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Anglia Examination Syndicate (England)

Certificate in English for Overseas Candidates

Masters Level - Paper B

2007Time allowed – Three hours including listening.

Candidates should answer ALL questions.

Write your answers in PEN in the spaces provided.You may use correcting fluid if necessary.Ask for extra paper if you need it.

CHICHESTER COLLEGE, WESTGATE FIELDS, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX, PO19 1SB, ENGLAND

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For Examiners Use OnlySection A Section B Section C P1 Section C P2 Section D Section E P1 Section E P2 Section F

Section A Listening. (10 marks)You are going to listen to an interview with a film director called Rob Zeff.Answer all the questions below by marking the correct box with a tick ().

1. When did Rob first start using a camera?

a) 5 years oldb) 13 years oldc) 18 years old

2. Who is Rob’s biggest influence?

a) Martin Scorceseb) Steven Spielbergc) George Lucas

3. Which is Rob’s favourite movie?

a) The Lord of the Ringsb) Citizen Kanec) Star Wars

4. What does Rob say is the most rewarding part of being a director?

a) watching the completed filmb) creating something artisticc) meeting famous people

5. Who does Rob say are the best actors working today?

a) Johnny Depp and Tom Cruiseb) Tom Cruise and Gary Sinisec) Johnny Depp and Gary Sinise

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6. What does Rob say are the most important qualities for a director?

a) patience and determinationb) determination and visionc) patience and vision

7. What type of film is Rob making next?

a) a horror filmb) a biographical filmc) a biker film

8. What does Rob dislike about modern films?

a) emphasis on special effectsb) lack of dialoguec) unnecessary violence

9. Who did Rob get the money for his first film from?

a) his parentsb) private investorsc) the bank

10. What one piece of advice would he give to a new film director?

a) Don’t overreach yourself.b) Always be working on more than one idea.c) Don’t copy other films.

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Section B Listening and Writing. (10 marks)

You are interested in keeping fit. You hear a radio advertisement for a leisure centre near where you live. Take notes as you hear the advertisement and then use your notes to write a letter to a good friend of yours, inviting him or her to come and stay for the weekend so that you can try the new facility together. Your friend is a student at university.

Let your friend know Where the leisure centre is When it is open What is available How much it costs

Write your notes here: These notes are for your own use and are not marked by the examiner.

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Section C Use of English Part One (10marks)Write ONE word only in each gap.

1. The women’s match could not take place as all the players had____________________ it in protest at their prize money.

2. After several odd exchanges, I finally realised we were talking at cross ____________________.

3. I’m just ____________________ and tired of your bad behaviour.

4. All the staff walked out as a ___________________ of protest at the planned cuts.

5. The government has ____________________ the blow of tax rises with tax credits for low earners.

6. His parents are Russian but he’s never set ____________________ in Russia.

7. He acknowledged the compliment with a slight ____________________ of his head.

8. She lost control of the car when she ____________________ to avoid a cyclist.

9. I wouldn’t lose any ____________________ over a trivial issue like that.

10. I don’t earn a lot, just enough to get ____________________ on.

Section C Use of English Part Two (15 marks)

Write a new sentence which is as close to the meaning of the given sentence as possible, using the word or phrase given. You may not change the word or phrase in any way.

1. I can’t decide which one to choose. (MINDS)

2. Her latest novel has received high praise from critics. (ACCLAIM)

3. People think the fugitive is hiding in the Malaga area. (BELIEVED)

4. He was a virtuoso piano player and a wonderful singer too. (WAS HE)

5. You can get discounted tickets as long as there are some available. (SUBJECT)

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6. He is a very confident character. (FULL)

7. Our figures were wrong because we didn’t consider all the expenses. (CONSIDERATION)

8. Scientists can explain this phenomenon. (THERE )

9. That group of boys is always making a nuisance of themselves. (STIRRING)

10. He had changed so much that I no longer recognised him. (EXTENT)

11. I didn’t realise you were arriving today. That’s why I didn’t get the house ready. (HAD I)

12. I’ve got a lot of work to catch up on because of my holiday. (FALLEN)

13. We’ve done the difficult bit; things will be easy from now on. (SAILING)

14. Industrial action should only be taken when all other avenues have failed. (RESORT)

15. He fell asleep at the wheel. (OFF)

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Section D Reading (10 marks)

There are fifteen headlines below and ten short news stories on the next page. In the answer grid below the headlines, match each story letter with the best headline number. There are five headlines you do not need.

1. EMPLOYMENT BOOST

2. ANIMALS HIT BY MEDICAL PROBLEMS

3. ALIENS CLEAN UP AT BOX OFFICE

4. NEW ARRIVALS

5. ENTREPRENEUR’S DONATION

6. JOBS IN JEOPARDY WARNS POLITICIAN

7. RIDE RUNS INTO ECONOMIC TROUBLE

8. HIT DIRECTOR’S LATEST FILM A FLOP

9. ZOO DRAMA!

10. UFOS HAVE DOWN TO EARTH EXPLANATION

11. RETIREMENT LOOMS

12. RIDE UNVEILED

13. CARNIVAL CALLED OFF

14. JACKPOT SCOOPED!

15. LOTTERY SALES SUFFER

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS HERE.Match the number of the headline to the letter of the article:

A B C D E F G H I J

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A A new supermarket is to open creating up to 300 new jobs. The chain COCOST announced that this is the first of 10 new superstores set to be established country wide in the next two years. “This is fantastic news for the town,” said Mayor Ken Trevelyan yesterday.

BMany people have reported strange lights in the sky over the last few weeks, but don’t panic! We are not being visited by aliens as pyrotechnic engineer Craig Ferguson explains, “With the big carnival next weekend we are rehearsing our new firework show. New for this year is a laser display.” The carnival starts on Saturday at noon with the pyrotechnics scheduled for 9.30pm.

CPei-Pei the giant panda at Whipsnade zoo has given birth to two cubs. The latest star attractions, called Chim-chim and Chim-cho are the first pandas to be born at the zoo and only the third and fourth to be born in the country.

D A piece of spanking new fairground equipment was opened yesterday on Brighton Pier. Called “Crazy Cat”, it’s the fastest roller coaster ride in Europe. “This has been my dream for 10 years,” said Ben Wing the designer. “It has been a long journey but once we had the finance I knew it would finally happen”

EAn attempt to cycle from London to Hong Kong has hit difficulties. Patrick Delaney has been forced to find new sponsorship to complete his journey. His previous sponsor, Illingworth Bicycles, has gone bankrupt, leaving him in Iran with no financial support.

FGeorge Spielman’s latest epic, Alien Invasion has broken all records in its first week of release. The film has taken more than $200 million in ticket sales. The film, starring Bradley Walsh and Kelly Lunt, has been both a critical and commercial success.

GToday, three lucky ticket holders are celebrating their win on the lottery. Each of the three winners receives £2.7 million.

HZookeepers from Southampton Safari Park are relaxing today after four emus made a bid for freedom over the weekend. The birds escaped whilst having a routine medical check. The birds returned after a brief tour of the park. The escapees were captured as they were stealing ice creams from startled visitors.

JMillionaire Richard Hoyland has given $10 million to a charity helping young people to take up sports. The charity, Sport for All, had been about to close due to financial difficulties. “It’s important that people in privileged positions like myself, do all they can to help others who are not in such a fortunate position,” said Hoyland at a press conference.

IThe Minister of Agriculture is preparing for her last day in office. Geraldine Aslin has been in charge of the farming industry for 8 years. As she has now reached the age of 65 she has de-cided to step down and let someone younger take her place. “The time is right for me to take it easy now. I pass the job to a younger man who is ready to face the challenges ahead.”

Section E Reading (20 marks)Read this article about the plans for an isolated, tropical island and answer all the questions in your own words.

A Conservation Message to the World

The place names are straight out of Treasure Island - Skull Islet, Shark Islet, Noddy Rock. There are coconut crabs, a metre across, huge, tropical seabird colonies, lush and pristine forests, and a sinuous, coral-fringed central lagoon so blue and clear that it has to be seen to be believed. And, shortly, there may be another distinction - the status of being the first major wildlife reserve of the third millennium.

By the time you read this, President Taburoro Tito, head of the tiny but far-flung Pacific republic of Kiribati - a string of islands 4,500km from west to east - will probably have announced the plan to turn Caroline Atoll, an uninhabited pinprick of land in the Southern Pacific, into a World Heritage Site. Many believe it would be the perfect symbol for a new millennium - an earnest representation of human intentions towards the planet.

It's not being unfair to Kiribati to say that until recently Caroline Island has scarcely figured in the world's consciousness. Polynesians came, settled, departed, Europeans 'discovered' it (several times), and entrepreneurs tried their luck with pig-farming, coconut-growing, guano-mining. There have been a few shipwrecks, the briefest of occupations by a family of Robinson Crusoe-style homesteaders, and entrepreneurial marauders from Tahiti. But nothing really stuck on Caroline, people least of all. That was its good fortune.

New Zealand biologist, Dr Kay Kepler, took part in the first exhaustive ecological mapping of the island in 1988, which found an ecological wealth lost from most Pacific islands: huge breeding colonies of tropical seabirds, from sooty terns to red-footed boobies, noddies and frigatebirds; forests covering a remarkable seven-tenths of the land area; the huge coconut crab, usually the first to vanish when people arrive - native islanders are fond of the meat - is still common; and small numbers of 'alien' species.

The dilemma facing the government of Kiribati, is one central to conservation. Only humans are capable of appreciating Caroline's beauty - but humans, if they came in any numbers and without respect, would ruin it. For such a poor country, the pressure to exploit such an asset is enormous - and so are the risks of destroying it

Kay believes that limited eco-tourism, managed under strict guidelines, is the way forward. She also believes that for President Tito to declare Caroline, and its neighbours Flint and Vostok islands, a World Heritage Site would be an extraordinarily powerful political statement - of the importance of unpopulated places in an overpopulated world, of how poor countries can set an example to richer ones. "Kiribati can send a conservation message to the world" says Kay. "Caroline can remind us of the way the world used to be."

For many who have seen Caroline Island, it's the archetypal tropical paradise. In 1988, a Scottish round-the-world yachtsman, Ron Falconer, and his French wife Anne 'squatted' on the atoll with their two children, then aged five and two, and for a time lived out an idyll - swimming in the lagoon, fishing, plucking fruit from trees. On the advice of visiting biologists, they treated the island well - taking sooty tern eggs from the edge of the colony, leaving the coconut crabs alone, eating few lobsters and clams. It was even suggested that they could become unofficial wardens. But island life was lonely. The Falconers spent much of their time on the radio, extolling the beauties of Caroline to Pacific yachtsmen - who showed less respect when they visited. Finally they wrote an article for a London newspaper about their lifestyle in 'paradise' and forgot to mention Kiribati - whose government, angry at the slight, evicted them.

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Part One (10 marks)Replace these phrases or words with other phrases or words of your own so that the article still reads correctly, both grammatically and in the sense of what is said. The words or phrases are all underlined in the article so that you can find their context easily. One of them has been done for you as an example. There may be more than one way of answering; answer the way you think best.

a) pristine

b) far-flung

c) consciousness

d) marauders

e) exhaustive

f) ecological wealth biological diversity

g) dilemma

h) archetypal

i) colony

j) extolling

k) slight

Part Two (10 marks)Summarise in no more than 100 words the arguments for making Caroline Island a World Heritage Site. You may use the space below to make notes. Write your finished summary on the next page.

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Section F Writing (25 marks)

Use your own ideas, the notes below, and, if you wish, facts and ideas from the article in Section E, to write a structured composition of between 350 and 400 words on the following topic:

Outline the advantages and disadvantages of three forms of tourism and discuss to what

extent you think these are exploitative .

Types of tourists What motivates tourists to travel What attracts people to a destination Climate Political stability Special events Ease of travel to the destination Local development Impact on local culture Impact on the local environment Impact on the local economy

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