MOCK TEST 15

I. LISTENING (50 POINTS)

Part 1: You will hear a woman called Helena Drysdaie being interviewed about her
research For a book on minority languages. For questions 1-5 choose the answer (A,
B, C or D) which fits best according to what you hear. Write your answers in the
numbered spaces provided.
1. The main purpose of Helena's journey was to
A. establish precisely where Europe’s minority languages are spoken.
B. investigate the effects of climate and location on language.
C. calculate the exact number of minority languages in Europe.
D. assess the current condition of Europe's minority languages.

2. One problem of living in the mobile home was that

A. there wasn't much space,
B. the children had nowhere to play
C. It became very hot.
D. they all got bored with each other.

3. What does Helena say about the people she met?

A. Not all of them spoke a minority language.
B. Some were more willing than others to express their views.
C. Intellectuals gave more biased information than other people.
D. Older people had a rather unbalanced view of the situation.

4. We learn that people who were punished for speaking Provencal

A. did not take their punishment seriously.
B. felt they were treated unfairly.
C. were made to feel embarrassed.
D. regretted what they had done.

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5. According to Helena, language
A. enables people to express their emotions.
B. is an expression of one's identity.
C. is the key to integration.
D. makes everyone different.
(Source: CAE Student’s Book)
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Part 2: You will hear an interview with Cindy Talbot on the radio programme, Young
hero or heroine of the week. For questions 6-10, decide whether these statements are
TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). Write your answers in the numbered spaces provided.
6. When Cindy heard the thunder, she decided to take a rest until the storm passed.
7. Cindy knew that her decision to take shelter from the storm was inadvisable.
8 Rod and Mark were travelling along a forest path when they saw Cindy.
9 Rod and Mark were initially dubious about the authencity of Cindy’s story.
10. The experience has made Cindy reluctant to venture out in stormy weather.
(Source: Proficiency Coursebook)
Your answers
6.f 7.t 8.t 9.t 10.f

Part 3: For questions 11-15, You will hear two students discussing a talk by a
palaeontologist (a fossil expert) and answer the questions. Write NO MORE THAN
FIVE WORDS in each gap. Write
11. Why did Milton miss the talk on fossils?
12. What started Mr Brand’s interest in fossils?
13. What do schoolchildren say they most enjoy about the fossil hunts?
14. What is the main thing children learn during a fossil hunt?
15. What to Juni and Milton agree to do?

Your answers
11. read some 12. 13. 14. 15.
reading for sem

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Part 4: You will hear a journalist called Simon talking about the psychology of hobbies.
Listen and complete the sentences 16-20 using words you hear. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

The psychology of hobbies

1. Simon says that if you know what, for example, the man sat on the same train enjoys
doing in his free time, you can guess a lot of things about ____his
personality_______________ .
2. Simon believes that the hobbies people choose can show us if they are _____happier in
company_____________ or would rather be on their own.
3. Simon thinks that famous people often choose hobbies which give them a break from
being __in public eyes__________ the rest of the time.
4. Simon suggests that actors may choose activities like board games because these
games take their___minds off________ acting and reduce their nerves while waiting
around on set.
5. Simon remarks that the Dalai Lama is completely ____in his
element_______________ when fixing things like cars or clocks.
6. Simon reveals that rock star Bill Wyman loves searching for buried treasures with a
metal detector and is _________fascinated by___________ archaeology.
7. Simon is particularly interested in finding out more about the hobbies of
______leaders_and presidents____________ .
8. Simon explains that a North Korean leader once ____kidnapped an
actress________________ because he wanted her to make films for him.
9. Simon says that the hobbies chosen by many leaders suggest they have
______addictive personalities_____________ .
10. Simon has discovered that many people who you might otherwise consider as normal
actually have a(n) ____weird compulsion_______________ .

II. LEXICO – GRAMMAR (20 POINTS)

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Part 1: For questions 1- 10, choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D to each of the
following questions. Write your answers in the corresponding numbered boxes
provided.
1. He was absolutely _______ with anger when he found that I had scratched his car.
A. burned B. carmine C. fickle D. livid
2. I don't think Paul will ever get married — he's the stereotypical _______ bachelor.
A. settled B. confirmed C. fixed D. determined
3. I cannot think who had_______ the gaff, but it seems everyone knows that Nicole
and I are planning to get married.
A. burst B. blown C. split D. banged
4. As we were in an urgent need of syringes and other medical equipment,
the aid organization promised to deliver them _______ the double.
A. at B. in C. with D. round
5. She was so ill that it was ________ whether she would live or not.
A. win or lose B. come and go C. touch and go D. on and off
6. “Have you got a copy of Gone with the Wind?”
“You’re ________ luck. We’ve just one copy left”
A. by B. with C. in D. on
7. When I got stuck in the elevator, I was scared out of my ________.
A brains B head C wits
D nerves
8. All traffic is being _________ because of the military parades.
A. diverted B. converted C. changed D.
altered
9. As he was running for a charity which was _____ to his heart, he felt even more
determined to complete the race.
A. warm B. near C. next D. close
10. On completing her fifth atlantic race, she decided to _____ herself a new challenge.
A. set B. make C. fix D. accept

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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Part 4. Write the correct FORM of each bracketed word in the numbered space
provided in the column on the right.
The DICTIONARY of NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY

Just over one hundred years ago, the last volume of a tremendous work REFER
of (0) ____ entitled The Dictionary of National Biography rolled
off the printing presses. (1) _Admittedly___ this 21-volume shelf-filler ADMIT
may not immediately sound like the most thrilling read in the world.
As entertainment, you might imagine it ranks some way below a (2) POLITICS
_politician’s___ autobiography. But you would be very, very wrong.
The DNB, like the Oxford English Dictionary, is one of the great
monuments to British culture and also a hugely enjoyable work in its ALPHABET
own right. It is, quite simply an (3) alphabetical____ dictionary of
potted biographies of all the notable men and women who had lived in EMPHASIS
Britain since the year dot. It was produced between 1885 and 1900, CAPABLE
and it remains (4) _emphatically___ an achievement of the
Victorianperiod, richly redolent of 19th century confidence and (5) RICH
_capability___ energy
and optimism. It is also a monument to the enormous variety of the COLOUR
British national character, and the dictionary is immeasurably (6)
enriched____ by this aspect. There are not only great statesmen,
generals, writers, but also hundreds of wonderfully (7) _colorful___ INTERFERE
characters, who you can discover only by leafing idly through a ENTHUSE
volume of the DNB on a wet afternoon down at your local library. OPPOSE
The way in which the DNB was produced was very British too: on a
shoestring, out of sheer dedication, and with no state (8)
_interference___ whatsoever. It was the private endeavour of a group
of (9) enthusiasts____ scholars and freelance journalists, as (10)
__opposed__to, for instance, the Austrian equivalent, produced under
the oppressive auspices of the Imperial Academy of Vienna.
Your answers

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. READING (50 POINTS)

Part 1: For questions 1 to 12, read the text below. Decide which answer (A, B, C or
D) best fits each gap.
THE ALEXANDRA PALACE
The Alexandra Palace in north London was built with private (0)... as a “People's
Palace”. Serviced by its own station, it was opened in 1873 and was extremely well (1)...
until, two weeks after its opening, it burnt down. It was (2)... by a slightly larger building
which opened in 1875 and featured, among other things, a splendid organ and the Great
Hall, which was the size of a football pitch. Despite the extraordinarily wide range of
events (3)... there - from dog shows to great concerts and banquets, from elephant
displays to bicycle matches - it always (4)... at a loss and by 1877 much of the park
around it had been sold to speculative builders, leaving only about half of the original
land.
In 1900, a committee was appointed, whose principal duty was to run the Palace and park
“for the free use of the people forever”. There were, however, ( 5... to charge for entry so
that the substantial costs could be ( 6) . ... The Palace continued, with ( 7) ... degrees of
success, as an entertainment centre. In the 1930s it was probably most notable for being
the home of the world’s first high definition television broadcasts.
In 1980 the building was once more devastated by fire and (8)... to a ruin. It was then
decided to restore it and to create a (9)... exhibition centre with community (10)..., such
as a restaurant and a health club.
0. A sources B funds C expenses D budgets
1. A inhabited B attended C crowded D visited
2. A installed B overtaken C renewed D replaced
3. A performed B set C staged D laid
4. A conducted B acted C operated D maintained
5. A powers B terms ' C allowances D authorities
6. A fulfilled B covered C matched D made
7. A unsteady B varying C altering D unsettled

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8. A turned B converted C reduced D wrecked
9. A chief B worthy C major D senior
10. A facilities B conveniences C supplies D appliances

Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 2: For questions 1 to 10, read the following passages, then decide which word
best fits each gap. Write your answers in the numbered boxes provided.

Is Honesty The Best Policy?

R
adical honesty therapy, (0) ...which....... it is known in the US, is the latest
thing to be held up as the key to happiness and success. It involves telling the
truth all the time, with no exceptions for hurt feelings. But this is not as easy
as it (1) _may_________ sound. Altruistic lies, (2) ___rather_______ than the conniving,
self-aggrandising variety, are an essential part of polite society.

‘We all lie like mad. It wears us (3) ___out_______. It is the major source of all human
stress,’ says Brad Blanton, psychotherapist and founder of the Centre for Radical
Honesty. He has become a household (4) _____name_____ in the US, where he spreads
his message via day-time television talk shows. He certainly has his work cut out for him.
In a recent survey of Americans, 93 per cent (5) __admit________ to lying ‘regularly and
habitually’ in the workplace. Dr Blanton is typically blunt about the consequences of (6)
____being______ deceitful. ‘Lying kills people,’ he says.

Dr Blanton is adamant that minor inconveniences are (7) nothing__________ at all

compared with the huge benefits of truth telling. ‘Telling the truth, especially after hiding
it for a long time, (8) ___needs_______ guts. It isn’t easy. But it is better
than the alternative.’ (9) _____This_____, he believes, is the stress of living ‘in the
prison of the mind,’ which culminates in depression and ill health. ‘Your body stays tied
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insomnia are all (10) ___made_______ worse by lying. Good relationship skills,
parenting skills and management skills are also dependent on telling the truth.’
(0) which
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 3: Read the passage, then choose the answer that fits best. Write you answers in
the numbered space provided.
During the Middle Ages, societies were based on military relationships, as
landowners formed their own foot armies into which they drafted their tenants and
hired hands. The infantry that fought its way forward against the opposition engaged
in heavy ground battles that proved costly in the ratio of losses to wins. These
5 soldiers carried darts, javelins, and slings to be used before closing ranks with the
enemy, although their swords and halberds (spear + axe) delivered crushing blows
on contact. Such armed forces were active for limited periods of time and had a
predominantly defensive function, displayed in hand-to-hand combat.
Because this sporadic and untrained organization was ineffective, the ruling classes
1 began to hire mercenaries who were generously compensated for their tasks and
0 subject to contractual terms of agreement. The greatest idiosyncrasy of a hired
military force was that the troops sometimes deserted their employers if they could
bank on a higher remuneration from the opposition. The Swiss pikemen became the
best-known mercenaries of the late Middle Ages. In the 1300s, they practically
invented a crude body armor of leather and quilted layered head gear with nose and
1 skull plates, ornamented with crests. Their tower shields proved indispensable
5 against a shower of arrows, and their helmets progressed from cone cups to visors
hinged at the temples. As their notoriety increased, so did their wages, and
eventually they were rounded into military companies that later grew into the basic
units in almost all armies. During the same period, the first full-size army of
professional soldiers emerged in the Ottoman Empire. What set these troops apart
2 from other contemporary armies was that these soldiers remained on duty in
0 peacetime.

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 Companies of mercenaries were employed on a permanent basis in 1445, when King
Charles VII created a regular military organization, complete with a designated
hierarchy. Gunpowder accelerated the emergence of military tactics and strategy that
ultimately affected the conceptualization of war on a broad scale. Cannons further
widened the gap between the attacking and the defending lineups, and undermined
the exclusivity of contact battles.
1. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To distinguish between laborers and mercenaries.
B. To change the existing view of the military.
C. To cite examples of armor in the Middle Ages.
D. To trace the origins of military organization.
2. In the passage, the word ‘ratio’ is closest in meaning to ______.
A. quota B. reason C. proportion D. pace
3. Which of the following statements can be inferred from the first paragraph?
A. Temporary armies of farmers were not well trained.
B. Drafting farmers into armies was costly.
C. Heavy ground battles were won during combat.
D. Infantry was directed to the opposition for support.
4. In the passage, the word "sporadic" is closest in meaning to ______.
A. spirited B. splendid C. irreverent D. irregular
5. Which of the following statements about the Swiss pikemen is supported by the
passage?
A. Their weapons and skills were ahead of their time.
B. Their gear ensured their fame as well-dressed soldiers.
C. The demand for their cavalry made them the best-paid army.
D. Their weapons were issued to nonprofessionals as well.
6. Where in the passage does the author state the reasons for the emergence of
professional armies?
A. Lines 1-4 B. Lines 9-11 C. Lines 13-15 D. Lines 19-
22
7. The author of the passage implies that the soldiers in mercenary armies were
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 A. not loyal B. not effective C. well guarded D. well
rounded
8. In the passage, the phrase "these troops" refers to ______.
A. the Swiss pikemen B. military companies
C. almost all armies D. Ottoman soldiers
9. According to the passage, the first army of professionals was mobilized ______.
A. only in peacetime B. only in wartime
C. in times of anticipated war D. both during war and during peace
10. In the passage, the word "undermined" is closest in meaning to ______.
A. underestimated B. reduced C. undersized D. shred
Your answers
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Part 4: The reading passage has seven paragraphs A-G. Choose the correct heading for
each paragraph from the list below.

List of Headings
i. A degree of control
ii. Where research has been carried out into the effects of family on personality
iii. Categorising personality features according to their origin
iv. A variety of reactions in similar situations
v. A link between personality and aspects of our lives that aren’t chosen
vi. A possible theory that cannot be true
vii. Measuring personality
viii. Potentially harmful effects of emotions
ix. How our lives can reinforce our personalities
x. Differences between men's and women's personalities

Example:
1. Paragraph A iv....
2. Paragraph B _______ 4 Paragraph E _______

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3. Paragraph C _______ 5 Paragraph F _______
4. Paragraph D _______ 6 Paragraph G _______
Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

What is personality?
A We are all familiar with the idea that different people have different
personalities, but what does this actually mean? It implies that different people
behave in different ways, but it must be more than that. After all, different
people find themselves in different circumstances, and much of their behaviour
follows from this fact. However, our common experience reveals that different
people respond in quite remarkably different ways even when faced with roughly
the same circumstances. Alan might be happy to live alone in a quiet and orderly
cottage, go out once a week, and stay in the same job for thirty years, whilst
Beth likes nothing better than exotic travel and being surrounded by vivacious
friends and loud music.

B In cases like these, we feel that it cannot be just the situation which is producing
the differences in behaviour. Something about the way the person is ‘wired up’
seems to be at work, determining how they react to situations, and, more than
that, the kind of situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why
personality seems to become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our
situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we
were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more affected by the
consequences of our own choices (doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded
by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus, personality differences that
might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later adulthood.
C Personality, then, seems to be the set of enduring and stable dispositions that
characterise a person. These dispositions come partly from the expression of
inherent features of the nervous system, and partly from learning. Researchers
sometimes distinguish between temperament, which refers exclusively to
characteristics that are inborn or directly caused by biological factors, and
personality, which also includes social and cultural learning. Nervousness, for
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 example, might be a factor of temperament, but religious piety is an aspect of
personality.
D The discovery that temperamental differences are real is one of the major
findings of contemporary psychology. It could easily have been the case that
there were no intrinsic differences between people in temperament, so that given
the same learning history, the same dilemmas, they would all respond in much
the same way. Yet we now know that this is not the case.
E Personality measures turn out to be good predictors of your health, how happy
you typically are - even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better
predictor of these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences
is in part innate. That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up
by new families, their personalities are more similar to those of their blood
relatives than to the ones they grew up with.
F Personality differences tend to manifest themselves through the quick, gut-
feeling, intuitive and emotional systems of the human mind. The slower,
rational, deliberate systems show less variation in output from person to person.
Deliberate rational strategies can be used to override intuitive patterns of
response, and this is how people wishing to change their personalities or feelings
have to go about it. As human beings, we have the unique ability to look in at
our personality from the outside and decide what we want to do with it.
G So what are the major ways personalities can differ? The dominant approach is
to think of the space of possible personalities as being defined by a number of
dimensions. Each person can be given a location in the space by their scores on
all the different dimensions. Virtually all theories agree on two of the main
dimensions, neuroticism (or negative emotionality) and extroversion (or positive
emotionality). However they differ on how many additional ones they recognise.
Among the most influential proposals are openness, conscientiousness and
agreeableness. In the next section I shall examine these five dimensions.
Questions 7-13
Do the following statements reflect the claims of the
writer?
Write
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NO if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this
7. Alan and Beth illustrate contrasting behaviour in similar situations.
8. As we grow older, we become more able to analyse our personalities.
9. Nervousness is an example of a learned characteristic.
10. The discovery of differences in temperament has changed the course of
psychological research.
11. Adopted children provide evidence that we inherit more of our personality than we
acquire.
12. The rational behaviour of different people shows greater similarity than their
emotional behaviour.
13. Most psychologists agree on the five major dimensions of personality.

Your answers:
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Part 5: For question 1-10, which are based on the reading passage. Answer these
questions below.

Understanding the milky Way

The Solar System in which the Earth is situated is part of the Milky Way galaxy, the pale
band of light crossing the night sky. This is one of a vast number of galaxies in the
universe, each consisting of billions of stars (such as our Sun) bound together by gravity.
The ancient Greek philosophers speculated on the nature of the Milky Way, and around
2,500 years ago Pythagoras appears to have believed that it was composed of a vast
number of faint stars. The astronomer Hipparchus is thought to have created the earliest
known catalogue of the stars in the 2nd century BC. But it was only with the
development of the telescope in the 17th century, making far more stars visible, that the
nature of the Milky Way could really begin to be understood. When Galileo first turned
his telecope on the sky, in 1609, he found proof that, as Pythagoras had suggested, the
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The idea that the Milky Way is a vast disc-shaped aggregation of stars comprising all the
stars seen by the naked eye or with a telescope was first, put forward by Thomas Wright
in 1750. William Herschel and his sister Caroline set out to map the structure of the
Milky Way by counting the numbers of stars they could see in different directions. Their
efforts were severely hampered by the dimming effect of the dust between the stars.
William Herschel at first believed that there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way,
a theory that had been advanced earlier by Christopher Wren. However he later came
round to the view that the universe consisted solely of the Milky Way system, and by the
end of the 19th century this was the prevailing view.

In the early 20th century the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn used star-counts to
derive a model of the Milky Way in which the sun lay close to the centre of a huge disc, a
mistake that Herschel had also made. This work, like Herschel's, was flawed by neglect
of the role of interstellar dust, which Edward Barnard was beginning to uncover. In a
1922 debate in the USA, Harlow Shapley argued that the Milky Way included all known
structures in the universe, while Heber Curtis advocated the theory that other galaxies
existed. The core of the debate was the issue of the size of the Milky Way system.
Shapley arrived at a size about three times too great. Curtis, on the other hand, used
Kapteyn's star- counts to derive a size about three times too small. In both cases it was
interstellar dust which caused the error.

An important development in our. understanding of the galaxy came in 1933, when Karl
Jansky detected radio waves from the Milky Way. He was working for Bell Telephone
Labs on the problem of the hiss on transatlantic telephone lines. He built an antenna to
try to locate the origin of this noise, and found to his surprise that it arose from the
Milky Way. Radio astronomy made a new start in 1942, during World War II, when
John Hey started monitoring German jamming of British radar. For two days there was a
remarkably intense episode of radar jamming which knocked out all the coastal radar
stations. Hey realised that the direction of the jamming followed the sun, and learnt from
the Royal Greenwich Observatory that an exceptionally active sunspot had crossed the
solar disc at that time. Hey had discovered radio emission from the sun.
Look at the following descriptions (1-9) and the list of people below.
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Match each description with the appropriate person.
1 changed his mind about the number of galaxies in the universe
2 discovered noise coming from the Milky Way
3 overestimated the size of the Milky Way
4 was the first to find evidence that the Milky Way is made up of a large number of
stars
5 identified an effect of solar activity
6 originated the idea that every visible star is part of the Milky Way
7 identified and listed a number of stars
8 found that dust between stars affected understanding of the Milky Way
9 first proposed the idea that there are a number of galaxies
10 repeated the the mistake
List of people
A Pythagoras B Hipparchus C Galileo
D Thomas Wright E William Herschel F Christopher Wren
G Jacobus Kapteyn H Edward Barnard I Harlow Shapley
J Heber Curtis K Karl Jansky L John Hey

Your answers:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
(Source: Advanced IELTS)
IV. WRITING (60 POINTS)
Part 1: Read the following article and use your own words to summarize it. Your
summary should be about 140 words long. (15 points)
The history of Australian Rules Football
Australian Rules Football is called by many nicknames. Lovers of the game just call it
“football” or “footy”. When contrasted with other forms of football. It is called “Aussie
Rules” or “AFL”. “AFL” stands for Australian Football League, which is the most
prestigious league in Australia.
Australian Rules Football was created by Tom Wills in 1858. He wanted to create a sport
that would keep cricket players fit through the winter. He began by writing a letter that
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club. In 1858, Wills and others played an experimental match that was the first game of
Australian football. But few details about this match have survived.
On August 7, 1858, two important events for the game occurred. The Melbourne Football
Club was founded. It was one of the world’s first football clubs in any code. Also, a
famous match between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College was played. It
was umpired by Tom Wills. A second day of play took place on August 21, and then
there was a third and final day on September 4. The two schools have competed every
year since.
The game is played between two teams of 18 players on an oval that can also be used for
cricket. These playing fields can be up to 185cm long. This is almost four times the size
of fields used in other forms of football.
A point called “a behind” is scored when a ball goes across the line and between a goal
post and a behind post. A behind point is also scored if the ball is touched by any body
part of either team’s member as it passes between the goal posts. A goal is worth six
points, and a behind is worth one point.
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Part 2: The graph and chart below give information below give information about 3D
cinema screens and film releases. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting
the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. (15 points)
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Part 3: Essay writing (30 points)

Write about the following topic.
There are fewer and fewer employment opportunities for graduates entering the job market
and this will have serious implications for higher education.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge
or experience.
You should write about 250 words.
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