Use of English

Multiple choice
Everyone knows what happens if you give a full bottle of coke a vigorous (1) ... and then
unscrew the top. So the children of Benchill primary school in Manchester dived for (2) ...
when visitor Kim Wade flexed her muscles. Wade, head of Manchester Schools Behaviour
and Support Service, (3) .... the temptation to open the bottle and let the fizz drench the
pupils. She had (4) .. ... her point; the frothing of the drink was a metaphor for the build-up
and explosion of temper.
Benchill's children were having a session on anger management. There is no (5) .... that they
are any more angry than children at other schools in the city, and the lesson was part of a
scheme intended to help children identify and (6) . .. .. with the rages that life in the classroom
and playground can provoke.
1 A shake B stir C rattle D wobble
2 A shelter B cover C safety D protection
3 A denied B rejected Cdeclined D resisted
4 A givenl B made C scored D won
5A inclination B reception C conviction D suggestion
6 A cope B bear C handle D manage

Example: 0 - a result of my promotion

1We are able to afford a holiday, because I was promoted.
result
As ………………….. , we are able to afford a holiday.
2. Your rude behaviour is becoming intolerable.
longer
I ...........................................................................................your rude behaviour.
4. Such rudeness to a stranger cannot possibly be justified.
excuse
There ............................................................................. rude to a stranger.
5. If anyone can get lost, he will.
depended
He ……………………………….................................................... get lost.
6. Philip rarely bothers about what other people think.
takes
Philip ..................................................................................... what other people think.

2 can no longer tolerate

3 a full understanding of the problem will there
4 can be depended on to

6. rarely takes any notice of

My ten-year-old daughter's face was screwed up with determination recently, when she won a gold
medal in a long-distance run against 100 others in her age group. She is just as enthusiastic about
swimming, gymnastics, athletics and football, and I try hard not to be insulted when people ask, after
one or other of her sporting triumphs, 'Where on earth does she get it from?' As I am not particularly
overweight nor have an appalling posture I'm not quite sure why it is obvious that I have never been in
the slightest bit athletic.
Going round a girls' secondary school with my daughter a few weeks ago I was reminded just how dire
school sport was for me. Lrttle seems to have changed in the past 25 years- girls in the same old,
ill{itting Airtex tops, horrible kilt-like games skirts and scratchy nylon socks. On our visit, a group of
girls hung about the edges of the hockey pitch trying to hide their mottled, freezing legs while the
more hearty ones whacked each other with hockey sticks. lt all came back to me; the horrible cheesy
smell of the changing rooms and the muddy winter horrors of traditional girls' team games, such as
lacrosse, netball and hockey and, worst of all, the cross-country run through the suburban streets of
Hendon. What a sight 60 of us must have made thundering down the pavements in our tiny, flapping
skirts and mortadella sausage thighs.
Small wonder, then, that a study released last month about young people's behaviour in relation to
health found that although many girls wanted to be fit and improve their appearance they were too
embarrassed to exercise. Helen Haste, a professor of psychology at Bath University and the author of
the report, based her research on 687 interviews with l1- Io ZI-year olds. The most active youngsters
did team sports and at least one other form of exercise, but Professor Haste says that fewer than half
exercised once a week: 49 percent of girls said they did not feel comfortable exercising in front of
other people, while 34 percent didn't like the way they looked in exercise clothes.
Haste says,'The study shows that appearance is important to both sexes, but in particular to girls under
16. We need to take thrs seriously. Girls feel self-conscious exercising in front of people, while boys
don't feel this so much. There seems to be a real tension between teenagers wanting to be fitter to look
good and worries about how they look when they are actually exercising,' says Haste. Appearance
therefore, is both a driving force to exercise and a reason why girls don't actually want to do it.'lt is a
real waste of an opportunity to have fun and get fit if school sports are making girls feel so ill at ease,'
Haste adds. 'We need to think about ways of exercising within the school curriculum which make sure
that girls feel comfortable.'
When I asked a group of l4-year-old girls at a mixed comprehensive school what they thought of the
games on offer at their school, some were fairly enthusiastic. Cathy Dale is good at football, and
entoys its competitive spirit, but thinks it is hard to get sports teachers to give girls the training they
need.'They tend to concentrate on the boys'team even though I think that some of the girls are better
than the boys. I think that they expect us to give up pretty soon, so there just isn't the interest. I'm not
sure if it's the teachers' fault or the girls' fault.'
At the girls' school where we found the unenthusiastic hockey players, the headmistress gave a speech
to the parents after the tour of the school and the school grounds. She was unapologetic about the lack
of sporting facilities on offer: the message was that as the school was doing well academically it didn't
really matter that the girls didn't get much of a chance to succeed at sport. My daughter sneered and
whispered that she would never go to a school that didn't take sport seriously, and could we please
leave right away? So now the search is on for a secondary school that will nurture her sporty side,
although l'm not sure that one exists in my London neighbourhood.

31.How does the writer feel about the way people react to her daughter's successes?
A. She is jealous of her daughter.
B- She is put out that they don't credit her for her daughter's athleticism.
C. She is very proud of her.
D. She gets quite defensive with them.
32 How did the visit to the girls' school make the writer feel?
A. Nostalgic for her own schooldays.
B. Hopeful that her daughter would like the school.
C. lt gave her unpleasant memories.
D. lt made her want to take up a sport again.
33 According to Helen Haste,
A. most girls aren't interested in exercising.
B. there aren't the facilities for girls to get exercise.
C. girls tend to tease each other when they are exercising.
D. girls are very aware of being watched while they exercise.
34 Haste comes to the conclusion that
A. schools will never be able to make girls more comfortable with sport.
B. girls will never be able to compete with boys at sport.
C' teachers are mainly responsible for making girls feel uncomfortable in sports lessons.
D. the schools themselves need to change their attitudes to sport.
35 The headmistress of the school that the writer visited
A. regretted that she could not improve the school's sports facilities.
B. wanted the girls to excel academically and athletically.
C. didn't hold sport high in the school's priorities.
D. discouraged the girls from doing any sport at all.
36 The writer's daughter
A. was rude when she spoke to the headmistress.
B. felt little respect for what the headmistress said.
C. was not impressed with any aspect of the school.
D. was intimidated by the headmistress.