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10. He pretended to fall _______ _______ my plan but secretly he was working against it. IV. Read the following text which contains 10 mistakes. Identify the errors and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. (10 points) A DISAPPOINTING MEAL Line Have you ever complained in a restaurant? I never thought I would, but last week I ended up 1 doing just that. It was my best friend’s birthday, but I had booked a table at a new restaurant 2 3 that had just opened in the city centre. But while we arrived, exactly on time, they told me that it was no record of my booking and we would have to wait for a table to become free. I 4 5 suspected that they had given our table to anyone else, but I didn’t say anything. Then we were kept waiting for an hour without an apology, because they did take our order. We both 6 7 chose soup as a starter and my friend ordered a steak like a main course. I thought I would be 8 a bit more adventurous, and decided to try something called Ossobuco, if I wasn’t quite sure what it was. To cut a long story short, a soup was almost cold, my friend’s steak was 9 10 uncooked at the middle and my Ossobuco turned out to be a plate of bone within a very 11 acidic sauce. So, we called the manager and told we would not pay because the meal had been substandard. But in the end we paid because we had eaten it all, but we won’t be going 12 13 there again! PART 3 – READING (50 points) I. Read the texts below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only ONE WORD for each space. (10 points) Men and women are often considered to be completely at odds with each other, in terms of their attitudes and behaviour. Not so when they are in love, new research has discovered. As far as their hormone levels are (1)______________, when men and women are in love, they are more similar to each other (2) ______________at any other time. It has (3) ______________ been known that love can (4) _____________havoc with hormone levels. For example the hormone cortisol, which is known for its calming effect on the body, dips dramatically when one person is attracted to (5) ______________, putting the love-struck on a par with sufferers of obsessive compulsive disorder. But a new study has found that the hormone testosterone, commonly associated with male aggression, also falls when he is in love. In women, it's quite the (6) ______________. Testosterone levels, which (7) _____________ to be lower among females, rise towards (8) ______________of the male. Donatella Marazziti of the University of Pisa, Italy, (9)_______________ this down to nature attempting to eliminate the differences between the sexes. By doing so, they can concentrate fully on reproduction. This suggestion seems to be supported by the fact that (10) ______________couples in a long term relationship, nor participants in the study who were single at the time of the experiment, exhibited such changes. II. Read the following passage and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each sentence. (10 points) CELEBRITY ROLE-MODELS Research in the University of Leicester Department of Media and Communication examined interest in celebrities and gossip about them. It was carried out by Dr Charlotte De Backer who sought in her study to explain interest in celebrity culture. According to Dr De Backer: ‘Life is about learning and (1)_______ experience, and in that process we have a tendency to observe and mimic the actions of others. Ideally we mimic what makes others successful and (2)_______ unsuccessful actions others have trialled and paid for. In reality, humans seem to have the tendency to mimic the overall behaviour pattern of the higher status of those more successful than themselves. This explains why celebrities act as role models for broad (3) _______of behaviour they display whether good or bad.’ Dr De Backer also examined another theory for interest in celebrity, known as the Parasocial Hypothesis. In this (4) _______, the bonds are parasocial, or one-way, because the celebrity reveals private information, often voluntarily. The audience members respond emotionally to this information, although there is hardly ever any feedback on the private life of the audience going to the celebrity, nor do celebrities (5) _______ emotions towards their audience. Her study of 800 respondents and over 100 interviews (6) _______ that younger participants showed greater interest in celebrity gossip, even if it was about celebrities who were much older than them and even when they did not know who the celebrities were. They showed greatest interest in internationally-known celebrities, because they considered those as more (7) _______. Her study also found that older people were interested in celebrity gossip not because they wanted to learn from the celebrities, but because it helped them to form social networks with other people. ‘We found in the interviews that older people do not gossip about celebrities because they want to learn from them or feel (8) _______ by them, but because they use celebrity gossip to (9) _______ with real-life friends and acquaintances. As we live in (10) _______ societies, celebrities can act as our mutual friends and acquaintances.’