Listening

1  Listen to Professor Judith Bradford give a lecture. What is the lecture about? Tick ( ) the
correct option. (2 marks)
A How companies use smells to influence us ___
B The effect smells have on our minds and
bodies ___

2  Listen again. Complete the sentences. (8 marks)

1 Professor Bradford says that smells can make us feel ___________________________ , like
happiness.
2 The smell of __________________________ reminds Professor Bradford of when she was a
little girl.
3 A study showed that clubbers had more ______ when smells were ______________ into the
club.
4 The professor says that we are able to smell ______________ and ______________ in other
people, as demonstrated in the skydiving experiment.
5 Molly Birnbaum lost her sense of __________ in ______________________ .

Vocabulary
3 Match the two parts of the words. (5 marks)
1 breath __ A table
2 hu __ B liar
3 pecu __ C ge
4 vit __ D taking
5 unforget __ E al

4 The bold words are in the wrong sentences. Write them next to the correct sentences. (5 marks)
1 Jack feels great anxiety for his cat; he loves it very much. _______________
2 Paul suffered from friendship when he moved to London, where he didn’t know anyone.
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3 The gorillas felt loneliness for the man – that’s why he could get so close to them.
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4 Before my exam I had a lot of affection; I was scared I would fail. _______________
5 The two women have maintained their trust for 40 years. _______________

5 Complete the sentences. (10 marks)

1 He felt such c________________ for the families who had lost their homes in the hurricane
that he volunteered to help.
2 You’ve been working very hard; why don’t you t_______ it easy over the weekend.
3 The man showed great b____________ when he rescued the boy from the burning building.
4 Jessica has a good e______ for fashion.
5 I h_______ no idea where your socks are!
6 Josie has a good n_______ for a bargain.
7 When we travel to a new place we like to look _____________ new things to do.
8 A trip to the beach will take your m________ off your problems.
9 T________ it from me – this is the best restaurant in town.
10 Take your time when you go to the Old Town in Prague, and look ___________ .
Grammar
6 Complete the sentences with relative pronouns. (5 marks)
1 That’s the cinema ___________ we saw the latest Hunger Games film earlier in the year.
2 Summer is the name of the girl ________ won the singing competition at school.
3 Alfie is the boy ___________ dad is an actor.
4 Spring is traditionally the time of year ________ people clean their homes.
5 Birmingham, _________ is the second-biggest city in England, is where Sam lives.

7 Complete the sentences with an indefinite pronoun. (5 marks)

1 Does this phone belong to ______________ ?
2 ______________ is packed and ready for our trip; we don’t need to bring anything else.
3 ______________ wants to go to the beach today; it’s raining.
4 There is ______________ in the garden. What is it?
5 I can’t find my mobile phone ______________ . Where is it?

8 Write the sentences as one sentence using defining or non-defining relative clauses. (10 marks)
1 Manchester is in the north-west of England. It is twinned with Córdoba in southern Spain.

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2 That’s the singer. He won The X Factor.
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3 That’s the house. We used to live there.
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4 I know a café. It does good coffee.
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5 This is the restaurant we went to last week. We had a terrible meal here.
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9 Correct the articles in the text. (10 marks)

Fact file on … elephants

Elephants are found in parts of (1) an _____ Africa and Asia. They are (2) a _____ largest land
animals in the world and can live to be over 70 years old. They have a very complex brain,
which is the biggest brain of all animals. They have very poor eyesight but a powerful sense of
(3) a _____ smell. Elephants are similar to cats in that they use purring noises as (4) the ____
form of communication. The large tusks on elephants are their teeth; they are used for defence,
lifting objects and digging for water. (5) The _____ elephant’s trunk has about 40,000 muscles in
it. (6) – ______ trunk of an elephant can sense the size, shape and temperature of (7) a ______
object. Elephants can swim. When they are in deep water they use their trunks like (8) – _____
snorkel so that they can breathe. Interestingly, (9) the ____ elephants are sensitive animals and
are capable of expressing compassion, sadness and happiness. They show (10) an ____ affection
by using their trunks to gently touch one another, flapping their ears or making soft purring
sounds. They are truly amazing creatures.
Practical English
10 Complete the text with the words. There are three words you do not need. (10 marks)

after before last start then until when will

The essential cookbook for students

How to make a simple ragu sauce.
You will need: pasta (spaghetti is best), olive oil, onions, garlic, minced meat (beef), tomatoes
and herbs.
(1) ___________ you begin, make sure you have all the ingredients you need. (2) __________
by chopping up the onions and garlic. (3) __________ that, you should heat the olive oil in a
pan. (4) ___________ you’ve done that, add the onions and garlic and let them fry for a few
minutes. Fry the meat along with the onions and garlic. As the onions, garlic and meat are
cooking, add the tomatoes to make a sauce. The (5) ___________ step in making the sauce is to
add salt, pepper and herbs. Leave to simmer for 40 minutes and serve with spaghetti or the pasta
of your choice.

Reading
11 Read the text. Match sentences A–G with spaces 1–5 in the text. There are two sentences you do
not need. (5 marks)
A This is because listening to music distracts our brain from recognizing that our body is getting
tired.
B This is because when we listen to a piece of music, different parts of our brain are affected.
C Most people love listening to music.
D There are actually two kinds of emotions related to music.
E It is used to treat both children and adults.
F The music that people work out to is too loud.
G However, studies have shown that loud noise can disrupt our concentration.

12 Read the text again. Then complete the sentences. (10 marks)
1 According to the text, a song we like can stop us from ____________________________ .
2 Listening to music stimulates _______________ ____________________________ of our
brain.
3 We can listen to a sad song and not ________________________________ .
4 _____________ music can stimulate your creativity.
5 The cyclists in the 2012 study ______________ _________________________ when they
were listening to music.

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What music does to our brains
Music plays an important role in our well-being. Most people have a favourite type of music
that they listen to. A good song can take your mind off your worries and cheer you up. In fact,
music causes us to feel a vast number of emotions: happiness, love, sadness, compassion and
affection. (1) ____ We can usually tell immediately if a piece of music is intended to be sad or
happy, because the limbic area of our brains responds differently to happy and sad music.
(2) ____ Firstly, there are emotions that we feel and then there are emotions that we
understand, but don’t directly feel. This is why we can often listen to sad music and still enjoy it,
because it doesn’t actually make us feel depressed.
People often like to study or work with music playing in the background. (3) ____ It is better to
listen to quiet, simple music or just the background noise of our environment. Low noise levels
work best to stimulate our creativity.
Music can also help us to do exercise. Research has shown that athletes perform better when
listening to their favourite music. (4) ____ We also use our energy more efficiently when
listening to music while exercising. A 2012 study found that cyclists require seven percent less
oxygen when listening to music compared to when they cycled in silence.
A study also found that learning to play a musical instrument has a positive effect on our brains.
Children who had three years or more of musical training had better reading, writing and
vocabulary skills.
The effect of music on our brains is so powerful that it is used as a form of therapy. Music
therapy, which uses music to help people improve their mental and physical health, is now a
common form of therapy in the USA and the UK for conditions like depression and dementia.
The patient listens to music, talks about it, moves to it and also produces their own music either
through singing or by playing an instrument. (5) ____
In summary, no one would deny that music is an important part of life. It helps us to experience
a wide variety of emotions, improves performance and makes life more fun and pleasurable.
Writing
13 Think about a place you have visited recently. It could be a restaurant, gym, shop, concert venue
or somewhere else of your own choice. Write a review which gives feedback on this place. Use the
questions and prompts to help you. Use idioms with have and take if appropriate and expressions
for giving reasons, e.g. as a result of. Write about 150 words. (15 marks)

Paragraph 1: How did you hear about the place? Why did it interest you? Where is it? When
did you go? Who did you go with?
Paragraph 2: What did you like about it? What was your favourite thing about it?
Paragraph 3: What didn’t you like so much? What were you not so happy about? What were the
causes of this? Give a possible solution.
Paragraph 4: Give any other information based on your experience that could be useful to the
people who run the place you went to. Would you recommend it?
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