FIRST CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.
Write your name,centre number and candidate number on your answer sheets if they are not already there.
Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully.
Answer all the questions.
Read the instructions on the answer sheets.
Write your answers on the answer sheets.U a pencil.
You must complete the answer sheet within the time limit.
At the end of the test,hand in both this question paper and your answer sheet.
READING AND USE OF ENGLISH(1hour15minutes)
Part1
For questions1-8,read the text below and decide which answer(A,B,C or D)best fits each gap.
There is an example at the beginning(0).
Mark your answers on the parate answer sheet.香港别来无恙
Example:
0A clod B contained C surrounded D shut
0A B C D
Lighting a town
The Norwegian town of Rjukan lies along the floor of a narrow valley,(0)......by sheer mountains.Bec
au of its location,the town,with its3,400(1)......,has in the past lived in shadow for half the year.During the day,from late September to mid-March,the town gets no direct natural sunlight at all.Its residents all agreed this(2)......that the town was incredibly depressing during the winter months.
However,that all changed in2013with the(3)......of a system of mirrors who design Martin Anderson,an artist,had first(4)......up with some12years earlier.With financial (5).....from the local government and from veral prominent business people, Anderson's idea became a(6)......Today,high on the mountain opposite the town,(7)...... three large solar-powered,computer-controlled mirrors(8)......the preci movement of the sun across the winter sky,reflecting its rays onto the town's market square and flooding it in bright sunlight.恶言
1A totals B populations C numbers D inhabitants 2A meant B explained C showed D made
3A ending B conclusion C completion D result
4A brought B come C caught D got
5A budget B cost C expen D investment 6A realty B truth C principle D practicality 7A find B sit C stay D hold
8A passing B following C proceeding D continuing
For questions9-16,read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. U only one word in each gap.There is an example at the beginning(0).
Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the parate answer sheet.
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The homing instinct
The homing instinct is what makes certain animals,birds and fish return(0)......the place they consider home.Cats often have this instinct.It was particularly strong in an American cat called Ninja,which disappeared shortly(9)......its owners had taken it to their new home;a year later the cat turned up at its old home even(10)......this was1,360 kilometres away from(11)......its owners were now living.Other cats may not travel so far but many(12)......on going back to their old home.Pilsbury,an English cat,made a
13-kilometre journey back to its former home40times in spite of having to cross veral busy roads to(13)......so.
回族的服饰Pigeons also have the homing instinct and,ever(14)......ancient times,human beings have ud them to carry messages back home.However,cat owners,(15)......have to keep returning to their old address in(16)......to bring their cat home,tend to find the homing instinct simply irritating rather than uful or interesting!
For questions17-24,read the text below.U the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.There is an example at the beginning(0).
家装设计师Write your answers IN CAPITAL LETTERS on the parate answer sheet.
Example:
The oldest hou in Britain羊奶粉哪个牌子好
It was warm,round,had a(0).......view of a lake and appears to have been occupied for veral hundred years.Welcome to the oldest hou in the UK,which was found with other fascinating relics(17)......at a site in North Yorkshire.The remains are transforming our(18)......of how Britain's
earliest inhabitants lived.
三年级作文训练
我是保姆The structure was3.5metres in(19)......and was supported by a circle of wooden posts.Dark,decayed matter at the centre of the ruin suggests the possibility of a roof entirely made of grass.(20)......of the remains by scientists revealed that the building stood in8,500BC.It was(21)......thought that people living in Britain at this time were nomadic with no fixed homes. But the(22)......of the oldest known hou provides clear (23)......that some of the people built large permanent structures.Rearchers of the site,however,are(24)...... about how long the hou will remain the‘oldest'in the UK, becau new finds are being made all the time.FANTASY NEAR KNOW WIDE INVESTIGATE ORIGIN DISCOVER EVIDENT SURE考试分析总结
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