Exercise 1 Exercise 2

REVIEW TEST 1-9 • ANSWER KEY • GROUP A

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Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Can follow an animated conversation between two fluent speakers.

Can infer what will come next in an unstructured text by using contextual, grammatical and lexical cues.

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C: ‘… companies favour these technologies in order to reduce costs.’

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B: ‘… And we’re not just talking menial jobs here with occupations such as train drivers, taxi drivers and pilots in the transport sector to accountants and insurers in the service sector all expected to become obsolete.

B: link to the message at the beginning of the text – ‘one of these popular sms acronyms in a message.’

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E: This excerpt introduces Prof. Aguilera and his SMS programme. In the sentence that follows Aguilera is referred to as a person already known to the reader.

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A: In the sentence preceding the gap there is information about patients having difficulty applying knowledge gained in therapy sessions in real life. Excerpt A focuses one of these difficulties, namely looking for help online.

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F: The first sentence of the paragraph with the gap explains how the SMS programme worked and refers to patients. Excerpt F focuses on one of these patients and his reaction to the scheme.

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D: The preceding paragraph sums up the outcome of Prof. Aquilera's scheme. Excerpt D expands it further and explains what conclusions researchers can draw on its basis.

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B: ‘… people still … prefer the smile and chit-chat with the person operating the till.’

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A: Amanda: ‘… some forecast unemployment will be as high as 50 percent within the next 30 years.’ Matthew: ‘Certainly there will be a shift in a society as a whole with more and more people out of work.’

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B: ‘Ultimately people will have more leisure time and some of the luckier ones will find themselves free to pursue whatever interests they’ve never previously been able to attend to – which will of course result in a booming health and recreation industry …’

Exercise 3 Can identify information in a linguistically complex factual text.

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D: All the other factors, except D, are mentioned: ‘hormones playing havoc with the body and mind’ (A), ‘the very real fear of losing face’ (B), ‘a lot of pressure from peers not to appear foolish’ (C).

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C: ‘… teens nowadays are finding greater reward in what were perceived for years to be adult pursuits such as politics and caring for the environment – and this shift is leaving experts in psychology all at sea.’

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A: ‘It’s become impossible for the present teen to immerse themselves in pop culture alone and live in blissful ignorance of the troubles around the globe: not within 24-hours news trending everywhere they look. And almost obligatory to show a reasonable and responsible stance on such global concerns.’

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D: ‘Advancements in both the production and consumption of music has made it a soulless pastime – less of a social experience …’

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B: ‘With the increasing cost of technology and the move towards wearables, the word ‘computer’ itself might soon be consigned to history to be replaced by smartwatches, smart-homes and smart-everythings.’ page

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Exercise 4 1

finally been put on the map: To put something on the map means to popularise something and make it famous.

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anyone wish to go to: Should is placed at the beginning of a conditional clause to indicate an unlikely situation; it requires inversion (should anyone wish).

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until deadline day are we/you to: not until at the beginning of the sentence requires the use of inversion/ question word order; the structure be + an infinitive refers to future arrangements or rules.

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is little if any chance: The chance is very small means the same as there is little chance; the phrase if any strengthens the unlikelihood of reversing the damage.

Exercise 5 1

no: Inversion/question word order is used after the expression under no circumstances at the beginning of the sentence.

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question: A burning question is an expression which denotes an important issue.

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on: If someone presses on, they continue doing something.

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vain: All in vain is an expression; if someone does something all in vain, it means their efforts and actions are completely unsuccessful.

Exercise 6 1

somebody: An unspecified person.

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to build: Some nouns like opportunity, ambition, job, task are followed by an infinitive.

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ability: The verb have requires the use of a noun (experience, ability).

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attractions: The expression a (wide) variety of requires the use of a plural noun.

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constructive: Constructive criticism offers well-reasoned opinions other people’s work and involves both positive and negative comments; the adjective constructive describes the noun (criticism).

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be employed: After the verb could a bare infinitive is used; as the successful candidate is not an active agent, a passive infinitive is used.

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be getting: The infinitive be needs to be added after the modal verb could; getting is a gerund and together with enough bricks constitutes the subject of the sentence.

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enabled: The past participle form of a verb is needed to complete the Present Perfect Simple form in the sentence.