PRACTICE TEST 15

PART I. LISTENING (50 points)

I. For questions 1-10, fill in the blank with ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER from the recording.
Early Learning Childcare Centre Enrolment Form
Example
Parent or guardian: Carol Smith

Personal Details
 Child’s name: Kate
 Age: 1. ……………
 Address: 2. …………… Road, Woodside, 4032
 Phone: 3345 9865
Childcare Information
 Days enrolled for: Monday and 3. ……………
 Start time: 4. …………… am
 Childcare group: the 5. …………… group
 Which meal/s are required each day? 6. ……………
 Medical conditions: needs 7. ……………
 Emergency contact: Jenny 8. ……………
 Phone: 3346 7523
 Relationship to child: 9. ……………
Fees
 Will pay each 10. ……………

II. For questions 1-10, fill in the blank with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the recording.
Frankie Dettori’s family are originally from 1. …………… .
His mother’s job was riding horses in a 2. …………… and his father was a jockey.
From a young age, Dettori practiced riding horses 3. …………… .
When he was a teenager, he worked with an Italian 4. …………… called Luca Cumani.
In 2007, after trying 5. …………… times, Dettori finally won the Epsom Derby.
Dettori’s unusual style of riding helped him to 6. …………… his horses.
Dettori and his friend were involved in a serious 7. …………… crash.
Dettori suffered facial injuries and a broken 8. …………… in the accident.
Apart from riding, Dettori has a keen interest in 9. …………… .
Dettori now lives in the UK with his wife and their 10. …………… .

III. For questions 1-5, decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F) according to the recording.
1. Organic farming refrains from using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, and
livestock feed additives.
2. Organic farming advocates for the utilization of renewable resources and the practice of recycling.
3. The absence of human-made pesticides increases the vulnerability of organic vegetables, making them
more prone to damage.
4. Organic farming exhibits superior land productivity in comparison to conventional methods.
5. Organic farming mitigates the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides, thereby preserving resources
and curbing pollution.

IV. For questions 1-5, choose the correct letter (A, B, C, or D) which best fits each sentence.
1. Ella suggests that her interest in lighting started with
 A. the lights she once saw at a theatre show.
B. an outstanding light show at a rock concert.
C. the effects of a fireworks display.
2. Ella says that the work of theatre lighting technicians
A. can vary according to the director they're working with.
B. can be more complex than she'd initially realised.
C. can be important for people's understanding of a play.
3. Ella thinks that members of a theatre audience
A. only really notice the lighting when something goes wrong.
B. generally appreciate what good lighting adds to a performance.
C. rarely react to lighting effects.
4. Ella mentions an early lighting plan she made at school that
A. relied on technology that the school didn't have.
B. was too difficult for anyone to follow.
C. overlooked a key point about the play it was intended for.
5. During her research into theatre lighting, Ella
A. felt disappointed to find that she knew so little about it.
B. was impressed at what theatres achieved before using electricity.
C. wondered whether modern lighting has spoilt the atmosphere in theatres.
6. After seeing the technology available for modern theatre lighting, Ella
A. is excited by the creative possibilities it offers.
B. thinks it has made a technician's job easier than it used to be.
C. has realised it's important not to use it unnecessarily.
7. What does Ella feel might be a disadvantage of the job?
A. It will probably always involve long hours.
B. She may never become famous for what she does.
C. It could take her years to reach the top of her profession.

PART II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (30 points)

I. For questions 1-20, choose the correct word or phrase to complete each sentence. (20 points)
1. Were you on the ________ when you said you had resigned from work?
A. wagon B. level C. flat D. town
2. I left the house in a hurry and my bedroom was ________ with clothes.
A. scattered B. dispersed C. strewn D. sprinkled
3. Most people feel a slight _______of nostalgia as they think back on their schooldays.
A. feeling B. surge C. pang D. chain
4. The matter has been left in _______until the legal ramifications have been explored.
A. recess B. suspension C. abeyance D. criticism
5. It was an extremely hostile article which cast ___on the conduct of the entire cabinet.
A. criticism B. aspersions C. disapproval D. abuse
6. Take the doctor's advice into consideration. He's in ____ earnest about the epidemic.
A. deadly B. fatally C. gravely D. mortally
7. The increasing popularity of the telephone has been rather _____to the art of letter writing.
A. negative B. detrimental C. destructive D. prejudicial
8. He waited in the ________ for the front door to open.
A. perch B. threshold C. porch D. crypt
9. As the sky darkened it soon became obvious that a violent thunderstorm was _______.
A. imminent B. instantaneous C. immediate D. eminent
10. If you can win his attention _______ for you.
A. the so much better B. the better so much
C. so much the better D. so the much better
11. His appearance at the reception with the late Mayor’s widow caused something of a __________.
A. confusion B. rumour C. wonder D. stir
12. Certain details in the contract still remain to be ________ out.
A. fluttered B. dealt C. ironed D. borne
13. A boycott of other countries’ sporting events appears a politically more expedient form of protest than
trade _________.
A. treaties B. actions C. blocks D. sanctions
14. The police have been ordered not to ________ if the students attack them.
A. combat B. rebuff C. retaliate D. challenge
15. Parents often have to _______ large amounts of money so that their children can take part in
extracurricular sports activities.
A. mark down B. ring up C. shell out D. stock up
16. The UN has called for an immediate _______ of hostilities.
A. cessation B. cancellation C. deletion D. ceasefire
17. I felt an _______ with the writer from his descriptions of a world that seemed to have a great deal in
common with my own.
A. affection B. adherence C. acknowledgement D. affinity
18. The book _______ to a number of interesting research studies which I would really like to find out
more about.
A. hints B. cites C. declares D. alludes
19. Unfortunately, she only had a ________idea of what her husband was doing
A. abstruse B. blurred C. vague D. transparent
20. The high level of air pollution is _______ a result of local factory emissions.
A. plainly B. abruptly C. distinctly D. markedly

II. For questions 21-30, write the correct form of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided (10 points)
1. Hostels are used as a _____________ until the families can find permanent accommodation. (STOP)
2. For many people, social networking offers them the feeling of __________from the real world.
(ESCAPE)
3. The meeting has been ___________ arranged for 3pm next Friday. (PROVIDE)
4. ____________ is sometimes said to be more characteristic of women than men but I think that this is a
false stereotype. (FICKLE)
5. The boy’s ____________ behavior was the primary reason for which he was expelled from school.
(OBJECT)
6. The Ministry of education and training decided to organize a/an____________ football championship to
create a common playground for all students. (COLLEGE)
7. A ____________ vehicle, like a family car, is a vehicle that is used strictly for transportation purposes.
(COMMERCE)
8 The business decided to concentrate on ____________ and soft drinks. (CONFECT)
9. The existence of a so-called ____________happiness gap is so well established that recently social
scientists have mostly tried to explain it. (IDEA)
10. The ship is an exact _____________ of the original Golden Hind. (REPLY)

PART III. READING (60 points)

1. Choose the words that best complete the sentences in the text. (10 points)
Public opinion polls show that crime is viewed as one of the most serious problems of many societies. Yet,
___________ (1) studies have revealed that the ___________ (2) of violent crime is ___________ (3).
Our peculiar awareness and fear is largely brought about by the great attention it is ___________ (4) in the
mass media and also because of violent crime being a popular theme for television series and films.
Among all crimes, murder makes the ___________ (5) and there is little doubt that homicides still continue
to be a ___________ (6) question in a number of countries. The various causes of severe crime are being
constantly ___________ (7) and innumerable reasons for it are being pointed out. Among these are
unemployment, drug___________ (8), inadequate police enforcement, ineffective courts, racial
discrimination, television and the general decline in social values.
An acknowledged fact is that it is mainly poverty that ___________ (9) crime. Individuals incapable of
securing for themselves and their families the rudimentary means of living unavoidably take to stealing,
burgling or committing other offences. We may try to explain crime on different ___________ (10)
cultural, economic, psychological or political, but criminologists are still far from detecting the exact
source of violent offences as the direct link between these particular factors isn't possible to specify.
(source: English Advanced Vocabulary and structures – Test 17 – Page 92)
1. A. pervading B. infiltrating C. examining D. penetrating
2. A. quantity B. deal C. amount D. figure
3. A. outspoken B. overestimated C. presupposed D. upgraded
4. A. granted B. awarded C. devoted D. entrusted
5. A. headlines B. titles C. captions D. broadcast
6. A. burdening B. obstructing C. nagging D. contending
7. A. debated B. conversed C. uttered D. articulated
8. A. escalation B. abuse C. maltreatment D. disuse
9. A. rears B. nurtures C. breeds D. urges
10. A. motives B. arguments C. reasons D. grounds
II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each
space. (10 points)
SUSHI CHEF
Kazutoshi Endo has been making the Japanese fish and rice delicacy known as sushi for thirteen
years. Yet he wants to (1)_______ it clear that he is still very much a beginner. In fact, he is quite adamant
about it, (2) _______ being head sushi chef at one of London's leading Japanese restaurants.
Endo comes from a hard-working family in the port city of Yokohama and is a third generation sushi chef.
Although as a child he was not encouraged to follow (3) _______his father’s footsteps, and actually trained
to be a PE teacher instead, it was always Endo's ambition to do so. Yet he was never taught what to do.
The (4)________ you learn in Japan is to watch. Some chefs spend three years washing sushi rice, whilst
(5) ________the same time watching their masters at work.
It takes some concentration to keep an eye on Endo's hands as he makes sushi, however. All it takes is just
a (6) ____ quick cuts with his knife and a neat pile of perfectly sliced octopus sits on the counter. A sushi
roll
may look (7) ________ a piece of rice, but apparently it takes years to get the touch, to be (8) ________to
roll rice (9) ________ exactly the right amount of pressure. As Endo says: 'Sushi (10) ________ to be
mastered. I can't explain the process in words.
(source: Cambridge English Advanced – Test 3 – Page 65)
III. Read an extract from an article 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. (10 points)
Super memorisers
There are people in this world who are innately possessed of an ability to remember things with quite
an extraordinary degree of detail and exactness. These super memorisers, as they are known, typically
possess a brain naturally and distinctively wired to maximize its memorizing potential. They are gifted
such that they require no particular training or effort to sharpen their memories; they remember things just
as effortlessly as most people forget them. Few of us are born with such gifts, sadly, but there is much
cause for optimism yet for those looking to improve their brain’s performance tangibly in this area; a fact
which Boris Konrad is testament to.
Konrad is a champion memoriser who, in winning gold in the German Memory Championships one
year recognized and recalled the names of 195 people in just fifteen minutes. [■] His powers of
recollection, then, are as admirable as they are undisputed, but Konrad is self-trained and started out with a
recall capacity that was unremarkable. [■] Instead, he spent years developing memory strategies and
employing those strategies to improve in the area through practice and dedication. [■] He, then, is a living
proof that the average Joe with a gift for forgetfulness can reinvent himself in the area. [■]However, his
example is as much a reminder of the extent of devotion that is required to reach this level as it is of the
possibilities if one is prepared to put in the effort, and there are not many people prepared to expend a
similar level of effort to this end, which is what really makes Konrad unique.
That said, whilst you may not become a super memoriser overnight, new research suggests that it is
possible to tangibly improve your memory in a relatively short space of time by devoting roughly half an
hour of your every day to the process. It is necessary to learn and employ memorizing strategies such as
the Memory Palace technique Konrad uses, though, to yield such results; otherwise, you might be as well
be doing something else. In one recent study, for example, participants spent one month training their
memories in the aforementioned technique for 30 minutes every day, which more than doubled their ability
to remember list of information after just 40 days. More impressively, recall performance remained high
whether or not training continued at the end of one month, which suggests after rewiring of the brain can
be permanent.
Even innately gifted memorisers use such mnemonic techniques to enhance their recall ability, and,
of the recall methods which exist, the methods of loci, which has already been referred to here as the
Memory Palace method, is the most prevalent one adopted as revealed by a recent study of 35 memory
champions. Indeed, at a more rudimentary level, this method has been employed by orators and others
required to remember long strings of interconnected information for some time, and it actually dates back
to Ancient Greece, where it was first conceived of, remaining prevalent right through to the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance. It is only a new method then, today, in the sense that the skill had been lost as such to
most people for a very long time. Indeed, many of today’s super memorisers employed it intuitively rather
than in a conscious effort to enhance their recall powers.
Participants in the study was separated into three distinct groups, with one group receiving no
memory training whatsoever and making no notable recall gains during the process. The second group
dedicated time and effort to upping their recall capacity, but employed an everyday technique. However,
those using the Memory Palate technique more than doubled their initial recall capacity by the process’s
end. What’s more, their brain functions actually changed and their brain patterns began to bear more of a
likeness to those of innate super memorisers, leading researchers to speculate that a total rewire might well
be possible over time, such that a normal individual’s recall capacity could match that of any memory
champion. The conclusion, therefore, was that memory is not necessarily an innately bestowed gift you
either are possessed of or not. Most of us have the potential to hone and expand our memories very
meaningfully indeed.
1. According to the first paragraph, people with marvelous power of retention usually _______
A. undergo rigorous practice to become that way.
B. demonstrate brain functions resembling anyone else.
C. throw in little effort to commit things to memory.
D. be tangibly more intelligent than other people.
2. Why are Konrad’s achievements mentioned in paragraph two?
A. To underline the excellence of inborn super memorisers
B. To demonstrate the disparity between laymen and super memorisers
C. To prove that almost every individual can make a significant enhancement in their retention powers
D. To show how even innate super memorisers have to exert themselves
3. What does the writer mean in the phrase ‘you might as well be doing something else’ in paragraph
three?
A. It is futile to invest time in improving recall capacity.
B. People should concentrate on their strengths.
C. The Memory Palace technique is not universally suitable.
D. Progress is only visible if you train in the right way.
4. What did the study mentioned in the third paragraph conclude?
A. The implication of moderate brain exercises can be enduring.
B. The maintenance of a decent recall capacity requires continuous training.
C. Your recall ability can more than double within one month.
D. Progress is only noticeable with at least 30 minutes spent on brain training.
5. What do we learn about the method of loci?
A. It is superior to the Memory Palace method.
B. Most skillful memorisers purposefully adopt it.
C. It has evolved from methods first employed in Ancient Greece.
D. It has been widely used among super memorisers.
6. What did the results of the study mentioned in the final paragraph reveal?
A. How the brains of super memorisers function is inimitable.
B. The application of appropriate technique exerts a tremendous influence on the brain.
C. Memory training is futile unless employing a confirmed technique.
D. Most super memorisers are not talented at memorizing at birth.
7. The word "mnemonic techniques” in paragraph 4 mostly means _______
A. gimmicks used to improve brain functions.
B. endowed talents of super memorisers.
C. tips specifically designed to aid the process of retaining information.
D. skills adopted by super memorisers to avoid absent-mindedness.
8. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
Indeed, after just 30 seconds, examination, he is able to retain the order of an entire deck of cards.
Where would the sentence best fit?
A. First square B. Second square
C. Third square D. Fourth square
9. The word "orators” in paragraph 4 mostly means _______
A. language experts. B. body language experts.
C. oral students. D. proficient speakers.
10. The paragraph following the passage would most probably discuss _______
A. further research into the workings of brains of super memorisers.
B. the defeat of a normal person over a super memoriser in terms of recalling capacity.
C. potential ways to expand our power of retention.
D. the popularity of memory palace technique.
IV. Read the passage and do the following tasks. Write your answers in the corresponding
numbered boxes provided. (10 points)
PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
A. Our daily lives are largely made up of contacts with other people, during which we are constantly
making judgments of their personalities and accommodating our behaviour to them in accordance with
these judgments. A casual meeting of neighbours on the street, an employer giving instructions to an
employee, a mother telling her children how to behave, a journey in a train where strangers eye one
another without exchanging a word – all these involve mutual interpretations of personal qualities.
B. Success in many vocations largely depends on skill in sizing up people. It is important not only to such
professionals as the clinical psychologist, the psychiatrist or the social worker, but also to the doctor or
lawyer in dealing with their clients, the businessman trying to outwit his rivals, the salesman with potential
customers, the teacher with his pupils, not to speak of the pupils judging their teacher. Social life, indeed,
would be impossible if we did not, to some extent, understand, and react to the motives and qualities of
those we meet; and clearly we are sufficiently accurate for most practical purposes, although we also
recognize that misinterpretations easily arise – particularly on the pare of others who judge us!
C. Errors can often be corrected as we go along. But whenever we are pinned down to a definite decision
about a person, which cannot easily be revised through his ‘feed-back’, the inadequacies of our judgments
become apparent. The hostess who wrongly thinks that the Smiths and the Joneses will get on well together
can do little to retrieve the success of her party. A school or a business may be saddled for years with an
undesirable member of staff because the selection committee which interviewed him for a quarter of an
hour misjudged his personality.
D. Just because the process is so familiar and taken for granted, it has aroused little scientific curiosity until
recently. Dramatists, writers and artists throughout the centuries have excelled in the portrayal of character,
but have seldom stopped to ask how they, or we, get to know people, or how accurate is our knowledge.
However, the popularity of such unscientific systems as Lavater’s physiognomy in the eighteenth century,
Gall’s phrenology in the nineteenth, and of handwriting interpretations by graphologists, or palm-readings
by Gypsies, shows that people are aware of weaknesses in their judgments and desirous of better methods
of diagnosis. It is natural that they should turn to psychology for help, in the belief that psychologists are
specialists in ‘human nature’.
E. This belief is hardly justified: for the primary aim of psychology had been to establish the general laws
and principles underlying behaviour and thinking, rather than to apply these to concrete problems of the
individual person. A great many professional psychologists still regard it as their main function to study the
nature of learning, perception and motivation in the abstracted or average human being, or in lower
organisms, and consider it premature to put so young a science to practical uses. They would disclaim the
possession of any superior skill in judging their fellow-men. Indeed, being more aware of the difficulties
than is the non-psychologist, they may be more reluctant to commit themselves to definite predictions or
decisions about other people. Nevertheless, to an increasing extent psychologists are moving into
educational, occupational, clinical and other applied fields, where they are called upon to use their
expertise for such purposes as fitting the education or job to the child or adult, and the person to the job.
Thus, a considerable proportion of their activities consists of personality assessment.
F. The success of psychologists in personality assessment has been limited, in comparison with what they
have achieved in the fields of abilities and training, with the result that most people continue to rely on
unscientific methods of assessment. In recent times there has been a tremendous amount of work on
personality tests, and on carefully controlled experimental studies of personality. Investigations of
personality by Freudian and other ‘depth’ psychologists have an even longer history. And yet psychology
seems to be no nearer to providing society with practicable techniques which are sufficiently reliable and
accurate to win general acceptance. The soundness of the methods of psychologists in the field of
personality assessment and the value of their work are under constant fire from other psychologists, and it
is far from easy to prove their worth.
G. The growth of psychology has probably helped responsible members of society to become more aware
of the difficulties of assessment. But it is not much use telling employers, educationists and judges how
inaccurately they diagnose the personalities with which they have to deal unless psychologists are sure that
they can provide something better. Even when university psychologists themselves appoint a new member
of staff, they almost always resort to the traditional techniques of assessing the candidates through
interviews, past records, and testimonials, and probably make at least as many bad appointments as other
employers do. However, a large amount of experimental development of better methods has been carried
out since 1940 by groups of psychologists in the Armed Services and in the Civil Service, and by such
organizations as the (British) National Institute of Industrial Psychology and the American Institute of
Research.
Questions 1-7:
There are seven paragraphs marked A-G in the passage. Choose the correct heading for each paragraph
from the list below.
List of Headings
i The advantage of an intuitive approach to personality assessment
ii Overall theories of personality assessment rather than valuable guidance
iii The consequences of poor personality assessment
iv Differing views on the importance of personality assessment
v Success and failure in establishing an approach to personality assessment
vi Everyone makes personality assessment
 vii Acknowledgement of the need for improvement in personality assessment
viii Little progress towards a widely applicable approach to personality assessment
ix The need for personality assessment to be well judged
x The need for a different kind of research into personality assessment
1. Paragraph A
2. Paragraph B
3. Paragraph C
4. Paragraph D
5. Paragraph E
6. Paragraph F
7. Paragraph G
Questions 8-10:
Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer?
Write
YES if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NO if the statement reflects the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
8. Unscientific systems of personality assessment have been of some use.
9. It is likely that some psychologists are no better than anyone else at assessing personality.
10. Research since 1940 has been based on acceptance of previous theories.

V. Read the text below and choose the correct answer. Options may be chosen more than once.
Roland Paoletti
An architect who revolutionized the lives of London’s commuters.
A
Roland Paoletti was the driving force behind the dramatic, award-winning stations on the £3 billion Jubilee
Line Extension (JLE) to the London Underground system, the most ambitious building programme on the
Tube for many decades. An irascible Anglo-Italian, Paoletti possessed the persuasiveness and tenacity to
take on the vested political interests at play in the planning of the 10-mile Jubilee Line Extension to ensure
good design and innovation. Historically, architects employed on Tube projects had been restricted to
‘fitting out’ the designs of railway and civil engineers with few or no aesthetic concerns, and whom
Paoletti dismissed as visionless ‘trench-diggers. The Jubilee line would be unique in that for the first time
the architects would be responsible for designing entire underground stations.
B
As the commissioning architect in overall charge, Paoletti’s approach was to let light flood down into the
stations along the line. The project’s centrepiece was the extraordinary huge new station at Canary Wharf,
designed by Norman Foster and Partners to handle up to 40,000 passengers an hour at peak times.
‘Everybody keeps saying that it’s like a cathedral; complained Paoletti.‘They’re wrong. It actually is a
cathedral: Explaining his approach to designing underground stations, Paoletti likened the Jubilee line to
architectural free-form jazz, the stations responding to their different contexts as dramatic variations on a
theme. Instead of uniformity, Paoletti envisaged variety achieved in the beauty of raw materials like
concrete, and the architectural power of simple, large spaces for robust and practical stations.
C
He procured the most talented individual architects he could find to design 11 new stations along the line,
creating a unique variety of architectural statement pieces – notably different but all beautiful – in what had
been a largely desolate stretch of urban east London.‘For the price of an underground ticket; he promised,
‘you will see some of the greatest contributions to engineering and architecture worldwide’ Paoletti’s
sweeping vision did not disappoint. With their swagger and individualism, the stations have been widely
acclaimed as a tour de force in public transport architecture.
D
In pressing for a seamless marriage between architecture and engineering, Paoletti was concerned to make
the stations pleasing to the eye, and the daily grind of commuters using them as uplifting an experience as
possible. The result was generally reckoned to be the finest set of stations since the classic designs for the
Piccadilly line by Charles Holden in the 1930s. In Holden’s day, design stopped at the top of the escalators
leading down to the platforms, a symptom of the Tube’s tradition of treating architecture and engineering
as separate disciplines. From the start, Paoletti promised ‘a symbiosis of architecture and engineering’
throughout. This is particularly evident at Westminster station, where Michael Hopkins solved structural
difficulties by designing fantastic supporting structures redolent of science-fiction – what Paoletti called
‘engineering that expresses itself as architecture… in which people can delight.’
E
He wanted the designs of the JLE stations to have a uniformity of voice, or, as he put it, ‘a philosophical
uniformity’. Paoletti contrasted the drama of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s design for Southwark
station with the vast glass drum of Ron Herron’s Canada Water station, intended as a response to the area’s
bleakness, ‘a big, splendid beacon that has transformed the area from a wasteland almost overnight’ To
critics who complained about the expense of these grand designs, Paoletti pointed out that the same cut-
and-cover, box-station design that allowed his architects a free hand with their various structures also
saved London Underground millions in tunnelling costs. ‘In any case, he noted, ‘you have to decide at the
beginning whether you’re going to see an underground station as a kind of vehicular underpass that
happens to have people in it, or whether it’s a building; a building with some other kind of job to do, like
making people comfortable.’
(Source: https://engxam.com/handbook/practice-test-reading-part-8-multiple-matching-c1-advanced-cae/)

In which section of the article are the following mentioned?

Questions Section
1. the previously unattractive nature of the locations of most of the stations.
2. a comparison Paoletti made to illustrate his approach to the JLE project.
3. the immediate and massive effect that one of the stations had on its surroundings.
4. a description that Paoletti considered not to be wholly accurate
5. a fundamental question concerning the function of stations in underground systems.
6. an explanation Paoletti gave for why certain comments about the new buildings were
incorrect.
7. Paoletti’s desire to unite elements that had previously been seen as wholly different
from each other.
8. personal qualities that enabled Paoletti to tackle the JLE project successfully.
9. parts of a station architects were not responsible for in the past.
10. Paoletti’s opinion of those previously responsible for designing stations.

PART IV: WRITING

I. Describe a graph (20 points)
The chart below gives information on the percentage of British people taking holidays at home, abroad, or both, or no
holidays for the years 2014 and 2015.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
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II. Write an essay (40 points)

“Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important
professions.” Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair. Discuss both these
views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or
experience.”
Write at least 250 words.

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