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You will hear people talking on eight different situations. For questions 1-8 choose the best answer.

1) You hear the presenter of a TV programme introducing someone. What are you watching?   [A, B, C]

A a documentary about Hawaii

B a quiz show

C a travel programme

2) You hear a woman answering questions on the telephone. What is the caller asking about?   [A, B, C]

A a railway ticket

B an airline ticket

C a bus ticket

3) You hear a man reading out a newspaper report of a football match. What was the result of the match?   [A, B, C]

A Barnsley won

B It was a draw

C Ambleford won

4) You hear a man on the radio describing a procession. What is about to take place?   [A, B, C]

A a military parade

B a funeral

C a wedding

5) You hear a news item about a celebrity couple. What did the couple consult lawyers about?   [A, B, C]

A the media failing to respect their privacy

B holding a wedding anniversary party

C ending their marriage

6) You hear a man interviewing an actress who has just been given a film part. How does she feel?   [A, B, C]

A excited

B impatient

C nervous

7) You hear a woman talking to a man about a car. What is the man doing?   [A, B, C]

A hiring the car

B buying the car

C borrowing the car

8) You hear a man and a woman talking. What is the relationship between them?   [A, B, C]

A She is one of his customers.

B She is his business partner.

C He is her boss.

You will hear part of a radio interview with a woman called Mary Graham, who talks about the problems of the homeless in London. Complete the sentences using only ONE WORD in each gap.

1. Mary Graham is the director of a private         .

2. Some people are homeless because they couldn`t repay their bank      .

3. Some men become homeless after the breakup of their           .

4. For some men the homeless           provides friendship and comfort.

5. Most homeless people live in big        .

6. Some young people who have jobs are homeless because they can`t afford to pay high       .

7. The homeless spend time in public places such as           .

8. Many landlords are unwilling to rent to families with          .

9. High rents are partly caused by a lack of available          .

10. Every night the charity gives the homeless food which is      and filling.

Read the texts below. For each of the empty spaces (1—5) choose the correct answer.

The apple pie did not originate in America. English colonists brought a taste for the fruit from the Old World and (1)            [have begun, had begun, begin, began]planting orchards (2)       [as, so, such, since]early as 1628. Dried, raw, and (3)             [have cooked, cooked, cooking, been cooked], the apple found its way into numerous colonial dishes. Apple pie became known as American, not because it (4)                   [had invented, has been invented, was invented, is being invented]in America , but because of the abundance of apples in the orchards of Washington and New York. No other dessert is (5)          [most, much, the most, more]identifiable with America than apple pie.

Read the text below. Choose from (A—G) the one which best fits each space (6—10). There are two choices you do not need to use.

A the citizens of Frankfurt, Germany, rioted against the pope

В the new calendar wasn't adopted for 170 years

C they suggested a more scientifically correct model

D the world lost eleven minutes per year

E the Gregorian Calendar we still use today

F the Gregorian Calendar is off one day every 3000 years

G and some of them were quite upset about it

What if you went to sleep and woke up ten days later? It happened to millions of people in Europe in October of 1582, (6)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G].

It all had to do with problems in the calendar instituted 1,628 years before by Julius Caesar. That was just the tiniest bit off, and so (7)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G] , for sixteen hundred years.

Pope Gregory III took matters in hand. He appointed a committee of calendar experts to examine the problem, and (8)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G] .

But to get things back on schedule, ten days had to be slashed. So on October 4, 1582, much of Western Europe went to sleep and woke up the next morning on October 15. Reaction was mixed. (9)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G] , who they thought was trying to steal days from their lives. On the other hand, peasants living in isolated rural villages barely noticed it at all.

Some countries didn`t accept the change for years ,creating massive confusion. But eventually everyone let go of the missing days and adopted (10)   [A, B, C, D, E, F, G].