Unit 2 Get 200 Book 2

1 EXAM TASK You will hear twice six extracts. For the following questions (1-6) choose the answer (A-C) that fits best according to what you hear.

2 EXAM TASK Read the following text. For each question (1-5) choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

When at the Summer Olympic Games held in Stockholm in 1912 the American Walter Winans won a gold medal, it was not for anything particularly athletic. The award was for a small bronze statue called An American Trotter, which he had made earlier that year. Winans had also won a gold medal for shooting at the 1908 Olympics and a silver one four years later in the same sports discipline. Amazingly, he was only the second person in history to win medals for both his sporting and artistic achievements.

The idea that Olympic Games should be combined with competitions in the arts goes back to Pierre de Coubertin, who wanted to recreate the Olympic Games in a similar form to those organised in ancient Greece. Coubertin, who had received a classical education, thought that a true Olympian should try to be perfect in both mind and body. That’s why he supported including competitions in the arts in the Olympic Games. However, the first modern Olympics of 1908 did not feature any art competitions because Coubertin was afraid that the Olympic movement was still too weak to introduce such important changes.

But four years later, in 1912, he managed to persuade the Swedish organisers, though with some difficulty, to include art competitions in the Stockholm Olympics. The artists competed in five categories: architecture, music, painting, literature and sculpture. Critics of the idea complained that only 33 artists had sent their works to the Olympic Games. However, the number was still enough to choose winners in each category and award them gold medals. Interestingly, the gold medal in literature was awarded to George Hohrod. The name was a pseudonym used by Pierre de Coubertin himself.

For the next three and a half decades, art competitions were part of the Olympic Games. However, after World War 2 some of the organisers were against the idea of art competitions. They argued that all the artists taking part in the Olympic Games were professionals, but the Olympic Games were an event for amateur athletes. The American Avery Brundage argued that the art competitions were quickly changing into money-making exhibitions for the artists taking part in them. As a result of his campaign, before the 1952 Olympic Games held in Helsinki, it was decided that art competitions would be replaced with non-profit exhibitions. The organisers of the Olympic Games today are still required to prepare a programme of artistic, non-competitive activities to integrate the contestants and spectators.

3. Complete mini-dialogues(1-5)below choosingfrom A, B or C.

1 X: Did you like the new exhibition in our local gallery?

Y: ____

X: Me neither. It was rather strange, wasn’t it?

4. Complete mini-dialogues(1-5)below choosingfrom A, B or C.

X: I’m sorry, but I can’t join you at the concert tonight.

Y: ____ No problem, we’ll go together another time.

5. Complete mini-dialogues(1-5)below choosingfrom A, B or C.

X: The play we went to see last night was amazing.

Y: ____ A terrific show.

X: So, why do you think it got such bad reviews?

6. Complete mini-dialogues(1-5)below choosingfrom A, B or C.

X: ____

Y: So do I. I can’t understand it at all.

For the following questions (1 to 15), choose a, b, c or d.

The new sofa isn't ____ the old one.

For the following questions (1 to 15), choose a, b, c or d.

He opened a restaurant _____ not having a license.

For the following questions (1 to 15), choose a, b, c or d.

The tickets ____________ by last Friday

For the following questions (1 to 15), choose a, b, c or d.

My Christmas present was very _____. I got a pair of socks.

For the following questions (1 to 15), choose a, b, c or d.

You can _____ stay in a hotel or rent an apartment.