Read the text below. Mach choices (A-H) to (1-5). There are three choices you do not need to use. Write your answer on the separate answer sheet.
Graduate recruitment programme
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For the ambitious graduate wishing to train as a commercial lawyer, we offer trainees first-rate work in an informative, challenging and busy atmosphere, where your contribution counts from day one.
We require approximately 15 exceptional trainee solicitors each year to contribute to our future growth, in both our London and Manchester offices.
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We handle only commercial matters, offering training in company, commercial and finance, commercial litigation, employment media, energy, trade and commodities, shipping and property law, and in the business skills essential to success as a solicitor.
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Strong academic qualifications, including a 2.1 degree (any discipline). We take a flexible approach and are willing to progress candidates whose application otherwise demonstrates first- rate personal qualities and experience.
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Apply by 31 st July two years before the start of the training contract.
To apply online, please click on this link: http://www.barkerrose.co.uk
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We will pay your full course fees for both the GDL and LPC, plus maintenance of €6,000 during your GDL and £7,000 through your LPC study year.
A. The Baker Rose Graduate Recruitment Programme
B. Minimum qualifications
C. When and how to apply
D. Training programme
E. The Baker Rose Master’s Programme
F. Sponsorship
G. Maximum qualifications
H. Fees
Task 2
Read the text below. For questions (6—10) choose the correct answer ( А , В , C or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.
INFORMATION SOCIETY
Once upon a time societies were organised on the base of religion, farming, trade or industry. In many parts of the world today this is still true, but something else is becoming more important — the exchange of information, and the technologies that we use to do this. Twenty-four-hour news, e-commerce, international call-centres, mobile phones, Global Positioning Systems ... all these are making the world smaller and faster.
But how can everybody in the world share the recent technological advances? Millions of people cannot read these words because they don't have access to a computer. They don't understand English either, the language that 80 % of the information is written in. They don't even have a telephone. They are more worried about how far they will have to walk today to get clean water or if they can feed themselves and their families. For most people on this planet, information is not a priority.
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The contrast between countries that have information technology and those that don't is called the «digital divide». Scandinavia and South East Asia have a high number of people who us e Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Central Africa and the Pacific have almost none.
The United Nations is trying to make the information society a reality for most of the developing world. This organization wants to see rich countries transfer new technology and knowledge to poorer nations.
Ten years from now, the plan is that everybody in the world will have a radio or television and that 50 % of the world's population will have access to the Internet from schools and universities, health centres and hospitals, libraries and museums. This will improve medical care and education, science and agriculture, business opportunities and employment. At the same time, they say, local communities, languages and cultures will become stronger.
Just a dream? Certainly there are some contradictions. Does only good come with freedom of information? If information is power, why will people share it? Doesn't more technology mean fewer jobs? And how can the exchange of information keep local cultures alive if most of that information exists only in one language?
It is much easier to get people connected to broadband or put government online in Europe than in South America or the Middle East. However, developing countries often leapfrog the process which richer nations went through, and avoid their mistakes. Brazil collects most of its taxes online these days. There are cyber cities in Dubai and Mauritius. And Taiwan and Hong Kong have better access to ICT than the United Kingdom. Maybe the English language isn't so important after all.
Can the world create an information society for all? If a farmer in Bangladesh can read this in the year 2017, then maybe the answer is «yes».
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