Zadania 1–10 — 40 punktów / 90 minut
Read the text below. For each statement, decide if it is True, False, or if there is No Information in the text.
Australia is the only country in the world that has a whole continent to itself. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Australia, its capital is Canberra and its money is the Australian dollar. For a country of nearly 7.7 million square kilometres, it has surprisingly few people — fewer than 24 million. One reason is the land itself: more than a third of Australia is desert. In the middle of that desert, in an area known as the Red Centre, stands the great rock of Uluru, 335 metres high. Uluru is sacred to Indigenous Australians, whose ancestors reached the continent around 50,000 years ago.
Europeans came much later. Dutch explorers arrived in 1606, but it was the British who settled the country, and they did not do so until 1788 — almost two centuries after the Dutch. Gold was discovered in 1851, and exactly fifty years after that, in 1901, six separate colonies joined together to form one nation. This event, known as Federation, is the moment the modern Commonwealth was born.
The dry centre is only part of the picture. Along the east coast the land is covered by forest, but not the same forest everywhere. Tropical rainforest grows in the north-east; further south, along the middle of the east coast, the forest is subtropical; and in the south-east and on the island of Tasmania it is broadleaf forest. Off the coast of Queensland lies Fraser Island, which stretches for more than 120 kilometres and is made of sand — the largest island of its kind on Earth. The mountain ranges include the Great Dividing Range and the Macdonnell Ranges, and the rivers include the Murray–Darling, the Murrumbidgee and the Lachlan. Australia protects its landscapes in 516 national parks.
Much of Australia’s wildlife lives nowhere else in the wild: the kangaroo, the koala, the platypus and the echidna. Some of it is dangerous. The country has 36 species of funnel-web spider and 20 kinds of venomous snake, among them the taipan, the most venomous snake in the world.
British settlement began less than a hundred years after the Dutch first reached Australia.
Gold was discovered in Australia fifty years before the colonies became one country.
Uluru is the highest point in the Red Centre.
Australia has more kinds of funnel-web spider than kinds of venomous snake.
Fraser Island is one of Australia’s national parks.
Subtropical forest grows further north than tropical rainforest.
Read the text below. Four sentences have been removed. Choose from options A–G the one which best fits each gap. Three options are distractors and do not fit any gap.
New Zealand lies in the South Pacific Ocean, a long way from anywhere else. Its nearest neighbour, Australia, is about a thousand miles away across the sea. The country is not one piece of land but two, the North Island and the South Island. Together they cover 269,055 square kilometres and are home to about four and a half million people. That is a smaller population than Ireland’s, but on an area almost four times as large. In the Māori language the country has another name, Aotearoa, which means “The Land of the Long White Cloud”.
The land itself is the work of volcanoes. Volcanic forces created the islands around 23 million years ago, and more than fifty volcanoes remain. So the forces that built the country are still at work. Away from the volcanoes, two great mountain ranges, the Southern Alps and the Kaikoura Ranges, run across the land. The highest peak of all is Mount Cook, 3,754 metres tall, which the Māori call “Cloud Piercer”, a fitting name for a mountain of that height.
The wildlife is unlike anywhere else on Earth. Nearly all of New Zealand’s native land animals are birds, and many of them cannot fly. Yet the bird itself is now rare: fewer than 75,000 wild kiwi remain. In neighbouring Australia, by comparison, the best-known animals are the kangaroo, the koala and the platypus. The insects are strange as well. The giant weta weighs 70 grams, which is three times as much as a mouse.
The people are as distinctive as the land. New Zealanders even call themselves Kiwis, after that bird. Most of them, 86 per cent, live in cities, and the capital is Wellington. The country is a parliamentary democracy, and its national sport is rugby. It has also made history, and not only on the rugby field. No other nation anywhere had taken that step before.
Complete each sentence. Choose A, B or C.
It’s a long drive to Uluru, so we’d better hit the ______ early.
Our plan to camp near the reef fell ______ when the ferry was cancelled.
Planting a hundred trees is a drop in the ______ compared with what the bushfires destroyed.
We ran ______ of water halfway across the Nullarbor Plain.
Complete each mini-dialogue. Choose A, B or C.
X: Did you enjoy the boat trip to Fraser Island?
Y: It was raining ______ and dogs the whole way.
X: Do you think we’ll see a kangaroo today?
Y: Once in a blue ______, maybe — they’re shy.
X: Why didn’t you tell me about the trip?
Y: Sorry — it completely slipped my ______.
X: Is the Outback really that empty?
Y: You can drive for hours in the middle of ______.
Read the text below. Complete each gap (5.1.–5.10.) with one word to create a coherent and grammatically correct text.
The Great Barrier Reef, 5.1. _______ lies off the coast of Queensland, is the largest coral reef system 5.2. _______ the world. It is made up 5.3. _______ nearly three thousand individual reefs and stretches for more 5.4. _______ two thousand kilometres.
The reef is home 5.5. _______ thousands of species of fish, as well as turtles, dolphins and sharks. It is so large that it 5.6. _______ be seen from space — the only living structure 5.7. _______ the planet that can.
In recent years the reef 5.8. _______ suffered from rising sea temperatures, 5.9. _______ cause the coral to lose its colour. If the water does not cool, the coral 5.10. _______ eventually die.
Complete each sentence with one word. The number of dashes corresponds to the number of missing letters. Some letters are already given.
Australia is so big that the weather in the north is _ _ _ p _ _ _ _ _ _ different from the weather in the south.
Wild koalas are found nowhere in the world _ _ c _ _ _ Australia.
Some parts of the Australian desert get _ _ _ d _ _ any rain for years.
Sydney is Australia’s biggest city, but it is not the capital — many people get this _ _ o _ _.
Aboriginal people have lived in Australia for at _ _ a _ _ 50,000 years.
Complete the mini-dialogues with the words given in brackets, in the correct form. Both gaps must be right to score the point. Full grammatical and spelling accuracy is required.
X: What (you do) when you saw the kangaroo?
Y: We (walk) along the track towards Uluru.
X: Has the reef recovered?
Y: Parts of it (recover), but the damage (still be) visible.
X: Why didn’t you swim there?
Y: We (tell) that the water (be) dangerous.
X: Will you visit New Zealand?
Y: If I (save) enough money, I (go) next winter.
X: How long have you studied Māori?
Y: I (study) it for two years and I still (find) it difficult.
Match three items to each country. Write the correct letter (A–L) in the table. Three options are distractors and do not belong to any of the three countries.
| Country | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | |||
| New Zealand | |||
| Canada |
| Country | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | A | D | G |
| New Zealand | B | E | H |
| Canada | C | F | I |
Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
How tall is Uluru?
Which sentence is a false one?
Your friend from Australia is writing a school project about your country and has asked you for help.
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