Advanced C1 (Close-up C1)

Final test
Name: ____________________
Points: ____/100p

Listening

A You will hear three extracts. For questions 1-6, choose the answer (a, b or c) which fits best
according to what you hear. There are two questions for each extract. You will hear each
extract twice.
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Extract One
You hear part of an interview with a young woman called Alison who has won a competition.

1 What didnt Alison enjoy about her experience?

a having no access to any form of media
b not going out to parties and other events
c the lack of contact with people close to her
2 What is Alison going to do?
a put her money to good use
b buy and sell houses
c become a TV star

Extract Two
You hear two people on a music programme talking about a bands upcoming tour.

3 According to the presenters, the Thick Bricks

a are popular in the United Kingdom.
b require the use of wheelchairs.
c are going to promote an album.
4 Miranda thinks the band members are retiring
a due to their advanced years.
b because of poor record sales.
c because they dont like their critics.

Extract Three
You hear part of an interview with an athlete who has achieved success at a young age.

5 What is Charlie going to do with his new-found wealth?

a make his own investments
b buy some expensive items
c leave it in capable hands
6 When Charlie was younger,
a he often dressed up as a police officer.
b he already showed promise as a footballer.
c it was his desire to become a lawyer.

Use of English
A For questions 1-10, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use
only one word
in each gap.
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Britain has many haunted theatres. The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London, prides (1)
______________ on being regarded as the most haunted of (2) __________________ all. The most
legendary ghostly inhabitant is an 18th century gentleman known (3) ___________________ the
Man in Grey. Spotted by dozens of cleaners over the years, a sighting of him is usually
considered to be a good luck omen for a show. It is thought that he is associated
(4) ___________________ a skeleton uncovered by workmen in the theatre in 1843. The skeleton
was found with a knife in (5) __________________ ribs. There is also the ghost of an Irish actor,
Charles Macklin. He stabbed a fellow actor, Thomas Hallam, in the eye in 1735.
Macklins ghost has (6) _____________________ seen in a backstage corridor. Joseph Grimaldi
was a famous clown who performed at the Theatre Royal for many years. When he died in
1837, he left a request that he be buried near the theatre. (7) ______________________ then, his
ghost occasionally appears during shows, sometimes (8)______________________ in the
audience, smiling encouragement up at performers on the stage. Every once in a while
performers (9) _______________________ felt his presence on stage with them. Some have
spoken of feeling his hands guiding them to a better spot on stage, or even kicking them in
the rear if they werent
(10) ____________________their best!

B For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in the brackets to form a word
that fits in the gap in the same line.
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In the autumn of 1504, Michelangelos statue David, which had taken the (1)
___________________ (sculpt) three years to create, was finally erected in the Piazza della
Signoria in Florence. It was immediately hailed as one of the greatest (2) ____________________
(master) of the Renaissance, and rightly so. Giorgio Vasari, a contemporary of Michelangelos,
who wrote a famous biography of the artist, declared David to be (3) ___________________
(super) to any other work, ancient or modern. He claimed that its beauty and proportions
were incomparable, and the (4) ____________________ (grace) positioning of the subject was (5)
_____________________ (equal), while the head and extremities were shining examples of (6)
____________________ (excel) in art forms. Florence was the force behind the Renaissance. It
had several (7) _____________________ (except) artists, but it was Michelangelo who was seen
as the (8) ______________________ (compare) genius that best represented Florence, and whose
superb statue David has come to (9) ______________________ (symbol) both the
(10) ________________________ (art) and intellectual achievements of the Renaissance. Other
well-known works include the Pieta statue, housed in St Peters Basilica in the Vatican, and the
frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

C For questions 1-5, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three
sentences.
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1 We carefully picked our way through the forest by the ______________ of the moon.
The hunters left the camp and headed out at first _______________.
You mustnt do anything until you get the green ________________ from the manager.
2 Of course its true; I got it straight from the horses ______________ .
Why dont you keep your big _______________ shut, Penelope?
We lit a fire near the ________________ of the cave so that wild animals would not venture near
us.
3 It was such a sad film that there wasnt a(n) ________________ eye in the house.
I need to use a specially enriched Loisturizer for ________________ skin.
Harrys got a nasty ______________ cough thats keeping him up at night.
4 Who designed this wonderfully modern stage ________________?
Take a spare __________________ of clothes in case you get wet.
The Caf Paris was the fashionable hangout of the literary _________________.
5 I cant weigh myself; the bathroom scales are __________________.
Ugh! That fish must be __________________ ; it smells disgusting.
Joes not feeling well and hes having a(n) _________________ day.

D Complete the second sentences so that they have a similar meaning to the first sentences.
Use the words in bold. You must use between three and six words including the word given.
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1. Tim began painting at two oclock and its now six oclock. FOR
Tim __________________________________________________________ now.
2. You missed rehearsal and that was wrong, Ralph! HAVE
You __________________________________________________________ , Ralph!
3. He has to be a better actor for them to give him a great role. ENOUGH
He ____________________________________________________________ a great role.
4. Having junk food again for dinner is a bad idea. BETTER
We ___________________________________________________________ again for dinner.
5. Tom, when did you first meet the Smiths? KNOWN
Tom, ____________________________________________________________ the Smiths for?
6. David didnt listen and hes bankrupt now. WOULD
If David __________________________________________________________ bankrupt now.
7. Kate complains all the time and its very annoying. WISH
I ___________________________________________________________________ all the time!
8. You know, as soon as they won the money, they bought a flashy sports car. NO
You know, ________________________________ the money than they bought a flashy sports
car.
9. Someone cheated Sylvia out of her savings and she was in a bad way. BEEN
Sylvia was in a bad way, ____________________________________________ out of her savings.
10.Im really tired and Im not able to go shopping with you. SO
Im ______________________________________________________________ shopping with you.

Reading

A You are going to read an extract from a magazine article. Six paragraphs have been
removed from the extract. Choose from the paragraphs A-G the one which fits each gap (1-6).
There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
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Loss of Control: The Dangers of Technology

Technology is a strange thing. It bestows wonderful gifts with one hand, while it stabs you in
the back with the other.
Loss of privacy is a case in point. Around the world, there is growing concern about this. Each
year seems to bring
more surveillance, more corporate data-gathering and more personal information becoming
public. Security cameras seem to be popping up everywhere and we can be tracked by our
mobile phones. Technology is hard at work exposing us at every turn. Loss of privacy is a
serious problem.
1 _____
Consider email. If you use Microsoft Outlook or a similar system, when you get your email, a
copy is stored on your
own computer. On the other hand, if you access your email via a web interface, such as
Yahoo!, Gmail or Hotmail, that email isnt on your computer; its stored on the server of
whatever service provider you are using. Should you lose your Internet connection, you lose
access to your entire history of email. There may even be a valid argument concerning your
ownership of that email.
2 _____
More and more of our electronic interactions take place in an environment owned entirely by
someone else, such as
Facebook or other similar forums. As these are privately owned, they tend to claim ownership
over everything posted: your pictures, your writing and all of your comments. If you write
something directly into their system, you dont even have a copy of it.
3 _____
Online banking is an example of this. You have a bank account, but the information and
records are not on your
computer. Your bank stores all of your statements, transaction logs, and account information
in the cloud
and allows you to directly interact with that information by paying bills to other cloud entities
and moving money
between accounts. You can log on with any computer, go to the proper web page and access
your information.
4 _____
So you enjoy reading and listening to music and have a huge library of books and CDs on your
shelves. Increasingly
though, these products are to be found in the cloud; they are downloaded when they are
viewed and not saved.
5 _____
Amazon caused some controversy in 2009, when it erased books previously downloaded to
customers Kindles.
Amazon reached into the memory of individual Kindles held by customers and, without notice
or permission,
deleted books that customers had paid for. Amazon did give prompt refunds and argued that
the company had to
do this as it had discovered that the books were illegally sold in the first place. The fact that it
had the power to do
this, however, marks a fundamental change. No one would ever tolerate Amazon breaking
into their house and taking their books. That the books were authored by George Orwell just
added more irony to the incident.
With technology advancing so spectacularly, who knows what the future will bring. The
chances are, though, that
if individuals are not better protected from loss of privacy, more and more of them will opt out
of using these so-called technological improvements.
6 _____

A And what about the cloud and cloud computing? It refers to the practice of keeping data
not on your home or
work computer, but on other computers that are connected to the Internet, so that you can
access that data from
anywhere at any time.

B Imagine you create a piece of software which allows users to upload millions of
photographs, tag them and share
them. You need somewhere to store them and you need to be able to handle millions of users
on your website
every day without it going down. Thats where the cloud comes in.

C There is no doubt that the cloud, as a concept, offers some significant advantages. The
control and the ownership,
however, has shifted away from you to someone else. Not only that, but hackers seem to be
increasingly able to
access it. And as with emails, you are left fairly helpless when you lose access to the Internet.

D However, there is a related issue that threatens us with loss of control over our own data.
On several fronts,
data that used to be in our possession has now moved to being in the physical possession of
others, and we are
dependent on them to have access to it.

E These trends describe a fundamental change in the power between the individual and the
corporation. The
digitisation of records and the rise of the cloud undeniably produce greater efficiencies, but
the individual has
become more vulnerable.

F For instance, could you get your email back if your provider decided to cut you off for a late
bill or because you
violated a rule of theirs? What happens if you are in a dispute with the company that provides
your Internet access?
How could you prevent them from deleting selected emails that prove your case?

G If you had bought hard copies, you could enjoy them as often as you liked. A downloaded
product potentially has
to be paid for each time it is used and could be withheld at the whim of the company that
holds the file.
Writing

Complete the writing task.

Write your reference in 220-260 words in an appropriate style.
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You have been asked to provide a reference for a friend of yours who has applied for a job as
an arts coordinator at a summer camp for children aged 8-14. The successful applicant will be
personable, be good at dealing with children and have excellent organisational skills. You
should include information about your friends character, their skills,
any relevant experience and reasons why they should be considered for this job.