Part 1

Youare goingto readthreeextractswhichare all concernedin someway with

music.Forquestions1-6, choosethe answer(A, B, C or D)whichyouthinkfits best
accordingto the text.

It's a string thing

You only have to think of the expression'tugging at the heart strings' to be reminded of the way we connect emotionally
with the sound of the violin. But for years,the strings have been marginalized in the world of pop - sidelined to the slushy
world of ballads,lazily used to suggestdrama or sophistication. To all intents and purposes,strings had become the sonic
equivalent of the highlighter pen. But suddenly things have changed.

futists like Joanna Newsom and Suf an Stevensmade a breakthrough with a broader kind of orchestralpop a few years
ago, playing sellout showsat classicalvenues,and the trend contrnues.

So what has brought on our fancy for strings?Pop'srelentless,synthesizedtechnical evolution has made more people
start longing for a more organic sound. And in a way, the sound of violins is revolutionary; punk was once synonymous
with electric guitars and shouting, but since thatt now the norm, itt no longer shocking. It's far more innovative to use a
classicalinstrument in a way itt never been played before.

\fill our love of strings endure?'Well,given the averageage of a pop musician is25, and the averageage of a concert violin
is 150 yearsold, maybe it's not violins that are the crazewithin pop - but pop that is the crazein the constantly evolving
story of the violin.

1 In the firstparagraph,
the writeris

A explainingwhy the violinis generallyunsuitedto pop music.

B describinghowviolinshavebeenuseduntilrecentlyin pop music.
C praisingthe useof the violinto giveemotionalpowerto pop music.
D defendingthe way violinswereusedin traditional typesof pop music.

2 Accordingto the writer,the currentinterestin violinsin pop music

A is just a phasethatwill soonpass

B is relatedto changesin classicalmusic.
C is partof a searchfor somethingnew in pop music.
D is a resultof technological
improvements to the instrument.

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 EXTRACTThe environmentallyfriendly CD

Eric Prydzt single 'Proper Education' was the first music CD to be totally carbon neutral, from the production
processthrough to point of sale.The charity Global Cool calculatedthat a total of 58.4 tons of carbon dioxide
neededto be offset for the 40,000 CDs to be carbon neutral. To arrive at this figure they worked out, with the line3
help of the recording company, how much of the gaswas produced by the cameras,stafl travel costs,editing
time, shipping and saleof the CDs. In the end, over half of it was produced during distribution rather than
production. The emissionscreatedthrough the entire processwere offset through the Te Apiti wind farm project
in New ZeaIand.The sites'turbines generateenough emission-freeelectricity to power 45,000 homes.
The video itself echoedthe CDt environmental credentials.Set on a London housing estate,it shows a gang
breaking into a block of fats, but instead of committing crimes, they switch appliancesoffstandby, changelight
bulbs for more energy-efficientalternativesand place water-saving bricks in toilet cisterns.'Proper Education
samplesPink Floydt 'Another Brick in the \7all' - the first time the band has ever sanctioned such a use of the
work. Prydz said: 'Pink Floyd would alwaysuse their videos to get a messageacrossand I really wanted to carry
on that spirit.'

3 The word'they'inline3 refersto

A a numberof CDs.
B a recordingcompany.
C the stagesin a process.
D organisation.
a charitable

4 In the secondparagraph,
we learnthatthe visualcontentof the CD
A was devisedby anotherband.
B matchedthe advicegivenin the song.
C was partof an officialenvironmental
campaign.
D was intendedto reinforcethe carbonneutralmessage

Book review

Fiction strugglesto compete with the glamour and grungy The band doesnt have a name. which in hio lA makes it
excessof rock music. It may surpassit in its capacityto probe seemcool and edgy,though it might reasonablf be taken as a
and provoke, but a novel tends not to be as immediately sign of limited imagination; its members are still ar rhe stage
alluring as an album, and a live reading rarely setsthe pulse where they juggle day jobs and the trials of their unstarry
racing the way a high-octane gig will. Novels about bands personal lives with the demandsof crafting and performing
and about the music businesshave rarely proved successful. songs.The territory defined here is unambiguously hip,
Jonathan Lethem's 7heFortres of Solitude (2003) and there is a great deal that seemscontrived - some of it
demonstrated his fair for writing about music and popular winsome, some of it irritating. Certainly, there are plenty of
culture. Now; after the complex sprawl of that fine novel, You deeply embeddedjokes about musicians and their foibles.
DonI LoueMe YetIooks at a comparatively narrow stretch of But amid all this drollery, the reader may labour to summon
the music business,zeroingin on an indie band from Los up much sympathy for Lethemt cast of precious, nerdy
Angeleswhich finds itself teetering on the brink of success. POSeUTS.

5 The reviewerfeelsthat Lethem'sfirst novel

A did not enjoythe levelof successthat it deserved.
B was too narrowlyfocussedto interestthe generalreader.
C was betterthanmostothersdealingwiththis subjectmatter.
D madethe musicbusinessseemmorecomplicated than it reallyis.

6 Whatcriticismdoesthe reviewerhaveof Lethem'slatestnbvel?

A lt lacksa clearmessage.
B The characters are unappealing.
C The plotis ratherunconvincing.
D lt failsin its attemptsat humour.
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 Part2

You are goingto readan extractfrom a travelbook.Six paragraphshave beenremovedfrom the extract.
Choosefromthe paragraphs A-G the one whichfits each gap(7-12).Thereis one extraparagraph
whichyou
do not needto use.

The long way home
On the last day, I walked down to the harbour.
Having slept late, I had breakfast on my own
and, as Charley was still sleeping,went for a
wander. I wanted to get to the ocean;I needed
to seethe Pacific.I stumbled down the hill,
through rows and rows of tenements,nodding,
smiling and waving at the people I passed,
eventually arriving at the waterfront. I turned
round and lifted my camerato my eye and took a
photograph.
I walked on. The path led to the beach.Although
it was the last day ofJune, it was the first day
the sun had shone in Magadan that year. Three
weeks earlier, it had snowed. But that day, the
air was warm and soft, the sky a cloudlessblue.
\flomen wore bikinis and small children were
running naked acrossthe sands.Familieswere
eating picnics or cooking on barbecues.I walked
past them all, along the entire length of the
beach,until I came to the harbour.
All we knew then was that we wanted to get
from London to Magadan. With the maps laid
out in front of us, Charley and I drew a route,
arbitrarily assigning mileage to each day, not
knowing anything about the stateof the roads.
Time and againwe were told by experienced
travellersthat our plans were wildly optimistic
and that we didnt know what we were letting
ourselvesin for. I'd never ridden off-road and
Charley had never properly camped.The chances
of failure were high, they said.
I thought back to the day a month or so earlier
when we had been in Mongolia. It was mid-
afternoon and we were riding through a beautiful
valley.I pulled over and got offmy bike. Charley,
aheadof me, stopped,too. He swung his bike
around and rode back towards me. Before he
even arrived, I could feel it coming offhim: why
are we stopping?\Ve're not getting petrol, we're
not stopping to eat: why are we stopping?
It was where we were going to stop at in the
middle of an afternoon so that we could cool our
sweaty feet in the water while catching fish that
we'd cook that evening on an open fire under
a star-speckledsky. I'd seenthat spot half an
hour earlier.There was no question at all that it
was the one. A beautiful expanseof water and
nobody for hundreds of miles. And we'd ridden
straight past it.
Then we got back on our bikes and moved on. A
few weeks later, we arrived at the first big river in
Siberia.It was too wide, too fast and too deep to
crosson a motorbike. There was a bridge, but it
had collapsed.
I understood now that it didnt really matter that
we hadnt stopped besidethat cool, fast-flowing
Mongolian river. The imperfections in our
journey were what made it perfect.And maybe
we wouldnt be in Magadan now if we'd not had
that burning desireto keep going. After all, the
river would always be there. Now that I knew
what was out there, I could always return.

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A Yet here we were in Magadan, as
far around the globe from home
as it was possibleto go, and we'd
arrived one day ahead of our
schedule.
B -Wethen guessedour way from
west to east,across fwo contlnents,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
as far as it was possibleto ride a
motorbike in a straightishline.
I walked away from Charley. I
didnt want to tell him it was
becausewe'd passedthe place.The
place that had been in my dreams.
The place we'd fantasisedabout
months before we'd even set off
from London. A placewith a river
of cool, white water and a field
nearby to pitch our tents.
D There it was: Magadan, Siberia.
The place that had been in my
dreams and thoughts for two
years,like a mythical city forever
beyond my reach.I wanted to
capture it, somehow hold on to
it, take a part of it with me when
Charley and I began the long
journey back.
E I thought Charley would be
itching to get ahead,impatient
with the hold-up. But he was
in his element. He knew that
someoneor something would be
along to help. The delayswere the
journey. it
-Wed get across when
we got acrossit.
I sat down for five minutes, just
needing to look at the countryside
around us. The countryside that
we often didnt have time to take
in becausewe were always so
intent on keeping to our schedule.
G There, I climbed up on to the
quay and sat on a mushroom-
shapedbollard. An Alsatian
came over and sat next to me.
I scratchedits head for a while.
gazedout at the ocean and
thought back to the day when
Charley and I had sat in a little
workshop in west London,
surrounded by motorbikes, with
dreamsof the open road in our
heads.
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 Part 3

Youare goingto readan articleabouta fashionmodel.Forquestions13-19,choosethe answer(A, B, C or D)

whichyou thinkfits bestaccordingto the text.

Modelcitizen
An interview with the supermodel Erin O'Connor

Erin O'Connor is curled up in a chair in an office at ICM Models, the agencythat representsher. You hear
a lot about Erin being 'a freak of nature', and she can look so extraordinary on the catwalk - all jutting hips,
jaggednose and towering height. But here she is in person - the muse to Jean-PaulGaultier, to Valentino, to
Lagerfeld - a delicate, pretty young woman, not that tall after all, but effortlessly stylish in wide-legged jeans
and a stripey top, her cropped hair pulled back, in an orange scarf.At first, when you arrive in the room, you
could be forgiven for taking her for an assistantif a secondlook didnt revealher prettiness:'Gosh, arent you
beautiful,' I say,sort of to apologise,and, blow me, if the woman whot launched a thousand shows doesnt
blush.
In her eleven years on the catwalk and on magazinecovefs, Erin has accrued extraordinary personal
wealth, but despitehaving been, amongst others, the face of Chanel, Givenchy and Gucci, she'smanagedto
keep her profile relatively low. Even more admirably, in an industry renowned for its bitchiness ('you have to
take it head on,' she confides),she has kept a reputation as 'the nice face of fashion. Shewas one of the girls
followed in the TV documentary'This Model Life', and was breathtakingly level-headed and amusing in it.
As a friend to the model Karen Elson, who has admitted to anorexia, as well as in her new role as vice
chairman of the British Fashion Council (BFC), Erin has talked cogently about the responsibilirythe industry
has towards both models and the girls who try to emulate them. She is keen to foster a better relationship
with the press ('at the moment they want to vilify or victimise us'), she gives talks to each year'snew faces
and, through the BFC, helps allocatesponsorshipto new designers.And - the reasonshe has agreedto a rare
interview - she is appearingin, and helping plan, A Night in Fashion',the opening of a music festival in
London and a star-studdedcatwalk show that will benefit two leading charities.
Erin O'Connor grew up in'Walsall, the middle of three girls. She was training to be a nursery nurse and
'struggling through her final year at school' when she was spotted at a 'Clothes Show live event. She has
talked a lot about how uncomfortable she was with her body when she was growing up. 'I outgrew my dad
when I wx 17.I outgrew €veryone:aunties,sisters,mother, boyfriends.' Successwasn't immediate, but years
of ballet classesmeant she was a natural on the catwalk. ''Walking in heels felt like a holiday after pointes.'
Her big breakthrough didnt come until 1999 when, on a shoot in Brazil for Harpers& Queen,she chopped
off her long hair. 'I found my femininiry for the first time, my version of it.' She taps her fingers to her heart,
a gesture she makes often. 'Then it all went crazy.'
Jean-PaulGaultier has said that Erin is 'an interpreter; not just a model'. Erin talks about it as a job. 'It
doesnt make you vain, becauseitt not really about your looks. You get into character,you fulfil a role. You're
not just a woman wearing a beautiful outfit. For me, my job is to wear clothes and make shapeswith them
- very simply in order to make them desirableenough for people to want to buy them. But it's not about my
body. Itt about how I use my body to interpret what I'm wearing.'
\fe're having a suitably adult conversation about all this when Erin's agent, Tori Edwards, comes in with
tea.Tori, now one of the directors at ICM, has been by Erin's side since they both started out as models. 'I'm
not allowed to go to 'A Night in Fashion','Tori says.'I'm never allowed to watch. If she'shaving her photo
taken, I have to turn round and not look at her, becauseI make h'erlaugh.' Erin says:'\fe're too close.I cant
have my family there, either, nor my boyfriend. I dont think het ever met my alter ego. I wipe the facade off
quite literally when I come home. I collapseon the sofa and get the \Wet'Wipesout.' \(/hen Tori has left the
room again, she adds, 'I couldnt be in this industry without her. Tiying to find a balanceof normaliry - that's
what I personallyneed.Tori has taught me everything. She alwayssaysthat to be humble is to be sane.'

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13 Accordingto the writer,at firstglancethe realErinO'Connorappears

A incredibly
tall.
B unusual.
strikingly
C extremelyattractive.
D surprisinglyordinary.

14 Howdid Erinreactto the writer'sfirstcomment?

A She revealedher embarrassment.

B She keptherfeelingsto herself.
C She acceptedthe compliment.
D She showedher amusement.

ModelLife'?
15 Whatdid the writerrealiseaboutErinfromthe documentary'This

A how uncompetitiveshe is
B howeasilyhurtshe is
C howshy she reallyis
D howsensibleshe is

16 In the thirdparagraph,
we learnthat Erin

A helpsgirlsto findworkas models

B givesregularinterviews to the press.
C is involvedin providingtalentedpeoplewithfunds.
D organisessupportfor modelswith personalproblems.

Erin
17 As a schoolgirl,

A did sometrainingthatwas laterto proveuseful.

B overcamefeelingsof self-consciousness abouther height.
C was notstudyingwitha viewto followingany particular career.
D decidedto changeher appearance in orderto get herselfnoticed.

18 HowdoesErinfeelwhenshe'son the catwalk?

A proudof her physicalappearance

B awarethatshe'sgivinga performance
C unconcerned aboutwhatpeoplethinkof her
D ableto expressher ownfeelingsaboutthe clothes

19 In the finalparagraph,
we learnthat Erin

A findsit impossibleto keepherworkand privatelifeseparate.

B feelslikea differentpersonwhenshe'sworking.
C getsnervousif her agentwatchesherat work.
D findsherworkincreasingly demanding.

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 Part 4

Youare goingto reada magazinearticlein whichrestaurant ownerstalkabout

raisingmoneyfor charity.For questions20-34, choosefrom the restaurantowners
(A-D).Therestaurantownersmay be chosenmorethanonce.

Which restaurantowner mentions ...

who do notwishto makea donation?

dealingwith customers ffi--l
aboutthe inequalities
feelinguncomfortable thatexistin the world? w--l
responseto an attemptto raiseawareness?
a disappointing w--_
a reasonfor choosingthis charityover others? w--l
by a rangeof fundraising
beingapproached organisations? w--l
long{erm projectsorganisedby the charity? ffi--l
a localtraditionof charitablework? w--l
the amountindividuals
activitiesaimedat increasing donate? w--l
a feelingof goodwilltowardsparticipatingrestaurants? w--l
the needfor more restaurantsto get involved? w-l
the needfor customersto be awarethat they are donating? w--l
famouspeopletakingon an unfamiliar
role? w--l
how muchof the moneycollectedreachesthe peoplein need? w--l
a commercialbenefitof takingpart in the project? w--_
makingcustomersfeel that the week is special? w--l

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 CHARITYBEGINSfrivolous, and it makesme things bring people into the
AT THE uneasyat times ro think that
while people here are spending
restauranrduring the week of
the appealand crearesa festive
DINNERTABLE lavishly on slap-up meals, atmosphere,even if they are
Restaurants allover Britainhave people elsewhereare going
raisedt100,000 to fight hunger mosdy regular customers.
hungry. \Me simply pur a
in the Third World. We spoke -Wedont set out to increase
to the ownersof pafticipating surchargeon every customert trade through our chariry
restaurants. bill, openly, of course,because work, although I would hope
they need to appreciatewhat that customerswill feel well
they are a part of, Most disposedto establishmenrsrhar
As a business,we werent people cooperarewillingly, show they have a conscience.
looking for a chariry to support, but anyone who feels strongly
but when we heard about this can ask to have the donation
one, we just knew it was right removed,though, of course,
For us, the charity week
for us. The campaign is making it's disappointing when that camejust when we needed
a real difference in the daily happens.Itt important ro
something to give us a boost.
fight against hunger, and itt celebratethe food we have, 'Weve
only recently taken
not just a question of savingthe and weie nor in the business over the restaurant from a
lives of severelymalnourished of making our customersfeel
manager whod been involved
children when there'sa crisis, guilcy about the relative plenry
with various local fundraising
though that happens,itt also they enjoy, but at the same
initiatives. But increased
about helping to enablepeople time, we should be mindful
comperition had eateninto
in over forty countries to feed of people lessfortunare rhan
his profitabiliry and hed
ourselves.
themselvesand their families -We'realso organising decided to sell up. \Weknew,
in the future. That way hunger a galadinner where well-known
therefore, that there was an
can be kept at bay and crises TV celebrideswill be putting
existing client baseout there,
averted.The aim at the moment in an appearance.Tickets for who had been generousin the
is to bring as many restaurants that will be at a premium, and past, and we were looking for
on board aspossible,becauseby the restaurant will be doing the away of raising our profile.
coming rogerher,the catering dinners at cost. 'We
leafletedlocal businesses,
community can make a real collegesand libraries with
impact. Each customer giving a details of the charityt work
small donation, each manager \Weve been targeted
by a whole and our involvement with it.
or chef putting together a raft of charities in recenr years, Although relatively few people
local fundraising evenr, it all but this one stood out foi me came in during the week, which
contributes enormously to as a very relevant choice for a was a bit of a setbackfor us, the
the fight againsthunger. And restaurantbusiness.Although write-up in the locd pressdid
the charity makes sure rhat a customersdont generally wonders in rerms of spreading
high percentageof the funds object to a donation being the word that we were here. So
collected actually find their way added to their bill, weve found we took a long-term view and
to the people who need it most. that actually engaging their thought it was worrh having
interesr leads to enhanced another go this year.We've been
donations. Competitions such working on a booklet of recipes
The charity is particularly as guessing the weight of a cake, which we'll give cusromersin
important for people in this local TV celebrities serving return for a donation next time,
profession. at table, demonsrrations by which will also highlight local
-What we do is the head chef,,
essentiallysuperficial and etc. All thes produce and recipes.

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