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Reading passage 1

A. In 2007, MPs in the UK voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all

public places including pubs and private members' clubs in England. The

Commons decided by a margin of 200 to impose a ban on smoking in allenclosed public spaces. This law took effect on 1 July 2007. Health

Secretary Patricia Hewitt said the change would "save thousands of

people's lives. I'm absolutely delighted. This is really a historic day for

public health." Ministers gave a free vote amid fears Labour MPs could

rebel against plans to exempt clubs and pubs not serving food.

B. The Cabinet was split on how far restrictions - set out in the Health Bill -

should go, with Conservatives calling government policy a 'shambles'.

Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gordon Brown and Home Secretary

Charles Clarke all voted for a blanket ban. But Deputy Prime Minister JohnPrescott, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, Defence Secretary John Reid and

Education Secretary Ruth Kelly opposed it.

C. Elspeth Lee, of Cancer Research UK , said: "This is really going to affect

generations to come and make the nation a lot healthier." However, Simon

Clark, director of smoking support group Forest , said: "This is a double

whammy and an unnecessary and illiberal piece of legislation that denies

freedom of choice to millions of people. The Government should educate

people about the health risks of smoking but politicians have no right to

force people to quit by making it more difficult for people to consume alegal product."

D. The Cabinet originally proposed prohibiting smoking only in pubs serving

food, in line with Labour's election manifesto. A free vote was offered after

many Labour MPs, fearing a partial ban could increase health inequalities

among customers and staff, threatened to rebel. Ministers came up with

three choices: a total ban; exempting private clubs; or exempting clubs

and pubs not serving food. Many MPs opposed a smoking ban on civil

liberties grounds.

E. The government predicts an estimated 600,000 people will give up

smoking as a result of the law change. Shadow health secretary Andrew

Lansley said ministers had "put forward proposals which their own

backbenchers thought were completely unworkable". But it was "a very

important step"; he added there "had to be a culture that encourages

better health". Conservative MPs were offered a free vote on the issue.

Liberal Democrat health spokesman Steve Webb said: "This legislation is

good news for tens of thousands of bar staff up and down the country. The

key issue has always been the health and safety of people who work in

public places." In a recent report, the Commons health select committeesaid a total ban was the "only effective means" of protecting public health.

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F. Employment law consultancy Peninsula found that 91 per cent of workers

are in favour of the legislation. A survey conducted by the British Thoracic

Society concluded that far from having a negative impact the smoking ban

has provided a welcome boost for business. Similar smoking bans have

been introduced in more than a dozen U.S. states, including California and

New York, as well as in Canada, Ireland and New Zealand, but the U.K. is

the largest country thus far to adopt a national ban.

G. To explain the changes, the government paid for TV advertisements,

national newspaper ads, and billboards and signs on trains and buses. One

showed a man walking through different locations -- a cafe, a pub, a

garage and an office -- explaining that smoking would be banned from all

enclosed public places from July 1. A second advert showed the same man

walking through a pub, a garage and a restaurant, warning people they

could be fined for breaking the ban. It is a company's responsibility to

enforce the ban. A person who smokes in a bar could be fined 30

(US$60), but the bar's owner could face a fine of as much as 2,500

(US$5,000). Companies must put up no-smoking signs, minimum of about

3 inches (75mm) wide, including in all their vehicles.

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.

1 Paragraph A2 Paragraph B

i. The original proposal.

ii. Similar smoking bans.

iii. The Cabinet was split.

iv. The effort to ban smoking in

public place.

v. The strategy and its effect.

vi. The necessity to educate

people.

vii. The difference in

enthusiasm.

viii. A company's responsibility.

ix. The key issue.

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3 Paragraph C

4 Paragraph D

5 Paragraph E

6 Paragraph F

7 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 Employment law consultancy Peninsula found that 91 per cent of workers

are

A. Not in favour of the legislation.

B. In favour of the legislation.

C. In favour of a change in the legislation.D. In a tight fight between the two.

9 To explain the changes, the government paid for

A. TV advertisements.

B. Radio commercials.

C. Posters.

D. Street shows.

10 The Cabinet originally proposed prohibiting smoking only in

A. Pubs serving food.

B. Pubs serving wine.

C. Pubs serving food with wine.

D. Public restaurants.

Questions 11 14

Complete each of the following statements (questions 11 14) with the best

endingsA G from the box belowWrite the appropriate lettersA G in boxes 11 14 on your answer sheet.

11 Similar smoking bans have been introduced in

12 This legislation is good news for tens of thousands of

13 A person who smokes in a bar

14 The change would save

A Thousands of people's lives.

B Bar staff up and down the country.

C Theyve given a lot to ban.

D Could be fined 30.

E Is not going to win the game for them.

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Reading passage 2

A. My fathers farm was full of family, friends and love. We had chickens and

goats, sheep cows; we had beautiful green trees with yellow mangoes and

coconuts as big as your head. My father, it seemed to me, owned the best

farm in our village of the Dinka people in Sudan, about 100 kilometres

south of what the maps call the Barh al-Arab River, the border between

the north and south of the country.

B. We lived in two houses- one for men, the other for women- made from

mud and topped by straw roofs shaped like upside- down cones. I did not

go to school. No one in my family had any formal education. Like most

boys I spent my days playing games and running in the fields. But what I

liked to do most was follow my father around as he worked on the farm. I

felt my fathers love every day. One day he called me muycharko, which

means twelve men. I asked him, Why do you call me muycharko?

C. He laughed and explained that out of all his children I was the one who

worked the hardest, the one who would never give up. I felt my fathers

words flow into my body and fill me with happiness. I dreamed of being agreat man with a big farm and many cattle. When my mother told me she

had instructed some village kids to make me along on their trip to the

nearby market town, I saw it as the first step to becoming the important

man my father thought I could be. This would be my first trip to town on

my own, although I had been there with my father when he went to trade

animals and with my mother on market days. Our family also went to

Catholic Church there. On market days other kids turned up, and my

mother warned me, When you sell something, give the money to the

older children so you do not lose it.

D. I grabbed the carrying pole with my goods: two tins of hard-boiled eggs

and peanuts. We walked along a dusty road and soon approached the

marketplace. People were already set up in a shed, and the market

smelled of fish, fruits, and vegetables. The big kids picked a spot under a

tree. I made some sales and handed over the money just as my mother

had said.

E. Then something changed. People began walking faster, talking to each

other. They seemed excited; some were pointing towards the river.

Smoke, I heard, in the villages. More people ran into town with news.

May be the murahaliin came, one said, they came and burned the

houses.

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F. I had heard people in my village talk of these dangerous men from the

north who killed people and stole their cattle. But I had never seen them.

The customers began to rush from the marketplace. The sellers gathered

their things. Then we heard blast of loud noises. Everyone was running.

The murahaliin are coming! whatever people scattered they ran into men

with guns entering the town. First men on horses, shouting people with

their long knives. They were not Dinka, but people with lighter skin than

ours, in head-dresses and robes. They were shouting the Dinka men,

slashing with their swords, chopping of heads with a single swipe. I had

never seen such violence and never heard so many screams.

G. Run! I heard, leave your things and run! I raced from the marketplace,

right into a huge horse with a militiaman pointing a gun at me. I stopped; I

could not move. Someone grabbed me from behind another Arab, yelling

and waving his gun. I was sure he was going to kill me. All around, I saw

people screaming and falling to the ground and not getting up. He pushedme back into the marketplace with other boys and girls. Everyone was

crying and screaming for their parents.

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 if the statement agrees with the information

FALSE if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

15. The narrator is a son of a farmer.16. The mother took the boy to the town everyday.

17. The narrator had his brothers accompanying him to the market.

18. There was a fire in the village.

19. A group of terrorists attacked the market.

Question 20 23

Look at the following people (questions 20 23) and the list of statements below.

Match each person to the correct statement.

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Write the correct letterA G in boxes 1 4 on your answer sheet.

20. Narrators father

21. Narrators mother

22. The Murahaliin

23. The customers

Questions 24 27

Complete the following statements with the correct alternative from the box.

Write the correct letterA G in boxes 24 27 on your answer sheet.

24. According to the narrator his father owned

25. The boy was told his mother not to keep the money with him because

26. The journey to the market for the boy was

27. The murahaliin invaders came from

Reading Passage 3

A. In the afternoon I called at the Waterloo Hotel, where Mrs. ---- was staying,

and found her in the coffee-room with the children. She had determined to

take a lodging in the vicinity of the Asylum, and was going to remove

thither as soon as the children had had something to eat. They seemed to

be pleasant and well-behaved children, and impressed me more favorably

than the mother, whom I suspect to be rather a foolish woman, although

A Shouted at the customers to sell their goods.

B Attacked the village and the market.

C Went to the market to sell the eggs.

D Ran madly out of the market place.

E Took him to the town when he went for trading.

F Kept the money earned from the sale.

A The mother of the narrator didnt believe

him.

B The north.

C A lot of money in the village.

D A disaster.

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her present grief makes her appear in a more respectable light than at

other times. She seemed anxious to impress me with the respectability

and distinction of her connections in America, and I had observed the

same tendency in the insane patient, at my interview with him. However,

she has undoubtedly a mother's love for this poor shatterbrain, and this

may weigh against the folly of her marrying an incongruously youthful

second husband, and many other follies.

B. This was day before yesterday, and I have heard nothing of her since. The

same day I had applications for assistance in two other domestic affairs;

one from an Irishman, naturalized in America, who wished me to get him a

passage thither, and to take charge of his wife and family here, at my own

private expense, until he could remit funds to carry them across. Another

was from an Irishman, who had a power of attorney from a countrywoman

of his in America, to find and take charge of an infant whom she had left in

the Liverpool workhouse, two years ago. I have a great mind to keep a listof all the business I am consulted about and employed in. It would be very

curious.

C. Among other things, all penniless English, or pretenders to Englishism,

look upon me as their banker; and I could ruin myself any week, if I had

not laid down a rule to consider every applicant for assistance an impostor

until he prove himself a true and responsible man,--which it is very difficult

to do. Yesterday there limped in a very respectable-looking old man, who

described himself as a citizen of Baltimore, who had been on a trip to

England and elsewhere, and, being detained longer than he expected, and

having had an attack of rheumatism, was now short of funds to pay his

passage home, and hoped that I would supply the deficiency.

D. He had quite a plain, homely, though respectable manner, and, for aught I

know, was the very honestest man alive; but as he could produce no kind

of proof of his character and responsibility, I very quietly explained the

impossibility of my helping him. I advised him to try to obtain a passage

on board of some Baltimore ship, the master of which might be acquainted

with him, or, at all events, take his word for payment, after arrival. This he

seemed inclined to do, and took his leave. There was a decided aspect of

simplicity about this old man, and yet I rather judge him to be animpostor.

E. It is easy enough to refuse money to strangers and unknown people, or

whenever there may be any question about identity; but it will not be so

easy when I am asked for money by persons whom I know, but do not like

to trust. They shall meet the eternal "No," however.

F. October13th.--In Ormerod's history of Chester it is mentioned that Randal,

Earl of Chester, having made an inroad into Wales about 1225, the

Welshmen gathered in mass against him, and drove him into the castle of

Nothelert in Flintshire. The Earl sent for succour to the Constable ofChester, Roger Lacy, surnamed "Hell," on account of his fierceness. It was

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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.

33. At sight of this strange army the .

34. Yesterday there limped in a very .

35. I very quietly explained the impossibility of .

36. The constable retained for himself and his heirs the control .

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.

She had determined to take a lodging in the vicinity of the Asylum, and was

going to remove thither as soon as the children had 37 . She has

undoubtedly a mother's love for this poor shatter brain, and this may weigh

against the folly of her marrying an incongruously youthful 38 The same day I had applications for assistance in two other domestic affairs; one

from an Irishman and the other 39 Yesterday there limped in a

very respectable-looking old man, who described himself as a 40

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