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Test B

Reading FCE Paper 1

Part 1 Multiple matching

You are going to read a magazine article about ice hockey in Northern Ireland. Choose from the list A–I the

sentence which best summarizes each part ( 1–7 ) of the article. There is one summary sentence that you do

not need to use. There is an example at the beginning ( 0 ).

A New possibilities

D A battle of the giants

G Traditional heroes

H A surprise success

B Clever salesmanship

E Future heroes

C The kids love it

F Not like football

A great game to watch

Giant strides

0 A

Eamon and Dean are among a group of children of

all religions and none, on a visit organized by the

local police as part of a community relations

project. Before the arrival of the Giants, a cross-

community trip to a sporting event would have

been near impossible. Traditional sport in Northern

Ireland has been split by tribal divisions. But the

arrival of ice-hockey has changed this.

0 A

The team’s name is also a clever piece of marketing.

It refers to the legendary Finn McCool, whose

footsteps, so the story goes, created the

extraordinary geological formation which is known

as the Giant’s Causeway – one of Northern Ireland’s

top tourist attractions. As a Scottish-Irish hero,

McCool is an icon embraced by both communities.

The family-friendly environment created at the

Odyssey, the home arena, along with the game’s fast

and furious qualities, have also been factors in the

sport’s soaring popularity. ‘The puck can travel at

95–100 miles an hour, the players can skate at 35

miles per hour’ says Collins. The speed, aggression

and showmanship can draw you into the game.

The Belfast Giants were formed last year to play in

the UK’s ice hockey Superleague. The team started

slowly but rallied in December when the arena

opened and the Giants started playing at home.

Support for the team surged. At present, attendance

has exceeded all expectations – the average 6,500

crowd makes the Giants the best-supported team in

the league.

Since the Giants began playing at home, children

have been ﬂocking to Northern Ireland’s only public

ice-rink at Dundonald, on the edge of Belfast. The

Giants run weekly coaching sessions for young

people. ‘It’s amazing’ says Steve Roberts, who plays

left wing for the Giants. ‘We started out with about

25 and now there are 127 children that come

regularly.’

At the merchandizing kiosk queues have built as

fans snap up goods ranging from rubber pucks to

Giants’ shirts, hats and jackets. Kiosk supervisor

Marion Livingstone says ‘Belfast has been crying

out for something like this. Soccer teams have

always had either Catholic or Protestant supporters.

But this is a sport for all.’

It will probably be many years before the Belfast

team is ﬁelding any home-grown players. At present

they are all North American. Jerry Keefe, a

Bostonian of Irish extraction who plays centre for

the Giants, says ‘All of the team started when we

were three or four but eventually I think we will see

some good players coming out of Northern Ireland.’

The universal popularity is not an accident but the

result of a carefully orchestrated marketing

campaign. The team’s communications director has

worked hard at selling ice hockey as a game for

everyone. A telling slogan ‘In the land of the Giants

everyone is equal’ appears on the cover of the

programme sold at each game as well as on the

team’s website.

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Test B

Part 2 Multiple choice

You are going to read an extract from an article about an asteroid or comet hitting the earth. For questions

8–15 choose the answer A , B , C or D , which you think ﬁts best according to the text.

Killer comet

In a discovery with frightening implications

for human’s dominance of the Earth, scientists

have discovered that a massive comet or

asteroid, similar to the one that killed off the

dinosaurs, wiped out the giant reptile’s

predecessors about 200 million years earlier.

The ﬁnding suggests that regular collisions

between our planet and large objects act as

an evolutionary dice-shaker. They send

dominant species back to the starting square

and advance other species to a dominant

position. We could be next.

Students of the fossil record have long wondered

about the greatest catastrophe ever to strike life on

Earth, which they call ‘The Great Dying’. This

happened 251 million years ago, when suddenly

90% of all marine animals and 70% of land

vertebrates perished. The impact of a comet or

asteroid similar to that which brought doom to the

dinosaurs 65 million years ago was suspected.

However, the latest edition of the journal Science

reports on the ﬁrst evidence that such a collision

actually happened. Scientists at the Universities of

Washington and Rochester in the US have found

that molecules of helium and argon gas, which have

been locked in since ‘The Great Dying’ are present

in such proportions that they must have come from

space. As in the later impact, the strike came from a

body between 6 and 12 kilometres wide.

Researcher Robert Poreda said yesterday the effect

would have been to release energy one million

times greater than the biggest earthquake of the

past century. The crash coincided with volcanic

activity on an unimaginable scale in what is now

Siberia. Over a million years – a relatively short

time in geological terms – 1.6 million cubic

kilometres of lava poured out of the ground,

covering the entire planet in a layer ten metres

thick. Said Robert Poreda, ‘We’re not sure of all the

environmental consequences but with the impact

and the volcanic activity, we do know that Earth

was not a happy place. It may be that the combined

effects of impact and volcanism are necessary to

cause such a tremendous extinction.’

The end of the dinosaurs also coincided with an

eruption of lava from below the Earth’s crust, in

what is now India. In both cases, the impact of the

comet or asteroid may have caused the eruption.

The dinosaur-killing impact has been tied to a

crater on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, but it is

not known where the earlier collision happened. At

the time all the Earth’s land made up a single

continent, Pangea.

The age immediately prior to the dinosaurs was

called the Permian. Although there were reptiles

living in land and water (earlier versions of the

dinosaurs), the dominant life form was the trilobite.

This creature is visually somewhere between the

woodlouse and the armadillo. At their peak, there

were 15,000 kinds of trilobite. Around the time of

the impact they disappeared. Something similar

happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In

the same way that the earlier impact seems to have

cleared the way for them, the later crash made room

for our ancestors, the mammals. ‘The two

extinctions are like bookends for the age of the

dinosaurs’, said Dr Peroda. ‘The ﬁrst boundary

helped the dinosaurs to establish themselves and the

second extinguished it.’

Although it is likely to be millions of years before

the next big asteroid or comet impact, there is a

growing call for a defence system to be put in place.

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Test B

8 Scientists have discovered that a huge comet or asteroid wiped out

A the dinosaurs.

B giant reptiles.

C creatures before the dinosaurs.

D creatures similar to the dinosaurs.

9 The ‘Great Dying’ happened

A 200 million years ago.

B 251 million years ago.

C 65 million years ago.

D 265 million years ago.

10 The ‘Great Dying’ killed

A a few land vertebrates.

B all the dinosaurs.

C most marine animals.

D some mammals.

11 Which statement is not true of the asteroid or comet?

A It was under 12 kilometres in diameter.

B It contained helium and argon.

C It contained lava.

D It was over six kilometres in diameter.

12 Where did the ﬁrst massive comet or asteroid hit the earth?

A it is not known

B in Siberia

C in India

D in Mexico

13 Which statement is not true of the lava that covered the planet?

A It was caused by the impact of the asteroid.

B It was 1.6 cubic kilometres in volume.

C It was ten metres thick.

D It happened over one million years.

14 Which creatures lived at the same time as the trilobites?

A reptiles

B armadillos

C mammals

D dinosaurs

15 According to the article, which of the following statements is true?

A There will be another giant asteroid.

B There is unlikely to be another ever.

C Humans will dominate the earth.

D It is time to expect another asteroid.

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Test B

Part 3 Gapped text

You are going to read a magazine article about acupuncture treatment. Seven paragraphs have been removed

from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A–H the one which ﬁts each space ( 16–21 ). There is one extra

paragraph which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning ( 0 ).

Pins and needles

I was curious to ﬁnd out more about acupuncture

as I’d heard a lot about its beneﬁcial effects.

However, I didn’t feel in any particular need of

treatment myself so I decided to ask a friend of

mine if I could observe her receiving treatment.

Nina opened a sachet of sterile 4 cm long needles.

They were ﬁne and ﬂexible, but Joan was still

apprehensive. Nina took a pulse at six points on

each of Joan’s wrists, looking for certain ‘qualities’

that she would then treat.

0 H

The Traditional Acupuncture Centre was just as

you’d expect: the incense, rubber plants and charts

on the wall. These mapped out the body’s energy

channels. They seem to be the typical wall

coverings of an alternative health centre.

Nina inserted the ﬁrst needle into Joan’s shin. It

went in a surprisingly long way before she twisted

it to the right and Joan’s leg shot up suddenly. ‘Ow!’

she exclaimed. She was visibly tense, but as Nina

inserted the next needle it wasn’t so bad.

Nina returned and explained that she needed to ask

Joan questions about her health, lifestyle, diet and

personal history. She began by asking why Joan

wanted acupuncture. Joan described the shoulder

stiffness and backache that had bothered her for

years.

When the time came to remove the needles, Joan

was more relaxed, though she ﬂinched as they came

out. All the time Nina was reassuring her. She

informed Joan that the shocks she felt were due to

blockages of the energy channels.

I asked Joan the next day about how she felt. She

said that she felt a little more relaxed and that she

had slept deeply that night. However, she really felt

that she needed a course of treatment to be able to

assess its effectiveness.

Nina then explained that in Chinese medicine,

physical and emotional aspects are not distinct. An

imbalance of either manifests itself in the same

way. The division between mind and body is a

Western idea.

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Test B

A Nina said that she felt Joan’s problems with her back and her shoulder stiffness

came from her ofﬁce job. She recommended that Joan do yoga exercises at

work, as this kind of relaxation had many beneﬁts for mind and body.

B Nina ﬁnished with a pressure point massage on Joan’s shoulders and back.

‘I’m looking forward to seeing you again,’ Nina said, as she bade a relieved Joan

a fond farewell. Nina left the decision to Joan about arranging another

appointment.

C Our health apparently depends on the motivating energy, or chi, made up of the

equal and opposite qualities of Yin and Yang. When these are unbalanced, one

can become ill. By inserting needles into points on the energy channels, healing

responses are stimulated and the balance is restored.

D Surprisingly, these questions went on for a whole hour. Joan was asked about

her attitudes to many things, including work and relationships. She was also

asked about her attitude to herself on several occasions.

E Nina Doughty, the acupuncturist, introduced herself and then slipped away to

prepare the treatment room. Joan was anxious. ‘I hope this doesn’t hurt too

much,’ she murmured.

F She also looked at Joan’s tongue, an indicator of her general state of health.

At this point, Joan felt that the experience was rather like being at the dentist.

However, at the dentist one usually knows where the needle will be inserted.

G She placed more needles in Joan’s ankles, feet, lower back and forearms. She

tweaked them as she put them in, regularly checking Joan’s pulse, then left

them for 20 minutes. Joan lay on the bed all this time.

H I asked Joan Hughes, who I knew had been complaining of muscular stiffness

for some time. She agreed, so excitedly we attended her ﬁrst appointment at the

local centre.

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