Use of English

Time: 45 minutes

Task 1

For questions 1-15, read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word that shouldn’t be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) in the appropriate box on your answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word down in the appropriate box on your answer sheet.

Nutrition and Weight Loss

0. It is a common belief that your body structure is of due to what of

00. you inherit. However, scientists and health professionals disagree. √

1. According to them, the theory of your genetic structure is forcing you to

2. be bulky is just a fable. Their opinions are that though heredity plays a

3. vital role in deciding the edges of our body frame, most of us grow hefty

4. due to our the own food preferences. When we are young, our body

5. metabolism is high and so that is our life style. We eat a lot and the energy gets

6. easily consumed in the activities we are engaged. The problem starts as

7. one starts getting retiring or ageing, an irreversible process. The first point to

8. be kept in mind up is that as we grow old, both our physical activity and the

9. metabolic rate slow down. So, it is recommended to reduce the food intake

10. which is just needed to keep out the body functioning. Even though if you gain

11. weight, there is no need to get into panic because you may try out various

12. approaches to reduce the body fat. All of them fall into two major groups

13. depending on whether you are willing to put your body under the physical

14. pressure or prefer taking chemicals that are supposed to burn down

15. your excessive kilos. So it is up to you to decide which of way to choose.

Task 2

For questions 16 - 24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

Old mobile phones are back with online (0) retailers selling RETAIL

them to people who want them for (16) … reasons, or to use SENTIMENT as a (17) … item or toy. These first models are highly DECORATE

(18) … today and will raise a good price on almost COLLECT

(19) … of condition. These models were analogue ones, REGARD

and when (20) … networks came along these phones DIGIT

were phased out – so it is very (21) … that an old phone LIKE

will work, and these phones are (22) … sold for collections. LARGE

Later a lot of (23) … came on with new models. MANUFACTURE

Still, many people retain (24) … feelings for the old phones. NOSTALGIA

Task 3

For questions 25 – 30, complete the following text by writing each missing word. Use only one word for each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

Take It Easy

Every person could agree that over all, most (0) … of us lead a really stressful life, with many difficulties that (25) … us with at least slight depression, if nothing

else. Folks have discovered many ways to get (26) … of the bad mood, or do something that keeps them busy during their free time or in rare cases the time of boredom. Nowadays, the world has changed, and embraced more modern ways of having fun, we have nearly replaced the great old-time book with the more modern e-books, and in place of just telling jokes and imagine them happen, we have all the comical clips. Today it is pretty evident that high speed net (27) … taken the main role in the area of fun, as it represents the easiest way of getting some quality fun. It does feel better, if sometimes we could simply run (28) … from our problems and every day worries and unwind, slightly, or just deny we have any problems and live the best way we could. You probably know many folks, who, when they are (29) … bad mood, or just feel like staring at an empty wall, visit those web pages just to kill some time reading the jokes or watching the clips. The point is, we should do what these people do - lighten up and enjoy a bit more, as the life without fun isn't really a life worth living, there is no (30) … in thinking about things we can't do much about.

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