10. A. chaos B. confusions C. disorders D. disturbances
II. Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE word in
each space. (10 pts)
At sixteen Henry Vincent was separated from his family as a result of the war. He wandered
aimlessly from (1) ... country to another (2) ... finally setting down in Australia, where he
trained (3) ... an electronics engineer. He established his own business but it called for so much
work that marriage was out of the (4) ... .
His retirement suddenly (5) ... him realize (6) ... lonely he was and he decided to
(7) ... up a hobby. With his interest in electronics, amateur radio seemed a natural choice. He
installed his own equipment and obtained a licence and his call sign, which is the set of letters and
numbers used to announce oneself when making radio contact with other radio amateurs all over the
world.
Soon Henry had a great many contacts in far-off places. One in particular was a man in California
with whom he had much in common. One night the man in California (8) ... to mention the
village in Europe he had come from. Suddenly, Henry realised that this man was in fact his younger
brother, Peter. At first, the two brothers were at a (9) ... for words but then little by little they
filled in the details of their past lives and not (10) ... afterwards Henry Vincent flew to California
to be reunited with his brother.
III: Read the following article about ice-skating. Choose the most suitable heading from the list A-I
for each part (1-8) of the article. Write your answers in the space in the numbered boxes below. There
is one extra heading that is not to be used. (8 points)
A. Prepare yourself
F. The right attitude
B. The benefits of the sport
G. Moving off
C. When things go wrong
H. Holding your body correctly
I. How it all started
D. Different skating techniques
E. A change in approach
1……….
Ice skating has a history of thousands of years. Archaeologists have discovered skates made from
animal bone. It seems that bone skates were used until the introduction of iron into Scandinavia about the
year 200 AD. Among the Scandinavian upper classes, skating was seen as an essential skill.
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