Task 1
Complete these sentences by using the correct word from the box. Use each word once only. There is an extra word that you do not need to use.
council rubbish structure project computer service
Garbage Collection Goes High Tech
The city of Barcelona is putting microchips in its 18, 000 litter bins to try and make garbage collection easier. By installing microchips in the (1) ____________of the bin Barcelonas (2)___________collectors with a hand-held computer can read how full a bin is, the last time it was emptied, and if it needs a lick of paint. As far as I know this is the first project of this kind in Spain if not in the world, said a spokesman for the Barcelona city (3)___________ about the &113,000 (4)___________. The aim of the specially designed software is to optimize cleaning(5)___________ and litter collection routes, he said
Task 2
Read the following text and look carefully at each numbered line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (v) after it. If a line has a word which should not be there, write down this word.
Penguins Intrigue Scientists
Do penguins fall over backwards when watching aircraft fly overhead? British scientists
are travelling to South Georgia in the south Atlantic to find answers to that ques
tion and an others from a study of the island's (1)
4000,000 King Penguins. Scientists have been
sceptical about reports of penguins falling over (2)
backwards to watch aircraft flying above
them. But a senior officer on the British navy
ship HMS Endurance which is taking the sci-
entitle team to South Georgia, said he be
lieved the reports. "The penguins always
look up the helicopters and follow for them (3)
all the way until they fall over backwards,"
Stuart Matthew, the ship's operations offic
er, told to the Daily Telegraph. Dr Richard (4)
Stone of the British Antarctic Survey told Re
uters that scientists were concerned that low-
flying aircraft could to cause stress among pen- (5)
guins and affect their breeding performance.
Task 3
Read the passage below and use the appropriate form of each verb in brackets in the numbered blanks.
Mr. Dunning (be)a very clever man. --------(1)
...One evening, later in the same week, Mr.
Edward Dunning (return) from the British (2)
Museum Library, where he (work) all day, __ (3)
to his comfortable home. He (live) alone (4)
there except for the two women who (cook)and _(5)
cleaned for him. A train (take) him most of (6)
the way home, then he a bus for the last mile
or two. He (finish) reading his newspaper (7)
by the time he (get) on the bus so he amused (8)
himself by reading different notices on the win-
dows opposite him. He already (know) most (9)
of them quite well, but there seemed to' be a
new one in the corner that he (not see) be- (10)
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fore. It was yellow with blue letters, and all he
could (read) was the name 'John Harrington'. (11)
Soon the bus (be) nearly empty and he (change) (12), (13)
his seat so that he could read the rest of it. Mr. Dunning stared at this notice for a long time. He was the only passenger on the bus when it
reached his stop, and as he (get) off he said to (14)
the driver, T just (read) that new notice on (15)
the window. It's strange, isn't it?'
PART 4
WRITING (30 POINTS)
Not long ago you moved house. You live in a new house now, in a new district of your town. In a letter to your English-speaking pen friend describe your new flat and the place where you live now. Say what you like or dislike.
Describe the following:
- why you moved house;
- compare it with your former flat;
- when you moved house;
- write about the district you live now;
- describe your flat, its conveniences;
- compare it with the district where you lived before;
- write whether you are happy or not and why.
Write 100140 words. Be polite and remember the rules of letter writing.
