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SECTION A. LISTENING (3 points)

PART I: 0.1 point for ONE correct answer
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T

PART II: 0.1 point for ONE correct answer

6. B 7. D 8. C 9. D 10. A

PART III: 0.2 point for ONE correct answer

11. Administration 16. the Alps
12. engineering 17. Zanussi
13. Western Europe 18. manufacturing
14. Private Pilot’s License 19. the highest
15. across the Sahara 20. degree

SECTION B. PHONETICS ( 1.0 point)

PART I. Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that of the rest. (0.5x1= 0.5 pt)
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. A

PART II. Choose the word that has a different stress pattern from the others in the group. (0.5x1=0.5 pt)
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. C 5. D

SECTION C. LEXICO AND GRAMMAR (6.0 points)

PART I. For question 1-20, choose the best answer (A, B, C or D) to each of the following questions and
write your answer (A, B, C or D) in the corresponding numbered boxes. (2pts)
0.1 point for ONE correct answer
1. A 5. B 9. D 13. A 17. C

2. D 6. C 10. B 14. B 18. A

3. A 7. B 11. C 15. A 19. B

4. D 8. C 12. B 16. D 20. C

PART II. Fill each gap with the correct form of the words in brackets. (1 pt)
0.1 point for ONE correct answer.
1. invariably 2. updated 3. fatalities 4. provable 5. accompanied
6. stardom 7. overweight 8. acclaimed 9. additives 10. sweeten

PART III . Some of the lines in the following passage are correct, and some have a word which should not be
there. If a line is correct, put a tick () by the number. If a line has a word which should not be there, write
the word by the number. Two examples have been done for you. (1 pt)
0.1 point for ONE correct answer.
line 1 A study into family health conducting in California comes up with some interesting
line 2 conclusions, though these might not be accepted to everybody. The main conclusion is that
line 3 for a family to remain healthy, the relationship between husband and wife plays a major
line 4 role. The perhaps surprising aspect of this research, however, is that statistically the healthy
line 5 family is optimistic, church-going, and leading by a traditional male. And perhaps not so
line 6 surprisingly, what promotes the health of the husband does not necessarily promote the
line 7 health of the wife, and vice versa. For example, when it comes to express emotions, it is
line 8 generally assumed that giving an outlet to feelings is healthy. But according to the study,
line 9 there may be beneficial for one party but not for the other. If the wife talks more than the
line 10 husband does in these situations and gives him feelings of guilty, then he is likely to
line 11 become depressed, whereby if the wife lets the husband dominate the arguments, then she
line 12 in turn will be the one whose mental state will suffer. The study also found that when men
line 13 dominate in domestical arguments, they often end up trying to avoid the real issue or
line 14 become silently and withdraw. This has the effect of making the wife feel anxious and
line 15 depressed. As a person’s mental state is closely linked to their physically well-being, it is
line 16 clear that the dynamics of family relationships help to determine health in general.
Your answer:
Line Mistake Correction Line Mistake Correction
1 conducting conducted 9 beneficial benefits
2 accepted acceptable 10
3 11 guilty guilt
4 12 whereby whereas
5 leading led 13
6 14 domestical domestic
7 15 silently silent
8 express expressing 16 dynamic dynamics

PART IV. Complete each of the following sentences with suitable preposition(s) or particle(s). Write your
answer in the boxes provided. (2 pts)
0.2 point for ONE correct answer.
1. into 2. by 3. out 4. about 5. out/ through
6. down 7. over 8. back 9. aside 10. off

III. READING (5 POINTS)

PART I. For questions 1-10, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each
gap. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes provided.
0.1 point for ONE correct answer.

1. A 2. 3. C 4. 5. D
D A
6. B 7. B 8. D 9. 10. A
C

PART II. Complete the following passage with ONE suitable word. (1 point)
0.1 point for ONE correct answer.
1. for 2. back 3. meant 4. fact 5. its
6. that 7. as 8. private 9. keep 10. can

PART III. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer for each question. (1 point) 0.1 point
for ONE correct answer.
1. A 2. C 3. B 4. D 5. A
6. B 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. D

PART IV. Read the following passage and do the tasks that follow. (2 points)
0.2 point for ONE correct answer.
1. VII 2. II 3. V 4. I 5. VIII
6. VI 7. City 8. Priests 9. Trench 10. Location

IV. WRITING (5 POINTS)

PART I. Finish each of the following sentences in such a way that it means the same as the sentence
printed before it. (0.5 x 2 = 1 pt)
1. We couldn’t have managed without my father’s money.
 If it hadn’t been for my father’s money, we could not have managed.
2. House prices have risen dramatically this year.
 There has been a dramatic rise/increase in the house prices this year.
3. The only thing they didn’t steal was the television.
 They stole everything except for/but/apart from the television...
4. He didn’t succeed in searching for the stolen car.
 He tried in vain to search for the stolen car.
5. She started to clean up the house just after the guests had left.
 No sooner had the guests left than she started to clean up the house.

PART II. Rewrite each of the following sentences so that it means the same as the given one, using the
given words in brackets. Do not change the word. (0.5 x 2 = 1 pt)
1. was nothing whatsoever emergency services could
2. failure to get the job was down to
3. his fake arrogance lay (a) hidden
4. has no drawbacks aside from
5. smelt a rat when he started helping

PART III. Some people think scientific research should focus on solving the unemployment. Others think
that there are more important issues. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
(3 points)
The mark given to part 3 is based on the following criteria:
1. Organization (0.5 pt)
a. Ideas are well organized and presented with coherence, cohesion and unity.
b. The essay is well-structured:
* Introduction is presented with clear thesis statement.
* Body paragraph are written with unity, coherence and cohesion. Each body paragraph must have a topic
sentence and supporting details and examples when necessary.
* Conclusion summarizes the main points and offers personal opinions (prediction, recommendation,
consideration ...) on the issue.
2. Content (1.5 pts)
a. All requirements of the task are sufficiently addressed.
b. Ideas are adequately supported and elaborated with relevant and reliable explanations, examples, evidence....
3. Language use (1.0 pt)
a. Demonstration of a variety of topic-related vocabulary.
b. Excellent use and control of grammatical structures (verb tenses, word forms, voice...) and mechanics
(spelling, punctuations...).

TAPESCRIPTS
Part 1
Guide: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Roman Baths. My name’s Amanda and I’m your guide for
today. Before we begin the tour, I’d like to point out that we have child carriers, free of charge of course, for
those of you with young children [6], and I can see that there are one or two of you here this morning. It might
make things a bit easier for you than using a pushchair. If you don’t want to carry your coats and bags around
with you, there is a cloakroom behind reception where they’ll be quite safe. Also, should anyone want to use the
bathroom, there’s one here in the reception hall opposite the ticket office and another one by the shop where we
end our tour, right by the exit. Having mentioned the shop, I should tell you that it’s full of interesting things for
you to remember your visit by. Posters, postcards, replicas of the gorgon’s head, the haruspex stone and the
statues that you’ll be seeing on your tour. [7] There are also games, books and videos for children, and other
souvenirs.
Our first stop will be the Terrace, where you will get your first view of the baths. Now, the statues that line the
Terrace here are of Roman Emperors, Governors of Britain and various military leaders. These aren’t from
Roman times either. In fact they were sculpted in 1894 especially for the grand opening of the Baths in 1897.
[8] But what you can see from here is only a fraction of the whole Roman Baths site, which stretches below
ground level under the surrounding streets and squares of the town.
While we’re here on the Terrace getting our first look at the baths, let me fill you in on a bit of the history. This
site, with its hot springs, has long been seen as a sacred place, and the first people to build here were the Celts,
and the shrine they built was dedicated to the goddess Sulis. Of course, back in those days they had no way of
explaining how hot water came to be bubbling out of the ground, so they believed it to be the work of the gods.
When the Romans came, they too built a temple here and dedicated it to their goddess, Minerva. [9]
The bath you can see from here is called the Great Bath – not very imaginative, I know, but it is the biggest.
Impressive, isn’t it? At one time it was housed in a huge vaulted hall 40 metres high, which for many people of
the period must have been the largest building they’d ever seen in their lives. The bath itself is 1.6 metres deep,
ideal for bathing, and has steps leading down to the water on all sides. The niches or alcoves you can see all
around the bath would have had benches and possibly small tables for drinks and snacks. Not a bad way to
spend your free time, relax, and tell yourself it’s all good for your health.
Let’s move on to our next stop, the Sacred Spring. This is the heart of the site, where the hot water bubbles up
from the ground at a temperature of 46 degrees centigrade. The water comes up from a depth of between
roughly two and a half thousand and four and a half thousand metres, where geothermal energy raises the water
temperature to between 64 degrees and 96 degrees. Over a million litres of this hot water rise up here every day,
and as well as being hot, the water is rich in minerals and it was thought it would cure various ailments and
illnesses. In fact, people came here from all over the Roman Empire to try out its healing powers. [10]
Before we take a look at the changing rooms and saunas, which are known as the East Baths, and the plunge
pools and heated rooms of the West part of the bath house, we’ll pass through the site of the Temple and the
Temple Courtyard. Here we are. This temple is one of only two known classical Roman temples in Britain. The
other is the Temple of Claudius at Colchester. This temple is said to date from the late first century AD, being
built between 60 and 70 AD. But the original temple has been knocked about and added to over the centuries,
and what you can see here arc just bits of the original temple. Okay, shall we move on?
Part 3
Interviewer: My guest today’s the archaeologist Julian Radwinter, who works at Dunstan University. Julian,
welcome.
Julian: Hi.
Interviewer: Tell us about how you first got involved in archaeology – what attracted you to it.
Julian: Well, it all started when a team of archaeologists came to dig up the field next to my parents’ farm one
summer. It was an exciting prospect for a teenager and despite strict instructions from my father not to make a
nuisance of myself, it wasn’t long before I was roped in to lend a hand – on a purely voluntary basis, of course.
There’s always a need for someone to do the fetching and carrying on such digs – and I was full of questions.
That’s the sort of boy I was, and I guess it broke up the day for those involved in the more tedious work!
Anyway, I was in my element and from then on, there was no question what subject I was going to study at
university. [11]
Interviewer: And does the subject still hold the same fascination?
Julian: Well yes. I mean, on that dig some strangely shaped metal objects were unearthed, clearly carbon
dateable to the time of the buildings they’d already found traces of. But this object didn’t seem to fit in with
anything they’d found. And this is exactly the kind of puzzle that makes the subject so gripping – you have a
fragmented object and some contextual information but clearly pieces of information are missing and need to be
filled in by the archaeologist. [12] You have to make assumptions – interpretations based on the evidence
you’ve got – and that often involves eliminating possibilities – ticking off the things it might be, but clearly
isn’t. At the end of the day it’s still mostly conjecture – so the debate continues.
Interviewer: Do you think archaeology gets the recognition it deserves as a profession?
Julian: Well, people think of archaeology and they think of ancient civilisations, buried treasure and all sorts of
romantic notions, often stemming from the mythology surrounding startling twentieth-century discoveries in the
eastern Mediterranean and the Nile valley. All that’s fueled by the image projected by certain feature films –
that beguile people into the idea that archaeology’s a glamorous discipline. I have no problem with any of that,
but everyday archaeology actually involves a lot of painstaking gathering of data, often in far from romantic
surroundings – you get cold, wet and dirty – and the discoveries are mostly small and cumulative rather than
dramatic [13], which is the point that the world at large really tends to miss. Nonetheless, it is a science, and it
has a lot to tell us and the data is actually surprisingly accessible to ordinary people in the way that a lot of
science isn’t.
Interviewer: Which brings us neatly on to your own current research post. Why have you decided to
concentrate your efforts on southeastern England?
Julian: Well, most of my colleagues are jetting off around the world – digging in remote spots in faraway
places. It calls for a lot of organisation and involves all manner of setbacks and frustrations, not to mention
tedious long-haul flights and endless inoculations. But I have none of those problems. Indeed, now that
archaeology is becoming much more oriented towards the collection and analysis of data, rather than the just
locating and digging up key sites, we come to realise just how much England has to offer. Basically, with a
relatively modest budget, we can gather far more relevant data here than in many of the places that have been
the typical focus of archaeological activity. [14]
Interviewer: But why is that, and what is it that you’re hoping to find?
Julian: Well, for the last two thousand years, and probably long before that too, southeastern England has
undoubtedly been one of the most densely inhabited parts of the world. There was a lot of human activity here
and the evidence is to be found beneath our feet. The land’s been intensively farmed since the Iron Age and
most modern-day villages have been continuously inhabited for over a thousand years – some much longer. But
I find it tantalising to think that you’ve only got to dig a hole somewhere in a settlement, and you’ll probably
uncover data that’ll reveal how people lived and the way different things influenced their way of life – be it
political changes, climate change, disease or whatever.
Interviewer: Finally Julian, you’re taking part in a project that looks at the role of humour in archaeology. That
sounds intriguing – tell us a bit about that.
Julian: Well traditional storytelling, the passing on of ideas and deep cultural knowledge is one of those things
that we’re tending to lose with the digital age [15] – and it struck me that it’s there in archaeology itself. There’s
often a mismatch between the dry reports written up after successful digs and the warmth and intimacy that is
built up within a team. Basically, you’re all living and working cheek by jowl for long periods and a kind of
camaraderie develops – the telling of anecdotes around the campfire after a long day’s digging is full of humour
– but also full of the folk memory of archaeology itself. The project I’m involved in seeks to capture and
preserve some of that rich fund of humour and anecdote – so that it can be preserved for future generations
along with the archaeological evidence itself.
Interviewer: Fascinating, thank you very much…
Part 2
Speaker: Douglas Finch is to be awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration [16] in
recognition of his outstanding scientific, design, and entrepreneurial achievements and their important
contribution to the history and reputation of Bristol.
Douglas Finch was born near Glasgow and attended Allan Glen’s School before reading aeronautical
engineering at Glasgow University, from which he graduated in 1961 [17]. He gained a Master’s Degree in
Industrial Engineering at Cornell University, USA in 1963 before returning to the United Kingdom and joining
the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
He joined the Bristol Gliding Club and in 1965 received the Silver ‘C’ Gliding Badge. In 1967 he helped build
the ‘Bristol Belle’, a red and white striped balloon which made its first flights at Weston-on-the-Green near
Oxford. It was the first modern hot air balloon in Western Europe. [18] In 1968 Doug Finch was issued with the
first ever Private Pilot’s Licence for Hot Air Balloons. [19]
The success of Doug Finch in translating his ballooning expertise into a commercial concern is reflected in the
birth and success of his company, Finch Balloons of Bristol, which was formed by Finch in 1971 – five years
after he constructed his first balloon. The new company was based in Dutton, Bristol, where a total of twenty-
nine balloons were made in the basement of the property. 1971 also saw Finch build Golden Falcon, a balloon
designed specifically to fly across the Sahara. [20]
In 1972 Doug Finch received the Royal Aeronautical Club Bronze Medal, the first awarded for hot air airships.
A year later he was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Club Silver Medal for the first balloon flight over the Alps.
[21] In the same year he received the Lighter Than Air Society (USA) Achievement Award for the development
of the first hot air ship. Five years later he attempted the first Atlantic crossing by balloon for which he received
the Royal Aeronautical Club Gold Medal. In 1978 his attempt to make the premier Atlantic crossing by balloon
ended when bad weather forced his heated helium balloon ‘Zanussi’ down after a 2,000 mile flight from
Canada. [22]
The Finch company moved to its present site in Gellingborough in 1983 and in the following years all of the
records for distance and duration were taken by pilots flying Finch balloons. In 1989 Finch Balloons Limited
received the Queen’s Award for Export, confirmation that Doug Finch had made Bristol the undisputed balloon
manufacturing capital of the world. [23] During the 1990s interest in becoming the first to fly around the world
by balloon became intense and almost all the contenders have used Finch helium or hot air balloons.
Doug Finch has advanced the science, technology and art of balloon flight to the highest level. [24] His factory
in Bristol is the world’s largest and last year he was awarded the Prince Philip Design Award. Doug Finch will
receive his Honorary Degree of Doctor of Business Administration at the award ceremony at Bristol Business
School [25] on Tuesday 20 November at 11.30 am at Bristol Cathedral.

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