ENTRY TEST 5 Port 3 @ For questions 26-37, read the two texts below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS T used to cringe at the phrase ‘coffee-table book’. I would picture glossy, colourful tomes tastefully 26). on immaculate furniture; never read, but purchased because every fashionable household simply must have them. Basically, I felt that these costly publications on art or animals, cookery or cottages, were just an @7) - Then I was given one for my bitthday. It is a beautiful book with exquisite photographs which are a pleasure to @8) —--, although what really surprised me was the text. When I got down to Teading it, I discovered that it was full of excellent advice on how to @9) --._ up my home. I decided to put my reading into practice and, to my great joy, a litle paint, some indoor plants and a number of innovative ideas have transformed my living room. hate to admit it, but 1 was wrong about coffee-table books. In fact Lam now (80) --- them. Why not encourage people to pick up books rather than have their weasures hidden away on bookshelves, unread and (61) ~-- dust? 26 A exposed B displayed € enhanced D inlaid 27 A affectation B appearance € apparition D abstraction 28 A leaf through B look up € flick around D see through 29° A raise B liven © buck D lift 30 A in favour B all out ¢ inon D all for 31 A acquiring 8 gathering ¢ reaping D harvesting HAZARDOUS TOY ADVERTISEMENTS A film on TV is suddenly interrupted by an interminable (82) --- of advertisements for children's toys, and you realise that Christmas is on its way. But why are toys being advertised at such a late hour? Young children have not yet developed the critical thinking required to (3) --- between what is acceptable consumerism, and what is excess. When toy commercials are shown while children are viewing, it puts parents in the unenviable position of constantly having to refuse the demands Of their offspring for toys that the children have seen advertised. (4) ---, some countries have banned the airing of advertisements for toys during (5) --- viewing hours. If one judges by the ad which presents all the models a company has on (36) --. followed by a young boy gleefully announcing, 'T want them all!", this policy seems to be very wise. Of course, Companies wanting to promote their toy products would (87) --- disagree, 32 A stream B lot © amount D quantity 33. A tell B recognise € notice D distinguish 34 AAll in all B For this reason © On the whole D So much so 35 A high B big © peak D major 36 A demand B market € offer D show 37 A heartily B vehemently ¢ wilfully D resolutelyENTRY TEST 5 ee Port 4 best fully hold ‘yor nto ided erof Ives, @ You are going to read a text about a teen have been removed from the text. Choose lager growing up in London. Seven paragraphs from paragraphs A - H the one which best fits each gap (38 - 44). There Is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use. Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. a ZACK AND Zack Keaney paused his computer game, and regarded with detached interest the way that the figure with the gun shimmered surreally, the spurt of flame frozen in the barrel Like a flower growing sideways. Why, he wondered, did the screen throb like that. Throb? No, that sounded like something that hurt. 38 He had once told Mur that he wanted to be a nurse, but she had just said,’ Don’t tell your father, he won't like that,’ and laughed, but not with her eyes. It was a bit like the Danny look she had, which he knew of old: a look that ‘meant that it was wise to change the subject, 38) You had to borrow them and swap them and ask for them at Christmas, or you weren't a proper boy. But right now what he fancied was a walk in the damp secret dusk, up to the edge of the Heath. On his own he was only allowed as far as the street ight by the last house, but he liked to stand at the edge of his territory and look outwards, He could look far into the Heath's darkness and pretend it was the sea, or the desert [a0 HIS SIBLINGS ‘When Marcus was your age I had to chase him out for walks, he hated fresh ai.” ‘Marcus and his computers — when he was your age he never stopped fooling around with them. Did you know he ‘won a competition for designing games? He sold his first when he was only fifteen, just after you were born .” eee) He liked her then; when he was really small she used to paint with him nearly every night, siting with him at the kitchen table and making him laugh with mad suggestions. ‘Why don't you grow some hair out of his eats? Or between his toes? He's not hairy enough. Is that a tomato he’s standing on?” i Geer In the end bit of his memories she was stil there, had a bedroom in the house, but went out a lot and was starey and stroppy and picking fights with Mum, And — this part hhe remembered with reluctance — she seemed to stop noticing him at all ‘Ah well, homework, then. He turned the screen off and reached reluctantly for his schoolbag. Half of it was ‘geography; which was nearly all colouring in and copying and drawing. Kids’ work. He had thought that the colouring \would stop when he was at secondary school, but no such luck. Resignedly pulling the folder towards him and starting {to shade in a patch of steppe, he wished — not for the first time — that he had brothers and sisters to do homework with, Esc But the name hung on in phone calls, the ones Zack wasn't ‘meant to overhear; it was always a sobbing kind of name, he thought, a name associated with people being furious and blaming other people. He had asked questions for a while, but got no answers, so he had grown into the habit of avoiding it. Perhaps Danny was dead, or in prison, or a junkie.ENTRY TEST 5 « ‘A Shona, on the other hand, he could remember living, with at home. She definitely used to live with him and Dad and Mum, in the old house up the road. Right up tll he was about Six she used to come home from her art school for the whole holidays, B Pulse? Yes, pulse was a good word. Sort of wet and alive, He liked taking pulses at his St John Ambulance ‘group in school. Perhaps he would be a paramedic, like fn telly on Saturday nights. No, a nurse would be better. You got to talk to people more, not just shout, ‘What's your name? Right, can you hear me, Lily?” to people stuck in crashed trains. C Sometimes men and girls came past him and went on into that darkness, following the thin line of lights along the path; sometimes men with other men, But if he said he was going for a walk, then Mum would come with him, and try t chat about embarrassing stuf like "growing, Up’, She had this fixation about puberty and stuff, and Zack was a boy who preferred to think things out for himself while he walked. D Tell you a good idea, Zacky — sometimes when you can't finish a painting you should turn it upside down and carry on that way.’ She had given him a set of oil paints and told him not to bother with brushes but to ‘squeeze it straight on. Mum had been furious at the mess, It was hard to remember, he thought, just when Shona stopped being fun. E Zack had watched her from the hall, fascinated. Not so much by the row — he blanked out Danny rows from ‘ld, efficient habit — but by the fact that as she spoke, Shona seemed to change and become someone he recognized from long, ago. F The fights were always about Danny, only by that time Danny was just a name and not a person with a bedroom. Zack’s memories of Danny were hazy; there ‘was definitely sometimes Danny in the background of the painting memories from when he was very litle. But he was pretty sure that by the time he started school when he was nearly five, there was no Danny at all G His brother and sister were so old, and actually not ‘much fun at al, even as grown-ups went, He had hardly seen Marcus — six, seven times that he could remember, always near Christmas — but for as long as he could remember Mum had talked about him, making. ‘comparisons. H He considered re-starting the game, but the man with the gun bored him. Zack did not, in point of fact, get nearly as much satisfaction out of these games as most Df his schoolmates. You had to play them, obviously, so that you had stuff to tlk about.