ESCOLA OFICIAL DIDIOMES ILLES BALEARS DEPARTAMENT DANGLS

CERTIFICAT DE NIVELL C1 CONVOCATRIA ???? MODEL DEXAMEN

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TIME 45

PART ONE. MULTIPLE CHOICE. You will read a text about the effects of volunteering for a persons career. For questions 1-15, choose the most appropriate option A, B, C, or D. The exercise begins with an example. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points) VOLUNTEERING Students and jobseekers (0) C to get onto the course or into the workplace of their (1) _____, hope that voluntary work will help them (2) _____ from the crowd. This chance to (3) _____ experience personally and professionally is (4) _____ on the wish-list of young people. (5) _____ carried out last year revealed that young and old (6) _____ said volunteering had improved their lives, particularly those (7) _____ in conservation or heritage work. Businesses recognize its importance and get to (8) _____ their profile in the community, while staff get a break from their daily routine to develop soft skills, such as initiative and decision-making. A volunteering organization is (9) _____ a survey to find out if volunteering does make a(n) (10) _____ in the workplace, or if it is something businesses do simply to improve their (11) _____. Not only are business-(12) _____ placements becoming more common, but the government is also investing money and aiming to (13) _____ volunteers. The push is clearly on to make volunteering as (14) _____ as possible to everyone. And the more people who participate, the more the act fulfils its (15) _____ of making the world a better place. 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. A. looking forward A. alternative A. stand out A. win A. extreme A. research A. similar A. committed A. raise A. governing A. mark A. representation A. sponsored A. claim A. charming A. aim B. interested B. choice B. lift out B. achieve B. high B. survey B. the same B. associated B. increase B. guiding B. difference B. look B. publicised B. recruit B. pleasing B. direction C. keen C. option C. pick out C. collect C. sharp C. questionnaire C. alike C. connected C. arouse C. conducting C. effect C. image C. announced C. join C. attractive C. mark D. fond D. election D. point out D. gain D. strong D. quiz D. too D. involved D. motivate D. directing D. result D. figure D. advertised D. enter D. preferable D. design

ESCOLA OFICIAL DIDIOMES ILLES BALEARS DEPARTAMENT DANGLS

CERTIFICAT DE NIVELL C1 CONVOCATRIA ???? MODEL DEXAMEN

TWO. OPEN CLOZE. You will read a text about global warming. For questions 1-15, fill in the blanks with ONE word ONLY. The exercise begins with an example. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points) GLOBAL WARMING The rise in the global temperature (0) BY four percent predicted by the scientific community may not sound like much. It is (1) _____ the difference between now and the last Ice Age, (2) _____ huge glaciers covered Europe. Nobody knows precisely what (3) _____ happen in a warmer world, but we (4) _____ know some things. The temperature of the world has climbed something (5) _____ half a degree this century, and the oceans have risen by at least 10 cms. Never in the history of our planet (6) _____ there been such a rapid change. This means that the global warming we are now experiencing is mainly (7) _____ to the carbon dioxide we have dumped into the atmosphere (8) _____ to the 1960s. (9) _____ then, the use of fossil fuels has increased rapidly. Researchers working for the United Nations and European governments have been warning that (10) _____ the Dutch will need to do will be to build more extensive sea defences. Many of the worlds great cities are (11) _____ risk, because they are located at sea level. But the effects of rising sea levels will be (12) _____ far worse for the developing countries. With a metre rise in sea levels, 200 million people are (13) _____ to become homeless. . There are other fears too, (14) _____ to a recent United Nations report. The plight of the hungry in northern Africa could worsen, (15) _____ rainfall in the Sahara and beyond is reduced by 20 per cent.

ESCOLA OFICIAL DIDIOMES ILLES BALEARS DEPARTAMENT DANGLS

CERTIFICAT DE NIVELL C1 CONVOCATRIA ???? MODEL DEXAMEN

PART THREE. WORD BUILDING. You will read a text about the stages of childhood. For questions 1-10, complete the blanks with words FORMED from the words given in BRACKETS. Remember that some of the words may require a negative / plural affix. The exercise begins with an example. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) CHILDHOOD Five is a (0) FRIENDLY (FRIEND) year. It is also a more serious, competent year. It is the age when special efforts are made to be (1) _____ (DEPEND), but when there remains a (2) _____ (POWER) need for repeated contact with the (3) _____ (PROTECT) parent. The 5-year-old likes to help its parents and will happily run simple errands for them. It (4) _____ (INNOCENT) tells tales about its child companions, without realizing that it is being (5) _____ (LOYAL) to them. Some schools of thought believe five is the age when childhood (6) _____ (BEHAVE) deteriorates into adult sophistication. Clifton Fadiman wrote, It is then they begin, (7) _____ (CONSCIOUS), to become actors. The product of this process is known as (8) _____ (MATURE). Six is the year when reading becomes a pleasure. It is an (9) _____ (IMAGINE) age, an age for thinking things out in ones head before performing an action. So much is going on inside the head of a 6-year-old that he or she often seems more occupied and sometimes even (10) _____ (HESITATE).