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TRAFFIC IN LONDON
When cars first replaced horses in London, everyone was pleased. Thank goodness, the streets would no longer be full of smelly excrements. But Londoners have changed their minds about cars since then. In February 2003, in fact, the city introduced a plan to cut traffic and make it a nicer place to live in. All motorists coming into the capital between 7.00 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. have to pay a ₤5 admission fee.
The success of this system is highly unexpected. It was introduced by the Mayor, Ken Livingstone, in the face of opposition from business leaders, politicians, and a lot of people who just love their cars. Business leaders claimed that their companies would suffer, while politicians said it would unfairly penalise various groups. Even the Government took an attitude of wait and see. Against predictions, private traffic is now down by 20 per cent, while fees and fines provide ₤130 million each year for improving public transport.
In order to sell this plan to the public, you cannot just introduce it, you have to get people to accept it. If you ask motorists directly, they say no, but if you put it in a package with a reduction in the price of petrol, or in a package including better roads and better public transport, a majority of motorists will support it.
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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why do you think Londoners have changed their minds about cars since they replaced horses in their city?
2) How does this system help public transport? (Give two reasons)
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWER WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) If motorists want to drive into London between 7.00 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., they are charged some money.
4) The Government agreed to support this plan introduced by the Mayor.
5) In spite of this plan, traffic has not decreased in London.
6) Most motorists will support the plan if it is combined with other measures.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Give one opposite for PLEASED (adjective) (line 1) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text the word that has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“Sum of money paid as punishment for breaking a law or rule”
9) Give one adjective with the same root as SUCCESS (noun) (line 5) (0.25 points)
10) Give one noun with the same root as IMPROVE (verb) (line 10) (0.25 points)
11) Turn the following sentence into the active voice: (0.5 points)
The scheme had been introduced by the Mayor, Ken Livingstone.
12) Complete the following sentence: If I were a driver, … (0.5 points)
13) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
In 2001 the councillor said: “The city will launch a radical traffic plan next February”
14) Give a question for the underlined words: (0.5 points)
This system has been running for two years.
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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS). Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Give reasons for and against reducing traffic in the city centre.
b) Would you like to be a politician? Why?
COMING DOWN TO EARTH
A hot shower and a new wife helped two astronauts come down to earth Thursday after six months in orbit. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and U.S. astronaut Edward Lu landed in Kazakhstan after an unproblematic flight from the International Space Station. The crew, accompanied by Spaniard Pedro Duque, who was on a one-week mission, arrived as planned.
Lu said the exciting life on the 16-nation orbital platform had amply compensated for not enjoying common comforts. "It's a small price to pay not to be able to eat your favorite food or take a shower if you have the opportunity to live and work in space," he told a news conference. "But that being said, that first hot shower felt really good."
Having married his fiancée Ekaterina Dmitriev in August via a satellite video link from space, Malenchenko went straight into married life enthusiastically. "Life continues on earth and we've got lots of plans," he said.
The astronauts said they had been able to keep in touch with their families from the station via e-mail and video telephone. "I missed my family and fiancée, but we had very good communications on board and we were able to talk," said Lu. "I didn't feel very much separated from my loved ones on the ground."
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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) How different was daily life on board the Space Station?
2) How did the astronauts manage not to miss their families very much? (Give two reasons)
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Pedro Duque was in orbit for six months.
4) The orbital platform was exclusively a Russian and American enterprise.
5) Living in the orbital platform was so stimulating that astronauts could manage without ordinary comforts.
6) The Russian astronaut got married while in space.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Give one opposite for EXCITING (adjective) (line 5) (0.25 points)
8) Give one synonym for CONTINUE (verb) (line 9) (0.25 points)
9) Find in the text the word which has the following definition:
“a group of people working on a spaceship” (noun) (0.25 points)
10) Give an adjective with the same root as ENJOY (verb) (line 5) (0.25 points)
11) Give a question for the underlined words: (0.5 points)
Edward Lu met his fiancée after Christmas.
12) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without changing their form. (0.5 points)
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13) Turn the following sentence into passive:
The astronauts are giving the journalists a lot of information (0.5 points)
14) Complete the following conditional sentence: If I ever went to space… (0.5 points)
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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Are dangerous professions attractive for young people today? Why?
b) Do you like science fiction stories/films? Why?
NEXT STOP: MARS
People have been walking on the surface of Mars for more than a century, in fantasy. Now, however, the possibility is so real that many people think the question is not whether humans will go to Mars, but when they will go, how they will get there and who will go first.
Although there is growing agreement that reaching Mars will be some kind of multinational effort, a prosperous nation, like the United States, seems capable of such an achievement by itself. For the US it is a political priority. The cost of the project has been estimated at $60 billion, about double the price of the Apollo Moon project.
Of all the other planets in the solar system, Mars is the most like Earth. With about half the Earth's diameter, with one third of the gravity and only one percent of the atmosphere, space vehicles have found that Mars hides an important amount of water under its surface and in its frozen poles. While Venus is closer, with an average temperature of about 850 degrees, it is hostile.
From the presence of water and a relatively moderate climate comes another powerful attraction. The fascination with Mars centres around the issue of life. Mars is key to answering that critical question: Is there life somewhere other than on Earth?
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(A) COMPREHENSION (3 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Is reaching Mars only a scientific challenge? Why?
2) What is the most interesting reason for exploring Mars?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Mankind has actually set foot on Mars.
4) Reaching Mars can cost as much as reaching the moon.
5) Mars is the same size as the Earth.
6) Venus’s climate is gentle.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“a plan for work or activity of any kind” (noun)
8) Find in the text one opposite for FRIENDLY (adjective). (0.25 points)
9) Give a noun with the same root as POLITICAL (adjective). (0.25 points)
10) Give one synonym for PROSPEROUS (line 5) (adjective). (0.25 points)
11) Join the following sentences using a relative pronoun. Make changes if necessary.(0.5 points)
A dog was sent into space in 1957. Its name was Laika.
12) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice: (0.5 points)
We are going to invite Dr Livingstone to participate in the project.
13) Rewrite the sentence without changing its meaning. Begin as indicated. (0.5 points)
African countries are too poor to build a space station.
African countries aren’t …
14) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without changing their form. (0.5 points)
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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Should the money of the Mars project go to poor countries? Why?
b) Do you believe there is life outside our planet? Why?
SMOKING IN ASIA
While tobacco companies face restrictions in Europe and USA, tobacco consumption in many Asian countries is on the increase. Smoking American or European cigarettes is seen as fashionable. A few Asian governments have followed the example of Western nations: tobacco advertising on television and radio has been forbidden. However, the tobacco companies still find ways to get their message to the people of these extremely populated countries.
While adult males have been the most common smokers in Asia, advertising aimed particularly at women and young people is trying to change that. Growing numbers of Asian women see smoking as a sign of their liberation. The multinational tobacco companies say that they do not intend to promote smoking among non-smokers in Asia. Instead, they say that they want Asian smokers to change their favourite kind of cigarettes. The evidence suggests the opposite, however. It was precisely in Hong Kong, where few women smoked, that the American company S&M introduced their “Victoria Slims”, a cigarette brand aimed at women.
Doctors and scientists are concerned about how smoking will affect the health of the Asian people. Scientists estimate that because of the rising tobacco consumption in Asia, the annual worldwide number of deaths due to tobacco will triple over the next two or three decades.
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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why is Asia an attractive market for tobacco multinationals?
2) Why did S&M introduce their Virginia Slims in Hong Kong?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Asian governments haven’t done anything to control tobacco consumption.
4) It is impossible for tobacco companies to advertise their products in Asia.
5) Women are an attractive part of the tobacco market.
6) The deaths due to smoking will triple only in Asia.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“the commercial name of a product” (noun)
8) Which word does not have the same meaning? (0.25 points)
SUGGEST PROPOSE SUPPOSE ADVISE
9) Give a noun with the same root as WIDE (adjective). (0.25 points)
10) Fill in the gap with a correct preposition. (0.25 points)
More people get angry ________ smokers in western countries.
11) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice: (0.5 points)
“American companies have introduced a new product in Asia”.
12) Complete the following conditional sentence: “If tobacco were more expensive... (0.5 points)
13) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
She said: “Don’t smoke if you want to save money.”
14) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without changing their form (0.5 points)
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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Suggest new ideas to make people smoke less.
b) Which foreign country would you like to visit? Why?
WEB PIRATES
Internet users who distribute movies before they are sold in shops could face up to five years in prison under a proposed USA bill, that is to say, a plan for a new law. Video recording of movies in cinemas would also be prohibited. Those supporting the proposal say unauthorised copying costs film-makers an estimated $3 billion in lost sales.
The Motion Picture Association of America has tried to restrict the distribution of DVD previews to judges in film festivals. Illegal copies of movies end up being sold on street corners and made available through online networks just after they are shown in cinemas for the first time. This is due to audience members entering cameras into theatres and recording the film. If the bill becomes law, the maximum sentence for such practices will be five years plus financial damages.
Unauthorised video recording in cinemas is currently a crime in four states and the District of Columbia but it is legal in other states. “The person who puts online copyrighted material which is not legally available to the public should be penalized,” said California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein. The law proposal has received strong support from the movie and music industries. They also hope to have permission to explore personal computers to search for illegal material.
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(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) What is the bill against?
2) How do web pirates get illegal copies of movies?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Film makers lose $3 billion due to illegal copying.
4) Web pirates could be imprisoned and sentenced to pay a sum of money.
5) Video recording in cinemas is illegal all over the United States.
6) The movie and music industries are examining personal computers to find illegal material.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Give one opposite for PROHIBIT (verb) (line 3) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text a synonym for PUNISHED (verb) (0.25 points)
9) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“accessible and capable of being used” (adjective)
10) Give a noun with the same root as RESTRICT (verb) (line 5) (0.25 points)
11) Join the following sentences using a relative pronoun. Make changes if necessary.(0.5 points)
Jane Halifax is the president of the committee. She does not support the proposal.
12) Turn the following sentence into active: (0.5 points)
Many illegal copies are being sold on street corners.
13) Complete the following sentence: If George had been a film star, … (0.5 points)
14) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
Last week Julia said: “We will meet our new instructor tomorrow”
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(C) PRODUCTION (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 WORDS) Choose ONE of the following options. Specify your option.
a) Advantages and disadvantages of the Internet.
b) Would you buy an illegal copy of a film or music album? Why?
MOBILE PHONES
Mobile phones are not a luxury item anymore. While they have improved people’s lives, they have some drawbacks and we need to be careful about when and where they should be used. Admittedly, they facilitate communication with other people anywhere at any time. Parents feel more relaxed knowing their children can get in touch with them immediately if they need help, and emergency services can be called without delay when there has been an accident. Advanced features such as e-mail services and image messaging are packed into extremely light and tiny models that fit into your pocket.
Yet mobile phones can be a serious threat to health, for children in particular. Experts warn that the radiation of this type of phones can cause headaches and affect your memory in a negative way, although this has not been proved convincingly. What is more, people who use a mobile phone while driving constitute a danger to others and to themselves and sometimes have had fatal accidents. Besides this, what for many people is a useful device can be a nuisance for others, who are always complaining about the constant ringing tones in public places. Some people even claim that mobile phones should carry health warnings as packets of cigarettes do.
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(A) COMPREHENSION (3 points) |
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Is it true that mobile phones are dangerous for health? Why?
2) Why have some people died while using a mobile phone?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Mobile phones have reduced their size considerably.
4) Mobile phones can be risky for children.
5) Everybody is satisfied with this new device.
6) Mobile phones display health warnings.
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
7) Find in the text a word meaning
“great comfort and pleasure of expensive and beautiful things” (noun) (0.25 points)
8) Find in the text an opposite for HEAVY (adjective) (0.25 points)
9) Give one opposite for HEALTH (noun) (0.25 points)
10) Complete the series with another word of the same semantic group (0.25 points)
headache, backache, stomach-ache…
11) Turn the following sentence into reported speech: (0.5 points)
She said: “We’ll go and get some food.”
12) Use the words in the boxes to make a meaningful sentence. Use all and only the words in the boxes without changing their form. (0.5 points)
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13) Turn the following sentence into the passive voice: (0.5 points)
The traffic warden gave the driver a ticket.
14) Complete the following conditional sentence: (0.5 points)
“If I didn’t have a mobile phone…”
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(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points) |
15) Write a composition (80-100 words). Choose one of the following options. Specify your option.
a) How have new technologies changed our lives?
b) Could you live without a mobile phone? Why?
“THE BIG BOTTLE”
In Spanish cities, at night, crowds of young people wander the streets in search of a party, meeting their friends and stopping to drink. When a large mass of people get together, a party spontaneously breaks out. This phenomenon, translated into English as booze-up or binge-drinking, is perceived by local governments as a social problem because it is impossible to predict where it will take place and because drinkers are as young as 12. In addition, now it has become fashionable to compete for the biggest national drinking party, as cities from Málaga to Madrid and Barcelona to Bilbao try to outdo one another by organizing the largest gathering. Word is spread by e-mail
and text messages, and teenagers crowd into city centres, armed with bottles of soft drinks generously mixed with alcohol.
City councils are very cautious about calling in the police for fear that drunken youths will turn to violence. The Government has tried to introduce emergency legislation but this is unlikely to have much impact, because, across Spain, regional authorities have set different minimum ages to buy alcohol.
Despite Spain’s reputation for civilised Mediterranean drinking habits, “the big bottle” leaves city centres full of rubbish, and residents, who have been kept up all night, furious. Under-age drinkers claim that this way they can enjoy a night out for as little as 6 euros a night, whereas bars are too expensive.
(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)
a) ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-2 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN
WORDS. (1 point per answer)
1) Why is ”the big bottle” an informal party? (Give two reasons)
2) How do these parties affect residents? (Name two ways)
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR
PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0.5 points per answer)
3) Local authorities think very favourably of “the big bottle”.
4) Drinking parties of this type have been organized by Spanish cities for many years.
5) The police are afraid teenagers will become violent.
6) There is a single policy regarding “the big bottle” in Spain.
(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)
7) Find in the text the word which has the following definition: (0.25 points)
“to walk around without a particular destination” (verb)
8) Give one opposite for BREAK (verb) (l. 2). (0.25 points)
9) Find in the text one synonym for LITTER (noun) (0.25 points)
10) Complete the series with another word of the same semantic group. (0.25 points)
CROWD, PARTY, GATHERING,
11) Join the following sentences using an appropriate linker (do not use AND or BUT).Make changes if necessary. (0.5 points)
The Government has a good reputation. It has not solved the problem yet.
12) Fill in the gap with a correct form of the verb in brackets. (0.5 points)
He shouldn’t (go) to that party yesterday.
The renewable power industry has warned that it needs £500m from the government over the next two years in order to meet future energy demands. Half of this amount of money will be used for developing wind power generation by installing wind turbines in the sea, while the rest will go to making wind and tidal power generation commercially profitable, because up to now it has only seen an experimental development.
This call for a large injection of public money was made by RenewableUK, a group previously known as the British Wind Energy Association, in a presentation to the energy minister, David Kidney. RenewableUK pointed to the example of Denmark as a country that had benefited from giving strong support to this new green industry for the development of wind energy generation projects. Denmark invested £1.3bn into this sector, and as a result of this investment, renewable energy industries in Denmark are now producing benefits of £2.3bn annually.
RenewableUK is also asking for £30m for research to resolve conflicts with the aviation sector, which is said to be contrary to the installation of wind turbines because they consider they might be a problem for the radar devices used in airplane navigation.
Maria McCafferty, chief executive of RenewableUK, admitted that “it is a huge amount of money” at a time when public finances are in the middle of a serious crisis. But she said it would pay dividends for years to come, adding: “The future benefits will be very, very significant and, frankly, I don’t think there is a better option at the moment.”
McCafferty also said that many private companies are planning to invest in the clean technology sectors, not only in wind but also in tidal power generation, which is far behind wind power in commercial terms. There are encouraging signs of interest from important companies such as Siemens of Germany and Vattenfall of Sweden. But
in the meantime, clean energy technologies need the financial help of governments if they want to be competitive in the future.
I * COMPREHENSION (4 points: questions 1-3, 1 point each; 4-5, 0.5 points each)
ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-3 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
1 How will the £500m be spent?
2 Why did RenewableUK use Denmark as an example?
3 Why does the aviation industry oppose widespread wind power generation?
ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
4 This is a good time to ask for a huge financial help from the government.
5 Some big firms are considering the possibility of entering the green energy industry.
II * USE OF ENGLISH (3 points; questions 6-9, 0.25 points each; 10-13, 0.5 points each)
6 FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “the act of putting money into something to make a profit”.
7 WHICH WORD DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME MEANING?: Path / trip / passage / way.
8 GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “encourage” (VERB; LINE 19):
9 FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM / OPPOSITE FOR “honestly” (ADVERB).
10 FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS: “By the time they reach Manchester tomorrow, they ......
(travel) for fourteen hours.”
11 TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE: “Governments are analysing the benefits of green energy”.
12 COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING (CONDITIONAL) SENTENCE: “If we used more green energy ......”.
13 USE THE WORDS IN THE BOXES TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE. USE ALL AND ONLY THE WORDS IN THE BOXES WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM:
to too on exhausted was he go
Where the Third World is first
There are plenty of statistics about childhood in the Third World, showing that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can suffer from a different kind of poverty –of the spirit. For instance, one Western country alone now sees 14,000 attempted suicides every year by children under 15, and one child in five needs professional psychiatric attention.
There are many good things about childhood in the Third World. Take the close and constant interaction between children and their parents, relatives and neighbours. In the West, the very nature of work puts distance between adults and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to do abstract work in offices, shuffling paper to make money mysteriously appear in banks. Instead, the child sees mother and father, relations and neighbours working nearby, and often shares in that work.
A child growing up in this way learns his or her role through participation in the community’s work: helping to dig or build, plant or water, attend to animals or look after babies –rather than through playing with water and sand in kindergarten, building with construction toys, keeping pets or playing with dolls.
Third World children are not usually shut up indoors, still less in highrise apartments. Instead of dangerous roads, "keep-off-the-grass" signs and "don’t speak to strangers", there is often a sense of freedom to wander and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them anxiously from ten floors up.
Of course twelve million children under five still die every year through malnutrition and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all bad.
(A) COMPREHENSION (4 points)
a) ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT USE YOUR OWN WORDS (1 point per answer)
- How does a Third World child learn his or her role in the community?
- What causes the death of more than ten million children in the Third World every year?
b) ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT. (0,5 points per answer)
3. We can hardly find any statistics about childhood in the Third World
4. In Europe less than the sixth part of the children needs to visit a psychiatrist.
5. A child in the West has a more oppressive sense of space and time than a child in the Third World.
6. Several million children under five die of bad feeding and illness in the Third World every year.
(B) USE OF ENGLISH (3 points)
(7) Find in the text the word or group of words with the following definition: (0.25 points)
"take care of"
(8) Find one synonym in the text for FIGHT. (0.25 points)
(9) Fill in the gap with a correct preposition: (0.5 points)
"The industrialized countries are responsible ................ the poverty of the Third World".
(10) Put the following sentence into Reported Speech: (0.5 points)
The old man said to the boy, "Don't speak to strangers."
(11) Put the following sentence into the active voice: (0.5 points)
Third World children are not usually shut up indoors
(12) Give a question for the underlined words: (0.5 points)
Western countries see 14,000 attempted suicides every year.
(13) Use the following words to make a meaningful sentence: (0.5 points)
POOR HELP SUFFER RICH NOT WHO POOR THE DO THE