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SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING (5 min.)
In this section there are seven passages with a total of ten multiple-choice questions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answer on your answer sheet.
TEXT E
First read the following question.
81. The schoolboy was reported to have had an accident with ______
A. a train.
B. fire.
C. electricity.
D. traffic.
Now skim TEXT E below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
SCHOOLBOY JOHN DOYLE suffered a 25 000-volt electric shock and lived. Last night he sat up in a hospital bed and learned how lucky he was to be alive. John, 11, and gone train-spotting for the first time in his life on a footbridge near his home. He fell off the 20ft-high bridge, landed among power cables and ended up on the rails. He was dragged clear by his friends just before an express train roared past. He was burns to one ankle and will need a skin graft. His mother said the accident has put her son off train-spotting for life.
TEXT F
First read the following question.
82. The main purpose of the latter is to ______
A. apply for an advertised job.
B. make further inquires about a job.
C. get information about medical research.
Now skim TEXT E below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
38 Morgan Road,
Harbury,
Lincolnshire.
The Administrative Officer,
Swiss Medico Ltd,
PO Box 1263,
Zurich, Switzerland.
17 March 199-
Dear Sir,
I am writing to respond to your advertisement in the "Daily Globe".
I am at present employed as a translator in a medical research organization and also act as interpreter there. I joined this organization two years ago.
I am 31 and single. I read French and German at Howland College, Cambridge and stayed there to take my PhD in the dialects of Northeast France.
I should be interested in working for your company for two reasons: firstly, I should like to live abroad and secondly, the work would involve medical/scientific translation which is my particular field.
I shall look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Rupert Johnson
TEXT G
First read the following question.
83. The main message of the pamphlet is to ______
A. provide car owners with car theft statistics.
B. give details about costs in crime prevention.
C. portray the profile of certain car thieves.
D. raise car owners' awareness against car theft.
Now skim TEXT G below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime. Together they impose costs on everyone-the costs of the police time taken up in dealing with the offenses, the cost of taking offenders through the criminal justice system, and the cost to motorists of increased insurance premiums.
Over 460 000 cars are reported missing in this country each year and many of these are never recovered. Many of these which are found have been damaged by the thieves. A stolen car is also far more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner; car thieves are often young and sometimes drunk. Yet car crime can be cut drastically if motorists follow a few simple rules to keep thieves out of their in the first place.
Most car thieves are opportunist unskilled petty criminals; many are under 20. So ,make your own car a less inviting target, to discourage thieves from trying.
TEXT H
First read the following question.
84. What is the writer's main passage in the passage?
A. Unemployment brings downward changes in people's lives.
B. One should try to make the best of unemployment.
C. Unemployment results in negative psychological effects.
D. Many people have no problems with unemployment.
Now skim TEXT H below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
As more and more people lose their jobs, now is perhaps the time to consider the experience of unemployment. What are the first feelings? well, losing a job, or not being able to find one, almost always brings unwelcome changes. If you've lost a job, the first feeling is often one of shock. As well as the loss of income, many people find the whole routine of their life is shattered, their contact with other people reduced, their ambitions halted and their identity as a worker removed.
At first there may be good feeling too- a new and better job is just around corner-it's nice to be able to lie in the morning or spend more time with the children; have more time to think. But, unless a better job does turn up, the chances are the days start longer and time becomes harder to fill. Many people pass through periods of difficulty in sleeping and eating. They feel irritable and depressed, often isolated and lonely.
Despite all these problems though, unemployment can be a chances for a fresh start. You can discover that it provides an opportunity to sort out or rethink what you want from life and how best you can get it. You can use the time to plan how to find a new job, learn a new skill, develop your hobbies or see if you can run own business.
TEXT I
First read the following question.
85. The Savor return ticket is NOT valid for ______
A. Saturdays.
B. Sundays.
C. any public holidays.
D. certain peak trains.
86. You must book your Savor return ticket _____ days in advance.
A. 8
B. 7
C. 31
D. 50
Now skim TEXT I below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
Savor
The Savor return is our most flexible leisure ticket. It can be used on all trains on all trains on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. On Mondays and Fridays it can be used on most trains except some peak trains.
Conditions of travel
- You must book your ticket at least seven full days before you start your journey.
- You must return within thirty-one days.
- Break of journey is not allowed.
- There are no reductions on Savor return tickets for children under the age of sixteen.
- Savor return tickets are only available for journeys over fifty miles.
TEXT J
First read the following question.
87. Pupils can bring to school ______
A. chewing gun.
B. jewellery.
C. purse belts.
D. radios.
88. Pupils in the school can ______
A. walk on the right inside the school building.
B. wear outdoor clothing inside the school.
C. go to Staff room at lunch break.
D. watch videos during the lunch break.
Now skim TEXT J below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
Leighton School
SCHOOL RULES
EVERY PUPIL IN THE SCHOOLS OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A SENSE OR RESPONSIBILITY. WE DEPEND ON YOUR GOOD MANNERS, COMMON SENSE AND CO-OPERATION.
1. Pupils must bring the correct books and writing materials to each lesson.
2. Other items, for example, P.E. Kit, must be brought to practical lessons.
3. Eating and drinking inn classrooms is forbidden. Chewing gum must not be brought to school.
4. Pupils must not bring valuables to schools, e.g. radios, tape recorders or jewellery. Money should be kept in purse belts and large sums must be handed to the Office.
5. The correct school uniform must be worn. Outdoors coats are not be worn in school.
6. Pupils must keep to the right in the corridors and on the stairs; they must move quietly around the staff on duty.
7. Pupils are not permitted to go to the Staff room during the lunch break. There is always a member of staff on duty.
8. Pupils having lunch in school are not allowed to leave the school premises without a printed permission slip.
TEXT K
First read the following question.
89. Margaret Mee went on her first expedition to the Amazon in ______
A. 1952.
B. 1968.
C. 1947.
D. 1956.
90. The night-flowing Amazon Moonflower was painted at the age of ______
A. 47.
B. 79
C. 36.
D. 68.
Now skim TEXT K below and mark your answer on your answer sheet.
Margaret Mee: English Explorer and Painter of Amazon Flora
Born in Chesham, England, in May 1909
Studied at St Martins School of Art and later at the Camber well School of Art.
Went to Brazil with her husband Greville, a commercial artist, in 1952.
Made her first expedition to the Amazon in 1956 at the age of 47.
Made 15 further expeditions to the Amazon. The last expedition took place in May 1988.
She never painted or drew from photographs. She painted what she saw.
She published two books of her paintings in 1968 and 1980.
She achieved an ambition of 36 years to paint the night-flowing Amazon Moonflower only in 1988.
her diaries, in Search of the flowers of the Amazon Forest, were published in 1988.
A botanist who knew her well described her as follows:" Many people have traveled Amazonian waters, many people have painted Amazonian plants, but Margaret Mee outranks those other travelers and artists simply because she, with her watercolors, went, saw, and conquered the region. She has been able to fill her subjects with the reality of their environment.
