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LISTENING SECTION 1 Questions 1-10 Questions 1-5 Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer. High School Form Example Time Venue:

Answer in three weeks 1 / _____________________

Number of people graduate:

2/ _____________________

Cost to join the party:

3/ _____________________

Parents can help with:

4/ _____________________

Requirement of dress code:

5/ _____________________

Questions 6 and 7: Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 6. Why didn't some students attend the prom last year? A. They are busy preparing final exam. B. They can't hire suitable evening dress or suit anywhere. C. Their parents aren't wealthy. 7. How much will drinks cost? A. 150.

B. 180.

C. 175.

Questions 8-10: Complete the table below. Person Sarah

Item 8_________________

Place Department store

Jim

Leaflets and a 9____________

Near 10______________

SECTION 2 Questions 11-20: Questions 11 and 12 Complete the sentence below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer. 11. Students from more than 80 countries study on ____________. 12. Overseas students are guaranteed a single bedroom in one of the ____________. Questions 13 and 14: Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 13. The main purpose of the student clubs is to A. raise funds for charity.

B. visit places of general interest.

C. give students an opportunity to take part in sports. 14. The main purpose of the seminars is to A. give students an opportunity to share ideas. C. allow the students to interact.

B. develop independent thinking.

Questions 15-20: Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer. Newcastle Location Transportation to London Convenient for travelling 15………

16………………………

International airport and 17 ...............

Size

Entertainment

Chinatown

18……….

Varied 19 ………………..

World-famous 20………......

SECTION 3 Questions 21-30 Questions 21-23: Complete the sentences below.Write NO MORE THAN ONE WORD OR A NUMBER for each answer. 21. Karen is planning to use an …………………………. for her presentation. 22. Karen is also going to prepare a power-point presentation as a…………… 23. Karen wants a few websites to obtain more……………………. Questions 24-28: What recommendations does Dr. Owen make about the websites? Choose your answers from the box and write the letters A-G next to questions 24-28. A. must read B. read recent articles C. look at abstracts quickly D. check links E. scan references F. useful G. limited value Example www.kmul.org

Answer A

24. investment_IT.com ________ 25. knowledge_joumal.com________ 26.IT_knowledge_review.com________ 27.IT_online.com________ 28. NationalStatistics.com________ Questions 29 and 30: Choose TWO letters A-E. Which TWO things should be avoided in the presentation? A. Too much information at once. B. Irrelevant visuals. C. Small font. D. Too many colours.

E. Talking fast.

SECTION 4 Questions 31-33: Choose the correct letter A, B or C. 31. The local business people who had encountered A. enormous problems.

B. few problems.

C. many obstacles.

32. The main focus of the Centre now is on A. large national companies.

B. technology companies.

C. businesses that have just started up.

B. by telephone.

C. by personal contact.

33. Snapshot research was carried out A. over the Internet.

Questions 34 and 35: Answer the questions below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS A NUMBER for each answer. 34. How much higher is local business rents compared to those nationally? ------------------------------------------------35. How many local businesses close a year after they have started working with the Centre? ---------------------------Questions 36-40 Complete the 1totes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Size of business

Companies

Improving the 36________

O-foods

turn around

Start-ups Innovations

Small

Help being given

Support to attract business partners and achieve 37_________

Sampsons Ltd

Business 38__________

Vintage Scooter

Product monitoring scheme after sales customer service

Medium

Build Ltd

Extension of 39________

Jones Systems

Conflict management and 40_______

READING READING PASSAGE 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on READING PASSAGE 1 below.

FROZEN IN TIME: CAPTAIN SCOTT'S HUTS For those few hundred visitors who make the long journey by ship each year to see the hut for themselves, it looks eerie as if the adventurers had just stepped outside. Yet it is nearly a century since Robert Falcon Scott and his men embarked on the doomed march to the South Pole an episode that was to go down as one of the most vainglorious in the heroic age of exploration. Today their huts at Cape Evans on Ross Island, complete with preserved jars of Heinz Indian Relish, tins of boiled cabbage and stilledible pats of butter, are undergoing a vital restoration. Here, where Scott's party endured a gruelling Antarctic winter as they planned their assault on the South Pole, conservationists hope to restore for future generations a permanent monument to the bravery of the men who gave up comfortable middle class lives to risk all in the blizzards and sub-zero temperatures. Nearly £3.5m has been raised to safeguard the quarters which became a microcosm of Edwardian society during the opening stages of the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-13, Scott's second and final foray on to the frozen continent. The most urgent work has already begun as experts announced this week that they had uncovered 300 new artifacts belonging to the expedition. But time and the elements are stacked against the future survival of Scott's hut and its 8,000 items of equipment and expedition memorabilia, and it has been declared one of the most endangered sites in the world by the World Monument Fund. Philippa Foster Back, whose grandfather was part of Scott's 1910 team that helped build the camp, chairs the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. "We are in a race against time to preserve this irreplaceable part of our | heritage. The end of the fundraising is in sight but the final mile is going to be the hardest, she said. The fundraising effort, which is being led in Britain and New Zealand but has drawn support from around the world, is seeking another £175.000. Half the money has been donated by the private February Foundation, with the balance coming from small donors and polar enthusiasts. It is hoped the work will be finished in time for the centenary celebrations in 2014 when millions will be able to pay a virtual visit to the hut via the internet. But much work must be done before then. Wind deflectors have been fitted to prevent recent heavy snow from building up around the

prefabricated dwelling and crushing it. Last year 85 tonnes had to be shovelled away from the structure and water from melting ice continues to endanger the interior. Stoves, lights, clothes, bedding and harnesses for the team of dogs remain where they were left. Objects such as tins, corks, scientific test tubes and compressed "patent" coal bricks from Cardiff remain intact. Sir David Attenborough, one of the campaign's leading supporters, described the base as "a time warp without parallel". "You walk into Scott's hut and you are transported to the year 1912 in a way that is quite impossible anywhere else in the world". Everything is there," he said. The actor and presenter Michael Palm has described it as "one of the great memorials to exploration anywhere on earth". The 15m by 8m hut was built by Scott and his team when they landed in Antarctica in 1911. It took a week to erect but was well-loved by the men who called it home despite the hardships they endured there. In his journal, Scott observed: "The hut is becoming the most comfortable dwelling-place imaginable. We have made ourselves a truly seductive home, within the walls of which peace, quiet and comfort remain supreme. Such a noble dwelling transcends the word 'hut', and we pause to give it a more fitting title only from lack of the appropriate suggestion." By the time of his return to the Arctic, Scott had become a hero of Edwardian society and the expedition enjoyed support from the government and people alike. Schools and churches raised money to buy blankets and tents, and news of their progress was eagerly awaited back home. Scott recreated the social structures within the quarters that he had known from the navy. A bulkhead of bottled supplies partitioned the living area. Space was set aside for the 16 officers and scientists. The men bedded down in the wardroom at the east end and dined in the mess-deck at the west end. The wardroom was dominated by a large table and spindle-backed chairs. On Sundays the table was covered with a dark blue cloth, although for ordinary meals it was covered with a white oil cloth. There was also a player piano and an HMV gramophone. At the eastern end a darkroom was built and workbenches were constructed for the scientists to conduct their experiments. The men amused themselves by working hard and giving lectures on their specialised subjects anything from watercolour painting to the history of Japan. On special feast days such as midwinter's night, they dined on roast seal. Scott's goal was to beat his rival Roald Amundsen to the Pole. He had been greatly disconcerted on learning that the Norwegian changed his plans to conquer the North Pole after a successful American expedition and set sail for Antarctica instead to challenge him bead on. In the end Scott, 43, and his party of four were narrowly beaten to the prize and it was on the return journey that they perished amid scenes of unimaginable suffering. The last entry in the explorer's diary dated 29 March 1912 reads: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of hardihood, endurance and courage.., which would have stilted the hearts of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." Questions 1-7 Do the following statements agree with the information given in READING PASSAGE 1? In boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet, write YES if the statement agrees with the information NO if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 1. Robert Falcon Scott built the hut a century ago. ____ 2. Scott experienced huge opposition from his family when he began the adventure. ____ 3. Conservationists work in an effort to show adoration to the braver adventurer. ____ 4. Little fund is collected for the restoration work. ____ 5. New discoveries of artefacts of the expedition have indicated the urgency and difficulty of the preservation work. __ 6. Compared with future demand, funds assembled for the restoration seem to be insufficient. ____ 7. Britain and New Zealand are the only two countries which are interested in supporting the project. ____ Questions 8-13: Answer the questions below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 8-13 on your answer sheet. 8. When is the initial stages of the Terra Nova Expedition? _______________________________ 9. Which organization has considered the hut and its memorabilia the wodd's most endangered sites? _______________

10. Whose previous family member once participated in the efforts to build the hut? _______________________ 11. When is the centennial celebrations of the hut? _______________________ 12. Who described the hut as a time machine to the past? _______________________ 13. When did Scott and his men step onto Antarctic and build the hut? ___ ____________________

READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-27 which are based on READING PASSAGE 2 below.

WHY SOME SHAPES ARE MORE PLEASING TO THE EYE THAN OTHERS A. The ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Parthenon of Athens, Mona Lisa's face and the head of George Clooney all have one thing in common. Their attractiveness is said to be based on the "golden ratio", which is supposed to be the most aesthetically pleasing shape to the human eye. The golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion, produces a shape similar to a widescreen television or a cinema screen and describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and half times its width. The proportion is said to pervade art, architecture and nature. B. The modernist architect Le Corbusier used the golden ratio for conferring harmonious proportions on everything from door handles to high-rise buildings, whereas the surrealist painter Salvadore Dali deliberately incorporated the rule into his painting Sacrament of the Last Supper. Now a theoretical mathematician has come up with what he believes is a possible reason why the human eye finds shapes in these proportions so particularly appealing. It comes down to how easy it is for the eye and the brain to scan such an image for important details, based on our evolutionary history. C. Professor Adrian Bejan of Duke University in North Carolina said that the golden ratio - which was first identified mathematically by Euclid in 3rd Century BC -just happens to be the most efficient shape for visual scanning, which could explain why it is behind so many works of art and architectural wonders. "When you look at what so many people have been drawing and building, you see these proportions everywhere. It is well known that the eyes take in information more efficiently when they scan side-to-side, as opposed to up and down," Professor Bejan said. D. "Scanning left to right is five times faster than scanning up and down and that is largely due to the left or right eye taking over when the opposite eye gives up. When you scan vertically, it's like having just one eye. The eyes are also an arranged on a horizontal axis, which happens to fit in with the landscape,” he said. Professor Bejan has applied a mathematically-based law he devised in 1996 to describe how to the designs in nature, from the flow of water in the river deltas to the branching airways in a set of lungs, are geared towards ever-increasing efficiency of movement, such as the faster flow of water, air, blood or even individuals in a crowd. E. Vision is also subject to increased efficiency based on the faster flow of reformation from the eye to the brain. And the visual scene that is easiest to scan is one where the horizontal axis is wider than the vertical, Professor Bejan said. This is true for a gazelle scanning the African horizon for predators, or early human hunter gatherers searching their territory for food. "Animal vision should be configured in a way that seeing and scanning should be the fastest and the easiest. And when the proportions allow this to be done, it should be a source of pleasure because of its past evolutionary associations with finding food or a mate," Professor Bejan said. F. According to the theoretical study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Eco-dynamics, the most efficient proportions for the human eyes to scan is a rectangular shape where the horizontal is about one and a half times the vertical, which Professor Bejan said approximates to the golden ratio. "It is a consequence of the fact that our perceived world is roughly a horizontal tableau. Our supply of images reflects the orientation of the landscape. Danger comes to the animal from the sides and from behind, not from above, and not from below," Professor Bejan said. G. Perceiving the world through a rectangular box' has led to this particular shape becoming aesthetically pleasing and being subconsciously incorporated into works of art. It may also explain why some faces that approximate more closely than other faces are viewed as being the most attractive. A recent study by scientists at the University of Toronto found that female faces were judged the most attractive if the vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth was approximately 36 percent of the face's length, and the horizontal distance between the eyes was approximately 46 percent of the facial width. This was also the proportions of the average face.

Questions 14-21: READING PASSAGE 2 has seven paragraphs A-G. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 14-21 on your answer sheet. NB You may use any letter more than once. 14. the earliest finding of the golden ratio _________ 15. the specific comparison between the efficiency of scanning horizontally and vertically_________ 16. the fact the landscape of surroundings can influence how animals perceive the world_________ 17. the common features of old aesthetic architectures or artistic works _________ 18. how the golden ratio is used to identify the most attractive women faces _________ 19. the fact that natural designs are identical to mathematic regulations _________ 20. the fact that animals' horizontal vision is associated with reproduction or food searching_________ 21. examples of different uses by modern artists_________ Questions 22-24: Do the following statements agree with the information given in READING PASSAGE 2? In boxes 22-24 on your answer sheet, write TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this 22. The rectangle of divine proportion has a width one and a half times its length. 23. Mathematicians are optimistic about identifying the exact reason why humans find these shapes so appealing. 24. Golden ratio is the most efficient shape for eyes to scan drawing and building. Questions 25-27: Answer the questions below.Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 25-27 on your answer sheet. 25. When was the golden ratio first found in mathematical terms? _________ 26. When did Bejan applied his law to other designs in nature? _________ 27. What proportion should the vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth to be the most attractive? _________ READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40 which are based on READING PASSAGE 3 below.

The Big Question: Has a key breakthrough been made in the search for a cure for cancer? A. British scientists announced that they have sequenced a "cancer genome" for the first time. It means they have identified all of the many thousands of genetic mistakes that make a tumor cell different from a healthy cell taken from the same cancer patient. Not all of these mistakes, or DNA mutations, were involved in triggering the cancer, but some of them - the "drivers" - clearly were. Scientists believe it will be possible eventually to identify these driver mutations and find the genetic faults that led to the changes in a healthy human cell that caused it to divide uncontrollably to form a cancerous turnout. B. There is unlikely ever to be a single "cure" for cancer, which after all affects so many different tissues and organs of the body. In fact, there may be as many as 200 different types of cancer, and many more subtypes. But each and every cancer involves damage to the DNA template that rules the cell and governs the way it divides. In this respect, cancer is a genetic disease, indeed it is said to be the most common genetic disease since, in the developed world, it strikes one in three people over a lifetime, killing as many as one in five. By understanding the nature of these genetic mutations in a cancer cell, it should be possible to design tailor-made drugs that specifically target the faults, or the outcome of the faults. It could also lead to new methods of diagnosing cancer in the earlie...