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D.Education

Advanced exam Test 05 Part 2 for Cambridge FC, Proficiency, Ielts

Dimitris Sclias

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

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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… Since then robot spacecraft have been sent to photograph other planets in the solar system, and spacecraft packed with scientific equipment hare landed on Mars and Venus and relayed information back to the Earth.

B… The Russians then went on to achieve their triple first with the landing of a robot explorer, Luna IX, on the moon in 1966. It was from Luna IX that the first TV pictures of the Moon were transmitted to Earth.

C… In September 1977 the Russians put up the Salyut VI space station, which was the first to be fully operational. The two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko, lived in the station from its launching until March 1978,

D… They intend to man it with mixed American/European crews. Space will then become really 'international'.

E… For many years the Russians and Americans competed with each other and it has only been recently in the seventies that they have agreed to co-operate on some projects.

F… Two more spaceship; the Voyagers I and II, were sent to the outer planets to transmit information and photographs of Jupiter and its 13 moons before passing on to Saturn and its rings. The Voyager II will then continue its journey to reach Uranus in 1986 and finally Neptune will be approached in 1989.

G… The Salyut VI is expected to remain in space for as long as five years, being refueled and supplied by the unmanned Progress I spacecraft. Eventually, the Russians hope to join several Salyut spacecraft in modules to assemble a truly permanent space station.

H… Eventually representatives from all the Eastern European countries, Mongolia, and Cuba will have made space flights. This will break the US/Soviet monopoly of space.

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

5. WRITTEN SKILLS
Ever since October 1957, when the Russians sent up the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, to orbit the Earth, there has been an escalation of interest in space exploration. Only four months after Sputnik I the Americans launched their first satellite, Explorer I; and then the space race began.
38.
After the achievement of the early satellites the next landmark in space travel was the putting of the first man into space. Once again the Russians were first, and Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in a Vostok spacecraft in April 1961, a mere three and a half years after the launching of the first satellite.
39.
Several more robot spacecraft explored the Moon's atmosphere and surface until finally, in July 1969, the first men landed and walked on the Moon's surface. These were of course, the famous Americans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, and probably everyone has seen TV pictures or photographs of this historic event.
40.
Pioneer XI an American spacecraft, passed the planet Jupiter in 1973 and sent back pictures and information to the Earth before moving on to the outer planets and the limits of the solar system, which it finally left altogether.
41.
More recently the trend has been away from exploring the furthest limits of the solar system and attention has been lefted on putting space stations into orbit round the Earth, in the hope that they will eventually become permanent and so provide Man with a jumping-off stage for reaching other planets.
42.
A period of 94 days, thereby setting up a new space endurance record. The Russians have since completed a 180-day mission, the two-man crews only being changed every six months.
43.
The Russians also intend to send cosmonauts from all the Intercosmos countries into space by 1983. The first step has been taken by sending a Czechoslovak cosmonaut to Salyut VI and they are planning to send a Polish cosmonaut into 45 space this year.
44.
The Americans expect to launch their four-man space lab, which has been developed in co-operation with the European Space Agency, in 1981.

question 2

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

I think it was Dc Mandeville who suggested a river party for the staffs of the various embassies. Nor, on the face of it, was the idea a bad one. All winter long the logs come down the River Sava until the frost locks them in; with the spring thaw the east bank of the river has a pontoon of tree-trunks some forty feet wide lining the bank under the willows so that you can walk out over the river, avoiding the muddy margins, and swim in the deep water.
These logs made a raft about a hundred feet by sixty-big enough even to dance on. While everyone was dancing the rumba and while the buffet was plying a heavy trade, it was noticed that the distance between the raft and the shore had noticeably increased. The gang-plank subsided in the ooze. It was not a great distance-perhaps ten feet. But owing to the solid resistance such a large raft set up in the main current the pull was definitely outward. But as yet nobody was alarmed; indeed most of the party thought it was part of a planned entertainment.
There was at this stage some hope that at the next bend of the river the whole thing would run aground on the bank, and a few of us made preparations to grab hold of the overhanging willows and halt our progress. But by ill luck an eddy carried us just too far into the centre of the river and we were carried past the spit of land, vainly groping at the tips of bushes.
By now our situation deserved serious thought. There was literally no stop now until we reached Belgrade and here the Danube joins the Sava and causes a permanent whirlpool. While the Sava is comparatively sluggish the Danube comes down from Rumania at about fourteen knots-impossible to swim in or ford.
It was about five minutes before the full significance of our position began to dawn upon us and by this time we were moving in stately fashion down the centre of the river, all lit up like a Christmas tree. Expostulations, suggestions, counter-suggestions poured from the lips of the diplomats and their wives in a dozen tongues.
Unknown to us, too, other factors were being introduced which were to make this a memorable night for us all. Spy-mania was at its height and the Yugoslav forces lived in a permanent state of alertness. There were frequent rumours of armed raids from Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
It was in this context that some Serbian infantryman at an observation post along the river saw what he took to be a large armed man-of-war full of Czech paratroops in dinner jackets and ball-dresses sailing upon Belgrade. He did not wait to verify this first impression. He galloped into Belgrade castle a quarter of an hour later on a foam-flecked mule with the news that the city was about to be invaded.
Meanwhile things aboard the raft were not going too well. Signs of imminent disintegration had begun to set in. Some of De Mandeville's artful trellis work had gone while the whole of the buffet had rather surprisingly broken off from the main body and started on a journey of its own down a narrow tributary of the river. The band still kept up a pitiful pretence of music but they had to keep moving position S the water was leaking along the tarpaulin and enveloping their ankles. Many of the candles had gone out. The chill of despair had begun to settle on the faces of the diplomats as the full urgency of the situation became clear to them. Involuntary exclamations burst from the more voluble among them. Was there nothing we could do? Could we not signal? Perhaps if we lit a fire . . .? But these were counsels of despair, as well they knew. I think we all felt in our bones that we should have to swim for it.

45. A river party was practicable because

A the river was lined with willow trees.
B the banks were not muddy at this time.
C there was a suitable surface for walking on.
D there was not too much frost at this season.

46. The raft could not return to the shore because

A there was too much mud in the river.
B the current was too strong.
C the gangway had sunk.
D it was too large to turn.

4 7. They did not want to go to Belgrade because

A it would take a long time to arrive there.
B there was a permanent whirlpool there.
C it was well outside their diplomatic territory.
D they would be unable to stop there.

48. The situation was made worse by the fact that

A the Yugoslavs were expecting an invasion.
B the Hungarians and Czechs were at war.
C the country was full of spies.
D they were dressed in Czech uniforms.

49 Conditions on the raft were bad because

A the party was beginning to feel the cold.
B it was starting to fall to pieces.
C there was no longer anything to eat.
D it was no longer possible to see.

50 Why were the diplomats beginning to despair?

A They were not used to emergencies.
B They could not agree what to do.
C They could not signal.
D There seemed no alternative to swimming.

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