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PART 1 – Questions 1-10

HIRING A PUBLIC ROOM

Example

• the Main Hall – seats ____200____.

Room and cost

•    the 1___________Room – seats 100

•    Cost of Main Hall for Saturday evening: 2£______ + £250 deposit (3______payment is required)

•    Cost includes use of tables and chairs and also 4_____________

•    Additional charge for use of the kitchen: £25

Before the event

•    Will need a 5___________ licence

•    Need to contact caretaker (Mr. Evans) in advance to arrange 6__________

During the event

•    The building is no smoking

•    The band should use the 7___________door at the back

•    Don’t touch the system that controls the volume

•    For microphones, contact the caretaker

After the event

•    Need to know the 8____________for the cleaning cupboard

•    The 9____________must be washed and rubbish placed in black bags

•    All 10___________must be taken down

•    Chairs and tables must be piled up

 

PART 2 – Questions 11-20

Questions 11-14

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

Fiddy Working Heritage Farm

Advice about visiting the farm

Visitors should

• take care not to har1n any 11 ___________.

• not touch any 12 ___________.

• wear 13 ___________.

• not bring 14 ________ into the farm, with certain exceptions

 

Questions 15-20

Label the map below. Write the correct letter A-I, next to Questions 15-20.

  • 15. Scarecrow _________
  • 16. Maze ________
  • 17. Cafe __________
  • 18. Black Barn ___________
  • 19. Covered picnic area __________
  • 20. Fiddy House___________

 

PART 3 – Questions 21-30

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Study on Gender in Physics

21. The students in Akira Miyake’s study were all majoring in

  • A) physics.
  • B) psychology or physics.
  • C) science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

22. The aim of Miyake’s study was to investigate

  • A) what kind of women choose to study physics.
  • B) a way of improving women’s performance in physics.
  • C) whether fewer women than men study physics at college.

23. The female physics students were wrong to believe that

  • A) the teachers marked them in an unfair way.
  • B) the male students expected them to do badly.
  • C) their test results were lower than the male students’.

24. Miyake’s team asked the students to write about

  • A) what they enjoyed about studying physics.
  • B) the successful experiences of other people.
  • C) something that was important to them personally.

25. What was the aim of the writing exercise done by the subjects?

  • A) to reduce stress
  • B) to strengthen verbal ability
  • C) to encourage logical thinking

26. What surprised the researchers about the study?

  • A) how few students managed to get A grades
  • B) the positive impact it had on physics results for women
  • C) the difference between male and female performance

27. Greg and Lisa think Miyake’s results could have been affected by

  • A) the length of the writing task.
  • B) the number of students who took part.
  • C) the information the students were given.

28. Greg and Lisa decide that in their own project, they will compare the effects of

  • A) two different writing tasks.
  • B) a writing task with an oral task.
  • C) two different oral tasks.

29. The main finding of Smolinsky’s research was that class teamwork activities

  • A) were most effective when done by all-women groups.
  • B) had no effect on the performance of men or women.
  • C) improved the results of men more than of women.

30. What will Lisa and Greg do next?

  • A) talk to a professor
  • B) observe a science class
  • C) look at the science timetable

 

PART 4 – Questions 31-40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Ocean Biodiversity

Biodiversity hotspots

• areas containing many different species

• important for locating targets for 31 _______________________ .

• at first only identified on land

Boris Worm, 2005

• identified hotspots for large ocean predators, e.g. sharks

• found that ocean hotspots:

    • were not always rich in 32 ____________.
    • had higher temperatures at the 33 ______________.
    • had sufficient 34 ___________ in the water

Lisa Ballance, 2007

• looked for hotspots for marine 35 ____________.

• found these were all located where ocean currents meet

Census of Marine Life

• found new ocean species living:

  • under the 36 ______________. – near volcanoes on the ocean floor

Global Marine Species Assessment

• want to list endangered ocean species, considering:

  • population size – geographical distribution – rate of 37 __________.

• Aim: to assess 20,000 species and make a distribution 38 __________.

for each one

Recommendations to retain ocean biodiversity

• increase the number of ocean reserves

• establish 39 ____________ corridors (e.g. for turtles)

• reduce fishing quotas

• catch fish only for the purpose of 40 ______________.

1. Chariton
2. (£)115 /alone hundred (and) fifteen
3. cash
4. parking
5. music
6. entry
7. stage
8. code
9. floor/floors
10. decoration/decorations
11. animal/animals
12. tool/tools
13. shoes
14. dog/dogs
15. F
16. G
17. D
18. H
19. C
20. A
21. C
22. B
23. B
24. C
25. A
26. B
27. C
28. A
29. B
30. A
31. conservation
32. food/foods
33. surface
34. oxygen/o2
35. mammals
36. ice
37. decline/declining/decrease
38. map
39. migration
40. consumption

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