Lifestyle Upper-Intermediate - KEY I.
1. A 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B
II.
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F
III.
1.relocate 2. accurate 3. arrangements 4. generally 5. protective 6. include 7. down 8.measures 9. dilemma 10 unique
IV.
1.made 2. heads
3.return 4. out 5. over
V.
1.D 2.C 3.C 4. A 5.B 6.D
7.D 8. D 9.A 10.D
VI.
1. How long did it take to prepare the meal?
How long did the meal take to prepare?
2. Why did I leave the pub?
3. Who will you / I be talking to tomorrow?
4. How often are you / we supposed to attend lectures?
5. What would you / I do if you / I saw a UFO?
VII.
1. make a complaint
2. demand to see the manager 3. is sorted out
4. speak to me like that 5. what the problem is
VIII.
1 B 2 D 3 A 4 C 5 F
IX.
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. T 8. T 9. F 10. T
Listening 1 Script
(1) A dramatic nighttime rescue has taken place on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. A team of elite mountain climbers from Poland made a hazardous night ascent of the 8,126-meter-high Nanga Parbat in the Pakistani Himalayas. (2)The peak is widely known as "Killer Mountain" because of the number of climbers who have perished there. The Polish team rescued French climber Elisabeth Revol from the slopes of Nanga Parbat. She was reported to have been 7,400 meters up on the
icy slopes. Unfortunately, a Polish climber Ms Revol had been climbing with remains missing. (3)The conditions were too treacherous for the rescuers to spend any further time on the rescue mission.The team of Polish climbers had been attempting the first ever winter ascent of the nearby K2 mountain, the second highest summit in the world. (4)The drama began on Saturday afternoon when military helicopters spotted Revol in distress. The helicopters picked up the Polish climbers from K2 and flew them to Nanga Parbat, where they were dropped off at an altitude of 4,900 meters. The team then made its daring attempt in pitch darkness. Unfortunately, conditions were too perilous for Ms Revol's co-climber Tomasz Mackiewicz to be rescued. A rescuer said: "The rescue for Tomasz is unfortunately not possible. (5)Because of the weather and altitude it would put the life of rescuers in extreme danger."
(Adapted from www.breakingnewsenglish.com)
Listening 2 script
(1)The huge surge in the popularity of online shopping is creating chaos on the streets of our cities and on our road networks.
As the number of online deliveries is skyrocketing, the number of delivery trucks making sure we get our parcels has also increased. The result is that hundreds more trucks are clogging up city streets. This is increasing congestion and adding to levels of pollution. There are literally hundreds more delivery trucks in cities around the world all trying to get parcels delivered on time. Delivery drivers are battling for often non-existent parking spaces. Many are forced to park illegally, or double park, adding to the gridlock for other road users. (2)And the problem is set to intensify.The BBC reports that the volume of parcel deliveries surged by almost 50 per cent between 2014 and 2016. (3)It said this could continue to increase by up to 28 per cent a year over the next three years. (4)Many cities have taken tough measures to counteract the problems associated with the increasing number of deliveries. Many cities in Europe and Asia have barred deliveries during times when roads are busiest. London is looking at the possibility of using buses for parcel deliveries. Some areas of London are also cracking down on food delivery motorbikes after their streets were being 'swarmed' by scooter riders. (5)Food delivery companies in one London district must now apply for permission to operate. (Adapted from www.breakingnewsenglish.com)
Reading
Are you a blogger too?
Only a few years ago, a “web log” was a little-known way of keeping an online diary. (1) At that time, it seemed like
“blogs” (as they quickly became known) were only for serious computer geeks or obsessives.
(2)This didn’t last long, though, and within a very short period of time, blogs exploded – blogs were everywhere, and it seemed that almost everyone read blogs, or was a blogger.
(3)The blogging craze of a couple of years ago (when it was estimated that ten new blogs were started somewhere in the world every minute) now seems to have died down a bit – yet thousands of blogs (probably the better ones) remain. Blogs are no now longer seen as the exclusive possession of geeks and obsessives, and are now seen as important and influential sources of news and opinion. (4)So many people read blogs now, that it has even been suggested that some blogs may have been powerful enough to influence the result of the recent US election.
(5)Blogs are very easy to set up – all you need is a computer, an internet connection and the desire to write something. The difference between a blog and a traditional internet site is that a blog is one page consisting mostly of text (with perhaps a few pictures), and – importantly –(6) space for people to respond to what you write. The best blogs are similar to online discussions, where people write in responses to what the blogger has written. Blogs are regularly updated – busy blogs are updated every day, or even every few hours.
Not all blogs are about politics, however. (7)There are blogs about music, film, sport, books – any subject you can imagine has its enthusiasts typing away and giving their opinions to fellow enthusiasts or anyone else who cares to read their opinions.
(8)So many people read blogs now that the world of blog writers and blog readers has its own name – the
“blogosphere”.
But how influential, or important, is this blogosphere really? One problem with blogs is that many people who read and write them seem only to communicate with each other. When people talk about the influence of the blogosphere, they do not take into account the millions of people around the world who are not bloggers, never read blogs, and don’t even have access to a computer, let alone a good internet connection.
(9)Sometimes, it seems that the blogosphere exists only to influence itself, or that its influence is limited to what is actually quite a small community. Blogs seem to promise a virtual democracy – in which anyone can say anything they like, and have their opinions heard – but who is actually listening to these opinions? (10)There is still little hard evidence that blogs have influenced people in the way that traditional mass media (television and newspapers) have the ability to do.
