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1  Listen to a talk about a famous film director. 3 Read the text and replace the underlined words
Decide if statements 1–5 are true or false. with a word/phrase from the box. There is one
word/phrase that you don’t need.
1 Coppola did a degree in film studies at a New York
university. almost everywhere country
TRUE / FALSE his birthplace it
2 Coppola’s first full-length film wasn’t very these places this great leader
successful.
The 1982 film ‘Gandhi’ is about the life of
TRUE / FALSE
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Born in
3 Coppola has only ever made one film about war.
October 1869, he is best known around the
TRUE / FALSE
world as the man who fought for Indian
4 Coppola has never had any other interests apart
independence from Britain. The name
from directing films.
‘Mahatma’, which means ‘great soul’, was first
TRUE / FALSE
given to him in South Africa in 1914 and is now
5 Coppola’s family have strong connections with the
used 1 around the world. In India, 2 Gandhi is
film industry.
also known by the term Bapu, which means
TRUE / FALSE
‘father’.
2 points for each correct answer 10 Gandhi was born and raised in Gujarat, which is
on the coast in the west of India. He returned to
2  Listen again. Match the dates 6–10 with the 3
Gujarat after he’d studied law in London. His
events a–f. There is one event which you don’t mother had died while he was studying, but his
need. family had deliberately not told him the news as
they didn’t want 4 the news to affect his studies.
6 1960 _____ He later started making plans to free his
7 1970 _____ homeland from British control. He wanted the
8 1997 _____ people in his 5 homeland to be able to make their
9 1999 _____ own decisions. It took until 1947 for his dream
10 2011 _____ to come true.

a Coppola started directing films again. 1 ___________________

b Coppola worked on a film for his daughter. 2 ___________________
c Coppola received a prize for his work. 3 ___________________
d Coppola made his most recent film. 4 ___________________
e Coppola left university in New York. 5 ___________________
f Coppola had a break from directing.
1 point for each correct answer 5
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4 Choose the correct option a–c to complete the 7 We’re _________ to get there on time. Look at this
sentences. traffic jam!
a possibly
1 It __________ all morning and I don’t think it’s
b probably
going to stop any time soon.
c unlikely
a has rained
b has been raining
8 We organized a sale to raise money for the people
c rained
__________ homes were damaged in the flood.
a that
2 We really enjoyed our holiday this year – we stayed
b whose
on a boat and travelled along a __________.
c which
a sea
b ferry
9 I’m so hungry – it’s midday and I __________
c canal
anything __________!
a didn’t eat / since
3 The __________ in Scotland is an artist’s dream!
b haven’t eaten / yet
There’s something interesting to paint everywhere
c haven’t eaten / ever
you go.
a landscape
10 As there hasn’t been any rain for two months, we
b fresh air
may be about to have a __________.
c soil
a global warming
b landslide
4 Don’t worry! I _________ you there; I know
c drought
exactly where that address is.
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b ’ll take
c ’m taking

5 I didn’t really expect you __________ all the

cooking. I was going to help you!
a to do
b do
c doing

6 My favourite films are ones with great __________

so you don’t know what’s going to happen.
a characters
b thrillers
c plots

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Earth-like planet eventually, though actually getting

5 Read the text about the possibility of living on
there may be challenging because of the huge
other planets. Then choose the correct answers
distances. Even the closest planet beyond our sun
to questions 1–5.
would take hundreds of years to reach.
On another planet Of course, if we were determined to leave Earth, we
While living on the moon is apparently possible, could reach other nearby planets and try to build an
without air, food or water, it would involve a lot of Earth-like environment there. At the moment, it would
effort. Other planets might have air or water, or we take nine months to get to Mars, which is 48,000,000
could even make them there, but we’d have to get miles away. The weight of the spacecraft would make
there first. Unfortunately, humans can’t just live things difficult, as it would have to carry enough fuel,
anywhere. Life on Earth has spent the last 4.5 billion food and water. One solution might be to build the
years adapting to survive on this particular planet, so if craft in space, or use the water and other gases on Mars
we took the plants, animals and people to another to make the fuel for the return trip.
planet, it’s not surprising that we’d have some Personally, I think it’s just too much effort. So, for
problems! now, I’m happy to call planet Earth ‘home’, but who
To start with, our bodies are used to the Earth’s knows what the future may hold. As they say, ‘watch
atmosphere – the gases that surround it. We wouldn’t this space’!
be able to breathe the gases that exist on some of the
1 In the first paragraph, what does the writer say
other planets. We’re also affected by the Earth’s
about living on the moon?
gravity – the force that pulls us towards the centre and
a It would be very difficult but it’s a possibility.
stops us from floating away into space. The strength of
b Humans definitely couldn’t survive there.
gravity is different on other planets; if the gravity was
c We wouldn’t be able to have plants and animals
too strong, we wouldn’t be able to move, and if it was
there.
too weak, we would lose all the strength in our bodies.
Then there’s the temperature. Humans need their body
2 Which of these is true, according to the text?
temperature to be around 37°C to stay alive. A few
a The temperature on most planets is only slightly
degrees lower or higher, and we die of hypothermia
different to that on Earth.
(being too cold) or hyperthermia (being too hot). We
b Some planets have gases which would kill us.
also need to breathe oxygen, but if the air contains too
c There is no gravity on some planets.
little or too much, that can also kill us!
So, neither the moon nor Mars are really suitable 3 What does the writer say about both the moon and
destinations for us. The moon has no atmosphere and Mars as possible places to live?
the atmosphere on Mars can only be described as a For various reasons, neither place is suitable for
deadly, as it’s made up of approximately 96% humans.
poisonous carbon dioxide. On top of that, Mars has b One of these places is more suitable to live than
only one-third of the gravity of Earth, and the other.
temperatures range from a cool 20°C down to a c Both places could be made more suitable for us.
freezing -140°C. As for the moon, it has six times less
gravity, and temperatures go from a ridiculously hot 4 What does the author say about building an Earth-
130°C to a ridiculously cold -170°C. like environment in space?
a It would be a problem taking all the necessary
The search for planets similar to Earth has been things.
happening for some time. NASA’s Kepler satellite is b It would take too long to get there.
currently looking for Earth-like planets going round c It would be too far to make the journey back
other stars. There’s a good chance it may find an again.

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5 The author feels that …

a she would definitely like to travel to space in the
future.
b she will never want to live on another planet.
c she would rather stay on Earth at the moment.

2 points for each correct answer 10

6 Read the text again. Do the following statements

agree with the views of the writer in the reading
passage? Choose ‘yes’ if the statement agrees
and ‘no’ if it disagrees. If there is no information
about what the writer thinks, choose ‘not given’.

1 It should be fairly simple to get used to life on other

planets.
YES / NO / NOT GIVEN
2 It’s natural that the human body has limits to what
it can deal with.
YES / NO / NOT GIVEN
3 Gravity is a much bigger problem for humans than
temperature.
YES / NO / NOT GIVEN
4 NASA’s Kepler satellite is likely to succeed in its
search.
YES / NO / NOT GIVEN
5 It isn’t worth the trouble trying to start life, as we
know it, on another planet.
YES / NO / NOT GIVEN

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7 You recently arranged to spend a week with a

relative at his/her house. However, your boss has
asked you to change your holiday plans at the
last minute because he needs you to travel to
New York to deal with some urgent business.
Write an email to your relative explaining the
situation. Write 120–150 words.

You should:
 tell your relative what your boss has asked you to
do
 explain the reasons for this
 suggest a new plan.

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SPEAKING

Student A
8 Talk to your partner about a film or TV
program/series you have both seen.

 Give your opinion of the film or TV

program/series.
 Say what you enjoyed/didn’t enjoy about it.
 Recommend another film or TV program/series
your partner might like and explain why.

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SPEAKING

Student B
8 Talk to your partner about a film or TV
program/series you have both seen.

 Say whether you agree or disagree with your

partner’s opinion of the film or TV program/series.
 Say what you enjoyed/didn’t enjoy about it.
 Recommend another film or TV program/series
your partner might like and explain why.

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