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Question 1 of 46
1. Question
Choose the correct word.
1. She was banging / tapping her finger on the table, waiting for her brother to answer his phone.
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Question 2 of 46
2. Question
Choose the correct word.
3. I can’t stand people who slurp / drip their soup when they eat it.
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Question 3 of 46
3. Question
Choose the correct word.
4. I had to get up and lock the door because it was hooting / rattling in the wind.
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Question 4 of 46
4. Question
Choose the correct word.
5. The cat arched its back and hissed / whistled at us as we walked in.
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Question 5 of 46
5. Question
Choose the correct word.
6. The engine crashed / roared into life when he switched it on.
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Question 6 of 46
6. Question
Choose the correct word.
7. Johnny’s got a cold, so he’s been snoring / sniffing all day.
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Question 7 of 46
7. Question
Choose the correct word.
8. The little girl liked the way the sweets splashed / crunched in her mouth.
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Question 8 of 46
8. Question
Choose the correct word.
9. It was so quiet in the room that you could hear the ticking / clicking of the clock.
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Question 9 of 46
9. Question
Choose the correct word.
10. We heard the screeching / creaking of tyres as Janet’s boyfriend drew up outside her front door.
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Question 10 of 46
10. Question
Choose the correct word.
11. After the argument, Carl stormed out of the room and slammed / hummed the door.
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Question 11 of 46
11. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘What have you done this time?’ Stephen’s mother with resignation.
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Question 12 of 46
12. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘My new doll is broken,’ the little girl, tears rolling down her cheeks.
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Question 13 of 46
13. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘My ankle hurts,’ the player as he lay on the ground.
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Question 14 of 46
14. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘There’s a spider in the bath!’ my sister in horror.
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Question 15 of 46
15. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘I didn’t have t-t-time to do my h-h-homework,’ Phil nervously.
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Question 16 of 46
16. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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Half way through the exam, David to Alison, ‘What’s the answer to number 5?’
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Question 17 of 46
17. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘Look at her hat!’ the students . ‘It looks really funny.’
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Question 18 of 46
18. Question
Complete the sentences with the verbs in the list.
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‘Sorry,’ he , but nobody could understand what he said.
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Question 19 of 46
19. Question
Listen and write the missing words with consonant clusters.
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i. It’s always a good idea to before and after doing exercise.
ii. ‘What a wonderful surprise,’ she .
iii. My son’s just failed his driving test for the time!
iv. We’re going to IKEA to get some new for my study.
v. The best speech was the one given by the
vi. We out the map on the dining room table, and planned our route.
vii. The man the burglar on the nose.
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Question 20 of 46
20. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A Where’s Eve? She said to meet her just outside the tube station.
B I suppose she at a different entrance, (wait)
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Question 21 of 46
21. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A Harry left work about an hour ago.
B Yes, he here by now. It only takes 20 minutes, (be)
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Question 22 of 46
22. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A How about this dress for your cousin?
B I don’t know. I’ve never seen her in a dress. She it. (not like)
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Question 23 of 46
23. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A My brother’s in his room doing his homework.
B Well, he .lean hear him talking on the phone! (study)
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Question 24 of 46
24. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A Jason isn’t answering his phone.
B Well, he’s gone swimming and it with him to the pool, (not take)
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Question 25 of 46
25. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A My secretary is off sick.
B Well, she anything serious. I’ve just seen her playing tennis, (have)
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Question 26 of 46
26. Question
Complete the mini-dialogues using must / might / could I may / can’t or should and the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
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A Tony didn’t show up at the party. He about it. (forget)
B Yes, he’s very absent-minded.
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Question 27 of 46
27. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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I’m sure we’ll win the match, bound
We
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Question 28 of 46
28. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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I’m sure you’ll enjoy the film, definitely
You
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Question 29 of 46
29. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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I don’t think it’ll rain tonight, likely
It
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Question 30 of 46
30. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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They probably won’t agree to our proposal, unlikely
They
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Question 31 of 46
31. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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My father is likely to take early retirement, probably
My father
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Question 32 of 46
32. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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Your parents will almost certainly complain about it. sure
Your parents
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Question 33 of 46
33. Question
Complete the second sentence using the bold word so that it means the same as the first.
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The manager is sure not to give us a pay rise, definitely
The manager
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Question 34 of 46
34. Question
Listen to someone talking about the percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In what way is she an unusual musician?
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The percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In what way is she an unusual musician?
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Question 35 of 46
35. Question
Listen again and complete the summary.
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Dame Evelyn Glennie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She has been performing for more than years, and plays over different percussion instruments. She not only plays and records classical and pop music, but has also composed several film . Dame Evelyn finds it frustrating that journalists often write about her more than her music. She thinks that there is no real difference between hearing and a vibration. Dame Evelyn never wears when she performs, in order to feel the vibrations of her instruments.
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Question 36 of 46
36. Question
Read the article once. What is piped music?
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
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According to the writer, in which place might piped music have the most serious consequences?
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Question 37 of 46
37. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.1. Question:
According to the writer, the main problem with piped music is you can’t get away from it.
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Question 38 of 46
38. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.2. Question:
The results of the newspaper poll show that the top three annoyances are all noise-related.
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Question 39 of 46
39. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.3. Question:
Piped music encourages the majority of people to shop in a store.
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Question 40 of 46
40. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.4. Question:
Elderly people tend to dislike piped music because it’s not their kind of music.
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Question 41 of 46
41. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.5. Question:
Piped music can help blood donors to relax.
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Question 42 of 46
42. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.6. Question:
The writer thinks Brian Eno’s music probably won’t improve the atmosphere of A & E.
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Question 43 of 46
43. Question
Read the article again and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.7. Question:
The main aim of the Pipedown campaign is to get rid of piped music in all public places.
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Question 44 of 46
44. Question
Find words or phrases in the article which mean:
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Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.-
Question:
piped music
music
music
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Question 45 of 46
45. Question
Find words or phrases in the article which mean:
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.-
Question:
a recognizable tune that is easy to remember
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Question 46 of 46
46. Question
Find words or phrases in the article which mean:
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Silence is golden
You hear it everywhere: in pubs, restaurants and hotels, in the plane, on the train, or on the bus. It comes at you unexpectedly down the phone, and it’s even on television ruining perfectly decent programmes. This unsolicited noise is, of course, piped music, an incessant jingle that is almost impossible to escape.
Contrary to popular belief, it appears that more people dislike this kind of music than actually appreciate it. In a poll carried out by a British newspaper, piped music came third in the list of things people most detested about modern life. (The first two most hated things were other forms of noise.) What is more, a recent survey into shopping habits shows that at least 50 per cent of customers would walk out of a store that had piped music. With figures like these, there can be no doubt about the widespread aversion to the noise.
It is people with some kind of hearing impairment who suffer most from the din. This group includes the elderly, who often develop an age-related hearing problem called presbycusis. The condition prevents them distinguishing the individual words of a conversation above the noise of any background music. As time goes by, they find it more and more difficult to interact. In fact, a 2013 survey commissioned by a British bank showed that around 61 per cent of older people consider piped music in shops and banks their biggest bugbear. The reason most of them gave was that it makes them feel alienated.
However, piped music may also be responsible for far more serious health problems. It has long been recognized that unwanted noise produces stress. The listener experiences a rise in blood pressure and a depression of the immune system.
A survey of 215 blood donors at Nottingham University Medical School found that playing piped music made donors more nervous before giving blood. They also felt more depressed afterwards. These results suggest that a hospital might not be the right place to play this kind of sound.Yet a care institution in London has recently announced that it is going to do just that. The hospital plans to introduce piped music into its Accident and Emergency Department to ‘calm distressed patients’. The music will be provided by legendary musician Brian Eno, who has been supplying ‘ambient music’ to airports for nearly four decades. The hospital’s objective is to make A & E more patient-friendly, but it is likely to have quite the opposite effect.
Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of Pipedown, a campaign for freedom from piped music. The movement is pushing for legislation to ban its use in public places, especially in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries where patients are in no position to argue or go somewhere else. If the campaign is successful, the London hospital will have to drop its plans.
But for many, this will not be a bad thing.-
Question:
a loud and unpleasant noise
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