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Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements, numbered 36 through 40. For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should make the correct choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. British men are couch potatoes who spend nearly half their free-time watching TV, an EU survey has revealed. They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare -- but spend more time shopping, the poll suggests. Analysts from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries. Britain, where men devoted 49% of their free-time to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%. German and Norwegian men watched the least TV -- just over one third of their spare time. The statisticians took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends. They broke down the "average day" into five categories -- free-time, sleep, meals and personal care, travel, domestic chores and work/study. It shows that British men have four hours and 41 minutes free time each day -- 20 minutes more than women. But women spend nearly double the amount of time on domestic chores than men. Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman’s day is taken up with domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men. Food preparation makes up the bulk of the chores, with cleaning and shopping the next most time-consuming. They further broke down the free-time and domestic categories to reveal that men spend 137 minutes each day in front of the TV, compared to women’s 114 minutes. Women spend slightly more time socializing, resting and reading than men, but slightly less time on hobbies, sport and exercise. Universally unpopular with both sexes is culture -- accounting for just 2% of both men and women’s leisure time. EU statisticians interviewed people between the ages of 20 and 74 years old in Belgium, Germany, Estonia, France, Hungary, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, the UK and Norway. The EU survey did not interview people from ______.

A. Finland
B. America
C. Hungary
D. Estonia

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A. Water and electricity.
B. Raw materials.
C. Transportation expenses.
D. Time and space.

When Zagorski turned the interview into a working meeting, he showed how the company would ______.

Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

A. He was tired.
B. His appointment was changed.
C. He had a flat tyre.
D. His bicycle was stolen.

Clothes, decorations, physique, hair and facial (1) give a great deal of information about us. For instance, we wear clothes to keep us warm, (2) unlike animals we do not have a protective (3) of hair. But for the purpose of communication, we dress (4) clothes of different colours, style and material; we wear jewellery and other valuables; we use cosmetics and perfume; we (5) beards and sideburns; and we smoke pipes and carry walking sticks.Strict rules govern the clothes we wear. We do not, wear football boots with a dinner-jacket, (6) a boiler suit to work in an insurance office. A clerk on Wall Street will wear more formal dress than someone in a (7) job in a country town. Fashionable and smart (8) are associated with good qualities, and well-dressed people have been (9) to get more help and cooperation from (10) strangers. For example, a woman is often given more (11) of help with her broken-down car when she is dressed attractively than when she is dressed less (12) .Rebels consider themselves to be different from other people in society, and often (13) their physical appearance to show this. In the last two decades in Britain there have been a number of (14) movements with distinct uniforms. Hippies did not just wear simple clothes but dressed in a particular style that made them instantly (15) .But in our modem society some people (16) choose particular clothes to project the personalities. (17) types wear brighter colours than more reserved people. Some people wear odd (18) of clothes to express their individuality. For example, someone (19) give an impression of high social status, (20) origin and bad temper by wearing an expensive suit. Read the fallowing text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.17()

A. sociable
B. social
C. solemn
D. sober

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