v  Practice Test Five

Section 1

You will have 10 seconds to read each
question and the corresponding options. Then listen to the recording. After the
recording you will have 10 seconds to choose the correct option.

Put a cross (X) in the box next to the
correct answer, as in the example.

Example: Who are the speakers?

А  customer and librarian

В  customer
and shop assistant

С  teacher and student

1. Where is
the speaker?

a) at a concert             b)   in a disco              c) in a music lesson

2. What's the
woman doing?

a) warning                   b)   persuading                        c) complaining

3. Why doesn't
Rob want to go to the opera?

a)  He has already seen it.       b)   He won't understand it.

c) He's feeling too unwell.

4. What does
the woman think about the painting?

a)  It lacks passion.     b)   It's amateurish.      c) It's quite cheap.

5. Who is speaking?

a)  public announcer   b)   a radio
broadcaster           c) a festival performer

6. What
aspect of the arts are the people talking about?

a) its value                  b)
the quality               c) the funding

7. What do
the people disagree about?

a) the level of
violence in the film

b) the way the
film is directed

c) the quality
of the acting

8. What does
the speaker dislike about poetry readings?

a) the places
where they happen

b) the
artificiality of the poems

c) the way the
readers speak

9. What does the man agree to?

a) a refund                  b)
an exchange                       c) a discount

10. When does
the Picture House alter its programme?

a) Saturday                  b)
Tuesday                  c)   Wednesday

TEST TIP: Remember that when
you listen to conversations you need to know who (are the people?), where (ore
they?), why (are they talking?), what (are they talking about?), how (are they
feeling?).

Section 2

You will hear a recording about a
theatre. Listen to the whole recording once. Then you will hear the recording
again with pauses for you to write down what you hear.

Make sure you spell the words correctly

TEST TIP: If you miss a word, don't worry. Try to keep
up. You can go back and guess the missing word from the context before you move
on to the next section.

11.__________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________

Section 3

You will hear a woman talking about the WOMADelaide music and dance festival in
Australia. First read the notes below then listen and complete the notes with
information from the recording.

Example: This year's WOMADelaide
festival will take place over four days.

12. The
festival has six           ______________       featuring a huge range of
musicians.

13. It also
presents KidZone _______________ and street theatre programmes.

14. Arts,
crafts and international cuisine can be found in ______________.

15. The
surroundings of the Botanical Gardens are   _______________.

16. The
WOMADelaide Foundation Ltd is a
_____________          organization.

You will hear an interview about The IMAX 3D cinema.
First read the notes below then listen and complete the notes with information
from the conversation.

Example: The name IMAX comes from the
two words image maximum.

17. When
experiencing a film at IMAX, it is as if you are _________________.

18. The much
larger surface area of IMAX films allows __________________
to be projected.

19. The screen is         __________________ than in normal
cinemas.

20. There are
two speakers behind the audience and four__________________.

21. Properly
made 3D glasses do not __________________.

TEST TIP: Most of the
information you are listening for will have 'cues' (things which help you to
know what is coming next) before them. Listen out for the cues. Quite often the
cue is a synonym of the words in the note. They may sometimes be the same words
but this is rare.

Examples:

In Question 12, the cue is the same word as in
the listening text.

In Question 15, the cues are the same words
plus a word that means "found".

In Question 20, the cue is the same word as in
the listening text.

Section 4

Read each text and put a cross
(X) by the missing word or phrase, as in the example

Example:

Sale (Set of 3 CDs)

Popular classical
music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Strauss.

Cornwallis Youth Orchestra, ____________________by Tom Pierce

a)   directed                 b)
composed                         c)   conducted

22.                   TIVOU
CIN&MA

ALL THIS WEEK. Mel Brooks' classic comedy horror,

*Young
Frankenstein

____________________
4.00 6.30 8.45

a)   Productions                       b)  Performances                    c)
Acts

23.                   Holidays
In Brazil

Why not go during
Carnival time?

Watch the fantastic parades!

See the incredible ____________________ people wear!

Learn to dance the samba!

All you have to do is come!

a)   costumes               b)  wardrobes              c)
uniforms

24. New
edition of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes now in store.

Timeless mysteries. Start reading this book and you
won't be able to ____________________. When
you've finished one, you'll have to start another!

a)   pick it up               b)  let it go                   c)
put
it down

25. It will soon be St Valentine's
Day, February 14th.

The
idea for sending cards to your beloved comes from____________________ in the nineteenth century in Britain. It then spread
to the U.S.

a)   a
fashion               b)  a
celebration                      c)
an occasion

26. Festival
of Asian Films (21 June - 2 July)

A mix of Indian,
Japanese, Chinese and Korean films. None of the films dubbed. All in the
original with English ____________________.

a)   language                b)  screenplay             c)
subtitles

TEST TIP: These are texts you will see in everyday life. Ask
yourself what the missing word or phrase would be in your own language.

Section 5

Read the webpage extract below and answer the questions

The Mystery of Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson – not
a famous name to most, yet without him the history of popular music may have
been completely different. We can argue that without Johnson, an
African-American blues singer, there would be no modern blues, rock n roll,
rock or even rap. He was only 27 when he died. Looking back on his life today,
you cannot be certain what is fact and what is fiction.

Little is known about him
apart from the legacy of his recordings. He recorded 29 songs in 2 periods of
recording over 3 days in 1936 and 2 days in 1937. Some of the songs were
recorded in slightly different ways during the sessions.

Even today, despite being
recorded on primitive equipment, thereby influencing the quality of the sound,
we hear the mix of expressive singing, excellent guitar playing skills and
song-writing ability that amazed his contemporaries.

The root of what became
known as the legend of Robert Johnson is that nobody knew much about him or
where he developed his artistry. Indeed, there are only two confirmed pictures
of him. The core of the legend was that he was seemingly an ordinary travelling
blues singer/ guitarist, (not uncommon in the South in the 1920s/1930s), who
virtually overnight became a virtuoso musician. A caterpillar became a
butterfly.

The story of the time was
that Johnson had 'sold his soul to the Devil'. His reward for this 'transaction
was the swift turnaround in his musical skills. According to legend this was
done at a crossroads in Clarksdale, Mississippi, but not witnessed. This idea
of selling your soul to the Devil for reward on Earth is a feature of both
African culture and European literary tradition.

Another key factor that
adds to the mystery of Robert Johnson, is that he may have been poisoned. By
whom and why, are mysteries, as nobody was ever charged with his murder,
although there are various theories. Also, nobody is sure where Johnson is
buried and he has three different memorials marked in graveyards around the
town of Greenwood, where he died.

Source: www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org

Example: Who was Robert Johnson?

a)   a well-known blues musician

b)
a man who changed music history

c)   a fictional musical character

27.
How many sessions did he record his songs in?

a) 2                             b)
5                             c) 29

28.
What might prevent people appreciating Johnson's work nowadays?

a) poor recording                    b) his musicianship     c) its outdated nature

29. Why does the writer compare Johnson to a caterpillar
and butterfly?

a) to describe the
variety in his music

b) to show how his
music suddenly changed

c) to illustrate his
legendary status

30. Why did people
think Johnson had sold his soul?

a) because it was a
traditional European belief

b) because he wasn't
seen for a number of years

c) because there seemed no other explanation

31. What do we
actually know about the death of Robert Johnson?

a) He was killed
by an unknown person

b) He was buried in
three different places

c) It contributed to
the mystery which surrounds him

TEST TIP: Remember that some answers might be quite tempting,
because they have the same word or phrase as in the text. Always check these
options very carefully. For example, option 2 of Question 31 mentions
"three different places" but what does the text actually say?

Section 6

Read the article below and answer the questions.

Tomato Festival

THE TOMATO FESTIVAL is an annual festival held in
Bunol, near Valencia in Spain. Unusually for festivals, there are no religious
connections.The festival, which started nearly seventy years ago, is basically
a food fight. On the last Wednesday of August, the 9,000 inhabitants are joined
by over 30,000 visitors and, after a breakfast of chorizo, a Spanish sausage,
and wine, the festivities begin.

At 11 a.m., truckloads of poor quality tomatoes are
brought into the town centre and a cannon is fired. People then throw the
tomatoes at each other following the two rules that the tomatoes must be
squashed and nothing else must be thrown. After about two hours another cannon
is fired, the fight is over and everyone helps clean up the town.

Source:  www.spanishfiestos.com

Example: How often does the festival take place?    every year

32. When was the first festival held?
____________________________

33. What do the
people eat before the fight? ______________________

34. What is the sign
for the fight to start? ________________________

35. How do the people work together?
__________________________

Section
6 Continued

Read the
article below and answer the questions.

The worst movie ever made!

According to film critic
Michael Medved this dubious honour goes to Ed Woods' 1959 science fiction film,
'Plan 9 from Outer Space'.

Wood had great respect for
the Hungarian stage and later film actor, Bela Lugosi, who had played Dracula
in the 1930s. Shortly before Lugosi's death, Wood shot some silent footage of
the actor for a possible future project.

However, the bits of film,
shown repeatedly, ended up in Tlan 9' with Lugosi's character played by Woods'
wife's doctor. The stand-in's face was covered in his scenes and he was also
taller than Lugosi and bald.

Nowadays the film is shown
just for fun and one scene in particular is famous, as day changes to night and
back many times!

Example: What type of movie was 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'?   science fiction

36. What kind of actor was Lugosi before his film career? ___________

37. Why didn't Wood and Lugosi continue with their film? ___________

38.  How
was the substitute disguised? ___________________________

39. How do we know the film isn't treated seriously? ________________

Section 7

Read the article below and complete the notes that follow. Write no more
than three words from the article in each gap.

CAVE PAINTINGS

Cave paintings are clearly
important in art history, but we still know little about them. The first cave
paintings were discovered in France in I860 but it wasn't until the twentieth
century that historians recognised the artistic value of these long-hidden
images.

It is now known that the
earliest European examples are approximately 32,000 years old, but it is hard
to give precise dates because of disagreements within the scientific community
about the accuracy of carbon dating.

What is not in dispute,
though, is the fragile nature of the paintings and the need to keep them in a
controlled atmosphere. An example of how delicate they are is what happened to
some cave paintings discovered during World War I. It took only six months for
them to vanish once they were exposed to the air.

The paintings, usually
found on the walls and ceilings of caves, were done for unknown reasons. It was
originally thought that the paintings were merely decorations for the homes of
prehistoric people, but we now know that people in those times almost certainly
lived in huts rather than caves. Archaeologists have found no clear evidence of
habitation in caves that contain paintings.

Some experts think that the
paintings were a means of communication or that they had a religious function.
Most of the pictures are of large animals such as horses, bison and deer, which
has led to the theory that the paintings represent a kind of hunting magic to
help increase the number of animals in the area.

As well as animals, there
are often pictures of human hands. It is believed that hands were drawn around
as an outline, an exercise that is used in painting classes to this day.

The paint used in cave
painting came mainly from local minerals and was predominantly red and yellow,
though charcoal from burnt wood was another source for prehistoric artists.

There are about 350 main
caves with paintings in Europe but they have been found all over the world.
However, the paintings in Asian, African and American caves were executed more
recently, being typically between 4,000 and 10,000 years old.

Source:  www. artline. com

Example: Cave paintings hold
an important position in art history.

40. Cave paintings were not officially regarded as art until ___________.

41. Scientists are not
always united in their views about _____________.

42. Some paintings
disappeared when open _______________________.

43. It was first
believed that cave paintings were just _______________.

44. The theory that
people lived in these caves is not supported by________.

45. Drawings of
__________ provide a link with present-day art lessons.

46. Examples found in
caves outside Europe were painted ___________.

Section 8

47. You have read the article. Write a letter to your local museum
suggesting that they include a display about cave painting. Write about 90-120 words. In your letter you should

say why the
display would be interesting

suggest what
could be shown, e.g. maps, etc.

explain what
people would learn from the exhibition

Write your letter here. Do not write outside the box

Section 9

48.
Choose one of the topics
below and write your answer in 150-200 words

a) Films

Write an essay on the following topic.

What's the most
enjoyable film you've seen and why?

b) Festivals

FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD

We are looking for
articles about festivals around the world. Write an article about a festival in
your country describing what it's about and what people do. Best articles
printed next month!

Write your article here. Do not write outside the box.

Section 10 ( 1,5 minutes )

In this section you will speak on your own for about 1 minute. Listen to
what your teacher/ examiner asks.

Your teacher/examiner will ask one of the main questions below and use
the follow-up questions if necessary.

Main prompt 1:

Tell me about the
kinds of transport you use in your everyday life.

Follow-up prompts:

What's your favourite method of transport?

How do you pass the time on long journeys?

How can more people be persuaded to use their
bikes?

What's the traffic like in the area where you live?

Main prompt 2:

What do you think the
world will be like twenty years from now?

Follow-up prompts:

How much TV do you tend to watch?

Is it a bad idea for children to have a TV in their bedrooms?

What would you like to see more of on TV?

Do you prefer to get your news from TV, newspapers or the Internet? Why?

Main prompt 3:

Tell me about the
kind of exercise you enjoy and when you do it.

Follow-up prompts:

Which sport do you think is best for keeping fit?

How much exercise do you think people
should take?

What are the most
popular sports in your country?

How can people who
don't like sport get enough exercise?

Do you prefer exercising indoors or outside?

What are the sports facilities in your area like?

Main prompt 4:

How interested
are you in shopping and what are your shopping habits?

Follow-up prompts:

Do you prefer using small local shops or supermarkets?

Do you think most shopping will be done online in the future?

What is your nearest shopping centre like?

What's more important to you, quality or price?

Section 11 ( 2 minutes )

In this
section you will discuss something with your partner.

Is it important
to keep up with the news?

What do you think?

Your partner will use the following arguments to
take an opposing view to yours

For:

You
need to know what's happening in the world.

You
can't just live in your own little world.

It's
hard to take part in conversations without knowing what's happening.

It's
part of being an educated, informed citizen.

Against:

The
news is usually depressing.

There
are long periods when nothing really important happens.

Many
people are too busy with their own lives to worry about the news.

Most
of what's in the news isn't very interesting.

Section 12 ( 1,5 minutes )

In this section,
you will talk for up to 1
minute
about two pictures showing different places where people choose to buy food.
Tell what you can see in the pictures.

Which
of the two places would you prefer to go shopping in? Why?