characterised, characterising, characterises] by grey figures backroom deals. The clear language of the speeches makes them an obvious choice for teaching material. But the new President’s words are said to hold particular appeal.

First of all it’s from his personality, and also his technique, as his rhythms in English sounds beautiful to the Japanese people       [who, whose, what, when] may not understand English well but still find his English as something they want to learn from.

And so, in shops across Japan the face of the new American President is a fixture on the bookshelves,              [as well as, is well as, as better as, as good as] on the bookstalls. And for students, the question of whether they                [succeed, will succeed, succeeded, have succeeded] in improving their English can be answered – “Yes, we will”.

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