سطح پیشرفته 2(601)- C1 High

عزیز 

• مرحله دهم آزمون: سطح C1 High
• با کسب نمره قبولی در این مرحله می‌توانید آزمون را در سطح بالاتر C2 Low ادامه دهید.

1. A: The button on my shirt has fallen off. Will you mend it please?
B: Sure, but I need a needle and …… .
a) thread
b) bead
c) warp
d) weft

2. A: So, you must have been in severe pain after the truck impacted your car so heavily.
B: You have no idea how horrible it was. I could feel the steering wheel digging into the …… between my ribs.
a) trachea
b) esophagus
c) flesh
d) kidneys

3. A: What are you reading, Kate?
B: It’s a novel that follows the …… stories of two people whose paths cross at the end.
a) transverse
b) concentric
c) adjacent
d) parallel

4. A: I will never do …… .
B: Come on, it’ll be fun.
a) a thing such
b) a such thing
c) such thing
d) such a thing

5. A: Please call her.
B: I’m afraid I am …… do that.
a) can’t
b) shouldn’t
c) not able to
d) must not

6. A: I knew all the work …… by 5 p.m.
B: So, is that why you made those all plans?
a) would be finished
b) will finish
c) would finish
d) will have finished

7. A: In what way can a type of music affect culture?
B: For example, rock music …… major cultural changes in Britain.
a) can be traced back to
b) brought about
c) originated in
d) is led to

8. A: The best advice was to eat the frog first. The “frog” is the thing we most avoid like doing a project we are meant to do.
B: …… . When you see it through, you can stop worrying.
a) Makes sense
b) On the other hand
c) You know
d) Looking at it another way

9. A: Obviously I’m only giving a general overview here, but I’m ready to …… afterwards in the debate.
B: OK, go ahead.
a) get in touch
b) get back to you
c) go into more details
d) give you an answer

Listen to the audio and choose the correct option.

10. Where does this news program take place?

11. How does the young girl, Elizabeth, celebrate this holiday with her family?

12. What does Johnny and his family eat on this day?

Read the article and choose the correct options.

If your view of the world comes from watching the news and reading newspapers, you could be forgiven for lying awake at night worrying about the future. Apparently, rising violence and population rates mean humans are both killing each other in ever larger numbers and being born at rates the world’s resources can’t sustain. To make matters worse, all the wealth is concentrated on a handful of people in the world’s richest countries. People in low-income countries live in poverty while the West gets richer. Depressing, isn’t it?

But do the statistics support our negative world view or is the world actually improving?

Let’s take global population first. It’s around 7 billion now, in line with figures predicted by the UN in 1958. By the year 2100, the same experts predict it will be around 11 billion. But did you know that 11 billion is probably as high as that number will get? The rate of increase will slow down in the second half of this century thanks to falling birth rates today.

Falling birth rates? Yes, that’s right.

In the last two centuries, improvements in technology and health meant fewer children died young, fueling rapid population growth. These large families produced even more children who survived into adulthood and had their own children. But since the 1960s, the global average number of babies per woman has declined from six babies per woman to as low as two.

The biggest factor in child mortality is poverty. And while it’s still true that only 20 per cent of the world takes about 74 per cent of the world’s income, 60 per cent of the world now falls into a middle-income group, with 11.6 per cent – the smallest amount of people in history – still living in conditions of extreme poverty. If the majority of the world’s people have money, international aid could realistically achieve the UN target of eradicating poverty by 2030. As poverty goes down, life expectancy goes up, birth rates go down because parents can expect their existing children to survive, and the global population stabilizes.

As for news stories that make us think the world is an increasingly violent place, there is cause for some optimism too. Between the end of World War II and 1990, there were 30 wars that killed more than 100,000 people. Today there are still civil wars, but countries are mostly co-existing more peacefully than in the past. However, terrorism has shot up in the last few years and, since World War II, wars have killed many more civilians than soldiers. Even for civilians, though, the statistics are not all bad. Although deaths are nine times more likely to be a result of violent crime than political conflict, the global murder rate fell slightly, from 8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to about 5.3 in 2015.

Of course, none of this means the world is perfect, and whether you personally are affected by war and poverty is often down to the lottery of where you’re born. Also, we still face huge problems of our own making, particularly environmental ones like global warming, and wealth and natural resources need to be distributed more fairly. But not all the news is bad news, whatever the TV and newspapers might say.

13.What does the word ‘apparently’ in the first paragraph tell us about the rise in violence we see in the news?
a) The rise seems true but evidence might show it isn’t.
b) The rise is obviously true.
c) The rise seems false but evidence might show it’s true.

14. One of the UN’s targets for 2030 is to ……
a) make population levels stable.
b) increase life expectancy.
c) end poverty.

15. There is reason to be optimistic because ……
a) you might win the lottery.
b) there are some positives despite what the newspapers report.
c) we’re making progress with environmental problems.