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.
English is spoken on some of the largest islands on Earth and on some of the tiniest. Great Britain is the largest island in Europe, and Ireland is the second largest. Scotland alone has hundreds of islands, including the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands and the Hebrides. Some of them hold very old homes: on Orkney, the stone houses of Skara Brae were built around 5,000 years ago, several centuries before the stones of Stonehenge were raised in England. Others guard the sea: a lighthouse has stood at Neist Point on the Isle of Skye since 1900, and another stands on Bishop’s Rock in the Isles of Scilly. Off the coast of Northern Ireland, the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge leads to a tiny island; fishermen first built it nearly 300 years ago.
On the far side of the world, Australia is an island so large that it counts as a continent — the only country to have a whole continent to itself. It has smaller islands too: Fraser Island, off Queensland, stretches for more than 120 kilometres and is the biggest sand island anywhere. About a thousand miles away lies New Zealand, Australia’s nearest neighbour. New Zealand consists of two main islands, the North Island and the South Island, divided by the Cook Strait. The islands were pushed up by volcanic forces about 23 million years ago, and more than 50 volcanoes remain, some of them still active. The highest peak, Mount Cook, rises to 3,754 metres; the Māori call it the “Cloud Piercer”, while their name for the whole country, Aotearoa, means “The Land of the Long White Cloud”.
New Zealand’s animals are unusual. Nearly all of its native land animals are birds, and many of them cannot fly. The giant weta, an insect, weighs 70 grams — three times as much as a mouse. New Zealanders call themselves “Kiwis”, although fewer than 75,000 wild kiwi birds are left. Most of the population, 86 per cent, lives in cities, and in 1893 the country became the first in the world to give women the vote.
The lighthouse on Bishop’s Rock is older than the one at Neist Point.
Skara Brae is older than Stonehenge.
A giant weta weighs about a third as much as a mouse.
New Zealand’s animals are unusual because the islands are so far from other land.
More New Zealanders live in cities than outside them.
'Cloud Piercer’ is the Māori name for the whole of New Zealand.
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.
Almost every English-speaking country has decided that some of its land should be kept as it is, and the numbers show how seriously they take the idea. The United States alone has nearly four hundred areas looked after by its National Park Service, and Australia, a country that covers an entire continent, has 516 national parks. Protecting water as well as land makes sense in a country whose lakes and rivers hold about twenty per cent of all the fresh water on Earth.
The reasons differ from place to place. Australia’s parks have a great deal to cover: more than one third of the country is desert, yet it also has tropical rainforest in the north-east, subtropical rainforest along the middle of the east coast, and broadleaf forest in the south-east and Tasmania. Uluru, a sacred rock 335 metres tall in the Red Centre desert, is one; Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world, stretching for over 120 kilometres along the Queensland coast, is another.
Protection is not only about scenery. Often it is about animals that would otherwise vanish. In the United States the American buffalo now survives only inside protected areas. Canada, by contrast, still has room for bears, wolves, moose, reindeer and musk ox across its forests and tundra, as well as beavers, otters, mountain lions and bighorn sheep.
In Britain the parks hold the highest ground. Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England, stands inside the Lake District National Park, and Snowdon, the highest in Wales, shares its name with Snowdonia. Ben Nevis in Scotland, at 1,345 metres, is higher than either of them. Ireland, whose peat bogs, limestone ground and Atlantic cliffs were shaped by the glaciers that covered the island 15,000 years ago, has six national parks of its own. Whatever the reason, the idea is the same everywhere: keep some of the land as it is, so that it is still there tomorrow.
Complete each sentence. Choose A, B or C.
The council got cold ______ about the wind farm and cancelled the whole project.
The meeting about recycling ______ on far longer than planned.
We’ve fallen ______ with the recycling targets this term.
Once the funding was cut, the project was ______ for good.
Complete each mini-dialogue. Choose A, B or C.
X: Are the glaciers really disappearing?
Y: It’s the tip of the ______ — the whole system is changing.
X: Can one school really make a difference?
Y: Every little ______ helps.
X: Why did the council reject the plan?
Y: It cost too much — money doesn’t grow on ______.
X: Was the clean-up hard work?
Y: We were up to our ______ in plastic all day.
Read the text below. Complete each gap (5.1.–5.10.) with one word to create a coherent and grammatically correct text.
Scientists have been warning 5.1. _______ decades that the climate is changing, and the evidence is now hard 5.2. _______ ignore. Glaciers that took thousands of years to form 5.3. _______ retreating, and some may disappear altogether within a century.
If the world 5.4. _______ acted sooner, the problem would be smaller today. Instead, emissions kept rising, and governments 5.5. _______ to agree on what to do. Many people now say we should 5.6. _______ started changing our habits far earlier.
There is still plenty 5.7. _______ be done. Cutting waste, using less energy at home and travelling by train instead 5.8. _______ flying all make a difference. Nobody expects one person 5.9. _______ solve the problem alone, but a great many small changes add 5.10. _______ to something that matters.
Complete each sentence with one word. The number of dashes corresponds to the number of missing letters. Some letters are already given.
Recycling helps to reduce the amount of _ _ s _ _ we produce.
A flood is one kind of natural _ _ _ a _ _ _ _.
Air _ _ l _ _ _ _ _ _ is worst in the largest cities.
Many rare species are in danger of _ _ t _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
The government promised to _ _ o _ _ _ _ the ancient forest.
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 did the scientist say about the glacier?
Y: She said it (melt) faster than anyone (expect).
X: Could the damage have been avoided?
Y: If we (act) sooner, it (be) much smaller.
X: Is your school doing anything?
Y: We (recycle) plastic since September and we (plant) a garden now.
X: Why are the dunes fenced off?
Y: They (fence) so that the marram grass (grow) back.
X: Should we have started earlier?
Y: Yes, we (not should) have waited so long — we (do) far more by now.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United Kingdom | |||
| Australia | |||
| Ireland |
| Country | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The United Kingdom | A | B | C |
| Australia | D | E | F |
| Ireland | G | H | I |
Choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
Which of these countries has the most national parks?
Which sentence is a false one?
Your school is taking part in an international project about protecting nature, and you have been paired with a school in Australia.
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