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Joselu Easter Use of English Exam

Mary Heath was a pioneering female pilot in 1920s Britain. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a commercial pilot's license and complete several other aviation firsts. Despite scandalizing society by marrying three times, she became popularly known as the "Lady Icarus" and "Lady of the Skies." However, her life was cut short in a tragic plane crash in the United States at the age of 39.

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Joselu Easter Use of English Exam

Mary Heath was a pioneering female pilot in 1920s Britain. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a commercial pilot's license and complete several other aviation firsts. Despite scandalizing society by marrying three times, she became popularly known as the "Lady Icarus" and "Lady of the Skies." However, her life was cut short in a tragic plane crash in the United States at the age of 39.

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CAE Reading and Use of English – Practice Test 2

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 1


For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, C or D) best fits each gap. There is
an example at the beginning (0).
Female pilot Mary Heath was the 0 original Queen of the Skies, one of the best-known women in the world
during the 1 __________ age of aviation. She was the first woman in Britain to gain a commercial pilot’s
licence, the first to 2 __________ a parachute jump and the first British women’s javelin champion. She
scandalised 1920s’ British society by marrying three times (at the 3__________ of her fame she wed
politician Sir James Heath - her second husband, 45 years her senior).
In 1928, aged 31, she became the first pilot to fly an open-cockpit plane, solo, from South Africa to Egypt, 4
__________ 9,000 miles in three months. It was a triumph. Lady Heath was 5 __________ as the nation’s
sweetheart and called ‘Lady Icarus’ by the press. However, her life was 6 __________ tragically short. Only
a year later, she 7 __________ a horrific accident at the National Air Show in Ohio in the USA, when her
plane crashed through the roof of a building. Her health was never the 8 __________ again, and she died in
May 1939.
Example:

0
A original B initial C primary D novel

1 A golden В sweet C bright D shiny


2 A put В hold C take D make
3 A crest В height C fullness D top
4 A covering В stretching C crossing D ranging
5 A exclaimed В declared C hailed D quoted
6 A cut В left C stopped D brought
7 A undertook В suffered C received D underwent
8 A like В equal C better D same

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 2


For questions 9-16, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word
in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet
Example: (0) AS

TRIATHLETES
Stuart Hayes had launched him self on a promising career 0 __________ a swimmer when something odd
happened 9 __________ him at the local pool. Flogging up and down for the umpteenth time, he suddenly

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CAE Reading and Use of English – Practice Test 2

realised 10__________ bored he had become with the monotony. Wasn’t there a more interesting way of
11__________ sporty, for heaven’s sake? There was and there is: the colour, sweat and sheer emotion of
triathlons. Stuart became a world-class triathlete and won the London Triathlon, the biggest event of
12__________ kind in the world.
Triathlons are 13__________ but boring. Combining swimming, cycling and running in one physical
onslaught, they offer huge variety within a single racing framework. In Britain, the sport is growing by 10
percent a year. ‘People are moving away 14__________ just running, and are looking for new challenges,’
says Nick Rusling, event director for the London Triathlon. Triathlons are a 15__________ deal more
interesting to train for and you can vary training to fit busy lifestyles, swimming in your lunch break and
16__________ on.

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 3


For questions 17-24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to
form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet.
Example: (0) WINNER

Restaurant of the Year


One more chance! That’s all we’re giving you to tell us about your favourite 0 WIN
restaurant and boost its chances of becoming the 0__________ of our Restaurant of 17 NOMINATE
18 RECEIVE
the Year competition. This is the last time the official 17__________ form will appear
in the paper and next Thursday is the final date for 18__________ of completed 19 DINE
forms. 20 CHOOSE
21 CONTEST
Over the past few weeks we have been swamped by a paper mountain as 22 DEAD
19__________ across the city jot down the compelling reasons why they believe their 23 ANNOUNCE
20__________ restaurant should definitely win our hotly 21__________ competition. 24 PRESTIGE

Once the 22__________ has passed, our judges will sit down and count all the forms.
The three restaurants which receive the most votes will then be visited by the judges.
These visits will of course be 23__________, so the restaurants themselves will not
know that the judges are there. After their visits, the judges will make their final
decision over who wins the 24__________ title 'Restaurant of the Year’.

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 4


For questions 25-30, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence,
using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must
use between three and six words, including the word given. Here is an example (0).

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0 I didn’t know the way there, so I got lost.


GET
Not_____________________ there, I got lost.
Answer: KNOWING HOW TO GET
25 It took me some time to understand fully what happened.
WHILE
It was_____________________ understood what had happened.
26 There’s no point arguing about this small detail, in my opinion.
WORTH
This small detail_____________________, in my opinion.
27 If your order is delayed, we will contact you.
DELAY
Should _____________________ to your order, we will contact you.
28 The two situations are completely different.
COMMON
The two situations don’t _____________________ each other.
29 I was amazed because there were no problems throughout the holiday.
WENT
To _____________________ wrong throughout the holiday.
30 I have no intention of doing another kind of job.
DREAM
I _____________________ other kind of job.

CAE Reading and Use of English Part 5


You are going to read a newspaper article about management. For questions 31-36, choose the answer (A,
B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

Simply ticking the boxes isn’t enough


I have been asked what I think about the idea of 'Investing in People’. The best answer I can give is that I
think that what it tries to achieve - basically making the link between business improvement and focusing
on the needs of the people who work for an organisation - is great. My problem is with organisations who
subscribe to it as a way to help them 'get better', when they don’t bother to understand where they went
wrong in the first place. They need to ask what explicit and implicit policies and procedures they have in
place that prevent their people from being able to do the right thing for the right reasons.
I am sure that there are managers out there who don’t know any better, and assume that to manage they
simply need to put pressure on their people to perform. But people don't demonstrate high performance

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