CAM 13 Test 1
PASSAGE 1: CASE STUDY: TOURISM ZEALAND WEBSITE
1. Key words: businesses, information, regularly
– information = details
– regularly = on a regular basis
2. Key words: country-wide, evaluation, impact
– impact = effect
3. Key words: interview, former, sports
– sports = rugby
4. Key words: interactive, tour, locations
– tour = journey
– various = a number of
5. Key words: driving routes, varied, depending on
– driving = motoring
– depending on = according to
6. Key words: Travel Planner, map, public transport, local.
– local = in the area
7. Key words: Your Words, travellers, send
– send = submit
8. Key words: ready-made, itineraries, packages, travel companies, individual tourists
– travel companies = travel organisations
– individual tourists = individuals/independent travellers ready-made # to suit their own needs and interests
9. Key words: visitors, started searching, geographical location
10. Key words: research, 26%, satisfaction, accommodation
11. Key words: visitors, involved, local culture
– like = enjoy
– become involved in = interactive
12. Key words: visitors like, small hotels, larger
13. Key words: visitors, unlikely, return
– unlikely that they will return = a once-in-a-lifetime visit.
PASSAGE 2: WHY BEING BORED IS STIMULATING AND USEFUL, TOO
14.– problems ~ difficult
17. – potential = can lead to
18. – affected by = prone to
20. – avoid = stay away from
– an unpleasant experience = infectious social situations
21. – sort = type
22. – trying to cope with boredom = your efforts to improve the situation
– increase its negative effects = making you feel worse
23. – today = modern
24 Key words: Eastwood, central, failure, attention system
– as a result = causes
– cannot = inability to
25. Key words: aim, problems, coping
26. Key words: characteristic, cope with
– characteristic = personality trait
PASSAGE 3: ARTIFICIAL ARTISTS
27. Key words: suggest, computer-produced, works
28. Key words: Geraint Wiggins, worried
– worried = scared
29. Key words: difference, Aaron, Painting Fool
– key difference = unlike
31. Key words: paintings, chair, computer art
32. Key words: Simon Colton, long-term view
– long-term = millennia
33. Key words: Cope, EMI, surprised
– surprised = moved to tears
34. Key words: Wiggins, criticised Cope
– criticised = blasted, condemned
35. Key words: Douglas Hofstadter, EMI
36. Key words: audiences, EMI’s music, angry
– angry = outraged
37. Key words: participants, David Moffat, assess
– music = tunes
38. Key words: Moffat, explain, reactions, EMI
– help explain = provide a clue.
39. Key words: non-experts, Moffat, predictable
40. Key words: Kruger, doubt, Bloom, prejudice
Cam 13 Test 2
1. Passage 1: BRINGING CINNAMON TO EUROPE
1. Key words: biblical, added
– added to = mixed with
2. Key words: biblical, show
– show = indicate
– people = lovers and friends
3. Key words: Rome, sweet smell
– sweet smell = pleasant scent
4. Key words: Middle Ages, indication
– indication = sign
5. Key words: treatment, health problems
– treatment = cure
– health problems = ailments
6. traders/merchants
7. Key words: merchants, Mediterranean
8. Key words: arrived,
– arrived = reached
9. Key words: traders, sold, destinations, Europe
– destinations = markets
10. Key words: Portuguese, Ceylon, throughout, 16th century
– control over ~ a monopoly in
11. Key words: Dutch, took over, arrived, Ceylon
– take over = displace
12. Key words: trees, Dutch, larger quantities, wild
– plant = cultivate
13. Key words: spice trade, importance, 19th century
PASSAGE 2: OXYTOCIN
14. Key words: research, beneficial effects
– beneficial effects = positive aspects
15. Key words: reasons, effects, complex
16. Key words: period, little, scientific attention
17. Key words: ignoring, aspects, research data
– ignoring = taking no notice
– research data = findings
18. Key words: trusting, affected
19. Key words: increases, jealousy
– jealousy = envy
20. Key words: effect, varies
– effect = outcome
– varies ~ contrasting
21. Key words: earliest, findings, bonding
– bonding = reinforce the bonds
– research = studies
22. Key words: humans, produce
– produce = release
23. Key words: experiment, 2005, participants, positive effect
– reinforced the belief = fuelled the view
24. Key words: Haifa, negative emotions
– participants = volunteers
– took part in = played
25. Key words: Antwerp, lack of willingness, help
– showed = revealed
26. Key words: Amsterdam, familiar, positive associations
PASSAGE 3: MAKING THE MOST OF TRENDS
27. Key words: managers
– profound = significant
– influencing ~ impact on
28. Key words: Coach, anxious
– Reputation = image
29. Key words: Tesco, Greener Living
– core business activities ~ traditional retail offerings
30. Key words: Nike, strategy
– might appear = at first glance
– few benefits ~ hardly worthwhile
31. Key words: ME2, original
– unhealthy lifestyles ~ lack of exercise and obesity
32. Key words: products, harmful effects, advantage
– turned to its own advantage = counteracted
– harmful effects = negative impacts
33. Key words: extended, offering, collaborating
– collaborate = team up with
34. Key words: incentive scheme, social responsibility
35. Key words: customers, positive attitude, difficult
– discovered = revealed
– positive ~ eager
– difficult circumstances = tough times
36. Key words: responded, growing, lifestyle, unrelated
37. Key words: avoided, charge less, core products
– avoid = avert
– charge less ~ price cut
– core = conventional
38. Key words: trend-related, changes, impacting, category
– identify = determine
– use ~ pursue
39. If a current trend highlights a negative aspect of your category, you should
Key words: current trend, negative aspect
– emphasise = reaffirm
– traditional values ~ core values
40. Key words: new focus, lack, connection
– lack of connection = disparity
Cam 13 Test 3
PASSAGE 1: THE COCONUT PALM
1. Key words: trunk, timber, houses, making
– making = construction
2. Key words: flowers, sap, drink, source
3. Key words: fruits, middle, coir fibres
4. Key words: inner, shell, source
5. Key words: inner, shell, halved
– halved = broken in half
6. Key words: coconut water, source, other plants
7. Key words: coconut flesh, oil, milk, cooking
8. Key words: coconut flesh, glycerine, ingredient
9. Key words: seeds, shade, germinate
10. Key words: transported, Asia, America, 16th century
– probably = likely
– transported = moved
11. Key words: west coast, America, different, east coast
12. Key words: all, Asia, cultivated
– varieties = relatives
13. Key words: cultivated, different, America, Pacific
PASSAGE 2: HOW BABY TALK GIVES INFANT BRAINS A BOOST
14. Key words: adults, babies, individual attention, talking
– importance ~ it really matters
– individual = one-on-one
15. Key words: connection, hear, efforts, speech
– create speech = produce words
16. Key words: advantage, two parents, different way
– a different way ~ another kind
17. Key words: connection, amount of baby talk, vocalising
– vocalising = babble/ talking
18. Key words: Washington State University, computer programs, interacted, normal day
– specialised computer programs ~ speech-recognition software
– analyse = study
19. Key words: not modify, speech patterns, interacting
– interacting with ~ talked to
– babies ~ kids
20. Key words: idea, adult, speech, prepare, language, outside
– idea = hypothesis
– language = speech
– outside the family home ~ in public
21. Key words: normal language, expands, types of speech
22. Key words: Washington, Connecticut, recorded, equipped
– recorded = captured
23. Key words: age two, babies again, larger
– a lot of ~ frequent
– had a much larger vocabulary ~ dramatically boosted vocabulary
24. Key words: change, brain activity, end of first year
25. Key words: example, baby’s benefit, before birth
– before birth ~ still in the womb
26. Key words: preference, sounds, other babies
– preference ~ seem to like
PASSAGE 3: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HARAPPAN CIVILISATION?
27. Key words: explanations, decline
– explanation = cause
28. Key words: present-day application, archaeological, findings
29. Key words: difference, another culture, same period
30. Key words: features, urban design
31. Key words: errors, previous archaeologists
32. Key words: collecting, snails, analysing
– collect = gather
33. Key words: change, water levels
34. Key words: less, evaporation, drought
35. Key words: Petrie, Singh, records, five millenia ago
– look at ~ analyse
– adapt = adjust
– agricultural practices ~ combinations of crops
– changing climatic conditions ~ different weather systems.
36. Key words: examining objects, links, inhabitants, changed
– look at ~ examine
– links = interactive networks
– inhabitants = population
37. Key words: changes, environmental conditions, vital
– information = data
– changes to environmental conditions ~ variable weather systems
– vital = essential
38. Key words: previous, behaviour, long-term benefits
– examining = investigating
– patterns of behaviour ~ responses
39. Key words: calculations, length, water shortage
– rough calculations ~ estimate
– approximate ~ about
– a period of water shortage ~ weakening of the Indian summer monsoon climate
40. Key words: decline
– information ~ evidence decline = fall
Cam 13 Test 4
PASSAGE 1: CUTTY SARK: THE FASTEST SAILING SHIP OF ALL TIME
1. Key words: clippers, originally, passenger
– ships = vessels
2. Key words: name, character, poem
3. Key words: contract, Willis, Scott & Linton
– favoured ~ put in a very strong position
4. Key words: Willis, fastest, UK, China
– the fastest tea clipper ~ more quickly than any other ship.
5. Key words: storm damage, beat Thermopylae, London
6. Key words: Suez Canal, steam ships, faster
– travel faster ~ reduced the journey time
7. Key words: ocean route, London and China
8. Key words: Captain Woodget, risk, iceberg
– risk = gamble
– put Cutty Sark at risk of hitting an iceberg ~ bringing her dangerously close to icebergs
THE SENTENCES BELOW.
9. Key words: 1880, cargo, most successful
– carry = transport
– time ~ period
10. Key words: captain, Woodget, skilled
11. Key words: Ferreira, Falmouth, repair
A gale (= a strong, stormy wind) damaged the ship.
12. Key words: 1923, 1954, used
13. Key words: twice, damaged, 21st century
– damaged by ~ suffered from
PASSAGE 2: SAVING THE SOIL
14. Key words: healthy, bacteria, microorganisms, plant remains
– plant remains = decomposing plants
15.Key words: food, antibiotics, storing, climate
– provides us with ~ are the source of
– store = lock in
– a significant effect on the climate ~ an ally against climate change.
16. Key words: prevents, damage, property and infrastructure, holds
– hold = store
– buildings, roads and bridges ~ property and infrastructure
17. Key words: main factor, degradation, humans
– main factor ~ biggest problem
– soil degradation ~ the soil gradually becomes less fertile
18. Key words: nutrients, unused, harvested crops
– may not be put back ~ tend not to return
19. Key words: synthetic fertilisers, Haber-Bosch
– damage =hurt
20. Key words: addition, mixture, Pius Floris
– mixture = cocktail
21. Key words: idea, zero, degradation
– be more aware of soil-related issues ~ bring the problem home to governments
22. Key words: motivation, soil-improvement project
23. Key words: explanation, soil, healthy, before, farming
24. Key words: ways, collecting information, soil degradation
– information ~ real-time data
25. Key words: soil, safe, near future
– keeping some types of soil safe ~ creation of protected zones
– the near future = immediate
26. Key words: difficult, overview, soil degradation
– overview = accurate picture
– difficult ~ not easy
– a reason ~ for one thing
PASSAGE 3: BOOK REVIEW
27. Key words: attitude, advocates, positive psychology
– ignorant about = oblivious to
28. Key words: Greek, Aristotle
29. Key words: linking, price, significant
– linking the price of goods to happiness ~ associating money so closely to inner experience
– linking = associating
– a connection between work and psychology ~ the entangling of psychological research and capitalism
– work ~ capitalism/business
– was significant ~ set the stage for
30. Key words: 1790s, technology, improve, government departments
– conversation ~ communication
31. Key words: printing banknotes, increase.
32. Key words: method, food
– designed ~ drew up plans
– food = provisions
33. Key words: prison, same design, other institutions
34. Key words: researching, possibilities, methods
– possibilities ~ ways in which this might be done
– methods = ways
35. Key words: strength, relationship, psychology and economics
36. Key words: more difficult, measure, emotions
– emotions = inner states
37. Key words: Watson, behaviourism, humans, before 1915.
38. Key words: Watson, influential, outside America
39. Key words: need, linked, industrialisation
– industrialisation ~ industrial societies
40. Key words: aim, government, increase, population
– increase the happiness ~ promoting happiness