UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ESOL EXAMINATIONS
English for Speakers of Other Languages
FIRST CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH
PAPER 1 Reading
Additional materials:
Answer sheet
Time 1 hour
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 sheet 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 sheet.
Mark your answers on the answer sheet. 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.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
There are 30 questions on this paper.
Questions 1 – 15 carry two marks.
Questions 16 – 30 carry one mark.
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© UCLES 2008 Cambridge ESOL Level 1 Certificate in ESOL International
Part 1
You are going to read a newspaper article about attending a new attraction for film fans in the US. For questions 1–8, choo the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
Mark your answers on the parate answer sheet.
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Star for a Night
For 45 dollars, visitors to Tinltown Studios are treated like their Hollywood idols on Oscar
night. Laurel Ives joins the would-be stars.
line 36 It is a warm evening in Los Angeles, and I am
standing in a long queue outside a fabulous-
looking place called Tinltown Studios.
Nervous chatter and the noi of a distant,
six-lane freeway hum in the air. Women busily
re-apply their lipstick and smooth their
dress. Like me, they are hoping that they
are about to get a taste of what it feels like to
be a star.
We are spending an evening at one of the
newest and strangest ideas dreamt up by the
American entertainment industry. Tinltown’s
owners, Ogden Entertainment, claim that, for
one night only, they will ‘turn ordinary
individuals into screen legends’ – and I can
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Our evening begins at 7. Handing over
my ticket, I walk down the long red carpet
ahead. ‘Fans’ approach and ask for my
autograph. I graciously agree. ‘Reporters’ ask
where I got my outfit and who will star with me
in my new film. On my right, a ‘television crew’
is interviewing two girls. A ‘journalist’
approaches. ‘Congratulations,’ she says, ‘you
are nominated as Best Actress tonight.’
She turns out to be one of the organirs of
the event and she tells me that, along with
three other nominees, I will be edited into a
scene from a famous movie so that it will
em as if I am the star. The eight scenes
(showing four men and four women) will then
be broadcast over dinner and the Best
威斯特伐利亚和约Actress and Best Actor chon. Nominees are
chon by staff at the beginning of the
evening, on the basis of who they think looks
as if they have the most guts. So why did they
choo me? Suddenly, the nerves that the
staff did not detect come to the surface.
Coping with people who are pretending to be
fans, journalists and TV crews is one thing,
but being broadcast acting badly in front of
200 people? I didn’t know if I could handle
that. Then I and the other three nominees are
shown into a lift and taken upstairs to the
studio. I am to replace Genevieve Bujold as
the Queen of England in Anne of a Thousand
Days. They show me the scene, hand me a
costume and push me in front of a camera.
My five lines are written onto a large white
board and held in front of me. Suddenly, it is
all over. Once all four nominees have been
filmed, we join the rest of the ‘stars’ in the vast
冬至吃饺子的由来banquet room. Over the first cour, videos
are shown on a screen above us. The show
begins with the red carpet ‘interviews’ filmed
as we, the guests, arrived.
First up is a man called John Richardson. Is
he plead to be nominated for an award
tonight, asks the ‘reporter’? ‘You know, being
a stunt man isn’t as glamorous as being an
actor,’ he replies. ‘Most of the time, people
watching the picture think that it is the actors
doing the stunts, so it’s good to finally get
some recognition.’ John’s friends, who are
sitting at the table next to mine, are loving his
interview, applauding every time he speaks.
‘Who’d have thought that, in real life, he is just
a dull computer programmer?’ says one of
them. He is right: as more ‘stars-for-a-night’
are interviewed, I am struck by how
competently the people express
themlves.
A waiter approaches with a warning: I am
about to be ‘spotlighted’. I am introduced to
the audience, my blushing face appears on
the big screen and then, as I squirm with
embarrassment in my chair, the film of me,
edited (rather badly) into Anne of a Thousand
Days, is shown. I am also handed a pre-
scripted speech – with blanks so I can say a
thank-you to whomever I choo – just in
ca I am chon as Best Actress. However,
my performance was so wooden that I don’t
新生儿嘴唇发紫win. Yet now that I know I won’t have to make
a speech, I feel a moment of real
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line 50
1 When the writer is waiting to go into Tinltown Studios, she
A thinks she has little in common with the other people.
B wants to find that the claim the company makes is true.
C fears that the event may go on for too long.
D is surprid by the appearance of the building.
2 As she goes into the building, the writer香草奶昔
A gets confud as to who some of the people are.
B acts as if she really is a star.
C is unable to respond to certain questions.
D is impresd by some of the other visitors.
3 What is meant by ‘guts’ in line 36?
A experience
B ambition
C energy
D courage
4 What does ‘it’ in line 50 refer to?
A the filming of the writer
B the white board
C the filming of all four nominees
D the writer’s last line
5 John Richardson answers the question he is asked by
A denying an accusation.
B explaining a change in attitude.
C expressing satisfaction.
D admitting to being confud.
6 The writer notices that the other people who are interviewed
A try to respond in the same way that John Richardson did.
B try to appear more interesting than they really are.
C have similar jobs to John Richardson’s in real life.
D have little difficulty in giving good answers to questions.
7 When the writer is ‘spotlighted’, she
A finds that she is unable to speak.
B quickly looks away from the screen.
C clearly feels uncomfortable.
丽水景区D becomes convinced that she will win.
8 When she discovers that she has not won, the writer
A understands why she was not chon as the winner.
B is glad that she will not have to make a speech.
C wishes she had not agreed to be filmed.
D regrets not having a better part.
Part 2
You are going to read a newspaper article about a guitar-making cour. Seven ntences have been removed from the article. Choo from the ntences A-H the one which fits each gap (9-15). There is one extra ntence which you do not need to u.
Mark your answers on the parate answer sheet.
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Guitar that’s a work of art
Tom Pretlove learns how to make his own unique instrument under expert tuition.
When I arrive at Bailey’s Guitars, where I am to spend the next five days, my first impressions are not very positive. An old shed in the corner of an industrial estate, Bailey’s contains two old workbenches which sit beneath a couple of unsteady-looking shelves.
The tutor, Mark Bailey is a man in his mid-thirties. He teaches people such as me how to build their own electric guitars.9 They shouldn’t be confud either with tho which come in ctions for you to put together yourlf, following a few simple instructions. No, Bailey’s guitars are works of art, carved by hand from large pieces of wood, such as maple and mahogany.
Trained as a maker of musical instruments since the age of sixteen, Mark Bailey is passionate about his craft and is a perfectionist. ‘I can’t let people make any old rubbish,’ he explains.10 Yet many of them are made by people who, like me, sign up for one-week cours, having no previous experience. There are four of us on the cour this week, each working at different speeds, and Bailey goes from one to another, making sure that no mistakes are being made. His face is screwed up in total concentration.11 So there are raid eyebrows when I ask to make the standard model. Surely I would like to add a few personal touches – wasn’t that the point of coming?
With the cour costing just £400 per week, the guitars work out cheaper than having one made for you by a professional. And making your own involves plenty of choices such as the type of wood ud and the colour of the varnish.
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The work is divided into about 50 different tasks and Bailey has a tried and tested method for each stage of the process. Machines are ud for some of the jobs. This is the first woodwork I have tackled since leaving school a decade ago, so I needed a lot of guidance.
蒜泥茄条13 In two years, only one pupil has made such a drastic mistake that a half-finished guitar had to be thrown away.
Most of tho who come to Bailey’s are men, but they vary in age from teenagers to old-age pensioners. Our working day began about and went on until late in the evening and I found the work unexpectedly hard and physical.
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On the last evening, after fixing the various electronic parts together inside our guitars, we are ready to play them for the first time. Bailey, who claims he can only ‘bash out a couple of tunes’ gives each instrument a trial, mine included, playing each one with considerable style. Witnessing this brings it home to you that you’ve actually produced a genuine musical instrument.15 By this time, I must admit that I’d even come to feel quite at home in the scruffy shed on the edge of the industrial estate.
A B C D E This means that no two guitars made on the
cour ever look the same.
In fact, I realid that the sound of my guitar
had come from all my hard work over the five
days.
What’s more, apart from mugs full of tea to
keep us going, there were few breaks, so no
one had much energy left for socialising
afterwards.
Indeed, every guitar that comes out of Bailey’s
is an advertiment for the firm.
Unlike me, the other participants share
Bailey’s fascination for anything out of the
ordinary to do with guitars.
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It is also his ambition to build up the name into
a well-known brand.
Fortunately, Bailey is particularly skilful when it
comes to talking his students through each
technique.
The are completely different from the mass-
produced guitars you buy in music shops,
however.
