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1 For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A,B,C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example:

0 Aformer Bfinal Caftermost O IA B C D I

Dutmost

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The

birth of the London Marathon

(0) Olympic champion Chris Brasher wrote an article for The Observer newspaper which began: "To believe this story you must believe that the human race is one joyous, happyfamily, workingtogether, laughingtogether, (l) ............the impossible. Last Sunday, in one of the most trouble-stricken cities in the world, I 1,532 men and women from 40 countries in the world, assisted by over a million black, white and yellow people, laughed, cheered and suffered during the greatest folk festival the world has seen." Enchanted with the sight of people coming together for such an occasion, he concluded by questioning "... whether London could (2) such a festival?" ln 1979, hours after having run the New York Marathon, the

Within months the London Marathon was born, with Brasher making trips to America to study the race organisation and finance of big city marathons such as New York and Boston, the oldest in the world. He (3) a contract with Gillette worth {50,000, established the organisation's charitable (a) ..........., and (5) down six main aims for the event, which he not only hoped would echo the scenes he had witnessed in New York, but also put Britain firmly on the (6) as a country capable of organising major events. HisvisionwasrealisedonMarch29th

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l,withthe(7)...............LondonMarathon(8)..............tobeaninstantsuccess.

More than 20,000 people applied to run: 7,747 were accepted and 6,255 crossed the finish line on Constitution Hill cheerine crowds lined the route. I

2 3

4 5

6 7

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B B B B B B B B

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perform fastened grade

let map

penultimate succeeding

transacting act

tied rank set

border former checking

C C C C C C C C

making rehearse secured status

took atlas inaugural

resulting

D D D D D D D D

as

achieving stage possessed class

gave

territory primitive proving

Part 2 For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). O I BECOMING Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS. Example:

Karaoke fever Karaoke is fast

(0)

so fashionable.

lt's I a.m. at an exclusive location

the nation's Number One party pastime. Public humiliation has (9) ............................. been in the heart of London. A major pop singer has taken the stage but

ratherthan sing her latest hit, she treats the crowd to a Michael Jackson song. What was (10) the party habit of teenagers is now favoured by London's coolest crowd and everyone is having a (l l) ................. . So why are so many of ouryoung celebrities queueing up to make fools of (12) .... ........ ....... in clubs and bars across the country? Maybe it's because belting out a naff pop song to a public audience shows that even though you may be a celebrity, you

don't ( l3)

................

....... yourself too seriously. And if you are a big movie star, that's a good message to

get across. Nobody gets away without being laughed (14) .........

.

on a karaoke evening, no matter how famous

they are.

(15) . . . .....

.

all, that's the whole point of the exercise. But for the musical experts among you, a

word of

warning: this isn't about proving to the world that you know all the lyrics to a serious song. lt's about expressing your inner performer. Don't bother (16)

.............

up at a karaoke night if you aren't prepared to sing;

you've got to put in the effort and prove that you are one of the 'in-crowd'. Break a leg!

CAE Practice Test 6

Paper

I - Reading and Use of English

Part 3 :or questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to 'orm a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0). ,{/rite your answers lN CAPITAL LETTERS.

OI

Example:

REMARKABLE

A day out to Rosslyn Chapel lf you have a spare afternoon why not take the kids to visit the (0) ....... This must surely be one of Britain's most (17)

pictures of it without any clues to its

.

.Rosslyn Chapel? REMARK buildings. lf you were shown ORDINARY

.....

(18)

., you might guess it to be somewhere LOCATE just like Moldavia or Transylvania. ln fact, it is outside Edinburgh. The chapel and the

of Rosslyn are both quite stunning; in fact, the whole area . Nearly the entire surface of the chapel's stonework PICTURE is carved with flowers or stars and another (20) . feature of the chapel is that IDIOSYNCRACY although most of the design of the chapel is Gothic, the arsles are similar to architecture found in Babylon or Egypt. The chapel's l5th-century builder, St Clair Prince of Orkney, believed that he was (21) buying his way into heaven by creating ESSENTIAL neighbouring village

is generally very (19)

such an exquisite chapel. He was famous

for his (22l,

.............

but this in

itself

PERFECT

created problems. Because everything had to be exactly as he dreamed it should be

it was (23)

of him to expect the work to be finished in his lifetime. The chapel is now considered to be a local treasure and a charitable trust was set up in 1996 to oversee and fund its (24) ............. restoration.

REAL GO

Part 4 :rr questions 25-30, complete the second

sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using :"e word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the ,'.ord given. Here is an example (0). ixample: 0 George should have worked harder if he wanted to pass the exam. succeeded Had George worked harder, .. passing the exam.

Write the missing words lN CAPITAL

O I

LETTERS.

HE WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDED IN

lf I'm being honest, I have to say that the play wasn't as good as I'd expected. The play ......., to be honest with you. 26 Alan is a much better pianist than Jenny. 25

Jenny is

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28

He 29

escalating.

been

...... of the police, the fight would have escalated.

the impression that he was at all

upset.

.............

I don't care which days you

It 30

it

I didn't get

nowhere

.. the piano as Alan is.

Only the timely arrival of the police prevented the fight from Had

short

................

strike . at all upset.

work next week.

consequence me which days you work next week.

One day she is going to lose her temper with him.

It is .............

........ she loses her temper with him.

matter

CAE Practice Test 6

Part

Paper

| - Reading

and Use of English

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You are going to read an article about girls and their attitude to sport. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

My lO-year-old daughter's face was screwed up with determination recently, when she won a gold medal in a long-distance run against 100 others in her age group. She is just as enthusiastic about swimming, gymnastics, athletics and football, and I try hard not to be insulted when people ask, after one or other of her sporting triumphs, 'Where on earth does she get it from?' As I am not particularly overweight nor have an appalling posture I'm not quite sure why it is obvious that I have never been in the slightest bit athletic. Going round a girls' secondary school with my daughter a few weeks ago I was reminded just how dire school sport was for me. Lrttle seems to have changed in the past 25 years- girls in the same old, ill{itting Airtex tops, horrible kilt-like games skirts and scratchy nylon socks. On our visit, a group of girls hung about the edges of the hockey pitch trying to hide their mottled, freezing legs while the more hearty

ones whacked each other with hockey sticks. lt all came back to me; the horrible cheesy smell of the changing rooms and the muddy winter horrors of traditional girls' team games, such as lacrosse, netball and hockey and, worst of all, the cross-country run through the suburban streets of Hendon. What a sight 60 of us must have made thundering down the pavements in our tiny, flapping skirts and mortadella sausage thighs. Small wonder, then, that a study released last month about young people's behaviour in relation to health

found that although many girls wanted to be fit and improve their appearance they were too embarrassed to exercise. Helen Haste, a professor of psychology at Bath University and the author of the report, based her research on 687 interviews with l1- Io ZI-year olds. The most active youngsters did team sports and at least one other form of exercise, but Professor Haste says that fewer than half exercised once a week: 49 percent of girls said they did not feel comfortable exercising in front of other people, while 34 percent didn't like the way they looked in exercise clothes.

Haste says,'The study shows that appearance is important to both sexes, but in particular to girls under 16. We need to take thrs seriously. Girls feel self-conscious exercising in front of people, while boys don't feel this so much. There seems to be a real tension between teenagers wanting to be fitter to look good and worries about how they look when they are actually exercising,' says Haste. Appearance therefore, is both a driving force to exercise and a reason why girls don't actually want to do it.'lt is a real waste of an opportunity to have fun and get fit if school sports are making girls feel so ill at ease,' Haste adds. 'We need to think about ways of exercising within the school curriculum which make sure that girls feel comfortable.'

of l4-year-old girls at a mixed comprehensive school what they thought of the games on offer at their school, some were fairly

When I asked a group

enthusiastic. Cathy Dale is good at football, and entoys its competitive spirit, but thinks it is hard to get sports teachers to give girls the training they need.'They tend to concentrate on the boys'team even though I think that some of the girls are better than the boys. I think that they expect us to give up pretty soon, so there just isn't the interest. I'm not sure if it's the teachers' fault or the girls' fault.'

At the girls' school where we found the unenthusiastic hockey players, the headmistress gave a speech to the parents after the tour of the school and the school grounds. She was unapologetic about the lack of sporting facilities on offer: the message was that as the school was doing well academically it didn't really matter that the girls didn't get much of a chance to succeed at sport. My daughter sneered and whispered that she would never go to a school that didn't take sport seriously, and could we please leave

right away? So now the search is on for a secondary school that will nurture her sporty side, although l'm not sure that one exists in my London neighbourhood.

CAE Practice Test 6

3l

How does the writer feel about the way people react to her daughter's successes?

A. BC. D.

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She is jealous of her daughter. She is put out that they don't credit her She is very proud of her. She gets quite defensive

for her daughter's athleticism.

with them.

How did the visit to the girls' school make the writer feel?

A. B. C. D.

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laper I - Reading and Use of English

Nostalgic for her own schooldays. Hopeful that her daughter would like the school. lt gave her unpleasant memories. lt made her want to take up a sport again.

According to Helen Haste,

A.

most girls aren't interested in exercising. B. there aren't the facilities for girls to get exercise. C. girls tend to tease each other when they are exercising. D. girls are very aware of being watched while they exercise.

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Haste comes to the conclusion that

A.

schools will never be able to make girls more comfortable with sport. B. girls will never be able to compete with boys at sport. C' teachers are mainly responsible for making girls feel uncomfortable in sports D. the schools themselves need to change their attitudes to sport.

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The headmistress of the school that the writer visited

A.

regretted that she could not improve the school's sports facilities.

B. wanted the girls to excel academically and athletically. C. didn't hold sport high in the school's priorities. D. discouraged the girls from doing any sport at all.

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The writer's daughter

A. was rude when she spoke to the headmistress. B. felt little respect for what the headmistress said. C. was not impressed with any aspect of the school. D. was intimidated by the headmistress.

lessons.

CAE Practice Test 6

Paper

| - Reading and Use of English

Part 6 You are going to read four reviews of a theatre performance. For questions 37-40, choose from reviews A-D. The reviews may be chosen more than once.

A

c

There can rarely have been such an angry young Dane. ln Michael Grandage's fast and filleted production of Homlet, Jude Law is alight with ire. Thicl