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Model English Exam: C1 Level (ACLES) Name & surnames: _______________________________________________________________________ DNI: ___________________ Signature: ______________________________________________________ Read the instructions carefully. Write ALL your answers on the separate answer sheets. There are three tasks in this part of the exam. Reading Task 1: Naomi Klein on Climate Change (Multiple choice – 8 marks) Read the following magazine article and for questions 1-9 below choose the best answer A, B, C or D. Example: 0. Why does the author laugh when talking about climate change? A The subject is sometimes too serious. B People have ridiculous attitudes about it. C Engineers have proposed insane solutions D The topic is embarrassingly personal. Answer: 0. __ A__ 1. The book is aimed at A. the Green movement and its followers. B. people who don’t participate in the climate struggle. C. the poorest members of society. D. grassroots leaders outside of the Green movement. 2. Klein says that her new work has made her question… A. her entire way of seeing the world. B. what she’s done in her previous work. C. the goal of economic expansion. D. the goals of the environmental movement. 3. The author criticizes the U.S. and other rich countries for… A. their 200 year history of polluting. B. not educating their citizens about global justice. C. not supporting the Green movement. D. ignoring their historical debt to poor countries. Part 1: Reading (25%) 75 minutes
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Model English Exam: C1 Level (ACLES) Name & surnames: _______________________________________________________________________ DNI: ___________________ Signature: ______________________________________________________

Read the instructions carefully. Write ALL your answers on the separate answer sheets.

There are three tasks in this part of the exam.

Reading Task 1: Naomi Klein on Climate Change (Multiple choice – 8 marks) Read the following magazine article and for questions 1-9 below choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

Example: 0. Why does the author laugh when talking about climate change? A The subject is sometimes too serious. B People have ridiculous attitudes about it. C Engineers have proposed insane solutions D The topic is embarrassingly personal.

Answer: 0. __ A__

1. The book is aimed at

A. the Green movement and its followers.

B. people who don’t participate in the climate struggle.

C. the poorest members of society.

D. grassroots leaders outside of the Green movement.

2. Klein says that her new work has made her question…

A. her entire way of seeing the world.

B. what she’s done in her previous work.

C. the goal of economic expansion.

D. the goals of the environmental movement.

3. The author criticizes the U.S. and other rich countries for…

A. their 200 year history of polluting.

B. not educating their citizens about global justice.

C. not supporting the Green movement.

D. ignoring their historical debt to poor countries.

Part 1: Reading (25%) 75 minutes

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4. Klein thinks that the most important thing individuals can do is…

A. use less energy like petrol in their everyday lives.

B. stop blaming other people for global problems.

C. work for broader political change in the world.

D. stop criticizing the Green movement so much.

5. Regarding the “climate billionaires,” Naomi Klein thinks…

A. … the rich should be obliged to contribute to a solution.

B. … they don’t really want to help the environment.

C. … they never honour their promises to give money.

D. … they don’t help evironmental organizations.

6. What does Naomi Klein say about how she felt soon after beginning the research?

A. She had to rely on the Green movement for help.

B. She thought no one would read her book.

C. She felt that she wasn’t getting anywhere.

D. She was upset that she couldn’t report on the BP spill.

7. How does the author’s miscarriage relate to the BP oil spill?

A. Both events show that everything has a breaking point.

B. She thinks that it was caused by her depression over the oil spill.

C. She was exposed to harmful chemicals while doing the research.

D. Both events helped her to see a technological solution.

8. What is the best way to describe the author’s attitude about the future?

A. She worries about future generations.

B. She takes hope from technological advancement.

C. She wants people to take responsibility for their actions.

D. She sees change as possible but not likely.

Naomi Klein on climate change: ‘This is our last chance’

When it comes to climate change, capitalism is the problem, says Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein by Patrick Freyne

First published: Sat, Oct 25, 2014, 01:00 Irish Times

‘It’s impossible to respond to climate change without confronting historical injustice or talking about redistribution of wealth,” says Naomi Klein. “There are lots of greens who’d like me to be quiet about that because they think it’s a secret.” She laughs. “It’s not! People know. The cat’s out of the bag.”

Klein sometimes laughs when talking about dark subjects. She laughs in the middle of pronouncements about our warming planet. She laughs when discussing the terrifying hubris of geo-engineers. She even laughs when discussing her issues with fertility, the subject of a very moving chapter in her new book. Maybe Klein laughs because she realises how ridiculously heavy it all sounds. And she doesn’t want to scare anyone off.

This Changes Everything is a rigorously calm, deeply-felt book aimed at those “who are not part of the climate conversation”. In it, Klein argues that climate change is not an apolitical issue, that it disproportionately affects the poorest people, and that the only way to meaningfully tackle it involves grassroots movements, investment in the public sphere and economic justice.

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This is all a familiar prescription, if you’ve read Klein’s previous work (No Logo and The Shock Doctrine). But it’s the first time she’s applied it specifically to this issue.

“People have said this is just confirming my world view,” she says. “And there is a way that that’s true. I believe we need to have a more just society and I’d believe that even if the temperatures weren’t going up. But this research has pushed me to look much more deeply at the growth imperative. So it isn’t true that this is just reconfirming my previous beliefs. I’ve had to change in line with what I’ve learned.”

Why hadn’t she written about this before? “I wasn’t engaged because I didn’t really see a way out, I guess.”

What changed is that Klein had a conversation with Bolivian politician Angelica Navarro Llanos.

“She laid out this vision of a ‘Marshal plan for Planet Earth’. This is what all climate negotiations break down over – the call from countries in the global south for help leapfrogging over fossil fuels and to get on a different kind of development path, and the failure of wealthier countries to rise to that challenge. That justice-based response was the hope that made me want to devote some years to writing this book”

Justice has also always been what blocks progress on the climate issue, she says.

“It’s why the US didn’t ratify the Kyoto Protocol: because the Kyoto Protocol recognises that the countries that have a 200-year head-start on emitting carbon have to lead. Americans like to think that history started this morning. They don’t like taking historical responsibility. This has been compounded by the fact the Green movement hasn’t supported the global south in these demands for justice actively enough. There’s a feeling, particularly in America, that this is too controversial, too difficult to sell at home.”

So the issue has been framed as a lifestyle issue rather than a political one. Klein rejects the “message that we are all equally guilty, that ‘it’s all your fault, because you put petrol in your car’. That’s made people feel that they don’t have a right to join the climate movement unless they’re some perfect green person.”

While she believes people should make individual changes, she thinks that “if we play this game that using fossil fuels makes you a hypocrite and therefore less legitimate in criticising, that’s a recipe for a very small movement, right?

“I’m far from perfect and I openly admit that. If someone wants to point out the irony that I flew here, that’s fine.”

This Changes Everything targets the corporations, governments and geo-engineers seeking soft solutions and quick fixes, as well as the mainstream environmental organisations who enable them –most notoriously, the Nature Conservancy, which allowed oil and gas drilling on some of its protected land. Klein also tackles “climate billionaires” such as Richard Branson, who comes in for criticism for not yet honouring the pledge he made in 2006 to invest $3 billion into green energies.

Branson is the only subject of her criticism who has written to her in response, she says.

What did he say?

“He’s . . . not happy. He didn’t point to anything that I got wrong. If he points out an error I’m happy to correct it. The reason I pick on him is I think his original idea is a really good one. I really do think we should get the profits from the polluting industries to pay for the transition away from them. But it’s obvious that this can’t be a PR, voluntary thing, right?”

Klein’s overarching point is that we won’t be saved by market-based solutions that come from elites. Real change isn’t in their interest, she says.

“You do have to get worked up. You have to take radical action. You can’t just make the gentle tweaks that people in power tend to be more comfortable with. This telethon model, billionaires promising to save the world, it’s not doin’ it!”

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When Klein began writing the book five years ago, the sort of grassroots movement she was hoping for didn’t yet exist. “I spent a lot of the time researching this book depressed. I wasn’t seeing that counter power; I was sort of floundering. There’s no point in writing a book like this if there isn’t a movement that could run with it.”

Her darkest point came in 2010, watching the BP disaster unfold in the Gulf of Mexico.

“They were just sort of scrambling, trying to plug the hole,” she says. “They put a top hat on it. It was just so scary being there. The world is haemorrhaging oil. They’ve torn a hole in the bottom of the ocean and it’s gushing and they don’t know how to block it. I think the experience in covering the BP disaster was really formative for me on lots of levels, including the miscarriage that I wrote about.”

Klein’s miscarriage coincided with the oil spill. In one unexpected chapter, she writes with moving honesty about her fertility issues. She wasn’t sure whether she would actually publish this, she says, and she still seems a little surprised that she did.

“I do think it is weird to have such a personal chapter at the end of the book,” Klein says. “But I’ve only heard nice things about it. Except one reviewer said he thought it was distracting.”

She draws parallels between our impact on the environment and her own attempts to conceive with the help of what she calls “the Fertility Factory”.

“I did think there were parallels with the way we just throw chemicals at problems rather than understand the root of them. Having that kind of body knowledge, that body memory, that we’re not infinitely resilient, that we can be pushed too far, is important. I thought I would share that.”

The ecological issue “is so big that we can easily feel overwhelmed and I think that we as writers need to find ways of making it small for people.”

Klein did conceive. And she writes about how having a child changed her perspective. “But it’s not why I care,” she says. “In some ways we displace our own cares onto our kids. We’re afraid for ourselves. But it’s somehow easier and more acceptable to say you care about it for your kids.

Her son focused her worries. And new grassroots movements are giving her hope. In the latter parts of the book, she writes about several localised sites of resistance to fossil-fuel extraction.

“I was incredibly heartened by the march in New York City during the Climate Summit – 400,000 people on the street. You saw all of these people who had these very local reasons for wanting climate justice: the fracking movement, ranchers fighting the Keystone pipeline and indigenous people downstream from tar sands, all coming together under a climate banner saying: ‘Let’s build the infrastructure for the next economy instead of doubling down on the old economy’.”

Does she really believe that all these disparate groups can drive change?

“I have been part of social movements that have surprised the hell out of everybody who’s been a part of them. Mass social movements can emerge very quickly, whether it’s Occupy or the Indignados or the Arab spring or Hong Kong. The problem is we’re not very good at sustaining these movements.”

What’s different this time?

“Climate change puts us on this deadline. This is our last chance. The billionaires aren’t going to save us. Our governments aren’t going to save us. We’re on a road to four to six degrees [warming]. So our only chance is that there’ll be some countervailing power that will grab the wheel of history and swerve.

“It’s not that I think it will happen. It’s not even that I think there’s a good change it will happen. It’s that I think there’s a chance it can happen. And because there’s a chance, I think there’s a moral responsibility to fight.”

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs Climate Change is published by Allen Lane

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Reading Task 2: Hollow Earth Theory- Matching: (11 marks—1 mark per question) Read the following opinion articles about Hollow Earth Theory and answer the questions. Question 0. is an example.

Which writer:

Source: http://cryptid.hubpages.com/hub/HollowEarth-Theory-and-Admiral-Byrds-Flight-to-Agartha

http://somethgblue.hubpages.com/hub/Hollow-Earth-Fact-or-Fiction

http://deantraylor.hubpages.com/hub/The-Strange-Tale-of-Symmes-Hole-and-the-Hollow-Earth-Theory

http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/hollow.htm

found the availability of data a motivation for research?

0

A

reports how a discovery may support the theory?

1

thinks that certain accounts may have revived the theory?

2

refers to a persuasive advocate of the theory? 3

preferred a more traditional means of research? 4

prefers fictional accounts to other hypotheses?

5

was amazed by the inaccuracies s/he encountered related to the subject? 6

mentions scientific contempt of the concept? 7

likens the globe to a decorative sphere? 8

suggests that contemporary science should be able to refute the theory?

9

comments on a kind of awareness campaign?

10

realised there was no shortage of material on the topic?

11

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A Hollow Earth Theory, The Greatest

Kept Secret of All Time or is it?

The subject of Hollow Earth to me is fascinating and until recently I didn't give it much thought, but due in large part to the information highway I decided it was time to investigate.(0) After researching this topic it became clear to me that The Hollow Earth Theory is the greatest kept secret of all time . . . or is it? The amount of disinformation on this topic is truly staggering!

I consider myself to be pretty open minded, but the concept that our planet is hollow with an energy source in the center was pretty far-fetched even for me, however one of my pet peeves is contempt prior to investigation and so I did what any good researcher would do I Googled it. I got 3,750,000 sites in 11 seconds, Hmmm where to begin, obviously I wasn't going to have a problem with finding information on the subject.

The Hollow Earth Theory has been mentioned many times in various books on ancient man that I have read over the years. So I went back and found those books' sources and began reading. (…)

B Admiral Byrd and Hollow Earth

Theory: Proof of an Inner Earth?

Could the Earth be hollow, and did Admiral Byrd record his visit to inner earth in his diary?

Hollow Earth Theory is an interesting hypothesis, one almost too amazing to get your mind around. There are those who believe that our planet holds a dark secret, witnessed by few and guarded by governments. The idea is equal parts absurd and fascinating, and has many supporters around the world. The secret they foster is one which says our world is actually hollow, and another society of beings lives inside. All we have known of this planet, all the history and science taught in schools and universities, is only a half truth. The real truth lies within.

Imagine our planet to be like a bead. We live on the surface of the bead. The holes in the bead are the north and south poles. With the right transportation, one could travel straight through the bead (planet). Inside, strange and wonderful things exist, some beyond our imagination. Many Hollow Earth believers allege UFOs come from inside our planet, not another galaxy. They are vehicles piloted by inner-earth inhabitants, who make an appearance on our turf only occasionally. They come from a place where mammoths still roam, and glowing cities flourish. The Northern Lights are, in fact, reflections of those city lights off of the atmosphere.

Sound kooky? Maybe, but Hollow Earth Theory has had its proponents throughout history, from ancient times up into the modern day. Surely 21

st-century science can disprove

such an inane notion. Given all we know of seismic waves, gravity, geology and the formation of planets, no credible

evidence could possibly exist in favor of this whimsical concept. Yet many believe in the possibility, partly thanks to the diary of Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Byrd’s alleged written testimony has bolstered Hollow Earth theory in recent decades, and lent some credibility to the concept. (...)

C The Strange Tale of Symmes Hole

and the Hollow Earth Theory

In 1818, Captain John Cleves Symmes Jr., had a startling

revelation about the geologic make-up of Earth. It’s not clear what inspired him or if he had any training in the field of science. What is certain is that the U.S. veteran from the War of 1812 managed to convince a young nation that the Earth was hollow and there was a way to reach its center.

The Hollow Earth Theory was nothing new in Symmes’ era; however, his belief in the existence of portals within the North and South Pole that connected the “outer” and “inner” world was. And, despite any evidence that Symmes Hole existed at all, his “theory” would remain popular for nearly 100 years and make him a household name well after his death, sometimes for the best – and other times for the worst.

To understand Symmes Hole, one must take a look at the Hollow Earth Theory. The idea that another world existed had been around long before Captain Symmes toured the country to explain his concept. (…)

D The Hollow Earth

(…) Perhaps one of the most well-known books about hollow-earth is Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The book illustrates a third theory of hollow-earth which is more plausible than the other two. This is that passages from the surface lead to caverns underground in which life thrives. In the book three scientists climb down an inactive Iceland volcano in an attempt to find a path to the center of the Earth. They don't make it, but they do find an underground sea populated with prehistoric creatures including plesiosaurs. Verne may have been closer to that mark than most expected. For years scientists scoffed at the idea of life thriving underground without light to provide energy. Now explorations have found rock-eating bacteria living as far as a mile below the ground. In Romania a whole ecosystem, including spiders, scorpions, leeches and millipedes has been found in a cave cut off from the surface 5.5 million years ago. In addition to this kind of a hollow-earth there may be a "hollow Mars." A mars rock discovered in the Antarctic suggests that bacteria may have, and might continue to, exist underground on the red plane

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Reading Task 3: The Very Bad Apple Missing Sentences (6 marks)

Read the following newspaper article written by Jo Haigh, Senior partner in fds and 2014 First Women Awards Business Services Winner. There are 6 sentences missing in the text which you will find below. Match each space (1-6) with the corresponding missing sentence (B-I). There are two sentences which are NOT part of the text.

Example question and answer: 7. _A_ _

The Very Bad Apple

Of course we are all well aware what such a commodity does to the rest, be they the actual fruit or the human

version. What has surprised me is just how quickly this rot can set in if not tackled quickly. Office gossip becomes

scandal, and what has been fun banter turns into viperous whispers. Unrest and unease escalates and what was

once a fun and happy environment becomes fraught with tension.

What is in my recent experience very disconcerting, and frankly hugely upsetting, is that much of the gossip is by

large unfounded, but the viper in the nest is determined to do everything they can to destabilize the ship.

And particularly having recounted my recent woes to other owner managers I am certainly

not alone in my experience.

As an owner manager and one who's number one value is: BE KIND, I guess I had expected to do unto me as I do to

them. Mistake number one! I was not expecting thanks. Why would I?

I run a business and that doesn't often come with the territory, but I wasn't expecting such traitorous behaviour.

There are two things that as an owner manager I really appreciate in my staff.

When these are breached I admit I find it very, very hard to recover. I move on, what choice do we have? But I don't

forget. Worse still of course when this betrayal takes place by long serving staff. Or perhaps even more so when

previously loyal staff, have been coerced into what may be called challenging behaviour by the newbie! If you are

reading this and thinking "well hardly third world problems" you are of course correct, but it doesn't really make it

any easier for the owner manager who takes such betrayal very personally indeed.

The most challenging thing is finding out why this happened in the first place.

1.

2.

3.

4.

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Email interpretation is partly to blame. How something is meant to sound and how it is read can be entirely

different.

At times generally sitting and chatting are rarely options, as we rush from one meeting to another barely catching

our breath so getting to know staff personally is not easy. Often parties are working remotely and it is important to

manage being friends and friendly when dealing across all staff groups.

Personality profiling may help, but would that help you pick up the challenging disloyalty gene? I think not.

We appear to be in a somewhat "it's all about me" society at times, when it comes to work

place behaviour, and my own motivations about paying it forward and supporting the less fortunate are not as

common as I would like to hope.

None of us like being taken for granted in work or at play but owner managers, perhaps more than most, find this

behaviour very hard to forgive as by large we have sacrificed so much on our journey.

The answer: I don't have one, except to say as we so often do:

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jo-haigh/business-ethics_b_6339014.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-business

A. Change the people or change the people.

B. They are gratitude and kindness.

C. By general consensus, there seems to be one main reason which is the principal cause for this.

D. This whole situation is of course further exacerbated by social media should you care to indulge.

E. And then of course ensuring everything possible is done to stop a reoccurrence.

F. We certainly spend time talking about our values and how important they are but whilst these are part of my

DNA I can't be assured of absolute buy in.

G. My own experience has been a first in 25 years of running my own business, so I guess I am very lucky.

H. They are trust and loyalty. I. We are all in such a rush all the time that such communication can, on occasion, seem discourteous at best.

5.

6.

7. A

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Writing (25%) 100 minutes

Task 1: Letter to the Editor (13 marks)

Read part of the editorial from a British newspaper, The

Independent and write a letter in response to it. You

should refer to the ideas mentioned in the editorial in your

letter. Write between 180-200 words.

Source:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/paris-

attacks-intelligence-is-the-best-defence-9970231.html

Task 2: (12 marks)

Write an answer to ONE of the options below. Write your

answer in 270-300 words in an appropriate style.

Option A: article for online student magazine

Write an article for the university online student magazine

titled:

Where to go in Vigo when you’re not in the Library

The article should be written with the visiting Erasmus

students in mind.

OR

Option B: essay

Write an essay on the following quote:

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

Andy Warhol

Editorial

Sunday 11 January 2015

Paris attacks:

Intelligence is the

best defence

We should not rush into new

legislation as a panicked response to

the atrocities, neither should we be

complacent

As Cole Moreton says today, writing about the

three terrorists who killed 17 people in Paris last

week, "they got what they wanted". They

wanted to be noticed, and they got that attention.

In that sense, journalists become complicit with

the terrorist at times like this, but only, we

would argue, because people need to know what

has happened and why.

We hope that our reporting today of the horror

that hit France on Wednesday strikes the right

balance, reporting the events and helping to

understand them, the better to minimise the

threat from similar attacks in Britain. But the

scale and the intensity of the reaction does pose

the question: what would be an overreaction?

What would be a complacent response?

There is a tendency for the debate about the

security response to terrorist outrages to follow

the media cycle and to swing sharply from one

extreme to another. Immediately afterwards,

most people readily accept the inconvenience of

having to take their shoes off to go through

airport security, and some of us positively

welcome the reassurance that it provides. But

then, as the months turn into years, such

precautions start to chafe and, when the

restrictions on taking fluids on aeroplanes were

lifted, most of us were mightily relieved.

Inevitably, there is already a debate in this

country about whether our security services

have the resources and powers that they need.

That is a debate that swings from strong public

support for a higher spending and intrusive

measures in the days after a shock, to a more

sceptical mood during the longer periods

between them.

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Model English Exam – Level C1 CertAcles

Surnames & names: ___________________________________________________________________________

DNI: _____________________________ Signature: _______________________________________________

There are 3 tasks in this part of the exam. You will be given time at the end of the 3 tasks to transfer your answers to your answer sheet.

Task 1 – Ecologists (1 mark per correct answer – Total 10 marks) Listen to 4 speakers (A,B,C,D) talking about ecology and match the speakers to the right question.

Question 0 is an example.

Which speaker…

0. feels that festivities were justified given the magnitude of the agreement? 0 A

1. refers to a deadline for action to reverse the greenhouse effect? 1

2. realizes that people’s apathy is the biggest obstacle to change? 2

3. expresses optimism about people’s potential and reaction to a crisis? 3

4. is protesting about a problem which affects people locally? 4

5. believes that people often leave tasks till the last minute? 5

6. compares our rubbish and pollution to lethal arms? 6

7. has mixed feelings about the outcome of a new treaty? 7

8. uses creativity to change people’s attitude about an ecological issue? 8

9. appeals to our emotions as a means to cure the planet? 9

10. regrets the lateness of recent developments with regard to making changes? 10

Sources: http://loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=16-P13-00017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Z2wmgLiTc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_Wn-a7PGY

Listening (25%) (40 minutes)

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Task 2 – Private Practice (1 mark per correct answer – Total 8 marks)

Listen to a podcast from a Social worker about his private practice and answer the questions with between 1 and 4

words. Question 0 is an example.

0. In the 1990s his work involved dealing with …………….suicidal kids……………

1. He defines his approach to social work as ………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. The agency stopped colleagues working on the same cases because ……………………………………………………..

3. He expected to earn more money in the private practice and have…………………………………………………………

4. So as not to make any mistakes, they contracted a(n) …………………………and a(n)…………………………………….

5. He soon became disheartened due to …………………………………………………………………………………………………….

6. Although the work was the same he missed not having...………………………………………………………………………

7. Finding families who wanted two therapists proved …………………………………………………………………………..….

8. As a result of this business venture he feels ………………………………………………………………………………………..….

Source: http://socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/JulieHanks.html

Task 3 - The Pure Gold Baby (1 mark per correct answer – Total 7 marks)

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/drabble/5285882

Listen to an interview with Margaret Drabble in which she talks about her latest novel The Pure Gold Baby. The novel

tells the story of Jessica Speight, an anthropologist. Choose the BEST answer (A, B, C or D) for each question 1 – 7.

Question 0 is an example.

0. Lobster claw syndrome:

A. is an affliction found only in certain parts of Africa.

B. means a person will normally suffer during their life.

C. did not seem to bother the youngsters the writer saw. CORRECT ANSWER C.

D. is a disease caught from the water in the marshes of Zambia.

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1. The writer says she went to Zambia:

A. a few times during 1986.

B. to study the medical condition and history of the children.

C. with a group of people who all saw the children.

D. with a group of people to study the history of Livingstone.

2. The first sentence of the novel contains:

A. a word that the author had never used before.

B. a word that the author hoped would scare people.

C. a medical word to describe the children’s condition.

D. alliteration that language experts will understand.

3. The main character in the book, Jess feels affection for the children:

A. because her child also has problems.

B. because she’s horrified by their condition.

C. despite being unaware of her child’s problems.

D. because she wants to become a mother.

4. The book is different from Margaret Drabble’s previous work because:

A. the story goes back and forth over time.

B. the story is about her children who have now grown up.

C. the story is written using the present and flashbacks.

D. she wanted to add different dimensions to narrative.

5. After her time in Africa the book’s main character returns to England:

A. to take up a course in Anthropology.

B. to marry a professor in Anthropology.

C. to keep on studying Anthropology.

D. to become a professor in Anthropology.

6. The relationship between Jess and her lover:

A. is very satisfying and she wants to live with him and have a baby.

B. involves them meeting at a chic hotel on Thursdays to make love.

C. ends when Jess leaves him after discovering her pregnancy.

D. is similar to many relationships at that time in London.

7. In this book the author is particularly concerned about the way:

A. women break free and live more interesting lives.

B. someone copes when their life is especially restricted.

C. Jess changes as she goes from being a girl to adulthood.

D. motherhood can strain the life of women.

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Teacher’s Answer Key – C1 ACLES January 2015

Reading Task 1. Naomi Klein – Multiple Choice

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

B C D C A C A D

Reading Task 2. Hollow Earth Theory – Matching

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

D

B

C

A

D

A

D

B

B

C

A

Reading Task 3. The Very Bad Apple – missing sentence

1 2 3 4 5 6

D

G H E I F

Listening Task 1 - Ecologists

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

D C D A D B A C B A

Listening Task 2 - Private Practice

1. strength-based / focused on solutions 2. they couldn’t double-bill / they couldn’t afford it / only one was reimbursed 3. a more flexible schedule /timetable 4. accountant and a consultant 5. excess work /long hours / too much work 6. colleagues to consult with / support from colleagues /back-up from other professions 7. difficult / hard work / to be a problem / complicated 8. no regrets / he has learned things

Listening Task 3 Pure Gold Baby

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

C B C A C C B


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