2. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE WRITTEN IN THE ANSWER BOOK. An extract from a novel

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1 ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΑΙ ΕΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΙΕΥΘΥΝΣΗ ΑΝΩΤΕΡΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΩΤΑΤΗΣ ΕΚΠΑΙ ΕΥΣΗΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΕΩΝ ΓΡΑΠΤΗ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΠΛΗΡΩΣΗ ΜΙΑΣ ΚΕΝΗΣ ΘΕΣΗΣ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΤΑΜΕΙΟ ΘΗΡΑΣ ΜΑΘΗΜΑ: ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ Ηµεροµηνία: 27 Νοεµβρίου 2010 ιάρκεια: 1 ώρα και 15 λεπτά 1. ΤΟ ΟΚΙΜΙΟ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΙΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΠΕΝΤΕ (5) ΣΕΛΙ ΕΣ 2. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE WRITTEN IN THE ANSWER BOOK PART I: COMPOSITION (40 MARKS) Write a composition of about words Advertising has positive and negative effects. Discuss. PART II: READING COMPREHENSION (30 MARKS) Read the text below and do ALL the exercises that follow: An extract from a novel I made a discovery on the way to Ruth s aunt s house in Spain. The things you worry about don t always turn out as badly as you expect. Sometimes they re worse. Everything would have been different if our plane had landed on schedule. Ruth was quite nice about it, as always, but I know that she really thought it was my fault. Our plan had been to arrive in Spain, collect the hire car, shop for groceries and still get to the house in daylight. I d felt proud of myself when I d booked the tickets. I d got a special cheap offer on the Internet. But that was silly because Ruth s aunt was paying our expenses and she wasn t the kind of woman who expects people to fly on budget airlines. To her mind, you pay full price for comfort and reliability. Our flight got to Spain about three hours later than expected. By the time we got to where our hire car was waiting amongst dozens of others, it was totally dark. The man at the desk confirmed what we d guessed. It was too late for shopping. While I signed for the car gripping the pen hard so that my 1

2 name wouldn t look as shaky as I felt - Ruth bought two cartons of fruit juice from a vending machine. Ruth! I said, as I drove cautiously out of the car park, gripping the wheel. Which way is it? I m not going to be able to understand any of the road signs! You just need to follow the coast road, said Ruth. It s simple. Things don t get tough until we take a left into the mountains. As all I had to do was drive straight ahead, I began to relax. Then it was time to turn off into the mountains and I un-relaxed again. Apart from anything else, you don t get street lighting on lonely country roads in southern Spain. This road climbed slowly but steadily in a series of Z-shapes, with a rocky wall on the left and a steep drop on the right. We gradually lost the rest of the traffic until there was hardly any. I can tell you now that hardly any is worse than a lot. All would be quiet and then suddenly headlights would appear behind us, sweep past us and vanish. Or lights would blaze round a corner ahead, without warning, looking as though they were coming right at us. Ruth read out where I should go, and me and the car went. It all made sense. Or it did until she pointed to an olive grove, all silvery in the moonlight, and told me to drive into it. I can t, I said. There s no road. There s a track, said Ruth. Up ahead, see? On the left. It s right opposite a white house with green shutters, just like the directions say. I gave way. But I wasn t happy. This is not a tract, I said, driving cautiously onto it. It s just a strip of land where the olive trees aren t. We bounced slowly along in silence, apart from the scrunching of pebbles under the wheels. Ahead was the dark outline of a small house. This is it, said Ruth. See we made it! The track opened out into a parking space beside the house. There it stopped end of the road. Are you sure about this? I whispered. It s really late, Ruth. If we re wrong we re going to wake people up. There s no one to wake up, said Ruth. 2

3 A. Choose the best alternative A, B, C or D according to the text. (5x3=15 marks) 1. What does the narrator suggest about her trip in the first paragraph? She d expected... A. Ruth to share the blame for what happened. B. Ruth to be angry with her. C. aspects of it to go wrong. D. her plane to be delayed. 2. What mistake did the narrator make when booking their flight? She... A. hadn t followed Ruth s advice about the airline. B. had forgotten that someone else was paying for them. C. had chosen one that was scheduled to arrive after dark. D. hadn t realised that they would need to go shopping on arrival. 3. How did the narrator feel in the car-hire office? She felt... A. keen not to let her nervous state show. B. cross because she had to wait in a queue. C. grateful for the advice of the man behind the desk. D. confused by the documents that she needed to sign. 4. When driving into the mountains, the narrator felt... A. reassured by the sound of passing traffic. B. alarmed by the sight of other car headlights. C. frustrated by their rather slow progress. D. unsure if they were on the right road. 5. How did Ruth know that they should turn into the olive grove? She... A. was consulting a map. B. had been there before. C. had written instructions. D. asked some local residents. B. Answer the following questions. (3X3 = 9 marks) 1. Why did the narrator felt guilty for arriving late? 2. What was the narrator s problem as soon as they got off the car park? 3. When did they finally arrive at their destination? 3

4 C. Match the words in Column A (in bold in the text) with the words/phrases in Column B, according to the text: (More words/phrases than needed are given.) (6x1=6 marks) Column A Column B 1. groceries a. continuously 2. confirmed b. isolated 3. cautiously c. disappear 4. lonely d. verified 5. vanish e. narrow path 6. track f. provisions g. carefully PART III: USE OF ENGLISH (30 MARKS) A. Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. (5X2=10 marks) 1. Suzy says she will only play tennis if Fiona plays with her. (unless) Suzy has refused plays with her. 2. Canoeing was the activity which excited Ralph most. (found) The activity was canoeing. 3. I expected ice-skating to be more difficult than it actually was. (not) Ice-skating as I had expected. 4. Not many people went to see that live concert in the park. (number) Only went to see that live concert in the park. 5. Melanie regretted choosing such an expensive jacket. (wished) Melanie a less expensive jacket. 4

5 B. Fill in the gaps in the following text with the correct form of the words given in capitals. (10x1=10 marks) Young artists on display The road to Elgol provides one of the most beautiful journeys in Scotland. It was an (1) (SPECIAL) clear day when I travelled there to see an (2) (EXHIBIT) of paintings by local primary school children. The (3) (TRADITION) designed school overlooks the sea, just next to the harbour from which fishermen and lots of (4) (TOUR) set out. From the playground the children have (5) (WONDER) views of the seashore. That the children take (6) (PROUD) in their local environment is evident in their art work. I saw some very fine landscapes on display, and in the booklet of the artist s profiles produced to (7) (COMPANY) the show, several of the young artists expressed their interest. Each child had chosen a (8) (FAVOUR) piece to be framed, and these made a very (9) (EFFECT) display. Not surprisingly, all the framed paintings were soon bought by (10) (ENTHUSIAST) visitors to the school. C. Fill in the gaps in the following text with only ONE word. (10x1=10 marks) How chocolate used to be processed Chocolate comes from cocoa beans, which are the seeds of the cacao tree. The cacao tree (1) originally cultivated by the Mayas (2) Aztecs over 3000 years ago. It was brought (3) Europe by Cortez, who had (4) introduced to the drink in Mexico, at the court (5) the Aztec ruler Montezuma. The word chocolate comes (6) the South American word xocoatl which means bitter water. It was prepared similarly to the way (7) which we process cocoa beans today. After being harvested (8) cocoa pods were left to ferment and split open. Next the beans (9) removed and left to dry in the sun. The dried, shelled beans were roasted in clay pots and then ground to a paste (10) a stone called metate over a small fire... ********************************************* Copyright Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Πολιτισµού. Απαγορεύεται η αναδηµοσίευση µε οποιοδήποτε µέσο όλου ή µέρους του περιεχοµένου χωρίς τη συγκατάθεση του εκδότη 5

ALL ANSWERS MUST BE WRITTEN IN THE ANSWER BOOK

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