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Read this article about a man conducting a humorous campaign and then read the half sentences (1-8) following it. Your task is to match the half sentences based on the information in the text. Write the letters (A-M) in the white boxes next to the numbers as in the example (0). There are three extra letters that you will not need.

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In this article about English Renaissance dramatists some parts of sentences have been left out. Your task is to reconstruct the text by filling in the gaps from the list. Write the letters (A-L) in the white boxes next to the numbers (9-16) as in the example (0). There are two extra letters that you will not need.

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Read through this article about a new craze and then read the multiple-choice questions (17-21) following it. Your task is to choose the alternative that best corresponds to what the text says. • An example (0) has been given for you.

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The Vikings spread the custom of mead-drinking.

Honey is an indispensable ingredient of mead.

It is easy to get drunk on mead.

Mead has been in and out of fashion for over a thousand years.

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British sales are now catching up with American sales.

Mead's popularity is growing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mead sales have gone up in the US more than in Britain.

Mead is unknown outside Britain or the US.

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The cult series Games of Thrones has added to the popularity of mead.

In the two kingdoms the characters often get drunk.

The series' influence on mead's new popularity is far from obvious.

In Westeros and Eosos mead is drunk in large quantities.

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Hipsters came to like craft beer and mead in this order.

Mead is mainly to be had in cereal-only cafés.

Mead is now a more popular drink than craft beer.

Cereal-only cafés are mostly run by hipsters.

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Real ale festivals have been promoted by the slow food movement.

Sourdough bread and mead are popular for the same reason.

Making sourdough bread is a slow process.

Sourdough bread is served at traditional real ale festivals.

Read this article about a notorious episode of 15th century British history and then read the gapped sentences (22-30) following the article. Your task is to complete the sentences with one or two words only based on the information in the text. The exact word(s) you need may or may not be in the article. Write the words on the dotted lines as in the example (0)

12-year-old Edward V had every reason to fear (0) ____death_____ as it was not unusual at the time
for deposed monarchs to be (22) . His and his brother's fate depended entirely on
(23) . They would live only if they weren't considered a threat to his claim to the
(24) . The princes were kept in (25) but when they were no longer seen,
people became (26) of Richard. Yet there was no (27) for the deed and
it was even thought possible that the princes might have (28) . In the 17th century,
however, what were thought to be their (29) were found near the spot
(30) had been told about. The two princes were then buried in Westminster Abbey.

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You are going to read an article about the history of garden gnomes. Some words are missing from the text. Your task is to choose the most appropriate word from the list (A-O) for each gap (1-9) in the text. Write the letter of the appropriate word in the white box. Each word can be used once.  There are four extra words that you do not need to use. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

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You are going to read an article about Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist.  Some words are missing from the text. Use the words in brackets to form the words that fit in the gaps (10-18). Then write the appropriate form of these words on the lines after the text. There might be cases when you do not have to change the word in brackets. Use only one word for each gap.  There is an example (0) at the beginning.

In his new book The Art of Forgery, art (0) ____historian____ (history) Noah Charney explores how
the best (10) (forge) in the world managed to fool many experts. Here, he reveals
that Michelangelo was one of them.
Before anyone had heard of Michelangelo Buonarotti, the most (11) (value)
sculptures on the Renaissance Italian art market were ancient Roman marble statues. Several
(12) (biography) records demonstrate that even an artist as great as Michelangelo
could be involved in (13) (intention) forgery, setting out to create an “ancient
Roman statue” of his own. It did nothing to ruin his (14) (repute). Indeed, having
successfully passed off his work as a Roman statue helped the beginning of a(n)
(15) (believe) career, by showing that Michelangelo had the technical skill and
(16) (create) genius to match his ancestors.
Michelangelo carved the marble statue Sleeping Eros in 1496, when he was only 21
and, according to renowned historian Paolo Giovio, doctored it in order to make it appear to
be ancient. The statue was sold to Cardinal Raffaele Riario, a great (17) (collect)
of early Roman antiquities.
When Riario later found out that he had bought a forgery, he returned the statue to the
dealer from whom he had bought it. However, in the meantime, Michelangelo had gone from
being an unknown 21-year-old to Rome’s hottest celebrity, thanks largely to the
(18) (fame) of his Pietà, which proudly stood in the Basilica of Saint Peter in
Rome. The dealer was thus happy to take it back, and had no trouble selling it on, now under
the authorship of the suddenly famous Michelangelo.

You are going to read an article about a controversial advertising campaign. Some words are missing from the text. Your task is to write the missing words on the dotted lines (19-26) after the text. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example (0) at the beginning.

People aren’t amused by gym’s ‘light-hearted’ ad
A gym chain based in Derbyshire (0) ___has___ divided opinion with its latest ‘light-hearted’
membership ad. The new Fit4Less gym advertising billboard, spotted in Sawley, Derbyshire,
reads: ‘Tired of being…Fat & Ugly? Just be ugly at Fit4Less’.
The gym chain has used similar posters before, (19) the Sawley billboard has caused
public outrage. And this billboard replaces one they were asked to remove in April,
(20) depicted a UFO picking someone up, with the words ‘they’ll take the fat ones
first.’
What happened (21) the time was that local anti-bullying charity Combat Bullying
condemned the poster for encouraging bullying. And they’re (22) impressed with the
replacement.
‘I don’t understand why they are using these kinds of advertising. It’s almost like shaming
people,’ the charity’s founder Natalie Harvey (23) the BBC.
Others, however, defended the ad, saying people were just ‘too sensitive’. In a statement, the
gym said: ‘Fit4less is a brand that doesn’t take itself too (24) ; the campaign is
intended to be seen as light-hearted fun and we certainly don’t mean (25) cause
offence.’
The gym also claims that (26) adopting a light-hearted approach they can reach a
wider audience and gain the attention of people who wouldn’t usually respond to traditional
gym advertising.

You are going to read an article about a small town in Alaska. In most lines there is one word that should not be there. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the text.  Read the text and then copy the extra word in the space provided after each line. Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with OK. The task begins with two examples (0).

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In this section you can hear a museum guide talking about a famous one portrait of van Gogh. Your task will be to mark the correct answer. First you will have some time to examine the task and then what plays the entire recording in one piece. You will then hear the recording again after a short pause, but this then we will play the text in shorter sections to allow enough time to make decisions about your answers.

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In his final years, Van Gogh …

insisted on using the same technique in his paintings.

painted more than two dozen self portraits.

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Van Gogh painted …

at least two versions of the Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear.

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear in the second half of the 1880s.

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Van Gogh …

wanted to set up a studio for artists with the help of Gauguin.

decided to work with Gauguin years before he painted this self-portrait.

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Van Gogh and Gauguin …

became involved in a lot of fierce arguments.

couldn’t work together because they had different opinions on art.

Task.No.1.

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Van Gogh got so angry with Gauguin that he …

cut off his friend’s earlobe.

attacked him.

Task.No.1.

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Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear …

was painted the day after the terrible incident.

doesn't actually show the ear that was injured.

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Van Gogh’s two biographers think that he painted this picture to …

show that he was mentally stable.

avoid being taken to a madhouse.

Task.No.1.

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Van Gogh …

finally agreed that he should be taken to the local hospital.

was sent to hospital at the request of his neighbours.

In this section you can hear about space flight and landing two astronauts, Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev.  It will be up to you to decide if the following statements are true true, false or we do not know because the text does not say and mark the correct answer. Mark A if a If the statement is true, tick B if the statement is false and tick C if the statement is false. text does not say. First you will have some time to examine the task and then what plays the entire recording in one piece. You will then hear the recording again after a short pause, but this time we will play the text in shorter sections to specify enough time to describe the answers.

Task. No.2.

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