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Ispit Čitanja traje 70 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadataka povezivanja, zadataka višestrukoga izbora i zadatka dopunjavanja.
Kada riješite zadatke, provjerite odgovore.
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Ispit Čitanja traje 70 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadataka povezivanja, zadataka višestrukoga izbora i zadatka dopunjavanja.
- U zadatcima povezivanja svaki sadržaj označen brojem povežite s odgovarajućim sadržajem koji je označen slovom (zadatci 1 i 3).
- U zadatcima višestrukoga izbora od više ponuđenih odgovora odaberite samo jedan (zadatci 2 i 4).
- U zadatku dopunjavanja dopunite praznine upisivanjem sadržaja koji nedostaje (zadatak 5).
Kada riješite zadatke, provjerite odgovore.
Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!
Task 1
You are going to read an article in which people talk about banning proms.
For questions 1-12, choose from the people A-F.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
For questions 1-12, choose from the people A-F.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
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Task 2
Read the article about the Armenian primary school curriculum.
For questions 13-18, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
For questions 13-18, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools
Tiny Armenia, tucked away in a corner between Turkey and Iran, is an obsessive chessplaying country and a big player in world chess. Their first laureate was Tigran Petrosian, who won the world championship in 1963 and successfully defended his title three years later. In 2011 a six-person national squad came first at the World Team Chess Championship in Russia. That group included up-and-coming player Levon Aronian, 28, currently third in the World Chess Federation’s rankings. These contemporary exploits have fostered a recent craze for this mind-training board game. Indeed, a new move could make it even bigger: mandatory chess in school. The educational authorities of this former Soviet republic have made the game part of the primary school curriculum, along with such standards as maths and history, for children between the ages of seven and nine.
Armenian authorities say teaching chess in school is about building character, not breeding chess champions. The education minister says taking the pastime into the classroom will help nurture a sense of organisation among schoolchildren and will teach them the importance of taking care of their duties. “We hope that the Armenian teaching model might become among the best in the world,” said Rehan Ashotyan. Half a million dollars were allocated to the national chess academy to draw up a course, create textbooks, train instructors and buy equipment. A further $1 million was paid for furniture for chess classrooms.
Continuing the line of successful chess players, Armenia now has an eight-year-old champion, David Ayrapetyan. His parents are hoping that the programme will give him an opponent worthy of his skills. The chess whiz finds the local retirees and fellow children to be pushovers. Only his classmate Aren can give him a run for his money. David’s parents say chess is good for him, no matter what the future holds. Their assumption is that, even if he doesn’t become a grandmaster or doesn’t join the national chess team, chess will certainly teach him to think logically and improvise, as those are indispensable qualities in life.
Wendi Fischer, executive director of the US Foundation for Chess, has campaigned for the game to be taken up in American classrooms and labels Armenia’s programme as undoubtedly positive. “By playing chess in class, the children think they’re playing, while they are actually doing some serious thinking all the time,” she said. “So it is a great way to cross over between having a true hard-core curriculum that’s mandatory and giving young children the chance to play and explore and have fun.”
Unlike so many addictive computer games with hardly any upsides, chess is said to teach problem-solving skills, self-discipline and the sheer pleasure of competition. Some classroom observations in primary schools proved that the children do love playing it, though there are some objections to outbursts of bad temper when they lose, and sometimes tears. Adults have acquired the ability to cope with such strong emotions or at least to conceal them, which children have yet to master. They ought to be taught that being gracious in defeat is an important part of the game.
The newly introduced chess curriculum might even help the children beat the odds against artificial intelligence. A £30 chess program can now beat the world champion. But for the ordinary mortal, trying to fathom the best move in each situation, to arrive at what grandmasters call the “truth” of a position, is endlessly demanding. There lies the real joy of winning a game of chess. The Armenians believe that they are giving their children a useful tool with which to approach life.
Armenian authorities say teaching chess in school is about building character, not breeding chess champions. The education minister says taking the pastime into the classroom will help nurture a sense of organisation among schoolchildren and will teach them the importance of taking care of their duties. “We hope that the Armenian teaching model might become among the best in the world,” said Rehan Ashotyan. Half a million dollars were allocated to the national chess academy to draw up a course, create textbooks, train instructors and buy equipment. A further $1 million was paid for furniture for chess classrooms.
Continuing the line of successful chess players, Armenia now has an eight-year-old champion, David Ayrapetyan. His parents are hoping that the programme will give him an opponent worthy of his skills. The chess whiz finds the local retirees and fellow children to be pushovers. Only his classmate Aren can give him a run for his money. David’s parents say chess is good for him, no matter what the future holds. Their assumption is that, even if he doesn’t become a grandmaster or doesn’t join the national chess team, chess will certainly teach him to think logically and improvise, as those are indispensable qualities in life.
Wendi Fischer, executive director of the US Foundation for Chess, has campaigned for the game to be taken up in American classrooms and labels Armenia’s programme as undoubtedly positive. “By playing chess in class, the children think they’re playing, while they are actually doing some serious thinking all the time,” she said. “So it is a great way to cross over between having a true hard-core curriculum that’s mandatory and giving young children the chance to play and explore and have fun.”
Unlike so many addictive computer games with hardly any upsides, chess is said to teach problem-solving skills, self-discipline and the sheer pleasure of competition. Some classroom observations in primary schools proved that the children do love playing it, though there are some objections to outbursts of bad temper when they lose, and sometimes tears. Adults have acquired the ability to cope with such strong emotions or at least to conceal them, which children have yet to master. They ought to be taught that being gracious in defeat is an important part of the game.
The newly introduced chess curriculum might even help the children beat the odds against artificial intelligence. A £30 chess program can now beat the world champion. But for the ordinary mortal, trying to fathom the best move in each situation, to arrive at what grandmasters call the “truth” of a position, is endlessly demanding. There lies the real joy of winning a game of chess. The Armenians believe that they are giving their children a useful tool with which to approach life.
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Task 3
Read the article about the death of email.
For questions 19-24, choose from the sentences A-H the one which best fits the gap.
There are two letters which you do not need.
There is an example at the beginning (0)
For questions 19-24, choose from the sentences A-H the one which best fits the gap.
There are two letters which you do not need.
There is an example at the beginning (0)
Why email no longer rules
When the CD-ROM arrived, people predicted the death of the printed book. (0) _. If not communication, then at least the end of grammar, spelling and punctuation. And so on, until we reach the current prediction that an explosion of tweets, status updates and messaging on social networking sites heralds the death of email - and this time it might be for real.
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is obviously over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold. (19) _. Just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate - in ways we can only begin to imagine.
We still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the internet - logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. (20) _. Being online all the time has created a host of new ways to communicate that are faster than email, and more fun.
Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer with instant messaging? Thanks to social networks, some questions can be answered without even asking them. (21) _. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services which allow users to share photos plus other information and to enter comments in near real-time.
So how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let’s start with the most obvious: they make our interactions that much faster. Years ago, we were frustrated if it took a few days for a letter to arrive. A couple of years ago, we’d complain about a half-hour delay in getting an email. (22) _. In a few months, we may be complaining that our cell phones aren’t automatically able to send messages to friends within a certain distance, letting them know we’re nearby.
These new services also make communicating more frequent and informal - more like a blog comment or a throwaway aside, rather than a crafted email sent to one person. There is no need to spend time writing a long email to your half-dozen closest friends about how your vacation went. (23) _. Instead of sending a few emails a week to a handful of friends, you can send dozens of messages a day to hundreds of people who know you, or just barely do.
Meanwhile, one big question remains: will the new services save time, or eat up even more of it? You can argue that, because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. (24) _. We get lured into wasting time, telling our bosses we are looking into something, instead of just doing it, for example. And we will no doubt waste time communicating stuff that isn’t meaningful, maybe at the expense of more meaningful communication - such as, say, talking to somebody in person.
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is obviously over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold. (19) _. Just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate - in ways we can only begin to imagine.
We still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the internet - logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. (20) _. Being online all the time has created a host of new ways to communicate that are faster than email, and more fun.
Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer with instant messaging? Thanks to social networks, some questions can be answered without even asking them. (21) _. Email, stuck in the era of attachments, seems boring compared to services which allow users to share photos plus other information and to enter comments in near real-time.
So how will these new tools change the way we communicate? Let’s start with the most obvious: they make our interactions that much faster. Years ago, we were frustrated if it took a few days for a letter to arrive. A couple of years ago, we’d complain about a half-hour delay in getting an email. (22) _. In a few months, we may be complaining that our cell phones aren’t automatically able to send messages to friends within a certain distance, letting them know we’re nearby.
These new services also make communicating more frequent and informal - more like a blog comment or a throwaway aside, rather than a crafted email sent to one person. There is no need to spend time writing a long email to your half-dozen closest friends about how your vacation went. (23) _. Instead of sending a few emails a week to a handful of friends, you can send dozens of messages a day to hundreds of people who know you, or just barely do.
Meanwhile, one big question remains: will the new services save time, or eat up even more of it? You can argue that, because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. (24) _. We get lured into wasting time, telling our bosses we are looking into something, instead of just doing it, for example. And we will no doubt waste time communicating stuff that isn’t meaningful, maybe at the expense of more meaningful communication - such as, say, talking to somebody in person.
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Task 4
Read the text about food in Hong Kong.
For questions 25-32, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best fits each space.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
For questions 25-32, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) that best fits each space.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Get stuffed in Hong Kong
Among its numerous attractions, China has always boasted a long culinary tradition. There are (0) _ many cuisines in China as there are regions, which gives a huge variety of colours and tastes, (25) _ of which are considered extremely exotic by visiting tourists.
Due to its rich history, Hong Kong has always been particularly food conscious. It is hard to have a conversation in Hong Kong (26) _ mentioning food, especially when many still greet each other by asking, “Have you eaten yet?” Cantonese is by far the most popular Chinese cuisine in Hong Kong, but Chiu Chow, Shanghainese, Sichuanese and Northern Chinese are also widely available.
Cantonese cuisine is famously fresh: there is an emphasis on (27) _ fresh meat. Simple techniques such as steaming and stir-frying (28) _ the ingredients to retain their delicate and well-balanced flavours. The cuisine is famous (29) _ goose and seafood dishes. Shanghainese cooking, (30) _, uses a lot of salted and preserved foods. It relies on stewing, braising and frying. Sichuanese is the most fiery, (31) _ great use of chillies and pungent peppercorns. Northern Chinese food uses a lot of oils (e.g. sesame and chilli) coupled with ingredients such as vinegar, garlic, spring onions, bean paste and dark soy sauce. Steamed bread, dumplings and noodles are (32) _ to rice, and lamb and mutton, seldom seen on other Chinese menus, are also popular.
Due to its rich history, Hong Kong has always been particularly food conscious. It is hard to have a conversation in Hong Kong (26) _ mentioning food, especially when many still greet each other by asking, “Have you eaten yet?” Cantonese is by far the most popular Chinese cuisine in Hong Kong, but Chiu Chow, Shanghainese, Sichuanese and Northern Chinese are also widely available.
Cantonese cuisine is famously fresh: there is an emphasis on (27) _ fresh meat. Simple techniques such as steaming and stir-frying (28) _ the ingredients to retain their delicate and well-balanced flavours. The cuisine is famous (29) _ goose and seafood dishes. Shanghainese cooking, (30) _, uses a lot of salted and preserved foods. It relies on stewing, braising and frying. Sichuanese is the most fiery, (31) _ great use of chillies and pungent peppercorns. Northern Chinese food uses a lot of oils (e.g. sesame and chilli) coupled with ingredients such as vinegar, garlic, spring onions, bean paste and dark soy sauce. Steamed bread, dumplings and noodles are (32) _ to rice, and lamb and mutton, seldom seen on other Chinese menus, are also popular.
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Task 5
Read and complete the text below.
Fill each space (33-40) with one word. Write your answer only here in the exam booklet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Fill each space (33-40) with one word. Write your answer only here in the exam booklet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Midnight ban on gamers
In its effort to control game addiction among adolescents, South Korea pulled the plug this weekend on young gamers after midnight, putting a hotly debated law (0) _ practice. The new system, called the “Shutdown Law”, also referred (33) _ as the “Cinderella Law”, blocks those under the age of 16 from accessing gaming websites after midnight. This has fuelled heated anger (34) _ younger gamers.
As South Korea, (35) _ has one of the world’s richest online gaming cultures, tries to battle gaming addiction that has led to serious consequences, it struggles to find effective means to selectively help those in need. (36) _ government is heavily involved in treating people for gaming addiction (37) _ holding workshops on prevention and offering counselling.
However, internet users have flooded the government’s website with postings, calling the new measure “a waste of money”, “idiotic” and “useless”, and questioning (38) _ it will prevent young gamers from playing into the late hours.
The controversial shutdown system already faces a petition in court. “The bottom line is that, (39) _ the parents’ point of view, it violates their right to educate their children”, said Lee Byung-chan, the lawyer who filed the petition (40) _ behalf of a group of parents. The fate of the petition is to be decided upon next Monday.
As South Korea, (35) _ has one of the world’s richest online gaming cultures, tries to battle gaming addiction that has led to serious consequences, it struggles to find effective means to selectively help those in need. (36) _ government is heavily involved in treating people for gaming addiction (37) _ holding workshops on prevention and offering counselling.
However, internet users have flooded the government’s website with postings, calling the new measure “a waste of money”, “idiotic” and “useless”, and questioning (38) _ it will prevent young gamers from playing into the late hours.
The controversial shutdown system already faces a petition in court. “The bottom line is that, (39) _ the parents’ point of view, it violates their right to educate their children”, said Lee Byung-chan, the lawyer who filed the petition (40) _ behalf of a group of parents. The fate of the petition is to be decided upon next Monday.
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Ispit pisanja
Pozorno pročitajte sve upute i slijedite ih.
Ispit Pisanja traje 75 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadatka eseja.
Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!
Ispit Pisanja traje 75 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadatka eseja.
Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!
Task 1
Write an essay of 200-250 words.
Your essay must have an introduction, body and conclusion.
Discuss arguments for and against this view and give your own opinion.
Your essay must have an introduction, body and conclusion.
Discuss arguments for and against this view and give your own opinion.
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Ispit slušanja
Pozorno pročitajte sve upute i slijedite ih.
Ispit Slušanja traje 35 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadataka povezivanja i zadataka višestrukoga izbora.
Kada riješite zadatke, provjerite odgovore.
Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!
Ispit Slušanja traje 35 minuta.
Ispit se sastoji od zadataka povezivanja i zadataka višestrukoga izbora.
- U zadatcima povezivanja svaki sadržaj označen brojem povežite s odgovarajućim sadržajem koji je označen slovom (zadatci 1 i 3).
- U zadatcima višestrukoga izbora od više ponuđenih odgovora odaberite samo jedan (zadatci 2 i 4).
Kada riješite zadatke, provjerite odgovore.
Želimo Vam mnogo uspjeha!
Task 1
You will hear 5 people talking about their first day at school.
For each recording (1-5), decide what the speaker was most impressed by.
Choose from A to H.
Write one letter next to the number of the recording.
Do not use any letter more than once.
There are three letters that you do not need.
You will hear the recording twice.
For each recording (1-5), decide what the speaker was most impressed by.
Choose from A to H.
Write one letter next to the number of the recording.
Do not use any letter more than once.
There are three letters that you do not need.
You will hear the recording twice.
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Task 2
You will hear people talking in eight situations.
For each situation (6-13), choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
You will hear each recording twice
For each situation (6-13), choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
You will hear each recording twice
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Task 3
You will hear a brother and a sister talking about three different teen summer camps.
Listen to the conversation and decide which teen camp (A-C) each question (14-19) refers to.
Write:
Listen to the conversation and decide which teen camp (A-C) each question (14-19) refers to.
Write:
- A for ActionQuest Camp
- B for Brook Camp
- C for Chestnut Camp
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Task 4
You will hear an interview with Tomasina Miers, a Masterchef winner.
For questions 20-25, choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
You will hear the recording twice.
For questions 20-25, choose the correct answer, A, B or C.
You will hear the recording twice.
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