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4. YOCABULARY

Read the text and choose the word which bestfits each gap. Wrileyour word in the spaces below. (12 marks)

A LOVK OF TRAVELLING

For Nigel Portman, a love oi travc!ling bcgan with what’s callcd a ‘gap year\ In common with many other British tecnagers, he chose to take a year out beforc (1) settling down / getting up to stiidy for his degree.Aftcr doing various jobs to (2) achicve / raisc somc money, hc left homc to gain somc expcricncc of lilc in different cullures, visiting America and Asia. The morę adventurous the young person, the (3) wider /greater the challenge they are likely to (4) set /aim themselvcs for the gap year. and lor sonie, like Nigel, it can (5) result / lead in a thirst for adventure.

Now that his univcrsity course has (6) eonie / turned to an end, Nigel is just about to leave on a three-ycar trip that will take him (7) whole / right around the world. What’s morę, hc plans to make the wliole joumey using only means of transport which are (8) forced /powered by natural energy. In other words, he'II be (9) relying/using mostly on bicycles and his own legs; and when thcre’s an ocean to cross, he won't be taking a (10) short / brief cut by climbing aboard a piane, he’ll be joining the crew of a sailing ship (11) instead / otherwi.se.

As well as doing somc mountain climbing and other outdoor pursuits along the way, Nigel hopes to (12) pass / givę on to the people he meets the eiwironmcntal message that lies behind the whole

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5. GRAMMAR

Read the article and think ofthe word which bestfits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. Write your word in the spaces below the text. (10 marks)

‘Heart ofDarkness’ is a dark tale of colonial exploitation set (1)_Africa during the nineteenth

ccntury. It (2)_written by Joseph Conrad and published in English in 1902, (3)-the fact

that Conrad was bom in modem Ukrainę, and was ol Polish nationality.

Although the book is a little morę than a hundred pages long, it is a powerful story of the^\vay in which wealthy countries madę local people work in terrible conditions. The narrator o ( ) —__

story is a sailor called Marlow (5)__tells the tale while on a boat moored in the Thames. He

recounts the story of how he travclled to Africa. excited by maps with empty spaces s owmg p aces

that Europeans (6)_not yet explored. Marlow takes a job on a boat travelling ( ) —_—® ^{n c}

into the African continent where hc encounters an ivory trader, Mr Kurtz, who has bccomc a »n ruler over the local people.