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1. Read the following text to answer the question.

If we look at the much reported rise in global temperatures over the last century, a closer analysis reveals that the lion’s share of that increase, almost three quarters in total, occurred before mankind began to “poison” the world with industrial processes and their accompanying greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of the twentieth century.

Most of the increase in global temperature took place in the latter half of the twentieth century.

2. Companies often shift production to regions with lower labour costs in order to remain ____________ .

3. Complete the sentence with the verb "enable" in the correct form. "The success of the experiment _____________ the student to complete her assignment."

4. In contrast, 70% of males were awarded a postgraduate diploma, ___________ was more than twice the number of females.

5. Read the following text to answer the question.

By the time he came to write the string quartets referred to as Opus 76 and Opus 77, Haydn was undoubtedly the most famous living composer in all of Europe. He had recently returned from a highly successful second visit to England, for which he had composed his last six symphonies, culminating in the brilliant and festive Drum Roll Symphony (No. 103) and London Symphony (No, 104). This is public music, full of high spirits, expansive gestures and orchestral surprises. Haydn knew how to please the audience. In 1796, following his return to Vienna, he began work on his largest and most famous work, “The Creation”.

Haydn wrote the Drum Roll Symphony and London Symphony in England.

6. Which of the following words is a synonym for "false"?

7. Read the following text to answer the question.

We crave for and are fed a daily diet of fear. Horror films and disaster movies have an increasing appeal. Nostradamus pops his head up now and again, And other would-be prophets make a brief appearance, predicting the demise of humanity. Perhaps this is all just a vestige of the hardships of early man – our attempt to recreate the struggles of a past age, as life becomes ever more comfortable.

The writer believes that Nostradamus and other prophets are right about their predictions for the end of humankind.

8. Read the following text to answer the question.

Perfumes and fragrant spices were precious commodities in antiquity. They were very much in demand, and at times even exceeded silver and gold in value. Therefore they were considered to be luxury products, used mainly in the temples and in the homes of the nobility and upper classes.

Since perfumes and spices were luxury products, their use was exclusive to the noble and the wealthy.

9. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

Customers who recommend Sunny Days Camping to friends will receive _________

10. Combined efforts by the government and the individuals ____________ could make it possible for the entire population to become computer literate.

11. Which of the following adverbs is the most informal?

12. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

The company has most camping sites in _________

13. Which of these words for an expert in their field is the most formal?

14. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

Shuttle departure time:

15. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

Sunny days Camping has been organising holidays for _____________

16. _________________________ we observed students in the lab on almost 100 separate occasions.

17. The university is going to _________________ a coach from the airport to the conference venue.

18. Listen to the following audio to answer the question.

What did the speaker most like about the orientation week?

19. Researchers visited the Great Upper Nile region ___________________ they could study an endangered languages still spoken there.

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There are a number of settlements across East Anglia with names containing the word ‘tye’. The word is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and the Oxford English Dictionary quotes the earliest usage of the term as dating from 832. Essentially a ‘tye’ was a green or a small area of open common land, usually situated away from the main village or settlement, often at the junction of two or more routes. Locals and passing travellers had the right to pasture their horses, pigs and other farm animals on the tye.

A tye was __________________