QUESTIONS 8-10 CLASSIFY THE FOLLOWING TECHNIQUES ACCORDING TO WHETHER...

10. A. total B. final C. whole D. all Question 7. Read the article on the next page. Choose the most suitable heading (A–G) for each paragraph (1–5). There are two extra headings which you do not need to use. ( 5 points) A Chilling out with the hot and tacky B Open your eyes to the world C Charging up my spirit of adventure D Holidays at home E A great time in fantasy land F Larger than life legends G A never-ending fairground ride Welcome to the USA Television comedian and writer Dom Joly explains why he’s happiest across the water. (1) ____ It was the summer of 1987 and I’d taken a train from Toronto to New York. I’d just left school and this was my first big solo adventure. I was almost dizzy with excitement as the train slowly pulled into Grand Central station, very early on a clearskied New York morning. I can still remember hesitantly pulling my little black suitcase through the breathtaking central hall of the station; it was like stepping onto the set of a thousand familiar movies. There was something unique about the place – an energy that you could almost touch. All around me, New Yorkers rushed from destination to destination as though their lives depended on it. I remember feeling out of place, as if I wasn’t really there, that I was floating high above the city. (2) ____ I drifted out of the station into the metropolis that is New York. It was a world of huge shadows – the sun blanked out by the sheer enormousness of the Manhattan skyline. I rode the Staten Island ferry boat, conquered the Empire State building, rollerskated in Central Park. It was like meeting one of your childhood heroes and finding out that not only did they not disappoint but they were far, far cooler than you’d ever dared hoped. From that moment on, I’ve been obsessed but to begin with, I, like most visitors, only really flirted with the USA – just visiting the cosmopolitan cities around her edges. (3) ____ I first went to Miami by chance. I had to film there and I wasn’t really looking forward to it. To me, Florida was all about tasteless neon lights and hideous theme parks. In a way, I was right. That’s part of its appeal. This is, after all, the only city in the world where a yellow Ferrari makes sense. The gorgeous combination of fabulous climate, artdeco architecture and Cuban–Hispanic influence instantly made it one of my favourite cities in the world. Nothing quite beats sitting on the terrace of the Tides hotel, watching the beautiful people glide by. One breakfast, I was joined by the rapper Ja Rule and his pet lion: only in Miami, only in the USA. (4) ____ People warned me about Los Angeles. ‘Nobody walks anywhere, it’s not a real city, it’s all so fake.’ Once again, they were right. It is those things, and you need to embrace them wholeheartedly to enjoy the place. My first time in LA, I was there for meetings with a film company and they really pushed the boat out. A stretch limousine whisked me in air-conditioned splendour to a famous hotel where Johnny Depp was having a drink in the garden. It really was a fairytale. Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu – such familiar places to me through a thousand and one films and TV shows. Every sharp-suited executive at every meeting promised me the earth was mine. It was a merry-go-round of broad smiles and green lights. Of course, nothing came of any of this but I was living the cliché – the American dream. (5) ____ One of the most common insults thrown at Americans of late is that they are insular, disconnected from the world, with apparently only 20 percent of the population in possession of a passport. To us this seems unthinkable. When you travel in the States, it all makes sense. There’s not that European need to travel ‘abroad’ when it’ll take you a lifetime to discover your own country. To me, the USA is like a candy store and I’m the sweet-toothed kid waiting at the door, eager to sample new treats. I want to go to Hawaii and learn to surf, go to Texas and become a cowboy and then there’s ... . I’ve been there more times than to any other country and I’ve only scratched the surface. Every time I look out of a window, outside is the USA. Question 8: Read the following passage and mark A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions (5 points) PANDEMIC DISEASES Diseases are a natural part of life on earth. If there were no diseases, the population would grow too quickly, and there would not be enough food or other resources, so in a way, diseases are natural’s way of keeping the Earth in balance. But sometimes they spread very quickly and kill large numbers of people. For example, in 1918, an outbreak of the flu spread across the world, killing over 25 million people only six months. Such terrible outbreaks of a disease are called pandemics. Pandemics happen when a disease changes in a way that our bodies are not prepared to fight. In 1918, a new type of flu virus appeared. Our bodies had no way to fight this new flu virus, and so it spread very quickly and killed large numbers of people. While there have been many different pandemic diseases throughout history, all of them have a new thing in common. First, all pandemic diseases spread from one person to another very easily. Second, while they may kill many people, they generally do not kill people very quickly. A good example of this would be the Marburg virus. The Marburg virus is an extremely infectious disease. In addition, it is deadly. About 70 -80% of all people who get the Marburg virus died from the disease. However, the Marburg virus has not become a pandemic because most people die within three days of getting the disease. This means that the virus does not have enough time to spread a large number of people. The flu virus of 1918, on the other hand, generally took about a week to ten days to kill its victims, so it had more time to spread. While we may never be able to completely stop pandemics, we can make them less common. Doctors carefully monitor new diseases that they fear could become pandemics. For example, in 2002, and 2003, doctors carefully watched SARS. Their health warnings may have prevented SARS from becoming a pandemic.