Reading

Part 1
For questions 1 – 4, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.




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Part 3
For questions 8 – 9, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Training sports champions
What are the abilities that a (0) (Professional) sports person needs?(PROFESSION)

Part 5
You are going to read the introduction to a book about the history of colour. For questions 13 – 16, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.


13. What problem regarding colour does the writer explain in the first paragraph?

14. What is the first reason the writer gives for the lack of academic work on the history of colour?

33. The writer suggests that the priority when conducting historical research on colour is to

34. In the fourth paragraph, the writer says that the historian writing about colour should be careful

15. In the fifth paragraph, the writer says there needs to be further research done on

16. An idea recurring in the text is that people who have studied colour have

Part 6
You are going to read four reviews of a book about how architecture can affect the emotions. For questions 37 – 40, choose from the reviews A – D. The reviews may be chosen more than once.


Which reviewer
has a different opinion from the others on the confidence with which de Botton discusses architecture?
37.Please select your answerABCD

shares reviewer A’s opinion whether architects should take note of de Botton’s ideas?
38.Please select your answerABCD

expresses a similar view to reviewer B regarding the extent to which architects share
de Botton’s concerns?
39.Please select your answerABCD

has a different view to reviewer C on the originality of some of de Botton’s ideas?
40.Please select your answerABCD

Part 7
You are going to read an extract from a magazine article. Six paragraphs have been removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A – G the one which fits each gap (17 – 46). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.


17.Please select your answerABCDEFG

42.Please select your answerABCDEFG

43.Please select your answerABCDEFG

44.Please select your answerABCDEFG

45.Please select your answerABCDEFG

46.Please select your answerABCDEFG

A. The recruitment of men to the armed forces during the conflict in Europe from 1914 to 1918 meant there was very little persecution, since gamekeepers went off to fight. As the number of gamekeepers decreased, the wildcat began to increase its range, recolonising many of its former haunts. Extinction was narrowly averted.

B. The wildcat waits for a while in rapt concentration, ears twitching and eyes watching, seeing everything and hearing everything, trying to detect the tell-tale movement of a vole or a mouse. But there is nothing, and in another leap he disappears into the gloom.

C. The results, which are expected shortly, will be fascinating. But anyone who has seen a wildcat will be in little doubt that there is indeed a unique and distinctive animal living in the Scottish Highlands, whatever his background.

D. They probably used deciduous and coniferous woodland for shelter, particularly in winter, and hunted over more open areas such as forest edge, open woodland, thickets and scrub, grassy areas and marsh. The wildcat was probably driven into more mountainous areas by a combination of deforestation and persecution.

E. As the animals emerge, their curiosity is aroused by every movement and rustle in the vegetation. Later they will accompany their mother on hunting trips, learning quickly, and soon become adept hunters themselves.

F. This is what makes many people think that the wildcat is a species in its own
right. Research currently being undertaken by Scottish Natural Heritage is investigating whether the wildcat really is distinct from its homeliving cousin, or whether it is nothing more than a wild-living form of the domestic cat.

G. It is a typical image most folk have of the beast, but it is very much a false
one, for the wildcat is little more than a bigger version of the domestic cat, and probably shows his anger as often.

Part 8
You are going to read a magazine article in which five career consultants give advice about starting a career. For questions 47 – 56, choose from the consultants (A – E). The consultants may be chosen more than once.

Which consultant makes the following statements?

Keep your final objective in mind when you are planning to change jobs.
47.Please select your answerABCDE

It takes time to become familiar with the characteristics of a company you have joined.
48.Please select your answerABCDE

You should demonstrate determination to improve your job prospects.
49.Please select your answerABCDE

Make sure your approach for information is positive in tone.
50.Please select your answerABCDE

It is not certain that you will be given very much support in your job initially.
51.Please select your answerABCDE

Stay optimistic in spite of setbacks.
52.Please select your answerABCDE

Promotion isn’t the only way to increase your expertise.
53.Please select your answerABCDE

Ask for information about your shortcomings.
54.Please select your answerABCDE

Some information you are given may not give a complete picture.
55.Please select your answerABCDE

It will be some time before you start giving your employers their money’s worth.
56.Please select your answerABCDE