C. Complete the blanks using the words in the box. There are two extra words which you will not need to use
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1. I studied very hard because I wanted to do my in the language exam I sat for
this morning.
2. I find this to be one of the mundane tasks I have ever been called upon to do.
3. Your score in the vocabulary test is pretty satisfactory but I’m sure you have the potential to do
even .
4. My son is not of a swimmer so when we go to the sea I have to be on my
guard.
5. I personally believe that the you worry about something, the worse you make
the situation.
6. I was worried about my exam results which were coming out the next day that I
couldn’t get a wink of sleep.
READING
Read the text and answer the questions 1-8. Choose a, b, c or d.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Published in 1847, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of a young girl who overcomes great adversity and blossoms into an independent woman of impeccable character. Orphaned at a young age, Jane spends her early years at Lowood, a charity school for girls, where the pupils are forced to live in appalling conditions. When the headmaster, Mr Brocklehurst, brands Jane a liar in front of the entire school, Jane is determined to clear her name, and she enlists the help of the kindly superintendent, Miss Temple. Miss Temple offers to write to Mr Lloyd, an apothecary who treated Jane in the past, to verify that Jane is indeed an honest girl. As the extract begins, Jane and her friend, Helen, are having tea with Miss Temple.
They conversed of things I had never heard of; of nations and times past; of countries far away; of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at: they spoke of books: how many they had read! What stores of knowledge they possessed! Then they seemed so familiar with French names and French authors: but my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her, and taking a book from a shelf, bade her read and construe a page of Virgil; and Helen obeyed, my organ of veneration expanding at every sounding line. She had scarcely finished ere the bell announced bedtime: no delay could be admitted; Miss Temple embraced us both, saying, as she drew us to her heart -
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“God bless you, my children!”
Helen she held a little longer than me: she let her go more reluctantly; it was Helen her eye followed to the door; it was for her she a second time breathed a sad sigh; for her she wiped a tear from her cheek.
On reaching the bedroom, we heard the voice of Miss Scatcherd: she was examining drawers; she had just pulled out Helen Burns’s, and when we entered Helen was greeted with a sharp reprimand, and told that tomorrow she should have half-a-dozen of untidily folded articles pinned to her shoulder.
“My things were indeed in shameful disorder,” murmured Helen to me, in a low voice: “I intended to have arranged them, but I forgot.”
Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word “Slattern,” and bound it like a phylactery round Helen’s large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead. She wore it till evening, patient, unresentful, regarding it as a deserved punishment. The moment Miss Scatcherd withdrew after afternoon school, I ran to Helen, tore it off, and thrust it into the fire: the fury of which she was incapable had been burning in my soul all day, and tears, hot and large, had continually been scalding my cheek; for the spectacle of her sad resignation gave me an intolerable pain at the heart.
About a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account. Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation. The teachers then shook hands with me and kissed me, and a murmur of pleasure ran through the ranks of my companions.
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Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing. I learned the first two tenses of the verb ETRE, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day. That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings: I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark; all the work of my own hands: freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses, of birds picking at ripe cherries, of wren’s nests enclosing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays. I examined, too, in thought, the possibility of my ever being able to translate currently a certain little French story which Madame Pierrot had that day shown me; nor was that problem solved to my satisfaction ere I fell sweetly asleep.
1. How does Jane feel while listening to Helen and Miss Temple converse?
a. fascinated by their wealth of knowledge
b. bored by their constant references to French authors
c. envious of the fact that Miss Temple seems to favour Helen over her
d. frustrated at her inability to participate in the conversation
2. Why did the girls leave Miss Temple?
a. Miss Temple suggested that they should go.
b. Miss Temple was too moved to continue the conversation.
c. They had to go to their bedroom immediately.
d. Miss Scatcherd was waiting for them in their bedroom.
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3. How does Helen feel about her punishment?
a. She’s furious.
b. She feels she’s been mistreated and plans to take revenge on Miss Scatcherd.
c. She is accepting of her punishment.
d. She feels angry and complains to Jane about it.
4. Why does Jane throw the pasteboard that was tied to Helen’s head into the fire?
a. She could no longer bear to watch her friend’s passive acceptance of an unjust punishment.
b. She wanted her friend to realise that Miss Scatcherd was wrong.
c. She couldn’t stand seeing her friend crying.
d. It was the least she could do to take revenge on Miss Scatcherd.
5. The word ‘imputation’ in line 32 means:
a. judgement
b. criticism
c. deceit
d. blame
6. What’s the ‘grievous load’ Jane mentions in line 34?
a. Mr Lloyd’s letter to Miss Temple.
b. The inquiry made by Miss Temple.
c. The unfair accusation of Jane being a liar.
d. The lack of trust from Jane’s companions.
7. What does Jane do once Miss Temple announces that her name has been cleared?
a. She turns her attention to her studies.
b. She tries to improve her memory.
c. She begins studying for a French test.
d. She decides to become an artist.
8. Jane sketches her first cottage and, that night, it seems that
a. she experiences a feeling of complete satisfaction.
b. she realises that she should focus on drawing landscapes.
c. she has changed her fantasies.
d. she sets new goals after reviewing what has happened during the day.
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LISTENING
You will hear an employment expert giving a speech at a job fair. The topic of his speech is: ‘Jobs that didn’t exist ten years ago’. For questions 1-9 complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.
1. The new job opportunities that have arisen can perhaps offer those looking for a job greater career
in the future.
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2. Many companies are letting their customers know what are available to
them through social networking sites.
3. A social media manager’s responsibilities include making the public more aware of a .
4. Bloggers are required to have strong and .
5. Business continuity planners come up with to ward off attacks from cyber
space or even terrorists.
6. Among the services telecommuters offer large companies are customer service and .
7. Video game manufacturers want their games to be both and enjoyable.
8. The global economic crisis has given some new business opportunities.
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