Reading passage 1

A. Edward Burroughs was engaged in a similar effort not far away, just outside the Oxon Hill Library. "Here you go, ma'am," the District 8 school board candidate said as he handed out a campaign flier. "Our school system needs a change." B. Both were late for class. It is no accident that Murray, who is running for a seat in District 1, and Burroughs are running for office now. Or running for seats on the Board of Education. Or even out campaigning when they should be in class. "I have a math class at 12:15," Burroughs said during an interview outside the library. "But I'm coming back to campaign until it's dark." Burroughs is an education policy major at Bowie State; Murray is studying economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. C. The two have been planning - some might say plotting - their political careers together since they were in sixth grade. Now they are working to make their lifelong dream of holding an elected office a reality - even if their lives thus far total just 18 years each. "We didn't make a pact about running for political office, but we have both decided to do the same thing," Murray said. Rosalind Johnson, the county board member from District 1, praised Murray, her opponent. But she also said now is not the time for him to serve in the elected position. "We want our children taking our place, but we want them to do that when they are ready," said Johnson, who has been on the board since 2006. "The reality is an 18-year-old or a 20-year-old can never go through the same experiences that someone older has had." D. Steven Morris, a Fort Washington resident and a former teacher and administrator at Forestville High School, was even more candid in his assessment of Burroughs, whom he'll face on the ballot. "He is a child, and I am a professional," Morris said. The issues are too complex for someone who really has no experience with life to represent the educators, administrators and children of Prince George's County," Morris added. "My opponent needs to focus more on school and preparing himself for life as opposed to running for public office." Burroughs points out that it is he and not Morris who has experience on the school board: He's been the student representative. For his part, Murray said the current group of school board members has lost touch with students and teachers across the county. E. "I have been in the public schools for 12 years, and I want other students who come behind me to have a better experience than I had," he said. Murray and Burroughs met when they were middle-school students participating in the Prince George's Regional Association of Student Governments. Both were 12-year-olds who, despite being outnumbered by high school students in the organization, held their own, said Richard Moody, student affairs supervisor of the Safe and Drug Free Schools program, which oversees SGA programs in the county. "I remember David from being a leader at Yorktown Elementary," Moody said. "Edward really evolved as a student leader and became very political." F. Moody said this is the first time in his 15 years with the student government association that a former member has run for an elected position while still in school. As a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High in Greenbelt, Murray was appointed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) to be the student representative on the Maryland State Board of Education.

G. Burroughs, a graduate of Crossland High in Temple Hills, was elected in 2008 to be the student representative on the Prince George's County Board of Education, and he was reelected to a second term in 2009. Earlier this year, Murray and Burroughs worked as interns for Maryland State Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-Prince George's). The two young men say they rely on each other for support, often talking several times a day. But they make it clear that they are very different. Source: The Washington Post Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 to 14 which are based on Reading Passage 1 Questions 1 to 7 Reading Passage 1 has seven paragraphs A G. From the list of headings below, choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph. Write the appropriate numbers I ix in boxes 1 7 on your answer sheet.

i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix.

Burroughs and Murray. Plotting their political careers. Steven Morris. Our school system needs a change. Murray and Burroughs in middle school. Murray was appointed by Gov. Martin O'Malley. Murray a politician. Burroughs - the student representative. The oppositions at school. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Paragraph A Paragraph B Paragraph C Paragraph D Paragraph E Paragraph F Paragraph G

Questions 8 10 Choose the correct letters, A, B, C or D Write your answers in boxes 8 10 on your answer sheet. 8 It is no accident that Murray, and Burroughs are running for A. Office now.

B. C. D. 9 A. B. C. D. 10 A. B. C. D.

Positions now. Careers now. Election now. Murray is studying economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. English county. New England. Illinois. Morris has experience on the Local board. College Board. School board. Education board.

Questions 11 14 Complete each of the following statements (questions 11 14) with the best endings A G from the box below Write the appropriate letters A G in boxes 11 14 on your answer sheet. 11 The issues are too complex for someone who really has 12 This is the first time in his 15 years with the student government association that 13 Burroughs was elected in 2008 to be the student representative 14 Rosalind Johnson is the county A B C D E F On the Prince George's County Board of Education. Board member from District 1. Theyve given a good fight. At last was found imbedded in the hump. Is not going to win the game for them. A former member has run for an elected position while still in school. G No experience with life to represent the educators.

Reading passage 2 A. Former president George W. Bush writes in a new memoir that he briefly considered dropping his vice president, Richard B. Cheney, from his 2004 re-election ticket but said he still considers Cheney a steady adviser who helped him achieve his goals. The memoir, which was leaked to several news outlets in advance of its formal release next Tuesday, details Cheney's advocacy of

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war with Iraq. It says he asked Bush at a luncheon whether he was "going to take care of this guy, or not," referring to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Bush writes that he still considers the war justified and said he believes it left America safer, despite the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that prompted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to offer his resignation privately to Bush. He said he turned Rumsfeld's offer down because he feared the change in leadership would send a bad signal to U.S. troops. The former president defends his handling of some of the most intense controversies of his presidency, acknowledging at one point that he personally approved the water boarding, or simulated drowning, of alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a practice that the CIA has since forsworn and both President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have described as torture barred by international law. "Damn right," Bush said he told the CIA when they sought his permission. He offered his regrets for flying over New Orleans to survey the post-Katrina damage, a move that provoked criticism, and says that he mistakenly brought too many troops home from Iraq too soon. But he has described as "disgusting" the televised accusation from recording artist and producer Kanye West that his response to Katrina was tainted by racism, calling that one of the low points of his tenure. The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key moments in his life, including his decision to stop drinking after some embarrassing conversations in bars. Bush said he realized as his daughters got older that, if he did not stop, they would think it was okay to drink and drive. And he said that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq gave him a "sickening" feeling that persists. Bush says he considered dropping Cheney in favour of then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (RTenn.) but appreciated the fact that Cheney helped him "do the job" at the White House. The two men disagreed over Bush's decision to fire Rumsfeld because the war in Iraq was going badly, and over Bush's refusal to pardon Cheney deputy I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after Libby's conviction for lying about his role in the Valerie Plame affair. But Bush said they have patched up their friendship since then. He also praises Obama for deploying more troops to Afghanistan and defends the 2008 bank bailout that has been attacked by many Republican candidates for Congress this year, arguing that it sent a useful signal that the economy would not be allowed to fail.

Source: The Washington Post Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15 27 which are based on Reading Passage 2 Questions 15 19 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2? In boxes 15 -19 in your answer sheet write TRUE FALSE if the statement agrees with the information if the statement contradicts the information

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15. George Bush wrote a memoir. 16. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld played an important role in the senate. 17. Both President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. have described as torture barred by international law. 18. The book, titled "Decision Points," is focused on key moments in his political career. 19. Barack Obama has a very different relationship with Bush. Question 20 23 Look at the following topics (questions 20 23) and the list of statements below. Match each topic to the correct statement. Write the correct letter A G in boxes 1 4 on your answer sheet. 20. Donald H. Rumsfeld 21. Decision Points 22. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 23. Abu Ghraib A B C D E F G Joined hands with the government. Had a different opinion about Abu Ghraib. Is famous for its prison. Defense Secretary. The newly written memoir of George W Bush. The revelations of prisoner abuse. Alleged Sept. 11 plotter.

Questions 24 27 Complete the following statements with the correct alternative from the box. Write the correct letter A F in boxes 24 27 on your answer sheet. 24. 25. 26. 27. Cheney helped him "do the job" at Bush mistakenly brought too many troops Bush considers the war justified and Bush praises Obama for deploying

A Home from Iraq too soon. B More troops to Afghanistan. C The White House. D More troops to Iraq. E Believes it left America safer. F Back home.

Reading Passage 3 A. Wasn't France once the country where newborns received a finger dipped in champagne even before their first taste of mother's milk? Where children learned the pleasures and responsibilities of wine appreciation with watered-down sips at the family dinner table? Over the last 30 years, however, per-capita wine consumption in France has plummeted by more than 50%. In the meantime, the popularity of beer and spirits among young drinkers has only grown along with the troubling trend of binge drinking, a habit that the French of all ages used to consider anathema. Now the authors of a recent government study have come up with a controversial way to teach young French that famous savoir vivre in sensible drinking: hold wine tasting sessions in college cafeterias. B. Commissioned by the French Higher Education Ministry, and co-authored by a pair of respected French gastronomes former director of Paris Sorbonne University, Jean-Robert Pitte, and television presenter Jean-Pierre Coffe the report, published in March, includes a range of proposals on how to improve students' diets and consumption habits. Pitte and Coffe believe a university education shouldn't stop at the cafeteria door, and that alcohol should be on the syllabus too, in the form of lunchtime tasting classes. "We thought it was good to begin to instill a sense of responsibility in students, and teach them to how to appreciate good wine in great moderation," Pitte told France INFO radio last month. "And to show them that it is pleasurable and healthy, and part of our national heritage." C. The recommendation didn't to go over well with Higher Education Minister Valrie Pcresse, who during the press conference upon the report's release made it clear that the government has no intention of adding alcohol to meals at university cafeterias. Coffe insisted that the report isn't calling for colleges to set up wine fountains at the students' tables. But, he added, when it comes to teaching about alcohol consumption, the report is as concerned with pleasure as it is prevention. "Why would we have sex education and not wine culture education?" he asked. D. According to the report, too often today French students place their health in peril by binge drinking at parties where they down frightening quantities of beer and strong alcohols. French health ministry figures reveal that between 2004 and 2007 there was a 50% increase in the number of French 15- to 24-year-olds hospitalized for excessive alcohol consumption. In this context, the report claims, the initiation to moderate wine consumption is an excellent means to fight against alcoholism and enrich students' sense of culture and taste.

E. Rmi Martial, president of the national student union Mouvement Des Etudiants, agrees, saying that lunchtime wine tastings could serve to educate students about the joys of high quality, low volume drinking and "promote the French art de vivre." But, surprisingly, the intriguing proposal has not been unanimously embraced by France's college kids. "It's incongruous to want to prevent alcoholism while at the same time spreading the consumption of wine," Jean-Baptiste Prvost, president of the National Union of Students of France, told daily La Croix. "Universities would do better to see they no longer finance events with open bars and dedicate greater means to awareness campaigns." F. And Alain Rigauld, president of the National Association for Prevention in Alcoholism and Addiction, finds the notion that wine could play any role in countering alcohol abuse almost comical. "It's naive to think we are going to reduce binge drinking this way," he told France INFO. In fact, he says, it could make matters worse. "The alcohol in wine has soothing, tranquilizing effects, and with all these students stressed out and worried about their studies, we are going to help them discover a means to manage their stress that is as easy as it is harmful." G. Even if lunch hour at the cafeteria isn't the time or place for a lesson in sensible alcohol use, do Pitte and Coffe still have a point? Some experts on addiction say they do. Physician and psychotherapist Grard Ostermann, who specializes in eating disorders and alcoholism, has long argued that the transmission of wine culture to young people can itself be a form of alcoholabuse prevention. "It seems to me that there are less alcoholics in the world of wine, perhaps because the [consumers] are looking for quality, not quantity, but also and above all because there is transmission," he told weekly Le Point in September. "From the moment I can understand how wine is made, where it comes from, how it is tasted, I no longer see it the same way. To taste, sapere, in Latin, is wisdom. These are rites of passage that can become some of the best forms of prevention." Perhaps. But with France's wine culture traditions around the family table increasingly becoming a thing of the past, it's not clear whether the time to catch up on vinous wisdom is really somewhere between Economics class and poulet roti. Source: Time Questions You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28 40 which are based on Reading Passage 3. Questions 28 32 The passage has seven paragraphs labelled AG. Which paragraph contains the following information? Write the correct letter A-G in boxes 28-32 on your answer sheet. NB: You may use any letter more than once. 28. Champaign is considered as a holy drink in France.

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Wine could play any role in countering alcohol abuse. The transmission of wine culture to young people can itself be a form of alcohol-abuse prevention. France's wine culture traditions around the family table increasingly are becoming a thing of the past. French students place their health in peril by binge drinking at parties.

Questions 33 36 Complete the sentences below with words taken from Reading Passage 3. Use NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 33-36 on your answer sheet.

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The initiation to moderate wine consumption is an excellent means to . A university education shouldn't stop at the . Alain Rigauld is president of the National Association for Prevention in . The initiation to moderate wine consumption is an excellent means to enrich students' sense of .

Questions 37 40 Complete the summary of the paragraphs A C below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 37-40 on your answer sheet. Lunchtime wine tastings could serve to educate students about the 37 The intriguing proposal has not been unanimously embraced by 38 .. We are going to help them discover a means to manage their stress that is as 39 .. With France's wine culture traditions around the family table increasingly becoming a thing of the past, it's not clear whether the time to catch up on 40