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Advanced exam Test 01 Part 2 for Cambridge FC, Proficiency, Ielts

Dimitris Sclias

Advanced exam Test 01 part 2
INSTRUCTIONS please read carefully:
Time allowed for part2: 45 minutes
There are two parts in the preliminary proficiency test THIS IS PART TWO.
There are 13 questions in this paper. To complete the test you have to answer all 13 questions.
Time allowed to complete the test (all the questions) 45 minutes.
Do not waste any time, if you can't answer one question, guess it and continue.
You must try to complete the test within the time limit, otherwise you'll have to take the test again.
To pass the test successfully you must get at least 80% correct answers.
Questions 38-50 carry two marks.

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question 1

Advanced exam Test 01 part 2
NEWS SORTS
Seven paragraphs have been removed from this extract. Choose from paragraphs A-H
the one which fits each gap(38-44). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

NEWS SORTS
Seven paragraphs have been removed from this extract. Choose from paragraphs A-H
the one which fits each gap(38-44). There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

PARAGRAPHS REMOVED
A… Invited by Nike this week to experiment with the latest in boot technology the new Mercurials are as light (196 grams) as Maurie Greene's track shoes when he won the Olympic 100 meters he will be the odd one out in a distinguished quartet who will front a ubious promotional campaign leading into the
World Cup.

B…. "There has to be a change of Dutch mentality," because everyone thought it would be no problem," he said "You have to realize that the world cup starts with the first qualifier, not with the finals in Japan."

C… The party is not ruined without Holland but one of its most colourful guests will be missing, and Van Nistelrooy is still coming to terms with the fact that he will be separated from Japan and South Korea by thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean.

D… The snapped knee ligament that delayed his move to Manchester United by 12 months inevitably slowed his development and experienced watchers of Van the Man are adamant that, for all the miles
covered as a lone striker, he is not yet moving with the sleekness of old. "The manager keeps telling me that I have to be patient after a year of injury" he said. "whether I am on my top level yet I am still finding out."

E… White also suggested that he felt a deadline had indeed been imposed as he criticised the ECB,'s handling of the situation "I think they are asking a lot to put it on the individual to make a decision and give us a deadline." I think it was a bit harsh," he said.

F… Patrick Kluivert held that mantle and, intriguingly shares the same date of birth as Van Nistelrooy. The United striker tells a self deprecating story of two men with identical ages and ambitions but, until recently, divergent lives.

G… 'John Carr the ECB director of cricket operations, will visit India next week with a senior member
of PCA to meet representatives of the government along with Sir Rob Young, the British High Commissioner, and assess the measures already in place to protect the team.

H… He is adamant that the "numb feeling" after the ruinous defeat by Ireland in Dublin will not give way to jealousy as David Beckham -and just about everyone else in the Manchester United squad - pack their sarongs for the Far East. The reality, though is starkly depressing "You want to play on the greatest stages," he said, "and I can't show the world what I can do."

Choose from paragraphs A-H the one which fits each gap(38-44).

Drive across the golden Gate bridge and head south from San Francisco and Highway One will lead you to the ragged coastline where the cliffs make you feel as if you are perching on the edge of the world. Ruud van Nistelrooy plans to visit in June and he, more than anyone, should feel the isolation. The World Cup will be taking place while he sits and stares into a blue void.
38.
The roar in his ears will not be the crowd but the waves crashing on to the rocks beneath him. Anonymity will be a rare but unwanted luxury along the wilds of the Big Sur. For a man who took weeks to shake off the sadness, he is putting on a brave fate even though reminders strike him like cannon-balls wherever he goes.
39.
while Ronaldo (Brazil), Thierry Henry (France) and Claudio lopez (Argentina) will be Cinderellas at the ball in their new featherlight slippers, Van Nistelrooy will be kicking his heels and the California dirt.
40.
If that sounds self-pitying the tone is not intended because Van Nistelrooy accepts that the blame was Holland's alone. The whole country had been beguiled into thinking that a richly talented squad could
not falter.
41.
For player who also missed Euro 2000 through injury, Holland's failure is particularly cruel but Van Nistelrooy clings to the comfort blanket that he is still only 25.Pundits have queued up this week to discuss whether the Duchman or Henry deserves to be lauded as Europe's best striker but despite strong evidence for the former, It is possible that Van Nistelrooy is still years from his peak.
42.
The unsaid implication is that there ,is much more to come and it would be in keeping with the more gradual progress that, compared with Ronaldo, Henry and Michael Owen is the most notable aspect of his career. Van Nistelrooy was still in the Dutch second division with Den Bosch (capacity 4,900) when Owen. was being hailed as a boy wonder and not even an astonishing record of 60 goals in 57 games for PSV Eindhoven could establish him as Holland's supremo in attack.
43.
"When Kluivert was 18, he was a megastar scoring the winning goal for Ajax against AC Milan in 1995
in the European Cup final. I was just starting my first year as a regular professional but studying economics part-time. We were born on the same day (July 1, 1976) but our lives 'could of the tam and all the detailed arrangements for the tour." However, White and Giles said last night that they will not say "yes" or "no" until November 7, when the undergo fitness tests on knee and Achilles problems respectively.
44.
Lines of communication between the ECB and the Foreign office remain open and clearly there are serious reservations even among those who agreed to travel, including Nasser Hussain, the captain.

question 2

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Please choose the right answer A, B, C or D.

EPSTEIN'S WORK

The man-in the-street regarded the very name of Jacob Epstein as synonymous with controversy. He saw him as an untamed man systematically destroying all that was traditional in art. No sculptor of the twentieth century in England aroused so much feeling as Epstein; certainly none stimulated such vehement discussion and opposition by his work. That in itself was unique. The English do not habitually oppose sculpture-they ignore it. Epstein refused to be ignored. But controversy alone did not make his name familiar to those who had never heard of any other sculptor. His work was such that even the most untrained were unable to see it without definite reaction. Eccentricity alone cannot produce such a reaction. It is, the test of all great art. Epstein's work imprints itself vividly on the imagination. It is disturbing. It causes the artistically lazy to readjust their values, a process that is resented, for the cult of modernity tends to accept the banal and to allow the sense of beauty to atrophy.
There is an enormous amount of confused thinking about art, but in no branch of it more than sculpture. Epstein frequently had to suffer the criticism of the totally incompetent. Art seems to attract vague and inconclusive writing, whilst enthusiasm is often clouded by a spate of so-called technical jargon. It is significant that there are so few sculptors today compared with painters. The reason is mainly economic. A painter can complete a painting within weeks, maybe days; a sculptor may take months, perhaps years, to complete a work that has involved heavy outlay in materials without any guarantee of a ready sale. A consequence of this situation is that little is known about sculpture. Critics with a more-or-less sound judgement in painting tend to express opinions on sculpture that lack authority. The ignorance is largely due to the paucity of opportunity for study. Methods of mechanical reproduction make it possible for everybody to study pictures, but photographs of sculpture are seldom satisfactory.
Epstein drove a wedge into the art world. You either like his work or hate it. Neutrality is out of the question. A comparison between the sculpture room at the Royal Academy and an exhibition of Epstein's work brings out this point. The bronzes, plaster casts, and marbles in the former are motiveless echoes of other works, made more meaningless by unfortunate juxtaposition. By comparison the dark bronzes of Epstein are disconcertingly alive with dynamic intensity.

45. According to the writer, the popular reaction to Epstein was to

A think he had an uncivilised name.
B suppose there was some mystery about his real name.
C argue whenever his name was mentioned.
D dislike his name as much as his sculpture.

46. The writer believes that Epstein was the one sculptor of the twentieth century
in England to succeed in
A creating sculpture that ordinary people could understand.
B creating a style of sculpture that was totally new.
C expressing so much emotion in sculpture.
D compelling Englishmen to hold strong views on sculpture.

47. The writer believes that even people with no formal art education who looked
at Epstein's sculpture
A were strongly opposed to it.
B thought he lacked technical skill.
C had no clear feelings about it.
D knew what they thought about it.

48. Which of the following statements represents the writer's view in the second paragraph?

A Sculpture is the least understood of the arts.
B Only sculptors understand sculpture.
C Sculptors are more confused than other artists.
D Criticism of sculpture is not a rational activity.

49. The meaning of" Epstein drove a wedge into the art world" is that he

A divided critical opinion by the work he produced.
B hammered home his ideas wherever art was discussed.
C refused to exhibit his work in the conventional way.
D concentrated his attack on the traditional values in art.

50. The writer tells us that Epstein was often

A accused of producing e meaningless art.
B hurt by receiving negative criticism.
C criticised by persons incapable of informed judgement.
D blamed for creating confusion with his work.

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