KEYS FOR MOCK TEST 1 AND LISTENING TAPESCRIPT

A. LISTENING (50 points)

Part 1.
1. C 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. B
Part 2. 6. False 7. False 8. False 9. True 10. True
Part 3.
11. short-term exposure
12. chronic obstructive
13. nausea
14. 2.5 microns
15. flare-up
16. pregnant
17. cardiovascular
18. air quality
19. air purifiers
20. KN95 (respirators/masks)

Part 4.
1 9.30 (a.m./am)
2 (new) boating lake
3 (miniature) steam train
4 (trout) fishing lake
5 (outdoor) trampolines
B. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (30 points)
Part 1. For questions 26-45, choose the best option A, B, C or D to complete the following
sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet.
(20 points)
26. D 27. C 28. A 29. B 30. C 31. D 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B
36. C 37. D 38. B 39. B 40. B 41. B 42. D 43. B 44. A 45. D

Part 2. For questions 46-55, give the correct form of each given word to complete the
following sentences and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the
answer sheet. (10 points)
46. ticklish
47. high-powered
48. seethrough
49. irrelevancies
50. Christendom
51. portrayal
52. cast-offs
53. flashbacks
54. washout
55. wide-ranging
C. READING (60 points)
Part 1. For questions 56-65, fill each of the following numbered blanks with ONE suitable
word and write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes on the answer sheet. (15
points)
56. concerned 57. than 58. long 59. play
60. another 61. reverse/opposite 62. those 63. puts
64. by 65. neither
Part 2. For questions 66-75, read the passage below and choose the answer A, B, C or D that
fits best according to the text. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided on the answer sheet. (10 points)
66. D 67. C 68. B 69. B 70. C 71. A 72. C 73. C 74. A 75. A
Part 3. For questions 76-88, read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (13
points)
76. 100
77. 50%
78. water
79. energy monitors
80. diesel generators
81. insulation
82. greenhouses
83. FALSE
84. TRUE
85. NOT GIVEN
86. TRUE
87. FALSE
88. TRUE
Part 4: In the passage below, seven paragraphs have been removed. Read the passage and
choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap. There is ONE extra paragraph
which you do not need to use. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided on the answer sheet. (7 points)
89. G 90. C 91. D 92. H 93. B 94. E 95. F

Part 5: For questions 96-105, you are going to read some extracts from a health advice
magazine. Answer the questions by choosing from the sections of the article (A - F). The
sections may be chosen more than once. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered
boxes provided on the answer sheet. (15 points)
96.D. "As there are no symptoms until it causes disease, many people with high cholesterol may
not be aware they have it".
97. C. "it is unnecessary and potentially harmful to exclude them from the diet".
98. E. "the virtual trainer gives feedback via emails and texts - perfect for the self-con(s)cious
exerciser".
99. A. "one in three men and one in five women admit that they don't wash their hands after
going to the toilet".
100. E. "online coaches offer a valuable compromise when it comes to training. First they are a
cost-effective alternative. Second, they represent a more flexible option"
101. B. "overusing painkillers leads to changes in the way the brain handles pain signals".
102. C. "nutrition experts are quick to point out that there's no evidence to support it".
103. F. "It's about editing your life to remove the reasons you are drinking too much".
104. B. People must not assume that over the counter drugs are safe because clearly this is not
the case.
105. D. "There's a lot of publicity about the dangers of having high cholesterol' at the moment
mainly from companies that make special food that claim to lower it"

D. WRITING (60 points)

Part 1. Read the following extract and use your own words to summarize it. Your summary
should be about 140 words. You MUST NOT copy the original. (15 pts)
Sample answers:
Different cultures have distinct ways of defining and organizing space. Cultural patterns,
ingrained in individuals subconsciously, can cause communication failures. Proxemics, the
physical distance between individuals during an encounter, relies on cultural norms of personal
space. Americans prefer a social distance of 4 to 7 feet, finding closer proximity uncomfortable
and greater distance cold. In Europe and southwestern Asia, the expected social distance is about
half of that. Paralanguage, including vocal tone, tempo, and stress patterns, also influences
meaning. For instance, in English, tone can indicate sarcasm, altering the interpretation of words.
Clothing and body ornamentation are considered forms of paralanguage, communicating status,
interests, and cultural identity. Failure to recognize these non-verbal cues can lead to
misunderstandings in communication.
Part 2. Charts 1 and 2 below show the proportion of income spent on different areas by young
people in Canada and Poland. Chart 3 shows the average age of certain life events for these
countries, and an estimated global average age.
Sample Writing
The charts show the percentage of youth income spent on various areas in Poland and Canada,
and also three key life events by age compared to an estimated global norm.
Looking firstly at income, we see that in Canada the 2 highest areas of expense are leisure and
clothing, at 20% and 19% respectively. The other areas (housing, food, transport and studies) are
all roughly similar, at between 14% to 16%.
In Poland, however, studies take almost half the expenditure at 43%, followed by transport at
26%. Leisure and clothing are similar at 10% and 11%, and housing/food are the same at 5%.
Regarding life events, we see that, in Poland, leaving home and buying a car happen at an age
close to the predicted global norm of around 26 years, whereas in Canada they happen much
earlier at 20 years or just under. Getting married, by contrast, is similar in both countries at
around 30 years, which is much later than the world average of just over 20.
In summary, young people’s expenditure in Canada is more evenly split than Poland, where
transport and studies take the vast majority. Poland is closer to the global average than Canada in
terms of life events.

Part 3. Essay writing (30 points)

Some employers believe that job applicants' social skills are more important than their
academic qualifications. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons and relevant examples to support your answer. You should write at least 350
words.
Sample answer.
Some recruiters believe that soft skills should be prioritized over academic certificates during the
recruitment process. While I admit that soft skills can contribute to improved cooperation, I
mostly disagree with this notion as these qualifications are evidence of desired qualities and
background knowledge at the workplace.

The foremost reason for my argument is that certificates are an official proof of the candidate's
dedication and efforts. Attaining a qualification requires students to demonstrate their
commitment by attending a series of lectures, submitting assignments. and ultimately passing
challenging exams. These accomplishments act as a testament to a graduate's hard work and
unwavering commitment which are also key factors that can guarantee their prospect of success
at work.
Additional support for my view is qualifications can prove that the candidates have an adequate
academic background for the job. This foundation enables them to further develop necessary
skills and expertise required to excel in their roles. For example, after years of studying in
medical schools, doctors are well-equipped with a good comprehension of the human body and
its reaction to medication, which enables them to later effectively diagnose various health issues
and prescribe appropriate treatments for patients at hospitals.

However, I concede that it is essential to acknowledge that employees can make tangible
contributions to a company's development with their interpersonal skills. In a company setting,
people must work in collaboration to get their tasks done. Social skills play a vital role in
ensuring communication among employees, allowing them to discuss issues at work to leverage
the company's resources efficiently and effectively for the sake of task completion.

In conclusion, although social competencies can enhance collaboration between workers, I

somewhat believe academic degrees are of greater importance as they represent job applicants
personal qualities and strong foundation for in-depth development at work. It is advisable that
recruiters should offer more generous benefit packages to attract candidates with excellent
academic performance.

LISTENING TAPESCRIPT

Tapescript 1:
Interviewer; As the global population grows, a greater strain is being put on the planet to provide
for humankind. Very often, the struggle to improve standards of living results in having to decide
whether to exploit an area of natural beauty for its resources or leave nature alone. Here to
discuss the issue of money versus the environment are developer, Faye Mannia, and
environmentalist, Peter Green. Faye, could you tell us how you can put a price on the
environment?

Faye: First of all, I'd like to establish a level playing field for this discussion by dispelling the
notion that developers are the ruthless, Insensitive individuals portrayed in the media. I think that
the newly- announced government plans to put a price on wildlife clearly shown that developers
are now considered responsible and the idea that developers just want to use nature for their own
ends is definitely a thing of the past. The Initial trial will involve six local authorities putting a
price of say, forty conservation credits on every ten homes developed. Each credit could be
worth £2,500, making a total of £100,000 to a broker who commissions another landowner to
convert fields or scrubland into meadows or woodlands to offset the developed land. The
remaining money is then paid to this landowner to maintain wildlife for two to three decades.

Peter: I'm afraid I'm a lot less enthusiastic about the government plan than you are. The plan has
been drawn up without sufficient research into the type of artificial environment that would
substitute for the site tom up by developers. How, for example, can you think it's acceptable to
tear down existing woodland? One would have to wait at least a decade for new woods to grow
to be considered a replacement. In fact, it is highly unlikely that any artificial environment will
be able to support as many different species as one that has developed naturally. I really feel that
the whole idea of creating a new currency in the form of the 'conservation credit is simply a way
for developers to evade planning rules and to gain access to prime greenfield sites so that they
can make huge profits

Faye: I think you're missing the point of the proposal trials. We shouldn't need to choose
between either improving the environment or growing the economy. We should aim to do both
and these trials should lead to ways of achieving this. And it is not simply a case of satisfying the
wants of developers as you have suggested - it is more a case of meeting needs. There is a
parallel in Brazil, where near the town of Carjass in the middle of the Amazon jungle lies a vast
iron ore mine. From the profits raised, the quality of life for the residents of Rio's favellas or
slum areas has been improved. Twenty years ago, these slums were neglected because they
weren't considered important. Now, perhaps because of global attention being drawn to Rio de
Janeiro through sporting events. improving the reputation of the city is top of the agenda. It's a
case of moving with the times.
Peter. But this comes at a cost. Once a specific environment has been developed, there is no
going back. Species disappear. England is losing its wildlife at an alarming rate. Every taxa of
birds, butterflies and boos has declined by around 40%, and the country has lost 500 species in
the last 200 years. With these trials, losses would accelerate substantially. I'm afraid that this
system of using 'conservation credits' to destroy invaluable habitats is just a way of turning
wildlife into a tradable commodity with complex markets - that could be exploited by developers
and bankers alike. It would inevitably lead to a lack of transparency, and implementing the trials
would mark the start of a slippery slope into the negotiation of numerous murky deals.

Faye: I can assure you that everything will be above board. Details will be made available to the
public as they have been in the recent well-publicised deal, in which developers will provide the
£5 million so desperately needed to give a fortress used in the Napoleonic Wars a makeover in
return for permits to build a five-star hotel and 500 houses. The fortress is part of our national
heritage, which we developers will help retain for future generations. We're adopting a long-term
view, which environmentalists seem incapable of doing Take what we did in the 1980s, when we
transported the earth dug from the Channel tunnel to an area near the White Cliffs of Dover.
Environmentalists criticised the idea at the time in exactly the same way as they are attacking
these trials. Now, three decades later, the area known as Sapphire Hoe nature reserve attracts
over 100,000 visitors every year.

Tapescript 2
Bob Ballard, Oceanographer: We didn’t know why the ocean was salty, how it got its chemistry,
until fairly recently. Children would ask you, 'Why’s the ocean salty?' We’d say, 'next question'.
We thought in the early days that it was the rivers, the obvious culprits bringing all this stuff in
but the chemistry of the world’s oceans was not equal to the chemistry of the rivers coming in to
it.
We didn’t know until 1979. We were driving along the East Pacific Rise and there was a black
smoker in front of us. We call it a black smoker because it looks like black smoke but it’s not.
It’s microcrystals of minerals so we discovered when we found the black smokers that the entire
volume of the world’s oceans is going inside the Earth and out every 6 to 8 million years and it’s
taking some of the chemicals it gets from rivers and it’s trading them for new chemicals and this
is occurring all the way along the mid-ocean ridge that stretches around the planet like the seam
in a baseball, and there are tens of thousands of magma chambers down there and the waters get
into them and that’s how we get the chemistry of the world’s ocean and we didn’t know that!
Tapescript 3
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particularly-important-for-some-people-heres-how

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to spread from the Eastern U.S., to the Midwest.
Cleveland and Detroit are now experiencing unhealthy air pollution. But some of the poorest air
quality in the world this week has been in New York City. Pulmonologist Dr. Ravi Kalhan of
Northwestern Medicine likened it to New Yorkers smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
The health hazards of long-term smoking are well understood, but what are the dangers of short-
term exposure to wildfire smoke?

"I think that everyone has some degree of risk when air pollution levels are to this extent,"
says Dr. Keith Brenner, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Hackensack University Medical
Center.
But it's people with preexisting lung conditions like asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease) who are most at risk.
Smoky skies can cause itchy eyes, sore throats, headaches and even a little nausea. But it's the
fine particles — particulate matter that's 2.5 microns or less in diameter — that are the biggest
health hazard. These particles can get into your lungs, and for people with lung conditions they
can trigger a flare-up. "Worst case scenario you might even have to be admitted to the hospital,"
Brenner says.
Poor air quality can also be a problem for people with cardiovascular disease.

Research by the Environmental Protection Agency and others has found exposure to particle
pollution increases hospitalizations for serious cardiovascular events like heart failure, strokes,
heart attacks and death.
Pregnant people and children — especially children with asthma — are also at increased risk of
harm from exposure to wildfire smoke. Kids breathe faster and take in more polluted air,
says Dr. Lisa Patel, a pediatrician at Stanford Medicine Children's Health. "Kids are more
susceptible to begin with because their airways are even smaller. So even a smaller amount of
inflammation can hit a kid harder as well," Patel says. This is especially true for children under
age 5.
Inhaling polluted air can also impact the development of the fetus. "So I think that pregnant
women should do all they can to avoid exposure on days when the levels are so high," Brenner
says. And he points to several studies that show hospitalization rates for children with asthma
flare-ups increase when air pollution levels are high.

WEATHER
When will air quality improve? A lot is riding on the wind

MAIN CHARACTER OF THE DAY

Spare a thought for Gustavo, the guy delivering your ramen in the wildfire smoke
So what's the best way to minimize exposure to dangerous air pollution?

First, check the air quality where you live by going to the EPA website airnow.gov, which has a
color coded meter showing the air quality in your area. If the air is rated unhealthy, the best
advice is to stay inside as much as possible and keep the doors and windows closed.
If you have cracks under the doors where the air is coming in, Linsey Marr, an aerosols expert at
Virginia Tech, suggests rolling up a towel to block it. If you have an air purifier, "run it on high
so that you are filtering your indoor air as much as possible," Marr says.
Air purifiers can be expensive, so if you don't have one, Patel suggests, making one yourself.
Get a HEPA filter "and attach it to a box fan and get about a 50% reduction in the air pollution
indoors," she says. And try to avoid anything that makes the indoor air quality worse. "If you
have a gas stove, try to avoid using it," Patel says. Don't vacuum or burn candles because that
will just add more particles to your indoor air.
And drink lots of water. The fluid keeps your eyes, nose and throat moist which helps alleviate
irritation. Also, avoid outdoor exercise when the air is bad. Exercise makes you breathe more
deeply, bringing any particles in the air deeper into your airways.

And finally, if you do go outside — mask up! "Just like with COVID, the best mask is going to
be a high quality, well-fitting, what we call a respirator mask, an N95 or KN95," Marr says.
Surgical masks or cloth masks are better than nothing, but they don't offer great protection. N95
masks can filter out 95% of smoke particles, if fitted properly and dirty air doesn't leak around
the sides.
And you know the drill: Cover your nose and your mouth.

Tapescript 4
Be at the gates at 9.30 when Farmer Tom unlocks, and you can be the first visitors inside.
Voted favourite feature for the past five years, our pet area has been knocked off pole position
this year by a new boating lake and the miniature steam train.
We love it that many of our guests come back time and time again and we’re always working to
develop the park for the future. Over this winter, we’ll be digging and stocking a trout fishing
lake. You can bring your own rod or hire one on-site. We also intended to install a bouncy castle
until a visitor survey revealed that outdoor trampolines would be far more popular so we’re
going to give you what you’ve asked for.