C1 Reading Test March 2015

Name ____________________________________
Part 1 Read the newspaper article and answer the questions. Choose from the options A, B, C and D
and write your answers in the table provided.
CUP book 6 test 2 part 3

1. How does the writer expect people to react to the exhibitions?

A They will be more interested in the buildings than the exhibitions.

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B There will be a predominance of negative feeling.

C Their expectations will be too high to be satisfied.
D There will be no consensus of opinion.
What does the writer say about the historical focus of the exhibition?
A The adherence to a strict historical timescale is the most important aspect.
B The historical background of a period is characterized through particular objects.
C The displays are not always easy to place in a historical context.
D The importance of national treasures in a historical context is exaggerated.
How does Dr. Clark feel about the historical displays?
A There should be something for everyone with an interest in Scottish history.
B They should stimulate the visitors own imaginations.
C They should show only what is factually accurate.
D They should recreate history in as realistic way as possible.
What is the most impressive aspect of the inside of the museum, according to the writer?
A the design
B the lighting
C the items on display
D the number of galleries
What does the writer think of the temporary exhibition?
A It deserves a better location in the museum.
B Its realization does not satisfy the original concept.
C Its contents should be more accessible to children.
D It is difficult to understand the rationale for it
What is the writers overall impression of the museum?
A She thinks it provides inadequate coverage of Scotlands historic past.
B She finds its approach insufficiently different from that of any other museum.
C She considers the building to be impractical for its purpose.
D She feels unsure as to whether the exhibitions will live up to their setting.

1. D

2. B

3. C

4. A

5. B

6.
D

Part 1
Read the following text and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word
in each gap.
CAE Testbuilder Test 2 part 2

Bananas are best!

Britain has gone mad for bananas. Over the (0)____ 12 months Britons have consumed an
unprecedented 3.5bn pieces of the tropical fruit, forcing the native apple (1)____ second place.
The nations banana boom is one of the most remarkable nutritional trends of recent years, a
guide not (2)____ to the growing health consciousness of the British people but also to the
countrys economic health. (3)_____ is amazing is that bananas were virtually unheard of
during the 19th century and even up to the end of the 1920s (4)______ anyone in Britain had
tasted or ever seen one.
Early attempts to introduce them to northern countries had met (5)_____ failure because, by
the time they had been shipped to Britain, they had rotted beyond recognition. (6)_____,
thanks to the development of refrigerated shipping, all this changed. Refrigerated shipping
meant that then, as now, bunches of imported bananas could arrive in good condition at
ripening houses in dockyards where they (7)____ stored. The first commercial refrigerated
shipment arrived over 100 years ago, triggering an enthusiasm from (8)____ Britons have
never looked back.
The banana has everything going for it, says Jeanette Scott of the Banana Group marketing
organization. Its easy to open, its packed (9)_____ energy and vitamins and its low in

calories. It is also a first-class cure for upset stomachs and it stabilises blood pressure so its
popularity should (10)_____ be seen as that surprising.
Example (0) past
1. into

2. only/just

3.

What

6.However/
Nevertheless

7. were

8. which

4. hardly/
scarcely

5. with

9. with

10. not

Part 3
Choose which of the paragraphs A - G fit into the numbered gaps in the following
newspaper article. There is one extra paragraph which does not fit into any of the gaps.
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BABY TALK
All those gasps and gurgles that babies make may mean something after all, researchers
have found.
There is no basis to this strange feeling that your infant is smiling at you, and smiling because he knows
you're his mother. He might look as wise as the ages when he gazes into your eyes - but face up to the
facts. There's nothing in there, unless we count the blank slate. And don't read too much into his babbling
either. He's just learning how to use his face muscles. That's what my doctor told me when I took my baby
for his check-ups. I doubted this, but I knew science was on her side so I kept my opinion to myself.
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This is not just hopeful theorising. Thanks to new technology that allows scientists to study living brains, the
bank of evidence is growing fast. Another great advance was made last week with the publication of
research by neuroscientist Laura Ann Petitto of Dartmouth College. The aim of the study was to challenge
the traditional understanding of early language development, which holds that babies must develop motor
skills before they can begin to connect sounds to meanings.
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They looked at the way babies moved their mouths when babbling (making sounds with a consonant-vowel
repetition) and contrasted this with the movements when they smiled or made non-babbling noises. They
studied five English infants, five French infants and five Spanish to be sure they weren't studying mouth
movements specific to one language.
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The mouth is being carved out depending on the function of what's coming out,' Petitto explains. 'And this
function on could only occur if different parts of the brain are participating in the control of different
functions.' Her researchers deduced that 'the right -: of the face - used for smiling - is controlled by left
hemisphere of the brain, where the emotional control centres are located.' But babbling 'is a left-side mouth
function and controlled by the right side of the brain - the centre for speech.'
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And that is not all it can do. According to other researchers in the field, babies can 'distinguish human
faces and voices from other sights and sounds and prefer them'. Although they are born short-sighted,
they can see people and Items clearly at a distance of about 30 cms. Their preference for stripes and other
patterns shows they are imposing order on their perceptions in early infancy. Long before they can crawl,
they can tell the difference between happy features and sad features.
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They can grasp simple arithmetic by using the same capacity, according to Petitto. 'It is well established
that infants look longer at things that are unexpected or surprising to them. In a recent study, the
researchers built up the expectation that a puppet would jump, say two times.' When the infants lost
interest, they continued to show one group of infants what they had already been watching. Another group

was shown a puppet that jumped three times. Petitto explains, 'The infants looked longer at the puppet
when it jumped three times, showing they had detected the change in number.'
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But this is not the end of the story, as the nature side of the nature/nurture divide has claimed for so long.
Despite this standard capacity, babies depend on their vast reserves of innate knowledge in the way you
and I depend on the programs we put into our computers. What matters most is what we do with these
programs, and it's the same with babies. They're born with powerful learning tools that allow them to
explore and learn about the world around them. And what they learn goes on to determine the way their
brains are wired, and how they think.

1. D

2. G

3. C

4.

5. E

6. F